WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Patting the Stats 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:06.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:11.960 Cowboys. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:16.320 This He's Talking Cowboys string live. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:20.040 From the Dallas Cowboys World Course at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:27.600 Six pesscot tixis touchdown. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:32.680 And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.040 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:43.360 Go Dallas Cowboy. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.440 It is a victory Monday. Don't you talk in front 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.720 of me on a victory Monday. What are you doing? 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:51.360 Nick Harris, still haven't figured that one out. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.280 It's a victory Monday here on Talking Cowboys. You gotta 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:54.760 wait for the. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.920 Beat to You gotta wait for all of it to happen, 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.440 and the song starts going, and by the time like 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.400 the song ends normally I'll be at the Cowboys beat 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:10.120 the Patriots thirty eight to three on Sunday afternoon. And 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:11.039 then you pause while it. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:12.480 Plays in the distance. 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:13.319 You gonna run that back. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.800 It's called hitting the post. No, it's okay, Cat. It 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.000 was a Ford slap and a backwards slap. It was 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.240 sounded like both. I mean a thirty eight to three. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.160 It was a forward and a backwards boom. It was 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:23.039 it was a Rick James. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:23.680 It was. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.920 It was a Rick James slap one in the five fingers. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.360 What were you wanting to wanting to fit in there 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:34.200 right at the beginning. 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:35.680 Oh no, I was just saying I don't quite figured 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.479 that out yet. Oh that's so I said the song. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.480 Yeah, Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's okay. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.679 There's only been three wins so far, still very early 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:45.800 seventy five percent. 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:46.520 Uh. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:51.000 And the biggest and most significant loss handed the Bill 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.840 Belichick in its entire head coaching career, a thirty five 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.120 point beat down at AT and T Stadium. It was 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:02.520 really an unbelievable showing from all three phases, and it 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.920 got back to what the Cowboys did in weeks one 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.200 and week two, because then you now you look at 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.160 that Week three matchup as a potential blip. I don't 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.080 want to name it as a blip just yet, but 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.920 now it has the potential to be one after what 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:18.400 they did to the Patriots on Sunday. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:19.519 Yeah, absolutely, and it was. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.760 It was something actually I wrote about last night, was 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.320 Arizona was the exception, not the first two weeks, because 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.720 they came back in Week four and they almost immediately 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.120 replicated what they did in the first two weeks. The 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.040 defense got after it early, defensive touchdowns, special teams was 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.679 helping out. How about Chauncey Golston catching a two point 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.880 conversion and then the offense it was effective getting down 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.560 the field. And I'm sure we'll still talk about red 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.720 zone this week, and you know that'll be a point. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.360 But you know, when the defense is performing like this, 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.480 it's tough to find anybody in the league that can 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.799 beat them. And I mean that, I really don't think 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.440 that anybody in this league and beat them. When the 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.840 defense is playing like like they were last night, like 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.000 they were against the Jets, like they were against the Giants, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.160 it's just too much to overcome. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.680 Do you want to talk about Hunter Lipkey too? Do it? 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:05.280 Do it now? 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.040 You know since you brought it up. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.160 Oh there's an undershirt. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:17.000 I know, there's no way nice, Oh way one moment. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:23.519 Oh this is happening deep. I almost got it this morning. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.080 This is coming to the state pull back for life. Wow, 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:32.400 I love this. WHOA made it this morning? 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.160 Fresh fresh off the rack, Fresh off the rack. It'll 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.880 be eighty dollars on Nick Harris dot com later, but 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.920 like it. But yeah, how about our man get in 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:42.600 the end zone. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.600 I knew you were a hundred lipkey Stan. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.160 I mean, I'm always going to bring it up, especially 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.800 when he has his first NFL touchdown. I had no 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.520 idea that was coming. Yeah, I had no idea. Should 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:53.360 have known that was on. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.080 The way I saw the undershirt. I should have known. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.720 You should have known he wears an undershirt. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.560 Though normally right, Yeah, but it's typically black, but it's 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:05.480 inside out. It's inside out details inside out shirt. Yeah, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.680 it's an inside out shirt that I made this morning. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.080 And it's honestly like, I used to work out in 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.040 this shirt and I found like a sweatstain on it. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:13.160 I was like, you know what, I just need to 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:13.800 get rid of this. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.760 So this is the last day this this shirt is 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:17.920 ever being used and then it's getting sold to anybody 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:23.680 who's a hundred lucky stand like the auctions open should give. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.200 It to charity or something that'd be kind of like 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.400 for real, Like if he wanted to auction it off 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.640 for real and then maybe give. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:31.520 The money to charity. Why not? 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:32.080 Yeah, why not? 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.400 But just an idea, just an idea. What do you 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.760 think about the wind that was? Do you want to 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:38.800 talk about a Hunter Locky. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.760 Absolutely, I do, yeah, absolutely. I actually talked to him 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.640 after the game in the locker room and he was 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.840 so high. He was so excited. He was like, yeah, 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.520 I spiked it, gave a little flex and then I 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.280 forgot the ball and Dak had to come up. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:52.159 And give me the ball. 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.640 I saw that, he said, he just kind of like 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.760 blacked out on the sideline. He says he doesn't remember 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:57.479 anything after that. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.240 He was just excited. I was like, let's go. 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:04.039 But I will say with Rico Dawdle potentially missing time, 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.839 I will figure more out today probably and later into 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.200 this week. They're gonna need somebody to step up in 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.520 pass protection in the backfield, but also a guy that 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.000 can be a thread out of the backfield, because you 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.159 don't want a guy back there who's just being used 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.640 for pass protection and then everyone knows what's happening pre 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.080 snap whenever that guy's on the field. So there might 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.400 be an opportunity for Hunter Lucky moving forward, not only 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.400 what we saw last night after Dalda went down, but 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:26.120 just in general. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.320 M two things Kyle right off the back. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.000 First thing, I want to send uh some some good 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.240 vibes and prayers up for all those players that have 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:36.960 to go to in the meeting room with Bill Belichick 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.240 this morning, because that is going to be horrific. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.039 So definitely they're gonna need you, guys. Prayers. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.360 Second of all, just saying I'm just gonna be it's 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:46.640 gonna be by, It's gonna be real. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.920 By it especially at one in three. Yeah, it's just 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:51.159 not good. It's not good. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.960 But the worst loss ever, worst loss that's not gonna 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.839 sit very well, just telling you. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.880 And second of all, uh no disrespect man. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.719 Like I did not believe that Dallas was going to 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.480 be able to control the trenches. I also didn't think 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.840 that that Tyler, Biada and Martin we're gonna play right. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.240 But still even with those guys playing, I knew it 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.680 was gonna be a tall task against against this new 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.680 England front, and they shut it down, right, they shut 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.839 it down. Unfortunately, you know, Judno only got a small dose. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.680 I would have liked to see that matchup more right, 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.840 having a solid defensive end really going up against our 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.800 front to use that as a kind of a marker 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.960 as a test. So prayers up to him. Hopefully he 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:34.760 gets has a fast recovery. I know they had a 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.720 couple of major injuries over there on their side. But 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.560 I did not believe that Dallas was gonna be able 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:41.440 to hold it down the way they did on the front, 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.720 and that was on both sides of the ball. And 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.039 I was completely proven wrong, And I am glad that 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.279 I was proven wrong, because these guys you have to 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.320 be able to control the aspect of the game. There 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.400 is no question marks in regards to the personnel outside 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.520 the interior line of this team. 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.799 On both sides of the ball, there's there's no questions. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.440 You know, you have the dbs, you have the receivers, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:03.839 you have the running backs, you have all the skilled 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.520 position players. You can have all that, But the question 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.320 mark has always been can you move the ball on 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.960 the ground effectively whenever you want to? And can you 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.520 go ahead and stop teams from running the ball. That's 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.680 always the only questions that really ever exist on this team. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.520 That's what they are aside from kicker going to get 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.240 into the camp, and we always have a kicker coming 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.560 out of camp, right, But they answer that call. And 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.120 to your point, seventy five percent of this year, right 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.760 in terms of what we've seen, they have executed. They 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.760 have actually They've shown us that they're fully capable of 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.560 doing that. People can keep looking to the Arizona game 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.360 all day long. I don't look at those games like that. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.320 The reason why is because every team presents a different matchup, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.960 and unless you're facing that team twice a year, I 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.600 can't call it up. I want an old game or whatever, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.240 like I give the other team respect. They beat you 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.280 that day, right, So Dallas has an opportunity for going 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.440 forward to beat every team that shows up on their schedule. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.080 And that's all they can control. What happened happened. Now. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:58.720 They just have to continue to put out this type 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.080 of performance every single week. And obviously we'll get into 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.520 it later on this week they have a big test 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:02.920 coming up. 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.200 Almost every position group and unit reboundy yesterday. I mean 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:10.160 that's that's without stating, but especially the trenches on both 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:10.800 sides of the ball. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:11.760 I mean they were dominant. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:12.240 It was. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:13.400 It started with Tyler Smith. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.400 I think on on the offensive line, Tyler Biattish had 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:17.440 a good game before he got pulled out. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.680 I think like third quarter Zach Martin as well. 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.320 I mean Chewy Doga even held his own whenever Judn 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.360 was in for for most of the game. So and 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.600 then on the defensive side, they were generating push. In 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.720 the run game, it was Hankins, it was Mazie getting 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.720 in there on a probably I think I had about 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:35.840 fifteen snaps for I was Neville Gallimore had the game 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.839 of his life. I Patrick Walker was sitting next to 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.559 me in the press box, and it felt like every 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.240 five minutes, I was like, did you just see nev 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:43.680 Nev just do that? 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.400 Oh my gosh, didn't have count in his helmet or 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:47.000 something like that. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:48.640 Yeah, it was. It was crazy. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.959 I think hit best his best day so far. I mean, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.079 you could add it up on the list. The interior 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.400 of that defensive line set the tone just as much 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.080 as the interior of the offensive line set the tone 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.960 on the offensive side. So I think it's impressive to 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.079 see the jump that they did make, because that was 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.640 one of our questions last week was how much can 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.560 you fix in one week? How much can you turn 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.439 around in one week? And it turns out you can 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.640 fix quite a bit in one week. The Cowboys are 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.559 used to this. They're nine and one since the beginning 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.640 of the twenty twenty one season. Following a loss. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:19.599 They know how to rebound. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.160 And they've done so very well since the start of 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.680 that season. But I think this might have been the 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.000 most impressive one because of how down the loss of 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.840 the Cardinals was, because of how much you were dominated 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.679 on both sides of the football, and then the way 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.920 you come back against a really good Patriots defense. 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.160 I don't want to talk about their offense. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.040 Their offense has plenty of problems, and we saw that 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.800 again yesterday, but that defense came in as one of 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.720 the top units in the NFL, and you made them 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.160 look like they had just as many problems as the offense. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.840 I will say, even as the night went on last 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:51.920 night and I'm watching that Jets Chiefs game, yeah, I 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.080 continue to feel better about where this team is at. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.040 Even coming out of Week three against Arizona. The Chiefs 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.360 and the Bills both struggle with that Jets defense, and 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:01.640 the Cowboys did their way with him. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:03.840 And you can look at the Patriots as well. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.640 You know who the Patriots have played so far this 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.880 season and what they have put together defensively, and what 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.240 the Cowboys did to them literally from start to finish 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:14.200 last night. So man, I think I think there's a 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:15.720 lot of great things to take away, not a lot 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:16.360 of negatives. 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.640 Yeah, I want to save the defensive talk for the 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.480 next segment, but I want to start on the offensive line. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:21.680 You brought up Tyler Smith. 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.280 Tyler Smith is quickly becoming one of my favorite players 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.880 maybe in Cowboys history, because I really love the way 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.040 that he handles himself. 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.080 I love the way that he plays the game. You 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.760 talk about a guy who's willing and open to being 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:37.520 a good teammate. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.040 You saw that last year with the way that he 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.400 bounced inside and outside, the way that he plays the 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.679 game with a ferocity, with an intensity of physicality. He 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.880 is uber strong, but also just the way he handles 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.040 himself off the field too. And now I'm talking in 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.080 terms of favorite player in Cowboys history. I'm not saying 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.800 it's the best player. I'm saying one out of the 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.680 guys that I've watched or interacted with, he's one of 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.280 those top guys because he did his job all day long. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.160 And so last week against Arizona too, I thought that 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.400 was maybe one of the two bright spots in that 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.560 Arizona game, was what he was able to do just 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.880 by himself on an island at the guard spot. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.600 Then he gets some help back from Tyler Biattish. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.760 He gets a full week of reps with Chew Madoga 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.280 and he helped push that defense backwards and it was 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:22.760 really impressive to watch up front. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.079 I love what Tyler Smith did from start to finish. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.600 I mean there wasn't a ton of pressure generated on 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.400 deck throughout the night. I think he was sacked once 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.680 or twice. But I mean the running game was able 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.840 to be effective, effective enough to get the passing game going. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.680 I think completion's to ten different receivers yesterday, that's just 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:39.880 a credit to the protection. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.240 Areas to eight different players too. 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.400 Yeah, yeah, everybody got involved, absolutely wild. I think a 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:45.720 little bit of that was just, you know, it kind 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:47.400 of getting out of hand late. But if you looked 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.080 at this box score probably you know, mid third quarter, 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.839 that would still tell the same story. But Tyler smith Man, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.240 it definitely looks like he's made a second year jump, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.040 which we always talk about the second year jump. I 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:58.640 feel like we haven't really talked about it with Tyler 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.960 Smith since the started training camp, just because of how 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.559 good his rookie year was. His second year jump has 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:04.400 all pro potential. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.439 Yes, Isaiah raising your hand speaking of second year jumps, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.599 Oh you were gonna take my transition here? Sure what 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:12.959 Jaylen Tobert? 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:21.400 Oh, I was on your saying, Jake Ferguson, Jalen freaking Tober, 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:21.959 how about that? 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.959 Listen here, everybody wants to talk about his offensive contributions. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.000 And yes, he has made a substantial stride in that, 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.040 right perceptions, fifty three yards. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.440 It's more than what he had in the entire. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.480 Absolutely two season. He's been showing up over the past 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.199 few weeks. Right, this is not just the first time 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.719 he showed up this year. Right, They just threw it 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:39.080 to him more often this time around. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.360 Was he four for four? Yeah? Four for four? 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.360 How about the effort and the execution on special teams? 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.839 That was the most impressive thing to me, because that 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.240 is the most undervalue thing from the fans perspective. Fans 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.040 we can really look over for the majority of the 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:55.720 time because they go straight to the commercial. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.599 Nobody talks about it. Right, It's all right, we'll be 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.400 right back, right, But that's when you go get the chips, right, 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.439 you know you've been holding it dream, That's what it is. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.720 This dude, I don't understand how difficult it is to 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.760 make a play from the gunner position. Okay, he was 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.160 going against arguably the best gunner in the history of football. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:14.800 He was playing again. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.440 On the other side of the ball was Matthew Slater, 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.840 who's arguably the best gunner and special teamer ever in 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.520 the history of the game. Right ten Pro Bowls, He's 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:24.800 going to be a Hall of Famer, probably one of 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.199 the first Hall of famers at the specialist position. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:27.520 Okay. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.280 On the opposite side, you had Jalen Tolbert going down 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.280 there taking on the challenge. Whether he was thinking about 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.199 Matthew Slater or not, I don't care, but he was 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.560 going down there and showing you exactly what he's capable of. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.080 From the special teams perspective. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.960 He had an impact on his game in a major way, 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.920 going down there and making a big hit. Okay, just 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.320 taking off just I was about to say something else, 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:48.360 taking off. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.439 Just I mean, I didn't say it with your check. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.959 I haven't seen that speed out of him. He has 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:53.880 kind of that personality. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.240 It is kind of like I'm chill, like I have 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.240 the capabilities, but I don't always show it. He took 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.040 that limitar off. He was the best thing in the 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:02.560 world for me to see. I'm not sure if everybody 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:03.840 else saw it, but he went down there and made 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.480 one heck of a play and then followed it up. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:07.440 With offensive plays. 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.400 So, however he was on the field and was being 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.439 asked to be utilized, he was producing. And that's all 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.080 you could ask of anybody on the roster. But even 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:18.920 more so from where he came from last year to 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.360 where he is today, super kudos to him. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:21.720 Yeah. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.200 When he came in and made that tackle on that 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.280 punt return, I first thought it was CJ. Goodwin just 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.960 because of how fast he closed and the ability to 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.560 make that tackle and the physicality and the tackle too. Yes, 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.560 And then when I looked down, H'm like, oh that's eighteen. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.600 That's Tolbert. Yeah, pro hesitation. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:37.600 It was super awesome to see. And then in the 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.160 receiving game he was just as effective, I mean, getting 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:41.800 physical with guys on the boundary. I think he was 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.040 matched up with Christian Gonzales once and it had beat him, 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:45.520 but Dak had gone the other way. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.760 But it was really good to see Tolberry esh show. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.720 Was and looking at his snapcowns offensively, I mean, Tolbert 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:56.200 ended up with twenty four offensive snaps seventeen special team snaps. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.000 If you're going to play like that on special teams 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.960 and then contribute and catch all four of your time 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.560 targets and make some moves on offense, you will see 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.240 more than twenty four snaps and that was thirty four 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.560 percent of the offensive looks. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.160 He's gonna see that. Continue to step up. That's not 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:11.880 bad on the way. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.080 I want to go to Jake Ferguson too, because that 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.200 was the other second year jump that we're taking a 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:16.600 look at. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.600 I mean, seven of seven for seventy seven yards. You 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.720 should have gone on handling ance game. Yeah. I was 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:22.520 about to saying you can't. 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.200 You can't gamble in the NFL, but you could. He 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.240 might have had some luck if he would have gone 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.760 to the slots. But seven to seven for seventy seven. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.880 When you look at Jake Ferguson, what impresses you the 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.680 most about what he's taken, what step he's taking going 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:36.720 into the second year. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.320 I would say the thing that's impressed me the Moses 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.600 is run blocking. Actually it would not even be in 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.080 the receiving game. That was something we had to talk about. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.280 And it's saying a ton because when we came into 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.600 the season, when we went into draft season, we were 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.520 talking about how the Cowboys need a tight end that 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.760 can assist in run blocking, especially with Ezekiel Elliott being 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.800 out now and you don't have that added protection and 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:57.720 pass pro as well if you wanted to throw him 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.440 in that situation. And man, Jake Ferguson is has taken 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.200 that upon himself and he's excelled with it so much 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.160 so that it's allowed that tight end group to kind 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.960 of just develop at their own pace in that department. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.760 But talking about the receiving end, man yesterday was great 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.920 getting him open in the seams, quick routes. He's that 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.600 safety net for dak Prescott across the middle of the 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.400 field that I think will just consistently, We'll consistently see 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.400 these type of performances from Jake Ferguson. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.560 I think, yeah, Fergie, I haven't really paid much attention 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.400 to his running blocking, so I can't speak to that 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.080 right now, but in terms of his reception, I mean, 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.880 he's being that consistent guy. I mean, everybody knows Dakla 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.120 is a good tight end and he's fighting him. He's 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.960 finding them often. I mean, he came into this, he 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.600