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Speaker 1: you back in studio? How we am? Man? It's kind
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Speaker 1: is just for a split second be away to go
Speaker 1: back to what we did all of last year, and
Speaker 1: then it come right back and then it's not like
Speaker 1: you're stuck there. Can I just hug this area? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I feel the warm. I just want to hug
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Speaker 1: you to do a show in person, like on a
Speaker 1: scale of one to ten, ten being like the hardest
Speaker 1: thing to do in one being like you were just
Speaker 1: fly high on cloud nine. I don't know the easiest
Speaker 1: with are you guys in here? Sure? The second easiest
Speaker 1: is how we're doing it right how we're doing it
Speaker 1: right now. So this would be like a three, yes,
Speaker 1: solid three, that's three in the studio. So there you go, Hey,
Speaker 1: there you go. I like it. I'm the I'm the
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Speaker 1: I'd say that. Anyway we can get off of the
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Speaker 1: I hope all of Cowboys Nation at home realizes And
Speaker 1: I know I know, they really don't because they don't
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Speaker 1: best content. Did Billy he's the one Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's the one person that's allowed to do that. But Isaiah,
Speaker 1: how are you doing today? I'm good, ma, I am good.
Speaker 1: I feel good. You know, back back on the grind,
Speaker 1: at the work, both both jobs. They're in here. Nice
Speaker 1: sounds good? Yeah, right back at it. And of course,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have one more regular season game to go to,
Speaker 1: and that's the Philadelphia Eagles on the road Saturday night football.
Speaker 1: Hey HONEYESPN, So they flexed it to Saturday. Short week
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, short or week. It's not a short week,
Speaker 1: I guess, no Thursday game. Think goodness. But Rob, I'll
Speaker 1: start with you on this. What goes into the decision
Speaker 1: to switch it to Saturday? Why? Why are the Cowboys
Speaker 1: being pushed up a day? Is it solely based on
Speaker 1: TV or is there something else that's kind of lined
Speaker 1: up with it. Well, first of all, I feel like
Speaker 1: the kid at dodgeball that just got Blast to be picked.
Speaker 1: I'm I feel left out today. I'll be back with
Speaker 1: you guys soon. Yeah. I think it's about TV. And
Speaker 1: actually I was kind of surprised. Mike McCarthy said he
Speaker 1: talked to rich Dalrypple, VP of public Relations, and they
Speaker 1: kind of weighed in on the on the press conference
Speaker 1: yesterday that they knew that this might be coming five
Speaker 1: six weeks ago. Wow. So I think it is all
Speaker 1: TV related and flexing things and finding games that have
Speaker 1: more you know, playoff implications. In a way, this is
Speaker 1: kind of a boring matchup, I guess for the networks
Speaker 1: in a wave and though even though it's the Cowboys Eagles,
Speaker 1: because both teams are in and it's just a matter
Speaker 1: of seating. So but I was kind of surprised that
Speaker 1: they thought this possibly could have been coming as early
Speaker 1: as November apparently, and just in conversations being had yesterday,
Speaker 1: it also sounded like it may be a possibility to
Speaker 1: play on Saturday during the Wildcard round, maybe not for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but also for the Eagles. It could be
Speaker 1: either one of those sides. Do you see that as
Speaker 1: a possibility as well for Dallas? I know the Eagles
Speaker 1: could certainly be put in that regard too, But do
Speaker 1: you see that as something that could be he talked
Speaker 1: about later. Yeah. Absolutely, that's the other side of it too.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, if you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: short week, you'd rather have it this week than play
Speaker 1: on Sunday against Philly and then turn around and play
Speaker 1: Saturday night against Philly. I don't think. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a possibility to now. Look, they're either play Saturday
Speaker 1: or they'll play Sunday with that home playoff game. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of a two prong thing. But
Speaker 1: but we've seen the league flex these games down the stretch,
Speaker 1: and for this particular week, I don't think it does
Speaker 1: them a lot of favors in terms of preparation having
Speaker 1: to play on a short week. But hey, they're gonna
Speaker 1: play everybody, right, They're gonna load up and play. Isaiah,
Speaker 1: you're shaking your head. I just don't. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is what it is. It's a business, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a business, and unfortunately the league can just pull this
Speaker 1: pull this string whenever they feel you know, at the
Speaker 1: dismay of the players unfortunately, but you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: a constant professionals. So the guys they'll obviously figure it
Speaker 1: out and no make it happen. But it's a lot
Speaker 1: of demand on your body, man. How But that's the
Speaker 1: other thing though, is like how much of a difference
Speaker 1: this one day A lot? I get a Thursday to
Speaker 1: a Saturday or Thursday to a Sunday break, But it
Speaker 1: is that much of a difference one day, absolutely, there's
Speaker 1: that's another day that you don't get treatment as another
Speaker 1: day you don't get to sit in the hot selves.
Speaker 1: Another day you don't get stretching by by professional or
Speaker 1: get a massage, just recovery, acupuncture, you know, whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. Then in your typical regiment, that's one less
Speaker 1: day or you know that you get for that potential weekend.
Speaker 1: It's at the end of the season when you need
Speaker 1: it most, you know, when your body's most beat down.
Speaker 1: So I like, again, the league has a has a
Speaker 1: job to do. There's a business. They got to get
Speaker 1: their TV money. You know, I have to do what's
Speaker 1: best for viewership. But at the same time, it's at
Speaker 1: the dismay of players. Well, they took care of the
Speaker 1: decision for the Cowboys on whether they were going to
Speaker 1: rest their players in the final week, So there it is,
Speaker 1: you know, And I think that with with Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: in the press conference, he even voiced like, um, he
Speaker 1: just said, you know, they knew five weeks in advance
Speaker 1: that they had an opportunity possibly to play in this game.
Speaker 1: So you know, look, that's why they no matter what
Speaker 1: they say, Yeah, we're going to play all of our
Speaker 1: guys because you have to because you're now you're in
Speaker 1: on a short week, and how imperative that day off
Speaker 1: is two professional athletes. But you know, I just think
Speaker 1: I look forward to this matchup, especially with everything that
Speaker 1: happened versus the Cardinals. We want to try and get
Speaker 1: this offense back going and this is the week and
Speaker 1: you and that was going to be one of my
Speaker 1: questions to you man. It's just you know, after the
Speaker 1: week that we had with the offense looking dysfunctional, is
Speaker 1: this imperative that you see as even like looking at
Speaker 1: it from a preseason game kind of situation where at
Speaker 1: least the starters play the first half and maybe backups
Speaker 1: coming in second half. I think you play your guys
Speaker 1: to the point where you feel like you've accomplished whatever
Speaker 1: goal that you set out for that week. And I
Speaker 1: think you need to have a sense of confidence. I
Speaker 1: mean your team if that happens in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: happs in the first quarter, if that happens at the
Speaker 1: end of the game, at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: But I think you need to obviously take care of
Speaker 1: your guys, but you can't go into it scared, right.
Speaker 1: I know, that's probably the mentality that most people pretty
Speaker 1: much have going into this matchup. You want to ensure
Speaker 1: that you come out of it healthy, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, you need to ensure that you come out
Speaker 1: of it with confidence as well and feeling good about
Speaker 1: your game plan, your execution, um, you know, and obviously
Speaker 1: you guys, you know, feeling good about their play and
Speaker 1: kind of going along with that. I mean, Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: a team that's dealing with a bunch right now also,
Speaker 1: so you could get it get to that level in
Speaker 1: the first quarter, first half. Did you guys see the
Speaker 1: list of masses that were placed on the COVID massive
Speaker 1: you want to see you, I'm gonna read them out
Speaker 1: because they're big names too ready, Jenard, Avery, Fletcher Cox,
Speaker 1: Marcus Epps, Dallas Goddard, Nick her Big, Jordan Howard, Jason Kelsey,
Speaker 1: Avante Maddox, Rodney McLeod, Boston Scott, Alex Singleton, Jack Stole,
Speaker 1: all on the reserve COVID nineteen list, Randall Cunningham, Bryan Dawkins,
Speaker 1: Michael Vick, Torell oh, Michael Vick naw, they're all coming crazy.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, have you. I know, we've been through this
Speaker 1: already and we've seen the COVID reserve list play its
Speaker 1: impact on games like this. But I mean in terms
Speaker 1: of key starters losing, I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have faced a team yet that has lost
Speaker 1: that number of starters yet, Robin, Is there any way
Speaker 1: that they get back with this new rule because of
Speaker 1: the five days because even though it is a short week, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing is with the five day
Speaker 1: rule and testing on Monday and having these positive tests
Speaker 1: come back for Philly, that's that's part of the new
Speaker 1: protocol where now it's an opportunity for guys to come
Speaker 1: back Sunday, And you know, I think maybe with this
Speaker 1: new variant. You're seeing guys by and large, it's not
Speaker 1: you know, it's not for everybody in the population, but
Speaker 1: people who are lssarly who are vaccinated or clearing this
Speaker 1: overcron quicker, you know. And I think that's so that's
Speaker 1: part of the thinking is that maybe the Eagles could
Speaker 1: get a large number of those guys back by Sunday.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I mean, in the past, with that delta
Speaker 1: varya end, I'm thinking probably I'm putting on my virology
Speaker 1: hat here that passed with the delta varia. You know,
Speaker 1: if a guy got if a guy got the guy COVID,
Speaker 1: you're you're at I mean, we saw it with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys earlier season. You're out for that week for sure. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, there's less it seems like there's more of
Speaker 1: a chance that you could get back sooner. So you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see. But I mean, that's tough for Philly. They're
Speaker 1: lucky that they clinched and took care of business last week, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's huge if if any of those guys are missing,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be missing them. I mean, you talk to
Speaker 1: talk about your starting center. You're a starting guard. You
Speaker 1: your best defensive player and Fletcher Cox, guy who had
Speaker 1: to pick last week against Washington. So yeah, it's all huge,
Speaker 1: But let's let's keep talking about this Cowboys loss in Arizona.
Speaker 1: We've got Twitter questions coming up here on the other segment.
Speaker 1: You can still keep sending those in. We need a
Speaker 1: couple more on Kyle underscore Yeomans on Twitter. But Hackman,
Speaker 1: when you take a look back and you've now watched
Speaker 1: the film a little bit more and you've seen and
Speaker 1: dissected what happened on Sunday, does anything else stick out
Speaker 1: to you that we didn't necessarily hit yesterday? You know,
Speaker 1: I tell you what. I was in the stadium watching
Speaker 1: the game, and a man at and T Stadium was
Speaker 1: on fire again and it was rocking, And you know,
Speaker 1: so different, man, when you're at the game versus watching
Speaker 1: the copy on television, you know, and going back and
Speaker 1: watching the game again. I think one of the things,
Speaker 1: you know, much has been said about the referees from
Speaker 1: the team, from coaches, from people in general in the media.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I noticed right away, and
Speaker 1: I you know, I've always talked about how I felt
Speaker 1: like establishing the line of scrimmage for offensive line was
Speaker 1: so important. But the Cardinals did a wonderful job. Their
Speaker 1: defensive line did and where they got away with some
Speaker 1: things was holding up our offensive line and preventing them
Speaker 1: from getting to the second level. Those were calls that
Speaker 1: didn't get made, and typically defensive holding at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage is one of those hard ones to catch.
Speaker 1: They don't call it a lot, but and that's why
Speaker 1: you know Vansh Joseph obviously the DC probably planning for
Speaker 1: it to not allow Connor Williams or Zach Mardin to
Speaker 1: get to the next level. To get on Isaiah Simon
Speaker 1: is to open up some of those running lanes. And
Speaker 1: so those were some of the things that I saw.
Speaker 1: But all in all, Man I still stick with what
Speaker 1: I said yesterday. It just looked like this offense was
Speaker 1: out of rhythm. The penalties is really what costs them.
Speaker 1: It just negated any motive, any anything that they had
Speaker 1: as far as offensive synergy in that game. Greg zero line,
Speaker 1: That was it, Greg zero line. This is something that
Speaker 1: has to be shared up. The last concern that you
Speaker 1: want to have going into the playoffs is worried about
Speaker 1: can your kicker make a kick? Once you get across
Speaker 1: the forty. It's not the concern that you want to
Speaker 1: have teams that have that confidence in their kickers going
Speaker 1: into these and going into this part of the season,
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. You feel good? Didn't you play with Venitary?
Speaker 1: I did not have Venitary? You didn't okay Sskowsky? Okay,
Speaker 1: I had Gotskowski, which is he's a pretty dag going
Speaker 1: good too. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I mean you you
Speaker 1: want that confidence because you know these games are going
Speaker 1: to be close. It's just it's playoff football is competitive,
Speaker 1: it's fast, it's furious, and it usually comes down to
Speaker 1: a driver or two. And you want the confidence knowing that, hey,
Speaker 1: if as long as I can get to that forty
Speaker 1: yard line we had, we can put points on the board.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that that Dallas Nation has that
Speaker 1: confidence right now and their kicker. I mean we lost
Speaker 1: by how much? Three? Three? And he missed how many kicks? One? Yep,
Speaker 1: it's exactly. You're exactly right, leaving points on the board.
Speaker 1: It's why you lost Week one against Tampa Bay as well.
Speaker 1: I mean he left points on the board. He lost
Speaker 1: by two. I mean that's just plain and simple. That's
Speaker 1: something that's cut and dry. You could say the same
Speaker 1: thing for the interception from Jay Ran Kurs would to
Speaker 1: knock three points off the board, but that's not as
Speaker 1: cut and dry as literally kicking in and having three
Speaker 1: points or not having three d J. So having that
Speaker 1: that sort of security would be nice in a kicker.
Speaker 1: But that's also why NFL kickers stick around for so
Speaker 1: long if they are automatic, and for the most part,
Speaker 1: Greg's urline has been automatic throughout his career. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily say he's been that. At least this year
Speaker 1: he's been good. He hasn't been automatic. There's a difference.
Speaker 1: What do you call it? What have you done for
Speaker 1: me lately? League? That is? And I want to go
Speaker 1: back to the penalties that you had. I saw this
Speaker 1: this stat from Jeff Cavanaugh actually on Twitter, and he
Speaker 1: said Cowboys first four drives driving stalled after a holding
Speaker 1: call from Tyrant driving, then stalled after beatish false start.
Speaker 1: Dak then had that miss over the top to Cooper,
Speaker 1: drive stalled, and then Lyell was a hold I mean
Speaker 1: stalled that drive as well, and then the touchdown drive
Speaker 1: on the last one. Whether it didn't have any penalties
Speaker 1: in the first half, So that's I mean, that's about it.
Speaker 1: Penalty wise, Where does this Where does that come from?
Speaker 1: And I asked you this. I believe I'm the postgame show,
Speaker 1: but where do you Where does that start? Does that
Speaker 1: start with the coaching status? To start with personnel? It's coaching.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think most problems started with the coaching
Speaker 1: staff and again as being being able to position your
Speaker 1: guys to be in the best spot possible to handle
Speaker 1: their assignments correctly without being compromised. And I think what
Speaker 1: happened this past game was a lot of guys were
Speaker 1: positionally compromised um and kind of put in bad situations
Speaker 1: to where the recourse is gonna be holding, right, you're
Speaker 1: gonna end up holding, You're gonna end up getting these penalties.
Speaker 1: Not pre snap penalties, that's something totally different. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to these holding penalties though, that was an issue.
Speaker 1: When you look at the defensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: and you look at you know, the special teams national right,
Speaker 1: that's face guarding, right, some of those things that I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just blatant plays. And that's why I don't allow
Speaker 1: guys to just say, oh, we were playing two teams
Speaker 1: in the BS you know, you didn't. You didn't put
Speaker 1: yourself in the right position. You were Hey, Tyrn Smith,
Speaker 1: you were holding right, your your feet were a little slow, right,
Speaker 1: you just got back. We get it. But it was
Speaker 1: a holding right lyle called us holding right. Be honest,
Speaker 1: you're out of position right, Your leverage is bad. All
Speaker 1: these all these guys that were that had blatant penalties.
Speaker 1: You can't point the finger, ask somebody else and say hey,
Speaker 1: whoa me? And that's and that's kind of where I
Speaker 1: come out with that. You want toss it? Yeah, Rob,
Speaker 1: what you got on that? I totally agree. It's probably
Speaker 1: not a popular opinion among Cowboys Nation. But I just
Speaker 1: watching that game, and I watched it on TV as well,
Speaker 1: and like I didn't I didn't get the sense that
Speaker 1: the officiating was reminiscent of Thanksgiving, where it was just
Speaker 1: like my goodness, you know, like the game moved along.
Speaker 1: I know, Mike McCarthy, I know yesterday said herky jerky
Speaker 1: about ten times. Yeah, the penalty stall drives. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. But I do think Isaiah's right,
Speaker 1: like there was there were some clear calls that I
Speaker 1: don't think you can debate those that look they missed,
Speaker 1: they missed the fumble at the end. That was a
Speaker 1: huge miss, no question about it. But again I said
Speaker 1: this yesterday. They have been one of the leading penalized
Speaker 1: teams in the league this year. It's been a problem,
Speaker 1: and it's not just the referees. It's something they've got
Speaker 1: to correct. One more thing on zero line. Jerry was
Speaker 1: on the fan this morning and said he was asked
Speaker 1: about his miss in the game and said, I think
Speaker 1: the most important part of a kicker is consistency, and
Speaker 1: it's not consistently missing. And that was the end of
Speaker 1: So they need more from Greg's airline. But you know what,
Speaker 1: at this point the season, like, who's a better option
Speaker 1: right now? The guy's been the league for ten years.
Speaker 1: You just want him to turn it around in playoff time.
Speaker 1: You should see the reaction from Isaiah in studio right now.
Speaker 1: That's not just the general manager, that's the owner. That's
Speaker 1: that's a hot seat. Yeah statement right then, Yeah, kind
Speaker 1: of reminder. Did you see what Mike Zimmer said about
Speaker 1: Kellen mon after So, Yeah, that was that was harsh.
Speaker 1: It was savage see him every day. That hurt me.
Speaker 1: That hurt me personally. Oh yeah, m kellen mon, that's
Speaker 1: my guy. Yeah. Yeah. Basically they lost thirty seven to
Speaker 1: ten because Man had to start in front of Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: I don't think Kirk Cousins could have saved them in
Speaker 1: this game anyways. But they asked the reporter asked Mike Himmer, uh,
Speaker 1: would you like to see a wilk at Kelly mom
Speaker 1: next week? And he goes not particularly. They were like
Speaker 1: wait why not? And he was like, I see him
Speaker 1: every day. Damn yeah, that's every day after this week, right,
Speaker 1: Man's that was tough. It was um, but just picking like,
Speaker 1: I got a different view than you guys about the
Speaker 1: whole game and the officials and all of that. I
Speaker 1: just feel like, look, if you play football long enough,
Speaker 1: you know that they could call holding on every play. Okay,
Speaker 1: you could call leading with the helmet on every play,
Speaker 1: and there are some obviously, you know, holding it doesn't
Speaker 1: always have to be egregious, just like PI, you know,
Speaker 1: not getting your head turned around. It's it's all subjective
Speaker 1: to what the referees are seeing where the ball is.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was some there was a Mark Cooper
Speaker 1: in the end zone where it was clearly a PI
Speaker 1: that didn't get called the situations like that where these
Speaker 1: guys are giving it their all for one hour and
Speaker 1: they come back and they've played this game and they
Speaker 1: they've been in situations where they've seen that particular play
Speaker 1: be called has pass interference and they don't get it.
Speaker 1: That I just said talked about the defensive lineman holding
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman up. That holding call isn't called the
Speaker 1: one on Lael Collins dog. They have been worse holding
Speaker 1: penalties called in the league. And that was like, you know,
Speaker 1: you just did one to ten, that dude, that was
Speaker 1: a one, a negative three, you know, but they call
Speaker 1: it anyway. And and what it does is it's stemings
Speaker 1: where your drive and it makes it takes a third
Speaker 1: and short now to a third and long, and it
Speaker 1: takes you out of position. They have legitimate gripes, as
Speaker 1: does everybody that say, you look, you can't be pissed
Speaker 1: off about where what the referees did, but there's a
Speaker 1: point in the game where you look at it and
Speaker 1: you go with them. We go back to what Rob
Speaker 1: was talking about in the Las Vegas game, where you've
Speaker 1: seen this thing cost you a game and penalties being called,
Speaker 1: and then it always seems to go against you. So
Speaker 1: that's just frustration boiling over from these guys. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't disagree real quick, like sorry, go ahead,
Speaker 1: I there, sorry you good b. I was gonna piggyback
Speaker 1: on what heck said. I think there's another game too
Speaker 1: that they won, the Patriots game, where it was like, man,
Speaker 1: nothing's going their way with some of the calls and
Speaker 1: and it again, there's no conspiracy here, but I understand
Speaker 1: why players get frustrated because I think that's probably three
Speaker 1: games now where they're like, God, can we catch a break?
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is like, ultimately, you gotta play
Speaker 1: well enough to take it out of the officials hands.
Speaker 1: And that's all I was saying about, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think, as I said a postgame, like, if you
Speaker 1: don't think yourself a hole early in the game, you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about the reps being human and
Speaker 1: missing a call late. That's all. This is not who's
Speaker 1: the Saints playing a couple of years ago in the playoffs? Rams? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like it's not that that level of you know, like
Speaker 1: it's not like that that that was blatant, like come on,
Speaker 1: like what the heck? Like you just cost us the
Speaker 1: ability to go to the dog on Jeff, you know, yep,
Speaker 1: it's not that level. This is like you said, heck,
Speaker 1: play you could throw a flag on every play. You
Speaker 1: literally can throw a flag on every play. Referees are
Speaker 1: calling what they see. The penalties are pretty dog on
Speaker 1: even you know, it's just that it just you didn't
Speaker 1: come out the victor. That's what the that's what the
Speaker 1: issue is. You didn't come out the victor. Nobody's complaining
Speaker 1: about the referees in the Washington game or the New
Speaker 1: Orleans game and stuff like that. And I know that's
Speaker 1: that's a little tongue in cheek. Don't worry, Cowboys Nation.
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily saying that's an award statement, but it's true.
Speaker 1: If you don't put yourself in that position, it's a
Speaker 1: non topic going into Week seventeen or Week eighteen, you
Speaker 1: don't have to have this conversation. But certainly it's something.
Speaker 1: If you're the most penalized team in the league. And
Speaker 1: I said this earlier in the year, if you're the
Speaker 1: most penalized team in the league, that's got to be
Speaker 1: for a reason. There's something there. It's it's not a
Speaker 1: one week at a time. Deal is every week there
Speaker 1: is something going on. But when we come back here
Speaker 1: on Talking Cowboys, we're gonna take your questions Cowboys Nation.
Speaker 1: I've got a slew of Twitter questions, some really good
Speaker 1: ones as well. We're gonna answer them when we come
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Speaker 1: We've got some Twitter questions to answer to Twitter day,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna start with Christian Paul. Really good question here.
Speaker 1: I'll start with Rob on this one. What can the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense do in the coaching staff do to help
Speaker 1: the confusion for Dak Prescott on defensive pre snap coverages.
Speaker 1: Is there something that he just needs to overcome due
Speaker 1: to a lack of a run game. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of two questions in one, but ultimately it's what do
Speaker 1: you do to allow Dak to be more successful? Rob
Speaker 1: Well Jerry was asked kind of that question this morning,
Speaker 1: and he talked about the route running. I think he said,
Speaker 1: you know, the route running can get better. I think
Speaker 1: we've talked about the communication between Dak and the receivers.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably something that can can continue to
Speaker 1: get better. Look, I mean, I don't think this is
Speaker 1: something Dak is now ever seen before, you know, I
Speaker 1: think I think you kind of the fan kind of
Speaker 1: answered his own question. I think the lack of the
Speaker 1: run game has really made it difficult for Dak in
Speaker 1: the passing game. I mean, I'm not absolving Dak of everything.
Speaker 1: I mean I think they're Look, you go back and
Speaker 1: there's miss throws that he made, especially early in the game.
Speaker 1: But I think when they are totally one dimensional, it
Speaker 1: allows the defense to do some of those things and
Speaker 1: kind of dictate the flow of the game. And until
Speaker 1: they can get the run game going, whether it's just
Speaker 1: hey getting better production or not having those penalties that
Speaker 1: Heck's been alluding to that's wiping out some of those plays,
Speaker 1: they have to get some some balance back in their offense.
Speaker 1: And I'm not looking and I'm not just looking towards
Speaker 1: the wild card game, because you know, if they can
Speaker 1: get past that game, you're probably going to Green Bay
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be twenty degrees or snowing or something,
Speaker 1: and you have to be able to run the football.
Speaker 1: So even beyond if they're able to get past the
Speaker 1: first round, at some point, the run game has to
Speaker 1: get going. Yeah, I think that with all of that,
Speaker 1: what we've lost is our physicality at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: And when you when teams come into a game and
Speaker 1: they recognize that you're gonna we can easily get you
Speaker 1: out of your running back package by being physical what
Speaker 1: you've then hell, we win. Um dan Quinn has definitely
Speaker 1: almost gotten Defensive Coordinator of the Year because he's made
Speaker 1: forced teams to become one dimensional. Um doubts it is
Speaker 1: just like you. You talked about this yesterday and you
Speaker 1: really made a valid point about Kellen Moore's inability to
Speaker 1: stay with the running game. The first opportunity to get
Speaker 1: out of the running game, he out of there. And
Speaker 1: so this is a situation where like like he is
Speaker 1: talking about where you're gonna need the running game in situations,
Speaker 1: especially when you know, we talk about football so much
Speaker 1: from offenses, defenses, and special teams, but we don't talk
Speaker 1: about the elements. And now you're getting into that point
Speaker 1: where hey, if you go to Green Bay and it's
Speaker 1: two degrees, hey man, that ball don't don't float the
Speaker 1: same in two degree weather, so you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: run it in They definitely have a running back that
Speaker 1: can does green Bay that can two running backs that
Speaker 1: can run it. Agreed on both points. You guys did
Speaker 1: a great job raw Pe to your point. You know, Dak,
Speaker 1: I don't think Dak's confused. I think Dak is perfectly
Speaker 1: fine at the line of scrimmage. But I think that
Speaker 1: Kella Moore has to put him in better situations to
Speaker 1: be able to easily audible out of certain place. Right,
Speaker 1: give yourself a two A two play. Look, they need
Speaker 1: to go back and look at the analytics of what
Speaker 1: it is, based upon their personnel, based upon their formation.
Speaker 1: Give dak a two play a call, going to the huddle,
Speaker 1: call and walk up to the line of scrimmage. If
Speaker 1: play A looks good, roll with it. If not, alert, alert,
Speaker 1: We're on to the second player. We're not having to
Speaker 1: go up there a change a bunch of different protections.
Speaker 1: You have a good idea of what's being presented. I
Speaker 1: mean that takes a lot of data, a lot of research.
Speaker 1: So and to the other point that you made, you
Speaker 1: know the running game teams, teams aren't. We're not. We're
Speaker 1: not able to run the ball right now. And to
Speaker 1: your point, heck, team, when's the last time teams feared
Speaker 1: this office a line? They don't It's been a minute.
Speaker 1: There's been a minute. Probably the New England game, right,
Speaker 1: didn't fear them? Fear at one point in time, this
Speaker 1: offensive line was feared. Yeah, it wouldn't be that game,
Speaker 1: for sure. It wouldn't be twenty twenty one. No, it's
Speaker 1: not twenty twenty one, all right, This offensive line is
Speaker 1: no longer feared. So when you don't fear an offensive
Speaker 1: line and their ability to move you off the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, what do you do? Apply pressure pressure, burst pipes.
Speaker 1: So that is what you're starting to see right now
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys. It's teams don't respect this offensive line.
Speaker 1: So you gotta get that nasty back. You have to
Speaker 1: get that that dog back, and they have to re
Speaker 1: establish their intensity level at the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: start moving some guys off the ball. Because when a
Speaker 1: team decides, when we talked about this yesterday, when the
Speaker 1: team decides to walk all their guys up to the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, you should be it should be a
Speaker 1: dog on magic school bus. They should just be moving
Speaker 1: those guys back five yards deep or at least popping
Speaker 1: open one scene right and so that one guy can
Speaker 1: get loose. It's kind of like when Heckman does push
Speaker 1: ups when it tries to wear bututting up shirt. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work because that top buddy, don't that tap? Will
Speaker 1: you just provide you just provide a magic school bus
Speaker 1: reference in Heckma's top button reference in the same sentence,
Speaker 1: did you really just do that combination? I will have
Speaker 1: you know that my top button is button a lot easier.
Speaker 1: Although I can't breathe now, No, it's popping off for
Speaker 1: a different Oh man, that's crazy, all right. Kind of
Speaker 1: along the same lines, though, I'm trying to get this
Speaker 1: match of school bus back on track. John John asked,
Speaker 1: kind of along the same lines, but it's more so
Speaker 1: towards the coaching. Why not established the run early in
Speaker 1: the first even if it's not quote unquote working, keep
Speaker 1: at it by the third and the fourth it's sure
Speaker 1: to be working effectively, same situation, why not get Coop
Speaker 1: involved early? Amari Cooper stick with it if it's not
Speaker 1: working early, And he said, as his example, look at
Speaker 1: Green Bay against Minnesota on Sunday night football, So kind
Speaker 1: of along those same lines, why not are they abandoning
Speaker 1: the run too early? Yeah, and look it, Rob, I've
Speaker 1: already said it, and Rob backed it up before you know.
Speaker 1: It's just those penalties that negate those long runs. You're
Speaker 1: looking at over one hundred yards of rushing if you
Speaker 1: get those penalties back, right, But look, if it's a
Speaker 1: fifth we all be drunk. And I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: be drunk at nine o'clock in the morning. I just
Speaker 1: want as I am. I just look, I just feel
Speaker 1: like it's as far as the game playing is concerned
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs. We've got to find a way
Speaker 1: to get our playmakers the ball. That's just what it
Speaker 1: is right now. Amari Cooper isn't being He isn't. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been highlighted in our offense, and he just seems
Speaker 1: like a cog in the wheel. But he ain't. He's
Speaker 1: a difference maker out there. So its Cede Lamb and
Speaker 1: you heard him after the game of Mark Cooper talks
Speaker 1: about how the communication needs to be better. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that was an indictment on where they are offensively.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're not getting enough time time to be together
Speaker 1: to talk about these things. But I see it seems
Speaker 1: like to me this is too late in the season
Speaker 1: to you know. And I guess communication can always be
Speaker 1: better on both ends. But that kind of threw me
Speaker 1: off that come in about communication from Amara Cooper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he slid that up in there. And if the thing
Speaker 1: is the reality is Cowboys Nation. Kelly Moore doesn't want
Speaker 1: to run the ball. That it's not it's not a
Speaker 1: natural instinct for him to call a run play. He
Speaker 1: wants where does he come from? Passing freaking passing background.
Speaker 1: He wants to throw the ball. There's no question about that.
Speaker 1: Right air raid offense. He wants to throw it around,
Speaker 1: so it's not a bad thing. He runs the ball
Speaker 1: because he has to run the ball. But when he
Speaker 1: comes down to him being in the groove of things,
Speaker 1: he's going to call a pass. And that's the end.
Speaker 1: If there's no if there's no resemblance of a consistent
Speaker 1: running game at all, and there's no control the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, what is he going to revert back to
Speaker 1: throwing the ball? That's his comfort zone. So that's the reality.
Speaker 1: People acknowledge that. And then additionally, when did we force
Speaker 1: feed Amari Cooper? What did it for us for Dallas
Speaker 1: and force feed to Marit coup for him to say
Speaker 1: that he's frustrated for him to come out publicly and say,
Speaker 1: I'm frustrated one point one million dollars a game. You're
Speaker 1: throwing the ball at me four times per game until
Speaker 1: I complain about it, and then I get it four
Speaker 1: times in a first drive. But what happens to the
Speaker 1: next game goes back away, goes right back away. So
Speaker 1: it's not natural for Keller Moore to run the balls.
Speaker 1: Not natural for Keller Moore to force feed his playmakers.
Speaker 1: He has to make these changes. This is not solely
Speaker 1: on Dak. This is a killer Moore issue. I mean,
Speaker 1: earlier in the season, the conversation was that Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: was the extension of the coaching staff. Where has that gone, Rob,
Speaker 1: Because that's my biggest thing is early in the year,
Speaker 1: it was it was Dak Prescott would trot out on
Speaker 1: the field and everything was clicking so seamlessly that you
Speaker 1: felt like Kellen Moore was just in his head all
Speaker 1: the time. I mean, I mean, of course they have
Speaker 1: the connection and whatever, the communication, but you felt like
Speaker 1: there was just an extension of the coaching staff on
Speaker 1: the field and Dak Prescott. So I still think there's
Speaker 1: got to be blame considered for both sides. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. And I mean I think you go all
Speaker 1: the way back to the Denver game, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of where you saw a shift in terms of defenses
Speaker 1: adjusting to what they were doing well early in the season.
Speaker 1: And so you've got it's a chess game. You've got
Speaker 1: to be able to counter that. We've seen them counter
Speaker 1: that at times in matchups down the stretch, these last
Speaker 1: eight games, whatever other times they haven't, and they didn't.
Speaker 1: They didn't adjust well enough to what what Arizona was
Speaker 1: doing on Sunday. And one more thing on the run
Speaker 1: game is is you know, is is there enough confidence
Speaker 1: that they can win the line of scrimmage like you
Speaker 1: guys mentioned and just and pounded up between the tackles.
Speaker 1: I think at some point you just have to keep trying.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, sometimes sometimes Kellen will try
Speaker 1: to and we've talked about this going all the way
Speaker 1: back to the Tampa game and the opener. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a surrogate running game where he'll try to do,
Speaker 1: you know, a quick screen game, quick game stuff to
Speaker 1: the outside and that kind of serves as a quote
Speaker 1: unquote run and they try to do that early in
Speaker 1: the game and Buddha Baker almost took it to the house.
Speaker 1: I mean he read that play to CD so quickly
Speaker 1: and so that you know that that wasn't going well
Speaker 1: for him and all those backs to the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: I mean, Arizona was just everywhere. So give them credit
Speaker 1: for being around the football a ton in that game Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and have to give them credit. And that was my
Speaker 1: point that I was gonna make Rob was was. You know,
Speaker 1: they did a really good job at Van Josephine as
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator. He's one of the best in the league.
Speaker 1: And these guys watch a ton of film on you.
Speaker 1: They study your tendencies to death. They know what you
Speaker 1: want to do. When Buddha Baker saw Connor McGovern go
Speaker 1: out there and cover he man, he he didn't even
Speaker 1: think about it. I don't even know if he was
Speaker 1: supposed to be in the two safety eye, but as
Speaker 1: soon as he saw him go over there, three automatically
Speaker 1: came that way. And that's one of those plays I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Throw that whole play away. Don't use that
Speaker 1: one again. But you know, I think we talked about
Speaker 1: without giving credence to the offensive line shuffles and things
Speaker 1: like that, where the running game hadn't got gone. We
Speaker 1: see what kind of success that can have once he
Speaker 1: has a running game that is going. You talk about
Speaker 1: him being an extension of the coaching staff and the
Speaker 1: way he is, you know, he's seeing things on the
Speaker 1: field and they've given him autonomy to be able to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't like that play kill, kill kill.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with something different. So, look, you can't
Speaker 1: you can't have it both ways. You still got to
Speaker 1: allow your playmaker and the guy that you've paid a
Speaker 1: ton of money to be the guy that he is.
Speaker 1: You gotta still allow him to be the leader of
Speaker 1: your offense. And it's got to start this week, I
Speaker 1: think against Philadelphia, right because they got to find a
Speaker 1: way to get back in rhythm. And I mean, like
Speaker 1: Isaiah said in the first segment, whether that's the first quarter,
Speaker 1: second quarter, third quarter, if it takes to the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: it takes to the fourth quarter, and you gotta get
Speaker 1: a rhythm back with Dak Prescott at this offense and
Speaker 1: everything in between. When we come back, we'll answer a
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Speaker 1: We're answering fan questions. Now we've got a question for
Speaker 1: the fans. Isaiah present your scenario. All right, real quick, y'all.
Speaker 1: You guys, there's two mammals have to go into into
Speaker 1: the cage. Okay, the only one mammal could come out alive.
Speaker 1: You're one of the mammals. You have to choose your opponent.
Speaker 1: Is it going to be a lion, a grizzly bear,
Speaker 1: or a silverback gorilla? Which one are you choosing to
Speaker 1: go into battle with no weapons, no weapons at all,
Speaker 1: just you and brute force strategy. All right, y'all think
Speaker 1: about that. Well, we'll get answer for me you'all tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I would love to hear all of your answers and
Speaker 1: why you chose which of your opponents to go into
Speaker 1: this cage match with. And I chose a grizzly bear.
Speaker 1: I chose a gorilla. Rob chose a lion. I've chosen
Speaker 1: he is sound right? Chose a lion too? Yeah he did? Yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 1: everybody knows. I'm not going in with the bear there.
Speaker 1: It's just not gonna happen. Um. And I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: chose for the same reason, just because I want a
Speaker 1: quick death. She's done. I want to live. Figure out
Speaker 1: punch you. I can't wait to have some wildlife expert
Speaker 1: that's also a friend of Talking Cowboys tell us with
Speaker 1: the right answer. Actually, I want to actually know what
Speaker 1: that is. But I want to hear everybody's opinion. Crucial
Speaker 1: stuff we talk about in the final week of the
Speaker 1: regular season. All right, final segment here heck Ma Harrison,
Speaker 1: Isaiah dan Back, Chris Beam, Rob Phillips out at home.
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's glad you're with us. Hope you're having
Speaker 1: some fun with us here on this Tuesday. Here's a
Speaker 1: fiery question. This is from Zesty, and this is a
Speaker 1: Zesty question. Yeah, um, do we have the worst blocking
Speaker 1: tight ends in the league? Why does Kellen Moore cant
Speaker 1: then you rely on them to block in the run game? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I said, man Chandler Jones was a problem for Dalton. Uh,
Speaker 1: we can't. We can't do that again. But can you
Speaker 1: really truthfully expect him to actually hold his ground against him?
Speaker 1: I mean one of the best wrests. Look on the
Speaker 1: one that that, especially when he got to Zeke on
Speaker 1: the back side, like there was plenty of opportunity there,
Speaker 1: I mean all we needed. It wasn't one of those
Speaker 1: things where Dalton needed to just like Pancake block him.
Speaker 1: He just needed to hold up, just be there, just
Speaker 1: be there and kind of like the first half of
Speaker 1: the season. Oh God, Rob, what you got man? I
Speaker 1: say something wrong? No, Zesty what you got? Married? Zesty?
Speaker 1: Did y'all did? Y'all? See Dan Orlovsky just get killed
Speaker 1: on Twitter for saying that, you know, part of their
Speaker 1: problem is Blake Jarwin's been out and and he's been
Speaker 1: the key to their blocking game. This It's like Dan,
Speaker 1: that's that's not right. Not Blake's strength. Look, yeah they are.
Speaker 1: They're both guys. I mean, look that passing game is
Speaker 1: both their strength. And by the way, that there is
Speaker 1: good news that Blake Jarwine is on his way back,
Speaker 1: maybe not this week, but maybe in time for the playoffs. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know about the worst because I can't. I
Speaker 1: haven't been able to analyze the rest of the tight
Speaker 1: ends in the league. But I can say that the effort.
Speaker 1: I can say that the effort that shows gave him
Speaker 1: the first portion of the season. Maybe I've been the
Speaker 1: first half. Maybe if I know for sure the first
Speaker 1: quarter of the season he was, he was giving a
Speaker 1: lot of effort. Now was he always the best. How No,
Speaker 1: he's not. That's not his strength. But again, all you
Speaker 1: can do is ask for somebody's best. I don't feel
Speaker 1: that same energy in the second half of the season,
Speaker 1: and obviously Kellen Moore is still calling plays as if
Speaker 1: he's taken that same approach that he did early in
Speaker 1: the season and is ineffective. Yeah, it just hasn't been
Speaker 1: working the same way. Final question though, before we wrap
Speaker 1: up here on talking Cowboys. Do you think the injury
Speaker 1: to Michael Gallup potentially open the door for him to
Speaker 1: return to the Cowboys next season? And I mean I
Speaker 1: tweeted this out yesterday just rewatching the game. It makes
Speaker 1: me sick every time you think about it for Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: for the person, the player, the leader, the locker room presence,
Speaker 1: the weapon on the field. I mean, everything is gonna
Speaker 1: be missed about Michael Gallup. And of course with it
Speaker 1: being in a contract year, it makes it that much worse.
Speaker 1: So Rob, I'll ask you on this one because you're
Speaker 1: usually our contract expert, but do you think that this
Speaker 1: is an open of the door, opening of the door
Speaker 1: for him to come back? I know they've they've done
Speaker 1: that in the past. One of the guys who's on
Speaker 1: a lot of our shows. Barry Church had a similar
Speaker 1: situation during his contract year. But do you think this
Speaker 1: could potentially see Michael Gallup return once he's healthy. That's
Speaker 1: a great question. I don't know that. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think I think Ian Rappaport made a good point yesterday
Speaker 1: when he said there's a couple of guys in the
Speaker 1: league that have had acls and still gotten there. You
Speaker 1: know they're due in terms of market value on a
Speaker 1: new track. That's Bud Dupree and Alan Robinson. So you
Speaker 1: know you hope that from Michael. Honestly, I mean, it
Speaker 1: just sucks it happens, and it happens this late in
Speaker 1: the season. I know the Cowboys want him back. I
Speaker 1: think it was always going to be a challenge from
Speaker 1: a salary cap perspective, and so does that change in
Speaker 1: terms of in terms of salary, It's just gonna have
Speaker 1: to be remains to be seen. The one thing I
Speaker 1: do want to say is not only did he make
Speaker 1: that incredible catch, as he felt a pop before as
Speaker 1: he was going up to make the play, all you
Speaker 1: need to know about Michael Gallup is watching his reaction
Speaker 1: as he went to the locker room with Britt Brown
Speaker 1: after the injury, smile on his face. His attitude is
Speaker 1: that's why, that's why the whole team loves him. That's
Speaker 1: why he's such a great teammate, his attitude and everything,
Speaker 1: and so he's brought that to this team, even more
Speaker 1: so than his talent level. So you hope he gets
Speaker 1: back and makes full recovery, and I'm sure he will. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you just see the love that his teammates have
Speaker 1: for him, you know, Cowboy Nation has for him where
Speaker 1: he was drafted from Colorado State and everything that he's
Speaker 1: done so far. Unfortunately, this is a business and the
Speaker 1: business aspects part of it is gonna take over in
Speaker 1: the offseason, and just to keep it real with you,
Speaker 1: I mean, when it comes down to the salary cap
Speaker 1: and where we are right now, this team is gonna
Speaker 1: not It's gonna be some some moves being made all around.
Speaker 1: So you know, obviously you'd like to have Mike g back,
Speaker 1: and especially looking at the beginning of the season and
Speaker 1: what him CD and Amark Cooper we're gonna do together.
Speaker 1: It just sucks to see him go out at this point,
Speaker 1: especially with the Cowboys looking to make a run in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, you hate it for him, and it's
Speaker 1: it sucks. It's it goes into the injuries, the business
Speaker 1: and it's it's all awful. And of course, like Mike
Speaker 1: or like Rob said, we hope the best for Michael Gallup.
Speaker 1: We hope he gets the big contract. We would love
Speaker 1: for it to be with a star on the side
Speaker 1: of his helmet again. But like you said, with the
Speaker 1: salary cap and some of the stuff that's coming up
Speaker 1: this offseason, there's gonna be a lot of conversation and
Speaker 1: decisions to be had. But that's gonna do it for
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