WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Seize It with Your Chest 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:08.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.360 Cowboys. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:18.280 This He is Talking Cowboys, screaming live from the Dallas 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.160 Cowboys World Course at. 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:21.079 The Star in Frisco. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:27.360 Streaks six segments, Got Tisi, he paints. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:32.760 The touchdown, and now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:42.200 Josh Rodriguez and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:49.040 It is a playoff edition of Say with Your Chest 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:54.280 for Friday here on Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.760 Coffee Company. Not only are we saying it with your Chest, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.960 but we're seizing everything into the. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.960 Wild Card Round at and T Stadium. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.520 It's the Cowboys and the Packers three point thirty on Sunday. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.760 We've got Isaiah Standback, We've got Nick Harris the Great, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.920 Josh Rodriguez in the building, and Chris Beam in the 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.840 back of Kyle Yeomen's. Gentlemen, it's almost here. It feels 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.399 like the longest week of the year, just waiting and 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.559 waiting and waiting to finally see this match. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.040 I was just about to say that this feels like 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.600 the longest week ever. Just maybe it's because I didn't 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:29.319 cover the game last week. So it's been it's gonna 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.320 be like two weeks since I've been at one. But man, 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.280 this feels like it feels like it should be game 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.240 time already. But a couple more days we'll be there. 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.560 You're coming off a bye week. You should be wreshsted, refreshed. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:40.680 Cat kind of a bye week. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.319 It's like it was like it was like a Thursday 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.680 night game, like the Mini by Yeah, I'm coming off 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:45.200 of Mini. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:46.920 Bi Okay playoff time. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.320 It feels like the intensity and the buildings ramped up. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.680 Everybody is just locked in. I mean from the players 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.560 to the coaches, to the sport staff to the I 0:01:58.600 --> 0:01:59.600 don't know writers. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:04.400 You've had a down weigh. I'm just kidding. Well, he 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.400 didn't get to do film room. They they said no 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.200 film room this week. They said we don't want to 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:10.120 give away secrets. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.040 Yeah, they definitely took That's how good of a week 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.720 he's had is that they said, we're not trying to 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.160 give Remember a couple of years ago, I was finding 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.359 I was finding stuff in film m George it was 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.280 George Kittle in twenty one, and now they took my 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:22.240 film room away from me. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.720 That's what that That's what I'm talking about, so good 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:24.920 for you. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.040 Yes, the analysts are also locked in. It's all good 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:29.320 staff members in the building. 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.679 I'm still going to prepare whether or not they want 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:32.480 me to put it on a film or not. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.000 Unprepared, securities locked in. Did you find anything film room 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.200 kickoff hits that is? That would be funny? 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.959 Dude, that was crazy. I'm talking about a couple of 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.680 years ago. Yeah, there's there's things that we couldn't talk 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:45.399 about on air. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:49.120 Yeah, we had to share it with the individuals across 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.440 the building and it worked. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:51.440 It worked out. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.600 Great, like LV being a defensive end on certain No, no. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.600 It wasn't our This was the tell. It was a 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:58.840 tell about an opponent. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.600 Baby found it on the film. Yeah, and we went 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.440 to go do a segment in the h in the studio, 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:06.680 they were like, no, can't talk about that. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:13.720 I was like, I love how like everybody. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:12.360 On the air, I don't know. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:13.560 It came down from. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.560 Above though, Yeah, could depend on whoever's listening. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.760 Fascinating, Yeah, fascinating. It's happened more than once. That was 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:22.920 the that was the biggest one. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.440 He was he was talking about a tell with George Kittle. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:26.600 When you knew he was going to be in run 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.959 block or past block. He did the same thing pre snap. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.080 I can't remember what the tell was, and he was 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.400 like like it was automatic. He got to the point 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:36.720 where he was like, all right, just to make sure 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:38.600 I'm not crazy, I'm going to tell you what the 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.000 tel is and then call it. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.440 And I did it on five. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.840 Straight plays and it was right, five straight plays, Like 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.000 it was pretty obvious, and so they ran. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.600 Across the Sure could he use that in week five? 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:50.800 It wasn't important. I think I think George might have 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.040 might have figured it out by now. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:53.640 Did you have a tell on the undershirt he had 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:54.480 in week five. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:56.640 That did not see that one happening. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.240 I hope that they play in the NFC title game 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.280 and somebody scores on the Cowboys side like a like 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.040 a game winning touchdown and they're they're gonna run away 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:07.360 with it and they're going to the super Bowl, that 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.400 somebody lifts up the shirt and it says blank san 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.320 fran just to reverse it. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.280 It's like a twenty grand reversal. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:20.719 Yeah, that's true, it's not. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:21.600 It's mine. You should do it. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.400 No, I think I'm all right. Post game, you guys 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.200 did it with the hats too. First word, did you 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:27.919 guys tell the people what it is at the stadium 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:28.560 this weekend? 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.720 Oh it's white out, it is. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.440 Yeah, yeah, we're white to the stadium on white on 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:34.160 white Sunday. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.080 White Air Force ones. Don't wear black ones. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:37.320 Oh, wear the white ones. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.240 I like this, White air Force ones. White dont white 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.120 white blazers Jordan's. I don't have Jordans. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:44.440 You know this? You do? I have? 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:44.599 No? 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:45.400 You've got some? 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.160 Oh, I'm breaking out the fours? 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:51.880 Hey, white draws? 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.960 Okay, okay, all right, white draws the way down. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.599 Dare you wear white draws? This is the week to 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:58.160 break them out. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.840 Okay, you go get you some fruit looms there, yep, 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.360 the fruits baby. 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.480 Oh yes, the all white whites. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.880 Two things white. I will never wear underwearing socks. Why 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.400 is that just it's just you don't trust yourself to 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:12.760 wear white. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:14.320 I'm just not wearing one. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:15.880 Do you not trust yourself to wear white draws? 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:16.840 I'm just not wearing white. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:18.120 I'm asking you. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:19.920 I could get like a dirt stain on it, and 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:20.600 people think. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.040 It's why would you have a dirt saint on your underwear? 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.520 Exactly exactly? Are you almost commands to happen. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:27.159 Things happen. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.680 Maybe he's playing, he's doing cart will No, okay, white. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.720 Socks are crisp, though I don't understand the socks. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:34.239 The socks. 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:35.600 They just look nerdy, that's all. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:41.440 Yeah, just dir Why why I used to make fun 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:42.599 of people with white socks? 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:43.400 I can't wear white? 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.240 What is the last year you wore white draws? 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:47.320 Last year? 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.200 The last year that you put on a pair of 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:49.799 white draws? 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.640 Probably when I wore diapers when I was like two, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.160 can't I don't know, a couple of years ago, two 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.640 years ago approximately, you're bold. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:05.000 Probably high school, I can sir, like early high school. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.360 I haven't purchased white draws in a very long time. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.360 He's probably the talking cowboys haters. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.800 We're probably go after him. And why aren't they talking talking. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:19.560 Talking white out on Sunday bring the energy. It was 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.760 funny yesterday, uh uh. Our producer Kay and Gates actually 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.680 asked the question to Dak. He was asking about the 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:26.920 fans definitely. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:33.240 Under the bus like that, But. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.200 He asked Dak Prescott the question of like how much 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.560 do the fans play a factor? And are you excited 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.919 to be in at and t stadium for playoff atmosphere, 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.840 and he didn't even let the question finish, but he 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.640 cut off Kayden and he goes blank, Yeah, like yeah, 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.120 like that was that was his his answer. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:53.520 He was. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.000 I mean, you could tell it was genuine, like he's 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.080 he's pumped to be at home and be at at 0:06:58.160 --> 0:06:58.880 and T Stadium. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.000 But I'm gonna make a request for the fans. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.200 For the fans, you guys know how everybody gets really excited, right, 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.520 and they wait for the guys to break the huddle. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.599 When the opposing team is coming to the line of screamers, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.440 they start getting loud. My request for the fans that 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.200 are listening. Okay, I know everybody in Cowboy and then 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:17.120 she's listening to Talking Cowboy Best podcast, but start making 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.920 noise when they come from the sideline into the huddle. Fact, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.400 when guys are in the huddle, that's when you want 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.320 to be loud because that's when you're trying to communicate 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:26.920 exactly what the play is. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.120 Yeah, right, there might be not just the adjustments at 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:29.440 the line. 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.120 Yeah, like the plays already called at the line of scripts. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.320 Now they might change it, right, but the play, the 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.240 initial play was already called and they're at the line 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:37.520 of scrim is ready to run that they can go 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.160 on silent count. The biggest impact this is a little 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.600 insight from the players perspective. The biggest impact the crowd 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.400 can have on players, Okay, outside of the offensive linement 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.880 on snap counts, is going to be when you're trying 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.240 to communicate as a quarterback to your team in the 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.120 huddle what the play call is. So if you make 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.080 a bunch of noise when you're when those guys are 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.720 huddled up and they can't hear that, it's like playing 0:07:58.720 --> 0:07:59.880 a bad game of telephone. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:02.440 You guys been able to old school game. 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.120 Tell ye yeah, Now you start in one end, you 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.000 tell somebody about the time it gets down to the end, 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.960 Like it's totally something different. That's what it's like when 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.720 you're trying to communicate to those those ten other guys 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.080 in the huddle what the play call is. You're trying 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.120 to cover your ears and you're trying to hear your 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.320 coach talking to those speakers in your helmet. For people 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.760 who forget what's going on there, coaches talking in your 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.600 helmet giving you the play call. You're trying to hear 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.520 that and it sounds like freaking morse cold already. So 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:27.640 the louder you get, the harder it is to interpret that. 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.440 And then he has to turn the quarterback communicate that 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:31.360 to the other ten guys. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.319 You know what always like leaves me questioned at the 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.320 end of the day, like why don't stadiums put like 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.040 an instructional video like on jumbo trons or everything, like like, hey, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.959 get loud at these moments or is that like against 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:43.880 NFL rules because it just feels like too easy to 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.160 like be like hey, like let's do it at this time, 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:47.680 like you said, or let's do it at that time, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.400 and then when the offense is on the field, please 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:50.400 just shut up. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.800 Yeah, or like pulling an Arthur blank and just have 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.400 like a war like as soon as they get in the. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:56.080 Huddle, you know what I mean? 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.160 You know what, the crowd's gonna be pleasantly surprised. There's 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.400 gonna be some surprises on the big board this week 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.120 to get people turned up a little bit. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.199 Yeah, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta plug on that. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.920 Maybe it's me shirtless on the mid. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.120 Pregnantly We're gonna come in there a hot looking at 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:13.880 everybody's eyes. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.560 You turn away, you turn away. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:25.360 Yeah, those everybody in the crowds looking at the at 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.200 the jumbo tron like what the hell is this? And 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.719 there's one guy in the press box with his shirt off, 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.720 and it's I worked. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.240 It worked my last day at the job. You had 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.640 on white stay fie for the rest of the game 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.079 and like a half shirt. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.800 Oh goodness. I like the instructional side of things, though, 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.880 because take them it's a white out to a whole 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:53.240 new level. That's a white out. All right, it's the 0:09:53.240 --> 0:10:05.360 middle of January. Guess whe it's okay. Back on topic, 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:06.120 Back on topic. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:15.600 The So I was gonna ask you this specifically, So 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.320 I feel like in college stadiums it's pretty common to 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.920 have loud crowds consistently to where. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.000 When you when you are communicating in a huddle like 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.319 that and you are having that conversation, it's upended to 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.800 a certain extent. My first thought had just since we're 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.880 in Texas Kyle Field, they are allowed. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.439 All the time, all the way through they are. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.920 I mean, is there too, Like I get it, But 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.200 my first thought is because they're doing the yells and 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:40.800 whatever the silly stuff they're doing. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:41.480 Down in college station. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.000 But when you're in the NFL, is there a specific 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.480 NFL stadium that's loud the entire time? 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.200 Seattle that's the one that's bill. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.080 I mean, I know you're going to say that, but no, 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.360 but seriously, there's I haven't never been in a stadium 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:55.200 that's louder in the Seattle. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.200 Not even an Arrowhead Kensas City is loud, but it 0:10:59.280 --> 0:10:59.760 was not that. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.360 You gotta remember, I was on the team when Marshawn 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.760 broke the big run, so like that literally registered on 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:06.760 the under Richter skill. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.240 Yeah, like it's it gets pretty stupid in there. Yeah. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.840 The thing about college stadiums that there's so much rich 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.240 tradition that like that just carries over so easily year 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.439 after year a year. NFL it's really tough because the 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:17.679 fans are being replaced every year. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.920 So it's like it's Organ was the loudest in college Oregon, 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:21.800 Organ was the loudest. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.360 Washington. Washington gets stupid as. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.120 Well, but Oregon it's like top three. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.959 Yeah it is, but when you're the opponent, Oregon sucks. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.760 Ls US insane college has like an unfair advantage because 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.880 they have uh tubas marching. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.400 Bands, like they have marching that. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:40.520 Is who does. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:46.080 Again, dude, like that is just a loud word to 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.920 begin with. Where is this again? In college? In college? 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.080 In college, I thought there was like an NFL stadium 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.079 that had twas like around the It was like. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.280 I'm booking my ticket right now. I was like, well, 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.720 I mean Vikings. I guess they have like the goal. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.480 The Ravens have a marching band, don't they did it? 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:00.719 Really? 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.680 Don't the Ravens have a band? I'm pretty sure they do. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.599 I think is it a drum line? Is it a 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.120 full band? The Commanders? 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:17.000 But if you have tubas they never played, if if 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.240 you got the brass section helping out your your I 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:21.640 don't know how that is. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:22.559 Uh. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.320 Mike from New York is texting, and on the line 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.080 he said, please talk about the Cowboy. 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.040 He said, my cousin and I will be at the game, 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:30.880 and I can't wait. I'm so excited. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.040 Let's go Cowboys with six exclamation marks, and then he says, 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:35.840 I'll get our stadium pumped. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:37.160 But I can do it. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.320 Mike can do it. If anybody can do it, it's Mike. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.720 Find us and say, Hi, I need That's what I 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:42.280 need to happen. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.000 I need Mike to come say hi to the Talking 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:49.920 Cowboys crews. He's like an honorary member of Talking Cowboys. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.320 All right, let's get into some news and notes. Yeah, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.079 from from yesterday's practice. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:55.400 Yeah, we'll dive into this really quick. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.520 As far as the injury report, that's where we always start, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.680 so we'll start today. There are three big notes to 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.320 come on off of it, and they're all three positive. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.800 So for the Cowboys at least, we can start off 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.920 with Stefan Gilmour. If you remember from the show yesterday 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.880 that the plan was to get him on the practice 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.840 field by Saturday. They were going to rehab him Wednesday, Thursday, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.640 Friday and then put that harness on and see how 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.959 he can operate with it on Saturday and then make 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.120 a determination for Sunday. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.079 But there was still confidence. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.360 He got on the field yesterday, so he was limited 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.520 yesterday put that harness on. Mike McCarthy spoke on one 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.160 O five through the fan this morning and said that 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.439 he was comfortable playing with the harness and that he 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:30.920 expects him to be ready to. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:31.520 Go on Sunday. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:36.520 So obviously it's a limiting injury, but he it looks 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.199 like he's gonna be able to play and getting back 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.160 on the field yesterday was very, very big. Two other 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.240 big notes come from the Green Bay Packer side, So 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.960 jay R Alexander, their star corner who's kind of battled 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.680 some injury and battled some suspensions as well this season, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.920 or just one. He was downgraded to did not practice 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.360 yesterday with a shoulder and angle injury. He was limited 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.160 on Wednesday, but did not practice yesterday, so that's definitely 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.640 something to keep an eye on. And then as well 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:05.439 as they're starting left guard Elkton Jenkins, I cannot say 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.080 that first name knee ankle injury, did not practice yesterday. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.400 He was downgraded from being limited to get on Wednesday. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.319 And then also Aj Dillon continues to not practice, their 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.080 second running back in the running back room. So yeah, 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.600 quite a bit of big injuries for the Green Bay Packers. 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.760 If their left guard cannot go, with a big time 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.480 rushing presence in their backfield, cannot go in Aj Dillon, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.160 or if jay R Alexander can't. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.200 Go, all three of those are big. 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:30.920 We'll talk about Jaira a little bit more in the 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.120 next segment as well, but all of those are positive 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:33.960 notes for the Cowboys. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:38.080 Which one is the greatest impact you think Fan Gilmore, No, no, no. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.400 I would probably say left guard because you look at 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.560 you look at Jonathan Hankins and what he's been able 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.360 to do in the running game since when when he's 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.400 in the E equation, if they have a backup left 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.840 guard man, that'll that'll be able to help stop Aaron Jones. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:51.160 A little bit more. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.560 And that kind of goes into my next point. Can 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.880 I talk about rush defense really quick? Go ahead and 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.600 jump right into this next point that I want to make. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.440 So I've talked to a lot of guys in in 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.040 the locker room yesterday and I was kind of going 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.280 with the intention of finding what their approach is with 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.720 rush defense this week, because you look at what Aaron 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:13.000 Jones has put together this season, and he's had over 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.120 half of his yards in the last three weeks. Granted 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.240 he's battled injury, but three hundred and fifty eight yards 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.320 in the final three games leads the NFL. We've talked 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.880 about that this week, so talking to Jonathan Hankins, to 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.160 Marcus Lawrence, Micah Parsons that they're taking that challenge very 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.840 seriously going into this week, especially when you consider what 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.360 Aaron Jones has done against the Cowboys in his three 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.320 career games. I believe he's averaging around one hundred and 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.000 twenty five yards whenever he's playing the Cowboys. So yeah, 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.960 it's another green Bay Packers playoff matchup, and it's another 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.400 Errand that's coming into town looking to wreak some havocs. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.520 So but it looks like the approach is being taken 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.160 correctly by the defensive unit and. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.040 They're taking this very seriously. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.880 I think this is the biggest offensive weapon that Green 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:51.600 Bay could have on on Sunday. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.280 It's the only thing that would give me bubble guts 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:54.880 if I was on the defensive staff. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.520 I was looking at these numbers just talking about the 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.000 run defense, specifically with Jonathan Hankins in the fold, the 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.480 Cowboys are eleven and three. They've allowed seventeen points per 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.040 game and have allowed one hundred and two rushing yards 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.760 per game. That's weeks one through fourteen, and then week 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.560 eighteen without Jonathan Hankins, the Cowboys are one and two. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.440 They've allowed twenty four points per game and one hundred 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.120 and sixty one rushing yards per game. And that was 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.560 the three weeks between weeks fifteen through. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.000 Seven that's just a Quinkidane Kyle, is it you think so? 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:25.760 I think not. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.240 I think this is I think Jonathan Hankins is the 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.440 missing cog to that inside, that interior to the defensive line. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.520 And I like the physicality that they upticked from the 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.640 Buffalo game. Even though it wasn't always perfect against Miami, 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.560 against Detroit and then even a little bit at times 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.360 against Washington. I liked the there was a there was 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.760 a considerable effort to be physical in the run game 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.840 and in stopping the run. That's something that we didn't 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.600 even have our hat to hang on early in the season. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.520 And it's something that I think is an improvement from 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.960 this team. And with Jenkins being added to that PHYSI 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.920 I'm so much more confident in the run defense than 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:05.520