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Speaker 1: win in the NFL. As the Dallas Cowboys get the
Speaker 1: job done over the New Orleans Saints twenty seven to seventeen.
Speaker 1: The final score down in the Bayou. It was a
Speaker 1: Bayou bounce back. Still some concerns around this Cowboys team,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna talk about that over the course of
Speaker 1: the next forty five minutes. Glad you're with us here
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Speaker 1: My Harrison, Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips, We've got Chris
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Speaker 1: Cowboys got it done there, eight and four. It's a win. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: even though the offense definitely does have some concerns, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it. We will. We're gonna hit it.
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, you were down in the Superdome. How was
Speaker 1: that win on the road. Well, there is such a
Speaker 1: thing as an ugly win in the NFL. That was
Speaker 1: an ugly win in the NFL. Quickly before I took
Speaker 1: the flight to New Orleans on Wednesday, I was late
Speaker 1: taking the kid to daycare. Okay, so I went dressed
Speaker 1: in Batman pajamas, a black and red plaid checkered sweatshirt,
Speaker 1: and dress shoes. I love that. Just the worst outfit
Speaker 1: you've ever seen. Who cares? I got the job done.
Speaker 1: That I like what you did there. That's that's how
Speaker 1: I feel about this game. You know, it wasn't pretty
Speaker 1: like you said, It wasn't pretty. Offensively, they're eight and four,
Speaker 1: and after the week they had all the stuff they
Speaker 1: went through, no coach, no weight room during the week,
Speaker 1: virtual meetings, all that stuff. They got it done. If
Speaker 1: we're not going to make excuses for the games they
Speaker 1: lost that didn't play well, then who cares? If they
Speaker 1: want ugly last night that was That's a tough place
Speaker 1: to play, and that's a tough game to win on
Speaker 1: the road. I love that it was Charter like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you showed up to the Charter like that. Not exactly
Speaker 1: business cash, Chris. They probably drug tested him right away.
Speaker 1: That he's lost it. But you know, I don't understand
Speaker 1: this whole ugly win thing. Man. It's like being called
Speaker 1: an ugly billionaire. You know what what, I'll take that
Speaker 1: any day. I'll take it however you put it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a w again. This this defense. It's finally the
Speaker 1: game that we got for the defense to to show
Speaker 1: up and the one that we were looking for. Uh.
Speaker 1: Tysom Hill Man, I want to Tasom is it Tysom
Speaker 1: or Taysom t Taysom Hill Uh put some respect on
Speaker 1: his name because as a runner he is dynamic. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know it's a poor man's t bow whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call him. But he did this thing. UH
Speaker 1: love the way that he passed the ball last night,
Speaker 1: you know, mostly to our team, and look, man, good luck.
Speaker 1: Four interceptions, mostly to our team, mostly to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: A lot of that late, but I mean four interceptions
Speaker 1: unbelievable from from that side of things, And the most
Speaker 1: impressive one was the one early to Jay Rn curse.
Speaker 1: What a play from curse to to drag the toes
Speaker 1: to make that play. But you're right. I mean, Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill can run it, but damn still came throwing a
Speaker 1: little bit more tough and he was dealing with that
Speaker 1: that finger injury too, so I'm sure that probably played
Speaker 1: was the factor he still played. You're exactly right. This
Speaker 1: is I mean, I don't know. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be deva doubted. This is what I say, this is
Speaker 1: what I expect, this is what should have happened, This
Speaker 1: is what should have happened. This is this Saints team
Speaker 1: is not what they were when they had Winston that quarterback.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. They didn't have Winsday at quarterback. They
Speaker 1: didn't have Kamara at running back. They don't have a
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, they haven't had them all season. They didn't
Speaker 1: have their offensive tackles. They didn't they didn't have some
Speaker 1: of their main defensive alignment. This was a depleted team,
Speaker 1: no different than how the Dallas has been depleted at
Speaker 1: different points of this season. And we didn't perform the
Speaker 1: way we should have. So this is a game that
Speaker 1: you're supposed to win like that. We talked about it
Speaker 1: in the pregame show. This was the bounce back game
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. This was to get your swag back
Speaker 1: type of game. I don't give a dog on what
Speaker 1: they have. That's unfortunate that their situation was what it
Speaker 1: was when they faced us. But guess what, we took
Speaker 1: full advantage. That's the way it should have been. We
Speaker 1: should have got a bunch of turnovers because we know
Speaker 1: that he's not a great pas. We knew that he
Speaker 1: was gonna run the balls. We knew we're gonna get
Speaker 1: ran on a little bit. We didn't get did the
Speaker 1: ball moving offensively like we know that we should have.
Speaker 1: So that was very disappointing. Dak still didn't doesn't look
Speaker 1: like dak Zeke is injured. As we talked about last week,
Speaker 1: I mean earlier in this week. There's everything that we
Speaker 1: that we knew going into this game happened and so
Speaker 1: we should be no surprises. Ugly win or not. It's
Speaker 1: ugly because of the expectation that we have and other
Speaker 1: people have for this team. This team did not perform
Speaker 1: to the level that they should have performed, even though
Speaker 1: they got a victory against another NFL team. But you
Speaker 1: got an ugly loss versus the Chiefs. You got an
Speaker 1: ugly loss on Thanksgiving Day, versus the Broncos. Yeah, versus
Speaker 1: the Broncos and the Raiders. I mean those are ugly losses.
Speaker 1: Those are games that you go into expecting your team
Speaker 1: to respond and they don't. And the questions that were
Speaker 1: asked before this game, where is this team snake bit
Speaker 1: is there's something going on all of the different things
Speaker 1: that we're going You talk a lot about diversity and
Speaker 1: the them going through certain things and the culture of
Speaker 1: this team. Man, you saw it, you know they had
Speaker 1: They were hit with adversity, not diversity at adversity, and
Speaker 1: they responded with everything that was going on prior to kickoff.
Speaker 1: This is a response that I think for me, it
Speaker 1: really set my minded these to see your leaders come back,
Speaker 1: guys like Tank Lawrence. Yep, when you get a Tank
Speaker 1: Lawrence back on the field, you see automatically with what
Speaker 1: you have in Michael Parsons combined with his leadership, skilled
Speaker 1: and what he does in the running game, this defense
Speaker 1: to me, took on a whole like they It looked different, right,
Speaker 1: So if we could squeak out some ugly wins, even
Speaker 1: though the Saints had some success. They had some success
Speaker 1: run and they had some success passing as well. But
Speaker 1: if you're gonna squeak out a win like this, this
Speaker 1: is the one that you want. And that's a statement
Speaker 1: for your defense in the way that they play. I
Speaker 1: think I think two things can be true. Like it's
Speaker 1: it's you're right, Like the offense has created such a
Speaker 1: standard through half the season that you expect more out
Speaker 1: of this offense. And with five games to play, they've
Speaker 1: got a right. I mean, they've got to fix some things,
Speaker 1: and we'll get into all of that, but you look
Speaker 1: around the league. Every team is going through some kind
Speaker 1: of stretch like this, and you just got the way
Speaker 1: this week went for this team, and look the way
Speaker 1: these this rivalry goes. The last two games twelve to ten,
Speaker 1: New Orleans thirteen ten Cowboys in eighteen. It's a tough game.
Speaker 1: I talked about the environment. It was kind of a
Speaker 1: weird buzz inside the building early late arrivals, and it
Speaker 1: kind of seemed like maybe the Cowboys fans were gonna
Speaker 1: have an advantage. It got loud in there. It was
Speaker 1: a challenge for the offense. Offensively, I thought the communication
Speaker 1: was better upfront pre snap than we saw like in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, but obviously it wasn't as clean as they
Speaker 1: would like in one big specific area of the run game.
Speaker 1: We'll get into all that, I'm sure, but yeah, win
Speaker 1: the game, get to eight and four, get this mini
Speaker 1: buy and rest up, Zeke, rest up, get your coaching
Speaker 1: staff back and try to get you regroup for the
Speaker 1: stretch run. Try to play your best football now going forward,
Speaker 1: because it's not your best football right now, and that
Speaker 1: has to happen. And you know, and I know, I
Speaker 1: know Cowboys Nation is excited. He got the dub Aiden four.
Speaker 1: This football over his last five games do not get
Speaker 1: you pass anywhere past the first round at the playoffs. Nope.
Speaker 1: Just playing it out there from somebody who's been to
Speaker 1: a lot of playoff games, it will not get it done.
Speaker 1: So that's why I'm not hype about this game. It
Speaker 1: should have been this result. You should win the game, right,
Speaker 1: You should beat up on Taysom Hill like this, especially
Speaker 1: when he has a jacked up finger when he ready
Speaker 1: was not a great passer. Right, I think he has
Speaker 1: a little bit of that that m Russell Wilson, be
Speaker 1: honest with you, he pushed you. I think I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not no doctor, but it's not nearly to that.
Speaker 1: But I think I think he's probably along those lines.
Speaker 1: He pushed through. He's a tough, tough SOLB. But this
Speaker 1: is a team. This was not impressive to me. I'm
Speaker 1: just and maybe my standards are just that high, my
Speaker 1: standards for the Dallas Cowboys. There's teams like this that
Speaker 1: are depleted. Like this, You're supposed to drag these boys
Speaker 1: in the ground. One possession game, majority of the game
Speaker 1: game and had it not been for for dog Sean
Speaker 1: Payton throwing the ball on second, third, second and third
Speaker 1: and fourth down that one drive, this could have been
Speaker 1: a totally different game. Let me ask you this, for
Speaker 1: the teams that you've been on that that had those
Speaker 1: playoff runs, winning in December is very important, very no
Speaker 1: matter how you absolutely winning in December. Correct. So you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean, the parody in the NFL is there. And
Speaker 1: if you look at the teams that are supposed to
Speaker 1: be the top tier teams and who they've lost to,
Speaker 1: they've lost to some teams that have been depleted as well.
Speaker 1: No matter how you get it, you got to get
Speaker 1: a dub and winning in December is important, and at
Speaker 1: least getting healthy in December, and now you're starting to
Speaker 1: see some of that happened for this team. I don't
Speaker 1: disagree with you get the dub absolutely number one. However,
Speaker 1: this is something that is reoccurring. This is five games
Speaker 1: worth of not good football. I think we can all
Speaker 1: say that, specifically offensively not saw. This isn't just a
Speaker 1: this isn't just an okay, listen, we had one game
Speaker 1: that we didn't really show up the way we should
Speaker 1: or two guys, this is five games. What's the by product?
Speaker 1: What's the by product of that sloppy football? That's you're saying.
Speaker 1: You were talking about execution last week? But what's not healthy? Okay? Listen,
Speaker 1: I mean I'll take that back. Maybe Dak is healthy,
Speaker 1: he's not playing as if he's healthy. Okay, He's not accurate,
Speaker 1: his feet aren't said, his mechanics are off okay, and
Speaker 1: I think he would stay staying here and say that too.
Speaker 1: Zeke should have sat last night. Definitely not And I
Speaker 1: said that earlier in the week. I remember you asked
Speaker 1: me that question, is this good for Zeque or is
Speaker 1: this good? Is terrible for Zeke? And he didn't help
Speaker 1: himself last night, zeke was it hurt me to see
Speaker 1: him running, how he was hurting, how he was running.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought about that because I was saying
Speaker 1: during the week he needs to play, they need him
Speaker 1: for past protection and even to try to run the ball.
Speaker 1: But it kind of felt like Tampa Bay in Week one,
Speaker 1: where it's like you're just running into a brick wall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no way to go. So maybe, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: this rest will certainly help him. Yeah, but look what
Speaker 1: it could have been. Oh, I hear it could have been.
Speaker 1: It could have been sixteen seventeen days off for zeque
Speaker 1: I hear you. I wonder if he's gonna be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent the rest of the year anyway, though, I will,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I do think ten days off will help.
Speaker 1: It could have been a full half month come on,
Speaker 1: getting healthy, getting healthy, and if he instead turned in
Speaker 1: thirteen carries for forty five yards, he's he's not going
Speaker 1: to not play. Let's be honest. Zeke As is a dog, right,
Speaker 1: He's there's he doesn't have a character flaw in terms
Speaker 1: of somebody that you have to have a question mark.
Speaker 1: Is he is he committed? Is he not committed. He's hurt.
Speaker 1: He's not hurt, y'all. He's injured. There's a difference. Everybody
Speaker 1: on the end on the team right now is hurt.
Speaker 1: Everybody has something they're dealing with. Bruise um, some kind
Speaker 1: of strain, something's going on, dislocated finger. Everybody's hurt. He's injured.
Speaker 1: He's injured. And the only reason why they had him
Speaker 1: out there yesterday for his blocking ability. You could have
Speaker 1: had somebody else do that instead of running. Letting him
Speaker 1: run out there and be gimpy on runs, instead of
Speaker 1: being gimpy on on swing routes and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: He was gimpy. And anybody that didn't see that last night,
Speaker 1: we'll look at the way. Yeah, it's definitely been at
Speaker 1: the last few games. But he's in a catch twenty two.
Speaker 1: If he plays, he plays like this. If he doesn't play,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be trying to talk about restructuring his contract
Speaker 1: out of the season. He gets deeper than that. Absolutely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So my question I was asking you, I believe that
Speaker 1: a lot let's take a drink continuity wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that has to play in it,
Speaker 1: and especially the quick tempo. Three games in twelve days.
Speaker 1: We've gotten past that stretch. Not a lot of time
Speaker 1: to prepare, maybe more time to prepare for New Orleans,
Speaker 1: but still missing Coop in those practices. It's just on
Speaker 1: that fourth down play to Cede Lamb, for instance, that's
Speaker 1: a touchdown if you turn your head in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Either practicing that or being on the same page seems
Speaker 1: to be a miss. But I think there were also
Speaker 1: some throws that Dak made last night that was like,
Speaker 1: you know, so look here or miss whatever it is,
Speaker 1: you get the W I think getting this break quasi,
Speaker 1: buy whatever it's gonna be, and get these guys back
Speaker 1: on the same page. It's going to be important. They
Speaker 1: still ranked top five in the league offensively, so everything
Speaker 1: everything that we're talking about, you're still looking at one
Speaker 1: of the top five offenses. He was encouraging to finally
Speaker 1: watch Amari Gallop and Cede Lamb together on one drive
Speaker 1: that all created a big play on that first touchdown
Speaker 1: drive and a Mari it's like a Marie out there
Speaker 1: for half the game, not even half the game, kind
Speaker 1: of unclogged things. You got the forty one yard catch.
Speaker 1: They called it a run with CD right after that,
Speaker 1: and then a great contest to catch by Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: like that. Like you said, there's signs that offensively they're
Speaker 1: gonna have you're gonna get this going. But as a
Speaker 1: complete offense, the team that was running over teams early
Speaker 1: in the season, we're not seeing that right now. Can
Speaker 1: I get that gat up play on a poster? I
Speaker 1: need that poo man. That was a perfect post, beautiful
Speaker 1: ball back the end. You've done it a few times,
Speaker 1: just a couple. Now. The thing is about you mentioned
Speaker 1: the complimentary take a drink the football that you have
Speaker 1: to play. The offense didn't pick up the defense last night,
Speaker 1: and that's the thing going back to what you were
Speaker 1: talking about earlier. As you can be half right in
Speaker 1: the fact of this was an ugly win, this was
Speaker 1: not an ugly win because for the defense it wasn't
Speaker 1: particularly ugly. Now, they did give up yardage, they gave
Speaker 1: up the run game. We can talk about it, because
Speaker 1: that's got to be something you fixed. You cannot give
Speaker 1: up a hundred yards rushing to a guy like Taysom Hill,
Speaker 1: even though he is very talented and he's gonna get
Speaker 1: his due. At the same time, you forced four takeaways,
Speaker 1: you had four interceptions. You kept that offense at bay.
Speaker 1: There was that no point in the game, maybe with
Speaker 1: the exception of the drive that that ended with the
Speaker 1: curse pick in the first half, where I looked at
Speaker 1: that Saint's office and said, they have a rhythm. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they had a rhythm throughout the entirety
Speaker 1: of the football game. And a lot of their yardage
Speaker 1: came on a chunk seventy yard play at the end
Speaker 1: of the game that was already in garbage time. Game
Speaker 1: was already wrapped up. You look at the scoreboard at
Speaker 1: that point they got ten points. Yeah, and so through
Speaker 1: all of that, you're like, well, they did their job exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to win if you hold him
Speaker 1: to ten points until garbage time. Two for thirteen on
Speaker 1: third down for the offense. This is very that's the stat.
Speaker 1: That's the stat. It's not just a one timer. This
Speaker 1: is this has happened a few times. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find it, but this this is not it would be.
Speaker 1: That's that's my concern. This is not just like oh okay,
Speaker 1: oh we can we can write that office just a
Speaker 1: bad day. This is reoccurring This is a recurring thing
Speaker 1: in terms of lack of third down conversions, in terms
Speaker 1: of drops, we're still dropping the ball offs, in terms
Speaker 1: of still the bad location. Yeah, he has some amazing throws,
Speaker 1: but he has some really bad balls too, right, And
Speaker 1: so all these things are playing apart into what's gonna
Speaker 1: pop up down the road? What would you know why?
Speaker 1: I thought you were talking about New Orleans. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that the Cowboys offense was two of thirteen. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: two of thirteen. But also let's give credit to the
Speaker 1: Saints defense. All right, they're good, and there were some
Speaker 1: things that they were doing on third down, and they
Speaker 1: showed they slowed it down. They were playing some some
Speaker 1: coverages into fronts that I think. You see what CD
Speaker 1: did to Malcolm Jenkins. Oh they baptized. Oh he put
Speaker 1: him in the car in the front carrier. That's one
Speaker 1: of those plays. You just gotta you just shake your
Speaker 1: head like that job, young young blood got me. But
Speaker 1: you mentioned some of the different looks. I mean, they
Speaker 1: brought two sakes out the out of the slot on
Speaker 1: the blitz, and they dropped two linebackers and a lot
Speaker 1: they did a lot of unique things on third down.
Speaker 1: The deck to try and confuse him, and they slowed
Speaker 1: up some things and you saw Dak back there thinking
Speaker 1: with the ball, trying to figure out the coverage. Look,
Speaker 1: no matter what, ugly cute, however you want to call it,
Speaker 1: we're in the dove. We're eight and four, it's December,
Speaker 1: and we look, man, we're gonna enjoy this. We're gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy this victory. But we got some people we need
Speaker 1: to take care of next week too, Do you exactly right?
Speaker 1: But we've got five shows next week to talk about it.
Speaker 1: We're not We're not even gonna mention, not even gonna
Speaker 1: talk about Washington third down for the year. That's very
Speaker 1: good for an offense, this dynamic very good. Wow. All right.
Speaker 1: When we come back here on Talking Cowboys, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: it again. We're gonna talk about him and the impact
Speaker 1: that he and to Marcus Lawrence had on that defense.
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Speaker 1: start We're starting a new side today, is that right? Yeah? Today?
Speaker 1: I know I've got a kind of like really different
Speaker 1: does it. That's a lot of different, a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff going on right there. Um, you know we can't
Speaker 1: scratch and sniff, all right, Cowboys Defense. There was this
Speaker 1: guy yesterday that we talked about to Marcus Lawrence that
Speaker 1: is back and ready to go. But then there's another guy.
Speaker 1: His name it's Michael Parsons. He had another sack. He's
Speaker 1: now ten sacks on the year, and he's the first
Speaker 1: rookie since Joey Bosa did it in twenty sixteen to
Speaker 1: have a sack in five straight games. Micah Parsons doing
Speaker 1: it all. And I ask you guys this We saw
Speaker 1: this when Randy Gregory was healthy alongside Michael Parsons. Now
Speaker 1: we see it with de Marcus Lawrence and Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: Is this a Is this just a sign of sign
Speaker 1: to come, of what's to come whenever you have multiple
Speaker 1: of your your dogs on that defensive side of the football.
Speaker 1: Because of the way that both Michael Parsons and de
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence were able to play and get pressure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's what you want. You want complimentary football
Speaker 1: from your guys up front. You want to be able
Speaker 1: to see those twists and stunts and guys come wide open.
Speaker 1: Because offensive lines are having to pay so much attention
Speaker 1: to Michael or our tank. You're seeing the byproduct of that.
Speaker 1: When I saw both of these guys lining up in
Speaker 1: the A gap, I'm like, oh, man, dan Quayne is
Speaker 1: really in his bag right now, because what do what
Speaker 1: do you do as an offensive line when you see
Speaker 1: that pressure like that in the way that they're using
Speaker 1: and whether it be at the linebacker position and on
Speaker 1: that play for Jern curse Maid, Michael Parsons was in
Speaker 1: coverage and so just his man the way that they
Speaker 1: use this guy's really special. Y'all know me, I've been
Speaker 1: pounding the table about him being an edge, but you
Speaker 1: just see how special he is. All in all, I'm
Speaker 1: calling in the buzuka because I think we are watching
Speaker 1: something just very special unfold and a special player. And
Speaker 1: I feel fortunate and lucky every time I see him
Speaker 1: in an eleven with a start and tell me that
Speaker 1: he's ours and we're gonna have him for a number
Speaker 1: of years. But you also see guys like take when
Speaker 1: they take the field, they know they got an upfair
Speaker 1: game and play with a bit of a spark because you,
Speaker 1: as DeMarcus Lawrence called him, the lone lion is out
Speaker 1: there on the field. And Michael Parsons is special. Guys,
Speaker 1: y'all see it. Yeah, He's definitely a special. I think
Speaker 1: he brought it up yesterday when we're watching a game
Speaker 1: in the studio. I think he needs to be in
Speaker 1: that discussion for a defensive player of the year, not
Speaker 1: only rookie of the year. WHOA, no jump out the cake.
Speaker 1: Now I'm out the cake. I'm out the cake. WHOA.
Speaker 1: He needs to be in that conversation for a defensive
Speaker 1: player of the year. And I would be loved to
Speaker 1: have a conversation with anybody, a nice little debate as
Speaker 1: to anybody who would think differently. I think he is.
Speaker 1: And I think again, a performance like that on He's
Speaker 1: doing it on Thanksgiving, He's doing it on Thursday night
Speaker 1: from a national audience. He loves it, everybody, he loves it.
Speaker 1: But when and everybody's seeing it? Now, when you name
Speaker 1: him Defensive Player of the Year, did you name him
Speaker 1: as a linebacker? As an Air Trust or the Pro Bowl?
Speaker 1: Because which which one do you name him? I think
Speaker 1: he's still a linebacker, because look, he was off the
Speaker 1: ball last night. But but where do you want him?
Speaker 1: Where do you want him? That's that's the question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the question. I know where you wanted him? Outside linebacker,
Speaker 1: Like New England calls there everybody, and I can't say
Speaker 1: you're wrong. I can't say you're wrong. Like when he
Speaker 1: that sack he had The play of the game was
Speaker 1: third and two, fourteen minutes left in the game and
Speaker 1: the first play of the fourth quarter, first play of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and New New England the Saints are
Speaker 1: on the twenty six yard line. He sacks him for
Speaker 1: an eleven yard lost. They got a punt and that's it,
Speaker 1: and you're you're thinking, like you talked about, like how
Speaker 1: challenge they were offensively, that's the game because you knew
Speaker 1: that that Saints team, especially as banged up as they were,
Speaker 1: were not built to play from behind him this game.
Speaker 1: That was the play of the game. I don't think
Speaker 1: I don't think quarterbacks they see it on film, but
Speaker 1: the closing speed that he has, I don't know they
Speaker 1: but I don't think they really understand until they're out there. Well,
Speaker 1: like the last night, that was a perfect sample of, hey,
Speaker 1: we can out leverage him because Taysom Hills as an
Speaker 1: athlete too, and Taysom Hill was you're not the athlete, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And on that there's levels of everything. Yeah. And on
Speaker 1: that play Taysom Hill may have screamed and passed a
Speaker 1: little wind at the same time because Michael was on
Speaker 1: the quick well. A great job I mean he had
Speaker 1: on both of Hills he had. He did a great
Speaker 1: job on that play. And I don't think people understand
Speaker 1: how difficult of a responsibility that he has on that
Speaker 1: play because he's the end man on the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: so he has to be able if there's a run play.
Speaker 1: He has to be able to run the play down
Speaker 1: from the front of the backside, but he also can't
Speaker 1: lose leverage. So you see him take his steps down
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage on a play action and then
Speaker 1: get back out. Is that for a rookie, it's being
Speaker 1: able to react as being able to the trust your eyes.
Speaker 1: Trust your eyes. So he followed the run until he
Speaker 1: saw that it wasn't a run, and then he put
Speaker 1: his foot into the ground and was able to accelerate.
Speaker 1: That's when that acceleration, that first ten yards of that
Speaker 1: forty yard dash. He's a four to three, but I
Speaker 1: would love to see what his first ten yards is
Speaker 1: because that's the acceleration, that's the closing speed. People don't
Speaker 1: talk about it, and that's one of the things that
Speaker 1: early in training camp when we were on the sideline
Speaker 1: we were watching practices that Dan Quinn was by himself
Speaker 1: with Michael Parsons talking about going upfield and breaking back.
Speaker 1: So you got to credit a lot of the success
Speaker 1: that Michael Parsons is at. It's really the thought process
Speaker 1: of DQ and what he's done now. The thing that's
Speaker 1: interesting about the snap counts last night for Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: he was on the field for sixty five snaps, thirty
Speaker 1: four of those were in coverage, was the most coverage
Speaker 1: snaps he's played all season. And he also was targeted
Speaker 1: twice did not allow a reception. So I mean, he's
Speaker 1: not only doing it as a pass rusher, but he's
Speaker 1: able to show that coverage ability. That was a knock
Speaker 1: on his draft grade was can he cover with some
Speaker 1: of the better high end linebackers. He's totally answered that question.
Speaker 1: That's why I think he does deserve to be in
Speaker 1: the Player of the Year conversation, because not only is
Speaker 1: he putting up the stats, not only is he affecting
Speaker 1: the game, he's putting pressure on quarterbacks, but if he's
Speaker 1: able to complete his game by being good in coverage,
Speaker 1: it's even that much better. I got a question for you. Heck,
Speaker 1: what's up? Who would you rather have on your team? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: stop it. Michael Parsons, Aaron Donald, Michael Parsons right now,
Speaker 1: Mica Michael because he's twenty two years old. Yeah, Michael,
Speaker 1: Daddy have to think about it. But also Diggi Zua,
Speaker 1: Yeah he got in. See. That's another thing I was
Speaker 1: gonna bring up was the fact that Parsons and Lawrence
Speaker 1: were on the field at the same time. It seemed
Speaker 1: like it opened things up for the rest of that
Speaker 1: front seven. It looked like guys like osa Chauncey Gholston
Speaker 1: were able to get in the backfield more so than others.
Speaker 1: Did you see something similar? Absolutely, I'm just saying his
Speaker 1: quickness off the ball for a rookie, it's it's amazing.
Speaker 1: He's cat quick. But I'm really excited for this defense
Speaker 1: to get Tristan Hill back. I'm happy for these guys
Speaker 1: to get Randy Gregory back because that health and Neville Gallimore.
Speaker 1: I say, you forgot about guys I have not. I
Speaker 1: forgot about Neville Gallimore. But it's guys like that that
Speaker 1: we're getting back. I think it's gonna make the difference
Speaker 1: on this defense, and it makes it so much easier
Speaker 1: for the back half. Do you guys think that we'll
Speaker 1: ever Do you think the Cowboys will ever have their
Speaker 1: entire defense back this year? Well, I think there's a
Speaker 1: chance you're gonna get Gallamore and Gregory back next week.
Speaker 1: Then yes, there's a chance. I don't know for sure,
Speaker 1: but they were both on the trip. They both worked
Speaker 1: out pregame. Oh wow, and they're both making a lot
Speaker 1: of progress. I think it's possible. If not Washington, then
Speaker 1: the week after, I think it's a great chance for that.
Speaker 1: So they're getting close. What does that do in terms
Speaker 1: of our ability to stop the run? I think it
Speaker 1: ups it. Yeah, definitely to have Gregory and Lawrence on
Speaker 1: the edge, and then you could have Michael Parsons either
Speaker 1: at the second level or bring them up in the
Speaker 1: middle of that defense. I think it helps you a
Speaker 1: ton if you get to pick, if you had to
Speaker 1: pick your best D line to stop the run, who
Speaker 1: are you putting out there? Stop your best? For give
Speaker 1: me Osa in the middle, then Gregory and Lawrence on
Speaker 1: the edge, and then Parsons roaming over the top. So
Speaker 1: you don't want Urban in here or all. Urban's out
Speaker 1: for the year. So he had, Yeah, he had the year.
Speaker 1: His wife announced it on Twitter on Wednesday. Actually yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And but also but also see what his absence has meant.
Speaker 1: Carlos Watkins has came on big over the this this game,
Speaker 1: you know, played a really good game, and just talking
Speaker 1: about the guys on our line that can you know,
Speaker 1: even if forty one played last night's name goes out
Speaker 1: of my head right now. But Kamara plays last night.
Speaker 1: I still think that he doesn't run for one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: I think Tyson Hill because of the read option offense.
Speaker 1: It's just hard. I mean, you got ten guys all
Speaker 1: loading up for you to try and read this one guy.
Speaker 1: But as far as getting Neville Gallimore back on that
Speaker 1: defensive line, I think it does nothing but but do
Speaker 1: good for us, especially with Urban being out for the man.
Speaker 1: We just see what his absence has meant in that
Speaker 1: running game and teams have been able to have that
Speaker 1: success because he was the one guy that was gobbling
Speaker 1: up blocks. And now you know, we hadn't said his
Speaker 1: name Quentin, Bohannon or Hamilton, but these guys are doing
Speaker 1: a pretty serviceable job as a one two punch in
Speaker 1: the middle of our defensive line as well. You take
Speaker 1: away Hills eleven carries for one oh one, mark Ingram
Speaker 1: had ten, ten for twenty eight, Montgomery four for twenty one.
Speaker 1: I mean the biggest problem they had defensively were those
Speaker 1: pick routes that Sean Payton was calling to kind of
Speaker 1: free up some space in the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: I mean that was the building. Really the biggest problem.
Speaker 1: Deliberate pick route. Oh yes, a little little They don't
Speaker 1: call those no more on You're not you're not getting
Speaker 1: that call in that place. He never really called it
Speaker 1: on the Pats over the years either you're not getting
Speaker 1: that call the professional pig blocker over. Yeah, the way
Speaker 1: to do it, and that was not the way to
Speaker 1: do so. Speaking on the run defense though, and keeping
Speaker 1: that that at bay, where did you see the biggest
Speaker 1: struggles from that offense or excuse me from that that
Speaker 1: defensive line. Was it in the interior or did you
Speaker 1: think it was out on the edge. I mean it
Speaker 1: was in between. I mean, I know watching a film
Speaker 1: leading up to the game, we talked about even in
Speaker 1: the pregame show, those guys were going to run. They're
Speaker 1: running power. I mentioned Nebraska type offense. That's what it was. Hey,
Speaker 1: we got our we have three four tight ends in
Speaker 1: the game. We got an extra lineman, had a lot
Speaker 1: of extra big, big old line sets in there, and
Speaker 1: we're pulling two people and we're coming downhill and he's
Speaker 1: gonna take one step back, he's gonna run a draw
Speaker 1: play and we're coming down here hill. We got two three,
Speaker 1: two or three hundred pound guys coming down at you,
Speaker 1: blocking against your your linebackers, and then I have a
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty plus pound quarterback that's coming right
Speaker 1: behind them. That's that's what they did. It's hard to stop.
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. That's a large human being,
Speaker 1: who's strong, who's capable, who's fast, coming behind a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of girth. Yeah, and I understand. And
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of Ken O'Neill trying to get
Speaker 1: through those blockers and yeah, it's sometimes just old legs,
Speaker 1: you know. And that happened a lot to us. But
Speaker 1: I think once we got to the point where we
Speaker 1: had a lead and our defense was able to pin
Speaker 1: their ears back and play coverage on a lot of things,
Speaker 1: the only thing we were giving up is that cheap
Speaker 1: underneath and quick stuff. Yeah, but you're to that point.
Speaker 1: Teams see that what happened last night, That happened with
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill. But you can run that same type of
Speaker 1: running scheme with anybody right as running back. Quarterback doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: So that has to get showed up. And the only
Speaker 1: way that you share that up is by getting penetration.
Speaker 1: If you're into your defensive lineman can't push the center,
Speaker 1: can't push the guard back into those pulling, pulling guards
Speaker 1: and pulling tackles. You're going to see a lot more
Speaker 1: of that going forward. So as we talk about who
Speaker 1: can get off the ball, who can get penetration, you
Speaker 1: need these Gallimore's back. You need these galtration Hills back
Speaker 1: because those guys are able to get up the field
Speaker 1: and prevent those guys from pulling and getting onto your linebackers.
Speaker 1: That's a good point because when you go into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady are not going to be
Speaker 1: plunging into a defense like that. They're not gonna be.
Speaker 1: But Aaron Jones absolutely will do that. That will go
Speaker 1: straight into the teeth of a defense. You got to
Speaker 1: make sure that you're ready for that. And do you
Speaker 1: think that's a different read? And I'm the reason I'm
Speaker 1: saying that is a lot of our defensive scheme was
Speaker 1: Mica spying on Tyson Taysom Hill. So I just you know,
Speaker 1: I think it changed up a lot of the difference
Speaker 1: does change up his ability to respond, right in terms
Speaker 1: of being able to play down hill now, but in
Speaker 1: terms of that's that scheme and how it works It's
Speaker 1: honestly pretty good against the Cowboys because they're not the
Speaker 1: biggest team on defense. So if you have an offensive
Speaker 1: line that's that's with that. They're with it. They want
Speaker 1: to actually get physical physicality, and I can get and
Speaker 1: I can get your your nose guard or your three technique.
Speaker 1: I can reach them and get an edge. Now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm reaching with him. I'm kicking out
Speaker 1: and I'm letting two guys come up the middle. Now
Speaker 1: we're spreading a dog on Red Sea and have good
Speaker 1: luck coming down hill against my guard in my tackle.
Speaker 1: And then the team, I worry about what that is. Tampa,
Speaker 1: they can do it to Green Base done pretty good
Speaker 1: at that. Lately. Green Base defense has really impressed me
Speaker 1: this year. They Yeah, I'm just talking about offensive line
Speaker 1: in the read that you're talking about. Yeah, I'm completely
Speaker 1: I'm flipping it off. I think Tampa. I think Tampa
Speaker 1: has the maturity and the patients to run that type
Speaker 1: of offense all the way down the field. And we
Speaker 1: saw a glimpse of it last night. And I mentioned
Speaker 1: that one drive where you couldn't stop Tasom Hill. They
Speaker 1: kept running that play, they kept running draws, They kept
Speaker 1: running the counters, they kept running their power because hey, bro,
Speaker 1: come on, man had his eyes closed. But then boys
Speaker 1: worked their way all the way down the field and
Speaker 1: it was like, you can't stop them, you can't stop it.
Speaker 1: And then Sean Payton threw the ball and then he
Speaker 1: threw the ball again, and then he threw the ball again,
Speaker 1: and it's just like thank you. But I don't know
Speaker 1: what you were thinking, because you could have kept this
Speaker 1: freight train going if you really wanted to. That's the
Speaker 1: way it felt. It felt like, no matter what Dallas did,
Speaker 1: you weren't gonna be able to stop these boy from
Speaker 1: running the ball. And then they just abandoned their banding
Speaker 1: the run for whatever reason. What did you think about that? Live?
Speaker 1: Did you see the same thing? Yeah, I mean Mickey
Speaker 1: was going crazy in the press. Boys, I mean, what
Speaker 1: are they doing? What? You know? I don't know if
Speaker 1: they were getting cute impression? What are they doing? I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if it was getting cute or
Speaker 1: if they just felt like because of those just things
Speaker 1: get tighter down there and they felt like they had to,
Speaker 1: you know, spread them out down there. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, definitely did not work. Whatever the adjustment
Speaker 1: was thought to be made, it was not a positive
Speaker 1: one for the Saints, and the Cowboys took advantage. Now
Speaker 1: I mentioned how we were going to talk about the
Speaker 1: run game. Who is the blame? I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a big show on that on Monday, because, like
Speaker 1: you said earlier, it's not just a one game deal,
Speaker 1: this is a this is a compounding problem. And the
Speaker 1: yardage didn't look terrible, but you could tell, but yards
Speaker 1: per carry it wasn't there. It was fifty eight yards
Speaker 1: from from Tony Pollard, and that's what really made the
Speaker 1: numbers look better. It was the weirdest rushing stat line
Speaker 1: I've said, or you could say skewed. I mean, like
Speaker 1: you said, fifty eight yard touchdown by Tony Pollard, Ceede
Speaker 1: Lamb gets a thirty three yard run. They called that
Speaker 1: a run. Yes, it looked like a screen pass to me.
Speaker 1: But so if you take those if you take those
Speaker 1: two off, where we at eighty, If you take off
Speaker 1: that eighty plus yards, where we're where's that aggy maggy?
Speaker 1: Math is bad? Okay? What about? What about? Anybody got
Speaker 1: any any gripes about the referees in this game that
Speaker 1: you were you okay, They mean they definitely miss some
Speaker 1: calls every crew though. That's why I said, you can't
Speaker 1: pay attention to the risk because they're about that blind side.
Speaker 1: That was terrible, that helped us terrible than you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was. That was That was That was exactly how
Speaker 1: you We're sorry in New Orleans. Yeah, that was, but
Speaker 1: we're also now sorry at the same time. All right,
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Speaker 1: Here's our tradition after every Cowboys when we hand out
Speaker 1: our smelly stickers. This is a tradition that dates back
Speaker 1: to last year when heck My Harrison said, it's like
Speaker 1: scratching sniff, and we decided to take that literally. So
Speaker 1: we went and got some scratching sniff stickers and we
Speaker 1: handed out as our helmet stickers for our player of
Speaker 1: the game. Heck, I'll let you start things off. You're
Speaker 1: dancing in the corner. I'm doing the cha chase like uh,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure this is something you can do. Uh,
Speaker 1: Kyle you almost You've done it a wedding a few times,
Speaker 1: but probably Hey, you him the wedding crusherson season. I
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Speaker 1: the cherry on top of this defense and this one,
Speaker 1: mister Micah pass nice. Yeah yeah, now officially into the
Speaker 1: second side of the helmet. That's what eight wins will do. Man,
Speaker 1: look at that thing. You see that facial expression right there.
Speaker 1: That was dan Quinn and arrest of the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: They did an amazing job. And dan Quinn's face was
Speaker 1: just like this after the game because he was like,
Speaker 1: did you forget not the lips? Did you forget Scrawberry?
Speaker 1: How big of a moment is this for dan Quinn
Speaker 1: this these next ten days because Mike McCarthy's not gonna
Speaker 1: be back for a hot minute. I mean, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a little bit of time and it's ten days
Speaker 1: when he's he's out right. Uh no, not necessarily mean
Speaker 1: he's vaccinating if the coaches things different, but if Chris
Speaker 1: Bean please help us out here. Two negative tests, right,
Speaker 1: christ I think back baby? Okay, so are you talking
Speaker 1: about somebody ready? Harry up, get back. He could be
Speaker 1: back next week. We'll see. Uh. Pineapple time, Oh, pineapple.
Speaker 1: Pineapple is my favorite fruit. It's wonderful. Let's go with
Speaker 1: number ninety. DeMarcus Lawrence d Law. D Law talked about
Speaker 1: him being a tone setter. First drive of the game,
Speaker 1: tackle tackle, one of them is stuff and then a
Speaker 1: pressure on third down rushing inside like you said, kind
Speaker 1: of some some different change looks uh and kind of
Speaker 1: set the tone for the defense. Played thirty seven snaps,
Speaker 1: did a lot with it, and now everybody's coming back.
Speaker 1: It should be exciting to see with his defense. Kid,
Speaker 1: that was a striped sack. By the way, that ball
Speaker 1: went backwards, Chris being confirmed it did it that it
Speaker 1: went backwards, So it's backwards. Ball should have been live,
Speaker 1: should have been ours, but New York got in the way. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Oh late the game? Yeah, oh yeah. To Taysom Hill
Speaker 1: one word. Yeah, his hand was moving forwards, but the
Speaker 1: ball went backwards, went backward. If the balls priority the
Speaker 1: ball moving backwards, there is a hand moving forward. If
Speaker 1: the ball moves fat backwards, then any bat down at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage would be automatically. I don't think
Speaker 1: it matters where the ball goes. I think it matters
Speaker 1: what his elbows. All I'm saying is that was our ball.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying blame Tom Brady, got disagree. I have
Speaker 1: a little peach here. Oh it's a little tiny peach.
Speaker 1: He's a good looking fellow. I do love peaches. And
Speaker 1: he's got a thumbs up. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: can get that to focus. The camera's an automatic focus.
Speaker 1: There he goes. He's actually it is an index finger.
Speaker 1: It's just a number one up there. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give this to Tony Pollard because you needed one big run.
Speaker 1: I see what you did, one big run, and that's
Speaker 1: who I'm gonna give it to. You could give a
Speaker 1: ton of smelly stickers. I thought about giving this to
Speaker 1: Carlos Watkins for the pick six. I thought about giving
Speaker 1: this to Curse because he was all over the field.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna give it to TP because he needed
Speaker 1: the one big run and well he got it fifty
Speaker 1: eight yards to the house. He bounce it outside. What happens? Man?
Speaker 1: Great blocks that's right up in front, right, Any worry
Speaker 1: about the offensive line moving forward because they did a
Speaker 1: great job. You didn't hear Cameron Jordan's name, or you
Speaker 1: didn't heard Muri O'Davis here eat one of those guys.
Speaker 1: That's a great point they So that means that they
Speaker 1: did a great job even without the struggles on the
Speaker 1: offensive or excuse me, in the run game. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean we have to we gotta figure that out. I
Speaker 1: think that's more than just a physicality thing. I think
Speaker 1: that's more of a scheme thing, as I don't want
Speaker 1: to say more of. I think they both have their
Speaker 1: equal parts in that and A will dress out on Monday,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, in terms of protecting Dak, I
Speaker 1: think they did a great job. All right, final thoughts
Speaker 1: before we wrap things up here on this edition. Cowboys
Speaker 1: get the win twenty seven to seventeen. Heckma anything stick
Speaker 1: out well, Cowboy Nation to hope your team win, win,
Speaker 1: And they won, and I think we're all happy. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go into the clagain popping out callum wow, I
Speaker 1: like that. Cowboys Nation. Of a lot of work to do,
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do. You can elaborate more
Speaker 1: on that one. You're not where you need to be.
Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys are not efficient enough too. They might
Speaker 1: they might be efficient enough to win the NFC East.
Speaker 1: That's not the goal. That's one. That's the goal number one,
Speaker 1: long term goals. This is not gonna get it done.
Speaker 1: So get to work, get into the dark classroom, figure
Speaker 1: out what's going on. Offensively, defensively, stopped the run. If
Speaker 1: you don't stop the running in December January, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have some issues. And in defensively, I mean offensively, we
Speaker 1: got to figure out where Kellen Moore went. We got
Speaker 1: to figure that out. So what is the number one
Speaker 1: thing for you that we're going to talk about next
Speaker 1: week to correct the lack of conversion on opportunities? Okay,
Speaker 1: we're not We're not converting on those opportunities. Drop passes,
Speaker 1: big play, third down, third downs, those are opportunities that
Speaker 1: you just don't get back when the games really matter
Speaker 1: down the road twenty seven seventeen, IYO seventeen seventeen. I
Speaker 1: still got the win and it works. Yeah. Number one,
Speaker 1: get the run game going again. You might want. It's
Speaker 1: one forty six yards total rushing. Subtract ninety one from that,
Speaker 1: whatever the hell the number is for that. That's that's
Speaker 1: what they got on the ground, minus the Tony Potter
Speaker 1: play and the and the CD and land play. But
Speaker 1: I would say players off for three days now. They
Speaker 1: absolutely need, the coaching staff needs it. For everybody to
Speaker 1: get healthy and back. This is a perfect time for them. Yea,
Speaker 1: but yeah, a lot to clean up, big stretch ahead.
Speaker 1: Is it a normal schedule next week? Tuesday, Wednesday practice,
Speaker 1: Thursday walk through and then they get into the week.
Speaker 1: It should be normal. Yeah, that we'll back to uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they'll do Monday, but back to Wednesday, Thursday,
Speaker 1: Saturday practice schedule. They should be back on a normal schedule.
Speaker 1: So that's good to know, because yeah, you're right, it's
Speaker 1: been a minute since they've done that. And then of
Speaker 1: course next week we will preview the matchup with the
Speaker 1: Washington Football team as it's back to NFC's play. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys play divisional foes in four of the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: and these are crucial weeks coming up. Can't drop these games.
Speaker 1: You gotta take advantage. We'll talk about that plenty next
Speaker 1: week on Talking Cowboys. But when we come back here
Speaker 1: on Monday, it is a wanted poster. Where is the
Speaker 1: run game? How do we fix it? We're talking about
Speaker 1: it on Monday morning, nine am Central Time for Chris
Speaker 1: Beam in the back, heck Ma Harrison, Isaiah Standback, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman saying so long. We'll see you next week
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