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Speaker 1: big win last night. It's another win, I guess, another
Speaker 1: win the stack on top of wins that they've had
Speaker 1: this year. They go to four and one. Uh. They
Speaker 1: beat the New York Giants forty four to twenty in
Speaker 1: their latest win at at and T Stadium. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna break it down for you, Okay, tell you guys,
Speaker 1: huh Are you okay? Yeah? I mean, we don't have
Speaker 1: episodes where I'm years no any of this stuff. I am.
Speaker 1: I was talking to you right before, and I was
Speaker 1: on the wrong page. I do know it. Season seventeen,
Speaker 1: in episode number thirty eight. So yeah, if Jeff Heath,
Speaker 1: let's go the goat. It should be not for me,
Speaker 1: not for me, a quick story. Dawn Hawthorne, Oh, I
Speaker 1: remember school, Scooter. Yeah, when I got here, I was
Speaker 1: I didn't know nobody knew me, and and he was
Speaker 1: my only guy in the locker room that I got
Speaker 1: to talk to, and he made the team. He's he's
Speaker 1: a good dude, Scooter, Dwan Hawthorne. Ron Francis is another
Speaker 1: one though France. But yeah, and they Heath. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love it because you always throw out names that are
Speaker 1: from our early yea with the Cowboys, where we weren't
Speaker 1: very I mean the Cowboys were not very good at
Speaker 1: that time, but there were some good dudes on those teams,
Speaker 1: you know, definitely good people. All right, let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about this big win. Cowboys win forty four
Speaker 1: twenty another division win. Why do you keep laughing? You
Speaker 1: didn't hear what Beans said? Yeah, you don't have your head.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you're and say, Roy Williams, I think you
Speaker 1: worth thirty eight for an hour, maybe two hours? No, um,
Speaker 1: Cowboys get another win within the division. Now going to
Speaker 1: two and o within the division, there are four and
Speaker 1: one overall. Uh. They take a commanding two game lead,
Speaker 1: if you can call it that. Here early in the
Speaker 1: season in the division. Um, let's look at big picture storylines.
Speaker 1: What's the story of this game. Let's start first with you, Dave.
Speaker 1: Can't you really want to know? And it's got it's
Speaker 1: really want to know. It's got nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the game. To be honest with you, this is my
Speaker 1: observation over the last like ten hours. You know, I try,
Speaker 1: we talk about this. I try to keep up with
Speaker 1: the entire league. I think it makes me better at
Speaker 1: my job. I also just love football, So I listened
Speaker 1: to as many podcasts as I can. I do the
Speaker 1: same thing that you're doing right now. I don't listen
Speaker 1: to the Break on my drive to work, but I
Speaker 1: listened to I Know. I'm sorry, how vain? How vain?
Speaker 1: Would that be? Just every day you listen to your
Speaker 1: own voice, our show because I want to know how
Speaker 1: it can be better, how lead can be better, like
Speaker 1: all those things I do that sometimes. Whatever. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm listening to my NFL podcast as I get ready
Speaker 1: today and drive to work. Not a word about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And that's amazing. Why is it amazing? Why? Why is
Speaker 1: that amazing? It's great, that's a good thing. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I would have thought they'd been all over it because
Speaker 1: ratings are still ratings. So people love to talk about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, no, because they beat the crap out of them,
Speaker 1: and not only that, but it's just expected. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are really good. They watch they watched the Giants,
Speaker 1: onto the next thing. We got to talk about Bills,
Speaker 1: Bill's Chiefs, we got to talk about Brown's Chargers. It's
Speaker 1: just it's not a storyline. It's not a storyline that
Speaker 1: they absolutely dominated a third team in a row, and
Speaker 1: that's exciting because not only are they doing it, but
Speaker 1: like people are just taking it for granted, like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the Cowboys are great. We knew that. So
Speaker 1: that's really my big takeaway. Sorry, it's not about the game,
Speaker 1: but that is a big because that's a different storyline.
Speaker 1: That's not the storyline we've been used to for a
Speaker 1: long time. People. I think the league, the league gets
Speaker 1: on notice, Like the league sees what's happened. They're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that Cowboys look pretty special, and beating the crap out
Speaker 1: of a woeful Giants team is not impressive to people
Speaker 1: based on what they've been doing so far. Nick big
Speaker 1: picture story, they won by twenty four points against the
Speaker 1: division team. They look like crap for a while. And
Speaker 1: that's impressive to me because you're going to have moments
Speaker 1: like that, you're going a lot of pressure. Dak can
Speaker 1: say what he wants. He's human. He knows what the
Speaker 1: game is, he knows what month it is, he knows
Speaker 1: what week it is, and he knows the opponent and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And you know, they came out, had
Speaker 1: had a few turnovers, and defense kind of sloppy in
Speaker 1: a little bit, but when it was time to kind
Speaker 1: of put it on them, they did. And I understand
Speaker 1: the Giants had a ton of juries, you know, and
Speaker 1: nobody cares. And nobody cared in front of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: last year. No one cares about this, so you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta do it. And but you gotta beat a
Speaker 1: team like that by twenty four points. You know. There
Speaker 1: they look like a Thursday night high school football team,
Speaker 1: which is a JB. That's what they look like. And
Speaker 1: they were playing with those type of players, and so
Speaker 1: you better beat them. And they did, and that's that's
Speaker 1: just impressive to keep doing it that way and keep
Speaker 1: and we haven't always seen the Cowboys just kind of
Speaker 1: you know, they played at the level of their competition,
Speaker 1: not not this team, not right now. So yeah, we
Speaker 1: got some storylines that winn go. I'm gonna go through.
Speaker 1: We remember, if you remember, on Friday, we went through
Speaker 1: all the storylines of the game. So I'm gonna run
Speaker 1: through some of those. And I want to marry. How
Speaker 1: do you even judge, Like all the guys we spent
Speaker 1: most of the week talking about it didn't finish the
Speaker 1: goal if speaking of which, that's where we're gonna start,
Speaker 1: because we talked about this being a game where it
Speaker 1: could possibly be, you know, the type of game that
Speaker 1: was a trap game. You know, you kind of look
Speaker 1: past them, you don't think they're as good. That all
Speaker 1: being said, Dallas started off kind of sloppy, as you said, Nick,
Speaker 1: And had it not been for injuries to Jones and
Speaker 1: Barkley and Galladay, do you think this would have been
Speaker 1: a different sort of game. Would we be talking about
Speaker 1: this game a little differently today than we are right now? No?
Speaker 1: I don't, I just I don't know. They played sloppy,
Speaker 1: They really did, And I agree with Nick completely, Like
Speaker 1: it's impressive that they were able to play as poorly
Speaker 1: as they did. For as long as they did, and
Speaker 1: it was still a laugher. Um, But like, at no
Speaker 1: point even and I know, you know, Sequan got hurt
Speaker 1: on like the second play of the game for them.
Speaker 1: I get that, But at no point, like even when
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was in there, did I feel like the
Speaker 1: game was getting away from him. You know, it's ten
Speaker 1: to ten there and after they scored until you get
Speaker 1: it's kind of getting you know that. I thought that
Speaker 1: was the moment of the game, was when when they answered,
Speaker 1: um and how they answered. But you know, yeah, Glennon
Speaker 1: is not your running threat like Jones wasn't, and so
Speaker 1: he probably throws the ball a little a little bit
Speaker 1: better maybe, but um, I don't think I still think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win. They probably't win by twenty four. You know,
Speaker 1: Barkley's not DeVante Booker. And you know, but gall Day
Speaker 1: getting hurt, it did nothing because he didn't do anything,
Speaker 1: was he I don't think he had a target three three,
Speaker 1: target three I'm sorry, no catches though, right, yeah, I
Speaker 1: just may Okay, this is this is sick. Oh we
Speaker 1: we got an elephant. Yeah, let's go elephants just sitting
Speaker 1: right there. His name is Trayvon Diggs, it's oh, g okay,
Speaker 1: I know, I want, I want to hear what you're
Speaker 1: about to say. And then Wilson doesn't get to the
Speaker 1: elephant assume maybe maybe they win that game thirty four
Speaker 1: to twenty one instead of forty four to twenty. I
Speaker 1: think I still think they win by ten plus points.
Speaker 1: If if if every my guys were calling it all weekend.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Rob picked or whatever, but I know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, Dave tweets out. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't care who that. Okay, that's a joke. That's a joke,
Speaker 1: like I wasn't Actually, that's not a game prediction. That
Speaker 1: said Cowboys by twenty four. That was a joke. That's
Speaker 1: that's I do. I do that almost every week where
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I don't care if it's Daniel Jones,
Speaker 1: Mac Jones, well blah blah blah blah blah, Tommy Lee
Speaker 1: John that's just me having fun. But I mean, they
Speaker 1: did they hit the mark. Now, Kyle Yeoman's hit forty
Speaker 1: four twenty on the Dot. You didn't see him re
Speaker 1: post it, retweet it and pull it into his own Twitter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he Yeah, everybody know. Yeah, yeah, I hope
Speaker 1: his arm is not broken. But um yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's impressive. It is impressive. I've only done it one
Speaker 1: time ever, and and you know, not that I can remember.
Speaker 1: I think I would have prapped myself on the back too,
Speaker 1: So it's impressive, especially forty twenty like that. Um but Diggs,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is sick. I don't even know how
Speaker 1: you even really describe it anymore. I mean, the the
Speaker 1: interceptions that he's making, these are not your I'm just
Speaker 1: in the right place at the right time, ball gets
Speaker 1: tipped and I grabbed after that guy on Twitter. Well
Speaker 1: I didn't really go out. I'm just like, what what
Speaker 1: do you want? He was like, it's Glenn and relaxed, right,
Speaker 1: Okay about justin Herbert tom Brady. I mean, this guy's
Speaker 1: doing some amazing things. And I will be honest with you,
Speaker 1: even if it were the type of interceptions where you know,
Speaker 1: guys just in the right place, right time, ball getting
Speaker 1: tipped in the air, we ain't seen it, like it
Speaker 1: ain't happening in a long time around here, and mad
Speaker 1: watching dB play for this team for the last ten
Speaker 1: years and giving a damn how the interception comes about
Speaker 1: because but but it's outstanding. We haven't seen these type
Speaker 1: of picks. No, no, And that's I do wonder. I
Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to go back and look, I
Speaker 1: mean he was beaten. He was beaten on that throw,
Speaker 1: or at least it looked deep. Yeah, and that's which
Speaker 1: so was what was he baiting him? I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's I don't know. I don't either. He slingshot it
Speaker 1: up there, though, didn't he That's that's when you made
Speaker 1: the comparison to Dion Sanders, and you saw Dion do
Speaker 1: that throughout his career, like he would. Everything presented as
Speaker 1: though this guy actually beat Dion. And then the quarterback
Speaker 1: throws the ball and didn'd be like, hey, I mean
Speaker 1: you thought, if you haven't seen it, if you haven't
Speaker 1: seen it, and Cowboy fans have, but but if if
Speaker 1: you're just a little bit younger, maybe you haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: Just google Dion Raiders nineteen ninety five, because that's what
Speaker 1: that play was. It was his first year with the team,
Speaker 1: maybe a second or third game, and rocket Ismail had
Speaker 1: him beating a rocket can run, I could run, and
Speaker 1: he had and he not only caught up to him
Speaker 1: on a deep ball, just jumped him, caught it, you know,
Speaker 1: just g O mb got him and then showed the
Speaker 1: ball and came back with it. It was a very
Speaker 1: similar type of play just Dion Raiders nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: same type of play. I'm just happy Richard Sherman let
Speaker 1: me off the hook because I don't like to. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk out of my butt and and
Speaker 1: exaggerate and say things that aren't true. But if one
Speaker 1: of the best corners in modern NFL history says you're
Speaker 1: dpo y, Okay, let's go now, I don't feel stupid
Speaker 1: saying it. Then if Richard Sherman thinks it and I
Speaker 1: and I did the same thing in my column. I mean,
Speaker 1: because I think Deon Senters is the greatest football player
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have had. Maybe not Larry Allen, but I mean,
Speaker 1: right up there, greatest athlete you know, in NFL history,
Speaker 1: maybe in sports history. Unbelievable, but um, he's do I mean,
Speaker 1: Diggs is playing at that level. He's we haven't seen
Speaker 1: anybody do it what he's done, you know. And I
Speaker 1: looked this up. Dion has his seven interceptions mostly ever
Speaker 1: had in a season he had six when he won
Speaker 1: DPO Why sorry, yeah, keep going. Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: He had six Now he did have three hundred and
Speaker 1: three return yards. He was taken to the house. But
Speaker 1: it's this is this is like that, and something's got
Speaker 1: to give. I said this on the radio if you
Speaker 1: might have heard that a great corner does one of
Speaker 1: two things. They locked down the number one receiver and
Speaker 1: shut him down, or they just go get the ball
Speaker 1: get interceptions. But when you're doing both, that's that's insane.
Speaker 1: It's wild man, and and he it's funny like they
Speaker 1: they were they were throwing at him. He had a
Speaker 1: couple chances at it, and that it was. It was
Speaker 1: fantastic watching the crowd at the stadium like every because
Speaker 1: Diggs made two or three plays on the ball before
Speaker 1: the pick and you can just hear the crowd go
Speaker 1: like just everybody can tell it is like that seven
Speaker 1: he's doing it again. It's so funny. My dad, he's
Speaker 1: he listens all the time. He texts me throughout the game.
Speaker 1: A little bit too much, but he'll he'll text me,
Speaker 1: you know, and he'll be like, this defense is so
Speaker 1: fun to watch. And they used to be so scary
Speaker 1: to watch. It was frightening toil, like watch the defense,
Speaker 1: and now you're just like, oh, you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of exciting. It's like, we gotta get back and see
Speaker 1: if Diggs gets another pick. Yeah. I've never felt that
Speaker 1: way the whole time I've covered this team. They didn't
Speaker 1: haven't playmakers like that, not even not even like when
Speaker 1: the defense was solid, like in sixteen or eighteen, where
Speaker 1: you like, all right, let's see what they got on
Speaker 1: deck today. Usually you had a great pass rusher in
Speaker 1: those days when you would get two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: you know, those years, whenever they had a good team,
Speaker 1: they typically have a good pass rusher. Yeah. I've never
Speaker 1: in the time I've been here, had watched him have
Speaker 1: a really great, great secondary guy. You know, you know
Speaker 1: who we can think for this, Calvin Ridley, Amari Cooper.
Speaker 1: I don't know who the receivers are. All the ones
Speaker 1: right now, all the ones that Diggs weren't better, you
Speaker 1: know then Judy or jud Ree Rugs. Yeah, yeah, all
Speaker 1: those guys that win the first round. Trayvon, have you
Speaker 1: thought about playing corner because we got a lot of
Speaker 1: first round picks at receiver. Come on, I mean, and
Speaker 1: I think I said it here not too long ago.
Speaker 1: I'm like, he has those kind of skills that you
Speaker 1: could see if you didn't have all these star receivers
Speaker 1: on this side, you could see where we may have
Speaker 1: to run a couple of plays for him, you know,
Speaker 1: because he's got that kind of ball skills. Yea, I
Speaker 1: will laugh to myself, and I'm not I'm not throwing,
Speaker 1: not trying to throtete at Jordan, but I was laughing
Speaker 1: thinking about how fun this offense is. I was like,
Speaker 1: we're not that many years removed from when they just
Speaker 1: had a cornerback go out there and run the jet
Speaker 1: sweep instead of all these different playmakers. Yeah, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be down to see Trayvon do it, though I want
Speaker 1: to see it at least it wants just to see,
Speaker 1: you know. What's kind of weird about it? And this
Speaker 1: this could be a he could be baiting everybody. But
Speaker 1: he walks around like he's fifty two years old. He
Speaker 1: does he might be hurting or whatever. He's gone, you know,
Speaker 1: you tell he's got something wrong with them. But I
Speaker 1: think it might be a game. The whole game. I
Speaker 1: was like, Traylon doesn't look like he's right. Oh, he's
Speaker 1: just almost intercepted another. Oh he got that one, Like
Speaker 1: he's just I don't know, you're you're right. It's kind
Speaker 1: of the Jim Brown thing. They say Jim Brown used
Speaker 1: to always do that where you know, after every run
Speaker 1: it took him twenty minutes to get off the ground
Speaker 1: and kind of make his way back to the huddle.
Speaker 1: And did he breaks you for six times? Like it's
Speaker 1: just like that's good. That was his game, that was
Speaker 1: how he did it. Whatever works. Yeah, but let me
Speaker 1: ask you this, Jim Brown. I'm kidding. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: But but the point is when you said, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: there are some people out there there right now like
Speaker 1: Jim Brown is that did he play for the Cowboys?
Speaker 1: I'm not true. I hope not. Um. How do they
Speaker 1: use Trayvon Diggzo yesterday? Were they was he? Was he
Speaker 1: traveling with Galladay? Yeah? He was? And that's it why
Speaker 1: Galladay didn't he didn't do anything. Yeah, that's what's you know,
Speaker 1: do you say it all the time, Well, well they're
Speaker 1: not they're not gonna keep throwing at him. Well, if
Speaker 1: if you want your best receiver to be a factor
Speaker 1: in the game, you know you need to Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's this is this is unprecedented. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: and seeing this that and even I'm I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: say his name anymore. I'm done talking about him. But
Speaker 1: some of the other great cornerbacks they don't always travel
Speaker 1: like this either, So we have to talk about him
Speaker 1: at least a little bit. Because Zeke did a high
Speaker 1: step into the end zone too. So it's just just
Speaker 1: a Dion kind of vibe going on. A lot of
Speaker 1: weird things happened yesterday, you know, and one of them
Speaker 1: being Zeke falling on the pylon that I don't even
Speaker 1: know why is even there? Yeah, why do you need
Speaker 1: that there? You know where the first down is, Like,
Speaker 1: why do you need another pylon that has that one harder?
Speaker 1: It must have something in it. I think we're why
Speaker 1: we're so in the weeds. I know, I don't know
Speaker 1: where we got here. I think they put that there
Speaker 1: so that you have the camera in the pylon to
Speaker 1: see if the ball gets over the line. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I mean, I love that idea. I'm well,
Speaker 1: it's a good idea. Why don't put a laser on it?
Speaker 1: How about that? We talked about this after the Eagles fiasco, Like,
Speaker 1: I just why do why do out of shape guys
Speaker 1: with chains decide? I mean, it just doesn't make sense,
Speaker 1: none of it does. It makes no sense at all. Okay,
Speaker 1: I did have one of the questions you guys, if
Speaker 1: you remember on Friday, I ask you, guys over under
Speaker 1: nine and a half interceptions for Trey Von for this season?
Speaker 1: I want to change your spent over you ready to
Speaker 1: change your opinion? He only needs what four more? In
Speaker 1: uh intent? With eleven games? I mean, you know there's
Speaker 1: gonna be there's gonna be a little bit of a
Speaker 1: you know, is slow down? Is there? I've been, like
Speaker 1: I said, I'm just trying to play the numbers. I've
Speaker 1: been banking on it to stop for three weeks. At
Speaker 1: how many does Anthony Brown half? Which is that's the
Speaker 1: most he's had in a season in his entire career
Speaker 1: and Dick has he did it twice? Yeah? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: bet he closes the gap on him a little bit, though,
Speaker 1: I really do. I think he will just be just
Speaker 1: the way this thing's gonna play out. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna start getting a little bit more. He's the Larry
Speaker 1: Brown to Dion. You know that you're gonna been fit
Speaker 1: from some of these. He's super Bowl MVP. I love it.
Speaker 1: Oh cool? I would. I would just just bury me,
Speaker 1: just I would. I'll die with a smile on my
Speaker 1: face if Anthony Brown super Bowl yesterday. Like, come on, guys,
Speaker 1: like he is perfectly solid. I love the way you
Speaker 1: put it. He's perfectly solid. That's what he is. He's right,
Speaker 1: he is. He is like an average Yeah, okay, because
Speaker 1: somebody tweeted at me, tell me again why you said
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown is solid and said, because he is. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what he is. He is. You know, he's he's
Speaker 1: publican to me number one now because Jalen's gone now
Speaker 1: and he's growing touchdowns. Yeah, no, for sure, but he
Speaker 1: get you know, he gave up the desperation third down
Speaker 1: to uh was that that was probably that was Tony's
Speaker 1: like first catch right, a thirty eight yard er. I
Speaker 1: mean it was that. No play has that play reminded
Speaker 1: me so much of Madden. Just some towerp kid rolls
Speaker 1: out on third down and kind of just extends the
Speaker 1: play and throws it up, and you're just like that,
Speaker 1: this is what we're doing. It's not even real football.
Speaker 1: That's what that reminded me of. And you're I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose some of those. And Anthony Brown is
Speaker 1: he's just like, he's just at the average mark. He's
Speaker 1: he's a fine NFL starter and people want to kill
Speaker 1: him for that. That's okay. And the way the NFL is,
Speaker 1: you're just not You're not gonna have a Treyvon digs
Speaker 1: at every position. And I just I think it's funny
Speaker 1: that people hate him so much for being decent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody asked me on Twitter, when when when Joseph comes back,
Speaker 1: whose spot does he take? I was like, Sean, right, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not going to write off the possibility
Speaker 1: that he starts getting reps and yeah he needs to, sure,
Speaker 1: but he needs There's no reason. There's nothing I've seen
Speaker 1: so far going through training camp that suggests to me
Speaker 1: that he's better than Anthony Brown right now, So why
Speaker 1: mess with that? Because I'm telling you in two weeks
Speaker 1: and you got you got New England. Yeah, you get
Speaker 1: through this, there's gonna it's gonna be a game. You know.
Speaker 1: It's that they got the best coach ever over there,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be it's gonna be a game, and
Speaker 1: I'm just guessing the way will be crappy. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it probably will be. And then you know, get
Speaker 1: a buy a weekend you got in Minnesota, which they've
Speaker 1: got you know, they've got receivers, They've got one that's great.
Speaker 1: And then Adam Deland's not bad either. So I'm just
Speaker 1: saying they'll be tested, you know. Going back to my
Speaker 1: point from the top of the show, I just like,
Speaker 1: do we how deep into this do we need to get?
Speaker 1: Like I just that's what you were saying. You're saying
Speaker 1: like when you were trying to prepare it last night,
Speaker 1: you were like this, these games sucked to prepare it
Speaker 1: because it's like, okay, well he was good. He was right,
Speaker 1: Just like, just get out of the way, giants. Nobody
Speaker 1: cares about you. You're bad. We knew you were bad.
Speaker 1: We knew this wouldn't be a game. It wasn't it.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Cowboys slopped around and tried to make
Speaker 1: it interesting. And I don't know if that's is that
Speaker 1: a trap thing? Like is that what fans are worried about?
Speaker 1: Like were they not focused or and and dat kind
Speaker 1: of talked about that. He was like you know, maybe
Speaker 1: the injury was linging in the lingering in the back
Speaker 1: of my mind. Maybe it took some time for me
Speaker 1: to get past that um but for them to for
Speaker 1: them to look as sloppy as they did. Mary Cooper said,
Speaker 1: I love when were you gonna? Are you gonna bring
Speaker 1: that up? Absolutely love the school. Let's tell you what,
Speaker 1: Let's take take our break, we'll come back. I want
Speaker 1: you to tell everybody a little bit about that because
Speaker 1: you interviewed him and the quote you put on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love. I didn't tweet a better one, honestly. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can tell us amazing he tell us that, and
Speaker 1: we'll do that when we came right back. This is
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Speaker 1: of the break Life from the s WBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 1: at the Star. We're talking about the Cowboys win forty
Speaker 1: four twenty over the New York Giants. They are now
Speaker 1: at four and one and two and o in the division.
Speaker 1: Right before the break, we were talking a little bit
Speaker 1: about Amari Cooper, and he had some interesting things to
Speaker 1: say last night after the game. I think our producer
Speaker 1: Chris Beam has some of that. Let's listen to that.
Speaker 1: What do you have to say? It's not about the
Speaker 1: opponent we're playing, It's it's it's it's about like our standard.
Speaker 1: It's about like us being the best we could possibly be. UM,
Speaker 1: because you know, our mind our mindset is on a championship. UM,
Speaker 1: to be a championship you won between Like as an offense,
Speaker 1: our goal should be to score every drive. When we
Speaker 1: score every drive, how can you lose? You know? And
Speaker 1: so when we fall short of that, UM, that's when
Speaker 1: I kind of get like worried a little bit because
Speaker 1: you know, when you're on a role like this, it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: you start thinking about a super Bowl, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. That's that's just the reality of it. And UM,
Speaker 1: you start to want it more and more and more
Speaker 1: and more the closer you get, you know, and you
Speaker 1: should start to worry about the little things more like, um,
Speaker 1: if we get stopped this drive, think what if that
Speaker 1: happens you know later and see that That's just how
Speaker 1: I'll be looking at it. But we just gotta we
Speaker 1: just gotta play a little bit cleaner. And I think
Speaker 1: we could. That's the only reason I'm talking abou this,
Speaker 1: because I really think we could. I'm laughing because not
Speaker 1: because of what he said, because I know exactly what happened,
Speaker 1: because I've been down there. I know exactly that the
Speaker 1: bus drove away halfway through that oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's that's the bus. It's sitting there. They got
Speaker 1: to get the little air conditioner on and all that,
Speaker 1: and then the bus finally drives away, and you're thinking, God,
Speaker 1: Whishamari would have started a few minutes later. But okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just derailing that point. That's I love that he
Speaker 1: said it, though. So when you hear the phrase super Bowl,
Speaker 1: that's when everybody's eyebrows perk up. Obviously, But the and
Speaker 1: I tweeted about this, what really stood out to me,
Speaker 1: like Amari was I felt like he was just dying
Speaker 1: to get that off of his chest, like maybe I
Speaker 1: hadn't been doing a good enough job getting to the
Speaker 1: question he wanted to answer, because I even I tried
Speaker 1: to be nice to him. I was like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: y'all weren't very good in the first half, But does
Speaker 1: it say something encouraging that you played that poorly and
Speaker 1: still we're able to And like I didn't finish my point.
Speaker 1: He was like, Nope, that's no, that's not good. I
Speaker 1: know that we're not taking positives from playing like crap
Speaker 1: for a half. That's basically what he said. And he said,
Speaker 1: it's all about perfection. That's the goal. We've got to
Speaker 1: be clear, and like he just he wasn't having it,
Speaker 1: and like he I mean, he said it himself. He's like,
Speaker 1: that's what's on my mind, and how can you not
Speaker 1: think about that when the team is playing this way?
Speaker 1: And like I said, like he just he was on
Speaker 1: a mission to get that point across. I felt like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember asking you guys last week about that, and
Speaker 1: what gives you confidence or not that this team is
Speaker 1: the type that won't like read their press clippings and
Speaker 1: get too satisfied with everybody talking about them. Those are
Speaker 1: the kinds of things and you talk about leadership like
Speaker 1: those are kind of things that if your leaders are
Speaker 1: thinking about and saying and doing, then you expect the
Speaker 1: team's going to be listening that and that's how they're
Speaker 1: also going to respond it's not good enough to win
Speaker 1: forty four to twenty when you had moments that just
Speaker 1: weren't very good. I'll tell you this, Nick, we might
Speaker 1: we might have to fight or something. Man, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like that's it's fun getting to do that, especially when
Speaker 1: they're playing this way. So I got to if behind
Speaker 1: the behind the curtain a little bit, the way this
Speaker 1: works in the post COVID age, We don't you know,
Speaker 1: we used to just flood into the locker room and
Speaker 1: talk to whoever we want to. Obviously that's a no
Speaker 1: no right now. So the heavy hitters are made available
Speaker 1: on the big podium, Uh, Mike McCarthy, Dak Prescott, Trayvon
Speaker 1: Diggs right now, I would assume if well, not even him,
Speaker 1: Like it's really like the big of the big. Those
Speaker 1: guys get to Michael was on yesterday. I thought seven
Speaker 1: different ones, big big podium got the big of the big.
Speaker 1: Then there's an ancillary room, Yeah, where you go sit
Speaker 1: down at a table and it's you know, Mike, whoever
Speaker 1: had a night's game, and then everybody else. Uh, just
Speaker 1: it's been Nick for the Better for a year. It
Speaker 1: was me last night, but just literally everyone else that
Speaker 1: the press might want to talk to they put in
Speaker 1: a request, uh, PR, bring those guys to me. I
Speaker 1: put my phone in their face for three to five
Speaker 1: minutes and blah blah blah. So I talked to like
Speaker 1: ten guys in the span of about fifteen minutes last night.
Speaker 1: And when they're playing this way, yeah, it's fun, man.
Speaker 1: And I just came away with the impression. Especially Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper is a great example. You heard what he had
Speaker 1: to say. I don't have to say anything else, but
Speaker 1: even like and this one really registered with me. Zach Martin,
Speaker 1: he's a good quote. But he's not like like he's
Speaker 1: not going to say something like that. He's too smart,
Speaker 1: he knows better. But the like the look in his
Speaker 1: eye just about the way this team is playing, you
Speaker 1: can tell. And I even asked him. I was like,
Speaker 1: you've been around for a minute. You've been on some
Speaker 1: good teams, Like you've been on some teams that were
Speaker 1: capable of runs like this feel kind of familiar. And
Speaker 1: he's just like kind of smirking at me. Basically, I
Speaker 1: was like, you're not going to say it, but I
Speaker 1: know you. I know you can feel it, and like
Speaker 1: the I mean, the energy is contagious with this team
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, well we might have to fight about
Speaker 1: it because Derek was Derek was up in the press
Speaker 1: box with me yesterday, and uh, I can't say what
Speaker 1: Nick said, like he didn't really like it, though he
Speaker 1: didn't he wasn't happening. I didn't like. This is my
Speaker 1: twenty third season and I've never I've never, like not
Speaker 1: gone down to the field and to the locker room.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it at all. Well, in a in
Speaker 1: a non COVID time, like it can be like ten
Speaker 1: minutes left and Nick starts kind of poking, like hey man,
Speaker 1: because like Nick, it's like Nick and Brian used to
Speaker 1: be in a competition, Like Brian wanted to go down
Speaker 1: when the fourth quarter started, like he wants to be down.
Speaker 1: Like it's like, I mean, it's like a drug. Well,
Speaker 1: it's also to this, like many fear of the crappy elevator.
Speaker 1: You know, this is which is the one reason why
Speaker 1: Washington's got one thing going for that stadium is the
Speaker 1: fact that you don't need an elevator because you have
Speaker 1: to walk him out and a half. But but at
Speaker 1: least you don't have to worry about your control of
Speaker 1: your own destiny, right, But I know exactly what you're
Speaker 1: talking about though, and and yes, it's it's fun. It's
Speaker 1: fun to go do that talk to the guys that
Speaker 1: you know, especially because what you told me, they're all like,
Speaker 1: they're all just coming bunches. Do you think turnovers coming bunches?
Speaker 1: About interviewing players after a game like that about four
Speaker 1: or standing there? But if you win, they're probably like cool, No,
Speaker 1: Like that's the funny thing is so again, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody cares too much about the mechanics
Speaker 1: of how this works, but like you know, you try
Speaker 1: to have a conversation with a guy and have rapport
Speaker 1: and kind of build a relationship all the type. So
Speaker 1: I'm having a nice chat with Malik Turner, probably a
Speaker 1: four minute interview, which is not cookery, I said, Malik,
Speaker 1: I said, I was about the Lee Cooker. I'm sorry. No,
Speaker 1: So me and MALIEK. Cooker having a nice little chat,
Speaker 1: not a long interview by any stretch. And I look
Speaker 1: over and like Anthony Brown, Tony Pollard, uh, Carlos Watkins,
Speaker 1: like there's just a line of guys that PR's got
Speaker 1: waiting to talk talk to. Helmet. I want to talk
Speaker 1: to Helmet, and I'm like, first of all, I'm like,
Speaker 1: holy crap, all right, I gotta wrap this thing up.
Speaker 1: These guys are gonna be pissed. And number two, I'm like, Wow,
Speaker 1: the fact that they're even waiting around is the sign
Speaker 1: of how well the team's Like. Anthony Brown, He's He's
Speaker 1: not a jerk by any stretch. He's always been nice.
Speaker 1: He's always been a pro. But he knows what people
Speaker 1: say about him. He like he knows, and so he
Speaker 1: I even remember going way back if he got most
Speaker 1: during OTAs by CD and it like it wasn't a
Speaker 1: catch in a game situation, and he was like he
Speaker 1: was so salty because it went like mega viral. He
Speaker 1: was like, it wentn't a catch y'all just picking on
Speaker 1: me because because because on me again. So my point
Speaker 1: is just like again, he knows he's not everybody's favorite player.
Speaker 1: But after that get he was dying to talk to me.
Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, this is what I saw. Damn right,
Speaker 1: I saw that throw coming from a mile away. They
Speaker 1: tried it too on me two other times yesterday and
Speaker 1: I finally got him. I was like, damn, Like everybody
Speaker 1: on this team is in an amazing mood. This is incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I guarantee Tyrann Smith wouldn't have waited like that.
Speaker 1: I dude know that Tyrant, well he might not have waited.
Speaker 1: But Tyron Smith stopped by to mess with Tyler Beatish
Speaker 1: while I was interviewing him. So well, you know, let's
Speaker 1: take our final breaking when we come back. I do
Speaker 1: want to talk about Tither, be honest, because he had
Speaker 1: some moments yesterday with a little bit shaky as well,
Speaker 1: and I think that's something worth discussing. Will do when
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Speaker 1: in SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, we were talking
Speaker 1: about some different storylines from the game. If you guys
Speaker 1: remember last week, one of the questions I ask you
Speaker 1: Friday was how did Dallas's how would Dallas's offensive line?
Speaker 1: And specifically I was talking about guys like Tyler, Biottish,
Speaker 1: Terren Still some of the younger guys handled the size
Speaker 1: and power of the New York Giant defensive front. They
Speaker 1: did give up two sacks yesterday, and they gave up
Speaker 1: five quarterback hits. Let's zero zero in a little bit
Speaker 1: and tell me how, first of all, you thought Tyler
Speaker 1: Biottish played in that under those circumstances. You know, they're
Speaker 1: obviously running the ball pretty well, and so I don't
Speaker 1: know a lot of that comes from him, and they
Speaker 1: make checks they were running the ball. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's doing He's part of that. He's doing
Speaker 1: a nice job in there. But those shotgun snaps are
Speaker 1: an issue. They were an issue last year when he
Speaker 1: was a rookie. I know they were an issue for
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton and there I think they're becoming an issue
Speaker 1: with Dak as well. The ball is all over the
Speaker 1: place and the one he dropped was not on beash.
Speaker 1: It wasn't. But trust me, when you're thinking about where
Speaker 1: the snap is going to be, that you're always thinking that,
Speaker 1: you know, and so um it's probably in his head
Speaker 1: a little bit. Man. Those those snaps are not are
Speaker 1: not great at all, and that's that's one thing that
Speaker 1: needs to be cleaned up for sure. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: said that, because I did think it was ironic. The
Speaker 1: one that led the one that led to a fumble
Speaker 1: looked fine to me. Yeah, I mean it looked more
Speaker 1: like Dak was a step ahead of the action there,
Speaker 1: but there was one that he had to reach up for.
Speaker 1: There was another one that was off inside. I talked
Speaker 1: to Tyler about it. He wasn't super eager to chat
Speaker 1: about it. Just kind of next play mentality, good or bad.
Speaker 1: You guys just gotta keep rolling. I was like, cool,
Speaker 1: I mean it didn't it didn't kill you, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, in in a close game against a better team,
Speaker 1: that's just not stuff that can happen. I feel like
Speaker 1: this is the version of the um like clock management
Speaker 1: type thing where it's like, you know, because the last
Speaker 1: few weeks it's like it's been something it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't kill you, but down the road, yeah, and
Speaker 1: this is kind of that that down the road and
Speaker 1: you know, and I feel like I can't say that
Speaker 1: even more so because I've never been comfortable with this
Speaker 1: position since last year. I just didn't like the way
Speaker 1: they approached it. There's no recourse to it too, you know,
Speaker 1: anybody else you're like, well, put in who put in
Speaker 1: Connor Williams. I mean that ball will be all over
Speaker 1: the place. Yeah, so for who for what is really what?
Speaker 1: You can't do anything? Yeah, you know, I just wonder.
Speaker 1: I wonder how well Connor govern's practicing. That they've been
Speaker 1: open about the fact that that's something that's happening. He's
Speaker 1: getting reps in practice. I'd like to see that. I
Speaker 1: think if he was practicing, and I think I would
Speaker 1: like to see that. It's it doesn't matter at this
Speaker 1: point because we're I mean, we're into the season. We're
Speaker 1: going they didn't do it, but like, why why didn't
Speaker 1: they do that earlier? What Connor mcgovernment played center in
Speaker 1: college for a whole year, like a whole season of
Speaker 1: his career was spent at center. But at this point
Speaker 1: the role that they have for him is kind of
Speaker 1: a nice role. Sure, and they use him quite a
Speaker 1: bit as that extra and offensive lineman, that that sixth
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, that full back. Like, I think he has
Speaker 1: a really nice role. Yeah, with with what Kellen's doing,
Speaker 1: absolutely I can't wait for that. I just mean, and
Speaker 1: to be fair, I have heard Connor Williams pushed for
Speaker 1: that like he wanted it, what diversifying his portfolio for
Speaker 1: when his contracts up, whatever, But he wanted that experience,
Speaker 1: he wanted those reps. So I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: him no, probably, but I just they should have done
Speaker 1: more or than getting to training camp and being like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't we don't have another center. That's probably not good. Look,
Speaker 1: that's just that's awful, Like and I hate you know
Speaker 1: you're talking about Yeoman's patting himself on the back like
Speaker 1: you and me have been saying this since April at least.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't I don't think Tyler's terrible.
Speaker 1: I think that needs to get cleaned up for sure.
Speaker 1: And I'll steal a point from my buddy Duke manny
Speaker 1: Weather with O Line Masterminds. He works with Lane Johnson.
Speaker 1: They do a bunch of amazing stuff. They've worked with
Speaker 1: a lot of these, He's worked with all of them.
Speaker 1: I mean he's worked with I mean he does his
Speaker 1: camp right here like ten ten minutes. I mean not
Speaker 1: ten minutes, well like about a ten minute walk yeah
Speaker 1: where we where we office, like, but so he here
Speaker 1: on campus. He's worked with Tyler, and he one thing
Speaker 1: he said, is like he just needs to get more
Speaker 1: confident with his offhand and his reaction time and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And I just wonder if he's still working
Speaker 1: on that. I gotta imagine I have to imagine he's
Speaker 1: compensating for the fact that, like, I don't feel one
Speaker 1: hundred percent confident that I can get to Leonard Williams
Speaker 1: in time. And if you're worried about that, then it's
Speaker 1: you're probably you know, you don't want to be thinking
Speaker 1: about the snap, right And I bet that he is
Speaker 1: because he's got two or three other things on his mind.
Speaker 1: Once he's like, once the ball snapped, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be hell so. And I just think that probably all
Speaker 1: ties together that coach is really good I mean, or
Speaker 1: whatever he is, Duke manny Weather, because I mean, you
Speaker 1: saw saw a huge difference in a lot of the players.
Speaker 1: I'm most notably Isaac a Com I mean the difference
Speaker 1: he worked with them all summer. I mean, the difference
Speaker 1: between him being a guy that they could put in
Speaker 1: a game now nothing Again. I'm also Let's offensive line
Speaker 1: coach Joe Philpsher really good at coach he did. He
Speaker 1: worked in Steel as well, by the way, which holy crap. Well,
Speaker 1: let's just let's talk about steal because the best thing
Speaker 1: you can say about any tackle in the NFL is
Speaker 1: that we're not talking about him. We're not talking about them.
Speaker 1: And you go back to last year and every single
Speaker 1: Monday morning on the rundown there was a segment where
Speaker 1: we talked about the tackle and still was a part
Speaker 1: of that. And it was because they were having so
Speaker 1: many mistakes throughout the course of those games that by
Speaker 1: the time we got to this year, most of us believed,
Speaker 1: why is he still here? What exactly is he gonna
Speaker 1: be able to do? And when Lyle was gonna be out,
Speaker 1: it was like, man, they don't really have great options here.
Speaker 1: This is not gonna be good. But he has played
Speaker 1: I think, really really good football, and I'm just more
Speaker 1: and more wondering, like, how could he factor into this?
Speaker 1: If you're like, how do you get your best five
Speaker 1: on the field? Him going back to the bench sound
Speaker 1: seems a little weird because he's playing so well, right, Yep,
Speaker 1: it does seem weird, But you know, I wonder if
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think Lyell will be better
Speaker 1: than that, I think, but you know, he's playing outstanding
Speaker 1: he's playing outstanding football right now. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: just I think it's just playing outstanding. Not because it's
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele. It's because I don't think he's given up
Speaker 1: any sacks, the penalties he's getting. It was a aggressive
Speaker 1: you know, it was one of them at at the
Speaker 1: only gets that mad. You know, they've been pushed around
Speaker 1: a lot. That guy didn't. He didn't get pushed around really,
Speaker 1: you know, So I like it. I mean, he's playing,
Speaker 1: he's got a little dog in them more than I thought.
Speaker 1: It's wild to me. And this is something I talk
Speaker 1: about all the time. Where what am I trying to say?
Speaker 1: Like people just assume the best and assume the worst
Speaker 1: in the offseason, you know, And it's bit the Cowboys before.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, all these safeties that you didn't give
Speaker 1: any money are just gonna be Pro Bowlers. That's not
Speaker 1: how the world works. Well that's how the world works
Speaker 1: right now. Oh you think Terrence Steele is just magically
Speaker 1: going to become this much better player because he played
Speaker 1: last season. I would never have guessed, but that, like
Speaker 1: all of these things that they were hoping would happen
Speaker 1: are happening and Terrence Steel is a big part of that,
Speaker 1: and kudos to them for fighting through it last year
Speaker 1: and giving him that time and developing this year as well,
Speaker 1: because I just I don't think there's many people outside
Speaker 1: of Terrence himself in the O line room who saw
Speaker 1: that coming. Well. I'll give some credit to Mike McCarthy too,
Speaker 1: because I was quick to give him a lot of
Speaker 1: flat last year for those players that were here that
Speaker 1: they didn't they weren't able to do anything with, and
Speaker 1: some of the young guys they weren't able to develop.
Speaker 1: They had a plan obviously for Terren Steele and they've
Speaker 1: made it happen and they've developed him. And credit to
Speaker 1: Terren Steele for doing the work, But I also have
Speaker 1: to give some credit to Mike McCarthy for believing in
Speaker 1: him and developing him, because that's what they did. They
Speaker 1: developed this young man. And you know, you can do that.
Speaker 1: And this sounds like Brian brought us talking about you
Speaker 1: can do that when you're in your first year, second year,
Speaker 1: you know, when you have the opportunity to like, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna develop some players here. We know
Speaker 1: treyvon Digg is gonna give up plays. But if we
Speaker 1: play him his rookie season and keep playing him, he'll
Speaker 1: get better. He'll better and next year he'll be probably
Speaker 1: a guy that we didn't care to deal. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what's going to happen, which and again, nobody steer Terren
Speaker 1: Steele will just compare to Anthony Minios probably, which is
Speaker 1: going all in. I do think why I didn't do
Speaker 1: any of the couch. They've been some good ones around here.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I have no idea why. Anthony
Speaker 1: Muno he was a good one though he was pretty
Speaker 1: a little really good. Willie Rof my guy. Terrence Steele's
Speaker 1: got a little Willie Rof his games from weight, but
Speaker 1: I mean Willi Roe. Willie Rolfe was a big dude. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just think it's and obviously nobody would do last
Speaker 1: season again if you had the choice. But that is
Speaker 1: a benefit of how awful it was is I think
Speaker 1: there was an element of like, well, if you're in hell,
Speaker 1: just keep going, you know, like we're just gonna keep
Speaker 1: playing Terrence Steele. We're gonna keep giving these guys playing
Speaker 1: time because it's gonna Treyvon Diggs, it's gonna pay off.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like it, but it's gonna pay off,
Speaker 1: and it's paying off right now. I think now, in hindsight,
Speaker 1: they should have done that with Beotish. Uh. And yeah,
Speaker 1: Looney's out of the league. You know, Looney's on the
Speaker 1: Legend Show Wednesday night here and I yeah, absolutely, And
Speaker 1: that's I know you. I know you can't tank. I
Speaker 1: know you can't do that, and these guys have professional pride,
Speaker 1: but I do think they let the They let the
Speaker 1: in a skull chance of winning the division color some
Speaker 1: of their decisions last year where I would have preferred
Speaker 1: they do other things like playing Tyler Rihanna Show over
Speaker 1: Joe Looney, Like, yeah, maybe maybe Joe gives you the
Speaker 1: best chance to win right now. And they do want
Speaker 1: to win games. But let's let's zoom out just a
Speaker 1: little bit and consider the long term as well. Would
Speaker 1: you would have had Patrick Schertan and not Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: which may not have been the worst thing, but it well,
Speaker 1: that's what makes the draft so fun. Let me throw
Speaker 1: this out there, and I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: that I believe this, but I want to get your
Speaker 1: opinions on it. How much do you think Dak makes
Speaker 1: Steal better because I do think that when you've got
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback the caliber of Dak, he raises the
Speaker 1: level of the offensive line all the way around because
Speaker 1: he's quick with getting the ball out, he knows what
Speaker 1: he's doing with it, and I think he can make
Speaker 1: your offensive line look better than they would otherwise. So
Speaker 1: how much of this that we've seen from still is
Speaker 1: a reflection of Dak still being there or is it
Speaker 1: just Steal is playing at a really really high level.
Speaker 1: Twenty five percent Dak seventy five percent steel Because in
Speaker 1: the Rams season opener, his first game, you know, he
Speaker 1: played okay, the last drive of the game gave up
Speaker 1: a huge sack, and the Browns game, which Dak was playing,
Speaker 1: gave up a sack too. That, Myles Garrett, a lot
Speaker 1: of people do that, but right, but I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, that changed the tide of that game as well.
Speaker 1: So Dak was here playing at a pretty high level before.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it has to do with Steal,
Speaker 1: But you're right. I mean, Dak sees it, knows what's
Speaker 1: what's coming, and that can help him he slide up.
Speaker 1: We don't even think like that sometimes just sliding in
Speaker 1: the pocket and throw. We never think that could have
Speaker 1: been a sack. But yeah, well, and yesterday in particular,
Speaker 1: think about how many plays Dak extended. It felt like
Speaker 1: he made. He must have made at least three throws
Speaker 1: where he had a guy draped around his legs, you know.
Speaker 1: And well he got hit five times and had two sacks.
Speaker 1: So he wasn't just clean yesterday. No, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: I'm the first one to say, like, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: that he was playing the Giants when he got hurt
Speaker 1: and all that, but like, just my heart was in
Speaker 1: my throat a couple of times yesterday where I was like,
Speaker 1: I just I don't like watching Dak scramble in the
Speaker 1: third quarter of a home game against the Giants. That
Speaker 1: way was not mentioned that I was just like, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't really like this, and I'm not really I mean,
Speaker 1: I am superstitious, I am when it comes to things
Speaker 1: like that, so enough to think about it. But I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of like, okay, just throw it over here,
Speaker 1: punt kick Phil Gould do whatever the one. Sorry, no,
Speaker 1: we might be talking about the same one. But he
Speaker 1: broke contain in the third I think there were like
Speaker 1: nine minutes to play or something like that, and he's
Speaker 1: coming around right tackle and it looked like he was
Speaker 1: gonna run and I'm just like, I don't like this.
Speaker 1: I don't like this. And he threw it too. It
Speaker 1: was the throw to Schultz, yeah, which maybe his best
Speaker 1: throw of the day. It was a great throw. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean I got three more for you.
Speaker 1: Number one the touchdown to CD. Well, he drupped it
Speaker 1: right in there. He did. Number two the touchdown to Cooper,
Speaker 1: which which the play before was it that was a
Speaker 1: key play And we said, we said, man, that's not
Speaker 1: it is best today. He's a little and then that
Speaker 1: that throw is like, well, then he does that and
Speaker 1: it's and it's past the Cedric Wilson thirty five yards
Speaker 1: down the left sideline. I forgot about me. That was
Speaker 1: he was. He was made some throws yesterday for sure.
Speaker 1: And honestly, that CD catch, I actually give CD a
Speaker 1: lot of credit for that because if you go back
Speaker 1: and watch it, CD kicked in another gear there that ball.
Speaker 1: I think that's the beauty of that that Dad has.
Speaker 1: Dak has a number overseas that that he can just
Speaker 1: throw it, just throw it. And they will figure out
Speaker 1: a way. Oh I just need to run under this. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have an extra gear, why I can get under this?
Speaker 1: And he just runs right. It was good to get
Speaker 1: him back in there, and one more game of not
Speaker 1: had a lot of stats. It would have been little
Speaker 1: what's gone? I just get you made from the fan
Speaker 1: and media standpoint, Yeah, which which that happens because people
Speaker 1: start talking and I don't. I don't know this about CD.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's true, but I like, I think
Speaker 1: there's an element of like just redeem the faith. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like it doesn't matter that you don't have stats.
Speaker 1: The offense is rolling, but like you get a belly
Speaker 1: rub in there and then he's exactly right. You redeem
Speaker 1: his faith that that it's gonna come, you know. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I have no evidence that CD would
Speaker 1: have been frustrated, but it's just nice to just not
Speaker 1: even have to worry about it. I think you even
Speaker 1: said that. One of you guys said that to me
Speaker 1: after the first play when they did the little bubble
Speaker 1: screen to him that I joked to Derek, I was like,
Speaker 1: we didn't forget about your buddy. Yeah, we just taken
Speaker 1: care of you. You know, we'll get you involved early
Speaker 1: this time and we'll see I'll go The exciting part
Speaker 1: is and this is not a disrespect to the guys
Speaker 1: that are out, but I just don't see. I can't
Speaker 1: just visualize Lyell playing way better than what we've seen
Speaker 1: with Terrence Steele. I can't visualize Gallop doing a ton
Speaker 1: more than what we've seen from Cedric Wilson. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a different type of player. I think I disagree
Speaker 1: with that. I'm I'm I think I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: what happens when Gallop comes back. I think there's an
Speaker 1: element missing with him, not part of this that well,
Speaker 1: it becomes bombs away, is what it saying. Yeah, which
Speaker 1: is sounds dumb because Coop and Lamb can obviously both
Speaker 1: do it. But we saw yes, but Gallop and Dak
Speaker 1: just have this thing. I don't see what Tank's gonna
Speaker 1: give that Basham's not given you. I'm joking on that one.
Speaker 1: You know, Honestly, if you start just going down the
Speaker 1: list of what they're missing with all the guys that
Speaker 1: are out, it is hard to make a list because
Speaker 1: they're not really suffering a lot now with with the
Speaker 1: guys that are out, they're not. Let's let's also talk
Speaker 1: about jabro Cox first moment, because moment that play was
Speaker 1: weird because the play he got in the game his
Speaker 1: goal line and so we know, hey, they're cutting Jalen
Speaker 1: for different reasons here, and one of them though, obviously,
Speaker 1: was to get Jabril Cox in the game, because there
Speaker 1: he is. We have seen that play before, three years
Speaker 1: ago from j Jalen when it was Kamara. We've seen
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, Ronnie, We've seen him run that way. We
Speaker 1: know he can't. He can't do that anymore. He did
Speaker 1: it then, Yeah, I can't. I don't think he can't. Really,
Speaker 1: I don't think he can make that play. But if
Speaker 1: you just go back and watch Jabril Cox as speed
Speaker 1: that he turns on right there, and you know it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate what happened with Daniel Jones. Um, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I love. One of my favorite things that I saw
Speaker 1: Jalun curse. That's a bad dude, now, I mean that.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm talking about I love the attitude. No,
Speaker 1: I love I love it too, Casey, I like it.
Speaker 1: I love it too. If I got to go into
Speaker 1: the dark Alley, I mean, I'm gonna asking if he
Speaker 1: can come with me, you know, um, can you hold
Speaker 1: my hand right right? But or can you just go
Speaker 1: for me because I just take care of it. Um,
Speaker 1: but he's he's he's a bad dude. And um when
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was looked like he was walking like it
Speaker 1: was two fifteen out of the bar, I mean it
Speaker 1: was kind of like Jon Curse was the one that
Speaker 1: he saw it went up to him. I mean he
Speaker 1: went to kind of help him and catch him. I
Speaker 1: love that part. I mean that's you know, that's what
Speaker 1: because when you're like, okay, football's done, it's there's the
Speaker 1: person the man everyone you know, every lot I've heard
Speaker 1: people in the building goes, I hope that guy's okay.
Speaker 1: You know, you can just see it. It wasn't. But
Speaker 1: but it was a great play by by jebro Cox,
Speaker 1: who got himself in a few other plays that well.
Speaker 1: He played four snaps. He didn't of defense did that.
Speaker 1: I was surprised too, but they had a plan for him.
Speaker 1: I actually I talked to him about that. I was like,
Speaker 1: why why goal line? Like why was that your thing?
Speaker 1: Why was that what they wanted to work on with you?
Speaker 1: And he's just like, I think, you know, my my
Speaker 1: size and my speed comes in handy in a situation
Speaker 1: like that, and because you're dealing with se Quon, you're
Speaker 1: dealing with it. Sure did? I mean? He and he
Speaker 1: was like, I knew they were going to test me.
Speaker 1: I knew that they see that a rookie's on the field.
Speaker 1: I knew they were gonna try to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean, it sucks that Daniel Jones got
Speaker 1: hurt on the play, but what an awesome effort. And
Speaker 1: then he told me he obviously caught the onside kick.
Speaker 1: He told me he thought he could have housed it.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I thought he kind of
Speaker 1: hesitated a bit. What he did it? You said that.
Speaker 1: You were like, you were like, why didn't he just
Speaker 1: go down? Well? He was like they were kind of
Speaker 1: slow coming up on me, and I think I could
Speaker 1: have scored, but I was like, and it is probably
Speaker 1: not worth it in this situation. That place would have
Speaker 1: gone crazy. Oh my god. Oh that. I was like.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, CD did that last year, right,
Speaker 1: Like are you aware of that? He was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. And I thought I had a chance, but
Speaker 1: who was our guy back against the Eagles, back Randa Williams. Yes,
Speaker 1: Randa Williams returned before a touchdown. And I guess, I
Speaker 1: so it's weird because I was the one that said
Speaker 1: it was like, they're not gonna throw Cox into the
Speaker 1: fire immediately and just give him all these snaps, and
Speaker 1: they didn't. But I was still even a little surprised
Speaker 1: that in nutcutting time goal line, they're like, yeah, get
Speaker 1: out there, buddy, this is what you're here for. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's cool for them to have that faith in him,
Speaker 1: and it's even cooler that he delivered. Well. Great part
Speaker 1: is that that just means like once again, they got
Speaker 1: a young player that they're going to keep developing and
Speaker 1: let's see what he is by next year. Like that's
Speaker 1: what I love about what they did this last year
Speaker 1: in the draft. They just threw a bunch of a
Speaker 1: bunch of pieces at the wall and they're finding that
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys might actually have something. Now
Speaker 1: it's too early to really know for sure, but you
Speaker 1: really are liking what you see him from this draft class.
Speaker 1: Too early, too early to know about who because I
Speaker 1: mean it ain't to know about Mica, Like they've been,
Speaker 1: and they've been. There have been a lot of years
Speaker 1: where you get a draft class and in the first
Speaker 1: two years you're like, I know, oh my gosh, Like
Speaker 1: if they do this every year, and then by year four,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, well, do we really want to
Speaker 1: keep this guy? And I don't think I gonna keep
Speaker 1: this guy. Don't think gonna keeps scoting in. It dwindles
Speaker 1: down before you know what, you don't having deals. Guys,
Speaker 1: you're they're not not. All six of these guys that
Speaker 1: are playing right now are gonna be Pro Bowlers. But
Speaker 1: I love what they're doing right now. They're off to
Speaker 1: an amazing start. All right, we appreciate you guys. Join us.
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