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Speaker 1: you're with us. Rob Phillips, isaiahs Dan Back, check my Harrison,
Speaker 1: Chris Beam, I'm Kyle Yeoman's. We're already in a good
Speaker 1: mood this morning. You know why why are we in
Speaker 1: a good mood? Ten to four because we get to
Speaker 1: talk to Cowboys Nation today. Give us a call. Eighty
Speaker 1: eight five five two two nine eight eight eight five
Speaker 1: five two two nine seven. How's everybody doing today? Peach peache? Good?
Speaker 1: Except who's deaf on our team that sits here all
Speaker 1: the way up? Yeah? Yes, I know? Yeah? Hearing aid
Speaker 1: for Christmas? So every since Monday last year. Yeah, seriously,
Speaker 1: who's the last show Monday on? Or Chris? Do we
Speaker 1: know Kreamer last night? That would be Shannon gross makes sense?
Speaker 1: Well he is like sixty five yeah at least right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fair. He's getting up there. The Cowboys hour was
Speaker 1: virtual last night. Oh okay, so they did it in here.
Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense. Well, good, So Shannon
Speaker 1: needs hearing aids. We now know that as a part
Speaker 1: of talking Cowboys to start things off. But everybody else
Speaker 1: is good. Isaiah, I'm fan Tabby looso thing one thing too.
Speaker 1: You like that worst worst thing too. She's at the house. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's good, the house. That's fine. Take here to meeting.
Speaker 1: The meetings are home from you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Heck Man knows that. Yeah, you know that too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the meetings are home, so you gotta find what to
Speaker 1: do with them all day long. Just clean up grandma
Speaker 1: twenty minutes later, clean up cartoons. Huh, cartoons, cartoons, going
Speaker 1: to gym, workout train, grandma, go back upstairs, clean up
Speaker 1: do U by the way, isn't it though? It's every
Speaker 1: everything right? Dude? It's like, no, you don't understand, Kyle,
Speaker 1: I don't understand, and you're right crazy, man, I'm not
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. Yes you are, Yes, you are great.
Speaker 1: Don't don't get I don't want you yet. I'm good
Speaker 1: right now. Hold yet, I'm all right. Right now, I'm
Speaker 1: having fun. The oldest twenty three year old. I know
Speaker 1: twenty I'm twenty five. I'm twenty five. Make sure you
Speaker 1: get it right. Well, he was struggling, was all. I
Speaker 1: was twenty three when we met that. Yeah, because that
Speaker 1: was when I was. I can eat at the bar. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: You rent a car barely. I still haven't done that yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can barely rent a car. Everybody got their Christmas
Speaker 1: shopping done or no? No, not yet, no, Isaiah almost
Speaker 1: there almost almost Yeah, Okay, that's good. I got my
Speaker 1: done yesterday, and I just was mad at the world.
Speaker 1: Everybody was cutting you off in traffic. Everybody's just crazy
Speaker 1: right now. But you gotta you gotta go out with
Speaker 1: your mind already right when you it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: be chaotic. You're in, You're in the crowd. So come on, man,
Speaker 1: you get positive, face up, a game plan. You can't
Speaker 1: just go out just browsing. You have to know exactly
Speaker 1: what you're going to grab. And I had my game plan,
Speaker 1: but then my game plan got up ended because the
Speaker 1: game plan didn't have what I needed in certain stores
Speaker 1: did have a plan and I didn't have a plan.
Speaker 1: That was my problem. I see I couldn't get these
Speaker 1: off of Amazon. Amazon, you can't get these off Amazon?
Speaker 1: I know it was what are you kidding? I don't know?
Speaker 1: Is it an elephant? But raf, actually you could get
Speaker 1: that kid? You prime in elephant telling you he got
Speaker 1: the Harrison family a new puppy. Oh whoa Chris? What
Speaker 1: are you doing? You just giving that out on Christmas? Right? Chris? Wow?
Speaker 1: Can you guys have as listening to the show, I'm
Speaker 1: super excited. Do you guys have dogs? Yes? We got
Speaker 1: one one dollar? Yeah, we got we gotta what you
Speaker 1: got dog? Dog? One? Yeah? Huh, let's go. You got
Speaker 1: a cat? Right? No? I don't have anything right now?
Speaker 1: She got a fish. I don't even have a fish
Speaker 1: like cat. Somebody had a cat I was thinking about getting. No,
Speaker 1: Beamer doesn't have it. He has one cat and he
Speaker 1: has another cat that no one's ever seen. It's a
Speaker 1: mystery cat. It's a mystery. It's a mystery, mystery met
Speaker 1: He always says, bo I got another cat. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: you don't. I've been I've never seen this cat. The
Speaker 1: cat's name is Scouts, like a Scout sniper. You never
Speaker 1: exactly where some way did the kids want a new dog?
Speaker 1: Is that where the jokes? Let's kill this whole conversation.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious. My wife just picked up X one.
Speaker 1: You want one of bars? I do not. I don't
Speaker 1: have three dogs. Kid, kids, listen right now? Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's job. Let's not Cowboys. Yeah, let's news and the
Speaker 1: biggest dog we can find he lock in South African boorable?
Speaker 1: How about that? Can you get one of those two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five pounds master? Yeah? All right, News
Speaker 1: and notes, Dallas Cowboys, let's talk about it. Let's go
Speaker 1: what's going on with this team, the Dallas Cowboys. They
Speaker 1: are relatively healthy coming out of the Giants game. No uh,
Speaker 1: no injuries that they've officially reported coming out of this game.
Speaker 1: Covids a different story, although no players, no new player
Speaker 1: tests yesterday. Matt Daniels, the assistant Special team's coach assistant
Speaker 1: to John Fossil, tested positive yesterday, so he's on the
Speaker 1: reserve COVID list, and they are the league might be
Speaker 1: moving to this anyway this week in light of more
Speaker 1: and more cases yesterday throughout the league. But Cowboy's going
Speaker 1: virtual all week in terms of meetings and then practice,
Speaker 1: trying to get ahead of this or just treadwater and
Speaker 1: no more cases. Now. The HL National Hockey League went
Speaker 1: on a pause as of last night. They concluded their
Speaker 1: games last night and then they put a pause on
Speaker 1: things to just try and get everyone right, because it's
Speaker 1: not just the NFL going through this COVID spike right now.
Speaker 1: The NFL's going through it, NHL, NBA, pretty much every
Speaker 1: professional sports league at the moment that is playing is
Speaker 1: having some sort of issues with this. I don't I
Speaker 1: think I know the answer to this question already. But
Speaker 1: do you see the NFL ever even remotely entertaining that
Speaker 1: possibility down the road? Doesn't sound like it. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jerry was asked about it today, and they're trying to
Speaker 1: move forward with new protocols targeting, targeted testing not you know,
Speaker 1: and and they've they've even changed the you know, if
Speaker 1: you're vaccinated then and you don't show symptoms, you're not
Speaker 1: being tested is I think that's correct, right, and then uh,
Speaker 1: now you can get back sooner potentially if you're vaccinated
Speaker 1: one negative test twenty four hours, well instead of two
Speaker 1: twenty four hours apart one negative test, you can be
Speaker 1: back on the field. So they're trying to move forward.
Speaker 1: What does that say? Isaiah has got a great look
Speaker 1: on his face right now, what are you what are
Speaker 1: you thinking? I having zero comment in regards to that,
Speaker 1: because that makes zero sense, but I'm gonna leave it
Speaker 1: at that. Yeah, I think what I think one of
Speaker 1: their rationale behind it is I saw a report that
Speaker 1: Washington had like twenty five cases, twenty three showed no symptoms,
Speaker 1: and there's no evidence that this can be pas asked
Speaker 1: on the field to each other during games. And that's
Speaker 1: why they think, you know, it's it's it's endemic in
Speaker 1: society now it's you know, and so trying to live
Speaker 1: with it and trying to move forward, that's what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do. So basically, it's a it's a step
Speaker 1: forward away from the original line of thinking. That's why
Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily make a whole lot of sense, right
Speaker 1: because it's it's not the way you've always thought about
Speaker 1: COVID in sports. It's basically trying to move past that.
Speaker 1: It's it's a first step. I will see if other
Speaker 1: leagues follow it, you know. Um, I'm sure they're in
Speaker 1: communication with the NBA. NBA's having a ton of cases too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you could do one way. You could pause
Speaker 1: it and try to make a stop, or you can
Speaker 1: just kind of move forward. And that's what the NFL
Speaker 1: is going to do. And then in terms of injuries,
Speaker 1: you said no big injuries out of that. Do you
Speaker 1: think of anybody that can return? Akaa, Donovan Wilson, what's
Speaker 1: his what's his situation like at the moment, sounds like
Speaker 1: he's got a good chance to this week. Jerry was
Speaker 1: not ready to say Tyrant Smith would be back this week.
Speaker 1: You know, if it's close, then I would think they
Speaker 1: would try to give him another week. But he sounded optimists,
Speaker 1: very optimistic about his prospects the rest of the way
Speaker 1: as they move into the postseason, most likely three games left.
Speaker 1: Do you think he makes it back this week or
Speaker 1: do they save him for Week seventeen against Arizona. The
Speaker 1: way they're talking, you know, Mike said, it's too early
Speaker 1: to tell. It doesn't sound like they're super optimistic, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna give it the week and see how he's feeling.
Speaker 1: That's good, Okay, So he could potentially get on the
Speaker 1: practice field. Doesn't necessarily mean that he's gonna play though, right,
Speaker 1: not ruled out. Okay, Yeah, well there you go. So
Speaker 1: there's a news and notes update from Rob Phillips and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: We talked a lot yesterday about the offense and the
Speaker 1: look of zeke Im Pollard and Deak as a whole,
Speaker 1: but I want to before we start taking our fan
Speaker 1: calls today, I want to talk about the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Because Connor Williams jumps in starts at left guard, you
Speaker 1: have Tye Insecki rotating back and forth with Terren Steele
Speaker 1: at the left tackle spot. Do you feel better about
Speaker 1: the depth of this offensive line from what you saw
Speaker 1: yesterday as opposed to what you it seemed the previous
Speaker 1: four weeks? You know, I think it seems like it's
Speaker 1: ever changing. And when you talk about Tyren Smith and
Speaker 1: him coming back, obviously that's gonna be a bigger part
Speaker 1: of seeing who's gonna start at left tackle until he's
Speaker 1: back healthy, and I think they should take their time
Speaker 1: with that decision simply because, as you talked about going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, how we're gonna need our full litany
Speaker 1: of guys up front, and definitely need Tyren Smith for that.
Speaker 1: I felt better at left guard, honestly, and not that
Speaker 1: you know, the Connor bros. Are looked at one as
Speaker 1: the same, but I really felt like Connor Williams took
Speaker 1: the lead last week, and let's just see how he
Speaker 1: does versus Duran Payne. They've had their run ins with
Speaker 1: one another over the last couple of years, so it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see that matchup. I just felt
Speaker 1: like an offensive line, you know, you saw them getting
Speaker 1: after the defense pass protection. We still have some issues
Speaker 1: and those are the things that have to be corrected
Speaker 1: going back into the Washington football team week, but I
Speaker 1: felt a lot. I feel a lot better about where
Speaker 1: we are on the offensive line now. This previous game,
Speaker 1: I felt better. Obviously, Connor Williams came in and did
Speaker 1: a much better job than what had been there previously,
Speaker 1: regardless of what Connor Brow was in there. I do
Speaker 1: believe that this you know, is ready, this continuity, all right.
Speaker 1: I love it, this word that we keep using. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're kind of starting to shy away
Speaker 1: from the traditional form of what they considered to be
Speaker 1: continuity in terms of the same guys out there every week.
Speaker 1: I am starting to believe that these guys are approaching
Speaker 1: it as a matchup. It's just a personnel thing. What
Speaker 1: are we going to face this week? Who is better
Speaker 1: suited for this particular team that we're facing, you know,
Speaker 1: playing against the Giants. Okay, you had you had one
Speaker 1: guy that you really had to worry about, you know,
Speaker 1: on that left side. Now this week, who we got
Speaker 1: three guys they're probably got to worry about on our
Speaker 1: left side. So who's going to be best fit for
Speaker 1: to handle pass blocking instead of run blocking? Right? What's
Speaker 1: our game plan and what is the personnel that they
Speaker 1: present that can create some mismatches for us? And that's
Speaker 1: who we're gonna put out there. It give us ourselves
Speaker 1: an advantage. Yeah, it was a true rotation at left
Speaker 1: tackle in the last game. I want to say, thirty
Speaker 1: something snaps for Terrence Steele, twenty something snaps for Tian Secky,
Speaker 1: and I think it came down to pass protection. They
Speaker 1: felt like and Secki's experience could help in that area
Speaker 1: in the game, so it's very possible that if there's
Speaker 1: no Tyrn Smith, they go to both guys again, depending
Speaker 1: on the situation, depending on the matchup. You know, if
Speaker 1: they're more in pass mode, maybe you see more more
Speaker 1: Tian Secky in this game. Yeah, I think Connor Williams
Speaker 1: gave him some juice at left guard. I really do.
Speaker 1: There was more pulling, there was more movement in the
Speaker 1: run game, and I think that's where he excels. And
Speaker 1: the other thing is too that they really we didn't
Speaker 1: talk about this, and I didn't think about this during
Speaker 1: the week, but they felt like Connor McGovern has a
Speaker 1: role as a fullback in this offense that they really like,
Speaker 1: and that was another reason why they went to that switch,
Speaker 1: because they like him in that two back offense. I
Speaker 1: think it was a better fit for both of those
Speaker 1: guys in their respective roles. I mean, Connor Williams has
Speaker 1: been the left guard for quite some time. They gave
Speaker 1: McGovern an opportunity to win that job out right. But
Speaker 1: McGovern's been better than Connor Williams at the fullback spot
Speaker 1: as well. So I completely agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: it does completely even Aldan it makes a lot more
Speaker 1: sense to have those guys in their roles. But we've
Speaker 1: kind of mentioned this previously on the show about talking
Speaker 1: it's a contract year for Connor Williams. Did he make
Speaker 1: himself some money coming back and winning that job back
Speaker 1: that quickly? I mean, he came back and it was
Speaker 1: almost an immediate change. Is this making sure that he
Speaker 1: one either sticks around next year or two is able
Speaker 1: to at least ensure himself a starting job at some
Speaker 1: place in the NFL's so that, I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: a long way away. It's a long ways away. I
Speaker 1: think it really. I don't know what the college prospects
Speaker 1: are in terms of that position group right now, or
Speaker 1: where we may be seated at in terms of the
Speaker 1: draft and all that jazz. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: conversation that has to revolve around that. If there's a
Speaker 1: guy that they can take at that position and that's
Speaker 1: a dog, I'm pretty sure they would pull the trigger
Speaker 1: on that. I'm gonna go TBD on that man, because
Speaker 1: I think you still have so much the season left
Speaker 1: and the way that the beginning of the season started
Speaker 1: for him with the penalties, he still has some stuff
Speaker 1: to prove um. I think you know when they went
Speaker 1: away from McGovern and with Williams, I think you saw
Speaker 1: immediately when when they went that counter trade. You see
Speaker 1: his ability to move and maybe that's the difference between
Speaker 1: the two how they operate out in space. But either
Speaker 1: way it goes. I mean, I feel I don't want
Speaker 1: to use the word confident. I just I feel better
Speaker 1: with Connor Williams right now with after seeing the little
Speaker 1: small sample size that we got of McGovern and McGovern
Speaker 1: is so freaking good at the full back position, and
Speaker 1: a touchdown is coming, It's coming. They all want They
Speaker 1: drew that up. Kellen's you here, Kellen Moore yesterday, it's
Speaker 1: he wanted it for McGovern. He wanted that touchdown to
Speaker 1: go to him. But I mean, every game we're seeing,
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's with the jumbo package, the whole package,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, all of these offensive linemen are getting
Speaker 1: in on the act. And so we talked about the
Speaker 1: C word. I'm just gonna say that when you gotta
Speaker 1: take another shot this morning. But everybody knows that all
Speaker 1: of these guys, I think they fully anticipate being able
Speaker 1: to play and listening to Jerry Jones this morning, he
Speaker 1: talked about the flex position or being able to use
Speaker 1: guys offensively the offensive line at multiple positions, and that's
Speaker 1: the way that you see Tara Steel operate, McGovern operate
Speaker 1: and also Connor Williams. And I think that's the value
Speaker 1: that we have up front with certain guys. The C
Speaker 1: word is continuity, by the way, just Coty just want
Speaker 1: to throw that out there so that all of our
Speaker 1: family friendly audience. Now with this being said, you're mentioned
Speaker 1: the movement up front, you talk about the left guard
Speaker 1: spot and pulling and allowing the athleticism of Connor Williams
Speaker 1: to shine through. How much does that open up a
Speaker 1: playbook for Kellen Moore? Does that allow you to do
Speaker 1: different things? From a run game standpoint, we mentioned there
Speaker 1: needs to be an uptake and pass blocking in that
Speaker 1: past protection, but from a run game we saw that
Speaker 1: there was some considerable steps forward. Is that just based
Speaker 1: solely on the opening of the playbook with Connor Williams
Speaker 1: up run? I think it definitely helps. Isaiah is shaking
Speaker 1: his head, Yes, So I'm gonna go to Isaiah. But
Speaker 1: I think I just from the layman's perspective, I feel
Speaker 1: like everybody's been begging for them to attack the edges,
Speaker 1: you know all that. I think he's best suited to
Speaker 1: help them do that, and I think we saw more
Speaker 1: of that in the game. And it helps to have
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard in the game because that's where he excels
Speaker 1: the most. But I think that, yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: that varies their attack a little bit. Yeah, he allows
Speaker 1: for re to have movement. You know, I don't believe
Speaker 1: that this is a downhill team anymore, at least not
Speaker 1: where we're standing right now currently. So I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, the best, the most advantageous form of running
Speaker 1: for us is obviously trying to get to the edges,
Speaker 1: and when you have running back like TP that can
Speaker 1: come in and give me that change of pace he
Speaker 1: gets out to the edges, when you have guards like
Speaker 1: Connor Williams that can pull and get out there, and
Speaker 1: now he can kick out those defensive ends and work
Speaker 1: his way up inside to the next level of the
Speaker 1: linebackers seal off guys. It allows for you to have
Speaker 1: that movement that you may not have had without him
Speaker 1: in the lineup. I love what you were talking about
Speaker 1: the match up and probably using guys based off of
Speaker 1: where you are guys on the outside or what have you.
Speaker 1: When we know we talked about that Washington football team
Speaker 1: at length, and it was all about matching their tempo
Speaker 1: and their aggressiveness at the line of scrimmage. And you're
Speaker 1: finding that our guards are able to match that. There
Speaker 1: are teams that we go up against it a lot
Speaker 1: quicker on the outside, and so the Washington football team
Speaker 1: is one of them, and they will put pressure on
Speaker 1: you and not allow it. But with Zeke and what
Speaker 1: we saw last week with him just looking healthier, if
Speaker 1: we can play smash mouth football through the rest of
Speaker 1: this sea, maybe that's something identity wise, we could kind
Speaker 1: of take that mantle back up, and it's something that
Speaker 1: we use in the playoffs because we're gonna need the
Speaker 1: running game. No matter how you look at it, We're
Speaker 1: gonna need the running game. It would be amazing if
Speaker 1: we can line up and just go down here and
Speaker 1: get four yards. How long has it been since teams
Speaker 1: were afraid of you running the football? Probably years earlier
Speaker 1: this season, But Isaiah's that's a good point, like those
Speaker 1: early in Dak's career when you had Travis Frederick and
Speaker 1: you had what I'm saying that will smash. That's why
Speaker 1: I say a couple of years. Yeah, they you know,
Speaker 1: they put eight nine guys in the box. It didn't matter.
Speaker 1: Zeke's got seventeen hundred ruction yards, you know. And that's again,
Speaker 1: this line is somewhat in transition. They're young at the center,
Speaker 1: spot Tyler Beaches think has played better as the year
Speaker 1: has gone on, but they've had a change at left guard.
Speaker 1: Like they're trying, you know, they're still trying something, still
Speaker 1: trying to find the right mix. And they've had injuries too.
Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting. They've had one hundred and forty six,
Speaker 1: one twenty two, one twenty five on the ground the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. So I mean, as much as this
Speaker 1: run game has been knocked down and torn down, it
Speaker 1: still looks like they're able to produce a certain amount.
Speaker 1: Now a lot of that is garbage time and running
Speaker 1: out the clock. And I think it goes back to
Speaker 1: the reason why I say a couple of years is
Speaker 1: because of how dominant that offensive line was a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. Yeah, when when Frederick and you had
Speaker 1: Frederick and you had Martin Area, Yeah, you had all
Speaker 1: those guys that were it was straight. We're coming at you.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who you have, it doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: you do. We're gonna get four or five yards a
Speaker 1: pop coming down here. You don't have to get out
Speaker 1: to the edge now with this particular running scheme that
Speaker 1: we have now and obviously the personnel that we have upfront,
Speaker 1: your your two yards hopefully three yards, and then you're
Speaker 1: hoping for that change of pace, big play. Right now,
Speaker 1: you're hoping for that big play versus before, if it
Speaker 1: was if it was third and three, you didn't have
Speaker 1: third and four. Guess why we can run the ball
Speaker 1: right We don't have to air this thing out. We
Speaker 1: don't have to go in the gun five yards deep
Speaker 1: just to go you know, three yards for us. And
Speaker 1: now you're asking guys to go eight yards no lining
Speaker 1: up and we're coming down hill. And I mean, I've
Speaker 1: been saying running the ball, they got to do it.
Speaker 1: Running is great, but they got to get more explosive plays.
Speaker 1: They didn't have a single explosive pass play in the game.
Speaker 1: And so much of that for this offense comes off
Speaker 1: a play action though, Yeah, so much of that true.
Speaker 1: Right now, I went back all the way to the
Speaker 1: first games, all the big players I'm gonna say, oh,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the big plays came out of
Speaker 1: play action. How many how many play action tries did
Speaker 1: they have this game? Because I didn't feel like they
Speaker 1: utilize play action a ton. I think they did it,
Speaker 1: they tried, They did it a little bit more than
Speaker 1: they did in previous weeks, and I you know, I
Speaker 1: think they figured out that getting Dak out in space
Speaker 1: is better for him as far as the passing game.
Speaker 1: But those explosive plays regardless, Guys, I just feel as
Speaker 1: though if you can continue the death of a thousand
Speaker 1: cuts mentality with this running game, maybe that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's it's not pretty. Obviously, you want the big players,
Speaker 1: you want the splash plays, but if you're able to
Speaker 1: time of possession, ball control, all of those things, that's
Speaker 1: an easy formula in football to win games. And right now,
Speaker 1: all we want to do is clench this up and
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs and have home field and advantage.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm sure that's what every Cowboy fan wants.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would want that. That'd be on my
Speaker 1: Christmas list? You kidding me? Yeah, that'd be awesome. All right,
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Speaker 1: here for Talking Cowboys at a Talking Tuesday, which means
Speaker 1: we're gonna take some phone calls from Cowboys Nation. And
Speaker 1: first let's talk to one of our good friends, Bob
Speaker 1: in Nashville. Bob, how's it going. You're on Talking Cowboys, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: great show a column. The guy that you said sounds
Speaker 1: like Doug Nus. Yes, you do, you just like honestly
Speaker 1: in it. It messes with me every single time. Yeah, apologize,
Speaker 1: it's thirty years of coaching. I guess took a toll
Speaker 1: on my voice. But that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: But real quick, you know what, I'm not too concerned
Speaker 1: about our offense in the sense that I think that
Speaker 1: all we need to do is change up a couple
Speaker 1: of things. Continue to pound the run, the run, you know,
Speaker 1: keep the running game going. Dak's got to just take
Speaker 1: those little thinks and dunk. Somebody said it earlier, you know,
Speaker 1: the cut by a thousand, you know, you know, just
Speaker 1: get them a little bit here and there, keep moving
Speaker 1: the change first downs. I think that the big plays
Speaker 1: will come later on down the road as you keep running,
Speaker 1: maybe dinking and dunk into the tight ends, hit some
Speaker 1: short crossing routes. I think that's the recipe. It's been
Speaker 1: my experience, even though on a smaller scale, and when
Speaker 1: you get into the playoffs, it's more fundamentals taking care
Speaker 1: of the football and just imposing your will on a team.
Speaker 1: And I think we have the capability of passing, running,
Speaker 1: and if we take care of the ball, I think
Speaker 1: we're going to be very successful going down the stretch
Speaker 1: into the playoff. I just want to hear your guys
Speaker 1: thoughts about that. I'm I think the big plays will come.
Speaker 1: Thanks guy, appreciate you. Bob as always sound like a coach, boy,
Speaker 1: sounds like it's not like it's like Mike McCarthy, Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy yesterday. Last two days that we've talked to him,
Speaker 1: he's been talking about fundamentals because it's more scheme early
Speaker 1: on where there's unscouted stuff and then Isaiah knows about this.
Speaker 1: You got you gotta be able to because teams know
Speaker 1: more what you're gonna do. Um. But he likes the
Speaker 1: time of possession right now. He likes the turnover ratio.
Speaker 1: Obviously likes what you know, what the defense is doing,
Speaker 1: and that's more. I mean, that's really encouraging for the
Speaker 1: playoffs when your defense could play like this because it's
Speaker 1: forty point games don't happen as often when the weather
Speaker 1: gets colder and all that. As a good as a coach,
Speaker 1: he's got his head's got to be spinning with the
Speaker 1: way that his defense is playing right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: twelve takeaways in three games, and the question is can
Speaker 1: you continue that streak, And obviously you can't. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't expect for that to be the norm every week,
Speaker 1: but as the competition level goes up, meaning at the quarterback,
Speaker 1: you're starting to see the top of the food chain.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're able to steal, continue to generate
Speaker 1: those turnovers, especially in a winner takes all scenario. Those
Speaker 1: are gonna be big fundamentals. That word, right there is
Speaker 1: everything as your approach the playoffs, because you want to
Speaker 1: do what you're saying, keep the ball away. You can
Speaker 1: play the play a game and keep away, right. You
Speaker 1: want to keep the ball away from those from those
Speaker 1: quarterbacks because they're going to be the best that the
Speaker 1: league has. Right. That's just peering simple on those guys, aren't.
Speaker 1: You can't expect them to make the mistakes that other
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have made against your defense. So you're you're hoping
Speaker 1: that your defense can simply just you know, hold these guys,
Speaker 1: you know down to lower point totals. And you can't
Speaker 1: really expect them now if they go out there to
Speaker 1: show out and continue playing like they're playing freaking awesome, right,
Speaker 1: But that you can't realistically have that expectation of your
Speaker 1: defense when they're going to start playing against the Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers of the world and all these guys. So I
Speaker 1: hope they do. Guys take care of business on defense
Speaker 1: and offensively. Yes, we have to continue to get this
Speaker 1: ground game. And I don't want to hope that the
Speaker 1: big plays come. I want to make the big plays come. Right,
Speaker 1: and that comes in running the ball officially, and that's
Speaker 1: what this team has revolved around. I don't care how
Speaker 1: many guys we got a receiver. You have to run
Speaker 1: the ball in order for this offense to be successful.
Speaker 1: So I have a question for y'all because to that point,
Speaker 1: because like I mentioned, they'd want The longest pass play
Speaker 1: in the game against the Giants was nineteen yards and
Speaker 1: they played all that shell coverage and all that, and
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore talked yesterday, but you got to be patient
Speaker 1: with that. You can't try to force things that they're
Speaker 1: gonna give your shoults underneath. You take it, but at
Speaker 1: some point you have to make something, take shots down
Speaker 1: the field, do something to shake them out of it.
Speaker 1: Or is it just simply like we gotta run the
Speaker 1: ball the hell out of the ball until they stopped
Speaker 1: doing this. There were there were two big plays that
Speaker 1: did not happen in the CD drop, the CD drop
Speaker 1: across the middle, and then you also had right there
Speaker 1: on the sideline the ball got caught in the air,
Speaker 1: he got got on the wine. There was another on too.
Speaker 1: There was another one too where Dak was rolling out
Speaker 1: to his right and basically tried to take a deep
Speaker 1: shot and what he thought was man to man coverage
Speaker 1: with Amari Cooper over the top, he wound up and
Speaker 1: happened he got hit from behind him fumble. I don't
Speaker 1: know what kind of time he thought he had on
Speaker 1: that particular play all day, but yeah, I'm gonna tell you,
Speaker 1: be honest with you. I was right next to the
Speaker 1: gallop deep throw and that corner was windy. Just I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to got was it was circling right in
Speaker 1: that corner. It was hit me from the makes it
Speaker 1: makes sense, especially in that stadium. I don't take that
Speaker 1: away from him. I mean Christie and the and the
Speaker 1: broadcast said, because I asked which way the wind was going,
Speaker 1: and she said, well, if you look at both goal posts,
Speaker 1: they were both blowing in, which is crazy. The metal
Speaker 1: asking is crazy. And did the first extra point the
Speaker 1: wind got him too, right? Yeah? And then then obviously
Speaker 1: he said he tried to overcompensate for the second one
Speaker 1: and that's when he hit the right goal post. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, but no that that honestly, that end,
Speaker 1: I was watching their kicker during the warm ups and
Speaker 1: he missed, like almost everyone on that end, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just going back to you know something that I
Speaker 1: know Isaiah knows that the temple for the playoffs is
Speaker 1: going to increase times one hundred once, you know, we
Speaker 1: get to wild Card weekend and create our ability, our
Speaker 1: ability to run the ball to steady our team because
Speaker 1: anxiety and everything else is going to be up. And
Speaker 1: that's why we talk about smash mouth. Uh. And right now,
Speaker 1: this this two safeties deep that Dak is having to
Speaker 1: face and the way the teams are playing him. You're right, man,
Speaker 1: He's got to find a way to get them out
Speaker 1: of it. And the only way I feel is through
Speaker 1: the run game. Because if teams are willing to sacrifice
Speaker 1: that much because they believe wholeheartedly that their front five
Speaker 1: can stop our run, that's thank you. And we've got
Speaker 1: to be able to beat them out of that. And
Speaker 1: Dak has got to find a way in the passing
Speaker 1: game to you know slants, you know, gett finding shows
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field because they're leaving the
Speaker 1: middle of the field wide open for him. And that's
Speaker 1: they love CD on those routes too, Like that's that's
Speaker 1: you know, just he's got to catch the damn ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, what I think he said he had three drops,
Speaker 1: I played terrible, which is fair. I mean, if he
Speaker 1: has those three we mentioned yesterday, Dak Prescott's probably what
Speaker 1: only five in completion six in completions and he's got
Speaker 1: up close to three hundred yards, so it does make sense.
Speaker 1: There's a lot on both ends of the stick. All right,
Speaker 1: Mike from Iowa, you're on talking Cowboys? What up? Mike?
Speaker 1: What up? Mike? Brian? Brian? Sorry, I went back to
Speaker 1: I went back to last week we had Mike from
Speaker 1: Iowa on the show. But this is Brian from Iowa.
Speaker 1: What up? Brian? Hey, what's up? Guys? What's going on over? Hey? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess one question. I know we're only like four
Speaker 1: weeks and I mean going into the playoffs, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, just like the Cowboys, they have issues right
Speaker 1: now and they're not totally healthy. But but I guess
Speaker 1: gel from one to ten, how confident? How confident are
Speaker 1: you heading towards the playoffs with the Cowboys of being
Speaker 1: a big time t ten yars? Because we know that
Speaker 1: Cowboys are not just owling team in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: mean looking into the playoffs that are are showing issue.
Speaker 1: But some teams are you know, like the number one seed.
Speaker 1: You know, they having a lot of luck going on
Speaker 1: their way right now, but they're also showing issues too,
Speaker 1: but they're not showing it right now. But I mean,
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs from scale to one and ten,
Speaker 1: how confident are you of the Cowboys getting backhund track
Speaker 1: and trying to solve those issues. Thank you very much
Speaker 1: for the call, Brian, and appreciate your listing. As always,
Speaker 1: He's got a great point. So before we give our
Speaker 1: one through ten, let's talk about Tampa Bay shut out
Speaker 1: at home by New Orleans, Green Bay one play away
Speaker 1: from potentially losing that game to a backup quarterback in
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley who played exceptionally well, by the ways for
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Who was the other who are the other ones? Arizona? Yeah,
Speaker 1: getting blown out by Detroit that's a big time too.
Speaker 1: I mean, these division leaders are not indestructible by any means.
Speaker 1: Neither are the Dallas Cowboys at that at that rate.
Speaker 1: But with that being said, I think my confidence level
Speaker 1: would go through the roof if the offense were to
Speaker 1: click the final three weeks. You're putting up points, you're
Speaker 1: having those big, sustainable drives, you're hitting the big play again.
Speaker 1: I think I would go into the playoffs with an
Speaker 1: eight or a nine, but right now I'm probably at
Speaker 1: a six or a seven. You know, I'm come on now,
Speaker 1: y'all know I'm gonna jump out of the cake and
Speaker 1: so at least a forty five off the rif you know,
Speaker 1: I just feel like, you know, for all the things
Speaker 1: that we the criticism that this team gets, that no
Speaker 1: one is recognized the three victories on the road now
Speaker 1: and giving them a gold star for that in December.
Speaker 1: You know, I think if you look around the NFL
Speaker 1: and you just mentioned those teams that have had those
Speaker 1: their losses, Green Bay is the one team that you
Speaker 1: just gotta circle. That man, Aaron Rodgers. No matter what
Speaker 1: it is, what's going on, it just seems like he
Speaker 1: can overcome any adversity and still do his thing. Even
Speaker 1: though they won by one point. My thinking is, even
Speaker 1: when you talk about the NFC East and how bad
Speaker 1: these teams are, hell, we still have teams that are
Speaker 1: battling for that seventh position. So leaving the game tonight,
Speaker 1: there's there's something to play for, you know. So I
Speaker 1: just feel like the Cowboys can control what they could control.
Speaker 1: But when you talk about the rest of the NFCUS
Speaker 1: as a group, you got to feel confident with the
Speaker 1: way that our defense is evolved right now to take
Speaker 1: on those teams. So much of the playoffs is about momentum,
Speaker 1: and I feel as that the Cowboys, even though they
Speaker 1: haven't been playing up to their standards, nevertheless, and the
Speaker 1: fans standards and the analysts standards, they haven't been playing
Speaker 1: to their standards. Momentum is seemingly creeping up. Defenses playing
Speaker 1: out of this world, offenses throwing flashes of getting back
Speaker 1: on tracks. So momentum is trending up as you come
Speaker 1: towards the end of the year when you start thinking
Speaker 1: about some of these other teams that we may face
Speaker 1: going into playoffs. You think about teams like the Cardinals. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, obviously their momentum is down right now. They're
Speaker 1: they're on a downward trend. They lost they lost arguably
Speaker 1: one of the best receivers in the league. Ye that
Speaker 1: hurts them tremendously, and they're really to make big plays.
Speaker 1: So now they're relying on Aj Green to somehow be
Speaker 1: what he was five years ago. Right, That's what they're
Speaker 1: expecting or they're gonna go to Earth's Okay, so that's
Speaker 1: what you're expecting that at seas. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: My competence level against those guys is pretty dog on
Speaker 1: high because I feel like they're trying to figure it
Speaker 1: out right now when we already are figuring things out.
Speaker 1: You start thinking about the who am I Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay just lost Godwin unfortunately, Yeah, he's out, and
Speaker 1: Evans has a hamstring. Evans has a hamstring. Fournette has
Speaker 1: a hamstring, said, Fournette's gonna miss some time. Hamstring's linger.
Speaker 1: So you got two of your three, of your number one,
Speaker 1: all three of your offensive guys hurting right now. Tom
Speaker 1: needs those guys. He can't he can't generate plays himself.
Speaker 1: He needs those guys in order to be there to
Speaker 1: make plays for him. So those guys are trending down
Speaker 1: right now. Then you look at Green Bay. Green Bay
Speaker 1: is scary. Yeah, Green Bays freaking scary, not only because
Speaker 1: of the do they have at quarterback, but because of
Speaker 1: their ability to run the ball with both of their
Speaker 1: running backs. Right now and at the moment, you're gonna
Speaker 1: I have to go up there to win. Yeah, which
Speaker 1: I mean it's always a problem. I got a stocking camp.
Speaker 1: Let's go. So as you look at those four teams,
Speaker 1: three teams right, three teams. As you look at those
Speaker 1: teams right there, there's only one team that I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you better bring your you better bring everything has to
Speaker 1: be clicking that day. If that's the case too, that
Speaker 1: would be McCarthy's first return to Green Bay's crazy. Got
Speaker 1: the storylines get ready to yeahs and worn? Can you talk?
Speaker 1: By the way, I have no idea, not enough, not enough,
Speaker 1: not enough for that. I took that class. So what's
Speaker 1: your confidence level real quick before we take I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'd probably put like a seven right now because I
Speaker 1: think you know your defense has to be clicking in January.
Speaker 1: It's weird. Though there's three games left in this season,
Speaker 1: and if it's the week of Christmas and that that
Speaker 1: is red is weird. It's weird. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: time left for momentum one way or the other. Offensively,
Speaker 1: though they still got it, they still have to find
Speaker 1: some things here and get and get some more consistency.
Speaker 1: It was a step forward in this last game, um,
Speaker 1: but it's not where they want it, and it's not
Speaker 1: where they needed to be in terms of explosive plays
Speaker 1: and continuing to run the football red zone, all those
Speaker 1: things you run into an Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: you're going as good as your defense is playing, you're
Speaker 1: going to have to match some of that. Absolutely. The
Speaker 1: Giants put up six points. That's not going to be
Speaker 1: a luxury for you in the playoffs. So I think
Speaker 1: that makes it where I'm not an eight or nine yet.
Speaker 1: They do have the capability to turn the switch eventually,
Speaker 1: but it's been a stretch here where it's not there.
Speaker 1: And you're right about the Buck's injuries, but they had
Speaker 1: that hiccup last Sunday. They had scored thirty plus points
Speaker 1: four straight games before that, so that to me, that's
Speaker 1: more of an operation than a trend. Now, how do
Speaker 1: they handle these injuries though? That's a problem for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the first time since the merger that a
Speaker 1: team that had entered the week leading the NFL and
Speaker 1: scoring and in points was shut out at home, first
Speaker 1: time ever, So I mean maybe that's yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be back, and you saw what he did
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. A baby um, all right, let's hear
Speaker 1: from Tony in La. Tony, you're on talking Cowboys. What's up, Jimmy? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, um Hey, my question is this I'm at
Speaker 1: work right now, but my question is, um, uh, do
Speaker 1: you guys think maybe that like Kelly Moore, Mike McCarty,
Speaker 1: they're kind of like, uh holding their hand, like they
Speaker 1: don't want to show too much of some new plays,
Speaker 1: the d of trying to perfect maybe like um work
Speaker 1: execution of like the run game and differ things like
Speaker 1: that version for the playoffs and not really showing their
Speaker 1: heads too much as far as like the creative players
Speaker 1: that we kind of saw like in the early part
Speaker 1: of the season. Um, maybe they're trying to maybe like
Speaker 1: trying to save that for the playoffs. Do you have
Speaker 1: to get the possibility and uh, this is one let
Speaker 1: you guys know you got doing a great job and
Speaker 1: thank you for your heart work. Appreciate he's on their caliber.
Speaker 1: Collision getting that that bread man, you know what, Tony
Speaker 1: need to keep La warm for us. Man. We on
Speaker 1: our way here. It is there's the there is the
Speaker 1: cake was there? You were now over there you have
Speaker 1: just jumped out of the cake man y'all have you
Speaker 1: lived the hotel rates? By the way, I'm already booked.
Speaker 1: Oh we're so far to week that baby California Love.
Speaker 1: I looked at rooms last two weeks ago. Ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a night. What heck, heck? What are you doing? Bro? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta talk to our produce. I gotta hook up.
Speaker 1: You gotta get the hook up. Seven thousand a night. Uh,
Speaker 1: going back, I'm gonna be staying. Uh So, Tony brought
Speaker 1: up a point that I had kind of brought up
Speaker 1: a little tongue in cheek yesterday about maybe saving some
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. I don't know if this is a
Speaker 1: league where you can do that realistically, But Isaiah, what
Speaker 1: is your thought in terms of if that's the case,
Speaker 1: and if it's a possibility, why would they do that?
Speaker 1: You always have some kind of black book put away, right,
Speaker 1: you always have the Waterboy playbook put away A little
Speaker 1: bit on the side, show them a little sample size,
Speaker 1: and most of it is you're setting teams up for
Speaker 1: the future. Right, I'm gonna show them this run, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show them this bootleg. I'm gonna kind of throw
Speaker 1: some little hints out there to kind of expose some
Speaker 1: some uh what's the word. I'm looking for tendencies, right,
Speaker 1: But I suppose some tendencies and then I'm gonna change
Speaker 1: it up on them when I get to the players.
Speaker 1: So yes, in this in that sense, yes, you're always
Speaker 1: projecting and setting teams up, you know, putting out there
Speaker 1: what you want them to see, while in the same
Speaker 1: process hoping that you execute the plays, but knowing that
Speaker 1: you have a secondary play off of that that can
Speaker 1: come back and kill them later on. But in terms
Speaker 1: of just holding back your offense, that's how you end
Speaker 1: up at Denver Broncold. You know, this guy is the
Speaker 1: only guy know that he could successfully agree and disagree
Speaker 1: with you in the same he did didn't do that?
Speaker 1: Did he totally didn't. You're just like, no, dude, but
Speaker 1: they hold back a little bright Johnny Cocker. I'm just saying, man,
Speaker 1: I might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer,
Speaker 1: but man, I'm telling you that looks like they sound
Speaker 1: like an agreement to me. But you wrap it up
Speaker 1: there now, I don't agree, he goes. He goes, Tony,
Speaker 1: I really just don't agree with you that. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's I even alluded to this through the Washington football team.
Speaker 1: Knowing that you're gonna have to play them and you know,
Speaker 1: back to back the way that you have, then maybe
Speaker 1: you were holding something back. Um. I think that there
Speaker 1: are parts in the season, especially like when you come
Speaker 1: up against AFC competition stuff like that. There maybe because
Speaker 1: there's so much gamanship, it's such a chess match between
Speaker 1: these coaches and they don't want to expose everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: one or five, three the fan if you listen long enough,
Speaker 1: they'll call it sandbagging or whatever is being called these days.
Speaker 1: But I just feel as though you know this team
Speaker 1: in particular. I believe for Kellen Moore with all the
Speaker 1: problems that he's having on third down, the red zone problems,
Speaker 1: you know, and you talk about momentum and trying to
Speaker 1: get things back going offensively, he's he's got to be
Speaker 1: trying to find everything you possibly can to get four
Speaker 1: back on the road, not just going to a shell
Speaker 1: because you think you're going to clench the playoff spot.
Speaker 1: Kellen was asked this exact question and he said yesterday
Speaker 1: and he said, we're still trying to win games. So
Speaker 1: if I feel like something helps us win a game,
Speaker 1: I feel like we'll utilize it. So I think it's
Speaker 1: a fair question because some of the waterboy type stuff,
Speaker 1: formation crazy stuff, like we haven't seen as much of that.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's been less motion, I don't know, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's they're trying to shake out of this rut they've
Speaker 1: been in. So I don't I don't really buy that.
Speaker 1: I think when you play a team like the Giants,
Speaker 1: there are situations where if you're not threatened by their offense,
Speaker 1: you kick the field goal at the end of the
Speaker 1: half and you play. You played at your defense the
Speaker 1: way your defense is playing. But I don't think you
Speaker 1: just totally hold back. I know you hate that, but
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think that was a case
Speaker 1: where look, we'll kick, we'll get fifteen points at half.
Speaker 1: We probably don't think they can score fifteen in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you know, the last time I really looked
Speaker 1: at or not or not, the last time I really
Speaker 1: looked at Kellen Moore and said, hey, you had a
Speaker 1: really good game, it was probably the Minnesota game with
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush at quarterback. You can maybe say it against Atlanta,
Speaker 1: but Atlanta is just downright terrible. They're just not a
Speaker 1: good team. But your boys on that team, Kyle Pitts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is my boy, and he's not playing very well
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have anybody else around him. But that's
Speaker 1: kind of the thing is, I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: really looked at any of the games lately and said, oh,
Speaker 1: that was Kellen Moore's best stuff. It was New England
Speaker 1: Minnesota straddling the sides of the bye week, and since then,
Speaker 1: I haven't really seen that. So you think he's holding
Speaker 1: back maybe a little bit. Yeah, he might be. I
Speaker 1: think there's a chance. All right, let's take our second break.
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Speaker 1: That was a dual read I like it, Chris anyway,
Speaker 1: Guys surprised. It's like, yeah, we got we bring reading
Speaker 1: the heat. Everybody's doing crazy crazy is I'll get on
Speaker 1: one shot. He throws it to the right and then
Speaker 1: I get to that shot, see and we can throw
Speaker 1: you know, never mind go back and forth, just bushwhackers.
Speaker 1: Yeah he tag team okay man, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: well heck my Harrison Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips, got
Speaker 1: Chris Beam in the back of Kyle Yeoman's all right,
Speaker 1: we will preview the Washington football team offense tomorrow versus
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense. Let's give a little taste of what
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about tomorrow, because could be a different
Speaker 1: looking Washington team as of the end of tonight. Then
Speaker 1: it will be that the Cowboys face on Sunday. It's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be a different looking team than what they
Speaker 1: faced two weeks ago. Have you ever seen a change
Speaker 1: in a roster as potentially big as this could be
Speaker 1: in the span of two weeks in between matchups. Now
Speaker 1: they're saying that Garrett Gilbert could be the quarterback. It's
Speaker 1: gonna ask you, is that the case tonight? I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: if I had told you at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: season that we're gonna play the Washington football team, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the I mean, you say, what are you smoking?
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying that. I mean it's like the
Speaker 1: Ghost of Christmas pass for everybody coming through here. Right. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm excited about the matchup. I feel
Speaker 1: like our team is excited to see the football team.
Speaker 1: You can tell, man from the sounds of the sideline,
Speaker 1: if you haven't watched the sounds of the sideline from
Speaker 1: the Washington football game, that that was amazing. By the way, Uh,
Speaker 1: Alex Lily is doing a fantastic, fantastic job. But you know,
Speaker 1: the robbery is renewed. Man. On our side, you know,
Speaker 1: we we're looking forward to sitting. They gotta keep that
Speaker 1: same energy that they had from last year. We want Dallas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on with it, right, I'm this defense it is
Speaker 1: gonna look totally different. I know that. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing how our guys respond to a formidable defensive
Speaker 1: line with sweat back. Yes, yes, so I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing. That's a good test, Yes it is. It's
Speaker 1: a good one because they're still not full string, no
Speaker 1: Chase Young. Of course, soon they'll get Montes wet back
Speaker 1: who was not there two weeks ago. They'll have three
Speaker 1: or their four they'll get they'll get after a little bit, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they will. I just think energy wise, though. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough for them, you know. And it's like, it's
Speaker 1: to me, it's a scheduling thing that's weird. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're given the opportunity to reschedule, but you gotta push
Speaker 1: it all the way to Tuesday. We're gonna make you
Speaker 1: play a night game, night game, then come back and
Speaker 1: play the Cowboys on Sunday. I'm just saying we're not
Speaker 1: We're not crying for them. It's not ideal for them,
Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna be a challenge for them.
Speaker 1: But Ron River is a great coach and I think
Speaker 1: he'll He'll get them up. Three games in twelve days,
Speaker 1: I know, and every team kind of every team plays
Speaker 1: on Thursday. If they tie tonight, then the Cowboys would
Speaker 1: be NFC East champions on a Tuesday. Yeah. By the way,
Speaker 1: here's here's the update for the Washington football team quarterback situation.
Speaker 1: Heading into tonight, Washington still without multiple players Taylor Heineke
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen, and both are on the COVID nineteen list. However,
Speaker 1: they both have an opportunity at four pm or until
Speaker 1: four pm today to take test and test out of
Speaker 1: the league's COVID protocols, which would allow them to play
Speaker 1: three hours later for the seven o'clock kick. If neither
Speaker 1: one of them were to test out, Garrett Gilbert would
Speaker 1: start tonight for the Washington Football When when does the
Speaker 1: new league protocols kick in? It's I already kicked in right, No,
Speaker 1: they have yes, I think it was Monday or maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: something officials come out. But that's the thing is if
Speaker 1: they test or if they test negative today and they
Speaker 1: test out of the protocol, they can play three hours
Speaker 1: after the deadline to test out of the protocol? Is
Speaker 1: this like wrestling where you have to go get your
Speaker 1: way down, undest kind of what it's gonna be. You're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna test and they're be like, all right,
Speaker 1: get your helmet, get out there, like have fun. Crazy,
Speaker 1: What a year? What a day? We live in? Day
Speaker 1: and age New World. It is all right, that's it
Speaker 1: for us here on Talking Cowboys. We'll give you more
Speaker 1: Washington offense versus that Cowboys defense tomorrow for Chris being,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, heck Ma Harris and Isaiah stand back up.
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