WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Finally, Playoff Time 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:06.760 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:16.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.000 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World. How hoarse at 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:29.120 the Star in Frisco, the scot Picture and now your 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:33.960 hosts Isaiah stand back, heck my Harrison, Rob Phillips and 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:55.800 Kyle Yeoman's God damn Bobby go there we go, Go 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:03.880 Dallas Boys. It is a victory Monday on Talking Cowboys. 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.759 As the Cowboys getta win in the most dramatic, most 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:12.680 gut wrenching, most heart pounding, final week of the regular season, 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.840 possibly in the history of football Week eighteen in the 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.160 regular season or in the rear view mirror, and the 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:24.880 Dallas Cowboys are on to the wild card round. How's 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.440 it going on, everybody? It's a good Monday. Welcome to 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.720 Talking Cowboys, presented by Tostitos, helping fans get in on 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.920 the game and our favorite chip and our favorite dit 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:40.679 of Talking Cowboys. Yeah, I got it, Okay, zero zero, Wow, 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.600 twelve and five. I think I'm more of the zero 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:49.080 and zero side of twelve and five. Fish this thing off. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.160 Let's finish this thing off. I agree with that bout. Well, 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:54.960 I didn't finish saying what I was saying, but I'm 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.040 saying twelve five, twelve and five. Not bad, not bad, 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.840 not bad at all. Yeah, Cowboys improved to the three 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.280 seed in the NFC. Got some help yesterday from the 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:13.520 NFC West HV HOV gots gotten an extra passage, got 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.399 HOV telling you all right, y'all, come in here, y'all 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.400 energy wrong, let's go. You didn't say the show, let's go. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:26.160 You didn't say a single word. Oh my gosh, heck 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:31.400 my Harrison rob Studio, Robot Phillips is back. I'm sorry, Heck, 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.320 I'm still I'm still gathering. It's nice to be wearing 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.760 real pants, real pants. Been a while, it's been a 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:41.080 while out of the jama pants. Still wearing peas I missed. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.040 So it's like when you come back home from college 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.919 and your parents your room kind of looks at the same. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.480 Didn't touch the room, it never left to stay home. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.079 Now we got a hand sanitizer on your side. We 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.920 got it all good, Thank you, thank you. Yeah. Now, 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:55.679 great to have you back. We missed you as well. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.040 Isaiah stand back, sir, fresh off of a great week 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.880 for you. It's go time, baby, it is go time. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.600 It is playoff time. It's our first official playoff show. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.560 Love it of talking cowboys and it does it gets different, 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.640 and we're gonna talk about the cowboys in the Eagles. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.960 But really, now, now your eyes are forward, it's it's 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.680 a twelve and five record, you're the three seed in 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:19.960 the NFC. But now eyes ahead to the playoffs. You're 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:24.920 looking those zero and zero record turns into that's what 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.320 the red's gonna be here in a couple of minutes. Uh, cowboys, 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.919 was it twelve and five? Is it twelve and five 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.440 or zero and zero? Because he's right, we gotta give 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:37.200 them credit for what they've done. Yeah, last five months whatever, 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.760 let's just fly right by that. Let's fly right by. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.360 It's awesome. It's awesome. But what's the ultimate goal? Year? 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.400 One day and then it's been Yeah, it was ultimate goal. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.480 You gotta gonna take that from me. Were twelve and five? 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.040 Twelve and five was dog crap? Last year? How must 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.160 had nothing? Last year? I defense was the worst last 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.960 year in history? Last year twelve and five. Let's go 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.680 with it. It's all pass Yeah, all right, I mean 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.160 that's the thing. Twelve and five is fantastic and it 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.080 is set you up in the right PSA want to 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.080 do it. But if you lose this week, what is 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:13.000 twelve and five? I'm not talking I'm talking about victory Monday. 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.120 We beat the breaks off the Philadelphia Eagles. We got 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.679 everything that we wanted out of that game. Okay, based 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.839 off of what we did last season in the finish 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.560 off this season, I live in reality, guys. I understand 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.360 what we got going on with the playoffs, but I'm 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.960 going to celebrate this team for what they did today. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.719 I'm just saying I'm with you. Heck, I'm with you 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.560 because to your point, we were just talking about this 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.320 before we came on the air. How many coaches around 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.760 the league have been fired this morning? Oh this morning? 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.400 Three Miami, Chicago, Minnesota, And that adds to the three 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.120 that we're already gone at some point prior to the 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:50.440 season and the season Denver yesterday morning with Fangio, Jacksonville 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.000 and then Las Vegas vanquished Cowboys. Not in that situation. 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.280 In fact, they've got two coordinators that are pretty hot 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.680 commodities around the league. It is a nice place to 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.240 be here on Monday morning as we start to look 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.719 ahead to the playoffs Black Monday in the NFL, and 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.320 you were certainly in the right at this point. Moving forward, 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.400 so Cowboys get to win, they will face the San 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.279 Francisco forty nine ers, and we'll certainly going to talk 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:15.760 about that coming up here in a little bit. But 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.080 let's talk about the fifty one twenty six win over 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.720 the Philadelphia Eagles as the Cowboys even got a chance 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.640 to rest some guys late. They were already a little 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.479 shorthanded to due to some different circumstances, whether it be 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:33.120 injuries or COVID protocol. But the Cowboys just dismantled the 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.680 Eagles on Saturday night. Heck, Miles, start with you, how 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.960 much does that do to ease your nerves? Because there 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.840 were three things you really needed to check off in 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.240 that game. You needed to be healthy, you needed to 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.040 get your offense back on track, and you needed to 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.400 win the football game to try and help yourself in seeding. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:52.960 You did all three of those things and it ended 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:54.800 up working out for We talked about that, I'm talking 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.560 Cowboys all week last week and everything that we wanted 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.159 to accomplish, we checked all of those boxes off. We 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.800 gotta feel good about the performance It wasn't so much 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.640 about resting people you talked about on offense and the continuity. 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.800 Take a drink, guys, and we're back. And now I'm 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.120 saying the offense and what you needed to see from Dak. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.719 You wanted to see this running game get gone. It 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.640 got going. You wanted to see Dak complete some passes 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.839 in coverage in between safeties and cornerbacks. You saw that 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.120 all of those things that you needed from this offense. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.640 You gotta feel good, all the feel good stuff that 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.080 we needed when we left Philadelphia. I think that this 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.280 offense is back where they need to be again. The 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.000 defense that they're going to face next week is going 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.800 to be a task all in itself, and they are 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.559 going to bring all of the exotic looks that people 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.279 think bother Dak. But the number one thing is for 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.920 all of us going into this game on Saturday, was 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.040 getting this offense back on the rails. Isah. I don't disagree. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.360 I think that they needed that game. They needed to 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.919 go out there and have that type of showing. You 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.719 always obviously look at it and say that that Philly 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.440 didn't have any of their main guys really their present, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.159 so it should have been that dominated, But regardless of 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.240 who was out on the field, you needed them to 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.960 walk out of there with some confidence and you wanted 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.600 them to go out there and have some success. And 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.520 that's ultimately what happened. Regardless of who has decided to 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.000 suit up for the Philadelphia Eagles, now they can feel 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.520 confident going into their next matchups. Obviously with the forty 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.840 nine ers coming in, everybody out they're going to face 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.800 in these playoffs are much better than this team. Totally 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.840 agree they did what they should have done. I mean, 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.000 I think Philly was missing ten of eleven starters on 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.640 defense something like that, so they did exactly what they 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.320 should have done. Imagine if imagine if we walked in 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.520 for this show this morning and they did not play 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.520 any of their starters. I think we would have felt 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.400 this way. They might have even felt this way like 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.720 kind of where are we at? Guys? You know, where 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.320 were we at? And I think they got a good 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.320 I think that was a confidence booster for them for sure. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.720 I put a poll out there after the game, not 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.520 knowing who the opponent was going to be at that point, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.800 and said, okay, Cowboys Nation, how you feeling? Got one 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.680 hundred and fifteen responses, and it was like fifty fifty, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.400 some people feeling good, some people not so sure so, 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.280 and one that really stuck out to me was optimistic 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.600 wild pessimistic. And I think that's kind of how Cowboys, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.120 some of Cowboys Nation is feeling, because you know, they're talented, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.520 they're twelve and five, they've had a lot of success, 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.800 but there's been some inconsistency said there, So, how how 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.120 are they gonna play in this game? I think it's 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.120 gonna be fascinating. You want to see it. I mean, 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.040 how many times have you gotten to this point where 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.920 you haven't seen it? Whenever the playoffs roll around because 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:30.960 you get one shot at it, you get one, you 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.719 get one bad game, may or you don't even get 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.720 that bad game. If you really want the ultimate prize, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.040 you want to show out and you want to see 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.960 that twelve and five translate into success in the playoffs. 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.760 And right now this is a team that could either 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.400 go one and done or could win the whole thing. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.360 That's exactly what it is. So I mean optimistic pessim 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.640 or what was it? Optimistic wild pessimistic? Yeah, I think 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.120 that could be a slogan all the way through and 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.160 through But I think you're right. I think going back 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.320 to Heckma's point, it made me feel better because those 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.320 windows that Dak Prescott was throwing into were the same size, 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.040 whether or not it was a backup or not, I mean, 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.360 he was making the throws that he needed to. The 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.200 throw that stood out to me was the one too 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.319 Amari Cooper on the right side that got him down 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.319 inside the five yard lines. That was a dime. And 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.880 he made throws like that throughout the game. Of course, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:26.080 five touchdown passes career high for Dak, thirty seven on 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.640 the year, new single season leader in Cowboys franchise history. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.080 So I thought Dak played possibly one of his best 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.640 games of the year. But I guess you can take 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.560 a little bit of away from that because of who 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.199 was on the other side, right, agree, Yeah, I mean 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.880 at the end of the day, these guys they did 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.559 what they needed to do, and we know the competition 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.960 level wasn't as high as it could have been. That's 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.240 just facts, regardless, They regardless, like I said, who stepped 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.080 on the field, they needed to execute and I feel 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.440 as if they did that and they should feel they 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.520 should feel very confident. Kudos to Dak kudos to Zeke. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.000 Both of those guys had great monumental days. And now 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.040 you know they can look at each other, you know, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:04.840 with their with their chain raised up high, and they 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.480 can look at each other and say, Okay, yeah, we're 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.440 twelve and five, but there's two other teams in this 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.439 conference in the playoffs that have better records than us. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.360 If we get past this game, possibly you know, one 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:14.960 of the teams has the same record of us, and 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.840 the other team just beat us up. So the records, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.040 the pasting, this is cool. But as you look forward, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.640 you say, we got to take care of this week. Now, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.080 feel good about what you just did. But I guarantee 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.040 you none of those guys were talking about what just happened. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.680 Everybody's looking at film already for the next game. I 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.520 didn't make the trip, but I think the one injury 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:36.160 that they noted was Kean O'Neil arm shoulder, So keep 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.160 an eye on that. But yeah, relatively healthy going into 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:40.480 the playoffs. That's all you can ask for. And the 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.800 Bazook is coming back. The Bazook is coming back, and 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.360 so pee we left the As much as they're talking 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.679 about the Eagles, not the boot Eagles, not having their 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:53.280 full slate of players. We left the big briefcase at home. True, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.520 it's true. We left Aidan's dad at home. Yeah, we 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.480 left a b at home. Jern Curse was at home. Yeah, 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.480 I mean TP was at home. I mean I get it. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.559 I get it. And what they find is every caveat 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.559 every gift to discredit the Cowboys in the season that 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.120 they have. I'm I'm saying this, look, bring on the 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.240 forty nine ers. I think we're going to talk a 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.559 whole lot about the team. We're gonna talk about everything 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.160 that they would be objective about all of it. But 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.200 at the same time, Cowboy Nation, we gotta feel good 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.480 right now. It's just what it is at twelve and five. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.600 Another thing that's I think giving pause to the celebration 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.120 of what was an absolute beat down in the second 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.319 half against Philadelphia is the fact that they did it 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.680 two weeks ago against Washington or three weeks ago now, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.319 But they did it against Washington, they turned around it 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.319 and then they lost the Arizona So a lot of 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.040 Cowboys fans are hesitant to really jump out of the 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.160 cake and say, hey, they did everything they needed to, 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.080 we got it done right, And so there's lots of 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.920 hesitation there. It gives me flashbacks I got PTSD from 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.560 from my rookie year here in Dallas. We went thirteen 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.520 and three, felt amazing. We had thirteen Pro bowlers. Guess what, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.840 the next week after that didn't freaking matter. We're sitting 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.840 at the crib. Sitting at the crib. Didn't freaking matter 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.760 that you're thirteen and three, didn't matter that you had 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.600 thirteen Pro bowlers. You didn't get past the next dog 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.360 one week, didn't you. Yeah, and you didn't get past 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.079 the next game, So it did. So you want to 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:16.920 say so as I look back on my career and 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:18.679 I'm like, oh, yeah, we bought out that season, but 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.720 we didn't do crap in the playoffs, so it doesn't really. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.960 So do you feel like this team based off of 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.200 the inconsistency and up and down? I guess in the 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.240 season with teams below and above five hundred, that this 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.640 is a team that doesn't rise to the challenge of 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.679 big I wouldn't. I wouldn't put that label on them, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.600 but I would feel I do. I would put the 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.280 label on them that they say they have to have 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.160 a question mark over their head. Why because the teams 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.160 that are in that upper echelon they have not done 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.640 well with so that that's why I said they have 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.640 to have that. I will believe that they have that 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.000 question mark hanging over their head. Now are they capable? 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:51.520 I put the label on them that they don't show up. 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.240 I wouldn't put that on them, but I don't think 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.560 that they have performed well enough this season against that 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.000 level of competition to feel that confident heading into this 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.679 into this postseason. But even in terms of their capabilities, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.680 now they know what they're capable of, right, but in 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.440 terms of it's a difference we know what you're capable 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.400 of and showing up in executing. The only game you 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.960 were not really close in was the Denver game. And 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.760 I'm not looking at close. I'm looking at no, no no, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.960 I'm making The only game that you're not weren't close 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.199 in was the Denver game. That was a complete blowout. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.719 They dismantled you and showed you that you better come 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.760 to play every time. But then in those other games, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.000 let's just say Kansas City, in a game where you 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:28.280 think the quarterback is all world, that defense they showed out. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.079 But this isn't a game where we lost fifty one 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.200 to twenty six. Even with these basically what I'm saying 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.800 in these matchups, they have been ultimately we were right there. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.920 We have proof that if we don't make those few 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.640 bad plays, we can actually get over the hump. And 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.560 if no one's gonna give us credit at all, I'm 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.720 basically just saying that in this matchup versus San Francisco, 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:52.880 we're going to be build them up all week as 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.040 the juggernaut the world beat that they should be. But 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.040 what is going to be the difference for this team 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.200 to get over the hump versus that above five hundred team? 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.720 Just basically like execution? Okay, execution, I don't have it 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.200 off the top of my head, and Biemer might be 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.000 have it. What's our record against teams that are now 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.440 in the playoffs, well, three and four, three and four yea, yeah, 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.080 So that's what That's what I'm talking about. They have 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:14.880 to show up, they have to execute. We all know 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.320 what these guys are capable of. This roster is completely 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:22.160 stacked off, This coaching staff is stacked now, piece together, 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.280 maybe four and four, this piece together, go out there 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.160 now and destroy the team. Set set a standard so 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.840 high the expectation has to I mean, you have to 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.280 meet that expectation. You know that you have a stacked rosch, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.000 You know that your coaching staff is trying to get 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.760 picked the part right now because everybody knows that they 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.920 have a great staff. Now put it together. Go out 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.080 there and beat a team that everybody says should be 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.120 a competitive game and destroy those guys. L Maury said 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.040 that on the fan last week in so many words 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.880 in terms of we've shown how great we can be. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.040 So now that's the bar yea and so and so 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:58.960 that's valid when there's criticism or questions about their consistency level. Again, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.560 Sunday was a Saturday was a good step forward. But yeah, 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:03.840 this is going to be more of a challenge. I 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.320 think there's a question mark over everybody's head in the 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.640 NFC playoffs, except maybe Green Bay because they've got the 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.200 home field and all week off and it's hard to 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.920 play up there. Yeah, but I think I think it's 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.000 a very level playing field, except you know, you know, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:20.960 Philly against Tampa gonna be tough. But I don't think 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:26.640 it's like I don't think this is a tough matchup like, Okay, well, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.400 in each team in the NFC is a pick your 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.960 poison sort of situation. They are all dangerous teams, but 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.440 they all have question marks. It's which team are you 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.520 gonna get that week? And that's what's so scary about 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.800 the Cowboys in a good way. They're scary because they 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.160 can be that team. They can beat anybody on the 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.040 in the league right now, but they could also be 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.400 the team that loses to the Broncos thirty to sixteen. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.960 I agree, And I feel like every other team on 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.520 our side of the division right conference sorry, is in 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.240 that same category as Stepford Green Bay. When you play 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.440 Green Bay, you know that you're gonna get their best 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.760 every single time, and you're not gonna catch them slipping. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.520 I feel like all the other teams, you might catch 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.160 the best version of them or you might catch the 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.320 worst version of them. And and that's I think that 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.960 teams feel the same way about Dallas. Yeah, it's volatile 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.040 right now. And you look at all the games this 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:17.000 season that were heralded as benchmarks. Tampa Bay loss, you 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.480 could probably say New England, but nobody knew who New 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.440 England was at that point in the season. But you'll 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.480 say that's a win. They were three and four, by 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.600 the way, against five hundred teams. Kansas City lost, Las 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:31.040 Vegas loss, Arizona loss. Those were the benchmark games along 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.520 the way that you said, here's where you can finally 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.480 get a chance to show that you're the real deal. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.200 And pretty much out of those five games that I 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.680 just mentioned you you lost four of them. You're gonna 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.640 take the Charges out of that equation. Yeah, I'll take 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.360 them out of it because it's the same kind of deal. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.520 I gave the Patriots the benefit of the doubt, but 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:51.880 the Chargers right now, can we talk about that real quickly? Hey, 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:56.080 talk about that. You know what, this is my uh, 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.680 this is my premonition. Listen to. I feel as if 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.200 the Raiders were gonna allow to clock the run out. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.320 I think so too, until until the Chargers called a timeout. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.159 Once they called a timeout, he's like, oh, oh, you 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.200 want to win the games? What car said post game? 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.080 Oh you want to win the game? All right? We 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.760 got you. I mean he was third down in four 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.120 they had run the ball two straight times. Really didn't 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.400 look like they were in a hurry with thirty nine 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.240 seconds last, So why they call it time out just 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:24.639 because they were trying to get the defense. They want 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.160 to get the ball, they want to get back. Yeah. Yeah, well, 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.800 and the explanation afterwards from the Charger side of things 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.720 was that they wanted to get their personnel out there 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.639 because he was happening. Stop this. They had two prior 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.680 run plays. No that was that was try and save 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:42.560 your your skin sort of situation. I cannot believe they 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.400 called that time out. They were they had the playoffs, 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.360 They had a no lose situation. Even if they would 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:48.639 have won, they would have been the sixth seed if 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.399 they tied. They were also this, I don't think the 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.919 Raiders were tribute. Raiders were like cool, let it run, yeah, right, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.680 time out? Oh yeah, we both we both win. Here. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.640 The Racers were doing you a favor by running out 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.200 the clock. They were chilling. They were they were gonna say, 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.359 you know what, we're both going. We played really well, 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.919 got down to the final Mets tense. But shout out 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:08.960 to coach Rich Besaccia and the job that he did. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.879 I mean, the Raiders organization was, man. They were like 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.560 a vote with no sale. After all the controversy that 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.520 came out and for them to be able to make 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.800 the playoffs is awesome. I know, they're going to be 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.720 interviewing coaches and all that for that head coaching job. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.200 But coach Besaccia show I think he needs it. I 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.359 say he's done the job that the way that that 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:34.399 situation was three situations. Yeah they had three situations. Absolutely, Yeah, 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.760 they didn't really major situations. That entire staff really, from 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:40.680 top to bottom, has done a great job of keeping 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.760 that thing and float and getting into the playoffs. Also 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:45.760 around the league yesterday, I mean they were a multiple 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:50.560 Game of the Year nominees. Talk about San Francisco and 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.480 the Rams, the game that actually allowed the Cowboys to 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.359 move into the three seed, Seattle taking down Arizona also 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.840 helping with that. Isn't that this crazy st that if 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:05.879 coach McVeigh leads by halftime, he's like undefeated or something 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.520 like that. What a crazy stat to end that way. 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.200 I mean, that's horrible. They were up seventeen to nothing. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.639 San Francisco looked done. They looked done, they did, and 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.520 they came right back and they won that game. Which 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.560 should be a point of emphasis this week in the 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.679 Cowboys meetings is even if you get up early on 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.639 San Francisco, do not let off the gas. Do not 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.000 let that happen. Let's learn that lesson already. Yeah, that's 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.000 a good point, all right, when we come back. Are 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.720 people being too hard on Dak Prescott even to this 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.439 point in the season. I'll explain my reasoning for that 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:41.399 question when we return with more talking cowboys. 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