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Speaker 5: finding themselves back on the field following Monday night's unprecedented
Speaker 5: event and the injury to build safety DeMar Hamlin, and
Speaker 5: as we all continue to wait for news and pray
Speaker 5: for Hamlin's recovery, we were able to catch up with
Speaker 5: both head coach Mike McCarthy today as well as the players.
Speaker 6: Hayley, you were in the press conference Mike McCarthy today.
Speaker 5: Maybe just give us a couple of highlights from that
Speaker 5: and how he's making sure that players check in not
Speaker 5: only with themselves but each other.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I loved how I think regardless, that was the first
Speaker 3: question he was asked, but I think regardless, it was
Speaker 3: on his list of things to start with immediately, So
Speaker 3: I love that he really just expressed his concern for
Speaker 3: Damar and his family sending condolences. But I really thought
Speaker 3: was interesting though, is obviously all these teams across the
Speaker 3: NFL are you talking about damar talking about how it's
Speaker 3: impacted those players. And one of the things that Mike
Speaker 3: said that really stood out to me is that they
Speaker 3: opened the spiritual playbook today. They spent time with the
Speaker 3: team chaplain and really opened up, leaning into the emotions,
Speaker 3: what everyone was feeling, what everyone was not feeling, and
Speaker 3: really making sure that those guys are nourished from that way.
Speaker 3: And we've talked so often about how Mike McCarthy is
Speaker 3: a pros pro when it comes to taking care of
Speaker 3: these guys, but as you mentioned, this is unprecedented. We've
Speaker 3: never really seen an injury like this before. So he
Speaker 3: continues to impress me with his ability to be a
Speaker 3: player's coach, maybe in a little bit of a different
Speaker 3: way than we think of that word players coach. So
Speaker 3: that was the number one thing that stood out to me.
Speaker 3: Talked about making sure the guys had spiritual guidance. That's
Speaker 3: what they needed, he said, I wrote downs, be honest,
Speaker 3: no one is fine, no matter what we're saying. We
Speaker 3: know what's in front of us. But right now, spiritually,
Speaker 3: our playbook needed to be open. So I just thought
Speaker 3: it was really important that he was keeping those guys
Speaker 3: at the forefront, making sure that they're all looking out
Speaker 3: for one another. He also said that he did not
Speaker 3: see the play live. He said he heard about it.
Speaker 3: It was obviously jarring. He talked about experiences that he's
Speaker 3: had in the past with some players, so it really
Speaker 3: resonates with a lot of us. It hits a little
Speaker 3: bit personal to some of the players in the locker
Speaker 3: room as well, which we'll get into. But I really
Speaker 3: just thought, you know, it's just so challenging to put
Speaker 3: into words what everybody watched and what everybody saw and
Speaker 3: how we feel. And I really just loved that term
Speaker 3: spiritual playbook because you don't hear that a lot, and
Speaker 3: so I thought that it was really good that they
Speaker 3: were able to lean into that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, watching it and this is this is
Speaker 5: not a great comparison at all. It's actually maybe I
Speaker 5: should be careful and even making this comparison. But when
Speaker 5: we think about things that we've never seen live on
Speaker 5: television television before, I kind of go back a little
Speaker 5: bit to September eleventh. We had never seen planes crashing
Speaker 5: into a building. We'd never seen a football game stop
Speaker 5: down for as long as they did, typically with an injury.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think back to even Dak Prescott's injury,
Speaker 5: how brutal that was and seeing the emotions in his eyes,
Speaker 5: or I covered a Final Four game with the player
Speaker 5: from Louisville. I don't know if you guys remember how
Speaker 5: horrific that injury was. It was sort of like shock
Speaker 5: and all because you haven't seen it before. I think
Speaker 5: what really stood out watching that game because some weeks
Speaker 5: I have Monday Night Football on, and even I don't
Speaker 5: know if you guys know this, but would talking to
Speaker 5: some of the players in the locker room, I'm not
Speaker 5: sure every one of those guys had Monday Night Football
Speaker 5: on either, because a lot of players sort of take
Speaker 5: a break during the week.
Speaker 6: We've heard them say they're not.
Speaker 5: Watching, so they were sort of watching it as the
Speaker 5: highlights are coming through or whatever. But if you are
Speaker 5: watching it in real time the way that I was,
Speaker 5: and some of the guys that were, like Micah Parson
Speaker 5: said you thought it was a concussion and not saying
Speaker 5: that that's good either. But at least we were used
Speaker 5: to seeing some of that, particularly this year with Twatungua Bayolola,
Speaker 5: but he never gave the thumbs up. And when you
Speaker 5: see football players that you're so used to being superheroesque
Speaker 5: remove their helmets and you're seeing the shock on their faces,
Speaker 5: the concern, the prayers, the tears, you knew it was severe.
Speaker 5: And then when you've got broadcasters that have covered so
Speaker 5: many of these games nothing and very little to say,
Speaker 5: and you don't want to speculate.
Speaker 6: That's just again when I make that.
Speaker 5: Comparison, and again I understand it's a little bogus in
Speaker 5: it's like apples to oranges, But it was the shock
Speaker 5: and the raw emotion and the concern for people you
Speaker 5: didn't know is what it felt like. And then having
Speaker 5: people sort of marinate and digest this information a few
Speaker 5: days later, and I think it's good. The update that
Speaker 5: we've been getting is that he's beginning to breathe a
Speaker 5: little bit more on his own. His family members have
Speaker 5: been talking to some of the networks, and so it
Speaker 5: sounds like it's trending in the right direction.
Speaker 6: But as we talk about hitting a little.
Speaker 5: Closer to home, they're a two players that intimately know
Speaker 5: dMar Hamlin and one of those is Quadri Allison, the
Speaker 5: running back that we had acquired. He is from the
Speaker 5: Buffalo area. He told me went to Pittsburgh with Hamlin.
Speaker 5: He said they were really good friends for four years.
Speaker 5: They were texting just a few weeks ago. He commented
Speaker 5: on one of Quadre's fits that he was wearing ahead
Speaker 5: of the game, and he said he even flew up
Speaker 5: there for his draft party, and he was so excited
Speaker 5: when he got drafted to Buffalo because he was from there.
Speaker 5: And so he said, he and his teammates, he said,
Speaker 5: he act he's hit. He didn't even knowingly put on
Speaker 5: his pit shirt today, but he you know, he put
Speaker 5: it on. And he's been in constant contact with a
Speaker 5: lot of his friends and family. And I said, what's
Speaker 5: the one thing you want people to know about demor
Speaker 5: Hamlin that they may not. They're like, his nickname is
Speaker 5: the neighborhood hero, because that's who he was.
Speaker 6: He was a blue collar guy.
Speaker 5: And I said, what is it that you know about
Speaker 5: him that makes you confident he's going to get through this?
Speaker 5: And he goes, it's because he is that blue collar guy,
Speaker 5: he's that hard worker.
Speaker 6: He's going to figure this out.
Speaker 5: And so, but that's a guy that's in this Dallas
Speaker 5: Cowboys locker room that does a personal connection to him.
Speaker 5: Linebacker gabro Cox also was a pre draft workout partner
Speaker 5: with him, and so you don't have to necessarily know
Speaker 5: these guys personally. I think it hits close to home
Speaker 5: because all of these was mark Ingram recently said on
Speaker 5: k Adams Show he had his sister reach out to
Speaker 5: him and said, I wouldn't be mad if you quit
Speaker 5: playing football. You know, Like we've heard Tom Brady's wife
Speaker 5: talk about she didn't care that he was continuing to play,
Speaker 5: but every time she saw him in the game, she
Speaker 5: was worried about him. I think that goes for all
Speaker 5: family members, and you know, I just wonder you don't
Speaker 5: you know, you're aware of concussions, You're aware of injuries
Speaker 5: to your legs, your ankles, your knees, but when it's
Speaker 5: something as severe as that, I just wonder if there's
Speaker 5: some players that really take that to heart, because we
Speaker 5: have seen guys walk away from the game prematurely because
Speaker 5: they are concerned about their health. And so I think
Speaker 5: all of this is resonating. I think there's a lot
Speaker 5: of conversations being held both with players, coaches, teammates, but
Speaker 5: also I think internally with their families.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, and something I really I'm glad you bring up
Speaker 8: family because Mike McCarthy always says family first and then football,
Speaker 8: and he echoed that in his press conference this morning
Speaker 8: of this is the time to show family first. In
Speaker 8: this case, it's putting everybody on that team with each other,
Speaker 8: having each other's backs, making sure everybody's okay. And again
Speaker 8: we always praise Mike McCarthy on here for the mental
Speaker 8: health awareness, but just giving the praise really across the
Speaker 8: NFL to make sure that everybody is okay from what
Speaker 8: they saw because again the guys on the field, the
Speaker 8: coaching staff, giving kudos to even just the medical staff
Speaker 8: that acted so quickly. So just prioritizing all of those things.
Speaker 8: But absolutely, I think even I follow one of the
Speaker 8: recently signing of the Raiders players. His wife is viral
Speaker 8: on TikTok Alis and Kosh. I don't know if if
Speaker 8: you follow her, but she talked about it on TikTok
Speaker 8: and she just said, you know this, it's very close
Speaker 8: to home considering I go watch my husband play every
Speaker 8: day and you know, you don't think that this is
Speaker 8: going to happen to your loved one on the field,
Speaker 8: and so even when it happened, knowing that his mom
Speaker 8: was there in the stands having to see that, I
Speaker 8: can't I can't even imagine the emotions that she felt
Speaker 8: just seeing that and the shock. And now that it's
Speaker 8: been a few days, I think that shock factor from
Speaker 8: everybody's starting to come down and you see the reality
Speaker 8: of Okay, what do we do next. We make sure
Speaker 8: you know, everything's okay with everybody that was impacted, because
Speaker 8: it was just such a traumatic and shocking moment for
Speaker 8: everybody that, like you said, Jane, nobody's nobody's seen before.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, Clarence Hill on media Mash made a
Speaker 5: great point. You know Marcus Paul, the team strength and
Speaker 5: conditioning coach, when he went down last year, I remember
Speaker 5: how just shook a lot of these guys were because
Speaker 5: it happened in the weight room. They tried to revive
Speaker 5: him and they didn't, and those guys saw that and
Speaker 5: they ended up having to play after that. That was
Speaker 5: that was tough. I My heart goes out to a
Speaker 5: lot of these Bills players and the Bengals players, for
Speaker 5: that matter. You know, how can you focus on a
Speaker 5: football game when you when you see something like that,
Speaker 5: because there are things that feel, you know, bigger than
Speaker 5: the game itself. And so again there's there's only so
Speaker 5: much you can say. I hate pontificating on this too
Speaker 5: much because it wasn't my family member. I don't have
Speaker 5: a spouse or a loved one that's playing in this league.
Speaker 5: All I know is I cover this game. But my
Speaker 5: heart goes out to them. Is this feels like it's
Speaker 5: really hit close to home for a lot of people.
Speaker 9: It's a lot to consider, it's a lot to reevaluate on.
Speaker 9: And one of the things that Mike McCarthy said that
Speaker 9: stuck out to me and I'm sure we'll go for it,
Speaker 9: but was that he just was talking about each guy
Speaker 9: checking on the other guy, and just the fact that
Speaker 9: there's guys in this locker room that are connected to Hamlin.
Speaker 9: It just reminds me of so much of my military time.
Speaker 9: Like in just a military in general, it's so big,
Speaker 9: but it's so small, and the NFL's like that, like
Speaker 9: a lot of these guys do know each other. A
Speaker 9: lot of these guys did go to college together, were
Speaker 9: roommates together across the league, and just to see how
Speaker 9: it's affecting everyone is something that I think I've seen,
Speaker 9: but just on a different level. So it's it's just
Speaker 9: I don't know, it's an emotional thing.
Speaker 5: That is, you do bring something interesting when I think
Speaker 5: about that, You know, because you were in such a
Speaker 5: group of people that you kind of know what you're
Speaker 5: getting yourself into, right, And then there are these unexpected situations.
Speaker 6: When it does hit close to home. What is that
Speaker 6: like for It's different.
Speaker 9: It takes quite a bit of time. It took me
Speaker 9: quite a bit of time to snap back into being
Speaker 9: a warrior because when I was in uniform, I took
Speaker 9: it very seriously and I felt like I snapped into
Speaker 9: a place.
Speaker 6: To where my survival was it.
Speaker 9: And it was hard for me to rationalize a lot
Speaker 9: of emotions because you don't have the time to feel
Speaker 9: that sometimes. And with them taking this time off right
Speaker 9: now and the team kind of taking some time away,
Speaker 9: it probably is setting in for a lot of guys.
Speaker 9: I had it plenty of times in my military career
Speaker 9: where I was like, what am I.
Speaker 6: Doing right now? And not in a bad.
Speaker 9: Way, because you do that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 9: But I know for me and people that I've seen
Speaker 9: and plenty of other veterans, and it takes quite a
Speaker 9: bit of time to snap back into it, and you.
Speaker 6: Have to have people around you. You have to have support.
Speaker 9: So hearing the outpouring of support and people around everyone
Speaker 9: is the first start to me is that everyone's in communication,
Speaker 9: because that I think that's what hurts a lot of veterans,
Speaker 9: and I'm sure is what happens hurts a lot of
Speaker 9: athletes as well.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to add really quick because I was
Speaker 3: trying to get this in earlier, but I wanted to
Speaker 3: list you guys talk the update that the bills, the
Speaker 3: latest that they posted about tomorrow. They said tomorrow remains
Speaker 3: in the ICU and critical condition, with signs of improvement
Speaker 3: noted yesterday and overnight. He's expected to remain under intensive
Speaker 3: care as his healthcare team continues to monitor and treat him.
Speaker 3: That was at twelve thirty today. I believe that's the
Speaker 3: most recent update. But to your point of the military background,
Speaker 3: I obviously have never experienced that before, and I always
Speaker 3: give you so much praise for doing what you've done,
Speaker 3: for you know this country and for your family and everything.
Speaker 3: I spend a little bit of time in college in
Speaker 3: athletic training for a couple of years, and one of
Speaker 3: the last projects or last projects, one of the last
Speaker 3: checkpoints you have to make as an athletic trainer is spineboarding.
Speaker 3: You have spineboarding, and then you also have any type
Speaker 3: of like heart condition, how you would handle that on
Speaker 3: the field. And I remember that being like the scariest
Speaker 3: thing to have to pass, because when you think about
Speaker 3: spineboarding and how every single person within that group has
Speaker 3: to do everything exactly perfect otherwise that person is going
Speaker 3: to lose their life.
Speaker 6: It's terrifying.
Speaker 3: That being said, I can't imagine what it's like having
Speaker 3: to be a medical professional, you know, in that scenario
Speaker 3: and you've trained for this kind of stuff. I believe
Speaker 3: the term that's floating around, and I don't want to
Speaker 3: say that this is for sure, because I'm obviously not
Speaker 3: a doctor, but commocio cordis is what's been floating around
Speaker 3: where you get an impact at the exact wrong time
Speaker 3: that your heart is beating and it just shuts everything
Speaker 3: down and you go into cardiac rest. So I can't imagine,
Speaker 3: you know, you do this every day, right like you're
Speaker 3: athletic trainer, you're a doctor, a medical professional, and you
Speaker 3: are ready for this moment until it happens, and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, and for them to be able
Speaker 3: to you know, keep their cool and to keep this
Speaker 3: kid alive, and to keep everybody around them cool, calm
Speaker 3: and collected, and to do what they do. I can't
Speaker 3: speak enough on how much medical professionals are so underrated
Speaker 3: a lot of time and so incredibly necessary. And you know,
Speaker 3: so as we say, you know, our prayers for Jamar Hamlin,
Speaker 3: I'm like prayers to those athletic trainers, prayers to those
Speaker 3: doctors for being able to keep them alive. And I
Speaker 3: also think the one of the most important parts of
Speaker 3: Monday night's game is when both teams came to the
Speaker 3: field and they surrounded Tomorrow so that we couldn't see.
Speaker 3: And I thought that that was such Initially when it happened,
Speaker 3: you were like, what are you doing, Like why are
Speaker 3: you guys on the field to give them some space,
Speaker 3: But obviously retrospect I just thought that that was so
Speaker 3: incredible that they wanted him to even in that moment,
Speaker 3: to say.
Speaker 6: To have some dignity space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I keep when I think about what's happen.
Speaker 3: That's like literally the picture that's up on my Twitter
Speaker 3: right now, it's just like that powerful moment. So we're
Speaker 3: obviously all rooting for him, We're for him, and we're
Speaker 3: hoping for the best. So it sounds like he's improving.
Speaker 3: So that's really good.
Speaker 8: And speaking of the medical staff too, something that popped
Speaker 8: up on my timeline because you know, a lot of
Speaker 8: things were coming up. But Chris Progner, he was in
Speaker 8: the NHL and back in nineteen ninety eight, it was
Speaker 8: in a playoff game, something very similar had happened to him,
Speaker 8: and so he tweeted out giving kudos to the medical
Speaker 8: staff that saved his life that day when it happened
Speaker 8: on the ice again it was a blow to the
Speaker 8: chest that he suffered. He posted the video and he
Speaker 8: just gave absolute kudos to say, if the medical staff
Speaker 8: hadn't acted so quickly, I don't know if I would
Speaker 8: be here. Chris went on to play I think the
Speaker 8: next week after all of that, so he said, if
Speaker 8: it wasn't for that medical staff, I would not have
Speaker 8: ever step foot on the ice again. And so again
Speaker 8: that was that was back in the nineties. That was
Speaker 8: what twenty five years ago that that happened. So this
Speaker 8: is not something that you see often and it's not
Speaker 8: something that you ever want to see in any sport.
Speaker 8: And so yeah, just so many kudos to the medical
Speaker 8: staff that acted quickly to save his life.
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Speaker 6: We have got some injury updates this Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Cowboys one makes me very happy. Tyler Biattish
Speaker 3: out with an ankle injury. Did not practice, but as
Speaker 3: we've talked about, he's looking to be pretty good for
Speaker 3: the playoffs, so that's positive. Kelvin Joseph missed today with
Speaker 3: a tooth injury, and then the same thing with Tank.
Speaker 6: He's got that foot injury. He's been limited with.
Speaker 3: Tony Pollard was a full participant and Leyton vander Esch
Speaker 3: was limited, So positive signs there. I was joking with
Speaker 3: Patrick earlier on Twitter because when we got the Washington
Speaker 3: Commander's injury report, both of us had the same idea.
Speaker 6: I was going to tweet he beat me to it.
Speaker 3: But like, is everybody using like their unused PTO today
Speaker 3: because everyone's not practicing. Their entire list of guys did
Speaker 3: not practice. You've got Jonathan Allen, Say, Charles cam Carl Mean, Davis,
Speaker 3: Antonio Gibson, Cornelius Lucas, Andrew Norwell, Brian Robinson Junior, James Smith, Williams,
Speaker 3: Benjamin Saint just and Montes Sweat. All did not practice
Speaker 3: for various reasons. There's a couple concussions.
Speaker 5: On there, so Montes Sweat not on there at Jonathan Allen,
Speaker 5: what's his what's his status?
Speaker 3: Jonathan Allen has a knee injury. Montes Sweat is an illness.
Speaker 3: I imagine he'll be fine.
Speaker 5: But it was a do not participate or did not
Speaker 5: practice for Jonathan Allen.
Speaker 3: Every single player I just listed did not practice and
Speaker 3: that is the Washington Commander's practice report. So, like I said,
Speaker 3: a little bit of a PTO lingering over from the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two year. They wanted to get out of
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 5: So Ron Rivera didn't seem like he had ah didn't
Speaker 5: seem like he necessarily had a plan to sit or
Speaker 5: play his starters just yet, and he talked about the
Speaker 5: importance of having them available next year. This is a
Speaker 5: seven and eight seven eight and one team.
Speaker 6: They've gone through.
Speaker 5: How many different quarterbacks, Haley, We had this fun little
Speaker 5: stat earlier.
Speaker 3: They have been through three quarterbacks this season. Let me
Speaker 3: find it, eight different starters though under Ron Rivera in
Speaker 3: three seasons, and Sam Howell will now be the thirty
Speaker 3: third quarterback to start since Washington's nineteen ninety one Super
Speaker 3: Bowl victory.
Speaker 6: So now let's talk about Sam Howe.
Speaker 5: Sam Howe has never had an NFL start. They're going
Speaker 5: to play him against the Cowboys because, as Ron Rivera
Speaker 5: incredulously learned in the postgame last weekend, they're eliminated. There were,
Speaker 5: to be fair, there were a couple of scenarios that
Speaker 5: needed to happen for them to be eliminated. But this
Speaker 5: press conference announcing Sam Howe as a starter. After this morning,
Speaker 5: it was leaked that Taylor Heineke was going to get
Speaker 5: the start after Carson Wentz was an absolute disaster inactive. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: Carson Wentz may yeah, he may not even dress out
Speaker 5: for this one. He was sixteen of twenty eight for
Speaker 5: one hundred and forty three yards, three picks in a
Speaker 5: rushing touchdown. So we're hearing this morning early and I'm
Speaker 5: prepping for the week that Taylor Heineke's getting the start,
Speaker 5: Which makes sense, right because I think Taylor has not.
Speaker 5: I thought he's been decent in some of his starts.
Speaker 5: A lot of people were shocked that he wasn't your starter.
Speaker 5: Last weekend here's Ron Rivera confusing us all and if
Speaker 5: i'm Sam Howe, I'm like man, the bar has been
Speaker 5: set pretty low. Here here's the sound jazz can he
Speaker 5: plays for us.
Speaker 4: Well, I think at first initially is obviously it's it
Speaker 4: would be his first start, and it would become a
Speaker 4: little bit of a circus, you know, having to deal
Speaker 4: with all the things that come with being a starter.
Speaker 4: But also uh, you know, you look at the opponent
Speaker 4: and who you're playing and what they're playing for. You know,
Speaker 4: going with Taylor would have given us an opportunity to
Speaker 4: see what they're doing, how they're doing it, and would
Speaker 4: have given Sam a chance to take a look at it,
Speaker 4: you know, if we had gone with Taylor. But you know,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, you know, at some
Speaker 4: point if if Sam ever gets the opportunity to be
Speaker 4: a start of this, would the chance why not get
Speaker 4: it over with now and go from there. But the
Speaker 4: most important thing is that we're really intrigued in terms
Speaker 4: of watching and seeing what Sam can do as a
Speaker 4: as a quarterback in this leg.
Speaker 6: I just want to get it out of the way.
Speaker 6: This is a tryout, right, just want to see what
Speaker 6: he Of course it's a trial. This is a tryout
Speaker 6: right now, like they was you.
Speaker 3: Though, because he is I was reading earlier too that
Speaker 3: he is the only quarterback that is guaranteed to come
Speaker 3: back next year.
Speaker 6: So I get the trial.
Speaker 5: Yeah, want to know what you got, But it does
Speaker 5: it does present an interesting challenge for the Cowboys. And
Speaker 5: I asked Marcus Lawrence about this and Micah Parsons. You know,
Speaker 5: if we think about it, in the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 5: they've seen a lot of quarterbacks they haven't had a
Speaker 5: lot of looks on, but.
Speaker 6: They've got nothing on this guy.
Speaker 5: Now. Mica did talk about a little bit of familiarity
Speaker 5: given the fact they were both in the same draft
Speaker 5: class and you're sort of familiar with some of these guys,
Speaker 5: and he talked about this as a guy you know,
Speaker 5: going to have to respect here, but you don't. Someone
Speaker 5: brought up this interesting point. You knew what you were
Speaker 5: getting with Carson Wentz, like who his guy was, right,
Speaker 5: you knew that when you've got Taylor Heineke, who his
Speaker 5: guys like Cooper Rush.
Speaker 6: We knew his guy was like sort of Noah Brown.
Speaker 6: Who's Sam Howell's guy.
Speaker 9: I think I caught some preseason looks at him, and
Speaker 9: he likes Johan Dotson even creeped and found some training
Speaker 9: camp stuff.
Speaker 6: From them, and I think a chance.
Speaker 9: The thing about Sam Man is like he's just a
Speaker 9: oh no, he just seems like a gamer, like he's
Speaker 9: ready to go, but he's shifty. He has some dual
Speaker 9: threat ability, and he also is not afraid to throw
Speaker 9: the ball downfield.
Speaker 3: He's not afraid to throw the ball. Sorry. He was
Speaker 3: forty three, yes, sixty nine for twenty three yards. No,
Speaker 3: that's forty three of sixty nine. He's sixty two percent
Speaker 3: completion five and forty seven passing yards.
Speaker 5: I mean, I just feel like Ron Rivera at this
Speaker 5: point is sort of putting his hands up in the
Speaker 5: air and saying one not I give it nine sacks.
Speaker 8: So what's interesting, too is Ron Rivera talked about how
Speaker 8: this kind of all came to be, and so when
Speaker 8: Carson Wins got injured, he was taking a lot of
Speaker 8: the backup quarterback reps, but he was told, you need
Speaker 8: to work on your footwork. And your decision making, and
Speaker 8: so now you know, Ron Rivera went on to say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 8: we had conversations with players and coaches and all of
Speaker 8: the stuff we day.
Speaker 6: I can tell you ye, no, they didn't to say.
Speaker 8: That he fixed those things. And so it's just very
Speaker 8: interesting that the decision was made so sporadically. But yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Mean, there's more to let me do it, trust me
Speaker 6: on this story. Oh we do.
Speaker 3: I just also feel like, though, like, what do they
Speaker 3: have to lose in this?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean? The probably just like, look,
Speaker 5: Washington's been a spoiler before. That's what I'm saying, and like,
Speaker 5: and this is why I bring all this up and
Speaker 5: we'll get a little bit more into it tomorrow. Offense
Speaker 5: has been a little spotty, as you talk about John
Speaker 5: Dottson though he leads the team and receiving touchdowns with seven,
Speaker 5: he's got what thirty two catches four or fifty one yards,
Speaker 5: but it's their pass rush that's top ten in the league.
Speaker 5: And in fact, when I'm looking at their defense here
Speaker 5: hold on.
Speaker 6: Oh back, it's insane.
Speaker 1: They're front seven.
Speaker 5: I mean, they heavily invested in this side of the ball.
Speaker 5: And even as who was it I was talking to today.
Speaker 6: I was talking to a bunch of.
Speaker 5: Offensive linemen and they said, they're front seven. Guys are studs.
Speaker 5: This is Connor McGovern. They always win their one on ones.
Speaker 5: And I think that's interesting that they do have a
Speaker 5: very very good defense now. And I'm also looking at
Speaker 5: this offensive line for the Cowboys. I have never seen
Speaker 5: so many different combination shifts. And I asked Zach Martin
Speaker 5: in all your time you played it, Notre Dame, you
Speaker 5: played in Dallas, fierce and anything like this.
Speaker 6: He said no.
Speaker 5: And I said, at one point, did you guys ever
Speaker 5: get a little frustrated that you were playing so many
Speaker 5: different guys at a position? He said, yeah, he said,
Speaker 5: but look how much how well it's working at this
Speaker 5: point this year. In fact, it was Connor McGovern Tyler
Speaker 5: Biattis who told me that during the week, going through
Speaker 5: my copious notes listeners, there's that AMR stuff. Ten to
Speaker 5: twelve breaths a week is how much. Yeah, tended to
Speaker 5: twelve reps a week. They practice these guys out of position,
Speaker 5: and so they've just they've been doing this just in case,
Speaker 5: not obviously, not to this degree that they expect that
Speaker 5: they were going to need to do this. But it
Speaker 5: is wild to me that you can go in game
Speaker 5: and just say, hey, Connor, we're going to kick you
Speaker 5: in to center. We're gonna move Jason Peters over to
Speaker 5: left tackle, and hey Tyler, who's a rookie, We've already
Speaker 5: put a lot on your plate this year.
Speaker 6: Bud, you're gonna move over to left guard? Is that cool?
Speaker 6: And they seem to be doing okay. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 6: normal at all.
Speaker 5: And then I think what was really fascinating to me
Speaker 5: is I did listen to this comment from Stephen Jones
Speaker 5: on One to Fight through the Fan when we talked
Speaker 5: about the high ankle sprain for Connor McGovern eric Tyler botdish.
Speaker 6: And he's like, I gotta keep it together. And he said,
Speaker 6: Tyler beyotdish.
Speaker 5: When you've it's the same high ankle sprain on the
Speaker 5: same ankle, it tends to heal quicker.
Speaker 6: And I said, what is that like? Explain that to me.
Speaker 6: Are you like a starfish?
Speaker 5: And Tyler said, look, I'm no doctor. He said, but
Speaker 5: it's kind of almost like a muscle memory, like it
Speaker 5: knows what to do. And so he feels good. You've
Speaker 5: talked about this before. He feels like he's going to
Speaker 5: be ready to go by playoffs. But to have this
Speaker 5: sort of flexibility on the offensive line is something we've
Speaker 5: not seen in Dallas, and they've had themselves in a
Speaker 5: tough position and we've knocked Joe Filben. I don't know
Speaker 5: if it's been on this show, but it's been on
Speaker 5: at least media match before when we looked at this
Speaker 5: offensive line.
Speaker 6: But say what you will about Joe.
Speaker 5: And I even said this to Joe Filban as he
Speaker 5: walked out of the locker room the other day. I go, Huh,
Speaker 5: they're really making you earn that paycheck this year, aren't they.
Speaker 5: And he just kind of gave this, like I mean,
Speaker 5: it's been a lot for coach, and like I said,
Speaker 5: credit to him, and credit to these guys who have
Speaker 5: stepped up the way that they have this year and
Speaker 5: even in the draft process in recent years. Remember they
Speaker 5: keep talking about they want position flex at certain positions, and.
Speaker 6: You know it's worked out for him.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say earlier, as someone who has
Speaker 3: literally one ligament left in both of my ankles after
Speaker 3: twenty plus years of competitive soccer, it's a weird phenomenon.
Speaker 3: With I don't know if this is like with knees
Speaker 3: or with any other body part. I can only speak
Speaker 3: on ankles because mine are terrible. But it is this
Speaker 3: thing like now, it's so funny. I'll be walking and
Speaker 3: I'll just like roll my ankle and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: and then it hurts for like five minutes or depending
Speaker 3: on the severity of it, it hurts for a little bit,
Speaker 3: and then like the next day it's fine. So I
Speaker 3: would love to know. I'd love to sit down and
Speaker 3: chat with the science as far as like why that
Speaker 3: is what it is. But I can confirm as a
Speaker 3: source that I don't know what it is about ankles,
Speaker 3: but they do that.
Speaker 6: Thing so well.
Speaker 5: Connorc Governn did say something interesting to me too today.
Speaker 5: So I said, when you're in practice, you know, it's
Speaker 5: a different look moving from a guard position to a center.
Speaker 5: And he says he catches himself at times because there
Speaker 5: is a different level of spotting and you're setting the
Speaker 5: offense and the offensive line as a center, and so
Speaker 5: as a guard you're looking at certain things. But he says,
Speaker 5: I'm catching myself in practice and even film study. Oh
Speaker 5: wait a minute, that's not my job. This week, and
Speaker 5: so I do think that that's interesting. And you know,
Speaker 5: luckily offensive line is typically your smartest guys on the
Speaker 5: team that they're able to sort of figure.
Speaker 6: The stuff out.
Speaker 5: But I mean, it just felt like this guy was
Speaker 5: falling at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 6: Just losing Tyron Smith.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you've lost every guy on this line
Speaker 5: except for Zach Martin this season.
Speaker 6: Am I wrong on that?
Speaker 8: I think Tyler Tyler Yeah, and Tyler's been yeah.
Speaker 9: And Tyler then he did with an ankle or something
Speaker 9: for a little bit, but he was still playing.
Speaker 3: The Tyler's missed a game.
Speaker 6: They didn't miss a game. We did.
Speaker 9: There you go Barnacles, No, you brought up Now you
Speaker 9: brought up the offensive line. And going into this game
Speaker 9: because of how good this it could get.
Speaker 5: Physical, because that Tennessee game was physically Yeah, say what
Speaker 5: you will about Tennessee. They brought Mike Rabel always brings
Speaker 5: those guys, and that was that was a that was
Speaker 5: a tough game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And if this if this defensive line, like, if you
Speaker 9: don't know how good they are, well, number one, you
Speaker 9: brought up how beefy they are. I'm like, they they
Speaker 9: drafted those guys to stop the Cowboys run game, Like,
Speaker 9: of course it's gonna be like that, but I was
Speaker 9: gonna say, I like what they do defensively with their
Speaker 9: front seven, and with the Cowboys. They the last time
Speaker 9: they played the Commanders, they had put up like one
Speaker 9: hundred and seventy eight yards on the ground against the
Speaker 9: Giants the week before and came out against the Commanders
Speaker 9: and could barely run the ball. I think they only
Speaker 9: average like two point nine yards of carry, was very minimal.
Speaker 9: So if that doesn't tell you how well this front
Speaker 9: seven can defend, obviously, you've got some guys coming in
Speaker 9: this offensive line, in this offense that's kind of been
Speaker 9: weird with running the ball this last couple of weeks.
Speaker 9: You're trying to find some good traction going into the playoffs.
Speaker 9: I would like to see how well they schematically figure
Speaker 9: out ways to run the ball, get the tight ends involved,
Speaker 9: stuff like that in this game.
Speaker 5: I love that you brought that up, because Zach Martin
Speaker 5: and I did have that discussion. I said, how much
Speaker 5: does it help that you've had tighten help this year?
Speaker 5: And he mentioned the fact, I mean, look how many
Speaker 5: times we've gone to four tight end sets and I said, specifically,
Speaker 5: what does that do to an opposing defense? He said,
Speaker 5: when you've got big body guys that have speed on
Speaker 5: you, you've really got it just as a defense with the
Speaker 5: personnel that you're putting out in the field. And so
Speaker 5: it has been a distinct advantage. And he says he
Speaker 5: also can't remember when you've had a running back duo
Speaker 5: that has been as effective. In fact, I think it
Speaker 5: was brought up today, the Cowboys have never had a
Speaker 5: running back duo. We're both have gone for nine hundred
Speaker 5: and over and you've got Zeke that I think is
Speaker 5: like what one hundred and forty shy of getting a
Speaker 5: thousand yards a season, and you've got Tony Pollard who
Speaker 5: only needs twelve. So kudos to them for you know, again,
Speaker 5: we've we were talking about this in media mash. This
Speaker 5: is the most heavily scrutinized twelve win team besides the
Speaker 5: Vikings this season. But the things that we've seen in
Speaker 5: Dallas are different than seeing things that we've seen in
Speaker 5: Dallas in years past. They've talked about wanting a commitment
Speaker 5: to the run game, we've seen it. We've talked about
Speaker 5: the importance of it's not always the guys on the
Speaker 5: roster that should be playing. It's the most talented guys
Speaker 5: and we're seeing that. I mean, think about the amount
Speaker 5: of looks at Peyton Hendershot and Jake Ferguson have gotten
Speaker 5: over your franchise tag guy, Dalton Schultz at times, Tony
Speaker 5: Pollard over Ezekiel, and it's not necessarily over. It's sort
Speaker 5: of saving the legs of some of these guys, so
Speaker 5: you have a fresher look sometimes.
Speaker 8: Something too I wanted to throw in. While we're on
Speaker 8: the topic of tight ends and on the other side
Speaker 8: of the ball, Washington I think is going to use
Speaker 8: a lot of their younger tight ends to try to
Speaker 8: mimic that same model that the Cowboys have put out
Speaker 8: with this tight end group, because well, you have a
Speaker 8: brand new quarterback who was making his NFL start. You
Speaker 8: need all the protection you can get. So these young
Speaker 8: tight ends, specifically John Bates and Cole Turner, I think,
Speaker 8: are going to get their reps in for this game.
Speaker 8: Logan Thomas Clutch for Washington, but John Baits specifically last
Speaker 8: couple of years not impressive. I mean, in twenty twenty
Speaker 8: one he averaged four nearly fifteen yards per game and
Speaker 8: then this year nearly eight. But Cole Turner had his
Speaker 8: best game in Thursday night against the Bears. He had
Speaker 8: two targets for twenty three yards, but one of which
Speaker 8: was eighteen yards. Not impressive with the passing, but I
Speaker 8: think when it comes to blocking and making sure that
Speaker 8: Sam Howell is protected, I think the tight ends for
Speaker 8: Washington are going to play a big part in that.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy said something interesting today too, whenever he was asked,
Speaker 3: you know, how do you prepare for you know, different
Speaker 3: quarterbacks or what you're looking for when you have these
Speaker 3: types of matchups, and he says he looks at three
Speaker 3: different things from a statistic in an analytical standpoint, he
Speaker 3: looks at time of possession, rushes and completions for your offense,
Speaker 3: and rushes and completions allowed.
Speaker 6: So I went back and.
Speaker 3: Looked at Washington and how well they do that. We
Speaker 3: know that they have the best third down defense in
Speaker 3: the league, which I think will be very interesting matching
Speaker 3: up with Team White, Hilt Yes and the rest of
Speaker 3: the Cowboys offense. Factoring in the tight ends, because when
Speaker 3: you looked at the last matchup, you didn't really have
Speaker 3: the established tight ends the way they have established and developed.
Speaker 3: Now you mentioned being limited on the ground. I think
Speaker 3: Zeke had like fourteen carries for forty nine yards and
Speaker 3: Tony was like six carries for eight yards, So it
Speaker 3: wasn't very good from that perspective, but again, the one
Speaker 3: two punches developed. So when you look at those things
Speaker 3: that Mike McCarthy was talking about time of possession, Washington
Speaker 3: leads the league in time of possession.
Speaker 6: They've had the ball.
Speaker 3: For five and four five hundred and thirty more minutes
Speaker 3: and thirty five seconds, but they've only scored thirty three
Speaker 3: touchdowns in that time and they've only scored two hundred
Speaker 3: and ninety five points, so eighteen point four points per game.
Speaker 3: That's what you're looking at with that Washington team. As
Speaker 3: far as the rushes and the completions. From a passing standpoint,
Speaker 3: they've had three hundred and twenty three first downs. That's
Speaker 3: not important though, because I'm at the wrong part of
Speaker 3: my notes. They've had nineteen nine hundred ninety two rushing
Speaker 3: yards on four hundred and ninety seven attempts. That's good
Speaker 3: for fourteenth and eighth in the NFL. This season. They're
Speaker 3: averaging about four yards per carry. From a passing standpoint,
Speaker 3: they've thrown for three thousand, six hundred and fourteen yards
Speaker 3: on five hundred and thirty four attempts, good for twenty
Speaker 3: first and nineteenth in the league. They're getting about six
Speaker 3: point eight yards per pass from whichever quarterback lines up
Speaker 3: behind center. And I think that that is important because
Speaker 3: you talk about the defense being so effective. Defense wins championships, yes,
Speaker 3: but if your offense isn't complementing that, we've seen that
Speaker 3: with this Cowboys team, you're not going to get very
Speaker 3: far right. So, sure that the defense can hold you great,
Speaker 3: but if your offense isn't producing, that number is right there,
Speaker 3: tells you that they're going to have to work a
Speaker 3: little bit harder. Now you're factoring in a quarterback who's
Speaker 3: never gotten true game reps. I think this bow really
Speaker 3: well for the Cowboys. I also went back and looked
Speaker 3: at those same numbers for the Cowboys just for reference,
Speaker 3: so I could understand. Daubts ranks sixteenth in time of
Speaker 3: possession four hundred and seventy nine minutes and fifty seven seconds,
Speaker 3: but they've scored fifty four touchdowns four hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: one points, They are second in the NFL with twenty
Speaker 3: eight point eight points per game. They have passed for
Speaker 3: three thousand, seven hundred and eighty three yards on five
Speaker 3: hundred and eighteenth passes. That's good for sixteenth and twentieth
Speaker 3: in the league. As for rushing, they have rushed for
Speaker 3: two thousand, two hundred and thirty four yards on five
Speaker 3: hundred and four carries. That is good for seventh and
Speaker 3: fifth in the NFL. So we've talked about it time
Speaker 3: and time again on this podcast. How do you get
Speaker 3: your offense to go? You lean on the run game.
Speaker 3: I think this is a really good opportunity to get
Speaker 3: Zeke and Tony to that thousand yard mark and to
Speaker 3: really show like we're going into the playoffs on high note.
Speaker 5: I think the good news when you look at this
Speaker 5: game is offensively, they're bottom of the barrel this year,
Speaker 5: so you're not going to find yourself necessarily in a shootout.
Speaker 6: But this defense is tough.
Speaker 5: I mean, to your point, they are the fourth rate
Speaker 5: total defense fourteenth and scoring defense fourteenth, and rushing D
Speaker 5: fifth in scoring D and then as you said, first
Speaker 5: and third down and they're also tenth and sacks. So
Speaker 5: this is gonna be a tough team defensively, That's why
Speaker 5: you need your offense on. But I don't think the
Speaker 5: Cowbys gonna get themselves in a shootout that we've seen
Speaker 5: in some of these other games this year.
Speaker 6: But I was there in Nashville, Yall. That was a
Speaker 6: nasty game. Finding out umbrella. I pathetic.
Speaker 5: I had a lot of people reaching out to me, going, Jane,
Speaker 5: it's only like fifty something degrees and you look like
Speaker 5: I'm like when you are standing out in the cold
Speaker 5: rain from I was there from eleven o'clock until what
Speaker 5: eleven pm that night. Yeah, I'm dressed for the elements, folks,
Speaker 5: and I'll be dressed for the elements again this weekend.
Speaker 5: But hearing Josh Dobbs right before I went on NFL
Speaker 5: Now was going to start, I often wonder if Ron
Speaker 5: Rivera should have just held off on this one and
Speaker 5: released this one a little bit, because I feel like
Speaker 5: they were caught off guard. And when I asked them
Speaker 5: of the players about that, they even said they were
Speaker 5: caught off guard for a little then they sort of
Speaker 5: adjusted not to somewhere from what we saw at the
Speaker 5: Houston Texans game. So there we have it. We love
Speaker 5: Micah Parsons around here. I don't know if I'm speaking
Speaker 5: for the group, but I think I can speak for
Speaker 5: the group. He's always some one of my favorite SoundBite.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you.
Speaker 5: Guys watched the game, he was playing with a clubbed hand.
Speaker 5: Is that going to be the case against Washington? Will
Speaker 5: update and what exactly happened to Micah's hand?
Speaker 6: It's club gate. We've got that.
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Speaker 5: All right, in the break, you guys want to talk
Speaker 5: about it. I have not been the most respectful to
Speaker 5: James Washington. When I talked about James Washington always said
Speaker 5: I didn't want to talk about him because he didn't
Speaker 5: do anything in Pittsburgh and I didn't see him do
Speaker 5: anything here, and sadly he was injured and we didn't
Speaker 5: get to see it. Jess, I know you love talking
Speaker 5: about him in the talking to him in the locker
Speaker 5: room and developed a great relationship.
Speaker 6: I'll pour out my water for him thoughts in prayers.
Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy said that he hoped to see him again,
Speaker 5: and I do hope he gets another opportunity. But the
Speaker 5: writing was on the wall when he saw t Y
Speaker 5: and he had an opportunity and unfortunately it didn't come through.
Speaker 5: So I don't need to be disrespectful to him. I
Speaker 5: respect everyone in their jobs. But James Washington no longer here,
Speaker 5: all right, p all right, let's move on. Micah Parsons.
Speaker 5: He was playing with a club to hand in this game.
Speaker 6: He went.
Speaker 5: I asked somebody last week, I said, what happened to
Speaker 5: MICA's hand?
Speaker 6: And they said, he cut it? I said, well, what
Speaker 6: do you mean? And no one would explain it.
Speaker 5: To me, And so it's this big, mysterious thing. And
Speaker 5: then it was funny. Clarence Hill reminded me that Des
Speaker 5: Bryant also similarly had to cut hand a few years ago,
Speaker 5: and when we asked Dez about it, he said he
Speaker 5: was cutting carrots for.
Speaker 6: A soup, which was not the case. It wasn't even
Speaker 6: a big deal.
Speaker 5: What actually happened to it, Clarence and I knew, but
Speaker 5: we never reported, and again not a big deal. But
Speaker 5: because Des never put it out there, we didn't feel
Speaker 5: like it was important to put it out. So Micah
Speaker 5: is having a similar approach to this club. We will
Speaker 5: never know what happened to the clubhand, but I think
Speaker 5: what's most important is he played through it.
Speaker 3: He will not have a club as well. I think
Speaker 3: that's also equally as important is that I did think
Speaker 3: It was interesting too, though, because I was actually paying
Speaker 3: attentions that during his press conference, and the whole time
Speaker 3: he just kept it tucked away in his little pocket.
Speaker 3: And there was at one point where he lifted the
Speaker 3: opposite hand and I was like, is that the one?
Speaker 3: Is that the hand? And he kept it you could
Speaker 3: tell it in his hoodie pocket like he was moving
Speaker 3: it as he was talking about it. But he was
Speaker 3: very adamant about keeping it in that pocket.
Speaker 6: As Clarence yes to me.
Speaker 5: I don't know, Clarence wasn't an avenger with it, you know,
Speaker 5: as Clarence said, it was probably he was doing some
Speaker 5: clown stuff. So whatever he did he doesn't want to
Speaker 5: talk about, and that's fine. There are some things that
Speaker 5: are meant to stay in the locker room, and so
Speaker 5: if he don't want to talk about it, I'm not
Speaker 5: going to dig too much. And like I said, as
Speaker 5: long as he was able to play through it, yep.
Speaker 6: It's kind of like when someone.
Speaker 5: Shows up to work and they're a little hungover. As
Speaker 5: long as they do their job. But I can't really tell.
Speaker 6: I don't. I'm like, as long as you play hard, whatever,
Speaker 6: I'll do it.
Speaker 5: Not to say I haven't done that several times in
Speaker 5: my professional career got harder as I got older. Oh
Speaker 5: my goodness, ladies, it's New Year's and as we get
Speaker 5: into that, one of my New Year's resolutions is I'm
Speaker 5: doing what everyone's doing.
Speaker 6: I'm on the Keto diet.
Speaker 5: But part of that, to accelerate my Keto neish was
Speaker 5: to give up alcohol for the month, which is honestly
Speaker 5: not that hard for me.
Speaker 6: Just so that was Yes, that's one of my New
Speaker 6: Year's resolutions. But I also thought we'd have.
Speaker 5: A little fun with this when it comes to the
Speaker 5: Dallas Cowboys in the new year moving forward, Here's what
Speaker 5: you will do and what you won't do. So I'll
Speaker 5: go first, ladies, in the new year, I won't doubt
Speaker 5: the rookie class ever again, so many robust playmakers, namely
Speaker 5: Deron Bland, and I honestly didn't expect him to have
Speaker 5: the season he did. Here's what I will continue to do.
Speaker 5: I will continue to pound the table for more. T
Speaker 5: Y Hilton, he's not just a third down guy. He's
Speaker 5: a take it to the house guy.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 6: He wants to go next with her.
Speaker 9: What I will and won't goal said, Yeah, this is
Speaker 9: so good.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Go next what I will do, write what I will
Speaker 3: do or did you do what you want?
Speaker 5: She will do in the new year, and what she
Speaker 5: won't do in the new year as it relates to
Speaker 5: the Dallas Cowboy.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm gonna do I won't. First.
Speaker 3: What I won't do in the new year is talk
Speaker 3: any mess about Ceedee Lamb there, because he, like that,
Speaker 3: has had a phenomenal season.
Speaker 6: I think he is peaking at the right time.
Speaker 3: That cliche of it's not how you start, how you finish.
Speaker 3: I was comparing some of his numbers to some of
Speaker 3: the best guys in the league right now, guys like
Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson, a J. Brown, and he's right on pace
Speaker 3: with those guys. He's a top ten receiver. So I
Speaker 3: will not ever not consider Ceedde Lamb an elite wide
Speaker 3: receiver ever.
Speaker 5: Again, put some respect on his name, FOT and some respect.
Speaker 5: And I need to raise my hand there too, because
Speaker 5: I was quite vocal at the being of the season.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, he has not embraced this number one
Speaker 5: wide receiver role.
Speaker 3: And things that I will do more of in the
Speaker 3: new year is advocate for a big check for Brett
Speaker 3: ma Hurr.
Speaker 6: He has been lights out.
Speaker 3: I was joking with some of the other day because
Speaker 3: Leonel Messi the player for Argentina and PSD.
Speaker 6: I've always said nyls, so it's a middle lionel. Yeah,
Speaker 6: Leo Lyo. I'm not a soccer girl, so I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I was reading an article. He has the
Speaker 3: most expensive, uh insured body part I think in all
Speaker 3: of soccer, and I think he's up there in the
Speaker 3: top three in all of sports. His left foot, his
Speaker 3: famous left foot, is insured for nine hundred million dollars.
Speaker 6: So I insured that side.
Speaker 3: So saying Bret.
Speaker 6: Maher and get in town with Leo, get that foot
Speaker 6: insured and keep it coming.
Speaker 3: At Stephen Jones, at Jerry Jones, get this man of
Speaker 3: contract because he is that guy this season that I
Speaker 3: think he will continue to be that guy.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm very sad you took my What I will do.
Speaker 8: What I won't do is I won't ever doubt Maha.
Speaker 10: Again.
Speaker 8: That was very vocal on blogging the boys when all
Speaker 8: this first happened, of.
Speaker 5: How everyone was and if somebody says they weren't, they lie.
Speaker 6: They sit on a throne of live.
Speaker 8: They do But what I will do is I'm gonna
Speaker 8: change it to say I won't ever discredit Tyler Smith
Speaker 8: and all of the work he's put in because during
Speaker 8: the off season there was a lot of talk about
Speaker 8: Tyler Smith not being able to hack it. And you know,
Speaker 8: I won't ever doubt that he has his money where
Speaker 8: his mouth is. So Tyler Smith, you get my kudos. Now.
Speaker 8: What I won't do, ladies, what I won't.
Speaker 6: Do talk about I can't wait for this.
Speaker 8: That's what I will do, right, And what I will do, Okay,
Speaker 8: what I will do is I will continue to talk
Speaker 8: about penalties, but change. But I am firm on the
Speaker 8: new year. Knew me, that's not a real thing. So
Speaker 8: it is new year, say me. I will continue to
Speaker 8: talk about penalties, and I will be proud of that
Speaker 8: because as soon as we started talking about it, guess
Speaker 8: what happened at Bay started mentally focusing it got better,
Speaker 8: So they played they played.
Speaker 5: This podcast that that is why shut up.
Speaker 8: About the penalties already? Oh my god, and everyone watching
Speaker 8: is like, we're tired of taking shots during the show, like,
Speaker 8: please shut up about it.
Speaker 6: It's self awareness.
Speaker 8: I will I will continue to talk about penalties, but
Speaker 8: I will give credit to where credit is due in
Speaker 8: that they have put that mental focus in gear and
Speaker 8: it is a fixed problem for now.
Speaker 9: Of it we'll see see a right should beat that
Speaker 9: barnacle yob alright. So what I won't do is that
Speaker 9: how I go, Yes, all right. So what I won't
Speaker 9: do is question whether Dak trusts his body. Now he
Speaker 9: has ran the ball thirty nine times for one hundred
Speaker 9: and sixty six yards, averaging four point three yards on
Speaker 9: those carries.
Speaker 6: Fifteen it's about fifteen yards a.
Speaker 9: Game, and it just matters.
Speaker 6: It's it's mattered. It's mattered, open up the run game.
Speaker 9: But even last year there were plenty of times where
Speaker 9: you were just like even in the San Fran game.
Speaker 6: Run the ball, run the ball, run the ball.
Speaker 9: But post the calf injury, post the leg injury, we
Speaker 9: knew this was going to be like a slow burn
Speaker 9: for him. So what I won't do is not trust
Speaker 9: fact that he is going to run the ball when
Speaker 9: it's necessary. And that's a huge part of what's made
Speaker 9: him him in this offense good. And what I will do,
Speaker 9: Lord dan Quinn, I'm trusting you here. I'm whing to
Speaker 9: trust dan Quinn.
Speaker 6: I don't like how we figure serious matter.
Speaker 9: It's a serious matter. I'm going to trust him with
Speaker 9: this young defense on the back end and these horses
Speaker 9: on the front end to get this defense back to
Speaker 9: the level that it was, or at least close to
Speaker 9: the level that I was playing on.
Speaker 6: What am I doing nor?
Speaker 9: Yeah, to get this level, get this defense back at
Speaker 9: the level is playing on at the midpoint of the season.
Speaker 8: I like it.
Speaker 9: I got some guys coming back, hopefully.
Speaker 6: To restore some mortar. You were worried that you were good.
Speaker 8: I know that's great.
Speaker 6: Well, the that one was a little I didn't think
Speaker 6: y'all was gonna agree.
Speaker 5: Y'all was like, I should know he's trusting his butterline
Speaker 5: man when you see when he's out there running and
Speaker 5: using his legs more in recent weeks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I get you. I don't think it's even a
Speaker 6: thought in his head.
Speaker 3: You just came back to that twenty five yard QB
Speaker 3: sneak against whoever it was at home, and everyone's.
Speaker 9: Like, and you talk about on their downs, like the
Speaker 9: Cowboys being so good at their downs. A lot of
Speaker 9: it is him being able to pass the ball, but
Speaker 9: when they get into short yardage situations, having that option
Speaker 9: is helping out this this offense A lot's gonna have
Speaker 9: about this run gay.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, what I will do is continue being
Speaker 5: a part of this girl's talk, boys talk. It has
Speaker 5: been a lot of fun in twenty twenty two. Let's
Speaker 5: have a lot more fun in twenty twenty three. And
Speaker 5: what we won't do is ignore you.
Speaker 6: The fans. So if you've got any feedback, let us know.
Speaker 5: We will be back here same time tomorrow as we
Speaker 5: continue to dive a little bit deeper into Cowboys versus
Speaker 5: Washington to finish up the season and see if they
Speaker 5: can improve their seating.
Speaker 6: See you on the next the next one.
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