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Speaker 2: We've got Nick Harris, John Machoda, Chris Beam in the back,
Speaker 2: I'm Kyle Yelmans, and we also have PAC twelve champion
Speaker 2: Isaiah stand Back. His Washington Huskies is.
Speaker 6: Part of the journey, Kyle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, you helped build that program to college football
Speaker 2: playoff birth.
Speaker 7: I mean I was, I was just a little speck
Speaker 7: amongst the whole picture is so humble. I mean those guys,
Speaker 7: I mean, all these programs having especially like guys like
Speaker 7: Derek Eagleton and Brittany.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, their programs have watch parties. Yeah,
Speaker 8: watch parties to see if we're gonna hold that's right.
Speaker 8: You're a Texas guy too. Did we get in? Did
Speaker 8: we get in? You know, you know what we had, Kyle.
Speaker 2: What you have?
Speaker 7: Our coach showed up to the office, getting back to work,
Speaker 7: just back to work. We just need to find out
Speaker 7: who our next to the border was. That's all he
Speaker 7: cared about. He didn't care about nobody else is in
Speaker 7: the building.
Speaker 6: Cap.
Speaker 9: He's going right back in the office on January second, too.
Speaker 7: Getting ready for the National Championship You're right, baby, you're right.
Speaker 2: Getting ready for the National championship game. Yeah, that's gonna
Speaker 2: be a fun game. Texas Washington. I'm sure there's plenty
Speaker 2: of Texas longhorned fans listened to this show.
Speaker 6: Could we did it last year?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I was there for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, the mobile.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what was the result?
Speaker 2: Washington won more or less? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Interesting, majority of our players are back.
Speaker 2: I was about to say Texas sat some guys in
Speaker 2: that game, and they're not sitting anybody in the college football.
Speaker 6: Majority of our guys are back. I know the better.
Speaker 2: Trust me. If I had that thig.
Speaker 9: That's big and that's like it.
Speaker 10: Twelve hundred yard rusher towards a cl and then replaced
Speaker 10: him with another guy that's averaging one hundred yards.
Speaker 2: How many guys are you, guys sending to the Heisman finalists?
Speaker 9: How many are you? How many are gonna win?
Speaker 2: Guys, we're already starting this.
Speaker 9: We got a month of this, we got a whole
Speaker 9: of it.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 2: And then we've got John over here across the table
Speaker 2: that's from Detroit. But you hate Michigan, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: very much?
Speaker 6: So why does that work?
Speaker 9: Unfortunately at Florida State as well.
Speaker 2: You see I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, dang, you see them. See I don't go through,
Speaker 6: through and through.
Speaker 11: I am for the pro teams, but I didn't. I mean,
Speaker 11: you went to Washington. I didn't go to Michigan.
Speaker 6: Why do I have the roof? Yeah?
Speaker 2: You don't have to do anything. You're grown man, are
Speaker 2: you didda? Did you handle the Florida State news well?
Speaker 2: Or you upset about the whole.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody that who would.
Speaker 11: Yeah, honestly, like, if you handled that well, if that
Speaker 11: was your team, if it was a one loss, you know,
Speaker 11: we've all done dealt with that stuff. Rights to everybody
Speaker 11: you gotta want. Everyone's got one. But when you're an
Speaker 11: undefeated Power five conference champ and your non conference includes
Speaker 11: Florida and l s U, like, it's your fault that
Speaker 11: they sucked, your fault that Florida lshie worked as good
Speaker 11: as they normally are, Like, you can only schedule the games,
Speaker 11: you know, so that yeah, that's if they honestly, Like
Speaker 11: I even would have been fine with it if their
Speaker 11: nine conference was you know, some teams will just like
Speaker 11: their three nine conferences are just like come on, guys,
Speaker 11: what are we even doing here? You know, But when
Speaker 11: it's Florida and LSU, you're just kind of like, uh,
Speaker 11: this is what the games that would have played. I
Speaker 11: think all like quarterback being out, it's kind of a
Speaker 11: cop out thing, you.
Speaker 2: Think, So yeah, I think it's like an excuse a
Speaker 2: way to get out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, excuse, get the SEC.
Speaker 9: It's such a weak excuse.
Speaker 7: It's such So what are you guys thoughts? What do
Speaker 7: you guys think should have happened?
Speaker 9: Florida State should have been four?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I don't even think it's up for debating.
Speaker 6: Who do you think should have been three? Texas?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Texas?
Speaker 9: Have you Pike of the time now Georgia.
Speaker 6: No, you should go from one to eight when they.
Speaker 9: Went to six seven or six six six six.
Speaker 1: I just think that there's two different arguments.
Speaker 11: If you're trying to put the most deserving teams in,
Speaker 11: then I think Florida State's in. If you're trying to
Speaker 11: put the best teams in, they didn't get that ready either.
Speaker 11: Because Georgia is one of the best four teams. There's
Speaker 11: no debating that. So it's not come with this clown
Speaker 11: committee stuff about how, oh Georgia, Georgia is now still
Speaker 11: one behind Florida State.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're fourteen point dog in that game.
Speaker 2: You're not.
Speaker 11: You don't really think that Georgia is below Florida State.
Speaker 11: So just do it real then if if you're hey,
Speaker 11: you want it started this year and do the best teams.
Speaker 11: Then do the best teams they lie to us?
Speaker 6: Who do you believe have been the best four teams
Speaker 6: in there?
Speaker 1: The best four teams? You're not gonna want to hear me.
Speaker 9: Well, go ahead, Liberty, No, it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's tough.
Speaker 11: I I definitely think the best the best team is
Speaker 11: is Georgia. I think Alabama second. It's close with me
Speaker 11: between Michigan, Washington, and Texas. Yeah, you know I would.
Speaker 11: I don't think Florida State is one of them. I'm
Speaker 11: not naive to this. Surely I would have no other problem.
Speaker 11: But then even if you do that, then you're gonna
Speaker 11: have Washington or you're gonna have Texas whoever complaining about
Speaker 11: them being left out.
Speaker 2: So we have the most ranked wins.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean they're undefeated, so I would think Washington
Speaker 11: deserves to be in.
Speaker 2: Washington and Michigan are locks.
Speaker 1: And then like I can just I'm I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you this, nobody, You're.
Speaker 9: Gonna be so unbearable for the next.
Speaker 11: Nobody would be like you see that reaction of the
Speaker 11: Michigan Like I was just telling like you see.
Speaker 1: That reaction of the Michigan players when they.
Speaker 11: Saw and said, I'm telling you that's how all those
Speaker 11: teams would have been if they got Georgia instead of
Speaker 11: every team that they got, they'd be like, oh, I
Speaker 11: thought they were out. So just don't lie to me
Speaker 11: and make this phony thing of how, no, we're putting
Speaker 11: the best.
Speaker 1: No you're not. You know you're trying to find in.
Speaker 11: Let's be kind of like we're doing the right thing.
Speaker 11: But make sure you get cc team and make sure
Speaker 11: we get.
Speaker 6: I don't know how you drop from one to six
Speaker 6: or seven or whatever the heck it is.
Speaker 2: That's just especially if the the president that's being set
Speaker 2: by putting Alabama in has Georgia also should be in
Speaker 2: because they're just the best teams that's available. They're one
Speaker 2: of the four best teams. I think the committee got
Speaker 2: it right in terms of the four and the way
Speaker 2: that the scenario played out. It's a crazy scenario, absolutely
Speaker 2: wild scenario. I would have done the exact same thing,
Speaker 2: But I get your reasoning on Florida State deserved to be,
Speaker 2: in no doubt about it, but they're just in a
Speaker 2: peculiarly peculiar situation with the quarterback situation, the way that
Speaker 2: they played down the stretch and the way that teams
Speaker 2: are the way that the committee saw how they played
Speaker 2: in those games.
Speaker 1: That's the even thing. I don't even know if the
Speaker 1: committee saw it that way.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's very hard pan driven.
Speaker 11: I mean when you watch the games, like, did you
Speaker 11: would you guys sit there and watch like a Florida
Speaker 11: State Louisville ACEC championship game. Of course not most people didn't.
Speaker 11: That's fine, but if you watch that game the entire time,
Speaker 11: that's all they're talking about. Like it's just so driven
Speaker 11: on how they're not going to be It was like
Speaker 11: the game didn't even mean anything the way that like
Speaker 11: the ESPN was like sitting about it, and ESPN and
Speaker 11: and and and the SEC. I mean, they're obviously big brands. Man,
Speaker 11: they're they're in it together. It's about making money.
Speaker 2: Has anybody checked on no sea Walker?
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's not in this conversation, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: They're back to back.
Speaker 2: He's at six.
Speaker 6: Very angry.
Speaker 2: I could imagine neither one of my top college football
Speaker 2: teams North Texas school I went to Baylor, the school
Speaker 2: that I grew up around. Neither one of them that
Speaker 2: may even made a bowl game. So you guys be
Speaker 2: happy that you had good seasons.
Speaker 6: Everybody has a down yere you had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how it goes. All right, let's talk Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Sorry we took so long on college football, but we're
Speaker 2: all big college Oh.
Speaker 9: You do this is fire.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm gonna uh.
Speaker 2: News and notes from the Cowboys over the weekend. Of
Speaker 2: course they got the big win, got the big win
Speaker 2: on Thursday night football. How have things kind of gone sense?
Speaker 13: Then?
Speaker 10: Well, talking about news and notes is that we're jumping
Speaker 10: into here. Well, we could start with Shack Leonard signing
Speaker 10: with Philadelphia yesterday. It was kind of starting to trend
Speaker 10: that way, and we were talking to some people yesterday
Speaker 10: and it was it was.
Speaker 9: It was kind of.
Speaker 10: Funny the people that were like, yeah, it's it's turning
Speaker 10: towards Philadelphia, and then almost immediately it was he signed
Speaker 10: with Philly.
Speaker 1: With those people, did you get the sense that it
Speaker 1: was it's gonna be tough to overcome this man.
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 10: I know there were some health concerns in the building,
Speaker 10: but they would have been completely okay bringing him in
Speaker 10: and having that opportunity to you know, fit him in
Speaker 10: with this defense and have a run stopper like this.
Speaker 9: They were very excited about that possibility.
Speaker 10: But it's I mean, as we talked about as soon
Speaker 10: as the possibility opened, it's not gonna be the end
Speaker 10: of the world if they don't get them.
Speaker 9: Does it hurt that he goes to Philly of all places.
Speaker 2: Maybe behind that defensive line, Yes.
Speaker 9: It hurts tough.
Speaker 10: Yes, you know how much of a run stopper can
Speaker 10: he really be this season? And especially is he going
Speaker 10: to be ready this week? I don't feel like that's
Speaker 10: realistic right now, but I we'll see, We'll see, and
Speaker 10: if he is active on Sunday night, then I'm sure
Speaker 10: everyone's gonna be looking out for whatever number he's wearing.
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated to see how he plays.
Speaker 11: But then also the when the eventually the contract numbers
Speaker 11: will come out. I just found it interesting today this
Speaker 11: morning on the radio and one to five through the fan,
Speaker 11: when Jerry was asked about he said that when they
Speaker 11: met that they didn't even there was never any money
Speaker 11: of it mentioned. They didn't even talk get to money.
Speaker 11: It was more about, hey, this is what we want,
Speaker 11: this is how you can help us. We think you'll
Speaker 11: be a good fit in this way had lunch and
Speaker 11: that was more of and then obviously they looked into
Speaker 11: the health side of it as well. But I found
Speaker 11: it interesting that he said that they didn't even get
Speaker 11: into the financial side. So I'm interested to see when
Speaker 11: those numbers eventually do come out. Maybe there's a lot
Speaker 11: of incentives in the contract. But to your point, I
Speaker 11: remember you talking about like potentially like more than one year.
Speaker 11: I found interesting that it was only a one year deal.
Speaker 11: And the other interesting part about too, is that like
Speaker 11: the Eagles website like put that out immediately, like you know,
Speaker 11: there was like some reports that came out and then
Speaker 11: boom they were like we have signed you know, Shack
Speaker 11: Leonard one year deal or whatever. So obviously they didn't
Speaker 11: include the numbers, but I want to see what those are.
Speaker 1: I'm very interested in that.
Speaker 2: Especially with it being a one year deal. That was
Speaker 2: the conversation that we had was does he want to
Speaker 2: test free agency and does he want a two year deal.
Speaker 2: I know you thought a two year deal would have
Speaker 2: done him well.
Speaker 7: I think a two year deal would have done him well.
Speaker 7: But I mean, I understand signing a one year with Philly,
Speaker 7: I really do. I mean, I know, Cowboys fans don't
Speaker 7: want to hear that, but that's reality. If you're a linebacker,
Speaker 7: you're going to go where you're going to have the
Speaker 7: most freedom to roam without getting blocked. And the deepensive
Speaker 7: line that they have in Philadelphia allows for him to
Speaker 7: do that. He could roam free without any office a
Speaker 7: lineman being able to get up to him.
Speaker 6: And it just makes total sense. It makes total sense.
Speaker 7: That's why I said when he if he leaves this
Speaker 7: building without a contract, he's not coming back.
Speaker 6: I just knew that, knew it.
Speaker 7: Well, that was the plan all along. He was always
Speaker 7: I had a plan to go sleep five schools. After
Speaker 7: my third school, I canceled the rest of them. It
Speaker 7: was very you know what I'm saying like, it was
Speaker 7: very once you know, you know, but you.
Speaker 1: Don't, Okay, So you.
Speaker 11: Don't think that a player could potentially be like, I
Speaker 11: want to go to the Eagles, but let me just.
Speaker 1: Go check out.
Speaker 11: Oh, I don't know, their biggest rival, their most hated rival.
Speaker 11: Let me just go check it out. Like that a possible,
Speaker 11: that's a possibility. At least let me at least kick
Speaker 11: the tires. See what's going on.
Speaker 6: This is two of the best teams in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 6: when you're talking about Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia.
Speaker 7: Eagles, based upon what's going on right now, these are
Speaker 7: two the best teams. So it makes sense that you
Speaker 7: would go see those two teams. But if you go
Speaker 7: to one and they don't talk to you about many
Speaker 7: money and money is a big part of your decision.
Speaker 11: But that's what I'm saying. Money is a big part
Speaker 11: of your decision. So you need leverage. You know, you
Speaker 11: need to be able to go to this team and go, hey,
Speaker 11: you know, I really like what you guys are doing.
Speaker 11: I'd like to join you, but you would at least Again,
Speaker 11: that's why I want to see the numbers. You want
Speaker 11: to at least have something like, Hey, also, your biggest
Speaker 11: rival is really interested in me too. I mean, that
Speaker 11: does had a factor to it.
Speaker 6: I think that can be it.
Speaker 7: I mean, obviously between the I wouldn't do that personally,
Speaker 7: so I can't speak for him, but I can say
Speaker 7: that he knows and everybody around the league knows that
Speaker 7: Philadelphia is going to go after what they want.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's what's one thing.
Speaker 2: That one they both need linebacker help to the other.
Speaker 2: Top team in the NFL right now is the San
Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine ers. They don't necessarily need linebacker help.
Speaker 10: Even if he would kick out in the middle of
Speaker 10: the game, and even if they do, if one it
Speaker 10: needs to get kicked.
Speaker 9: Out in the middle of the game, stategy out there.
Speaker 11: And even if he that was the case, I'm not
Speaker 11: saying it was, but that he wanted to have some leverage.
Speaker 11: I'm not saying that even if that was, that doesn't
Speaker 11: make you a bad person or anything like that. That's business.
Speaker 11: That's a smart move if you did something like that.
Speaker 11: I don't think that you should look any differently on
Speaker 11: a player if they were to do something like that.
Speaker 11: It's business at the end.
Speaker 6: Of the day.
Speaker 7: I just I just think that you know there's a
Speaker 7: chance when you go to Dallas that you that you
Speaker 7: may leave the building without a contract. When you go
Speaker 7: to Philly, you're not leading the building without a contry.
Speaker 6: You're just not.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we just we we know that sitting here. Players
Speaker 7: know that too. I'm a highly talented player. I'm somebody
Speaker 7: that everybody wants they have their hands on. I'm going
Speaker 7: to go to the arguably one of the best teams
Speaker 7: in the league and their defensive line is freaking amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's just something you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: It's not just about this year though with me either,
Speaker 11: it's like my entire time covering the team. How many
Speaker 11: times they've just been nauseated at the reports that come
Speaker 11: out about a player being available, and how the Cowboys
Speaker 11: are one of the teams. Like there'll be four teams,
Speaker 11: but then there'll be four teams, but then there's always
Speaker 11: like one where they'll be like and then the Cowboys,
Speaker 11: and you know that they're not going to the Cowboys,
Speaker 11: but it's like always included in there.
Speaker 1: Actually it ties in with the colleg football playoff little bit.
Speaker 11: The Cowboys would love it if they did this by
Speaker 11: a committee because how many years would they be real close?
Speaker 1: They'd be like, no, no, no, Cowboys are.
Speaker 2: What they've got to come in.
Speaker 6: You got to the Cowboys.
Speaker 11: I mean you just see the numbers that they put
Speaker 11: up that that Thursday night game, the most streams that
Speaker 11: they've ever had.
Speaker 1: It just came out.
Speaker 11: This game this Sunday night is going to be one
Speaker 11: of the most watched games. Yeah, I mean, yeah, the
Speaker 11: Cowboys are just I feel like I'm not please remove
Speaker 11: the Jack Clary thing from this. I'm not saying him
Speaker 11: for this instance, but I'm just saying the Cowboys are
Speaker 11: used as leverage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it happens every off season, it happens in season,
Speaker 2: and then especially in a heated divisional race like this, it's.
Speaker 11: Let me else say, he's going to be very, very
Speaker 11: unbearable shackliner. He gets on the field and is a beast.
Speaker 11: We're not going to be able to deal with Isaiah.
Speaker 2: And I told you, I told you.
Speaker 7: It's just I mean, it's just that's it just makes
Speaker 7: sense as a linebacker, Like you think about some of
Speaker 7: the greatest linebackers in the game, they were playing behind
Speaker 7: really big defensive tackles. And if you want to roam free,
Speaker 7: and if you're a run stopper, like that's the biggest
Speaker 7: part of your game, how can I be most successful? Well,
Speaker 7: I can have some big boys in front of me
Speaker 7: that don't allow the office on line may get up
Speaker 7: to me.
Speaker 6: That's how you're successful as a linebacker. And that's what
Speaker 6: they have.
Speaker 7: And so it made sense from that from that regard,
Speaker 7: and then you add the aspect that those guys have
Speaker 7: been at the top of the league.
Speaker 6: They've been to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 7: These guys have a highly competitive, aggressive general manager. It
Speaker 7: was just gonna work that way if you left this building.
Speaker 2: The way that Philly got pressure on Brock Purty early
Speaker 2: in that game this past weekend, it was so impressive
Speaker 2: and it felt like Brock was just running for his life.
Speaker 2: And then somehow San Francisco figured it out when they
Speaker 2: started giving it to giving it to McCaffrey.
Speaker 6: Greatest trade in history.
Speaker 2: Ye Deebo Samuel got the rock a couple different times.
Speaker 2: That opened some things up and then they were able
Speaker 2: to kind of get around it. But man, yeah, Shack
Speaker 2: Leonard going to Philadelphia. I don't think it's a huge
Speaker 2: drop off. I really don't. I don't think this is
Speaker 2: a huge loss for the Cowboys. Just in the conversations
Speaker 2: across the building too that we had after his meeting,
Speaker 2: I don't think they were that worried about him, and
Speaker 2: I would honestly be willing to say that they're probably
Speaker 2: shocked Philly signed him. I legitimately think that's the case
Speaker 2: across the Billians, like, Wow, Philly even wanted them. I
Speaker 2: think that's probably in the cards too. Anything else for
Speaker 2: news and.
Speaker 9: Does, Yeah, not really.
Speaker 10: I mean we were able to talk to coordinators yesterday
Speaker 10: and Mike McCarthy it just kind of quick hitters. There
Speaker 10: doesn't seem to be any major injury concerns coming out
Speaker 10: of the three games in twelve days, So that's obviously
Speaker 10: a huge, huge deal when you can escape that and
Speaker 10: be able to come out on the other side healthy.
Speaker 10: Still some figuring out that they have to do with
Speaker 10: Peyton Hendershot. Mike McCarthy said that there would be an
Speaker 10: update on Wednesday about that, so tomorrow we'll probably have
Speaker 10: more on if Hendershot will be activated off the IR
Speaker 10: or if he'll stay on for the rest of the season.
Speaker 9: Curious if your guys' opinion there though.
Speaker 2: So with Hindershot specifically, Yeah, it is he healthy. That's
Speaker 2: my number one thing.
Speaker 10: He's at least from what we've seen in practice, he
Speaker 10: looks healthy, he looks ready to go. I don't think
Speaker 10: that's the concern. I think it's more so roster management
Speaker 10: at this point.
Speaker 2: That's tough because the one guy that I think you
Speaker 2: would take off of that spot would be maybe Sean McEwan. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and McEwan and I've been very critical of him throughout
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. Especially whenever we're watching games
Speaker 2: live and things like that. Maybe not on the air
Speaker 2: or anything, but I don't think he's a very good blocker,
Speaker 2: and he's supposed to be a blocking tight end. He's
Speaker 2: been good the last couple weeks. I gotta give him credit.
Speaker 2: He's been really good. When going back and watching the film,
Speaker 2: I think he's done a better job of opening things up,
Speaker 2: especially on the outside whenever they're pulling and they're they're
Speaker 2: kind of rolling with those zone blocking schemes, He's able
Speaker 2: to help that out significantly. If McEwan is playing like
Speaker 2: that consistently as the year goes on, I don't mind
Speaker 2: putting Peyton Hindershot on the i R for the rest
Speaker 2: of the season. If we're going to see some ups
Speaker 2: and downs from McEwan, give me hinder shot.
Speaker 6: Let's roll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But that's an interesting conversation.
Speaker 6: So that Fank get moved up last week from practice.
Speaker 2: He got elevated from the practice.
Speaker 6: Squatter sawhim in pregame.
Speaker 10: I was like, well, and John Fossil was very complimentary
Speaker 10: of him yesterday actually, and what he was able to do.
Speaker 9: On special teams.
Speaker 10: They weren't able to do much because there was no
Speaker 10: punts and every kickoff was a touchback.
Speaker 9: But he said he's.
Speaker 6: Sure physical dude that is going to give you high effort.
Speaker 7: I mean that's what special teams is all about, right,
Speaker 7: So I mean that makes sense, that makes sense. But
Speaker 7: I was curious. I was, yeah, seeing him in a
Speaker 7: tight end warm up, so I was like, oh, I
Speaker 7: have a question mark. But in terms of hinder shot,
Speaker 7: I think he could be resource. I don't know where
Speaker 7: his head's at. I think that's what it comes down
Speaker 7: to for Hindershot. When he when his head's in the
Speaker 7: right space, I think he's a heck of asset. I
Speaker 7: think he's shown that in practice things that we've seen
Speaker 7: in training camp. When he's in his own head, he's
Speaker 7: he's a he's a freaking snapshot of what he truly
Speaker 7: can be like in training camp and talked about it
Speaker 7: significantly exactly.
Speaker 6: So I don't I don't know where he's at.
Speaker 7: So if he's a healthy Hindershot who has his mind
Speaker 7: ready to rock and roll, I think he could be
Speaker 7: one heck of an asset. He's confident, he can't be
Speaker 7: guarded as a at the receiving side of things. In
Speaker 7: terms of tight end blocking wise, you would definitely take
Speaker 7: a hit, but you know, what you would gain in
Speaker 7: the receiving game might be something that that could help
Speaker 7: your team out.
Speaker 6: But it's all dependent on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough for me to disagree with any of that.
Speaker 11: I thought he was going to be a pretty big
Speaker 11: part of this team this year, but where things are
Speaker 11: trended now, I just don't I don't see that happening.
Speaker 11: But yeah, I didn't even think about it from that
Speaker 11: perspective as a good point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it is a good way for him to
Speaker 2: reset and get ready and go into another year worth
Speaker 2: of training off season things like that that kind of
Speaker 2: clear your mind and then get after it again in
Speaker 2: training camp.
Speaker 6: But yeah, that one.
Speaker 2: That one's interesting with Peyton Hendershot because Jake Ferguson continues
Speaker 2: to step up. Luke schoon Maker has been blocking better,
Speaker 2: McEwan's been blocking better. You you elevated. No a fan
Speaker 2: who could help you out with special teams Princeton Princeton fan. Sorry,
Speaker 2: not no a fan on the Seattle side of things
Speaker 2: last week. But yeah, there's there's ways there that I
Speaker 2: think you can you can utilize Hindershot, But if you're
Speaker 2: going to take a roster spot away. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: taken away from the tight end room. You're not gonna
Speaker 2: take it from anywhere else on this.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think an interesting caveat to all of this too is,
Speaker 10: you know, you have a very young, exciting prospect in
Speaker 10: John Stevens that'll be ready next year. How much of
Speaker 10: hindershot do you want to see before then? Do you
Speaker 10: want to see?
Speaker 6: Point?
Speaker 10: You know it's the same type of titand as well
Speaker 10: it's a receiving tight end. You know, how much of
Speaker 10: hindershot do you want to see on the field before
Speaker 10: Stevens is back healthy and being able to play? And
Speaker 10: I'll tell you I've been seeing Stevens more and more
Speaker 10: around the facility recently. He's starting to look good and
Speaker 10: he's stayed in the weight room too. I'm really excited
Speaker 10: to see him, see him on the drugs machine. It's
Speaker 10: super excited to see him a camp next year. He's
Speaker 10: gonna be a fun one.
Speaker 2: Even whenever he got hurt. One of the first weeks
Speaker 2: after he got.
Speaker 7: Hurt, this dude, Yeah, before he even had his surgery,
Speaker 7: he was out there.
Speaker 2: He was on the drugs machine. Yeah. Yeah, really impressed.
Speaker 2: John Stevens.
Speaker 11: Yeah, these guys they have like your own at home.
Speaker 1: I've seen it.
Speaker 11: You know what.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, loved Judge machine.
Speaker 9: Big jugs guy.
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Speaker 11: Whether that brought up those because I've heard of guys
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Speaker 6: See this is.
Speaker 2: From the eight three too. Because the Niners ran so
Speaker 2: well over the Eagles, running should not only be the plan,
Speaker 2: but it should be a priority. Very seldom will a
Speaker 2: good team allow the same thing to happen to them
Speaker 2: next week. How can you be creative in the run game, Isaiah,
Speaker 2: I'll let you start with that one out.
Speaker 7: Okay, So running the ball against a big, physical defensive
Speaker 7: front is a good game plan if you have the
Speaker 7: guys that can move those big physical guys off the
Speaker 7: light of scrivage. And I'm not saying that Dallas can't,
Speaker 7: but you hit. There's an attitude that goes with the
Speaker 7: San Francisco forty nine ers running game, Like the San
Speaker 7: Francisco forty nine is beat up the Eagles the same
Speaker 7: way that forty Niners beat up the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: That doesn't sound good, but that's the truth.
Speaker 12: It is.
Speaker 1: Yea real quick on that.
Speaker 11: Do you see any other team because I don't feel
Speaker 11: like there's another team that does that. That physical on
Speaker 11: the Niners left, Like, is there another team in the
Speaker 11: AFC anything that you think is close to them?
Speaker 10: No, you're talking about physicality, physicality, and Seattle is super physical.
Speaker 9: It's a super physical defense. Yes, specific yes, very much defenses.
Speaker 7: From the mainly from the secondary right and the like
Speaker 7: linebacker the secondary right. San Francisco's physical, like their their
Speaker 7: trenches just are just just a beast.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: So in terms of like that's my style of play,
Speaker 7: like bullyball, Like I love to be able to air
Speaker 7: it out and all those things, just like Sam fran does, Right,
Speaker 7: they like to air it out, get you know, Brandon
Speaker 7: Ayuk the ball, get Deebow the ball. But ultimately they
Speaker 7: can always fall back on what handing that thing off
Speaker 7: the c mac and just moving you off the line
Speaker 7: of scrimmage and de yeah in deebo Right. But like
Speaker 7: that's what I envisioned for the Cowboys to be able
Speaker 7: to do. But it takes not only the personnel to
Speaker 7: do it, but it takes an attitude. And one of
Speaker 7: the reasons why I've been so adamant about getting Tony
Speaker 7: Pollard touches and getting recodoutto more touches earlier in the
Speaker 7: season is so that you can build that confidence in
Speaker 7: your offensive line and that they have that companies within
Speaker 7: themselves that when they stepped to the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 7: there's no question marks around surrounding whether or not they
Speaker 7: can move anybody, regardless of who's on the posing side
Speaker 7: of the line of scrimmage. Like you should have that
Speaker 7: mentality like the old Dallas Cowboys right back when you
Speaker 7: had to marcol Murray and all them cads and Zeke
Speaker 7: and all everybody else that was in there, you knew
Speaker 7: when step to the line of scrimmage, we can run
Speaker 7: the ball against anybody. I don't I don't think that
Speaker 7: this Dallas team at this point in time has that confidence.
Speaker 7: And you need that and you have the personnel to
Speaker 7: do it, but it's an attitude that comes with it.
Speaker 7: And the attitude comes based upon your confidence.
Speaker 2: Is that something you can find over the course of
Speaker 2: a season though?
Speaker 6: It is?
Speaker 7: But like you, now you're getting down to the nitty gritty, right, So,
Speaker 7: like it's a little late, and now you're about to
Speaker 7: start facing the teams that you would have liked to
Speaker 7: had the confidence going into with, you know, in the
Speaker 7: running game with So that's why I've been so adamant
Speaker 7: about Hey, like, twelve touches for Tony Pouler, that's not
Speaker 7: that's not enough, you know, And now they've been creeping
Speaker 7: up towards you know. Now I think last game was
Speaker 7: twenty touches for him. But like you, that's less not
Speaker 7: even it's less about Tony Pollard, more about the office
Speaker 7: of line, the office line, their continuity and their ability
Speaker 7: to cut step to the line of scrimmage and just
Speaker 7: feel like, hey, we got some dogs up here, you know,
Speaker 7: you do, you have some personnel, you have some guys
Speaker 7: up there with some attitude.
Speaker 6: He still Tyler Smith tyring exactly.
Speaker 7: You got dudes up there, you know, even Tyler be honest, Like,
Speaker 7: they have the attitude, but they have to have the
Speaker 7: confidence together to be able to go out regardless of
Speaker 7: what front they're facing, not just personnel, but the different
Speaker 7: types of fronts when the shifts happen, when the linebackers
Speaker 7: shift over, like knowing that there one a cord to
Speaker 7: be able to go out there and execute their combo
Speaker 7: blocks and whatever else adjustments they have to make.
Speaker 6: You need that.
Speaker 7: I mean, the last thing you want to be doing
Speaker 7: is facing stiffer competition trying to wonder if you're going
Speaker 7: to be able to execute your assignment.
Speaker 10: I think the big difference between the last time that
Speaker 10: they played Philadelphia and now when it comes to that
Speaker 10: point you kind of mentioned it a little bit, is
Speaker 10: there's more chemistry on that offensive line with every game
Speaker 10: that they stack and they're able to stay healthy and
Speaker 10: be on the field the entire game. You can see
Speaker 10: that confidence building, and you can see it specifically in
Speaker 10: the protection game for Dak Prescott, but there's kind of
Speaker 10: fruits of that labor in the running game as well.
Speaker 9: You see it them in the red zone.
Speaker 10: I think more so than anything we talked about early
Speaker 10: in the season, with those big red zone struggles that
Speaker 10: they have. They're still around, but it's not as big
Speaker 10: as it was, and that's an attribute to Tony Poller
Speaker 10: being able to find a little bit of runninglanes. I
Speaker 10: think he's three straight games now with a rushing touchdown
Speaker 10: and they're all coming in inside the red zone. The
Speaker 10: more confidence that those guys build up front, I think
Speaker 10: it's only gonna help that running game succeed.
Speaker 9: And that's that's the reason I would say.
Speaker 10: I mean, there should be some confidence going into this
Speaker 10: game for the running game because of what you've been
Speaker 10: able to stack in recent weeks. How that offense looked
Speaker 10: against Philadelphia without the running game. If you can add
Speaker 10: that piece, then maybe that's the difference between twenty eight
Speaker 10: twenty three and thirty one twenty three or who knows,
Speaker 10: you know. So I think that if they're able to
Speaker 10: put that together, then it might be a different result.
Speaker 11: An offensive line is not this sexy position, and it
Speaker 11: gets lost in the conversation so often.
Speaker 1: But I do find it.
Speaker 11: Interesting how tied as the three favorites right now for
Speaker 11: MVP are Dak, Hurtz, and Purdy, and all of their
Speaker 11: play is tied to they have to have good office
Speaker 11: blind play in front of them, and you've seen I
Speaker 11: can't say as much that I've watched Purty as much
Speaker 11: as I have with Jalen and Dak, but you can
Speaker 11: just tell, like, like when Jalen doesn't have Lane Johnson,
Speaker 11: like it's just a different thing. And obviously when Dak
Speaker 11: has had so many times over these last few years,
Speaker 11: we're just rotating offensive line. I don't think it's a
Speaker 11: coincidence that some of his best ball that he's if
Speaker 11: not his best ball, is being played right now when
Speaker 11: he has had his point.
Speaker 1: A lot of the time.
Speaker 7: See, And I still don't think that you've seen the
Speaker 7: best Deck. Yeah, as good as Deck is playing, I
Speaker 7: still think that he needs a solid running game to
Speaker 7: be able to be the true him. Now that's not
Speaker 7: to say to be an effective version of Deck, which
Speaker 7: he has been, but I still think if you get
Speaker 7: this running game, like going to the point where you're like, man,
Speaker 7: I don't care what y'all do, y'allay eight in the box,
Speaker 7: like we're coming downhill.
Speaker 2: The final Infinity stuff exactly, that's the final thing, and
Speaker 2: then the gaunt ready to roll.
Speaker 10: I will say in that first half against Seattle, they
Speaker 10: were running under center so much, they were considerably more
Speaker 10: than they have the entire season.
Speaker 2: Said that all the broadcast do like, he's under he's
Speaker 2: under center again. I hate I went back and back.
Speaker 2: You know, Okay, Dallas actually runs the second most run
Speaker 2: I don't want to have two conversations rolling, but to
Speaker 2: to uh, their their second in the NFL in terms
Speaker 2: of under center snaps, which I found surprising the fact
Speaker 2: that they ranked that high. They run under center thirty
Speaker 2: five percent of the time, which shocks me.
Speaker 9: It felt like it You're right.
Speaker 2: It felt more like about fifty percent first.
Speaker 10: And the reason we bring that up is because that's
Speaker 10: able to integrate so much more play action and allow
Speaker 10: Dak to be able to work at what he does best.
Speaker 10: But I think it came probably late second quarter. They
Speaker 10: were like, Hey, we're not really threatened by this running game,
Speaker 10: so we're gonna go ahead and let you do your
Speaker 10: play action if you want to. And it ended up
Speaker 10: working out for them. They ended up coming back and
Speaker 10: shotgun in the second half and it worked out great
Speaker 10: for him. But I thought it was really interesting that
Speaker 10: they were able to not only do both of those
Speaker 10: things and do them well, but you know, succeed in
Speaker 10: the long term with it and use it as much
Speaker 10: as they did.
Speaker 2: Great question from the eight three too. All right, let's
Speaker 2: go to New York where Mike is our first caller
Speaker 2: today on a Philly week version of Talking Cowboys. Mike,
Speaker 2: what's on line?
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 13: Guys?
Speaker 4: My biggest key to the Cowboy and Eagle game is penalties.
Speaker 4: We have to see way more disciplined, way more discipline.
Speaker 4: And Jaia, I got something to say. I know you're
Speaker 4: going to pick the Eagles on Friday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't know what I'm going to pick.
Speaker 4: I know you're gonna go into against Dallas.
Speaker 6: Hey, you don't know what I'm gonna pick.
Speaker 7: But you know what, I'm glad that you're finally on
Speaker 7: board in terms of the penalties because that is something
Speaker 7: that I've been talking about for a long time that
Speaker 7: has been getting overlooked by the Dallas Cowboys nation because
Speaker 7: of the blowouts. Right when you went on that run
Speaker 7: of three four games blowing teams out, like the one
Speaker 7: thing that nobody was paying attention to was that seven.
Speaker 6: Eight nine penalties one hundred plus yards penalties.
Speaker 7: Nobody cared about it, right, But now it's a conversation because.
Speaker 6: Now it affects all right, thanks for the call for dub.
Speaker 7: Now it affects everything, Like penalties can literally disrupt everything
Speaker 7: that you're doing.
Speaker 2: Everything MIDDLEB drives, so defensive stops.
Speaker 1: I'm interested in all your guys take on this.
Speaker 11: What do you think the percentage is on that being
Speaker 11: on players versus and coaching, because I can't say that
Speaker 11: it's one hundred percent coaching or I think it's more
Speaker 11: coaching than it is player. But why do you think
Speaker 11: that the penalty Do you think that? I think there's
Speaker 11: a mindset that comes with it. Yes, I think that sometimes.
Speaker 6: About like like what's tolerated.
Speaker 10: Yes, okay, yes, the discipline is discipline at the end
Speaker 10: of the day, you know, I think it's I think
Speaker 10: it's more player based, but I think there is emphasis
Speaker 10: that you can make during the week and coaching, but
Speaker 10: at the end of the day, it comes it comes
Speaker 10: down to what's going on in here, that's that's player.
Speaker 6: I agree. I agree with stuff exact Yeah, I agree
Speaker 6: with that exactly.
Speaker 9: What I mean.
Speaker 6: I come from an era where they were like real consequences.
Speaker 7: I can't speak to what consequences are going on in
Speaker 7: this particular locker room.
Speaker 6: But you make an error like you're sitting down like the.
Speaker 9: Old ahead of you don't know the days it is.
Speaker 9: It's true, man, Like it was so long.
Speaker 7: It was like I retired ten years ago, like ball
Speaker 7: was different ten years ago.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 7: It was completely you know, like I mean, you hear
Speaker 7: Tom Brady talking about it, he just shut it down.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Tom Brady start talking about Rodnie Lotton, he retired
Speaker 11: like ninety five, came close to playing with them. Yeah,
Speaker 11: I throw it back. Man, We're gonna hear it. We're
Speaker 11: gonna I just can't wait. We're gonna hear Lebron like
Speaker 11: ten fifteen years from now. And when I played, it
Speaker 11: was just so physical and everything like that.
Speaker 2: It was like, what what are you talking about?
Speaker 9: Sorry?
Speaker 1: I cut you off. I apologie.
Speaker 6: Now you're fine. Fine, I don't even know what I
Speaker 6: was saying about the penalty.
Speaker 2: You're talking about penalties and how it can disrupt.
Speaker 7: Your Yeah, no, it's it's something that has to be addressed.
Speaker 7: It really has to be addressed. And I'm not sure
Speaker 7: what the consequences of repercussions have to be from the
Speaker 7: coaching staff to make sure that that is an emphasis
Speaker 7: uh uh, and the importance on this team. But it
Speaker 7: has to be corrected because it's going to kill you.
Speaker 7: It killed you in playoffs.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying. It's not just a one
Speaker 1: year thing.
Speaker 6: This is recurrent.
Speaker 11: I mean you go back to fans throwing stuff at
Speaker 11: at the reps after the Niners game a couple of
Speaker 11: years ago.
Speaker 1: This is not a oho. This is an issue for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: The NFL penalties in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, now they're at the top of the league again,
Speaker 7: second and second second Seattle, Yeah, saying it has to
Speaker 7: be it has to stop.
Speaker 2: It was a battle for the first place, because.
Speaker 7: It's going to destroy You might be in the game
Speaker 7: neck and neck with the Philadelphia Eagles or maybe even
Speaker 7: you know, against Detroit or Miami or whatever else. Is
Speaker 7: going to come down this down the road here is
Speaker 7: pretty soon and there's gonna be a penalty that's gonna
Speaker 7: literally just your drive is gonna either pump you out
Speaker 7: a field goal position or it's going to extend that
Speaker 7: drive of the opposing offense is gonna put them in
Speaker 7: a position to score points, like, there's gonna be something
Speaker 7: if it continues this way that's going to kill you.
Speaker 11: It's interesting though, because when you mentioned about the leading
Speaker 11: and penalties, and we have the perfect, perfect person to
Speaker 11: bring this up with here, I want to say the
Speaker 11: year that the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, they might
Speaker 11: have led.
Speaker 2: The league in penalties twenty seventeen, and.
Speaker 1: So I wonder if that might be.
Speaker 11: It's fine, like if it's some stuff on the back
Speaker 11: end of the defense as opposed to like the pre
Speaker 11: snap stuff that you just cannot have. But that was
Speaker 11: a physical style that that Seahawks defense played with that
Speaker 11: led to a lot of penalties that I think a
Speaker 11: lot of people talk about how they were so physical
Speaker 11: in the back end where it'd be like, yeah, you're
Speaker 11: gonna throw some flags, but you're not gonna flag everyone's
Speaker 11: just our play style. So but you don't see that
Speaker 11: with this with this cout, you think that they can
Speaker 11: improve in those areas doesn't have.
Speaker 2: To be part of the twenty fourteen when they won
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, they did lead the league in penalties. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that that was the case. They also led it
Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen, That's why I said twenty seventeen. Initially,
Speaker 2: I don't know why I.
Speaker 6: Thought they that year.
Speaker 2: That was the Yeah, that was the year Philly won it.
Speaker 2: Philly was top ten in that as well.
Speaker 11: So Philadelphia they won the super Bowl that year. Even
Speaker 11: though their quarterback got hurt, they still let them play
Speaker 11: and they won.
Speaker 1: With their back and forth. Okay, sorry, go ahead there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well the committee would not have put them in if
Speaker 1: that if that was.
Speaker 2: Like now, but the NFL committee.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but you don't see that with this team.
Speaker 7: I think the only way that you overcome like a
Speaker 7: vast number of penalties at penalties is by having turnovers.
Speaker 7: If you can create the turnovers, that's the only way
Speaker 7: that you can literally overshadow you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: and submerge what's happened in terms of the negative aspect
Speaker 7: of penalties.
Speaker 9: I'll give you another one.
Speaker 10: Just getting off the field, and I think that really
Speaker 10: hurt them in this last game. I think it was
Speaker 10: nine for fourteen. Seattle was on third down, Like if
Speaker 10: you can pair penalties with okay, here's a fifteen yard penalty.
Speaker 10: They just gave up tough, Okay, just get them off
Speaker 10: the field.
Speaker 9: You know, and they're not.
Speaker 10: They weren't able to do that against Seattle, and that's
Speaker 10: what really started to stack that confidence for that Seattle offense.
Speaker 10: And then yeah, it was just a one turnover and
Speaker 10: it didn't end meaning anything.
Speaker 7: So but I mean, do you think about it, on
Speaker 7: the flip side from that last game, Dallas might have
Speaker 7: been in some real trouble had it not been for
Speaker 7: Seattle penalties. Yes, Dallas will have their back against the wall,
Speaker 7: and it was not looking good.
Speaker 2: Seattle the gated Dallas's penalty struggles because of their because penalties,
Speaker 2: So it had some of those penalties not being called
Speaker 2: against Seattle.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure we're sitting here talking about a victory. Yeah,
Speaker 7: you don't say so. I mean, that's just on both
Speaker 7: sides of you know, that happens for either team.
Speaker 10: For me, I want a team that is middle of
Speaker 10: the road when it comes to penalties in the league
Speaker 10: because that shows that you're being physical, but you're also
Speaker 10: being a little bit diligent and disciplined.
Speaker 9: Looking at the teams.
Speaker 10: Right now that are not penalized or penalized the least
Speaker 10: in the NFL right now, you got the Raiders, Vikings, Bengals, Jaguars,
Speaker 10: Chargers Commanders. Like, sure, there's a couple of playoff teams
Speaker 10: in there, but like there's there's a severe gap there.
Speaker 10: Of course, you want you want the Baltimore, New New Orleans,
Speaker 10: Kansas City that's like fifteen through eighteen Niners are in
Speaker 10: there as well. You want that physicality, You want a
Speaker 10: little bit of balance there. But that balance is being
Speaker 10: right now. You gotta get you gotta line up on side.
Speaker 7: You just want to you want to limit the amount
Speaker 7: of negative plays. You know what happens is the most frustrating,
Speaker 7: the most Yeah, I mean the one of the most
Speaker 7: frustrating things about football is if you go out there
Speaker 7: to have a major play and you look back and
Speaker 7: you see a flag, It's like, come on, man, especially
Speaker 7: if it's an unneeded like and there's a backside play
Speaker 7: lineup or a lineup you know, something that doesn't affect
Speaker 7: the play at all, you know, pre snap penalties like
Speaker 7: those things are, or a holding that just just let
Speaker 7: them go.
Speaker 6: You know, just those things just destroy you.
Speaker 7: So I would I really hope. I mean, I know
Speaker 7: the coaching staff is addressing these things. I'm not do
Speaker 7: need to hope, but it needs to be addressed in
Speaker 7: a way that really, yeah, it resonates with players so
Speaker 7: that they're just like, all right, all right, I'm pulling off.
Speaker 7: You know, whether that's not guys, hey, you're losing snaps
Speaker 7: because of it, or you're gonna be running lines or
Speaker 7: whatever it might be.
Speaker 6: You know, it has to hit home.
Speaker 7: It has to be it has to be more important
Speaker 7: to these guys to not hurt their team, because that's
Speaker 7: what it does. It hurts your team.
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Speaker 2: got two calls we want to get to, and then
Speaker 2: we'll wrap things up here on Talking Cowboys. It is
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Speaker 2: check in with Dan and Florida. You're on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 2: What's going on? Dan?
Speaker 13: Hey, guys, how are you doing great?
Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
Speaker 13: First and foremost, Kyles, congrats on the triplets.
Speaker 6: Thank you, hey, uh, you know sindipers.
Speaker 13: Unfortunately for me, Uh, Isaiah and Nick stold some of
Speaker 13: my thunder. But I wanted to talk about the old
Speaker 13: line and I wanted a shout out to Mike McCarthy
Speaker 13: from what he's doing with Tyrone on a third. But
Speaker 13: I don't know if you guys saw this one play.
Speaker 13: It was the touchdown pass with Ferguson. Uh, Tyler's covered,
Speaker 13: Tyrone is covered, and there's a delayed glitz in the
Speaker 13: B gap and Tyler or Tyrone rather punches the d
Speaker 13: M to the outside. He slides back inside and it
Speaker 13: wasn't like a two foot slide either. It was you know,
Speaker 13: you know, a couple of yard slide, and he keeps
Speaker 13: the guy off that and basically knocks him into the
Speaker 13: d into daylights to the right. Okay, that was That
Speaker 13: was a little bit of attitude, and to to what
Speaker 13: Isaiah was saying, I think they're really really developing it
Speaker 13: up front, and I think, you know, I think it
Speaker 13: comes from Martin and from Tyrone and Tyler. Now, Tyler's
Speaker 13: a beast. The other thing I just wanted to throw
Speaker 13: out and I totally expect to get being up by
Speaker 13: Isaiah on this one, and that is you know, we
Speaker 13: still have red zone issues. Okay, I'm a I get
Speaker 13: really frustrated when we're in shotgun on the two yard line,
Speaker 13: three yard line. Okay, I know you mentioned, Uh, Kyle,
Speaker 13: we get under center a lot, but I'm gonna throw
Speaker 13: this out. I'm gonna throw this out and two options. Uh.
Speaker 13: One of them is from the Telling More book maybe,
Speaker 13: and that is why don't we put Mazi Smith there
Speaker 13: leading a guy like ric O'Donnell into the end zone,
Speaker 13: you know, just up the middle, or another one where
Speaker 13: I'm gonna get beating up on. We got a beast
Speaker 13: back there in Parsons who used to be a full
Speaker 13: back in high school. Or you know, something has to
Speaker 13: happen down there. You don't want to get into a
Speaker 13: kite game and you can't score. And that's what happened
Speaker 13: to Philly the other day. Okay, if they score on
Speaker 13: one of those first two possessions, maybe the you know,
Speaker 13: maybe that game changes. And the last thing we beat
Speaker 13: Philly to meet as the hardest game the rest of
Speaker 13: the way is Buffalo and that's because of the weather.
Speaker 13: I'll hang up, guys, you'd be well.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Dan.
Speaker 2: Appreciate the call as always.
Speaker 7: Dan, So a couple of things there, so not gonna
Speaker 7: beat you up. I am also a fan of being
Speaker 7: under center. That's just I guess the generation that I
Speaker 7: came from. I like under center. I hate it as
Speaker 7: well when you get down there on the two yard
Speaker 7: line and you go five yards back just to get
Speaker 7: the ball.
Speaker 2: I will say. I say it every time that it's
Speaker 2: a short yardage situation one or two yards and they
Speaker 2: go into the shotgun. He say, why are we in
Speaker 2: the shotgut?
Speaker 6: It drives me crazy.
Speaker 2: So in terms of I don't think it's that bad.
Speaker 6: It's crazy. Get a full head of steam. Yeah, seven
Speaker 6: yards back they do too. So the thing okay.
Speaker 7: In terms of options, in terms of being physical physical,
Speaker 7: I think the options that the Dallas Cowboys would have
Speaker 7: in terms of fullbacks, I wouldn't put Mazie back there.
Speaker 7: I think option number one is going to be Hunter Liftkey, okay.
Speaker 7: Option number two for me. Option number two for me
Speaker 7: is Sam Williams uh and option and option number three
Speaker 7: for me is Princeton fan if he's if he's elevated,
Speaker 7: I like that.
Speaker 6: I love those are my options.
Speaker 7: I would honestly put Princeton first, but most.
Speaker 6: Likely he's not going to be elevated.
Speaker 7: I think he's the most physical out of all those
Speaker 7: guys I just mentioned. If you had to come downhill
Speaker 7: in one direction, I would not want to get in
Speaker 7: his way.
Speaker 11: I don't think the coaching staff, just from things I've
Speaker 11: heard in conversations I've had with people in the building,
Speaker 11: I don't think they want to risk Micah Parson is
Speaker 11: getting hurt in that situation. So that's the biggest reason
Speaker 11: why you haven't seen him there. And also Micah doesn't
Speaker 11: have any interest in being a lead full back. He
Speaker 11: wants to want the ball, and I don't know that
Speaker 11: they're as comfortable with his ball security as probably he is.
Speaker 1: So that's just the one thing there and him.
Speaker 10: I am such a huge fan of throwing big guys
Speaker 10: up there in the jump both set, especially defensive guys,
Speaker 10: and Texas did it in the Big Tell Championship and
Speaker 10: throw a touchdown at Devandre Sweat and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 10: I love that, But again, the injury risk. A, there's
Speaker 10: a lot more money involved on this level, and then
Speaker 10: B you also have the personnel to be able to
Speaker 10: fit that in on the offensive side.
Speaker 11: So to the college point, though, I will say I
Speaker 11: mean Mike McCarthy is a guy that used b J
Speaker 11: Raji in that role defensive tackle when he has a
Speaker 11: green bay.
Speaker 2: The Dallas currently rang seventeenth in the NFL in terms
Speaker 2: of red zone percentage, so right dead middle of the water,
Speaker 2: right where, not where they have been in the past,
Speaker 2: but certainly somewhere where they can improve. All right, final caller,
Speaker 2: David in Pennsylvania, you're on talking Cowboys. It's Philly week.
Speaker 2: You're up in Pennsylvania. What's going on?
Speaker 12: It's rough, got to tread lightly around.
Speaker 2: I was kind of hoping that at least you were
Speaker 2: on the right side of things and you weren't just
Speaker 2: trying to call in the troll. So thank goodness, you're
Speaker 2: doing the Lord's work.
Speaker 10: Are you using an alias right now? Are you using
Speaker 10: an alias right now?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 12: No, But I'll tell you what I did. Go to
Speaker 12: a Philly game a couple of years back, and I
Speaker 12: borrowed my friend's Philadelphia sweatshirt to wear over my T shirt,
Speaker 12: and the whole game I didn't get harassed. These girls
Speaker 12: were sitting in front of me celebrating, and I play
Speaker 12: along celebrating with the Eagles accomplishment. But we were winning
Speaker 12: so much. I told my buddy we got a long drive.
Speaker 12: We got to get out of hear him before we left.
Speaker 12: The girl turned around to celebrate, and I pulled up
Speaker 12: my sweatshirt. I said, sorry, I can't do it.
Speaker 11: I'm a.
Speaker 2: Surgeon.
Speaker 6: I love It's insurgent.
Speaker 12: From then on.
Speaker 6: I love your dedication.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you you revealed it because I don't know
Speaker 2: if a whole lot of Cowboys fans would do what
Speaker 2: you did in the first place and wear the disguise.
Speaker 2: But then once you are behind enemy lines, you built
Speaker 2: that trust up and you tore them down that wash.
Speaker 2: I like it fast, it's very nice.
Speaker 12: Well. I took my second wife, who's now my ex wife.
Speaker 6: She was a Lesion fan.
Speaker 12: I took her down to Dallas for a game, and
Speaker 12: the worst thing that was said to her was you
Speaker 12: could have worn something different. I mean, the hospitality of
Speaker 12: Dallas was just over the top.
Speaker 9: Yeah, oh man, yeah, you gotta get it.
Speaker 6: What number are you on right now? You find me asking.
Speaker 12: Free? I love it, And she's a cow Boys Ye,
Speaker 12: I don't mean, I don't I don't really have a
Speaker 12: question or I want to talk about football. I just
Speaker 12: want to put one comment in there that somebody can
Speaker 12: get a work to Dak not to chew his fingernails
Speaker 12: on the sidelines.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll uh, I'll see what I can do that.
Speaker 12: Don't look too good.
Speaker 2: Don't you don't like it?
Speaker 6: Why not? It looks like he's nervous body language.
Speaker 2: Okay, maybe it's just personal grooming. That's it is.
Speaker 12: It probably is for years now. I don't have to
Speaker 12: chew it.
Speaker 2: It was that your first year.
Speaker 9: Second he was chewing them a lot in the first one.
Speaker 9: Chewing them a lot in the first one.
Speaker 12: And I love your guys, I appreciate Thank.
Speaker 6: You Dave for the call.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Keep doing the Lord's work up in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Oh, any way, I've seen it.
Speaker 11: I've seen an Eagle security guard have like a cowboy
Speaker 11: shirt underneath his No, I've seen it happen. I've also
Speaker 11: seen Eagles reity guards on the field by the tunnel
Speaker 11: sit there and and when fans are yelling stuff to
Speaker 11: the cowboys running out like pregame warm ups, like them
Speaker 11: yelling back to the fans.
Speaker 1: Yeah good good, getting their head, getting their head.
Speaker 13: I'm just like.
Speaker 6: You're the ego security. Push players try and grab.
Speaker 2: Interesting, interesting, what happens.
Speaker 6: That's the new strategy. That is the new strategy.
Speaker 9: Honestly, I am completely What is the NFL going to
Speaker 9: do about that?
Speaker 6: Because if that they don't, then that's the new strategy.
Speaker 2: They're gonna try that.
Speaker 1: Down like real hard. If it happens again, they'll like
Speaker 1: it will be some some dragon or something.
Speaker 7: What stops you from telling you all your staff right
Speaker 7: when somebody comes over there antagonize them?
Speaker 17: Right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, what's talk about that? As long as some one
Speaker 9: gets hurt, Like I'm not saying.
Speaker 1: Like, but you don't want the player to get thrown out?
Speaker 11: Then yeah, okay, I'm just gonna say because that's.
Speaker 9: What I'm talking about, that was soft.
Speaker 6: I don't think that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't think if you don't.
Speaker 6: If they don't punish him, then that's the new strategy
Speaker 6: for every team.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think they're gonna punish him.
Speaker 6: They have to.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're gonna he's gonna be a hey push, They're
Speaker 7: one of their best players.
Speaker 6: Was gonna be Jackie. We'll take care of you the
Speaker 6: locker room buddy, all right.
Speaker 2: That doesn't talking Cowboys here on this Tuesday. When we
Speaker 2: come back tomorrow, we're gonna hit some national storylines and
Speaker 2: we're gonna preview the Cowboys defensive matchup against Philadelphia. They've
Speaker 2: got their hands full again because of these weapons Jalen
Speaker 2: Hurts and company. And then Thursday we'll have QB Vision.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about the jug machine and get everything rolling
Speaker 2: in the right direction. Uh on Thursday as well. But
Speaker 2: for Chris Beam, Isaiah stand Back, John Machoda, and Caras Kyle.
Speaker 2: So long from Talking Cowboys. We'll see you tomorrow. This
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