Cowboys Break: Better in 2022?

edition of The Break. We're life from the s WBC Morriage Studios at the Star and we're presented by Miller Lite, the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. Got Nick here with me. We got Patrick Walker sitting in for Amber Garcia, and Brian brought us. They both should be back tomorrow, but Patrick and phill in nicely. I'm sure he'll be able to give us some good insight today. We got

lots of different things we're gonna talk about today. We're we're gonna get into some fan questions as I promised yesterday. We got a lot of those that folks have sent me, so we'll move around a lot of different topics. Give you guys a chance to sound off and if we have some time. Nick brought up a game that really wasn't a game that he thought maybe we should do yesterday that we didn't get to yesterday, but maybe we'll

do today. So in the third segment, if we have some time, we might do a little bit of that. You made it sound like you already did the game. You had the game. I already had it written down because I saw the article. It was the article you guys did on Best and Worst of the first half. And I saw the article and I thought it was a good article. I saw your your your thoughts in there, and I thought it would be something good, like a long article. No, not really good. Well, I did a

little trimming, you know, Mickey, Mickey a little word. He thinks it's mix shots. He's got the whole whole page to himself. Yeah, trimmed down. Well, now I thought it was good. I thought it was good. It was some good insight, and I we'll get to some of those things and maybe have you guys answered some of that on the air and get your thoughts. Let's start first though. Last week obviously was a bye week for the Cowboys. Last weekend and I'll tell you this. Last Sunday, I

did not expect. I expected I was gonna watch football all day. I did not expect I was gonna watch it in the way I did. I have notoriously avoided watching Red Zone channel because I'm the kind of person I want to sit down from the beginning of a game all the way through to the end, because I want to be able to understand the story of the game as the game develops. But I saw a message Red Zone was available. I was like, I'm just gonna

give this a try. I'm totally addicted. Man. I was losing my mind because it shows you every moment from every game. And I my wife was like, are you okay up there? Like, I'm like freaking out and going crazy because I'm seeing all these plays happening in all these It was the best Sunday I've spent watching football maybe in my life. I really enjoyed Red Zone. I really enjoyed Red Zone. But I wanted to ask you, guys, what will takeaways for you guys from last weekend? A

lot of good games, a lot of interesting moments. What was the takeaway? M I'm trying to think, I'm trying to think because I gave up football on Saturday, but they did get Yeah, but I did get it. I didn't know what happened with your team. Sorry, I'm not trying to bring up all got back on Sunday and uh, what do we I'm trying to think what game? What game? Would did we get on TV? Oh? I got uh Jets and and good Jets and Bills and then oh

why Washington and the Vikings? Yeah? Man, the Vikings just try to lose, but they just nobody will let him. The body's gonna let him love. It's like you got much respect for the Vikings? Who's your quarterback? Is there? Where we're going? The seven and one? Okay, the seven and one? The Giants are six and two. I don't I just don't respect it. They're they're good. They're a good team. I mean, I think Cousins is a good quarterback. He's good, but I don't think he's great. And I

don't think that team is great. But you don't have to have a great quarterback to be good, you know, fell and go far in the NFL, I don't think. I mean, they get it done, yeah, I mean, and my biggest takeaways plural are both from the NFC North, one being the Vikings, and I'm huge on hashtag keep that energy. So for those that are questioning, you know the Cowboys at six and two, and then that same breath, they say, well, look at the Vikings, and the Vikings

aren't world beaters. They just barely escaped FedEx field with the field goal and it took a late game penalty and then interception from Heineke to do it. But don't apologize for wins. I'm not saying they should apologize for wins. I'm just saying that's a takeaway like the Vikings are trying to find ways to lose before they figure out why He's to win. I think they were excited about the win a little bit little bit, and they should be. Yeah, I mean, what's the quote, you are what your record

says you are? They're seven and one. You remember that time that Aikman took his shirt off on the charter and and then the other cup for them, though, I mean that they should be enjoying themselves. Win's a hard NFL. They are Scaron Rodgers, which goes right, Yeah, it goes to my other takeaway from Sunday, and that the Packers

are trapped in the tailspin. And you look at who they lost for the season, Rashaun Gary and maybe Eric Stokes and Bok Terry is still dealing with an issue at left tackle and Aaron Jones left the stadium in a boot. We don't know what the status is. But that's that's the big one. I read that story and it just kept going and going, and then then and then this guy and then this guy, and it's like home, Yeah,

It's it's rough on them, right. Yeah. So you got the Vikings finding ways to win after they try to lose games, and then you got the Packers who can't figure out a way to even be in control of a game at any point in the game. It's it's wild. NFC North is wild. But kudos to the Detroit Lions. And I've said the time and again that's a scrappy bunch. You cannot overlook those guys. That's that's the trap game of the highest order. If there's a such thing as

a trap game, the Detroit Lions is it. Yeah, if I'll tell you this, I can't. I can't say that I've watched every play of every game of the Packers this season. I did watch a lot of that game this last weekend and Rogers Rogers. It's interesting to me because I assumed, watching from an outside perspective, catching highlights and that kind of stuff, I assumed that a lot of their problems were related to other things, not necessarily

Aaron Rodgers. But as I watched that game this last weekend, I started to kind of change that opinion a little bit. That interception he threw. Now, first of all, he threw three interceptions. Two of them were in the red zone, one was just outside the red zone. The one he threw where he was trying to hit Bok tri in the end zone. I don't even know where he was what he was Sorry, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, there was.

You know, you got offensive lineman that was declared eligible and he gets in the end zone and he's wide open. He's out there by himself. Rogers off his back foot kind of throws it up and a defense it was was who was who was the defensive lineman? The high pick he was the first or second. He was first round picked this last year. So he comes out from the defensive line and just pops out interception like it was a great play by the defender. But it was

also just I think a poor throw by Rogers. It was to a wide open offensive lineman in the end zone, And to me, I was like, if that doesn't just sum up kind of what they're feeling right now. It's just like they can't get anything, or even things that are presented to them on a platter, like here's your opportunity for a touchdown. Something goes wrong. And I think a lot of it is the connection between Rogers and its receivers. We'll talk more about that as we go

into this week, but I don't know that. I don't know if they got that kind of connection. He doesn't have a go to guy like he's used to having, and I just don't think they got it right now clearly. If that's their goat, if that's their play, yeah, yeah, we don't need atoms, we don't need all these other guys.

Let them go, you know. But but you know, one reason that a lot of people believe that it was it was not as far as the tailspin was not necessarily on Aaron Rodgers, was because that's what Aaron Rodgers laid everybody to believe. He's throwing everybody under the bus and then in the same breath, when asked about his own performance, he says, oh, that was my highest graded

game this season by the coaching staff. Yeah, okay, well, we'll give you the benefit of the doubt because you're hearing that's also relative too, right when he says best of the season, because you're averaging the seat, right, But then you know, you see him throwing on Sunday against the Detroit lines, and then it really starts to hit home that, Okay, Aaron, you have to own this. And that was the first time in his postgame person that you really kind of saw sinking in like, wait a minute,

I might be the problem. So I'm sure there was some chair throwing up there in Green Bay after that game. But Aaron has to own it. He has to own it. Ye right, you don't have your a number one guy, or even a number two guy, or even a number three guy. But rumor has it that great quarterbacks make

everybody else better? Where is that in Green Bay? Honestly, there's only one of those in the NFL in my opinion, and by the way, in most years, you ain't gonna get one maybe two Patrick Mahomes, Like Patrick Mahomes right now, is working with a cast of receivers that you would say are are not. I don't think he has a single receiver that you would consider to be a true number one. They went out and got Juju Smith Schuster this offseason. The reason why Pittsburgh let him go is

because he wasn't he had an assented to that for them. Now, he's a good receiver, don't get me wrong. And they have a cast of I think good receivers. No great receiver. But even in this game, there were moments when Pat just took over the game, like he just took over the game. That's the only quarterback in the NFL, in my opinion this season, who is able to do more with less. Everybody else, you better surround them with good

talent or you're not going to get the same return. Agree, Mahomes is a one of one, none before him, none to come, I mean, and he even got you look at the descent of Cadarius Tony in New York first game with Patrick Mahomes. He's out there making plays right right, so well we know we know Tony has talent. Yeah, we sawt We've seen it in Spurts in New York

issues ages can't. But to your point, it didn't take them any time at all to get enough chemistry to go into a game on Sunday and first quarter, second quarter already making plays together. So mahomes is different different. All right, we're gonna take our first break when we come back. I got a line of questions for these guys that we got from you guys. The listeners will go through some of those questions, get their answers, will

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like I'm getting everything out of Christmas. I get out of Christmas. So November comes, it's Christmas. Let's go. All right, Welcome back to second segment of the Breaking Life from that WBC Morgan Studios at the Star. We're presented by mill of like the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. This segments also brought to you by blockchain dot Com. All right, so let's get into some fan questions. We got a question first from Jose and j Jose Rodriguez.

He says, should Tony Pollard he called him Tony Hollard get more touches or distribute evenly with Zeke? That's been a big topic of discussion last week. Where do you, guys fall I say ten, ten, and let's see what happens. Oh that's interesting. So whoever got the hot hand? You keep rolling? Will you? I mean, if if Pollard is playing a game like that at and and he's breaking off a couple of big runs and still feeling good,

I mean, I'm fine with it. But uh, you know, I think they're both both are gonna get in there and you have to interchange them a little bit because you don't want to give the defense a tell on what they're doing. And so they both have to block. They're both gonna have to run outside. They bought the run inside. They both to catch screens. You know, I do both. I mean, it's like a basketball game. If guy comes off the bench and hits five threes, I mean think he says in the game. So that's kind

of the way I would handle it. I mean, I think they're both pretty interchangeable. I think it's easy for fans to demand percentages and say, we want to see Tony sixty forty, we want to see a perfect fifty fifty split. In real life, you guys know that's not how it happens. And you there are instances over the course of this season. Well, we've already seen Kellen Moore and Mike McCarthy being willing to ride the hot hand because there are games with Tony Pollard outtouches Zeke because

he's performing better against that respective defense. Then there are games who are Pollard is being deleted completely, but Zeke is having a great game. So it's equal touch. That's the formula. Keep it going, that's the adaptation that everybody wants to see. I love it. Just keep it going that way. Do not going to any particular game feeling I have to hit a perfect fifty fifty split. You're gonna lose that game because one of those players is

not having a good game. But you're forcing those touches. You're putting yourself behind the eight ball there. And I think the other thing people have to realize is that these are not characters on a Madden game. These are people, which means yeah, right. So the interesting thing there is you got your running backs coach, uh Skip Pete, who has to as the game's also going on, he's got to feel for Okay, how tired is this guy? When does he need a moment to be out of the game,

When does he need to regroup? Is he feeling some injury? Like there are other things that are factors as well. That it's his job to figure out who needs to be at the end of the game at any given moment in time. So you might go in the game thinking we want to go fifty fifty, but circumstances dictate

that you have to change that up. You get into a game where you have a doubt you might think of it like either hey, we need Polo on the feel more because we're gonna be passing more and we kind of want him out in pass routes, or hey, we're gonna be passing more, we kind of want Zeke in to block. There are other factors that are involved in the game that will dictate how many snaps, how

many touches each of them get. So yeah, I agree with you guys, Like at the end of the day, you kind of want to go in thinking they're equal backs. But every game will have a different story. And obviously it's hard to ever know what It's impossible to ever know what someone's feeling inside. But for what, for what I can gauge and you can get. I mean, we're all kind of sense this and been and we're around

other people that are close to it. I think the two people that don't have a problem about this, or Zeke and Pollard, they I don't think they do. Now, there's there's got to be some competitive vibes in there that they want to get back. They want to do it, you want to be the man and all that kind of stuff. But I really believe that Zeke is cheering for Pollard. I don't think it's fake. I think it's real.

I think he really is cheering for him. I think Pollard cheers for him, and I think that they need each other and they note that. I agree, And I think they cheer for each other because much like what Skip said regarding the running back room, these two guys understand that one benefits the other as far as longevity is concerned, as far as durability is concerned, if you task Tony Poller with being the bell cow you knock on wood, you'll probably see him deal with more injury situations.

Or if you task Zeke with doing it, you're going to probably shorten the shelf life of Ezekiel Elliott. So why not have these two guys working together in tandem? And Zeke and Tony they get it. That's why one cheers on the other. And there is a competitive part to it, but it's it's a friendly competition. It's saying anything you can do, I can do better kind of thing.

But those guys, they're brothers to each other. And you know, so for all of the pomp and circumstance around, you know, trying to divide those two all it should be Zeke versus Polo pol versus Zeke. Those two guys, they're in it all in for each other and you love to see it. The next question, this one's from Chris Fifia. He says, what's going on with Jabril Cox? What are we hearing? What are we seeing? What are we thinking? I mean, I don't think he's I mean people are interactive.

I mean he's not one of the he's not one of the core players. I don't think he's as good as a linebacker as Damon Clark, you know, and I don't think he's a good especially teams players Gifford, so they're in a numbers crunched there and and and that's where he is. I don't think there's like a setback or the knee or anything like that. I just think it's taking him some time to develop. Are are you? Are you surprised by that? Or is this kind of just who he is when where he was drafted that's

what you would expect? Or I know there was. And the reason why I say that, I think the reason why fans are asking these kinds of questions because there was a lot of talk about Jabril Cox coming off last year and people were excited that he might get in. They thought he might bring a little athleticism to the linebacker position, a little speed, and it just quite hasn't quite happened. The reason is Anthony Barr before last Yeah, before the game against the Bears, it was Anthony Barr.

Jabril Cox was expected to take a lot of snaps in twenty twenty two. But then the Cowboys going to get a four time Pro bowler. You didn't go and get a four time pro bowler to sit them on the bench so that you can continue developing Jabrille Cox. So to next point, Jabrill is a victim of the numbers game, because special teams has to have their numbers also.

But I think that if the Cowboys defense was stellar against the run but poor against the past, you'd see Jabril Cox and over Deman Clark because Deman is better at stopping the run. That's the tail of their two tapes at LSU. So, because the Cowboys need to figure out how to stop the run and Jabrille Cox is more of a coverage linebacker, they're going to look at demon and say, hey, we've been waiting for you, you know.

And now they didn't anticipate throwing him in how they had to with the injury the bar, but when he was in there, he acquitted himself pretty well. So for those that are asking, well why did Damon instantly get a chance when Jabrill was inactive, Well, this is why you're trying to stop the run, and you were going to get some Bears run defense. That's first in the league.

That's why. So again Jabrille victim of numbers and then from there, you know, I think there's another part of this as well as it's also how they play defense. You know, this is a very safety heavy team with Curse that comes down into the box. They like to use Donovan Wilson as well. Obviously they have Malie Cooker. So Jabrill Cox played I believe he played safety early in his college career and then he moved to a linebacker and he was at North Dakota State and then

LSU and all that. But but I mean he if he was to go one way or the other, it'd be a safety, you know, as opposed to Demon Clark, who would be a defensive m So that's just kind of and I think Curse play it's it's bar is a good point. But also I think Curse and and

Donmond Wilson. You know, Donan Wilson has has changed a lot over the last of what they're doing over the last few months, because I mean, I think he was supposed to be a just a nice player to be in the rotation, and they can't get him off the field. I think he's leading the team and tackles or right behind Vander He's one of your key run stoppers at safety. Yeah, and playmakers too. It's just it's a goodass defense. Break in. It's just not easy. It's hard, you know. And you're

right about Damon Clark. If Anthony Barr doesn't get hurt, I'm not sure he special teams only I'm not sure when and how they they fit Clark in, And they're gonna have to figure that out because I don't know. As Bar we talked about Bart, Mike said immediately following the Bears game that there weren't weren't any concerns that his injury was long term. So obviously we'll see effective

tomorrow and Thursday and Friday, how that goes. But I'm on the mindset even if Bars rested in will and he's ready to go against Green Bay now you've seen the moon. You can't cut that down to zero defensively. So the plan might have been special teams almost exclusively. Let's ramp him up from defense over the next two to three weeks. Okay, well, now he's already been on defense.

You see it. You want to ramp it up. I think you know ten to fifteen snaps on defense for the Moon by the time the Cowboys get to Minnesota. That will be the formula. But you're not gonna like, I gotta get I gotta get Bar on the field of Minnesota. Why because, because, let me ask you, because I think I gotten over Daman Clark, but I gotta get Anthony bar. If he's got anything dog left in him, it's gonna come out on that. I get that. I

get that. My question would be, and I know you guys are talking a lot about Anthony Barr, but at least what I've what I've seen, what I've heard, I think there are a lot of people that say Anthony Barr hasn't quite been as good as you wanted him to be. That being said, why I wouldn't you consider it a situation where Demon Clark, who you have a lot of a lot of you think he has a

lot of potential. Why you wouldn't be getting him on the field more to give him those opportunities, especially when the person's taken off as a guy that maybe hasn't live up quite to what you were expecting. I don't need to take demon Clark off the fit. You're right, I want to keep him going. I love what you've got out of him, and this is to me kind of a bonus year for him because if he if he's healthy and going into next year and he's got ten games under his belt, gravy um. I don't have

to play Dante Fowler on the outside. I mean I kind of want to play him. Okay, I did too, But I think Barr I mean, I think Bars playing out of position is what I'm trying to say. Are they not going to move him at this point? Well, I think Bar's a pass rusher. I agree with he's a pass rusher. I don't think they're gonna make that change now. I just think that you can figure out a way for him. Now. Does that mean ke snaps from Sam Williams? Are you taking snaps from from Fowler?

I mean, gott to figure out something, keep shaking you off like you're the picter, and I'm like, no, nope, no, nope, I'm not taking Williams. I'm trying to figure out how to get Sam on the field more, right, So help me out, Nick. But I think Barr. I think if Barr was playing the role of Sam Williams or Fowler, I think he would play it better. That's true. I agree with you. I don't think the coach is necessarily

because they haven't done it. Yeah, right, And they also might be looking at like, we don't need him there. We got plenty of production in those positions like this, we just got they have too many pass rushers. If there's a thing such as a thing as having too many pass rushers. Brought us says this all the time,

and he's so right about it. When a GM knows that he's gonna be the GM for years to come, you can look at things differently and you can say, gotta get to Moan Clark some snaps, gotta get Sam Williams on the field. Yeah. But when you're a head coach that knows if you don't go to the NFC Championship game, you could be let go. You're you're gonna play. If Bar is a little bit better than this guy, you gotta play him, you gotta use them. It's a

different mindset. In the same room over there, Will mccley and McCarthy could sit and talk on the field right before the game about what they think and they have a complete different mindset. And that's just that's just the way life is, you know. So like I hear what y'all see, and we think we're gonna be here too. I don't want to see sam I want to see Daman. True, but if Anthony Barr is a better player on this Sunday, the coaches have to do that for them. And I

guess that's still my question. Is he still the best player at the position he's currently playing, because I don't know that. I probably not. I think he's been I think he's been kind of up and down. I think there have been some good moments. There have been some moments it's like head scratchers. And I think you would

probably have the same thing with Damon Clark. You might even get a little bit more of the of the big play opportunity with him because of his athleticism and so to me, I don't think it's like Bars better right now. And to your point, you go back and you look at the Los Angeles Rams game and Bar was all over the field, easily his best game of the season for me. But then you go back and you look at the Lions or the Bears before he left with injury. Not the best thing that he left

on film. So I do think he's out of position. It was interesting because in the training camp when he was signed, McCarthy made it a point to, you know, aim at the fact that he has the ability to rush the passer and put his hand in the grass where you've not necessarily seen that thus far. So to your point, he is playing out of position. But I think you have so many guys performing that you hoped would but didn't necessarily know that it would happen. Sam

Williams is performing Dante Fowler. Aside from the you know, the random neutral zone infractions. From a production standpoint, he's thriving again. Under Dan Quinn, you have just like a log jam at the edge. So then you can't look at Anthony bar and say, hey, we need you at the edge, because technically we don't, but we want you on the field. Four time pro bowler and two up to you know, before last week's game, you didn't have the moan, so' it was your show? Bar okay, well

Bar leads with injury. Now you see the moan in his upside and his speed in tracking down Justin Fields, and you're like, we can't, we can't, you know, put that cat back in the bag. So yeah, just just that player didn't even count. But let's go back and watch that if he could go watch watch the mont Clark run down Justin Fields on the sideline. I mean, Miami didn't have anyone that could do it in their in their game. That guy, man, I'm telling he is and you put on Clark, but I'm talking about the

fields gonna be a problem. Oh yeah, well he already is a problem. By the way, if you haven't realized it yet, he has already developed into weight problem. Now they get some things around him, that's when it is gonna get real dangerous and the rest of the NFL is gonna be looking like, man, what are we gonna do with this team? Got to jal Hurts, it's gonna be He's way better than that. I think you think justin Oh, I think he's one. I think once he

really do, because he's going dangerous with his feet. Then I think Jalen is I don't know about I think the Duffel gangs of each other on the ground. Well, here's the deal. The air attack is what would separate if Justin's arm from Ohio State ever makes it to Chicago. Then he think about how they run the ball. The difference is, like Jalen will run you over. Jalen will

pick up the yards that that you don't like. If it's if it's you know, if he takes off around the outside and it's between it's one guy between him and the sticks, he's gonna get the first down. But the and by the way, what you can't remember, what you don't can't forget is Phills is six foot three. Say Phils ain't a little dude. He can bowl you over too. The difference is he's so fast and do you watch him last week? That's sixty one yard run.

He basically just outran the defense like he just outran them. When you got a quarterback like that, now you're talking about somebody that's more of that Michael Vick type that you know, I mean, those kind of quarterbacks. And then in addition, he's a big guy. And then in addition, if that arm shows up from Ohio State, like you start thinking about it from that standpoint, if he develops the way that you would expect him to, maybe he has the skill set that no quarterback really has had

in this league to date. Since if that arm comes over to Chicago from Ohio State, if I guess it got lost in baggage claim, whatever, but if it finds its way to Chicago, well they don't play Perdue. You know, they don't play you know, you don't have those you don't have those gaping If it ever happens, then two

for them or Iowa, I don't. You don't have anything against I used to say that all the time when I when I was on here and saying, guys, I hear what you're saying about these corners, But I mean, what why? And I can go back and watch the tape so it's not just me patting myself on the back. I was saying it, why not Michael Parsons because every time I watch him, nobody can block him? And I understand Minnesota's not on the schedule, Well it is Gophers.

You know those teams you know Red curs, but they can't block this guy. And that was just from the inside rush. They hadn't had him on the outside. I bet you if he would have opted to play that season, they probably would have dabbled into that. And but um, but and so so sometimes it doesn't translate over I get it. But I mean Fields is he just got his awareness. I mean it's not just jumping over Mike Parsons.

I don't understand that play. But to me, there was the more of the you know, Tank can hurt you if you don't see him coming over here, you should maybe feel that and see it. And I don't know whose fault, but at all fairness, there were two other players where Tank was coming and he and and Tank basically tackled there. So I get it. But yeah, but in that play right there, I mean, he's unblocked him. You gotta know that. You gotta see it. But he definitely felt it. Um, but he got up. He's tough.

He's a big dude, like he's not a little guy. No. I think I think that Cowboys, if they won't face him again for a while, when they do, he'll be a much better quarterback. It's kind of like the first time they faced Russell Wilson. I mean that was like, you know, he wasn't very good Tom Brady. I'm gonna go back that far. Tom never lost to him, So I don't know, I don't know. He still remember that game. Wasn't it like what in the final score like at

eleven and even No, there's no eleven? Was that was there? Was there a game that they played up in Yes, well thousand and three, come on, Nick, twelve to nothing got you? Thank you. It was a low scoring game and I don't think he completed very like. It wasn't like a game where it was a Tom Brady game. It was very much a defense two thousand. That two thousand and three team was the worst good team I've ever seen. They were ten and six parcels. First year.

They were terrible. Yeah, they made Quincy started. They shot out twice that year? Did they in the playoffs that they played Philly Carolina? Carolina? Yeah, I remember you and I looked at each other. That's the first time we really talked about those white towels. Oh, they're like the game was that? The game was that? The game? At the end, Steve Smith was on the JumboTron. He was talking yeah, ash yeah, and it was it was all true. He was like we we yeah, yeah, he was being

yeah he was it was. It was bad. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff in that game that was that was bad. Yeah. All right, we're gonna take off final. We'll come back. We got some more questions with these guys. This is a Dallas Cowboys dot Com radio. The season is finally here. For months, we've been gearing up to win. Now it's time for the team that performs on any field.

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playoffs than they did last season? Remember, at this point last year, the records were exactly the same six and two you were coming off. I'm pretty sure coming off the game against Denver last year, so there was a lot of what was that? But that all being said, they were still six and two six and two. Now, what gives you optimism things will be different this year? Michael Parsons. I think Michael Parsons is better this year

than he was last year. I think he's the best player in football, and I think I really believe that. I think offense or defense sure of worse. Gout a little high on that one, okay, because that kind of surprised me, but whatever, Well, he can only play defense, even though wow, time he got the ball, he made it clear he need to give me a lot. I think I think, and I've said this before about college

or pro. I mean, if you have the best player on the field, especially at a position that could wreck games, that you're always going to be in a chance. I think that I have optimism that this defense is better. It's a little nastier defense. I think it's better. I think it's going to travel and you know, wherever. And I think that the offense will have more playmakers, um than they do right now. I think I think they're coming out. They are going to figure out the Pollard,

the situation. They're going to add somebody at some point. I think, and I think, I think they are just a better team. I think they're a better team than they were last year. And the schedule, sorry, Pat, I mean one more point. I think if you look at the six and two, they hadn't played a lot of really good teams yet, and they beat some teams that we thought they were good, and then as it turns out, like not really, when you face the good teams, they

really weren't that good. I think this team's already beaten some pretty good teams and they'll be tested some more. But I just think this team is a little better than we're last year. I think the defense, the defensive guys who set records last year are better this year. Michael Parsons is better, Trevon Diggs is better at good point. And then in between those you have players that are now scratching toward that elite title. Donothan Wilson, he's cloning,

he's trying to get there. Right. You got a healthy jay Ron Curse now hopefully that stays the case. But you got DeMarcus Lawrence playing out of his mind, right. You got rookies. Sam Williams is stepping up playing well, and the free agency edition Fowler, you know, penalty is notwithstanding he's playing well as well. You're going to get Jonathan Hankins and drop him right beside Quentin Bohannah to kind of help out. Damon Clark is now in the mix. Upside is great. So the defense as a whole, I

could go on and on. They're better offensively. Guess what they just learned they learned. They just show that they learned from the mistake of forcing Ezekiel Elliott to play through the PCL injury last season, which is what led them to rest him against the Bears going into the bio week. So now you have a healthy Ezekiel Elliott in the back half of the season. You didn't have that in twenty twenty one. So that's another issue or

another positive. We'll see what James Washington can become, but that goes to help is on the way, be at James Washington and or a free agency edition like a guy who Shall Remain nameless? All right, But I say all that to say the chemistry is also coming back with between Lamb and Dak, between Gallop and Dad, Gallup is rapidly approaching being Michael gallop again. Right, Noah Brown kind of took a step back past a couple of weeks, but we've seen what he can do. I think he

gets his chemistry with Dak and so. And then you're throwing special teams your guy, Brett Maher, Right, you don't have a guy well based on the Yeah, he's a special he's your favorite special teams guy, is what I mean. He's just favorite special teams guy. No, he's not my favorite special teams guy. My favorite special teams guy is the same as everybody in the stadium. I love that guy. I love watching him. Turpin maher. You don't have a concern about kicks anymore. And then you have guys like

Durrance Armstrong blocking kicks. So all three phases are really starting to come together for the cop isn't me this is off off topic just a second. This is pro and college. Is there are a lot more blocked punts than there used to be. I feel like every I feel like there's a lot of block punts. That's a question. I don't know. I don't I can't figure out the number. I mean, you see more, you see highlights, but I

don't know if that's a good indicator. I just feel like I feel like it happens not maybe not once a game, but I mean it's very close once or twice a Gamewboys are getting back there, yeah, routinely, even if it's not a block, it's like, hey, finger nail a way. Another point to that is I just don't feel another they did it once last year. I don't feel like the team was able to go four and one and against some pretty good teams last year without Dak. I don't think they were built that way. I think

they need to die. I think this year that they showed that they can do that. They can win different ways. So it doesn't matter if he lose in the first round. No one's going to care who's better or worse or whatever. But you know, I mean, I still think the best team I've seen when Owen one in the playoffs back in two thousand and seven. I think that's the best

the Cowboy team that I've covered. Doesn't matter. Ultimately. I think dan Quinn from a coordinator standpoint, I think he's he's wearing that Deebo Samuel whooping from the playoffs and he's wearing that and I think that going into the playoffs. He's going to do whatever he needs to do to make sure that whomever they play, you're going to have to beat the Cowboys in the air, and to do that, you got to beat the pass rush, and you gotta

beat that secondary and good. Look. I mean, if they if they can split these next two games, and one way or another, just split these two games. If they do that, and then take care of the business for the next four games that are sitting there, I mean, you're just sitting You're probably just gonna be sitting at the five seed. That's where you're gonna be. I just I don't know. I have a hard time thinking they're

gonna beat the Eagles. Maybe the Giants can beat the Eagles, and then you beat them and then that changes everything. But I don't not even expecting that. I just think they're gonna be a five seed and they're gonna play

a four. I'll tell you this, Here's the reason why I think I'm more optimistic about the Cowboys this year is because looking around the NFL, I don't think it's a coincidence that some of the best quarterbacks that we've traditionally known in this league are having struggles this year. I think a lot of what's happening in the NFL is about the fact that defenses have just decided we are dropping seven sometimes eight, You're gonna have to throw into coverage, and we are going to do it until

you force us to get out of it. What that means is, and that is translated into, is now the teams that are doing well in the NFL, teams that can run the ball and play good defense, because the only way to get a team to get out of that seven man drop is to just run the ball right down the throat and consistently be able to do it. That's why I think the Cowboys in a great situation. I don't think the Cowboys opponents are necessarily coming to the game thinking in order for us to win, we

got necessarily beat their pass rush. I think they're coming in saying we're not going to beat their pass rush. So we got to keep ourselves out of those situations, and we got to run the ball well. Where the Cowboys have problems against teams who can run the ball, I think that is across the league. I think that is becoming more and more. Of the problem is you're gonna have to be able to run the ball and

play great defense. And by the way, that matches up for the Cowboys right now, that's exactly what they're doing well. They're running the ball, they're playing good defense. That is the reason why I have optimism. The only problem with that is there are a lot of other teams that are in that division, I mean, in that conference, who are also playing great defense, who also running the ball.

You look at teams like Seattle and Philadelphia and in New York and I mean you go down the list San Francisco and there are a number of teams that have figured out that formula. And it's not a coincidence that most of the teams in the league that are near the top have that formula. There's really only two or three that don't, and that those two two of them are Maine that don't run the ball particularly well. Have the best quarterbacks in the league right now in

Josh Allen Pat Mahomes. So that being said, either you got to have a transcending quarterback or you better be able to run the ball. And I think that's what makes the Cowboys have at least that's for me, gives me more optimism. The Cowboys will be better this year. Everything cyclical in the NFL, and now we're back to talking about defense and the rushing attack being the reason teams are winning games. Well, this smells like the nineties

all over here? Is it so? And the NFC least has turned into the NFC beast that ain't the nineties. I don't know what else is over again? All right, appreciate you guys, Jonas. We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna jump into Cowboys versus Packers, will jump in and jump into the Packers office versus the Cowboys defense. Still then for Nick Eatman, Patrick Walker, I'm Derek EAGLSMS BE in

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