Cowboys Break: Standouts From #KCvsDAL

Life Nest WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. And this morning we were talking about a big win Cowboys, make it three in a row. I picked the Chiefs. You did not even gonna let Derek get into it, okay, chief I also picked the Chiefs and Amber did you? Yeah? Didn pick Boat that week. I'm looking at it t here. Derrek picked Dallas to win. Okay. Have you ever picked another team twin there? Yes? Picked, Yes, I have picked another em to win. And I was actually going to

pick the Chiefs until my man Zeke came back. And I told you guys, when Zeke came back, they can beat anybody with Zeke. Like Zeke played well yesterday. But let's not act like he like put the team on his back and that it is not about it is not about his number of yards. It is about the thread of having Ezekiel it back there. It makes a difference. Act like you're that naive day. Well, you know the touchdown to Cole Beasley, the first one that that's all Zeke.

That is that the play action read, you know, and then he just goes right over the middle. I mean, that is the luxury of having him on the team. And so uh and there there's a couple of other runs that you know, it just how many times yesterday did it look like minus two, minus one? And then he just grinds out four and it's second and six. It's a huge difference in what they can do on second and third down. So he is a huge difference maker.

The number of times that Ezekiel Elliott just kind of disappears into a mound of bodies and then well just and then its five yards by the end of the carry. It's crazy. You're like, all right, he's hit at the lines probably zero one yard, oh he got five, okay. And it's not like it's college football where these guys are like pushing from the back all the time. Yeah, I mean they don't. We don't see that a lot out of this team. No, he's just been nice. If

they did, he's just a tank. He ended up with twenty seven carries for ninety three yards, three point four average and a touchdown. Not a great average, but like you said, he was getting those really tough yards. And again, this was a defense that yesterday, in a lot of instances, was trying very hard not to let him get those yards, and so I thought it did make a difference. And really, to be honest with I think this game yesterday was much more about the other two things, the passing game

and of course the defense. Let's start verse with the passing game. Dak Prescott goes twenty one to thirty three for sixty four percent completion rate, two hundred and forty nine yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, and I think this was probably the most important part of that. He had

three carries for twenty seven yards touchdown. The runs. Once again, the runs are what opens up everything yesterday, Nick, you and I in the game, we're talking about the fact they were running a lot of man, and when you got teams running man against you, then it opens up opportunities with the quarterback because everybody's got their back to the quarterback, and he took advantage of that in some key moments yesterday. Well, everybody was a threat yesterday and

that that was a big key. I mean, Terrence Williams got to give him credit. I mean, he's been criticized as much as any player on this team, seems like this year and even on this show. But we've asked him to step up, and he did. Not only did

he have nine catches, he had nine targets. I mean, you talk about a reliable player catching the football, extending to play, getting first downs, getting up the field, and then when it's time, you know what, when it was time to get out of bound or stay in bounds, he didn't. He hasn't always made the right call on that one, but he did at the end of the game. How he just had a really really nice game. Hopefully

his ankle injuries not too bad. One of the best, like two or three games of his every probably rest in the most meaningful game and he had Detroit playoffs, probably the Green Bay the first Green Bay Playoff game two for that matter. But I mean, yeah, he was a phenomenal you look at some of the drives that they had yesterday. Check this out. They had on the four touchdown drives they had, it was seven plays for seventy one yards. There was a seven plays for eighty

two yards. There's a twelve play for fifty eight yards, and then there's a thirteen play for eighty seven yards. This offense yesterday was doing some things that really were I think reminiscent of what they did last year when they get on these runs where just offensively they were just turning it over and it wasn't like they were

getting a tons of really big yards. They had some big plays yesterday, but there were also some drives where they just methodically moved down the field four yards, tier five yards, tier three yards here, seven yards here, and they would just move the ball. And the most important thing I thought to note was that it was a lot of those drives were more passes than there were runs. Those first two drives I talked about the seven for seventy one, seven for eighty two. That six pass plays

and one run play on both those two drives. Are we seeing what we're seeing right now? Are you guys convinced that this offense is now really back to what it was last year, because I know it wasn't at the beginning of the season. And what do you think. I still I mean, I'm still not one hundred percent convinced because we just saw it in one game. I say, they've been trying to get that to work, the passing game, and they have been trying with they just haven't been

successful at it. And this was the one game where they finally were able to be successful. Example, Terrence Williams when he made that first catch. In my head, I'm my alright, well, here we go. There's his one play. I mean, he always has one good play per game and then that's basically it. But this game he was able to get it going and keep it going, and they were able to get Cold beastly involved. Dez was able to start catching passes and have a better connection

with Dak. So we finally saw them be successful at the passing game. And I would say it's a little too soon to jump ahead and say, oh yeah, I'm feeling great about it. I still need to see a couple more games before that. Well, you know, they scored twenty eight points and I believe it's five straight games, and so I think I think they are in a nice groove. You know, it's gonna be this is a if you want to pick your poison type of offense, it's gonna be games where today is Terence's day and

then Cole is the red zone guy. Jason Witten had one catch for five yards, but in Atlanta they could be Jason Witten for seven or eight. So I think it's you know that Zeke's gonna be constant. You'd like to see Dez be constant, and then the other guys just kind of whenever it's their turn to step up, step up. Well, what's awesome is and I mean we are halfway through the season now and Dez has yet to have that game and he got hurt yesterdays and I'm not trying to dog him, but that's what kind

of what we talk about, is like step up. You know who's stepped up, and it doesn't it doesn't matter who steps up because of this. It's Dak He's he's balling out. And honestly, you know, I hear what you're saying, Amber, and you know San Francisco they're they're a bad team,

so you can take whatever you want from that. But This is three straight games where they've really been on a roll, and yesterday was maybe the most encouraging because the like we just talked about, like the running game wasn't that was not the way they want to run the football, and which is hilarious because they ran it

pretty well. Thirty three yards, Yeah, a good day. But when you're coming off of two sixty three as a team against the forty nine ers and one ninety whatever against the Redskins, like that's how they want to run the football. But Dak picked up the slack. I mean, third and fifteen at the end of the first half, twenty one yards to days third and four. We were talking about that last night. Five yards to Witten on a play that would have been a pick six if

it hadn't been placed in just the right spot. Another third and four on a scoring drive, Dak scrambles for five yards. Like he is just I mean, like I was talking about this earlier this morning on Twitter, and he's going to start to get more love if he keeps this up, especially if Zekee is suspended. But like he's playing at an MVP level in my opinion, just in terms of you know, he's not making mistakes. He's moving the ball. He's doing it with his feet, he's

doing it with his arm. He's got what twenty total touchdowns with four turnovers, and he's just he looks masterful with the way he's moving his offense. And I thought yesterday he didn't complete them all, but his willingness and his confidence to fire the ball downfield yesterday was really impressive. I mean, he you know, people want to give him all this crap for Dinkin and Duncan. He wasn't doing

that yesterday. He was throwing, you know, fifteen eighteen yards down field, firing in between cornerbacks, looking for gaps in the coverage. I thought he looked like a piece. He could have easily run the ball there at the in the right before halftime, had a first down, could have gotten in ten fifteen more yards got out of bounds, Terrence playing, but he decided to just sling it to Terrence. And you know, that was a huge play I mean because I mean it was a nice throw on the run.

He gave him a chance. Terrence did a good job. You know, a lot of times with receivers crossing over the middle. It just bugs me when when they're running, and then they want the ball in stride, of course, because they want to catch it and go. That's what they want to do. But sometimes the ball's not there, and then they won't stop running and they'll just try to catch it and still and then they don't make the play. And he did a nice job of stopping

catching it. And then we'll see what happens because it was a little bit under thrown. But that's okay because you've given your guy a chance. I saw somebody say this on Twitter yesterday. I apologize. I don't remember who it was, but Terrence is so if there's one thing he really is phenomenally good at, it's like turning the short route into the long game, like he'll take the eight yard curl and then he's just great at maneuvering around the tackler and turning that into a mine. And

I talked about that. That That was DC Blue Forever twenty three. I'm sorry, DC Blue, but you guys did mention in that in that in that series, right there before the half. I thought the really the moment of that, and Dave you kind of mentioned it. There was a third and fifteen. It made so much more sense just from a football perspective,

you basically think about the scenario. It's a one minute, thirty seconds left and a half, you're at your own thirteen, it's third and fifteen, and you're facing a team that you think is pretty good offensively. Right, in most situations, you would think that's a you know, hand the ball off, get as many yards you can punt. It forced them to take that last time out. That's the importance of running the ball right there, and then they have to try to see what they can do there with maybe

a minute ten left and no timeouts. Cowboys, they didn't. They were aggressive on third and fifteen at their own thirteen. They converted with a pass or they converted with Was it a penalty that next play that actually got the conversion or was it the pass it was a past day it does It was twenty one yard passed today, right, and that's how they convert and then they keep it moving you get the fifty six yard or so. To me, you got to give credit to the offensive coordinator for

making the call. It's pretty ballsy. I don't know if I would have made that call, but it was it was. They made it work. Yes, go ahead, so no, I'm switching. I just I'm I'm I'm not. I'm gonna pat myself on the back because I said that I thought they needed to be aggressive right there against this and fifteen. You you were going for it. I would just that drive in general, like that needed to be a drive

where you tried to get points. Obviously we know in hindsight, we know that the Chiefs never really got their offense going. But I just thought you had to assume that they would. But did you even if and I agree with you, and when that series start, I thought they need points here and specifically need a touchdown. But did you did you at all change when you got to the third and fifteen. I don't like if you have a quarterback of Dak's caliber, maybe if it's third and thirty or something,

but I don't. I don't believe in the give up play at the NFL level, not if you have a quarterback like that, Like that's what you do in college when you don't trust your sophomore quarterback to get it, you know, to throw it down field. But and they clearly trust him now obviously putting him in that situation, you gotta trust And that's Sorry, That's my point is, you know, okay, Bryce, Bryce had a drop because of the sun. Dez had a drop because of the sun.

There were definitely Dak had a bad misfire to James Hannah early in the game on just one of those little actions, and he came right back though and just darted it right down field to Deaz. I think it was the very next play. He didn't complete them all, That's not what I'm trying to say, but he was just firing the ball downfield yesterday with a confidence and their willingness to do that. That really impressed me. Here's what's interesting on that play. Let's say that third and fifteen,

they decide to run call time out. They have nice punt by Chris Jones. With no timeouts, the Chiefs don't really get anything. Maybe Kel always get a sack half in At seven to three, a four point lead, You'd be feeling pretty good about that. They had a four point lead, and they weren't feeling good about it. Nobody was feeling good about it. It's just kind of funny

how one minute of play can change everything. Even if the score seven to three, you'd been like, wow, this defense is playing out standing offensives to pick it up a little bit, but who would have thought this. Instead, it was fourteen to ten, and I'm sure we'll segue into that, and it was like, well it's over. Oh my god, it's over. Yeah, that play there before the half and I've I've as a Texas fan, experienced that

earlier this season, happened in the USC game. But it it almost makes you wonder, like, what's the right answer there, because you do want to have you guys back in case you think they're gonna throw a hell Mary, because they were they hadn't. I mean, it was obviously where they were on the field, all hell Mary, huh, hell he'll marry. Yeah, that was possible where they were on the field. So conventional wisdom says, yes, get your guys

back and make sure you protected against that. I told you in the present Pox, I believe it was either you or to the other side. But I was like, don't leave the middle this way. I remember just saying ridiculous because you put two guys there right in the middle. You don't need seven in the back. Just put five in the back, two in the middle. If they do that dump off play, those two blockers are just gonna hit those two guys. I would put show on Lee because when he back, I think he was back on

the field. It was all it was all hands me give me and Hitchens, gimme Wilson and Hitchens or somebody right in the middle of the field. When they do that play, Kelsey and the other tight end are just gonna blast them. Now it's hill against five guys, right, I think I'll take my chances. You never know, you're talking about a world class athlete though. I mean, that just was a horrible coaching job. But I don't like to blame the coaches all the time, but that alignment

was ridiculous. Now make the play. I get it, Scandrick. I'd like for you to touch the guy. I'm not asking you to run. You know, every touch him. Everything you're saying is right, and they could have aligned it better, but like everybody just kind of broke down, like everybody was afraid of it was just right. But that's what

the that's what speed does to you. When you got a guy that's that fast, everybody kind of freezes because you're like, if I run him too if I go at him too fast and he takes off I don't have a chance to recover, and he's gonna run right by me. All that was was a stat grabbing play. We're just gonna dump the ball off to very hill. He's gonna get some stats. My quarterback is gonna get some stats, and maybe they'll face mask us and we'll get a field goal out of that. I don't think

they thought like that. I think they this guy, I think they got it like this. You give you give him a chance, but there's no way they thought we're gonna score. Well. But here's why. Here's why I think they thought they would score is because when you think about it, basically, you got a guy that's extremely fast, was really good in the open field, already knows how to return punts really well. You gave him a punt return situation now with about thirty or forty yards to

get a touchdown. Right, don't you like that kind of matchup? Because basically he's had what two three guys got You got two or three guys in front of him. You've got on that side of the field two or three, four maybe guys. So all you need is this speed to be able to find acreasing get through it, to get to a touchdown, and that's that's exactly what happened. So it actually is a I think a very brilliantly

designed play. When teams are thinking, hey, let's just get everybody back, it actually creates a great scenario for them with the kind of personnel that they had. That's why they should never just get everybody back. That's why it's a horrible alignment for the defense. There's no reason to be everybody back. I mean, there's fifty three yards across. If you put five guys, there are ten yards splits.

That's plenty of space and time. Put a couple of guys right up there or just I mean, now I just put two guys in the middle of the field that I just thought marion Elli and then they just butchered that one. And that that may also be a situation of a player like I don't know that there are a problem. There may be two or three guys in the league that would have gotten a touchdown in

that play. Literally, you could you could run that every if you ran that with every team in the league, Like they're one of a couple that has that type of playmate, right, and I know they have one. Obviously, this sounds silly for us because every game we've ever seen in our life is from a pie from the TV. But when you have a dynamic player like that two tight ends, I guarantee you not everybody sees him at first.

That's what one of the reasons why Emmett was so good, because linebackers would say, we didn't see Emmett for about a half second, and then all of a sudden, there he is because he's little, and then you got these blockers and you're down there, and then all the next thing you know, he's here. And when he's fast, of course, I mean blazing fast. So it worked out perfectly for the Chiefs. But I do think if they do that ten times, I mean, I don't think the Cowboys, I

don't think it's a touchdown. I mean maybe the one that's the one time so wild that I mean, well, really, it's funny how the story is like. That's the difference between this was a nice win against one of the NFL's better teams. It could have been a domination of one of the NFL's right I mean, and I still kind of put it in that category because I think of that play as I don't take plays away. But I do say that that play is not as reflective

of how this game really was played. Like they that was one of those flute plays where yes, you give them the points and it was a great design and they scored with it. But when I look at this defense, I don't really put the defense down too much of that all makes no it does. It doesn't make sense, But you can't take it away right absolutely. I mean, but it's on the scoreboard. But you look at it and say, two catches for fifty six years sixty four

yards he had. He I mean, I don't call me a homer if you want to, like, he did not have an impact on this game. I know that. I know that sounds stupid. Nor did Kareem Hunt. He scored a fifty six yard touchdown. I get how silly that sounds. But he had one catch for eight yards in the real scheme of Kansas City's offense, when you're not when it's not a gimmick at the end of the half, and let's actual, let's take our break when we come back.

I'll let you get to that. But we got to talk about the reason why that happened, the reason why Kareem hunt was held to what he was. This defense played outstanding. That's now three weeks in a row when they've played really, really good football. Are we starting to see maybe the turning of this thing a little bit to where you can start relying on this defense. So at least hold the side of the of the coin on this thing. So we'll do when we come right back.

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over one hundred and fifty years. The rest of you can visit stetson dot com slash cowboy to find a retailer nearest you. Back to the break Welcome back. It's the second segment of a break life from the SWBC Morket Studios At the Star. We're talking about the Cowboys big win versus Kansas City Chiefs. They moved to twenty eight and seventeen, and we've been talking about the off it's quite a bit and what they were able to

do yesterday. It was a really good game for them, But we really do have to talk about this defense to be able to hold the Kansas City Chiefs to seventeen points, which is the second lowest output for them all season. They only scored thirteen against Pittsburgh to be able to hold Kareem Hunt to thirty seven yards rushing yards. It was the second lowest day of rushing that he's

had this season. Again, twenty three to Pittsburgh was the most or the least, to allow only four of eleven on third downs just thirty six percent, and zero of one on fourth downs. I mean, this defense played against an offense that is considered, if not the best, one of the best in the league. I thought it was probably it was their best performance I think of the season. What do you think about the defense? Tell me about by what your thoughts were there? It's not even close.

And I think I'll go ahead and speak for all three of us. I think that's okay that anybody that picked the Chiefs to win this game did it because of the defense. Yeah, that's cool, awesome, you always picked Cowboys. It's fine. No, I did not expect them to stop him. No, no, nobody did. No. But you can go back and find the tape. I thought the Dallas offense would be just fine. I thought they'd score between twenty seven and thirty points.

They'd look exactly like they always do. I didn't. I didn't see that coming from the defense, and I don't think anyone did. And if you say you did, you're a liar. Yeah, which and it's amazing because, Okay, you can go back to San Francisco, they're not very good team. You can go back to Washington. They played that game in a monsoon. This was indoors against one of the most explosives off explosive offenses in the league, and they

dominated them. I mean they really did. Alex Smith two sixty three fifty six of which came on that hail Mary, so about two hundred passing yards. Travis Kelsey did all right. I mean he had a pretty good and a lot of that happened in some of the junk time there at the end when they were just kind of trying to drive them. But I mean he but Kelsey. But he beat up on Byron Jones a little bit. That's fine. But I mean, Kareem Hunt non factor in this game. Really.

I mean, Sean Lee was everywhere sniffed out a screen that might have been a sixty seventy yard type of play. It seemed like every time Tyreek Hill they tried to get Tyreek Hill involved as a runner. He carried the ball four times, which is a lot for a wide receiver and average two point three yards per carry pass rush. I mean they got two sacks, but even more than that. From the very first series, Alex Smith was on the run or moving around in the pocket. It seemed like

every single play. And the key thing they didn't let him get outside the pocket too much, because that's another thing he can do is he can beat you with his legs, and they didn't really allow him to do that too much yesterday. Sean Lee, though, when you think about what he does for this team now, I know he was on the field in Denver. Nobody played well

in that game. He didn't play well, but you know, I'd like to think if you had him for those two losses against the Packers and the Rams, it might have been different, and it just might have been a different story. He's that much of a difference maker, and we're really seeing it. I mean, they had him for twelve tackles. I bet you the Cowboys coaching staff gets him for about sixteen. I mean, he seemed like he

was in every play yesterday. You know, I was very concerned at the beginning because the defense start off really good and I'm like, okay, well they're sorry enough like that. I hope they're able to keep it going and I'll get tired and just kind of let the game go by and let the Chiefs start scoring point But it was really really great to see that they were able to balance everything out and keep it going. Again, very promising to see how they played. But yes, there are

areas that need to be improved. Example, they're tackling, and that's one of the things I kept seeing on Twitter, everyone talking about the way they're tackling and how they need to improve that, and we saw that. Thank god, it worked out to their advantage that they were able to stop them and stop them from scoring so many points. Aside from that big mess up before halftime, I thought

Anthony Brown played a really nice game. I mean, he was challenged a lot that they had Tyreek Hill on him, and that's one thing about Brown is that he's a very fast player himself. He's not, you know, I rekill fast, but he definitely can run. And I thought he did a nice job yesterday, and they tried a little bit, but it wasn't there And Jordan Lewis of Scandrick, those guys, all of them, really, I mean they were tested. They

did a good job. I thought the safety, yeah, I mean that was a horrible thirty minutes for one player, thirty minutes and fourteen of it is. And I don't think he played, honestly, I don't think he played overall horrible game. Talking about Byron Joe, talking about Bron Jones, I don't think he played. And you guys made different I don't think he played a horrible game. I think you're right. There was that that moment, like the penalty on all the way through till touchdown in the third quarter.

That whole period was kind of his moment to five plays in thirty minutes, five played, five moments. I mean, he's because he has a stupid penalty throwing the guy out of bounds. That's dumb. That that that changed from them kneeling the ball down to saying, let's try for something here. Then he was a part of that that didn't make a play. And then he takes his helmet

off because he's mad about something. That's another penalty. So then they kick off from the twenty and then that they were in a perfect field position to start, he gets a stiff arm to the face and goes for a little ride like on six flags for fifteen yards with Kareem Hunt. Then he gives up a touchdown to Kelsey and seriously, I counted it was thirty two minutes of real lifetime and thirteen minutes of it is in the locker room. So tough, really bad stretch there for him.

It's a bad sequence for thirty one right there. Yeah, but he you know, he kinda turned it around a little bit. I mean I would I wouldn't. I wouldn't try to say Byron had a great game. But I mean seventeen total points, ten ten real points, ten points from your actual offense against. And I remember, go back to Wednesday of last week, we were just like one one one. The Chiefs are ranked one, two or three in every category. I mean explosive play and a lot

of the day they had him with Kelsey. I mean, that's the part that you have to remember, is he had Kelsey a lot yesterday. And I thought that was he did a good job. I think going into the game, they were they had thirty seven plays of seven catches for seventy three yards in a touchdown. I hear what you're saying, But you got to watch Kelsey every week and to appreciate the fact that that still to hold

him to seven and seventy seven catches. Yeah, it was like two or three catches just on the last year. It's the same. It's the same thing I say all the time, is you know, this isn't again, This isn't college where you're just gonna completely dominate somebody like you're gonna give up chunk plays. In the NFL, these guys

are too good not to do that. And so if Travis Kelsey had that stat line, but Tyreek Hill had sixty total yards, one of which was a chunk play, and Kareem Hunt had one of his worst games as a pro, Like that's a win and exact, you know, that's okay. If Travis Kelsey had a good day, if nobody else did, that's the way the NFL works. So I guess I guess that being said, you know, the Chiefs have had several I think they had thirty seven

plays of twenty yards or more. Um So the play at the end of the half was one and I think I don't have my stay out in front of me. But had they had two more three total, yeah, two more of twenty two yards. So you have to say that your safeties are doing something right if they're not giving up the big plays, because it's their job to make sure that everything's in front of him. So as bad as it was there for that stress for Brymon Jones, they obviously did their job kept things in front of course.

Jeff Heath, you know, I don't know how if he had a great game in all the way around, but I know they had a great play, great play on the ball. He almost had two. I talked to him about that last night too. In the third quarter he read he read Alex Smith's eyes beautifully. It was a throw to d' anthony Thomas, and he jumped it just like he did on the interception, and he was in position to get it and lit like d' anthony Thomas just like undercut him. And it was a lot like

the Witten catch. He just stole it from him, basically. And he told me he was like, I thought it was either incomplete or an interception. I'm still oh. And then the guy got up in like sixty yards. I mean, but he was down, but yeah, yeah it was. I mean it was bang bang, like super close to being an their pick. So I thought Jeff Heith played just fine, totally honest, Anthony Thomas, I just thought about that. Man.

If the Chiefs have like a if every team had like their own relay team, I'm going with the Chiefs the Anthony to speak. I don't know who else other than those two. But although a good sign for all of you, uh you know, the youth movement fans out there, of which I know there are a lot. Xavier Woods got a lot of playing time at safety last night, and I got to assume one of these days Cheeto is gonna return to practice. So the secondary that first

summon along, he had a really nice play there. They were they were going to at Kelsey third down um and and basically Byron Jones was manned up against him. Xavier Woods comes up and gets the past defense. Uh so he from the very beginning he made a play there to that kind of set the tone for the day against these guys. You watching that play, I just now got your new Day reference. Can that was that?

The delayed reaction on my I agree all those guys just yeah, you guys can't see if it's Yeah, they're watching the tire kill play. It's an ugly it's an ugly play. But you know what it's if that, if that's the big I mean, if that's the biggest gain of their day, if that's the highlight of their day, I mean, that's pretty absolutely I like I said, I mean, you can come up with excuses for why these guys.

The defense played well in the last two wins, but in indoor track, closed roof, like perfect conditions against one of the most explosive offenses in the NFL. I thought they had a hell. Hear what Jerry Jones was doing on that eating hot dog. Yeah, he left early to get a hot dog because he was like, there's no way they'll score with two. So you scored and you got the touchdown, so you're like, let me go grabble.

But see, here's my thing is like, okay, me as the lowly reporter, I need to make strategic moves like that, like I need to leave early to get my hot dogs so I don't have to wait in line. Jerry Jones owns the building, Like I would do that on purpose. I would walk down in the middle of halftime and cut the line and be like, yeah, do something about it, Like I'm the owner. I'm gonna jump in front of the hot dog line. Actually, you're actually like there's a line,

the line the hot dogs. I don't think there's a line. There's the hot dogs are probably in the site, yes, well no, they're in they're in the sweet but not in his little viewing stand. I would guess you don't think. I bet he went down I bet he went downstairs. I bet he did. I would I would talk to some food there, or he can actually make a request and I'm sure it would come to him very quick. It's like they do for you guys, Dave. They bring the tray of hot dogs a halftime for you guys,

like a little buffet. They got that for Jerry. Probably don't see that. I'm not familiar with the tray being brought around. I must be missing something. No, not brought around like or you guys get served pregame. That's what I'm saying. Time food there. But that's what I'm saying. Like there's a line though, because the long line because people sports writers are not the healthiest types. They love

eating bad food. Not self included. All right, let's let's talk about the one thing yesterday in my opinion, Hold on real quick, because I can I segue something very really quick here anytime talked about running, Yeah, talked about speed and track. Okay, can I just talk about a half marathon for a second. We're gonna get to that in the third segment. Geez, you just let me run this show man seriously later kill me. All right, let's talk about let's talk about the one thing that did

not go well for the Cowboys yesterday. There were a lot of notable players that by the end of that game where on the sideline injured. True, and I don't know that we know a lot, but we do need to at least talk about it. Dez Bryant, Tyren Smith, Terrence Williams all left the game. Talk to me about what you know at this point and what you'll be watching this week with regards to their injuries. Well, Wednesday, they'll be did not practice. Well we know that for

Tying for sure. Right, that's actually Daz has an ankle, which he says he's hopeful you know too. Well, Yeah, but yeah, did you go to the m R. Did you get our MRI not that I'm aware of, he said. He said, it's not serious. He said, he's okay, Now, I all right, I'm catching jokes slow today. I went to bed late. Uh, I don't. We'll talk about that in the third segment. I don't think you needed an MRI. Uh Terrence. Also, I think I heard it was the same ankle he heard in like week one, right? Um

was he okay? I don't. He did talk in the locker room afterwards. I I it's gonna be one of those things, like he's gonna be on the practice report. I'm not particularly concerned that it's like a missing game time type deal. I would think with Dez, I would think Des has a chance to maybe miss the game. So I mean, we'll we'll see what he said. But I don't mean this in a bad way. But you can't. You can't always trust a player always see after a game.

You can't. When I mean, I'll always remember Felix Jones two thousand and eight rookie year. He said he heard his hip or thigh and he was like, I'll be I'll be fine next week. He didn't play again the rest of the season, missed end games, so it just happens. I mean they think one way, especially after a game, they got adrenaline pumping. That's where I was gonna go

with Tyron. Jerry said. I visited with Tyron, he says he's fine, and then I talked to Tyron and he was like, yeah, I'm fine, And I'm like, but it's a groin, right, And I was like, well, you're not gonna practice Wednesday anyway. So but I mean growing to me, I don't know, if you hurt, you're growing. I don't know of a lot of people that are playing by you know, a week. Well, it also depends on how

severe obviously hurt. But just growing is a scary injury because it's not typically the same the type of thing you can bounce back from in a week. Now. If there's one guy that you would probably not bet against, it's Tyring because he's an iron man. He'll you know, he plays through a bad back situation where he doesn't practice whatever. So it's it's something to keep an eye on. It's troubling. But like I said, if there's one guy that I'm not going to rule out, it's probably him,

but that that would be troubling for sure. Yeah, so these that's that's probably I mean, Jonathan Cooper's playing great, don't get me wrong, but that's all the more reason to keep Chaz Green on the shelf because with him having not played in a month, he's healthy to play left tackle right now. And that's what I think you start wondering about, and at least it's what I was

thinking about last night. You got these three guys who are um at least um in moments in trick your parts of what you do, some more than others, but you know, you know my point. And then you got this whole thing kind of still hanging over Ezekiel Elliott. And you've got games here coming up that I think

are extremely important, like this Atlanta game. Outside of division games, this Atlanta game and the Seattle game at the end of the season are very very important because those are about tie breaks if you're working around the wild if you're a wildcard contender, and and so these games are

extremely important. And now you're going into this week, heading into game where you have to go to Atlanta, and these guys are hurt, and the stuff with Exekula just there's a lot going on now, and they got to figure this stuff out and you hope that you got all hands on deck, but you just don't know. I mean, you know, it's victory Monday, and they just played great

against one of the best teams in the NFL. I get all that, but you look at it and you're like, well, by the end of the week, they might not have Zeke, they might not have days, they might not have Tyring. Right. I know Dak's playing like a monster, but I mean, that's that's a lot of key components missing heading into a road game against And I know the Falcons have been bad the last month, but there's still one of

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the world. No adjustment needed. Shop exclusive Cowboys Underwear Tommy John dot com Forward Slash Cowboys for twenty percent off first order Tommy John dot com Forward Slash Cowboys. Thank you, Nick, appreciate that. Let's get back into it. We're gonna get some questions here. Two one, four, eight seven two twenty one O two is the number. Uh. That was also a moment yesterday before the game began that I thought was probably as cool as any moment during the game

as well. Tony Romo came back to the stadium. He was back there in a working capacity for the first time this year, working for CBS, covering the game, calling the game um and before the game, our very on Kimp Garrison put together this really cool video. And there was actually a part in and Corey Miller, Okay, I'm gonna give Coreys due two um and and there was actually most part in the most of Kim. But then there was also this area in the end zone where

that the Cowboys had Welcome Back nine. And it was just kind of an ode, you know, a tip of the cap to Tony Romo, who had you know, ments welcome home? Is that I said to say something different, said back, I'm sorry, welcome home, um and and so so so it was a pretty cool moment. Uh, Tony was obvious there and it looked like he was kind of moved by the whole thing. But we're gonna show you guys a video, Dave, I mean, I'm sorry, Ken,

Can you go ahead and kue that up? Fans, please turn your attention to the video board for a special tribute from Eastern Illinois to North Texas. It's a long way. It was an unlikely journey that gave us a kid the number that would become synonymous with America's team nine. And what followed was a journey that we all got to be a part of. Tony liking football to a meritocracy. You have to earn everything, and every day we watched an undrafted quarterback earned the right to leave the Dallas

Cowboys for eleven years. Roll Ball runs it down at the twenty five and kicks it, picks it up and runs left at the twenty Rollball, try a pull mcnap. Get my football man up to the forty to the fifty. First step. Tony played for the ecstasy of winning and competing nome out of the score with nine hunder center. You always knew it was a chance in twenty four times to prove that in the fourth quarter Jason the best he had one goal win and eighty times did

just that. You see football as a team sport. Tony Roum will believe that to his core, passion, assistance, the love of a game are all things that he embodied. Let's being the team was supposed to be right here. Let's gonna win the game. In this drive, Tony rum Will taught us all what a mental love a game, the greatest game on earth. For that, we say thank you nine added stadiums. Fuck never gone, Tony. And that

was just the video from the yesterday's game. Kent Garrison and Corey Miller put it together it was a video about Tony Romo just kind of welcome him back, and it just just I thought it was a nice feeling thing, just to say, we appreciate what you've done for this franchise and for this team. He seemed moved by What

do you guys think? Well, I didn't watch it till last night, like about one apart to see from where we are, yeah here, but I and I went back and watched the broadcast for the most part and listened to Tony and yeah, what he said was really he was moved by it. You know, he's prepared for everything, and that was the one thing that kind of caught him off guard a little bit. So that it was good. I thought he handled it well. I thought the crowd gave him a nice salvation. It's a lot of them,

you know. There were some Chiefs fans there and they and they were cheering a few well, so overall it was it was good. It was a nice gesture by the Cowboys. It was a nice job of getting that done. Kent and Corey. I'm gonna say Kent though, because I know that I saw it, can't working on it a lot. So I thought it was really great. It was nice,

nice to have him back and to do that. I never think about the obvious thing in situations like that because I'm just a jerk, and like the main thing I could think about, which great video, Ken, awesome job, you know how amazing I think you are. Um. But you know they inlaid Romo on the video on the jumbo tron, so you could see his reaction, and I was like, man, that seems like it feel awkward as hell. Ninety thousand people can just watch her and it's not

like five seconds. I mean he was up there for the whole length of the video just kind of like, okay, am I still on camera, like and man, all right, everybody's looking at me. I don't really feel down with this, Like I thought he looked uncomfortable, and I would too

for that, I would be like this awkward. But you don't forget he is a part time golfer, and when you're a golfer you have to master that look where you kind of put your lips together like a bitter beer face kind of like yeah yeah, and he is yeah. And so it's like he did that part. He did it for the night, for ninety seconds. He had to do it like eighteen times over the span of that video.

But I mean it was a nice gesture. I told you it wouldn't come back to bite him that they put that into Well, my only concern and I'm taking

you guys out a little bit behind the curtains. My only concern last week when I first heard of there's curtains not in the stadium when I when I first heard about this last week, my only concern was, Okay, so not that this is likely to happen, but what happens if you do all this and you say welcome home, Tony and you're great and we love you, and then that goes out in terms of interception, and then Dak kind of is trying to catch up with the chief saw.

Dan just can't quite do it. And you know we did it before right after the end, right, I get it. I get it. And I was just a little bit concerned, like, man, cut this backfire. I don't think it will, but cut this backfire. And Dave, I was telling you before the game, like, it's not that the media would have been like trying to roast Dad's done enough I think so far to where people give him the benefit of doubt he's a

good quarterback. But it's just the side comments and the little jokes they think they're jokes that are just kind of like sometimes I think can be a little bit unfair. And I was just a little bit concerned. But what did I say. I don't remember, I don't listen. I said, Dad's gonna ball, Like, yes, you did, sorry about it. He did say that, and he did he balled, and so all's good, and everybody felt great about Romo coming back and tipping his cap and Dak going out and ball.

And I'll say this, listen, I've listened to a lot of Tony's calls this year. It will make me watch Jets versus Bills on Thursday Night with bad the rush uniforms, because I like listening to Tony and I think he's really good. I think this was one of the least entertaining games. He's really yes, and I believe and I know this. Everyone was concerned about him calling out plays beforehand, and he didn't do it. He really didn't, not not

when the Cowboys had the ball. Maybe a little bit with the Chiefs, but for the most part he was told not to do that, and so it probably limited him a little bit because he now but he had some really great things to say. I mean, he talked a lot about um. He said, Terrence Williams is in his mind, one of the most underrated players in the NFL. And he did say that last year. He wasn't just saying right. And he said that about Sean Lee too. He did. Did you guess hear what he said about

Deon Sanders and what Deon Sanders said back? Yeah, not what Dion said. What do you think? Oh god, Marcus Peters did not make a tackle? And he said he makes Deon Sanders look good a tackling that's like, I don't know, that's like a playful jab at, like a three out of ten. And and well, Dion has said many times in his life he's like, yeah, they don't pay me to tackle, blah blah blah blah blah, like it's he took offense. Eon said, Oh my god, what

didn't he say? He said? He was like, he was like, I I want to take the high road, but I don't know where. I don't know how to find it. So he was basically after that, he was like, I've got a gold jacket. You're two and four in the playoffs. You threw this many picks, you did this, you never won the big game. Like he was just like he went down everything that always hated Tony. He's always well, he was like, and he was saying, he was like, I don't know why we keep getting into this stuff.

But he said, I thought we had let it go. I thought we were all cool, and and then he just unleashed. Yeah, so you could tell it touched the nerve like, oh yeah, like I mean a little bit. It was a dig, but a playful dig that is like based in some fact and and one I mean the digs Deon took her based in fact too, but like I was just like, damn, dude, like you have to go that. I turned it from three to about fifty five, Like my god. He started off with a

compliment though. He was like if I saw him at CBS, I would shake his hand and say you're doing a great job, man, and then he out with the knife and start stabbing. I don't think their next interaction will not be uh, I don't be awkward, I would guess. I don't think. So all right, let's let's get some questions. We got a call from Horace in Atlanta. Horse, What up? Hey, what's up? Guys? You know one thing I love here

and am you just keep it real? Y'all need to have a segment for Ama just called say keeping it real, because she keeps it real. You know, every little every little thing she comes out and says she keeps it real. So I love that. Thank you know, yeah, I was. I was really impressed with the Cowboys win. I thought that they played a phenomenal game, you know, despite that one play which really just told me crazy. But I

think this was one of the first complete games. And they're gonna need to do that when they come here to Atlanta because that offense that Atlanta has, I mean, Matt Ryan will give you a gift. He will, he will give you one to respect that, and they need to take it. But we're gonna have to cap wise, we'll have to tackle and I look forward to that and I think that we can make a run. But

I'm looking at dak As being the catalyst. He is what people are just this man is balling out of control, and I'm like, I don't know if you all spokes on that earlier, but this guy, I know, Nick, you mentioned it right there after the game. Dak is playing like a man. He is playing very well. And his running and his ability to to to get out the pocket and find people. They got to do that more and I like to see that more often. Like here,

which you guys think about that. You know what, thanks, thanks hars You know, the great one's guess right a lot. And I'll say this, Troy Palomalo, for one for one stretch was one of the best safeties in the NFL, one of the best players in the NFL. I always seem like when it was time to be at the quarterback, he was at the quarterback. When it was time to be forty yards down the field and coverage, he was there. And he just guesses right and knows how to play.

That's what a good player does. Dak guess is right. When it's time to run. He knows, all right, I gotta took it down and run when it's time to just throw it. I mean there's occasion when you're like, oh, I should have run it there, But for the most part, what he's choosing is the right choice. And then that that means what I've always said. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, he's doing a great job of preparing seeing it, and he's

when he gets to the game it shows up. I mean he but that's the only way to really say it is that he is bawling out right now. He's doing everything right, and he's he's helping this team. I mean, three straight wins. He's missed a handful of throws. I mean, just as a general statement, probably probably I don't know, two or three per game if I had to guess, But I mean, if you go back and watch every game this year, how many bad decisions has he made.

I mean, he's been lucky with a couple of non interceptions, but he got unlucky with I would say three of his four picks are probably more a result of the receiver than him. Like, I mean, I don't know why I could think of that was just a bad one? Was was Denver second? Yeah? Yeah? He I mean he's been phenomenal. I'm really not trying to poke Bryce here, but that throw he made to Bright unbelievable. That was a heck of a thing. That's and that's my point.

Like I said, he didn't complete them all, but like he fit that in between the safety in the corner.

He had one I think it was in it was too deaz in the back of the end zone at on one of those drives, Like he's not afraid to try to fit it between defenders, and I think that's something he gets criticized for, or did last year at least, like, well, he only throws it to the guy that's not covered, Like that's not true, Like he's not going to complete them all, but he has a willingness and a confidence to hit that or to attempt that throw, and he hits them more often than I would say he doesn't.

All right, real quick, before we end the show, I did want to talk a little bit about a little running here this last weekend. It was one major this one major feat in the history of running in the world by our own David Hellman, who ran his very first half barrathon. And the impressive part about it was not that he finished, because he could have finished a lot slower than he did, but Dave ran pretty good time. Dave, tell us about that experience. I mean, it's your first

time running. Tell us about the experience of actually finishing thirteen miles um, you know race. It's I never it's not really something that I ever set out to do but back. I remember I woke up in Philly Week seventeen last year feeling like slightly hungover and groggy and out of shape, and I was like, I should fix this.

So I was just like, I'm gonna run a ten k and I did that, and then you were like, maybe you should try half marathon and I was like, okay, like running's not that bad, I guess I'll do that. And so I've spent a pretty good chunk of this year running and I ran a half marathon and I'm really sore right now, but it was very it was gratifying. I did a lot better than I thought I would, to be totally honest, and did great. Y'all's y'all's encouragement

and support. It has felt very nice, So thank you. Yeah, did it really great? But I don't understand this at all. I always feel like running is you're really running against just one person. So, um, now you get into the Olympic style competition, yeah, you're competing against people. But when I texted you any Saturday, he said Shannon Gross was also running. Yeah, and Shannon is just he's the worst. He's just he's not the worst. I mean he really didn't train that much for it. He just kind of

gutted it out. And and I talked to Dave, and Dave was like, well, yeah, Shannon was there, and he smoked me. And I'm thinking, how do you get smoked in a half marathon? I mean, you finished finished the damn thing like you You won as far as I'm concerned, But I mean, like, you know, it's it's interesting that your competitive juices were out like that, because I would have been like I finished that, Dawn. I don't care when Shannon got there, you know, or anybody. You know.

I trained a lot more diligently than Shannon. And I went to bed at like nine thirty on Friday with like I had my I had my running tape on, like you know, I had like the sounds of the ocean. Just I was trying to maximize, like I'm just in I'm in it to win it, you know, like Shannon went. Shannon was out drink until two. He barely trained for this thing, and he finished like fifteen minutes before me. I think I think he kisses me. I think he knew there was a race, and so I don't think

he went to last call. I really don't. I think he stopped about one third exactly. You know what, I gotta get in for a real I can't go one more. Some people, some people are just blessed that way, but I'm not one of them. So I was. I was very happy with it. We don't have to spend a lot of time on it, but thank you' all. I would just say this, I'm glad you liked it enough to do it again, and so yeah, no, I'm to see it up and do it down, to do that one in February. If you don't get hurt and back

out this time. Yeah, that's why. Yeah, yeah, amber Amberley, Amberley, I applaud Dave's commitment because it takes a lot. That is something I would not do at all. That that's the best part about it. It's just in anything, just saying this is what I'm gonna do, and I did it, stick to it. And that's the thing David I talked about this like, that's the great part about long distance

running and training for a race. It's not so much the race day as much as it is the weeks and weeks and weeks that you spend when you don't want to get up and run. When you get up and run anyway and you finish and you feel great about it, and that's just one day out of the many days when you have to do that. And then you get to race day and you feel like, man, whatever I do today, I've already accomplished something because I was actually I was actually diligent enough to stick with

the training throughout the whole problem. It was the MVP and in your in your ears. As far as music goes, oh, I'm very particular with my playlist, um, but there was probably a song. There was probably a moment when you're like, oh, yeah, this a little little loozy for sure. Yeah, none of y'all know who that is, but yeah four four four plus two two two go listen to that and don't tell me you don't get hype like that's the best

running song ever. All Right, y'all won't like it. All right, I'm sure about three and a half hours of just really hardcore rap, like just not a whole lot else. But it was so opposite, like, oh, yeah, will you listen to gospel music? I know, like I need inspiration. I want to hear about I want to I want to hear about the trap house and slinging rocks. Yeah, that's what I want to hear about the opposite. All Right, we appreciate you guys, Jonas. We're back tomorrow. We'll be

talking more Cowboys football. We'll give you guys a big picture look around the NFL, what's happening in the NFC East, which is all of a sudden gotten pretty hot bar the Giants, and we'll do that tomorrow. Until then, for Nick even, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia, I'm Derek Eagle from This has been the Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot com. Rady your