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Welcome to another happy Tuesday here on Girls Talkboys Talk presented by Jigsaw, the preferred dating app of the Dallas Cowboys. I'm Hailey Sutton with Aisha Morrison and Jess Navarez. We are going to kind of tie up some loose ends when it comes to this Eagles versus Dallas game.
Your computer is excited to is like, yes, let's wrap this up.
So ladies, obviously it's not as fun being in the building when it's not a victory Monday or a victory Tuesday. But still, I heard you guys chatting a little bit yesterday. A lot of positives to take away from this twenty six seventeen loss for the Eagles.
Just a little bit of adversity. Jess, you know a little bit about adversity today.
Oh man, oh man, it has been a day. Just follow me on Twitter, like you know how my day started and how it continued to go like, all I'm saying is apartment living is is kind of the worst. But that's okay because here's the thing. It started off bad and then I got to come here. Now I'm with you girls, and it's just the highlight of my day.
So it's getting better. In somebody on Twitter, David, he's part of the B to B staff with me, He's like, Okay, this is like the first half of the Cowboys Eagles game. How my morning started. And then now it's like the second half. So we're getting better. Everybody, it's all right.
And hopefully, like the Cowboys, you can find a way to push forward.
I kind of had to. I kind of had to find a way to push forward. I mean, when your apartment's getting a flooded from your upstairs neighbors toilet, you find a way to push through some how, some way, find a way.
I'm just so happy you're here with us today. Jazz, me too.
It was a morning yell.
Let me say, getting back on track a little bit here. We got off.
I just had to get Dress a shout out because she has had a morning.
I also just want to say to my dog. He was right in the middle of it a little wit, so he has like a little play area, and he looked like Rose on the Titanic because he was just on his bed, so he looked like Rose on the door. Like it was. It was chaotic morning, But I'm Rose in.
Our thoughts and prayers in all seriousness though, ladies, Today was Tuesday. Jerry Jones spoke this morning on the Fan. The most obvious thing he talked about was Dak Prescott. I want to get to that in a little bit, but first just kind of wrapping things up closing the book as we turn the page into Detroit, which will focus a little bit more on today, But from the Cowboys side, I want to talk about the offense first.
Something interesting that I was just kind of coming to the realization of earlier was, you know the struggles that the offense is having. You forget that a lot of these guys are brand new to the game, right Jake Ferguson, Tyler Smith, even you know Tyler Piattish, Connor McGovern like these are.
There are a lot of names.
Who are working into the offense. So a question that I was thinking about as I was kind of prepping for this show that I would love for you ladies to answer, do you guys think this is a new era of Cowboys football when it comes to the offense, because I think when I think of, you know, elite or iconic offenses, you think of Jason Witten, Tony Romo, even going as far back as Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin.
Do we think that this mix of offensive players has what it takes to kind of be the new era of Cowboys offense?
I would say from I would say in regard to the offensive line, if you're talking about Tyler Smith and McGovern, those guys, Terrence Steele, who I think is important to what they do right now. The Cowboys said in the offseason they want it to get back to being a running team, and I feel like what they're doing, some of the guys they're drafting and putting together show that
they want to be a run first team. Maybe that is a way of getting back to being having that identity and stuff, and you're kind of starting to see them find their identity in the run game. I think you saw that later in the game against the Eagles. But as far as I mean, like I think this year, they're right now, Ceedee Lamb, They're trying to see if Ceede.
Lamb is the guy.
I think he's played well in spots and everything, but I think they're trying to see if he's the guy. Michael Gallup is already tighten the young tight ends, Henny and Ferk those guys, those guys I feel like also too, are in a position to where they're trying to show
maybe that they're a long term guy or whatever. So maybe you're right, like they did draft a lot of these gentlemen, bring them in undrafted free agents, Like I mean, you're on correct, Like I guess we do get so tied into watching them play well that we don't realize that these gentlemen are young, they're still developing, they still have room to get better, like you talk about Jess and I yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
I guess yeah, I do agree to an extent I'm trying to. I guess this year maybe is a feel out year for some of these players. But I do agree that it is funny that we forget that Tyler Smith is a rook Like people were like beating him up for letting like he definitely on the interception, he got beat around the edge on that interception, and that was a big reason why that pressure came. But like he had a pretty solid game for the most part. It's just crazy, you're right, but yeah, go ahead.
Yes, I think when you're thinking of a long term future with the Cowboys, it is easy to see why this, uh, this younger team is going to be the future. You know, maybe O line that you had when you had Tony and Jason, like you just mentioned, and that's the era I grew up watching football, and so I remember that O line being like, Nope, this is a great wall.
Nobody's getting past it. But what you forget about those kind of offensive lines is there was a time when they were young too, right, Like you just remember the glory days because they were so good. But what you forget is there was a time that everybody was young. And so it's what's really cool to see is these younger players stepping up, and even Tyler Smith for a
great example. You know, back week one, everyone's like no, you know, no, Tyler Smith, and he has been out of the conversation for good reasons because he's doing what he needs to do. Sure, they're slip ups, you know, we get that, and that's going to happen.
He is still a rookie.
Everybody like, just give him some time, but he's done nothing to prove that he didn't deserve that spot. And what's even crazier is when you see the conversation starting to come up of all right, well, Tyrone Smith, when he comes back, what's gonna happen. So I think that's a very interesting conversation that I saw pop up, pop Oh my goodness, pop up on Twitter.
Y'all.
It's been a day pop up on Twitter because I didn't even think of that. And when you have a rookie that is making you kind of forget that you're a veteran, you know, guard is out. That's that's kind of insane when you think about it.
Yeah, Jerry Jones talked a little bit about that.
He was, you know, kept his cards very close to his chest than this morning in regards to Tyron Smith, and you know how he'll look and how they plan to integrate him when he comes back. So obviously that's a conversation that I'm sure will be a hot topic as we get closer to that return.
The positives though, is that he said, you know, he's liked what he's.
Seen so far from Tyrone Smith's rehab, so that's good. And also, speaking of Jerry, I wanted to read this quote really quickly this morning when he was talking about the team and the offense kind of developing with the you know, the eyes on Dak Prescott making his return, he said, quote, we are a better team than we were five weeks ago. We have improved the right way. We've done it with repetition. We've done it with young players.
We've done it with players that have worked in to the kinds of things the coaches want them to do. We've had a lot of depth that gets that has gotten a lot of repped.
We're a better.
Team than we were when lost against Tampa period fact.
Quote.
So again, I just wanted your thoughts on that, if you agreed on that side, or if so, how they improved.
Now, I like you talked about it earlier, adversity like they have went. Like I'm not gonna sit up here and say that they're just completely battle tested, you know, but teams don't win without their starting QB, and this team had to figure out different ways to win these games. Obviously, you got you know, good play, certain splash plays from special teams, defenses, came through in a mighty way. But then also I want to highlight Kellen Moore and just
the maturity that it's taken from him. Like obviously he still has his blemishes in certain spots, but he really has changed how this offense is being run. It is predominantly through the run. It's predominantly through the run game. But just some of his concepts, his blocking concepts. If you look at some of the past plays, I mean, there's guy's open. He is scheming better and differently, a
little differently than what he did last year. So I think that they have came out collectively and came together to make make it through this point in time without Dak Prescott and I do agree that it makes them.
It makes them look better.
The fact that they did what they've done without their starting quarterback, without good field position almost every game, with losing time possession almost every game, like finding a way to win. There's something to be said about that. And in this league, it typically is with coaching. It's typically with guys coming together and playing together as one. And you've heard this team echo the same things in these interviews.
Is that this is an unselfish team. They had to come together to win this game, and I think the unselfishness is going to help later on in this season.
Yeah, And I think I'm looking at the definition of resilience here. It says the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties toughness. So when you think of Week one, and we talk about this a lot, you're walking out of that Tampa Bay game, the news of Dak's thumb injury comes out. Everybody walking out of that game was like, Oh, the season's done, that's it, Like we just saw the one game with decat like it was the worst possible case scenario walking out of that game and just such
a heavy feeling. Well, no, because nobody expected the Cowboys to do what they've done. And it doesn't necessarily mean, you know, there's of course, there's only what there's only fewer preseason games that we see, so that Week one doesn't define really any team in the NFL, and I think that's so important to learn. So I think it's hard to say how they're better for, say, but I know that they're resilient because of everything that they've had
to come, all of the adversity. I mean, you lose your starting quarterback week one, Come on, guys, many how many teams can pull together and actually win like they have. And again we've talked about why Cooper Rush deserves the credit for that, and we'll get to that later. But you know, I think when you when you look at this team as a whole, it wasn't necessarily that they were never good. It wasn't necessarily that that talent was ever there. It's always been there. It's just been one.
You have a bunch of young players, like we talked about, they have to get used to that, whether they had preseason reps or not, you're going up against the starters when the regular season starts. Two, you have, you know, all of these outs, all of the outside noise of everything that we hear, and we consume that's not what's going on in the locker room. And I think it's hard to kind of remember that sometimes the messages that you know, people talk about.
As fans, that they think they know is not what's going on in that locker room.
And I think that brotherhood has always been there since day one. And I think the closeness and tight knit of this team is something that it's not necessarily better. It's always been there. And I think you're just seeing the start of it. I think as far as getting better, they're just going to start to find that groove to see how beastly they're about to be. Because you know, until we have Dac back in, until the Cowboys have Dack back in, I should say we won't necessarily know
what they look like. I still think the best is yet to come for this team, and that says a lot considering you know, they're still in the conversation for being one of the best teams in the NFC right now.
Yeah, and I love that you mentioned the adversity that goes into that, because when you look at the opposite side of the ball, you've got a team of you know, mostly veteran experience, and then you have guys like Micah who's already playing like a veteran and in games like Sunday when they let up the most touchdowns, you know that they have all season. And listening to Dan Quinn yesterday, you could tell he was just so fired up.
He was so feisty.
I think the first thing that came out of his mouth was that he was pissed. Yeah, because of you know, he kept saying, you know, we know the standard that we can play at. We know what we are capable of, and when we don't play to that standard, it makes us mad, Like it makes it mad. And my favorite thing that he said, and it just goes to your
playing against adversity and holding yourself accountable. He talked about how everyone was patting them on the back and saying, you know, like, oh, that second half effort was really good, and he said, we don't care.
We don't care. We shouldn't have to be getting.
A pat on the back for our second half effort if we take care of business in the first half. So you know, when you talk about accountability, adversity, resiliency, I think all of those things kind of layer in together.
Yeah, and I think that you know, to pick a back out for what you said with dan Quinn. And I listened to his press conference as well, and you could feel that he was fushed all he was frustrated because one thing about dan Quinn as well is like he's an assignment based coach, like and the tackling in this game was was a problem in this game. Gap integrity, Jay Ron Kurst talked about on Cowboys Hour.
Please check out Haley Suddon so good.
If you want to learn more, absolutely like, if you want to learn more about these players and also get some context on some of the things within the game, please check her out. Jay ron Kurst talked about, you know, them not playing their assignments, guys kind of being out of spots, out of position because they're trying to make a play. I feel like, yeah, I felt I felt that.
I felt him. I felt him. When he was like, I'm pissed, I was like, I'm sure they're gonna be pissed, but in this game, I felt like the defense really. I mean, all things considered, you can't be I can't be too upset about some of the things that happened with them.
I think that.
But I also will say credit to the Eagles. Their their offensive scheme is legit, and it's it's hard coming through my teeth.
It is Garrett's teeth.
But what they do with the r p O, with how they pull and pin guards, how they put your defense in tough situations. I do think this is gonna be a great learning experience that that's gonna be a rumble Christmas Maybee. I don't mean my family don't even said about Christmas. That might be it for me, You understand me, Give me some eggnogg and.
Call it a day.
But no, don't already came at me for what we like pumpkin spies.
Your no, no, Look, I tried it live on air one time. I was on local news and that was the worst to say because I almost threw.
Up on Tamart.
So they took advantage of the Cowboys aggressiveness early in that game. And I'm glad, like I really think this is gonna be fantastic teach tape for these young defensive players.
Sam Williams is gonna get a.
Lot of good teach tape out of this game. But yeah, I felt Dankoye yesterday when he said that. I was like, yeah, I'm I'm I'm mad too.
This is hard to watch.
I'm mad it's hard to watch.
Yeah.
Well, and I again credit to the Eagles because really, I think as a cow on the Cowboys side of things, on the Cowboys side of things, you you don't want to admit how good they actually are. But here's the thing. They're they're they're doing great. And I think a lot of that credit goes to Jalen Hurts and the kind of quarterback he is, how he's played. I mean, right now, he's ranked ninth in completion percentage through six games at sixty six point eight percent. Last season during that time,
during this same week, he was ranked twenty six. So to show you the progression he's made within a year, you have to give credit where to do Jalen Hurts, I think is just such a big reason that you know the Eagles are playing like they are. He's also ranked third in yards per attempt at eight point two three, and I mean, honestly giving credit words due, He's a large reason why the Eagles are still undefeated. However, I like to believe that we're not going to keep saying
that for much longer. But I know Haley wanted to talk about their schedule and kind of looking ahead. I don't know, God.
At this schedule.
Yeah, I don't know. Guys, that's I want to add.
I think you're I mean, yeah, the RPO is very important to what they do, and him being a running quarterback is going to It's not the norm, like like we talked about, like the Cowboys won't see that many quarterbacks that have that capability or even just that that scheming like that they were using against them. If they see it again, hopefully they respond well to it. But field position was huge in this game as well. You put your like the offense put the Cowboys defense on within, you.
Know, on the forty like.
I mean, I think the Eagles were within the Cowboys forty like four times this game.
That's not it's is it? Is it possible?
I think they helped them to feel goals twice in those situations. But when you talk about complimentary football as well, I think that we have to acknowledge defensively, they were put in some rough spots.
They don't make excuses. It's not their jobs. So I'll say it.
God, yeah, yeah, I was just gonna say really quick, we're gonna have to take our first break. But and this is a question I would love for our social media listeners to get involved with. Are the Eagles as good as they are on paper? I'm going to read their schedule out really quickly. They opened the season with the Lions, and then they played the Vikings, the Commanders, the Jaguars, the Cardinals, and last week against the Cowboys.
They do have the potential to be ten to o well, you know with the Steelers, Texans, Commanders, colts lineup before they get the Packers.
So I would love to.
Hear from our social media from our listeners right now, tweet us DMS do you think the Eagles are actually as good as their six to zero record on paper. I'm gonna let us do on that as we take our first break on Girls Talk, Boys Talk. When we come back, though, it's Tuesday, and we once again have a very special guest joining us in the studio, So stick with us as we introduce you to a special guest.
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Though, we are so excited to start doing this every Tuesday where we are spotlighting women within the Dallas Cowboys organization. And I can't think of a better second guest for us to have then, Emily Cruz Robbins, the Senior director of Community Relations and Alumni Affairs. Emily, thank you so much for joining us, and you've had a busy day, but I just kind of want to open the floor to you quickly tell us a little bit about you and what you do here at the Dallas Cowboys.
Oh my goodness, well thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.
So again, I do the community outreach and I've been with the organization twenty eight years. This is my twenty ninth season, so bake myself a little bit there.
But yeah, So we were out in.
The community today we call it community Tuesday during the season where we engaged with our today with current players, former players, and cheerleaders.
We were visiting in middle school.
So we do so much, but just really happy to get to be the person to help facilitate it.
Yeah, I love that. And so what are some of the initiatives that you all tackle? No pun intended, but you know during the season and even during the off season.
Well, there's a lot.
We have a strategic plan, and so we have five pillars for the five points in the Star that we strategically plan around during the season and in the off season, primarily with the Salvation Army and everything that they do all year long to help people in need. We focus a lot of our efforts there youth and health and youth football, women's initiatives, which we just got off of Crucial Catch and our breast cancer Survivor Star Survivor program,
let's see. And then there's the Hispanic demographic that we target a lot of our activations around military and Salute to Services coming up in December. So yeah, so all year long. There are themes during the season that we build our weeks about leading into our game. So there's themes at games, so we build our activations that week around that game theme.
Beautiful beautiful.
Yeah, you just mentioned Salt to Service. I am a veteran of eight years and I wanted to know Emily, like, what types of events do you folks host for veterans And I think it'll be healthy, firust to know.
I want to come for sure.
Well, first of all, thank you for your service. Yeah.
Absolutely, Well, so for Salute to Service this year is the game is on December the fourth against the Colts. It's also our might cause My Cleats game, so yeah, so we are going to have a heavy, heavy, really exciting showing of Medal of Honor cleats, so for the Medal Honor recipients. So it's going to be so cool all of our coaches are wearing Medal of Honor recipients cleats.
And I don't know if that's a surprise or not, but I just said it and.
Then bombs there's another I'll just say another position group. We're all wearing Medal of Honor cleats to honor our military that served in the that are recipients. So it's going to be amazing that they're combined this year. So but backing up, on Halloween, we're hosting trick or Treat for active and veteran military and their families to come to the Star and come trick or treating and get a tour. Yeah, bring their children. So that's a you know,
there's a sign up for that in advance. So that's something. On October thirty, first we actually do here, we're doing a women's workshop where we're hosting it's a career day if you will, and a bunch of our corporate sponsors will be there and so we are working with again the Salvation Army, and then we've also invited a group of veteran women that are interested and may need some help finding jobs. So yeah, all year long, not just
during Salute to Service Week. One other really great program we do is we do a baby shower for twenty military women, pregnant women, whether they're serving themselves or their spousers are serving.
And so they get poor.
It's a baby shower here at the Star, and they get so much great stuff.
Thank you so much for that.
I feel like I know as a veteran how many times I wanted help, assistance, and and I was looking for someone to help me. So I think it's so healthy that you are giving this information out for other women.
I hope that it helps other veterans.
Well, thank you, oh lordy.
Like the baby stuff is like, I don't know if people know how hard it is being a military spouse or a widower, but I have friends who have gone through these things and went through pregnancy and things alone, and it's hard on you.
It is hard on you.
So I just I'm encouraged by there being support here at the Star.
It makes lot of.
Sense, Emily. For you.
You can tell I'm just watching you talk about what you do and you he loves it. You can just tell, uh, where does that passion come from? Because I think sometimes with community service it can be challenging because you need volunteers there's a lot of moving parts that go into it.
Where's your passion come from?
You know, that's a great question. I don't know that I've ever been asked that. It definitely comes from within. And I think above all, I like helping people, and so this is a great place to be because we do so much to help others and it's not me that's helping them, it's our organization and the Jones family
that supports. I am just fortunate to be in the position to be the person to facilitate the helping or facilitate helping create the character conversations that we did today and hopefully we touch someone's life, you know, talking about mental health or anti bullying. So I just am thankful to be the person in the middle of it, you know, connecting the dots, and I think it, yeah, I just like I just like to be a helper, you know, just like to help people.
And that's you know, that's me my whole life.
Oh that's beautiful, and so did you ever think that you would work within the realm of sports and community relations?
How did that story come up? Because I think it's so beautiful.
Like you said, you have this incredible platform with the Dallas Cowboys to be able to get back to so many different groups and so many different peoples in so many different ways. Right, So did you ever think that you would tie sports in and then community relations and make this beautiful little marriage.
Not at all.
All I knew is I wanted to do public relations and community relations and not even public relations. They didn't have community relations when I went to college, so it was a journalism degree, and you know, I, yeah, I just wanted to do public relations. I knew I wanted to work in house corporate PR, not at an agency.
So I had that defined. And then I was a candidate at my college for a minority recruiting program that the National Football League was hosting, and so that's and I was like, sure, I'll try, and that's how it started. And so then I went to work in New York City at the league office, and there I was in sports.
Now they knew I loved football. I was, I was.
I was an athlete and then a cheerleader in high school and college, and so they knew I liked football.
So I think that was one thing. And when from your when you're from Texas, you know you grew up with.
No to answer your question, I never thought that my my you know, my degree would be what I was, you know, doing my life career with no not ever today think about that.
What's been your favorite part of this journey so far?
Oh my gosh, we'res a decade. I'm in my third decade. You know, Well, there's so many great things.
I mean from the community, you know side, I think working with you know, Salvation Army and just being a part of all the.
Great things that they do.
They help so many people in need, and the need is so great, so I see that on a daily basis. And then getting to see you know, make a wish children, all the wishes we do, see them smile and have happiness while they're here.
That's amazing. And I know they're not here to see me.
I know they're here to see the players, which I'm so happy to get to help help to be a piece of that magic.
But something's really funny.
When I first started here, me and the guys were all the same age. We were like brothers and sisters, you know, like you know, Troy, m and Michael, We're all born in that decade. And then you know, they retire and we keep working so then it's the next decade of players. So I was the sister and then the aunt, and now I'm kind of the mom and now they call me Miss Simbily And I think maybe one day, if I'm the grandma, I may retire.
And I don't know, I don't know. I think I got a lot more in me.
So I've seen them interact with you, though, like as you're waiting outside the locker room to get them to sign up for stuff, and you again, like you can just tell that.
They flock to you.
So I think the Miss Emily, I can't wait to be like a Miss Hayley one day to some.
Of these guys, because it's so cool.
You get to see we were just talking earlier about the offense currently and they're so young and you forget, but that's such fresh perspective because you know, hopefully in ten years and we're still doing this, and you see those guys kind of grow up right.
Before you and they're like the same age as my son now. So yeah, And.
So last week we had asked Moe, who was our previous guest, what any what is any advice you have for someone specifically women that want to break through in this career path and and kind of follow your footsteps. What is the best advice you can give them?
Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't or because really my dream was to become I was a broad I wanted to be a broadcaster and someone you are, yeah, and so I you know, I let someone tell me that I couldn't, and I regret that. So I would definitely say, if that's your passion and that's what you want to do, push, you know, push for it, and don't ever settle. You know that you know second best. Now it all worked out. I love what I do, and it, you know, probably was you know, my path
and my journey. But I think stick to what you want to do and be patient because sometimes it doesn't always happen like that. You know, everybody wants this, you know, you know, instant gratification. So I think being patient and being strong and being willing to learn as you grow, and if your dream job isn't always available, be willing to do something else and add that to your toolbox along your way, because you'll eventually get where you want
to go if you're determined. But utilize every opportunity to add to your toolbox.
Oh beautifully said, I speak just right to the heart. It's definitely beautiful to see and need it. Yeah, it's it's so empowering and inspiring to hear you and hear your journey of how you never even thought that this is a possibility and yet you still love it so so much. And so if you have one favorite memory that you can key in on out of out of everything that you do, what is the first thing that comes to mind.
You can tell us version one favorite memory. Gosh, I have so many. I mean every week is a memory. And I think that says, you know, I don't know that I would be able to do this job if it was the same all these years. So I think every week is we create memories. You know, we like, for make a wish, we plan every wish the same, but something different happens every every game. So I just think, gosh, probably getting my first super Bowl.
Ring memory, her first sea start for that one.
All right, So next time we see you, Emily, I really want you to bring all of the super Bowl that you have and I want you to just sport them up for us. That's that's more than a memory.
That's beautiful.
Yeah, Emily, as we wrap up really quickly, maybe some special projects or some events that you have coming up that we can let Cowboys Nation know about.
Oh gosh, Okay, So the holidays are just around the corner. So I would encourage everyone to one donate to those Red kettles when you see them, when they get out there. Red Kettles across the nation raised so much money for so many people in the need right now is greater than ever with you know, the prices of food and people needing food. So I would say, please donate to the Red Kettles. And even if you did twenty five dollars a month as a gift for someone, if you
can afford that, I mean, it's ongoing. The need is all year long. And then I would say, also for the Salvation Army at if you are able to adopt an angel and buy a wish or a need for a child, to be able to help parents provide Christmas for children. I would say those are two things we really encourage everyone to be to participate in. Wherever you're listening, you can do it. They have Salvation Army everywhere.
So Emily Cruz Robin, Senior Director of Community Relations and alumni Affair, Emily.
Thank you so much.
Thank y'all.
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I love that someone else who's making a little more than twenty dollars, Prescott Jesse.
Do we have the chi ching or like a little applause anything for Dak Just so there there is.
All signs are pointing at him being the starter on Sunday, I think we can feel a little bit confidently about that. Even posted on his Instagram, I think for the first time since week one kind of trolling us. So all signs are looking that way. Mike McCarthy telling us that he should have cleared his medical protocols going forward, he should be at practice as a full go tomorrow. Jerry Jones was a little bit cryptic. I think this morning you didn't quite want to come out and announce Dac
as the starter, which makes perfect sense. You want to give him a week to get back adjusted, to knock some of that rust off, see where he's really at. But he threw on Sunday before the game. Everyone I've spoken to who saw him said he looked good, he looked ready. He probably could have played on Sunday.
So that's just positive. But a question that I.
Have been pondering, and I love y'all's insight, how does this offense improve with Dak? Because we've seen what Cooper Rush has done obviously with the tools that he's had, he's been consistent. How do we get the offense to take that next step with Dak?
Oh? I was like, go ahead, girl. It's because I was reading Dek's caption you said he posted on Instagram and it was control the controllables. And I think that is such a valuable statement. It's so little, but it says so much because I think when you add Dak back into the mix, what you do is a few things. One, you get your stability back at quarterback. It's no longer a guessing game. Of Oh, when is he going to be ready? You know, how long is this going to happen?
Not that I think that was happening for the team at any point. I think that's more on the outside noise, like I'd mentioned earlier. But what you get is you get your leader back, and that just having Dak in a room is so powerful I think for anybody. And no knock on Cooper Rush again, I want to preface this by saying, Cooper Rush, we appreciate everything you have done for this team up until this point, but when you have Dak in, it's just such a different vive.
It's such a different energy that he brings to this team, and so I think give him a little time, a little space to knock off some rust. I don't think it's going to take him long. I think he's itching to get out there. But what I'm excited to see out of Dak is, like we had mentioned earlier, Aisha had brought up that article a while back, is how he said, I took a step back. I saw things from a new perspective, and it can just be simple.
So what I'm really excited to see is Dak's new perspective show when he's playing and not maybe changing the play calling as much and not calling off certain things and instead just believing in his own skill set, because I think the best version of Dak comes when he believes in himself. He has the complete total trust and belief from the rest of his team, from the rest
of his offense. I think when when you see Dak struggling, it's a it's a mental fight, and that's I think that's so important for anybody to shed light on because that's so relatable. I mean, really, when when you look at your worst days, who's your worst critic? Yourself? And and I think Dak Prescott coming back off of yet another adversity in his life, is just going to show something that is so beautiful. And I'm on the Dak hype train. I'm so excited to get QB one back.
What about you, I think, sigematically, you should be.
I think that I'm excited about it because when you look at the film, you see so many instances where you say to yourself, Okay, I think Dak would have made that second read. Okay, I think Dak could have got that two yards here. I think you get in those third those all those third and short situations yesterday, they're like or RPO situations there, and Cooper Rush is
not the guy that's gonna do that. And if you also look at the Eagles defense as a whole this last game, you could tell that they knew what they were getting at quarterback. They knew the type of quarterback they were playing again, so schematically, I think that you get more in your passing game in this And then also too, I think Dak is returning to an offensive line I talked about yesterday that is more put together
than it was at to start the year. I think this offensive line is slowly but surely coming together.
A lot of young guys like we talked about.
But I think that and like you said, he gets better. You get better because he's in the room, Like you get better because he's in the room. He's there, He's already been in the room, it sounds like anyway, but to this capacity to be leading this team, it's important for him to be there.
And I think that your defense is gonna rejoice to And.
You were talking about growth earlier. We're talking about, you know, have the Cowboys gotten better? I think finally getting Dak back, you have the stability and you have finally kind of that ground to grow from. So I think if you want to talk about growth, we're gonna see it even from this week, if he starts. You know, we can't say it's official yet, but if whenever Dak's starting point is to the following week, you're going to see growth
every week. And I think that's just such a key thing for Dak is he's not going to stop improving.
Yeah, you keyt in on something that the leadership.
I think it's obviously it's common for your quarterback to be a leader, right, but I think this period in Dak's career has really kind of shifted the way he thinks about leadership. And something interesting. Trayvon Diggs and Micah
Parsons went on a podcast called The Pivot Podcast. Yeah, and Micah was asked about Dak Prescott and asked, you know about his injury and how he's handled it, and Micah said, the thing that's been the most impressive is that Dak was never sad, He was never down, he was never you know, pitying me feel sorry for myself. He has just been a constant positive reinforcement in the locker room on the sideline, you know, when he's.
Coaching up his guys or whatever it is.
And I think that that takes a special kind of leadership, you know what I mean, because it's hard to be It's hard when you're sitting there and you know you're the guy, Like the quarterback controversy was a joke.
You know you're that guy, right, yeah, right, And yet here you are.
You're having to watch fans who rock your jersey every week talk about leave Cooper in. People are still saying on Twitter, leave Cooper in.
Oh right, you have that.
You have this guy who's performing better than expectations. And not that he ever wished on Cooper's downfall, but it's
that natural instinct inside you. I think Christy was the one, or Jane was the one maybe who talked about it of wanting to be a competitor, but I just thought that insight was so cool to know that, like on the opposite side of the ball, these guys are seeing what Dak brings to the table as a leadership, and so I think this injury, I mean, he probably won't see it that way, but it's been such a positive thing for him.
And I'm really excited about seeing if this this because, like I said, this offense has gotten back to going downhill with the run game and stuff, and I personally have said that I think that Dak Prescott is as a run has always been important to his game, and it's been talked about. I wonder if some of the grit that this offensive line is starting to play with rubs off on him a little bit and we start to see a couple of stiff arms.
Sometimes.
I know people get tight in their chest, but we can't play scared no more like I don't, and I think maybe he's not. I hope that he wouldn't come out here and play scared, but I think that maybe at adding some of what Jalen Hurts was able to do to this Cowboys defense to what Dak Prescott can do could be also helpful to this offense as well.
So I'm looking for him to come out.
Play comfortable because he has something to come back to that's kind of been floating, right, and see if we get some more explosive play splash plays sometimes in this offense as well.
I also think he is going to give these wide receivers a lot of confidence to play with. And again I'm talking about stability when you know and of course there's conversations that go on that we don't ever know about, we don't get to hear. But when you have your QB one finally in, you can start to see that chemistry and the connection with DAK and Noah Brown or DAK and Michael Gallup, you can finally see that building.
So I think getting that wide receiver core more confident in themselves and and with who they're playing with, it is going to show. And I'm excited.
Let's protection tight ends get some get a little bit more burned. I mean, listen, these young titands are also coming together too. I think we can see them maybe get more depending on what's happening. We haven't talked about it, but depending on what's happening with Dalton Schultz, I think also too, you can see the tight ends get a little bit more burned too, because you're not with the DAK being a little bit more mobile, I think you'll have less max protection situations as well.
So yeah, yeah, let's see.
Let's see.
Let's see lines lines, lines got a couple, They got a couple guys over there.
They can make some stuff shake, So we'll get to it to mile.
But Yeah, overall though, I think the message here is, you know what, it's a loss, You move on, you turn the page, and you have a lot of very exciting things to look forward to long season.
Y'all's like eleven mo week, see this thing, we got a minute, Calm down.
I love it, moth. We do not have eleven more weeks.
Today on Girls Talk, Boys Talk, that's all the time we have. But tomorrow we're gonna break down this Lions matchup. We'll talk a little bit more about what Dak Prescott brings to the table and the Cowboys as they prepare for.
That matchup at home against the Lions.
That'll do it for us, though Today for Aisha for Jess, I'm Haley, and we'll see you tomorrow.
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