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You're inside the s WBC podcast studio at the Star in Frisco, and the Cowboys have just come off the practice field their biggest work day of this week in anticipation of a trip to Kansas City to take on those resurgent Chiefs at three twenty five on Sunday afternoon. And Mickey can't wait to tell us what he saw the practice field this afternoon. And I can tell you I'm very glad to be inside the FWBC podcast studio because our little half hour out there watching practice was
pretty chilling. In the shade. Were in the shade, No, we were in the sun. And it didn't make any It didn't make any difference because that wind was blowing pretty hard. So, uh, they've got they got a little taste of maybe what Kansas City is going to be because it was in the low fifties out there. When it's sixty one. Now, well it wasn't sixty win you're saying the wind chill way down there. Absolutely there's Kansas City weather. There was no sixty one when we were
out there. I guarantee you you needed a jacket and you needed a hat on two by the way. So but they did decide to go outside. We were speculating yesterday that perhaps they would take it indoors. But that's the experience that Mike McCarthy has, having been on the coaching staff with the Chiefs back in the nineties. He's gonna be out in the elements. You know. I didn't realize he was there six years. He started as a quality control coach and then he became an offensive assistant.
So yeah, he spent six years there. So when he tells you Arrowhead is noisy, it's noisy, right, Hemius, I'm gonna talk like you guys, what was the auditory? Is that auditory elements that they faced out there today, like sound you know, noise, cloud noise. You know, at one point they played they played some music, but I still didn't. And you know what, when they play music out there and it's real loud, you hear it twice because it
bounces off the building and it comes back at you. Right, But that could be effective if I don't know that. I heard usually when they're playing crowd noise, we can hear through the wind, right, But I didn't really hear much. Maybe it was and we just didn't. Maybe this is not the day or special win. Was the winds blowing like they're not blowing. That's Hurricane win And if they're going to play it, today's to day to play it.
It's to day out there tomorrow, right, Yeah, And I think there, I think there was, I think there, and then they'll be Saturday when they go inside. Yeah. Then Saturday they'll go inside and that's when they'll really turn it up. So um, but yeah, Mike said, you know, when they play in Minnesota, the decibels are one twenty and he hears that when you go at Arrowhead it's one forty decibel level, so noisy, hey at stadium. I
don't know where we hit, but we're pretty good. Yeah, when the boys get going and the crowd gets behind them, we can be pretty loud. Have we ever imagined it at all? I don't know that they have. Yeah, I mean, come on, it is with a mess. We need some decibel. Yeah, come on, I like to. Zeke was trying to. They kept asking Zeke. I think he got tired of the question about the noise and and and they said, well, what's it like? And he goes, well, let me tell
you what it's like. He goes, when you when you gotta bend down and you can't hear the quarterback giving you the call, that that's a problem because I gotta know what I gotta do, right. It was pretty funny, but he was getting irritated by the questions about that and about how important this game is. I was asking Bill about the show, the Mike McCarthy show. Indeed, all the coach is not gonna tell you much, ain't telling you mine gonna tell you much about just don't know
how to pull it out of him. You know, you got you gotta ask piercing questions. But you gotta realize to show it is coaches show, and it's whether he or not he wants to reveal things. You gotta step over the line, Bill, you gotta step on just just just put a toe in there, man, but over the line. See what happens. Take it from me, I stepped over? How many times he stepped over the line? Well, so I don't want to. I don't want to wind up in any New York that's a shot. Uh So, But
I can't Yeah, I can't tell you. I can tell you from the practice that Tyrann Smith was out there. Okay, he was in pads. He's probably going to be listed as limited from what we could tell how much he was participating in the uh positional drills, in the individual drills. Um. Yesterday he didn't do any team So we'll see. But I'm sure they're going to list him as limited. Um and I would imagine if he's limited, probably means he
didn't take all the snaps. Now I don't know, uh and I imagine they got to have Terrence Steele ready to go, right. It can't just assume, Um, so who's the who's the who's the right defensive end for the Chiefs? And well, where are they going? What are we looking at it? See? I think they moved. They moved Chris Jones inside defense Chris Jones. So that's uh, I don't know how good that is unless he's over Zach Martin. If he's over Zach Martin, I'm now they'll move him.
Leave the other white wasted time. And by the way, judging from some of their um like three man drills and whatever, um, it looks like they might have some competition going on at that left guard spot. Okay, by the way, so they mean the Chiefs, No, what is Mickey, I'm just saying I think that what you're saying competition there with Whnor McGovern, Connor Williams. Keep an eye the two Connors, the Battle of the Connors. So which is their competition at the fullback position. Maybe they in the
jumbo pack. Maybe they bring up Nick Ralston. You never know, he's not as big as those other guys. I would imagine. Uh, They've got Chris Jones listed as their starting left defensive end, but from what I've read that they've kind of moved him inside. He's a he's a beast in there. Yeah. The right defensive ends Frank Clark, Um Farmer, Seattle, Seahawk, Right Michigan and they list. This is funny because he's been. He's every time I hate a team. I'm thinking eighty
two was seventy two? He's been. I'm thinking Frank Clark. Wasn't it like a Cowboys? Yes, Frank Clark receiver seventies, wasn't it? No? No, I'm talking to his numbers? Is he no? Not the year? Like? Oh no jersey number? All right, show again, great player. And then the other pass rusher is Melvin Ingram and they've not listed as third team. That ain't right. He's been playing a lot. Uh. Just is he impactful? Yes? Okay, yes he's playing well he uh, let's look up, but he's going to look up.
How impactful he's been here? Well in the meantime, Well, that's the stuff doesn't just pop? Right? That was really good at that stuff? You take too long? Yeah, he's it's done. You know what I'm saying. Well, vamp, while you're looking, Oh, he only has tackle on each of the last two games, so he caught you on that one he had he being double team. He had twenty one snaps last game and one tackle. Yeah, yes, okay, oh right, But the guy you got to look out
for is Nick Bolton. No, I'm looking at it. What's up with Nick? He leads the teams, the rookie out of Missouri and Crisco lone star star. Now he only had nineteen snaps last week. He gets the Raiders, well, now is here done? What give me the scouting report? The Raiders were so far behind, they were all I saw wide and they took the middle linebacker off the field. He leads the team with seventy five tackles, ten tackles
for losses. That ten tackles for losses. Pretty impressive there, Yes, in ten games, that means he's got twice as many tackles for losses. So now anybody else that that means that ten games, ten tackles for loss So I mean we reading co Football Reference, I mean you know, he could have played a game that he did, can get the tackle lost. It's just those are those are his numbers. Okay,
just checking modern Day. I gotta check you guys. As much as I trust you guys, I still have to check you whenever the stat is one per game to make sure. Yeah, if we're doing the game by game on it and it wasn't targets either, by the way, Yeah, that's the other part. So here's why he has so many tackles for losses. Okay, against Washington he had four. The next week against the Giants. Wait, let me make sure he had four tackles. No, no tackles for losses
against one team, that's Washington. Against Washington the next week against Tennessee had five. That's what the that's what their status sheet before you come in here putting this stuff on the age. Okay, oh wait, wait the four four the Giants. No, he had four against Tennessee. Tennessee for five yards. Okay, all right, we want me to read them. One against Cleveland, one against Baltimore, two against Buffalo, one against Washington, four against Tennessee, and one against Las Vegas.
Still very so what's your point? So it's ten still very tread, which we established off the four against the Titans. What was going? Yeah, what's up with Derek you Derrick Henry that game was playing? That he was playing? That game. I looked it up because I was taken aback by the four tackles for loss He only had eighty six yards on twenty nine carries. I believe I'm confirming that must have been one of those ye eighty six yards twenty nine carries, so that is less than check out
this math, less than three yards of carry. There you go, that's easy and two point nine you can go. Now, come on so much twenty nine times three twin lives hose three that would be uh seventy eight seventy eighty seven, and he had eighty six yards, Chris, That's how I figured out it's less than three yards. Again, Chris Jones has three sacks. Okay, but those three three tackles for losses.
I'm sorry, that is extremely impressive. Ten. He must have known something and I'd like to know who the heck he was going up against on those plays. Yeah, he had four in that game against Tennessee. That's crazy. He's fine final rookie. He's not gonna win Rookie of the year, defensive rookie of the year, but he's a fine player that maybe from the KFC. Okay, so he's he's very improved. Who would you say is the most improved? He checked his one? Yeah, hey man, yeah, Chris will cut me off.
Now we have time to get Chris will sit back there. They're going into another subject. Most improved so far on the team this year. Yeah, let's go defense in offense, Let's go defense. Most improved from last year or last year from last year? All right, from last year? I got I mean, you got one of them. It's obvious. Were really two obvious ones to me. But the third is a little bit well, you know Diggs for sure.
Of course, from like eighty percent to twenty percent. You know, as far as the percentage as far as up quarterbacks versus him, that's a huge drop, by the way, even though he's giving up big play. Still, you know a few Michael Parsons, he wasn't your last year most improved. He was improved because he didn't play last year. He played no football last year. Oh that's true. I mean with the Cowboys, be most improved from last year for
those that signed with the Cowboys. Did not narrows the field down because there were so few who were on the Cowboys last year and so many of them were hurt. Come on, man, yeah, well I'm yeah, that's true. Anthony Brown missed half the season, right now, that's a good one. I didn't think of Anthony Brown that he's improved. That's a good one. And of course that's an obvious more by the way, he the other obvious one you had. Yeah, and he's been on the did not think Anthony Brown,
which should also be obvious. So he has to miss one more game. Uh oh, fucking defense. True. We need to ready to get this shot. I was ready to get. I was ready to get. It's not like we've set a high high level. Okay, so this is pretty much profit of course for us. Let's just be real. Let's just be real. Layton Vanderish what very good, but he was good less but he was hurt twice. Yeah, yeah, right, And we have been sleeping on him. We have not
talked about him and stats. We'd have him talked about his snaps, about how important he's been to not just FoST down but third down success. I know the interesting thing about him, and I don't have his snaps from last year, but his snaps are down this year, and I think it's been by design, not only with scheme but also preserving him. Right. Yeah, he's fourth on the team with forty seven tackles, Anthony Brown second with forty nine, So he's one of the tackle leaders because the next
person is thirty one. You don't want to you don't want to cornerback to be Wait, you got two cornerbacks that are what fifth and six in tackling on the team? No, Jamon Curse, not a corner but the safety kind of slash line said, has fifty five curse we're here last year improved and Anthony Brown has forty nine. M hm. So that's a lot of tackles. Two of the of the top five are cornerbacks. A lot of that means they're a lot of completed passes and a lot of
deep running plays into the second day. Yeah, you don't want to have to put your head in there like that all the time. See the scary thing about the defense. You got to go down to number nine to find a defensive lineman with twenty tackles? Is it scary or does that mean they've been rotating? That could be. That could be because they're rotating them, but no one has really you know stood out. Look number eleven with nineteen
tackles is still Jalen Smith. That is funny. I was sorry, So wait, you know what you're saying, you want I could I could say that this this defense is definitely designed for the linebackers and the second day to make some of the plays, you know, to make most of the plays. It seems like the defensive ends, the defensive lineman the mate for for harassment, clearing the way for those linebackers, almost like the flex. Terrell Basham has nineteen
tackles and OsO Diggi Zoo has eighteen. All Right, how about this, if we were going to look at I should have made sure I had the numbers in front of me before I brought it up. Snaps is what you know I've got. I'm looking at snaps and I need to go career snaps the snaps for vander esh As opposed to his past seasons. All Right, this year the last game, because the way the game played out, he only had twenty snaps in the game against Atlanta.
The previous week he had fifty one against Denver, only thirty three defensive snaps against Minnesota, twenty eight against New England and thirty one against the Giants. That is markedly down from what he has been in passion. So what you're saying, tackles per snaps, he's pretty high, That's what I'm saying. But exactly because if we're looking at curse Um, he's played many more snaps he's played ninety one is it ninety one? It's hard to read all the way across.
I think of the snaps. I'll give you an idea last year, h Vander esh Had. I'm just going through his game log last year. He had one, two, three, four games with sixty or more snaps last year. Yeah, right, Well, yeah, because they didn't they didn't play it the same way, totally different. And I do think that there's probably part of the mindset and putting him in and as they put this team together with the acquisition of Kean u'neil and what dan Quinn wants to do, part of it
is preserving him as well. And there was no Michael Parsons last year, right, let's face it, right, but Jaylen was playing those snaps last year? Was Jalen was not coming off the field last year? Yeah, for some whatever reason. Yeah, So all right, we continue with more. It's guided we're gonna I guess we need to look at the offense, the most improved on offense when we come back here
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talk to me in real life. I don't know what that was, it says broadcast voice. That's an ugly past. Hey, hey, anybody who atturned to practice, they did? Greg zerline is off. COVID saw him kicking field goals. They'd had a field goal session today and running backs coach Skip Pete back Pete practice, the brother of Rodney Pete. He was out
for a week and missed the game with COVID. Skip Pete, who in of course, in his second tour of duty with the Cowboys as a running backs coach, also was first under Wade Phillips and then Jason Garrett from over seven to two thousand a twelve and then hired last year on Mike McCarthy's staff. And uh, it's interesting because he had been with the Rams by the way, he had been with the Rams the last four seasons in
Chicago prior to that. The interesting one of the interesting things that it's timely his him coming back this week because he's going back to Kansas City. He went to University of Kansas to school and his dad was a long time scout Willie Pete for the Chiefs. I knew there was something wrong with him. Kansas. He was an all Big eight wide receiver for the Kansas Jayhawks coach Pete. Yes, coach Pete was. And of course everyone knows also that Skip's brother, Rodney was half the years he was at
Kansas nineteen eighty five. He was all all Big eight wide receiver in nineteen eighty five. That's crazy with the Jayhawks. Did not know that. Yep, Okay, here we go, here we go. The connection between Skip Pete and Mike McCarthy. What do you think it goes to? Maybe when Mike was in Kansas City. Nope, you're going prior to that. I just noticed it just on his bio right here.
It just occurred to me. First job Skipped Pete had was as a graduate assistant at the University of Pittsburghers nineteen eighty eight eighty nine, and he was a wide receiver's coach at pitt in ninety before he became the running backs coach there ninety two. And that would have been the time frame that Mike mccarthurs a Pitt before he went to the Kingsas So, you're in Kansas and you're all big eight wide receiver wide receiver, and you don't get a shot in the league. You're at Kansas,
but he's all big eight. But he's at Kansas. But to be all big eight at Kansas at that time, that's a good segue into Dorance Armstrong and there you go, you all big twelve as at Kansas. And look what he's doing now you think he had at Kansas? Or points per game? I should say how many catches? No? No points per game? Oh, you're talking about basketball. I'm sorry. Football, I'm sorry, Yeah, we're talking football. But this show is when Chris Joe. Okay, thank you, Chris, Thank you Chris.
This is a basketball so so sorry, Chris, it's so sad. I was like, man, we got it. I'm done. Title title for this show is that's how bad we are joined it Thursday. We thought we had uh influenced you, some infected you. We thought we infected you without incompetence. Bill got it for a second. Person is like out, I got it outside, I got it, but I was gonna let leave you hanging out. Appreciate that. I really appreciate that. Don't you get something to do? Chris ye
on the show? On the show, all right, back on track better talent, find three other people and so the Cowboys had one, two, three, four or five six injury report yesterday. Okay, Tyrant Smith was limited and everybody else was full. And Mike McCarthy was asked, so did full mean full because you had a short practice and you didn't have pads on, And Mike McCarthy said, full means full. So I'm going to ask you again full. What did d Law look like? He's still rehabbing and looks great,
looks great. And Randy Gregory was least stepping on the chords today, so that might be a step in the right direction. But do you want to step on the chords or are you stepping with the stepping on the chords? Yeah, you had the chords on and he was stepping along with them. No, that's not how it goes. What do you mean You're not talking about the chords that you high stepped through the resistant chords, the resistance chords, not you don't step on. Stepping along with the cord is
not what you say. I mean. I'm just saying I think I'm just gonna walk. I didn't know we were English class man. We're supposed to be going to our offensive most improved player. That's okay, somebody got keep Let me give you, let me give you the Chiefs injury report. You're talking about full practices. Everybody on their list at a full practice except Lucas Niang, the tackle out of TCU, who did not practice due to his rib injury, and Lugarius Sneed, a safety was limited with a knee injury.
Is your daughter? No? Okay, well, right now you're looking at the Chiefs China. You know we're playing them just as there, you know, hitting their stride three in a row. So this is gonna be a real good test for both of us, not just the Cowboys, but the Chiefs are gonna see. We're gonna see what they're all about. Actually, Legarius Sneed does play quite a bit on defense. Okay, but they stepped up defensively because they only gave up seventeen to the Giants, seven to the Packers, and fourteen
to the Reader. Yes, say you know you look at them. Their first five games, the Chiefs average giving up over thirty two points a game, and their last five games they've averaged giving up around fifteen points per game. So what's up with the twenty seventh of the Titans and the only one that they lost in those five games, the last five. Don't they have the badger on their team. Funny badger, that's right, Tyron Matthew. Who you think he's gonna match up with? How do you think he wanted
to be safe? I know, but one of those he is one of those guys. He's kind of like Parsons. You can line them up almost anywhere in the secondary. And as much as I saw Antonio Brown, you know, toast him in the Super Bowl, this guy is a very impactful player, whether he's blitzing or whether he is
getting in the passing lanes. And that kind of makes me nervous because when the Cowboys would do one thing, we kind of start off, you know, like chev chevchev sometimes, you know, we come out with the same old thing. We're gonna throw this this slap val, We're gonna you know, take the slot man, throw into the out. You know, we're gonna run him on the corner of the outside corner. Back off. And every once in a while you'll catch someone cheating the defense and they start to play the
play and not play their defensive call. We saw that a couple of times in the game. It could have happened to us in the Falcons game. So I think we need to be careful starting off. I think Matthews is one of those guys. He's going to try his best to play the play because as much as we are very creative offensively, you know, we're kind of basic when it comes to our short passing game. So you answered your own question, you said, who does he match
up against? He doesn't match up. He freelances, and you're right, and that's what makes him dangerous because you never know where he's gonna be or what he's gonna do, what he's keying on. Sort of like um oh, I forgot his name safety from the picture the Steelers that Patrick. Yeah, but he's out on COVID so but he still he still he still does what he does. Bill when will When Purcells was asked about Paulo Malo, he said, yeah, no one, no one knows what he does because he
doesn't know what he's gonna do. And that's what makes him dangerous because you can't plan for that. And that's what he is. Extremely unpredictable. Uh, he's blockable. You can beat him. That is not the point. The point is the play is not the places that he doesn't make, it's the ones that he makes can really kill you offensively. And then but and by the way, the honey Badger, that part of him is dead. He's tying Matthew now. Yeah. Yeah, but he still plays. I think his attitude is state
still plays. Yeah, he still plays like that. I don't know why he's dissing that. He's he's that he still isn't need that part of his life. Well, yeah, that got himself straightened down. Yeah, he's still honey badger to meat, which is a compliment as far as I'm concerned. Third round pick out of LSU bad Low. Somebody was third round because of the money badger quote unquote baggage. Yeah. The Cowboy. Uh he played fullback for the Cowboys for
one year he was in Houston. The Cowboys traded for him. Uh it like nineteen ninety one. Um, gosh, I can't believe. I can't think of his name anyway, Alonzo Heisman, Yes, thank you. Anyway, he's a scout now. Yeah, and he was pretty good, was really good. That was good. And I see him all the time because he's always round. Yeah, he comes to the Cowboy games and I think scouting and anyway, so his when Honey Badger came to the Senior Bowl that year and he hadn't played, remember he
got kicked off LSU. And we had gotten there and we went to this place where a lot of the coaches and scouts hang out to watch the Sunday afternoon game. And Honey Badger comes walking in and he's got on a big old floppy hat. He's got baggy pants with this big old sweatshirt and sunglasses on right, And I'm looking and I'm going, you walked into this place with all these scouts and looking like that, And so next thing we knew he went in the back and then
Alonso came walking back. He recognized me and he sat down with I said, so, did you get to talk to the Honey Badger? He said, I told that young man that the Honey Badger is dead. That you need to come in here like this is a job interview for you. And there's a bunch of scouts in here. There's some personnel from the front offices in here, from teams. You cannot come in here dressed like that, he said, I dressed them down there. You go, Yeah, and it
was probably the best advice. Yeah, you know, I remember Matthew at the Combine that year. It just workout at the combine. I went, whoa look at I mean, it was the workout, the DB's workout, and just his ball skills and everything. I went, wow, it's kind of explosive too. Yeah. But but you could just see the natural. It was little wonder that he had so many takeaways, whether it's
on fumble recoveries or interceptions or whatever in college. When you just saw that one little five minute workout at the combine and there he was easily should have been a top ten pick. And by the way, I just saw a headline in the Kansas City paper saying Chiefs want to resign Matthew. So he must be this is his last year of his contract and he'll be a free agent next year. He's getting up in age now, isn't he. He went what year did he come into
the league? Uh? I don't have it written down here. Um, you know. And the other thing on him, you know how I got to Arizona. Why why Arizona even took the quote unquote risk of taking him in the third round is because of his relationship with Patrick Peterson and Patrick Peterson's dad had a big impact on taking him under his wing, getting him straightened out before coming into the NFL's twenty nine So and by the way, he went to a very good place because of who his
coach was at Arizona, which would have been Todd Boles. Yeah, absolutely Todd and knows how to take care defensive backs. Yeah, he knows what's going on. That's right. God, that was nine years ago. We saw him at the senior time Flies. When you're thought that segment, we didn't. Yeah, this most improved off. We're going to talk most improved offensive player in the next segment when mix shots continues. In a moment, I wonder if Chris Beam is still around. No, he left,
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Dallas Cowboys dot com. A fanatics experience that's Shop dot Dallas dot dos too many dots all right? Most improved Cowboys offensive player from last year to this year? Who you got? Oh? You know mine, go ahead, SPACs who you got. I've been giving it some thought. Um, that's tough on offense. Well, I know what you got. I know what everybody's answer is going to be. But they forget he caught sixty three passes last year? Was Dalton Schultz? That was not my answer? Okay, good, So mine is
Tyler Beatis. Oh I like that. How about Terry Steele? M hmm, well yeah, that one that's going from nowhere. You know, you know what people are shouting right now, are running back polock zeke zeke zeke. Oh, people are shouting at well, let him shout because the fumbles and things of that nature, just all the mishaps that he had last year. He was horrible last year with the fumbles. His offensive line was horrible too. Yeah, but he was horrible. You can see still holding to the ball and because
the office not sucks. No. I think he was trying to do too. That he was. That is no doubt he was trying to do because he knew they weren't They weren't getting anywhere, so he was running harder, taking more blows. You know, Well, he people coming off of blocks faster and from the side yeah, he'd call last year an s show. Yeah, it was like my pick now,
yeah it's not my pickage people are shouting. It's like when you say when you say improved, that means somebody wasn't very good and now all of a sudden they're good. He's been good. He had picked shels, so you know he was good last year. That was a coming out. He think he's taken it to another level. I do think that, Yes, I think he is now be honest, was good in college, but he wasn't in college last year. So you think has played better. Yes, I think from
a center standpoint, the snaps have been I think better. Um, I'm still fussing about my pick to click. Y'all didn't get me no love when I picked him. You laughed at his performance. When did you pick him? Like five weeks ago or something? Yeah, five weeks I still want my pops many y'all didn't even pay attended to it. So we don't come into an agreement here. Who is it? We'll see ceedee lamb improved m Yeah, it's tough though. Well he was pretty good last year, yeah, but I
think he's better this year. It's kind of hard to improve after that catch he made against Minnesota, Yeah, try, Yeah, he kind of came out and showed what he was worth. Yet I could, I could, You could argue the point. I could give you love, but it's a tough one. Cooper Rush. There you go, my head a little bit. And here's the deal. This offense, this offense is doing. This offense is doing what Yeah, he didn't have anything defense, right, The offense is doing what it shoot it should do. Right.
They were good, They would have been good last year. Yeah, they were good last year. For five games they were averaging thirty points a game. Problem was the defense was given up thirty six. All right, so han't said that the first five Mister consistency, Who's who's the most consistent. Then that's a good question. Most consistent, most consistent player of defense, special team. Yeah, Zack Martin, it's not bad. And then and then the Maury Cooper, Yeah, there you go,
mister steady. Not spectacular last year, but last year, what eight plus catches? Nine he had a career high from how many different quarterbacks for four different That is amazing. That really, That's why I've always said love CD. I love all the guys on the offense especially, but Cooper to me the most. I guess it's because he's so understated. Yeah, and and the people you know, talk radio, it's like, well they can get out of his contract next year. It's like, why would you get out of the best
receivers contract. He turned this organization around when he came the Cowboys. Was that twenty eighteen everything changed? Everything changed. That was the year they were going to have receiver by committee and we ended up when he got here, everything just flipped and all of a sudden, Dak Prescott is the quarterback bands today. They were a playoff team. That's right. He went, Da knew whether to go. I mean, every time he looked up, he was just he was
feeding on Cooper. So yeah, most consistent, I would definitely put him there. And right now, mister Cooper has forty four catches for five hundred and eighty three yards, thirteen point three a catch, and five touchdowns. So I bet if you factored out out over the rest of the season, knowing that they're going to play seventeen games, that's getting close to ninety catches, a thousand yards and ten touchdowns.
I was going to call you out on the four quarterbacks who completed passes to Cooper last year, because I was thinking Ben de Nucci may not have done that, But I checked it and I didn't say. I didn't say he completed it to I just said he had to play with That's right. He did catch one ball from Danucci for five yards. So if Dak had played the whole season, he'd have had over a hundred catches. Oh yeah, right, yea. If Dak would have played all the last year, it would have been a lot of
stuff going on. Everyone would have would have had that. And now we're past the halfway point of this season. You can't really do the it's not clean math because of the seventeen game season. But CD's got forty six catches and the marrow he's got forty three right now, so they're right on pace to get up near ninety right around. And to have such talent four okay, to have such talent on the offense and for these guys to still get the numbers up, it just talks about
consistency on this team, especially from a quarterback position. And of course you gotta give Kellen Moore love as well, because he's the one calling those plays and and give them a chance to get the numbers up. I'll throw another offensive player, and they're about Cedric Wilson. I love him, you know. Yeah, that's my dude, And maybe made the biggest stride because he's healthy and he's playing right. Last year,
he got the opportunity a special teams guy. Yeah, he got the opportunity because Gallup was hurt so and that that long pass in Minnesota that kind of kind of kept us in the game. So let me give you what has been the biggest improvement. Okay, So these stats are against last year in this year on defense points allowed. Last year, at this point in the season, they had given up two hundred and ninety points two hundred in
ninety points in nine games. In nine games this year, it's thirty three points again, thank you, in this year one ninety five. That's a difference too, that's a difference of how many mister, always the number. Again, they've improved ninety five points. How many points two ninety nine five net yards per game? Get your math ready? No, No, he's allowed three point six last year at this point three fifty four this year. It's an improvement of twenty seven point six yards. The game. But here may be
one of the biggest ones. Rushing yards per game last year at this point one fifty seven a game this year one oh one point two huge rushing touchdowns a lot out eleven last year, seven this year. And how about at this point at this point right, how about this one interceptions this year fourteen last year at this time two three. That's improvement of eleven. He got it. Let's be real. I'd love to see how the second half compared, because that's when a defense got best started
to play better. Thank you, Mike Nolan. Yeah, it took that long to figure it out, right, because they quit plan a three man front and a four man front. They quit plan the nickel every single down no matter what the game, and they didn't have a big nickel either way. Okay, as we wrap this up, who needs to be the most improved player in the second half of this season? Or you can just say who will be the who will be the open either one? Either way? Who will be the most improved player from the first
half to the second half. And I'm not sure whinning he'll get out there, but it's starting to show up. Dorin's armstrong that just because there without Gregory now and without dons DeMarcus Lawrence, so he needs to really step it up. Michael Gallop Yep, that's who I was thinking of. Gallop. See, I'm not worried about the offense. I think as we get into the tougher games, into those stretches like Sunday, yeah, yeah, and beyond like this stretch coming up Thanksgiving and all
of that, guys are gonna they're gonna get tired. It's just the way it is that and we're gonna need others to step up. You can't continue doing that stretch. You can't. If you have a player that improves doing that stretch from before that, you might look at him being a little bit overwhelmed as you go into the most improved player in the second half of the season is gonna be DeMarcus Lawrence. Oh that's a there's a stretch. Well,
let's put it like this. It needs to be He's the one that needs to the team that you get the needs to be well, not improved. He just needs to be starting from He's starting from scratch yea and game. That's the that's the addition that the Cowboys can bank on if he can, If he can be healthy, it's gonna be huge for this team the rest of the way. Whenever he does get out there, man Gregory, for this game on Sunday and need tiring as well down the stretch,
that would help. Yeah, all right, that does it for this make shots. This is that Denver game. We'll see if Vick advis is back for another edition on a fabulous Football Friday. Fights on Friday them all. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.