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chip and the official tip of the Dallas Cowboys. As Dallas takes care of business at home on Sunday afternoon, a forty four to twenty win over the New York Giants, and we're here to talk about it here over the next forty five minutes. On another victory Monday. Gosh, that's so good to hear. Oh there's the music again. We always are celebrating a Cowboys dub, especially in a year like last year, where it took you until what week fourteen?

Week fifteen to get your fourth win, and the Cowboys are now four and one and we've only had to deal with it for five weeks of the year. Feeling good, Billy Ray, Feeling good, Billy Ray. Wow good, what a weekend? Yeah, what a weekend. You're on a specific high, aren't you. Yeah. You made me choose between the what's the better crowd pregame, Ray Carpet, Kyle Field or at and T. What am I supposed to say? Did you start the field? Did you store in the field? I store my living roommate. Yeah,

I stormed that living room. I love it, man. I was looking for you. I was looking for you us. I had no peas out there somewhere, but it was in the stadium yet. But he's gonna get in there somehow. Man. It's just been a crazy weekend of sports. I mean from the Texas OU game, which was nuts and I didn't even get to see the end of it because at another game. But then the fight. Did you did you get Chancy the fight? Did you? Oh? Man, what a fight Isaiah did? What a fight? It was? Tyson

Fury had a couple of fights on the field days. Yeah, that was That was a And then you know, obviously Sunday was just cowboys were just it was a taking care of business sort of day. Yeah. I mean it didn't start off great. You had a couple of hiccups early on. You were able to right the ship and then just put them away. I mean that was kind of it was almost step for step the same analysis that we would have had on a Carolina game where

Carolina came out punched him in the mouth. I wouldn't say it was really a hiccup from the Cowboys in that game. I think that was more of Carolina being a better team than New York early on, whereas you kind of shot yourself in the foot early and well after they lose to the to the Eagles. I don't know if that can actually be said anymore about Carolina,

but good point. I mean, but you're right. I mean, they faced adversity in both of these games, and I think the turnaround from last year to this year is how they in turn throw another blow. So I think that's that's again, that's the biggest difference from last year. I'd love to see it in every level that we have. I mean, the offense had some let downs, had some turnovers, defense held up the end of the bark and got those guys the ball back. And man, this Dak is

balling right now. He's balling it and it may not have started out that way. But really I wanted to ask you about the interview yes, last last night from Dak and just admitting, you know about his nerves. Yeah, I know Chris is looking for that cut. We'll see if we could get it. But he was blatantly honest about you know, I said, I wasn't thinking about the injury from last year, but once I got out there, it was in the back of my mind. I saw the cart when se Quon Barkley gets carted off, and

I'm like, get that thing away from me. I don't want to look at it. I don't know. I mean, I think he was downplaying it during the week, but I wonder if you get into that situation, you get on the field and you realize, WHOA, this is kind of eerie. I mean, because we were talking about it all week, and there's times when he gets hit and somebody's down around his ankles. I mean, I ye, I kind of blink, you know, and so you can imagine

what he's thinking. So that was pretty candid from a big time player to say I had a mental fog early in the game and I had to snap out of it, and maybe he can finally bury this thing, like he said during the spring, like just finally it's over now let's just move forward. What do you think Isai? Yeah, I mean I think it was pretty apparent that he wasn't on his game early on. I know, Kylin never arguing about it in the studio. From from a player's perspective,

I could tell that he was just wasn't there. Now, I didn't know what the reason was, but his decision making, his release points in terms of where he released the ball at all, those things just weren't on point early on. But then you know Tagan's point, he figured it out and got things rolling. If that was what was bothering him, then I'm glad that he buried that and got it out the way. I mean, obviously, you're coming up with one day out from exactly a year from the previous

injury sae quon bar. You know, Barkley getting taken out on a cart, guys grabbing his ankle on him sitting up there, you know, trying to throw the ball. I mean, there's a lot of things that kind of make them have flashbacks. He lit with a little pts in terms of as an injury, but um, you know, at the end of the day he showed up and played the rest of the game and played it well, and we're

three hundred and sixty five days today. I mean, it happened October eleventh, twenty twenty and here we are October eleven, twenty twenty one. And maybe this is the chance, maybe now that it's come full circle, you've made it past your game. The Cowboys not reporting any new injuries following last night's win. So maybe this is the chance for it to come full circle and to move on and to continue his I mean magnificent season. He threw what

nine in completions, ten in completions and three touchdowns. Again, he's thrown at least three touchdowns in four of the five games this year. It's hard to play ball better than Dak Prescott is playing ball right now. Yeah, it is. And I just think that one interception, man, that was a hell of an athletic play by the defensive the linebacker for the Giants, you know, and you gotta give credit where credit is due, but again that through I want to go the throw to CD. That was a boy.

He couldn't have walked that ball up and handed it to CD in and better. That was just awesome and also really good to see CD get back in the groove of things for the offense costs for a while. Obviously, Amari Cooper, they're gonna be rolling coverage his way to try and take nineteen out. But just good to see eighteen get his and Cedric no, well, what Cedric Wilson is balling out too? Yeah, I think there were three throws in that ball game that stuck out to me.

One was the Cooper touchdown in the middle where he kind of fitted in between two guys. The other one was Ceedee Lamb of course over the top and like you just said, man, that was a dime. And then the other one was the throw to Cedric Wilson on the sideline where Wilson made a magnificent grab, but that ball could not have been placed better from Dak Prescott.

I mean, he's dealing it. But now we're starting to see, especially with guys like Lamb getting more involved and then Wilson coming in and making a couple of plays, the depth of the wide receiving corps that we knew was there already. Yeah, there's gonna be a robust free agent market for Cedric Wilson spring. I think he's gonna have opportunities as an undrestricted free agent, if if, if the

Cowboys let him get there. You mentioned the throw to Amari Cooper as well, that he threaded that in there on a nice kind of double move there. But yeah, Michael Gallup's not even back yet, and we're talking about the production of this offense. Putting up forty four points despite and five hundred yards and five hundred yards it

felt like a college game. It really did. And that's with turning the ball over twice in your first three drives, and then the second drive of the game, Dak hits Dalton Schultz right in the hands in the end zone and he drops it. So three points out of those first three drives. They very easily could have topped fifty points in this game. And you mentioned the five hundred yards the interception with Dak he kind of telegraphed, did I mean he was staring down Zeke in the flat?

And it actually Pat Mahomes had the same pick last night. You know where you're trying to you know, you're trying to get it over an athletic defensive lineman, and then you know the snap exchanges haven't been consistently great, and that might have factored into the fumble. As well. But when you could do what they did despite those mistakes, and I know the Giants are not on their level, the record shows it, but that's still impressive, really really

impressive the way they're playing right now. I want to go back to the interception because Isaiah, I remember you saying something about this yesterday. But who do you fault on that interception? Is it Dak Prescott for looking down a receiver or do you chalk it up to just a defender bank and a good play. Yeah, it's straight mechanics. There's a combination of both. I mean, obviously just the NFL.

So you know, everybody can make a play, but you know you have to allow for defensive linement to make play sometimes when you give them that opportunity. His footwork was bad, he was drifting away, he threw it, you know, he obviously was staring him down. All those things playing to a party as to why the ball was the way it was, I would chalk it up if he didn't do it again, And it was almost he almost had two of the same type of plays. Um, so

it was it was just bad mechanics. And again he ready admitted his mentally, wasn't there so he'll sure that up.

But you know, those are plays when that you can't make. Obviously, you as we look down the road and as we raise their expectations for the for the team in the organization, those are plays that you just can't make that you need to make those corrections now against these teams that we're playing against, because the teams that come down the road, it would be a little bit more difficult and they would take advantage of those. Ain't it amazing how quarterbacks,

each quarterback, those top tier quarterbacks is so different. Aaron Rodgers made a throw in overtime to the Randall Cobb backing up, falling back. It makes that throw, and you know, nobody's talking about how technical he is or isn't. He just gets it done. And so like I'm not gonna psy psycho analyze the dub we dubbed it, you know. And the great thing about yesterday, we've been talking about the one two punch of Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elliott

and we saw it on full display. And I've said it before, you know, and we talk about the money that Zeke has made and this one two points. As long as Zeke is the knockout blow which you saw yesterday, and he just pretty much sealed the deal. I love it. Back to back one hundred yard games ties Mike Levin for forty seventh up on one hundred yard games as well, So I mean all of that is big time. Man. He's in great company and just seem to be getting going as you see his reps are, his carries go

up after each and every week. That confidence of that offensive line is skyrocketing right now. I mean you saw it early in the game. You saw it throughout the game. You see Cedric or excuse me, Connor Williams getting in a little bit of a scuffle here and there. I mean, they have each other's back, and you can see that confidence growing, especially when you run for two hundred freaking yards again. Yeah, and he saw the athleticism of the

old line too, Connor Williams pulling to the right. They ran right a lot, which says something about Terrence Steele and the way he's blocking. Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard both over five yards of carry and I don't know for the for the season what it is, but they're both close to that average. It's it's ridiculous right now,

the way they're running the football. Yeah, and you know, you guys asked me in pregame kind of what the approach should be, and I felt like it was a cop out, but it's it seriously, is like when when the Giants play back, just run at him, and that's what they did, and they tried to mix up their coverages a little bit. They would stack the box. And that's one thing Mike McCarthy liked out of this game was they knew we were going to run it, they tried to fit it that way against it, and we

were still able to run with success. So that's encouraging going forward too. Can we give a shout out to Dalton Schultz, Yes, definitely. I think he's obviously put all his firepower we have. He's being overlooked. And the other thing, just in retrospect, he's balling. Dalton Shorts is balling, and not only in the stat sheet, but the things that he's doing also in a run game, he's blocking his

butt off. He's obviously he's under he's under size in terms of the ability to block somebody's defense alignment, but he's given it a one hundred percent effort, the things that he's doing in terms of taking coverages away from guys and allowing other guys to get plays. And then he's been almost averaging six dog on catches a game. And one game he didn't have six catches was the Chargers. He had two catches. Every other game he's had six catches.

He had six for seventy nine yesterday leading receiver. Yeah, no, second, leading the second leader eighty four. I'm sorry he had the most catches, yes, correct, but I mean he I mean six six catches a game almost on average. Um, you know, he has three touchdowns in these five games. This dude is bawling. Shout out to Linda Wales, Linda Wales in the tight end room of the coach forgetting this dude turn around. Jarwin is is present, but I think obviously now when you look at some of these

more in dire passing situations, it's shots out there. It's not Jarwin, and I think you talk about it. It's just the things that doesn't show up on the stat sheet for Schultz, you know, taking that coverage where they're having to honor him, but also his blocking that dash refreshing because we didn't feel like we had that and you know we were looking to Sprinkle and other guys. But when you can, you don't. You don't have to trade out your guys, especially on running players. And Scholtz

it's handling business like man eighty six he bawling. Yeah, he's And he's become such a security blanket for Dak Prescott that it's it's uncanny. It's almost every time Prescott's in trouble and he's seeing that clock tick tick tick tick in his head. He looks over and there's eighty six open ready to catch a football. And that's why he gets those grabs every game and he has six catches along the way because Dak knows he can have

a guy like Dalton Schultz to rely on. Additionally, I mean he's such a success story from a guy who's just worked hard. I mean, he came into this league as a mid round pick, somebody that at least at the early parts of his career did not live up to expectations. And you ask anybody in the locker room, first guy in, last guy to leave, I mean Dalton Schultz is right in that group of names that would

be said there. I mean, we see it every time we're allowed to watch practice, he's out there on the jugs machine, far after everybody's already gone back into the locker room. So kudos the Schultz to be ready for an opportunity like this and really carving out a role in an offense that, at least going into the year, we thought it would be kind of hard to carve out a role in. Yeah, well, Jarwin obviously last year and the injury versus the Rams, everybody was kind of

thinking what are we gonna do? Because Schultz was just an unproven commodity on this offense. He showed last year what he could do. He was that guy last year and this year he's just a continuation of it. Obviously, you talk about this coach and just instill those great things that you're starting to see. I just love to see our young guys take that curve, that learning curve and just run with him. That's what he's doing right now.

So can't fault him for being who he is. But like you said, man, all the things that are not showing up on the stat sheet, eighty six is doing. Yeah, he's already. I'm just a man. He's already at forty five percent of what the yards said he got last year. Already, he's already of the yard he had gained last year. Pro Bowl, Yeah, he was in the conversation last year. Don't be surprised, exactly conversation right now, he's definitely the

best in the NFC West. He's sorry, and he's well, I'm trying to think of an NFC tight end that would be better specifically right now. I mean, Gronk is fantastic. He's also been banged up. He not available to a couple of weeks kittles her yet. I mean, I'm not saying he's a better player, but in terms of the production he's had, it's hard to argue. But he would be a Pro Bowl tight end at this point. And when you're in an offense that's leading the league in scoring.

They're up to thirty four points a game. Right now, everybody gets more attention, yeah, more, Yeah, more opportunities for him and he I'm not comparing him to Jason Witten, but it is kind of Witten like right now what he is for Dak, especially the way defenses are playing. Uh, some of that shell stuff and that underneath stuff is there, and and credit to him for finding spots, you know, getting open. It helps when like you said, it's it's

receivers running certain routes to get guys open. They're scheming it well too. Yeah, And to your point, you know, the more success your team has, the more attention that's on the organization, especially when you're the Dallas Cowboys. Um, but there's gonna be a lot of guys. I feel like if we stay on his track that will make the Pro Bowl. I remember back to our first year here, we had thirteen guys post seven. Yeah, yeah, thirteen guys go to the Pro Bowl. Everybody was on a dog arm.

Pro Bowl. Thirteen wins, thirteen Pro Bowlers. Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, and they're at least at this point, it's hard to argue they aren't going to get close to that with the offensive lineman playing well and every skills position player you can really look at. And then Trey Von Diggs on the defensive side of the football, who's that guy. We'll talk about him. How about that when we come back on the other side of the break, we talk defense on talking Cowboys. Honey, big news, Gary,

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Chip and the official GYP. This the dip this morning. Yeah, yeah, I did it earlier. Man, Isaiah came in. Hey, Alicia got here? I mean what was it like two minutes? Like, yeah, man, that light got me today. Yeah, the boys were moving a tree and Tostito's plaza. There was a huge forklift that was moving literally picked a tree out of the ground. It was back and up. I'm like, really, as I'm resting here, that's what you wanted. That's when you went

to back in running me with a tree. I thought you were about to say they were putting up the tree. No Christmas, they had pulled a tree out the ground. I guess it died. Gotta have the best until ce those planets. You can't have that happen though. Well, about five weeks of that Christmas spectacular though, wow, yeah wow, Ted's already around getting ready for it. I feel like he works eight months of his year on that Christmas. But we were just outside in the in a you know,

the mobile home. Yeah that was a year ago. This week yeah or next week? Sorry? Was it really? Yeah? It was like October twenty second. Yeah, well it was cold. I think we should do this. We had hot chocolate on deck next month. Yeah. Yeah, well it was October twenty second last year. While okay and I it was weird because I thought the same thing. I was like, wow, it was freezing, freezing yeah, and then I went back into Uh I went back and looked at like when

it got cold. Yeah. I mean all the way up until like the twentieth October is like that. People were moving short sleeves and then all of a sudden it was pretty over. Second Isaiah met I mean it was a great it was first two days stretch there special. Yeah. Chris Beam says he has a live look at the toast Tito's Plaza. I don't know if oh there it is moving thing right there. Got me. That's what I

was talking about. I felt like I was in one of those movies where it's like a robbery going on, you know, and I'm like pulling up and he like backs it out, dude, holds me, you know, like you stay right there. It's all a cover up. They're getting into the safe of the set. Yeah that's interesting. Well, all right, there's the Tostitos Championship Plaza. Maybe we'll give anybody Okay, yeah, don't do that. Don't try and frame anything, all right, defense, What else is there to say about

Treyvon Dicks. I mean, five games, for five games he's had a pick. Now, this one was about as solid of a play as any of the ones he's had previously. I mean, went up, showed off the ball skills, he had a pick, and at some point we talked about it, people are gonna just stop throwing his direction? Is that point just ever going to come now? I mean, because

I feel like they challenged him on multiple occasions. It's almost like the Giants wanted to go at Treyvon Diggs and he almost made him pay on a couple different time tries. He wouldn't do it, yep. On the halftime show last night, he said, and he was like, nope, I would stay away from him at all costs. The longest halftime show. Yeah, because it was the lightning delay. Oh that's right. It's a problem for ocs, right because if he's going to travel with your best receiver, what

here's supposed to do? Just not throw to Kenny Galladay the entire game. I mean, that's that's an issue. So I don't know what else you say about him. The Cowboys haven't had a guy who's the best at his position in the NFL since DeMarcus Ware. It's been on the defensive. On the defensive side, it's been almost a decade. And when you have that at a premier position like a pass rusher or a shutdown corner, I mean, that just lifts your defense completely. Heck, it's special. It's special,

and what we're witnessing is special. And I think coming into this season, Dan Quinn and his initial interview was talking about the emphasis on turnovers and everybody just kind of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you're supposed to do, and you every team is emphasizing getting turnovers, but when you see it actually happen and we're getting multiple a game, all right, this is what nine weeks straight of multiple turnovers.

I mean, the only other team to do it with Chicago back in twenty ten, and I talked about p U Tilman. He was the one that started that whole thing. And it's just special. Man. When you see a guy like Trey Von Digg's tracking and high point balls the way that he does, I mean, he bade it, dude, and he knew he was gonna be able to get up and go get that ball. And so I don't know if teams will stop throwing at him because of the way that the read option off the offenses are

because they're just going with their read. But they have got to come into this game versus come to any game versus the Cowboys and be thinking about not throwing towards seven because he's traveling with the best receivers. But man, he's just making it look easy and all. By the way, he should have had two. Yep, he stuck. He said three. He said three. Yeah, I think I'm just saying two.

Two for sure. He had the one in the first at first half of where he cut off Day went right in front of him on that little scene or that little balling. Right now, he's bawling especially, would you say that he's an elite dB right now? Yeah, he is playing great ball. He's playing great ball, elean use the word elite. Yep. I want to see it keep going. He's doing a great job. I want to see Yeah,

I want to see it every week. I mean, that was that was definitely a great You gotta you gotta understand, I'm a I'm a former player, right, so, like I look at I look at what he did. That was amazing. But I also look at at the bad ball by Glenn and two right, So I don't take anything away. It was an amazing play, but if GLENNI would have put the ball where it should have been, it wouldn't have been a pick, you know what I mean. So that's why I look at That's how I look at

these plays, taking nothing away. The all was there, go get it, boom awesome. But as a quarterback, Glennon, he's watching the film saying, I do a terrible ball. Yeah right, you know what I'm saying. If I throw a terrible ball, there's a dude out there that could If I throw a bad ball, I don't know. If I'm not on one point, he's gonna make me pay for it. And that's my point. As he's got as we started facing these other opponents, I don't see to your point where

I don't see guys going away from digs. I just see office of coordinators and a quarterback coaches saying you better put the ball on the money because if it's not where it should be, he's gonna make you pay for it. Yeah. Ifs maybe still osky, you know it's it's still count and you know it's it's all of that. I mean, it's the way that our defensive playing is the way that a linebacking group at Core is playing

as well. So I just see a special talent, you know, doing something right now that, my goodness, man, could possibly get this guy a lot of kudos and accolades at the end of the year. That's the only thing I have as an argument for what you said, because I agree it was a bad ball from Glennan, and you're talking about wanting to keep it going. I agree, of course you want to see it keep going. But at the same time, he's done it for five straight games. I mean, at some point one pick might be lucky,

two picks might be lucky. Six picks in five games. That's not love. There's nothing coincidental. I never said the word lucky. I agree, But I'm saying you're you're you're just putting out the bad ball from glenn in. Yeah. But I'm an analyst, right and I'm a former player, so I look at the game holistically. I'm taking nothing away from the fact that it was amazing play. He closed the gap, he cut the cut the ball underne he cut underneath him. He got the interception, but he

cut underneath them, so that means that the ball was short. Right. So I'm just again from Glenn and standpoint he was he was beat on a route seemingly, whether he was baiting him or not, it appeared as if he was beat on the route, and it was the underthrown ball. He went and got that thing. Great job, right, So that's what I'm saying. I'm not taking anything away from him or anybody else that makes a play in his league.

I'm just saying, when these guys are he's going to continue to face the best at the league has He's gonna follow these guys around. I am interested to see him continue to face the best receiver and continue to find ways to shut these guys down and continue to find ways to take the ball away. Whether it's him actually getting an interception or whether it's him forcing them to throw somewhere else. Either way, it's working. Either way, he's balling out, he's killing it. He's the best in

the league right now. He's with the stats show it, his effect on the game shows it. Taking nothing away, I'm just saying that in that particular play, it was a terrible ball. And some of it is, yeah, it was a backup quarterback in their throwing. Giants lost so many guys to injuries yesterday, it was ridiculous. Some of

it's the product of pressure too. I mean, yes, they hit the Giants quarterbacks seven times, got a bunch of pressures, no sacks, which is that's why that's why I've always been a DeMarcus Lawrence proponent, because no, his sacks have not been there the last couple of years, but he affects the quarterback and that's what they did. Randy Gregory was all over the place. Again, it was in the best day and I think that helps your dbs a lot.

And so and what we're learning is when it's a fifty fifty ball, he's he's gonna go get the ball, I mean, and that's that's what you expect. Way. I know, we talked about when dan Quinn first got hired on staff, and we talked about their their ability to get pressure.

And the reason why Legion of Boom was so success was because the pressure that was up front, right the front seven creative pressure, which it allows for your dbs to play a little bit stickier, a little bit a little bit more aggressively, and guess what, these things happen. The balls aren't going to be as precise because the pressure right, the ball isn't going to be exactly where the quarterback wants the ball to be. So guess what

when you have those opportunities. We talked about the length and the draft of Mquamo and all these other guys they drafted they brought in, they shown right that we haven't even seen yet. Right, really, his suffercifer and special teams and the length and their ability to get in the lanes and get their arms up and have all these abilities. It's all because of the continuity of the team. Is the complementary ball. Your guys up front take care

of business. They create pressure, pressure forces quarterbacks and move their feet. That means that their delivery is not going to be the way it needs to. Ball isn't going to be as accurate as it would have been had they not had that pressure, which enables these guys go out there and be athletic and make plays. It's a great team effort and he's been the benefactor of it, which means that the Dallas Cowboys are doing well. I

think the best part about Treyvon Diggs yesterday. The most impressive part, I should say is the fact that it wasn't just the pick. Sure he got another pick the street can continues, but it was the fact that he had his hands on four footballs. Yeah, I mean, hen even the one day Jones was trying to throw away, he still caught the ball. When does this ever happened? I mean we said on the post game show, I

know he wished he'd hit his legs. He had some Google Gadget legs on the one on the sideline, because that was nasty. That was nasty. Those are the players that make me go who you know when they say rising tide lifts all boats, it's true with this defense, when you have a guy out there playing like that, it makes everything better for everybody. And my man, Ab, I told y'all Ab should be starting. I told y'all, Melly Sticker alert, Oh man, what am I doing? I

don't know what you're doing. I'm gonna run upstairs. I mean, but just man, everybody, everybody on the defense. And yesterday, I mean even you know, there was some criticism for Michael Parsons that you know, he wasn't the Mica that we had been used to sing, but he led the team and tackles. He had more pressures than anyone else. And so man, if he's going to be silent but deadly like that, I like that. Yeah. I would disagree with anybody who said Michael Parsons didn't have a good game.

I would definitely disagree with him. But hit the goal line stands that he that he was a part of and the inside and came in how strong he was at the point of contact that allowing guys to push him back a couple of times, he didn't budget an inch. You see how you You see how you turn when you want to make your point on Michael playing lineback.

I need you to be just like that. When elite status is saying I'm just just come on now with digs, you see, like his whole his whole thing just lit up with you and seeing Michael lineback, what I have to say. I'm messing, yeah, do it every single week, coaches, You're doing it every reason. Yeah, So I mean, yeah, back to Michael. Michael. Michael is playing really, really good ball.

I mentioned last week that I didn't think that was his best game obviously statistically, but he's having an impact everywhere. That's why I like him at the second level because he impacted the game in so many different ways and instead of just the him at that end, which he got sprinkled in there yesterday too, I have three hurries. Yeah, yeah, so he's getting back there. But I mean I was

impressed by his goal line stance. Yeah, that's tough. Now when you see those guys meet up at the golden leaking literally at the goal line, and one they go nowhere to stalemate, right when one guy has momentum to other guys just coming up to create contact and he literally pushes him back and he's digging his feet in the ground. I'm watching that like this dude strong. Yeah. Man, he definitely delivered a lick. But you know, I got

to credit that the Giants offensive line. He went a lot of max protect yesterday to try and you know, get Glenn and keep blending protected in Jones yesterday. But you know, as much as we could not get pressure on the quarterback or get a sack man, there was some holding calls that just didn't get called. Man, I mean, come all, reps. I mean I felt like every play Randy Gregory, they were holding the heck out of ninety four. But still, you know that was just the first game

without a sack. Yes, this year is no, no, no, because we didn't get a sack of Tampa. True, Oh you're right, call so, but kind of going along with the lines of the second level and sure tackling gang tackling. I mean, we've seen it week to week this year. That's part of the fundamental dan Quinn improvements is the fact that this team knows how to tackle compared to ones we've seen over the last decade, almost here in Dallas.

But I hated the result of this play. It was my least favorite part of the entire game, and it was the Daniel Jones play at the goal line. Hated the result. I loved the fundamental competitiveness from the two rookies, two backup rookies getting outside. When's the last time you've said, in a goal line stand where the game is still very tight, that two backup defenders that are both happened to be rookies came out and made a goal line

stand in open field. I don't know if you could say that's ever happened in a Cowboy uniform, or at least not in a long time and it was the worst possible result. And honestly, our well wishes are with Daniel Jones going into that concussion protocol because that was scary. But man, that was a fantastic play. Now I love to see it. I love to see Jabril Cox and the speed that he displayed and beating Daniel Jones that you know, it's super athletic as well to the to

the pylon. You know, it's yes, unfortunate, it's a running play. It could happen on any play, you know, but it didn't seem like anything malicious, uh from from Cox um and just you know what the stuff that you know will be said, but I just felt I felt as though, you know, it was a good tackle and it just showed it showed his speed more than anything, because it

looked like Daniel Jones initially had an angles. So it's no We keep talking about Dan Quinn and his ability to put guys in position to be successful based upon their skill sets or attributes and what they do best. This was a perfect example of it. Why would Jabril Cox be in the game playing on the edge on the goal line if they didn't know that there was a high probability that Daniel Jones was gonna try to keep this thing and try to run to the sideline.

They needed their best guy on the edge to be able to run that down just in case they called that play, and he was in the goal line package this week. Absolutely yep. So Jabril Cox was He would not be in the game any other time lest he's working his way into the system. He was there not only because Jalen Smith was gone. He was there because of what he does well and had Daniel Jones, which he did, decided to keep the ball. I need my best guy with those abilities to be able to run

this down and boom, That's exactly what happened. Yeah, taking the most of your opportunities. He only had four defensive snaps, by the way, so yeah, probably all of those are near the goal line. So Dan Quinn says on that play, you're in here right here because I need you there just in case. And by the way, just real quick, the linebacker snaps, Micah gets sixty three, snaps Kennel's back, he gets thirty four, banderash thirty one, and then we've

talked about their big nickel package. Javon Curse plays every snap Hooker works in there with Kazy. There weren't snaps for Jalen Smith. I mean there wasn't. That role was was reducing and that's you saw what they did in this game as well. How did you feel about the swipe? I felt good about it. From LV, yeah, I felt good about it. How he did it, he didn't know he did game. He said, he was like, I kind of blanked out. I just kind of did it. I

mean that's I mean, that's his guy. Yeah, that's his guy. He swiped into the wild. Let me tell you something, combination. Let me tell you something's a metamorphic. If something would have happened to you on this show and we go to the slo read we're doing it, Boom, there it is. He there's too much palm. Man. You gotta help me out though. No, I have no problem with it. I have no problem with it. I didn't notice it. I mean I pointed it out as soon as it happened.

I was like, oh, I love it. Nothing, I love it. Man. People need to understand. I go. I talked about it yesterday on on the Post Game Show. But there's this, this is work right and these are actually was a pre game show your it's worked, right, we're this, this is this is work. We're co workers, right, we're co workers. And at a certain at a certain point, there's there's certain jobs that you have, and there's certain environments you

have that these are your co workers. And then there's certain jobs in a certain environment is where they become your brothers or sisters, right, depending on whatever environment you're in. And so there that was his brother, right, So when you got people talking bad about your brother, right, when you have something your brother just got released from the team, right at a drop of a drop of a dime, right, you didn't no no expectation whatsoever, Um, no anticipation of

that happening. They cut your brother, and then all of a sudden people start bad mouthing him. You're gonna feel some type of way about that, of course. So you saw that in an interview with LV at practice on whatever day was Friday or whatever he was emotionally he was ticked off. He was ticked off. And when you care about somebody, that's the response that you should get.

So I was happy to see LV make that play swiping into the too the lone Wolf, and you talk about the gold line stand for Micah and the tackle that he made. What about the tackle that LV made, right, that's what That's where the whole thing, the swiping hole came out. So yeah, and a tackle for lossit I think it was the only tackle Philoscity Cowboys had in the game. If I'm not mistaken, I'm looking at it right now. I don't have it up and yeah, I

mean and it wasn't Again, it wasn't perfect defensively. You know, they're still giving up too many big plays in the passing game. Dan Quinn talked about that last week. Darius Tony, he you couldn't stop him. Um, he stopped himself. But you know, they give up you move. It was they gave up well, I mean division games will do that, yep, you know, but giving up past plays a thirty eight, thirty five, twenty eight, twenty six. They gotta they gotta

work on that. But you know it's good that it's not perfect in week five and you're four and one, you know, m I love the way that you just put that. All right, We're about to see that Shannon race speed. Whenever I get up, I'm going to get the helmet and the smelly stickers time when we come back, it's well, you're gonna be timed on the break heck month, you take over if I'm a little late, and then I right back in. All right, all right, we'll be

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little out of breath? You pull hamstring? No, my foot hurts though I didn't realize that. Yeah I'm not in my running shoes, I guess, but yeah, no. So it is a smelly sticker Monday. It also was a forty Burger again for the Dallas Cowboys when I brought some free burgers for everybody. You know somebody, Okay, you can't eat it, you got you can't eat it, but you can do that later. Don't tip me, don't tip me. You got to march fake competition we're having. I can't

eat it. You can't eat it, but you can give it the foot else. Okay, Okay, I can't even do it. Okay, but yeah, I'm giving out free water burger coupons. Isaiah. I know you don't eat meat, but you can give it to give somebody I like the like their breakfast. I will. I will use this. There you go, I will use it as well. And I don't worry. I've got CBS in the back. I got you one, all right, Smelly sticker time. I don't know what Isaiah is showing on his iPad, and I do not want to even know. Honestly,

I don't know. I don't want to know this. Uh that search history between the two? All right, heck my Harrison, I'll let you go first. Who is your smelly sticker forty win over the Giants? Well, my smelly sticker goes to the guy that I believed in from the start. Now, I'm just joking, man. Look Abe, a lot of criticism been throwing your way, and over the last four games you're if we don't care about PFF, but your grade has been going up every single week, and you finally

got yourself up. Pick six and the band was playing on your way into the end zone. So my main go, smelly stick is gonna go to my man Ab nice. I like it. By the way, that pick six was like probably the biggest reaction I've ever had in studio because I was typing out a tweet that said I needed defensive touchdown for my score prediction to be right, and then as I was typing it out, I'd hear Kaden in my IFB before the postgame show, he goes,

there you go, there you go, Kyle. And I turn around and I see Ab go into the house and I was like yeah, and I ran around the studio pretty hyped about it. So I got my score prediction right, and you called it. Yeah, everything about your gut feeling, it was fantastic. It was pretty dope. All right, my smelly sticker, all right, it's gonna be there's a little hard candy right here. You know, hard candy they don't have expiration dates, you know what I'm saying. They're very durable.

And uh, I want to give this this smelly snicker to my guy Dak Prescott because I too have had a very traumatic injury, and I too understand a mental strain and tough, toughness and resilience that it really requires to come back from that. You overcame it. Good job, smelly sticker. Nice nice. I like that one a lot. Good job. Everybody claps for Dak Prescott. All right, Rob, I've got a pineapple on a bicycle. That's cute. Nice. I feel like I accidentally give you the pineapples every week.

I like them peples. I want to give this. Can I give this to Nick Saban? Is that weird? Can I do this? Wow? Can I give it to Nick Saban slash Trayvon Diggs? No, this isn't about this. Oh I thought you were being no navage about A and M beating Alabama. No, that's sorry about the lost coach. Sorry, not sorry. If it wasn't for Nick Saban, Trayvon Diggs would not be a cornerback in this league. He talked about it last night. He's I didn't know this, he said.

When I found out they were moving me at Bama from receiver to corner, I was crying, he said. He called. He called his brothers Stefan and was upset about it. And I asked him what was Nick selling point? And he said, look, they're looking for guys with your body type in the NFL to play corner and you have rare ball skills to do it, and he bought into it. And now he's going next week against New England with a chance to tie the NFL record for most games

in a row with it with a pick six. Coach Saban, nice job, coach, that's actually really really cool. I'll let it. I'll let it slide. I thought even robs on the Texas and m Way, that's really cool. Sixty by them next year. Just wait, just wait, I feel bad for Mississippi State. That's who's got him next. There you go, just mark event mark number seven with an assist from coach Saban. Okay, I might just put Saban across it. Okay, all right, I've got a peach because Dalton Schultz is

just peachy. Because Dalton Schultz, again, he gets under some a little bit. I mean, he's been a solid player. He hasn't done anything over the top, he hasn't done anything overly spectacular. But whenever you need a guy to make a play and you need a target, Dalton Schultz has usually been that man through the first five weeks of the year. So number eighty six gets a peach. I like that, as he's been like that the year.

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