Talkin' Cowboys: Adjustments & Predictions

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on Thursdays and Fridays will stay at nine thirty. For all of those of you who like to watch live throughout the week Monday through Wednesday will stay at nine thirty Thursday Friday, nine fifteen. But we are talking cowboys. Kyle Yeoman's heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips and Isaiah stand back. And I see Isaiah has updated the background. He's got both jerseys up there. One of those I might be wearing if Ezekiel Elliott doesn't go for one hundred all

purpose yards. But the other one, it's not gonna be what Isaiah wears. I have a different thing in mine that's on its way after I bought it on Amazon yesterday that he could be sporting. Oh oh, I've got I've got some mystery met Yeah, that's exactly what it is. I ordered it, ordered it on Amazon esterday. I know

what you know. He's the bat now, Kyle. I know we were going back and forth yesterday on Twitter about whether or not it was whether or not it was one hundred yards in total or a hundred yards rushing. Remember you're scared, right, No, no, no, no, no, I'm scared as I know you don't know who a stand back in. We don't get scared, O your Kyle, your original statement on the show yesterday. We can we can replay, it was Zekiel Elli was gonna get a one hundred

and fifty yards. I said, nah, he won't get a hundred fifty yards rushing. You're like, yeah, he's gonna go off and I said nah, I said he's Now, I say, I don't see him getting a hundred yards rushing. Uh in this game? Okay, because they're gonna be eight men in the box, I said, they should be able to throw the ball. And then later on on Twitter, I saw, as we're having discussions with with some of our some

of our viewers, that you switched. You changed the verbiage a little bit to change the verbiage to a hundred yards total, not a hundred yards rushing. So I was backing up on this. Are you backing up on this? Am? I backing up on this. Neither way. I'm still gonna make sounds like the either way, I'm gonna the bet. But I do think the verbiage was one hundred yards, not rushing yards. But you know what the fact of the matter is, I do think Ezekiel Elliott will have

a hundred yards. Let us know in the comments to all of those listening live, let us know if you think Ezekiel Elliott versus this defense could get one hundred yards. You look at the history of what he's been able to do. He's had a ninety seven yard game, He's had one hundred and twenty plus yard game. In two games, he's had two hundred and twenty four yards and forty

carries against the Seattle defense. And that was the legion of boom, not necessarily the legion of zoom, as in zoom meetings, as in coronavirus, as in twenty nineteen, not zooming to the football. This isn't the same defense. So either way, I think Ezekiel Elliott has one hundred rushing yards total on Sunday, that's fine, We'll change it to that. Yeah, we'll change it to that. And that's the thing. The

Cowboys could win this game. And I still might be wearing a Seahawks jersey on Monday, but it's in Isaiah stand back Seahawks jersey, So I guess that's fine. Now, very tight. That'll be nice. Night's nice and tight like a halter tip. I'm gonna have to work out all

three days this weekend. They get ready for it. One of the big things though, yesterday coming out of the Cowboys side of things as they enter into the week is actually on the defensive side of the football, and we've talked a lot about the coverage in a secondary against these Seattle wide receivers, and so I don't want to go too far into this, but Rob yesterday something very encouraging finally on an injury front, as Trayvon Diggs

was participating in practice. He was a full participant, and really a lot of optimism even on that defensive side of the football for Tank Lawrence heading into the weekend as well. Rob, Yeah, we've got some good news, right I think Diggs I don't. I don't think there was ever that much concern about it. But as they brought up a good point, you never want a rookie starter not practicing during the week, but obviously they felt like you needed a day of you have and with a

full practice they don't. They don't practice on Friday. They've got that regeneration day today and then have a short practice on Saturday. But also looks like all systems go there. Tank Lawrence did the rehab yesterday with the the knee injury, and Tyrann Smith Mike McCarthy was on the fan this morning and said, if he could do something on Saturday,

he's got a shot to play. So it looks like, oh optimism for three top guys they're they're counting on on Sunday hopefully, How big of a shot and injury report, man, how big of a shot in the arm would that knee? Heck? Though, if the three those three guys were on the injury report but are able to play this weekend, I mean that we need him. That's that's the bottom line, And I mean, I'm sure that's a falsil long freak out for all of Cowboy Nation once we saw Digs on

the injury report. So it's really good to hear that he did get those reps in. But I agree with Isaiah on that. Man, you never like to see a rookie who definitely needs to get every rep that that's available to him, especially this week with the assignment that he's gonna have with DK. Isaiah is at the same feeling that you get is if you get these guys back all of a sudden, your chances of closing the gap on what is a favorable Seahawks team is starting

to close. I don't think so. I think I think this is gonna be and this is gonna be a shootout. You know, I think, you know, it's always I think every time we say it's going to be a shootout, I believe that ends up being a low scoring defensive game somehow, some way. But I do believe this is gonna be a shootout. I'm not impressed by either defense right now. Honestly, I'm impressed by Seattle's offense. And I mean, and obviously Dallas has the potential to be a very

dangerous offense. UM. They were able to put up crazy yards last week just because of the situation they were in. UM, but both offenses are potent. UM, it's really gonna you know, we have to wait and see what these defenses show up and do so in Diggs being in their digs, not being in their digs. Wasn't that that big of an impact last week against the number one receiver in

the league. So it's kind of hard to match that up. UM. You know, there there is a drop off with DK and lock It, but it's a you know, DK is a lot more physical receiver than Julio is. So that's where I see the issue being with Digs being on injury report, not on an injury port. It really doesn't matter. If he steps out there and tries to press against DK,

it might represent some problems. This is why Kyle, I think maybe you're gonna be wearing that standback jersey because if it come on Rob, we already know where if it if it is a track meet, if it is a shootout, They're gonna try to keep Zeke involved. But if the Cowboys can't fall behind by double digits again and expect Zeke to be to eat and be Zeke, Zeke's always gonna be capable of eating. But I just wonder if it's going to be that type of game

for him. We'll just have to see. I mean, the Cowboys wanted to be they want to ride him all throughout the second half, but but it's going to depend on how well they can try to contain Russell Wilson. I don't say stop him, contain him because he's gonna make plays well. And you also look at the lack of effectiveness that he's had in the passing game again Seattle in the past, and I really do think he'll have an uptick in that as well as the yardage.

And he's had the rushing yards. I already mentioned the stat to twenty four on forty carries, but he's only had seven receptions for thirty two yards in those two games as well, so he hasn't necessarily been a factor when it comes to catching the football out of the backfield and being that checkdown option. I think that's gonna come a lot this week in twenty eighteen. We also have to say that he had that illegal touching penalty that negated a touchdown. So yeah, so we got to

kind of clue that in the numbers as well. But look, man, I anticipate Zeke havin a big game. But Rob, I want to ask you how much credence did you give to Jaylen Smith saying the defense is going to be a simplified version of the of the defense going into Seattle. Yeah, that one, And it started with with Mike McCarthy's press conference yesterday where he was asked about, you know, mistakes and mental errors and he said, we had way too many on defense throughout the entire team and maybe we

need to scale some things back. To me that that was a little different than what what Mike Nolan said earlier in the week that they haven't really used all of their capabilities on defense because they're trying to you know, supplement as they go because of the lack of time

on the field. So I don't know which one it is, to be honest with you, I mean, I think, but I think J Jalen did say to your point that a smaller playbook might help, might give guys because maybe they're asking guys to just try to do a little bit too much. Just the volume of trying to put this all together on the fly has got to be difficult.

And I think we've said it throughout the week. They need to try to just keep getting better weeks and the week, and maybe simplifying it a little bit will help. Everson Griffin was on with us a couple days ago and said, i'm a said, I'm a three point man. Okay, I'm a I'm a three point stance guy. And that's that's one way to simplify it for one of your defensive linemen is if they're not comfortable in a certain stance,

let them let them do what they're comfortable with. And maybe that's going to help from a technique standpoint, because I think I think when when you have that two point stance, as I understand it, you know, it helps with your eyes, it helps you read what's on going in the backfield, but maybe your technique suffers a little bit and you're not you're not as in tune with

certain misdirection plays or things of that nature. So so Rob, it sounds like you and Hecker are starting to kind of insinuate that there might be a little bit of discontent within this defense right now, within this organization, because what it sounds like is that you're getting mixed reports. And Mike Nolan, we know what he wants to do. He wants to go out there and fly by fly by his waist man. But then you have you know, he's he's forcing these guys that be in this stand

up you know, stand up start. But then you also have you know, his guys coming out and saying that they really want to be in a three point stance. I don't do this stand up stuff. That's that's really what that's really the translation. And then you have Mike McCarthy and jas minnisaying that they're going to scale back. So it sounds like there's a lot of things that

are going on. You're starting you're starting to hear a little some guys that are unhappy and then not pleased with the positions that are defensive schemes that are being out there. I'm just saying, how please help us. Okay, here we go, Isaiah. I know, I know you're coming from a certain specific area in this regard, and I know you're trying to stir up things. You're stating facts. Sure, there's a lot of mixed reports that have come over

the long period of time. There's this thing that I know Cowboys fans haven't been used to over period of times, at least especially over the last ten years. But it's called a thing called in season adjustments. In season adjustments, when things don't go your way, let's figure out a way to make it go your way. In the past, we've had coaching staff that goes into a scheme and falls into a scheme. Hold up, heck, I'm not done yet, sir. Whenever we get who I'm about to say, here's the thing.

Mike McCarthy talked about it this morning on the fan as well, and he talked about the two point versus three point stance, and he said, sure, we're gonna scale it back a little bit, We're gonna go really with what our players want to do. And if that's first and second down, going out of a two point stance because there's more motion on the lines scrimmage, there's more to get your eyes on, there's more to look at.

And then on third down, getting in that three point stance and letting the dogs go after the quarterback and put pressure on an opposing offense. That's what's gonna happen. It doesn't have to be a set in stone system. You have to fit to our system. I'm Mike Nolan. This is how you're gonna do it, just to the players, and I think that's what the Cowboys are doing now and they've seen that through the first two weeks of

the season. There's my thank you for coming into my tax I mean, yeah, yeah, you pose a great valid point. I don't know if it's valid, but I'll respect your opinion that valid. McCarthy said it, so so as I'm just saying, as a defensive coordinator that Mike McCarthy appointed, who was a defensive coordinator, irrest Hey, Mike McCarthy appointed a dude by the name of Mike known and as

a defensive coordinator right, rob correct. Okay. So he's in charge of everything that happens on his defense, correct, yeah, correct, Okay, So he put he put forth the system that he wants to implement on this defense. Correct, regardless of what guys are used to doing, regardless of what guys are comfortable are doing, this is the defense we're running, correct, correct, Okay, okay, okay.

And through these first two games, now you're starting to hear discontent with the players as to running the system that he really wants to run because we haven't seen we have not seen a bunch of coverages. We have not seen a bunch of blitzes. We have not seen a bunch of different looks in terms of the D line and a different personnel groupings. We have seen pretty basic defense. And so you're hearing now the head coach saying, Hey, we're gonna scale back from a basic system that we're

already or running. We're already not doing the things that Mike known On wants to do, so we're gonna we're gonna pull back even more. Oh and by the way, now players are starting to come out and say, man, this this two point thing, this ain't for me. I'm a three point guy, I'm just saying those are little things to start brewing. They start brewing, Isaiah, you've heard the term, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. What's broke, So you gotta fix it. And fall is a game

of adjustments, and you have to make those. Yeah, you have to make those adjustments. And if it comes down to playing to a guy's strength, whether it be three point two point, whatever that is, you have got to let your dogs do what they do back hunt and we look you of all people know that, and so we're gonna make those adjustments. All the defense because if they're looking at the at the tape in the film of those past games, they realize that there are a

lot of blown assignments and miscommunication. I e. The Atlanta game where they're tight end just pretty much walked into the end zone and that was a miscommunication. Clearly, they're trying to fix those screen problems that they had against LA because they know they're getting gashed for those big plays. So the defense and Mike Nolan, I'm sure he's just trying to put these guys in the best place to do to make those plays. But if they don't do it after he said, fies and and dumbs down, not

when they dumped down and dolls it down. On the defense, he's gonna rip these guys a new orfice. So just know that he's gonna give it. He's putting them in position, but they have got to prove that they're ready to take that next step as a defense. I agree, Hey, I agree, I just I agree. I just put it out there. I'm just putting out some facts. I know Cole doesn't like when I throw that out there. That's not a fact though, because it's not a fact, it's

just a weird observation. They tried it, Mike, mister Nolan's way right now, they're trying get the player's way correct and if it doesn't work, Hick, what happens, They gonna rip them. It's gonna rip them. But that is part of it. That's part of Mike Nolan's job though, right Like if it's not where if a player is not comfortable, and look Jalen said yesterday, we're all on the same page here. It's just part of discussion on Okay, what's

not working. Some of it is very simple corrections like pre snap pre snap alignments, like got guy's just not in the right spot pre snap and so but I'm with you, Isaiah, I don't think. I don't think it's been crazy complex what we've seen on film. Um. But that that being said, we're only five weeks since training camp and you're you're you're absolute correct. I'm just saying as a former player, I just I know how much you hold back the things that you want to say, um,

to protect the team. So if I was out there and I was playing for the Cowboys right now and I say, hey, I don't I'm a I'm a go route runner. I don't run. I don't run over routes, cats would be like, what you know what I'm saying that. I'm just saying that that's how it comes across. Yeah. But there, but there are given players, you know, options to do. I know Tom's Jim Tom sewell d line coach. He was asked in camp about Tank being in the two point stance. He said, look, I never I never

told him to do it. We gave him the option and said how did you try it around? See see what you think? And I guess he liked it. But if it's affecting certain things pre snapper then maybe you

need to go back to what you're coupled with. I don't think there's any problem problem with that, um and and the thing about it is like they've had they've had drives where they've been productive late in the game, and I think there is some things to build on, but overall it's just there's just been it's been too sloppy in points. Yeah, and they got to get back to that. And man, we we've talked about it. They got to get pressure. However, whatever stand you want, one, two, three, four,

five points stand get some pressure on Russell Wilson. Sunday he stands. And in the comments section, our boy g made a very fantastic point. Whenever we're looking at the defense and we're really upset about the fact that they gave up thirty nine points against Atlanta, really the offense

spot at them twenty four. They really gave up the majority of the offense, or they give up the majority of the points off of turnovers, and really, uh, right at the beginning of the game, and they spot on them twenty to start and then a couple points later on in the game. So really the defense had some some positive things. Like Rob just said, heading out of

that Atlanta game. But you're gonna you've got a tough task on your hand going into Russell Wilson and VP Caliber Russ at the moment in terms of what he's doing on that side of the football. When we come back, we're gonna look at the offensive side. Can blocking help this offense from a non offensive line perspective? And should there be improvement in that regard. We're going to debate about it and continue on when we come back. You're

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Now we'll go at nine fifteen. Mike McCarthy's press conference takes president and we will move up in order to accommodate. But that's where we are right now. We're in segment number two. Glad you're with us here on Dallas Cowboys dot com. And two more things We mentioned that Mike McCarthy interview is actual a very well done interview from a Sean and RJ's side of things. On the one of five point three the fan the flagship of the Cowboys,

and uh, they asked him the question about Tank. They said, hey, what do you think about Tank? And where is he at in his progression and Mike McCarthy. His response goes, who who is who is Tank? And they were like tank Tank Lawrence. To Marcus Lawrence, he goes, that's his nickname. It's Tank Lawrence. That's he was like, where did that come from? He was like, back in my day, they had two nicknames for everybody, so I didn't even learn them.

So I just thought that was interesting that the head coach did not know that it's Tank Lawrence and and that's the that go to. That was definitely a bit of sarcasm right there. I know he's he straight up did not know. Yeah, it was I really don't think. I absolutely don't think you knew either that or can we go give him impossible? Can we go give him an oscar? Like can we go give Mike McCarthy an oscar for a radio interview? Because it like if it wasn't real and he didn't or he did know and

he faked it. He tricked me pretty well. I listened to the whole thing, and I don't think he had it. He also he also talked about the fumbling in the first half in the first quarter of the game yesterday. They asked him, what do you do as a coach, what's the first thing you say to your players, Because you can't really say, hey, hold onto the ball a little bit more of their guys. You can't necessarily coach him up that way. He said, two things is all I can do as a coach, And it's really the

same throughout the game. He said, I could say really bad words and I can pray. And that's the two ways that Mike McCarthy handled the first quarter situation on Sunday against the Falcons. But moving into Seattle week and we're looking at really ways that this offense can improve. They found a rhythm, especially in that second half against Atlanta on Sunday. But one of the things that has been sticking out to me on film is blocking outside

of the offensive lineman. You've got Blake Bell. You've got Blake Jarwin or excuse me, Dalton Schultznoble Jarwin, and you've also got Ceedee Lamb and Ezekiel Elliott. And really, from a Zeke standpoint, we'll start with him first. He saw a much larger role in terms of protecting Dak Prescott in the passing game instead of maybe being a part of the passing game like he was a couple of weeks ago, or at least in week one of the season.

But heckmo, when you look at this offense, how much of a huge and crucial role is it that Ezekiel Elliot's able to block some of those linebackers. I think that's one of his strong suits. I think, other than I think he missed Dion Jones barely last weekend, he was able to hit Dak's arm and deflect the pass. But I think that's always been one of the Ezekiel Elliot's strong suits. And look, with two undrafted free agents at tackle, you're gonna have to give this offensive line

as much help as you can. And whether that be chipping guys are taking on a linebacker, I definitely trust Zeke in that responsibility. Yeah, absolutely correct, heck that he has to do that in this position right now. Until you get your dogs back in Smith and Collins, most of those guys get back, he'll have the ability. He'll be enabled to be able to get out and to run some routes on some of these linebackers, wrestling swing routes, do some isolation type plays. But until then, he has

to sit in there. He has to chip and this week, he has to lick out for that one Jamal Adams that's gonna be coming down and coming off the edge because he will blitz probably at least three to four times this game. Yeah. Absolutely, And from the tight end perspective, you know, Blake Bell was signed in part because he's he's a good in line blocker. Dalton Schultz can do some h back stuff, but you can pretty much move him anywhere. So I think that's we saw them helping

in the run game in the second half. I thought also pass blocking, helping on those edges and Zeke, you know, Marshall falk Is his idol, you know, growing up in Saint Louis. That's the guy he tried to pattern himself after.

A complete player. And you know, when he's not in the running back meetings, if the other running backs are in special teams meetings, he goes and hang out in the other skill position rooms, quarterback room, trying to you know, merge everybody's thoughts together in terms of what his assignments are to try to help in some of those blocking situations. So it's he's one of the best in the league

at it. That's it's it's part. It's one thing people probably don't talk about enough why he's a top, you know whatever, two three running back in the league, because he really can do it all. And I think I'm really looking forward to that, to that matchup though, I know, Kyle, I'm really looking forward to Jamal Adams coming down hot and hot from the safety position coming in and Zeke and him just colliding. It's gonna be like two dog

on rams hitting each other. I'm looking forward to seeing that well when we saw it last year in the New York Jets game as well. But you also got to add Bobby Wagner into that mix as well. I think there's two guys that Ezekiel Elliot's gonna have to go up against in terms of blocking. He tried to do so in Week one against a certain Aaron Donald

and that ended up becoming a viral video instead. Do you think he took maybe some exception to that, the fact that he was tossed around by Aaron Donald and the video went vinyl? And then he came back. He had a much better blocking week in Week two than he did in Week one, and now he gets a chance to go up against another dog. Hey, when Jack Martin gets tossed around two exactly. I mean that's what

he does. There's there's just there's some there's just there's just some physical specimens in this world, the same way that we talk about DK mecals and physical specimen. Uh, it's the same thing with a with Aaron Donald, he's just not human. I don't know where he was. He wasn't born, he was created. When you get disrespected by somebody like that, you just chop it up to the game, like, hey, he is what he is. That's that dude. There's nothing

you can physically do. Hey, Kyle, you gotta go back and watch a guy by the name of Reggie White. He has one arm, three hundred and twenty pound offensive linemen off their feet. So because maybe take any exception to that, that's just God just created some guy stronger than others. And that's really what we saw. And Zeke had to go up against him. But on the other side,

really the outside ceedee Lamb. There were a couple plays where the blocking and the physicality that we saw on film at Oklahoma at the college level didn't necessarily translating. It came back to bite the Cowboys a couple of times on Sunday, And I really like what Ceedee Lamb brings to the table as a blocker. I just haven't seen it yet, Isaiah. When you're a new wide receiver in the NFL, is that one of the tougher things to adjust to is actually finding a way to provide

some blocking on the outside. It's definitely something that you have to pick up. And you have to remember when he left. When he left college, he was confident as all get out. So there was nothing on the field that was taking place that he didn't feel fully one hundred confident in. Now you're stepping into the NFL and these are all grown men and CD is actually substantially smaller and a lot more leaner than I than I imagine that he would be. So he looks pretty pretty frail,

has nest no indictment on his actual overall strength. I don't know how strong Hee is, but I mean these dudes he's going in there trying to block. Now, there there's some dudes and they lift weights for a living. They actually get paid to do so, now it's not just a class that they have to go to. So you know, it takes a special mindset to do. So you know, you think about guys like hines Ward. Hines Ward was not the most physically imposing guy. He wasn't

the most athletic human being in the world. But guess what his mentality was to go in there, I'm gonna knock your head off, right, So you have to you have to develop that. And once you developed that, then he could add that to his game at this level, and then all the other things that he does will open up. What do you think his confidence level is right now? Isaiah? Just one hundred yard game in his second game, I'm already said yesterday his second game of

his career. He had one hundred yard game, and it really, you know, kind of elevated his confidence. I mean, and Dak going to him, you know, in a late situation like that to try to go win the game. I mean, that's he might be ahead of schedule, you know, in terms of what he could do for this offense. Yeah, I think they're finding ways to get him the ball, and I think that he's you can see his swag start to him last week. You know, he did his little snotty nose whatever that was, you know, so he

you know, he's getting more confident. But you know, but there are the other elements of this game. You know, he should going into this game. He should be confident coming off of that game. And also the fact that he's the matchup that he's probably going to have. He should be able to take care of that um at

a relatively easy, you know, easy level. But you know, the other aspects that you guys brought up, the blocking and things of that nature, that's going to be required to really, uh, you know, initiate this game the way in which the Cowboys want to. He's gonna have to get dig in there and dig out Jamal Adams. He's going to get in there and get KG right sometimes. So he's gonna have to get physical. And you know, that's the aspect that he really has to become more

confident in. You know. And one of the things you mentioned this is so picky on my side. This is such a picky thing when when it comes to football. I know some fans will agree here though. And the fact that the little snot thing that that that cde Lamb did. I liked the swagger. I like the fact that he did it, but I like the fact that he only does it in a big moment and it may change. He may start doing it every time he catches a first down, and that's cool, that's fine. Zeke

does it. You see Jaylen Smith swipe every time he makes a tackle after like a four yard game, it's fine. But whenever Ceedee Lamb does it, he only has done it once and it was in a massive part of the football game where he made a huge catch and a huge moment, and that's where the swagger was. Once he did it, it was like, Okay, here we go. It wasn't a oh, there's Ceede Lamb doing his thing again.

That was a we're feeling it right now. Let's roll where the Dallas Cowboys and we're about to make this comeback happen. So I kind of respected that you you were, you were feeling that way. You were feeling that way about CD before the game even started. We know you be before the game even started. He had got I gotta get me a T shirt? Can we make some of those Cowboys pro shot by the way of the new shirt Cowboys pro shot? But I just want to make sure and plug them so we can get some

Seede Lamb shirts. But one really that's that's that's thank you. Thank you. I've got your back coming for you. I forgot to take his bag yesterday. I feel really bad about it. Um okay, how convenient. Now I do have a really good stat for you. When it comes to Ceedee Lamb, he mentioned how it's his first one hundred yard game. Of course, Uh, he's tied for the fastest Cowboy rookie receiver to ever have a hundred yard game. It only took two games for him. Mean that tied

franchise record. The other guy who did it and Rob, you may be the only one that knows this name. Heckma might know this name, Isaiah. I know you don't know this name, Cornell Burbage. Have you ever heard that name Cornell Burbage? I don't I have, oh, Rob Okay Rob nineteen eighty seven, He went for three receptions one hundred and ten yards as a replacement player in the lockout season against Philadelphia. For the rest of his career, he played two seasons, had sixteen receptions one hundred and

ninety yards. He had one game where he went off for three for one ten and it was his second career game. Hopefully, Ceedee Lamb doesn't fit that same fate completely different scenarios, But it is just kind of an interesting stat that the only other guy to do it other than Ceedee Lamb is Cornell Burbage in Cornell Bourbage. Yeah, that's the first Cornell Burbage I think this show has ever had in its entirety. But we're gonna take a break when we come back. Prediction time. It's Friday. Say

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edition of Talking Cowboys. Glad you're with us as we continue on here in the final show before the Cowboys take on the c Seahawks coming up this Sunday, three twenty five. Joe Buck Troy Aikman on the call on Fox. It'll be a fun one regardless, and I think it'll be extremely high scoring. I think both defenses are suspect. I think both offenses are pretty fantastic, and I think it's gonna be a race to forty ultimately. But send us your predictions. We're about to give our own, but

here's some fan predictions. Initially, our guy John Leacrace says, and I love this prediction. Two quarterbacks combined for nine hundred total yards of offense. Cowboys win thirty four thirty one Rob has some exception to that. What Rob kind of with Isaiah. Yeah, when we think it's gonna be these video game numbers, it never seems to be. Now, remember the Saints game with the Cowboys a couple of years ago. Saints are gonna put fifty on them, and

I think they had like seventeen. Now I'm with you, I think they're gonna score points, but you know it's not gonna be first to sixty m first to say, oh, he said thirty four thirty one. He didn't even give anybody forty burger, which is now supposed to be the norm around these parts. Dallas thirty one, Seattle twenty eight. That comes from Carter looking down the list a little

bit here. Cowboys thirty seven, Seahawks thirty five. That's from at we Making Noise, so a fun one there from we Make a Noise a two point win in a very odd score. West Oak Lane gives us thirty one, twenty four. Cowboys. Our guy Tom says, Cowboys twenty seven, twenty three. There's a lot of Cowboys picks here, guys. I know you're Cowboys fans, but are we Are we

being realistic here and keep sending in those predictions. But we're gonna go to Heckma here first, and he's gonna start us off Heckma, can the Cowboys get a win? And do you agree with the assessment that some of the listeners have been throwing out there right now? Well, first of all, let's talk about our standings as a show, right, Okay, you're the only one that's two And no, I wasn't gonna brack right, but Iah, no, no, I just want to bring up no, I want to bring up facts here.

I want to ease into this. Isaiah. You're one in one, all right? And Rob is one in one? What is Rob one in one? Yeah? Everybody's one and one except okay? Cool? Well, look, you know you know, and I'm gonna have to say it playing and say it with my chest. Now you know, I'm going with the Cowboys in this game, and I'm gonna start with the fact that Amari Cooper should be

one pissed off individual. And I'll tell you why. Going into this game, everyone's talking about DK mccalf and I understand, eight catches, one hundred and eighty seventy yards, he's a big play machine. But I'm sorry this this guy a Mary Cooper is just quietly going about his business one more time. Sixteen sixteen excuse me? Yeah, sixteen catches for one hundred and eighty one yards. Half of those catches

are moving the chains. And he is the guy that we know has the big playability in this Cowboys office. His foot, you know, he said now this week he's running full speed because his foot is feeling better. He has an opportunity versus this Seahawks secondary to really take the top off of it. And I think that's gonna make the difference in this game, is what Amari Cooper does against Griffin on the outside because you know they can't get him any help. And uh, I say, the

Cowboys win this game. Twenty seven Cowboys thirty five, twenty seven. It's no surprise Hack goes with the Boys three straight weeks. Well they let him down, Isaiah, who you got? Oh wow? Heck my, that was interesting. What's going on? He's thinking thinking? No, no, no, no thinking required here. Um, I'm a fact based individual. Now everybody knows that. You know, I'm loyal to my soil. In terms of Seattle, that's family. I don't care if the dog on Sattle. SuperSonics we're out there playing on

the field. I'm still you know, a Sonics is my Seattle of my life. However, I live in Dallas and I and I respect the heck out of the organization because Jerry took a big risk on me and I'm loving for life. So Cowboys always got my heart as well. But when it comes down to this real life thing, okay, I don't I don't sway one way or other. I don't care who my who, my loyalty goes with. Seattle is a better team right now, right now, they're playing

out of their better team. The Dallas is a better team. On paper, Seattle is playing better. Seattle will win this game thirty four to twenty four, even without the twelfth man. Kyle, you know, I think you've got an advantage going oh here, I'll go now. If you want to go next, you want to protect that, you want to protect that leads? Fine, No, that's fine, Yes you do that's fine, I'll go next.

I'll go next. So here's the thing. Here's the thing with me whenever it comes to picking this game, is I want to be the guy who's who supports the Cowboys. I'm I'm wearing the shirt. I'm I've grew up a fan, I work in the building. I really enjoy what I do, But I also have an obligation to the fans to give you the prediction that I actually think will happen, and to try and go three and oh and keep

that undefeated streak alive. Whenever you look at this game, you're looking at injuries for the Cowboys, you're looking at it's you're looking at so many different things. On the defensive side of the football. When it comes to Trayvon Diggs being banged up, how are you gonna match up with Trayvon Diggs, no Cheetah Awoosier, no Anthony Brown against DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett in that entire offense led by Russell Wilson. On the offensive side of the football, You're

still unsure about your offensive line. You really are. But with that being said, I've got a gut feeling, and I don't really know how to explain that gut feeling. It's it's a mystery, meat, bubble guts type of nervousness. But I also think it's a game I think the Cowboys can win sneakily. I think this is a game that everything's going the opposite direction, but they're riding the momentium off of a second half. They're found a rhythm on offense. I'm gonna pick the Cowboys to upset the

Seahawks and get a victory here. And this isn't a Homer pick. This is legitimately my thought process. New England lost by five. I don't think New England's a good football team. I don't think Cam Newton is that great of a quarterback right now. Proved me wrong, Cam, because he has so far continue to prove me wrong. But a five point loss to the Seahawks good. I think the Cowboys have a chance to win. I think the Cowboys can win this game. Hello, Hello, Hi, is it?

It's on? It's right, you heard me right, I'm picking the Cowboys. It's gonna be close. Thirty one Cowboy. We don't we don't. Heck, we don't have enough time to digest everything that he just said in a one statement. You see, Ahi, he prefaced a lot of statements like you know, I'm not a Homer, and I got it some Cowboys. You think he's going one way, it goes the other good? I mean, oh good, oh good? All right, we don't have enough time to go through all the

stuff college to say go ahead, Rob, I don't. I'm gonna try to. I'm gonna try to tie Kyle up by week four because I'm gonna sorry, heck, I'm gonna go with Seattle here. I think I think the Cowboys

definitely are gonna be competitive in this game. And I and although it didn't work out with the Rams in week one, I think there might be some kind of confidence level for a rogue team going into what's normally a really hostile environment and knowing they don't have to deal with that all that noise offensively, I think they're gonna be able to settle in. I think they're gonna play well. But Russell Wilson, he's Mike for MVP this year. He's playing at at an all elite, all Universe level

right now. And while I think the defense has things they can build on, and I think they're gonna get better and better, at this point, I gotta go with with the best player in the league right now at home making enough plays to win the game. So I'll go Seattle. Twenty twenty four. We're a house divided, we are a house decisions with your mind and not your heart. Run I'm like the way you make sound decisions with my mind the whole time. I just think the Cowboys

are gonna win. I'm the only one that's two and oh here, I feel like I have some some positive Once you get your second way, you can start talking in next week. And hey, some of the fans on this, on this, on this chat right now are blowing it up. They're saying, oh, we know who Kyle's gonna pick. He's gonna pick the Seahawks. He's saying, it's not it's not gonna be positive and true. No, I'm thinking the Cowboys thirty one. Not so fast. I pulled the lead corso

on you. But that's gonna do it for our week of talking Cowboys. We hope you had as much fun as we did breaking down this matchup. This is gonna be a fantastic game. It really will be. I think both teams are very good. I think even if the Cowboys come out on the losing side, you're probably gonna have positives heading into week four and really an easier, lighter sc edule over the next couple of weeks. This is a benchmark game for the Cowboys and it's a

huge thing for them if they get a win. If not, you learn what you can do up against one of the better teams in the NFC. By the way, our coverage throughout the weekend on Dallas Cowboys dot Com, Isaiah Stanback and I will be handling the pregame duties. Pregame live an hour before kickoff. At three twenty five is the kickoffs, so we'll go live right around two thirty two twenty five on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Stick with us. Rob Phillips has his coverage all the way through. Heck

Ma Harrison will be back on Monday. We'll be back in breakdown exactly what happened over the course of the weekend. But for heck Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand Back, and for Chris Beam in the back up, Kyle Yeoman's saying, so long, let's go Cowboys. We'll see you after the game on Monday. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.