Talkin' Cowboys: Autopsy Report

List colts. They take the horse shoe, they shove it into the sand and a massive win four of the Dallas Cowboys on Week thirteen, Sunday Night Football. Welcome in everybody in the SWBC studios at the Star in Frisco. Clokside, I say his stamp bag, Patrick, no water, That's definitely not wrong that you were going with that one. Look the look on your face when I stopped stop. Oh

my god, I was talking. You know, you play horse shoes, you throw it into a sane yeah sure, yeah, And they stuffed it in those beamer head his hand right over the dog. He had the mute button ready to roll. Super polls, Oh, how's everybody doing? Fantastic? Are you? Are you like first quarter? Second quarter fantastic? Are you more like thirty three unanswered points in the fourth quarter? Fantastic? Is that? What? Which one would you rate yourself that?

Right now? The first couple of quarters wasn't that. I don't know that fantastic will be the adjective I would have used. But if you're talking about that thirty three and the fourth, I mean you're going to the fourth quarter with only a two point lead, but you don't end the fourth quarter with only a two point league. Jesus married Joseph and all of their sandals. The cowboys just took those boys out back and beat them like

they stole something, And I like it. It's provocative, gets the people going, see, this is the type of victory where it's like, Okay, you beat who you were supposed to beat, but the fashion in which you did it is also also the fashion in which you were supposed to do it. It wasn't supposed to be like you struggling to get going against an injury ravaged New York Giants.

It wasn't like seeing that team from Eastern Philadelphia struggle to put away this very same Indianapolis coach team that the Cowboys just basically eviscerated on national television in primetime. This it's a I don't want to say it's a statement one for the Cowboys in that they sent any kind of message because of who the opponent was, but it was certainly a statement in the fact that they're not going to continue to shoot themselves in the foot.

Hopefully penalties only three yesterday, a season low. Went from a season high on Thanksgiving thirteen to a season low. They got it fixed. Just keep it fixed, and this is what the Cowboys can be going for. I like it, or like a like a lot. I'm with the end of the second quarter Cowboys. I like that's when they really started to you know, you know, change up. Mister Mulie Hooker had a heck of a day, talked about it. I was sorry. I was so excited for him talking

about his former team. Oh, we knew that, we knew it was gonna be a big game for him. We didn't know that it was going to result in, you know, his performance, but we knew that he was hyped for the game. I mean, who wouldn't want to play against a team that didn't believe in you. They got you, and then they didn't believe in you, and then you know, dispersed of you, and now all of a sudden you had to face him. You know, he went up there

and took care of business. So he really started things off at the intern at first half, and it from there on on with just just steamrolling, just freaking steam roller. You just took a snowball, you took you bought it up. You know, you compacted in nice and tight at the top of the hill and you just roll that thing down and it wasn't yellow snow. It wasn't yellow snow. It was not yellow Nope, not yesterday. I think that's the biggest thing for this is there's so many ways

you could take it away. Right. You could look at this win and say you won thirty five points down the road. You were able to put this one away late. You were able to run the football, you slowed down the run. For the most part, there were times when Jonathan Taylor and the Colts had success, But for the most part, twenty one carries eighty two yards. That's three and a half per pop. And as long as nineteen

you'll take it take it all day every day. You were able to take Matt Ryan and work him into some trouble as well. You took the football away multiple times. But it was the way that you finished, not the way you started. Which is a conversation because there have been slow starts that have hurt the Cowboys in the past, and against good teams it will hurt you. Right, Indianapolis is not a good team. We saw that again yesterday. However, you were able to finish so strong that it was

encouraging moving forward, right. It was. I mean, I think Indianapolis, I think there was a certain point in time where they just said screw it, you know what I mean, Yeah, exactly. They you broke their work. Yeah, you broke their will for sure, But you know you still went out there and make plays. And the thing is like this team

is learning how to put teams away. And we've talked about it in the past where Dallas has kind of let teams kind of hang around and all you know, whether they they felt like they didn't need to really put the pedal to the metal or whether they just didn't. Either way, that's gone out the window and now you're seeing when they're in position to really start like hammering teams. We're gonna beat you up. You're here, you showed up right now. We're just gonna beat you up. I don't

care if you lay down. I don't care if you quit. I don't care what it is that you do that that doesn't allow for you to perform at your best. We're still gonna give you his work as long as we're within his dog on sixty minute. It kind of reminded me of a college football game to a certain extent, where it's a team that's a playoff caliber team. It's the Ohio States, the Michigan's, the of course, Georgia this year. I just didn't want to say it in front of

your face. Patrick. You no, I didn't taste good when you sit it now. I don't like taste the hair taste a taste. But it's it's one of those teams that you may stick around with them for a little bit, right, you may stick in there. You're gonna fight them and you're gonna clause scratch, your right effort, great effort all the way through. But in the end, yeah, you're gonna get beat up to biscuit. Yeah. So I saw that yesterday.

The other thing that was really encouraging was how many people got involved, how many Cowboys had their finger fingerprints all over this game. Because Dak Presscott stat line twenty of thirty one seventy three touchdowns one interception, made kind of a weird decision on throwing that football into a tight window. Michael Gallup had some contact, fell to the ground. Stuff on gilbar was for the pig. I was on both. It was contact from both guys. I mean it was

it was. I personally wouldn't have thrown the flag because I don't think there was enough contact. I think that Michael Gallup could have powered through that, and you saw him do that on Thanksgiving on multiple occasions against the Giants. And I think Dak Prescott knew that Michael Gallup has the physicality to go through gilboard and get that. So that's why he threw that ball there, thinking that you know, the effort would be there. Gallup's effort was not there, unfortunately,

but they got it cleaned up. Michael Gallup with two touchdowns this first two touchdown games since twenty twenty. But what's even more impressive, like you said, how there's so many takeaways here, which even more impressive is that this team dropped fifty four and they were far from perfect in the first half. Sure, if they were perfect, are we talking about a sixty point game? Sixty five seventy this and that's no exaggeration. Are we talking about a

sixty five seventy point game? This? This was just an absolute mantelin and you just love to see it. And that's kind of where I was going. Was that the mistakes happened early, Dak Prescott through a pick, Michael Gallop fell down on the route and things of the sword. But Gallup had two touchdowns. Dak Prescott came back through three touchdowns, and then you had Tony Pollard with ninety one yards and two scores. A Zekill Elliot had seventy seven yards in a score. Ceedee Lamb had seventy one

yards in a score. He was starting to play well too, getting the ball in space. He was able to run the football a little bit. Had twenty three yards on the ground as well. So it wasn't just one guy. It was a lot of youth too that stepped up. The young Jaman Clark, Sam Williams, Tyler Smith all played well. Then you had to Ron Bland have the game of his life. When you have so many guys coming together like that, you just don't want to get left out.

We've talked about it this defense in particular. It's a party, and the last year you want to be is an outsider at a party. You don't want to be the one you know here. And on add do you look at in window and everybody got the fist pump going on and you're sitting on the outside like, oh, that's serless. You know, I wish I was in there. No, go walk up the dog outstairs and open the door and get involved with the party. You know what I'm saying.

I was studying Kyle. Yeah, but yeah, go to the dog on the punch bowl, take you one back to the head, and go ahead and get after it, saying, and that's what all these guys did. Every single gun on his defense showed their tail. Right when guys went down, other guys stepped up. Barr started off the game hot. Damon Clark was ripping and running. Donovan Wilson was in there hitting people. D Law was doing this. You can

go right down the line right. Watkins had a heck of a game up front, these guys all wanted to be a part of the party, and that's what this competitive nature. I'll talk to you about it. Kyle. When dq' his name got thrown in the pot prior to him getting hired, I said, this dude is a culture changer and he's all about competition, and we bring competition. You're either gonna step up or you're gonna step out. We've seen guys unfortunately had to you had to step out,

and they're no longer with this with this organization. Really good players, but they didn't. They didn't obviously compete to the level that's required to be on this defense. If you're under defense, you're one heck of a competitor, and

if you're not, you're not gonna be around. I feel like, obviously, you know, the word resiliency is such an appropriate model for this team this season, but when it comes to the defense, I think another appropriate phrase or word would be or phrase would be get you some, right, get you some. It's like if one guy hits the quarterback, the next guy wants to get him something, or you know the Marcus Lawrence you see it in sounds from the sideline. Tank is talking to Michael or this is

how you're going to get you something. The court, in the cornerbacks and the safeties. An interception happens and they look at the next guy. Go go out there and get you some dron Blaine, go get you one. You got one, go get you another one. And it's like Asaiah said, don't be the outsider, get up in the party, get to the punch bowl, get to the DJ. Right, make your request. Let's go for a night at the Rocks. Right. And that's what the Cowboys defense has done. But even more,

you never seen at the Roseberry. Come on, you've seen that at the Rocksbai get Beamer. No, sorry, guys, Well, well we'll grow you. We'll grow you. But also as equally as impressive is you. You talk about an offense that, even with the misqus early has shown that they can just bully you. Right, let's talk let's talk about Ceedee Lamb for a second. I don't think people understand what Ceedee Lamb is doing over these past two or three games.

And granted this wasn't one hundred yard game, you know, coming in he had one hundred and fifty one hundred yard game over his previous two always previous three. I'm sorry, but look at how he got this seventy seven yards.

He was running around and through guys, and I think the microcosm of how physical his evening was was on that pass where he breaks a tackle on the left side line and then he sees the defensive backs between him and the goal line and he says to himself, you know what, I might not get this touchdown, but you're gonna feel me when you wake up in the morning. Lords. His shoulder pops the guy, It drives him out of bounds. It levels the guy, drives him out of bounds, and

then what a CD do? He turns around and just stares down at the guy. The ref had his hand on the flag like I'm about to throw this taunt and penalty, and CD held that stare just long enough and then he let up. He didn't have the third part. He didn't two point nine. Dude. You know what, that's a great point that you bring up. That is the most impressive part of CD's game in terms of his development.

You know, I've been pretty tough on CD and terms to him being a leader, but it never questioned his

ability to make plays on the field. The one aspect of his game that I'm really impressed and proud of for in terms of his his coming along is his physicality and yes to the you know, to the point that you just made no see in terms of how he's how physical he is with the ball, I'm most impressed with how physical he's been off the ball in terms of his un selfish nature to go out there and block physically TP for Zeke, for anybody else that

has a brock in their hand. That's the part of the game that you're not gonna hear anybody talk about an NFL, notework, ESPN and of those things, but you will hear it here on talking cowboys. This guy is going out there and putting those physicals on people, lifting them up, driving them off the ball, driving them to the sideline, and chuck them. Yeah, absolutely right, talking about knuckles style. Right, He's throwing people around, even when it

doesn't benefit him, it benefits his teammates. And then when he has the opportunity to get the ball in his hands, now he's just simply just carrying that forward. Right. You think he's down, No, I'm not down. You're gonna have to bring me down with a lot more force than that. All you think I'm about to run out of bounds. No, you're about to get the You're about to get these shoulder pads all up in your grill. Right, egg muffins, let's go. He's doing that, and I love that because

it's bringing a toughness to this room. And I didn't expect it to come from him. And that was kind of the conversation early on when things weren't going his way. It was body language, it was blocking of his effort. That's not the case anymore. He's growing into that mindset of being the outfa of being that number one wide receiver,

which was expected to happen this year. It was expected to happen in week two, Week three, but now it's it's not even just the numbers, like Patrick said a moment ago, it was the creativity of how they're getting the football to him. Credit to Kellen Moore in that regard. There was one play I believe it was in the first half. It was back to back sweeps. They put Cede Lamb in motion. He came motion from right to left.

Dak put his foot in the ground again. Lamb came from left to right after he put his foot in the ground, handed the football off, turned up field, first down. Next play, he was lined up on the left side, Dak put his foot in the ground, seed comes in motion from left to right, takes the handoff on the sweep the exact same play, just without motion, and he turns up field and he's got a first down. The creativity that they're getting him the football with is impressive.

But what's more impressive is what Isaiah is talking about here. It's the mindset, It's the attitude. It's the a physical capability of blocking the guy ten yards down the field and allowing your guys around you to trust you. Because that's what most people don't see, right, and no, no disregard to anybody. But what most people don't see is when you go into the team room and you're watching this film. Okay, you watch the film individually, but then you watch it as a team as well, or a

position group. Las yeah, a laser pointer these like everybody's paying attention. Are you working hard only when it benefits you? Are you working hard only when opportunities are going to put you on a high that riel, or are you really working your tail off to make the play for other guys, and everybody in the team recognizes that. Right. It doesn't get talked about a whole lot on the outside, but on the inside, guys see it. Okay, I see you out there blocking on the backside of the play. Okay,

I see you. I see you driving this guy all the way to the sideline when other guys are getting yet yardist. Okay, I'll see you. So now, what does that do that or that presents leadership qualities? That starts adding to Okay, I see what you're doing. CD. You're not just a playmaker. Okay, you actually care about other guys. You're gonna exude your energy when other guys have the rock. Okay, all right, maybe maybe I'm gonna get you a little

bit different light now yeah right. It's a lot bigger than that versus the guy that just shows up and okay, give me the ball. Action speak louder than right. And what's also impressive is Lamb helped be the stabilizer in

this particular game for Dak Prescott. We're in Typically that stabilizers, Dalton shows there was a little bit of a disconnect between Dalton shots and Dad consistently throughout this game, and Ceedee Lamb was again he was right there the misque with Michael Gallop that led to the interception before galloping Dak finally got on the right page. Ceedee, Lamb was right there being that stabilizer, being that equalizer in the passing game for Dak Prescott while Tony Pollard and Zekiel

Elliott were just feasting out of the backfield. And also shouts out to Melie Davis. Millie Davis score absolutely and it was a fantastic run, broken tackle and then put the jem I'm happy for him because he had that one taken away earlier in the days and that would have been his first career touchdown and they got wiped

off because of a holding penalty. Shout out finally got and we went into this game Colin Isaiah talking about, and rightfully so, how the Coats as a team, their overall record was more reflective of the offensive struggles but not the defense because the defense has some has some dudes right particularly up front. And this was still a Cowboys team even with the missques Early had twenty one points before they exploded to get the rest of the points. So the Colts yea for those of the sound was

it was it's only the coach. Okay, hashtag keep that energy, because again, this coach defense is the same defense that put the Coats in position to upset the Philadelphia Eagles before giving up the gold on that one particular play. And I think you should kill Leonard on that play. Yeah, but this this is not a coach defense that's bad. This defense is pretty pretty damn good up front and in the secondary. And they just got lamb basted fifty

four points. And there was a certain point in the game to Isaiah's point where you all the Coats they're just emotionally, they were just they broke down the down and they were just like, you know what, We're okay, hurry up to get the Yeah, we don't care, Yea, the fighting Jeff Saturdays didn't fight on Sunday. So that's that's the thing though, is and you mentioned that the hashtag keep that energy and kind of going along with it.

I don't care who you are. If you're in the NFL and you win a game fifty four to nineteen on prime time not supposed to happen Sunday night football in front of the entire world. No, I mean, you could be playing a high school team. And that high school team is still gonna get up and play. Yeah, They're still gonna have an opportunity to try and at least make it something right. Not the case. This is a beat down by every sense of the word, especially

in that fourth quarter. And we heard it up there in the press box too, the frustrations from the cults, cults organization, and there was a whole lot of unpleasantry, verbal unpleasantries being tossed around by by the coach. But you know, this is a coach defense that hasn't God Quoy and Quitty Pay and the dudes in Grover Steward. We talked about it did but Dak Prescott once. Yeah, but also the offensive line is number one in the

league in terms of sacks allowed soft fifteen. Now the Dallas Cowboys officers line is number one in terms of protecting Dak Okay. But the thing is we talked about in the pregame show, how do you neutralize all these guys that they have on front? You just run the freaking ball, Dallas rumber two hundred twenty yards to twenty.

Because there was a point where and I twitted it at that point, there was a point in the game where Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elliott both literally had the same amount of carries eight and the same amount of yardage, same combined yardage at that point, and it just showed pure balance behind Dak Prescott. And if you're a pass rusher, doesn't matter, if you're the forced buckner or you know in god Quoin Yannick and godquit, doesn't matter. You can't

rush the passer if there's no pass to rush. And then once they once the Cowboys got them playing the run, it became play action. It became ceedee lamb. It be in the air or you know, sweeps with ceedee lamb, and Kelly Moore was again in his bag and the Cowboys they began to execute. But also equally, if not more importantly, there wasn't the laundry. There wasn't the laundry. Ten fewer penalties over a week prior. This is how

you decimate teams. And hey, by all means, go ahead and toss ob j into this fifty to four point mix. Why not? Why not? I want to talk about the run game when we come back on the other side of the break, because there's a lot of credit to go around, But I think that was the most impressive thing to me in this cowboys offense. I'm gonna see if you guys think the same when we come back right after that. I'm more talking cowboys. When you build, you start with the foundation, and home ownership is a

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Who knows, we'll figure it out. All right, gentlemen, it's it's again the ground game that works for the Cowboys. Tony Pollard got the start, what, yes, he did? He did got the start what twelve carries ninety one yards, which, by the way, for those math wizards out there, that's seven and a half yards per carry. Was that good? Pretty damn it seems good. Two touchdowns along of thirty Tony Pollard eight like Tony Pollard normally eats. He had.

He added another two receptions for fifteen yards as well. Ezekiel Elliot had a touchdown his first of his career against the Colts. He had seventeen carries for seventy seven yards four and a half yards per carry. I had to burst your bubble, conn what's up? Tony Pollard had the third worst run per carry average last night for

the Dallas Cowboys. Wow? Who who was better? Ceedee lamb Wow eleven point five mister Davis step nine point seven seven six and in Zeke with the four point five I mean the worst rush per at Berbert temp average was four point five yards per carry. Yeah, that was obliteration. Okay, who deserves the credit for that? Though? Are we cutting Tony Pollard because he had the third worst stepping up tony average? Did you hear all these murmurs about how

Tony Pollard's the starter now and Zeke is now backing up? TP? Was? Does it matter? No, it doesn't break, it matter, It doesn't matter. Man, also not true, But then it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter, It doesn't Smith, the running back coach, Skip Pete said, Man, listen here, man, people are making too much of a stir about this, the whole situation. Some plays are more beneficial for TP, some of them. Some plays are more beneficial for Z. It doesn't freaking matter.

These guys are rotating through these guys. If we talked about it, the peanut butter and jelly hamburger catch up and freaking well, we got Mayo mustard, whatever you want. Okay, they go together paying, So it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who starts it. Okay, it's schematics, right, it's it's just it doesn't even it doesn't have an effect over the game as long both of these guys are going out there and they're making their contributions the way in

which they're supposed to. This team benefits from it. Y'all can write all day long, Oh my god, he's not the starter anymore. He's giving up. And did they run for two or two hundred yards? Ye? Okay, to twenty to twenty rather effortlessly. Four touchdowns? Yeah, okay. So now Dallas was the fourth in the league in terms of rushing touchdowns on the ground. But I don't know where they're at now. But now I think we're at I can get you nineteen. I want to say, adown, question Kyle,

who's responsible for it? Threefold? Cat Moore for how he's sick with it? Would you would you have ever imagined that killing Moore would have had two hundred and twenty yards rushing stick and one hundred and one hundred sixty five on hundred and seventy yards in the air. Dick in with it. He saw that the passing game had some miscues early and he just stuck with the role. I love it. Pizza boy is delivering. I love you understand. So number one, Killing Moore shouts out to him. Number two.

And this is not a ranking, right, so this is more like ABC, not one, two three A. Cowboys are currently second in the league behind the Eagles in terms of rushing touchdowns. And now look at what Ezekiel Elliott that that rested him? Well, he looked very fresh. He did look that cut and then the mini heard there was a cut where man I think it was the Fostus Buckner. I think he had he penetrated their officer line. He came across Zeke, put the brakes on, hit a spin,

move right and went up there. I think he got maybe a yard, but it should have been like a minus three gone. Yeah, I mean that the running backs themselves. And I can't sing high enough praise for this offensive line filming. And you talk about it, Yes, shouts out to Joe Philbin, offensive line coach, and his assistance as well,

Leon let In. Those guys, But when you talk about opening up the lanes, these guys are opening up the lanes against very good defensive fronts, and like DeForrest Buckner and your Quidty Pays, you know, and yannicking Goto's et cetera,

et cetera. And I think one of the players that highlight just how dominant this offensive line is playing is Tony Pollard's touchdown, one of his touchdowns when you look up and you see Tyler Smith and Tyler Biettish twenty yards down field shoving guys, yep, just shoving guys in the lockers. That was the epitome of what we're talking about when I say this offensive line deserves a ton

of praise. Yes, Tony Pollard, he's doing damage when he gets in space like you know he can, yes, Ezekiel Elliott. When he hits his lane, he can make guys miss, but also drop his shoulder and he can run through guys. And now you're seeing what Madie Davis can do as far as bouncing off tacklers and then speeding forward. But the lanes that are being opened, and I use that to segway to this. This was with the experimental rotation of Tyler at guard and Jason Peters at tackle. Because

talk about news and notes. Jerry Jones said this week Tyron Smith will see his twenty one day window activated. Practice window activated. And that doesn't mean the Cowboys are gonna wait twenty one days to see Tyron Speck on the field. Did you see Tyler I know we saw it. Yep. Tyler Smith out the game. In the third quarter, Peters came Peters came in at left tackle and it was

kind of a governing at left garden. Yeah, they're they're working out the rotations right now because Big Dog is coming back and if Big Dog seven might be back as early Texans. And here's the thing that gets interesting, because I thought the Guards yesterday had one of the best games of their season. Zack Martin's always going Zach's gonna eat. But Connor mcgovernment played phenomenal yesterday. I really thought he had one of his best games. I thought

Tyler Biadas played exceptionally well. Tyler Smith had a better game than he did last week. He gave up seven pressures last week. He didn't give up nearly that many this week. And he was good in the run game and actually played really really well down the stretch to help spring some of those big runs. I thought Darren Steele struggled a little bit, but that's gonna happen when you're going up against Yannick and one play would he pay the other play and then DeForrest Buckner a play

after that? He struggled. However, it didn't matter because the four other guys that were there were doing their job to a limit that allowed Dallas to have a ton of success both on the ground and protecting Dak Prescott as well. I love it. I love it. You see what the offensive line is doing, and this is without them having jailed what the new rotation is going to look like. And the new rotation is going to look like Tehron next to Tyler, next to Tyler, next to

Zak next to Terrence. Is that what you would do if you were in the coach should absolutely that's what you and McGovern that gives you one of the better backup interior linement in the NFL. It's just the way again. And between him and Jason Peters being backups, yeah, you know you lose some of your young guys to injury on this offensive line, but between Peters and mcgoverning being your backup, I mean, your depth is not necessarily an issue now. It's certainly not talent wise, I mean body

count wise, quantity probably still talent wise, you're solid. I don't think I would touch mcgovernment personally, you would leave him there. Yeah, I think I'm with you. Yeah, we oddly Tyler off the field. I'm not moving two pieces, move one. I don't think it's always a valid argument, and I could see that argument. For me, it just gets washed over by the fact that Tyler Smith he's been he's been killing again, and McGovern has been playing phenomenal,

he's playing career ball. As far. If I'm going to have to allow somebody to warm up to a position and warm back up to, you know, in their certain I'd rather have to deal with one instead of the

whole left side. Here's a question, though, if you're if you're going to take that that post and say I'd rather move two pieces to make sure I got the best five, wouldn't That wouldn't make more, wouldn't justify I should say why Jerry Jones and the Cowboys are considering bringing Toron Smith back effective this coming weekend so they will have time for that new setup to get back right. Because now keep in mind for those that may have forgotten.

Tyler Smith spent the entirety of training camp at guard guard right, so it was more difficult for him to pop out at left tackle and be productive, which probably will be for him to return to left guard because that's a return to see, but that's got a that's got a pro and a con to it too, because Tyler Smith played tackle in college. He was left tackle Tulsa. Yes, then he switched to guard, had some struggles in the preseason a lot. Yeah. I mean he was good, but

he wasn't. He wasn't there, so let him struggle against Houston. I see, And that's the thing. I get the thought process of putting him back this however, I don't think it's just a plug and a play. Because you have a left tackle that's been playing well, you can put him back at left guard. Is he going to play that well immediately? I don't know. If that's a fairer expectation,

probably not. The expectation is probably not to get him two weeks to get ready for My question that I posted to the panel is wouldn't you be more comfortable in him taking his lumps against a team like the Texans wherein you're so much better than them that if you execute and don't commit penalties, you should be able to mask whatever mistakes he makes in that game at

left guard. And then you take him back to the film room post Texans, get him back on the field, tweak these things, and then you should start to see improvement. So then by the time you get to Philadelphia, the Philadelphia game, hopefully on Christmas Eve, but most certainly to January, now those things are no longer really something that you're focused on. So spoiler alert for the next couple of days, maybe even weeks. This isn't the last time we're gonna

talk about. No, this will be a topic of conversation. Let me take this left glor at lumps against the Texans and the Jaguars. I think it's fascinating, I really do. Because the good part about it is it's a good problem to have. You have too many guys that are playing well. O'darn, we'll figure it out. I've got another good problem to have once we come back after the bird. Oh yeah, okay, there's a tease right there. When we come back, we've got helmet stickers we're given out our

players of the game. Let us know what you would do on the offensive line. If you're listening and you're invested, tell us what you're starting five would be. I know you are. I know if you're listening to talking cowboys, you're invested. Give us your starting five on the offensive line. As Tyran Smith returns, let us know where you would put guys in where? All right, we'll be back with Patrick's next. Good problem to have with more talking cowboys.

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now for helmet stickers. Every time the Cowboys get a victory, we give our helmet stickers, our players the other great problems. Oh yeah yeah, tell us still us what Cowboys did exactly what I wanted them to do. In the Return of Anthony Barr. Bar started, yes, but Clark got the bulk of the snaps as you ramp up Anthony Barr and as a result, they both played very well. Yeah, so kudos to the Cowboys who have a fantastic problem. But for those that are audio only, I did air

quotes just then that's when it comes the time. But I saw bar this year look like the dominant bar Bar that I remember. Like his confidence was different, like his approach to hit, like his his energy, everything was. He's been making plays and making tackles and he was just like, Okay, I did my job yesterday. That boy was jacked up. Do you think having some time off from an injury standpoint and getting a bit of a bird's eye view, especially for a new system, helps out

a little bit thin So absolutely yeah. And of course not having to come in and have all the responsibility as well, I'm sure helps because Damon Clark, like Patrick was just saying, came in and played exceptionally well. His reads were better. We talked about it last week. He had shown that there was some of that there, that that instincts. Of course, the ability to track down a

guy physically. He was good last week had Jonathan and Taylor hearing footsteps exactly running this week, he rocked great a ball that bubble screen. He kind of glanced out of this down and was like, oh, maybe I don't want to catch this speed shout. Oh yeah, all right, now it's time for helmet stickers. I like that though. Good problem for the Cowboys to have in that linebacker corp. I know who I'm going with, but I'm still I'm stuck between two or three. So let's you want me

to start without? Okay, I say, oh you want me to go? I say, oh yeah, let me go ahead and get this thing right. That's a big oy y'all. See this face right there. What would you guys title that face as? It's like a kissy face? Yeah, you know, he's like a sucker and he's puckering up. It's a side eye. So so so you thought you knew face. Okay, you thought you knew this is going to this. This is Skip Peat right here, everybody. That's that's Skip Peace's

face right there. Everybody. So when everybody's up there talking about, you know, one running back versus two running backs, this is what he came down and said. He said, how about that one too, punch, so shot out to the whole running back room. Let's get Pete right here. That's with for you. I like that. I like that's a good one. Yeah, you just gotta find the spot to put it. You got a spot for it, because I think is huge. It's almost as big as the helmet,

the actual star on the helmet. All right, I've got this one. This one's got a couple of a couple of pineapples. They're reading the book here. They are studious pineapples. If you can see it right here, there's a couple of little guys. It's one of the smallest stickers that we have on the entire pack of smelly stickers that we have. I'm gonna give this to the entire rookie class. Are They were studious, they've been learning, they've been ready

for their time to shine. And that time came yesterday. Damon Clark d ran Plan, both forcing turnovers, both making massive plays. You had Tyler Smith, you had Sam Williams making a big play. Legitimately, the rookie class shined. Oh and Malik Davis found the end zone as well, another rookie getting some work done there too. So shouts out to the rookie class. They get my helmet sticker this week.

It's a small sticker, just a tiny little sticker. Studious small pineapples for me, I'm going with this lollipop, small small lollipoppop lollipop under the list. The reason I'm going with this lollipop is I'm going to award this to Malik Cooker. Why am I going to award this to Malik Cooker? Why lollipop? Because going against his former team, he gets an interceptional Matt Ryan. He gets a scoop

and score, which is the first defensive touchdown of his career. Um. But what he basically did was show the Coats that they made a huge mistake by not believing he could bounce back and play at a high level after suffering that torn achilles in twenty twenty. In doing so, he made the Coats look like suckers. So that's why I chose the lollipop. Malik Cooker make any of that plus coach for an office look like a bunch of soccers lookers because he's back to an elite level fool and

Isaiah's gonna get us fine, Why you fired? I don't understand why you're laughing or I like you Guys, the selections. I know you, I know you were talking about it in the break, but what's going on? Like he has water in his eyes right now over there, Bryan, you and I have both selected suckers this year. Well you know I did that as an on the back to the last legendary Lollipop episode. Yeah, but mine was homage was just completely Jenue. I like it though, So Scott

made to look like a bunch of suckers. Yeah, Malie Cooker, former Colt came at it and took down his former team. He did so with emphasis. This was a fun one, guys. Cowboys Nation really enjoyed it. I enjoyed being there for this one at the stadium. I say, I know you. You and I talked about this yesterday. It's different for yourself together, as I'm trying to when when we have an opportunity to go out there and be amongst Cowboys Nation,

it's a little bit different. Patrick gets to do it on on a weekly basis, which is which is outstanding. But when we get to do it, it's a little different. But then yesterday that fourth quarter was about as fun, about as fun of a stadium atmosphere as I've ever seen at the NFL level. It felt like a college atmosphere. It really did. To take a phrase from ob J from the Minnesota win, those boys went crazy, Yes they did.

Those boys went crazy. And speaking of obj, maybe he'll be walking through and around this building here shortly, if he's not already, he's supposed to be here today, right, he'll be here today, and then he's gonna spend some time at the Mavericks game, and then he's gonna have a meeting with Dak Prescott, McCarthy, McCarthy, Jerry Jones. He'll

be wind and dyed. Yeah, lots going on here, trying to recruit Obja to join a team that four points, team that put up fifty four points against the Indianapolis Colts. So that does it for us here on Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company, the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys. We're taking your calls tomorrow eight at eight five two two ninety seven. You can go ahead and get lined up. Give us some calls tomorrow as we get things rolling. We're also going to talk about

our nickname competition. Oh yeah, we're gonna talk about it, because we've got some some especially after interesting conversations to have about that one. Chris Beam for Isaiah stand Back for Patrick nose Walker. U'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long from Talking Cowboys. We'll see you tomorrow. From the Star in Frisco. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club