Talkin' Cowboys: Breaking the Norse Code

studios alongside Patrick No C. Walker. We've got Isaiah stand Back look fresh as always and the nice little button up. But you've got an extra button unbuttoned that I do you know what, Kyle, I gotta let it breathe. Man. We got a feeling for the next few hours. Yeah. You gotta let the ink breth. You got, you got the breath. The truth is it doesn't button. Yeah. I think Nick never actually has a button. It's popped off long ago whenever he had this shirt on. Uh. We've

got Chris Beam in the back as always. Kyle Yeoman's glad to be with you. Uh, gentlemen, how are we doing doing? Will my friend swell swell? Yeah? Little chili this morning? Who wasn't it. Yeah, it was nice, nice and nippy. It was good. Nothing compared to what we were about to flun into. Thankfully US Bank Stadium is a dome. But yeah, Minnesota. On the wake up on both side, well, we won't be the team won't be flying in. We won't landing until fob ish Saturday time Saturday,

so it won't be as bad. Um. But Sunday morning on the wake up, five degrees fairn win chill, well belows the roll walking into the state. It'll risk. That'll be nice. But you remember when they had to when they had to play at the college Minnesota. Oh yeah, listen, my blood is too southern. It's just my core plus will start icing over. It's the coldest temperature that you've

been exposed to for a long duration of time. UM, Upstate New York January a few years ago, win chill was minus twenty nine degrees Oh mine, Wow, seriously like it? That kind of cold actually confuses your body, Like it goes past being frigid as far as you're feeling it, it it starts to burn. Yeah, Like the sensation feels like you're burning your skins on fire, because right your nerves are starting to get damaged. So, yeah, that was the cold.

It's minus twenty nine degree win chill. What was yours? Minus four? Team? Okay, and we're practicing in New England. Yeah, yeah, there's zero degrees. It was actual temperature you were out there thirty and that gust gust like a knife right through, right through whatever everything. And in a stadium. We're practicing in the stadium, mean not in the practice city. That wind swirls stock there to sucked straight to the bowl.

Trying to think if I'm even close to any of that, I want to say I was in negative seven one point sk yeah, yeah, but I don't want tons of layers. See, And that's the thing. I don't really go up north in the winter very often. If I'm going up north, it's usually in the summer for either baseball at one point or stuff like that. So it's a little bit different whenever you're going up north in the winter because then you're going up to guy in places like Buffalo.

Buffalo expected six feet of snow, not inches. Six feet of snow for their game against Cleveland. Yeah, no, thank you, thank you for US Bank Stadium to being a dome. For my friend Patrick you see and the Dallas Cowboys. Speaking of news and notes, Time had an injury report yesterday, one with a couple good news and a little bit of bad news. Yeah, well bad news is subjective to what happens today. We'll see context. So but that that report was kind of bad news. Yeah, it was a

walk through. Yeah, okay, so explain all right? So wwrd what would Rob do? We know you're watching Rob. So, first of all, promising both Ezekiel Elliott, which you know he didn't suffer a setback last week anyway, so he was a limited participant on Wednesday, as was Anthony Brown, who remains in concussion protocol. But the fact that Anthony Brown was a participant at all means there is progress being made as far as some of those initial hurdles

in the protocol being cleared. So that is promising. The bad news that Kyle is referring to is that DeMarcus Lawrence cropped up on the injury report with a foot injury. He was DNP, which is did not participate on a Wednesday.

I circle that as something to watch, but I wouldn't be concerned about it just yet because I personally want to see Thursday's practice report, and there's actual actual practice, not just to walk through, which basically means they told him to sit down and don't come out yesterday and you know, just brush the foot. So today will be key, Tomorrow will be critical, and then of course Saturday. So something to watch there not necessarily bad news just yet,

but something to watch that's definitely bad news. Now he has a history, Yeah, but he's been still playing out of his mind, get it. But he wasn't putting him on injury report. It wasn't. It's not the first time he's been on the injury report with his foot this year. Yes, when you don't recall that he what game was that that he suffered a foot injury or it ended up being he said it was foot or tightness in his foot.

He left for a few plays and he returned. Help me out Twitter if Yeah, I don't remember that specific happened. I remember him leaving a game and then coming back, but I don't remember him ever actually being on the injury or I believe you're about the week report in the game that followed that I can look through. I've got my email, I can go through it. So something to watch they're flipping to the Vikings side of the injury report. Christian Derris saw some bad news for them.

If we're going to go that route. They're starting left tackle, remains in the concussion protocol and unlike Anthony Brown who is limited in their walk through for the Cowboys, Derrissaw was a DNP. He did not even participate in the walk through yesterday, so doesn't look like looking like as of yesterday, he's making any progress. That's key obviously, starting left tackle, trying to protect Kirk Cousins, trying to open up lanes for Dalvin Cook and Madison m Dalvin Tomlinson,

big body knows tackle. Cowboys know him well from his time with the Giants. He was DNP with a calf injury. Something to watch there as well. And Justin Jefferson popped up on the Vikings injury report for the toe issue. Justin Jefferson, he was limited yesterday in the walk through, but he is battling a toe issue. Big tour, pinky toe. Good question, good question. I don't know if we're gonna go full Hall of Nights. I don't know if it

was I don't know if they know. It makes a different we gotta we gotta know it doesn't make it's investigative journalism that we can find out over the course of today. If it's big toe, pinky toe, or one of the three chest in one of the three medals, which one would you tall? Is it big is? Yeah? Yeah, because especially for a receiver running routes, breaks and things like that. So yeah, Justin Jefferson something to watch nursing

a toe issue. So that's, uh, that's going to be the big the big uns as far as the news and notes. Toe injury has Michael Thomas sideline for the rest of the year. It does, so, I mean for a wide receiver, receivers and you don't want toe issues. Yeah, for a defensive lineman, a foot is significant too, to keep in mind. So I'm just they're probably saying the exact same thing we are qualified as. Let me see

today's report for both for both, Okay, for both. Okay, I was about to say, because they're saying the same thing. They're like, oh my gosh, de Marcus Lawrence isn't gonna play. We're gonna run all over this team. Keep that energy over here. For both Justin Jefferson and for the Marcus Lawrence. Let's see today's injury report when practices actually occur in both cities. Let's see what their status is at the end of the day. Hashtag keep that, en keep that.

Lets see if the Cowboys can keep that energy that they had in the first three quarters against the Packers and take that to all four quarters against this Vikings defense. I mean, there were times where that offense finally got back off the ground. Giants game, Giants games, when he was on the Big Dame. Just for playing on Twitter, Giants game, appreciate your big Dame. But there were times where this offense looked like it was working again. There were times and then and then it came to Nate

Newton is just simply to get on Isaiah's camera. Here. Look at there he is. Look at that, He's just watching. He's just watching. Look at trying he trying out today. Yeah, he's gonna take this fourth chair. Nate Newton about to join us here. I'm talking Cowboys man to let him in. But previewing the Cowboys offense versus the Minnesota defense, there were times where this looked like it was working. Nate

Newton in week number ten against the Minnesota Vikings. How can they keep that consistency going the Cowboys offense, how can they keep that consistency through all through? Why? Hey, I think up until this point, coach Cole Moore has been doing a nice a nice job. And yesterday the last game that we played, I didn't like that up tempo and second half because I think we needed to

rest our defense. But he's been calling good games. And if Zeke can get back this week and maybe give him one or two more runs and continue to let Tony Potla duty has to do. And I think we need involved by tight ends a little bit more. I think we should be okay going up in there trying to control the time of possession. You agree there, Kyle, I do agree. I think overall, Kellen's done a good job, but it's not a great job yet. He's still learning,

he's still getting better. Isaiah, do you disagree? I can bear everything too what I've seen him capable of, and that's that's yeah, that's I mean, so once I know what you're capable of, I know you can run a four two four four is not not getting it done. It's not trash, it's not trash exactly. That's and that's what we're saying, right, it's not trash, need improve, but

we know what you're capable of. I just wanted and there's no limit on it, right like like like like master p. So I'm trying to under understand what I think once he overcomes his internal shackles that he has on himself, he will be much better and this office will be much more efficient because they're not struggling in certain areas, but they're trying to force it in the other area in other regions. So to Nate's point, how do you control the clock? You control the clock. But

by being efficient. Now, I'm gonna go off off the rails a little bit here and by saying, uh, this this is about our wide receivers and our quarterback and our tight ends. If these guys our own par yeah, we we win this game, Fellas and and and that is being more efficient not only falls on coach more it falls on the individual players. And it takes me back to what I've been saying and preaching all week, and I'm gonna continue to preach this until I see it.

Do your job, you know, Uh, Coach Kelly can put together game plans all day and try to get people in position, and maybe he needs to do a better job of saying, hey, tight end, you can't get caught up, whether it's in the end zone or whether it's a neck a boot, because I've heard our quarterbacks said that, well, our guy got caught up. You can't get caught up. This is a necessary thing for us to develop our offense. So we can put more and more in and we can be just we can tweak every week and gets

people a different look. Just about tweaking this. So the efficiency not only falls on coach more, it falls on the quarterback, and it falls on the wide receivers. You know running backs. They're doing their job even in third down situations. Polit becomes better. Zeke is who he is, a little Malique Turner running like he's a young Zeke with power and with skills. So this falls on three people. Yeah, offensive line, do your job. Wide receivers, tight ends do

your job. And that allows the other two guys, Coach Kellerman, and they're efficient. They're really not as an offense, they're not far from being. I don't want to use the word prolific because prolific would be like what they were in twenty twenty one, but they're not far from being a threat on a weekly basis, because if you look at what happened in Green Bay, it was lack of execution, and under that umbrella of lack of execution goes miscommunication

ques between QB and wide receiver. If you take those two miscommunications away, you just deleted two interceptions and then you delete fourteen points for Aaron Rodgers because he got two touchdowns off of those two interceptions, and the Cowboys

win the game. So to Nate's point, Kellen until all of our point, because we're all correctness aspect, Kellen needs to improve in the aspect of understanding situationally when to go into the hurry up versus when to slow the game down and start pounding in you know the defense. I love when he starts out the game in the hurry up because if everything's being executed, it tends to put it tends to put the opposing defense on their heels. They're not ready for that. That's helping the Cowboys get

off the fast starts. Same for the third quarter. There's a reason the Cowboys have been really, really good in the third quarter. But if you look at a game like the Packers, and they're red hot in the third quarter, as they typically are, but then they start coughing up you know, points here and they're seventeen unanswered. You go back and look at the film and you say, well,

why what happened? It's because you were moving too fast. Yes, And going back to what I said yesterday, I don't think that they missed Ezekiel Elliott so much so that they couldn't have won the game against the Packers. But once the game started to get away from them, that's when they started to miss Ezekiel Elliott. Do you think Zeke makes that much of a difference this week compared to last week. I do, because of his running style. I do. If you're going to control time of possession,

that's the man. Zeke is the guy to do that, right may All, it's not so much that we need Zeke. It's just execution and what you're doing. And because I thought the Malite Davis guy did what he had to do, it's just that we had to slow down. We had to slow down the cards. One thing that has happened is that and I say this, all of us up until last week. Maybe not Zeke. I mean maybe not zoos, maybe not zoos, but all of us bought into the

Sack Party. To a man, to a woman, to a podcast, we all, wow, okay, they rushed with two unt of yards, but we won. We bought into it. But now it ain't happening no more. I think zeus spot into it too. You picked the Cowboys to win thirty one thirteen or whatever it was, those two different conversations. We're talking about the sack Party. Yeah, you're mbering about the Sack Party as we're talking about That's what they said. Yeah, yes, sir, I understand, But when when did he know against the

Sack Party, I wouldn't. I made a point of emphasis because you remember, against the Bears, You're like, oh, they can have the two hundred pleasures. I'm like, yeah, yeah, but but he gains nobody, like nobody. You can't allow that versus nobody, because if you if you allow that, then you've already shown where your weakness is. Now. They might be the Bears might be prolific and running the ball, and that might be what they do best, but they're

still attacking a weakness that you have. They're not just simply overpowering your personnel. They're simply exposing you, and they have better personnel for that particular type of the scheme. Once you show that on film, every team, every team will expose that what happened to next week exposed what's gonna happen this week. We're gonna see, We're gonna see it. Because if you load the box up, what's gonna happen, they're coming up and the thing outside. Yeah, justin Jefferson,

you've got the dealings. So like that's that's when they're talking about, Like, yeah, sad party is awesome. When you force the team to have to pass, but you have to get the team either out of their game plan by getting up early, or you have to be so prominent in your run defense that they now have to pass the bar and now you can go do what you do best. So here's the thing, And I'll say this, I said a hundred times, I'll say it again. I don't care what happened in the Bears game because of

how the Bears game flowed. Care And I'm not trying to take that away from you, Mike. I'm saying the reason I don't care about that, it's simply because the game was so dominated by the Cowboys that they said, we know that you want to go over the top to get back in the game. So what we're gonna do is protect that you can have all that you can run into your hearts as I are not hold on, hold on. But then you flip it to Green Bay. That's a different story because remember what I said after

the Bears game. If the game was close against Chicago and they run up two hundred plus yards, then it's a problem because that you needed to stop that from happening because the game was in the balance. The game in Green Bay was you sold out to stop the run. You didn't set out to stop the run against Chicago because you had the game one in hand and you were letting, you know, the clock work against them and they were just not smart enough to try to pass.

The only problem we have here is one coach was protecting this young quarterback and the other coach was just putting this quarterback in position to win the game. And this has always been the Achilles hial for the last five to six years. What does the Cowboys do when you have a running game with a good, solid quarterback that can control tempo and we have lost every game we have lost this year comes down to that. I speak, yes, yes, yes, you play nine games a year, correct, nine games a year?

How many games were not? One hundred yard games? Run defensively run defense? Uh? Two? Two? Yeah, let me go down the line. One hundred and fifty two yards, one hundred and sixty seven yards, one hundred forty two yards, one hundred and thirty six yards, one hundred seventeen yards two forty two o seven. You don't see your problem here? Who said they didn't see a problems? I'm saying to say that you don't. It doesn't bother you. Like no

defensive coordinator's gonna say, hey, keep running the ball. Ultimately, your your goal is to win the ultimate contextually get it, I get it, I get it. But contextually you've given up my point. My point is exclusive to the Chicago Bears game, and I'm saying it's not exclusive though, because that was two forty against them. That's two or seven in the following game. Prior to that, you gave up

one seventeen, one thirty six. So what I'm saying, if I if I let you have, what's if I put on my front yard something debate you to keep you from trying to get what's in the backyard, and you take that bait, that's all willing good. But if I go on the front yard with my shotgun to keep you from taking something on my front yard and you take it anyway, I get it that surprised. How many times have they done that this year? Have they put it out there and say, I got a shotgun with you?

I got a shotgun. The only Game two game, the only game that they weren't on the frontyard, on the front line with the shotgun. What Chicago. Which is why I'm saying I don't care because of how that game flowed. I obviously care about what happened with Green. I obviously care about what they allowed the Philadelphia Eagles to do in the run game. Obviously I'm saying, don't take my grain of rice that I'm describing and turn it into

a home to say. I'm just saying that this defense has made valiant efforts to stop the run up every team that they played. Some teams are gonna be more of emphasis than others because of what those teams present, But every team, aside from the Rams, who have no running game, zero running game. So we could just eliminate that one. Okay, the Cincinnati Bengals, they run the ball

pretty well, but they like to throw the ball. Okay, those are the only two teams that you had any form of success stopping the run, and you jumped up seventeen to three against Cincinnati and they didn't really Going to what Nate said, which also goes to what Mike said, which was past rush is a privilege. And when I spoke with Neville Gallimore yesterday, I love what he said and that he said, coach, hit it on the head. You have to earn the You have to earn third

down by winning on first and second down. If you can't win on first and second down and force you know, third and minus third and long, then your pass rushers are not going to be able to pin their ears back and go and get guys because you guess what you're gonna have to be and run defense again. But now third and mid, third and short, the other team has options. They could run the ball, or they could

do a quick slant. And now you're going up against a Minnesota team that loves West Coast and your quick ends and your quick out. So this is a game going into Minnesota where the Cowboys absolutely have to. It goes without saying they have to stop the run, but in doing so, it will then free up the pass rush because you're gonna put them in third and longs. And now this is against Kirk Cousins, who will throw interceptions and make mistakes. So yeah, Cowboys have an issue

on run defense. All I'm saying is, after that, out of that holy equation, take the Bears out and drop them in the trash, and everything else is true. That's all I'm saying, ding ding Ding Round one has come

to an end. I really enjoyed that. However, this is a preview for the Cowboys offense versus the Minnesota defense, and we haven't talked a single look of that side of like the first twelve seconds he was blessing us with knowledge Santhony can get the rundown, though, So we're gotta make sure, we gotta make sure that we're we're staying on track here. But when we come back, you can stick around if you want, Nate, you got anything to do. No, I'll sit around then, because I mean

I'll just you know, like just dodging bullets. Glad they're sitting on opposite sides. Of the table. I like it. Oh, I know, it's it's all funny games. When we come back, let's talk about that cowboys offense. Can they get seedee lamb going again? How vulnerable is the vikings secondary? When we come back right after this. When you build, you start with the foundation, and home ownership is a foundation

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put to people. Yeah. I shouldn't have put that away, but well I didn't want you out to have none of it. Yeah, I'll take the other stuff that I may. Can't get it out. Man, My fingers too fat and I can't move st I keep talking, my man, keep talking. Just want me to keep talking? Where where? Yeah? I do that, man, I do that. Fat Man Douglas who listens to all the shows and he's actually the one that cuts up the cow bites. He does a lot of audio work for us. He walked in and he

gave this card. Do your job, do your job, just like what Nate was saying. That was from the Jason Garrett era, right, is that what you're saying? Yes, yes, Jason, if you did your job, you still that's my boy. He hit me the other day. Jason hit me the other day, man, And I appreciate that, you know, to tell me. Gave U some network my number, and I was like, okay, great, great to hear from you. Jason doing a great job on TV. Yeah, just do your job, man,

that's all. Yeah, we have to just do our jobs. But that's that's the same thing that not only was Neville saying, it's the same thing that Michael Parson said after the game, it's the same thing that jay Ron Curse said in the locker room yesterday when when they were all asked, you know, what's wrong with the run defense? Um, And then when you talked to Dan Quinn and you ask questions like do you have the right personnel to

fix it? And he says absolutely, And then you go back and you look at the film and you say, well, Bq's not wrong. They do have the right personnel. So what went wrong in Green Bay, for example, execution, wrong lanes, over pursuits, guys playing hero ball, And what never say yesterday was he said, hey, we got a defense full of dogs. Everybody is a dog on our defense. I

think we can all agree with that. He said. The problem is is every dog is more or less trying to, you know, get the home run swing in one play. Stay within yourself, stay within your assignment, don't over pursue, don't you know, try to be that guy because and remember that you're that guy by default. So if you just stick to your assignment and the guy next to you in either direction sticks to their assignment, the run game would be precipitously better than what we've seen guys,

I want to talk offense. This is this is so good. I'm just kidding. I'm not really that upset about it because I think the cover now we can't switch it though, because I also forgot the news and notes. M Zadarius Smith, team leader for the Vikings and sacks not in a half sacks dealing with the knee issue. He popped up on the injury report yesterday. So is he limited or

was he out? He was limited? Okay, he was limited, but you know, hashtag keep that energy right, Let's see what practice holds today for Zadarius Smith as well, because if he's dealing with a a knee issue of any souff he's less than a hundred percent then obviously, technically speaking, that ship work in the Cowboys favor. I hesitate to say it because Rashaan Garry was out. And what did you when you went back and watched the film, Isaiah, what what did you think of the performance for the

Cowboys offense in Green Bay? Do you think it was above their average this season? No? What do you what do you think? What would you put it? See? I mean it's pretty basic. I mean that defensive Green Bay is not a threat and you weren't that effective against it. You can blame it on a miscommunication, you can blame it on you know, not sticking with the run. Whatever you want to say. They should have scored more points

than they scored in Green Bay twenty eight. Yeah, and when you when you look towards a defense of Minnesota, Minnesota gets points scored against them two. But they have substantially more personnel than Green Bay had on their defense, and their front seven is solid. They're not you know, they're they're former names or guys that can be game records if you allow for them to get in their zone. But I think the strength and they have guys at

every level. Let's let's not make a mistake. They have a guy, they have d Lineman, they got a line direct backers, and they obviously have some some cornerbacks and safeties talking about Pat p and yeah, big Smith. So but I think that the strength of this defense is their linebackers. I think I think Jordan Hicks and Eric Kendricks and and you put Zadarius Smith in there if you want to. He's really a d N. But those linebackers, man,

these guys don't miss tackles. They just don't miss tackles, and these guys are big and physical and if you're if you try to run the ball against them, they have a lot of gap integrity. They're not jumping around blocks, they're coming downhill, and their cornerbacks and safeties are more than willing and happy to come down there and hit you as well. So it's gonna be it's gonna be definitely a challenge. They don't do anything amazing, they don't

pressure you a lot. They're not their defensive ends aren't necessarily getting home all the time. But in terms of running integrity and gap integrity, they make it difficult on you. You You know how to punish that guys who love coming down and you know, playing downhill against your run as you put in a running back that loves going uphill to meet them and roses to Tony Pollard, he is very good at what he does, very good, and he's a starter in the league with any other team.

But this is a game where because you have guys like Jordan Hicks, whom the Cowboys know very well from his time with the Philadelphia Eagles. Try to tackle Ezekiel Elliott a few times and then you start thinking twice about it the fourth and fifth time. It's over the course of a game. It really just beats you down. So it's a different type of running style. So hopefully for the Cowboys to help combat that, because yeah they

have some their linebacker chords. Something else to help combat that is you just keep punching them in the mouth, keep punching them in the mouth, and eventually a tooth comes loose, and then another one falls out. And here you are in the fourth quarter and they don't want to tackle anymore because they're they're better than Bruce, So that that's going to open up. Guess what here we come my arrest play action. Yeah, so this is how you do it. You have to control this game because

if you don't, Zadarius Smith and done there. Hunter. Yeah, they play up and down the line. You can see them over the guards, you can see them over the tackles, you can see them in gaps. But if you control it through the run game and play action pass and keep your tight ends involved in this game, then they'll basically go back to the outside linebacker positions, their defensive in positions. You don't want them being able to play over our guards, you know, And even though we got

a great guard and I right guard. We don't want that over our left guarden. You want to make sure these guys stay home by controlling the short passing game and you run game, and so to keep these guys at home, and to make sure that Kendricks and uh and and the other guy, Jordan Hicks make sure they play their normal positions. So that that's we have to do this man. And going back to last week, I thought Green Bay defense with Kenny, I can't think it

was named a big nose tackle three techniques. I thought they were better than they than they seemed. And this team here has led stats. Don't let the stats fool you with Minnesota because what they have shown me is when they need to stop alive Buffalo, they will get a stop. You know. So this this team is much

better than you think, but they can be controlled. If you do a short passing game and run downhill, it'll make these other Smith and uh hunters stay home and the interior of the defensive line might be a little a little less meati this week because Tomlinson right, so he's dealing with the calf injury. He did not participate yesterday. Now that's one that I don't know that he's going to participate to do today either, So there's a there's a good chance that Tomlinson is not in the middle

of that defensive line for the Vikings on Sunday. So that just goes back to what we're saying, run the ball. Hopefully Zeke is there so you can have that particular punishing running style and then play Tony pollodoff of that, which then feeds the play action, and just go from there and start attacking. Make those safeties start coming forward because they're afraid of the run game and they got to help in that run game and play action over

the head, play action, ten out, play action. I think that's what you the strategy you would like to get to. But these guys are so sound up front. You can wear them down right, you can wear them down right, but if you're impatient, then they're gonna they'll make you pay for him. Because Smith doesn't need to be up in the box. If he comes in the box, you better you better freaking you better watch out because he's

coming to hit somebody in their mouth. But these these linebackers are so freaking just savvy, man, and like they're they are not going to be out there gaps. They're not gonna be jumping around blocks. They will two gap of freaking offensive linement like there's nobody's business, and they'll shed them and get the pack. I mean, these guys are physical, Nathan. I'm sure you've seen it on film. They're physical linebacker Like this is like the definition of linebackers.

This isn't like a hybrid you know, twenty twenty two type of linebacker Like this is true. They could play in any error, plug a hole, run downhill, make a tackle, make a read linebacker. Sure tacklers, how tight end has got to come into play. Not only make sure you're blocking well, but we gotta get them involved. We have to get them involved in in our passing game. Paging Fergie and him the shut paging those two you because don't don't's gonna get his targets. You know, I said

that before and I would say it again. He's Dak Prescott's favorite receiver. You've seen that kind of coming back continues to play itself out. And I said that when Dad came back, I was like, you want to see the reemergence of Dalton shots, And now we're seeing it But the thing with Dolton Shots is he's not that guy that gets yack after you get him in space. I think we saw an instance of that at least once in Green Bay where he got that got him out out in space and he couldn't beat that the

single techler that was out there. And that's not a knock against Shots. Is just not his game. But then when you harken back to the Philadelphia game and you saw what Jake Ferguson does in space, and then you know that Hindershot can stretch the field. Get these young guys involved in Minnesota, get these safeties trying to figure out how they should play, and then you got an advantage. Dallas has committed just nine turnovers on the season, that's

the fourth fewest in the entire NFL. They've turned it over nine times, that's it. Entering Week eleven, Minnesota's defense has tallied sixteen takeaways on the year, that's the second most in the league to this point. Off of those turnovers, Minnesota has cashed in on forty six points. So not only can the defense take the football away, but when they take it away, they're gonna convert. They're gonna make you pay. And that's the biggest thing for Dallas this

week is two things. One hold on to the football and two if you do your defense has got a bow up and do some work. But offensively, hold on to the football. You've done a good job of that this year. But over the last few games, those takeaways, those turnovers that have been forced against you, have come back to cost you. Allah Green Bay and what happened in the early parts of that football game, crossface, brother, crossface, make it happens all right when we come back, let's

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for the holiday season. Plentymore to come. Isaiah Stanback, Patrick Nose Walker, Chris mean Him in the backup, Kyle Yeoman's Glad you're with us. Let's wrap things up by talking secondary. Ceedee Lamb, with a career game last week, came the fifth Cowboys receiver in franchise history to have at least ten receptions, at least one hundred and fifty yards and two touchdowns in a single game, only the fifth one to ever do so. Had a career game with eleven

receptions one hundred and fifty yards in those two scores. Isaiah, when you look at the secondary of Minnesota, how can Dallas have some success in the passing game? Be patient? Yeah, they got to be patient to work their way down the field. These guys are playing single high cover three most of the time, and they're really just allowing their

underneath coverage to keep everything at bay. They are probably the one one of the most I'll go out there on the limb, the most patient defense that Dallas has faced this year, meaning that they're gonna play soft coverage. Let you get things in front. They don't want you behind them. They really don't want you behind them at all.

And Kellen Moore is going to be challenged to play really Minnesota's version Minnesota's style of offense, which is West Coast take the underneath routes, work your way down the field, run the ball, long sustained drives like they're okay doing that. And because Minnesota plays so physical, it starts to wear on you. And I know you guys are talking about some of the turnovers to some of these teams have

had committed against them. Well, after a while, you get tired of getting hit, you know what I'm saying, Like that hope for the duration the game. You start feeling those hits, and all of a sudden you start saying, to screw this man, let's let's try to take this thing over the top. And that's when you start having us and you know, guys start trying to do too much with their yak yardists and trying to start making plays because they just want to hurry him and scoring.

And Minnesota's like, oh, that's what we've been waiting on. Thank you, do your job. And again, I'm going to beat this drum until we see it consistently a thing. But you gotta keep running the ball. But not just that. And when I say keep running the ball, obviously don't mean to do it one hundred percent of the time. Rewind the sick the episode and you'll hear what we're saying, running the ball to establish it, and then you'll be able to get the play action off and that's going

to keep these these safeties. And you know Harrison Smith, for example, four interceptions, seven past deflections, Patrick Peterson future Hall of Famer, three interceptions, twelve pass deflections. They can both cover and take the ball away. You have to make sure that you're picking your spots and you're picking them wisely. But you can't just go out thinking you're going to pitch it all over the field against this team, because you're gonna pay for that. You're going to pay

for that. You have to get them guessing. You have to get them trying to figure out is it a run, is it a pass? If it is a pass, who's it going to is it to Dalton up the team or oh my god, I see Ferguson and Hindershot Will. Maybe they don't respect those two guys yet, and then you can make them pay for that. They're obviously going to shade a lot of attention to Ceedee Lamb. I think this is going to have to be a big

game for Michael Gallup. I wouldn't be surprised if ceedee lamb ends up with which will still be a good game, you know, sixty five seventy yard game, and then Michael Gallop ends up being one hundred yard receiver. So however you scheme it up, it has to be executed wisely. Because that's another thing about it, and we talked about it in between segments. I can't shake the fact that that Minnesota keeps and this is not to take away from them being a good team, because they are a

very good team. Good teams find ways to win, but a lot of the ways they're winning is because of late game errors by other teams. Look at what happened in Buffalo Josh Allen and the box snap at the back end of the four quartered in the interception in overtime. You look at the Washington Commanders game, you know, the late game penalty against a rookie fifth round pick in former Cowboy John Ridgeway, and then Taylor Honeyke makes a mistake.

If the Cowboys can play efficient, mistake free football predicated upon the run that then sets up the past, they will win this game. Gotta make it happen. Gotta make it happen. It's gotten. It starts with the run. It starts with the trenches, and it's very much so what we had talked about with green Bay last week as well, and they weren't able to execute in that regard because green Bay did work defensively, they did work offensively, especially late in the game, and they did so by making

Dallas pay. Can Dallas turn that around this week against Minnesota Tomorrow? We'll say it with our chest. Yeah, got your key matchups. We've got maybe a little bit of pumpkin spice tomorrow. Yeah, you know what that means around these parts, right, Basically, pumpkin spice means a little secret surprise for you. Guys. Said curlball, Yeah, that little curveball.

But well, we'll have some pumpkin spice tomorrow for you as well, as long as we keep saying it with your chest, right, Pat, Absolutely, let's make it happy tomorrow. I'll do it right now, say right now here we go all right? Oh, Heyburger, Helperburger. That's a terrible way to end this show. Frida's ass stand back, Patrick Nose Walker, Chris Beam in the back special thanks to our friends at Black Rifle Coffee Company. I'm Kyle Yeomen saying so long.

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