Talkin' Cowboys: Finally, Playoff Time

As the Cowboys getta win in the most dramatic, most gut wrenching, most heart pounding, final week of the regular season, possibly in the history of football Week eighteen in the regular season or in the rear view mirror, and the Dallas Cowboys are on to the wild card round. How's it going on, everybody? It's a good Monday. Welcome to Talking Cowboys, presented by Tostitos, helping fans get in on the game and our favorite chip and our favorite dit

of Talking Cowboys. Yeah, I got it, Okay, zero zero, Wow, twelve and five. I think I'm more of the zero and zero side of twelve and five. Fish this thing off. Let's finish this thing off. I agree with that bout. Well, I didn't finish saying what I was saying, but I'm saying twelve five, twelve and five. Not bad, not bad, not bad at all. Yeah, Cowboys improved to the three

seed in the NFC. Got some help yesterday from the NFC West HV HOV gots gotten an extra passage, got HOV telling you all right, y'all, come in here, y'all energy wrong, let's go. You didn't say the show, let's go. You didn't say a single word. Oh my gosh, heck my Harrison rob Studio, Robot Phillips is back. I'm sorry, Heck, I'm still I'm still gathering. It's nice to be wearing real pants, real pants. Been a while, it's been a while out of the jama pants. Still wearing peas I missed.

So it's like when you come back home from college and your parents your room kind of looks at the same. Didn't touch the room, it never left to stay home. Now we got a hand sanitizer on your side. We got it all good, Thank you, thank you. Yeah. Now, great to have you back. We missed you as well. Isaiah stand back, sir, fresh off of a great week for you. It's go time, baby, it is go time. It is playoff time. It's our first official playoff show.

Love it of talking cowboys and it does it gets different, and we're gonna talk about the cowboys in the Eagles. But really, now, now your eyes are forward, it's it's a twelve and five record, you're the three seed in the NFC. But now eyes ahead to the playoffs. You're looking those zero and zero record turns into that's what the red's gonna be here in a couple of minutes. Uh, cowboys, was it twelve and five? Is it twelve and five or zero and zero? Because he's right, we gotta give

them credit for what they've done. Yeah, last five months whatever, let's just fly right by that. Let's fly right by. It's awesome. It's awesome. But what's the ultimate goal? Year? One day and then it's been Yeah, it was ultimate goal. You gotta gonna take that from me. Were twelve and five? Twelve and five was dog crap? Last year? How must had nothing? Last year? I defense was the worst last year in history? Last year twelve and five. Let's go with it. It's all pass Yeah, all right, I mean

that's the thing. Twelve and five is fantastic and it is set you up in the right PSA want to do it. But if you lose this week, what is twelve and five? I'm not talking I'm talking about victory Monday. We beat the breaks off the Philadelphia Eagles. We got everything that we wanted out of that game. Okay, based off of what we did last season in the finish

off this season, I live in reality, guys. I understand what we got going on with the playoffs, but I'm going to celebrate this team for what they did today. I'm just saying I'm with you. Heck, I'm with you because to your point, we were just talking about this before we came on the air. How many coaches around the league have been fired this morning? Oh this morning?

Three Miami, Chicago, Minnesota, And that adds to the three that we're already gone at some point prior to the season and the season Denver yesterday morning with Fangio, Jacksonville and then Las Vegas vanquished Cowboys. Not in that situation. In fact, they've got two coordinators that are pretty hot commodities around the league. It is a nice place to be here on Monday morning as we start to look ahead to the playoffs Black Monday in the NFL, and

you were certainly in the right at this point. Moving forward, so Cowboys get to win, they will face the San Francisco forty nine ers, and we'll certainly going to talk about that coming up here in a little bit. But let's talk about the fifty one twenty six win over the Philadelphia Eagles as the Cowboys even got a chance to rest some guys late. They were already a little shorthanded to due to some different circumstances, whether it be

injuries or COVID protocol. But the Cowboys just dismantled the Eagles on Saturday night. Heck, Miles, start with you, how much does that do to ease your nerves? Because there were three things you really needed to check off in that game. You needed to be healthy, you needed to get your offense back on track, and you needed to win the football game to try and help yourself in seeding.

You did all three of those things and it ended up working out for We talked about that, I'm talking Cowboys all week last week and everything that we wanted to accomplish, we checked all of those boxes off. We gotta feel good about the performance It wasn't so much about resting people you talked about on offense and the continuity. Take a drink, guys, and we're back. And now I'm saying the offense and what you needed to see from Dak. You wanted to see this running game get gone. It

got going. You wanted to see Dak complete some passes in coverage in between safeties and cornerbacks. You saw that all of those things that you needed from this offense. You gotta feel good, all the feel good stuff that we needed when we left Philadelphia. I think that this offense is back where they need to be again. The defense that they're going to face next week is going to be a task all in itself, and they are going to bring all of the exotic looks that people

think bother Dak. But the number one thing is for all of us going into this game on Saturday, was getting this offense back on the rails. Isah. I don't disagree. I think that they needed that game. They needed to

go out there and have that type of showing. You always obviously look at it and say that that Philly didn't have any of their main guys really their present, so it should have been that dominated, But regardless of who was out on the field, you needed them to walk out of there with some confidence and you wanted them to go out there and have some success. And that's ultimately what happened. Regardless of who has decided to suit up for the Philadelphia Eagles, now they can feel

confident going into their next matchups. Obviously with the forty nine ers coming in, everybody out they're going to face in these playoffs are much better than this team. Totally agree they did what they should have done. I mean, I think Philly was missing ten of eleven starters on defense something like that, so they did exactly what they should have done. Imagine if imagine if we walked in for this show this morning and they did not play any of their starters. I think we would have felt

this way. They might have even felt this way like kind of where are we at? Guys? You know, where were we at? And I think they got a good I think that was a confidence booster for them for sure. I put a poll out there after the game, not knowing who the opponent was going to be at that point,

and said, okay, Cowboys Nation, how you feeling? Got one hundred and fifteen responses, and it was like fifty fifty, some people feeling good, some people not so sure so, and one that really stuck out to me was optimistic wild pessimistic. And I think that's kind of how Cowboys, some of Cowboys Nation is feeling, because you know, they're talented, they're twelve and five, they've had a lot of success, but there's been some inconsistency said there, So, how how

are they gonna play in this game? I think it's gonna be fascinating. You want to see it. I mean, how many times have you gotten to this point where you haven't seen it? Whenever the playoffs roll around because you get one shot at it, you get one, you get one bad game, may or you don't even get that bad game. If you really want the ultimate prize, you want to show out and you want to see that twelve and five translate into success in the playoffs.

And right now this is a team that could either go one and done or could win the whole thing. That's exactly what it is. So I mean optimistic pessim or what was it? Optimistic wild pessimistic? Yeah, I think that could be a slogan all the way through and through But I think you're right. I think going back to Heckma's point, it made me feel better because those windows that Dak Prescott was throwing into were the same size, whether or not it was a backup or not, I mean,

he was making the throws that he needed to. The throw that stood out to me was the one too Amari Cooper on the right side that got him down inside the five yard lines. That was a dime. And he made throws like that throughout the game. Of course, five touchdown passes career high for Dak, thirty seven on the year, new single season leader in Cowboys franchise history. So I thought Dak played possibly one of his best

games of the year. But I guess you can take a little bit of away from that because of who was on the other side, right, agree, Yeah, I mean at the end of the day, these guys they did what they needed to do, and we know the competition level wasn't as high as it could have been. That's just facts, regardless, They regardless, like I said, who stepped on the field, they needed to execute and I feel as if they did that and they should feel they

should feel very confident. Kudos to Dak kudos to Zeke. Both of those guys had great monumental days. And now you know they can look at each other, you know, with their with their chain raised up high, and they can look at each other and say, Okay, yeah, we're twelve and five, but there's two other teams in this conference in the playoffs that have better records than us. If we get past this game, possibly you know, one of the teams has the same record of us, and

the other team just beat us up. So the records, the pasting, this is cool. But as you look forward, you say, we got to take care of this week. Now, feel good about what you just did. But I guarantee you none of those guys were talking about what just happened. Everybody's looking at film already for the next game. I didn't make the trip, but I think the one injury that they noted was Kean O'Neil arm shoulder, So keep an eye on that. But yeah, relatively healthy going into

the playoffs. That's all you can ask for. And the Bazook is coming back. The Bazook is coming back, and so pee we left the As much as they're talking about the Eagles, not the boot Eagles, not having their full slate of players. We left the big briefcase at home. True, it's true. We left Aidan's dad at home. Yeah, we left a b at home. Jern Curse was at home. Yeah, I mean TP was at home. I mean I get it.

I get it. And what they find is every caveat every gift to discredit the Cowboys in the season that they have. I'm I'm saying this, look, bring on the forty nine ers. I think we're going to talk a whole lot about the team. We're gonna talk about everything that they would be objective about all of it. But at the same time, Cowboy Nation, we gotta feel good right now. It's just what it is at twelve and five.

Another thing that's I think giving pause to the celebration of what was an absolute beat down in the second half against Philadelphia is the fact that they did it two weeks ago against Washington or three weeks ago now, But they did it against Washington, they turned around it and then they lost the Arizona So a lot of Cowboys fans are hesitant to really jump out of the cake and say, hey, they did everything they needed to, we got it done right, And so there's lots of

hesitation there. It gives me flashbacks I got PTSD from from my rookie year here in Dallas. We went thirteen and three, felt amazing. We had thirteen Pro bowlers. Guess what, the next week after that didn't freaking matter. We're sitting at the crib. Sitting at the crib. Didn't freaking matter that you're thirteen and three, didn't matter that you had thirteen Pro bowlers. You didn't get past the next dog one week, didn't you. Yeah, and you didn't get past

the next game, So it did. So you want to say so as I look back on my career and I'm like, oh, yeah, we bought out that season, but we didn't do crap in the playoffs, so it doesn't really. So do you feel like this team based off of the inconsistency and up and down? I guess in the season with teams below and above five hundred, that this is a team that doesn't rise to the challenge of big I wouldn't. I wouldn't put that label on them,

but I would feel I do. I would put the label on them that they say they have to have a question mark over their head. Why because the teams that are in that upper echelon they have not done well with so that that's why I said they have to have that. I will believe that they have that question mark hanging over their head. Now are they capable? I put the label on them that they don't show up.

I wouldn't put that on them, but I don't think that they have performed well enough this season against that level of competition to feel that confident heading into this into this postseason. But even in terms of their capabilities, now they know what they're capable of, right, but in terms of it's a difference we know what you're capable of and showing up in executing. The only game you were not really close in was the Denver game. And

I'm not looking at close. I'm looking at no, no no, I'm making The only game that you're not weren't close in was the Denver game. That was a complete blowout. They dismantled you and showed you that you better come to play every time. But then in those other games, let's just say Kansas City, in a game where you think the quarterback is all world, that defense they showed out. But this isn't a game where we lost fifty one

to twenty six. Even with these basically what I'm saying in these matchups, they have been ultimately we were right there. We have proof that if we don't make those few bad plays, we can actually get over the hump. And if no one's gonna give us credit at all, I'm basically just saying that in this matchup versus San Francisco, we're going to be build them up all week as

the juggernaut the world beat that they should be. But what is going to be the difference for this team to get over the hump versus that above five hundred team? Just basically like execution? Okay, execution, I don't have it off the top of my head, and Biemer might be have it. What's our record against teams that are now in the playoffs, well, three and four, three and four yea, yeah, So that's what That's what I'm talking about. They have to show up, they have to execute. We all know

what these guys are capable of. This roster is completely stacked off, This coaching staff is stacked now, piece together, maybe four and four, this piece together, go out there now and destroy the team. Set set a standard so high the expectation has to I mean, you have to meet that expectation. You know that you have a stacked rosch, You know that your coaching staff is trying to get picked the part right now because everybody knows that they

have a great staff. Now put it together. Go out there and beat a team that everybody says should be a competitive game and destroy those guys. L Maury said that on the fan last week in so many words in terms of we've shown how great we can be. So now that's the bar yea and so and so that's valid when there's criticism or questions about their consistency level. Again, Sunday was a Saturday was a good step forward. But yeah,

this is going to be more of a challenge. I think there's a question mark over everybody's head in the NFC playoffs, except maybe Green Bay because they've got the home field and all week off and it's hard to play up there. Yeah, but I think I think it's a very level playing field, except you know, you know, Philly against Tampa gonna be tough. But I don't think it's like I don't think this is a tough matchup like, Okay, well, in each team in the NFC is a pick your

poison sort of situation. They are all dangerous teams, but they all have question marks. It's which team are you gonna get that week? And that's what's so scary about the Cowboys in a good way. They're scary because they can be that team. They can beat anybody on the in the league right now, but they could also be the team that loses to the Broncos thirty to sixteen. I agree, And I feel like every other team on our side of the division right conference sorry, is in

that same category as Stepford Green Bay. When you play Green Bay, you know that you're gonna get their best every single time, and you're not gonna catch them slipping. I feel like all the other teams, you might catch the best version of them or you might catch the worst version of them. And and that's I think that teams feel the same way about Dallas. Yeah, it's volatile right now. And you look at all the games this

season that were heralded as benchmarks. Tampa Bay loss, you could probably say New England, but nobody knew who New England was at that point in the season. But you'll say that's a win. They were three and four, by the way, against five hundred teams. Kansas City lost, Las Vegas loss, Arizona loss. Those were the benchmark games along the way that you said, here's where you can finally get a chance to show that you're the real deal. And pretty much out of those five games that I

just mentioned you you lost four of them. You're gonna take the Charges out of that equation. Yeah, I'll take them out of it because it's the same kind of deal. I gave the Patriots the benefit of the doubt, but the Chargers right now, can we talk about that real quickly? Hey, talk about that. You know what, this is my uh, this is my premonition. Listen to. I feel as if the Raiders were gonna allow to clock the run out. I think so too, until until the Chargers called a timeout.

Once they called a timeout, he's like, oh, oh, you want to win the games? What car said post game? Oh you want to win the game? All right? We got you. I mean he was third down in four they had run the ball two straight times. Really didn't look like they were in a hurry with thirty nine seconds last, So why they call it time out just because they were trying to get the defense. They want

to get the ball, they want to get back. Yeah. Yeah, well, and the explanation afterwards from the Charger side of things was that they wanted to get their personnel out there because he was happening. Stop this. They had two prior run plays. No that was that was try and save your your skin sort of situation. I cannot believe they called that time out. They were they had the playoffs, They had a no lose situation. Even if they would have won, they would have been the sixth seed if

they tied. They were also this, I don't think the Raiders were tribute. Raiders were like cool, let it run, yeah, right, time out? Oh yeah, we both we both win. Here. The Racers were doing you a favor by running out the clock. They were chilling. They were they were gonna say, you know what, we're both going. We played really well, got down to the final Mets tense. But shout out to coach Rich Besaccia and the job that he did. I mean, the Raiders organization was, man. They were like

a vote with no sale. After all the controversy that came out and for them to be able to make the playoffs is awesome. I know, they're going to be interviewing coaches and all that for that head coaching job. But coach Besaccia show I think he needs it. I say he's done the job that the way that that situation was three situations. Yeah they had three situations. Absolutely, Yeah, they didn't really major situations. That entire staff really, from top to bottom, has done a great job of keeping

that thing and float and getting into the playoffs. Also around the league yesterday, I mean they were a multiple Game of the Year nominees. Talk about San Francisco and the Rams, the game that actually allowed the Cowboys to move into the three seed, Seattle taking down Arizona also helping with that. Isn't that this crazy st that if coach McVeigh leads by halftime, he's like undefeated or something like that. What a crazy stat to end that way.

I mean, that's horrible. They were up seventeen to nothing. San Francisco looked done. They looked done, they did, and they came right back and they won that game. Which should be a point of emphasis this week in the Cowboys meetings is even if you get up early on San Francisco, do not let off the gas. Do not let that happen. Let's learn that lesson already. Yeah, that's a good point, all right, when we come back. Are people being too hard on Dak Prescott even to this

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Bay in the second round. Should they take care of Philadelphia as the two seed versus the seventh seed, and then he would be on the road to Tampa Bay. However, if Philadelphia were to upset Tampa Bay, you could have a second home game, so and that would be probably against Philadelphia, or no, Philadelphia wouldn't play Green Bay. It's kind of impossible to see what the scenario would be

because the NFL does recede after every round. But for the most part, you're probably gonna see Tampa Bay second round rather than seeing Green Bay in the second round. Love helping things out, no doubt about it. We'll see you again. I love it road run through Green Bay anyway. My boy did just get paid though, he did. Yeah, Jesus, this is seventy eight million, seventy three MILI, four years,

seventy three million dollars. Good. That's gracious for a defensive tackle. Well, that's a little money in a couple of dollars a little bit. Has Dak Prescott been over criticized because of the season that he's had throughout? I mean, he's still top five in completion percentage near nearly seventy percent on the season. He has now the most passing touchdowns in Cowboys history in a single season, had five touchdowns. Again, you talk about games where he's had over two hundred

and ninety five three hundred yards three plus touchdowns. Is he getting over criticized even down the stretch with the way this offense looked at. I'm gonna saying no. I'm gonna say no. And I know a lot of people look at the stats and he's setting records and that's awesome, but I'm I'm super critical. Everybody knows that already. And even in this most most recent game. Heyes, he has some good thrills, but a lot of his ball location is still off in my opinion, the velocity on some

of this stuff still not there. So my expectation, my personal expectation for Dak, I feel like he can still do much better, even though he is still killing it statistically. I think he can still do much better, and I would I would assure you that he would probably say the same thing. Yeah, like you know, I'm just gonna say it like it is, um you know. Well, Well,

like Dak said, the pressure is a privilege. It came when he signed the contract, the money that he's and it's also a by product of being the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. Okay, this is the number. With taking the statistics out of it, It's been an inconsist instant year for Dak. It's been up and down, but no one can argue that he hasn't you know, when he's had a down game, he's come right back and made

some improvements. Defenses had adjusted. Kellen Moore probably didn't do in many favors with some of the mid season play calling. But look the things that you'll look over, the offensive line, the lack of a running game at certain points in the season. Look, these are things that you will look over. But bringing the statistics back on the table, you got the number one offense in the league, number one statistically in scoring, number two, no, no, no lower than number two.

So if any other quarterback in the league not named Dak Prescott had those numbers, I don't know if the criticism would be as hot as it is constantly each and every week, or people always shining and say, well, he's not a league, he's just this, he's just that. Look you look at Carson Wentz yesterday and look, I'm

not gonna even use him. You know, he's garbage. I'm just saying when you look at the rest of the quarterbacks in the National Football League, Dak Prescott brings something to the table for the Cowboys from a leadership standpoint, just an all around player. And look the disrespect that he's gotten from the national media sometime is warranted, but not at the level that they try and put it

on him. I just won't accept it. Yeah, I would say yes and no. I think if you're gonna say he's the sole reason to hex point for why they've hit a dip halfway through the season and for large stretch of the second half of the season, I would say that's wrong. I think there's a lot of things that have gone into why they've struggled. You mentioned the offensive line. They haven't got the run game established, there

have been miscommunications with the wide receivers. I think they could do some better things to scheme things up for the offense on Kellen Moore side. So yeah, there's a lot of factors why an offense doesn't struggle. To Isaiah's point, Dak's got to be the guy if they're gonna make a run. He's got to play at his very best, and we haven't seen his very best every single week. I don't think that's uncommon for a quarterback. This league's tough, but yeah, he can. He could play better than he's

played down the stretch, because we've seen it. We've seen it so your hope is that they're building to that. Now, when you look at the top five quarterbacks or top five offenses in whatever quarterback they have, let me run this down. Let me tell me if they've had an elite season, just not maybe elite status as a quarterback some of these are, but have they had an e lead season. Tampa Bay is number two, Tom Brady number three, Kansas City Patrick Mahomes. Number four is the Los Angeles Chargers.

You've got Justin Herbert. They didn't make the playoffs, but Justin Herbert truly had a fantastic year. And then the Buffalo Bills are number five, Josh Allen. At the top of that list is Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys. So I'm with Heckma, if it's anyone else, I think he's being heralded as one of the best seasons in

the National Football League from a quarterback standpoint. However, because of the roll, because of some of the things that happened on the offensive side of the football, A lot of it wasn't his fault. There are things that he could sure up. Sure, but at the same time, you feel like, I feel like he's not being credited enough for what he's done in a season, so be it

also coming back from injury. Think about that too. A lot of people forget about what he went through to get to this point, having an injury mid season and then still getting on the other side and having a twelve and five record in the number one offense in all of football. There's a lot of things there. I think that the nation is missing whenever it comes to

Dak Prescott. And surely we've been critical as well because it has warranted criticism at times, But in the overarching scheme of things, the regular season that Dak Prescott had was phenomenal and it can't be taken out of it. Now, going back to the Philadelphia game, fifty plus points again, did kelln Moore in that offense offensive line help ease your nerves there in terms of the play calling in the way that they set things up even without Tyrn Smith at left tackle. Yeah, I think so. I think

one of the guys mentioned the running game. I think that that's going to be the key if they can get some kind of balance, and I forget what they averaged in that game, it was like almost five yards to carry. That's that's going to be the key to making a run and helping Dak for sure. What do you think about Zeke? I thought he thought he looked I thought he looked pretty good. I I at some point was like take him out, take him out of down, because I said, yeah, he wanted his thousand. I don't

blame him for that. UM. And Look, they've been saying for weeks that like, by this point in the season, he's gonna be as healthy as he's gonna get. And I think, honestly, I think the last two or three weeks he's he's run pretty well, So I think there's some merit to what they've been saying. And this is the guy that everybody has been one of the given off day for the last couple of weeks. He ain't taking it and he's stayed with it, and he's looked bad.

He's looked much improved. UM. And just going back to the look, people are gonna judge this team based off of the Arizona game and not sealing the deal when they had an opportunity too, and I think that's fair, um. And the penalties and the things that they accumulated that game. This was to feel good game that they needed and I think from an offensive line standpoint, I think they did that. I think there were some other areas. I didn't like the way that Leo Collins played. I'm just

keep it real. I thought there was some inconsistency there from the right tackle. In man, he's got Bosa coming his way, so he's definitely got to shore up a lot of his inconsistencies. But offensive, I mean, when you talk about what they did, I think they protected Dak really well and just his ability to get the ball

out and find those open receivers. I think the deep prosser to CD Lamb, A lot of people not gonna make mentioned mentioned that that was a play and they even said on the telecast where he had to throw the receiver open. And I just thought that the offensive line again just they protected him and they allowed him to be his absolute best. If they can follow that

up next week, I expect the victory. By the way, Lyle Collins, just to back up your point, was the fifth graded pass blocker in or I guess overall offensive grade in the offensive line from this past week. So he was number five. Oh yeah, it's only five exactly pretty yeah, not great. What do you think about all of it together. I mean, they look good. They look good again. I have to take into consideration who was not present on their on their defensive front for Philadelphia.

But other than that, I love the fact that they look confident. They are having fun, they're excited, they're working well together. They had nice combo blocks. This is something that they struggled with for a good duration of the season and that's all you can ask for as they were going into this playoff r and you wanted to see them confident. And I spoke on is our issue has been upfront and execution at the line of scrimmage. Initiating the line of scrimmage. It didn't matter what tailback

you put back there. And we saw that. We saw that this week right that back that I validated everything I was saying in terms of it doesn't matter. This old line has to be in sync. They have to be they have to be synonymous together. They have to just have to be continue to have to be go forward. They got to press forward. They have to be able to be there's like a dance, you know as they work on these blocks. You know, work one dude here,

boom past, I can't talk to you. You have to feel that my head of that I'm doing with my body. You gotta know that I want you to take over this guy. I'm working up to the next level. And you saw that happen. You saw the execution, and you could you could man, any of us could have got in the backfield and ran another day. That's how that's how it fluid they were, and that's what you wanted to see. You. They needed that showing going into the playoffs.

The penalties were down too. They had a pre snap like first couple snaps of the game. Other than that, they did pretty pretty clean job. That's been part of the problem offensively too, is these holdings, these false starts, all those things, getting the second and long, getting third and long. That doesn't make Dax's job an easier. Connor bro had a flashback on the holding though. Did he have a hold in the game? He had? I remembered it, Yeah, yeah, he did, can't have it? Was it a holder? Was

it a false start freehold? It was a holding? It it was a throwback holder holding fifty two on the offense. But he's you could tell that he's super cognizant of it right now, which is kind of they all know. Yeah, well he knows, you know, he's out there blocking. You see. Sometimes he's just like, get my hands off, and and other times he's like I'm a bulldog and he's like no, d Connor just holding the flags waiting on him. Yeah, all you gotta do with that one, Yes, Like that's

a big reason why he got benched. Is like, I don't think overall they thought he did a bad job. That's what I was told anyway. It was just it's like the refs are waiting on it, and we can't afford to have that going on right now. It's that when you're a criminal, you don't get the benefit of the doubt. Damn. I guess he's a criminal on the field, That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, context that you, I mean, you're gonna they're gonna be looking for you. It's true

if you were a repeat offender, that's it. In a similar scenario, you're going to have that that eagle eye on you. What was your favorite part about the Eagles win? Mine was Chiquon Hardy getting the touchdown at the end twenty two yards out, him kind of slicing his way in the end zone after a great move undrafted free agent out of Tiffing University. I thought that was a lot of fun anybody having Yes, I like seeing the guys be excited for the guys that are laur on

a depth chart. I love that that team camaraderie that was that's awesome. That that's that's that. That was a nightcap to the season. We're again in twelve and five. All that stuff is awesome seeing this team in the season that way, where it didn't matter who came in a game, they were gonna ball out. It didn't matter who was in on the game. Everybody was engaged on the sideline, everybody was cheering on, cheering on their teammates. That aspect, that's culture. That's what I was talking about

before the season started. That's the culture change that you wanted to see. Instead of guys being out there, you know, third and fourth Streen guys and me and heck him over here in the sideline talking about you know, the flight back. You know, everybody was standing up, everybody was engaged, everybody was cheering them on. Everybody was hype. They were

running into the end zone. Guys were coming off the bench running to the end zone, celebrating that is me wanting the best for my brother, regardless of who's in the game. Greg Zurline good from forty eight yards. I'll go with that. Do you want to talk about the miss if you want, that's part of it too. But I that that's encouraging because you gotta have that. You gotta have that part of it going going to the playoffs. Gotta have both of them. Gotta both of them, Gotta

both of them. So that I was halfway, I was halfway. Pot that's okay, that's a two points. Yeah, Yeah, I felt good about all of it. Man. I'm really just seeing Dak get back and sync and just seeing him enjoy getting down in the red zone. Uh, get some scores. But Corey Clement scoring that touched down for me. It was like knowing how he's beloved in Philadelphia and then he comes back in the Cowboys uniform and scores like like that. Boo just a little bit. Forget that he

has a super bowering he does. Yeah, and he played a big part of it. Said that on the broadcast Philly Special. Forgot about that took snap Yeah, yeah, so pretty cool for for Corey Clement. Going back to way you were talking about that camaraderie and the excitement around some of the guys later on the depth chart, it

gave me flashbacks to Oxnard and the Mojoe moments. I know there wasn't really a mojo moment really in that game because Cowboys pretty much had it in control, but it was it was that level of excitement and build that. It's been the case that has been the foundation in the standard going all the way back to the practice field in ox Start, because it really has been since then. You see that kind of camaraderie and that teamwork that it's visible on the sideline. You love to see that

and hopefully it moves forward. Is Corey Clement the only player on his roster with a Super Bowl roam? I believe that's so great question? Don't think I think he might be right, he's only one unless there's somebody on the defensive side, I don't think so. Wow. How about ahead, Yeah, we'll have to go look deep into that. I think you might be right. Huh. All right. When we come back here on talking Cowboys will wrap things up and let's look ahead to the playoff picture in the NFC?

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or you're cheering in the stands with us. Or lenses. You can see every exciting play book an appointment at your local experts and see what selor can do for you. See more, do more on talking Cowboys. This seat isn't as bounty as Robi's bount seat. He's getting the bounce. Hellttle bounce. Yeah, as Jason Garrett would say, little bounce, little bounce, A little bou bounce, a little bounce. Chris, can we tell that story on the air because I

thought that was hilarious. Yeah, go ahead, So let's throw it back to Saturday Night. I'll see what you do there. Throw it. Uh. Corey Clement scores the touchdown in the third quarter right with a fourth quarter early fourth quarter, make it thirty seven to twenty Cowboys. It's his first touchdown, record breaking Dax record. Hey, you could have made some

some bank off that if you would have caught it. U. Corey Clement walks into the end zone after getting the catch in the flats and celebrating, of course, like we were just talking about big touchdown in front of the Philadelphia fans, and in celebration, after he does a little dance, he chucks the ball up in the air, eat up in the air, sky High in Philadelphia and Chris Beam is standing just a couple of feet off into the left. I'm looking at I'm shooting him and doing a great

job with the camera in hand. And what happened Chris? That ball came down to him here right in the head. I'm sitting there looking at him, like this ball hasn't came down like one of those anvils in the cartoon. Was you got any physical evidence that you got a welt? You got anything? I had a headache all day yesterday. Man, Yeah, he tossed that thing high. Go back and look at the high We pulled it up in the break and we're just looking at it, and that was a he

chucked it well here. We talked to Corey after the game and and Nick said something to him and like, hey, you chunked that so high. It's one of the people right here in the head, maybe the guy behind me. And he's like, oh man, I'm so sorry about that. Oh that's good. And someone goes he goes, well, you know that was Dak's record ball. He's like, what's yeah, broke Tony Romo's record. What did you do with it? He goes, oh, man, I almost threw it in the stands.

This first thing I thought I was gonna do, he goes, but then I handed it to my mom, So my mom has it. Oh that's awesome. Yeah, no, that's cool. It's not like it's the Tom Brady ball that got handed to a fan by Mike Kevin's earlier in the year and they had to give him like an arm and a leg to get it back. But yeah, I mean that's Corey said he had to give him a new contract to get get the ball. Yeah, there you go. How about that hold it for some leverage? But jo

I love that. I love that from from Chris Beam doing great work on the sidelines and getting thanked by a bunk on the head from Corey, Clement and Cup At final segment here of talking Cowboys Sack Ma Harrison, Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeomans and Cowboys at the three seed. Rob, what does that mean in terms of the road that they would have going into the playoffs to play San Francisco this week and then what happens after that? They would play winner of the

two three right, So it's it's a receding. Yeah, it would recede so you would play somebody help me. Probably you wouldn't be going to Green Bay. You'd be going to Tampa, right If Tampa Tampa one, Yeah, there you go. So on paper, I'd say, that's that's a winoid you void Lambeau. I would say, though, you know, going to Tampa's no fun either. I would have rather played the Cardinals in this matchup because I think, you know, beating the Cowboys twice on the road, it's kind of like

Georgia tonight. Like I kind of like Georgia in this game tonight. But look, there are no gimmis. It's gonna be a tough matchup anywhere you play, and the Cowboys are playing at home. They earn that opportunity, so you know they're gonna have to beat good teams regardless. I don't think it really matters who they play or where they play. I think that's the cool part about it is the Cowboys have a great shot at hosting or

not a great shot. They have a shot period to host the second playoff game, because if Philadelphia were to upset Tampa Bay, then you would host is likely one of the actually it would definitely be the Rams or the Cardinals. Because Philadelphia would then go play Green Bay and then you would play the winner of the Rams or Rams in the Cardinals in that NFC West battle, So gives you a shot at a second home game, which that just shows how much one seed can help

you out in terms of the playoff picture. And that's that's the perspective that I'm taking as well. You know, you position yourself. Obviously, you miss opportunity with Arizona to be really at the second seed, or even even if one wouldn't been first, they didn't lose but the second seed. So whatever happened yesterday with obviously with Seattle winning, that

helped substantially bump it up. But also, if you get past this first round, if you get past forty nine ers and say the Bucks beat the Eagles like most people expect, you get, you get some payback, You get some payback. And I think people, I think Dallas Cowboys Nation has won it payback on Tom Brady and the rest of them buccaneer since week one, and I think that would be one heck of a showdown, you know for a Bucks team that doesn't have all their dogs, but they still got a whole heck of a lot

of them, and I think Dallas wants that retribution. They want to get them boys the business back like they want to pay back. Didn't Dak say that to Brady postgame? They did, Yeah, we'll see it, can see you again, Brady said that. He said, yeah, Brady said that to that. Oh okay, yeah, okay after week one, So that will be the loop that's played over and over again, and

that matchup hackensa. You know, I trust this team. I think when you look back over the season and their road in their home games, this team has been really even on both scales of going home in a way. Um, I like the way that it's playing out. Um I didn't. To me, it was all about getting into the tournament. All we had to do was get in the tournament and things would take care of themselves. This whole not going to Lambo whatever it is, man, all roads lead

through Lambo either way it goes. So we're gonna have to get there. So we're gonna to dethrone these guys. And I like the road that we're on right now. I like this matchup. I like that we drew San Francisco in the first round. I think it's favorable I think it's favorable for our d defense. I think no is favorable for our offense. So yeah, man, I'm excited about it and I look forward to talking about it

all week on Talking Cowboys. Yeah, I think that run game is going to be the biggest thing circled for the defense and slowdown because man, they ran the football all over in a monster Debo. Is a phenomenal player, Jimmy Garoppolo. He left some things to be desired. He's gonna give you him there. Yeah, he don't. I'd rather see him than other dude. Yeah, I don't want to see Jimmy g in there. This is a team that

is playing really well right now. That forty nine ers have been playing well down the stretch to get to this point. So it's not going to be a walk in the park. But neither is any game in the NFC at all. I mean, there are no more walks in the board. Those are done. Those are all done. We talked about it previously. Four game season, four games. You gotta get four games. Step number one could be this week at at and T Stadium. Four game season,

Sunday afternoon. Drap them all, ROPPI buckle up buddy, put you will put you, put your work draws back on, get your wallet out of your wanting your pockets y. Yeah, the yard draws time. Put them back on. It's the yards time. Don't you look at me like that? Heck were you don't wear them nice boxing briefs or brief boxes, whatever you were. You put the white boys on, the white draws, the loom fruities. It's go time. It's go time, baby, it's chloros Oh. All right for Chris me I said

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