Talkin' Cowboys: Gut Check

the Dallas Cowboys. As we are live from the s WBC studios at the Star are in Frisco, following a thirty five twenty nine instinct classic win over the Dallas Cowboys or excuse me, the Dallas Cowboys over We beat ourselves really literally almost literally almost every Yeah, there were a lot of penalties in that ball game, and we'll certainly get to that. But first, guys, it's a little different, not being the first show to go on Victim Monday.

It's a little bit different. We're going in the afternoon for those of you who listen later on, but normally we go at nine am. So, guys, now that the heart rate has settled, even a little bit. Heckma, how are we feeling after last night? Now? I feel wonderful. I feel great. It's especially when ugly win win. Nonetheless, we tried to do everything to lose it, but sometimes even you can't get in the way, especially when you

operating grace. You know something about operating in grace. Sometimes, man, you could just get through it. And I don't want to say too big to fail, but sometimes you too explosive to Phil, And when we needed a play to be made, we made the plays. Shout out to Cedric Willson. Wow. Shout out to said man, what a game though, What a game from the first quarter all the way through overtime. Man, I don't know if I've seen. There's been a lot of great games in the NFL this year, but that

one right there that took the cake. Yeah, now that was a heck of a ball game. Proud of the guys for battling through all the different forms of adversity. Obviously they had the element and environment that they were in. Then you throw the referees in there, um for their contributions to challenges true, and then um, you know, obviously bad bad plays, injuries, all those things, and they they

found a way to overcome all those things. Um, not with the guys that you would expect, right, necessarily not thinking about with the guys you necessarily expect. And that's the thing with this team. Um you know that that guy who's behind that other guy he can ball too, and teams are having a fear not only just those premier guys, but also everybody else has to be respected on this roster. Yeah, I think this is a game where offensively you showed your depth a little bit because

you mentioned it. Some of the guys who made the play, sure, Dak Prescott, see Lamb. They made some of the big plays when you needed it. But it was ty and Secki coming in and filling in on a touchdown drive for Tyrn Smith who was out for a little bit of time there. Ty and Secki came in and played really well in the limited time, limited action that he saw.

It was Cedric Wilson with the miraculous elevating grab on fourth down and four that saves the ball game and it allows you to go downfield and make this a ball game. So it was it was some of the unsung heroes in this And you also got to say Noah Brown. Noah Brown had a first down catch where he got blasted and he held onto the rock. So I mean, I think, and using the basketball analogy, our six man showed up and everybody that needed to come

in you point out tying the Secki. I think everybody was collectively holding their breast about Tyrn Smith going to the locker room. Didn't know even coming in with the neck because questionable. There were game time decisions there, but man seventy nine, he stepped up. He did a really good job in that time. Unfortunately, Smith was able to come back into the game. We asked Nay Newton on the pregame show, if Tyron Smith does not go the full game, do you have faith in the Cowboys tackle depth?

And his answer no, pretty much. I mean, he was pretty adamant, No, I do not have faith at all. Put his fist to the table to really talk about it, and tian Techi proved everybody wrong and had a solid showing and it proved to pay dividends, even Greg's rline after missing the fifty one yarder, which was bad, and certainly that's a coaching decision. I think that would have been questioned more if it would have been a loss,

than the craziness ensued afterwards. But then he comes back and he hits a forty nine yarder on the road in New England to tie the ball game and to send it into ot to allow your team to make some plays. So lots guys offensively that that stepped up. But defensively, it was your guys who made place Randy Gregory forcing a fumble in a strip sack of Mac Jones. It was Trey Von Digs with the pick six. How

does he do that? Again? What did you guys think defensively of what how the Cowboys stood up on that side of the ball. I feel like overall it was okay um. Obviously la later on in the game they let allow some things to happen that they shouldn't have and that they obviously want to circle and highlight and

bring it back. But I think for one of the few times this year, you know, obviously when you think about special teams, you think about them being on defense as well, that third of the game kind of being the two, you know, the one half of the game if people per se depending on how you look at it, and you got guys like Luke Gifford, right stepping up

and making huge place that was huge, Yeah huge. Um. You know so I think you could throw throw his name in the hat in terms of the defensive playmakers um in his game. But you know, I think they did. They did well overall. They add some pressure to to mac Jones. We knew that he was not a guy that you could just pressure and he just folds underneath that. Obviously, he his maneuverability in a It was amazing the plays

that that that Gregory had against him. Obviously, I don't care what human being was back there, they would have got their soul taken from them. Um. And then you know for his for mac Jones, were you respect to him for bouncing back after the after the interception, he came right back at him, right right back at Diggs. Um. You know, but those guys, those are plays that you learned from, you know Diggs. You know. Obviously I don't know what happened there communication wise. Looks like Kazi was

out of a position. But those are things that you highlight and say, hey, we overcame this. We did a great job overall. But these are things that we can eat and tidy up, either live a little bit more as we go further on and down the road. This is really the first time I think in a win the Cowboys you could really get after the way they didn't execute on a couple of occasions like this was

a sloppy win. Even in the game against the Chargers where you won by three and you had the field goal late from zerline to win it, you still felt really good about how you were able to play. I didn't feel good about how the Cowboys played yesterday. I mean the penalties were certainly and huge. I mean kept backing yourself up. You can't forward to go on the road and make that many mistakes, especially when Bill Belichick is on a headset in the opposite sideline, and somehow

the Cowboys were able to pull it out. What was your biggest concern throughout the game though? Heck, mom, because there were a couple different ways you could you could point at it, but hopefully it's nothing that could linger into the bye week and then the rest of the year. Yeah. I think we talked about what our concerns would be going into the game, knowing that Belichick is he would

have these guys coached up for this game. The mistakes that we made all of those things are something that you definitely frown at, but you love the resiliency from your team to pull away even though they made every mistake in the book, one hundred and fifty yards and penalties. Even on that final drive, you know, to get to overtime, we were committing penalties. But I love when we're just

switching back to the defense. The chess game between McDaniels and Quinn, Like, these guys were going at it, and Josh McDaniels is still top tier offensive coordinator in this league and he had some things ready for the Cowboys. Gotta understand, man, these people everyone's got an opportunity to look at what Quinn is doing and evaluating. We talked about the history that these guys have between each other, and it was front and center because of some of

the mistakes and miscues that we had on defense. I think, you know, look, we held them in check yardage wise other than that seventy five yard bomb from Born and like, I don't want to make any mistakes for because he there, because he took a bad angle. It was horrible, but we got to think about he is the same player that got a personal foul. I believe it was the new year, it was either New York or against Carolinas last week or so. He had hit that personal foul.

And I'm thinking the angle that he took because he obviously saw that. He saw it, everybody that's looking at it. There's two things that can happen. Back when you were playing, that was a medicine ball. You were running straight into the safety. He was either gonna knock you out or he's gonna intercept that ball. He didn't either, and so I don't know if that was in his mind the

reason why he took the angle. Again. I don't want to give him an excuse, but for me, for free safety to take that bad an angle on the play that obviously you know, you can either get knocked the ball away from this guy all getting an interception. It was a horrible angle biocacy. Yeah, I mean, I think it was bad played by him and Diggs on that on that play, I think that was the same exact type of play that the interception that Diggs got last week against was it again? And who reminded me? Who

was the quarter again? And yeah, the past again? And we had, you know, we had a nice little little debate debate about that last week. I think that was the same type of play. He tried to undercut it. He tried to go for the big play, and unfortunately this wasn't a gaining This was Mac Jones, who thank you. I knew I was off, but yeah, this was this ball was on on on the money. So obviously last week it worked to Diggs in his favor, and this

week he did not. Um But you know those are plays that though again they'll shure up, those are you know, you could see Diggs running chasing them down like you should give one hundred percent effort, unlike last year other guys that chose not to give one hundred percent effort. But you know those are things that those are that's communication and you see him running looking back like, man, what the heck was that? And I think they were

both in the wrong. I think they'll both come to the table today, watch the film and be like, all right, man, all right, going forward when we see this, look, let's do this, let's communicate this way, let's play it safe here, or you know, whatever it may be, they'll they'll work it out. You need those players. If those players don't happen, then the mistake that you saw last night what happened in the playoffs, and that's not when you wanted to

have the first time. Yeah, it's a learning moment and you need these types of games to build upon for a team. If you want to get to the next level, you want to make a run of the playoffs, you need games like this where it's a ruckiss atmosphere, you're on the road, you've got a great coach on the opposite sideline. Because you don't go up against poor teams in the playoffs. That just doesn't happen. So moments like that this year, Yeah, that's true. Jus. Yeah, there's a

lot of teams out there right now is strong. They are very strong. But that's the thing is moments like that are where this Cowboys team is going to look back on Week seventeen eighteen heading into the playoffs and then look back and say that was a moment we learned something. And Treyvon Diggs he's that type a player. Trayvon Dixon. You can take with the interceptions what you want. He has seven picks in six games, that's historic, unbelievable.

But he's gonna give up plays because he's aggressive he's gonna give up the big play, the seventy five yard And I think that, I mean, if I'm just looking from the outside, not knowing what the coverage exactly was, not knowing what their responsibilities were in the meeting room, if I'm looking at it from the outside understanding what I do know about football, is it looked like Diggs is like, you know, I'm gonna be aggressive, and I need you to back me up just in case I

don't get I need that help, right, give me that extra help. So because I saw that I can play aggressive, I need you to be a truce, a real safety, be the safety and be the last line of defense so I can go out there and take high risk, high reward or high risk you know, no business. And

that's and that's so true. Like you said, man, with what you know about football and just understanding from that perspective, whatever coverage you're in, I got a man in the hole behind me, so I can play aggressive underneath and I can cut underneath that. And you could tell even when the ball was released, he's like, oh he got this, you know. And although he's come back and taking the responsibility and say, yo, that was on me. That's just a pro being a pro in a situation like that,

not throwing your other guy up under the bus. But man, come off. Even you can see that, you can see it's definitely an error. Miscommunication, coverage and that communication and that camaraderie on the backside of the defense is once again, it's a credit to Dan Quinn because this is this one's stuck out because there hasn't been that much miscommunication on the defense throughout the first five weeks of the year. Six weeks of the year. Now you haven't seen a

whole lot of that. Well, you come against the guru that can make you do things like that. And again we have to talk about the Patriots and what they did and give them the respect that they earned from us, because I believe everybody sees that mac Jones is going to be a somebody in this league. He had some damn good throws and obviously those that first touchdown, we left them in a favorable field position and all of that.

But still they had some move they had some drives on us, and defensively, you look at what Randy Gregory did, but you also go back and see, hey, man, they had they had one hundred and in one yard Russia against US. So they did have some success running as well. And if you could take this seventy five yard touchdown out, we would have held them to write about one hundred and fifty yards total passing. So that's not something that

you just you know, explode about. But at the same time, if you can play efficiently, not turn the ball over and do all the correct things, you can win an ugly game like that if you're the Patriots. But they just came up against a bus all yeah, and that offense is nuts. We'll talk about the offense in the next segment. But sticking defensively, you brought up Damien Harris with the first triple digit rusher against the Cowboys defense this season. Are we worried about the run defense just

because of this game? Because it looked like drive after drive that was where the success lied for New England. It looked like they were able to get a push up front, able to out physical the front seven. Now I know they're missing a couple of guys there, but is that something to look at moving forward? No, No, that's the strength of their team and we talked about that, you know what I mean. They went thirteen personnel that

entire first drive. Yeah, they did thirteen personnel. They went through three tight ends for the entire first drive and just said we're bigger than you, were stronger than you. That's something that we have to take, you know, we gotta take the heart. And obviously, and you just mentioned we're missing some pieces there, but those are teams are

teams are gonna look at that. Teams are gonna look at that and be like, we can bulldog these boys from time to time, you know, and obviously they're gonna gonna they're gonna bit back. But if we have one advantage against the Cowboys, it's on the ground game, and let's go hid and just just just put the big boy helmet on and we're going forward juggernaut style. I think that we can expect to see more of that in the future. But it's not something to worry about.

This is something that you have again, you learn, you learn from it, right, you circle it on the film, you put the little laser on it, and you say, see this right here, let's not let this happen again. This is how we're gonna address it. And then you go out there and you can you make sure that

you capitalize on it next week. Now, I'm curious, you know, being that obviously you being a formal player, and knowing that the NFC has to play at the teams in at the win they do after this, going into the buy matching up all of the teams in the NFC, where do you see the Cowboys right now? I want to I'm looking forward that Arizona game. I can tell

you that. Um. I think you know when you think about the NFC, I think you automatically think Tampa Bay, you think Dallas, you think Arizona, and you think the rams Ms. Those are the four teams that you throw The Packers in there too. I think I don't think the Packers have the firepower to do it. Yeah, I mean I think they have the leader to make it happen, But I don't think they have I'm not don't. I don't fear the Packers as if I fear outside of

Adams and Rogers. You don't think the personnel stands up? I don't, which I would agree with, Yeah, I don't. I think that Aaron Rodgers is always a thread and if the game's close, that's not to do that. You want to be going against But I think that that's a team that you can get up on and expand your lead versus those other three teams that I mentioned. We already faced Tampa, right, we faced Tampa already, we know what They're fully capable with a stack roster and

only going to get better. Um. And then you have the Rams that that Matthew Stafford is figuring out his personnel and those guys are rolling and their defense is playing well too. Now then you got Arizona, who's playing lights out obviously, and you have to look at them as probably the most between US, Arizona and Kansas City, even with sorry y'all, even with Kansas City's wols they've had early on, they're only gonna get stronger because they're

about saying that Arizon, I'm thinking about Ken City. Arizona, they're gonna get stronger because they just picked up who yeah right tight end yep. They just got zach Ertz. So they're not even that full capacity yet. So now they have aj Green who's looking at Adre greenish, they have bee Hop on the outside, and now they put zach Ertz in there, and then they got Connor, and then they got a Kyler Murray running around. That's dangerous.

That's dangerous. So I mean, I look at the I don't know where we fit in there, but I would love to see those matchups. Yeah, And that's where what I'm thinking about right now and just our comparison. And I can't wait to get to that Cardinals game as well. But I think if you're watching us from the outside looking in, you're just as impressed and you're just ass timid about facing us because you recognize we can hit

you from every angle. And I don't even think we've even seen the full arsenal of what you haven't seen the full potential of this offense yet. Dak Prescott is bawling, and it's a lot of people that are questioning how he ranks as far as the rest of the league and quarterbacks. There's no way that you can't put him in the top five right now. There's no way, and everything is debatable and they, oh, well, you know Tom

Brady this, Aaron Rodgers that. But let's talk about the numbers because that's what it's all going to be predicated off of, and based off of that completion percentage in his yardage. I mean to hang the numbers that he put on Belichick and when they said Belichick has never had that many yards placed on him by any quarterback. Bro, That's where you got to back up and say kudos to that, and he's the consideration for him being MVP. They have to start saying it and putting some respect

on his name right now. You know what. You know what I'm worried about the only thing I'm worried about. This really is the only thing I'm worried about. I'm not worried about guys getting hurt in us having you know, guys that can back them up. I'm worried about when we get our full team back, when everybody's back, when Galla's back, Gallimore's back, d Law, Trisa Hill, all those guys. When everybody's back. Do our guys that are making plays

right now are quote unquote second string guys. Do they back down and kind of go back into that mindset of all, I'm a second tier guy, or do you do they step up and say I'm still that dude regardless of when I come into the game. That's my biggest worry right now or area of concern, because that's a real thing. There are guys that when they're in a position to say, hey, you're that dude right now, and we need you to be that dude, and they

go out there and ball out. But as soon as the big dog comes back, a lot of guys kind to go back into their house, and I don't want to see that. Luckily, you don't have that problem with a quarterback position. You have Dak Prescott there, and sure that is a that's a huge concern, and I think that's something that we should talk about. Maybe next week at some point, we could do a whole show on that mindset, which actually I think would be a great show.

But I want to go back to the statue threw out a second ago most passing yards in a win versus Bill Belichick all time. Kurt Warner was second four h one, Peyton Manning with four hundred, even Warren Moon at three ninety nine. Now sitting atop the list Dak Prescott with four forty five. That's some pretty pretty good company in terms of quarterbacks, and damn good company. Yeah, and he put it out by forty four yards. I mean, he was forty four yards over second place. Kurt Warner,

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And we will have him later call a travel day. Yeah, yeah, it's a nice little travel day for Rob P. He was up there doing great work, had a sideline hit on the pregame show. He was also doing a great job on a sideline to really is I think he's done a great job. Are we surprised? Suited and booted and everything. He had the tie game. I think he actually made nicks nick and you had to step his tie game he was all suited and booted to us. Okay, both they both looked fresh yesterday on the on the

pregame show. Speaking of suited and booted, let's talk about the boot you like that. How about Dak Prescott showing up to the press conference yes today in a walking boot officially a calf strain for QB one, and he had a little bit of a limp to him walking off the plane and getting back to Dallas, and of course it was sustained on the final play of the game, the thirty five yard touchdown pass to Ceedee Lamb to

win it. And he said, hey, it hurts a little bit less when you score to win the game and you went on the road like that. It is a bye week. It's a great time for a bye week. Lots of guys with nagging injuries. But Isaiah, with it being a calf strain, is this something that Cowboys fans should keep their eye on or should they be worried about? For Dak, Yeah, definitely, definitely have to keep your eye on it, simply because it's you're the most valuable player

on your team, number two. He plays the most important position on your own a team and a number three. It's his right leg, which means that's his leg that he has to actually drive off of. He has a planet on the back side of his drop, and then he also has to drive off of that leg to create some kind of velocity with the ball. So definitely it's an area of concern. You factor in the fact, factor in the matter that it's a calf. I believe a Gallup had a calf correct. Yeah, right, And we

haven't seen Gallup for some time. Yeah, so since week one. Yeah, so we don't know how dire this is. Obviously the MRI I will tell, but in terms of right now, in terms of seeing him in the boot, of seeing him limping, Yeah, that's something that you didn't want to have your antennas up for. And just hopefully it's not that bad and hopefully timing wise he doesn't have to miss anything, especially with this bye week. Yeah, Gallop out since week one with pretty much the same exact injury,

a calf strain. He was originally supposed to only be out for three weeks, got put on IR he was supposed to come off week four. It is since taken a little bit longer. Now calf strain is a bad word here at the Star. And not only you talk about Gallup, but also Zack Martin went out last year with you pull strain. Whatever it is, obviously we're not gonna know the gist of all of it. And and Dak said yesterday on the press conference, Look, I'm just gonna let you all have fun with this boot to

make it seems don't look it's it's really nothing. They're gonna do an MRI on it, They're gon to check on it, but the severity of it will never know. As long as four is on the field, I just feel like we have a chance anyway. And so for him to be able to make that last play under the rest off his back leg, it's just picturesque, Dak. And so right now, as I stated, you know you don't want to win that way, but it was one of those games that you were really happy that the

team was resilient enough to come back. Let's talk about the turnovers in the red zone, shall we, because that's that's really where you look, where you circle highlight, like you said earlier, and look at some problems that can get you beat. When you talk about getting your whole nucleus back together, because if you turn the ball over in the red zone like that, it's literally impossible to

win a game, and most teams don't. It's no one could play era free or perfect football, but when you do it in your red zone, it's just a little bit more. It takes to all of the momentum away from you, and those are basically points that you're taking off of the board. So you know, Dak played through those and it seemed like the sense of urgency the field generalship that he had the entire game. I mean, he couldn't have orchestrated a better drive than the one

to get the field goal at the end. And it's those are like the little moments in the game to me that screamed MVP when you see him do what he did, especially in overtime. Especially in overtime, man, he was so clutch. It was a gutsy performance. And let's go back to the red zone. We knew going into that game it was gonna be tough to score on the Patriots defense in the red zone. They were holding opponents to fifty percent efficiency inside the twenty, So yeah, exactly,

I mean, it's it's something to look at. So going into it you knew that was gonna be a problem, So why was it still a problem to execute? Why can't you get a push up front when you know the physicality's gonna come from that front seven, it's gonna it turned into a problem. Just because you know it's gonna come don't mean that you can stop it. I mean, those guys are professionals too, and those guys are big boys, are heavy, heavy like Chevy's right there, you know what

I mean, plenty big, Yeah, I mean it's tough. I mean, you can acknowledge what their strengths of the opposing teams are all day long, but that doesn't give you the advantage to be able to just go out there and push them out the way obviously. I mean going back to the red zone, really, really the blackdone down there in a goal line? Uh, third down was a touchdown,

but camera, yeah, camera angles won't show you that, right. So, I mean that's something that the NFL has to continue to approve upon, right in terms of technology and all that jazz. But it is what it is. So what do you do? You go to fourth down? Now, all of a sudden, you have your quarterback trying to jump over the pile. It's not something I've ever liked to do at that position, but some you know diers and

a touchdown, I mean was a touchdown. It goes back to what we've been talking about, the technology that needs to be in the football that shows you that the ball has crossed the plane. This is the second time that this has happened to us, where we get down in there and that sneaks it and the officials say that he didn't get in Look, I'm like, I'm don't want to use them in any way as an excuse.

I think if you watched the game, you saw that there were plenty of miscalls, But right there in that situation, to me, I think, look, man, he scored. The hands should have been raised. There's no way, especially on anytime there's a score, they're going to review it anyway. And so I just didn't understand why we went more so fast right there. That was the only thing that I

had a question about. Come on, man, give them opportunity to actually look at the review, which we did because it was inside two minutes too, so you couldn't challenge it. So it had to be from the booth. It was the whole thought process after the third down, and since it wasn't a scoring play, it's not an automatic review. So I agree with you. I think they should have taken more time to say, hey, let's let the guys upstairs make a decision or not whether the review it.

But you're right, they got up to the line. I thought they had an advantage to try and catch them off guard with the quick pitch, but it would have reached it would have had been called a touchdown first, right for them to review it so they can go back and look at it. Yeah, I mean, but I mean if they didn't score on a third right, which they did, but they didn't call it a touchdown, then

there's nothing to review. They're not going to automatically review it, right in my right can That's what I was saying. It's not automatic. It would take a decision, which is why we're questioning why as quickly they got back up to the last scrimmage. I mean, but again, you know, things happen, man and lessons learned. I don't think you won't see Dak pulling that move out anytime soon. I was especially with a strade calf. He's probably not taking

off taken off the ground at all. But uh, you know, you learn from those situations. You know, I remember there's there's still places of this day that I've had back years ago that still are fresh in my mind simply because they were just that big of a deal at that moment. Right there was just that game, you know, I remember playing back in college against Oklahoma and I fumbled, and I'm like, damn if I didn't fumble, who would have won that game? Luckily, you know, they still wanted

to win the game. But he'll still remember that play. How where does this stack up in terms of the gutsy performances from Dak And he definitely didn't have as much success as he has in previous weeks in terms of the stats. I mean, yeah, sure he went forty five. I mean that's a fantastic number, but he was not comfortable throughout the game. A lot of his throws were on the run. He had to kind of manufacture a game.

And it was a fantastic performance from him. But where do you compare to this to what you've seen so far this year? I thought he played well and again fifty one attempts, I believe it was thirty six passes completed. Look they made him uncomfortable in the pocket, and I think everyone expected for Belichick to make him change the

trajectory of which he was gonna launch that ball. You talk about the heavy Chevies up front and the way they were pushing the pocket, credit the offensive line as well for at least allowing Dak to get those throwing lanes. And man, I just I just feel as though we're waiting on and not nitpicking. This is what we do, but I'm saying we're waiting on something big to happen to try and critique Dak about. I think that he's right now. He's playing within the offense. Him and Kellen Moore,

they're not pushing anything or pressing. You saw him take consistently the underneath route with Ezekiel Elliott, So again, I just credit him for not pressing and taking what the defense is giving you if he's and again, even with the injury, the horrific injury last year, you still see his ability to get out of the pocket on that he didn't get the first down, but on that third where he's getting out and he's running at ten of the eleven that he needed exactly and he's sliding in

the part he's doing all the things that you want him to do it and if there's a play to be made, he is reading the defense perfectly on that play to cede Lamb to end the game. Dog couldn't it couldn't. He couldn't have executed that play any better unless he landed right. Yes, yes, yes, thank you. That's the only way you probably could have executed that one a little bittter now, I think, I mean, I think that's playing an amazing ball right now. I think he's

playing lights out. I think this game was probably the most impressive game UM to date this year by him, simply because of what he had to overcome intellectually. UM Coach Belichick and his staff. They threw everything at him and didn't coverages. There is there is. I mean we're in the studio watching it. Of course, I can't help but watch coverages and all that stuff when I'm watching the game, and the stuff that he was facing. There were things that I haven't seen, and I watched a lot.

There was one time you you openly looked around and was like Barry, Kyle Nate, like, what coverage is this? We all just kind of like shrug, like I don't know what that is. There were some stuff. I mean, he was running invert cover two, he was running double, he was doubling receivers from from defensive end positions, running

out underneath. It was some amazing stuff. So it's for as for a quarterback to be as successful stat wise as Dak was under those under that, you know, that type of approach from Bill Belichick and staff that was as amazing. It was impressive because they took they took away some of his best options. Schultz was double team numerous times. Um CD was double team numbers time. How many teams do that double team that they know I mean they know where you were going, right, I mean,

so that's that's the thing. Right. So in terms of Bill Belichick taking away what you do best, he knows in the red zone where he's looking. He wants to look inside out and that's when they actually had that was it? What was it? Play on the scene? Was it was an interception? Was it? I can't remember, but anyways, he wanted to go to shots. He threw the ball just outside shots on an inside scene and I'm talking

about the rid zone yea and interception. It wasn't interception yet, So that's what forced that because Sholtz was double team so things like that right that he had to overcome. And again those are things that man bad ball, a bad decision. That was a heck of a hell of a call by the decordinator circle. That won't do that again, right, seeing it now, just dial it up, right. It's just just the one question, the one question that I had and watching and I saw those exotic coverages that they had,

and it didn't fool Dac as you just mentioned. I always I was thinking to myself, because I've seen Belichick make those end game adjustments, why did they stay in man for so long with guys hurt? I mean just even in overtime, they were still willing to live and die in man coverage. But they started mixing it up though, so even towards the end of the game, they were still playing man. Even we were motioning Zeke out into the to the receiver spot and running him all the

way across the field. Right. There was a time where he got he got Bentley right where he ran them all away from the right side and the left side, and Bentley just couldn't run with him. Well. The next time they came back and Keller Moore tried to do the same thing. Instead of Bentley running all the way with him, they passed it off to the middle linebacker. So as soon as Zeke got to the middle of the field, he passed it off the coverage and they

ended up being an incomplete pass. So there was a lot of things that looked the same, but Belichick was mixing it up in terms of looks. Yeah, but I'm like, just going back to that final play on CD. They were in man, that was that was blown the coverage that was blown coverage. Those guys that safety had zero awareness in terms of where CD was at. It was a It was a heck of a play play called by Kelly Moore. Heck of a a disguise by the

by the backfield and by CD. CD came off as if he was going to a block and then as soon as he saw that, he saw that safety law immediately right, And that's something that we broke down in the postgame show. He saw that safety down, That safety was way too close to the line of scrimmage play. Can you run that play beam for the people at the house? I mean, come on a minute, I don't know if we got that cut up. Yeah, no, beam got it. Come on, Chris, I know you got it

back there. He didn't get that much time. Yeah, the game winning please here. Oh my gosh, she's impressive. This is all from that angle. Can't see it, but look at that house. Yeah, but the safety if you saw it from the wide angle, the safety was down at about eight yards and he he has zero chancel. As soon as soon as before he pre snapped, CD knew, he knew, yeah, he was already put here right now. So all he had to do was be patient. That's the hardest thing of the receiver when you know that

you have the big play coming to be patient. Let me sell this block, Let me sell this block. Got you right, and I'm going there's nobody on the backside. Would you guys think of CD and the way that he played yesterday, This looks like a guy who continues to elevate his ball game too. Um. I was very I was very impressed by CD's performance on anything. And I know I'm gonna be super critical right now. Everybody is entitled to play and celebrate how they want to.

I just want to see him make the plays and not not do the you know, I mean, he's cool with the snidy know this thing. That's cool to do what you do. Everybody has a thing. But like holding the ball up in front of do his face, waving at him, mean, like that's the stuff I want to see him mature out of, hopefully, because it's just they would take it, takes away from me. They were giving

him that too, though a lot of it. I mean, but again, how you go about your business right right, How you go about your business now, that has nothing to do with him. I'm not taking those shots at him as a man, but I just would prefer to see him make the plays, even if you just smile at the dude and keep it pushing. But like the wave holding in front of him. You heard it. After the game they were going back and forth. He mentioned that you could tell that they were really biggering at

each other. But at the end of the day, just just just don't do it, you know, just see yeah, yeah, Dallas got you. That's what I hear you. I mean, And that's just me though everybody's in titles of their own. I'm okay with the wave. I thought the wave was pretty sick. Actually, just goodbye, Cela. Did you see the bow at the end of the when he got to the silent m I don't I don't necessarily like the strutting end of the end zone. I would rather the

ball be past the goal line before you celebrate. My own opinion, we've seen it in Dallas Cowboys Nation. Are you sure that you've seen that in Dallas in May? I had not played from on top of you, guys. Want to just take a look at it. Just this is the game. This is from This is from the copy from the network from CBS. Yeah, so here it is. Yeah, there you go. The safety went with the tight end. Well because it was Schultz, because he's been doing that

same playing. Look at it, called them once again, telling Morgan in bad Shoultz had like what three rollouts like him and so that running back one more time. Look all tired. These linebackers are looking at them. Yeah, too bad for them. Should have got them some extra cardio in hey and and Delta's show five catches seventy nine yards. I knew he was gonna be a factor in this game. Absolutely knew it. That dude. I mean, that was that's

where they were, That's where they were vulnerable. In the middle of that did you see that one he had that was tipped to him? It was the luckiest bounce that first in that first quarter should have been an I and T, but it was. Well, you asked the

question about Cede Lamb. I think you have ran from your apartments to the star because of what Cede Lamb is man, and so I don't I think we've been waiting on this And well, I think he's gotten to one hundred catches already, the fastest Cowboy to get to one hundred. I mean, all of that is impressive. So he is what it is. And I think we know that this guy should have had a thousand yards last season had Dak not gotten hurt. Great point, Great point. And it's nice to see him elevating to be able

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ball it right now? Man, how y'all feel y'all feeling like, you know, the road to the to the to so far is gonna come through at y'all starting to feel like that? Yet? Is it too early to jump out the cake on thing like that? Don't book it yet? No, don't know. Don't book the trip yet? You mean, don't don't do that. I don't know about that. We mentioned

the course, state of course, American the course. We mentioned the Cardinals game later in the year, and I do not want to fast forward through this any means, because there's a guy a lot that can happen between now and then. Don't be that guy. But you gotta remember, hey, you gotta remember it is this dude right here is a part of the thirteen and three team. That's true. State of course. Yeah, it takes one game, of course,

it takes one game. Now, we talked about the Cardinals game and later on, of course you got an opportunity to we'll get an opportunity to see this Cowboys team stand up against at least what at the moment looks like the NFC's best six and oh hard to argue that the Cardinals are the best in the NFC right now, the last remaining undefeated team. That's a perfect spot for a benchmark game, not the last week of the year,

but the next to last week of the year. So I think that's gonna that's gonna be the time when if you go down there and you beat them, there's a really good chance that that you could be pretty game again. Yeah, you might turn back around. There's gonna be losses along the way. I would be willing to jump out of the cake to say the Cowboys are not going to be sixteen and one. Who donna lose. I'm not saying who we're losing too, but we're not

going to be sixteen and one. That's not happening. And look, I see a few I see a few games where we may have some pitfalls. I think there's some NFC East games that you maybe have closer competition than you like right now, right, I'm not naive enough to think that. I just feel as though that this team is in a position right now where you see. Look, we're stacked, we have the depth that we need and obviously all of this is contingent on health. We have to be

healthy at the right positions as well. We can't lose our most important guy who we know we cannot lose, and especially offensive lineman or whatnot. But we were talking about the someone using Bill Belichick system or defense against us. Who's capable to do that? I think teams like Minnesota is capable to do that. I think the Cardinals are capable to do that. I don't other than those teams, I don't know the Saints have it now. I don't

think the Chiefs really. I'm just talking about personnel wise, who could who could be offensive? Yeah like that? So I mean again, none of that bothers us. We've faced the We've faced the Panther's team that thought they could out physical lesson. We punched them in the mouth too. You're exactly right, who is your smelly sticker? Well, my smelly sticker is going to a young man that is playing his his heart out right now and came into the year needing to see big things from him, and

my goodness, is he living up to expectations. Two sacks a sack strip fumble, and that would be one Randy Gregory. And I'm giving you the banana because you went bananas last night. I like it. And that's sack and in a strip fubble. Here you go, Oh my gosh, that was so nice. All right, Isaiah? All right, Melly stickers. So what I'm coming with here, y'all? See there right there? What was that? Sens a macar rude sent a maco. What you thought it was hamburger was a burger. We

called it a burger. We are calling this a burglar. Maybe maybe I'm just that hungry, okay, d on it all right, so listen up here, this is a burger to day. I don't I pass a bath. It looks like I forgot what a burger looks like. I'm vet to tarry, y'all, but listen up. This is a burger to day. Okay, it's fine macarund Bernie burger. Uh. Anyways, I'm giving this. Uh it's not a forty burger. It's a four hundred burger. You see what I did there,

It's four hundred burger. This is going to the man Dak because Dak is playing lights out and after overcoming that challenge yesterday in the form of Bill Belichick, you deserve a nice little double burger, a little double macaron burger, like a burger. It smell like a burger. That water burger smell yep, not not the macaroon. That's funny. I'm looking at it now. Doesn't look like a burger. Does not look like Come on, Kyle, hasn't been that long

since I've had a burger and problems? Right? Uh, I've got a little strawberry. I don't really know a good pun, but oh got it. My smelly Sticker goes to treyvon Diggs because he's just picking everybody off, like you would pick a strawberry off a tree or off the vine or whatever they grow off of bars that one. Yeah, they're picking strawberries picking who would who would pe? Who will pion Diggs? He probably would pick treyvon Diggs. I

texted him. I think he is currently on the plane, so we will have to wait for Rob Peas tomorrow. Smelly Sticker will get it all. Well, we're not together tomorrow together. This is this, This sucks. I just want to let y'all know this. I'm looking forward to your show. I am looking forward to see this really really quickly. We gotta get out of here here in a second.

But what shore are you on? I'm on mix Shots Mix Shots at two a thirty and I'm on with the legendary Bill Jones and I'm on with the young, living old legend Rob p Loos, Robbin you are both okay, Isaiah, what show are you on? I don't know. I'm looking it up right now. I'm on with I'm on, I'm on with Derek Man, I'm on the I'm on the break. Yeah, I'm on the break. That's gonna be Uh what time is that it? That is, yeah, ten o'clock. Robbie on her with Jesse, myself and Derek. That'll think Amber's on

there too, is okay and Amber? There you go. So there's there's the two there and then on talking Cowboys on this show, it'll be talking tigers because it'll be me along with David Hellman and Danny McCray on talking at Orgeron talk unfortunately. Man, Yeah, it would just be it would just be us talking about the whole time. I need y'all to start, pot could start the poet Coach stir your dog on pot. Don't y'all let this just seep away. Mary, y'all stirtish dog show. You feel me?

You think it's if you know where the game? You know what I'm saying. All Right, y'all, it was a lot of fun here on this victory Monday, but we gotta get out of here. I hope you had some fun with us here over the last forty five minutes or so. For Chris Beam in the back, for heck Ma Harrison, Isaiah stand back, I'm Kyle Yeoman's We'll see you next time here on Talking Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.