Talkin' Cowboys: Leave No Doubt

Coffee Company, the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys. We are live from the s WBC studios at the Star in Frisco. Isaiah stand Back, Patrick No C. Walker, Chris Beam in the backup. Kyle's gentlemen, are we ready? Are you on edge yet? Are you ready to get wild? Too much? Friesaiah, It's done? How are you ready wild? I'm not gonna yeah, Gross oh Man, fire up the night at the Rock spar Funny Ready Rah. It feels like we're still so far away because it is on

Monday night. It's I think it's like, uh, like Micah said on yesterday when he was asked, you know how long does it feel like it will take for money to get here? Especially going through the weekend and seeing the you know, the weekend games as Wild called weekend. He was like, man, it'll we will blank it. It It will be here. He was like, He's like, it's already having this conversation yesterday, he was like, it's already Thursday,

you know. So he was like, we're just gonna keep our nose to the ground and keep going and then we're gonna wake up and it's going to be Monday. Yeah, that's kind of how I feel about it. I mean, from a fan standpoint, I get it because it's like, oh, man, I've been waiting eight days for this, right right facts.

I agree that said, hoping that they give us a reason to wait, And we had open locker room yesterday, had a chance to talk to some of the guys, and it starts to feel a lot more like they hit the reset button after last week, and they're they're kind of they're in a different mindset, at least from what I was taking from the conversations I had. Patrick.

I'm interested to see what you think. But in the conversations I had, it's not what what we did wrong against Washington, it's what can we do right this week to put us in the right position to beat Tampa Bay. I agree. And in conversations with Zeke and Micah and you know jay Ron Curse, there's a coming thread, a coming theme in the locker room, which is and Zeke said it perfectly. He said, it doesn't matter what happened to the regular season. Nobody cares anymore what happened in

the regular season. It's about right now, right here. You gotta get it done it And Micah said, you know, the regular and this is a quote, the regular season is cool. You guys get all hyped up, but this is where legends are made. So that's that's where the locker room is right now. I like it. You see what did you hear what their locker room was saying? What did their locker room say? Mike Evans called this

defense simple? Ooh m. He said, it doesn't matter. He went for as long as we're healthy, it doesn't matter what dbs are out there. M I like it. Would you call this defense simple or is that just the jab But the fact that it's not simple, I'm not sure if he was speaking to the simplicity of the scheme, if he was talking about the person. Now, okay, let's talk about He talked about how their missing how Dallas is missing two dbs, and you know number twenty six

is making a couple of plays. But that's about it. A couple That's what he said. He said, he said, trayvonn he said, he said, Trayvon's all right. I mean, you know the first game, I mean he did. Okay, it gives me m M. You haven't if you haven't heard his interview, gold watch his interview. It will light you up. You know what that ties into was respectful Evans. You can tell he was hurting. He's Evans. He's taking

Treyvon Diggs personally. Listen Evans, Evans and Brady they were on the sideline from their Sideline Sounds video last week, and they were on the sideline at the last game in week eighteen talking about Brady's undefeated record against the Cowboys. They're kind of joking about it. They were. They were asking Brady. They were like, what's what's your record against the Cowboys? And he laughed and he was like six and oh. I think he was like we were just

talking about this. Wow, aren't you playing the game? You were just talking about Okay, So add that to what Mike Evans is saying. And the Cowboys are not lacking for bulletin board material. They shouldn't be lacking for motivation period. But why not throw these extra logs on the fire? Can't wait? And what's crazy is Mike Evans is saying what he's saying. But when I asked Trayvon Diggs specifically about covering Mike Evans, Diggs had nothing but respect and

positive statements and praise for Mike Evans. U. So it'll be interesting to see, you know, And I just want to know. I know from a Brady standpoint where all this cockiness comes from. I know from a Brady stamp see but but TB twelve typically doesn't speak on it. But and that's why I was vary. That's why that he was one of the main ones on the sideline saying, hey, we were just talking about this. How high chuckle chuckle um. But that said, regardless of everybody can agree, TB twelve

has earned the right to be cocky. Okay, Mike Evans even to a degree, you know, as many thousand years, thousand yards receiving seasons as he's had. Okay, fine, fair, but this season as a team. Where's the cockiness coming from in Tampa Bay? That that's where I struggled to try to figure it out, that where's the cocky? Don't like? Oh, you know what, I love it. You know why I love it? You know why I love it because people

who are that cocky let their guard down. Okay, And when you let your guard down, tapped there you get your nose tap, you get you get your gate rushed. Yeah, and all of a sudden, I'm in the King's court. Could you be saying the same thing about what some of the stuff is being said this week? I meany Mica Partsons came out and said, F that list, And there's stuff out there too, and siven that's not cocking, that's not in reference to the other team. Yeah, that's

just wanted to make sure that's just been angry. He said, F that list. I'm in playoff mode. He didn't say, F that list, I'm about to go killing flo. Right. So if you look at what they're saying in the locker room here, and and I believe it was was it Mica or Zeke one or the other. I'd have to check my notes, but one or the other yesterday said that what happened in Week eighteen was humbling. It was so brave, and that changed the energy in the locker room this week as far as what needs to

happen and what cannot happen. So those are the types of things coming out of the Cowboys locker room. That's the antithesis of what's coming out of the Bucks locker room. They're it sounds like they're over there in Tampa feeling like they're onto the divisional round before kickoff has even started for the wild card round. That keep it, yeah, keep that energy, yeah, yeah, keep it. By the way, Trayvon Diggs against Mike Evans in week one, he allowed

three receptions on six targets for thirty three yards. He did have to touchdown, but it was the fade route in the back of the end zone that just took a great Haven't seen his response to it, Like you have to watch it, Like he feels some type of

way about it. He's speaking like yeah, he's all right, but in his head he's like, oh, I'm about yeah, it's going down like and then that's what that's the energy do you feel for my is like he's taking a difference and approach is funny because Diggs is like, yeah, you know, have a lot of respect for Evans, and because he Diggs has won that battle twice in a row, right, And so now Diggs goes in smiling, smiless because he's like,

that's confident, Yeah, Evans. Evans feels some type of way about the effectiveness that Diggs had on No true competitor likes to feel like somebody has that has that hedge on you. So when Evans is speaking about it, he's like, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know he did. I mean, he was a I you know what I'm saying. I mean, you know, he didn't want to give him full credit three for six. By the way, last year it was one reception on

five targets and he had an interception. I mean, Diggs is locked down Evans twice, right, So to that point, I believe hearing him speaking, I feel as if Mike Emma's most likely has had a conversation with TV twelve saying I'll refuse to go out this game with those say with that same stat line. Yeah, And what I mean by that is, I think they're gonna try to come at Digs, and I hope they do. And I was just about to say that. A couple of reasons why,

I really hope that comes to fruition number one. And most importantly, if you're targeting Digs of that frequency, hawk of that nature, it's he's going to get at least one interception. But also as equally as important, if not more so, if you're targeting Diggs, guess who you're not targeting the cornerback on the opposite side of the field, whomever that might be Nashan Right, Xavier Roads, whatever the

case may be. So now you would worry less about Brady testing that CB two spot because he's so busy testing CB one, and testing CB one will get you one of two interceptions. So it by all means yap it up, mister Evans. Yeah, do it outside of the top all, outside of n Sean Right and and some of the other guys on the back half. I'll leave Bland and Digs out of this conversation. Who needs to step up and have the best game safety wise or or secondary wise, sorry I meant secondary. It's got to

be Nation right. Yeah, I don't think you'd be fair to say have your Roads he just got here. I mean, you hope and you would like for him to reach tap into that former All Pro and former three time Pro Bowl status that he has and has demonstrated over the course of his NFL career, But which one has been in the program longer. It's Nashan, right, So I'm

right there with Zaia. Okay, any news and notes coming out of yesterday with some positive, positive news and notes, positive love, especially going into a win or go home situation. I love that Cowboys injury report is slimmer than those cigarettes from Virginia. Tyler Biadish was back on the practice field effective on Wednesday, but first injury report came out on Thursday, which was effectively Wednesday as far as the

scheduling goes practice wise. But he was a full participant, yes, so there's the the evidence to what he was saying the day before. As far as being a full goal, he is in fact the full goal late in Vanderesh, Oh, No, you can't just blow by that like that. No, we're not just blowing by it. But we got something equally important late in Vanderesh. Full participant. Okay, there's two for two. That's two for two. So let's let's take a moment to go ahead and basking and both of those Syler

Biadas being here is is of most upmost important. Yeah, we ranked it yesterday. It's upmost important because you give this office a line back its leader. I don't know when I say leader, I'm talking about the shot caller. The way the way I put it, we asked that in the mail bag. We entered the mail bag this week about it, and the way I put it was he may not be the anchor of that offensive line, but he certainly is the glue. Absolutely, that's exactly what

Tyler is. He's not the anchor. Zack Martin is the an absolutely, he always has. Absolutely, but Tyler Beatis is the thing that keeps that. He's the chain that keeps it tied to the boat. Yeah, see me and glue. We ain't talking about no Elmers. Okay, I'm sorry, the animal sponsor. But either way they need to be all right. He is so important and I don't know if everyone out there understands the importance of his role. Having the center playing in the game, in the most important game

of the year, settles. Settles sets your foundation, because you've had a foundation that's a little shaky, right, you know, It's like it's like it's like my house, like I live on one side of the street. Nobody on my side of the street house foundation problems. But across the street is kind of like a little elevated heel, like

a little little fake heel. And I'm not telling about where I live, but everybody across the street, everybody across the street has foundation problems, and they have to put pillars in and they have to find out ways to just settle the storm and make things just just just work. That is what's been happening over the past a little bit without Tyler Biada is really being in there right. So now that he's back, Ah, they move back to the good side of the street. Okay, they're on the

good side of the street. Now, Now you can put guys where they're supposed to be. Now you don't have to ask guys to play out a position. Now you

can put your guy mcgovernent back where he goes. You can bump your boy Tyler's mill back outside, and you can tell Peters, hey, we appreciate you, player, but go rest those knees, okay, Patrick style Okay, And then you said and you're able to go out there and do what you need to do in the running game, because you have to have a running game against this three

four aka five two front. You gotta have it, and you need that dude calling the shots and being able to to to decipher what is being presented to them, call out the mic, be able to tell everybody exactly what the call is, having a cadence, right, that dak having a cadence in order in terms of what those guys are doing our front, because having different centers, right, we're talking about tens of seconds, those things matter, right,

talking about penalties, fall stars, presnap penalties, all those type of things matter when you change up, change up the center. So now things go back to order. Okay, where we have We're back in We're back in symmetry. Right, it's no different. We threw somebody else in here and Kyle wasn't here one day, Like it's it's gonna be different. It's gonna be different, right, It's gonna get the job done. Might get the job done, but it's not the same, right, Okay,

there might be a couple of hiccups. They want to be the same, Okay, So in the chemistry is different. So right, So I'm happy. I'm happy. Van dursh is back to Okay, okay, I'm eating the thrill. They're both back, no doubt. Equate that to the defensive side of the football too. How does Layton vander Esh help call out things and solidify that front because he may not be the anchor of his own defensive front, but he might be the glue of that side as well. Confidence the

excellent point. It's all about the confidence of vander Is being in there calling the shots. He's hearing to play from the coach, and he's being able to communicate that out there, been there since twenty eighteen. Dude, you look at when you look in the eyes of somebody who's calling those plays out right, they know that you are the captain on that side of the ball. You're the man on that field. Okay, when that man is not present, I'm hearing you, right, I don't know if I I

don't know if I believe you. Right, I hear I hear the call, But I don't have the boat of confidence I had when Vanderes is in there right when he tells me, slaps me on the button, says, hey, shift over the one one gap right, okay, Well, coach said on paper to ship get over one gap. I'm telling you, because what I'm seeing you're not seeing. Get where you need to go. It's gonna give us the advantage.

Those are the advantages that having somebody in there, like a Vanders at the middle linebacker position, is going to give this defense. When he's able to see things. I would imagine he probably watches more film than everybody. I hope he watches more film than everybody. Sean Lee, absolutely right,

Sean nobody watched more filman Sean Lee. So those guys are able to depict things that are that might be little hints, little tails, right that Tom Brady or I'm say not Nece necessarily Tom Brady, but the offensive line I've seen it on film. Offensive line gives out right and when those little tails are there and maybe nobody else sees it, but Vanderes does, he could put your team in position to make the play. Ye when you're talking about Beaddish and Vanderes, you're talk about the two

non quarterback quarterbacks of their respective position. So Tyler Biades is in fact the quarterback of the offensive line, while Zak is the anchor. It's Tyler Biada's point now pre snap protections and things like that. On the opposite side of the ball, Layton vander esh he's your quarterback of the defense. He might not be, I mean, he's not Michael Parsons as far as the leader of the defense or Marcus Lawrence, but he is in fact the quarterback that has to call out pre snap motions and reads

and protections and things like that. So and I love what Isaiah said in the aspect of there's a difference when you're starting Mike is in there and he's your green dot because McCarthy said it describing something different, but

it applies here as well. When McCarthy said, sometimes you're telling somebody something and they're looking at you and they're hearing you, but they're not really hearing you until like the other parent comes in and says it one time, and all of a sudden, it's like, oh, I get it, and and you're looking at him like, come on, I

didn't just tell you that one hundred times. That It's a similar situation when when lve is telling you about pre snap mobile reads and protections and says it taps you and say shift left, there's no second thought, there's no oh well, coach. No, it's shift left right. So that's the two fantastic readditions for the Cowboys and time. It couldn't be perfect. And to that point, as far as key players returning, Jonathan Hankins remained right now, he's not on the injury report, but he's not on the

injury report because he remains technically on IR. So the Cowboys would have to add him to the fifty three man roster at some point before the game on Monday, but they have time to do so. He continues to contend he feels great. He told me on yesterday when I asked him about his odds of taking the field

on Monday, he said, the time is now end. Quote, there is there an extra spot for Hankins right now to come off of R Yes, yes there is because they've only got fifty two on the right right and and Shepley was waived, so they have they have space there. Got you now one compliment that I got yesterday to Layton vander esh and just kind of going after that conversation, I was sitting down, I sat down with Jake Ferguson. I was one on one with Jake yesterday and I

asked him her delicious. I asked him who is he really drawn from? Who is he picked up pieces of how to prepare for a playoff game from? And being a tight end? I expected him to say Dalton Schultz, and he did. He said Dalton Schultz right off the bat. The second name out of his mouth wasn't one that I anticipated. It was late in Vanderesh. He said, I've been watching Laton Vanderesh from the moment I got here. The way that he carries himself, the way that he practices,

the way that he plays. It all lines up together, all though the preparation that he does in the film room, all of the stuff that he does on the practice field, and then of course what he has done this year playing exceptionally wellful or exceptionally good football. It translates to guys, even on the opposite side of the ball, even on guys that are playing a completely different position. Why is that?

Because infections When you see people doing things the right way, and you see it the the what's the word I'm looking for? I can't think. How are you saying LV is the right kind of guy? He is, He's proved it. I just said that. The Garrett now he is. I mean, so the Garrett fans out there see the fruition of somebody's preparations show up on field like you want you want that? Like you want that yeah, and there's there's I had that along the way from a lot of

different guys. So to his point, every stop that I had, most likely in my first really my first three years, there were guys that I watched didn't necessarily always tell them, but I watch how they prepare. I watch how they approach practice. I watch how they prepare for practice. I watch how they approach walkthroughs. I watch how they studied film.

Like there was a guy watched them in the weight room, watched them in conditioning, Like these are guys that you sit back as a young puppy and you're like, dang,

that's okay, that's what I want. That's why I what I inspire to be, Like, right, I don't necessarily want to be that player, but I inspire to add those characteristics, right, and those attributes to what it is that I do so that I could become a better player, which is exactly that puts Lve in the same air as far as preparation and reverence for the younger guys who are looking up to players as Tyrn Smith and Tyrand's preparation

and how he practices. Hell, yesterday, Michael Parsons was talking about how in the d line room they always talk about hating going up against Tyrn Smith, even it walkthroughs, because everyone else is walking through, but Tyrn is one every single rep, every single snap, and you walk up to him thinking in a walkthrough, Okay, well this is just going to be a tap tap and he leaves

two marks on your chest, right. And so Lv is having that kind of an influence, a positive influence on a guy like Jake Ferguson on the offensive side of the ball, similar to what Tyren Smith is having on the defensive line, and some of those guys on the defensive side of the ball saying, hey, this is how you have to prep to be not only a professional,

but have an elite career. And unfortunately for Lve, the only reason that well one of the only reasons that he had kind of a downturn from his first season, which was a breakout year, was outside of you know, changes that defensive coordinator, which matters, but he also had the injury, the injuries that kind of almost slowed or

slowed him and almost to rail his career. Credit to him for bouncing back having what I don't really I don't even care if he gets or if he did or did not get a Pro Bowl honor, if he Willow would not get an All Pro honor. For me, this is Pro Bowl. Lve right here. This is the best season he's had since twenty eighteen, and so I'm right there with you now. Speaking of Tyren Smith, he did show up on the injury report. I don't sense that there is any concern. Keep in mind the injury

that he suffered. He's back, but you know, the year wasn't over for him, it wasn't season into. He's back. He didn't show up on the injury report last week. I'm of the mindset of since Thursday was technically Wednesday's practice for the Cowboys. Wednesday has historically been kind of a scale back day for Tyren Smith to kind of rest him in management low management. So I'm of the impression that will be the case and we'll see what it comes out for to day. But Tyren Smith was

limited to Marcus Lawrence. Surprise, surprise, He's on the injury report and he's limited to give, which has been the case four weeks now as he continues to play an elite level despite all the things that he's working through. He's getting through it, doing a good job of trying to the Bay. Tampa Bay had a much much longer injury report, however, nothing that really stands out. Mike Evans was there but with an illness before participant and go down the line, I mean Keyan O'Neill was it. Did

not participate on yesterday with a neat issue. But he's not really a contributor for that offense, so Logan Ryan. Yeah, so just a bunch of names, not a lot going on. Vita Vall was limited with a calf. I think that's just management, right, Vita is not going to miss this game. So yeah. Nothing of note coming out of the Tampa Bay either. Very nice. All right, let's take our first break when we come back. Who does the Marcus Lawrence think as a rookie will play a huge key in

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Alongside Jake Ferguson yesterday, I got to talk with d Law quite a bit. I got to sit down with him and I asked him what makes this moment special? And what makes a playoff moment special? And I've thought, actually thought of Isaiah whenever he gave this answer, But he said, it's because you're never gonna get it back. You don't get this chance again. You never know when you're gonna be back in the playoffs. And even if you are in the playoffs, are you truly going to

be a contender? Right? How do you make the most of this moment? If you're the Dallas Cowboys. What is the number one thing you've got to do to make the most of this moment because you only get it once. What do you think, no self inflicted wounds? Okay, don't go to Tampa and beat yourself. Force them to beat you, Force them to show you that they are in fact the better team. And if they can do that and the game goes that way, then heart yes, but you

know they were the better team. But if you go out there and you start shooting and stabbing yourself in the foot and you lose because of that, that that is even more gut wrenching and heartbreaking because it's a it's a blown opportunity. I mean, you walk in as the better team and you let a lesser team defeat you only because you gave them the game. So self inflicted wounds, It's like I wrote in yesterday's edition of Science Laftal check that out on the Dallas Cowboys dot com.

The time for self inflicted wounds has now expired. Period, Like that milk in your fridge, It's it's over. Yeah, it's over. Take every lesson you learned from self harm over the course of the previous seventeen games. Roll it up. Into one big ball of lessons and let it motivate you to eliminate the possibility of harming yourself between the lines going forward, and you will put yourself in an excellent position to turn the now into the later. Otherwise

there is no later if you're ruined now. I agree. I just don't no turnovers, Yeah, very much so. I think as long as you play in that I was gonna say a clean game, but that's a very broad statement. My biggest thing is just be don't turn the ball over and be competitive. That's all I ask. You're gonna get out schemes sometimes, somebody's gonna make bigger plays sometimes.

But to hit to your point, just don't beat yourself up, right, don't be the reason why you look back and say, damn right, we missed again, Because I mean, even though I walked away with a ring like, I still think that the best team that I was on was my rookie year here in Dallas. Yeah, at seventeen and seventeen. That's I feel like that was the greatest amount of talent on one team and we missed it. We missed

the opportunity, and that would have been freaking awesome. Perfect example would be look at look at twenty fourteen, right, you got the league's leading rusher by a huge margin into marcol Murray. That's helping set up Tony rom would to have a career season in the past. And the tech you look at this, and I mean even t Will was contributing. You have all of these things going, the defense is rocking, and you're in the divisional round.

And I know it's easy to kind of point to the dass catch and yes it wasn't catch as the reason the Cowboys lost the game, but the self inflicted wound that ended the Cowboys season technically was DeMarco Murray's fumble caused by the Boss Peppers. So and you would think as special as that season it was, and you're like, okay, well reload, just reload. It's as simple as reload. And not in this league. Not in this league. You got free agency, you got attrition, you got coaches being poached

here and there, etcetera, etcetera. You may never get that moment back. And those guys in that locker room from twenty fourteen, guess what, they never got the moment back twenty fifteen. What happened Tony Romo got injured. You ended up having a carousel of three or four different quarterbacks in all horrible season, and it just never got back until Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott kind of helped turn the

page in twenty sixteen. But my main point is you only have right now, So don't don't go in thinking, oh, if we don't get it done right now, we got it next year. That's what those guys in fourteen thought, That's what the guys in oh seven, we're hoping. That's not how this league is built. You're lucky to be back here after losing the opportunity last year, if you're if we're being real, and Mike McCarthy said it earlier this week, he said, we're not harping on it, but

we learned from it. That lost to San Francisco in the wildcard round a year ago, you felt like you were the better team in that game. Still, you were healthy. You felt like, even though it was a tough matchup on paper, Dallas was the better team. They didn't get the job done at home in front of their home crowd, and it was it was a huge point, but a lot of that was self inflicted wounds. A lot of that was just San Francisco coming out and hitting me

in the mouth. Tampa Bay can certainly do that. They may be eight and nine, don't look at the records anymore. This Tampa Bay team can certainly jump out and hit you in the mouth. Sea completely a new season now. I did ask d Law as well. I said, who has impressed you on this defense so much so from week one to now? Who has impressed improved the most? Who has made you turn your head at times? I halfway expected it to be a Trayvon or a Mica.

He said two names, he said, Durron Bland and Damon Clark. I was like, d Law, you realize those are two rookies, right. It's like, yeah, I do, but they're not playing right like rookies anymore. And Demon he's got some rookie stuff to him. Duran's got some rookie stuff to him. They're both playing good football. But the way that they've improved from week one is what impressed d Law. I asked

them how crucial they were going into this matchup. He said, they're outstandingly crucial because even though Layton vander Esh's back to them, Owe's gonna file in durn is going to be there in the nickel spot dealing with that chest injury. How big are both of those guys to the fold of trying to fill in those puzzles, And they're huge. I mean you're talking about we mentioned earlier in the week about the plethora of receivers that they have proven

receivers over there in Tampa. They have, but they got a whole bag of boots over and they really got a solid They got a solid four, and they got they got a fifth guy in Tompkins that they just brought in that I think everybody better have their eyes on because they're gonna use him in the screen game. He is freaking explosive. So they have a bunch of guys and you're gonna need to run Bland right, there's no doubt about that. We're hurt and down right now

at the cornerback position. We're hoping that guys are able to step up and make some plays. Uh you know, We're hoping that National Right is able to come up there for some pressure on the line of scrimmage. We're hoping that his Zavy Rhodes shows up and does the opposite of what Mullen did. Last week because that was

an experiment, but that's what you're in. You're in experiment mode with some of these guys, So the whope factor is there, so you're hoping that where there's the strongest, that you all of a sudden could now be strong as well in this in some very important week. And then I already talked about demon Clark in the importance

of him. I mentioned that vander ash I'm glad he's coming back, and though I think he would have an extreme impact on this game, but in terms of what they do well right offensively for Tampa, in terms of trying to spread this defense out and god him going sideline the sideline, I think daman Clark is going to be very instrumental as well in terms of what he can present um as as accessory for dan Quinn and his defense. He's going to be very important for his ability to be able to sit in a box and

run out and hit somebody in her mouth. Did you say hope at the cornerback positions Hope as a strategy, it's not a strategy. Strategy, it's not a strategy, but it's it's definitely a wish wish, I wish upon a star. Yeah. Absolutely, I truly think that about I truly think that Tampa has an advantaged personnel wise at the receiver position versus r dB. That's I think. So, Yeah, that's just fact. If you had to circle a matchup, that would probably

be the one where they have the advantage. So you're at in the offensive line and you're missing your two veterans, two of your three veterans at the cornerback position. Yeah, okay, you brought in another veteran. You tried him out last week. Okay, now you grab another veteran. You're bringing him in to get get his feet wet and hopefully he can have a resurgence of his own better pedigree. Absolutely, but what

are you still doing? No, you're still hoping, hoping. You're still hoping that that that the Pro Bowl version of him shows up, but you don't know, you don't know. So that's what I'm saying, Like they have the advantage there.

You're hoping that you're young boys show up and then your veteran shows up and starts making some place for your never going and you hope Mike Evans actually is in Tom Brady's ear saying I want fifteen targets by all means that works in your favor if you're the Cowboys, because then you you have you get to lean less on you know, Nashan Wright and Xavier Rhodes who just got here at last Saturday less than a week ago. But Drond and Damon Clark, they're gonna be huge, particularly

Durron Bland. And good news is everyone anyone who was uh, you know, mostly paying attention to the news and notes when I read off the injury report, guess whose named I didn't say Durron Bland. Ron Bland was not on the injury report at all, not even with a full designation. He's fully healthy, he's rolling, he's rolling. So good news there is you're getting to d Ron Bland and obviously

healthy Trevillon Diggs against Tom Brady. But when it comes to Deman Clark, keep in mind, this was supposed to be a rid shirt season for the On Clark and he's not only come in, but he's come in with at a point in the season where he had plenty of games to get to a point where you should feel comfortable that he'll be able to make some plays. Now he's going against Tom Brady, Yes, so there are

going to be some hiccups there. Yeah. Um, but Tom Brady once he gets the ball out of his hands and into the hands of a playmaker, supposed playmaker Damon Clark, will have opportunities to become that himself in Monday's game. So love what de Law said. They're fantastic two rookies. Yeah, yeah, it love it really cool to hear him say that, and both those guys who were great. Well, we'll have a couple of clips of that on on our pregame

show coming up on Monday. We'll also I'll have some clips of Patrick Walker and a football uniform as well. Just say the word Jerry Stephen will just say he did light up against me. Yes, he lighted up. Yeah, how do he do? He did? Well? Stand back out there, I'm saying, shoulders were all propped up. I did. I didn't call the blitz. Could you imagine we're taping a segment and then he calls his own audible and just runs at you and hits the ball out like derails

the whole segment. I'm definite. God, oh you know what I mean't gonna let you, not gonna get you. I'm heavy right now. I'm heavy right now, We're not having that conversation around that lord shoulder right, I'm around it.

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in the back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's this is uh. This has been a fun week kind of leading up to it. Any final thoughts from you guys as we get into pick them segments and then of course this is the final show prior to getting into the wild Card round. What are your kind of final words of motivation for Cowboys Nation? Remember Week eighteen. Okay, remember the Commanders, Remember the Jacksonville Jaguars, Remember the Green Bay Packers. I believe this Cowboys team will get a lead on Tampa Bay early,

but remember particularly the Jaguars and the Packers. Don't let up, do not get comfortable, continue to keep mamba. Mentality has to be had against Tom Brady. If you allow this game to be close in the fourth quarter, you are in the danger zone. You are in the danger zone. So remember the Packers, remember the Jaguars, remember the Commanders, and go handle your business like there is no tomorrow, because guess what, there ain't unless you handle your business.

This is for hands or it's just for what we're talking about. Let's let's do it for the team, for the team. This is for the team. That's kind of what Patrick had Bean feeling there when each play I like it, don't don't look don't look to the next quarter, don't look to it's when the next play. And that's very important because when you add that up, when you add those those plays up, you should come out to victor. But if you look too far down the road, you're

gonna hit speed bumps. You can hit potholes that you don't see because your eyes aren't aren't aren't grounded. You're not looking You're not looking in the near future, right, You're not looking at the right now, You're looking down there. You might get up early. You be oh man, start looking at the clocks. Are clock watching? Okay? Yeah? Yeah,

the Falcons they clock watched two against TB twelve. Don't clock watch right when the next play, and keep putting that together and eventually you look up and you'll see that clock hits some zeros and you got the w and that's all that matters. So when your next play, I like that when you're play. Uh. I got a chance yesterday outside of locker room capablelies. I got to show Dak Prescott, Oh you did it. I got to.

I took the clip from Jeff and upper Ball, Marlborough, Maryland, the reverend that called us on talking Tuesday and gave Dak a nice pep talk, a nice little faith speech. I showed Dak the entire video. He watched every single second of it, and he loved it. He loved it. He was buying in said thanks for showing. Let's go. So there's a little motivation. So mine is saying, have some faith, have some faith. Things aren't perfect, they're never going to be perfect. But just like we said earlier,

you only get one moment. This moment is here, one time to knock off the best to ever do it. Potentially simmed him off, send him out of there. I don't know if that's actually gonna happen in terms of the postseason stuff or the offseason stuff. Whatever, do your job and get it done this weekend. You got one moment, you got one shot, have some faith and get it done. By the way, as I was teasing into the break Draft Kings, I said, we were going to help you

win some money on DraftKings. I unfortunately didn't realize that since it's a Monday night game, none of those numbers are up there. So, uh, you can play for free for over a million dollars on DraftKings dot com. And we were probably all going to pick the defensive special teams anyway for the value. So what we would do is take take this moment at for quick news and note Ryan Jensen, okay, not only starting tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But the anchor and leader of that

offensive line, not the glue guy, the glue guy, the anchor. Um, he's he's back to practicing. It's been on ir you know, the entire season. Still in his twenty one day window though. Um, but I'll read this from Tampa Bay. He's our center, Yeah, Jensen's their centers. Yeah, he's there. Tampa Bay Times said that they since quote unquote, since no momentum um for Jensen plane on Monday. Now, of course that comment was

made on Thursday. Several days remained between now and then, and you also look at what's on the for Tampa Bay. I personally believe he takes the field, even if the trainers have to get creative hint hint. But as it stands, just for just so Cowboys fans know from a from an objective standpoint, Ryan Jensen. It's being reported that there is no momentum that he plays. But I wouldn't necessarily take that bait prepare for him and I can't speak to this with confidence, but I can speak to it

based by my opinion. I think Jensen is one of the key factors as to why its on Brady came back. Yeah, I think you're right. I try wholeheartedly believe as long as he had his center he was coming back. And as soon as he said he was coming back, Jensen went down with the injury. All right. So now that we have it all on the table, have it all out in front for you to make your decisions, it's time to make them. Take them for trying to pick up games. We've got our special guest, Abe in Las Vegas.

What's up, Babe? You're on talking cowboys? What's going on? Gentlemen to you? Guys were taking my call first time calling them, but just want to say I love listen to the show. Listen you guys every day. That's awesome. Well, Abe, thank you so much for the support. You ready to pick some games and take Isaiah down? All right, here we go. Let's start things off in the NFC West rematch. This is the Seattle Seahawks squeaking into the playoffs by the skin of their teeth. Can they take down brock

Purty in the San Francisco forty nine ers. I'm gonna start with Patrick. Let's get crazy. I crave chaos, violence, Gino with the win Yozy, That's what I'm talking about, give me San Francisco to win it, and they win in buy multiple scores. Abe who you got? I think San Francisco Geason's playing so well right now. They're playing really collectively. San Francisco Seattle for here. See, here's the thing. I want San Francisco. I want to see San Francisco.

I want to see Philly. I want to see Minnesota. I want to see whoever the heck we're gonna play in the second round. You got. That's good for you. Y'all know them from Seattle. But I'm not. I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan boy. You know what I'm saying. I'm a fan of Seattle anything right, But you're such a lie. I'm a fan of Seattle. But I'm a realist at the same time, you guys, notice, I truly think that Seattle is gonna gonna bust San fran into mouth and cant I'm slipping. That's how I feel.

I truly believe that. No, do I think that Seattle is a better team. No, I don't think Seattle is a better team. I think that Seattle is lucky to even be in the playoffs this year, based upon the year that they had this offseason. But I think that if anybody can sneak and bust san Fran in the mouth because they play each other so often. Yeah, Pete Carroll, like you even saw him throw a little shade out there. Unfortunately, we're playing them forty nine ers. I think Walker goes

off in this game, and I think that Seattle wins. Okay, maybe all right, how about the birds? Uh, let's go with the Jacksonville Jaguars hosting the Los Angeles Chargers and all time hair matchup. Trevor Lawrence going up against Justin Herbert, two quarterbacks that are always trending upward. Right now, able to let you start on this one, Chargers at Jags. You know what, after seeing what the Jags did to us a few weeks back, Um, they obviously have a

legitimate offense. I'm gonna give them a close one. I'm gonna take the jackson all right, Isaac. I believe that Doug Peterson is back and back for vengeance, and I think that he is gonna send Brandon Staley to the uneployment office, and you'll have to go go ahead and start those conversations up. He's in the playoffs. He'll be going home. Oh oh okay. I'm taking Peterson in the playoffs over Brandon Staley every day of the week, especially at home.

I'm gonna get a game here Jacksonville takes give me the shock shock, give me the Chargers getting to win on the road. Jacksonville is not a tough place to play in terms of like a playoff atmosphere. They will give they ever had to the military. It'll be Rock Peterson, greater than sign Us Naval Base will be there, all right. Dolphins on the road against the Bills. Give me the Bills, Bills, Bills, Bills,

all right, that one's quick, all right. Giants after Vikings, Minnesota trying to take down the NFC East for the first time at home this postseason, Patrick, and they won't do it. Giants are gonna go in and upset the Minnesota Vikings. Wow, you were all over chaos this, but I've been on I've said, alas, get a host of the matchups were set. I said, the Giants are gonna go in. Minnesota doesn't typically play well on their own field. They can be head, they can be head. Dallas gonna

somehow host a playoff game next weekend. If both of those come true, bable, I think the Giants are gonna bust Minnes inconsistent Minnesota Vikings in the Mountain. We've seen what they are. You are who we thought you were. Hebe who you got. You know. I went to the Giants and upset as well. I think Dousins time time demons will come back and haunt him again. Give me the Vikings to get the land. I'm sorry. Ravens on the road against the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals have been

playing really well as of late. Give me, give me Cincy to get the win over a banged up Ravens team. They still don't necessarily know if Lamar's playing right? Does that come out yet? It doesn't seem like he is. It doesn't look like he's gonna play. No, give me, no Lamar, no chance, give me Joe Burrowing Company. Yeah. I think Lamar Jackson has pulled a David Chappelle from Blue Streaking. But it can come hold us as a old discombobulated right now. So I'm gonna go ahead and

take uh yeah, Cincinnati Cincy? All right, Hey, yeah, I give coin for sure. Joe Cool, I like it, all right, here's the one and we've all been waiting for. We'll have to wait a little bit longer. Seven fifteen on Monday Night football ESPN kickoff between the Dallas Cowboys, America's team, the number one most watched team in the NFL, versus the most decorated quarterback in NFL history, Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's wild card weekend? Can things

get wild down in Tampa Bay? Abe? Who you got in this one? Let's go boys. We gotta bring this one home. We gotta finally get one. Uh, we gotta get a little friends on Tom Brady, Boys win thirty twenty seven, thirty twenty seven and a tight one, Abe from Las Vegas, Thanks so much for calling us. Appreciate you taking some time and appreciate your cooys. There you go go Cowboys. I say we'll start with you. Who who I want? I think? Huh, all right. I do

think that Seattle wins. I do think that Minnesota loses. I think there's gonna be a lot of disruption before this game, and I think it's gonna be set up for Dallas to have a nice, little clean road through the playoffs. But I'm not sure and I don't wholeheartedly believe that they're gonna be able to stop this offensive attack. I love Dan Quinn, but I don't know if he has the personnel to stop this this ambush that's about

to happen. So I gotta go on Tampa Bay. Unfortunately, I don't want to say that, but that's just when my heart says to one, Okay. I think the Cowboys, uh cow blows get exchanged early in the script, it plays from both teams um. Then the Cowboys start to pull away, and then Tom Brady does Tom Brady stuff in the fourth quarter, and this comes down to a Brett Maher kick and he makes it twenty seven twenty

four Cowboys onto the Divisional round twenty four. See. I think it's a little different than what you guys are saying I do. I think. I think Dallas comes out with a chip on their shoulder. I think they come out I think they kick their ass in the first half. I think they're by multiple scores going into halftime, and then they hold on down the stretch and don't even let the gap close. I'm just saying it's gonna be right there. They're gonna take care of business. They're gonna

get the crowd, the crowd out of it early. Give me the Cowboys to win it. Thirty one seventeen on the road, thirty one seventeen Cowboys. They get the job done. And that is what we will bring to an in this week here on Talking Cowboys. You guys ready, let's go. Let's playoff time, y'all. I hope they show us. I hope so too. Cowboys Nations show up at the watch party Miller Light Plaza. Gates open at five thirty pm at the Miller Lighthouse out at AT and T Stadium.

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