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I think you're gonna say or else? And I was like, or else.

I don't know if we haven't call to do that, give us a call eight at eight eight five five two to nine seven. My question for the fans today, our question as a panel is what.

Would be your fix it button?

If you can click one thing, oh, one button and it solves one thing for this Cowboys, what would be the most significant click the button?

And this could go a number of Weell, I know where it's going on. I'm okay with it. It's not us talking about it. You guys talk about it on the field. Say it with your chest.

No, and you are yeah, go for it, click it, fix it, but do what they do.

I'm okay with it. Let's talk to We're talking to Cowboys Nation today.

That's what we're doing.

This is true. We're talking Tuesday.

I forgot yeah, dude to basically say it with your chest Friday, but on a Tuesday and in a different name.

So we're saying away with your fan, right, say it with your fans.

Trying to make it anything, I have no idea.

Jerry Jones just said it with his chest on one O five three the Fan, the flagship station of Dallas Cowboys football.

And it was a This was in Encore Patrick.

After the fireworks that we saw last Tuesday. I was very I think, along with a lot of the nation, was very interested to see what uh Sean. I wasn't gonna say, Sean and r j r J was out today, what Sean Jerry Jones said on the fan this morning?

What did you take away?

I mean, apparently their besties again. Okay, that's just the media though, That's just how it goes. I mean, you know, part of Jerry's had his his spats with plenty of individuals in the media. I mean, you can ask our good friend Jane Slater. She will tell you. And then you know, once once they passes, that storm passes, it's it's back to you know, high fives and handshakes. And that's what it sounds like it was between him and

It would be huge if if both were available. However, if you only however, if.

You can however, if you could only pick.

One Patrick Walker, who it's going to be the pass rusher.

If I could only pick one, it's got to be the pass rusher because you know, I build my defense from front to back, and the more pressure you can get up front, the easier it is to cover guys.

So you've already seen what this defense looks like without the second or without the defensive back in with the pass rusher I have.

But the the defensive end position is in more dire straits than the cornerback position.

That's a good point.

So when you look at it from that, I.

Agree with you.

I'm just trying to play that you know you're being because we haven't.

We haven't seen it, but it also they could. They've shown they can.

Win the games without Michael Partisons. They have one a game without Mike period. That's part of it. But I still would rather have him back when he's a top three defender in football right now, which.

It'd be like if you're the Pittsburgh Steelers and you say, okay, well, if t J. Watt was injured and high Smith was not, you say, okay, we got high Smith.

And we got Hayward, we can go and win this game.

But then look tunneled in the face and say, would you still prefer to have TJ?

That's always going to.

Be Yeah, would you rather have t J. Watt or I'm trying to think of their it's a comparable.

Yeah, so it's I guess Mink and Fitzpatrick is an all pro they have in their second area.

That's in fact so, but it always for me, it always goes to number one. Build it from front to back, pass rush and QB pressure and stopping the run that helps you be able to cover better, shortens windows, makes

Of But would you choose Micah in that regard to I would choose Miael hundred percent. You need to, Like I've talked about even yesterday, there is no threat on the defensive line. There's nobody that you're necessarily scared of. There's nobody that they're scheming against. You can go one on one against anybody on our defense and feel.

Okay about it.

As far as having drown Bland in the game, that would be great. However, they're dealing with some wide receiver death issues as well. I mean, obviously Brandon Ayuk is out for the season, but Deeba Samuel is not looking.

Great as far as health wise.

Great player obviously, So I think you have enough there at cornerback to suffice Ye through this next game, but you definitely want mic out there.

In my opinion, I put it in high five last week.

I said top five guys who have been missed the most Number one, Mica Partison.

So you really were playing devils? Oh No?

I actually yeah, I completely agree with you.

That's Kyle.

There you go.

That's see.

Here's the thing there's a lot of people. Let me pull back the media curtain here for a little bit. There's a lot of people. I've met them at training camp. They're like, dude, like you ask like these questions that are like it really seems like you're one way or the other, and you're wishy washy.

No, my my, like, my ground that I stand on does not move.

I just like asking provoking questions to my analysts to challenge you and challenge you and challenge Isaiah because it's better radio secrets.

All right, anyways, continue with NEOs and notes.

Oh no, that's for the most part, that's where we are. We're keeping an eye on the injuries. Michael Parsons, Lebron Bland, Kaylin Carson, will see if he can go, Eric Kendricks, Tyler.

And Tyler got Tyler any severity to Tyler's Well, I don't know of anyone.

I don't know that it's a severity issue. As much as it is, he was not one hundred percent. And they looked at it from playing the from the aspect of playing the long game. So by all accounts, whether you asked Mike McCarthy, whether you ask Jerry Jones, and they were asked whether you ask Stephen Jones, and he was asked as well. All three were asked, does do they believe the best five on the offensive line include Tyler got and left tackle and they all said yes.

Eric Kendricks, that's something.

That you definitely want to keep an eye on because the Cowboys certainly struggled. Shouts out to the mont Clark. He stepped up in a big way in the absence of Eric Kendricks. But Eric Kendricks is something different For Mike Zimmer in this defense, we don't know exactly what his status is, but we do know that added time to rest that calf and shoulder injury draws circle around him for tomorrow's practice and especially Thursday. Thursday's going to

You feel good about it. Feel good about it all right.

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Dylan on the line, Dylan, what's going on? You're on talking cowboys some guys.

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Very nice, Wakey, wakey. I want to talk about practice, practice, Ye, practice, talking about practice exactly. So this is troubling, highly concerning for me because there's one of two things that we can point to as to why practices are going poorly, and all the players are saying it all you know, the coaches are saying we're not practicing. Well, Mike McCarthey

It might be as cliche as.

That sounds, but either the practices were set up incorrectly, which is troubling because that means the coach doesn't know what's going on, which I don't really know if that's the case or not, or in my opinion, there might be a professionalism professionalism issue where guys just want to play, They want to show up on Sunday and just be good because a lot of these guys do have a lot of talent, their premier players, their positions, and they maybe they can think they can just show up on

Yeah, I appreciate you, Dylan, great question as always, and we talked about it a little bit on our show last week when we were doing the mixing match with Brian and Barry, because Mike McCarthy talked about it. He said, we didn't prepare the right way, which a lot of times, if you don't prepare the right way, that's practice. You don't practice the right way, you don't watch film or whatever it may be. We don't know what's going on

For this football team. I do think it's a concern for this football team. And I said this last week when we're doing the mix the mixing match, and I was on Girls Talk, Boys Talk, and I harped heavily on one of those episodes with my concern about this very thing because this isn't obviously, we only get to see the media portion of practice, right, so from the remainder of it, it's us taking, you know, phrases from.

Mike McCarthy and michaemccarthy. I says, thinking practice better.

And then when I stand next to Jordan Lewis on multiple occasions in the locker room after losses, and he says words like details, and he's frustrated because players. He feels like players are not treating every rep in practice as they would every rep in the game. When you talk to Michael Parsons in the locker room and he's saying things like, you know, he believes guys for the

This is not speculation. This is not media driven, Dylan.

This is not you and other Cowboys fans making this stuff up. This is actually a concern within the building. So I'm right there with you, Dylan, one hundred percent, and I see where you're going with the cal because it's it's on the coaches and the coordinators to orchestrate right to make sure that practice is being held to a certain standard.

You are one hundred percent accurate.

It is also true that it's on players to be professional because you're getting paid to do this. Right before you came to the NFL, you were a collegiate player and depending on your nil situation, whatever the case may be.

Let's take it back to the high school.

Okay, when you were in high school, you were likely not getting paid to play football, like, but you probably gave it all in practice because you had something to prove and you knew that that would translate over to the game. Well, move two levels up, and now you're in an NFL and you're being compensated at a high rate to do that same thing, and now you turn

Crooks.

You don't go halfway in practice and you can go all the way. Talent will mask some of that depending on your levels. But as you start to get older, when talent starts to fade and your fundamentals start to really show what kind of player are you? So show up on the practice field, show up every single rep, and then that will process itself in the game.

So I'm right there with you doing.

Just to add to that is the changing of the guard in terms of defensive coordinator. Do you we think that's a big part of it because we're not just pointing at the defense as far as like practice and putting your best self out there when it comes to you know, just practicing, right, I'm thinking, is it the changing of the guard and the coaching tree this year that has sort of emphasized this issue?

Maybe I think it falls on the offensive side too, though, because it's got to be a lot of times, yeah, a lot of times with the offense, it's timing, it's it's miss miscommunication, it's missed assignments, and all of these things are stuff that you go over and practice. It may not be completely fixed. There's no way you're going to be one hundred percent accurate in a football game. Over the course of four quarters. It's just not going to happen. There's going to be mis user's going to

Of time to practice in the middle of a week.

I think it kind of goes back to what Patrick's talking about, and maybe it's in the in between the two of them, because the.

Coaches aren't going to coach like it's high school. That's not the case. Mike McCarthy's not going to go row Micah Parsons in lines.

Not that Mike's of course, he's injured and he's not even out there, but you.

Get what I mean.

He's not gonna take his old pro guys and he's gonna throw him on the on the field and say.

Get me twenty like go run lines back.

And these are pro athletes, so at some point they have to be held to a certain standard.

This coaching staff also they're pro coaches.

They're guys that have the top of the top, the upper echelon of coaching in this sport. To the fact that if you don't know a scheme, if you don't know film, you don't know what your opponent's going to try and do, and you don't anticipate it to the right way. That's why coaches get fired so often, because it's the top of the top and the cream rises to the top, and a lot of times coaching staffs don't have that cream. They just sink back to the bottom.

And especially when you hear Mike Zimmer say things like fundamentals and we're entering week eight and your defensive.

Coordinators to training camp.

Fundamentals that fundamentals don't get learned in games, they get learned and refined in practice.

And these are professionals.

So that means you're behind too, is we're two months into this thing.

This thing to the regular.

Coordinator is talking about you need to get back to fundamentals.

And I think it speaks to the coaching staff too, where it's like they evaluated it over the bye weekend They're like, Okay, now here's where we can make changes. They finally had a chance to reflect on.

It and see, that's that's going to be big about this week.

Right, that's the good news. The good news about this. Oh I should say the silver lining here is this is fixable. We're talking about what we are talking about practice mill This part is fixable. We can talk about will is the roster strong enough? Good argument? We could debate that. We could talk about are you know, are the right coaches in the right places.

That's a debate. We can talk about that another time as well.

But when you talk about effort and practice, that's fixable immediately.

Just give it the time. Just give it.

I like the across the hall conversations.

If there's been one thing through the bye week that has given me hope, it's the fact that Mike McCarthy and these players seem excited Rico Dwell. We talked to him yesterday in the locker room and the way that he talked about the across the hall meetings, and he outlined he said, running backs with linebackers, wide.

Receivers are with the corners.

You've got tight ends with the with the linebackers and the safeties. I mean, there's a lot of different things that these these guys are learning from each other this week. And then Mike talked about it in his press conference yesterday. I said that it didn't feel like a bye week around here. That makes me feel like there's something moving in the right direction, even whenever it hasn't looked great to this point in the season.

All right, One thing about McCarthy, and I'll say this before we go to the news day. McCarthy coming out of bie weeks in the regular season.

Twelve and five.

Yeah, there you go, been pretty good. Uh.

Ab from Redondo Beach, California, which I looked up on a map. It's just like southwest of Los Angeles, like right on the coast right Ab. Yes, sir, How how far if you were to just walk out your front door right now, how long would it.

Take for you to hit sand?

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Well forty five minutes. Oh really walking? Yeah about driving about Okay, so.

You're a little bit further out. I thought you were going to be like.

Right on mus on the water, as Josh would be.

Yeah, Josh would be like like Penthouse, right Josh.

Yeah, Yeah, you drive off the balcony and you hit someone.

I love it. That's the idea.

AB.

What's on your mind, my friend? You're on talking Cowboys.

Well, fixes would be to swap out the coordinators.

Okay, and how how would you make that adjustment?

Now?

Well, I mean, unfortunately you can't do much. But I would do al Harris and I would do Schottenheimer. You know, I know people talk, I mean McCartney, I mean McCarthy, you know, even in Green Bay. You know, you know the reason why he left green you know he got fired from Green Bay was because his offense got stagnant and stale. And it's the same thing now. And you know, we talked.

About last year how they had.

The number one scoring offense. But you know, doron Bland, if you think about it, he accounted for two points a game. If you you know his six touchdowns, if he averaged over the seventeen games he averaged he counted for two points a game. You know, I just think that McCarthy. You know, he's a good coach overall, but I don't think his play calling is up to par anymore. And you know, I love Zimmer, but the same thing. I think they're both I hate to say over to hill,

Hoppins Now, great point, great point, ab. We appreciate the call as always. And by the way, while you're out there, you're not too far from Oxnard, California, so come say hi whenever.

You're out there.

He brings up a great point in terms of the play calling, and he said switch out the coordinators.

I think he meant switch the play calling.

And give those duties to Al Harris, give those duties to Schottenheimer because he said that you can't really do much right now in twenty twenty four, but that is one thing you can do.

You can't really fire your defensive coordinator. You can't.

But I don't think that's anything that we're calling for here yet.

I would have pause, and the only reason being.

Is that those two guys at least have experience on their side, and they've been around and they've adjusted through the course of a sixteen game, seventeen game now season.

No, and Mike Zimmer's on a one year deal as is my McCarthy at this point, and I think the trust is there with Mike Zimmer he came into, you know, a tough hand. He was dealta to a tough hand when he came to the Cowboys because this is not the defensive personnel that he likes to run. Granted they try to help implement that, but you've dealt with a.

Lot of injuries too.

I don't think a lot of the blame can necessarily go on Mike Zibber because of the hand he's been dealt so far and the injuries, and not to make excuses, but to me, obviously it lies in the offense.

And it's not an excuse, it's a reason exactly right, it's part of I mean, yeah, it's the facts are the facts.

The science of the science when you don't have the pass ushers.

Oh yeah, I know, no he said it, it happened.

Wow.

The science is the science, and the fact that you're missing four of your top five yes, science, I know, darn it.

For me looking at it from an offensive standpoint, first, when it comes to Mike McCarthy, I've seen and you know he he makes a great point. This is an offense that has led the League, it's been number one, right. And I also love the fact that he brought up the Deron Blank contribution to the scoreboard. That tells me that this guy knows ball. He also knows science. Good stuff there. But what I'm seeing are ebbs and flows in McCarthy's offense. And when it's flowing, man, it is flowing.

Right?

So I say that to say I've seen Mike McCarthy's offense and pre snap motion as well.

We talk a lot about pre snap motion.

He went from when he first came into the Cowboys outfit McCarthy did there was not a lot of pre snap motion, and he was railed against for that, and then he revamped his analytics team and then you started to see more pre snap motion. And last year he did a ton of pre snap motion. But you've kind of seen it turn down this year up to this bye week. What if that gets turned back up.

I say that to.

Say, he's shown me he can cook up when everything is firing. So I'm going to say, let me see if he can cook up coming out of the bye week, because we talked about how good his teams do coming out of a bye week. Defensively speaking, it's a different situation because in the off season I was one of the biggest advocates of Al Harris taking on the defensive coordinator position. I could not be higher on Al Harris

Yep.

You need an off season of prep. You need an off season of getting the personnel that you want to run this type of system you want. You can't do that in week eight for a first time defensive coordinator. What I would like to see and kind of qualify this by saying, we don't know how much input El Harris has with Mike Zimmer versus not at all, So we don't know. There's a possibility that Mike Zimmer is sitting right next to El Harris when he's building the

But nonetheless, I think, especially if you're the head coach who was also the play caller, I think that the spotlight is on that.

Yeah, so we don't know how much input, and we know that he has input, but we don't know how much input Schottenheimer has with McCarthy. We know that they sit down with Dak every single week and they come up with a game play.

Is that what's that scale? Right?

That scale twenty percent deck and thirty percent shoddy and fifty percent, Mike, or is that more forty percent?

Might?

We don't know what the percentages are there. So because we don't know, we don't know if handing over duties completely the Schottenheimer is much different than what they're doing right now anyway.

So it's week eight, they're coming out of the by.

If this team doesn't cook up like we have seen them cook up on the McCarthy era after the bye, then we revisit this conversation.

Yeah, all right, there's a lot to digest there. Let's take a deep breath.

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What's your what's your fix it all button?

For the Dallas Cowboys. One move that could fix the twenty twenty four season.

You know, honestly, it all starts with DAK and CD. I feel like because the big going, you know, the defense has to start respecting TD a lot more. I mean not that they don't already, but you know, they start cooking. Then the running game opens up and you know all the other you know, receiver two, receiver three start opening up, and yeah, I just feel like if they start cooking, everything starts cooking. You know, defense, I believe in like Zimmer honestly, and you know, these injuries

Card you're dealt with.

You know, it is the cards you're dealt with.

Alan appreciate the call as always, and that brings up.

Two good points. One, there still needs to be the belief in Mike Zimmer. We were talking about it on this show previously. Is Zimmer. He's still Zimmer. He didn't change. He just hasn't had a ton of success right now.

Whether that's because of the injuries, because of the personnel, because of the system, whatever it may be. There just hasn't been a ton of success. But flipping to the offense, it does start with DAK and CD. Always that's where the paychecks begin. Yes, that's where the the sour cap begins, That's where the conversation begins, and that's where the presership is where a lot of it happens. That's that's why

Maybe Dak Dak has played good football.

I would say I would be willing to say Dak has played good football outside of the turnovers.

The turnovers are concerning. But but you can't stay outside of the turnovers exactly. That's that's all encompassing, correct. So yeah, both both guys got to be better.

Correct And we talked about it yesterday with biology right and what was my answer to the question who would I Who do I need to see more from c?

D Lamb?

Yep, it's because for me, ce Ed Lamb is him, and when you're a top two receiver in the league, it's the onus is going to be on you to make sure that you know you figure out. And this goes to the coordinator as well, This goes to McCarthy

They got to play back and they got to playoff.

So for me, it will all go as Seedee Lamb goes because we've seen this movie before on this offense, they couldn't get.

The run game going last year. Who do they get going? CD lamb and the wrist was the rest I think we need.

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Yes, take it easy.

I never had a walkman.

No, I don't even know if you if you put it on a table, I don't know if I can tell you what it is.

I had to use my like for real, I'm not even lying. Yes, I had to use it was yellow.

I was.

I had like cassette tapes in the car with my dad. He had a FOD tourists back in the.

Day, beat silver Bullet, No CDs. The CDs were there. But I'm saying, earliest I can remember was the that tapes. Okay, that we're in there. But I never had like a walkman.

Oh man, Okay, I have to show you one. I have to go digg in an addic is a walkman?

With a CD in it there. I thought I may have had like a portable CD player.

Is that a walkman?

Yes?

Okay, I mean okay, that's what I haven't called.

If you had that also had a rewind button, oh, baller status. Everybody knows that if because most of them only had the fast forward button, so you had to fast forward, you had to flip the table over fast forward as a rewind and flip it back over press play. Now I'm not there yet, and you have to keep doing that. But if you had one that had a rewind button as well, then you will. Probably Josh Rodriguez.

He had one implanted in his backmobile car that was driving exactly that. All right, let's go to Bob in Rio Grand Valley. You are a final caller today, Bob? What's going on there?

But I never had like a walkman home.

Oh we heard, uh heard heard ourself.

Appreciate you listening, but remember to turn down your radio, Bob, Bob there.

Yes, sir, how are y'all doing this morning?

I'm good?

Did anybody watch the game last night?

Watch quite a bit of it? Actually, what do you have?

Did you notice what I noticed?

What's that that was? It is that number.

Baltimore. Baltimore got away from the running game in the first half, and look what happened.

They were down on big time.

All of a sudden, King Henry starts getting the ball second half and boom, they just exploded. He exploded.

Now that I'll tell you something about the importance of the running game.

Which I'm sure it does. But also what it told me was I have every right to be sick in my stomach because we could have had King Henry except Jerry didn't take the damn.

Phone call in returnment and try.

To get him. My god, we've got a general manager, this dumb.

And with that, I'll get off and.

Listen to anybody else.

And oh, by the way, I agree with that caller uh before the last one when he said that Mike McCartney's Carthy's uh calling play calling is.

Very very predictable. I'll guarantee you.

On first now you know that might as well have.

A committee meeting. You're right there at the line of scrimmage on the right side, because on the west side, because that's where.

They're going to run the ball, and you can count on it just about every damn time.

Y'all have a great.

Day A tank, appreciate it.

I love Bob is.

One of my favorite fans in general because he all encompasses exactly what we think a lot.

Of the times, but we just aren't going to say. And I think where I said, I.

Don't know, man, I don't know if I can do another Derek Henry call, like, I get it.

Frustrating it but it is.

It is totally But what are we going to do about it?

Nothing? You can't What are you talking about?

Could?

Nor could you? At the same time you couldn't do anything? Then exactly that's the point of it. I love you, Bob. But the thing about many gonna do.

The thing about Bob that makes me laugh is he's a lot of times he's very even keel. Even after a loss he's called us in, he's kind of had a steady hand.

He's like, man, it just didn't go our way today. I thought there were a couple of things that we could have done. Well It's like, yeah, you're right, Bob, like it just didn't go our away.

And then this time he's like, not Derek again, I can't believe this stomach.

I get it.

What were gonna do? What are you gonna do you know what I'm.

Saying, fifteen carries one hundred and sixty nine yards, no touchdowns.

Last cool man, you know he went on.

So okay, So here's what I am with it, right, I am not one that's going to I'm not gonna be labor the point, right I'm not.

So I'm right there with you, Josh. I'm not going to be labor the point that.

Being said as one of the vain advocates who wanted Derek Henry A. Dallis, I'm also not going to begrudge fans that week in week out seeing Derek can redominate and they get to quote Bob's line to his stomach right, Like, I'm not going to begrudge them that. I'm not going to be the guy that keeps bringing it up every week. Right now, quietly to myself, I was watching that game

Feeling that way as well. So okay, cool Bob, it made six.

But Josh's point, I'm also not going to be the guy that keeps bringing up but if you come to me and you're like, oh, no, see, we could have, I'm gonna be like, yeah, you could have.

I just I handle it differently. I stare at my TV like I'm Gomer Pyle from Full Metal Jacket, and I'm just Kubrick staring into the camera, staring through my eyebrows.

It's just one of those things.

Man, when you know you when you could have, and I think was bothering fans, you are special. I think what's bothering fans is the lack of attempt, right. So I think fans would find it much easier to digest if the all was made and money just couldn't be agreed on. And Derek was like, you know what, I'm going to Baltimore. I Derek Henry believe it's a better situation and they're paying me more money.

Okay, cool, you lose out that way.

But if you notice fans are constantly harping on there was no call made.

So again I'm not gonna belabor the point.

But if a fan is still pissed off about it, I'm not going to judge him for that either.

I get it.

The credit to Derick Henry, to a lot of people thought he was done, and he is absolutely.

Lot of people think a lot of things and they make a lot of comments and then things like this happened. So you should probably watch. But there's some people and stop just talking.

There are some people that literally just schedule the tweet every Monday. Did you see what Dereck Henry did with those stats? You know what I mean? You get to do that every week and be like, all right, man, all right.

So.

Grudget, Hey, if you're mad about it, let's just move on.

He's there, he's happy.

Cook.

Why are we upset? I know exactly. They went and got Dalvin.

Cook, former all press.

In practices. No he's not because he's not touched the game field yet.

No he hasn't. All right, that doesn't for us.

Here on talking Cowboys, some great callers today. By the way, great calls gives us some great conversation. Tomorrow we turn the page officially from the bye week into San Francisco.

And the forty nine ers.

On Sunday Night Football tomorrow, we preview the Dallas defense up against this rock Party led San Francisco offense, and who is going to be outside of Brock Purty on that offense?

They are banged.

Struggling too.

They are banged.

It ain't looking party.

Boo.

That's it, Paradino, see Walker, Josh Roderiguez, Chris Beam in the back of cale Omens. We'll be back tomorrow previewing the Dallas defensive matchup against San Francisco.

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