Talkin' Cowboys: Statement Win

the officials and the official tip of the Dallas Cowboys. Well, come into the s WBC podcast studio here from the Star in Frisco. We're breaking it all down for you here over the next forty five minutes alongside Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand Back, the Great, heck Ma Harrison, I'm Kyle Yeoman's where the Cowboys take down the Philadelphia Eithers. Forty one twenty one was the final score and it was a dominant win from all three phases. Heck m, I'll let you start things out on this one, and what

were your initial thoughts of the win? Chris, I'm echoing, there you go, I got you, you got me? Yeah? Man? What were my initial thoughts, man, we put it on them. Those are my thoughts. We put it on them. We did exactly what we said we were gonna do. Isaiah wasn't worried. We went into this whole last week talking about this what was going to happen in the game, and I think defensively, guys, you've seen some great things

over the last couple of weeks, especially the turnovers. I know there's been a lot of talk about can they continue this trend, and it looks like we can. Trey vun Dix joins Everson Walls as the only Cowboys to had was it three straight interceptions in the game. I think great games to start. Yeah, I saw the season first since eighty five, and so he went to me first. P. He went to me first. P. I was thinking that he was gonna go to you, because you always go

first in the show that the most energy. I was gonna pass it on to you. I was gonna say, good, I don't understand what's going on. We went last night and I know you you've been up all night. You look like a man that's been up all night with somebody. Oh he's dressed swaggy today. Man. I love it. I love it. Yeah, I just threw on the easiest thing

I had in the closet. But I just came in here this morning with big Dak energy and I want everybody out there, a cowboy nation, to know what time it is with this team, and uh, look, man, we look at good. Let me come on, why's it? Come on? What's up? Chris Mightney started this thing over again? I'm just not getting the bushwhack this morning. What's up with? Nobody else's talked other than you. My expectations for this team has raised. I'm not excited. I'm as as you

mentioned right, I was not worried about Philadelphia now. So am I happy that we want of course, But we're supposed to beat up on those guys. They're not a very good We're supposed to beat up on that. With our current team, with the way our our organization is put together right now, with the coaches and the players that we have, we're supposed to beat up on that team. Yeah, And that's why I was unbothered earlier in the week,

like I'm happy that we got to win. But even you're watching the game live, like I'm there was nothing else surprised by this is an NFC East game. When you know, like records go out the window, it doesn't matter. I hear you. But at the end of the day, like we still have a roster and we still have a coaching staff. And they went out there and executed what they were supposed to do, right. They played mistake free football. Yes, and they did what they were supposed

to do when they played mistake free football. We talked about earlier in the week. I talked about it in the film room and some other things. Guess what Jalen Hurts is gonna get out the pocket. He's gonn want to throw the ball deep. They don't have the patience, right, all those kind of things. That's what we saw, right, inaccurate passes, in patience, and then their ability not to move just move the ball down the field when they were actually moving the ball down the field right, and

then they want to take their big shot. We made them pay right. We went back on the offensi side of the ball. We converted may big plays. We ran the ball really well. We threw the ball well, that's what we're supposed to do. I am not surprised at the result of this game. Am I happy? Of course I'm not elated because we're supposed to do that. I was worried about this game, I'll admit it. I was because I thought they'd win. The Cowboys would win this

game on the strength of their offense number one. But look, we've seen the defense. Last year's struggle with offenses that had big play capability in terms of speed, and you know, Hurts got behind the defense a few times. But this Cowboys defense is special. It is a one eighty from last year through three games. I mean more than a

one eighty. Ye what they've been able to do. And if you draw up like everything we talked about in camp in the offseason, kind of a template for what we think the Cowboys can be as a good team if things work out and it's a lights out offense that's healthy and a defense that has notable improvement. Just be solid, don't make a bunch of mistakes, get some take of ways. It's like textbooked what we saw last

night for what they can be. And yeah, I think you have to have your expectations raised after this game. I mean, I think Philly, you really to this point, you still don't really know how good every team is. But like heck said, it's a division game. You had to win games like that, and you want it in a fashion where I think you kind of put the league on notice, like this is going to be a very tough matchup anybody we play this year. I think I'm kind of in between all three of you guys

because I was not worried. I agree with you and the fact that you were supposed to beat up on the Eagles, But man, I'm I'm right there with Heckma in terms of saying the way you beat up on them is what has me expecteel good. It makes you feel great because it was the first it was the first forty forty burger that we've seen that has also come with a side of defense. It should have been a fifty should have been a forty eight burger. Put

on them. They robbed us, They robbed us, They robbed us, and I don't I don't care what anybody he says. That was a touchdown and they which one the goal line, the goal line QB sneak with dak over the goal line. They were pictures to the surface later where the based upon the evidence at that time, and it depends on when they blew the whistle and where he was, I mean, based upon the camera angles did not show them. But

either way, I'm for that too. I'm for that too because a lot of other leagues have it and it makes it things more efficient in the technology they have it. But the first half man our offensive line was teeing off on them and that was we were and I tweeted it. Man, we were playing bullyball at that point and you love to see that, and that hadn't been

something that we've done in quite some time. Seeing Zeke finished runs, seeing Tony Pollard in that mix uh that they do with them both, I think it's very unique, uh in a in a passing setting and running. Um. I just love what Kellen Moore is doing right now with this offense having things clicking, but Dan Quinn's ability

to simplify the defense from last year. You see guys playing fast at all, eleven guys to the ball, and that's just something that we didn't see last year that I think this year when it's right there and you'll face and you're like, that's it. Do that. So yesterday was a coordination for this defense in Dad Quinn and I loved it. You gotta get the ground game going.

It's kind of what goes back to what twenty sixteen when the Cowboys had Zeke and they were able to run the ball, wear down a defense and then have your defense make some plays here and there to get the stop and allow your team to win. It kind of went back to that mindset, but it was balanced at the same time. I mean, Dak still got his throws in, Zeke got his carries, Pauler got his carries. The love was spread on offense. But kind of going back to your point, and then Rob said it a

little earlier. This one eight for the defense is so impressive to me because when we were entering this season, what were we saying about the defense. The offense is going to be good, We need the defense to be adequate. We need them to be middle of the road. This isn't the middle of the road defense right now. This is a top five defense in the NFL fell at least in the way they've played through the three games. It's true there they're leading the NFL and takeaways, the

points per game are down. You're you're able to stop some of the best offenses aka the Chargers, and I know you didn't stop Tom Brady, but you limited Tom Brady to a certain extent. I don't. I'm ultra impressed with the way this defense is played, oh for sure. And I mean they've been able to stop the run too. That was the biggest problem that they had last year. I think that kind of started everything with their troubles last year. Have they given up a hundred yard rusher

rusher yet they gave even been those? I don't think so. I mean, you know, in last night, Philly only tries to twelve attempts. There They're way behind throughout the game. So that's that's part of it. But that's part of part of the problem last year is they had so many injuries offensively, they couldn't build leads in play bullyball, as you said, And this was a complimentary win. This was as complete a win that I've seen the Cowboys have,

certainly under Mike McCarthy. And it did remind me of twenty six team, but a lot of it reminded me of of last week. And I'm sorry I'm shifting back to the offense here, but I said it last week. Dak Prescott has become such an effective quarterback in this league that I don't defenses don't know how to play this. They don't know how and so you know, some of it's the way defenses play. But it was like the Chargers last week, they're gonna play coverage and try don't

let Dak beat us. Well, now we're gonna hammer you and we're gonna move you off the ball in the running game. That was I think that might have been what impressed me the most last night was the way the offensive line move guys a pretty good defensive line around and got the run game going and another balanced

offensive win. And Kellen was in his bag last night. Yes, Sir Aaiah Asaiah talk about and I gotta ask you this because you know, once you are able to get the running game going and teams have to honor play action, what does that do as far as what you're able to call as an offense, call whatever the heck you want to, especially when you have, you know, guys that are your Pollard and Zeke both can do the same things. Now, one might be better in one category than the other.

Zeke's gonna be more more powerful, more downhill. Poler is going to be more explosive, but they both can catch the ball in the backfield. They both can run screens, they both can come downhill. So when you have backs that can do everything, and then you have the officive line like we have that's able to punish guys, move guys off the ball, and then you have tight ends or receivers, I can get down the field, you can do whatever the heck you really want to um killing more.

Kudos to him for whatever he did this offseason. Whatever he did this offseason, he needs to continue to do it because he has gone in this bag and I hope it isn't. I hope he's not like a bag of skittles and it's like the last one, you know, I hope he has more in there. It's kind of hope exactly. Yeah, I need to cost go back because he's pulling a lot of stuff out. You know, you see him a governing at fullback and I he's keeping guys off balance, and that's what you want to do

as an officive coordinator. And I think when you have the personnel that we have on officer out of the ball, that's expected, but it's not necessarily always carried out. So great job to kill him more and defensively A lot of people are surprised. I think I think you guys know from the day one dan Quinn. I know dan Quinn. I've had him matters a car. I'm not surprised. Like, this is what he does when he has the personnel, He gets the best out of his guys. He makes

it fun, he builds him creates a culture that's highly competitive. Right, nobody is above anybody else, right. Next man is always ready to come in and fulfill his role because he puts you in position to be successful. Robbie, if you're fast and you run and hit guess what. I'm putting you in a position to run and hit somebody in the dog on chest and you're gonna have a great time doing it, and then we're gonna celebrate it every

single time. That's what he does. And you're seeing, you're seeing his cultivation of that come to fruition with with dan Quinn, and I'm I'm just excited to see it. Actually everybody else to see it, because I was blessed to see it when I was playing with Seattle and we made a bunch last week out of how many guys they were missing on defensively too, And it didn't it didn't see it doesn't matter. Rocks at it. It

doesn't seem to matter. And and you're right, they're putting guys in good spots and they're getting contributions from a lot of young guys too, and it's not just Michael Parsons. We can go down the list. We were doing our smelly stickers later, So yeah, do it that. We want to tell about that smelly stickers. I'll talk about the debate we had about Michael Parsons how successful was he

at that position? Well, okay, so the debate last week on Talking Cowboys was between mister Heck Ma Harrison and then the other corner. It was Isaiah stand back and think thinking, uh so the edge rusher with Michael Parsons versus edge rusher with the linebacker I mean basically, or I mean, excuse me, Michael Parsons as the linebacker. That was the conversation. So I'll let Heck we go first round round one. What did you think about Michael Parsons

last night in his contribution in both ways? Well, I loved it. I love the energy that he brings to the defense. I think when you have a young guy out there that every snap his energy doesn't go away. You know, he's the same guy in the first quarter that he is in the fourth. He's always actively getting after. You saw him get those holding penalties. There's a few that they did not call that was obvious holding penalties. But I also see what it does for Randy Gregory.

Last night, Randy Gregory became the player that I think all of us have been waiting on him to become. There were points in time in the game where it was just like he was dominating that one on one matchup. And I just think that from a value standpoint, he showed you that he can change how quarterbacks look at this defensive line because not only him, but Osa Diggi Zua. You saw him emerge. And that's all because offensive lines have to attest our account for where number eleven is

at all time. He's a game wrecker. It's just this is what he does. And I believe he got sacked. He did. I think it was it was combined between him and I'll take it. Yeah, I mean, I don't disagree with you. I think that he made He's gonna make plays. It isn't. I've never disputed the fact that if you put him at he's not gonna make plays.

I just think that you isolate him. And there's a many times last night I'm just like, God, dog, he's getting washed up, you know, like he's getting swallowed up by these guys, and he doesn't he doesn't have an impact on those plays. So for every for every thirty snaps, he might effect really have an effect over two plays, you know, Versus at the linebacker position, I feel like he would have an effect or at least affect the play every every single play. Like he's in the middle.

He's in the thicket things, tight ends, he's in the thicket things, running backs coming through the throat to the whole. He's in the thick of things. Receivers when I come across the middle, he's in the thicket things. So I like him much better there. And I think a lot of people held their breath when he got us but chipped yesterday at the defense end position too. That's all it hurts, right, It's like, why, like what we don't

have to do that. We have other guys that can go out there and put forth high effort, right, and if he's only gonna be effective on ten percent of the plays that we put him at defense end, then I'd much rather have him at the second level. Yeah, he only played. He played thirty seven snaps last night.

That's actually two less snaps than he played before. We two the Chargers, and I asked Mike McCarthy about playing mostly end again, and I didn't get a specific answer of why, but I would imagine it's mostly out of necessity. I mean, you're losing. You didn't have a n eye, you didn't have tank, you didn't have Dorian's armstrong, and so they needed somebody to fill in there. And he dropped a little bit. He played a little bit off the ball, but it was mostly rushing the passer from

different spots. He rushed inside, he didn't. It wasn't it was both edges. You had Randy Gregory at left end. At times they kind of took turns against Andre Dillard on the on the left side and the other guy. Yeah, and they had they had some success. Um, So I'm curious to see what happens when they get they get more whole. I think you're probably see him more linebacker. But it was interesting for them to say, hey, Jalen Smith, you spy Jalen Hurts and he busted his ass to

do that. Good job, you know, yeah, yeah, credit to Jalen. Yeah. I have to go out of our way to give some credit to Jalen because we'd go out of our way to give criticism. And I think, you know, he's number nine, he's playing well and Layton vander Esh's crazy. What competition does well you can And I think it's another one of those crazy things when your defense knows what they're doing, when the scheme isn't so complicated that

guys absolutely can't play fast. It's also amazing when you have a ninety five that the urban who can gobble up blockers for you and allow guys to scrape and shoot the gaps. And you see all of these things coming to fruition for this defense. And I look, this is only a sample size, so I don't want to

jump out the cake yet. But I'm just saying the experience that Micah is getting after not playing defensive end in college only in high school, I think those things are just going to be add to what he does. So by the time we get to the end of this season, let's see what kind of defensive end he is, what kind of pressure he can get and when we bring Tank back. I like the fact that he's getting the experience. I just my thing is risk first reward. No,

I get what you're saying. I mean, he's an athlete. He's a freakish athlete. He could do a lot of things. You can put him at kicker and he'll probably be okay. But but the reality is, you know, again, that was a wake up call yesterday when they chipped on him. Yeah, he could have easily broke his ribs easily. He was easy upset about that after the game too, he was talking about him. Yeah, So I mean that's it's easy to target him at that when he's coming off that edge.

I could pick him apart all day long, and I could put a tight end over back, but I can make sure about running back eight take his ribs out every single time. You know, those conversations happen. Sorry, people, those those things, those things happen, right. So I just don't like the risk there because where he's a because

he's such an athlete, people forget that he's human. Because he's such an athlete, people forget these human Let's put him back in his human form, and let's put him back at the second level and protect him because honestly, that's where he should be in Again, last night was out of necessity, And yes, he's gonna be impactful no matter where you put him, but let's not take advantage of that to the point where all of a sudden

it's too late. Yeah, money, don't make money, We'll hear you, but until until Parsons is sitting on the sideline for six games and everybody's gonna be like, why do we put him at the end. So there's no part of you that feels like, if they wanted to, they could just make him a edge rusher full time. They could, they could, But would he have the impact that he has at the second level? I think not. I don't think so either. I don't think you want him to

be enough rusher. You want him to be a linebacker? You exactly. I agree with y'all. I just there was times again last night where he's screaming off the edge and it's like a violent first step and it's like, I'm much and it's cool to look at you wear style or von Miller. Yeah, it is cool to get should he be doing this this his career? But he you know, if he keeps it this should that be

his role? It's also think about. But Jalen was also unbothered by a lot of it too, As I was watching it right like they was screaming off the hurts hurts me, It hurts. Was unbothered right right just to the things I was talking about, Like he steps up, slides out like you know what I'm saying, Like that was cool, Like you came off the ball fast. I

was awesome. But you're not affecting me right now. Now as a collective whole, we affected him right in that particular individual, I don't think had an impact on him as much as we probably would have liked to have Seene. I don't know if I agree with that point specifically. I agree in terms of I still want him to be a linebacker with a versatility Russian pazzer. But I don't know what was that eating W's over here. I'm sorry, James Jams hilarious's over here. But nothing's gonna bring me down.

That's the thing about Michael Parsons is I mean, what do you always say about guys who are the energizer bunny that that bring their lunch pail and they go to work every day. Those guys are harder to go up against than the guys who are the most talented guys. Right, well, Michael Parsons has got both of those, so why not use him in most I don't disagree with you guys again, I just say sprinkle them in there, right, Salt Salt

Bam says Salt baym in there. But to expect him to play that position in a consistent role for the duration of a game and expect him not to come out you just well, yeah, I mean, you know injured like that's that's not real that's just not realistic. Well, even just to play more. I mean, I don't know how many snaps they had in the game. Is over

fifty five snaps and he plays thirty seven? If he's playing off the ball, then there's there's not a reason he could play fifty plus Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I want to see him as many snaps and impossible. And then Lane Johnson after the game says, man, can I get your jersey about that? Respect? That's respect for a young guy that you know is bringing in applying the pressure on the end. But my question to you is, Isaiah, when it comes down to like the salary cap and

the way that front officers divvy up money. Most of the positions of importance obviously quarterback, left tackle, things like that. That's why your edge rushers make the money that they do. In cornerbacks make the money that they do because of importance and how they impact the game. You have a guy that's out there impacting the game, and that's why Tank got paid the way that he did because of his impact, and teams were chipping on Tank. They're double

team and him all the time. Look, we can't go into in my mentality what it is. We can't fear any of those things. We gotta let our dog be a dog, go out there and hunt. And he showed you yesterday. When he goes out there and he's the best version of himself, teams are having to account for him. We haven't had that. We just haven't had that guy where anybody's like, hey, well I better step up. In his podcast, he gonna put me on my you know, he's gonna take my head off. I hear you, and

I'm in agreeance with you, guys. I just don't want us to get greedy. You don't want it all the time. I don't want to exactly. I'm not saying don't put him out there. I say that's why I say that sprinkle right, salt bam, change up right, curveball, whatever you want to call it. But the moment you start relying on him to be there all the time and because you get greedy because he can do it, yeah, that's when you get snake bit. He's been impressive the last

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we're Talking Cowboys. Heck Ma Harris and Isaiah Stanback, Rob Phillips, Kyle Yeoman's here breaking down the cowboys forty one twenty one win over the Philadelphia Eagles. Oh I should I haven't even talked about this yet. The first place Dallas cowb the first place Dallas Cowboys two and one. Baby, they got a sole possession of the division lead because of a Giant's loss, a Washington football team loss, a Philadelphia Eagles lost. It's a perfect week in the NFC

East for the Dallas Cowboys. And hope everybody's having fun. And we talked about the defense in the first segment. Let's go into the offense again. Three hundred and eighty yards. It's the first time in six or excuse me, seven starts for Dak Prescott that the offense hasn't surpassed four hundred yards. But you didn't need them to. You put

up forty points. It was as efficient as can be. Yes, there was a couple moments in that game, especially right at the beginning with the turnover in the end zone, where you thought, oh, here we go again. However, the offense was able to find a rhythm. Rob And I mean, I don't see a way you could slow them down up until this point if they stay marginally healthy. I don't know how you do it either. I think you look at a few teams through three games in the

league and say that's scary. You know, it's the Cowboys and it's it's it's the teams with the best quarterbacks. Really it's you know, despite the Chiefs troubles, it's it's it's Pat Mahomes and the Chiefs. It's the Bucks and Packers. The Rams are in that conversms are in that conversation for sure. Bills have that capability. Obviously, Seahawks they're in that position because they have a guy it's under center who can command that type of attention and allow you

to be as balanced as you want to be. And I mentioned the offensive line, but credit to Zeke last night. I thought he ran really well. And people want to make something of this carry distribution every week. I wrote about it last week. Mike McCarthy. I looked at the date on July twenty ninth. He told us, we're gonna do this. You know, there's gonna be games where we do this because we're worried. Not worried. They are cognizant of how many carries he's had throughout his career, so

they want to manage it. They want to keep him fresh. Tony Pollard showing they should play him more. I mean they both had five and a half yards of carry. They're keeping each other fresh. There's nothing wrong with a thunder and lightning approach. We've seen it work in the NFL. People just look at Zeke's salary and don't understand it. The checks he's getting paid. So take that out of the equation, and what they've got cooking is really good. I love that. I love taking the money out of

the equation. Play who's the better player or at least has the hot hand. I won't say that Pollard's a better player than Zeke. I don't believe that, but the Polers have the hot hand. Play them if he needs to be played. Isn't the point to win games? Exactly? And that's what isn't not the whole point? Like you build a roster so that you can win games, regardless of who's getting paid what like, So the heck, what

Deck's throwing the ball twenty six times a game? What if I complaining about him making you know, forty plus million dollars a year? That's like, come on, dude, Like it's about winning ball games. It doesn't matter how you do it. If if Zeke doesn't care, why should anybody else care? And he said it last week. Nobody else is signing the checks or sending the wires or whatever. I mean, Like, so what is it? What does it matter? We got something going. It's it's a good recipe for

a seven. It's a seventeen game season now too. Yeah, that's true. And what you're looking at him is the national media just cowboy haters in general that want to stare up something between trying to break this up exactly. And look, when Zeke answered the question after the Tampa game, Look, it's not about what shows up on the stat sheet. It's about the things that you dolittle, things that don't show up. If that was said by anyone else, they

would be like, that's a team first guy. But you know, that's kind of coaches speak thing, and most people applaud that. But for some reason, when Zeke says that, no one actually listens to him say that. So, and then when he comes out and has the game like he does, and people, oh my god, eleven Tony Pollard had eleven carriages for sixty yards and he had his longest run

was eleven yards. Zeke's longest was thirteen yards. So but these are things that get lost in translation, when you talk about two guys and the thunder and lightning, if you don't like that, change up. Yeah, a guy that comes in and offers something different, and I think the speed of Tony Pollard for defenses when he comes into the game, you have to account for that, and just they're paranoid of it. And now the rest of the league is going to be on that same thing when

they see twenty come into the ball game. So again, that's why I ask you the question about play actions because to me, when Kellen Moore has play action in his back, when he starts off with that, teams don't know what we're going to do. We don't they don't know. And Dak is seeing the field so well right now that all of the haters, all the people that did the comparison thing with Wins and the Detroit quarterback man,

where are those guys now? And look at where Dak is in his career and the way that he's playing. I mean, look, we're not gonna forget about you haters, and we're gonna call you out on it every time. One more thing about the running game. I wrote this last weekend. I didn't check Week three stats, but There's only two guys in the entire league through two weeks of the regular season that had twenty five carries. No team is really doing this. Some of it's the way

the game is going. It's more past centric, and some of it is more two back combos. And if you've got two backs, who can do it, do it? Use? Yeah, you see it working in Cleveland. I mean Kareem Hunt had a huge day yesterday and Nick Chubb's the one that's getting paid, right. I mean it happens all the time where there's two backs their complimentary and going back to Heckama's point, teams look at these two backs and say, oh gosh, Zeke can get outside, but man, he is

a powerful back inside. Oh Tony Pollard, Man, he can get outside, but he can still run through the tackles if he needs to. People like flashy. Let's just call a spade a spade. People like flashy, people like seeing the burst. The reality is, Zeke's been running like this all year. Yeah he has. He's been running like this all freaking year. He put the work in this offseason, he lost some weight, he became more explosive, He got with a coach. They helped him with his cuts right,

that boy's shift is all get out. He's being deliberate, he's putting his foot in the ground, he's getting vertical. He steals Zeke people were forgetting Oh, by the way, as I'm looking at his stats, he averaged four and a half yards per carry over his career, and guess where he's at right now, four to four and a

half yards per carry. So like people like that were hype on Zeke for all these years, and all of a sudden they want to be a Zeke ad because he had some fumbles last year when we when we freaking had our seventeenth string or up as a line in like, get off of this dude. This dude is the same player. He's probably just more explosive now than he was then. He just hasn't had the breakout runs that Paula's had. Sold the heck what sold the heck what?

That's not what they're asking him to do. They're asking that dude to be freaking consistent, to be powerful, to be healthy, right and continue to make the blocks and protect number four when he when he when he's not tolding the ball, and continue to do your job as as to RB one. Oh oh, I got one. I got one. Did anybody see Dalton Schultz last night? I mean, what about this guy carving out a role as a

possession receiver on this team. That boy wants that he wants to swap the salaries, that is what he wants to do. He may get a chance. I mean he was real the first multi touchdown game of his career. The second one was just nutty. The way he was able to weave through the defense and then find the end zone. It was awesome. I like his approach to

the game. Oh yeah, it's sgnificant. I mean controversy, but between him and if you had, compared to him and Jarwin, I'm starting shows who said somebody said it last night that he's he's like first in last to leave. I mean, he's really really worked at his game because when he first got here there were things he had to get better at. I mean, he's still evolving as a blocker, and that's really what they need. But we we've talked about the way they're trying to play this Cowboy's offense.

There's opportunities for a tight end underneath to make a bunch of plays. And it goes back to Kellen Moore, like the changing up the personnel and the different packages, like they went twelve a lot last night and had success with it. Or you know you don't have Michael Gallup, fine, we can still go three. Why we can spread you out. Cedric Wilson played well, but we can do a lot of different things, and I'm constantly off balance on what Kellen Moore is gonna do, which is awesome. Yeah, it's

what you want. That's some sign of a good play caller. Yeah. Yeah. How about that tweet from Nick last night saying that we'd gone twenty games before the last two games without a scoring drive on our first drive, and now we've had two back to back. I mean, it just makes things so much easier. And again, the efficiency of this offense I'm loving. I had questions list like everybody else after the Tampa game when we didn't run that much.

I can see now when you see other teams facing Tampa how they have just completely abandoned the run and we've given them the blueprint rams thank you very much. I know a blueprint when I see one. They took our blueprint on how to beat Tampa Bay and just look, I just look as much criticism as we've given Kelly Moore and last night obviously the reverse down in the

red zone. I didn't like that, but I think that was just kind of rubbing it in your little brother's face if you actually get a touchdown there, because you know I'm running reverse on you on the goal line, I don't respect your defense at all. So that was what that was. Gamesmanship. Those things you can I mean the sack fumble, touchdown, deciding to throw out of their fine. I mean, he's he's aggressive, he's gonna that's his style. I just say, there's two guys last night that you

their performance before national TV. That's what gets people's attention. Trayvon Diggs, that's the kind of performance that, like Pro Bowl voters will remember if he keeps having this type of you know, when you do it on Thanksgiving, you do it on primetime. The other thing is Kellen Moore doing this in front of primetime audience. Like when it comes time for coaching vacancies around in the league, there's

gonna be fans out there. You know, teams are gonna do what they're gonna do, but fans like, oh yeah, I watched him on Week three, Man they were. Yeah, they were really, like he's selling, that was a national attention game for Kellen Moore as a play caller. That's a great point because Trayvon Diggs hasn't really had that coming out party, that big time game, because I mean, even as well as he's played throughout the season and even into the back half of last year, the Cowboys

weren't center stage. Last night. They were center stage, and he stole the show. And on the defensive side of the football. Same thing with Kellen Moore on the offensive side. And both of those guys are continuing to ascend, and that's an exciting thing for this Boys organization. All right, let's step aside. When we come back, it's time for smelly stickers. For the second straight week the Cowboys get

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of shows. He is Kellen Moore got to keep mom on my balance. He did it at the end this time, the rather doing it. He didn't notice that. You know, it's good? What is that? That's okay? It's good all right. Time for smelly stickers. This is a tradition we have on talking to cowboys. We did it virtually last year, but now that we're back in studio, we're actually we actually have our helmet. Chris, I don't know if we can get a little close up here. We have our helmet.

Here's are the four stickers from last week from the win over the Chargers. There we go, so Zach Martin, Terrence Steele, Tony Pollard, Michael Parsons. We've got our smelly stickers from last week and we use them pretty much as helmet stickers or game balls. I should say is whoever our player of the game is, we'll get a smelly sticker and it'll be on the Cowboys helmet after

every Cowboys wins circuit. Heckma, I'm gonna let you start things off because I really like yours overall, because goodness, gracious, you've got a good one. You're given away. All right, Well, my smelly sticker is gonna be mango sited really good manna like this, But my smelly sticker goes to eighteen and T Stadium. The fans at AT and T Stadium last night for the first time in a very long time,

the fans were off the chain last night. And there's all the sugnission of home field advantage bake bs to that, because last night, boy, it looked like what Happy Valley does. Somebody say, it looked like Happy Valley. Parsons said that, I'm telling you a college environment. Last night at AT and T, Cowboy fans, y'all, y'all showed up and showed out. There you go, So Cowboys fans get the first one. Who's your smelly sticker? Kyle? Thanks for buying these? Do

you do you expense these? No? Like, say ninety nine cents? Nick? Yeah? Thanks Nick All. I'm gonna go Osa a Diggy Zoos say that again. Osa a Diggi zoas one and a half sacks, two quarterback hits out of five on Jalen Hurts consistently in the backfield making plays. Wasn't supposed to

be a starter necessarily week one as a rookie. He's one of these young guys that's, you know, already three weeks into the season, he's making an impact, and they should only you know, when you've got this many young players making plays over the course of seventeen games, your defense should just continue to get better. He's been. He's been really, really good, and we saw it in training camp, but to be able to carry it over to games

against really good offensive players, it's impressive. And you needed him to step up without Neville Gallimore and without Carlos Watkins as well. I mean, they were missing two guys on the interior to where you needed somebody to step up, and Osa was one of those guys that did that. So I really like that one as well. All right, Isaiah, Oh, you're scratching and you're sniffing. It's pineapple, Like pineapple. Pineapple is my favorite fruit. Anybody knew that. Um, I'm going

with Kellen Moore. Kelly Moore is in his bag and he's very acidic to the defense that he's facing. I see what you did there, You see what I do there. Um, he's been a thorn in their side. Uh. I think Kellen Moore is doing a dog I thing, you know. I think he's he's he's being very verstile. It is offerings and he's using he's using the talent that he has. Even Connor freaking McGovern in the backfield as a full back.

The fridge. Yeah, the fridge. Yeah, you're going on. You got to explain that the people refrigerator pass right, the big dog shown but yeah, no, hey, sway sticker going to Kellen Moore. You never thought you would see your Connor bros. On the same side of the field. Huh uh No. But the way which they were utilized, they were effective. So it was good. There you go, There you go. So Isaiah's putting his on. So we've had the fans, we've had I got SpongeBob over there. Now

there you go. Uh put them next week. We've had Osaki Zoo, We've had Kellen Moore. I'm gonna go ahead and go with the obvious one since we haven't talked about him yet. Tray Von Diggs, baby John fossil Us, Um, Yeah, probably not. Man. He was sweet to watch last night, huh I'm trying to pull. I've got a cupcake smelly sticker. So yeah, I'm gonna say Trayvon Diggs, I mean, goodness, gracious,

another interception. He's the first Cowboys defender since Everson Walls to have picks in the first three games of the season. And not only that man, he blanketed whoever he was covering. I mean, of course, Philadelphia has a couple different weapons Jalen Rager, Quez Watkins and Davante Smith. It didn't matter who he was covering. Trayvon Diggs is a dude. So we've gotten our smelly stickers hooked up on the back

of the helmet. You can go at an adders. Hecka, I know you didn't pull it out of the package, but uh but yeah. So Cowboys gonna win forty one twenty one. Now, looking ahead to this week, we're of course going to preview the Carolina Panthers. But an undefeated Carolina team comes to challenging three and oh now they are a little banged up. Yes they are. No Christian McCaffrey, yes, no jac Horn. Yes, but they did go and get C. J.

Henderson from McCaffrey's out a few weeks few weeks. Yeah. Yeah, they didn't put him on IR, which means he could return whenever. But I think the thought is after week four they would probably play him. Did they have to do that trade? Right before they played us? They traded a tight end in a third round pick to Jacksonville four C J. Henderson, who was the number nine overall pick a year ago. Really good corner, at least coming out of Florida. Yep. Kind of struggled a little bit,

but he's still got some skill. Yep. Well, maybe the Cowboys get Kelvin Joseph back very soon. He's eligible this week, so we'll see. We'll talk to Mike, see where he's at. Anybody else eligible this week? Or is it just Joseph? Everybody who started the season on IR technically is I don't you know? I don't Neville Gallimore is not ready, Michael Gallup. I don't think it's ready yet. But oh he's He's still got a couple he would have one more week, right, Yeah. I want to see Sam Donald.

I want to see him. We owe him from that Jets victory a couple of years ago, and it is payback time. He had no business and he had a performance versus us that had everybody second guess and the way that the Jets looked at him, and I thought it was completely flukeish. But Sam Donald, it's your birthday. I like this stretch of stretch of games we have coming up after Carolina. It's a tough game we got this week. This week, I like that. Feeling pretty good.

I like this stretch now I'm still feeling pretty good. I mean Cowboys are the first place. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and even though both teams are a little banked up, I still feel good about the matchup that you would have Carolina. We're gonna preview it starting tomorrow. We'll talk about the Carolina offense going up again up against the Cowboys defense, and then we'll also flip it on Thursday. What was that you're looking at it? It still? Yeah, you're getting excited or you got it up? Yeah, it's

your expectation. Patriots, Vikings, Broncos, Plkins. What you're feeling fifteen and one? Or where are we going here? And then we played the Chiefs. Let's we'll get that later on. Hey they're oneata right now? All right, that's it for us here. I'm talking Cowboys. Hope you had fun with us over the last forty five minutes. We'll see you tomorrow nine am Central time. We start looking ahead to week four. Is the Cowboys are in first place for Chris Beam in the back, Rob Phillips, heck My Harrison,

Isaish Dan Back. I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long. We'll see you next time. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.