Talkin' Cowboys: The Mailbag Continued

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So now we've got something else new for talking Cowboys. Well it is hump Day. But guess what, there's Wednesday Night Football or Wednesday Afternoon football to talk about, including the team the Cowboys are going to face come up next Tuesday. So we're going to talk a little bit about the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers today. And it's kind of the craziest situation that you could potentially have.

I mean, RG three, Robert Griffin, the third of Texas born, Texas raised quarterback is starting for the Baltimore Ravens tonight and supposedly going against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And I say supposedly because there were a couple more positive tests and everybody has to test through if they're Baltimore in order to actually play tonight. So any other updates that you've heard of Rob in terms of this game and how it could potentially affect the Cowboys moving into next week.

I don't know how it affects the Cowboys just yet. I think the Cowboys are just doing their thing, just trying to, you know, go through their schedule and get ready for Tuesday. It is next Tuesday, right is. Yes, they're supposed to be back to practice today and I think the schedule for the Cowboys is to practice today and practice on Friday and Saturday. So that's that looks like what they're planning to do, and hopefully this game

stays on schedule for the third time. And you know, as far as Raven Steelers, just what you said, Kyle, you know, Ian Rappaport was on NFL Network today saying, like you said, there's still some POC tests they've got to do, and they've got to wait those results before that game can be kicked off. And there's still questions

about who's going to be activated for the Ravens. So it's kind of hard to talk about them right now, just because we don't know who they're going to have available other than we know RG three is going to start for him, and I know they activated Trace mcsoreley, the backup quarterback out of Penn State. He was activated yesterday, so they have two quarterbacks, which is I mean more quarterbacks than what Denver had to work with this past week.

But that's something that is significant going into this game. This game tonight doesn't necessarily affect the Cowboys outside of the fact that it needs to get played in order for them to play next Tuesday. That's pretty much the by them lying with it. Plus, like you said, Rob, it's it's crazy. How do you prepare as a Cowboys organization? I mean they're literally out ready to practice here in the next what is an hour and a half, they'll

be out on the practice field. What are you prepare for if you're looking at a Baltimore team and you don't necessarily know who's on the other side. Isaiah that you might be the best one to answer that question. Well, I can tell you that I'm gonna have on my essel or lenses today and I'll be watching that game. But aside from that, I mean, you're prepared, just like I mean, the good thing is they have what eleven weeks of game film to go off of, So I mean,

what happens today doesn't really doesn't really matter much. I mean, I think these guys are they they've they've been pretty dug on punished in terms of this whole COVID deal. So they don't even have a defensive line. I don't know who they're playing on a d line today, But I mean, you take it with a grain of salt today, but you got eleven other games that you look at

to build your game plan off of. Hey, yeah, I mean for the Pittsburgh Steelers, for all of the teams that are involved and just trying to figure out what's going to happen over this next couple of hours or the next week or so. I mean, look at the curveball that those guys have been thrown, and teams are just trying to scramble to figure out who they're going to be facing on any given week. So I mean for the Cowboys, obviously they're watching this closely to see

how this is all going to come out. But I just believe that the NFL, at some point it's going to have to step in and make some major moves, whether it be extending the season out, given everybody an extra bye week to get this thing under control because the second surge, as we've all anticipated and COVID is

actually happening. So you know, they're probably doing everything that they possibly can with the contact tracing all of those things, but it's really kind of hard to contain it week to week, and you're just starting to see every week that this is just kind of getting a little raggedy how they're approaching it, Kyle, they I guess one of the reports too, is that mark Ingram and JK. Dobbins will not play despite I guess being removed from of

the nineteen reserve earlier in the week. They've been activated, but they're not gonna play. So you don't know who's gonna play running back for the Ravens this week. I guess their hope would be Lamar Jackson gets back for

the Cowboys game. To Heckma's point talking about trying to extend the season and give give them a week eighteen, thefl just doesn't seem to want to do that, and I wonder if it has to do with, you know, you got the top two seeds in each conference that get a buye, they get a week off, and it's basically two weeks before they play the divisional round. If you played a Week eighteen and they're not part of that, as my voice cracks again, then you would have, Yeah,

the Sopranos are back. You would have three weeks. Three weeks for those top two teams in each conference. Just sit around and wait. I don't know if that's fair. Maybe that's a that's a RUSS thing that they're concerned about. But at some point, you know, if this keeps on this trajectory, they may have to do something. Like Heckma said, We'll see. I mean, they're just trying to figure out

as they go the best they can. Isaiah and I talked about this this yesterday while we were kind of finishing up film room, and we were talking about the fact that the NFL is so reluctant to finally add that Week eighteen. And I guess this point, it's kind of a mood point because you're supposedly going to play tonight for this Pittsburgh and Baltimore game. But do you

think fantasy sports plays an impact in that? I mean, we're talking about something that shouldn't influence the real game, but at this point, it's a billion dollars in an industry. Do you think the fact that pushing this game back and talking about fantasy football is one of the reasons that could potentially be the reason for no Week eighteen.

I think so, I know we talked about yesterday, call I think fantasy, not not solely fantasy, but I think all of their contractual obligations that they have with all their corporate corporates, partnerships and sponsorships and all that stuff, all this stuff has timelines on it. All this stuff has raid line so as a domino effect, right, So it's once one thing moves, if you move one week,

everything's affected. Um. I think there's there's all kinds of stadium um you know, timelines and usages and all that kind of say. It gets crazy. So that's why they're trying everything they can to stay within that window. But as you as you alluded to, if this thing keeps rolling, I don't know what they do, because they're gonna lose a lot of money if they if they decide to move this extended season out Ama. So you're saying capitalism has something to do with the NFL A little bit,

just a little bit. I mean, I've we've we've talked about this at LED before the season even started. What would happen if something like this happened, and how with the you know, the NFL adjust. We looked at the NBA and what they did with having the bubble and all of that, and people were really excited about the

way that the NBA handled it. The NFL being one of the biggest leagues in the world, I think they're just trying to get They're trying to satisfy a lot of different groups in this, and I can see that, like Isaiah said, the marketing dollars, stadium dollars, there's a lot that goes into it. I don't know if it's fantasy so much, but like you said, Kyle, it is a billion dollar industry, so it may very well have

something to do with it. But I just think as a whole, the NFL is just trying to scramble to figure out how to get all of this done. You gotta think about it. We have five more weeks in the season, then you have four weeks for the for the playoffs, So man, how we get through the next nine ten weeks. It's going to be very interesting. Yeah, I mean they've you know, they've put in so much work trying to for the safety part of it for the players, and obviously they want to play the games.

They've got the TV contracts, and they don't have the attendance coming in this year, so that's that's going to be a huge revenue loss for the league, no doubt. It may come to the point where it's you know, I know they dismissed the idea of a giant bubble like the NBA had or like the NHL had, just in terms of the number of players, but they may have to follow Teams may have to follow the Cowboys

blueprint as best they can. Like we mentioned yesterday that most teams don't have a hotel next door to their connected to their facility, but there may be have to be those home market bubbles just to try to do everything you can to lessen the risk of transmission. You know,

let me ask you guys this question. Had had the NFL known that it was going to get this bad, do you think that they would have elected to do the bubble before camp started now, like a full bubble or just oh, I just don't know if you could have pulled it off, like in terms of having a facility that could do that for thousands of people. God, yeah, that would have been an Olympic. That would have been

like the Olympic Village. Yeah, I wish we could have been on that one, right, Yeah, I don't know, but but the home market bubbles is another option. And and I guess it's not you know, the Cowboys staff has moved over were there. But I guess it's not in that revised CBA that the players have to do that. But maybe that's something they have to revisit. And you know, because it seems to be working for the Cowboys. You know,

they've had a couple of tests here and there. Of course, you know, Andy Dalton's back, but for the most part they've done pretty well. The biggest thing is that you have to be responsible on your own, you know, and guys have done a good job of that. There is still a possibility of a playoff bubble, though, I mean, do you think that that's something that the NFL should

severely look into. I mean, we saw it with at least Major League Baseball for a tad bit where they took the divisional series and they put them in separate locations and then they had different locations for the NLCS and the ALCS and then ultimately the World Series was held in Arlington. So do you think there's something of the sort where you could put these playoff teams in a bubble? And I know Cowboys fans probably don't want to talk about playoffs right now, but it's something to

think about whenever it comes to COVID nineteen. In the current situation that we're in. I think they should. Okay, I think they should. I mean, that's the only way that that's the only way that you can protect protect the brand. You can't control UM, this virus, that's number one. You can't control. But as I always say, control what you can control, and if you get if you can limit UM the accessibility that people have to your players and your staff, then why would you not do that?

I don't care how inconvenient it is. Again, like we talked about before the season started, inconveniance doesn't matter when you're when you're when you're committed to going out there and try to win a ring. I don't give a dog on about conveniance. Give me the opportunity to win a ring. ACMA, Well, there, yeah, there it is. I mean I think that you know, they just have to be very careful with this. I mean getting a bubble together for the playoffs. You're talking was at fourteen teams?

Uh in a bubble? How does that travel? I don't know. The numbers would probably be again another logistical nightmare for the n FELD and just trying to handle that. But I think that guys would side where Isaiah is. They wouldn't care one way or another. I think it's you know, it's the chase for the Lombardi is what these players

care about. And so if it's just a we're talking about a week, a couple of weeks to get that done versus how the NBA did it for months, I think that would be something that the players would be prone to doing. Yeah, I mean you knew, you kind of knew this second way it was coming because once once fall and winter comes, you know, people were indoors more and then that's flu flu in cold season, and it's not necessarily COVID, but it's symptoms and you don't

know what they are, and then that causes concern. So yeah, it's I'm sure they're having discussions on contingency plans and maybe you could do and I'm just spitballing here, maybe you could do a NFC bubble and an AFC bubble in one city and then and just try to handle it that way. I know the NCAA is planning to looks like doing the whole tournament in one city this year, which March Maddness. No March Madness this year was like a blow to my heart. So hopefully they can pull

that off. And maybe that's something that the NFL could look at too. I think it's something that you got to look at. And maybe even if it's four cities, you talk about like four different cities, you take the Southern teams, the Eastern teams, the Western teams, the Northern teams and put them all in a bubble each specifically. I think that's something you could potentially do from the

playoffs standpoint. I guess that would be a little bit different, but because of the divisions and the overlapping of these games. But I think you got to at least throw out these contingency plans and see how they fit into what could potentially happen for the NFL coming up in the playoffs.

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for you for details to talk in Cowboys. So we've now established the fact that we have a residence super Bowl champion, and Isaiah was asking questions about the parcel's final Riot poster in the back of Rob's set up here. And so now I apparently have to call Rob the resident Emmy Award winner on the show as well. So I got a couple of things we can hit up there whenever it comes to well, you and I got to pick a uper Bowl em got no no, no, no, Kyle,

no no, Kyle. Wait a minute, college, don't don't do this now. Was as we know, Rob has has the Emmy, all right, So Rob has then Emmy, and then he has another little Emmy, right, so you got two Emmy, Rob, right, robbi in two Emmy R. And then we have mister Heckma Harrison who has a signed the goat Muhammad Ali. Nice little frame picture back there in the background. That's called stunning right there, that's pretty say you're stunting, okay,

that's called stunting. Um. And then we and then we and then we have just me, who's just you know, I just have a picture of myself that somebody somebody painting on me. That's cool, all right, But then we have you, Kyle, and you've already you've already made it very clear, um that that you that we're just your background dancers, Why that you are You're that you're the host of this show and all of us will just play a small part, and you know, and we're just

a little pauns. You know. He's he's Lebron, He's Lebron, and we're like Dellavedova and yeah, yeah, guys, Kyrie last names. So we're not even ever protect you on a chess board, you know what I'm saying, that's all. Why why do I ever let you take the reins of this show ever? Like I don't like, I don't. I don't know Sebezi's in the back. I don't think she would disagree with

what I'm seeing right now. And well, Sebez, he's also won a couple Emmys of his own, so he's got some Emmies back there as well, So he's got some of that. He's got some of the golden golden trophies. I don't even know what they're called. They hold the globe up there, But welcome back, to Talking Cowboys. Well, that's the Lord lendses you'll see every exciting play. You can pook an appointment at your local experts and see

what es Selor can do for you. See more, do more, or gott to throw that in there here on Talking Cowboys presented by Geico. I gotta remember to say that too along the way. Now, yesterday we had fans on the fifty and we answered a couple of questions. We kind of got off on a tangent though, based off of a couple of those questions. So I kind of want to go back through and answer some more questions

from yesterday. So if you're watching and you sent in a question yesterday and I completely ignored you, we're not going to ignore you anymore. So Dallas Smith sent us a question and actually tagged me and Rob in this, and he said, do you think that Jerry told Mike McCarthy that Kelly Moore has to be the offensive coordinator? And that's why we haven't seen Mike take over the play calling or push more influence in on the offense.

And the reason why he's asking this is it's hard to believe he's okay just sitting by considering his role in Green Bay, speaking of course about Mike McCarthy, But heck, we'll start with you on this one. Do you think that's the case or is it basically what we've heard from Mike McCarthy saying that it was a part of

his plan to have Kellen Moore. Look, I might have to go with Mike McCarthy and what he said, right, he came out and said that he, you know, after being in his bunker situation in Wisconsin, he had a lot of time to think about how he was going to proceed as a head coach, and analytics was going to be a part of it, and when he interviewed for the job, that he knew that Kellen Moore was an up and coming offensive coordinator. Look, I don't believe any of that, right, I believe that, yes, he was

told that Kellen was gonna be the offensive coordinator. Otherwise I think that he definitely had a play sheet in his hand. So I'm sorry, guys, I just couldn't feed you that bull right there to stop my wait, hold up, hold up, hold up, So wait, you just did you just flip the script? You said that you you think McCarthy wasn't would want that. No, I just flipped the script. Script script. Any Yeah, I believe that he definitely was told that Kelly Moore was going to be a part

of his staff. And otherwise, I think Mike McCarthy, in the history that he's had as as a defense excuse me, as a head coach, has been that he's been the play calling. That's all we've seen for him from him, and especially during the season like this, you know, he would definitely have and I believe he has more input, But I don't see him saying that I'm just gonna relegate that, give up all offensive play calling. So I think this is a new wrinkle for him as well. Rob,

I think that's a heck of a question. Go ahead, Yeah, is there what do you think? I'm a conspiracy theorist man, So I'm I think that that mister Jones may have told him, Hey, this is the one thing that I that I will have control over in terms of your staff.

There's a potential there. I definitely can see your point, because I would I would have thought that that coach McCarthy would have taken complete control over the offense by this point as well, especially with all the resources that he has at his disposal on office side the ball. Yeah makes sense. I'm gonna say no. I think I do think Mike came into this interview situation knowing that Kellen Moore was highly regarded as a young assistant and so maybe he you know, he knew that that would

probably help maybe help his cause. But I mean he also looked at last year and they were the top ranked offense. Now, they didn't always show it, and sometimes they had trouble in the red zone. The points didn't match the yards necessarily, But Kellen did a nice job a year ago, and he did tell us when he took the job that, you know, I think he did take he took he gave play calling away in Green Bay once and then I think he took it back.

But maybe with a new staff he decided being kind of a walk around guy was the best thing anyway taking over a new job. And I also think, you know, he's got he's coming in with clout with the Super Bowl, So I don't think it's I don't think it would be a situation where Jerry would say, well, you know, if you're gonna take this, we're gonna give you this job, you gotta have this. I think I think Mike probably came in with enough cloud to do what he wanted. Basically, yeah,

I'm kind of I'm kind of there as well. But whenever you talk about a guy who has been to the mountaintop and has won a Super Bowl title, I mean, we had talked about it in the off season as well. Whenever Mike McCarthy was coming in, was was Kellen Moore going to be a part of this? He was the one guy in question where it seemed like he was

going to stick around. But even then, I think McCarthy had an opportunity probably to say I want my own guys, I want to run the offense, let me do this, let me do that, and it probably would have it would have sailed. I think it would have ended up working out. But with this being said, I mean, there's been a lot of questions on Kellen Moore. There's been a lot of questions on McCarthy, especially with their in game management. And I heard this on the way in

today Sean and RJ. We're talking about it on one oh five through the Fan. They do great work over there, but it is Jason or is Mike McCarthy a better in game manager than Jason was, at least through the small sample size that you've had throughout this season. Who because the fact of the matter is is that was one of the biggest things that Jason was was knocked for, and now McCarthy's getting nocked for the fact that that's even a question. Is a bit concerning, is it not? Yeah?

Not good. I gotta scratch my head on that one. And that's not good. Um to to to date, I would have to say I put them on the same same pedestal. I think they're on they're on the same level right now. Wow, I think if you have your thing, you put them. I think that if you put them on a scale right now, I think it's probably just doing that for a second. Then it's just even and out. Because some of the things that Church McCarthy has allowed to happen on this on this team this year doesn't

make sense. UM doesn't make sense. Things that decisions that Garrett's made in the past, UM doesn't make sense. And I think they're on the total opposite end of the spectrum. I think Garrett had has been overly conservative and I think that McCarthy has been UM over the overly risky UM and and so I think they're literally just leveling

each other out. That's perfect, Isaiah, Yeah, because because that was I mean, that was a thought when when you asked that question, Kyle, I'm like, wow, there polar opposites of one another. And yeah, the polar opposites make it even because, like you said, Isaiah, one super conservative, it one it's super aggressive. And I found there several times last year where I was scratching my head, you know, trying to figure out some of the end game decisions.

And boy, I've been scratching my head a lot this year. So yeah, and it's uh yeah, And it's not just it's not just Mike's decisions in game that you can question at certain points, certainly the Washington game. It's it's kind of been across the board in terms of being more aggressive, you know, defensively, We've talked about it. They tried probably to put too much on the plate early in terms of scheme, and then they pulled back offensively.

They're they're they're taking more risks, and certainly on special teams they're taking more risk. It's almost, you know, it's almost like the previous staff too conservative and then they've gone in certain circumstances too far in the other direction. Sometimes that can happen with new staffs, and it's great when it works, and when it doesn't work, that's that's when we have these types of discussions, especially when you're three and eight. But Rob, like, just so everybody knows,

and I know you guys already know this. Your job as a head coach is to coach the coaches. Yeah, absolutely, that's your job as a head coach. So whatever whatever happens on the field and those three phases of the game offers defense special teams, that's on you. Because even though that you might not have called it, you allowed it. Yeah, So if you allowed it, you might as well have

called it. So his job is to monitor the activity, monitor the calls, monitor the schemes of these three coordinators, and say yay or nay on what you're allowing them to do. So it all falls back on him as a head coach because he's supposed to manage them and

they supposed to manage to players. He is definitely ultimately responsible and he knows that because I mean, he's the only guy on staff who's the record is attached to him so um and and he you know what, he doubled down on that fake punt just like two or three times, like we had a good look. Um yeah, I mean yeah, he said, you can't think negatively in those situations. But ultimately that's what happened that cost you the football game, or at least prevented you from having

a chance in the final half of that quarter. It is a lot, I mean, and it kind of goes back to that that veto power that we talked about yesterday and how Mike McCarthy and in the end, if a play call comes on over the headset like that and it's like, oh, well, maybe we shouldn't run that, it's not a maybe, it's a hey, let's not run that, Let's not do that. Let's let's let's punt this football away. Let's not try and do something crazy here. But like you said, he doubled down on it. And now I

kind of respect him for it. But also I see where you're coming from, Isaiah. Whenever it talks about whenever you're talking about the worry of in game management, the fact that he did double down on it, that is a bit of a concern. Even though I think he was just trying not to throw his coaches under the bus at that point, or trying to throw anybody under the bus. Now, this is another question that came from Ismail on Twitter and he said, will we see more

Michael Gallup? And the reason I want to ask this is because his targets just aren't there. I mean haven't been since Dak Prescott was really taken out in Week five. It hasn't been the same Michael Gallup. But this is a guy who you really needed to step up and be either your number two receiver or even your number one, and he's instead slotted back into number four right now,

behind even Dalton Schultz at the moment. Yeah, the situation has kind of penalized Michael Gallup with the offensive line all of it, the quarterback. Before the season, we're talking about three thousand yard receivers and we're nowhere close to You were nowhere close to that. And so I think, you know, when you talk about Michael Gallup and just what he had to do this year, I think even

everybody was even saying, ceedee lamb, Michael Gallup. Maybe you can, you know, look at moving Amark Cooper, which his contract makes it literally impossible at this point. But still, you know, you felt as though going into the season you were going to get major contributions and you did. You said it, Kyle before the Dack injury, he was a viable option

in our offense and made these made it our offense function. Well, right now, he just you know, he's out there pretty much as just a decoy, uh, you know, doing a really good job at blocking things like that, but he's not getting an opportunity to show his playmaking abilities. And when he has, he also has had some drops too, So you got to include that. You know, those are

good points. Heck, yeah, those are good points. Heck. I mean, he has the opportunity he has had, um he has to take advantage of on I mean, all those opportunities play a big role and a huge huge part in whether or not any Dalton believes in him, right, whether

any Dalands builds a symmetry with him. Right. So when he actually does have our opportunities to sit back there and throw the ball without pressure and he delivers the ball on point if the guys don't catch the ball in his head, regardless off that guy was dependable to Dak he's not dependable to me, right, So you lose a little bit of confidence in that player in regards to you as a play callers. As you know, the one at the helm the quarterback position. So when you're

playing quarterback position, you have your guys. It's not something that's necessarily intentional. It's just something that happens. Right. You have chemistry, you have some symmetry with guys that just natural. Right when I throw the ball, he's where I want him to be. He breaks, his body language, how he breaks and he makes his cuts, all those things they work for me, right, They work for me. And it's just and and he's there when I need him right

and when whenever he's there, he makes the play. I could depend on that. So as we talked about in the pregame show the other day, Kyle, you know that's it's it's my night, night Blaker, right, my safety like here, right, So it's somethingbody that's dependable or somebody that I always looked for and lean lean on when I'm in certain situations. And obviously Amari Cooper has been consistent through and through regardless of who's that the quarterback position. So that's why

he gets that paycheck. But when it comes to the number two and number three guys, it has to be a field thing. It has to be a symmetry thing. Yeah, you guys are right about the drops. I think he had two drops against Minnesota, yep, And and you know what, his drops last year there were really the only thing holding him back. He was kind of near the top of the league and drops last year. He's been better

with that overall this year. But I just did a quick aggy math, So this was probably wrong of the of the number of targets for Gallup and CD over the last in the games that Dak's been out the full game. So I think it's that six games now and it's basically even. It's like forty one for Mike and forty for CD. So you know, I think a lot of it's probably just a product of not having Dak the line. H're you're seeing more underneath stuff. I mean, Dalton Schultz has kind of emerged as like you, like

you said, iaid kind of that nightnight blanket. So um, it's just hard to know. I think to Heckma's point, I think if if Dak had been healthy in the line had been healthy, I don't know if they would have three thousand yard receivers, but the production for everybody but would have been way up because you know, Ceds CD's numbers really haven't been great either, to be honest with you, he had a great catch against Minnesota, but um, you know he's at yeah it missopportunities twenty one yards

three to four seventy one against Pittsburgh. Uh, you know, the offense just has been out of sync and the receivers have suffered from it. Well, I mean, and even you look at Cede Lamb and Michael Gallups. Ceedie Lamb fifty three receptions to Michael Gallups thirty seven. Then you got CD with six hundred and fifty yards Michael Gallups five thirty eight, and CD has four touchdowns while Michael Gallup only has the one. So I mean, right now, it looks as if Gallup is still the deep threat.

I mean, fourteen and a half yards per reception. That's more than anybody else on the team at the moment. Dalton Schultz underneath is just under nine just over nine yards per reception, So he is that underneath safety blanket. Shultz is the tight end, and you could say the same thing about a ton of quarterbacks. I mean, look at when the Cowboys had Tony Romo takeover. Who was his safety blanket? It was Jason Witt, And so you have that tied end, that quarterback to kind of thing.

But Michael Gallop is a deep threat. That's the kind of receiver that he is, and that's kind of where the suffering has come from. A wide receiver's numbers standpoint is you haven't had time to throw the football because the offense is out of sync. And I think that's one of the bigg reasons why Gallup has just not had the same sort of success. All right, let's take our second break. When we come back, We've got a

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Earbuds are the official earbuds of the Dallas Cowboys. I need Eric Ebron to score me seven points tonight on my fantasy team, and that's all I ask Eric, Please please, Because if not. I'm eliminated from playoffs, so I need that to happen. I need this game to happen tonight. Also, I don't want to push back the Cowboys and the Ravens anymore than it already has been, because it's gonna get played next Tuesday. Kyle Yeoman's Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips,

and heck My Harrison. I got one final question for you guys. I'm gonna start off with Zaia on this one because I just think that would be fun. So this comes from Cowboys Coffee Talk and they've asked a couple of questions lately and they've been some pretty good ones. But this one has to do with the Philadelphia Eagles, and it's kind of targeting not only Eagles fans, but it's targeting kind of national media at the same time.

And it says, why is Dak a fourth round pick who overachieved seemingly held to a higher standard than a guy drafted in the second overall pick slot who was traded up for signed long term and whose team is six and one and won a Super Bowl without him, and also not to mention that he has regressed? Is it a refusal to admit being wrong or is it because he is a cowboy. And this is of course talking about Carson Wentz, the quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. Isaiah,

what say you, sir? That's a heck of a question. And I really don't have a clear understanding. I only speak from to my personal opinion that I used to put wins in Dak on the same level. After this year, after this year, my eyes have opened. I've been awaken. I've been awaken and uh and I believe that Dak is substantially more important to his to his team than Carson Wentz. I was one of those people that was like, oh, Wentz got him all the way to the playoffs and

then Folds took over. I was one of those guys. But now having a look at it, Wentz doesn't have no dog in him. He ain't got no dog in him. And um and I can't respect anybody who doesn't have dog in him. I don't care how it's successful of a history they have. UM. I respect Dak, I respect his fight, I respect his leadership. Now um that the role that he had on his team. I was unaware of the impact that he had on his team prior

to this season. Um, so my my perception has now changed, and I don't know why they would even be in the same conversation anymore. So should should Dad get more money than Wentz? Heck to the Yeah. I know that wasn't part of the question, but I'm throwing it in there anyway, love it. It's fine with me. Heck heck heck to They Yeah, go with that. So oh man, I never thought. I never thought that Dak should have

been in the same conversation with Wins. I don't think you should have been in the same conversation with Golf. I've said this for a long time that Dak has been you know, the prognosticators or draft guys who had drafted this guy had him pegged as affordable around guy, we're wrong about him. I think his talent, his leadership ability, all of those things. He's a ball, he's a gamer, he's the kind of guy that you want on your team,

and he's just gonna get better. It sucks that he got hurt this year, but it's I think what it is, it's giving cowboy fans and everyone around an opportunity to see what you're missing. And maybe it's it's kind of backwards to say that, you know, he's probably advanced his career or how you think of him more in an injury than being on the field. But I think people will agree with that because he is a missing piece right now and you're seeing your offense just have no synergy,

like all rhythm to what they want to do. So you know, Dak Dak is definitely the future for the Dallas Cowboys. And Carson Wentz he sucks and I love it. I mean, it's the best part of twenty twenty. It really is. No, it's the best part of twenty twenty because he would be heartbreaking for me for us to have as bad as season as we're having, and Carson Wentz would be bawling. So I'm just so happy to see him doing so bad and he's terrible. They need to play Jalen hit They need to play Jalen Hurts,

Hurts yip. Carson Wentz is a nice guy. It would be a mean. Oh. I think he's gonna be traded after the season, That's what I think. It's it's rough there right now, Rob. I it's who he plays for. It's who Dak Prescott plays for. Without question, how many how many quarterbacks do the Eagles have in the Hall of Fame? Is it? I guess maybe it's one? Is it Sonny Jorgenson's It's not Captain America? And it's not Troy Aikman, who's a first ballot Hall of Famer and

between them won five Super Bowls. Like that's that's what it is. It's what It's what Tony Romo faced, and it's what Dak Prescott faces. And and you know, and I don't feel sorry for him in terms of the criticism. They're making a lot of money, they're they're high profile guys, and and uh, it's it's a great job to have, but there's a lot that comes with it. And and just you know, if you play for the Cowboys, you're going to be in more of a spotlight, especially if

you played that position. Uh, you are going to be so scrutinized, Isaiah because um, you know, as time passes more and more, it's like, you know, Troikman never had a misread, never threw an incompletion, you know, and and when and when Dak does that, fans see that stuff and they think that doesn't happen ever by anybody that ever played the position for the Cowboys. So to me, it's all about who you play for out there. He was completion percentage bottom of that year, Mountain. I should

just go back, so back. So it's safe to say, you guys don't want to trade Dak Prescott and the fourth overall pick to the New York Jets and go get Trevor Lawrence. You don't. You don't think that's gonna You don't think that's a possibility come this offseason. Nobody else, somebody else can have White Jesus. Okay, I just wanted to throw that out there. By the way, Chris is doing some outstanding work in the back again, he just did some research. This is this is not aggy map.

This is this is top notch math from Chris Beam. But he comes up and he says that Carson Wentz, should he be traded by the Philadelphia Eagles, would cost Philadelphia fifty nine million against the cab next year. So they're kind of stuck whenever it comes to it to Carson Wentz. So that's kind of interesting whenever good it comes to that situation. Yeah, I know, he Heckmas just chilling on that that dead cap and he's excited about

it up there in the top right here. Hey, Kyle, will somebody Hey, but Kyle, will they be open for somebody trading for Jalen Hurts. No, I think they're gonna keep him. I think they'll keep him around. Does that answer? I think Peterson said this week that they working to make a change at this point. I don't know if he ruled it out. So may Jalen Hurts might be Taysom heel because he's they're starting to work him in more and more. Yeah. Yeah, well, and it's not gonna

take that long for him to take over. I don't think whenever the time comes for that, but that's gonna do it here for Talking Cowboys here on this Wednesday, do want to have a schedule update for you. There's no Talking Cowboys on Friday. Instead, right around eleven o'clock, we will be doing the Draft Show here from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. The first and first edition of the Draft Show, an hour and a half worth of draft coverage.

So no talking on Friday. We've got to say it with your chest Monday for the first time in this show's history, so that'll be fun. Coming up next week at nine thirty. We'll be back tomorrow, though. We're gonna preview the Cowboys and the Ravens and see what the Ravens have for the Cowboys after Tonight's game whenever they play the Steelers. But for Chris Beam, for HECKM. Harrison, for Rob Phillips, and the great Isaiah stand Back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's once again saying so long here from the

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