Talkin' Cowboys: The Micah Effect

Victory Monday on Talking Cowboys, presented by Tostitos. The official chip and tip of the Dallas Cowboys is the Cowboys way Ship and dipped out with a win over the Los Angeles Chargers. Twenty to seventeen was the final score on the road as the Cowboys get back to five hundred one and one through two weeks of the NFL season. We're gonna talk about it here over the next couple minutes.

We've got Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand Back, kick My Harrison, I'm Kyle Yeomans, and I don't want to waste any time getting our thoughts because this was a gritty win for the Dallas Cowboys, and man, it was beginning to end gritty. It wasn't pretty. You were missing five of your starters. But Rob Phillips. The Cowboys got the job done and they converted when they needed to real quick. I just looking up. The last victory Monday for the Cowboys was December on this show was December twenty eight,

twenty twenty. So it's been a wild pellas it's been a while, way too long. Yeah, I'm gonna steal Isaiah's point. We know each other so well doing this show. I think by this point it's a character win for the Cowboys going on the road opposite coast, all the guys that they had missing a real chance of being O and two. I mean, that's a good Charger team. I look forward to seeing a lot of Pat Mahomes justin Herbert battles in the AFC title game in the coming years.

Maybe Lamar Jackson has something to say about that, but that's gonna be a team to deal with over the next few years if they continue building right and they found a different way to win this game they than they almost won in Week one, and I think that's a credit to the players obviously, but the coaches as well, specifically Dan Quinn and Kellen Moore, for making adjustments from

week one and based off the guys they were missing. Yeah, I mean these guys coaches use their personnel, you know, they used the personnel that they had and ensted up. They're making excuses about all we're missing this guy, this guy's down, this guy won't be back for five more weeks, whatever the case may be. They use their personnel. Not only dan Quinn did he do it like we knew he would, right, that's what he got, That's what he does. But Kellen Moore, Kellen Moore is continuing to find ways

to get his playmakers the ball. Now people want to argue and say, well, this playmaker is getting paid this much. It's about match ups. This game is all about matchups. You can give the person who has the most, who gets the most money, the most playing time, and all that jazz, But guess what if it results in a loss, then then what is it for? Right, It's about winning games. So if it's if it's about dog On Pollard getting getting the ball more than Zeke that game, and guess what,

that's what it takes. You heard Zeke after the game. Whoever has a hot hand, that's who we're rolling with. Defensively, Michael Parsons, guess what we dropped him as a linebacker. But guess what else, That boy went down there and played like a dog at defensive end and gave some dog on problems and gave Herbert some happy feet when we need him to have some happy feet, and forced some incompletions overall, special teams. We still got some work to do. We still got some work to do. But

great delay. Like I said in the post game show, that boy dusted off that the old old little you know, a little dust off the lawn more and he fired that thing up. And after you fired that law more up, you know, it just keeps turning right, you know, the old faithful after that, so he was good to go. So overall, great win to sponsor. Ye no idea, No, I love the balance. I love the balance from Kellen Moore. We've talked about him, and the red zone walls solved him.

You know, we saw the first two red zones came out, got scores, I mean, and it was and again it was the balance for me, incorporating the run with the past, it looked like a healthy balance of this offense. But defensively, you're you're right, dan Quinn was dialing it up. Then

he was dialing up the entire game. And you know, I think there was a point in the game where you were seeing Michael Parsons he was like, oh man, this is you know, it looked as though he wasn't winning those battles, and then all of a sudden, like he must have heard the whispers and he poured it on. I mean, getting that pressure. And there are a lot of people that are going to be saying, you know, look, let score aheadn't put him at the defensive end position. No, no, no,

we did that out of necessity. But boy, isn't it good that in necessity you have a player like that on your roster that can actually get it done and get those pressures. We still didn't get the pressure up the middle that we wanted from our defense, and that's whe of the things that I think is going to torment us as the season goes along. But again, it's a great win, team win. And Greg the leg boy, you had a sitting on the edge of our seat.

I don't think the fifty six yard touchdown was the one that they were trying to do, but hey, I'm just happy legatround came through. Yeah, fifty six yard game winning field goal. As time expires to win it twenty to seventeen, and there weren't I mean, there were positives and negatives. It wasn't all good for the Cowboys, and we're certainly going to break that down throughout the week, But I want to start with the positives on offense. Oh yeah, you mentioned it. I think both of y'all

mentioned it. Balance. We were questioning it going into the week. You can't go into every football game and throw it fifty eight times with Dak Prescott and expect to win. And not only did they have balance, but they share the love. I mean Tony Pollard, sure he had a great game thirteen carries, one hundred and nine yards and a touchdown. But Ezekiel Elliott sixteen for seventy one and a touchdown. That's a much better game than he had last week as well. Talk about CD and his one carry?

What if I tell you CD would What's going on? You saw some different looks the play calling? Was there? Rob in the tenure of Kellen Moore? Have you seen this level of creativity and effectiveness from the play caller at come offense? The only one I can think of is when Benda Nucci started against the Eagles, and that was out of like, look, man, we gotta empty the bag because we got to help this young guy out.

I thought that was this. I'd have to really think about it because I said last week that was Dak's best start ever. And then I went back and yeah, I think it was against Tampa Bay. I think that's the best play calling we've seen from Kellen Moore so far in three seasons. As the oc here and Mike McCarthy mentioned, it was a patient game too. He was patient and they they flipped the game plan from what

they did against Tampa Bay. That's the sign of a good offense, and that's the sign of a good play caller. You look at the coverage. It was at Tampa's coverage. They played kind of shell stuff playing back and we saw it. We talked about it during the week. There were some gaps in that in that almost said San Diego that La Chargers defense to run on, and they just went with the hot hands. He got his touches. He actually had three more carries than Pollard, but Pollard

was was cooking last night. And man, it helps to have Zack Martin back. I mean, one of those touchdown drives. It was just like I just run behind seventy. You know he was. He was fantastic in the game. It just shows you the difference that Zack Martin makes on our offensive line immediately. But my man T Steele. I think we all went in nervous about Terrence Steele, and he literally showed you that with a little bit of help,

he can be a serviceable swing tackle. And so let's put that maybe for now, let's put that whole conversation to bed. But I remember Michael Irvin on the game that one of the pregames that we had talking about Terren Steele and likning him to big Big E, you know, just saying that big E when he came in Eric Williams, former tackle for the for the Dallas Cowboys, and how you know, look at his rookie year. He was just

getting baptized by Reggie White guys like that. And finally it started to, you know, see that confidence building for him. And I think this was a confidence building game, And so I want the next four games for Terrence still to be just like this. We did a lot of a lot of good things on the right side, and a lot of good things were helping him. Yeah, absolutely right. And you know, I think I mentioned this a while back, but you know, Kelly Moore, I think he watched The

water Boy. I'm convinced he watched The water Boy because he remember that little green booklet. He poured that green bucklet out. He poured it out, and he went straight to that joining he called up some stuff that we never expected. I know, when I saw CD in the back of it, I was like, what in the entire heck is going on? See what I did there? And I was concerned because they weren't giving the ball Zeke at that time, right, and we're really I know, we're

having a little discussion in the studio. I was like, man, what the heck is going on right there? Giving Zeke the ball? And I was like, oh, okay, balance right. I don't really I don't think this really just terminally applies. But you know, he did a heck of a job. I want to go to Heckman's dude, the schultzen Nigger, Yes, sir, the Schultzenigger Scholtz bald out Now, whether you gotta see it show up in the stat sheet or not, which

it didn't. It did not. The boy bald out let me tell y'all from the analytical perspective, he was putting his hat in there. He held Bossa at bay when he had had his opportunities. He was putting his head in there. He was gritting it out. He was grinding these boys, was working up front hard. Up front. They took not only the first level out the game, but there is a dude named Murray who just happened to

be at the second level. Took him out the game too, and I personally thought that he was going to present a major problem for us at that second level. And I think he ended up getting injured for a good portion of the game. He was hurt, but he was a non factor. He was a non factor, absolutely. Yeah. But Darren James, man, I mean just seeing him live as well, just seeing him all over the field. You love it when you see you have a free safety

that can do that. But look, man, Malik Hooker boy, I saw twenty eight splash so at the line of scrimmage about twenty seven seven. Hey, I'm going out, Let's go down the line. Let's go. I mean because we had really good safety help over the top. Now there's steal. Some things that we need to do in the secondary. But this is all positive today. But Aiden's dad is pretty good. Oh yeah, I'm gonna stick with offense. We're gonna go defense in the SEC segment, So staying with

the offensive side. And I want to keep this conversation on the offensive line going as well, because you could give a game ball to Tony Pollard, you could give a game ball to Dak Prescott in the way that he worked. But there was concern around Terrence Steele. And then of course the return of Zach Martin. No concern there because my goodness, he's as good as he's been. Well, what about Tyren Smith on the left side, because I thought he was just as good as he's been prior

to his injuries as well. Had I guess you could say one hiccup where he gave up the sack there at the end of the drive. That's one. And and Kyler Facker, if you watched him in week one, he's a pretty good rusher off the edge for them. He's Joey Bosa. But that was the one play where you noticed Tyrn Smith in terms of oh, this didn't go well. Yeah, so he was fantastic, But I think you have to give the game ball to Terrence Steele. Yeah, and I think you have to give the Cowboys credit for they

were right. I mean, they felt better about Terrence Steele than then a lot of people did, you know, And if Niseki had been healthy and he's okay after that heat exhaustion episode he had, which is scary as heck. Yeah, he's discharged from the hospital. But but um, you know, it would be interesting to see what they would have done there, you know, I know Jerry said during the week it would have been Terrence Steele. Maybe we would

have seen Tiniski. I don't know, but yeah, I mean he's a much better player than he was last year. It's it's clear. I mean you could see it. And look Zack Martin being there. I can't stress enough because you mentioned the tight ends helping out there. You saw some combination blocks to Zach kind of getting over to help there too and move inside on the edge. So it was just a good performance overall. By the old line.

You think, whenever Dak Prescott gets up there and he's in the shotgun and he's got those guys in front of him, it doesn't really matter who's outside at the tackles. A whole lot as long as seventy is there, And I mean, you would like having seventy seven and seventy one sure the tackles, and we saw that last year. If both of them are missing, then it's gonna be at least at times a problem. But man, having seventy up there, I feel like just gives Dak Prescott so

much more confidence. It gives Ezekiel Elliott, gives Tony Pollard confidence because then they have holes to run through. And we saw that all day yesterday, the entire offense. Kyle when number seventy swits over, I mean, because you understand that you have one of the best in the league that's doing it. But I just love to change a pace between Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elliott and just the

coaching staff's ability to recognize use your playmakers. I almost thought in the first half that maybe Zeke had gotten benched. It's like, well, you know what's going on because of the way that Poler was hitting the hole. But that was just the whole game plan and mixing these guys in,

and I think it paid dividends. Like Dallas Cowboys are eleven and old when they go for one hundred and seventy five yards rushing eleven and old that that is something that is I mean, come on, I'm just I'm just saying that is something that we can build on with this running game. And no matter how it looks on the stat sheet. Look, man, it doesn't matter how many guys you have doing it. Keep this up because it works, especially Tony Poler catching out the backfield and

also Zeke. Man. I just think it got to a certain point point in the game where the Chargers was just like having to honor everything that we did. There was a point in the game kind of like you said, where I was like, I wonder if they even if they win this game. I wonder if the talk is gonna be well, Zeke's still not getting enough touches, you know, because he's not. He's doing well, but he's not. Poler's the guy. What's his role on all stuff. I don't

think it really mattered. This is what they want, This is perfect. They talked about this during training camp, like, Zeke's got a couple three hundred carry seasons on his resume. Let's get him to December and get him totally fresh for the stretch run. And by the way Tony Pollard is really good. We need to play him, damn you know. That's and that's what they got. So I think that's

a great point. There were points in that game when you're looking at it and if you look at the stats and you're gonna see, yeah, they put up four hundred yards, there's only twenty points on the board. This is the lowest scoring win for the Dallas Cowboys. It's what twenty seventeen. I think. I think this is as for a victory for a victory, I don't know that that's that's interesting. I think it is one of the

lowest scoring wins in multiple years. I have to go and double check that stat in the break, but it's not gonna look like it was an offensive explosion. But my goodness, it was so efficient down the field, play calling, spreading the love. It wasn't even just balanced between the offense and excuse me, rushing and passing. It was the fact that you had two rushers over seventy yards, you had seven different players catch multiple passes. Yeah, the spreading

of the love was there. And then Isaiah, I'm curious to hear what you think about what Dak Prescott looked like yesterday as well. I think Dak did a great job. And we said in the post game yesterday, you know, he was a game manager. I don't care how much he gets paid. You know, his job is to put the team in the best position to win games. And that's what he did yesterday. He didn't make bad decisions, you know, obviously at one interception, got sacked a few times.

That wasn't his fault, but I thought he did. He distributed the ball well, you know the fact that he went to seven different receivers. Let you know, he's going through his reads. He don't give a dog on who gets the ball. Go ahead. I was just gonna say, you set game manager there. That is a negative term to a lot of people out there, But you're not meaning that in a negative way, right, No, not at all. I mean game manager just means that that's what you

want as a quarterback. So let's go ahead and put that out there. You want somebody who's gonna put your team in the best position possible. If that's calling a run, that's calling a run. If that's check into something that gives us, you know, five yards instead of you know, something that body gave US forty yards, So the heck what that's managing the game. Just being smart about your decisions that you make and not taking those risks. That is a game manager. And that's what Russell Wilson was

early on his career, and that's why Russell's loved everywhere. Right, Dak is starting to do the same exact thing. He doesn't have to be the fifty eight passes the game type of guy because he has help. And I think he's realizing that he has help everywhere. You see some quarterbacks get locked into one or two receivers. They get locked into one or two guys and that's all they see and they really can't come off of that, right,

whether they have the running ability of Dak. Sometimes they'll check one, sometimes they'll check two, and they guess what they're doing, they're taking off, right, That's not what Dak's doing. Dak is literally going through his progressions and if he works his way one, two, three, all the way down to four at his running back, that's who gets the ball or guess what throw the ball away? He does that too, So that's what I mean by game manager.

He's putting you in position. Sometimes second down is a great down instead of instead of you sitting on the bench and watching the other team go for first that the negative cunotation that you're looking at is is bus driver. He didn't say is a bus driver. Nadown connotation is uppercase GM game manager. This is lowercase. Yeah, I like that,

but honestly, like this is what they wanted. Like Kellen Moore was ready for that question last week about balance, and he talked about how they checked that you mentioned it last week. They checked out of twelve runs and they had thirty one attempts in this game. They didn't check out of those runs because because the looks were favorable for you. Kellen Moore was a man of his word, you know, he said, if you know, if it depending on the looks, and if it's what we want, we're

gonna go to it. And this was a very twenty sixteen Dak Prescott stat line. Twenty seven attempts, two hundred and thirty seven yards, eighty eight percent completion rate. Like, I don't know what else people want. I don't care if you threw the ball thirteen times in a game. Yeah, as long as we were successful on offense. We were sixty percent conversion on third down. That's a positive eighty

eight percent completion passing the ball. That's amazing. I don't care if you're throwing a ball, you know in six seven times a game, that's amazing. That's a great stat It doesn't matter long as you're moving the ball. We managed the freaking clock. We were in control of the clock. We were having six seven minute drives. Are you kidding me?

We talked about during the week how you had to control this game because offensively, for the Chargers, they were going to try to control the game and control the clock right they want. They had the West Coast, they were gonna dink and dunk, get the five yards here, ten yards there, running the ball with Eckler, they were gonna move the ball down the field. So you know,

they were gonna have sustained drives. In order for us to have be in a position to win the game, we needed to be great on third down and we needed to be able to move these chains. And I think we did that. Young boy Genius was in his box in his bag again yesterday. I mean, he was getting after it and he had like rops that earlier. It was in my opinion, I agree with you is the best play calling we've seen from Kellen Moore. But we also have a young corner on the defensive side

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Defensive side of the football, couple turnovers fors nine straight games now for the Cowboys with a turnover that's the second longest active streak in the NFL, only behind the Miami Dolphins. So they continue to take the football away, but they did give up some pretty big numbers in the passing game throughout the course of this one. Rob, I'll let you start this off. What did you think about the defense and was it a positive outing for them? How do we start this without talking about Micah? Is

that possible? Can I just go straight to that? Yeah? I couldn't believe. I was looking at the stats again this morning. I didn't realize he only played thirty nine of seventy one snaps. I felt like the way his impact on the game, I thought he was out there every single snap, and I know he wasn't because there was times where they just kept him off the field.

And Isaiah said this in the break man when he wasn't rushing off that left edge and just given Storm Norton everything he could handle, Justin Herbert had time, and when Justin Herbert had time, he was delivering like that. That was a dangerous, dangerous game because he is the truth that is one of the best young quarterbacks in the league, no question, Maybe one of the best quarterbacks period right now in the league. But Mica was what

do you say? I mean? I sat there last week and talked about not having to Marcus Lawrence, what kind of impact that was going to have on this defense? And I think they missed him some in the one game defending setting the edge and Gregory two not being there, but his pass rush was incredible. I mean to ask a rookie to come in and basically change positions from what he did in week one, uh and you know, and do what he probably did best at Penn State though,

really really really impressive. If Michael parsons it doesn't play defensive end for us this game, we lose straight straight playing a simple the reason being, you know, to to your point rock justin Herbert was delivering the rock. We had all kinds of gaps in our in our zone coverage, and they held. They were finding every nook and cranny possible. They were just running five six yards, sitting, finding a

little gap in between linebackers, get the easy paths. First down, right, They were just over and over again, Eckler boom, first down. And then there is a dude number eleven who just happens to go out there and provide a rush off the right end right now is to Herbert's open side. Luckily for him because he was able to see a lot of it. But you know, Parsons was getting upfield and then he got caught inside a couple of times on a little spin back inside rush. Sometimes it worked

out in our favor, sometimes it didn't. Sometimes they were able to escape the pocket and get the ball off, and that's on coverage. We gotta figure that out. But if he did not make Herbert uncomfortable back there, they would have picked us apart and they would have won that ball game. He is the one of the major reasons why our defense was able to hold their ground against it against the Church question. Yeah, you're just happy that you have a guy like that, and it's just

a dog. He's coming after the quarterback. He's got four quarterback hits and the sack that was questionable, but hey, we'll take it. Let's talk about that. We will take that that sack. But you know what happened was basically, instead of calling a grounding call, which would have had they were in the red zone, which took them far out of position to score, but they awarded Micah with the sack, which I think everybody in Cowboys Nation was happy about it, but Chargers were not happy about it.

But you know, I think the linebackers played well and like Jalen swipe if you want to come swipe if he's holding that swipe back with everything he's got. But defensive line wise, man, we've got to get some pressure. Internally we had just hadn't got there. Those stunts guys are still getting bottled up up front. But Osa Diggis or number ninety seven, man, he had a really good game as well for the D line group. He's starting to find his own. Yes, he is starting to get

in there and get his feet underneath him. But talking about the sack, was it a sack because that was probably outside of maybe the past interference call that was on Jamn Curse in the first half, that was an interception that very well could have been should have been an interception that was probably the most controversial call. Each team had one that benefited them. But did you think that was a sack on Justin Herbert in the fourth

I did not. I didn't either, But as Chris pointed out to us in the break, it would have been intentional grounding either way either way. So we'll have took him back to the twenty five. Oh yeah, that being said, Cowboy fans that want to say it's it's it's rigged against them every single week. It's not. It's not that that was a very beneficial call for them. But you know what, as well as Mica played, I'm glad he got the sack because he, like Isaiah you guys said,

he was the difference in this game. And that's that's coaching. That's coaching for dan Quinn to say, we have to do something. Our first round draft pick is really good at this let's just change it up. And because he only rushed like twelve times in the in the opener, that's coaching, and that's a that's a great job by the young player. But it's a testament to what dan Quinn said he was going to do and he's actually carrying it out. We talked about these matchups. It's matchups.

Our team, our defense is very versatile, very versatile. We have all we got safety depth, right, we got we got range it, we have a range in corners. We didn't use it seemingly. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait did you say we have safety which is crazy? Is that I mean? I mean, honestly, no, no disrespect Donovan Wilson. Did we miss him this game. No, no, no disrespect. Can you say it again? We didn't miss the president and so yeah, so we have safety depth. Okay,

so that's the thing. Whenever you have depth at a position, when you have one of your main guys go out. We had a starting safety out. We had two of our two defensive ends, our book ends us out. I don't feel like we missed them. I don't feel like we missed them in the game. Now what we have liked to have had them, salutely, but missing them and liking to have had them is two different things. Right, we had a rush. We would have expect it to have a rush with those guys. We had physical play

and we had playmakers in a safety position. We would have liked to have Donaldan Wilson, But guess what are other guys that stepped up may plays. That's what it means to have depth. You will rather you like to have your guys there, but if they're not there, the guys behind them step up and make the same type of plays. So that's what I'm talking about. And dan Quinn said, from week to week, this is what you're

gonna get whatever you have. I said this before we saw they're gonna line up and we do the same thing. On offense, we have to do the same thing officers. You're seeing it in Kelly Moore's play calls. You're seeing it in dan Quinn's ability to put Michael Parsons wherever the heck you might be. Guess what Michael person might be at dog on safety, he might be at corner. Right David Boston comes back and lines up out there. We might have put Partson to that corner because he

was too sixty receiver. He was lighting up to the sideline against Fournette and week ones, he kind of so, I mean, so, I mean, that's that's what I love about this defense. And I knew this about dan Quinn. I know I have some history with him, but we have the personnel now to go do that from week to week. Yeah, that hybrid versatility that we have in multiple positions is paying off and being able to scheme it up is what dan Quinn is his strength that

he has. But man, you talk about safety, you talk about curse. Man. I just I just think he had one hell of a game. And I heard him say that about Dono. I wouldn't have said that about Wilson. I know that's your Texas and him brother, and I saw you, I would I missed uh kind of going along with curse. I mean, you needed you needed guys to step up. You mentioned it, missing your two defensive ends.

You're you're missing your safety. And then of course we talked about the offense already, but you're missing guys on offense. This is the first time in two maybe three years that injuries haven't derailed a team and you didn't feel like, oh my gosh, there is a gaping hole in this game plan because we were missing this guy here or

that guy there. This is the first time I felt like there was still some cohesiveness and complimentary football played in on three phases whenever there were guys missing on multiple levels. The expectation is different. The expectation of this team is different, not only in just the three phases of the game, but cohesively as a as a unit, as a team. We expect, they expect. We already have our expectations. Sure, they expect to win. Last year, they hoped,

they hope to win last year. Now they expect to win. A reason being, it started with the competitiveness in practice, right. It started with no one guy being greater than the other guy that starts. And that's a culture that we talked about. That's accepting your role. Right. Guess when you play a key role on this team. But guess what when I put you a musician to make play, this is what you do. I'm not gonna ask you to do anything outside of yourself, right, Robbie, you rush the passer?

Guess what? Freaking rush the passer? Right? Right, Michael, guess what you normally playing. But I need you to be a dog and make this dude uncomfortable. Get to him every single play. Even if you don't get to him, make him get out of the pocket. I don't care. Just make him not set his feet. Okay, Coach, I got you. You know what I'm saying. Guess what, curse? Guess what? Donovan is gone? I need you to step up and make some dog on big plays. Digs shut

down Allen Man didn't shut him down. But guess what we made some plays? Yeah? Right? And the same for like guys like Layton vander Esch, who we talked about last game that didn't have a whole bunch of reps. He comes back this game and has one hell of a game. Sack, big, big sack, you know, I mean, it shows up and I love that's a great point that you just made, Isaiah, because you see this team competing.

It not only if there's a guy missing, like you said, Michael comes in, but there was a point in the game where I was just like, boy, Tank would have killed this guy. Tank would have been all over this dude.

You know that those were those are the production numbers that Tank would have definitely exercised the demons on this And it was almost like they they had Micah Russian off the other side against Rashawns later Na immediately, you know what, let's let's exploit the match up on the other side, and that was Later just just held him

up like a little kid. That's a good adjustment. But yeah, I mean defensively, Kyle, you referenced it like they gave up chunks of yardage justin Herbert had a good day. I think I think you have to look at the fact that they faced two top ten quarterbacks, top five, top whatever in the first two games. I think that, you know, the competition was really tough, but look, they affected him and La was five of twelve on third down.

That was that's good. And some of their conversions were like third and ten, third and fifteen, whatever, so they made it hard on him. I mean I was I wasn't for what they were missing. I thought that was a good performance, even though they kind of they dodged a couple they're they're late, for sure, they definitely dodged it. And Herbert got his phil three hundred and thirteen through the air, I mean, only ninety five on the ground, which is phenomenal compared to the run defense that you

saw a year ago with this Cowboys defense. But Trey Von digs another interception. He's now had five interceptions in his first thirteen career games or fourteen career games. I can't remember which that second number was, but he's the first player to have five interception or excuse me, an interception in the first two weeks of the season since nineteen seventy five when Leroy Jordan did it. That's a long time ago, say long time. I think they amended

that in the postgame notes. Did I think they went back and saw Roy Williams did it. No. Six, okay, but still still a long time fifteen years and you were asking is he the best corner they've had. You gotta do it like he would have done it to you or me if I had said that, well what, I don't think I would have done anything outside of what he'd be giving you the frat boy vibe. You know that was If anything, That's not my fault that the stat was wrong. I'm just come on go with

But anyways, the um what were you saying about? Well, I was, I was going back to your teas. Is the best corner they've had in ten years? Is he? I don't think. I mean, this is the best start I've seen from a corner in two games. I mean even you know Keenan Allen got his but two picks to have the confidence for a second year guy to just say, hey, we're gonna stick you on the best receiver and we're gonna travel you no matter what. I mean,

they haven't done that in ten years. No. Four catches one hundred and eight yards, and that one ball that Herbert threw to him in between the safety and corner, I just think that's what put him over a hundred yards. It's just an excellent throw yea by Herbert, and I think we all came away from the game saying, yeah, Herbert is a dude. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, he's a baller.

What do you think, Isaiah, he's a boss and I think he also think not only is he a good player, but at his office, ave coordinator Lombardi does a great job put him in position to be successful. I mean, I mean you expect that from every office of coordinator, but every office of coordinator doesn't do that. Their system allows for them to be very efficient, very efficient, And

he doesn't have to make these crazy throws. Now, he's gonna make one or two a game, but he's not forced to do that, you know, ten plus times a game, just chucking this thing down the field they hit me his rosor high percision. What do you think about Treyvon Diggs and his his day overall? I think Diggs had a good day. I think he had a good day.

I think he's I mean every game, I feel like he's like he's like the He's like like a video game, very video game character that just keeps learning all the different moves, you know what I mean, Like every time, Yeah, he's exactly processing exactly and keeps learning new techniques. I saw that last week. But no, I think he's doing a great job. Man. I think he'll continue to get better obviously, I mean, is he the best corner in

the last ten years. I don't know. Man, He's he's off to a great He's off to a great start though, and I think, you know, the confidence that you're going to gain, the confidence that the coach is instilling him. He has an amazing coach and Harris Um and then he also has Dan Quinn calling and plays and trusting him, telling him, Hey, no matter who we play, you're sticking

their number one. Yeah. Right, So going into this next week, I think he's really confident, you know, going into this next week, having just face freaking Evans and face Allan, I think he's gonna be pretty confident going against Smith, you know, coming up this week, Jalen Rager and DeVante Smith, whoever ends up being the quote unquote number one receivers. I think you're pretty confident going to thank you feel pretty good after having to face Allan Sans in weeks

one and two. It's the lowest scoring w for the Dallas Cowboys since November twenty ninth of twenty eighteen against the New Orleans Saints. That game was thirteen to ten. This is the lowest scoring win since that point. Wow, so it's been a while since the Cowboys have won a game like that, and gotta give a lot of credit to the defense. When we come back, we'll wrap things up here on this edition of Talking Cowboys and look ahead a little bit to the week that is,

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seeing the Cowboys winning the stands. With Esselo lenses, you can see every exciting play book. An appointment at your local Esselore experts and see what or can do for you. See more, two more. It's a microphone twirl. That's a new one. That's a new touch. Yeah, I've been doing that one. Okay, swings the microphone away. Yeah, my bulging shoulders might block you from being able to see it. And I had noticed that. Yeah, it's just a little, just a little to the earth. Yeah, he's got brown

get out. I like that. I gotta remember to get it back. He's Isaiah stand back, He's off Philip tech My Harrison, I'm Kyle Yeoman's here for talking cowboys. Glass with us here on a victory Monday. Hope everybody had fun I mean, that was a fun game to watch. Did you eat a dub like Jamison Winston last? I should have. I'm not as good about that out there. He did not eat a dub. Yes, they lost twenty six to seven to the Carolina Panthers. The Cowboys, by the way, tide of top the NFC East. How about

that shaking sound coming up? Semi first place, Dallas Cowboys. Co first place, Dallas Cowboys. We'll take it, and we'll take it. They've got a huge matchup coming up with the Philadelphia Eagles coming up this weekend. Whole matchup back at eight, got to be loud. Yeah, that's gonna be all the fans out there turn up three straight home games. About that, Yeah, because then the Panthers come to town and then sit the Giants after that Week five, Yeah,

because it's the same week that. You know what I want to see, Kyle, I want to see. I want to see at and T Stadium rocking like the old Texas Stadium. I want to see it rocking like that. That was a vibe. That was a vibe. I think we've gotten a little bit, you know, you know, since we got the new state. Yeah, I want to see Philip, even if you're boogie out there, even if you got some bread in the back, that's okay. Come and act a fool this Sunday, because Monday, all right, Monday night.

Even more reason, you got work next day. So listen up, come turn up. The players need to feel you. They don't need to just hear you. Needed to feel you. There's a difference. I love doc system and a custom system in your car, or two different things. We need the custom system custom Let's get it done. No pinkies in the air, Yeah, no, that turn up. Let's let's do something we haven't done on this show in quite some time. Yes, let's give out some smelly stickers. How

about that? Bring it back a tradition from early twenty twenty. We kind of went away from it for a little bit, but I'm gonna have the smelly stickers for some reason. Yeah, we that's true. We weren't able to get This is basically a segment. It's kind of like helmet stickers, but instead we go smelly stickers and we scratch and sniff, and we placed it on those who deserve it. So Rob, I'll let you start us off. Who deserves your smelly

sticker for the win yesterday over the Chargers. Michael Parsons. Michael Parsons said, that's so yeah, like profident, I'm surprised. I was surprise he played so at least less, but like people on the Twitter telling me, look on the sideline,

he looked gassed. That's how much she was how much effort he was giving in trying to provide that pass rush off the edge, you know, like different between sitting in the box of the second level and giving an effort out the blocks every single time for thirty nine place that is draining. Yeah, and he got better as he came along to rain pounder. Yeah, just the motor, the production, the midweek switch and being willing to do that in a second NFL game. Smelly stickery root beers?

Is it the root beer smell? Yeah, that's a good one. Nostrils. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna give my smelly sticker to number seventy Zach Martin. What Yeah, I'm giving it to Zach Man. Zach. Just ah, Zach Martin makes everything better. That's just that's just what it is. And he has to get my smelly sticker, Zach. Whole offense just bananas man, all right, okay, banana banana banana. Um, there's a orange. Huh his orange. I am going with tern Steele. Tern Steele.

He brought his his big white drawls, the old school drawl, the work drawls. He brought those. He didn't bring the box of briefs. Okay. He didn't bring the nice ones, the nice ones with the little machine. He brought the old condes, the old cotton ones that you're putting these on. I'm about to go do the yard. He put them drawls on and he came to work. Smell Aaron cow bite. There's this week's cow bite. Make sure you're listening. I'm

gonna get mine to to Tony Pollard. Since we haven't we haven't had a chance to talk about it a whole lot. But Tony Pollard thirteen carries one hundred and nine yards, and yes, the offensive line paved the way. But it was kind of like what Zeke was saying, whoever is rolling, whoever has that hot hand, they're gonna

get the football. And Tony Pollard had the hot hand and he was able to to convert on multiple occasions, and not only in the run game, but in the passing game as well, and he capped off with a big touchdown too, So my sticker goes to Tony Pollard definitely, Yeah, what did it smell like? Oh? I don't know. You guys took like the only three flavors, imel strawberry. I'll give him a watermelono you to pick the work draws. I hope that's not as I never want that sticker

that I want. That's Gonads on Talking Cowboys presented by Tostitos. Tomorrow, we're gonna hear from you, the fans out there, call in. I want to hear about your thoughts on the Cowboys twenty to seventeen win for Chris Beam in the back, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand back and have my Harrison. I'm Kyle Yeoman's see you tomorrow on Talking Cowboys. Well. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.