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it up against the Texans defense. Wacom in everybody alongside Isaiah stand Back, Hello, Patrick, No, c. Walker, We've got Chris Beam in the back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's. Gentlemen, how are we doing? I'm happy to be here. Yeah, yeah, I'm just happy to be here, you know, just stopping by, visiting something with your chest, Yeah, say it with your chest are tea. Yeah, you're a little guest past. Thanks guys. Yeah, No, I'm glad to be here. You know, stickers are happy

you're here. Yeah, where you guys? Full name Isaiah stand Back Escort required. Yeah, about about what it takes, right, Yeah, that's what happened was you guys might be jealous. I am jealous because stickers rock. That's why we had, you know, stickers after victories. Good point. I like it. Good point. Put that one on that week. Here's my smelly sticker. If a practice squad guy gets elevated, has a breakout game,

has to get the elevated back to day visitor. Yes, that being real, I'll tell you right now, that's happening if we if we take care business weekend, this is going on the helmet. It's been a lot of wins, and so there's a lot of stickers. That sticker is gonna Yeah, we're gonna have to find a space for it because that thing is huge. Oh man, that that's

pretty funny. Gosh. I'm looking ahead, guys to this Texans matchup, and I couldn't help but think about what we talked about yesterday, and I hate how confident this team is, or not this team, but like this team as an in the building with talking cowboys, these these three right here. I hate how confident we are in the fact of this is just gonna be another game. It's no there's there's no such thing in the NFL. But then a couple of things continue to kind of come down yesterday.

These are toilet thoughts, Yeah, a little bit, just flush them away. Seventeen point favorites the most, the biggest point spread in the n FELL this season. Cowboys lead the NFL and point differential and toward the bottom of that list. Guess who's there, the Houston Texans. Then you look at the injury report yesterday, Patrick No C. Walker and the Cowboys had a couple of guys sprinkled on there. However, Tyrn Smith back at practice, you had James Washington in practice,

and then the Texans it's DMP, DMP, DMP, DMPDMP. It doesn't look great for the Houston Texans. I don't. I don't know if it's tanking or not. I really don't. I mean, there's a lot of quarterbacks coming out right, A couple of guys, c J. Stroud got Bryce Young, two guys at the top of the list. We're not accusing them of tanking. I don't think we're saying that. Um, you know it's convenient that guys separated. Have they had

a buy this is uh? I don't think so. If they're one ten and one, that's twelve games, So yeah, they have had a buy Yeah yeah. Um uh. I was want to say, let's let's use that to sega to it and we will do it on the inverse. Houston Texans, ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourself, um, because this is what their injury report looks like. All right. Mario Addison, dealing with the knee injury, did not participate. Malie Collins, who you guys and gal should all know well from

his time with the Cowboys. Um, he did not practice, but his was a rest day, So Malie Collins looks like he will play. Nico Collins foot did not participate, Brandon Cook's calf did not participate, and it goes down the list from there. Derek Stangley, the defensive back, did not participate. Jerry Hughes, his was a rest day, did not participate, and we'll talk about him momentarily because he's

the team leader in sex. Kurt Hennish, I mean, it's it's like I summed up in the tweet yesterday for the injury report, kind of laid out the Cowboys injury report, which is short, and we'll get to that in a quick second. But then when it came to breaking down the Houston Texas injury report. Just yikes. That was my professional assessment of their injury report. Just analysis, yikes. Cowboys wise, Quentin Bohannah was limited with a knee injury. Doesn't seem

like there's any major concern there. However, he was inactive last week, so that is something to keep an eye on. Good news is he's back in practice and he is working through it. But we'll see if the Cowboys activate him this week or if they give him another week of rest on that knee. Jonathan Hankins he did not participate, but his was due to a personal reason, so he's expected back in practice today. Hopefully the personal issue isn't anything major, but if it is, prayers to him and

his family. Kelvin Joseph and Sam Williams. After the press conference yesterday, head coach Mike McCarthy said that there were a couple of guys that were quote unquote under the weather injury report comes out, and those guys are Kelvin Joseph and Sam Williams, both tagged with the illness designation they did not participate last week. It was Treyvon Diggs and Michael Gallup. Both of those players did were active

very much so the game against the Indianapolis coach. So we'll see how it goes with kJ and Sam Williams. kJ specifically because he is tabbed as the front runner to replace Anthony Brown, so this game is one of the first key games for him. And then from there you have j Ron Curse with the shoulder and DeMarcus Lawrence with the foot. Both of them were limited. Both are expected to practice today Tomorrow, Saturday, and beyond the field on Sunday. So that's the injury report between both

of them. Cowboys looking fairly fairly good, assuming that Kelvin and Sam, you know, rest up and recover in time. But the Houston Texans, my word, so kind of on the reverse end of injury talk. I mean the fact that a couple of guys were in there yesterday and the Cowboys were indoors yesterday. It was a little nasty outside and so they worked inside the Ford Center. Tyrn Smith was out there. You and I both gotta look. I thought he looked great. I thought the movement was there.

He didn't look like he was limbering, laboring, nothing of the sort. What was your assessment of Tyron? Same and This is something that just carries over from what we've been seeing, you know, in the open portion of practice over the past couple of weeks or so, he has been moving extremely well. And there was one one point in practice I think was might have been last week. It shouts out to Haley Sutton. She was standing there

next to me, and he been Tyrann. He went through a full drill with brit on the in the rehab chords and it was full speed and it included cuts and change changes of direction, and I am in awe at how someone that side can move that freaking well. So when I saw that, I literally was taking a back and I looked at Haley. Now it was like, holy crap. That again my professional assessment. Yikes, of in a good way, in a good way. This is a guy who had his hamstring torn off the back of

his knee the same day. He walks out of the out of the facility without even a minor lump, and you know, a couple of months later or so, here he is out there running, you know, full speed. So yesterday was just to carry over from me. I didn't expect to see anything um lesser than what I had seen over these past several weeks with Tyrono Smith. He's back. So when the Cowboys say, um, there's a chance that he will be on the field against the Texans, believe it.

Believe it. There is a chance. Do you think there's a chance he's there this week, Guysaiah, just based off of the injury and the timetable and what you've heard from the front office, or is it more of just targeting. I don't think next week's out of the question at all. I think that's really the fall before Philadelphia, correct, So I think the chances are it's a dumb and dumber chance. Dumb and dumb saying there's a chance, Remember that I got that one, You got that one? Didn't give a

night at the Roxbury people. Sorry, people are really upset. I'm gonna watch it. I need to get the log in for the service. Yea, that service, Yeah, whatever it is of your Yeah that that that that nobody's watching. Yeah, but but yeah, no, I haven't gotten to watch it yet. I'll watch it soon. But yeah. So, I mean there's a chance. I don't see it happening, But I don't know his health in terms of you know what they know.

So I can't speak on it, but you obviously you guys say that he had a good half and half practice and we'll see how the rest of the week goes. I guess really today and then yeah, no shells all week. Right, there's no shells, just walk throughs. But I think what you could do he needs to he needs to contact, right, I would say he needs game. Put him out there, let him start um ten to fifteen snaps without shells. No, I mean he needs some shells, Okay, but yeah, I'm

talking about if there's a likelihood of him playing. Yeah, of course it's the Texans. You put him out there as a starter, you give him ten to fifteen snaps, you pull him, you let you know. Tyler and Jason Peters finished the job at left tackle against the Texans. But you start the ramp up process, which is basically what you just did with Anthony Barr, which with a much lesser injury, but none the less, wrap ups need to happen, especially when you're out for such a period

of time as Tyron was. So is that a question for McCarthy maybe today is with the lack of pads in practice this week, and he made it known he said it in this press conference that he's not putting the guys in pads. It's a scheduled thing. It's not because they're playing the Texans and they're taking the Texans lightly. I think it's it's just a day off, couple couple of days. I think it's too important to see him

with that full resistance. Yeah, you know, you think he needs some guys, like we talked about, when he comes back and needs some guys getting after him, right, whether it's Mica Dlaw, Sam Williams, whoever you want to throw over there, Tach, don't do tac. Tach might be a little bit too much. But yeah, you know, I mean throwing you mean got waves, right, those some guys out, I mean, do some one on once. He needs to feel that that contact. You just can't when you're when

you're not in shells. And for people that don't know what shows are, it's you're wearing all football pads from the from the waist up right, so he shoulder pads, helmets, Okay, that's shells. If you're not wearing that, then you just have helmets on him. You're not getting anywhere near the amount of contact that you would typically get, which means that he's not facing that real resistance. Then hasn't faced

that real resistance since he got injured. Right, So if for whatever reason, and typically they have a pretty robust practice on Saturday, um, if they have a if they change up and then go shells on Saturday, then that increases the likelihood and the chance, I should say, of him taking the field against the Texans ums a day before the game. But not for a twelve o'clock game. This is a new game. This is a neon game, because it's it's difficult to remember that his team gets

neon games. This game, the next two or noon games game a lot of new games to Kyle's points. So if if you know seven to seven isn't out there on Sunday, then I think it's as close to one hundred percent chance as you can get that he'd be out there against the Jaguars. So it's really sad that you don't get the experience of donuts that we have here in the studio on twelve o'clock games. I mean, you get the experience of game Ie the l and Kyle, myself, Barry I gets we're sitting here just in a it's

pretty good. I get the mac and cheese. Mac and cheese is pretty fire. Yeah, you didn't get the smoked mac and cheese though, didn't get that one. Uh. Kind of continuing with this conversation, not the food conversation, the offensive line conversation, Kyle trying to push bass that trying to Yeah, no, no, not for me. So I originally wanted to talk about wide receivers, and we'll talk about

that a little bit later on the show. But since we're talking about offensive line initially, how exciting is it because we talked about good problems on Monday? Right? Who do you put at left? Card? Connor McGovern, Tyler Smith. By the way, the overwhelming majority of my Twitter poll was in agreeance with Patrick. But I think I'm in agreeance now with Isaiah. I think you keep it the same. I think you keep it at Connor McGovern. Connor McGovern

hasn't lost that job. He's played really, really well. Just want you to have a friend. I'm right there, I'm right there, But the fan poole got it over there. Yeah. I don't want to make another debate, We've already thrown that out there. But how exciting is it to not have a lack of offensive linemen, but have a surplus this time around, because that's a huge piece of this puzzle moving forward that you didn't necessarily you think going

into the yof season that you had. Front office has done an amazing job they have over the last two seasons. They've been they've been lights out and I'm not talking about Sean Merriman and they've been they've been killing it in regards of like completely changing this defense personnel wise, completely changing the scope of this office in line. Both of these areas have been concerned, right, They've been huge concerns.

You know, you look at the kicker situation. We thought that was going to be a complete wou right, it was bad. Right, So every issue that has been presented in terms of potential downfall at positions, they've addressed it. And the more incredible thing, and I think this also

gives credit to the coaching staff. I mean give the flowers to the coaching staff too, because every and we talked about it on this show Week one against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a nineteen to three loss, we came back into this studio and we said everything that was a question mark reared its ugly head against Tampa Bay so and then you lost your quarterback. So at that point,

Hope looked lost. The fact that all those question marks, Twitcher's offensive line, special teams, and a little bit of the defense in terms of stopping the run, all of those things were just torn apart. And so was your secondary in that game too. But with that being said,

that's not a question anymore. I mean, these are all things that have been checked up, checked across the board, been addressed and been addressed since that point going into camp, Like you said, one of the biggest questions, hands down, was the depth at the offensive line position, just as a unit. And here we are in, you know, mid December, and we're talking about you know, unfortunately you loosed he Round Smith at credit the front office, Will McClay, Stephen Jones,

Jerry Jones. You got Tyler Smith, much to the chagrin of a lot of Cowboys Nation. Tyler Smith comes in and pops right out the left tackle, which is what he played at Tulsa, and he has acquitted himself very well as a rookie. Obviously, you're gonna have your rookie hiccups, and they've been the penalties. But for the most part, based upon expectation in the situation he was thrust into. You could not have asked for much more from Tyler Smith and big fellow. Right, and you pick up Jason Peters,

you lose Matt will let's go. You lose Matt Farniac too. You can't protect right, No, so you lose. My point is you lose these two players which you were hoping to get some contributions from as early as this season, and your offensive line doesn't lose a step, not a single step. And that is before seven seven gets dropped back into the mix. It's just it's phenomenal kudos across the board, front office, coaching staff, and of course we have to specifically mention Joe philbin in his his offensive

line assistant. They've just been phenomenal. So bouquets of roses. Scouting department too, Yeah, to the scouting department. That's where really that's boots on the ground right there. So when's the last time you had this much confidence in the

offensive line. It was it the Travis Frederick Beard was here, Yeah, it was it was the fred Beard fred Beard tyron Zach error and then toss in some Ronald Leary for those that might have forgot about big Ron right, you know, um that was also when you know Lyle Collins was here, but also challenging Leary for positions and then you had, you know that that situation. But as far as depth and talent goes, it was that it was that error,

not since that error. I'm looking at Tyler Smith's numbers compared to Tyron Smith's numbers as a rookie in twenty eleven, Tyrone had over a thousand snaps, he had eight sacks allowed and thirty pressures given up seven penalties totals, so numbers that aren't necessarily great numbers, especially for Tyrant Smith. I mean, he got better as his career got along, of course, But then you look at Tyler's numbers. He's

had seven hundred and eighty snaps. He's allowed four sacks, which is half of what uh Tyrn did in his rookie season with about three quarters of the snaps, and he's allowed twenty five pressures, which is pretty high for that number and relative at that point too. I mean, the fact of the matter is when this season comes to a close, Tyler Smith at left tackle in filling into a position, that he wasn't anticipated. I'm just saying

he wasn't anticipated to play left tackle this year. He was anticipated to play left guard, came in, struggled there in the off season, went right back out the left tackle, which was his position in the future. And he's having comparable numbers to Tyrant Smith whenever they're both in the rookie seasons. There's a chance. There's a chance he's your left tackle of the future, and he's shown that the way that you wanted it to be sure, But anything

can happen either way, is what I'm saying. That's why it's always a chance. I mean, it's not foregone conclusion that he's going to continue to have the trajectory the Tyrants in. It's a foregone conclusion that they're looking to him to be absolutely I agree with that. Now will that manifest itself? Time will tell. Yeah, trajectory says yes, but time will tell. Injuries happen knock on wood, and you know, dips and production happened knock on wood. But

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Star in Frisco dot com Slash tours now. I can't speak for everybody that is a part of the podcast, but if you see Patrick no seawalker, if you see Isaiah stand back, you see myself, say hi while you're on Hello, Yeah, say hi. Uh. They tell you at the beginning, like don't don't talk to people. That's a good rule. Don't do that. But if you see us, you can say hi. Just say hey, Kyle love the show. Hey Patrick, love the show. Hey Isaiah. People do that.

I'm a big film room fan. I was I was eating some breakfast yesterday, yeah, at a particular restaurant, and one of the gentlemen that I was working at the restaurants say hey, I'll listen to your show every day. Love it. I absolutely love it. Love you absolutely you know, we noticed when the tours walk past it. Yeah, typically we all smile away. I've never seen a tour actually stop and watch the break m. They just breeze by. It's a stop. It's a stop on a tour, you know.

But they just walked right by. I didn't know we were taking shots of people. Shots kind of a listener. RPG's babies, Yeah, says rocket launch freaking go huh, all right, camping on the roof, scoping bang, Absolutely, Isaiah. Are you a fan of cryptic tweets? Cryptic? Yeah, like like mysterious no tweets? No, Patrick, are you a fan of you? Gotta understand. I grew up into my Space era Yeah, okay, my Space, Black Planet, Christian Mingle, all that stuff. The

farmers with Facebook. I was with Facebook when you had to have a college you're gonna have a college email address. Okay, that's where the era I come from. We didn't throw cryptic stuff out there. Cole. You wanted to say something,

you said it with your chest. Now everybody sits behind their little computers or their cell phones and sends out whatever they want to either draw attention or the throw shade, or to act like they can say, so we'd act like they got their chests puffed out when they really wouldn't say it in person. The world's a different place now, Kyle. So now people say things cryptically to try to get

some attention. Say what you don't on chess. I'm just I'm not a fan, and we will talk about really quickly what we're talking about specifically, but it's not exclusive to this individual, just period across the board. I do not like cryptic tweets like I'm with Isaiah, say it with your whole chest. I think it's corny, it's I think it's it's a looking. I think it's just a corny thing. That term was around your generation. It's cringey. Yeah,

that's that's better. Corny is the older term. Cringey is the curtain current. I guess that's what I can't say. I think, yeah, well that's too. There is a certain wide receiver that yesterday put out a quick cryptic tweet following the news starting to trickle out that Dallas Cowboys have cooled on talks with Odell Beckham Junior. Cool cooled. Yeah, not corny, not cringey, but cooled. There's still quote unquot working on it at you know, Jerry Jones, but I

think cooled an. The reason why is not because the meetings went poorly. No, everything was great. Actually from what we have heard that the players that hung out with him at the game, Treyvon Diggs, Michael Parsons were great. The conversations he had with Mike McCarthy went swell, Dak Prescott, everything, Steven Jerry all of that. Check check check check check. But then you get into the injury talk. That's where the hold up is, and that's where the hold up

is league wide right now. I think, isn't that why he's not on a team? Correct? Absolutely correct? Is the injury timetable you were thinking here, we are thinking maybe next couple of weeks he could come in and play. Two or three weeks down the road, maybe that Philadelphia game, he's there and ready to go and help the team win. Michael Parsons gave us a little insight that Odell Beckham

told Micah yesterday. Here, I guess a couple days ago, but he said this yesterday five weeks five weeks out, which would put him at right at the tail end of the regular season. So best case scenario week eighteen final game against the Washington Commanders or the wildcard round second base best case scenario, realistically, you probably wouldn't see him as a full, fully engulfed part of this offense

until the divisional round or the championship round. It's like, like I said earlier this week, the conversation moved to twenty twenty three as it relates to Odell Belcam Jr. Because you simply don't know, based upon, you know, the medical situation with his knee, if he'll be able to

take the field in twenty twenty two. Because consider this, if he did, in fact tell Michael Parsons that he's five weeks out from well this week because they met earlier this week, if he told him he's five weeks out from this week, players will always tend to lean towards optimism, right, best case scenario. So if O'Dell's best case scenario was five, that means realistically same right, a seven or eight right, which again, some things are just

absolute in the world. Yeah, death Texas and the ability of the Cowboys medical staff to do their jobs right. So if the Cowboys medical staff is looking at his his you know, Mr, and looking at his reports and they did the physical, the one over and they sit back and they say, is this the same medical staff

that found the issue with Damon Clark? It is still drafted them anyways because of the plane not a red plane and making an impact just for the people that were going to tweet something best for the same medical staff that you know, for those that are saying, Jalen Smith wouldn't take another snap in football? How's that nerve doing? So again? Death Texas Cowboys medical staff best medical staff

in the league in your opinion. You worked with them straight up, and you worked with multiple You were with the Giants, the Jags, Patriots, the Cowboys. The Giants have a really good staff at the time. Jacksonville had a really good staff. Um. But yeah, Dallas to me as entirety, I think Dallas has us. Was it like was it close or was it like blow him out of the water sort of at your time, And it's the same staff now that I think I was spoiled. So let's just say that I was spoiled and I spent too

much time with all my medical staff. But I don't know if that's yeah, that's not a good thing. I'm saying the Organizationally, I was spoiled. I was. I played for some really good organizations, but Dallas holically, when you start looking at Jim, you look at Britt, and you look at Greg. Those guys, the three of them, plus they're the people that they bring on those that's a

that's a trifecta. Yeah. Yeah. Again, if O'Dell is saying five weeks, players will almost always go to the to the shortest window, which means realistically probably looking at seven eight. So then the question, because it's very telling, are you willing to sign and stash because that's basically what you'd be looking at. I knew this conversation would go one way or not. This conversation, this debate will go one

way or another. Once he got into building, because because of the medical staff, Yeah, it was gonna the deal was either gonna get done really quickly because they said, yeah, I knew, I knew it, Like we could talk about it all leading up to it. But as soon as he got in the building and didn't get their hands on him and get up there their medical staff and MRIs and all the other kind of jazz. I'm not sure all that took place, but I would assume all that took place. It did. He was either gonna get

done immediately or not at all. And there there's something to be said for those that are saying, well, you know, sign Stash and while you because you still have James Washington ramping to come up as well, um and get old and the old Dale Bell can j You're in the building with this outstanding medical staff that we're talking about, so that he can finish his rehab here and that might just expedite the process there. I don't think they wanted to commit to him. I don't think they wanted

to commit to him beyond this year. Truthfully, that's my belief. I think they wanted him run his impact, right. I think Jerry wanted him for this run. That's if it's not this run, we'll wait and see what we look like next year. Do you think you blame him for that? Though not at all. It's a great business in my opinion. If he's not ready to play, then don't mess with it.

We'll see it in the office. And to answer your cohon, No, the Wide Receiver Corp. Doesn't need him right now, but you do need some insurance now that might come by way of James Washington, who hopefully can get on the field and make an impact. But being James Washington or Odell Beckham Junru, you would like to believe or like to know that you're going into the playoffs injury proof at the position because if player X or player Y. I'm not going to say the names because I don't

want to. I'm superstitious like that. If they one of those players go down, goes out with an injury, and you don't have someone that is ready to step in and step up at a high level, you're going to be in very real trouble. But that being said, all insurance isn't the same James Washington, albeit not the player that Odell is. He's ready to get on the field Asaph Odell, you could. You could sign that insurance policy and you still might not see it payout in twenty

twenty two even if you need it. So so many layers to this, but yeah, Jerry Jones wants present tense to impact now because he wants to make the and now and he wants Odell Bill comp Juny to be the additive now. If Odell and his team are saying, well, there's a chance, but we could definitely make sure that you're good in twenty twenty three. Then I guess the question for Jerry becomes with and what concessions are you making, because you're going to have to make a lot of

concessions for me to eat that. Yeah, no, I completely agree. I think the conversation is completely turned. It's not the same as what it was a week two weeks ago. And it's also a conversation I'm tired of having. I did. There's there's some locker room fatigue with this year. Yeah, DeMarcus Lawrence said it yesterday. I'm tired of talking about it. I'm sorry we had to hit it because Mike had talked about it yesterday, and then the timetable is termed.

The decision is different. This is the last time I will talk about OBJ until the pin hits the paper, whether it's with the Cowboys or not. So that's the last time we're talking about OBJ. I want to shift that conversation into the Wide Receiver Show because, yeah, with an the way that this team has built momentum, it's been in a different way than they've done it in the past, but it's been in a way that both

I know Isaiah standbacks talked about before. Patrick nose Walker has talked about before, and that's by running the football and being physical. So when we come back on Talking Cowboys, the run game is setting up the pass much like it always should have been. Where is the credit going to go? Is it going to Kelly Moore? Is it going to the running game? Is it going to the wide Receiving Corps? For being consistent and reliable? I'll mention what I'm talking about when we come back right after

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They were. Now they do. So they're like, I was like, we gotta do something here. That was the last of it. It's a walk through game, Chuck. Literally, was that fifteen years? Yeah? Yeah, it's been fifteen years. Is not good? But now the fan vote is involved. The fan vote is still fun because you still get to send players to the Pro Bowl six three five sixty three five text vote or visit nfl dot com slash Pro Bowl Games. Vote back here on talking Cowboys. Isaiah stand back, Patrick, No C. Walker.

I'm Kyle Yeoman's gentlemen here? What was that? Hi? Kyle? Hey? There? Here's the net passing yards over the last five games for the Dallas Cowboys Chicago two hundred and forty two win, Green Bay two sixty two. We're not going to talk about that one three h seven Minnesota, big time win, two sixty one against New York win on Thanksgiving, and then last week against Indianapolis and another big time win

one hundred and sixty five yards through the air. Isaiah, you've been a big proponent of this since you stepped onto this show. Run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, and then throw it. It needs to be a run first offense. Does the fact that there's some confidence around not only the offensive line, but the ground game in general with the one two punch of Tony Pollard so much so that it's opening up the passing game and these wide receivers are getting better separation and

benefiting from it. Absolutely, this is the key to success for the Dallas Cowboys offense. And you're absolutely right. We've talked about the extensively on this show and it works. Yeah, Lauren Hole, Kellen Moore has matured and graduated himself up to what I consider an elite officers a coordinator. I think he was a really good coordinator before. But as long as he knows that this is effective, as long as he commits to it, you're you're elite officer a coordinator.

You don't have to throw your way into the category of being an elite officer a coordinator. Your job as officer a coordinators to put your guys in position to be successful and score points, whether that's on the ground or whether that's in the air. Some teams evolved differently depending on what you have available to you. Yeah, the identity of this team is just that run the freaking ball. You got a two headed monster in the backfield. You got a great office, a line that's doing really well,

scoring you touchdowns at the top of the league. Okay, they're protecting your quarterback, Kate, do what you have to do to be a successful. Don't do anything outside of that, because when you get cute, you become the ugly duckling.

I like it. I like that. I mean, at the end of the day, the scientists right there in front of you, killing Moore, continue to consistently commit to the run to set up the pass because there are times where you've gotten away from it and it's come back to bite you be it in the micro and you know certain situations or in the game overall, as far as the outcome is concerned, more often than not. In the three losses, well, week one was such an aberration.

I try not even mention that because it was just such an operation. But in the other two losses, those are hanging on your head because you got away from the run. You were up, and we don't want to talk about Green Bay, but one of the reasons for that collapse was you got away from the run and in which case you were up by fourteen points. You should have used the clock as the twelfth defender and

just ran it down their throat, which you did. But it looks like we're back to Kellen Moore understanding the level of commitment that is required to the run game. When you have two dynamic running backs keep the ball in their hand two further notice, and then you have an elite quarterback you can allow to play off of that, and it just completely keeps the opposing defense off balance. And that's how you're going to continue to win games

going forward. So with that question, Beer, that that being the case, I've got a question on the back end here, which one do you want to utilize more against the Texans? Do you want to allow it to get your wide receivers a little bit of extra pub you get him some some airtime, maybe liftoff since we're playing Houston, or do you run right at this this Houston Texas team and just continue to wear them down. I think you do what you've been doing right, don't change a thing,

don't change anything. I want more of? Is Malik Davis? M Really? Yeah? Why is that? Because I want to beat a team? You know? That would be fun because Damian Pierce and Malik Davis were one two on the depth chart at Florida together, so then you can kind of duel each other out a little bit. Speaking of rookies, I want to see them go at Jalen Petrie a little bit in coverage he's been suspecting coverage all year long. I was watching til him yesterday. He was a big

time draft pick. I wasn't very high on them in the draft. Actually got in an argument with with Brian Protis. They did. Yeah, he's ranked eighty five of eighty eight safeties on Pro Football Focus right now. And like I said, grades, I really don't pay attention to. But I mean eighty five of eighty eight, that's the bottom four. That's just something to keep in mind. I want to see them

attack the air a little bit. I agree with you don't change anything, continue to run the football the way that you have, and then you can open it up a little bit. I want to see him take those mistakes away in the early parts of the game. That's a big thing too, And I agree. And I think that you will see the receivers Ceedee Lamb, Michael Gallup, Noah Brown, the tight end crew. And I think this is a good game to get Jake and Peyton involved a little bit. Yeah, I think you'll see them, you know,

make a big play respectively. One we used to call the Dallas defense the Duffel bag boys. Every time I hear about those two, Jake and Peyton I think of the Deffel bag boy is there too, But yeah, I'm with Isaiah and that this freaking the month of December. You experiment where you need to experiment office and line rotations because you got Tron coming back, cornerback opposite Trevon Diggs and outside of darn Bland because you lost Anthony Brown. But this is also where things are set as far

as schematics go. You you've determined that your better run first team used to play action off of that. Start refining that, start sharpening that more and more, because not to look forward, but you kind of got to peek forward. Massive game coming up on Christmas Eve. The playoffs are here, not long thereafter. December needs to be where you're hitting your stride, refining everything that needs to be refined, and everything that needs to be experimented with tweaked that you know,

get that worked out. So don't go into this game thinking, Okay, well yeah it's the Texans and we can throw it all around the field. It's true you probably can, and the science says you can. Right keeping out on Jerry Hughes, I mean that guy has eight, so contain him and then everything else falls into place. Um, but I mean

get in there, punch him in the mouth. Take whatever hope they have going into this game away immediately, immediately, immediately, because this is a team, this is a team in the Texans that you can, you can break their heart and their emotions and their hope in the first quarter because they they're getting paid to do it. But they I don't think at this point one ten and one in Cowboys, Chiefs, Titans or the next three opponents, these guys are ready to take to take the January. They're

ready for some some vacations. Were they're ready for some vacations. Were you ever on a team that had a season like that where it was one two wins? I didn't think you were. What was the worst season you ever went through? Regular season one? I don't remember the record. It was Jacksonville for sure? Was it? Yeah? It was. Was there a pride issue at the end or was there was there a fatigue? Was it more a pride of we want to we want to keep our jobs.

You're counting down vacation where you realize what I'm saying, Okay, boy, you're looking at you like what I got five weeks? Okay, they've been eliminated from playoff contingent effective last week. Now you're going up against the Cowboys, and then the Chiefs and then the Titans. Those guys, they're calling them the travel Planners. They're just they're ready to get up out of here, so you know, make it easy for them

about putting them in a coffin early. Yeah, they are currently the number one pick, but that's no surprise at anybody. They've lost seven straight games. That's first in the league, most in the league in terms of a losing streak, so it lost seventh streight. They trying to get up for these games. Not enough, You're gonna lose draft status. Yep, you're gonna drop. They've got the thirteenth pick two from Cleveland for the Deshaun Watson trade, so that pick is

even looking better and better. They have no incentive to really the only and I mean the only incentive they have is to try to beat the in state big brother. Yeah, that's that's all they got. Everybody gets up to play them. I mean it's still especially when they're good in state big brother. That's the only movation for the Texans. But you know, punch him in the mouth. Early with Zeke and Pollard. You know, break him in the first quarter

and this game will get away from the Texans very quickly. Guys. You want to see shoulders start to slump. Heads are going to drop. The players are just going to get bigger and bigger. And if you think fifty four against the Coats was something, if you break the Texans will early, this could absolutely be a sixty steak two and fourteen. Wow, that's pretty bad. That's really bad. That is bad. But you were counting down vacations. Yeah, you weren't the only one.

And that lock him out of New York. Who's your quarterbacks? Sharon Brochure, Dad Lane was really d Blaine. Chad Henny still in the league. Where's he at? He's backing up my homie? Is he really? I did not know that he's been doing it? I did, Oh, I didn't know that. You and I were in Inglewood in that hotel lobby and we were watching the Chiefs play and Chad Henny tried it out there. He's been doing every year. I remember that. That's pretty funny. I should have learned how

to play QB. Yeah right, that's a mistake. Yea. I should have never left, should have never left. Drafted in two thousand and eight. Wow, he's still sticking around. Good for him. They drafted after me. Yeah, good, good, interesting, Good for him. All Right, Tomorrow, we've got to say it with your chest Friday, we're gonna we're gonna talk about the nickname thing. We've got some got some decisions to be made, so we're gonna take some time tomorrow to do that. Coo Squad, We're gonna give you some

some matchups to watch tomorrow. We'll give you some chances to make some money on draft kings, and then we'll of course give you the pickums and we're gonna pick some games over the weekend that doesn't for us. Frisaiah stand back for Patrick nose Walker for Chris Beam. We'll see you tomorrow. More Talking Cowboys Presented by a Black Rifle Coffee Company. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.