Talkin' Cowboys: What A Game!

and the Cowboys are six and one. It is another Victory Day edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by Tostitos, the official chip and the official chip of the Dallas Cowboys. I hope you have your headphones turned down for the next let's go forty five minutes, because this is gonna happen. All yeah, Yeah, you brought your rally towel today. What you're talking about? Let's go? You know this is not good radio yelling into a microphone. It's all good. How

y'all feeling this? Mom? I want to wake y'all up. Man. I know y'all was working last night. I do apologize. I know y'all need some coffee this morning, and I just wanted to be y'all. Y'all always one for y'all. He's always up back quick. I did. I did. WoT landed at three. Heck, you're my wake up call. Thank you, thank you. Come on, man, No goodenough feeling swell, Kyle, Yeah, well it's hard not to be, Isaiah. Did you get

some rest this morning? I did. I got me a new bad man and this, you know, I got some good sleep. Back's feeling good. You know, woke up to a w over here in a column. You know, kid life. I mean it's crazy. I mean reliving that game through your head. I went back and rewatched the condensed version yesterday and just there was really no business winning that football game. You had to make every play down the

stretch from so many different people. You're exactly right. That was a win that if if this season continues on the way that it's been continuing and they reach a potential that a lot of Cowboys fans think they can reach, that's a win. You're gonna come back and circle and say that one was that was a difference maker because it gives you confidence moving forward. Cooper Rush. I mean the way he was able to come in fill in admirable. I mean, he was a gutted out sort of player

last night. But it took a lot of guys to get that win. I mean, it's an overall team win. You gotta feel good about it, knowing that you missed the key piece and the way that your defense played yesterday has got to give you confidence going forward with the end this season. What was it one for thirteen on third down? Unreal? That's hey, man, that and that takes eleven guys to contribute and do the job that they did yesterday on Kirk Cousins and those receivers. And

they tried us, they tried us multiple times. And I will say that Treyvon Dix may not have had his best game yesterday, didn't continue to streak by getting another interception. But man, all in all, everybody, everybody contributed to the win. And that's man, That's the one thing that I'm gonna hang my hat on for victory Monday is the way that our hold, the entire team played yesterday. Man, Like you said, that's something you come back too later and you go, hey, stick a pin in that. Come back

to that victory because that that said something about everybody. Yeah, that was a culture win. I mean those guys to your point, you know, everybody stepped up. This was not a just premier player guys you know, get guys who get the big boy checks. This was literally everybody who touched that field yesterday had an impact on the game, had a lot to overcome. Not only did they not have their QB one Cooper Rush stepped up, but we lost our Obviously, we didn't have our our starting right tackle.

He was in the game and the wishbone set, but he wasn't starting. So we had a second string right tackle, We had a second string left tackle. We had a lot of second string receivers in there that came in there and took care of business. Our defensive our defense played lights out. Michael Parsons probably had probably i would say, probably the game of his life. Aside from him playing the d in earlier in the year. These guys played great. I mean, one for thirteen, shutting down that offense and

the capabilities that they had was absolutely amazing. Um they played for rush. They they played for rush. That was a little extra that wasn't just them wanting to win the game. That was them saying we got you and you could tell the difference there, and that was absolutely amazing. Mary Cooper definitely played for Rush on that last drive. Oh my god, was unreal. What an unbelievable effort by him. And he said he didn't hurt his hamstring on that last that last drive at one point and was able

to play through it. I said after the game, tweeted, you know that good teams find a way, and I think good teams find a way to beat New England and Bill Belichick on the road when you make a bunch of mistakes and all that. I think potentially special teams win a game like this. And I hadn't been up there in that stadium for five years since Dak's rookie season. I forgot just how loud, crazy that environment is.

And that makes it more impressive for Cooper, Rush and the offensive line, which had some trouble with the past Rush at times. But to be able to handle that environment, man, that brings it should bring an extra confidence level up for this entire team. But what's more impressive is I and we only talked to a handful of guys. I didn't get the sense guys were just felt like this was some miracle that we pulled off. I mean, these guys know they're good, and you know they found a

way to get it done. Give them credit. Yeah, they knew that was gutsie. They knew going into it no Dak Prescott because of the cap strain. They knew that was going to take everybody to get it done. But you're right. I mean the reaction after wasn't like, man, we got a dub on the road, like Wow, this is great. It was more of like, all right, we took care of business, while let's go home. We got

two at home, let's take care of those. That's the feeling I got, which is exceptionally exciting, I think from the get go, because you want that confidence in your ball club, and I really want to really quickly, I want to go back to what something you said. You said, potentially special teams do that, and we're not talking about the third unit of the football game. We're talking about special type of organizational wins. So where does this rank

up there in terms of those types of wins? Because it hasn't happened a lot over the last couple decades, But man, that was one that I think a lot of people are going to remember for quite some time. I just I think it was the best win of the Mike McCarthy era. And you probably, I mean, you probably have to just go back to this season only. I mean last year was just such a mess, and I mean, I think, what you know, I think there's

a correlation to last year though. I think that was the first game that they won that he kind of felt like they played the way they need to play. His imprint on the team, and then they take another step forward a year later on the road in that environment. Yeah, this is the best win because I Dave Hellman tweeted it last night and I agree with him. I mean, they've had games like this in the past pass regime and they haven't gotten it done. And they found a

way to get it done. And they founded a way to get it done without winning the turnover battle too, which has been a key point in all these games that they've won. And that's another step forward for the defense and that hey, they proved something. They're not just lucky flukey getting takeaways and all that kind of stuff. They manned up and got a bunch of stops down the stretch man against a good offense that did not play well, but that defense had a part in that. Yeah, whatever, whatever,

I'm sorry. I was just gonna say, do you agree? Hell yeah. And furthermore, I love the US versus them mentality. It's us the locker room, it's us all these media folks talking about one guy making the difference in whether you can win. The score changing and all the betting odds changing because people saying that Dak was gonna be out and this team went out and put boots on him. Look, first half questionable. It was as bad as I thought. I'm like, man, and I even held my head down,

like man, this is not what you expect. Production wise, drives were stalling out. Cooper Rush has some throws he just missed on them. And it's no excuse he missed on throws. He left a lot to be desired that he's going to come back and look at the tape today and say, hey, man, I can be better. But in that second half, the throw to Cedric Wilson, I think, man,

it was like the aha moment. You know, the sun's parting the clouds and you see Cooper Rush coming to his own right there, just to calm down and say, man, I can absolutely do this in the running game getting behind him. Yeah, he wasn't a hundred yards year or gods with the big gashes. It was just a continuous, continuous, continuous run that kept moving the chains. We found ourselves in some situations and down the distance that I didn't think were favorable, that we hadn't been in with Dak,

but that this team just kept responding. And you keep talking about culture, Isaiah, and that's yesterday was the first time I actually saw it, and Bradley and I jumps outside and you want, you want your team to go. You're used to a team going, oh no, what did that team do? They bowled up and held them to a field goal. So I don't know how they're gonna spend it next week for the Denver game about how great the next quarterback is gonna be. But I'm telling you,

Kirk Cousins showed that he was garbage. And I loved every minute of it. Man, I loved every minute of it. I love the way this team competed, in the way that they showed him, and those and those personal files towards the end of the game, I mean against Randy Gregory, those were uncalled for. But at the same time, even overcame those calls. No, I mean they overcame a lot. I mean, you know, to your point, Cooper Rush didn't have the best first half. I mean, we're in the studio.

He had happy feet. He he was who you thought he would be. In that first half. He was in errand throws late on you know, split safety. Uh just laid on the ball. He'd been lucky. It's about three or about three balls that should have been picked off. He kept trying to down the middle. Jesus in traffic. It was it was just late, right, he was just late. So the game wasn't coming to him at the at the speed in which it needed to happen. What changed, though,

I don't know. I wouldn't say. I think it's confidence that happened. His confidence. This league is all built off confidences. And these are the best players in the world. I don't care if your second, first string, second string, and third string. These are the best players in the world, hands down. So they're on the roster for a reason. I understand. Everybody on on these teams were goats in college. Everybody, everybody who's in the league right now was an absolute

dog in college. And then when you were a dog in college, you have a swag about you, you have a confidence about you. When you get to the league, sometimes you have you kind of step take a step back. Right, I'm not the dog no more. That's that's the dog. I'm just a right and I feel in what I need to. And that's the mentality that a lot of guys have until what happens, until they're thrust it into a position where guess what, I gotta I gotta become

what I was in college. You gotta beat the dog. Yeah, I gotta be that dog again. I gotta get it back right. So sometimes you step in there and his initial mindset is I'm not the guy. The guys don't believe in me. Shootout, got sacked a couple of times. Everything griffins in my face, I can't really set my feet. I'm trying to make the throws, but I'm just all and then I make that one throw and I'm like, that was a hell of a ball. Wait a minute, Yeah I did I did that. Wait a minute, you

guys just slapped me on the butt. Okay, hold on, okay, maybe we can Maybe they do believe him. You know what I'm saying it, And all of a sudden, you get that confidence back, and you could see it changing. Even in his mechanics. His mechanics were good, His footwork was good. I told you we was in the studio when he had some pressure. That boy stepped over, just stepped up. Guy was diving at his feet. Boom delivered the ball. So you saw his confidence start to come back.

But to what to what you what he expected of himself, and these guys started believing him and believing in him. They started playing. They overcame a lot early touchdown to feeling right, missfield goal, interception to rush. We gotta gave up a bunch of not a bunch off. We gave up three sacks in the game. Right, There's a lot of things that we had to overcome. You can't keep giving these guys. You talk about the off side, You can't give teams. Minnesota is a good team. They we

we outplayed them, but they're a good team. Right, We outplay them, no, no, no doubts about it. They're a good team, but we played better than them, right, So we made them look like they weren't a good team. Right, And that is also a testament to how good this roster is. These guys are stepping up in ways that you can't draw up. You can't draw this up. And in terms of everybody who's looking for, hey, what are we going to be? Don't let's not start talking about

the down to roll. So let's keep taking a week by week, but understand that we have help coming as well as these guys are playing, we still have help coming. And if if these if the guys that are coming into add assistance are some of our premier guys that we've been missing, if they come in and contribute like these guys are, we got, we got. We gotta have a long way to go, got a long way to go. It's not just a long seventeen game season. There's a

potential for even longer than that. And this win, of course keeps you three games up in the NFC East as well. That's a little side product to think about too. But I'm just so impressed with his defense man, I mean, holding Minnesota. We already mentioned it, Heckma brought it up earlier one of thirteen on third down, holding the Vikings to two hundred and seventy eight total yards. Kirk Cousins didn't even hit two hundred through the air. They were

in his face. They may not have sacked him a ton made out have brought him to the turf, but Rob, they really made him uncomfortable in the pocket, and you could see it, especially into that second half. Yeah, and he you know, he missed on some things early. They hit a couple of big plays early, feeling Conklin a couple thirty plus yard plays, and there were a couple he left on the field. But they got better as

the game went on too, you know. And I was looking at Dalvin Cook first, how did they match up with him? Eighteen carries for seventy eight yards and a lot of that's Michael Parsons. I mean he said that after the game. That was my one on one and he was anticipating things. You know, he talked about during the week how he was in kind of a mental slump. I don't know if it was like a rookie wall. But he started showing up earlier U five thirty am.

He said he's getting the star and I think he got kind of got his mojo back in this game. And I don't know what else you can say about the way he played in this football game. But I think you mentioned the one of thirteen on third down. That's that's incredible. That's incredible for an offense as good as they are because Delon and we talked about him during the week and Justin Jeffers, those guys are really

really good. On that hit, I don't know if you guys remember this, but Jordan Jordan Lewis put a hit on number seventeen one Osbourne. He leveled him. I mean, but those guys were we were delivering those kind of tackles. Every time they caught the ball, they were getting nailed. Uh, your guy from A and M, the Donovan Wilson, your guy ab with the Roman range. You see that. Yeah, you see that. We were nailing those guys. So every time they were catching the ball, our defenders were putting

them on the ground. You've been asking for it, we've been waiting on and finally, man, this is the contact when you can go into a game and no matter what's going on offense, your defense can play like this. We talked about the running game and worrying about that. Um, I'm sorry, was Dalvin Cook? What happened to him? You know? He one hundred and one yards. They obviously did get one hundred and one yards, but they had the piecemeal that thing together. Uh and so that wasn't one back.

These guys were putting making sure they were assignment alignment sound. And I love to see that. And that's Dan Quinn putting together coverage for a veteran quarterback that has pretty much seen at all. Those are some of those were coverage where he didn't know where he where he was gonna go. And Randy Gregory is about to run off with the bag, y'all. He like he's on Friday running out. Okay, he running out with the bag right now, boy, And

it's it's man. It's so good to see guys that have had problems in the past be redeemed in real time. I'm just loving to see that from Randy Gregory, man and just overall man. This defensively, I can't say enough about how good we play. When was the last time you've seen a physicality type of game like that from a Cowboys defense man? It's been a long It's been

a long time for me. I mean when I'm talking about at every position we are knocking guys, I mean it might have been back in the nineties when we had Charles Hayley and them boys that it was. It was that's when we had that real funk. So it's starting to remind me of that. And just Michael Parsons man, okay, oh okay, oh, Christmas Tree. No, no, no, it wasn't a bet involved, but there was there was a little no Michael Parsons last night. The linebacker was legit. He

was legit. I mean he was everywhere sideline, the sideline. They couldn't stop him in the middle. When he decided that he was gonna put he was gone. But on those one on ones, Alan Coverage, Oh, that was just that. I'm so happy he's with us. So you're passed the d N thing now quite yeah, you know, but he left, you know, he looked good. That's all. I gotta give

credit what credit is true. It was and I mean, Isaiah you said it earlier it was his best game outside of the defensive end game in Week two against the Chargers out I thought the same thing. It might have been his best game of the year. I know the VF grades and the stats probably won't show that he was all over the film. He had an impact I mean that's the reason why I like him at that position, right, because he impacts every aspect of it. Like every play you saw he was he was. He

was a force. And that's what you want. You want somebody who these guys have to deal with in the run game. You want somebody these guys have to deal with and just swing routes and the running back routes and and uh and in coverage. You know, down this guy was, he said in his interview, right, he did. He did that interview with britt and pretty much he said, Hey, I feel like I could play any position on this field, you know. I mean, that's the confidence you want. That's

I mean, he's a dog. He's a dog, and that's what you have. You have a dog at the second level, right, you have a dog at the on the d line. Right. Well, obviously with Gregory playing like that, you got dogs in the secondary. You got a dog on mean Donovans Wilson is running around trying to take guy's hands. Oh that was amazing. So when you have so in speaking to contagious, when you have a team that's playing like this again I mentioned a couple weeks ago, you don't want to

be left out. You don't want to be the guy. I told my daughter this yesterday in her soccer game before I head it into the studio, I said, don't just be a player out there. Impact the game? Yeah, like, impact the game. You don't want to be the one guy that's not impacting the game. You want to you want your name to be called. You want to be circled with that dog on a little little little red laser girl. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's like, hey, don't don't

just be present, right, don't yeah, yeah, don't just be present? Right? Um, no, key and pill present you know, no, no, don't be that right? How can you impact the game if I'm on the field, how can I show up right? How can I make my donation my contribution to this team? Because we're flying around as a collective, they're having fun, they're playing physical, they're executing their responsibilities, they're shutting down good offenses. These are good teams when I know we

make them look like trash. They're not trash. We just make them look like trash because of how these guys are approaching the game in terms of dan Quinn, how these guys personnel wives, they're taking care of the responsibilities and then our dogs are going out there and saying, guess what, I'm gonna leave you guys to the pastors. I can't wait to delogue his back. I can't wait because I hope. I'm looking forward to seeing. Is he

gonna bring what Gregory's bringing. That's a challenge, that's a challenge because that dude right there, I think he will. I don't think anybody plays harder than he does. Sacks don't always show up, but I think, yeah, I think he fits right into that. They hit Cousins nine times. Wow, man, Cousins gonna be anice, and he was looking forward. He was looking forward. But I saw in the third quarter when when they start booing him at Bank of America.

You y'all hear that. They weren't saying coop. They were saying boom because Kirk Cousins wasn't good. It done And he turned Halloween. Nah, he turned in the check down Charlie. And that was, like I tweeted, that was waving the white flag. To me. I said, Oh, they're scared. Oh they're scared. They're not even trying to stretch it no more. They took their home. Let's let's beat these chumps and get breakfast. Yep, I love it. Tweet last night breakfast. Yes it was. It was just a shake, just a

shake shake. Yeah. No, I love the commitment. One of the things you said, and that that not very nice monologue there was was talking about guys don't want to be left out, they want to be on the field, they want to be impactful. Well, there was a guy that was pretty darn in fact pactful on the offensive side of the football that very easily could have taken himself out of the game. Was this a Marii Cooper's

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you're making a heale right now. It's like the fixed note at us Banks Stadium. Man about that. That was trash. I thought it was cool, dude. They're Preah. Their pregame stuff is pretty cool. That's that's a nice place. It's a nice place. They have cool traditions. We went stood on. I was gonna say, Manner, Steve Hutchinson, that was pretty cool. They did. Yeah, that was cool. He was a player of a player. Where does that place rank in terms

of like the newer stadiums. I know, it's still probably not going to have some of the same lore as other places. Which one you've picked. I haven't been to so far. It's for me. It's right behind AT and T Okay. Yeah, I love good answer. No, I mean no, I mean AT is the standard, man, it is the standard. It's really cool. It's a downtown stadium. Those are always cool, very cool. And I and you know what McCarthy said, it's louder than the Metrodome. And I forgot just how

loud it was. Metrodomes as loud as I've ever heard anything other than maybe the Superdome. It's right there, it is. Yeah, you put on your noise canceling, you know, headphones like a like a woofs like I did, and in the open air press box. Then make it in Seattle. Uh okay, Seattle's there too, But the dome thing, it's the Yeah, it's in Minnesota's always loud. Yeah. I'm just glad I got rid of that astal turf that was trash man. Yeah, I hate that little Minnesota Twins and the metrodomes dark

in there. That old stadium was dark and was dark and dingy. I think they liked it that way. I'm sure I hated. I hated that dog on a little whatever sound that is. It's like, yeah, it's like Broadus said, when that that horn goes on something something, something bad has happened that Yeah. Uh, well it went off plenty last night, and the Cowboys still gotta win. They only led for fifty one seconds of that football game. And I mean that's it, Dudel for what a damn win.

And then you're saying, yeah, I mean you say it, Rob. I mean, like here again, let out what a damn win. That was their first lead was at the end. Yeah, once it hits your laps, it's so good. Oh uh, that's stealing a win. Man. A couple of fast facts for you here. Seventy three yard touchdown pass from Cooper Rush to Cedric Wilson, longest by a Cowboys quarterback making his first start since Roger in nineteen sixty nine. That's

what here is. Come on now, Ceedee Lamb, first back to back one hundred plus yard receiver since Randall Cobb did it in twenty nineteen. It's also the first Cowboy to reach fifteen hundred yards in his first twenty three games of a career, so fastest to fifteen hundred. Nobody gave Zeke credit for reaching nine thousand, nine thousand scripts, the fastest ever and maybe the play of the game Boy not even yeah, not even made. But you can see the I'm not you're not stopping me. You can

see that, and he's like, you're not stopping me. Yeah, there's two guys there yards to gain after catching it on three not stopping me. Sorry, it wasn't even a second afftert just going through and that's what you've been

asking for from Zeke and he gave it to you. Um, I want to hear this story about Amari Cooper and Ceedee Lamb on that last play A yeah, I forgive me on sleep deprived, but I want to say they were in the huddle and they had a certain look they liked on the left side of the field, and it was kind of like me and Dave, I can take this story, this great story, Ondac if you want, no, I got I got it. And that that was the

same thing. It was like Ceede was like, you know you want me to line up over there because you know you're hurting a little bit. Hell no, no, And he said straight out like, you know, yeah, he tried to steal my touchdown. But that's how competitive we are. That's cool. That's the culture you're talking about. That's like, that's not negative. That's just guys wanting to eat and

wanting to make plays. You know, you know, I mean the visuals, the visuals of that drive was I mean Amari making the bobbling grab, I mean reeling that in for thirty three yards that put the Cowboys in the Minnesota territory. Then you see him a couple of plays later with a tennis ball on the sideline, rolling it out, I mean rolling out that hamstring, looking like, oh no, oh, Cooper's a little banged up. We'll see we're probably not going to see him again because of course there's only

a minute left in the ball game. And then you have the Zeke play where he comes up and he steps up and gets the third down to the leven converts on that keeps the drive alive. And then all of a sudden you see Coop at the top of the formation and they go to him that far aside, I can run a ten yard route, and he made it look easy. And that was hellable ball. It was hell of a ball, as great of a catch as it was. That was an incredible ball. That is exactly

how you draw it up. Is that how you practice it on Friday practices or whatever the heck they practice nowadays. That was absolutely perfect by Cooper Rush. He gave him a chance. That's what they always teach as a quarterback. Give your playmakers a chance. Put the ball where they can grab it. And that's exactively they Coop went up on that little one Hammy and snatched that thing like a dog on bowl of cereal, off the top of

his helmet and he got that. And I think there was the couple of throws before that where I don't know how Mark Cooper came down with that ball, the one that bobbled and hit another guy. I mean, when they say better be lucky than good, No, that was no. Look, that was I'm better than you. That was that was I am Coop. That was all. When I watched that plass, he said like, I'm Coop. I like, that's what I do. I came away just saying, how in the hell did he how because he's cool? How did he do it?

That's that's the separation plays. Those are the players to say what's a really good receiver and what's a great receiver. Those are the plays. That's what I'm talking about when I said they played for, they played for for Cooper Rush. Cooping Coop all right, that's what that's what I mean by that. That play right there, I'm cool, like, don't

don't question me, no question me. And he he said afterward, he told Cooper Rush that just if you got one on one matchups me and CD or whoever, just throw it up, like, give me a chance, we're gonna win. And that's what kind of Steven alluded to pre game, like we got confidence in Cooper Rush. We also got a ton of confidence in the guys around him. There's so much talent on this offense. If he just plays within himself, like you said, built some confidence throughout the game,

they could win this football game. If you, if you would have looked at the stat line prior to this game, said no, Dak Prescott and Dalton Schultz only has two grabs, like Darwin has no impact really in the passing game specifically, and Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard or for a combined seventy six yards on the ground, you'd probably say Cowboys are most likely going to lose that game. Cooper, Rush, CD or Cede Lamb, Amari Cooper, those three didn't allow

you to lose that game. I mean, and it's a testament to those three and what they were able to do. But I mean, Amari Cooper down the stretch was just as clutch as they come. I was surprised at how soft the coverage that Minnesota played. Yeah, I didn't really surprised. I mean, CD and Cooper were allowed to run routes unimpeded. I mean, these guys were running you know, twelve fourteen yard curls with nobody around him. I'm like, what the heck. I mean, I'm grateful, but I don't know what the

heck Minnesota's game plan was. I don't know what they came in. I would have anticipated them coming up, loading the box and pressing on the outside, but they literally just played soft shell coverage from majority of the game. And that's why we were allowed to march down the field a lot of times because these guys were running routes without anybody really on them. And I think they came out fully knowing that they had to stop Ezekiel Elliott,

and they sold out for that purpose. We got to stop Zeke and you saw a lot of that too. And when we've been doing the all twenty two, you know, they go a single safety high pretty much all the time and move Harrison to one hash or another. But they had loaded up. And I think that once the Neil Hunter went out of the game, and that was a big loss for them. And also with you know, having pat Patrick Peterson on I R, I think that the attrition of the game just started to take this back.

But you're right, they were playing so far off, man, they were playing so far off that it just became obvious to rush and catch. Oh okay, I'm just gonna throw it right over here. And he did that a bunch of times with lamb. A shout out to Ezekiel Ellie. Everybody understanding this, people, um, everybody talks about Zeke right and his ability to run or lack thereof this whatever. People have been saying the boys for fifth fasts in the history of the NFL. Let's get that, get that

out there on the table. This dude's ability to block is absolutely amazing. Is the most undervalued aspect of his game that nobody gets him credit for. He took a freaking beating out there, Ye deleted. He twice at least twice, yeah, right, at least twice trying to stop bar from coming through there trying to start. I mean, listen here, this dude took a beating. Now he's probably more sore today and tomorrow, right from him blocking for Cooper rushed and he was

running the ball. Guarantee you go back and watch the game and give that man dog On credit for putting his body on the line to protect Cooper rush. Everybody had a part in that, the one I think the second time he got just nailed. Yeah, it was tied to Seki in the game and he's chipping. He's the chip chip guy on the left side, and I think it was a pretty big play that they hit, but it was the last second block that opened it up. I also thought Tony Pollard gave him some dirty runs.

You mentioned that, and I asked McCarthy about the run game. He said, we were just trying to be persistent with it, you know, to try to get some balance for Coop and they only got three point three yards of carry. But it is those loaded boxes that they kept running into that got him in some manageable third third downs and kept it kept Cooper rush out of third and long for the most part. The other thing eleven or one of thirteen we mentioned the defense holding Minnesota at

bay from a third down standpoint. The Cowboys converted half of the downs. They went seven to fourteen. That's pretty impressive with a backup quarterback in there as well. And while we're talking about giving credit to the guys doing the dirty work, how about the offensive line. This is a Minnesota defense that tied for the lead in sacks entering the week twenty one. They had, of course Hunter, who had six sacks. He of course left the game.

Everson Griffin had four sacks and he certainly had his impact one of her. It's funny both of the sacks belonged to former Cowboys. It was Everson Griffin coming off the edge and then the other one was Xavier Woods on the safety blitz that forced the fumble. Both former Cowboys that forced the fumble or excuse me that that had a sack. But outside of that, there was nothing for that pass rush nothing. I gotta give credit to

Tyler Beyondish for catching that pass that purpose. No, it was a t It was a tip the line of scrimmage definitely, but get it off. But I'll tell you it was it was. It was, yeah, I catch it. I'm thinking it's a penalty. That was Bubba handoff right. He didn't show up on the receiver stat line at all. But still, man, that was a heads up play bo Beyond a guy that is definitely taking a lot of flag from Cowboy fans and everyone else. But obviously I

got Connor, got him a holding penalty. Keep it up, Connor, um, but you know he did. How do you guys, first of all, shout out to to Kellen Moore for the incorporation of Collins. How do you guys feel like Collins did fullback? I love it? Yeah, I mean it was good to just probably just get some reps, getting to feel the game again a little bit. That's probably thinking. I liked it with Conor McGovern when he was doing it.

When I saw Layou back there, I was like, oh, oh please, you know, no one trying and go with his legs to cut him down. That that's what I'm worried about because he's you know, he's a guy, he's vested. Um. But I mean we have so many wrinkles to this offense. I mean we shove was a wishbone come out Oklahoma. What's going on here? I mean, if we have to do it, we will do it on that one drive when we got down to the five yard line out

to end the game. But we end up throwing it to coop him like maybe this is an opportunity for them to bring in layout next to still Yeah, a big package and we do it coming because we had several of those pack just where it was like seven eight offensive linemen on the field. Yeah, we had a

lot of big packages. As much as we talk about all of our personnel in terms of receivers and all that, we had a lot of thirteen personnel last night, um with Jarwin, Schultz and Sprinkle, and we obviously had you know those sets where we had seven offensive linement in there with McGovern and Lyon and the backfield, I mean Kell the Moore. Now that boy mixing it up, getting created, mixing it up. It was in the bottom of his dog on Halloween bad that boy put out the bottom,

King size, Candy ball bottom. It was a mint from two years ago. Those don't go back the church mints. Zack Martin after they called those those heavy sets with multiple offensive linemen in there, the Hulk package like that, tressing it up as the whole man big time. I like that. Yeah, I like the call. That's so much for a defense to prepare for. They're going forward, right, That's so much for a defense. Sprinkle seven, you got prepared for seven offensive lineman, you got prepared for three.

Tighten you gotta prepare for eleven personnel. You gotta prepared. I mean, there's so much goes out wide. How much anxiety. How much anxiety did you guys have last night knowing that Dak wasn't playing a lot, I mean going into the game and recognizing that this team was on the role that man, everybody was ready to write up that story about how that was a let down and all of that, But I mean we sat here right when

we gave our projections. We gave our projections. Though the things that came out of my mouth, what exactly what I said is, I don't know how they do it, but they find a way. That that was my that was my thought, press, I don't know how they're doing. I did not. I will stand out here on top of this mountain and say I did not believe that Cooper Rush was gonna lead us. I felt like we were going to win somehow, but I did not think it was gonna be on the back of Cooper Rush.

So shout out to Cooper Rush. You impressed me. But I didn't know how it was gonna happen. So I wasn't that nervous, right. I didn't have high expectations for Rush, but I had a lot of expectations and Kelly Moore, right, but they both showed up. Yeah, I felt like our defense had to have the game of their lives and they did. And I just from a from a pressure perspective, I knew we had to move Cousins off his square and make him do some different things that passed the

feeling just looked too easy. At the beginning of the game, I was like, oh, wow, this is not the way we want to start a game. But little by little they started to clamp down and clamp down, and it just got to the point where you started to see Minnesota well. Kirk Cousins was second guessing everything. Dan Quinn had him confused, and he may not even admitted this

morning he didn't know what he was looking at. He was seeing ghosts because he was not putting that ball out there to Jefferson, and he was just reluctant to do it. Even when they had an opportunity to win the game. He still was still playing conservative because he thought, I'm gonna turn this ball over in this moment. Can I get out through one question mark there? I don't know. We're so positive to know, go for it. How do

we feel about our our kicking game? Yeah? I mean what he missed from forty three line early on, and that was part of that early like deflation deal. Um, I don't know what his stats are for the year. When he misses, he misses left. It's just a regular thing. I give him credit. He came back and was it was pretty true from then on. From then on, Um, it's not a big concern for me. But you go into it knowing he might miss one here from forty to forty nine. It's it's possible. You know, he's not.

He hasn't been completely money on this. Where's your confidence level from from on a scale to one to ten. Ummm, because we're gonna kicking will be important down the rule. We know, yeah, there's gonna be a game where we have to have have to have I feel way better about it than when they had Brett Moher in here just being a veteran guy. I mean, you know, like

a seven something like that. I I to your point, he's missed some kicks this season, so um but you know he's a vet So I think I think they feel better about it than they would another situation as they've had. The more you look at the overall stats, because I mean much like nights like last night, he was able to come back. If he misses a field goal, usually he comes cock and he recovers. But he's missed one from thirty to thirty nine, he's missed one from

forty to forty ninety's missed two from fifty plus. So he's missed four kicks all year long. And I mean two of those from fifty plus easy distance or yeah, two fifty plus two easy. He didn't give you the Adam Vinetarry vibe. You know, every time he lines up, you're just like, this could go. It's in good fifty fifty You know, so how do I feel about it? I meant about a five because I don't know one way or another, But I mean, I'm with you, though, Pete.

He'll miss one. It's almost like a gimme, all right, this is one he's about to miss, and then he'll come back and nail three of them. And you're like, it's not, no, it's not. It's just you just have to accept that this is gonna. He's our kicker, so for sure, they don't want to make it an event, but it is every time he lines up. All right, Well, we come back for the sixth time this year. It is smelly Sticker time Cowboys. Cowboys have won sixth Great Day or six and one, and we hand out our

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stash in the back getting the job done. Chris Beam is on his way back from the game last night, so he didn't have the private jet a bill he pulled a huh okay, let's not say that. I'm not that bad. Nah, that was too much out of there soon, Chris's not all right. Let's make it back from that. Yeah, let's get out of there, all right. Rob Phillips, smelly sticker time. Who you got, I've got, I've got missus

Pineapple for one. Cooper Rusher Rush, who had his whole family and attendance for the Gale was awesome, so cool knowing he had a chance to play and they had they they was rubbing on that jersey. Well for good luck. Yeah's watched it nothing they are rubbing on it. How about this stat from NFL research, The Cooper Rush to Amari Cooper TD is the first in NFL history where the passer's first name and receiver's last name are an exact match. So we've said everything we could say about

Cooper Rush. I just want threat for everything. If I did that last year with Andy Dalton to Dalton Schultz, but you know you, oh yeah, um, but because it would be the pastor's name to a pastor's last name to receiver's first name. This one was pastor first name. Right, But you got a hamburger, hamburger again this right here? Sprinkle donut. You know why I'm picking a sprinkle donut? Why because that boy, Michael Parsons was sprinkling all over

the field yesterday. Quarterback. Sprinkle at the second level, he said, given sprinkle at dB sprinkles he was. He was quite sweet, sweet all game long. All right? Heck one, Well, I tell you what. I got a blueberry here, and everybody knows when my wife knows, I really don't like blueberries, but I've learned about the health benefits of blueberries and antioxidants. Yeah, so I'm gonna give my blueberry smelly sticker to one Cedric will young sage. Get that boy and on that throw.

It didn't look cute at first, but you made it happened. I'll say it. I got to I love that all together, all three of you guys with great one so far. And this is hard because now I've got to choose one other person because we could give out the entire smelly sticker or today I mean, anybody could have done it, but just because of how gutsy that last drive was, how gutsy of a game this was overall, And because

of that, I'm taking a lemon. Because he squeezed every ounce of effort he possibly could out of the win. I'm giving it to Amari Cooper. It is a MARII Cooper with the game winning touchdown, a thirty three yard bobbling grab at the end, and he's got the smelly sticker for squeezing out a win on the road against the Minnesota. But we have a ghost sticker this time? Can we like, could we play like a ghost? Vote

miss being edals Halloween? We can we just just just collect of us collect I'd like to put my put a name in the hatting. Okay, all right, I don't have a ghost, but no, no, just a ghost is picking right for Chris who's here in spirit today, he'll be best. Yeah, I believe dan Quinn deserves a smelly sticker. M a ghost sticker? A ghost? What does that smell like? I don't know, probably Lenny cleaning fresh? What a one

for thirteen on third down? Yeah? That was not just the players, So all in agreements of dan Quinn getting an extra smelly sticker. I'm there. We will add one more. We'll find it. We'll find whatever relates the best to Halloween out of the sticker arsenal. But that's it for us here on Talking Cowboys. So glad you've been with us celebrating a twenty to sixteen win over the Minnesota Vikings, and we will be back tomorrow nine am Central time.

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