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COWBOYS SQUAD SHOW: POST-GAME reaction after the Cowboys comeback win over the Eagles
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COWBOYS SQUAD SHOW: The Cowboys came back from 21-0 down to STUN the Eagles 24-21.
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Jeff Biggs
I'm Jeff Biggs, host of the Cowboys squad show. I'm not going to go Jimmy Johnson. But that was a Cowboys comeback.
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Aisha Morrison
I'm Aisha Morrison and I'm lit right now, y'.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
All.
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Aisha Morrison
I gonna lie, I'm lit right now. I was acting a fool in my house. So what a big win for the Cowboys. Yeah, let's talk about it.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Glenn Stretch Smith. I've never barked so much at my TV in my entire life.
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Aisha Morrison
How about them Cowboys? It's the Cowboy squad. Everything Dallas Cowboys every week covering all the big hits and game changing plays from America's team the way only the Locked on podcast network can get ready and squad up. It's the Cowboys Squad show starting now.
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Jeff Biggs
Well, on the day that Dak Prescott became the Cowboys all time leading passer, the Cowboys responded with one of their greatest comebacks ever. At least in recent memory. For sure I don't know the other wins, but this one was pretty a true Philly special for the Cowboys. Down 21 to nothing, they scored 24 and unanswered points to stun the defending super bowl champs and win the rematch. 24, 21. And oh by the way, the defense made eight straight stops to end the game. The Eagles were completely shut out in the second half. What a win for the Cowboys and what a time for us here on the the Cowboys Squad show. I'm Jeff Biggs joined as always by the one and only Aisha Morrison. That's with two eyes and former Cowboys coach Glenn Stretch Smith. By the way, this episode is brought to you by and sponsored by Prize Picks. Download the Prize Picks app today. Use code lock on NFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first five dollar lineup. Aisha, take it away.
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Aisha Morrison
I'm trying to contain myself because that was a wild game, the sequence of fumbles. I mean Dallas being at their two and not being able to get into the end zone. Obviously Phillies offense has a capability to be really explosive and then really just be non existent. And so coming out they have. I really thought that if Dallas could get stops that they could get in a rhythm. So for me I think that this is a huge momentum when we know what Philly's offense, well defense is and the Dallas offense was able to you know, drive down the field. But the defense is the story of the day. I mean we've given this defense so much crap but this last two weeks they've shown improvement and so I think that's the big story. I bet you coach feels the same as the offense was good but the defense is really what kept you in this game when you weren't getting anything done offensively.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, we, we, we, we wanted and have wanted to see the, the defense. I, I said it last week, I want to see him make the next stride. I wanted to see him come on and, and do some things that quite frankly I hadn't seen them do. And guess what they did that. I mean they got, they got, they got a strip turnover, they got some sacks in critical situations. I'm gonna tell you something, they think that, I mean they think the trade that, that brought the big man in here has really solidified their defense. Let me tell you who it's helped. OSA OSA is the one that's benefited the most because guess what, OSA is now getting singled some. You got the two big guys playing in against their three interior guys. Now all of a sudden we didn't hear anything from OSA early in the year. Guess what? Because they were double teaming him. He was the guy that was, that was getting hammered on. Now he's getting some single situations and so what, what, what a blessing it is. And he's got to be thinking, you know, his, his stars. Because guess what? He's the guy that's benefiting the most. And he got there in the most timely and critical fashion of the football game to get the sack and force the punt when the Eagles were moving it right there. So that, that, to me, that's the story of a really, really crazy. Here we go again with guys gambling with credit cards and just, just craziness going on in the football game that I, you're, you know, I don't care about. I mean all that analytical stuff. I think there's a, I think it matters in a portion. A portion. Let me say it again, a very small portion. But I, I'm not going to put a lion share on that because that I. Look, when you're looking at the game and now you go back and you say, okay, if you believe your defense was going to take the strides that they were going to take from the first game to the second game, then you should have had enough confidence to punt the damn football on the very first drive. You should have pinned them back on the very first drive. Yeah. So I just think there's some things that the Cowboys and the head coach in specific, he, he needs to rethink how he manages the football game because his defense is for real.
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Aisha Morrison
Oh yeah, I agree. I mean, I think the last couple weeks, obviously you go up against the Raiders, a lot of people have a lot of opinions about what that Raiders offense is. And what we know it is too is like. And we know it. But you can go, you could have went away from that game and said, okay, these are the improvements that this defense has made and you could see it on the field today. I mean, you mentioned OSA not being double teamed as much. I think your linebackers have also benefited from Quinton Williams being back. They're doing this still rotation thing with Logan, Wilson and Murray. I'm not a huge fan, but Overshone made some key tackles, some key tackles in this game when Philly was trying to. Later in this game when Philly was trying to kind of get in a rhythm. They, Dallas really struggled to defend the flats today, but when over shown was out there, there wasn't a lot of guys were tackled where they were supposed to be. And I think that is also to your point about osa. I also think the linebackers are benefiting from Quinton Williams being on this field.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, yeah. I mean, because you don't see guards and centers getting normal second level blocks because guess what, they're having to take care of the interior line. So, and it's a good point. I, and, and they should be making those plays when you're not, when you're unblocked. If you're, if you're in a national football league, you should be making plays. So I, I, I agree. They're, they're more productive because the big guys inside are, are, are, are, are, are a wrecking havoc. And I'mma tell you something, I, I mean there's about two or three plays that I point to in this football game and you go, man, is that, is that what you want to see? That's a very infectious part of what's going on here. And, and it's starting to happen now that, you know, guys clowning, chasing the crap out of the football to get hurts, pushed out of bounds. I mean all of that stuff is infectious. Even though they didn't score on the big, on Clark's big where he, I mean he got the crap beat out of him and he just kept going. And so all of that kind of stuff you want to see be infectious with your football team. And that's how you start to get, and start to feel better. And all of a sudden you guys hear me say it all the time. Jeff, on the, on the, on the other show, you know, the needle's either pointing up or it's pointing down. All of a sudden they kind of fought through it all today to get the needle point in the right direction and, and that's what you want.
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Aisha Morrison
I, I agree with your point as well. And I don't know Jeff, if he felt the same way. The head coach made some, some. Again, I'm very careful with how I talk about coaches because I understand that that is an element that I have never touched or experienced. So I'm gonna go off of what, you know, Coach Smith said, but for me, some of the decision making in this game from the, from the play caller was insane. Like some of it was just, I was questioning it. I mean you throw three times on the two, obviously going forward early in the game, the tight, the timeout usage at times continuing to run on second and 10. And you see that you're not getting positive yardage from it. There was just instances in this game where I thought that Brian Schottenheimer had some issues. Now, one thing that I do want to bring up, though, is that this is one of the games that's played. We talked about this last week, gentlemen. What is it? Four games in 12 days? You know, I feel like. Yeah, so I feel like you can't. From my understanding you, it's harder to prepare for all those teams at one time. You have to kind of roll in some of your play some of your plan into the next game. And so I think it took Dallas a while offensively to understand to like, play Philly, if that makes sense. Like, to play Philly, like play Philly with their additions and their stuff. I wonder if that has any, you know, bearing. But that's just my thoughts. I think that the, the, the game plan did not seem tailored in the beginning of the game to a Philadelphia offense. I mean, defense. Does it make sense on the offensive side of the ball?
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I mean, you know, I'm, I'm not a fan of putting the smallest young man on your football team at running back. I wasn't a fan when you put CD Lamb running back and got him hurt. I, I get it. There's some things that you want to do to get those guys the football on the perimeter. But I mean, Philadelphia is a big, rough ass, tough front. I'm not sure I want to be running and this is nothing to, it's nothing against Kevonte. I'm not sure I want to be running him in between the tackles. So the one thing you won't hear me do ever is, is a question play calling. Because I think it's the toughest and it's, it's the toughest thing to do in time. It's the easiest thing to do posttime. But what I am going to, what I am going to question is the fact that game management, how you manage the football game, the fact that they didn't challenge. I think it is challengeable on that first block punt. I mean, that should have been huge. That should have been challenged. Right? That should have been challenged in that situation. Just like they should have punted the football to start the football game. And in the last drive, when your star receiver is questioning, you should have kicked the field goal to go up three and show that you have confidence in your defense. That, that mean you, you're, you're you're the leader of the football team. Go show that you have, go put it on your defense. You kick the field goal right there and say, man, it's on you now. Now it's on you. We, we, we, we. Hey, we didn't get it done offensively and now, you know, and challenge guys that I thought that's what he was doing was always wanting to be in a competitive situation. What's non competitive when you, when you, I mean, it's just again, recklessly gambling. I, I, I don't like that part of managing the football game.
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Aisha Morrison
I mean, yeah, I mean, the, the, the miss on that tipped, tipped punt by Ryan Flournoy was huge. And even the announcers didn't see it at first. And, and so I understand that officials make mistakes. You know, maybe they don't see everything all the time. There's people upstairs for that. That's right.
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Jeff Biggs
They get paid to do that.
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Aisha Morrison
They, so you can't miss something like that because that was a momentum swinging play. I, I, and I could be wrong.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
He touched it, right?
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, he did, he did come off the field saying I touched.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Well, that's what I'm saying. You got to have the conf player to listen to him. And I get it. They said they couldn't see the, I don't mean to interrupt you, but they said they couldn't see, they didn't see the replay. Sometimes it's, it doesn't happen quick like that. Well, well, now you, you, you got to shift gears and you got to have, you know, you got to have confidence in your player.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, sorry I had to sneeze.
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Aisha Morrison
But, but I would, I would say I, I'm not, I don't know if I'm correct. I gotta go check that. I saw someone tweet that Brian Schottenheimer has not challenged to play all year. And if I'm searching my brain trying to remember if he has indeed not challenged anything all year, I mean, I'm gonna go dig right now, but that is, that would be ins, that would be crazy. Now, not saying that there just has been a lot of challenges, challengeable plays, but that's something we see in the NFL. It's something that we see. You know, coaches, sometimes they'll do it and be confident, and even if we all are seeing it's not right, but it shows confidence in your team at times and what they're doing. So I, I, I was, I was really upset, y'. All. I was really upset by some of the decision making today. And they were able to overcome it, but that stuff that just can't continue. What you got, Jeff?
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Jeff Biggs
Well, I'll tell you what, I mean, what a wild, just incredible game. I mean, it was a marathon from the Philly first half to everything that went down in, in the second half. And coach said he was yelling at his tv as was I. And maybe, you know, and you too, maybe I'm not going to question the play caller, but I think you can question some of the plays that were called and some of the execution. And to your point, Aisha, my big thing was you get, you get the fumble from Barkley, his first of the season, then you get the punt fumble after both of those, you have to score. When you're that close, you have to score. I mean, to your point, they were fortunate that the defense bailed them out, got the ball back, and they were able to kick the winning field goal. But I'm sorry, I'm not being captain obvious here, but you have to, you have to come up with a play, better play design that you have. Like, this is our go to play. We're going to score no matter what. Like it just Dak running, running backwards is just not, not acceptable. And I hope it's something that they'll learn and grow from. But I mean that, that could, if it would have played out where they didn't score and the Eagles came down, which you know that they're as challenged as they've been offensively. They're still, they were 8 and 2 and they still find ways to grind out wins and win and get points when they had to. They didn't today. And that's a. Just a huge testament to the Cowboys defense. But then aside from that, I mean, the Cowboys offense, it's. They, they gotta, they gotta do better. That can't happen.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
What I'm going to tell you too is the second half, that where, where the first half, it wasn't going their way. The second half, Dallas was knocking the out of them.
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Aisha Morrison
They were very physical. They were very physical.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I'm too old to sit here and say, you know, boo, boo or whatever. They knocked their ass off.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, they did.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
That's what to me, that, that's what I'm talking about now. I mean, the players are bought in and the head coach has got the one thing he's got to do from a head coaching standpoint and you have to hope that he learns from this because this is first time it's being a head coach. Got to have your finger on the pulse of Your football team. You have to know the pulse of your team and learn from the pulse of your football team.
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Jeff Biggs
Y.
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Aisha Morrison
No, I agree. I felt like, like you said, I mean offensively now I feel you got some guys too. So that's going to show up. You know, guys are going to make plays on their end. But a lot of Dallas's issues were execution. It was pre snap penalties and holds in the red zone, which they've had issues with false starts in the red zone, things like that.
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Jeff Biggs
I mean, I mean, CD drops.
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Aisha Morrison
Seven drops from CD Lamb today. Inexcusable. I know that he made the big play, the big 50 yarder down the field. It was huge in that moment in the game. Love it, appreciate it. But his lack of focus almost hurts you again in this game. And so for me, I, again, I'm glad that they pulled out the win. They figured some things out. And I agree with you, coach. At the beginning of that game, I thought that Dallas's offensive line was getting beat off the line of scrimmage. I thought that Phys f. Physically, Philly was really giving them trouble. They weren't. They were really putting a dent in the front of that interior of the Dallas offensive line. And I, I felt like Dallas, I mean, I felt like Dak was a little bit rushed. Obviously they weren't getting much out of the run. The run game. But I did like that Brian Schottenheimer stuck to it. Even though they were down in this game, they continued to run the ball. And when you start getting into that fourth quarter to your point, coach, you can see that those Javante Williams runs were getting a little bit longer. Guys did not want to tackle. As a matter of fact, they had guys going on the sidelines, huffing, puffing. Oh, my arm. I need you to check like they. To your point, coach. They started out, physically out physicaling them about midway through the third. And that's when I really thought Dallas had a chance to win this game. When I started seeing those guys on that other side, kind of seemed like they were a little unsure. I was like, okay, Dallas needs to take advantage right now and jump on them and really take it to them and take this game.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, I mean, I mean, you know, the, the questionable calls in the first half, that's where you, you know, you, you have to understand, hey, hey, the football gods will even it out. And you know what? They did even it out because there were some questionable calls in the second half. I thought on the other side, I, I did believe though defensively, I, I just and how we started this segment, defensively, they put their stamp on the fact that, you know what, We're a different defense. Okay, you guys can. Aisha, you talked about it and everybody has, hey, the Raiders are not very good. I got beat by the Browns today. Hey, at the end of the day, you, you can say, okay, we beat the. We beat the worst team. And now we've arguably gone out and beat the best team in the National Football League.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah. I mean, and defending the run today, I mean, only allowing saquon to have 10 carries for 22 yards, only average about 2 yards, 2 yards of carry. I mean, that's nothing to snuff at. You know, like you said, it was all hats to the ball. The defense, to me, set the tone. I thought the defense set the tone. You know, despite the fact that the offense was reeling, the defense kept that score 21 to 0, truly through this game.
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Jeff Biggs
And so eight stops, I mean, that's incredible. Eight straight. That's unbelievable with it.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, no, I mean, I, I agree. I felt like, you know, obviously the linebacker play was. But I've been saying for the last couple weeks that I do like the edges that you have, that Donovan is a rock who sound against the run. Obviously. Jadevion Clowney, Coach, you mentioned it, I don't know, maybe three, four weeks ago that you could tell on film that Jadevion Clowney was starting to get his legs under him. You were seeing that he was, he, you know, he was conditioned for the game and you've seen him show up in the run efficiently. You know, this. And, and Dallas, I thought that Dallas, even though Philly isn't doing the RPO game as much, they played it pretty well today. You know, Jaylen Herz killed them on the ground in game one. Gave. They gave up about three first downs to Jaylen Herz with his legs. I thought that they handled contained. I thought they contained pretty well in this game. And so to your point, coach, they're just playing more disciplined, sound football. They look like a unit that's starting to get what's being asked of them. And, you know, I thought that, I thought that this was probably their best outing of the season.
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Jeff Biggs
Oh, no doubt. Absolutely 100%. I mean, that was awesome for, like you said, for all the criticism that we've handed out, big time praise for their effort today. That was tremendous. They were awesome. All right, we're going to take our first time out. When we come back, got to talk more about. Talk about the offense a little bit. Big day for Dak and and man, George Pickens is just an absolute beast. We'll get into that. Cowboys beat the Eagles this is the Cowboys squad show.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
You got a big old Kool Aid grin on. You look like you're in the first car of the runaway mine train yucking it up.
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Jeff Biggs
Hey, you know what?
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Aisha Morrison
Hey, hey, hey.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
We, we.
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Aisha Morrison
We can be political. I don't like Philly. I mean, listen, we, we can, we can do the, you know, analyst talk and all that stuff I don't like Philly. I am happy to see them go down.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
All right, I'm gonna go ahead and tell you this. Of all the places I've been and all the. It is without. I'm not gonna say it.
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Aisha Morrison
Yo. No, you can't say it.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I mean, the thought. The thought of flying over that Schuylkill river and going into that airport's enough to just. Just. It just makes it crazy.
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Aisha Morrison
I hope Autumn Philly fans that was in there yelling all out, because that was another thing, gentlemen. Yeah, I. It was. I know it's a lot of Philly fans in Dallas. It was loud in there, and there was points at time where Dallas was on the field, and I said.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
What'S.
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Aisha Morrison
Going on right now? I wonder if they had to change up their cadence. I wonder if they even had to go to any silent counts at any point. It was that loud in there when Philly was playing. Well, so for me, I don't care. I hope they all with their green jerseys, walked out all sad and went back to, you know, wherever they came from.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
You're. You're too nice and sweet to be. To be. To be. To be throwing bad vibes on folks.
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Aisha Morrison
Hey, y' all know me. I was in the military for eight years. You think I'm nice, but I. I.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Know what you're on this show. I know that rough side. We don't want that rough side.
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Aisha Morrison
Not when it comes to Philly. Not when it comes to Philly. What you got, Jeff?
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Jeff Biggs
Hey, I'll tell you what. I mean, objectively speaking. I mean, think about it the other way. Think about it. If you're the Eagles, I mean, you're up 21 to nothing, and the Dallas Cowboys defense stopped you eight straight times, and you didn't score at all in the second half. I mean, that. That's. I'll tell you. I mean, like, I'm not. I'm not trying to. To overhype it, but, I mean, this team coming in was 8 and 2 before this loss today. And as the defending champs, I mean, they. They would find ways to win. Even though their offense has been criticized and hasn't been clicking like it was a year ago, they still, as the defending champs, would step up when they needed to and score when they needed to, to win. And they didn't do that today. I mean, the Cowboys earned. The Cowboys ripped their heart out. The Cowboys came back not only from 21 nothing, but they came back and they beat them. Yeah, that's. That's impressive for this group. And all that they've been through.
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Aisha Morrison
Oh, go. Sorry, Jeff. Sorry, Jeff.
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Jeff Biggs
Well, that's all. Yeah, I'm just, I'm happy for that. You know, I, I, I'm a big, I, I appreciate hard work and dedication and attention to details and heart and passion. And to see all those play out and for them to come back and win today, they, they deserve the praise.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah. I'm gonna turn on Philly radio this week and listen to it so I can go to sleep. I'm sure, I'm sure they are really stressed out over there, but. No, I agree. That was something coming into this game. And like I said, coming into the half, one thing about Philly's offense, and they have been like this for years now, is that they can be very sporadic before and after the half. I, the numbers were stifling even in the years that they've gone to championships is that they, they'll lay it on thick and then they'll take a quarter off or they'll lay it on thick or they're, or they'll, they'll come out heavy and then they won't score anymore. And so that was something that I thought could come into play for Dallas in this game, is that this offense for Philly has, has situations where, where they fall asleep at the wheel. How was Dallas going to take advantage of it? And they were able to today. So, I mean, Jeff, to your point, I'm sure that they are struggling over there. I'm sure that they're trying to figure, find some answers. A.J. brown came out, had a hot start. We didn't see him at all for the rest of the game, for real. So again, you know, I'm sure they're looking for answers and maybe they're walking away from this game to your point, Jeff, saying, you know, they, maybe they underestimated the Dallas defense. Maybe they are. Maybe there were some things that Dallas showed them that they had didn't see on film yet. You know, this unit has had a lot of new pieces fall into it in the last two weeks. So you have to consider that maybe for an offense that they're seeing faces they haven't seen, they're seeing faces that they haven't seen in, in years at this point, new faces. And yeah, it wasn't really anything that I didn't see on film. Landon Dickerson struggled one on one with Oso Diggy Zu to coach's point, interior of that offensive line, had his time, so. Oh, well.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
And again, I get it. I mean, Lane Johnson was out with A list. Huge.
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Aisha Morrison
Huge.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
You know what, Dallas? Those are things you can't control. And it was just. To me, it was very refreshing to see a. A defense that looks like they are truly. They've got it. There's a different vibe, there's a different energy with what's going on. I mean, even flutes get wound up on the sidelines. I mean, all of those things are. Are good. And I think there's some. I think there could be something brewing. And you want to see it. I'll say it right now. It needs to carry over to Thursday. This win needs to carry over to Thursday.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, no doubt.
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I mean, especially how they played on the defensive side.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, well, and to your point, I mean, let's not sugarcoat it. You guys brought it up at the beginning, but, I mean, they lose this game, if they lose this game, the Cowboys, I mean, it's over. I mean, O V E R. And if they would have lost today, they would. Would have been 4, 6 and 1.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
We would.
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Jeff Biggs
We would have. We'd be nitpicking a bunch of different things from this game. But defense stepped up, set the tone like you said, and they found a way to get the win. And now it's about building, like you said, building on this. Keep the momentum going and. And fight. And, you know, for this offense that. I mean, George Pickens, I mean, every week, the guy. He was already good at the start of the season, but I mean, every week he's like a man amongst boys. I mean, it's incredible. And I don't think we've even seen him really go off. I mean, he's had big games, but we haven't seen him, like, completely take over a game, which I think he could, if they wanted to. If they wanted to. To set him up for that.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah. Awesome.
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Jeff Biggs
Awesome.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, awesome game from him. They threw the ball to him nine times today. He caught them all. On the inverse. We saw the other side of it today, but, I mean, the average. The man averaged like 16 yards of catch today, 146 yards on the day. He's just. He's a. I think he's a matchup nightmare because he's unpredictable. He's very unpredictable. You. You'll even catch him on film sometimes where, you know, kind of that idea that he kind of can get a little lackadaisical at times. And I know you've seen it, coach, on film. There's. I think it catches defensive. I think it catches DBs off. You know, I get. Catches them when he just Turns it on. Because there's times that you'll be watching him throughout the film. You see him kind of jogging, see him kind of yarn, you know, just. But then when he's like, hey, no, I'm gonna go beat you, I think his feet are faster than what people think. He's very good out of his releases, obviously, the strong hands and concentration, and he's just been a really reliable player for Dak Prescott. I think that their connection is huge. And I tweeted out, you know, just to pay him whatever he wants. And I might throw in a couple dollars. Y' all got a couple. You got about $3. So we can, you know, send it to the Cowboys for George Pickens.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
You know, my. My question is, is the way that George Pickens.
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Aisha Morrison
Oh, here you go.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Playing. Is that. Is that moving the other guy in. In the different direction? I. I don't know, but I'm gonna ask it because I do think that his CD sideline language, I don't like. I don't like his body language. I don't. There's. There's something about it, and I don't give a whiskey crap if he goes in there tomorrow and talks about catching 1500 balls out of the jugs machine. That doesn't mean. That doesn't mean anything to me. What I want to see is the. I. I want to see him embrace the fact that he's got somebody to take the pressure off of him. And it doesn't feel like he's embracing that. It does not.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, that was something coming into this season, you know, that everybody was kind of worried about. And what I thought, you know, they are actually friends. Like, they're friends. Like when they got in trouble last week.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, they were together.
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Aisha Morrison
It was together, you know, So I thought that their friendship would help with some of those emotions. You know, maybe you have a big game. I don't have a big game, all that stuff. But now, just looking at cd and to your point, I wonder if, you know, him not being involved the same way is impeding on kind of what they want to do. I am a bit concerned because I agree with you, coach. I felt like CDs body language was kind of weird. He had a bit of an attitude on the sidelines and stuff. The body language in the game where he has these drops and he's just kind of throwing up his arms and stuff like that. And again, you see the other guy on the other side not dropping anything, you know, So I would hope that, like you said, coach, that CD Having Pickens would kind of amplify his play. But today it just felt like, you know, he wasn't as focused as you would think he would be in a big game like this. And this happened last time against Philly as well.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah. And, you know, I. I thought, you know, I'm gonna give a lot of credit to this offensive line. I mean, I thought this offensive line now is starting to gel a little bit together too. Now they had to put Nate. The game late in the game, or I guess it was. I'm gonna look. I'm trying to find.
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Aisha Morrison
It was. It was. It was a. I think I might have been.
- [35:28]
Glenn Stretch Smith
And in the third quarter, mid and third quarter right there. And, you know, he got. He got beat a time or two, but, I mean, Javante was right there to help him clean it up a couple times. And so Javante Williams, to me, is a complete football player. We talk about George Pickens being a complete football player. Javante Williams is a complete football player. I. I love how physical he is. And I know there were a couple of times where you said, well, he. You know, he got. He got knocked back into the quarterback. Let me tell you something. That linebacker's out waning probably 35 pounds. It's gonna get knocked back in there. But it was an attitude that he went in there with to stick his face in there. And to me, that. That those are the kind of things, again, you're looking for the infectious moments in your football team. You're looking for things to highlight. You're looking for tomorrow when you go into the meeting. And I don't know how much of the film they'll watch, because you got to turn the page and go right now to Kansas City. But I'd be pulling out four or five or six plays, and one or two of them would be Javante and what he did. I think that that's the other thing that I got frustrated with was after that, after they fumbled that punt, they got it inside the, what, seven or eight right there, and they ran it with Javante to the one, and I'm like, feed him again right there.
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Aisha Morrison
Right.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Then they run the boot out the back door. And I'm like, oh, God. And then they threw it on third, and then they did. And it's like. And then they. You can't. About the time you thought they played the ace of spades in this game, hell, they played it again going forward on fourth down. You're like, oh, I mean. I mean, I'm telling you, I. I don't Ever bark at the TV because it ain't nobody listening, nobody can hear it. And then, you know, my son was gone. So thank God he wasn't here because I said some words that make a sailor blush, but you just can't continue to, to just trump dumb decisions. But I'm, I'm getting off of what I'm saying. And the point I'm making is, is that you should have fed Javante and you, you had an opportunity right there to flat ass impose your will on the two yard line. I can tell you what Philadelphia would have done it for from, from the two. And so every other sterno bum in Fort Worth, they told you they were going to run the tush push and you know what? You weren't going to stop it. You gotta, you gotta have a little bit of that mindset too.
- [37:57]
Aisha Morrison
I agree. And to that point, to your point, Coach, they had start like the run game had started opening up, especially on, on the interior. Like some of those interior runs by Javante, those guys were getting slower. Like you were seeing was a safety having to tackle him. That linebacker was getting washed out a little bit. Like they barely getting him by his ankles, you know, like. So I was surprised. But to your point about Javante Williams, he's been awesome. He's been fantastic, especially with little relief. You know, Dallas hasn't really, we saw Malik Davis come in and have a couple explosive plays, but Dallas hasn't really been able to establish a number two running back. And so for him to be still running the ball this efficiently at this point point in the season, I think is a testament to how he takes care of his body, how he recovers, how seriously he takes treatment, things like that and him just being a tough dude. To your point about the past protection, that's something that Dallas I think has lacked. And if you look at some of those big plays by deck in those in the fourth quarter, Javante was the reason why he was able to get those passes off, you know, so.
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Jeff Biggs
That's right.
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Aisha Morrison
I agree. I thought that, I thought that the run game like we talked about and coach mentioned that this offensive line was able to start really moving those guys off the ball more as the game went on. And then you talk about, you know, toughness. I thought that Jake Ferguson had a good game as well. It wasn't pretty all the time. Obviously he had the fumble that was lost out of bounds. That made us all stressed out. But he made some big catches in this game, especially in the third and fourth quarter. And I felt like the effort from the tight ends. Also too on the blocking game. Brevin Span for with his first touchdown today, he finally gets rewarded for doing so much dirty work. He is ranked as the number one tight end blocking tight end in the NFL right now and it shows. So I thought your tight ends did some good things in spots that helped out your offense and also too, they helped out in the run game as well.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah. All right. Span. Ford's a heck of a player too and on the special team, so it's good to see him get a touchdown catch. We gonna take another break here?
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Yes, we are. Right now. Not now, but right now.
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Aisha Morrison
Played a hell of a game today. We talk about the offense come you talking about the team coming back. I mean the defense held in there but the quarterback did too. That again, that Philly defense is not nothing to snuff at. And he stood in there, made some big throws under pressure, obviously got the run, the touchdown run where he somersaulted in that old school deck there. I thought that his poise kind of, you know, went throughout the, throughout the offense today. But also too, I mean you guys were just talking about Pickens. They're locked in, they're locked into each other and that came up big in this game. But as far as Dak and his accomplishments, he's been a good quarterback for a good amount of time and I'm glad that everybody else is starting to get to see it a little bit more. That's my thoughts on it.
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Jeff Biggs
Okay.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, I mean I, you know, I think he's, I think he is a, he's efficient in a lot of ways that he does some things at times that, that I, I don't like. I think he, he presses at times and it, and it frustrates me. But I do think that as you see in the last, probably since the, the Mike McCarthy era, I mean I do think he's, he's grown As a, as, as an NFL quarterback. And you think, you say, well, he got, he got pushed into, you know, he got pushed into service really early, and he did. And I thought he kind of went through a little bit of a real, almost a stagnant time right there when, when he was with Jason Garrett and they were doing some things, he would do some things that would just, you know, would just really puzzle you when you were trying to look at him on film. But I've seen a quarterback that's continued to take strides, and I think that, that, I think that if he will continue to do that, I think that's a good thing here. Here's the other thing for me, and I'm, again, I don't go out there. I don't want to. I want to see from afar, and I want, I want my eyes to judge. I mean, I think he. With Micah being gone now, he is a leader of this football team. He is the sole leader in this football team. And it looks to me like he, he's embracing that role.
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Aisha Morrison
I don't know if he ever stopped being, you know, the leader of the. Because, because as somebody that is physically here, I'm not sure that there was ever, like a real belief that Michael Parsons was the leader of this team. It's. To me, it's always been Dak Prescott. But to your point, with him out of the room, then it really just, you know, puts Dak back into that forefront. And I, but one thing I will say about Dak Prescott is that for all the people that think that quarterbacks can't develop, this is a fourth round quarterback that has been through multiple regimes, multiple coaches, multiple things, and he has done nothing but develop into, to your point, coach, an efficient, good quarterback that can get it done for you in the game. So I think him and Shotty together has been pretty good. They have their moments. They have their moments. But I, I'm happy with the quarterback play despite some of the, the weird fluky stuff that happened today too. That was the fluky stuff. To coach, his point, you know, there's times where you, you look at Dak and you just like, well, you didn't have to force that in there. That wasn't necessary. Some of the decisions sometimes. But all in all, I thought he put together a good game and he really had to rally those guys to get them to this win.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I think it feels like two that he's. He's minimized those times where it feels like he gets a brain fart. I mean, like he's yeah.
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Aisha Morrison
No, I agree, I agree. He does have brain fart moments where you're just like, hey now why would you do that? Necessary. No, seriously. And I think he does have times where he's just like effort and he just throws the ball up and you just. So, I mean, I agree with you, coach. I think he has minimized those things in this Brian Schottenheimer offense.
- [47:35]
Jeff Biggs
Yeah. And to that, to your both, both of your points, you kind of get the feeling as we get look ahead for the Thanksgiving matchup for week 13 and that is this offense is still developing. I mean we've seen all kinds of glimpses of different phases, but doesn't feel to me like they've still quite, quite hit their stride, that there's still going to be room for growth. I mean, to coach's point, I think with, I mean Javante, he can literally, it seems like every time he touches the ball he gets at least five yards for the most part. So they could use that club. You see the chemistry with Pickens. I know they're going to want to try to get CD right and help him with his confidence, but you got the tight ends, I mean, and Dak, what he does just by himself, whether he's running or whatever he's doing to keep the offense moving, but doesn't feel like they've hit their peak. And so this next stretch of games with the defense kind of finding their identity and with the star potential with this offense, curious to see if they're going to be able to come together as a team and get better, to finish the season, make a playoff run.
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Aisha Morrison
Do you feel like that, coach? You feel like they haven't put it all together yet?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Well, I mean, I, I think there are some guys that, that a lot. Excuse me. There are more than a handful of guys that are trending to, to getting better. We talked about span forward, we talked about Booker. I continue to talk about Smith inside bb. I think those guys, I think Javante is a true, what I would consider, he is a true blue collar back. I mean he is a tough back. I wish that, that that blue would embrace his role a little more. But I'm not sure because they need that guy that can hit the home run. They need that guy that can, you know, hit it in there for 40. But I do like offensively, I like where this group feels like they're able to respond to adversity. You can't get much more adverse than being down nothing. Him throwing a really bad interception.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
You know, doing some things that you just, you know, they, they have the penalty down there and you're just like, God, leave. He was able to. I mean, they're able to overcome that. And so that tells me from a maturation standpoint that. That he has other guys on the offense buying into what he believes.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, I like that. Well, it's going to be interesting to see how they handle Thursday. And then, I mean, this is it. I mean, this is the time of the season. This is winning time. As Magic used to say, this is. This is the time to step up. And if, if they would have lost, season would have been over. But now, you know, they're. They're still in it. Without a doubt. They're absolutely in it with who they have ahead of them to play. And the fact that they've won two in a row, the fact that we've seen their defense improve the way that they have, it's pretty cool. I mean, it's, it's. It's nice to see as the season has gone on.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah. And most people say this is the time. I mean, I, again, we know Dallas and do themselves any favors with some of the loss earliers. The loss, the losses earlier this season. But you. This is what people talk about is getting hot towards the end of the season. You know, getting guys back, getting healthy. This is a gauntlet of games, not only because of the opponents, but also the timing, the, the recovery, the schedule, all those things. They're about to face another Chiefs, a Chiefs team, another team that despite not being the same team, knows how to pull out wins. And so they got to prepare for that pedigree coming in here, you know, that has the ability to really turn it on when they need to, despite the fact that they have. They haven't looked how they have looked, know, in the super bowl and other other years past.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, they had a gritty comeback of their own today against, against the Colts.
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Aisha Morrison
And that Colts team is a good team. So it's like when you want to count those guys out, you can't. But I know Dallas has some confidence going into this game. It helps that they're at home, so they ain't got to travel. Obviously, KC has to come here, so hopefully, you know, you know, Dallas can come out and replicate some of the stuff that they did against Philly.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah.
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Jeff Biggs
Well said. All right, let's take our final time out. When we come back, our final segment, we will wrap things up. But what a comeback for the Cowboys. Down 21 to nothing, they come back and beat the defending Super Bowl Champion Eagles. They win round two 24 to 21. This is the cowboys squad show.
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Jeff Biggs
That'S it. Short and sweet to the Cowboy squad show with Aisha Morrison and former Cowboys coach Glenn Stretch Smith, 24 to 21. The final as they came back and beat the Eagles today. What. What a win. Just a. What a game. What a ride. And just to see the. The defense, I can't get. I mean, I mean, stopping the Seagulls team eight straight times. I mean, that. That's. That's impressive. I don't know if that's happened. I don't know what their longest stretch in between possessions, but it's. That's good considering.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
That'S Jeff's favorite stat in the history. He's so. Hey, you know what? That's. I mean, that's. It's something we haven't seen. So. No, I'm laughing because it's like, you know, we haven't seen that. And. And I think it's about the seventh time you've mentioned it. So I think y' all mentioned it one more time so we can get it in here for age.
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Jeff Biggs
I'll do it. Before we end. I'll do it.
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Aisha Morrison
No I. I mean, again, we've seen this defense all season. So I get what you. What you saying, Jeff. You, like, you trying to take it in, you saying it to yourself so you can make sure it's real. Like, I understand. And again, like, this is a Philly offense that has struggled. You know, they struggled the last couple weeks to put up points, but they were going up against some really good defenses. Like, that's another thing, too, is when you start looking into Philly struggling offensively, especially this last three weeks of football. I had starting to look. I was like, well, why are they struggling? They're also. They've also gone up against really good defenses, and Dallas looked like one of those defenses today. They really took advantage of that Philly offensive line and also too, I thought that the cornerback play was better again, they gave up some plays early, but they really hung in there and I thought they settled down. But to your point earlier about osa, quick pressures, Dallas hasn't gotten a lot of quick pressures. So to see OSA get off the line so quickly was. Was good to see, you know, them getting some more quick pressures because they. I think their numbers are pretty low this year on those.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah. And I mean, you want to see. You want to see guys whip guys up front. You know, I. And I do like that they're playing. I mean, Ezraku their times. Boy, he. I'm, you know, they stone him. I mean, where he not. But. But he keeps coming back. He keeps playing and all that. You know, that experience is going to be good. I think the other thing that really frustrated me was there, and I got to give Eber Floose a lot of credit here. I mean, he called the blitz a couple times, and Stuart was right there one time to make a play. And I mean, it was like, you know, I think he shut his eyes when he got in there. He's like, how could you know?
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Jeff Biggs
You.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
It was a perfect call at the perfect time. And Hertz spits it up in there for seven to convert for a first down. Yeah, you got to give Ebert loose credit. I mean, he. I think he's almost. It looks like. And I'm glad to see he's wearing a hat again because I can tell he's graying like crazy. But, but. But, you know, he's a little out of his comfort zone, but he's. He is. You know, he's making some calls, and so good for him for doing just that. Make. Continue to make those calls. And that comes with confidence from having what's back. You Know what's on the back end. Here's the other thing that I really like today was that when you, when you, you're starting to see guys in the secondary play with better leverage. Now, one time, Ravel, they caught the hitch on him, bad angle and, and you'd like to see him go take the correct angle. He took a crappy angle and then again, and then I think it was Brown spun out of it for about another 11. Okay. The only way, the only way you're going to get better at that is playing the game, not practicing, not any of that. You got to get in the game. So good for them for leaving him in there. You know, Kyrie Elam is not on the team anymore. I think they cut him midweek. So, you know, Carson is. Or Kalin is the other. You just want to see those guys continue to play because that's how they're going to get better.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah. And Carson was having some issues. I know he had a couple of strong tackles at the line of scrimmage or behind the line of scrimmage in the, in the flat today, but he was having trouble. Sounds like he was having some cramps. He went out, got an iv. Saw him kind of in and out of the game a couple times. I was concerned. I thought it was something more serious, but he just needed some, some hydration. So. But, but to your point, but to your point, coach? Yeah, I mean, I thought the lineup, they came out there with, uh, Savon Revel and Savone Rather, Ravel and Kaylin Carson and Duron Bland in the slot probably is your best lineup right now. And for the most part those guys held their own again. AJ Brown went off earlier in that game, but we didn't hear nothing about him for the majority of the rest of the game. Devonte Smith had that amazing adjustment to the ball, amazing adjustment to the ball on Kaylin Carson, but a relatively quiet day for him as well. Dallas guy Goddard had a pretty quiet today day today. This, this defense is improving now. Coach, are they ever going to defend the flats better?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Well, I saw, I saw one or two times where over shown was out there to make a play. Yeah, yeah, I get it. That it, it gets frustrating to see them throw the swing for, for, for 12 yards, throw the swing for 15 yards, throw. Yes. I think those are things that they need to continue to clean up. I think that gets cleaned up the more that you put your speed in the game, which is as overshone gets more of a workload that they'll be better at. Defending, you know, where they just toss it out there for Barkley, for, you know, like I said, 12 to 15 yards. And it is, it's frustrating to watch it. It is frustrating to watch it for sure as a fan and it's frustrating as a coach. But I, I do like that even on the touchdown that, that he threw, I believe it was to Brown on that skinny post or where the safety rotated down. Hey, at least, at least Bland played with better leverage. Now he's got to shut that cushion down a little more and stay on it where, where he doesn't, you know, get, just give the immediate access. But those things have changed as the season has gone on. As far as guys just getting immediate access to the middle of the defense.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, that's something I definitely want to see improve. I feel like Dallas just gives up a little bit too much yardage in that soft part of the field. And to your point, coach, I just hope that the linebackers are able to play it better because it's not just Philly. This is something that we've seen all season. And a team like Kansas City that reliably relies heavily on swings on screens and things like that trying to get Rasheed Rice out in space. This is something that, you know, we can see in this upcoming week. Hopefully, you know, the linebackers come up.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
And tackle right after. You're gonna have to get it cranked up offensively because I got news for you. I mean, they're going to come in here and they're going to score. I mean, that, that, that, that's going to happen. I mean, you're gonna, you're not gonna, you're not gonna shut them out. You gotta hope that you can, you know, pressure Mahomes some and you can, you know, see if you can get one or two critical stops, which is, that's what they needed in this football game. They finally got it with that big sack, Formosa. Hey, now, hopefully, you know, we won't, we won't have the mad gamblers. So Thursday just doing kind of crazy stuff when they've got the football. But.
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Aisha Morrison
You talking about my homes? You talking about my home?
- [62:01]
Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah.
- [62:04]
Aisha Morrison
He is crazy. He is great. He be doing stuff and I'll be sitting there like he can't keep getting away with this. How is he doing this right now?
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, well, I guess the good thing is, hey, I mean, the Cowboys had to play, you know, know, an emotional, hard fought game today, but the Chiefs did also, so both teams are going to be playing it, you know, on short rest. So that should make it interesting.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, yeah. Like I said, you know, Dallas has a tiny bit of an advantage not having to travel. Shout out to Brandon Aubrey too. Had to missed field goal earlier in the game. Obviously made the field goal to win the game. And special teams was important today, even on a base level. You know, Philly's punter was nails today. I mean, he pinned Dallas inside their 10 multiple times today. And Dallas had to drive the length of the field, which again, a Vic Fangio's defense is counting on you making a mistake. I thought that special teams on both sides of the ball came up huge today. And I think it's just an element that kind of gets looked over, but it's. It's too important to not look over, not to look at.
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Jeff Biggs
Props to Elijah Clark. Forget that symbol was him.
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Aisha Morrison
And Marquis Bell. Yep, yep. And Trent, see the long snapper on.
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Jeff Biggs
The recovery with the long hair. All right, well, this has been a action packed, fast episode. It's always a little better after a win, but hey, they deserve it. They deserve the praise again from where this team started to what we saw today, nobody can deny that's progress and hopefully they're on the right track. We'll see what happens Thursday. But a big win today.
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Aisha Morrison
I know it's gonna be a good week. Hey, y' all think I'm playing about turning on Philly radio? I'm going to right now.
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Jeff Biggs
All right.
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Aisha Morrison
Right now.
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Jeff Biggs
All right. Real quick. Plug for your show tomorrow morning.
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Aisha Morrison
Yes. Catch me on Girls Talk. Boys talk at 8am Central Time. Me and the girls are gonna be talking about this game. Breaking it down. Come see me.
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Jeff Biggs
All right. And don't forget Marcus and Landon with the daily Locked on Cowboys podcast. They will have a ton to say. And coach, we'll be back doing our midweek episode on Tuesday night, so we'll look forward to that. But we look forward to seeing you tonight on TV in the Dallas area.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
See you guys. Have a great weekend. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, you as well. That's right. Yeah. It's off to the week's off to a good start for sure as the Cowboys come back from 21 nothing down to beat and stun the defending super bowl champion Eagles 24 to 21. This has been the Cowboys squad.
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Aisha Morrison
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