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COWBOYS SQUAD SHOW: The Cowboys get a Christmas Day win in D.C. over the Commanders
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The Cowboys snapped their 3-game losing streak with a Christmas Day in D.C. over the Commanders.
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Jeff Biggs
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Your team every day.
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Jeff Biggs
I'm Jeff Biggs, host of the Cowboys Squad Show. Merry Christmas to you and yours and thank you to the Cowboys for the Christmas Day gift.
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Aisha Morrison
I'm Aisha Morrison and I've had some good food. They won this game. Want to talk about this game? Break it down. Everybody should be enjoying their day with their family and let's talk some football before we go back with our people.
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Jeff Biggs
Amen.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Glenn Stretch smith playing a third string quarterback. Still gotta score 30.
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Jeff Biggs
And with that said again, welcome to another edition of the Cowboys Squad show with Aisha Morrison and former Cowboys coach Glenn Stretch Smith. Want to wish you a Merry Christmas to you and your family. Hope you're enjoying this family time and got the Cowboys game early so still have plenty of time to have dinner and celebrate and everything else. But for the next hour we're going to break down this win as the Cowboys stop their losing streak and get back on track with a Christmas day win in D.C. over the Commanders 30 to 23. Last check. Josh Johnson will not be eligible for the MVP voting, although he did give it a pretty good shot in his performance today. This is a not only Christmas Day, but it is Crossover Thursday presented by Prize Picks. Download the Prize Picks app today and use code locked on NFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. All right, Coach Aisha, thanks for being here. I know it's Christmas Day. The Cowboys Just got finished with their game. Very. Just kind of, this has kind of been the vibe. I mean they come out, they dominate the first half to score on every drive, you're thinking, okay, how high can they go? And then this weird issue they've had, especially during the lose losing streak that's over. The struggles in the second half. They were shut out on Sunday against the Bolts and today only two Brandon Aubrey field goals. But they did get the win. What's your general reaction before we dive into it?
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Aisha Morrison
I'm really curious to see kind of try to get into in the off season, maybe getting to hear more from Brian Schottenheimer and those guys of, you know what they feel like the issue is offensively in the second half. I mean, I think in the first half I think they're aware of what's going on. So they're trying to get points, they're trying to be aggressive, they're trying to kind of get ahead. But we have seen defenses, I mean we saw this week also too Dan Quinn do some things on the back end, kind of try to trip Dak up. Protection struggled a lot today giving up six sacks. I mean Dak took some pretty vicious hits. The interior struggled as well sometimes and pass protection. So I think it had to do with protection and some of those things. But also to play caller head coach first time, is this something that he's still working through and has to grow through. He's typically very transparent. So I'm really curious to hear from him what those issues have been. Especially since it's been like you're saying, Jeff, it's a, it's a pattern, you know, it's not just a one time thing. But also too I know coach is about to get up here and say you ain't got to score this many points. You should have to score as many points to win a game like this. So I think it's a mixture of both.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah. You know, I mean, I believe in, in for Dak standpoint, it's. It's okay to throw the football away at times live to fight another down. There were a couple of times today where he took sacks.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Where he needs to learn to throw the football away, it's not there. You're not going to get the perfect call in the perfect situation every time. It's not going to be that way. And so I really wish there were times when he would just say, hey, it's not there and I got to just throw this football away and live to fight another day. The thing that I'll tell you is good. NFL defensive minds adjust at the half. They do. They'll adjust at the half. They'll see what you're playing. They'll look at that. I mean, they'll look at that iPad and they'll see what you're doing and what you're trying to do. You combine that with then, I mean, you know, I really think that when you're. You're changing and constantly changing personnel offensively, it, you know, it was a little bit of a. It was a little bit of a tough situation for them to overcome, too. Hell, they was one time Dallas had a CFA Canadian football motion in there. They were. Had two tight ends moving at the same time. So, you know, I mean, all of those things you're trying to adjust to, and does it alarm me a little bit. But, you know, you got to give. You got to give Washington some credit, too, in the second half for basically coming out and, you know, playing with some pride and saying, hey, we're not going to get. We're not going to get blown out here in our own building.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah. I mean, and they did, you know, similarly to what you saw last week, is that they saw that your offensive line was struggling to pick up those blitzes, specifically on the interior, and they did that. And they tried to trip up the quarterback a couple of times with bringing some of those linebackers, bringing some of those safeties. But also, too, coach, when you talk about the fact that they haven't been able to, you know, in the second half, they kind of struggled. I also think, I think it's what you said as well. The coaches are adjusting and Brian Schottenheimer, like I was saying before, I think that's something that I would like to brain and kind of hear what his, you know, plan is moving forward, you know, to. To stop that from happening, especially when the offense comes out so dominant and then you got to adjust to the adjustment. Like, you got to be able to do that. And I think Dallas has struggled doing that this last, what, three weeks now?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah. I mean, again, you know, Williams goes out, I'm sure that shoulder still bothering him. And good, you know, good for a couple other guys stepping up. They're not as good in pass protection. If you didn't see, you know, Lipke knew exactly who was coming and it was the backer, and he goes up there and jumps at him. Of course, he fans and misses, and then there's a problem. So I, I think you, you know, when you're dealing with personnel and changing personnel, in and out. And I don't want to. I mean, I don't want to ding Hunter Lipke. I mean, he's probably hasn't done a whole lot of that. But when you're changing guys in and out of the lineup and then some guys, you know, are not quite. They're just not quite as good as. As understanding protections. I mean, Javante's really, really good. I mean, there were a couple times today where he comes off one and comes all the way backside, and so you want to see all of that and, and hopefully Dallas will sign him. Boy, he, He's a real. He's a real asset. And, you know, I think that at the end of the day, when you look at what the Cowboys are trying to do offensively is they. That they know they're under fire to just go score every time they can. They have to. I mean, they're going for it. Every fourth down, they're having to go for it. So, you know, it just puts a whole different mentality on getting in a rhythm of calling a game.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, six of six on fourth down today, you know, so that was huge in this game for them to sustain drives. Yeah, I'm sure that they do feel the pressure to have to score. What you. How do you feel, Jeff, about, you know, the lack of offensive, you know, scoring in the second half?
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, it's weird. I mean, I, I think you're both spot on. And as you see that the good teams are the teams that adjust and, and dominate and make improvements and win the second halves usually. This one was kind of weird, though, like, like we said and like you pointed out, great first half, scored on their all four drives, three touchdowns and a field goal. But even in the second half, even with the, the coverage sacks and the few big times when the commander's defense was able to. To tackle Dak and to stop plays like you said, Aisha, Cowboys were. They kept going for it. And even when it seemed like the drive, what would normally be a drive killer, because they kept going for it. They kept those drives going just enough to get a couple of field goals. But 6 for 6 on fourth down, that's. That's unusual and kind of fluky. But again, this whole season has been kind of out of whack when you think of how great the Cowboys offense is, how bad the defense was, and the fact that they are only 78 1. But I'd still like to like to see them maybe next week with one more game left to go. Really try to make an emphasis of either playing a complete game. They may not, they may not play everybody the whole game next week, but I'd like to see them kind of turn the corner on this whole second half bugaboo that they seem to have.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, Coach talked about Javante Williams and his pass protection. I mean, he and Malik Davis I thought ran the ball hard today as well. Yeah, yeah. Obviously very, very physical. They were able to hit some of those outside runs, especially early in the game. I thought the offensive line was getting some good outside blocks. And then also too with Malik Davis, I thought that, you know, he has a patience to him. Yeah, I think that as he's gotten a little bit more playing time, he's, I think he's seeing the field better. And so I thought his vision and his improvement in his vision show today and his play. And again, he's not, he's not even like the fastest guy, but just having another guy that's a little slippery out there I think gives defenses another look. And even if Dallas isn't, you know, he's not one of the premier players for Dallas next year, you at least are getting kind of a look see at what it would be like to have somebody actually go in tandem with Javante Williams if Dallas return, if he returns to Dallas this, this off season.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
And it's, it's what I talking about when we, you know, when we talked on Tuesday night, it's getting these guys in the game because you saw Davis, he's playing better because he's used to the speed of the game now. He, he's not a, he's not a real cut and slasher. He is a, he's got a kind of, he runs, he's a back that runs with his eyes and I love that. But it takes a little time to get in the field of the football game and, and he did that today. So that's why they were effective. I think they, I think they were like exactly 50, 50 run to pass or one was, I don't know, one more than the other. So I mean, what a, it was a really well balanced attack today. 87 plays like 43, 44 something. I mean it was, you know, so they were right down the middle with what they were wanting to do and, and you know, I, I don't know. I, I have mix again. I've got mixed feelings. I want to see all of these guys in the game. I love seeing Span Ford in the game. I love. Got some playing time. They put min. I want to continue to see, you know, Ravel, I Mean, he's got to, you know, he's got to get so much better, especially, you know, understanding even how to pedal and do the simple things. I don't know what they did at East Carolina. Maybe it's turn and run all the time, but I mean, you watch him, it wasn't. You watch him pedal. And I mean it's, you know, there's just things that I think that show up on film and then those are all things that you can work on in the off season and you can get better at and, and you're only going to, it's only going to get that way when you're in the football game and you're in the speed of the game.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, I hope, I hope Ravel is able to go next week. He remember he came out with when he kind of jammed his head on that, that double team tackle, but I thought Ravel and Ready Stewart on the Commander's second drive when they forced Washington to punt, the two of them had some really, really good coverage. So I was encouraged to see that Kenneth Murray had probably his best play of the season when he got in, got in the backfield and got a hit. So that was good to see. Quinn Williams was back. That Debo, that Debo hit on Wilson. That was pretty violent, but good to see that. The Cowboys defense, I, I as. As bad as they've been and as critical as we've been and rightfully so. They did, they did have a couple of good moments in this game that I was encouraged to see. Not, not big picture, but for the players to, to be able to have their moments and step up the way that they did.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah. Genevion Clowney is someone that, you know, I, I think Dallas should be, especially with where this defensive end room stands right now, which is you only have maybe one guy that's like a set in stone guy that's under contract. His play, I mean, coach, I'm sure you've noticed it, the backside pursuit, you know, dry like running down plays. He's been a solid edge defender. Obviously brought you some pass rush as well. He, he had a play today where he cut inside and was able to get the sack. Like, I think he's a gentleman. That is. Was a really good addition to this defense. And him playing hard, coach, you know, just continuing to play hard, I think speaks to the veteran he is and that, that's what you want to see. Like you said, you know, these guys are playing for their, their lives to some degree and he's trying to make sure he Puts good tape out there. I think he's been a really good addition to this defense.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Oh, he did. He almost chased down Debo on that, I mean, on that, he almost ran him down on that reverse. So yeah, you know, I mean, he can still run, he can still play. Still a good football player. So yeah, I do think there's, this is again, I can't say it enough. These two games are really going to structure what you want to do and who you want to bring back. And when guys are playing like that, I mean, he's telling you with his play on the field, hey, I want to come back here. Look, you know, all you got to do is cut it on, look how hard I'm playing. So I thought that was, I thought that was good. You know, Sam Williams showed up a couple times for me today.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, he did. Almost had a pick.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Good for Sam. I mean, you know, and Perry on Winfrey got some playing time. So, you know, again, I want to, I know you can't necessarily do that with, with everybody on offense because, you know, of your $60 million guy, but I want to see the other guy in the game too. I, I do, I want to see, I want to see him play the other quarterback. I want to see some other guys get in the football game so that you can, and, and, and again, I, I, I'm never going to use the word tank because that's not what you're doing in football. This is not baseball, this is not basketball. You can get, get your ass hurt in this game and you can get hurt bad. And so I want to see those guys get some playing time in this last game and get themselves on film so that you project yourself into knowing what you got to work on, what your weaknesses are and where you're going to go into this offseason.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, I'm with you. It's going to be interesting to see what they decide to do for, for next week. But tell you what, let, let me, let's take our first time out. I want to throw a word at you. The, they mentioned this during the broadcast. They spoke with shoddy Ian Eagle and the crew and they asked him to kind of sum up this season. And again the Cowboys snapping their three game losing streak and he gave a one word and I'll, we'll share that with everybody and I want to get your thoughts and see what you want to add to that and if you agree, we'll do that. Coming up next, Cowboys win on Christmas Day in D.C. they beat Dan Quinn and the Commanders 30 to 23. This is the Cowboys Squad show.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, I think that Kevonte, I think, I think it'll be a good transition into the word that you're going to give us for Brian Schneider when we talk about Kevonte Turpin and his ability and his usage in this offense. He's, he's been a little banged up this, this year, but Dak loves that seam route. It's gonna be there a lot of the time just because of how people are rolling coverages and stuff to CD or Pickens and, and yeah, that's a ball that Dak likes to hit. And so it was, it was. The times we've seen it this year has been effective when it, when they hit it. So hopefully that's something they can continue to implement and, and that Turpin's confidence continues to build as a receiver. I know that's something he's still working, but like it's about that time for him to be like consistently involved in the offense.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, no doubt.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I mean I, I've, I've always thought there's a place for him in the offense. Do I want to see him in every third down situation in the game? No. Do I want to see him running inside option routes where you got to kind of bang off guys and create separation? No, but in those situations, I mean where they're playing the middle field open and they're going to let him have that, then you know what, he's the guy, he's the guy to run through there. They put him in the slot, they got what they wanted from a coverage standpoint. He ran through there and it connected. That's what you want to do. You want, when, when defenses give you certain things and you're able to call certain plays in order to attack what they're doing. You want to have the right personnel in the game so it all matches. Right personnel, right play to the right defense and then you Know you, that happens. And so that's, you know, we say that all the time, that sometimes, you know, your guys win and sometimes your guys don't win. And fortunately, they got the right call at the right time. And, and with the right personnel in the game, we know what Cavante can do, and that's really run. So if you're not going to put a guy up on him and bang him around off the line of scrimmage, if you're going to free release him, you're going to have issues when he wants to run through the middle of the field.
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Jeff Biggs
All right, so we're gonna, we're gonna have a ton of time, obviously, to dissect this Cowboy season. There'll be plenty of time for that discussion. But generally speaking, it was, I thought, noteworthy. During the, the Netflix broadcast today, Iron Eagle Matt Ryan and, and Nate Brolson were talking about their conversation with Brian Schottenheimer and they asked, hey, what happened this season? And his, his word, his word answer to the, the crew was inconsistency. Now, on the surface, that can sound simple, but if you kind of look under the hood a little bit, what, what do you guys think of that? And, and what does that mean to you when you hear the word inconsistency? Because, and we saw they, they look great when they won three in a row and then they came right back with the three game slide that was snapped today. So we've, we've seen both.
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Aisha Morrison
What you think of.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Well, I mean, I, you know, to me, I need you to be a little more inconsistent with what, Because I thought the quarterback wasn't inconsistent this year. I, I don't think your receiver play was inconsistent. I don't think your run game was inconsistent. If you're not wanting to, you know, point the point, point the finger or do whatever on the defensive side of the football that they were, they were real consistent. They were, they weren't worth a. And that's how consistent it was. So, I mean, I don't know. I mean, are you inconsistent with your level of play? Maybe, I guess that that could be the case, but I'm a little, I'm a little puzzled by that response.
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Aisha Morrison
Okay, well, that's interesting. I didn't think you're gonna say that because I, I, I understand.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I'm too old to stand up here and say, you know, I, I mean, I crap, whatever, I'm too old. So I'm sorry I just said the word.
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Aisha Morrison
Oh, no, I didn't care about you saying it, but I was, it I said it, but I was saying in regards to the inconsistency, I agree with you. The quarterback was inconsistent, but I do think from his standpoint, some of his play calling was inconsistent. I would say, you know, the efficiency in the run game, the execution in the run game, because I know you saw coach, there's times where these guys are now, it hasn't been consistent lineups. So then maybe that plays into the inconsistency and all that stuff. But guys weren't sustaining blocks at the second level as consistently, stuff like that. So I feel like, I feel like he's holding himself accountable to some degree also too with some of the inconsistency from the offensive side. But then obviously defensively we already know what's going on. Now what has been. When I think about inconsistency on the defensive side though, I do think about, okay, some weeks you come out and it looks like the game plan is, is efficient and that, you know, they're able to play fast to the ball and all this stuff. And then the other week maybe you come out and you don't bring any pressure or you're not able to get any pressure and things like that. So I, I don't know, I feel like a lot of things were inconsistent. So I agreed with what he said. Except for the quarterback. Like the quarterback and the wide receivers were probably the most consistent things out of everything. But the run game hasn't been consistent all year. It has, you know, had his bright spots and stuff like that. But you have had games where you truly have struggled to run the ball and you didn't really have any answers trying to throw the ball through the air because you weren't getting a lot of those play action opportunities. And so, yeah, anyway, I kind of agree with the consistency thing. May maybe. Well, like coach though, you gotta be more specific.
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Jeff Biggs
I'm like, well, I think you can say inconsistent inconsistency with the record. I mean, that's about as true as you can get. Seven, eight, one. You know, he had seven wins, but you've had eight losses and a tie. So.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
That's right. I'd say that's pretty consistent. Right in the middle of the road. Yeah, right in the middle. You're right 55 miles an hour. Right in the middle of the road. That's right where you are. You know, I mean, when you, I mean when we specifically say, well, the run game has been inconsistent, I'm going to tell you that from an offensive standpoint they can, they can shut you down running the Football, I don't care who it is. They can commit enough guys to shut you down running the football and then you have to be able to move from that. And then, you know, when guys and teams start getting scared and playing coverage and doubling guys like we've seen them do with Pickens and cd, then that's when you have to run the football. Adam. So I, you know, I see football is not just a. Every week we're going to come out with this high flying game plan and we're going to be able to do things again because you have, there's, I mean, sometimes there's weather issues. You know, guys get banged up and beat up and you know, I like what Seattle coach said when they had to, I think he kicked six field goals or something to win a football game. Was that last week or week before that? You know what? That's what. Sometimes you have to do that. And, and I'd say, well, does that make them inconsistent? No, that doesn't make them inconsistent. They're consistently winning. Sam Darnold has won. He's, he's got a chance to win 14 games again, two years. So I mean, to me that, that shows a sign of, of a really good player. And I think that Dak has shown that he really likes how Schottenheimer calls the game. I think they're in lock step with what they want to do offensively. Do. I think there's times that Dak still is a little inconsistent. I mean, even today he gets on the move one time and just throws a dart into the ground and you're like, God, what was that? And then he got on the move late in the football game and threw a great ball. So, you know, he knows that that's inconsistent, if that's what you're talking about. But as far as saying that they're, they're being incon. I mean, I, I think they're consistently about what we thought they would be, which is about a 500 football team.
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Jeff Biggs
Yep.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah, you've been saying it, Aussie.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I want to be wrong because it's a lot easier to get on here and talk about winning than it is to talk about losing. I promise you it is.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, well, and, and I mean, to your points, the defense has been consistent. They've given up about average 30 points a game. And that's, that's not gonna work.
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Aisha Morrison
No.
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Jeff Biggs
So, you know.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Laughs Keeping crime. I mean, yeah, it's like looking at it, it is so. It's so painful to watch so many times. It's Just painful to watch. I mean today, I mean I, I'm looking at Ravel Backpedal and I'm like, oh my gosh. I mean he is stand, standing straight up and you're like, golly, let's, let's, let's make a tape of this and let's start working on these things. So you know what? Again, good for him. Good for them putting him in the game and good for them for playing and getting as much playing time as they can and getting all that on tape so you can make some adjustments.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, well, with that said to the Cowboys credit they, hey, they, they even though the offense struggled in the second half, they got the two field goals, they got the win. They snapped the losing streak. Yeah, they made Josh Johnson look pretty good at times. He looked pretty comfortable there and Crosby Merritt looked outstanding. I mean that, the, the run defense was, was shaky. But, but again they, they did make some stops when they needed to and that's what, that's ultimately you, you get the win and that's what you need to do. But we're going to see a lot of changes I would think, right, with the defense going into next season for sure.
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Aisha Morrison
Oh yeah, I can definitely foresee a linebacker room overhaul. Didn't even see Logan Wilson touch the field today, if I'm not mistaken. So that tells you, you know, with Ken Mur, Kenneth Murray, Shamar, James, all those guys are getting extended snaps. I could see this linebacker room looking totally different next year.
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Jeff Biggs
Do you think Coacho, you know, we were talking about adjustments, right? And, and making adjustments. I don't know it. When the Cowboys are rolling like they did in the first half, they look like just a fine tuned machine, like they know exactly what they want to do. They, they impose their will. They know when they need to pick up first downs and how to keep drives going. And then you see how they look in the second half and you've got Dak kind of running at times for his life and, and the offense just appears from the outside looking in like they're kind of on their Heels a little bit. And I'd like to see them not only reverse that trend, but in those situation, like there were a couple times when Dak went down, when they showed down the field and he's trying to wait for somebody to get open and there's nobody, nobody close by. Nice to see them have some, some checkdowns or just some opportunities for him to, to not take those sacks or throw the ball away like you suggested, coach.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I mean again, when you see those guys come off the field and every one of the position groups is over with their coach and they're looking at the iPad, what is it that you think they're doing? Do you think they're going, okay, look, here's what they're trying to exploit. They're trying to do this, this and this. And they're all talking on a headset and guys are changing their. I mean you have to give and it's hard to do, but those guys get paid too. They have players that are on scholarship too. They got guys that make a lot of money too.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
And so they're going to adjust and then it's your job to then adjust to how they've adjusted. And it's not always going to be, it's not always going to be the way it was in the first half. Three straight drives and it's 21 points. That is not realistic. That is just not. And, and, and it's hard. Offense is the hardest that there is to get done because one guy, all you got to has one guy make one misstep and turn one guy free and you got a problem. One guy jump off sides. One guy read it not on the same page. One guy, you can get away with it on defense because you got, you got 11 of them hauling ass to the football that you can get away over there, but you can on offense, offenses. I'm telling you to score the amount of points that they've scored and to do what they've done. It really is in my mind it's truly amazing that they have seven wins. It's a football team that six times has given up more than 34 points. You know how hard it is to score 34 points in the NFL? The damn clock runs. It runs, it doesn't stop. It's not like the college game. It's hard to do. That's hard to do. And so when you put all of those things together. Yeah, man up. I want the high flying offense too. I want the guy rushes for 150 yards and the receiver that catches 150 yards and quarterback that throws at 350 plus. And boy, I mean, everything, everything's feel good. I mean, if that's what you want every day, then, you know, you go buy yourself a good book, go get on Golden Pond and read and feel good about yourself. That's not football. That's not how it works all the time.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah. What do you think, Aisha?
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Aisha Morrison
I mean, I mean, I, I, like I said we talked about this last week. I think a lot of the things offensively that they need to get better on are fixable. Doable.
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Jeff Biggs
Yep.
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Aisha Morrison
All those things. I am far less worried about the offense and their efficiency and what they need to do to improve than defensively at this point. It's just in and to coach's point, not only have they put up, you know, 30 points a game, they put up those 30 points a game. Mostly not even off turnovers, mostly not even off getting good starting field position in their return game, you know, so if they were able to get a little bit more from, you know, those parts of the game, then I think that they would be even more efficient. And if this offense that has had to drive the length of the field most of the season, if this offense gives an opportunity to start getting the ball in midfield or, you know, getting more turnovers, the defense is getting more turnovers. I think we can see that flip too. So I'm, I, I understand how easy it is to be critical of the offense right now and that they're like, like coach said, like, there are things that you just like, okay, like maybe you do need to adjust better. You need to be quicker with your adjustments. Like, you need to be able to punch back in these games. But I mean, the pressure that they're feeling to have to do that is also too, because of. And another thing too is like with all these fourth down plays, I mean, Dallas went for it on fourth down. Fourth down six times. Those are plays you're burning. Those are plays that you like. You know, it doesn't matter if it's not a flashy play or not. Like, right. That's a lot of fourth down plays to be pulling out. So I don't know, I'm not mad at the offense at this point. I think that they will improve, but offense. But defensively, y', all, I don't know. Y', all, I don't know. I don't know. Like, the safety play has really, I mean, you've relied on Donovan Wilson, Emily Cooker for a long time. They have been a part of this defense and they have been incredibly hard to, to I guess to replace. I think it's about that time like that you start looking at who these gentlemen's like predecessors are because safety play, I mean, coach, you can tell me some of the best defenses in the game have incredible safeties. I mean we just saw one last weekend during James and how he changes everything that they can do second day in the secondary because he's so smart and so rangy, but also to his ability to come downhill and help out in the run and be a robber. I mean the safety play also too, in addition to the secondary play. Because coach, like you said, like, hey, yeah, this secondary, like the corners have had their issues, but some of that stuff is the Satan them not trusting their safeties to be there to help them when they need it. So how do you feel about the safety?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
That's right. I mean you probably have, you have Donovan Wilson, who in my mind is a box safety, downhill run support. He's gonna, he, he's not an over the top player. He's not a guy that's gonna go play the deep ball. Well now I think that, I think that Malik Hooker is, is okay at that. Now I don't want to sit here and start like going through position position because I think that that's, that's like a show for another time because there's not really anything you can do right now about the safety play. I did see that Bell got in there some, but you know, Bell's really kind of a, he's kind of more of a linebacker to me than he is an over the top safety. So I think you've got to figure out what it is that you're going to do defensively and then you gotta, you gotta, you've gotta either go draft those kind of players, address it through free agency, or you gotta fit the guys that you currently have into your scheme. And I think that's what's killing this defensive coordinator and this defensive back coach is they did not do that. They did not take the players that the Cowboys have and say, okay, what can they do best? And let's make sure we're calling that multiple times because they're, they're, they're not, they're not zone players that they're just not. And so, you know, part of me says shame on those guys and shame on whoever for not, you know, we're not having some better players to play that scheme. It's just, it really is, it's a mess right now to think that The Washington Commanders went out there and went up and down the field with a third string quarterback is. I mean, seriously, that's crazy.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah. And they've struggled. I mean, they've struggled to run the ball. They lost their center during that game. Tyler Biotish went down. It just shouldn't be. I mean, that defense has struggled and I just, I mean, I mean that offense rather has struggled. You know, this team has lost, what, 10 out of 11 of his last games. Like, so I was, I was definitely shocked at the offensive efficiency that Washington was able to have. And it's just. I don't know. I don't know, Coach. I felt like there was a couple times I've seen guys making some decisions of the business kind as well. So it's, it's the end of the year, man. Some decisions of the business kind.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, yeah. They want, they want, they want to go out and make sure that the golf clubs are ready as soon as the season's over.
- [41:58]
Jeff Biggs
All right, on that note, we'll take our second time out and I want to ask you another question about today's game and highlighted in a couple other things. And then we'll finish up this show. Kind of looking ahead to the season finale next weekend at the Meadowlands. This is the Cowboys squad show.
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Jeff Biggs
Merry Christmas. Thank you for being with us here on the Cowboy squad show. After the Cowboys get the win over the commanders 30 to 23, they'll wrap up the regular season next weekend on the road as well at the Meadowlands at MetLife against the Giants. But they got the win today, 30 to 23. Real quick, we don't have to go too in depth. Speaking of the injuries and, and everything going on, wanted to get your thoughts on how the offensive line did and what you thought of Tyler Smith. And then the other, only other thing I was, I think would, you could say would be a negative were the penalties today, 11 of them. Again, it's the end of the year like you said, Aisha. But that just kind of goes under the whole coaching umbrella that we've been talking about, that the Cowboys are going to want to tune up you know, next season for sure.
- [43:42]
Aisha Morrison
Well, I think Tyler Smith had his fair share of some struggles today. Like playing that left tackle spot is. It's different. It's significantly different than playing the. Playing on the interior. And we got to hear from here him a little bit this, this week on how he felt, how he feels about playing that position.
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Jeff Biggs
Great quote. He had a fantastic quote. He's like, I'm an all pro left guard, bro. You feel me?
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Aisha Morrison
You know, and. And we love a self aware king. You hear me? We love somebody that knows. And I. Yeah, yeah. I think that some of the quickness off the line that. What is the gentleman's name that he was going up against today? He. Wait, wait a second, y'. All. Because it was. He's like a. The guy. What is his name? What is it? Oh, Preston Smith. Preston Smith was giving him a hard time and I'm sitting up here like, like the Preston Smith that was drafted an eternity ago and you know, but I think that he was giving them issues just because he was getting out of that kick and he was too fast off the line of scrimmage. And so I'm just, you know, in the inside, he's dealing with. His reactions are a lot faster. They have to be faster. And then you put them on the outside and it's kind of delayed. You got those guys lining up in a wide nine. I think that gave him some trouble today. So this is probably one of the. Not. I would say this is probably one of the least impressive performances I've seen from him in general from left tackle. So I just. I agree with him. I feel like he needs to stay at guard because that's what he good at. And Dallas is just gonna have to figure out that spot whether it's Guyton or not. How do you gentlemen feel about Guyton and do you think he's. Are you looking for him to come back next year and hopefully take it will take over that spot?
- [45:32]
Glenn Stretch Smith
No, no, I. I think he. He.
- [45:35]
Aisha Morrison
Please.
- [45:36]
Glenn Stretch Smith
He's told you he's an inside player. And you know what? That doesn't mean that he can't play out there.
- [45:42]
Aisha Morrison
Oh, he's.
- [45:42]
Glenn Stretch Smith
What I am going to tell you is that I can't stress this enough how good Javante Williams is at. Even when he checks his two guys, he may be dual reading one to two and they don't come and he peels and tries to rip out the rib cage of a wide defensive end. And they know that. They know that when Javante's in the game or When Davis is in the game, they know that. And so I'm just telling you, the, the great backs in today's game not only finish runs, but they finish and they know how to protect that. It's so, it's so imperative that when you look at a running back, they understand how to do that. And I'm telling you, what has always been the minor leagues for the NFL has been college football. And look at the college football. Just look at the backs and see how they protect in college football. Just, just never mind how they run the football. Just check and, and just watch them pass protect. Just watch them understand the art of knowing how to pass protect. Because it, I'm telling you, you don't realize you. How valuable he is to the passing game for all that he does and all that he can clean up. You can, you can take that glass of milk all the way across the floor, but if it sloshes a little bit, he's a guy that's right there to clean it up for you. And that's, to me, that's what you want. There's so much to be said for the job that he has done contributing to this offense. I can't tell you and I guarantee you if you go and ask that offensive line, they'll tell you by man that not only does he understand, but there are times too, you hear people say, well, you got to be able to chip. Yeah, yeah, that, that's the correct term. But you've also got to be able to fit with that tackle, which means if you go bump him, you could bump him off. There's, there's an art to knowing how to do it and he is great at it. I'm telling you, he is so good. And so the second half where Dak didn't really, he wasn't getting a lot of pressure in the first half, and this is not against Malik Davis because guess what? He needed to play to understand how to do that. And what I'm telling you is, is there was a, there was a fall off in that one guy understanding just had a, just had to give his offensive lineman a little help and still maybe get into his route, still run his check down, still run, get over the ball. So Dax got a place to go with the football. So it, it really is, it's something I can't, I can't stress enough as far as how he protects and the amount of confidence that the other five guys have knowing he's the one that's in the game behind them, that's awesome.
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Aisha Morrison
That's a fantastic point. That's a fantastic point.
- [48:50]
Jeff Biggs
Excellent. Excellent. Well, so with that said, I, I could be wrong, but I, I would be surprised if Javante played next week considering that it's been kind of lingering and it's still sore. I would think we would see Malik Davis and then maybe final opportunity here for Jaden Blue in the finale next week. I mean, you, you want, you, you would want to see him when you coach or do you think they're okay just kind of waiting until.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
No, I do want to see him, but I don't want to see him with Dak in the game. That, that's what I don't want. I don't want to see him getting in a protection situation where, you know, you, you could, no, not, not, not at this point of the season. I, I, I need to see, I need to see, I need to see the other quarterback in the game. And yeah, I'd love to see him in the game too. I, I, but I, my gut feeling is after what we saw today, they only in Williams and Davis and Lipke, I mean that, that's, that's those only guys they have confidence in or, or at times they may even bring soon Maker in there and let him protect some. They just, they're just, they're telling you without saying it verbally.
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Jeff Biggs
Right.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
These are the guys we have the confidence in.
- [50:07]
Jeff Biggs
Yeah. All right, well, we, we'll see what they decide to do. Like I said, hopefully with, maybe with Javante, it's nothing major and he'll, he'll come in and at least get in there for the first half next week with everybody else and then maybe the second half we'll see Joe Milton take over. I have no idea. I'm just speculating right now. All right, let's take our last time out. When we come back, our final segment. Cowboys get the win over the commanders in D.C. today, Christmas Day 30 to 23. This is the Cowboys squad show. Welcome back. Merry Christmas. A nice gift win for the Cowboys. They take care of business on the road. They beat the Commanders 30 to 23 with one more game left to go next weekend against the Giants to wrap up the regular season 7, 8 and 1 right now with a chance to get that eighth win next Sunday. One final question about today both of you. Does Dan Quinn get any extra, extra credit or do you think he was able to adjust because he knows the Cowboys pretty well and knows how to, how to defend them or is it just completely different this year because with you've got pickens now you've got Williams now and you've got Shoddy calling the plays.
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Aisha Morrison
I mean, Dan Quinn was a good defensive coordinator for Hughes head coach. Yeah, I mean some guys just got it like that and you know, Washington has had some troubles defensively. Joey Jr. I think that Dan Quinn actually took over some of the defensive play calling a few weeks ago out of Joe Witt junior's hands in that sense. So he's very prideful guy. We know what type of guy he is, you know, we know what type of gentleman he is, you know, to guys in the locker room. So he was a good defensive coordinator at one point in time. So I'm not surprised that he was able to make some adjustments despite, you know, knowing Dallas. I think the offense, maybe he knows some of Dax. Tails, maybe. But like this offense does seem significantly different to me than it was in his time when he was here. What about you, coach?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I mean if, if, if Aubrey doesn't miss the field goal. They scored 33. Did, did y' all hear me say how hard it is to score 34 in NFL? If I'm telling you I'm not giving Dan Quinn credit for what I'm gonna give, I'll give Cliff Kingsbury credit. He scored 23 with a third string quarterback.
- [52:39]
Jeff Biggs
Yeah.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
23 points with a third string quarterback.
- [52:43]
Jeff Biggs
Yeah.
- [52:44]
Glenn Stretch Smith
38 year old Josh Johnson.
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Aisha Morrison
He don't move like he 38 when he was running the ball. I was like, yeah, yeah.
- [52:54]
Glenn Stretch Smith
I mean he obviously he does a great job of keeping himself and. But I mean he's a third string quarterback and he scored and you had to score 30 to beat him. I mean, I'm telling you, to me it's, it's, it gets to, it's mind numbing to me. I, it doesn't mean that, you know, Washington didn't make a few adjustments after Dallas scored 21 the first three times they touched the football. But I'm still like, wow. I mean Cliff Kingsbury did a hell of a job in one week's time.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
He got an NFL quarterback off the, off the scrap heap to come in and put 23 on your defense.
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Jeff Biggs
Yeah, well, according to ESPN's Todd Archer, he just tweeted out that Brian Schottenheimer has given no indication that the Cowboys plan to sit regulars to avoid injury next week. So the plan is for them to at least start for sure. What, you know what, what's that like, Coach? When you're, you're in a finale and got one more game to go, you're not Going to make the playoffs, but you want to finish the season on a positive note, right? You want to win. That's. That's. That shot has been consistent with that message.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah. And so has his quarterback. His quarterback has said, I want to play. I want to play to continue to get better. And you know what? If that's. If that is, in fact, if that is the direction that you want to go, then I. I'm all for it. I mean, go to your hear glass or smell. Run it wide open. I'm all about it. I mean, let's go. But. But I. I think that in the big scheme of things, are you confident enough to put all of these other guys in the football game? They are. Defensively, I think what they did today defensively is great. I mean, I really do. I. Was it a good performance? No, it's telling you exactly what all you're. You're seeing exactly what all of those guys can do. And they wrote it in a Sharpie for you, not. Not in a pencil that you can erase. They wrote it in a Sharpie what they can do. And that. That's. That's what you want to see. The only thing I'm concerned about is. Is again, you know, I want to see Dak. If that's what they want to do, then go out and attack the Giants. Go get the win. Get yourselves to 8, 8 and 1, and, you know, and then project yourself into 20, 26. I. I don't have any problem with that. I just think that you're given an opportunity here to either go right or go left. And there's not a. There's not. I don't think there's a right or wrong. I think it's good for guys to get opportunity, as much opportunity to play in a real game as they can. And so I'm always for pressing that envelope. But if. If, in fact, he believes it's more. We're. We're going to put more emphasis on. On getting ourselves to 500. Then. Then you know what? Go. Go get it on. I'm. I'm on board with it.
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Aisha Morrison
Yeah. I mean, I know a lot of people don't want to see. I mean, it was hard today. Angle live. You know, dad got up a couple times. He a little gimpy. He was getting the sandwich he was getting. I mean, he took some hits today. He did some hits last week. He's a tough dude. He's gonna play through it. But I know a lot of people think it's pointless, but I. I agree in A sense of, you know, this is what these guys want to do. They wanna, they want to, you know, finish the season on a good note. You know, good energy and stuff like that. And scare money, don't make no money. And I know this game, I know in this game it's easy for people to like, people do it during preseason. It's always a conversation should they play the start, should they might play starters. But with what Shott's trying to do, I do think it is important. And if their leader, their quarterback feels like it's necessary. And again too, here's another portion of it too. He's not just playing for himself. There's guys on that offense. There's guys that, some of those receivers, they may not be here next year. There's guys that have contracts that are up. I think about a Jalen Tolbert. I think about some of these guys, like, he's also like preseason, you know, where you want a good quarterback. So these guys can kind of show what they can do not only for your team but for their tape elsewhere. He. Dak has always been a team player in that regard. So I, I would think he might be trying to make sure that some of his, his guys also get taken care of too, if it's not here somewhere else.
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Jeff Biggs
So, coach, do you think there's a. I was going to ask. Do you think that there's a conversation within the coach's room about, okay, we got one game left to go. I really want to see this guy, I want to see that guy. Or do you think that exists?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, hell yeah. Yeah, they know, I mean, they're, they're, they know what they want it, you know what they, what they'd like to get looks at. And they also know that we're trying to win. And there are certain, you know, and then you have certain players that have maybe certain achievable bonuses that are in that contract.
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Aisha Morrison
That's another.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of little variables with all of it. But are they aware of it? Hell yeah, they're aware of it. They, they know that and, and yeah, that that conversation is being had. What can we, you know, who do we, who would we really like to see and what do we want to see in this game? And what do we want to, you know, what do we want to achieve here? And ultimately everybody's going to say they want to win. They want and they do. I mean, they all want to win. But how are we going, you know, how are we going to project ourselves into this 2026 campaign and, and, you know, give everybody what. What needs to be kind of that, you know, that. That goal to say, okay, you realize that 10 days from today, they're going to be. They're going to be sitting, getting ready to get on a plane in New York and. And they're good. You know, the message is going to be whatever. Whatever that message is, whatever they come out with, it starts in 10 days for the next season. So he's got to have a message ready to send his football team to be ready to get them to go into the next season. And then 11 days, it'll be Black Monday and a bunch of these guys will be getting fired. And it. You know, I've been in that. I've been in that. I've been in that sling, and I know what it's like. And so I would. I would never wish it on anybody. But that's. That's the fact in the NFL, I mean, you hear me say it stands for not for long. You don't stay around very long. So. But you know what you want to. All of this is being put into one, one unified message to his football team.
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Jeff Biggs
Aisha, anything you're kind of looking forward or you would like to see happen here in this finale before the season ends. Any question that you might need to have answered, I know I'm putting you on the spot here.
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Aisha Morrison
I mean, I don't think we're gonna see anything different than what we've seen offensively and. And things like that. I think we kind of know. I'm so sorry. Excuse me. I think we kind of know who these guys are. I guess I want to see. One thing I am looking forward to seeing is hopefully more Brevis. Man, Ford. We unfortunately saw Jake Ferguson go down with that calf. That calf has been bothering him in practice this week. We showed him. We saw him show up on the practice report with it. Brevis Van Ford has worked his tail off. Yeah, he has done so much. Coach you talk about, you know, Coach you were talking about Javante Williams. Another gentleman who has done a lot for you in the passing and running game is Brevis fan Ford. He does a lot of the dirty work. Some of those trap blocks, some of those things. He really is physical and his size helps out, you know, in those interiors.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
He's the best special teams player on the football team.
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Aisha Morrison
Oh, yeah. I mean, even. And for him to be that size, be able to get down there on punk coverage and stuff like that, he is he's been a very good pickup. We saw him be one of the higher paid undrafted free agents in the NFL and I think you're starting to see it. Had that nice pass over the middle today. He's showing off his hands a little bit more. We saw him have his touchdown a few weeks ago. Getting to see him a little bit more next game, I think is going to be exciting because I do think people have some questions about Jake Ferguson's health. Schoolmaker hasn't given you much of anything, unfortunately. What do you got in Brevis fan? Ford moving forward? Is he gonna be a receiver? Is he gonna be able to do some blocking things too? Like, I think he can be an exciting player. So that's what I want to see next week is Brevispan Ford. What you got, Coach?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
No, I mean, I want to. Yeah, I want to see more of him. I want to see more of. I mean, I'm all about it. I want to see more of Bass. I want to see more of, you know, if Smith's going to be at left tackle, get it, get him those snaps. I want to see all that. I want to see. I want to see Mingo in the game. I know what George Pickens can do. I know what CD can do. Now, do they need to be in there with Dak? You see what I'm saying? It's an equation that you're trying to fit it all together and. But I'm, I'm all about. I want to. I want to see. I want to see all those guys. Is Flournoy hurt? Is. Is that why he didn't play today? Is he banged up?
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Aisha Morrison
Yes, sir. Yes. He had a ankle. No, I think it was his knee. It was his knee. His knee got banged up on that late hit last week. From what I mean, get.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
So get as much for Tolbert as you can get because he's probably not going to be with his football team next year, right? Probably not going to be here. Get as much as you can get for Mingo. He's probably not going to be with his football team next year. So all of those snaps that you can get those guys on film and get them projected into moving on with their careers too. So, you know, all while you got, you got a $60 million quarterback that, you know, wants to win and there's nothing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I mean, you want to see this team absolutely go out with a two game win streak. That's what you want to see.
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Jeff Biggs
All right, one last one. Is Milton back for sure next year. Is he under contract and do you think he's set to be the guy?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I did not know that.
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Jeff Biggs
Okay. All right. Well, we'll see if he plays or not. But hey, bottom line is the Cowboys got the win today. They pulled it out, did what they had to, didn't, didn't take the upset, had some really good moments and they should have a good weekend and then get ready for the season finale. All right, guys. Well, hey, this flew by. Thank you for being here, especially working on Christmas Day. Thank you to everybody that's chimed in with your comments. We love you guys. We appreciate you. Thank you for everyone watching and listening later. And we will do it again one more time next Sunday after the Cowboys finale against the Giants. Aisha. Coach, Merry Christmas. Thank you. You got it. Cowboys win today, 30 to 23. This has been the Cowboys squad show.
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Tostitos Advertiser
This holiday trip is draining my wallet.
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You're festive.
- [65:43]
Tostitos Advertiser
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- [65:44]
Aisha Morrison
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