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Kyle Yeomans
The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys.com and the Dallas Cowboys football club. How about you?
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Colin (Guest Caller)
Cowboys. Go Cowboys.
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Isaiah Standback
This is talking Cowboys streaming live from.
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Kyle Yeomans
The Dallas Cowboys world headquarters at the Star in Frisco.
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Josh Rodriguez
CD Lamb touchdown.
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Patrick No See Walker
It's on Jake Ferguson.
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Isaiah Standback
Prescott keeps it and he bangs it into the touchdown.
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Kyle Yeomans
And now your host, Isaiah stand back. Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez and Kyle Yeomans.
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Guys, it's still a say it with your chest Friday, but it's just a little bit less of a say it with your chest Friday after The Cowboys fall 44 30, the final score in week 14. Welcome in to talking Cowboys presented by Black Rifle coffee company live from the Star in Frisco, Texas in the Estrogen WBC studio.
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Welcome in everybody. We've got Patrick no see Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah stand back, Chris Beam in the back. I'm Kyle Yeomans. Cowboys fall to 6, 6 and 1 and their playoff hopes take a severe hit. A severe dash to the end and with one month remaining, they're not out of it mathematically. But man, they're going to need a lot of help from here on out. And you got to win pretty much everything else from here on out in order to do so. So I'll open the floor 44:30. It wasn't pretty in any phase. There were a lot of mistakes on any phase of the imagination of this one. Offense, defense, special teams. Patrick, since you were in the building at Ford field. I will. And since you had to get up early this morning to be on the charter flight to get back here, I'm going to let you start. Okay. Not sure what you're excited about. This is bad game.
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Patrick No See Walker
No, this is bad game. But Josh and I, for all the sneaker heads, they know we just got a drop this morning and we successfully acquired.
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Josh Rodriguez
Oh, congratulations.
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Patrick No See Walker
The diamond turfs.
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Josh Rodriguez
Diamond turfs in Cowboys colorway.
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Isaiah Standback
Wow.
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Patrick No See Walker
So we were waiting for the 9am drop.
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Josh Rodriguez
We'll be matching.
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Patrick No See Walker
Got him. Tee hee. That's him. And got him breakfast right there you go.
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Kyle Yeomans
Pretty sweet.
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Patrick No See Walker
All right, so to the Cowboys. Yeah. Where do you start when there are so many places that you can start? I mean, we talked about how the defense looked different coming out of the bye week, and they most certainly did. So we're not going to take anything away from that. But we also talked about how this was going to be the test for them. Now, we didn't know going into this game if Amara St. Brown would play or not. Not only did he. Not only did he play, but Dan Campbell made sure that. That the Cowboys understood he was going to be a big part of the game plan. From the word go, okay? They didn't have an answer for him. They didn't have an answer for Jameson Williams, and they absolutely did not have an answer for Jameer Gibbs. Now, we sat here on this, at this panel, and we said that, you know, Jameer Gibbs, he's. He's going to get his every once in a while. Boy, it turns out every once in a while is far more often than I would have liked to see. They couldn't cover him in space at all. Which goes on the struggles at the linebacker core. Not going to just yet start pointing out names. We just know the linebacker core as a whole struggled mightily last night against Jameer Gibbs. David Montgomery, you know, not that David Montgomery had a fantastic game, but the play that he had, when you look at that play and break it down, linebacker core, going back to that, flip it to the offensive side of the ball for the Cowboys and shouts out to CD Lamb because he had the bounce back game on Thanksgiving against the Chiefs. So then it was about stacking those kinds of days. He was taking the Lions out back and beating them to within an inch of their life. They had no answer for Ceedee Lamb before he got knocked out with that concussion. Knocked out of the game, I should say, with that concussion. Once he got knocked out of the game with that concussion, Cowboys had no offense. Yeah, that was pretty much that. You got to see more from George Pickens. We'll get to that. I'm quite sure. You know, Javante Williams, he did what he could. Man, your offensive line got manhandled tackles, man. I mean, that's just absolutely manhandled.
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Kyle Yeomans
That's the problem in my eyes.
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Patrick No See Walker
Yeah. Huge, man. And. And I want to go ahead and just blame Isaiah. Stand back because I told you not to piss off a Hutchinson. I told you. I said leave that damn bear alone. Didn't say it. But did you do it? No, you did not. 8 hutches in 10 pressures 10.
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Kyle Yeomans
10.
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Patrick No See Walker
How many pressures did they have on the. On the whole 28. And had half of them. Oh my God. Shout out. I gave Terrence Steele rightful praise for handling Max Crosby. He deleted Jalen Phillips. That interior with Tyler Booker. They handled Chris Jones. And here came another test with Aiden Hutchinson and a Hutchison said I heard tell somebody said I was not in peak form anymore. He went out there and he showed that he was. So now we're back to wondering what's going on with the tackles because know in Tyler Guyton's absence now I've seen another bad outing from Nate Thomas. I'll go back to what I said three weeks ago.
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Colin (Guest Caller)
Two.
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Patrick No See Walker
Three weeks ago when Nate Thomas went in when Tyler Goten left with injury and Nate Thomas did not have a good showing at all. Nate Thomas can be a serviceable swing tackle when you need him to step in from time to time. Yeah. But for those that are saying he's.
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Kyle Yeomans
Your full time guy, he's your full.
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Patrick No See Walker
Time guy, you're seeing why he's not your full time guy. And that's not to beat up on Nate Thomas because again, Terry Steele had a bad game. I saw Tyler Smith missing a couple.
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Isaiah Standback
Right the whole line.
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Patrick No See Walker
Right the whole line.
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Kyle Yeomans
Cooper Bibi struggled mightily inside.
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Patrick No See Walker
So I mean Dak was under siege last night. I'm just thankful that you know, QB1 left in one piece because time or.
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Kyle Yeomans
Two you wondering if he was going.
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Patrick No See Walker
To a couple times Jake Ferguson, he wants to take this tape and set it on fire. There's probably. I don't want to be a prisoner of recency bias now that you guys. I think this was the worst game I've ever seen from Jay first hands down. Yeah, I think so. Opi call. Yeah, it sucked. It was egregiously bad. That's. That helped turn the game. That's not why you lost the game.
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Josh Rodriguez
No.
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Patrick No See Walker
When you see Jake Ferguson on third and forever and he gets a check down on third and forever and I get the effort but there are three or four guys on you. You're not going to break three or four guys off of you and run for another 12 yard. Is. You're not doing that. Just take the lowercase l instead. It turns into a capital L because it's fumble.
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Isaiah Standback
Yeah.
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Patrick No See Walker
It wasn't George Pickens did. What did they do? Wasn't that the. That was the David Montgomery touchdown that came after that.
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Kyle Yeomans
After the Ferguson fumble.
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Colin (Guest Caller)
Yeah.
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Patrick No See Walker
And then Fergie with the hands to the face that deleted the DPI downfield.
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Kyle Yeomans
Delete it was all bad, Josh.
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Josh Rodriguez
That's what I think. If you're Detroit, you probably saw a lot of weaknesses in the Cowboys in terms of physicality and being able to run to the ball and take advantage of them sort of giving up when the play is over. The play isn't over until the whistle. You hear the whistle. And in a lot of those cases, the Dallas Cowboys failed. You had a lot of Dallas Cowboys players individually that had really bad performances from players that you would not ordinarily see, in my opinion. I mean, you have. You've seen ups and downs this year from Duron Bland. This is one of his worst games. I feel like this is one of the worst games from Kenneth Murray, who has struggled in and out during the season. Terence Steele and Nate Thomas, my goodness, that. What a terrible game for those two. And it's something that you would expect them to have a better game knowing what is on the line here. And just in every facet, those guys got whooped. It's unfortunate because you expect more out of them. Even though Nate Thomas is a backup. I mean, we're talking about if he should be competing for Tyler Guyton's number one spot. So if you.
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Patrick No See Walker
It.
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Josh Rodriguez
That feels very unfortunate. Jake Ferguson, like you said there. There were just so many individual performances. George Pickens. George Pickens, a guy that we've championed this whole season so far. And still, to me, it's no doubt that he's also a number one receiver along with CD Lamb. To me, there's no question about it. But the effort was in question yesterday. But I feel like the Lions did a good job of saying CD Lamb and George Pickens are not going to kill us, even though CD Lamb, for a large part was killing him. But you had them frustrated. Yeah, you were frustrating them enough to where they felt like, all right, fine. You know, they. They kind of backed off in their fundamentals, and they were pressing. So you felt that a lot. I mean, you gotta be happy for Ryan Flournoy, who had a great game, all things considered, but you really, really needed more of George Pickens yesterday, and you just didn't get it. And even Dak, for a large part. I mean, you gotta be able to understand where the pressure is. If your tackles are not helping you, you gotta throw it away, man. Don't take. Take the lowercase l, do not take the capital Ls. And that's what happened quite a bit.
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Kyle Yeomans
I thought there were a couple times where he had no choice. Yeah, like, he was. He was still in the middle of that final plant, but he was gone.
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Josh Rodriguez
Are we here to say that he performed exactly how you would expect? Dak Press got to play in a game where, yes, he played exactly how you wanted to play.
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Kyle Yeomans
I didn't think he played that Dak had.
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Isaiah Standback
Listen, all right, let's. Let's talk.
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Patrick No See Walker
Please talk qb.
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Josh Rodriguez
Tell me.
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Isaiah Standback
I'm really frustrated. I'm really frustrated. I sat here and going, I mentioned this last week I said going. Or this week I said going. Before watching the film, I thought that Dallas was going to take an L because physically, Detroit has always posed a major threat to Dallas and they always beat up Dallas.
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Josh Rodriguez
They punk.
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Isaiah Standback
They punk Dallas. They.
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Patrick No See Walker
They just.
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Isaiah Standback
They punk them.
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Kyle Yeomans
Even the game that Dallas won two years ago in 2023, they were arguably.
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Josh Rodriguez
The more physical team.
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Isaiah Standback
So that was.
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Kyle Yeomans
Remember, I said.
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Isaiah Standback
I said, I. I fear that Dallas will get beat up. But after watching the film, based upon the matchups and based upon what they propose in terms of their schemes, I felt like Dallas should win this ball game. But physically, I was always concerned that stayed true. Dallas got physically beat up. They got punked once again. They obviously stepped on the same field with the same opportunity. One team played with energy. The other team played with no energy. One team continued to fight back and get back in the game. But even when they fought and got back in the game, you had no sense of confidence because they weren't playing with confidence. Yeah.
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In terms of effectiveness and execution. We sat there on the pregame show and Kyle posed a question to Nate, Barry and myself, and he asked, if you were going to shut down Dallas's offense, what would you do if you're going to shut down this tandem? And I said I would play two man. I would get up at the line of scrimmage, I would sit on the inside hip pocket, I would contest them at the line of scrimmage, and then I would sit underneath their hip all game long with the safety over the top.
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Josh Rodriguez
What did they do?
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Isaiah Standback
Two men the entire time. I also said if they choose to do that, then you have to go to Jake Ferguson. Because this defense plays base defense. They don't really change much. Nope. And they're going to have a linebacker on one of your highest paid players on your team.
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Kyle Yeomans
And they did that all night long. Anzalone, all night long was covering Jake Ferguson.
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Isaiah Standback
Anzalone shouldn't be able to hold Jake Ferguson's tidy whes. Right. You can, you can complain about the, the opi. You can complain about the, the dpi. You complain about all the times he got it doesn't matter. That matchup did not get highlighted enough. Let's just say that. Okay. They did not take advantage of that. I told you sitting there. I don't know, Kyle's probably tired of me talking at the game, but I literally sat there, I said, if I'm Dak Prescott, I'm going to Jake. Once I recognize the defense that they're running, I'm saying I'm throwing you the ball every single time.
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Kyle Yeomans
Until they change.
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Isaiah Standback
Until they change. Catch the dog on ball. Right. We knew it was going to be contested. Everything was going to be contested. This is a sticky team. Their fight. They're going to fight to the lights out. Offensive line was trash.
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Josh Rodriguez
They're not going to make.
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Isaiah Standback
Offensive line was absolutely trash.
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Josh Rodriguez
Yeah.
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Isaiah Standback
You talk about Dak and his ability, you know, sometimes to throw it away. Dak was pressured 20 times. He was sacked 5 times on 47 drop backs, 25 times out of 47 passes. This dude was under duress. You can't do anything as a quarterback with that. I, I can't. I'm looking on the outside. Obviously, I'm getting the ball to CD. CD's doing his thing. Okay. Even contested catches, amazing catches with my cd. He goes out the game with a concussion. Okay.
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Colin (Guest Caller)
Boom.
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Isaiah Standback
I have another number one. He's going to step up. No, he's jogging. Call it what it is. He's jogging. There's no way he can watch this film and dispute anything that anybody on TV or appear right now is saying. He was jogging on routes, he was short arming routes he was not giving full effort on. On a lot of things that we can point to in that game. That's not what people want to see out of your 1B receiver. He has to check himself on that. There's no disputed, no disputing it.
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Patrick No See Walker
Facts.
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Isaiah Standback
Oh, line was absolutely Boo.
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Patrick No See Walker
Boo.
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Isaiah Standback
Javante Williams did what he did what he could do with what he was given. Defensively, he tried. I couldn't be more frustrated with this defense. I'm not going to call out names right now. There's some people who shouldn't be out there. Some guys from in terms of their execution shouldn't be out there. Some guys based upon their physical abilities right now, shouldn't be out there.
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Patrick No See Walker
Yeah.
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Isaiah Standback
Now, do you have much of a choice based upon the guys that you have at that depth? Ah, I don't know. But maybe you might want to put them in a better position. But I do know that amon St. Brown versus 14 yards off with a safety Guarding him is probably not going to stop him. Putting Donovan Wilson 14 yards away from Amara St. Brown's probably not a good scheme.
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Kyle Yeomans
And that was on 1st and 10.
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Isaiah Standback
1St and 10 and that was on multiple occasions. Okay. Just playing off. He literally passed just routes on air. Just like if you get to the game early and you watch teams warm up. That's what Amara St. Brown did majority of the night. He didn't have contested catches. These were routes on air. Jameson Williams, fastest man on the field no matter what field he steps on, no matter what opponent. Why is Marquis Bell playing man to man on him? One of your slowest DBs is playing against the fastest man on the field. Schematically. That makes zero sense to me. I'm not even going to talk about execution. I don't. I'm not mad at Marquis Bell. He doesn't stand a chance. He doesn't stand not putting the a position to be successful.
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Josh Rodriguez
Exactly.
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Kyle Yeomans
That's a scheme law.
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Isaiah Standback
That's a scheme thing. So playing off of Amara St. Brown is a scheme issue. Playing zone defense and backing off 8 yards of a freaking jameer gives when he lines up at receiver is a scheme problem. There was scheme issues. There were executions issues. There was issues across the board. I can go all day long but those are some of the things that were glaring in my eyes. We could talk about the Jay Ferguson fumble, the effort there. I, it's. It's hard. I'm frustrated. Yeah, he fumbled. So did George Pickens. We just happened to fall on it.
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Josh Rodriguez
You know, so second game in a row.
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Isaiah Standback
A lot of things that are occurring that have to be cleaned up. Obviously this game you couldn't afford to lose. They did lose it. We're frustrated or that's the one positive that you could take away is that Dak didn't get hurt.
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Kyle Yeomans
Yeah. He's still available. I mean even CD Lamb being out and George Pickens pride. I don't know what it is but there were a lot of different things.
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Isaiah Standback
Brandon Aubrey. Brandon Aubrey. I gotta give.
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Kyle Yeomans
Yeah, yeah.
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Josh Rodriguez
Kept in the game.
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Isaiah Standback
Brandon Aubrey kept single handedly.
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Patrick No See Walker
Kept you.
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Isaiah Standback
Kept you single footedly. Get across it. Literally 15 and we sat there. Yeah.
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Kyle Yeomans
That's not a one possession game at 27:19 without Brandon Aubrey across the 50s.
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Isaiah Standback
Yeah. Like. And you can see that Dallas. I don't want to project. I'm going to assume Right. Based upon what I saw. It felt as if Dallas was satisfied getting across the 50 and saying we have Brandon Aubrey. That's what it felt like.
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Patrick No See Walker
It did. Sure it did.
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Kyle Yeomans
And we've seen that happen before. We've seen that happen previously with another coaching staff that was here. Yeah, it's happened before.
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Josh Rodriguez
And uncharacteristic.
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Kyle Yeomans
When your safety blanket becomes your game plan, that's a problem. And that's kind of what it ultimately felt like. And I'm not going to, like you said, I'm not going to project it. They were trying to go and score touchdowns. Get a twist. Whatever they call a play, period, it's to try and score a touchdown. That's just how football works. However, Brandon Aubrey, absolutely a weapon. I think my number one takeaway from this game is the way that the defense did not continue the momentum from the three games prior because they were put in bad situations. Don't get me wrong. Y' all have talked about offense, you've talked about defense, you've talked about the positives of special teams. How about the fact that Detroit averaged a starting field position of 42 yard line outside of the final kneel down.
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Josh Rodriguez
Of the game, according to sources? That is not good.
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Kyle Yeomans
No, it is not. That means you only have to go 58 yards per drive to score. 58 yards instead of 75 or 70 or 65. All of those things across the board are certainly. That's not good.
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Isaiah Standback
Is that helpful when you're 80% conversion?
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Kyle Yeomans
Absolutely not. It is not helpful at all. So they were put in a bad spot. Takeaways. The fumble from Jake Ferguson, the interception at the beginning of the third quarter, both of those things hurt you tremendously and it almost hurts you again as you talked about with the fumble in the red zone with George Pickens. So we talk about complimentary offense a lot or complimentary football a lot is what I mean. This was anti complimentary. This was hurtful football. Your special teams hurt your defense, then your offense hurt your defense, then your defense hurt your offense and then it just all kind of fell apart and.
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Isaiah Standback
You were still in the game. One possession.
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Patrick No See Walker
Absolutely.
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Kyle Yeomans
So I have a hard time looking at this game and looking at this film and saying Detroit handled you. They did physically, don't get me wrong. And I give a lot of credit to Dan Campbell for getting these guys up and ready to play. They had lost two of three coming in and there were a lot of things on the line for Detroit just as much as there was for Dallas. However, Dallas shot themselves in the foot consistently over and over and over again. And there were things that Detroit did better than Dallas, but there are a lot of things Dallas left on the table. And that's the Most frustrating.
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Patrick No See Walker
Listen you guys, some excellent points.
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Josh Rodriguez
Kyle, you lost yourself.
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Patrick No See Walker
Absolutely. You talk about the Cowboys schematics now. Execution issues were absolutely there. Again, your linebackers and not necessarily the Marvon overshown, but some of your other linebackers like doing Jared Golf threw for 309 yards and a touchdown.
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Kyle Yeomans
Okay, that's a solid stat line.
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Patrick No See Walker
Solid stat line. Okay. 250 yards of those, including that touchdown came when the Cowboys were in zone coverage. Cowboys ran zone coverage 86% of the time yesterday. And Jared Golf just sat back there and decimated you.
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Kyle Yeomans
Said how much?
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Patrick No See Walker
86% of the time.
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Kyle Yeomans
Golly, if I got an 86 on a test, I'd get like ice cream. After the, after the test on my way home.
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Isaiah Standback
Can I just point to something? No. See, while you're pointing out the zone. Cuz you guys know I hate zone. I was literally about to throw something through the telestrator.
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Kyle Yeomans
Yeah, we had to hold him back, bro.
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Isaiah Standback
Listen, fourth quarter, you're down by eight. One possession, correct?
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Josh Rodriguez
Just one.
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Patrick No See Walker
Come on.
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Isaiah Standback
You, you literally are in a position to get off the field. One stop, get the ball back to your offense. As bad as you're playing and what they do, as bad as you're playing and you play 72 yards off.
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Patrick No See Walker
Played off.
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Kyle Yeomans
That was when it was.
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Isaiah Standback
And you allow them to get in field goal range. Yeah, that, that drive in particular, I was about to lose my mind. You are three downs away from getting the ball back into Dak Prescott's hands to have an opportunity to tie the game up. When your team is playing terrible and you back up schematically give it to him, you back up and say go ahead and get in field goal range and make it a two possession game. I can't comprehend it. I legit. We can point to a lot of different things. Let's talk about that drive. I need to understand what is the thought process to play 12 yards off when you only need. When they only need to get balled 10 to 15 yards further down the field to kick a field goal and put this game out of reach.
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Patrick No See Walker
Not the first time we've seen that this season either.
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Isaiah Standback
It it I, I and I'm talking to Kyle and I'm like what about situational football is not getting across that? This is a time and place in the game where you go to that call sheet and you're like these five plays that I, that I, that I mapped out is for this situation right here. These are my five plays that I have that these are my go getters These are my break glass scenario. I need a play right now. You don't have five plays. You don't have one. Like, like that drove me crazy. It made no sense. You were so close. Like this game was right there and you backed up and you gave it to him. Take it. You just take it. You can have it. Routes on air. Take it. Maybe you'll drop the ball.
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Kyle Yeomans
Same thing happened at the end of the second quarter too after you kicked the field goal prior to halftime. Inside the two minute timeout. Playing so far off that they easily walked down the field.
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Josh Rodriguez
40 seconds.
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Patrick No See Walker
Easily.
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Kyle Yeomans
Easily walked down the field and kicked the field goals and just completely negated everything you had done to that point.
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Patrick No See Walker
Easy. He did. He was trying, man.
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Kyle Yeomans
Yeah, it was a. This was a tough one. When we come back here on Talking Cowboys, I want to hear from Patrick. No see Walker, we got a little lab coat. We got to make up. We do. Coming in hot. Grumble, grumble, grumble. We'll get some stats after this. We'll continue to break down the Cowboys 4430 loss to the Detroit Lions when we come back with more after this.
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Isaiah Standback
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Patrick No See Walker
Nice. Hey, can you.
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Kyle Yeomans
Hey, hon. Yes, I've got the finale ready to play. Here's your wine.
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Isaiah Standback
Wow.
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Patrick No See Walker
How's it going? You see that Cowboys game?
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Isaiah Standback
Oh, I watched. Been seeing some good things.
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Patrick No See Walker
Totally. They have some talent.
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Isaiah Standback
Yup. Some great talent.
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Patrick No See Walker
And they got some fight.
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Isaiah Standback
Hoping this is the year.
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Patrick No See Walker
Me too. Oh, I'm Cody, by the way.
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Kyle Yeomans
I'm Travis.
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Patrick No See Walker
Nice to meet you, Travis. Go Cowboys.
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Isaiah Standback
Go Cowboys make a new friend based.
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Kyle Yeomans
Back to Talking Cowboys.
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Back here on Talking Cowboys presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company where your Cowboys gear to a Black Rifle coffee location. Get 10% off your entire order. Hope you did it yesterday. Hope you got it done. All right. Cowboys do not get it done. 44, 30. They get 40 burgers put on that Cowboys defense. And I give a lot of credit to that, to the offense, to the Cowboys offense for allowing that to happen in the special teams unit. Not complimentary football, to say the least. Now, Patrick, we didn't get to do it on Tuesday. Because it was a loaded show, short week.
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Patrick No See Walker
We had the greatness of QB vision.
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Kyle Yeomans
We certainly did.
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Patrick No See Walker
Popcorn.
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Kyle Yeomans
But you know what time it is.
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Patrick No See Walker
Bring me in. Beamer.
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Isaiah Standback
Yes.
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Patrick No See Walker
Yeah, absolutely. It is time for lab coat. So a couple of points here on lab coat. One flies right to the heart of what Isaiah is saying. Again, I'll state it once again. The Cowboys ran zone 87% of the time last night. Jared Goff had 250 of his 309 passing yards and his only passing touchdown when the Cowboys were in zone. Let's expound upon that. Just. Just really quickly. Isaiah is talking about the Cowboys being in third and long situations, sometimes even second and long situations, and playing all the way back. Like, I mean, they were in Texas.
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Isaiah Standback
All of it.
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Patrick No See Walker
They were in Texas trying to stop, you know, a third and eight.
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Kyle Yeomans
Lake Erie.
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Patrick No See Walker
Jared Goff just took everything that they gave him. We talk a lot about taking what the defense gives you. Well, the Cowboys defense was giving him all of it, and he was taking all of it. Jerry Goff completed 24 of 33. Shouts out to NGS for this. 24 of his 33 attempts for 272 yards and the touchdown. With most of the production on quick passes, not downfield production.
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Josh Rodriguez
He was getting it out quick, quick.
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Patrick No See Walker
Get it out into the hands of your playmakers and let them make plays.
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Isaiah Standback
High percentage.
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Patrick No See Walker
High percentage. He completed 17 of his 21 quick pass attempts for a total of 167 yards. And the tutty. That is a quick pass rate of 62%. It's his highest mark in the game since he signed with the Lions.
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And the Cowboys let him do it.
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Isaiah Standback
Question.
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Patrick No See Walker
Wait, hold on. I'm going to say this one more time just so people understand. Yeah, please. Okay. 62%. Cool. That's for the stats nerds such as myself. Let me just put it in plain language, though. Jared Goff against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday Night Football just registered the highest success rate on his quick passes in his entire career with the Detroit Lions.
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Zone coverage was early Christmas for him and those playmakers.
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Josh Rodriguez
Really quick. How do you combat a really solid interior defensive line?
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Isaiah Standback
Oh, get it out.
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Kyle Yeomans
Yeah, Quick passes.
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Isaiah Standback
Yeah, get it out. But you know what? Okay, I just want to wrap this up. No, see, because I don't want there to be this ideology that we're speaking negatively about zone all the time. We're not.
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Patrick No See Walker
We're not talking about running it.
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Of the time.
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Isaiah Standback
So even if. Let's just go ahead and put this on it, too. No, see, there's a Way to play zone 87 of the time. Even though I don't like that without playing far off, I don't like that zone. There are many ways to remain in zone and still disrupt the releases of receivers. The one thing that receivers hate when they're trying to get out into their routes is to have to run around another person. I don't want to have to deal with getting around you and then getting to my spot and then getting out of my break and then catching the ball. But if you're playing off, I don't have to worry about that because once I cross five yards, by law, you can't touch me. So you are taking away the advantage that you have as a defender within that first 5 yards that they allot for to go up and make my job difficult. So when you talk about 87% efficiency there when you're playing 14 yards, when you're playing 12, 10, 8 yards off of these receivers in the NFL. But let's talk about Amanra St. Brown in particular. One of the best possession receivers I consider in the league. You might not want to give him that five yard grace period that you actually are gifted to. Go be physical with him. And if you were ever going to be physical with Amara St. Brown, it probably should come on the heels of him not having practice because of an ankle injury. I'm probably going to go make his life a little bit more difficult to get off the ball.
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Josh Rodriguez
Impress him a little.
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Isaiah Standback
Be a little more physical, A little bit more physical. At least gonna get up there and force them to go into a short motion like they did that with JIR gifts. Make them do a short motion so that you can't go up there and disrupt. And that's what teams do to combat people. Teams that want to come up and press so you can play zone defense while still disrupting releases at the line of scrimmage. Dallas, for whatever reason, all season long, not just tonight. Yeah, right. This has been my, this has been my, my issue I've had all season long.
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Kyle Yeomans
Said it consistently, but specifically in games.
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Isaiah Standback
That really matter, you cannot give those gifts. Christmas is here. I get it. You can't give away gifts because you just gave away your chance for the playoffs.
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Patrick No See Walker
So here's, here's my question because I want. We've been talking especially because of the focus of lab coat on this particular thing. I know a lot. Some fans are probably listening to this and saying. At this point, they're saying, but it wasn't only the defense, you're right. But it Was also the defense. You're right. It was the offense as well. But it wasn't only the offense either. Your special team. So here's my question. For all of the rightful criticism that Eva flu straws from the fan base and from the analysts, when we see things like what we saw last night against the Detroit Lions.
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When is everyone going to start having the Sorensen conversation?
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Isaiah Standback
Oh, oh, yeah, We've had it, y' all already.
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Kyle Yeomans
We were talking about that conversation.
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Patrick No See Walker
Had it. Okay. It's a conversation that needs to be had, and I believe it needs to be had in the front office as well. Shoddy needs to, you know, have a conversation with his special teams coordinator because this is a special teams unit now, thankfully, butter is still butter. Okay. But this is a special teams unit that went from being the best in the league.
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Kyle Yeomans
Not even close. Best in the league.
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Patrick No See Walker
Yeah. I mean, not even far and away. Wasn't even arguable.
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Kyle Yeomans
No.
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Patrick No See Walker
To probably be. Not even probably to being one of the worst in the league now. Save for, you know, effort from guys like Elijah Clark a couple weeks ago, save for effort from guys like Sam William Williams with the block field goals. So you have, like an individual standout here and there. Here and there. But the unit as a whole, say, for those that have the consistency of Brandon Aubrey, special teams has taken a massive, gargantuan step back. And I feel like the criticism for flu still justified. Is kind of saving Nick Sorensen from criticism.
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Isaiah Standback
Yes.
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Patrick No See Walker
I just feel like it's a conversation that needs to be had.
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Isaiah Standback
No, see, I can tell you this, you guys. We, the. Our fan, our family have. Have brought it up numerous times. You guys have brought it up numerous times. Friends and family have said that I should get into coaching, and I've always been like, heck, no, not getting to coaching. Kyle, what did I say last night?
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Kyle Yeomans
You said, I think I could be a pretty darn good special teams coordinator.
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Isaiah Standback
She almost forced me into putting my.
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Colin (Guest Caller)
Name in the hat.
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Kyle Yeomans
He was like, hold on a second. He's like, let me go get my ball cap. My bro. My backwards visor. Let me go get that out of the car real quick.
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Josh Rodriguez
Why do you say that?
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Isaiah Standback
Isaiah is. I don't feel. This is my feeling. I don't feel like he's connected to the special teams unit. I'll say that. I. I don't. I don't know him personally. Yeah, I've been around. I've seen. I've seen his presence amongst that, and I've experienced a lot of special teams coordinators in my Life. The most successful special teams coordinators that I've seen are either super savvy vets. Cats have been around for a long time. Old school cats. Right. That their players just ball out for them. Right. Just old rugged cats. Or they're young guys with a lot of juice and a lot of energy. Because special teams is a special unit. It is a unit where you are literally going out there and is 70% effort, 30% execution.
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Josh Rodriguez
It's the dirty work.
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Isaiah Standback
It's the dirty work and you got to have somebody that is the juice man. And I've never seen him do anything, even a Jason Garrett clap. That's not to say that he's not doing it.
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Kyle Yeomans
The biggest thing that I've seen him do was after the second time getting on Turp, second time that it's happened in two weeks where Kevonte Turpin does a fake fair catch and then tried to return it and it ends up being a penalty. Second time. And Sorensen, I give him credit. He got in the face of Terp and he was lighting up Terp on the sideline, which I don't know if that's a terpene, a habit or something. I don't know if it's a, if it's a plan. That's even worse. That was a plan, but it's done. It's been happened twice in a row.
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Patrick No See Walker
So it didn't happen with Bones.
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Kyle Yeomans
And so I, I get onto or I give him credit for getting on to Terp, but that was really the most emotion we've seen out of the guy at any point in time.
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Isaiah Standback
Yes, I, I, there's special teams has been a problem.
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Patrick No See Walker
It has. And really quickly to someone in the chat who asked how was it also offense's fault? It's because they got in their own way. You talk about the Jake. This is just quick. And we'll get back to special teams. Jake Ferguson's fumble. Jake Ferguson hands to the face.
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Isaiah Standback
Did they watch the game?
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Patrick No See Walker
I don't know. Yeah, the offensive offensive line got offensive. Prescott got hit 11 times, sacked five times, pressured 20 times. That's how the offense out.
- [35:39]
Kyle Yeomans
Rahim Muhammad, who you let go training camp last year, had three sacks.
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Isaiah Standback
Don't bring that up.
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Patrick No See Walker
So just to answer that question, not.
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Kyle Yeomans
Micah Parsons, not Aiden Grudge, not a, not all these other Miles Garrett, these J.J. watts.
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Colin (Guest Caller)
No.
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Kyle Yeomans
But no, it was Alquaheen Muhammad, a high effort guy. High effort.
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Isaiah Standback
Never should have let walk out the door.
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Kyle Yeomans
Isaiah has been very highly spoken about that for a while.
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Patrick No See Walker
But yeah. So Circling back to special teams, because I want to hear Josh's standpoint on it because it sounds like he had some passion in that, in that soreness and point.
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Josh Rodriguez
I mean, it's. It's hard to disagree that the Cowboys are a worse special teams unit this year compared to last year. Yeah, you can't really dispute it at this point. And like you said, it's much worse. And Brandon Aubrey makes up for a lot of that because Brandon Aubrey's. Brandon Aubrey. But if you look at just missed tackles, just missed tackles on special teams, that is what's really killing you right now. And we're talking about the position that they had all game. That was a big part of it, too. It's not just punt coverage or anything like that.
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Isaiah Standback
Kickoff coverage.
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Josh Rodriguez
Kickoff.
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Isaiah Standback
Kickoff coverage. Normal, abysmal, really bad last night. And the game has changed.
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Patrick No See Walker
And yet you kept kicking to the guy.
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Isaiah Standback
It's so. It's not knowing that your.
- [36:51]
Patrick No See Walker
That your coverage was poor.
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Isaiah Standback
I don't have a problem with that. I don't have a problem with that. Because in this new kickoff era, okay, back in the day, I was. We had a rundown on kickoff. It was L5, L4. You had to get gritty, run into a wedge and a wall. Right? You're going right.
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Patrick No See Walker
You said era.
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Isaiah Standback
This new era. You're standing there. Yeah, exactly. You're standing there and you're literally right. Five yards away from a guy. Right. Most of the time is you versus that guy. You can scheme it up a little bit, but majority of the time you have one on one matchups. Beat your man. Yeah, beat your man. There are a lot of drills that you. That you can do in. In this. In this game of football that will position you to be successful. Personnel groupings matter, right? The type of personnel that you have. What did I say last night? I said if I was on. If I was a special team coordinator, 90% of my guys would be defense. Defensive players.
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Kyle Yeomans
Yeah, you. You said they needed a little edge to them.
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Isaiah Standback
You got to have some edge to them. Yeah, you got to have. You got some defensive ends, you got some linebackers, and you got. You bust these cats in the mouth. Yeah, Bus. I'm trying to. If you have a hard chin strap, I need that thing cracked by the end of the game. It's. It's a violent game. This is a violent game that we play, so this is not pity. Pat, let me let you get 40 yards on a kickoff return, which they did all night long. Last.
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Kyle Yeomans
All night.
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Patrick No See Walker
But, you know, Isaiah, you made A point that I, I, I'm going to double down on because I don't want fans to view it as a fleeting point. Just as from player to player there has to be chemistry in each position group in each unit. This special teams as a unit and, and this is coming from someone who's in the building at every practice in the locker room I talk to players and not to say that players are throwing, you know, Sorenson under the bus. I'm not saying that at all. But when you talk about the feel like these past several seasons it felt like special teams players would run through a wall for bones Fossil. I don't feel that. Yeah, I just, I just don't. It just, it just feels like they're players and there's the coach and it.
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Isaiah Standback
Goes and it's a part of him but real quick even on punt return and you can see it and I know people are gonna say, oh, Turpin is one of the best punt returners. How many opportunities has he had?
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Kyle Yeomans
Not a ton.
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Isaiah Standback
Not a ton. And you know what that goes to, it goes to an aspect of the game that a lot of people don't pay attention to because they don't really show it on the screen or you don't really talk about it. It's the hold up. Yeah, it's the hold up. The some of the great teams that I've been on, we work the crap out of that drill in practice, man to man. You're on film, we're highlighting this and we're going to watch it on film in front of the whole team. Can you get a hold up on this dude? Come off. Put your hand crowning your helmet in his chin strap. Sit your butt down, lock up and don't let him off the line. There's a pride factor that comes with that. If I do my job and then my partners do their job across the board, our return man has a chance. But if I come off and I just hit him and then I let this dude just throw me to the side and run down the field now Terp has to fair catch. So there's a pride factor that grows across the board in tech technical aspect that's that people aren't paying attention to that is contributing to why we're saying this about the special teams unit as a whole.
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Kyle Yeomans
So with, with all of that being said, special teams specifically and everything pieced together here, we expected a drop off. When John Fossil left right, you knew that was a big loss.
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Josh Rodriguez
He's the best in the league.
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Kyle Yeomans
One of the special teams coordinators in football right now. You knew there was going to be a drop off, and I don't. I'm not even saying that as a knock toward Nick Sorensen, but the drop off has been far severe or far more severe than I think we even anticipated going into the year. There's got to be a significant change in the special teams unit to make it worthwhile to have that conversation or to push aside that conversation as these Final Four games go along. All right, we got to get another break in here. When we come back, we're going to talk about the games that are on the docket this week. We're going to actually make some picks. If you want to be a part of our pick them segment. 8888-5522-9788-8855-2297. Give us a call. We're also going to make up a game for the fans out there as well. I'll tell you how that's going to work here in a little bit. Plus, we'll have a college football minute right after this with more talking Cowboys.
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Isaiah Standback
Hey mom, before you ask, I've done my homework and the dishwasher's unloaded.
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Patrick No See Walker
Nice. Hey, can you. Hey hon.
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Kyle Yeomans
Yes, I've got the finale ready to play. Here's your wine. Wow.
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Kyle Yeomans
Back to talking cowboys.
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Back here on Talking Cowboys. This segment is brought to you by Invisalign, the official smile of the Dallas Cowboys. Back with Patrick no See Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah, stand back with Chris Meme in the back. I'm Kyle Yeomans. Real quickly, it's time for our college football minute. There are a Couple teams in action this week. It's not Isaiah's team. Josh's team is always in action. They're always doing their work to get out of debt.
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Josh Rodriguez
Legal action.
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Patrick No See Walker
Oh, my God.
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Josh Rodriguez
Because they're being sued.
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Kyle Yeomans
All right, Pat, tell us about them. Georgia Bulldogs.
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Patrick No See Walker
Yeah. So, you know, one thing I do love is a good old fashioned rematch. So Alabama came to Athens a few weeks ago and they snuck one on us. You know, barely got away.
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Kyle Yeomans
21.
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Patrick No See Walker
Yeah, barely got away with it. But we get them back in the SEC Championship in Atlanta on Saturday. So I would absolutely love to just maul them. I will say I am concerned, not necessarily about the game itself, but I'm concerned about it being a bonus game because of the way the, you know, college football is set up now with the 12 game record. I don't like that. Now the SEC championship, you know, and conference championships have basically just been reduced to bragging rights. So with that, we're risking injury for bragging rights knowing that the playoffs are coming up. So don't like that. That needs to be fixed. But that's a soapbox. I'm not going to get on. Go out there, handle low tide and let's take some momentum to the playoffs. Go Dogs.
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Isaiah Standback
Good luck.
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Kyle Yeomans
So for the upper echelon of conferences, yeah, you're right. Conference championship games are just bragging, right? Not the case for the University of North Texas Mean Green. It is literally the biggest game in the history of the program and there's not even a conversation. It happens tonight on ABC prime time.
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Isaiah Standback
Let's go.
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Kyle Yeomans
North Texas, the number 24 ranked team in the recent College Football Playoff rankings, taking on number 22, Lane. The winner is going to the college football.
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Isaiah Standback
Let's freaking go.
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Kyle Yeomans
It's been a long season.
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Isaiah Standback
Put your green drawers on.
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Colin (Guest Caller)
Go. Me green.
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Isaiah Standback
You can't say it got them on, just made them green.
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Kyle Yeomans
I can still say it. There are a lot of.
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Isaiah Standback
I'm going to say they were.
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Kyle Yeomans
A lot of things have happened as a part of this program over the last couple of weeks, especially the coach leaving to Oklahoma State. They have now announced a new coach. Neil Brown is going to be the next head coach for North Texas.
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Patrick No See Walker
GM also.
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Kyle Yeomans
You have. The GM's going to Oklahoma. To Oklahoma State. Yeah, Just keep on. Let's just twist that night.
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Patrick No See Walker
Adversity that you guys are.
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Kyle Yeomans
But there are. There is adversity. But the big thing is they've got a chance to win one game tonight for all the glory.
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Isaiah Standback
Let's go.
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Kyle Yeomans
Marbles. May even be headed To Athens next. Next time they play a game, who knows? It may be Eugene, it may be College Station. We'll see what's going to happen. I'm sure you will.
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North Texas Tulane tonight. Can't wait. And I'm telling you, if they end up winning that I'm going to be insufferable on social media.
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Josh Rodriguez
I'm pulling for you.
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Patrick No See Walker
You deserve to be.
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Kyle Yeomans
Thank you.
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Patrick No See Walker
Like, seriously, I appreciate it.
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Kyle Yeomans
I wish I was down there. We have work. Let Kyle cook Cowboys work.
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Patrick No See Walker
Yeah, it's going to be till he comes to athletes.
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Kyle Yeomans
All right, let's get into a little bit of pick them segment. We. We made our picks for the Cowboys game on Tuesday.
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What is that? You okay?
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Isaiah Standback
He's crazy, man.
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Kyle Yeomans
Yeah. I don't know what's going on. We've got five games for the rest of the slate throughout the week. In terms of our pick them segment, Anthony in Miami is our guest picker today.
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Isaiah Standback
What up, big amp?
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Colin (Guest Caller)
Hey, what's going on, my fellas?
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Patrick No See Walker
305.
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Colin (Guest Caller)
Hey, hanging is my dudes. Nick and and Chris are my guys and you guys are my fellows. I always told Cal I would always call him. He's been my dude for years.
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Kyle Yeomans
Yes, sir.
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Colin (Guest Caller)
I told him I'll always call him. So it's my first time this year. Fellas, I appreciate y' all show love and I like your show.
- [48:25]
Kyle Yeomans
Appreciate you, Colin. You don't always have to like mention those.
- [48:30]
Colin (Guest Caller)
Just the names I call everybody. I do my own personalized.
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Kyle Yeomans
Yep, no doubt about it.
- [48:35]
Patrick No See Walker
Holiday season. Let the man spread love.
- [48:36]
Kyle Yeomans
Oh, you're right. You're right. I'm. I appreciate you calling. Appreciate your love as always. Let's get into these games. Dolphins at the Jets. You guys want a barn burner to start?
- [48:47]
Josh Rodriguez
Oh, my God.
- [48:48]
Kyle Yeomans
Dolphins.
- [48:48]
Josh Rodriguez
A blockbuster if you will.
- [48:50]
Kyle Yeomans
Isaiah, what you got?
- [48:52]
Isaiah Standback
Give me the Jew man.
- [48:56]
Patrick No See Walker
Exactly.
- [48:57]
Isaiah Standback
You know what?
- [48:58]
Kyle Yeomans
A little bit of a breakfast.
- [48:59]
Josh Rodriguez
That's how the broadcast is gonna start.
- [49:01]
Isaiah Standback
I'm gonna go on my ex teammates, man. I'm over there with the Jets. Okay, I'm gonna take a. Glenn, baby.
- [49:07]
Kyle Yeomans
I was hoping you would make a Dolphin noise. Now I'm gonna try it.
- [49:10]
Patrick No See Walker
You gotta get Josh because he can hit those highs.
- [49:12]
Kyle Yeomans
Taking the Dolphins.
- [49:13]
Patrick No See Walker
Yeah, that would go wicked.
- [49:16]
Josh Rodriguez
No, I can't line up. Go with the Dolphins.
- [49:22]
Patrick No See Walker
I like Aaron Glenn. I'm going with the Jets.
- [49:23]
Isaiah Standback
Yeah.
- [49:24]
Kyle Yeomans
What do you got, Anthony?
- [49:27]
Colin (Guest Caller)
I got the jets. Man, these cats down here insufferable. I can't have enough with a better record than us Dolphins. No, no, no.
- [49:33]
Kyle Yeomans
That's fair. That's fair. Colts at the Jags. Colts trying to get back on track there a little bit.
- [49:39]
Josh Rodriguez
Yeah.
- [49:40]
Kyle Yeomans
Josh, what you got?
- [49:41]
Josh Rodriguez
Let me go with the Jags, Patrick.
- [49:44]
Patrick No See Walker
Oh, man. It's actually pretty good one.
- [49:49]
I'm going with the coach on this one.
- [49:50]
Isaiah Standback
Okay.
- [49:50]
Kyle Yeomans
I'm gonna take the Colts to bounce back as well.
- [49:52]
Isaiah Standback
Yeah, I think the horseshoes figure it out.
- [49:55]
Kyle Yeomans
Anthony.
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Patrick No See Walker
A game of horse.
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Colin (Guest Caller)
I got the Jags. I like sunshine.
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Kyle Yeomans
You just picked against sunshine.
- [50:05]
All right. Commanders at the Vikings. Another stinker game.
- [50:09]
Isaiah Standback
Next.
- [50:09]
Kyle Yeomans
Next matchup for the Cowboys though. Vikings.
- [50:12]
Isaiah Standback
Pat.
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Patrick No See Walker
Oh, I'm never going for those for those guys. Vikings. Vikings win.
- [50:19]
Kyle Yeomans
See, I need to make up some ground here. I'm going to go with the commanders because the Vikings don't know what the heck they're doing at quarterback right now.
- [50:26]
Patrick No See Walker
Quarterback.
- [50:27]
Josh Rodriguez
Quarterback.
- [50:27]
Isaiah Standback
Yeah.
- [50:28]
Josh Rodriguez
No, that's a miserable situation and I believe the Commanders are getting their QB one back. This are they? They've had a full practice.
- [50:35]
Kyle Yeomans
Either way. Marcus Mariota is better than both the guys on the Vikings. Yeah.
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Sponsor Voice
Yeah.
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Isaiah Standback
Give me the commanders command.
- [50:41]
Patrick No See Walker
This is where make up ground.
- [50:42]
Kyle Yeomans
Yeah, maybe so. Anthony, record.
- [50:44]
Colin (Guest Caller)
I'm with you, Pat. I can't do it. Philly Giants. What? No, no, no. Get the fight and knows ball.
- [50:52]
Kyle Yeomans
Texans at the Chiefs. Actually a really good AFC matchup.
- [50:56]
Isaiah Standback
Yeah. @.
- [50:56]
Kyle Yeomans
Arrowhead. Texans at Chiefs. Anthony, we'll let you start on.
- [51:00]
Colin (Guest Caller)
This one.
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Since we worked up on the Chiefs. I like Mahomes. Let's go with chief.
- [51:05]
Kyle Yeomans
Side. They're desperate. Back against the wall. I think I'm going to take Kansas City here.
- [51:10]
Isaiah Standback
Too. I like that Texans defense, but I just think that Andy Reid is going to have something in store. I don't know what the Houston's offense is doing, so I'm going with the.
- [51:17]
Josh Rodriguez
Chiefs.
- [51:20]
That's a tough one. Patrick, you.
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Patrick No See Walker
Go. It is a tough one because the Texas defense is lights out, but Chiefs at home got to absolutely have it. I think they work some voodoo. However that looks like I'm going.
- [51:31]
Josh Rodriguez
Chiefs. I'm taking the.
- [51:33]
Kyle Yeomans
Chiefs. Okay. Eagles at the Chargers. Can the Chargers help the Cowboys out? Kyle.
- [51:41]
Josh Rodriguez
Not. Oh.
- [51:42]
Kyle Yeomans
Okay. It's North Texas Eagles. Texas that sandwich your heart or your head? Trust me, I've gotten some dirty looks wearing just Georgia mean green stuff. You taking it?
- [51:51]
Josh Rodriguez
Chargers. Oh, Georgia's. Do they have their QB.
- [51:54]
Kyle Yeomans
One?
- [51:55]
Josh Rodriguez
Chargers.
- [51:56]
Kyle Yeomans
Okay. I'm gonna take the Chargers too. Yeah, why not? Isaiah, Just because I don't like picking the.
- [52:00]
Isaiah Standback
Eagles. No, I have to go with.
- [52:02]
Josh Rodriguez
Philly. You have.
- [52:03]
Sponsor Voice
To?
- [52:04]
Isaiah Standback
Yeah. I mean, buddy, I pick with my.
- [52:06]
Josh Rodriguez
Heart. Brandon Graham over there wearing a Cowboys.
- [52:08]
Kyle Yeomans
Hat. I pick with my.
- [52:09]
Isaiah Standback
Heart. I'm picking the.
- [52:10]
Josh Rodriguez
Real. What the heck's wrong with you.
- [52:11]
Isaiah Standback
Man? Billy's gonna beat the.
- [52:12]
Josh Rodriguez
Chargers. Taking.
- [52:13]
Colin (Guest Caller)
Philly. Anthony, not gonna say I'm picking with my heart, but charges. Never, Philly. Never.
- [52:21]
Kyle Yeomans
Never. Yeah, never.
- [52:22]
Isaiah Standback
Ever. It's just lost.
- [52:23]
Kyle Yeomans
One. All right, so we're not going to pick this game on the table. We're gonna make this up next.
- [52:29]
Josh Rodriguez
Week. We're tabling.
- [52:30]
Kyle Yeomans
It. We are tabling the pick that's about to happen. However, the fans didn't get a chance to pick on Tuesday when we made our Cowboys pick for the Detroit Lions game. So this is going to be double or nothing for the fans this week. They're going to get two swings at it, and it's going to be the Vikings at the Cowboys. Next matchup in a week and a half. It's a long way away, but go ahead and pick. Who do you think is going to win that one? Anthony. And give us one final.
- [52:55]
Colin (Guest Caller)
Score. Oh, it's the boys for life, baby. The boys for life. And I like to pick former players numbers, so we're gonna go with. We're gonna go Roy Williams, 31. Dan Woodson, who should be in the Hall.
- [53:11]
Kyle Yeomans
28. All right, I. 28 might happen. That's a pretty close.
- [53:14]
Patrick No See Walker
Game. That formula is a dope.
- [53:15]
Kyle Yeomans
Formula. That is fun. All right, thanks, Anthony in Miami. Appreciate you as always and appreciate you calling. You're the.
- [53:21]
Colin (Guest Caller)
Man. All right, brothers, thank.
- [53:23]
Kyle Yeomans
You. Yes.
- [53:23]
Patrick No See Walker
Sir. Shut.
- [53:24]
Kyle Yeomans
Up. All right, that does it for us here on Talking Cowboys. Glad you were able to join us following the 44:30 loss to the Detroit Lions. Appreciate you guys being true fans and tuning in even after the Cowboys fall in a game like that. We will be back on Monday and we're back on the normal schedule from at least for a week. And then we'll go and it gets all messed up. Then we go Monday through Friday and then it gets messed up again for.
- [53:47]
Colin (Guest Caller)
Christmas.
- [53:47]
Kyle Yeomans
But. But we will be back on Monday no matter what. For Patrick, no. See Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah, stand back. Chris Beam in the back. I'm Kyle Yeomans saying so long from talking Cowboys, we'll see you Monday. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys.com and the Dallas Cowboys Football.
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