Talkin’ Cowboys: Early Birds

Kyle Youmans, Isaiah Stanback, Tommy Yarrish & Josh Rodriguez react to the Cowboys trade for WR George Pickens, how he’ll pair with CeeDee Lamb, discuss the Week 1 matchup in Philly vs the Eagles, and blind rank their toughest opponents on the 2025 schedule.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The following.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Dallas Cowboys Football Club.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
This He's Talking Cowboys Live from the Dallas Cowboys worlds
at the Star in Frisville, and now your hosts Isaiah Standback,
Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez, and Kyle Yeomans.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's a Tuesday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by Black
Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, Texas
and the s WBC studios. Welcome in everybody. We've got Tommy,
risch Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah Standback with Chris Beam in the
back of Kyle Yeomans. We have schedule release to talk
about this week. We don't have the full schedule, but

(00:59):
we got one game and it's a pretty Oh no,
I don't you no.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
I thought Isaiah maybe would happen schedule.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
He sat down with the NFL network crew and was like,
this is where I want the Cowboy you know what,
open up with the Philadelphia This is.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
What I can tell you, guys. I can tell you
this very confidently. All right, but just keep this under wraps.
Don't tell anybody.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
This is just a Talking Cowboys secret.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
We are playing the Philadelphia Eagles Week one, but we
do have another game against the Philadelphia Eagles, and then
we have two games against both the Commanders, Yeah, and
the New York Giants.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Talking Cowboys Insider, are they both.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Home and away?

Speaker 5 (01:41):
They're splitting them one home?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
There's okay, I have a Jos Jostradamus moment right now. Okay,
I'm a feeling that we're gonna play the Eagles three
times this year.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
One would be the playoffs, one more in the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
That don't know, ball, just saying.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's just a feeling, just to feel.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
I would love that.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I think it great.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
The Cowboys go a fair and win.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
All three Cowboys win victory.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
One of them, two of them. Huh ah, three two
for three Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
That's realistic. That's realistic. Now, we've got plenty of notes
to get to and we'll talk more schedule release in
the second. In the third segment, we're actually in the
third segment, we're gonna rank the opponents one through seventeen,
but we're gonna do it in a blind so it's
just randomized. They're gonna come through as they come through,
and then we're gonna rank them from there. That point forward.

(02:33):
But just like we've talked about multiple times on this show,
all of the big time news happens after the show
comes to a club.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh yeah, you mean what happened last week?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
It happened again? Why George Pickens is now a part
of the doubts.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
How did you going to talk about the guy from
the south they called in? Okay, So George Pickens, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
That was right after we were talking about wide receiver too. Yeah,
we were just talking about it, and I was a
costing Patrick no see Walker for guaranteeing me a wide
receiver the friday after the draft or no, the next
week after draft. Anyways, I was just like.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
What you So, it wasn't It wasn't the guy that
I thought, right, because you guys know I was Hill.
You thought yeah, But I knew something was happening, right.
We all knew something was happening, right, because they obviously
didn't draft anybody.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
They weren't going to sit there and not announce.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
It was going to be a true, one big type
of situation, right. It was going to be a big splash.
It wasn't just going to be a guy that can
come in and fill some type of a role. You know,
it had to be a big time impact player, which
is why I was projecting that it was going to
be that particular individual. However, when you look at them statistically,
George Pickens actually fairs in a privacy similar sense, if
not a better sense, in terms of plus twenty yard plays.

(03:45):
He's going to be a one heck of a deep
threat for a team that is going to be a
heavy running team. You started talking about what their identity,
what they're trying to elicit as their identity going forward.
They want to be a run first team. And by
being a run first team, you take the pressure off
of Dak, You take the pressure off of these receivers
for having to run forty plus routes a game, and

(04:06):
now you hopefully can cut that down to twenty five
twenty five routes a game. And now all of a sudden,
you have, out of those twenty five routes, you have
to distribute the ball between CD scoon Maker. You know
I'm saying Ferguson and obviously now are a new addition,
George Pickens. So that's the perfect situation for them. Run
the ball thirty five times, throw it twenty five times,
and that's kind of the makeup that they're trying to

(04:28):
get towards.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
And the good part about wanting to have a heavy
emphasis on running the ball is it opens up for
those deep shots that you were Chickens is good at.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Now.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
The question for me is that I was talking to
Kyle about this yesterday, is I mean, no quarterback really
is in terms of like tight window throws and down
the field ten fifteen twenty yards air yards. Dak Prescott
hasn't necessarily been the best in those types of situations.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
It hasn't been as strong.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
Suit that said, you know, when you look over the
course of his career, he really hasn't had a guy
I think who has the catch radius and athletic ability
that George Pickens does in the air. I mean, you
look at Michael Gallup and Amari Cooper. Sure they were
able to do that, but I don't think they were
as twitchy and you know, go up and you're you know,
he he's had a couple of catches where it looks
like he's laying down in the middle of the air

(05:12):
and he's still able to come.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Down horizontal to the ground.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
I don't know if if Dak Prescott's had that before.
And you look at the the charts in terms of
where you know, Ceede Lamb and George Pickens catched the
ball the most, and theybe seem to compliment each other
really well.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
So charts, this is all, this is all lining up.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, charts, charts, traits, characteristics. Yeah, I feel like the
best comparison that I've seen, and this was Nick Harris
that brought this up on the Break last week, is
that he is a gen Z des Bryant.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
See, and that was going to be my one Cowboys
comparison to what Dak has had in the past from
me in terms of in terms of des Bryant, that's
probably the one contested catch guy and athleticism. But I
think it's a different build of player. There's a different
type of skill set. And yes they're both contested catch guys.
Deep threat ability are both there, but Pickens has a

(06:00):
different edge to him from a from a finesse standpoint.
He can still have the hands and the finesse that
maybe Dez didn't necessarily have. Specifically, I think when it
comes to it, Dak has had receivers in the past.
He's had Amari Cooper, he's had Dez Brian, He's had
CD Lamb, He's had Brandon Cooks, Michael Gallup, some of

(06:20):
these guys along the way. I don't know if I
can say a pairing fits better together than what they
have now with CD Lamb and George Pickens solely from
an x's and o's standpoint, Solely from x's and o's,
because I know there is some character concern and locker
room thought process. I don't think it's as big of
a deal because he's in a proven year, he's in

(06:41):
a one year deal. He's going to be on his
p's and q's all the way through the end of
the season. However, x'es and o's wise, I don't think
you could have found a perfect fit in a one
to two punch A one A one b is. Steven
Jones even talked about it.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah, I was about to say, they think the same
way that you're thinking.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Right.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
They said that, you know, Stephen Jones on the radio
yesterday that he feels like Pickens is a one receiver.
So you've got two ones on the field and you
can you know that's never going to be a bad thing.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
And you bring up Dez Bryant.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
Well, Steven said that, you know, he reminds a lot
of people in the Cowboys building about Dez Bryant from
you know, the contested catchability, but also from the perspective
of like, hey, you know, he plays with a little
bit of emotion.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
He plays with an edge to him.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
Sometimes that gets the best of him and that comes
back to bite him. But they had that with Dez,
and you know, they know that they're going to have
that with George Pickens.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
But he made a good point, Kyle. He's going into
a contract year.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
He has nothing guaranteed in front of him after this season,
and he's got something to prove, you know, to not
just to himself, but to everybody out there who's talking about, hey, okay,
this guy's a locker room cancer, which I don't think
is the case. The Cowboys did their homework on this
and they feel like, you know, okay, his teammates liked
him enough to where he's not going to bring down
our locker room. Is he very demonstrative sometimes when you

(07:56):
know maybe he's not getting the ball or the team's losing. Yeah,
wide receivers do that. I feel like that's that's a
kind of a comedy. The Lamb did it with wide receivers,
and maybe he's more demonstrative about it than others are,
but it's a widespread issue.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now.

Speaker 6 (08:09):
That's not to say that, you know, he can't sometimes
go a little bit too far, but they feel confident
that he can rein it in and really help this team.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
It's one thing to have one organization say that you
have had a problem within their walls, like Pittsburgh did
with George Pickens. It's another thing for the other thirty
teams in the NFL to see two organizations say the
same thing. So George Pickens can't afford to come into
this situation and leave the same way he did with Pittsburgh.

(08:38):
He can't afford to do.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
That, Absolutely not. And another thing about George Pickens that
this is a contract here for him. I mean, he
has an opportunity to whether he wants to extend his
contract with Dallas or get the back somewhere else after
this season, Right, he has an opportunity. And what better
way for him to do it than show that he's
a good teammate, team player. That whole thing.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
I just think.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
I think you bring him in here to fix this
stuff in a does Brian fashion.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Do you think it's enough to fix this stuff in
a does Brian fashion?

Speaker 5 (09:08):
I hope so, I just wanted Chris to use the drop.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Ye, sorry about that. I'm kind of over the narrative
of passionate players who lose themselves emotionally being a detriment
to a team. I'm kind of over that. He is

(09:33):
a younger player who still has some maturing to do,
but he has the one element of his game that
you can't teach, and that's passion. So people say that
they want passionate players, but they want it in a
controlled environment somehow, some way. When you're playing one of
the most violent games on Earth, you can't have everything.

(09:54):
I'm sorry, people, you know what I'm saying. And all
players aren't made the same. Every team has goons on
an offense, as at the receiver position, tight end position,
old line position, running back. Everybody has a goon. They
have a guy in every meeting room that is looked
at as being that guy who has the attitude, who

(10:16):
has a whose passion comes through more boisterous than others,
you know, saying, So stop trying to make everybody look
the same, right, So, yes, he gets penalties from time
to time. Yeah, because he needs to get somebody to
coach him up on how to harness that energy.

Speaker 7 (10:31):
Right.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
He doesn't like people having a one up on him.
He doesn't like losing. Right. People look at last year
and what he did to Jordan Lewis they were losing. Yeah,
I'm sure Jordan said something to him and it wasn't.
It wasn't.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
It didn't sit.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well, right, He's a competitive guy. Kids throw tantrums. Adults
are growing. Your kids growing to adults. Right. If that,
if that problem isn't fixed, then it's gonna continue to
be the same way, displayed, the same way. So yeah,
there's an opportunity for this coaching staff to help him develop.
There's an opportunity for Ceedee Lamb, who I'm on record
at Kyle Knows in the pre and post game show

(11:03):
with the Dallas Cowboys from Pregame Live talked about multiple
times about how Ceedee Lamb needed to grow up last year.
I was very vocal about that, especially early in the season,
especially early in the season when he was throwing a tantrum.
And then there was one time, I don't remember what
game it was, where Ceedee Lamb was literally on the
sideline throwing a tantrum, literally throwing a tantrum. Helmet is
going around throwing his arms up, really bad body language,

(11:26):
and that got caught on film. You remember I told you,
I said, this is gonna be a one heck of
a moment for him because for the first time he's
gonna have to see himself.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
It's a Raven's game Week three last year.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, he had to see himself all over social media,
all on national network television. And when you see yourself,
when your face with looking at yourself in the mirror,
you're like, that's what I look like. Everybody has been there, right,
whatever issues we may have as human beings, when we
see it as somebody else, we're like, Eh, that's that's me.

(11:56):
That's that's what I look like. And then what happens,
that's your aha moment. CD started changing, and his CD
started blocking, and his CD started acting differently in terms
of his leadership. He maybe he was thinking the same things,
but it wasn't coming out of his mouth right. So,
whether somebody got in his hand, whether it was him
seeing himself, whatever it was, he took steps forward and
matured as a receiver like that.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
And he's not on the season. He's not one of
those demonstrative leaders. He's not going to be verbose. He's
not going to be talking constantly on the sidelines in
a way that he just leads by example. He's doing
what he needs to do on the field. He's about
his business. Early on in the season last year, I
was very critical of Ceedee Lamb. I was critical of
the fumbles and just like looking overall not prepared, and
a big part of that was losing out on training camp.

(12:39):
He wasn't there, you know, but he got in a
groove and obviously towards the end of the season he
was the most valuable player hands down.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
And he did it without Dak Prescott at quarterback and
a lot of that did it without a shoulder.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
Dude, it was amazing what he was able to accomplish.
You bring a guy like George Pickens into not be
the wide receiver too, but like we're talking about being
a wide receiver, one b learn to learn with a
leader next to him like CD and I don't know, man,
like I guess an example that I can give you
is Draymond Green. I don't like Draymond you gotta have him,

(13:10):
but it's nice to have him on your team. He's
won a lot of champions He's won a lot of championships.
May not like him, you may not like to go
up against, but that is a dog.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Draymond, Kevin Willis, freaking Kevin Willis, Dennis Robman, listen, but
even just look Cooper flag just yeah, look like this team.
Look at his team offensive line. Who's your goon? Who Hoffman? Yeah,
it's there, right, He's gonna get you a penalty at
some point, it's gonna happen. Yeah, but you take that

(13:40):
because you need that dog on it. Okay, let's go
to the defensive line.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Who's your guy?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Micah Micah, Sam Williams. You know what I'm saying, Like, oh, say,
he's more, he's more, he has it together, right, I
would say, but in terms of emotions coming to that's
what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's what I'm talking on
the field, Like, Okay.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
So he's all those penalties that you can go.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Outside of the specialist, you're gonna find one guy in
every single room who just has that passion that you
gotta rank. You just gotta rank, you gotta hone it in. Right,
you got a real women. Sometimes you know what I'm saying, Kyle.
Sometimes pre cage I got real Amen. Sometimes you know
he goes crazy. But it's okay. People. I'm saying all
that to say it's okay and you actually want that, right.

(14:22):
If you're gonna be a running team as a receiving group,
everybody can't be nice.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
And one of them in our writers room and his
name is Tommy Yarish.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
That's what it is.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
Pure dog.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Somebody in our chat brought it up and said, maybe
this is a way for Jerry to kind of test
what Schottenheimer was talking about in his opening press conference
where he said, I'm great with x's and o's, or
excuse me, I'm good with x's and o's, but I'm
great with people, and this is an opportunity to do that.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
Sorry, I cut you off.

Speaker 6 (14:50):
You can have a great culture, but you still need
guys with an edge.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
I feel like every winning football team.

Speaker 6 (14:58):
When you think about great foot ball teams, even here
in the past, I mean you think about Michael Irvin,
and he was he was the ultimate picture of passion
and you know, sometimes it might get a little over
the boilover, but he's the playmaker. He made plays and
you know, I'm not saying that George Picktens is gonna
have the same impact Michael Irvin does, but in terms
of the passion and how he demonstrates it, you need that.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
You need that.

Speaker 6 (15:21):
We can't just all be you know, putting our arms
around each other doing the rockets.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Stand by name name.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Championship team. Name a championship team in any sport where
you can't point to say that's the guy.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
Yeah, I mean, look at last year. I think Jalen
Carter is that for Philadelphia. You can you can look
at a lot of different guys on that roster that
that have done.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
They got a few of them.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Gardner Johnson and those guys out there with like you
got you have multiple, I gotta have some.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
You gotta have some mean, mean guy like this. This
is a nasty sport.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
It's not a nice game.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
They said, no, we're not. You know, it's not like
rockabye baby. But when you put somebody down on the ground,
you're hitting.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
You're hidden cast bro like you're trying to take people's
soul every single place. But outside of that, let's look
at the positive addition. Right, If this is going to
be a run first team The most dangerous thing to
a secondary is now play action. Right, it's now play action.
Now you have two guys who legit can get behind
your safeties. You have two guys that can run routes.

(16:18):
When you think about some of the best combos in
the NFL, right, we did this last week on Good
Morning Football, the best receiving combos in the league. I
started making the list. It's freaking extensive. Now, how many
teams have nice one to two punches, Yeah, right.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Your whole decision for maybe the Giants, but they have
molite Bibbers. Who's still a doug facts. Yeah, most teams
have a possession guy and a deep threat guy. That's
usually the combination that you have. And in case of
the Cowboys, both of these guys are possession guys. Both
of these guys are deep threat guys. Oh and by
the way, you have tight ends that can work underneath.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Right. So when you start thinking about the identity of
this team and what they're trying to do offensively, this
goes with it.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
This keeps two safeties deep, honest, keeps two deep.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Go ahead and roll down to one safety. I dare
you if you roll down to one safety, that means
that you are literally choosing which one of these guys
that you want to double if you are doubling them,
and if you're doubling one, one guy's isold.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah. Well, one of the conversations that I had when
well before they even were in the mix for pickings
or they were looking at trade and wide receiver. Actually
I think it was before the draft. I was asked
or I asked the question, what are you looking for
in a wide receiver too? Where do you feel like
you have to go? And the answer I got was

(17:34):
they want somebody that if ced Lamb is completely shut down.
Let's say he's completely taken out of the game, he's
got two receptions for sixteen yards, that's it. Can someone
else on this roster get you one hundred and fifty yards?
Can somebody get you a buck fifty? If ceed Lamb's
completely negated in the game plan and it just doesn't
happen a lot. But if it does, does Jalen Tolbert

(17:57):
get you one fifty? Does Cavante Turpin get you one fifty?
Does Jonathan Mingo gets you one fifty? No, they didn't
feel like that, and don't I don't disagree. I think
they had to go get a guy, and all these
other names that surfaced along the way, the ones that
were on other teams that we can't talk about specifically
on this show, the ones that were a free agency,
like Amari Cooper. Do you feel like this year twenty

(18:18):
twenty five, Amari Cooper could get you one fifty? Probably
it's borderline he got Cleveland had some big games from Amari,
but he would disappear at times too, So he's a buffalo.
George Pickens exactly. George Pickens can get you one fifty.
George Pickens can help set the table and be that
guy outside of Ceedee Lamb. And so you have not one,

(18:40):
but two guys that you can rely on specifically. So
you said run first, offense and play action. I'm looking
at this as they're saying they want to run the ball.
They drafted an offensive lineman, They're going to be physical
on the interior.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Still a question market running back, but you've got two
dogs at wide receiver. Do you feel like they can
set that up the right way or is this going
to be a pass heavy off this?

Speaker 1 (19:04):
I think they want to be two tight ends. Uh,
you know, probably fifty percent of the time. And I
think that they want to they want to run the ball,
and then when you get nosy, they're gonna obviously, you
got ced lamb, you're gonna throw the ball. You got
your spickings, You're gonna throw the ball. But I think
that in a perfect world they want to go two
tight ends and they want to make you make some decisions,
make some business decisions. Well, I thenk they want Ferguson
and Schoolmaker on the field. They want CD and George

(19:25):
Pickens on the field, and they'll put whatever running back,
whatever running back back there because we have a beastable
old line. Hopefully that's the intent to be able to
move guys off the line of scrimmage, that's what they want.
And then third, now situations depending on who's going to
step up now to be a wide receiver, three, who's
going to be the slot guy? You know, is it
going to be a situation where I think it's either
where Turpin can make this take steps forward right now.
If Turpin makes steps forward, when you go to eleven personnel,

(19:48):
now you can put CD in a slot and you
put Turping outside if he develops that as a receiver,
like we know that he his abilities will allow him
to be he has to put it in the works.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Played about two hundred snaps in the slot too last year.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
So yeah, I mean the versatility that you have. Have
you ever looked at the specs of CD and Pickings
like it's like almost identical. Yeah, like high weight speed
is crazy.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
The I love the idea that, like, the best that
you've seen the Dallas Cowboys offense over the past three
or four years is when you're feeding CD Lamb far none.
This move just gives that more credence. You are able
to feed CD more when you have a guy like
George Pickens on the outside who is a threat. What
we've talked about before, the the how awful and sputtered

(20:30):
along the offense was last year, it's because all we
really had in terms of a threat was CD Lamb.
You get another guy that's comparable, that's versatile, that you
can do all these things with, it just opens that
up for CD Lamb. But also you can throw to him.
You know, come on, dude, I love.

Speaker 6 (20:45):
Think I think to add on to that, you know,
part of where I think the Cowboys offense has been
at their best with Dak Prescott is when he gets
to play action, I think quarterback, I think.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
That's his best defense.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
They can fall for it right and years, you know.

Speaker 6 (21:00):
And Asaiah mentioned, Okay, if you want to bring a
safety down, you're doubling one guy. Are you leaving George
Pickens one on one? If he's covered by a corner,
You're like, yeah, you know, we're good. Okay, somebody's in
the scene as a tight end. Somebody's crossings as a
tight end, or Jalen Tolb or something like that. So
they've got options. And Dak Prescott is a smart enough
quarterback to make the right decision most of the time.

(21:20):
I think one of the things that I would like
to see is how Brian Schottenheimer wants to use Jaden
Blue because when you watch his tape at Texas, Steve
Sarkisian loves the orbit motions and to get their running
backs moving early before the snap and just get it
quickly out to them in space. If you're going to
run play action, can you incorporate that kind of stuff
into it? And can you get Jayden Blue the ball

(21:40):
in space? Because he's going to be a guy.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Sort of like Cavante Turp. But I think they can
fill them.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
They use both those guys as similarly, right, And.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
If you can get in on that and get them
into open space, how does that change your offense?

Speaker 8 (21:51):
You know?

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Can you run the ball well enough to a point
where they've got to respect that. I think there'll be
more balanced than people think between run and pass. But
there's a lot of fun things you can do with
the players on this team now that you've got George Pickens.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
It's crazy how much they're going to have to build
that balance. I was going through the stats from last year,
updating the Spotterer boards, like I said last week, and
one of the stats that jumped out of me was
the fact that out of the three hundred and twenty
seven first downs the Dallas had last year, one hundred
and ninety two were through the air and only ninety
eight were on the ground. They had ninety four more

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first downs through the air than they had on the
ground last year, which is a wild statistic. If you're
wanting to try and find a balance, there's a lot
of imbalance there. Now we've got to take our first Brock.
I know, what do you want to say? Go ahead
and at it, because we're going to talk to schedule.

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to until you're excited about it. No, I'm excited about today.
Say I'm in Pittsburgh. Yeah, I'm very excited about the potential.
I'm my thought they just came across my head that
nobody else probably cares about, is I'm intrigued, and I'm
interested in seeing what the offensive line splits look like.
I care, Yeah, I care. I want to see what
the splits are like. Thinking about blue everybody here cares. Yeah,

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I mean, but I'll know home. I don't know if
our listeners understand the complexity.

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Yeah, we got to teach them.

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Speaker 5 (27:07):
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It would be fun just the social team. That's a
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I haven't lifted all I've been doing is cardio?

Speaker 5 (27:38):
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I am trying not to lift weights.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
Yeah, yeah, trying not to.

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Like you gotta like stop yourself from doing no because
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So right now, I'm just doing all cardio.

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he's running. Oh, Barry's been running everywhere.

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Speaker 3 (28:31):
All right. Cowboys Eagles Week one freaking go Thursday night
in the opener.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Of the year.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
The Eagles will be hanging a super Bowl banner at
Lincoln Financial Field in front of the album.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know who's gonna be working on
that Thursday night?

Speaker 3 (28:47):
We are, right, and then we're gonna turn around and
be back on Friday. Hey, look, we've got a graphic there.
It is NFL Kickoff.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
That's right, we'll be on the dot com side of fact.
What's bald fade? Let's go will be in his face?

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (29:01):
There you go, locked down, NBC Peacock. It's gonna be
a big night Thursday night, and then the Cowboys have
to wait until they're Week two matchup with a little
early mini bye. My question to you is, of course,
Brian Schottenheimer's making his debut and he's going to do
it on the road against Philadelphia first week of the year,
defending Super Bowl champs. All of those things line up,

(29:22):
But you would you rather this early, that trip to
Philadelphia early, or have it later in the season one
way or the other.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
You know, I'm kind of mad that this is not
an international game. Honestly, ky I feel like they just
don't want Dallas to play you on international games. How
many years. Has has been ready for a while.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Twenty seventeen was the last.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah, that's madness, right, all these you can tell you
eleven international games, we don't get none of them, crazy,
but you know we got the first game. I like
the fact that you start off with the Eagles. I
like it. You get an idea of where you're at early. Yeah, right,
you get whether you win or whether you lose. Obviously
you want to win, but whether you win or whether
you lose, you're gonna learn a lot about your team

(30:00):
that day, and you will be able to make adjustments,
and you will have time to make adjustments prior to
your second game in a season. So win or lose
as long as it's competitive, as long as you have
an identity that day, you try to impose your will
on them and you find out where you're at. Obviously
you hope that you end up with a dub at
the end of the day, but either way, I think

(30:20):
that you will have a good idea of where you
stand with your team because you have just played the
Super Bowl champs.

Speaker 5 (30:26):
And it allows you to not get too high or
too low, because if you beat the Eagles, you do
it on a team that just played definitely late, a
lot later than you have, and I think at least
for the Cowboys, it's like, don't let that get to
your head. If you win that game, it is an
early barometer of what you said. You have an idea

(30:47):
of what the team is going to be, and then
you build from there. First game is not always an
indication of who's going to win this who knows. See
many many times we saw a tea the Lion, the
Lions beat the Kansas City Chiefs opening night? Was that
two years ago?

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Come on?

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Man?

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Was it hot last year?

Speaker 5 (31:02):
Indicator of anything? Yeah, you gotta stick, you gotta play,
And I love it, especially for a Brian Schottenheimer who
it's like, you're taking this job, and this is what
you're taking this job for.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, let's go under the lights, prime time on the road.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
Don't interview for this job unless unless you want to
be in a situation like this.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, right into the fire.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
I think you know.

Speaker 6 (31:21):
The interesting part is, like Asaiah made the point I
was talking to Nick even about this yesterday's you don't
really know what a team is until probably week two,
I think he said, week two.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
I think maybe I give it a Nate says Thanksgiving,
I wouldn't trust him more.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
But you know that that first game is always so
interesting because you've just got a bunch of pent up, like, oh,
finally we get to play somebody that's not us, like
you've been practicing against each other for so long. And
in the Cowboys case, it's interesting because they've got to
sit out there for however many minutes before the game
and watch the Eagles put up a super Bowl banner
and it's their biggest rival on the opening night, So

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that hasn't led a fire under your belly as a competitor,
and you don't really have.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
A great football team.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
I mean, if that doesn't get you fired up and
ready to play, then then that's get to play.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
I think that's telling. Yeah, you got to try to play.

Speaker 6 (32:09):
Spoiler obviously, you know, regardless of whether they come out
of there with a winner a loss, it's not going
to derail their season or you know, say they're going
to the super Bowl, but it's it's an early chance
for Brian Schottenderheimer to show, Okay, this we've been talking about, Hey,
we're gonna play physical, we're going to run the football,
and we're gonna have a great culture it is. This
is the spotlight for him to do that, not just

(32:29):
in front of Cowboys fans and Eagles fans, but in
front of the entire football world. So he's got a
chance to show, Hey, his dad had Marty ball, What's
what's what's shotty ball?

Speaker 1 (32:38):
What's what's Brian ball?

Speaker 3 (32:40):
I feel like sounds like somebody's name.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
Yeah, it's like what shotty ball look like?

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Right?

Speaker 6 (32:45):
And so he's got a chance to prove he goes.
He has a chance to show people what that is
and it's it's cooking to the way it cooks up.
Is for him to have a really good chance.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
To do that, they'll be shaking in your boots, buddy,
it's time to go.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yeah, get after it. The one thing about this game, too,
is that lead into week two, that extra couple of
days because you get the benchmark, you get that opportunity early,
and then you get to reset and go for the
rest of your schedule. It's not like it's a preseason game,
because it certainly counts and there's a lot you can
gain from it, but you get that extra many buy

(33:19):
to go into week two, and it's I mean most
likely we don't know what the schedule is going to
look like, but most likely that would be your home
opener or another I mean either or most likely going
to be your home opener. You get a chance to
come home after a little couple days of rest, go
up against the team that you could possibly beat in
week two and other guys.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
You get to watch football. That's the other thing from
a player standpoint. You know, obviously you play that game
on Thursday, you get a couple of days of rest,
and then on Sunday, most likely there's gonna be a
day where you're allowed to sit and watch the rest
of the league. Right, just see, Hey, okay, this is
what you've already watched your film multiple times over by
that point. Now you get to sit back on that
Sunday and watch everybody else, right, you just see, Okay,

(33:59):
how do we fair in comparison to everybody else? What
is the rest of the league doing? Right? What are
some of the schemes that they're doing? What are some
of the offense? Like you get a chance to look
at it, you know, back away from your own team
and see what everybody else is doing. I think that's invaluable.

Speaker 5 (34:13):
You get to do a little survey.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Absolutely, give the entire league.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
You have to do a survey.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
But I think it sets up pretty well for this
coaching staff too, from a game plan perspective, because now,
I mean, you've got all the time in the world
anyways for your first week game, but you can look
at look ahead a little bit and start piecing things
together as far as the Eagles go, and then you've
got a couple extra days to relax and get ready
to recover physically and then get ready for the next
team that you're playing. So it sets up well from

(34:38):
a scheduling standpoint to where you can come into Week
two pretty refreshed playing against a team that does not
have as long as a break as you have.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, and the rest of the schedule comes out seven
o'clock tomorrow Central time. Seven o'clock Central Time is when
everything will be released, and we'll get to talk about
kind of the rest of the schedule next week on
Talking Cowboys. Is this Eagles game. I'm excited about it.
I think it's gonna be a lot of fun Thursday night.
You get the entire league on top of you. By

(35:06):
the way, the uh Chris Beam said twenty fourteen against
the Jags was the last four.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
That's a long time, that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Played in over a decade. That's why there's a reason
for it.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
There is I mean Thanksgiving, I get it.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Well, not even Thanksgiving. But the ratings from a Cowboys
standpoint is going to be the same whether you're playing
in Carolina or in London, and they're not going to
try and disrupt a whole lot of that. I think
it's a ratings thing more than anything.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
I feel like they'll get one soon.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Oh yeah, they'll have to at some point. You got
to be in the rotation.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
Can we given a poem game either? Baby?

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (35:43):
I thought this was going to be the game to
the year. Yeah, because they literally have a ton of
international games. They're going to Madrid, they're going to the London,
They're going to uh with Dublin, They're going to they're
all over.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
The Week one, they're in sal Paolo, Brazil, Chargers versus
a TVD opponent h September twenty eighth, it is the
Vikings and the Steelers in Dublin, Ireland. That's gonna be sweet,
that's awesome. And then the Vikings stay in Europe. They
go Week four in Dublin.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
Week five, the pre gaming in Dublin, the.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Vikings play the Browns the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Like the Vikings get two games international back to back.
You know what I'm saying. Come on, they could have
given one of those of Dallas.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
I mean the week six Broncos Jets in London, Week
seven Rams Jags in London, Week nah or Week ten
Falcons Colts in Germany.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
I feel like I feel like that's in the Jags,
like statute of limitation, Like, yeah, we're playing, We're playing
in London every year.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah, well there he has they're the favorite to possibly
move over there.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Well he has a soccer team over there too. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Week eleven Commanders Dolphins in Spain.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
That's the spun.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, I don't know anyase.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
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got a game coming up on the other side of
the break. I want to rank blind rank all seventeen games.
Can't look at him. It's gonna come randomly and you
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Speaker 3 (39:20):
To Talking Cowboys. Back here on Talking Cowboys with Tommy Yarish,
Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah Stanback, I'm Kyle Yeomans with Chris Beam
in the back. I disagree, all right, this is going
to be based on toughness. Schedule toughness based on the
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the Cowboys are going to face this year. Of course,
you get two games against the NFC East, you get
one game each, two on the road, two at home
against the NFC North this year that's the Packers, Vikings, Bears,
and Lions. Your conference opponents this year end up being
the Cardinals and the Panthers. Your interconference opponents out of

(40:03):
the AFC West are the Chiefs, Chargers, Broncos, Raiders. And
then based on the division placement last year, your interconference
opponent is on the road against the New York Jets.
So we've got seventeen games. We're gonna rank these blindly
one through seventeen, and I'll keep track of it starting
with at the Detroit Lions. Tough game. Right off the jump,

(40:28):
Where do you go in your ranking one through seventeen?
Just place them this early one. You got to put
them pretty high, right, So.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
We're saying one is the most difficult.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
We're saying one is the most difficult, seventeen is the
least difficult.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Okay, I'm gonna say Detroit is number one.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
You're gonna put them all the way at the top.
That's right at Detroit.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Why because Detroit is one heck of a team, and
we've struggled with Detroit and their physicality in Detroit is
difficult as well.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Okay, I'll go three.

Speaker 5 (40:58):
I'm going three.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
You can go three. So a score of two to one,
we're gonna put that one at three. Sorry, Isaiah Demon
but at Lions is at number three? All right? Cardinals
at home, Arizona Cardinals.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
Josh at home.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
Give me.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
Sixteen sixteen.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Okay, Wow, you think it's a pretty easy game, then
it should be.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
Should be.

Speaker 5 (41:21):
We'll see is those fourteen Cardinals fourteen?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Okay, by a score of two to one, We're gonna
go fourteen Cardinals. There you go, Thank you, Beamer. I
think he agrees in the back at home against the Vikings.

Speaker 13 (41:39):
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Speaker 3 (41:40):
Mcaudy, I heard justin Jefferson.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
JJ. Let's go with J six five for me?

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Okay, I can go with five. I'm with five, Isaiah,
you think.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Your ground, sir? Six?

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Okay, six, So we're gonna go with six.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
All right, there you go.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
So at number six, you've got the Vikings. Next one
is at the Giants.

Speaker 14 (42:05):
Oh no, oh no, fifteen sixteen, sixteen sixteen, all right, okay,
at the Giants at sixteen, all right.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Next one is the Packers at home in Bay. At home.
You never really seem to beat them here.

Speaker 5 (42:25):
That's a revete.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
That's a tough one.

Speaker 5 (42:27):
Maybe that'll be tough. But I don't know. Man, give
me a We are of six, don't we?

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yep, have a six? We have a three? What was
the Cardinals? I think I messed up the Give me
a four?

Speaker 4 (42:38):
Four, give me four. I would go five.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Okay, two, you're that far up there, So we'll go.
We'll go split the difference. We'll put them at four. Oka,
So Packers at four.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
All right.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
So now we've got the Bears on the road.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
Come on, Tommy, Tommy, start on this one.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
Here we go, I feel like the Bears are gonna
be really good this year.

Speaker 10 (43:02):
What yea?

Speaker 6 (43:03):
I think you'd look at Kayleb Williams year two. Ben
Johnson's got a lot of weapons he can use.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Not convince, but I think I would go. They got
Al Harris Man live other.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Thanks, all right.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
I'm high on the Bears. I think five or seven.

Speaker 5 (43:23):
Of course you are give me eight.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah, I'm gonna go give me eight.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
I'll talk with that going eight. That Bears and it's
on the road, so there's that element to it. At
the Bears at eight, all.

Speaker 5 (43:34):
Right, come back to this later.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Yeah, I think that's what we're gonna We're gonna end
up hurting after after that one's over.

Speaker 15 (43:39):
There's gonna be some tough games that you guys gonna have.
We're gonna have well Kansas City at twelve, guys, exactly.
Everything is already taking on this blind ranking. I saw
this idea on Instagram, and we're just gonna go buy it,
all right.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Uh, the Eagles at home, Eagles at home, You've got one, two, five, seven, Oh.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Give me five.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
I'm sorry you said open my bad?

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Yeah five open yeah. At the Jets.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
Seven seventeen oh yeah, low, yeah, low, low, low.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Hound abouts say seven exactly available?

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Yea one.

Speaker 5 (44:17):
I thought you said that's all we have.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
We've got one, two, seven, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen,
fiventeen me fifteen fifteen, you said seventeen, you said seventeen seventeen.
He said, it's the easiest game of the year at
the Jets. All right, I don't know about that one.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Carolina's on the schedule. Yeah, Carolina's on the schedule. The
Giants at home is on the schedule. You literally haven't
lost to them. And hey, guys, how long U We
just don't.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Want New York hereSince sixteen.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
At the Giants. Then you got the you've got at
the Jets. I haven't had a home games Giants.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
All right, whatever's lower, whatever's lowest.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
Next what there's always a chance to split when you
played next week?

Speaker 3 (44:57):
All right, alright, guys, command at home Olden game against
the Commanders. We will have the road game, most top five,
top ten.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
What we have available.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
We have one, two and seven and nine and ten available.
Let me just run down home or nine at home? Nine? Okay,
I agree, nine seven, So we'll go with nine. So
Commanders at home. Here's what we have so far. This
is not gonna look good. Guys, One and two are open,
Three is the Lions on the road, Four is the

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Packers at home. Five is the Eagles at home. Six
is the Vikings at home. Seven is open at the
Bears is at eight. I don't know about that one, guys.
Nine is the Commanders at home. Ten open, eleven open,
Cardinals at twelve at home, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen are open,
and then sixteen is at the Giants, seventeen at the Jets.

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All right, so next one is at the Broncos on
the road against the Broncos.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
Oh, that'll be sneaky tough.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Top ten available, sneak uh one, two, seven and ten?

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Oh yeah, give me seven.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
Yeah, I'd go seven, guys, I'll go ten.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
We'll go to Chiefs and Eagles and Chargers. You going ten?

Speaker 5 (46:11):
I'm going where are you going?

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Ten?

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Ten?

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Okay? So at Broncos, will go ten. You're going seven there, Isaiah, Yeah,
you would have been all right, Chargers at home eleven.
That seems like a perfect eleven. Yeah, what's that about?

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Right?

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Chargers at home? Okay? And then we're gonna go with
the Commanders on the road.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
That's tougher. He said, seven is open.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Available, seven is available. That's seven. I think. So one
and two? Are you guys saving one and two for
the reigning Super Bowl champions champions?

Speaker 6 (46:45):
Probably I had to trade on Yeah, detrade stuff, I
would go Kansas City one.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
I would flip those.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
At the Panthers, Uh, what's the last got thirteen fourteen.

Speaker 5 (46:57):
And fifteen fifteen? Giants?

Speaker 3 (46:59):
You still have the Giants at home?

Speaker 1 (47:01):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
I haven't done that one. Yeah, you think it's you
think this is easier. Yeah, at Panthers at fifteen? All right?

Speaker 5 (47:08):
Going to the Chiefs one, No.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Two too at home against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs two.
That's available to one and two. Those are the only
two top ten available. This is gonna be weird because
it's one and two. Then you got thirteen fourteen as
the final four two. Okay, where are you going? You're
trying to decide?

Speaker 5 (47:30):
Oh, where are you going?

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (47:31):
I would put it at two. I'd say at the
Eagles is one?

Speaker 4 (47:36):
I say Chiefs one?

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Still you would put them at one? Yeah, I don't know.
At the Raiders A Raiders fourteen fourteen, thirteen and fourteen.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Oh wait, with thirteen fourteen left, yeah, thirteen.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Okay, I'd go fourteen fourteen.

Speaker 5 (47:54):
Okay, so we'll put it at Giants, though.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
You do have the Giants.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Yeah, the Giants are gonna be competitive, do you think?

Speaker 3 (47:59):
So At Eagles is at number one? Number one two,
but we've already got yeah, we've already had two taken.
So At Eagles is one, and then thirteen is the
last game of the year at home against the Giants.
Here's our final ranking. It's not terrible at the Eagles

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at home against the Chiefs, at the Lions at home
against the Packers, Eagles, Vikings at the Commanders at Bears,
Commanders at home at the Broncos as ten, So that
rounds out the top ten. Then it goes Chargers, Cardinals,
Giants at home, Raiders, Panthers, Giants, and Jets all on
the road.

Speaker 5 (48:39):
I might flip the Jets game with.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
With the Panthers the fifteen and seventeen. I think I
would flip thirteen and seventeen. I would put the Jets
above the Raiders and Panthers, but I would have the
Giants as the final two.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
On these you guys think we match it better against
Detroit than Philly.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
I mean, neither one of them have really both run
the ball really well.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
I'm not saying it's a great.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
There is the number one. The toughest matchup, that's hard.

Speaker 6 (49:15):
I think they match up better against Philly honestly than
they do Detroit too.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
But but you got to play them twice, and I
guarantee you you lose one of those. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Yeah, that's a tough.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
It's a toss up for me with the Lions because
we played them really well two years ago. Last year,
of course, we got killed.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
But I don't know. I wonder what the chat would say.
What would you put Eagles? Which one do you chat?

Speaker 5 (49:39):
Are we cooked?

Speaker 3 (49:40):
Which one do you match up better against?

Speaker 1 (49:42):
The Eagles?

Speaker 3 (49:43):
Lions or Chiefs? Which one do you match up against
between the two? I want to see what the chat
says across the board. Why do you think the Lions
are a tougher matchup?

Speaker 1 (49:52):
I just think that they're well balanced all around. I
think that they have one heck of a running game,
one heck of a passing game. I think that they're
they're They're pass rush is nasty. I think they're relentless
on defense. I think they have a nice little tanem
at cornerback now that can go out there and cause
you some issues, while their front seven can get after
your quarterbacks. I just think that they're stout team, man.

Speaker 10 (50:13):
Now.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
The only reason why they did didn't go all the
way last year, in my opinions, because of injury.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Yeah, and how do you stop the run too? You
know you can't.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Teams and I mean you can't.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Yeah against the Eagles and the Lions.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
Both teams offensively are nasty. The only difference is well,
now Philly has a one to two punch too. They
picked up AJ Dillon.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Mm hmm, so good luck with that stop the run.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
He's he's juggernaut. Yeah. I mean so from that sense,
when you look at their offenses, I think Detroit's more
dangerous the the.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
The chat is leaning Lions a little bit toward the Eagles.
Not a ton of love here for the for the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Though, Chiefs, they got a lot of work to do.
I think that they had injuries last year too. You
remember they played their whole entire year without their number
one receiver. Yeah, so he's back.

Speaker 5 (51:02):
Best QB in the game though, Ken knock him for sure.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
A lot of people Tristan said, Dak is four and
one against the Eagles in the last five games. Was
those were different Eagles teams.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
And Dak and Jalen Hurts have only gone up against
each other three times.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Yeah, not a lot. They've They've kind of been in
and out one way or the other between the two
of them. But why do you think the Chiefs are
the toughest.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
I think Patrick Mahomes just in and of itself, like
just makes it so difficult. And I think, you know,
what he's able to do with at times in his
career has not been the best receiving corps. I mean,
you saw some of it last year when you know
Travis Kelce is not necessarily what he used to be,
and even when Kelsey was what he was, you know,
you look at the receivers around him and it's not
really great. I think that they've done a really good

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job and Andy Reid's a great play caller. So what
they're able to do offensively as long as Mahomes is there,
I think you've got a shot in any game. And
then you think about you know, Steve Spagnola in that defense,
you know what they were able to do last year
to really help I thought carry the team to where
they got. You know, they've still got a lot of
good pieces coming back. Chris Jones in the middle of
the defensive line is still really good. So there's a

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lot to like with Kansas City. And I think they're
just a consistent winner that's always going to be in
games and competing.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
It's just a hard team to win against.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
And I lost some guys on defense though they did.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
I would argue they have the best play caller in
the league right now, and you've got Andy Reid.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
You've got to change both sides of the ball.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Yeah, both guys. Yeah, Spag Maull and Red Like you
would put both of those guys over almost anybody in
their respective positions across the entire NFL. And it's like
having two head coaches and two guys that are established
enough to be head coaches that have just stuck around
in Kansas City because they have something special going there. Yeah.
I would still put the Lions first because I just

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me too. I their roster is almost impenetrable. Eagles and
the Chiefs both lost a little bit, but they're so
still so good that there's they deserve to be number
two at number three.

Speaker 5 (52:58):
I just thought that correct.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Is that at Chiefs. No, it's at Detroit is what
it is, what it has here. Yeah, that's tough Detroit.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
I just feel like Detroit, Fordfield, Detroit that we know
right this, this is gonna be a completely different Detroit. Right,
We're gonna have to get accustomed to that. But I
just think when you look at their roster, they don't
have any weaknesses, right like they legit have no weaknesses
in there, and they continue to act and they're relentless.
That's that's the other intangible. They're just relentless.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Man.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Those guys just keep coming.

Speaker 5 (53:27):
After you finish my black rovel coffee and think about.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
It and think about it a little bit.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
This is also the first time since that controversial ending
in twenty twenty three that Dallas will have played at
ford Field too, so that crowd is going to be nuts,
unreal nuts. It's gonna be a lot, all right. That
does it for us? Here on talking Cowboys. Remember America's
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Speaker 5 (54:02):
Yeah, I watch the whole thing. You had none better
to do on it, and you.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Know it's gonna be a big thing.

Speaker 5 (54:07):
One o'clock Street, Dallas Cowboys dot.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
Josh might leak the schedule between now and then, you
know what I mean, all right, but well then the
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be back next week to talk about it and break
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