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Michael Irvin on why Cowboys are best in NFL and why there's no way the team falls off after 5-1 start
Published: 13 October 2014 09:26 PM
Michael Irvin joined KRLD-FM 105.3 on Monday to talk Cowboys. Here are some highlights from the interview.
On the Cowboys beating the Seahawks:
“The NFL landscape, and I’m sorry to use this analogy, it’s like a prison yard. You got to have yard mentality. It’s a prison yard. When you go into the prison yard — not that I know this stuff — you’ve got to go in the prison yard and bust the baddest man in the mouth, so nobody touch you. That was a yard mentality show yesterday. They didn’t just beat Seattle, they busted them in the mouth. They said, ‘Anybody on this landscape of the NFL come see us.’ ”
On dominating the Seahawks in the fourth quarter:
“There’s a way to beat a team and there’s a team to break them. They broke Seattle. This was, ‘We are in your house and we are going to out-physical you. This was what you’ve done to everybody, watch us to you.’ … I saw (Richard Sherman) over there giving a dap to Dez. I was like, ‘No Dez! Don’t touch his hand yet! The game ain’t over. No dapping now. Ain’t no dapping now.’ That was off the chain man. I said, ‘Sit your black butt down.’ ”
On the Terrance Williams’ catch:
“Oh my God, man. That play was incredible. You didn’t know if the ball was going to Jason Witten. Most young guys would say, ‘Hey, that’s the big guy. I’m going to get out of the way.’ Terrance never stopped. He went at that ball so hard and it was phenomenal, phenomenal catch. A phenomenal catch. … I like his fire. I love how hard his playing.”
On the defensive turnaround:
“Sometimes you have stars like DeMarcus Ware who controls the locker room and sets the pace and there is no real threat to anybody, because there is no real threat to DeMarcus because the locker room is run a certain way. But now, the locker room is on high alert, like how Jimmy had us. It’s on high alert. When you demote the sixth pick in the draft everybody says, ‘Our butts are on the line. We’ve got to work hard.’ Marinelli did a wonderful job of shooting those defensive ends up the field and they kept Russell Wilson, the best they can, in that box. ‘Let me see you beat us from the pocket Russell Wilson,’ and he was not able to do that.
On if the Cowboys are the best team in football:
“Y’all saw what I saw, right? That’s what I’m talking about. Best team in football, still with growth to go, because you clean that game up and it’s a serious blowout in Seattle. We gave them the gifts. They put up maybe three points offensively, truthfully. Three points. You clean up all of those gifts, no doubt you can extrapolate from what you saw. That’s the best in the National Football League. This thing will start rolling because confidence is the best thing you can have on a National Football League field.”
On Jason Garrett’s job security:
“Here’s the funny part. Only for a minute. If this thing trickles off and we find ourselves, ‘Oh wee.’ It’ll be Armageddon if this thing just falls off. But there’s no way it’ll do it with this offensive line. They dominated Seattle’s defensive line. I just can’t believe what I saw."
Published: 13 October 2014 09:26 PM
Michael Irvin joined KRLD-FM 105.3 on Monday to talk Cowboys. Here are some highlights from the interview.
On the Cowboys beating the Seahawks:
“The NFL landscape, and I’m sorry to use this analogy, it’s like a prison yard. You got to have yard mentality. It’s a prison yard. When you go into the prison yard — not that I know this stuff — you’ve got to go in the prison yard and bust the baddest man in the mouth, so nobody touch you. That was a yard mentality show yesterday. They didn’t just beat Seattle, they busted them in the mouth. They said, ‘Anybody on this landscape of the NFL come see us.’ ”
On dominating the Seahawks in the fourth quarter:
“There’s a way to beat a team and there’s a team to break them. They broke Seattle. This was, ‘We are in your house and we are going to out-physical you. This was what you’ve done to everybody, watch us to you.’ … I saw (Richard Sherman) over there giving a dap to Dez. I was like, ‘No Dez! Don’t touch his hand yet! The game ain’t over. No dapping now. Ain’t no dapping now.’ That was off the chain man. I said, ‘Sit your black butt down.’ ”
On the Terrance Williams’ catch:
“Oh my God, man. That play was incredible. You didn’t know if the ball was going to Jason Witten. Most young guys would say, ‘Hey, that’s the big guy. I’m going to get out of the way.’ Terrance never stopped. He went at that ball so hard and it was phenomenal, phenomenal catch. A phenomenal catch. … I like his fire. I love how hard his playing.”
On the defensive turnaround:
“Sometimes you have stars like DeMarcus Ware who controls the locker room and sets the pace and there is no real threat to anybody, because there is no real threat to DeMarcus because the locker room is run a certain way. But now, the locker room is on high alert, like how Jimmy had us. It’s on high alert. When you demote the sixth pick in the draft everybody says, ‘Our butts are on the line. We’ve got to work hard.’ Marinelli did a wonderful job of shooting those defensive ends up the field and they kept Russell Wilson, the best they can, in that box. ‘Let me see you beat us from the pocket Russell Wilson,’ and he was not able to do that.
On if the Cowboys are the best team in football:
“Y’all saw what I saw, right? That’s what I’m talking about. Best team in football, still with growth to go, because you clean that game up and it’s a serious blowout in Seattle. We gave them the gifts. They put up maybe three points offensively, truthfully. Three points. You clean up all of those gifts, no doubt you can extrapolate from what you saw. That’s the best in the National Football League. This thing will start rolling because confidence is the best thing you can have on a National Football League field.”
On Jason Garrett’s job security:
“Here’s the funny part. Only for a minute. If this thing trickles off and we find ourselves, ‘Oh wee.’ It’ll be Armageddon if this thing just falls off. But there’s no way it’ll do it with this offensive line. They dominated Seattle’s defensive line. I just can’t believe what I saw."
