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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, Season eighteen, episode number one eleven.
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Speaker 1: today for Cowboys versus forty nine Ers. It is the
Speaker 1: Divisional round of playoffs. At game happens this Sunday. It
Speaker 1: is a six thirty pm Eastern Time start. That's five
Speaker 1: thirty Central. It'll be three thirty for us out on
Speaker 1: the West Coast. But we'll get you guys ready for
Speaker 1: that game today. By the end of this show, we'll
Speaker 1: give you our predictions of what we think will happen.
Speaker 1: Let's start first, though, with a couple injuries that are
Speaker 1: coming out of the last game, and what you guys
Speaker 1: are hearing or thinking from the standpoint of these guys
Speaker 1: being available this weekend. Let's start first with Jason Peters. Yesterday, Brian,
Speaker 1: you said you don't think that's going to happen. I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that's going to happen. That's
Speaker 1: a hip flexer and you know, and he was off
Speaker 1: on the side and stuff working yesterday. I just don't
Speaker 1: know if he can get ready fast enough for that.
Speaker 1: So and unless something changes, you know, sometimes these players
Speaker 1: when it turns into playoff football and they kind of
Speaker 1: see where they have to be or need to be,
Speaker 1: that maybe that they find a way. But I just
Speaker 1: didn't get the vibe that that one was going to
Speaker 1: be a possibility this week. Nick, what are you hearing
Speaker 1: about jay Ron Curse? Well, these two guys, it's backwards.
Speaker 1: It's really weird on it. I mean, if you looked
Speaker 1: at these two guys yesterday, which guy is limited and
Speaker 1: could probably play and which guy's not gonna play? You
Speaker 1: wouldn't he would though the other way around. Kurse didn't
Speaker 1: have any any equipment on at all. He walked out there.
Speaker 1: He had a big sleeve on his knee. He walked
Speaker 1: out through some rehab and they called him limited. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened after that. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he got Superman and he got his stuff on and
Speaker 1: he was limited. So I think he's gonna play, but
Speaker 1: I don't I don't expect him to be really, really effective.
Speaker 1: He's limping around now. He doesn't look good. He's limping around.
Speaker 1: I get he wants to play. I get it. He's
Speaker 1: talked about the forty nine ers more than the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers have talked about themselves. He's talked about this
Speaker 1: game for a whole year. But I don't know. I
Speaker 1: was told to me that this is kind of similar
Speaker 1: to what happened in Week one against the Bucks. Well
Speaker 1: he missed four games, So yeah, I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: you know you know what stuff here is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you got a guy that definitely wants to play in
Speaker 1: a couple Yeah, a couple of days ago, he was
Speaker 1: saying he's one hundred percent ready to go and all that.
Speaker 1: Then you see that i'd probably this, But then you
Speaker 1: get to this point where do you go all in
Speaker 1: and just put him out there and see how much
Speaker 1: he can handle or do you try to protect whatever
Speaker 1: injury and try to hope he's better for what's to come.
Speaker 1: So it's like one of those do you go all
Speaker 1: in or protect to thinking, Okay, where were playing next
Speaker 1: Giants or Eagles and is he gonna be ready for
Speaker 1: that or the Super Bowl? So I don't know which way,
Speaker 1: but I would assume they go with protecting the player
Speaker 1: and his contetion. But at the same times, there are
Speaker 1: sometimes where you need to hear, like how the player
Speaker 1: is actually feeling, and then you get maybe him come
Speaker 1: and we know this, We hear all the time players
Speaker 1: saying I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. So it's just
Speaker 1: it's tough to evaluate. But like Nick said, he didn't
Speaker 1: look like someone that's out there and you're running out
Speaker 1: of day though too. You know. That's the thing about
Speaker 1: it is the thing that that it's it's interesting is that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know with his knee. It was one of those
Speaker 1: things where he got hurt in the pregame, remember, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden he comes back and plays yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and so now you're kind of like, is
Speaker 1: it something that he deals with or is this something
Speaker 1: you know? But Nicks knicks right, I forgot about that game.
Speaker 1: He was literally granted, they're carrying him off, they're carrying
Speaker 1: him out of the out of the off the literally
Speaker 1: the next thing lining up. And it always reminds me
Speaker 1: of the of the Byron Jones, like sitting on the
Speaker 1: field and putting his knee back in place that one
Speaker 1: time in a game, and I'm thinking like, like, man,
Speaker 1: these guys, but we'll see, we'll see. I mean the
Speaker 1: whole thing I think that you know, these guys want
Speaker 1: to play. Are they all you know? Is it? Are
Speaker 1: they all completely healthy? No? But are they are they
Speaker 1: eighty percent? Are they seventy five percent? You know, that's
Speaker 1: that's where you have to kind of find out. You know,
Speaker 1: I will say they will do. Maybe a guy like
Speaker 1: Peters is you know, if he doesn't have to start,
Speaker 1: May can you be the backup? You know, can you
Speaker 1: go through and be the backup if you had to play,
Speaker 1: you know, in this game? Could you give us thirty plays?
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's the thing. Or you know you
Speaker 1: worry about that because you're kind of a little bit
Speaker 1: of a buy now with a couple of situations the kicker,
Speaker 1: the tackle and then the safety. So now you're trying
Speaker 1: to think about your forty eight. You know, you go
Speaker 1: out there and you run Curse out there on that
Speaker 1: field and it works for like it did for a
Speaker 1: Maury Cooper and the Jets game where he went five
Speaker 1: plays and now you're down, you know where you could
Speaker 1: have like you know, these guys will want to give
Speaker 1: it a go. But you know, your numbers also are
Speaker 1: kind of in a weird situation right now to you
Speaker 1: because last last week there was like, you know, ten
Speaker 1: dbs versus ten defensive linemen. And while you would think
Speaker 1: ten defensive lineman might make more sense in a game
Speaker 1: like this or a team likes to run. But if Curses,
Speaker 1: if he and let's say Marquis Bell is that last
Speaker 1: guy that was up he was activated last week, he
Speaker 1: might be the guy activated again. He might be because
Speaker 1: because you need depth at safety for that for that
Speaker 1: situation that Brian's talking about there. But McCarthy said he's
Speaker 1: in everything. You know, he made it sound like Curses
Speaker 1: is gonna be okay, So we'll see. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Curse is talking like they're in their way. Forty tims
Speaker 1: are in our way of what we want to go
Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: think he's saying all the things that make it sound
Speaker 1: like he will play. I just wonder with last week
Speaker 1: what they did with Mkuamu in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field and all these different things, these packages that have
Speaker 1: to happen. I wonder, with Curse not being a part
Speaker 1: of some of the practicing, just how effective he's going
Speaker 1: to be. I'm not trying to doubt him, because I mean,
Speaker 1: he plays with will, he plays strong, But I mean this,
Speaker 1: this isn't a great sign for him. Well you would
Speaker 1: think based on those four games that he was out
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys defense doesn't go just basically to nothing
Speaker 1: without him. Wilson, Yeah, I mean, Donovan Wilson can play
Speaker 1: the position, and you feel really good about what Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson can provide for you. So in the event that
Speaker 1: he can't play or isn't quite as effective as you want,
Speaker 1: you do have some recourse there, right, Sure. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: thing about this game though, is to me, you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna need all the downhill players you can get,
Speaker 1: and Curse is a downhill player. Wilson's a downhill player.
Speaker 1: Vander Esh is a downhill player, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: you're gonna need as many of those bodies running, you know,
Speaker 1: getting to the outside. And if he doesn't play, I
Speaker 1: actually think I would go with Jabril Cox before I
Speaker 1: would go with with or if you need some depth there,
Speaker 1: I may go with Jabril Cox. I know that they're
Speaker 1: playing different spots, but I think, like Brian saying, I
Speaker 1: think I think a guy closer to the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage would would be a guy would be where curses
Speaker 1: playing as opposed to be an app in the back end.
Speaker 1: I just asked somebody in the organization the question we're
Speaker 1: pondering right now. Answer was, we'll play, we'll play, We'll play.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, there you go. I'm sorry I let
Speaker 1: you guys down. Well played. I wanted to get that in.
Speaker 1: But we were talking about I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: stop messing around here. Brought us ask a question. And
Speaker 1: that's my favorite clip on the internet is that I
Speaker 1: showed this to Brian because this was something Brian would do.
Speaker 1: It was a basketball announcer pre game. His name is
Speaker 1: Scott Hastings, and he's getting, you know, from the studio.
Speaker 1: They're like, you think I was gonna play, they're shooting.
Speaker 1: He turned around he's like, hey, are you playing and
Speaker 1: the guy's like shooting. He's like Noah, He's like he
Speaker 1: ain't playing. And I sent that to Brian. I was like,
Speaker 1: you would do that because Brian's like, hold on, let
Speaker 1: me just text someone. I think we did. I think
Speaker 1: we did that one time. I think there was a
Speaker 1: pregame show that we did something from the field as
Speaker 1: the guy and he asked the guy. I'm like it
Speaker 1: was Philip Tanner or something like that, like we turned around,
Speaker 1: Hey you win today, and he's like yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, yeah, we're gonna get something. He's playing
Speaker 1: breaking news. You can always tell well shoes to pre
Speaker 1: game when they you know, yeah, the tape. The tape
Speaker 1: got the Jordans on like he ain't going, well, okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you're you're gonna get a You're gonna get
Speaker 1: a positive then from from so I think the safety
Speaker 1: condition let's see, like again how long? But like I said,
Speaker 1: these guys aren't going to put people out there that
Speaker 1: are hurt. They're very mindful of that. But they also
Speaker 1: know how tough their team is. And I got like,
Speaker 1: Curse wants to play in this game. Yeah, here's your
Speaker 1: third question, you said you said safety kicker and then
Speaker 1: you said tackle. Uh, what I say is defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: What did I say, safety kicker? He said, Oh, well,
Speaker 1: we'll tackle as far as the backup tackle like that
Speaker 1: if you want. Oh yeah, yeah, no Peters, Yeah no Peters.
Speaker 1: You have to kind of figure that out. Take Collins. Maybe,
Speaker 1: I don't know how well he was up last week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the elevation rules are in the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Can you just keep elevating? Guys? I start zero again.
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is all I ask that question
Speaker 1: to somebody else. I mean, divisional games is new. You know,
Speaker 1: the last time we come back for the after the
Speaker 1: there was no elevation talk. Well, with these injuries, does
Speaker 1: that complicate things for guy? Is that last week weren't
Speaker 1: didn't make it to the active roster and maybe even
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys necessarily wanted to bring him back up.
Speaker 1: Do you have some of those issues now where you like,
Speaker 1: maybe we need to bring an extra safety because we
Speaker 1: don't know if Curse can make it through a full game.
Speaker 1: We don't have Peters. Maybe we need an extra offensive
Speaker 1: I don't know where where it all comes from, but
Speaker 1: do you think that that now affects people like Bohannah Gallimore,
Speaker 1: even nay Sean Wright. Yeah, yes, and it also affects
Speaker 1: if they want to bring up a kicker, if they
Speaker 1: want to do that. Yeah, I don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to do that, but with any of those guys, well,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about just with the kicker, Okay, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to elevate him. Um. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I could be wrong there, but I think
Speaker 1: for what happened in practice yesterday, what happened in practice,
Speaker 1: I know there was some reports coming in. My heart
Speaker 1: made his kicks. Yes, I think his six made them
Speaker 1: all just guy you know, three, five, three or five? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the one one of them that he made, I mean,
Speaker 1: like that thing. That thing was like slicing in like
Speaker 1: you know, it was practice squad elevations, reset for the playoffs,
Speaker 1: Reset for the playoffs. Yeah, awesome. So we're two for
Speaker 1: two todays. Ask someone if the kicker is going to
Speaker 1: come in here? Yeah, let's just keep asking questions the show.
Speaker 1: I'm running out. I'll be texting you guys here in
Speaker 1: a minute, two different two different people there. Yeah. Nice, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would think I was here for fourteen years. The
Speaker 1: same time I was here. You got here too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were came at the same time. I just kind
Speaker 1: of you were a lot of You were a lot
Speaker 1: better doing it. You were a lot better doing your
Speaker 1: job than I was. Who are you have in your phone?
Speaker 1: Hold on? I don't know? All right? Nobody? Um, I
Speaker 1: guess though, we're wearing white Sox this week? How about
Speaker 1: that nice scoop um so so you think that and
Speaker 1: you talked about it going against a run heavy team.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's a need for for guys like
Speaker 1: Bohanna and gall More to be active this week? Or
Speaker 1: do you think you know, we got Watkins, you got Osa,
Speaker 1: you got Hankins like you got defensive tackles that can
Speaker 1: hold it down. Do you think they're gonna need more
Speaker 1: bodies this week? Yeah? I could see one more guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, but then again, I'm not getting into what
Speaker 1: dan Quinn's trying to do and all that he's got
Speaker 1: a plan for it. It just surprice those last week
Speaker 1: with kind of the combination the guys that he went with.
Speaker 1: I mean, we were in the press box looking at
Speaker 1: the inactives and we're like, oh, that's that's interesting. So,
Speaker 1: like you said, dan Quinn, who knows what he got
Speaker 1: in store this week. It's kind of funny though, when
Speaker 1: you think about training camp, Gallimore and Bohanna, we're talking
Speaker 1: about them. You know, Oh, these guys are starting their
Speaker 1: first team. You know, just how how? And I think
Speaker 1: at one point they both did they both were starting.
Speaker 1: And now you've got you know, they traded for Hankins,
Speaker 1: You've got Carlos Watkins who they had cut and brought
Speaker 1: back and was on the lot. He makes play. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's a good defensive tack he really is. There's I was.
Speaker 1: I was visiting with some people that know him very
Speaker 1: very well, and the part when he got released from
Speaker 1: the team was very eye opening to him. I mean
Speaker 1: that that that's something he conveyed. It's like because they
Speaker 1: were asking, my man, you're having a great year doing this,
Speaker 1: that and the other. He says, when I got released,
Speaker 1: that opened my eyes to what I need to do.
Speaker 1: And sometimes that's what when all of a sudden they say, hey,
Speaker 1: we don't need you anymore, and then you're like, whoa,
Speaker 1: I just went from no one, you know, being comfortable
Speaker 1: here too. Now you don't need me anymore. Are you
Speaker 1: say when you got released in the Texans or Cowboys? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Yeah, it was very much a whoa kind
Speaker 1: of a moment for him. Yeah, Yeah, he's he's he
Speaker 1: is a really I think, a really productive player. They
Speaker 1: had defensive tack man. You know what, I think that
Speaker 1: maybe what you guys saw from the press box at
Speaker 1: Raymond James the other day was the fact that that
Speaker 1: Tampa wasn't going to run the ball, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, it's like, get up the field, get up
Speaker 1: the field, guys, And that's what you had. That's who
Speaker 1: you dressed. You dressed get up the field guys. But
Speaker 1: you did get a little bit with Gholston, a guy
Speaker 1: that can play the run. So it wasn't like Osa's
Speaker 1: a get up the field guy. Gholston's more of an
Speaker 1: end playing tackle that kind of can do a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I think his Gholston's best best attributes or his
Speaker 1: ability to play the run. Yeah, So we'll see this week.
Speaker 1: What did you guys see from Xavier Rhodes last week?
Speaker 1: And do you think there's a chance that maybe he
Speaker 1: gets replaced by Nashan Wright this week as a guy
Speaker 1: that kind of comes up to be maybe your fourth
Speaker 1: corner if you if you like what you saw from Quama,
Speaker 1: if you believe in conspiracy theories, dan Quinn was holding
Speaker 1: back Izzy, not letting anybody know that who was going
Speaker 1: to be his real corner going forward, that let's keep
Speaker 1: rolling guys through, Let's keep trying guys, Let's keep trying,
Speaker 1: you know, Or maybe I'm completely wrong about this, Maybe
Speaker 1: because dan Quinn kind of figured out that Micah Parsons
Speaker 1: win tank went down week two last year. Dan Quinn's like,
Speaker 1: do you ever think this guy could rush the passer?
Speaker 1: You know, and then now you see the legend of
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. Maybe he saw the same thing and Izzy,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he saw like, listen, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: hold this guy and I'm gonna play it. But man,
Speaker 1: how what a what a big moment we've seen? Is
Speaker 1: he play really really well in training camp and get
Speaker 1: opportunities and stuff, but not to this point. But if
Speaker 1: you do believe in conspiracy theories, dan Quinn was holding
Speaker 1: is he just not to show anybody what they had
Speaker 1: there at corner and me personally the ball, the two
Speaker 1: minute ball that went to roads down the sidelines. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he looks back inside him like, no, bro, that's
Speaker 1: that's you. That's that's you you gotta run with. And
Speaker 1: we talked about what are his deficiencies. Yeah, can't run,
Speaker 1: can't run, but but but he does do that. He's physical,
Speaker 1: he knows things. I mean, he knows he can he
Speaker 1: can recognize things. I don't know if you can change
Speaker 1: your packages all the time. But if you get into
Speaker 1: a red zone, goal line situation, especially when they like
Speaker 1: to run, why that means those corners are gonna have
Speaker 1: to get up and hit. Plus he knows how to
Speaker 1: switch off and things like that. He's recognizes. But you're right,
Speaker 1: just one on one me versus you, that's not that's
Speaker 1: not the game anymore. He doesn't have It's not like
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson, who's he's an older guy too, But Patrick
Speaker 1: Peterson can still run. Terrence Newman could run. He probably
Speaker 1: could run now, you know those guys. But when you
Speaker 1: lose that, maybe maybe you get into a situation too.
Speaker 1: Like Nick's talk about. It's a really good point on
Speaker 1: his part, is you get into a red zone situation
Speaker 1: where you have to be a physical guy, but the
Speaker 1: field shrinks and you don't have to extend you could
Speaker 1: be physical, you could chase. That's the problem that I
Speaker 1: worry about with San Francisco is how much man coverage
Speaker 1: are you gonna play because they will run you through
Speaker 1: the forest, you know, I mean they will run through
Speaker 1: They'll run you through kittle, use check, you know, debt,
Speaker 1: they'll run crossing, They'll run you through everybody. And these
Speaker 1: guys are so good at doing it. And then you
Speaker 1: got a quarterback that just you know that kind of
Speaker 1: thing saying Diggs and Duran Bland, those guys, it's gonna
Speaker 1: they gotta tackle the physical. Yeah, he's a physical guy.
Speaker 1: Diggs is a really good corner um. But no dis
Speaker 1: is capable. Is because we saw and I killed Diggs
Speaker 1: a lot for this, because I'm I'm from the old
Speaker 1: krusty school of giving corners that tackle, you know, give
Speaker 1: me the antoine windfields that you know, the old school,
Speaker 1: give me, you know, give me those guys that come
Speaker 1: up and hitch in stuff like that. And so then
Speaker 1: you watched Diggs. We saw him in the Cincinnati game
Speaker 1: earlier this year. It was a third down play. He
Speaker 1: tackles short for a fourth it's a fourth down play,
Speaker 1: tackles short again, fourth down off the field. You know,
Speaker 1: you're like, it's crossing, it's carrying the balls there, he's tackling.
Speaker 1: It's when it's coming right at him that it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a oh, I'm not so sure about this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, Yeah, And that's the part that you
Speaker 1: have to worry about against the team like this that's
Speaker 1: very physical. Yeah, they're gonna try to forty four seventy
Speaker 1: one nineteen. All these guys are coming at you. Send
Speaker 1: the tackle enough coming at him. Yeah, all right, let's
Speaker 1: go and take our first. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: going to jump into the actual matchup. Got some questions
Speaker 1: for you guys. Brian also got a little reconnaissance on again.
Speaker 1: Somebody talked about. Yeah, awesome information on the Raiders and
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Speaker 1: to I was at the hospital, so they horrible time
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Speaker 1: She's hiving up and she's having a baby. But you
Speaker 1: know whatever. All right, welcome back, second second with the
Speaker 1: break off from that WBC Morgane Studios at start of
Speaker 1: the second presented by blockchain dot com. Real quick question
Speaker 1: for Nick, Real quick, real quick. Yes, favorite you'll know
Speaker 1: this favorite fictional sports coach. Fictional sports coach? Is there
Speaker 1: an answer? I mean, no, anyone you want Normandale, Normandale.
Speaker 1: I was saying, that's it's at your favorite one. That's
Speaker 1: the first one, like Ted Lasso, Lege Dunlap, some slapshot,
Speaker 1: I mean Morse, buttermaker. But that was a real guy, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was Normandale, Normandalemandale. He's the who's your time? Time
Speaker 1: for this? Okay? No, I just because it was a
Speaker 1: story story about that, but it was a question we
Speaker 1: asked on the radio yesterday Normandale. Normandale, Yeah, can just
Speaker 1: do a quick story. Go for it, especially since Chris
Speaker 1: earlier he was showing me something some clip of this
Speaker 1: favorite yelling at his kids. But anyways, Normandale. My favorite
Speaker 1: part of the movie Hoosiers, which you probably have never seen.
Speaker 1: He coaches Hoosiers play in a basketball team and he's
Speaker 1: trying to set an example to his new team. Here
Speaker 1: they only have they only have like five kids and
Speaker 1: on the team, and he keeps saying past the ball,
Speaker 1: past the ball. This kid just jacks up his shot
Speaker 1: all the time. So he's on the bench. I guess
Speaker 1: they have six kids, and they found someone fouls out.
Speaker 1: So he just goes in the game and he's like,
Speaker 1: where are you going in the game. He's like sit down. No,
Speaker 1: He's like, we gotta have five. He's like, sit down.
Speaker 1: And the coach comes over to the coach you need
Speaker 1: one more and yeah, I'm the ref reff. Yeah you
Speaker 1: need one more and he goes my team is on
Speaker 1: the floor. This is a great moment in the movie.
Speaker 1: Well fast forward what forty years, I'm coaching soccer. We're
Speaker 1: getting beat like eight to nothing. We got a kid
Speaker 1: crying over here to his mom. We had another kid
Speaker 1: in the bathroom. We're getting all this stuff, and another
Speaker 1: kid just tried to punch another player on the team.
Speaker 1: So he's getting reprimanded on his own team. Another team
Speaker 1: that's a team he like takes a swing all that.
Speaker 1: So he's getting talked to by the coach. We're a mess.
Speaker 1: We only got like it's four on four, only got
Speaker 1: three kids in the literally the exact same face. This
Speaker 1: little like fifteen year old kid comes over as a
Speaker 1: rafficals coach, you need one more. And I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I couldn't say floor, but I was like,
Speaker 1: our team is on the field, you know. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was like the greatest moment. Nobody got this moment.
Speaker 1: But I know because the red still like you understand
Speaker 1: what I just said, Yeah, I want booing. That was
Speaker 1: like our team is on the field. And he put
Speaker 1: his hand in the air. Yeah yeah. And I was
Speaker 1: like and I had I had the music in my
Speaker 1: head going on. I think they scored again on it.
Speaker 1: Whatever whatever we learned the lesson that day, what was it, Uh,
Speaker 1: get Payla on your team, you know, like trying to
Speaker 1: get like Ronaldo or something like that. You know, we didn't.
Speaker 1: We don't have those kids, you know, play club soccer.
Speaker 1: That's what you gotta do. Got Ambar's son coming up here,
Speaker 1: so yeah, right right, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's probably got
Speaker 1: on the team exactly. All right, let's let's let's jump in.
Speaker 1: Let's let's talk about this matchup. Brian, you were able
Speaker 1: to talk some folks around the league that you deal
Speaker 1: with about that Raiders games and some of the things
Speaker 1: that they observed. Yeah, what what were you hearing? Well?
Speaker 1: The thing about it was what this and we talked
Speaker 1: about how you have to be able to block the front.
Speaker 1: We talked about that yesterday. We talked about they don't
Speaker 1: do a whole lot. You know, that's another thing that
Speaker 1: they were talking about. There's people are saying, hey, if
Speaker 1: you control the front and what you do is this
Speaker 1: This coach told me, this is talking cowboys offense versus there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because of forty nine or defense, everybody seem to speak
Speaker 1: worried how you're going to move the ball, how you
Speaker 1: gonna you know, how you're gonna handle all that. There's
Speaker 1: a whole nother thing. How you're trying to stop them.
Speaker 1: You know, that's another day. But my guys were telling
Speaker 1: me about this is if you're able to control their
Speaker 1: front and making them blitz. They don't want to play
Speaker 1: man coverage. They don't want to do that. They they
Speaker 1: like playing in zone because it protects their guys. And
Speaker 1: what this one coach was telling me about, he's like, listen,
Speaker 1: he says. We could talk about Travarious Ward, and we
Speaker 1: could also talk about Lenore or the other corner. He says,
Speaker 1: But the guy you could take advantage of is Jimmy Ward,
Speaker 1: the nickel number one. He says. Now, what teams have
Speaker 1: been able to do is that you get him into
Speaker 1: some matchups. He doesn't he of the guys that can
Speaker 1: cover on the back, he's the one. Now the fun
Speaker 1: of the safety is the one you want to try
Speaker 1: and get your tight end on. That's the one, they say.
Speaker 1: But they said also Ward out of the slot. He's
Speaker 1: just not a custom even though he plays it, it's
Speaker 1: not his favorite thing to do. So Kellen Moore CD,
Speaker 1: think about how you want to maybe even if it
Speaker 1: turns into t Y Hilton in there a little, there's
Speaker 1: somebody that you feel like can win because Ward isn't
Speaker 1: really comfortable having to carry guys that's not his scene.
Speaker 1: But that's how they that's how they play man when
Speaker 1: they comes on the field. If you get them an
Speaker 1: eleven personnel, you know they're going to probably play man coverage.
Speaker 1: It's something that they really really don't want to do.
Speaker 1: So that was something attack attack, Jimmy Warden, this game
Speaker 1: was something they said. Another thing they said is listen,
Speaker 1: move your tight end and move your tight end. What
Speaker 1: he said was they create bubbles. Like if you put
Speaker 1: the tight end to the right side, they're going to
Speaker 1: take that as that's the strength. That's where the ball's coming.
Speaker 1: You move the tight endo the other side, you create
Speaker 1: a bubble over there to run the ball. Apt So
Speaker 1: if you're going to run the ball in the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, run it at the bubble. Don't run it
Speaker 1: where the tight end is, because that's they declared, that's
Speaker 1: the strength. So if you move your what they call
Speaker 1: the why or the tight end, you move your why,
Speaker 1: then that creates bubbles in their defense that you can
Speaker 1: potentially run the ball at so away from the tight end,
Speaker 1: away from the tight end, but just you know, and
Speaker 1: this and make that happen that way for that Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the tight end's gonna he's not opening up a
Speaker 1: whole lot of lanes blocking. Yeah, you know, well, that's
Speaker 1: that's how you create you create space for yourself. Another
Speaker 1: thing is you said you have to be really you
Speaker 1: have to be really disciplined because their rush is up
Speaker 1: the field that you say you the guy told me
Speaker 1: he goes. Your quarterback has to be willing to run. Okay,
Speaker 1: when we've seen Dak run a little bit, which is good,
Speaker 1: it's good, but Dak Jerry was asked about that today.
Speaker 1: It's you know, go run, go, do what you have
Speaker 1: to do to go win this game. Their their rush
Speaker 1: up the field is not it's almost like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: rush not organized at times, it's get up the field,
Speaker 1: sack you before you have a chance. But you have
Speaker 1: guys that get maybe out of position. Dak has to
Speaker 1: be willing to those times. When he gets back, he's
Speaker 1: got to be willing to he sees a gap, just
Speaker 1: charge it, go for it, get five, six, seven yards,
Speaker 1: fight for another play. You know, but you got a
Speaker 1: positive play, you didn't get sacked. So undisciplined rush, you
Speaker 1: have to be disciplined enough to know that if you
Speaker 1: see the gap, go for it, because that's your best opportunity.
Speaker 1: To make things happen. Another thing this guy says is
Speaker 1: your big plays are your toss crack plays where you
Speaker 1: block down, get stuff on the perimeter. Those are good
Speaker 1: plays against him. On things on the outside, he said,
Speaker 1: you can't make a living running inside on these guys.
Speaker 1: So everything on the outside is a good is good
Speaker 1: for you. Another thing they said is really good is
Speaker 1: the screens, especially the slip screens where you get back
Speaker 1: and you just kind of slide him out. And I said,
Speaker 1: this team's and run the screen since like nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 1: and he goes, He goes, yeah, I understand that, he goes.
Speaker 1: The next best thing you do is run draws. Run draws,
Speaker 1: because they come up the field and the Cowboys, we've
Speaker 1: seen the Cowboys with the game. Dad takes it, hands
Speaker 1: it to Pollard inside and then they attack everybody's up
Speaker 1: the field and they break the They break the first
Speaker 1: first wave and get into the second wave. So if
Speaker 1: you can't run screens against these guys, the draws are really, really,
Speaker 1: really a good a good way to attack them running
Speaker 1: the football. He also said, in your drop back pa
Speaker 1: a game, it's one two throw, one two throw, one
Speaker 1: two throw. He says you don't want to you don't
Speaker 1: want to turn this into like, let's say they're gonna play.
Speaker 1: He called it a post zone postsone as means he's
Speaker 1: got a safety in the middle field. It's like single high.
Speaker 1: So you're either gonna get postsone or you're gonna get
Speaker 1: what they call split zone, which is covered two. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you know going in, that's what you're gonna see.
Speaker 1: There's not gonna be anything. There's not gonna be the
Speaker 1: Rob Ryan crazy exotic looks and stuff like that. Either
Speaker 1: gonna get the single high look or the or the
Speaker 1: two deep. And that's what he says. That's when you
Speaker 1: got to go. It's gonna be one step, two step throw,
Speaker 1: one step two step throw. He goes, that's how you're
Speaker 1: gonna that's how you find a way to get plays
Speaker 1: on these guys. So how do you make your big
Speaker 1: plays downfield? If you're doing three step drops, typically you're
Speaker 1: doing five seven stop step drops if you're trying to
Speaker 1: go downfield. Yeah, that's the thing about it is, he said,
Speaker 1: to get the ball, to continue to move the change,
Speaker 1: you got to think about the one or two step drops.
Speaker 1: When they're with the Raiders, they were thinking that for
Speaker 1: what people what I was talking to about him was
Speaker 1: they were thinking about they were able to, like I say,
Speaker 1: block the front. They were able to like okay, man
Speaker 1: on man and then it allowed their quarterback. Also when
Speaker 1: you watch the tape, was Stiham was able to move
Speaker 1: a little bit in the pocket. So that's where it
Speaker 1: also comes to play. If somehow, some way Dallas can
Speaker 1: hold up in this game. And I'll say, this is
Speaker 1: my final thing to you, they can make plays on
Speaker 1: the secondary that that is that is your best shot
Speaker 1: to win this football game. It is going to be
Speaker 1: about block and armstead Ken law Bosa. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: just somehow, some way you got to match that thing
Speaker 1: up across the front because the secondary that I feel
Speaker 1: like me personally watching this tape and I asked this
Speaker 1: guy said, I felt like that Philadelphia's defense was better
Speaker 1: overall than what San Francisco's is. He says the fronts
Speaker 1: are basically the same. He says, the secondaries aren't. Phillies
Speaker 1: got a better secondary. So that's that's where some of
Speaker 1: the things. But again the draw plays, the moving the
Speaker 1: why and then the ability to like be not be
Speaker 1: afraid to if the rush is up the field, take
Speaker 1: the opportunity to go with it, and they do not
Speaker 1: want to play man coverage, so you have to take
Speaker 1: advantage of it when they do play man coverage. You know.
Speaker 1: One thing you gotta remember too is is you know
Speaker 1: when when you're facing new quarterbacks, you know, like the
Speaker 1: Bengals had a hard time at first, you know, just
Speaker 1: with with Rush and the Cowboys with Minshew and Cowboys
Speaker 1: with Howel and and maybe forty nine ers was stid them,
Speaker 1: you know because it was like those first start So
Speaker 1: you kind of wonder sometimes if that is a if
Speaker 1: that is a factor too, when that Stidham's first start
Speaker 1: was so you know, they they they'll have a probably
Speaker 1: a better read on Dak than they than they did
Speaker 1: in that game too. So um but but yeah, that's
Speaker 1: some that's some really good stuff too, because it kind
Speaker 1: of shows it seems like to me what you're saying
Speaker 1: is the forty nine ers do what they do, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they expect to just and by the way, when
Speaker 1: you got that good players, you can do what you
Speaker 1: see when we were talking about with Damiko, Ryan's the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator there. My buddies, other buddies I talked to
Speaker 1: that played them. We're saying, listen, Demko will come up
Speaker 1: with a package if he feels like you're better or
Speaker 1: equal or better than them. But if you're a team
Speaker 1: that they can kind of just out talent, yeah he'll
Speaker 1: play you straight up. Yeah. Well, I wonder what how
Speaker 1: what he feels about that then, because this is this
Speaker 1: is probably close. This is probably the best team that
Speaker 1: he's probably the best offense that he's faced really since
Speaker 1: Kansas City. I would think, you know, you know, when
Speaker 1: they beat Miami, Miami was kind of rolling a little
Speaker 1: bit there. It was to a plan at that point.
Speaker 1: He's been in and out so much. They just don't
Speaker 1: know think the Dolphins had I didn't. Once again, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins had a couple of bad games. They were in
Speaker 1: that California trip. They got beat by the Chargers and
Speaker 1: then they stayed behind or that it was vice versa.
Speaker 1: It was they got beat by the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: and lost the Chargers, or lost the Chargers and played
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. But it was two really bad
Speaker 1: games for them offensively. Out there, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take our final break. We'll come back. We got some
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Speaker 1: WBC more each studios at the start. Let's get some
Speaker 1: fan questions. They've been sending them in all week. Let's
Speaker 1: get to it. We've got one first from j Stender.
Speaker 1: He says, one of the biggest differences between these two
Speaker 1: teams when they met a year ago to where they
Speaker 1: are right now. Christian McCaffrey. Yeah, that that that trade
Speaker 1: part of it. That trade made them that That's something
Speaker 1: they absolutely had to do, you know, to get that done.
Speaker 1: I mean they realized that they had you know, they
Speaker 1: had good backs, but they also needed you know, here's
Speaker 1: a dynamic back, here's a back that can catch. He's
Speaker 1: perfect for what they do. It really really is. He's
Speaker 1: so hard to stop just because you know, you could
Speaker 1: put him out wide, you could you know, you put
Speaker 1: him in the backfield to hand him the ball. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just so much you can do. He's just such
Speaker 1: a hard guy to stop. I think from the Cowboys' perspective,
Speaker 1: I think that they've they've figured out, you know, in
Speaker 1: the off season they had to get Ceedee Lamb and
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard a part of this offense and along with
Speaker 1: some others, and Schultz is one of the others, and
Speaker 1: Zeke has been one of the others. But those other
Speaker 1: two guys are dynamic, and I don't think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be one catch for twenty yards for Ceedee Lamb in
Speaker 1: this game. I think he's gonna be a lot more
Speaker 1: of a factor. I think Tony Pollard will be a
Speaker 1: lot more of a factor. I think they've they've just
Speaker 1: matured as an offense, even despite all the injuries. But
Speaker 1: I also think too that they're going to be a
Speaker 1: more physical team. I think that was a key. You
Speaker 1: saw it in the draft. They had to get physical,
Speaker 1: and they used that game as a benchmark to say,
Speaker 1: we're not getting our ask, And do you think they are?
Speaker 1: I do. I think there are more physical team. And
Speaker 1: if they didn't like what was happening in defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: they got a guy and they traded for Hankins. They
Speaker 1: got Tyler Smith. Was he ready to play and debatable.
Speaker 1: Could he bench press six hundred pounds? Yeah? And every
Speaker 1: game he seemed to take out his anger on someone.
Speaker 1: I mean, did you see that play from his last
Speaker 1: game he tosses defferent White. I mean, like every game
Speaker 1: you'll see one of those where he gets into somebody
Speaker 1: and just throws him. The fact that he's not being
Speaker 1: mentioned for Rookie of the Year is ridiculous. And maybe
Speaker 1: he will be because if you look at it, pretty
Speaker 1: pretty might be in there too. He's only played a
Speaker 1: handful of games, but it's been great. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I think offensive linemen always get overlooked in that and
Speaker 1: when you think about him playing guard tackle, guard, tackle,
Speaker 1: back and forth, back and forth and playing it really well.
Speaker 1: I mean, his rookie season has been amazing. I think
Speaker 1: that another thing that has changed. And I can't go
Speaker 1: back to remember the exact number, but I think it
Speaker 1: was Mica that was talking about it yesterday in regards
Speaker 1: to penalties and you know, those type of mistakes. That's
Speaker 1: something that Day've cleaned up. That was still a struggle
Speaker 1: at the beginning of this season and towards the middle
Speaker 1: of it, and they seemingly have cleaned that up on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, defensively and on the offense.
Speaker 1: So I think that's something that's gonna obviously helped them
Speaker 1: in that regard. That has been quite the improvement compared
Speaker 1: to how they were last year. Well that you're right
Speaker 1: that game last year, that penalties were just unbelievable in
Speaker 1: that game, Like Cedric Wilson had a huge penalty in
Speaker 1: that game where had a nice, nice play. It was
Speaker 1: like a twenty yard penal city block in the back
Speaker 1: or something like that. And then Randy Gregory had, you know,
Speaker 1: had some tough penalties on him, and so yeah, it's, uh,
Speaker 1: you know that part of it's it's it's cleaned up clearly.
Speaker 1: Uh you know that, Uh that from from what you
Speaker 1: saw last year. Yeah, and but a part of it
Speaker 1: too with penalties, and we think it's been cleaned up.
Speaker 1: But if you can't block them, you're gonna hold them.
Speaker 1: That's that's what happened. So I do wonder if this
Speaker 1: offensive line is going to face a defensive line that's
Speaker 1: aggressive that that this is gonna be a challenge to block.
Speaker 1: You know, I know a lot of Collins had issues,
Speaker 1: Connor Williams had issues, but I mean, these guys can
Speaker 1: have issues too if they can't block him. There have
Speaker 1: been times even recently that I feel that it's kind
Speaker 1: of flipped a little bit to where they can drop penalties.
Speaker 1: Last yeah, it didn't take. It took week ten. It
Speaker 1: was against Green Bay the last time they drew a
Speaker 1: holding call. But you know, it was like it was
Speaker 1: last week they drew actually drew a holding call on
Speaker 1: Donovan Smith, and you're kind of like about time, like
Speaker 1: they hadn't drawn one for you know, for seven weeks.
Speaker 1: So I mean, that's that's really you know, the thing
Speaker 1: you have to Bill Vinovich is the official for this game.
Speaker 1: He's the one that calls the least amount of penalis. Now.
Speaker 1: I know it's an all star crew, but I guarantee
Speaker 1: you Bill Vinovich is gonna walk in there with his
Speaker 1: crew before the game and say, listen, if you see it,
Speaker 1: call it. If you don't, I don't need any flax. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's let these players decide it. Now. Is that good
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys? It could be good for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: if all of a sudden you're struggling with that front
Speaker 1: and you're trying to you know, if they're holding Mica
Speaker 1: then I get to hold Bosa, you know, or I
Speaker 1: get to hold the defensive tackle. If they're holding my guys,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold you. But you know, that's that's where
Speaker 1: you have to kind of end these games. I appreciate
Speaker 1: officials that are gonna let you play, you know, And
Speaker 1: I believe Bill Vinovitch is probably gonna tell his crew,
Speaker 1: you know, you call it when you see it, but
Speaker 1: if you don't, if you if you're not sure, you
Speaker 1: keep that flag in your pocket. Let these players decide
Speaker 1: the game. I don't know who that benefits. I don't
Speaker 1: know who that benefits the most in that type of game.
Speaker 1: Maybe it benefits the Cowboys because if you're thinking about
Speaker 1: your offensive line, you know, and having to block. I mean,
Speaker 1: I keep saying, hey, we got to block the front.
Speaker 1: You gotta block the front. Well, maybe block the front
Speaker 1: meets holding two, you know, and if you get away
Speaker 1: with that, maybe I'll hope you make some plays. It
Speaker 1: just feels to me like that game. It feels to
Speaker 1: me like Dallas lost that game to San Francisco last year,
Speaker 1: but three scores. That's the way it feels coming out
Speaker 1: of that game, and we forget how close that game
Speaker 1: was like Dallas was in position to be able to
Speaker 1: to I mean that that was not a game that
Speaker 1: was out of reach for them. And that's where I'm like,
Speaker 1: if you even found a little bit more from somewhere. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously Christian McCaffrey changes things that change it, yeah, but
Speaker 1: but if you find a little bit more on offense
Speaker 1: and defense, this is not an unbeatable team like Dallas
Speaker 1: is not going in the face. This is not Ivan
Speaker 1: Drago like this is this is a team that they
Speaker 1: should be able to lost. He did lose, right exactly,
Speaker 1: But on my point, it's like they can they could
Speaker 1: beat this team. This is not a situation where this
Speaker 1: team is so much better than Dallas. Oh it's even
Speaker 1: so much better than they were last year. It just
Speaker 1: felt like that this was to him. This be a
Speaker 1: more man, this is him. This is one of those
Speaker 1: times where I kind of feel like, if Dallas wins
Speaker 1: this game, they're they're going to the super Bowl. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that they're going to find somebody pteet that
Speaker 1: this more and it just makes me nervous, it makes
Speaker 1: me sweat. But but I mean, you've played the Giants,
Speaker 1: and you've played and I give the Giants a chance.
Speaker 1: I do. I give the Giants a chance because they
Speaker 1: were not even playing their guys in a game that
Speaker 1: Philadelphia had to win and they lost by six. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's if you somehow, some way, if the football gods
Speaker 1: smiled on you on on Saturday, I was saying, keep
Speaker 1: coming up with fun. I'm late. I'm sorry, I'm but
Speaker 1: that's yeah, it's just to me, it's you're right. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what if the Giants go out there and
Speaker 1: the best motivation you could have going into this game
Speaker 1: Sunday is if the Giants do win this football game.
Speaker 1: But that that's to know that you could host the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game against that against and the Giants. Trust me,
Speaker 1: that Giants have gotten a lout there. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you win this game, you're host. Like the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers will also have that motivation too, knowing that
Speaker 1: they will host this. And you know, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: my motivation, but I don't care about the forty. In
Speaker 1: my mind, I keep thinking if this is the Cowboys year,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be. They're gonna have to
Speaker 1: go hard route. I don't think they will get any breaks.
Speaker 1: Because you're talking about it all the time. Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems allergic to prosperity. They are. I think I
Speaker 1: think the more things are stacked against them the better.
Speaker 1: Like I want them to have to go play San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I want them to have to go to Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: play Philadelphia. I want them to have to play Kansas City.
Speaker 1: If they're gonna do it, it's everything that's against what
Speaker 1: we believe. I've gotten in trouble for saying that. No,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, like, if they're gonna do it,
Speaker 1: we talk about injuries. Yeah, I know right, I tell
Speaker 1: you what, man, imagine that on one on five dot three,
Speaker 1: because they would have been putting that all over like
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys officials. I'm not gonna lie. I'm surprised you
Speaker 1: guys have me on today, to be honestly, but you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not wishing though, I'm not wishing for injuries.
Speaker 1: And I know exactly the only thing, the only thing
Speaker 1: that ever stopped that guy from being a great player
Speaker 1: was an injury. Is an injury. That's the only thing
Speaker 1: that ever you know, anybody else ever wishing for an injury.
Speaker 1: It was it was just tongue in cheeking. No, no,
Speaker 1: it absolutely was. I am not. But I am the
Speaker 1: number one villain in Sanfordshire right now. Good good thing
Speaker 1: you're not having to travel out there. This ye have interesting?
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Let's get some predictions. What
Speaker 1: do you guys thinks gonna happen this weekend? Nicko, let's
Speaker 1: start with you. Well, I m I'll say this if
Speaker 1: if I'm if I'm dan Quinn. What I would do, though,
Speaker 1: is is Trent Williams plays left tackle, I'm putting Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons over there, and I'm gonna run right at him
Speaker 1: on the first play of the game. If he's stone
Speaker 1: Wall Jackson. You know, Parsons, no one's gonna say anything
Speaker 1: like cool. He's got sixty more other rushes to get home.
Speaker 1: If he beats him, if he gets by him and
Speaker 1: gets to Purdy and makes a play or whatever. That
Speaker 1: right there could set the tone for everything. My best,
Speaker 1: your best, I just beat you, and now we're gonna
Speaker 1: be here all day. I mean that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: Now do you keep him over there? If it doesn't work, oh,
Speaker 1: move him around whatever. But I think you got to
Speaker 1: do something to set the tone. Set the tone there,
Speaker 1: Set the tone with a deep ball. Put Turpin in
Speaker 1: to throw it deep, t y something, show him that
Speaker 1: we're here to win this this game. I think, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: But I agree. I know what. Yeah, hit him right
Speaker 1: in the mouth. Hit him, hit him right in the mouth.
Speaker 1: You have to. That's the only way you're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: You got hit in the mouth last year. What do
Speaker 1: I think is gonna happen? I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be really tough for the Cowboys to win, I
Speaker 1: really do. But I'm picking them to win because, as
Speaker 1: I said on the radio this morning, it's about freaking
Speaker 1: time that you and I go to the NFC Championship
Speaker 1: game and we're gonna I can't even do this without talking.
Speaker 1: We're gonna freaking go to the NFC Championship Game. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna win twenty seven twenty three, all right?
Speaker 1: And I can't believe I didn't just throw any words
Speaker 1: out there. You almost did a few times. Amber Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm going with my heart with this one,
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes that I've suffered long enough. But
Speaker 1: then I think of the people like you and the
Speaker 1: fans that have been with the Cowboys since their last
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and I think, yeah, definitely, it's freaking long enough.
Speaker 1: I don't know how people have stand that long. But
Speaker 1: I do think the Cowboys actually have a chance to
Speaker 1: win this game. I don't see it impossible whatsoever. I
Speaker 1: think that there are certain things that it's not preferred.
Speaker 1: You're going against the team that's pretty healthy and has
Speaker 1: a lot of talent on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a tough one. But I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do manage and find a way to win.
Speaker 1: I think Dan Quinn will be able to just create
Speaker 1: some pressure and not make it that easy on those guys,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys offense they'll manage to score some points
Speaker 1: as well. Hopefully Dak has the same focus and mentality
Speaker 1: that he did against Tampa, and they're gonna score some points.
Speaker 1: I do trust in brand Mohart getting those kicks right
Speaker 1: this week, So yeah, they win, and I do see
Speaker 1: it a close, one, high scoring game, though I would
Speaker 1: say something like thirty seven thirty five Cowboys. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: like what annber saying. I think I do. I think
Speaker 1: it comes down to a Brett Maher field goal, and
Speaker 1: I think the Dallas wins thirty one twenty eight, and
Speaker 1: I actually also think similar thing. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a high scoring game. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: an overtime game. I think they're gonna get and I
Speaker 1: think no, and but here's the deal, but he's shot.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be overtime. But I think Cowboys
Speaker 1: win with a Brett Maher field goal. Thirty four thirty
Speaker 1: one is your final score in overtime and Dallas moves on.
Speaker 1: My heart cannot handle overtime. That works because you're gonna
Speaker 1: be out, yeahs, gonna be punching guys to be on
Speaker 1: the field. You guys be on the field at the
Speaker 1: end for that one, right. We might yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: might be for that one out. Yeah. Just remember what
Speaker 1: I used to say when it's over right, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll give it here. I want you to turn to
Speaker 1: those sand for that game. If it works out like
Speaker 1: I want. Yet, he turned in Amber. Take a video
Speaker 1: of him saying it. No, Sam, No, not with that video.
Speaker 1: I want to see this video on video. I up
Speaker 1: with that on video. But I will definitely do it.
Speaker 1: If if no, you gotta yellow at him, you gotta
Speaker 1: let him know, all right, man, we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: this Sunday. Man, It'll be a good game. It will
Speaker 1: be a fun game. Let's have some fun out there
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Hopefully the cow Cowboys come back victorious.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday. We'll let you know what
Speaker 1: when right and wrong. Hopefully we'll be talking about a
Speaker 1: championship game. Till then, for Nickyman, Brian brought us apricar see.
Speaker 1: I'm Derek Eagleson. This has been The Break live on
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