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Speaker 1: welcome back to another episode of The Break. I am
Speaker 1: hosting today. We have the full crew in here, but
Speaker 1: since I'm hosting, there will be no contract talk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are taking a break for that from that until
Speaker 1: further notice. We do know that this is the kiss
Speaker 1: of death. Like in five minutes we got press conference
Speaker 1: that sign hey might happened. I mean Jerry Jones said
Speaker 1: it on the press conference or somewhere, I forgot where
Speaker 1: he's been talking so much lately, but he saided that
Speaker 1: you still gotta like three days until the games, until
Speaker 1: until the actual start of the season. Stephen Jones said
Speaker 1: that yesterday after Zeke's presser, and I almost wept. I'm like,
Speaker 1: don't do that to me, Stephen, give me, no, would
Speaker 1: be fun. Give us give us the weekend, seven pm
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. That's if that. If it happens, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: humbly put that on you in Rob Phillips because there
Speaker 1: won't be a whole lot I can do about it.
Speaker 1: LSU Texas, Like, that's kind of a thing. We've been
Speaker 1: talking about him seven let's go three years really yep.
Speaker 1: And when they first announced it, me and Dave looked
Speaker 1: at each other like, please play. We got a date,
Speaker 1: Please have a home game? Thank god, thank god, we don't.
Speaker 1: We only have to get in our cars tomorrow and
Speaker 1: not hot a flight. Oh no, no, I'm saying when
Speaker 1: the game's over. Yeah, what's the bet? Is there a bet?
Speaker 1: Or is there a friendly bet that we can talk
Speaker 1: about on the air? Well, yeah, basically our tickets, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: whoever gets, whoever wins, does not pay for their ticket,
Speaker 1: So that'll be fun. Yeah, it'll be fun and get
Speaker 1: to enjoy the game. On the other person, Okay, be fun, okay,
Speaker 1: but not really on the other I'm sure we'll talk
Speaker 1: about it again Monday or something. Trust follow our accounts
Speaker 1: on Twitter and we will have some inform. We'll have
Speaker 1: some stuff. It's gonna be the game. Wait, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: they want to hear about the cowboys though. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: let's get back on track cowboys versus Giants. Before we
Speaker 1: get into that, I thought it would be appropriate to
Speaker 1: kind of talk about the press conference that happened yes Orley,
Speaker 1: since it was a pretty interesting one. It was a
Speaker 1: fun one, especially with the shirt that Jerry presented to Zeke,
Speaker 1: which kind of cleared up the air and the questions
Speaker 1: that some people may have had as regards to the
Speaker 1: relationship there maybe creating some friction between the two after
Speaker 1: he made the comment seek who when he was asked
Speaker 1: about Tony Poller's success. Basically, can I just say this,
Speaker 1: anybody that thinks that Jerry, that Jerry ever gets takes
Speaker 1: it personal when it has to do with dealing with
Speaker 1: players and contract situations, they don't really know Jerry. Like,
Speaker 1: Jerry is not the kind that I don't think he's
Speaker 1: the kind of person that really gets too upset about
Speaker 1: anything regarding his players. I'll give you an example. You
Speaker 1: look at the media and they ride him pretty hard.
Speaker 1: And there are certain guys in this media, and I'm
Speaker 1: talking about guys that have been around here for a
Speaker 1: long time, something that don't even work in the media anymore,
Speaker 1: like Randy Galloway Dale Hanson, like, if you saw Jerry
Speaker 1: interact with those guys, you would think that they were
Speaker 1: his best of friends. Like, Jerry just doesn't take it personal.
Speaker 1: He really doesn't. And so I think when you start
Speaker 1: looking at that kind of stuff and people thinking because
Speaker 1: they were in a tough negotiation, which by the way,
Speaker 1: this probably wasn't the toughest negotiation Jerry's ever had to
Speaker 1: deal with when it comes to a player. But when
Speaker 1: you're in a tough negotiation, Jerry thinks of it as
Speaker 1: business and you go through the process and you figure
Speaker 1: it all out, and when it's all done, you shake hands,
Speaker 1: you say you got me or I got you, or
Speaker 1: we're both happy either way, and we move on and
Speaker 1: we're happy. Right, Not only business but fun. Yeah, Jerry
Speaker 1: sees the sport in it, like Jerry loves that. The
Speaker 1: one he actually he talked about it on the radio
Speaker 1: today because of last week on the radio. The one
Speaker 1: way you can hurt Jerry Jones's feelings is to intimate
Speaker 1: or suggest that he doesn't care about winning. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and he called he called called one oh five three
Speaker 1: the fan last week because they Gavin was basically suggesting like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe the fire's just not burning for him anymore. And
Speaker 1: he called in and was like, that ain't true. That's
Speaker 1: the one way and you can get to him. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this classic Jerry Jones, like a little you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to call it friction. He turned it
Speaker 1: into a joke and it's going to raise a ton
Speaker 1: of money for the Salvation Army selling a T shirt
Speaker 1: for it. That's just classic. I thought, I just put
Speaker 1: a bow on the whole thing, and it was a
Speaker 1: good way to do it. And you know, and if
Speaker 1: you can sell some money, money he could probably sell.
Speaker 1: He could probably sell money. He could sell money. I
Speaker 1: think he could probably see. But the cool thing is
Speaker 1: that it's tied in together with the Salvation Army. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna be helping people around the area. Yep.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, that's the Jones families. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say their favorite, but it is one of
Speaker 1: their favorite causes. So when spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: and money resources on working with Salvation Army on wins
Speaker 1: and wins. All right, now, let's get back into the
Speaker 1: game and what's happening this weekend. I saw a lot
Speaker 1: of questions from fans in regards to Sack Martin and
Speaker 1: his back. Are you guys concerned at all with him
Speaker 1: being limited this week and just having some question marks
Speaker 1: around him during the game. I don't think that, um,
Speaker 1: there'll be a big question mark regarding like his play.
Speaker 1: I think he'll go out there and play well. I
Speaker 1: don't think just be with him being limited. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's an issue. There's being still cautious with him.
Speaker 1: I fully expect him to play and play well. He
Speaker 1: might get a little help if he needs it on
Speaker 1: Sunday in the form of some medication. Maybe maybe takes
Speaker 1: a shot or something pain killer or whatever, just to
Speaker 1: chick kind of easy numb it. But I think he'll
Speaker 1: play well. Yeah. Back, I mean we always say it.
Speaker 1: I never feel good about somebody having a back injury.
Speaker 1: It probably won't go away, if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: and he'll probably be limited a lot, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it'll be in the way of it won't get
Speaker 1: in the way of him playing or playing well. I
Speaker 1: don't think, hopefully not. I mean, that's the thing about backs.
Speaker 1: You just never know. And I know Brian's a big
Speaker 1: you know he'll say this to you. You know that
Speaker 1: that this is when you worry about the guy waking
Speaker 1: up on a Sunday morning when you're sitting in you know,
Speaker 1: New York about to play the Giants. You wake up
Speaker 1: Sunday morning and his back just is not cooperating and
Speaker 1: you end up in a situation where you thought he
Speaker 1: was playing and then he doesn't. That's what you fear.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's not that kind of situation. But that's the
Speaker 1: thing about backs, right, he's anybody's had back issues, which
Speaker 1: I have. It's just it's a day to day thing,
Speaker 1: and you know, until you're healthy, and typically to get healthy,
Speaker 1: you gotta sit, you gotta get away from everything. So
Speaker 1: if he's going into it with this again, I'm not
Speaker 1: a doctor, but you would have to at least say
Speaker 1: that that you you kind of just keep an eye
Speaker 1: on it and just see kind of where it goes
Speaker 1: from here. If there are games where or maybe he
Speaker 1: is feeling a little bit more uncomfortable than others. It's
Speaker 1: it's not ideal, but through two days of practice he's
Speaker 1: he appears to doing fine. He was out there again,
Speaker 1: So yeah, like it will probably be something we talk
Speaker 1: about throughout the year if I had to guess, But
Speaker 1: you'll be out there Sunday. Hey, I'm gonna hijack your
Speaker 1: show for just a second. I just saw something real
Speaker 1: quick on Twitter. I wanted to throw out and get
Speaker 1: some opinions. Looks like ty Tyreek Hill just agreed to
Speaker 1: a fifty four million dollar extension. Kid, No, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: we're I'm hosting this show. Noting here a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: wide receiver getting a new deal. So we'll see. We'll
Speaker 1: see how that affects Amari Cooper. That's eighteen a year,
Speaker 1: so that's a lot of money establishing. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the information. We'll get back on it next week, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. We'll see how that affects everything else
Speaker 1: next week. All right, back on track. Travis Frederick, Jason Witten.
Speaker 1: Two guys that you know, they've been doing well this offseason.
Speaker 1: They look good, they've been nothing has popped up, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as them. But be now for a whole
Speaker 1: year and now you talk about a game. How do
Speaker 1: you guys expect them to react when it comes down
Speaker 1: to a full, actual, full, real season game. Jason Witten,
Speaker 1: I just assume he's gonna look like Jason Witten, Like
Speaker 1: I assume it's gonna look exactly the same as it
Speaker 1: did for most of his Like he's going to play
Speaker 1: most of the snaps, maybe not on Sunday, but at
Speaker 1: some point he's gonna have a penalty that everybody kind
Speaker 1: of you're like, well, okay, well let it go because
Speaker 1: it's Jason Witten, and he'll catch like six four to
Speaker 1: eight passes for like four your fifty yards and hopefully
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Travis Frederick is the one that's interesting to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, he looked good in the preseason for what
Speaker 1: we saw, right, but is he back to being that
Speaker 1: ridiculous all pro? And I mean I don't I don't
Speaker 1: have an answer for you. I hope he looks great.
Speaker 1: I think what was Dack sac fifty times last year
Speaker 1: for six? Yeah? It was it was a but yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, and you know the second right, yeah, second
Speaker 1: most Yeah, and Deshaun Watson I think was first. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, so you know guys that are, you know, big, strong,
Speaker 1: athletic guys. I mean, those are the ones. But they're
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks and they're young quarterbacks and they still it's
Speaker 1: all about recognition. We talked about earlier this week, and
Speaker 1: I think Frederick will help with that more than anything.
Speaker 1: It's just where the blitz is coming from. You know,
Speaker 1: how to slide the protection either way, and I think
Speaker 1: that will be the biggest difference you see, and hopefully
Speaker 1: you'll see it in the red zone. I'll say this,
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll just be those two guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you watch the game last night, and that's really
Speaker 1: a microcosm of what Week one of NFL football really
Speaker 1: has become. So I think those guys will be working
Speaker 1: their way back. But guess what, every other veteran that
Speaker 1: didn't play that much during the preseason that's still using
Speaker 1: basically this game as somewhat of a preseason game to
Speaker 1: get themselves right, that's probably what you're gonna see on
Speaker 1: both sides. There's a lot of really dirty football that's
Speaker 1: playing being played in these first couple of weeks in
Speaker 1: the NFL season because you know, that's just don't play
Speaker 1: a lot, so having to play a full game just
Speaker 1: takes a little while. I think some time for them
Speaker 1: to get into full full form. It's going to bring
Speaker 1: back the whole you know, should these guys be playing
Speaker 1: more in the preseason or what I mean. You know,
Speaker 1: as soon as you start saying that, and then the
Speaker 1: guy gets hurt and then he's out, and then all
Speaker 1: the fans are like, that's stupid. But yeah, Trubisky Wood
Speaker 1: didn't throw a pass through a pass in the preseason, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that they should. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they should. I just think that fans have to temper
Speaker 1: their expectations a little bit. That in the first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks of the NFL season, and it happens every year,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of football. It just great football because
Speaker 1: guys are having to use those games games to get
Speaker 1: themselves right because they don't play much in the preseason.
Speaker 1: And I think the Cowboys probably played their vets more
Speaker 1: than most teams around the league, it seemed like this year,
Speaker 1: because it seemed like a lot of teams, like the Rams,
Speaker 1: they didn't play anybody pretty much the entire preseason. So
Speaker 1: I was gonna say teams are doing that now, I don't.
Speaker 1: The starters got thirty snaps this preseason, so let's not
Speaker 1: act like it's a lot, but it's more than more
Speaker 1: what a lot of teams have done. So maybe that'll
Speaker 1: help them. For the record, I expect them to be
Speaker 1: crisp on offense. I do, yeah, even with Zeke coming
Speaker 1: back in three days, I think they're gonna be good.
Speaker 1: I just don't see that that, you know, in the middle,
Speaker 1: middle of the second quarter, or like here's another punt
Speaker 1: like this boring. I just don't see that happening in
Speaker 1: this game. Even if it is, and what they scored
Speaker 1: eight points in the opener last year, obviously a lot
Speaker 1: more a lot more talent on offense this year. But
Speaker 1: even if it's the most boring football ever played, it's
Speaker 1: better than having well, not like that, but it's better
Speaker 1: than it's better than having lost one of them to
Speaker 1: a tour an ACL in the preseason. Like I'll take sloppy.
Speaker 1: You know, people were tweeting me that last night because
Speaker 1: of how vocal I am. I don't care me sloppy
Speaker 1: football with good players over and you know, having to
Speaker 1: look at somebody in a boot because they tore their ACL.
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Speaker 1: and follow Instagram, Twitter, all the social Poh, sweet Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: Somebody else is with him, but I know it's Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: He's one of the guys m Gay inactives. Let's hit it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough this week. Just speak. I mean,
Speaker 1: all right, well, your injuries are always where you start.
Speaker 1: And well, not that anybody's sad about this, but we
Speaker 1: don't have a third quarterback to just automatically sit this year.
Speaker 1: White sad about it and and he didn't have a job.
Speaker 1: It's true. Um So Donovan Wilson and Darien Thompson. No,
Speaker 1: they're Gifford. They're down. Luke Gifford's down. And that's honestly
Speaker 1: where it gets tough. Because the team is healthy for
Speaker 1: the most part. You do have to keep in mind
Speaker 1: they're going to have to cut somebody to get Zeke
Speaker 1: onto the roster. They haven't done on that. Expectation of
Speaker 1: that is if you put a gun to my head,
Speaker 1: Adam Redman, I think he's I mean, or a Brandon Knight,
Speaker 1: one of those two. And I don't think it's running back.
Speaker 1: You think it's one of the other guy. I think
Speaker 1: maybe they're afraid not I mean, Alfred Morris is a veteran,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they want to cut Alfred Morris.
Speaker 1: So I thought maybe they would at the start of
Speaker 1: the week, but I don't lean that way anymore. So
Speaker 1: we need to get to eight. You need to get
Speaker 1: to eight. So one of the two that you just mentioned,
Speaker 1: I think it was going to be an active as well.
Speaker 1: I think so. I think you think they're both on
Speaker 1: the list Redman and right And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I think one of them will get cut hopefully bring
Speaker 1: him back on the practice squad or whatever. I don't know. So,
Speaker 1: but both of those guys, So Redman night, two guys
Speaker 1: to watch your three hundred guys. That's five, right, Um
Speaker 1: a running back probably a running back probably if he's
Speaker 1: not cut. Alfred Morris is probably an active. So basically
Speaker 1: one of those three is going to due. So really
Speaker 1: you should count two because one of them might get cut. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so count we're at five. Then, well we're counting a
Speaker 1: players that are not going to be on this were
Speaker 1: counting to eight instead of seven because one of them
Speaker 1: is getting cut. So so you have two more to
Speaker 1: go defensive end. That's Joe Jackson probably. Brian brought Us
Speaker 1: is and you can read this later today. Brian brought
Speaker 1: Us has an interesting suggestion that I think might make
Speaker 1: some try try younger Um Tristan Hill, Ye, make him inactive.
Speaker 1: They're going to have to make a tough call on
Speaker 1: the defensive line. Let's put it that way, because everybody's healthy.
Speaker 1: I think that's an easy one. Like what why would
Speaker 1: you why would you have him on? Like, well, because
Speaker 1: he's the rotation you rotate your defensive line. He's fifty
Speaker 1: eighth overall pick. You would think he's good. And I
Speaker 1: mean Tony Pollard but was drafted in the fourth round
Speaker 1: and was going to start before Zeke got here. So
Speaker 1: it's just it's never a good look when a highly
Speaker 1: drafted guy is a healthy and active We talked about
Speaker 1: it with Taco. I mean if yeah, and it happened.
Speaker 1: So they're not afraid to do it. No, they're not
Speaker 1: afraid and I don't know that. But again, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to make a tough call. So it's always about,
Speaker 1: you know, who does the most on special teams defensive
Speaker 1: tackles like other than they don't. But Joe Jackson can
Speaker 1: actually run down on a kickoff and right, you need
Speaker 1: him too, and he can play a little bit of tackle. Yea.
Speaker 1: That yeah, so it's possible. I think Tacco is a
Speaker 1: possibility too, right, I think those for the record, Joe
Speaker 1: Jackson is also probably possible two out of those three
Speaker 1: Tristan Hail, Joe Jackson, Taco. Two out of those guys,
Speaker 1: I think you're hurt guys, your offensive lineman, and then
Speaker 1: they'll have to make a call on the defensive line.
Speaker 1: No quarterback, no tight and no wide receiver, no cornerback
Speaker 1: and don't I don't believe, and safeties are already banged up,
Speaker 1: so it's really got to come from that defensive line,
Speaker 1: offensive line, and the running back spot. And Jordan Chunam
Speaker 1: from what we've seen, he's doing a lot of special
Speaker 1: teams stuff, so I can't imagine him being inactive. That's
Speaker 1: and so Sean Lee was at practice today, but he
Speaker 1: came in halfway through, which leads me to think maybe
Speaker 1: he was doing some rehab stuff and he didn't have
Speaker 1: his helmet. He wasn't taking part in drills, which maybe
Speaker 1: he will, but I was kind of like, interesting, Sean, Sean,
Speaker 1: you don't have your helmet on, Like it's going to
Speaker 1: be tough for them to get through this game if
Speaker 1: they only have basically four linebackers. So something to watch.
Speaker 1: I think I think he'll play, but maybe he was
Speaker 1: just chilling. Maybe they're just protecting him to make sure
Speaker 1: that by the day of the game. You know, we talked,
Speaker 1: We talked about it, like with the constraints on the
Speaker 1: roster right now, like I wouldn't be shocked to see
Speaker 1: Sean Lee do some special teams. I mean, we've been
Speaker 1: talking about it all through training camp. Okay, something to watch, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's hit the game day predictions. Who wants to get
Speaker 1: it started? We talking score, were talking like what we
Speaker 1: expect both. Okay, Texas wins five. Come on, Mats. That
Speaker 1: was just for fun. That was for fun. That bus
Speaker 1: a bonus prediction, all right, go ahead of I think
Speaker 1: Cowboys win. I think Cowboys win in in a close,
Speaker 1: low scoring game. I think they end up. Let's go
Speaker 1: with seventeen fourteen. Wow, take me through that. Why? Because
Speaker 1: I'm still a believer that this will be probably an
Speaker 1: ugly game. I don't think both teams. I don't think
Speaker 1: both teams will be operating at full goal because I
Speaker 1: think that's what most teams do at this point. They
Speaker 1: aren't ready to go at full goal because the guys
Speaker 1: haven't really done a lot, and so I think there'll
Speaker 1: be a lot of mistakes. I think it'll whenever it
Speaker 1: starts going, you'll see it kind of pick up a
Speaker 1: little bit, But I don't think that'll happen the entire game.
Speaker 1: And I think at the end of the day, again
Speaker 1: you're talking about I think it's very similar to what
Speaker 1: you saw last night from the standpoint that these are
Speaker 1: two division opponents that are playing in the first game
Speaker 1: of the season, and so there's a lot about that
Speaker 1: that suggests the defenses will be better than the offenses.
Speaker 1: And I'll just take a while for the offenses to
Speaker 1: get going. So I think it'll be a low scoring game. Okay.
Speaker 1: I was just talking to all the fans that are
Speaker 1: going through some big group in a big group, a
Speaker 1: lot of groups to day, a lot of they're making
Speaker 1: a lot of money to day or selling money or whatever.
Speaker 1: They don saw an eighty eight jersey as I turn around,
Speaker 1: I want to I mean, what is that? And I
Speaker 1: want to see you know is in urban as it
Speaker 1: does out of time. Um, I think the Cowboys will
Speaker 1: win twenty seven to twenty one. I think it'll be
Speaker 1: it'll be a I don't think it'll be as close
Speaker 1: as as the score. I think he'll put the Giants
Speaker 1: will be the last one to score, but they'll just
Speaker 1: hang in there because Eli does that. He just hangs
Speaker 1: in there, and the Cowboys don't put teams away. But
Speaker 1: I think I said Zeke and in our gut feeling,
Speaker 1: I said Zeke and Tony Poller will will combine for
Speaker 1: two hundred all purpose yards. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: a lot, seems like it kind of is, but both
Speaker 1: of them they'll be good run pass those running backs
Speaker 1: will get them two hundred yards. Good expectation, yep. I
Speaker 1: think Ella Sheltz is gonna a big, big play Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 1: I said he's gonna have something third four, those Schultz
Speaker 1: over the middle, seventeen yard first down, and then everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna look away like, yeah, what happens. I get about
Speaker 1: three people on Twitter that's all it, and be like, ah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of how it goes. I think LSU's talent
Speaker 1: edge all went out like in the late third quarter,
Speaker 1: and Texas will just be out of gas and LSU
Speaker 1: by fourteen or so, somebody to Tea and someone will
Speaker 1: have to tell Dave about that, because on the third
Speaker 1: or fourth quarter you could be out. If anybody's gonna
Speaker 1: be out of gas, it will be day. Stop all
Speaker 1: y'all act like the funny thing. The funniest thing you said, though,
Speaker 1: is you said Lsu won't be able to handle the
Speaker 1: heat of Austen. He was king kidding. Um it. It
Speaker 1: makes me uncomfortable to be the kool aid drinker among
Speaker 1: the group because I'm usually not. But like I just
Speaker 1: this shouldn't be a problem. Honestly, I'm and sorry sorry Cowboys.
Speaker 1: You actually have to go out and play. And I
Speaker 1: know it's the NFL and all there, everybody's good. I
Speaker 1: get that, but they should just be better than the team.
Speaker 1: They're at home. They have the better quarterback, they have
Speaker 1: the better defense. I mean I wrote this in my
Speaker 1: gut feeling today, Like you could argue the Giants have
Speaker 1: the better running back. That's about it. I mean all
Speaker 1: I said was you could argue and and oh WHOOPI
Speaker 1: do we have Zeke who if he's not as good
Speaker 1: as a Sayquan, it's by a very small margin. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are just better in every aspect of this game.
Speaker 1: Um it plays well for them if it is a
Speaker 1: sloppy star because their defense should be awesome. Uh. They
Speaker 1: held the Giants to three points at at and t
Speaker 1: last year before garbage time, and they, like you know,
Speaker 1: they gave up ten points in the final four minutes
Speaker 1: when half the stadium had already gone home. Um, I
Speaker 1: think I agree with you. I think Dak balls out.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, by Cowboy standards, this is still
Speaker 1: a run heavy team. But I'm thinking three passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Maybe he throws for two forty two sixty and the
Speaker 1: run game is there. Pollard and Zeke's put it up. Um,
Speaker 1: I said thirty one seventeen. You know, there aren't you
Speaker 1: very rarely see real deal blowouts in the NFL. But
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys will just have control of this,
Speaker 1: you know, in the fourth quarter. Stick right here you go?
Speaker 1: He mentioned Pollard. I want to ask you this question, Dave,
Speaker 1: because I know you're in the same boat as I am.
Speaker 1: Are you considering starting Pollard and fantasy? He's on my bench?
Speaker 1: But I also have Zeke? So no, so oh you
Speaker 1: have Zeke Cook? Yeah? Um, would you you know what
Speaker 1: for a person that has only Pollard, would you start?
Speaker 1: Somebody asked me that on ask the Boys, which I
Speaker 1: think we're running today? Caden, Um, yes, yeah, thank you. Um,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do it, I would do it this
Speaker 1: week and only this week, because this is the one
Speaker 1: week where there might be anything close to an even
Speaker 1: share of work. But if you have anybody else, I
Speaker 1: would you gotta have you gotta be pretty there would Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to go deep rosters. There's just gotta be
Speaker 1: there's gotta be a receiver on your bench who's got
Speaker 1: a better chance of having a good game than Tony Pollard,
Speaker 1: which maybe it'll hit for you, but I just I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to resk. I'm playing him against I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about him against Marvin Jonas, and I'm just like, no way, No,
Speaker 1: I knows the PPR league, yes, and I know Marvin
Speaker 1: Jones is by Marvin Jones is gonna catch like six
Speaker 1: balls for sixty yards at minimum, you would hope. So
Speaker 1: there's just don't love Detroit offensively, but go ahead, and
Speaker 1: that's fine. I shoe contracts Fantasy Football Day here. I
Speaker 1: honestly think I thought there's a lot of people listening
Speaker 1: that do want, Like, who are wondering if Tony Pollard?
Speaker 1: That's why I don't think there are people I don't
Speaker 1: We don't need to do fantasy every week, but this
Speaker 1: week I think that's a relevant question. I would maybe
Speaker 1: you know, and I hope Tony Pollard. I hope he
Speaker 1: has a great game. It would be really funny if
Speaker 1: three days after Zeke signs for one hundred million, if
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard has like eighty yards in a touchdown. But
Speaker 1: it's just not a good bet. It's especially if you
Speaker 1: have Marvin Jones. It's like the only thing resembling a
Speaker 1: weapon on Detroit's offense. Him and Golliday. I was like,
Speaker 1: Holliday's pretty good. I think we talked about this earlier.
Speaker 1: I think if he gets a kickoff returner, he is
Speaker 1: going to do something with it, because I hope so
Speaker 1: just having running backs back there. It's one thing to
Speaker 1: have receivers and corners and fast guys that do it,
Speaker 1: but the running backs are trained to to to you know,
Speaker 1: hit the hole and have the vision with the speed
Speaker 1: and the acceleration. I think you know that you don't
Speaker 1: see a lot of running backs that are starting type
Speaker 1: of running backs that are kickoff returners. I think if
Speaker 1: he gets one, he has a chance to really do
Speaker 1: something with it. He'll scores this year. That's my prediction
Speaker 1: for him. He'll ye. I think you're absolutely Okay, he's
Speaker 1: going to score the season returner. This could maybe him.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's famous last words, but I just this, it's
Speaker 1: just this shouldn't this game shouldn't be a problem. Everything,
Speaker 1: everything on paper says it shouldn't be which obviously the
Speaker 1: games aren't played there. But yeah, let's take our final
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Speaker 1: we keep talking about how much talent there is on
Speaker 1: this team, both sides of the ball, one of them
Speaker 1: being on the offense. You know, you got so many
Speaker 1: different targets that you could easily argue that would be
Speaker 1: Dak's favorite target. But based on what you've seen so far,
Speaker 1: what do you think would be his best option every
Speaker 1: time as an unusual target all throughout the season. Amark Cooper.
Speaker 1: I think, I know that's the easy one. But he's
Speaker 1: the one that's going to be making nineteen twenty million
Speaker 1: a year. He runs the best routes. He's a very
Speaker 1: smooth operator receiver. I mean, yeah, yeah, he's a smooth operator.
Speaker 1: I guess um saw that barbershop thing. He was pretty
Speaker 1: you know, he's a good chess player, you know, chess player,
Speaker 1: So it's not cussing out the GM at practice. He
Speaker 1: isn't Yeah, just saying yeah, certainly, isn't that matters? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the guy, you know, I'm glad they got rid
Speaker 1: of him. So it's you know, I just think he's
Speaker 1: the best option for Dak because I hate saying it.
Speaker 1: He's probably Dack friendly the most of anybody because he
Speaker 1: can go deep, he can go short, and he makes plays.
Speaker 1: I mean, anybody that can go ninety yards for a
Speaker 1: touchdown and do most of the work on his own,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a guy you want to throw
Speaker 1: the ball to. There's a lot of ways to answer that,
Speaker 1: because you got a mari Zeke had seventy seven catches
Speaker 1: last year, and you would hope that Kellen Moore can
Speaker 1: use him even more efficiently. And then Jason Witten should
Speaker 1: be a reliable guy who's just always there even if
Speaker 1: they're not game changing plays. And Gallup he's been making
Speaker 1: all kinds of plays. But we kind of talked about
Speaker 1: that though, Like I in a run heavy offense with
Speaker 1: so many other guys, I just have a hard time
Speaker 1: imagining Gallup. I mean, sixty catches is like the ceiling
Speaker 1: probably right. The thing about that is and I know
Speaker 1: I'm going old school here, but Alvin Harper was it
Speaker 1: was a guy that fans will, Oh, I love Alvin Harper.
Speaker 1: He caught forty passes a year. That's what. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what you was one and dunking the ball over the
Speaker 1: global most big plays can be that guy. Of course
Speaker 1: he can. That's and that's that's kind of my point
Speaker 1: is there's a million different ways to answer you talking explosiveness,
Speaker 1: you talk in volume. I think Amari Cooper will lead
Speaker 1: the team and catches the guy and I and I
Speaker 1: think Zeke is gonna have a boatload hopefully. Um So,
Speaker 1: maybe not favorite, but the guy that I'm most excited
Speaker 1: about or I have the most hope for, is probably
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb. And I think I'm I'm biased because I
Speaker 1: liked him so much in Green Bay and I loved
Speaker 1: him coming out of college and I remember all the
Speaker 1: great plays that he made. But if he's healthy, I
Speaker 1: think he could be huge and he kind of gets forgotten. Um,
Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes, you know. I you know,
Speaker 1: I think there's a narrative that maybe he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's done, or he's kind of he's past his prime
Speaker 1: and we'll see. I don't think so. He's looked I mean,
Speaker 1: he had his ups and downs at camps, but he's
Speaker 1: he's looked good and I think he's ready for the season.
Speaker 1: I hope he has a big year. I think the
Speaker 1: most under the radar guy in the passing game, a
Speaker 1: guy that I believe will probably jump from three to
Speaker 1: twenty five catches this year, is Jama's Olawali. I think
Speaker 1: the big time will use him a lot out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. I tend to forget about him yeah and
Speaker 1: tell him, yeah, you know, and let's see if you
Speaker 1: and I know fans are saying, well, cope catch is
Speaker 1: better than he did in Indianapolis when he dropped the
Speaker 1: sure fire touchdown. But I think they're gonna use him
Speaker 1: a lot and kind of a dynamic type of fullback.
Speaker 1: If that those two words can be in the same sentence,
Speaker 1: and I think you'll see a little bit more out
Speaker 1: of him. Maybe not twenty five, it's a lot. That's
Speaker 1: one of the things. That's one of the things I
Speaker 1: love about this offense. There are if the if the
Speaker 1: coordinator can do this the right way, there are so
Speaker 1: many different ways you can attack a defense with the
Speaker 1: kinds of talent they have. They are not the kind
Speaker 1: of offense that sometimes you get into in a mode
Speaker 1: where the kind of offense you have it's kind of
Speaker 1: the guys kind of do the same things. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of different guys that do a lot of
Speaker 1: different things, and so if you mix it all together, well,
Speaker 1: I think this offense can be really really dynamic. Just
Speaker 1: thinking about the great players you have and then the
Speaker 1: role players that you have, I think it's really a
Speaker 1: great assembly of talent. I hope, Sorry, Nick, I just
Speaker 1: I hope Kellen Moore is better at getting everybody involved. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's that's just the top. Like Cooper's
Speaker 1: gonna get his way, He's gonna get his but Tavon
Speaker 1: Austin is. I'm I'm fascinated if he can stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Nobody's they're not leaning on him, but he has that explosiveness.
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard obviously, there's so much he can do. A
Speaker 1: lot of talent, a lot of Lake Jarwin had three
Speaker 1: touchdowns last time they played the Giants. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of talent, and I think it's what's good is
Speaker 1: that you really don't seem to have a lot of
Speaker 1: egos of I gotta get this guy in the ball
Speaker 1: or whatever. I mean. Think about it, if you have
Speaker 1: a single one, is there a single person that's like,
Speaker 1: but he's got to have the ball, he's or he's
Speaker 1: going to be a That's what's great about the fact
Speaker 1: that this offense can be very similar to I guess
Speaker 1: what's going on in New England. I mean, who who
Speaker 1: do you think is the best quarterback in the league?
Speaker 1: Is it still Brady? But Brady's got to be righting
Speaker 1: up there? Oh? Definitely, course right, just for his body
Speaker 1: of work. Right, was he drafted in any of else
Speaker 1: fantasy leagues? I mean high, very late, very late, that's
Speaker 1: the thing. But he's still gonna be product. But if
Speaker 1: he's still gonna move it, it's gonna be efficient. Dak
Speaker 1: can be that type of guy where, like you said,
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty yards is not great, but if
Speaker 1: he can get three touchdowns and lead them in there
Speaker 1: four times, that's something that always makes me mad, you know.
Speaker 1: And everybody wants to argue about Dak and his contract
Speaker 1: likely got four three hundred yard games. This is the
Speaker 1: most run heavy team and oh everybody on Twitter sounds
Speaker 1: like that. I like, why are you judging dak off
Speaker 1: three hundred yard passing games when this is a team
Speaker 1: that wants to just pound the air out of the
Speaker 1: ball like they're airing it out. That's not the formula
Speaker 1: that they've chosen for success. That's not what they want
Speaker 1: to do. And you need to obviously, But because because
Speaker 1: fans really do look at fantasy foot that being said,
Speaker 1: that being said, I do think that they will have
Speaker 1: a more dynamic part of their offense this year in
Speaker 1: the passing game than they've had before. So I'll ask
Speaker 1: you guys this question on an over under. Let's say
Speaker 1: it's let's just say eight for jokes, um over under
Speaker 1: number of three hundred yard games that will have this
Speaker 1: season under Probably under, yeah, i'd say four or five,
Speaker 1: Just like four or five. I just don't think that's
Speaker 1: his that's his style, and I don't think those games
Speaker 1: are gonna be good games. You know, go back and
Speaker 1: look at Troy Aitman's career. I mean it's a different
Speaker 1: era a little bit, but his best games passing wise,
Speaker 1: we're all losses. He threw for four to fifty five
Speaker 1: in a game, went the lost bad. The sweet spot
Speaker 1: for this offense should be DAK going over two hundred,
Speaker 1: being efficient, not turning the ball over, and the team
Speaker 1: running for anywhere from one forty to one eighty. That's everybody,
Speaker 1: Zeke Pollard, Dak. That's I mean, that's your recipe for success.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would say under but that won't. That's
Speaker 1: not an indictment on DAK, right. And and the flip
Speaker 1: side for the defense is the defense is going to
Speaker 1: be good. Where they need to improve is just get
Speaker 1: the ball out. I mean, you know, and we saw
Speaker 1: in training camp. Yeah, saw in training camp, and we've
Speaker 1: seen them do it in preseason games. So if they
Speaker 1: can be just as good as they were fast year,
Speaker 1: but increased the turnovers, man, it's be nasty. I just
Speaker 1: feel good in the in the fact that I don't
Speaker 1: feel like right now you're having to rely just on
Speaker 1: your defense. You feel like your offense is going to
Speaker 1: be able to help you out. I hope that's It's
Speaker 1: It's all there on paper for them to be a
Speaker 1: top five offense, I mean, like, what, no more excuses? Yeah, basically,
Speaker 1: I mean they got to be better than twenty two
Speaker 1: points a game. I feel like that's what with the boys.
Speaker 1: They're tired of us. They're trying to get us off
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