WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Final Predictions vs. ATL 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:16.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.360 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Towers at the 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:32.919 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Broughs, Rob Phillips, 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.800 and Bill Jones. Mickey in a very jovial mood on 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:43.360 this fantastic Football Friday edition of Talking Cowboys as the 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:48.000 Cowboys play the Atlanta Falcons in the home of the 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:52.640 Super Bowl on Sunday at noon Dallas time, Bill Jones, 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:57.480 Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips, Brian brought us. Brian and Rob 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.640 are hard at work over there as we get set 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.680 for another edition and get just set for the big 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.240 game on Sunday. And it is a big game, not 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.600 only for the Cowboys but also for the Atlanta Falcons. Yeah, 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.600 it is a huge games for the Falcons. You know, 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.199 you've got teams if you look at what happened last night, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.080 you know with the with the Seahawks winning and the 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.319 Packers losing. I mean, these are teams who are kind 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:23.320 of looking at wildcard situations for the playoffs. So you know, 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.720 you don't want to fall behind in any way and 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.679 that so, yeah, both teams trying to get back to 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.760 five and five is an absolute must. You were probably 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.200 pulling for green Bay last night if you're a Cowboy fan, Yeah, 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.520 because you already took an l against seat if it 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.120 gets down to head to head. But look, I think 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.399 we've talked about it. You got to take care of 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.080 business and vision. That's the best. You gotta go win, 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.360 gotta go win. But your best chance is to catch Washington. Yeah, 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.040 and stop, don't think about wildcard and all that kind 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:52.920 of stuff. Just go win your division. And it's it's 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.040 still possible, believe it or not. You can catch Washington 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:00.000 in six days. Yeah, you could. By Thursday night, Thanks 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.440 living night, Cowboys could be in first place. But we 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.160 can't get ahead of ourselves, can't we One game at 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.600 a time? Bill, You gotta focus on Sunday. The falcons, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:14.080 that's right, said the falcons? Or the falcons? The falcons, 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:20.200 the falcons. I saw a falcon once. I'm sorry you 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.600 ever seen a falcon flying in this guy? Yeah? We 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.240 played an air Force one time. Oh yeah, that's right there. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.440 We got a great pre game. Yeah, the guy flew 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:31.959 into from the I should I said, a guy, falcon, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.440 it's very successfully. Yes, that's where at the Air Force 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:42.000 Academy they pride themselves on landing successful and thank God 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.639 for that. Yes, and they go they're all they're all 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.720 there for us. I'll indulge you. I can't believe I'm 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.600 doing this. Where where does he see a falcon? He 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.320 went to the Auburn game or is that a war 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:59.880 war eagle? On a kayak trip around the Channel Islands? Okay, 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.519 in California, you know outside of Oxnard and Vina the 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.800 Channel Islands out there. How did you know it was 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:14.080 a falcon? The tour guides and I saw it, Mickey, 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.480 back to nature, guy, the fastest bird on the universe? 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:25.080 Is it really? Yes, on the universe? Yes. You didn't 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.960 know that, did you? No? I didn't know. Just the phrazy. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.000 I didn't know you could go to the kayaking trips 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.240 while we're a training camp. I didn't. I went on 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.680 vacation there before training camps. Oh, these are pretty busy days, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.480 you know, shoot a couple of Ford spots and go kayaking, 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.720 and that's what we're gonna do. And I saw the 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.800 fastest whale too, Or did you on the same day 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.040 maybe there needs to be an NFL team called the Whales. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.960 That's right, she go Las Vegas Whales. Go hang out 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:56.760 with the cheetahs. Maybe see the fastest land animal. I 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.400 think we saw. No, there was nothing. I saw a 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.240 red fire. He was a good actor back in the 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.240 day media Granford and Son. Hell, yeah, you ever see 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.120 a wild red fox? I've seen Sanford and Son. That's right. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.480 He was pretty wild. No, I've never seen a wild 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.960 It was a triple hitter there. It was. It was 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:20.200 like more than just a fig my wild Kingdom or 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.080 something like that. Perkins hanging out. Something happened. You guys, 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:25.799 ought to try it. It happened to be a really 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.200 cool kayak trip because it was getting out of the 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.440 caves on the Channel Island. See to try that sometime, 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.560 Bat mccave. Maybe Jason Jason Garrett could take the team 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.120 on a field trip at training camp. That's right, instead 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:40.960 of just going to the beat, try, you know, do 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:45.520 something Yeah wild Okay, mickey, Um, we got to talk. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.640 Maybe we needed someone else to do an injury report? Yeah, 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.280 how was at practice yesterday? Practice was better from an 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.480 injury standpoint, largely unchanged because you still got from Wednesday, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.960 because you still had six guys sitting out, a lot 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.799 of defensive linemen, but you did have two starting offensive 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.960 lineman Tyrant Smith and Zach Martin back to practice on 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:11.919 a limited basis, and I believe MALIEK. Collins was limited 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.839 as well, so that you would think helps your numbers 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.920 a little bit on the d line heading into Sunday, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:22.719 very good. I'm not surprising on the offensive lineman getting 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.240 back out there, No, I mean, unless you gotta have them, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.120 unless Tyrants back, you know. Yeah, and that was the 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.880 concern again, Yeah, that you know, when he wakes up 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.520 with back spasms, that's always a concern. You never know 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.719 when that's going to happen. That's the thing about dealing 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.279 with those. And so you know, it flared up during 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.640 the week instead of the weekend, which you know you 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.000 have to feel like it's a you know, maybe a 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.080 dodge a bullet. But if it's starting to reoccur a 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.440 little bit, I worry about that after last year. Yeah, 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.600 just put a board in his back and send him 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.200 out there and let him stand there. Does he do 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.720 yoga during the season two or is it just an 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.200 offseason thing? I think I don't know. The answer to 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.200 that question, I know that he was really adamant about it. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.359 During the off season, you know, he and Lyle Collins 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.200 were both going to California and then they got the uh, 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.360 the lady that was involved it was coming out in Oxnard. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.839 So I didn't you do a story about her? Yes, okay, 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.200 she would not do an interview though. Yeah, she wouldn't 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.880 do anything difficult to do it stop you from doing 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.400 a story story anyway. Yeah, but no, I don't think that, 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.240 you know, I don't know that for sure. I'm sure 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.520 that he does has stretching routines and stuff that he 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.480 does here. But yeah, he was. He was adamant that 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.880 that that lady helped him quite a bit with his 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.600 with his core flexibility. So we'll see, let's get to 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.080 the bad news on the injuries. Yeah, you want to 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:45.279 get your umpire thumb ready, all right, Shawn Lee, Tavon, 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:53.280 Austin Taco Charlton, David Irving, David Irving, Daniel Ross calling out, Yeah, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.280 Antoine Woods, I think he's got a chance. Yeah, that's 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.400 the one you need to keep an eye worked. He 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:04.359 worked pretty hard on his own outside doing conditioning work, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.960 and my understanding was he was heading to the doctor 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.080 to have it checked the concussion protocols. So so you 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.440 do the heavy work and then go check to see 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.280 if you have any symptoms. Is that kind of how 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.200 that works? There's any residual effects from the work, and 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.520 we should probably get a little clearer picture. But with that, 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.040 I mean you can take it right up to game time. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.000 I mean they can check you on Saturday. Yeah, so 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.040 the neal is though, you got to get cleared. Yeah, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.080 but the problem they're running into is though to go 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:36.880 all the way up to game time, do they have 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.560 to activate Christian Ringo, you know, because they're gonna need 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.680 with all the guys. You guys just set are out, 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:47.880 David Irving out most likely, Yeah, ross out. You know. 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.119 I mean you got to cut somebody, That's what I'm saying. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.000 I mean, how do you You can't go up to 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.040 game time with o'clock Saturday, three o'clock Saturday. So if 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.160 they're they're going to have to make a determination on 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.880 him today or tomorrow by the time they get on 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.840 that airplane to go to a go to Atlanta or 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.440 you guys get on the plan to go to Atlanta. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.160 But yeah, I that's that, that's you know, if the 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.720 human law can't go, that's that's tough. Now, the Falcons 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.040 don't really want to run the football. They really don't. 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.600 They're not interested. They'll do it on second down, but 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.400 they're you know, you you need his presence. And I 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.040 you know, having read and and Ringo, I mean we 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.920 know nothing about Ringo, Christian Ringo, I mean I he's 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.200 a practice squad guy. Sixty eight right, Yeah, so you 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.480 know you're getting in, You're start talking about Okay, now 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.719 you're trying to go win a you know, win a 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.880 game like I always call a must win game to 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.040 kind of keep your season going kind of the right 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:44.000 way that you're you're using Christian Ringo as you know, 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.960 one of your rotational defensive tackles. And I understand that, 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.199 you know, your practice squad, you got to use those 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.920 guys sometimes. And I look with Sue Philo didn't went 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.320 on the practice squad, but he came from really just 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.360 being inactive every week and played it played very well. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.679 It's going to start for you this week. So I 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.840 I always Connor Williams in that whole deal. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.840 Connor Williams, I'm who is practicing so far this Yeah, 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.000 I don't think he is ready to play, so you 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:13.040 expect him to be inactive. I would say yes, yes, yes, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:18.480 Joe at the same maybe or maybe he's the bad Well, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.800 now the Redman's got a back because he's the center. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.480 He's the center. The one that practiced yesterday that I 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.439 heard was Joe Thomas. He's been back this week, the linebacker. Yeah, 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.880 Joe Thomas is. So you have to see if Joe 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.000 Thomas might be on that inactive list, you know, do 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.520 they They've been working Covington in that group, and maybe 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.240 they feel good enough about Covington going forward, but you know, 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.600 Joe Thomas would be a nice edition back. Speaking of linebackers, 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.720 Atlanta gets back Dion Jones. That's going to help them 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.400 get back for them. Yeah, there's a team that gives 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.960 up a bunch of yards per play early downs, like 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.440 six point nine a play. Imagine now first down giving 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.720 up that that plays right into Dallas's hands. If they 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.280 can find a way to win on early day sounds, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.800 keep them ahead of the chains. What's the biggest problem 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.600 they have when they get behind the Chaine right, no 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.280 question about it. And their biggest problem of late has 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:11.760 been run defense. Yeah, two hundred and eleven yards Cleveland. Now, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.560 I know they got ninety two on what they did. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.199 Run they did, but it's true. You're right, They're right. 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.199 That's Cleveland ran for two hundred and eleven yards. And 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.440 I was reading about how the uh all all the 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:28.040 defensive coordinator has been saying all week is ezekiel, ezekiel, ezekiel. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.359 They have to be go ahead, yeah, you know, concentrate 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:32.800 on them and you want to go one on one 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.240 with the receivers. That's a big problem for them too, 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.320 because their cornerbacks aren't real good. Nope, that is that 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.880 is the truth thirtieth in past defense. Yeah, that's that's 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.080 that element we haven't really talked about this year. Is 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.079 the whole picture poison type thing? Right? Well, I like, yeah, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.319 like Amari Cooper is gonna win, He's gonna win. On 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.439 the outside, I feel good about Cole Beasley. You got 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:57.080 Michael Gallup coming on going home all the way yeah, school, 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.920 I think fifty miles from Atlanta something like that, got 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.400 to play in the big House. Yeah. So yeah, I 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.240 mean it's we'll see if the Cowboys can carry over 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.560 this momentum, you know, And I think it starts up front. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:13.000 We talked about Connor william Sue Philo was productive at 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.400 left guard, so maybe they found something there if indeed 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:17.880 he sticks in the lineup. That's the way it seems 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.559 to be looking so far. Yeah, you know, you look 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.640 at the Falcons and one of the big reasons they've 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.319 had issues in their secondary is the loss of key 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.600 On O'Neil, their safety. Big time player. Yeah, big time player. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:32.320 But I'll tell you what though, this uh Demante Kaze 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.800 his five picks, Yeah, has played well. Now you know 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.880 his a couple of his picks. The pick he had 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.680 last week against the uh the Browns was a throwback. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.000 They tried to throw the ball back to Baker Mayfield 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.440 and it was a wounded pass. But he's been if 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.320 you're not gonna pick off Baker Mayfield, yeah, no of course, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.920 but now maybe you're gonna cover Baker Mayfield because they 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.040 covered him well on that playure But yeah, I I 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.960 you know, you just yeah, they've struggled, you know, Trufont 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.559 has struggled, and Alfred I think that if you watch 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.199 this game, keep an eye on number twenty three for 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:09.160 the Falcons because he cannot cover, and he cannot cover. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.960 He proved he can't. You know, you look at Michael Thomas. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.640 You watch that game against the Saints. Michael Thomas at 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.480 ten targets, ten catches. A lot of them were against him. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.240 You know, you go back and watch a j Green play. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.400 You know he can't handle a receiver that's a really 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.760 good route runner and a finisher. So you know, if 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.439 Dallas miss is an opportunity to get Cooper, this could 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.680 be a big game for Cooper. If you want Bill 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:36.480 your click, pick the click guy, keep Amari Cooper in 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.800 mind if you're thinking about a guy, because he's got 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.760 a shot. If they match him up against this guy, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.560 they've got a shot to make some plays. Now that's 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:48.720 that getting Himo football. We'll see Baker Mayfield's throw seven interception. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:53.559 I know, I know, I'm just teasing to six touchdowns. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.400 Oh that's not good, but well he was really bad 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.240 did before last week because he had three touchdown pass 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.360 is a dope PI. That's a rookie quarterback for you. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.000 I said it earlier in the week though. This is 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:06.920 where the Falcons have struggled. Though. I think I think 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.320 it's six straight games where they've had given up three 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.920 passing touchdowns. Wow. I mean, if you could go in 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.120 the game and say, oh, Dak Prescott's gonna have three 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.000 passing touchdowns. Yeah, man, gosh, we're doing cartwheels up until 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.679 it's a big The better chance Dak Prescott has three 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.760 passing touchdowns or Dak Prescott gets sacked eight times Sunday, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.559 I think it's the I think it's the passing touchdowns, 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.800 right for sure. Yeah, I don't see I don't see 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.040 Atlanta really rushing the pass for all that well, and 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:34.640 you know and watched me. It's gonna come back and 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.320 haunt me for saying that. But I don't you know, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.720 I don't see them. I don't see Vic Beasley having 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.319 the type of season they expected him to have. I 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:46.160 don't see you know, uh McKinley having the you know, 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.600 they drafted McKinley in the first round. I mean he's 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.920 had a very similar I think people would say, okay 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.440 him or and now the Cowboys were saying him or Taco, 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.440 you know, I mean, they they they've they've expected a 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.840 lot more from that guy, and they just haven't got 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:04.199 it in the way. You mean, what seventeen seventeen sacks 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.120 for the season. Hella had eight against your last year 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.400 in this game, right right, I don't see that happening again. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.520 I don't know. If it does, don't lose the game, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.240 and I'll be real wrong about it. I don't know 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.160 if we'll ever see anything quite like that again, because 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.360 I don't I don't think they would allow that to 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.040 continue happening as long as it did. I saw Levin 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:30.600 twice and then before that San Diego. Yeah, but against 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.400 Polura or something like that. But I'm talking about from 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.200 this pretty much the same guy, the same guy, you know. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.920 And they got into halftime and they thought they could 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.240 kind of settle it down and correct it, and they 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.800 didn't make an adjustment. And the coaches have admitted that's 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.840 on us and with Chatz, and part of that probably 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.840 was it was a ten seven game at the half, 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:50.920 you know, and so you get a false sense of 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.800 it was false sense of security. Yeah, it was seventeen 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.240 seven going to the fourth quarter. That was something else. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.200 You couldn't do anything offensively though on the first session 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.360 it didn't score again. Now, yeah, Mickey's right. If you 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.760 get if you get Julio Jones with six catches and 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.320 fifty some odd yards, big time, sign me up. But 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.320 just don't let some of these other guys hurt me 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.560 as well. Though. You know Dak's quarterback rating, he's better 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:23.240 than Alex Smith, Dalton, Mariota, Mayfield, Bortles Flacco, what is 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:29.600 his rating? Ninety point eight and Eli Manning's ninety two seven, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.880 So he's not that far if it's getting better, let's 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.480 put it that way. Yeah, I think, and this is 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.720 an opportunity if you Yes, I'm with Mickey though. I'm 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.160 with Mickey on running the football and this thing. Maybe though, 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:46.000 this would be Atlanta's plan to stop your run if 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.600 they can, if they can, and see if Dak Prescott 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.280 can be accurate enough throwing the football. If you were 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:53.720 if you were Atlanta, if you were if you were 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.920 their defensive coordinator, if you were Marquel Manual, I think 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.800 it Markquell Manual. I think it's how you say his 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.480 first name, if you were to him, how would you 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:08.320 how would you attack Dallas offensively or defensively? What plan 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.240 would you go with? Well, I mean, based on what 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.960 we've seen from other teams, it's exactly what you said. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.000 I mean, they'd load up, they try to stop Zeke 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.200 and say beat us in the passing game. But that's 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.440 also Priyamari Cooper. You know, I mean, this is a 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:22.960 g like you just said, this is a guy that's 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.480 gonna win his routes unless they just say, Okay, we're 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.880 gonna take you away and just double him all game. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.960 But you can't do everything. That's what I'm saying. It 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.040 is kind of somebody else. It is kind of that 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.920 pick your poison thing now that Dallas is trying to create. Here, 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:41.080 you look an extra guy in the box and double Cooper. Yeah, 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.040 you start running out of guys. No, they'll they'll have 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.160 a problem with that unless twelfth man shows up. Do 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.000 you make them beat you throwing the football or do 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.400 you just hope your offense just scores so many points 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:57.600 that you it doesn't matter. I think that may be 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.880 the determining factor as the game goes along. Yeah, because 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.240 if they're scoring, yeah, then you and you're not and 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.880 you're you're struggling. Yeah, you're scuffling along there and you're 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.440 not scoring. But if you're not scoring, see, that takes 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.119 you out of the running game. And maybe they feel 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.640 like that they could beat the Cowboys. They could beat 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.480 the Cowboys, making Dak Prescott have to throw the ball 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.440 all game, even though they're very poor in the secondary. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.720 You know, that might be their their best weapon. Their 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.479 best weapon might be their offense is ability to just 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.520 to score well. And that's if you go and you'll 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.280 know that very early in this game. How that's gonna 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.840 go sixty two fifty, that's Mickey score. The Tennessee game 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:34.880 was kind of like that. You know, I think Zeke 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.480 had seventeen touches or carries and he just didn't have 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.800 an opportunity in the second half because they couldn't stop 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.639 Tennessee's offense. And so yeah, running of the football just 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.840 becomes useless. Yeah, or just killing the clock for him, 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.879 you can't do it. That's why it's going to be 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.560 imperative that they don't squander scoring opportunity kids early in 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.800 the game like they've done in the fort these last 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.639 two games, no questions. The twenty eight they scored or 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.800 twenty seven against Philadelphia, it could have been thirty five 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.679 easily easily could have been that. That game could have 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:10.040 been just a walk, you know, and maybe we're spoiled 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.560 ye like Bailey, you just can't miss makable field goals. 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.280 Falcons are a different type team than really the Cowboys 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.480 have faced all year at home well and and in defensively, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:27.160 offensively with their passing offense, and I think maybe, even 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.520 though I agree with you on their secondary, in their 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.639 past defense, maybe some of those defensive stats are skewed 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.760 a little bit because teams get in a game, they 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.840 have to catch, have to throw the ball, and they 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.760 have you know, and so u So from that standpoint, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.400 what concern would concern me if I'm a Falcon fan 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.880 more so is that their twenty first in the league 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:50.600 and run defense. Well, that's because a lot. But go back, seriously, 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:55.400 six point I think it's six point zero two carry, right, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.000 you know, I mean that's bad. All right, that's bad. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.720 I mean on first down. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.160 because I would assume, Yeah, I don't know how many, 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:05.800 and I can look it up real quick. You tell 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:07.760 me I could get five point two yards to carry 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.440 every time I hand the ball off. I mean, that's yeah, 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.520 if you told me, If you told me that, I'd 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.879 say they win the game, because then Zeke's getting one 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.439 hundred and fifty. Again, can you offensively keep this as 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.040 a low scoring game? They are twenty first in the 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.959 league and run defense and they are just seventh in 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:28.080 the number of attempts. Yeah, okay, there you go. And 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.040 so that's telling you there teams are able to run 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.679 the ball against Yeah, absolutely, yeah, but you know what, 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.040 teams are limited when they don't. When they they run 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:38.720 the ball, they have success. But teams don't do it 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.920 nearly enough. See for on talking Falcons today they're doing 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.720 they're talking about they're worried about your running game. They're 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.320 worried about ezekielot loading up and then you get no 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.320 chance on offense. But you better finish those drives. And 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.200 Mickey's right, you better not be kicking field goals though too. 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.359 But you know what, on the games they've lost, it's 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.919 not like teams have had to just throw throw thro 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.000 row the team. The games they've lost, they've given up 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.959 forty three, thirty seven, forty one, and twenty eight and 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.280 they won one game with twenty nine. So it's not like, 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.280 you know, they the other teams had to throw to 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.359 catch up because they were beating them so bad. So 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.120 I just think their past defense and not very good. 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.639 Now you give up five point two yards a carry, 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.240 your defense is not very good. Now we're saying all 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.720 this and boy they happen on Sunday. 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