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Speaker 1: screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Towers at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Broughs, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: and Bill Jones. Mickey in a very jovial mood on
Speaker 1: this fantastic Football Friday edition of Talking Cowboys as the
Speaker 1: Cowboys play the Atlanta Falcons in the home of the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl on Sunday at noon Dallas time, Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips, Brian brought us. Brian and Rob
Speaker 1: are hard at work over there as we get set
Speaker 1: for another edition and get just set for the big
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. And it is a big game, not
Speaker 1: only for the Cowboys but also for the Atlanta Falcons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a huge games for the Falcons. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got teams if you look at what happened last night,
Speaker 1: you know with the with the Seahawks winning and the
Speaker 1: Packers losing. I mean, these are teams who are kind
Speaker 1: of looking at wildcard situations for the playoffs. So you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to fall behind in any way and
Speaker 1: that so, yeah, both teams trying to get back to
Speaker 1: five and five is an absolute must. You were probably
Speaker 1: pulling for green Bay last night if you're a Cowboy fan, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you already took an l against seat if it
Speaker 1: gets down to head to head. But look, I think
Speaker 1: we've talked about it. You got to take care of
Speaker 1: business and vision. That's the best. You gotta go win,
Speaker 1: gotta go win. But your best chance is to catch Washington. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and stop, don't think about wildcard and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. Just go win your division. And it's it's
Speaker 1: still possible, believe it or not. You can catch Washington
Speaker 1: in six days. Yeah, you could. By Thursday night, Thanks
Speaker 1: living night, Cowboys could be in first place. But we
Speaker 1: can't get ahead of ourselves, can't we One game at
Speaker 1: a time? Bill, You gotta focus on Sunday. The falcons,
Speaker 1: that's right, said the falcons? Or the falcons? The falcons,
Speaker 1: the falcons. I saw a falcon once. I'm sorry you
Speaker 1: ever seen a falcon flying in this guy? Yeah? We
Speaker 1: played an air Force one time. Oh yeah, that's right there.
Speaker 1: We got a great pre game. Yeah, the guy flew
Speaker 1: into from the I should I said, a guy, falcon,
Speaker 1: it's very successfully. Yes, that's where at the Air Force
Speaker 1: Academy they pride themselves on landing successful and thank God
Speaker 1: for that. Yes, and they go they're all they're all
Speaker 1: there for us. I'll indulge you. I can't believe I'm
Speaker 1: doing this. Where where does he see a falcon? He
Speaker 1: went to the Auburn game or is that a war
Speaker 1: war eagle? On a kayak trip around the Channel Islands? Okay,
Speaker 1: in California, you know outside of Oxnard and Vina the
Speaker 1: Channel Islands out there. How did you know it was
Speaker 1: a falcon? The tour guides and I saw it, Mickey,
Speaker 1: back to nature, guy, the fastest bird on the universe?
Speaker 1: Is it really? Yes, on the universe? Yes. You didn't
Speaker 1: know that, did you? No? I didn't know. Just the phrazy.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you could go to the kayaking trips
Speaker 1: while we're a training camp. I didn't. I went on
Speaker 1: vacation there before training camps. Oh, these are pretty busy days,
Speaker 1: you know, shoot a couple of Ford spots and go kayaking,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're gonna do. And I saw the
Speaker 1: fastest whale too, Or did you on the same day
Speaker 1: maybe there needs to be an NFL team called the Whales.
Speaker 1: That's right, she go Las Vegas Whales. Go hang out
Speaker 1: with the cheetahs. Maybe see the fastest land animal. I
Speaker 1: think we saw. No, there was nothing. I saw a
Speaker 1: red fire. He was a good actor back in the
Speaker 1: day media Granford and Son. Hell, yeah, you ever see
Speaker 1: a wild red fox? I've seen Sanford and Son. That's right.
Speaker 1: He was pretty wild. No, I've never seen a wild
Speaker 1: It was a triple hitter there. It was. It was
Speaker 1: like more than just a fig my wild Kingdom or
Speaker 1: something like that. Perkins hanging out. Something happened. You guys,
Speaker 1: ought to try it. It happened to be a really
Speaker 1: cool kayak trip because it was getting out of the
Speaker 1: caves on the Channel Island. See to try that sometime,
Speaker 1: Bat mccave. Maybe Jason Jason Garrett could take the team
Speaker 1: on a field trip at training camp. That's right, instead
Speaker 1: of just going to the beat, try, you know, do
Speaker 1: something Yeah wild Okay, mickey, Um, we got to talk.
Speaker 1: Maybe we needed someone else to do an injury report? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how was at practice yesterday? Practice was better from an
Speaker 1: injury standpoint, largely unchanged because you still got from Wednesday,
Speaker 1: because you still had six guys sitting out, a lot
Speaker 1: of defensive linemen, but you did have two starting offensive
Speaker 1: lineman Tyrant Smith and Zach Martin back to practice on
Speaker 1: a limited basis, and I believe MALIEK. Collins was limited
Speaker 1: as well, so that you would think helps your numbers
Speaker 1: a little bit on the d line heading into Sunday,
Speaker 1: very good. I'm not surprising on the offensive lineman getting
Speaker 1: back out there, No, I mean, unless you gotta have them,
Speaker 1: unless Tyrants back, you know. Yeah, and that was the
Speaker 1: concern again, Yeah, that you know, when he wakes up
Speaker 1: with back spasms, that's always a concern. You never know
Speaker 1: when that's going to happen. That's the thing about dealing
Speaker 1: with those. And so you know, it flared up during
Speaker 1: the week instead of the weekend, which you know you
Speaker 1: have to feel like it's a you know, maybe a
Speaker 1: dodge a bullet. But if it's starting to reoccur a
Speaker 1: little bit, I worry about that after last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just put a board in his back and send him
Speaker 1: out there and let him stand there. Does he do
Speaker 1: yoga during the season two or is it just an
Speaker 1: offseason thing? I think I don't know. The answer to
Speaker 1: that question, I know that he was really adamant about it.
Speaker 1: During the off season, you know, he and Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: were both going to California and then they got the uh,
Speaker 1: the lady that was involved it was coming out in Oxnard.
Speaker 1: So I didn't you do a story about her? Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: she would not do an interview though. Yeah, she wouldn't
Speaker 1: do anything difficult to do it stop you from doing
Speaker 1: a story story anyway. Yeah, but no, I don't think that,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know that for sure. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that he does has stretching routines and stuff that he
Speaker 1: does here. But yeah, he was. He was adamant that
Speaker 1: that that lady helped him quite a bit with his
Speaker 1: with his core flexibility. So we'll see, let's get to
Speaker 1: the bad news on the injuries. Yeah, you want to
Speaker 1: get your umpire thumb ready, all right, Shawn Lee, Tavon,
Speaker 1: Austin Taco Charlton, David Irving, David Irving, Daniel Ross calling out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods, I think he's got a chance. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the one you need to keep an eye worked. He
Speaker 1: worked pretty hard on his own outside doing conditioning work,
Speaker 1: and my understanding was he was heading to the doctor
Speaker 1: to have it checked the concussion protocols. So so you
Speaker 1: do the heavy work and then go check to see
Speaker 1: if you have any symptoms. Is that kind of how
Speaker 1: that works? There's any residual effects from the work, and
Speaker 1: we should probably get a little clearer picture. But with that,
Speaker 1: I mean you can take it right up to game time.
Speaker 1: I mean they can check you on Saturday. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: the neal is though, you got to get cleared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the problem they're running into is though to go
Speaker 1: all the way up to game time, do they have
Speaker 1: to activate Christian Ringo, you know, because they're gonna need
Speaker 1: with all the guys. You guys just set are out,
Speaker 1: David Irving out most likely, Yeah, ross out. You know.
Speaker 1: I mean you got to cut somebody, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you You can't go up to
Speaker 1: game time with o'clock Saturday, three o'clock Saturday. So if
Speaker 1: they're they're going to have to make a determination on
Speaker 1: him today or tomorrow by the time they get on
Speaker 1: that airplane to go to a go to Atlanta or
Speaker 1: you guys get on the plan to go to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I that's that, that's you know, if the
Speaker 1: human law can't go, that's that's tough. Now, the Falcons
Speaker 1: don't really want to run the football. They really don't.
Speaker 1: They're not interested. They'll do it on second down, but
Speaker 1: they're you know, you you need his presence. And I
Speaker 1: you know, having read and and Ringo, I mean we
Speaker 1: know nothing about Ringo, Christian Ringo, I mean I he's
Speaker 1: a practice squad guy. Sixty eight right, Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: know you're getting in, You're start talking about Okay, now
Speaker 1: you're trying to go win a you know, win a
Speaker 1: game like I always call a must win game to
Speaker 1: kind of keep your season going kind of the right
Speaker 1: way that you're you're using Christian Ringo as you know,
Speaker 1: one of your rotational defensive tackles. And I understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, your practice squad, you got to use those
Speaker 1: guys sometimes. And I look with Sue Philo didn't went
Speaker 1: on the practice squad, but he came from really just
Speaker 1: being inactive every week and played it played very well.
Speaker 1: It's going to start for you this week. So I
Speaker 1: I always Connor Williams in that whole deal. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Connor Williams, I'm who is practicing so far this Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think he is ready to play, so you
Speaker 1: expect him to be inactive. I would say yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Joe at the same maybe or maybe he's the bad Well,
Speaker 1: now the Redman's got a back because he's the center.
Speaker 1: He's the center. The one that practiced yesterday that I
Speaker 1: heard was Joe Thomas. He's been back this week, the linebacker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas is. So you have to see if Joe
Speaker 1: Thomas might be on that inactive list, you know, do
Speaker 1: they They've been working Covington in that group, and maybe
Speaker 1: they feel good enough about Covington going forward, but you know,
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas would be a nice edition back. Speaking of linebackers,
Speaker 1: Atlanta gets back Dion Jones. That's going to help them
Speaker 1: get back for them. Yeah, there's a team that gives
Speaker 1: up a bunch of yards per play early downs, like
Speaker 1: six point nine a play. Imagine now first down giving
Speaker 1: up that that plays right into Dallas's hands. If they
Speaker 1: can find a way to win on early day sounds,
Speaker 1: keep them ahead of the chains. What's the biggest problem
Speaker 1: they have when they get behind the Chaine right, no
Speaker 1: question about it. And their biggest problem of late has
Speaker 1: been run defense. Yeah, two hundred and eleven yards Cleveland. Now,
Speaker 1: I know they got ninety two on what they did.
Speaker 1: Run they did, but it's true. You're right, They're right.
Speaker 1: That's Cleveland ran for two hundred and eleven yards. And
Speaker 1: I was reading about how the uh all all the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator has been saying all week is ezekiel, ezekiel, ezekiel.
Speaker 1: They have to be go ahead, yeah, you know, concentrate
Speaker 1: on them and you want to go one on one
Speaker 1: with the receivers. That's a big problem for them too,
Speaker 1: because their cornerbacks aren't real good. Nope, that is that
Speaker 1: is the truth thirtieth in past defense. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: that element we haven't really talked about this year. Is
Speaker 1: the whole picture poison type thing? Right? Well, I like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like Amari Cooper is gonna win, He's gonna win. On
Speaker 1: the outside, I feel good about Cole Beasley. You got
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup coming on going home all the way yeah, school,
Speaker 1: I think fifty miles from Atlanta something like that, got
Speaker 1: to play in the big House. Yeah. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's we'll see if the Cowboys can carry over
Speaker 1: this momentum, you know, And I think it starts up front.
Speaker 1: We talked about Connor william Sue Philo was productive at
Speaker 1: left guard, so maybe they found something there if indeed
Speaker 1: he sticks in the lineup. That's the way it seems
Speaker 1: to be looking so far. Yeah, you know, you look
Speaker 1: at the Falcons and one of the big reasons they've
Speaker 1: had issues in their secondary is the loss of key
Speaker 1: On O'Neil, their safety. Big time player. Yeah, big time player.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what though, this uh Demante Kaze
Speaker 1: his five picks, Yeah, has played well. Now you know
Speaker 1: his a couple of his picks. The pick he had
Speaker 1: last week against the uh the Browns was a throwback.
Speaker 1: They tried to throw the ball back to Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: and it was a wounded pass. But he's been if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna pick off Baker Mayfield, yeah, no of course,
Speaker 1: but now maybe you're gonna cover Baker Mayfield because they
Speaker 1: covered him well on that playure But yeah, I I
Speaker 1: you know, you just yeah, they've struggled, you know, Trufont
Speaker 1: has struggled, and Alfred I think that if you watch
Speaker 1: this game, keep an eye on number twenty three for
Speaker 1: the Falcons because he cannot cover, and he cannot cover.
Speaker 1: He proved he can't. You know, you look at Michael Thomas.
Speaker 1: You watch that game against the Saints. Michael Thomas at
Speaker 1: ten targets, ten catches. A lot of them were against him.
Speaker 1: You know, you go back and watch a j Green play.
Speaker 1: You know he can't handle a receiver that's a really
Speaker 1: good route runner and a finisher. So you know, if
Speaker 1: Dallas miss is an opportunity to get Cooper, this could
Speaker 1: be a big game for Cooper. If you want Bill
Speaker 1: your click, pick the click guy, keep Amari Cooper in
Speaker 1: mind if you're thinking about a guy, because he's got
Speaker 1: a shot. If they match him up against this guy,
Speaker 1: they've got a shot to make some plays. Now that's
Speaker 1: that getting Himo football. We'll see Baker Mayfield's throw seven interception.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I'm just teasing to six touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Oh that's not good, but well he was really bad
Speaker 1: did before last week because he had three touchdown pass
Speaker 1: is a dope PI. That's a rookie quarterback for you.
Speaker 1: I said it earlier in the week though. This is
Speaker 1: where the Falcons have struggled. Though. I think I think
Speaker 1: it's six straight games where they've had given up three
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns. Wow. I mean, if you could go in
Speaker 1: the game and say, oh, Dak Prescott's gonna have three
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns. Yeah, man, gosh, we're doing cartwheels up until
Speaker 1: it's a big The better chance Dak Prescott has three
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns or Dak Prescott gets sacked eight times Sunday,
Speaker 1: I think it's the I think it's the passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: right for sure. Yeah, I don't see I don't see
Speaker 1: Atlanta really rushing the pass for all that well, and
Speaker 1: you know and watched me. It's gonna come back and
Speaker 1: haunt me for saying that. But I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I don't see them. I don't see Vic Beasley having
Speaker 1: the type of season they expected him to have. I
Speaker 1: don't see you know, uh McKinley having the you know,
Speaker 1: they drafted McKinley in the first round. I mean he's
Speaker 1: had a very similar I think people would say, okay
Speaker 1: him or and now the Cowboys were saying him or Taco,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, they they they've they've expected a
Speaker 1: lot more from that guy, and they just haven't got
Speaker 1: it in the way. You mean, what seventeen seventeen sacks
Speaker 1: for the season. Hella had eight against your last year
Speaker 1: in this game, right right, I don't see that happening again.
Speaker 1: I don't know. If it does, don't lose the game,
Speaker 1: and I'll be real wrong about it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we'll ever see anything quite like that again, because
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think they would allow that to
Speaker 1: continue happening as long as it did. I saw Levin
Speaker 1: twice and then before that San Diego. Yeah, but against
Speaker 1: Polura or something like that. But I'm talking about from
Speaker 1: this pretty much the same guy, the same guy, you know.
Speaker 1: And they got into halftime and they thought they could
Speaker 1: kind of settle it down and correct it, and they
Speaker 1: didn't make an adjustment. And the coaches have admitted that's
Speaker 1: on us and with Chatz, and part of that probably
Speaker 1: was it was a ten seven game at the half,
Speaker 1: you know, and so you get a false sense of
Speaker 1: it was false sense of security. Yeah, it was seventeen
Speaker 1: seven going to the fourth quarter. That was something else.
Speaker 1: You couldn't do anything offensively though on the first session
Speaker 1: it didn't score again. Now, yeah, Mickey's right. If you
Speaker 1: get if you get Julio Jones with six catches and
Speaker 1: fifty some odd yards, big time, sign me up. But
Speaker 1: just don't let some of these other guys hurt me
Speaker 1: as well. Though. You know Dak's quarterback rating, he's better
Speaker 1: than Alex Smith, Dalton, Mariota, Mayfield, Bortles Flacco, what is
Speaker 1: his rating? Ninety point eight and Eli Manning's ninety two seven,
Speaker 1: So he's not that far if it's getting better, let's
Speaker 1: put it that way. Yeah, I think, and this is
Speaker 1: an opportunity if you Yes, I'm with Mickey though. I'm
Speaker 1: with Mickey on running the football and this thing. Maybe though,
Speaker 1: this would be Atlanta's plan to stop your run if
Speaker 1: they can, if they can, and see if Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: can be accurate enough throwing the football. If you were
Speaker 1: if you were Atlanta, if you were if you were
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator, if you were Marquel Manual, I think
Speaker 1: it Markquell Manual. I think it's how you say his
Speaker 1: first name, if you were to him, how would you
Speaker 1: how would you attack Dallas offensively or defensively? What plan
Speaker 1: would you go with? Well, I mean, based on what
Speaker 1: we've seen from other teams, it's exactly what you said.
Speaker 1: I mean, they'd load up, they try to stop Zeke
Speaker 1: and say beat us in the passing game. But that's
Speaker 1: also Priyamari Cooper. You know, I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: g like you just said, this is a guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna win his routes unless they just say, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take you away and just double him all game.
Speaker 1: But you can't do everything. That's what I'm saying. It
Speaker 1: is kind of somebody else. It is kind of that
Speaker 1: pick your poison thing now that Dallas is trying to create. Here,
Speaker 1: you look an extra guy in the box and double Cooper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you start running out of guys. No, they'll they'll have
Speaker 1: a problem with that unless twelfth man shows up. Do
Speaker 1: you make them beat you throwing the football or do
Speaker 1: you just hope your offense just scores so many points
Speaker 1: that you it doesn't matter. I think that may be
Speaker 1: the determining factor as the game goes along. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: if they're scoring, yeah, then you and you're not and
Speaker 1: you're you're struggling. Yeah, you're scuffling along there and you're
Speaker 1: not scoring. But if you're not scoring, see, that takes
Speaker 1: you out of the running game. And maybe they feel
Speaker 1: like that they could beat the Cowboys. They could beat
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, making Dak Prescott have to throw the ball
Speaker 1: all game, even though they're very poor in the secondary.
Speaker 1: You know, that might be their their best weapon. Their
Speaker 1: best weapon might be their offense is ability to just
Speaker 1: to score well. And that's if you go and you'll
Speaker 1: know that very early in this game. How that's gonna
Speaker 1: go sixty two fifty, that's Mickey score. The Tennessee game
Speaker 1: was kind of like that. You know, I think Zeke
Speaker 1: had seventeen touches or carries and he just didn't have
Speaker 1: an opportunity in the second half because they couldn't stop
Speaker 1: Tennessee's offense. And so yeah, running of the football just
Speaker 1: becomes useless. Yeah, or just killing the clock for him,
Speaker 1: you can't do it. That's why it's going to be
Speaker 1: imperative that they don't squander scoring opportunity kids early in
Speaker 1: the game like they've done in the fort these last
Speaker 1: two games, no questions. The twenty eight they scored or
Speaker 1: twenty seven against Philadelphia, it could have been thirty five
Speaker 1: easily easily could have been that. That game could have
Speaker 1: been just a walk, you know, and maybe we're spoiled
Speaker 1: ye like Bailey, you just can't miss makable field goals.
Speaker 1: Falcons are a different type team than really the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have faced all year at home well and and in defensively,
Speaker 1: offensively with their passing offense, and I think maybe, even
Speaker 1: though I agree with you on their secondary, in their
Speaker 1: past defense, maybe some of those defensive stats are skewed
Speaker 1: a little bit because teams get in a game, they
Speaker 1: have to catch, have to throw the ball, and they
Speaker 1: have you know, and so u So from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: what concern would concern me if I'm a Falcon fan
Speaker 1: more so is that their twenty first in the league
Speaker 1: and run defense. Well, that's because a lot. But go back, seriously,
Speaker 1: six point I think it's six point zero two carry, right,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that's bad. All right, that's bad.
Speaker 1: I mean on first down. Yeah, that's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because I would assume, Yeah, I don't know how many,
Speaker 1: and I can look it up real quick. You tell
Speaker 1: me I could get five point two yards to carry
Speaker 1: every time I hand the ball off. I mean, that's yeah,
Speaker 1: if you told me, If you told me that, I'd
Speaker 1: say they win the game, because then Zeke's getting one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty. Again, can you offensively keep this as
Speaker 1: a low scoring game? They are twenty first in the
Speaker 1: league and run defense and they are just seventh in
Speaker 1: the number of attempts. Yeah, okay, there you go. And
Speaker 1: so that's telling you there teams are able to run
Speaker 1: the ball against Yeah, absolutely, yeah, but you know what,
Speaker 1: teams are limited when they don't. When they they run
Speaker 1: the ball, they have success. But teams don't do it
Speaker 1: nearly enough. See for on talking Falcons today they're doing
Speaker 1: they're talking about they're worried about your running game. They're
Speaker 1: worried about ezekielot loading up and then you get no
Speaker 1: chance on offense. But you better finish those drives. And
Speaker 1: Mickey's right, you better not be kicking field goals though too.
Speaker 1: But you know what, on the games they've lost, it's
Speaker 1: not like teams have had to just throw throw thro
Speaker 1: row the team. The games they've lost, they've given up
Speaker 1: forty three, thirty seven, forty one, and twenty eight and
Speaker 1: they won one game with twenty nine. So it's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, they the other teams had to throw to
Speaker 1: catch up because they were beating them so bad. So
Speaker 1: I just think their past defense and not very good.
Speaker 1: Now you give up five point two yards a carry,
Speaker 1: your defense is not very good. Now we're saying all
Speaker 1: this and boy they happen on Sunday. We know what
Speaker 1: it is, what it's like in this league, all right?
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Speaker 1: All right, Mickey's got his missoo on because it's a Friday.
Speaker 1: And what's missoo doing this week? Mickey? They're playing at
Speaker 1: Tennessee as a six point favorite. So we have actually
Speaker 1: one SEC game in which an SEC opponent is playing
Speaker 1: an SEC opponent? Did the conference have done that all
Speaker 1: you all the time? Like the SEC does that game?
Speaker 1: They do a November twelve get ready every season? Yeah,
Speaker 1: get ready next week, every big game in college football
Speaker 1: will be an SEC game, right, get because they pick
Speaker 1: one weekend where they're robbing all the Citadel and Tennessee Chattanooga. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an UAB andybody's got Stamford b November gimmy game
Speaker 1: against nine and one UAB for the Aggy. So we'll
Speaker 1: see how that turns out. Nine and one UAB the Blazers.
Speaker 1: They killed their football program for a year and brought
Speaker 1: it back and they be they They just beat They
Speaker 1: beat SMU. Or was it Texas who won that game
Speaker 1: last night? Or Texas or Texas won? I said, I'm
Speaker 1: not it was still the third quarter. Yeah, they started late.
Speaker 1: Star Seth Latrelle doing a great job there by the way,
Speaker 1: Sonny shout out to local college coaches whatever. Sonny Dikes
Speaker 1: is doing a great job at SMU. They got two
Speaker 1: games up here where they can win and maybe get
Speaker 1: in a bowl game. Right, they can win their division
Speaker 1: and play also left right, play for their conference. There
Speaker 1: we go. They play tonight at home against Memphis, but
Speaker 1: they would play Central Florida right well, and in the championship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're at least you're playing in it now. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: night on ABC, UM Central Florida play Cincinnati. They're doing
Speaker 1: a group of five prime time game. Tomorrow's not bad
Speaker 1: like night and one. I think that shows how weak
Speaker 1: the college football schedule is. Keep an eye on Cincinna.
Speaker 1: Is that game played a nip? Stay? Do you think
Speaker 1: SMU beat Cincinnati and so that's how SMU get into
Speaker 1: the hunt. Yeah, so keep an eye on that. Uh.
Speaker 1: North Tensas lost their quarterback though last night he broke
Speaker 1: his hand. Oh I didn't realize that. And you know
Speaker 1: how tall are you, Mickey five seven? He's I think
Speaker 1: he's shorter than you are. Now he's not, I think
Speaker 1: than but he's a he's a heck of a quarterback.
Speaker 1: And so that's why he wound up not being heavily
Speaker 1: recruited by other because he had that kind of talent
Speaker 1: coming out. But he's he's like five six. He ran,
Speaker 1: so the backup came in and immediately ran for two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened after that, like what the
Speaker 1: final score was? All right, he had so played all
Speaker 1: year long college football talk. You know, Dak Prescott when
Speaker 1: he was at college last week he was talking about
Speaker 1: the fact that he couldn't remember that he had ever
Speaker 1: been what were the Cowboys last week? Three and five? Okay,
Speaker 1: that he can't recall ever in his life being three
Speaker 1: and five. So I did some research when he was ASSISIPI,
Speaker 1: how wrong was he Misissippi State? He was not three
Speaker 1: and five, And I'm doing this off the top of
Speaker 1: my head. He was either two and four or four
Speaker 1: and six. One year, got you. And then that was
Speaker 1: the first year that he was a starting quarterback. Like
Speaker 1: halfway through the season he was one or two games
Speaker 1: under five hundred, and then he went on a in
Speaker 1: Mississippi State went on a twelve game winning streak from
Speaker 1: the try from the end of that season to the
Speaker 1: mid season the following year, and became the number one
Speaker 1: team in the country. Yeah, he didn't start that year though,
Speaker 1: that they started three he took over. I think he had.
Speaker 1: He had a good number of seats, like the last
Speaker 1: six or seven game. I want to say he had
Speaker 1: like ten starts that year. But still he was the
Speaker 1: starter when they were at that point. And then he
Speaker 1: took him on a So I did the math on
Speaker 1: it last week. Another station looked it up and they
Speaker 1: didn't find it until high school. Oh yeah, one year
Speaker 1: in high school he was three and well, so I
Speaker 1: looked up all right, he went on a twelve game
Speaker 1: win streak. So if it happens again, and this was
Speaker 1: last week, the Cowboys had eight games left in their
Speaker 1: regular season, four playoff games. If he goes on a
Speaker 1: twelve game winning streak, now that Cowboys will not only
Speaker 1: be playing this Sunday in Atlanta, they will be playing
Speaker 1: later this season in Atlanta in the Super Bowl. And
Speaker 1: winning is Super Bowl there, So there you go. You're
Speaker 1: telling me there's a chance. I'm telling you there's a chance.
Speaker 1: All right. I see how much money I got. Twelve
Speaker 1: game winning He did it in college. Why can't he
Speaker 1: do it in the NFL at an eleven game winning streak? Guinea,
Speaker 1: that's right, he already Yeah, an eleven game win streak
Speaker 1: is rookie years against him? Why are you all naysayer?
Speaker 1: Twelve in a row, twelve straight? Can we start with two? Well,
Speaker 1: you can't get to twelve unless you get point two.
Speaker 1: So you can't get to Atlanta the second time, the
Speaker 1: first Sunday in February on CBS with Tony Romo in
Speaker 1: the booth calling the game. Then unless you can get
Speaker 1: this win on Sunday. Yeah, yeah, all right. They better
Speaker 1: have a bunch of Citadels on the schedule. I don't
Speaker 1: think the NFL has any Saints are a little better
Speaker 1: than that. Yeah, you're already looking ahead. Skins are all yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: gimmis um All right, Where do you want to go? Brian?
Speaker 1: You got a question? You got something? Do you want
Speaker 1: a topic? You got a topic? No? I just you know,
Speaker 1: I was just kind of thinking about though this this team,
Speaker 1: and I don't have a topic. I'm just gonna try
Speaker 1: and come up with one here. But I think that
Speaker 1: do you feel better? You know, we talk about all
Speaker 1: of Atlanta's problems on defense though, but after what you
Speaker 1: saw in Philadelphia, do you feel a lot better about
Speaker 1: this offense? Or is it still kind of a work
Speaker 1: in progress in your mind? I know we're ten games
Speaker 1: into this thing, but we are nine games into this,
Speaker 1: but are we Do we feel better about it or
Speaker 1: do we How do we feel about this? I feel
Speaker 1: better about it, but I need to kind of see
Speaker 1: it again, because you know, I've kept talking on Monday
Speaker 1: about that drive before the half that was really impressive.
Speaker 1: They went seventy three yards in like four or five
Speaker 1: plays and scored a touchdown before that. It was very
Speaker 1: similar to the problems they've had in the past. Especially
Speaker 1: on the road. So I think they're in a better place.
Speaker 1: I expect Amari Cooper to continue being a featured part
Speaker 1: of this offense, and I think his rapport will Dak
Speaker 1: will get better. But we need to see it more
Speaker 1: than a half, you know, where they're really trading scores
Speaker 1: and being efficient up and down the football field. We
Speaker 1: just haven't seen that with consistency this year. But there's
Speaker 1: encouraging and that line is encouraging as well. What do
Speaker 1: you think, No, I'm I'm I'm with you. I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm encouraged. The thing that, you know, the offense
Speaker 1: doesn't worry me in this game. It's the defense that
Speaker 1: worries me. And I know that's funny to say, considering
Speaker 1: how well they played, But I've just that we've seen
Speaker 1: some signs though of you know, some some big plays
Speaker 1: being made, some passing plays being made. Not enough you know,
Speaker 1: pressure enough sacks? I mean what we they're not enough
Speaker 1: pressure in sacks I think is a concern. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: if you don't get to this guy, then they're gonna
Speaker 1: rip you. Yeah, there'll be a problem. See, I've thought
Speaker 1: all all season, I was looking ahead to this stretch,
Speaker 1: not only Atlanta, but also New Orleans in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks where now we're going to really find out
Speaker 1: about this Dallas defense because and part of that had
Speaker 1: to do with the Cowboys offense was not productive the
Speaker 1: first half of the year. Now, to answer your question,
Speaker 1: I feel better about this Cowboys offense that they can
Speaker 1: score some points. They could play in a shootout then
Speaker 1: hunt that I don't, and that's what we may find.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe I got a little over fell us
Speaker 1: there with the shootout now, but that's what's gonna be.
Speaker 1: I mean, they weren't going to be able to if
Speaker 1: they've had visions of contending to make the playoffs the
Speaker 1: way it was going two weeks ago, it was not
Speaker 1: gonna happen with what they had weapon wise, as the
Speaker 1: defense held you in there long enough. And again the record,
Speaker 1: it is to get offense to catch up. Yes, the
Speaker 1: best going to ask for the most part. Yes, we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out Sunday, if they can do this two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row, because they should have had more
Speaker 1: points against Tennessee, right right, Yeah, a couple of bad plays,
Speaker 1: but they were moving the football points against Philadelphia. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: Nicky said that he's absolutely right. And you know, and
Speaker 1: and just take last night for example. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many times Aaron Rodgers ended up getting sacked, but
Speaker 1: it was close to half a dozen. Yeah. You want
Speaker 1: to know why they lost, right? They missed a field goal? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand that. No, I just said the problem was
Speaker 1: the quarterback was you know, honest, But you can't win
Speaker 1: that way. And and right now, you know, there's only
Speaker 1: one team that's given up more sacks than the Cowboys Giants.
Speaker 1: Oh no, they're tied with the Giants, are they really?
Speaker 1: That's never good? Um? And and look, Cleveland, not every
Speaker 1: sack on Dak is on the line. I mean Dak
Speaker 1: sometimes I think there's been times where he'll tell you
Speaker 1: he's maybe he needs to get rid of it, you know,
Speaker 1: but better job in this last game offensively upfront? But
Speaker 1: why is he holding on too it because there's probably
Speaker 1: no one open. Thirty two sacks, the Giants thirty two sacks,
Speaker 1: Cleveland thirty five. That's no way to win ball games. No,
Speaker 1: but we feel better about the offense, right, I think,
Speaker 1: But he gave up We're not making that up, are we.
Speaker 1: But they gave up four sacks last week now a
Speaker 1: couple he ran out of I think he ran. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: he's gotta throw the ball. He don't, don't run. Don't
Speaker 1: be foolish, Yeah, don't be foolish that way. So how
Speaker 1: many times has Aaron Rodgers been sacked this year? Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't see what last night was he had. He
Speaker 1: was sacked five times last night, so he's at thirty
Speaker 1: two sacks. Now we're gonna look back on Aaron Rodgers'
Speaker 1: career and say he didn't have enough help. One of
Speaker 1: the greatest we've ever seen. But just did happening? Did
Speaker 1: you guys watch the game last night? Did not a
Speaker 1: little bit, very little, very little. If he dropped back
Speaker 1: the pass, the rush was coming, he stepped up and
Speaker 1: it was like punt pass and kicked. He just threw
Speaker 1: the ball as high and as far as he could
Speaker 1: before he got smashed. And I think it was Adams.
Speaker 1: Adams ran it down, runs underneath it and catches it
Speaker 1: as the dB stumbling like he had jumped like Ezekiel Elliott,
Speaker 1: and it's like, how does that happen? A great quarterback?
Speaker 1: And I mean it was a true hail Mary. You
Speaker 1: know how they do the tour here and they say,
Speaker 1: how did how did Roger Staubach complete that pass? He
Speaker 1: dropped back, closed his eyes and seat of hell Mary
Speaker 1: and threw it. No, that's not quite the way it happened.
Speaker 1: But on that pass, I think that's what Rodgers did.
Speaker 1: Nobody's thrown the hell Mary better in the history of
Speaker 1: the league than Aaron Rodgers, other than the guy who
Speaker 1: invented it. By the way, he's getting his Medal of
Speaker 1: Freedom today, right Roger today, I think it's today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those the reports. Anyway, with Babe Ruth he is, Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be there. I think he's
Speaker 1: got the candy bar Babes could be a little late
Speaker 1: today tracking himself up over here this wait, you can
Speaker 1: go ahead, babe. Babe Babe will be here a little later.
Speaker 1: We can mail his to him. I think there was
Speaker 1: somebody else that there is another athlete I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Former Vikings defensive lineman Al Y. Yes, Alan Page, the
Speaker 1: great Alan Page. The people people Eaders very good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so great honor of a Rogers, absolutely absolutely due.
Speaker 1: They stands beyond what he did on the football. They
Speaker 1: have a ceremony like they show up for. That's what
Speaker 1: I read. Okay, it was supposed to be there. Washing
Speaker 1: do this, don't you puts it around your neck and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I think so, I think so. And
Speaker 1: now that you mentioned Roger Stabock, let me take you
Speaker 1: back to nineteen seventy one when the Cowboys did the
Speaker 1: quarterback shuffle him and Craig Morton. He and Craig Morton
Speaker 1: Chicagy three to nineteen loss that Soldier Field in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and then Tom Landry decided that Stabok would be the
Speaker 1: start of the rest of the year. And what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys do the rest of the year, they won them all.
Speaker 1: They want them all, ten straight wins to get to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And so the point the reason I
Speaker 1: bring that up, so if it gets back, you know,
Speaker 1: it gets back to not to Dak Prescott wedding, twelve
Speaker 1: straight win of the Super Bowl, but the importance in
Speaker 1: the second half of the year of getting on a roll.
Speaker 1: And this is the time of the year right now
Speaker 1: that if the Cowboy you know, they have this dream
Speaker 1: that even with the reshuffling of the roster and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, rebuilding whatever however you want to phrase it,
Speaker 1: that they could still contend this year. Well, it's all
Speaker 1: built for this right now, and they've got their destiny
Speaker 1: in their hands right now, going into Atlanta this week
Speaker 1: and then Washington and so forth, with what's happening in
Speaker 1: this division. If they can get on a roll right
Speaker 1: now now, my question is can they can they We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out. No, you gotta give an answer here,
Speaker 1: you gotta try and give an answer. I offensively, I
Speaker 1: feel better about this. And I'm not saying super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I'm saying to get to the play how about to
Speaker 1: win the division? Yeah? Right, yes, I feel better about
Speaker 1: their opportunities with the addition of Amari Cooper and the
Speaker 1: change at the offensive line, coach, and I just hope,
Speaker 1: I hope that we see a similar game plan. I
Speaker 1: hope we see a similar more similar aggressiveness with the
Speaker 1: way that things are working. And you know, and I
Speaker 1: know the defense. They've they've leaned on this defense all year.
Speaker 1: Now it's time for the offense in the second half
Speaker 1: to pick things there. You're gonna be in some games.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be in some games, and Bill, you said it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be in some games. You can outscore Washington.
Speaker 1: Washington's proven to me that they can't score points. They can't.
Speaker 1: But they're but they're playing a great recipe of football,
Speaker 1: run and play defense. That's what they you know, that's
Speaker 1: how you have to play. But now it's time for
Speaker 1: Dallas to take advantage of adding Amari Cooper and some
Speaker 1: of these receivers stepping up, Michael Gallup stepping up, you know,
Speaker 1: the offensive lineup. I love the addition of Mark Colombo
Speaker 1: as the offensive line coach. I think it brings a
Speaker 1: toughness to that group. And maybe you found something with
Speaker 1: Sue Philo here playing the guard. So I'm gonna and
Speaker 1: Ezekiel at nice taste in his mouth after last week,
Speaker 1: you know, get him going again, get him going where
Speaker 1: it's every week it's like, oh damn, we have to
Speaker 1: deal with that. If you're an opponent, you know, let's
Speaker 1: not be this back and forth, back and forth, back
Speaker 1: and forth. Well you're not out there alone. Because it
Speaker 1: was pointed out to me that Troy Aikman, after setting
Speaker 1: the place on fire a week ago, basically picked him
Speaker 1: to win the division this week. Well, I mean it
Speaker 1: is Bill's right, it's possible. Look, I don't know to
Speaker 1: make of that. By the way, that's kind of a
Speaker 1: one eighties I really, I really don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: and I scrapped the whole organization structure. I love Troy Aikman,
Speaker 1: I really don't. I didn't hear it, but I was
Speaker 1: told that's what he I respect the hell out of him.
Speaker 1: I think he does a great job. But I'm I'm
Speaker 1: kind of one of those guys. It's like, my friend,
Speaker 1: you had a can of gas in your hand, and
Speaker 1: now you're driving the fire truck to the scene, you know.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's an example though, of this league
Speaker 1: and how week the week it's it's such a week
Speaker 1: to week and it seemed like after that eight hours
Speaker 1: to forty eight hours, I know. I mean, okay, keep
Speaker 1: in mind that was a Monday night game Tennessee. He
Speaker 1: does his radio hit on Tuesday morning. Yeah. Troy Aikman,
Speaker 1: in many ways is just like the rest of us
Speaker 1: on the on the heels of a game like that
Speaker 1: where the team just did not show up in the
Speaker 1: second half of that game. You're sitting there going, this
Speaker 1: whole organization needs to be bootless. You know. That was interesting.
Speaker 1: Then you turn around on Sunday night at Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: you win, and and then you look at what else
Speaker 1: is going on in the division and wait a second,
Speaker 1: because they can be in first place by Thanksgiving night.
Speaker 1: He's right, like Philly plays, But I would respected him
Speaker 1: if he wouldn't have gone for the flip right right, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't think. I don't think you could
Speaker 1: be that extreme. But his most recent point is right.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question. But you know if that
Speaker 1: was his original point, hey, no, which even after how
Speaker 1: bad Dallas played on Monday night, and he would have
Speaker 1: come out and said, Noah, Dallas can still win the division.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's maybe he believes both things, you know, like
Speaker 1: this is a bad division. They may go win this division.
Speaker 1: But I think that's why you went and got that receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is why, Which is why as a coaching staff
Speaker 1: and his players whatever, you got to keep your wits
Speaker 1: about you as you go along through this thing because
Speaker 1: there's more division games, there's valleys, there's you know, mountains,
Speaker 1: and you know it's a roller coaster Philly, or it
Speaker 1: can be you try to limit the roller coaster you
Speaker 1: want to, you know, just be on a upward a cent.
Speaker 1: Philly plays the Saints, Yes, Houston's at Washington. Giants have
Speaker 1: got Tampa. I think at home, big game in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You can all of a sudden, yeah, you can drop
Speaker 1: some major ground and then play with division leaders on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: regardless of what happened obvious here today. I know it's
Speaker 1: every They're all must win. I get no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to I wasn't getting on you about that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it must win. I mean I said it
Speaker 1: in my with my captain obvious grin on my face.
Speaker 1: It is a huge game. Absolutely, it's a huge game.
Speaker 1: Lose this game over No, but it's the odds decrease
Speaker 1: significantly plus it plus it pokes the air out of
Speaker 1: the balloon that you just blew up last week. You know,
Speaker 1: are we are? We do for a letdown? Then? After
Speaker 1: being so feeling so good about this football team all week?
Speaker 1: What did you say last week? That's why you have
Speaker 1: to be playing consistently? Yeah, Brian, why did you pick
Speaker 1: the Cowboys last week? Because I was desperate and Mickey
Speaker 1: and I won an award for fighting about that on
Speaker 1: the Happy Hour Show. But see, there's my point. You
Speaker 1: can't be emotionally up and down and up and down
Speaker 1: and oh my back's halfway through the wall. Now I
Speaker 1: gotta play harder. You gotta play hard every week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you can't. That's what I was trying. You weren't
Speaker 1: listening to me. You gotta be If my point was
Speaker 1: you have to emotionally, you have no no to me
Speaker 1: that you have to play consistently. You know to me,
Speaker 1: he's not wrong, he's not wrong. But I also understand though,
Speaker 1: that you have to have you have to have that
Speaker 1: in your mind. Now I think maybe what I misunderstood
Speaker 1: you you were saying more mickey that night, was more
Speaker 1: about you can't give that same speech, right right, you
Speaker 1: can't come in the lock But I'm and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta go. We don't win this game, and then
Speaker 1: you win in the next week, you come in and go, oh,
Speaker 1: we gotta win this game. Because I think you can't
Speaker 1: do that. I think the players have to have that
Speaker 1: feeling in them though, Well they should have it every
Speaker 1: week when you're zero and zero, well they're four and five.
Speaker 1: Well if they're almost zero and zero. If they don't,
Speaker 1: if they don't feel that this week, then shame on them.
Speaker 1: But their their season is clearly on the line. But
Speaker 1: you know what, if you go in that locker room,
Speaker 1: that's what they were saying, we're focusing on Atlanta. Last
Speaker 1: week doesn't matter, you know, Yeah, and Zeke said it,
Speaker 1: our backs are still against the wall, and they are
Speaker 1: and it will be Thanksgiving if they win Sunday, and
Speaker 1: they will be the following week. Yeah, until they're playing
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and the super Bowl the first Sunday. And
Speaker 1: I mean last week their backs were halfway through the drywall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll wait for a break now, Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna find out in a moment. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: Dallas is doing an hour long show from six to
Speaker 1: seven o'clock. I think the actual lighting. So you're going
Speaker 1: to be out there. I am actually not going to
Speaker 1: be out there. I'm off that day. But six twenty
Speaker 1: two on Friday is when the lighting takes place. Christmas
Speaker 1: at the Stars, so festival six twenty two. I don't know.
Speaker 1: They just is that when the sun goes down or
Speaker 1: now the sun is down by six twenty two. I
Speaker 1: think that's because it's sports cast time on CBS eleven
Speaker 1: at six twenty two, so they'll blow us out. We
Speaker 1: won't have a sportscast. So, but if you haven't been
Speaker 1: to the Star and now that we're what a couple
Speaker 1: of years into this, yeah, you know the restaurants are
Speaker 1: great over there. It's it's a terrific place. Of course,
Speaker 1: you got the Omni there. If you're coming in from
Speaker 1: out of town, stay there, and it's just a great place.
Speaker 1: And it's just amazing how the whole area out here
Speaker 1: is building up, even in the last year. This this
Speaker 1: stuff that's been built, condos and everything, and office complexes
Speaker 1: that are north of the Star. This is really the
Speaker 1: place to be out here, absolutely. So the tree is up.
Speaker 1: The tree is up. In fact that it was an
Speaker 1: all day a fair yesterday I think, and end in
Speaker 1: the morning they were just starting it. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: stars on top or whatever the little thing they topped
Speaker 1: the tree with. Yep. Do they have decorations on it?
Speaker 1: They're just like not yet, not getting last night. It's up,
Speaker 1: but no decoration. Might need your help. Mickey out there,
Speaker 1: you and Bill, that's all right, yeah, get the bottom
Speaker 1: get the bottom part. Yeah yeah, Okay, who did they?
Speaker 1: Who did Douglas say we had Adam and Atlantam and
Speaker 1: Atlanta Atlanta Adam. Hey, how you doing, guys? There's Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Texas by the way, there is that's right in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Texas or Georgia, Georgia. Okay, ok hey, guys, um I
Speaker 1: appreciate everything you guys do. Excited to call the show. Uh, Mickey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be at the meet and greet and Q
Speaker 1: and A to Marris so looking forward to Metia s.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll shake your hand shake mom please, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's nice. UM. Question I have for you brought us
Speaker 1: and I asked the other shows us um earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I saw her and watching the All twenty two
Speaker 1: for the Philly game. Is I'm noticing and correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, but I'm noticing these receivers aren't very
Speaker 1: good at on the scrambled drill when Dak's outside the
Speaker 1: pocket and looking for somebody to throw too under duress.
Speaker 1: I don't see these receivers coming off their routes trying
Speaker 1: to come back for the ball. Is that something you're
Speaker 1: seeing a trend of or something that you feel like
Speaker 1: we can get better at? They should, They have to
Speaker 1: get better at that. There's no question, you know, there's
Speaker 1: and you know, even watching the TV copy last week,
Speaker 1: you know when during the game there were a couple
Speaker 1: of times where Dak was scrambling around and they you know,
Speaker 1: they were struggling to try and find some space. That
Speaker 1: was the one thing that you know, you talk about
Speaker 1: a bunch of things that Terrence Williams couldn't do. That
Speaker 1: was one of the things he was pretty good at
Speaker 1: it was finding that space. So yeah, it's it's always
Speaker 1: something that you can improve. There's this team that the
Speaker 1: team that they're going to play this week in the Falcons.
Speaker 1: I think it one of the best that I've seen
Speaker 1: when it comes to Matt Ryan starts running with the
Speaker 1: football and then those guys go and find space. So
Speaker 1: obviously it's a it's a it's a something that that
Speaker 1: was gonna have to worry about defensively and when it
Speaker 1: happens to him offensively. They've got to get better. You know,
Speaker 1: you got to get better. You gotta fin on space.
Speaker 1: You got to try and help your quarterback your best
Speaker 1: you can. You know. It's funny he brought that up
Speaker 1: because they had a touchdown on that the one the
Speaker 1: ball came out of his hands. Cooper was coming up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he turned around and went back and he had
Speaker 1: about a three or four yard lead and he's got
Speaker 1: his hand up like throwing. Is that when they blew
Speaker 1: out the guy's knee. Is that when they blew out
Speaker 1: the Darby Darby's knee? Maybe maybe because because he was
Speaker 1: covering up right and Dak's rolling to his right and
Speaker 1: he's getting ready to load up and throw and the
Speaker 1: ball comes out of his hand and then he picked
Speaker 1: it up on one bounce and right. But but he
Speaker 1: was and he talked about darsterday. He talked about it
Speaker 1: yesterday and he goes, oh, yeah, we had a touchdown.
Speaker 1: He goes, you know, he goes, for whatever reason, I
Speaker 1: don't know if my hand was wet, what the deal was,
Speaker 1: but the ball just kind of squeezed right out of
Speaker 1: my hand. I suggested he'd take a little air out
Speaker 1: of the ball and be able to hold it better.
Speaker 1: Brady tactic. But but Cooper did it. Whatever the guy Cooper,
Speaker 1: Cooper did it. That's that's again the difference maker. You say,
Speaker 1: But you know, you look overall, maybe some of these
Speaker 1: things where he was scrambling around instead of getting sacked
Speaker 1: or pulled down or whatever. He you know, they could
Speaker 1: have done a little bit better for a month. That's
Speaker 1: something you can always improve on. Yeah, that's just something
Speaker 1: that's that's as Jason Garrett like to say, time on task.
Speaker 1: And that was one of the things Witten was really
Speaker 1: good at two. Yeah, not that he was making big plays,
Speaker 1: but he where to go the touchdown. I don't know
Speaker 1: we're going back two years, but the overtime went against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Here, uh dac through. I mean that was
Speaker 1: just a scrambled play Romo balls on the ground. W yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Whindn just kind of sat down in the end zone
Speaker 1: found a spot. Yeah, you know, yeah, you gotta be
Speaker 1: able to do that more consistently. You know. The funny
Speaker 1: thing about that play that you're talking about Darby. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I was looking for, but somebody put
Speaker 1: on YouTube with the title Here's how the Cowboys toward
Speaker 1: Darby's knee, and I was like, what do they talking about?
Speaker 1: And they showed them. It wasn't It wasn't like they
Speaker 1: did anything. It's like he was just coming up and
Speaker 1: he turned around and went the other way when he pivoted. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just saying. They're probably saying he probably saying the
Speaker 1: way that that I know, But it's like the good
Speaker 1: thing he's not a headline, right exactly exactly whoever did it?
Speaker 1: Okase we approached Sunday and Saturday at three o'clock, you
Speaker 1: think something. It's all going to depend on Antoine Woods,
Speaker 1: whether Christian radio or a roster move has to be made.
Speaker 1: We get Garrett here in third in a few minutes, right,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, so who's expendable one of those specials.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind what happened last Saturday. Noah Brown and
Speaker 1: Lance Lenore both became active players on Saturday. How great
Speaker 1: do you feel right day Thompson was let go? How
Speaker 1: great do you feel about David Irving plane anymore? I
Speaker 1: think you got Yeah. Every time I like a conversation
Speaker 1: about that, not not a conversation off campus, but a
Speaker 1: conversation when the head coach is asked about him, it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like, oh no, he's making progress, he's coming,
Speaker 1: you know, it seems very You've got some guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got how How how healthy can Tavon Austin be?
Speaker 1: You know? Do you? You you continue to wait for that?
Speaker 1: Is Tavon Austin something you're gonna use in December? You know,
Speaker 1: with the way this group it currently is, at some
Speaker 1: point you get Terrence Williams back at wide receiver. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't think that's happening. That's
Speaker 1: not going to happen. No, I mean he's eligible, he's
Speaker 1: eligible eligible, right, so I you know that's I think
Speaker 1: it's I think it's your kind of that. You've You've
Speaker 1: got some guys that you know that that are hurt
Speaker 1: that and I think are trying to come back. But
Speaker 1: are you really going to count on them to come back?
Speaker 1: Does Tavon fit into your plans? That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: With the receiving core you have, That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're bringing Tavon Austin back next year?
Speaker 1: Are the rules when it's your own practice squad player, like,
Speaker 1: they do not have to stay So you could do
Speaker 1: a Lance Lenore back to the practice and right, well,
Speaker 1: they like lance play special teams and stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: they like him kind of coming out him and Noah Brown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why do you pick Lance Lenor just because he was
Speaker 1: on the practice squad and you know, and Noah Brown
Speaker 1: was not the practice squad, right, he was on injured reserve. Ye,
Speaker 1: so so he was the teams could have could have
Speaker 1: plucked him already Lance Lenore, right, and they didn't or
Speaker 1: or they had a deal in place here where they
Speaker 1: Noah Brown practice squad eligibility. He's not gonna get there.
Speaker 1: They couldn't get him through. There's no way because because
Speaker 1: he's got too much talent ability. We've got thirty seconds,
Speaker 1: all right, Pick I won't get sixty two fifty six,
Speaker 1: thirty four thirty one Cowboys. Oh, all week, he said
Speaker 1: sixty two to fifty six. I know that's gonna be
Speaker 1: my gut feeling. Pick twenty six twenty four Cowboys. They
Speaker 1: had to click Michael Gallop back home. That's my click.
Speaker 1: We'll pick it. Yeah, I'm gonna go against the team here.
Speaker 1: I just feel like that the Cowboys, I just don't
Speaker 1: feel like they're gonna be able to handle the Falcons
Speaker 1: passing game. I think it's gonna turn into a track meet.
Speaker 1: I don't think Dallas can keep up and attract meat.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Falcons. Are gonna thirty one
Speaker 1: to twenty one for the Falcons, that's fair. I'm going
Speaker 1: thirty one twenty one Cowboys. Okay. I hope everybody's trying somehow,
Speaker 1: some way. I hope you're all arouse some way. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to catch you in our weekly standings. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try sixty two fifty six. Yeah. I hope you're right.
Speaker 1: I hope all your guys are right. All right, we
Speaker 1: got Jason Garrett coming up. Enjoy the game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and we'll be back for an abbreviated Thanksgiving weight next week.
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