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Speaker 1: Wait with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, November eight, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen,
Speaker 1: episode number seventy one. Welcome to another edition of The Break,
Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star,
Speaker 1: and today we got a lot to talk about. We'll
Speaker 1: start with the Atlanta offense today. We'll get into that
Speaker 1: and tell you a little bit about what you can
Speaker 1: expect as far as the matchups there. But first, what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do is give everybody a good rundown
Speaker 1: of what the storylines will look like for this week.
Speaker 1: There are a few that are worth keeping an eye on.
Speaker 1: How's everybody doing this morning? Great, Derek, wonderful, awesome cold?
Speaker 1: You got on a coat? So yeah, all right, I'll
Speaker 1: be okay. I want to be in bed, all right.
Speaker 1: That just took me by surprise, Like I wasn't expecting
Speaker 1: you to say it, wouldn't you want to be in
Speaker 1: bed in your covers like all nice and coach. Actually, yes,
Speaker 1: that'd be great, exactly awesome. No, I want to grind
Speaker 1: and I only want to talk about Cowboys football, getting
Speaker 1: this win against the Falcons, previewing this Atlanta offense, talking
Speaker 1: to Dak Prescott and maybe Zeke today and just really
Speaker 1: kicking ass. That's what I want to do. That's boy,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. Energy from Dave, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, just saying, sure, all right, let's jump
Speaker 1: right into this thing. Here the storylines for this, Dave agree,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We're gonna pretend he does. He's spilling
Speaker 1: coffee everywhere. As long as long as he's got energy,
Speaker 1: let's let's play that up and let's just give him
Speaker 1: a good pat on the back and say thanks, David,
Speaker 1: thanks for bringing that energy. All right, Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. What's going on with him this week? Think
Speaker 1: it's later this week, there's going to be another hearing.
Speaker 1: Give me the update on where we are and what's
Speaker 1: going to happen this week and when that should happened,
Speaker 1: and when the Cowboys will know more and just the
Speaker 1: whole nine, what's happening everything. I thought it was really
Speaker 1: great because Jerry Jones was asked that question a little
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier this morning, and he knows as
Speaker 1: much as I know, which is like, not as much
Speaker 1: as you'd prefer, you'd want him to know a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Yeah, well, it's I mean, it's all in
Speaker 1: the hands of a federal court, and like we've said
Speaker 1: a few times on this show, they do whatever they
Speaker 1: want on whatever timeline they want. So he's going to
Speaker 1: have his appeal hearing on Thursday with the Second Circuit
Speaker 1: Court of Appeals. It's a three judge panel, I believe.
Speaker 1: I heard it was two Democrats and a Republican. That's
Speaker 1: a good thing, right, I think so. But I'm not
Speaker 1: going to pretend to like, oh, yeah, well, you see
Speaker 1: what they need here is this guy voted here, and like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's got to go three nothing, right,
Speaker 1: I believe, so does it? Yeah? I believe so appeals
Speaker 1: it has to be unlike a regular district court. I
Speaker 1: guess I don't know, but I think it does have
Speaker 1: to be. It it's got to go well for Zeke Daniel, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Daniel Wallack, where are you, Um, that's gonna be on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be oral argument Thursday. Sorry, yes, yes, two
Speaker 1: pm Thursday, Tuesday already happened. Yeah, it's gonna be Thursday.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be oral arguments. I think Daniel Wallack actually
Speaker 1: said that, you know, they a lot for thirty minutes
Speaker 1: on each side for oral arguments, but he expects in
Speaker 1: a situation like this that it'll last longer than that
Speaker 1: and then they just make their decision. And apparently right
Speaker 1: there at the moment, no, they well they can they
Speaker 1: can make it Thursday night, they can make it Friday.
Speaker 1: They could wait until next week, in which case Zeke
Speaker 1: would be eligible to play against Atlanta. Could they wait
Speaker 1: like feasibly? Could they actually do this at like one
Speaker 1: thirty on Sunday afternoon? I don't think so, because again
Speaker 1: courts closed it talking about the government, and government doesn't
Speaker 1: work on weekends, like no exceptions, like president doesn't work
Speaker 1: on the weekend. Depending don't get me stand all right,
Speaker 1: talk about something else? Yeah, Um, so yeah I would
Speaker 1: if it's not by Friday, a like close of business,
Speaker 1: I would expect that he can play. And it took
Speaker 1: ten days for this thing to go through the federal
Speaker 1: the Circuit court in New Orleans. Having said that, it
Speaker 1: just seems like they've been really good about doing everything
Speaker 1: on a speedy time. It's like, how long in New
Speaker 1: yorlds you said thirty I don't, I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: hear what you said. You said, Okay, ten days. So
Speaker 1: if that were to happen, presumably he could play two
Speaker 1: games before you even have a decision if it took
Speaker 1: that same timeline, right, theoretically, But I really just kind
Speaker 1: of have a hunch that they're going to have it
Speaker 1: figured out by Friday. I just everything ever since, ever
Speaker 1: since Zeke had that overturned, so going back to the
Speaker 1: bye week, ever since that was overturned and he filed
Speaker 1: for the TRRO and that was, you know, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Everything that's happened since then has been fast, like by
Speaker 1: court stand right, Yeah, So I think that's going to
Speaker 1: keep up, and so we will We'll see what happens,
Speaker 1: but I'm thinking maybe Friday. But as of right now,
Speaker 1: because there is not a ruling, the temporary restraining order
Speaker 1: is still in place, which means he practices at least
Speaker 1: until a decision is made right, Bay say, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: temporary restraining order was two weeks ago. Got it, get
Speaker 1: it out of the same terminology, But I don't think
Speaker 1: that wrong. Okay. Either way, he's still practicing as of today,
Speaker 1: which does create I think an interesting conversation, at least
Speaker 1: for us, of how the Cowboys should handle this week.
Speaker 1: It's I'll ask you guys that question, knowing the situation
Speaker 1: that they're in, that there could be a situation they
Speaker 1: could find out his latest Friday, and even though courts
Speaker 1: don't work on the weekends, I guess it could come
Speaker 1: out this weekend. All that being said, if you're the
Speaker 1: Cowboys coaches, do you maybe just practice as usual assuming
Speaker 1: that Zeke's going to be your starter, or do you
Speaker 1: maybe say, Okay, Zeke, we're not going to practice you
Speaker 1: this week. What we're gonna do is let you sit
Speaker 1: in on meetings. You'll understand the game plan, you'll know
Speaker 1: what what you would be doing. We know that you
Speaker 1: know how to do it out on the field, but
Speaker 1: we'd rather give the reps to the other guys to
Speaker 1: get them prepared so that you basically are prepared for
Speaker 1: either way, whether Zeke plays or does not. What do
Speaker 1: you guys think is the best way to go somewhere
Speaker 1: in between? Maybe I may split the reps a little bit,
Speaker 1: give Zeke some some time, give some to Alfred Morris
Speaker 1: if he's going to be your starter, and then the
Speaker 1: other guys he's just you know, they're gonna get scout
Speaker 1: team reps. I guess. So that's why I would do it.
Speaker 1: I would not just sit Zeke this week. I would
Speaker 1: I would just split it. Garrett had a really good
Speaker 1: read between the lines type of answer about that back
Speaker 1: on Monday during his wrap up press conference, which, if
Speaker 1: you think about it, I mean, you watch training camp.
Speaker 1: That's not how these guys practice anyway, you know, like
Speaker 1: you do, you do a period of you know, all right,
Speaker 1: you do individuals whatever. You go to full team, you
Speaker 1: probably run ten reps. The starter will get six of
Speaker 1: those seven and then you know, and so then the
Speaker 1: backup gets two, and the third guy maybe gets one
Speaker 1: or zero or whatever. Like they always divvy it up.
Speaker 1: It's not like the starter gets everything always. And so
Speaker 1: I would imagine you just adjust your game plan. Would
Speaker 1: you flip that though? Would you would you maybe give
Speaker 1: Morris six and give Zeke three? Like I would probably
Speaker 1: give Zeke the lion's share of the work, but less
Speaker 1: than he's used to. So if he usually gets eight
Speaker 1: out of ten, I would give him five this week,
Speaker 1: or you know, something like that, and I think they will,
Speaker 1: like Garrett basically said, you know, we'll bury it up
Speaker 1: and make sure that our you know, number two and
Speaker 1: number three you get more than they're probably used to
Speaker 1: getting in a situation like that. What's your opinion on
Speaker 1: the Namber I trust whatever they're doing. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is again something that it's not catching them by surprise necessarily.
Speaker 1: They've been dealing with this uncertainty, uncertainty for weeks, with
Speaker 1: the exception of last week that Zeke was unable to
Speaker 1: be here in practice, that's the only exception. But aside
Speaker 1: from that, I'm sure whatever they're doing in the way
Speaker 1: that they're preparing, they're making sure they covered in all areas,
Speaker 1: you know, with all their backups and including seek in
Speaker 1: case he's able to play. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about injuries. They got some
Speaker 1: significant injuries that you'll have to keep an eye on
Speaker 1: this week. Tyren Smith, Dez Bryant, Terrence Williams, Cheetobayo Woozy.
Speaker 1: I'm going to throw him in that category just because
Speaker 1: we're still waiting for his return and it sounds like
Speaker 1: that maybe he might be able to resume practice this week.
Speaker 1: Tell me about those four injuries and kind of what
Speaker 1: you're expecting this week as we go throughout the week. Well,
Speaker 1: Jerry tried to shed some light on those things this
Speaker 1: morning and didn't really and come away from that really
Speaker 1: feeling one way or the other about it. He said
Speaker 1: he's not sure about he doesn't know that they'll have
Speaker 1: desert terrence. But he doesn't know that they won't have
Speaker 1: desert terrence, which great, thanks Les. Again, don't know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he did. He kind of alluded that, you know, he's
Speaker 1: hopeful that you can count on him from what I gather,
Speaker 1: and you never know. But it sounds like DEAs and
Speaker 1: Terrence maybe that it's like a pain tolerance thing. Daz
Speaker 1: has an ankle on a knee, Terrence has an ankle.
Speaker 1: It up. I mean, Terrence played through this in week
Speaker 1: two after hurting it pretty bad in week one, and
Speaker 1: he was like adamant about it too. He's like, if
Speaker 1: all it is is pain tolerance, I'll play so I
Speaker 1: sort of feel like at least one of those two
Speaker 1: guys will be out there, if not both. Tyrone's the
Speaker 1: one that really kind of freaks me out. He's got
Speaker 1: a groin injury, and I mean, I don't even know
Speaker 1: where to begin with that, Like, it doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: something you can play with six days later. But if
Speaker 1: there's one type of iron man freak who can do it,
Speaker 1: it's probably him. I'm gonna go ahead and guess you
Speaker 1: won't see him today or tomorrow at practice, and then
Speaker 1: just be a matter of how he feels on Friday.
Speaker 1: If I had to guess, it should have based fine.
Speaker 1: He was playing basketball in the locker room. He's good
Speaker 1: turn around jupper looking good defense. That he was playing
Speaker 1: some defense. I mean, he didn't get hurt through that.
Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's gonna practice. I would hope,
Speaker 1: So I would hope that what we saw yesterday leads
Speaker 1: us to think that he's going to practice, because if not,
Speaker 1: then yeah, he was active out there. Yeah, like hamper
Speaker 1: Ball is back in the Cowboys locker I love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a staple last year, right. It
Speaker 1: really it helps the time go by in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and but typically hamper ball. Like you, you stand still
Speaker 1: and shoot shots. It's like horse like but Cheeto and
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis are like backing each other down and just look,
Speaker 1: he's just don't know how to play the game, play
Speaker 1: the game the way it was meant to be played.
Speaker 1: Young for messing it up. Amber balls, he said, hamper ball,
Speaker 1: or like staff ball, hamper ball. I kept having to
Speaker 1: look back every time. As I'm listening to Tackles Week,
Speaker 1: I'm having to look back every second to make sure
Speaker 1: they don't they shoot this. They shoot this oversized tennis
Speaker 1: ball into a hamper where also sweaty towels and stuff
Speaker 1: are getting thrown into and jockstraps and all that, and
Speaker 1: then they make they make it. Then they go and
Speaker 1: tell me grab it and get it, and then shoot
Speaker 1: it again, and then it vall goes over here, and
Speaker 1: Dave picks it up and thirst over here and all right,
Speaker 1: calm down, matches his eyebrows and it's all over his face. Sorry, done,
Speaker 1: hamper ball is much better than all right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get back into this. All right, So we got
Speaker 1: injuries lined out, kind of know what to expect here,
Speaker 1: at least what to be looking for with the injuries.
Speaker 1: What to be looking forward, Zeke. Now, let's focus in
Speaker 1: on the team the Cowboys have to play, the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: This is going to be another tough one, and I
Speaker 1: know that they have not been the team that you
Speaker 1: saw last year that went to the Super Bowl. They
Speaker 1: are four and for right now, and they've had that
Speaker 1: kind of season where it's been really up and down.
Speaker 1: But you cannot ignore the number of playmakers they have,
Speaker 1: specifically on this offense. Dave Giffish a scouting report on
Speaker 1: the offense. Honestly, I the Atlanta Falcons don't make any
Speaker 1: sense to me. That's really yeah. You set it up
Speaker 1: pretty perfectly there. This is the number six team in
Speaker 1: total offense, the number six team in passing offense, thirteenth
Speaker 1: in rushing offense. Not great, but definitely not bad. You
Speaker 1: have the reigning NFL MVP Matt Ryan, who's completing sixty
Speaker 1: five percent and has thrown for two thousand yards halfway
Speaker 1: through the season. You have a Pro Bowl running back
Speaker 1: in DeVonta Freeman who's averaging four point five yards per carry.
Speaker 1: He's got five hundred yards at the halfway mark. Tevin
Speaker 1: Coleman doesn't get as many carries as Freeman, but he's
Speaker 1: averaging five yards per carry a weapon. So you have
Speaker 1: two really nice running backs. And then there's Julio Jones
Speaker 1: who has almost seven hundred receiving yards. And another guy
Speaker 1: that you probably know from Fantasy is Austin Hooper who
Speaker 1: he only has twenty five catches for three hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty twenty five catches, but he's averaging thirteen yards per catch,
Speaker 1: so he's a big play threat for a tight end
Speaker 1: as well. But the thing is, there's seventeenth in scoring offense.
Speaker 1: They're averaging twenty one points per game. They've lost three
Speaker 1: out of their last four with you know what they have?
Speaker 1: They they beat the Jets, That's what it was. They
Speaker 1: beat the Jets, I think that was last week after
Speaker 1: giving up a twenty point lead to the Dolphins, and
Speaker 1: obviously they lost to the Panthers. Um, there's talent all
Speaker 1: over this offense, and they suck, suck for what they have.
Speaker 1: They suck, I think. And so I went and I
Speaker 1: watched this game against the Panthers to try to figure
Speaker 1: it out, and I just this is a team that
Speaker 1: doesn't know what it is or what it wants to do.
Speaker 1: I really believe that. And I think they missed Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 1: He was their offensive coordinator. He was amazing last year.
Speaker 1: They have Steve Sarkisian now who's famous for a variety
Speaker 1: of reasons. This is like, this is a team that's
Speaker 1: equipped to be like high flying, you know, limousine ride
Speaker 1: and wheel and deal and kiss. Yeah, all that Rick
Speaker 1: Flair stuff. But like, but they also want to They
Speaker 1: also think they're like a Kyle Shanahan ground and pound
Speaker 1: twenty one personnel twelve personnel. Like they've got two tight
Speaker 1: ends on the field all the time, Austin Hooper and
Speaker 1: Levine Talolo. I hope I pronounced that right, And and
Speaker 1: they have two really nice running backs. So what are
Speaker 1: you what are you doing here? Do you want to
Speaker 1: ground and pound? Do you want to run that West
Speaker 1: Coast like Spider two? Why banana throw it to your fullback?
Speaker 1: Or do you want to go three wide with Julio
Speaker 1: and Mohammed Sanou and Taylor Gabriel and just moved down
Speaker 1: the field, And like it seems like they're trying to
Speaker 1: do all of it at once and there's no rhyme
Speaker 1: or reason to it. Devanta Freeman was averaging four and
Speaker 1: a half yards per carry against the Panthers. Last week,
Speaker 1: he carried the ball eleven times for like forty something yards.
Speaker 1: They carried the ball eighteen times on the day. And
Speaker 1: this is in a game where they built up a
Speaker 1: ten nothing lead on Carolina and then they just got
Speaker 1: away from it and Matt Ryan wound up throwing thirty
Speaker 1: eight times in a game that they lost by three. Like,
Speaker 1: it's just stuff like that where you're like, what are
Speaker 1: you trying to do here? What's you know? Like you
Speaker 1: to talk about identity all the time, right, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: identity is so crystal clear, Like they're gonna run the ball,
Speaker 1: They're gonna get Dak on the move. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: they're They're not They're not into that high flying stuff
Speaker 1: so much. You just have a pretty good idea of
Speaker 1: what their game plan is going to look like, regardless
Speaker 1: of the opponent. I feel like these guys have no idea. Um.
Speaker 1: They throw it fifty eight percent of the time, obviously
Speaker 1: because they have a great quarterback and for my money,
Speaker 1: probably the best receiver in football, but they get distracted
Speaker 1: by other stuff. I'm It's like it's like somebody told
Speaker 1: them like, oh, you gotta run the ball to win,
Speaker 1: and that helps, but like they're not really committed to it.
Speaker 1: But it sounds like from what you're saying, they at
Speaker 1: least last week they should have stuck with the run.
Speaker 1: If that's averaging four point five, stick with it, keep
Speaker 1: doing it right. That's what I'm saying is it doesn't
Speaker 1: It doesn't make a ton of sense to me what
Speaker 1: they're doing. Like it's they're caught between two different philosophies,
Speaker 1: and I don't get the impression that they really haven't
Speaker 1: figured out what they want to do. And I actually
Speaker 1: I went I read up on some of it. And
Speaker 1: you know, anytime an offense this talented is struggling, you
Speaker 1: hear rumors and whispers and you know there's talk of
Speaker 1: disorganized game plans and you know, not really establishing an identity.
Speaker 1: And it certainly looks like that when you watch them,
Speaker 1: because I'm just like, well but DeVonta Freeman just did that.
Speaker 1: Where's where'd he go? Why why aren't you doing more
Speaker 1: of that? Where's you know? Blah blah blah. The one
Speaker 1: thing I will say is they are dedicated to getting
Speaker 1: Julio Jones the ball and they should be. I mean
Speaker 1: he had I think he had twelve targets last week.
Speaker 1: Obviously everybody saw the fourth down drop that would have
Speaker 1: put them right back in that game. Um, he's got
Speaker 1: sixty eight targets on the year, forty three catches, only
Speaker 1: one touchdown, which is surprising to me. Um, yeah, this
Speaker 1: just this was that last week. No, I thought. I
Speaker 1: thought going into that game, I thought I saw somebody
Speaker 1: says he was walking to the you know, they showed
Speaker 1: the them getting off the bus. I thought they said
Speaker 1: he had no touchdowns at that point, but maybe they
Speaker 1: said one what game was earlier in the season or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know off the top of them. Okay, Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan also has seven picks to just eleven touchdowns, so
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I mean, the gains are there. He's
Speaker 1: got two thousand yards. I mean they hit big plays.
Speaker 1: Julio's Julio's averaging something like fifteen or sixteen yards per reception.
Speaker 1: Like I said, Austin Hooper's averaging thirteen. So this is
Speaker 1: a big play offense. But they just don't know how
Speaker 1: to convert it into points, it seems like. And I
Speaker 1: think that's because they don't really know what they want
Speaker 1: to do. He had seven picks all of last year
Speaker 1: in sixteen games. Seven now half we got seven halfway through.
Speaker 1: And he also had thirty eight touchdowns last year and
Speaker 1: he's I believe he's got eleven, so you know it
Speaker 1: pace for twenty two. Obviously things are different, you know,
Speaker 1: for him. So I'm going to be winning the MVP
Speaker 1: this year. They are fifty one point eight percent in
Speaker 1: the red zone, like they're just And that was actually
Speaker 1: the question I was gonna ask. Usually when you see
Speaker 1: a team that has a ton of yards, which they do.
Speaker 1: They're right now sixth in the league in yards, but
Speaker 1: they're only seventeenth and points typically they're having issues in
Speaker 1: the red zone. And it sounds like that's the issue
Speaker 1: here is they're they're in the red zone and they're
Speaker 1: not being able to convert it to touchdowns. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: and again, you know, I took some notes, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: they've got two pretty nice tight ends they try to do,
Speaker 1: you know, the tight end screens and the movement the
Speaker 1: motions like you see from the Cowboys. I saw. It's
Speaker 1: kind of funny they tried to run a shovel pass
Speaker 1: like Travis Kelsey style. And it just sucked, like they
Speaker 1: didn't it did not work. So again, like it just
Speaker 1: seems like they're trying to do it's a mismash of
Speaker 1: all these different things, and like instead of instead of
Speaker 1: being really good at one thing, they're trying to be
Speaker 1: good at kind of good at a few things. And
Speaker 1: I think that's dumb. Basically, all right, let's take our
Speaker 1: first break when we come back quick. Can only just
Speaker 1: throw some news in there that's been out there. M
Speaker 1: Lewis and Neil has been signed to the to the
Speaker 1: active roster. He's gonna be on the fifty three. My guy.
Speaker 1: They also replace that on the practice squad with a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, Joe Vellano. He's been around a little bit.
Speaker 1: He's six two three hundred pounds, so getting a little
Speaker 1: six two three hundred pounds. Um, he'll be on the
Speaker 1: practice squad. He's been around the league a little bit.
Speaker 1: But Lewis Neil on the team, and they'll figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, they'll figure out how how to make it work.
Speaker 1: I would imagine he's probably gonna be active too. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think you would be inactive. They signed him
Speaker 1: up there, so they only have four defensive well, full
Speaker 1: time defensive uncles on the on the on the active
Speaker 1: ross right now, right right, So I would imagine he
Speaker 1: probably plays in your He might play in some nickel
Speaker 1: situations because he can't get up the field a little bit.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. But they that's the move they made,
Speaker 1: and Brian Price is going to I R. So that's
Speaker 1: that's where that's the spot he takes. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take our first break when we come back. Nick
Speaker 1: and Amber are gonna give us. There are things that
Speaker 1: stand out about this Atlanta offense and how they match
Speaker 1: up against the Cowboys. Will do it when we come
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys versus the Falcons. The day we're focusing in
Speaker 1: on the Falcons offense versus the Cowboys. Defense. Dave gave
Speaker 1: us a scintillating scouting report. Was pretty great. It was
Speaker 1: really good. It was really good. Um. And so now
Speaker 1: we get to move on to the part of the
Speaker 1: show that's even better where Amber and Nick get to
Speaker 1: give us what are you laughing about? Ambering Nick gets
Speaker 1: to get to give us there one thing that's that's
Speaker 1: that stands out about this Atlanta offense. Seriously, crying stands out.
Speaker 1: The little Jones stands out. That's gonna be I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go first. He when you look at just I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously he's not playing as like up to part like
Speaker 1: you would expect, like fantasy owners of him would expect.
Speaker 1: But you're right, it's not because of a lack of triumph.
Speaker 1: I'll say this though, because of Scandrick, Jordan Lewis, Anthony Brown.
Speaker 1: They we saw last week. These guys can run. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're not really gonna just run by them. But they
Speaker 1: still have some issues with the bigger receivers. And in
Speaker 1: Garcon Uh, he didn't. It was quiet, but he still
Speaker 1: had five catches fifty yards. Travis Kelsey is a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: He had a nice game, seven catches seventy seven yards. UM.
Speaker 1: Look at Obviously Fitzgerald a big receiver and had one
Speaker 1: of the best games of his career. So I still
Speaker 1: feel like that the matchup favors Julio Jones every week
Speaker 1: with anybody he faces, but especially against the Cowboys, They're
Speaker 1: gonna try to give him the ball, and they just
Speaker 1: don't have those big bodies that you know that that
Speaker 1: can just shut him down. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: fly by him, but I do think they can move
Speaker 1: the chains with him, So he'd be the guy i'd
Speaker 1: be really concerned about. I mean, I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: no brainer there. Obviously you'd be concerned about Julio, but
Speaker 1: because of the matchup, I think that he can really
Speaker 1: really hurt him. Did he what do he do statistically?
Speaker 1: What do you do statistically? The last time they played
Speaker 1: the Cobs, it seems like I remember him having a
Speaker 1: pretty good day, even roasted them two hundred something like that.
Speaker 1: I thought was close to two hundred yards. I don't
Speaker 1: have it in front of me, but he kicked the
Speaker 1: crap out of it. That was two years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the twenty fifteen game, and he did it
Speaker 1: all in the second half, and it was just did
Speaker 1: it from deep over the middle and swing routes and
Speaker 1: screens and just and the reason I bring it up,
Speaker 1: I know that there's different personnel now in the secondary.
Speaker 1: The reason I bring it up, though, is because the
Speaker 1: corners now, even though I think they are skilled corners,
Speaker 1: they're even shorter than Yeah, you had some bigger corners
Speaker 1: back then with Mo and with with a car. But
Speaker 1: this guy is a big he's a big receiver and
Speaker 1: he plays vertically, So I agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: the big challenge here is can these shorter corners be
Speaker 1: able to match up vertically with him? Twelve for one
Speaker 1: and sixty four and two touchdowns? Yeah, I mean, Julio
Speaker 1: Jones is a super fast guy, but I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not like Tyreek Hill where I think he's just
Speaker 1: gonna blame by. It's he's a great route runner too,
Speaker 1: and he can buy himself space with his route running.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, he's like this, he can
Speaker 1: box you out, and that's definitely something these guys needed.
Speaker 1: Bigger than this, Taller than this, and no, yeah, but
Speaker 1: all around, but just the vertical. His ability to vertically
Speaker 1: go up, I think is the part of his game
Speaker 1: to me that makes him a tough, tough matchup and
Speaker 1: he's not like you said, he's not like a burner fast,
Speaker 1: but you're not gonna catch him from behind either, especially
Speaker 1: once he gets up and he gets those long legs rolling.
Speaker 1: Like that's a that's a really tough matchup for guys
Speaker 1: that don't can't match up physically as far as hides concern.
Speaker 1: All right, Amber, what's your what's your one thing? Well?
Speaker 1: I have two things, all right. One that stood out
Speaker 1: to me was the word successful out of these ranking
Speaker 1: I want to be success. This is a statup. I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure why did me? Or like how they
Speaker 1: get the staff from? And I asked Brian and he
Speaker 1: wasn't even sure himself. But again, the Falcons are ranked
Speaker 1: number four on successful plays and the Cowboys defense ranked thirty.
Speaker 1: So not a good matchup there, whatever that means. The
Speaker 1: word successful coming from the opposing team is something I
Speaker 1: wouldn't one. We don't know, we don't know how many
Speaker 1: yards that is, probably like, yeah, if I had to
Speaker 1: guess ten is I would think that's a successful play
Speaker 1: because a big play is twenty. I would think success
Speaker 1: successful would be more like four because if you get
Speaker 1: four on a play and you do that consistently, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of first downs, right, yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's how I look at I mean, I don't know, maybe,
Speaker 1: I mean there's ranked second in first down efficiency. How
Speaker 1: many how many do they have of successful plays? Fifty?
Speaker 1: I don't think that before. Yeah, you're right about that.
Speaker 1: There probably would be ten. And I mean they are
Speaker 1: a big play team, like they get a lot of
Speaker 1: twenty plus in forty plus yards. I want to say
Speaker 1: that they are there. They're ranked eighth in forty plus
Speaker 1: yard passes. They're ranked eighth and twenty plus yard rushes
Speaker 1: and second in forty plus yard rushers, So they got
Speaker 1: a lot of big plays in this off I mean
Speaker 1: if the running backs averaging four yards to carry, then
Speaker 1: probably true. Yeah, yeah, that'd be a lot of successful Well,
Speaker 1: we don't want them to be successful. So anyways. Another
Speaker 1: thing was the blitz passing situation. I know the Cowboys
Speaker 1: they've been pretty good rushing the quarterback, but I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see what they do how they handle this situation,
Speaker 1: if they do the four men rush and how they
Speaker 1: play with the coverage or if they go with blitzing.
Speaker 1: Their quarterback is rated one hundred and six on blitzen situations,
Speaker 1: So that means he's pretty good when the opposing team
Speaker 1: it's blitzing and he's able to make plays. The one
Speaker 1: thing is maybe when his pressure he's not as accurate,
Speaker 1: but still rating wise, he's pretty good. Cowboys just I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see how exactly they're going to handle that
Speaker 1: and what route they decide to go with in the
Speaker 1: whole quarterback pressure. The good thing about this team is
Speaker 1: that they're not like their defense isn't predicated on blitzing.
Speaker 1: They blitzed at moments in games, but really is predicated
Speaker 1: on the front four being able to get pressure. So
Speaker 1: that should work well for the Cowboys because when they blitz,
Speaker 1: it's usually a lot less predictable than when you say,
Speaker 1: play a team like Pittsburgh, that blitz is quite a
Speaker 1: bit more. Yeah, but when the Cowboys have blitz, I
Speaker 1: mean they have been successful at different situations, So I
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see how they play with that, and
Speaker 1: you're right, they play more with the fore man, but
Speaker 1: we'll see. You know, last week against the against the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: David Irving got a sack in the game, but really
Speaker 1: it was the blitz from the outside and Byron. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those those guys. Was that one of your plays that
Speaker 1: you did when you break down your plays? No, no,
Speaker 1: but but yeah, those those two were coming from the
Speaker 1: edge and just forced Alex Smith to step up, stepped
Speaker 1: right up into David Irving and made made the sacks.
Speaker 1: You know that that was one of those plays where
Speaker 1: you could really see that they caught him off guard.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was expected that, especially from either side.
Speaker 1: And when you have a good defensive tackle like David
Speaker 1: Irving has become, you can do that a little bit
Speaker 1: more because you can't just step up in the pocket.
Speaker 1: You step up into a guy that's sixty seven, you're
Speaker 1: right into him. So he's becoming a weapon for this team.
Speaker 1: So when you look at this offense, I know DeVante's
Speaker 1: Freeman's numbers as far as just his overall yards isn't
Speaker 1: up there as high as it was last year, but
Speaker 1: you look at his average, he certainly is doing well.
Speaker 1: Is this the best running back the Cowboys will have
Speaker 1: seen this point? I know Girly's probably the better of
Speaker 1: the two. Well, you just answered jeral question. I understand
Speaker 1: what what I'm getting to though, is is he in
Speaker 1: the same category with a guy like Girly. Is he
Speaker 1: is stepped down last year? I want to say he was.
Speaker 1: He had he was in top three, top four rushing
Speaker 1: back in the league last year. Like, this is a
Speaker 1: serious running back. This is not just some some average guy,
Speaker 1: probably the best running back to dam you're gonna face
Speaker 1: you know two guys. Yeah, I think I think I'll
Speaker 1: pull it back up. I think Freeman killed the Cowboys
Speaker 1: in that game too once they did. Yeah, three touchdownes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and no one had hurt of him at that point
Speaker 1: because he was a third round picked out. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was a rookie and making his first start that they had.
Speaker 1: I forgot who had gotten thirty carries for one forty
Speaker 1: one and three touchdown No. Here, He's seriously good and
Speaker 1: he's versatile, you can catch and run. I going back
Speaker 1: to my point kind of is I don't trust the
Speaker 1: Falcons to just lean on him enough to where he's
Speaker 1: really gonna hurt you, because they have not done that. Right.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he can't hurt you. I'm saying, like
Speaker 1: this offense just strikes me as being schizophrenic, and I
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna come in here and be like,
Speaker 1: we're getting Davante thirty touches today, Like I just I
Speaker 1: don't believe that they'll do. That kind of kind of
Speaker 1: reminds me a little bit of like the Cowboys when
Speaker 1: I first got here, it was just like you got
Speaker 1: a stud running back and a great quarterback and for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, like you let yourself get away from what
Speaker 1: works a lot of the times, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you're like, holy crap, DeMarco only had eight carries
Speaker 1: in this game, What the hell are we doing. That's
Speaker 1: kind of how I feel about the Falcons. Yeah, do
Speaker 1: you think there's ever a little bit and this is
Speaker 1: a completely different subject, but do you think I know
Speaker 1: right now? The Cowboys have been the team ever since
Speaker 1: they opened their new stadium. They're the team that everybody
Speaker 1: comes to town and the opposing team is like, don't
Speaker 1: spend too much time looking around at the bright, shiny
Speaker 1: object which is this stadium. For the first time, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys players are going to have that kind of situation
Speaker 1: where they're going into a new stadium that has these
Speaker 1: bright new features. Do you expect that's something that, at
Speaker 1: least from the coaches standpoint, that they at least say hey, look,
Speaker 1: don't get focused on the bright, new shiny toy. Focus
Speaker 1: on what you're doing. Do they even go there day before?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just wondering if that becomes because
Speaker 1: Cowboys have never had to deal with that, But other teams,
Speaker 1: I'm sure have to deal with that. Cowboys have never
Speaker 1: had to deal with that when they play in the
Speaker 1: shiniest most room that stadium in the league. But they
Speaker 1: also practiced in that stadium for quite a bit a
Speaker 1: few times before they opened the stadium, so they've never
Speaker 1: had to go into a stadium that's right. Was it
Speaker 1: the same thing? Though I haven't been to this place?
Speaker 1: Is it the one thing? I'll say? The one part
Speaker 1: of it that's very different is their video board, which
Speaker 1: that's the same thing here that you see all the
Speaker 1: opposing players always doing this looking up at this video
Speaker 1: board because I think who've seen that. I think it
Speaker 1: helps that. I think it helps opponents more than it
Speaker 1: hurts them, because it's not a when you come to
Speaker 1: AT and T Stadium, it's not you know, the crowd
Speaker 1: isn't just like oh my god, I've never heard I've
Speaker 1: never seen, you know, a quarterback that can't hear and
Speaker 1: and has to make these different signals. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: it's not intimidating from that standpoint. And I've always I've
Speaker 1: always said it's very similar to like Notre Dame. You know,
Speaker 1: you go there, you look around, and you go look
Speaker 1: at the team. The Notre Dame is having a great year.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, when teams go in to
Speaker 1: play them, they play them well because this is like
Speaker 1: the cathedral of football. This is it, this is it.
Speaker 1: And I think teams have going into the AT and
Speaker 1: T Stadium the same way. So I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a great home field of village. And but I don't
Speaker 1: know if if you look at it the same way,
Speaker 1: I don't think the players are going we're going into
Speaker 1: Mercedes Stadium. Just I don't think it matters because it's
Speaker 1: new to us, but it's not new to Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know the difference if it's been here six
Speaker 1: years or one year. I mean, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's we've know, we've never been here. I've
Speaker 1: been to the Georgia Dome at the fifty yard line,
Speaker 1: been there like four or five times, yeah, but maybe
Speaker 1: ten times. But I don't think it's as new to
Speaker 1: these other players because everything's new. You know, FedEx Field
Speaker 1: was new to half the team. Yeah, not only that,
Speaker 1: Like I think it does matter you play like what
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to be like two not trying
Speaker 1: to kiss the cowboys butts too much, but like what
Speaker 1: could be that impressive after you spent that amount of
Speaker 1: time at AT AT and T in terms of just being
Speaker 1: like shock and awe, like oh my god. I do
Speaker 1: think it's different when you go into a stadium that
Speaker 1: has a full three hundred and sixty degree video board.
Speaker 1: I mean that's different. I've never seen anything like that before.
Speaker 1: So I know, for me, I'm gonna walk in and
Speaker 1: be like I want to see this right never you
Speaker 1: play under an eighty yard wide screen every week, Like
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's different, but it's not different, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like it's a novelty act. It's
Speaker 1: that you're used to it. I really, I just think
Speaker 1: it's by the pregame warm ups, you're done with it,
Speaker 1: seen it, you think so, and it doesn't affect like
Speaker 1: how they Because I know a lot of players. You
Speaker 1: hear players saying like I know in certain stadiums It's
Speaker 1: easy because if the video boards in the end zone,
Speaker 1: I can look up if I'm running and see what's
Speaker 1: behind me. Obviously can't do that at and T Stadium,
Speaker 1: And I wonder if that's something like those kind of
Speaker 1: tactical things affect players sometimes, where at other stadiums it's
Speaker 1: much easier to be able to do those kinds of
Speaker 1: Zeke's longest run this year's thirty yards, So he's not
Speaker 1: really been breaking away looking up like that Admitte issue.
Speaker 1: I don't think Scandrick was trying to look forward at
Speaker 1: FedEx figuring out. I mean, yeah, well the only time
Speaker 1: Isaac Bruce is the one that I that I've seen
Speaker 1: do that way back in the ram. Did he do that?
Speaker 1: He did that the Seattle playoff game. Remember that, yep,
Speaker 1: I do remember it all happened. He thought he was
Speaker 1: just smiling because he was seeing himself in the screen
Speaker 1: and laughing. He's just like, look at me, number fourteen
Speaker 1: Miles Austin. Other than Scandrick's field goal return, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: haven't really had a play like that this year, haven't.
Speaker 1: They haven't really breaking away, haven't they haven't housed a
Speaker 1: long one. I wonder why. I wonder why they don't
Speaker 1: have that speed like to do that, Like why they
Speaker 1: haven't Just where are you going with this implier? I
Speaker 1: just think they should where he always goes with it.
Speaker 1: I think they should draft some speed next year. I've
Speaker 1: been going on this for like twelve years. What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do when they finally do that? Like, are
Speaker 1: you just gonna like have a party or like, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? No, the around the buildings, shaking
Speaker 1: everybody's hands, celebrating the ultimate twist of fate is that
Speaker 1: he's gonna get this guy and it's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those receivers who just can't catch anything. He's always open. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well there there's gonna be a reason why he's in
Speaker 1: the third round, right or second round? I mean, and
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that, especially if he's like a four
Speaker 1: three guy. Yeah, I'm okay with either he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a very small school guy or he's gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: he's just off the field. Doesn't Yeah, it doesn't. He
Speaker 1: doesn't catch really that you know that great? But you
Speaker 1: know he was in the Olympic trials last year. You know,
Speaker 1: he finished eighth up there in Oregon or whatever. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take our final break, will come back. Let's get
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break Welcome back. It's the final segment
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Speaker 1: at the Star will take in questions. Two one four
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Speaker 1: Break Amber will grab those. Start first with a phone
Speaker 1: call from Tim in New York. Tim, what up, Hi,
Speaker 1: guys him. I know that our defense looked a lot
Speaker 1: better this past game, of course, and I think you know,
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans are pretty excited about that. But I guess
Speaker 1: I'm still pretty concerned about the rundefense um, and especially
Speaker 1: not just with price going out. But I was concerned
Speaker 1: about that before, and I know that in Marinelli's scheme
Speaker 1: they don't put a lot of emphasis on drafting a
Speaker 1: one technique, a true one technique. I mean that the
Speaker 1: emphasis is really on the three tech. But um, my
Speaker 1: question is, do you think that it's time that he
Speaker 1: uh puts more value on that. I mean, I would
Speaker 1: think that if we could draft someone that'd cost maybe
Speaker 1: a third or something, but really a guy that can
Speaker 1: that is big, that can just eat up blocks they're
Speaker 1: in the middle, and then you know we can we
Speaker 1: can continue to use our better players at the three.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just seems like that maybe it's time
Speaker 1: to reconsider that that strategy. All right, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: I hear, I hear what he's saying. And you know,
Speaker 1: first of all, I think you want to put on
Speaker 1: your defensive line anyway, which you know we've talked about before.
Speaker 1: I think they've done. But I think he sort of
Speaker 1: contradicted himself and or answered his own question there in
Speaker 1: the sense that you just want your one technique to
Speaker 1: eat up blocks and eat up space, free up areas
Speaker 1: for your three tech and your weak side linebacker, and
Speaker 1: open things up for other guys to make plays. Right,
Speaker 1: why would you spend a first round pick on that?
Speaker 1: He didn't say first round. Well, you're you're right, he didn't. Okay,
Speaker 1: but that I guess that's and fine if you want
Speaker 1: to spend a third round pick on it. I'm totally
Speaker 1: on board with that. But I get why Rod doesn't
Speaker 1: put that premium on a guy whose job is to
Speaker 1: open things up for other people. I think you can
Speaker 1: find that obviously they did that with Joey Ivy and
Speaker 1: Jordan Carroll. Seventh round is probably too late for anybody
Speaker 1: that you're hoping to make a real impact. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I would absolutely be on board with drafting a defensive
Speaker 1: tackle in the third or fourth round. The one thing
Speaker 1: to say, though, is you can see the difference in
Speaker 1: teams that do have that big guy like you saw
Speaker 1: that defense and there were a couple other guys they
Speaker 1: signed last year, but Snacks Harrison made a difference. Excuse
Speaker 1: me in New York, Um and you you can go
Speaker 1: back to what was the guy's name in Green Bay
Speaker 1: that was there for so long. He was just a
Speaker 1: Gilbert Gilbert ground. He was just like a big, huge,
Speaker 1: sloppy dude that they sat there in the middle and
Speaker 1: you were not gonna move him, so you better run
Speaker 1: around him. Because was also you know, both benefited from
Speaker 1: from Wilford for many years and was his first or second.
Speaker 1: He was the first round thing he was. He was
Speaker 1: drafted one spot ahead of where the Cowboys were picking
Speaker 1: that year. But I don't think the interesting, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I don't think they were, and I think
Speaker 1: that they were going to trade that pick in. As
Speaker 1: valuable as it might be in a four to three,
Speaker 1: it's even more valuable in a three four absolutely, So yeah,
Speaker 1: um yeah, And you know I would in a perfect world,
Speaker 1: I would want my league Collins playing three. I get
Speaker 1: why he's playing one right now. Um, but yeah, if
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I wouldn't want to spend the first
Speaker 1: round pick on it just because I said because then
Speaker 1: or the position. I just think it's easier to find
Speaker 1: a guy who can play it well as opposed to
Speaker 1: you need to be using first round picks on freakish
Speaker 1: athletes like edge rushers, receivers, you know, guys like that.
Speaker 1: But you know, let's not make no mistake that Marinelli
Speaker 1: does not like that type of player so much because
Speaker 1: of athletically, he wants them to get up the field.
Speaker 1: He says that a lot, so I know why he
Speaker 1: doesn't like it, but I don't really agree with it.
Speaker 1: I agree with the caller. I mean, I think it
Speaker 1: is time to revisit that. I think I would I
Speaker 1: would go into the second or third round. You know,
Speaker 1: if you get a really big, strong guy like that,
Speaker 1: there's just like we talked about all the time about
Speaker 1: speed receivers, there's gonna be a reason why he's there,
Speaker 1: because if he's that big, that's strong, that dominant, he's
Speaker 1: gonna go in the first round. But there's a reason
Speaker 1: why he's in the second or third, whether he was
Speaker 1: you know, has weight issues, he doesn't have a great
Speaker 1: work ethic, he gets hurt a lot, he doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to play with that size, I mean, whatever it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one way, the one area where I do disagree
Speaker 1: with the caller is in the fact that, like it's
Speaker 1: always easy to say, well, you should have done this,
Speaker 1: you should who were you not going to draft last year?
Speaker 1: They had I think higher priorities last year that they
Speaker 1: went out to get, especially in the secondary. They spent
Speaker 1: quite a bit of their other resources in the secondary
Speaker 1: last year. And so I think you know where you're
Speaker 1: going to get rid of those first three picks last year,
Speaker 1: which one of those guys. Are you willing to give
Speaker 1: back in order to get a one technique? I think
Speaker 1: that it to me, it's better spent on cornerback. No,
Speaker 1: it's better spent on cornerback. It's better spent on a
Speaker 1: pass rusher. Those picks to me where this team is
Speaker 1: right now, those picks that were necessary way more than
Speaker 1: one techniue worth round. Where they got where they got
Speaker 1: my leak is like the perfect range where I'm starting
Speaker 1: to think about that sixty seven, which you know, I'm biased.
Speaker 1: He's an LSU guy. Brian talks about him all the
Speaker 1: time though, But Benny Logan was a guy, He's a
Speaker 1: one tech that they could have got. He was a
Speaker 1: third round pick. I don't remember exactly, but those types
Speaker 1: of guys are there and they can make it different.
Speaker 1: I mean Benny Logan when he was paired with Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cox in Philly, that was gross. Yeah, Kansas City actually yeah,
Speaker 1: which they obviously didn't play that well. They got him,
Speaker 1: they got him. Yeah, Well he's playing like nose in
Speaker 1: a three four. But you can find that type of
Speaker 1: talent and I'm totally on board with that. If that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's something to look at just I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to spend a top first round pick on that position.
Speaker 1: That's just me. All right. Let's take a question from Twitter. Well,
Speaker 1: yesterday we talked about the n NFC, but we didn't
Speaker 1: get to answer some questions. So here's one. Do you
Speaker 1: guys see the Cowboys leading the NFC East Division after
Speaker 1: December tenth game due to the Eagles schedule? Both teams
Speaker 1: would have nine four or who the Eagles have coming up?
Speaker 1: That's I mean, it didn't sound like the Eagles were
Speaker 1: really going to be in trouble. I know they don't.
Speaker 1: Mean I'm trying to think of who else they have left.
Speaker 1: The Eagles go bye week Dallas. I know they have
Speaker 1: a trip to Seattle in there somewhere. They actually they
Speaker 1: go back to back um West Coast. They're at Seattle
Speaker 1: and at the rams Umay that week. That's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that. I would if all three
Speaker 1: games that are losable, sure, yeah, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Seattle is right after the Cowboys game. I
Speaker 1: don't know what their Thanksgiving week game is. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, um, but yeah, I mean, you know, I
Speaker 1: get in that argument with Maniaco on our show Cover
Speaker 1: four all the time because he's a ridiculous Eagles homer,
Speaker 1: and you know he he basically is of the opinion
Speaker 1: that the division has been decided and the Cowboys, you know,
Speaker 1: need to be thinking about the wild card. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, that's that's probably the more likely scenario.
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are talented enough to hang onto
Speaker 1: the lead, but it's certainly not something that's already been decided.
Speaker 1: Especially week is big though it is because they're two
Speaker 1: and a half games behind them. They could be three
Speaker 1: if you lose, and that's that's huge. But if you're
Speaker 1: only two games, you win this game and you're just
Speaker 1: a you know, just a solid two games behind Philly
Speaker 1: with playing them twice, you know, I think that they're
Speaker 1: very catchable in that sense, but you got to win
Speaker 1: this game when they're off. I said, we talked about
Speaker 1: that and I'm sorry to plug it on Cover four yesterday.
Speaker 1: Just you know, what does this Chiefs win means? Statement
Speaker 1: win blah blah blah. I'm like, it doesn't mean anything
Speaker 1: if they don't beat Atlanta, because like this is your
Speaker 1: real opportunity to gain ground on Philly, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: you're two games back of them, and you get to
Speaker 1: play them. So if you win this game, then you're
Speaker 1: at least in position to be a game behind Philly
Speaker 1: heading into the really the home stretch of the season.
Speaker 1: If you don't beat Atlanta, then you're right back where
Speaker 1: you were where even if you beat them, you're still
Speaker 1: two games out after November nineteenth. So if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have legitimate aspirations of winning the East, I really think
Speaker 1: they have to beat Atlanta this week. Here there remaining
Speaker 1: here's the eagles remaining schedule. They got at Cowboys, then
Speaker 1: they play at home versus the Bears, then three road
Speaker 1: games in a row, two on the West Coast against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, the Rams, and then at the Giants. Then
Speaker 1: they're back home to play the Raiders, and finish the
Speaker 1: season at home against the Cowboys. Yeah. So four of
Speaker 1: those games are against teams winning records right now, and
Speaker 1: two of them that well, aside from the Cowboys the
Speaker 1: Rams game, in the Seahawks game, I mean the Seahawks
Speaker 1: live and Rams daily are talking about how that's key
Speaker 1: because that's going to help the side the West. So
Speaker 1: I mean they're they're having the same conversation that we
Speaker 1: are for a different division. So I'm sure they're gonna
Speaker 1: give the Eagles their best shot and at home. Just
Speaker 1: make up two names there, yes, Uh, what about hanging
Speaker 1: with the Seahawks, Hanging with the hanging the Hawks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta go with the allow Hanging with the Hawks.
Speaker 1: That's actually a good name. That doesn't make sense. It does.
Speaker 1: Hang with the Hawks. Yes, I mean, you know the
Speaker 1: Eagles are. The Eagles are eight and one right now.
Speaker 1: Even even if they go so twelve and four, they'd
Speaker 1: still what have to go five and three down the
Speaker 1: stretch or whatever. I don't think they did the mat there, right,
Speaker 1: but you get my point. I mean they could lose
Speaker 1: some games here. They could lose some games here and
Speaker 1: still finish with a really great record. I mean, if
Speaker 1: they lose out, they would go eight and eight. Still,
Speaker 1: So what do you think right now is realistic? With
Speaker 1: the Cowboys their final record find out after two o'clock tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's a great point. Just okay, give me with Zeke.
Speaker 1: With with Zeke, I think ten and six with Zeke, Yes,
Speaker 1: five and three again, you do five and three one
Speaker 1: more time. If Zeke is here for the whole rest
Speaker 1: of the season. You could talk me into eleven and
Speaker 1: five or twelve and four. To be totally honest, you
Speaker 1: could talk me into it. I'm not saying it would happen,
Speaker 1: not there yet, but I'm just good, but a good
Speaker 1: talking about they are rounding into form other than the Eagles,
Speaker 1: I'm not just complete. There's not a game left on
Speaker 1: the schedule, you know. I looked at the Chiefs all season, like, well,
Speaker 1: what are they gonna do against the chief Like, I
Speaker 1: don't see that game left. I mean, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they're gonna win them all, but there's just not a
Speaker 1: team left on the schedule that I just think they're
Speaker 1: definitively better. But maybe the Eagles, but that's a division game.
Speaker 1: But either way, Like, you also don't see that one
Speaker 1: Where're like, there's no way if the Cowboys do their job,
Speaker 1: there's no way they should lose that game. Argers, I
Speaker 1: don't really think so, no way. Great quarterback, great pass rush,
Speaker 1: Like this team doesn't play that great on Thanksgiving? It
Speaker 1: really don't. You don't, they really don't. I Mean, you
Speaker 1: can get a team, a veteran team, especially with a
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback that comes in a short week. That one
Speaker 1: scares me. Always thought that was a game that favored
Speaker 1: the Cowboys so much, and maybe not, maybe not. I
Speaker 1: really don't my experience here. They played mediocre against a
Speaker 1: bad Raider team. In twenty thirteen, they got owned by Philly.
Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, they got owned by Carolina. In twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: they played really well, this is our nineteenth, this will
Speaker 1: be our our nineteenth the Thanksgiving Day game. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: at eighteen, I really don't know this. At eighteen games,
Speaker 1: what do you think? What do you think the record is?
Speaker 1: You've been at eighteen all those giving out of out
Speaker 1: of eighteen games, I would guess they are. I bet
Speaker 1: it's twelve and six. I would say ten and eight,
Speaker 1: maybe nine and nine, but I'm gonna say ten and
Speaker 1: eighte We'll look it up. We'll look it up. Ten
Speaker 1: and six, eleven and five is my optimistic but realistic
Speaker 1: idea for how this thing's going to finish out. Not
Speaker 1: tell me without Zeke, No, I think either way, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I really did without Zeke. M you're so they're they're
Speaker 1: five and three right now? So I guess you? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: without Zeke, maybe you think they go three and five
Speaker 1: and finish eight and eight. But I don't Yeah, probably
Speaker 1: nine and seven. I'd say that they'll split them, go
Speaker 1: four and four'll go nine and seven. Amber, let's go
Speaker 1: back to the I don't know, I don't know. Um Again,
Speaker 1: this team is picking up, you know, they're starting to
Speaker 1: become more consistent. But I'm not just and I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be negative again. I'm just, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of let's see how it goes type of mood. What
Speaker 1: what's where? What world are we in? Where I'm the optimist?
Speaker 1: Like where I'm telling you right now. If the defense
Speaker 1: keeps getting sacks and turnovers the way they have been
Speaker 1: since the buy, and if the quarterback keeps playing like
Speaker 1: a badass and you keep the running back, I think
Speaker 1: the sky's the limit for him. Well, I'm saying even
Speaker 1: without them, if those three things are happening, if Dak's
Speaker 1: playing like a badass and the defense keeps doing what
Speaker 1: it's doing, Okay, I'm not saying it doesn't matter that
Speaker 1: Zeke's not there, but I'm saying they should be able
Speaker 1: to win more games than they lose. Yeah, that's basically
Speaker 1: all right. What happens if Tyron Smith is out that
Speaker 1: I think is an Zeke. Here's here's the So, how
Speaker 1: do you envision this team doing with two players like
Speaker 1: that out? If you're without Tyron Smith. I'm more concerned
Speaker 1: than being without Tyren Smith than I am being without Zeke.
Speaker 1: And I know that sounds crazy, but it's about It's
Speaker 1: about who's behind him. Not only that, but if Tyron
Speaker 1: has to miss multiple games, I'm not certain that I
Speaker 1: trust the fact that Chaz Green is gonna stay healthy.
Speaker 1: And then what do you do is now, Byron Bell
Speaker 1: your left tackle with a right tackle I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: is your left tackle and a right guard? By the way,
Speaker 1: That still I think relies on the fact that he
Speaker 1: has those guys beside him. I get really worried about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we've seen Chads Green step in for tiring, you know,
Speaker 1: and replace him and he's done okay. But again, handling
Speaker 1: all these games and I don't know how much he
Speaker 1: can play it, I don't know how much he would
Speaker 1: affect this team and how they would be able to
Speaker 1: handle that. So when we've seen how changes like that
Speaker 1: really affect the offensive line, it's a troubling prospect, to
Speaker 1: be sure. But you make do. The fact that you
Speaker 1: have a mobile quarterback probably helps with that. Does I
Speaker 1: mean that can do a lot of stuff on the move,
Speaker 1: move the pocket. It would help if you had Zeke too. Right,
Speaker 1: so you lose both and now I think that's the
Speaker 1: part you really worry about. And that's to be honest
Speaker 1: with This's not so much in my opinion about how
Speaker 1: bad Chaz Green or Byron Bill are. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're horrible players. I just think, now when you start
Speaker 1: changing now two pieces on the left side of the
Speaker 1: offensive line, this offensive line is just now starting jail
Speaker 1: and now you're gonna change that up at the most
Speaker 1: important position on that That's what I'm saying. I don't
Speaker 1: know how they would react to that. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sound like Eatman a little bit right here, But honestly,
Speaker 1: I have my doubts. I have my doubts Tyrant's gonna
Speaker 1: play in this game, just based on the injury and
Speaker 1: the time turnaround and all that. But I'll believe he's
Speaker 1: gonna miss a substantial chunk of time when I see it,
Speaker 1: Like he is an iron man, He's like a team
Speaker 1: first dude. He's the ultimate just shut up and let
Speaker 1: me get through a guy even I mean even going
Speaker 1: to his his contract is more team friendly than it
Speaker 1: should be. Just two games matters right now because you
Speaker 1: got at Land in Philly. Of course, because of where
Speaker 1: you're locating your schedule. Of course it matters. But well,
Speaker 1: I'll believe he's not playing against Philly when I see it.
Speaker 1: I'm we're projecting, right, But I mean that'll be that'll
Speaker 1: be two weeks out from when he heard it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, that's the one more injury added to
Speaker 1: that big body. Of course. Oh, it's it's terrible. It's
Speaker 1: terrible in the long run. I told him that in
Speaker 1: the locker room on Sunday and I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: you're getting old like these things just like stold By.
Speaker 1: He said, wow, thanks, Like did he grab you and
Speaker 1: kind of pick you up by your neck? Oh he's
Speaker 1: too nice for dude, you're getting old. Yeah. He was like,
Speaker 1: come on now, and I was like, you're ancient by
Speaker 1: NFL standards, like you've been doing this for Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: while the man's down, Like seriously, he wasn't. But that's
Speaker 1: like he's his down is not like it's not like
Speaker 1: he's in a wheelchair, like, oh, but he's hurt. Like
Speaker 1: on top of that, nowadays heaping on him that he's
Speaker 1: old and washed up and ready to retire. All of this.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. All of this stuff. It's it's
Speaker 1: troubling in the long term, and it's stuff that he
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are gonna have to figure out when
Speaker 1: the season's over. But I just like he's gonna find
Speaker 1: a way to grin and then get through the season
Speaker 1: even if he misses this week. Like, I'm not envisioning
Speaker 1: a world where they don't have Tyrn Smith, for he
Speaker 1: is a tough dude, substantial chunk of time. So that
Speaker 1: helps the fact that he's a tough guy and he's
Speaker 1: played through injuries before. So, um, let's get a phone
Speaker 1: call from Michael and Tennessee. Michael, what up? Hey you guys,
Speaker 1: how you guys doing good? Are you pretty good? Um?
Speaker 1: This is a question for Nick. Um. I listen to
Speaker 1: the show all the time. I've been meaning the call.
Speaker 1: But last Friday, you had a crazy prediction that the
Speaker 1: game would be decided by a pick or it would
Speaker 1: be a huge play in the game, and you didn't
Speaker 1: talk about it at all. They don't they don't like
Speaker 1: to bring that stuff up. Actually kind of forgot about it.
Speaker 1: I said that there. I think I said there would
Speaker 1: be late in the game, would be a pick. I
Speaker 1: didn't say it was Jeff Heath. But yeah, well it happens.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you sat next to me at the game,
Speaker 1: you'll see that I make a lot of predictions, and
Speaker 1: I'm not always right that he makes a ton of
Speaker 1: him what he's got one almost every other allies all credit,
Speaker 1: all credit in the world. Because Nick hits on a
Speaker 1: lot of predictions. He really does, but a lot out there.
Speaker 1: I thought he predicts something before every player, like and
Speaker 1: he's the Kobe Bryant, like he's gonna jack up a
Speaker 1: lot of shot every he's gonna hit almost every like
Speaker 1: I can because I sit two guys over right, got
Speaker 1: every play, but knowing if that's every play, that's not
Speaker 1: every play, but you you throw them out there a
Speaker 1: lot like, yeah, at least you'll throw one out there.
Speaker 1: I get real mad at myself when I don't say
Speaker 1: it and it happens it and then you do the
Speaker 1: makeup when and I was just about I want to
Speaker 1: hear that, right. It's kind of like Romo, you know,
Speaker 1: just like better watch the motion here and like this
Speaker 1: is going to turn and do that just it's okay.
Speaker 1: But but but I'll say this, the drive right before
Speaker 1: the half, the Cowboys had third and fifteen. Draw draw
Speaker 1: this stupid why are they throwing? We throw on desk
Speaker 1: for twenty two like okay, okay, whatever, And then then
Speaker 1: there's Dak rolling around like Dak and running there it
Speaker 1: is he's open running okay, well, and then then they
Speaker 1: score it and like, well, I don't know anything. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what you say. You're like, I don't know anything.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything. I just missed all that up.
Speaker 1: So thank you for remembering that. And people on Twitter
Speaker 1: said that, but I you know, it's a little hollow
Speaker 1: because I do make a lot of predictions, and I'm
Speaker 1: I don't even think I'm fifty percent. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's fifty percent. But yeah, just do follow
Speaker 1: up on a question y'all had earlier about Thanksgiving. I
Speaker 1: calculated as their seven and ten in the past seventeen
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving games seven and ten. Yeah boo, yeah, wow. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize they've been that bad. I'm Thanksgiving. They've been
Speaker 1: good recently, but they had they were not good in
Speaker 1: that now of course during those five and eleven years,
Speaker 1: they were just a bad team, right, yeah, that hurt them.
Speaker 1: They put themselves in quite a hole. Oh well, no,
Speaker 1: it doesn't count when you no what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: in those three years though, in the two thousand, thousand,
Speaker 1: one thousand and two, I think they were one and
Speaker 1: two in those two yea three years, so they lost
Speaker 1: a bunch in a row. Um from two thousand and
Speaker 1: five until two thousand, Ron Dane, Yeah, maybe that's what
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about ZA period when they were kind of
Speaker 1: reeling them off. One oh six, oh seven, O eight
Speaker 1: oh nine they lost they one oh nine, they lost ten.
Speaker 1: They didn't win in twenty ten, remember that one? Yeah? Thanks,
Speaker 1: that was thanks um. That was the the Roy Williams
Speaker 1: fumble game. Yeah yeah, they should have won that game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they should have it. That was one of them game miraculous,
Speaker 1: you know, like everybody in my living room and like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess Saints they're gonna lose. And then there you go, Nope,
Speaker 1: yeah you weren't working. You weren't working again. I was like,
Speaker 1: I wasn't even out of college yet. I am like
Speaker 1: I'll tell you all the time, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like I can't tell you yesterday what was happening at
Speaker 1: three o'clock? Like I'm I'm horrible at you. We're having
Speaker 1: a meeting at three o'clock. Yeah, was a good one.
Speaker 1: Did I have something enlightening? You have a meeting at
Speaker 1: three o'clock? Put another show out there on it. I
Speaker 1: did create a new show, So stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, appreciate you joining us. We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Until then, for Nick, even Dave Helmet, Amber Garcia, I'm
Speaker 1: Derek Eelton. This has been The Break live on Dallas
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