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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number forty six. Welcome
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Speaker 1: and today we get you guys ready to Cowboys Versus
Speaker 1: Rams that happens this Sunday. I think it's a three
Speaker 1: twenty five off, but we're gonna get you guys ready.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about all the different storylines we think
Speaker 1: will be a part of this game, and by the
Speaker 1: end of the show we'll get some predictions. We'll nail
Speaker 1: these guys down on what they think will happen. Ultimately
Speaker 1: on Sunday, when the Cowboys hit to Los Angeles. So
Speaker 1: let's start first, let's get some updates on a couple
Speaker 1: of injuries that could be relevant for this weekend. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb pops up on the injury report. I know it.
Speaker 1: It's certainly caught my attention. What are we hearing at
Speaker 1: this point about about him and him being on the
Speaker 1: injury But it doesn't sound like it's it's too serious.
Speaker 1: I think that CD as are still expected to play
Speaker 1: in this game. You know, they have to be do
Speaker 1: their due diligence and put that on there when things
Speaker 1: like that pop up. So he didn't sound concerned yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm m incarthy today and his press conference didn't seem
Speaker 1: like it. I just don't think it's going to be
Speaker 1: that big. I think CD will play. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: the impression they were this team is really big, and
Speaker 1: CD talked about this as lock of the GPS numbers
Speaker 1: and so he was ready to practice, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of like somebody forgot to remind Mike that his GPS
Speaker 1: numbers were high, and so they went and got him.
Speaker 1: He was getting ready to go, and then they moved
Speaker 1: him over with Britt Brown and on the chords and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Just to give him a little bit
Speaker 1: of arrest. But everything I'm hearing it's not a serious
Speaker 1: injury at all, especially him standing in front of the
Speaker 1: media yesterday. I mean, that was kind of weird. You know,
Speaker 1: he stands there and like nothing happened. Obviously not that
Speaker 1: he's gonna come out and say, hey, guys, I didn't
Speaker 1: practice today because of this injury. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of odd the way went down and
Speaker 1: then moments later you find out through the report that
Speaker 1: he was out with a groin injury. But it doesn't
Speaker 1: sound very serious. Yeah, let's go on to Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 1: who had missed practice earlier in the week. Yesterday only limited,
Speaker 1: So it sounds like maybe they got a little bit
Speaker 1: more out of him yesterday. Who knows. But what are
Speaker 1: you guys hearing about Jordan trending the right way on
Speaker 1: that one too? That one I know that was that
Speaker 1: wasn't a serious pregame. They just did it really a
Speaker 1: precautionary They were worried about him. Uh, you know that
Speaker 1: maybe there is something that could have got worse. And
Speaker 1: when I asked yesterday about it, it was like, no,
Speaker 1: he's he's gonna he'll be ready, because I was concerned
Speaker 1: when we were talking on one O five three the
Speaker 1: fan kind of breaking down the rams. I was worried
Speaker 1: about how they were going to maybe match Cooper cup
Speaker 1: when Cooper goes in the slot. Are you going to
Speaker 1: have to move Brown? Are you going to use Bland?
Speaker 1: But then I said, heck, just reach out to see
Speaker 1: what's happening there. It sounds like to me that he'll
Speaker 1: be good to go for you this week. Take ferguson
Speaker 1: what are we hearing about him? Uh, honestly, I think
Speaker 1: I think the same type of thing. I don't remember
Speaker 1: him saying anything specific about that. I missed some of
Speaker 1: the McCarthy email. I said that earlier on, but I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: MRI I was clean on that, and so with it
Speaker 1: being clean, he was trending the right way. He went
Speaker 1: from not practicing too limited and that they're expecting him
Speaker 1: to play this weekend. Yeah, because then then they have
Speaker 1: McEwan back on the practice squad. They could call him
Speaker 1: back up if they needed to. Um, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see this week because if they may not
Speaker 1: use both those call ups, they don't they will with
Speaker 1: a deep snapper of course, but you know, to do
Speaker 1: that you have to have eight linemen active. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that they will. So there's there's a couple of
Speaker 1: things involved there. Something to keep an eye on. Two
Speaker 1: is that Overton was the primary snapper. Yesterday, Maher missed
Speaker 1: three field goals when he was the snapper. So let's
Speaker 1: see what happens with mechanics. Uh. You know, as a
Speaker 1: former long snapper myself, it starts with the snap, the
Speaker 1: hole to kick, all those things. So maybe it's just
Speaker 1: a little bit more about getting comfortable with with Overton.
Speaker 1: He's a ten year vet. He's been in a bunch
Speaker 1: of situations. You know, is the ball they having to
Speaker 1: spin the laces more? You know, most of these deep
Speaker 1: snappers are so good they could get the rotation to
Speaker 1: where you just catching and put it down and kick
Speaker 1: the ball. So is there a little bit of hesitation.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's something that they're going to come out
Speaker 1: here and work on on the field quite a bit
Speaker 1: before you guys can playing for Los Angeles. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the part I'm I am. That's part I'm most worried
Speaker 1: about because the kicker has been really good so far,
Speaker 1: and I don't I just don't like the fact that
Speaker 1: I know they have to. They don't. It's like they
Speaker 1: got a choice. But but I don't love the idea
Speaker 1: of having to change the operation because any little thing
Speaker 1: for a kicker, sure it's dead. Yeah, I could get
Speaker 1: in his head and then you got your kicker all off, whack,
Speaker 1: and it's we've seen these kickers. They can go from
Speaker 1: great to nothing absolutely a you know, split second. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they haven't had and you you haven't had a lot
Speaker 1: of deep snappers around here. I mean really, you can
Speaker 1: go back and you know, last I don't know, thirty years,
Speaker 1: just probably only maybe a handful, you know, just because
Speaker 1: they did it for so long. LP were forever hell
Speaker 1: astray and LP. Yeah, yeah, I probably went it's probably
Speaker 1: longer than that if you're only gonna say like five
Speaker 1: or six, you know, Jeff Robinson for a couple of
Speaker 1: years and then and then they did condo for three
Speaker 1: games and then went help I mean, LP and LP
Speaker 1: all the way until McQuaid. So just not a lot
Speaker 1: of turn over there. Ye all right, real quick, Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 1: what do we know about him? I got the impression
Speaker 1: and his was more just GPS numbers as well. He's
Speaker 1: beat up a little bit. They're trying to give him
Speaker 1: a little bit of a break good. Well, and that's natural.
Speaker 1: I mean the way he plays and he plays like
Speaker 1: you know, he gets in a car wreck forty times
Speaker 1: a game. I mean, that's just the way he plays.
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean I gros to him for
Speaker 1: not getting himself fined a lot because that that that position,
Speaker 1: that's what happens. You know. I remember Roy Williams saying
Speaker 1: I would play for free if I was playing today,
Speaker 1: because I would be getting fined every time, you know,
Speaker 1: because he's not going to change the way he plays.
Speaker 1: And you know, that's what happens. But Donovan's if it
Speaker 1: found a good way to be aggressive, but not to
Speaker 1: the point where it's it's overly aggressive. Now, all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's move on. I got some questions for you guys.
Speaker 1: I got a few questions. Well, also get to some
Speaker 1: fan questions. We got quite a few from Twitter, and
Speaker 1: we'll take some phone calls if you guys want to
Speaker 1: call us. The numbers eight eight eight eight five five
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Speaker 1: five two two nine seven. Let's start with this question,
Speaker 1: which defensive player other than Aaron Donald are you most
Speaker 1: concerned about in this matchup? I'll give you a few options.
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner, Jalen Ramsey, Leonard Floyd. You You're free to
Speaker 1: throw in another name if there's someone else. I think
Speaker 1: anytime you're dealing with arguably the best player at his position,
Speaker 1: and Jalen Ramsey, I mean, because Ramsey has a bill lead,
Speaker 1: he's probably better than your number one, I think, and
Speaker 1: so he's better than most number one receivers. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I think that's a that's a tough one
Speaker 1: when your Cowboys are trying to figure out if CD
Speaker 1: is the number one and all this stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: if he if he takes out Ceedee Lamb, that could
Speaker 1: be a problem. I think Ramsey's the issue there, but
Speaker 1: I would say for me, it is Bobby wigner Um.
Speaker 1: Especially after last game. Do you see how how angry
Speaker 1: and like forget the play of the not tackle, but
Speaker 1: just Zeke's faster than that guy, I think with yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah yeah. But the point is you could
Speaker 1: see just how much frustration there was from their defensive side.
Speaker 1: So a guy like Bobby Wagner, the talent that he
Speaker 1: has and when you speak about the running game and
Speaker 1: maybe the Cowboys having to find some balance there and
Speaker 1: kind of commit to the run for them, not just
Speaker 1: to you know. When I didn't get to answer this yesterday,
Speaker 1: I forgot what we were talking about specifically, but it
Speaker 1: was between like the passing game and like the running
Speaker 1: game and all that, and I thought it was about
Speaker 1: committing to the running game. I was thinking about this
Speaker 1: while you were while you guys were speaking, I'm like,
Speaker 1: more so than just committing, because to me, it's more
Speaker 1: of if it doesn't work, then why keep pushing or
Speaker 1: like why keep what's the way I'm looking for? Force it?
Speaker 1: Why force it? But at the same time, you do
Speaker 1: have to give your defense a break, and the way
Speaker 1: to do that is through the running game. But anyway,
Speaker 1: your question was the player, and I'm concerned more about
Speaker 1: that aspect of things. A linebacker kind of attacking the
Speaker 1: running game, I mean that way and kind of put
Speaker 1: in a stuff to those two guys, Zeke or Polar.
Speaker 1: So a guy like him, he's he's someone to look
Speaker 1: forward like it. Next question, you agree, she hit it,
Speaker 1: she hit it perfectly, and she now you know this stuff.
Speaker 1: He also can rush the passer a couple of sacks
Speaker 1: there too. You don't need him if you're going to
Speaker 1: be committed to the run or try to have balance.
Speaker 1: You know, Nick knicks right too. And I'm not just
Speaker 1: saying him, you know, but because that's how good they are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Because what's gonna happen is they're gonna move Ramsey all
Speaker 1: over the field, and so you gotta worry about him
Speaker 1: on both sides, and you gotta worry about him in
Speaker 1: the slot so he can take away whoever you want to.
Speaker 1: It's not going to just be about one guy, but Wagner.
Speaker 1: If you are committed or you're forced to try and
Speaker 1: help your defense by running the football, it's going to
Speaker 1: be on Bobby Wagner. Ernest Jones is another one that's
Speaker 1: a linebacker. That makes place for them as well, but
Speaker 1: Wagner's the I think the lynchpen for what they do
Speaker 1: on defense. All right, let's flip it to the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball. The offensive player other than Cooper
Speaker 1: cup who you're most concern learned about. I'll give you
Speaker 1: a couple names, Tyler Higbee and O'Brien. That's a favorite
Speaker 1: for you. Cam Acres running back Alan Robinson the wide
Speaker 1: receiver has not gotten going yet but could get going.
Speaker 1: Maybe which one are you most concerned about having a
Speaker 1: big game? Nobody, I am not other than Cooper Cup No,
Speaker 1: I'm I generally I get it. And Brian, you've talked
Speaker 1: about the running backs for example, how these guys are talented,
Speaker 1: and they are and the running game just hasn't kind
Speaker 1: of kept like too caught for them taking off just yet.
Speaker 1: But literally, I don't feel any kind of and I
Speaker 1: don't want to say this, but I don't feel any
Speaker 1: kind of concern or worry against our defense. I truly
Speaker 1: feel that our defense is gonna be able to handle
Speaker 1: these guys completely and just keep doing what they've been
Speaker 1: doing week after weeks. So there's literally no guy that
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about right now. Yeah, I mean the fact
Speaker 1: that Stafford is not that like like running around like
Speaker 1: that's the one thing that can really hurt this this defense.
Speaker 1: And I think Jalen Hurts will be a you know,
Speaker 1: a huge issue against them because of how aggressive they
Speaker 1: are and that quarterback can just take off. You don't
Speaker 1: see that at a Stafford, So I see your point.
Speaker 1: Look to me, I look at a guy like I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I can pronounce his name, but
Speaker 1: like Scronic, yeah, you know, he does a lot of
Speaker 1: little things. A fullback tight in Sometimes when you get
Speaker 1: all these other things figured out, it's it's guys like
Speaker 1: that that extends a drive on third and eight because
Speaker 1: these are so versatile. He reminds me a little bit
Speaker 1: of a poor man's as u juror check or from
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers use Check. You know, guys like
Speaker 1: that that that kind of figures out a way to
Speaker 1: do something. So I look at look at a guy
Speaker 1: like Scornic that can kind of make some plays. My
Speaker 1: fear is the quarterback. That's my fear. And I maybe
Speaker 1: all of a sudden because we've seen him when he've
Speaker 1: and it was that Detroit, have days where he would
Speaker 1: light the Cowboys up. And his record against them is
Speaker 1: not great. But you look at the numbers that he's
Speaker 1: he's had. I can say he had a day where
Speaker 1: he was like eighty percent passing against the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: end up losing the game. It's funny, Like I said,
Speaker 1: he's he's had games. I will never forget that one
Speaker 1: we were in Detroit and he threw for four hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty eight yards, you know, and it was like
Speaker 1: it was they got the holding penalty on Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: that they were trying to run the clock out, and
Speaker 1: they that was the Megatron game, you know, and you
Speaker 1: just have fear. Maybe that's not what that guy is.
Speaker 1: A barbecue game. It was a barbecue game, you Derek
Speaker 1: was gonna give us. I'm gonna pay what we're gonna do,
Speaker 1: but give us a hard eight Yeah. Well I just
Speaker 1: said barbecue. I don't know. I don't know what our sponsors.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that, but that's me. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But we were to get barbecue. We
Speaker 1: were gonna win the game. And it was like and
Speaker 1: he was like, right, Bryan, yeah, where we're going on Monday?
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, they just give up
Speaker 1: ten points a minute and a half. I think that
Speaker 1: he's I still think he's. I think he's hurt. But
Speaker 1: I do worry. I do worry about him. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Oh, the running game they find that, Oh wait,
Speaker 1: the screen game's working a little bit. Oh wait a minute,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, Yeah he's they're not really covering him all that. Well,
Speaker 1: I just worry about him making play after playing maybe
Speaker 1: not turning over the ball. That would be the thing
Speaker 1: I would be worried about in this game. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: I look at Cam Akers and the reason why I
Speaker 1: put him on the list is because I think he's
Speaker 1: a talented running back and I think that what I've
Speaker 1: seen so far this year Cowboys defense, that to me,
Speaker 1: has been one of their struggles. It just has it
Speaker 1: killed him. The issue in this game, though, is when
Speaker 1: you combine a short passing game which they have with
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup with an effective running game. If they can
Speaker 1: do what all these other teams have been able to
Speaker 1: do against the Cowboys, now you do have a recipe
Speaker 1: for some disaster. Because if they can put together three
Speaker 1: of those kinds of drives where they can go twelve plays,
Speaker 1: take a ton of time, and actually end up in
Speaker 1: the end zone, that can become a problem. And I
Speaker 1: we've seen this happen throughout these games, even when the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have won. When that when a team cannot kill
Speaker 1: themselves and they have a good short, quick offensive game
Speaker 1: plan like get the ball out, quick, get the ball out, quick,
Speaker 1: run the ball, run the ball, you can that's a
Speaker 1: way to beat this defense. And that's the one thing
Speaker 1: that worries me the most about this game is if
Speaker 1: they run the ball, they have the passing game to
Speaker 1: back it up and to compliment it in order to
Speaker 1: get them a win this weekend. Well they might, and
Speaker 1: even if the running game is a disaster, they'll still
Speaker 1: throw the ball in bunch formations to Cup or Higbee
Speaker 1: or one of those guys Robinson. They're going to find
Speaker 1: a way to manipulate offense if you take something away,
Speaker 1: you know, But I'm willing to live with it. If
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup's gonna catch fourteen balls and they're only gonna
Speaker 1: get nine points, I'll take that right now. If somebody
Speaker 1: would walk in the door and say, hey, Cooper Cup's
Speaker 1: gonna have fourteen but you're only gonna score nine points,
Speaker 1: sign me up, because you win that game. That's how
Speaker 1: you win in that game, right there. Yeah, this game
Speaker 1: is gonna come down to catch and tackle, catch, tackle,
Speaker 1: and it whether it's screens or or passes over the middle, whatever,
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee, Cooper Cup, Robinson, catch tackle. Don't let them
Speaker 1: have those chunk plays on this on this offense, on
Speaker 1: these offensive drives. But if the running game gives you
Speaker 1: those plays combined with them having those short passes that
Speaker 1: even if you catch they catching you tackle them, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a problem. That's gonna be a problem. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be Kevin third and long. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's time to change. That's the key. But but it's
Speaker 1: like you said, uh, figuring out how to manipulate some offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen McVeigh really good with those reverses.
Speaker 1: You know, my candy stays he's really good at that
Speaker 1: and stuff that I think the Cowboys should do a
Speaker 1: lot more with with Turpin Um give it to him
Speaker 1: once on a reverse, but fake it to him three times.
Speaker 1: Get get linebacker's eyes always moving this way. Well the
Speaker 1: next point. That's what the you know the commanders were
Speaker 1: able to do last week. You know when when you
Speaker 1: start talking about fooling Vanderesh and Bar and keeping them
Speaker 1: from getting over and making tackles, it's that movement, you
Speaker 1: know that those guys like they see it and they
Speaker 1: react and all you need is that one step and
Speaker 1: it gets them out the door the other way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe my memory is not working too well,
Speaker 1: but I feel like and going back to going shut up,
Speaker 1: going back to rams offense, versus Cowboys defense. Every time
Speaker 1: we have this conversation week after week on here about
Speaker 1: like guys that we're looking out for and things like that,
Speaker 1: has any one of those names that we've mentioned every
Speaker 1: week actually been a problem for the Cowboys, Like, I
Speaker 1: just feel like they haven't been every time we get
Speaker 1: to the game. Yeah, on paper and talent wise, but
Speaker 1: then we get to the game they play and those people,
Speaker 1: those players have not really been a problem for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense. Oh yeah, when yeah, when you're talking about
Speaker 1: the defense, I say Cowboys defense versus yeah opponents, Mike Evans, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Mr Chase Barkley, Yeah, they had a pretty did have
Speaker 1: a Yeah. And if you want to put the aggregate
Speaker 1: of those running backs for Washington, they gave the Cowboys
Speaker 1: some problems at the times. The problem just became like
Speaker 1: at some point they had to abandon it in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. But but a lot of that was even
Speaker 1: though they were running the ball well, they just couldn't
Speaker 1: sustain the drive. That was the problem. It wasn't they
Speaker 1: couldn't run the ball, they just couldn't sustain drives because
Speaker 1: they had too many penalties and the defense still managed
Speaker 1: to be success by that's my point, like, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just because of the penalties. So that's my point.
Speaker 1: If if LA can be a more disciplined team and
Speaker 1: they run like these other teams have run, that could
Speaker 1: be a problem. Brian said it though earlier this week too.
Speaker 1: Is it's not just it's not just getting lucky that
Speaker 1: teams are not discipline, it's it's they can't block you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're holding you, you know, and and that that's
Speaker 1: what happened in the on the flip side with all
Speaker 1: those pis. I mean they weren't just phantom calls. I
Speaker 1: mean they were getting mugged when they ran routes and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Mug Yeah, all right're gonna take our
Speaker 1: first break, going to come back. Let's get some questions.
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Speaker 1: The one thing we can never say about you, Brian
Speaker 1: is you don't tell us what you really think. And
Speaker 1: I you know what, and but you have to be fair.
Speaker 1: You have to be fair about it. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's I've been two places he's been, people that know
Speaker 1: and people that work, and so you know what I did.
Speaker 1: I'm very very critical of the man. I think that
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott injury. I'll say this first off, and I
Speaker 1: said this morning on my podcast Love with the Start,
Speaker 1: I said this that I think Mike McCarthy's learning what
Speaker 1: it takes to be the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I don't think Mike McCarthy really understood all the things
Speaker 1: that you have to deal with when you're the head
Speaker 1: coach of the Dallas Cowboys ownership, you know, the front office,
Speaker 1: you know, the media, everything, the fan base. I don't
Speaker 1: think he really understood. I think he realizes it now.
Speaker 1: I think he's trying to be helpful as he can
Speaker 1: to the media. I think he's trying to be you know,
Speaker 1: he's working with his team, I think in the right way.
Speaker 1: I think he's taking his coaches and working with him.
Speaker 1: I think he finally, you know, as Kellen Moore was
Speaker 1: growing in the job, I think Mike McCarthy was growing
Speaker 1: in this job with the Cowboys, and I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of positive things about him. It's good to
Speaker 1: see him take ownership with what's going on in that field.
Speaker 1: Fourth down and two, go for it, Go for Kellen,
Speaker 1: Have two players ready, we're going forward again. Here, Get ready,
Speaker 1: go go, you know, be ready. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: thing I want my coach to be. I want my coach.
Speaker 1: I don't want my coach just to stand up there,
Speaker 1: and you know, you know, I want my coach involved,
Speaker 1: you know, I want him. I want him making sure
Speaker 1: that the coordinator does his job. Dan Quinn does his job.
Speaker 1: Bones Fossil, We're not gonna fake this punt. Just get
Speaker 1: ready to block this thing up. Okay, we're gonna punt this,
Speaker 1: We're play defense. We're gonna get the ball back. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing I think we're getting from
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. Now, I did called him lazy, non committed,
Speaker 1: all those things. He's been a much better job for
Speaker 1: your football team right now. Yeah, he um. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, when you just look at how this season
Speaker 1: has gone and look at the first time, I mean
Speaker 1: any anytime him. You go six and ten to start
Speaker 1: and then twelve and five and in a playoff spot
Speaker 1: most teams get are looking at an extension for their
Speaker 1: coach at that point, and he had to answer questions
Speaker 1: about getting fired. Yeah, that's that's what you're saying. Learning
Speaker 1: the you know, like reading the room and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But but I think it goes back to also training
Speaker 1: camp in the preseason as well. I think that you know,
Speaker 1: you got to give them credit for how they do
Speaker 1: things here that they got their backups ready to play
Speaker 1: and they were able to have I mean, you're like, well,
Speaker 1: Dack's not gonna play, and these guys aren't gonna play,
Speaker 1: and and Don Wilson's gonna have to play a lot
Speaker 1: because they ain't gonna play. Curson on that and guess what,
Speaker 1: these guys were ready. And I think it's like eleven
Speaker 1: or twelve years in a row that they have not
Speaker 1: had a losing September. So whatever they're doing, their team
Speaker 1: is somewhat ready to play where they don't have losing
Speaker 1: record in September. They have a winning record if not,
Speaker 1: you know, five hundred. But it's working and I thought
Speaker 1: it worked a lot this year because they're backups that
Speaker 1: they needed to play. We're ready. Well, we did a
Speaker 1: show the other day where we raided the backups. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ais and beast, Ais and Beast. Yeah. Give the coach
Speaker 1: and a for what he's done so far in the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, because nobody, I mean, I said it the
Speaker 1: other day fifteen sixteen tweets after that Tampa game, Brian wins,
Speaker 1: Derek and fire up the draft show. You know, no, no,
Speaker 1: can't do that yet, can't do that you know, coaches,
Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't put his head in the sand
Speaker 1: and say, oh poor me, I don't have DAK. They're
Speaker 1: going out there and continuing to win games. You have
Speaker 1: to give him credit for that. You mentioned Nick, you
Speaker 1: mentioned the training camp, but I remember very vividly when
Speaker 1: you know, you get the whole media, everybody's sitting there
Speaker 1: and you got Stephen Jones, you got Jerry Jones there,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, and people are asking him, asking Jerry about
Speaker 1: his job, like, Mikey McCarthy, like, you're doing that in
Speaker 1: such a public environment with cameras in front of you,
Speaker 1: your boss is next to you. You're asking about my
Speaker 1: job while I'm sitting here, like you feel that pressure
Speaker 1: And after everything that he had to listen to throughout
Speaker 1: the offseason, either like crumble or you figure out a
Speaker 1: way to start making changes and succeed. And I think
Speaker 1: that maybe's and we don't know much of this, it's
Speaker 1: just the very few things that we hear, but maybe
Speaker 1: his involvement with Kellen Moore at the play call and
Speaker 1: then helping him out, those are the differences that we've seen.
Speaker 1: But he knows even last year how bad like his
Speaker 1: chair was on fire, and he knows that you got
Speaker 1: a guy sitting out there not coaching anybody right now
Speaker 1: that could be here. You got a guy that's actually
Speaker 1: here coaching your defense that could take your job as well.
Speaker 1: So again, I think he's he's done a really good
Speaker 1: job handling the whole situation and the way that you know,
Speaker 1: offense is not perfect and all that and the things.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not a perfect team right now, but
Speaker 1: he's making it work and that's all he can do
Speaker 1: right now. But he's handled I think, given all the scenarios,
Speaker 1: he's handled it very very well. Yeah, and the fact
Speaker 1: he is working here in Dallas, the pressure is only
Speaker 1: going to go up because quite frankly, Nick, you mentioned
Speaker 1: they always start off September. They've did ten eleven years.
Speaker 1: They're always win in September. That's not what fans, media
Speaker 1: and maybe even Jerry care about at some point, to
Speaker 1: some degree, it's like, what's gonna be happening in December,
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen in January? Those are gonna because he
Speaker 1: had a great they had a great season last year.
Speaker 1: By all accounts, they had a great season last year.
Speaker 1: It didn't end well and That's why I wasn't and
Speaker 1: I wasn't saying that, what do we get a training
Speaker 1: camp and we're talking about how they're doing things and
Speaker 1: how they do the preseason, that you can't blame it
Speaker 1: off that on what they're what they're doing right, And
Speaker 1: and the point I was making it just more so
Speaker 1: about the fact that despite all of that, and I
Speaker 1: think we all have glowing reports of him right now,
Speaker 1: the pressure is only gonna go up because when you
Speaker 1: get to November and December and January, the pressure is
Speaker 1: gonna go up because expectations are gonna go, well, well,
Speaker 1: I see and two and hopefully things will be better
Speaker 1: than what we saw in week one with Dak when
Speaker 1: he gets back. You know that they've they've kind of
Speaker 1: figured out maybe McCarthy had to step in after week
Speaker 1: one and take more ownership of the offense, you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe now it's like, okay, listen, this is what
Speaker 1: we've been successful at. We've been playing with backup guys
Speaker 1: at receiver, offensive line, all that. We're kind of ready.
Speaker 1: Now let's see if we can open some things up
Speaker 1: with Dak here and I that's you're right, the tail
Speaker 1: of the table will be the second half. But I
Speaker 1: do believe you have to be fair. Me personally, I've
Speaker 1: been super super critical of the man, and at least
Speaker 1: you know he is. He's done a lot better job
Speaker 1: this year through four weeks, five weeks with this football
Speaker 1: team than I've seen in the past. Frankly, I love
Speaker 1: what they're doing. And I don't know how much it
Speaker 1: is a difference in what Michael was doing before or not.
Speaker 1: I mean, he might be the same thing he's been doing.
Speaker 1: The fact is the results say that they're doing the
Speaker 1: right things. Because when you're winning the backup quarterback at
Speaker 1: this pace three games in a row, that matters in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Yeah, and they've had some success with backup
Speaker 1: quarterbacks since he's been during I mean, obviously when Dak
Speaker 1: went down, you know, it didn't go well after that.
Speaker 1: But I mean, like you know, benden Ouchi, they played
Speaker 1: with him, They had a chance to win up in Philly.
Speaker 1: I mean Garrett Gilbert play you know against Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Steelers Andy Dalton had some some success, won some games.
Speaker 1: So I mean they've done pretty good. This number you
Speaker 1: you could probably go at the back through your head
Speaker 1: and figure it out, but I heard a number the
Speaker 1: other day that said, in the last eight games without
Speaker 1: Dack seven one seven and without da eight, yeah, which
Speaker 1: is I mean, that's extremely impressive. You look across the NFL,
Speaker 1: it is it is like a death nail. You lose
Speaker 1: your starting quarterback. To be seven and one without your
Speaker 1: starter over the last eight games, that's yeah, that was
Speaker 1: they got on a hot streak there. To Amber's point,
Speaker 1: the guys sitting out there not coaching right now kind
Speaker 1: of has the same ability that you know, Sean Payton
Speaker 1: if you look at what he's did without Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: It was that you got to find a way to
Speaker 1: win with your backups, and and they are finding ways
Speaker 1: to win these games. And I don't care you play
Speaker 1: the schedule. Yeah, we'll see. With the Rams, I mean
Speaker 1: the Rams are a little bit of a wounded team
Speaker 1: right now. You know, find a way to go get
Speaker 1: a victory there. Do you think that that they could
Speaker 1: win games if their backup wasn't redheaded? Seriously? I mean,
Speaker 1: Brandon Whedon's won some games, Jason Garrett won games, Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton won games, and Cooper Rush. They just wondered and
Speaker 1: it hit it backups. I don't know, Maybe I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that's that's part of it, and that's the stat
Speaker 1: the statue, let's go, let's move, didn't write win some
Speaker 1: games back in the Anthony, right, Yeah, remember they were
Speaker 1: that night at Christmas. Remember Chrit Sterner. I think he
Speaker 1: is a little red, Yeah, something like that's doing a
Speaker 1: good job in the radio by the way down Houston,
Speaker 1: Arkansas guy. Yeah, he is doing a good job. And
Speaker 1: he's still fumbled against Tennessee ninety eight. Never gonna forget.
Speaker 1: No worst loss ever as an Arkansas fan ever. Nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety eight. Tennessee Sterner Stumble came back to It's called
Speaker 1: the Sterner Stumble came back the next year and they
Speaker 1: beat Tennessee by the exact same score. Helped a little,
Speaker 1: but yeah, lost to Tennessee. Have you ever told him this?
Speaker 1: He knows. He You don't have to remind him. He
Speaker 1: lives with it every day they were. Tennessee was number
Speaker 1: one in the country, Arkansas was number ten, undefeated, and
Speaker 1: went to Tennessee and had him beat and he tripped
Speaker 1: over his linemen and put the ball down to brace
Speaker 1: himself and fumbled. We had a chance to run out
Speaker 1: the clock and beat them, and they win the National Championship.
Speaker 1: T Martin, Yeah that does hurt. Yeah, T Martin, that
Speaker 1: does yeah. Yeah. First time I've ever seen Martin. First
Speaker 1: time I've ever seen a team lose and move up
Speaker 1: in the polls. Oh yeah, it was one of those like, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll see they haven't really played anyone there, you know,
Speaker 1: there's more money. Yeah. I Texas did that Alabama, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they lost Alabama and moved up in the polls. They
Speaker 1: got into the Poles, got into the Yeah, right in
Speaker 1: the polls. Right see, I'm invested now into Texas. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Literally the week Yeah, it is the weekend to be here.
Speaker 1: You go into the game. No, but yeah, the sun
Speaker 1: is when your money goes there. You're in. My money's
Speaker 1: going there a lot. You're way too much more there
Speaker 1: than LSU. All right, let's go ahead, let's go to
Speaker 1: it right for in one year. Yeah, let's let's go
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Speaker 1: of NFL Plus today. Welcome back. Get that right, Nick.
Speaker 1: You have to have a phone. You have to have
Speaker 1: a phone, and if you don't, then get out of
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three and get back into I thought you
Speaker 1: were just gonna add something to it. You know, this
Speaker 1: one's written okay, and we don't have to read it
Speaker 1: one hundred times in a row. But if we if
Speaker 1: we're here in November, I'm gonna be like, we will
Speaker 1: not be reading that by November. No. No, wait, that's
Speaker 1: a product that you push hard at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season. Okay, get later, but get it for your
Speaker 1: All twenty two. But yeah, that's what I'm saying. Seriously,
Speaker 1: if you if everybody should have it by then you
Speaker 1: don't have to be a former Scout to enjoy the
Speaker 1: All twenty two. Yeah, seriously, you can learn a lot
Speaker 1: that way. I sign these like if if you need
Speaker 1: your Esseler Lenda so you can watch the NFL Plus
Speaker 1: on your tablet. There you go. Yeah, No, are you
Speaker 1: looking at me like that? Like what again? Stab me?
Speaker 1: I ever look like I'm gonna stab anybody. I got
Speaker 1: the nicest demeanor. I don't think that. That's no. You
Speaker 1: actually don't. You just have this stoic look. You can
Speaker 1: be telling you something you don't you don't do that
Speaker 1: nod that you're supposed to be Like I got you.
Speaker 1: You just sit there and looking like yeah that's not yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Like you're you're you know, you're I'm trying to tell
Speaker 1: you something and you're just like looking I'm like, are
Speaker 1: you gonna? Are you looking through you? Yeah? He is
Speaker 1: looking through you. Don't have a conversation through text, because
Speaker 1: that's a whole other thing. All right, this is not
Speaker 1: and don't do it at eleven fifty seven because you're
Speaker 1: getting angry and you're like, I gotta eat. Let's let's
Speaker 1: move on, Brian. Thanks for we're going me back, Derek.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you doing that. You didn't have to, but
Speaker 1: you didn't. Thank you. Think about that. If those are
Speaker 1: your worst things in the world, that's pretty good. That's
Speaker 1: that's the worst thing ever wor never happened to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. Josh san Antonio, Josh, what you got? Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. I was listening on season sixteen,
Speaker 1: episode fourteen. No, I'm just kidding. Hey, the guys over
Speaker 1: at on talking Cowboys. We're talking about Donovan Wilson and
Speaker 1: I know, you know, Michael Parson gets a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, talk about being the lead. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to get you guys to take on how you feel
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson is playing, you know, this year, and I'll
Speaker 1: hang up and listen, all right, thanks for thanks. You
Speaker 1: gotta know over there and talking cowboys at Patrick Walker
Speaker 1: loves Donovan Wilson and they fight for whose guy he
Speaker 1: is because Rob loves him, because he's in the Texas
Speaker 1: A and M guy and stuff like that. So you know,
Speaker 1: they they're the fan club for Donovan Wilson's gonna start
Speaker 1: there um and in there and and I'm just we
Speaker 1: like I like I like, I like him A good
Speaker 1: players talk about him. Yesterday it was one of the
Speaker 1: people that you brought up, Brian on your game, and
Speaker 1: I think we all kind of had the same thought
Speaker 1: of him really really good player. You wanted to just
Speaker 1: kind of be a little more disapointed, calm down without
Speaker 1: calming down. If you can calm down and not calm
Speaker 1: down at the same time, you'd be great. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, you know, that's right. It's about It's about
Speaker 1: calm down, but stay healthy. You know, he's always kind
Speaker 1: of dealt with injuries along the way. You never you know,
Speaker 1: every time you want to play him, something happens to
Speaker 1: him where he doesn't get he misses time. So stay healthy,
Speaker 1: calmed down, and you got a really good football player. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember when he started playing. And I have terrible
Speaker 1: bit memory, by the way, I'm not like Nick, but
Speaker 1: I can't remember which game there was, what they who
Speaker 1: all were playing. But the point is I remember when
Speaker 1: I first started watching him playing a football game. On
Speaker 1: the field, He's playing and he was doing things that
Speaker 1: the rest of the defense wasn't doing in the way
Speaker 1: that he was tackling and playing the physicality, yes, being
Speaker 1: so physical with his plays, and I remember he stood
Speaker 1: out because of that. I'm like, man, I wish everybody
Speaker 1: could tackle like he does. I wish people go out
Speaker 1: could go after other guys like the way he does.
Speaker 1: And one thing that I always concerned me was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: how much longer can a guy go like that, like
Speaker 1: playing that physical without getting hurt? And he every time
Speaker 1: he started getting like really really good, then he would
Speaker 1: miss sometimes and be like, man, that sucks. So that's
Speaker 1: another thing that when he popped up on the injury.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is something major or anything, but
Speaker 1: to keep in mind for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: That is something that I've always been concerned about with
Speaker 1: a guy like Donovan Wilson. Yeah, I'll little question actually
Speaker 1: we got from a j Oliveries. He says, I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see if Curse takes away from Donovan snaps or
Speaker 1: if they somehow incorporate both. As jay Ron Curse comes back,
Speaker 1: what do you guys expect you happening? I asked jay
Speaker 1: Ron Curse that same question and went back to the
Speaker 1: Tampa game when they all kind of played and I
Speaker 1: don't remember exactly when Curse got hurt in the game
Speaker 1: and how much he missed, but it felt like they
Speaker 1: all played in. Curse even said, yeah, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: going to use all of us out there a lot.
Speaker 1: And I think Brian's to the fact that Curse might
Speaker 1: actually take more STAPs from Bar. Let me let me
Speaker 1: the thing with Bar, I'm just like I'm riding Ambar's
Speaker 1: roller coaster on Bar right now, Cincinnati, good Giants. I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of going back and forth, and you know,
Speaker 1: to me, it's like he's a good player, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, but you got better players. I think he
Speaker 1: got better guys that when talk about you could play
Speaker 1: Curse down as a linebacker. You could play Wilson as
Speaker 1: a safety. Now what you've got is that if they
Speaker 1: try and get to the perimeter on the run, you
Speaker 1: got Curse playing downhill. Now you've got Wilson flying from depth,
Speaker 1: you know, to make sure that if the ball does
Speaker 1: spill to the edge, he's not caught inside playing the
Speaker 1: linebacker spot. You know, they've got enough guys to handle that.
Speaker 1: So to me, I'd use Wilson too, because he's shown
Speaker 1: he can cover. Play him on a tight end, play
Speaker 1: him as a robber in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: taking things those crossing routes. Play him on the back
Speaker 1: end and have him brackett if you want him, you know,
Speaker 1: in and out a Cooper cup a little bit, if
Speaker 1: you want to give a little help to corners. So
Speaker 1: he's capable of doing that. I'm putting both those guys
Speaker 1: on the field over bar right now. I just know
Speaker 1: they're sure tackles tacklers, and I know they're both really
Speaker 1: physical players. All right, let's go the phone on. Let's
Speaker 1: get a call from Dennis in Albany. Dennis, what up?
Speaker 1: What's up? Derek? Nick, Guys, I love you. If they
Speaker 1: think about it. I go back to seasons two and three.
Speaker 1: I used to call you guys every day, so wow
Speaker 1: today Yeah, if you guys don't listen, So I want
Speaker 1: to just give a quick twenty seconds. I want to
Speaker 1: give both of your flowers. Derek, your your your eye
Speaker 1: for talent is ridiculous. We lose great people, you always
Speaker 1: um replace them, and I know Nick has a lot
Speaker 1: to do that. Nick, your memory and about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: is incredible. Nick, I'm gonna come back to you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna close the loop with you on something and then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a prediction like you would you get ready? Yeah? Amber, Amber,
Speaker 1: You're amazing. The bs you put up with on social media,
Speaker 1: ignore it. You're a rock star. Keep doing what you do. Brian,
Speaker 1: I listened to you every day to day, actually because
Speaker 1: I listened to the g back nation. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for teaching people football like one on one.
Speaker 1: Everyone doesn't get it and understand blitz and different things
Speaker 1: of that nature. So thank you for teaching football one
Speaker 1: on one. All right, Nick, I'm not I love you.
Speaker 1: I love you. And Derek you were you were you
Speaker 1: were on with Sean and r J. Those are my
Speaker 1: two favorites. Uh no, no shot at you, Brian. But
Speaker 1: he asked you a question about Romo's flag football game.
Speaker 1: I told him to ask you that. How far I
Speaker 1: go back? Um? And lastly, here's the Nick Nick predictions
Speaker 1: Cowboys twenty seven thirteen. I don't know how or why,
Speaker 1: but that's what it's gonna be. Enjoyed the show, take
Speaker 1: care of brother, Thanks for the call. Thank you very much, man.
Speaker 1: And I actually remember the name. I remember that man call.
Speaker 1: Dennis can drive through a Chick fil A parking lot
Speaker 1: because you have to be able to like win maneuver left,
Speaker 1: then right, then back, then forth. He went all over
Speaker 1: the place and still got to it like that's awesome. Um,
Speaker 1: you should go to water Breaker anyways if you know anyways, Um,
Speaker 1: you know what I don't know. Is there anything we
Speaker 1: need to address on that? But but that reminded me
Speaker 1: of something I listened to Brian yesterday on the radio.
Speaker 1: You you had Tank Lawrence on, and uh, I gotta
Speaker 1: be careful at how I say this, but you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm guilty of this too. We like to have
Speaker 1: fun on the show and all that, and they're asking
Speaker 1: Tank questions about Matt farniatt catching a pass or whatever
Speaker 1: like that, you know, and you know, running routes and
Speaker 1: all that. The other guys are asking and I didn't
Speaker 1: know Brian was on there because other three were asking
Speaker 1: these questions. Brian's like, Tank, you know, when you go
Speaker 1: inside from the end to the you know, to the
Speaker 1: you know, is it a different mindset and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And he's like he basically was like,
Speaker 1: come again, elaborate, you know, didn't understand the question, and
Speaker 1: you asked it again. And I'm just thinking, like, Brian's
Speaker 1: like trying to football, yeah, like a real football questions, right, thanks,
Speaker 1: asking all these other stuff like that. So that reminded
Speaker 1: me of that because I'm like, I know that you
Speaker 1: have to do that a lot. Well, it's you know
Speaker 1: what's funny that these players you want to have fun
Speaker 1: with them, but you know he's also playing. I mean,
Speaker 1: the things you learned in these interviews is he's really
Speaker 1: serious though too. He doesn't have he doesn't have time
Speaker 1: for your Matt Farney at catching pass this question. So
Speaker 1: I'm trying to ask him questions about him playing three
Speaker 1: technique with you know, and how do you is it
Speaker 1: different Russian from inside as opposed. And then yeah, once
Speaker 1: I was able to clear it up a little bit,
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, when you rush inside, it happens quicker. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He actually gave a really good answer. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's tough these some of these questions. You
Speaker 1: can have fun with these guys. Yeah, we've had two
Speaker 1: guys two years, and the players have been great. We
Speaker 1: had a Maury Cooper who's a no nonsense guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean no non to your credit. Yeah, you guys
Speaker 1: managed to get him out of his show. Was good,
Speaker 1: well that I've ever heard him. Yeah, of his self. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it was tough. He and I got an argument
Speaker 1: about whether Alabama could beat the worst NFL team. You know,
Speaker 1: he thought they could. No, I did oh. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I said, and he's like, he's like, no way.
Speaker 1: And so he and I went back and forth, back
Speaker 1: and forth, and it was funny because you know, you
Speaker 1: try and look for things that guys have common. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to ask him fun things about their lives
Speaker 1: and stuff. But then were they but they're so trained
Speaker 1: to asking the serious questions, and so you you kind
Speaker 1: of have to go with that. You know. I used
Speaker 1: to think that until there's one player I always think
Speaker 1: of about could you know, Alabama or Georgia or whatever,
Speaker 1: but it's both Scarborough. That's what I think of, because
Speaker 1: both Scarborough at Alabama was a beast, like he was, like,
Speaker 1: you couldn't tackle him, Derrick Henry, you're right, but but
Speaker 1: then you get you know, this Scarborough is the seventh
Speaker 1: round pick and he comes to here and you know
Speaker 1: it doesn't do anything. Yeah, and so that's like you
Speaker 1: think about guys like that and then like you know,
Speaker 1: they get or five guys that year drafted or ten
Speaker 1: round ten, eleven, but the other eleven or twelve or
Speaker 1: you know. But that's what I'm saying. Though Cooper's playing
Speaker 1: for Alabama, Julio Jones is playing for alabam I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you're thinking about an Alabama team with their
Speaker 1: best players. But if you give if you give me
Speaker 1: an Alabama All Star team versus all the rest of
Speaker 1: the best players in the league. Yeah, dude, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I thought you meant I'm sorry. I thought you meant
Speaker 1: like Alabama right now playing the worst team in the league.
Speaker 1: So he played on some Alabama teams that were pretty good,
Speaker 1: but All Star. Yeah, that's Yeah, that beats any team
Speaker 1: you could put together. I think probably, I'm guessing. I'm guessing, yeah,
Speaker 1: be hard to beat that. The quarterback, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: they got they got options. That's today options, but yeah,
Speaker 1: not today would be Let's get some predictions. What do
Speaker 1: you think is gonna happen this week? Amber, Let's start
Speaker 1: us off, make your peak. You know, um, I'm picking
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to win, but I'm kind of it's getting
Speaker 1: to that point where you're you're starting to feel like, okay,
Speaker 1: when is this streak gonna end? So it's gonna getting
Speaker 1: into that room where you're like, Okay, we're getting there.
Speaker 1: It might happen this week, maybe next week, you don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's getting close to where it makes you now
Speaker 1: uncomfortable the fact that you're winning consecutive wins back to back.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm gonna go ahead and pick the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to win. I trust the defense to keep doing their
Speaker 1: job score. I think it'll be a very close game.
Speaker 1: But you know what, actually it just popped into my head,
Speaker 1: like what happened with if Brandma starts missing? Like those
Speaker 1: points are so valuable right now unless the because the
Speaker 1: offense hasn't been scoring a ton of points. So if y'all,
Speaker 1: Mohur has been kind of carrying the offense a lot,
Speaker 1: so that's a concern there. But I'm gonna stick with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They win, low scoring game, maybe like sixteen
Speaker 1: fourteen something like that. It'll be a close game, I think. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going with a desperate team through. I think you're
Speaker 1: playing a very desperate team with the Rams. I think
Speaker 1: they're starting to be questions about you know, their quarterback,
Speaker 1: There's questions about their offensive line. Is there a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl hangover going on right now? Is there defense really
Speaker 1: that good? They blitz, they don't get pressure and all that.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna you're gonna get their absolute best shot.
Speaker 1: And you know you've been riding the wave right now
Speaker 1: with Cooper Rush. I think the Rams the more desperate team.
Speaker 1: They win twenty six, twenty three. Yeah, I think you know,
Speaker 1: to think being in a defending champs on the road
Speaker 1: winning four straight like all of that sounds too daunting,
Speaker 1: but really a break it down, they don't have to
Speaker 1: win four straight. You don't. You have to win one,
Speaker 1: and you have to win in a game that's not
Speaker 1: going to be that much of a road. You know,
Speaker 1: it'll be a fun atmosphere. And I just think that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense is going to be more of a
Speaker 1: mismatch than the Rams and more I keep thinking about
Speaker 1: it and the fact that Vegas has them at five
Speaker 1: and a half or five or whatever. Vegas has absolutely
Speaker 1: whipped on the Cowboys this year. They are so off.
Speaker 1: They don't know how to score this Cowboys team. Every
Speaker 1: game this year has been a ten point swing. They've
Speaker 1: been wrong by ten points for the Cowboys every game
Speaker 1: or ten or more. So I just feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: I got the Cowboys winning by six twenty to fourteen.
Speaker 1: And I've gone back and forth on this game since
Speaker 1: the week began. I know I've been back and forth
Speaker 1: at least five times on my pick of what I
Speaker 1: think is going to happen. And I can tell you
Speaker 1: it's mainly because of what I talked about earlier in
Speaker 1: the show. I think when you look at what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't do well defensively and how it matches up
Speaker 1: against this team, I think this is the kind of
Speaker 1: team that can give them problems. And that's different than
Speaker 1: the kind of problems are gonna face next week. They've
Speaker 1: got a whole different set of problems next week. But
Speaker 1: this week, I think this is a team that can
Speaker 1: use a short, quick passing game to negate the Cowboys
Speaker 1: pass rush. And if they do that and they can
Speaker 1: run the ball as the Cowboys have allowed other teams
Speaker 1: that have, in my opinion, equally bad running games to
Speaker 1: get off, then I think that could be a problem.
Speaker 1: But right now, Sales stuck on I'm still stuck on. No,
Speaker 1: I'm still stuck on the I'm way too optimistic. And
Speaker 1: then so at the end of the day, I still
Speaker 1: couldn't bring myself to say yeah, to bring myself to
Speaker 1: say that that they're gonna not go and get a win,
Speaker 1: because I do think they are the better team. I
Speaker 1: just think this is gonna be a really tough matchup.
Speaker 1: So I would not be shocked even in the least
Speaker 1: if even if they got routed, I wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 1: But because I think, I think that this is one
Speaker 1: of those games where you're right, it's the desperate team theory,
Speaker 1: it's how they match up. There's a lot about this
Speaker 1: game that worries me, maybe even a little bit more
Speaker 1: than next week. I could see them losing this week
Speaker 1: and then going and routing Philly next week. Sure, Like,
Speaker 1: I just think this is a really weird matchup for them,
Speaker 1: So I'm still gonna say Cowboys win, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a close one, if I've ever right, Like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick Dallas because I feel like I have to
Speaker 1: talk about Yeah no, no really, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough game, man, but the Cowboys get to win
Speaker 1: twenty three twenty al right. Appreciate you guys joining us.
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