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Speaker 5: Everyone, it's Jane Slater back in the hosting seat.
Speaker 6: I don't know if we've set the table for you
Speaker 6: guys a little bit.
Speaker 5: But we are sort of doing a rotating chair as
Speaker 5: I alluded to some of the family stuff that I'm
Speaker 5: dealing with. So thank you girls for stepping up. I
Speaker 5: love that we've got so many awesome women that are
Speaker 5: part of this show now that can step in here,
Speaker 5: and that we've got such a loyal following already, so
Speaker 5: we appreciate you for that. Loyal fans of Dak Prescott,
Speaker 5: I think we've all been excited to see him make
Speaker 5: his return. Not as optimistic as the four week one
Speaker 5: window that Jerry would have had us to have believed initially,
Speaker 5: it was six weeks, and it seems like everything is
Speaker 5: trending in the right direction. I was so bullish about
Speaker 5: it that on NFL Network I said I'd be surprised
Speaker 5: if he's not dressing out in an under center on
Speaker 5: Sunday today. The news from Mike McCarthy, though, that gives
Speaker 5: us that confidence is the fact that he has been
Speaker 5: medically cleared for that fracture in his right thumb.
Speaker 6: That is good news.
Speaker 5: And I gotta tell you, Haley, you're in the locker
Speaker 5: room listening to rookie Jake Ferguson, and I even pulled
Speaker 5: Simmy Fioco and Noah Brown off to the side and
Speaker 5: asked him about the zip on the ball. They said
Speaker 5: it's there. And I loved the SoundBite from Jake Ferguson.
Speaker 5: He said, I had a thumb injury and I couldn't
Speaker 5: even grip a cup.
Speaker 6: So that's what's so remarkable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what's so remarkable about what Dak Prescott's been
Speaker 5: able to do just six weeks now removed after jamming
Speaker 5: that hand in a shack Barrett's helmet not once but
Speaker 5: twice in week one.
Speaker 6: What are you most excited to see from him?
Speaker 5: Although we didn't get to see a lot of this today, ladies,
Speaker 5: because they had a walk through, but it was my mccarthur.
Speaker 5: You told us that they went through a mock practice
Speaker 5: about a seventy play mock game, not mock practice, mock game,
Speaker 5: and then you would throw about forty to fifty balls
Speaker 5: just perimeter players and then expect to be a full
Speaker 5: participant on Thursday. What's the one thing that you need
Speaker 5: to see in practice on Thursday from him?
Speaker 7: M hm uh wait, Oh sorry.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I'm trying to.
Speaker 7: Bad from him.
Speaker 4: I mean, I just I guess I just want to
Speaker 4: see him get in the flow of things, see how
Speaker 4: comfortable he looks back there.
Speaker 6: It looked like he looked.
Speaker 4: Fine under center, you know, doing some of the things
Speaker 4: before the game.
Speaker 7: So I don't know if he's comfortable. I'm comfortable.
Speaker 4: I just want to see how he flows back into
Speaker 4: the offense at this point.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm definitely just interested to see how he impacts
Speaker 8: the other players around him. I know, with Cooper Rush,
Speaker 8: the narrative has been you know how consistent Cooper was.
Speaker 8: But I think consistency can get a little dull at times.
Speaker 8: And the thing that stood out about this offense last
Speaker 8: year was their ability to put points on the board,
Speaker 8: their ability to be creative in that way.
Speaker 6: So uh, less about you.
Speaker 8: Know what I'm excited about Dak to do more so
Speaker 8: what he's going to allow for the players around him
Speaker 8: to do.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and we talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 10: I'm excited to see that foundation finally built for what
Speaker 10: this Cowboys offense is going to be their starting point
Speaker 10: with their starting quarterback coming in and then from there
Speaker 10: growing to see what they can be. I'm also excited
Speaker 10: to see where he is mentally after being on the
Speaker 10: sidelines and talking about seeing this game from a different
Speaker 10: perspective again, I'm excited to see how he hones that
Speaker 10: in how he channels that when he's playing, and expect
Speaker 10: all good things from QB one.
Speaker 5: Well, Listen, I don't think anyone in that locker room
Speaker 5: wanted Cooper Rush to have the game that he did
Speaker 5: against the Eagles, and, to his credit, to come back
Speaker 5: in the second half the way that he did. I
Speaker 5: thought was a strong performance not only from him but
Speaker 5: from this offense as a whole. But it certainly helps
Speaker 5: Dak coming back right because if Cooper Rush had gone
Speaker 5: on the road against that Eagles team, who we have
Speaker 5: now seen as a bona fide threat in the NFC East,
Speaker 5: I think it would have made this thing a.
Speaker 6: Little bit more delicate. As he came back.
Speaker 5: In other words, a very small margin of era afforded
Speaker 5: to him.
Speaker 6: I respect that Mike McCarthy too.
Speaker 5: You know, last week there was a little bit of
Speaker 5: playing coy, a little bit of gamesmanship. We only saw
Speaker 5: him throwing with the left hand, and the parts of
Speaker 5: practice that he was throwing we didn't get scam and
Speaker 5: he shows up as questionable on the practice report.
Speaker 6: I get that.
Speaker 5: But that's why I think Thursday is going to be
Speaker 5: so meaningful for all of us, because again listening to
Speaker 5: these guys, these guys told me if he wanted to
Speaker 5: play last week, and a lot of them thought that
Speaker 5: he could, that he would have been out there on Sunday.
Speaker 6: So I think this was an abundance of caution.
Speaker 5: But you're also doing it against a team who's only
Speaker 5: win this season comes the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 6: In week two.
Speaker 5: We're talking about a one and four Detroit Lions team,
Speaker 5: which we'll get into after our first break. And it's
Speaker 5: a game at home and Dak plays really really well
Speaker 5: at home offensively, though, how different do you think this
Speaker 5: offense is from week one? Starting with me, I'll just
Speaker 5: say they didn't have two tight ends that they could
Speaker 5: rely on. I mean, Jake Ferguson and Peyton Hendershot are
Speaker 5: doing some special stuff out there, and Mike McCarthy has
Speaker 5: always wanted to employ the two tight end set, and
Speaker 5: I feel like you now have the guys do that now.
Speaker 6: We were talking about this before the show What's up
Speaker 6: with Dalton Schultz?
Speaker 5: We didn't get an update today, so that's my fault
Speaker 5: and the beat for not asking. I sent out a text,
Speaker 5: so hopefully I'll have some sort of update for you.
Speaker 5: But just seeing the running game get going, you know,
Speaker 5: we talked about this a couple of weeks ago. Dak
Speaker 5: went on record and say the game has slowed down
Speaker 5: for him a little bit. They need to simplify things,
Speaker 5: which is interesting because you're hearing Aaron Rodgers say that
Speaker 5: now also in Green Bay.
Speaker 6: But I think.
Speaker 5: Sometimes the play calling was a little too cute, and
Speaker 5: I think Dak was trying to do too much. But
Speaker 5: when he has those gaudy numbers, they don't translate into wins.
Speaker 5: So how do you anticipate this offense rolling? With Dak
Speaker 5: back under center Asia?
Speaker 4: So, I mean, we heard from Kellen Moore the other
Speaker 4: day and also from Mike McCarthy talking about you know,
Speaker 4: they don't expect any changes to what they do offensively,
Speaker 4: and honestly, if you look at if you I mean
Speaker 4: if you look at the games and look at them
Speaker 4: in detail, there are so many opportunities there for these receivers.
Speaker 4: They're they're scheming these guys open. So I guess I'll
Speaker 4: piggyback off of what Haley said earlier is that I
Speaker 4: think there's going to be more opportunity for these players
Speaker 4: to make plays that maybe we're there, you know this
Speaker 4: first couple of weeks, but haven't been there.
Speaker 7: And then also too, I mentioned it yesterday.
Speaker 4: I think it's important that he's coming back to an
Speaker 4: offensive line that is starting to communicate better, starting to
Speaker 4: jail better.
Speaker 7: Guys have been in their spots for a while.
Speaker 4: We're still trying to see what's going to happen at
Speaker 4: you know, left guard or whatever with Jason Peters, But
Speaker 4: for now McGovern has come back in and he settled
Speaker 4: and well, so that was brought up, like, I think
Speaker 4: they communicated really well last week despite all the craziness,
Speaker 4: and I just think that's going to be important for
Speaker 4: him to come in, settle in, and for this run
Speaker 4: game to be going.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that something that I've kind of attached
Speaker 8: myself to is this idea of mojo that everybody talks about.
Speaker 7: Jerry talked about.
Speaker 8: The mojo with Cooper and keeping him in versus playing
Speaker 8: Dak too early. To me, I think the mojo is
Speaker 8: more of, you know, what's going to help this offense play.
Speaker 6: Better and look better.
Speaker 8: And I think statistically it's Dak Prescott, you know. And
Speaker 8: it's no shade to Cooper Rush. I think he did
Speaker 8: what he did and that's fine. It'd helped the Cowboys
Speaker 8: be in a better position. But when you talk about
Speaker 8: Dak and the things that he's able to do, just
Speaker 8: some reading I did earlier. The last time they played
Speaker 8: the Lions, he had a single game high of four
Speaker 8: hundred and forty four yards back in twenty nineteen. He's
Speaker 8: never lost to Detroit as a starter, So it kind
Speaker 8: of to me this sets the tone for a game
Speaker 8: for him that's really gonna you know, number one put
Speaker 8: everybody back on notice. Like I heard what y'all were
Speaker 8: saying about me here I am. But also I think
Speaker 8: when you put up those kind of numbers, when you
Speaker 8: have that in your future, I thought that was someone's
Speaker 8: phone but you know, when you have that again, it
Speaker 8: just makes everyone around you play better. You're more comfortable
Speaker 8: with this guy who did most of the reps during
Speaker 8: training camp with you.
Speaker 6: It's what you're comfortable with.
Speaker 8: I think that Dak that while the offense maybe doesn't change,
Speaker 8: the play calling maybe doesn't change, but maybe the energy
Speaker 8: around and the players around kind of get that spark back.
Speaker 8: And you heard it with guys today. Leyton vanderash talked
Speaker 8: about what an asset it is to have Dak Prescott
Speaker 8: on your sideline, let alone behind center. So I just
Speaker 8: think it's going to bring a lot of energy, a
Speaker 8: lot of excitement, especially given the work that Cooper Rush
Speaker 8: has done over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 10: And you know what that reminds me of is Dak's
Speaker 10: first game back after the ankle injury, the Bucks game
Speaker 10: last season.
Speaker 9: The camaraderie was just huge.
Speaker 10: I mean it wasn't even a home game and it
Speaker 10: was I remember I was at the watch party at
Speaker 10: eighteen T Stadium.
Speaker 9: There were people crying when Dak came out on the
Speaker 9: field on the screen.
Speaker 10: I mean, but it's I can't even imagine his return
Speaker 10: at a home game. So again, it's not as serious
Speaker 10: of an injury as his ankle was, but the fact
Speaker 10: that he's been out, the fan base has had time
Speaker 10: to gain their appreciation back for Dak Prescott is going
Speaker 10: to lead to a very good home field advantage, I
Speaker 10: think Dak, and not only that, but to Ayush's point earlier,
Speaker 10: you look at the wide receiver group and how different
Speaker 10: it is from the last time Dak played. During the
Speaker 10: Bucks game, the receivers he had Noah Brown, Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 10: Ceede Lamb, Dennis Houston, Tony Pollard, Semi Fioko and of
Speaker 10: course Zeke acted as a receiver there for a little
Speaker 10: bit during that game. Last week, you have a much
Speaker 10: different receiver corps here. You have Ceede Lamb, Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 10: Payton Hendershot, Michael Gallop, Noah Brown, Sean McEwan, Tony Pollard,
Speaker 10: Zeke Elliott, and Cavante Turpin. So I think again it
Speaker 10: goes back to you get to see an established offense
Speaker 10: and you get to see an O line that has
Speaker 10: had weeks to gel and get those rookie mistakes out.
Speaker 10: If you will to give Dak that protection to get
Speaker 10: that play action going to give him the time to
Speaker 10: make the decisions and to get that ball zipped out
Speaker 10: and of course give him the protections so that way
Speaker 10: no more injuries happen.
Speaker 5: Well, it looks like James Washington is getting closer and closer.
Speaker 5: But I gotta tell y'all, I don't know what to
Speaker 5: expect from him. It's not like he had a big
Speaker 5: ear with the Steelers, and we didn't see much in
Speaker 5: training camp. So while I think it gives you options
Speaker 5: on offense, I don't know if I'm sitting here going
Speaker 5: he's gonna be a difference maker. I keep wanting to
Speaker 5: see Cavante Turpin utilized a little bit more in the
Speaker 5: middle of the field.
Speaker 6: Why are we not seeing that.
Speaker 7: I have no idea why that's not happening.
Speaker 4: Uh, he's got speed from us, from us, Like I mean,
Speaker 4: I think the rest of the community feels that way,
Speaker 4: because I mean, teams wish they.
Speaker 7: Had a guy to take the top off like he can.
Speaker 4: I wonder, like I said, this is something we maybe
Speaker 4: we don't consider.
Speaker 7: He is, you know, new to the NFL.
Speaker 4: He is technically a rookie in the NFL, So maybe
Speaker 4: this gentleman is still learning, you know, the wide receiver
Speaker 4: position because he is a special He said it multiple times,
Speaker 4: like you know, I'm a specialist, you know.
Speaker 7: So I'm wondering if maybe that has anything to do
Speaker 7: with it.
Speaker 5: But he's also said multiple times he wants to be
Speaker 5: a receiver.
Speaker 6: I mean, talk to folks at TCU. He's very capable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's instances, there's instances where he had he's
Speaker 4: on film on like as a receiver option. It's and
Speaker 4: maybe you see that, like we just talked about, maybe
Speaker 4: maybe we see him get those opportunities now that Dak
Speaker 4: is under center, and then maybe they try to go
Speaker 4: down the field more.
Speaker 7: But yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 8: So I thought you were done. I'm sorry, Mike's hay there,
Speaker 8: it is. Sorry my Mike was off. I didn't mean
Speaker 8: to cut you off.
Speaker 7: I thought you were done.
Speaker 8: I was just gonna say, going off of those same lines.
Speaker 8: A couple of weeks ago, I think Mike was asked
Speaker 8: about that, why why are we not utilizing Cavante Turpin
Speaker 8: because you see the difference maker he is on special teams.
Speaker 8: Maybe you integrate grate that into the offense and that changes,
Speaker 8: you know, your offensive outlook.
Speaker 6: And Mike just kind of said.
Speaker 8: Look like we're doing the best we can with what
Speaker 8: we've got, and right now, what we've got is Cooper
Speaker 8: Rush and he even talked about the plays were designed
Speaker 8: to keep Cooper protected. I think that's why he went
Speaker 8: so long without throwing an interception, without being sacked as
Speaker 8: often maybe as he was as the stretch went on.
Speaker 8: So again, I think bringing Dak back allows you to
Speaker 8: maybe play with something a little bit more creatively like that,
Speaker 8: because Dak's a guy that can hit those balls. So
Speaker 8: if Cavante is going to make those quick routes and
Speaker 8: get down the field, Dak's going to be a guy
Speaker 8: who can see that laser in on that and make
Speaker 8: the pass.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 10: I also love that you make my segues so easy
Speaker 10: because you're talking about creativity here, and I know it's
Speaker 10: two different situations, but you had Jason Peters and Tyler Smith,
Speaker 10: so you had that veteran guy and the rookie guy, right.
Speaker 9: So when you look.
Speaker 10: At bringing James Washington in, I wonder if when you
Speaker 10: can get creative when James Washington is healthy, is you
Speaker 10: utilize him to kind of rotate and throw more defenses
Speaker 10: off because James Washington does bring that veteran leadership and
Speaker 10: I really learned this last week when I was in
Speaker 10: the locker room talking to him, because Ayush and I
Speaker 10: were sitting there talking to him and Jalen Tolbert and
Speaker 10: we're like, hey, are you ready for the Eagles game?
Speaker 10: To Jalen, He's like, yeah because of this guy, which
Speaker 10: was James Washington right next to him, who wasn't even playing.
Speaker 10: So I think that's very special and very overlooked for
Speaker 10: James Washington is he brings that veteran leadership to the
Speaker 10: younger guys that a lot of them are still rookies.
Speaker 10: So I think James Washington can be utilized in this offense.
Speaker 10: I'm just not sure to what extent.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just to give some context really quick in regards
Speaker 8: to James James Washington, he told reporters today it's all
Speaker 8: in trainer Britt Brown's hands ahead of Wednesday's practice.
Speaker 6: He's the expert. So it sounds like a Dak.
Speaker 8: Situation where like he's ready to play, but maybe he
Speaker 8: hasn't been given that green light.
Speaker 9: Just yet last week.
Speaker 5: Think they're trying to rush him back yet, right because
Speaker 5: they've got You've got only so many guys that you
Speaker 5: can carry on your roster on game day, and I
Speaker 5: don't think he's I just don't think he's special enough
Speaker 5: to them because of what we saw at camp for
Speaker 5: them to rush him necessarily back.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And I'm not gonna sit up for a neck like Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean in camp he definitely looked like he was
Speaker 4: he was, I think more so out of shaping camp.
Speaker 4: So and I didn't understand what they were gonna do
Speaker 4: with him there. But at this point also too, I
Speaker 4: think something that is underrated is like we didn't expect.
Speaker 7: For Noel Brown to just come out of ball and
Speaker 7: like he did. So yeah, I don't. I'm not sure.
Speaker 7: I'm also not exactly.
Speaker 4: I'm also not sure if we expected for Michael Gallup
Speaker 4: to be back. I mean, I think people did expect
Speaker 4: for him to be back, but I don't know. Three
Speaker 4: games into it and then he's coming along and Deck's
Speaker 4: going to be here.
Speaker 5: So they've got as much as Cooper and Noah had
Speaker 5: that chemistry, The Michael Dak chemistry is seeing so good.
Speaker 7: I should have said that earlier.
Speaker 9: That's the thing I'm looking for.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, and when you talk about James Washington, that's really
Speaker 4: to me what he's He's a lot like Michael Gallup,
Speaker 4: big body, physical, he has some verticality to him, but
Speaker 4: at the same time, like they're a lot of the
Speaker 4: same guy in what they do. So I do think
Speaker 4: that there may be a conflict of interest there when
Speaker 4: you're talking about who's going.
Speaker 7: To be on the field as opposed to who's going
Speaker 7: to be you know.
Speaker 10: I also don't think before he got injured that there
Speaker 10: was enough to see from him to see how he
Speaker 10: could gel with this offense because well because really back
Speaker 10: then you look at the offense as a whole, and
Speaker 10: the conversation was so much different. During training camp it
Speaker 10: was Amari's gone, sky is falling. Oh no, nobody had
Speaker 10: faith within the Wide Receiver Corps. The conversations were so
Speaker 10: much different to where when when James Washington got brought in,
Speaker 10: it was like, oh, my goodness, everything is going to
Speaker 10: be okay.
Speaker 9: There's a veteran here.
Speaker 10: But really, what you've seen is obviously I've seen the
Speaker 10: younger guys step up, but I really don't know, you know,
Speaker 10: how much of his veteran presence has helped these younger
Speaker 10: guys as well. And those are conversations you know, we're
Speaker 10: not part of. We don't get to see, but I
Speaker 10: do know hearing how he was talking to Jalen and
Speaker 10: the things that Jalen was saying. Oh yeah, this guy
Speaker 10: right here, he's preparing me right now. I mean that
Speaker 10: was that was kind of cool to see because I
Speaker 10: feel like that was it was a real brother brother
Speaker 10: brotherhood moment. I was gonna say brothership, like brother and
Speaker 10: friendship mix. But it was cool to see.
Speaker 5: You guys actually bring up something I want to talk
Speaker 5: about after we take our first break here. How much
Speaker 5: confidence do you have in this wide receivers group right now?
Speaker 5: I mean, we talk about a scoring offense. They got
Speaker 5: it done during the stretch with uh Cooper Rush, but
Speaker 5: do you think that other teams are really respecting the
Speaker 5: passing game and some of the passing threats. So you
Speaker 5: guys have think about that for a second and we'll
Speaker 5: talk about that on the other side of the break.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, Jess.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, the big news of the day, of course,
Speaker 5: Dak Prescott medically cleared to be a full participant in
Speaker 5: practice today, just a walkthrough, so we didn't get our
Speaker 5: eyeballs on him. That'll happen on Thursday. We'll also talk
Speaker 5: to him outside the locker room as well to see
Speaker 5: how he felt. But he was anticipated to go through
Speaker 5: a seventy seventy play mock game with the team and
Speaker 5: then throw about forty to fifty balls to his perimeter
Speaker 5: players after practice, So I think the big thing is
Speaker 5: going to be how does he fill after the practice?
Speaker 6: Was he sore last week? We talked.
Speaker 5: He was a little bit sore after that initial practice,
Speaker 5: as was to be expected, but I think once we
Speaker 5: saw him on the road going through that warm up
Speaker 5: listed as questionable.
Speaker 6: Felt like all systems were go.
Speaker 5: When Deck Prescott is your starting quarterback going back to
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, he ranks top five and completion percentage, passing,
Speaker 5: touchdowns to interception ratio, and a passer rating since twenty
Speaker 5: twenty one.
Speaker 6: Pretty impressive stuff from Deck Prescott and you see him
Speaker 6: on the field.
Speaker 5: That's why the fake quarterback controversy was always quite interesting
Speaker 5: to me. The Dallas offense averages almost ten more points
Speaker 5: per game with Prescott than rush since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 6: Before we took our first.
Speaker 5: Break, I did have a question for you ladies, how
Speaker 5: much confidence do you have in this wide receiver's room now?
Speaker 5: Week one I think was it was tough to get
Speaker 5: a read on this offense, and I think where I'm
Speaker 5: going with this argument is it's TBD. I still don't
Speaker 5: know what to expect from this offense. I mean, for
Speaker 5: the most part, this Dallas defense has really kept these
Speaker 5: guys in the game, which has a lot to do
Speaker 5: with their feig and two record. I think what you
Speaker 5: really ca had was a good bus driver in Cooper Rush,
Speaker 5: but we weren't seeing Gotti stats, we weren't seeing Circus catches.
Speaker 5: But you also didn't have a full compliment of receivers.
Speaker 5: When Dak started in week one, he was throwing into
Speaker 5: a lot of tight windows, particularly because you had Seedy
Speaker 5: Lamb getting double and sometimes triple coverage. You didn't have
Speaker 5: a guy like Michael Gallop on the field, and we
Speaker 5: certainly didn't see these two titands and the rookies who
Speaker 5: I've just been so impressed by with Peyton hinder Shot
Speaker 5: and of course Jake Ferguson. So I shall start with you.
Speaker 5: You watch a lot of the tape. Do you think
Speaker 5: teams are respecting these wide receivers and is this a
Speaker 5: wide receiver room right now as you see it that
Speaker 5: demands the respect of opposing defenses?
Speaker 7: Can I go next?
Speaker 4: I'm gathering at that, yeah, ir honest, sorry.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think a lot of what we've been talking about.
Speaker 8: I just think it's so challenging when your general is
Speaker 8: not on the battlefield with you. You know, like we
Speaker 8: talk all the time about you know, your your backup
Speaker 8: quarterback should be able to in theory the way you're
Speaker 8: starting quarterback does. Maybe not to the same caliber, but
Speaker 8: you know, it's the same play as the same playbook.
Speaker 7: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 8: But there's something to be said about not only a
Speaker 8: rapport on the field, but a relationship that you have
Speaker 8: with that person. And I think what Cooper Rush really
Speaker 8: lacked over the last couple of weeks is that relationship.
Speaker 6: And like, don't get it twisted.
Speaker 8: These guys have the utmost respect for what Cooper does,
Speaker 8: what Cooper has done, and who he is as a person,
Speaker 8: but he's not their homeboy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: Like they're not flocking to Cooper's locker, you know, dabbing
Speaker 8: him up and asking how his day's going.
Speaker 6: They're respectful, they're.
Speaker 8: You know, he's their teammate, but you just see the
Speaker 8: difference in how they are with Dak. And as a
Speaker 8: former athlete, you know that that makes a big difference.
Speaker 8: You know, you're you play better with the people you're
Speaker 8: closest with. And so I'm rambling at this point, but
Speaker 8: to me, we haven't seen the best out of these
Speaker 8: receivers because they haven't seen the best out of their quarterback.
Speaker 8: So when it comes to demanding respect, necessarily think at
Speaker 8: the minute, they're demanding that only because they haven't been
Speaker 8: afforded those opportunities to show who they are.
Speaker 6: Like CD is still CD.
Speaker 8: He's still averaging about ten yards after the catch, which
Speaker 8: is impressive, Michael Gallup being able to do the tow
Speaker 8: drag swag. You know that we're so accustomed to seeing
Speaker 8: or being the vertical threat that we're so used to.
Speaker 6: Seeing, even Noah Brown.
Speaker 8: So I think as time goes on, hopefully we see
Speaker 8: glimpses of it on Sunday and can eventually build on it.
Speaker 6: But that's just kind of my take.
Speaker 4: Now and to your point, now that I can, oh
Speaker 4: my God, thank you guys, But no, like that's I
Speaker 4: think that is something I will say that I have
Speaker 4: seen on films that you see eight nine man boxes
Speaker 4: like they're they're loading the box to stop the run
Speaker 4: because they didn't think that Cooper Rush could beat them
Speaker 4: with their arm.
Speaker 7: And that's actually what a lot of defenses did.
Speaker 4: And more importantly, you could see that they knew they
Speaker 4: knew Cooper Rush's deficiencies, and I think that also closed
Speaker 4: the playbook and some of the things they were able
Speaker 4: to do. To Hayley's point, I do think that there.
Speaker 4: I think that guys do play more motivated. They fight
Speaker 4: back to the ball. They like it's they're a little
Speaker 4: bit more vicious getting through blocks and stuff like that
Speaker 4: when you know your quarterback is gonna be able to
Speaker 4: get that ball there.
Speaker 7: So I'll see, I'll see.
Speaker 4: With Ceedee Lamb particularly, I think that I think sometimes
Speaker 4: we're a bit unfair with what he has done in
Speaker 4: his early years, given what he has dealt with coaching wise,
Speaker 4: we talked about him having a wide receiver coach change
Speaker 4: during this time.
Speaker 6: And Jervis Landry's coach at LSU.
Speaker 4: I think I think, you know, Quiet has captain and
Speaker 4: CD will tell you that he learned a lot from
Speaker 4: Amari Cooper while he was there, while he was here,
Speaker 4: So I feel like this is the time for us
Speaker 4: to see what's up.
Speaker 7: Like I think God is the point I mean.
Speaker 4: And I feel that, and like I feel that, but
Speaker 4: I want us like to be fair about like where
Speaker 4: he is as a player. I think a lot there's
Speaker 4: a lot of factors that are played into this offense
Speaker 4: not being not playing well, and a lot of that
Speaker 4: was offensive line, some of that was QB being injured,
Speaker 4: some of that was coaching changes. So a lot of
Speaker 4: these guys development is within this year and we're trying
Speaker 4: to see what they can do with it.
Speaker 10: Also, I think when you know when you have your
Speaker 10: starting quarterback out for the start of the season. And
Speaker 10: this is no hate to Cooper Rush. We all have
Speaker 10: given him as flowers and we appreciate everything he's done.
Speaker 9: I just want to say that.
Speaker 10: But I feel like these guys are gonna play a
Speaker 10: little bit harder, a little bit better, a little bit faster,
Speaker 10: a little bit more aware with dak In and knowing
Speaker 10: especially he may not be he may be a little
Speaker 10: more fragile this week than the most coming off of
Speaker 10: an injury is most people would be. I mean, that's
Speaker 10: that's the human body. But I feel like they have
Speaker 10: something else to play for. Not only did they just
Speaker 10: get off of a loss to the Eagles, which look,
Speaker 10: everyone can sit there and say it's just another game.
Speaker 9: And the grand scheme of things, yes, but it's the Eagles.
Speaker 10: You don't no guy in that locker room wanted to
Speaker 10: lose any game, much less to the Eagles.
Speaker 6: Away.
Speaker 10: I mean, let's be honest, they have redemption to prove now,
Speaker 10: because now the conversation shifted from oh, you know this
Speaker 10: team is a major threat.
Speaker 9: Are they one of the best in the NFC too?
Speaker 10: Oh well, look at all the flags that they got
Speaker 10: thrown out, and oh you know, the conversation switched this week,
Speaker 10: and I know, if anything about this team after hearing
Speaker 10: Dan Quinn in the press conference, after hearing Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 10: they were upset. So I think, not only does this
Speaker 10: team not get the respect that they deserve most of
Speaker 10: the time, but I think they have a little bit
Speaker 10: more fight in them. After a loss and then knowing
Speaker 10: that Dak is coming back off of an injury, you're
Speaker 10: going to fight a little bit harder to protect him
Speaker 10: than you normally would. I mean those that O line
Speaker 10: is not going to let anybody touch Dak. I can
Speaker 10: almost guarantee they are going to fight. And we'll get
Speaker 10: into the stats of the Lions and why. I think
Speaker 10: that's going to be a little bit of an easier
Speaker 10: task this week for them to not get any pressure
Speaker 10: on Dak. But I also think that when you're looking
Speaker 10: at the grand scheme of things, Dak uses his legs more.
Speaker 10: Dak is a little bit more mobile, So we might
Speaker 10: not see that at first, might seem a little bit
Speaker 10: more of a conservative approach at first, but Dak eventually
Speaker 10: is going to be more mobile.
Speaker 9: And like I said, when this offense can.
Speaker 10: Gel with Dak in, it's gonna be a much different
Speaker 10: offense than what we saw this week, even compared to
Speaker 10: like two three weeks from now.
Speaker 5: I just have to wonder if they start going back
Speaker 5: to their roots. In other words, if it ain't broke,
Speaker 5: don't fix it. And when we look at that rookie
Speaker 5: season of Dak, Prescott's yes, he did use his legs
Speaker 5: got more open. We saw more of like a Jalen
Speaker 5: Hurts at times his rookie season. But also if they're
Speaker 5: loading the box because they don't respect his arm of Cooper's.
Speaker 5: They do respect the arm of Dak Prescott. Is that
Speaker 5: gonna open up your running game a little bit more
Speaker 5: this week? And does that simplify the offense a little
Speaker 5: bit for him as he's coming back?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, man, I'm telling you right now, you can run
Speaker 7: the ball. It changes everything for your offense.
Speaker 4: And quite honestly, if you look at last year, that
Speaker 4: was pretty much the culprit of the problem is that
Speaker 4: the Cowboys offensive line really struggled last year.
Speaker 7: And when the Cowboys cannot run the ball.
Speaker 4: Okay, we're gonna drop sixty b's in coverage and you
Speaker 4: let me see what you do with Yeah. But now
Speaker 4: if you don't, if you don't come stop this run,
Speaker 4: we're gonna gash you every time.
Speaker 7: And not even not only just gas.
Speaker 4: You tp going for fifty two, you know so I
Speaker 4: think and also too, you talked about you know, the
Speaker 4: tight ends.
Speaker 7: I think it's it. We've harped on it. But it
Speaker 7: is so.
Speaker 4: Important this twelve personnel and what they want to do
Speaker 4: blocking wise, to open up the pass, open up I mean,
Speaker 4: you see it all the time with like Travis Kelce
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, you see it all the time, like
Speaker 4: he'll act like he's blocking and then roll to the
Speaker 4: end zone. Those are things that actually that's what Firk did,
Speaker 4: and like, those are things that you can do when
Speaker 4: you establish the run and you actually have an offense
Speaker 4: that's willing to run downhill at people.
Speaker 7: The Cowboys told us that.
Speaker 4: They wanted to get back to running the ball, and
Speaker 4: they really do have an offensive line that is cool
Speaker 4: with going downhill and modeling guys and really physically demanding
Speaker 4: their like demanding that.
Speaker 7: You respect what they do. So I'm excited to see.
Speaker 4: I mean, we've seen how the play action has helped
Speaker 4: out this offense as well.
Speaker 6: For Cooper Rush.
Speaker 4: He's one of the best in the NFL on play
Speaker 4: action because hey, they actually can run the ball this year.
Speaker 4: So I think that all all the way around is
Speaker 4: going to pay dividends for Dak to come in and
Speaker 4: be more comfortable because he doesn't have to do it
Speaker 4: all by himself. So many times last year I felt
Speaker 4: like he felt like I can't get it, Like, no,
Speaker 4: the run game's not working, let me force this pass
Speaker 4: in here, let me do this but now.
Speaker 5: But they would sort of move away from it, that's
Speaker 5: what would try you nuts. Yeah, it's like I felt
Speaker 5: like this year it's a little bit more balanced and
Speaker 5: they are sticking with the run, and you know, you're
Speaker 5: wearing these opposing teams down because you can't have your
Speaker 5: defense out there as long as you've had them at times.
Speaker 5: I mean right now, they've sort of we at least
Speaker 5: saw during the you know, the four game win streak
Speaker 5: with kober Rush they were bending, not breaking, and then
Speaker 5: we finally saw it sort of gast him because what
Speaker 5: the Eagles had that what fifteen play drive?
Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, but they lay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they like I talked about yesterday, they were
Speaker 4: like they started at their forty six like they started
Speaker 4: in Cowboys Tear Toy, I want to say four times.
Speaker 4: So quite honestly, like I think that's difficult for any
Speaker 4: defense to get through, and I think they held them.
Speaker 4: Took two field goals during that time. Anyway, I think this.
Speaker 5: Cooper was just trying to throw turnovers last so weird.
Speaker 5: This guy had not thrown a pick yet. Pressure.
Speaker 6: I mean he almost had four in the game.
Speaker 7: It's the pressure. It was a lot of the pressure.
Speaker 7: Also to uh, there were a couple he got pressured.
Speaker 4: He got hit on a couple of the like one
Speaker 4: of those picks as well, So I think, yeah, I
Speaker 4: think that. I think that this run game and all
Speaker 4: the way around is going to help what Dak wants
Speaker 4: to do and integrating him back into this offense.
Speaker 10: I just feel like the team that we saw against
Speaker 10: the Eagles were very The team as a whole was
Speaker 10: very uncharacteristic. So you're talking Cooper, esh, we don't usually
Speaker 10: see that, No, we don't, but we also don't usually
Speaker 10: see as many well here we go penalties again, but
Speaker 10: just the I know. My point is that the lack
Speaker 10: of discipline with that and and that's what it really
Speaker 10: showed is you don't usually see that on a dan
Speaker 10: Quinn defense. And I think it was frustration and like
Speaker 10: we talked about, you know, you can't let those things
Speaker 10: cost you the game essentially. But something that I did
Speaker 10: want to know is that the cow the Lions defense
Speaker 10: actually ranks the last in the NFL right now. And
Speaker 10: so I think if we're going to see the offense,
Speaker 10: the Cowboys offense play their best, this is their best
Speaker 10: opportunity to really show, hey we can protect our quarterback. Hey,
Speaker 10: let's get we got our bad week out last week.
Speaker 10: Let's move forward and let's play our best. I think
Speaker 10: this is the best game Dat could.
Speaker 9: Have come back for. When you look at the statistics
Speaker 9: of the Lions, Yeah.
Speaker 4: This is a defensively, this team just seems like they're
Speaker 4: just a little all over the place. I think they're
Speaker 4: still I know they have new coaches in there. It
Speaker 4: looks like schematically, a lot of guys are confused a
Speaker 4: lot of the time. A lot of guys are out
Speaker 4: of position, they don't particularly tackle well, they don't.
Speaker 7: Get pressure well.
Speaker 4: It's it was hard, like it was actually really hard
Speaker 4: to see them, especially when their offense can get points
Speaker 4: like their offense, like the Lions offense has the ability
Speaker 4: to be explosive, but this defense can't stop much of
Speaker 4: anything right now. So yeah, I think this will be
Speaker 4: a week where the Cowboys can maybe build some confidence.
Speaker 4: You talk about Dak getting back in there, getting reintegrated
Speaker 4: into the offense. I think this is a week where
Speaker 4: if you want to build confidence in your offense moving forward,
Speaker 4: it's a good way to start.
Speaker 6: It's a reset.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and the Lions also battling a lot of injuries
Speaker 10: right now.
Speaker 5: Which we will get into after we take our second
Speaker 5: and final break, but I did want to just have
Speaker 5: one note. I don't know if you guys saw Tom
Speaker 5: Brady's just melt down with his offensive line after missing,
Speaker 5: you know, the walkthrough on Saturday to go to Robert
Speaker 5: cross wedding. I think it when you talk about the
Speaker 5: respect that this team has for Dak Prescott, Dak would
Speaker 5: never talk to his offensive line like that, or any
Speaker 5: player for that matter, And I think you respect people
Speaker 5: that respect you back.
Speaker 6: So it'll be interesting to see how that thing.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, tom Brady's got six rings, he's the goat,
Speaker 5: I get it, but no one wants to be talked
Speaker 5: to no matter who you are or what you've done
Speaker 5: in your career, especially millennials.
Speaker 6: I feel like millennials that right.
Speaker 7: Also, so many veterans like.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So it's like I think, I think the Cowboys
Speaker 5: are really fortunate to get a guy like Dak Prescott
Speaker 5: because I do think even just seeing him on the sidelines,
Speaker 5: you talk to any of these guys, the fact that
Speaker 5: he was on the sidelines, the fact that he was
Speaker 5: rehabing around the facility, the fact that he was literally
Speaker 5: what was it last week? I told you one of
Speaker 5: the guys said he's out, or is Michael gallup? He's
Speaker 5: like he's getting us water bottles. Yeah, he's just present, right.
Speaker 5: But there's no job too big or too small for Dak.
Speaker 5: I think that goes and when even we saw him
Speaker 5: on the on the sideline, so that first game that
Speaker 5: he got injured against the Bengals, I literally sent a
Speaker 5: text to Bobby Belt, who obviously works for One of
Speaker 5: five through the Fan is my producer and Edvil Network.
Speaker 5: I said they're going to do it for Dak, and
Speaker 5: they damn sure did. All right, Like I said, we're
Speaker 5: gonna take our second and final break. When we come back,
Speaker 5: we'll go through some injury updates for you, and we'll
Speaker 5: start scouting the Detroit Lions a little bit more for you.
Speaker 6: Tomorrow.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have Danny Rodgers the Detroit Lions team reporter.
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Speaker 5: There, all right, Well, I know a lot of fans
Speaker 5: are always keen to know what the health of the
Speaker 5: roster looks like.
Speaker 6: So Haley, you got a little update for us, I do.
Speaker 8: We just got this sent a few minutes ago. So
Speaker 8: the big thing on there. Dak Prescott listed is full.
Speaker 8: Dalton Show too we spoke about earlier, was a full
Speaker 8: participant today as well as Quinton Nevill Gallimore, Devin Harper,
Speaker 8: Jason Peters, Ceedee Lamb kind of the only asterisk there.
Speaker 8: He was limited today with a hip injury. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 8: did tell us earlier that Terrell Basham is pretty close
Speaker 8: to practicing. He should be back on Wednesday to open
Speaker 8: his twenty one day window.
Speaker 6: And then de mon Clark.
Speaker 8: Looking pretty good as well, so we could see the
Speaker 8: return of him pretty soon. And I also want to
Speaker 8: mention I love scrolling down on these The Detroit Lions
Speaker 8: injury report is lengthy.
Speaker 6: So the ones that stand out to me right now.
Speaker 8: DJ Chark, who's been having issues with that ankle, he
Speaker 8: did not practice, DeAndre Swift was limited, and they've just
Speaker 8: got a slew. I think it's about seven players who
Speaker 8: did not practice today. So something to keep an eye
Speaker 8: out on moving forward in the week.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Hayley.
Speaker 5: All Right, Well, Mike McCarthy was asked about this one
Speaker 5: and four team that's coming to AT and T Stadium.
Speaker 6: Off of their bye week.
Speaker 5: Their only win this season, as I said earlier in
Speaker 5: the show, back on September eighteenth, against the Washington Commanders
Speaker 5: of thirty six to twenty seven game real lopsided this
Speaker 5: year for the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 6: I expected more from Dan Campbell.
Speaker 5: I also think it's the HBO Hard Knocks curse. They
Speaker 5: intend to really bite these guys. But yeah, it's like
Speaker 5: they're sort of lacking the fight that you expected from Dan.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if you guys watched Hard Knocks,
Speaker 5: but you expected so much more.
Speaker 6: But still, Mike was asked, you know, do.
Speaker 5: You view this as a track game because we're all
Speaker 5: sitting here going and we'll get into some of the
Speaker 5: stats this is a game the Cowboys should easily when
Speaker 5: you've got Dak back and you've got a full compliment
Speaker 5: of your receivers, you've got guys on defense that are
Speaker 5: playing great. But he said, this is what he calls
Speaker 5: an uncommon opponent. In other words, they haven't played him
Speaker 5: since twenty nineteen. Reference the fact there's only six holdovers
Speaker 5: from that team, and that's why it was so important
Speaker 5: a self scout, you know, we I think it was
Speaker 5: interesting last year we asked Ezekiel Elliet about self scouting,
Speaker 5: which is so big for Mike McCarthy. He hands them
Speaker 5: their tapes. He wants them to say, what tells are
Speaker 5: you giving away? In other words, are you touching your
Speaker 5: hand towel at a certain time or do you touch
Speaker 5: your helmet at a certain time? Like what are your
Speaker 5: tells that guys are seeing on tape? And he even said,
Speaker 5: because today's schedule was really weird, it was a Sunday
Speaker 5: night game. They got back late, right, but today was
Speaker 5: a walkthrough. We got Mike McCarthy at three versus ten thirty.
Speaker 5: And he said that's because they wanted more time with
Speaker 5: the tape. The coaches wanted to be prepared on the
Speaker 5: front end. And so when we look at this opponent,
Speaker 5: you know, we've already talked about some of their injuries,
Speaker 5: are you show what stands out, what could be a
Speaker 5: trap for them, what could trip Dallas up as we
Speaker 5: look to this Sunday game.
Speaker 7: Okay, so I watched a couple of games.
Speaker 4: It was a struggle having to watch Philly, having to
Speaker 4: watch Philly again willingly against the lines.
Speaker 7: It hurt me.
Speaker 4: But I watched Obviously, I watched the game last week
Speaker 4: with the Patriots because I was just like, they pitched
Speaker 4: a shut out, you know, so I wanted to.
Speaker 7: See what they did in particular, and it truly I
Speaker 7: think it's a mon Saint Brown.
Speaker 4: He is a very big part of what they do
Speaker 4: offensively in the passing game, and essentially if you can
Speaker 4: take him away to some degree, it kind of falls apart.
Speaker 4: It kind of really falls apart. And then when you
Speaker 4: start looking at would you say his name is.
Speaker 7: Chalk Chop DJ talk J Chalk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he is, like he's intricate to what they do
Speaker 4: because he can make splash plays.
Speaker 7: But they really are run first team.
Speaker 4: So also too, I mean, even though like we could
Speaker 4: sit up here and be like Yeah, this is this
Speaker 4: could be an easy game.
Speaker 7: This line's offensive line, they will block, They they will block.
Speaker 4: They do a lot of traps, counters, pools. They're really
Speaker 4: trying to put your make your defense go one way
Speaker 4: and they go the other way. So this I also
Speaker 4: do think it's still a test for the defense specifically
Speaker 4: to you know, hone in on the misdirection and also
Speaker 4: be going up against another formidable offensive line. Like the
Speaker 4: line's offensive line is one of the better ones in
Speaker 4: the NFL. So absolutely yeah, and Penney sewell, like he's
Speaker 4: he's been like out coming in there. So I just
Speaker 4: want to see Dickerson. I just want to see how
Speaker 4: this defensive line fares. And then also we've been talking
Speaker 4: about the run defense for the Cowboys for a while.
Speaker 4: I want to see how they play as well. So
Speaker 4: that maybe is a place to where I think they
Speaker 4: could they could make something happen. Is but depending on
Speaker 4: DeAndre DeAndre Swift and seeing if he plays or not.
Speaker 6: What's crazy is we go.
Speaker 5: Back, you know we talk about this, uh, this defense
Speaker 5: for the Lions in case people forgot they took Penna
Speaker 5: sewel over Micah Parsons. Oh, I don't want to see
Speaker 5: Micah Parsons was sitting right there for Detroit.
Speaker 10: In fact, you know, it's funny actually, Jane, well you
Speaker 10: find that I have a SoundBite from Dan Campbell actually
Speaker 10: talking about that exact statement. So Jesse, let's roll that
Speaker 10: Micah Parsons SoundBite.
Speaker 11: I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily surprised, knowing the athlete
Speaker 11: that he isn't and was coming out now there. It
Speaker 11: was a little bit exactly where do you use him?
Speaker 11: How do you use him? Per sued, because there's he
Speaker 11: did he did have a skill set that's well, do
Speaker 11: you put him on the edge and let him rush
Speaker 11: a little? Or is he really a stackbacker? Is he
Speaker 11: a stackbacker that glitzes do you? You know, he's certainly
Speaker 11: athletic enough to cover. I mean, so there's all these things.
Speaker 11: It's just honing in on what he does best. And
Speaker 11: I think Dallas has done you know, Dan Quinningham and
Speaker 11: done a you know a great job with how they've
Speaker 11: used him. So there again, he's a rare talent. You know,
Speaker 11: he's got rare ability and uh and and he's he's
Speaker 11: dynamic now off the edge, that's he can do multiple things.
Speaker 11: But where you know, you put him on the perimeter
Speaker 11: and let him go. That's where he's he's uh, he
Speaker 11: really really excels.
Speaker 5: So you had Panay Seul seventh overall, Micah Parsons fell
Speaker 5: to twelfth, and you're like, well, we just didn't know
Speaker 5: what to do with him.
Speaker 8: He does so much.
Speaker 10: Well, they asked, They asked, Dan, are you surprised to
Speaker 10: see how Mike has been performing? And that's really what
Speaker 10: he said, and so you know, back to your point too.
Speaker 10: He was asked about strength on strength with the O
Speaker 10: line and then facing the Boys defense, and he said
Speaker 10: that he wants to take advantage of the areas that
Speaker 10: have not been hit yet on the Cowboys defense, he
Speaker 10: wants to exploit them and said that the Lions goal
Speaker 10: will be to try and stay out of third and
Speaker 10: seven plus down territory, to stand front of the sticks. Well,
Speaker 10: it starts with running the ball, That's what he said.
Speaker 4: Both teams are bottom of the league and third down efficiency.
Speaker 4: One thing about the Lions that they just like the
Speaker 4: Eagles last week, if it's fourth, if it's third and something,
Speaker 4: fourth and one, they going forward.
Speaker 5: They are not scared aggressive, they are not scared, and
Speaker 5: they going at Micah Parsons, And I want to ask
Speaker 5: you that, do you, ladies see since they I'm not
Speaker 5: saying they gave you the Broncos blueprint, right, but because
Speaker 5: they kept going after Micah Parsons, do you see other
Speaker 5: opposing offenses trying to do the.
Speaker 4: Same that I can try, But it doesn't mean they're
Speaker 4: going to be successful. I mean, like what Jalen Hurst
Speaker 4: does is very specific. What they do schematically is very specific.
Speaker 4: It's not easily replicated. But more importantly, I think that
Speaker 4: Micah is going to learn from it, and he probably
Speaker 4: ain't gonna give you a chance to even do that.
Speaker 2: No, mo.
Speaker 4: He probably gonna be like, you know what that's because
Speaker 4: actually that's what the lines did a lot in this
Speaker 4: In the game against the Eagles. They didn't give him,
Speaker 4: they didn't give him the chance to have the option.
Speaker 4: They just completely closed on him and that was the
Speaker 4: end of it.
Speaker 7: So we'll see.
Speaker 4: I think, like I said, I think the teach tape
Speaker 4: is good for Micah, but they did put him in
Speaker 4: weird situations that he has not been in yet and
Speaker 4: he's gonna have to learn from it.
Speaker 5: Well, I was just gonna say, I just feel like
Speaker 5: Micah is the type of guy that got uh not
Speaker 5: embarrassed on national television. But remember he's a Pennsylvania guy,
Speaker 5: and so the pit fan base is I mean, the
Speaker 5: pen fan base is huge going on the road, and
Speaker 5: he just strikes me as that type of guy, like,
Speaker 5: fool me once, don't he won't be fooled again. So
Speaker 5: I think that that's what sort of stood out to me.
Speaker 5: And to your point that offense is something else with
Speaker 5: the Eagles, I think you also have to factor in
Speaker 5: that Micah was not one hundred percent. I mean, as
Speaker 5: much as he talked about, as much as he talked
Speaker 5: about I'm being ready to go, you could just see it.
Speaker 5: There was certain plays where he wanted to tackle and
Speaker 5: he couldn't and he couldn't, you know, accelerate after the
Speaker 5: fact to chase people down like.
Speaker 8: What we've been so accustomed to seeing. And I think
Speaker 8: that that kind of stuff is a learning experience for
Speaker 8: him as well. You know, as these athletes, they want
Speaker 8: to push themselves, they want to be able to be
Speaker 8: in games because they're they're game changers. But if you're
Speaker 8: not one hundred percent, then you're not a game changer.
Speaker 8: You're just another guy on the line. If that makes sense,
Speaker 8: which we know Micah is not another guy.
Speaker 6: I want to clear it up.
Speaker 8: Before my Twitter mentions get all blown up. Micah is
Speaker 8: that guy.
Speaker 6: So I think going into this week, maybe.
Speaker 8: They're a little bit more reserved on his reps, or
Speaker 8: they're just monitoring that a little bit more so he
Speaker 8: can have that bounce back fool me once for me
Speaker 8: twice type mentality.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and then to that point, I'm so glad you
Speaker 10: brought that up. I was just about to say that,
Speaker 10: but look at the pace the Eagles were playing at.
Speaker 10: I mean, there was no time for anybody to even rest.
Speaker 10: So I think Mica not playing at you know, full
Speaker 10: one hundred like we're used to seeing. And then on
Speaker 10: top of that, the constant pace of being like this,
Speaker 10: it's only going to make them better.
Speaker 6: All Right, Do we have a past interference for us
Speaker 6: this week?
Speaker 10: You know what, I'm going to save our past interference
Speaker 10: for tomorrow because it's gonna be really good.
Speaker 6: I promise.
Speaker 7: I love that.
Speaker 6: All Right, Well, that's gonna do that, girls talk. I
Speaker 6: will be back here tomorrow. Haley, are you on the
Speaker 6: show tomorrow?
Speaker 5: Is it Kelsey Charles depends on if Kelsey's here gotcha,
Speaker 5: all right. Well, enjoyed this roundtable with you ladies. Keep
Speaker 5: in mind if you've become a loyal follow over follower
Speaker 5: of us, and we appreciate that. No pod on Friday,
Speaker 5: but we will really break down the Detroit Lions tomorrow
Speaker 5: and excited to have team reporter Danny Rodgers on there
Speaker 5: to help us do that. Until next time, we will
Speaker 5: see you on Thursday and Jazz. Thank you per usual.
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