WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Bulletin Boards 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.200 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:16.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football club. Boys. Are you ready 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.840 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:24.160 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:28.480 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.839 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.680 It is Friday, December tenth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.960 episodes number seventy six. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.480 The Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.960 I'm so excited. It's Friday. It's Friday afternoon. You know, 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:53.800 I'm actually started thinking maybe we ought to be an 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.400 afternoon show anyway, because my mood gets better as it 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.600 is going. What's going on with this? You know, it's 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.880 just good after an afternoon show. You're like, we walked 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.520 out and you're like, man, I hate this wasn't a Friday. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.840 It wasn't a Frienday, Okay, I don't want to agree. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.880 I don't want to agree with Derek right now. But Friday, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.880 like Friday at late morning, early afternoon before the weekend, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.080 especially during football season at the time of the day. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.840 I wish you could bottle that up so good. I 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.679 love that time you're on one like this, You're gonna 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.119 be a great show. You're not playing. I'm not playing 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.640 on Sunday. You're not. But I'm in a good move. Okay, 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:35.039 good move. Don't ruin it. I mean no, let's no, 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.039 we're not going to ruin it. Okay, good, I'm saying, 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:38.959 don't change it. So we got a good move, we 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:40.880 got a good hour, we got a good hour here. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.640 We're gonna give everybody a little perspective. There's a lot 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.919 of stuff floating around this game. Actually, I'm actually enjoying 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.760 all of this. And we're talking about before we get 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:49.960 to that though, real quick, Nick, you want to give 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.880 me seventy six? Seventy six, um, I mean flows that last. 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.280 I'm sorry I was. I had a lot of names 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.080 just flashed seriously in my head that aren't really good players. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.440 But that one I don't know is there is there 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.040 a name Alan Vinengrad for seriously, that name just he 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.799 may not be seventy six, Yeah, Alan Vinegrad. I don't 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.000 think he's seventy six. Most of the names he throws 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.720 in these numbers have heel Adams. That's probably a little 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.600 bit before you, right, what do you what do you 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.160 have to flow? Finished? Flozel was way before age, he 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:27.200 was before me before you. Really what name did you say? 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.639 Nick vine Grad? Alan? Oh my god? Did he play 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:41.079 Helen vinerad ninety one? Wow? Larry Befell. That's not a 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.280 great story. But he was a first round pick. Didn't 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.880 turn out well for him. But um, Flozell Adams, He 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.240 Flozel was one of my favorite people. Yeah, I actually 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.880 like Flozie. Yeah yeah, yeah. And he'd never talked to 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.280 the media, and and for some reason, we talked to 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.240 anybody that right, but we had we had a girl 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.640 working for us as he was a web developer, Aaron Johnson, 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.000 and they became friends. And so for some reason he 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.400 was like, I'll talk to you. Ain't talking to any 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.280 of these other m efforts, is what he would say. 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.000 So everything about the media. Media, So every year, one 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.560 one time a year I would get to talk to him. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.519 And it wasn't great or anything like that, goes Flozell. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.480 He didn't really have the greatest personality in the world, 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.840 but it was pretty good. He's a good player. I 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.120 thought he was a really very good player, very underrated player. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.000 I love the story and you've told it before, maybe 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.919 on the air about Parcels. Yeah. Yeah, he was like 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.600 fourth year, fifth year, and this isn't working out and 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.239 he's gonna be free agent. He's out of here, like 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.760 he's not very good. And then Parcels shows up and 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.040 you know he's gonna clean house and it's like, Bill, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.040 what's what's the first thing you're gonna do. It's like, well, 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.280 we're gonna have to resign Flozell Adams. You're kidding me. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.480 Look at this guy left tackle. It's a franchise tackle. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:50.240 We were like, like, the game has passed Parcels, I 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.320 don't know. And then he just made five Pro Bowls. Yeah, 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.520 so yeah, he knew what he was doing. Pretty good coach, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.600 he knew what he was doing. A good coach, pretty 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.760 good coach, and a good player. Absolutely good player that 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.280 that people. And he was deaf in his right ear. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.040 Is that right or left ear? That was? I don't 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.000 remember the ear, but but it was one herring lust 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.360 in one ear, and so you get your false started game. Yeah, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.080 there's no doubt that was a part of that. But 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.000 but he was a really good player and he kept 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.360 quarterback clean. I know, just like the wear we'll give 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.520 you offside the game, would you take it? Absolutely? All right, 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.840 that's a good seventy six. Let's not jump into the 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.160 drama like I love the drama. There's a lot of 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:28.240 drama going on in this game. The lead kind of hard, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.880 all right. So, um So, Mike lccart a few days ago, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.560 he says to the media, We're gonna win this game. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.080 I'm confident in that. What am I supposed to say? 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.320 I fully expect to win every game I ever competed him. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.280 Dak was asked about the comment. Dak says, yeah, he 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.800 said something near at the beat and then yeah, so 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.520 basically you get the point. And he says, I don't 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.000 think he said anything different than anybody. Everybody in our 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.400 building thought, uh, he just voiced it. So now we've 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.360 got to make sure we're accountable for our words. And 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.520 then last night it goes up a level because Ron 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.719 Rivera is asked about it on the show that they 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.559 do for I guess, you know Washington Football Team website. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.159 I don't even know what they call Washington Football Team 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.720 dot com whatever, Talking Football Team, whatever it is, but 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.880 they were on that show and he's asked about it. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.839 His response was you do that for a couple of reasons. One, 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.120 you want to get in your in our head, and 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.520 he's talking about the Washington football team. Secondly, he's trying 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.360 to convince his team. He's now made it about him. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.320 I think it's a big mistake question for you guys, 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.120 is was it a mistake for Mike McCarthy to say 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.240 what he said about this upcoming game? Hell? No, it's awesome. No, 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:42.040 it's fun. We're sitting here juiced up talking about the rivalry. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.719 This is the first time I felt like Dallas Washington 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.120 was a rivalry since I started working here. It's it's 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:54.599 sleepytown USA. It's boring, dead rivalry, garbage franchise that hasn't 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.920 done anything in a decade. More than a decade. When 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.200 am I even talking about like it's for all of 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.440 the old heads that talk about how great this used 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.240 to be. I've never seen it ever once in my life. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.160 So like the fact that there's some juice to it. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.200 I love it. I think it's fun as hell. Yeah, 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.120 I mean who cares. Of course he's gonna say that. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:15.920 I mean, seriously, of course that guy's gonna say that 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.440 because that Ron Rivera, I mean, great coach, great story, 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.440 all that, and the next interesting thing he says will 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.719 be the first. I mean, I mean, seriously, look at 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.320 him on the silent look at him. I mean, that's 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.120 just what he does. Outstanding coach, great player when he 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.480 was during his time, all that stuff. I'm not talking 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.080 bad about him, but that's not his style. So of 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.320 course he's not gonna say that. But I can promise 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.280 you this McCarthy doesn't say it to like say, I 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.040 don't know if our guys are ready for this game, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.040 like I gotta, I gotta convince them. I don't think 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.440 it's not like that. This isn't like Jimmy Johnson calling 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.760 in saying he'll put it in three inch headlines or whatever. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.360 But you think you think he went into that press 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.440 conference wanting to do that, maybe not in the way 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:00.960 that he did it, but wanting to do that. Or 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.200 do you think this was just I'm answering the question 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.160 and it came out and then he's like, I'm not 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.520 walking away from it. I think, first of all, and 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.760 maybe I'm just boring right now, but I don't see 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.640 any of this as a big deal. I don't get 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.560 why it's becoming such a big deal, but whatever, it's 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.520 just fun to talk about that, I guess. But the 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.000 way I see it is a coach that wasn't at 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.000 a game the week before, wasn't there, you got to 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.720 see from the outside perspective, is pumped to get back in. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.760 He goes in there and he's like, you know, just 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.560 like the energy you're in today, that's similar to that. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.840 So that's that kind of the the energy that he 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.800 had were It leads you to say things like that, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.640 like yeah, we're gonna win this game and all that. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.720 So I just think it's more him being hyped up 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.119 of being back and back in it with his team, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.520 rather than him being any different than what he normally 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:54.680 is behind cameras. I mean, I said to Dave afterwards 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.920 or Rob money all, I just said, well, that's if 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.240 it's a mistake. If he thinks that what he said 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.560 as a mistake, that means he thinks that they're gonna lose. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.640 He thinks that Cowboys are gonna lose and he's gonna 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:10.080 be wrong. So basically he's also making a prediction. Right. No, wait, 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.560 I don't know if I'm following that because rivera prediction 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.280 because he's saying I think it's a mistake to do that, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.480 or is he saying I took from it. What he 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.160 was saying was as a coach, doing that hurts you 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.040 more than it helps you. Well. He said that he 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.920 thinks it takes to focus off your players and puts 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.559 it on you good, which exactly I was thinking that 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.839 that might be a strategy that a coach would use 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:37.480 if he feels like he need to do that. Now, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.040 I think you have to do that when when your 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:40.880 team can't handle the pressure of that. I don't think 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.440 this is a team that shirks away from pressure. It's 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.439 not often in life that a cliche actually works, like 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.040 literally and this is the one that I say all 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.800 the time, and it literally works this time. You coach 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.920 your team, I'll coach my team, which is what mccarthur 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.559 which is today. Yeah, and that's the thing like that, 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.240 we say that all the time. But stay in your 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.920 own lane. You coach your football team, do it exactly 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:03.640 what you want to do, and we'll do it this 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.520 way I mean, and then we'll just play on Sunday 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.319 and see what happened. Yeah, I do think there was 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.120 I think there was strategy here though for Mike, because 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.760 I think it was something else preplanned, yes, well, or 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.240 or he just got real carried away because I pulled 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.280 up the transcripts just to make sure I'm not crazy, 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.160 and that's I saw some people on social giving we 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.559 in the media crap like we baited Mike into this, 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.679 and ever he didn't. They let it gave him an 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.120 option to be able to kind of tell the question 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.760 was just about it seems like you have a different 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.080 problem on offense every time, Like sometimes it's your quarterback, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.959 sometimes it's your receiver, sometimes it's your line. Like it 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.320 wasn't even about Washington, it was just about your offense 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.319 has been kind of herky jerky? Why do you think 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.839 that is? And the answers like two hundred words long, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.360 and he gets down to the bottom of it and 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.040 he's like, we're gonna go win the game, and like 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.480 so he I just feel like he came in with 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.199 the idea that he wanted to say something like that. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.280 Either that or he just kind of blacked out forgot 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.440 that he was on a microphone. It's not get how 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.720 he ended that conversation. And he did kind of drop 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.280 a cuss word or two, so to say that he 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:07.920 maybe he got carried away. I don't think he went 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.520 in thinking he was gonna do it was a mood 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.360 like he was in a mood that being said, I mean, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.719 get the beam, get the bleep button ready here? You 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.240 never know what Derek might say. But the funny thing, no, 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.760 and then the Dallas media tried to basically give him 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.800 some off ramps. They were like, yeah, are you sure? 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.800 Bulletin like that sounds like bullets and bore material. Is 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.559 that how you really feel? And I love that was 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:29.880 my favorite part because he was like, what do you 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.000 want me to say? I expect to win every game 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.040 I play, which I kind of chuckle at these storylines 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.520 because like working in this building talking to people off 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.680 the record, that's how they feel about every game they play. 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.680 Like they literally shocking if somebody in this building tells 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.760 you I don't know about this game and like doesn't happen, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.880 and like in like the most disrespectful terms when they're like, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.080 we're gonna smash these b words like every week, even 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:57.559 when they lose, you know, and like yeah, exactly, yeah. Um. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.160 So he just was thinking about DV like he would. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.160 He was not exactly. Larry Brown used running backs coach 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:05.719 like he was notorious that he would be like, yeah, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.360 we're getting him. No, he would also be noturius, be like, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.640 who'd y'all pick? And you're good feeling did y'all pick 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.680 against us a whole wait? What did this? Yeah? Yeah, 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.240 no matter what the outcome was, that was just feeling 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.720 every mood. Oh yeah, he's that one day in Seattle 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.720 and he was like, they never all four of y'all 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.520 picked against us, Like, yeah, they never stopped by to 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.439 say hi when we're right. They never hear that. Now now, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.160 that never, and we were that day anyway. The point 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.920 I just I appreciate being willing to just say what 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.560 you already think and not thinking it's a big deal. 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.520 It's entertaining. Like I said, I think about this a lot. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.839 Like the rivalries in the NFL are very real for 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.760 the fans especially. I do this every year, shout out 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.880 my DMV Cowboy fans, like this is real for y'all 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.559 A lot of them and a boatload on them, and 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.480 this matters because this is going to dictate all of 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.080 your conversations for like the next year. But inside the building, 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.600 I feel like NFL rivalries are kind of a diminishing thing, 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.439 you know, just in terms of like it's it's just 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.440 not the same. Like guys move around teams so much 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.360 like you go from one team to the next in 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.160 a couple of years. You train with all these guys 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.320 in the offseason, You went to school with a lot 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.959 of these guys. Keep going do you sit after the 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.120 game after this overtime loss? It back and forth where 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.080 there was seven fights, and then all of a sudden, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.959 these guys are laying down or they're sitting down, and 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.600 they've got their jerseys and they're signing it and they've replayed, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.640 you know, and they come running off the field, and 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.480 you know, you want to get a good like photo 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.719 of the guys. I guarantee it's happened where you're like 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.880 getting him coming off the field and he's like, why 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.120 has he got a Green Eagles jersey on? Like this 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.120 is messing up my shot? You know. It's like I 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.000 really feel and I don't I'm not necessarily complaining, but 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:48.520 I just think this is the way it is. Like 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.880 back in the day when free agency wasn't a thing. 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.080 You just you play for the Cowboys until you can't 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.040 play anymore, and you only see the guys from Washington 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.400 the two times a year you play Michael Irvin, Yeah, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.880 who is now still even on the air, like he 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.559 is a hardcore cowboys band. It's right, it's us verse them, 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.559 meaning the other, this team verse the other team. In 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.000 today's NFL, the US is all of the players, and 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.000 the them is the whole outside world, like everybody that 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.280 doesn't understand our lives. It's us versus them, and so 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.719 I think it diminishes these rivalries a little a little bit. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.680 But when you get some juice in the news cycle 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.000 going like this, where you know, Ron Rivera is talking 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.240 to his guys about like they don't respect us, they 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.840 think we're a bunch of bombs, and Dak is like, hell, yeah, 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.680 we are going to win this game. Let's go, Mike, 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.559 I love take it up. Yeah yeah. And so this 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.600 is good for the sport in my opinion, like people 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.760 actually having the guts to put it out there that 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:41.880 like yeah, we want to, we're we want to and 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.880 we're going to win this game. It just makes it 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.160 more fun for everybody. You can't have a team full 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.000 of alpha types that are that that hears something like 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.040 that and It doesn't get them juiced a little bit 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.959 like it's gotta It gets you a little bit like, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.800 oh really, it's like that. So yeah, it doesn't mean 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.199 it necessarily changes your ability to catch the ball or 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.280 to be able to you know, run back a kickoff, 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.599 whatever it is. It doesn't change your abilities, but it 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.839 does give you a little bit more impetus where I 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.679 really want this to happen a certain way. You know, 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.240 this is the most excited I've ever been for a 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:17.880 Dallas Washington game meets. This is probably the this is 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.600 this would be the seventeenth one that I've watched, I think. Yeah, 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.680 so it's the earliest they could win the division, you 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.600 know what I mean. Like not technically they can't win 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.520 it this weekend. They actually can't. They can't they can't 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.920 possibly win it next week. A lot of things have 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:34.920 to happen, but they could win it possibly next week, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.920 definitely by the time they face Washington in two weeks. Again, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.480 they have an opportunity. If they win these next three, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.800 they have an opportunity to clinch down. I mean, you 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.840 win this game, you're in a spot. It's over. As 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.720 far as I'm like I said earlier this week, if 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.360 you can't go beat the Giants, man, you don't need 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.880 to get in the playoffs, right. I mean, but you 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.600 act like that's not gonna be a tougher game. It 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.160 will be. It won't be a stuff as this game. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.120 I don't think, no, none the games they're going to 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.440 be as tough as this game. That's I'm sticking to that. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.440 Remember I said that, Yeah, I do think that. Yeah, 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.560 I still think they're gonna win. Yeah, you know, but 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.280 I think it's gonna be right now. The first thing, Hey, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.880 if McCarthy's going to give his on Wednesday year, I 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.880 guess you wanted to join in a making pick. You know. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.720 As soon as I heard that, one of the main 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.840 things that popped into my head was like, Okay, hopefully 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.760 it's not the kind of confidence that they were having 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.280 to the point where they came out. Was it for 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:36.040 that Denver game? Was it that one where the they 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.040 after the game they started you started hearing, Okay, well 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.560 maybe they we're feeling too confident back there, and that's 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.720 kind of why they thought, oh, they got this game 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.680 in the bag and they were gonna go out there 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.640 without the right amount of preparation or whatever. Too worried 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.440 about them losing. So it just took me back to that. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.400 I'm not saying this is what's going to happen this 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:02.080 week now, No, No, I'm just no. I'm pretty sure 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:07.480 he's very different from it. No, don't do that because 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.800 like that that's a that's a valid point. But I 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.760 don't think that's going to happen because I think what 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.400 got the whole team that way was how they had 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.120 been playing. I mean that they were playing like crap 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.600 in early on against the Giants, Panthers, Patriots and still winning, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.920 still figuring out a way to win. So they okay, 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.480 we'll sleep walk through then Verbon, we'll block upon here 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:29.920 and we'll make a play, and we're gonna go win. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.800 And it didn't happen. That was reality check there and 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.320 then and then it kind of snowballed for some other reasons. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.520 But I don't know if one guy's comments are going 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.360 to get them exactly. I think it's the fact that 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.640 they haven't been playing as well. We know that. And 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.720 and now Washington, I mean, they won four in a row, 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.920 so I think now for the first time all season, 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.920 I think the pressure is now in Washington because they 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.320 hadn't been playing for anything before. I mean, they were 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.800 just two and six. I mean, just go out there, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.160 let's see. But now they're six and six. Now you're 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:00.800 in the playoffs. Now you have a chance to go 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:02.720 win skin. This really matters because if you don't win, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.280 they're pretty much out, I think, I mean, they're gonna 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.320 have to be absolutely perfect down the stretch. It's a 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.760 really great point. I think the pressure is on Washington now, 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.000 you're just that's ever been. It's a playoff game for them. Yeah, 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.560 essentially toiling away and noon games. They I think they 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.480 beat Seattle on Monday night football or Sunday night football whatever. 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:23.560 But like playing these noon games, nobody's really paying attention 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.280 to You can follow your opponents other than Tampa Bay 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.480 wasn't great, right, I don't remember everybody played. They beat 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.480 the Raiders. I mean, you know, they're beating teams. The 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.480 Cowboys haven't, so I mean you can't just say that, 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.560 but I just just kind of playing. They beat some 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.359 crap teams and they have, by the way, the Raiders 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.600 aren't great, but the Raiders beat the Cowboys. So do 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.119 you get then say, well, you see my boys, you 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.000 see my screenshot from the other day. The most unbelievable 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.080 thing out Just go go look at the Raiders, like 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.760 last five games, just getting smashed by everybody. Not Oh no, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.040 I did see that. This is the most cowboy thing ever. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:00.480 Can't score twenty against the Giants, can't score twenty against Washington. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.200 Can't they get blown out by Kansas City like a 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.840 college team would, and then they put up forty on 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.520 the Cowboys at home. I just don't see how Washington's 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.600 gonna score. Yeah, I don't either until it happens, right, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.760 I mean, that's that's the tough part. Yeah, don't tell 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.720 how they'll score. They'll they'll they'll run the ball well 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.679 on first down, and they'll they'll get they'll pick up 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.399 third downs, and that guy'll run around and make a 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.080 few plays here and there, and they'll drive, you know, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.000 and then they'll they'll score for sixteen points and just 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.920 shut down the Cowy that's how they'll win. But I 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:35.760 think the Cowboys can get the twenty points. I don't 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.760 think though, Well, I tell you how, I see it 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.920 as a possibility. If Dallas doesn't win this game, to me, 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.560 it'll be because they got enough pressure on deck to 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.200 where they could create turnovers and whether that be sack fumbles, 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.840 whether that be forcing him into bad throws, that's how 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:51.800 they beat them. Because we know right now if you 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.680 look at the matchups, the biggest matchup that favors in 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.240 my opinion, that favors Washington is their defensive tackles against 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.320 the Cowboys interior offensive lineman, not counting Jack Martin. And 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.560 so if you look at it from that standpoint, if 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.920 they can create that kind of pressure that creates a 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.520 problem for Dallas, then I think that's how they could 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.960 win a game like its creators turnovers, creating that short 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:15.080 feel not only stopping Dallas from scoring, but also creating 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.119 scoring opportunities for their offense without having the drive to 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:18.840