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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, December tenth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen,
Speaker 1: episodes number seventy six. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. It's Friday. It's Friday afternoon. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm actually started thinking maybe we ought to be an
Speaker 1: afternoon show anyway, because my mood gets better as it
Speaker 1: is going. What's going on with this? You know, it's
Speaker 1: just good after an afternoon show. You're like, we walked
Speaker 1: out and you're like, man, I hate this wasn't a Friday.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a Frienday, Okay, I don't want to agree.
Speaker 1: I don't want to agree with Derek right now. But Friday,
Speaker 1: like Friday at late morning, early afternoon before the weekend,
Speaker 1: especially during football season at the time of the day.
Speaker 1: I wish you could bottle that up so good. I
Speaker 1: love that time you're on one like this, You're gonna
Speaker 1: be a great show. You're not playing. I'm not playing
Speaker 1: on Sunday. You're not. But I'm in a good move. Okay,
Speaker 1: good move. Don't ruin it. I mean no, let's no,
Speaker 1: we're not going to ruin it. Okay, good, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: don't change it. So we got a good move, we
Speaker 1: got a good hour, we got a good hour here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give everybody a little perspective. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff floating around this game. Actually, I'm actually enjoying
Speaker 1: all of this. And we're talking about before we get
Speaker 1: to that though, real quick, Nick, you want to give
Speaker 1: me seventy six? Seventy six, um, I mean flows that last.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I was. I had a lot of names
Speaker 1: just flashed seriously in my head that aren't really good players.
Speaker 1: But that one I don't know is there is there
Speaker 1: a name Alan Vinengrad for seriously, that name just he
Speaker 1: may not be seventy six, Yeah, Alan Vinegrad. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's seventy six. Most of the names he throws
Speaker 1: in these numbers have heel Adams. That's probably a little
Speaker 1: bit before you, right, what do you what do you
Speaker 1: have to flow? Finished? Flozel was way before age, he
Speaker 1: was before me before you. Really what name did you say?
Speaker 1: Nick vine Grad? Alan? Oh my god? Did he play
Speaker 1: Helen vinerad ninety one? Wow? Larry Befell. That's not a
Speaker 1: great story. But he was a first round pick. Didn't
Speaker 1: turn out well for him. But um, Flozell Adams, He
Speaker 1: Flozel was one of my favorite people. Yeah, I actually
Speaker 1: like Flozie. Yeah yeah, yeah. And he'd never talked to
Speaker 1: the media, and and for some reason, we talked to
Speaker 1: anybody that right, but we had we had a girl
Speaker 1: working for us as he was a web developer, Aaron Johnson,
Speaker 1: and they became friends. And so for some reason he
Speaker 1: was like, I'll talk to you. Ain't talking to any
Speaker 1: of these other m efforts, is what he would say.
Speaker 1: So everything about the media. Media, So every year, one
Speaker 1: one time a year I would get to talk to him.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't great or anything like that, goes Flozell.
Speaker 1: He didn't really have the greatest personality in the world,
Speaker 1: but it was pretty good. He's a good player. I
Speaker 1: thought he was a really very good player, very underrated player.
Speaker 1: I love the story and you've told it before, maybe
Speaker 1: on the air about Parcels. Yeah. Yeah, he was like
Speaker 1: fourth year, fifth year, and this isn't working out and
Speaker 1: he's gonna be free agent. He's out of here, like
Speaker 1: he's not very good. And then Parcels shows up and
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna clean house and it's like, Bill,
Speaker 1: what's what's the first thing you're gonna do. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to resign Flozell Adams. You're kidding me.
Speaker 1: Look at this guy left tackle. It's a franchise tackle.
Speaker 1: We were like, like, the game has passed Parcels, I
Speaker 1: don't know. And then he just made five Pro Bowls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, he knew what he was doing. Pretty good coach,
Speaker 1: he knew what he was doing. A good coach, pretty
Speaker 1: good coach, and a good player. Absolutely good player that
Speaker 1: that people. And he was deaf in his right ear.
Speaker 1: Is that right or left ear? That was? I don't
Speaker 1: remember the ear, but but it was one herring lust
Speaker 1: in one ear, and so you get your false started game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that was a part of that. But
Speaker 1: but he was a really good player and he kept
Speaker 1: quarterback clean. I know, just like the wear we'll give
Speaker 1: you offside the game, would you take it? Absolutely? All right,
Speaker 1: that's a good seventy six. Let's not jump into the
Speaker 1: drama like I love the drama. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: drama going on in this game. The lead kind of hard,
Speaker 1: all right. So, um So, Mike lccart a few days ago,
Speaker 1: he says to the media, We're gonna win this game.
Speaker 1: I'm confident in that. What am I supposed to say?
Speaker 1: I fully expect to win every game I ever competed him.
Speaker 1: Dak was asked about the comment. Dak says, yeah, he
Speaker 1: said something near at the beat and then yeah, so
Speaker 1: basically you get the point. And he says, I don't
Speaker 1: think he said anything different than anybody. Everybody in our
Speaker 1: building thought, uh, he just voiced it. So now we've
Speaker 1: got to make sure we're accountable for our words. And
Speaker 1: then last night it goes up a level because Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera is asked about it on the show that they
Speaker 1: do for I guess, you know Washington Football Team website.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what they call Washington Football Team
Speaker 1: dot com whatever, Talking Football Team, whatever it is, but
Speaker 1: they were on that show and he's asked about it.
Speaker 1: His response was you do that for a couple of reasons. One,
Speaker 1: you want to get in your in our head, and
Speaker 1: he's talking about the Washington football team. Secondly, he's trying
Speaker 1: to convince his team. He's now made it about him.
Speaker 1: I think it's a big mistake question for you guys,
Speaker 1: is was it a mistake for Mike McCarthy to say
Speaker 1: what he said about this upcoming game? Hell? No, it's awesome. No,
Speaker 1: it's fun. We're sitting here juiced up talking about the rivalry.
Speaker 1: This is the first time I felt like Dallas Washington
Speaker 1: was a rivalry since I started working here. It's it's
Speaker 1: sleepytown USA. It's boring, dead rivalry, garbage franchise that hasn't
Speaker 1: done anything in a decade. More than a decade. When
Speaker 1: am I even talking about like it's for all of
Speaker 1: the old heads that talk about how great this used
Speaker 1: to be. I've never seen it ever once in my life.
Speaker 1: So like the fact that there's some juice to it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I think it's fun as hell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean who cares. Of course he's gonna say that.
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, of course that guy's gonna say that
Speaker 1: because that Ron Rivera, I mean, great coach, great story,
Speaker 1: all that, and the next interesting thing he says will
Speaker 1: be the first. I mean, I mean, seriously, look at
Speaker 1: him on the silent look at him. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just what he does. Outstanding coach, great player when he
Speaker 1: was during his time, all that stuff. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: bad about him, but that's not his style. So of
Speaker 1: course he's not gonna say that. But I can promise
Speaker 1: you this McCarthy doesn't say it to like say, I
Speaker 1: don't know if our guys are ready for this game,
Speaker 1: like I gotta, I gotta convince them. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's not like that. This isn't like Jimmy Johnson calling
Speaker 1: in saying he'll put it in three inch headlines or whatever.
Speaker 1: But you think you think he went into that press
Speaker 1: conference wanting to do that, maybe not in the way
Speaker 1: that he did it, but wanting to do that. Or
Speaker 1: do you think this was just I'm answering the question
Speaker 1: and it came out and then he's like, I'm not
Speaker 1: walking away from it. I think, first of all, and
Speaker 1: maybe I'm just boring right now, but I don't see
Speaker 1: any of this as a big deal. I don't get
Speaker 1: why it's becoming such a big deal, but whatever, it's
Speaker 1: just fun to talk about that, I guess. But the
Speaker 1: way I see it is a coach that wasn't at
Speaker 1: a game the week before, wasn't there, you got to
Speaker 1: see from the outside perspective, is pumped to get back in.
Speaker 1: He goes in there and he's like, you know, just
Speaker 1: like the energy you're in today, that's similar to that.
Speaker 1: So that's that kind of the the energy that he
Speaker 1: had were It leads you to say things like that,
Speaker 1: like yeah, we're gonna win this game and all that.
Speaker 1: So I just think it's more him being hyped up
Speaker 1: of being back and back in it with his team,
Speaker 1: rather than him being any different than what he normally
Speaker 1: is behind cameras. I mean, I said to Dave afterwards
Speaker 1: or Rob money all, I just said, well, that's if
Speaker 1: it's a mistake. If he thinks that what he said
Speaker 1: as a mistake, that means he thinks that they're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: He thinks that Cowboys are gonna lose and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be wrong. So basically he's also making a prediction. Right. No, wait,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm following that because rivera prediction
Speaker 1: because he's saying I think it's a mistake to do that,
Speaker 1: or is he saying I took from it. What he
Speaker 1: was saying was as a coach, doing that hurts you
Speaker 1: more than it helps you. Well. He said that he
Speaker 1: thinks it takes to focus off your players and puts
Speaker 1: it on you good, which exactly I was thinking that
Speaker 1: that might be a strategy that a coach would use
Speaker 1: if he feels like he need to do that. Now,
Speaker 1: I think you have to do that when when your
Speaker 1: team can't handle the pressure of that. I don't think
Speaker 1: this is a team that shirks away from pressure. It's
Speaker 1: not often in life that a cliche actually works, like
Speaker 1: literally and this is the one that I say all
Speaker 1: the time, and it literally works this time. You coach
Speaker 1: your team, I'll coach my team, which is what mccarthur
Speaker 1: which is today. Yeah, and that's the thing like that,
Speaker 1: we say that all the time. But stay in your
Speaker 1: own lane. You coach your football team, do it exactly
Speaker 1: what you want to do, and we'll do it this
Speaker 1: way I mean, and then we'll just play on Sunday
Speaker 1: and see what happened. Yeah, I do think there was
Speaker 1: I think there was strategy here though for Mike, because
Speaker 1: I think it was something else preplanned, yes, well, or
Speaker 1: or he just got real carried away because I pulled
Speaker 1: up the transcripts just to make sure I'm not crazy,
Speaker 1: and that's I saw some people on social giving we
Speaker 1: in the media crap like we baited Mike into this,
Speaker 1: and ever he didn't. They let it gave him an
Speaker 1: option to be able to kind of tell the question
Speaker 1: was just about it seems like you have a different
Speaker 1: problem on offense every time, Like sometimes it's your quarterback,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's your receiver, sometimes it's your line. Like it
Speaker 1: wasn't even about Washington, it was just about your offense
Speaker 1: has been kind of herky jerky? Why do you think
Speaker 1: that is? And the answers like two hundred words long,
Speaker 1: and he gets down to the bottom of it and
Speaker 1: he's like, we're gonna go win the game, and like
Speaker 1: so he I just feel like he came in with
Speaker 1: the idea that he wanted to say something like that.
Speaker 1: Either that or he just kind of blacked out forgot
Speaker 1: that he was on a microphone. It's not get how
Speaker 1: he ended that conversation. And he did kind of drop
Speaker 1: a cuss word or two, so to say that he
Speaker 1: maybe he got carried away. I don't think he went
Speaker 1: in thinking he was gonna do it was a mood
Speaker 1: like he was in a mood that being said, I mean,
Speaker 1: get the beam, get the bleep button ready here? You
Speaker 1: never know what Derek might say. But the funny thing, no,
Speaker 1: and then the Dallas media tried to basically give him
Speaker 1: some off ramps. They were like, yeah, are you sure?
Speaker 1: Bulletin like that sounds like bullets and bore material. Is
Speaker 1: that how you really feel? And I love that was
Speaker 1: my favorite part because he was like, what do you
Speaker 1: want me to say? I expect to win every game
Speaker 1: I play, which I kind of chuckle at these storylines
Speaker 1: because like working in this building talking to people off
Speaker 1: the record, that's how they feel about every game they play.
Speaker 1: Like they literally shocking if somebody in this building tells
Speaker 1: you I don't know about this game and like doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: and like in like the most disrespectful terms when they're like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna smash these b words like every week, even
Speaker 1: when they lose, you know, and like yeah, exactly, yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: So he just was thinking about DV like he would.
Speaker 1: He was not exactly. Larry Brown used running backs coach
Speaker 1: like he was notorious that he would be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're getting him. No, he would also be noturius, be like,
Speaker 1: who'd y'all pick? And you're good feeling did y'all pick
Speaker 1: against us a whole wait? What did this? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: no matter what the outcome was, that was just feeling
Speaker 1: every mood. Oh yeah, he's that one day in Seattle
Speaker 1: and he was like, they never all four of y'all
Speaker 1: picked against us, Like, yeah, they never stopped by to
Speaker 1: say hi when we're right. They never hear that. Now now,
Speaker 1: that never, and we were that day anyway. The point
Speaker 1: I just I appreciate being willing to just say what
Speaker 1: you already think and not thinking it's a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's entertaining. Like I said, I think about this a lot.
Speaker 1: Like the rivalries in the NFL are very real for
Speaker 1: the fans especially. I do this every year, shout out
Speaker 1: my DMV Cowboy fans, like this is real for y'all
Speaker 1: A lot of them and a boatload on them, and
Speaker 1: this matters because this is going to dictate all of
Speaker 1: your conversations for like the next year. But inside the building,
Speaker 1: I feel like NFL rivalries are kind of a diminishing thing,
Speaker 1: you know, just in terms of like it's it's just
Speaker 1: not the same. Like guys move around teams so much
Speaker 1: like you go from one team to the next in
Speaker 1: a couple of years. You train with all these guys
Speaker 1: in the offseason, You went to school with a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys. Keep going do you sit after the
Speaker 1: game after this overtime loss? It back and forth where
Speaker 1: there was seven fights, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: these guys are laying down or they're sitting down, and
Speaker 1: they've got their jerseys and they're signing it and they've replayed,
Speaker 1: you know, and they come running off the field, and
Speaker 1: you know, you want to get a good like photo
Speaker 1: of the guys. I guarantee it's happened where you're like
Speaker 1: getting him coming off the field and he's like, why
Speaker 1: has he got a Green Eagles jersey on? Like this
Speaker 1: is messing up my shot? You know. It's like I
Speaker 1: really feel and I don't I'm not necessarily complaining, but
Speaker 1: I just think this is the way it is. Like
Speaker 1: back in the day when free agency wasn't a thing.
Speaker 1: You just you play for the Cowboys until you can't
Speaker 1: play anymore, and you only see the guys from Washington
Speaker 1: the two times a year you play Michael Irvin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: who is now still even on the air, like he
Speaker 1: is a hardcore cowboys band. It's right, it's us verse them,
Speaker 1: meaning the other, this team verse the other team. In
Speaker 1: today's NFL, the US is all of the players, and
Speaker 1: the them is the whole outside world, like everybody that
Speaker 1: doesn't understand our lives. It's us versus them, and so
Speaker 1: I think it diminishes these rivalries a little a little bit.
Speaker 1: But when you get some juice in the news cycle
Speaker 1: going like this, where you know, Ron Rivera is talking
Speaker 1: to his guys about like they don't respect us, they
Speaker 1: think we're a bunch of bombs, and Dak is like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 1: we are going to win this game. Let's go, Mike,
Speaker 1: I love take it up. Yeah yeah. And so this
Speaker 1: is good for the sport in my opinion, like people
Speaker 1: actually having the guts to put it out there that
Speaker 1: like yeah, we want to, we're we want to and
Speaker 1: we're going to win this game. It just makes it
Speaker 1: more fun for everybody. You can't have a team full
Speaker 1: of alpha types that are that that hears something like
Speaker 1: that and It doesn't get them juiced a little bit
Speaker 1: like it's gotta It gets you a little bit like,
Speaker 1: oh really, it's like that. So yeah, it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it necessarily changes your ability to catch the ball or
Speaker 1: to be able to you know, run back a kickoff,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. It doesn't change your abilities, but it
Speaker 1: does give you a little bit more impetus where I
Speaker 1: really want this to happen a certain way. You know,
Speaker 1: this is the most excited I've ever been for a
Speaker 1: Dallas Washington game meets. This is probably the this is
Speaker 1: this would be the seventeenth one that I've watched, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's the earliest they could win the division, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like not technically they can't win
Speaker 1: it this weekend. They actually can't. They can't they can't
Speaker 1: possibly win it next week. A lot of things have
Speaker 1: to happen, but they could win it possibly next week,
Speaker 1: definitely by the time they face Washington in two weeks. Again,
Speaker 1: they have an opportunity. If they win these next three,
Speaker 1: they have an opportunity to clinch down. I mean, you
Speaker 1: win this game, you're in a spot. It's over. As
Speaker 1: far as I'm like I said earlier this week, if
Speaker 1: you can't go beat the Giants, man, you don't need
Speaker 1: to get in the playoffs, right. I mean, but you
Speaker 1: act like that's not gonna be a tougher game. It
Speaker 1: will be. It won't be a stuff as this game.
Speaker 1: I don't think, no, none the games they're going to
Speaker 1: be as tough as this game. That's I'm sticking to that.
Speaker 1: Remember I said that, Yeah, I do think that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still think they're gonna win. Yeah, you know, but
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be right now. The first thing, Hey,
Speaker 1: if McCarthy's going to give his on Wednesday year, I
Speaker 1: guess you wanted to join in a making pick. You know.
Speaker 1: As soon as I heard that, one of the main
Speaker 1: things that popped into my head was like, Okay, hopefully
Speaker 1: it's not the kind of confidence that they were having
Speaker 1: to the point where they came out. Was it for
Speaker 1: that Denver game? Was it that one where the they
Speaker 1: after the game they started you started hearing, Okay, well
Speaker 1: maybe they we're feeling too confident back there, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of why they thought, oh, they got this game
Speaker 1: in the bag and they were gonna go out there
Speaker 1: without the right amount of preparation or whatever. Too worried
Speaker 1: about them losing. So it just took me back to that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is what's going to happen this
Speaker 1: week now, No, No, I'm just no. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: he's very different from it. No, don't do that because
Speaker 1: like that that's a that's a valid point. But I
Speaker 1: don't think that's going to happen because I think what
Speaker 1: got the whole team that way was how they had
Speaker 1: been playing. I mean that they were playing like crap
Speaker 1: in early on against the Giants, Panthers, Patriots and still winning,
Speaker 1: still figuring out a way to win. So they okay,
Speaker 1: we'll sleep walk through then Verbon, we'll block upon here
Speaker 1: and we'll make a play, and we're gonna go win.
Speaker 1: And it didn't happen. That was reality check there and
Speaker 1: then and then it kind of snowballed for some other reasons.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if one guy's comments are going
Speaker 1: to get them exactly. I think it's the fact that
Speaker 1: they haven't been playing as well. We know that. And
Speaker 1: and now Washington, I mean, they won four in a row,
Speaker 1: so I think now for the first time all season,
Speaker 1: I think the pressure is now in Washington because they
Speaker 1: hadn't been playing for anything before. I mean, they were
Speaker 1: just two and six. I mean, just go out there,
Speaker 1: let's see. But now they're six and six. Now you're
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Now you have a chance to go
Speaker 1: win skin. This really matters because if you don't win,
Speaker 1: they're pretty much out, I think, I mean, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to be absolutely perfect down the stretch. It's a
Speaker 1: really great point. I think the pressure is on Washington now,
Speaker 1: you're just that's ever been. It's a playoff game for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: essentially toiling away and noon games. They I think they
Speaker 1: beat Seattle on Monday night football or Sunday night football whatever.
Speaker 1: But like playing these noon games, nobody's really paying attention
Speaker 1: to You can follow your opponents other than Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: wasn't great, right, I don't remember everybody played. They beat
Speaker 1: the Raiders. I mean, you know, they're beating teams. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys haven't, so I mean you can't just say that,
Speaker 1: but I just just kind of playing. They beat some
Speaker 1: crap teams and they have, by the way, the Raiders
Speaker 1: aren't great, but the Raiders beat the Cowboys. So do
Speaker 1: you get then say, well, you see my boys, you
Speaker 1: see my screenshot from the other day. The most unbelievable
Speaker 1: thing out Just go go look at the Raiders, like
Speaker 1: last five games, just getting smashed by everybody. Not Oh no,
Speaker 1: I did see that. This is the most cowboy thing ever.
Speaker 1: Can't score twenty against the Giants, can't score twenty against Washington.
Speaker 1: Can't they get blown out by Kansas City like a
Speaker 1: college team would, and then they put up forty on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys at home. I just don't see how Washington's
Speaker 1: gonna score. Yeah, I don't either until it happens, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the tough part. Yeah, don't tell
Speaker 1: how they'll score. They'll they'll they'll run the ball well
Speaker 1: on first down, and they'll they'll get they'll pick up
Speaker 1: third downs, and that guy'll run around and make a
Speaker 1: few plays here and there, and they'll drive, you know,
Speaker 1: and then they'll they'll score for sixteen points and just
Speaker 1: shut down the Cowy that's how they'll win. But I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys can get the twenty points. I don't
Speaker 1: think though, Well, I tell you how, I see it
Speaker 1: as a possibility. If Dallas doesn't win this game, to me,
Speaker 1: it'll be because they got enough pressure on deck to
Speaker 1: where they could create turnovers and whether that be sack fumbles,
Speaker 1: whether that be forcing him into bad throws, that's how
Speaker 1: they beat them. Because we know right now if you
Speaker 1: look at the matchups, the biggest matchup that favors in
Speaker 1: my opinion, that favors Washington is their defensive tackles against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys interior offensive lineman, not counting Jack Martin. And
Speaker 1: so if you look at it from that standpoint, if
Speaker 1: they can create that kind of pressure that creates a
Speaker 1: problem for Dallas, then I think that's how they could
Speaker 1: win a game like its creators turnovers, creating that short
Speaker 1: feel not only stopping Dallas from scoring, but also creating
Speaker 1: scoring opportunities for their offense without having the drive to
Speaker 1: full time. I did a couple of shows this week
Speaker 1: with on hanging with Nate Newton and Shannon, and Nate,
Speaker 1: you know, if he knows a thing or two about
Speaker 1: offensive line and guard, he said, I'd trap the hell
Speaker 1: out of him. I'd get him up the field and
Speaker 1: trap him, run it right back right back on him.
Speaker 1: But but that's something that David said last week and
Speaker 1: I thought, man um, that's kind of scary. When if
Speaker 1: you were to ask the two toughest players on Washington's
Speaker 1: defense the two players you're worried about the most, or
Speaker 1: probably you're talking about me. Yes, you just called me David.
Speaker 1: That's weird, I say, David. Nobody calls me that. I'm sorry, everyone, Sorry,
Speaker 1: it's just I thought you might have been talking about
Speaker 1: David Moore. I was so confused, David. Yeah, anyway, Sorry,
Speaker 1: go ahead. Um No, they're two toughest players on defense
Speaker 1: are probably Jonathan Allen and Duran Payne. Yeah, I think so,
Speaker 1: the two scariest players on their defense. Well, who's the
Speaker 1: two week links on the Cowboys offense? Left Garden Center? Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we know where they're going to kind of shift
Speaker 1: over and play. And that's why I don't think I'd
Speaker 1: even mess with it. I think I would. This would
Speaker 1: be a game plan where I'm going sideline to sideline,
Speaker 1: make them run, make those big guys run all over
Speaker 1: the place. All Right, we're gonna take our first break
Speaker 1: when we come back. I'm gonna ask you guys a question.
Speaker 1: Do you think bulletin board material is a thing? And
Speaker 1: do you think it actually affects outcomes of games at times?
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. We come right back to stous
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Speaker 1: going to be at this time. I don't know big
Speaker 1: Foot three. Well, I didn't hear the music and I
Speaker 1: just go to what I fair if. Yeah, I was like,
Speaker 1: where's my Christmas musical? I don't think I actually ever
Speaker 1: have been, but the Sandwich. Actually, it's actually pretty entertaining
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Speaker 1: take your kids, all right. Um. The second segment of
Speaker 1: the r laughing that WBC Mortgage Studios that just at
Speaker 1: the start as you guys can see we're completely off
Speaker 1: the rails to day. This is what happens when they
Speaker 1: moved with to Friday afternoon versus Friday morning, and they
Speaker 1: as in, you moved it to I move it? You
Speaker 1: owe me an Amber had to move it. You make
Speaker 1: all of the decisions for this department. I don't all
Speaker 1: the most of them. No, I make the few. This
Speaker 1: one I made because Amber had a meeting and I
Speaker 1: couldn't do you really want to say, that's not how
Speaker 1: it went down. You're like, I can't be on the
Speaker 1: show Friday because I have a meeting, and Amber's gonna
Speaker 1: have to host because I have a meeting with Mexico.
Speaker 1: And I was like, is she's not gonna be on
Speaker 1: there too? And you're like, oh yes, yes, sorry, oh
Speaker 1: wait wait yeah yeah yeah. So then it was like,
Speaker 1: are y'all gonna host it? And it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I think we need to move the show, Like we
Speaker 1: need to move this so we're not we're not hostables.
Speaker 1: I think it's funny when you guys kind of mean
Speaker 1: it's like, do you think we can move the show?
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you're the boss, you can move anything.
Speaker 1: One can move. Yeah, I think Nick and I are
Speaker 1: doing a two man show just might be the grumpiest
Speaker 1: hour of anybody's life. Just nobody else's energy to really
Speaker 1: pick us up. We're just like true. Yeah, I was like,
Speaker 1: what do you want me to say to the first
Speaker 1: five minutes? Every show is about waking y'all up, Like
Speaker 1: it's like, get the energy going, let's go. And then
Speaker 1: you guys are in. You're good. You do because you
Speaker 1: test my my brain with the Yeah, it gives you
Speaker 1: wake you up. It's got to wake people that are
Speaker 1: kind of upset by this. And there's maybe like three yes,
Speaker 1: we forgot seventy three. We didn't do seventy three and
Speaker 1: Larry Allen, Larry Allen, Joe Luney was nice, McKinsey, Bernardo,
Speaker 1: good dudes, Larry Allen. Yeah, only one answer. The best,
Speaker 1: probably the greatest player to ever play his position. And
Speaker 1: I was about to say, is he not the I
Speaker 1: think he's the greatest greatest player in the history of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Um, I'm gonna let y'all do that. I
Speaker 1: think I think he is the greatest player to ever
Speaker 1: play for the Cowboys at his at his position, other
Speaker 1: than maybe Dion Sanders, but Dion wasn't a all the
Speaker 1: way Cowboy player, but Larry Allen was. Doubts I'll put
Speaker 1: it to you like this, I don't know that there
Speaker 1: was another player in the history of the Cowboys that
Speaker 1: I'm aware of that was more dominant in his role
Speaker 1: than he was. Like he was dominating. You talked to
Speaker 1: other players around the league at the time, they didn't
Speaker 1: want to go up against Larry Allen, Like it was
Speaker 1: just he was a tough matchup for other teams. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're amazing players, but like you're, there's always gonna be.
Speaker 1: There are obviously other quarterbacks that have come along other
Speaker 1: than Roger Staubach. For all of his rightful place in
Speaker 1: the lore of the league, Emmett will always have Barry.
Speaker 1: I mean that debate will go on forever. But Larry Allen,
Speaker 1: I think almost everyone agrees, is like one of the
Speaker 1: two or three best guards to ever play in the
Speaker 1: history in league. I know, I know technology and people
Speaker 1: are bigger and stronger and all that. I just I
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of seven hundred pound bench pressers.
Speaker 1: He can play today and be just as dominant as
Speaker 1: he was back in the nineties. Yeah, it makes me
Speaker 1: so good interview too. No, he had a good speech.
Speaker 1: He had a good speech in Hall of Fame. His speech,
Speaker 1: which I did not expect to have speech was he
Speaker 1: had a really good speech. He talked about drinking forties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he saw my love. He said his wife got
Speaker 1: a mistake and in forty. He was like, it was
Speaker 1: a chicken. I believe chicken, the whole chicken. And I
Speaker 1: got up on the forty. I don't even remember what
Speaker 1: the meat was, but that was like, I was like
Speaker 1: that love right there, Goldie, Yeah, it makes me so
Speaker 1: unconversation official forty and the Cowboys Miller they make forties.
Speaker 1: Oh they they got thirty six sounds. I don't know
Speaker 1: about forties malt liquors, I know, but I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like they don't have a forty. Like that's the closest
Speaker 1: you're gonna get into gold English should be the official forty.
Speaker 1: You'll talk to suit all about that. See if you
Speaker 1: can get that, we don't have a whole count done. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's how it works here. That's how it works here officially.
Speaker 1: That's officially most of the meetings that we're in around here. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's get back to this talk real quick. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I know you guys think you may, we may have
Speaker 1: already talked about this, but I do think there's a
Speaker 1: slight nuance to this because I do think for whatever
Speaker 1: we think of what Mike McCarthy had to say this
Speaker 1: week and what Ron Rivera has to say this week,
Speaker 1: I do think that there is a possibility. And the
Speaker 1: question for you guys is how much does bulletin board
Speaker 1: really affect um players and affect their abilities not necessarily
Speaker 1: their ability to play the game, but just there their
Speaker 1: mental the mental part of the game when they see
Speaker 1: something where someone feels like they're disrespecting them. I think
Speaker 1: it's huge. And I the only evidence that I ever
Speaker 1: need is Nick Saban and what he has done at Alabama,
Speaker 1: like the unquestioned maybe the greatest run in sports history,
Speaker 1: or one like right up there with the Patriots to
Speaker 1: whatever whatever. No, I mean, I'm sorry us okay, seventies sixties. Sure,
Speaker 1: either way, they just win and win and win, and
Speaker 1: it's just a foregone conclusion. And Nick Saban still tries
Speaker 1: to use disrespect as an edge. He did it. He
Speaker 1: did it last weekend. He's sitting at the podium after
Speaker 1: they crush the number one team in the country, and
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, everything, y'all were saying like that, sometimes
Speaker 1: the rat poisons yummy, Like the way you were just
Speaker 1: disrespecting us, nobody gave us a chance. I just want
Speaker 1: to be like, Nick, who do you think doesn't give
Speaker 1: you a chance to win anything? You're so full of crap.
Speaker 1: You play the NFL, there'd be some people being like
Speaker 1: yea every year, or somebody's like, oh jah, this year's
Speaker 1: Browns can't beat the Tide, which is insane. But the
Speaker 1: point is that's how good they are. And he still
Speaker 1: uses that psychology to give his team an edge, and
Speaker 1: it clearly does something, especially we're talking about it off
Speaker 1: the air in your prep, like you're not thinking about
Speaker 1: it by the time you get to the stadium, but
Speaker 1: like to hear to hear that people don't aren't taking
Speaker 1: you seriously or don't respect you. All of these guys
Speaker 1: are just constantly looking for an edge. I remember it
Speaker 1: was pretty early in Dak's career, but I just remember
Speaker 1: somebody it was after something like this, and Dak was
Speaker 1: done talking publicly, but he was just like keeped outing me.
Speaker 1: I need it, y'all, I need it keeped outing me
Speaker 1: like he like, they love that stuff. They love to
Speaker 1: be able to throw it back. Yeah, so yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it matters. Yeah, I mean individually, you know, again
Speaker 1: we're talking about Bill Parcels. But he was the master
Speaker 1: at it. You know. He would get a player and
Speaker 1: you know and put a gas you know, tank in
Speaker 1: his locker and said, looks like you're out of gas,
Speaker 1: as you know, that's what they're saying. Or get or
Speaker 1: a plane ticket or something like that. And he did
Speaker 1: one time to his player a plane ticket to LA,
Speaker 1: you know, because they had an left tackle that was better.
Speaker 1: He said he wanted to fly Jimbo Elliott to LA
Speaker 1: so they could get their tackle and trade him for
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, you know, just little things like that,
Speaker 1: which I don't know if you can go that far
Speaker 1: sometimes now, but I mean, yeah, individually, I think you
Speaker 1: can kind of you know, nudge players, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it just creates just the even more excitement and
Speaker 1: all that. And then when you get to the game,
Speaker 1: you just know how big it is. You know, no,
Speaker 1: no one's doing this when it's the four and seven
Speaker 1: what whoever, you know, Jets versus I don't even know
Speaker 1: who's but you know that's not happening around the league.
Speaker 1: But everyone knows how important this game is. One in
Speaker 1: three is a big difference. And when the games, if
Speaker 1: you go a three game lead, one game lead, big difference. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I'm against a comment that he
Speaker 1: made or any of that. I like it, keep doing
Speaker 1: it and everything, But I think that it does it
Speaker 1: feels the Washington team a lot more than the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and because what Nick mentioned earlier, how much more there's
Speaker 1: a stake for them currently. So not saying I'm against it,
Speaker 1: but I think that maybe why would you throw something
Speaker 1: like an extra a little spark or fuel into a
Speaker 1: team that you yourself are needing and looking to beat
Speaker 1: this weekend. So but I'll say this to that, So,
Speaker 1: why do you think he really said it? Why do
Speaker 1: you think he said it? Though I personally will look
Speaker 1: at it, I think it's a it's a motivational tactic
Speaker 1: for his team as well. Okay. And the reason why
Speaker 1: I say that is because I think that just like
Speaker 1: just like you, can deeper than that, deeper than that.
Speaker 1: Why do you do you really do you think he
Speaker 1: believes it? Yes? Okay, why do you think he believes
Speaker 1: it because he thinks he's better. I think he thinks
Speaker 1: his team is better. I think that's it. I think that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a big part of it. So
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, maybe that feels them more. But deep down,
Speaker 1: he thinks this football team, when healthy, when prepared, when
Speaker 1: they actually get to have full practices and full coaching
Speaker 1: staff and open weight room and all these guys, they're
Speaker 1: gonna go up there and they're better than this team.
Speaker 1: They're just better. If you didn't believe it, he wouldn't
Speaker 1: say it. And so you can say what you want,
Speaker 1: you can get pissed and all that. When Sunday at
Speaker 1: noon comes around, we're gonna beat you because we're better.
Speaker 1: That's what he thinks. If you didn't think they were better,
Speaker 1: if that was closed, he maybe wouldn't say it. But
Speaker 1: he thinks they're just that much better than them. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if I disagree. I love it. That's why.
Speaker 1: The reason why, it's because it's fun. That's the answer.
Speaker 1: That sounded like that. That was amazing. Nick sounded like
Speaker 1: macho man right there, like alligator boots, Like that's and
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. Like you know, the Rock.
Speaker 1: He's like, when it's when the Rock sees you at
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden at seven thirty pm on Sunday, he's
Speaker 1: gonna lay the smack us down on your candy ass.
Speaker 1: Like that's yes, it's awesome. It's just I don't know
Speaker 1: Usselmania coming to a theater, I mean to a stadium here,
Speaker 1: So I just think, guy, I just think longer with this, right.
Speaker 1: You always go the morbid route though, when when it
Speaker 1: comes to wrestling, I mean no, Randy was good on
Speaker 1: the mic though. He was. I can't do that impression.
Speaker 1: I can't either. It hurts my throat. But yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: he was. He was the best. Yeah. Well, Rick Flair
Speaker 1: was pretty big. He was. He was. All right, let's
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about football, like we've talked
Speaker 1: about all the stuff around. Y. I never heard you
Speaker 1: say that I was big. I was big into wrestling
Speaker 1: at one point in my life. I think we all
Speaker 1: not like that's the thing. Wrestling was a rite of
Speaker 1: passage for young men in America life. It was men me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody was the wrestling arena. You were jumping up each
Speaker 1: other on the back battle royal. Yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: favorite wrestler. Oh my god, Jy, somebody somebody sat at work.
Speaker 1: They love, they love, We've done it. We started predictions
Speaker 1: early in this show. That's how big it is. We
Speaker 1: can do a favorite wrestler, No dogs, Junkyard my favorite
Speaker 1: of all time. Yeah, we had that real chain who
Speaker 1: was mean. Yeah, that was all in about you. I
Speaker 1: refused to pick between The Rock and Stone Cold. You
Speaker 1: don't have to, they're both. They're one A and one B.
Speaker 1: We just showed our ages right there. Yeah, duh, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know what I'm just saying. Like that was just
Speaker 1: a real stark reminder for me of just how old
Speaker 1: I am and how young you don't even And you
Speaker 1: might have heard my favorite they have and probably but
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. I mean, I had the Bandannas
Speaker 1: and stuff. I like the Rock and Roll Express. I
Speaker 1: remember the rock and Rolls. Remember then, what was their
Speaker 1: manager name? They didn't have a manager. Wait are we
Speaker 1: talking about you know you're talking about the Midnight Express
Speaker 1: with Jim Cornett. Yes, yeah, they were growing up against
Speaker 1: the rock and Roll Express. I like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I remember the rock and Roll Express then, oh wow, sorry.
Speaker 1: I liked all the mine Erics. You know I did too.
Speaker 1: Kevin von Eric, I think still follows me on Twitter
Speaker 1: like that is amazing. I don't mean to sound like
Speaker 1: brough Us, but like he did, No, he does your
Speaker 1: cowboy friend. I think so he's a Dallas He's a
Speaker 1: Dallas guy, Kevin von Eric, last one standing like reach
Speaker 1: out to him DM now sliding his DMS. My heart
Speaker 1: goes out. Somebody, somebody just wants to know if Washington's
Speaker 1: gonna run like cover three year, what they're gonna do?
Speaker 1: What's that whole segment left? Can't help you today? Go
Speaker 1: ahead your favorite? No what I think I remember those names.
Speaker 1: I was so young when I started, and then I
Speaker 1: stopped later. But I have two brothers and all Boycot cousins,
Speaker 1: so I would we would have a blast just trying
Speaker 1: to copy what we saw on the TV and like
Speaker 1: tag teaming and all that. So that's probably what I mean.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and five, That sounds right. So I mean
Speaker 1: two thousands Who's the Rock? The Rock? The Rock was
Speaker 1: gone by then I wasn't watching. By then, Rock was
Speaker 1: already gone. The Rock has been out of wrestling for
Speaker 1: a long time. Sean Michael, he was making I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think. I'm trying to think who who the best? Late?
Speaker 1: I remember him, but if I if I saw pictures,
Speaker 1: I would remember. I can't remember the names. Who's the one? Actually?
Speaker 1: Everything one? Now? Huh, who's the one? Now that Coleman
Speaker 1: reins over. Yeah, we really talked about this. I'm waiting
Speaker 1: for Derek to make the call. Hey, bring him over.
Speaker 1: Trust me, we got some stuff in the works. Just
Speaker 1: you know, staying Sting was up there for me too,
Speaker 1: and so we got to meet him. That Sting. I
Speaker 1: like Sting, Yeah, I like I liked a lot of
Speaker 1: them back then. You know what's funny, It's like, real quick,
Speaker 1: I've I've met a few guys like even on the
Speaker 1: like Lucha libre side of things and the bad guys
Speaker 1: that are all like tough and robbing. You meet them
Speaker 1: outside of TV and what they're doing in their performances
Speaker 1: and they're like the nicest guys ever. It's just it's
Speaker 1: so funny. Yeah, it's it's a whole act, but it's
Speaker 1: just you know, you feel like intimidated and scared too,
Speaker 1: and they're like huh with the biggest smile ever. I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's just it's interesting and fun and cool. They're really
Speaker 1: good at what they do as far as selling their characters,
Speaker 1: really really good. All right, we're gonna take a final break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, I do want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit of football with you guys. We got to
Speaker 1: catch up on some injuries. There are a couple of
Speaker 1: guys that showed up on the injury port, one of
Speaker 1: them for the first time. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: how much Michael Parsons is hurt and what that means
Speaker 1: for this Sunday. We'll talk about that. We'll come right back.
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Speaker 1: dec if you can figure all that out, sure you
Speaker 1: don't want to start back doing these reads. I know
Speaker 1: he's got it. He's great, Nick, you hurt muffeelings great
Speaker 1: and having my phone welcome back. Final segment of the
Speaker 1: break lif and that's WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: we got five or ten minutes left on the show,
Speaker 1: So let's making a really really good final segment for
Speaker 1: the week. All right, I got that? Have we not already?
Speaker 1: I don't know? We got way off into junk yard,
Speaker 1: door off the rails right now, just go right, Just
Speaker 1: about to speak about Michael Parson. I don't know how
Speaker 1: that happens. Literally, I came into it with the first
Speaker 1: thing on my agenda, and somehow y'all got me wrecked
Speaker 1: into some other stuff that I was not. The answer
Speaker 1: to that is because he's fine and he's going to
Speaker 1: play it. If he wasn't fine, they would be like
Speaker 1: episode four, I like, Mica can leave us? Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: he would, right, you would? Even you would? You would
Speaker 1: like Nick give me a number. I don't care. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this. My mood would have been a lot
Speaker 1: different than what it was this show for sure. All Right.
Speaker 1: So he's fine. We're saying he's fine, just a little blip.
Speaker 1: They sit him down for a minute practice and he's
Speaker 1: ready to go Sunday. He's supposed to practice today and tomorrow.
Speaker 1: They don't even think they didn't get him an MRI
Speaker 1: or anything like that, and just something that was bothering
Speaker 1: him and they decided to be cool about it. All right,
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, where do we say with him game time? Well,
Speaker 1: you got shocked that he said in his press conference
Speaker 1: he had a torn plant or fascia. Is that right?
Speaker 1: Is that what it was? Yeah? Yeah, that was the
Speaker 1: first I've heard that it was that obviously, and we've
Speaker 1: heard this before. Tearing it sometimes is a better thing
Speaker 1: than just you know, injuring it. But that all being said,
Speaker 1: like that sounds like it's way more serious than just
Speaker 1: game time decision for this week. Yeah. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to pretend to be a doctor. But the thing that
Speaker 1: gets thrown has been thrown around here all week, is
Speaker 1: that it's one of those weird things where tearing it
Speaker 1: is actually better, like it allows you to like play
Speaker 1: on it more than if you had just like sprained
Speaker 1: it or whatever. I don't know why that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I'm not a medical professional, but that's what I have
Speaker 1: been told by people. Yeah, it was interesting that he said.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, I've heard that you know, tearing
Speaker 1: it's better, and you know, when you tear it it
Speaker 1: allows you to play on it with is not as
Speaker 1: much pain. I'm waiting to get there, And that sounded
Speaker 1: to me like, yeah, I don't. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: true right now because I'm in pain, and I guess
Speaker 1: that may be part of the game time decision is
Speaker 1: maybe right now physically he doesn't feel like maybe he's
Speaker 1: ready to play it. The same thing that was it
Speaker 1: Amari or who made it was a Mari like when
Speaker 1: he first got here, kind of that he was doing
Speaker 1: when he played with that. I think all of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Maybe good memory. I forgot about that. I just I
Speaker 1: just remember the word, and that's the first time I
Speaker 1: ever heard it. I think it was with MA. I'm
Speaker 1: nervous about this. I'm not going to be surprised if
Speaker 1: we hear that number twenties inactive on Sunday morning. I
Speaker 1: just and I haven't been told that, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the way Tony was talking and what he's done
Speaker 1: this week, it doesn't seem like he's ramping up. It
Speaker 1: just kind of seems like he's staying the same. They
Speaker 1: signed Edo Smith. McCarthy said more or less that he
Speaker 1: felt good about what Smith would be able to do
Speaker 1: if he had to play in this game. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I'm anxious about that. I don't know if
Speaker 1: Tony's gonna be there. I mean, it's the bottom of
Speaker 1: your feet. I remember Patrick Creighton saying one time, it's
Speaker 1: you know, how does that feel? He said, it's just
Speaker 1: like running the whole game with you know, like on needles. Needles. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, and for a guy that puts them up
Speaker 1: and puts them down and probably you know, faster than
Speaker 1: anyone else on the team. Oh his feet. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: what are you talking? I didn't know what you were saying.
Speaker 1: That running it's a phrase for running old people like
Speaker 1: you should know that. I've not heard that phrase ever.
Speaker 1: You should think you I know now you've never heard
Speaker 1: of that. I've really never heard you. Don't think I have.
Speaker 1: But I knew what you meant. Maybe it's not a
Speaker 1: thing that I'm capable of reading context clues. I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know nothing. You're you're capable as well, But
Speaker 1: you're capable as well. You're intelligence he is, That's not
Speaker 1: what I said. You're capable. But today you're looking for
Speaker 1: anything that might be realist, like this is what are you?
Speaker 1: What are you put them down. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever seen Derek in this good of a mood, which
Speaker 1: you're usually in a good mood mood all the time,
Speaker 1: but this is another level. I'm really in a bad mood.
Speaker 1: I know you're not looking at me real you're talking,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna keep y'all talking. So I'm looking. I'm
Speaker 1: going to keep y'all on the rails because I think
Speaker 1: this is important. Running back, we already did it. Keep
Speaker 1: an eye on tight End too. I don't think Sean
Speaker 1: mccun's gonna play in this game. That wow, that's that's
Speaker 1: I wasn't even doing that on purpose. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think Sean mccun it's gonna be. It's gonna be close
Speaker 1: for him. He's dealing with some stingers. It's been an
Speaker 1: issue for him in the past. Now, Sprinkle is your second.
Speaker 1: You got Jeremy Sprinkle. And there is a guy on
Speaker 1: the practice squad by the name of Ian Bunting. That
Speaker 1: guy's like six eleven sure every time I see him
Speaker 1: on Who is this guy? And why are the Mavericks? No,
Speaker 1: he's not with them right now. He's huge. Your depth
Speaker 1: is getting tested there because Jarwin's already on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: You have Dalton, but yeah, Jeremy Sprinkle and a practice
Speaker 1: squad guy might have to help you with that one thing.
Speaker 1: But I will Yeah, I was gonna say that that
Speaker 1: they talked about that earlier this week, like that gives
Speaker 1: them the ability to have six offensive linement on the field.
Speaker 1: Maybe they just beef up at that point and if
Speaker 1: you want to run, you're gonna have to have those
Speaker 1: six offensive linement out there. Okay, maybe seven if you're
Speaker 1: gonna throw Connor in the backfield. Who knows. I saw
Speaker 1: the two games last year against them, and I know
Speaker 1: that personnel is different all the way around. But it
Speaker 1: was not good. It was. It was a bad I
Speaker 1: mean it was a bad, bad two games of in
Speaker 1: the middle of the trenches there, and so you know
Speaker 1: they had they don't have the same personnel. They're not.
Speaker 1: They don't have Sweat who was the Cowboy's killer and
Speaker 1: Karagaan actually was there last year too when he and
Speaker 1: of course Chase Young. So those three guys aren't there
Speaker 1: and that's your age basically. Yeah, and then Cowboys have
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, Lyell and Tyran who weren't there, and Dak
Speaker 1: which helps with the offensive line of course too, so
Speaker 1: personnel is different, but you know, it's still it's it's
Speaker 1: a mindset thing. I think I thought what Bucky said
Speaker 1: was I had forgotten about that, but that whole length,
Speaker 1: we're gonna knock your quarterback out and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: do anything about it. And that's just kind of set
Speaker 1: the tone for that game, and that just the way
Speaker 1: things were that year. And so hopefully I don't know
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys remember that, but they should. They do,
Speaker 1: I mean they should they They were in a dark
Speaker 1: place that day. I just don't. I mean, they lost Dak.
Speaker 1: Everything about that just Washington punched him in the face
Speaker 1: and they just folded. You know. The interesting stat I
Speaker 1: look back, I think since that game, the one in Washington,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have lost ten games from last year and
Speaker 1: this year. And of the ten, every quarterback is a
Speaker 1: first round pick. With the exception of Tom Brady, who's
Speaker 1: you know, he's done, okay, Derek Carr, who's a high
Speaker 1: second round pick. Every other player was a first round
Speaker 1: pick except for in that game, Kyle Allen. I believe
Speaker 1: it was the starter. And so this week, you know,
Speaker 1: first round undrafted, and uh, is it Taylor or Tyler Taylor,
Speaker 1: Taylor Henekeyey. So I'm just that just goes to show.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you know, for the most part, they
Speaker 1: haven't been They've done well against you know, guys that
Speaker 1: are undrafted. Not that day though, Kyle Allen, he wasn't
Speaker 1: in a good quarterback, but he was that day. They
Speaker 1: got smashed last year in both of those they did,
Speaker 1: and so leading from that to this happens this weekend,
Speaker 1: let's get some predictions. I got no problem going first today.
Speaker 1: I felt this. I didn't need Mike McCarthy to get
Speaker 1: me juiced. In the Dak Prescott era. They're twenty one
Speaker 1: and six against the East as a whole, there's seven
Speaker 1: and one against Washington. The one loss was before they
Speaker 1: traded for Amari Cooper. On a crappy day at FedEx LP,
Speaker 1: the guy that's been perfect for his whole career gets
Speaker 1: flagged for something that nobody gets flagged for or else
Speaker 1: they probably win that game. They own these guys, And
Speaker 1: we talked about it for a month straight of like
Speaker 1: how tough this stretch was, how many guys you're missing,
Speaker 1: the COVID protocols, the injuries, the four games in eighteen
Speaker 1: days or whatever it was. Well, they got five days
Speaker 1: off if you count Monday as a day off because
Speaker 1: they weren't practicing, that's almost a bye week. Everybody's back,
Speaker 1: the coaching staff is intact. I think they're gonna play
Speaker 1: like they played before the bye I do, I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure there will be some twists and turns.
Speaker 1: It's just not gonna be a blowout from the word go.
Speaker 1: But I think they're a much better team. Think Heineke.
Speaker 1: You'll give them a couple opportunities at takeaways and they'll
Speaker 1: cash in on one or two of them. And I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win this game by like fourteen to
Speaker 1: seventeen points, like twenty wow, twenty seven to thirteen Cowboys, Okay,
Speaker 1: like camer nice. Everything's pointing for the Cowboys to have
Speaker 1: a great game and look good. But from experience, this
Speaker 1: kind of mood and this kind of chillness just makes
Speaker 1: you nervous. Yes it does. And I'm nervous about the
Speaker 1: running game, and I just I don't like how chill
Speaker 1: we are. That makes me uneasy. But I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will go out and win as of right now,
Speaker 1: and they'll be Washington. Let's see your final score. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking maybe something like twenty eight fourteen or something like that.
Speaker 1: But I don't I don't think they'll be as powerful
Speaker 1: as they were. No, I mean I think the running,
Speaker 1: the running game is gonna struggle. Yeah, no, it's it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be this clean. They're not gonna run for
Speaker 1: two hundred yards, but they're just I think their quality
Speaker 1: will win out over four quarters. But excited about the defense.
Speaker 1: Let's see what those three can do and hopefully no
Speaker 1: injuries and hopefully Um he can play without hurting his
Speaker 1: little hip more and his little hip sounds so condescending.
Speaker 1: Little hip Mike has got a boo boo. I didn't
Speaker 1: mean it like that, but I think I've seen this
Speaker 1: game before. I just feel like it's gonna be very similar.
Speaker 1: I think to the Saints game last week of its
Speaker 1: low scoring for a little bit, Cowboys always seeming like
Speaker 1: they're in control. UM will extend the lead and then
Speaker 1: maybe kind of have to hang on. I think they
Speaker 1: win twenty to fifteen, and they'll be kind of low
Speaker 1: scoring ugly, but it won't be ugly if they win
Speaker 1: at all. And I think that both defenses will be,
Speaker 1: you know, better when they're on the field than the
Speaker 1: opposing offense. But I think the Cowboys will have more
Speaker 1: or firepower and they'll score. I keep saying twenty. I
Speaker 1: just see the Cowboys barely getting there, but I still't
Speaker 1: see I could be wrong. I don't see Washington gett
Speaker 1: into twenty without you know, I'll say this, it's December, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is the time where you give gifts. Cowboys don't
Speaker 1: need to be giving any If they don't give any gifts,
Speaker 1: keep everything under the tree. They're gonna win this game
Speaker 1: because I don't think Washington's good enough to go up
Speaker 1: and down and beat them. And I actually agree with
Speaker 1: you on that. I actually think this is going to
Speaker 1: be a game where Dallas's defense doesn't allow a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna give up some field goals. I
Speaker 1: don't think they let them in the end zone. I
Speaker 1: think this defense will be good enough because I don't
Speaker 1: think their offense is very good, and I think this
Speaker 1: Dallas defense not only are they going to be are
Speaker 1: they good, but I think they're gonna be juiced by
Speaker 1: the fact that they got a full contingent of players
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have the rotations that they've always wanted
Speaker 1: h And it's going to free up guys to do things,
Speaker 1: particularly Micah, to do things he has not been able
Speaker 1: to do all year um and so I think there'll
Speaker 1: be some wrinkles at that. Dan Quinn will add in
Speaker 1: this week that he hasn't really been able to use
Speaker 1: that maybe he's been holding since training camp, and I
Speaker 1: think that's going to confuse young mister Taylor Heineken. So
Speaker 1: I think this is a game Dallas. I think gets
Speaker 1: to twenty. I don't think it's a runaway game, but
Speaker 1: I think they win twenty to nine, twenty to nine.
Speaker 1: If you could take any of Jason Garrett's old motivational
Speaker 1: T shirts out for this one, do we have to?
Speaker 1: I mean, just you know, there's a bunch of them.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of them. I got a lot of
Speaker 1: you're going for I think this one. And I don't
Speaker 1: even know if this fight Garrett now now felt about
Speaker 1: twenty of them. I think this is the gotta. I
Speaker 1: thought you're gonna say, seventeen inches, get after their ass,
Speaker 1: get after their ass. Got it. They don't have to
Speaker 1: be anything crazy and exotic about the blitzer and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. Just just get after the ass, get after
Speaker 1: his ass and make him run all over the place.
Speaker 1: They want to call him. Fine, let's see it. Let's
Speaker 1: see it. The Ball's gonna be on the ground in
Speaker 1: Washington's pocket at least with Randy and Lawrence and Mica,
Speaker 1: then opportunities are going to be the guy that will
Speaker 1: ball out? Is Dorance Armstrong? That's fine. Oh, I'm good
Speaker 1: with that. By the way, And by the way, that's
Speaker 1: what hasn't been able to happen. Yeah, Dorance hasn't been
Speaker 1: able to be the third or fourth best rushie option
Speaker 1: right now, is Hithing, Yeah, somebody like that. So that's
Speaker 1: the that's the part I love about his defense. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see how they put all that together.
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn puts all that together this game. All right.
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