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Speaker 1: hosts Mickey Spagnola, Brian Broadis, Taylor Stern and Rob Phillips.
Speaker 1: Welcome everybody into the SWBC Mortgage Studio. It is Tuesday,
Speaker 1: the first Tuesday of twenty eighteen, here at the Start
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Speaker 1: eighteen Dallas Cowboys football season. We're starting fresh. We're starting fresh,
Speaker 1: start fresh. We're one to know today, guys, you're one
Speaker 1: to know every day. We're winning today. We are winning today.
Speaker 1: But the Cowboys did have a winning season for the
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen season, if you can believe it or not,
Speaker 1: because you might have whip last you might be suffering
Speaker 1: from that right now after what a season it was.
Speaker 1: But of course they ended nine and seven after six
Speaker 1: zo shutout victory in Philly dominant, just absolute wreckage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mickey's just busier throwing away all his papers he collected
Speaker 1: over the season. He's throwing away twenty seventeen. No, I
Speaker 1: thought I was doing. I was printing out. I was
Speaker 1: on the twenty seventeen schedules and I printed out the postseason.
Speaker 1: But it printed out postseason for twenty seventeen instead of
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Unnecessary for this team, you know. David Moore,
Speaker 1: I think, mentioned this this morning on the radio of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Morning News. This team, when I didn't even
Speaker 1: think about this. This team finished the season winning four
Speaker 1: out of five games. Yeah, I feel like that. They
Speaker 1: were nine and seven, five and one in the division. Yeah,
Speaker 1: does it feel that way? And the shame of it
Speaker 1: was if they had won five straight, they still wouldn't
Speaker 1: have in the playoffs. Yeah. The thing about it is,
Speaker 1: though we kind of were in a season where it
Speaker 1: was three different seasons. We talked about this the other day.
Speaker 1: Our last show before we went to Philadelphia was just
Speaker 1: how the the different you know, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's funny. It's sixteen games, doesn't appear like very much,
Speaker 1: but in the in the grand scheme, of things. The
Speaker 1: way twenty seventeen went, it was you know, it was
Speaker 1: it was broken into Coaches usually don't look at as
Speaker 1: breaking it up into sections, but the way it went,
Speaker 1: it really was broken up for them by the off
Speaker 1: the field stuff, the court cases, you know, all the
Speaker 1: things that we talked about on we talked about on Friday.
Speaker 1: You know that it's just it was too much. It
Speaker 1: really was too much to have to overcome a lot
Speaker 1: of the things that they did, you know, And that's
Speaker 1: that's ultimately why you're not in the playoffs. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know you're sitting here the second day of the
Speaker 1: off season, if you would yesterday the players, of course
Speaker 1: were here emptying their lockers and coach Garrett will speak
Speaker 1: today at one thirty pm Central Time live on Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot com. But what I'm saying is this will
Speaker 1: this will affect the off season greatly. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: coaching talks right away. Sure, you're gonna have free agency
Speaker 1: coming up in March. Combine, y'all are going right, So
Speaker 1: many of this season that we just dealt with is
Speaker 1: going to directly impact this off season as far as
Speaker 1: just the storylines that you're probably all going to get
Speaker 1: sick of pretty quickly. Well, the finality of it all, Yeah,
Speaker 1: when the season ends. And you know, last night a
Speaker 1: great example of finality was you know, Oklahoma and Georgia
Speaker 1: and Clemson and Alabama. I mean, you know, you're in
Speaker 1: you're in the limelight, and all of a sudden that
Speaker 1: season comes in. Now you're you know, if you're on
Speaker 1: the losing side of that, you're kind of going, Okay,
Speaker 1: what just happened? And you're like, okay, now, you know,
Speaker 1: you try and take a breath and reevaluate where you're at.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned it today, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of guys in that locker room yesterday that will not
Speaker 1: be here with this team, and we some coaches that
Speaker 1: will not be here with this team, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's that's what football really is really all sports. You know,
Speaker 1: there's change every year, and you try and do everything
Speaker 1: you can to set you up so you don't you're
Speaker 1: not the team that you're still the team that's playing.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the whole idea of this thing. You
Speaker 1: want to be the team that's the last one standing.
Speaker 1: And you know, the Cowboys have got a lot of
Speaker 1: things that they have to do to get to that point.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, last week we talked about it. I
Speaker 1: break the season up into three chunks. I thought the
Speaker 1: first month where they were really challenged by some defenses
Speaker 1: up front, and then they kind of found their rhythm offensively,
Speaker 1: and then that last stretch when Zeke got suspended and
Speaker 1: came back, there were some struggles there, especially offensively. Defensively
Speaker 1: they played well, but I think to Tay's point, you
Speaker 1: know this time last year, you lose in the second
Speaker 1: round and it was really disappointing, but I think the
Speaker 1: feeling was you build off some things. There's some plenty
Speaker 1: to build on, Mick, and this year you look at
Speaker 1: this team and there's a lot to fix, and I
Speaker 1: think offensively specifically, you look at it and you've got
Speaker 1: to figure out how can you find more consistency with
Speaker 1: the talent that you have up And it speaks more
Speaker 1: to more than just being healthy at certain spots. Are
Speaker 1: being suspended or being suspended right absolutely, you real quick question, yes,
Speaker 1: the suspension or the poor offensive line play which was
Speaker 1: the biggest for you. Poor offensive line play, and no
Speaker 1: one wants to talk about that. Everybody wants to talk about, well,
Speaker 1: what it does do? Right? What did Dak do? No?
Speaker 1: I'm with you and with you and and the you know,
Speaker 1: the narrative out there is all that other stuff. But
Speaker 1: if you want to look at what happened, and all
Speaker 1: you had to do is watch the game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: the offensive line right, the left side right, look at
Speaker 1: all the plays that went wrong. There was folding, there
Speaker 1: was blitz is that they couldn't pick up. I mean,
Speaker 1: one after another after another, and you sit there and go, well,
Speaker 1: how in the world did they end up driving ninety
Speaker 1: nine yards for a touchdown? Crazy? It was a miracle.
Speaker 1: But if you look at all the other possession that's
Speaker 1: what was going wrong. It wasn't that they don't have,
Speaker 1: you know, very imaginative routes the quarterbacks not accurate, or
Speaker 1: whatever else you want to come up with. Look at
Speaker 1: what happened on that offensive line. We were talking about
Speaker 1: this yesterday in the office, just hanging out. If this
Speaker 1: team did sneak into the playoffs and they go to LA,
Speaker 1: that would have been the game right at the Rams. Boy,
Speaker 1: that's a bad matchup for you upfront with those guys
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, Robert Quinn against an offensive line that very
Speaker 1: well still could have been without Tyron Smith and probably
Speaker 1: Jonathan Cooper the entire left side of your offensive line,
Speaker 1: because because Cooper left the game and mixed right that
Speaker 1: the offensive line, They've still got tons of talent, but
Speaker 1: injuries and they were inconsistent times, and that really did
Speaker 1: affect the way the entire offense function. Dak, the receivers,
Speaker 1: the running game, everything. It's not all on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but but you do view that as the foundation of
Speaker 1: your football team, and it didn't play as well this
Speaker 1: year for a lot of different reasons. Yeah. No, and
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying, brand because a lot of
Speaker 1: people have kind of summed up this season into suspension
Speaker 1: and injuries. Yeah, and a lot of the injuries on
Speaker 1: the offensive line, you quickly discovered that you didn't have
Speaker 1: the depth for it. No, and that's where I think
Speaker 1: the misevaluation maybe started in Oxnard. Did you have the
Speaker 1: right depth? You know, they felt like they protected themselves
Speaker 1: with Byron Bell, who's a veteran player. They went out,
Speaker 1: you know, last year they got Jonathan Cooper. He ends
Speaker 1: up being your starter. But it took you a while
Speaker 1: to kind of figure out what you were doing at
Speaker 1: left guard. You'd really didn't have an adequate backup for
Speaker 1: the left tackle. You didn't know the left tackle was
Speaker 1: going to struggle with injury all year, and your right
Speaker 1: tackle he might have started off slow, but he got better.
Speaker 1: But by that time you'd already lost a couple of
Speaker 1: games along the way, and so that was really, you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing. You thought that the one constant would
Speaker 1: be the offensive line, and it really it was the
Speaker 1: one thing that held you back. You know, we look
Speaker 1: at the suspension stuff and you kind of go back,
Speaker 1: did they run the ball well enough? Was it the
Speaker 1: threat and all that? No, it really wasn't. But did
Speaker 1: they run it well enough? It was pretty good? Pretty good?
Speaker 1: Wasn't It wasn't terrible. But it's that presence that zeke.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, exactly. Mickey's talked about that you don't have
Speaker 1: that threat, and he's absolutely right. When I look at
Speaker 1: this season, I don't look I don't look at it
Speaker 1: as the I don't look at as what happened with
Speaker 1: the receiver, even though the receivers, you know, I just
Speaker 1: keep going back to my head of if there was
Speaker 1: going to be a Dak regression, what was it going
Speaker 1: to be? Yeah, it's going to be because Dak, the
Speaker 1: players around Dak weren't good enough or didn't play well enough.
Speaker 1: And I think that Dak concluded, he'll admit it. You know,
Speaker 1: the things that he had to do mechanically in the
Speaker 1: pocket weren't good enough. You know, some throws he had
Speaker 1: to make. Does Bryant ran a beautiful route for him
Speaker 1: the other day on early in that football game, and
Speaker 1: you got to reward him with the ball at him
Speaker 1: to you know, make sure that he you know, he
Speaker 1: runs it on the sidelines, he runs out, he gets
Speaker 1: the defensive back to spin. You know, he's at a
Speaker 1: position and all that ball's too high. So you're like going, okay, well,
Speaker 1: now you don't know what your problems are. You get
Speaker 1: you finally get a route that is great, and you
Speaker 1: get a ball it's too high. But protection probably wasn't great,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, there's so many things that factoring
Speaker 1: what goes on with your season. Yeah. Absolutely. I really
Speaker 1: liked what Terrence Williams said yesterday in the locker room
Speaker 1: talking about you know that him, dakas all the guys
Speaker 1: kind of spoke on the plane about what they need
Speaker 1: to do in the off season as far as to
Speaker 1: build the chemistry. A lot of people keep talking about
Speaker 1: this chemistry, and they said, hey, we just need to
Speaker 1: know what Dak stream when he's coming out of the scramble.
Speaker 1: I want to know where he's going. They have to
Speaker 1: know these things, and I think that's great self awareness
Speaker 1: on their part to understand that, Well, you need to
Speaker 1: figure things out. You need to figure them out. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if if running routes and you know,
Speaker 1: one hundred degree weather every day is going to be
Speaker 1: the answer, but you know, it's a start. That's what
Speaker 1: you have to do. You have to evaluate where you're at.
Speaker 1: You have to evaluate, Hey, what are we doing incorrectly? Now,
Speaker 1: Traitman and Michael Urban will say it was route after
Speaker 1: route after route. You know I knew. Eight Men will
Speaker 1: tell you I knew that when I threw the ball
Speaker 1: with certain coverage, if it was here, I needed to
Speaker 1: throw the ball there, you know. I mean, Eightman's one
Speaker 1: of the most accurate quarterbacks ever played the game, so
Speaker 1: it's a little bit easier for him than Dak, but
Speaker 1: you still, yeah, being on the same page, I think
Speaker 1: it's the right direction. Let's see if they follow through
Speaker 1: on that. That's going to be the key. The other
Speaker 1: thing Terrence said that I thought was interesting was Scott
Speaker 1: Linahan calls great plays, Jason Garrett, the offense is fine,
Speaker 1: we just gotta get it done. Derek Dooley. Derek Dooley,
Speaker 1: he said, you know, as players, we've got to execute better.
Speaker 1: I think it all goes together, and think coaches are
Speaker 1: going to look at themselves and say, we've got to
Speaker 1: do a better job. What your sigh is making noises,
Speaker 1: not sighing at what you're saying, finish, I'm sighing at
Speaker 1: the whole thing. That all this stuff came up after
Speaker 1: eight games. It all came up after they went six
Speaker 1: games in a row, scoring at least twenty eight I thought,
Speaker 1: so the chemistry all of a sudden just disappeared. I
Speaker 1: thought you'd like what Terrence said, because it's it comes
Speaker 1: down to yeah, but it did about none of that.
Speaker 1: But none of that made any difference in the first
Speaker 1: eight games. And it just fell apart. They had six
Speaker 1: games in a row where no one talked about Dak
Speaker 1: not having chemistry with this receiver and this receiver not
Speaker 1: running routes. They were scoring twenty eight points a game
Speaker 1: and it and it just fell apart. So what happened,
Speaker 1: that's what's got to be answered. Yeah, okay, then then
Speaker 1: just help me educate me then on your autopsy. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I got you to say the offensive line
Speaker 1: was the biggest problem. And if you look at but
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I just saw something where somebody had
Speaker 1: a stat the game's tyrant. Smith played and finished right
Speaker 1: in the games. He didn't right. The difference in the
Speaker 1: sacks right was astronomical. Right, pressures too, and the pressures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and once you lose, once you didn't have Zeke, then
Speaker 1: team said, you know what, we're blitzing, right, Dak Prescott's
Speaker 1: not going to beat us. Right, they made Prescott, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden the chemistry fell apart. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, no one knew how to
Speaker 1: run routes, and then the offensive coordinator didn't know how
Speaker 1: to hall plays. You know it. It was. It was
Speaker 1: fine until that point and then all and then we
Speaker 1: get all these different narratives of what exactly happened, and
Speaker 1: I think we miss what exactly happened. Smith's defensive line
Speaker 1: didn't play well, Zeke wasn't there, and things start falling
Speaker 1: apart on defense on offense to the point where I mean, look,
Speaker 1: here's what I posed yesterday in my column. If I'd
Speaker 1: have told you this defense would have finished in the
Speaker 1: top eight, you'd have said there you said top ten.
Speaker 1: Last Yeah, top ten? I mean yea, And they finished eighth. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And a lot of their points where returned, had five
Speaker 1: touchdowns returned U turnovers returned for touchdowns. So the defense
Speaker 1: did its job, which I know they struggled in those
Speaker 1: three games. There was a struggle, but there was also
Speaker 1: a struggle on offense too. Your points valid. And I
Speaker 1: brought this up last week from Arizona in Week three
Speaker 1: to the game before Zeke got suspended. It's a six
Speaker 1: game stretch again against Kansas Central City. They put up
Speaker 1: thirty one point six points per game. That's I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what they were doing last year. Injuries, suspensions, every
Speaker 1: the whole dynamic of the offense changed when they lost
Speaker 1: Tyron and they lost zek. But they did get Zeke
Speaker 1: back on Christmas Eve, and the offense struggled. Now, I know,
Speaker 1: Tyron played one series. I think people point to that
Speaker 1: and say, well, why why didn't he fix everything? You know,
Speaker 1: with two games to go, I think if people, I know,
Speaker 1: we said it, we thought the offense would go back
Speaker 1: to normal, yes, and it didn't. It didn't. And if
Speaker 1: you didn't miss two field goals, it's twenty one eighteen
Speaker 1: and you got a chance at the end. The way
Speaker 1: the defense was playing in that Seattle game, I understand
Speaker 1: making the field goal there, and then you know you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: but if you got the touchdown, that would have been
Speaker 1: even better. But you know, if you score the touchdown,
Speaker 1: you're thinking, Garrett's got to be thinking, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: the ball back here. Yeah, I'm gonna get a chance
Speaker 1: to win this football game, and I'm gonna put it
Speaker 1: in Dan Bailey's hands to win it, you know. And
Speaker 1: unfortunately that to me, it's funny because you look at
Speaker 1: these the players that they lost, you know, the Sean
Speaker 1: Lee injury. I mean, we made a lot about that.
Speaker 1: I just wonder if Tyren Smith was the most important
Speaker 1: piece in this thing. Was he the most important because
Speaker 1: maybe you could have outscored people when you struggled on
Speaker 1: defense because they had the firepower on offense to do that.
Speaker 1: But when you can't block up front and you can't
Speaker 1: run your plays, accurately. Then I'm sure that affects how
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinators call and plays, not how to protect
Speaker 1: the left tackle. You're protecting yourself instead of being aggressive. Right.
Speaker 1: Game the other day was very similar. It wasn't quite
Speaker 1: as dramatic as the Atlantic game with the protection upfront
Speaker 1: with allowing however, Mace it was eight nine sacks in
Speaker 1: that game, but it was similar and that they just
Speaker 1: they weren't functioning offensively without him left tackle, that left
Speaker 1: side of the line. Dak was inconstant disarray and pressure
Speaker 1: the other day, which is so odd because you know,
Speaker 1: of course injuries, you can't prevent those. But Tyren Smith
Speaker 1: was just a guy who just you always counted on,
Speaker 1: no doubt, you know, And I'm not I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that he didn't do anything. I mean, the man is
Speaker 1: an iron man. What he played through this past season
Speaker 1: I cannot even fathom. But what I'm saying is, you
Speaker 1: know that was just something you never even banked on,
Speaker 1: like this could be an issue. Yeah, well, last year
Speaker 1: it was one of your most consistent groups. The five
Speaker 1: guys that played last year were one of the big
Speaker 1: reasons why. And I think that that's why they won
Speaker 1: that Award at that Yeah, yeah, they were. They were
Speaker 1: the best offensive line in the National Football League, and
Speaker 1: this year they were really you know, even with even
Speaker 1: with Pro Bowl All Pro caliber, can't say they were
Speaker 1: caliber players at guard and at center. It wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: You know, you needed him to be the lynchpin to
Speaker 1: kind of hold everything together there, and they never again,
Speaker 1: they just never the whole season was there. There was
Speaker 1: not the consistency at the left tackle spot because of
Speaker 1: the injuries, and then you know, you had the left
Speaker 1: guards problems, and then the right tackle. It was you know,
Speaker 1: he developed along the way. You kind of felt like
Speaker 1: if there was going to be an issue, that it
Speaker 1: was going to be at the right tackle. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it really wasn't at the right Well, what you said,
Speaker 1: you're right about how Lyell played probably his best football
Speaker 1: down the stretch, and he wasn't healthy. He had a
Speaker 1: bulging disc in his back and was missing practice time,
Speaker 1: and I thought, you know, I think the experience he
Speaker 1: got playing rusher after rusher who's really good in the NFL,
Speaker 1: I think helped him by the end of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's something to build off of. But I liked
Speaker 1: what you said earlier in the segment about how I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can ask for a better supporting
Speaker 1: cast than what Dak got as a rookie for a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. Yeah, best offensive line in football, best running
Speaker 1: back in football, you know, and he don't have Zeke
Speaker 1: for six games this year. You don't have the same line.
Speaker 1: And those are the results. And Dad can be better too,
Speaker 1: But the supporting cast was just different this year for him,
Speaker 1: no question about it. Yeah, he had the shoulder way
Speaker 1: too much. He didn't and he did it for the
Speaker 1: first part, Remember he did. No one was sitting here
Speaker 1: talking about Dak struggling. We were talking about boy, he's
Speaker 1: putting his team on his bat, saving the season, right,
Speaker 1: saving the season, and then all of a sudden, nile
Speaker 1: he doesn't know what to do. Yeah, yeah, well we
Speaker 1: know what to do and we know that we need
Speaker 1: to take our first break here. When we I'm back,
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Speaker 1: segue here because normally when we enter the third segment,
Speaker 1: Rob joins us with a Twitter poll, and we've had
Speaker 1: lots of them. You've been very consistent over the season.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, Rob, We all appreciate it. Mickey's learned
Speaker 1: to vote, enjoy them and vote, and you learn something
Speaker 1: new this year. So are we ahead of herself? Where
Speaker 1: we getting ready for a poll? You love them? No,
Speaker 1: we're getting ready to go over some of these polls.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, and the poles to the pole see how
Speaker 1: accurate the fans were and us we voted as well,
Speaker 1: and we discussed each of them. So yes, our vote
Speaker 1: was probably one tenth. Probably that's a good sign. We're
Speaker 1: hearing from from everyone out there who listens to us
Speaker 1: and keeps us going. So appreciate it all. Right. On
Speaker 1: August twenty seventh, twenty seventeen, we asked which roster position
Speaker 1: are you most concerned about? Depth wise? The options here
Speaker 1: were linebacker, offensive line backup, quarterback, and defensive end. Which
Speaker 1: one do you think? One? Linebacker, offensive line backup, quarterback,
Speaker 1: and defensive end I think the quarterback probably would have
Speaker 1: won that one. Backup quarterback, I bet. Yeah, Look Mac,
Speaker 1: I'm not looking. Don't cheat over here. I didn't know
Speaker 1: you had the answer. I'm gonna say backup quarterback too.
Speaker 1: I can't remember that. Linebacker one, and then offensive line.
Speaker 1: These are smart fans. Obviously five percent went to backup quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: twenty five percent to defensive end. So hey, you guys
Speaker 1: were right. Linebacker depth was a concern this season, but
Speaker 1: probably the thirty percent the voted offensive line. We're really smart.
Speaker 1: I've been a line that backer depth. A lot of
Speaker 1: that had to do. We talked a lot of Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith in camp. Yeah you know, yeah, the rant coming in,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I could see that. What was what did okay?
Speaker 1: That turned? I mean that would be number one for
Speaker 1: me now, yeah, right, well they had two spots to
Speaker 1: fill true, Yeah, guard and then the tackle. What was
Speaker 1: going to happen in wing tackle was a big discussion too,
Speaker 1: which is funny since I bet last year, if you
Speaker 1: want to know who to get rid of, it would
Speaker 1: have been Doug Free through the day, our friend of
Speaker 1: the show, Doug Free. That's right, he's a good friend.
Speaker 1: Keeping on the offensive line on September four, So we
Speaker 1: were actually we were way wrong on that one. Then, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all were way wrong. Okay, got you go ahead? Back
Speaker 1: up quarterback. They were just fine to say that was
Speaker 1: before that was before I started voting. I bet, I
Speaker 1: think said one temp. Yeah, yeah, would you figure out
Speaker 1: we had polls like in Thanksgiving something like that? Last
Speaker 1: week it was thanks thanks for listened to a show
Speaker 1: at Lumbus Day or something like that. Still doing the
Speaker 1: writing things. Yeah, it's been consistent. You're the best. On
Speaker 1: September four, we asked who would you started Left Guard
Speaker 1: based on what we've seen in the preseason. Of course,
Speaker 1: the only two options here where Jonathan Cooper and Chaz Green.
Speaker 1: I think I think I voted Chaz Green. I definitely
Speaker 1: voted Chaz Green, and I was right Chazz. Were you right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Actually got hurt. Listened to the show and you both did.
Speaker 1: Say Jonathan Cooper, we did, yep, and he won that
Speaker 1: boat seventy six percent. Twenty four percent went to Chads Green. Oh,
Speaker 1: were visions history and ours to the show? Seem September
Speaker 1: fifth was the show if you guys wanted to tune in,
Speaker 1: You guys both say why, you know why here we go.
Speaker 1: We thought we thought they needed Chaz Green to be
Speaker 1: the backup swing tackle. We were being greedy. We were
Speaker 1: lucking at it as a top six, yeah, not a
Speaker 1: top five. You guys thought this was a basketball team.
Speaker 1: That's embarrassing. I can't remember that. Yep. A lot of shows, Brian. No,
Speaker 1: it's like, how stupid is that? To me? It's okay,
Speaker 1: This next one might make you feel worse. The breakout
Speaker 1: player this season will be. On September fifth, we asked
Speaker 1: Cowboys breakout player this season will be Bryce Butler, Lyle Collins,
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, or MALIEK. Collins. Bran, you already know the answer, oh,
Speaker 1: I said Malie Collins. He might have been the best
Speaker 1: looking defensive player in camp, him and Hitchens. Byron Jones.
Speaker 1: Byron Jones was in there too. Now, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: one camp MVP in our poll that we did. I know,
Speaker 1: that's what's that one? See that's for twenty some odd days.
Speaker 1: I thought Byron Jones practice pretty damn well. Yeah he
Speaker 1: did intercept in the ball. Yeah, they everywhere, it's like
Speaker 1: the whole Yeah they were they were huh but I know,
Speaker 1: I said, MALIEK. Collins on you did in fifty five percent.
Speaker 1: Other people did as well, followed by Jalen Smith, which
Speaker 1: makes sense they hadn't seen him play yet, and then
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins and Bryce Butler both got ten percent. So hey,
Speaker 1: you know it was all fair back then, Rob, we
Speaker 1: had a giant discussion about this one, y'all. On September thirteenth,
Speaker 1: we asked how many takeaways will the Cowboys defense get
Speaker 1: this season? Oh? I remember this numbery going way high.
Speaker 1: They ended the season with thirty eight total sacks takeaways,
Speaker 1: So I looked up the wrong stat here. Yeah, it's Tuesday,
Speaker 1: but it feels like, man, there you go. Okay, you're
Speaker 1: good here. Okay, So it's sacks or takeaways. Takeaways? Okay,
Speaker 1: takeaways takeaway thirty eight? Pretty good, it's thirty eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's better than sacks. Sacks was thirty eight. Sacks was
Speaker 1: thirty eight total interceptions this year ten picks. So guys,
Speaker 1: we were feeling hot about the secondary. Waited, did you
Speaker 1: listen to this one? Get ready? Was I app on
Speaker 1: this one? How many? I haven't listened to this? When
Speaker 1: we asked how many takeaways with the Cowboys defense, takeaways
Speaker 1: not just interceptions, takeaways, takeaways. Okay, so what's the total
Speaker 1: on that? Then, Mick twenty one? Okay, so actually we're
Speaker 1: all okay, below twenty twenty through thirty thirty forty forty
Speaker 1: plus because we were just Saxonville over here. That wasn't
Speaker 1: that the Anthony Brown told us that was the goal.
Speaker 1: That was Rod marya. Forty takeaways I think was what
Speaker 1: they were looking for this year. So they ended with
Speaker 1: twenty one. We're all right here, y'all because we all
Speaker 1: said twenty through thirty, Yeah, that got sixty three percent
Speaker 1: of the vote, fourteen percent to below twenty nineteen percent
Speaker 1: to thirty through forty. Only four percent was with Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown on that forty. Yet, I don't know how many
Speaker 1: times that's ever been done in the NFL. Where does
Speaker 1: twenty one rank? Or they take away smidpack Just keep talking,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, yeah, okay. October ninth. This, of course,
Speaker 1: this was after the Packers loss. Hard hard one to bear,
Speaker 1: but we said, concerned about the Cowboys playoff chances after
Speaker 1: Sunday's loss A little, a lot, not at all. When
Speaker 1: was this date? This was October ninth, after the Cowboys
Speaker 1: Packers game. So at that point they are two and
Speaker 1: three going into their body. Yeah, yeah, losing record into
Speaker 1: the bye week. I think we all did we all
Speaker 1: say a little concern. I thought we win a lot? Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot? Did win Brian a lot? Fifty? Yeah, a
Speaker 1: little was thirty six and not at all was fourteen percent.
Speaker 1: Because those people just want to believe in hope. I'm
Speaker 1: with those people, all right, Yeah, Mick, do you remember
Speaker 1: what you had voted on that one playoff hopes after
Speaker 1: the Packer's loss, he was still worried about the Rams game.
Speaker 1: He was so Yeah, he was mad about the Rams.
Speaker 1: And how about the We talk about what a roller
Speaker 1: coaster season, Tay. You mentioned that poll after that pole.
Speaker 1: They win three in a row, then they lose three
Speaker 1: in a row, then they win three in a row. Whiplash,
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, that's that to me, sums up
Speaker 1: the way this whole season was Hi highs, Lulu Wicks
Speaker 1: and valleys. Man. All right, on October tenth, if you
Speaker 1: could improve one aspect of the team's performance after the bias,
Speaker 1: this was going into the bi week, it would be
Speaker 1: pass protection. Mick, looking at you guys, what happened? We
Speaker 1: just talked about it. No one talked about this going
Speaker 1: in there. Run game, run defense, takeaways. Oh, it had
Speaker 1: to be the row on defense because they just got
Speaker 1: just destroyed by the Rams and then they got destroyed
Speaker 1: and then the Packers Eric Jones came in and had
Speaker 1: a good day. I guarantee we were run defense. It
Speaker 1: was it was we should have all voted pass protection
Speaker 1: because we didn't know it was about to go on
Speaker 1: this heavy decline, right, But yeah, pass protection only got
Speaker 1: seven percent. Run game got twelve, and takeaways got thirty
Speaker 1: two percent. They were tied for fifteenth and takeaways with
Speaker 1: twenty one, So midpack. Who was the other team? I
Speaker 1: thought there was a bunch. Yeah, oh, okay, all right.
Speaker 1: Deepest position on the Cowboys roster on November first, we
Speaker 1: answered running back, wide receiver, tight end, defensive line. November first.
Speaker 1: Zeke had not been officially suspended yet. Oh. Everybody was
Speaker 1: loving the fact that, you know, oh, Zeke and Alfred
Speaker 1: and November first, so they were in the midst of
Speaker 1: winning their third straight game. Yep, I'm gonna say defensive line, Okay,
Speaker 1: running back, okay, Mick, what were the other ones? It
Speaker 1: was so deepest position on the Cowboys roster is dot
Speaker 1: dot dot running back, wide receiver, tight end, defensive line. Oh,
Speaker 1: I bet we said running back. We did say running
Speaker 1: fifty nine percent, eleven percent said wide receiver, fifteen percent
Speaker 1: said tight end, fifteen percent said defensive line. And now
Speaker 1: the wide receivers ain't worth Didley whoa hot takes? We'll
Speaker 1: have to get to that right after this. No, I
Speaker 1: mean that's what everybody's saying now. Back then, now we're
Speaker 1: saying that. So this is November first, and what was
Speaker 1: the vote on the wide receiver? It was fifteen percent? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mickey's right, though, I mean, how many times are we
Speaker 1: gonna hear about Dez days? Yeah? All right, So let's
Speaker 1: go back back July twenty six. We were guys, we
Speaker 1: were feeling very smart obviously the fourth day campus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably we're doing polls back then, Yeah, we were. Rob's
Speaker 1: been slaying the game. Yeah, I guess I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I don't care. What should these defensive ends? Do you
Speaker 1: expect to make the biggest impact this season? Oh? Got
Speaker 1: this right? David Irvinge, Taco Charlton, Charles Tapper or to
Speaker 1: Mark's Lawrence, Oh, it had to be DeMarcus Lawrence. I
Speaker 1: would say, oh, the vote had to be you know what,
Speaker 1: I bet you some people thought Tapper was going to
Speaker 1: do something. I thought David Irving, I would say, Irving it.
Speaker 1: But that's before he was everybody was thinking he was
Speaker 1: going to be any tackle. People forgot about Lawrence. I
Speaker 1: really think why would they say? Why would they they
Speaker 1: knew that which McCall was, Irving was going to be
Speaker 1: suspended four games. That's a fair point. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think as a group, I don't think we talked
Speaker 1: enough about d law and camp killing off that injury,
Speaker 1: you know, taking for granted a little bit. He still
Speaker 1: won the vote, y'all? Twenty five percent? Law Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: followed by Charles Tapper, unfortunately was out with injury this
Speaker 1: past season, and then Taco Charleton David Irving. Taco got seventeen,
Speaker 1: David Irving got sixteen. So we're smart guys, don't don't
Speaker 1: count yourself out. Yeah, yeah, we got one right. I
Speaker 1: got one right. And then the day after we thought
Speaker 1: would get into a little rookie talk, which rookie dB
Speaker 1: will make the biggest impact this year, And we only
Speaker 1: went between Cheeto and Jordan Lewis that's it, just two people.
Speaker 1: We just had two pins and pulls that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say that. I think I stop Mickey's minute after like
Speaker 1: day two, give a damn go ahead, Bryan, I went.
Speaker 1: I think I would a Woozier on that myself. You
Speaker 1: would Lewis? Did I Lewis? No? No, I was? You
Speaker 1: were mister Lewis. You were Lewis because every day we
Speaker 1: had to listen to court talk. That's right, we did
Speaker 1: you you went court? I was? I was? You were Lewis?
Speaker 1: Actually you were? You were Lewis. What date was the
Speaker 1: pull to? July twenty seventh. I would say Cheeto, because
Speaker 1: yet at that point Lewis wasn't practice. Yeah, yeah, Why
Speaker 1: would I say Lewis did because you loved him? You did? No,
Speaker 1: I love I love Cheeto. He's the one that loved
Speaker 1: little Oh what are you talking? Were the one that
Speaker 1: said at I was trying to get I was trying
Speaker 1: to tell you what the scouts said. We need to
Speaker 1: have our own little We had our own little group.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna work with Kent and we're gonna pull together
Speaker 1: the best mixtape of twenty seventeen, and it's gonna be everything.
Speaker 1: We said that we didn't know. Oh, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of going off the train. Well,
Speaker 1: cheeto one swept it. Seventy five percent, twenty five percent
Speaker 1: went they should have hired drafts. You vote that day?
Speaker 1: Probably not? Probably not. Yeah, all right, guys, we've been
Speaker 1: talking about this one a lot. On August eighth, we asked, well,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys finish in the top five in scoring defense
Speaker 1: two years in a row. Oh, that was a good
Speaker 1: That was a good question. Yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: a good question. And I went, I went no, because
Speaker 1: of who they were playing. Okay, all the quarterback, all
Speaker 1: the court. Yeah, I went no, I went no. I
Speaker 1: have no idea what I said. We'll find out. That's
Speaker 1: easily the case anybody else because they don't listen. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say. The fans said yes. Yeah, fans said yes,
Speaker 1: But it was a close one, rob Fifty two percent
Speaker 1: said yes and forty eight percent said no. Where did
Speaker 1: they finish and the scoring defense, scoring defense, scoring defense? Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you for having all the papers there. It memorized.
Speaker 1: Not yet, not yet, but he will, but he will
Speaker 1: see what I have to say to all of this.
Speaker 1: And we have to get this maybe for a drop Kent.
Speaker 1: If you guys saw the Georgia linebacker last night yelling
Speaker 1: humble yourself to Baker Mayfield, and it's quite epic and
Speaker 1: I think we need to get well deserved. By the way,
Speaker 1: all right, mister Missouri, why is he why is he telling?
Speaker 1: Why is he telling the sideline reporter? Or they better
Speaker 1: get with it or whatever he said that she reported
Speaker 1: at the middle of the second quarter. You didn't like
Speaker 1: the pretender sign that he carried to No, I don't
Speaker 1: like the fact that he said that something about this
Speaker 1: is for real. They better get going. Like when they
Speaker 1: were up by two, two or three touchdowns, it was
Speaker 1: like doing a poll and then seeing the results. Will
Speaker 1: I win this game? Not to gate Ball, No, so Ken,
Speaker 1: we gotta get that humble yourself because he did it
Speaker 1: in the locker room too, which was awesome. And he's like,
Speaker 1: oh't no, I just said humble yourself. Like and he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm flashy too, but humble yourself. Tied for thirteen points.
Speaker 1: It's not bad, was the average? Uh? This is just
Speaker 1: it's the rankings. Okay, Well, they had some bad days.
Speaker 1: It's not hard to figure out. But they again, how
Speaker 1: many pick sixes. Did you give up six five returns
Speaker 1: for touchdown? Yeah, that's that's fair too. That's thirty points
Speaker 1: right there the total. Yeah, okay, yikes, Well guys, oh
Speaker 1: I just did it. They ended up averaging like twenty
Speaker 1: some twenty points something points per game. Oh, twenty point something,
Speaker 1: twenty point six or something like that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're gonna end this on a positive note because August ninth,
Speaker 1: all of us were very twenty point one points a game.
Speaker 1: They gave up perfect, so not that bad bad considering
Speaker 1: they gave up the thirty fives. Yeah, right, and when
Speaker 1: it came the yards it was three eighteen and considering
Speaker 1: it gave up five twelve. So San Diego, let me
Speaker 1: tell you this. The last last two weeks defense been
Speaker 1: on point Seattle and you know the Eagles or teen
Speaker 1: points to the Seahawk. By the way, is any real
Speaker 1: quick before we get out to break or whatever you're
Speaker 1: gonna do, which is gonna get to our last pole question? Oh? Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, and we just have one more. And we're
Speaker 1: all very smart because we all voted this. I listened
Speaker 1: to the show. Besides Dak the most Indispensable Cowboys offensive
Speaker 1: player is Jason Witten, Zeke Elliott, Tyron Smith, does Bryant,
Speaker 1: we all said Zeke, Yeah, I bet you, we did.
Speaker 1: I bet we said Tyron Smith. We did say Tyron Smith.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, because we're geniuses and the fans are geniuses too.
Speaker 1: They voted forty eight percent, Tyren Smith close a, ze
Speaker 1: Gill at thirty nine, Jason Witten six percent, seven percent
Speaker 1: does okay? I think we felt like they could run enough, right,
Speaker 1: not great, but voted with depth though. Yeah, thank you, Rob,
Speaker 1: thank you. I have another pot coming up in the
Speaker 1: third segment, we ask you this, where's your point? You
Speaker 1: guys saw that Nick Fole live? Feeling good about that one?
Speaker 1: Can I take that? Feel good about him? Yeah? You
Speaker 1: guys saw him live? You feel good about that? When
Speaker 1: I start sudfil, I went on, I went on my
Speaker 1: rant last week about him. Can I take back my coffin? Yeah? Oh,
Speaker 1: let's all remember what we said about him, Brian, this
Speaker 1: was your ideal press box on the food is excellent. There.
Speaker 1: I know that the pretzels are excellent. Let's not getting
Speaker 1: the people cheering in there. Where they're cheering people, well,
Speaker 1: they're loud about their thoughts. Yeah, they just yelled. Oh
Speaker 1: they're yelling like you do, like now something happens. They
Speaker 1: just I mean, it was a nothing game. The fans
Speaker 1: weren't even excited till the end. Well, and then I
Speaker 1: think they were standing up and cheering just to stay warm.
Speaker 1: The reporters or whoever was in the press box on
Speaker 1: Sunday was very excited about Nate sudfil I called him
Speaker 1: Nate stud film. God, they were down in your end.
Speaker 1: I didn't know, oh, down in the Plebeian, the little peasants.
Speaker 1: Let me say this real quick. Oh speaking to fans
Speaker 1: real quick. I know you're gonna go to breaktail. Say
Speaker 1: it real quick. Did you see here here? We're like
Speaker 1: ten thousand Nebraska fans showed up at that Chick fil
Speaker 1: A game yesterday just to watch their to watch the
Speaker 1: new coach. Watch the new coach. Hey, by the way, undefeated, Susan.
Speaker 1: What a good dude that guy is. I mean to
Speaker 1: take his dream job. He wins over Todd Graham the
Speaker 1: judo fired and then still had to coach the Arizona
Speaker 1: Well that's fair, that's fair, But I mean he didn't.
Speaker 1: Just Graham got twelve millions. Hold on his heart string.
Speaker 1: Scott Frost go back to his place where he won
Speaker 1: a national championship. I think in Nebraska work for Tom Osborne,
Speaker 1: but he felt like he owed it to those guys
Speaker 1: at UCFT. Like you said, undefeated seas back he coaches.
Speaker 1: How many coaches do that nowadays? They don't they leave?
Speaker 1: They certainly not the one well they ask you to leave,
Speaker 1: they say get out of here. Certainly not the offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator in Missouri that left and Scott Frost was still
Speaker 1: gonna be there coaching the game. Yeah, and left them
Speaker 1: being coordinated by a tight end, which on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I wish O O would have left it yesterday? How
Speaker 1: about that? The MISSOI yout game? No, not sad get
Speaker 1: mark my words on that Philadelphia bunch bye bye. Well
Speaker 1: they're gonna whoever is going to play in the NFC
Speaker 1: has to go through Minnesota, which I'm glad we don't
Speaker 1: because it's cold there. No, it's in philadelph Philadelphia. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying, No, what I'm saying is if you're saying
Speaker 1: that Philly's gonna lose whoever plays now, oh, well that's
Speaker 1: that indoor. Yeah, that's that place is hard to play,
Speaker 1: it is. I saw were the quarterbacks. Bradford's back practicing today.
Speaker 1: Everyone get excited, y'all. They're not gonna make that switch.
Speaker 1: Come on, Mickey hodd hand theory. Let's do it, Mickey,
Speaker 1: you can't gonna do it. Yeah, do it. And I
Speaker 1: hope everybody that was for the Super Bowl going to Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: they better hope that there's a significant Arctic warning here
Speaker 1: warming in the next month. Chill gonna be over there
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be minus twenty side. It's one of
Speaker 1: the best thing. Yeah, but you gotta walk outside to
Speaker 1: get inside. Hey, mister sunshine, we got more talking, No sunshine,
Speaker 1: it's cold. We got sunshine because we at a third
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Speaker 1: Why Papa John's pizza tastes so great Philadelphia Nick Foles
Speaker 1: not playing quarterback where you can still buy one and
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Speaker 1: Have we fact checked? Is Mickey given away pizzas and
Speaker 1: they're really not we Is this really true? It is
Speaker 1: on the on the on the their spot. Yes, are
Speaker 1: you updating the games, dating on all the legal east
Speaker 1: and everything? Okay, I'm just making sure marketing folks. Have
Speaker 1: you been contacted about being the next CEO? No, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna be I'm gonna be their next pitch man.
Speaker 1: Oh that's what's as good? What's that. I'm the guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna pitch Papa John's do the spots the spot Papa,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be there with the equipment and from the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, some grounds crew guy from the Browns. And
Speaker 1: it's not Deshaun Watson though, it's Tom Savage. You do,
Speaker 1: big guy. You're not giving away pizzas, right, don't you
Speaker 1: guys watch TV? Yeah? But I mean where do you
Speaker 1: get up and go to the bathroom during the commercial?
Speaker 1: I just kind of move around a lot. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: just busy. I'm busy. Yeah. Well, Rob, we just stole
Speaker 1: all your poles from the entire season. But let's get
Speaker 1: to the one today because I think it's it's a hot,
Speaker 1: juicy topic. Yeah, we can put this one in the
Speaker 1: time capsule and dig it up on January second, twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and see if we're right or if the fans are right,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will be a playoff team next season. Hmmm, yes, no,
Speaker 1: or I left Mickey and out ask me after free
Speaker 1: agency slash draft. That's a good one. Oh, go ahead,
Speaker 1: vote for it. It's it's you got there for me.
Speaker 1: It's the cop out answer for But it's fair because
Speaker 1: we don't know exactly what this football team will look
Speaker 1: like until spring. Can I go first? Yeah? Yes, they will.
Speaker 1: They will make the playoffs next year. Why I feel
Speaker 1: like that the things that we've talked about, I think
Speaker 1: they will. To me, this is a this is a
Speaker 1: very important year for this coaching staff now after some
Speaker 1: of the turmoil things that have happened. Turmoil maybe the
Speaker 1: bad wrong word, but they're going to have some turnover here.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna have a turnover. I don't think the
Speaker 1: head coach or the coordinators, but I think the assistance.
Speaker 1: I think the coordinators are back to Jason. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: And I think that maybe you can have some different ideas,
Speaker 1: maybe some different things, Maybe some different points of view
Speaker 1: will come in and say, hey, well this place, we
Speaker 1: did it this way. We did it this way, and
Speaker 1: I think that's when you hire assistance. I think that's
Speaker 1: what you try and look for. You look for guys
Speaker 1: that can give you some different ideas. I think they'll
Speaker 1: get things fixed offensively. I think you will have better
Speaker 1: consistency with the offensive line. Hopefully the health. I don't
Speaker 1: know about the health. But I think Dak Prescott year
Speaker 1: three will be better. I do, I do, And again,
Speaker 1: it all will have to do with the guys around him.
Speaker 1: But I'm interested to see the coaching changes within the
Speaker 1: staff because that always makes me, you know, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: better idea. I like that, Like that guy he coached
Speaker 1: these guys. I like that. You know. So they're gonna
Speaker 1: lose some guys, but I I do they play the
Speaker 1: AFC South and then the NFC South if I'm right
Speaker 1: about that, which is not good. Well, three of the
Speaker 1: four are going to the playoffs. Yeah, but we all
Speaker 1: know it's but it's gonna be. It's gonna be. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be. We thought Tampa Bay would be a team.
Speaker 1: There's always some type of regression there. How many new
Speaker 1: playoff teams do we have this year? For five out
Speaker 1: of six in the NFC. It's Bills are back in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The nine and seven seven, nine and seven
Speaker 1: got in in the in the AFC. Huh did two
Speaker 1: nine and seven teams get in? Yeah, the Titans, Titans
Speaker 1: and the Bills. Yeah, it must be nice. And the
Speaker 1: Times tried to lose every game down the stretch. They taught,
Speaker 1: they tried, they really didn't. And you know, and by
Speaker 1: the way, can I use something real quick too for
Speaker 1: a New year New Year's resolution. I apologize to you,
Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis and the Cincinnati Bengals. I said you quit.
Speaker 1: You obviously didn't. Well, yeah, no, now you're right about that.
Speaker 1: I don't think I did either. Yeah, they cost two
Speaker 1: teams playoffs. That's I'm saying. They did not quit. And
Speaker 1: I in football, big ball football guy here said that
Speaker 1: they quit, and they didn't quit. And so congratulations to
Speaker 1: the Bengals. You know, whether Marvin Lewis leaves or not, Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't care, but you did play hard. And I
Speaker 1: was wrong about my New Year's resolution for the NFL
Speaker 1: is try to prevent injuries to your biggest star players,
Speaker 1: because yeah, we saw way too many guys and you
Speaker 1: can't prevent injuries that it's just the nature of this game.
Speaker 1: But we saw too many big stars just go down
Speaker 1: and storylines that were cut short. What happened to the poll?
Speaker 1: Am I? Am I in the play? Am I the Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just getting ahead of ourselves. Yeah? What were the
Speaker 1: answers so that Mickey can move on? Yeah? Do you
Speaker 1: guys have a feeling? I jumped out yes, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: jumped out Yes, why Mick because they were awfully close
Speaker 1: with all the stuff they went through this year. And
Speaker 1: I don't need to see free agency because ain't gonna
Speaker 1: do anything in free agency sign their own. If they
Speaker 1: signed their own, that'll be great. That'll be a successful
Speaker 1: free agency period. The fans agree. Fifty nine percent say yes,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will be a playoff team in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Thirty percent say ask me after offseason moves, eleven percent
Speaker 1: say no. I'm gonna say yes because of what a
Speaker 1: lot of you guys said. I just think if you
Speaker 1: count on sixteen games from Zeke next year, you'll be
Speaker 1: a more consistent offensive team. And whether or not Tiring,
Speaker 1: you hope Tiring can stay healthy. But I think they
Speaker 1: are going to address their backup situation at left tackle
Speaker 1: and hopefully they're better equipped in case something does happen
Speaker 1: to him. You want to go, I just hope we
Speaker 1: can win a game. You want to just go with
Speaker 1: the even year theory. Every even year and the other
Speaker 1: year eighteen, sixteen and eighteen. Yeah, and it's also where
Speaker 1: this league goes. Man, you have success one year, you're
Speaker 1: probably not gonna have the next year unless you're the Pats.
Speaker 1: And thank god they have the second place schedule. Thank god,
Speaker 1: here we go with that again. Who do we pick
Speaker 1: up the Packers? We could probably there's Packers again? Rights
Speaker 1: the Lions, the Packers. Packers get the Lions because the
Speaker 1: Packers finished third and nine. The Lions were ninety seven, okay?
Speaker 1: And then Seattle again, yeah, Seattle on the road. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. But who knows what that team's gonna
Speaker 1: look like, by the way, I mean, the first time
Speaker 1: they've missed the playoffs in a while. Yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: talking about major potential turn over there with their roster.
Speaker 1: Who knows, You don't know. Earl Thomas will be here
Speaker 1: so he'll know all everything. I'm kidding. I don't like,
Speaker 1: do you think the Cowboys have to make the plaoffs?
Speaker 1: Win the division? That's the other thing. Or the Giant's
Speaker 1: gonna come back stronger than ever, or you get Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz back. I mean, is this Philli's division to lose again?
Speaker 1: Oh they did it a while back for with Don
Speaker 1: McNabb there, Or are they going to turn around and
Speaker 1: somebody on their teams get suspended for six games and
Speaker 1: they're fighting to stay in the wild card race and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys rise up and went thirteen games again? They
Speaker 1: got they got Mickey's first play schedule to worry about.
Speaker 1: That's right, I got a play Minnesota Rams. Minnesota the Rams? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: why not? So that why that'll knock them back down
Speaker 1: to eleven wins. We should have done the Rams be
Speaker 1: bad again? Yeah, we should have done a poll and said,
Speaker 1: what if I told you the Rams, the Titans, the Jags,
Speaker 1: the Bills, Yeah, would all be in the playoffs this year?
Speaker 1: Would you have believed me? Yes? Or though no? For
Speaker 1: next week? Not insane? Not the Bills. I guarantee you that.
Speaker 1: I don't know the Bills were hot at the start
Speaker 1: of the year. I wouldn't have said it before the
Speaker 1: start of the year. It's like, who's playing quarterback for him?
Speaker 1: You see what Doug Peterson just came out about that
Speaker 1: quote Foles quote, Foles will start, but Nate Sudfields should
Speaker 1: stay warm. Fire that did we not call it Studfeld?
Speaker 1: Is what they were. They were laughing too hard. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys saw this on the TV,
Speaker 1: but they run into the second half. Of course it's scoreless.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, cowboys are going to get the ball
Speaker 1: back and started the second half. Who would have thunked that?
Speaker 1: And and that really helped, That really did help. It
Speaker 1: got him off to the fiery start. And then and
Speaker 1: then one guy who was in front of me, he's
Speaker 1: obviously a Philly reporter, he goes, look at look at Studfeld.
Speaker 1: He's even fast running into the locker room and he
Speaker 1: was like dead spurning. It was hilarious. He's cold. And
Speaker 1: then but the winner of the day, Donnie Jones, you
Speaker 1: stole my heart wearing your sweatpants onto the field, taking
Speaker 1: them off right before your punt and then not even
Speaker 1: moving them off the field. It was epic. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: just was, you guy, he was he was hoping that
Speaker 1: was another tackler somebody could have tripped over. They tripped over. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's unfair. That's well, that's not as bad as running
Speaker 1: out there without your helmet. Yeah, I'd say it was it.
Speaker 1: I mean just asking the conditions again. We washed it
Speaker 1: here really warm, really warm. It's fantastic, I mean fantastic,
Speaker 1: like Jason Garrett boys, fantastic, wonderful. Is it hard throwing
Speaker 1: the ball? Yes? I picked up one of those balls
Speaker 1: on Oh you're slinging around free game picture of it.
Speaker 1: It was as hard as a football. What did I
Speaker 1: tell you he did need to deflate this football? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was, I mean solid. I said, I hope I
Speaker 1: wouldn't kick it. Did you test your distance? It would
Speaker 1: would hurt yards, it would hurt my foot. I have
Speaker 1: a picture, y'all. Yeah, and he posed for me. It's
Speaker 1: not anything he hasn't seen. It's pretty epic. I'll tweet
Speaker 1: it from the talking count and tight right. Yeah. Actually
Speaker 1: he was holding it and then Turner was. Turner had
Speaker 1: to give me a couple of pointers there. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The coaches had to tell you not to get knocked
Speaker 1: out of your hands. Yeah, I'm telling you. It was
Speaker 1: cold wind and the wind was in your face when
Speaker 1: you were colder than the Giant's game that you like
Speaker 1: to talk about everybody fell apart in last year. It
Speaker 1: was the Ice Bowl last December at the medal, it
Speaker 1: was it was Chicago cold. It was Chicago cold. It
Speaker 1: was cold. That's the coldest I've ever been in an
Speaker 1: NFL game. It wasn't great, Bay for five wasn't as cold,
Speaker 1: but it was that cold, asked Nick. When we got
Speaker 1: done with pregame and trying to regain feeling in our face.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, you guys the heck of a job.
Speaker 1: By the way, on that well, thanks, you guys always
Speaker 1: did as well in studio. Um, yeah, that warm and seven.
Speaker 1: They were outside a lot of weeks in the heat.
Speaker 1: Lindsay's expecting a child. What would you rather? What would
Speaker 1: you rather being out in the heat or being out
Speaker 1: when the wind chill is hovering over zero heat? Hispanic
Speaker 1: radio did the broadcast outside? Yeah there? Yeah? Did they? Yes?
Speaker 1: They did? Yeah, outside in one of the plausas, like
Speaker 1: one level below the press. But no wonder Victor looked like.
Speaker 1: Victor didn't say a word the whole I think he
Speaker 1: was frozen on the whole ride home. He didn't move. Oh, Brian,
Speaker 1: you get this, get this Okay. So we're sitting on
Speaker 1: the plane. Everyone's dying to get back. This is just
Speaker 1: a tigging Cowboys exclusive for you guys, exclusive exclusive. Now
Speaker 1: we're dying to get back, right, Mickey's just got parties
Speaker 1: lined up ready to go. These guys texts on right
Speaker 1: roll he changed in the bathom. Okay, So we're sitting
Speaker 1: there and I'm like, man, it's been a hot minute
Speaker 1: since we've been sitting here. I thought we were going
Speaker 1: to take off early because right the game was so
Speaker 1: fast that getting that dominant win we did, and we're
Speaker 1: sitting there. PA announcer your worst nightmare comes on the
Speaker 1: PA and he says, I think that would have been
Speaker 1: the pilot, not the PA announcer. I call a PA
Speaker 1: announcer co pilot too. A few little known facts. That's
Speaker 1: six five from Georgetown comes over and he says, hey,
Speaker 1: everybody know, we're about to take off, but the backstairs
Speaker 1: of the plane are frozen to the plane because the
Speaker 1: weather was not letting them cooperate. I don't know, the
Speaker 1: buttons weren't working. So they were either going to like
Speaker 1: figure it out, get some people come, or we were
Speaker 1: gonna fly dangle and they were gonna just be left behind.
Speaker 1: But it was so funny thinking about like, what if
Speaker 1: we just get up in the air the stairs are
Speaker 1: just dangling. In Nascar, that's a penalty, it's you have
Speaker 1: to come back. It's carrying penalty, it's carrying equipment out
Speaker 1: of the box. But yeah, so the stairs were frozen
Speaker 1: to the thing malfunctioning and went and back off by itself,
Speaker 1: the little latches. It was you came in with hot water,
Speaker 1: with hot water, went back, theremered it off, fig he's
Speaker 1: got that fix. It was. It was, we've got the
Speaker 1: mechanics coming. We're trying to fix this. A bunch of
Speaker 1: guys standing around making one hundred dollars an hour. Just
Speaker 1: pull water on. Then he said, and if that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: we'll try to gradually pull away without injuring the plane.
Speaker 1: And I'm going, oh, that's a good idea. Let's not no,
Speaker 1: I think that was gonna pull off and it would
Speaker 1: just kind of you know. And I thought the way
Speaker 1: we took, the way we finally lef it was, I
Speaker 1: felt like it was so slow. Yeah, that that's what
Speaker 1: they were doing. I'm going to hope he's not ruting
Speaker 1: the plane. But they ended up we got home. Sack said,
Speaker 1: sending out the offensive line, telling the pull that thing away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're strong. I'm not. I'm not calling out there. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get somebody who's like, you want to see strong
Speaker 1: those guys bench five fifty. All I could think of
Speaker 1: was coming back from Buffalo. That's the last trip I
Speaker 1: went on with you guys. Yeah, it's the last TI.
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm done. Why just because I kept pointing
Speaker 1: out to me there's the moon again, there's the moon
Speaker 1: running out of fuel. Yeah, we're going down. Yeah, Mickey, Oh, Mick,
Speaker 1: he's the worst travel partner there is. Oh, I'm great. No,
Speaker 1: you're She moved to sit next to me. I did
Speaker 1: plot twist, y'all. Why would you? It was great? Was it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I just sat there. I think I watched a little
Speaker 1: bit of a movie. I read books. She slept for
Speaker 1: two hours. Did I sleep? Yes? Oh, I can't reader
Speaker 1: what I said in July. But you still can't remember
Speaker 1: you slept or not? It was It was a blur
Speaker 1: week and but here we are, start of the offseason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: packed up the lockers. I think Bryce Butler figures the
Speaker 1: writings on the wall for him sent out a very
Speaker 1: interesting tweet that just basically said thanks y'all. Yeah, center
Speaker 1: piece pick on our website with a big giant cardboard box.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys did that. He cleaned it out.
Speaker 1: So he played well. I mean, if you look at
Speaker 1: the two plays he made in the game, they were
Speaker 1: huge plays. I mean that that past play down the
Speaker 1: field was great, body control, balance when up and got
Speaker 1: the football, and you know, I mean they needed it
Speaker 1: and they were they were bad. That was a That
Speaker 1: was a second to twenty three throw that he made.
Speaker 1: Surprised he didn't get as many snaps as he did
Speaker 1: down the stretch. He was hurt. He was hurt that
Speaker 1: planter fash yet. I mean, think about it. But it's
Speaker 1: so funny. He was staring at Garrett after he made
Speaker 1: the catch, like everybody on the sidelines was kind of like,
Speaker 1: way to go hitting him, And he was looking dead
Speaker 1: at Garrett the whole time, like you're not gonna play
Speaker 1: me now. You know you're playing me now? Kind of
Speaker 1: a bit and okay, I get it. Just get back
Speaker 1: in the huddle. When he came, you know, he had
Speaker 1: fifteen catches for three hundred and seventeen yards. Yeah, somebody
Speaker 1: will sign him, oh yeah, yeah. But not as a
Speaker 1: first or a second. No, but somebody will sign him.
Speaker 1: Somebody will bring him to camp and bring him in
Speaker 1: his depth and probably playing against he had Tennessee or uh.
Speaker 1: He bet on himself last year said I'll take a
Speaker 1: one year deal before Terrence resigned, and I bet I
Speaker 1: haven't asked him this, but I wondered if he thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: Terence is gonna get a lot of money somewhere else,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna have a lot. I think we all
Speaker 1: thought that Bryce would have a legit shot to start here,
Speaker 1: and it did not out that way. You did not
Speaker 1: think he was gonna get money, Terrence really mean to
Speaker 1: go back and listen to those shows, No, go ahead,
Speaker 1: you anchored those shows? Right? Oh? No? I think we
Speaker 1: all were resigned to that fact that he probably was
Speaker 1: going to get a pretty good offer somewhere. Terrence Williams. Yes,
Speaker 1: I kept saying why he had a better season than
Speaker 1: Trill prior because they were coming off a thirteen win season,
Speaker 1: and hey, there are a lot of bad teams out there.
Speaker 1: Maybe this guy could start for me. He's a number
Speaker 1: two here, maybe he could be our lead guy somewhere else.
Speaker 1: You really, you really thought he could be the number one.
Speaker 1: How much money did Laron Robinson get? And I'm just
Speaker 1: saying teams need players. You know, this is a team
Speaker 1: that went to the playoffs last year. The market wasn't
Speaker 1: what we thought it would be. I raised in my
Speaker 1: hand as a guy that thought that he was going
Speaker 1: to get paid better than he did. Wide receivers got paid.
Speaker 1: He didn't know a lot of guys got one year deals.
Speaker 1: Now the guy, the guy that just got paid is
Speaker 1: the guy in Philadelphia, right that did shown. Yeah, Jeffrey
Speaker 1: just got paid, but he had to he had to
Speaker 1: go on a one year deal. A lot of them did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying that that's they kind of made
Speaker 1: a decision. I think the NFL general that and maybe
Speaker 1: maybe Anthony Hitchins might be the same way. Maybe that
Speaker 1: if your Cowboy fan, that's your hope. Well, last Terrence
Speaker 1: Williams did the smart thing. They signed the deal as
Speaker 1: soon as he got it. Yeah it was money here,
Speaker 1: Yeah anna signing bonus and he didn't have to move
Speaker 1: and he's still home. But it was the end of
Speaker 1: the first week of free agency and the offers weren't there.
Speaker 1: That that wide receiver market was pretty shallow. It turned
Speaker 1: out they just that position didn't get a lot of money. Well,
Speaker 1: which one? Which one would you have gone out and paid?
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to hold on that. There we go.
Speaker 1: What a cliffhanger we just left. Don't we have another
Speaker 1: half hour? Don't we always finish at twelve? Thirty year
Speaker 1: year hungover from twenty seventeen at two thousand? Yeah, college players,
Speaker 1: I got you to watch twelve. Nick y'all join us
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