WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Battling the Champs 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:09.000 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:21.159 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.880 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:29.240 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:34.600 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:40.919 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.559 It is Wednesday, May twelve, twenty twenty one, Season sixteen, 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.000 Episode number one, O nine. Welcome to the latest edition 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.280 of The Break. We're presented by Geico. We are a 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.199 life Nest WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star and we 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.880 got a lot of stuff to talk about today. We're 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.080 gonna catch up on some draft talk that we didn't 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.520 finish last week. We were going through the different positions 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.800 and talking about the veterans on this team that will 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.920 be battling this training camp in order to even make 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.039 the team. We'll do that we have. I think we've 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.040 got four or five positions still left to do there. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.920 But before we get into that, we're gonna talk about 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.760 the schedule. Tonight. The Cowboys will get there or we'll 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.120 release their official twenty twenty one schedule. It will be 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.680 released on NFL Network at seven pm. Prior to that, actually, 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.679 at six forty five pm, Nick Dave and Rob our 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.679 very own Nick Dave and Rob will be on live 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.480 here on the normal channels where you listen to US 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.600 Dallas Cowboys dot Com, Cowboys Mobile, connected TV everywhere, and 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.360 they'll be talking about the schedule and they will be 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.600 releasing the Cowboys schedule before the NFL Show, and then 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.120 you can go to the NFL Show to get more 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.840 reaction and see the schedules from all the teams all 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:54.080 there together. So before I guess get deep into our 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.400 draft talk, let's talk about what we know about the 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.840 schedule at this point. This morning, we release the fact 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.320 that the Cowboys will be open the season. They will 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.680 be actually opening the entire NFL season Thursday night, that'll 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:10.000 be September ninth, against the defending champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.440 And Dave, you told me before we can't win on 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:12.680 the air that You're like, we could take a whole 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.800 segment to talk about that because that's a juicy matchup, 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.280 So go, if we wanted to, we could. We don't 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.280 have to, but I mean, it's funny. There aren't many 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.200 things I hate more than the way the NFL handles 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.600 the schedule release. I just think it's overdone and needless 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.280 and just give me a PDF with the games. I don't. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:30.919 I mean, I get it because they want to dominate 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.079 the news cycle and make money, but I hate it. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.600 Having said that, all the fun, well, all of that, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.400 like literally all of that went out the window when 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.480 I heard it was Cowboys Bucks to open this, because 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.880 this it's amazing. It's the best season opener that I've 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.480 been a part of in my time covering. And even 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.400 you know, they try to get a juicy game for this, 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.360 but it's hard to top this. I mean, the Super 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.880 Bowl champs, who didn't lose a starter, the best quarterback 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.480 ever Dak Prescott in his first game back from his 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.480 injury and his contract. Offensive line is going to be 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.519 back healthy. Oh by the way, the new defense, No, 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.080 I'm not putting that juju out in the air. They'll 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.679 be back and against that pass rush, they need to 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.480 be back. Dan Quinn came from the NFC South, so 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.760 he's got a lot of familiarity with the Bucks and 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.280 some with Tom Brady. There's just storylines all over the place, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.160 and I mean, if it doesn't shatter some sort of 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.400 record for viewers, I'll be shocked. And what were your 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.160 thoughts when you heard this was going to be the opener? 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.760 What a great start? I mean, this can either go 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.240 really well or really really bad. And you know, it's 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.560 like one of those where you know, you don't have 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.720 enough time to kind of warm up, you know, the 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.960 first few games of the season. Can I get a 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.840 good feel of what the team is like, It's like, no, 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.920 here it is, here's your first name. Let's see. Let's 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.360 see if you can survive, if your defense can survive. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.080 And that's my biggest, uh the thing I'm looking forward 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.000 the most is just kind of seeing what this defense 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.080 becomes and what they can do in that first game. Nick, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.040 I mean, I think it's it's a great matchup, you know, 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.880 and I think it's just funny. And I've seen some tweets, 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.560 I know, like Rob Phillips tweeted it out. Remember when 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.520 everyone was making a big deal about, oh, the Cowboys 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.640 got flexed out of a game, that's because they were bad. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:19.560 I mean they were bad. They were bad. It wasn't 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.000 because of the stars, because their team was was bad. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.600 The team they were playing was was bad too. But um, 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.920 now they still have draw and Tampa didn't have a 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.880 lot of games on the schedule that you could say, 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:31.960 you know, I know the Bills fans think that that 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.640 they should have been in here. But it's a great matchup. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.480 We've seen it before. Um it's been what eight nine 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.400 years ago we saw it and it was a Wednesday 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.839 night game actually, but the Cowboys beat the Giants that 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.680 that game, and so, um, it'll be fun. But like 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.520 like they said, it'll be a great matchup because they 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.720 don't lose anyone. Tampa gets all twenty two guys back, 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.920 They have a great coach, they have the best quarterback 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.880 of all time, and they figured it out last year. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.560 They were they were dominating, but I mean they got 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.640 better and better as the sea and went on. So 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.960 you know, we'll see if they continue that success. You know, 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.200 and their team hasn't changed much, right, I got everybody, 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.800 They brought back pretty much everything that is so rare 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.159 in today's I don't think it's happened in the salary 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.680 cap era. No, And it's and it all, you know, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.640 it's it starts with having a great quarterback that people 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.599 want to play with. You want to play with this guy, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.560 those all of those guys could make more money, Brady included, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.880 could make more money, but they choose not to. And 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.560 that is what's really rare, is that they're they're they're 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.640 trying to win a championship and so that's dangerous. And 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.120 then you put a coach on top of that that 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.080 kind of he gets it. He does here. They're they're 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.599 the favorites again because they haven't lost anything. And I love, like, 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.800 I hope Bills fans are mad because they can be 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.680 mad all they want and they'll still be wrong. Like 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.040 they're a better team than the Cowboys, doesn't matter, and 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.880 that's that's the video. And yeah, I guess what, NFL 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.800 they were a six and ten team, and there's the 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.360 records are going to be absurd because they'll be they'll 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.840 be healthy, their star power will be back. They have 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.360 a very good chance to win their division, maybe more 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.800 so because their division is bad, but whatever, Nobody cares 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.440 about that. Patriots won a bad division for fifteen years 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.960 and it's it's just I love it. I you know, 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:15.839 just as many people like people are going to tune 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.599 in because they love the Cowboys, and people are going 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.080 to tune in because they want to dunk on the 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.920 Cowboys and that's just the nature of the Beasts. So 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.039 and Tom Brady is equally polarized. Oh for yeah, it's 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.400 it is. It's like the two, like the franchise and 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:32.159 the player that are most beloved and most behaved, most behaated. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.320 That's a hard I like that at the same time, Yeah, 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.080 like so many people love Tom Brady and just as 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.960 many want to see him fail, and the same thing 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.400 goes for the Cowboys, and it's just a match made 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.600 in heaven. Well, and I know that the rules are 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.320 changing so much about um, you know lately on the TVs, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.920 you know, rights on who gets what game. But I'm 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.360 sure CBS played a big factor into this as well, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.159 because they don't want now they only get Tom Brady 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:00.560 two times, um with with CBS game when the when 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.000 the Bucks are playing at an AFC team, so I'm sorry, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.040 hosting an AFC team, so they they probably didn't want 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.440 NBC to take one of them, you know, um when 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.480 the Cowboys though, I mean the Cowboy that game was 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.520 either gonna be on Fox or NBC. So yeah, I mean, 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.000 you guys have thrown out a lot of the different 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:19.840 storylines that are in this game. What do you think 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.880 is the juiciest If you have to identify one that 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.200 you think is the best storyline going into this game, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.840 there's only one, right, is there? What do you think 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.360 it is? Jack versus Brady? Um? Is it not? There's lots, 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.360 they just rolled them all out. There's like twenty. I 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.720 think that's a ton of story. I think Dad coming 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.440 back and you know, like they the Cowboys committed to 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.480 him and said, all right, here, you're the guy, and 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.280 you know, you know, we saw what this team was 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.440 without him and they need him. And then you know, 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.240 Brady playing until he's sixty. I mean, like just the 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:51.840 two of them together, I think I think that's the 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.560 appealing matchup. But yeah, you're right, I mean there's more. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.320 You guys could probably come up with five and more. Well, 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.400 I just it's a different iteration of the same thing. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.040 I mean, it's it's not really Dak versus Brady. That's 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.960 not what it is. And that the biggest thing for 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.600 me is the three most important players to what to 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.360 the Cowboys being successful, Dak Prescott, Tyron Smith, Lyle Collins 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.080 coming back and playing the strength of this Bucks team 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.320 like Tom Brady's great, he's not he I mean, he didn't. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.040 That's that's not why they won the Super Bowl. They 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.440 won the Super Bowl because of this ferocious defense, jpp In, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.560 domickinsue Vita Vea. They spent a first round pick on 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.960 a pass rusher, Devin White and um Lavante David the 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.560 list goes on and on and just getting dropped into 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.160 that on in front of the whole world on Night one, like, oh, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.120 welcome back, congrats on all the money, go beat the best, 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.200 do it now, and if you don't, everybody's gonna be pissed. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.480 That's that's just fascinating to me, which I mean Tom 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.160 Brady is a part of that, but that's what I 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.640 want to see. Yeah, Well, for me, I think it's 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.400 so hard to get a full idea because again we're 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.360 trying to get a good grasp of this coaching staff 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.920 and what they can do and what right now. You know, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.440 we can talk about, oh, Dak versus Brady or whatever. No, 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:06.720 it's Cowboys versus basically Brady. How I see it, because 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.120 we've seen it in the past, even with Tyran and 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:13.240 Nail in there, the line working well, Dak healthy and 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.000 throwing the ball, well, there are times that they still 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.160 get beat. They start games slow and it takes them 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.920 at a while, and then the defense is not pulling 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.600 their weight. So again, it's just it's gonna take more 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.240 than just Dak and those two guys on the line 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.240 for them to be able to have a successful game. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.760 We definitely need to see so much improvement from the 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.640 defensive side of the ball because the offense is gonna 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.880 need all the help they can get, especially in a 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.720 game like that. So it's just so many different elements 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.560 that just need to come together, other than just hope 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.160 that Dak is healthy. He's able to throw the ball, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.839 maybe Zeke is able to run the ball very well 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.200 with the O line healthy in there. So it's just 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.600 it's very very hard to just put every single piece 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.000 together and really have a visual that they can make 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.720 it happen in the first game of the season, especially 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.040 when history has shown that, I mean, at least from 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:15.160 my experience. Sometimes it just takes them a while, especially 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.480 after last year. You know, it took them a while 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.800 to kind of get things moving compared from the beginning 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.240 of the season towards the end of the season despite 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.680 Dak not being available. But it's just there's so many 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.200 different elements in there, so it's gonna be it's gonna 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.280 be fun to watch for sure, But I'm scared. I'm 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.679 gonna say it. I am scared. I'll say this. I 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.360 actually think this game is I think it will be 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.679 build after it's done. It will be build as somewhat 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.800 of a referendum on who the Cowboys are, because I 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.760 think there are people that are giving the Cowboys at 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.560 least some leeway that last year was an aberration based 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.520 upon the fact that DAC went down so early in 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.200 the season, based upon the fact they didn't have the 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.360 tackles the vast majority of the season, and so we 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.719 really didn't get to see this new offense with you know, 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.160 Mike McCarthy and his staff coming in, and with you know, 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.200 the addition of CD Lamb. There were all these things 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.640 everybody was excited about. Dave. You guys started it before 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.000 the draft last year talking about Team forty Burger, and 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.800 I think everybody was expecting to see that. And then 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.440 you get into the season and you don't have some 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.439 of the key elements. If you have those key elements 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.480 this year, and you open this game against the Super 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.000 Bowl defending champs. If you win that, I think there 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:24.640 will be a lot of people saying, this is the 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.240 Dallas Cowboys that should have been here last year. We 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.079 just didn't get to see them because the players weren't there. 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.560 If they lose, I think there will be a lot 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.160 of people that will be saying, Dallas Cowboys are still 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.520 just the Dallas Cowboys. So I don't necessarily I'm not 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.160 buying the idea that losing those players that much of 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.080 a difference. And by the way, that's just people and 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:42.520 that's just the media, and that's just how it will 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.080 be built. But I actually think that will be the 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.240 conversation as of Monday following or Friday following that game. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.560 I think that's as fair as it could ever be, though. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.760 I mean, you know, and one game never makes a season, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.839 especially out the season opener. I get that, But this 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.800 is the team that just won the Super Bowl. This 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.880 is the team. It's all twenty two of them. If 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.960 you can beat them probably means that you're capable. I mean, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.880 you're capable of beating anybody. If you can beat the 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.560 reigning champs that didn't lose anyone, and if you don't 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.839 beat them, then you're probably not ready for prime time 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.120 doesn't mean you can't get there over the course of 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.280 the season. But you know, it reminds me of twenty nineteen. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.400 They just they beat up on all those bad teams 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.040 to open the season, and everybody was like, big deal. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.400 It was Miami, New York and Washington like this is 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.760 nothing like show me something. Well, we're gonna see something 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.640 real quick this year, and that's really exciting. Yeah. I'm 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.400 not there to say that, oh, whatever happened. I mean, 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.480 if they if they beat the Bucks, obviously you're gonna 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.040 put them in a better you know category. But they lose, 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.040 I don't know what that tells you. I mean, how 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.080 do they lose? What's the game? You know. I'm not 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.360 going to sit here and have another argument with Nate 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.040 Newton about moral victories and stuff like that. But I mean, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.600 I as I always say, and I don't know what 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.960 the schedule looks like, but I always say Week two 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.640 is my big indicator. Week two is the game that 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.880 I try to figure out what they're going to be. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.800 Are you going to be a team that can come 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:06.160 back off a great win, you know, and and and capitalize, 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:07.360 or are you going to be a team that gets 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.640 buried now that you're owing one and now you're owing two, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.360 so I always look at that second game. I don't 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.199 know what it is though. Yeah, we will unveil that 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.120 at six forty five, Dave stopped laughing. I don't we will. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.600 I don't know either. We will unveil that tonight at 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.240 I'm not the only person in this room that knows 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.640 what the scheduling you guys, I mean I can piece 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:29.040 it together from my Twitter film three, eight, nine, thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.760 and eighteen. You think you know? Yeah? People, no, thank you. People. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.800 People are like somebody, somebody last night was like, come on, Dave, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.840 you're you're on the inside. Tell us. I was like, 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.600 first of all, lol that you think I'm that important? 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.720 And two I would get fired with a quickness if 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.199 I did that, Like come on, usually brain everybody in 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.000 this building that knows, yeah, they've been threatened as far 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.160 as their job and their life, so you know it's 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.720 not really worth there. Haven't really been trying to get it. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.240 I don't. You almost don't want it. You don't even 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:59.920 want to be in on that list. Okay, So here 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.080 the deal with what we do know, and we've been 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:03.920 knowing this for a while, we know the Cowboys opponents, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.120 we know which ones are gonna have at home, we 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.079 know which ones are gonna have on the road. I'm 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.440 gonna run down some team names for you because honestly, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.680 it's really the road games that I think are where 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.040 the Cowboys challenges are. You look at their home schedule. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:20.040 Obviously they got the Division, but then they got Carolina, Denver, Atlanta, Arizona, 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.800 and Las Vegas. None of those teams are really scary 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.320 like some of them, as you know. You can look 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.360 at the at the Chargers, and you can look at 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.360 the Raiders and those teams they can get. You know, 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.680 they have some pieces, right, But it's the road teams 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.520 that I think the Cowboys are really gonna have to 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.360 contend with. You got the three division teams, and then 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.160 you got Tampa Bay, you got New Orleans, you got 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.760 New England, got Kansas City, you got the Chargers, and 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.920 you got Minnesota. All those teams on the road. Which 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.400 of those games do you think is going to be 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.920 the most interesting matchup for you? As far as how 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:55.600 you look at it. I mean, it's so unoriginal and boring, 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.040 but I mean, how could it not be the Chiefs obviously. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.000 I mean they're playing both of the Super Bowl team 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:04.160 teams this year, and maybe I'm stupid, I would pick 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.160 the Chiefs to beat the Bucks all over again. Like 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:08.960 I think that was way more they played out. If 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.600 they played ten games, I think they'd win eight out 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.800 ten of them. I think if their offensive line is healthy. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.920 I mean, they were so compromised in that game. Yeah, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.400 I mean I think, and by the way, just completely 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.040 did a master class on how quickly you can turn 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.960 your roster over if you know what you're doing. Because 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.040 their offensive line looks terrifying, like in a good way, 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.840 and they just rebuilt it forty five minutes. Just unbelievable. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.560 So yeah, I mean, they're the team to beat in 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.880 the entire league as far as I'm concerned. And it's 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.960 the first time DAK will ever play Mahomes, so that's 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:41.240 where it starts for me. Amber This is a tough 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.960 I can't answer this question because I feel like each 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.400 of those games is interesting in their own way, and 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.400 right now I'm having to base it on a matchup 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.000 against a team that and I hate to say it 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.600 because this is my job and we work here, but 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.400 I just I really have no idea what the Cowboys 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.360 are gonna look like at the beginning of the season. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.680 I mean, I don't know if any of you guys do. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.400 We think, we know, we think what we can expect. 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.680 There are some things we can expect and hope to happen, 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.200 but none of that is for sure or certain. So 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.360 it's just it's very, very hard. But all of those matches, 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:23.280 I mean, you say, we just talked about Tampa. Obviously 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:28.000 that's gonna be really fun and interesting. New England that 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.320 with the changes they've done in the off season and 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.480 free agency and all that, I'm very curious to see 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.200 just how that team is gonna look like and perform. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.240 Then you got the Chiefs for obvious reasons. Just like 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.000 Dave says, everyone, I feel like everyone wants to see 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.440 the Chiefs playing just because of my homes and how 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.760 they've been doing this past two years. But then New Orleans, 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.160 we always talk about that stadium and that the energy, 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:58.280 just the energy in that stadium is very chaotic and 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:05.160 energetic and everything, so it's exciting. I really, I don't know. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.439 I'll be watching all of them for sure, so I 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.199 can't choose one of them. I think they are all 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:16.480 very interesting. Minnesota, Minnesota, that's the that's the game, that's 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.680 the game that's most interesting you. Yeah, well, I wasn't 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.880 going to go down the list like and everyone. They're 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.320 all tough, they're all look scary in their own way. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.520 But I'll go with Minnesota because if they get back 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.200 to if it gets back to you know, the crowd 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.520 they beat Minnesota last year, when you could hear a 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.360 pin drop in there, it was it was weird. And 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.760 I don't think that'll be the case this year. I 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.600 don't think they need a lot of people in Minnesota 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.119 to make that place loud. Uh. They're the team that 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.600 seems to be the most similar to the Cowboys as 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.399 far as record and where they are. And that's an 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.880 NFC up and down, up and down. You know that 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.919 they're going to be tough. That's a game that I 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.080 think that's one of those swing games where you're like, 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.280 if you can go win that, that might help you 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.359 in a tiebreaker down the road or something like that. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.560 Also maybe tell you kind of where you are, you 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:02.960 a little bit better than somebody, because we know the 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.720 Division games are tough and all those other games that 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.480 y'all mentioned, I mean they got great coaches or great 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:12.919 quarterbacks or both, like Kansas City. So I just I 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.800 just picked Minnesota. I mean, they're all gonna be tough. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.120 I'll tell you this. The two that are most interesting 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.000 to me are New England and New Orleans, mainly because 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.440 these are two teams that you ask that you see 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.040 them on your schedule two years ago, and you're immediately 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:29.080 like likelihood you gotta win there. Ain't that good, especially 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:30.600 if you're having to go to their place to play 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.680 those games. Now, you don't really know what either of 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.760 those teams are like last year, the Patriots, for the 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.000 first time in a long time, weren't very good. Now, 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:40.840 of course, they had eight guys that opted out, so 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.240 that took it right off. They lost their quarterback that 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.040 they'd had forever, and and so there were a lot 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.119 of there were a lot of changes. But as you 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.879 talked about earlier of coaches, like they got one of 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.439 the best, if not the best. So you give him 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.800 two years, maybe he figures it out. New Orleans for 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.360 the first time, and who knows how long we will 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.400 not see Drew Brees run out of the fifteen years. Yeah, 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.919 so it like that matters, right, And and I don't know, 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.640 is it gonna be Jamis Winston or who knows it's 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.679 gonna be there their starting quarterback by the time the 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.840 Cowboys get to them. But the point is those two teams, 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.480 to me, those are games I'm really interesting because I 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.000