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Speaker 1: season sixteen, episode number thirty one. Welcome to another edition
Speaker 1: of The Break. We're alive from the s WBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: studios at the Star, David Amber at their homes, and
Speaker 1: I've got forty five minutes to get you guys ready
Speaker 1: for Cowboys versus Seahawks. We're gonna do a game preview
Speaker 1: for you guys here. A little later in the show,
Speaker 1: we'll have our normal I know, I think I have
Speaker 1: no idea. Later in the show as well, and at
Speaker 1: some point in this show, Nick's gonna tell us who's
Speaker 1: gonna win. Amber's gonna tell us a score, and Dave
Speaker 1: will give us some kind of great insight as to
Speaker 1: what's going to happen on Sunday. How's everybody doing today? Great, okay, great,
Speaker 1: lovely awesome. All right, let's jump right in. We gotta
Speaker 1: start with injuries. There are three guys in particular we
Speaker 1: need to talk about, Trayvon Diggs, Tyrn Smith, and Marcus
Speaker 1: Larnce Nick. Why don't you start us off? What are
Speaker 1: we hearing at this point about Treyvon Diggs. Well, he
Speaker 1: practiced yesterday, so that's a good thing. And I think
Speaker 1: Dave said it best. He has to play, So he's
Speaker 1: gonna play no matter what. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: can lift his arm over over his head, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to play now. I just again, I think
Speaker 1: it was kind of more of a precautionary thing. That's
Speaker 1: my guess. You know, when you don't practice on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: but you come back Thursday, you just need a little
Speaker 1: bit of rest. You know, these guys are are not
Speaker 1: used to it. You can play at Alabama all you
Speaker 1: want to. That's one of the you know, the premier
Speaker 1: you know programs in the country. But it's still it's
Speaker 1: a big jump to go to the NFL. And I
Speaker 1: think that these rookies still have to learn how to
Speaker 1: kind of get their bodies ready for each game. And
Speaker 1: and maybe that that's all it is. But I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play in this game. What are we hearing
Speaker 1: about de Marcus Lawrence, let Dave Takedown. He's progressing nicely. Um,
Speaker 1: which it's a weird still still adjusting to this new
Speaker 1: schedule because like for years, we say if he's practicing Friday,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna play. Well, Friday is not a practice
Speaker 1: day anymore, so Amber typing something over there, jeez, hate,
Speaker 1: I know it's the worst. Absolutely, Um, So Saturday is
Speaker 1: the practice day, so we'll see what happens. But I
Speaker 1: lean toward thinking to Marcus Lawrence is going to be
Speaker 1: available all right. And uh and I obviously Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: to me is the biggest one at this point that
Speaker 1: you're trying to keep an eye on. Uh, what are
Speaker 1: we hearing about about Tying? I'm trying to read through
Speaker 1: Jerry's answers here of what he said on the radio
Speaker 1: this morning. Um, it sounds like you said nothing like
Speaker 1: at all, like just a bunch of stuff that you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see how things go. But uh, I don't, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just don't get the feeling he's gonna
Speaker 1: play this week. I could be wrong on that, but
Speaker 1: neither do. I just know I don't think he's playing.
Speaker 1: And if you if you don't come back and beat
Speaker 1: the Falcons, I mean, I just think I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's plays because he's still the injuries the most important
Speaker 1: thing and getting the body, you know, getting the player
Speaker 1: ready to go. But I just feel like there's a
Speaker 1: there's a less sense of urgency to rush these guys
Speaker 1: back because the tackles did a decent job and they
Speaker 1: got over five hundred yards and so you know, they
Speaker 1: could probably you know, do it again if they needed to.
Speaker 1: I just don't think there's they're gonna rush him back. Amber.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling about Tying potentially not playing? Well?
Speaker 1: This is this was gonna be part of my I
Speaker 1: know I was gonna say. I know that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are able to win games without their starting two tackles,
Speaker 1: so we saw it last week. At least, I feel
Speaker 1: obviously you're never gonna feel great without having tiring or
Speaker 1: lyell Callings out there playing with you. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, like we spoke earlier this week, I do
Speaker 1: feel a lot better about the tackles that we currently
Speaker 1: have and hope that obviously their game is not gonna
Speaker 1: be perfect. They're gonna make mistakes, but at least they
Speaker 1: can do enough to help you still get a win.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I'm more concerned about this than
Speaker 1: you guys seem to be. And I know the tackles
Speaker 1: did okay last week. I still point back to early
Speaker 1: in the game when Dion Jones was blitzing and they
Speaker 1: just weren't picking things up. And you talk about a
Speaker 1: team that can't get pressure in Seattle unless they blitzed
Speaker 1: their monster Jamal Adams, and by the way, they like
Speaker 1: to do it. And so I look at that and
Speaker 1: I'm like, if he's moving all over this defensive front
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are having to adjust on the fly
Speaker 1: to who's blocking home, that just has a lot of
Speaker 1: bad things written all over for me. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the one thing that if you're looking at the
Speaker 1: matchup Cowboys offense from seat versus Seattle defense, that's the
Speaker 1: one area where I think they really could make a difference.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think they're gonna get a normal pass
Speaker 1: rush off their their front four. I don't think their
Speaker 1: secondary can hold up against these three wide receivers at
Speaker 1: Cowboys half. I do think that they can equalize that
Speaker 1: some using Jamal Adams to blitz, and if you don't
Speaker 1: have the experience, I think that can be a problem.
Speaker 1: What do you guys think about that analysis? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: Was it so Dave? Was it Bucky that? Was it
Speaker 1: Bucky that said good quarterbacks back the defense to blitz?
Speaker 1: Or was it Nick? That was Nick? I mean I
Speaker 1: said that because Yeah, Parcels would always parcel Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well I agree with Bill Parcels. He's a Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: So um yeah, bring your bring your best dB, Like,
Speaker 1: get your best dB out of the second one. I'll
Speaker 1: take that all day. And I look at Jamal Adams.
Speaker 1: If Jamal Adams has two sacks, that's fine, Like da
Speaker 1: Will Dack will get his and like, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is problematic, but it ain't like that on its
Speaker 1: own is not enough to swing this in my opinion, Like,
Speaker 1: if that's the only thing the Seahawks defense has going
Speaker 1: for him, I'll take that all day. Man. I wish
Speaker 1: this guy was on the Cowboys team, you know, like
Speaker 1: when there was some talk about it, that would have
Speaker 1: been awesome. Uh, there's no doubt about it. And I
Speaker 1: know Dave, he's an LSU guy. And he's from here
Speaker 1: in Dallas area. But I'm not buying the whole I
Speaker 1: got people in Dallas that tell me that that that
Speaker 1: I'm not good and all that. If you need all
Speaker 1: that stuff for he said, extra motivation, how about the
Speaker 1: fact that you get sixteen of these games and you're
Speaker 1: making millions of dollars and they gave three first round
Speaker 1: picks or for whatever for you, Like that should be
Speaker 1: good enough. Don't try to make up some crap that
Speaker 1: somebody here said that you were not good of who. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was interesting to me because that the quote I
Speaker 1: heard was specific to him not being good in coverage,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, I don't think that's Dallas people saying
Speaker 1: I think that's people around the country saying that. I
Speaker 1: think there are a lot of people who analyze football
Speaker 1: that say, if you want to have a knock on
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams, it is a fact that he's not a
Speaker 1: great cover guy. But let's also be very clear, in
Speaker 1: my personal opinion, he is one of He's a top
Speaker 1: five defensive player in the NFL because of the difference
Speaker 1: that he makes. And that's the part, like that's far,
Speaker 1: that's enough, Like you don't have to be a great
Speaker 1: cover guy. If you can do that, if you can
Speaker 1: make plays like a Troy Polamalu where you're just all
Speaker 1: over the place and offenses have a hard time accounting
Speaker 1: for you, that's more than enough. So I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody is saying this guy can't play football, and this
Speaker 1: guy's not a great football player. I think if I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are saying, if there's one
Speaker 1: thing you're gonna ding him for, it would be his
Speaker 1: ability to cover. Yeah, all right, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: move on. Let's get into some of our game preview here.
Speaker 1: I have a set of questions here that I'm going
Speaker 1: to throw out to you guys, and we'll go around
Speaker 1: and you guys can each answer them. The first question is,
Speaker 1: if Dallas does one thing better in week three than
Speaker 1: it did in week two, what would have the biggest
Speaker 1: impact and how likely is that to happen. Let's start
Speaker 1: first with you Amber lay up. If Dallas does one
Speaker 1: thing better in week three then week two, I would
Speaker 1: say just defense. I'm hoping that the defense is able
Speaker 1: to put a little bit of their own game in
Speaker 1: there and be able to help Dallas offense, because this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a really tough match. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: really hard to keep up with Russell Wilson. So I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that Dallas is able to play defense better this week,
Speaker 1: and hoping that whatever deal is going on between the
Speaker 1: players and the coaching as far as simplify in the
Speaker 1: defense or some of the plays or things like that,
Speaker 1: hopefully they're they're able to figure it out this week
Speaker 1: and maybe cater better to the abilities of their defense players.
Speaker 1: So I would say that I'm going to push you
Speaker 1: a little bit there, and I want you to narrow
Speaker 1: that down a little bit for me. What part of
Speaker 1: the defense particularly do you think has to have a
Speaker 1: better week. I mean the pass rush. It's and it's
Speaker 1: hard to say that because you talk about Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and you know he can get rid of the ball
Speaker 1: really really fast. But you need to absolutely get help
Speaker 1: from the pass rush because we keep talking about the
Speaker 1: secondary and all the issues that they've continuously been having there.
Speaker 1: Now with the losses that they had at corner, even
Speaker 1: though Trevn dis looks like he's going to be able
Speaker 1: to play, you still need to be able to get
Speaker 1: help from from the pass rush and just create a
Speaker 1: little bit of pressure, just a little bit, even make
Speaker 1: him throw the pass away or something, just a tiny
Speaker 1: little bit to throw Russell Wilson off his game. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna help them a lot, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard. But the defense just week four, they need
Speaker 1: to wait. What week are we on? Three? Three? Three?
Speaker 1: Week three? Weak? Three? Thing? Yeah? Okay, week three they
Speaker 1: need to step it up. They played two games and
Speaker 1: they need to step it up in this game. I
Speaker 1: think that would have been already the amount of time
Speaker 1: they would have played in a preseason game. So let's
Speaker 1: say they got their preseason games out of the way,
Speaker 1: this is the week where they need to step it
Speaker 1: up now. On a scale of one to five, with
Speaker 1: five being most likely and one being least likely, how
Speaker 1: likely are or how likely is it that we see
Speaker 1: this pass rush be better significantly better than it was
Speaker 1: in week two? Ask him? How likely are you asking me? Okay? Um?
Speaker 1: I just cannot see them, honestly keep playing the way
Speaker 1: that they have. And when you talk about competitive guys,
Speaker 1: I see these guys at the defensive line being one
Speaker 1: of the most competitive guys that the Cowboys have on defense.
Speaker 1: And you talk about DeMarcus Lawrence, and we know that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions about him, but I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of fire in him and he can
Speaker 1: even if he depending on how what he does in
Speaker 1: the game, if he's able to play or not or
Speaker 1: whatever with the whole knee issue. I think that these
Speaker 1: guys are upset enough to where they will be coming
Speaker 1: out in this game and hopefully playing better than they
Speaker 1: did in the previous two games. All right, Nick, you're up,
Speaker 1: tell us what they are, what you think they would
Speaker 1: be biggest, the biggest impact they could have by doing
Speaker 1: something better this week than they did last week. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Dave taking it turnovers? I mean I thought I thought
Speaker 1: that was the easy answer. I mean, turnovers as soon
Speaker 1: as Amber didn't say you jumped over right, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't turn the ball over for Thank you for being
Speaker 1: more creative than that. Amber. Well, I mean, I just
Speaker 1: that they're they're three touchdowns better than the Falcons. I mean,
Speaker 1: they kicked the Falcons ass like Seattle does. If they
Speaker 1: don't turn the ball over, everybody can see that they're
Speaker 1: way better than that. So just don't turn the ball over.
Speaker 1: Don't give extra possessions to Russell Wilson, And I think
Speaker 1: My answer is A four that no, my answers a five.
Speaker 1: That won't happen. They're not going to turn out at
Speaker 1: that rate. They're not gonna have five turnovers with two
Speaker 1: fourth down failed punts and three turnovers. They're not having that,
Speaker 1: all right, Dave. That's why, like that that is so unusual,
Speaker 1: you know, from what we saw, that's so unusual for
Speaker 1: them to do. So that's why I am not expecting
Speaker 1: that to happen this week. That's unusual for most teams.
Speaker 1: Like that's not even a cowboy like, that's just abnormal
Speaker 1: that a team has three turnovers and then two turnovers
Speaker 1: undowns Like that's a that's that's just not normal in
Speaker 1: an NFL, now, Dave. I mean, so we addressed the
Speaker 1: pass rush, and we addressed that they should probably hold
Speaker 1: on to the ball, But you got left. If those
Speaker 1: two things, if those two things get significantly better, I
Speaker 1: really like their chances to win this game if I
Speaker 1: had to think of something else turnovers, but not necessarily
Speaker 1: because they didn't. They didn't turn it over against the
Speaker 1: LA and they still didn't start fast enough. So I
Speaker 1: think the best recipe for success for this team is
Speaker 1: going to be to start faster start Hotter have seven
Speaker 1: or ten or fourteen points on the board by the
Speaker 1: end of the first quarter. That hasn't really been the
Speaker 1: case through two games so far. So it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you have to have the perfect drive on the opening possession,
Speaker 1: but get into a groove a little bit faster than
Speaker 1: they have been. I think that's going to be key
Speaker 1: against a quarterback as good as Russell Wilson. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually agree with you on that day, because I think
Speaker 1: if they can get an early lead, it does allow
Speaker 1: them in the second half possibly to be able to
Speaker 1: keep the ball out of Russell's hands by running the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit more. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: do that if the game's tied, or if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are behind against an offense like what we see in Seattle.
Speaker 1: So I think their best chance to be able to
Speaker 1: do that's going to be about getting us into a
Speaker 1: situation where they have a lead. We're gonna take our
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Speaker 1: and we're doing a game preview here. I got more
Speaker 1: questions for these guys that get you ready for Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Seahawks. The next question, what is more important for
Speaker 1: Dallas to get a win? And we're talking about the
Speaker 1: offense the Cowboys offense, ball control or up tempo? We
Speaker 1: saw last week when they went to up tempo they
Speaker 1: were moving the ball really well. It also has a
Speaker 1: way of kind of taking away some of the advantage
Speaker 1: at the defense have and being able to substitute and
Speaker 1: even be able to being able to do certain things
Speaker 1: with their defense. What's more important this game? Controlling the ball,
Speaker 1: keeping Russ off the field, or going up tempo where
Speaker 1: your offense may be better. Let's start first with you, Dave.
Speaker 1: Ball control is how you hide a week offense. Like
Speaker 1: that's what ball control is for. No, get up tempo,
Speaker 1: score some points, let's have some fun. I think the
Speaker 1: key to winning is gonna be red zone in my opinion,
Speaker 1: Like you gotta cash in. No kicking, no failed fourth
Speaker 1: down conversions, YadA, YadA YadA. Score touchdowns because you're gonna
Speaker 1: need them. The Seahawks, I feel like, unless somebody gets hurt,
Speaker 1: I think they're a lock to score thirty one points
Speaker 1: or more. So I'm saying score touch downs, up tempo,
Speaker 1: whatever helps your offense succeed. Ball control is for when
Speaker 1: you have a rookie quarterback or a bad quarterback, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys don't have either of those things. All right, Nick, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought when you were asking the question, you were
Speaker 1: saying like like hang on to the football type thing,
Speaker 1: like like trying to don't turn it over. Now I'm
Speaker 1: thinking I'm thinking more slowly gaining down and do the
Speaker 1: things you need to do to keep Russell off the field.
Speaker 1: Is that your best offense to keep him off the field?
Speaker 1: Is that your best way to win? Or do you
Speaker 1: go up tempo and just go hey, if we're getting
Speaker 1: to track me, we get to track me now. I
Speaker 1: he can come back if they're down. But I still
Speaker 1: make some one dimensional. I mean, if you if you
Speaker 1: have a lead and you're scoring points, they're gonna get
Speaker 1: away from what they want to do and they want
Speaker 1: to run the ball some with Carson. It's not like
Speaker 1: they just run it, you know, they let Russell do
Speaker 1: whatever he wants. But no, I think the day's right.
Speaker 1: I think you you you got to score points here.
Speaker 1: You know what's gonna be. You know, it's like racing
Speaker 1: Nusain Bolt. I mean, you know he's fast, so you
Speaker 1: better you better run. I mean, you know what he is,
Speaker 1: all right, amber ball, controller, up tempo. I'm gonna pick both,
Speaker 1: And don't be trying to challenge me on this one.
Speaker 1: I don't want to think further. But I'm picking a
Speaker 1: combination of both. The Cowboys need to do both, depending
Speaker 1: on where the game is at. I think they start
Speaker 1: off the game. They start off the game up tempo,
Speaker 1: just going out and trying to score. And obviously, depending
Speaker 1: where you're at in the second half of the game,
Speaker 1: if you're up, I would expect them to try to
Speaker 1: kill time by controlling the ball and keeping the ball
Speaker 1: longer on the offense. But a combination of both. And
Speaker 1: let me say this, I actually really really liked the
Speaker 1: no huddle thing that they did last week. I liked
Speaker 1: that it kept the momentum going and it seemed like
Speaker 1: it was really helpful to their game last week, So
Speaker 1: I hope to see some of that. I don't really
Speaker 1: know the disadvantages or and it just uh in comparison
Speaker 1: to like what helps them out them out the most.
Speaker 1: But I liked what I saw last week in regards
Speaker 1: to having no hotel going for it, Let's just keep playing.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're saying up tempo is the answer,
Speaker 1: because if you're if you're successful in up tempo and
Speaker 1: you can score a lot of points, then you would
Speaker 1: maybe consider ball control. But it first has to start
Speaker 1: with him being up tempo and being able to score
Speaker 1: a lot, right, is that what you're saying, I suppose
Speaker 1: see if you wanna, Well, I'm just trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what's more important. What's more important, I guess is
Speaker 1: what I was trying to get because I know you're right,
Speaker 1: there's no there's nothing that's going to be absolute in
Speaker 1: this game. Like there's there's You're going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of different kinds of things. He can even go
Speaker 1: to our next question I'm gonna ask, but but I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figre out what's more important. Well, but you know,
Speaker 1: if you listen to what Bucky said, though, He basically
Speaker 1: said both. Yeah, he said, you know, move get up
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage quickly. It's that hurry up
Speaker 1: to wait, you know, you hurry up, you hurry up.
Speaker 1: You can't substitute. If you do try to subtude, we're
Speaker 1: gonna snap it. But I'm still gonna, you know, slow
Speaker 1: this thing down and just still find take time. So
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think you know. Bucky kind
Speaker 1: of said both as well. I mean, you got to
Speaker 1: score points, without a doubt. You gotta score and do
Speaker 1: whatever you have to to score. But but also you
Speaker 1: gotta remember the zekes your guy, you know, and if
Speaker 1: you can run the ball with him, that's the maybe
Speaker 1: the best way to keep the ball in your hands. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got to preface this next question by saying, I
Speaker 1: understand Amber that this is gonna be both. They're gonna
Speaker 1: do both. But my question for you guys, Derek, I
Speaker 1: know I know where you're going. I know you I
Speaker 1: know you're going. I know what I picked two games,
Speaker 1: two scores last week. I know. The thing is, you
Speaker 1: still don't know. You don't really know what um Seattle's
Speaker 1: offense is really gonna be doing. Like you don't know
Speaker 1: how the game is gonna go. So at the same time,
Speaker 1: I wonder, okay, do you need to give some help
Speaker 1: to the defense, to your own defense as far as
Speaker 1: like how much time are you allowing them to be
Speaker 1: on the field. You know they haven't necessarily been playing well,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot that goes into account. But yes,
Speaker 1: I guess kick up tempo, score some games and all that,
Speaker 1: But I think you just need to create a really
Speaker 1: the right balance for the whole for both, got it.
Speaker 1: So that being said, which is more important on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, Blitzing Russell Wilson or containing
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson? Do you want to keep him in the
Speaker 1: pocket and make him throw from there or do you
Speaker 1: want to go get him and risk the fact that
Speaker 1: he's going to get out and be able to throw
Speaker 1: on the run. Let's start first with you, amper, Okay, blitzen.
Speaker 1: I think blitz in because I realistically I find it
Speaker 1: very hard to contain Russell Wilson. So if you're gonna
Speaker 1: invest more energy towards one of the other, I think
Speaker 1: that you might have a little more success in blitzing.
Speaker 1: All right, Nick, I agree with that. I mean you
Speaker 1: can't obviously do what every play, but I do think that,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd rather get him, know, get the ball
Speaker 1: out quicker. And also these cornerbacks are you know, they're
Speaker 1: all they're all banged up, and you know the ones
Speaker 1: that that aren't or you know, I mean out of
Speaker 1: the league all off season and Randon carr and out
Speaker 1: of the league for a little while, and Daryl Whirley
Speaker 1: until they got signed in Layton free agency, and Trayvon
Speaker 1: Diggs was out of the league because he was in college,
Speaker 1: you know, so like, you know, these guys were not
Speaker 1: like necessarily you know, you know, Staples and an NFL
Speaker 1: roster and then now they you know, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: the guys that cover. So I would I would say, blitz,
Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands, quicker. All right, Dave,
Speaker 1: how often under the last regime did we talk about
Speaker 1: keep him in the well, you know, keep him inside
Speaker 1: the pocket, contain him. How often did that like really work?
Speaker 1: It feels like it never really did. Which my my
Speaker 1: real answer to the question is doesn't matter, because I
Speaker 1: think Russell Wilson's going to have success no matter what.
Speaker 1: But if if faced with these two voices, I'd rather
Speaker 1: pressure him because like he'll break a few of them.
Speaker 1: But if you can blow up the play, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers. The most successful game the Cowboys ever
Speaker 1: played against Aaron Rodgers was when David Irving just destroyed
Speaker 1: the line in half the time. You know, he had
Speaker 1: three sacks in a fumble recovery, got right in his
Speaker 1: face right away. That's obviously not blitzing. But the quicker
Speaker 1: you can break up, the quicker you can collapse the play,
Speaker 1: the better off you are. And he'll burn you a
Speaker 1: few times too. But if you just try to contain
Speaker 1: them and let him hang around back there, I think
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be ugly too, So I'd rather I'd
Speaker 1: rather risk it for the biscuit. I guess yeah. I
Speaker 1: think contain only works when you got great cornerbacks and
Speaker 1: great safeties that can cover for longer than two seconds. Right.
Speaker 1: If you don't have that, then you better be getting
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback and force them into making throws
Speaker 1: quick and early. And I know, I look at this
Speaker 1: game and I'm saying, if Russ ends up having you know,
Speaker 1: if he rushes the ball for fifty sixty, maybe even
Speaker 1: seventy yards and they don't have as productive a passing day.
Speaker 1: I think that's okay. I'll take that. I'll take that
Speaker 1: as opposed to him sitting back there and picking the
Speaker 1: Cowboys apart because they're not really sending any pressure at him,
Speaker 1: and you're just relying on the front floor to get
Speaker 1: there and they're not able to get there consistently, and
Speaker 1: then he's just hitting DK metcalf down the field wide
Speaker 1: open or lock it, lock it down the field wide open.
Speaker 1: I think that's a much harder I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a much harder game for the Cowboys to win.
Speaker 1: So I think you actually have to send some pressure
Speaker 1: at him, send some different exotic looks at him, maybe
Speaker 1: blitz of safety, maybe blitz a corner, do some different things,
Speaker 1: so hopefully you can get some some sacks in some
Speaker 1: situations where you can catch him off guard. Now he's
Speaker 1: a veteran, he's seen everything, but hopefully you can catch
Speaker 1: him off guard a few times and make make some
Speaker 1: game changing type plays. All right, because we're gonna do
Speaker 1: We got this final question to have for you in
Speaker 1: the game preview. It is if the Cowboys win, the
Speaker 1: primary reason will be blank Dave, we're gonna start with you,
Speaker 1: you know my answer, or come on, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: because of Dak Prescott obviously, And I will say if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win, I think they're most likely strategy for
Speaker 1: winning will involve a healthy dose of zeke in the
Speaker 1: second half if they have a lead, or our trading
Speaker 1: leads or whatever. But it's on the quarterback man, Like
Speaker 1: I said, I mean, I think the Seahawks are damn
Speaker 1: near a lock to score thirty one points. So you
Speaker 1: need four touch you need four or five touchdowns to
Speaker 1: win this game, maybe six, And that's gonna be on
Speaker 1: your QB. And he's off to a really great start. Um.
Speaker 1: I know they didn't win the first game, but I
Speaker 1: still thought he played really well. So this is this
Speaker 1: is a big litmus test for Dak if he can,
Speaker 1: if he can outpaced Russell Wilson, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: not all Vertch on him, all right, Nick, I like
Speaker 1: the interior line for the Cowboys. I think Connor Williams,
Speaker 1: Zack Martin, and Joe Looney. You said it that last
Speaker 1: week earlier this week that Joe Looney thinks is a
Speaker 1: big test for him. I think, you know, that's what
Speaker 1: those blitzer are going to be coming. Obviously, usually they
Speaker 1: come from there. And I think that running the ball
Speaker 1: with Zeke and keeping that Yes, the tackles are gonna
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna be struggling at times, just because
Speaker 1: it's hard to block out there, especially. I've only started
Speaker 1: two games each over there, but I just think if
Speaker 1: they if the Cowboys are gonna move the ball, give
Speaker 1: Dak enough time, it's gonna because of that offensive line
Speaker 1: up front. I think those guys that's a really big key.
Speaker 1: And if they do that, then I think Dave's right it.
Speaker 1: Dack will make this place and throw the ball around
Speaker 1: and they'll have some fun pitch and catch and all that.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna start right there at the front of
Speaker 1: that offensive line. And er if the Cowboys win, the
Speaker 1: primary reason will be blank. I think, um it will
Speaker 1: be because they had a successful passing game. I even
Speaker 1: though I like having Zeke run the ball, at the
Speaker 1: same time, I wonder if he'll be used more for
Speaker 1: blocking or helping out a little more in the blocking
Speaker 1: game because of the guys that they currently have on
Speaker 1: their deep fans out there in Seattle. So I can
Speaker 1: see this game be relying a lot more on the
Speaker 1: passing game, and after the game that Dad had last week,
Speaker 1: I expect it to be that way. So if they've win,
Speaker 1: it's because it worked out for Dack and his arm
Speaker 1: and the receivers were catching balls. All right, here's's gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a final break when we come back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into a little I know, I think
Speaker 1: I have no idea. We'll also hopefully get some fan
Speaker 1: questions from you guys. Amber has some questions lined up there,
Speaker 1: and then we'll give you our predictions for the game
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Seahawks that when we come right back. This
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Speaker 1: the final segment of the Break and we are going
Speaker 1: to finish the show up strong. We're gonna do a
Speaker 1: little bit. I know, I think I have no idea
Speaker 1: what we do in this segment is we're gonna go
Speaker 1: around the room. Everybody's gonna give there, I know, just there.
Speaker 1: I know. Then we'll go around the room and everybody
Speaker 1: will give there. I think, and then everyone will give
Speaker 1: there I have no idea, all right, So here's what
Speaker 1: I know, and then we'll move around the room. I
Speaker 1: know Russell Wilson will be a problem for the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense, and I know Jamal Adams will be a
Speaker 1: problem for the Cowboys offense. Wow, Nick, you're up next.
Speaker 1: What do you know? So Rest is gonna be good
Speaker 1: and Joel Adams is gonna be good. They're both gonna
Speaker 1: be a problem. They don't you enough? Hey? Hold on, Nick,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, Derek, I'm gonna challenge you. Sure
Speaker 1: those are obvious points. Those are obvious points. So please
Speaker 1: tell me exactly how you think Russell Wilson and Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams how that's gonna faith and disrupt the game for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I think Jamali, I think Jamal Adam is
Speaker 1: gonna be a problem blitzing. I think Cowboys will have
Speaker 1: no answer for him because he'll be all over the
Speaker 1: field and they will not adapt well to that. And
Speaker 1: I think Russell Wilson will get out of the pocket
Speaker 1: quite a bit. And I think when he gets out
Speaker 1: of the pocket, he will kill them with his legs
Speaker 1: as well as kid killed them with passes. Downfield. So
Speaker 1: both of those players will be big problems for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense and defense. And by the way, when I
Speaker 1: say I know, it needs to be something that you know,
Speaker 1: not you think not. You have a pretty good inclination
Speaker 1: on something that you know. All right, Amber, you're up next, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's next turn, all right. I know the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: catching a major break with no fans being there. You know,
Speaker 1: when you look at the differences, and the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: played Seattle a lot, and it's tough to go up
Speaker 1: there and win, there's no doubt about it. But they've
Speaker 1: had some success here when when they've played, even on
Speaker 1: games when Seattle was way better than the Cowboys, like
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, they hung in there. And so I think
Speaker 1: now you're talking about almost a neutral site. Really, I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys are catching a major break because when
Speaker 1: you think about at Seattle, it's not going to be
Speaker 1: what it always is. And I think that that's a big,
Speaker 1: big break for the Cowboys. All right, I said it
Speaker 1: earlier the whole like, I know that the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: able to win games now that I saw last week
Speaker 1: with others starting two tackles, all right, Dave Pastic point.
Speaker 1: I know which. Speaking of which, even though they're not available,
Speaker 1: I know the Cowboys have the better roster in this game.
Speaker 1: You know, that goes back to the classic debate that
Speaker 1: we've had a million times over how talented they are.
Speaker 1: I think if you put them on paper, you take
Speaker 1: the Cowboys roster ten times out of ten. But the
Speaker 1: Seahawks have the better quarterback. The Seahawks have the best
Speaker 1: player in this game. And that's really the story of
Speaker 1: it for me, is all that talent on the Dallas
Speaker 1: roster good enough to overcome beat the best player on
Speaker 1: the field and maybe the best player in the league.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go through a round of I think
Speaker 1: I think the Dallas offense can match Seattle scoring. However,
Speaker 1: I actually think it's going to be very similar to the
Speaker 1: the last week. I think the o this offense is
Speaker 1: going to have some challenges throughout this game from that
Speaker 1: Seattle defense. I think they're gonna probably have some turnovers,
Speaker 1: whether that's fumbles or interceptions, and I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: have some moments where you're gonna be like, man, they're
Speaker 1: not being able to get things going. And it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be again because the offensive playmakers are not able
Speaker 1: to make plays, which I think that was the fallacy
Speaker 1: of a way A lot of people looked at last
Speaker 1: week's game, they thought Gack was struggling for part of
Speaker 1: the game. He was not. It was a situation where
Speaker 1: they would get going and then they would have a
Speaker 1: mistake and the mistake would kill their drive, whether that's
Speaker 1: a turnover or silly penalty, whatever it might be. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be something similar this week. But I
Speaker 1: do think overall the Cowboys offense can match up with
Speaker 1: the Seattle offense and can score with them and be
Speaker 1: right there in the game at the end. Nick, what's
Speaker 1: up next? I think Michael Gallup's gonna have a big game.
Speaker 1: I think that's the key here, Cou for CD. We've
Speaker 1: seen it in the first two games. Gallop really he's
Speaker 1: had some big plays late in the game, of course,
Speaker 1: but I think that he's going to have his best
Speaker 1: game of the season. And I just think that they
Speaker 1: can't cover everyone, and if their best safety is going
Speaker 1: to be playing more like a linebacker, that's going to
Speaker 1: open them up even more. There's no way Seattle's got
Speaker 1: three cornerbacks that can handle those three. I think big
Speaker 1: game for Gallop amber Um, we'll be talking. We've been
Speaker 1: talking a lot about the Cowboys defense and the struggles
Speaker 1: that they've been having. But I do think that this
Speaker 1: week they'll be able to play better. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that'll be enough to actually help the Gallays win,
Speaker 1: but I think they'll They'll be able to manage to
Speaker 1: make some good play, some important plays in there in
Speaker 1: the game, and be able to just perform better overall
Speaker 1: compared to the first two weeks. All Right, Dave Um,
Speaker 1: curveball of some so or because anytime the talking points
Speaker 1: are this obvious, that there's all like, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: one and that I mean, you know, I think it's
Speaker 1: still gonna be a quarterback heavy game. We're gonna see
Speaker 1: a lot of points. I would be surprised if we don't.
Speaker 1: But when I just when I say curveball a guy,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about whether it's you know, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe one of these pass rushers has like a crazy
Speaker 1: good game, whether it's Tank or Alden Smith, like maybe
Speaker 1: somebody breaks out of a rut, or maybe you know,
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, who who people have been dogging, gets a pick,
Speaker 1: or maybe on the Seahawks side, Chris Carson just has
Speaker 1: a way better game than people are expecting. Like, holy crap,
Speaker 1: Chris Carson ran for one hundred and forty on these
Speaker 1: guys that ain't good. Just something like that, because because
Speaker 1: anytime the storylines are this obvious, there's there's bound to
Speaker 1: be some sort of surprise. You know, I agree with
Speaker 1: you on that. I actually think Chris Carson. Carson's gonna
Speaker 1: have a really good game. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: but I just think I think they want to run
Speaker 1: the ball, and I think they look at this Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense and they're probably having that same conversation we've been
Speaker 1: having during this show about whether their best their best
Speaker 1: offense to some degree is trying to keep the ball
Speaker 1: out of the hands of this Cowboys offense. So I
Speaker 1: kind of wonder if they're going to try to run
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit more this week than they
Speaker 1: may have the first two weeks, so that they don't
Speaker 1: end up in that kind of track. Me and I
Speaker 1: think Chris Carson is a very very capable running back.
Speaker 1: All Right, Finally, let's get to what I have no
Speaker 1: idea about, and I have no idea who on the
Speaker 1: Dallas defense can make a play to get a stop
Speaker 1: in a critical moment. And I think this game does
Speaker 1: come down to a critical moment one of these two
Speaker 1: defenses is ultimately going to make a stop. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna make stops all day. I think the game,
Speaker 1: the team that ends up winning will have the defensive
Speaker 1: player that makes a play in a critical moment of
Speaker 1: the game that ultimately gives their offense an opportunity to
Speaker 1: win it. Nick, what do you have no idea about?
Speaker 1: I really have no idea. How Mike McCarthy, you know,
Speaker 1: calls games. And that's that's not a bad thing. I
Speaker 1: mean because we always talk about being predictable and all that. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's gonna be calls every week we
Speaker 1: sit up there in the press box or wherever we
Speaker 1: we don't agree with with. You know, some things we do,
Speaker 1: some things we don't. I don't have a good feel.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be aggressive, but but you know,
Speaker 1: when is he going to pick his spots there and
Speaker 1: is he going to scale back from that? Is he
Speaker 1: realizing maybe I shouldn't be so aggressive there. So I
Speaker 1: don't have a good feel of Hal McCarthy's calling games.
Speaker 1: And again, like I said, I don't know if that's bad.
Speaker 1: It's interesting he mentioned earlier this week he's always been
Speaker 1: an aggressive call, an aggressive coach when it comes to
Speaker 1: game day strategy. I think he mentioned that was a
Speaker 1: fourth and twenty four that he went for on that
Speaker 1: press conference that he was on earlier this week, so
Speaker 1: and he said they actually converted it. So he's always
Speaker 1: said he's always been a guy that's that's really really
Speaker 1: pushed the envelope. And so I think we just have
Speaker 1: to get used to the idea that he's going to
Speaker 1: be aggressive, and I know Dave loves that so well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Dave will be happy with it. Amba what
Speaker 1: you got. It's funny because that's exactly what I was
Speaker 1: gonna say. Us. Well, just I have no idea, just
Speaker 1: a calling, and I don't know if it's gonna work
Speaker 1: out in their advantage this week. It might come down
Speaker 1: to play decision that maybe it wasn't the right call,
Speaker 1: or maybe it was the right call, and then again
Speaker 1: the players weren't able to execute it well on the field.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be critical this week to be able
Speaker 1: to make the right calls at the right time. And
Speaker 1: not like you. There's no room here for mistakes. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I just have no idea how the call playing
Speaker 1: it's gonna be this week and if it's gonna end
Speaker 1: up working in their advantage Again, all right, Dave, I
Speaker 1: have no idea. I mean, I mean, I have no
Speaker 1: idea how the Cowboys defense is going to do enough
Speaker 1: to limit Russ. But that's obvious. I think more of
Speaker 1: like the big picture, I have no idea what this
Speaker 1: game is gonna mean if they lose it, I mean,
Speaker 1: if they win. I think that it says a lot.
Speaker 1: I think I feel comfortable saying I think the Seahawks
Speaker 1: are going to be in the playoffs. They almost always are.
Speaker 1: This could be a big statement went for them. But
Speaker 1: what does it mean if they lose? And how did
Speaker 1: they lose? Obviously, I mean, if they go up there
Speaker 1: and play like crap, that's a different story from if
Speaker 1: they just come up short. But how do you evaluate
Speaker 1: this team if they can't get it done? You know,
Speaker 1: this is a team a lot of people are picking
Speaker 1: to win ten, eleven, twelve games. They would have two
Speaker 1: losses halfway through September. You know, are they good enough
Speaker 1: to bounce out of that and reel off four or
Speaker 1: five six wins in a road to compensate. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, so kind of I'm kind of
Speaker 1: talking out of both sides of my mouth because I
Speaker 1: know it would be big if they win, but I
Speaker 1: don't know how to react to it if they lose.
Speaker 1: If that makes sense, it's good, that's good, all right, Amber,
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get a couple fan questions. I
Speaker 1: think maybe we'll get one or two hit before we
Speaker 1: end the show. Okay, I have someone who's asking, how
Speaker 1: is Tristan Hill doing? He seems like he was in
Speaker 1: the Palicans backfield a lot last week. So how would
Speaker 1: you write his performance so far in the season. I
Speaker 1: think he has he looks slippery man. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a good, good word, like like he gets like, he
Speaker 1: gets around blocks, he gets into the backfield. If you
Speaker 1: go watch the tape, I thought he had a handful
Speaker 1: of really good pressures. It seems like he's got work
Speaker 1: to do in the run game. I thought I saw,
Speaker 1: you know, the interior guys on the Falcons push him
Speaker 1: back a good bit. Um. But I've been encouraged by
Speaker 1: what I've seen from a pass rushing standpoint for sure.
Speaker 1: And when you compare it to what you thought probably
Speaker 1: coming out of last season, I think he is spades
Speaker 1: better than what we all expected of him at this
Speaker 1: point in this you know, going into second year. So
Speaker 1: I think he's been pretty good. Yeah, me too, Yeah, Camber. Um,
Speaker 1: I have a question about Tony Polar. Are you guys
Speaker 1: expecting to see more of him this week? Um? Not?
Speaker 1: If he's seven yards deep in the you know, in
Speaker 1: the end zone, I hope not. Why he's he's got
Speaker 1: to be getting coached to to do that, or to say, hey,
Speaker 1: if you see it and you think you can do
Speaker 1: something with it, you should. And I will say this,
Speaker 1: there was one time in particular while I was watching
Speaker 1: him come out, and he got it back to more
Speaker 1: than twenty five. So you know, if you get beyond
Speaker 1: the twenty five, you've you've gotten a better net yards.
Speaker 1: So you gotta remember that how many times blocks in
Speaker 1: the back or hauled on kickoff turns, It's just it's
Speaker 1: not worth it, really. I mean. Now, of course he
Speaker 1: might bust one out for like seventy five yards or
Speaker 1: a touchdown, and then he were like every time, you know,
Speaker 1: Cordell Patterson's style, but he's not there yet. But as
Speaker 1: for as for running the ball, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think he'll just get an occasional mount.
Speaker 1: I mean, he got the first two carriers of the
Speaker 1: game right the other day, he tumbled one of them,
Speaker 1: and they didn't go back to that. I mean, they
Speaker 1: started off with that twenty personnel with two running backs
Speaker 1: and three wide receivers, and they didn't really go I
Speaker 1: don't think they went back to that at any other
Speaker 1: point in the game. Do you notice that, David, at
Speaker 1: any point they go back to that. I think Mike
Speaker 1: was just trying to shut us all up. He was like, fine,
Speaker 1: here's your twenty personnel and leave me alone. And then
Speaker 1: put the tight end And I'm I'm the Tony Pollard guy,
Speaker 1: and i mean, based on last week, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not chomping at the bit to see more. Between the
Speaker 1: kickoffs and then fumbled, had had it given back because
Speaker 1: he was down, but still ball security. And then his
Speaker 1: other run, I think he cut, he cut the wrong way,
Speaker 1: like he could have had a better run if he
Speaker 1: had made a different cut. And I mean I'm not
Speaker 1: saying put him on the bench forever. But it was
Speaker 1: not his best performance last week. But I'm always in
Speaker 1: favor of packages that gets feed on the field. So
Speaker 1: if you can get him six to twelve touches, it's
Speaker 1: a okay with me. Look, the hard part here is
Speaker 1: that as much as we think or I'll speak for myself,
Speaker 1: as much as I think of Tony Pollard, I just
Speaker 1: I'm in love ze two. So it's not like I'm
Speaker 1: pushing for Pollard to get out there. I'm like, you're
Speaker 1: fine with what you got. You got with on him,
Speaker 1: one of the best, if not the best running back
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So taking him off the field to
Speaker 1: to you know, put Pollard on or give Politt more opportunity,
Speaker 1: I'm not really pushing for that. If it happens, great,
Speaker 1: if Paula can do something with it. But I mean,
Speaker 1: ze Zeke is the dude, Like, that's the guy you
Speaker 1: want getting the ball if you're handing it off. All right,
Speaker 1: real quick, before me in the show, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get some predictions here today. We're gonna start with Dave,
Speaker 1: give me your prediction for this upcoming game, Cowboys versus Seahawks. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we did this thing last year where they kicked
Speaker 1: everybody's butt for three weeks, and then they started losing,
Speaker 1: and it just felt like every week you were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well this is this is the week that they're gonna
Speaker 1: snap out of it and they'll do this and they'll
Speaker 1: fix these problems. So I could sit here and say,
Speaker 1: you know, this will be the week that the pass
Speaker 1: rush gets home and they'll play a lot better on
Speaker 1: defense and they'll be able to stop Russell Wilson. But
Speaker 1: I need to see it to believe it, basically. And
Speaker 1: I think, you know, people love to hate on me
Speaker 1: because of the way I kind of revere the Packers,
Speaker 1: But when you're as consistent as a guy like Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson and Aaron Rodgers are in this league, that counts
Speaker 1: for a lot me And Russell Wilson is definitely on
Speaker 1: that level where I gotta see you beat him to
Speaker 1: believe it, basically. And I know they beat him in
Speaker 1: the playoffs a couple of years ago, but that was
Speaker 1: a different Seahawks team and a different Seahawks approach. I
Speaker 1: think they're a lot more comfortable putting it in Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson's hands, and I just I think the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: the horses to keep up on offense, but I just
Speaker 1: worry about that defense and playing at home. I gotta
Speaker 1: give the nod to Russell Wilson. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: Seahawks win by a score of like thirty four to
Speaker 1: twenty eight or thirty eight thirty four, a three to
Speaker 1: five point Seahawks win. But I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: really exciting. All right, Amber, this is gonna be really stupid,
Speaker 1: But I don't care. You guys know very well how much.
Speaker 1: And I've talked about how I like seeing how a
Speaker 1: person is feeling in their mannerisms and behavior and all that. Well,
Speaker 1: this year, we don't get to go to the locker room.
Speaker 1: So when I'm in the office where I do the show,
Speaker 1: my view, I get to see exactly where Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and the quarterbacks walk out. Last week, when we were
Speaker 1: doing the show, I saw Dak walking out with a
Speaker 1: lot of energy, nice little walk, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: watch this guy win this week. But I chose that
Speaker 1: they we're gonna lose, mainly because of the injuries that
Speaker 1: they had. I couldn't get past that. This week, Dak's
Speaker 1: walk was a little lower, just kind of more chill,
Speaker 1: not as hyped. It had a little little hop to
Speaker 1: it that gave me a vibe that we could win
Speaker 1: this game, but we might lose. So I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with They're gonna lose this game. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a close one. Just like Dak's walk, it
Speaker 1: wasn't fully one percent confidence, so I'm merely basing this
Speaker 1: on his walk. Okay, so they're close game and it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be a difference of like four points, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna be in the ties. I think, all right,
Speaker 1: what if the guy has a stomach ache, you know, like,
Speaker 1: what if he's not feeling good, he has to go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom or something. You're like, you're gonna pick
Speaker 1: the game based off of that? Maybe, Hey, that's true?
Speaker 1: As I think, you know, I hear Russell Wilson is
Speaker 1: the hottest you know player in the league right now,
Speaker 1: and and I get that, is he still red hot?
Speaker 1: If if his cornerback doesn't stop the guy at the
Speaker 1: one yard line, I mean, if they lose in their
Speaker 1: one and one, are we still looking at it the same? Um?
Speaker 1: He's played well, stats are great, but I mean he
Speaker 1: didn't do anything to make sure that they didn't win
Speaker 1: that you know, that game there on the goal line,
Speaker 1: and same with the Cowboys. I they easily could be
Speaker 1: oh and two and all that. So I I like,
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys will will score a lot of points.
Speaker 1: I definitely think that. I think the Seahawks come down
Speaker 1: to earth a little bit. Again. I think the advantage
Speaker 1: of not playing with in that crowd in front of
Speaker 1: that crowd will help. I think the Cowboys win by
Speaker 1: two scores thirty eight twenty seven because I think they're
Speaker 1: a better football team. I really do. I think Russell's
Speaker 1: really good. I think he comes down a little bit.
Speaker 1: I love it win all right. I look at this
Speaker 1: game and I think it's gonna be similar real quick.
Speaker 1: And if that happens and Mahomes Mahomes, the deal is
Speaker 1: not gonna be good enough for Dak. It happens, it's
Speaker 1: gonna go off the chain, like it's gonna be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like now we're talking. You know, people
Speaker 1: can say that because it's not gonna happen right off
Speaker 1: the bat, but I mean, geez, it does get interesting.
Speaker 1: It would be all right. I think this is a
Speaker 1: game that's going to be very close. Summer Little last week.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a very high scoring game.
Speaker 1: Summer Little last week. I think ultimately this game is
Speaker 1: gonna come down to a defensive play, and I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be either Xavier Woods, Everson Griffin, or Trey
Speaker 1: Von Diggs that makes a big play that ends up
Speaker 1: winning this game for Dallas. Dallas wins thirty eight, thirty
Speaker 1: seven and another thrilling victory. Same as Week two one
Speaker 1: another one point one point Cowboys have the sixth tied
Speaker 1: for the fifth highest one point game, like in the
Speaker 1: history of the NFL. Like that was the highest scoring
Speaker 1: one point game and the highest in Cowboys history, So
Speaker 1: that would be right up. That would be like number
Speaker 1: seven or eight if they did that again. Let's go pep.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. All right, guys, appreciate you
Speaker 1: join us. We'll be back on Monday. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: what went right and what went wrong for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: till then. For Nick Even, Dave helm and Amber Garcia.
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