WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Favorite Pro Bowler? 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.840 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:16.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys let go. Are 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.040 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:24.160 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.040 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:33.720 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:46.480 bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, December twenty second, 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:50.000 twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number ninety five. Welcome 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.920 to the latest edition of The Break, Live from the 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.040 SWBC Boarding studios at the Star, presented by Middle Like 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.040 the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. And it is 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:03.760 a snowy day year in North Texas. I was just 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:05.760 telling somebody like, we got Texas snow, like, we got 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.920 a little flurries, and everybody's like, oh, do we get 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.240 to go home? No where? I was fine, we'll be 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.040 all right. I was in here kind of show prepping 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.440 it a little bit, and Beam walks in and goes 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.600 snow one out there, and I'm thinking, all right, cool, 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.920 you know, I was thinking, like maybe you know, it's 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.679 just gonna snow. It's like it's like ice, crystal things 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.160 it's like it's not really I'm thinking he snow but 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:32.000 he's like a Chicago guy. He says, that's what he 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.360 was saying. But to me, it was like I was like, going, 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.040 that's just like ice crystals, saying, like, it's not like 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:42.479 Buffalo or Chicago or Kansas City out there. Best on. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.480 You know what I was watching. I was watching the 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.080 video yesterday of our show. Always go back and listen 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.840 to our show, the show all twenty two of the show. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.360 And and I'll tell you what. I had my hoodie 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.520 on yesterday. I looked like job of the Hut, this 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:01.080 massive gray just sitting here. I'm like, God, it's like 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.440 the gray main though. I love that man. You know what, 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.400 I would really ever cut that off. By the way, Yeah, yeah, 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.800 back in the future, right right. I used Ambar's question 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.560 yesterday on the radio. They got a really good response 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:19.480 about the offense. Could the defense be the offense from 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.120 last year? And that was thank you for giving me 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.760 a segment yesterday and on our show in one oh 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.320 five three Chasing the Mail. Yeah, very very good. Yeah, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.560 lunch or something like that. Producer. Yeah, but anyway, that's 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:33.600 but yeah, that's uh, you know, a lot of a 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.960 lot of interesting things going on right now. We did 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.120 get some interesting news last night. Cowboys or the NFL 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.399 announced Pro Bowl for this year. Cowboys get seven players 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.840 Zack Martin, Michael Parsons, Trayvon dig Ceedee lamb To, Marcus Lawrence, 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:51.480 Tony Pollard, and Cavante Turpin make the Pro Bowl squad. Uh, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.600 you're surprised by any of those names? Well you are. 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.600 I mean, I mean, how do you say Cavante Turpin? 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:00.799 T It's like a question mark. That's my favorite one 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.639 by far. I mean it is. Actually right when we 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.040 were starting the show, I just I just laughed to 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.760 myself because I just thought about a training camp conversation 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.080 that we didn't have, but let's say we did. We're 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.679 standing out there. Oh, they brought this guy in and 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.920 felt he's gonna make the Pro Bowl this year. Yeah, 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.560 how about make the team. Oh, he's gonna make the 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:25.440 team and he's gonna make the Pro Bowl. I mean 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.120 it would be you'd be laughed at, you know, the 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.160 entire day. And it just just been He's he's earned it, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.480 and and you know, and I really believe he is 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.600 an underrated weapon. I think he's a guy that that 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.800 really you have to be cognitant of and just watch 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.440 the way they punt to him. Punched it straight up 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.280 in the area. Really doesn't get a lot of chances. Yeah, 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.520 it's interesting if you're sitting there in Oxnard and you 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.680 bring that kid in. I remember when we first saw 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.440 him art Like, we're going, yeah, it's somebody. Yeah, who's 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.320 whose kids work in the camp this year? You know, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.200 kind of like Will McClay son. Yeah, you know, you 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.280 got to give the Cowboys pro personnel guys a lot 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.080 of credit. You know, that's what you get. You know, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.880 you watch USFL tape and you kind of have an idea. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.200 You talk to coaches, You're like, you know, did they 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.360 battle anybody for him? Or was this just a straight 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.039 let's go get the MVP of the USFL, right and 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.159 he's a four you know TCU, Yeah, probably that was 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:23.080 that was yeah, I mean yeah, well, and also it's 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.600 also be clear. I know, I know Brian you had 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.000 talked about I think you had said you talk to 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.839 your gang of seven. Yeah, and it wasn't like teams 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.360 didn't know of this guy, no of his talent. There 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.719 were things off the field, right deared all of them away. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.359 Right right. We had that discussion and I was just 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.080 kind of like, but you know, pro personnel guys. I 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.719 mean that's you know, whoever whoever had the USFL had 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.960 that team whatever. That guy gets a steak. You know, 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.840 you're going out to Manny's in Minneapolis and you're gonna 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.400 get to towers and all that stuff like that. Yeah, 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.280 so I mean, yeah, it's it's a to me. That's that. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.479 That's you know, Stephen Jones always comes on and we 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.640 kind of laugh at him. I know, I could always 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.080 you know, of evaluation and personnel, it's always a twenty 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.640 four seven job and you're like, yeah, it is okay, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.000 and then you see that and something like that. You 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.640 go out and you get a guy in the summertime 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.040 and the next thing you know, he's a Pro Bowl. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:13.880 You know, we had a similar thing happened in Green 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.839 Bay with Desmond Howard. You know, Desmond Howard was not 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.560 but Desmond Howard was a fifth overall pick. Yeah, right, 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.440 but you still have where also you go get him, 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.000 he's on your team and then by the end of 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.760 the year he's helping you win a Super Bowl. So 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.240 you know, that's the kind of thing that's scouts when 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.240 they do their job. It's a it's a brilliant thing, 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.680 you know. Washington put out a really good video. It 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.360 was actually really really really good just a reaction of 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.000 these and he started thinking. I started thinking, oh, how 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.760 would a video like that work for us? And I 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.640 started going through how each player in my mind would react. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.640 And I just laughed when he came up to Turpin 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.120 because he would have been just he's just like a 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.800 little kid, like you talk to him and he's like 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.760 like smiling and just like yeah, he'll be like, oh 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.680 that's cool, man, Yeah, yeah, and just a smile. So 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.120 I'm very knowing his career in his background, I'm very 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.320 happy for what he has been able to accomplish here. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.880 He's a guy that first time I saw him in person, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.520 I'm like, man, don't get hit. He's gonna get killed 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:19.400 out there. He's tiny, Like well he's yeah. So very 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.479 very happy for him. But I do know that a 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.200 lot of people were surprised about DeMarcus Lawrence making the 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.920 Pro Bowl? Are you guys surprised about it? Because he's 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.400 on our show every Thursday. We were pushing for that 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.520 thing hard, you guys, y'all working during that interview every week. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.320 I listened to it. Oh yeah, to take it a 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.039 good question, pull name out, Yeah, we have a we 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:38.839 have a good one. Yeah. I'll tell you what's funny 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.120 though about the Ron River at the Commanders though. The 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.040 thing with that, if it was Turpin, you bring him 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.840 in and you kind of play it slow played a 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.200 little bit. He's probably thinking you signed Odell Beckham. You know, 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.960 you're probably he's probably thinking, oh, they're about to take 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.120 my roster spot. Yeah, all of a sudden, hey you 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:01.359 made the Pro Bowl. Oh my god, it get it crazy. 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.040 I just with him more than anything. And you kind 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.919 of mentioned it. But like you know, in today's world 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.600 of where where we are, you don't you don't always 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.960 get a second chance, especially when you go through some 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.400 of the issues that he did and he went through 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.040 and uh and you know, and stuff that he put 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.040 on himself. But to be able to get to the 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.239 next side, and and and and you know, keep fighting 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.400 for his dream to be in the NFL and to 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.320 get someone to trust him, you know. And it was 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.840 the somebody at the USFL said, oh, you know, let's 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:35.720 put this guy out there. And then you know, I'm 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.920 sure the Cowboys did their homework and all that. It's 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.600 just a remarkable story about about a guy that just 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.120 you know, all you do is look at him and go, 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.560 you're not an NFL player, And then to think of 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.600 all the other stuff he's dealt with and to be 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.880 here and you know, and he's still and he's still 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.000 not as satisfied. I talked to him a week ago 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.400 and he goes, yeah. He goes, yeah, but I haven't 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.960 taken one to the crib. That that's all easy is like, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.880 haven't gotten haven't gone to the crib yet, That's what 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.600 he's saying. You know, he just he hasn't returned one 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.280 before a touchdown yet. You know, what do you do 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.840 you feel like though that? Do they feel he's so 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.600 valuable that they won't use him on offense? Because we 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.840 were talking about pre you know that when we went 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.600 on by We're all the show was like, Hey, well 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.320 when you come back, they're gonna have plans and maybe 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.400 they do. I don't know if they trust him to 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.960 run the right route or what. I don't know. See 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.800 that's what I don't I don't know, trust him to 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:29.800 hand the ball to him. I just wanted to hand 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.360 the ball to him on third on on that last 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.960 series of the Jacksonville game. Give me a reverse around 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.080 the edge with him. I think that's five yards waiting 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.080 to happen. To be honest with you, at this point 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.280 in the year, and this may be totally unfair, and 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.840 you guys tell me if it is. I actually think 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.600 over the last few games, it feels to me like 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.440 he doesn't have the same amount of juice that he 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.559 had early in the season. And I do wonder. I mean, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.680 this is the guy coming off of a USFL season, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.600 He's played a lot deep into an NFL season. I 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.520 just wonder if he's running out of gas a little bit. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.400 And if that's the case, like I look at it 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.280 and say, more so, I just don't know if he 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.000 still has that same level of juicy yet earlier in 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.120 the year. That's just my opinion, and it might be unfair, 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.320 like I said, but that's just what I'm I think 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.320 I'm saying. The thing that I that I kind of 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.720 see is like I think he's pressing. I see a 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.880 guy that's like, I haven't brought one back to the crib. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:19.800 You know, I got to find a way to change 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.240 fuel position. I gotta find and then sometimes then the 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.480 ball ends up on the eighteen and you're going, Okay, 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.600 I get it, bro, you can run. You can. He's 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.920 one of the best I've ever seen really when it 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.960 comes to the blocking. Is going one way and he 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.679 decides to go the other way. He's going down on 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.440 the freeway where it says wrong way. He is driving traffic, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.240 is driving his car as fast as he can. Well, 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.280 everybody over here is like he is running over here 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.800 is fast. By the way, don't try this. Yeah, I 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:52.240 don't know it's about I would challenge that about the 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.320 running out of juice and stuff, just because I could 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.400 see it if it was somebody that was getting in 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.800 a lot of collisions every game and all that you're 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.080 running back or whatever. But he really isn't, you know, 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.959 getting a lot of like hits like that. I mean, 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.560 he's just a punt return kick returner and he only 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.800 gets three or four a game. He's not getting hit 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.000 in practice. Yeah, but let's also remember it's also still 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.640 just wear and tear on your body. And what I 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.000 mean by that, what I mean by that is you're 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.200 still running. He's still running every day. It's like you 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.640 just think about the training that he's been through, all 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.800 the training he's been through and the work that he 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.839 puts in during the week, that's still mileage. It might 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.439 not be hits and collisions, it's still your body is 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.520 going through this constant turnover of work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.960 and not enough rest. And that's why the off season 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.480 is so important. I think you have to replenish and 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.160 you have to give your body an opportunity to kind 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.160 of hell itself is free agent. He's one of the 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:45.679 free agents. I'm sure they just got a one year 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.480 deal out of him. Yeah. One year. Yeah, so that 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.720 I wish it would you probably could have got it. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.559 They've given two year deals the guys you're kind of like, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.000 wish you hadn't given two before. Well, they have to 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.199 make that one, make that one. Say that because as 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.000 I think for him about dackyard football with him and 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.200 Tolbert running routes out there, I mean learning the offense, 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.280 understanding what's going on, getting you know, getting a role there, 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.520 getting some trust with dak Um, you know, because because 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.160 you gotta remember he didn't he probably got a lot 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.000 of his stuff with Cooper Rush. And yeah, you know 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.120 what's going back to no, I was gonna say real 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.680 quick with the whole mention of utilizing him on offense 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.760 a little bit, I think, I mean, we have seen 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.960 them try just a little bit, not to my in 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.640 my opinion, not enough, but the times that they have tried, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:38.520 it just hasn't really worked out or being like they've 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.120 not guying anything out of that. So I think that 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.160 it hasn't worked to what they're intending to do, and 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.319 then they're just kind of giving up on that rather 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.920 than trying different ways to incorporate him and make it 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:56.520 appear more of a weapon to defenses. But so, but 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.520 at this point of the year, I don't think they 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.760 should include him offense, just keeping up because I do 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.199 agree with you, Derek. I don't think he's losing all 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.760 the Jews, but I do see a slight change in 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.360 his game when he's out there on special teams. So 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.719 I get what you're saying and what you're seeing too, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.120 because I kind of see that a little bit as well. Yeah, 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.400 I will be interested to see if we get to 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.720 the playoffs and that becomes one of the wrinkles. And again, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.160 I don't necessarily need to even see him, like you know, 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:27.720 on a reverse or something. I just want to see, 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.040 you know, maybe a bubble screen. I just want to 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.960 see situations where you get him out in space and 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.560 where he can make a guy or two miss and 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.040 then he might be able to turn it into a 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.000 big play. I would like to see them try that 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.760 a little bit, and I'm hopeful that maybe that that's 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.839 something that's one of their playoff wrinkles, right. I think 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.200 I think Nick's right though on maybe on first and 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.680 ten you get and you run that jet sweep to 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.880 him in the Jacksonville game, and it's a five yard 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.800 game and now you're second and five. Now you're playing. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.679 Now you're playing football, and now you're not. Now you're 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.280 not second and thirteen. Yeah, you know, you're you're you. Wow. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.640 It's like, oh they ran, you know, everybody's look thinking 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.040 it's gonna be an inside and then you hand the 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.280 jet sweeping the ball or you fake it inside and 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.840 do the flip, you know, and then everybody's crashing and 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.600 all that. I mean, I don't know, I mean that 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.960 that he I'm surprised they haven't at least tried him 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.280 on something. After the bye. I felt like that that's 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.800 where coaches sit down and say, hey, we've got this guy, 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.000 and we can kind of but might you think he's 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.080 too valuable out there? I do want to mention the 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.600 other the two other surprises I think, you know, not surprises, 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.840 but you know, just kind of unconventional with Pro Bowl 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.520 is Pollard and then with Tank. I think I think 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.880 with d Law, it to me it gives it shows 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.240 me a little bit more of respect that I have 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.400 a little bit more respect for the process of the 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:44.040 Pro Bowl because they are somebody's watching, somebody's really saying, 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.640 this is a really good football player. He's tied for 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.600 forty fifth in the league in sacks, So that's not 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.400 what it's about. It's about playing football, doing your job 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.760 and being And also, yeah, he did get three sacks 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.760 on a Monday night football game, so maybe that helped. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.000 But I think it's because he's a really good player. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.360 That one was to me, O Turpin is my favorite one. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.920 But I really was happy for for Tank, three years 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:07.920 removed from the Pro Bowl to get back. And let's 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.000 remember two thirds of the vote are coaches players, and 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.160 so I do think that that that matters because they 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.160 know when they're going up against a guy, who are 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.719 we spending the week thinking about and who are the 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.640 guys that we worry about? Whose guy keeps us up 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.840 the night before the game thinking, man, we don't really 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.720 And I know Mica gets a lot of that credit, 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.480 but I think DeMarcus DeMarcus Lawrence also gets a lot 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.200 of that from other teams where they respect his game. Yeah, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.560 he's a complete player. And when you start to talk 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.440 about guys that play the run and the past, he's 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:36.880 he's as good as they get. Love that Doran's has 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.160 eight sacks, you know how many. There's there's a guy 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.640 on some team out there that's got nine sacks, ten sacks. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.680 They're like, what this guy? You know? But but I 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.200 played the run a little bit, brother broke. Here you 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.480 go the all. 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If he if he would have sucked 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.159 really bad in those couple of games, and if he 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.800 wouldn't when he went to LA, that was like the 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.200 greatest moment of his life there those two three days 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.080 we were in LA because he practiced well, made a 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.320 couple of catches on offense. Then he played in the 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.800 game and he was I mean, he was ridiculous. NFL. 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:49.359 NFL's Instagram page changed their changed their title of just 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.920 says do not kick to. That was like they changed 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:55.879 their whole you know whatever the screen is called. I 0:18:55.920 --> 0:19:04.719 don't know anyways, move on, all right, let's jump in. Yeah, 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.760 that's funny. All right, let's up the most popular sights 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.840 in the world. Yes, yes it is. Let's talk about 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:22.880 the Philadelphia defense versus absolutely haven't replaced. I'll not say 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.920 that still is an open position that many people out 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.320 there with that skill set. But laying on the couch 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.040 one day and Derek's just say, hey, man, you ever 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:34.480 thought about this? You know anybody? Hey? Wait? Is never mind? 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.760 Quid Philadelphi Eagles shout empty for a while. Yes, it 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.280 has it has Maybe you want to know about the Seagles. 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.320 You guys know about this one of the nine pass rushers. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.040 I know. Um, well, let's let's start first with like 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.160 are seeing this team obviously, yeah, but if you're looking 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.280 at this from Dallas's perspective, where do you find weaknesses 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.360 on this defense? Well, you're gonna you're gonna likely get 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:00.800 a draw with your right tackle against a son Reddick. 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.840 That that that's a good start right there. When you 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.960 saw with Tyrant Smith playing against a Son Reddick, he's 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.480 going to play the left like the primary of the 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.159 left rusher, pass rusher, whatever you want to call that 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.680 over there. This with the way they play their front, 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.760 it's still Fletcher Cox, It's still you know, they've they've 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.000 you know, he's him and Hargrave. It's going to be 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.800 a challenge inside on those guys to have to deal 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.720 with your centers playing well, your left guard's playing well. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.160 You got a Hall of Famer right guard. You hope 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.600 that you can cancel out some stuff there where you 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:34.720 might have to pay some attention is on the other 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.679 side with Josh Sweat over there and Brandon Graham and 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.119 guys like that. Because I have a feeling they're going 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:42.920 to try and overload that side and bring pressure from 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.679 there and make Tyler and make McGovern and those guys 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.560 have to deal with that stuff coming off the other side. 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.920 And Okay, now it's about the backs, you know, it's 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.360 about Zeke and Paula being able to kind of focus. Okay, 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.399 we should be we should be good everywhere we're inside me, 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.280 but let's think about what's going on over here. Because 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.960 Josh sweats a really good rusher, he really really is, 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.240 and you know he's he's long, and he causes problems. 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.639 He can get under you. You know, it's just a 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.800 matter of having to handle him in the pastors if 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.560 we were throwing the football. So they've got two really 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:24.919 good linebackers with TJ. T J. Edwards and then Kazer White. 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.760 I mean, these guys are super super active in the 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:31.240 way they play. They're around the ball a bunch. T J. 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.320 Edwards is a middle linebacker. He's a little bit of 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.720 a dirty player too. He's kind of a grab you, 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.119 twist you kind of a guy. He's always gets in 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.920 your face. But they're they're good at linebacker. The secondary 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.800 I think is their strength for sure, and it's a 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.560 you know with Darius Slay and then James Bradberry or 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.080 the two in the secondary. Epps at safety is good. 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.240 They've had some problems Blank and Ship read Blank and Ship, 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:56.919 who he starts at safety, has been a little bit 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:00.439 nicked up. So we'll see how they play. But I 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:02.959 feel like it overall, the health of their defense is 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:07.200 really good. They got Jordan Davis. Fact they haven't doamicon sue. 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.760 You know, they have Lynville Joseph as well, So they 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:13.240 got big, big bodies inside that you're gonna have to 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.960 deal with on this on this team. Yeah, you look 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.800 at that that that defense. They are not giving up 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.720 anything in the passing game. And I thought when they 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:26.280 lost their nickel corner CJ. Gardner Johnson, that maybe that 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:29.360 you might see a maddox, you might see a decline. 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:33.119 You have not. They have continued to be just as good. Um, 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:35.919 So my question for you is like, how are they 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:37.960 able to do that? Have they seen Have you seen 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.440 anything that's different in how they how they play defense 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:46.000 without CJ. Gardener Johnson. Well, to me, it's still about 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:48.919 those corners. You know, they just they match up with 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:51.440 you one on one and they don't give you any space. Yea, 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:53.119 you know they make but can you take advantage of 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:55.440 them in the slot now without Okay, this is this 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:59.240 is where this is where. No, it's not because Maddox 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.720 Maddock there because there was a guy that was primarily 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:05.000 their starter and then he got hurt and then they 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:07.480 had to put Garner Johnson in there, and then they 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:10.879 got better with Garter Johnson and now Maddox is back. Okay, 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:14.359 So no, we had on Michael Lombardi, my old buddy 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:15.960 for him, I used to work with with the Eagles, 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:17.240 and you know, he does a lot of things. And 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:19.240 Michael thinks you can throw the ball on these guys 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:21.880 if you can block the front. He feels like, though 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:25.119 he goes if you can protect he says, I feel 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:27.640 especially set against him when they want to play zone 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:29.560 coverage stuff. Now, how much zone are they going to 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.200 get in against you? They probably feel like you've got 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:34.760 one guy that can really hurt hurt you, and that 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:37.480 would be Ceedee Lamb. So I don't know how much 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:39.600 zone coverage these guys are gonna want to play in 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:41.960 this game. But Mike seems to think if you could 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:44.560 protect the front, had him on yesterday on our show 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:47.000 one oh five three, he says, you could throw the 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:49.000 ball on these guys if they play zone, and I 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:51.119 just I'm like, I'm like, Mike, I don't know how 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:54.000 much zone if you had, like, if you had guys 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:56.800 that you like, I say, Lamb is like a guy 0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:59.320 that you're going to have to deal with. But who 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:01.119 else are you gonna have to deal with? Who the 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:02.720 others you're going to have to deal with? Is there 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:06.480 anybody that just completely scares you? Not really right now? 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:09.320 So I think that's the I think that's the issue 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:11.600 that the Cowboys are dealing with right now. I'm not 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:14.560 trying to not trying to get into a Micah you know, 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:17.359 Parson's thing. How good are the Eagles and stuff like that, 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:21.040 because they're really good. But if you look at at 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:24.440 their schedule since the Cowboys game in the bye week, 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:28.280 they they have not played a team that's in the 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:32.639 playoffs except for the Giants, um and they and they 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:34.639 did a nice job and they went in there and 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:37.000 beat them pretty good. But the other team, I guess 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:39.960 Washington is in the playoffs right now. The loss to them, 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:43.440 um And And so, you know, I mean just the 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:46.399 Steelers the Texans, Washington, the Colts, the Packers. I mean 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:48.679 they give thirty three points to Jordan loves As you 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:51.640 know when when after Rogers went out in that game. 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:55.840 So these teams Tennessee, the Giants, the Bears, they don't 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:58.760 throw the ball as well as as I think the 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:02.240 Cowboys do. So I think this is gonna be their 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.320 toughest test that they faced since they faced the Cowboys 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:07.160 the first time. Now that was with Cooper Rush. I'll 0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:10.040 throw this into they faced throughout the season. They faced 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:12.600 three teams out in a top ten in offense um. 0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:14.360 All three of those teams they played in the first 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:20.120 four weeks of the season. Detroit, Jacksonville, Minnesota, Jacksonville, Detroitten nothing. Yeah, 0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:22.760 but Jacksonville, Detroit, their offenses have come alive over the 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:25.320 last second half of the season. They were not what 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:27.840 they are now. Had thirty five on them. Yeah, but 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:29.680 I'm saying but my point. My point was though early 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:31.280 in the season that I don't think they were playing 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:32.919 at the level that they're playing right now. They had 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:35.680 thirty five. Yeah, but you look at those three off one. 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:37.399 You look at those three offens. But even at with 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:39.560 those points, they only I think they put up maybe 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:42.640 under two hundred yards passing. It was, it was. They 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:44.720 have not given up more than two hundred and thirty 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:47.880 nine yards passing this season. Like they are. They are 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:51.320 holding teams to literally nothing through the air. And that's 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:53.000 where I'm kind of just looking at I'm trying to 0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:56.160 figure out is this is this because of their personnel 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:58.480 or is it because, as you said, of the the 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:00.760 opponents that they faced, they really haven't face that's high 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:03.560 powered offense. That's an amazing stat when you factor in 0:26:03.720 --> 0:26:06.520 that they're thirteen and one and they're blowing out a 0:26:06.520 --> 0:26:09.840 lot of teams, which means sometimes passing yards just get 0:26:09.960 --> 0:26:13.200 backed up. Yeah, it is. It is crazy. Well, they're 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:15.639 they're in a situation where their offense is that good, 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:19.040 you know where they they they're there, their defense is good, 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:22.800 but they benefit because their offense puts a lot of 0:26:22.840 --> 0:26:26.200 pressure on people. I'm me personally, I mean, i I've 0:26:26.240 --> 0:26:28.720 been dealing with this. I mean, I'm trying to figure out, Okay, 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:31.560 where do you attack? Where do you attack this defense? 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:36.479 And you know, the Cowboys going back and looking at 0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:38.960 the game, they had a little bit of success running 0:26:39.000 --> 0:26:41.280 the football. Yeah, you know, so they've given up some 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:43.479 rushing guy. And that's where I'm kind of thinking, like, 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:45.360 I'm kind of thinking, well, maybe it's going to turn 0:26:45.359 --> 0:26:46.960 into one of these games. I think you're better on 0:26:47.000 --> 0:26:49.280 the offensive line right now, I really do. And I 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:51.520 know that Steel has done a really good job as 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:53.720 a run blocker. But I think you're stronger on the 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:57.280 right side, you know what. And Hassan Reddick and these guys, 0:26:57.280 --> 0:27:01.040 and the linebackers White and Edwards, Let's see how physical 0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:03.040 you want to get with these with these guys running 0:27:03.040 --> 0:27:04.960 the ball downhill on you. I was hoping for more 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:07.960 than a draw at right at at the right tackle spot. 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:10.439 With Tyron Smith, you said a draw between him and Reddick, 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:12.679 but Pat miss a pass because Reddick can rush the 0:27:12.680 --> 0:27:15.240 past like to win that though with Tyron No. Well, 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:17.760 but I'm just saying, if you wanted to cancel out, 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:21.320 if you wanted to cancel out one of their better players, Okay, 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:23.240 he's not gonna kill you. He's not gonna kill you. 0:27:23.280 --> 0:27:26.600 Because I have a feeling that Reddick pass rushing against 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:29.520 Steele would be a would be a hard matchup for Steel. Yeah, 0:27:29.560 --> 0:27:31.399 he would play. He'd probably be two or three that 0:27:31.440 --> 0:27:33.560 he would really struggle with But I don't think that 0:27:33.680 --> 0:27:35.840 I don't think that Tyren Smith is going to struggle 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:38.120 with Reddick in this game. This is the game where 0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:41.680 I think is the biggest difference between Cooper Rush and 0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:45.879 Dak because they're they're going to bring pressure. And I 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:49.439 think when when Cooper Rush felt pressure or feels pressure, 0:27:50.160 --> 0:27:52.640 it's he's not always making a play. He made some 0:27:52.800 --> 0:27:54.960 he made somewhere. He's a guy's right in his face, 0:27:55.200 --> 0:27:57.720 but you know, he's not gonna scramble out and and 0:27:57.960 --> 0:27:59.880 you know, dip around and spin and make a play 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:02.439 over here. And that's where I think Dack's, you know, 0:28:02.560 --> 0:28:05.439 ability to to scramble and get out of things and 0:28:05.520 --> 0:28:07.879 extend the pocket is going to help more than the 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:09.960 kind of a kind of sitting duck. But he you know, 0:28:09.960 --> 0:28:11.760 he stands in there and kind of makes the throw. 0:28:11.920 --> 0:28:15.040 He's not going to improvise like Daktas. I was trying 0:28:15.080 --> 0:28:18.560 to look up because yesterday on our show Are So 0:28:18.600 --> 0:28:20.920 Almost Aways podcast, some of the guys on there were 0:28:20.960 --> 0:28:24.320 mentioning and now, how had not seen this on social media? 0:28:24.359 --> 0:28:27.480 But how the Eagles some of their players were recording 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:29.920 Christmas song or something like that. Yeah, they record a 0:28:29.960 --> 0:28:33.160 Christmas album. But when was that. It's been about three 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:36.000 weeks ago. Yeah, that's what I was looking at. I'm like, okay, 0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:39.120 well because something Jason Kelsey and those guys. Yeah, yeah, 0:28:39.160 --> 0:28:41.560 but it's not even this week, but they were making 0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:45.000 it sound like it was recently. No, No, it's been 0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:48.240 about three weeks. They were surprised how well Thanksgiving. Yeah 0:28:48.320 --> 0:28:50.560 it was Jordan my allot. They were surprised how well 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:52.840 he sings. That's one of the things that came out 0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:55.280 of that whole thing. Can you sing, Brian, No, not 0:28:55.360 --> 0:28:58.680 at all. Just wonder your daughter can's twice? She's going 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:03.920 to Colombia. Okay, that's why he's going to Columbia. No, 0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:06.400 that's not why he's going to Columbus. Yeah, he's gonna 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:08.600 be using her brain up there. I did want to 0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:12.640 ask you, though, um, because we talked about the difference 0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:16.320 between Okay, now they're not playing with their with jalien 0:29:16.400 --> 0:29:19.840 Hurst and right, we didn't play them with dak Right. 0:29:19.960 --> 0:29:23.360 If you're the Eagles, are you preparing any differently than 0:29:24.000 --> 0:29:26.800 what you already did when you played them when they 0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:28.920 played up Yeah? I think so, Yeah, I think so, 0:29:29.040 --> 0:29:32.760 because what changes there Nick's talking about the mobile quarterback. 0:29:33.000 --> 0:29:35.560 You know, you have to be you have to know that. Listen. 0:29:35.680 --> 0:29:37.680 You know, with Cooper Rush, he's gonna stand there, but 0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:40.520 the ball is gonna come out quick. So that's one 0:29:40.560 --> 0:29:42.959 thing that you're dealing with right there. With with Dak, 0:29:43.360 --> 0:29:46.720 it's like, okay, rush lanes keeping him, you know there, 0:29:46.760 --> 0:29:48.840 don't let him spin. I mean the one touchdown that 0:29:48.880 --> 0:29:51.680 they had, the Noah Brown touchdown, the second one where 0:29:51.720 --> 0:29:54.800 he spun out of there, that's not a Cooper Rush play. 0:29:55.120 --> 0:29:57.760 That's a that's a Dak Prescott. So if you're these ends, 0:29:58.200 --> 0:30:01.560 if you're Sweat or Hassan Reddick and those guys, and 0:30:01.560 --> 0:30:03.160 you're like run up the field, run up the field, 0:30:03.200 --> 0:30:06.240 or you cut inside and you let him spin, that's 0:30:06.320 --> 0:30:08.320 something you're like, hey, you have to be careful. You 0:30:08.360 --> 0:30:10.600 can't just go flying inside and try and get to 0:30:10.640 --> 0:30:13.160 the ball because this quarterback will spin on your right 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:15.400 or left in order to go make a throw. So 0:30:15.800 --> 0:30:18.440 that in their mind they have to prep differently for them, 0:30:18.520 --> 0:30:21.280 and maybe you play your front a little differently to 0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:23.760 try and kind of keep it a little bit wider, 0:30:24.080 --> 0:30:26.000 and then so you don't have the ability for the 0:30:26.080 --> 0:30:28.760 quarterback to move. I did also want to ask you 0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:33.080 guys your opinion on this. So we've been talking about 0:30:33.120 --> 0:30:36.080 Dac and the interceptions for a while now, and it's 0:30:36.120 --> 0:30:39.560 just constant. And I think that this week especially, it's 0:30:39.560 --> 0:30:42.120 been all over the place dyc interceptions, this and that, 0:30:42.480 --> 0:30:45.480 and we keep hearing Dyk and Mike McCarthy they they're 0:30:45.480 --> 0:30:47.640 just gonna keep playing the way the way that they are. 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:50.600 He's gonna stay aggressive. He's gonna go out there and 0:30:50.960 --> 0:30:54.600 be aggressive, and that's not gonna change. But it makes 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:57.360 me wonder because it is. And I know they say 0:30:57.360 --> 0:31:00.800 they don't listen to the outside noise, but it's hard 0:31:00.920 --> 0:31:03.800 to get away from that. It's hard to they're lying 0:31:03.840 --> 0:31:06.920 to you and they know they know. But so my 0:31:07.040 --> 0:31:10.120 question is, do you think that he does get to 0:31:10.120 --> 0:31:16.120 a point where maybe mentally for Dak himself, this is 0:31:16.480 --> 0:31:20.080 maybe it gets to a point where it starts messing 0:31:20.120 --> 0:31:23.520 with his head. And although he's saying he's gonna be aggressive, 0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:27.200 now he's becoming a little more hesitant or trying to 0:31:27.240 --> 0:31:30.760 be smarter with his decision making when throwing some of 0:31:30.760 --> 0:31:33.720 those passes. I'm saying, I don't even think a little 0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:36.560 I don't even think a little bit, because as he said, yes, 0:31:36.600 --> 0:31:38.240 I think it was yesterday when the media was talking 0:31:38.240 --> 0:31:41.400 to him. He's got to be conceited. But I'm pretty 0:31:41.440 --> 0:31:44.680 mentally tough, and I think he is. I think of 0:31:44.680 --> 0:31:47.440 those guys is very mentally. Everything we've seen since the 0:31:47.520 --> 0:31:50.600 moment he got here, he doesn't seem to be phased 0:31:50.640 --> 0:31:53.640 by the moment, and so I don't I don't expect 0:31:53.640 --> 0:31:56.440 it to change him in one just in one bit. 0:31:56.520 --> 0:31:58.600 And by the way, there's a lot of talk out 0:31:58.600 --> 0:32:00.920 there about that. There's all so and you guys see it. 0:32:00.960 --> 0:32:03.320 We're all on Twitter. We see the world and see 0:32:03.320 --> 0:32:05.640 all the people that are talking about this. For as 0:32:05.640 --> 0:32:07.760 many people as you have that are killing him about 0:32:07.760 --> 0:32:10.160 the interceptions, you have just as many people that are saying, 0:32:10.480 --> 0:32:12.120 slow down just a little bit. A lot of these 0:32:12.120 --> 0:32:15.120 interceptions aren't his fault. So don't make the narrative that 0:32:15.480 --> 0:32:18.280 the Cowboys lost that game because of Dak Prescott, because 0:32:18.320 --> 0:32:20.600 that wasn't the case. Dak Prescott played a really good game, 0:32:20.800 --> 0:32:23.280 and so I think I think he probably if he 0:32:23.280 --> 0:32:25.640 hears any of it, he probably hears the positive. Two. 0:32:26.160 --> 0:32:28.520 I think he thinks he dismisses it all as Look, 0:32:28.600 --> 0:32:30.560 I'm just playing my game. I'm gonna keep doing what 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:32.800 I do, and however turns out is how it turns out. 0:32:32.880 --> 0:32:34.680 I don't. I don't think he will phase him one bit. 0:32:34.760 --> 0:32:38.600 That's my opinion. I don't either. I mean, but I 0:32:38.600 --> 0:32:40.520 I wonder about it though, a little bit. I do 0:32:40.640 --> 0:32:44.320 wonder if if you know what he's thinking here, as 0:32:44.400 --> 0:32:47.280 you know, he throws the ball over the middle, and 0:32:47.400 --> 0:32:49.760 you know, is he a little bit gunshy here and there? 0:32:49.760 --> 0:32:54.600 And and the question is valid because it's like maybe 0:32:54.600 --> 0:32:57.000 you should be like when when when do you when 0:32:57.040 --> 0:32:59.480 does it creep into your head? And because he should 0:32:59.520 --> 0:33:02.360 be you know, that's that's always this double edged sword, 0:33:02.400 --> 0:33:05.479 because it's like, well, on one hand, not you know, 0:33:05.640 --> 0:33:07.800 like it's kind of like all these slow starts. It's 0:33:07.800 --> 0:33:09.640 like we're not worried about slow starts because we know 0:33:09.680 --> 0:33:12.280 we can come back. But if you keep just thinking 0:33:12.680 --> 0:33:14.600 it'll be fine, it'll be fine, maybe it isn't. So 0:33:14.680 --> 0:33:17.000 let me ask you this. Let's go to that last game, 0:33:17.120 --> 0:33:20.360 the two interceptions. What should he have done something different 0:33:20.360 --> 0:33:23.440 in either of those two situations, Well, he shouldn't have 0:33:23.480 --> 0:33:25.560 thrown the first one, or you shouldn't have just kind 0:33:25.560 --> 0:33:27.920 of lofted it up there over the middle. But that's 0:33:28.120 --> 0:33:30.560 I don't think he I think the ball fluttered because 0:33:30.560 --> 0:33:32.920 his arm got hit. And that's where I know there's 0:33:32.960 --> 0:33:35.640 there's kind of this did his arm get hit? To me, 0:33:35.720 --> 0:33:37.640 it looks very clear this arm he got he got 0:33:37.680 --> 0:33:41.440 hit from behind. Yeah, that's it pushed him forward to 0:33:41.560 --> 0:33:43.360 make it. And that's why I think the ball kind 0:33:43.360 --> 0:33:44.960 of floated, like because if you watch the ball, the 0:33:44.960 --> 0:33:47.080 ball isn't a spiral. It's kind of like this fluttering 0:33:47.160 --> 0:33:49.840 kind of thing. I don't think an NFL quarterback just 0:33:49.920 --> 0:33:52.840 makes that throw without being affected. Right, Well, it's it's 0:33:52.880 --> 0:33:57.160 it's the situation. I think of that like throw it 0:33:57.160 --> 0:34:00.120 away if you feel like things are not good. I 0:34:00.120 --> 0:34:03.200 can't remember the last time Dak just threw a ball away. Yeah, yeah, 0:34:03.520 --> 0:34:04.920 you know remember so in that instance, you would have 0:34:04.920 --> 0:34:07.560 wanted him because of the pressure around it's second and eighteen, 0:34:07.960 --> 0:34:10.359 you know, take a sack again, just you know, go 0:34:10.400 --> 0:34:13.239 ahead and or I remember we had this problem with 0:34:13.320 --> 0:34:15.920 Tony Romo. Remember it was like he's always trying to 0:34:15.920 --> 0:34:18.000 and it was and then finally like the fans would 0:34:18.040 --> 0:34:20.080 cheer when you throw a ball away, or it might 0:34:20.120 --> 0:34:22.399 have been Rome, but somebody was having trouble where they weren't, 0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:25.560 they wouldn't throw the ball away. And I can't remember 0:34:25.560 --> 0:34:28.279 the last time that Dak just said, ah, heck with 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:31.600 this boom. You know, he's playing a lot like Tony 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:34.359 Romo right now. It really is. Yeah, yeah, that's been out. 0:34:34.440 --> 0:34:37.439 That's the divinish. But yeah, it's not just that. It's 0:34:37.520 --> 0:34:40.600 being a little bit aggressive and thinking I can make 0:34:40.640 --> 0:34:43.239 that play. Yeah, yes you can, and you've done it 0:34:43.280 --> 0:34:46.399 before some maybe in high school, college sometime and here 0:34:46.600 --> 0:34:49.480 in the pros. But they make plays as well, and 0:34:49.560 --> 0:34:51.440 you have to kind of live with it. You're gonna 0:34:51.480 --> 0:34:53.720 you live with because Romo could make some great plays 0:34:53.719 --> 0:34:55.480 and then you can make some that make you just 0:34:55.520 --> 0:34:58.239 pull your hair out. And Dad's sort of doing that 0:34:59.000 --> 0:35:01.040 kind of stuff the best. An example for me of 0:35:01.120 --> 0:35:03.520 the game the other day was when I talk about 0:35:03.560 --> 0:35:05.920 the ball that went up the sidelines to Pollard, you know, 0:35:05.960 --> 0:35:09.080 and it's now a crazy fifty fifty ball and if 0:35:09.080 --> 0:35:11.520 you just fire it to Noah Brown and hopefully he 0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:13.480 catch it. He probably will, he could catch it, it's 0:35:13.480 --> 0:35:15.799 gonna be a first down, and you keep playing you know, 0:35:15.880 --> 0:35:17.640 instead it's now it's a fourth down and you have 0:35:17.680 --> 0:35:19.400 to kick a field goal. And honestly, those are the 0:35:19.480 --> 0:35:21.399 kind of plays I look at where I'm like more 0:35:21.440 --> 0:35:24.360 critical of Dak than either of those two interceptions, because 0:35:24.440 --> 0:35:26.280 that part of it's fair. Yeah. Even in the instance 0:35:26.280 --> 0:35:28.520 of the first interception with his arm got hit, there 0:35:28.560 --> 0:35:30.480 was an open receiver and he was open, and he 0:35:30.520 --> 0:35:32.160 pulled it and pulled it back. Yeah, and he did 0:35:32.239 --> 0:35:34.239 and and and even when he threw it, he was 0:35:34.239 --> 0:35:36.200 still open, like the tight end was still open. He 0:35:36.239 --> 0:35:38.759 could have clearly lited that pass. It's just that. And 0:35:38.800 --> 0:35:42.239 I want my quarterback to not be so distressed by 0:35:42.239 --> 0:35:44.480 the fact that there's traffic around him. Yeah, that he 0:35:44.520 --> 0:35:46.000 just thinks, well, let me just get rid of Like 0:35:46.080 --> 0:35:47.759 I want him to make the play. Yeah, but if 0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:50.520 you're not sure, eat it or throw it away. Okay, 0:35:50.600 --> 0:35:52.600 that's the thing. When you double clutch it, you're like, 0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:54.880 I'm not sure I'm gonna try it now, you know, 0:35:54.920 --> 0:35:57.400 and you're like you're getting hit. You know. That's the 0:35:57.640 --> 0:36:01.200 that's the problem we only talk about, seemingly only talk 0:36:01.239 --> 0:36:04.200 about the plays that that don't go his way. Yeah, 0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:06.960 there's times where he's doing risky things and get exactly 0:36:07.040 --> 0:36:10.839 like the touchdown pass to Noah Brown, the first one 0:36:11.160 --> 0:36:14.839 he rolls through. The hardest throw was the three yeah 0:36:16.200 --> 0:36:18.320 front middle back, and like it's like, oh, let's just 0:36:18.320 --> 0:36:21.600 sell in the traffic back here. It's almost like, you know, like, Okay, 0:36:21.640 --> 0:36:24.799 who doesn't have a Christmas present? Like haven't give one 0:36:24.800 --> 0:36:28.120 to Brown lately? You know, like everybody cheers and everybody's like, 0:36:28.160 --> 0:36:31.399 that's awesome. And that was the hardest throw he could 0:36:31.400 --> 0:36:33.919 have made right there. I don't want to take aggressiveness 0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:35.680 out of him because I think that's part of what 0:36:35.840 --> 0:36:38.160 makes him a good quarterback. And by the way, every 0:36:38.200 --> 0:36:40.600 good quarterback in the NFL. It's the difference between a 0:36:40.600 --> 0:36:43.880 Cooper Rush and a Dak Prescott is Cooper Rush is 0:36:43.880 --> 0:36:45.560 just going to manage. This is why I get into 0:36:45.600 --> 0:36:47.600 the management of the game. He's going to manage the game. 0:36:47.640 --> 0:36:49.640 He's not gonna take those risks, which means he's not 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:51.640 gonna have the interceptions. But at the same time, he 0:36:51.719 --> 0:36:53.920 might not have those wild plays either. He might not 0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:56.680 extend that drive or have that touchdown throw because he's 0:36:56.680 --> 0:36:58.440 not willing to make that throw that might be a 0:36:58.440 --> 0:37:01.520 little risky. I want to keep that. And if that 0:37:01.600 --> 0:37:03.919 means that he gets hit from behind and the ball 0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:06.719 flutters and it's an interception, I'll live with that. Only 0:37:06.800 --> 0:37:08.880 do it in certain situations. He should be aware of 0:37:08.920 --> 0:37:11.440 where we are in the game and what they need 0:37:11.480 --> 0:37:13.319 at that moment in the game. But I don't want 0:37:13.320 --> 0:37:16.319 to take us aggressive this. I really don't. Yeah, there's 0:37:16.320 --> 0:37:18.279 a balance there, it's a balance. He's got to eat. 0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:20.560 That's what the quarterback did. Please don't turn the ball 0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:23.680 over anymore. That's all I ask. That's all I want 0:37:23.719 --> 0:37:26.520 from for Christmas. Christmas, you got to You got to 0:37:26.560 --> 0:37:27.960 the question that was gonna be the next question. We 0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:29.319 were gonna take a break, and I was gonna ask 0:37:29.320 --> 0:37:31.560 you guys what your Christmas wishes for this team. Let's 0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:33.080 take a break, let's come back. I want to hear 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:34.799 what your Christmas wishes for the team. He can only 0:37:34.840 --> 0:37:36.359 be one and we'll see what you guys say. We'll 0:37:36.360 --> 0:37:39.840 come back. Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. The season is 0:37:39.920 --> 0:37:43.000 finally here. 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What I want to know is what can 0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:19.560 get them, what can get them closest to a Super Bowl? 0:40:19.600 --> 0:40:21.239 If you could do one thing, if there was one 0:40:21.280 --> 0:40:23.360 wish that could come true, what would you wish for 0:40:23.360 --> 0:40:26.239 this team? Nicholas start with you. I would wish that 0:40:26.640 --> 0:40:31.719 one of those cornerbacks that's going to be playing actually 0:40:31.840 --> 0:40:35.600 turns into the player that they were drafted for. Because 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:37.720 they have a fourth round, they have some second rounds. 0:40:37.719 --> 0:40:40.280 They have some guys that were and that includes Kelvin 0:40:40.360 --> 0:40:44.319 Joseph as well, that includes Nishan. Right, these guys that 0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:46.520 are in the mix here have all at some point 0:40:46.640 --> 0:40:50.640 been considered good players. I need one of them, one 0:40:50.719 --> 0:40:53.600 of them to act like the odds sound like it 0:40:53.680 --> 0:40:56.640 should work right, You just need one. There's a great 0:40:56.640 --> 0:40:59.640 line in the movie Rudy, I love it. You've never 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:03.640 seen Oh my Lord. But anyways, when when the guy 0:41:03.680 --> 0:41:06.600 comes in, I've seen he's trying to give he's trying 0:41:06.600 --> 0:41:08.319 to like they're trying to get rudy and to play 0:41:08.360 --> 0:41:10.360 in the game. And he's like, he's like, here you go, 0:41:10.360 --> 0:41:12.520 and he's like, you're a captain and an All American. 0:41:13.160 --> 0:41:16.280 Act like it. That's what I want. One of those corners. 0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:19.120 Act like it. Act like the second, third, fourth round 0:41:19.160 --> 0:41:21.400 pick that you were picked for. I just need one 0:41:21.440 --> 0:41:24.640 of you. Take a play, just one, make a few plays, please, 0:41:24.760 --> 0:41:29.200 just one. That's my Christmas wish. I'm gonna change mine. 0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:34.879 I just want the pass rush to come back. Yes, 0:41:35.000 --> 0:41:37.400 I just want it. I just want to see quarterbacks 0:41:37.440 --> 0:41:41.320 struggling in negative yardage situations. I want to see sacks. 0:41:41.600 --> 0:41:43.640 I want to see balls knocked in the air. I 0:41:43.680 --> 0:41:45.920 want to see all that. I want to see guys 0:41:46.000 --> 0:41:50.440 twisting and getting home and causing problems. If just I 0:41:50.440 --> 0:41:52.520 think the offense is going to be fine, just give 0:41:52.520 --> 0:41:54.560 me my pass rush back. Please. I have one more 0:41:54.560 --> 0:41:57.640 wish after you. You only get one, I haven't you 0:41:57.840 --> 0:42:00.520 guys will have that greedy kid, right, he's that greeny 0:42:00.560 --> 0:42:02.880 kid that would open his present and be like I 0:42:02.920 --> 0:42:07.080 really wanted this, right, I have another one too, Go ahead, 0:42:07.080 --> 0:42:10.160 Amber Well, I was gonna say, yeah, there's a corner 0:42:11.760 --> 0:42:14.840 and along with the pass rush, I was gonna wish. 0:42:14.880 --> 0:42:18.680 I would wish Micah Parsons to be Micah Parsons again, 0:42:20.120 --> 0:42:25.279 full on one, aggressive Micah Parsons because usually when he's 0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:27.720 having a good game, you got that in the bag. 0:42:27.840 --> 0:42:30.160 The Cowboys win for the most part. So I think, 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:32.960 if I get my wish, y'all get jaws wish. Honestly, 0:42:33.120 --> 0:42:35.040 the pass rush in Micah Parsons, I think, if I 0:42:35.160 --> 0:42:38.080 get my wish that the cornerback play. These corners are 0:42:38.080 --> 0:42:41.359 playing well, this third corner steps up and plays well. 0:42:41.600 --> 0:42:44.759 I kind of pass rush and Micah goes together. But 0:42:44.880 --> 0:42:46.719 I think I need I need to get mine. The 0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:49.239 fact of the matter is because that's for my painting. Well, 0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:51.040 when those corners were there. You can say what you 0:42:51.080 --> 0:42:54.000 want about Anthony Brown. When Anthony Brown was out there, 0:42:54.600 --> 0:42:57.479 everything was clicking. Oh is it? Because when I said 0:42:57.520 --> 0:43:00.279 that several weeks ago, you made a face like, what 0:43:00.280 --> 0:43:04.239 are you talking about Anthony? We got recorded probably what 0:43:04.400 --> 0:43:07.799 I say, what I say? I said, Oh, maybe I 0:43:07.880 --> 0:43:10.759 forgot what I said, but something about missing Anthony Brown 0:43:10.840 --> 0:43:15.239 and like he's he's not as terrible. Yes, he gives 0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:17.920 up some plays, but he's not as terrible as people say. 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:20.400 And you may not give you a face on Anthony Brown, no, 0:43:20.800 --> 0:43:24.200 because because I actually believe I've been I've been statement, 0:43:24.280 --> 0:43:26.360 I've been dodging all Anthony Brown because I kind of 0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:27.680 said he was going to be that kind of a 0:43:27.719 --> 0:43:31.959 Pro Bowl guy. But that's the thing. The criticism Anthony 0:43:32.040 --> 0:43:36.120 Brown is fair criticism, yeah so, but then again, but 0:43:36.200 --> 0:43:38.279 he's not as bad as people say he is when 0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:41.000 you compare it to what you got, right. Honestly, this 0:43:41.080 --> 0:43:43.800 is a Doug Free type situation, right, because I remember 0:43:43.920 --> 0:43:46.080 people used to be so livid with Doug Free and 0:43:46.120 --> 0:43:48.640 I'm like, Dug Free, Yeah he's not. He's not a 0:43:48.640 --> 0:43:50.960 Pro Bowl type guy, but he's not as bad as 0:43:51.000 --> 0:43:53.680 y'all think. Like, there are a lot of horse tackles 0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:55.520 you could have out there on the right side, and 0:43:55.560 --> 0:43:57.400 I think it's the same thing for Anthony Brown. Anthony 0:43:57.440 --> 0:44:01.160 Brown isn't great. But Anthony Brown, as we're saying there, 0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:03.600 he might give up a player too deep every game, 0:44:04.200 --> 0:44:07.200 But if that's all he's given up, I'll take that. 0:44:07.400 --> 0:44:10.120 If the rest of the time he's he's at least 0:44:10.120 --> 0:44:12.480 covering things to where my pass rush can get home, 0:44:12.719 --> 0:44:15.200 which right now, I think that's part of the problem. Yeah, 0:44:15.320 --> 0:44:18.960 Anthony Brown is Larry Brown back in the day, that 0:44:19.040 --> 0:44:21.080 was Larry Brown to a t. I mean, he had 0:44:21.120 --> 0:44:23.640 this star on the other side. He gave up some plays. 0:44:23.680 --> 0:44:26.040 Every now and again he makes something as well. Yeah 0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:28.279 he didn't, he didn't kill you that much. But the 0:44:28.280 --> 0:44:30.200 problem is is that he would make some you know, 0:44:30.200 --> 0:44:33.080 he would be contest. He competes, and I don't just 0:44:33.080 --> 0:44:35.520 don't think they have anyone else that can do that 0:44:35.640 --> 0:44:39.320 right now, Well Bland is doing it. You're right, and 0:44:39.400 --> 0:44:41.160 they need And that's why I say I'd like to 0:44:41.160 --> 0:44:45.719 see him. I appreciate the outside I appreciate the acknowledgement 0:44:45.760 --> 0:44:49.080 on Twitter about that. Derek, what's your Christmas wish? My 0:44:49.160 --> 0:44:55.839 Christmas wish? I think it's it's actually what I thought about, 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:57.799 the same thing you were talking about. But if I 0:44:57.800 --> 0:45:01.120 had to do something different, I would probably say that 0:45:01.280 --> 0:45:10.120 my head coach would be a little more demanding. Yeah, 0:45:10.160 --> 0:45:13.319 in certain situations, certain situations, I want him to think 0:45:13.320 --> 0:45:17.359 about the game a little bit deeper and make sure 0:45:17.400 --> 0:45:20.279 this coordinators are on top of that. In the same 0:45:20.320 --> 0:45:22.759 way I look at that situation that you had on 0:45:22.800 --> 0:45:25.240 third and ten. I want my head coach to say, 0:45:25.440 --> 0:45:27.600 don't have a problem with the past. I need a 0:45:27.600 --> 0:45:29.720 better option. Ye give me, give me a better option 0:45:29.760 --> 0:45:31.880 for a pass there than than a deep ball. To 0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:34.600 know it, like I want my head coach to I 0:45:34.640 --> 0:45:37.440 want him to force them, to force them to think 0:45:37.480 --> 0:45:41.120 a little different about certain situations rather than maybe whatever 0:45:41.160 --> 0:45:43.359 they're thinking about in those kind of situations. Amazing how 0:45:43.360 --> 0:45:45.360 far we've come here now that we've talked about this 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:47.719 defense was so good and all that. Now we're kind 0:45:47.719 --> 0:45:51.120 of talking about wishing for things for the defense. And 0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:53.560 you know, but it's to me. I agree with you, Derek. 0:45:53.600 --> 0:45:55.880 I think with Mike McCarthy, you know. I just like 0:45:56.000 --> 0:45:58.520 him to click over and tell kell and listen. He goes, 0:45:58.640 --> 0:46:00.480 you know, what, what do you guys going on downs? 0:46:00.520 --> 0:46:02.319 I'm thinking about going all go here? He goes, No, 0:46:02.400 --> 0:46:04.319 you're not. We're going to think about something different therey. 0:46:04.480 --> 0:46:06.000 Come give me another one, Give me another one. What 0:46:06.040 --> 0:46:09.279 else you got? Where's that waggle? You got? Need? I need? 0:46:09.400 --> 0:46:11.760 I need to keep this clock going here. And we're assuming, 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:14.600 just in fairness to Kellen, we're assuming that the head 0:46:14.640 --> 0:46:16.480 coach wasn't the one to say let's go for it. Yeah, 0:46:16.880 --> 0:46:18.399 he might have been the one to say let's go deep. 0:46:18.640 --> 0:46:21.279 All I'm saying is I want somebody to inject a 0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:23.959 little more fought into that and say let's do something 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:26.239 a little different here. Yeah, it sounds like he did. 0:46:26.520 --> 0:46:29.360 He was fine with that. Yeah, no, moss Um. I 0:46:29.400 --> 0:46:31.640 think they called it. And let's be clear too, I 0:46:31.719 --> 0:46:34.960 know there's a there's a somebody put this out this 0:46:35.000 --> 0:46:37.839 morning that they think Mike McCarthy's in trouble. I think 0:46:37.880 --> 0:46:40.080 that's foolish. I think the fact that they are where 0:46:40.120 --> 0:46:44.120 they are right now with almost half the season with 0:46:44.239 --> 0:46:48.000 a backup quarterback, I think that is absolutely foolish. Mike 0:46:48.080 --> 0:46:50.719 McCarthy has had a great season. I know that that 0:46:51.080 --> 0:46:53.279 that call, and you can pick out other moments, but 0:46:53.360 --> 0:46:56.360 guess what, Every coach in the NFL has those moments, 0:46:56.400 --> 0:46:58.480 every single one where you will disagree with what they 0:46:58.560 --> 0:47:00.839 have done or decisions that they made. It's a part 0:47:00.880 --> 0:47:03.040 of it. It's a part of the job. I think 0:47:03.040 --> 0:47:05.000 he's had a phenomenal year. I take if you lose 0:47:05.080 --> 0:47:07.759 to the NFC South in a playoff game, the coordinator 0:47:07.840 --> 0:47:10.760 might be the guy that we see maybe something depending 0:47:10.760 --> 0:47:12.640 on how it plays. Yeah, you lose a game to 0:47:12.680 --> 0:47:14.960 the NFC South in the playoff game, I think then 0:47:15.040 --> 0:47:18.080 maybe you'll think something different there, maybe not the head coach, 0:47:18.120 --> 0:47:20.480 but the coordinator. Maybe all let's get the predictions. What 0:47:20.520 --> 0:47:23.239 we got ran? You wanna go first, Yeah, I'll go first. 0:47:23.239 --> 0:47:25.839 I got Philadelphia thirty one, Dallas twenty four. I just 0:47:25.880 --> 0:47:29.320 feel like Gardner Mitchew is not a bad backup quarterback. 0:47:29.400 --> 0:47:32.120 He's very accurate. Go look at the numbers and stuff. 0:47:32.360 --> 0:47:34.879 They'll still run the offense to quick game, the passing game. 0:47:34.920 --> 0:47:36.799 They still got all their guys, they got their tight ends, 0:47:36.800 --> 0:47:38.879 they got their receivers, they got their offensive line. It's 0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:42.440 gonna be tough for you. Their defense is completely healthy too. 0:47:42.600 --> 0:47:44.440 You know, I think that you have some advantages with 0:47:44.480 --> 0:47:46.919 the offensive line as far as your offensive line maybe 0:47:46.920 --> 0:47:50.000 getting some things done. I just see too many, too 0:47:50.040 --> 0:47:53.719 many playmakers on a team right now that the Cowboys 0:47:53.760 --> 0:47:57.720 having to deal with that. Thirty one twenty four Eagles. 0:47:59.040 --> 0:48:02.479 I've got a well, I've got Eagles twenty eight, twenty six. 0:48:02.760 --> 0:48:06.120 Kind of weird, long, high scoring game, kind of but 0:48:06.400 --> 0:48:08.759 kind of a weird game. And I agree, I think, 0:48:08.840 --> 0:48:11.320 you know, if Houston's quarterbacks can give you trouble. I 0:48:11.400 --> 0:48:13.880 think this guy can give your trouble as well. I 0:48:13.920 --> 0:48:15.960 think that they are a very complete team. They got 0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:18.120 a lot of stuff going on and not just him. 0:48:18.400 --> 0:48:22.040 And I also believe that the Cowboys defense played their 0:48:22.080 --> 0:48:25.080 best football when Cooper Rush was in the game. I 0:48:25.120 --> 0:48:28.560 think they rallied around him, and I think the Eagles 0:48:29.120 --> 0:48:32.120 are good enough to kind of do the same, and 0:48:32.200 --> 0:48:33.879 so I just I think that you're going to get 0:48:33.880 --> 0:48:37.160 the Eagles best outside of the quarterback position. And that's 0:48:37.200 --> 0:48:39.200 scary when you think about what the Cowboys having. This 0:48:39.239 --> 0:48:43.000 is a hat and T shirt game for them. Yeah. Well, 0:48:43.440 --> 0:48:47.360 I believe in miracles, and it is the Christmas time 0:48:47.400 --> 0:48:50.600 of the year, and although my head is telling me 0:48:50.800 --> 0:48:53.920 one thing, my heart is telling me another. And I 0:48:54.000 --> 0:48:57.840 think that sometimes the Cowboys can make some magic happen. 0:48:58.000 --> 0:49:01.040 I don't know where that no one expects. I think 0:49:01.040 --> 0:49:02.960 this could be one of those games where they do 0:49:03.120 --> 0:49:06.120 go out there and win against the Eagles. Now, this 0:49:06.280 --> 0:49:09.880 doesn't mean that all their problems would be fixed because 0:49:09.880 --> 0:49:12.000 of a win against the Eagles. I think they would 0:49:12.040 --> 0:49:15.520 still have those problems. But I can see some magic 0:49:15.560 --> 0:49:20.600 happening and Cowboys win twenty seven or we're scoring twenty 0:49:20.600 --> 0:49:23.719 seven twenty three. Sorry like that. I actually think this 0:49:23.760 --> 0:49:27.680 game or I'll start with this right now. To me, 0:49:27.800 --> 0:49:31.440 the strength of this team is their offensive line, and 0:49:31.640 --> 0:49:35.239 I personally think this offensive line strength is running the ball. 0:49:35.480 --> 0:49:37.160 I think Dallas is going to come into this game 0:49:37.400 --> 0:49:39.560 and Dallas is gonna say we're going to run the ball, 0:49:39.640 --> 0:49:41.760 because I think it helps them in every other facet 0:49:41.800 --> 0:49:44.520 of their game. They are good runners, they have good runners. 0:49:44.560 --> 0:49:46.479 They have a good offensive line that can run the ball. 0:49:46.840 --> 0:49:49.879 It keeps the ball away from the Philadelphia offense where 0:49:49.920 --> 0:49:51.640 you might be afraid of what you got. It's in 0:49:51.680 --> 0:49:55.000 the secondary. I think everything about it makes a ton 0:49:55.040 --> 0:49:56.720 of sense. I think it is a game. When Dallas 0:49:56.760 --> 0:49:58.799 runs the ball, they control the clock and that's how 0:49:58.840 --> 0:50:00.520 they end up winning this game. Think it'll be a 0:50:00.520 --> 0:50:03.120 lower scoring game than what we would expect from these 0:50:03.120 --> 0:50:05.440 two teams that have offenses that you think of as 0:50:05.680 --> 0:50:09.200 as high powered offenses. I think Dallas win seventeen sixteen 0:50:09.719 --> 0:50:12.680 in a game that will seem methodical. Slow may pick 0:50:12.760 --> 0:50:14.040 up at the end, but I think they win that 0:50:14.080 --> 0:50:17.200 game seventeen sixteen. All right, appreciate you guys joining us. 0:50:17.960 --> 0:50:21.280 We will be back. We will be back on Monday. 0:50:21.640 --> 0:50:22.960 Let's you know what went right and wrong for the 0:50:22.960 --> 0:50:24.799 Cowboys who will not have a show tomorrow. Make sure 0:50:24.800 --> 0:50:27.640 you check that check us out on Monday. 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