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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number ninety five. Welcome
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Speaker 1: video yesterday of our show. Always go back and listen
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Speaker 1: back in the future, right right. I used Ambar's question
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Speaker 1: lunch or something like that. Producer. Yeah, but anyway, that's
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's uh, you know, a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of interesting things going on right now. We did
Speaker 1: get some interesting news last night. Cowboys or the NFL
Speaker 1: announced Pro Bowl for this year. Cowboys get seven players
Speaker 1: Zack Martin, Michael Parsons, Trayvon dig Ceedee lamb To, Marcus Lawrence,
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, and Cavante Turpin make the Pro Bowl squad. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're surprised by any of those names? Well you are.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, how do you say Cavante Turpin?
Speaker 1: T It's like a question mark. That's my favorite one
Speaker 1: by far. I mean it is. Actually right when we
Speaker 1: were starting the show, I just I just laughed to
Speaker 1: myself because I just thought about a training camp conversation
Speaker 1: that we didn't have, but let's say we did. We're
Speaker 1: standing out there. Oh, they brought this guy in and
Speaker 1: felt he's gonna make the Pro Bowl this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about make the team. Oh, he's gonna make the
Speaker 1: team and he's gonna make the Pro Bowl. I mean
Speaker 1: it would be you'd be laughed at, you know, the
Speaker 1: entire day. And it just just been He's he's earned it,
Speaker 1: and and you know, and I really believe he is
Speaker 1: an underrated weapon. I think he's a guy that that
Speaker 1: really you have to be cognitant of and just watch
Speaker 1: the way they punt to him. Punched it straight up
Speaker 1: in the area. Really doesn't get a lot of chances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting if you're sitting there in Oxnard and you
Speaker 1: bring that kid in. I remember when we first saw
Speaker 1: him art Like, we're going, yeah, it's somebody. Yeah, who's
Speaker 1: whose kids work in the camp this year? You know,
Speaker 1: kind of like Will McClay son. Yeah, you know, you
Speaker 1: got to give the Cowboys pro personnel guys a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. You know, that's what you get. You know,
Speaker 1: you watch USFL tape and you kind of have an idea.
Speaker 1: You talk to coaches, You're like, you know, did they
Speaker 1: battle anybody for him? Or was this just a straight
Speaker 1: let's go get the MVP of the USFL, right and
Speaker 1: he's a four you know TCU, Yeah, probably that was
Speaker 1: that was yeah, I mean yeah, well, and also it's
Speaker 1: also be clear. I know, I know Brian you had
Speaker 1: talked about I think you had said you talk to
Speaker 1: your gang of seven. Yeah, and it wasn't like teams
Speaker 1: didn't know of this guy, no of his talent. There
Speaker 1: were things off the field, right deared all of them away.
Speaker 1: Right right. We had that discussion and I was just
Speaker 1: kind of like, but you know, pro personnel guys. I
Speaker 1: mean that's you know, whoever whoever had the USFL had
Speaker 1: that team whatever. That guy gets a steak. You know,
Speaker 1: you're going out to Manny's in Minneapolis and you're gonna
Speaker 1: get to towers and all that stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I mean, yeah, it's it's a to me. That's that.
Speaker 1: That's you know, Stephen Jones always comes on and we
Speaker 1: kind of laugh at him. I know, I could always
Speaker 1: you know, of evaluation and personnel, it's always a twenty
Speaker 1: four seven job and you're like, yeah, it is okay,
Speaker 1: and then you see that and something like that. You
Speaker 1: go out and you get a guy in the summertime
Speaker 1: and the next thing you know, he's a Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: You know, we had a similar thing happened in Green
Speaker 1: Bay with Desmond Howard. You know, Desmond Howard was not
Speaker 1: but Desmond Howard was a fifth overall pick. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: but you still have where also you go get him,
Speaker 1: he's on your team and then by the end of
Speaker 1: the year he's helping you win a Super Bowl. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's the kind of thing that's scouts when
Speaker 1: they do their job. It's a it's a brilliant thing,
Speaker 1: you know. Washington put out a really good video. It
Speaker 1: was actually really really really good just a reaction of
Speaker 1: these and he started thinking. I started thinking, oh, how
Speaker 1: would a video like that work for us? And I
Speaker 1: started going through how each player in my mind would react.
Speaker 1: And I just laughed when he came up to Turpin
Speaker 1: because he would have been just he's just like a
Speaker 1: little kid, like you talk to him and he's like
Speaker 1: like smiling and just like yeah, he'll be like, oh
Speaker 1: that's cool, man, Yeah, yeah, and just a smile. So
Speaker 1: I'm very knowing his career in his background, I'm very
Speaker 1: happy for what he has been able to accomplish here.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that first time I saw him in person,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, don't get hit. He's gonna get killed
Speaker 1: out there. He's tiny, Like well he's yeah. So very
Speaker 1: very happy for him. But I do know that a
Speaker 1: lot of people were surprised about DeMarcus Lawrence making the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl? Are you guys surprised about it? Because he's
Speaker 1: on our show every Thursday. We were pushing for that
Speaker 1: thing hard, you guys, y'all working during that interview every week.
Speaker 1: I listened to it. Oh yeah, to take it a
Speaker 1: good question, pull name out, Yeah, we have a we
Speaker 1: have a good one. Yeah. I'll tell you what's funny
Speaker 1: though about the Ron River at the Commanders though. The
Speaker 1: thing with that, if it was Turpin, you bring him
Speaker 1: in and you kind of play it slow played a
Speaker 1: little bit. He's probably thinking you signed Odell Beckham. You know,
Speaker 1: you're probably he's probably thinking, oh, they're about to take
Speaker 1: my roster spot. Yeah, all of a sudden, hey you
Speaker 1: made the Pro Bowl. Oh my god, it get it crazy.
Speaker 1: I just with him more than anything. And you kind
Speaker 1: of mentioned it. But like you know, in today's world
Speaker 1: of where where we are, you don't you don't always
Speaker 1: get a second chance, especially when you go through some
Speaker 1: of the issues that he did and he went through
Speaker 1: and uh and you know, and stuff that he put
Speaker 1: on himself. But to be able to get to the
Speaker 1: next side, and and and and you know, keep fighting
Speaker 1: for his dream to be in the NFL and to
Speaker 1: get someone to trust him, you know. And it was
Speaker 1: the somebody at the USFL said, oh, you know, let's
Speaker 1: put this guy out there. And then you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure the Cowboys did their homework and all that. It's
Speaker 1: just a remarkable story about about a guy that just
Speaker 1: you know, all you do is look at him and go,
Speaker 1: you're not an NFL player, And then to think of
Speaker 1: all the other stuff he's dealt with and to be
Speaker 1: here and you know, and he's still and he's still
Speaker 1: not as satisfied. I talked to him a week ago
Speaker 1: and he goes, yeah. He goes, yeah, but I haven't
Speaker 1: taken one to the crib. That that's all easy is like,
Speaker 1: haven't gotten haven't gone to the crib yet, That's what
Speaker 1: he's saying. You know, he just he hasn't returned one
Speaker 1: before a touchdown yet. You know, what do you do
Speaker 1: you feel like though that? Do they feel he's so
Speaker 1: valuable that they won't use him on offense? Because we
Speaker 1: were talking about pre you know that when we went
Speaker 1: on by We're all the show was like, Hey, well
Speaker 1: when you come back, they're gonna have plans and maybe
Speaker 1: they do. I don't know if they trust him to
Speaker 1: run the right route or what. I don't know. See
Speaker 1: that's what I don't I don't know, trust him to
Speaker 1: hand the ball to him. I just wanted to hand
Speaker 1: the ball to him on third on on that last
Speaker 1: series of the Jacksonville game. Give me a reverse around
Speaker 1: the edge with him. I think that's five yards waiting
Speaker 1: to happen. To be honest with you, at this point
Speaker 1: in the year, and this may be totally unfair, and
Speaker 1: you guys tell me if it is. I actually think
Speaker 1: over the last few games, it feels to me like
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the same amount of juice that he
Speaker 1: had early in the season. And I do wonder. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the guy coming off of a USFL season,
Speaker 1: He's played a lot deep into an NFL season. I
Speaker 1: just wonder if he's running out of gas a little bit.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, like I look at it
Speaker 1: and say, more so, I just don't know if he
Speaker 1: still has that same level of juicy yet earlier in
Speaker 1: the year. That's just my opinion, and it might be unfair,
Speaker 1: like I said, but that's just what I'm I think
Speaker 1: I'm saying. The thing that I that I kind of
Speaker 1: see is like I think he's pressing. I see a
Speaker 1: guy that's like, I haven't brought one back to the crib.
Speaker 1: You know, I got to find a way to change
Speaker 1: fuel position. I gotta find and then sometimes then the
Speaker 1: ball ends up on the eighteen and you're going, Okay,
Speaker 1: I get it, bro, you can run. You can. He's
Speaker 1: one of the best I've ever seen really when it
Speaker 1: comes to the blocking. Is going one way and he
Speaker 1: decides to go the other way. He's going down on
Speaker 1: the freeway where it says wrong way. He is driving traffic,
Speaker 1: is driving his car as fast as he can. Well,
Speaker 1: everybody over here is like he is running over here
Speaker 1: is fast. By the way, don't try this. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know it's about I would challenge that about the
Speaker 1: running out of juice and stuff, just because I could
Speaker 1: see it if it was somebody that was getting in
Speaker 1: a lot of collisions every game and all that you're
Speaker 1: running back or whatever. But he really isn't, you know,
Speaker 1: getting a lot of like hits like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just a punt return kick returner and he only
Speaker 1: gets three or four a game. He's not getting hit
Speaker 1: in practice. Yeah, but let's also remember it's also still
Speaker 1: just wear and tear on your body. And what I
Speaker 1: mean by that, what I mean by that is you're
Speaker 1: still running. He's still running every day. It's like you
Speaker 1: just think about the training that he's been through, all
Speaker 1: the training he's been through and the work that he
Speaker 1: puts in during the week, that's still mileage. It might
Speaker 1: not be hits and collisions, it's still your body is
Speaker 1: going through this constant turnover of work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work,
Speaker 1: and not enough rest. And that's why the off season
Speaker 1: is so important. I think you have to replenish and
Speaker 1: you have to give your body an opportunity to kind
Speaker 1: of hell itself is free agent. He's one of the
Speaker 1: free agents. I'm sure they just got a one year
Speaker 1: deal out of him. Yeah. One year. Yeah, so that
Speaker 1: I wish it would you probably could have got it.
Speaker 1: They've given two year deals the guys you're kind of like,
Speaker 1: wish you hadn't given two before. Well, they have to
Speaker 1: make that one, make that one. Say that because as
Speaker 1: I think for him about dackyard football with him and
Speaker 1: Tolbert running routes out there, I mean learning the offense,
Speaker 1: understanding what's going on, getting you know, getting a role there,
Speaker 1: getting some trust with dak Um, you know, because because
Speaker 1: you gotta remember he didn't he probably got a lot
Speaker 1: of his stuff with Cooper Rush. And yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what's going back to no, I was gonna say real
Speaker 1: quick with the whole mention of utilizing him on offense
Speaker 1: a little bit, I think, I mean, we have seen
Speaker 1: them try just a little bit, not to my in
Speaker 1: my opinion, not enough, but the times that they have tried,
Speaker 1: it just hasn't really worked out or being like they've
Speaker 1: not guying anything out of that. So I think that
Speaker 1: it hasn't worked to what they're intending to do, and
Speaker 1: then they're just kind of giving up on that rather
Speaker 1: than trying different ways to incorporate him and make it
Speaker 1: appear more of a weapon to defenses. But so, but
Speaker 1: at this point of the year, I don't think they
Speaker 1: should include him offense, just keeping up because I do
Speaker 1: agree with you, Derek. I don't think he's losing all
Speaker 1: the Jews, but I do see a slight change in
Speaker 1: his game when he's out there on special teams. So
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying and what you're seeing too,
Speaker 1: because I kind of see that a little bit as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will be interested to see if we get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs and that becomes one of the wrinkles. And again,
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily need to even see him, like you know,
Speaker 1: on a reverse or something. I just want to see,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe a bubble screen. I just want to
Speaker 1: see situations where you get him out in space and
Speaker 1: where he can make a guy or two miss and
Speaker 1: then he might be able to turn it into a
Speaker 1: big play. I would like to see them try that
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I'm hopeful that maybe that that's
Speaker 1: something that's one of their playoff wrinkles, right. I think
Speaker 1: I think Nick's right though on maybe on first and
Speaker 1: ten you get and you run that jet sweep to
Speaker 1: him in the Jacksonville game, and it's a five yard
Speaker 1: game and now you're second and five. Now you're playing.
Speaker 1: Now you're playing football, and now you're not. Now you're
Speaker 1: not second and thirteen. Yeah, you know, you're you're you. Wow.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh they ran, you know, everybody's look thinking
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an inside and then you hand the
Speaker 1: jet sweeping the ball or you fake it inside and
Speaker 1: do the flip, you know, and then everybody's crashing and
Speaker 1: all that. I mean, I don't know, I mean that
Speaker 1: that he I'm surprised they haven't at least tried him
Speaker 1: on something. After the bye. I felt like that that's
Speaker 1: where coaches sit down and say, hey, we've got this guy,
Speaker 1: and we can kind of but might you think he's
Speaker 1: too valuable out there? I do want to mention the
Speaker 1: other the two other surprises I think, you know, not surprises,
Speaker 1: but you know, just kind of unconventional with Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: is Pollard and then with Tank. I think I think
Speaker 1: with d Law, it to me it gives it shows
Speaker 1: me a little bit more of respect that I have
Speaker 1: a little bit more respect for the process of the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl because they are somebody's watching, somebody's really saying,
Speaker 1: this is a really good football player. He's tied for
Speaker 1: forty fifth in the league in sacks, So that's not
Speaker 1: what it's about. It's about playing football, doing your job
Speaker 1: and being And also, yeah, he did get three sacks
Speaker 1: on a Monday night football game, so maybe that helped.
Speaker 1: But I think it's because he's a really good player.
Speaker 1: That one was to me, O Turpin is my favorite one.
Speaker 1: But I really was happy for for Tank, three years
Speaker 1: removed from the Pro Bowl to get back. And let's
Speaker 1: remember two thirds of the vote are coaches players, and
Speaker 1: so I do think that that that matters because they
Speaker 1: know when they're going up against a guy, who are
Speaker 1: we spending the week thinking about and who are the
Speaker 1: guys that we worry about? Whose guy keeps us up
Speaker 1: the night before the game thinking, man, we don't really
Speaker 1: And I know Mica gets a lot of that credit,
Speaker 1: but I think DeMarcus DeMarcus Lawrence also gets a lot
Speaker 1: of that from other teams where they respect his game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a complete player. And when you start to talk
Speaker 1: about guys that play the run and the past, he's
Speaker 1: he's as good as they get. Love that Doran's has
Speaker 1: eight sacks, you know how many. There's there's a guy
Speaker 1: on some team out there that's got nine sacks, ten sacks.
Speaker 1: They're like, what this guy? You know? But but I
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Speaker 1: of said, hey, by the way, you guys talking about it,
Speaker 1: it wasn't three year deal for Turp. You know what
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Speaker 1: that meant nothing. If he if he would have sucked
Speaker 1: really bad in those couple of games, and if he
Speaker 1: wouldn't when he went to LA, that was like the
Speaker 1: greatest moment of his life there those two three days
Speaker 1: we were in LA because he practiced well, made a
Speaker 1: couple of catches on offense. Then he played in the
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Speaker 1: in the world. Yes, yes it is. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia defense versus absolutely haven't replaced. I'll not say
Speaker 1: that still is an open position that many people out
Speaker 1: there with that skill set. But laying on the couch
Speaker 1: one day and Derek's just say, hey, man, you ever
Speaker 1: thought about this? You know anybody? Hey? Wait? Is never mind?
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Speaker 1: has it has Maybe you want to know about the Seagles.
Speaker 1: You guys know about this one of the nine pass rushers. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. Um, well, let's let's start first with like
Speaker 1: are seeing this team obviously, yeah, but if you're looking
Speaker 1: at this from Dallas's perspective, where do you find weaknesses
Speaker 1: on this defense? Well, you're gonna you're gonna likely get
Speaker 1: a draw with your right tackle against a son Reddick.
Speaker 1: That that that's a good start right there. When you
Speaker 1: saw with Tyrant Smith playing against a Son Reddick, he's
Speaker 1: going to play the left like the primary of the
Speaker 1: left rusher, pass rusher, whatever you want to call that
Speaker 1: over there. This with the way they play their front,
Speaker 1: it's still Fletcher Cox, It's still you know, they've they've
Speaker 1: you know, he's him and Hargrave. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a challenge inside on those guys to have to deal
Speaker 1: with your centers playing well, your left guard's playing well.
Speaker 1: You got a Hall of Famer right guard. You hope
Speaker 1: that you can cancel out some stuff there where you
Speaker 1: might have to pay some attention is on the other
Speaker 1: side with Josh Sweat over there and Brandon Graham and
Speaker 1: guys like that. Because I have a feeling they're going
Speaker 1: to try and overload that side and bring pressure from
Speaker 1: there and make Tyler and make McGovern and those guys
Speaker 1: have to deal with that stuff coming off the other side.
Speaker 1: And Okay, now it's about the backs, you know, it's
Speaker 1: about Zeke and Paula being able to kind of focus. Okay,
Speaker 1: we should be we should be good everywhere we're inside me,
Speaker 1: but let's think about what's going on over here. Because
Speaker 1: Josh sweats a really good rusher, he really really is,
Speaker 1: and you know he's he's long, and he causes problems.
Speaker 1: He can get under you. You know, it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of having to handle him in the pastors if
Speaker 1: we were throwing the football. So they've got two really
Speaker 1: good linebackers with TJ. T J. Edwards and then Kazer White.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are super super active in the
Speaker 1: way they play. They're around the ball a bunch. T J.
Speaker 1: Edwards is a middle linebacker. He's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a dirty player too. He's kind of a grab you,
Speaker 1: twist you kind of a guy. He's always gets in
Speaker 1: your face. But they're they're good at linebacker. The secondary
Speaker 1: I think is their strength for sure, and it's a
Speaker 1: you know with Darius Slay and then James Bradberry or
Speaker 1: the two in the secondary. Epps at safety is good.
Speaker 1: They've had some problems Blank and Ship read Blank and Ship,
Speaker 1: who he starts at safety, has been a little bit
Speaker 1: nicked up. So we'll see how they play. But I
Speaker 1: feel like it overall, the health of their defense is
Speaker 1: really good. They got Jordan Davis. Fact they haven't doamicon sue.
Speaker 1: You know, they have Lynville Joseph as well, So they
Speaker 1: got big, big bodies inside that you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: deal with on this on this team. Yeah, you look
Speaker 1: at that that that defense. They are not giving up
Speaker 1: anything in the passing game. And I thought when they
Speaker 1: lost their nickel corner CJ. Gardner Johnson, that maybe that
Speaker 1: you might see a maddox, you might see a decline.
Speaker 1: You have not. They have continued to be just as good. Um,
Speaker 1: So my question for you is like, how are they
Speaker 1: able to do that? Have they seen Have you seen
Speaker 1: anything that's different in how they how they play defense
Speaker 1: without CJ. Gardener Johnson. Well, to me, it's still about
Speaker 1: those corners. You know, they just they match up with
Speaker 1: you one on one and they don't give you any space. Yea,
Speaker 1: you know they make but can you take advantage of
Speaker 1: them in the slot now without Okay, this is this
Speaker 1: is where this is where. No, it's not because Maddox
Speaker 1: Maddock there because there was a guy that was primarily
Speaker 1: their starter and then he got hurt and then they
Speaker 1: had to put Garner Johnson in there, and then they
Speaker 1: got better with Garter Johnson and now Maddox is back. Okay,
Speaker 1: So no, we had on Michael Lombardi, my old buddy
Speaker 1: for him, I used to work with with the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and you know, he does a lot of things. And
Speaker 1: Michael thinks you can throw the ball on these guys
Speaker 1: if you can block the front. He feels like, though
Speaker 1: he goes if you can protect he says, I feel
Speaker 1: especially set against him when they want to play zone
Speaker 1: coverage stuff. Now, how much zone are they going to
Speaker 1: get in against you? They probably feel like you've got
Speaker 1: one guy that can really hurt hurt you, and that
Speaker 1: would be Ceedee Lamb. So I don't know how much
Speaker 1: zone coverage these guys are gonna want to play in
Speaker 1: this game. But Mike seems to think if you could
Speaker 1: protect the front, had him on yesterday on our show
Speaker 1: one oh five three, he says, you could throw the
Speaker 1: ball on these guys if they play zone, and I
Speaker 1: just I'm like, I'm like, Mike, I don't know how
Speaker 1: much zone if you had, like, if you had guys
Speaker 1: that you like, I say, Lamb is like a guy
Speaker 1: that you're going to have to deal with. But who
Speaker 1: else are you gonna have to deal with? Who the
Speaker 1: others you're going to have to deal with? Is there
Speaker 1: anybody that just completely scares you? Not really right now?
Speaker 1: So I think that's the I think that's the issue
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are dealing with right now. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to not trying to get into a Micah you know,
Speaker 1: Parson's thing. How good are the Eagles and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: because they're really good. But if you look at at
Speaker 1: their schedule since the Cowboys game in the bye week,
Speaker 1: they they have not played a team that's in the
Speaker 1: playoffs except for the Giants, um and they and they
Speaker 1: did a nice job and they went in there and
Speaker 1: beat them pretty good. But the other team, I guess
Speaker 1: Washington is in the playoffs right now. The loss to them,
Speaker 1: um And And so, you know, I mean just the
Speaker 1: Steelers the Texans, Washington, the Colts, the Packers. I mean
Speaker 1: they give thirty three points to Jordan loves As you
Speaker 1: know when when after Rogers went out in that game.
Speaker 1: So these teams Tennessee, the Giants, the Bears, they don't
Speaker 1: throw the ball as well as as I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys do. So I think this is gonna be their
Speaker 1: toughest test that they faced since they faced the Cowboys
Speaker 1: the first time. Now that was with Cooper Rush. I'll
Speaker 1: throw this into they faced throughout the season. They faced
Speaker 1: three teams out in a top ten in offense um.
Speaker 1: All three of those teams they played in the first
Speaker 1: four weeks of the season. Detroit, Jacksonville, Minnesota, Jacksonville, Detroitten nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Jacksonville, Detroit, their offenses have come alive over the
Speaker 1: last second half of the season. They were not what
Speaker 1: they are now. Had thirty five on them. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying but my point. My point was though early
Speaker 1: in the season that I don't think they were playing
Speaker 1: at the level that they're playing right now. They had
Speaker 1: thirty five. Yeah, but you look at those three off one.
Speaker 1: You look at those three offens. But even at with
Speaker 1: those points, they only I think they put up maybe
Speaker 1: under two hundred yards passing. It was, it was. They
Speaker 1: have not given up more than two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: nine yards passing this season. Like they are. They are
Speaker 1: holding teams to literally nothing through the air. And that's
Speaker 1: where I'm kind of just looking at I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out is this is this because of their personnel
Speaker 1: or is it because, as you said, of the the
Speaker 1: opponents that they faced, they really haven't face that's high
Speaker 1: powered offense. That's an amazing stat when you factor in
Speaker 1: that they're thirteen and one and they're blowing out a
Speaker 1: lot of teams, which means sometimes passing yards just get
Speaker 1: backed up. Yeah, it is. It is crazy. Well, they're
Speaker 1: they're in a situation where their offense is that good,
Speaker 1: you know where they they they're there, their defense is good,
Speaker 1: but they benefit because their offense puts a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on people. I'm me personally, I mean, i I've
Speaker 1: been dealing with this. I mean, I'm trying to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 1: where do you attack? Where do you attack this defense?
Speaker 1: And you know, the Cowboys going back and looking at
Speaker 1: the game, they had a little bit of success running
Speaker 1: the football. Yeah, you know, so they've given up some
Speaker 1: rushing guy. And that's where I'm kind of thinking, like,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of thinking, well, maybe it's going to turn
Speaker 1: into one of these games. I think you're better on
Speaker 1: the offensive line right now, I really do. And I
Speaker 1: know that Steel has done a really good job as
Speaker 1: a run blocker. But I think you're stronger on the
Speaker 1: right side, you know what. And Hassan Reddick and these guys,
Speaker 1: and the linebackers White and Edwards, Let's see how physical
Speaker 1: you want to get with these with these guys running
Speaker 1: the ball downhill on you. I was hoping for more
Speaker 1: than a draw at right at at the right tackle spot.
Speaker 1: With Tyron Smith, you said a draw between him and Reddick,
Speaker 1: but Pat miss a pass because Reddick can rush the
Speaker 1: past like to win that though with Tyron No. Well,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, if you wanted to cancel out,
Speaker 1: if you wanted to cancel out one of their better players, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna kill you. He's not gonna kill you.
Speaker 1: Because I have a feeling that Reddick pass rushing against
Speaker 1: Steele would be a would be a hard matchup for Steel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he would play. He'd probably be two or three that
Speaker 1: he would really struggle with But I don't think that
Speaker 1: I don't think that Tyren Smith is going to struggle
Speaker 1: with Reddick in this game. This is the game where
Speaker 1: I think is the biggest difference between Cooper Rush and
Speaker 1: Dak because they're they're going to bring pressure. And I
Speaker 1: think when when Cooper Rush felt pressure or feels pressure,
Speaker 1: it's he's not always making a play. He made some
Speaker 1: he made somewhere. He's a guy's right in his face,
Speaker 1: but you know, he's not gonna scramble out and and
Speaker 1: you know, dip around and spin and make a play
Speaker 1: over here. And that's where I think Dack's, you know,
Speaker 1: ability to to scramble and get out of things and
Speaker 1: extend the pocket is going to help more than the
Speaker 1: kind of a kind of sitting duck. But he you know,
Speaker 1: he stands in there and kind of makes the throw.
Speaker 1: He's not going to improvise like Daktas. I was trying
Speaker 1: to look up because yesterday on our show Are So
Speaker 1: Almost Aways podcast, some of the guys on there were
Speaker 1: mentioning and now, how had not seen this on social media?
Speaker 1: But how the Eagles some of their players were recording
Speaker 1: Christmas song or something like that. Yeah, they record a
Speaker 1: Christmas album. But when was that. It's been about three
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Yeah, that's what I was looking at. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: well because something Jason Kelsey and those guys. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's not even this week, but they were making
Speaker 1: it sound like it was recently. No, No, it's been
Speaker 1: about three weeks. They were surprised how well Thanksgiving. Yeah
Speaker 1: it was Jordan my allot. They were surprised how well
Speaker 1: he sings. That's one of the things that came out
Speaker 1: of that whole thing. Can you sing, Brian, No, not
Speaker 1: at all. Just wonder your daughter can's twice? She's going
Speaker 1: to Colombia. Okay, that's why he's going to Columbia. No,
Speaker 1: that's not why he's going to Columbus. Yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be using her brain up there. I did want to
Speaker 1: ask you, though, um, because we talked about the difference
Speaker 1: between Okay, now they're not playing with their with jalien
Speaker 1: Hurst and right, we didn't play them with dak Right.
Speaker 1: If you're the Eagles, are you preparing any differently than
Speaker 1: what you already did when you played them when they
Speaker 1: played up Yeah? I think so, Yeah, I think so,
Speaker 1: because what changes there Nick's talking about the mobile quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to be you have to know that. Listen.
Speaker 1: You know, with Cooper Rush, he's gonna stand there, but
Speaker 1: the ball is gonna come out quick. So that's one
Speaker 1: thing that you're dealing with right there. With with Dak,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, rush lanes keeping him, you know there,
Speaker 1: don't let him spin. I mean the one touchdown that
Speaker 1: they had, the Noah Brown touchdown, the second one where
Speaker 1: he spun out of there, that's not a Cooper Rush play.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a Dak Prescott. So if you're these ends,
Speaker 1: if you're Sweat or Hassan Reddick and those guys, and
Speaker 1: you're like run up the field, run up the field,
Speaker 1: or you cut inside and you let him spin, that's
Speaker 1: something you're like, hey, you have to be careful. You
Speaker 1: can't just go flying inside and try and get to
Speaker 1: the ball because this quarterback will spin on your right
Speaker 1: or left in order to go make a throw. So
Speaker 1: that in their mind they have to prep differently for them,
Speaker 1: and maybe you play your front a little differently to
Speaker 1: try and kind of keep it a little bit wider,
Speaker 1: and then so you don't have the ability for the
Speaker 1: quarterback to move. I did also want to ask you
Speaker 1: guys your opinion on this. So we've been talking about
Speaker 1: Dac and the interceptions for a while now, and it's
Speaker 1: just constant. And I think that this week especially, it's
Speaker 1: been all over the place dyc interceptions, this and that,
Speaker 1: and we keep hearing Dyk and Mike McCarthy they they're
Speaker 1: just gonna keep playing the way the way that they are.
Speaker 1: He's gonna stay aggressive. He's gonna go out there and
Speaker 1: be aggressive, and that's not gonna change. But it makes
Speaker 1: me wonder because it is. And I know they say
Speaker 1: they don't listen to the outside noise, but it's hard
Speaker 1: to get away from that. It's hard to they're lying
Speaker 1: to you and they know they know. But so my
Speaker 1: question is, do you think that he does get to
Speaker 1: a point where maybe mentally for Dak himself, this is
Speaker 1: maybe it gets to a point where it starts messing
Speaker 1: with his head. And although he's saying he's gonna be aggressive,
Speaker 1: now he's becoming a little more hesitant or trying to
Speaker 1: be smarter with his decision making when throwing some of
Speaker 1: those passes. I'm saying, I don't even think a little
Speaker 1: I don't even think a little bit, because as he said, yes,
Speaker 1: I think it was yesterday when the media was talking
Speaker 1: to him. He's got to be conceited. But I'm pretty
Speaker 1: mentally tough, and I think he is. I think of
Speaker 1: those guys is very mentally. Everything we've seen since the
Speaker 1: moment he got here, he doesn't seem to be phased
Speaker 1: by the moment, and so I don't I don't expect
Speaker 1: it to change him in one just in one bit.
Speaker 1: And by the way, there's a lot of talk out
Speaker 1: there about that. There's all so and you guys see it.
Speaker 1: We're all on Twitter. We see the world and see
Speaker 1: all the people that are talking about this. For as
Speaker 1: many people as you have that are killing him about
Speaker 1: the interceptions, you have just as many people that are saying,
Speaker 1: slow down just a little bit. A lot of these
Speaker 1: interceptions aren't his fault. So don't make the narrative that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys lost that game because of Dak Prescott, because
Speaker 1: that wasn't the case. Dak Prescott played a really good game,
Speaker 1: and so I think I think he probably if he
Speaker 1: hears any of it, he probably hears the positive. Two.
Speaker 1: I think he thinks he dismisses it all as Look,
Speaker 1: I'm just playing my game. I'm gonna keep doing what
Speaker 1: I do, and however turns out is how it turns out.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think he will phase him one bit.
Speaker 1: That's my opinion. I don't either. I mean, but I
Speaker 1: I wonder about it though, a little bit. I do
Speaker 1: wonder if if you know what he's thinking here, as
Speaker 1: you know, he throws the ball over the middle, and
Speaker 1: you know, is he a little bit gunshy here and there?
Speaker 1: And and the question is valid because it's like maybe
Speaker 1: you should be like when when when do you when
Speaker 1: does it creep into your head? And because he should
Speaker 1: be you know, that's that's always this double edged sword,
Speaker 1: because it's like, well, on one hand, not you know,
Speaker 1: like it's kind of like all these slow starts. It's
Speaker 1: like we're not worried about slow starts because we know
Speaker 1: we can come back. But if you keep just thinking
Speaker 1: it'll be fine, it'll be fine, maybe it isn't. So
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Let's go to that last game,
Speaker 1: the two interceptions. What should he have done something different
Speaker 1: in either of those two situations, Well, he shouldn't have
Speaker 1: thrown the first one, or you shouldn't have just kind
Speaker 1: of lofted it up there over the middle. But that's
Speaker 1: I don't think he I think the ball fluttered because
Speaker 1: his arm got hit. And that's where I know there's
Speaker 1: there's kind of this did his arm get hit? To me,
Speaker 1: it looks very clear this arm he got he got
Speaker 1: hit from behind. Yeah, that's it pushed him forward to
Speaker 1: make it. And that's why I think the ball kind
Speaker 1: of floated, like because if you watch the ball, the
Speaker 1: ball isn't a spiral. It's kind of like this fluttering
Speaker 1: kind of thing. I don't think an NFL quarterback just
Speaker 1: makes that throw without being affected. Right, Well, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's the situation. I think of that like throw it
Speaker 1: away if you feel like things are not good. I
Speaker 1: can't remember the last time Dak just threw a ball away. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know remember so in that instance, you would have
Speaker 1: wanted him because of the pressure around it's second and eighteen,
Speaker 1: you know, take a sack again, just you know, go
Speaker 1: ahead and or I remember we had this problem with
Speaker 1: Tony Romo. Remember it was like he's always trying to
Speaker 1: and it was and then finally like the fans would
Speaker 1: cheer when you throw a ball away, or it might
Speaker 1: have been Rome, but somebody was having trouble where they weren't,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't throw the ball away. And I can't remember
Speaker 1: the last time that Dak just said, ah, heck with
Speaker 1: this boom. You know, he's playing a lot like Tony
Speaker 1: Romo right now. It really is. Yeah, yeah, that's been out.
Speaker 1: That's the divinish. But yeah, it's not just that. It's
Speaker 1: being a little bit aggressive and thinking I can make
Speaker 1: that play. Yeah, yes you can, and you've done it
Speaker 1: before some maybe in high school, college sometime and here
Speaker 1: in the pros. But they make plays as well, and
Speaker 1: you have to kind of live with it. You're gonna
Speaker 1: you live with because Romo could make some great plays
Speaker 1: and then you can make some that make you just
Speaker 1: pull your hair out. And Dad's sort of doing that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff the best. An example for me of
Speaker 1: the game the other day was when I talk about
Speaker 1: the ball that went up the sidelines to Pollard, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's now a crazy fifty fifty ball and if
Speaker 1: you just fire it to Noah Brown and hopefully he
Speaker 1: catch it. He probably will, he could catch it, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a first down, and you keep playing you know,
Speaker 1: instead it's now it's a fourth down and you have
Speaker 1: to kick a field goal. And honestly, those are the
Speaker 1: kind of plays I look at where I'm like more
Speaker 1: critical of Dak than either of those two interceptions, because
Speaker 1: that part of it's fair. Yeah. Even in the instance
Speaker 1: of the first interception with his arm got hit, there
Speaker 1: was an open receiver and he was open, and he
Speaker 1: pulled it and pulled it back. Yeah, and he did
Speaker 1: and and and even when he threw it, he was
Speaker 1: still open, like the tight end was still open. He
Speaker 1: could have clearly lited that pass. It's just that. And
Speaker 1: I want my quarterback to not be so distressed by
Speaker 1: the fact that there's traffic around him. Yeah, that he
Speaker 1: just thinks, well, let me just get rid of Like
Speaker 1: I want him to make the play. Yeah, but if
Speaker 1: you're not sure, eat it or throw it away. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. When you double clutch it, you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'm gonna try it now, you know,
Speaker 1: and you're like you're getting hit. You know. That's the
Speaker 1: that's the problem we only talk about, seemingly only talk
Speaker 1: about the plays that that don't go his way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's times where he's doing risky things and get exactly
Speaker 1: like the touchdown pass to Noah Brown, the first one
Speaker 1: he rolls through. The hardest throw was the three yeah
Speaker 1: front middle back, and like it's like, oh, let's just
Speaker 1: sell in the traffic back here. It's almost like, you know, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: who doesn't have a Christmas present? Like haven't give one
Speaker 1: to Brown lately? You know, like everybody cheers and everybody's like,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. And that was the hardest throw he could
Speaker 1: have made right there. I don't want to take aggressiveness
Speaker 1: out of him because I think that's part of what
Speaker 1: makes him a good quarterback. And by the way, every
Speaker 1: good quarterback in the NFL. It's the difference between a
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush and a Dak Prescott is Cooper Rush is
Speaker 1: just going to manage. This is why I get into
Speaker 1: the management of the game. He's going to manage the game.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna take those risks, which means he's not
Speaker 1: gonna have the interceptions. But at the same time, he
Speaker 1: might not have those wild plays either. He might not
Speaker 1: extend that drive or have that touchdown throw because he's
Speaker 1: not willing to make that throw that might be a
Speaker 1: little risky. I want to keep that. And if that
Speaker 1: means that he gets hit from behind and the ball
Speaker 1: flutters and it's an interception, I'll live with that. Only
Speaker 1: do it in certain situations. He should be aware of
Speaker 1: where we are in the game and what they need
Speaker 1: at that moment in the game. But I don't want
Speaker 1: to take us aggressive this. I really don't. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a balance there, it's a balance. He's got to eat.
Speaker 1: That's what the quarterback did. Please don't turn the ball
Speaker 1: over anymore. That's all I ask. That's all I want
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Speaker 1: guys to tell me what do you think is or
Speaker 1: what would be your Christmas wish? You can't be a
Speaker 1: super Bowl. What I want to know is what can
Speaker 1: get them, what can get them closest to a Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: If you could do one thing, if there was one
Speaker 1: wish that could come true, what would you wish for
Speaker 1: this team? Nicholas start with you. I would wish that
Speaker 1: one of those cornerbacks that's going to be playing actually
Speaker 1: turns into the player that they were drafted for. Because
Speaker 1: they have a fourth round, they have some second rounds.
Speaker 1: They have some guys that were and that includes Kelvin
Speaker 1: Joseph as well, that includes Nishan. Right, these guys that
Speaker 1: are in the mix here have all at some point
Speaker 1: been considered good players. I need one of them, one
Speaker 1: of them to act like the odds sound like it
Speaker 1: should work right, You just need one. There's a great
Speaker 1: line in the movie Rudy, I love it. You've never
Speaker 1: seen Oh my Lord. But anyways, when when the guy
Speaker 1: comes in, I've seen he's trying to give he's trying
Speaker 1: to like they're trying to get rudy and to play
Speaker 1: in the game. And he's like, he's like, here you go,
Speaker 1: and he's like, you're a captain and an All American.
Speaker 1: Act like it. That's what I want. One of those corners.
Speaker 1: Act like it. Act like the second, third, fourth round
Speaker 1: pick that you were picked for. I just need one
Speaker 1: of you. Take a play, just one, make a few plays, please,
Speaker 1: just one. That's my Christmas wish. I'm gonna change mine.
Speaker 1: I just want the pass rush to come back. Yes,
Speaker 1: I just want it. I just want to see quarterbacks
Speaker 1: struggling in negative yardage situations. I want to see sacks.
Speaker 1: I want to see balls knocked in the air. I
Speaker 1: want to see all that. I want to see guys
Speaker 1: twisting and getting home and causing problems. If just I
Speaker 1: think the offense is going to be fine, just give
Speaker 1: me my pass rush back. Please. I have one more
Speaker 1: wish after you. You only get one, I haven't you
Speaker 1: guys will have that greedy kid, right, he's that greeny
Speaker 1: kid that would open his present and be like I
Speaker 1: really wanted this, right, I have another one too, Go ahead,
Speaker 1: Amber Well, I was gonna say, yeah, there's a corner
Speaker 1: and along with the pass rush, I was gonna wish.
Speaker 1: I would wish Micah Parsons to be Micah Parsons again,
Speaker 1: full on one, aggressive Micah Parsons because usually when he's
Speaker 1: having a good game, you got that in the bag.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys win for the most part. So I think,
Speaker 1: if I get my wish, y'all get jaws wish. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the pass rush in Micah Parsons, I think, if I
Speaker 1: get my wish that the cornerback play. These corners are
Speaker 1: playing well, this third corner steps up and plays well.
Speaker 1: I kind of pass rush and Micah goes together. But
Speaker 1: I think I need I need to get mine. The
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is because that's for my painting. Well,
Speaker 1: when those corners were there. You can say what you
Speaker 1: want about Anthony Brown. When Anthony Brown was out there,
Speaker 1: everything was clicking. Oh is it? Because when I said
Speaker 1: that several weeks ago, you made a face like, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about Anthony? We got recorded probably what
Speaker 1: I say, what I say? I said, Oh, maybe I
Speaker 1: forgot what I said, but something about missing Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: and like he's he's not as terrible. Yes, he gives
Speaker 1: up some plays, but he's not as terrible as people say.
Speaker 1: And you may not give you a face on Anthony Brown, no,
Speaker 1: because because I actually believe I've been I've been statement,
Speaker 1: I've been dodging all Anthony Brown because I kind of
Speaker 1: said he was going to be that kind of a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl guy. But that's the thing. The criticism Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown is fair criticism, yeah so, but then again, but
Speaker 1: he's not as bad as people say he is when
Speaker 1: you compare it to what you got, right. Honestly, this
Speaker 1: is a Doug Free type situation, right, because I remember
Speaker 1: people used to be so livid with Doug Free and
Speaker 1: I'm like, Dug Free, Yeah he's not. He's not a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl type guy, but he's not as bad as
Speaker 1: y'all think. Like, there are a lot of horse tackles
Speaker 1: you could have out there on the right side, and
Speaker 1: I think it's the same thing for Anthony Brown. Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown isn't great. But Anthony Brown, as we're saying there,
Speaker 1: he might give up a player too deep every game,
Speaker 1: But if that's all he's given up, I'll take that.
Speaker 1: If the rest of the time he's he's at least
Speaker 1: covering things to where my pass rush can get home,
Speaker 1: which right now, I think that's part of the problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown is Larry Brown back in the day, that
Speaker 1: was Larry Brown to a t. I mean, he had
Speaker 1: this star on the other side. He gave up some plays.
Speaker 1: Every now and again he makes something as well. Yeah
Speaker 1: he didn't, he didn't kill you that much. But the
Speaker 1: problem is is that he would make some you know,
Speaker 1: he would be contest. He competes, and I don't just
Speaker 1: don't think they have anyone else that can do that
Speaker 1: right now, Well Bland is doing it. You're right, and
Speaker 1: they need And that's why I say I'd like to
Speaker 1: see him. I appreciate the outside I appreciate the acknowledgement
Speaker 1: on Twitter about that. Derek, what's your Christmas wish? My
Speaker 1: Christmas wish? I think it's it's actually what I thought about,
Speaker 1: the same thing you were talking about. But if I
Speaker 1: had to do something different, I would probably say that
Speaker 1: my head coach would be a little more demanding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in certain situations, certain situations, I want him to think
Speaker 1: about the game a little bit deeper and make sure
Speaker 1: this coordinators are on top of that. In the same
Speaker 1: way I look at that situation that you had on
Speaker 1: third and ten. I want my head coach to say,
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with the past. I need a
Speaker 1: better option. Ye give me, give me a better option
Speaker 1: for a pass there than than a deep ball. To
Speaker 1: know it, like I want my head coach to I
Speaker 1: want him to force them, to force them to think
Speaker 1: a little different about certain situations rather than maybe whatever
Speaker 1: they're thinking about in those kind of situations. Amazing how
Speaker 1: far we've come here now that we've talked about this
Speaker 1: defense was so good and all that. Now we're kind
Speaker 1: of talking about wishing for things for the defense. And
Speaker 1: you know, but it's to me. I agree with you, Derek.
Speaker 1: I think with Mike McCarthy, you know. I just like
Speaker 1: him to click over and tell kell and listen. He goes,
Speaker 1: you know, what, what do you guys going on downs?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about going all go here? He goes, No,
Speaker 1: you're not. We're going to think about something different therey.
Speaker 1: Come give me another one, Give me another one. What
Speaker 1: else you got? Where's that waggle? You got? Need? I need?
Speaker 1: I need to keep this clock going here. And we're assuming,
Speaker 1: just in fairness to Kellen, we're assuming that the head
Speaker 1: coach wasn't the one to say let's go for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he might have been the one to say let's go deep.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is I want somebody to inject a
Speaker 1: little more fought into that and say let's do something
Speaker 1: a little different here. Yeah, it sounds like he did.
Speaker 1: He was fine with that. Yeah, no, moss Um. I
Speaker 1: think they called it. And let's be clear too, I
Speaker 1: know there's a there's a somebody put this out this
Speaker 1: morning that they think Mike McCarthy's in trouble. I think
Speaker 1: that's foolish. I think the fact that they are where
Speaker 1: they are right now with almost half the season with
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback, I think that is absolutely foolish. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy has had a great season. I know that that
Speaker 1: that call, and you can pick out other moments, but
Speaker 1: guess what, Every coach in the NFL has those moments,
Speaker 1: every single one where you will disagree with what they
Speaker 1: have done or decisions that they made. It's a part
Speaker 1: of it. It's a part of the job. I think
Speaker 1: he's had a phenomenal year. I take if you lose
Speaker 1: to the NFC South in a playoff game, the coordinator
Speaker 1: might be the guy that we see maybe something depending
Speaker 1: on how it plays. Yeah, you lose a game to
Speaker 1: the NFC South in the playoff game, I think then
Speaker 1: maybe you'll think something different there, maybe not the head coach,
Speaker 1: but the coordinator. Maybe all let's get the predictions. What
Speaker 1: we got ran? You wanna go first, Yeah, I'll go first.
Speaker 1: I got Philadelphia thirty one, Dallas twenty four. I just
Speaker 1: feel like Gardner Mitchew is not a bad backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's very accurate. Go look at the numbers and stuff.
Speaker 1: They'll still run the offense to quick game, the passing game.
Speaker 1: They still got all their guys, they got their tight ends,
Speaker 1: they got their receivers, they got their offensive line. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough for you. Their defense is completely healthy too.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that you have some advantages with
Speaker 1: the offensive line as far as your offensive line maybe
Speaker 1: getting some things done. I just see too many, too
Speaker 1: many playmakers on a team right now that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: having to deal with that. Thirty one twenty four Eagles.
Speaker 1: I've got a well, I've got Eagles twenty eight, twenty six.
Speaker 1: Kind of weird, long, high scoring game, kind of but
Speaker 1: kind of a weird game. And I agree, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, if Houston's quarterbacks can give you trouble. I
Speaker 1: think this guy can give your trouble as well. I
Speaker 1: think that they are a very complete team. They got
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on and not just him.
Speaker 1: And I also believe that the Cowboys defense played their
Speaker 1: best football when Cooper Rush was in the game. I
Speaker 1: think they rallied around him, and I think the Eagles
Speaker 1: are good enough to kind of do the same, and
Speaker 1: so I just I think that you're going to get
Speaker 1: the Eagles best outside of the quarterback position. And that's
Speaker 1: scary when you think about what the Cowboys having. This
Speaker 1: is a hat and T shirt game for them. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I believe in miracles, and it is the Christmas time
Speaker 1: of the year, and although my head is telling me
Speaker 1: one thing, my heart is telling me another. And I
Speaker 1: think that sometimes the Cowboys can make some magic happen.
Speaker 1: I don't know where that no one expects. I think
Speaker 1: this could be one of those games where they do
Speaker 1: go out there and win against the Eagles. Now, this
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that all their problems would be fixed because
Speaker 1: of a win against the Eagles. I think they would
Speaker 1: still have those problems. But I can see some magic
Speaker 1: happening and Cowboys win twenty seven or we're scoring twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty three. Sorry like that. I actually think this
Speaker 1: game or I'll start with this right now. To me,
Speaker 1: the strength of this team is their offensive line, and
Speaker 1: I personally think this offensive line strength is running the ball.
Speaker 1: I think Dallas is going to come into this game
Speaker 1: and Dallas is gonna say we're going to run the ball,
Speaker 1: because I think it helps them in every other facet
Speaker 1: of their game. They are good runners, they have good runners.
Speaker 1: They have a good offensive line that can run the ball.
Speaker 1: It keeps the ball away from the Philadelphia offense where
Speaker 1: you might be afraid of what you got. It's in
Speaker 1: the secondary. I think everything about it makes a ton
Speaker 1: of sense. I think it is a game. When Dallas
Speaker 1: runs the ball, they control the clock and that's how
Speaker 1: they end up winning this game. Think it'll be a
Speaker 1: lower scoring game than what we would expect from these
Speaker 1: two teams that have offenses that you think of as
Speaker 1: as high powered offenses. I think Dallas win seventeen sixteen
Speaker 1: in a game that will seem methodical. Slow may pick
Speaker 1: up at the end, but I think they win that
Speaker 1: game seventeen sixteen. All right, appreciate you guys joining us.
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