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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number seventy four. Welcome
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Speaker 1: sprinkle them in with some of the other questions I
Speaker 1: have for these guys, and some questions we've already gotten
Speaker 1: on Twitter as well. How's everybody doing today? Great as
Speaker 1: everybody's on their phone or computer. No, no, I was
Speaker 1: just feel like I'm dealing with my kids right now.
Speaker 1: I just realized I looked down and I got like,
Speaker 1: purple sleeves on and everything else. We'll make us up
Speaker 1: on Yeah, I'm with you on that. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm siner thinking and then I even were my purple converse.
Speaker 1: But it's all ls LSU. Really, I'm not going at all.
Speaker 1: I don't ask me who I'm gonna pick, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you yes to do on the radio, so I know
Speaker 1: exactly who you gotta. I did a podcast this morning.
Speaker 1: I kind of gave a reason why. But yeah, but
Speaker 1: get to that. No, we're good, We're good. We just
Speaker 1: a huge game, man, especially with what happened, you know,
Speaker 1: last night and stuff like that. I think Green Bay
Speaker 1: got eliminated last night. I was kind of worried about
Speaker 1: them kind of climbing back into this thing. You know,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're battling with them as that
Speaker 1: you know, Oh, it's the fifth, sixth seven, it's six
Speaker 1: seventh seed. Oh wait, it's head to head, what you
Speaker 1: know that kind of stuff. I actually was thinking like
Speaker 1: about five o'clock when I've realized who was playing in
Speaker 1: the game, and I said, tomorrow morning, Brian's gonna say it.
Speaker 1: Like I was still fifty fifty on that game. I
Speaker 1: was like, Brian's gonna say one of two things. He's
Speaker 1: gonna say, good job letting them back in there, letting
Speaker 1: that guy back in there. Now they're one two in
Speaker 1: a row and all that. If they win, if they lose,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be like, why didn't you play better like that?
Speaker 1: Why why couldn't the Cowboys have done what the Titans did?
Speaker 1: Or whatever? So one way or another, I kind of
Speaker 1: wish the Cowboys were the Titans. I mean the way
Speaker 1: they play the Titans, they get they get guys banged up,
Speaker 1: they have half their guys, and they find ways to win.
Speaker 1: I mean I could I could pull for a team
Speaker 1: like way, say whatever Zeke and Pollard are doing fourteen thirteen,
Speaker 1: yea twenty seven carriers. Yeah, and that guy that guy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonger than both and faster than both. Yeah. That
Speaker 1: that guy is is the broad touchdown passes as we
Speaker 1: saw last night, he can really switch down passes us
Speaker 1: last night. Yeah, kind of gave it, gave it my guy.
Speaker 1: That gave Alexander like, yeah, you're the little guy. He
Speaker 1: gave the little guy. He gave little guys signal to him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he gave a couple. He had a couple of nice
Speaker 1: catches last night. So yeah, that team that seems gonna
Speaker 1: be that's gonna an interesting game there in December at
Speaker 1: a time of year you're gonna need need it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be in here and they're gonna need it too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's I'm saying. That's gonna be a really interesting and
Speaker 1: I know this in that cold House stadium. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is did we go to that one time?
Speaker 1: One time? And yeah, like I think Randall Cunningham didn't
Speaker 1: want to play that day, and and then and then
Speaker 1: I got lost. We're staying there at the gay Lord,
Speaker 1: greatest hotel ever, and it was like it's like being
Speaker 1: in an airport, Like I didn't know how to get
Speaker 1: to the front door. I didn't mean I'm literally trying
Speaker 1: to meet people for go to dinner, Like where are
Speaker 1: you I I go, I don't know I'm sowhere in
Speaker 1: this hotel, just like I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: where I am. But but yeah, that that place, that stadium,
Speaker 1: it's cold, the fans are mean. I mean, what's gonna
Speaker 1: be called in Minnesota this week? Lucky Lucky? Thing is
Speaker 1: good outside? It will yeah, yeah, you mean in Tennessee
Speaker 1: or Minnesota. Man, sound was pretty good. It's so good
Speaker 1: too because it's still open air. Yeah, it is open air.
Speaker 1: And they have you talk about you talk about the
Speaker 1: one job in life that just absolutely doesn't matter. It's
Speaker 1: the guy that does the PA announcing in the pres
Speaker 1: Minnesota that is over shadowed by all of the sounds.
Speaker 1: So so it's just like Dralvin Cook four yardcare you know,
Speaker 1: to the twenty six like, and you're gonna be trying
Speaker 1: to type that stuff in. You're not gonna hear it
Speaker 1: all you are. You just better find you better before
Speaker 1: the game start. You better figure out where it is
Speaker 1: on the on the board, because that's where you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to look. This is the stadium where Derek's gonna
Speaker 1: pull out his phone, open up his little decibel app
Speaker 1: out how many disabels? Yeah, out of this last year
Speaker 1: and then he'll show me. He's like, look you see him.
Speaker 1: Last year. I was really surprised how and it's different
Speaker 1: minnesotaesan not having the season they are this year, but
Speaker 1: I was really surprised how many Cowboy fans there were
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, there were a lot. Why is it?
Speaker 1: Why was that shocking? Though? Well, I think you get
Speaker 1: some carry over from what you saw in Green Bay
Speaker 1: getting over those Midwest fans. You kind of giving him
Speaker 1: a back to back taste your football time. Well, but
Speaker 1: easier to stay in Minneapolis than it is to stay
Speaker 1: in Green Bay. But this team, though, I mean they're
Speaker 1: eight and one, I mean they're they're having a great season,
Speaker 1: and they definitely you know, and they're that's that irritating
Speaker 1: place to play in this that I saw. It was
Speaker 1: first time since like nineteen seventy six that a team
Speaker 1: that's eight and one or better with their starting quarterback
Speaker 1: is an home underdog underdog. Yeah, it's just I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I've learned this that I've learned this, I've
Speaker 1: learned this about doing radio. Vegas is usually right on
Speaker 1: these things, right, and here I am. I'm gonna probably
Speaker 1: go against them, but they're right about a lot of things,
Speaker 1: so they play the analytics game. Look, yeah, I'm coming
Speaker 1: off a week where the folks in Vegas said that
Speaker 1: my college team would win by seven, yeah, and we
Speaker 1: lost by ten. Yeah. So yeah, I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 1: You're not buying it, all right, I'm not buying right now. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm coming off a team where Vegas, Vegas said that
Speaker 1: my team would lose by three and a half points
Speaker 1: to LSU and lost by three, lost by three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it happens. It does happen. This is just
Speaker 1: such a hard place to play. It is it's a
Speaker 1: hard place to play, and they got a good team,
Speaker 1: and it's it and if you don't handle it, they
Speaker 1: can make you look really bad. That's exactly right, all right,
Speaker 1: So let's jump in. Let's talk a little bit about injuries. First.
Speaker 1: There are four guys that I want to get some
Speaker 1: updates on. Let's start first with TENK Lawrence. What are
Speaker 1: we hearing about him and his injury and his possibility
Speaker 1: of playing this week. I was told yesterday that he
Speaker 1: should be fine. You know, now, where I think we're
Speaker 1: to the end of the kind of getting to the
Speaker 1: point of the season where Tank's really not interested in
Speaker 1: practicing a little bit, you know. He's like, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, but that you know that the word I
Speaker 1: got on Tank was he should be fine. And then
Speaker 1: I always remember, like I heard that Sam Williams was
Speaker 1: fine and then he's inactive that Sunday, So you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, take it. What is I don't think they
Speaker 1: would let him play with a fractured foot if that's
Speaker 1: what people are talking about right now, or fractures or
Speaker 1: problems with fractures or whatever. So but the quote was
Speaker 1: I have all intention of having him play. That was
Speaker 1: what McCarthy just said. Yeah, McCarthy's played the game all
Speaker 1: year long, where you know, I mean, he's getting to
Speaker 1: the point where some of the stuff that Mike says
Speaker 1: when it comes to injuries is not really that accurate.
Speaker 1: I mean, and he's trying, and he's trying to do that,
Speaker 1: like he's that's that's the plan. So but he did
Speaker 1: say that, and like, that's what Tank said. But when
Speaker 1: you mentioned and I'm speaking about Tank, when he stands
Speaker 1: up there in front of the media, he mentions my foot,
Speaker 1: well actually both feet and then my foot, so it's like, whoa, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a lot. Then you in that within that same sentence,
Speaker 1: you hear, but my intention is to play this week,
Speaker 1: and you're like, what, like, how how does that work?
Speaker 1: And we know a lot of players play hurt, especially
Speaker 1: this part of the season, but damn that sucks. But
Speaker 1: you're trying to talk about the running defense. He's one
Speaker 1: of the best players. I think that's the one got
Speaker 1: You can't lose if you have problems with the run
Speaker 1: right now, that's how you head your bets. You know,
Speaker 1: that's what you do. You get two tackles for now,
Speaker 1: he's like, and delAG got two tackles and he's dealing
Speaker 1: with like four injuries right now. But if he gets
Speaker 1: six tackles and two sacks and a forced fumble, then
Speaker 1: you're like, look the warrior, the tank is and he's
Speaker 1: doing all that. That's what happens. That's that's what you do.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play. I think he's gonna play. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on. Give me a zeke. Like my kids
Speaker 1: over there looking at the phone, I'm sorry, kid complain.
Speaker 1: We got us no king news over there. We got
Speaker 1: phone callers and I'm trying to get all that coming in.
Speaker 1: Zeke um I do feel like he's going to play.
Speaker 1: I mean, just why what he was saying yesterday, And
Speaker 1: you know, I thought it was interesting he said, this
Speaker 1: is a different injury. This is this is different than
Speaker 1: what he's had before. Uh, and not the same as
Speaker 1: last year, even though it kind of feels like it
Speaker 1: is because it's also knee and it's middle the same
Speaker 1: about the same time of year. But you know, we
Speaker 1: saw the injury from the press box. We saw the
Speaker 1: tackle against the Lions. Yeah, now he did go back
Speaker 1: in the game, but you could just see and we're
Speaker 1: one way there by, you know, Saturn, and like we
Speaker 1: could see like that. That's just awkward looking and so
Speaker 1: but you know, he's he's tough, and I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be interesting to see how they
Speaker 1: they get him and Pollard in there together. I think
Speaker 1: what you've seen out of Pollard the last two games
Speaker 1: suggest that, I don't know, if you do it the
Speaker 1: same way. I think maybe Pollard gets a lot more
Speaker 1: carries than he has been and and maybe they manage
Speaker 1: it a little bit more. I'd like to see a
Speaker 1: flip in the in the number. Yeah, I think people
Speaker 1: are asking for the flip I'm okay with Zeke for three,
Speaker 1: Zeke for four, Zeke for four, zek for three, and
Speaker 1: then Pollard for eighteen. You know, I mean if I'm
Speaker 1: okay with that. But you know what, the one thing
Speaker 1: they've learned this year is to get Pollard in there. Earlier,
Speaker 1: it used to be like we talked about the one
Speaker 1: series and if it went three and out, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: see him until the next second half. They figured out
Speaker 1: that this guy, legitimately, you can hand him the ball
Speaker 1: twenty something times and he's going to be just fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I actually I don't necessarily need to see a flip.
Speaker 1: I think, let's be honest, they were running the ball
Speaker 1: all season with the formula that they had and he
Speaker 1: was working well. So I think you can they win
Speaker 1: that game if, in my opinion, they win that game
Speaker 1: if if Elliott plays, Yeah, just because I felt like
Speaker 1: that they would go and take a different path for
Speaker 1: how to run the ball. Well, you did see a
Speaker 1: Dak take with three quarterback sneaks. Yeah, yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: probably only done that once or twice this year, maybe
Speaker 1: a couple more times than that, and played a lot.
Speaker 1: I get that, But I mean, I just feel like
Speaker 1: those third and ones they were you know, even one
Speaker 1: of them was a long one, almost two, and they
Speaker 1: still got it with Dak So I feel like they
Speaker 1: weren't even giving paular To that opportunity. But I probably
Speaker 1: don't do that, Zeke's I told you early in the game,
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to see Malik Davis. I
Speaker 1: don't think he'd even played yet. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to see him because I think
Speaker 1: he fits this type of game. So I think he's
Speaker 1: He's a good runner too. I like him. He'll be
Speaker 1: good next year when he's the guy. What do you
Speaker 1: get that one series where they used him a lot
Speaker 1: and he had some big, big what you're not wrong?
Speaker 1: I mean people are asking me about the same thing
Speaker 1: you just said. Kind of yeah, it's implied. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that in draft a third round running back. Okay,
Speaker 1: there we go. You know that's how I can tell
Speaker 1: you this. I don't think that if you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: Paul It is a free agent. I don't think Paul
Speaker 1: It's gonna get a nice contract. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: a huge contract guy. I don't think he's gonna get
Speaker 1: a nice contract. And they pay Zeke what they're on
Speaker 1: the hook to pay Zeke. So the Dad answers your question,
Speaker 1: they won't. They won't do that. I think they'll keep Zeke.
Speaker 1: I think they may just pay him lest get a
Speaker 1: tank deal where it's like we're paying you less. Yeah,
Speaker 1: doesn't it looks like it's a guarantee deal. It's really
Speaker 1: a pay cut. So hopefully, you know, and we'll pay
Speaker 1: a lot of front and make you feel good about it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Tony Pollard's contract is going to be
Speaker 1: a very interesting deal around the league, whatever whoever does,
Speaker 1: because he's still a fifth year running back and he's
Speaker 1: and he's he's, you know, not the biggest back in
Speaker 1: the world. So he's fifth year guy. What do you
Speaker 1: do with that? What do you what do you pay?
Speaker 1: I mean that that is not going to be He's
Speaker 1: gonna end up at the Dolphins and have a great career. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he will. I mean, somebody will figure out
Speaker 1: how to take him like that guy down in Miami,
Speaker 1: or somebody will figure it out. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: I think they're just a little late to the a
Speaker 1: little late with him. Yeah. I don't think he'll be
Speaker 1: someone's number one though, But yeah, but they'll do. But
Speaker 1: they have to try to pay him like that. That's
Speaker 1: that's what's tricky. I think they'll they'll somebody's gonna say,
Speaker 1: I want him to be like Swift and Detroit with
Speaker 1: the other back that I've got, which is still good.
Speaker 1: What do you pay for that? They'll pay him more
Speaker 1: than they'll pay him in Dallas. That's that's the thing.
Speaker 1: I agree. And that's not going to be premium running
Speaker 1: back money, I don't think. But that's the end point,
Speaker 1: Kate Will. In today's NFL, where most teams do a
Speaker 1: dual back system, are you gonna have to start paying
Speaker 1: premium money for whoever's in that duel back? Now I'm
Speaker 1: starting to run the ball more than the league now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're starting. Running backs are starting to have a new life.
Speaker 1: You know, if everybody's gonna be real small up front,
Speaker 1: they're gonna figure out ways to you know, you can
Speaker 1: have I'll tell you what, it's going to save teams
Speaker 1: money running the football. You go ahead and pay the
Speaker 1: back because offensive line play, what I've learned is you
Speaker 1: can have five just guys that might be bad pass blockers,
Speaker 1: but can find a way to run block. You know,
Speaker 1: and that's how teams are kind of moving the ball.
Speaker 1: And that's why you know, you're I know, kind of
Speaker 1: way off the topic here, but offseason talking here. But
Speaker 1: that's what the Cowboys have to realize, is that there's
Speaker 1: not many teams in about a year or two that's
Speaker 1: gonna have Okay, we gotta I think they'll have a
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback in uh In Dak and then they'll
Speaker 1: have the highest paid corner in the league, the highest
Speaker 1: paid defensive player in the league, I would think, and
Speaker 1: then you know, you gotta deal with all these other
Speaker 1: other high price contracts. So that's why you don't trade
Speaker 1: for Brandon Cooks because you got to have these picks.
Speaker 1: You gotta have that third or fourth round pick. You
Speaker 1: gotta hit on these guys and you got they have
Speaker 1: to be starters for you, and they have. They've done
Speaker 1: a good job with the draft. Tell me what we're
Speaker 1: looking at with Anthony Brown and Anthony Barr the Abs.
Speaker 1: I think both are okay, both are gonna play, I believe.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard any different. Brown hasn't been cleared yet,
Speaker 1: but he will be. I think he will be. Here's
Speaker 1: a big sign for that they made him available to
Speaker 1: the to the media yesterday. They Anthony Brown. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: guys that have concussion, they have never been available to
Speaker 1: the media until they're really cleared to go already. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's been cleared for practice practice in full,
Speaker 1: but that will happen today. But the fact that he
Speaker 1: was talking to the media and that they had that,
Speaker 1: that's a good sign he'll be there. And I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna take a lot to get Anthony barrd not
Speaker 1: to come back and play this game. Yeah, he didn't
Speaker 1: say it on the record, but after the game I
Speaker 1: heard him saying in the locker room he was fine.
Speaker 1: He's like, I could have gone again the game, but
Speaker 1: they just would let me. And obviously Brown, Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that's the way it should work. Once you have that
Speaker 1: that that symptom, once you have that any inkling that
Speaker 1: that's the case, get him out of the game. Don't
Speaker 1: let him back in, even if they think they can
Speaker 1: come back and play. You know, it's funny how five
Speaker 1: days can make because at first, you know, he gives
Speaker 1: up a pass to a guy that I hadn't heard
Speaker 1: of um ever, and I was like, a far a
Speaker 1: touchdown and I don't even remember if you mentioned it
Speaker 1: in your I mean like you were mentioning him in
Speaker 1: the receivers. I'm sure you mentioned it. No, he's had
Speaker 1: he's had five touchdowns in two games, That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: I was like, he gives up a touchdown, you're like
Speaker 1: probably seriously. And then now like the guys on him,
Speaker 1: you know, Andy Moss like type, you know numbers. So
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, I don't feel so bad anymore. Like
Speaker 1: now he's like a fantasy stuff. He is a good
Speaker 1: player in North Dakota State. I mean when he's from Tampa.
Speaker 1: His dad was a dad was an NFL player second
Speaker 1: round pick, right, yeah, and you're kind of thinking like, well,
Speaker 1: how did this kid not end up at you know,
Speaker 1: one of those SEC schools. How does he a Florida
Speaker 1: State or something like that. He kind of went through
Speaker 1: the cracks or he's a Tampa kid. So I'll say this,
Speaker 1: that touchdown he caught last night, it's impressive, Like he
Speaker 1: skied up for that one. So he's got some skill
Speaker 1: and then confident player right now, you know, coming out
Speaker 1: of small school maybe that's part of it. Just took
Speaker 1: him a little while to kind of get there. And
Speaker 1: now looks like he started to figure it out. Small
Speaker 1: school that comes down here and wins the national championship
Speaker 1: every year, every freak. Those people up there in North
Speaker 1: Dakota are paying taxes down here now. They're here so much.
Speaker 1: They show up in their green and yellow. They know,
Speaker 1: they know that they know the area better than me, Like,
Speaker 1: can you tell me I go up to you tell
Speaker 1: me what eating? Yeah, there's this place over here you
Speaker 1: need to go to. You know, always out here at
Speaker 1: the start. They love hanging out and f F or
Speaker 1: FCS is that with FCS? Yes, I always forget which
Speaker 1: one it is, B for bowls. FCS is the division
Speaker 1: one double A used to be. And they North Dakota
Speaker 1: State is like the power. They come down here every
Speaker 1: year FRISCO every year the championship here. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go and take our first We do a lot of
Speaker 1: kids coming through the day anymore. Yeah, they're looking at
Speaker 1: they're looking at you, like, stop talking about school when
Speaker 1: you're not in school. Are gonna take our first break
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Speaker 1: the phone lines. I got a call from Rob in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Rob, what up? Hey? Long time? No talk? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You doing? I'm good? Yeah? Never better get those wise
Speaker 1: guys in Vegas. No. You know, looking at this game,
Speaker 1: to me, Dak needs this game even more than the
Speaker 1: team he you know, he's hearing he can't beat good
Speaker 1: teams quarterbacks. And I think the recipe is simple. He
Speaker 1: just needs to throw less and run more. When he runs,
Speaker 1: even like against Chicago, they just look so different. And
Speaker 1: I don't mean it's like he doesn't run anymore like
Speaker 1: he used to, but you have to force him. That
Speaker 1: designed run that they did buy the goal line, maybe
Speaker 1: from ten yards out in Chicago was great. I think
Speaker 1: they need to do more like that, especially in the
Speaker 1: red zone. And and I just think that's when he
Speaker 1: is really a top ten quarterback, is when you combine
Speaker 1: his legs with his arm. If he's just going to
Speaker 1: stand in the pocket, I think we're just losing out
Speaker 1: on too much stuff, and I think he's just an
Speaker 1: average QB. So I just hope they they get it,
Speaker 1: you know, and they just see that, Hey, listen, we
Speaker 1: gotta get this guy. Run him. So get about the contract,
Speaker 1: forget about how much money, so get about the angle.
Speaker 1: And I just think if he does that, this team
Speaker 1: to be really really good. As thanks to call, I
Speaker 1: agree one, I do. I don't know. We've talked about it.
Speaker 1: I just and I just I don't know what is it?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's one thing you just don't know, is it?
Speaker 1: Is it the Cowboys saying that is it? Dak's saying
Speaker 1: that he is. He just doesn't feel like he's got it.
Speaker 1: Is he not comfortable? But he has never been a
Speaker 1: guy that could stand in the pocket and make throws
Speaker 1: that like the other guys. That's not his game. That's
Speaker 1: why he was drafted where he was drafted sum But
Speaker 1: he was, you know, he was, he was. He's a
Speaker 1: baller though, like like that's what he is. He just
Speaker 1: like he's a guy that flips over the top in
Speaker 1: Arizona for a touchdown or against Seattle where he just
Speaker 1: bust through people, and like that's him. He was a
Speaker 1: tank playing quarterback. I remember the game against Denver Week two,
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. They lost by like twenty five points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the game, he throws a
Speaker 1: picks to to leave maybe or somebody was running a
Speaker 1: hundred yards and he's over there fighting through blockers at
Speaker 1: the end and diving and all that. And I remember
Speaker 1: thinking like that, that's my quarterback right there, Like he's
Speaker 1: a football player playing quarterback, and right now I think
Speaker 1: he's a quarterback playing quarterback and he needs to be
Speaker 1: that football player again because that's what makes him who
Speaker 1: he is. And he's got to get that back. If not,
Speaker 1: then he's he's getting paid too much money, honestly, because
Speaker 1: he's not the same type of thrower. Like he's just
Speaker 1: not a thrower like the rest. He's got to be
Speaker 1: in the game, feeling it and all that. I hope
Speaker 1: he gets it back. All right, let's get a had
Speaker 1: a couple of questions for you guys about the matchup
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Vikings. First question at for you guys, if
Speaker 1: you have to make the decision, do you travel digs
Speaker 1: with Jefferson? Yes, most of the time, Yeah, most of it.
Speaker 1: He did a good job by the one in the
Speaker 1: radio this morning talking about that. Thank you. But but
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think what I said. But you were
Speaker 1: saying that it's something you need to consider at Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean just but what does that caveat? You say
Speaker 1: most of the time, when would you not just because
Speaker 1: once you get I think I don't think you do
Speaker 1: anything all of the time other than you know, play
Speaker 1: your quarterback or whatever. But like just because teams get
Speaker 1: a read on that, and then and Feeland's pretty I'm
Speaker 1: good on the other side. Sure, yeah, so yeah you
Speaker 1: got some Yeah, so I would I kind of trick
Speaker 1: it up a little bit. But but for the most part, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's if you if you did last year. The
Speaker 1: Vikings are a team that they'll they'll run the ball,
Speaker 1: but it's not the most important thing to them. You know,
Speaker 1: they're really down on carries when when you talk start
Speaker 1: to talk about the numbers that they have during and
Speaker 1: one of the things that they struggle with is when
Speaker 1: you can get pressure on Cousins. But thirty eight percent
Speaker 1: of the time, guy hate when I do this, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. Thirty eight percent of the time
Speaker 1: when he's under pressure, he throws the ball to Jefferson.
Speaker 1: You know, so if your game plan is to attack
Speaker 1: him by pass rush, then by all means, put your
Speaker 1: best guy on Jefferson. If thirty eight percent of the
Speaker 1: game of the time he's going to throw the ball
Speaker 1: in that guy's direction, I'm denying him every opportunity did
Speaker 1: to do it. And I think the guy that has
Speaker 1: the best opportunity to deny the football is Diggs. You know,
Speaker 1: Diggs is Diggs is going to look at that number
Speaker 1: eighteen and he's not going to be scared. He goes,
Speaker 1: I've seen you at LSU, I've played against you before.
Speaker 1: I know who you are. I've seen you run routes,
Speaker 1: whereas the others are kind of like, man, this guy
Speaker 1: all I see is highlights every week and him like
Speaker 1: catching balls over the top of people and doing the
Speaker 1: giddy and all that stuff like that. You know, that's
Speaker 1: all It's called gritty. What's it called gritty? Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's doing the gritty, you know, And so I mean
Speaker 1: that's all you ever see. So you get scared of that.
Speaker 1: You get scared, and I'm kind of like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to see him doing that, you know, And and
Speaker 1: me putting Diggs over on him if I lose the
Speaker 1: battle because it's digs covering him, so be it. I
Speaker 1: need to drop better corners. But man, I ain't going
Speaker 1: to see him do that little dance in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Not not not on my watch today. Um gritty right, gritty? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he looks giddy when you do it. Chance could get
Speaker 1: you to do the gritty Brian, No, because you gotta.
Speaker 1: I think you could do this part right. Don't you
Speaker 1: put your off your hands? Why do you do that?
Speaker 1: What is that? What's the symbol? At? Okay? Okay? And
Speaker 1: then they were doing it back in La. They're doing
Speaker 1: a shoe That was always shoe or it became a
Speaker 1: thing that the NFL or any other guys are doing.
Speaker 1: They would do he was, but now they fake like
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. Now a new one is they kind
Speaker 1: of do it and then they fake an injury and
Speaker 1: then they start doing it again. Yeah. So, I mean
Speaker 1: I've seen him do that. He gets in the end zone.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see him fake in the hands
Speaker 1: an industry and an injury. I'm sure right, Oh yeah
Speaker 1: I could fake. But then I could do that too,
Speaker 1: because every once while he'll do it and then he'll
Speaker 1: throw the eyes. That's gonna be an owner that has
Speaker 1: like you know, like gonna have like a panic attack
Speaker 1: or you know whatever, because he sees like their star
Speaker 1: player down there with a fake injury, Like what what
Speaker 1: you fake? You fake? You fake? He got He did
Speaker 1: it last week in Buffalo and he got bumped by
Speaker 1: a lineman. O'Neill bumped him, and then he got mad
Speaker 1: at O'Neil, like, bro, I didn't finish. I was doing
Speaker 1: my fake injury and then I was going into it
Speaker 1: and he and O'Neil's like, ah, you know what, I've
Speaker 1: always had this this thought, like I'm just curious on
Speaker 1: I'm covering with seven. I'm sorry on a Saturday night
Speaker 1: in the hotel room, you know, working on are they
Speaker 1: moving the bed like to the side and clearing out
Speaker 1: some space and like really working on this? And you know, okay,
Speaker 1: you got you twelve, come over here and we're gonna
Speaker 1: you be the bowling ball and I'm gonna throw you
Speaker 1: down and you know I'm gonna hog tie. You know,
Speaker 1: you get down the five score you know you're not scoring, Okay,
Speaker 1: well if you score, you know, I mean like there's
Speaker 1: and then there's probably some great, great things that happened
Speaker 1: mentioned like some of the receivers we had back in
Speaker 1: the day. What if like ken Yon Rambo and Reggie Swinton,
Speaker 1: we're talking about something you're not gonna score, you know,
Speaker 1: like you got and then were these great pointers that
Speaker 1: are these great players that have these dances that never came.
Speaker 1: All right, go back to the collar that rob from Vegas.
Speaker 1: What's a number that you'd like to see dak rushing yards?
Speaker 1: Like what let's say what would be a good number
Speaker 1: for a game? Forty five is exactly where I was going.
Speaker 1: How many games as you had? Forty five? Three? So
Speaker 1: can we go a little how about thirty? That go
Speaker 1: too high? Yeah? I have a little bit the thirty.
Speaker 1: Let's go with let's go with thirty two? Yeo, thirty two. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's got, he's got, he's got. He's got sixteen games there,
Speaker 1: all right, he's thirteen and three when he gets that that,
Speaker 1: you know, thirteen and three, he's three and at forty
Speaker 1: five number, so yeah, that that's good. But he's not
Speaker 1: and he's six and fourteen. If he throws for more
Speaker 1: forty passes a game, is that what it is? I think?
Speaker 1: So six six to fifteen, six and fourteen. I love
Speaker 1: this website. How many passes yard forty four more than
Speaker 1: forty passes more forty forty past six temps. Yeah, it's twenty.
Speaker 1: Uh see a lot of els there. Yeah, one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 1: six win yeah, six and fourteen. Yeah, I mean you know,
Speaker 1: I actually do it, like seriously like that. That's frustrating too,
Speaker 1: because that's that was six and thirteen before that game.
Speaker 1: It's and yeah, but well, let me throw this question
Speaker 1: there because it's actually a question that Art Wila just
Speaker 1: sit in. Actually, he says, Kellen's consistent failure to commit
Speaker 1: to the run is maddening. At what point does McCarthy
Speaker 1: sit him down and tell them to stick to the
Speaker 1: run or else, because I do think as the head coach, Yeah,
Speaker 1: at some point, and by the way, he got him
Speaker 1: to buy in while the backup quarterback was in there.
Speaker 1: For some reason last week that message didn't get sent before.
Speaker 1: It wasn't They didn't think it was as important. And
Speaker 1: and to me, I look at it and say, it's
Speaker 1: still that is how you win football games this season
Speaker 1: with this team. What do you guys think of kind
Speaker 1: of where the blame really lies? Here, Well, it lies
Speaker 1: with the head coach. I mean, because if it's on
Speaker 1: your watch, so you've got to do it, and you've
Speaker 1: got to figure it out. And you know you're you're
Speaker 1: over here talking about everything. You're talking about cleats and
Speaker 1: and and you know what time you're going to get
Speaker 1: here and there and all these things about it. But
Speaker 1: it all it's with you, I mean you as the
Speaker 1: head coach. And he's got he's got to be the
Speaker 1: guy to do that um and pull back the reins.
Speaker 1: If if you don't understand, Brian, You've said it for
Speaker 1: that every year I've been on the show with you,
Speaker 1: you say it all the time. As a head coach,
Speaker 1: you've got to know your team and you got to
Speaker 1: know that Terrence Steele and Tyler Smith and Tyler Biadish
Speaker 1: and probably Zack Martin, they're better run blockers than they
Speaker 1: are pass blockers. And the runners are better than the receivers.
Speaker 1: Right now, they got better backs and they have receivers
Speaker 1: even winzeks out so and and and Dak's a better
Speaker 1: game manager than he is a guy that's going to
Speaker 1: throw it around the yard. And it's better to run
Speaker 1: in that and that kind of conditions than throw. So
Speaker 1: how the heck do you get into situations where I
Speaker 1: don't know? You got an MVP, You got an MVP
Speaker 1: and the two time MVP that that figured it out
Speaker 1: and he only threw it twenty times? Yeah, well did
Speaker 1: he or did his offensive coordinator say this is what
Speaker 1: we're going to do, or his head coach this is well,
Speaker 1: well he's been fired, if you know, tell him. I
Speaker 1: think Green Bay. I think Green Bay season. Even though
Speaker 1: their season I think is over now, their season was
Speaker 1: on the line. I was talking to their guys about
Speaker 1: They're like, we're not capable of running the ball. We're
Speaker 1: not capable running Monday morning, who were the first calls
Speaker 1: I got were, hey, man, I don't know. I'm like,
Speaker 1: watch the damn film. Yeah, Dallas has trouble defending the run.
Speaker 1: You guys got two legitimate backs. I mean, why would
Speaker 1: you not run the ball? And they go, well, you
Speaker 1: know we got a quarterback. I'm like, well call you know,
Speaker 1: that's why that's how you win games right there, and
Speaker 1: because you take it damage and Rockers figured it out too.
Speaker 1: It's like, I know a way where we can run
Speaker 1: the ball and I could throw it to you sideways
Speaker 1: where I could still get the passing yards and the
Speaker 1: completion percentage for it, and it's still considered a pass.
Speaker 1: But you know you mentioned a little earlier, Brian, you
Speaker 1: were talking about the Vikings and you were saying, like
Speaker 1: they just they don't they don't commit to the run themselves,
Speaker 1: like they love their passing games. Well they do. I
Speaker 1: wonder if this is the week what they do like
Speaker 1: green based as and even though they may not do
Speaker 1: a moment times they look at this team and say, oh,
Speaker 1: this is just too easy, maybe not too easy, not
Speaker 1: too and they're going to commit. Very frustrating is and
Speaker 1: most of us we have we have been we've watched
Speaker 1: the game from the sideline and we've watched the game
Speaker 1: from the press box, so we have very very different
Speaker 1: views from the game at times birdeye's view and just aside.
Speaker 1: So it is hard to coach a game when you're
Speaker 1: just watching a sideline like from here and trying to
Speaker 1: figure out and we know he has his headset, he
Speaker 1: communicates with other people. So it comes down to me
Speaker 1: like it is hard to know exactly everything that like
Speaker 1: what it looks like from that point of view, So
Speaker 1: what are you getting that? Because I feel like us
Speaker 1: on the press box, we're usually like, why are they
Speaker 1: doing that? Why do they keep doing this? Or why
Speaker 1: do they keep doing that? Why aren't they not trying
Speaker 1: this instead? Like it seems very simple to the people
Speaker 1: that are watching from maybe TV or up there up
Speaker 1: high as opposed to what he's like, what they're actually emotions.
Speaker 1: Emotions on the sideline play a big part of that
Speaker 1: of how play calling people always say this. They say.
Speaker 1: Play callers always say I want to be able to
Speaker 1: look into the quarterback and sit with him and talk
Speaker 1: with him, or I want to sit Dan Quinn's like
Speaker 1: the opposite. Dan's like your approach, Dan. Dan wants to see, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is how they're attacking me, and I can get
Speaker 1: a full and then you don't get distracted. You don't
Speaker 1: get distracted by being on the sideline, by the emotions
Speaker 1: we have. Tom Brady take the path and humming into
Speaker 1: the bench and you're sitting down going, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's too happy with me right now. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: I should think, yeah, maybe we should do something differently
Speaker 1: here where if you're upstairs you could like kind of
Speaker 1: take your headphones off and and not pay attention to
Speaker 1: what's going on kind of regroup, you know. I think
Speaker 1: that's to me. If I was a play call i'd
Speaker 1: want to be upstairs. I'd want to be able to
Speaker 1: see substitutions and things like that. I mean, they're talking
Speaker 1: to you and all that. But the emotion of the
Speaker 1: bench affects play callers, I think in a negative way
Speaker 1: in times. I really really do. I would like to
Speaker 1: just see a change in that. And I don't know
Speaker 1: what you do. I mean, what take tell I'm more
Speaker 1: up there because it is important too to be able
Speaker 1: to have that face to face communication during the game.
Speaker 1: So it's difficult. But at the same time, I think
Speaker 1: you see things more clearly from up there, and you
Speaker 1: get a better idea of what's worth what's not versus
Speaker 1: what you're seeing from the sideline. Yeah, you can see
Speaker 1: the full field. I mean that's what we all know.
Speaker 1: Being up there in the press box. You can see
Speaker 1: the full field. You can see every player on the
Speaker 1: field at one moment. When you're on the sideline, you
Speaker 1: can only see what's there. You can't see what's on
Speaker 1: the other side necessarily as clearly. Well too, that's substitution
Speaker 1: patterns too, Like you can like from the play car.
Speaker 1: You can look down as your guys are coming on,
Speaker 1: you see who they're sending on, so you know immediately
Speaker 1: what they're in down on the field. You don't always
Speaker 1: get that that vantage point of knowing unless somebody upstairs
Speaker 1: is telling you they got nickelon. They got nickelon, and
Speaker 1: you're now you're having to adjust where before. If you're upstairs,
Speaker 1: you can see what they're how they're substitute. You know,
Speaker 1: we have thirty seven coaches, so I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's there's enough. You win three Super Bowls with like twelve,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, total or eight something like. It's some
Speaker 1: crazy number. I tell you. What's amazing, though, is that
Speaker 1: I don't I think NBA's got more coaches than the
Speaker 1: call than pro football. Now, they got a lot. I
Speaker 1: mean he's going to mask, well, well they have two.
Speaker 1: They have two rows of coaches. I'm talking about in
Speaker 1: the background BA and the NBA has got more than
Speaker 1: pro football. I mean, I mean it's about it's about equal.
Speaker 1: For the number of players you have, Yeah, you have weight,
Speaker 1: they don't. They have like twelve on their roster they do,
Speaker 1: and they have a they have a front bench in
Speaker 1: a back bench they've got and everybody has a job,
Speaker 1: Like one guy's job is to just yell out every
Speaker 1: time the shot clock is down to like eight and
Speaker 1: and that's like when the ball goes across, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a twenty four second, So you know, if you're
Speaker 1: ever lucky and a clock coach, Yeah, I could do that.
Speaker 1: I could do that. I could. You guys need to
Speaker 1: get the joes see five four, Okay, Nick is set
Speaker 1: in those before. Yeah, what you need to do is
Speaker 1: you said it once and that's what I remember all
Speaker 1: the time, and I remember yeah. And also the sit
Speaker 1: on the floor of an NBA game. It really really
Speaker 1: is cool. That's that's pretty awesome. It's pretty cool. And
Speaker 1: I at one time Dirk and Luca but right there,
Speaker 1: and it was it was the only year that they
Speaker 1: played together, and it was just like, and this is
Speaker 1: is pretty It was pretty cool. One time I did it.
Speaker 1: The Rockets were there and it was when Hardened Westbrook
Speaker 1: and all those guys are kind of down there the
Speaker 1: boat ratio. No, it's kind of fun to just to
Speaker 1: be there literally be in their huddle and like watch
Speaker 1: the coach breakdown a play and say, that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do experience coach, Yeah, did you try to do that? No,
Speaker 1: you try to coach it off on that. I don't
Speaker 1: know bad enough coaches to figure it out who's in
Speaker 1: the game and who's not. We are going to take
Speaker 1: our final break. Come back. We got more questions. We're
Speaker 1: gonna try to hit here before we go, before we
Speaker 1: finish show and get to our picks. We'll do that
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Speaker 1: what we do. I mean we've built we've built our
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Speaker 1: Let's get a couple more questions. We got a phone call.
Speaker 1: We'll take a phone call real quick. From Ray and
Speaker 1: fort Worth Ray, what you got um? A couple of things.
Speaker 1: I think Deck is too much of the blame here.
Speaker 1: I mean he's more than the game manager. As fans,
Speaker 1: we watched the game, but we don't really watch the
Speaker 1: game because when he threw that interception, if one intercepts,
Speaker 1: can't remember why but CD. But it's on the receivers too,
Speaker 1: because it's CD. The defender just lets CD Lamb go
Speaker 1: by because he just staring at Deck. If CD Lamb
Speaker 1: puts his goes across the defender's face with his body,
Speaker 1: then that guy never has a chance to come up
Speaker 1: and intercept the ball. But it's always Dak's fault, even
Speaker 1: though the offense had a fourteen point lead. Secondly, I
Speaker 1: like what Micah Parson said. I love it. We need
Speaker 1: more of it. We don't need to run him on
Speaker 1: the edge all the time, because that's to me if
Speaker 1: I'm if I'm a defensive coach, great send him on
Speaker 1: the edge. Great take him out the middle. You want
Speaker 1: to see how bad our run defense will be, how
Speaker 1: bad it will be the in The guy's a complete player.
Speaker 1: He can cover, he com blits, and he a lot
Speaker 1: of times running the sideline and sidelines. He's saved I've
Speaker 1: seen in two years, I've seen him saved, saved the
Speaker 1: defense from making even bigger mistakes. Now, you're right, Dak
Speaker 1: needs to probably run more. With guys like Zadarius Smith
Speaker 1: coming off, I mean especially, you know, I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big player. He does need she uses
Speaker 1: legs more. I don't know. Maybe he's not completely healthy.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I've seen in the past. I
Speaker 1: can't remember with one season he was just he had
Speaker 1: so many running touchdowns and he will be fine. I
Speaker 1: think fans need to back the hell off and really
Speaker 1: watch what you're seeing it. So why get watch the tape?
Speaker 1: All right? It just means all appreciate it. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Nax actually brings up a question that we got on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I think as well. Um, I'm trying to find it
Speaker 1: right here. Um, oh yeah, what would you guys, what
Speaker 1: would you guys do with biker this week? Obviously last
Speaker 1: week they played about linebacker primarily, and the thought was
Speaker 1: you were facing a team you thought was gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball. That was a way of maybe using him
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Nick, you think it took him
Speaker 1: out of the game. A little bit more. What would
Speaker 1: you do with him in a game like this, Well,
Speaker 1: the first things first, I mean, I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: stop the run. I gotta play a defense. Where where's
Speaker 1: he best If you're trying to stop the run, Well,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be on the defensive end. He's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be a linebacker. I think I think he's
Speaker 1: gotta play linebacker. I think that that's what the focus
Speaker 1: has to be. Stop the run, get to that third
Speaker 1: down situation. Then you can figure out what you're gonna
Speaker 1: do different guys, and he can move around, move to
Speaker 1: the outside and all that. But um, I just think
Speaker 1: I think that it's a They're gonna have to figure
Speaker 1: it and figure that out. But but it starts with
Speaker 1: stop the run first, and if that's good and that
Speaker 1: that's what's scary, And that's what Brian's talking about, is
Speaker 1: that when you play a defense to stop the run,
Speaker 1: it's gonna leave you exposed to the receivers in the
Speaker 1: passing game. So this is gonna be this is definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough matchup. But you gotta hope pride
Speaker 1: factors in here at some point. I play him opposite
Speaker 1: I would play him opposite of Tank, just because, and
Speaker 1: then I would think about playing I would think about
Speaker 1: playing Digs. If you travel Digs, put Digs on to
Speaker 1: the side of where somebody that can play the run,
Speaker 1: that plays it well, if it means him playing left
Speaker 1: corner where Tank is over there, or you know, put
Speaker 1: him on a side, because if you put you put
Speaker 1: Digs on the side where you have like armstrong and
Speaker 1: bash him in those guys, then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you get hooked owner, you don't get linebacker inside and
Speaker 1: then you don't get outside Phil. So if you have
Speaker 1: somebody at the edge that could play the run, I
Speaker 1: would do that. I would put Parsons opposite If you're
Speaker 1: going to play him on the edge, play him opposite
Speaker 1: Tank and let him run the ball. Now he's had
Speaker 1: some problems when they've run the ball at him, but
Speaker 1: most likely teams are right handed, so you'll get the
Speaker 1: ball to go away from. So that would be Parsons
Speaker 1: chasing the ball, and I think that's where you're at
Speaker 1: where Tank can hold up. But I would put strength
Speaker 1: in front of Digs. So you know, if you put
Speaker 1: week with week with week, then you're gonna probably give
Speaker 1: up the edge more. But if you put him to
Speaker 1: the side where maybe you have some of your stronger
Speaker 1: run defenders, then you won't expose him too much to
Speaker 1: have to be a forced player as they're going to
Speaker 1: need him in this game. I'm just here, I mean
Speaker 1: for this game. Linebacker would be for me, But I'm
Speaker 1: curious to see what happens with hurt the Marcus Lawrence.
Speaker 1: And you know, right now it's looking like he's gonna
Speaker 1: play the game and all that, and he this is
Speaker 1: nothing new to him really, He's played through injuries before.
Speaker 1: But if his level of play drops down a little,
Speaker 1: you know, now I'm looking at the line completely different
Speaker 1: to where, Okay, would micaut be needed to add some
Speaker 1: something in there, some pressure from his play, but as
Speaker 1: a defensive end instead. You know, I also got to
Speaker 1: remember too, you know, DeMarcus is one of the more
Speaker 1: veteran players on this team. He knows what this week
Speaker 1: looks like more than anybody, and so you know, I think, yes,
Speaker 1: you put him on there. He's banged up, he's got
Speaker 1: some issues, but he's he's looking ahead. He knows that
Speaker 1: he's got to be somewhat healthy this week. Got to
Speaker 1: play the game, then we got a short week. You know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna from right now in six days, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be two football games being played. So he gets that
Speaker 1: because his body has felt it. So I think that's
Speaker 1: where some of it is. I think he's doing more
Speaker 1: maintenance on him himself and maybe understanding understanding that he's
Speaker 1: dealing with some stuff. And let's let's you know, because
Speaker 1: this team, I don't know what they lead the league
Speaker 1: in practice injuries. I don't know what's going on, but
Speaker 1: I mean there's things that like, oh well this flared
Speaker 1: up on Thursday's practice or something like that. So whatever
Speaker 1: they're doing Thursday, you know, that's probably a decent day
Speaker 1: to to not practice. But all right, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: our predictions. See what you guys think is gonna happen
Speaker 1: in is his game? Nicholas start with us. If if
Speaker 1: the if the Bills had just gotten the snap and
Speaker 1: moved forward and not lost that game in the at
Speaker 1: the very end of there and one, then I think
Speaker 1: it's a completely different game. I think you gotta hung
Speaker 1: an even hungry or Vikings team. Um they're figuring out
Speaker 1: how to win, but uh, it just that's not the
Speaker 1: way the league works, it cycles back through and it's
Speaker 1: time for a loss. So I think they're gonna lose
Speaker 1: the game. I do. I think that at eight and one,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're as good as their record in
Speaker 1: Minnesota gonna lose. Nono's gonna lose the game. I don't
Speaker 1: think there as good as their record. And I think
Speaker 1: that they they're playing these clothes games and the league
Speaker 1: isn't designed for you to keep winning these type of games.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys, um I think. I think the
Speaker 1: offense is actually look at what's happening in the last
Speaker 1: few games and Dacks come back. They're starting to figure
Speaker 1: it out. They lost last week twenty eight points on
Speaker 1: the road, forty two the week before. UM So I
Speaker 1: think they win thirty one thirty. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a fun, high scoring game. I think they win.
Speaker 1: I figure out a way to win. I think the
Speaker 1: Vikings figure out a way to lose this one thirty
Speaker 1: one m I think I think the Cowboys win. They
Speaker 1: have a chance to win if and I think, to me,
Speaker 1: the key for this game is just start fast, like
Speaker 1: going there and play some football. Don't allow yourself to
Speaker 1: get fall behind or start a slow half of the game.
Speaker 1: You need to start fast right off the bat, so
Speaker 1: DAC needs to go in there and start just moving
Speaker 1: the chains. They can. They need to run the ball,
Speaker 1: like we keep talking about. But I think to me,
Speaker 1: that's the key. Just don't wait till the sec can
Speaker 1: have of the game for you to get your crap together,
Speaker 1: and by that time usually then stop being too late.
Speaker 1: So that's what happens, and I've seen it happen too
Speaker 1: many times. And I do think usually they play a
Speaker 1: very close game, so they can win if the offense scores.
Speaker 1: So I think maybe they win by a field goal.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't really know. They maybe twenty three,
Speaker 1: twenty one, something like that. But by a field Now,
Speaker 1: that's not even a field goal right there, I don't
Speaker 1: even Yeah, there you go, twenty four twenty one, right
Speaker 1: Minnesota wins this game. And because what happens is they
Speaker 1: force turnovers, and when you lose, you turn over the ball.
Speaker 1: Whether it's Philadelphia, whether it's the Green Bay, They're going
Speaker 1: to force you to make turnovers. You're playing in a
Speaker 1: really hostile environmental, very loud crowd. It's gonna be communication.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have proven they've had problems with communication. Whether
Speaker 1: it's run defense, whether it's the receivers, quarterback, they've had problems.
Speaker 1: You know. To me, this is I don't like the
Speaker 1: matchup because I feel like though that there's too many things.
Speaker 1: This is a really good group of receivers and they
Speaker 1: found ways to make plays. This team doesn't get down
Speaker 1: when they're down. They find ways to win. And I
Speaker 1: think there's something too that whether it's luck, magic, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, they found it. And so
Speaker 1: I think Dallas loses this game. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be twenty eight, twenty four. I just feel like that
Speaker 1: the Vikings just they're gonna they're gonna run their offense,
Speaker 1: and their offense is tough to stop. And again, communication
Speaker 1: problems on defense or on offense, for you could lead
Speaker 1: to turnovers. That's what the Vikings do. So I see
Speaker 1: them getting this home victory. Yeah, I actually think I
Speaker 1: agree with Nick. I think it's gonna be a high
Speaker 1: scoring game. I think that there's gonna be I think
Speaker 1: both teams will run the ball really well. I do
Speaker 1: think that both teams will have some big plays in
Speaker 1: the passing game, although the passing game won't be the
Speaker 1: story of the game. Game will be the both teams
Speaker 1: ran the ball well in my opinion, but I think
Speaker 1: it'll be a high scoring game. But they all be
Speaker 1: a lot of big plays. And I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: end up winning on the road because I do believe
Speaker 1: they are the better team between these two teams. I
Speaker 1: think Cowboys win a close game thirty four thirty one
Speaker 1: on the road in Minnesota. All right, appreciate you guys,
Speaker 1: join us. We'll be back Monday. Let's you know what
Speaker 1: when right and wrong, get you guys ready on a
Speaker 1: quick short week for Thanksgiving. Until then for Nick even
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