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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, A bar Garcia, and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday to November twenty fourth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, season seventeen, episode number sixty eight. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Break. We are live from

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Speaker 1: the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, Nick and

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Speaker 1: Amber joining me. Dave will be joining us in a

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Speaker 1: moment once he finishes with his walk off with coach McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: Let's start first, Nick with a sixty eight Doug Free.

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Speaker 1: Doug Free, I think is he one of the most

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Speaker 1: maligned players that really didn't deserve to be maligned in

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Speaker 1: our time here there's more, but he's in that category

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Speaker 1: for sure because he was a pretty solid player. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's just one of those guys who hated him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they didn't like him. He was a pretty good player. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think he's sixty eight. Now I'm kind of. I'm now,

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Speaker 1: I'm he may not Chris is he sixty eight? Crawford Curry,

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Speaker 1: that was a man trustee producer. Crawford Kerr was my

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Speaker 1: backup because you know, I've never heard of him. No,

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Speaker 1: Crawford Kerr, no heard him. Played in the eighties guard

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Speaker 1: Man obviously with tail sixty eight. Yeah, uh yeah, those

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Speaker 1: are those those are only sixty eight that I got.

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Speaker 1: Matt Lair remember him, Yeah, I do remember Matt guard Center. No,

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Speaker 1: I was. I was actually a fan of Doug Free

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Speaker 1: on the field, and I know there were so many

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Speaker 1: fans that just always had something to say about him

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Speaker 1: and his false starts and whatever else he had one on.

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Speaker 1: But I thought he's a solid player, pretty good player

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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. All right. Um, let's talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about Google. Best player at number sixty eight, and

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Speaker 1: this article came up. Nobody better than big Foot at

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Speaker 1: number sixty eight, defensive end Dennis Harrison, who some guy

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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys was for the Eagles, Oh oh, across

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Speaker 1: the league. That also tells you something else, like it was,

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Speaker 1: if that's the best, that's the best sixty eight in

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Speaker 1: the history of the league, then yeah, yeah, And I'd

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Speaker 1: say he's not a good player. I don't keep up

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Speaker 1: with with Eaglestores, but illustrator, Yeah, but I wouldn't. I

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Speaker 1: definitely don't. The name doesn't ring out to me. Um,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the four players. There are four players

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been missing here over the last game. UM,

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to talk about these four these four

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Speaker 1: players from the standpoint of what the Cowboys miss in

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Speaker 1: not having them. It does look like maybe Tyren Smith

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Speaker 1: maybe back this week. But let's first start with him

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Speaker 1: and talk about what if the Cowboys missed not having

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Speaker 1: him on the field the last three and a half game. Well,

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott can go back to pass and turn his

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Speaker 1: back to that side and not feel like he's going

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Speaker 1: to get hit. I mean, that's Do you think that

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Speaker 1: affects Dak in a way? Obviously it affects everybody, But

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Speaker 1: do you think that's maybe some of the things that

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Speaker 1: dact just didn't seem to be himself. Probably, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I would, I would imagine. I mean, Tyren Smith is

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Speaker 1: one of the best left tackles, and I mean that

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Speaker 1: and so there's got to be a comfort level when

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Speaker 1: you when you know he's there and he's playing. You know, now,

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Speaker 1: now he gets beat sometimes, I mean he gets beat

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Amari Cooper. What are the Cowboys missed

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Speaker 1: playoff football. In my opinion, I don't think the guy.

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Speaker 1: talk about Amark Cooper. What did they missed by not

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Speaker 1: They missed or did they miss him? Oh? Yes, really well?

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Speaker 1: Amari is just the precision of him running routes I

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Speaker 1: if you're the Cowboys, after the way that they lost

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Speaker 1: against the Chiefs end in a short week like this one,

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Speaker 1: what would be your main focus in improving the offense

427
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Speaker 1: for this game? Back to basics, I would say less

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Speaker 1: is more doing fewer plays, fewer concepts, fewer things where

429
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Speaker 1: the guys have to think and place in a greater

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Speaker 1: emphasis on just being great when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: execution part. That's what I would focus on. I don't

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Speaker 1: think this needs to be kind of a trick them game.

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Speaker 1: I think they need a lot up and make sure

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Speaker 1: they remember who they are. They're at their best when

435
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Speaker 1: they're a balanced team. Whenever it gets way out of

436
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Speaker 1: whack and Dak is throwing two times more than they're running,

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Speaker 1: it's a problem. They need to make sure that they

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Speaker 1: remember to run the football. I'm not saying that you

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Speaker 1: have the runof person second down, but you got to

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Speaker 1: make sure that you have enough rushing attempts to make

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Speaker 1: the defense depend all aspects of the offense before you

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Speaker 1: kind of become this past happy team. Hey, Bucky, when

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Speaker 1: you were just talking about the blueprint that's out there

444
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Speaker 1: on how you defeat this Cowboys offense, I was looking

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Speaker 1: at some of the stats around Vegas, and as you said,

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Speaker 1: they don't do much. They are actually they blitzed the

447
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Speaker 1: least in the NFL. But at the same time their

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Speaker 1: fifth in quarterback knockdown, so they get after the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: They're right at right out of the top ten in sacks.

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Speaker 1: So my question for you is how knowing that and

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Speaker 1: knowing that they try to get pressure with the front

452
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Speaker 1: four and do a pretty pretty good job of doing that.

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Speaker 1: How does Dallas try to defeat that? We haven't seen

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Speaker 1: them be successful against those two teams in the AFC

455
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Speaker 1: West who have done similar things. How does Dallas beat that.

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Speaker 1: You gotta be able to run the football and putting

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Speaker 1: in manageable situations. One of the reasons that the other

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Speaker 1: teams have been able to have success against the Cowboys

459
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Speaker 1: because they were able to kind of dictate the turns

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Speaker 1: because it was a bit of a little more of

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Speaker 1: a one dimensional approach that the Cowboys took. When you

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Speaker 1: run the ball, to run the ball on mix down,

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Speaker 1: so it's not always first and ten run sometimes it

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Speaker 1: maybe second and seven. Run the ball. You have to

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Speaker 1: prevent the defensive coordinator preventing and what we call in

466
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Speaker 1: always in never situation, meaning hey, it's this situation, they

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Speaker 1: always do this, They never do that because then it

468
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Speaker 1: plays to their favorite and so it needs to be balanced,

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Speaker 1: it needs to be diverse and needs to get out

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Speaker 1: of his normal play calling pattern to keep them from

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Speaker 1: team golf on the passing end, and when you run

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Speaker 1: the ball at the pass rushers, it takes a little

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Speaker 1: steam off of those pass rushers, So you gotta be

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Speaker 1: able to run the football and run it at them

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Speaker 1: early and often. Buggy. This this goes back to what

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Speaker 1: you said at the top about them being kind of static.

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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting, like Gus Bradley was the DC

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Speaker 1: in Seattle before dan Quinn, and both of these guys

479
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Speaker 1: kind of got that cover three reputation. But we're seeing

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Speaker 1: way more than that from Quinn. But I mean, from

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Speaker 1: the sounds of it, I mean, is Gus Bradley just

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Speaker 1: sticking with what worked eight years ago? I mean, is

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Speaker 1: it that easy? And if so, why do you think

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Speaker 1: they're not a little bit more adaptable than they are

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Speaker 1: right now? Well? I think I think two things. I

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Speaker 1: think one, dan Quinn was the head coach in Atlanta

487
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Speaker 1: and the last few years when he took was decordinator,

488
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Speaker 1: he got his back beat out. And what he did

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Speaker 1: is he took their year off to go and reinvent

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Speaker 1: himself and decided that he needed more diversity in his

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Speaker 1: game in terms of how he called plays, what they utilizes,

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Speaker 1: the coverages and those things. Gus Bradley has added more

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Speaker 1: to the repertoire because he felt like in talking to him,

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Speaker 1: he felt like Pete Carroll always wanted them to be

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Speaker 1: in Cover three because they always wanted the middle to

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Speaker 1: feel closed. Gus Bradley has spend time with Minnie Kiffin

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Speaker 1: and he believed that Cover two would help them at times.

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Speaker 1: So you'll see some split safety looks and those things.

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Speaker 1: But whatever it is, they're not really disguising it. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna line up and show it because they want their

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Speaker 1: guys to know exactly what they're in so they're confident

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Speaker 1: they can execute it. Sounds like Cowboys football for the

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Speaker 1: last It sounds a lot like what we watched for

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Speaker 1: the last few years. Yeah, every yes, something. I guess

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Speaker 1: if they win the coin toss, what do you do?

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Speaker 1: You go out and try to make a statement? Are

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Speaker 1: you You know it's bunny because normally I'm always like, no,

508
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Speaker 1: we've deferred to the second half. But if you're a

509
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Speaker 1: team that's really looking at juice up the game and

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Speaker 1: kind of put the Raiders on the hero as you

511
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Speaker 1: take the ball, you mix up the tempo and you

512
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Speaker 1: want to make sure that you play from in front.

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Speaker 1: The raiders best opportunity to win the game is if

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Speaker 1: they are playing with the league so they can dictate

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Speaker 1: the terms. Their best defense is their offense. So when

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr gets out and get us into a groove,

517
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Speaker 1: they get to going. That's how they play well. So

518
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Speaker 1: if you can put the Raiders in a hole early,

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Speaker 1: it disrupts everything that they want to do. And because

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Speaker 1: they don't have what I call a playmaking defense, that's

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Speaker 1: the best way to attack them. Go at them, go

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Speaker 1: at them early, and kind of hit the ground running.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, take the ball and go after it. All right,

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Speaker 1: give me a prediction for this week? What do you

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Speaker 1: think is gonna happen? Thanks even day, Well, man, I

526
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Speaker 1: think this is a very important game for the Dallas Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: not only because you came off all off against Kensy

528
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, but the Philadelphia Eagles are beginning to kind

529
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Speaker 1: of find their way, and what you don't want to

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Speaker 1: do is kind of let them close the gap. So

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Speaker 1: the games can have meeting down the stretch, so they

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Speaker 1: want to talk about it, and I'm sure the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff as well aware that the Eagles are gaining ground

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Speaker 1: and beginning to find their way. So I think this

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Speaker 1: is one where you simplified, you encourage you guys to

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Speaker 1: play fast, and I think ultimately they win on Turkey Day.

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Speaker 1: I would expect them to be able to dominate the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: even though it may be a little early and tight,

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Speaker 1: maybe tight early. I think they're runaway with the Indian.

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Speaker 1: All right, appreciate you joining us, Bucky. You have a

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Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving. We're gonna take our final break. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: come back and we're gonna talk storylines. There's some storylines

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Speaker 1: this game we want to hit and let you guys

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Speaker 1: Final segment of the Break Lift ne SWBC Morgan Studios

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Speaker 1: at the Star Smalls Thanksgiving Cowboys will take on the

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Speaker 1: Raiders will be I would assume a pretty decent amount

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Speaker 1: of black and silver in the building as well, so

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Speaker 1: should be a fun game, should be an entertaining game.

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Speaker 1: I'm hopeful we got some storylines that we're gonna I

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Speaker 1: would like an unentertaining game. You want to be writing

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Speaker 1: in the third quarter, Yeah, I want that. Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're the one that's always saying that, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: just shut up and let the game happen. I want that.

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Speaker 1: I would like to look. I wouldn't be against that.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be too, but but it would

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Speaker 1: be good to have a fun game. Just make it

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Speaker 1: fun at least for a little while. But beatowns are

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Speaker 1: fun sometimes, I don't all the time if the cover

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Speaker 1: is the one doing it. Yeah, all right, So let's

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Speaker 1: go storylines. We got a few that we need to

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Speaker 1: hit for this game. Here's the first. If CD can't

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Speaker 1: go tomorrow, which it sounds like he might be able to,

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Speaker 1: They're they're feeling like it might be a good chance.

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Speaker 1: I want I want to kind of shed some clarity

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Speaker 1: on what's going on with that, because I and I'm

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Speaker 1: not trying to be condescending. I didn't know some of

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Speaker 1: this stuff either, but we've had a chance to ask around,

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Speaker 1: and you know, people get nervous when you're talking about

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Speaker 1: a guy coming back from a concussion in four days,

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Speaker 1: and understandably so So what's going to happen today is

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Speaker 1: as part of the concussion protocol, you have to practice,

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Speaker 1: like you have to prove that you can go out

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Speaker 1: on the field and do all of that. This is

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Speaker 1: after he's cleared all the tests, all the cognitive tests

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Speaker 1: from the time he got hurt at the stadium on

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Speaker 1: Sunday through now he has to practice. He's going to

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Speaker 1: talk to the Cowboys medical staff, and then he has

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Speaker 1: to clear another test with an independent neuro expert, whatever

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Speaker 1: doctor whatever that is, which he had to do that.

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Speaker 1: They still have the independent doctors on the sideline on

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Speaker 1: Sunday as well, so that was part of it. Like

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Speaker 1: this is a problem maybe not five years ago, but

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Speaker 1: like in recent history, this is probably the type of

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Speaker 1: concussion that he would have played through before the NFL Conay.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely before the NFL put all of this stuff into place.

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Speaker 1: It was that type of deal. So today's today's big.

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Speaker 1: He's going to practice, then he's going to have two

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Speaker 1: more consultations or whatever, and if he clears all that,

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Speaker 1: he can play. But I do think it's worth noting

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Speaker 1: like he has to get clearance from an independent person

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Speaker 1: that's not affiliated with the Cowboys. It's not like their

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Speaker 1: staff can be like, get out there, buddy, we need you.

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Speaker 1: So that's what's going to happen today, and that's by

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Speaker 1: the end of the day they will know. I don't

638
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: know if it's going to be out in the public today,

639
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: but they should know by this evening whether or not

640
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna be available. Tomorroca, Yeah, all right. Cool. So

641
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: that being said, let's assume for a second he doesn't

642
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: fat past that protocol. If CD can't go, do you

643
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: expect Michael Gallup can handle the number one wide receiver

644
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: role for this team? No, I do not expect that.

645
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: I've seen it twice now. I don't think he's a

646
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: number one receiver. Sorry for his agent, because I know

647
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: he's a free agent coming out and he needs to

648
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: be able to prove that. I don't think he's a

649
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: number one, and I think he's much better as a

650
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: number two, if not a three. But he's a two.

651
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: I mean, just in this team, he's probably a three. Bit,

652
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: you know, I think he can get paid like a

653
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: number two. I don't think he's a number one. I

654
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: don't think he's the type of guy that does everything

655
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: as far as you know, all the things you wanted

656
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: from a receiver to the inside stuff the outside. Um,

657
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to though, I mean, I mean he's

658
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: gonna have to in this game. But I mean I

659
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: don't think this is something that you can get by

660
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: and maybe win a game doing it. But I don't

661
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: think he's a number one receiver. I don't think so either,

662
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: And to be fair to him, I don't think that

663
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: he ever was. I wasn't going into this season thinking

664
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup was going to play a season that would

665
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: enable him to get paid like that, like a when

666
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: you consider that Davantae Adams is going to be available

667
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: this spring, he was never getting a deal. Yeah, but

668
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: let's be clear that I'm not saying I'm not no,

669
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah. The point is good number twos can

670
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: sometimes step into a number one role when pressed into duty.

671
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: I'm asking do you think he can do that for

672
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: the four? I don't think that's the biggest question though, Honestly,

673
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: I'm a lot less worried about Mike. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,

674
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: I don't about If the number five and number four

675
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: can step into the other roles, then I think Gallup

676
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,239
Speaker 1: can shine. It's not about Gallop so much. It's just

677
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: about Noah Brown and Cedric Wilson have got to come

678
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: to play. If they can come to play, then I

679
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 1: think Gallup can do his thing. But if they're not

680
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: going to help Gallop, I don't think has a chance.

681
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: What he said, that's absolutely I mean, it's it's not

682
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,879
Speaker 1: that Mike can't handle that, and I would guess they're

683
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: going to focus on him if CD's unavailable, because he'll

684
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: be the best receiver on the field. It's on the

685
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: other guys to not do what they did Sunday. Michael Gallop,

686
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 1: he didn't play a great game, but he I mean,

687
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: he did what he could do with the opportunities that

688
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: were given to him. Like I don't, I don't. He

689
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: he was saving their ass time after time in the

690
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: early going in the game, he picked up both of

691
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: their first two first downs, and it's not his fault.

692
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: Dac overthrew him really probably twice. So I got nothing

693
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: bad to say about Mike. It's the guys around him

694
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: that need to step up if he's the one that

695
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: the defense is focusing on. Ye We've seen Dak have

696
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: success with those old guys around him. But the thing is,

697
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: who do they really scare, you know, with the opponent

698
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: and you come in as a defensive coordinator and you

699
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: look at these receivers and it's like, oh, well, I

700
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: don't know, that doesn't sound scary. We can definitely beat them.

701
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: But this is one of those scenarios where you go

702
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 1: back and you become appreciative in the way that Dak

703
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: has handled his receiver course, and you know, offseason practicing

704
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 1: with them, even though like last string guys. So hopefully

705
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: this is a game that those guys like you guys

706
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: mentioned they can't step up. And we know he has

707
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: a very good relationship with Dak and we've seen it

708
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: translate on the field, so they just need to clean

709
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: their game up, you know. And I would throw in

710
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: a Malik Turner in there as well. I think I

711
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: think he is he probably as a receiver. It might

712
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: be a little bit further along than like a Noah Brown.

713
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: I like his game. I know we saw it there

714
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: at the end garbage time, and he's kind of the

715
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: he's turned into the sort of the garbage band a

716
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: little bit at the end of the game. That's I'm

717
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: with you, And in my head, I'm like, yeah, maybe

718
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: I'm ready to see more Malik Turner, like Noah Brown

719
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 1: deeply disappointed me as a long time Noah Brown stand Yeah,

720
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: he deeply disappointed me on Sunday. But I do think

721
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: there's something to the fact that Malik Turner is doing

722
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: a lot of this. A lot of what he's done

723
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: this year is when the game has been decided. Also,

724
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: the other I think we should also take a little

725
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: bit of a step back and say what we saw

726
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: Sunday from this receiver corps is not what we've seen

727
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: most of the year. And I'm talking about said, I'm

728
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: talking about Noah Brown. They've been pretty reliable in the

729
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: roles that they've been given, and so my thought is,

730
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: settle in and I think they can have better weeks

731
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: this week than they did last week. I don't. I'm

732
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: not really throw them out yet. I think that was

733
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: just a bad game. In my bad game all the

734
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: way around. They just didn't play well. The thing, it's like,

735
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: we haven't seen it be fully on them, you know,

736
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: if you had your other receivers. They've been guys that

737
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: kind of go in and all in certain plays and

738
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: they have been successful at times. But I won are

739
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: like how much it really affects them when they're out there. Yeah,

740
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's it's easy to say, next man up.

741
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: But those guys are the depth chart. But all that

742
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: being said, I think the cinnamon right now is that

743
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: we expect CD to play in the game. Are we

744
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: done expecting players to play? I was about I've been

745
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: doing it. I'll talk about it's hard to know this.

746
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: I'm hard to get to read with this game. Yeah,

747
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: he's got he got past these talk about both scenarios.

748
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: I know. No, I agree, and that could happen and

749
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: let's not man knocking with But I mean he could

750
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: play and not finish the game, you know what I mean.

751
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: I mean anybody that could happen with anything, you know.

752
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he could play and and it just he

753
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: ends up maybe taking a hit or whatever, and they're like, Okay,

754
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: you know what, let's don't do this. So you have

755
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: to be ready for that, and I'm sorry, go ahead. No.

756
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: What I do think we finally know is that Tyrn

757
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: Smith is going to play. Yeah. If I'm wrong about

758
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: that again, I might just jump out of the press box. Um.

759
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: But um, And what the reason I bring that up is,

760
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: I this is a game where if that is the case.

761
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: If CD can't go, and I'm not I'm not ready

762
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: to say I expect him to play, because that's first

763
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: of all, it's it's not a like fight through an issue.

764
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: He has to clear the protocol. Yeah, And on top

765
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: of that, it's burned me basically every other week this

766
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,399
Speaker 1: season where I'm like, yeah, I think he's gonna play,

767
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: and then I'm writing, I'm writing the I'm writing the

768
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: story tomorrow afternoon. Sheet LAMB will be inactive today. But

769
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: if if I'm just saying they wouldn't, they are taking

770
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 1: all the steps to do that. He wouldn't have been

771
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: in a meeting on Monday, he wouldn't have been on

772
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: the field yesterday. You know, at the end, he wouldn't

773
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: have been doing the things if if he was having

774
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: any issues and that there was some kind of setback.

775
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: That's all that at this point, and there there could

776
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: have been. But all I know is and I talked

777
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: to Jim Mauer. I talked to Jim Auer after this

778
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: game Sunday, and he said, we really like the where

779
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: he is right now. This is after the game. We

780
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: like where he is. It was almost like it was

781
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: borderline of him having to sit out. Yeah, he's like,

782
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: we we like where he is. William said it was

783
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: fine he did, so that's his his Like William Boykins

784
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: for those of you you know he works with us,

785
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: don't worry about his evaluation. To hear it from people

786
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: who might worry you, then if William Sutton, you think

787
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: it's a good point. If you're listening, he's listening, Williams

788
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: fifty fifty, he's fifty fifty. Um, what was I gonna say. Oh,

789
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: to hear it from people who would know his evaluation,

790
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: and the was good, Like for a guy who just

791
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: got concussed, it was good to That's why I said,

792
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: like eight ten years ago, he probably goes back in

793
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: that game. And that's a testament to how much people

794
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: have changed their minds about the way that stuff works

795
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: that they still wouldn't the protocols wouldn't allow him to

796
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: go back in. And there's there, Yeah, there's a couple

797
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: of like little benchmarks that happened after a guy gets

798
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 1: hit in the head or whatever that will keep you

799
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: out of the game. And and and it's very not minor.

800
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,320
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's basically, do you feel a little

801
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 1: dizzy or you a little bit woozy. Yeah, I feel

802
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: a little bit. You're out out. Yeah, you're a house.

803
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: I mean it should be right, that's what it should be, right,

804
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: So it's it's not. I mean, God, I remember a

805
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: game i'd have been before you were here, when when

806
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,720
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were playing the Bears and Witton. That happened

807
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: with Whitton and they were hiding his helmet. And you know,

808
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: most people know Jason Witten as the guy that's you know,

809
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: in the community and nice guy, great interviews and all that.

810
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: He can be a monster, and man, I think he

811
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: was trying to like really hurt some doctors or something.

812
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: It might have been the Independent Doctor or something. I

813
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: remember something. They were just like, where's my helmet? Where's Betsy?

814
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: Like he was trying to find this helmet. I think

815
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: he ended up getting back in. Yeah. Those are the

816
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: stories that like they sound great and then you're just like, right, oh, man,

817
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say the name, but there was a

818
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: player a few years ago that was playing and say safety,

819
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: and the teammates were like, he didn't know the last

820
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: drive the game, he didn't know anything that was happening.

821
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: They were telling him where to line up, and where

822
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 1: to stand, and he just as they're driving other teams

823
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: driving for the win, and he's back there. Not even no.

824
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: I mean they won the game. They won the game,

825
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: and he didn't give up a touchdown, But like the

826
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: last five or six plays, they were just like you

827
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: stand here and just do that. God, Oh, just imagine

828
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: somebody in the league office hearing that. It's like, uh,

829
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: it was, it was in the last sixty years. So

830
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: there's a lot of games, a lot of plays real quick.

831
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 1: Just the reason I brought up Tyrn Smith is if

832
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: CD can't play, I would hope that his presence allows

833
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: you to completely change the way that you play this game.

834
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 1: Like I'm taking the air out of the ball I got.

835
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: I got no problem living in twelve personnel and trying

836
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: to run for two hundred yards tomorrow if CD can't go.

837
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 1: And that's exactly where I was gonna go with this,

838
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: because Dallas has not rushed particularly well in three of

839
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: their last four games. Tyrant's missed the last three and

840
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 1: a half games of that. He's now back. How much

841
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:02,879
Speaker 1: do you think that's going to help the running game?

842
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: Do you think they can get back on track with

843
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: having Tyron back in the lineup. Yeah, adding an all

844
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: pro to your lineup definitely helps. I mean, it stabilizes things.

845
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: It allows you to help the left guard, whoever that is.

846
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: He can seal off the backside. The Cowboys love to

847
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 1: run into the right right like you're gonna run off

848
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: of Zach whenever you can, and but Tyron allows you

849
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: to seal the backside of those plays, so you're not

850
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: getting dragged down from behind for one or two yards

851
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: instead of five or six. But let me be clear,

852
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: the question is not can they run better with with

853
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: with him? The question is more just do you think

854
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 1: it's at a point now where they can go in

855
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: and say, you know that we want to run, We're

856
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: going to run, and they're still gonna be able to

857
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: impose their will and runs. I don't think they're gonna

858
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: do that though. I mean, I don't think they're gonna

859
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: just you know, we're gonna run. I think just Tyron

860
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: helps them run the offense. I think they can pass

861
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: out of it. They can run. They're gonna be mixed.

862
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,320
Speaker 1: They're not gonna Dak Prescott's not going to be running

863
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: the football taking the air out. I mean, I know

864
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: it sounds good. I don't think they're gonna do that.

865
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: But we're about that in the context of you don't

866
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: have your top two receivers. I don't think they're gonna

867
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 1: do that. You think they're still going in and they're

868
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: trying to be just aggressive in the passing Yet he No,

869
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: he's right. I mean, and I said, take the air

870
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: out of the ball. By modern NFL standards, this isn't

871
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: college like, you can't go in and telegraph that you're

872
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: gonna run and just do it anyway. You could do

873
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 1: that against the worst run defense in the league and

874
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: probably still not be successful. So yeah, there's got to

875
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: be an element of passing and misdirection and all that stuff.

876
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: I just I'm saying, and read the tea leaves too.

877
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,240
Speaker 1: It's obvious the Cowboys are disappointed that they got away

878
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: from the run. Like Mike McCarthy really hasn't made any

879
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: bones about it. I just think they won't have a

880
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: problem leaning on that and trying to let that dictate

881
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: their game plan more so than they have in recent weeks.

882
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,879
Speaker 1: We're going with three trick plays in the game by

883
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Three and I'm counting, like I'm counting, like

884
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: that play that Pollard had that was kind of like

885
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 1: a trick play, sort of that reverse fake and all that.

886
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: I think you gotta sets something up with that too,

887
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: Maybe pitch it back to deck and let him throw

888
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: or or something. But I think two or three of

889
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: those they won't run the flee flicker until I'm not

890
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: here anymore, but they it won't be that. Yeah, I

891
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: just mean like, they'll never do that. Well, I work

892
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. I'm never going to see a fleef

893
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: flicker for the Cowboys. I don't know why. I'm sorry,

894
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 1: I am too. I don't know. That's about all you

895
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: can't say. I'm sorry, man. I have a question for y'all,

896
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: what if they do it and it doesn't work, will

897
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 1: you be happy that they tried? Or just like, really,

898
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: I waited twenty two years and I got an incompletion

899
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: to Cedric Wilson. Maybe I want to see what happens

900
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: the next time Zeke runs the ball. Okay, if Zeke

901
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:42,919
Speaker 1: comes back and runs like nine yards up the middle

902
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: because the safety is kind of like he then't does

903
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 1: That's why I think I think it does a lot

904
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: of things if you try it. Whatever. A better question is,

905
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: are you going to get kicked out of the press

906
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: box whenever they do it. Yes, that will be the

907
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: better question. Yes, maybe, Well, I mean I mean hopefully

908
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: it's at home. Well, if Tyron doesn't play, I mean,

909
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: Day's already jumped himself out of the press box. The windows.

910
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 1: The windows in the press box don't open anyway, so

911
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: I can't do that. But I'll want to just jump

912
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: into the window and see right, I have a big

913
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 1: picture that goes yeah, okay, since I'm the host. Um No,

914
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: just kidding. Is this a must win game for the Cowboys? No,

915
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: No such thing as a must win until it's a

916
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: must until until mathematics get involved, like you're eliminated from

917
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: something with you don't win. Yes, I'll go against y'all.

918
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: It is. I think it's a must win game. You

919
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: don't win this game. I don't know if they win

920
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: the East, I'm serious, But then it's not a must

921
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: win then so we kind of want it. Why I

922
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: need it? Why do you feel that way? Because then

923
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:43,799
Speaker 1: they don't win this game, then they've got three road

924
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: games in a row. I think they'll go one and

925
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: two in that stretch, and then I think it will

926
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: just be a dogfight. For the rest of the um

927
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: just down the stretch. I could. I don't know. I

928
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: just don't. By the way I mentioned, they don't win

929
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: a day. I don't know if you guys have looked

930
00:45:56,040 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: at what the Eagle schedule looks like. Down the terrible games, well,

931
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: games against the Giants, they got two games against Washington

932
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 1: and they got a game against the Jets. Now, obviously

933
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: division games or division comes, that's always in the Cowboys.

934
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: Division games are very hard, no matter how good or

935
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: bad the teams are. But just look at the records

936
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: of those teams. Those are some of the worst teams

937
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL record wise that they have and that's

938
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: all they got left except for that last game against Dallas.

939
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: Not only but also you gotta remember, I don't like

940
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: what the league did this year, where like everybody is

941
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: waiting until Christmas to start their division svision, it's gonna

942
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: be all division games pretty much in December. It's a

943
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: lot of teams kind of boring. Like I don't think

944
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: so I'm not in that. Like it's going to create

945
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: exciting games because you're gonna be able to separate and stuff.

946
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: But like, like I think Kansas City is going like

947
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: they went like they're going like Denver Chargers Denver, like

948
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: everybody's doing. But yeah, these back to back, like I

949
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: want to see in variation, I want to see some

950
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: different teams on the field. I agree. But I think

951
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: what it does is that if somebody has an injury

952
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: for six to eight weeks and they're struggling, they're down,

953
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 1: Let's say like Washington for instance, like they could be like,

954
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: well we're down right now, but we still got the

955
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: Cowboys twice, Like we could get back up into this thing. Yeah,

956
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: just because you got a lot of division games at

957
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: the end. Division games are hard, no matter how good

958
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: or bad teams are. So that's going to create a

959
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: lot of I think a lot of upsets and situations

960
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: where you have one team favorite and it just kind

961
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: of goes a different way. Sure, I think it's gonna

962
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: make for a nix exciting December just because and the

963
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: flip side, like everybody's focused on Philly right now and

964
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: rightfully so they're playing Washington twice in a span of

965
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: three weeks, So like there's gonna be some cannibalization there

966
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: or something like you would think so because both of

967
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: those teams are kind of hanging around and one game behind.

968
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: I think the one game, one game behind one and

969
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: maybe two. I just to play Devil's advocate to nickpoint

970
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: Knicks point, you lose this game again, AFC opponent, it's

971
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: the least damaging type of loss. You play a Saints

972
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: team that, I mean, it's gonna be tough, but missing

973
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, don't have a true starting quarterback,

974
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 1: their offensive struggling, and then they're they're gonna have sort

975
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: of a bye week, like they're gonna get like three

976
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: or four days off in a row. They're gonna start

977
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: getting guys back. By the way, Lawrence Gregory all that

978
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: type of stuff, You're gonna lose guys too. Sure, you

979
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,760
Speaker 1: probably will, now you will. You'll lose a key player,

980
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 1: still getting good players back, and then you have the

981
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: whole division in front of you in December, I mean sure,

982
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: and you already have two games in the division after

983
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 1: the after the way the season started, would it be

984
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: disappointing to take care of business in the division and

985
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: finish with the four seed? Sure? Is that still good? Yes?

986
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: And so like they could lose this game and still

987
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: have everything out in front of them, of course, yeah,

988
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: I get it's not mathematically a must win game, but

989
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: mentally it's a it's a better win game. You better

990
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: win this game. Yet, if there's anything you really want

991
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: to do, you want to be a team that's like,

992
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: oh wow, that was awesome, we need this and all that.

993
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: Now you're getting you're getting tiring back, Dak, show us

994
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: that you're better than and what you what you did

995
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: the last it's a better wine. It's a better win game,

996
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: but it's a better win game. Got it. Well. It

997
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: also makes me think, I forgot who said it. I

998
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: think it was in one of those mixed shows that

999
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: we did. I don't remember, but someone was talking about

1000
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 1: the energy and how contagious it is. And when you

1001
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: are winning and performing the way that they have been

1002
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: in the stretch that they did. H you always have

1003
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: like even those players that are not so great, they

1004
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: perform better because they're pushing themselves. They want to be

1005
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: a part of the wings, they want to give them

1006
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 1: they're all you know, they care about it. So it

1007
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: makes me think, Okay, how if they lose this game,

1008
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: how would that change and effect just like energy wise,

1009
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: performance wise, what happens on the field. I'm not saying

1010
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: they're not gonna keep going out there and competing and

1011
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: going at it the same way. But it makes me

1012
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,919
Speaker 1: wonder if it does change just kind of the move

1013
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: and what you end up giving on that feel afterwards.

1014
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to predictions. It's gonna happen this Sunday.

1015
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Dave um nice Yeah, three days

1016
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: stop stop Um. I just it's this is gonna be

1017
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a weird game. It's gonna be

1018
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: a slow game, like just in terms of you're not

1019
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: operating with a full deck on offense. You just gotta

1020
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: get right. I think again, utilize the running game as

1021
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: much as you can. I don't think it's gonna be

1022
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: like this big, flashy performance. But Srader's team kind of

1023
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: feels like they're weird thing to say about a team

1024
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,399
Speaker 1: that's won as many games as they have. But there's

1025
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 1: like some circling the drain potential there. And so I say,

1026
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,240
Speaker 1: it's not gonna look like super pretty, but like twenty

1027
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: five to sixteen, get out of there with a win,

1028
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,399
Speaker 1: all right, Amber part of me doesn't want to pick

1029
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: them because I'm mad at them, But there we go,

1030
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:05,879
Speaker 1: do it. No, I'll give them another week if no,

1031
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,919
Speaker 1: But um, I'm gonna go with the Cowboys big game

1032
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day. Uh, They're gonna go out there when I

1033
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: don't think they're they'll be completely dominant like they were

1034
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: in the last home game, but they'll leave with a win.

1035
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: I'd probably say like twenty fourteen something, not that high scoring. Okay,

1036
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: I got weird stuff happening, But I do think the

1037
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: Cowboys will will kind of turn it around, and I

1038
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: think they win thirty one twenty two, right, And I

1039
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: also think the Cowboys will win. I think Cowboys. I

1040
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:40,879
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be one of those game games you said, Dave,

1041
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: not that they're gonna just blow them out, but I

1042
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: think that the final score is gonna be one that,

1043
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: you know, probably like a twenty seven sixteen kind of game,

1044
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 1: where it's just kind of like they're kind of playing around.

1045
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: It'll get going, Cowboys will get get a lead, and

1046
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: then I don't like, it'll just kind of coast to

1047
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 1: the finish line. I'm gonna be thinking about this moment

1048
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: in the third quarter when we all want to jump

1049
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: out of the press five. I just again, this is

1050
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: one of those situations where I just think they're better,

1051
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: and I think last week we would have seen a

1052
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: different outcome. If you get you give me either one

1053
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: Amri or Tyrant, if you give me tiring this week,

1054
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: and let's assume CD's back. I feel like they're the

1055
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: better team. I feel like they'll get a win, and

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Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be just a close game through

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Speaker 1: the end. I think the Cowboys are the better team.

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Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys win. Okay, all right, we appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys, Jonas. We'll be back on Monday. We'll let

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Speaker 1: you know what went right and wrong. There will be

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Speaker 1: no shows on Friday, but we will be back on

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Speaker 1: Monday and we'll talk about the game then. Until then.

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Speaker 1: For Nick Eatman, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia, I'm Derek Kielton.

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