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Speaker 5: It is Wednesday, November twenty second, twenty twenty three, season nineteen,
Speaker 5: episode number seventy six. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 5: The Break. We are laughing the s WBC Mortgage studios.
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Speaker 5: Amber's out today, but I got Brian and Patrick and
Speaker 5: with me we will be talking Cowboys versus Commanders. That
Speaker 5: happens tomorrow. I guess the times three thirty. I think
Speaker 5: three thirty local time here Central time zone. So we're
Speaker 5: going to get into that. Give you our picks before
Speaker 5: we get to the end of the show, and I
Speaker 5: want to start a little bit first.
Speaker 2: We're going to get some injury updates.
Speaker 5: But I also want to talk about a player yesterday
Speaker 5: got waved that I want to get some interest from
Speaker 5: you guys on whether you would do something with that
Speaker 5: that player we'll talk about this.
Speaker 3: That player get waived.
Speaker 2: I think it. I thought he was I thought.
Speaker 3: Yesterday. I just make sure we can talk about it.
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure I know that I
Speaker 3: know this player. I just want to make sure.
Speaker 2: That I saw I saw what you tweeted.
Speaker 5: That's why I was like, yeah, we're talking about it, okay,
Speaker 5: But we'll get to give me some injury updates.
Speaker 3: First.
Speaker 2: There are a couple of guys did not practice.
Speaker 3: Again, the path you were going down. A lot of people,
Speaker 3: a lot of people listen to the show.
Speaker 2: Now, you know, a lot of people don't know.
Speaker 5: If they don't know, like, we have to be very
Speaker 5: careful pay the NFL can sometimes give our people a
Speaker 5: phone call and say that we're tampering because we talked
Speaker 5: about players. So we're very careful about talking about players
Speaker 5: that are on other teams. But I think it is
Speaker 5: official that he is on the wave of Why I
Speaker 5: think he's on the wave of wire.
Speaker 3: At this point, we could talk about the young man.
Speaker 5: So we can talk about all right, we're gonna get
Speaker 5: to that. Let's talk first about injuries. Ric o'dowdell, jay
Speaker 5: Ron Curse, where are we.
Speaker 7: Rico dawdo sounds like with the conference called that Mike
Speaker 7: McCarthy just had with a handful of media, that there's
Speaker 7: optimism that Rico can take the field on tomorrow. He's
Speaker 7: been participating in the walkthroughs as well as the meetings,
Speaker 7: and of course today is going to be another practice,
Speaker 7: but it sounds like Rico's going to participate in today's
Speaker 7: practice as well, and the needless pointing up. We'll see
Speaker 7: if that's a game time decision, but there's at least
Speaker 7: some optimism there as far as Ceeddi Lama asked him,
Speaker 7: you know, straight up yesterday before the injury report came out,
Speaker 7: said hey, you got banged up a little bit, how's
Speaker 7: the ankle?
Speaker 8: How you feeling?
Speaker 7: He said, and I'll quote, I'll be out there getting
Speaker 7: active end quote, And then injury report came out. He
Speaker 7: was a full participant yesterday, so it looks like he's
Speaker 7: a full go. Jay Ron Curse HARKing back to what
Speaker 7: I said yesterday, I'm not feeling confident about him, and
Speaker 7: that was prior to what McCarthy just said.
Speaker 8: Not an hour ago.
Speaker 7: He said that Curse has to practice today to have
Speaker 7: even a remote chance of taking the field tomorrow. I'm
Speaker 7: going to go ahead and take that as you can
Speaker 7: probably scratch Jayron Curse.
Speaker 8: We'll see if that's the case. But needless pointing down there.
Speaker 7: So uh yeah, backs, so I say, penciling more oney
Speaker 7: Thomas probably sprinkling some Israel mcwambo as well.
Speaker 8: But I want to see him, yeah, I want to
Speaker 8: see him.
Speaker 7: I don't see jay Ron taking the field tomorrow and
Speaker 7: not tomorrow, yeahrow'.
Speaker 2: It's Thanksgiving already.
Speaker 7: So yeah, so that's where we always that Michael Gallup
Speaker 7: had he missed yesterday because of a personal reason.
Speaker 8: He's back today.
Speaker 7: He was in the locker room last night, but McCarthy
Speaker 7: said he'll be back in practice today.
Speaker 8: Uh, and everyone else is expected to take the field.
Speaker 2: Awesome, So it looks good. Ric O'Donnell jay Ron cursl too.
Speaker 5: We'll keep an eye on especially jay Ron Curse heading
Speaker 5: into tomorrow's game.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about this this player by the.
Speaker 9: Way, real quick on that, because we broke down the
Speaker 9: commander's logan Thomas and stuff.
Speaker 3: How they how the safeties play.
Speaker 9: Against him tomorrow in this game I think will be
Speaker 9: really important. So if Curse can't go, is it you know?
Speaker 9: Thomas Wilson those.
Speaker 5: I mean, anything's a better cover guy between Curse and Thomas.
Speaker 9: Thomas, I think, and I mean, I don't know, Patrick
Speaker 9: might disagree with me, but to me, I see a
Speaker 9: guy that when you watch he plays.
Speaker 3: With a little bit more of a burst.
Speaker 9: I think that Curse is more straight lined and if
Speaker 9: you ask him to have to flip and turn, he's
Speaker 9: a longer guy.
Speaker 3: And it's just natural when you when.
Speaker 9: You scout these guys and they're they're high cut, and
Speaker 9: we say high cut, they they're wasting their short upper body,
Speaker 9: you know, and high waisted, and so when you watch
Speaker 9: those guys play, they don't naturally look smooth.
Speaker 3: You know, there's some.
Speaker 9: Guys that can that can pedal turn long leged guys
Speaker 9: and it's like, well, you know, that gets your attention.
Speaker 9: But generally guys that are long limbed don't look quick,
Speaker 9: and they're not quick, but.
Speaker 3: They can play down hill.
Speaker 9: Thomas to me, is a little bit more shifty because
Speaker 9: when you watch him play, when you watch him play
Speaker 9: on special teams, his ability to avoid. You know, Kurs
Speaker 9: had a really good rush the other day where he avoided,
Speaker 9: but it was downhill and it was a little bit
Speaker 9: of a slight movement. If I had to say, let
Speaker 9: me cover with a guy, I'm gonna throw Thomas. I
Speaker 9: think he's got a little bit more corner skill to
Speaker 9: his game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I do agree.
Speaker 7: I believe Thomas is a better cover guy because of
Speaker 7: all the reasons that Brian said he hit him all
Speaker 7: on the head. It's not that jay Ron is worse
Speaker 7: at coverage. He's different in how he covers. So what
Speaker 7: you're going to give up to get wan Ye's quickness
Speaker 7: in his burst is you're giving up the length. You're
Speaker 7: giving up that loganoma, You're giving up that wing, that
Speaker 7: wingspan that you're going that you have with jay Ron Curse.
Speaker 7: But with Curse being that longer defensive back, he doesn't
Speaker 7: have the ability to change direction as quickly as je Ye,
Speaker 7: who was obviously a little bit close to the ground,
Speaker 7: lower center of gravity, and Wanya can be a little
Speaker 7: bit more physical, not to say that jay ronni is
Speaker 7: not physical, but Wanya is more compact, a little more style,
Speaker 7: ready to kind of drive through the guy. So two
Speaker 7: different types of coverage. But wan Ye does have a
Speaker 7: little bit more burst, a little bit quicker, but he
Speaker 7: doesn't have that length, that wingspan, that he said that,
Speaker 7: Brian said, if you're going against Logan Thomas, that'll come
Speaker 7: in handy time or two.
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on.
Speaker 5: Let's talk a little bit about Darius Leonard. He is
Speaker 5: a linebacker that was with Indianapolis placed on waivers. So
Speaker 5: the first thing is he has to clear waivers. I
Speaker 5: think what I read is basically his contract right now
Speaker 5: will cost roughly about six point one million is where
Speaker 5: his contract is for this year. And then if he
Speaker 5: gets past waivers, and obviously he'd be available to sign
Speaker 5: with whoever he chooses to sign. My question is, first, Brian,
Speaker 5: give us a scouting report on what you've seen from
Speaker 5: him this year, because we know traditionally this has been
Speaker 5: a guy that's been a really good linebacker, one of
Speaker 5: the better linebackers in the league.
Speaker 2: What is he now at this point in his career?
Speaker 3: Okay, team you need to worry about.
Speaker 9: His first potential claim is Chicago and I say this
Speaker 9: because his best years was with Matti Eberflus. Now, if
Speaker 9: you're the front office in Chicago, are you thinking about
Speaker 9: making a change from your head coach? Do you bring
Speaker 9: in a guy like this to you know, if Matt
Speaker 9: Eberflu steps up and says, hey, we could really use
Speaker 9: this guy.
Speaker 3: I coached him. I know this guy.
Speaker 9: You know he could help us. You know, we're trying
Speaker 9: to rebuild his team. You know, Ryan tolds. Those guys
Speaker 9: could say Poles could say, well, yeah, okay, thanks coaching,
Speaker 9: because that's the team. I think you'd have to worry
Speaker 9: about the claim just because the head coach has familiarity
Speaker 9: with the player. Now, there's some other teams that could
Speaker 9: use a linebacker. You know, Philadelphia clearly is a team
Speaker 9: that could use linebacker help. The thing about it is
Speaker 9: and they could maybe feel like, well, Dallas could be
Speaker 9: in this, but well Dallas claim Well, to make sure
Speaker 9: we don't have to compete against Dallas for this player,
Speaker 9: we can go ahead and make the claim ourselves. Philadelphia
Speaker 9: is behind you in the in the in the claiming order.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would be worried about them.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so Philadelphia is a team that might they because
Speaker 9: of the situation there.
Speaker 3: Buffalo is another team.
Speaker 5: They just lost in the Kobe Dean Yeah exactly.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so yeah, so them, Buffalo. There's some teams that
Speaker 9: are looking for linebacker help. If you're a Dallas Cowboy fan,
Speaker 9: you these shows that we did leading up to h
Speaker 9: this period where Leonard gets released, we kept talking about
Speaker 9: if you could go trade for somebody, who would you
Speaker 9: trade for. We were trying to name positions. You need
Speaker 9: a corner, maybe, maybe you need a linebacker. Maybe, you know,
Speaker 9: we were naming positions. I think the football gods just
Speaker 9: gave you one here. I think they gave you one,
Speaker 9: you know, and sometimes you don't get another chance. We'll
Speaker 9: see out in PACIFICA. Those guys upstairs are really good
Speaker 9: moving money around. You know, they could find ways to
Speaker 9: move money if they get a chance to cruit somebody.
Speaker 9: They're good at doing that because they can make deals work.
Speaker 9: The player still has it. Watch three games of him
Speaker 9: play yesterday. I was looking to see if he lacked movement, balance,
Speaker 9: body control, anything to make me go.
Speaker 3: Away from that.
Speaker 9: Now I'm calling some people. My gang is seven around
Speaker 9: the league and trying to get an idea. Why would
Speaker 9: the Colts do this? You know, this is always something
Speaker 9: that you have to worry about. You see the tape.
Speaker 9: The tape looks positive. They don't play him in the nickel,
Speaker 9: you know, now, Okay, Dallas doesn't play a lot of mickey.
Speaker 5: They played dimes, and Dallas has plenty of guys they
Speaker 5: can throw in there at linebacker the nickel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. They throw all those safeties in there and
Speaker 3: play that.
Speaker 9: So but this guy, he's got length, he's got instincts,
Speaker 9: he's got the ability to finish.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 9: You know, there's a lot of really positive things when
Speaker 9: you're talking about a week eleven, week twelve type of
Speaker 9: a player that somebody says, ah, we're moving on. I
Speaker 9: think you've got to be ready to pounds here if
Speaker 9: you can. But the gamble is going to be do
Speaker 9: you want to make that claim because that there's only
Speaker 9: I think Buffalo's ahead of you, that team I brought up,
Speaker 9: Chicago's way ahead of you.
Speaker 2: You know Chicago wants they probably get it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Chicago, Chicago wants some. But that's because of Eberflus.
Speaker 9: Right now, if you're the front office again and you're
Speaker 9: Eber and you're the you're like, I don't want to
Speaker 9: spend the money.
Speaker 2: Might be like, I don't know if he's going to
Speaker 2: be here.
Speaker 3: That's that's exactly right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2: Those evaluations are probably.
Speaker 9: Going, like you're trying to convince ownership that we're going
Speaker 9: to spend money on a linebacker. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 9: and you know they and they got rid of roquant Smith, right,
Speaker 9: and Roquan Smith is now watched you watch the Ravens
Speaker 9: play and he's getting making every tax because you're like going, Okay,
Speaker 9: whose bright idea was to let go of Roquan Smith? Oh,
Speaker 9: we just didn't want to pay him. Oh now you
Speaker 9: want to pay this guy. So yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 9: of things going on here, Dallas. Dallas will tell you
Speaker 9: they're always there twenty four to seven, three sixty five,
Speaker 9: and I believe them on that, you know, but this
Speaker 9: might be one with the with the with the football gods,
Speaker 9: be an opportunity to add a piece that can help.
Speaker 3: But we'll see.
Speaker 9: There's a there's a lot of other teams that are
Speaker 9: probably thinking the same thing you are right now. But
Speaker 9: this guy could still play. The movement's there, the finishes there,
Speaker 9: the lateral agility, the downhill player, the sideline the sideline guy,
Speaker 9: the length for the position, and the fact that he could.
Speaker 9: I don't I don't think he needs to come off
Speaker 9: the field unless somebody tells me something different. But the
Speaker 9: Colts played him like he was a two down player.
Speaker 9: Maybe there's something else going on there. Well, we'll get
Speaker 9: and and maybe the I know, these guys across the
Speaker 9: hall from us hell lots smarter than we are. Right now,
Speaker 9: we're just looking at the player and seeing it's an
Speaker 9: opportunity to add a player that at a position that
Speaker 9: they could surely use so.
Speaker 2: That you wouldn't have available team.
Speaker 9: Like I said, we were we were talking about, Okay,
Speaker 9: what positions would you trade? Linebacker was one of them
Speaker 9: everybody and everybody watches on a week to week basis
Speaker 9: and they watch Evans play and they're like, oh, he's
Speaker 9: been Okay, watch bell Man. That guy's playing off his
Speaker 9: app plan out of his ass for being a safety. Yeah,
Speaker 9: you know, but if you add a guy that's been
Speaker 9: kind of an all Pro, all rookie player, that's.
Speaker 10: Young, that still has that kind of ability by the way,
Speaker 10: to a mix of defensive players that are really good,
Speaker 10: you start thinking about adding him to a Michael Parsons
Speaker 10: and Bland and like that's where that would feel.
Speaker 9: That would free up Micah to now no longer have
Speaker 9: to be off ball linebacker, which which the other day
Speaker 9: against the Giants, he played five snaps of coverage and
Speaker 9: they had three sacks.
Speaker 3: You know, he did what he had to do, right.
Speaker 3: He did a fine job of that, he really really did.
Speaker 9: But that might if you have someone like Leonard, it
Speaker 9: might make Micah be Okay, now, let's think of full
Speaker 9: time Micah defensive.
Speaker 2: End guy, which going into the playoffs. I love that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And a quick.
Speaker 7: Bit of housekeeping because I saw that once the decision
Speaker 7: was made by the coach, there were a lot of
Speaker 7: Cowboys Nation who were kind of confused as far as
Speaker 7: how waiver wires work the coast trade deadline and they're saying, well,
Speaker 7: he's a vested veterans, shouldn't he be free agent?
Speaker 8: That stops at the trade deadline.
Speaker 3: So tweeted that out. That's a good that's a good
Speaker 3: job because you.
Speaker 5: Don't want you don't want teams just kind of letting
Speaker 5: guys going in randomly. Now any team, yeah, exactly want
Speaker 5: to make sure they have to go through a waiver.
Speaker 7: So that's that's the biggest thing for fans to understand
Speaker 7: is that vested veterans that doesn't matter. After the trade deadline,
Speaker 7: everybody is subject to the waiver wire. And as far
Speaker 7: as the waiver wire order, it is now based upon
Speaker 7: the record of that particular week. So the Cowboys, as
Speaker 7: we have this conversation, twenty third in the waiver wire order,
Speaker 7: so they it's.
Speaker 3: A lot of would have to pay.
Speaker 5: That's I'm looking at like, I'm like, this is a
Speaker 5: Philly kind of move. You go get a veteran guy
Speaker 5: that nobody else wants to necessarily pay the price of
Speaker 5: their contract, and you could use in the inn this
Speaker 5: scenario where they need help right now with Nikobe Dan.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and they're giving you a free They're giving you
Speaker 9: a linebacker that's young, that can play, and you just
Speaker 9: are you willing to Are you.
Speaker 3: Willing to pay the six million dollars yes? To get
Speaker 3: him more? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Think we I think we all are are now we're
Speaker 2: spending Jerry's money.
Speaker 9: But yeah, the guys, the guys that are on the
Speaker 9: practice field right now are thinking like, no, we're pretty
Speaker 9: happy with what we got.
Speaker 3: And I and I every time I hear that, I
Speaker 3: want to cry.
Speaker 7: You know, but I can respect that from a from
Speaker 7: a camaraderie standpoint.
Speaker 3: And I am players.
Speaker 7: Right, but anyone who falls knows I'm not one that
Speaker 7: you know. I don't follow the big name. So when
Speaker 7: the big name drops I'm not the person that's always like, ooh,
Speaker 7: go get them. I'm often the person that's like, well,
Speaker 7: what can they bring, what's going on, what's the money,
Speaker 7: what's this, what's the fit? But we're talking about Darius
Speaker 7: Shaquille Leonard. We're talking about a four time All Pro.
Speaker 7: Got that that's fair because we were talking about Rokwan Smith.
Speaker 2: I slipped go dogs.
Speaker 7: But as recently as twenty twenty one, so he's less
Speaker 7: than two full seasons report from being a first team
Speaker 7: All Pro. You've seen what he can do before things
Speaker 7: went awry with him in Indianapolis. I love that Rashaan
Speaker 7: Evans is coming along. I love what Marquise Bell is doing.
Speaker 7: I love that de Monk Clarke is taking the next step.
Speaker 7: But if you when this kind of player comes available,
Speaker 7: and for those that's all with some back issues, I
Speaker 7: will still pay six million dollars for an eighty percent
Speaker 7: Darius Leonard just trying for you in this defense, which
Speaker 7: then allows Michael Parson to drop back down more for
Speaker 7: de gives you not just depth at linebacker, gives you
Speaker 7: a potential star linebacker. In addition to what Marquis Bell
Speaker 7: is doing, Demon Clark and then Rashaun Evans rotating in
Speaker 7: as well. And like you said, this is a very
Speaker 7: Philadelphia Eagles type move, and the Eagles, if the Cowboys
Speaker 7: don't place the claim, you just got to bet money
Speaker 7: that Philadelphia and Howie Roseman will do it. So for
Speaker 7: two reasons you should place the claim. One, you should
Speaker 7: want Rashaun Ivans and the money should not deter you.
Speaker 7: Darius Lennond and the money should not deter you. Two,
Speaker 7: you don't want him in Philadelphia because you don't want
Speaker 7: to have to face him on December tenth and possibly
Speaker 7: in the playoffs as well. So you got enough reasons
Speaker 7: to say six million dollars will work that out.
Speaker 5: The other thing I would love about a move like
Speaker 5: this is I look at veterans like Leonard really good players,
Speaker 5: and even if let's assume for a second that there
Speaker 5: is some injury that's kind of debilitating and over time
Speaker 5: he's getting worse, if there is maybe some nerves, right,
Speaker 5: if that is the case, I still think guys like
Speaker 5: that that were so dominant at their position, if they're
Speaker 5: at this point, I would say, on a one year deal,
Speaker 5: give them that carrot, which is championship. Do they have
Speaker 5: enough left in the tank for the half of this
Speaker 5: season that's left and the playoffs to give you.
Speaker 2: Something that really can be extraordinary.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's why I look at cause for him, he
Speaker 5: might be looking at this is my last real shot
Speaker 5: to get a championship realistically before I retire, And so
Speaker 5: can you get that? Can it muster enough for him
Speaker 5: to give you that extra whatever it's gonna take. And
Speaker 5: so for me, I'm like, it's a it's a no
Speaker 5: lose proposition. It's not a long term deal. From the
Speaker 5: standpoint of money, I would look at it as it's
Speaker 5: a one it's a half a season rental and let's
Speaker 5: see what happens and throw the dice.
Speaker 2: This is this is an all in kind of move
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 3: Get ready for San Francisco to claim him.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, put him with those linebackers.
Speaker 9: That's like sometimes you sit there and you just you're like,
Speaker 9: how did this happen?
Speaker 3: How do we get we get to pull a claim
Speaker 3: in for this guy? Yeah, you know, and you're and now.
Speaker 9: You're thinking, if he if he goes to if he
Speaker 9: gets through waivers, and there's people that believe that he might,
Speaker 9: I mean, this is going to turn into I think
Speaker 9: that it's you're gonna see which team really wants to
Speaker 9: win this the most.
Speaker 3: You really are.
Speaker 5: But you know that's also the thing I personally, I
Speaker 5: would go the route of I want to if I
Speaker 5: want him, I'm doing the waiver just because if he
Speaker 5: got to being just a free agent, I'm not sure
Speaker 5: that the price wouldn't go up beyond that six point
Speaker 5: one million for that. You know, you might end up
Speaker 5: paying more money then, because I do think there are
Speaker 5: some teams that are in the playoff hunt that are
Speaker 5: gonna need some linebacker help, and this kind of player available,
Speaker 5: I think you might spend more money than just playing.
Speaker 7: This season has a chance to be the season has
Speaker 7: a chance to be special. And then you add the
Speaker 7: you know, the benefit of you could probably do this
Speaker 7: in the same season that you induct Jimmy Johnson to
Speaker 7: the Ring of Honor and the supposed curses broken. I mean,
Speaker 7: let's just have some phone with this. It's Darius Leonard.
Speaker 7: Let's not overthink it. You add him, and if it
Speaker 7: doesn't work out, okay, fine, if it works out, then additionally,
Speaker 7: you might have a mid term answer for the absence
Speaker 7: of LV doesn't mean it makes you come off with
Speaker 7: need a linebacker in April, but at least maybe it's
Speaker 7: a one to two year bridge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 7: So it's there's so many things that could go right,
Speaker 7: and whatever could go wrong really couldn't hurt you, and
Speaker 7: it's worth a six million dollar risk.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 9: I think to me, there's two ways this is go.
Speaker 9: Either you get him or Chicago gets him. Nobody else.
Speaker 9: I mean, I don't.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, if he ends up in Chicago again,
Speaker 5: I have you missed an opportunity, but it doesn't hurt you.
Speaker 3: Well, no, Chicago is the way ahead of you. Claim
Speaker 3: you know. That's I'm saying. If he gets claimed by.
Speaker 9: Chicago, you and you got nothing to do about it,
Speaker 9: and we get the claim list and Dallas is one
Speaker 9: of the three that claimed him. Now you're like going, Okay,
Speaker 9: they tried, they tried, but I don't need him. I
Speaker 9: don't need Dallas to pass on the claim. And then
Speaker 9: all of a sudden, I hear San Francisco and Philadelphia
Speaker 9: both claimed him. I don't need to hear that. Yeah,
Speaker 9: you know, it's hard enough watching San Francisco pick all
Speaker 9: players at the trade deadline.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know, not anymore? Thank you?
Speaker 5: All right, we're gonna take our first break. We will
Speaker 5: come back. We'll talk about the Washington defense versus a
Speaker 5: Dallas offense.
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Speaker 5: All right, let's talk about the Washington Defense. One thing
Speaker 5: is what do you want to know? Well, one thing
Speaker 5: that stood out to me as I started looking through it. Obviously,
Speaker 5: Chase Young, Montes Sweat were traded right before the trade deadline,
Speaker 5: and when I went back to look at their numbers,
Speaker 5: check this out. The pressure rate that they got in
Speaker 5: games one through eight when they had those players was
Speaker 5: thirty six point nine percent.
Speaker 2: They were fourteenth in the league.
Speaker 5: Since that time, three games nine through eleven, weeks nine
Speaker 5: through eleven, they are down to twenty seven point five
Speaker 5: percent pressure rate and they are thirty first.
Speaker 2: In the league.
Speaker 5: My question for you is, how is the loss of
Speaker 5: those two players affected what they do when it comes
Speaker 5: to the pass rush.
Speaker 2: Are they blitzing more? How do they actually try to
Speaker 2: get pressure?
Speaker 3: They really don't. They Yeah, yeah, gave up? Well, no, yeah,
Speaker 3: they do.
Speaker 9: They they've actually they have tried to blitz a little
Speaker 9: bit more and it's they've it's been a struggle for them.
Speaker 9: Where they're going to win this game, and I mean
Speaker 9: win this game for them defensively is with the two
Speaker 9: defensive tackles. That's where this game is going to hinge
Speaker 9: for them. I think their secondary is good enough to
Speaker 9: play with the Cowboys. I do, but the problem is
Speaker 9: the pressure, the lack of pressure They're going to try
Speaker 9: and win the middle of the pocket with with pain
Speaker 9: and with alan Jamin Davis the linebacker. I think it's
Speaker 9: a really good player though kind of be a little
Speaker 9: bit hit and miss, but it's gonna be about the
Speaker 9: middle pressure push in the pocket.
Speaker 3: Can you win with those guys?
Speaker 9: Can you control the running games and then can you
Speaker 9: get the push and then the secondary. I do like
Speaker 9: Saint Juice. I think he's a good player. I think
Speaker 9: Kendall Fuller is a good player in the draft. I
Speaker 9: love Emmanuel Forbes Mississippi State. He's a thin kind of
Speaker 9: a guy. He has made you know, made four starts,
Speaker 9: but they've got some corners. Saint jews Can is one
Speaker 9: of those guys that can defend the pass. I mean
Speaker 9: and I mean defend the pass and like stick with
Speaker 9: you knock the ball down. He's got fifteen of these
Speaker 9: deflections and you watch them on tape.
Speaker 3: I watched all the plays.
Speaker 9: I'm like, how this guy makes place. So you kind
Speaker 9: of break down the tape, go oh, all balls to him?
Speaker 9: Both there you go, and you know you see him
Speaker 9: knocking passes down, staying with guys, So how they the
Speaker 9: pressure is going to be a problem. Dallas can handle pressure.
Speaker 9: Dallas is good on the blitz pick up. Whether it's
Speaker 9: it's that both backs are very comfortable doing that. The
Speaker 9: line has done a really good job of sorting kind
Speaker 9: of that stuff out and uh, you know, we'll uh,
Speaker 9: we'll see. But if they could, those two guys inside
Speaker 9: they have to block you just and the problem is
Speaker 9: they're both disruptive. You know, you try and run the
Speaker 9: ball and they're and they just don't sit there and
Speaker 9: let grass, you know, don't kill the grass by just
Speaker 9: standing there. They're they're moving, they're like knocking your guys back,
Speaker 9: they're penetrating, they're getting inside, and they're just being very disruptive.
Speaker 9: And especially when you try and pull guys or or
Speaker 9: run schemes where they're up the field and now that
Speaker 9: you know they're they're taking the there the lineman and
Speaker 9: shoving them into the other lineman and now you can't
Speaker 9: run the hump. I mean, you can't take your path
Speaker 9: to pulling things like that. So when Dallas on offense,
Speaker 9: it's gonna come down to can Tyler Smith, can be
Speaker 9: Odish who played really well last week, and Zach Martin
Speaker 9: we talked to him yesterday. I'm like, what are you
Speaker 9: guys doing every week you're playing again, He's like, tell
Speaker 9: me about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know every week has some rough bats every
Speaker 2: every week.
Speaker 9: And he's having to deal with some guy that's you know,
Speaker 9: that's that's an All Pro player. And so this is
Speaker 9: this game. Offensively, will Hinge on the three inside for
Speaker 9: the Cowboys against the.
Speaker 3: Two for the Commanders.
Speaker 9: There defensively because I think Dallas, like I say, I
Speaker 9: think the Commanders can cover, but I also feel like
Speaker 9: the Dallas can separate, can get can get some can
Speaker 9: get some space against these as a really aggressive group
Speaker 9: in the way that they play. But if you know,
Speaker 9: with nope, with a lack of pass rush, give Dak
Speaker 9: Prescott an opportunity to scan the field. These receivers are
Speaker 9: I mean, these defensive backs are going to have to
Speaker 9: hang on and I think they're capable, but I could see.
Speaker 9: I'm not going to say it's like they've played.
Speaker 3: Some bad secondaries. I don't think this is one of the.
Speaker 9: Bad secondary they These guys don't have the edge players
Speaker 9: that a lot of teams have, but where they're where
Speaker 9: they're the best is at that defensive tackle spot.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and so to your point, attack the edges, and
Speaker 7: when you're trying to the ball attack the edges. The
Speaker 7: Cowboys know that Alan Payne Combo all too well. It
Speaker 7: is not something that you want to keep trying. That's
Speaker 7: a brick wall, man, It is really a brickwall. So
Speaker 7: you know, you have the running backs who have the
Speaker 7: ability to attack the edges, they have the speed attack them.
Speaker 7: That way force guys like who aren't Chase Young, who
Speaker 7: aren't Montes sweat and Sweat has been a thorn in
Speaker 7: the Cowboys' ass time and again. So he's out of
Speaker 7: the building now. So that's going to force longer coverage.
Speaker 7: Windows to what Brian is saying, it's not that the
Speaker 7: Commander's secondary is below Pard. They just are being forced
Speaker 7: to cover for long periods of time. And that's going
Speaker 7: to be advantage Cowboys because you're being forced to cover
Speaker 7: it guys like Brandon Cooks and Ceedee Lamb for longer
Speaker 7: periods of time. And of course Ceede Lamb is moving
Speaker 7: around a lot as well. Jake Ferguson, I think that
Speaker 7: he could have a nice game against the commanders up
Speaker 7: the seeman at the second level, getting some yak against
Speaker 7: eventually what will become a tired secondary from having to
Speaker 7: cover for so long over the first couple of quarters.
Speaker 8: So that's how you attack them.
Speaker 7: Look at where the strength is and try to avoid
Speaker 7: it because you you are still trying to get your
Speaker 7: running game going. You've not established that as a strength.
Speaker 7: They've established their defensive tackles as a strength. So no
Speaker 7: point in playing into that game. Just simply say, hey,
Speaker 7: we know you might be better at us there, but
Speaker 7: we're better than you at the edges, and that's what
Speaker 7: we're going to attack.
Speaker 9: The one thing that Dak Prescott it any quarterback will
Speaker 9: tell you is it's that they can handle the stuff
Speaker 9: that comes off the edge.
Speaker 3: It's when you get and we saw it last week.
Speaker 9: In the game for the you know, for for Bryce Young,
Speaker 9: when the middle of that pocket, when when you got
Speaker 9: guys twisting the inside and there's pushed over and then
Speaker 9: and then your center's just getting destroyed by tank and
Speaker 9: then he's you know, you can't deal with inside middle
Speaker 9: pressure kills offenses and and it's like I said, these
Speaker 9: two guys Dallas, I'm hopeful, like I said, hopeful that
Speaker 9: the odist continues on because he played last week. I
Speaker 9: thought he was really really good they and I was
Speaker 9: asking Zach about that yesterday. Got some of the running
Speaker 9: game things going, it looked like they were in a
Speaker 9: little bit better the cohesiveness of Okay, you gotta you
Speaker 9: gotta be here, and I'm gonna be here and we're
Speaker 9: gonna push this and we're gonna get outside or we're gonna,
Speaker 9: you know, taking the steps that they need to do.
Speaker 8: But Tyler Smith's been phenomenal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, left guard, Yeah, he has been well.
Speaker 5: To be honest, I was gonna go there with the
Speaker 5: next question. I think the left side of the line,
Speaker 5: I think East these guys have been playing out of
Speaker 5: their minds. My question for you guys, what do you
Speaker 5: think of the of the right side. I know Terrence
Speaker 5: still had had some issues there, but.
Speaker 9: Last Stags no, last two games and I and I'm
Speaker 9: not gonna lie. I was worried about Brian Burns because
Speaker 9: Brian Burns, to me, was dealing with Hassan Reddick. That
Speaker 9: was that, Okay, I'm going to give you a lot
Speaker 9: of movement. I'm going to attack your corner. I'm gonna
Speaker 9: dip underneath you. Oh no, I'm gonna run inside of you.
Speaker 9: He did a great job of holding up in that
Speaker 9: football game because he didn't let Burns and then we
Speaker 9: knew when you run the ball at Burns you can
Speaker 9: make some hay and and that's what they were able
Speaker 9: to do.
Speaker 3: So he beat up Burns in that game. Uh, this
Speaker 3: will be a little bit. He can actually maybe catch
Speaker 3: his breath in this one. And then on the edges,
Speaker 3: how do you.
Speaker 2: Think Zach holds up against these defensive tackles.
Speaker 7: I think Zach will hold up as well as Zach
Speaker 7: Martin can hold up. And then that's that's a good thing,
Speaker 7: because Zach Martin is always going to be Zach Martin.
Speaker 7: But we we'd be remiss if we pretended that he's
Speaker 7: going to win every single rep. He's not going to
Speaker 7: win every single rep against a fellow All Pro.
Speaker 9: That's an honest opinion right there. Because there's some times,
Speaker 9: and I think Zach Martin will admit there has been
Speaker 9: some times where he's been a one legged football player
Speaker 9: where all of a sudden, he's doing with power and
Speaker 9: he hits a guy and it's like, uh, oh, you know,
Speaker 9: I'm not moving this guy, and now he's moving me
Speaker 9: a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: I think there's been some times where Zach Martin will
Speaker 9: will your in my mind and I and heart will
Speaker 9: always be Zach Martin. But we're starting to see some
Speaker 9: of those times where he's hitting somebody really hard and
Speaker 9: it's like when you're catching that big lunker bass and
Speaker 9: you're trying and set the hook and you can't move him.
Speaker 9: Zach's kind of I can't move him. I can't move
Speaker 9: that guy, you know. And back in the day he
Speaker 9: would move that guy with the punch. He's holding on
Speaker 9: really right, they're holding on to bad word he is.
Speaker 9: He's having to fight a lot harder than he did
Speaker 9: two three years.
Speaker 5: It's not that I don't think it's that he's necessarily
Speaker 5: like you say, he's not.
Speaker 2: He's not worse. It's more a situation he's playing again.
Speaker 2: He's having a badass Ye.
Speaker 5: He's having to play differently too, Like you can tell
Speaker 5: he's having to work on some of these guys.
Speaker 2: Well before, it.
Speaker 5: Looked very always looked very easy for Zach Martin, and
Speaker 5: this year I had all I wondered if it was
Speaker 5: just me saying it. I was seeing their plays where
Speaker 5: it's like, man, that was a rough that was a
Speaker 5: rough rush. The guy didn't get there, but it was
Speaker 5: a rough rep. That was one where where Zach probably
Speaker 5: had to take a deep breath in the huddlings and
Speaker 5: be like, okay, let me keep myself.
Speaker 7: Zach still has he still has the same armor he's
Speaker 7: always had. But but there are a couple of cracks
Speaker 7: in the armor, a couple of cracks in the armor
Speaker 7: that comes with going against all of these bad asses.
Speaker 3: Weakens and wearing a little bit.
Speaker 9: I shouldn't say that because I said about somebody maybe
Speaker 9: somebody else is slowing down, and they had six sacks,
Speaker 9: but it was a question by But the thing about
Speaker 9: it with Zach is that and he knows it.
Speaker 3: When you talk to him, he talks about he brings up.
Speaker 9: There was never a time you talk to him and
Speaker 9: he would talk about he's like Mat Dexter Lawrence this week. Yeah,
Speaker 9: you know, you know, he knows, he knows that maybe
Speaker 9: that his you know, he's seeing, he's seeing ahead big picture.
Speaker 9: He's like, damn, he goes every week, I'm fighting one
Speaker 9: of these guys, and you know, and there was a
Speaker 9: time where every week that the other opponent was.
Speaker 3: Going, damn, I'm fighting this guy again.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I think Zach, I mean, he's he's battling
Speaker 9: to a level where it's his His just a little
Speaker 9: bit below where he is is still better than anybody else.
Speaker 3: It's in the game.
Speaker 9: But there was a time where he was the gold
Speaker 9: standard for you know, like when you watch him play
Speaker 9: it was hit control turned pen.
Speaker 2: It's kind of what we're seeing from Tyler right now.
Speaker 5: Like if you watch it, it's interesting because Tyler's playing some
Speaker 5: really outstanding football and you could see several plays in
Speaker 5: every game where he absolutely dominates the guy from him.
Speaker 9: I mean absolutely younger, stronger guy.
Speaker 8: Yes what I'm saying, and that ultimately it comes down
Speaker 8: to that.
Speaker 7: I mean, Zach Martin right now is still arguably the
Speaker 7: best right guard in all of the league. And I
Speaker 7: would say arguably the best guard because you look at
Speaker 7: Tyler and you're like Tyler right I mean, we're also
Speaker 7: talking about a thirty three year old and Zach Martin
Speaker 7: and it's on the back end of the season. And
Speaker 7: then when you look at who he's having to go against, you,
Speaker 7: it can wear one a little bit, but he will
Speaker 7: hold his own. He might not win every rep against
Speaker 7: a guy like Painting Allen, but he can hold his own.
Speaker 7: But what's promising to your turrent Steel. Question was did
Speaker 7: he win every rep against the Panthers? No, but he
Speaker 7: won most of them. And one that should flash and
Speaker 7: show promise going forward was when the Tony Pollard right
Speaker 7: end and Steel is out there, it's eye hop all
Speaker 7: you can eat. He's just stacked. It's just pancakes. He's
Speaker 7: just bodying guys. So I think the right right side
Speaker 7: will be just fine, especially considering the edges have been
Speaker 7: weakened with the Washington commanders in those trades.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I give anything.
Speaker 9: And it's so unfortunate that that would happen with Frederick,
Speaker 9: you know, with it with the signs and all that,
Speaker 9: because right now, like if you had Tyler Smith, Frederick
Speaker 9: and Martin all playing inside, I yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 9: that would.
Speaker 3: Be because the way Frederick.
Speaker 9: Would cut the defense in half, the way that he
Speaker 9: would get up the field. I mean, you that guy
Speaker 9: at Philadelphi, we all watched it, you know, in that
Speaker 9: money night games, pulling and doing.
Speaker 3: Things that that was Travis Frederick too.
Speaker 9: Travis Frederick was that guy that's you know, playing at Philadelphia.
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Speaker 8: Bowl like they're watching us in the wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, It's so funny. I'm sitting there one time.
Speaker 9: I mean, I had a hamburg I was like I
Speaker 9: was wrisk deep in one of those. It's like just
Speaker 9: drizzling down my arm, and like people are like watching me.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, here's Brian brought it?
Speaker 3: And like eating a cheese.
Speaker 9: My face and my wrists and I'm trying to grab
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Speaker 2: And I do need to real quick before we move on.
Speaker 5: I need to give a quick shout out to our
Speaker 5: guys from UK Cowboys. They are in town. I came
Speaker 5: in for thanks again. They brought all kinds of gifts. Man,
Speaker 5: they brought me some whiskey.
Speaker 8: I was like, where's where's my wish?
Speaker 3: I got hold on the boat. You guys.
Speaker 2: It was just a nice It was a nice.
Speaker 3: I brought it.
Speaker 9: I brought a g bag Nation flag for him and
Speaker 9: they But they already have to bar.
Speaker 3: Do I need to walk.
Speaker 2: Across probably, so I'm guessing they're at the bar.
Speaker 5: Those guys go hard, as we found out when we
Speaker 5: went to London and we with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we went.
Speaker 5: That was That was a week I will never forget
Speaker 5: and probably don't want to relive like it was.
Speaker 2: We need we need to go crazy. But yeah, they're
Speaker 2: in town. They're going to be joining the game tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I think they got an event Friday, I think they
Speaker 5: were saying, and maybe have some players out there Friday
Speaker 5: or Saturday. But they're in town for games, so I
Speaker 5: got to give those guys a little shot.
Speaker 9: You see him though, if you see him at the
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Speaker 3: And then the accents are awesome.
Speaker 2: Great guys, great guys.
Speaker 7: All right, a couple of quick things before we jump
Speaker 7: back into the football talk. Yes, dran Bland has been
Speaker 7: named NFC defensive player of the week.
Speaker 8: So let's give.
Speaker 2: He's gonna say, need to be say with your chess.
Speaker 3: Underrated player voted that thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so absolutely shouts out to dron Blank. Keep on,
Speaker 7: keep on doing what you're doing, and hopefully he breaks
Speaker 7: the record on a special day like Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: That will be nice.
Speaker 8: He'll have the chance.
Speaker 2: That would be nice.
Speaker 5: All right, real quick, I do I would like to
Speaker 5: get one quick question here from a fan. We got
Speaker 5: I'm sorry question from Twitter from Brett Bender. He says,
Speaker 5: how will the Cowboys handle the three games in twelve days?
Speaker 5: Particularly from a practice standpoint? It says he feels like
Speaker 5: they're always unprepared for at least one of those games.
Speaker 5: What do you think of kind of how the Cowboys
Speaker 5: handle it? What can fans expect from the standpoint of
Speaker 5: their practice schedule and how they get ready for these
Speaker 5: three games.
Speaker 7: Mike McCarthy realized that sleep is no longer for the week. Yeah,
Speaker 7: Mike said that at some you know, for the majority
Speaker 7: of his coaching career he felt that quote unquote, sleep
Speaker 7: was for the week.
Speaker 8: And then he said, how stupid is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It matters.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it matter.
Speaker 7: They're they're you know, the coaching staff. They're very keyed
Speaker 7: in on the GPS numbers of these guys, managing these
Speaker 7: guys workload. And that's why this week, two games in
Speaker 7: four days, it's been basically three walkthroughs going into the game.
Speaker 7: You're not going to see a full on practice. So
Speaker 7: that's that's basically how the Cowboys are managing it. They
Speaker 7: don't want to put any unnecessary reps or contact on
Speaker 7: these guys with three games in eleven days. So I
Speaker 7: think they'll be fine because I think m McCarthy's figured
Speaker 7: it out and that's why they continue to do what
Speaker 7: they do at home.
Speaker 9: There used to be a fun time where you didn't
Speaker 9: have to play a game on a Thursday.
Speaker 3: After a Thursday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know that ten days.
Speaker 9: We always we always were like surely like yeah when
Speaker 9: the when the Thanksgiving Day game and then you got
Speaker 9: the extra time to get ready.
Speaker 3: Well, now the league says not so fast.
Speaker 9: And so yeah, uh, I did notice walking into the
Speaker 9: facility today. Then before a game here you are practice,
Speaker 9: that helmet's on. You know, it's usually like you're thinking
Speaker 9: about walk through, walk through, maybe a little bit maybe
Speaker 9: it was slow, slow, slow.
Speaker 3: And then maybe a little bit more to day, a
Speaker 3: little bit more, but not.
Speaker 2: To the point where enough to wake up your body.
Speaker 3: Right, we're in helmets. Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 9: I mean, I like, before practice, before a game, you're
Speaker 9: thinking like wow, But that's maccar I mean, I will
Speaker 9: give him credit for that. There are things that I
Speaker 9: will absolutely go after him on. But the fact of
Speaker 9: the way his team he finds a way, he has
Speaker 9: an understanding of how it is to keep his team upright,
Speaker 9: and the and the guys and gals I know in
Speaker 9: this organization that that really managed.
Speaker 3: These players appreciate that, you know what.
Speaker 5: You know, one thing I'll point out you just mentioned
Speaker 5: the kind of the back to back Thursday games. I
Speaker 5: actually think that's an advantage for Dallas is why because.
Speaker 3: Most play at home now.
Speaker 5: Well not only that, not only that, but most times
Speaker 5: when you're playing a Thursday game, you and the other
Speaker 5: team are in the same boat. You both are coming
Speaker 5: off at least a Sunday game and then you're playing Thursday.
Speaker 5: Cowboys are going to actually get a full seven days
Speaker 5: of practice before Seattle when Seattle will come in playing
Speaker 5: on a on a short week.
Speaker 3: Are they playing tomorrow? They're playing Sunday?
Speaker 5: They are playing. I was going to say that would
Speaker 5: be an advantage if you're playing, but I guess the
Speaker 5: beautiful thing is at least you got a seven seven
Speaker 5: day week, so that's a normal week, and then you'll
Speaker 5: get a ten day after that. So I still think
Speaker 5: it's a valuable thing for I don't think it hurts
Speaker 5: to just push off that ten day week until after
Speaker 5: the second game, as long as you're still going to
Speaker 5: get a seven day.
Speaker 7: And it's a ten day week going into today week
Speaker 7: going into the Phillish Philly, So there you go, because
Speaker 7: that's a normal week for Philly. They still have seven
Speaker 7: days between games. Cowboys getting extra two or three, right,
Speaker 7: all right.
Speaker 2: Let's get some picks.
Speaker 5: What do you guys think is going to happen tomorrow?
Speaker 5: Cowboys versus Commanders, Thanksgiving Day, three thirty pm at AT and.
Speaker 9: T State Logical tell you that they'll probably blow these
Speaker 9: guys out, right, because they score fifty points every home game.
Speaker 9: Right now, I don't think that's going to be the
Speaker 9: I think this is going to be a tough game.
Speaker 9: I do, and I think Dallas will win this game.
Speaker 9: But I'm looking more like I think there's some things
Speaker 9: skill wise with these Commander receivers. I'll be interested if
Speaker 9: Eric b Enemy decides in a short week, let's let's
Speaker 9: test this Dallas run defense and see if they've kind
Speaker 9: of got things squared up a little bit. The Cowboys
Speaker 9: are their own worst enemy when they play run defense,
Speaker 9: when they get off balance, when they get turned, knocked around,
Speaker 9: stuff like that, So I'll be interesting if they challenge him.
Speaker 9: I'm going to say this is one of those games
Speaker 9: where Dallas finds a way to win it. It's going
Speaker 9: to be a twenty seven to twenty four game. I
Speaker 9: think it's going to be really really close.
Speaker 3: At the end. Dallas probably will have a lead and
Speaker 3: have to kind of hang on a little bit.
Speaker 7: I think it's close at the half, and then the
Speaker 7: Cowboys start pulling away for me until someone shows me
Speaker 7: that they can slow down the dominance of the Cowboys
Speaker 7: at home, you know, until you see.
Speaker 8: It's not happened yet.
Speaker 7: So I do feel like the Cowboys are gonna win
Speaker 7: by a sizeable margin. This is still a Commander's team,
Speaker 7: although they are better in the secondary than people will
Speaker 7: give them credit for. They don't have the edge rushers.
Speaker 7: They have the two dogs in the middle, but not
Speaker 7: the edge rushers Cowboys offense at home, it's just become ridiculous.
Speaker 8: So it's a.
Speaker 7: Dogfight going into the halftime. Cowboys make some adjustments, Commanders
Speaker 7: can't Matt serve with that. Cowboys take it forty three
Speaker 7: to seventeen.
Speaker 5: I think this offense of the of the forty nine
Speaker 5: I'm sorry now of the Commanders is I don't think
Speaker 5: they get enough credit for what they're doing. You look
Speaker 5: across the games they've played, they put up some points.
Speaker 5: Like they've lost some close games, but they put up
Speaker 5: some points. I think this is going to be a
Speaker 5: shootout tomorrow, and I don't think it will be a
Speaker 5: I don't think it will be a situation where the
Speaker 5: Cowboys pull away in the first half or second half.
Speaker 5: I think this is going to be a shootout. I
Speaker 5: think it's gonna come down to final possessions. I think
Speaker 5: the Cowboys will win, but I think it's gonna be
Speaker 5: a close game, and I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 5: lot of scoring. I think the final score is thirty
Speaker 5: eight thirty four Dallas wins, and it'll be very similar
Speaker 5: to what they did against Philip Healthy and a lot
Speaker 5: of other teams year.
Speaker 2: They played them really really close, and just they just
Speaker 2: came up short. At the end of the day.
Speaker 5: They don't have enough to be able to get over
Speaker 5: that hump. And I think Dallas has a little more
Speaker 5: on the offensive side of the ball. But I do
Speaker 5: think it's gonna be a shootout. I think it's gonna
Speaker 5: be a fun game. For those that don't have a
Speaker 5: rooting interest, and you got a rooting interest, it might
Speaker 5: be like heartburn after eating your Thanksgiving dinner. It might
Speaker 5: be heartburn. But hopefully the Cowboys come out on top,
Speaker 5: and I think they will. All right, we appreciate you, guys, Jones.
Speaker 5: We'll be back on Monday. We're not in on Friday,
Speaker 5: but Monday we'll be back. We'll tell you what when
Speaker 5: right and wrong for the Cowboys, and we will quickly
Speaker 5: start getting you ready for Cowboys versus the Seahawks. We'll
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