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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at No. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. You know what I miss? What do
Speaker 1: you miss? I missed the Cowboys fight song? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: you know what? Isn't that safeway cut in? But did
Speaker 1: we not win the bye week? Yes? They did? There
Speaker 1: we go well in Dallas, Waite Phillips. We won the
Speaker 1: bye week, right, Gwenda Waite Phillips, So we won the
Speaker 1: bye week? This wol too? Right? Yeah? Absolutely? And in fact,
Speaker 1: I think we need to make this a staple. This
Speaker 1: fight song gets you fire it up for Sunday's game,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. Yes? I forgot all about it doing my hiatus.
Speaker 1: So I thought you guys kept up tradition. We did not.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening when you were here. But you know what,
Speaker 1: don't you think we make an executive decision every Friday,
Speaker 1: every Friday, regardless of whether they won or lost the
Speaker 1: previous week, because maybe we should play some fires. You
Speaker 1: up for a fabulous football Friday and a football weekend, right,
Speaker 1: either that or right before we make our picks. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're assuming that people make it that fared to catch
Speaker 1: before they change the channel, man, before they dial out
Speaker 1: right off to keep teasing them. And on the little
Speaker 1: headline that you put you go cowboys anthem or whatever
Speaker 1: you call that. Yes, and fight song. So fight song,
Speaker 1: fight on it's fight song Friday, Fight on Friday, Fight
Speaker 1: on Friday. Like that. I think I'll use that today
Speaker 1: very cowboys stampede, Cowboys stampede. That's right, it is, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they don't go with Friday. Yeah, so it needs
Speaker 1: to be fight song, fight fright today just for this week, Yes,
Speaker 1: right on Friday. I like that. But we are we
Speaker 1: gonna be full. They're gonna be punning us to death
Speaker 1: this weekend, especially doing the Sunday night game. Michael's back.
Speaker 1: I guess he probably is. Tarko did it one week
Speaker 1: at least, Yeah, he did. They're gonna just they're gonna
Speaker 1: just well bombard us with puns doing the game. Al Michael's,
Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth and Michelle Tafoya. Okay, there you go. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll probably have a net like fighter net or I
Speaker 1: just mean coming from the booth. Yeah, you know all
Speaker 1: these comments, you know it looks like the cowboys. This
Speaker 1: is horrible. Oh my god, yes, him on that right,
Speaker 1: it's they're gonna kill us. They're gonna kill us. Sunday
Speaker 1: night football game on Halloween. I haven't seen anybody in
Speaker 1: the building today dressed up? Good, Yeah, I brought you
Speaker 1: dressed up? Who that look like? I turned the jack
Speaker 1: O lannerd so the face was facing the camera and
Speaker 1: how did he get spun around? Every single This is
Speaker 1: a code. This is COVID candy. Is not covids COVID candy,
Speaker 1: and I am I am in costa. Come on, yeah,
Speaker 1: look at you coffee. Come on. Well. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, and talking with coach McCarthy about playing on
Speaker 1: a Halloween night, he indicated that he has received notice
Speaker 1: from the folks who run the stadium in Minnesota that
Speaker 1: there's going to be some Halloween antics going on inside
Speaker 1: the stadium, like the lights going down and during timeouts
Speaker 1: things like that. That. Oh yeah, so so the NFL
Speaker 1: is allowing that, Well, I don't know, yes, they are,
Speaker 1: just it was he got a he got a warning
Speaker 1: that about that and uh, he's just what he is
Speaker 1: calling for is for fans and attendance to dress up
Speaker 1: as Cowboys fans. So ever since you or yeah, the
Speaker 1: year your proper game day attire, right, that just gives
Speaker 1: them an opportunity to screw this game up and just
Speaker 1: all chalk it up to oh, it was just Halloween night. Now,
Speaker 1: now y'all start screwing with the telecam. You know what
Speaker 1: you do. You know what you do. You show this
Speaker 1: team Halloween night nineteen ninety three in Philadelphia, Right, it
Speaker 1: was late afternoon on end, it was an afternoon It
Speaker 1: was an afternoon game, but it was a late afternoon game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So then went into the night. It was you know,
Speaker 1: especially East Coast, it was well it was a four
Speaker 1: four o'clock start, so it was it was seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: It was a night game by the time. Was for
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Well, it was a lot of thought. Bro
Speaker 1: yes it I saw that he's got the most rushing
Speaker 1: yards ever in a Halloween games, one of the most
Speaker 1: memorable games in his career to thirty was it too
Speaker 1: kind of DeMarco? I'm in hollow, Yeah, but but DeMarco
Speaker 1: broke the record singles thirty single game rushing records. Was
Speaker 1: that against Seattle that DeMarco was against Rams the Rams
Speaker 1: and it was and it was back there Rams the
Speaker 1: Rams dude, so they was they sucked? Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll take it and U but that would you that
Speaker 1: that ranks pretty high on the memorable Emmett moments in
Speaker 1: Cowboys history. That and the Giants game Giants game when
Speaker 1: he opened it with a sixty yard well obviously talking
Speaker 1: about the Giants final regular season game. Okay, I was
Speaker 1: just why why do we even care? So? I know
Speaker 1: what I'm on the Emmets in the NBA. We would
Speaker 1: it would remember, we would remember that Emmet game against
Speaker 1: Philadelphia regardless of what was. But that helps. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: just helps. Uh? You know so since this stamp this
Speaker 1: is they always say they would, they actually wouldn't. Note
Speaker 1: best I got somebody sent me a whole list of
Speaker 1: statistics for Halloween, like most touchdown passes on exactly right,
Speaker 1: whatever it? So? I want to know if it's since
Speaker 1: it's Halloween, will Mike bring pumpkins to Minneapolis and not watermelons? Man?
Speaker 1: Did we just talk about this? I'm loathing this already. Man,
Speaker 1: We pumpkins instead of watermelons. Remember they smashed watermelons before
Speaker 1: the Minnesota's true. Yes, wow, so and they had to
Speaker 1: bring their own watermelons too, by the way, So you
Speaker 1: think they were bringing pumpkins on the flight. I don't know, though,
Speaker 1: he knows. Well, they're going to have the band smashing
Speaker 1: pumpkins play there we go. Are you doing the game
Speaker 1: Sunday night, Chris? I will be that. Now I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you're getting the booth with Hogsworth and my Chris is
Speaker 1: going to be the man with the puns. Now a
Speaker 1: Spags is the one with the receipt in his pocket
Speaker 1: from all the pumpkins that he bought. That's right. And
Speaker 1: the sledgehammer home depot. Actually, Mike made reference that today
Speaker 1: before he started his press conference. He said that was
Speaker 1: one heck of a sledge hammer we bought. It was
Speaker 1: very specially said I'd never seen one like that before.
Speaker 1: All right, So what's gonna make it a happy Halloween
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys on Halloween night? Ever said in Minneapolis, man,
Speaker 1: I'm want to see a stopped every winning game. That's
Speaker 1: what's gonna be a happy night, stop running game. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's not bury the lead though, Yes, you go I
Speaker 1: want all sides of it, yes, okay. So while we
Speaker 1: were doing our podcast yesterday, Dak Prescott was doing his
Speaker 1: weekly interview and he basically said, if it was up
Speaker 1: to me, I would play. But there's more going into
Speaker 1: this decision, meaning the head coach, the trainer, whoever else
Speaker 1: gets a hand in deciding if it is worth sending
Speaker 1: him out there. Knowing that they still have ten games
Speaker 1: to play after this one. He feels like he could
Speaker 1: go out and play. He did. Basically, he upgraded what
Speaker 1: he did the day before on Thursday, before practice, I
Speaker 1: told you that today no practice, right they practiced tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Mike said. He came back a little sore because he
Speaker 1: did a little bit more work yesterday than he had.
Speaker 1: It sounds like now Jerry was very optimistic. He said,
Speaker 1: I'd like to think Dak can go. Will think that
Speaker 1: things are looking good right now about Dak. So that
Speaker 1: was Jerry this morning. During Mike's press conference about the
Speaker 1: same time, he basically said that they will keep keeping
Speaker 1: an eye on him, see that he continues to progress
Speaker 1: and probably come to some sort of conclusion on Saturday,
Speaker 1: not that they're gonna tell anybody. And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of that will depend on how they list him
Speaker 1: today on the official injury report status. My guess is
Speaker 1: it's going to be questionable, and then if it goes
Speaker 1: to they know he's not going to play, they may
Speaker 1: go doubtful or he's out, But that wouldn't change till
Speaker 1: about three o'clock on Saturday. And they don't have to
Speaker 1: do that either if they leave it questionable and then
Speaker 1: they decide he's not playing. Now, if he doesn't get
Speaker 1: on the charter, then everybody's gonna know he's not playing
Speaker 1: and that'll get out. But you know he could. He could,
Speaker 1: so you could dress him and say he's the backup, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: which I think is going to happen with Lale Collins
Speaker 1: by the way. I think he's going to be active. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then he'll be the backup swing tackle, maybe the
Speaker 1: backup left guard. Who knows. So what are the back
Speaker 1: on deck? What are the chances deck would not be
Speaker 1: on the flight? Even if they decided that he would
Speaker 1: not be playing, Oh, he would still go. He would
Speaker 1: still staying home, although they probably don't want him standing
Speaker 1: for three and a half hours on the sideline. There's
Speaker 1: a bench. Well, yeah, like he's gonna sit down when
Speaker 1: when when the offense comes out the field, Yeah he'll
Speaker 1: sit down. Hell yeah he'll He'll need one of the
Speaker 1: charter flight attendants to please fasten your seatbelt. Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, after what we saw last night and what
Speaker 1: we've seen from some of the greater players in the league,
Speaker 1: whether your quarterback or whatever, you're gonna take a lot
Speaker 1: to keep him off the field. It's just the way
Speaker 1: it's it's almost going to be impossible to keep him
Speaker 1: off the field. You talk about us being having our
Speaker 1: lead in the NFC's division, I get that, But when
Speaker 1: it comes down to it, we're not worried about the
Speaker 1: NFC East. We're worried about the NFC and we need
Speaker 1: to keep pace. We might just stumble up on home
Speaker 1: field advantage. We might stumble up on not being a
Speaker 1: wild card team for once in our lives. After what
Speaker 1: happened last night, we see that. You know, undefeated ain't
Speaker 1: what it used to be. The more you'll win losing.
Speaker 1: I've always told you guys that weird stuff will happen.
Speaker 1: Had you had you had you had a struggling quarterback
Speaker 1: for the Packers, you know, but they still came up
Speaker 1: with a great game player. I got new respect for
Speaker 1: the coach. Now, yes, Packers because they were of a
Speaker 1: game player. They were without their three top and was
Speaker 1: it the offensive coordinator defense? One of the coordinators was
Speaker 1: out too, Now that was us and they played probably
Speaker 1: one of their best defensive games of the seat, because
Speaker 1: I always thought that was their downfalls, the Packers defense,
Speaker 1: and that Jah he didn't play. He had his cities on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he wasn't dressed though. But to the point, those Rogers
Speaker 1: carried that team, right yep last night? Right? No, who
Speaker 1: carried that team the winning game? Carre with that team? Okay,
Speaker 1: well they were that A. J. Dillon. I didn't know
Speaker 1: much about her. Lord. They were lowering their shoulder like
Speaker 1: they were they we just didn't want to That name
Speaker 1: was Zeke or something. They couldn't stop them once they
Speaker 1: made first contact. Yeah, so to me, I mean they
Speaker 1: rallied for him. He didn't carry. They rallied for him
Speaker 1: for once. I don't think he had two hundred yards
Speaker 1: passes stop. A lot of his passes were very ill advised.
Speaker 1: Passes should have been intercepted. A couple of them should
Speaker 1: have been intercepted. But he wasn't worried about that. He knew,
Speaker 1: he knew what he was doing. In regards to the coach,
Speaker 1: had Uh had had Rogers playing as if he was
Speaker 1: handing the ball off. All of those passes. They were
Speaker 1: just long handoffs. He didn't ask much from him, and
Speaker 1: when they did, he almost screwed up at least a
Speaker 1: couple of times. And how about Kyler on the other side,
Speaker 1: That wasn't one of his better gibbs until the last
Speaker 1: driveway and he gets them down there. Here's the thing, guys,
Speaker 1: how do you not rush him up the middle every time?
Speaker 1: How do you not have that kind of success against
Speaker 1: Kyler Mary every time? And I know it's easier said
Speaker 1: than Ton. Okay, we're just gonna last them out the medal.
Speaker 1: We're gonna contain them in the pocket. We're gonna come
Speaker 1: down the field. That sounds easy. Now, this is your
Speaker 1: best way, best scenario for him, though, And that's what
Speaker 1: was working for the Packers. That was the that was
Speaker 1: the game plan. Come on, maybe they do this spack size,
Speaker 1: give me a break, you know, and they watch it
Speaker 1: well and say no, no, But he's in deep thought
Speaker 1: right now. He's going no. But um, they're trying to
Speaker 1: do what they can to protect him and not run
Speaker 1: him like they have in the past. But you know
Speaker 1: that goes back to their draft when they drafted Rondale
Speaker 1: Moore some of that stuff where Kyler get out on
Speaker 1: the edge and stuff, and Rondelle Moore is as fast
Speaker 1: as Kyler is. Yeah, and so by design they can
Speaker 1: run some of that jet sweep stuff that even if
Speaker 1: they don't hand to him, that motion freezes the defense
Speaker 1: and clears opportunities out for Kyler. But Kyler he has
Speaker 1: not when he came here and played last year, he
Speaker 1: did not have a good passing game and there were
Speaker 1: several passes he threw up for Grass he just winging it.
Speaker 1: This guy is really lucky. He should go to Vegas
Speaker 1: because you know, if you look at the great pass
Speaker 1: he through last year that ended up the big touchdown, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not even looking. He just wings it right. Well,
Speaker 1: the first touchdown pass, he just winged that. And after
Speaker 1: dB didn't get lost, he hasn't covered. And you know,
Speaker 1: but you better go that way, like don't look, don't
Speaker 1: stop and look, you better go that way because that's
Speaker 1: where he's going. I mean, but you're right here. You
Speaker 1: give him, you give him credit. For being able to
Speaker 1: make the throws and the accuracy and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: but he takes chances. There's a lot of I mean this,
Speaker 1: it starts to catch up after a while, the league, sports, competition,
Speaker 1: all of it. Eventually it catches up. And that's what
Speaker 1: you like about the good quarterbacks. You can catch up
Speaker 1: all you want, but I'm gonna switch gears. See. That's
Speaker 1: what the good quarterbacks have done. That's what Rodgers has done,
Speaker 1: That's what Brady has done. We know what your weaknesses are,
Speaker 1: but okay, you know my weeks are. You still can't
Speaker 1: stop me saying you were right about rushing him up
Speaker 1: the middle, because now you took away his ability to run. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was going out the back of the bucket. That's
Speaker 1: when the quarter as exciting as that is. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: looked tired, didn't the whole didn't. They looked tired in
Speaker 1: the first half. He looked tired in the first half.
Speaker 1: They hadn't run all those places and they were at home,
Speaker 1: so they really came out kind of listless as a team.
Speaker 1: And that's what you mean. We say, you know, the
Speaker 1: you know, the longer you go and defeated, the closer
Speaker 1: you are to losing because it's just that is what
Speaker 1: I'm waiting on for the Cowboys, Right, it happens, It
Speaker 1: just happens, no more. My scoff is significant because they're
Speaker 1: playing a credible appointing upon it and if they don't
Speaker 1: come out ready to go, they're gonna get lost with
Speaker 1: a deceptive record. Yeah, they have a deceptive You guys,
Speaker 1: see the explanation on the last play for the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: the interception, tell me what happened. So I saw a
Speaker 1: story and it was quoting a source saying that they
Speaker 1: checked the play at the line of scrimmage because the
Speaker 1: play Troy was right. The ball was supposed to go left. Yes,
Speaker 1: and he said something to the factor. For some reason,
Speaker 1: it didn't go left. He probably saw the matchup to
Speaker 1: the right and he had man and evidently aj Green
Speaker 1: didn't get the check or he didn't under He was
Speaker 1: a bit listless all night talking about aj Green. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he just you know, he thought that I kept thinking
Speaker 1: about old contracts. I kept thinking about the whole contracts.
Speaker 1: Last night. I told my son, I'm oh, my god, surprise,
Speaker 1: Bill is not texting right now because he looked old.
Speaker 1: He didn't look like he belonged on that team. Without
Speaker 1: a Hopkins on the field, they lost a lot of
Speaker 1: their offense. But I think he thought he didn't catch
Speaker 1: the check and he thought the ball was going left
Speaker 1: and he was just a decoy. Well, you see, earlier
Speaker 1: in the game, he got cut off badly by the dB.
Speaker 1: I mean the ball was over his head by twenty
Speaker 1: yards because he didn't even finish the route. So he
Speaker 1: was trying to get a sub after the route. They're
Speaker 1: waiting on him at the line of scrimmage. They didn't
Speaker 1: put a sub before him tapping his Yeah he's there,
Speaker 1: They're like, no, come on back, So he had to
Speaker 1: run back. I believe he had to stay in the game,
Speaker 1: but he delayed their their hell up offense, just simply
Speaker 1: out of you know, there's the kind of things you
Speaker 1: don't see from someone that's been on the team for
Speaker 1: quite some time and with that much experience. And I
Speaker 1: will I will correct the announcers for saying that, because
Speaker 1: there was a whole lot of Packer fans in the stands, Oh,
Speaker 1: this team they travel, well, No, those people left Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: If you live in Wisconsin, you're gonna travel, right, Let's
Speaker 1: go every home you have moved your houses now in Arizona.
Speaker 1: That was like, you know when they said they would
Speaker 1: say that about the Cowboy fans in Arizona, It's like, no,
Speaker 1: the Cowboy fans people move there. Or the fact that
Speaker 1: when they didn't have a team, Tech put that radio
Speaker 1: station in Phoenix and he developed a fan base. It
Speaker 1: was sort of like the cub fan base because of
Speaker 1: WGN right all over the country. Well, the Cowboys fan
Speaker 1: base developed in Arizona because they didn't have a team.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys were one of the closest teams other than
Speaker 1: if they then it made this round all the way around.
Speaker 1: I I'm sure it's Idaho. Yeah. And it's like with
Speaker 1: hockey here, okay. When the Stars play the Red Wings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's not like all those fans just flew down
Speaker 1: from Detroit for that game one of eighty two. They
Speaker 1: lived there. I've got two neighbors who are from you
Speaker 1: can They've lived here for thirty years and now they're
Speaker 1: wearing everyone the Red Wing stuff. Same with the Blackhawks too.
Speaker 1: There you go, that's right. And the same thing when
Speaker 1: the Tigers would play the Rangers, it would be all
Speaker 1: Detroit fans at the stadium at the Ballpoint probably live
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Speaker 1: DCRB so Rhythm and Blue. So they're having a band
Speaker 1: or a DJ. No, it's it's the guys that are
Speaker 1: in gals that dance on the on the on the
Speaker 1: end zone. Okay, so just the music. I thought, the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Rhythm and Blue dancers, dancing and drumline. WHOA nice? So
Speaker 1: if you're gonna have an event, all right, Mickey, where
Speaker 1: would you like to go next year? Let's go? Um?
Speaker 1: Are we doing rants today? Ransom Monday's Ransom Monday Rants?
Speaker 1: Like is Mike shots. I'm not gonna ran on anything.
Speaker 1: Nothing's bothering me. Okay, yeah, that's Monday though. Yeah that
Speaker 1: other than the day I drove in and I saw
Speaker 1: five people with a dog sitting in their lap while
Speaker 1: they were driving down Sam Rayburn Expressway. Five people, five
Speaker 1: different cars. Yes, Why why do people drive with their
Speaker 1: dog in their car? Well, I mean in their lap
Speaker 1: because they're dogs won't get off your lap. I've tried that,
Speaker 1: but all sorry, I'm guilty. If you're my daughter's a
Speaker 1: little dog. She won't get out, stay on my lap,
Speaker 1: and they she winds up butt off over the passages,
Speaker 1: side man, kissing heads out the window. When you've got
Speaker 1: you're taking two beagles to the vet, okay by yourself?
Speaker 1: What do you do? How do you how do you
Speaker 1: going to get? You put them in a dog cage?
Speaker 1: Well okay, oh my god, you want that's cruelty. No,
Speaker 1: it's not keeps them safe. Okay, I'm sorry. My beagle Romo,
Speaker 1: he he, he has to get in my lap to
Speaker 1: go to the I don't want to see it either.
Speaker 1: So I was bunny. Okay, that's my rant. Okay, Romo's
Speaker 1: now so now where do you want to By the way,
Speaker 1: Romo's now fourteen years old. We got Bo and Romo.
Speaker 1: I wanted to name I wanted to name him TiO
Speaker 1: and Romo, and I got exed out on t O
Speaker 1: and so's bow it's b e a U. I was later, yeah,
Speaker 1: and Romo. So that's how I know that of their
Speaker 1: age becau as we got him in Romo's first full
Speaker 1: season as a starting quarterback in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: At Christmas, so so he's been he's actually I guess
Speaker 1: we got him in two thousand and six when he
Speaker 1: first started games, so he's been hit at myth huh,
Speaker 1: so he's still going strong, right, right, right right? I
Speaker 1: want to you want to take a guess why we
Speaker 1: named our dog Dantley Adrian A d. Because remember he
Speaker 1: didn't want to show up in eighty nine The Mavericks
Speaker 1: the Mavericks, so we figured we'd have the only Dantley
Speaker 1: and then he showed up. Okay, that's pretty good. All right, Now,
Speaker 1: what did you really want to talk about? What about
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush? Yeah? What are our thoughts? Okay? And first off,
Speaker 1: are we do we want to speculate? Are we expecting
Speaker 1: Dak to play or not? I've changed my mind three times? Okay, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: I think I told you guys one hundred or Thursday one. Yes,
Speaker 1: and then I heard Dak talk and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know about this one. And then today just
Speaker 1: the way McCarthy kind of parried his answers and said
Speaker 1: we're going to put this off till Saturday, and then
Speaker 1: Jerry said what he said. I was thinking, well, when
Speaker 1: you said Jerry sounded positive, positive, But he also said,
Speaker 1: it's a long season. We got to take that into account. Um.
Speaker 1: Then I was thinking, well, maybe he will play. So
Speaker 1: they're going to go through tomorrow's practice. It's an our practice.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a light one, but they still are
Speaker 1: out there in helmets. And how many snaps as he
Speaker 1: take it in practice this week? That hasn't been ascertained
Speaker 1: unless you know, Yeah, I was gonna say you had
Speaker 1: to get He said he's taken all the walk through snaps,
Speaker 1: so they wouldn't have wasted those, knowing that UH needs
Speaker 1: as much as possible. Now I got a feeling Rush
Speaker 1: got everything he's needed on Wednesday and Thursday. It'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see what happens on Saturday because he's got
Speaker 1: to be ready, right, He's got to be ready if
Speaker 1: he plays and gets hurt. Right, So still got to
Speaker 1: go in um quietly around the Rush household. So now
Speaker 1: I'm leaning more towards plane, towards plane, plane put towards
Speaker 1: that plane. And that's based on I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: a Tom Landry answer, gut feeling. Okay, I just have
Speaker 1: a feeling. Okay, I agree. I never thought he wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna I think, but I may be totally wrong. Think.
Speaker 1: I think if he's good enough to do what he
Speaker 1: did a full go as far as his rehab yesterday,
Speaker 1: then and I know he wants to play. I think
Speaker 1: last night had a lot to do with him making
Speaker 1: up his mind to play, even more so because the
Speaker 1: Cardinals lost. No, well, because the Cardinals lost, that gives
Speaker 1: us a chance to keep pace, of course. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know here we all the way to go, a
Speaker 1: long way to go. But you know, strategically, this is
Speaker 1: a good move for us to make. Also because just
Speaker 1: the pride thing, uh, competition thing. I mean, everyone, I
Speaker 1: just played with it. How am I not going to
Speaker 1: play with mine? You know. They talked about how he
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been out there playing, except he was just
Speaker 1: playoff games. So it's a different kind of understand that.
Speaker 1: I understand that that's a win or lose understand and
Speaker 1: that has been adamant that if this is a playoff game,
Speaker 1: he's utter percent throughout. Yeah, I'm telling you, when it
Speaker 1: comes down to it, it's a matter of pride as well.
Speaker 1: Mike had a pretty funny story today about Aaron having
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury. He said, I think he said it
Speaker 1: was his first year he started, like two thousand. When
Speaker 1: two thousand, how, I can't remember the year when when
Speaker 1: did Roger? So Rogers was there for two years of
Speaker 1: five before he actually started. Let's go with it. So whatever, whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever year it was, he had a shoulder injury, and
Speaker 1: so they devised a game plan basically for him to
Speaker 1: throw the pat no passes more than fifteen right, and
Speaker 1: didn't want him thrown deep. And he said he hadn't
Speaker 1: thrown deep. It was all kind of short stuff. And
Speaker 1: he goes, we got into the we got into the
Speaker 1: middle of the first quarter, he said, I think it
Speaker 1: was our second possession, and we had the play call.
Speaker 1: He remembered what the play call was, and it was basically,
Speaker 1: if the defense is lined up like this, the play
Speaker 1: call is basically a go route down the middle right.
Speaker 1: So it was going to be about a thirty forty
Speaker 1: yard pass. And he said he absent minded LEAs just
Speaker 1: saw it, reacted and called it right. I think it
Speaker 1: was two thousand and eight, and he said, and and
Speaker 1: Rogers had not thrown the ball that far for the
Speaker 1: entire week. And he said he just instinctively called it.
Speaker 1: Rogers threw it, and it said it loosed it up
Speaker 1: his shoulder and it was then, he said, he came
Speaker 1: back to the huddle and he looked at the sideline like,
Speaker 1: I'm good Mike thumbs up. Yeah, but he wasn't supposed
Speaker 1: to call to play, he said. So devising a game
Speaker 1: plan to protect your quarterback sometimes doesn't always work because
Speaker 1: instinctively we just always go as we especially with the
Speaker 1: heat of the moment. Yeah, as the game's going on,
Speaker 1: he's like, Hey, we gotta go at what we do, Nicky,
Speaker 1: would you like for me to throw out what doctor
Speaker 1: David Chow has now? All right, because I can throw
Speaker 1: out just as good as he can. Because he hadn't
Speaker 1: seen any X ray, he hadn't seen any armor. I
Speaker 1: all he is going off of as well and all,
Speaker 1: A calf injury is pretty injury, pretty serious. I probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't play. Okay, So do you want to talk right
Speaker 1: now about Cooper Rush or you want to take a
Speaker 1: break and come back and talk about Cooper Rush before
Speaker 1: we do our picks to click it? Who goes too fat?
Speaker 1: Does it? Does? So you want to do it now?
Speaker 1: You want to after we come back to when we
Speaker 1: want it may take longer than a couple of minutes,
Speaker 1: So okay when we come back. What if Cooper Rush
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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush? Should the Cowboys make the decision to go
Speaker 1: with Cooper Rush on Sunday Night? How confident are you
Speaker 1: of a Cowboys victory? Well, everything you hear, you know
Speaker 1: it sounds good about Cooper Rush. Um Jerry said today,
Speaker 1: he's just outstanding and executing our offense. Uh, he said,
Speaker 1: he gives us the pure ability to maximize our supporting castility,
Speaker 1: to maximize our supporting cast So they're thinking, if you
Speaker 1: got all these other guys around him, then he can
Speaker 1: execute the offense. I don't know that. You know, he's
Speaker 1: going to come out and throw for three hundred yards,
Speaker 1: which is why I'm writing today that this is a
Speaker 1: big test for this defense to show up so he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to score or if Dak's less than one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, maybe and on average thirty four points continually.
Speaker 1: But they need to step up and play and play better.
Speaker 1: And by the way, before we get back to Rush,
Speaker 1: I just remember this one. You know, we keep referencing
Speaker 1: that they got eleven games to go. Michael Parsons corrected
Speaker 1: everybody in his interview yesterday and said fourteen. And I
Speaker 1: love that man that takes into it. You know what
Speaker 1: fourteen means? What does that mean? That means you first
Speaker 1: you said this yesterday, Yes, thank you very much. Have
Speaker 1: you been talking to that guy? I think that was
Speaker 1: real fan of minute. It was really funny because they
Speaker 1: were asking the question and they were in the middle
Speaker 1: of the question mentioning eleven and he just said fourteen.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Cooper Rush. So that's what j kenn Can
Speaker 1: our defense hold down the offense because we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to keep up with them offensively, that's what we're thinking.
Speaker 1: Just like we thought last night that Green Bay was
Speaker 1: gonna have to keep up with Arizona. They did not, right,
Speaker 1: because defensively they stepped up? Can we step up? As
Speaker 1: you asked, defensively? All, well, if if the alternative is,
Speaker 1: can Cooper Rush keep up with the Minnesota offense? And
Speaker 1: I and I think if it's defense reasonable? Right? Reasonable?
Speaker 1: Because in the last nineteen games, I went back and
Speaker 1: looked only four times if the Cowboys held an opponent
Speaker 1: to no more than twenty points and twice this right,
Speaker 1: twice this year? So, uh so you want me to
Speaker 1: ask the next question? Go ahead? Can they score twenty four? Well? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going big picture now. Okay, So if Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: if the if the team needs, is not going to
Speaker 1: be able to match another team that's highly explosive with
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush at quarterback? What happens if we're in this
Speaker 1: same scenario in January, which gets built to his which
Speaker 1: gets which gets me till Tuesday, the trade deadline. See
Speaker 1: how cleverly he did that, Because room, if we have
Speaker 1: these questions, if we have these questions about our backup quarterback, okay,
Speaker 1: not being able to keep up with a three and
Speaker 1: three Minnesota Vikings. Okay, what about the backup quarterback situation?
Speaker 1: If said quarterback starting quarterback Dak has a strain calf
Speaker 1: muscle on January eighth and going into a January sixteenth
Speaker 1: playoff game, he'll have all the experience from Sunday night.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, so what if Sunday night he
Speaker 1: does well? And we went what if he just that
Speaker 1: changes on the backup quarterback situation? So this is his
Speaker 1: chance to show if he does play, this is his
Speaker 1: he does play and show pay well when or not?
Speaker 1: Just play and play. Let's say he's middle of the road.
Speaker 1: What are you doing on Tuesday? Are you looking for
Speaker 1: a quarterback? Maybe they do it on purpose just to
Speaker 1: see if they need to make that. Well, there there's
Speaker 1: another because it really doesn't matter how the defense plays
Speaker 1: or how they're going to be totally looking at how Okayla,
Speaker 1: does that enter this equation at all? That you got
Speaker 1: the trade deadline on Tuesday and you're going and you
Speaker 1: can find out about your backup? I think you're overthinking now. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think it shouldn't enter into the equation, but
Speaker 1: I'm ask him, does it it or the equa it
Speaker 1: at all. If you're on if you're wondering about Dak,
Speaker 1: well maybe we can sit him, and that it advantages.
Speaker 1: Now we can find out if we need a quarterback
Speaker 1: that doesn't you know, that doesn't enter the thought process.
Speaker 1: He got asked, Mike got asked a convoluted question like that,
Speaker 1: and he was like, well, he's not gonna say no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not that question. It was something else and it was
Speaker 1: something like another one of those if if and if right,
Speaker 1: and he was like, I think he said something like,
Speaker 1: I'm so confused. I think he just blew a fuse. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what happened. Or the one they asked Jerry today
Speaker 1: about the trade deadline and they were gone, well, just
Speaker 1: let's say, since we can't do anything with tampering, there
Speaker 1: was a defensive end out there who uh doesn't like
Speaker 1: his situation and wants to be traded. Do you think
Speaker 1: you might be able to do that? And Jerry goes, well,
Speaker 1: we can't tamper. And the way you said that, I
Speaker 1: got no idea in hell who you're talking about. You
Speaker 1: know what he's talking about. But I was like, who
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Right? So now? And I can't
Speaker 1: remember who's ace of ends. I can't want it out.
Speaker 1: It was, Oh, I can't. I forgot all right, But anyway,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I do not put it
Speaker 1: past us to at least consider looking at another backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know the weird thing about Rush though, every time
Speaker 1: he got a chance to play in a preseason game,
Speaker 1: he's played. Well, now it's preseason, I get it. You know,
Speaker 1: when you watch him in practice, it's like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: and then he gets in and he and Jerry's right,
Speaker 1: he just kind of executes. It's not fancy. Um, he's
Speaker 1: just kind of real. Guys don't take take good tests.
Speaker 1: He's just really guys don't test Yeah, right, right, so
Speaker 1: he maybe just just be a guy that doesn't test well.
Speaker 1: But when the game comes, it's all just the No.
Speaker 1: I don't think you want him scrambling around back there
Speaker 1: trying to create. But if he can be robotic sort
Speaker 1: of the way Garrett was in the start on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: which by the way, wasn't his first start. Somebody mentioned
Speaker 1: that was his first start. His first start was in
Speaker 1: ninety three when Troy had something they had they traded
Speaker 1: for Kozar or Coozar got released, they brought him in.
Speaker 1: Garrett played like a quarter and then they put Cozar.
Speaker 1: So you're saying that the Thanksgiving you called him robotic
Speaker 1: in the Thanksgiving game? Uh, Garrett Jarrett Jason. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was preparing for his press conferences andn't he funny? All right?
Speaker 1: Picks to click? Actually his post the game press conference
Speaker 1: that they was one of his betters when he told
Speaker 1: listen to Bill, I'm talking to you. His postgame press
Speaker 1: conference was basically talk about it. I think I don't
Speaker 1: think brill Well, they might have been married by then,
Speaker 1: but he said, the last thing I'm putting told me
Speaker 1: before I left for the game is if you if
Speaker 1: you get in trouble, just throw it up long and
Speaker 1: high to Elvin. That's it. And you know what, that's
Speaker 1: what happened. What happened, That's what happened, and we got
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving win. Yeah? All right? So who against the Packers?
Speaker 1: By the way, right, who wins? And picks to click?
Speaker 1: I got no idea while we're here. I got it.
Speaker 1: I got it. I'm first in go ahead, I'm first.
Speaker 1: Any well, okay, we're looking at uh that gonna play.
Speaker 1: That is gonna play. Okay, so maybe we didn't make
Speaker 1: two Pixie Judd Philly player not playing, that's gonna play.
Speaker 1: I'm going with Dak playing my pick to click Cowboys
Speaker 1: winning thirty five thirty one. It's gonna be a shootout,
Speaker 1: just like always. I don't know who the how the
Speaker 1: matchups are going to be in regards to the wide
Speaker 1: receivers versus the dbs. I'm looking at Digs being on
Speaker 1: Palan okay. I'm looking at Brown covering Jefferson. Okay. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at Digs to get at least one pick. They
Speaker 1: are not running from him when they asked him, going
Speaker 1: to challenge him, and he's going to He's going to
Speaker 1: answer when they asked, Digs, which one should you cover?
Speaker 1: And he goes, let's pick your poison. M good answer.
Speaker 1: The way he's he's he's gay. Dig is getting at
Speaker 1: least one pick. Okay, They're gonna come at him. They're
Speaker 1: definitely gonna come at da plays okay. And they will
Speaker 1: score thirty one points, which is what they scored last
Speaker 1: year up there, and Minnesota will scored twenty eight, which
Speaker 1: is what they scored last year up there. A replica,
Speaker 1: except there will be fans in the stands this time. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's true, and we are better team if they can
Speaker 1: deal with the noise. Okay, they can't, because the last
Speaker 1: time this team played in significant noise was that day
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Okay, and you're picked a click who
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons Michael pars Yeah, I was thinking. I knew
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick a linebacker because because they're gonna run
Speaker 1: the football, and the Cowboys defense has to step up
Speaker 1: against Delvin Cook, who went for one fifteen last year
Speaker 1: against him, and the year before I'd forgotten they played him.
Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen he went for ninety three, but he
Speaker 1: caught seven passes for eighty remember and a touchdown. Yes,
Speaker 1: he did so, frustrated the heck out of us, Delvin. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll go Dak plays and they get beat. Oh, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna go that far. At some point we got
Speaker 1: to pick him to lose, because they will. I really
Speaker 1: have thirty to twenty four. Okay, thirty to twenty four
Speaker 1: Dak plays. Now, if Dak doesn't play, I'm with you
Speaker 1: on that. Okay, then the five game winning streak probably ends.
Speaker 1: And my pick the click c d Lamb because he's
Speaker 1: matched up sort of against Justin Jefferson. Wasn't that the
Speaker 1: game last year? He had the big catch. You go
Speaker 1: that crazy, crazy, big crazy kitch hen he surprised himself
Speaker 1: on that kids so CD and thirty to twenty four.
Speaker 1: If Dak plays, and I don't want to think about it,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't play. If for me, if Dak doesn't play,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Zeke Bam. I picked the click. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what he kind of needs to be anyway,
Speaker 1: if they can establish the run, that would help keep
Speaker 1: them Daca field right, yes, because you know Zim's gonna
Speaker 1: come up with some fancy blitzer. Oh that's right, Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmers on the other side, right. And Xavier Woods, by
Speaker 1: the way, that's right. I didn't look up. I wonder
Speaker 1: how many tackles he has. He's he's he started play
Speaker 1: cornerback at one point they might use him as a
Speaker 1: slot but yeah, but not I could see that Xavier
Speaker 1: Woods thirty five tackles, one fumble forced? One is that
Speaker 1: in his interception? Yeah? One interception? Okay, good player. I
Speaker 1: always liked him. He used to get unnecessary abuse for
Speaker 1: because he doesn't intercept passes. But he covered and he
Speaker 1: and Marinelli told me this. Once he goes, you know what,
Speaker 1: the best thing he does he goes, he causes the
Speaker 1: quarterback to go away from the receiver that he's covering,
Speaker 1: or that where he's supposed to be, where he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be. He's not like he's not like he's in
Speaker 1: single man cover, but that he's forcing the quarterback to
Speaker 1: go away from that option because he's where he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be. All right, So your plans this weekend? I
Speaker 1: hanging out with me. I'm watching Missouri Vanderbilt, all right,
Speaker 1: Oh guaranteed win? No, no, no, no, he meant for Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, that's right. All those North Texas people,
Speaker 1: all right, Missouri's gonna kill us, and I give up
Speaker 1: thirty five points to North Texas. Right, all right? That
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