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Speaker 1: Good morning, guys, the day has come where we get
Speaker 1: to give our predictions for this Saturday. Oh okay, right
Speaker 1: off the bat, I was like, like, the day is
Speaker 1: like day. We're not traveling, We're definitely not playing. This
Speaker 1: is our last show before the last game before game days.
Speaker 1: So I got people, uh seem to care where you
Speaker 1: have to say. So you're gonna tell us, really build
Speaker 1: us up, whatever, build us up, so that the listeners
Speaker 1: want to hear it. Thanks Amber. Some do, some don't.
Speaker 1: But that's why we have a good mix here with Derek,
Speaker 1: Nick and Dave. Who's gonna get who are gonna give
Speaker 1: us their predictions about this game on Saturday. Hopefully it's
Speaker 1: a good one. But before we get into all that jazz,
Speaker 1: we'll start off with the players that are gonna play,
Speaker 1: are not gonna play? Let's try to figure out the
Speaker 1: inactives and the guys that, uh, these guys are have
Speaker 1: been limited with question marks. Cole Beasley, Blee Jarwin, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. So let's just go down the list. Do
Speaker 1: you eat some of those donuts upstairs today? Yes? You did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just that the thanks duncan. The energy level is
Speaker 1: the sugar levels bite of a donut Garrett called around
Speaker 1: in front of everyone, which I didn't know. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to shame you reading the doughnut. I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to understand why you are coming at me like this
Speaker 1: this morning. Just well, I'm wearing a Cowboys sweat so
Speaker 1: that's always good when you feel comfortable and not like
Speaker 1: in a dress. You just like, yeah, you know about
Speaker 1: that life. Comfort always always comfort over everything else. So
Speaker 1: Cowboys inactive try to figure out this list. We know
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are having some issues wide receiver and
Speaker 1: also old line, so Irving's definitely David Irving out stab
Speaker 1: at that one. Good. All right, well, Cole Beasley and
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin are still not at practice. They weren't out
Speaker 1: there today today is basically Friday. That's you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not ready to rule him out. But that's gonna be
Speaker 1: one of those situations where just wait and see. Um,
Speaker 1: I have to lean toward thinking Blake Jarwin's gonna play
Speaker 1: in this game because I don't know who else is
Speaker 1: supposed to straight up, I mean, that's the one I'm
Speaker 1: I'm more concerned won't play because I think for Cole
Speaker 1: like because of his because he's a veteran, and because
Speaker 1: he's had this injury for a little bit and we
Speaker 1: know he can kind of battle through it. I just
Speaker 1: think they're giving him as much rest as possible and
Speaker 1: you just roll him out there in game Dan, as
Speaker 1: long as he can run on game day, you feel
Speaker 1: good about it. But Blake, it, I mean this kind
Speaker 1: of happened. I mean, this happened this this, I mean
Speaker 1: it happened in the game, and he's had he's had
Speaker 1: I don't know, less than a week to be able
Speaker 1: to get right from it, and we don't even I mean,
Speaker 1: what is the how tough is the injury and it
Speaker 1: sounds like it's a high ankle sprains that right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I just don't know it didn't happen in the game. Like, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think we old we didn't see it was like
Speaker 1: within five minutes. Okay, I actually know it happened. Happened
Speaker 1: we were up on the press box because remember we
Speaker 1: talked about this earlier this week. It happened close to
Speaker 1: the goal line. He still played a lot of the
Speaker 1: games second quarter, remember he was the one we talked about.
Speaker 1: Was that when he heard it, that's when he initially
Speaker 1: heard it. Yes, second, is that right? Because I thought, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't next to well, I'll just say go back
Speaker 1: on Archer, who sees everything, was just like here, Blake
Speaker 1: just heard his ankle. We're up in the press box.
Speaker 1: He saw that, and I'm like see, see look, And
Speaker 1: he didn't turn it. On the sidelines. He was trying
Speaker 1: to get out of the way of one of our
Speaker 1: social media people down their courtney. He was like trying
Speaker 1: to move and that's where they initially did it. But
Speaker 1: he continued to play it. Now, if you reinjured it
Speaker 1: later in the game, that's maybe he did. But that happened.
Speaker 1: And to go back to Cole, I mean, Cole's not
Speaker 1: something This isn't something he's been playing with. That happened
Speaker 1: in the game too. First r Yeah, but he had
Speaker 1: been having issues with his ankle before that right foot.
Speaker 1: But then there wasn't an ankle. I thought he had
Speaker 1: an ankle land of foot. Yeah, ankle happened during this game.
Speaker 1: The foot has been something he's been dealing with for
Speaker 1: a while. It looked nasty, you know, because you know
Speaker 1: how Seattle was falling on receiver's feet. So happened like that.
Speaker 1: Oh we watched the replay, yes, yeah, so yeah. I honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm more worried about because here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Even if earlier this week, let's assume for a second
Speaker 1: that they knew that Blake was a more serious injury,
Speaker 1: It's not like they could have really done a whole
Speaker 1: lot about it to try to get somebody in here,
Speaker 1: because the likelihood that person could picked up enough to
Speaker 1: be able to help him this week is probably pretty small.
Speaker 1: So I don't know that they could have had any
Speaker 1: recourse with this um. But the fact is the fact
Speaker 1: that he's not practicing as of today. I'm I'm way
Speaker 1: more concerned about that right now, because I think that's
Speaker 1: a that's a pretty significant blow, I would think it.
Speaker 1: I think I kind of disagree, because I mean, they
Speaker 1: added a receiver, they brought up lancing her from at
Speaker 1: a receiver. But the difference there is that you're talking
Speaker 1: about receiver. Yeah, you're talking about like a receiver that's
Speaker 1: much farther down the depth chart. I mean, this guy
Speaker 1: would be expected to probably play, and right now what
Speaker 1: you got left a tight end is I don't know
Speaker 1: that that that concerns me. That concerns me a lot
Speaker 1: more than That's why then Cole not being either. I
Speaker 1: think Blake's gonna play. That's because they don't have another option, really,
Speaker 1: and if he doesn't play, then you're gonna hear the
Speaker 1: referee every other play basically say that seventy five is
Speaker 1: reported eligible or sex six whenever they're thirteen person or whoever.
Speaker 1: The extra lineman um Cam Fleming is gonna be Yeah,
Speaker 1: I eligible tight end, and then Schulton Rico are gonna
Speaker 1: have to handle it on some of those other positions.
Speaker 1: So I just I leaned toward thinking jar one don't
Speaker 1: find a way onto the field. I don't know about Beasley,
Speaker 1: Davon Austin, and Lance Lanor. Jason Garrett also mentioned Noah
Speaker 1: Brown as a guy who can play in the slot,
Speaker 1: which he does everything else. I guess, so but that's
Speaker 1: this is one of those weeks where I don't have
Speaker 1: a good answer for you, and I don't think we
Speaker 1: will until sometime, maybe even on Saturday, although things like
Speaker 1: that tend to start leaking out, you know, once the
Speaker 1: team gets to gets to the game destination and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So that's something to watch. Mike White will
Speaker 1: be inactive, David Irving will be inactive, Chris Covington will
Speaker 1: be inactive. You probably have a choice to make between
Speaker 1: Xavier Sue of Philo and Adam Redmond. You know, if
Speaker 1: if Xavier is good enough to be healthy, you know,
Speaker 1: to be active, then maybe you could sit Redmond and
Speaker 1: then your tight end and your receiver Beasley and Jarwin
Speaker 1: who am I missing? Dari And Thompson's still dealing with
Speaker 1: a groin. He's a guy he sat last week. He
Speaker 1: could probably sit again this week. But then those would
Speaker 1: be the two areas where you would want to go
Speaker 1: deep this weekend receiver and then the O line, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they could keep all the offensive lineman healthy.
Speaker 1: It just depends on what these these two injuries really
Speaker 1: have to say about it. I mean, if if Beasley
Speaker 1: is healthy, then you could, yeah, you could do that,
Speaker 1: you could do that well. And then we've talked about
Speaker 1: Sean Lee previously and he's a guy that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are asking questions about his future and all that.
Speaker 1: But as of right now, we had questions about last
Speaker 1: weekend and what that we're gonna do with him in
Speaker 1: that game. How much he was going to be used
Speaker 1: when you got Layton Vendorsh on the field and Jaylen
Speaker 1: Smith he only got about what six four four or
Speaker 1: six four or five something like that, but very very low.
Speaker 1: Is that's a scenario where you still want to keep
Speaker 1: him absolutely active as a backup. You're not. It makes
Speaker 1: no sense to sit in all pro linebacker in a
Speaker 1: game like this, in my opinion. Now, you don't need
Speaker 1: him right now. I get that, and I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about rotating him. But if something knock on wood, if
Speaker 1: something were to happen to Jalen Smith or Layton vander
Speaker 1: Esh and Sean Lee is unable to help you in
Speaker 1: a winner go home game, that is a nightmare. And
Speaker 1: so I don't care what his role on special teams is,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have one. I don't care. I want him
Speaker 1: available for this game as a you know, break glass
Speaker 1: in case of emergency type of deal. I'm so with
Speaker 1: you on that. I didn't that's insane. That's and you
Speaker 1: know what we talked about, you know, having these guys
Speaker 1: that are banged up, and and you know, do you
Speaker 1: have a luxury to have this guy for four snaps?
Speaker 1: I think if if you need it to take an
Speaker 1: extra linement or a receiver, that's what I'm saying, could
Speaker 1: be him. Oh see, No, I'd completely disagree. Why could
Speaker 1: it not be Why could it not be Sean Lee?
Speaker 1: Because if something happens to one of your starters, you
Speaker 1: are absolutely screwed, and I don't think it's worth the risk.
Speaker 1: Same with Zeke, same with that. Okay, but you don't
Speaker 1: have I mean, if if Todd Gurley was your backup,
Speaker 1: I would want him active for this game too. I
Speaker 1: mean that's I know, it's rare to have a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl caliber backup. That's I mean, it's it's get a
Speaker 1: rare situation. They get it. If you can do it,
Speaker 1: do it. But I'm just saying, if you have injuries,
Speaker 1: I mean, I could see where that's going to be
Speaker 1: an issue. It was earlier this year when they were
Speaker 1: trying to win the division sure, And I mean, you're right,
Speaker 1: and there's only forty six jerseys and I get that,
Speaker 1: but but do you actually imagine the Cowboys actually do
Speaker 1: in that to Shawn Lee in a game like this, like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's just make him inactive winning other guys? What an
Speaker 1: absolute nightmare? If Layton vander Esche twists his ankle in
Speaker 1: the second second quarter and Shaun Lee's wearing a baseball
Speaker 1: second play, yeah, like it just yeah, I'm I'm with you, Dave.
Speaker 1: If there's any way, there are a lot of other
Speaker 1: guys that I would rather see inactive than Shan Lee
Speaker 1: this week, it would have to be one of the situations.
Speaker 1: But literally, I cannot find a way because of the position,
Speaker 1: the role now people having to play. I cannot find
Speaker 1: a way to get him. And you can, like you
Speaker 1: can find play that's if that means, you know, sitting
Speaker 1: alignment even though they're banged up whatever, or you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe your special teams takes a hit, and
Speaker 1: that's a big deal. I get that special teams swing games.
Speaker 1: We saw that against the Seahawks. But if if Lance
Speaker 1: Lenore's gotta pull double duty and play more teams than
Speaker 1: he's used to, so Sean Lee can be active. I
Speaker 1: think it's worth it. Yeah, here's an interesting question from
Speaker 1: one of our guys on Twitter. He's asking, with Daniel
Speaker 1: ross basketball background, could you see the team using him
Speaker 1: in some packages at tight end with Jarwin being injured,
Speaker 1: you don't really have a basketball guy in there. Basketball
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily football. I pride myself. I mean, I like
Speaker 1: to think I know this team better than just about anybody.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know Daniel Ross had a basketball background,
Speaker 1: So yeah, sure, I don't think he did pick himself
Speaker 1: in one of those unfiltered things. That's true. I think
Speaker 1: that he thought he could play basketball. But they all have.
Speaker 1: Every player on this team thinks he Jordan Lewis, probably
Speaker 1: all of them were pretty good basketballs at some point
Speaker 1: in their life. Basketball players at one point in their lives,
Speaker 1: because they mean Sag Martin. Yeah, I'll never forget high
Speaker 1: school Dez. One time way back at Valley Ranch was
Speaker 1: dribbling a basketball around in the locker room, and I
Speaker 1: was like, you think it's like if you had put
Speaker 1: football to the side when you were like sixteen and
Speaker 1: just worked on basketball, you think you could have made
Speaker 1: it to the NBA and he was like, I absolutely,
Speaker 1: of course, and I I didn't say this. I was
Speaker 1: trying to be nice. I was like, you're six two
Speaker 1: and I've seen your shot, like it's decent, it's not amazing,
Speaker 1: Like there's no way, but that's how these guys think.
Speaker 1: So anyway, all right, you could have said auto racing.
Speaker 1: He'd been like, yeah, of course, I could have made
Speaker 1: it an Yes, of course, I could have give me
Speaker 1: a club. There's some of those guys that I think
Speaker 1: they can do everything and have done everything, all of them,
Speaker 1: all of them. All right, let's go ahead and take
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Speaker 1: a real party, starry at one o'clock. You got plenty
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Speaker 1: that aren't going to be in la that are in
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Speaker 1: game with other fans. Do you think Washington State will
Speaker 1: bring its flag for this? No? What I think Washington State?
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Speaker 1: State alum and here on Friday one day he was
Speaker 1: freaking out. I think they were playing in Houston University
Speaker 1: of Houston and he was freaking out because they needed
Speaker 1: him to maybe drive down there and they were gonna
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Speaker 1: It was like a big deal, like the streak is
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Speaker 1: they did it until game day ever showed up to
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Speaker 1: is a cool state. Clemson also tries to do it
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Speaker 1: let's hope that is fun. It will be. And if
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Speaker 1: day predictions. Um Nick, Okay, if this game was indoors,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would have picked it this way.
Speaker 1: But it's not. It's outdoor. Here we go, so no,
Speaker 1: I just I don't. I wasn't expecting to pick the
Speaker 1: Cowboys this round. I really wasn't. I thought they were
Speaker 1: going to play in New Orleans, and I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough one. We'll see if that happens
Speaker 1: next week, because I do think the Cowboys will get
Speaker 1: to next week. I think that they will beat the
Speaker 1: Rams um. I just think the stars are aligning right
Speaker 1: for them. I know it's a tough game. Day's gonna
Speaker 1: tell you how uncomfortable he is that everyone's picking that way.
Speaker 1: I get it. I understand that they are really good.
Speaker 1: You don't win thirteen games if you're not good. But
Speaker 1: we've seen teams that win thirteen games get beaten playoffs
Speaker 1: after a buye. We've seen it twice here. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will run the ball on them. I think
Speaker 1: their defense is going to make some plays, and I
Speaker 1: think Jared Goff is gonna I just don't trust him
Speaker 1: just yet, and I think the Cowboys will exploit him
Speaker 1: a little bit. I agree with everything you just said,
Speaker 1: which gives me a really bad feeling. It really does
Speaker 1: no serious Like when when that when that field goal
Speaker 1: doined twice on the goalpost on Sunday, Yeah, Miami, I
Speaker 1: was like, this is perfect. This is the matchup the
Speaker 1: Cowboys need. It's not going to be a home field advantage.
Speaker 1: The Rams have played poorly down the stretch. Jared Goff's
Speaker 1: not clutch. What'll I mean they're they're running, they're run.
Speaker 1: Defense isn't good like all these I could write the
Speaker 1: list of reasons why this is a favorable matchup on
Speaker 1: a piece of paper, but then by like Tuesday, I
Speaker 1: feel like that has become the narrative to the point
Speaker 1: where I know, you know, Vegas says the Rams are
Speaker 1: six and a half point favorites, but like it, sure
Speaker 1: as hell seems like the Cowboys are the thirteen and
Speaker 1: three team and the Rams are the ten and six upstart,
Speaker 1: you know, which is bad? Like that's just that's bad
Speaker 1: juju going into a game like this. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: And for all the we've knocked the Rams game for
Speaker 1: five days, but they are thirteen and three and they
Speaker 1: earned the right to play that poorly down the stretch
Speaker 1: because they started eleven and one. So every I agree
Speaker 1: with everything Nick said. I in spite of all of that,
Speaker 1: I'm picking the Cowboys. I think, you know, they'll be
Speaker 1: able to run for one fifty or more yards, or
Speaker 1: they should. I don't trust Jared Goff. I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will be able to get to him. I don't
Speaker 1: think he has played in pressure environments like this, certainly
Speaker 1: not as often as Dak Prescott has he's not had
Speaker 1: to prove his medal. I looked this up. I actually
Speaker 1: didn't know he's got He's got five game winning drives
Speaker 1: to his name, four of them have come this year,
Speaker 1: so I mean he's delivered in the clutch for them,
Speaker 1: but not on a stage like this, So I do
Speaker 1: you know, I'm picking the Cowboys. I don't feel good
Speaker 1: about it. And I know you know this this bit
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in the butt two years ago. They sat
Speaker 1: at home and came out flat. But it doesn't always happen.
Speaker 1: I mean more often than not, these one and two
Speaker 1: seats are there for a reason. So I'm very, very
Speaker 1: timidly picking the Cowboys and hoping that all of this
Speaker 1: positive juju is not gonna backfire on them. Man, your
Speaker 1: ankles that did not even touch the ground. You're just yep, yeah, no, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm picking the Cowboys. I think the Cowboys can win
Speaker 1: this game. I just you just you know, I've been
Speaker 1: I've talked to Allie all about this all week. Is
Speaker 1: it just it gives me a bad feeling, like everybody
Speaker 1: just feels a little too happy, everybody, you know, it
Speaker 1: almost feels like the Cowboys are already in the conference
Speaker 1: championship game at least around here. Well they're not. I know,
Speaker 1: I know they're not I know anything about that. And
Speaker 1: when you stay around here, let's let's let's let's claim
Speaker 1: not talking about players. Not what we're talking about. We're
Speaker 1: talking about just the things that have to happen on
Speaker 1: the business side in order to do well and well.
Speaker 1: But but that's that's fans too, you know, and fans
Speaker 1: are fans. But like you find that, you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's a chink in the Rams armor where it's like, well,
Speaker 1: they can't defend the run, and there's gonna be Cowboys fans.
Speaker 1: Of course we're gonna win, And it's just kind of
Speaker 1: like this snowball effect that gives me a bad feeling. Anyway, Sorry,
Speaker 1: go ahead, right, I kind of agree with a lot
Speaker 1: of what you guys are saying. The one thing I'll
Speaker 1: say is, and you touched on this a bit, is
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. And the one thing I'll say about the
Speaker 1: times when the Cowboys have lost in this round in
Speaker 1: the past, you're going up against guys that are like
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and I think that this week, I think,
Speaker 1: which is very different than most times I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have the quarterback advantage personally. UM I talk to
Speaker 1: you guys yesterday about I mentioned yesterday the similarities between
Speaker 1: the numbers of these two quarterbacks, and really most of
Speaker 1: their numbers are pretty almost identical except for one big difference,
Speaker 1: which is Dak Prescott's ability to run the ball. That's
Speaker 1: where the big difference is between these two quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: I think that's where the Cowboys win this game. Is
Speaker 1: not only on being able to run the ball with Zeke,
Speaker 1: but I think Dak is gonna make just as he
Speaker 1: has in most of the games the Cowboys have done
Speaker 1: good things this year. There are gonna be one, two,
Speaker 1: maybe three big plays in the game where Dak's feet
Speaker 1: are going to be the reason why the Cowboys get
Speaker 1: the scores that they need to get, and that will
Speaker 1: be the difference in this game. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be extremely close game, a very entertaining game. I think
Speaker 1: the final scores twenty seven twenty six Cowboys boom. Well. Well,
Speaker 1: we tend to talk about home field advantage, and we
Speaker 1: know that the Rams have been pretty good at home,
Speaker 1: and we've seen what the Cowboys have done away from home,
Speaker 1: and of course I was previous to the whole America
Speaker 1: portrayed and all that, but we've seen how they've played
Speaker 1: away from home. Do you take this how much do
Speaker 1: you take this aspect into consideration for what you are
Speaker 1: expecting to happen this weekend? Well, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think that the that the Rams have it. I mean
Speaker 1: they've been good at home, because they've been good. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've been good on the road. They're they're just a good,
Speaker 1: really good football team. And I think that that. I
Speaker 1: don't think that their stadium, their venue is one that's
Speaker 1: just gonna be like, oh my god, it's just not
Speaker 1: going to see so loud and and you know there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of Cowboy fans there. Yeah, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: different than that. I just think that, you know, if
Speaker 1: they get beat they get beat by by a better team.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that it'll have a huge crowd
Speaker 1: advantage from a noise. I don't think it's an environment
Speaker 1: that's really tough to play. It's you know, tough to play.
Speaker 1: It's a historic place, but you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna gonna be the reason why the Cowboys lose.
Speaker 1: If they lose it won't be because of that. It'll
Speaker 1: be because they didn't stop early and they couldn't block
Speaker 1: the two guys up front. It'll be No, it'll be
Speaker 1: exactly fifty percent Cowboys. You think it's Somebody suggested it
Speaker 1: could be as many as seventy percent Cowboys fans, which
Speaker 1: I don't believe. I don't believe. It's only six days
Speaker 1: to do it. And we've been to some stadiums where
Speaker 1: Cowboys have like a huge following, like Arizona. I've never
Speaker 1: been to a game on the road with that more.
Speaker 1: I mean they would be maybe they got about forty
Speaker 1: poun I've never seen. Yes you have, Cleveland, Yes you have?
Speaker 1: Was that more? There were no Browns fans in that
Speaker 1: stadium that day? But like if the sign though that
Speaker 1: what we that wasn't our game? Gpo to wound? That
Speaker 1: was that just happened on Twitter? That wasn't I wasn't
Speaker 1: our game? Yeah? Uh, there were no Browns fans in
Speaker 1: that building that day. But I get your point. If
Speaker 1: the Rams, if this was like the Cowboys were playing
Speaker 1: like the Saints and and and then they beat the
Speaker 1: Saints and the Rams beat like the Eagle Bears or whatever.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, they're both teams like,
Speaker 1: oh oh wow, we're playing a game with the Rams,
Speaker 1: you know, championship game, and they didn't really know what
Speaker 1: was happening. And then it's just a race to ticketmaster
Speaker 1: or seat geek or whatever. Then I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: would win. But they've been sitting on this for two weeks,
Speaker 1: like they are really more than that, like a month
Speaker 1: and a half that they've known there is a game
Speaker 1: this weekend at home. I think their fans are going
Speaker 1: to be there, but I do Oh, I don't think
Speaker 1: it'll be seventy percent, but I mean an analogy. I
Speaker 1: think it will be analogy. I mean when when LSU
Speaker 1: plays in the Superdome, like it ain't it ain't batting rouge,
Speaker 1: but that's who lives there, and that's who lives in
Speaker 1: LA too. I mean, there's there's a strong Cowboys fan
Speaker 1: base out there, I bet, and there's a secondary market
Speaker 1: of tickets. That's how you kind of get them in
Speaker 1: is people get on there and they start saying, I
Speaker 1: can get what from my ticket? I wonder how many
Speaker 1: I wonder how many people in LA are Cowboys fans
Speaker 1: who bought Rams tickets just to have the tickets, you know,
Speaker 1: like because the Rams are now a team, that's Oh,
Speaker 1: the Rams play the Chiefs this year, and I can
Speaker 1: sell the other tickets and you know, I'll still get
Speaker 1: I'll still see the Cowboys, and when the Cowboys come,
Speaker 1: I can have the tickets to that. I bet there's
Speaker 1: a ton of people like that, I guess. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if I get to fifty percent, but I
Speaker 1: think there will be a sizeable number. And I think
Speaker 1: to your point, it does diminish the home field advantage.
Speaker 1: That's why the teams to have a real home field advantage,
Speaker 1: just because you don't see a lot of opposing fans
Speaker 1: in their stadium when you go to New Orleans, when
Speaker 1: you go to Seattle, like it's mostly their fans, Like
Speaker 1: you'll see this mattering of your fans, but it's their fans,
Speaker 1: and their fans are loud and obnoxious. And I don't
Speaker 1: know that LA. I don't know if they've been there
Speaker 1: enough to develop that kind of fan base yet. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it was just training camp. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: a big venue, but I mean there was a lot
Speaker 1: of people that remember that. Yeah, they showed up, but
Speaker 1: that was their first year to really come back. And
Speaker 1: and you know, if I remember that, I saw it
Speaker 1: on social media somewhere today about a fight. Remember the Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I remember one guy for the Rams that was
Speaker 1: not very cool and that at all. He came from behind,
Speaker 1: hit a guy, ran off. Let's hope that he returns punts.
Speaker 1: Let's hope he returns punts for the Cowboys. He it was,
Speaker 1: went it there and hit a guy in the back
Speaker 1: of it, ran off. He's Fastn't it on camera? Didn't
Speaker 1: somebody catch it? On? The whole thing was on the
Speaker 1: whole thing. It was bad. But there were so many fights,
Speaker 1: it's hard to know that everything got caught. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was it was mayhem. It was crazy. All right,
Speaker 1: here's a different question. Well, you're picking the Cowboys. It's fine.
Speaker 1: I am picking the cows. Hello, look at what I'm worrying.
Speaker 1: I'm supporting the team today. You know, if you just
Speaker 1: saw the s on the side, mean that definitely could
Speaker 1: be ramsay the way their colors are, no, they got that.
Speaker 1: They got that Navy with white looks terrible. I like
Speaker 1: the Navy and white I do too. I just think
Speaker 1: it's I don't like it. That much a helmet, and
Speaker 1: right now I don't like it as much as I
Speaker 1: like the Royal and the gold. Yeah that's old Eric Dickerson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, if Cowboys win the toss, who would you
Speaker 1: want them to stand on the field? First? Defense or offense?
Speaker 1: Always first? Yeah, always defer. I never you think that's
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. Well, to their credit, that's what
Speaker 1: they've been. Well, they've been doing it when they've won
Speaker 1: the toss, which is when never they never win the toss.
Speaker 1: For where is that? I bet you, I bet you
Speaker 1: find us and think you think they're the worst. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I bet you definitely. I'll bet you it's
Speaker 1: not more than four five at the max. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: they've won that they've won the toss, turned right to it.
Speaker 1: What do you got? All right? This is their record
Speaker 1: when they've won the Okay, so when they've won the toss,
Speaker 1: they're six and oz. Nice. Oh, so when they've lost
Speaker 1: the toss, um they're four and six. So and then
Speaker 1: in the postseason they also lost the toss. So they
Speaker 1: have the seventeen games they've won it six times and
Speaker 1: won every game, and then eleven times they haven't won it.
Speaker 1: And they're five and six in those games. Moral to
Speaker 1: the story, win the toss on every one day. Won.
Speaker 1: I think early in the year they weren't there. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they were. Earlier in the season they
Speaker 1: were taken the ball. I don't think they. I don't
Speaker 1: think they've taken the ball of their own accord once
Speaker 1: this year. I remember they started the season by starting
Speaker 1: with the ball three times in a row because they
Speaker 1: kept losing the toss. Because they lost the toss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they've won the toss and taken
Speaker 1: the ball all year. I just think I always think
Speaker 1: that it is such in my opinion, it is such
Speaker 1: a tactical advantage to to defer, just because you get
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do a double back to back, like
Speaker 1: if you can get the ball and score before the
Speaker 1: half and then get the ball coming out of the half.
Speaker 1: Not that it always turns out like that, because a
Speaker 1: lot of times you don't score coming in a half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it gives you that opportunity that that chance exists,
Speaker 1: and to me, that could be a huge turn in
Speaker 1: the game if you can ever get that and if
Speaker 1: you can actually turn it into points on both both possessions.
Speaker 1: Now is not the time to switch up the strategy now,
Speaker 1: So all right, let's go ahead and take our final break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll keep answering some of these
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Speaker 1: time I'm ever hearing this read? Or did you just
Speaker 1: make that up on the fly? I think it makes
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Speaker 1: he was reading, but I know he wasn't reading because
Speaker 1: I've never seen that one. But that was pretty good.
Speaker 1: Not say Dominican Republican. There doesn't He left Crosby out.
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Speaker 1: I did? You did? I did say Houston. Kind he did,
Speaker 1: but I'm not from Houston. Oh my gosh. Kicker questions
Speaker 1: about the kicker, question about the Kickers, What field goal
Speaker 1: range um for Bret Maher, would you hope for this
Speaker 1: weekend or this question was kind of word weirdly, but
Speaker 1: what range do you feel confidence? And for Brett fifty
Speaker 1: to sixty? I'm good, um as I say, we got
Speaker 1: able to break this up from where did you miss
Speaker 1: from last week? Fifty eight? Yea, yeah, yeah, now I'm
Speaker 1: not It just depends when the game is. You can't
Speaker 1: just say, like, I'm not really comfortable with him kicking
Speaker 1: those long field goals. That's like in the middle of
Speaker 1: the game. I mean, especially when the defense is playing
Speaker 1: well and you have an opportunity to give the Rams
Speaker 1: a really good field position there if you miss it,
Speaker 1: so uh, you know into the half. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a weapon into the half and game
Speaker 1: because you got five or six more yards that most
Speaker 1: kickers don't have a fifty eight yard field goal, So
Speaker 1: that's from about the forty forty one yard line, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hated that decision. Obviously, it didn't bite the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and the ball goes on where the where where the
Speaker 1: kick is made. Yeah, good, So I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: give the Rams a fifty yard field I think that's stupid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if if the clock is going to expire, you know,
Speaker 1: if it's the end of the half or something like that,
Speaker 1: then fine, But I'm not trying to give I think
Speaker 1: fifty fifty is where I feel comfortable sending him out.
Speaker 1: Maybe fifty two maybe, But like I think, depending on
Speaker 1: how the defense is playing, I think I'd rather try
Speaker 1: to pin them. I mean, that's something that Chris Jones
Speaker 1: has been good at over the course of his career,
Speaker 1: is putting the ball out of bounds or limiting the
Speaker 1: return on a punt down inside the ten. I think
Speaker 1: I'd much rather try to do that than risk giving
Speaker 1: the Rams a short field on a miss kick. And
Speaker 1: if everything holds true with what we've seen to this
Speaker 1: defense and what they've been for most of the year,
Speaker 1: even when you're playing really good offense, is the way
Speaker 1: that they're able usually to score is when they have
Speaker 1: a shorter film. We saw it last week of Seattle.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you even put Seattle in the
Speaker 1: category with the great offenses in the league, but they
Speaker 1: if you if you give this defense, if you tell
Speaker 1: them that they're going to start on the opponent's twenty,
Speaker 1: then I think in most instances, I think they feel
Speaker 1: like they can at least hold the three, right, it's
Speaker 1: when you give them that short field that that becomes
Speaker 1: infinitely and sometimes they even make stops there. But I
Speaker 1: think you just put them at more risk of having
Speaker 1: give up points. So for me, I'm always I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play the game of field position because I got a
Speaker 1: good enough defense to do that. The only time I
Speaker 1: take those that I even feel comfortable sending my kicker
Speaker 1: out there on those long field goals or end of
Speaker 1: half or end of game when you absolutely have to
Speaker 1: do it and there's no other option. Yep, yep. That's why.
Speaker 1: That's why what they did against the Giants in the
Speaker 1: last regular season game was really impressive because the Giants,
Speaker 1: after that touchdown and two point conversion, is still a
Speaker 1: minute something to go and they kick off to like
Speaker 1: because of Antoine Woods's penalty, which he explained by the way,
Speaker 1: which is pretty funny, but he kicked. I mean they
Speaker 1: kicked off and got the ball around midfield and they
Speaker 1: didn't get another yard. But Antoine was talking about that
Speaker 1: this week. He's been you know, doing some interviews, you know,
Speaker 1: going back to la and all that, and he said
Speaker 1: that basically he goes, Yeah, I'm gonna appeal the fine,
Speaker 1: but I don't think I'm gonna he got fine because
Speaker 1: he ran out to the fifty yard line and he goes,
Speaker 1: I ran out there, and no, he goes, I ran
Speaker 1: out on the field and I thought people were coming
Speaker 1: with me, but nobody can't with me. I with more coming,
Speaker 1: you know, he goes, really just because you ran to
Speaker 1: the field. He's like, yeah, I kind of got to
Speaker 1: the fifty. I looked back and no one was there,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I better get back. But
Speaker 1: the damage was done that I wish I could look
Speaker 1: at when he realized nobody He was like, I thought
Speaker 1: they were all coming with me on hot boys, let scone.
Speaker 1: They were like, hilarious, that's funny, that's hilarious. All right.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we kind of talked about this, but here's a
Speaker 1: little bit of different questions. Um, do you see Dallas
Speaker 1: using the Eagles win over the Rams as a blueprint
Speaker 1: for Saturday? And if they if they do, they won't
Speaker 1: admit it because not just because it's Philadelphia, because I mean,
Speaker 1: they've had a really good defense all year. But you
Speaker 1: know what Philadelphia did in that game, I think is
Speaker 1: our things for defensive purposes. I think that the things
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have done all year, you know, and
Speaker 1: they've been better at it. They actually have a better
Speaker 1: secondary than Philadelphia does. So I don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to have to give up as much in the back
Speaker 1: end as far as you know, to cover, because I
Speaker 1: think they have a better secondary. But I mean I
Speaker 1: think maybe Philadelphia, you know, they just they outscored the
Speaker 1: Rams in that game. I kind of I scoff a
Speaker 1: little bit at the idea of like a blueprint, especially
Speaker 1: when you're talking about a team like this. Well, the
Speaker 1: Eagles gave the blueprint to beat the Rams, or I
Speaker 1: mean the Cowboys did too. Like did the Cowboys provide
Speaker 1: the blueprint to beat the Saints? Well, yeah, if you
Speaker 1: can hold Drew Brees to one hundred and twenty seven
Speaker 1: passing yards, it's a hell of a blueprint. Go do it.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like the people say the same thing
Speaker 1: about the Colts game. It's like, yeah, if you got
Speaker 1: that offensive line, feel free, it'll work. Aaron Donald. Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald had one of the worst games of his entire
Speaker 1: career against the Eagles. Credit to their line. He had
Speaker 1: no sacks. I don't think he had a quarterback hit.
Speaker 1: I think he had four pressures. That's impressive. So by
Speaker 1: all means, please, I would love to see Connor Williams
Speaker 1: and Zach Martin do that. I think it's a little
Speaker 1: bit easier said than done, but I do think there's
Speaker 1: I do think there's elements of that game plan that
Speaker 1: you can that you can incorporate. Obviously, if the Eagles
Speaker 1: used play action to tremendous success, I mean they had
Speaker 1: a break in that you know, Foles faked it off,
Speaker 1: fooled the entire RAM. I mean Aaron Donald literally stopped
Speaker 1: rushing because he thought Foles had given the ball off,
Speaker 1: and I don't remember who the receiver was, but he
Speaker 1: was literally just standing behind the rams secondary like waving
Speaker 1: his hands. So yeah, I mean, I think there's the
Speaker 1: elements misdirection play action that you can use. But if
Speaker 1: it was easy as just following a blueprint, then the
Speaker 1: rams wouldn't be thirteen and three. And by the way,
Speaker 1: that happens every week. There are elements from every single game.
Speaker 1: That's why coaches go back and watch film of the
Speaker 1: previous games at the teams plays, because they're looking for
Speaker 1: those little moments where even if they won the game,
Speaker 1: they're looking for those little things that kind of gave
Speaker 1: them a problem and they're like, huh, this gave them
Speaker 1: a problem. Yeah, maybe we should try to exploit this
Speaker 1: so that happens every week. That's no different. And it's
Speaker 1: like you said, it's not a blueprint as much as
Speaker 1: it is just these little things that you say, hey,
Speaker 1: and they also know for themselves they have to self
Speaker 1: scout and say, these are areas where we had issues,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna see it again and teams are gonna
Speaker 1: keep doing it until we figure it out. So you
Speaker 1: better figure it out. That happens every week in the NFL.
Speaker 1: For how often the Cowboys run the ball, it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like they take enough advantage of play action. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna borrow this from I mentioned him yesterday, John
Speaker 1: John who does the tape owning, who does the tape
Speaker 1: reviews for the Morning News. I think he did the
Speaker 1: stats and said, I think the Cowboys do play action
Speaker 1: twenty two percent of the time, and they actually upped
Speaker 1: it to thirty against the Seahawks. So you know they're
Speaker 1: willing to adapt for all, for all the flak we
Speaker 1: give them and I think that's something that could really
Speaker 1: help them in this game too. And a lot of
Speaker 1: that play action it's just from the shot gun, you know,
Speaker 1: freake almost like a read. It's not really a true
Speaker 1: under center play action, which I think kind of draws
Speaker 1: in the defense even more. But yeah, I think Liquor
Speaker 1: would do even more right in this game, would break
Speaker 1: her perfan request. Someone wants to know a little crazy prediction.
Speaker 1: Y'all gave the clicker you think they'll do that. I
Speaker 1: think the Rams will do it. I think the Rams
Speaker 1: will try it, They'll do it, and then that's not
Speaker 1: as crazy a prediction. I don't know if that even
Speaker 1: qualified as crazy predictions. Fake punt count for the Rams
Speaker 1: or is that just what they do? I was, I
Speaker 1: don't know if this counts is crazy, especially with everything
Speaker 1: we saw on special teams um last week. But I
Speaker 1: just think something something huge will will happen on special
Speaker 1: teams that will swing this game, and not necessarily. You know,
Speaker 1: you'd love to see Tavon have another long return, but
Speaker 1: it could be a muffed punt or a fake I
Speaker 1: think there will be a huge special team gets you
Speaker 1: in practice today? What he that's that? Think? That was
Speaker 1: my inspiration for saying that he didn't look awesome today.
Speaker 1: He was not tay awesome today. Um, so I think
Speaker 1: there will. I think that'll be a thing, and I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna do it. I'm I already I picked the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to win in spite of a bunch of misgivings.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna say, no Brown's gonna make a play. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's great for all, a good one. No Brown's going
Speaker 1: to say Noah Brown is going to make a play
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, and all y'all are going to get
Speaker 1: off his back. Yeah, hey, I'd be a Noah fan.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no. I've liked him since last year. You
Speaker 1: are the only the only one left. It's me and
Speaker 1: his mom. All right, y'all can all get the hell
Speaker 1: out of here. This is Brown's right. Hey. It is disappointing.
Speaker 1: It is disappointing that me, at least, and other people
Speaker 1: too had high expectations, are better expectations, and then it
Speaker 1: just doesn't. I like Brown. Actually, from what I know
Speaker 1: about him, he doesn't talk or do anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, as Bill Parcels used to say about one
Speaker 1: of the young players. You just always had a straight face.
Speaker 1: He was like, the highway could have collapse in front
Speaker 1: of this guy and we wouldn't even he wouldn't even blink.
Speaker 1: I think Noah Brown's kind of like that. I like him.
Speaker 1: I don't like how much the Cowboys coaching staff puts
Speaker 1: on his plate. I don't think he's ready for some
Speaker 1: of these moments that they put out there for him,
Speaker 1: this hybrid player, but they think he's because he's bigger
Speaker 1: than that Lance lanor then he can block kJ Wright
Speaker 1: and it doesn't work that way. You know. I've thought
Speaker 1: at certain occasions where it's like, Okay, why do you
Speaker 1: keep forcing it when you don't see it working out?
Speaker 1: But then at the same time I go back, Okay,
Speaker 1: that is the only way to get better. It's like
Speaker 1: when you keep trying. So I go back and forth
Speaker 1: and not really sure what the right bolence is to
Speaker 1: whether keep him in there, like take him out. I
Speaker 1: don't know. You know, if Dak would have just hit
Speaker 1: him on that pass it was Washington where he was
Speaker 1: wide open, but it was he was getting rushed and
Speaker 1: he just missed him was wide open. If he does that,
Speaker 1: then everyone everything changes he probably catches it touchdown, and
Speaker 1: then you're like, okay, three, that's the first of five
Speaker 1: he would he would have gone on a role. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he would have had Ricos five touchdowns. You got a
Speaker 1: crazy prediction. Yes, there will be a defensive touchdown this
Speaker 1: game one. I don't know which team, but there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a defensive touchdown this game. Okay, somebody's gonna make
Speaker 1: a big play on defense. Is gonna end up in
Speaker 1: six points. I almost got excited until you say I
Speaker 1: don't know which team. I don't know, Like, I just
Speaker 1: think that usually when you have games like this like it,
Speaker 1: when they're so closely matched, it something happened, some big
Speaker 1: play happens. It almost happened in this last game with
Speaker 1: special teams with Tavan's return. But those are the kind
Speaker 1: of players that usually end up being the difference here,
Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna happen. So I think one
Speaker 1: of these defense is going to score. For all the
Speaker 1: love that the Chiefs and the Rams got in that
Speaker 1: Monday night football game, like fifty four to fifty one,
Speaker 1: didn't the defenses score like three touchdowns? I think both
Speaker 1: defensive scored, right, Yeah, there was three touchdowns in the game.
Speaker 1: So everybody that was saying this is this game is horrible.
Speaker 1: How about some defense? Well there was there was seven
Speaker 1: turnovers and three touchdowns. Even if you take those out,
Speaker 1: there was a ton of points score by the offenses.
Speaker 1: So it was an offense game. What would surprise well,
Speaker 1: all right, what would surprise you more? If the Cowboys
Speaker 1: win fourteen to ten or if the Cowboy all right, well,
Speaker 1: we'll just assume the Cowboys win for the but they
Speaker 1: win fourteen to ten they played like they did against
Speaker 1: the Saints, or if Dak just beats goff and like
Speaker 1: this forty eight to forty five shootout. You know, almost
Speaker 1: when I was picking the games, I almost went the
Speaker 1: route of high scoring shootout, Cowboys win, just because what
Speaker 1: gives me reason to kind of think that is because
Speaker 1: that would have been the narrative had the Cowboys won
Speaker 1: against the Packers in twenty sixteen. But for the fact
Speaker 1: that yet thirty four to thirty one is a very
Speaker 1: routine NFL score though I'm talking but for this offense,
Speaker 1: that's a big scoring that's a big scoring game, and
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, that's a big scoring game in the NFL.
Speaker 1: US don't see scores like that. That's that's what That's
Speaker 1: why I asked the question, because that's I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Fifty five. I guess what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is I don't know that necessarily I would be shocked
Speaker 1: if this was a high score game. Yeah, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be shot. The playoffs are wacky, yeah they are, and
Speaker 1: things happen like that in the playoffs. I don't think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are at full strength and put their offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you would need have a lot
Speaker 1: of different options like the Beasley's and jar when just
Speaker 1: up and down the field. Different guys always stopped Cooper.
Speaker 1: But guess what, I don't know if they're gonna have
Speaker 1: as many guys to do that, go up and down
Speaker 1: the field. And I don't think their defense is gonna
Speaker 1: allow that much. I really don't. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna I will be surprised if it's that, because I
Speaker 1: don't think it will get that. All right, Well, that
Speaker 1: is all the time we have for today. We'll be
Speaker 1: making our way to LA tomorrow, but there will be
Speaker 1: a joint show tomorrow at eleven. I believe who's on that.
Speaker 1: Brian Nate and maybe Taylor and lindsay. All right, well
Speaker 1: there you have you, guys. For you that for those
Speaker 1: of you who wants to who wants to tune in
Speaker 1: tomorrow for the final say before the game, that's tomorrow
Speaker 1: at eleven am. In the meantime, bye, guys, Good luck
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