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Speaker 2: It is Week five, Cowboys forty nine Ers, the rivalry
Speaker 2: that just keeps on giving. It's the fortieth all time
Speaker 2: meeting between the two, Isaiah, without looking at it, would
Speaker 2: you guess where the win total stands for both of
Speaker 2: these teams through their first thirty nine meetings.
Speaker 4: I have no idea, no clue. Would you like a guess?
Speaker 4: Or did you see it already? I haven't you have
Speaker 4: seen it?
Speaker 6: Twenty wins for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Twenty wines for the Cowboys? Would that be like nineteen
Speaker 2: for the for the forty nine ers?
Speaker 7: I think I saw it yesterday. It's I remember it
Speaker 7: being very.
Speaker 4: Close Yeah, it's tied.
Speaker 2: It's nineteen nineteen and one including postseason play. Wow, that
Speaker 2: is the all time meeting between the two Crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean that this rivalry has so much storied history
Speaker 2: behind it, so much packed in there. Owing then, by
Speaker 2: the way, these are two of the best teams in
Speaker 2: the NFC facing off on Sunday Night football, so it
Speaker 2: doesn't get much better than that. Of course, alongside Isaiah standback,
Speaker 2: John Matchoda, Nick Harris, I'm Kyle Yeomans with Chris Beam
Speaker 2: running everything in the back. Gentleman, how we doing today?
Speaker 4: Fan Tabuloso?
Speaker 7: Okay, good, I am. I'm really amped about Sunday.
Speaker 4: Why.
Speaker 7: Each each of these games so far definitely have like
Speaker 7: their own level of juice, But this one's different obviously, right,
Speaker 7: and I'm I'm excited to get up there to San
Speaker 7: Francisco and see this one.
Speaker 2: It's the biggest game you've covered so far.
Speaker 7: You could say, which is big? You could say NFL
Speaker 7: game for sure, NFL game. Yeah, sure, it covered a
Speaker 7: lot of really for sure game. But yeah, I'm really
Speaker 7: excited about this one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What about from a from a team standpoint, is there
Speaker 2: ever just a little bit of extra juice? A little
Speaker 2: bit of extraor something something going into a week like
Speaker 2: this where you you know you got.
Speaker 4: To be laser focused.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think your senses are hiding, right, and all
Speaker 5: your focus is hiding everything. Tension to detail, all that
Speaker 5: stuff has to be on point. And like I said yesterday,
Speaker 5: you know when you throw, you throw the element that
Speaker 5: you've gotten punched in their mouth the last few times
Speaker 5: you played them. I mean that that adds to it
Speaker 5: as well. So you're really trying to manage emotions the
Speaker 5: entire week. But to your point, you know, as a player,
Speaker 5: you know what this means to your season.
Speaker 4: You know this is.
Speaker 5: A huge test that you want to pass, that you
Speaker 5: need to pass and shoot.
Speaker 4: What better way to do it than on prime time.
Speaker 8: I just think it's a huge game for the quarterback.
Speaker 8: And I wrote today for The Athletic about how I
Speaker 8: think the offense, whatever the Cowboys offense does, will tell
Speaker 8: you what happens in this game, and that starts with
Speaker 8: Dak Prescott. When I was writing this, I went back
Speaker 8: and I was like, let me go watch that last
Speaker 8: press conference after the lost San Francisco in the playoffs
Speaker 8: and how much he took on himself and you know,
Speaker 8: blamed himself for a lot of the way the offense played,
Speaker 8: how much they struggled and couldn't get you know, still
Speaker 8: can't get past that second round. I just expect him
Speaker 8: to be as motivated as he could potentially be for
Speaker 8: a regular season game. I think that he knows all
Speaker 8: eyes will be on him. I think that the Cowboys
Speaker 8: haven't shown everything in their back on offense, and so
Speaker 8: for for someone like him, like maybe it lends to
Speaker 8: him running a little bit more in the red zone.
Speaker 8: Maybe just there's something a little extra for him. He's
Speaker 8: the number one player that I'll be watching in this game.
Speaker 8: Like if I was going into a game, you know,
Speaker 8: a lot of times, you know, your editor would be like,
Speaker 8: what are you thinking about his storyline? Stuff like that,
Speaker 8: So you go in thinking one thing. Ninety nine percent
Speaker 8: of the time that never ends up being what you
Speaker 8: read about. But it would be for me, what does
Speaker 8: four do? How does four play? You know, because there's
Speaker 8: a part of me even if the let's say the
Speaker 8: fort Enders one, but Dack played really well, it would
Speaker 8: be interesting.
Speaker 6: To see how that unfolded. I don't see that happening.
Speaker 6: I really don't. I think if Dak plays well, Cowboys win.
Speaker 2: Wow, So that's the key moving forward and it doesn't
Speaker 2: help And you actually started your article with this on
Speaker 2: the athletic is it was the final two offensive plays.
Speaker 4: Are the most memorable ones of.
Speaker 2: The losses in the Divisional round last year and the
Speaker 2: wild Cart Round in twenty twenty one. Twenty one, it
Speaker 2: was dack sliding and not getting back up to the
Speaker 2: line of scrimmage and time running out and it was
Speaker 2: just that whole debacle at at and T Stadium. And
Speaker 2: then last year in the divisional round it was the
Speaker 2: Ezekiel Elliott getting run over while he was trying to
Speaker 2: block on the weird play and then you got it
Speaker 2: to Cavant de Turpin and then he gets tackled before
Speaker 2: he could start pitching. Like it was all the oddness
Speaker 2: at the end of those games that sticks out. Does
Speaker 2: that add a little fuel to the fire from an
Speaker 2: offensive standpoint, knowing that, hey, the last two games, one
Speaker 2: we haven't held up our end of the bargain, but
Speaker 2: two it's ended in a way that hasn't been great.
Speaker 4: It has to.
Speaker 8: I mean I wrote in the article for today that
Speaker 8: if they win that game, Kelimore is still the oc
Speaker 8: I really don't care what anybody wants argue on that,
Speaker 8: there's no way they gets the NFC Championship game, and
Speaker 8: they're like, yeah, first time twenty seven years, But let's
Speaker 8: go in an other direction offense, because also to have
Speaker 8: won that game, there would have had to have been
Speaker 8: some big offensive possessions late. And so if they got
Speaker 8: past that, who knows, maybe they beat the Eagles, maybe
Speaker 8: they don't. But if they get past that, I find
Speaker 8: it very ARDU believe that they go in the offseason like, yeah,
Speaker 8: something just absolutely has to change here. I think that
Speaker 8: the momentum would be I think we're headed in the
Speaker 8: right direction. We finally got past forty nine ers, we
Speaker 8: came up with these big possessions late. Who knows, maybe
Speaker 8: Ezekiel Elliott still here too, you don't know. But the
Speaker 8: way that that offense played, I think led to some
Speaker 8: of these changes. And Clarence Hill asked Mike McCarthy about
Speaker 8: it the other day, and of course he said, no,
Speaker 8: it's not going to come down to one game like that.
Speaker 8: But he can say that, But I look at that season,
Speaker 8: I find it hard to believe that wasn't the start
Speaker 8: of what ended up being some offensive changes.
Speaker 4: It may not have come.
Speaker 2: Down to one game like that, but it was certainly
Speaker 2: the final nail in the coffin. I mean, it was
Speaker 2: something that had really caught there as the season went along.
Speaker 2: And then if that game, like you said, if they
Speaker 2: get over the hump in that game, then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, that Creshindo dies right back down and it
Speaker 2: goes right back down to neutral.
Speaker 4: And I think I agree with you.
Speaker 2: Actually, I think that's what the decision had to be
Speaker 2: made if you win that game.
Speaker 4: But of course you saw.
Speaker 2: Some of the similar things that had gone wrong throughout
Speaker 2: the season in that forty nine Ers loss in the
Speaker 2: divisional round, and that's what led ultimately to the moving
Speaker 2: on of Kellum Moore. Now, defensive side of the football
Speaker 2: is what we're looking at today, So we're previewing the
Speaker 2: Cowboys defense versus the forty nine Ers offense. Before we
Speaker 2: do that, I want to get into some news and notes.
Speaker 2: Anything crazy come out of yesterday.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So we didn't get a ton of time to
Speaker 7: talk yesterday about just a couple of things that happened
Speaker 7: on Monday and Tuesday. So I have three things, one
Speaker 7: of them quick, two of them more conversational. We'll start
Speaker 7: with the quick one, Jerry Jones saying, yesterday, I'm the
Speaker 7: fan that Tyron Smith is quote unquote if he for Sunday.
Speaker 7: I don't think it's any different than what Mike McCarthy
Speaker 7: has communicated to us on Monday as well. How big
Speaker 7: is it in y'all's mind if Tyron can't go?
Speaker 4: It's major? Major? Right, yes? Major? Why why so major?
Speaker 2: Against this defensive front?
Speaker 5: The physicality. I mean, you know we talked about it.
Speaker 5: We can't weak out. I mean obviously last week I
Speaker 5: thought it was gonna be a problem, But this week,
Speaker 5: you know it's going to be a problem.
Speaker 4: It's not even a question.
Speaker 5: So you want, you want your best guys out there,
Speaker 5: but you don't want your best guys out there if
Speaker 5: they're not one hundredercent healthy. So you know, chew many
Speaker 5: doga strap them up.
Speaker 2: Let's chew mydoga versus Matthew Judon last week, and he
Speaker 2: held his own I thought he did a decent job.
Speaker 2: And I mean, of course, by that point Dallas had
Speaker 2: already really taken the lead and put that thing on
Speaker 2: cruise control.
Speaker 4: However, this week it's.
Speaker 2: Not Matthew Judon on the opposite side, it's it's Nick Bosa,
Speaker 2: So yeah, things get crazy there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and he's gonna he's gonna do his best job
Speaker 8: to wreck this game.
Speaker 6: And there'll be plays.
Speaker 8: I do believe that he will wreck the game to
Speaker 8: a certain extent, just like I believe they'll be plays.
Speaker 8: And Mike Parsons are the same. And that's because I
Speaker 8: don't know how many possessions they'll have. There's going to
Speaker 8: be a handful of them that are don't go very far.
Speaker 8: Three four plays boom out like they're just not gonna
Speaker 8: be these what we've seen so far, long ten play
Speaker 8: drives differ.
Speaker 6: And I mean, well, I don't think there will be.
Speaker 6: If there are, that will be amazing.
Speaker 8: I will be stunned if they're putting together four or
Speaker 8: five ten plus play drives against this defense. But what
Speaker 8: will happen is when Nick Posa does get through, it
Speaker 8: can't turn into a SEC fumble, it can't turn into
Speaker 8: an interception. It's got to turn into Okay, live to
Speaker 8: play another down, punt the ball. But there will be
Speaker 8: that There are gonna be two or three series where
Speaker 8: you have a chance to score on and this Cowboys
Speaker 8: offense is gonna have to get seven on those. They
Speaker 8: can't settle for field goals. So yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 8: it's gonna be tough. But I still feel that way
Speaker 8: to a certain extent. Even if less than a hundred
Speaker 8: percent Tyron Smith plays, I would prefer that, but I
Speaker 8: still think that they're gonna have their hands full regardless.
Speaker 2: It's funny because if he does play, it'll be the
Speaker 2: first time the Cowboys have had all five of their
Speaker 2: best starting offensive lineman playing since that twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: wild Card game against the forty nine Ers. That was
Speaker 2: the last time their five best offensive linemen were ready
Speaker 2: to go in a game.
Speaker 7: It's a long time.
Speaker 2: It's a long time with.
Speaker 7: Some row games. Something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, something like that right away.
Speaker 7: Crazy next point, We've talked about this a little bit.
Speaker 7: We haven't talked about it since preseason, I think, but
Speaker 7: yesterday Jerry Jones was asked about Ceedee Lamb's contract and
Speaker 7: if they continue those talks during the season. Jerry said,
Speaker 7: it's there. As you know, all of our players have representations,
Speaker 7: so those conversations could be going on. They might not
Speaker 7: be going on right now. Frankly, our minds are on
Speaker 7: going to play San Francisco, And then later on he said,
Speaker 7: I'm noodling it all the time. And when I say noodle,
Speaker 7: when I noodle something relative to the Cowboys and has
Speaker 7: a good chance of having action on it, his contract
Speaker 7: is in my thoughts. But in a manner of speaking,
Speaker 7: all of them are so rob and noodles or Jerry Jones,
Speaker 7: who wins in the chick beef.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good spicy romen last night.
Speaker 4: Courtesy of Barry Church.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, it was good. Have you ever noodled before, Isaiah.
Speaker 4: In this conversation? You don't like that. I don't like that,
Speaker 4: not one.
Speaker 2: I mean, whenever you write something down and does it
Speaker 2: usually come true, like Jerry Jones trying to write down
Speaker 2: he should get Cede Lamb locked up in the future.
Speaker 5: I mean, we all know CD is gonna get done.
Speaker 5: I mean, we just don't know when it's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: A lot of money that's about to get dished out,
Speaker 5: a ton of money.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: So CD Mica, of course, I mean those are the
Speaker 2: first two.
Speaker 4: You've already gotten.
Speaker 7: Trayvon done, potentially Pollard.
Speaker 2: Pollard maybe, Yeah, he's on the franchise tag.
Speaker 7: He's doing else. If he keeps this pace going all season,
Speaker 7: what act, what do you do?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, dak dak extension. Yeah, that would happen again.
Speaker 2: Would you think if if Pollard keeps this pace up,
Speaker 2: would you you saying sign a long term two year Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll probably give him two years and be okay with
Speaker 2: it too. I'm trying to think of anybody else on
Speaker 2: that defensive side.
Speaker 6: Oh, I keep thinking about it.
Speaker 8: Is just I'm trying to and I know there's gonna
Speaker 8: be some obvious one that people point out. Maybe you
Speaker 8: guys will think of it, But who's like the big
Speaker 8: time Cowboys got a contract extension done during the Sea m.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think back to Romo's last extension. I
Speaker 8: remember they really had like the I remember it being
Speaker 8: in March because it was like the Sweet sixteen and
Speaker 8: Elite eight were out at and T Stadium, and I
Speaker 8: remember it was just kind of announced, they had a
Speaker 8: press release and everything.
Speaker 6: They just got done.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm thinking dak as seek Jalen smith Le
Speaker 8: counting that none of them are during the season, So,
Speaker 8: I mean, Jerry's asked that, so he's not gonna sit
Speaker 8: there and say no, no, no, we're table and talks, because hey,
Speaker 8: if we're playing the two sides get together and they
Speaker 8: can work something out, then yeah they do it.
Speaker 6: But I just really can't.
Speaker 8: No one jumps out to me as being someone that
Speaker 8: got done during the season with the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe we'll open that up to the text
Speaker 2: line if anybody can think of one that happened in
Speaker 2: season eight one seven, two nine zero three two nine eight,
Speaker 2: I'll hop on there and see if anybody else.
Speaker 4: But I'm right there with you.
Speaker 2: I don't think I know of one big name Cowboy
Speaker 2: that happened at any point the season. It was either preseason,
Speaker 2: training camp or complete offseason.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so interesting.
Speaker 4: What else for new was.
Speaker 7: In those last point? Dan Quinn opened his press conference
Speaker 7: on Monday or his availability rather talking about how last
Speaker 7: week he stood up on the podium saying that that
Speaker 7: wasn't us, you know, very uncharacteristic of us, and everyone
Speaker 7: knew it. And he opened with last week I set
Speaker 7: up here and was discouraged about her performance and said
Speaker 7: that wasn't us yesterday. That was us talking about Sunday.
Speaker 7: The energy, the hitting, the ball hawking, that is us,
Speaker 7: and that felt like that felt more like our style
Speaker 7: and attitude. My question out of this for you guys
Speaker 7: is what does the defense seem to do on Sunday
Speaker 7: to win this game? If the offense does not play well,
Speaker 7: how can the defense win this game?
Speaker 2: I guess it's gotta be takeaways, right, absolutely, it would
Speaker 2: have to be multiple takeaways against this.
Speaker 6: Front, against the scene that doesn't turn the ball over.
Speaker 4: Isaiah doesn't have words.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's tough, man, This is a tough team. These
Speaker 5: guys are freaking tough.
Speaker 4: Well tell me about him. Why are they so tough?
Speaker 5: They just do things the right way. It's hard to
Speaker 5: tell what they're doing from play to play. A lot
Speaker 5: of their stuff looks exactly the same, but it's different.
Speaker 5: They have a ton of personnel. It doesn't matter who
Speaker 5: gets the ball. I mean, heck, they elevated Willie Snead
Speaker 5: last week. Like, who the heck has Willy Sneen on
Speaker 5: their practice squad?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: But like they just have guys, you know, and everybody
Speaker 5: make a play and they don't care who gets the ball.
Speaker 5: Dee Bow, you know, it doesn't matter if it's Kiddle,
Speaker 5: doesn't matter, if it's McCaffrey, doesn't matter if it's Brandon eye,
Speaker 5: you doesn't matter. If it doesn't matter, they just go
Speaker 5: down the line. And again their offensive scheme, They'll come
Speaker 5: out in heavy sets all day long and just run
Speaker 5: the ball down down your face. You know, a lot
Speaker 5: of options in terms of their running scheme because of
Speaker 5: how they block it up. It's not their ball, their
Speaker 5: their players aren't meant to necessarily go one direction. Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: they might have a it might be mapped out to
Speaker 5: go one direction, but they have like three different lanes
Speaker 5: that they can go through because of how they're motioning
Speaker 5: and putting guys in position, and you just always it
Speaker 5: almost feels like no matter where you line up at
Speaker 5: like they want you there.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. It's almost like do am I.
Speaker 5: Supposed to be sitting outside right now? Or do they
Speaker 5: want me outside? I'm not really sure. It's just it's tough, man,
Speaker 5: and so you've got to be very disciplined. You're gonna
Speaker 5: have to, you know, be physical and hopefully you can
Speaker 5: force some turnovers, you know. But like it's like you
Speaker 5: guys mentioned, they don't they do a pretty dog on
Speaker 5: a good job of that. I think you're going to
Speaker 5: have to try to find a way to get ahead
Speaker 5: of them and try to put the ball in Brock
Speaker 5: Pertty's hands. I mean, I think that's really your biggest
Speaker 5: hope is to get them out of their running game
Speaker 5: as much as possible, because if they feel confident they
Speaker 5: can run the ball and you know, three downs in
Speaker 5: a row and keep getting first downs, nobody can beat them.
Speaker 4: Kids.
Speaker 8: Yeah, for the offense, like I think it comes down,
Speaker 8: like I said, the Cowboys offense, So for the small
Speaker 8: chance that they aren't that big of a factor, like
Speaker 8: they really weren't really in the three wins. It's really
Speaker 8: been just a dominant defense. It's led to these blowouts.
Speaker 8: But so the only way I see it happen it
Speaker 8: would be just like those three blowouts. You have to
Speaker 8: talk about at the end of the game, that somehow
Speaker 8: they force the Niners to turnover at least three or
Speaker 8: four times, Like I don't even think winning the turnover
Speaker 8: battle two nothing gets it done if the offense doesn't
Speaker 8: show up like you're gonna have to three four, you know,
Speaker 8: scoop and score.
Speaker 6: Type stuff that I'm not.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's pos but this forty nine Ers team
Speaker 8: just is not the type that you really pull that
Speaker 8: off against I guess unless you know you got ahead
Speaker 8: of them, and then yeah, prettys to throw. But even
Speaker 8: if you do get ahead of them, it's probably going
Speaker 8: to be your offense has to play pretty well too.
Speaker 2: So it was interesting. I was looking up yesterday and
Speaker 2: of course all of the PFF grades rained down and
Speaker 2: we talked about it on.
Speaker 4: The show before. PFF is not the go to be
Speaker 4: all indall in terms of your evaluation of players.
Speaker 2: But out of their top eight grades in the NFL,
Speaker 2: across the league, their top eight grades, five of them
Speaker 2: belonging to the Cowboys or the forty nine ers. It
Speaker 2: was Tyler Smith as the top highest graded player. Brandon
Speaker 2: Ayuk was second, Christian McCaffrey was fifth, Trent Williams was seventh,
Speaker 2: and Dak Prescott was eighth.
Speaker 7: So those just offensive players are both just offensive players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so talking about both sides, and that goes back
Speaker 2: to Brandon to almost said branded as in Brandon Ayuk.
Speaker 2: To Isaiah's point is you got Brandon Ayuk, but you
Speaker 2: also have Christian McCaffrey, you also have Trent Williams.
Speaker 4: They were three of the top seven been graded PF
Speaker 4: only offense. It is only off.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, only off.
Speaker 8: Most of those guys, none of them should be a
Speaker 8: great iron Mike hal Parson.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, yes, yeah, correct. I mean I can get
Speaker 4: the defense.
Speaker 6: You're good, You're good.
Speaker 2: But you talk about Trent Williams on the left tackle spot.
Speaker 2: You've got Brandon, I you Christian McCaffrey, Deebo Samuel who
Speaker 2: hasn't been Deebo lately, but he can certainly be Deebo.
Speaker 2: He can, he can certainly find that sleepy.
Speaker 7: I mean, he just had one bad game. I feel
Speaker 7: like he started the season off strong. Yeah. I only
Speaker 7: know that because he's in like two checks.
Speaker 2: George Kittle, you're forgetting where we're forgetting George Kittle.
Speaker 5: It goes back to what I was saying yesterday, like
Speaker 5: you have to out physical these guys, and you gotta
Speaker 5: be ready for a fight. You really have to be
Speaker 5: ready for a fight. Like you're getting ready to play Tyson.
Speaker 5: You're getting ready to fight Tyson. And you know when
Speaker 5: you go to fight Tyson, if you want to knock
Speaker 5: him out, you got to take some blows.
Speaker 7: Who are the Eagles?
Speaker 9: Eagles?
Speaker 5: Don't thee The Eagles is more scheme to me, you know,
Speaker 5: what I mean. The Eagles are more scheme. These guys
Speaker 5: are scheming physicality. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So yeah, they going
Speaker 5: to may Weather. It's gonna be a little bit boring fight,
Speaker 5: but then you know they're gonna be effective.
Speaker 4: Effective.
Speaker 5: But yeah, these guys, I mean, you just have to
Speaker 5: you gotta come hit these cats in the mouth, but
Speaker 5: you know you're gonna get hit in the mouth at
Speaker 5: the same time, so it's gonna be you know, you
Speaker 5: have to be emotionally intelligent because Trent me Williams literally,
Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys saw his tweet yesterday
Speaker 5: where he was trolling the defensive lineman that he punched
Speaker 5: it in the face a week or two ago and
Speaker 5: didn't get called for a penalty. But he literally just
Speaker 5: punched his dude in the face mask but we have
Speaker 5: to find it in the break. Yeah, he like posted
Speaker 5: like it's the it's the most disrespectful thing in the world.
Speaker 5: He didn't get called for the flag, but in his tweet,
Speaker 5: I think yesterday I was posted I was reading an
Speaker 5: article and he he posted the video of him punching
Speaker 5: the dude in the face and then put like a
Speaker 5: clip from some movie. It was like when you're gonna
Speaker 5: teach your boys how to squabble like Will like he's trolling,
Speaker 5: like that's what he does.
Speaker 8: Absolutely before the last he was going up to Brett
Speaker 8: Maher before he was trying to warm up and stuff
Speaker 8: like that. And I was just kind of like, I'm
Speaker 8: watching from the press box and of like I get
Speaker 8: where you guys are coming from. But isn't there a
Speaker 8: certain things where just like certain players are on a
Speaker 8: level where it's like, yeah, I'm not gonna be doing that.
Speaker 8: I'm on this level like I'm all famer type, I'm not.
Speaker 5: When it plays when it plays into their favor And
Speaker 5: I said, in their minds, their bullies And that's seriously
Speaker 5: in their minds, their bullies. And my boy coaches out there,
Speaker 5: so I already know and that's his mindset.
Speaker 4: He's a dog and he's a coach and as a player,
Speaker 4: he was absolutely beach. That's Deshaun Golson.
Speaker 5: So it's I mean, these guys, they have that attitude,
Speaker 5: they have that swag about them, and until you punch
Speaker 5: somebody in their mouth, that's like that you're gonna allow
Speaker 5: them to do what they want to do. So Dallas,
Speaker 5: Dallas is fully capable. This is gonna be one heck
Speaker 5: of a fight. Now Dallas is fully capable, but they
Speaker 5: got to get their minds right and be ready to
Speaker 5: weather the storms that come. This is gonna be a
Speaker 5: give and take game, both sides, both teams. They're gonna
Speaker 5: have some good to happen, you have some bad to happen.
Speaker 5: Who bounces back, Who forgets what happened? Who tries to
Speaker 5: put it away and come back and just continue to progress?
Speaker 5: You know, he can continue to move forward if you
Speaker 5: if you well over it and you get emotional and
Speaker 5: you started getting frustrated, you start thinking it's gonna be
Speaker 5: too late, you'll just get driving to the ground.
Speaker 2: And if there was a unit on this Cowboys team
Speaker 2: that you could classify as bullies in their own right,
Speaker 2: which union would be defense. It's gotta be right, Gotaac.
Speaker 2: That's who you need to set the tone. Offense has
Speaker 2: got to do their job, no doubt, But setting the
Speaker 2: tone is it up to the defense?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's setting the tone is definitely the defensive job.
Speaker 5: My biggest ask is that they go on to the
Speaker 5: next play. That's my biggest ass because they're gonna have
Speaker 5: some big runs. They're gonna have some big plays. They're
Speaker 5: gonna be some dudes that make some exciting plays. You're
Speaker 5: not at home. The crowd's gonna be into it. Everybody
Speaker 5: in their mom is gonna be hype. Got they have
Speaker 5: all day long to drink. E forty will be on
Speaker 5: the sideline getting everybody crunk. Like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: Like everybody in their mom's gonna be at this game.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be It's gonna be a lot of Cowboys
Speaker 5: fans too. So I'm saying the energy is gonna be
Speaker 5: absolutely insane. So you have to be able to go
Speaker 5: on to the next play. And that's easier said than done.
Speaker 5: When you got Trent Williams hitting you in the face,
Speaker 5: grabbing your face mask, not getting called for stuff, the
Speaker 5: rest of their guys doing the same thing you check,
Speaker 5: trying to take your knees out, you know, all the
Speaker 5: receivers doing cut blocks, all that stuff.
Speaker 4: Like, it's gonna be an emotional game.
Speaker 5: So you have to be able to say, Okay, McCaffrey
Speaker 5: just got a fifteen yard run, all right, boom a right,
Speaker 5: forget about it, let's go next to back. After you know,
Speaker 5: I'm saying you can't be up there, tumball man, forget
Speaker 5: you and get caught in net talking back and forth
Speaker 5: in because they're gonna come right back at you, hitching
Speaker 5: the mouth again, and then they're gonna be talking to
Speaker 5: you some more.
Speaker 2: That's what they want.
Speaker 4: That's what they want, They want you talking.
Speaker 7: I see an opportunity though in the interior of that
Speaker 7: offensive line. They haven't been the strongest for San Francisco
Speaker 7: through these first four games. I think there's a really
Speaker 7: good opportunity for this interior defensive line to build on
Speaker 7: what they did last week. Guys like al said that
Speaker 7: he wouldn't have a Galla and talked about him Mazzie
Speaker 7: Smith to get some real action and plug that run
Speaker 7: in the middle. But what kind of goes hand in
Speaker 7: hand with that if you're San Francisco is that Christian
Speaker 7: McCaffrey is so good outside the tackles. I mean, that's
Speaker 7: where he's gonna find his space, That's where he's gonna
Speaker 7: make it happen. So I mean it's really up to
Speaker 7: that whole defensive line then to just be able to
Speaker 7: hold that run. But I think there's gonna be an
Speaker 7: opportunity to generate pressure in the interior. We talked a
Speaker 7: lot about Michael Parsons lining up in different alignments throughout
Speaker 7: the year. I think you could see a couple of
Speaker 7: a couple of times him lining up over center and
Speaker 7: trying to get after the quarterback. He had ten pressures
Speaker 7: on Sunday. I know he didn't get a sack. Its
Speaker 7: ten pressures, I think at least three of them were
Speaker 7: generated from him coming in the interior, whether he was
Speaker 7: lining up on the interior or if he did a
Speaker 7: stunt and came around. So I mean there's I think
Speaker 7: there's gonna be opportunities there if they can get after
Speaker 7: Brock Purdy and kind of force them to figure out
Speaker 7: stuff in the run game, and then the defensive line
Speaker 7: could be firm up front. There's an opportunity there.
Speaker 5: I think to your point, internal pressure disrupts what they
Speaker 5: like to do on offense because they run a lot
Speaker 5: of counters.
Speaker 4: They do a lot of a lot.
Speaker 5: Of what we call, you know, cut blocks, cutting backside right,
Speaker 5: So they whether they're sending a receiver, a tight end whoever,
Speaker 5: pulling guard, pulling tackle, they like to go and cut
Speaker 5: the backside off. So it's hard to kind of get
Speaker 5: pressure from the outside. You can kind of get caught
Speaker 5: up in that game. But if you can get internal pressure,
Speaker 5: you mess up the footing of the quarterback and the
Speaker 5: running back exchange.
Speaker 4: You can do a lot of that.
Speaker 5: So I'm hoping that this is Mazi's big game where
Speaker 5: he comes out.
Speaker 8: I'm hoping be something I've just imagine, like how much
Speaker 8: criticism he gets, and then they have that game in
Speaker 8: this game just that I don't know, sports is like
Speaker 8: that is, you know, expect the unexpected when it's especially
Speaker 8: a game like this where you just dissected all down
Speaker 8: like Okay, well this is going to happen, then this
Speaker 8: will happen this and then. But there's always some randomness
Speaker 8: to it, you know, where like next thing, you know,
Speaker 8: Nevill Gilmore is running down the middle of the field
Speaker 8: trying to cover George Kettle.
Speaker 4: Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 8: Sometimes you throw a ball right at Trayvon Diggs and
Speaker 8: he has some of the best hands on the team,
Speaker 8: he doesn't catch it.
Speaker 6: I mean, just random stuff happens.
Speaker 4: It does. And I went back and watched just a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 2: I'm still like a quarter and a half in of
Speaker 2: last year's game, and I'm watching the all twenty two
Speaker 2: of the Divisional round. There was times when I was asking,
Speaker 2: pleading for internal pressure and there wasn't any. There was
Speaker 2: zero internal pressure. Maybe that's part of the thought process
Speaker 2: with dan Quinn of getting Mico on the inside, and
Speaker 2: of course it's part of it with trying to stop
Speaker 2: the run and stuff with my with Maszi Smith in
Speaker 2: the middle. But even in the passing game, there was
Speaker 2: little to no interior pressure in that divisional round game
Speaker 2: last year. So it allowed San Francisco to do what
Speaker 2: they want to do. Not that the defense played poorly.
Speaker 2: The defense allowed nineteen points. They should have won that
Speaker 2: game just off of what the defense did. However, if
Speaker 2: you can get internal pressure, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I think mistakes start to stockpile.
Speaker 5: Agree And like I said, because a lot of the
Speaker 5: things they do running wise, that would if you can
Speaker 5: get that internal pressure. Never Gallimore did a heck of
Speaker 5: a job last week getting off the ball and getting
Speaker 5: internal pressure. Also Diggi Zuell through the first three games,
Speaker 5: I know especially, it was very effective in that regard.
Speaker 5: If you can get some unforeseen production out of Masi
Speaker 5: or you know, in that regard, I think that would
Speaker 5: not only give this team a little bit more juice,
Speaker 5: But I think that that plays this is his type
Speaker 5: of game, right, I'm speaking towards Mazi, and I've been
Speaker 5: tough on Mazi. I think this is his type of game,
Speaker 5: the type of team that talks smack like. I think
Speaker 5: that that's what really gets his juices going. So I'm
Speaker 5: looking forward to seeing that if you can get that
Speaker 5: figured out, and I want to see the defensive backs
Speaker 5: get like press up. Majority of the teams that have
Speaker 5: played San Francisco has played off. They played off because
Speaker 5: one because of the speed that they have on the
Speaker 5: outside too, because they want to see everything right. And
Speaker 5: if you come up and you press and everybody's playing
Speaker 5: pretty much at one or two levels, then all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, once they get past that first wave, you
Speaker 5: got problems on big plays. Right, So you may give
Speaker 5: up big plays, but the reality is you're gonna give
Speaker 5: up big plays against San Francisco anyways. So I'd rather
Speaker 5: negate eighty percent of their offense and have them hoping
Speaker 5: and wishing on a big play versus giving them the
Speaker 5: space to do what they want to do.
Speaker 6: How much of a factory do you think that it is?
Speaker 8: Just other teams and maybe not having the corners, maybe
Speaker 8: not having the pass rush to be able to do
Speaker 8: that against this Niers.
Speaker 5: I think teams rather would rather play ben but don't
Speaker 5: break defense against San Francisco.
Speaker 4: That's what I believe.
Speaker 5: I think teams fear them in that regard, so they're like,
Speaker 5: you know what, let's let him run, run, run, run, run,
Speaker 5: and hopefully we can force them into a third and long.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, a third and eight. Hopefully
Speaker 5: we can force them into that. But what ends up
Speaker 5: happening is they end up motioning McCaffrey out and they're
Speaker 5: playing eight yards off him. He runs a five yard
Speaker 5: out route and he beats him on a you know,
Speaker 5: he beats one man or Deebo Samuel cat catches a
Speaker 5: five yard pass, or Ayuk he is able to have
Speaker 5: some you know, party's able to sit back there and
Speaker 5: throw an en route to Ayuka in for twelve yards.
Speaker 4: So like these guys are, a lot of their stuff
Speaker 4: is not down the field.
Speaker 5: It's get the all of my playmaker's hands, short, high
Speaker 5: precision passes and let them make a man miss. Like
Speaker 5: that's what this office is predicated on, aside from the run.
Speaker 4: So instead of the bend, but don't break. It's the
Speaker 4: bend door break defense.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I radther them come up and just be overly aggressive.
Speaker 4: I want that. I want this defense to be overly aggressive.
Speaker 4: I don't think you could play soft on these guys
Speaker 4: and think that you're gonna dislikes that for sure.
Speaker 5: No, no, and I don't doubt un you know that's
Speaker 5: my dude. I just want I want them to be
Speaker 5: overly aggressive on defense. Come up, pressing. I listen, I
Speaker 5: you beat me over the top, right if you want
Speaker 5: to bring up Willie Snake, beat me over the top.
Speaker 4: You haven't made plays in a couple of years. Come
Speaker 4: beat me over the top.
Speaker 5: I dare you, perdy, I bet you can't get back
Speaker 5: there and throw it right like.
Speaker 4: That's what I want.
Speaker 5: And we're gonna we're gonna load this dog on box
Speaker 5: up and I dare you guys to try to run
Speaker 5: at us.
Speaker 2: He tried to hide it a little bit by sprinkling
Speaker 2: in the big plays at the end, but Isaiah made
Speaker 2: a positive prediction about the Cowboys already.
Speaker 4: He just put it in there.
Speaker 2: He said, Mazzie Smith's gonna have a breakout game. Here's
Speaker 2: what he said, that's what he said.
Speaker 4: I said, tried to hide it. I said it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm calling you out, Massie.
Speaker 5: Hmmm, Mazzi, Hey, this is what you cal Hey, step up,
Speaker 5: step up and make some plays.
Speaker 7: Buss.
Speaker 4: He's casting their mouth.
Speaker 7: I'll take you in most fights, but careful, Mazzi.
Speaker 4: You only got me by a couple of pairs, and
Speaker 4: I'm playing it. Oh.
Speaker 5: Hey, take these guys and Moody's cats backwards. They're gonna
Speaker 5: be in your grill talking mess to you and the
Speaker 5: rest of your squad. You don't let nobody take your cookies.
Speaker 5: Gotta go out there and get it.
Speaker 4: Don't get it.
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Speaker 8: This is the only thing that sucks about a seventeen
Speaker 8: game season is that it was so nice when I
Speaker 8: was sixteen that you could just break it up into quarters. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I will say coaches still do that though, Like McCarthy's
Speaker 8: some about the other day about how you know you
Speaker 8: know and why you value things a little different after
Speaker 8: you know, four games, and so we'll pretend that it's
Speaker 8: the quarterway. And so I'm looking at who has been
Speaker 8: the biggest surprise through these first four weeks, and I
Speaker 8: think it comes down to two teams. I think it's
Speaker 8: either between how bad the Bengals have been or how
Speaker 8: good the Bucks have been. You could also throw on
Speaker 8: how bad the Giants have been, but I don't think
Speaker 8: that that's on the same level. But out of those two,
Speaker 8: let's say between the Bucks being what they are and
Speaker 8: the Bengals being as bad as they are.
Speaker 6: Which one is surprised you the most.
Speaker 7: Bes Bengals being as bad as they are, I would
Speaker 7: say Bengals only because of the NFC South. I have
Speaker 7: zero expectations out of that division this year. But the
Speaker 7: Bengals being one and three, I guess you can attribute
Speaker 7: it to Joe Burrow not being fully healthy. I know
Speaker 7: Jamar Chase was kind of in the locker room about
Speaker 7: how he's not getting the ball. I was always, yeah,
Speaker 7: that's what he said, right the hell, little fo men.
Speaker 7: But that's that's a little bit more surprising to me.
Speaker 7: Especially Joe Mixon hasn't been able to get going in
Speaker 7: the run game. They haven't tried to implement anything different.
Speaker 7: And that Titans game, I actually had a chance to
Speaker 7: go back and see a little bit of it yesterday
Speaker 7: just see what happened, And man, they looked bad. They
Speaker 7: looked really bad. They look like pre Burrow Bengals as
Speaker 7: far as like not being able to move the ball
Speaker 7: down the field, giving up chunk plays. And the Titans
Speaker 7: are not a great team. I don't feel like that's
Speaker 7: a playoff team by any stretch of the imagination. So
Speaker 7: that's more surprising to me. Also, the Buccaneers. I don't
Speaker 7: feel like they've really had a true test just yet,
Speaker 7: but I have liked what Baker Mayfield has done so far.
Speaker 7: I think that that that has surprised me for sure.
Speaker 7: I thought he would kind of come in and it'd
Speaker 7: be they'd be like third in that very bad division.
Speaker 2: Can I throw in an honorable mention because I don't
Speaker 2: think it's as high as Cincinnati, but I just want
Speaker 2: to throw them in there. How about the Houston Texans.
Speaker 2: What the Houston Texans have done? I mean, because they
Speaker 2: won had three wins all of last.
Speaker 4: Year, they already have two. They're two and two, and
Speaker 4: they've done.
Speaker 2: So by beating Pittsburgh thirty seven to seventeen and or
Speaker 2: excuse me, beating Jacksonville thirty seven to seventeen and Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: thirty to six. I mean, they've had two blowout wins
Speaker 2: so far with a rookie quarterback, rookie edge rusher, and
Speaker 2: just really zero expectations. Like Nick was saying about the
Speaker 2: AFC Division, I mean, Texans are two and two with
Speaker 2: the rest of their division, but still something to look at.
Speaker 7: CJ. Stroud has been awesome, He's been great, be awesome
Speaker 7: so far like he's outplayed Bryce Smith or Bryce Jicks Smith,
Speaker 7: Bryce Young by a mile.
Speaker 4: He was six there head coach.
Speaker 8: Not being the forty nine ers defensive coordinator has any
Speaker 8: impact on the Fortyanners defense. It's now Steve Wilks is
Speaker 8: now the DC. Do you think that that has any impact?
Speaker 8: Do you think it's the same old, same old.
Speaker 2: Doesn't look like it has a whole lot of an
Speaker 2: impact on the film.
Speaker 4: Wilkes is a doug on good coach. He's actually one
Speaker 4: of my former coaches. He's pretty dug on good. Where'd
Speaker 4: you have him? Washington? Oh? Ed you done? Really? What
Speaker 4: was he there?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 7: I don't know. Whenever quality control?
Speaker 4: He's a coach.
Speaker 8: Well, let's segue into my next one, because it does
Speaker 8: have a small Washington tie. Hey Pooka Nakua Yes, okay,
Speaker 8: five hundred and one receiving yards through these first four games,
Speaker 8: second only to Justin Jefferson. So I really don't care
Speaker 8: about talking about him as much as when I was
Speaker 8: looking at where he ranks and all the top you know,
Speaker 8: pass catchers so far through four games.
Speaker 6: It made me think if you.
Speaker 8: Could take any one wide receiver off of another team
Speaker 8: and put it on this Cowboys team, who would that be?
Speaker 8: And it has to be a wide receiver, can't be
Speaker 8: a pass catcher. Has to be a wide receiver. So
Speaker 8: for me, when I was looking at them all, the
Speaker 8: first one that jumped out to me was just Stefan
Speaker 8: Diggs because of what he does in the red zone.
Speaker 8: And so if you think the red zone is an issue,
Speaker 8: and then I think he fits. If you don't think that,
Speaker 8: you just want the best playmaker's probably not him. But
Speaker 8: if you could add one, who would you add?
Speaker 4: That's tough?
Speaker 2: I would I would think I think Keenan Allen's in
Speaker 2: that list, same same deal, because he's been so good
Speaker 2: in the red zone and he probably wouldn't be too
Speaker 2: pricey at that point.
Speaker 4: I just think he's so good in the red zone.
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill were just from a playmaker standpoint and a
Speaker 2: speed standpoint.
Speaker 4: Would be really really fun.
Speaker 7: Could you imagine?
Speaker 2: Uh? DeVante Adams would probably be my pick though, Okay,
Speaker 2: I think that would be my guy because once again,
Speaker 2: red zone. He's incredible in the red zone. He's good
Speaker 2: as a playmaker, he's got the size on the outside
Speaker 2: that Dallas just doesn't have. I mean, your biggest receiver
Speaker 2: of Ceedee Lamb in terms of size, give me DeVante
Speaker 2: Adams and we can sure that up a little bit.
Speaker 2: That's that's probably who i'd pick, even though it's either
Speaker 2: him or Tyreek.
Speaker 5: Okay, Tyreek, Yeah, just speed, Yeah, you don't have that
Speaker 5: right now. You don't have that good speed.
Speaker 4: You don't have that, Tyreek.
Speaker 5: But you've got good speed, you have good speed. But
Speaker 5: Tyreek is his world spfriend. You can give Tyreek the
Speaker 5: ball of five yards and all right now. By by then,
Speaker 5: I think the.
Speaker 7: Only issue with Tyreek would be alignment with him and
Speaker 7: CD like, how do you?
Speaker 4: How do you?
Speaker 7: You can figure it out. That's a phenomenal problem to have,
Speaker 7: but I think that's the only problem you'd kind of
Speaker 7: run into. I've been playing for size in this receiving
Speaker 7: court for the last like three years, so as a result,
Speaker 7: I'd probably go with a guy like a J. Brown
Speaker 7: or Jamar Chase, somebody that can be really physical high
Speaker 7: pointing balls and bringing down the red zone like.
Speaker 2: You like Adams.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, That's why I picked Tybek because I think in
Speaker 5: this offense, I think he could you could drop him
Speaker 5: in the scheme and not have to change anything in
Speaker 5: terms of like getting the ball out quick, getting in
Speaker 5: his hands just he did go, let it go. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you don't have to try to you don't have to
Speaker 5: try to create something for him.
Speaker 2: He'd be really good on our hitstick show because that's
Speaker 2: how he watched his film. So yeah, I know by
Speaker 2: playing playing Madden.
Speaker 7: He'd be good. And that was definitely a troll, right, Yeah,
Speaker 7: it's gotta be.
Speaker 4: That he eats candy for food.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm surprised nobody said Justin Jefferson. I think a
Speaker 8: lot of people, Yeah, just because of the numbers he's
Speaker 8: put up. But I made sure that's say wide receiver
Speaker 8: because for me, if it was any position, probably.
Speaker 4: Would you say Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 8: No, no, I'd still go digs. But if it could
Speaker 8: be tight ends too, would be Kelsey. If you just
Speaker 8: look at his numbers in the red zone crazy And
Speaker 8: I know that has to do with his connection with
Speaker 8: Mahomes in that, but I think that would be pretty
Speaker 8: high in the list.
Speaker 2: TheInk.
Speaker 4: We'll figure it out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they'll be fine.
Speaker 5: There'd be room in the suite. Why do you guys
Speaker 5: think that George Kittle's numbers have been down this year?
Speaker 14: Why?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 8: That is a great question, because they are when you
Speaker 8: look at compared to you the rest the where his
Speaker 8: production normally.
Speaker 7: Is well, if you think back to last year, I mean,
Speaker 7: he was battling injury most of the year, and whenever
Speaker 7: he got reinstated back in that offense, it's kind of
Speaker 7: on par with where he was towards the end of
Speaker 7: last season. I don't feel like it's anything different than
Speaker 7: what he's shown post injury. He was saying the playoffs though,
Speaker 7: he really turned it up.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 7: I think that office has just had to kind of
Speaker 7: change whenever he was out, and Brandon and Yuk is
Speaker 7: getting a lot more involved. He's finally kind of coming
Speaker 7: into his own. I don't think it's more so them
Speaker 7: going away from Kittle. It's more going to other weapons.
Speaker 7: You've got McCaffrey on the team now, and when he
Speaker 7: was hurt, they didn't have McCaffrey. There's a lot of
Speaker 7: different things that I think play into that. I don't
Speaker 7: think it's speaks to Kettle taking a step step back.
Speaker 2: That's a really good point because if you go back
Speaker 2: and you look he was inactive the first two weeks
Speaker 2: last year, and then in weeks three and four he
Speaker 2: had six receptions for fifty two yards. Right now he's
Speaker 2: sitting at fourteen catches for one forty eight, so he's ahead.
Speaker 4: Of what he was last year. Week five and six, though,
Speaker 4: was when he woke up.
Speaker 2: Last year, he had five catches for forty seven yards
Speaker 2: against Carolina, and then the day after or the week
Speaker 2: after that, he had eight catches for eighty three yards,
Speaker 2: and then from then it was touchdowns almost every game
Speaker 2: except for a three game stretch in the middle of
Speaker 2: the season. So maybe he just tas to get going
Speaker 2: a little bit. Like you said, he was battling injury
Speaker 2: last year. Maybe this year it's more so just getting
Speaker 2: off the ground and facing good competition. Last year, yeah,
Speaker 2: he was inactive for the first two games.
Speaker 7: Felt like it was a lot more.
Speaker 4: He said he woke up in week five. He did
Speaker 4: woke up in Week five and six. Just don't let
Speaker 4: history repeat itself.
Speaker 9: Right, you're not a stats guy, remember that his numbers
Speaker 9: in week five last year went from forty seven seven
Speaker 9: yards then to eighty three ninety eight, and then he
Speaker 9: kind of dove off for two games, was thirty nine
Speaker 9: to twenty one, and then it was eighty four with
Speaker 9: two touchdowns by the end of the year, ninety three
Speaker 9: for two touchdowns, one twenty for two touchdowns against Washington.
Speaker 7: I mean, he put up numbers, but but Week one
Speaker 7: Giants obviously Darren Waller hasn't quite figured it out just
Speaker 7: yet with that, but the whole Giants offense hasn't figured
Speaker 7: it out. Cowboys did their way with him even in Arizona.
Speaker 7: Coming into that game. They've been heavily using those tight
Speaker 7: ends with Joshua dob Zachers and Trade McBride. And while
Speaker 7: that offense did succeed, like the Titans did not get going.
Speaker 7: I don't remember ERTs having a catch. I could be
Speaker 7: wrong on that.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't remember him being active in that game against
Speaker 7: the Cowboys or against the Cowboys last week. Yeah, if
Speaker 7: he had a reception, it was maybe like one or two.
Speaker 7: I just he had two for eight.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and looking at Kittle to have the huge game
Speaker 8: against the Cowboys. But I'm looking at Kittle of that.
Speaker 8: Oh yes, you know, if you fall asleep for a
Speaker 8: second and you're looking at these other guys just like
Speaker 8: the other you know, do you fear.
Speaker 4: And talk, do you fear Kittle more in blocking or
Speaker 4: in receiving.
Speaker 7: Blocking because the guy that's behind him, Yeah, unfortunately.
Speaker 6: Yeah that's tough.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I know we're talking about him and receiving
Speaker 5: aspect of things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's blocking. Kind of the best blocking tight end
Speaker 4: in the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks to Mercedes the littlest tighten you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: One fun one I had for you guys. I was
Speaker 6: watching The Man and Cast the other day.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you guys like it or not,
Speaker 8: but I was just going to say that I thought
Speaker 8: Will Ferrell is a great guest because he can be funny,
Speaker 8: but he also knows enough about football that you know,
Speaker 8: it's not like he doesn't know what's going on in
Speaker 8: the game. And I thought his jokes fit into that
Speaker 8: as well. So it made me think of if Derek
Speaker 8: Eagleton came to you guys. It was like, Jerry really
Speaker 8: wants to do a show something like that with you
Speaker 8: with you two during a Cowboys game, and he's willing
Speaker 8: to invest any amount of money to get that one guest.
Speaker 8: Who do you think would be the best guest or
Speaker 8: maybe the guests that you guys would most want, And
Speaker 8: same for you if you if Derek came to you,
Speaker 8: is like, hey, we're going to do a podcast just
Speaker 8: you and one guest for the week, and you can
Speaker 8: get any it doesn't matter who it is.
Speaker 6: Who would you pick?
Speaker 2: Are we talking about like if this was week five
Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty three season or just no at
Speaker 2: any time?
Speaker 4: Because I think week five, you and you and money
Speaker 4: was no option.
Speaker 2: You would try and get Taylor Swift on the show,
Speaker 2: because yeah, I mean, whatever she touches turns to gold.
Speaker 2: You cannot deny it.
Speaker 4: Okay, you can't.
Speaker 6: There's my See Kyle's looking.
Speaker 8: For Kyle's looking for what does the best numbers? I
Speaker 8: was thinking, And that's interesting because I was thinking of
Speaker 8: it that way at all. I was thinking of it
Speaker 8: as just like, hey, this is my chance.
Speaker 4: To talk to somebody. See, she wouldn't be on my
Speaker 4: list that that, but numbers was it would blow.
Speaker 8: Up because when I was thinking of it, to me,
Speaker 8: it's like so obvious, it's clearly Michael Jordan and nobody's close.
Speaker 8: Because me, selfishly, I would want to hang out and
Speaker 8: talk to Michael Jordan because he just on a level
Speaker 8: that no other entertainer athlete is for me. So but
Speaker 8: that brings up a good point because if you are
Speaker 8: looking for numbers, that clearly would work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but what about you come on? You got somebody?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm calling it my boy Spice Adams.
Speaker 6: Okay, that would be a good one, very very entertaining.
Speaker 2: We've had him on the show before and it was awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was maybe our best segment we've ever had.
Speaker 4: It was really fun. You want to call him? You
Speaker 4: want to call him?
Speaker 13: This week?
Speaker 4: What Team Chamber? He was a fan of a team
Speaker 4: that was last year and he puts out a video
Speaker 4: every week. The last one was pretty funny.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to think of who mine would be. I
Speaker 7: don't know if y'all know Vince Staples, but it's probably
Speaker 7: the funniest, funniest guy in entertainment in my opinion right now.
Speaker 7: That he would be hilarious to have a sports podcast
Speaker 7: with because he also knows a little bit about football
Speaker 7: as well. That'd be that'd be a really funny one.
Speaker 2: I don't know who I would pick. My first inclination
Speaker 2: was Dirk, but I feel.
Speaker 4: Like we could go bigger than that. Is my favorite
Speaker 4: athlete of all time. We need to get Shack on
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 2: Shack would be really that might be my answer. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I think I might take that one.
Speaker 4: Jack. Would that would be awesome? You want show?
Speaker 2: Heck, yeah, that'd be so that'd be Yeah, that would
Speaker 2: be so fun.
Speaker 7: We just need to show up to an E. D
Speaker 7: M concert, like all four of us and just.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, we'll paint the chest and we'll put it
Speaker 2: out there. That's saying it with your chest.
Speaker 4: How about that? All right?
Speaker 2: I like it, John, A couple of fun topics of conversation.
Speaker 6: Got time for one more and o uh, let's.
Speaker 4: Take a break and then we'll come back with one more.
Speaker 4: Let's do that when we come back right after this.
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Speaker 2: I'm Kyle yeomens. Have you texted Shack yet? Isaiah?
Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about. Kyle.
Speaker 2: You haven't tell you haven't texted him yet.
Speaker 4: I don't have context.
Speaker 7: You're more of a yes everybody.
Speaker 4: I know is through uko is such a lie? Sounds
Speaker 4: like yes, such a lie?
Speaker 2: It's same yeah, whatever, all right, you said you had
Speaker 2: one more for us, John, Yeah.
Speaker 8: I remember a couple of years ago, uh, the way
Speaker 8: that Cowboys finish the season against the Cardinals. There was
Speaker 8: some talk of how, yeah, I don't know if that
Speaker 8: would be the best matchup for the Cowboys in the
Speaker 8: playoffs to play the Cardinals again, even though that wasn't
Speaker 8: necessarily one of the top teams in the playoffs. And
Speaker 8: we just talk all the time about the Eagles, Cowboys,
Speaker 8: Niners kind of be in a group and then everyone else.
Speaker 8: So if you take those other two teams away, no Niners,
Speaker 8: no Eagles, what team would be you think not a
Speaker 8: great matchup for the Cowboys. Maybe it's a team that
Speaker 8: they open, Maybe it's wildcard, maybe divisional round, just someone else,
Speaker 8: you know, the OTHER'SNFC. Yeah, So other top teams are
Speaker 8: right now, Tampa Bay's got three wins, Detroit, Seattle's got
Speaker 8: three wins, and then the next tiers, your two win
Speaker 8: teams like Atlanta, the Rams, Washington, Green Bay, New Orleans.
Speaker 7: If they have to go into a wildcard round like
Speaker 7: on the road again, like they did last year. I
Speaker 7: feel like the game I would be most nervous about
Speaker 7: would be Detroit, but I would I would still like
Speaker 7: the Cowboys to fight in that game for sure. I'm
Speaker 7: not sitting here saying, oh, that's the nightmare matchup, but
Speaker 7: Detroit would probably give me the most paws in a
Speaker 7: wildcard round for sure.
Speaker 2: Pause as in like Lions Lion Paul, there you go, paw.
Speaker 2: I would probably say Detroit as well. And I still
Speaker 2: think Dallas is in the upper tier.
Speaker 4: Like I look at the.
Speaker 2: NFC as tiered right now, I see Philadelphia, San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Dallas is probably the lower end of that first tier.
Speaker 2: But if they win this week, I think they're right
Speaker 2: back into the fight there. Then there's a tier two,
Speaker 2: and I think Detroit's at the top of that Tier two.
Speaker 2: Seattle's in there, maybe the Rams. I'm kind of I'm
Speaker 2: iffy on the Rams right now. I feel like there's
Speaker 2: a chance that they could continue to elevate. They've they've
Speaker 2: been banged up with a couple guys. Of course, Cooper
Speaker 2: cups out, but Park Puka Nakua's really stepped up the
Speaker 2: way that he has. I think the Rams could be
Speaker 2: in that tier two, and then I think it's a
Speaker 2: significant drop off going into Atlanta, Washington, Green Bay, New Orleans, Minnesota,
Speaker 2: all these other teams that might be fighting for the
Speaker 2: sixth seventh spot in the NFC. So I probably, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would circle Detroit as that team right now.
Speaker 4: I mean they they.
Speaker 2: Played tough and we talked about it on the show
Speaker 2: significantly last year, the fighting Dan Campbell's fight for Dan Campbell.
Speaker 5: And they're fun to watch too. Yep, I would not
Speaker 5: want to face Detroit. You're gonna face Detroit, Yes you are.
Speaker 5: Somebody hated the Cowboys when they created this year's schedule,
Speaker 5: but December thirtieth, Yeah, it's seven pm Central. This is
Speaker 5: a team that you know you got to It's gonna
Speaker 5: be a fight, it's gonna be physical, and they beat
Speaker 5: you up last year and you know, they just literally
Speaker 5: just took your knees out and for.
Speaker 4: An entire half they had yesterday that game.
Speaker 2: Yes, they took Micah making the most incredible play I've
Speaker 2: ever seen by a defender. Yeah, to turn that game.
Speaker 6: Around, that's the I would agree with you guys in
Speaker 6: that too. And that's also if it was Cowboys at Lions.
Speaker 6: It's the last time the Lions have won a playoff
Speaker 6: game ninety one and they beat the Cowboys. So wow,
Speaker 6: I haven't won a playoff game since T goodness, yep.
Speaker 4: Who would you?
Speaker 2: I mean, we're in Week five, but who would you
Speaker 2: pick to win that game? If you if that was
Speaker 2: the matchup Cowboys at Lions in the.
Speaker 8: Wildcard round for oh wild card round, yeah, I mean yeah,
Speaker 8: I would go with whoever's the home team. So in
Speaker 8: that case, it probably be the Lion, so I would
Speaker 8: go with the lines if they're at Ford Field. I
Speaker 8: do think the Cowboys are the better team. I mean,
Speaker 8: the difference between those two to me is pretty obvious,
Speaker 8: and it's the two teams that follow the most. It's
Speaker 8: that one team is having a hard time getting to
Speaker 8: the NFC Championship game. The other team is like their
Speaker 8: next step is just to make the playoffs and win
Speaker 8: a playoff game. You know, the Cowboys of one playoff
Speaker 8: ben winning playoff games. It's that you know, Detroit hasn't
Speaker 8: even experienced that, you know, of actually winning a postseason game,
Speaker 8: so that they're on a different level there. So I
Speaker 8: would I would give the advantage to the Cowboys. But
Speaker 8: if they had to go play at Ford Field. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 8: I think it'd be a tough place to win at.
Speaker 2: By the way, we do have some breaking national news.
Speaker 2: Christian Gonzales, the Colony prospect who, of course, was playing
Speaker 2: for the Patriots this past week. It was thought to
Speaker 2: be a dislocated shoulder. It's a torn laboram He's out
Speaker 2: for the season, or at least he's it looks to
Speaker 2: be out for the season, Rap Report times. So what
Speaker 2: did the Patriots do. They went out and traded for
Speaker 2: cornerback ja C. Jackson in a homecoming deal.
Speaker 4: So when got j C.
Speaker 2: Jackson, Cowboys already threw it. You're probably not gonna see
Speaker 2: the Patriots again. But just interesting since that injury did
Speaker 2: happen to a Dallas product in Arlington during this game
Speaker 2: this past week.
Speaker 6: So his tons of family and friends with out the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel bad for the guy.
Speaker 7: I really do.
Speaker 2: Gonzo playing he was playing lights out too as a rookie,
Speaker 2: so best of luck for him moving forward. That's it
Speaker 2: for us, are on Dallas or on talking Cowboys. Tomorrow
Speaker 2: we will have QB Vision with Isaiah stand back. He's
Speaker 2: gonna break down this uh this forty nine Ers defense
Speaker 2: talk about the Cowboys offense and how they can have
Speaker 2: some success.
Speaker 4: I can't wait. We're gonna have to.
Speaker 2: Get our our bleep button ready for Isaiah too, just
Speaker 2: in case.
Speaker 4: All right, for Chris be Isaiah stand back. John Maachow
Speaker 4: to Nick Harris.
Speaker 2: I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long from the Starre in Frisco.
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