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Speaker 1: four episode and fourteen episode number fourty. Welcome to another
Speaker 1: edition of The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage
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Speaker 1: gonna get you guys ready for this game this weekend,
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Giants. It is the first opportunity to Cowboys
Speaker 1: have to rid us all of the images that we
Speaker 1: saw last weekend and hopefully they can get themselves going here.
Speaker 1: After watching the game last night, the night Game, it
Speaker 1: became clear to me that what you see in week
Speaker 1: one is not always what you see in week two.
Speaker 1: If you saw yeah, you watch that, If you saw
Speaker 1: the Ravens last week and then you saw the Ravens
Speaker 1: this week, You're like, Okay, yeah, that's how the NFL is,
Speaker 1: And certainly that's how it is in the first few
Speaker 1: weeks of the NFL season. There's some validity to that.
Speaker 1: But I mean you're talking about, like I feel comfortable
Speaker 1: betting a large sum of money right now that Buffalo
Speaker 1: is gonna be picking in the top five. I agree
Speaker 1: with that, and Cincinnati is probably gonna be a I mean,
Speaker 1: they're at least going to be in the conversation for
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I agree with that. So do you think
Speaker 1: they're as good as they looked so far? Though they've
Speaker 1: looked really good these first two games, Um, Cincinnati, I
Speaker 1: think they're a seven to nine win team, and now
Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything that dispels that notion. So they're loves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, they exactly mean, ain't nobody, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck's first game and two years that that might
Speaker 1: be the most talent poor roster in the entire NFL
Speaker 1: in terms of like, if you win down the line,
Speaker 1: you might take two cold players over anybody else. If
Speaker 1: you could just pick anyone you want it, right, watch
Speaker 1: those well, maybe why the jury is still out like
Speaker 1: we don't. Is this is Andrew luck back? I don't
Speaker 1: know t why the the Quentin Nelson, the Guard maybe
Speaker 1: Malie Cooker and then squad? Yeah yeah, sorry, what's up? Nick? Oh?
Speaker 1: So would you watch those games if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: fantasy football? I had no fantasy players playing list, I
Speaker 1: watched you. I just like watching foots like football. I haven't.
Speaker 1: I just was watching it like I don't really care.
Speaker 1: Just as long as AJ Green makes a few catches up, fine,
Speaker 1: But I wasn't watching like you care. Like it wasn't
Speaker 1: like I cared about the app watch football. I just
Speaker 1: like football. I just want to watch football, you know that.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy football is back. I know some die
Speaker 1: hard football fans who really only want to watch if
Speaker 1: it's like the best of the best. Like I'm watching
Speaker 1: Bowling Green Toledo on next Wednesday night. On next Thursday's
Speaker 1: Jets and Browns. Yes, yeah, actually I will because I'm
Speaker 1: both those teams are intriguing to me, so I will
Speaker 1: watch that. I think the Browns do it one of
Speaker 1: the most interesting teams in the league. Yeah, I will
Speaker 1: definitely watch that. Yeah, no doubt. All right, so let's
Speaker 1: get into this Let's talk about cowboys and giants. Let's
Speaker 1: first start with the injury report. Let's talk about some
Speaker 1: of these guys that are on the injury report. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick, Xavier Woods. They did not practice, the expectation
Speaker 1: as there continue to be out Randy Gregory, Yes, did
Speaker 1: not practice. What are we seeing? What do we think
Speaker 1: just some today? Okay, he was out there today. We'll
Speaker 1: see if it was limited or full. But he was
Speaker 1: out there in the portion that we were able to see.
Speaker 1: Garrett had said earlier that he anticipated him doing stuff
Speaker 1: and that he was cleared. So it's a good sign.
Speaker 1: What I could have done a little bit better job
Speaker 1: is actually trying to find Daytona Jones and seeing what
Speaker 1: that status was. I still feel like Gregory's the type
Speaker 1: of guy and the type of player that if he
Speaker 1: is cleared to practice, he'll probably be cleared to play
Speaker 1: Sunday night. We're talking about you know, we're not talking
Speaker 1: about a noon game. We're talking about seven o'clock kickoff
Speaker 1: of those seven hours is his big So I think
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna play, honestly, and I think that
Speaker 1: that helps you. I kind of think he is too.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you would put him out there
Speaker 1: today if you didn't think he was gonna play Sunday. Right, So,
Speaker 1: I think unless he has any kind of setbacks, I
Speaker 1: anticipate him playing would be good. Dayton Jones limited in
Speaker 1: practice yesterday. What are you hearing about him? Now? You know?
Speaker 1: I think if Gregory is playing, I think that's your
Speaker 1: eight lineman. And I think it would probably just make
Speaker 1: sense to say, all right, well, sign let's let's sit
Speaker 1: him this week. And it doesn't I mean, he was limited,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't sound like he did a ton. He
Speaker 1: needs to be full if you're going to meet missing
Speaker 1: that much time, especially because that means he's going to
Speaker 1: probably take another guy spot out of the rotation, right right.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what though Dayton is as the
Speaker 1: type of I mean, hopefully he's a veteran, Hopefully he
Speaker 1: sees the riding on the wall. He needs to get
Speaker 1: back for week three, for sure week four because we
Speaker 1: know in week five David Irving's coming back on the
Speaker 1: team and and yeah, you don't want to be that
Speaker 1: tackle that it's not you know, good point producing. So
Speaker 1: I mean, Daytone, I would I would get back in
Speaker 1: there if if you could, and I bet you will.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting that they like him enough to keep him. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: talk to me about There were a couple of guys
Speaker 1: that were full participants yesterday. They all good Cavon Frasier
Speaker 1: to Marcus Lawrence, Dak Prescott, good, good, good, awesome, good
Speaker 1: to go. All right, so let's go through an actus.
Speaker 1: What are we thinking for this week? Real Travis and
Speaker 1: Xavier real quick? Yeah, pretty big piece of injury news
Speaker 1: for the other team. All right, Olivier Vernon has been
Speaker 1: ruled out. Actually, that's good, it's great. That's their best
Speaker 1: pass rusher, right, their only pass rusher, at least the
Speaker 1: only they the only one that should scare you. I
Speaker 1: literally tweeted that at me. I was like, I get it.
Speaker 1: The guys on the other side are good too, but
Speaker 1: you're going against a second game rookie and Lorenzo Carter,
Speaker 1: Connor Barwin, who is not the guy. He's a solid guy.
Speaker 1: He's solid, solid player, not a great pass rusher, solid player.
Speaker 1: This pass rush should not abused the Cowboys offensive line
Speaker 1: the way the Panthers did. Nobody, nobody on that group,
Speaker 1: and no Barwin has faced them several times. Nobody on
Speaker 1: that group has given Tyrant Smith as much problems in
Speaker 1: a game as Olivia Vernon did one time with Dolphin Miami. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're you're at home. It's easier at home, That's
Speaker 1: what they always say. At least I've never actually blocked
Speaker 1: somebody in the NFL. UM And I just if the
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys struggle to protect Dak in this game,
Speaker 1: it's way some problem. It's just way more concerning than
Speaker 1: what happened in Carolina. Yeah, you talk about Olivia Vernon.
Speaker 1: I actually think that the reason why he got that
Speaker 1: contract with the Giant is because of what he did
Speaker 1: in that game against Tyrant in Miami. I'm sure they
Speaker 1: were looking at that saying, hey, this is the guy
Speaker 1: we got her face twice a year we have problems with.
Speaker 1: We need to bring that guy in because obviously he's
Speaker 1: got something. With no doubt about that. Um, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you another in act of UM. If we're just gonna
Speaker 1: put one out there, I would say Schultz over over yeah,
Speaker 1: week yeah, really yeah, I just feel no I say
Speaker 1: that week. I just know, but I we watched practice
Speaker 1: the yesterday, I mean sorry, last Friday and this Friday.
Speaker 1: One particular drill that I saw. Um, it was just
Speaker 1: it was right after special teams, which can't see anything
Speaker 1: on special teams because neither one of them are playing,
Speaker 1: so that doesn't give you anything. Um, there's a there's
Speaker 1: a drill that they do where Daks it's just Dak
Speaker 1: in the center and then it's like all of his
Speaker 1: skill players and they run through first and second and
Speaker 1: I guess the third team. And last week Rico was
Speaker 1: way back helmet off and Schultz was in there. This week,
Speaker 1: Rico's doing it. But don't rule out maybe two tight
Speaker 1: ends and they're both inactive. But I think if there's
Speaker 1: three tight ends, I think Rico is the third tight end.
Speaker 1: So let's put a tight end. But I would say
Speaker 1: Schultz I would love to see got two snaps last
Speaker 1: week too. That's it. Two snaps. Now, where do you
Speaker 1: want Rico to play the most red? Well, let's get there.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest issue that they You know, all this
Speaker 1: stuff about mar is a pretty good kickoff guy. Cool,
Speaker 1: Let's let's do that. Although I will say this, like
Speaker 1: I'm not against the idea of creating some opportunities where
Speaker 1: you go down field Rico too. I mean the reason
Speaker 1: why I say that is because they're probably going to
Speaker 1: have one guy on him, and even if it's a
Speaker 1: jump ball type situation, like I love his opportunity downfield.
Speaker 1: In a jump ball situation with one guy on him,
Speaker 1: I don't think most guys are gonna be able to
Speaker 1: jump with him. So to me, I would love to
Speaker 1: see him use him in a lot of different ways,
Speaker 1: not just red zone, just to see what they can
Speaker 1: get out of him. Now, of course, you always have
Speaker 1: to worry about the fact that there is this perception
Speaker 1: that he doesn't know the offense. My personal belief, tell
Speaker 1: him where he's got to go, just say run straight.
Speaker 1: The play that we've looked at a lot where a
Speaker 1: Dak did not throw the ball into Swain. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: let's say that's Rico. You say he couldn't see him. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I think he could see him. I
Speaker 1: thought he was looking at this. No, he would definitely
Speaker 1: see Rico. And it's one of those plays where you
Speaker 1: throw it up there at the at the you know,
Speaker 1: twenty five second clock and hope that he comes and
Speaker 1: gets it. If not, then some guy in a yellow
Speaker 1: jacket's got it exactly, especially if you're if you're wondering
Speaker 1: if Dak is really seeing the feel well, which it
Speaker 1: sounds like you were kind of intimating yesterday. Maybe there
Speaker 1: are a lot of things going on in front of him.
Speaker 1: You give him a big target, and there's not a
Speaker 1: bigger target on this team than Rico Gathers. So I
Speaker 1: just think all the way around, it gives him one
Speaker 1: more piece that he can that he can use that
Speaker 1: is again easy for him to identify, easy for him
Speaker 1: to get the ball to and let him make a
Speaker 1: play on it. I think it's worth doing. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna die laughing if Freeco Gathers has like three
Speaker 1: catches for sixty yards and a touchdown in this game,
Speaker 1: just yeah, it'll be very funny and like it's like
Speaker 1: a good stat line in a not funny kind of way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I just thought of something though on the
Speaker 1: on the inactives when we talked about Gregory and Daytone
Speaker 1: Jones and all that, Um, you know, DeMarcus Lawrence. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's serious at all. He's on the list
Speaker 1: as with a growing injury, and Gregory is on there
Speaker 1: as knee and concussion coming back from it may not
Speaker 1: be the worst thing to try to keep nine guys
Speaker 1: active though, you know, like, let's say he is ready
Speaker 1: and then maybe they only want to do two tight ends.
Speaker 1: That's possible. So I was I was thinking, why would
Speaker 1: they want to go three tight end? I'm only two
Speaker 1: and it could be because they need to go long
Speaker 1: at another position in that position would probably be defensive end.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say if they go three, I think
Speaker 1: it's three go, but there's a possibility that they go
Speaker 1: to So right now, let's just put up Gott Travis,
Speaker 1: I've got Xavier Um. We think it'll be at least
Speaker 1: one tight end. Yeah, Mike White White, So now you're
Speaker 1: at four. Chris Covington was he active last week, so
Speaker 1: he's probably a guy that that's another inactive There was
Speaker 1: there another linebacker that was inactive last week. No, okay,
Speaker 1: so you're up to five. Could go the route of
Speaker 1: two tight ends. That can give you six, but it's
Speaker 1: some offensive linemen in there. Yeah, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: Redmond or suet Philo. What do they do if Redman's inactive?
Speaker 1: What do they do if Joe Looney goes down Zack Martin,
Speaker 1: he slides the center and then they slide in whatever
Speaker 1: reserve guard they have. It was um last week was
Speaker 1: so it has to be the new guy, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: now Redman is a guard center. Yeah, it'll just come
Speaker 1: down to see if one of those two how ready
Speaker 1: he is. I would say they probably sit Sua Philo
Speaker 1: because they sat Redman because they didn't think he would
Speaker 1: be ready so quickly. So why would you put that
Speaker 1: on Sua. So one of those two Sua Philo or Redman,
Speaker 1: I probably will be in. I go the other way.
Speaker 1: I think I think he'll be ready, and you'll go
Speaker 1: and think sits just because I think sometimes when you
Speaker 1: when you sign a player like that, that is a
Speaker 1: question you've already answered of how ready are you? How
Speaker 1: much will you be able to come in right away
Speaker 1: and do that? And so I think it's a you know,
Speaker 1: I think you'd be ready to go first for a
Speaker 1: second und thick. Yeah, I mean that doesn't mean anything
Speaker 1: but ago or five years ago. Yeah, all right, So
Speaker 1: you guys have to give me either you have to
Speaker 1: make a choice, either a second tight end or give
Speaker 1: me an other name to get your final seventh person
Speaker 1: on the inactive list. Did we already say Dayton Jones? No,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a defense. Yeah, I'm probably Dayton Jones
Speaker 1: if I had to guess. All right, and I gets
Speaker 1: you to seven. So we got Travis Frederick, Xavier Woods,
Speaker 1: Dayton Jones, Chris Covington, Mike White tight end if you're choosing,
Speaker 1: and then Suephila Flow or Redman. Yeah. And if they
Speaker 1: don't like, uh, you know, if they feel then they
Speaker 1: need a little bit more depth a defensive line, then
Speaker 1: I guess that's tight endy. We do two tight ends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: inactive we'll see. Okay, good, that would be interesting because
Speaker 1: I don't think they've ever done that before. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see that happening. I don't see
Speaker 1: I mean, they do so many things down there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: short yardage in situations. All right, let's take our first
Speaker 1: break when we come back. I have a whole series
Speaker 1: of questions for these guys. I was gonna get you
Speaker 1: guys ready for this Cowboys versus Giants game, uh, including
Speaker 1: some keys to the game offensive and defensively. And I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask the question Dave mentioned it a little
Speaker 1: bit ago. Do you think that last week what we
Speaker 1: saw with Dak as far as pressure was about the
Speaker 1: scene that they faced, or about problems that you could
Speaker 1: expect to continue to see. With this Cowboys offensive line,
Speaker 1: we'll ask I'll answer all those questions when we come back.
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Speaker 1: live from the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star. Got
Speaker 1: Nick got Dave Ambers out today. She's got some other
Speaker 1: stuff going on. She'll be back with us on next week,
Speaker 1: and so we'll jump right in. Let's talk. Here's some
Speaker 1: questions that I have for you guys about this game,
Speaker 1: with the intention that we're gonna get some answers here
Speaker 1: that will allow people to have a good understanding of
Speaker 1: what they should expect to see this Sunday night, seven
Speaker 1: pm at State. I hope I can answer them. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely on the fence. I've probably changed my pick already.
Speaker 1: Twelve all we're about to nail you down. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be on record on all this stuff, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: see all right, So let's start. First, give me a key,
Speaker 1: each one of you guys, give me a key. Offensively,
Speaker 1: what's a key for the Cowboys offensively to be able
Speaker 1: to be successful in this game, don't use the same one.
Speaker 1: So whoever goes first probably gets that one. Dak needs
Speaker 1: to play better. Is that too obvious? I mean challenge accepted.
Speaker 1: That's that's high brow and analysis right there. I know,
Speaker 1: like I really got into the weeds there and confused
Speaker 1: you with all the xs and ohs. But Dak has
Speaker 1: to play better, like he just has to in the
Speaker 1: long run. But in this game especially, I mean I
Speaker 1: said it, I've said it a million times this week,
Speaker 1: Like Landon Collins is going to be down there in
Speaker 1: the box. They're going to try their best to have
Speaker 1: more defenders than the Cowboys can block. And it's I mean,
Speaker 1: Zeke is still gonna be Zeke. You know, he's had
Speaker 1: eighty yards against this team. He had seventy. He had
Speaker 1: ninety all purpose yards against Carolina, which if the other
Speaker 1: half of the offense had picked up the slack, it
Speaker 1: would have probably been enough to win. But I think
Speaker 1: they're going to clog the box. They're gonna trust Genorris
Speaker 1: Jenkins and Eli Apple to do their job, and it's
Speaker 1: on these receivers to prove them wrong. And it's on
Speaker 1: Dak to get the ball there they do that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask you a very pointed question, and I know
Speaker 1: it might be a little unfair, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask it anyway. Can Dak be better than what we
Speaker 1: saw last week? Because well, no, no, let me ask
Speaker 1: you why. Let me tell you why. I'm asking the question,
Speaker 1: because there's now been a prolonged period of time with
Speaker 1: multiple games where what we saw last week has consistently
Speaker 1: been what we've seen. He hits some of those short passes,
Speaker 1: he has a pretty decent percentage completion, but it's not
Speaker 1: moving the offense. They're not scoring a bunch of points.
Speaker 1: Back then, if they had a veteran quarterback, wasn't Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush who looked terrible in the preseason games. If they
Speaker 1: had a veteran quarterback, would you make the switch this week?
Speaker 1: I'm not if I'm trying to figure out what I have,
Speaker 1: and I am still trying to figure out what I have,
Speaker 1: Like I don't. I don't know that anybody knows yet
Speaker 1: what Dak Prescott really can do. I think I think
Speaker 1: they're still trying to figure that out. And that's why
Speaker 1: you have to keep playing him, because you got to
Speaker 1: figure it out. I think that there were some throws
Speaker 1: that he did not make it in the game. We
Speaker 1: have seen him make a lot more in other games,
Speaker 1: and so therefore I think he can definitely play better
Speaker 1: than that. I do. That's I said it. I think
Speaker 1: I said it on Monday, like I'm not which. Granted,
Speaker 1: you want that in the long run. I get that,
Speaker 1: especially if you're going to give this guy a major contract.
Speaker 1: But I'm not asking you to throw the post through
Speaker 1: double coverage and anticipate the break and do some Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers stuff. I'm just asking you to hit the six
Speaker 1: yard crossing route that's not covered, or the you know,
Speaker 1: the Cole Beasley slant against the bad one on one coverage.
Speaker 1: Like the throws that he missed, some of them were
Speaker 1: throws that we've seen him make a thousand times. And
Speaker 1: that's for the time being. I said this yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I felt stupid saying it. He was so bad that
Speaker 1: it almost makes me feel good because it's like you
Speaker 1: were so bad that that it's an aberration, Like you
Speaker 1: can play better, yea, even even in the even in
Speaker 1: the stretch where they were bad last year. I think
Speaker 1: uh that he made some plays like that I'd like
Speaker 1: it was. It was on another level from what we've
Speaker 1: seen from him, in my opinion, and I have to
Speaker 1: think he can be better than The discouraging part for
Speaker 1: me was that what we expected in the first game
Speaker 1: his rookie year, or a few times in that rookie season,
Speaker 1: that was what we kind of expected out of him,
Speaker 1: that type of game, just missing some balls and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But what we had seen in the previous
Speaker 1: two years, especially with Zeke in the lineup, is that
Speaker 1: you know, he's a lot more comfortable. He just looked uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: But for my point, I'll say that I think would
Speaker 1: certainly help him. I think that they have got to
Speaker 1: be better on first down because that will dictate the
Speaker 1: whole series a little bit. And on if you can
Speaker 1: get to second and four, second and five, then Zeke
Speaker 1: is still in the mix there you start at second
Speaker 1: and ten or worse. With these penalties on first down,
Speaker 1: ye have no shot really with this. You know, Alan
Speaker 1: Hearns caught a twenty yard pass. It was the longest
Speaker 1: pass of the game. So when you get a holding
Speaker 1: penalty on first down first to twenty, it's hard to
Speaker 1: think that you're really going to get those twenty yards
Speaker 1: and so they've got to be playing ahead of the
Speaker 1: chains there, I will it, you're right, But it is funny,
Speaker 1: like you know, I mean, they have these meetings on
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon, Monday morning where they go through the game
Speaker 1: and talk about everything, and then you can see it
Speaker 1: filter out, like you know, Jason talks about it on Monday,
Speaker 1: and then Jerry talks about it on Tuesday, and then
Speaker 1: the players are talking about the rest of the week.
Speaker 1: Is like, well, we we just got behind the chains
Speaker 1: and it just took us out of our rhythm and
Speaker 1: took us out of everything we want to do, which
Speaker 1: like there's some validity to that, but it's not like
Speaker 1: it's not like there's nothing you can do about that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like that's on you. You
Speaker 1: made the mistakes. You got to fix it. And it's
Speaker 1: disheartening to think that a pro offense can't come back
Speaker 1: from a second and twelve, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like I said earlier in the week, it reminds me
Speaker 1: of watching LSU, which is like, if you don't gain
Speaker 1: three to five yards on first down, your chances of
Speaker 1: success already plummet. And that's not I mean that's not
Speaker 1: good enough, but it obviously would help, and they got
Speaker 1: to be better at that. They got to cut out
Speaker 1: the sloppiness for sure. Give me a key. Each want
Speaker 1: to give me a key defensively for the Cowboys tackle.
Speaker 1: I mean, no, you're bringing some fire today, guys. Check
Speaker 1: check this out. Check this out. Everybody that's on this tour.
Speaker 1: Dak has to play better and the defense has to tackle.
Speaker 1: That's next level analysis right there. Um only here on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys tack. No. I mean but I and I said,
Speaker 1: and then no, I think they can hear. They didn't respond. No,
Speaker 1: there was a guy point. He was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, Oh god, you're right. Get him down. Not
Speaker 1: not just Odell Beckham too. Like I I have repeated
Speaker 1: flashbacks of the play in New York two years ago,
Speaker 1: the ten seven game, where like they had nothing going
Speaker 1: O'Dell beat car on a slant and it's like it's
Speaker 1: an eight yard pass that went sixty for the game
Speaker 1: deciding points, and that's that's what they can't have. Like
Speaker 1: O'Dell's gonna make his plays. He did it. I mean
Speaker 1: he had eleven catch us from one to eleven, but
Speaker 1: he didn't they didn't let him have that kill. That's
Speaker 1: the difference. They did let him have that backbreaking play.
Speaker 1: Sequon Barkley did break their back. Fortunately for Jacksonville it
Speaker 1: didn't cost him in the end. But you gotta limit
Speaker 1: the eight and twelve and fifteen yard games. You can't
Speaker 1: let them turn into chunk plays. I think to me,
Speaker 1: Cavon Frasier is the guy that has to make the
Speaker 1: play because we've seen how many games now with Eli thirty,
Speaker 1: probably he will float one over the middle to one
Speaker 1: of those safeties and they will it'll be an interception
Speaker 1: waiting to happen. It'll be it'll be Frasier, it'll be Heath,
Speaker 1: it'll be somebody like that. He will throw you the
Speaker 1: football and you've got to catch it. You got to
Speaker 1: make the play. You know. They did a nice job,
Speaker 1: was it Cheeto ripping the ball out, but nobody was
Speaker 1: there to make it. Nobody was there to go get
Speaker 1: the ball. Heath didn't. He got his hands on the ball,
Speaker 1: but he didn't catch it. That there's gonna be gifts
Speaker 1: that that Eli will put under the tree. You better
Speaker 1: open them up because if you just don't take advantage
Speaker 1: of it, then they'll they'll keep moving and Barkeley will
Speaker 1: get some yards and they'll probably have I don't know
Speaker 1: who their kicker is, but Rosas, I don't know him.
Speaker 1: He's actually Eldrick Rosas, like they've they he beat their
Speaker 1: guy out last year and he's actually been pretty damn
Speaker 1: good to him. One which along that line this I
Speaker 1: actually just thought about this, but Miles Jack had to
Speaker 1: pick six of Eli on a tipped pass, a tip
Speaker 1: pass at the line, which we talked about how bad
Speaker 1: the protection is for the Giants, and we talk about
Speaker 1: how disruptive this line is. Taco Charlton had a pass
Speaker 1: break up at the line in Carolina. Maybe that could
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the way you can get yourself a turnover too,
Speaker 1: is collapse that pocket enough to affect his literally affect
Speaker 1: his passes. Okay, um, all right, So here's the next question.
Speaker 1: Last week we saw a lot of pressure on deck,
Speaker 1: he got six sacks, had people in his face a lot.
Speaker 1: Do you think that that was a result of just
Speaker 1: facing a really good defensive front or do you think
Speaker 1: it was a really bad performance by the offensive line,
Speaker 1: in which case you would think maybe they could remy
Speaker 1: remedy that this week, and you would and see a
Speaker 1: repeat of the same thing. I think that, um, I
Speaker 1: think it was probably more about the line, the defensive line. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think that that was probably the case. Now, I
Speaker 1: mean the answer is both. You know, the fact that
Speaker 1: you didn't play well and you're not playing well against
Speaker 1: a really good defensive line, and it's gonna be it's
Speaker 1: gonna be bad. But I think overall, you know, I
Speaker 1: I'd like to think that the Giants won't be given
Speaker 1: as much problems for them. They'll they'll clean up some
Speaker 1: things as well, and you know, there won't be six sacks,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. But I mean doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: if there's pressure every play, it's gonna be tough. Because
Speaker 1: he looked that looked very uncomfortable, and I think the
Speaker 1: offensive line will do enough to make him a little
Speaker 1: bit more comfortable. I'm torn. I mean, anytime you give
Speaker 1: up six sacks, there's blame enough to go around for everybody.
Speaker 1: Connor Williams got beat a couple of times. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a miscommunication on the blitz that Zeke didn't pick up,
Speaker 1: but some of that goes on Dak too. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had throws where he held the ball for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he didn't feel comfortable letting it go. I'd say at
Speaker 1: least one, if not more, of those sacks is just
Speaker 1: as much on him as it is on his protection.
Speaker 1: And that's I wonder if even going back to last year,
Speaker 1: I mean bring up the Atlantic game for the millionth time,
Speaker 1: is you know, if it's bad for him early, which
Speaker 1: it was in Carolina, does that just affect him for
Speaker 1: the rest of the game where he maybe sees pressure
Speaker 1: where there isn't any, or he feels pressure. That's he's
Speaker 1: got more time than he thinks he does. And so
Speaker 1: not only I mean they should be better against this front,
Speaker 1: but they got to be better early. Again, I mean
Speaker 1: going back to the early downs and you remember, you know,
Speaker 1: every I think their first four series they had a
Speaker 1: third and long, you know, like it's got to be cleaner, quicker,
Speaker 1: and maybe that'll allow him to settle into a rhythm
Speaker 1: because yet, like the pressure was definitely there last week,
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of it was in his
Speaker 1: head too, and he was just at a point where
Speaker 1: he's like, I don't I don't have time to do
Speaker 1: what I want to do back here. Assuming that it's
Speaker 1: true that he was uncomfortable or was seeing things or
Speaker 1: just not just felt the pressure more than it even was.
Speaker 1: Do you think that that's a little bit concerning concerning
Speaker 1: from the standpoint that when Dak first got here in
Speaker 1: the first part of that rookie year, and really from
Speaker 1: most of that rookie year, what do we always hear
Speaker 1: about him? He was unflappable. This was a guy that
Speaker 1: just didn't like, you couldn't rattle him. He just he
Speaker 1: always just kind of approached it and he just kind
Speaker 1: of went out and did what he was supposed to do.
Speaker 1: And here since that Atlanta game, there's been a number
Speaker 1: of games I've heard people say, and on this show
Speaker 1: being one of them, I've heard people say, he looked uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: He didn't look like he really he looked like there
Speaker 1: was more pressure than there was. He looked like he
Speaker 1: was a little bit, you know, flustered. Does that concern
Speaker 1: you that this is a different Dack than maybe what
Speaker 1: we saw in that first year, and that maybe it's
Speaker 1: now gotten into his head. Well, you know, the one
Speaker 1: game where I thought he really did a nice job
Speaker 1: was was the Giants, you know, on the road after
Speaker 1: that Atlanta game, looked more comfortable. That was a game
Speaker 1: that they I think he had was miked up and
Speaker 1: you could kind of see a little bit more. It
Speaker 1: took a while, though, to get going in that game Oakland.
Speaker 1: They they had a nice start but then they had
Speaker 1: to kind of hang on if Philly was not really anything.
Speaker 1: But but we shouldn't won that Oakland game. I mean
Speaker 1: that was a miracle play. I mean, yep, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they were the better team that day. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: they almost lost it. But um, yeah, you know, he
Speaker 1: has not looked looked good since the Kansas City game,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of reasons for that. But if
Speaker 1: you're the word is unflappable, but if you are rattled,
Speaker 1: like are you flapped or are you flappable? Like what's
Speaker 1: I've never heard it used. I've never heard the inverse
Speaker 1: of that word. Yeah, I've heard unflappable a million times.
Speaker 1: But like man, Dak looked real flappable back there on
Speaker 1: Sunday because he's he did. Yeah he doesn't. We're gonna
Speaker 1: cooin it now. He doesn't look as he doesn't look
Speaker 1: as cool or calm, and that his rookie year. And
Speaker 1: I concern you though, Hell yeah, And yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: how could it not. Uh, it's and to go back
Speaker 1: to your point though, I mean you just gotta wait
Speaker 1: and see, because I honestly why, like what do you
Speaker 1: stand to gain by sitting him down like this? And
Speaker 1: you wouldn't want to do that. I mean, best case
Speaker 1: scenario this season is you're trying to get to the
Speaker 1: playoffs and Dak's going to earn this big contract, but
Speaker 1: also give me sixteen games so I know whether I
Speaker 1: want to pay this guy next year, because like I
Speaker 1: had this conversation with somebody the other day where they're like, well,
Speaker 1: they're in bed with him now, like you know, they
Speaker 1: chose him over Romo there it's da. I'm like, no, No,
Speaker 1: he's a fourth round quarterback who's got you know, fifteen
Speaker 1: games this year and then one season left on his deal.
Speaker 1: Like fourth round picks get cut in training camp all
Speaker 1: the time, Like, yeah, which bound to this guy at all?
Speaker 1: If this season doesn't if it's if this season is terrible,
Speaker 1: you can do whatever the hell you want. And what
Speaker 1: you don't want to do is you don't want to
Speaker 1: get to the end of this year. He's got a
Speaker 1: one more year left on his deal and you have
Speaker 1: no clue of who he is, right, Yeah, because then
Speaker 1: you can't make a move for the year after you
Speaker 1: have him. He's going to be the presumably he's going
Speaker 1: to be the starter here for the next two years
Speaker 1: at least, right And so if you don't know, if
Speaker 1: you don't know what he is at the end of
Speaker 1: this season, you don't know whether you need to go
Speaker 1: and get that draft that young guy in the draft,
Speaker 1: because if he has a horrible year, you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: be drafting high enough to get a quarterback. So you
Speaker 1: don't know if you even need to get that guy.
Speaker 1: If you don't know what he is at the end
Speaker 1: of this season. He needs to play and play a lot,
Speaker 1: for better or for worse, so that you know exactly
Speaker 1: what you're looking at when it's time to talk contract,
Speaker 1: draft pick free agents. Teddy Bridgewater has only got he's
Speaker 1: in a contract here. Yeah, I'm already, I mean quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I still believe in Dak. I still believe Dak can
Speaker 1: be a great quarterback for this team. I just at
Speaker 1: this point I am concerned because I think it's been
Speaker 1: a now he's creating a history of these kinds of
Speaker 1: games or the rect that's the problem. I believe in
Speaker 1: dak and I'm gonna need to see more before I don't.
Speaker 1: But that's our job is to talk all these angles
Speaker 1: out right. So okay, let's take our final break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna talk a little bit more,
Speaker 1: have a few more questions for you. Guys. Are gonna
Speaker 1: get into the over under part of our question answer session.
Speaker 1: Over under on Zeke this week on a hundred yards
Speaker 1: over under on sacks for Tank going up again, Eric Flowers.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that goes. We'll be right back. This
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Speaker 1: It's not very comfortable. Cowboys, Giants, Cowboys. Yeah, what do
Speaker 1: you think there's the time to do that pick? We're
Speaker 1: gonna do at the end of the show. We always
Speaker 1: do picks at the end of the show. What do
Speaker 1: we get? All right, So here's the next question for
Speaker 1: you guys over under hundred yards? Zeke, Oh man, I'm
Speaker 1: twenty under. I'm not even under that anymore. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: Nick went with Nick went for the fences, and we
Speaker 1: wanted he was swinging hard too, like he went all
Speaker 1: it was one of those check swings that barely got
Speaker 1: back that does the catcher get it or does it?
Speaker 1: And I was I was seriously just like pointing at
Speaker 1: your point, like I'm I'm calling my shot. I don't know,
Speaker 1: yefty eight yards. I think he's gonna play better. I
Speaker 1: think this team's gonna play better, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I'm leaning towards the Giants overall winning this game.
Speaker 1: So therefore, you know, that's a big question. If they're
Speaker 1: gonna win this game, it's probably under for Zeke. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he goes over a hundred, did the likelihood I
Speaker 1: would assume of them winning goes up significant? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he's he's gonna be right there. I think I
Speaker 1: they're not gonna starts as disastrously, which I think it
Speaker 1: won't be easy. I bet Zeke might not even average
Speaker 1: four yards a carry in this game, but they're gonna
Speaker 1: be committed to him enough to where he'll be up
Speaker 1: north of eighty, maybe not quite over one hundred, but
Speaker 1: in that neighborhood. And then factor in the factor in
Speaker 1: the twenty or thirty receiving yards, and I bet he
Speaker 1: goes over all purpose at least all right over under
Speaker 1: on tank one and a half sacks unders going up
Speaker 1: against Eric Flowers, I feel like anytime, which it's important,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, and it's going to affect this game,
Speaker 1: but like anytime it's like this obvious matchup, like oh,
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers was terrible, Like it's never you know, nobody
Speaker 1: ever has like five sacks and sintial accept except Adrian
Speaker 1: Clayborne and no. I was thinking the time when Scandrick
Speaker 1: was calling him out going John Wetzel's playing for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Dlow, you better get like two or three.
Speaker 1: He did have three three. And that's the thing, Like,
Speaker 1: that's the one thing about Tank like he is that
Speaker 1: dog mentality I talked about earlier this week. So when
Speaker 1: it comes out to like if he sees that, to me,
Speaker 1: he's salivating, like, oh, I'm getting him, I say under
Speaker 1: because Eli doesn't really allow for that. He doesn't. He'll
Speaker 1: get sacks some, but I mean he's gonna get that. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. I went back and looked at the
Speaker 1: games that Cowboys have played over the last three years,
Speaker 1: had a significant number of secks. Like, they had a
Speaker 1: game I think had two games where they had three sacks,
Speaker 1: they had a couple, they had two. There was only
Speaker 1: one where they didn't do He didn't get sacked at all. So,
Speaker 1: even though I agree with you overall, he tends to
Speaker 1: be a guy that doesn't get sacked a lot. Cowboys
Speaker 1: have had relatively decent games as far as sacks are
Speaker 1: concerned against the Giants here in the last three years.
Speaker 1: I think if there's a multiple, say a guy with
Speaker 1: multiple sacks in this game, it won't be him. I
Speaker 1: think it'll be someone else. I'll help him too much.
Speaker 1: I think Tyrone Crawford actually might have. I see a
Speaker 1: bigger game for him. Four as a team, four as
Speaker 1: a team, but I don't know it'd be a good day.
Speaker 1: I'll be the best they've done in the last three
Speaker 1: years against him. I don't know that Tank will get
Speaker 1: north of one. I think, like Jalen or you know,
Speaker 1: a linebacker is gonna have one and hopefully Randy gets one.
Speaker 1: I went speaking, I went all in on Randy and
Speaker 1: he didn't finish the game this week and get alf
Speaker 1: come one one? Yeah, some four as a team, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. Who's the bigger concern for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: or should be the bigger concern for the Cowboys Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham Junior or se Quon Barkley Odelle is yeah. And
Speaker 1: I say that because I don't think the tackling issues
Speaker 1: are going to be as bad this week. I trust
Speaker 1: Sean Lee. I trust them to clean that up. And
Speaker 1: this team has traditionally done pretty well against the run.
Speaker 1: A lot of that's because they have a lead, but
Speaker 1: they're there, and I know last week was a bad
Speaker 1: indicator of that, but they are typically good at tackling
Speaker 1: and they have been good at limiting those just ridiculous
Speaker 1: chunk plays. But Odell is another animal, entirely one. I
Speaker 1: don't trust the back seven in terms of like having
Speaker 1: seen them make those plays, um and on. And Odell's
Speaker 1: just a crazy I mean, he's he's one of a kind.
Speaker 1: And the thing that scares me is you don't even
Speaker 1: have to throw it forty yards down field. That's he's
Speaker 1: going to run an eight yard crossing route and if
Speaker 1: you're not on your p's and q's, he's gonna take
Speaker 1: it fifty yards. I think, I think, honestly, I'll change
Speaker 1: the answer. I mean, I think the guy you worry
Speaker 1: about the most is probably Barkley, because you know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna get his hands on the ball a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And if he's going for five for six, for nine,
Speaker 1: if he's if he has a steady game, that'll force
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to play away that they don't really want
Speaker 1: to play. And that's where Odell Wilbur, you know, hurt him.
Speaker 1: I think Odell can hurt them more, but I think
Speaker 1: you have to kind of you know, he's never had
Speaker 1: a running back like this. I'm still mad at Cleveland
Speaker 1: for doing this, because for not taking Barkley, because as
Speaker 1: soon as they didn't. I've thought, man, that is a
Speaker 1: that is a dynamic pair right there that you're putting
Speaker 1: for the Giants. And Eli, you know, he's he might
Speaker 1: be older, but he can still you know, get the
Speaker 1: guy to his weapons. I just think this Giants off
Speaker 1: offensive line is not gonna bully the front, the Cowboys front,
Speaker 1: and so it's gonna be on Barkley again to have
Speaker 1: those type of crazy all season. That's gonna be a season.
Speaker 1: Well but and again, I know they tackle poorly in Carolina,
Speaker 1: but I trust the Cowboys to tackle well enough to
Speaker 1: keep that from happening. Like they can limit him to
Speaker 1: five and six yards instead of sixty eight Odell, so
Speaker 1: that Odell doesn't need the offensive line. I mean, Eli
Speaker 1: needs to have time. But again, he can take bubble screens,
Speaker 1: he can take slants. He can't they're away to be perfect.
Speaker 1: He just needs ways to get him the ball quickly
Speaker 1: without bringing the cow at the Giants offensive line into it.
Speaker 1: And that's what scares me. Here's the part that really
Speaker 1: concerns me. I feel pretty good about O'Dell on the outside.
Speaker 1: I really want to see how Barron Jones matches up,
Speaker 1: how Cheeto batches up they're both gonna probably get opportunities
Speaker 1: to match up against him. How about Anthony Brown, That's
Speaker 1: where I'm concerned. It's what happens when he goes into
Speaker 1: the slot and now he's having to face Anthony Brown.
Speaker 1: And what we've seen from Anthony Brown has been highly
Speaker 1: inconsistent in my opinion, particularly in the preseason, even if
Speaker 1: you go back to last season, and so I'm alluded.
Speaker 1: I'm very concerned about what happens when he gets into
Speaker 1: the slot and he's now matched up on Anthony Brown.
Speaker 1: Can he be the one that that actually can can
Speaker 1: keep him contained? Or is that a situation with Cowboys?
Speaker 1: Better be smart and make sure he's always got help
Speaker 1: when they're in that situation, because otherwise that could be
Speaker 1: your problem. Yep, right, all right, So let's let's go
Speaker 1: to the next question. Is this must win for the Cowboys? Yes? Why?
Speaker 1: Because well, I mean, the numbers are out there, the
Speaker 1: stats are out there, Like eighteen percent of teams I
Speaker 1: think we talked about this are eighteen percent of teams
Speaker 1: that go owen to make the playoffs. Not only are
Speaker 1: you owin too, but you're already in a division hole
Speaker 1: and one of your division opponents would now have a
Speaker 1: win up on you. Philly plays the Bucks this weekend.
Speaker 1: I bet they win that, So there are two games
Speaker 1: up on you already on top of that. In recent history,
Speaker 1: teams that dig out of that hole, like the Saints
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, you're talking about dynamic teams, Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame quarterback rookie that you're running back. If this
Speaker 1: team loses to the Giants at home, it's a further
Speaker 1: indictment that they don't have the offense we thought they
Speaker 1: did that Dak and the receivers can't get the job
Speaker 1: done well enough to compliment Zeke, and I just don't
Speaker 1: know that this is a team that has what it
Speaker 1: takes to dig out of that hole, because you're gonna,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna need Dak to play at like
Speaker 1: an all pro level to do that, to go on
Speaker 1: that type of run where you're winning seven eight games
Speaker 1: in a row. And if they can't win this game,
Speaker 1: then they're probably not that type of team, all right, Nick,
Speaker 1: I mean that's true. I mean I agree with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't you know, you can you can
Speaker 1: argue all day if you want to be that type
Speaker 1: of guy that just argues that it's not must win
Speaker 1: because of course you can go fourteen and two if
Speaker 1: you don't win. We know that everybody Theoretically, what Dave
Speaker 1: just said, it makes sense if you don't beat the
Speaker 1: Giants at home, who are you beating? Like, who really
Speaker 1: are you going to be? And the Giants might be a,
Speaker 1: you know, a better team. We knew they were better
Speaker 1: than they were last year and if they added a
Speaker 1: dynamic player with a number two pick, they were going
Speaker 1: to be so they'll make a big jump. But still,
Speaker 1: if you don't beat the Giants, then you know who
Speaker 1: who are you gonna beat to be a playoff team?
Speaker 1: To beat be a playoff team, Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think you got to win this game. I was going
Speaker 1: to save this for my pick, but I mean, it
Speaker 1: ain't getting easier. I mean, I know the Lions looked
Speaker 1: bad on Monday Night Football, but they still have a
Speaker 1: very good quarterback in Matt Stafford. In my opinion, you're
Speaker 1: going on the road to Seattle to play an NFL
Speaker 1: MVP candidate next week. They got Earl Thomas back. It
Speaker 1: looks like he makes a bit of a difference. He
Speaker 1: got a pick on like his third play of the season,
Speaker 1: and then you got two of the most loaded teams
Speaker 1: in the entire league back to back in Houston and Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Like that's the part. It's it's those two games because
Speaker 1: even if you even if you give them these next
Speaker 1: two games and they can get back to five hundred,
Speaker 1: then they got to play those two teams and that's it.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's a must win game because again,
Speaker 1: I mean, anything can happen. I guess, like maybe they'll
Speaker 1: just catch fire. I don't think anybody in twenty fourteen
Speaker 1: expected them to win six games in a row. But again,
Speaker 1: what did you have there? You had and the eventual
Speaker 1: NFL Offensive Player of the Year and a guy in
Speaker 1: Tony Romo who probably played the best season of his
Speaker 1: entire career that year and was at least a candidate
Speaker 1: for NFL MVP. I don't think he even came close
Speaker 1: to winning it, but he was in the conversation. So
Speaker 1: if you're going to bounce back from an O two hole,
Speaker 1: that's the type of play that you need. And I mean,
Speaker 1: how could you have confidence that you're going to get
Speaker 1: that if they can't beat the Giants at home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whether it's a whether it's a game that's a must
Speaker 1: win or not. The factor matter is the reason why
Speaker 1: that stat stands up because most of the times when
Speaker 1: teams go into they're not very good. Yeah, that may
Speaker 1: be the bigger in diatmone. If the Cowboys go into
Speaker 1: what we may be looking at is just the fact
Speaker 1: that they're just not that good. And so that's the
Speaker 1: part that can can really be troublesome in a year.
Speaker 1: We had much higher expectations than that for this team.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's get to the final part. Let's
Speaker 1: get some picks for this game. Since Nick has already
Speaker 1: intimated is I'm going to start with Dave. Dave, what's
Speaker 1: your pick for the game? I Am actually going to
Speaker 1: pick them to win. And the main reason I'm doing
Speaker 1: that is just like kind of to piggyback off what
Speaker 1: you said, Like I still think that they're a pretty
Speaker 1: good team. Like there's too many there's too many good
Speaker 1: pieces here for me to think that they're as bad
Speaker 1: as they looked on Sunday. Again, I've seen Dak play
Speaker 1: better than that as last year. Not you don't even
Speaker 1: have to go back to twenty sixteen. Zeke is still Zeke.
Speaker 1: This pass rush has a fantastic opportunity to wreck this
Speaker 1: game against the Giants offensive line. We've seen the Cowboys
Speaker 1: limit Odell Beckham before, and it's at home. It's in primetime,
Speaker 1: which if there's ever a time when At and T
Speaker 1: Stadium is actually a great home field advantage, it's usually
Speaker 1: a game like this. You don't see like the Giants
Speaker 1: takeover At and T the way that some other fan
Speaker 1: bases do. And it's a night game. So I just
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of factors working in their favor.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be like I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be pretty. Probably it's gonna be a nail
Speaker 1: biter as Cowboys Giants typic is. Yeah, But I'm basically again,
Speaker 1: I just it's mainly just me choosing to believe that
Speaker 1: they're not that bad. Like I don't have this statistical
Speaker 1: reasoning for it, but there's enough working for him that
Speaker 1: I'm just like, all right, I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 1: mulligan because I don't think you're as bad as you
Speaker 1: looked on Sunday. Nick, I'm going to go with the Giants.
Speaker 1: I think the Giants will win. I'm gonna go seventeen
Speaker 1: to sixteen. It'll be a close one, and I you know,
Speaker 1: I definitely have seen the Cowboys bounce back a lot
Speaker 1: Week two. This is a bounce back type of game
Speaker 1: for them. But I just I still see them having
Speaker 1: some issues on offense, and I think that that Eli
Speaker 1: will make some plays there just enough, and I think
Speaker 1: it'll be a tough one. I think they'll lose it,
Speaker 1: all right. I'm gonna say seventeen sixteen. All right. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys will win, and I think it'll be
Speaker 1: very close. I think it'll be a field goal festival.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be nineteen sixteen, way more field
Speaker 1: goals and touchdowns. I think we come out of this
Speaker 1: game feeling really good about mar and he has a
Speaker 1: start to Dan Bailey, had you missed your first kick
Speaker 1: and then you're going to run and he's going to
Speaker 1: turn into a really really nice kick. Did I turn
Speaker 1: into the did I turn into the Sunshine Pumper on
Speaker 1: this show? Somewhere along the line, that's trouble And now
Speaker 1: purposefully you're about to flip that right now, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this spoiler alert. If they can't beat the Giants,
Speaker 1: I don't see myself picking them for a while with
Speaker 1: the teams they have coming up. Although I will say this,
Speaker 1: I'm not it's just me personally. I'm not as concerned
Speaker 1: as I was when the schedule came out about the
Speaker 1: about the Saints game. Man, I'm sorry about the Seattle game.
Speaker 1: I think Seattle's not I don't think Seattle's gonna be
Speaker 1: as good as people think they are. And they've just
Speaker 1: lost their main receiver. Now they got Brandon Marshall, but
Speaker 1: he's what seventy five like. I mean, I just think
Speaker 1: that when you when you look at Seattle, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have some of the same problems with Cowboys are having.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a hard time offensively, being able to
Speaker 1: move the ball. I think they're gonna be pretty good defensively,
Speaker 1: getting ahead of ourselves. I know, I know, But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying though, there still is some room even if
Speaker 1: they lose this game. My problem is beginning of October,
Speaker 1: that's when you start your murderous row and I don't
Speaker 1: feel very good about any of those if you're losing
Speaker 1: this game to the Giants at home. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us with back Monday. We will let
Speaker 1: you know what went right and what went wrong for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. So then for Nicky even to Dave Helm
Speaker 1: and I'm Derek eagleson. This has been the Break live
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