Speaker 1: The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the
Speaker 1: Star in Friscoat. Now, your hosts Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: Everson Walls, and a very disappointing start to this football
Speaker 1: Friday edition of Talking Cowboys from the SWEC Mortgage Studios.
Speaker 1: Is Mickey was wrapped up in talk and did not
Speaker 1: acknowledge and salute the fans out there when his name
Speaker 1: you would have corrected. And Mickey Spagnola, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh there it is, okay, and Mickey Spagnola, And how
Speaker 1: are you doing today on this Friday? How do you do? It?
Speaker 1: Is Cowboys Eagles on Sunday and we are just over
Speaker 1: two days away. It's three twenty five Texas time at
Speaker 1: the Link in Philly, Sunday afternoon. Yes, because I'm fired
Speaker 1: up about this, all right. He's very very dramatic voice. Voice,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. Yeah, it's like the world is coming
Speaker 1: to an end on the game. I'm working here, I'm
Speaker 1: working here. Well, he's got a Super Bowl hat on right, Yep. Yep. Well,
Speaker 1: the playoffs start Sundays, right, they're already in the playoffs
Speaker 1: last week, last week, actually two weeks ago for Philadelphia. Right,
Speaker 1: that's true, that's right, that's right. They're now two seven
Speaker 1: and seven teams battle for the NFC East Championship. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys win, they win the NFC East. And as we
Speaker 1: speak on this Friday morning, a cloudy, forty seven degree
Speaker 1: Friday in Frisco, Texas, the Cowboys are taking the practice
Speaker 1: field and they are working outdoors. And this is the
Speaker 1: best omen of all for Cowboys fans out there. You
Speaker 1: tell them it's forty seven degrees in Frisco, Texas. And
Speaker 1: you know what the game time temperature in Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: going to be on Sunday afternoon, thirty five, forty seven
Speaker 1: seven degree. It's forty six. The high. When's the high
Speaker 1: gonna happen on in Philadelphia's one o'clock. It's gonna get
Speaker 1: dark at for thirty years. My weather said it's gonna
Speaker 1: be forty seven in Philly. And so Mother Nature is
Speaker 1: smiling upon this Cowboys team as we see. I don't
Speaker 1: know there's two things that he in another life, he's
Speaker 1: gonna come back either as an NFL official or a weatherman.
Speaker 1: One of the two. Trust him. I trust Mick. Okay,
Speaker 1: but okay, when the sun goes down in Philadelphia, it's
Speaker 1: not forty seven for you gronks out there saying that, Oh,
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones has that team into her little bubble and
Speaker 1: he won't go out and practice in the elements. Well
Speaker 1: they're out in the elements today and it's exactly what
Speaker 1: the weather is going to be like in Philly on Sundays,
Speaker 1: and the grass is going to be exactly the same. Painted. Yes,
Speaker 1: do they have they have real grass. Yes, and that's
Speaker 1: why they're out there. Oh that's nice. Nice what you
Speaker 1: were playing on. That's not fair. And then you could
Speaker 1: go grass in Philly. The turf out there was probably
Speaker 1: the worst turf in the event. Oh, absolutely dangerous. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm talking dangerous. It seems you see the scenes were
Speaker 1: like an inch wide in between you know, each whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, a piece of carpett. So
Speaker 1: we were talking about this the other day. Do you
Speaker 1: remember the receiver that blew out like both kneeds. His
Speaker 1: last name was Davis and he went to LSU that
Speaker 1: I do remember. His last name is Day was a good,
Speaker 1: good player. He reminded me a lot of Cobb. He
Speaker 1: was one of those very capable guys, very quick, and
Speaker 1: what he was trying to do when he broke his
Speaker 1: legs was so athletic because the past came up one
Speaker 1: of those Russell Wilson pattes with passes with a lot
Speaker 1: of arc, and he was bending over trying to catch
Speaker 1: it Willie May style, and as he kept bending, bending, bending,
Speaker 1: but so that the knees of bending as well, both
Speaker 1: of them, both of them snapped, both of them. Since
Speaker 1: the visual we do nothing I remember, and that was
Speaker 1: that was all a part of the manipulation of the body,
Speaker 1: along with the turf itself, hitting the turf itself, the
Speaker 1: concrete basically. Yet some have more cushion under their turf.
Speaker 1: Texas Stadium had had great cushion. The only thing about
Speaker 1: Texas Stadium was the crown, right, I mean, we couldn't
Speaker 1: even see the other team on the other side, it
Speaker 1: seemed like because the crown was so high. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm covering out routes from side to side and it's
Speaker 1: like the down to get to the sideline. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I still gotta say worst stadium was probably
Speaker 1: the Astro Dome. I would say that's it. I got
Speaker 1: that's as wonder of the world. Worst stadium, and it's
Speaker 1: a wonder why they kept it up so long. The
Speaker 1: building was a wonder but the field, the field, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was wonderful and they still have it down there.
Speaker 1: Nobody goes in it. And that's the same term the ghost,
Speaker 1: the teriff ghosts. The building is still there. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I don't know why it's still there anyway. All right,
Speaker 1: what's the latest on dak He's day to day, day
Speaker 1: to day, just like us all getting getting getting better,
Speaker 1: but hasn't done it. Give me something else day to day. Well,
Speaker 1: if he throws today in practice, it won't be much
Speaker 1: per Jason Garrett. So he's that throwing that's what you
Speaker 1: took from that. Yes, well, then he won't throw it today,
Speaker 1: That's right. He'll go through an entire week basically not
Speaker 1: doing a whole lot of throwing at all. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: what he said is that he would do a little
Speaker 1: bit of a workout today, he might throw a little
Speaker 1: on Saturday during the walkthrough, and then have a full
Speaker 1: workout on Sunday before the game. So that'll give him
Speaker 1: a better idea of I guess what he's capable of doing.
Speaker 1: By this time of the year, everything's changed. It's not
Speaker 1: like the beginning of the year. He doesn't need to
Speaker 1: work on his timing with his wide receivers. Everybody knows
Speaker 1: what's going on there. They hadn't changed the game plan
Speaker 1: obviously everybody else knows it. So I guess they hadn't
Speaker 1: changed anything. So I don't I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: necessity that he practiced at all. He knows what he's
Speaker 1: got to do. It's like when we were rookies back
Speaker 1: in eighty one. I remember Maddeness saying something as we
Speaker 1: got to Game fifteen. He said, this young secondary, they're
Speaker 1: not rookies anymore. It makes say we're not rookies anymore.
Speaker 1: Now we're veterans. We've been through fifteen fourteen games. There's
Speaker 1: no there's no timing issue with anybody at this point.
Speaker 1: You still have to practice, of course, you know, I
Speaker 1: stay in shape, keep your body going. But as far
Speaker 1: as a mental aspect and how that might suffer this
Speaker 1: time of year, no, I don't think his his uh,
Speaker 1: the mental aspect or the connection with his receiver should
Speaker 1: suffer at all. You know Witton Whitten said, uh, yesterday
Speaker 1: that while he's out there, while he's not participating in
Speaker 1: the play, that he's making the calls. Of course, so
Speaker 1: he's making the calls. I don't know if he's doing
Speaker 1: them out loud or whatever. Uh, that he's been very
Speaker 1: vocal in the meetings. Uh, he's running the meeting still.
Speaker 1: So he's his because you know, Hill practices drop back
Speaker 1: like this is what the play is going to be,
Speaker 1: and you know, get his steps down. But he just
Speaker 1: hasn't thrown the football. It is a unique situation though,
Speaker 1: in terms of, well, it's not ideal game planning and
Speaker 1: not knowing for sure that you're going to be on offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what his functionality's capability is. But I guess you know
Speaker 1: he's had it before. Let's something, and he told us
Speaker 1: yesterday he's had it at Mississippi State. He knows how
Speaker 1: to manage it. Obviously from a team standpoint, you've got
Speaker 1: to some degree and protect the player from himself. When
Speaker 1: he said, oh, I'm fine, I'm fine. You always have
Speaker 1: to weigh that. But he's always been pretty honest with him.
Speaker 1: But I guess, you know, if if he tries it
Speaker 1: this weekend and he can't. It's it's not feeling good.
Speaker 1: You roll with Cooper rush and you basically you play
Speaker 1: your game. But I can't imagine him not I can't,
Speaker 1: Yeah game, he would have to fail before they put Cooper. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's gonna give it an enormous and enormous try. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's too much right to because why that's
Speaker 1: why this defense is important, that they don't fall behind.
Speaker 1: And then you've got to throw, throw, throw, you want
Speaker 1: to stay in your game plan. I mean last time,
Speaker 1: they ended up with a total of one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty nine yards rushing on this team, one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty nine. It was the most the Eagles and given
Speaker 1: up all season. Go back to Zeke's five games against
Speaker 1: this team in his career, He's averaged one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen rushing yards and almost five yards of carry, which
Speaker 1: is impressive when you think about the quality of that
Speaker 1: Eagles defensive front home. Especially, Yeah, they played much bad
Speaker 1: at home. They play much bad at home. They don't
Speaker 1: give up many yards at home at all. There's a
Speaker 1: big difference between they're affecting this on the road versus
Speaker 1: they're affecting this at home. You know the curious thing
Speaker 1: about that front when we look at it as this
Speaker 1: really good pass rush, right, Well, they've got thirty six
Speaker 1: sacks and I figured out that m sixteen of them
Speaker 1: came in two games, ten against the Jets and six
Speaker 1: against Seattle. So almost half their sacks were in two games.
Speaker 1: Now that counts, right, I don't know count. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you get hot in the game, it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: the other team's bad. Maybe you're just rolling, but are
Speaker 1: not a bad team. Ten sacks and that was the Jets. Dude, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Jets. One thing. I know you're still on the Jets,
Speaker 1: but I mean you're talking to Seahawks. Yeah, that's the quality.
Speaker 1: That's quality sacks there. And I saw that game and
Speaker 1: they lost. That's a very exciting game, though, very exciting game.
Speaker 1: That's an ugly win. That's one of those ugly wins
Speaker 1: that I hope the Cowboys there don't. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't want my quality back getting hit six times. That's
Speaker 1: the problem that I'm worried about. Two things. I'm worried
Speaker 1: about how defensively we're gonna play against the Eagles running game,
Speaker 1: because they do have a formidable running game. This a
Speaker 1: young kid. What's his name? Man? This guy is he
Speaker 1: was just he's just he's a barkley guy. He reminds
Speaker 1: me a bar but he backed him up. Wow, pretty good,
Speaker 1: nice win, Bill, And he can do what he did
Speaker 1: in the third quarter against the Redskins and line up,
Speaker 1: come out of the backfield, line up out wide and
Speaker 1: go make a play in the passing game on you too,
Speaker 1: And that they've played running backs this year who can
Speaker 1: beat you in the screen game and all that. They've
Speaker 1: got to be as sound as they were against the Rams,
Speaker 1: which might have been their most sound game. They played
Speaker 1: a defend. What they're strong at is where we've been weak. Yep,
Speaker 1: screen passes, tight end game, tight ends, Yeah, running back
Speaker 1: into passing game. So that's where we've been weak. So
Speaker 1: that's that's that has to be a concern. So you're
Speaker 1: talking defensively, how we can we can talk about how
Speaker 1: Zeke may be the catalyst and we want them to
Speaker 1: be the catalyst, but it maybe be like the three
Speaker 1: game losing streak to where we can't stop them defensively.
Speaker 1: So therefore Zeke is now persona NATO. And the way
Speaker 1: they stopped them the first time around, they had four takeaways.
Speaker 1: That was huge, right off to bat right, two first
Speaker 1: two possession possessions right, and then I think it was
Speaker 1: an interception and another fumble. Went Wentz fumbled twice, lost
Speaker 1: two fumbles and Dallas Goddard lost the fumble in that game.
Speaker 1: And then there was a pick. And then that was
Speaker 1: a game where d Law I believe had the fastest
Speaker 1: sex Yeah, right, two point eight seconds or something. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, that's the guy I want to see. Man,
Speaker 1: I want to know who's on the stop watch. That's
Speaker 1: the guy I want to see. I mean, if we start,
Speaker 1: if we come out talking about how fast d Law
Speaker 1: has a sack, then we're in good shape because that
Speaker 1: means it wins is under pressure and his status quo,
Speaker 1: just like it was in the first game in Dallas.
Speaker 1: And that's important to note too, because Lane Johnson was
Speaker 1: reportedly not practicing early on this morning, so if he's
Speaker 1: not ready to go, they're they're compromised a little bit
Speaker 1: on their offensive. Poot vote here it is hollow practice
Speaker 1: from hollow halt. That's the background. I got it, yes, yep,
Speaker 1: from TCU who has halt him high school and he's
Speaker 1: not a bad player. No, but they had to play
Speaker 1: him before he did. Okay, you might ask Eagles fans
Speaker 1: if he's bad player or not. They loved their team
Speaker 1: that I was listening. I was listening to an Eagles
Speaker 1: podcast this morning. Yeah, well they were, Well, here's the
Speaker 1: way they put it. They were talking about Xavier seue
Speaker 1: Philo filling in for Connor Williams, and they were describing
Speaker 1: the Well I happened to write down some of the stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, they were. This is their review, their
Speaker 1: review of the Cowboys offensive line. Their offensive line, folks,
Speaker 1: let me tell you the truth here. It's not even
Speaker 1: remotely close to their reputation. They lost Connor Williams, their
Speaker 1: starter at left guard for the season due to an
Speaker 1: ACL injury. Xavier sue Philo is filling in it left guard.
Speaker 1: And then the other guy chimes in, he's how Eagles
Speaker 1: fans feel when Big V has to get into the
Speaker 1: Big V. No. No, I don't either. No that and
Speaker 1: that's my point. Was this the real stuff? Or was
Speaker 1: the Touchdown Brothers? That wasn't the Touchdown Brothers talking Eagles?
Speaker 1: Would you like the review of Zack Martin? Zack Martin
Speaker 1: probably a little bit overrated, good football player, but he's
Speaker 1: nowhere near his reputation. Why it makes a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: all the time, they're they lived up pretty damn close
Speaker 1: to their reputation against the Rams when they dominated then,
Speaker 1: that was that was amazing to me. We kind of
Speaker 1: just kind of scredded over that. The domination of that
Speaker 1: Rams defensive line. Did I hear Aaron Donald's name called once,
Speaker 1: not until the third quarter when they were marked that.
Speaker 1: We haven't heard his name called all day, right, We mean,
Speaker 1: we do give my old line credit. We talked about
Speaker 1: how they're they're the catalyst with this whole team, But
Speaker 1: to me, that was amazing. I mean, that Rams d
Speaker 1: line is pretty pretty good. You got an MVP down there. Okay,
Speaker 1: you have an MVP down there who hadn't even sniffed
Speaker 1: a tackle to the third quarter. He had two assists
Speaker 1: in the first half, two assistant he probably just fell
Speaker 1: on the pile, and then one tackle in the second half. One.
Speaker 1: I mean that that to me, that is so impressive,
Speaker 1: especially when we're running all over these guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't just that he didn't make a tackle. Well,
Speaker 1: what we ran for over two hundred yards on him
Speaker 1: to me that that lets you know just how this
Speaker 1: how important this old line is to us. And then
Speaker 1: we just I just can't give enough credit. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what they think Martin's doing. I don't know
Speaker 1: what they're looking at, but building and I talked about
Speaker 1: it even during the three games stress they were running,
Speaker 1: they were blocking their butts off and had to meet
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Speaker 1: I cannot go. Are you going? Um? I gotta watch
Speaker 1: high school football? Oh you're watching high school foot you're going?
Speaker 1: Are you attending? Now? I'm joking? It is good. I mean,
Speaker 1: in fact, that the stadium there. This is day three
Speaker 1: of four days of triple Headers high school football state
Speaker 1: championship games. Okay, so mister high school can Dumpkinville win
Speaker 1: without their quarterback? I know, yes they can, Yes they can. Defense, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got guest, defense going is much better than last Well,
Speaker 1: I got a scouting report on who they're playing, Galena
Speaker 1: Park north Shore, who they lost to on a hail
Speaker 1: Mary on the last play. Well, hell Mary, last play
Speaker 1: of the game last year. I'm unbelievable. Um, they're apparently
Speaker 1: better than they were last year. Each team has and
Speaker 1: in fact, Kyle Yeoman is our producer here. He knows
Speaker 1: more about it than any of us. So, Kyle, what's
Speaker 1: the answer to my question? I would say they have
Speaker 1: a chance, but it's a slight chance, really, they're probably him.
Speaker 1: Is they've got a freshman back up. I know they're
Speaker 1: banged up in the secondary to Duncanville. Is so it's
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson playing. I think he's still questionable. Okay. Chris Thompson.
Speaker 1: By the way, is that like a five star recruit?
Speaker 1: He's going to Auburn, So from from Duncanville. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: so the running back from last year who was a
Speaker 1: stud for Dunk going the pot? Okay, Zachary Evans, Yes,
Speaker 1: he's back. Now that's a five star recruits. The problem there,
Speaker 1: you go? Yeah, where's he going? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: actually I need to look that up. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: you'll check on that and I'll get back to us
Speaker 1: short cast here. That's exactly right. There's an NFL triple
Speaker 1: header tomorrow. I'm gonna be back and forth watching between
Speaker 1: the NFL triple header and the high school football state
Speaker 1: championship triple that plays tomorrow for the NFL. Well, the
Speaker 1: big game in the game that I'm most interested in
Speaker 1: this New England and Buffalo. Next the middle game. I
Speaker 1: got Buffalo on the upset. You do I do that?
Speaker 1: New England and New England. Yeah, well, New England's not
Speaker 1: playing in that well right now exactly. Evans, by the way,
Speaker 1: is not committed anywhere. Oh so you know you lost
Speaker 1: their recruit one. By the way, you need to tell
Speaker 1: you to make sure they got the right cleats for
Speaker 1: that field in Atlanta. I don't think it's going to matter.
Speaker 1: That was the slipper. I think they had a new
Speaker 1: field down. I mean you could see the rubber granules
Speaker 1: they were splashing all over the place and there they
Speaker 1: had a different field for the Yeah, because that's that's
Speaker 1: like well renowned turf that they have for the Falcons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it's the same stuff, but it's a
Speaker 1: new field and it's like they just put it down
Speaker 1: and in that LSU game they were slipping all over
Speaker 1: the place. Grambling has that turf as well. I could
Speaker 1: tell you a lot about that turf. It's pretty freaking
Speaker 1: amazing turf. It's way different from what we're accustomed to.
Speaker 1: And Rob to answer your question as far as the
Speaker 1: triple header tomorrow, NFL tripleheader, it all starts at noon
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans traveling to Tampa to take on
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, who have been read hot there now seven
Speaker 1: and seven on the year, Buffalo at New England at
Speaker 1: three thirty, and the seven fifteen game is the Rams
Speaker 1: at the nine Ers. Definitely. Oh so we can see
Speaker 1: that one. It'll be eight fifteen on the East Coast,
Speaker 1: but we'll be flying in that middle game. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we've got our Saturday figured out. Now, let's figure out Sunday.
Speaker 1: Let's do that. What needs to happen for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to go into Philadelphia and win? How has this Eagles
Speaker 1: team changed since the last meeting, which was won by
Speaker 1: the Cowboys thirty seven to ten. Off the top of
Speaker 1: your head, immediately comes to mind. The wide receiver position
Speaker 1: has changed immensely for this team, but so has the secondary.
Speaker 1: I mean, remember back when the Cowboys played the Eagles,
Speaker 1: Orlando Scandrick was the slot corner at the last that's right,
Speaker 1: Von Austin put him on the bats. Russell Douglas was
Speaker 1: starting at cornerback in that game as well, so they
Speaker 1: got Ronald Darby. Ronald Darby is back, Mills Jalen Mills.
Speaker 1: Jal Mills was just back. He did play in that game.
Speaker 1: But they're still having trouble in that secondary that I mean,
Speaker 1: we talk about their front seven, but that if they've
Speaker 1: got a weak spot to date, it's been the secondary
Speaker 1: and some of the past plays allowed. Um. But the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have shown they can run on them too, So
Speaker 1: to me, that's what they've got to do. I'm curious though,
Speaker 1: to see what they do. Do they do they try
Speaker 1: to sell out and stop the run and gamble that
Speaker 1: Dak won't beat Dak. That's to me the key to
Speaker 1: the game. How they approach things defensively that way. And
Speaker 1: Avonte Maddox is another one who didn't play in that
Speaker 1: game who has been starting for him. Um, I mean
Speaker 1: you're talking about the difference. I mean that's personal the
Speaker 1: l wise. I get that, But to me, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're more confident now than they were when they had
Speaker 1: all of their weapons. I just see it. Eagles, the Eagles.
Speaker 1: If I were to look at this team, and if
Speaker 1: I was an Eagles fan, I would draw so heavily
Speaker 1: on the last two weeks and how much gut and
Speaker 1: strength we've shown in the face of a lot of
Speaker 1: problems and injuries and things of that nature they could
Speaker 1: have laid down a long time ago. To me, I
Speaker 1: would draw on that extremely heavily. Personally other things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all. That's all good. But you know, when you
Speaker 1: talk about the psyche of this team, the psyche is
Speaker 1: pretty good right now. Because they eked out two games.
Speaker 1: I don't care who the opponent was, they eked out
Speaker 1: two games they should not have one. And part of
Speaker 1: that is figuring out how to win games with depleted personnel.
Speaker 1: And when you look at the way they had the way,
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson has had to rework his strategy and it
Speaker 1: all starts with even I mean they've used the two
Speaker 1: tight ends a lot, but now here in the last
Speaker 1: couple of games. Dallas Goddard's got over sixty play sixty
Speaker 1: snaps in each of the last two games, and yeah,
Speaker 1: and made some plays in the first game against Dallas Um.
Speaker 1: But give credit to Carson Wentz too, because he's been
Speaker 1: under a lot of fire and sometimes he's not as
Speaker 1: accurate as you'd like him to be. But these I
Speaker 1: think the last two wins they've had ever since spoke
Speaker 1: about it fourth quarter and over time, I think he's
Speaker 1: throwing four touchdowns and no picks. He's been touchdown the
Speaker 1: last test day through against a Norman for the Bass games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean on his back foot as Klutz pass a
Speaker 1: little lob. Yeah, you know, he knew, he knew how
Speaker 1: to throw it. He knew exactly what he was doing that.
Speaker 1: And let's just face it, guys, if you're gonna gut
Speaker 1: some games out, you can only got them out with
Speaker 1: good defense. And their defense has been They've been holding
Speaker 1: people down, giving Cosson and this Eagle's offense a chance
Speaker 1: to win for those two games. That's what makes me nervous.
Speaker 1: You know, I saw a stat they was talking about
Speaker 1: their defense and worrying about the amount of points. They've
Speaker 1: given up eighty one points in the last three games,
Speaker 1: but two of those games were on the road. So
Speaker 1: in their last six home games home games, they've given
Speaker 1: up seventeen, seventeen, seventeen, fourteen and six. So where they
Speaker 1: had trouble at home with defense was the two first
Speaker 1: two home games twenty seven to Washington twenty seven to Detroit.
Speaker 1: So in both games, Washington scored twenty seven points on them,
Speaker 1: and that was what they had scored last time and
Speaker 1: should have won the game if they didn't mess it
Speaker 1: up at the end. But at home they've been pretty
Speaker 1: good defensively. Everson nailed on something too. They had that
Speaker 1: underdog thing going with the dog mask a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. See that. I mean, you don't want them
Speaker 1: to feed back into that, and that we're playing with
Speaker 1: house money kind of thing, and we've rallied and all that,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a little unsettling to me because at
Speaker 1: some point you go up there and they got the
Speaker 1: Rocky Muse playing and that crowd's going nuts. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be moments in the game where the Cowboys are gonna
Speaker 1: have to overcome something that's right, and that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a challenge up there. And I had
Speaker 1: it when they come with these dog going uniforms and masks,
Speaker 1: and I would call the Redskins. Came into Texas Stadium,
Speaker 1: they had on the fatigue man, they came, they kicked
Speaker 1: out butts man, we had no chance. As soon as
Speaker 1: they got off the bus, we didn't have a chance.
Speaker 1: Well just know the Cowboys aren't sneaking into this, because
Speaker 1: I saw the little clip of their little postgame locker
Speaker 1: room celebration and the last thing whoever was talking said,
Speaker 1: and you know what weak it is. So they are
Speaker 1: already foaming at the mouth because the Cowboys are coming
Speaker 1: to down, so beware, and they think the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: jacking with them on this injury to Dak Prescott. By
Speaker 1: the way, Cowboys don't do that. The team they I
Speaker 1: heard some I heard some remarks and it sounded like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're just trying to set us up. And it's like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's how we're gonna set you up. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: the biggest game of the year and tell our starting
Speaker 1: quarterback don't for three days. We got just to fool you.
Speaker 1: Guys were favorite well, and seriously, why would you tell
Speaker 1: the other team that he has an injury? I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously they have to. They would injury report. They wouldn't
Speaker 1: have zached or Zeke didn't say what I've said, right,
Speaker 1: you can't do that stuff. They would have said a shoulder, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't have said what it was, just a
Speaker 1: sore shoulder, right, got a bruise doctor Zeke. That that's
Speaker 1: the pessimism that, yeah, you know runs rampid in Philadelphia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised about that. Whatever it takes to get
Speaker 1: yourself checked up. But they I mean, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they have a point, but Dak's gonna play, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he wasn't out there, but they're not letting
Speaker 1: them not practice because just trying to off them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't know that. That's an awfully big Yeah. He's
Speaker 1: like I said, he's he's itching in his pants right
Speaker 1: now because he just wants to do something. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he wants to be out there throwing. I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: anxious it. I don't know what because yesterday in his
Speaker 1: press conference, if you just listen to him, it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm playing. You know, there's no doubt in
Speaker 1: my mind. I know how to take care of this.
Speaker 1: He say that with a sling on his army. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what they need to do. He needs to go
Speaker 1: out for the coin toss with a sling on his
Speaker 1: arm and be funny. Right after he says, that's what
Speaker 1: we did in the eighties. You can't do that. That's
Speaker 1: what we did. That was fun stuff that. Yeah, they'd
Speaker 1: be like good one saying yeah, I'm good. You know,
Speaker 1: they gotta put that little thing out sleeve. They had
Speaker 1: his arm the other day. All Right, we're gonna make
Speaker 1: our picks, and our picks to click when we come back.
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Speaker 1: got a bulletin from the practice field, and what the
Speaker 1: report here is Rob Phillips. Can we have a drum roll,
Speaker 1: please wow, look at that inch. Just saw a tweet
Speaker 1: from Todd Archer VSPN that Dak was doing some very
Speaker 1: light look at this like moment ray right. It's a
Speaker 1: very light throwing out of practice, very little velocity, just
Speaker 1: you know, ten yards or less. Very light throwing. So
Speaker 1: it's more like going to old Yeah, very much. It's
Speaker 1: a little little twitch catch out to your yard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, the touch and go thing. Let's go. No no,
Speaker 1: no patent go for Dak according to other reports, so
Speaker 1: that was pre patent go. He was throwing a little
Speaker 1: bit and no patent go not still led by Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush and Clayton Thorson. Is Clayton Thorson going to get
Speaker 1: activated this way? I think that's a decision they have
Speaker 1: to make, and that's tough because you gotta cut somebody, Okay,
Speaker 1: you gotta cut somebody. And if Dak's not doing a
Speaker 1: ton of thrown today, you don't have a great idea
Speaker 1: of just how functionally is Yeah, and you gotta do
Speaker 1: it by Saturday at three pm, right, or he could
Speaker 1: have thrown inside yeah, yeah, right after practice. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think they really would be batting the backups.
Speaker 1: I don't. It's just he's I think he's gonna play
Speaker 1: even like I said, I'm with you. If he had
Speaker 1: to go left hand, go okay, that's cool, that's better
Speaker 1: than what we got. Yeah, can you hand it off? Good?
Speaker 1: All right? Can you do? That's all? If they get
Speaker 1: past Cooper Rush, it's it's over. Yeah. Right, So there's
Speaker 1: no sense wasting it as you don't have Beasley here
Speaker 1: anymore to come in, and you got Randall. Yeah we
Speaker 1: could do good. Yeah, we could have him back the quarterback.
Speaker 1: But that's a good point, Mick, because at this point
Speaker 1: the year, you're thinking about who you want to keep
Speaker 1: for next year, and you don't want to expose somebody
Speaker 1: out on waivers that you'd like to keep. This is
Speaker 1: time teams. Can you know if you're a bad team,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we like this guy. Okay, So, and you
Speaker 1: don't want to make that move. You don't have to
Speaker 1: and think about this. So Thorson, I got his name right,
Speaker 1: he did this week. This week is the first time
Speaker 1: he's run all the scout team stuff because normally on
Speaker 1: scout team he's the wide read. Told me he was
Speaker 1: either the wide receiver or the dB. He goes every
Speaker 1: once in a while. I get to play quarterback because
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush takes care of the snaps on the scout
Speaker 1: Team's right. You know who was the Scout team quarterback
Speaker 1: at the walkthrough on Wednesday? The walkthrough on Wednesday had
Speaker 1: the regular practice in the morning, then they had to
Speaker 1: walk through with four o'clock in the afternoon on Wednesday. Okay,
Speaker 1: who was the Scout team quarterback there? Jeff Heath? Nope,
Speaker 1: that would be one Jason Garrett. The reason I know
Speaker 1: that is we takee the Jason Garrett Show on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and he showed up like a half hour early, and
Speaker 1: so the production crew we're all scrambling get the camera
Speaker 1: operators in there and everything. And the reason is because
Speaker 1: he needed to be there at three fifty because he
Speaker 1: was playing quarterback at the walkthrough on Wednesday. Well, he
Speaker 1: does that in training. Can try? Can I try? All Right,
Speaker 1: we gotta make our picks. We're running out of time here, Okay,
Speaker 1: so who wants to go first? I picked a click
Speaker 1: and a pick on the game Rob. Rob's going first. Pick. Oh,
Speaker 1: I get to steal Zeke because I think everybody's probably going, oh,
Speaker 1: I know he's that's too obvious. Well, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: obvious man. Then Zeke picked a click. They got to
Speaker 1: get the running game going, and I'll go Cowboys twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty four with Dak Prescott twenty seven twenty four
Speaker 1: nail Bider. Yeah, yeah, I told you just gonna be
Speaker 1: a challenge up there. I'll get that rocky music going.
Speaker 1: It's snow joke. I'll go obvious man too. Um, I
Speaker 1: will take to Marcus Lawrence M Smart vite Tie Smart.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have his hands full because obviously, um Lane
Speaker 1: Johnson's not playing if he get in practice today, he
Speaker 1: hadn't practice all week. And if indeed they're not bluffing
Speaker 1: with a high ankle sprain, ain't coming back two weeks
Speaker 1: after it. Mm hmm. What's your show? Oh, I gotta
Speaker 1: give you a score. Um I had it U twenty
Speaker 1: four twenty, Cowboys twenty four twenty. By the way, that's
Speaker 1: what those Eagles podcasters picked two Cowboys twenty four twenty.
Speaker 1: You are doing the Eagles podcast. Also, I'm shot so
Speaker 1: by tie will be drinking my tie because this season
Speaker 1: will be oh wow, that's why, that's why, that's why
Speaker 1: when you are doing it it's just different. I don't
Speaker 1: have to joke, don't. I don't have the joke. Give
Speaker 1: me twenty more years. That's like wearing a bed one
Speaker 1: of those ugly person sweaters. You know I've got that
Speaker 1: on Monday. Oh you do? Okay, Everson, you're turned Everson
Speaker 1: Um going Cowboys, of course. And I'm going with the kicker.
Speaker 1: He's go be huge, high four bad. I love that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be huge. We we're gonna need him. I
Speaker 1: hope he's right down the middle. I am looking at,
Speaker 1: first of all, Zeke in the Wildcat. Oh, we'll probably
Speaker 1: see that this week. I'm thinking that that would be smart.
Speaker 1: I had to throw that in the aipolot. Very good,
Speaker 1: very good. But no, I'm looking at them probably twenty two,
Speaker 1: twenty two sixteen, So that's five my field goals in
Speaker 1: a touchdown, low scoring game. I like twenty two sixteen.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll go with thirty seven is my number? Okay,
Speaker 1: thirty And what's the gimmick? Because thirty seven last time?
Speaker 1: Seven last time because I always got to Sam with William. Remember,
Speaker 1: I was thinking forty seven because of the temperature, forty seven,
Speaker 1: but Dak nursing his wing. I'm thinking it's gonna be
Speaker 1: thirty Seven's that? What's the super Bowl number this year?
Speaker 1: Fifty four? Okay, fifty four to thirty And uh oh,
Speaker 1: I just got notified about something. You know, whose birthday
Speaker 1: it is today? December twentieth, Everson Walls? Nope, nope, Nathaniel
Speaker 1: Newton's birthday. Big, that's what I just I just received
Speaker 1: a text on that. I'm going to confirm it before
Speaker 1: we leave you here. So I'm going it was thirty
Speaker 1: seven to ten last time. I'll give him thirty seven
Speaker 1: thirteen this time. Okay, that's exactly right. Yeah, and my
Speaker 1: pick to click, I've got dlog again. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're going to be matched up against five, tie again. Okay?
Speaker 1: Is Lane Johnson last time and he had the fastest
Speaker 1: sack in NFL history, And so this time, all right,
Speaker 1: how many times this Carson Wentz fumble in the game? Once? Twice?
Speaker 1: Last time? He'll get one. I mean, turn off scout
Speaker 1: was gonna get takeaways two, two takeaways. Okay, where's everybody
Speaker 1: at No One's like, yeah, I'm waiting, we might have
Speaker 1: to go to show up, but keep that music. We're
Speaker 1: keeping the music going here and we've got any other
Speaker 1: production predictions, productions. Yeah we need Jackson too. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: have a prediction that we will be here on Monday.
Speaker 1: We will for another edition of Talking Cowboys as I
Speaker 1: are you going to have your NFC East Champions I
Speaker 1: try NFC East Champion cap, and I'll have my Christmas
Speaker 1: cards for y'all too. Oh good, Well, we'll just have
Speaker 1: a jolly Monday, Yes we will. Don't hold your breath
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