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Speaker 1: helping fans get in on the game. It is Wednesday.
Speaker 1: We are in our final show prior to Thanksgiving, and
Speaker 1: we've got a couple days off after this. But guess what,
Speaker 1: We've got a game to talk about tomorrow. It is
Speaker 1: that quick of a turnaround. It just doesn't seem real.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't feel like we just started this. I'm
Speaker 1: waiting on a heck, but ask, I'm just waiting for
Speaker 1: the eyes to go first. I wait, morning, I was
Speaker 1: waiting for the news I'm giving him wait, wait, what's
Speaker 1: he gonna guine? So anxious today I just went right
Speaker 1: around that was happening. I was waiting for it. Come on,
Speaker 1: it's the Cowboys and the Raiders. Thanksgiving matchup at AT
Speaker 1: and T Stadium, And before we get into previewing the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense versus the Raiders defense, ready said News and
Speaker 1: notes from Rob Phillips, Well, go ahead, you asked me,
Speaker 1: what do you what? You one percentages of what? Just
Speaker 1: come on with it? Be? You know, why do you
Speaker 1: do what? The people that be? You know, I don't
Speaker 1: hold back anything. Ever, what do you want him to
Speaker 1: tell you? I want to know Tyren Smith act, helmet,
Speaker 1: shoulder pads clean, it's ready to go tomorrow. Sounds pretty good,
Speaker 1: sounds pretty good, pretty And I don't have a percentage.
Speaker 1: What was what was yesterday's practice? He was full in
Speaker 1: a big and all through run through. Okay, so they
Speaker 1: ran he was yogging yeah, yeah, So that's very encouraging, dud.
Speaker 1: I Am I gonna guarantee he's gonna play after last week? No,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go with what Steven Jones said and
Speaker 1: if if barring a setback, they think he'll be available.
Speaker 1: So I think that's very encouraging. It's very encouraging. He's
Speaker 1: yogging around enough, I mean, Steve and Jones said it.
Speaker 1: But you gotta understand that that p is in like
Speaker 1: fabric in like and he's not. He's holding back and
Speaker 1: people out there America, I just don't want to be wrong,
Speaker 1: all right. I learned that from I was telling you don't.
Speaker 1: If you don't, if you don't guarantee something, you can't
Speaker 1: be wrong. That's that's why he doesn't guarantee anything for
Speaker 1: the most part. Just know that I asked the people
Speaker 1: across the pond when I was talking to them yesterday
Speaker 1: to turn on their notifications on Twitter for rab Pie,
Speaker 1: all the things crappy news. I'm saying. No, I'm saying
Speaker 1: I just wanted them to know, Hey, this is where
Speaker 1: your new sources. I appreciate that, all right, so they
Speaker 1: know they understand turning your notifications on ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: It sounds as of this morning, it sounds good that
Speaker 1: you'll be able to play at think I think we
Speaker 1: need haven't heard of any setbacks at this point we
Speaker 1: need them. Heck, what is your favorite Thanksgiving side? O man? Everything? Um, sweopotatoes,
Speaker 1: sweet PoTA. So are you are you gonna be able
Speaker 1: to just let put in all the work I put in,
Speaker 1: all the deser I put in all the work, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: and tomorrow it will be unadulterated spoonage. So now I'm
Speaker 1: now I'm my god. Now I'm just imagining on Thanksgiving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a big spoonful of sweet potatoes. And then
Speaker 1: just looks at his phone and sees Rob Phillips no
Speaker 1: Twitter notification pop up, and he just spit takes it all. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. I got a question, free
Speaker 1: sweet potatoes, marshmallows or no marshmallows. Definitely marsh really gotta hell, yes,
Speaker 1: you gotta have the marshmallows on it. Really, you marshmallow guy.
Speaker 1: We didn't do it. I thought you were looking for
Speaker 1: some in the store. Is that Kyle couldn't find. No,
Speaker 1: I thought it was I was telling them you can't
Speaker 1: find That's what it was. Yeah, yeah, I guess people buying,
Speaker 1: you know, and I have I don't even thinking against it.
Speaker 1: I just never did it. You know. My wife is
Speaker 1: from Akarin, Ohio, and they didn't put marshmallows on this either.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a cultural Southern thing. Maybe some
Speaker 1: people put marshmallows, some people put like was it like
Speaker 1: is it becomes Oh no, don't do that, Wow, don't
Speaker 1: do that. I never don't do that. I've seen I
Speaker 1: mean i've seen it. Yeah, No, that's probably a watch
Speaker 1: not becas bro I don't do it. I don't make
Speaker 1: the sweet potatoes in my house. I can, but I
Speaker 1: don't care. You call dressing dressing or stuffing. I don't
Speaker 1: do dressing dressing. I call it dressing, but I don't
Speaker 1: like it. I groups stuff is stuffing. Yes, I definitely
Speaker 1: had that word thrown around my household. Stuffing, stuff stuff stuffing.
Speaker 1: We had stuffing. He's your strong handwagon too, baby. All right,
Speaker 1: we are off the rails early on. You're with us
Speaker 1: here on this Wednesday. Is your favorite side? Oh it's
Speaker 1: heavy Green being Castle? Yeah, I love Green Being Castle.
Speaker 1: You want to just do the show just right here? Sorry? Sorry, Hey,
Speaker 1: Traymon Diggs is in the top two of Pro Bowl voting.
Speaker 1: How about that? That's good at the cornerback position. Back
Speaker 1: to news and notes. There you go, stuffing, stuffing, He's
Speaker 1: stuff in that ballot box. Any anything else from yesterday's
Speaker 1: practice stick count well ceedee. Lamb did not participate in
Speaker 1: that run through practice. They say he's making progress. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not sure about day at this point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see. You had another day, and Zeke was full
Speaker 1: as well. So that's good Tyring and Zeke seeing them
Speaker 1: upgraded to full. I think's encouraging for both guys. Do
Speaker 1: you think that Zeke it's a it's a is it
Speaker 1: a knee? Is it a side? And he basically said
Speaker 1: it only hurts when he falls, was his quote earlier
Speaker 1: in the week. So is this a thing that you
Speaker 1: would consider resting him for to let him play through?
Speaker 1: Its occupational hazard? Right there? Right, it's my understanding, that's
Speaker 1: a contusion. It's a it's a bruise, so it's a
Speaker 1: it's a pain tolerance thing, and Zeke ain't gonna sit
Speaker 1: out from pain tolerance. So it's kind of what I figured. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to hear it from you as well.
Speaker 1: But then, uh, what was the Oh, Michael Parsons had
Speaker 1: a fantastic quote yesterday too. I'm sure you guys saw that.
Speaker 1: You'd get a chance to see that about the rookie
Speaker 1: wall Rob. You were there for that that interview. What
Speaker 1: was the what was the quote? That's my favorite quote
Speaker 1: from Michael yet, and that's saying something because he's got
Speaker 1: some great ones. He said, everybody talks about the rookie wall.
Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna keep climbing over it, climbing and
Speaker 1: climbing because I'm excited to see on what's on the
Speaker 1: other side. Does that make you want to run through
Speaker 1: the wall? Makes me want to run through the wall?
Speaker 1: Zooka on the shoulder, Man, this is uh. I'm just
Speaker 1: excited about him. I mean I can't. I don't know
Speaker 1: how Dan Quinn each and every week is gonna use him.
Speaker 1: So when when the game starts, he's just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's at edge, He's he's a free safety. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's at cornerback. Oh my god, he's playing running back. Wait,
Speaker 1: you know where can't Yeah, where can't this guy play?
Speaker 1: Where can he play? What can't he do? I mean,
Speaker 1: we have a special athlete, and I think we've been
Speaker 1: down playing it over the year, over the this season
Speaker 1: because he's just showing so many different things. But you know,
Speaker 1: specially when you see it man, and just some of
Speaker 1: the things that he brings to the table for us
Speaker 1: and the missing pieces that we have with guys that
Speaker 1: are out. Micah is just filling in that void. Uh. Man,
Speaker 1: It's just I'm glad he's a cowboy no doubt, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I know you're glad as well. Yeah, I mean he's special,
Speaker 1: he said. He he's different. He's different, and some guys
Speaker 1: are built different physically, and some guys are built different mentally,
Speaker 1: and then the really special guys are built differently on
Speaker 1: both ends of that. And I think that he is that.
Speaker 1: I think that he welcomes adversity. I think he welcomes challenges.
Speaker 1: He welcomes people telling him what he can't do and
Speaker 1: what the what the normal is. He likes defying those things.
Speaker 1: And there's those there are those players like Thomas Brady
Speaker 1: who has that type of mentality he wants to defy
Speaker 1: all odds. And then you have guys who have the
Speaker 1: physical ability as well, and you pair both of those
Speaker 1: things up and it's that that's what you call a
Speaker 1: physical and mental specimen. There's a tweet from ESPN Stats
Speaker 1: and Information this morning. He's on pace for one hundred
Speaker 1: and five tackles in thirteen and a half sacks, So
Speaker 1: it's it's over seventeen games instead of sixteen. But the
Speaker 1: last player to hit both of those marks in a
Speaker 1: season was Bruce Smith. That's company right there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can as your question because I had a question about this.
Speaker 1: When the league changed, the game, changed the seasons to
Speaker 1: seventeen games, how are records going to be analyzed? Now?
Speaker 1: Great question, there's no asterist. I don't think so, there's
Speaker 1: no as I mean, can you think about a league
Speaker 1: that didn't even count sacks for a certain period of times?
Speaker 1: It's they haven't changed that either. So so somebody goes
Speaker 1: out and breaks to the all time sack record in
Speaker 1: seventeen games, but they wouldn't have done it in sixteen games.
Speaker 1: They now become the doubt league best ever in that position,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like that point, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: got to kind of take it per game, I guess
Speaker 1: if you really wanted. I mean, how do they do that? Right? Like,
Speaker 1: it's really the only way Emmett Smith's record could be touched,
Speaker 1: the fact that there's an extra game or Jerry Rice Jr.
Speaker 1: Touched Yeah, yeah, extra. I wondered about the game making
Speaker 1: it a year. I'm like, that's kind of unfair to
Speaker 1: guys from the past, just shows how great they are. True,
Speaker 1: that's true, that's true, but but the take but for
Speaker 1: there to be potentially having their their throne taking away
Speaker 1: from them knowing that it only happened because of an
Speaker 1: additional game. I feel like that's wrong. There were guys
Speaker 1: that had their records taken from them whenever they pushed
Speaker 1: it to a sixteen game game season two, because it's
Speaker 1: not always been a sixteen game season at the same time,
Speaker 1: so you can say the same thing previously. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it was fourteen until the eighties. Yeah, so you could
Speaker 1: say the same thing. Every time you expand the schedule,
Speaker 1: the records are going to start falling. And maybe that's
Speaker 1: part of it. Yes, it's a part of the expansion there,
Speaker 1: and sure, I mean the capital side of it is
Speaker 1: certainly the driving force, but also the entertainment of trying
Speaker 1: to break some more. And that's brought up something else.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about what I would like to see
Speaker 1: next year. Maybe the competition committee could get to this
Speaker 1: two bye weeks. That's gonna bother some people, but I
Speaker 1: think for the health, I think for the health of teams,
Speaker 1: you have to include another bye week if you're gonna
Speaker 1: go seventeen games. Yeah, I just think you could tell
Speaker 1: right now with the way that teams are beat up,
Speaker 1: are the way that teams are having to hold certain
Speaker 1: guys back knowing that you have seventeen instead of sixteen,
Speaker 1: it would only make sense. And what if it extends
Speaker 1: the football season out until after Valentine's Day, I think
Speaker 1: we'll be okay on cbas the only way that's gonna
Speaker 1: go down to there. Okay, we'll do that. If you
Speaker 1: want up twenty games, YEA, twenty games. Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you how it's gonna gon gonna add another game.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna have three games, we're headed eighteen games,
Speaker 1: so it's going to add So I think I don't
Speaker 1: know this, but I assume the PA would push for
Speaker 1: that because I think that's eighteen games twenty weeks is
Speaker 1: what it's probably gonna end up. Agree weeks. A lot
Speaker 1: it depends on the scheduling, but yes, yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of those are stacked stacked up in the first week
Speaker 1: of the season, last week of the season, so that way,
Speaker 1: it kind of it's it's a weird start date in
Speaker 1: terms of college but it depends, and there's always three
Speaker 1: weeks in between a bowl game, so yeah, right, you
Speaker 1: got a lot of time. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas defense and this Cowboys offense. Vegas Raiders
Speaker 1: on defense the highest rated pass rush as a team
Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Focus entering the week. A bigger
Speaker 1: reason for that Max Crosby, Yanna King, Douay, both of
Speaker 1: them off of the edge, really big players. He got
Speaker 1: kJ right at the second level. He's been playing decent.
Speaker 1: So they have some guys in the front seven, the
Speaker 1: secondary a bit depleted. They of course lost their first
Speaker 1: round pick from two seasons ago, two drafts ago. I
Speaker 1: should say, Damon Arnette. He is no longer with the team,
Speaker 1: and so they are a bit thin out there, and
Speaker 1: well they get after the quarterback. But that's about it. Gentlemen,
Speaker 1: what do you what do you see from this this
Speaker 1: Vegas defense? They scare me. I'm not even gonna lie.
Speaker 1: They scare me. You clip that too, yeah, clip that
Speaker 1: they do. They scare me. I don't like it. We
Speaker 1: saw with what one man playing with his hair and
Speaker 1: fire could do. Chris Jones. Chris Jones. Now they have two.
Speaker 1: These guys have two and they're on they're on the edges,
Speaker 1: and there's another strong guy sitting in the middle of
Speaker 1: their defense at the second level. If you decide to
Speaker 1: go up the middle, he's waiting on you as well.
Speaker 1: Their secondary I agree their secondary is depleted, but gauess
Speaker 1: what our receiving chore is depleted? Depleted. So I don't
Speaker 1: like that. I don't. I don't like it. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling y'all straight up. I don't like it. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have a little feeling in my gut that
Speaker 1: makes me feel a little in the bubble gubbles, the
Speaker 1: bubble guts. I knew the bubble guts on a Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Look at how we've struggled in past blocking, okay, and
Speaker 1: look at what they do best past rushing, past rushing. Weird.
Speaker 1: Their weak spot, which we would like to expose, is
Speaker 1: their secondary. We're down our top two guys possibly put
Speaker 1: that in quotations. Yeah, with CD. So we have to
Speaker 1: get a ground game. To get a ground game, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I think that. I think Kellen Moore is
Speaker 1: smart enough to scheme up some stuff and get this
Speaker 1: taken care of. But I do believe that if we
Speaker 1: go into this game dropping the balls and being inefficient
Speaker 1: and effective with our passing accuracy and things of that
Speaker 1: nature like we did last week, there this could be
Speaker 1: a problem. What do you think, Well, well, it looks
Speaker 1: I've been watching the tape just like you guys have.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's a it's a good news bad news scenario,
Speaker 1: and like most people, you want the bad news first.
Speaker 1: The bad news is is that they're gonna play you
Speaker 1: exactly like everybody else's playing you because of the league
Speaker 1: bids such a copycat league. They are going to put
Speaker 1: a lot of guys in the box and they are
Speaker 1: going to dare Dak to beat them. I think at
Speaker 1: this point in Dak's career that is a welcome challenge.
Speaker 1: Even though he saw that from Atlanta, he has the
Speaker 1: potential with all of his arsenal of weapons there to
Speaker 1: expose that because people can't do that when you have
Speaker 1: Amari CD and Gallup it's just hard to do it.
Speaker 1: But when you're handicapped like we are that you watch
Speaker 1: the Raiders, they crowd the line of scrimmage, Max Crosby
Speaker 1: and Dockway man, it's going to be a challenge for
Speaker 1: us on the outside, and that's why Tyren Smith is
Speaker 1: so important. But the good news, the good news is
Speaker 1: is that Kellen Moore, like you just mentioned, can be
Speaker 1: in his bag in a game like this to show
Speaker 1: exactly how he's gonna get other pieces involved in this offense.
Speaker 1: I think that the Raiders are going to dare Dalton
Speaker 1: Schultz to beat them because they don't. They're gonna press
Speaker 1: so much on the outside and line so close up
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage that they are going to
Speaker 1: allow him to be in one on one situations. And
Speaker 1: I think that's where the nerve can be exposed and
Speaker 1: that's where we can make some way. But as far
Speaker 1: as our running game is concerned, this is a big, big,
Speaker 1: big time game for a Pollard in seek and that's
Speaker 1: actually what happened in the Chiefs game. But there's a
Speaker 1: lot of open space for Scholtz in that that game.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, like I think it's I think there's
Speaker 1: it's a good matchup, and it's not a good matchup
Speaker 1: for the reasons you guys mentioned, Like you watch that
Speaker 1: Bengals game with in Dockway and Crosby and they had
Speaker 1: like a you know, first third down it was a
Speaker 1: Burrow sandwich. They just met at the quarterback. And that's
Speaker 1: if I don't want to call it a blueprint because
Speaker 1: I think it's still too early say oh, Cowboys can't, can't,
Speaker 1: can't beat this, But the Chiefs are known for blitzing.
Speaker 1: They didn't have to blitz in that game. Nope. And
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos didn't have to blitz in that game,
Speaker 1: and so can the Cowboys protection hold. You know, is
Speaker 1: Dad gonna be enough in rhythm to make the throws
Speaker 1: he needs to make, whether CD plays or not, that's
Speaker 1: the question. And yeah, Tyrn being back would would absolutely
Speaker 1: certainly help. But that's what it comes down to, I
Speaker 1: think for me, because yeah, I mean that they play
Speaker 1: man coverage and they're they're gonna drop guys into coverage
Speaker 1: and clog the lanes and see what the Cowboys can
Speaker 1: do on a scale of one to ten, scale of
Speaker 1: one to ten, Tarren Steal at left tackle, what's your
Speaker 1: confidence level in the amount of time Dak is able
Speaker 1: to throw? And low lower than lower lower than lower
Speaker 1: than I mean, but they're gonna get They would give
Speaker 1: him help. I mean, you watch you watch the the
Speaker 1: Raiders Bengals matchup. They put a bag, put p Rhyn
Speaker 1: there and chip and all that stuff. That's what you
Speaker 1: I think you'd have to do in this matchup. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, because once you gave me a number,
Speaker 1: I was gonna give you one to ten Tyrn Smith's
Speaker 1: at left tackle. How much of an increase is it
Speaker 1: in terms of your confidence level between the two as
Speaker 1: it doesn't change a whole lot. No, it goes up considerably. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just I do wonder, you know, is it if
Speaker 1: he plays? Can he can he get through it without
Speaker 1: any problems? You know? That's what when I asked Stephen
Speaker 1: pre game how close was he to play in Sunday?
Speaker 1: He said, once he gets back, they don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be an issue. Well, does three extra days
Speaker 1: help that? You know? Are they just being really careful?
Speaker 1: So we have to see on that if he does play,
Speaker 1: and he'll be on the side of in Gockway, as
Speaker 1: I believe, because Crosby doesn't travel right, he doesn't flip side.
Speaker 1: He's usually on the right side. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins against Max Crosby, and then it'll be in
Speaker 1: Gockway versus Smith and or Steele. Well, I mean still,
Speaker 1: I just know I'm with Pete. Yeah, you gotta get
Speaker 1: this guy help. You gotta go twelve heavy if that's
Speaker 1: the case. I you know, man, this is just gonna
Speaker 1: be one of those matchups that from the edge they
Speaker 1: have so much energy. These guys are they don't stop,
Speaker 1: you know, the motor that Crosby has. And Crosby's a
Speaker 1: local guy, uh, from from Chris Beams High School, Collyville
Speaker 1: Heritage is in the third round of the playoffs here
Speaker 1: and there we go. Yeah, of course they't know Crosby
Speaker 1: was a pacer. Yeah, absolutely, But you know, it's just
Speaker 1: he's constantly moving. And that's the one thing about him
Speaker 1: that I think it's going may give Leo Collins some
Speaker 1: some trouble because he didn't have a good game. We
Speaker 1: talked a lot about other pieces, but Leo didn't have
Speaker 1: a good game last week either. So, uh, in the
Speaker 1: middle of their in the middle of their defense, I
Speaker 1: think that's where we can make hay even on the
Speaker 1: outside with Casey Hayward Junior, he reminds me a lot
Speaker 1: of a cornerback that we used to have here. Uh,
Speaker 1: the guy that didn't make any interceptions, but he didn't
Speaker 1: give up. Byron Jones reminds me a lot of Barren Jones.
Speaker 1: And so I just think that, you know, man and
Speaker 1: man with CD, I'm really looking forward to that matchup
Speaker 1: or with Gallup or whomever. I'm just saying I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to that matchup to see if they can stop
Speaker 1: our guys. I say, his look right now, he's just
Speaker 1: looking at the ceiling, just thinking about not having cd
Speaker 1: LA And then I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not brit Or Jimbo. So I'm not gonna I
Speaker 1: can't sit up here and say that it's not gonna
Speaker 1: get Yeah, but I don't think he's gonna be. There
Speaker 1: haven't been somebody who's had a concussion before a number
Speaker 1: of times. I don't see CD player. Um, because even
Speaker 1: if he does get on the field, it takes one
Speaker 1: hit and those guys know he's concussed some somewhat and
Speaker 1: recently as of late, they're gonna take a shot at
Speaker 1: him in there. They'll take a late hit call to
Speaker 1: make sure that he gets out of the game. Not
Speaker 1: to say that there's killers on the field, but that's
Speaker 1: what they do. Um, we're gonna check it's it's yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make sure and it's the same thing retiring.
Speaker 1: You know, I do agree, obviously. Tyrann's a huge upgrade
Speaker 1: from Terren Steele. Terren Steel does his best to fill
Speaker 1: in when he can um. But even if Tyrn does
Speaker 1: play these ends, to your point, it's one thing to
Speaker 1: play against a really good defensive end. And you know,
Speaker 1: out of those sixty snaps you might have, you know,
Speaker 1: say you have, you know, thirty five passes, you know
Speaker 1: you have you have passed back on those gut thirty
Speaker 1: five times, maybe you could stop him majority of the time.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe there's one play on most guys that
Speaker 1: that you're good with, you know, and then they just
Speaker 1: get you that one time. These guys, that percentage goes
Speaker 1: up drastically because they just don't stop. When you play
Speaker 1: some guys, you stuff them, you might muffin boom, get
Speaker 1: a little pancake, and they are You don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about them for the next three or four plays,
Speaker 1: because they got they gotta charge back up. I don't
Speaker 1: know what these guys are on. I really don't know
Speaker 1: what they're on. They're on, they're on something. I don't
Speaker 1: know what kind of energy drink they're drinking, but they're
Speaker 1: both juiced up and they're coming yeah and there and there.
Speaker 1: And I know their defensive coordinator. Defensive coordinator was with
Speaker 1: me in Seattle, Gus Bradley, and I had him as
Speaker 1: a head coach in Jacksonville. He's the energizer bunny. That's
Speaker 1: why I do like this matchup in summer because Bradley's
Speaker 1: a hell of a coach. But there's there's there's that
Speaker 1: DNA between he and Quinn. Yeah, they understand it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys scheme, I mean the offense is familiar
Speaker 1: with that DNA of that scheme. Quinn Quinn was underneath Bradley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Quinn Quinn replaced Bradley after he went to Jacksonville, So
Speaker 1: I think they're that familiarity might might help. And look,
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele was much better against Atlanta at home. I
Speaker 1: think the crowd noise and all that stuff not do
Speaker 1: him any favors. Obviously with the one snap where he
Speaker 1: and Elsie both together did not get off the ball. Um,
Speaker 1: I think he'll be better. He's a competitor, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tough challenge for anybody. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: feel at ten with anybody against these two guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it kind of goes back. You've said this before on
Speaker 1: this show, Isaiah about how high motors sometimes give you
Speaker 1: more of a longer day than high talent. But The
Speaker 1: thing is with both of these guys, I mean, and
Speaker 1: Goquoy's got talent too, and Max Crosby certainly has talent.
Speaker 1: He's having as good of a year as anybody, and
Speaker 1: they've got the motor which kind of scares me, scares
Speaker 1: you on that combination side. Yeah, it's it's rough and
Speaker 1: and it could be. It could be a good day
Speaker 1: if our receivers show up and played their best day.
Speaker 1: I'd just say that if if our current guys that
Speaker 1: we know are going to play, said said Noah Gallup Schultz,
Speaker 1: Charln Schultz, and I would imagine that Simmy Fooco is
Speaker 1: going to have his coming out opportunity has to turn two.
Speaker 1: But I think Simmy has to be active for this
Speaker 1: even if even if even if CD plays, I think
Speaker 1: you have to bring send me up just because you
Speaker 1: know there's a chance that he might get put back out.
Speaker 1: I would that's the approach I would take. I want
Speaker 1: to see him take some snatch he need, he needs
Speaker 1: a g and actually get some targets. I want to
Speaker 1: see what he can do. That'd be a heck of
Speaker 1: a of a coming out party and a Thanksgiving game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I almost had a touchdown on Thanksgiving, Dame dam what
Speaker 1: was that story? Like, No, I just kick return? Which
Speaker 1: which which game? Seattle? Actually again Seattle? It was again
Speaker 1: Seattle with the whole stadium. Yeah, almost had it. I
Speaker 1: was mad. I was waiting on a block. I should
Speaker 1: have just went what year? Remember? Had him been eight?
Speaker 1: Had Hi been away? Yeah? Well I do almost burn
Speaker 1: you more than actually because I was wat. I was
Speaker 1: waiting on a teammate to take care of something for
Speaker 1: me right now. It was like and like he just
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Speaker 1: I got it to like just over the fifty or something.
Speaker 1: I was mad, so like a decent return. It was
Speaker 1: a good return. It should have been the should have
Speaker 1: housed it. Anyways, I think we can't exploit these guys,
Speaker 1: but it has to be on the ground. Got to
Speaker 1: I'll put it that way. And let's talk about that
Speaker 1: when we come back on the other side of the break.
Speaker 1: Where has the Cowboys run game bin? And can we
Speaker 1: find it when we come back here on a say
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Speaker 1: the run game. Heck, where has it been? And why
Speaker 1: has there not been any effectiveness on the ground? Man,
Speaker 1: it's it's been. I feel as though Zeke has been hurt.
Speaker 1: No one's made said anything about it, but you know
Speaker 1: there's something going on the way that he gets up
Speaker 1: after he would say it's falling down. That hurts the
Speaker 1: first Yeah, just seeing him get up and he's been
Speaker 1: dealing with these nagging injuries. Just it hadn't been the
Speaker 1: same as far as that pop that you saw from
Speaker 1: the first couple of games. It's kind of slowed down.
Speaker 1: And I mean, obviously as we get these breaks and
Speaker 1: these guys, this isn't like another buy for us, because
Speaker 1: once they get past the Saints game, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: an extended period of time that they're gonna be off
Speaker 1: as well. Just gotta get this guy healthy and I
Speaker 1: think offensively, offensive line wise, we just hadn't had the
Speaker 1: continuity that we've been talking about. When you're missing Tyrant Smith.
Speaker 1: That's a big part of your success that you haven't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's all calls in effect, and
Speaker 1: you know, we just hadn't been able to establish it.
Speaker 1: We get a big run, we get a big game,
Speaker 1: and we go back airborne. So we've just got to
Speaker 1: in this game specifically, we've just got to dedicate ourselves
Speaker 1: to playing smash mouth football. We are averaging eighty eight
Speaker 1: yards per game rushing total as a team the last
Speaker 1: four games. Wow, it's not great. Nah, not ideal. That's
Speaker 1: a problem. That's a problem. I'm not sure where stemming from.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because we've been in some
Speaker 1: games that that has required us to try to throw
Speaker 1: our way out of it. Um. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's the injuries to Zeke. I'm pretty sure that the
Speaker 1: coaches are fully aware of how healthy he is. But
Speaker 1: regardless of what the issue is they did, they have
Speaker 1: to address it because we can't go back to what
Speaker 1: Dallas cannot go back to what they did week one,
Speaker 1: and that is throw the ball. Yeah, Bannon a run
Speaker 1: and throw the ball fifty times, and I feel like
Speaker 1: that's eight back to I feel like it's getting back today. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We ran for sixty yards in that opening game, and
Speaker 1: last week we ran for eighty two twenty two more
Speaker 1: yards about that it was sixty then one, sixty two,
Speaker 1: forty five twenty two. That was before the bye week.
Speaker 1: After the bye week, seventy eight seven fourteen against Atlanta,
Speaker 1: But a lot of that was late kind of salting
Speaker 1: the game away in the second half. Eighty two, So
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean, since the bye week, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: just have not run the ball effectively. And yes, you
Speaker 1: can put the Atlanta game up there as much as
Speaker 1: you want, but in terms of winning that game, you
Speaker 1: didn't need the run to win that game. You needed
Speaker 1: that run to run out the clock in the second half.
Speaker 1: So a lot of that was kind of taken with
Speaker 1: a grain of salt. Whereas New England you needed the
Speaker 1: established to run early. New York same thing. Carolina. Certainly
Speaker 1: they won that game because of the run game. So
Speaker 1: what has been the chance is that just a Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore thing run? Um? Well, the Denver game got out
Speaker 1: of hand. Obviously, they tried to run four thounds early,
Speaker 1: didn't get it. Um, maybe there's some candy out there
Speaker 1: with the man covers on the outside and they loved
Speaker 1: their one on one matchups with their outside receivers. M
Speaker 1: nick Eman did have a stat yesterday on media match
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna butcher it, but it was something like
Speaker 1: they ran sixteen times against the Chiefs and they ran
Speaker 1: ten times on first down and got like two points
Speaker 1: something yards per first down. So like his his his
Speaker 1: thought on that is you get yourself in second and long,
Speaker 1: you know, get yourself out of it with the pass. Yes, Um,
Speaker 1: but I but I would go back to the Minnesota
Speaker 1: game where they didn't run it too well three point
Speaker 1: three yards to carry, but they stuck with it. They
Speaker 1: had twenty four carries, and we're just like persistent with it.
Speaker 1: And why did you do that in the Minnesota game
Speaker 1: because you had Cooper rush? Yes, but but I think
Speaker 1: that would help DA's Dak's dak. But like when you
Speaker 1: got some changes on your offensive line, whether Tyrant plays
Speaker 1: or not. You got McGovern making his second start at
Speaker 1: left guard, help you help your young linemen out, you know,
Speaker 1: where they're not in pass pro all the time, especially
Speaker 1: against this front that we just talked about last segment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: seven games, seven games left. Zeke's at six hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety five yards. He is sixth in the league. Even
Speaker 1: with those numbers, he still has everything in front of
Speaker 1: him to to play, you know, to get those numbers up,
Speaker 1: if that's what you know statistically where he wants to be. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that Tony Pollard has done a really good
Speaker 1: job filling in at times. But we know that Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard is not the blocker uh that Zeke is, and
Speaker 1: so it's it's twofold for me. We point out the offense,
Speaker 1: the offensive line, but I also think that defenses are
Speaker 1: daring us to continue to try and run. And you
Speaker 1: go back to the Tampa Bay game where Keller Moore says,
Speaker 1: you know, after the after the game was over, well
Speaker 1: why didn't you run it more? And he says, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to just continue to run until this front,
Speaker 1: you know, run into a brick wall. I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: and do some other things. And I think that's been
Speaker 1: the model of what he's been thinking, especially with teams
Speaker 1: willing to live and die in press man coverage. I
Speaker 1: think I think that third down, uh, the fact that
Speaker 1: you just brought up is another reason why we haven't
Speaker 1: seen as much TP as well, because we've been throwing
Speaker 1: so much on third down. He's not the blocker that
Speaker 1: Zeke is, and we have had issues with protection, so
Speaker 1: you make sure that your best blocking back is in there.
Speaker 1: So I think that has hindered Pollard's ability to be
Speaker 1: on the field as much as he has in the past,
Speaker 1: even when he was as effective as a runner and
Speaker 1: as the ball carrier like he was laid in the
Speaker 1: game against Kansas City. He wasn't on the field a
Speaker 1: whole lot, even with a bang dub Zeke because just
Speaker 1: based off back, you needed more protection for Dad. What
Speaker 1: has happened to Pollard as a receiver though? That was
Speaker 1: a mail back question this week maybe for today, and
Speaker 1: I don't disagree. I mean, that's one of the things though,
Speaker 1: that you have to if you're gonna be in there,
Speaker 1: if you're a third down back, right, if you're a
Speaker 1: change of pace third down back, you have to be
Speaker 1: able to handle your blocking responsibilities first, because a lot
Speaker 1: of the receiving that comes from a running back comes
Speaker 1: after you have checked your protection first. So your swing routes,
Speaker 1: your option routes, you know, your arrows, all those kind
Speaker 1: of things that you run out the backfield, they come
Speaker 1: after you check your protection first. If your protection is
Speaker 1: secure and you're good, I can get out and run
Speaker 1: my route. But if you're not blocking well, then you're
Speaker 1: not going to be in that position. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that he's not blocking well. I gotta go back and
Speaker 1: watch the film, but that's my assumption is that because
Speaker 1: of how effective Zeke has been in the blocking game
Speaker 1: at that position. I just rather have Zeke in there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I just I was just thinking if you if
Speaker 1: you don't have CD and I think they're still hopeful
Speaker 1: of that, but if they don't, then he could go
Speaker 1: more two back sets. You could put him back there together.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying put Tony out wide all the time,
Speaker 1: but he does. I mean going back to Memphis, he
Speaker 1: does have that that skill set that they really haven't
Speaker 1: used a lot now three years. No, he could route run.
Speaker 1: He can be a good route runner. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: be a wide receiver. He's not gonna win his battle
Speaker 1: of the line, but he runs great routes from this lot.
Speaker 1: And we saw that in No Tas at training camp,
Speaker 1: the way that he was running round and they haven't
Speaker 1: used that two back set like we've seen at OTAs
Speaker 1: in training camp. And then he saw it earlier in
Speaker 1: the year, Yeah with mcgover. You saw it with McGovern
Speaker 1: and Williams back there. Uh. The only game where Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard has more than four receptions and more than thirty
Speaker 1: yards receiving the Atlanta game when he had six receptions
Speaker 1: on seven targets for fifty six yards. Like I said,
Speaker 1: a lot of that late. Every other game it's been
Speaker 1: two receptions one, one, three, four, zero and zero targets
Speaker 1: in that game as well, one reception for five yards
Speaker 1: against philadelph Not great numbers as a receiver for Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: So maybe without ceedee Lamb, I think I agree with
Speaker 1: you guys, and you said this earlier or two about
Speaker 1: Dalton Scholtz. I think Dalton Schultz needs to have a
Speaker 1: bigger game and has to have a bigger role. Same
Speaker 1: thing with Tony Pollard. Use him as a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: use him out of the backfield, kind of get creative
Speaker 1: with the way that you split those backs out wide,
Speaker 1: because especially if there's going to be pressure coming off
Speaker 1: the edge, it might be an opportunity to sneak it
Speaker 1: out there and get some extra yards and a couple
Speaker 1: of extra blockers out in front. It look like you
Speaker 1: had something mad there. No, I'm just I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at these stats. I'm not a big stat guy, but
Speaker 1: I think it does play a part in terms of
Speaker 1: our success at the Dallas success already past four weeks.
Speaker 1: We're two and two over the last four weeks, all right,
Speaker 1: and we're one hundred yard rushing game out of those
Speaker 1: four games for us. Every game our opponent has had
Speaker 1: one hundred yards rushing over the last four weeks. And
Speaker 1: that's just not a Dallas stat. That's not something that's
Speaker 1: indicative of a reflective of our DNA. I want to change.
Speaker 1: If you want to look on the other side, a
Speaker 1: positive stat is the fact that they haven't allowed one
Speaker 1: hundred yard receiver since Week five. So the passing defense,
Speaker 1: or at least the air attack hasn't been nearly as
Speaker 1: successful against the Cowboys secondary as it had been. If
Speaker 1: you told me that before the game, kind of what
Speaker 1: Heck said after the game, if you're gonna hold Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill and Travis Kelsey to to receiving yards in the
Speaker 1: seventies when the game, That's what it came out of
Speaker 1: my mouth. Taken every day, Yeah, Rusher, no touchdowns for
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, but not just sad. But in that same breath,
Speaker 1: let's let's put it where this this game actually needs
Speaker 1: to be on Dak's shoulders. Dak has got to come out,
Speaker 1: He's got to be sharp. You know, so much was
Speaker 1: made of that first throw to Michael Gallup, and I
Speaker 1: love what Babe Laufenberg said. If you thought that blew
Speaker 1: the game. Then you're wrong because Michael gallipood Goes scored
Speaker 1: touchdown on that play. Maybe it would have gone for
Speaker 1: thirty forty yards, but look, that didn't blow the game.
Speaker 1: Dak has to start fast, he has to be sharp,
Speaker 1: he has to make key reads. A lot of this again,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on him the start we gotta have.
Speaker 1: We talked yesterday about the Las Vegas and their capability,
Speaker 1: their lack of big play ability in having slow, methodical drives.
Speaker 1: We have to mirror that. We have to have slow
Speaker 1: methodical drives. We've got to take that just pretty much
Speaker 1: the wind out of their sales immediately, because they are
Speaker 1: going to want to pressure, they are going to want
Speaker 1: to try and play us aggressively. We've got to match that.
Speaker 1: At three o'clock, I have a question, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1: Can we ask every time you want to ask? Soos
Speaker 1: coming good home training? Can the Dallas Cowboys win this
Speaker 1: game without rushing for a hundred yards? Oh? I would
Speaker 1: say no. I don't think they can. I guess they
Speaker 1: could if they just dominate on the outside or with
Speaker 1: Schultz and they just you know, you're talking with specific
Speaker 1: scenario and the personnel that's going to be available. I'm saying, gallup,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, Cedric Wilson, at your as your receivers in,
Speaker 1: Malik Turner and send me for Hoko No and Isaiah
Speaker 1: standpack No, no, no, no, those checks have stopped. No,
Speaker 1: that's that you put it that way with that lineup,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, you need to, like you said, you
Speaker 1: need to pound it. You need to you know, rush
Speaker 1: twenty five thirty times, and so you gotta get to
Speaker 1: a hundred Dudes. Does Dallas win this game without getting
Speaker 1: two hundred yards on the ground. No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: If CD doesn't play, no, no, unless it's like a
Speaker 1: three to nothing game, and that would just be wild
Speaker 1: in its own right. But that's hard, that's I mean, Look,
Speaker 1: that's you talk about what's been ailing us and why
Speaker 1: we haven't had a lot of success in these games
Speaker 1: that we've lost. We haven't been able to get the
Speaker 1: ground game established. Therefore, the defense has been able to
Speaker 1: key off on everything that we do. Now that we
Speaker 1: have missing pieces, hell, that just makes that stat that
Speaker 1: you're talking about even more important. So, no, we have
Speaker 1: to establish the ground game because everything else that Dak
Speaker 1: is gonna do is gonna be predicated on what we
Speaker 1: do in the run. We can't run, I asked question.
Speaker 1: I asked that question because if CD's out, if you're
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinate, if you're Gus Bradley, who's a freaking
Speaker 1: genius of a defensive coordinator, what are you taking away?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take away to run. I'm taking away to
Speaker 1: run because I might my best matchup, or I guess
Speaker 1: the worst matchup I have is Gallup versus Desmond Truefont,
Speaker 1: who's a veteran corner in this league, respectable right everybody else.
Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident about If I'm Gus Bradley, I'm
Speaker 1: not threatened by your receivers. Without CD and Coop on
Speaker 1: the field, I trust, I would wholeheartedly trust that Desmond
Speaker 1: Truefont can hold his own. I'm not gonna say that
Speaker 1: he's gonna win every battle, but definitely true he's no
Speaker 1: punk now he can hold his own against Gallup. Gallups
Speaker 1: gonna win something, he gonna lose something. The Olidified another day. Okay,
Speaker 1: the rest of your corners, the rest of your corners
Speaker 1: out there, that the rest of the corners that the
Speaker 1: Raiders have, I don't think that they're gonna be threatened
Speaker 1: by are by the person of the Dallas has on
Speaker 1: the field. You can't include a Friday quote. Do you
Speaker 1: guys understand I'm getting that. I agree with I'm gonna
Speaker 1: press the crap out of those guys, and you're saying
Speaker 1: they may be a little too banged up offensively to
Speaker 1: get this done. Potentially. Potentially, Yeah, I don't because because
Speaker 1: their personnel, their defense has not played amazing. No, right,
Speaker 1: their defense has not played amazing. They're they're they're pass rushes, pashes.
Speaker 1: Everything else is not that great. But when you know
Speaker 1: that you're playing at the wounded animal, you change your style,
Speaker 1: change your style up. For Michael Gallant, we've talked about
Speaker 1: him as a true number two receiver. He's in the
Speaker 1: contract year and obviously he doesn't view himself that way.
Speaker 1: He's got to view himself as an apex as well.
Speaker 1: How big is this opportunity for him or is it
Speaker 1: one of those things or if you're not used to
Speaker 1: being the number one guy the target is that something
Speaker 1: that's the lights to bright? Basically, this is his resume game.
Speaker 1: This is his resume game as a number one to
Speaker 1: the rest of the league. CD doesn't play if CD
Speaker 1: doesn't play, the rest of the league is gonna be
Speaker 1: looking at this game and say, what did you do
Speaker 1: when you were the number one guy? And this is
Speaker 1: a chance for him. We'll see how he does it
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Speaker 1: Isaiah went one and five last week and his yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys game when he was well, actually, that's a fact,
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Speaker 1: the top. I went three and three as well last week,
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Speaker 1: to Matres from Philly. Martz. Sorry I spelt it wrong
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Speaker 1: at the Lions. And there's rumors around Matt Nagy is
Speaker 1: he going to last after this game? Playing on the
Speaker 1: road and Detroit. We'll start with you, Isaiah Bears. The
Speaker 1: Bears win it, yeah, okay, Rob Bears, Martz Bears, Okay,
Speaker 1: are you gonna go for the first win of the year.
Speaker 1: You know, I think this is I think they're getting close,
Speaker 1: and I think right now with the turmoil that the
Speaker 1: Bears are end that this would be a prime opportunity
Speaker 1: for the Lions to win it, but they just won't
Speaker 1: do it. I'm goining Bears on this one. I'm going
Speaker 1: with the Lions. The Lions to win it at home.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna get it done. Yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: doing it all right. The other Thanksgiving game Bills at
Speaker 1: the Saints, Martez, what you got, Bill? Oh? Good? One
Speaker 1: at the Saints on I guess that's the nighttime slot.
Speaker 1: Both are running backs are hurt. I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: with the Bill. Okay, that's a good, good one. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. What do you think. I'm going with
Speaker 1: the Mafia and this one as well. Um, Saints just
Speaker 1: hadn't been playing well since uh the quarterback went down.
Speaker 1: So okay, Bills, bounce back Bills. Bounce back Bills are
Speaker 1: due to win one here. New Orleans has won five
Speaker 1: straight games against Buffalo. Wow, that straight comes to a
Speaker 1: close history. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna pick the Saints
Speaker 1: on that one. All I mean, excuse me, the Buffalo
Speaker 1: flo Bills, Buffalo Bills. I'm tracking the Bills. I'm picking
Speaker 1: the Bills. I'm I'm not attracting. I'm picking the Bills.
Speaker 1: I misspoke. I'm sorry. So Buccaneers at the Colts, this
Speaker 1: is a really good game. I'm gonna pick the Colts
Speaker 1: at home to take down Tom Brady. I think Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor is just on another level right now. Mark Tess,
Speaker 1: who you got I'm going to buck don't with the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Ah man, I'm gonna go with the Colts on this one.
Speaker 1: I think Colts at home that's gonna be tough. And
Speaker 1: you talk about the running games, so I think Colts
Speaker 1: and Vita Vea is still going. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: gain a game on heck, and it's Tom Brady Bucks. Wait,
Speaker 1: so who did you just pick the Colts? The Colts? Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't play the last game, and yeah, he's banged
Speaker 1: up a little bit, all right, Rams at the Packers.
Speaker 1: This is a fun one as well. Two teams that
Speaker 1: coming off of losses but still contenders in the number
Speaker 1: one seed for the NFC East or I mean, excuse me,
Speaker 1: the NFC seating. Let's start with you, Rob Rams. Can't
Speaker 1: see the Rams losing three straight. Take the Rams. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Rams as well. I think
Speaker 1: the weather kind of concerns me being in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: but I'm with you. I just don't see them sliding
Speaker 1: out like this. So give me the Packers at Lambeau. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: there you got hackers. Don't pack game though it will.
Speaker 1: I think I think Beckham's gonna have hell of a game, Okay,
Speaker 1: Martes Ramsey shuts down Adams, then they get a much
Speaker 1: needed one. I hope that doesn't happen just because Ramsey
Speaker 1: Adams is on my fantasy team. So I don't want
Speaker 1: that to happen. Uh, Vikings at the forty Niners, Minnesota
Speaker 1: at San Francisco, both teams at five and five, and
Speaker 1: both teams coming off a big wins. Rob forty nine
Speaker 1: ers at home. M Okay, yeah, same, forty nine is
Speaker 1: at home for Isaiah. You know, coach, the Vikings head
Speaker 1: coach is one of my favorite people now, and yeah,
Speaker 1: he's one of my favorite people. But I uh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go forty nine. Us Zimmer's winning on the field
Speaker 1: this week as well. Let's say he wins on the
Speaker 1: road at San Francisco and Minnesota Vikings get the win. Martz,
Speaker 1: who do you think I'm gonna Do you like that?
Speaker 1: You like your cousins going Kirk cousins? Okay, I see you,
Speaker 1: all right. Cowboys hosting the Raiders. Dallas has lost three
Speaker 1: of their last four Thanksgiving games, and well they've beaten
Speaker 1: the Raiders twice on Thanksgiving and their last two Thanksgiving meetings.
Speaker 1: So this one's gonna be fun. Rob will start, actually, Martz,
Speaker 1: we'll start with you. I'm gonna say this is a
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore game. He needs this one because he's gonna
Speaker 1: stay hot. Our running game Schematically, you look at the
Speaker 1: all twenty two schematically, the running game has not been good.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping he gets some jet sweep going some
Speaker 1: more wild. Can't going stop running behind Connor Will I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: McGovern is, be honest. They're not strong enough. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm hoping our defense can carry you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go. Cowboys twenty three thirteen. Okay, defensive
Speaker 1: minded game. I like it. Martz, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining us and for listening, and good luck out in Philly.
Speaker 1: There he goes Martz, representing the fans this week. I'll
Speaker 1: let Isaiah go next to last this week, so Rob,
Speaker 1: I'll let you start. I think the challenges we talked
Speaker 1: about for the Cowboys offense are real, but I think
Speaker 1: I think they'll be more comfortable at home. That includes
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Raiders give up the fourth most rushing
Speaker 1: yards in the league, and I think the defense is
Speaker 1: gonna get a couple takeaways in this game. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys find a way to win this game something
Speaker 1: like twenty seven twenty three. So I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: I was going to pull out the exact same stat
Speaker 1: in terms of fourth most rushing yards allowed. Because when
Speaker 1: I looked at that, I said, Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: chance to get that ground game going. This is a
Speaker 1: jump starter, this is a catalyst. Let's get that going.
Speaker 1: And I think the Cowboys in a very similar game,
Speaker 1: very defensive minded, They're gonna get a couple takeaways. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys win it twenty seven twenty one, in
Speaker 1: a really close game, but ultimately I think they come
Speaker 1: out on top. All right, Isaiah, who you got? You're
Speaker 1: eight and soon picking the Cowboys twenty one seventeen. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't feel good about this one, guys. I don't
Speaker 1: like it. That's fair. I don't like it. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're alone. I don't like it. I'm how to
Speaker 1: go Raiders. Okay, you're going Raiders. Don't You're going back
Speaker 1: to bat I got the bubble Gus got it right
Speaker 1: last week. Bubble baby wipes. It's how he's gonna catch up,
Speaker 1: switching it up, all right? Hecka Well, Look here's my
Speaker 1: thing with Cowboy Nation. And I've been, you know, following
Speaker 1: the tweets and hearing all the rhetoric, and then a
Speaker 1: lot of people that are jumping off the bandwagon, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden and I love it. I love it
Speaker 1: because you need to all in. Are you all out?
Speaker 1: And we like it like that to say the same
Speaker 1: team defensively, the guys said, I hope they come back
Speaker 1: and they carry it. Look, we got the big case.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be here, and you understand what the bazookas doing.
Speaker 1: Dak has to have a comeback game. It happens tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Stuffing is gonna go down great after the game, all right,
Speaker 1: when you guys are playing your games at the end
Speaker 1: of the night, everybody gonna be happy because's gonna be
Speaker 1: a Cowboy win. Cowboys twenty eight seventeen. I love it.
Speaker 1: I always gets to be hyped up to do this
Speaker 1: thing that's break it down good while you're having a
Speaker 1: little dessert down great. I hope everyone out there, We
Speaker 1: hope everybody out there has a phenomenal Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Thanks Be safe, make sure you get to and from
Speaker 1: where you're going with safety and mind as well, and
Speaker 1: be ready to cheer on the Cowboys come Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a whole lot of fun and we're
Speaker 1: excited to talk about it with you on Monday. Chris
Speaker 1: beam In the Back, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand Back, heck
Speaker 1: My Harrison. What do we say on Friday? Cowboy Nason,
Speaker 1: I hope your team wait, let's go. This has been
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