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Speaker 1: Wait were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and Bar Garcia
Speaker 1: and Derek Eagleton. It is Wins in November twenty second,
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, season thirteen, episode number eighty one, Nick, you
Speaker 1: are correct yesterday. It actually was eighty yesterday. And right,
Speaker 1: you're right, I pittention. I don't know if I'd go
Speaker 1: that far, but you're actually right yesterday. How's everybody doing
Speaker 1: this morning? I can tell you why I was right
Speaker 1: because of Dave, Because when you said, when you said
Speaker 1: seventy nine, I thought, I'm surprised Dave hasn't come in
Speaker 1: here and said anything about that. And then you said
Speaker 1: it again, and I was like, I thought, man, Bill
Speaker 1: murraybo yeah, yeah, Roundhog's name, Yeah, I feel like that.
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett press conference in Atlanta here. How are we doing, guys? Hey, coach,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? How are you doing? Dave? I
Speaker 1: am good this surprised you that he does that, like
Speaker 1: thirty seven to nine the Eagles with the win, and
Speaker 1: he's just like, a right, how were doing? Guys? Like
Speaker 1: he does a sadder version. I have that as well.
Speaker 1: What is it? How were doing? Guys? Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: thirty seven to nine version? Okay, makes sense, but I'm
Speaker 1: telling you the we just got beat in the playoffs
Speaker 1: to the Packers and that's the number one seed. He
Speaker 1: does it then, you know, guys, Yeah, I don't understand that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't surprise me. This is the guy that wears
Speaker 1: the same clothes every day and says the same and
Speaker 1: just say questions. Has he ever been in a bad
Speaker 1: mood in a press conference? I remember Bill used to
Speaker 1: have those moments when he was rich in a very
Speaker 1: good mood. I don't remaining camp. Oh yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: remember that. I don't remember what happened last year. Oh
Speaker 1: it was it was during the Dead's mri fel Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Like the media was like are you okay? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was, remember that he was in a really bad mood.
Speaker 1: Just you could tell he was in a bad mood.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it wouldn't It didn't have something to do with
Speaker 1: like UM's super salty because something had happened with a
Speaker 1: conference call from a with another team or something, and
Speaker 1: he told him that he told them, but he didn't
Speaker 1: tell us. Oh, I do remember that because he got
Speaker 1: the informations timing. Yeah, it was I think that one
Speaker 1: really was his fault, but he certainly got blasted for it.
Speaker 1: But something in training camp one time. I remember a
Speaker 1: training camp ox Unity was pissed off for like two days.
Speaker 1: I'm really sure why. I'm gonna go back and correct it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you still got a wave, right, Amber, You
Speaker 1: still usually get a little way from coach as he's
Speaker 1: leaving at training camp, a wave, pat on the back.
Speaker 1: Oh really, pat on the back, good job kind of
Speaker 1: pat on the back. How are we doing, an Amber?
Speaker 1: All right, let's get it to this. We got we
Speaker 1: got some injuries to discuss. Dave's gonna give us an injury.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, a scattering report on the Chargers defense.
Speaker 1: And because we have a little bit of a shorter show,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to kind of compact all this stuff
Speaker 1: and then get to our picks of the game here
Speaker 1: before we'll end around probably about eleven ten eleven fifteen,
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and jump right in as smart
Speaker 1: as injuries are concerned. Yesterday there were two players that
Speaker 1: did not practice. One of them a little bit weird
Speaker 1: because the day before that and the on the injury report,
Speaker 1: which they said was an approximation, they said he was limited.
Speaker 1: That was Anthony Hitchins. Then yesterday they came back and
Speaker 1: a mended that and said he did not practice both
Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday. He and Sean Lee both didn't You
Speaker 1: got that that backward? They said, They mended that and
Speaker 1: said he was supposed to be limited last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's limited. Okay, I just saw on the injury report
Speaker 1: he said d D and yeah, they came back and
Speaker 1: corrected it last night because so he was limited yesterday,
Speaker 1: did not practice on Monday? Is that accurate? I think
Speaker 1: limited both limited both days? Got it? Okay? That being said,
Speaker 1: do you think that affects now what you believe about
Speaker 1: his availability come tomorrow. I fully expect him to start
Speaker 1: on the week side. That's pretty much where I'm at.
Speaker 1: I mean, he practiced yesterday and it's it's a glorified
Speaker 1: walk through. It's not like it's a real practice. But
Speaker 1: he's moving around like he's gonna try to go, and
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna let him try to go, and
Speaker 1: of that, I'm Glennedny. No, just I just the fact
Speaker 1: that I guess you could go without you know, him
Speaker 1: playing and you wouldn't have to sign anyone. But um,
Speaker 1: I just think that. I mean, I'll just a second
Speaker 1: what Dave said, I think he is going to play there.
Speaker 1: They haven't made any moves either to yeah, to protect themselves.
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey, Lyle Collins, Belieue Collins, Thomas Smith all limited
Speaker 1: yesterday else first day, Lyle showed up with a back injury.
Speaker 1: What are we hearing about that? I don't know what
Speaker 1: to think about that, because again, like they weren't even
Speaker 1: wearing helmets, let alone pads. So this is a walk
Speaker 1: through if I had to guess. And I don't know
Speaker 1: for sure. Back injuries are troublesome, but they probably just
Speaker 1: sat them down. Like you you have to report stuff
Speaker 1: like that when a guy doesn't participate in practice. But
Speaker 1: I think of it as more just like, ah, get
Speaker 1: off your feet, get off you know, if your back's
Speaker 1: hurting you short week, yeah, yeah, any anything that would
Speaker 1: keep you off, you know, out of practice, just you know,
Speaker 1: precautionary because you got to think about it on Tuesdays typically,
Speaker 1: I mean they haven't haven't done anything yet. So now
Speaker 1: we're like, this is the meat of the week, you know,
Speaker 1: the practice, the one practice that they're counting on, and
Speaker 1: so your body, it's just it's almost like shock for
Speaker 1: the for the body. So I don't know everyone's dealing
Speaker 1: with what it's like, you know, bumps and bruises here
Speaker 1: even on the show. True. But yeah, and then actually interesting,
Speaker 1: interesting little tidbit from practice yesterday, Jeff Heath was doing
Speaker 1: kickoff work with Rich Beisaccio. So and we're kind of wondering, like,
Speaker 1: can you afford to have two kickers active for this game? Well,
Speaker 1: maybe you'll have That's one way you could work around
Speaker 1: it if you feel good about Dan Bailey's health. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they do. If you think he can
Speaker 1: kick field goals but you don't want to kickoffs, you
Speaker 1: go there, You got him. You got a way around. Now.
Speaker 1: He was kind of knuckleball on these kicks, like they
Speaker 1: didn't they didn't look awesome. It wasn't great. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but let's go with Mike Nugent until heat his back.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why this is. I mean, Bailey Bailey's back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of agree, honestly, don't. I'm scared. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: just me. I don't know. I'm just I'm expecting at
Speaker 1: some point I'm gonna fall off. The greatest kicker of
Speaker 1: all time with a slight injury is not the greatest
Speaker 1: kicker of all time. I get it, I get it,
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's necessarily that he's not healthy.
Speaker 1: It's that you want to ease him back in. What
Speaker 1: does this team do all the time when players come
Speaker 1: back from injury, They never give him back the full workload.
Speaker 1: They always just kind of eat. So this would be
Speaker 1: a way to eat it is it's not like a
Speaker 1: real game. That's what you can do in practice. You
Speaker 1: can still you know he's in, and kick the ball
Speaker 1: around and shift. No. No, what I mean by what
Speaker 1: I mean by easing back in is about reps. So
Speaker 1: if he has fewer reps, if he's only kicking field
Speaker 1: goals and not doing kickoffs, that's fewer reps. That eases
Speaker 1: him back in and make sure that as he goes
Speaker 1: he doesn't re injure himself because of the fact that
Speaker 1: he has too many reps. That's the only thing I'm
Speaker 1: worried about is are they thinking about it from that stemp.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go around the table here, eighty percent Bailey
Speaker 1: or because I wouldn't think he could go and do
Speaker 1: anything if he was. If he's less than that, I
Speaker 1: would say eighty percent. I think he's probably a hundred percent. Well,
Speaker 1: then if he's one hundred percent, then then then you
Speaker 1: would just cut Nugent. Well, but again, this is the
Speaker 1: county and just a groin injury. He could start kicking
Speaker 1: and overdo it and reinjure himself. I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of the point of this, right, Okay, eighty five percent,
Speaker 1: then let's just say, would you rather have eighty five
Speaker 1: percent Bailey or one hundred percent Nugent? Mike Nugent hasn't
Speaker 1: been bad enough that I'm like, drastically just trying to
Speaker 1: get rid of him. I'm not either, but I would
Speaker 1: in the rain against the Redskins bad Miss in Atlanta. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the only points all on all of them on pretty
Speaker 1: hard kicks last week. I mean that none of those
Speaker 1: were chip shots. Yeah outdoors, where was that? Oh? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're right after outdoors roof. I think he's been fine.
Speaker 1: These are I'm famous last words, like now he's gonna
Speaker 1: shank a game winner. But I'm sorry. Maybe it's just
Speaker 1: I trust Dan Bailey more than I trust Nugent. Yes,
Speaker 1: Nugent hasn't been bad. I'm not saying Nugent has been bad,
Speaker 1: And that's not the point. The point is I trust
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey. Every time there's an extra point when Nugent's
Speaker 1: out there, I'm like, oh God, oh God, what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen when Bailey's out there? Don't even think about it,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think about extra points. I don't think
Speaker 1: about field goals as long as they're within a certain rain.
Speaker 1: That's really weird that you'res like that, you were you're
Speaker 1: bothered by that, like you expect. I'm the guy that
Speaker 1: expects something to go wrong, and you're the guy that's like, well,
Speaker 1: until it goes wrong, it's all good. Like I'm not
Speaker 1: sweating Mike Nugent's ability to make an extra point until
Speaker 1: he misses one, because he's been perfect so far so
Speaker 1: far this year, so far, I haven't died yet, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the terrible way to look at Wow,
Speaker 1: we have that I just go too hard, right, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: always do that. You go from ten to a hundred,
Speaker 1: like saying like I used to be, you do Yeah,
Speaker 1: you U can't just you can't just walk around like
Speaker 1: expecting the worst to happen for no reason, with no
Speaker 1: evidence that it's going to happen. Is Dave really turn
Speaker 1: someone not to walk around expecting the worst to happen?
Speaker 1: And why are we starting an hour late? Well, I
Speaker 1: had to go to the doctor. Right now you come
Speaker 1: back from the doctor talking about death. I mean an invitation, right,
Speaker 1: this is amazing, It's okay. I like the optism of
Speaker 1: I haven't and you know, because of that, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna change my being. I'm just gonna be optimistic
Speaker 1: about this. And now that's going new. Maybe we're kind
Speaker 1: of jumping the gun here because the Cowboys have been
Speaker 1: involved in two games now where the kicker got hurt
Speaker 1: in the middle of the game, once for them and
Speaker 1: then the other time with the Eagles. So Heath practicing
Speaker 1: kickoffs might just be something that it's a good point.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just something that he's always done. He
Speaker 1: stay ready, just stay ready. If we're gonna go with
Speaker 1: Bailey this week, you know, or I don't know. If
Speaker 1: I know, the whole limited thing doesn't necessarily guarantee oh okay,
Speaker 1: he might be out or he's good to go. You
Speaker 1: can't really rely on what the word limited means. But
Speaker 1: if I'm seeing limited on there, I would just wait
Speaker 1: another week and wait until it says full. At least
Speaker 1: for Dan Bailey and his position and his injury, I
Speaker 1: would not put him out there again. That is full.
Speaker 1: It really is a good point. I mean that that
Speaker 1: with him. I mean with other people, that's fine because
Speaker 1: you can kind of you have a little bit of
Speaker 1: help and if it doesn't work, you can plug this
Speaker 1: guy in. But he is your kicker, and it I
Speaker 1: just don't know with all the other injuries, if you can,
Speaker 1: I mean, you might need to go longer at offensive line.
Speaker 1: If say Tyrant Smith does play, we're not even talking
Speaker 1: about him. He'll say he can play. I still I
Speaker 1: still think maybe need more backup health there. I probably
Speaker 1: would make Chaz Green active anyway. So let's assume let's
Speaker 1: assume that he's one hundred percent and do you still
Speaker 1: do you feel comfortable with him being one hundred percent
Speaker 1: and saying let's just throw him out there. Let's give
Speaker 1: him everything, kickoffs and field goals, and just hope that
Speaker 1: everything goes well. And in the middle of the game
Speaker 1: he doesn't say, man, it's starting to ache a little
Speaker 1: bit again. You know, that's the part I think they're
Speaker 1: a little bit concerned about, or at least I would
Speaker 1: be a little bit concerned about. And you have to
Speaker 1: protect yourself in that way. And you certainly don't want
Speaker 1: to get into a game where you're now having Jeff
Speaker 1: Heath having to again kick field goals right when you
Speaker 1: have another kicker on your fifty. I think Mike Nugent
Speaker 1: has to lose a game for you before you would
Speaker 1: until you feel comfortable that he is back, yes, and
Speaker 1: he can do everything, and he's done everything in practice,
Speaker 1: he's done everything getting ready, and I think i'd go
Speaker 1: with Nugent this game. His performance hasn't been anywhere near
Speaker 1: or bad enough for me to be rushing that. All right,
Speaker 1: So let's go at the optimism of Dave this time,
Speaker 1: and let's just say that, all right, Let's go to
Speaker 1: the inactives list. Sean Lee, Darren McFadden, Daniel Ross, Blake
Speaker 1: Jarwin are all four guys, I assume we all agree
Speaker 1: will be inactive this week. Correct, Yes, sounds right awesome.
Speaker 1: Let's move to the final three, and here's the options
Speaker 1: out throughout Chads Green or Tyren Smith. I think that's
Speaker 1: an interesting one because now with Lyle showing up on
Speaker 1: the injury report, even if Tyren Smith is healthy and
Speaker 1: can play, or at least healthy enough to play, would
Speaker 1: you sit Chaz Green knowing that there's a possibility with
Speaker 1: both your starting tackles at least somewhat injured, that you
Speaker 1: might have to have two tackles that can run out
Speaker 1: there and play. I don't think I would put a
Speaker 1: tackle on that list. I think that's personally. I would
Speaker 1: start somewhere else. And okay, see if we could get
Speaker 1: around it. So then let's go to the next one.
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey or Mike Nugent. I think we all agree,
Speaker 1: you go one or the other. You guys agree, Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Then you've got benaben Wickery. That would give
Speaker 1: you one more if you assume that that now Cheeto's
Speaker 1: going to be out there, and Cheeto took heath spot
Speaker 1: last week, but it'll be back. Yeah, but you can
Speaker 1: take Ben aben Wickery and put him down and Cheio
Speaker 1: can play both one on our safety. Right. Okay, so
Speaker 1: now you're at six and you no, no, you're at one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four or five yet at six and you have to
Speaker 1: choose between a tackle or some other position yet to
Speaker 1: be decided. This would be easier to answer if we
Speaker 1: knew for sure what Lyle Collins the situation was. Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett'll probably talk about that at his presser in a
Speaker 1: little while. If that's just like a precautionary whatever, and
Speaker 1: he's actually if he's totally fine, I would still sit
Speaker 1: Chaz Green. That doesn't bother me. But if that's actually
Speaker 1: something that they're monitoring, I'd probably sit Noah brown Just.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys agree Noah Browne the next guy
Speaker 1: up or down? Can you just read off all the
Speaker 1: guys you've got, Sean Lee, Darren McFadden, Daniel Ross, Blake Jarwin,
Speaker 1: Mike Nugent or Dan Bailey, Benabing, Wickery Taco. Hey mean
Speaker 1: you could probably. I mean, if you're if you really
Speaker 1: wanted to, you can probably sit Lewis Neil too. But
Speaker 1: that he's been up both games, he's been on the
Speaker 1: active roster, and he's seen something I think they need
Speaker 1: four defensive tackles. Don't you think I mean full time
Speaker 1: defensive tackles. I'm not talking about a guy that you
Speaker 1: can slide over in the event of injury. I don't
Speaker 1: the way they're rotating it, I don't think they'll to
Speaker 1: it right, but you could. Yeah, I'm just thinking of
Speaker 1: the linebacker situation with um I mean, you got you
Speaker 1: got Durant. I don't know how you sit a linebacker
Speaker 1: with Hitchens, No, and Lee definitely, and Lee's definitely out
Speaker 1: as far as we think. Yeah, yeah, Because what was
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett's reasoning for for McFadden being down last week?
Speaker 1: They needed they broke down. He said, they broke down
Speaker 1: the play count for you know, that number of handful
Speaker 1: of guys in between the linebackers getting special teams work
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, the potential for injury. I mean,
Speaker 1: he said McFadden had the lowest potential snap count out
Speaker 1: of anybody because he plays the smallest rope. And it'd
Speaker 1: probably be the same this week. You would think, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would. I would imagine and unless you know, there's
Speaker 1: something to be said for a short week and you wanted,
Speaker 1: you know, and as we get into this, this scoutter report.
Speaker 1: When you look at the Chargers run defense versus their past,
Speaker 1: eve be a week that you might be able to
Speaker 1: take advantage of their run defense. Well, I mean, teaser, Derek,
Speaker 1: when is when is you know rod Smith's hook going
Speaker 1: to be? You know? I mean what I mean. But
Speaker 1: the thing about Rod Smith is he also has a
Speaker 1: special team. Well right, I'm not talking about on the fifty,
Speaker 1: on the forty six. You know, he could do some
Speaker 1: things on special teams. But I mean this excitement over
Speaker 1: him playing offense and all this cool stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: he hasn't he'd a drop in the NFL really when
Speaker 1: it comes to being a running back, he hasn't. He
Speaker 1: hasn't really done anything other than Canton in a preseason game.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I just I'm kind of curious on
Speaker 1: what are they still seeing in him other than Noah Brown.
Speaker 1: I can't think of another guy that normally is on
Speaker 1: your forty six that doesn't really have a role. I
Speaker 1: think Noah Brown is starting to get more and more
Speaker 1: of a role. He is, he does have a role.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Oh, I guess, let me say I
Speaker 1: think that doesn't that doesn't have a role that that
Speaker 1: can't be replaced by someone else. I'd rather beasily return
Speaker 1: punts for me, and you think maybe sit sits Switzer.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have no Brown active now than Switzer because
Speaker 1: Norah Brown to me and he's he's he does more,
Speaker 1: he does more, and he let me ask this though,
Speaker 1: I mean, all I know is this is that from
Speaker 1: where we sit in the press box, and it's up
Speaker 1: there pretty high. Um, and I maybe I'm getting older
Speaker 1: or whatever, but I need to I need to look.
Speaker 1: I need to figure out every game the difference between
Speaker 1: shoes between Daz and Noah Brown, because every time I'm like, nice,
Speaker 1: nice played by Dez and that was Noah Brown or
Speaker 1: vice versa or something like that. So he looks like Dez.
Speaker 1: He's playing like him sort of. You know that they
Speaker 1: both want to get one or two catches a game.
Speaker 1: So I kidding, are you guys not a little bit
Speaker 1: intrigued by a little bit I'm not. Don't want to
Speaker 1: overstate this, but the little bit of success that we
Speaker 1: saw from Switzer, and he has some pretty decent retwitter
Speaker 1: is on this week. I disagree with these two Switzers
Speaker 1: on a two game role where he's doing stuff like
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I don't want to take away that momentum
Speaker 1: and the chance that maybe he's figured he's done the
Speaker 1: season so far, right, these last two games have been
Speaker 1: his best games of the season. Yeah, I don't. I
Speaker 1: can't remember what happened in Atlanta. He just he had
Speaker 1: a nice return to like the thirty thirty five almost
Speaker 1: broke it. And then I'm not saying he was great
Speaker 1: by his stretch of the imagination, but I'd say he
Speaker 1: probably had his best day returning punts he had. I
Speaker 1: think he had an eleven yarder and didn't muff anything
Speaker 1: except for the one playbar. He just far where he
Speaker 1: just he is good, but he's just good for misjudging
Speaker 1: a punt. He just looked like a goalie like in soccer,
Speaker 1: like in a PK where you just have to decide.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna guess, but I think it it's like,
Speaker 1: oh dang it, that just changed the game. No ball
Speaker 1: was supposed to be at the forty and it was
Speaker 1: at the twelve. I'm not trying to say that he's
Speaker 1: been amazing, but I think these have been his best
Speaker 1: two games, and it seems like he's kind of built.
Speaker 1: It looks like he might be figuring it out, so
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to sit him down. And confidence is growing. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the judgment. I was just gonna say, though, The
Speaker 1: judgment decisions like those kind of things to me are
Speaker 1: about confidence. When you're talking about kick returning, I mean
Speaker 1: punt returning, and so I think the more he does it,
Speaker 1: the more he's gonna get comfortable, the more he's gonna
Speaker 1: kind of realize, Okay, this is the speed of which
Speaker 1: which things happen. This is how much room I have
Speaker 1: in the NFL, this is how much room is expected.
Speaker 1: So you gotta return these, right. I think those kinds
Speaker 1: of things you learn and you get more confidence as
Speaker 1: time goes on. It would be your kick returner. If
Speaker 1: it's not him, kick kick off, McFadden's out too, probably
Speaker 1: ends out. So would you put Rod Smith back there? Maybe? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a good one, and he does I mean he's
Speaker 1: the he's the number two returner. I mean he's a
Speaker 1: protector or whatever you want to call it. So Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis maybe yeah, can like he's got some Lewis sability,
Speaker 1: Beasley and Rod I think would be the list. Neil no, no,
Speaker 1: oh no, George, damn it, Derek, you threw me off.
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, Rod Smith, Ord Beasley. Would I'd like to
Speaker 1: see that list Neil do it? I would too, that'd
Speaker 1: be fun. I remember when they kicked it short to
Speaker 1: Sean listen more, I do it too. I remember that
Speaker 1: went like twenty five yards. It's like one of the
Speaker 1: greatest plays they do. Yeah, all right, I mean a
Speaker 1: guess that Lyle Collins is fine and Chads Green is
Speaker 1: the guy that they said, because yeah, they seem determined
Speaker 1: and I don't think this is a bad thing, but
Speaker 1: they're determined to keep Nohem around on the field. Is
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett ruled out Shaun Lee or did just Jerry
Speaker 1: do that? Jason Garrett's never ruled out anybody that was
Speaker 1: a John. Lee could be walking around here with his
Speaker 1: whole leg in an air cast, and Jason would be
Speaker 1: like all these days, like day, we'll see how it feels,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll take him into the game day, We'll
Speaker 1: see how it feels. Coaches in a wheelchair. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know they're actually cutting his Sometimes miracles happen. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take our final first break. We'll come back. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get to the the Chargers. Day's gonna give us
Speaker 1: a scouting report, and then we'll come up to our
Speaker 1: final segment where we will give you our predictions for tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Back to the break Welcome back. It's the second segment
Speaker 1: of the Break Life from the s WBC Board of
Speaker 1: Studios at the Star Date. Ready for our breakdown of
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles charges defense. What you got the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Charters of San Diego, Anaheim, wherever they are. This
Speaker 1: is interesting, kind of simil kind of similar to the
Speaker 1: offense yesterday. You look at it and you know, like
Speaker 1: you've seen the stats that you know they're they're first
Speaker 1: in the league and red zone defense, and they've forced
Speaker 1: six turnovers against Nathan Peterman and the Bills on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But and they have talented guys. I mean, the whole
Speaker 1: thing starts with Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram. But you
Speaker 1: look at it and it sounds really fearsome, and honestly
Speaker 1: it's really not. Their past defense is top ten, They're
Speaker 1: scoring defense is top ten at nineteen point six per game.
Speaker 1: They're twenty second in the league in total defense. And
Speaker 1: that's because, as you pointed out before, the break. Their
Speaker 1: run defense is the worst in the NFL. Um So,
Speaker 1: I look at it, and I mean, okay, there's a
Speaker 1: ton of talent upfront. You have Bosa and Melvin Ingram. Wait,
Speaker 1: are any of y'all y'all like Harry Potter, Harry Potter,
Speaker 1: It's okay. No, yeah, I'm in the wrong room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thats gonna help you there. Instead of wing guardium, lev Yosa,
Speaker 1: win guardium, Joey Bosa, who is I wish anybody in
Speaker 1: this room understood that, but can't gets it. Can't gets it,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Um, thanks, shut up. Joey Bosa
Speaker 1: has ten and a half sacks. He's right there with
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence in terms of like the league's elite pass rushers.
Speaker 1: And then Melvin Ingram has eight and a half. Brandon Mebain,
Speaker 1: the former Seahawk great plays nose tackle. And then another
Speaker 1: guy who told he kind of gets lost from the
Speaker 1: edge rushers is Corey Lugit. Luit Lugit. He's a good player.
Speaker 1: He's been a good player. He's been a Yeah, all
Speaker 1: the and alders round pick all these guys our first
Speaker 1: round pick. Lugit, Ingram and Bosa are all first round
Speaker 1: picks in the last five years and they play like it. Um,
Speaker 1: guy with like five sacks, don't think they do. That
Speaker 1: would be Chris McCain. He is so the way this
Speaker 1: it's a it's a three, it's a three four front.
Speaker 1: But just like we kind of talk about, like it's
Speaker 1: kind of wonky, like everybody plays their own version of it. Basically,
Speaker 1: Bosa is always down me Bane's always playing nose, and
Speaker 1: then lujitsu defensive tackle and then Ingram or McCain when
Speaker 1: he's on the field. They just kind of freelance. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they put their hand on the ground, sometimes they stand up.
Speaker 1: They ever on the same side as Bosa, No, but
Speaker 1: they do like they're never there's no this is not
Speaker 1: set like. They move around all the all over the place.
Speaker 1: Both both of them plays. Yeah, they both played both
Speaker 1: sides depending on how they want to do it. Um
Speaker 1: Corey Tumor, who we talked about former Cowboy, which like
Speaker 1: I don't remember this. He had a cup of coffee
Speaker 1: here a few years ago. What camp remember if I
Speaker 1: remember the college, don't even remember training Camper during the season.
Speaker 1: He was there during the season. Corey Tumor, Okay, let's say,
Speaker 1: maybe they got him from Seattle. Oh, I think I
Speaker 1: don't know. Look it up. Oh yeah, okay, so I
Speaker 1: do remember this now, Yeah, he Idaho. He had a
Speaker 1: punt block for on There was a twenty twelve or
Speaker 1: something Cowboys and Seahawks, and early in the game there
Speaker 1: was a punt block for a touchdown and I think
Speaker 1: that was some of his work. He was here briefly.
Speaker 1: I know that. Um. But so they have Casey Hayward,
Speaker 1: who they got from Green Bay. They drafted Desmond King,
Speaker 1: who's his backup out of Iowa. He's a third round pick.
Speaker 1: Trey Boston's their free safety. He's got four interceptions. But
Speaker 1: I guess my my thing is so Casey Hayward in
Speaker 1: the front four are pretty pretty scary, and like I said,
Speaker 1: their top ten in past defense. But you watch the
Speaker 1: tape and it doesn't It doesn't scare me that much
Speaker 1: in terms of what I think the Cowboys can do.
Speaker 1: And really it all just centers around them allowing one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty rushing yards per game. Um. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: part of that because and obviously being a great sack
Speaker 1: team part of that because that's so quick to get
Speaker 1: a field. It leaves these gaps literally, Like I think
Speaker 1: their whole thing is just based on getting pressure and
Speaker 1: they're really good at it. And I think it's funny
Speaker 1: because so you know, like Rod Marinellio rotate his guys,
Speaker 1: most defensive coordinators to the tackles, rotate. Uh Lujah comes
Speaker 1: off the field for Darius Filing feeling and Mebane comes
Speaker 1: off for Damian Square. Bosa and Ingram do not. I
Speaker 1: mean m McCain comes in from time to time, but
Speaker 1: like Ingram and Bosa are on the field all the time,
Speaker 1: like they're not doing this rotation stuffs um so because
Speaker 1: that's the strength of your team is getting to these guys.
Speaker 1: Um Famously, we all know Nathan Peterman through what six
Speaker 1: picks in that game. Uh, Joey Bosa hit the crap
Speaker 1: out of him on three of those, like he was
Speaker 1: getting planted, like ball came fluttering out hit like that,
Speaker 1: yeah or or just so it wasn't just a pet
Speaker 1: bat pass. This was like heat hits. I feel I
Speaker 1: feel bad for him. His first pick was just a
Speaker 1: flare out to the fullback that the hit the fullback
Speaker 1: right here, popped over his head and into a defender's
Speaker 1: hands for a touchdown. The next one was his fault.
Speaker 1: It was just a great read that Casey Hayward made
Speaker 1: on a post route. Third one, Bosa literally murdered him
Speaker 1: and the ball just fluttered down field and there's not
Speaker 1: a whole lot you can do about it. And then
Speaker 1: the next two combination of bad throw plus pressure. And
Speaker 1: then when Tyrod Taylor got in the game, he was
Speaker 1: hit and sacked by or hit by Bosa. Yep, Ingram
Speaker 1: picks it up and runs it in. They had a
Speaker 1: party back there at the quarterball and that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of what they do, like the classic Ingram and Bosa
Speaker 1: meet at the quarterback. The thing is is like, down
Speaker 1: the middle of this defense, I'm not that impressed. Okay,
Speaker 1: So your linebackers Corey tumor j Tavis Brown, who's a
Speaker 1: fifth round pick that Brian really liked out of Yome
Speaker 1: or somewhere some school. That's not a big deal. KYLEI.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel is their sam linebacker. Again, like, just you're not
Speaker 1: talking about like pro bowlers here in the middle of
Speaker 1: the defense, Jalielade and Trey Boston or your safeties, and
Speaker 1: again like I'm not saying they're bad players, but obviously
Speaker 1: this the Chargers are eighth and pass defense, but like
Speaker 1: they're not. It's not the Legion of Boom. And I
Speaker 1: think that's a big part of the reason why they're
Speaker 1: thirty second against the run. Like I think if Brandon
Speaker 1: Mebane and Corey Lujit don't stop the run upfront, because
Speaker 1: they're really good players, like, if they don't just eat
Speaker 1: it up at the line of scrimmage, it's gonna go
Speaker 1: for yards. And that's what I saw on the tape
Speaker 1: is like you see some negative one yard runs, some
Speaker 1: no gains when the guy can't get past the first level.
Speaker 1: But if he does, these linebackers and safeties just get
Speaker 1: washed out of the play. And I actually went and
Speaker 1: charted it against the Bills, who are a great running team,
Speaker 1: Like that's what they do better than anything else. And
Speaker 1: I know, you know, the box score kind of gets
Speaker 1: wonky when you lose a game by thirty points, But
Speaker 1: when the game was still competitive first half, it's only
Speaker 1: seventeen seven, the Bills had eleven carre No, they had
Speaker 1: eight carries for seventy seven yards. Oh wow. They finished
Speaker 1: the first half with eleven carries for eighty yards. So
Speaker 1: they I mean, and they ran for one seventy three
Speaker 1: on the day. I know, like I said, that's kind
Speaker 1: of skewed because it's a blowout, still one seventy three,
Speaker 1: even in a blowout that that's a lot. You're on
Speaker 1: pace for one sixty at half of a I mean,
Speaker 1: so when I said when the game's still competitive, Lashaw
Speaker 1: McCoy was doing well, really well, and so and sorry Nick,
Speaker 1: but I think it's interesting. I think it's a great
Speaker 1: parallel Nathan Peterman, Like you think the Bills are worried
Speaker 1: about him throwing all over them. No, they probably they
Speaker 1: loaded up to stop the run, or they at very
Speaker 1: least were focused on the run. They still didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: I think that Bode's incredibly well for the Cowboys, And honest,
Speaker 1: I mean, if they can't run on these guys, I
Speaker 1: don't know what that says about Alfred with whoever they
Speaker 1: got back their line or I mean, I would I
Speaker 1: would find it shocking if they can't have a good
Speaker 1: day on the ground, just based on the personnel and
Speaker 1: the fact that they haven't been able to do better
Speaker 1: against virtually anyone that they've played. Same. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Jaguars ran really well on them too, and I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not the Jaguars passing game doesn't really strike fear
Speaker 1: in anybody's heart. So that's what I'm looking at. Very
Speaker 1: interesting this defense. It's interesting because it's right right up front.
Speaker 1: That's where all of their stuff is. Like right now,
Speaker 1: they're ranked as you said, thirty, I mean st third
Speaker 1: in the league in sacks with thirty. They're ranked four
Speaker 1: in the league with twelve I n t s now.
Speaker 1: Of course, a lot of that came last week and
Speaker 1: kind of vaulted them up a little bit, but that's
Speaker 1: been what they kind of have made there, had made
Speaker 1: their mark on this season. They're also eighth and takeaways,
Speaker 1: So they're a defense that can get some plays, make
Speaker 1: some big plays, get some takeaways, get some sacks. So
Speaker 1: if you don't put them in those kind of situations,
Speaker 1: which that's the most important part. Make sure you don't
Speaker 1: get them in those situations where they know you have
Speaker 1: to throw. If it's third and long, it probably is
Speaker 1: not going to be a good situation. It does help
Speaker 1: if Tyrant's back, but it's probably not going to be
Speaker 1: your best situation if it's third and long against this front.
Speaker 1: And like I mean, I think that's such a great
Speaker 1: coroll area. As a team with an unproven quarterback and
Speaker 1: a strong running game, not saying Dak's unproven, but a
Speaker 1: passing game that you don't necessarily respect, and a team
Speaker 1: that likes to run the ball in an offensive line
Speaker 1: that can run the ball. The Chargers couldn't do anything
Speaker 1: against them. They obviously won the game going away because
Speaker 1: they forced six turnovers, but they couldn't do anything to
Speaker 1: stop the run. I was like, protect the ball and
Speaker 1: you got a shot, I hope. So, I mean, it
Speaker 1: seems like it should be that simple if against a
Speaker 1: defense that's this bad against the run, anything particularly stands
Speaker 1: out for you, guys, Nick and Amber as you look
Speaker 1: through these or listen to these different things about this team. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's been said a couple of times
Speaker 1: about how when it gets down into the red zone,
Speaker 1: just how good they are. You know, they for a
Speaker 1: team that doesn't stop the run very well, they do
Speaker 1: stop it when you get down inside the red zone.
Speaker 1: And not only are they a second or third in
Speaker 1: the NFL, but they're averaging only like one or two
Speaker 1: yards per play, so it really clamps down in there.
Speaker 1: So for a team that doesn't score a lot of
Speaker 1: touchdowns from long distance. They don't have big plays. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't do that. They when they score, and it
Speaker 1: seems like it's been a while since we've seen touchdowns
Speaker 1: from this team. But when that happens, it's they have
Speaker 1: to grind it out, and this is not a good
Speaker 1: team to grind it out against. So that'll be interesting
Speaker 1: to see what happens there. Going back to the whole
Speaker 1: their defensive line and the sacks. I mean, their team
Speaker 1: ranks number three in sacks, So that's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Nothing new that we haven't talked about. With how the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are right now and their offensive line dealing with problems,
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see. Even with tying back, if he
Speaker 1: does play, I wonder how good he'll be able to
Speaker 1: play because not aside from the groin injury, we need
Speaker 1: to remember, he still has that back pain, back problems,
Speaker 1: so if they put him out there, I'm really I
Speaker 1: don't know how effective he will be given a side
Speaker 1: of him being an old pro player and one of
Speaker 1: the best players that this team has. But on top
Speaker 1: of that, Dak is he gonna be able to throw
Speaker 1: the ball again, connect with the receivers or they're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to be in sync this time. I don't know,
Speaker 1: is still same thing we keep talking about for the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. Nothing new, Just I do believe that.
Speaker 1: I mean, this defense is not great. They do some things,
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys are their worst enemy right now. And
Speaker 1: if they don't figure out themselves what to do and
Speaker 1: how to fix these issues that they're dealing with, then
Speaker 1: we're gonna see another loss. You know, I think that
Speaker 1: they really have to run at these guys and those
Speaker 1: two if those two defensive ends aren't coming off the field,
Speaker 1: then make them work. Make them work in the running game.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's where they're not going to be
Speaker 1: as effective if you can keep running at him. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bosa does the same thing that um Michael Bennett does
Speaker 1: in Seattle where he wears you know, kicker shoulder pads,
Speaker 1: you know, where he just doesn't want to be bogged down. Stuff.
Speaker 1: That's that's good. I get it. You want to get
Speaker 1: around the edge quickly, but run at him, make him tackle,
Speaker 1: make him square up. And he faced Keith Smith a
Speaker 1: couple of times or you know, whoever whoever's trying to
Speaker 1: block him, and really, you know, put some work on him,
Speaker 1: because I mean, he sounds like he's got an all
Speaker 1: day motor and all that. But you gotta just keep
Speaker 1: beating them up and they're gonna come up the field
Speaker 1: like that. I think that's where you run it. You
Speaker 1: have to run right at them, right off tackle kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Yeah, yeah, this isn't really about the matchup,
Speaker 1: but I was just curious. Bosa said yesterday when he
Speaker 1: talked to the Dallas media that he thought he would
Speaker 1: be a Cowboy for sure. And it's it's been reported
Speaker 1: many times by many members of the media that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys say they would have picked Zeke regardless of Bosa
Speaker 1: was there or not. It was Jalen Ramsey or Zeke,
Speaker 1: no matter what y'all agree with that that they should
Speaker 1: obviously done. This is hindsight in its purest form, because
Speaker 1: you never, I mean, even as good as you felt
Speaker 1: about Joey Bosa, I don't think anybody would have guessed
Speaker 1: that he'd have twenty two sacks in twenty two games
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I mean, he looks like the real deal,
Speaker 1: and I just wonder, like knowing what I know now,
Speaker 1: and okay, don't worry, don't worry. So much about the
Speaker 1: Zeke suspension. I'm just talking about in terms of the
Speaker 1: player and what they do for you honestly right now,
Speaker 1: even if you look at how they've performed since they've
Speaker 1: gotten in the league, I think I think I would
Speaker 1: prefer to have Jalen Ramsey over Bosa. Jalen Ramsey, I
Speaker 1: think is really well and to have a corner now
Speaker 1: for the next you know, who knows how many years,
Speaker 1: a guy that you think could grow into being really
Speaker 1: the lockdown kind of corner that you can put on
Speaker 1: any receiver. I think I'd rather have that right now.
Speaker 1: And that's really more about what the production they're getting
Speaker 1: right now from from their defensive front, well, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are getting from the defensive front. I think it would
Speaker 1: be I'd rather have that cornerback because that scenario where
Speaker 1: I think I got a lot of question marks right now,
Speaker 1: here's a take that I'll mumble. I don't think Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey would be what he is right now if he
Speaker 1: played here because of the way they play him, because
Speaker 1: of the scheme. Yeah, I kind of agree with that. So,
Speaker 1: but you don't think they would get a little more
Speaker 1: flexible and say, hey, this guy's good enough. What we
Speaker 1: just need to put him man man let him, let
Speaker 1: him maybe cover guys maybe, But I can't say that
Speaker 1: with confidence. Jacksonville has a lot more talent up there
Speaker 1: in the in the front seven, especially in the in
Speaker 1: the defensive line. Yeah, you know when you pick for
Speaker 1: when you pick in the in the top five for
Speaker 1: seven years in a row or whatever it's been. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you're gonna get some really good players and they're
Speaker 1: finally now all kind of coming together. It's like Barry
Speaker 1: Church was right when he said about the defensive said,
Speaker 1: our talent over here is a lot better. I just think,
Speaker 1: and I think the world of Zeke and to be
Speaker 1: I was, I was driving the Zeke bandwagon at draft time,
Speaker 1: like I thought that was the best move, and it
Speaker 1: played out exactly like I thought. I either was driving it.
Speaker 1: I think we by the time the draft day rolled around,
Speaker 1: all three of me, Brian and Taylor were pretty firmly
Speaker 1: on team. But let me let me be clear. I
Speaker 1: wasn't saying Zeke, I mean Jaylen over Zeke. I still
Speaker 1: think Zeke was the pick. I'm saying, if you had
Speaker 1: to choose between USA and Jayalen, I go with Jalen.
Speaker 1: The point I'm trying, I'd go at the pass rusher always.
Speaker 1: The point that I'm trying to make I think I
Speaker 1: agree with Nick, which is that as good as Zeke is,
Speaker 1: you can find Jordan Howard's and jay at Gies throughout
Speaker 1: the draft and behind this offensive line that should be
Speaker 1: good enough. The thought of having ten point five sack
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa lining up on the opposite side from eleven
Speaker 1: point five sacked Marcus Lawrence, I mean that sounds pretty gross,
Speaker 1: but let's not forget about this. Like ever since Zeke
Speaker 1: got here, this offense has been putting up huge points,
Speaker 1: and over these last two weeks, when weeks when Zeke
Speaker 1: has not been here, this offense has very to a halt,
Speaker 1: very very valid point. I would argue, though, that there's
Speaker 1: a you could find young talent to play running maybe
Speaker 1: and do that for you. Maybe the thing about is
Speaker 1: maybe you could find one. I don't know if they'll
Speaker 1: be as good as Zeke has been. Remarkable since best
Speaker 1: best rushing season in the history of the franchise came
Speaker 1: from a third round pick with this offensive I get that,
Speaker 1: but what what year in his career did he do that?
Speaker 1: Third Okay, So was he going to do that as
Speaker 1: a rookie. I don't know. Maybe he was, but I
Speaker 1: hear you, I had a point going there wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been my point. My point is I don't know that anybody.
Speaker 1: I don't know that there were I don't know that
Speaker 1: there were a lot of rookies that necessarily would have
Speaker 1: come in here and immediately gotten the production that Zeke got. Me, Like,
Speaker 1: look at Kareem Hunt. Kareem Hunt started this year playing
Speaker 1: phenomenally well. His production has just no was dived the
Speaker 1: fact that he was able to keep right but the
Speaker 1: fact that Zeke was able to keep that same level
Speaker 1: throughout last year and actually get better as the season
Speaker 1: went on, and then this year to have again the
Speaker 1: same kind of production, I just think you got to
Speaker 1: give him a little bit more credit than you're saying.
Speaker 1: You can just stroll somebody out there and do that. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: but it's still something I wonder about, Like I'd love
Speaker 1: to see what Jordan Howard looked like here, you know what,
Speaker 1: since we're talking about that, and I man, I got
Speaker 1: a lot of Twitter messages yesterday about me saying that
Speaker 1: I thought that Winz is better right now than Dak.
Speaker 1: Let me say this though, I wouldn't have traded anything
Speaker 1: about that because even if Winz is there, like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys got a much better deal. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they would have gotten in the fourth round at at
Speaker 1: you know, running back, but the combination of having Zeke
Speaker 1: and Dak, it's pretty special, much better than anything else.
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't matter who what you did, if
Speaker 1: you you had yeah, let's say Wentz felt you and
Speaker 1: it wasn't even the Cowboys decision. But if he did
Speaker 1: fall there or christ they could have traded up to
Speaker 1: one or whatever. I wouldn't have done that at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they have a much better deal
Speaker 1: here because I think wins is a little bit further
Speaker 1: along right now than Dak. Not a whole lot, but
Speaker 1: just a little bit. But then what you got on
Speaker 1: the flip side and to get you know, Zeke, and
Speaker 1: then the bond that those two guys have, and I
Speaker 1: think you're going to see that for a long time.
Speaker 1: I think I think these two guys, I think I
Speaker 1: think Zeke kind of brings out the crazy a little
Speaker 1: bit and Dak, and I hope that Dak will kind
Speaker 1: of can maybe help calm zeke down a little bit too.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be good for each other for years
Speaker 1: to come. All right, we're gonna really quickly take our
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Speaker 1: show a little bit earlier today we get our predictions.
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Speaker 1: with that mess. See what you did there, Baller got
Speaker 1: it all right, Sack, all right, we got it in
Speaker 1: the show early today because we got locker room. Actually,
Speaker 1: the locker room is open right now, and so I'm
Speaker 1: holding these guys from going directly the locker room and
Speaker 1: getting what they need to get from these players, so
Speaker 1: real quickly, we do want to get our predictions for
Speaker 1: the game. Let's start with Dave Um. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't have a ton of confidence in this team based
Speaker 1: on what I've seen from them the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: How could you? Um? But I like I felt a
Speaker 1: lot better watching that tape of the Bills game, which
Speaker 1: a game that the Chargers won by thirty. They gave
Speaker 1: up one hundred and eighty rushing yards. I just I
Speaker 1: gotta believe that this offense can make some hay against
Speaker 1: a unit that's that bad against the run. And I
Speaker 1: think Tyrn Smith will play. I think that'll help mitigate
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram and Joey Bosa, which is the best thing
Speaker 1: that they got going, and like, I feel like I've
Speaker 1: disrespected Keenan Allen to the point where he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: have like a two game. But it kind of disrespect.
Speaker 1: But their offense just doesn't it it's it's okay, Like
Speaker 1: it doesn't. I just can't imagine that they're just gonna
Speaker 1: blitz the Cowboys. I mean, the Cowboys can hold it.
Speaker 1: They can beat the Chiefs, who are one of the
Speaker 1: and I know Shanley was out there, so spare me.
Speaker 1: But they can hold it together against the Eagles, who
Speaker 1: are a much better offense for a half. Like I so,
Speaker 1: I think you can put together an improved effort, if
Speaker 1: not a great effort against these guys, because there's just
Speaker 1: not a lot there that scares the crap out of me.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to run the ball. If
Speaker 1: if they can't run the ball against this team, whether
Speaker 1: or not, Zik's there, I mean time to talk draft.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, it's just that would be bad and
Speaker 1: pick sorry. I think I think they'll rebound it thick thick,
Speaker 1: remember that part about it, Like we're kind of a
Speaker 1: hurry here. I don't want to I don't want to
Speaker 1: go to lock. I think they'll I think they'll play better.
Speaker 1: It won't look great, they'll win like twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: to sixteen, all right, amber, Um, I'm not feeling confident,
Speaker 1: but I mean, it can't. It can't happen again, which
Speaker 1: definitely can't. It can't, definitely, but I can't watch it again.
Speaker 1: I can't see this team lose another game. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be hopeful and expect them to win this game.
Speaker 1: They have to win. I think they should be motivated
Speaker 1: enough and angry enough to come out there and do
Speaker 1: what they can to start scoring points, and I would
Speaker 1: say they win this game twenty four twenty two, all right.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine there's ever been a time when I've
Speaker 1: picked the Cowboys to lose four straight games when they
Speaker 1: didn't have a losing record, and any you know, it's
Speaker 1: one thing that if the ship is sinking here and
Speaker 1: all that, but I picked him to lose three straight games,
Speaker 1: and I feel like they should probably lose this one.
Speaker 1: But I think what you guys are saying, like the
Speaker 1: Chargers are four and six for a reason. You can
Speaker 1: say all you want to about these great pass rushers,
Speaker 1: but they're losing games too. So Rivers, Yeah, he's great,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a half of he's four and six.
Speaker 1: So something's not clicking for them. Thanksgiving has a day
Speaker 1: to kind of switch, you know, kind of flip the
Speaker 1: script a little bit sometimes when things are going well.
Speaker 1: I've seen it, you know, them not play so well
Speaker 1: and vice versa. So I think the Cowboys will win
Speaker 1: the game. I'm gonna say twenty nine to twenty three
Speaker 1: in overtime, twenty nine to twenty three in overtime, and
Speaker 1: my crazy prediction is a defensive touchdown, and if I
Speaker 1: want to get real crazy, it might be the game winner.
Speaker 1: But I see a defensive touchdown for the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: this game, and I see some cool uniforms, all right.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are gonna win this game mainly
Speaker 1: because I think they're better than the Chargers. I think
Speaker 1: they're actually, frankly, I think they're better than all the
Speaker 1: next four teams that they're gonna play. Whether they can
Speaker 1: put four together, who knows. I think they're better than
Speaker 1: those teams though, and so I think they'll start this week.
Speaker 1: They'll get a win this week, they'll get us excited,
Speaker 1: they'll get on a roll here, and then we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens for these next four or five games when
Speaker 1: they're gonna need to get wins in my opinion, if
Speaker 1: they're gonna even make a run at the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: I think they get to win this weekend. I think
Speaker 1: it's a low scoring game. I don't expect either team
Speaker 1: to get much going offensively most of the day. I
Speaker 1: think it's a seventeen sixteen victory for the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: they get out of Thanksgiving Day for the six and five,
Speaker 1: six and five record. That's my favorite game of the year,
Speaker 1: is it. Absolutely love the Thanksgiving Day game. And I
Speaker 1: love the fact that we get to work it. I
Speaker 1: do too. There is like I don't love it. I
Speaker 1: don't like working Christmas, I'll just say that, right, But
Speaker 1: I love this week like it's fun. There's an energy
Speaker 1: in the building there, it's you know, everybody in America
Speaker 1: watches this game, whether they like the Cowboys or not.
Speaker 1: And you know, you know, I'm supposed to be thankful,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty cool that to cover football for a living.
Speaker 1: So it's exactly right. And I haven't missed, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't been there for Thanksgiving dinner with
Speaker 1: my family. You know, obviously in what nineteen years, But
Speaker 1: there's something cool about it. And you have kids and
Speaker 1: you know that. You know, where's that or where's Nick?
Speaker 1: Oh he's right there, he's watching it. You know what
Speaker 1: we're watching. He's at the game, Like, oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I mean people have to work these games Christmas Day,
Speaker 1: they have NBA games. Well, somebody's working it, somebody, and
Speaker 1: we got I feel like it's an obligation that we
Speaker 1: get to do that. I mean, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to say that about the kids. We've turned
Speaker 1: our Thanksgiving holiday into Thanksgiving at the stadium, So my
Speaker 1: family comes out for the game and we enjoy the experience.
Speaker 1: They enjoy the experience. It's become a part of what
Speaker 1: we do for Thanksgiving because that's just kind of our
Speaker 1: tradition now. So yeah, I enjoy it. I love it.
Speaker 1: Do it. You can do that with four tickets? Um? Wow,
Speaker 1: really you can let me you can do that? No,
Speaker 1: not at all? All right, No, I'm just kidding. You
Speaker 1: don't have to have Thanksgiving dinner. Doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: obviously on Thursday, can be any day. Oh yeah, Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: dinners will be Friday in Houston. Yeah, Thursday is meant
Speaker 1: to be at the stadium and enjoying football turkeys not
Speaker 1: so bad. Press box spread is great. That they take
Speaker 1: good care of us, Yeah, they do, all right. I'll
Speaker 1: be on one oh five three to fan tonight at
Speaker 1: full cost too, part of their piece of thon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're in the area, or if you just want
Speaker 1: to stream it online eight to ten. Yeah. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I just love Thanksgiving and like everything that it entails.
Speaker 1: So if you if you're looking for something to listen to,
Speaker 1: you're driving home for the holidays or cooking late tonight, Yeah,
Speaker 1: give me a piece. All right, gull appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday. We'll tell you what right
Speaker 1: and wrong for the Cowboys and tell you what the
Speaker 1: rest of this in week looks like. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: another short week. Next week Thursday, they'll have another game
Speaker 1: against the Washington Redskins, So we'll get you guys ready
Speaker 1: for that. Till then. For Nick Eatman, Dave Helmet, Amber Garcia,
Speaker 1: I'm Derek Eagles and this has been the Break live
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