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Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola, Brian Broadens, Taylor Stern and Rob Phillips, welcome
Speaker 1: everybody into the SWBC Mortgage Studio. It is Thursday of
Speaker 1: Seahawks week. Here at the start in Frisco and the
Speaker 1: team for the third row in a week, third straight week.
Speaker 1: Look at that, right, Yeah, we'll go there. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have part on Thursday, you know that, guys. And so
Speaker 1: they're practicing outside again. Yes, when winning streaks happen like that,
Speaker 1: you see things like this, and I know that there's
Speaker 1: no superstitions they would ever say, but hey, I gotta
Speaker 1: get ready for that indoor stadium this weekend. Right, climate's
Speaker 1: a little better this weekend. I asked that question about
Speaker 1: that one day. You asked that last week, But three
Speaker 1: weeks ago I asked him about practice and outside any
Speaker 1: week in a row, any commerce going on in Ford Center? Uh?
Speaker 1: We we played. No, I don't know, I haven't looked.
Speaker 1: They rip off the times for practices and there's no parties. No, no,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's what I'm saying, we had SMU play
Speaker 1: last night, but they were using it. They were using
Speaker 1: it during practice times for their bowl game. How about Frisco,
Speaker 1: by the way, just real quick, this burgeoning metropolis that
Speaker 1: we've got here, you got a bowl game playing just
Speaker 1: down the streets called Frisco Bowl Game too. You gotta
Speaker 1: respect that, now, did you guys catch it at all?
Speaker 1: I saw SMU got off to a terrible start. I
Speaker 1: saw the score in the second half. I was like,
Speaker 1: you gotta love sponsorship into football games because when they
Speaker 1: went to go kick the field goals, up comes the
Speaker 1: net Gil Dan with a giant Yeah. The like, okay,
Speaker 1: can just be Frisco Bowl Game, but you're gonna get
Speaker 1: all your money from Gotta get it, gotta get it off.
Speaker 1: But no, All State does it. During the other bullet
Speaker 1: Oh yeah right, they do it. But yeah, no the
Speaker 1: outdoors again. I think Garrett was talking about it's just
Speaker 1: two pretty good day, sixties seven degrees, right, Sonny, or
Speaker 1: something was going on in the Ford side. No, they're on.
Speaker 1: They're on a superstitious role right now. Freak many that's
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Streaked. He won't admit it, And I
Speaker 1: asked him that I asked that question. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know creatures, I have it, you know this and that,
Speaker 1: and he's no, no, no no, just taking an opportunity. You know.
Speaker 1: I even put the scoreboard up on the tower. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got to do their two minute drill today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at twenty three twenty they're down. Yeah, they're down. Get
Speaker 1: back field goal or a touchback. But from Jeff Heath,
Speaker 1: no one, a walk off touch back here, we've never
Speaker 1: seen that before. Well, guys, you're talking about this three
Speaker 1: game win streak. Well it's time two feed zeke ezekiel
Speaker 1: a practice four the first time yesterday. But we're still
Speaker 1: watching other guys. DeMarcus Lawrence, you're newly minted pro bowler. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is most likely not going to practice today or not
Speaker 1: do anything. But he's out there. Yeah, he's out there.
Speaker 1: That's a good that's a good sign. Went through the walkthrough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just trying to manage him. I think, most likely to
Speaker 1: get him to the game. Tough guy. I mean, if
Speaker 1: he if he can play, he'll play. Oh absolutely. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people have kind of credited his
Speaker 1: success this year to being fully healthy because they were
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, at the end of the year
Speaker 1: last year he was hanging on by a thread there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he really will. He had to have that surgery pretty
Speaker 1: quickly into the offseason. He could have shut it down
Speaker 1: October November, and just I think he felt bad that
Speaker 1: he sat out four games suspended and said he owed
Speaker 1: it to the team. That's leadership right there. Yeah, some
Speaker 1: guys will shoot it down, shoot it down, shut it down,
Speaker 1: shut it down. They'll shut it down. Are you implying
Speaker 1: somebody in particularly some guys will shut it down. I
Speaker 1: just thought i'd asked my follow up question. Well, you
Speaker 1: know we've talked about that. You are about Orlando Scandrick
Speaker 1: possibly be being done the next two games and he's limited. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he could return. Orlando Scandrick is Yeah, yesterday kind of
Speaker 1: thinks he looks better, kind of got Whin died. He
Speaker 1: was doing some scout team stuff. So that's a good
Speaker 1: sign if if he's coming back in that way. You know, again,
Speaker 1: this time of year, it's all hands on deck. We
Speaker 1: know that. I'm not telling anybody's something they already don't know,
Speaker 1: but you know they've got they've got some young guys
Speaker 1: playing very well. I think he acknowledges that the young
Speaker 1: guys are playing well, and you know, he's got to
Speaker 1: get healthy and get back and contribute when he can.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it will be sooner than later. I think it's
Speaker 1: highly questionable. Okay, Mickey's now taking the approach, and I
Speaker 1: don't I don't disagree with him, though I was taking
Speaker 1: I was taking the high road because everybody thinks that
Speaker 1: I hate Scandrick. You know. Yeah, but you're a professional.
Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna try. Yeah, so wait, highly questionable
Speaker 1: what to play to play? You don't think he's gonna play. No,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't play this week, he's not gonna play
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. Yeah. That's just how I feel,
Speaker 1: which is fause I should have just went ahead and
Speaker 1: said that. But then again, well yeah, but but it's
Speaker 1: it's when I do this, it's like I'm being critical
Speaker 1: of Scandrick and this is all I will be critical
Speaker 1: of this though, I will say this, He is a captain,
Speaker 1: you know, And this what bothers me about his captain's ship.
Speaker 1: That the fact that that you know, if you're a captain,
Speaker 1: you're looked at as a leader. You're looked at as
Speaker 1: trying to help the team win, you know, And and
Speaker 1: if if you can't go, you can't go. I get it.
Speaker 1: But if you look at also though the history of
Speaker 1: this injury, you know, he plays a position where he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to play every single play. He's not getting attacked.
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks have come back and they play every single play.
Speaker 1: I question though, the captaincy. That's what I'm doing. How
Speaker 1: I think that if a guy like Barry Church was
Speaker 1: a captain last night? I think Barry Church Barry Church
Speaker 1: trying to play with a broken forearm, you know. Basically. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to say, is that I'm a
Speaker 1: little that that's upsetting to me that you know, you're
Speaker 1: fighting for your lives right now, and to to just
Speaker 1: I'm taking Mickey's point and going a little further with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that to me, you know, I I you know,
Speaker 1: get out there, try and help do what you have
Speaker 1: to do. But you don't think that he showed enough
Speaker 1: to the team because they're the ones who voted on it.
Speaker 1: That that's that's now that you have to That's another
Speaker 1: that's another question, another conversation for another. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a bunch of lemonade down the road. But this is
Speaker 1: what I'm captains to me, do whatever they take to show.
Speaker 1: Now you could say, oh, he had the hand injury
Speaker 1: and all that, and he played through that, granted that
Speaker 1: great job. And I think that we've been very complimentary
Speaker 1: of him when he's played. Well. Kansas City game, I
Speaker 1: thought he was outstanding. Yeah, but they need you now,
Speaker 1: you know they And Rob said that, I think you
Speaker 1: said this yesterday. His point was veterans. You want veterans
Speaker 1: on the field when things are going. You know, when
Speaker 1: things are happening. You know this is not going to
Speaker 1: be an easy game because just from the fact that
Speaker 1: they're there, that the way the Seahawks play and scramble
Speaker 1: drills and guys running all the place, you better have
Speaker 1: veteran players on the field that are going to make plays. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: And so that bothers me that aspect of passing yards
Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson has had to have it in a season,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it is because who's said he
Speaker 1: threw the ball five hundred times. I believe I'm right,
Speaker 1: run the ball, yeah, throwing it everywhere. So if you
Speaker 1: can get your secondary nice and feel okay, we've got
Speaker 1: this covered, you know, maybe this guy's a little beat up,
Speaker 1: but at least we have depth. Yeah, it's a reason
Speaker 1: why they're throwing it as much as they are. They
Speaker 1: have to. If he if he could help it playing
Speaker 1: right corner, I would have hope that he would have
Speaker 1: been out there. And again I, hey, well he's got
Speaker 1: a back injury. I get it, broken bones, I get it.
Speaker 1: But there's also you know, what are you doing? I mean,
Speaker 1: is it? How important is it really to you to
Speaker 1: do that? But is it? I mean, I guess I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play a devil's advocate here. You can't feel free?
Speaker 1: Is it all up to him? I mean, how much
Speaker 1: of it is is the training staff and the medical
Speaker 1: that look at him and say last week and just
Speaker 1: say you're not there yet to where you can function
Speaker 1: out there. He doesn't want to hurt the team either
Speaker 1: if he's out there and he really can't. It's one
Speaker 1: of those weird function the way he normally does. It's
Speaker 1: one of those weird injuries though, because they have to
Speaker 1: listen to him. Yeah, it's like a you know, you
Speaker 1: can test the strength of a hamstring and say, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you're we can let you do this right,
Speaker 1: But with this particular injury, it's not like he's got
Speaker 1: bones crumbling in his back and they're loose. That's just
Speaker 1: got a crack in them. Oh but you can watch him.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but you can control what you do and
Speaker 1: what you say. Yeah, that's all I'm saying. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you being because I'm the one of the
Speaker 1: panel that is always on him. I just well, I
Speaker 1: just think and and I'm not trying to be that way.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to say, these games it's come down
Speaker 1: to you need everybody playing. And if he would have
Speaker 1: come out and say I can't play it's too painful,
Speaker 1: I respect that, because he did show up and play
Speaker 1: with a busted hand, I respect that. But you know,
Speaker 1: you you brought up the point. These these young kids
Speaker 1: out there playing, and God bless them, they're playing the
Speaker 1: best they can, but it would be nice to have
Speaker 1: somebody with some experience playing in this game. Did his
Speaker 1: face these receivers? Secondary? I want Orlando Scandrick on the
Speaker 1: field against Russell Wilson if at all possible. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just want to point out he's played through some stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean he did last year. He had a bunch
Speaker 1: of kind of nagging stuff that that he tried to
Speaker 1: play through last year coming off the knee injury. So
Speaker 1: then that's kind of why I'm asking why not. Now
Speaker 1: that's my point, Well, because we have seen him show
Speaker 1: up and play, are we for certain that you say
Speaker 1: highly questionable? I'm not just ruling him out this week yet.
Speaker 1: It's just the I don't know, my perception. I don't know,
Speaker 1: just kind of listening and watching, and that you're usually
Speaker 1: not wrong with your perceptions on that. I just just
Speaker 1: kind of what I get. You know, that's a good
Speaker 1: sign he got out there and did something. But though, yeah,
Speaker 1: but the stuff you just said is valid what he
Speaker 1: did before, Yeah, but that was before three rookies are
Speaker 1: out there and yeah, kind of playing, playing dominant roles
Speaker 1: and yeah, playing pretty well. Yeah see that's that's again
Speaker 1: the captaincy ship. To me, what games has Skendrick missed
Speaker 1: the past two last two years? So he missed the
Speaker 1: Raiders and then he missed the Goshrooms Giants, So I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you're looking at the quarterbacks he got okay,
Speaker 1: who was the Giants? He couldn't throw to anyone. Sterling
Speaker 1: Shephard was questionable up until game time. Derek Carr. You know,
Speaker 1: he was trying to get his receivers going. But now
Speaker 1: you have someone, you know, as Mickey's pointed out, the
Speaker 1: passing quarterback Russell Wilson, guy who scrambles can get anything
Speaker 1: to anyone down the field. These corners need that help
Speaker 1: in it. You could have used it last week, got
Speaker 1: it rolling in the second half. You do not want Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do not want to see fifty five yard pass
Speaker 1: interference penalties be given up in this game. You do
Speaker 1: not want to see fifty five yard completions. And that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying with Scandrick though, if he played, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't get a guy that's peeking in the
Speaker 1: backfield or loses his guy or knows hay coverage. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play his assignment. He's gonna do what he
Speaker 1: has to exactly see. That's that's where Rob's point was
Speaker 1: well made yesterday, and I am I totally agree with that.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, you know what, just because young
Speaker 1: kids are playing with me, I'm trying. I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: the team. I'm thinking of, Hey, what is our best
Speaker 1: chance to win this football game? You know, and it's
Speaker 1: getting your best players out on the field, and you know,
Speaker 1: and and and Mickey is Mickey has kind of throwing
Speaker 1: something out there that is absolutely correct. Well, I hear you.
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, David Irving is giving his
Speaker 1: own update on his health. Of course, he has been outcussion,
Speaker 1: but he took to Twitter and said, mentally, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I'm still having headaches every day. It's hard to put
Speaker 1: a finger on how long I'll be out. I'm taking
Speaker 1: it day by day. Well does mentally that doesn't encompass headaches.
Speaker 1: That's the mind, isn't it. I don't know. Well, is
Speaker 1: he referencing like those cognitive type of tests that I
Speaker 1: think he's saying, I recognize stuff. I see, I'm not
Speaker 1: but I'm still having nicky Nicky said it again yesterday.
Speaker 1: The answer that Jason Garrett gave on that was he's
Speaker 1: not he's not responding correctly to the questions he's being asked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is it. Once you say, hey, well David, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the questions are, but you know, once
Speaker 1: and he gives some answer, you're like, WHOA, that's not good,
Speaker 1: and it's better and it's it's a little more deeper
Speaker 1: than how many fingers do I have like they used
Speaker 1: to in the old days, And the answer was always
Speaker 1: the same. Yeah, these doctors and trainers do a great
Speaker 1: job here and they're not going to let anybody play
Speaker 1: that's not ready to play. Right. Well, we all maybe
Speaker 1: that should say about Scandrick too, So do we have
Speaker 1: any And no one's really asked um what they thought
Speaker 1: of how Ashes filled in these last couple of games. Well,
Speaker 1: while we're still on injuries, let's get to Tyrn Smith
Speaker 1: because we're talking about guys we definitely need out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's not expected to practice again and today this
Speaker 1: is Tyren Smith, five time pro bowler. Now what do
Speaker 1: we think about this week? Is is it still just
Speaker 1: an outside you're throwing up their brain? Oh no, I'll
Speaker 1: let Rob comment if he wants to, real quick or Mickey,
Speaker 1: I'm worried about this one. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: I've talked too much as is. No. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think sometimes these injuries pique other discussions.
Speaker 1: I wish I I just can I say this, I'd
Speaker 1: be surprised I entered the week being I'd be surprised
Speaker 1: if he practiced it all this week. Doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: necessarily he couldn't try to give it a go pregame,
Speaker 1: but you know, nice brain, and given the other stuff
Speaker 1: he's had, I just don't see them trying to put
Speaker 1: him on the field for a bunch of practice snaps
Speaker 1: and is he even ready to get out there and function?
Speaker 1: I thought I thought Jason didn't understand Todd's question when
Speaker 1: he asked about him and a brace. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: what Todd was saying, I know he's hurt. Can he
Speaker 1: play with a brace? Can you brace it up and
Speaker 1: he'll be okay? And I think Jason was interpreted it
Speaker 1: as shitty, wear a brace all the time and prevent injuries.
Speaker 1: And I think that wasn't the question because that's what
Speaker 1: I thought. It's like, hey, tape a brace on there
Speaker 1: and tell him to do the Michael Irvin thing and
Speaker 1: stand for three seconds. Yeah, that's all I need out
Speaker 1: of you. Three seconds? Yeah, I think to me, and
Speaker 1: this is just me my matchups today going up on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot com, I wrote about I wrote about
Speaker 1: Byronbell playing against Frank Clark. That's what I did. Well,
Speaker 1: It's good to know that because if that's most likely
Speaker 1: going to be the situation you better be prepared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you better be and you know and and hey, you've
Speaker 1: you know, we've you know, coach even talked about some
Speaker 1: of the stuff on the walk off with Jonathan Cooper
Speaker 1: and how they've improved in that area as well. You're
Speaker 1: gonna need you're gonna need one of your best games
Speaker 1: against from from Byron Beell. You are, he's a veteran guy.
Speaker 1: He's been in through these battles. You know, this is
Speaker 1: very similar to the kind of cat he dealt with
Speaker 1: last week with Bruce Irving, you know, quickness, but maybe
Speaker 1: with this guy a little bit more power, So you know,
Speaker 1: be ready for that. But they've got a find ways
Speaker 1: to help him. You can't let it be a sixty
Speaker 1: five play game and all of a sudden five plays
Speaker 1: affect how you how you win this game or lose
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, exactly, So be prepared for the twelve personnel,
Speaker 1: thirteen personnel, Hey, number twenty one, get to chip a
Speaker 1: little bit this week, you know, go hit somebody. You know,
Speaker 1: that's some of the stuff is going to have to
Speaker 1: happen in this football game with Byron Bell playing left
Speaker 1: tackle or at least run right at him. Make him. Yeah, now,
Speaker 1: This is where Mickey's absolutely right, and this is where
Speaker 1: I put it in my thoughts. Number One thing, he's
Speaker 1: not playing in Seattle right now, which is good. Crowd
Speaker 1: noise is huge there. We all know that you guys
Speaker 1: all experienced the crowd there. That's gonna help Barron Bell.
Speaker 1: A second thing is Cowboys running game. That will help
Speaker 1: him even more. Pound at him, pound at him, pound
Speaker 1: at him. Keep running the football. We've seen it with Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: We've seen it with the Rams. Use your running game
Speaker 1: to slow their rush down. That's on both sides. That's
Speaker 1: on both side, mean both defensive ends. Slow their defense down.
Speaker 1: Don't turn this into a game where you're having the throw.
Speaker 1: If that turns into that, then you're in trouble. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all know the rushing yards were huge for the
Speaker 1: Rams past week, But what were the rushing yards when
Speaker 1: the Jags the same thing they had. Jaguars rushed as
Speaker 1: a team for one hundred and fifty six right four
Speaker 1: NET had one oh one and touchdowns. So basically they've
Speaker 1: given up four hundred yards in the last two games
Speaker 1: rushing two hundred and fifty three two girly and four
Speaker 1: NET and four rushing touchdowns. Wow, I got a stat
Speaker 1: for you from the Seattle is News tribute. Is it
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll's one hundred yard rushers? Yeah, okay, they haven't
Speaker 1: allowed one hundred yard rusher in three straight games since
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Yeah, that's pre Carroll, right, that's
Speaker 1: pretty Carol, right, I mean, that's that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: So that's what they're facing right now. And Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: spoke to it in the conference call upstairs with the
Speaker 1: media yesterday. This has been like a playoff type run.
Speaker 1: They faced some really good running games, some really good offenses,
Speaker 1: and they've just tried to, you know, withstand it, and
Speaker 1: they know exactly what they're up against this week, and
Speaker 1: it's it's Zeke. Oh hey, this is a this is
Speaker 1: for sure a playoff elimination game for both teams this week.
Speaker 1: And if you have to give up Christmas Eve, at
Speaker 1: least you're at home and at least you got a
Speaker 1: game to watch and you have Ezekiel Elliott back. Yep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they're having they're having some injury problems themselves. They are, right,
Speaker 1: j right, Yes, they're a banked us now. Supposedly he's fine,
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner's trying to play through a hamstring, right, and
Speaker 1: it's almost like Sean Lee being out right. I read
Speaker 1: something like when they've allowed sixty seven points since he
Speaker 1: hurt in the last five quarters, since he hurt his hamstring.
Speaker 1: Now he tried to play through it last week, I
Speaker 1: got questioned by his own game, questioned by Harold Thomas. Right,
Speaker 1: we could have done that Eddy yourself. Man, we got
Speaker 1: Hawkeye coming up in the second segment. Well, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'll preview what Hawkeye needs to be talking about. Then
Speaker 1: you tell us, tell us, I thought you wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about Richard Ash next. No, yeah, yeah, lots to
Speaker 1: talk about. But when they start snipping at each other
Speaker 1: in the in the media, you got problems. Oh well,
Speaker 1: we got it all laid out for you. So get
Speaker 1: into Richard Ash. What was your question on that? Oh,
Speaker 1: I want to know how he's played. I think Richard
Speaker 1: Ash has been okay. I don't think there's anything really
Speaker 1: spectacular about Richard Ashe. I worried about Richard Ashe when
Speaker 1: he got the role of being not very active, just
Speaker 1: being very sluggy, very just hanging there and this kind
Speaker 1: of get blocked. He's not David Irving. He's not David
Speaker 1: kind of player. No, he's a totally different player. But
Speaker 1: but what you what you get with Richard Ash is
Speaker 1: he's given you a little bit of mobility. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: I love the fact when when Malie Collins can play
Speaker 1: the one and David Irvin can play the three. I
Speaker 1: like it. But I liked it even better when Terrell
Speaker 1: McClain played the three and Collins played the one. But
Speaker 1: you know, with with Ash, I just worried about him
Speaker 1: being a guy that was constantly getting blocked. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it hasn't always been the case. Is he is he
Speaker 1: Is he the most athlet No he's not. But does
Speaker 1: he give you something the inside though, where he gives
Speaker 1: you the ten fifteen plays where you can give somebody
Speaker 1: a little bit of rest and he's not killing you. Now,
Speaker 1: Mickey will tell you this, and he's right about this.
Speaker 1: When they put those guys in at the ten yard
Speaker 1: line coming out and all of a sudden the ball
Speaker 1: gets driven, well, you know it's not all Richard Ash
Speaker 1: but he's on the field for some of that. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, though he hasn't been as just like
Speaker 1: a just a fence post out there. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: he's he's shown a little mobility, he's shown a little
Speaker 1: bit of awareness, and that's really, I think what you
Speaker 1: have to hope for before we go to break. Mickey
Speaker 1: Richard ash is absent from Cowboys practice today. What happened
Speaker 1: Iron Smith, Richard ash and David Irvine where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: only absentees at practice on Thursday? Lyle Collins to Marcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence in Orlando, Skendrick All on hand and working through
Speaker 1: warm ups. Now they were they were using him at
Speaker 1: the one at the one at the one of Collins over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he practiced. Yes, there might be a sickness here, you know,
Speaker 1: it might be yes, but yeah, it might be a
Speaker 1: little bit of a bug. But he I know, he
Speaker 1: practiced full yesterday. So and I ask you real quick
Speaker 1: how Dayton Jones has done. See that's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: You know, he had the penalty what coach was talking
Speaker 1: about and this is absolutely right. He's always been kind
Speaker 1: of a three four player and so your mentality is
Speaker 1: really a two as a two gap player, and so
Speaker 1: they've had to kind of coach him on what to
Speaker 1: be how to play a four three scheme where you
Speaker 1: attack gaps or you're moving, we are moving, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think they're I like what I've seen from
Speaker 1: him as far as the mobility part of it. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, he's strong. If you remember the
Speaker 1: Giants game at him getting the tackle for loss and
Speaker 1: taking the guard directly back into the into the backfield. There,
Speaker 1: that's what you get. I didn't think he was that strong,
Speaker 1: but he is. I mean, he is a strong guy,
Speaker 1: and that's why they're able. People thought, well, maybe he's
Speaker 1: a defensive end. No, he's really He's done a nice
Speaker 1: job playing as a rotational three and an occasional one
Speaker 1: for you there, So you got almost thirty snaps last week,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna get thirty more. Get ready. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: then they didn't move, and then they started moving Crawford
Speaker 1: inside right and brought Lawrence over to the right defensive
Speaker 1: end spot. So Taco, yeah, is getting a lot of snaps.
Speaker 1: That's good. Left defensive ends, that's good. And keep an
Speaker 1: eye on this Seattle guard situation. Postic the rookie from
Speaker 1: LSU is not a strong player. And then they've had
Speaker 1: and then Luke Joko has had problems as well. Hey,
Speaker 1: great to segue, Brian, because when we come back, makee
Speaker 1: what do we got? We got Hawkeye coming up next.
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Speaker 1: previewed it Hawkeye, and unfortunately, Mickey no, I couldn't get
Speaker 1: the Zoo to donate any any Hawks for this segment.
Speaker 1: But what we're gonna do is we're going to run
Speaker 1: through the Seahawks. As far as what you need to know,
Speaker 1: we've already kind of given you a little bit of
Speaker 1: heads up. Got to keep your eye on the guards
Speaker 1: that Mickey first in this segment, give us the practice
Speaker 1: report update from the Seattle Seahawks. Well, since you asked
Speaker 1: of note Bobby Wagner and now they only did a
Speaker 1: walk through yesterday, So these are estimations of what would
Speaker 1: have happened. Right they do a walkthrough. Oh maybe he
Speaker 1: wanted to give him some pretty banged up, pretty banged
Speaker 1: up team. They're tired where they they were at home,
Speaker 1: yet they got they know they were in Jacksonville for
Speaker 1: the Yeah, they got drilled. Yeah, Bobby Wagner hamstring would
Speaker 1: not have practiced. He's been trying to play through a
Speaker 1: hamstring that he uh re injured against Jacksonville. Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: did not practice with a knee, so they've got some problems.
Speaker 1: They're tight end. Nick Vanette Older would have been limited.
Speaker 1: The good news for him is kJ Wright looks like
Speaker 1: he's cleared the concussion protocol, so that'll help out their line.
Speaker 1: It's amazing you lose your linebackers and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden your defense becomes porous. Imagine that happening as we've
Speaker 1: seen it here. So yes, as we've we've talked about guys.
Speaker 1: They have won four of their last five on the road,
Speaker 1: but last three straight at home have been all l's
Speaker 1: for them. And Mickey, you brought up Bobby Wagner and
Speaker 1: that's where we have to get into next. The drama
Speaker 1: that is stirring up for the Seahawks. You see this
Speaker 1: sometimes when things aren't going right for everyone in their season.
Speaker 1: Of course, Earl Thomas pretty much the quarterback of that defense,
Speaker 1: and Bobby Wagner took to Twitter kind of called him out.
Speaker 1: Quickly deleted a tweet about like, hey watch it yeats jealous,
Speaker 1: I'm getting keep my name out of your mouth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: type of thing. And you know, all this bickering though
Speaker 1: the unit is only seventeenth in the NFL and stopping
Speaker 1: the run allowing one hundred and twelve point nine arts
Speaker 1: per game. Yeah, well, IRV Thomas came out after the
Speaker 1: game and said we probably could have played with a
Speaker 1: backup as well as he played. Yeah, and Wagner shot
Speaker 1: back at him, and then I guess yesterday they tried
Speaker 1: to make nice in the locker room. Yeah, play with
Speaker 1: a backup? Yeah, what do you mean? He meant that
Speaker 1: he didn't didn't play where he was he was too hurt.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't have been out there, like you said, the
Speaker 1: guy tried to play through the injury. Andrew's kind of
Speaker 1: my point. He's not ready to go. Don't throw him
Speaker 1: out there. Sure, but okay, yeah, you know what, that
Speaker 1: is interesting that they're doing that in public, but you know,
Speaker 1: kind of getting after each other. But that's kind of
Speaker 1: what they do. Like they've they've sure. Yeah, Sherman. That
Speaker 1: ESPN piece came out in the offseason about Sherman Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: That team kind of feeds off that. You know, they're
Speaker 1: they're a feisty bunch. Might have been at all those guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing to worry about, is like, Okay, if
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner feels like he has something to prove this week,
Speaker 1: is he gonna do it against the Cowboys? Try to
Speaker 1: do it as I don't know that he has anything
Speaker 1: to prove, He's just trying to play through. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: just a little friendly competition with Earl Thomas here. Got Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you guys nervous about this game? Yes? Because Seattle
Speaker 1: you set it too well, prideful team. Let me get
Speaker 1: into it. Are you nervous about them more offensively or defensively?
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people would say these answer.
Speaker 1: There's offensively with all these injuries on defense. But they're
Speaker 1: only averaging twenty two point nine points right now. And
Speaker 1: this is a team that was heavy hitters. Usually you'd
Speaker 1: expect thirty plus in most games. They're also undisciplined, having
Speaker 1: already given away a thousand and one hundred yards in
Speaker 1: penalty it tops the NFL. Yeah, the Cowboys have only
Speaker 1: given up eight hundred yards and offensive penalties eighteenth. See
Speaker 1: this is there's I think there's a couple of different
Speaker 1: fronts that you need to worry about the Seahawks. I
Speaker 1: think you need to worry about a group that has
Speaker 1: been bickering, because usually those boys are as tight as
Speaker 1: thieves exactly. You know, usually they have each other's backs.
Speaker 1: Like it's the sense like, hey, I can call you
Speaker 1: a dummy, but if anyone else calls you a dummy, right,
Speaker 1: you're not. Yeah, it's yeah, don't don't go after one
Speaker 1: of my teammates on Twitter. I'll block you in a heartbeat.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of where their attitude. I know
Speaker 1: it's that's pretty general way of saying things, but I
Speaker 1: think these guys are very very close. I do worry
Speaker 1: about the fact that their their backs are against the wall.
Speaker 1: I do. That's a talented group of players. They've struggled
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Jacksonville was bad. They lost their
Speaker 1: composure in that game. They were embarrassed in the Rams game.
Speaker 1: I don't think, you know, someone asked me today if
Speaker 1: if the Seahawks had quit. I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: quit right now in the Seahawks. I really really don't,
Speaker 1: especially you know, the Rams are likely going to win
Speaker 1: that division, but they need to figure out that. You know,
Speaker 1: they can come here and spoil Dallas's season. They very
Speaker 1: easily can do that. I do worry about Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: running around. I do worry about him throwing the football.
Speaker 1: I do worry about the Cowboys not covering anybody very well.
Speaker 1: You know. I mean, we've seen pass rush from the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but Jason Garrett even said it today, didn't do a
Speaker 1: very good job at getting on the ground last week.
Speaker 1: You can't afford not to get Russell Wilson on the ground.
Speaker 1: That that would be a problem. And I do worry,
Speaker 1: and you say twenty two points a game, but I
Speaker 1: just worry about the big play. Well, the Cowboys continually,
Speaker 1: well the Cowboys when they were losing those games, especially
Speaker 1: against the Chargers, what was it the big play that was?
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of guys running free in the secondary,
Speaker 1: a lot of open guys. They can't afford that in
Speaker 1: this game, you know, because Seattle will embarrass you that way,
Speaker 1: with Doug ball winnin that group Richardson, they will embarrass
Speaker 1: you if you don't cover them. And Russell Wilson running
Speaker 1: around throwing the football he will embarrass you. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you should be very, very nervous on both
Speaker 1: fronts in this football game. I'm with Brian. This is
Speaker 1: a team. They're the core of those guys have played
Speaker 1: in some big games, ship moments. They've been through this
Speaker 1: type of situation before. I would not write them off.
Speaker 1: But they offensively, they've got to get off to a
Speaker 1: better start. They've had two straight games with no points
Speaker 1: in the first half, sporeless. So yeah, playing offensive line,
Speaker 1: he has been a big problem. Road They've got it.
Speaker 1: You know, they can't get behind early against Dallas. Can't
Speaker 1: do it. I'm gonna say four names, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: do our own little Twitter poll quickly here on the show.
Speaker 1: Say four names, and I want you guys to tell
Speaker 1: me who you think could be the biggest game changer
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. Doug Baldwin, who is on pace for
Speaker 1: over a thousand yards in twenty seventeen. He has eight
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six currently sixty seven receptions. Next run
Speaker 1: is a guy we've already kind of previewed Earl Thomas
Speaker 1: two interceptions, but you know, don't buy that. He's still
Speaker 1: beast ball Hawk Hawk Michael Bennett, Frank Clark kind of
Speaker 1: a combined guys because together they have fifteen point five
Speaker 1: combined sacks on the season. Of course, Russell Wilson, who
Speaker 1: accounts for thirty three of Seattle's thirty four offensive touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So you want to start first run, Yeah, I'll go
Speaker 1: with the two guys up front for them. Clark, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because with the injuries that Seattle has a linebacker and
Speaker 1: especially in the secondary, they're the ones they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to set the tone and win their matchups up And
Speaker 1: it's kind of Brian spoke to it yesterday. Oakland was
Speaker 1: kind of in that position. You know, they got some
Speaker 1: issues at other parts of their defense, but the strength
Speaker 1: is the ability to get up the field and get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. So that's how they're going to affect
Speaker 1: things defensively. I think those guys got to get past
Speaker 1: Byron Bell, maybe tyrn Lyle Collins as well. Who you got,
Speaker 1: Brian Russell Wilson, Yeah, I think you know, Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: is what the Seattle Seahawks are. You know, their defense
Speaker 1: obviously has been compromised, especially the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but he's the reason why they hang in games. He's
Speaker 1: the reason, his ability, his toughness. Their offensive line has
Speaker 1: been a big problem for them. John Snyder knows he
Speaker 1: has to fix that. He just can't do it right now.
Speaker 1: They've tried to add some guys, some pieces. It's just
Speaker 1: not good enough. But Russell Wilson has the ability to
Speaker 1: win a football game, especially if it becomes close, especially
Speaker 1: if it's tight. You know, like Rob said, he's been
Speaker 1: in big games. He's done well in big games. This
Speaker 1: is a big game for both teams. And he knows
Speaker 1: if he has to put it on his back, he'll
Speaker 1: put it on his back. He's not afraid of the spotlight.
Speaker 1: I do worry about his ability to run the football.
Speaker 1: It's to scramble to make those loose plays, to do
Speaker 1: things when you when you have him in third down
Speaker 1: situations and they and you can't get him off the field.
Speaker 1: That could be a problem in this football game. So
Speaker 1: I do worry about Russell Wilson quite a bit. I
Speaker 1: feel better though that it looks like Hitchens is going
Speaker 1: to be able to play in this game. That's key
Speaker 1: to have him and Sean Lee, if they're both on
Speaker 1: the field at the same time. That that stabilizes things
Speaker 1: in the middle. Yeah, okay, out of those four names,
Speaker 1: who you got Russell Wilson. Yeah. Not only is he
Speaker 1: their leading passer, he's their leading rusher, right, so whatever
Speaker 1: they're going to do offensively, And that's amazing because without
Speaker 1: his five hundred and twenty one yards rushing, they've gotten
Speaker 1: less than a thousand yards rushing in fourteen games. With
Speaker 1: everybody else, It's funny how their offense is completely done
Speaker 1: A one eighties since beast Mode. I mean, it's well,
Speaker 1: they thought it's Russ's offense. They thought they were gonna
Speaker 1: get beast mode two when they when they got Lacey,
Speaker 1: and he's been a bust. You can't even get on
Speaker 1: the field. I was reading stuff where he may not
Speaker 1: even be active. Yeah, and he's listed as their third
Speaker 1: string running back, and you know they spent three and
Speaker 1: a half million dollars on him. McKissick is the kid
Speaker 1: that they used quite a bit. I wrote about him
Speaker 1: in the Under the Radar Guy on Dallas Cowboys dot Com.
Speaker 1: Check him out. He's kind of their third down guy there,
Speaker 1: jack of all trades player. If I could say one
Speaker 1: more thing, Tay, I think the names she gave you know,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a little bit about Earl
Speaker 1: Thomas two two in this game, because if if the
Speaker 1: Seahawks are going to be able to affect the way
Speaker 1: to play the run, they've got to get the extra
Speaker 1: guy down, and that's Earl Thomas. They don't have Cam
Speaker 1: Chancellor anymore to be that guy. So if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: do have success running the football, there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of collisions between number twenty one and number twenty
Speaker 1: nine in this football game. It's just the way that's
Speaker 1: gonna play out. You know, we thought maybe two with
Speaker 1: you know, when the you go back to the Giants,
Speaker 1: when Ezekiel played against the Giants, we always talked about
Speaker 1: Landing Collins, Landing Collins being that guy coming down, coming down,
Speaker 1: coming down. You can't always account for those guys. And
Speaker 1: if the way that Thomas plays, the craftiness, the physicality
Speaker 1: which he plays. Now he's missed some tackles though too,
Speaker 1: so I mean it might be an all day affair
Speaker 1: between him and Ezekiel Elliott. If the Cowboys get that,
Speaker 1: they get the running game going, that can be terrifying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who you got? Oh? I have to go with Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson I think that he's going to be like, look,
Speaker 1: I got defensive guys fighting. I'm pretty much doing everything here,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to continue doing everything so that I
Speaker 1: can hoist up that MVP trophy at the end of
Speaker 1: the year, earned himself a Pro Bowl spot. Right, Oh,
Speaker 1: he did. You're right, you're right. Well, before we get
Speaker 1: to what's going on in the locker room here at
Speaker 1: the Star, we're gonna get to the phone lines. We
Speaker 1: have Josh from McKinney on the line. Josh, what's your question? Hey,
Speaker 1: good morning, good morning. Well, this is more of an
Speaker 1: observation of the whole season. On the offense, we don't
Speaker 1: do well on third and long, particularly like third and
Speaker 1: seven and longer. And I noticed a lot of the
Speaker 1: times the receivers are not running rocks that's past the
Speaker 1: first down marker. And I wanted to know is that
Speaker 1: attested to the play design or is that more of
Speaker 1: an instincts thing, Because when I played peewee football, coach
Speaker 1: I always said, if it's third, third down, if you're
Speaker 1: running a route, go past the first down marker. And
Speaker 1: I see that a lot of the times with whether
Speaker 1: it's Cole Beasley, Jason Witten, chance, Charrence Williams a dead
Speaker 1: um Dakul just check it down and it's he'll get
Speaker 1: three yards. And then I'm like, nobody ran rocks past
Speaker 1: the marker. So is that player instincts or is that
Speaker 1: just how to play calls is designed? Okay, great question,
Speaker 1: fair points, routes go past markers and have to come
Speaker 1: back for ball. You know, I think what happens is
Speaker 1: the perception is that that's what happens. Yeah, But a
Speaker 1: lot of times when the guys that are past the
Speaker 1: marker and not open then check down underneath and you're
Speaker 1: hoping the guy's going to run for the first down.
Speaker 1: I do think. I don't think you designed plays for
Speaker 1: him to go short of the marker. You're just leaving
Speaker 1: somebody else. I think. I think what happens, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think what happens a lot of the time. You know.
Speaker 1: I think Jason Witton the other day, I think they
Speaker 1: had a he had a play the other day that
Speaker 1: was it was a third and eleven. He got twelve
Speaker 1: on the play Paul was thrown to him in the
Speaker 1: middle of field. I think guys go past the markers.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes what happens to you is Prescott might
Speaker 1: be under a little bit of pressure. Guys have to
Speaker 1: come back to the football ball. It's not accurate. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Cole Beasley has run a route that
Speaker 1: on third and sixteen, he's eighteen yards deep and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he has to make like a soccer
Speaker 1: goalie catch to his right and it's now fourth and one.
Speaker 1: And I think the other the other thing you have
Speaker 1: to consider is when you're getting in third and long,
Speaker 1: you know, like turn seven and more. Yeah, turned six right.
Speaker 1: Teams have been blitzing. Yeah, and when the wide receiver
Speaker 1: sees a blitz, they got to cut the route off.
Speaker 1: Can't keep Yeah, you can't keep running, so absolutely right.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think with Zeke back on the field,
Speaker 1: it'll it'll halt a little bit of that blitzing that's
Speaker 1: been going on, or you'll make them pay a lot
Speaker 1: more than teams have been paying recently. Yeah. Well, let's
Speaker 1: go to some of the things that are said in
Speaker 1: the locker room. And I thought Dak said a great
Speaker 1: quote yesterday and I really thought kind of it says
Speaker 1: exactly what we've been saying, but kind of emphasizes the
Speaker 1: energy that Zeke brings here. You know, he said, it's
Speaker 1: something that we feed off of. It's something the crowd
Speaker 1: feeds off of, and I think the team feeds off
Speaker 1: the crowd getting excited over a Zeke eight yard run
Speaker 1: because it's just so physical. It's simply a tempo setter
Speaker 1: gave me a great answer. Yeah. I love that answer,
Speaker 1: Like that's it's must have asked a good question question. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just think that's so great because it's true. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, not only is it good for the team,
Speaker 1: it's good for the fans. Well. When the fans are excited,
Speaker 1: that's even better for the team. It's like a cycle,
Speaker 1: you know, and just saying hey, an eight yard run
Speaker 1: gets people going because you know, he's a threat on
Speaker 1: the field. He's always physical, he's always going to give
Speaker 1: you everything you got. And I thought that was awesome.
Speaker 1: So you asked that question, Roight. Yeah. And the other
Speaker 1: thing he said was it's it's an eight yard run
Speaker 1: and you think he's gonna get three and he winds up.
Speaker 1: He said, it's like he bullies his way to five
Speaker 1: more yards. Right, that's a mentality that kind of permeates
Speaker 1: the offense. He gets the defense fired up. I mean
Speaker 1: it's just he just has that effect on the rest
Speaker 1: of the team. Yeah, it's it's a mentality, you know.
Speaker 1: And not that the other backs haven't played well or
Speaker 1: run hard, but Zeke just brings something different that a
Speaker 1: few backs in the league do with that type of approach.
Speaker 1: I think it's a trust too. So he makes a difference,
Speaker 1: is what you're saying. Yeah, I think he makes the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator better play caller myself. Yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's and you know, Rod Marinelli could stand over there
Speaker 1: on the sidelines and every time it's third and short
Speaker 1: and they'll just keep banging first downs out of the
Speaker 1: way and they keep going down the field. This it's
Speaker 1: very rare the football team can run the football as
Speaker 1: well as Dallas does and score points. And when he was,
Speaker 1: when they were in that five and three mode, they
Speaker 1: were scoring a lot of points. And then he went away,
Speaker 1: and then what happened? They weren't scoring points. But like
Speaker 1: I say, it's very very rare that you can just
Speaker 1: because usually ball control running the football, it takes so
Speaker 1: much time off the clock that you don't score. You
Speaker 1: don't score that way. Well, the Cowboys do score, and
Speaker 1: that's and that that makes Rod Marinelli's job so much easier.
Speaker 1: Look what happened in the Kansas City game when they
Speaker 1: got the lead and they had the eleven point lead
Speaker 1: able to play. You know, defense doesn't have to You
Speaker 1: can ratchet your defense down, you can hold you know,
Speaker 1: but if something happens at least hey, we get the
Speaker 1: ball back, well, you know we'll be okay. You know that.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the mentality that they love hearing that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just so excited to see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna get more to that more order. What
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Speaker 1: one get one still? Okay? So good? Because I have
Speaker 1: a little game, kind of prediction game for us to play.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's Zeke miss around here obviously that everyone's
Speaker 1: talking about. So I want each of you to give
Speaker 1: me one prediction for what you think Zeke could do
Speaker 1: in this game on Sunday, And you have to be
Speaker 1: pretty specific because whoever wins, I promise you I will
Speaker 1: get you a pizza the rest of the week or
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Who one week? Maybe two,
Speaker 1: maybe two, maybe three, four or five if we have playoffs.
Speaker 1: So all right, who wants to start their prediction? I'm
Speaker 1: writing it down. You guys are all listening. These guys
Speaker 1: are going to predict what Zeke could do on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: and whoever wins or is even I'll even say close
Speaker 1: enough too, and like like ten yards or one touchdown,
Speaker 1: one of those kind of things. Yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you have to be a little bit bold, bold because Mickey,
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Speaker 1: I'll go first, okay, Rob, I think they're gonna go
Speaker 1: three for three in the red zone, three for three
Speaker 1: in the red zone, all Zeke touchdown runs, all Zeke
Speaker 1: touchdowns runs. That's great. You're saying Zeke gets twenty one
Speaker 1: points on the day or twenty one. I love it.
Speaker 1: Have you been listening to me like when I watched
Speaker 1: the tape, No, I yell at Helm and every time
Speaker 1: that's Seattle when it gets to the one. Seattle loves
Speaker 1: to give up touchdowns on the one. They really do.
Speaker 1: They just whoever they hand it to just goes right
Speaker 1: in the right there. Yeah, And I was yelling at
Speaker 1: hell mom, there we go another another another touchdown off
Speaker 1: the one. Punch it in, just punch it right in. Okay,
Speaker 1: so your first for Zeke, miss rob who's the next?
Speaker 1: Got it? Mickey? Yes? Okay? You will have the longest
Speaker 1: touchdown run since the suspension began for the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and the longest one to date is fifteen yards in
Speaker 1: mop up time. Was it against the Giants? No? Um,
Speaker 1: It was a toss sweep that went to rod Smith.
Speaker 1: Rod Smith yea at the end of the game. Was
Speaker 1: the Giants Giants? Right? Yeah, that was fifteen yards the
Speaker 1: longest one they've had, this sixth longest one in the
Speaker 1: six game suspension. Yeah. The next longest one was dak
Speaker 1: eleven on the read option. Yeah. After that, it's five two, one,
Speaker 1: one and one. Wow, And do not tell me Zeke
Speaker 1: doesn't make a difference always, so he just has to.
Speaker 1: I like it because okay, yes, and you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to steal my stats either for anything you write this week.
Speaker 1: Not me steal my stuff all the time. I like
Speaker 1: that one because that kind of goes against yours, Rob,
Speaker 1: because it says if yours are all in the red zone,
Speaker 1: Mickey saying no, he gets one outside the red zone
Speaker 1: goes long. He has to go over fifteen yards for
Speaker 1: Mickey to win, or maybe he'll stop at the one
Speaker 1: just for Rob. There we go there, but you said
Speaker 1: you did clarify, I'm writing the sound you said longest
Speaker 1: T D run T D run. Okay, I'm ready, so
Speaker 1: it's more fifteen yards. I like. I like this competition.
Speaker 1: I love it. Okay, Brian, the Cowboys will be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. I'm stealing a little bit of Rob's thunder here,
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys will be one when they hand the
Speaker 1: football to Ezeki La on third and two or less.
Speaker 1: I like that when they hand the football to Zeke, Yeah,
Speaker 1: on third and two and less. And I'll even go
Speaker 1: win fourth down on that there will be one hund
Speaker 1: If they have to go for it on fourth down
Speaker 1: and hand the ball every time, they're going to get
Speaker 1: it every single time. I think he's he's six for
Speaker 1: seven in eight games on third and one. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's money. So that's a good one. Okay. I
Speaker 1: know that, you know things are starting to blur together.
Speaker 1: But last week when we saw the Raiders game, was
Speaker 1: that the first time we've seen the Cowboys go for
Speaker 1: it on fourth and one during the suspension? Obviously we
Speaker 1: saw it before when Zeke was still back in the game.
Speaker 1: What are the game did Garrett? Did Garrett go forward
Speaker 1: against the Giants? When was that? Was that? A I
Speaker 1: know he didn't go against it. I want to say
Speaker 1: in the why am I? Why am I? Why am
Speaker 1: I just blurring on? Because you're here week sixteen and
Speaker 1: barely able to think right now? So was there? But
Speaker 1: was there a game that they mickey? And I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm blanking on. I don't think they'd done that, And
Speaker 1: that's why I was there Garren Zeke's Washington those games
Speaker 1: that they were winning, didn't Garrett? Why am I? No?
Speaker 1: I mean, here there's a game I just asked, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a game. I'm sure there was the thing on
Speaker 1: fourth down or where Garrett went against Washington or went
Speaker 1: forward against like maybe they had to like yeah, like
Speaker 1: they had to where the Okay, here's fourth down efficiency
Speaker 1: the perfect thank you to go, Mickey way to have
Speaker 1: like a thousand sheets of news. That's right, that's why
Speaker 1: you bring all this and I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: You're you're way ahead of the game. The last time
Speaker 1: they went forward in fourth down and one was Washington. Yeah,
Speaker 1: first time around. Yeah, oh, the first time around, first
Speaker 1: time around, so they had they haven't made any attempts
Speaker 1: until Oakland. What about the play and two against Washington
Speaker 1: fourth second time, fourth and two and they didn't make it.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember the play I blanket on that too,
Speaker 1: fourth and three they tried. Oh that was they went
Speaker 1: forth on fourth down with a fake punt. That was Denver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Wow, So it's been Washington since the since
Speaker 1: the suspension. Right, I went for it on fourth and
Speaker 1: six against Atlanta. Yeah, fourth and six against Philadel Well
Speaker 1: that was because they were so far behind, you were
Speaker 1: just trying to match up. Yeah, so they're they're fourth
Speaker 1: down totals going for it this year nine for seventeen.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for playing that game, because I'm what's yours?
Speaker 1: You can I'm Santa here, Well if you get it
Speaker 1: right by you, Okay, Okay, I'll get one right here.
Speaker 1: I'm writing it down so that because I want to.
Speaker 1: You got to eat the holes accountable, both of them.
Speaker 1: You're I'm not letting her eat a whole pizza by herself,
Speaker 1: not when I'm I'm joining when I can get his
Speaker 1: sweater or weather so I could just hide it away. Guys,
Speaker 1: no one would know. Bikini time we have, We're plenty
Speaker 1: far away from that. Yeah, all right, Mickey, I'm glad
Speaker 1: you said that, Okay, man, because you guys counted a
Speaker 1: lot for it. Okay, I'm gonna say Zeke doesn't have
Speaker 1: any touchdowns. What he gets them to the red zone
Speaker 1: every every series. You know, what I'm saying is that,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's a red zone pass to Dez
Speaker 1: or you know at the one moment they get to
Speaker 1: Cole because Zeke's But where I'm going to say is
Speaker 1: that Zeke has no touchdown, no red zone. So you're
Speaker 1: going opposite of what Yes, he's gonna get him there,
Speaker 1: but somebody else is going to punch it in. He's
Speaker 1: going to get them there, all right, But I like
Speaker 1: it like you're buying pizza. Who punching it? I'm good
Speaker 1: with that. That's why I'm going, Yeah, who is pushing
Speaker 1: it in? If? I mean you're talking passes count right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just a touchdown? Maybe it's maybe it's Beasley in the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone. Yeah, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be rushing. Oh, no, screen. I think he's gonna make
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley look like a beast in this game. There
Speaker 1: you go, I get him going. He gets to the
Speaker 1: red zone, he's getting to the end zone. I know that.
Speaker 1: But you know what that was me and kind of
Speaker 1: saying like it's the holiday spirit. You're all right? So
Speaker 1: what do you think? How much do they use him? Oh?
Speaker 1: I think he's twenty five plus. I think he could
Speaker 1: easily go over one hundred and fifty in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about this one? Get how about dak with the
Speaker 1: eighteen for twenty four for two hundred and forty one yards,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. How about Zeke twenty four carries one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eight yards one touchdown. I bet he gets
Speaker 1: twenty carries. Yeah, I'm going over. I say, let me
Speaker 1: say eighteen, let me say I said more than that,
Speaker 1: right two? Yeah, it's twenty four. Yeah, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. There be there carries. Okay, how about
Speaker 1: this carries more than over than completions. More carries are
Speaker 1: more completions. Which one you're going with for Zeke carries
Speaker 1: Dak's completion? Yeah, which one is going to be more
Speaker 1: Dak completions? I'll say Zeke carries because I'm banking on
Speaker 1: a close game or if the Cowboys are protecting a
Speaker 1: lead in the second half, then you start riding Zeke
Speaker 1: and h starry. I mean he starts, He's Jackson Bill
Speaker 1: did trying to wear him down that game with Fournette.
Speaker 1: They just started handing him the ball even on third
Speaker 1: that tape. Yeah, but I'm always, I'm always I'm one
Speaker 1: of those guys that believes more Zeke carries than that
Speaker 1: completions is always a great combination for this football team.
Speaker 1: So then I bet you voted a certain answer for
Speaker 1: Rob's pool then, And how did he look to you
Speaker 1: guys as far as like health wise body wise? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of think he looks the same. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, Mick, he just didn't have a beard anymore.
Speaker 1: Um with you on that all this ridiculous stuff about
Speaker 1: looking like a Donnis. Yeah, he looks like Zeke Elliott. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's always been a kind of a thick guy. Yeah
Speaker 1: with the Hey, he wouldn't wear a crop top if
Speaker 1: he didn't have a good looking like Zeke's not a
Speaker 1: bad thing what I'm saying. I'm saying he's not. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody was worried he was going to be number one
Speaker 1: out of ship, right they Oh, he doesn't look like
Speaker 1: he just looks like Joe Looney, you know, with Joe
Speaker 1: Looney wearing the number twenty. He doesn't look like Adonnas. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he looks the same. Yeah, I think so. I think he.
Speaker 1: I will say this though, the fact that he hasn't
Speaker 1: been hit for six weeks I think is a good thing.
Speaker 1: Let's see you just yea, he kind of healed up
Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean he was he was a
Speaker 1: guy kind of carrying the mail for you. Then that
Speaker 1: those first eight games. He actually said one of those
Speaker 1: court appearances he had after a thirty carry game helped
Speaker 1: him a little bit that he you know, physical standpoint,
Speaker 1: that he wasn't practicing that. Yeah, gave him a little
Speaker 1: break physically. Yeah, Yeah, I'm okay handling the ball twenty
Speaker 1: four times. Say we get hey, I am perfectly fine
Speaker 1: with that. Can I play another quick game before we
Speaker 1: get to the travel Just because we're on these uh
Speaker 1: yes or nose and this is we're gonna say, you
Speaker 1: get to keep this gift or you're gonna send it
Speaker 1: off like it I give it back to Mickey, you
Speaker 1: can regift it. What's that I'm gonna REGI I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say so, you're gonna either say yes to this or
Speaker 1: just give it to your mom, give it to someone else,
Speaker 1: give it to anyone else. All right? Zeke has one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty total yards total yards, easy one, give
Speaker 1: you a softball. I'm taking that gift. I would take
Speaker 1: that gift. I'm gonna go under. But I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be well over one hundred total. You don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna have the extra catch or that one tooth catch.
Speaker 1: I could see him going one hundred and twenty, one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty all purpose, but maybe not one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty. Okay, I'll take two hundred and fifty. You're
Speaker 1: going over, Okay, three and one on that, Hey, Dak
Speaker 1: will return to Pro Bowl form with Zeke's appearance on
Speaker 1: the field, who's playing on the offensive line, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be it's gonna be Barnbell. Yeah, let's say, let's be
Speaker 1: a little realistic. I'm still I'm gonna say that taking that,
Speaker 1: I'll take that. I'll tell you what I'm gonna I'll
Speaker 1: ride that too, because I think that I think that
Speaker 1: if it turns into if it turns into the Dallas
Speaker 1: having success running the football, I think it helps him
Speaker 1: in other avenues. I think all of a sudden, Seattle
Speaker 1: is so worried about that. And there was a time
Speaker 1: where Seattle could cover and not worry about this. I
Speaker 1: think they have to worry about it now. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm gonna go Pro Bowl form. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: why I said. I thought the numbers, you know, for
Speaker 1: for Dak would improve. Does that mean he has like
Speaker 1: a hundred quarterback rating. I'm gonna go in the ninety
Speaker 1: one range, ninety two range on that quarterback rating. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that I think that it helps. I do
Speaker 1: think it really does if they get if they can
Speaker 1: make Seattle totally commit to having to stop the run
Speaker 1: and can keep this rush. Now, if it flips the
Speaker 1: other way, get ready for sixty nine rating or something
Speaker 1: like that, because then it becomes then it becomes Mickey's
Speaker 1: worrisome part of can Byron Bell hold up? So yes
Speaker 1: or no? I said yes, yes all day. I said
Speaker 1: yes to start the game. Hey, I like it. Yes,
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense can contain Russell Wilson. I think that goes
Speaker 1: into what you do. What is contained defined, contain contain
Speaker 1: means that that's not that's not your huge concern of
Speaker 1: the whole game. And he doesn't throw for three touchdowns
Speaker 1: and rushes for ano the eighty five yards. He's not
Speaker 1: having a Philip Rivers day on this defense. Well, you
Speaker 1: won't have a Philip Rivers day to way Philip Rivers had,
Speaker 1: which probably may be the guy that runs all over
Speaker 1: the place and creates problems for you. I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: I'm giving you that gift back. Oh yeah, I'm the
Speaker 1: same way. I mean, I think Dallas gonna win this game,
Speaker 1: but I think he's gonna make his share of plays
Speaker 1: because he's really he's not all they've got, but he's
Speaker 1: their focal point. So they sacked him seven times last week.
Speaker 1: You can only hope, you can only hope you get
Speaker 1: that much pressure. Oh yeah, I'm worried about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're giving that one back. Yeah, you're asking for the
Speaker 1: gift for seat on that one. Yes, Yeah, making sure okay,
Speaker 1: last one guys, Seahawks too banged up to even have
Speaker 1: a playoff push. That's reasonable for them. I am giving
Speaker 1: that gift back. I think they've got a lot to
Speaker 1: play for. And Rob said it, they played a lot
Speaker 1: of big games. Pete Carroll is not going to let
Speaker 1: them come halfway across the country and lay down they
Speaker 1: They were bad in that game against the Rams the
Speaker 1: other day at home, and that has to be in
Speaker 1: the back of their mind. But I there's too many
Speaker 1: good players on this team, especially at the quarterback. We've
Speaker 1: talked about him, the safety, the defensive line. There's just
Speaker 1: too many players. Agreed, I'm getting back, Yep, get that back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well so I got one for you. Yeah. Zeke talks
Speaker 1: after the game. Zeke talks after the game. Does he
Speaker 1: traditionally talk after the game. Yeah, He's usually the first
Speaker 1: one at his locker. Yea, yeah, because I don't go
Speaker 1: to the game, So yeah, I'm gonna say yes. But
Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever not talked after a game,
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I'll take it. You ask the follow
Speaker 1: up question, how does it go? How does it go?
Speaker 1: I think you will go. Well, I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: something today. Do you think Zeke talks today? No? No,
Speaker 1: do you think do you think Zeke has a little
Speaker 1: bit of remorse to what happened yesterday with that whole thing? No? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think in a mean way, like, man, I'm
Speaker 1: so glad I did what. I think he honestly is
Speaker 1: focused on this week so much on Sure. No, he
Speaker 1: was told not to talk, right, Yeah, I mean but
Speaker 1: why is that not obvious to everybody? Because it is
Speaker 1: to me? Am I stupid. They're trying to make money
Speaker 1: off a documentary and they told him do not talk
Speaker 1: about what you did, what went on, any of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then that's a bad plan by his manager exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's what took place. Yeah, but he I think that.
Speaker 1: I think that from our standpoint too, we don't need
Speaker 1: to be so antagonistic about it though. The approach, you
Speaker 1: don't have to be contentious. Yeah, and I think I
Speaker 1: think a certain I think a certain television personality in
Speaker 1: this local thing kind of gave it the why not
Speaker 1: and that don't be that guy that's shut it down
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, don't be that guy. You have to
Speaker 1: be smarter with your interviewing skills. Sure, it's like I
Speaker 1: told the guys this morning. You know, if you're a
Speaker 1: like an investigator or the police department. Now you pull
Speaker 1: somebody in, the first question is did you do it? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: you make small talk to cup of coffee. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but how you feeling a little nervous, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: just small talk before you get to the question, and
Speaker 1: then at least you would have had a story, right,
Speaker 1: you know, he would have maybe said, yeah, I'm really
Speaker 1: glad to be here with you know, it felt good
Speaker 1: to practice. You know, hey, girlie ran for two whatever
Speaker 1: I told and you and what do you think you
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to run? I think that's the I
Speaker 1: think that's a perfect question. And then you get to
Speaker 1: the end and you go, okay, bring it up again.
Speaker 1: And if he says no, at least you've got something
Speaker 1: to give the fans. That's where that's the problem with
Speaker 1: journalistic stuff today that we're looking for the we're looking
Speaker 1: for the clip that's gonna make the highlight right, and
Speaker 1: then the story, instead of being about him, became about oh,
Speaker 1: the offended media. You know, we're offended and it was wrong.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just wrong. And I don't care
Speaker 1: if the media is offended. That's part of our job.
Speaker 1: You've been I mean, you're exactly right, Brian on the
Speaker 1: fact that we're now so hungry for that clickbait of like, well,
Speaker 1: Zeke told me he's so ready to just go down
Speaker 1: the throats of Seattle, and it's like, you want that,
Speaker 1: And that would have been fine if he would have
Speaker 1: said that, but don't ask him what he didn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about. Yeah, yeah, so you know, and you
Speaker 1: gets on us. You got what you deserved. That's on
Speaker 1: us we need. And I know Rob thinks you were
Speaker 1: supposed to ask it, and I agree you got to
Speaker 1: ask it, but there are ways to do it. I
Speaker 1: didn't disagree with you there, and you know you don't
Speaker 1: need to be contentious. Don't let your personal feelings get hurt. Sure, well, hey,
Speaker 1: our feelings aren't hurt. But Rob about no Twitter poll today?
Speaker 1: Can you hold it for tomorrow because I think it's
Speaker 1: a good Friday. One to perfect. Guys, get to Twitter voter.
Speaker 1: Now you said good Friday. I said it's good one
Speaker 1: for Friday. It will be a good Friday of Zeke
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