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Speaker 1: Episode number forty. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We're locking the SWBC Mortgage studios. We're talking Cowboys football today.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you guys ready for the Sunday game.
Speaker 1: Cowboys take on the Denver Broncos in Denvert Milehouse, Mile
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Speaker 1: will take on the Broncos at three thirty five Central
Speaker 1: Time this Sunday. We'll get you guys ready for that game.
Speaker 1: Throughout the show today, we're gonna talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about injuries. Let you guys know what we think as
Speaker 1: far as what players should be playing this weekend and
Speaker 1: maybe not, and also talk about our inactives list what
Speaker 1: we think will happen there. And then I had some questions.
Speaker 1: I was looking at these two teams, and there were
Speaker 1: some interesting things when you compare what happened last week
Speaker 1: with each of these teams in their respective games, and
Speaker 1: some things that are kind of some trends that you
Speaker 1: saw in that first game that are going to have
Speaker 1: to be broken one way or the other this week,
Speaker 1: and I want to get your opinions on those things.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that coming up here as well. So
Speaker 1: let's start first with injuries. Yesterday on the injury report,
Speaker 1: Cowboys have Anthony Hitchens Orlando Scandrick who were out, Terrence
Speaker 1: Williams did not practice again, and Byron Jones now shows
Speaker 1: up on the injury report as a limited participant in practice.
Speaker 1: With a growing injury list, start first with Terrence Williams.
Speaker 1: At this point, is he out of the boot or
Speaker 1: is he still in the boot that he was sporting
Speaker 1: earlier in the week. I haven't really seen him in
Speaker 1: the locker room, but as far as on the field,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he's not in the boot. I mean
Speaker 1: that the boot is just something, you know, just to
Speaker 1: kind of help him as he as. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: better to be in it than out, but I mean
Speaker 1: you don't like have to have it to walk. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's out of it for the most part. Him is
Speaker 1: He's doing some some things at practice, but I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll see today. Today is the big day for him.
Speaker 1: He's got to do something. I would imagine he's not
Speaker 1: that status of like just sit all week and then play,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think. And they so they signed Brian Brown
Speaker 1: to help him get through practice this week, and Bryce
Speaker 1: Butler has been working with the first team. Noah Brown
Speaker 1: has been working with the second team. So I mean
Speaker 1: they're ready if Terrence isn't. Yeah, I don't know. Do
Speaker 1: you think he needs to practice today to be ready
Speaker 1: to go knowing that he played the whole game on
Speaker 1: Sunday night with the injury, I just wouldn't. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: expect him to play if he doesn't do anything for
Speaker 1: three days, I wouldn't. I'd be surprised. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I still be surprised if he doesn't play at all,
Speaker 1: because he walked. I mean he went into the locker
Speaker 1: room after you know, after the injury. They looked at it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't there's no structural damage. It was just you
Speaker 1: have a sprained ankle. You have to just fight through it.
Speaker 1: And he fought through it. I can't imagine seven days
Speaker 1: later he can't fight through it again. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: why I kind of wonder if he really has to
Speaker 1: do anything in practice. Yeah, you kind of just say
Speaker 1: rest him all week. Yeah, give him treatment all week.
Speaker 1: You get to set Sunday, and hopefully he feels great
Speaker 1: enough to play. He knows what he's supposed to do, right,
Speaker 1: it makes sense. Yeah. I kind of waffle on this thing.
Speaker 1: I was waffling yesterday. I don't have a better feel
Speaker 1: for it today. I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: either way. What about fawful? I faffle every day, got
Speaker 1: every single day. That's good to know. Yeah, awesome. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Byron Jones. Yesterday he shows up on
Speaker 1: the injury poort. Is this something that happened in practice
Speaker 1: or is this something that lingered from the game that
Speaker 1: kind of came to a head yesterday. I honestly don't know,
Speaker 1: because I mean, if a guy doesn't leave the game,
Speaker 1: then you don't think to ask him if he's okay.
Speaker 1: You know, I know the train were working on his
Speaker 1: leg in the early part of practice before team even started,
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't get the impression that this
Speaker 1: is something that happened to him while he was running
Speaker 1: for a ball or something like that. I think whether
Speaker 1: whether it happened in Wednesday's practice or during the game,
Speaker 1: either way, he kind of knew he had some soreness there.
Speaker 1: I asked him yesterday in the locker room if he
Speaker 1: was all right. He said, yeah, he's fine. I said, well,
Speaker 1: what do you have? He said, I'm fine. I was like,
Speaker 1: do you have, like an injury? I'm fine, So it's fine. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's and that's a later did they officially come out
Speaker 1: and say it was a groin injury, But he's he
Speaker 1: wasn't even revealing what it was, so he's probably going
Speaker 1: to be playing. That's football players right there. That's the
Speaker 1: training staff that's got after him already and said, you know,
Speaker 1: said don't don't say anything. You're fine. You don't need
Speaker 1: to be talking about it through the media. So he didn't.
Speaker 1: And at this point, I mean, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: groin injury. But I guess it sounds like from listening
Speaker 1: to you guys, you don't expect that this is something
Speaker 1: that's to hold him out of the game. Sunday. I
Speaker 1: don't get the impression it is, though, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I mean, they were working on it before practice even started,
Speaker 1: which you know, but he was suited up and participating
Speaker 1: in stuff, which leads me to believe that it's a
Speaker 1: minor But you know, but I always want to give
Speaker 1: it both sides of the argument. This was very similar
Speaker 1: to what happened to Tying around this time last year,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, you know, you know, they
Speaker 1: want to be precautionary with it, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. He was limited, he did this,
Speaker 1: he did that, and then he sat out of the
Speaker 1: Bears game, which was a shocker to me at least.
Speaker 1: So and I don't know for sure what's going on
Speaker 1: with Byron, but I think it's good to see both
Speaker 1: sides of that argument, which is that I don't get
Speaker 1: the impression this is serious, and I would guess he's
Speaker 1: gonna play, but he's on the injury report, so that's
Speaker 1: always something worth keeping. It. Would you assume that if
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to play. The Cowboys would have to
Speaker 1: make a move because they only have four safeties that
Speaker 1: they have on the active roster right now. And I
Speaker 1: know we talk about Cheetah Bay being able to possibly
Speaker 1: swap back over there, but there's a chance that Orlando
Speaker 1: doesn't play this week, which means you're one down on
Speaker 1: cornerbacks as well. Do you think they would need an
Speaker 1: extra body to go into that game? You think they're
Speaker 1: cool with three safeties and then the BeVier corners that
Speaker 1: they have. Yeah, I think they'd be fine. Cheeto can
Speaker 1: play some safety in a pinch. I know he hasn't
Speaker 1: done it, but he can do that, and you've got
Speaker 1: you've got been Wickery as an extra corner. I think
Speaker 1: they could probably make it through this game. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about the inactives. I'll start first with
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that I think we feel pretty
Speaker 1: comfortable we'll be on the on the inactives list, mainly
Speaker 1: because either they were on it last week and nothing
Speaker 1: has changed at their position, or because of injury. So
Speaker 1: let's Anthony Hitchens, Orlando Scandrick, Jonathan Cooper, Cooper, Rush, Darren McFadden.
Speaker 1: We all agree on those five Yes, Nick, I mean
Speaker 1: that's his radio you got. That's probably the way it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. I'm not gonna sit here and say I
Speaker 1: agree with it, but yeah, I didn't ask if you
Speaker 1: agree with I said, do we expect it? That's gonna
Speaker 1: be the way it is. I guess. So yeah, all right, Amber, Yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 1: So the last two spots one yard this week? I'm
Speaker 1: sorry he could he might average one yard? Morris Nick? Yeah, Nick,
Speaker 1: Nick doesn't like their Well why don't we just detour's?
Speaker 1: Nick is working so hard to detour this thing, and
Speaker 1: let's just say, okay, speak your piece on the whole.
Speaker 1: On the backup running back spots, they like Alfred Morris
Speaker 1: because he's a good guy and he works hard and
Speaker 1: he doesn't get hurt. So they go for him and
Speaker 1: his one yard average, and they're going with a clearly
Speaker 1: better football player that they're putting on the bench, probably
Speaker 1: because they're mad at him because he missed a few
Speaker 1: blocks and mad at him because of what happened last year.
Speaker 1: What happened last year? Well then he got some kind
Speaker 1: of injury. Oh okay, yeah, do you really think he's
Speaker 1: a clearly better because I don't think I mean, you
Speaker 1: can't think you can split hair. You can split hairs
Speaker 1: and say and say, yeah, he does some things better
Speaker 1: than Alfred Morris, but when you look at him holistically
Speaker 1: as running backs and look at their careers, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's a that's a clear difference, the epitome of splitting hairs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, I don't think your argument. No. I just
Speaker 1: think that if you had to start, if you're I'm
Speaker 1: on the starting running back, then you've got a really
Speaker 1: good argument there, because then you got a guy that's
Speaker 1: that's done it for He's he's a little bit younger,
Speaker 1: he's a little bit more productive, but he's not as explosive.
Speaker 1: But if you got a guy that's a backup number
Speaker 1: two role that could come into the situation, and he's
Speaker 1: been proven that he is a good player to come
Speaker 1: in and work, you know, he could split carries and
Speaker 1: he's done it his whole career. I think that he's
Speaker 1: a much He's a more explosive player too. He is
Speaker 1: a better guy for what you need to come into
Speaker 1: the third the third series and just make a difference.
Speaker 1: When's the last time we've seen that level of explosion though,
Speaker 1: because he didn't play all last year, I don't know
Speaker 1: that he was better in the preseason this year than
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris. I didn't see that kind of explosion that
Speaker 1: that that you say, So, how do we know that's
Speaker 1: still the same guy that he was at one point
Speaker 1: his career, Because you're right, at one point his career
Speaker 1: he was he was a very explosive back. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's still that guy. I think
Speaker 1: he in the preseason I thought he was better, but
Speaker 1: I'll seems to think so. I didn't think so well.
Speaker 1: I never forget Nick's college team of choice. I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to pay a lot of
Speaker 1: those guys. I'm kidding. I know I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: bring Felix back, So I mean I don't Maybe you are. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to fat and Hill listen to the situation.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the case. I don't know. And
Speaker 1: then that went downhill. Yeah, I just think for this role,
Speaker 1: it's it's it doesn't make any sense. He comes in
Speaker 1: you want, you got the best running back in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He comes off the field. You want some kind of
Speaker 1: like somebody to come in here and like help the situation,
Speaker 1: and then it's just like night and day. Difference between
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris and Zeke and I don't think it would
Speaker 1: be as much of a drop off if you come
Speaker 1: in and you bring in a guy that can that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he can at least hit the whole. And
Speaker 1: if you're gonna play Morris play, don't want to run
Speaker 1: these like off tackle plays that take four days to
Speaker 1: get there. That's not to me. That's not his thing.
Speaker 1: He needs to get hit the whole and then do
Speaker 1: some things, you know, jitterbug time. And maybe that's it.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe what they're doing with him, I don't feel
Speaker 1: like he's that guy that can like way for way
Speaker 1: for way for it, hit it. I think he's more
Speaker 1: just get it. I don't disagree, but I just think
Speaker 1: it's negligible when you consider the number of touches involved.
Speaker 1: I mean, but we're talking about the seven, we're talking
Speaker 1: about the bottom of them of the roster, because that's
Speaker 1: how I don't know what we were talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just said, yeah, I agree, that's what we're gonna do. Well,
Speaker 1: thanks for the last five. That's what we're gonna do though.
Speaker 1: That was good, all right? So so the next one
Speaker 1: I would talk about would be one of these two,
Speaker 1: either Noah Brown of Terence Williams. You guys agree there, yes?
Speaker 1: And who you think right now? If you had to guess,
Speaker 1: I know we said there's a possibility. If you had
Speaker 1: to guess your best estimation, what would you say is
Speaker 1: who's going to be an active there on Friday morning?
Speaker 1: I think it'll be Noah Brown, But talk to me
Speaker 1: on Sunday inactive? Yes, yeah, inactive? Yeah? So do you
Speaker 1: think Terence is will play right now? Yes? Okay? All right?
Speaker 1: And then for the final spot, um, you kind of
Speaker 1: I think you kind of are between two people, but
Speaker 1: they've been Wickery and Jay Elliott. Is there somebody else
Speaker 1: you guys think falls into that category of someone that
Speaker 1: you would make inactive or one of those two? Not
Speaker 1: after the night Charles Tapper had Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Tapper. I don't think it would be Elliott. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I know he didn't play, but I still
Speaker 1: think that you need I think that you need that
Speaker 1: many linebackers to be at uniform. SOB, I've been Wickery,
Speaker 1: Do you really though. I mean, let's think about that
Speaker 1: first five linebackers. Is that what they had? Yes, there's
Speaker 1: no six, Yeah, but wouldn't Elliott one of them? Yes? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he didn't. So could you go with five on
Speaker 1: a team where you go Nickel a lot? Now? I
Speaker 1: don't think he can go five. I really don't, not
Speaker 1: when you when you weigh in all the situations. I
Speaker 1: love Sean Lee, but he's still he's still injury prone. Wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, They've got seven linebackers on the roster,
Speaker 1: including Hitchens, right, Okay, I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: you got Durant, Jalen Smith. I just I don't I
Speaker 1: mean Wilbur. They don't even like to play Wilbur that
Speaker 1: much other than just outside linebacker or be just sam.
Speaker 1: I would go with six. I don't. I don't like
Speaker 1: that just having five. I'm surprised he didn't play. He
Speaker 1: might not have been as ready as they thought he
Speaker 1: would be, but I would think they'd get him up
Speaker 1: to speed. So you think Ben Wickery is the guy? Well,
Speaker 1: or is there another person that maybe I already got
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis. No, I did not. I assume Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: would play this week. I think Jordan Lewis will be inactive.
Speaker 1: I think he'll play I so, so he plays for Scandrey, right, yeah, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: we still need one more. Yea, they did have two
Speaker 1: corners last week and Lewis and been Wickery. You said Cooper,
Speaker 1: I did say Cooper? Then yeah, I think Amber again.
Speaker 1: All right, So what we have so far as Hitchen, Scandrick,
Speaker 1: Cooper and Cooper, Um, Darren mc aden and Noah Brown.
Speaker 1: So we need one more between presumably Ben Wickery or
Speaker 1: Elliott or some other guy that that again I'm not
Speaker 1: thinking about. I'm outthrow Ben Wickery, I say him. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, you only have to give up your
Speaker 1: pick if you don't play him. And you've got Cheeto
Speaker 1: and Lewis both practicing full this week, so I would
Speaker 1: probably say him. Okay, I would go with that one
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, I think they did just find
Speaker 1: last week, you know, with the way they kind of
Speaker 1: had it there. And you know, I talked to Scandrick yesterday,
Speaker 1: and you know how we've discussed how sometimes her and
Speaker 1: players can go ahead and play with some kind of
Speaker 1: protection in their hand. He told me that he didn't
Speaker 1: feel any pain at all. Now. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's under some kind of medication or any of that,
Speaker 1: but according to him, the only time he felt really
Speaker 1: a lot of pain was right after the game when
Speaker 1: he got home. But since then he's like, no, I
Speaker 1: don't feel any pain. But he said he still had
Speaker 1: to get his stitches out right, So sometimes then he
Speaker 1: gets to that point like it doesn't matter if it
Speaker 1: hurts or not. You know, it doesn't mean you can
Speaker 1: still play, right, Yeah, that's you risk. I mean when
Speaker 1: you have stitches, there's a chance you risk that those
Speaker 1: stitches reopen, right. I mean he showed me his hand.
Speaker 1: He's like, look, no, I don't feel pain. But has
Speaker 1: he tackled anyone? I mean, like that seems weird? Does
Speaker 1: this say I don't feel or bang it against the helmet,
Speaker 1: bang it against shoulder pads, bang it against the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, this way of the game, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot more. I mean it's interesting that you don't
Speaker 1: feel pain, But but I would you feel pain if
Speaker 1: you're gonna get if you're gonna try to tackle someone.
Speaker 1: But then if you don't feel pain, you can still
Speaker 1: open up that wound and you know, hurt yourself. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Like I I just don't see him him
Speaker 1: playing this week, but they're not ruling him out. And
Speaker 1: he has a face you just never know what he's
Speaker 1: really thinking. He couldn't you couldn't read his face, not
Speaker 1: one that's a poker face. Yeah all right, So so so
Speaker 1: I guess are we are we concluding that Ben Wickery
Speaker 1: is probably the guy I would go with him? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right? All right, So that's your seven that we
Speaker 1: think will be an active Hitchen Skeandrick, Jonathan Cooper, Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: Darren McFadden, Noah Brown, and ben A Ben Wickery. Make
Speaker 1: sure you check out the pregame show because I'm sure
Speaker 1: from the sideline we will have more information on that
Speaker 1: before the game. So, I honestly, I think I would
Speaker 1: go with with Ben Wickery to play. And I think
Speaker 1: I would sit Xavier Woods last week, even knowing that,
Speaker 1: even knowing that your starter has a growing even if
Speaker 1: he can play, I think he's fine. I mean, I
Speaker 1: really do not concerns about about the Byron Jones situation.
Speaker 1: I just think that I would be more concerned about
Speaker 1: Cheeto playing corner, Jordan Lewis playing corner, and maybe I
Speaker 1: would I'd rather see a guy that's that's a little
Speaker 1: bit more veteran experience. And so then if you need
Speaker 1: to get into a situation to play safeties, and then
Speaker 1: maybe Cheeto could play that. You know, he could play
Speaker 1: in there. I just and we're talking about some rookies
Speaker 1: that have never played in the NFL and then they're
Speaker 1: gonna play up there in the altitude. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just although one of them is played well, I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about Cheetah, I'm not talking I'm talking about like
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods and like Geordan Lewis and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I would rather see Ben Wickery in this game.
Speaker 1: And then if you get into us a pinch, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know why you got to play the fourth
Speaker 1: fourth safety there. I think if Cheetah can do some
Speaker 1: things like that, then he could be your fourth safety.
Speaker 1: It rarely comes down to needing him to play safety.
Speaker 1: How much did he play last week? How much he
Speaker 1: play safety last week? Xavier Woods, I don't think, donnut.
Speaker 1: I think he didn't play safety. He played special special
Speaker 1: teams right, and he's a good special teams player, so
Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they
Speaker 1: did that. But I think Dave said it last week
Speaker 1: about ben Wickery. If you don't play him, you don't
Speaker 1: give up a draft pick. So you're only playing him
Speaker 1: if you if you really need him, right, so you
Speaker 1: just kind of hold him and see what happens, and
Speaker 1: if you need him a work certain week, you got him.
Speaker 1: If not, then take your chances. Right, they'll hold veterans,
Speaker 1: They'll they'll sit some. I mean they don't care about
Speaker 1: that part. You know, they sat Morris last year, and
Speaker 1: they sat McFadden and been with great. I mean they don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really care about that stuff, which is good.
Speaker 1: You really shouldn't care about feelings about that. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take our first break. When we come back, I
Speaker 1: want to jump into some of these questions I have
Speaker 1: for these guys that will help us give a good
Speaker 1: opinion on what we think is going to happen this Sunday.
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Speaker 1: Back to the brink, Welcome back. We're in segment two
Speaker 1: of the break lick from the s WBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 1: at the Star talking about Cowboys versus Broncos. Have some
Speaker 1: questions for you guys. So, so here's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I saw I was looking at the two different teams
Speaker 1: and what they did last week against their opponents, and
Speaker 1: I saw some things that kind of were similar between
Speaker 1: the two teams that they can't continue that that whatever
Speaker 1: trend was started last week can't continue this week for
Speaker 1: both teams. So I'm going to point out some of
Speaker 1: those things, and I want to get from you guys.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you a question that will get you
Speaker 1: to tell me whether you think which team's trend will
Speaker 1: continue versus the other. Does that all make sense? You'll
Speaker 1: make it'll make sense. Can take care? So here's what
Speaker 1: we're thinking. First one, we're gonna throw out Trevor Simeon
Speaker 1: last week was sacked four times by the Chargers. Last week,
Speaker 1: Dallas sacked Eli three times. This week, Dallas will sack
Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon four or more times or three or less times,
Speaker 1: three or less or less three or less. Why because
Speaker 1: they do not have two first round defensive ends Russia
Speaker 1: and the pass or like the Chargers. Dude, Chargers have
Speaker 1: some elite pass rushers and the Cowboys really don't have that.
Speaker 1: So you don't believe in what the Cowboys were able
Speaker 1: to do last week? You think that was more about
Speaker 1: the Giants offensive line. Yeah, I mean, I definitely think
Speaker 1: that it's about the Giants offensive line. And let's be honest,
Speaker 1: it was four sacks. Should have been four sacks. Agree
Speaker 1: that was your her prediction and they only counted as three.
Speaker 1: But the officials should have gone down and changed that
Speaker 1: play at the end. Is this offensive line appreciably better
Speaker 1: than the Giants? I don't know about appreciate better, but
Speaker 1: it's yeah, they're better, although it's Ron Leary's probably not
Speaker 1: gonna play. Yeah, they'd they have issues, right, They definitely
Speaker 1: have some issues too, but I don't think it's like
Speaker 1: to the level of the Giants. I think they'll patch
Speaker 1: it up, but I just don't see the Cowboys getting
Speaker 1: I mean, three would be another good day, Three would
Speaker 1: be a great Yeah, I don't see it being over
Speaker 1: three a game is forty eight for a season, which
Speaker 1: would put you at or near the top of the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: right now, I think they're roughly around I would guess
Speaker 1: around ten to fifteen in the league, or maybe maybe
Speaker 1: a little US maybe eight to ten. Yeah, in the league.
Speaker 1: There are a couple of teams that had much better,
Speaker 1: Like I know that one team had six last week.
Speaker 1: A couple had five. So yeah, Jacksonville had seven, right
Speaker 1: was the seventh though six I think seven plays Campbell
Speaker 1: had four. More than three is an amazing day. I
Speaker 1: need to see it from these guys more than once
Speaker 1: to think that they can do that. I don't know
Speaker 1: that DeMarcus Lawrence does have the belt. He does, he
Speaker 1: does have the belt. I think even if they don't
Speaker 1: get as many sacks, I think they'll still be able
Speaker 1: to really put a lot of pressure on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And one thing I did notice last week and watching
Speaker 1: that game, Trevor Simeon, as do a lot of quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the league, so not trying to just single him out.
Speaker 1: But you get pressure on him, he gets really erratic,
Speaker 1: like he's quick to try to just get rid of
Speaker 1: the ball. Once that pressure starts coming, and you get
Speaker 1: pressure on in one play, it affects him the next
Speaker 1: play as well. It seems like, so so pressure I
Speaker 1: think will be a big deal for this particular game.
Speaker 1: They'll need to get some good pressure on him consistently.
Speaker 1: And I pause the game real quick. Pressure. You've detoured
Speaker 1: us once today again, wold Deshaun Watson. Wow, I mean
Speaker 1: like that run, but yes, but but not even that,
Speaker 1: just just the whole game. I mean, just just kind
Speaker 1: of coming in there and he I mean he looks
Speaker 1: like I don't even know why after you watch the
Speaker 1: National Championship game, like why did teams even dabble on
Speaker 1: him at all? Like did you see it? Really? Twelfth?
Speaker 1: Was he twelfth? Overall? Eleventh? I thought he was more
Speaker 1: the Holmes went tenth and then the Texans traded up
Speaker 1: to like, yeah, fourteenth or something something like that. But
Speaker 1: I mean, he just even though you're talking about like
Speaker 1: the pressure coming at him, like there were times he
Speaker 1: looked rattled, but still when you have the ability to
Speaker 1: kind of escape from that and keep your eyes down field.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he made them throw. Sometimes he just took off
Speaker 1: and ran like the touchdown. I mean, you always love
Speaker 1: the back stiff farm like, just from the back, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna keep running and just knock people down. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to get a first down, and he says that,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go for the touchdown. Yeah, to come
Speaker 1: to overall twelve. Thank you. It was a great run.
Speaker 1: It really was a great run. I mean, but you
Speaker 1: can just tell, like, I mean, he seems I know,
Speaker 1: he wears the same number all that, but it just
Speaker 1: seems dak like. Even though he's a little bit more
Speaker 1: athletic than Deck, he just seems dac like in that
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter where it looks like, in practice, whatever,
Speaker 1: He's gonna come in there and he's gonna I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the quarterback of the future. That future is now for.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no turning back right to think you
Speaker 1: wouldn't think they go back to another quarterback at this point.
Speaker 1: They need to get on the phone with Dwayne Brown
Speaker 1: because they're offensive lines. It is yeah, and that's the
Speaker 1: problem for him. I know people try to keep comparing
Speaker 1: him to Dak, but I tell my friends in Houston, like,
Speaker 1: the problem still is he doesn't have the supporting cast
Speaker 1: around him that Dak did. That's what made Dak so
Speaker 1: successful in his rookie year. I'm not taking anything away
Speaker 1: from Dak, but it is hard to play quarterback as
Speaker 1: a rookie. But when you have a great offensive line,
Speaker 1: I just a good offensive a great offensive line, a
Speaker 1: really great running game and receiving weapons, and a good
Speaker 1: tight end. Like last night, the Texans were down to
Speaker 1: one tight end and it was a practice squad guy.
Speaker 1: So usually a quarterback has a tight end he can
Speaker 1: just kind of dump it off to. He didn't even
Speaker 1: have that last night. So there are a lot of
Speaker 1: differences between what Dak was facing last year and what
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson will be facing this year. Yeah, give him
Speaker 1: some help around him. But man, he looks really good.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's one game, but he's He's
Speaker 1: looked good even before that though. Yeah, all right, back
Speaker 1: to the question. Back to the game. Let's go to
Speaker 1: question number two. Dak Prescott sack was sacked one time
Speaker 1: last week against the Giants, Denver had one sack versus
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers. Dak will be sacked in this game more
Speaker 1: than one time or zero to one time. More than one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: more too, but two? Do you know? I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think he's going down five or six times. But
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's hard to think just just the one. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll go. We'll go with more than one. How does
Speaker 1: Dallas slow that pass rush? What they need to do.
Speaker 1: We'll run the ball on him. I mean, run the
Speaker 1: ball on first down, second. You don't have to run
Speaker 1: it all the time. But but when you do run
Speaker 1: the ball, get four or five yards, get some big
Speaker 1: chunk plays like keep him out of third and third
Speaker 1: and eight, third and nine, and then sometimes I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, just keep the underneath short route. I think
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley's gonna have a big game. I really do.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's he's gonna work the underneath stuff
Speaker 1: they try to blitz, They're they're gonna rush. I think
Speaker 1: I think Beasley is the type of guy, and maybe
Speaker 1: Switzer if he gets involved too. I think you're underneath
Speaker 1: stuff is really going to help move the chains here.
Speaker 1: Maybe tight ends involved, but you know, get the ball
Speaker 1: out quick and get it to those underneath guys and
Speaker 1: let them go make plays. I think Beasley will have
Speaker 1: a big game since he's your guy, Dave. Come Monday,
Speaker 1: what will we be saying about Lyle Collins. I think
Speaker 1: we'll be saying Lyle went against two fantastic players in
Speaker 1: his first two weeks, and all things considered, was far
Speaker 1: from perfect, but solid like he will. If he doesn't
Speaker 1: give up a sact of von Miller, he's gonna get flagged.
Speaker 1: Like I'm just bracing myself for that right now. I
Speaker 1: mean he, I mean, and that's not a knock on him.
Speaker 1: Von Miller's the best pass rusher in the NFL. Right now,
Speaker 1: He's playing at home, where you know that's gonna help
Speaker 1: von Miller. But he the Broncos are obviously playing at home.
Speaker 1: I think he's got a beneficial environment for him. I
Speaker 1: think he's going against the guy who's only started one game,
Speaker 1: and I'm curious to see if the Cowboys try to
Speaker 1: give him a lot of help, whether it's with tight
Speaker 1: ends or running backs. But if they put him out
Speaker 1: there where it's just him and Vaughan fifty or sixty times,
Speaker 1: he'll probably lose a few of those. But again, that's
Speaker 1: the same thing we've been saying about Lyle for a
Speaker 1: month now, which is that he's gonna have his struggles.
Speaker 1: He's not already made all pro but the arrow is
Speaker 1: pointing upward, and I think you saw that last week.
Speaker 1: All right, Next question, Zeke rushed for one hundred and
Speaker 1: four yards versus the Giants. Denver held the charge just
Speaker 1: to sixty four yards rushing. Zeke will rush for one
Speaker 1: hundred more yards this week or less than one hundred
Speaker 1: this week? Over think over going over north two hundred,
Speaker 1: Come on, Nick, let's go two hundred. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I bet he has more all purpose yards this week
Speaker 1: than he did last week. Okay, so we had one forty.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say he has one fifty or more all
Speaker 1: purpose here he is Friday. I have to come up
Speaker 1: with some crazy prediction. Yeah, yeah, that's gonna be happening
Speaker 1: here in just a little bit. That's not in the
Speaker 1: that's not there. But I'll think of something else. One
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty rushing yards for ze twenty rushing so
Speaker 1: better than last week's production gets the Giants. This is
Speaker 1: not as good, obviously as good a rush defense right, Yes,
Speaker 1: this is how you have to do. You just got
Speaker 1: to make sure that you're not down early, but still
Speaker 1: though you have to be down like twenty one points
Speaker 1: or so to really get out of your game plan.
Speaker 1: I mean that's not this offense. No, I guess this
Speaker 1: is not a high powered offense. That's ton that scores
Speaker 1: a ton of points. Right. Ourselves used to say that
Speaker 1: a lot about You know, the score was prohibitive, we
Speaker 1: got down, but I mean think about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if you get down seventeen nothing in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: what is that you still just run the ball, get down.
Speaker 1: You're down by ten at half, and you know things
Speaker 1: are different, so you're never really out of the game.
Speaker 1: You have to abandon your offense. I actually think it's
Speaker 1: the opposite against this team. I think you have to
Speaker 1: go in this game and opposed to what Amber thinks
Speaker 1: always happens, I think you got to have a really
Speaker 1: fast start, right, You got to come out with some
Speaker 1: points because if you can get on there, if we're not,
Speaker 1: if you can get up, if you can get up
Speaker 1: fourteen points on this team, on this offense, to put
Speaker 1: that kind of pressure on the Denver's on Denver's offense.
Speaker 1: I think that's a way that's I think that's the
Speaker 1: best way to beat them, because I don't think they
Speaker 1: have the offense that can score in bunches like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really don't. And then hold on the ball obviously,
Speaker 1: you don't want to turnovers. You don't want them to
Speaker 1: be able to get defensive scores, you don't want special
Speaker 1: team scores. If you put the pressure completely on their
Speaker 1: offense to be able to score and come back in
Speaker 1: a game, I think that's the way to beat them.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have that ability. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think the good thing also is with the Cowboys offensive
Speaker 1: line going against their defensive line. Dad has the ability
Speaker 1: to do so many things that either you know, throw
Speaker 1: a quick pass or let's say run the ball or whatever.
Speaker 1: Now he will have to have to be faster than
Speaker 1: usual because I don't know how long can layl Calling's
Speaker 1: gonna hold off von Miller there. But even then, what
Speaker 1: I'd really like about Dak is his ability to think
Speaker 1: pretty quickly and kind of if he doesn't see anyone open,
Speaker 1: he'll still run, you know, And that would be key
Speaker 1: to this game. I think, just his ability to react
Speaker 1: fast and even run the ball himself, because there should
Speaker 1: be running lanes the way that they rush the pass
Speaker 1: or they get up feel quick, so it should create
Speaker 1: some running lanes for him in that scenario. So if
Speaker 1: you if you sense that there's not going to be
Speaker 1: a guy coming open, and you got that running lane
Speaker 1: open to you at the moment, get out there and
Speaker 1: see what you can do. And then good thing about
Speaker 1: Dak too is it's not just about running. He can
Speaker 1: run and get outside the pocket and buy himself time.
Speaker 1: He throws, I think just as well when he's on
Speaker 1: the run as he does when he's standing in the pocket.
Speaker 1: Worth pointing out too that Jared Crick's having back surgery.
Speaker 1: He's out. Trickett, Yes, starting defensive end for the Broncos.
Speaker 1: That's big. So when did Deck come up? Has he
Speaker 1: has he been on the act within Well, he's been
Speaker 1: on the injury report, but that was reported within the
Speaker 1: last hour. So so he's out for sure. He's out
Speaker 1: for sure. Adam Gotsis, who played against the Chargers, I
Speaker 1: hope I pronounced that right, talked to us about is
Speaker 1: he is he a young guy, older guy. Gotsis, he's um,
Speaker 1: he's a developmentally he's a Denver guy. He's um, they
Speaker 1: drafted him. If they didn't draft him, they developed him.
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah fall long he's been in. No,
Speaker 1: thank you for the reason now, No, the reason I
Speaker 1: was that. The reason I was asking that is because
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out if it's been why
Speaker 1: why you've been doing the draft show that you so
Speaker 1: you could give us some nugget. No, No, I got
Speaker 1: a college right, No he does not. Yeah, he's not
Speaker 1: on my radar. Unfortunately. Crick is a guy that they
Speaker 1: brought in from Houston though he's a veteran, and he
Speaker 1: started the game on Monday and got hurt during it.
Speaker 1: He was limited early in the week and then they
Speaker 1: downgrade him and realized it was worse than they thought. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's something to watch, especially when you're talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: how well the Cowboys might run the ball in this game,
Speaker 1: and they've been banked up with other guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Derek Wolfe for them is also a guy
Speaker 1: that's not one hundred percent but has been having to play,
Speaker 1: so they have some issues. I mean, I remember that
Speaker 1: guy I was telling talking about I don't even know
Speaker 1: his name, that defensive tackle that they brought off the
Speaker 1: practice squad. But I mean that just goes to show that,
Speaker 1: you know, they're signing people from the practice squad. I
Speaker 1: mean they still kind of there's a lot of moving
Speaker 1: parts there on the defensive line. Probably you can expect
Speaker 1: to see more of Shelby Harris too, which is the
Speaker 1: guy that blocked that kick to preserve the win on
Speaker 1: Monday Night. So that's what I'm looking for. But I
Speaker 1: really for those reasons, and just because I don't think
Speaker 1: they're that's stout against the run, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think Zeke is going to do like a
Speaker 1: buck eighty like he did against some teams last year,
Speaker 1: but I think he should have a pretty good day.
Speaker 1: All right, here's our final question. Dallas heldon the Giants
Speaker 1: to thirty five yards rushing. Last week, Denver rushed for
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty yards versus the Chargers. Dallas will
Speaker 1: allow one hundred and more yards rushing or less than
Speaker 1: one hundred this week to the Denver Broncos. They will
Speaker 1: allow one hundred as a team, not to one specific rusher,
Speaker 1: not to CJ. Anderson, but between him and Charles and
Speaker 1: whatever Simion can do, you think it'll get up to
Speaker 1: that one forty range where it was last week with
Speaker 1: the Chargers. I don't think so. I don't see that.
Speaker 1: I think that depends entirely on how the early part
Speaker 1: of the game goes. Like we just said, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys want to take they don't want you running
Speaker 1: the ball against them. That's how their run defense was
Speaker 1: so good last Year's that opponents, we're trying to keep
Speaker 1: up and we're playing from behind. So if Denver jumps
Speaker 1: out to a ten or seventeen point lead for some reason,
Speaker 1: then yeah, they might flirt with one forty. I mean,
Speaker 1: everything that Cowboys do, and they've done the last two
Speaker 1: years is because of their offense, in my opinion, I mean,
Speaker 1: and just like what Dave was saying, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: the defense did a good job against the run, but
Speaker 1: it's because the Cowboys put them in that position. I mean,
Speaker 1: even last week, Chris Jones had a great game because
Speaker 1: of the offense. If the offense, it doesn't move the
Speaker 1: ball to field or so it'll allow him to make
Speaker 1: that punt to the ten, then he doesn't even have
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't have the game like that. The
Speaker 1: Giants were pinned back the entire game. They couldn't do
Speaker 1: anything because of the running game. You know, It's just
Speaker 1: like the field was just leaning that way and you
Speaker 1: can't do anything that way. So it all starts with
Speaker 1: getting a few first downs, moving the chains, get into
Speaker 1: a comfortable situation where even if you have to punt,
Speaker 1: you're still playing, you know, kind of you're playing downhill.
Speaker 1: If the Broncos run for that type of yardage again,
Speaker 1: it's because the offense is really struggled. That's I feel
Speaker 1: comfortable saying that. All right, do you guys think altitude
Speaker 1: would matter this week? No? No, No, apparently no. I
Speaker 1: mean I don't know much about the whole altitude thing,
Speaker 1: but from the answers I've received from different people that
Speaker 1: have asked, it sounds like it shouldn't affect them. No,
Speaker 1: I think it will. Honestly, I think it will because, well,
Speaker 1: I know this, Dez Bryant has had to leave the
Speaker 1: field several times in games to go because he's because
Speaker 1: he's not hydrated, ride or he needs or he's too
Speaker 1: amped up, he needs to get you know, an IVY
Speaker 1: or something. So I could see it being a problem
Speaker 1: for guys like him. Um. Yeah, And then they they've
Speaker 1: never done before they got a young team. I think
Speaker 1: it could could cause a problem. I mean, but I
Speaker 1: don't know how you would ever equate that. I mean,
Speaker 1: if they're down fourteen nothing in the first quarter, is
Speaker 1: that because of that or just because they're they're not
Speaker 1: playing well or because Dak has a slow start. I
Speaker 1: looked the different We don't know. I looked it up
Speaker 1: before I came on the show. The Broncos are six
Speaker 1: and two at home in their last two seasons and
Speaker 1: one they were nine and seven last year, and the
Speaker 1: year before that, wait, six and two and the season
Speaker 1: oh each year, Oh, I got I guess. Okay, so
Speaker 1: they're twelve and four. But they're a really they're a
Speaker 1: good team. They're a really good football team. I wonder,
Speaker 1: I wonder in years, but they are not a good team.
Speaker 1: What their record looks like at home, I do not know.
Speaker 1: I did not have time to go back, although I well,
Speaker 1: I'll point out the Broncos have pretty rarely been bad.
Speaker 1: Ye have, like really ever And maybe that's part of it.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's it's maybe their floor isn't as low as
Speaker 1: everybody else, because they do still have that thing that
Speaker 1: makes their home games a little bit easier for them
Speaker 1: relative to everyone else. Maybe it's because they've had Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame quarterback play for the vast majority of the
Speaker 1: last twenty five. You don't have Hall of Fame quarterback
Speaker 1: play right now. But I'm just talking. If you go
Speaker 1: back find a season where the Bronchos were really bad,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go back a while because you
Speaker 1: had Elway, you had Manning, even you had a couple
Speaker 1: of years of better J Cutler than what we're used
Speaker 1: to seeing. Yeah, they've had How long has Manning been
Speaker 1: gone from there? One year? Just last year was the
Speaker 1: first year he wasn't the quarterback? Yeah, yeah, him. Your
Speaker 1: concept of time is terrible, Like, seriously, I think I've
Speaker 1: worked here since so five. No, yeah, it seems like
Speaker 1: you've been here since ninety eight, but um there, you
Speaker 1: haven't been here since. I know they lose games at home.
Speaker 1: All teams lose games everywhere. I'm sure it's a hell
Speaker 1: of a home field advantage that plus the crowd. But
Speaker 1: but but I would like to go see those teams
Speaker 1: that are beating them. Yeah, I know one of them
Speaker 1: that has the Chiefs have a knack for being at
Speaker 1: home because they're good and be because they have to
Speaker 1: play there a lot, and if the right Yeah, Chiefs, Chargers,
Speaker 1: Raiders that you have teams like that that may, you know,
Speaker 1: may be a little different than someone that's just you know,
Speaker 1: with a young team too. Cowboys have a young team
Speaker 1: that's just not used to it. Yeah, if you haven't
Speaker 1: done it before, maybe you panic a little bit when
Speaker 1: you feel like you can't breathe as well as you
Speaker 1: normally do. And that just kind of makes a situation work.
Speaker 1: It's some get some oxygen tanks on the sideline and
Speaker 1: get some ivs ready to go in the locker room.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying it's not it's not nothing,
Speaker 1: but it shouldn't be the reason why somebody wins or loses.
Speaker 1: I think we should get out for a run Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try. I didn't go this morning, so let's
Speaker 1: go all lets just see how it goes and then
Speaker 1: we'll report back Monday. What it was really like? Okay,
Speaker 1: you're not coming fair enough? Did you have something you
Speaker 1: were about to say? I kind of came across an
Speaker 1: interesting status. Maybe if we're gonna take a break we
Speaker 1: can come back from. Butever, I found something I thought
Speaker 1: was interesting. We'll see if the Cowboys they have to
Speaker 1: win though to make it okay. Then we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a break. We'll come back. We'll get that stat. Amber's
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Speaker 1: back in. Nick. Before we went to break, you said
Speaker 1: you had a great statistic for us that you wanted
Speaker 1: to roll out here. And then we'll see how the
Speaker 1: second grade it is. They have to win the game,
Speaker 1: but if the Cowboys were to beat Denver, it would
Speaker 1: be the first time in thirty four years, thirty four
Speaker 1: years ago, back to nineteen eighty three. Even that one
Speaker 1: should have an asterisk, but still goes back to nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty three. That they have. They would start a season
Speaker 1: two and oh and beat two teams with a winning
Speaker 1: record from before. I mean really yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: a long time. It is a long time, and through
Speaker 1: a period where you think the Cowboys would have played,
Speaker 1: would have won those kind of games, like during that
Speaker 1: nineties period. You would think that that would have happened
Speaker 1: at least once, right, Yeah, but they there are some
Speaker 1: eight and eights in there of some teams. See. It
Speaker 1: all started because I was I was going back, and
Speaker 1: I was looking, and I was I was doing the
Speaker 1: stat and it was about teams that made the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So I was going back, and then I stopped and
Speaker 1: I said, wait a second, did Denver even make the
Speaker 1: playoffs last year? And they didn't. They did not. I
Speaker 1: was mad through the media guide around but they were
Speaker 1: nine and seven, and then I realized, okay, hold on,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna change the argument. I'm gonna change it through
Speaker 1: a winning record, right because so nine and seven, So
Speaker 1: I went. I kept going back, and then even in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, the Cardinal they played the Cardinals in
Speaker 1: Week two and Cardinals were five and four the previous
Speaker 1: year strike year, so I mean, still winning record and
Speaker 1: still winning record. That counts if you take that out
Speaker 1: all the way back to nineteen seventy five, since they
Speaker 1: opened the year going two and oh against two teams
Speaker 1: that had winning record winning previous season. I know that.
Speaker 1: You know, things change, and it doesn't mean that they're
Speaker 1: a good team, but you know, at least for the
Speaker 1: most part, you would expect them to be somewhat good
Speaker 1: if they were winning, you know, team last year. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the Bengals excuses, but you know they
Speaker 1: let there let their two best offensive lineman going free agency.
Speaker 1: Is that Is that all that it is you think?
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's that. Offense looks horrible and
Speaker 1: it did not look like that last year. You're all
Speaker 1: your Pro Bowl left tackles in LA and your Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl guard is in Cleveland. Can't that can't help. I
Speaker 1: didn't even watch the game, so I don't know. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you've scored nine points in two games. They have not
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown yet. Yeah, that's gross. Good for them.
Speaker 1: I said this on Cover four last night. This if
Speaker 1: they beat Denver on Sunday, it would be only their
Speaker 1: third oh and or their third two and oh start
Speaker 1: in the last decade, which coincidentally enough, the last two
Speaker 1: teams to do it didn't make the playoffs. Oh eight,
Speaker 1: O eight and fifteen, right, just saying, just saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was seven, started two and oh and made the
Speaker 1: playoffs though, So I mean that was eleven years ago,
Speaker 1: but whatever, all right, that that OH eight team. I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember when they went to Green Bay and one
Speaker 1: I think week three. I think this best team in football.
Speaker 1: I mean they are really really good and they were good.
Speaker 1: That was a good football team. Ye, I'm sorry, Oh eight.
Speaker 1: Tony Romo got hurt in the middle of the year
Speaker 1: with a finger injury, and you know that that changed everything.
Speaker 1: They went one and two in those games and and
Speaker 1: they missed the you know, missed the playoffs by one game.
Speaker 1: But that was a good football to us. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think we talked about two references now to Felix Jones.
Speaker 1: But Felix Jones that year with Barber, that was a
Speaker 1: great tandem. And then he gets hurt halfway through. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. All right, let's let's get some questions.
Speaker 1: You guys can call us the number. It was four
Speaker 1: freshman year. That was my sophomore year of college. The
Speaker 1: number is two one four eight seven two twenty one
Speaker 1: oh two again two one four eight seven to twenty
Speaker 1: one out two. You can also hit us up on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Cowboys Break. Let's take a call from Mike
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Mike, what up? Mike you're there? Yep, Hey, Mike,
Speaker 1: what you got? Um? I'm just not as worried this
Speaker 1: week about the Broncos offense as I was about the
Speaker 1: Giants offense. Their offensive lines a little better, but their
Speaker 1: quarterbacks not. And I just wonder what you guys thought
Speaker 1: about that. Um, And my crazy prediction for the week,
Speaker 1: because it's Friday, is thirty one six Dallas. I don't
Speaker 1: get a touchdown on us, and you really feel good
Speaker 1: about the turnovers three picks and one fumble. We'll actually
Speaker 1: manage to create a fumble and get it all right,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks for the call, damn. Thirty one six
Speaker 1: beating of a not not last year, but a team
Speaker 1: that has been a playoff team for the last you know,
Speaker 1: five or six years with hey, it is called crazy
Speaker 1: predict sure, yeah, Hey, I mean, honestly, everything I've seen
Speaker 1: in one game, I don't think they're and I know everybody,
Speaker 1: a lot of people probably disagree that. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're a great team. I think they're an okay team.
Speaker 1: I think they got they got some really good players,
Speaker 1: but as a team, I don't see him as a
Speaker 1: really good team. I don't see him as a super
Speaker 1: Bowl contender. Mainly, I don't. I don't even see him
Speaker 1: necessarily as a playoff contender. I mean, I don't see
Speaker 1: him as a playoff contender just because self division. They're
Speaker 1: a division more so than them. Um, It's funny because
Speaker 1: I'm really nervous about Demarrius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders, but
Speaker 1: I'm not nervous about the guy getting them the ball.
Speaker 1: Like in a perfect world, those guys would be trouble.
Speaker 1: But you know, maybe I'm maybe I'm not giving Trevor
Speaker 1: Simeon enough credit. But I honestly, ninety nine percent of
Speaker 1: the time football boils down to who's got the better quarterback,
Speaker 1: and I think at Dallas has a better quarterback. Who
Speaker 1: do you think is the better receiver between the two
Speaker 1: of them, Demarius or Dez No No, no, Mary, Sorrymanuel Sanders.
Speaker 1: I always lean toward the big bodied guy. I know
Speaker 1: Sanders has the speed and the quickness, but I mean
Speaker 1: I'm more afraid of Sanders as an opponent. I'm more
Speaker 1: afraid of saying I'm more afraid of Sanders' ability to
Speaker 1: like break a coverage or just get behind the defense.
Speaker 1: But I'm always more impressed slash afraid of the big body,
Speaker 1: tight end type guys like Julio and Damarius and Dez
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson. Only three players in the history of the
Speaker 1: NFL have had ninety catches five straight years. He's one
Speaker 1: of them, with oh Demarius Marius Thomas ninety catches for
Speaker 1: five straight years. I mean, that's that's pretty good, even
Speaker 1: in a you know, pass happy NFL. That's that's strong.
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison's another one. I don't remember the other guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, they got some weapons on that offense. If
Speaker 1: they if Cowboys hold him to six points, that would
Speaker 1: be really, really impressive. But other than Sanders, I don't
Speaker 1: think they have any real game breakers, and I don't
Speaker 1: think they have the quarterback to take advantage of Sanders
Speaker 1: being a game breaker. Maul Charles isn't a game breaker anymore.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't think so. I don't think so. But
Speaker 1: he seems like the kind of guy you'd have when
Speaker 1: your fantasy team. Wouldn't you like, you're always gonna get
Speaker 1: that guy that five years ago was everything? Right, Yep,
Speaker 1: you got him. No, No, that is true, though, you
Speaker 1: will get that guy. All right. Let's get a let's
Speaker 1: get a question from Twitter. Um, if Terrence Williams doesn't play,
Speaker 1: do you guys think that Switzer will get more playing time?
Speaker 1: Not really. I think Bryce Butler just steps into the
Speaker 1: role that Terrence Williams fills and the offense looks more
Speaker 1: or less the same. It's just nineteen instead of eighty three.
Speaker 1: I think he would actually, I mean I think he
Speaker 1: because I think when they go three four wide, I
Speaker 1: mean the packages that have Bryce and Terrence. I don't
Speaker 1: know what Brown would be available, but I think that
Speaker 1: they would go with Switzer. And I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: try to get Switzer involved even more. I hope they do,
Speaker 1: for whatever it's worth. I think they are going to
Speaker 1: try to get him more involved. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that means anything to do with Terrence is injury or not,
Speaker 1: but I think you'll start to see some more packages
Speaker 1: with him. It's kind of sad we didn't see more
Speaker 1: of those jet you know, it didn't see any jet
Speaker 1: sweeps or any of that stuff that we got so
Speaker 1: used to seeing last year. I think they ran around
Speaker 1: one time. He didn't give him the ball, right, and
Speaker 1: from what our you know, our viewpoint, it looked like
Speaker 1: it would have been a solid game. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: which is what you want from those right. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just want eight to ten yards, which is a great pickup.
Speaker 1: I think for you, you want touchdowns. You always want touchdowns,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I do. I mean
Speaker 1: the purpose of the play. I think when you when
Speaker 1: you look at that play, if you can getting eight
Speaker 1: to ten yards on a play like that, you feel
Speaker 1: pretty good about it. Yeah, feel real. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: going to get a touchdown on the play. You're more
Speaker 1: likely to get a touchdown by giving it to Zeke,
Speaker 1: but you you might need eight to ten yards from
Speaker 1: Switzer around the edge or whatever to open that up.
Speaker 1: So the next time that linebacker sees it, he moves
Speaker 1: out of the hole, and then and then Zeke actually
Speaker 1: did get the ball and he's in the end zone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's kind of like the flee flicker. To me,
Speaker 1: I think you run it a couple of times every game.
Speaker 1: I know you've said that for years. Do you think,
Speaker 1: but what's the I think. I think it's smart to
Speaker 1: do it. Make it a reg What I mean by
Speaker 1: a regular part of your offense is every couple of games.
Speaker 1: I think you roll it out. If nothing else, it
Speaker 1: just keeps the defense thinking about it. Now, I think
Speaker 1: in today's NFL, I think safeties and corners are probably
Speaker 1: smart enough to know you still got to do your
Speaker 1: job and stay back. But when you're playing an offensive
Speaker 1: line and a running game with Zicul Elliott featured in it,
Speaker 1: I think that's when it actually that's the police. I've
Speaker 1: never had an offensive coordinator tell me a reason why
Speaker 1: you wouldn't do it. They're like, well, you know, defenses
Speaker 1: are good and they catch on. But that's my point.
Speaker 1: Catch on if I've got the safety Landing Collins thinking
Speaker 1: every time Zeke gets the ball, he might flip it around,
Speaker 1: and so watch DA's is running here, like I have
Speaker 1: to kind of be thinking about that. That's all you
Speaker 1: holds me one second? Yeah, one second, it's all you want.
Speaker 1: It's the difference between six yard and eleven yard. Yep.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I would do it once a game
Speaker 1: Flee Flicker last week there was a free release on
Speaker 1: a gun on punt. Would Chris Jones ever throw that
Speaker 1: ball instead of punt or he could just take off?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. I mean, I know he would
Speaker 1: fake it because I saw him do it with my
Speaker 1: own and that was not called. He just saw that
Speaker 1: in the coverage and took off. So and and I
Speaker 1: know for a fact that they work on fakes religiously
Speaker 1: and not and not just you know, they'd work on
Speaker 1: a lot of them. They've got five or six in
Speaker 1: the old headspace up there, so um, yeah, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: surprise me at all. I think they trust him that
Speaker 1: if he saw that, they might do it. But I
Speaker 1: think it would have to be the right situation. He's
Speaker 1: veteran enough now where he could make that call out
Speaker 1: with them. No, I like Keith Smith with the ball.
Speaker 1: I think they need to figure out way, I mean,
Speaker 1: not figure out ways, But if if there's opportunities for
Speaker 1: him to get it, I think that, you know, you
Speaker 1: can kind of catch some defenses on some things. So
Speaker 1: that being said, I wouldn't mind seeing him do something,
Speaker 1: you know, with on a fake. He's back there. I
Speaker 1: know Heath is back there too, but i'd like to
Speaker 1: see Keith Smith, you know, back in the day, like
Speaker 1: in the nineties, that was one of their best fake punts,
Speaker 1: which just a direct snap to Darryl Johnston. Darrell Johnston
Speaker 1: played special teams even as a fullback there played special teams.
Speaker 1: He would catch that direct snap and get through four yards.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Keith Smith is certainly capable of
Speaker 1: doing that. Yeah, yea very athletic fullback, beef. And just
Speaker 1: if you just say, hey, there's here's the ball, here's
Speaker 1: the first down, get there, whatever you gotta do, just
Speaker 1: get from here to there, I think he would do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with them, all right. Another one, and we've
Speaker 1: talked about this already, but if this doesn't have a
Speaker 1: great statistical game, would you see Dak trying to force
Speaker 1: it to him at the end of the game. Depends
Speaker 1: on what the score, It depends on what, you know,
Speaker 1: if they if they need to, if they're driving to
Speaker 1: try to win. I mean, you know, if you're driving
Speaker 1: and you need points. I mean that if you're going
Speaker 1: to force it to someone, if you're going to force
Speaker 1: the ball to someone, then yeah, he's the best guy
Speaker 1: to force it to because he's the best guy to
Speaker 1: make the contested catches. So if you have to force
Speaker 1: and you're or you know, in a situation where you
Speaker 1: have to do that, then yeah, but hopefully you know,
Speaker 1: you don't need to throughout the game just to force it.
Speaker 1: Don't force it just because Hey, he's he's demonstrative and
Speaker 1: he wants the ball and he's been getting yelled at
Speaker 1: by Talib and Chris Harris all game, so he wants
Speaker 1: to shut him up, and you know, he can shut
Speaker 1: him up by you know, getting open and making plays.
Speaker 1: I don't think I said that yesterday. I don't think
Speaker 1: Dak really worries about that type of stuff. I think
Speaker 1: he's he's a captain, he's got command of this room.
Speaker 1: Those guys all looked to him. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: worried about The seventh captain they were trying to get
Speaker 1: was Frederick. Probably Frederick because they felt bad about taking
Speaker 1: it away from him, which I mean, you know, it's okay,
Speaker 1: any special team concern for this weekend. First of all,
Speaker 1: he only had that captain status because of the right.
Speaker 1: Yeah and yeah, I mean sorry, especial team concerns for
Speaker 1: this weekend. No, No, let's get the crazy predictions like
Speaker 1: that crazy actually, because because that that, that's one of
Speaker 1: my I don't have a concern at all. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do crazy predictions. Let's start first with Amber mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah for us, I'm gonna go with Switzer having his
Speaker 1: first touchdown and Ezekiel Elliott having two touchdowns. Um first touchdown? Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh special teams. Man, I don't know. I just I
Speaker 1: just see him somehow. I don't even know how whatever, Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know how it's gonna happen. I just see him.
Speaker 1: Possibly we're talking about crazy here. That's my my crazy
Speaker 1: one seeing him have his first touchdown and Zeke two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Would are we saying final scores? Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 1: I would say twenty four twenty one Cowboys, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: dave meh. My crazy prediction is that this game is
Speaker 1: gonna look a lot, a lot like last week. That
Speaker 1: doesn't sound very crazy, But what I mean by that
Speaker 1: is I think the Cowboys are gonna win this game,
Speaker 1: only they're only going to score one offensive touchdown. I
Speaker 1: think this is gonna be another slot fest, not you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's gonna be a struggle. Yards
Speaker 1: are gonna be hard to come by. These defenses are good.
Speaker 1: I think Dak scores the Cowboys only offensive touchdown. I
Speaker 1: think they win twenty to seventeen or something like that,
Speaker 1: maybe another maybe nineteen points. Again, I think Dan Bailey's
Speaker 1: gonna have his work cut out for him. So it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be super pretty, but they are gonna win.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by work cut out for him?
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to. Dan Bailey's gonna have three or
Speaker 1: four field goals game. Okay, My crazy prediction is Dan
Speaker 1: Bailey will have a career long field goal. I just
Speaker 1: looked it up. Fifty six. It's his career high and
Speaker 1: I understand. Yeah, so he's gonna They're gonna give him
Speaker 1: a chance. He's gonna make win. I mean, fifty eight,
Speaker 1: fifty nine. They don't think he'll get into the six. No,
Speaker 1: probably not seventy. I think, you know, field position matters,
Speaker 1: But you know, it's kind of weird when you think
Speaker 1: about Chris Jones and as good of a punter he is,
Speaker 1: and when you're at you're at that range, it's like,
Speaker 1: should we try this field goal with Dan or let
Speaker 1: Jones put him down to like the eight yard line
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I do think he'll have a long
Speaker 1: field golf equal kick three or four. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: Cowboys twenty six fourteen. I think four field goals for
Speaker 1: Dan and two touchdowns. But he's gonna have a fifty
Speaker 1: eight fifty nine yard all right. My crazy prediction for
Speaker 1: the week, Dez Bryant will have six plus catches this week. Wow.
Speaker 1: I know he's got some tough matchups, but if you
Speaker 1: look at Dez's career, usually when he has a one
Speaker 1: catch game or has a bad game, he usually follows
Speaker 1: it up with a lot of production. He may not
Speaker 1: have a lot of touchdowns, yards may not even be great.
Speaker 1: They're gonna but even last week he had nine targets.
Speaker 1: Last week he only had two catches, but I mean
Speaker 1: one catch, but he had a ton of targets. I
Speaker 1: think this week they're gonna target him, and I think
Speaker 1: this week he's gonna actually make the catches. I think
Speaker 1: he ends up with six plus catches this week. I
Speaker 1: would guess he's probably gonna be somewhere in at eighty
Speaker 1: to ninety yard range. I don't think they be a
Speaker 1: lot of big players, but I do think they'll get
Speaker 1: him very involved in the offense. And I actually think personally,
Speaker 1: it's what I've kind of mentioned a little earlier. I
Speaker 1: don't think this is a great team that they're facing,
Speaker 1: and I think the Cowboys are clearly the better team.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys actually will be better on offense,
Speaker 1: because even though last week they didn't score as many points,
Speaker 1: they had no problem moving the ball. So I think
Speaker 1: they were miles ahead of a lot of offenses that
Speaker 1: we saw last week in a week one start. I
Speaker 1: think this week they cleaned up a lot of that stuff,
Speaker 1: and I think they actually do convert it to scores.
Speaker 1: I think they win twenty three ten in what will
Speaker 1: buy the fourth quarters or not even be much of
Speaker 1: a game. Damn, Okay, I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: more dramatic than that. I do not think. I think
Speaker 1: there's a clear matchup for the Cowboys where they are
Speaker 1: the better team. Last week. Last week that we did one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four right, margin of victory, margin of victory this week
Speaker 1: nobody had sixteen, Nobody, nobody had their Would you have
Speaker 1: them winning by this game? Three? What do you say
Speaker 1: the twenty four twenty one? Just three three, three, twelve thirteen,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I think the line is one, really half
Speaker 1: whose favorite Dallas, Dallas favorite on the road. So so
Speaker 1: really they think like three to four Dallas is four
Speaker 1: points better. That's fun. I just I know, like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys kicked some people's butts last year, but I'm still
Speaker 1: just conditioned to always think it's gonna be dramatic because
Speaker 1: it almost always is. Yeah, I think they're a better
Speaker 1: team this year, and I just I expect they're going
Speaker 1: to have more of those games this year where in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter they got the game in hand and
Speaker 1: they're gonna really just run the ball and just put
Speaker 1: teams away. I mean, it's kind of like last week, Like,
Speaker 1: although the game was kind of a little more dramatic
Speaker 1: because it was a Giants and you just kind of
Speaker 1: kept thinking, you know, are they gonna make a move here,
Speaker 1: they never really were in that game and they never
Speaker 1: got to a point where they were in that game.
Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna be a lot of those
Speaker 1: this year. I think there's gonna be, well, assuming Zeke
Speaker 1: continues in his status of being available to play right,
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a lot of those kind
Speaker 1: of games where the Cowboys will just leave eat the
Speaker 1: whole way and basically just you know, run the game right.
Speaker 1: All right? Then, all right, We appreciate you guys joining us.
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