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Speaker 1: Your hosts Mickey's Fagnola, Brian broad Us, Taylor Stern, and
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips. Hello everyone, and welcome into the SWBC Mortgage Studio.
Speaker 1: I'm Taylor, joined by Brian Rob Mickey. We are here
Speaker 1: on a Thursday at the Star in Frisco. Of course,
Speaker 1: cowboys getting into their second practice as they get ready
Speaker 1: to face the Atlanta Falcons. And how's everyone doing? Mix
Speaker 1: wearing Atlanta Falcons colors over here? It's my gothic outfit. Gothic.
Speaker 1: Either that or he's acting like he's Italian good Fellas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd about to say, what time? You're not happy? Shaving
Speaker 1: the shaven the garlic with the rat blade? Mick over there?
Speaker 1: Not happy with the world today? All right? Happy part
Speaker 1: of the mob squad? Are you mad because Cheeto did
Speaker 1: go from DMP to full? I'm mad? Not so fast?
Speaker 1: Not so fast, a friend. I've said this on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I do, I do expect myself to lose even though
Speaker 1: he's full. You think thirty plays combine special teams in defense?
Speaker 1: How about just being how about you want to just
Speaker 1: bet on active or not active. Oh that's fair. I
Speaker 1: think that's the Jason Garrett. That's why I asked you. No,
Speaker 1: that's that's why I asked that is. I'm not even
Speaker 1: worried about the thirty play. I asked that question to
Speaker 1: walk off. I did. I asked him about, you know,
Speaker 1: how do you balance how do you balance getting a
Speaker 1: player that you know that you want, you know, to
Speaker 1: develop and stuff like he is. It's not about development anymore.
Speaker 1: It's a good questions about winning football games. That's what
Speaker 1: we talked about is. Yeah, you have a lot invested
Speaker 1: in him. Yeah, they're also five and three and guys
Speaker 1: are playing well in the secondary. Fight again, injuries provide opportunity.
Speaker 1: Thank you, coach, Jason, thank you. I'll be happy to
Speaker 1: buy a pizza if I have to. That's not a problem.
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to eat good stuff, right, it's good stuff.
Speaker 1: Make sure you get deep dish too. Yeah, Taylor and
Speaker 1: I are there, pan whatever we will five ingredients you
Speaker 1: want to five? Yeah, or that thing. Make sure you
Speaker 1: get the special. I hope you guys like Hallopenia. I'm
Speaker 1: good with what as what els Man. I can pick
Speaker 1: him off and Chovi's good. Free Papa John's is free,
Speaker 1: Papa John. That's nothing wrong with that. Now do we
Speaker 1: have to eat it on the year here? Sure you
Speaker 1: do it on the little football you will a little
Speaker 1: round table. Lesh Taylor steals donuts during the draft. I did,
Speaker 1: They're good, those donuts hers the box of donuts were there.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh yeah, I'm the captain now, all right? Well,
Speaker 1: Cheeto did go from DMP to fool and other injuries
Speaker 1: to be looking at. Of course, coach Garrett said this
Speaker 1: morning he does not believe Tyren Smith will work out
Speaker 1: or we'll practice again today, which is of note now
Speaker 1: because of course he doesn't normally practice on Wednesdays, but
Speaker 1: now not practicing on Thursday with that growing, Are you
Speaker 1: more concerned or what is your feeling on this? Equally concerned,
Speaker 1: equally concerned about of course you're equally concerned, Mickey, right,
Speaker 1: equally concerned. YEA, not gonna be concerned one way or
Speaker 1: another again. I mean, I think I was concerned yesterday
Speaker 1: and I'm concerned today. Oh I thought you were staying
Speaker 1: you're going to try and ride the fence again on
Speaker 1: my injuries remains. He's a guy though, we mentioned this
Speaker 1: like he doesn't have to practice to play, and they
Speaker 1: may very well be trying to manage him to Sunday.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean two days in a row, that's
Speaker 1: never a great sign, right, No, Chaz Green, get ready?
Speaker 1: What do you think? Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 1: Can I I'll try and get to your answer. Who
Speaker 1: of losing Zeke, Daz or Smith? Who could you not
Speaker 1: afford to lose? Ryan? Did you not vote today? Was
Speaker 1: that the poll questions today? Segment? I forgot to look?
Speaker 1: Day has my back on this, you know, Rob, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I was. I wish I've been helping with the questions
Speaker 1: though you have. Okay, okay, just save that. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: okay too. In the third segment, your question was who
Speaker 1: do you have to have the most in this game?
Speaker 1: Of those three guys? No, that's what But that was
Speaker 1: a pole question. No, but you asked me something before
Speaker 1: that rudely interrupted you. How do you feel about I mean,
Speaker 1: are you worried or you think they're just trying to
Speaker 1: manage him? Mickey's right, Mickey's right, I'm worried. Yes, I'm worried.
Speaker 1: Groin problem. I can't say this like wrap it up
Speaker 1: and say, okay, it'll be better or put a brace
Speaker 1: on it. You know they can wrap it. But you're
Speaker 1: right about but you're right about getting better. Oh it's
Speaker 1: it's a true, it's true fact. Yeah, now you're looking
Speaker 1: at me like you but it's true. It's a true.
Speaker 1: Is the two? Is the two late to vote? How
Speaker 1: the poles still open? Still, we'll do it at break.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can vote for me. I will have to
Speaker 1: find it for you. Now, tying, what's the fourth one?
Speaker 1: Do you? Guys? Are you more concerned because you don't
Speaker 1: have a Ron Leary there you have a Jonathan Cooper
Speaker 1: there as your left guard? Or is that not a concern? Oh,
Speaker 1: just you've got a Pro Bowl tackle that you're going
Speaker 1: to have to play without. Yeah, it doesn't matter who's
Speaker 1: you know, taking his place. She's talking about the next
Speaker 1: guy taking the wet siding about the fact that you
Speaker 1: know last season you did see him miss a few games,
Speaker 1: but it was okay because you felt good about Chad's
Speaker 1: green stepping in. And I say good, not great, because
Speaker 1: there's still exactly what you said, Mickey, he's a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl left tackle. You never want them missing those games.
Speaker 1: But if they have to you felt okay, and I
Speaker 1: felt more okay with that because of Ron Learry being
Speaker 1: right there and what a season he was having. Now
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, there's been so much instability in this
Speaker 1: kind of group to start the season. Finally getting there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Cooper finding his role at left guard. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're just now starting to find a rhythm. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: a run to the right they usually do. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny last year with Doug Free and yeah, they
Speaker 1: were better running in the right, which everybody wanted Doug
Speaker 1: Free Atti, But can I can I gauge everybody's concerned, Tay, Yes,
Speaker 1: about Jonathan Cooper. I mean concern of I know, Mickey
Speaker 1: we started off and Rob Tay, we started off initially like, man, okay,
Speaker 1: gotta get better there, gotta get but you have gotten
Speaker 1: better there. Yes, So what Tay's asking is a very
Speaker 1: legitimate question. Do you feel good enough about Chaz Green's
Speaker 1: stepping in there and not having to affect how Jonathan
Speaker 1: Cooper plays? Because we were worried about Jonathan Cooper affecting
Speaker 1: the way that Travis Frederick and Tyron Smith play. Now
Speaker 1: you worried, You're worried or you've got more confidence in him,
Speaker 1: especially these last two games. What gave you that confidence?
Speaker 1: Just the way he's played and the way the offensive
Speaker 1: lines played and how they've run the football. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is another one of those good matchups though, protected and
Speaker 1: protected the quarterback. It's gonna say that that, Grady Jared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Vick Beasley, you're in a road environment. I mean, I
Speaker 1: would like to ride with my all pro left tackle here. Interesting.
Speaker 1: How many Cowboy fans there by the way. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: land is very much like a Dallas. It's a transmittant.
Speaker 1: They could show up. I mean, this could be a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty game for those guys. It could well their
Speaker 1: guys hurt too. Which guy we're going to get into
Speaker 1: their guys, Grady Jared went through our guy you just mentioned, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how are you well he's got ribs, Yeah, but he'll play.
Speaker 1: He's limited. Get ready. Well, I'm just saying, oh, I've
Speaker 1: got some injuries also. Yeah, and let's get into us
Speaker 1: after we kind of go through ours. Now, Briant, Rob,
Speaker 1: what are you thinking on Desmond? I think it sounds
Speaker 1: like he could do something today, and I think that's
Speaker 1: a good sign for him. I mean, he might wind
Speaker 1: up being kind of a gamer. Yeah, he could be
Speaker 1: a game time call quote unquote, but I think having
Speaker 1: him out there doing something Thursday is a good sign
Speaker 1: for him. Well, and that's exactly what Mickey said yesterday.
Speaker 1: He said he was going to wait until two pm
Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon to make that final decision. You're still there.
Speaker 1: I think he's moving in the right direction. Interesting that
Speaker 1: Jason said it's more than knee, which is a a
Speaker 1: that scares me, bone bruise type thing. I mean that
Speaker 1: scares me. Why the knee always scares me? Well, it's
Speaker 1: not a structural. I've seen guys. I've seen guys play
Speaker 1: with ankles and stuff like that. I mean, look at
Speaker 1: the rubber band many way he played with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are we are we dismissing those early reports that he
Speaker 1: had a high ankle spring through the rubber band man? No, oh,
Speaker 1: if they're more concerned about the knee. Yeah, but Garrett say,
Speaker 1: because if it was the high ankle spring, he would
Speaker 1: be Yeah, you might as well. Just yeah that that
Speaker 1: you say the word high ankle and I and I
Speaker 1: immediately just cringe. You're talking. I start sweating. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: that situation, Yeah, I worry about the knee. If that's
Speaker 1: the case, he did say knee, didn't he He He did
Speaker 1: say knee. I remember writing knee. Did you write it
Speaker 1: down and take one page to write knee? I did
Speaker 1: so I could read it. You don't want to be
Speaker 1: too fun. You don't want to be searching for stuff. No,
Speaker 1: but no, I am concerned, Tay. And if Rob's pole
Speaker 1: question answers that addresses that, I mean it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a very good discussion right there. Ye, because I'd like
Speaker 1: to believe that. You know Dez Bryant, you know, he's
Speaker 1: it's like preparing for Zeke. You know, Defensive corners don't
Speaker 1: like dealing with a guy that's big and can run
Speaker 1: with the ball in his hands, especially when you get
Speaker 1: down on the red. Yeah, they don't want to deal
Speaker 1: with that guy on third and four and they throw
Speaker 1: a slant and throw them in. You're starting to see
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant. They're moving him around. We're not hearing like, oh, in,
Speaker 1: a hand's gotta get him the ball. When a hand's
Speaker 1: got a why don't they move him? Now? He's moving around. Now,
Speaker 1: he's doing things. He's bunch formation, he's tight wing motions,
Speaker 1: things like that. That's you know, hey, give him credit.
Speaker 1: That's what they gotta do. And it's getting him too.
Speaker 1: Football is are the the yards per catch and huge No,
Speaker 1: but last week that's what you're getting from him. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna run the football and you can get seventeen
Speaker 1: eighteen yard pass plays that way in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, sign me up. Plus they're winning. Yeah, winning,
Speaker 1: Winning is a habit. No no complaints when you win. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown showed up on the practice report. Of course,
Speaker 1: the rookie wide receiver his thigh, but he was full,
Speaker 1: so probably just something to take note of. Well that
Speaker 1: was from last week. Yeah, I think I think Noah Brown.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about him, but it's gonna probably be active
Speaker 1: this week. Well, we'll see because again, how you know,
Speaker 1: how are you going to play all this stuff? Mickey
Speaker 1: was talking about your chela. That's I'm saying, do you
Speaker 1: get cheeto in the mix? Now? Does it like, does
Speaker 1: he practice well enough? He looks like is he practicing
Speaker 1: where he looks fresh and he's running and you know
Speaker 1: there's some banged up football players playing right now, he's
Speaker 1: not one of them. Now, the questions about him is
Speaker 1: about the hamstring and will blow out. But if he practices, well,
Speaker 1: I mean that's what That's exactly what Gary was talking about.
Speaker 1: I need you to practice today, I need you practice tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I need you to practice Friday. I need you to
Speaker 1: practice where you can show up and let me put
Speaker 1: you on the field, and I need you to play
Speaker 1: and show up on next Wednesday. Yeah, exactly, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: And I think I still think that's the fear. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: let's get to the Atlanta Falcons. Mickey, you were right yesterday.
Speaker 1: Their kicker was injured last week and they resigned a
Speaker 1: guy named Mike Meyer to help with their kicking for
Speaker 1: this week. Meyer Saturday Night Live. Yeah, Mike Myers, Canadian.
Speaker 1: They resigned their kicker to help because his right calf.
Speaker 1: So he saw it right, Yeah, kent with the drop?
Speaker 1: Is that Halloween? I think he's probably thirteenth going forward
Speaker 1: with Halloween. So I went back and looked, and I
Speaker 1: think he heard it on the first kick and he
Speaker 1: was able to kick the extra points right, but they
Speaker 1: had to forego a field goal attempt. I think they
Speaker 1: went forward on fourth now they did on the other
Speaker 1: side of them. Yeah, they lost closely. Yeah, they did
Speaker 1: eats Carolina. So now all these kickers, Washington was without
Speaker 1: their kicker when the Cowboys played him, have Bailey. Now
Speaker 1: they still don't have Bailey, and they could be without him. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: but they didn't do anything like put him on IR
Speaker 1: or anything. Right, No, no, no, no, they just they
Speaker 1: just brought in a safety net. Yeah. Yeah, now you're right.
Speaker 1: You brought up Grady Jarrett. He's a guy to watch
Speaker 1: for the Falcons. He was limited, and then DeVante Freeman,
Speaker 1: the of course running back that ran all over the
Speaker 1: Cowboys here at AT AT and T Stadium two seasons ago.
Speaker 1: He was on there with a knee and limited. Julio Jones,
Speaker 1: You guys may have heard of him, he's one of
Speaker 1: the most elite wide receivers in the NFL. DMP with
Speaker 1: an ankle Tack McKinley if you guys watched the draft show,
Speaker 1: you know him very well. Shoulder limited, Duke Griley. They're linebacker,
Speaker 1: knee DNP and then of course cornerback. Though you should
Speaker 1: definitely know if you've been thinking about this game this weekend,
Speaker 1: Desmond Truffont the cornerback with an ankle and he was limited,
Speaker 1: So you're right, Mickey, they definitely do have some some
Speaker 1: key injuries there, and I think you brought up, of
Speaker 1: course Grady Jarrett, but someone like Julio Jones is one
Speaker 1: that sticks out to me. Five of those starters either
Speaker 1: limited or DNP and that Wednesday though, Mickey, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: come on, I don't I understand, but talk to me
Speaker 1: day Bill. Julio Jones is gonna play. Yeah, talk to
Speaker 1: me about. I'm glad he's got an ankle that'll slow
Speaker 1: him down. Wow, Sting's got a Sutting's got a slow sound.
Speaker 1: I like Mickey because he's like a mob jacket guys.
Speaker 1: He's got a mob attitude today. I like it, you know.
Speaker 1: But that's good though. You got me to go there.
Speaker 1: You guys get out about kind of like talking about
Speaker 1: when oh you need this team to win and kind
Speaker 1: of get banged up and all that. I'm glad to
Speaker 1: see you guys are coming to the dark side on
Speaker 1: this whole thing about it. As I said, this time
Speaker 1: of year, you gotta win games. However, you can win
Speaker 1: games brand many times. We're looking at teams right now
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys lost to Yeah that if they played
Speaker 1: them again, it would oh sure, story due to injuries,
Speaker 1: mainly Voodoo Brian. The Redskins Eagles game. I wanted to
Speaker 1: win and I wanted to get hurt. I want to
Speaker 1: bang that used to that used the word hurt, beat
Speaker 1: beat up, eat up beat Yeah, well nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: I like you make it like your attitude hurts nut Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it hurts a bad beat up, talk about it. They
Speaker 1: still haven't slowed down either, one of those two guys
Speaker 1: from last time. No, like no, that's still gaining yards.
Speaker 1: A Freeman the knee though, Hey a knee with a
Speaker 1: running back. I worry about him though, very combination. You
Speaker 1: know why I got Tevin Coleman. They do have Coleman.
Speaker 1: It's a different style running back though. But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this though, Steve star kissing the offensive corners been
Speaker 1: taking a lot of grief for the way they've moved
Speaker 1: to football. I I and that the fact that they
Speaker 1: went away from the run. I would not be one
Speaker 1: bit surprised if they try and load up and run
Speaker 1: Freeman until it's tongue. Yeah, test Dallas. They can be
Speaker 1: stopping the run if you, if you, If they could
Speaker 1: play good defense like Mickey's had him the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks playing that run defense all good, but if
Speaker 1: you if you don't, if you don't, I mean, I say,
Speaker 1: Sarkisin has taken a lot of heat for the way
Speaker 1: that the offense has performed. The numbers on the Cowboys
Speaker 1: run defense are amazing. Like when they've the five games
Speaker 1: they've won, they've given up like sixty rushing yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: per game. The three losses, it's like one sixty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been really bad when it's been bad. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that's a lot of it's had to do with whether
Speaker 1: Sean Lee's been in the lineup. But two, you need
Speaker 1: that offense to kind of be at full strength to
Speaker 1: be nice. If the courts decide Zeke can play and
Speaker 1: you know, you get Dez and Smith and all that,
Speaker 1: that would surely help. As has McKinley been hurt for them.
Speaker 1: I wonder I just thought about that. I wonder if
Speaker 1: he's been on their injury report every week with that
Speaker 1: shoulder thing that I've watched him played the last two
Speaker 1: weeks because Dolphins they've got him listed as third team. Well,
Speaker 1: he actually rotates. Is he like taco? He's a taco.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got seven tackles. He's a Taco. No,
Speaker 1: didn't he get picked like one pick ahead of doubt one,
Speaker 1: but he had he had a shoulder thing that kept him.
Speaker 1: I wonder that's why he ropped exactly. Was he there
Speaker 1: for the start of training camp. I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 1: if he's been on the injury report all season long.
Speaker 1: It's probably something that they've had to manage and they
Speaker 1: need to kind of take care of, and they just
Speaker 1: haven't had the time to do it. Wasn't that something
Speaker 1: that probably needed surgery and he didn't have it. It
Speaker 1: was there was a lot of questions about that. Yes,
Speaker 1: he had surgery right after the combine. I think he
Speaker 1: sure did. Actually went through the combine then he had it. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he went through the combine and then got surgery. And
Speaker 1: then there's some clean up that probably needs to be
Speaker 1: done some more there. He's an interesting guy. He has
Speaker 1: a different cat lost one of his dreads on the
Speaker 1: field and somebody put it on like Amazon or something.
Speaker 1: Sell it. Yeah, they try to sell Tack McKinley's dreads.
Speaker 1: I get five dollars maybe maybe something, but if you
Speaker 1: give it a quarter, he's just kind of what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do with it? Hang? It up. I need hair,
Speaker 1: put it on. Put it on one of them them
Speaker 1: skull things where McKinley's dreads. Just write down my right eye, scotch.
Speaker 1: Why not? Yeah? Why not? All right? Fine? Terrifying. Hey
Speaker 1: and but hey, we're talking about Matt Bryant there, kicker now.
Speaker 1: Coach Grett had a little bit of an update with
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey. Of course, yesterday we kind of said, okay,
Speaker 1: he's out there participating a little bit, what is this about?
Speaker 1: And he explained more of that today. Rob. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: he says he's getting healthier, but it sounds like it's
Speaker 1: still a week to week proposition for him. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's on the verge of going through a full
Speaker 1: practice kicking and see Mike kind of thing. Still the month,
Speaker 1: month to month. Micky's gonna sing I'll be home for
Speaker 1: Christmas song here in a minute. I think it's Christmas time, Mick. Oh,
Speaker 1: he'll get back in time for my birthday. Yeah, guys,
Speaker 1: that's the holiday that we're looking for. When's your eleven? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the twelfth. Yeah. Oh, how about that Christmas miracle?
Speaker 1: To Christmas miracles, two of them that I get to
Speaker 1: be blessed with everything problem, probably within ten years of
Speaker 1: each other. Yeah, we weren't put on the curb at
Speaker 1: the same time. Well, let's take our first break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we will have some Ezekiel Elliott updates
Speaker 1: because you guys are excited to hear more about that.
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Speaker 1: I think that's that would be the last hurrah. Last
Speaker 1: we actually the last hurrah would be the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: Supreme Court would be the last hurrah. But the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court gets to pick and choose what they want to hear, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's something I've never seen before. And the
Speaker 1: embuk thing is rare as well. So Elliott verse NFL. Gosh,
Speaker 1: that would be interesting as we sit here looking at
Speaker 1: our country. You know, wait a minute, football, you know
Speaker 1: what those funny about? Not funny haha, but interesting. That
Speaker 1: is a labor law case, yea, is it? Really is. Well,
Speaker 1: it could set a precedent, no doubt. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: laughing about it, but it really is. It's a labor
Speaker 1: law case that they said that actually law students will
Speaker 1: study one day this case, Oh my gosh, because you'll
Speaker 1: learn about every court there is in the entire country. Well, guys, yep,
Speaker 1: second circuit, but fit circuit might go first, and you
Speaker 1: never know what other circuit, all the circuits. No, it's
Speaker 1: not about the circuits, there's not. It's a about somebody
Speaker 1: finally saying that when you, even if you agree to
Speaker 1: collective bargaining or gre that who's ever in charge of
Speaker 1: an arbitration can overstep their authority. Right, you have to
Speaker 1: be fair. Right. This is not Russia, you know, Brian,
Speaker 1: I had geography class. What was the last ruling where
Speaker 1: it came down to like nine o'clock. We're just hanging
Speaker 1: out upstairs. Yeah, we were going to do that tonight.
Speaker 1: We were going to all the courts, learned all the
Speaker 1: circuit We learned all the circuits. We were learning where
Speaker 1: they were, you know, and they and and they had
Speaker 1: one in the district court and then they said you
Speaker 1: filed too soon. Yeah, I mean and again it's a
Speaker 1: it's about which court you end up in, right right, yep, yep,
Speaker 1: unfilled advantage. Let's hope the honorable Livingston, Jacobs and Droni
Speaker 1: are all having good days today. Maybe they'll get some
Speaker 1: sun in their eyes or they're not wearing them all
Speaker 1: about fits today they were like happy again. She's a
Speaker 1: Princeton grad. Let's hope that she's a tiger. She's just
Speaker 1: tiger through and through her. Tom Pella Sero just tweets
Speaker 1: from NFL Network his attorneys have arrived at the Second
Speaker 1: Circuit a little over an hour until kickoff. Big day
Speaker 1: to day, but it feels like a Super Bowl of
Speaker 1: Law hour in five minutes. Yeah, but we got Peaks
Speaker 1: listening to Jersey walks her to LaMelo, right to LaMelo
Speaker 1: to Amelo for the players and write last name to
Speaker 1: be arguing in this case. Yeah yeah, see if you
Speaker 1: can pull it out, so one pm it gets going.
Speaker 1: We're anticipating, obviously, as Mick said earlier this week, he
Speaker 1: thinks there will be a decision before the week's end.
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously they have as much time as
Speaker 1: they want, but they will they will make that takes
Speaker 1: a while to write that stuff twenty four pages unless
Speaker 1: they just rule on the bench and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: he's good to go. He's free, freezy, freezy. Would you
Speaker 1: like to be there watching this today? I would love?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you wanted to have enough notebook in the
Speaker 1: world to take as many notes? And I sit right
Speaker 1: behind the attorney and tap him on the shoulder and say, hey,
Speaker 1: go say this. Let me if you wouldn't do that,
Speaker 1: you have some respect for the court. I know we
Speaker 1: have no I know where his attorney. I know I
Speaker 1: was supposed to talk about football, But would you would
Speaker 1: you have liked to have covered the Simpson case ninety
Speaker 1: four for a year? Not for a year? No? No?
Speaker 1: And I thought I was covering the Michael Irvin case
Speaker 1: until they they ended it dramatically the next day after
Speaker 1: his Eternity's called a Dallas policeman to this stand and
Speaker 1: I don't think the judge wanted to see that happen.
Speaker 1: And that's when they came up with the negotiation and
Speaker 1: he took Mickey's talking real soft and took the he
Speaker 1: took the ten year adjudicated ten year adjudicated probation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. And this is when, Yeah, there was
Speaker 1: some shady stuff going on in this when I really
Speaker 1: shouldn't be talking. And pizza fun is up soon, right, Guys,
Speaker 1: in your next life, can we fly there? Huh? You
Speaker 1: know that? You bring people do that in retirement. They
Speaker 1: just go hang out at the courthouse and watch trials.
Speaker 1: You gotta do that. My grandfather just held newborn babies,
Speaker 1: really know how they have those nick you babies that
Speaker 1: need to be oh held every so many hours? Yeah
Speaker 1: that sweet. Yeah, that's a good idea podental soul, not
Speaker 1: like the court guy. But yeah, there are different things
Speaker 1: you can see making the court oh babies like you'll
Speaker 1: be the next seat. I would drive uber uber Uber
Speaker 1: uber before I do that. Okay, Well, if someone vomited
Speaker 1: in your uber, you would be done with that. He
Speaker 1: would beat somebody's ass back suits coming on at that point, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: throws in his car. Mickey would pull over and lose it.
Speaker 1: Trust me, get out. There's got to be some sor compensation, right,
Speaker 1: we'll go to court. So Zeke, is this another hell
Speaker 1: Mary or more of a Jason and reliable? You know?
Speaker 1: Like boy, every time I want to believe it's a
Speaker 1: hail Merrit's it gets completed. You know Daniel Wallack said,
Speaker 1: he did you not tweet that he feels like this
Speaker 1: is gonna be something favoring him. I just think, I mean,
Speaker 1: if they get reasonable judges, that's all just reasonable, reasonable
Speaker 1: or define these days, Drony Livingston Jacobs Jacobs, I mean,
Speaker 1: if if they just look at the facts and not
Speaker 1: just say, okay, this is the legal precedent. I ask
Speaker 1: you a question, Mickey. If we didn't work for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I would say the same thing. Okay, I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure we're fair be fair about it. Because
Speaker 1: you asked me about, um, should the suspension last through
Speaker 1: the playoffs or should it not last through the playoffs?
Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, anybody gets suspended, Yeah, y off
Speaker 1: games count. But I've always said, appreciate you being fair?
Speaker 1: Is why can't there be some middle ground? Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: precedent labor law, But can't you look at it individually
Speaker 1: and say, all right, but was it arbitrated fairly? Well,
Speaker 1: it can't be just one or the other. You can
Speaker 1: look at it in its own prism and say this
Speaker 1: particular case doesn't seem right. If you're gonna play lawyer.
Speaker 1: The arbitration hearing was like a kangaroo court. Exactly. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna play judge and jury, be judge and jury.
Speaker 1: Be fair. Yeah, be fair that don't don't be don't
Speaker 1: be Oh we can't do this, we can't, Right, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. If you're gonna step your toe in
Speaker 1: and put your toe in the pool of law, go
Speaker 1: be law. Don't don't be half law. You know. It's
Speaker 1: like they they they acted like they were they were
Speaker 1: investigating and prosecuting better than the authorities. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: they just said, well but that stuff doesn't count. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna worry about we made up our own yeah,
Speaker 1: way of doing this. It's like they're trying to qualify.
Speaker 1: They were trying to qualify this little new committee they
Speaker 1: they put together to combat domestic violence. And I think
Speaker 1: think they thought if they just put domestic violence as
Speaker 1: the title, everybody was going to be in their favor
Speaker 1: because everybody's against domestic violence and we are, absolutely, but
Speaker 1: just you know, adjudicate it fairly. Yeah, exactly. That's all.
Speaker 1: So the plan is for him to be back tonight
Speaker 1: and if he's still eligible at that point, he'll practice tomorrow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If they don't, don't roll he could practice tomorrow because
Speaker 1: they'll be done by twelve thirty. Rights, you know, it
Speaker 1: could be they'll put the post the thing at nine
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning soon as they go to work,
Speaker 1: or nine o'clock tonight and make everybody sit here and wait.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness for our group texts. We'll keep each other
Speaker 1: in line, because please, that's what we're doing. We talked
Speaker 1: about the owner going after the commissioner. Mh, that's only
Speaker 1: going to get worse. Um. Yeah, that's an interesting one
Speaker 1: because I don't know where you draw the line on.
Speaker 1: I mean, he hadn't done it yet, yeah, but we
Speaker 1: kind of hinted that he's not going to stand there
Speaker 1: and it's there. Yeah, you know, and I saw where
Speaker 1: everybody's trying to say, well, he's doing this because of
Speaker 1: Zeke right, Well, he was against whatever they were wanting
Speaker 1: to pay Goodell on a new contract right for the
Speaker 1: sentence came down, right. So I haven't seen anybody say
Speaker 1: this yet, but it's a two way street, right, Sure,
Speaker 1: what if Goodell was mad at Jones right and said, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna punish your guy. Yeah, you know that did
Speaker 1: that factor into six games when you would think with
Speaker 1: all the evidence we've seen that. All right, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure about this, but I'm gonna give you two games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go go home and think about this, right, how you've
Speaker 1: been acting. But six that's like sentence you to especially
Speaker 1: the book at you sixteen game schedule. Yeah. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: like a ten year sentence. I just didn't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just think this is one of those things. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to fight Jerry Jones. I really wouldn't. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to fight him with what I've seen him fight,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't want to fight him. I really wouldn't. Well,
Speaker 1: And I think he brought up a great point today
Speaker 1: or yesterday. He has good advisors. Yeah, he has strong advisor.
Speaker 1: He usually listens to them and trust them. And about
Speaker 1: that sometimes Mickey and Bob suits not even to take
Speaker 1: it away to I just wanted no, no, no, I
Speaker 1: thing with a commission. It's funny. We're not talking about
Speaker 1: football stuff. We're talking about courtrooms. That's that's been this
Speaker 1: season though. It's just stranger for that. I swear it's
Speaker 1: been like fifty fifty for us. Stranger things, yeah, strange things,
Speaker 1: stranger things. Yeah. So Zigiel Elliott stay tuned to hear
Speaker 1: on that decision. Shall we pretend that he will be
Speaker 1: there or won't be? As I get into my next
Speaker 1: questions for you guys, I'll let you choose, Oh, he's there, Okay,
Speaker 1: let go for you mean there to play or there
Speaker 1: at the at the No, I mean he is available
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I want to pretend that or do you
Speaker 1: want to just go as normal? You know what? Before
Speaker 1: you do that, I was going to point out that,
Speaker 1: you know, the fact that he's in New York will
Speaker 1: allow these other guys to practice, So they'll get he
Speaker 1: got a full day in yesterday, they'll get a full
Speaker 1: day into good point, very good point, Mickey. And then if, however,
Speaker 1: it goes and they know by tomorrow, then so there's
Speaker 1: at least whoever's gonna play, he's gonna practice two day.
Speaker 1: There's been a little contingency plan put in place. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Who's in a bigger disadvantage, Dallas or Atlanta with the situation.
Speaker 1: Probably Atlanta. Yeah, because the Cowboys have been preparing for this, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got two days of work last week last and
Speaker 1: Atlanta done. No, I mean I don't know how much
Speaker 1: different they play it but I would imagine some if
Speaker 1: you got the NFL's leading rusher. Yeah, and then you
Speaker 1: got two guys that don't have more than combine eighteen carries. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Let's look at Keyan O'Neill. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons guy to go to Sea. He would
Speaker 1: be helping with the run game. Let's just say him
Speaker 1: verse the run game. How do you guys feel about
Speaker 1: that kind of matchup? Yeah, I've watched it myself and
Speaker 1: I like it because, I mean, if you're an Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcon fan, that's your guy, you know. I mean the
Speaker 1: Falcons have had some struggles on first and second down
Speaker 1: in the running game. Now. The thing with Neil is
Speaker 1: that he's the one guy that can be physical at
Speaker 1: the point of attack if things break down. He's the
Speaker 1: one guy that can cause turnovers if you need that way,
Speaker 1: because I saw him rip the ball right out of
Speaker 1: Jonathan Stewart's hands last week in the Carolina game. So
Speaker 1: he is a physical hitter. So if it comes down
Speaker 1: to a lot of collisions, whoever it's Zeke Morris Smith,
Speaker 1: whoever it is playing at that spot, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of collisions. With number twenty two because that's
Speaker 1: the style in which he plays. Now. As a team,
Speaker 1: they haven't done very well defending their own first down,
Speaker 1: and teams have done a really good job of converting
Speaker 1: on second down against him running the football. So you know,
Speaker 1: keep an eye on how that all plays out. But
Speaker 1: put Neil is a is a legitimate safety for this
Speaker 1: Falcon team. I thought you brought up a really good point.
Speaker 1: Game by the way they are, Atlanta is eighteenth against
Speaker 1: the run, one hundred and fourteen yards a game, midpack.
Speaker 1: It's to me, it's more about what the Cowboys do
Speaker 1: and if you don't have Tyran, how does that affect
Speaker 1: the operation? Because god, we've seen it. It's been so
Speaker 1: good for really three weeks now, and really a little
Speaker 1: more than that. That fourth quarter of the Green Bay
Speaker 1: game six weeks scot twenty eight or more, six weeks
Speaker 1: in a row. Okay, I don't think they really seem
Speaker 1: to find traction though until the fourth quarter of that
Speaker 1: Green Bay game, it was a better running guest it was.
Speaker 1: Zeke had ninety yards in that quarter and they kind
Speaker 1: of took off from there, and I think some of
Speaker 1: it had better since yes, yeah, and some of it.
Speaker 1: Brian has been hammering this. It's the fronts they played
Speaker 1: in the first month. But I just wonder, you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't have Tyrant, how does does the operation
Speaker 1: just keep flowing? Yeah? That's my question. What happened Garlands?
Speaker 1: To who you're playing? What happened last year? Have we
Speaker 1: looked and say that the two games that boy Chaz
Speaker 1: Green San Francisco was one of the San Francisco and Tampa.
Speaker 1: I want to say, well, I just feel like that's
Speaker 1: different entirely because you had Ron Learry instead of Jonathan Cooper. True,
Speaker 1: Ron was played great last year. Chad did a nice
Speaker 1: job at left tackle. I felt like in the two
Speaker 1: games tired miss. But I don't like Jonathan Cooper, do
Speaker 1: you know? I just I don't trust Jonathan Cooper as
Speaker 1: much in the run game as much as I had
Speaker 1: seen from Ron Leary. But when did you start trusting
Speaker 1: Ron Larry? Because the beginning of the year Ron Larry
Speaker 1: was just moving in for ELC Collins. But he'd been
Speaker 1: a starter for this offense for three or four years
Speaker 1: right before that, So I don't think it was that run.
Speaker 1: Was it a couple of years? A couple of years, Yeah,
Speaker 1: year or two two years. He there wasn't an adjustment
Speaker 1: period with him going in there, I know, but he
Speaker 1: was a familiar as he got beat out by somebody else, Collins,
Speaker 1: he got he kind of got wally pipped. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I think Collins and yeah, Collins got hurt and that
Speaker 1: was it. I mean, I I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I I like what tays saying though about about Cooper.
Speaker 1: I want to believe that things are getting better with him.
Speaker 1: I do. I mean, I think visually you can see
Speaker 1: some positive things. I do worry about Chaz Green in
Speaker 1: this game because the one strength that the Falcons do
Speaker 1: have is the edge rushers. You know, we worry about
Speaker 1: We worried about Collins going up against guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's going to have his hands full with Vic Beasley
Speaker 1: over there. You know, let's see what happens over on
Speaker 1: the other side. But every time you want to throw
Speaker 1: dirt on Chaz Green, and I'm talking about myself, he
Speaker 1: comes out and it plays a pretty good game. He's
Speaker 1: a gamer, yeah that he's not the liability that you
Speaker 1: might thought he would be. I just worry about penalties
Speaker 1: in the game. You know, if it turns into Okay,
Speaker 1: you get the false starts and stuff, but heck, we've
Speaker 1: seen some problems with Tyron Smith himself, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's a I don't know if I don't know
Speaker 1: if you can necessarily say and correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: I don't know if if Tyron Smith has been the
Speaker 1: best offensive lineman they have of the five, who would
Speaker 1: you say Martin? I think Martin has been. Yeah, Martin
Speaker 1: and Frederick for sure, you know, I mean the way
Speaker 1: the way Martin's played, I mean, I think he's been.
Speaker 1: And that's not a slam at Tyren Smith, but I mean,
Speaker 1: I just feel like if you said, who's the one
Speaker 1: that appears that's had the most, you'd probably with taking
Speaker 1: out of the left guard and the right tackle. We've
Speaker 1: seen the all pros. We've seen them penalized, I think
Speaker 1: a little bit more than yeah. And normally if that
Speaker 1: that has usually an indication that whatever's physically bothering you, right,
Speaker 1: you know, you're probably not moving as well as you
Speaker 1: normally do. Yeah, he got beat on an inside move
Speaker 1: the other day, but that's that's if when you're gonna
Speaker 1: beat Tyren Smith, you gotta beat him going inside. That's
Speaker 1: always kind of been his his his achilles healed there.
Speaker 1: But I I, you know, I feel like though that
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see how this line plays, and it's
Speaker 1: it's not one of the it's not one of the
Speaker 1: best defensive lines they play, but they still have some
Speaker 1: talented guys over there. And you are on the road.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta keep And that's why I think.
Speaker 1: And you're indoors and when this will be there first
Speaker 1: time to kind of experience what kind of noise there
Speaker 1: is in right stadium. Yeah. The thing that you have
Speaker 1: to worry about though, is in and Rob said this
Speaker 1: early Ken you consistently run the football with no Zeke
Speaker 1: and no left tackle. Now, that's that's where this is
Speaker 1: going to mean. You could probably get away with it
Speaker 1: if you have Zeke and having Chaz Greenplane as your
Speaker 1: left tackle. I think you can. I think that's the
Speaker 1: bigger concern. Yeah, I don't think it's Chads green that's
Speaker 1: is Zeke in there? Yeah? Is Zeke there? All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: It's time for the poll today. Which offensive starter? And
Speaker 1: we mentioned this earlier do the Cowboys need on the
Speaker 1: field most versus Atlanta? So you could take this and say,
Speaker 1: all right, just in general, who means the most of
Speaker 1: the offense? I was thinking more the matchup too, Who
Speaker 1: is more valuable against Atlanta this week? Does Tirner? Zeke?
Speaker 1: Who you got well on spags? I'll take my two cents.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, give me the runner, ze Gunner. The runner
Speaker 1: is the runner is your engine. And they're talking about
Speaker 1: the offensive line being the engine. But the runner really
Speaker 1: is the engine for this. His ability to to get
Speaker 1: tough yards, to keep him play out action, to allow
Speaker 1: you to convert third downs, shorts, things like that, and
Speaker 1: down in the red zone. What he brings. Give me
Speaker 1: the runner, And I'm I'm I think you have to
Speaker 1: have the left tackle. Don't get me wrong, I think
Speaker 1: the left tackle was a vital player, but I think
Speaker 1: the I think the runner could make up for a
Speaker 1: backup left tackle in this game. Okay, Freeze, Oh, Freezy,
Speaker 1: He's the Zeke Millie all right? And I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be opposite Manka, but just a different kind of
Speaker 1: thinking perspective. That's goods. Why I am trying to judge
Speaker 1: who's taken over for each guy? Yeah? Who takes over
Speaker 1: for Dez? You have confidence in Chaz Green before it? Right? Oh,
Speaker 1: you got two runners that have run in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. They're not Zeke by any means, but they've
Speaker 1: done this. Who's taken who's the lead receiver? Who do
Speaker 1: you fear as a receiver if Dez isn't there? This
Speaker 1: is where this is where I'm gonna go with you here.
Speaker 1: I can't go with you, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and not shoot your thing down. But
Speaker 1: tell you, they won the Washington game not even throwing
Speaker 1: the football. They want it just running the football, and
Speaker 1: that's that's my That would be my only argument. I
Speaker 1: understand where you're going. He was on the field, right,
Speaker 1: he was on the field. But but my argument to
Speaker 1: you would be, I looked this up. In all of
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's victories. How many completions do you think he's
Speaker 1: he averages in those victories? How many? How many? Give
Speaker 1: me a number. It would be in the teens. Okay,
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen. Every victory Dak Prescott has had, he's averaged.
Speaker 1: They they've wanted his average nineteen. Ok. But it's not
Speaker 1: about the production. It's about who you fear. And I
Speaker 1: think teams would have no qualms about not just ganging
Speaker 1: up on the run. If Dez isn't there, I would
Speaker 1: fear because there's no threat on the back end consistently.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw the ball at does Brian eleven times.
Speaker 1: He's gonna catch seven of them. That's fine, but they
Speaker 1: gotta worry about him. Yeah, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: I know I can hand that ball to the other
Speaker 1: guy thirty times. Yeah, but at least at least what
Speaker 1: does they're they're they're less likely to crowd the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage on Zeke. That's true. Without Daz there, they'll
Speaker 1: just say, hey, but you know what, guys aren't running,
Speaker 1: they'll take away Beasley. I think I think that's what
Speaker 1: teams will do. But I don't think they worry about
Speaker 1: him getting beat. Beasley ain't gonna beat you for a
Speaker 1: sixty yards, No, but but hey browed him in the
Speaker 1: middle of the but they crowd him. So you don't
Speaker 1: when you lose that ability to run the football, that
Speaker 1: that that's part of not fear in the back end,
Speaker 1: you crowd up front, play the type stuff. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna it's he made a good point. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna take the opposite of that because I feel
Speaker 1: like though when they win, and again I look this up,
Speaker 1: nineteen completions a game. When it's when it's when it's
Speaker 1: winning with him. A lot of Chaz greenlove here too.
Speaker 1: I mean, just thinking he could step in if need
Speaker 1: be at left tackle. Everybody's rolling with Zeke two fifty
Speaker 1: six percent say he's most valuable in this matchup. Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith gets thirty eight percent of the vote. So I
Speaker 1: was I'm with Zeke too. I mean, I think you
Speaker 1: talked about this earlier. If you get in a situation
Speaker 1: where this is a tight game, third and one, third
Speaker 1: and two, yeah, and trying to move the chains on
Speaker 1: the road against this type of offense that you're facing
Speaker 1: that you don't know could explode it. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: sure like to have my bell cow running back to
Speaker 1: set the pace hog the ball. He makes a good point, though,
Speaker 1: really does how about first and ten? I'm handing the
Speaker 1: ball to Zeke. I know they don't stop the run
Speaker 1: very well in first Now I'm okay, But I'm saying
Speaker 1: with the other guys, yeah, that's I fear. I fear
Speaker 1: what happens to this running game. And I love Alfred Morris,
Speaker 1: I love Smith, I love those guys. I mean, Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris is one of the nicest men ever walked. I
Speaker 1: mean my point was, yeah, those guys have gained yards
Speaker 1: on first and ten. Yeah, Alfred Worris had one carry
Speaker 1: for eleven yards the other day. Maybe that's what he is.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's maybe he's like Okay, we'll just hand me
Speaker 1: the ball. We'll see what we can do. I just
Speaker 1: if I if I was a defensive Cordnat Okay, let's
Speaker 1: all be defensive. But let's put it this way. What
Speaker 1: if you threw the ball twenty times and rant at forty?
Speaker 1: Do you think you can win? Yes? I do, I do. Close?
Speaker 1: Did you because you did it? You did it with
Speaker 1: you did it at Washington. It's the offense works the most.
Speaker 1: But when when Da da stoning thirty times, you weren't there.
Speaker 1: It was raining still nineteen nineteen completion, Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: all you needed nineteen. Hey, I like differ, but do
Speaker 1: you not think do you not think defenses back off
Speaker 1: when Dez is out there? Like he gets doubled. I
Speaker 1: think defensive coordinators are more worried about Ezekiel Elliott running
Speaker 1: the ball down their throat. All right, well you better
Speaker 1: have the corner to That's fine. They openly admit we're
Speaker 1: a run first. I'm with you like he was with you.
Speaker 1: He was just giving it. I'm just saying without without
Speaker 1: Dez on the field, does that change how defenses play
Speaker 1: you on the running game? He is their vertical game
Speaker 1: breaking guy. The next guy to probably do that that
Speaker 1: you look to is Bryce Butler. Okay, I got I
Speaker 1: got another little consistently well, I'm just saying vertically yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying consistently sorry, no, no, no, You're good.
Speaker 1: Got a little fun bet for us possibly, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm already gonna give you guys a pizza. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you got the pizza right. We'll have to decide after
Speaker 1: Fred sticks who is more likely to play on Sunday, Zeke,
Speaker 1: Gilli or de Bran as we sit here today, Thursday twelve,
Speaker 1: nineteen pm Central time. Wow, I have no clue. See
Speaker 1: so okay, so who wants this? Saydes? Who wants to say? Zeke?
Speaker 1: I'll say, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm this
Speaker 1: is honestly, I'll play this game. I'll play this game.
Speaker 1: I'll play this game. Okay. I think that I want
Speaker 1: to trust the legal system. What legal people have said. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I think Des Brian will line up and played before Zeke.
Speaker 1: I think the only thing does if he decides, hey
Speaker 1: I can I can get this out? That's kind of somewhat.
Speaker 1: I think he wants j Jones. It's somewhat in his
Speaker 1: hands because this is totally out of Zeke's hands. I'll
Speaker 1: go with does. Yeah, and des Bryant did not play
Speaker 1: against Julio Jones the last time, did he? When you
Speaker 1: had Brandon wheedon that game with Joseph Randall was I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember. I don't think he did. I don't
Speaker 1: think he did. Smith was out Plateau in the opener
Speaker 1: and then yeah, the Giants game. I was like week
Speaker 1: three Atlanta. So yeah, okay, so you're saying does, you're
Speaker 1: saying does. And I want to trust. I want to
Speaker 1: trust what all these legal people, but I feel like
Speaker 1: kind of like the legal people have let me down
Speaker 1: a little bit. Well, this thing is seesawed, right. We've
Speaker 1: gotten some for Zeke's some against Zeke. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a toss up, man, who do you think, Mick? It
Speaker 1: depends on which where the lawyers who are analyzing this
Speaker 1: stand right. Are the liberal or are they conservative? We
Speaker 1: told you Smith or Bryant uh more likely to play? Yes,
Speaker 1: that does? Okay, it does too. We'll see Queen sweep.
Speaker 1: It made me neither. I know that's something should be
Speaker 1: or both. But you're just looking, You're looking, You're trying
Speaker 1: to project a little bit. We're just looking it's interesting day.
Speaker 1: And let's go to the phone lines though, because we
Speaker 1: have another Ray. It's been a few few rays. Ray
Speaker 1: from Dallas. What is your question, Collo? Hey, hey, Ray,
Speaker 1: this is Ray from New Orleans. This is not right
Speaker 1: from dab Okay, go ahead, but you got I just
Speaker 1: I haven't called the show back to back into I
Speaker 1: just felt I got a little miss understand yesterday. But
Speaker 1: I'm no fine, go ahead, but you got would you? Guys?
Speaker 1: You guys need to know what you mean to the
Speaker 1: callers and to the listeners that call the show. I mean,
Speaker 1: you really do a phenomenal job already. Know that brought us.
Speaker 1: I'm the guy that came up to you a training
Speaker 1: camp and shipped your hand and say, no, I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: but don't back down. Job, Yeah, don't back down. We
Speaker 1: talked about the quarterback for sure. Did you worried about that?
Speaker 1: I am? So you know, just just just know that
Speaker 1: going forward that I'll clarify my comments or statements a
Speaker 1: little bit more than that quick. If I stopped listening
Speaker 1: to Brian Brothers, I'll stopped listening to talking cowboys, and
Speaker 1: that's that's never gone. I appreciate that. No, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if you got a point, man, go
Speaker 1: stick with it. I mean, you don't, don't be mean
Speaker 1: about it. Boldens done in my DNA, So sure, how
Speaker 1: much I didn't really mean what I was saying. I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: of course we got the shows. Worrious, Okay, you got it.
Speaker 1: You're worried about the courts right now. I think I
Speaker 1: don't know who's gonna play like right now. Before I
Speaker 1: got on the phone, I was worried about what you
Speaker 1: guys were talking about as far as you think it's
Speaker 1: gonna mist the games. I mean, I worried about Tonlne
Speaker 1: with the growing injury. But I think that we have
Speaker 1: We're gonna see what happens. Every Cowboys fan that's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be worried throughout the week. We don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. We don't know if I think the defense
Speaker 1: can step up. But also I can see them menting
Speaker 1: on some blaze. We don't So I don't know what happened,
Speaker 1: but the game. I just wanted to call and clarify
Speaker 1: that I appreciate it, all right, thank you, all right,
Speaker 1: good job? All right? Well, I get it. Hey, the
Speaker 1: guy on TV, here's he's in Manhattan, right, you'll men,
Speaker 1: go put a little pin on where Zeke is right now,
Speaker 1: if I can pinpointing up on the for all radio listeners. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we got ken oct cameras turned towards the TV.
Speaker 1: Now just now the option to listen to watch. That's true,
Speaker 1: you do have the option. It's way up there on
Speaker 1: the seat top left. Zike Milly, Zeke Milly. Alright, Hey,
Speaker 1: we appreciate the callers, always do Yeah, I mean and
Speaker 1: again I always I appreciate the passion. Don't fold though
Speaker 1: you're gonna argue, argue, but do it respectively. Had a
Speaker 1: breakout game against the twenty and fifteen Dallas Cowboys here
Speaker 1: at AT and T Stadium. Looked like an absolute beast.
Speaker 1: He was. He's a pro bowler. Now, Devonte Freeman verse
Speaker 1: Shaan Lee in this game be a fun matchup. No,
Speaker 1: you wrote about it, Brian, Yeah, I face each other
Speaker 1: the first time. Yes, but it was a different story.
Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman was not the same running back he was
Speaker 1: back then. Rookie. I believe what he right and was
Speaker 1: coming back from that second yeah, second season. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what It's a matchup I really like, and I
Speaker 1: like it from two aspects. I think that I do
Speaker 1: believe this with my heart did Steve Sarkissing has taken
Speaker 1: a lot of heat in Atlanta for not getting his
Speaker 1: weapons going. Everybody's wondering why are the Falcons not having
Speaker 1: success in red zone? Why is Matt Ryan doing this?
Speaker 1: Why can't they successfully run the football consistently? I mean
Speaker 1: he's taken a lot of that, and I think coaches,
Speaker 1: when they take heat, they go back to try and
Speaker 1: go back to the basics. And I think this is
Speaker 1: where that matchup with Sean Lee. Mickey's been right with
Speaker 1: Sean and what he's meant to this football team. You know,
Speaker 1: the run fits have been really really good, especially last week.
Speaker 1: It gets a quality back and you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: do the same thing. But it's going to be about
Speaker 1: Sean Lee getting the football, you know, him anti hitch
Speaker 1: and I I mean you could, you could, you could
Speaker 1: point to a lot of guys having to play well.
Speaker 1: I mean Jason Garrett was talking about really it's unconventional
Speaker 1: to play Tyron Crawford at right defensive end, but it's
Speaker 1: worked for this football team. So yeah, you could say
Speaker 1: Sean Lee and I'm totally with you, and I even
Speaker 1: wrote about that. But man, he's going to have to
Speaker 1: have a game where they can't let Freeman control this game,
Speaker 1: and they and they've got to discourage they've got to
Speaker 1: discourage Sarkissian from wanting to call his number a bunch.
Speaker 1: Interesting stat with their running game against Carolina last week.
Speaker 1: This is from I think the Falcons Network radio network.
Speaker 1: They had nine runs of two yards or less on second, third,
Speaker 1: fourth down. They got one yard total right of those runs.
Speaker 1: They've really struggled in short yard to trying to run
Speaker 1: the football, keep drives going. So something to keep an eye,
Speaker 1: which is surprising to me because they really do have
Speaker 1: a nice one two punch with Coleman and Freeman there. Oh,
Speaker 1: how's their offensive line? It's they're only missing one guy
Speaker 1: from the super Bowl and that would be the guard.
Speaker 1: Which guard was that? It was Sweitzer? Sweitzer as that
Speaker 1: you say, I'm messing, sweetzer, But yeah, they're only missing
Speaker 1: one guard, one offensive lineman from their super Bowl team. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's they've struggled, and I just I just
Speaker 1: like I said, I worry about them saying, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be committed to try and you know, we could
Speaker 1: be committed to trying to stop the run. Teams get
Speaker 1: committed to try and stop Zeke, they'd always have success.
Speaker 1: But you can be committed to it. And I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see if the Falcons in fact say, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna hand the ball, we're gonna toss the ball, We're
Speaker 1: gonna do things we have to do to try and
Speaker 1: get these two backs going downhill against this Dallas defense.
Speaker 1: And if the Dallas defense is good enough, we'll see.
Speaker 1: But I always just think about the offense. The offense
Speaker 1: is one of the best friends that the Cowboys defense has.
Speaker 1: Their ability to score a lot of points, the ability
Speaker 1: to hold the football, ability to convert third downs, all
Speaker 1: those things are huge when they play. Absolutely, Mick, what
Speaker 1: you loo can up over there? I'm just seeing. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Buffalo and Miami's God's gift to defense.
Speaker 1: They beat him, helped them to seventeen points. Both games
Speaker 1: played in Atlanta. By the Well, this is where Mickey
Speaker 1: goes down to the schedule says, what's so great about them? Well,
Speaker 1: they're four that I did. Nobody said they're unbeatable, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they're four and four. Somebody stops somebody. No,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. But you you don't want to
Speaker 1: get in a situation where all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: figure it out. Are the Falcons better than that record?
Speaker 1: I think they are. They're way more dangerous than that.
Speaker 1: I think they're more dangerous. They're enough, they're better, Well,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're similar. As far as personnel with Kansas City,
Speaker 1: who would you take? You got the reigning MVP at quarterback,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones is just he's a but but Julio is
Speaker 1: there's nobody like him in the NFL with his height,
Speaker 1: his his size. Salad Bill, Yeah, Bill would get down
Speaker 1: the field. I mean, I don't care what the numbers say.
Speaker 1: They've got to be able to stop him. And that
Speaker 1: running game probably said that last week about Tyreek Hill. No,
Speaker 1: we did, absolutely, we did, and they did and they
Speaker 1: did a great job. And I think the offense had
Speaker 1: a lot to do with that too. But the defense
Speaker 1: was hey again, run fits and coverage that that interception
Speaker 1: was a great read by Jeff Heath and Orlando Scandrick
Speaker 1: jumping underneath. That's what you gotta have. I like hearing
Speaker 1: that though, go out and play defense. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I just worry about this team if it turns into
Speaker 1: we're losing. If Mickey was talking about if you don't
Speaker 1: have Smith, if you don't have Bryant and you don't
Speaker 1: have Zeke, does this turn into a seventeen point team?
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this brand, if the Falcons do
Speaker 1: feel like, Okay, we are more dangerous than this, we
Speaker 1: are a better team than let's get back to a
Speaker 1: winning record. Here, what part of the Cowboys whatever do
Speaker 1: you think they'll try to expose of the running game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll run, they'll run. They'll see if Dallas they've got it,
Speaker 1: if they really believe that. Dallas's offense, like Mickey always
Speaker 1: likes to talk about, is a thirty point offense, and
Speaker 1: it can do so well in the red zone. Inside
Speaker 1: the thirty they're great, you know, I mean they score
Speaker 1: touchdowns to get down their sixty five percent of the time,
Speaker 1: sixty eight percent of the time they're gonna score touchdowns
Speaker 1: down there. Yeah, it's hard to defend. You're you're saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's our best defense. Our best defense is our offense scored.
Speaker 1: That's the problem with Atlanti's defense. Right now, their team's
Speaker 1: averaging seventeen points a game. Last year they were averaging
Speaker 1: in the you know, like thirty points a game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of the best offenses in the league. A little
Speaker 1: reason why they got to the Super Bowl. But it's
Speaker 1: a little hand in hand. They're not they're not giving
Speaker 1: any extra possessions to their not at all. No. No,
Speaker 1: I think if they were up for more than six takeaways,
Speaker 1: this offense might be averaging a touchdown for a game
Speaker 1: and be more closer to thirty points a game than twenty.
Speaker 1: Where they us they're turning it over. Yeah. Yeah, Mattie
Speaker 1: Ice has seven picks. He had seven picks all last year.
Speaker 1: Mattie Ice. Yes. Well, by the time we talk to
Speaker 1: you guys again, to them, yeah, we will know who
Speaker 1: will be playing, whether will be hope think, oh, we know.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's another bet. Maybe that's another one. I'll bet
Speaker 1: you training table pizza on that one. Bad get it
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