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Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Break. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: this show started right away because we don't have much time,
Speaker 1: so let's just get right into it. Who was at practice?
Speaker 1: Who wasn't? What are these guys looking like? Everybody but
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown and Joe Looney was at practice today, which
Speaker 1: I guess that sucks for Joe because I guess that
Speaker 1: means his back injury is not great. But all of
Speaker 1: those hurt Pro bowlers were practicing today. So that's Cooper,
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith, Lyle Collins, Randall, cop Byron Jones all there.
Speaker 1: What does this mean that plan? Well, we hope you
Speaker 1: hope they play. There's no way to speak unilaterally about that.
Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on the injury report. I guarantee
Speaker 1: you it'll say questionable for most of those guys. Out
Speaker 1: of those starters. Who would be the one, like, who
Speaker 1: would be the one that most likely would not be
Speaker 1: able to go this weekend? I it seems it seems
Speaker 1: like it goes back and forth. Like I've heard some
Speaker 1: you know, some people are like, oh, Lyle is gonna play,
Speaker 1: but Tyron can't. Tyrn's gonna play, but Lyle can't. Um.
Speaker 1: I'd say Cooper would be the one that I think
Speaker 1: maybe not yeah, because and that's another one, because him
Speaker 1: saying I feel good, Like yeah, I thought he said
Speaker 1: that last week and it took three plays for him
Speaker 1: not to feel good and not to play anymore. So
Speaker 1: he that would be the one. It's a combination of
Speaker 1: the quad. They ain't cold at foot. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the majority of them will be out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: take that for what it's worth. That I don't there's
Speaker 1: no way to speak confidently about this forty eight hours
Speaker 1: before they actually kick off the game. UM. Sorry, but
Speaker 1: I think, oh, I can't really do an actives right, well,
Speaker 1: I mean we can. You can try your best. I mean,
Speaker 1: my gut, I think says I think Randall Cobb's gonna play.
Speaker 1: I think one of the tackles will play. I think
Speaker 1: Byron Jones will play. Um, I think Joe Looney won't play,
Speaker 1: So that's one. Yeah. I mean Adam Redman is now.
Speaker 1: I mean he's your he would be active and probably
Speaker 1: be your backup center, right Adam Redman. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: if Joe can't go, that rhymes, if Joe can't go,
Speaker 1: then I would say Redman's probably active. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: the backup. Nobody else plays center, right true? Yeah, So okay,
Speaker 1: well Looney or Redman, there's one I would say. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean to try to do this. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: hard because you've got what about Dorin's armstrong, what's been
Speaker 1: his He's got a he had a stinger. He was
Speaker 1: out there today. I think he was out. I mean
Speaker 1: he's been out there in a limited capacity all weeks,
Speaker 1: so that's always a good sign. Um, I think the
Speaker 1: new guy will be inactive. You know if if everybody
Speaker 1: else is, um, Justin Hamilton's sorry, if if everybody else
Speaker 1: is ready to go, I don't know if you need
Speaker 1: him because you got Covington, Malik, Um, Triston Hill, and
Speaker 1: I would like to think Triston Hill will be better
Speaker 1: than Justin Hamilton. That's what. Yeah, able to play in
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, I would hope. That would be really bad.
Speaker 1: If Hamilton, who's not on a team comes in and
Speaker 1: he plays, Yeah, that would be bad. He's inactive, I
Speaker 1: would go. I would hope. So, so Hamilton's out and
Speaker 1: Looney's out, Anthony Brown is out. I think Luke Gifford
Speaker 1: will probably be down for this game. Assuming one of,
Speaker 1: if not both of the receivers are up, then you're
Speaker 1: probably sitting a receiver. Maybe I wouldn't sit too, though,
Speaker 1: I would try not to sit now, you guys, because
Speaker 1: with those guys banged up, I mean at least one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I keeps Cedric Wilson up and maybe Devin Smith down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yes again, which you know that bid him last week.
Speaker 1: But again like somebody's gotta sit so and and that
Speaker 1: was Cop and Cooper were hurting that. So if one
Speaker 1: of them comes back, you would think, um, well, given
Speaker 1: those does that get And then and then one of
Speaker 1: the offensive tack if I had to guess, I think
Speaker 1: one of the offensive tackles will sit. So that's an
Speaker 1: inactive too, Yeah, that's right. Or Bran or Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: or Tyrann Smith. I mean I can't I don't feel
Speaker 1: confident that they're both gonna play. Yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: tough week to figure out the inactus on a Friday.
Speaker 1: But given these guys, the ones that are injured, and
Speaker 1: you having a good idea of okay, this guy might
Speaker 1: might not play. What what would be the area of
Speaker 1: biggest concern when it comes to the Cowboys and then
Speaker 1: playing this weekend? To me, it's the it's the you're
Speaker 1: saying just across the board and across them. I would
Speaker 1: say that can they get them blocked somehow, some way?
Speaker 1: Can they get these guys block because you know the
Speaker 1: Eagles are going to bring a lot of pressure. They
Speaker 1: they're dynamic in the way that they rushed. They had
Speaker 1: ten sacks on the Jets, you know, which everybody should
Speaker 1: get ten sacks on the Jets, right, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: actually couldn't even get more than two, couldn't get any
Speaker 1: steady pressure. So the Eagles are doing it right when
Speaker 1: it comes to rushing, and I think that they got
Speaker 1: to make sure they get that blocked with all the
Speaker 1: banged up injuries that they have. I bet you'll see
Speaker 1: a lot of blitzes this week because the blitz has
Speaker 1: worked last week. I think I said this yesterday. If
Speaker 1: I could only have Tyrn or Cooper for this game,
Speaker 1: I'd take Cooper because the Eagles did have ten sacks
Speaker 1: against the Jets. They definitely have talent, but they've it's
Speaker 1: a lot like the Cowboys. It's they've struggled to get home.
Speaker 1: I think they have fourteen on the season, and ten
Speaker 1: of those came against the Jets. So I mean that
Speaker 1: gives you an idea that they're not terrorizing people the
Speaker 1: way they'd probably prefer. I don't think the offensive tackles
Speaker 1: the reason why they've lost either of these games. Like
Speaker 1: I've said that too, you know, like this isn't an
Speaker 1: Atlanta situation where your tackles just cannot handle the opposing
Speaker 1: pass rush. But I worry. You know, they're good against
Speaker 1: the run, and we saw what it looked like without
Speaker 1: Cooper last week. Like, I don't trust that they have
Speaker 1: enough explosive playmakers to hurt the Eagles secondary. If Cooper
Speaker 1: can't play in this game. You would like to think
Speaker 1: Gallup can step up, but feel a lot better if
Speaker 1: Cooper could go. So that's what I worry about, is
Speaker 1: finding guys that can make plays downfield, because that's how
Speaker 1: you're going to win this game. Yeah. Now, I want
Speaker 1: to try to get through some of the questions that
Speaker 1: fans have been sending in before we get into game
Speaker 1: day predictions and all of that. So one of them
Speaker 1: being is Jordan Lewis and his participation for this game.
Speaker 1: I know we kind of talked about him earlier this week.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was yesterday, but what are
Speaker 1: your expectations with Bargron coming back in and being able
Speaker 1: to play and all that. What do you see Jordan's
Speaker 1: role being this week? Nickel Back? Uh, this is how
Speaker 1: you remind me of what I really am. This is
Speaker 1: how you remind me of being a playmaker. Why did
Speaker 1: I say that that was stupid? I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be the starting Nickel with Anthony Brown sitting out, and
Speaker 1: it's an opportunity for him to do something with it.
Speaker 1: They sing that song. Yeah, but you know, I mean
Speaker 1: they all all those bands run together. To me, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Oh well, I mean they do nickel Back
Speaker 1: and cold Play and all that. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: we don't have to turn this into a music procast,
Speaker 1: but Arrowsmith and I'm taking it to another decade. I
Speaker 1: don't sounds like it nickel Back, they were bad Canadian band.
Speaker 1: And it will also be Jordan Lewis's job against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Nelson Agilore deal with it. I'm I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: him get an opportunity. Hopefully he keeps going the way that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, limited spots, but he's played well
Speaker 1: for two years now and now he's gonna I mean,
Speaker 1: he should play fifty sixty whatever snaps. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: basically a starter this week. Yeah. I mean when you
Speaker 1: think about all the guys that have been active at corner,
Speaker 1: I mean, they basically have five corners if you count
Speaker 1: Goodwin and so now with Brown out, and I don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna. I wouldn't anybody. I wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 1: if Donovan Olumba finds his way on the fifty three
Speaker 1: for this game. Will be cutting Luke Gifford. Uh, they
Speaker 1: get Luke Gifford the whole tre Okay, he wasn't cut
Speaker 1: one of those guards now, because you know he was
Speaker 1: doing special teams work at practice. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I think you know they think the world of C. J. Goodwin,
Speaker 1: but do they want him to have to cover people
Speaker 1: if it comes to that. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know this for sure. I'm just spitballing here. But with
Speaker 1: Brown banged up and again, you know, God Heaven forbid,
Speaker 1: you get into a situation where Byron, you know, chases
Speaker 1: a receiver down the field for the first time, and
Speaker 1: it's like, I can't do this. Yeah, I just it
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me. I don't know for sure, but I
Speaker 1: think they might feel better having that in the back pocket.
Speaker 1: Just something to watch tomorrow afternoon. Water. I'd tell you
Speaker 1: who I would I would cut is, I'd cut the
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, the new guy. Yeah he's been on the
Speaker 1: street for six weeks. Yeah, but he hasn't and he's
Speaker 1: he I don't believe he's subject to waivers at this point.
Speaker 1: And even if he is, whatever, Yeah, that's possible too.
Speaker 1: I mean, he'd he'd be my guy to just that's
Speaker 1: that's fair. That sounds like the best option if you
Speaker 1: got to cut it. Something something to watch. They haven't
Speaker 1: done a lot of that this year because they haven't
Speaker 1: need to. But desperate times call for desperate measures. You
Speaker 1: might you might want that security blanket with two banged
Speaker 1: up cornerbacks. Well, planing to the whole injury situation. Here's
Speaker 1: another question, is the lack of play action motions in
Speaker 1: different plays coming from the fact that they're lacking personnel
Speaker 1: due to injuries, especially at white receiver and tackle position.
Speaker 1: I heard a lot of people say, you know the
Speaker 1: stat that's going around as they've dropped, they've it's cut
Speaker 1: in half. How much they're doing play action and stuff
Speaker 1: like that the first three weeks as opposed to the second,
Speaker 1: and people have responding like, well, of course they're falling
Speaker 1: behind by multiple scores. I don't buy that at all,
Speaker 1: because they're still running the ball. They ran it all
Speaker 1: through the second half of that game, and the numbers
Speaker 1: will show you, like, the run doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: working for play action to work. Now, trusting your tackles
Speaker 1: to protect your quarterback, that's important, It definitely is. But
Speaker 1: I mean there's more than one way to skin a cat, right.
Speaker 1: That's a saying like, you can do faster developing play action.
Speaker 1: You can do play action that gets your quarterback moving
Speaker 1: and thereby protects him from the pass rush, like Dak
Speaker 1: throws so well on the move. I would love to
Speaker 1: see some play action like that, like boot action something
Speaker 1: that gets the pocket moving and gets Dak's feet moving.
Speaker 1: There's more ways to do that than just fake the
Speaker 1: hand off to the running back coming out of the backfield,
Speaker 1: drop back and sit and wait. Like, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: cool when you have protection, but you don't have to
Speaker 1: do it that way. So I don't necessarily buy that.
Speaker 1: I just think they haven't wanted to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, And especially when you saw it working. That
Speaker 1: is one of the elements that we, or at least
Speaker 1: me I keep seeing, is they were doing things that
Speaker 1: worked for the offense and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: this past few games, it's like they disappeared. And I
Speaker 1: have read of it. I get it. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: the circumstances dictate what you can do to a point,
Speaker 1: and falling into two and three score holes is never good.
Speaker 1: But like, doesn't it kind of seem like when that
Speaker 1: like they're just like, well, we can't do that now.
Speaker 1: It's almost right. They're probably relieved, like, oh, thank god,
Speaker 1: you don't have to do anything fun now because we're
Speaker 1: behind them. I don't buy it, Like, you don't have
Speaker 1: to just completely abandon that stuff because the game doesn't
Speaker 1: follow the script you wanted it too, because guess what,
Speaker 1: most games aren't going to follow the script you wanted
Speaker 1: it too. Yeah, now, let's take a quick break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll keep answering some of these questions.
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Speaker 1: welcome back, guys. We're answering some of the questions y'all
Speaker 1: been sending in through Twitter at Cowboys Break. Here's a
Speaker 1: question that plays into what Nick was saying yesterday of
Speaker 1: all Suafilo being a better guard than Connor Williams. In
Speaker 1: a scenario where we don't see a tyrant coming back
Speaker 1: or struggling still with injuries, do we see the Cowboys
Speaker 1: actually moving Connor to tackle and then plugging in Xavier
Speaker 1: Swatfilo as a guard. I think, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought if that was going to happen, it would
Speaker 1: have happened last week with Brandon Knight and Cam Fleming playing.
Speaker 1: I thought that meano, maybe with Cam not playing very
Speaker 1: well well, right, but I thought I thought that might
Speaker 1: be a situation. We're saying, let's let's put Connor out
Speaker 1: there at tackle and then you know, you can still
Speaker 1: maybe have your best five available. But they haven't done that,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if Connor actually played well at
Speaker 1: tackle when he was out there for like a week
Speaker 1: or a few practices last week or two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: so I don't think that's something they want to do
Speaker 1: right now. And signing lie L to a long, long
Speaker 1: term deal suggests that Connor is here to stay at guard,
Speaker 1: and so they're going to keep him regardless of Cam's performance.
Speaker 1: If he was having to be out there replacing Tyron,
Speaker 1: I would imagine Brandon Knight's a better tackle than Connor
Speaker 1: Williams right now probably, And so if that happened, it's
Speaker 1: it's Friday of game week and we haven't seen or
Speaker 1: heard anything that suggests that they're shuffling it. So I
Speaker 1: just assume they're not going to. Yeah, I don't think not,
Speaker 1: I mean not right now. If if these guys Connor's
Speaker 1: got his own issues and guard, like I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's easy to look at it and go, well, he's
Speaker 1: not as strong, but he's athletics, so he could play
Speaker 1: tackle theory theoretically, yes, but not in like Dave said
Speaker 1: in a short, you know, and like on the fly,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's happening. That's why and I'm I
Speaker 1: don't know if that would happen, but that's why you
Speaker 1: see stuff like that happened during the bye week, because
Speaker 1: it gives you more time to work at it from
Speaker 1: a physical and a mental standpoint. Yeah, Now here's a
Speaker 1: question of a guy that you have talked about, Dave
Speaker 1: Jamis alawally in the way that they're utilizing him. Can
Speaker 1: you please try to put some sense into why they're
Speaker 1: now using him? And I can't because they I mean
Speaker 1: they even did at the beginning of the season. You know,
Speaker 1: he was running, he was running wheel routes. You know,
Speaker 1: they tried, they took a shot to him against the Giants.
Speaker 1: He seemed like he was out there a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: for a fullback, you know you're not going to get
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the snaps, but he was out there.
Speaker 1: And I don't I don't begrudge fans who think there's
Speaker 1: some type of conspiracy theory. I don't believe it, but
Speaker 1: I get why you feel that way, because, yeah, like
Speaker 1: there are just elements of this thing that look different.
Speaker 1: They're not they're not using twenty one personnel, they're not
Speaker 1: doing it with Jamay's and they're not doing with Tony pollard. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't have a good answer for you as to
Speaker 1: why that is, but maybe because all the production they're
Speaker 1: getting it tied in and then you don't need him sarcasm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure. I was like, is he messing with
Speaker 1: me right now? Well, you know, I would be one
Speaker 1: thing if like Schultz was making a lot of catch
Speaker 1: but you're like, you need that part of your Like
Speaker 1: he kind of plays like a like a tight end
Speaker 1: sort of. I mean he could he could, you know,
Speaker 1: make some some catches out there like that, And it
Speaker 1: really does you know it Like I said it before
Speaker 1: the break, like it kind of feels like, you know,
Speaker 1: when things don't go their way and they find themselves
Speaker 1: in an adverse situation, it's like, let's get back to
Speaker 1: what we know, Like, let's just do what's safe, which
Speaker 1: has pound the rock with Zeke and you know, try
Speaker 1: to take the occasional shot to Cooper or whichever receivers
Speaker 1: out there. And you know, and people want to pin
Speaker 1: that on Jason Garrett, and I mean you can if
Speaker 1: you want to. He gets paid handsomely to put up
Speaker 1: with stuff like that. Like I said, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I buy it. I mean, Kelly Moore has got
Speaker 1: a role in this thing, and you can't call him
Speaker 1: the wonder boy when they're rolling after three weeks and
Speaker 1: just blame it all on Garrett when when they're three
Speaker 1: and three, but there's very little doubt in my like
Speaker 1: this offense has there's they're still putting up yards. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's still like top five in the league, but they
Speaker 1: it just doesn't look as creative as it did in
Speaker 1: the winning street. And it's so frustrating to me when
Speaker 1: I hear, you know, fans saying, oh, well, clearly Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett is stepping in and having to say, I'm like,
Speaker 1: why would your ruin things when clearly Kennon Moore was
Speaker 1: doing well in the first three weeks and then why
Speaker 1: all of a sudden Jason want to step in and
Speaker 1: starting stepping in? Because I actually was down there at
Speaker 1: the very end of the game when they were scoring
Speaker 1: that touchdown a two point conversion. I was actually right
Speaker 1: behind them because they were moving down and yeah, we
Speaker 1: were there together, and I actually saw Jason Garrett say hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: like four times to Kellen Moore, who was like in
Speaker 1: the middle of like calling play, and he was like
Speaker 1: trying to get his attention and didn't and he had
Speaker 1: to call the play. They don't have a lot of time.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's actually stepping in. Not at that point.
Speaker 1: I think he was trying to point out something, but
Speaker 1: it was it wasn't getting across. So team looks bad.
Speaker 1: You need to scapegoat. Most Cowboys fans have been frustrated
Speaker 1: by Bason Garrett, even in the good times, and that's
Speaker 1: a natural result of him. Like I said, like, I
Speaker 1: don't feel sorry for him. He's paid super duper well
Speaker 1: to be that lightning rod. But I don't buy that
Speaker 1: it's just magically Garrett's fault when things aren't going well
Speaker 1: and Kellen Moore's genius when they are. Yeah, now here's
Speaker 1: a guy that had a pretty decent preseason and people
Speaker 1: are now asking about him and for him, want to
Speaker 1: see him playing more. Donovan Wilson, yep, what's up with him?
Speaker 1: Any expectations of us actually watching him getting some playing time?
Speaker 1: Not really? And that you know what, I'll eat some
Speaker 1: crow here. I mean, I still don't think Jeff Heath
Speaker 1: is as bad as a lot of people want to
Speaker 1: paint him to be. But my whole thing was okay,
Speaker 1: but you know, they're not giving up ninety two yard
Speaker 1: touchdowns and that's the risk you run with a rookie
Speaker 1: who doesn't know what he's doing out there, Like that's
Speaker 1: why you don't put a rookie in that situation. But
Speaker 1: if the veteran starters are giving those up, then what
Speaker 1: do you have to lose? Like that? Yeah, that's unacceptable
Speaker 1: from the safety position, Like that's you're saving grace. Even
Speaker 1: if you're not great, if you don't get turnovers and
Speaker 1: don't make crazy plays, you're saving grace. Is well, he's
Speaker 1: not just giving up chunk plays that put the defense
Speaker 1: in a bind. Well, that happened last week and it can't. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not calling for anybody to get benched yet,
Speaker 1: but if it keeps up, then yeah, I'd be down
Speaker 1: to try something else. Yeah, Like what do you have
Speaker 1: to lose at that point? Exactly? Like like I said,
Speaker 1: like that's the one thing. You're like, well, they don't
Speaker 1: do this, this and this, but at least you're not
Speaker 1: just zipping down the field on a ninety two yard
Speaker 1: broken play. Well, it happened last night. I mean, Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson did all that stuff in the preseason games in
Speaker 1: second half and all that. But you know, who's to
Speaker 1: say he wouldn't do it if you if you put
Speaker 1: him out there, I mean playmakers or playmakers and so, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's he's warranted that from what
Speaker 1: we've seen. But you got to remember too, like the
Speaker 1: coaches know things as well. They know what what you know,
Speaker 1: where he's lacking if I think that if they if
Speaker 1: he if he had showed them that he could play
Speaker 1: at any at any point, they wouldn't have kept Cavan
Speaker 1: Fraser and all that stuff. Like, I know he was
Speaker 1: banged out, but they see some things too, and he
Speaker 1: might he might have some good plays on their board,
Speaker 1: but I guarantee he's got some others. But they've also
Speaker 1: you know what, he's been back from that ankle injury
Speaker 1: since week yeah three, that's that's three weeks worth of
Speaker 1: practice where they have him on film and necessarily trust work.
Speaker 1: And it's always the whole thing that you say, Nick,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, we may be seeing something, but is
Speaker 1: that specifically something that the coaching have asked of him
Speaker 1: to do? You know, we don't really know, No, they know,
Speaker 1: but they do ask players to get turnovers and get
Speaker 1: the ball, makes some plays, and he's done that as
Speaker 1: well as anybody, so he's not far off. Well, let's
Speaker 1: take our final break when we come back, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: So welcome Derek. Nice with you, Thanks for having Mary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, now to welcome you. Please get this started.
Speaker 1: Tell me how the Cowboys are going to beat the
Speaker 1: Eagles this weekend and what's the final score? Man? How
Speaker 1: are they going to beat the Eagles? Can you tell
Speaker 1: me yet? Who's gonna play? We sort of went over
Speaker 1: that you're kind of late to the party. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm like saying, like I need to know that before
Speaker 1: some of the hurt guys will be back, and we
Speaker 1: just aren't one hundred percent sure which, so take your pick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, I'm think I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: that most of those guys are not gonna play. I
Speaker 1: think most of them will think more. I think more
Speaker 1: of will player than not. I will say this. Last week,
Speaker 1: at this time, we were saying one of the two
Speaker 1: tackles was going to play in neither one of them.
Speaker 1: You are right, So I think there's a level of
Speaker 1: think I get that, But I'm saying I think there's
Speaker 1: a level of optimism that we're all operating on here
Speaker 1: that right now I'm not willing to operate on. So
Speaker 1: that being said, my suspicion or my guests for my
Speaker 1: how I'm looking at this is I do think I
Speaker 1: get one of the tackles back. I'm not betting on Amari.
Speaker 1: I know he's out there limited. I'm not betting on that,
Speaker 1: but maybe he plays. So all that being said, I
Speaker 1: think that the Cowboys ultimately gonna have to win this
Speaker 1: game on defense if they're gonna win it. And I've
Speaker 1: been waiting for them to get a game this like
Speaker 1: like that this year where this defense doesn't have a
Speaker 1: choice but to step up to win a game. I
Speaker 1: think they played that kind of game against the Orlands.
Speaker 1: They just didn't win it. But that's how the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I think have to win this game. If it ends
Speaker 1: up being as you and I Day said earlier this week,
Speaker 1: like we thought it was gonna be, which is the
Speaker 1: thirty four plus point game on either side, both sides,
Speaker 1: then you know that's how it's gonna play. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cowboys win that kind of game
Speaker 1: if if all those guys are missing on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. So I think the defense is
Speaker 1: gonna have to play extremely well and that's how they
Speaker 1: win the game. Sorry to come back to me on
Speaker 1: the pick. Wow, Okay, come back to me on the pick.
Speaker 1: I still gotta I still gotta think about that. So
Speaker 1: Cowboys win because of the defense. No, that's how they win.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I'm ready to say they're going nick.
Speaker 1: I think Gamari plays, I think Tyran plays, I think
Speaker 1: Leo plays. I think the you know, I said it
Speaker 1: in the Saints game. I didn't feel comfortable picking them,
Speaker 1: but I was like, you got to show me that
Speaker 1: you're not able to win games before I start, you know,
Speaker 1: start picking you. And then I still did it and
Speaker 1: they lost to the Jets. So Eagles twenty seven, Cowboys
Speaker 1: twenty three. I think those guys play. I don't think
Speaker 1: it'll be enough. I hope I'm wrong, but I think
Speaker 1: the Eagles will win because just like we're waiting for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to come together, I think the Eagles are
Speaker 1: going to try to come together too, And you know,
Speaker 1: I just I don't have a good feeling about it.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven, twenty three, Philly. I'm gonna preface this by
Speaker 1: saying that I absolutely loathed myself. I really do, because
Speaker 1: like all week, I was like, they lost to the Jets.
Speaker 1: They're no way, I'm not the falling for this again.
Speaker 1: Prove it to me. Do this, do that. Everybody's hurt.
Speaker 1: And I was sitting at practice watching Tying and Lyle,
Speaker 1: you know, practice their steps and watching Cooper on the
Speaker 1: jugs machine, and I was just like, these guys are
Speaker 1: gonna play and they're gonna win. That's just they are,
Speaker 1: because that's the type of stupid to pull you back in.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm like, Amari's gonna play, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna this secondaries trash. Cobb will probably really help
Speaker 1: against this trash secondary too. I think only one of
Speaker 1: the tackles will play. I don't think they both play,
Speaker 1: but I think it's enough I'm not you know, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna play like this amazing game, but this is
Speaker 1: a bad Eagle secondary Dak has a history of balling
Speaker 1: out against these guys, especially at home. Desperate team theory
Speaker 1: comes into play, you know, backs against the Wall and
Speaker 1: all that stupid stuff. And we talked. You know, Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett has a habit of pulling these games out of
Speaker 1: his hat. He just does what he comes back to low. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's Michael Myers. He's gonna sit up and grab the
Speaker 1: kitchen knife and here we go again. So I just
Speaker 1: I don't like they've given me every reason to pick
Speaker 1: them to lose, and they really have, and the fact
Speaker 1: that I'm about to pick them to win pisses me off.
Speaker 1: But it's just the type of thing that this team does.
Speaker 1: And I do think it'll be a track meet, but
Speaker 1: having Cooper will help and they'll win thirty one to
Speaker 1: twenty seven. And I hate that that just came out
Speaker 1: of my mouth. But here we are. We heard anything
Speaker 1: about de Shawn Jackson is not expected to play. I
Speaker 1: expected to play. Okay, So I know how I'm going
Speaker 1: to pick this. I think the Cowboys will win, but
Speaker 1: I think it will be a low scoring game. I
Speaker 1: think they win this game sixteen twelve. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna I think it's gonna be one of those kind
Speaker 1: of games where we're all just kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: somebody gonna score, like what are we doing here? But
Speaker 1: I honestly think that's the kind of game the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have to play in order to win this game. I
Speaker 1: don't think. I just I have a hard time thinking
Speaker 1: even if Amory does play, have a hard time thinking
Speaker 1: he is going to be his normal self. The amount
Speaker 1: of pain that he said he was in last week
Speaker 1: for him to immediately think I can't do this, it's
Speaker 1: hard to think that a week later he's somehow in
Speaker 1: good enough shape where he's able to run as usual
Speaker 1: and be able to play as usual. So that all
Speaker 1: being said, I think this is a I think it's
Speaker 1: a slow scoring game. I think the defense finally shows
Speaker 1: up and plays the game that people have been expecting
Speaker 1: them to play, holds them the twelve points. Cowboys get
Speaker 1: a sixteen twelve win. Okay, this is tough. It's a
Speaker 1: tough weekend, just you know what. Like in my head,
Speaker 1: I'm like, if they make me look like an idiot again,
Speaker 1: I'll have a week to stew on it and we
Speaker 1: can like reassess the season from there. Part of this
Speaker 1: is I'm just praying I don't have to sit on
Speaker 1: a two week stint of just this a four game
Speaker 1: losing streak and just two weeks. Have to just listen
Speaker 1: to that and hear that, and it's like, that's just
Speaker 1: I don't want to to do it. If they get
Speaker 1: some of these guys back, they're good enough to win
Speaker 1: this game. Like I still, resolutely, I still think they're
Speaker 1: a good team. They're just them having these guys on
Speaker 1: the field. That's not true. Amari Cooper was there for
Speaker 1: three plays like that was big, That was okay. I'm
Speaker 1: not just talking about this past game. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: previous games where you did have Amari Cooper. Even when
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup came back and you had him and Amari.
Speaker 1: It just still they haven't been healthful much together enough
Speaker 1: to where the Lamber call it, call it it's got
Speaker 1: a nice little fifty fifty split here. Listen, that's how
Speaker 1: I feel. But but, but but I cannot find myself
Speaker 1: freaking picking the Eagles to win against the I cannot
Speaker 1: stand the Eagles and ag is gonna be the maddest
Speaker 1: one of all in the press bo when they're trailing
Speaker 1: twenty four to thirteen in the fourth click and already
Speaker 1: to see it walking to the elevator to go down
Speaker 1: for post game, and that look on her face like yeah,
Speaker 1: and she's just like that little smirk like these guys, yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably deserve If they lose, they probably deserve it.
Speaker 1: So I always deserve it, right, Well true, But like
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm glad you had the guts to pick. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't love picking against them, but if
Speaker 1: one person or one coach comes up to me and
Speaker 1: says anything about it, I picked you all to beat
Speaker 1: the Jets by fifteen l could beat the Packers you
Speaker 1: lost by double digits. I picked you to beat the Samets. So,
Speaker 1: like you know, like I said, all the Patriots, they
Speaker 1: will beat the Patriots. I think will win against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Does that count? Can we? That's from now? I like
Speaker 1: the dub on that one. But because I said before,
Speaker 1: they probably got beat by the Lions. Honestly, I would
Speaker 1: have no problem picking against them in this game, because
Speaker 1: they've done everything to deserve to get picked against, And
Speaker 1: to be honest, with if this game was being played
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, I would be picking Philadelphia. The fact that
Speaker 1: it's at home is one of the reasons why I
Speaker 1: believe the Cowboys can get the edge on what's going
Speaker 1: to be, in my opinion, an ugly game. So you
Speaker 1: base a lot of things up on the stadium, the crowd, noise,
Speaker 1: the weather, the lighting, all that stuff matters. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do this off the time, especially with average teams.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and they I mean these games, they show
Speaker 1: up well in these games. They played well, you know
Speaker 1: the Crazy game last year. They got brutalized in seventeen,
Speaker 1: but they were missing a bunch of people. Sixteen, they
Speaker 1: played well in fifteen they lost. You know what. Also,
Speaker 1: the Eagles play well in these games. Yeah. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what scares me about it. You know, he's sitting here
Speaker 1: and talk about it long enough, I'll talk myself out
Speaker 1: of it. But that's also where I think both these teams.
Speaker 1: I think both these teams, their defenses can be really
Speaker 1: good if they can get going. And so if you
Speaker 1: get into that mindset of okay, both these teams are reeling,
Speaker 1: and if you're going to get one of their units
Speaker 1: really going if their defenses get going. This could be
Speaker 1: one of those kind of games. So you pick thirty
Speaker 1: one twenty seven, Yeah, you pick sixty twelve? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: picked twenty seven twenty three. Did you pick a score?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with like twenty five twenty three. It
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, see the theme going here. We
Speaker 1: got four point games all across here, and it wasna
Speaker 1: belo whoever's losing the game like it's gonna be throwing it.
Speaker 1: You know what, watch this. This is what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are finally going to be able to start scoring,
Speaker 1: getting into the end zone, and then we're gonna lose
Speaker 1: because Grandma hurt missed an important kick. If I believe
Speaker 1: for two weeks, if I believed in superstition, i'd be
Speaker 1: really mad at your right now. But I don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can say they lost because because they didn't because
Speaker 1: he missed a kip there, but he was the only
Speaker 1: one scoring. That's true. A guy but misses a forty
Speaker 1: when he hits the sixty and a fifty, I can't
Speaker 1: he hit a sixty and a fifty. Score touchdowns fault
Speaker 1: said it? Yeah, he said himself. You don't win. Gosh
Speaker 1: darn touchdowns, he said. He said, gosh, Dar, that's what
Speaker 1: I read. Shouts out to Alex Lily, our producer, for
Speaker 1: his hilarious interpretations of the censored words on the sideline stuff.
Speaker 1: Actually that's really good stuff anyway. All right, Well we're
Speaker 1: out of time today, so hopefully the Cowboys have a
Speaker 1: good weekend and we can have a nice little bike
Speaker 1: of not talking trash about this team for one week
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