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Speaker 1: week okay, today the Cowboys are fighting for the NFCS
Speaker 1: title this weekend and very important game. As Garrett mentioned
Speaker 1: as he walked by some halls down here, he's focused,
Speaker 1: focused on this weekend and trying to get a win
Speaker 1: over there in Phila Delphia. Now, let's start off with
Speaker 1: figuring out which guys are going to be available for
Speaker 1: this game that he can the guy Dak Prescott, how
Speaker 1: is he doing? I don't know. He's throwing in practice?
Speaker 1: Was he he was throwing out there when the media
Speaker 1: was Yeah, he was. I mean the soft toss um
Speaker 1: looked like a guy with a bum shoulder. Honestly, that's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's concerning. I mean, but I'm sure, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be making much effort. He was not throwing routes. I
Speaker 1: don't want to give anybody the wrong idea he was playing.
Speaker 1: He was playing toss with John Kitten and running some
Speaker 1: you know, throwing some you know, not even routes, but
Speaker 1: just kind of you know, like throwing screen routes. But
Speaker 1: I just you know, they went through it where all
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks it's kind of like a practice rep
Speaker 1: where you take this app, fake the toss, and throw
Speaker 1: the throw the wide receiver bubble screen. So what twelve yards,
Speaker 1: you know, not downfield out to the sideline. Clayton Thorson,
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush both threw it overhand, and Dak kind of
Speaker 1: did the little sidearm thing, and I was like, that's
Speaker 1: not encouraging that you're changing your motion for such a
Speaker 1: basic throw. I don't know what it means. I still
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play, but I think he's gonna do
Speaker 1: so in some significant discomfort. Well, yesterday you broke down
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense, and we know he's gonna be playing
Speaker 1: in the game this weekend, But based on what we've
Speaker 1: been seeing and hearing this week, what is your level
Speaker 1: of concern as far as Dak Prescott in DYE game, Well,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, do we know he's gonna play? You're
Speaker 1: you're kind of joking, but you're sort of saying you
Speaker 1: think maybe. Well, the way they've been speaking, it sounds
Speaker 1: like he is going to play. Yes, true, But was
Speaker 1: Garrett asked, I didn't even hear this part. Was he
Speaker 1: asked at any point today about Clayton Thorson? I don't believe. So.
Speaker 1: I think we'll get a good indication on where they
Speaker 1: are if nothing happens with the third quarterback. If they
Speaker 1: don't bring a third quarterback to the game and sign them,
Speaker 1: you have to sign them by tomorrow, right, you can't
Speaker 1: just bring him on sign him to your fifty three
Speaker 1: by Saturday. After they don't do that at all, then
Speaker 1: it's a good indicator. Yeah, that how they feel about Dak.
Speaker 1: But I just can't imagine why you wouldn't do that,
Speaker 1: Why you wouldn't bring a guy to the game. You
Speaker 1: should have three quarterbacks. Yeah, and you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: you know, backup guard or tackle or somebody that that
Speaker 1: you won't you know, the safety. You had three quarterbacks
Speaker 1: last year when Dac was completely healthy. They take Thorson
Speaker 1: to road games anyway, all they have to do is
Speaker 1: sign some paperwork. Let's do it. But it makes sense.
Speaker 1: I mean, Randall Cobb could do it. But I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. You know, I think if it gets
Speaker 1: the Thorson, or it gets the Cob or even if
Speaker 1: maybe if it gets the Cooper Rush. But I have
Speaker 1: a little bit more confidence in Cooper Rush that he could,
Speaker 1: you know, function with the offense and you know that
Speaker 1: they can move the ball and all that. But I
Speaker 1: think the level of concern is growing, you know, with
Speaker 1: each day that he doesn't fully practice. And to say
Speaker 1: that it's the biggest game of the year and your
Speaker 1: starting quarterback did not fully practice in any of the
Speaker 1: three days, Yeah, it's gotta be a concern. Now, there
Speaker 1: has been several veteran guys that have had a limited
Speaker 1: practice this week, So let's just kind of get out
Speaker 1: of the way the whole inactives list and figure that out. Okay, Um, Well,
Speaker 1: really encouraging news today from Jason is that Tyrant Smith
Speaker 1: was fine at practice and didn't even need the ice
Speaker 1: shield that they were going to give him. So it's
Speaker 1: a good sign. Um, who else the two linebackers are
Speaker 1: the big ones. Um, Sean Lee is not going to
Speaker 1: do a lot of practice today, but keep in mind
Speaker 1: that he usually doesn't. That's a that's a purposeful decision.
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas probably be limited today. I said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they're both gonna play. I think Joe will play.
Speaker 1: I think they'll both play. They obviously signed Malcolm Smith
Speaker 1: to be ready in this game, but remember Luke Gifford
Speaker 1: was also like Gifford's spot was what Malcolm Smith more
Speaker 1: or less, and Joe Thomas was active anyways. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: let's just look at let's just look at the inactives.
Speaker 1: I guess on who we're trying to get down, right,
Speaker 1: So Devin Smith, Devin Smith, Tristan Hill, yep, Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: one of those safeties. Josh Jones. Josh Jones, Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: give you that. Um, Joe Jackson. Yeah, I guess you know.
Speaker 1: The issue too, is is if they do take a
Speaker 1: third quarterback, you know you're gonna have to. But he
Speaker 1: really wouldn't be one of the inactive guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: it would be wouldn't make sense to sign him and
Speaker 1: have him be inactive, right, So it would be it'd
Speaker 1: be well, the only reason you would do that is
Speaker 1: if you because you have to sign him by Saturday,
Speaker 1: so you do sign him just by Saturday, and then
Speaker 1: on Sunday you're like on the off chance, like you'll
Speaker 1: have a good idea, like Dad's feeling great, like he's
Speaker 1: good to go, Like let's then let's don't you know.
Speaker 1: I still would put him in uniform, though I kind
Speaker 1: of wish they had that rule back of the third
Speaker 1: quarterback you know, could be inactive, yeah, but then he
Speaker 1: also could play if you needed to. I kind of
Speaker 1: like the strategy of it where you're like you gotta
Speaker 1: make up your mind, like do you need this guy
Speaker 1: or do you not need this guy? Although I mean
Speaker 1: it is an it's an outdated rule. They I mean,
Speaker 1: the roster needs to be bigger, and I don't really
Speaker 1: get why guys have to be inactive in the first place. Well,
Speaker 1: and then as far as Michael Bennett is he all
Speaker 1: of the I really I mean other than Dak, I
Speaker 1: really think all of the like real injury concerns and
Speaker 1: obviously we forgot about Laton Vanderesh he'll be inactive, yeah
Speaker 1: he won't play, But other than that, I think, I
Speaker 1: mean Joe Thomas is the biggest question mark, and I
Speaker 1: would guess that last inactive. If Joe can't go, he'd
Speaker 1: be down. And if he can, then maybe you'd sit
Speaker 1: Malcolm Smith down. He just got here on Wednesday anyway,
Speaker 1: So that's about it. I mean, I think it'll be
Speaker 1: mainly healthy guys that are inactive for this game, with
Speaker 1: Layton being the big exception. Yeah. When we have a
Speaker 1: story on our website right now, I think with the
Speaker 1: headline it says good to go, which is exactly the
Speaker 1: quote that Dak said yesterday that he's good to go.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I mean, like I said, I don't really
Speaker 1: I don't have a ton of doubt that he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: Like Dak thinks he's gonna play, all of his teammates
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play. What does good to go mean?
Speaker 1: Good to go means good enough to play? Sure, of course,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean good to go to be good. Did
Speaker 1: you hear Antoine Woods quote from like Monday night. I
Speaker 1: think it was we talked to him real briefly in
Speaker 1: the locker room and they're like, yeah, but you're feeling
Speaker 1: feeling healthy, Like you feel all right? He was like,
Speaker 1: definitely not healthy, but I feel great, And everybody was like,
Speaker 1: what is that mean? He's like his football season. I'm not.
Speaker 1: Nobody's healthy, but I feel great. Like That's kind of
Speaker 1: what it is around this time of year. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think that's what good to go means is Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: is not going to feel good on Sunday, but I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play. He will, but he's gonna be
Speaker 1: good together if he's got an NFC East hat on
Speaker 1: the way back, absolutely, you know that's why he'll play.
Speaker 1: By the way, I mean, what what did Dak say yesterday?
Speaker 1: He was like, I can't imagine not playing in a game.
Speaker 1: I don't want to think about what it would take
Speaker 1: to keep me out of it, meaning it would have
Speaker 1: to be life threatening. Yeah, well, especially with the playoffs
Speaker 1: being on the line right now. Well, the question though,
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are going to have to figure out
Speaker 1: is that as great as Dak is and as better
Speaker 1: as much you know of a better player than he
Speaker 1: is than Cooper Rush, is he going to be better
Speaker 1: on Sunday? It? Can he function? Can he make all
Speaker 1: the throws? Can he make some of the throws? Is
Speaker 1: weird as it sounds, is Cooper rush going to be
Speaker 1: a better option, may not to be to start the game.
Speaker 1: But if we find out out that, Okay, the pain's
Speaker 1: wearing off and the medical you know, the meds that
Speaker 1: he took is wearing off and all that is, and
Speaker 1: he's not able to function, and they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: make that call. And that's not something that Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: typically has been good at as far as now that
Speaker 1: is true, loyal to your guys, and this is my guys.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden be like, man, you
Speaker 1: don't have it today. You know, every starting pitcher gets
Speaker 1: taken out at some point, and I just wonder if
Speaker 1: they'll do that if it's like we got to be
Speaker 1: smart here. You can't make the simple twenty eight yard
Speaker 1: pass over the middle, which well I asked Jason today.
Speaker 1: I was like, if he's not going to throw much today,
Speaker 1: at some point you have to go get a good
Speaker 1: idea of what he can do, like whether it's tomorrow
Speaker 1: in a you know, a walkthrough setting or Sunday at
Speaker 1: the stadium, like you have to watch him throw to
Speaker 1: get an idea of what he can and can't do.
Speaker 1: Can't you? I mean, like it isn't you have to
Speaker 1: do that, and obviously he's not really going to answer
Speaker 1: the question, but he well, he was like, well, we'll
Speaker 1: have a good idea of what he's capable of by Sunday.
Speaker 1: I was like, cool, thank you for the very Pacific camps. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna break something in the hotel room by throwing
Speaker 1: in the you know, well, nobody's job is more on
Speaker 1: the line than his, so I'm sure he or hopefully
Speaker 1: you would hope and think that he would be taking
Speaker 1: everything into consideration this week. I'm just I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: diving head first into the myth making aspect of it,
Speaker 1: because it really is like it's every time we do this,
Speaker 1: you know, Sean Lee last week, like is he gonna play?
Speaker 1: He hasn't practiced, and then he has his first interception
Speaker 1: in four years, like the you know, one of the
Speaker 1: most legendary games in recent Cowboys memories. De Marcus Ware
Speaker 1: like he thought he was dead on Sunday, and he
Speaker 1: sacked Drew Brees twice the next week, Like he's I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play and play well. Emmett Smith had
Speaker 1: the same injury ac joints, brain dacy joint. We did
Speaker 1: a documentary on it. Yeah, and the cold Shoulder, right
Speaker 1: cold shoulder. Great, and watch it on YouTube or our website.
Speaker 1: As Brad Sham's famous line in there, You'll never forget
Speaker 1: the day Emmett Smith ran for one hundred and sixty yards,
Speaker 1: called ten balls for sixty more yards and did it
Speaker 1: all with one arm. And it was because of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys safety coach that he only had one arm, Greg Jackson. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's see if and I know, like, I know,
Speaker 1: he's got to throw the ball. I Amari Cooper. We
Speaker 1: I talked to him yesterday about how he's had this
Speaker 1: injury too, and he, you know, he was like, it
Speaker 1: hinders your ability to reach up over your head, but
Speaker 1: you can play. And I was like, yeah, but you didn't.
Speaker 1: You don't play quarterback. And he's like, oh yeah, it's
Speaker 1: totally different. But I still just he I just I
Speaker 1: just think it's gonna happen. Like they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 1: give him something for the pain and he's a gritty
Speaker 1: dude and he's just gonna play and be fine. I
Speaker 1: firmly believe that, even if I don't have any like
Speaker 1: real information to tell me. So it's like, how yesterday,
Speaker 1: he was asked whether or not he was gonna use
Speaker 1: any kind of protection for his shoulder, and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: my old line. He's like my ole line and running
Speaker 1: and he's gonna protect me. That's the other thing. Like
Speaker 1: this dude was basically a running back in college too.
Speaker 1: Like he's used to getting the crap beating out of him.
Speaker 1: And I promise you he's used to playing hurt, even
Speaker 1: if it hasn't happened a lot in the pros. It's
Speaker 1: gonna go out there, he's gonna play. His arm's gonna
Speaker 1: be like touching the ground. He's gonna, you know, show
Speaker 1: them at the end of the game, and then they're
Speaker 1: gonna win the game. Jerry's gonna come in and be like,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna pay him forty million, Like I
Speaker 1: think he's I think we're just writing all these great stories.
Speaker 1: I hope half of them come to pass, because it
Speaker 1: would our job see him you go win the game
Speaker 1: with one arm like that and win the NFC East,
Speaker 1: and our job will be easy on Sunday. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but then it's like what happens next. Obviously he wouldn't
Speaker 1: play sit against Washington, right, and the Cowboys go eight
Speaker 1: and eight and go into the playoffs with the loss
Speaker 1: because their quarterback was hoping he could beat he could
Speaker 1: pass Tony Romo's record forty nine oh four. That's the
Speaker 1: record for most passing yards in a season. How many
Speaker 1: does he need? He's at five to sixty. He needs, Oh,
Speaker 1: he needs five to six. Yeah, which is oh, that's
Speaker 1: doable if you play both games. But play both games
Speaker 1: and you know, and the weather it was good, which
Speaker 1: it should be. But I don't. I don't see it
Speaker 1: happening now. No, not unless unless he just balls out
Speaker 1: and they lose, and then he's gonna have to We
Speaker 1: have this uncanny ability to just jump like ten days
Speaker 1: into the future. All right, let's take our first break
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Speaker 1: one score, September twenty nineteen. Back to the break, Welcome back, guys.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna answer a round of different questions. First one, well,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people are still trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what made the Cowboys so successful this past
Speaker 1: weekend against the Rams. How were they able to turn
Speaker 1: it back on and all aspects of the game. Could
Speaker 1: the fact that the Cowboys decided to cut Brent Maher
Speaker 1: make or inspire some people around here to maybe do
Speaker 1: their job better and go out there with more energy
Speaker 1: and attack to feel better. Is that that's a real question. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is a real question. Though I don't think. I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like, not like changing kickers inspired
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods to just whip everyone's ass, or inspired the
Speaker 1: offensive line to dominate one of the best defensive fronts
Speaker 1: in football. I don't think so. I don't think so either. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's if it's that specific, but
Speaker 1: it you know, maybe it's more of a just kind
Speaker 1: of showing that, hey, you know, this is this is
Speaker 1: serious now. I mean like like even though they don't
Speaker 1: know this before, but like you know, your jobs are
Speaker 1: on the line, we're not this isn't okay, you know,
Speaker 1: just okay, it is not okay, Brett, so like that
Speaker 1: they decided to make a change there. I will say
Speaker 1: this though, and I've told you this staff before. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've cut kickers five times in the history of the
Speaker 1: organization in the middle of the year, and they've made
Speaker 1: the playoffs four times. I don't buy it in this instance.
Speaker 1: And I mean, Maher it had it was like a
Speaker 1: prolonged like three four weeks of frustration and unhappiness before
Speaker 1: they finally did that. So it's not like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not like Garrett was like this isn't good enough
Speaker 1: because it was good enough for like weeks and weeks.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and the like the Brett Maher is
Speaker 1: not why they lost the Bears or the Bills. They
Speaker 1: just got whooped. I think the coaching staff had a
Speaker 1: really great offensive game plan and the two lines really
Speaker 1: came to play. Yeah, I think that's you win. If
Speaker 1: you win the Lanta scrimmage both sides of the ball,
Speaker 1: you're gonna win the game. It's shocking how like football
Speaker 1: has changed so much over the years and it's hardly
Speaker 1: recognizable and the stats have changed so much. But like,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if you win up
Speaker 1: front on both sides of the ball, you're gonna win. Right.
Speaker 1: It could be the most spread out, pass happy game.
Speaker 1: And what it doesn't matter. If you win the lines,
Speaker 1: you're gonna win. Well, you know, people are just trying
Speaker 1: to figure it out, Yeah, and find little things that
Speaker 1: could connect to that win. It seems like that gave
Speaker 1: him a boost. And I mean, yeah, four Bath went
Speaker 1: three for three on field goals. But I think there's
Speaker 1: more to it than that. Now, why don't the Cowboys
Speaker 1: start Blake Jarwin over Jason Witten and give him more
Speaker 1: plays due to the facts that when he is out
Speaker 1: there he has made he has made some pretty good
Speaker 1: plays for the Cowboys in the receiving game. Yea, And
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are more worried about the plays
Speaker 1: you give up than the plays that you make. And
Speaker 1: I think you know, when it comes to Jarwin, the
Speaker 1: one thing holding him back has been he hasn't been
Speaker 1: a complete blocker. He's not a really big guy up front.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a big, tall guy, but he's not
Speaker 1: necessarily a guy you would you would say, would would
Speaker 1: block a defensive end. Witten's not great at it anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was ever great as a blocker,
Speaker 1: but he was always great it, being good enough to
Speaker 1: get in the way and all that. And I still
Speaker 1: think he's a better blocker in an option. So when
Speaker 1: Jarwin turns the corner and becomes a complete side in
Speaker 1: I think he'll he'll play more. I think there's I
Speaker 1: think there's two answers to that. I do think that's true.
Speaker 1: I think Jason Witten's game is a little bit more
Speaker 1: well rounded. Jarwin still has something things to work out.
Speaker 1: But I also, I mean, there's a mural of Jason
Speaker 1: Witten here in the building. I mean, he's one of
Speaker 1: the greatest players and franchise history. You're not gonna You're
Speaker 1: not gonna bench him the way that you could bench
Speaker 1: somebody else, like you could find a way to work
Speaker 1: Jarwin in there and have it work for everybody. You're
Speaker 1: not just gonna take Jason Winn's job away. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna do it. And like they signed up for that
Speaker 1: when they brought him back, they knew that. Witn't even
Speaker 1: said it in the off season. He's like, I didn't
Speaker 1: come here sit on the bench. I didn't come back
Speaker 1: to not be part of this. And those things go
Speaker 1: hand in hand. I mean, does I mean the thing
Speaker 1: that's weird to me? And I love Jason Witten, but
Speaker 1: you know we've said it on here and he hasn't
Speaker 1: been playing as great in the last few games, and
Speaker 1: he had a great catch the other day, But is
Speaker 1: Jarwin just out playing him like completely? I think it's
Speaker 1: striking how much more dynamic Jarwin is when he gets
Speaker 1: the ball. I think it really is. The question is
Speaker 1: if you allow him to play more, could he be
Speaker 1: doing more and get into a better rhythm when he's
Speaker 1: out there on the field. Yeah, I think his deficiencies
Speaker 1: as a blocker and all the other small things that
Speaker 1: you have to do as a tight end, it's enough
Speaker 1: that I understand. But again, I think if all things
Speaker 1: were equal and Jason Witten was just a tight end
Speaker 1: if Jason, if it was jar if it was Schultz
Speaker 1: and Jarwin and there was no Jason, Witt and Jarwin
Speaker 1: would clearly be playing more. Yeah, I do think, I mean,
Speaker 1: his reputation and his legacy is important. I think that's true.
Speaker 1: But I also I think it's not a big enough
Speaker 1: deal to where I'm like freaking out about it because
Speaker 1: I do think Witten can do some things that Jarwin camp.
Speaker 1: But I joked about it during the game. Jarwin one
Speaker 1: of the scoring drives in the first half. Jarwin had
Speaker 1: two catches, he had like forty like he had like
Speaker 1: twenty thirty yards, but it was it was all but
Speaker 1: it was all Yak is my point. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: was like, I think Jarwin might have just passed Witten
Speaker 1: for Yak on the year. I mean, and I'm not
Speaker 1: really kidding, I am, but I'm not. And so I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jarwin is a more dynamic guy with the ball in
Speaker 1: his hands, and I get that. He had, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the play of the game when they were third and
Speaker 1: four back at the thrown nine, they're only up fourteen seven.
Speaker 1: You know, if they have to punt them are going
Speaker 1: to get a great field position and he went right
Speaker 1: on the right sideline for twenty yards. They went and
Speaker 1: scored on that drive. I thought that was undoubtedly the
Speaker 1: play of the game. And so yeah, and Derek says
Speaker 1: it a lot too. He just eats up yards, you like,
Speaker 1: running the ball like he like his legs will go
Speaker 1: like six, you know, six steps and it's long starts.
Speaker 1: It's a lot like running back on Honestly, Zeke is
Speaker 1: a better running back than Witton is a tight end
Speaker 1: at this stage in their careers. But like it's it's
Speaker 1: not so much that I need Jarwin to just completely
Speaker 1: replace Jason Witten. They just and I don't need Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard to replace Zeke either. We just there's room for
Speaker 1: all four of those guys to be making plays, and
Speaker 1: they did last week, and they looked really good complement
Speaker 1: each other. Now we know, or we teams tend to
Speaker 1: win games when they win the turnover battle. Now, assuming
Speaker 1: that you don't get any turnovers this weekend, what happens
Speaker 1: one needs to happen in order to win this game.
Speaker 1: One be efficient in the red zone on offense, or
Speaker 1: two get off the field on third down on defense.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is It's true. If you win
Speaker 1: the turnover battle nine out of ten times you will win.
Speaker 1: But if your defense can't stop at nosebleed, you won't.
Speaker 1: Because the Cowboys won the turnover battle in Chicago and
Speaker 1: it didn't matter at all. They got blown off the
Speaker 1: field because they couldn't stop anything. They gave up five
Speaker 1: consecutive scoring drives. So getting off the field on third down,
Speaker 1: for me, those are three options. There. There's two options,
Speaker 1: one being efficient in the red zone on offense, and
Speaker 1: then two getting off the feel on third down defense turnovers, No,
Speaker 1: if you don't get any, those are that's a good one.
Speaker 1: That is a that's a good question. And if you're
Speaker 1: not getting turnovers, I've settled for keeping the Eagles offense
Speaker 1: off the field, yeah, just because if if they're not
Speaker 1: getting off the field, then they're definitely Scoring in the
Speaker 1: red zone is tough, but at least you're getting field
Speaker 1: goal attempts and you're probably making most of them if
Speaker 1: you're in the red zone and make you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're making most of your kicks, so that can
Speaker 1: keep you in the game. And I really think one
Speaker 1: of the eagles biggest keys to success is sustaining long
Speaker 1: drives and keeping their defense off the field, because if
Speaker 1: you give the cow even with Dak banged up, if
Speaker 1: you give the Cowboys enough chances at it, they're going
Speaker 1: to score some points. Yeah, but if the Eagles are
Speaker 1: eating up half a quarter every time they touch the ball,
Speaker 1: that's not well. And what was the stat that you
Speaker 1: said about that? What number do they hold as far
Speaker 1: as converting on third downs? I think it was actually nicked. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well they both are first and second in the league.
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are second in h and third
Speaker 1: down conversions like forty seven percent and Cowboys are first
Speaker 1: at forty eight and a half. So these are the
Speaker 1: two best teams in the league of getting into third
Speaker 1: downs and getting you know, moving the chains. And there
Speaker 1: are two of the worst teams on fourth down. So
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, that is like twenty five percent. So anyways,
Speaker 1: now real quick, Okay, we got somebody now he was
Speaker 1: trying to deliver coffee to us. Um, maybe Kyle will
Speaker 1: get it. Yeah, you're right, all right, assuming you can
Speaker 1: only pick one, which line needs to dominate the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage to give the Cowboys the best chance to
Speaker 1: win this game. Offensive or defensive line. Can we have
Speaker 1: it be both? Like last week? Um, well, in a
Speaker 1: perfect world, you won, but rather run over them, I
Speaker 1: would rather win. I would rather the offensive line win
Speaker 1: because you know, we don't know what the deal is
Speaker 1: with Dak's shoulder. We don't know how good he's gonna
Speaker 1: look doing that. So if they can impose their will
Speaker 1: in the run game and make life easy on Dak,
Speaker 1: I think that gives them a really good chance. All right,
Speaker 1: an answer I don't like? Yeah, I can't go better
Speaker 1: than that offensive line to help Bank, Like Dak said,
Speaker 1: what's it? You know? I got, yeah, my O line,
Speaker 1: my running backs. Gosh, do you think he's gonna get
Speaker 1: back into that whole hesitation state? You know when a
Speaker 1: games he just does and feel comfortable and hesitates. Does
Speaker 1: this injury create more hesitation in his game? Hopefully not,
Speaker 1: because he doesn't need to be taking hits to it.
Speaker 1: So get get rid of it, get a real yeah,
Speaker 1: rip it. Okay, let's take our final break and when
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Speaker 1: than Philly, better than what's the Philly? Honestly like the
Speaker 1: same tbh. Well, speaking of weather, I know we've talked
Speaker 1: about dak a lot already, but here's one last question,
Speaker 1: um that I've seen a couple of people ask. You know,
Speaker 1: when you have problems in your bones and muscles, usually
Speaker 1: when you go to a colder temperature, it tends to
Speaker 1: hurt even more. Do you see this becoming a factor?
Speaker 1: Can tell it's gonna rain because my hips flare up
Speaker 1: like that type of thing. You know. I used to
Speaker 1: laugh at that, but it's all true. It's true. I joke,
Speaker 1: but it's so true. No, it's it's very true. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you have like an injury that I have messed up me.
Speaker 1: I have the back of a sixty year old and
Speaker 1: it rains. You're just like when the temperature changed, I'm
Speaker 1: just like, oh yeah, mall out of way. Something was
Speaker 1: becoming this way. Um, you know, I mean that's that's
Speaker 1: a good thought. But I mean, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: have all these little heat that used to take on
Speaker 1: your buddy and he keeps it warm. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that does anything to it, but I'm sure they
Speaker 1: have all kinds of equipment and tools and little things
Speaker 1: to help him. They're gonna give him some extra extra
Speaker 1: extra strength tile and all at like one o'clock on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it'll be a big deal. That's fine,
Speaker 1: one o'clock on Sunday, great, But what about like it
Speaker 1: five o'clock. Yeah, what about the third quarter when you're like,
Speaker 1: you keep you keep hinting that that is going to
Speaker 1: have to come out at some point in this game.
Speaker 1: I just wonder if he if he like, are they
Speaker 1: gonna be able to say, you don't have it today,
Speaker 1: you can't make this throw. You just missed Cooper again
Speaker 1: he had it Sunday. No, I know, but it seems
Speaker 1: worse than that. It seems like it's been worse it.
Speaker 1: I mean, and like, I'm not trying to make light
Speaker 1: of it, because I do think he's probably in a
Speaker 1: significant amount of pain. But it's also it's it's the week.
Speaker 1: It's no different than Sean Lee like not practicing because
Speaker 1: he wants to save his legs for the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's an Allen Iverson quote here, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about practice, man, I feel I mean, it sucks
Speaker 1: that you can't throw. I'd prefer you to throw. But
Speaker 1: ready for the games. Between between what they can do
Speaker 1: for the pain from a medical standpoint and his own
Speaker 1: adrenaline and the fact that he's a tough s ob,
Speaker 1: I just think he'll be fine, not great, but fine,
Speaker 1: fine enough to pick them to pick. I'm definitely picking
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, are you. Yeah? I said I wasn't going
Speaker 1: to pick him the rest of the year. I think
Speaker 1: you did too. I don't think I said that because
Speaker 1: the one who said though, But I've been saying, like, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm wrong all the time. This team has made us
Speaker 1: all look stupid all year. But I feel like I've
Speaker 1: been saying since like October, I was like, they're gonna
Speaker 1: screw around. Yeah, and who knows what's gonna happen with
Speaker 1: all with Let's go ahead and getting to the game
Speaker 1: day predictions. You're picking the Cowboys. Give me your prediction
Speaker 1: for this game because the Cowboys. What I was gonna
Speaker 1: say is they're gonna take care of business at the end,
Speaker 1: because that's what they do. They beat the division. It's honestly,
Speaker 1: for how much parody there is in the NFL. It's
Speaker 1: shocking how good they are against the NFC East. Like
Speaker 1: Garrett is like thirty five and nineteen or something like that,
Speaker 1: Like he's winning twice as many as he loses. They're
Speaker 1: eighteen and four against the East since Dak Prescott became
Speaker 1: the starter, and one of those was a BS game
Speaker 1: that they weren't trying to win against Philly. I know
Speaker 1: the win six of the seven in Philly. The only
Speaker 1: losses that game were Mark Sanchez. Garrett is seven and
Speaker 1: two up there. There are there four and o against
Speaker 1: the division this year. They went five and one against
Speaker 1: the division last year. And the Eagles are bad and
Speaker 1: the Eagles are not good. And I know none of
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with what happens when they
Speaker 1: take the field, but I just if they if I
Speaker 1: believe in them to do anything, I believe in them
Speaker 1: to beat the Philadelphia Eagles well. And the Cowboys also
Speaker 1: tend to keep things interesting dramatic, So it could happen
Speaker 1: where they go over there, lose to the Eagles, and
Speaker 1: then you're still waiting, are they gonna make it? In
Speaker 1: this last week? Can the Cowboys lose against the Giants?
Speaker 1: Can the Cowboys beat the rest? That's another point. Another
Speaker 1: thing that they've done with consistency is when they are
Speaker 1: given a chance to lock up the division, they usually
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, six or fourteen against the Colts, sixteen,
Speaker 1: I don't remember who they beat in sixteen, but they
Speaker 1: finally they got swept by the Giants and still locked
Speaker 1: up the division. Early. I think they beat the Lions.
Speaker 1: Maybe well they I think they beat the Bucks to
Speaker 1: lock it up last year. Yeah, point being, they don't
Speaker 1: typically let these opportunities slip, you know. I think they'll
Speaker 1: be able to run the ball, like I keep saying,
Speaker 1: and the Wolves, I mean, I'm either gonna look really
Speaker 1: smart or really dumb based on how Dak prescott first,
Speaker 1: because I think he's gonna be fine. I think he'll
Speaker 1: play well. I think they'll be able to move the ball.
Speaker 1: I think Philly's offense is limited enough, that limited enough
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys can hold them to you know, twenty
Speaker 1: four or less, which you would like to think is enough.
Speaker 1: So I just I got him winning like thirty one
Speaker 1: twenty four. Yeah, that sounds good to me. I do
Speaker 1: think I think it'll be a really good game, because
Speaker 1: it usually is. I know the Cowboys killed him earlier
Speaker 1: this year and the Eagles killed them in seventeen when
Speaker 1: Zeke and Tyrn were gone. But other than that, this
Speaker 1: is always dramatic, like they went to overtime last year.
Speaker 1: I think the game last year at the Link twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty was one of the best games of the
Speaker 1: year that nobody talks about. Like Layton made that great tackle,
Speaker 1: Heath broke up the past to Art's on fourth down
Speaker 1: and they just and Zeke hurdled that guy like they
Speaker 1: got just enough to get out of there. I think
Speaker 1: it'll be like that. I think they'll win by six
Speaker 1: or seven. A lot of impressive things happening in that game.
Speaker 1: Considering that situation right now, I'm telling you this is
Speaker 1: how it happened. It's like we wring our hands all
Speaker 1: week about somebody's status and then they go out there
Speaker 1: and play. Well all that's what they do. Well, you
Speaker 1: got this prediction has got to be the same with
Speaker 1: my gut feeling that I write. We all write on Fridays,
Speaker 1: and you know, if you're really going to do a
Speaker 1: gut feeling, like my gut tells me that they're gonna win,
Speaker 1: even though I'd like to pick the Eagles. I picked
Speaker 1: the Eagles to meet them back in October and that
Speaker 1: one did not fare so well. As as for my pick,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys crushed them. I picked the Rams last week.
Speaker 1: Cowboys crushed them. So I think people would like for
Speaker 1: me to pick the Cowboys. I mean the Cowboys to lose.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, somebody made Somebody tweeted us on Sunday and
Speaker 1: was like, we better pick them to lose against the
Speaker 1: Eagles since all you idiots thought they were gonna lose
Speaker 1: against the Rams. Okay, you know, yeah, different story. I
Speaker 1: know how that how that goes. We've we've been idiots
Speaker 1: all year, you know, because big facts picking them to
Speaker 1: win games when they barely you know, show up, so
Speaker 1: that that happens, we know that. But my gut tells me,
Speaker 1: like for everything Dave just said, I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will win, I do. I think they're gonna They're gonna
Speaker 1: win this game. I think the Eagles just don't have
Speaker 1: enough manpower right now. They just don't have it enough.
Speaker 1: And I think for what the Cowboys did coming off
Speaker 1: of that. But if they don't win this game, you
Speaker 1: know this will be the perfect reason and the example
Speaker 1: if you need another one. This is will be why
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett isn't the coach. It's just to go out
Speaker 1: and play the way they did against the Rams and
Speaker 1: the way they come back when they really need it
Speaker 1: against the Eagles and not win. It'll just be this
Speaker 1: is what he is. It's up down, up down, and
Speaker 1: they'll beat the Redskins and finish eight and eight and
Speaker 1: then Richard, you know you can, like we joke like
Speaker 1: the again the Michael Myers thing, like you can kind
Speaker 1: of feel the momentum. They beat the Eagles, they beat
Speaker 1: the Redskins, and it's like, well, if they go on
Speaker 1: a playoff run, like could Garrett come back if they
Speaker 1: lose this game, they could still win the East and
Speaker 1: do all that, and I think it would not be
Speaker 1: good enough. Like I mean, it's all set up for
Speaker 1: him to really try to build on this and make
Speaker 1: a run, and that would be an indictment of everything
Speaker 1: if they can, because if you lose this game and
Speaker 1: still make the playoffs, I mean really backing into it
Speaker 1: very much. So at eight and eight, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think you have to have this game, Like like
Speaker 1: you said, I think the focus is there. Lease, let's hope.
Speaker 1: So you know, you can block out all the noise
Speaker 1: around you, even things that aren't don't make noise, and
Speaker 1: you go out and you win games. And I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna win this game twenty four sixteen.
Speaker 1: It's a point that I hadn't thought about. I know,
Speaker 1: you gotta make a pick, but that being hurt does
Speaker 1: that lend an added level of focus to everybody else, Like, hey, quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: not right, we gotta be on our stuff. Maybe like
Speaker 1: she said in that one question that hey, the kicker
Speaker 1: got cut, we got to be on our game now
Speaker 1: that See, the kicker doesn't impact the game enough for
Speaker 1: me to believe that, but the quarterback touches the ball
Speaker 1: every play. So right now I had chosen. I had
Speaker 1: said that I wasn't gonna pick the Cowboys to win
Speaker 1: any more games. But but then the week came the
Speaker 1: week came on, and then I cannot find myself picking
Speaker 1: the Eagles to win. I dislike Eagles fans so much
Speaker 1: that those words cannot come out of my mouth. So
Speaker 1: even though I don't have a good feeling about this game,
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys find a way to win against Philadelphia. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't feel super sure about Dak Prescott and his passes.
Speaker 1: But I trust that the Cowboys are able to utilize
Speaker 1: Zeke and Polar and find that running game like they
Speaker 1: did last week and get some yards that way. But
Speaker 1: all that being said, I still don't have a good
Speaker 1: feeling about this game, but I am not picking the Eagles.
Speaker 1: So Cowboys, it's an awesome bit of fence writing. Well,
Speaker 1: it's whatever Cowboys come back, That's the thing. It's like, again,
Speaker 1: you just never know what kind of Cowboys you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: What's the team that you're gonna get playing on game day?
Speaker 1: And they have been so inconsistent, and on top of that,
Speaker 1: they just always find a way to keep you on
Speaker 1: the fence. It's like do you want to jump or
Speaker 1: are you still holding onto the ledge like they keep
Speaker 1: you there not. You can never be comfortable with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and that's a problem because God, you sweat, you laugh,
Speaker 1: you smile, you cry, It's like so many different emotions
Speaker 1: and it's stressful. You can't be going through so many
Speaker 1: different emotions. I love how like, And you didn't really
Speaker 1: get into football until you start working here, right, Like
Speaker 1: you've said that before. So this is all still relatively
Speaker 1: new to you. But this is just a way of
Speaker 1: life for millions of us, and it's awesome and terrible
Speaker 1: all at the same time. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: guys watch college football. It's profitable people even watching high
Speaker 1: school football. That's the purest drug there is. It's great.
Speaker 1: Too much, too much? All right, Well, let's let's just
Speaker 1: get one last question is since we have like a
Speaker 1: minute laugh before hanging comes in here, Um, how do
Speaker 1: you expect the Cowboys to be utilizing Zeke and Poler
Speaker 1: in this game? Well, we've been talking about that shoulder
Speaker 1: injury for Dak. I think you hand the ball to
Speaker 1: Zeke and then they hand the ball to Pollard, and
Speaker 1: then you might hand the ball to Zeke and Pollard,
Speaker 1: then Poller throws it to Zeke. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that you might even see I'm not saying there'll be
Speaker 1: a half back pass or anything like that, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, get them all involved, get both of those
Speaker 1: guys going. I would say, this is the game that
Speaker 1: you bring out everything you've got. They're so in there.
Speaker 1: I mean that's yes, one hundred percent, but they're so
Speaker 1: useful as receivers and often this season they haven't utilized
Speaker 1: either one of them enough or correctly. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: they did. They did a great job of it last week.
Speaker 1: Screens that seems to go without saying. Pollard can be
Speaker 1: so useful as a receiver within five yards of the
Speaker 1: line scrimmage. Yeah, dial it up, Kellen, pull those plays out.
Speaker 1: Do you see a table on Austin making any flashy plays? Again?
Speaker 1: The law of averages says no, he's good for one
Speaker 1: like every month. But he just hit his last week,
Speaker 1: so that was it. He met his quota. I mean,
Speaker 1: I hope so that would be fun. He's fun to watch.
Speaker 1: He's so fast. I would lean toward no, just because
Speaker 1: it just happened. All right, Well, anything else that you
Speaker 1: guys want to add before we close? No, that's it.
Speaker 1: I think I'm good. All right, go win this game
Speaker 1: because you need it. All right. Well, thank you guys
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