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Speaker 1: It is Friday, December eleventh, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, episode
Speaker 1: number seventy eight. Welcome to the latest edition of The
Speaker 1: Break Clock from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the
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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about today. We're gonna get you
Speaker 1: guys ready for Cowboys Versus Bingles. That happens this Sunday.
Speaker 1: It is a noon kickoff and it'll be an interesting
Speaker 1: It'll be an interesting game for the Cowboys, just to
Speaker 1: see how they respond to this. And we'll talk about
Speaker 1: it a little later in the show. Going from a
Speaker 1: Tuesday night road game to a Sunday noon road game,
Speaker 1: it's really a short turnaround. We'll talk about that a
Speaker 1: little bit later in the show. But we got to
Speaker 1: start first with some injuries. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about in injuries. Let's start first with
Speaker 1: the secondary. What do we know at this point about
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown and Donovan Wilson, two guys that have been
Speaker 1: on the injury report. We've been kind of monitoring them
Speaker 1: this week. What do we know at this point about
Speaker 1: maybe their status going into Sunday's game. Dave that it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem great, particularly with Donovan Wilson. You know, he
Speaker 1: hasn't practiced. Mike McCarthy said, if he does anything today,
Speaker 1: it's probably not going to be a whole lot. You
Speaker 1: think about the fact that this is a very abbreviated week,
Speaker 1: you know, Mike even he mentioned like this is it's
Speaker 1: an unprecedented short week because you just don't see very
Speaker 1: many Tuesday games with Sunday period and then with a
Speaker 1: Sunday turnaround. So it just doesn't seem overly optimistic that
Speaker 1: those two guys are going to be available, particularly Donovan.
Speaker 1: We'll see with Anthony Brown, but I would I just
Speaker 1: probably lean know on both of them at this point. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys add Cheetobewoozier to their reserve COVID list. What
Speaker 1: do we know about that? Because when you when you
Speaker 1: first at when we was first added, my first thought was,
Speaker 1: if you were a person that was just maybe exposed,
Speaker 1: that's five days. If you actually have COVID that's longer.
Speaker 1: So it didn't seem like it was a possibility. But
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy seemed a little noncommittal on what the status was.
Speaker 1: What did you guys and what do you guys know
Speaker 1: at this point about what's gonna happen with this little
Speaker 1: non committal about the count, about the COVID nineteen stuff. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what the Cowboys have been this year. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can give you the cowboys official statement on Cheeto? What
Speaker 1: is it? Quiet? That was? That was what they said
Speaker 1: about Cheeto yesterday. Um, it's frustrating because there's different levels
Speaker 1: of this, you know what I mean. If somebody were
Speaker 1: to say, hey, so and so's in the hospital, you
Speaker 1: your next question is for what I mean? And you
Speaker 1: don't know, you don't know if this is this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a couple of days. I mean, so I
Speaker 1: again and maybe Jerry Stephen McCarthy everybody talks today, having
Speaker 1: got a chance to listen to all that, I don't
Speaker 1: has anybody said, why did Jarry I don't think Jerry
Speaker 1: said that what Cheeto's status is on that So he's
Speaker 1: not playing this game, but you know, does he come
Speaker 1: back next week? I don't know. I mean that that's
Speaker 1: this is the frustrating part of it, is your top
Speaker 1: cornerback is out and you don't really know the status
Speaker 1: of for how long. Yeah, I'm not trying to throw
Speaker 1: shade on Yeah, I'm not trying to throw shade on
Speaker 1: any of my fellow reporters because I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: I could have asked the question too, but I was
Speaker 1: a little surprised. You know, Mike's press conference went for
Speaker 1: fifteen or twenty minutes and nobody asked about Cheeto until
Speaker 1: we were like seven or eight minutes in. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's not the leading topic. That arguably the best cornerback
Speaker 1: on the team is out on the COVID list, And yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, the Cowboys might not be the worst
Speaker 1: team when it comes to communicating what's going on with
Speaker 1: COVID related stuff, but they definitely don't enjoy getting out
Speaker 1: in front of it, that's for sure. So you're just
Speaker 1: left to kind of piece together the details for yourself.
Speaker 1: So he's not going to be available Sunday, So have
Speaker 1: fun with that considering that Anthony Brown is also hurt.
Speaker 1: Other than that, it's hard to really say, so walk
Speaker 1: me through what happens at this point from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of on field. If you don't have Cheeto and you
Speaker 1: don't have Digs and sounds like there's a good possibility
Speaker 1: you might not have Brown, Like, who's left? What do
Speaker 1: you have that you can roll out there? Especially thinking
Speaker 1: about the fact that they run a lot of nickel.
Speaker 1: What do they do at this point? You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a little confused on the whole Anthony Anthony Brown situation
Speaker 1: because I feel like usually we have a better idea
Speaker 1: as far as timeline and when guys are supposed to
Speaker 1: come back. But I feel like Anthony Brown, we've been
Speaker 1: expected him to come back for like three weeks now
Speaker 1: or so. It's like every week we think he might
Speaker 1: play in this game, and that he doesn't, and then
Speaker 1: he goes back into another week. And I know that
Speaker 1: that again, Mike McCarthy, he doesn't like talking very much
Speaker 1: about like really getting into details as far as injuries
Speaker 1: and all that. But do you guys, And I guess Nick,
Speaker 1: maybe you because you're closer to the team. Have you
Speaker 1: heard anything else as far as what's really going on
Speaker 1: with his situation? No, I really haven't, because it's not
Speaker 1: like it's impossible to have the same injury, you know,
Speaker 1: later on. I mean, Frank Romo had two broken collar
Speaker 1: bones in one year. I mean, it happened, and they
Speaker 1: probably related. So I would just imagine that this rib
Speaker 1: injury is related to the one he had earlier, or
Speaker 1: you know, maybe not you know, quite yield all the
Speaker 1: way whatever. So but no, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know specifically if he's going to practice or nine. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know it's that doesn't seem like an injury that
Speaker 1: would be easy to run, you know, it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: easy to breathe, breath and all that kind of stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: this has just been this has just been twenty twenty
Speaker 1: in a nutshell. It's just it's not one injury to
Speaker 1: the position. It's two or three or four. And you know,
Speaker 1: I offensive tackle, cornerback, and quarterback. It's just been one
Speaker 1: thing after another for that and and this is the
Speaker 1: worst year to have it happen because you can't go
Speaker 1: get players like you normally would, and the pool of
Speaker 1: players is a lot less than it is normally, and
Speaker 1: you just can't go get them. And so it's just
Speaker 1: it's really been tough. You're getting these guys off the
Speaker 1: practice squad that are playing in NFL games that if
Speaker 1: it wasn't for this situation, they would not be in
Speaker 1: the NFL, they'd be in the XFL probably, and then
Speaker 1: and they're having to play for you in a game
Speaker 1: that matters. So, Dave, what do they do right now
Speaker 1: with these three guys potentially out what do they bodies?
Speaker 1: Just give me bodies names that you can actually throw
Speaker 1: out there to play this game. That's what they have
Speaker 1: as bodies. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, have you
Speaker 1: ever I'm sure you've seen it. Have you seen Jurassic
Speaker 1: Park or do you have a good remember remember a
Speaker 1: memory of Jurassic Park. No, I've never seen anything. I've
Speaker 1: never seen them. No real Now, all right, well you're ruined.
Speaker 1: You ruined my jokes. People. Hey, Jurassic Park came out
Speaker 1: in like nineteen ninety three, so I ain't trying to
Speaker 1: hear that. I ain't busy in college. I didn't have
Speaker 1: time to see you. I worked at a movie and
Speaker 1: I was too cool to see the biggest movie in
Speaker 1: the world. Dave, go ahead and make your analogy, because
Speaker 1: most people will probably not get it. It's not an analogy.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got four or five movies that they should see
Speaker 1: they haven't. Who chuses one for me? Godfather? Brave Heart? No,
Speaker 1: I haven't I seen Brave part takes six hours. No thanks?
Speaker 1: You think I could get through Brave Heart? I can't
Speaker 1: get through this show a right messing up? Good boy? Point,
Speaker 1: good boy, Dave, finish your point. I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: mean to turn this into a movie podcast. But there's
Speaker 1: a part in Jurassic Park where Samuel L. Jackson says,
Speaker 1: hold onto your butts. And that's what I think about
Speaker 1: when I think about what they're gonna have to play
Speaker 1: at cornerback. Um, I mean, y'all are the ones that
Speaker 1: took it off the rails. Certainly y'all are the ones
Speaker 1: that took it off the rails. If y'all had just
Speaker 1: seen one of the biggest movies ever day, what do
Speaker 1: you think about? What do they need to do at
Speaker 1: the cornerback position? What would you do that's good? I mean,
Speaker 1: you got you got Deonta, you got Deontay Burton, you
Speaker 1: got you obviously got Jordan Lewis, you got Richard Robinson,
Speaker 1: go Tigers, and uh, and then you could probably sign
Speaker 1: Savean Smith back to the active roster, although I feel
Speaker 1: like he's done that so many times at this point
Speaker 1: in the season that you would that would probably have
Speaker 1: to be a permanent change, Like I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think they can elevate him and move him back anymore.
Speaker 1: So it's sorry, but my next question is about that
Speaker 1: I would do a permanent move because I'd ask you this.
Speaker 1: I'll just be the host for a second. S it's
Speaker 1: Cheetauzia going to play another game for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Why not? I would, yes, So it's I think it's
Speaker 1: a fair question. You do, Okay, your answer is yes.
Speaker 1: I think it's a fair question too, because well, we
Speaker 1: I mean, how yeah, I don't know. How can you
Speaker 1: answer that? Like we don't know the severity of his situation?
Speaker 1: Excuse me, guys, what if they make it into the playoffs?
Speaker 1: You're you're gonna need him to Oh you really see Amber?
Speaker 1: Can you see my face? I twenty twenties a crazy year.
Speaker 1: You just never know, You just never know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would lean toward thinking that he will. I lean
Speaker 1: toward thinking that he will, because even if he has COVID,
Speaker 1: he could still be back at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: And he's the guy that said all the way back
Speaker 1: in August that it's a contract year or so he
Speaker 1: needs tape. He desperately needs tape. Man, I feel bad
Speaker 1: for Cheeto because I mean, whether injuries, whether COVID, Okay,
Speaker 1: yeah he does. I mean, yeah, he needs to prove
Speaker 1: to somebody that he's worth a contract. You're right, You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right. Does he think that way? He should? But
Speaker 1: did he though honestly he should well did he did?
Speaker 1: He come back on a decent time with the hamstrain injury.
Speaker 1: But here's the deal. I don't think it's fair for
Speaker 1: us to say that he could have come back soon.
Speaker 1: Only he knows that, and only the athletic trainers know that. Like,
Speaker 1: that's not something. Now, maybe you've talked to people that
Speaker 1: have that have said things that make you think that,
Speaker 1: but I haven't talked to you about it. I can't
Speaker 1: say that he should have been back earlier than he was.
Speaker 1: And I know, I know you don't rush players back
Speaker 1: from injury. I mean you you you don't rush them back.
Speaker 1: But I just think that um yeah, there was there was.
Speaker 1: I think there were some questions there. There were some
Speaker 1: questions about him getting back, getting help. That's why I
Speaker 1: wonder about this. I wonder if he's gonna be if
Speaker 1: he's good. Well, again, we don't know the severity of
Speaker 1: what the COVID nineteen situation is. I will say this though,
Speaker 1: Let's assume for a second that he has COVID. Right,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the same thing as my hamstring
Speaker 1: still hurts. You're either still like you still got COVID
Speaker 1: or you don't, right Like, I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: I can still say I got COVID when I really
Speaker 1: don't because I don't really want to go play. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it works like that. Could could
Speaker 1: you could? Anybody could? I'm not talking about football payers
Speaker 1: I'm talking about anybody. Well, there's a test that says yeah,
Speaker 1: but if you say, man, my third hurts, I've been
Speaker 1: coughing a lot, and they'll probably tell you to come in,
Speaker 1: don't come in. Good point. So I'm just I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's gonna do all that. I just don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play again. I'll be surprised if he plays.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't think so. I think he's
Speaker 1: I think they'll be back. I think he will play,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll play some more this year. And
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I agree with Dave. He needs to play
Speaker 1: because if he wants to play in the NFL next year.
Speaker 1: And not to say honestly, I don't know that he's
Speaker 1: gonna do a ton in two games. They'll say, let's
Speaker 1: assume worst case scenario and he's back to play the
Speaker 1: final games. I don't know if he's gonna enough in
Speaker 1: two games that's gonna change the whole dynamic of whether
Speaker 1: somebody's willing to give him a big contract or not. Right,
Speaker 1: that story's already written. But I do think it could help,
Speaker 1: right if he could come back and have good performances.
Speaker 1: And I do think it could help in his free agency.
Speaker 1: Don Jalen Rager and the Eagles, you know, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: you never know. I mean, I just think, I honestly
Speaker 1: think that that this is a situation where he needs
Speaker 1: to play. He needs to play, all right, real quick.
Speaker 1: Before we go to our first break, I did want
Speaker 1: to get some updates on a couple other people. Zeke
Speaker 1: Elliott was limited with an industry injury to his hamstring.
Speaker 1: I think it is a calf and then we had
Speaker 1: Alda Smith who was limited and Tyler beat returned to practice.
Speaker 1: Obviously not going to play this week, but catch me
Speaker 1: up on those guys, particularly Zeke and whether he's going
Speaker 1: to be available this weekend. Sounds like he wants to play,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like he's going to play that this
Speaker 1: is just something that they're they're trying to manage. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens on Sunday, but I'm guessing that would
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see about Saturday because I would imagine
Speaker 1: if he's not gonna play, we'll see one of those.
Speaker 1: We'll see the TCU running back that's a rookie, say,
Speaker 1: whoa something, Shay, whoa what's his last Alana Lua? Good
Speaker 1: Ala Lua, good job, Dave. They will bring him up.
Speaker 1: That's my guy. So why you've never met him before,
Speaker 1: but that's your go Yeah. I mean, anytime you have
Speaker 1: a six three, two hundred and forty pound fullback running
Speaker 1: back who can go to the house from fifty yards out,
Speaker 1: I just you know, it's fun. He's a fun player.
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten to see a whole lot of him
Speaker 1: because we didn't have a preseason. But that's okay. I
Speaker 1: like that. All right, here's what's gonna do. We're gonna
Speaker 1: check our first break. Well, we come back from break,
Speaker 1: we are going to join We're gonna be joined by
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. We'll do that when we
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Speaker 1: is now time for us to bring on Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show man. Let's start with a question
Speaker 1: that typically I ask you because we just want to
Speaker 1: get fans an idea, But I legitimately need to know
Speaker 1: more about this defense because I have no idea who
Speaker 1: they are and what they are. Tell us the greatest strength,
Speaker 1: the greatest weakness of the Cincinnati Bengals defense was strength
Speaker 1: her willingness to do unconventional things in terms of bring
Speaker 1: pressure from all over. It's a team that doesn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of a level talent all around. Their best
Speaker 1: players have been okay when it comes to the production.
Speaker 1: But up front, you're talking about Sam Hubbard, if you're
Speaker 1: talking about Carl Lawson, you're talking about those guys kind
Speaker 1: of getting it done. In the back end, Jesse Bates
Speaker 1: is a safe two as three interceptions, and then it's
Speaker 1: just kind of a hodgepodge in a collection of guys.
Speaker 1: To their credit, they do play hard. They have played
Speaker 1: better in recent weeks. The last three opponents they failed
Speaker 1: to twenty points of fewer. And so it's a team
Speaker 1: that is dangerous because of their willingness to bring pressure
Speaker 1: from all over their line up and bring zero pressures
Speaker 1: in those things. And they play hard and that always
Speaker 1: to give you a chance. Bucky, I would like to
Speaker 1: know more about the D line and what they got
Speaker 1: going on there. I think that we did see a
Speaker 1: good game from the Cowboys old line last week, and
Speaker 1: I'm just really curious what that's gonna look like and
Speaker 1: what they currently have there as far as like the
Speaker 1: ability to create some pressure and get to the quarterback. Well,
Speaker 1: they had a few sacs in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: They only have thirteen sacks in twelve games, so you're
Speaker 1: talking about one a little over one a game. They
Speaker 1: haven't really been able to generate pressure, and so because
Speaker 1: of that they've had to add extra rushers into the blitz.
Speaker 1: We talk about a get right game and those things
Speaker 1: like this is one where you should have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to get right because there's not a five star talent
Speaker 1: on the other side that can um completely disrupt and
Speaker 1: destroy the game as a one man breaking crew. Buck
Speaker 1: you eat when you said Lawson, Hubbard and Bates and
Speaker 1: then there's some other dis guys that that one kind
Speaker 1: of catch me by surprise because I had never heard Honestly,
Speaker 1: I never heard of any of those three players. Likes play.
Speaker 1: Did you play for the forty nine ers? Now, I
Speaker 1: think though, no, no, no, no, I haven't never heard
Speaker 1: any and I'm okay with that. I'm okay. So but yeah, Carl, Carl,
Speaker 1: who's Carl Auston? Tell me more about him, that's my question.
Speaker 1: Carl Auston, Yeah, Carl, Yeah. Carl Lauson coming out of
Speaker 1: Auburn was a guy that was a highly decorated recruit
Speaker 1: um that look they drafted. He's been a hard working player.
Speaker 1: He's a guy who certainly has some snap off the ball.
Speaker 1: He has strong hands, he has the ability to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. He has four and a half sacks.
Speaker 1: Sam Hubbard played at Ohio State. Here's someone I really
Speaker 1: liked in the draft process. I thought he's very, very versatile,
Speaker 1: he has length, he has athleticism. For whatever reason in
Speaker 1: this scheme, he hasn't been able to get it done.
Speaker 1: He's had more productive years early in his career. Jesse Bates,
Speaker 1: safety from Wake Forest, is instinctive and aware. He was
Speaker 1: a really good player in college. But you know, sometimes, man,
Speaker 1: we played for a losing team. It's a bit of
Speaker 1: a black hole. And I think some of those players,
Speaker 1: even Vonville who has come over as a free agent,
Speaker 1: they just kind of get swallowed up and just all
Speaker 1: of the losing and you don't see them necessarily play
Speaker 1: at a high level or to the level that you
Speaker 1: thought they would play at when you evaluated them coming
Speaker 1: out of college. I will I'll say this, Buck, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I loved Jesse Bates when you know when he
Speaker 1: was a draft prospect on the Draft show coming out
Speaker 1: of Wake Forest, and it's seen. I've barely watched the
Speaker 1: Bengals this year obviously they're a bad team. Joe Burrows
Speaker 1: not playing anymore, but you know he's he's he's gonna
Speaker 1: finish with more than one hundred tackles, He's got three interceptions.
Speaker 1: It seems like he's got a decent shot at the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. I mean, are those are those numbers hollow
Speaker 1: or is he actually having a pretty good season. I mean,
Speaker 1: what type of safety has he been for them this year?
Speaker 1: Because statistically it looks like he's having a bit of
Speaker 1: a breakthrough. Yeah. I mean this is a combination. The
Speaker 1: defense hasn't played well, so he has been forced to
Speaker 1: make a lot of tackles, but he has may plays
Speaker 1: on the ball, and that was this thing when he's
Speaker 1: coming out of way far it's very instinctive, really good
Speaker 1: awareness and anticipation, and I think those things that played out.
Speaker 1: He's now playing alongside Von Bill. Von Bill, there's a
Speaker 1: guy who played at New Orleans for a long time,
Speaker 1: played a big program. Ohio State has some physicality and toughness,
Speaker 1: and so their safeties can certainly come down and be factors.
Speaker 1: But I think on the scale, this is not one
Speaker 1: of the more talented defenses that the Cowboys to face.
Speaker 1: But I will say they do play with great effort
Speaker 1: and energy, and because they've seen the things that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are put on tape, they certainly will be inspired
Speaker 1: because they probably feel like they can walk away with
Speaker 1: a whim. Bucky the how do you assess this Dallas
Speaker 1: offensive line in the game versus Baltimore and particularly I
Speaker 1: want to know about Steel and Night. Do you think
Speaker 1: that they're getting better or was it just kind of
Speaker 1: more the same or was it just a situation where
Speaker 1: just the way that they schematically did it it didn't
Speaker 1: expose them. I think combination of vetters. I think they
Speaker 1: have gotten better. I think the more that you play
Speaker 1: is more likely for you to improve, and I think
Speaker 1: those guys, especially being young, they have improved. I think
Speaker 1: from a play calling standpoint, they did a good job
Speaker 1: of protecting them. We didn't see these long drawn out routes.
Speaker 1: When the Cowboys elected to pass, it was a quick rhythm.
Speaker 1: The ball was out in a hurry, and so you
Speaker 1: didn't really expose Andy Dalton to big hits. And then
Speaker 1: I think leaning into the running game, for most linemen,
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier going forward than going backwards, and
Speaker 1: so by leaning into the run and running to the football,
Speaker 1: they're able to get some confidence, they're able to move
Speaker 1: people down. It makes the defense tired, and so it
Speaker 1: worked in their favor. So this week was very, very solid.
Speaker 1: I don't think you saw any leaks and protection until
Speaker 1: late in the game when I felt like the hope
Speaker 1: and stuff was lost, where they felt like, hey, it's
Speaker 1: over and those things happen. Yep. We know that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys sometimes have a tendency of making mistakes, not because
Speaker 1: of the opponent, but more because of their own doing.
Speaker 1: And you talked about this defense at least having a
Speaker 1: lot of energy and making an effort went on the field.
Speaker 1: So my question is in regards to if the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: whether it's a fumble or a bad throw or anything
Speaker 1: like that, it's this a defense capable of taking advantage
Speaker 1: of advantage of opportunities like that in creating place well,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a defense that hasn't played well.
Speaker 1: But yeah, if you're careless with the ball, if you're
Speaker 1: not on your game, they certainly can turn you over.
Speaker 1: I think the big thing for the Cowboys, and it's
Speaker 1: been an emphasis that we've talked about since the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year. Before you can win games, you have
Speaker 1: to learn how not to lose them. And so, whether
Speaker 1: it's the penalties, the negative plays, the turnovers, all of
Speaker 1: those things that are controllable, they have to control those things.
Speaker 1: And so I think the point of emphasis from Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy to the team has to be, Hey, let's just
Speaker 1: do what we do. Let's be really fine and pay
Speaker 1: attention to the details. Let's take care of the ball,
Speaker 1: Let's not give them anything cheap, and let's see if
Speaker 1: they can beat us by having to sustain drives and
Speaker 1: not getting short fields or benefiting from anything silly that
Speaker 1: may happen in the kicking gap, Bucky. This offense has
Speaker 1: had so many injuries, obviously, and when you think to
Speaker 1: maybe next year, I mean, there's a silver lining to
Speaker 1: the injuries, is that you're having to play these young
Speaker 1: guys and maybe they'll get better. Who would you say
Speaker 1: it's benefited the most this year, Terrence Steele, Brandon Knight,
Speaker 1: or Dalton Schultz. That's a good one. I think Dalton
Speaker 1: Schultz has certainly benefited because the ball is hitded in
Speaker 1: his direction a little bit, and I think initially maybe
Speaker 1: he was pegged as being a a blocker or a
Speaker 1: marginal option at the tight in spite and I think
Speaker 1: we've seen that, hey, he can't do some things. I
Speaker 1: would say the offensive tackles they benefit, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if they benefit enough that when you're sitting in
Speaker 1: the draft room and there's someone that's sitting at the
Speaker 1: top of the board that you bypassed them because you
Speaker 1: feel good about Night and Steel. I think for Schultz,
Speaker 1: I think you could probably talk yourself into bypassing maybe
Speaker 1: a tight end prospect because you feel like he showed
Speaker 1: you well enough that if you have Scholtz and Blake Darwin,
Speaker 1: maybe that is a combination that you like if you
Speaker 1: want to use some twelve personnel things. Sounds like a
Speaker 1: tag based on Imack back in you know, old wrestling days.
Speaker 1: Doesn't it sound like, you know, or a law firm
Speaker 1: either one, yeah, the law firm of Knight and Steel,
Speaker 1: the law firm of Knight Kneel, or like the road Warriors,
Speaker 1: Night and Talk. With all due respect to those guys,
Speaker 1: you gotta play better before you get a nickname like that.
Speaker 1: But that's fair Buck, based on based on the scattering
Speaker 1: report you gave it. I mean, so these guys, don't
Speaker 1: they don't get a ton of pressure and the secondary
Speaker 1: isn't terribly impressive, Like might might this be another opportunity
Speaker 1: for Andy Dalton to show that he is still capable
Speaker 1: of slinging it around. I mean, he kind of did
Speaker 1: that against Baltimore, but this is an I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a much less talented defense, and I love the
Speaker 1: idea of that Andy Dalton getting to throw for three
Speaker 1: or so hundred yards against his old team. Is that
Speaker 1: is that doable? Man? I don't know, because I gave
Speaker 1: worried because they dropped back and he throve thirty five
Speaker 1: to forty times. I just I just getting nervous. I
Speaker 1: just would like to see him win the game. And
Speaker 1: so if you can get him to I say, thirty
Speaker 1: five is probably where I would max out. At thirty
Speaker 1: five or few where I think is the right pitch
Speaker 1: count because the more that you throw, the more it
Speaker 1: takes away from Zeke and Tone Pollard. And I think
Speaker 1: it's really important for Kellen Moore if you can't realize that,
Speaker 1: you know, the game running pretty good when it goes
Speaker 1: through the running backs, and then those other guys are compliments.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a week where Andy Dalton should
Speaker 1: be able to take care of the ball. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's gonna be fired up because at one point they
Speaker 1: benched him for Ryan Finley, So I think he'll have
Speaker 1: his a game, all right. So here's the deal, if
Speaker 1: you gotta give me. I know we've talked about this
Speaker 1: defense not being great, but if we come back in
Speaker 1: here on Monday and the defense had a good game,
Speaker 1: or if the Cowboys lose and the defense the Cincinnati defense,
Speaker 1: the reason why give me one player that we would
Speaker 1: be talking about and saying, here's the reason why Dallas
Speaker 1: couldn't win this game. Steal at night. I wouldn't even
Speaker 1: talk to the player. If the Cowboys lose to the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, I think everything has to go to the
Speaker 1: head coach, Like as much as I would talk to
Speaker 1: the players, if Mike McCarthy can't get this team to
Speaker 1: play against the Cincinnati Bengals, because in spite of all
Speaker 1: the odds, there's still a potential for this team to
Speaker 1: go to the playoffs. Like if they can't realize this
Speaker 1: opportunity about knowing everybody on our schedule now is beautiful
Speaker 1: and this is one that should be chalked up. I
Speaker 1: think this is one that we chalked up at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the seasons, one that we chalked up last week,
Speaker 1: and those things. If they can't win what is a
Speaker 1: winnable game, then it has to go on the head coach.
Speaker 1: I can't even put it on a player. I would
Speaker 1: say that Mike McCarthy would have to be capable for
Speaker 1: any underachievement that takes place in this game. All right,
Speaker 1: Bucky Man, we appreciate you join us. We'll have you
Speaker 1: back next week. We're actually gonna probably flip the schedule.
Speaker 1: We'll get with you on that, but we'll have a
Speaker 1: little different schedule. No, not next week, that's a week
Speaker 1: after that. Next week we'll be on our normal schedule.
Speaker 1: So we'll have you back on Wednesday to talk about
Speaker 1: the game going up coming up next weekend against San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers. All we're gonna take our second
Speaker 1: break when we come back. We got some questions that
Speaker 1: I want to run by these guys. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Bengals. Will be right back. This is Dallas
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Speaker 1: by Geico. We're going to get some questions here to
Speaker 1: talk about the Cowboys versus Cincinnati Bengals. Here's my first
Speaker 1: question for you guys, and this goes back to the
Speaker 1: Baltimore game. But how did you guys assess the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I asked Bucky about this a little early. How did
Speaker 1: you guys assess the offensive line? And particularly I want
Speaker 1: to talk about Brandon Knighte and Terrence Steele. Let's start
Speaker 1: first with you, Nick. I thought it was okay, you know,
Speaker 1: it was one of I mean, at first they looked
Speaker 1: pretty good and they were able to run the ball
Speaker 1: and stuff. But you know, you always kind of remember
Speaker 1: how it goes at the end, and at the end
Speaker 1: they couldn't run. They couldn't get a yard. You know,
Speaker 1: I got people texted me going, Zeke makes fifteen million
Speaker 1: a year and he couldn't get a yard or well,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a reason why. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the best I mean, Jerome Bennets is not running through
Speaker 1: a break brick wall any night. Maybe he might have
Speaker 1: made but anyway, I just thought at the end, you know,
Speaker 1: you could tell that they didn't have that they were
Speaker 1: kind of overpowered a little bit. I thought they did
Speaker 1: a decent job. There's a lot of times Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: just standing around there looking looking, you know, I thought
Speaker 1: that was something that I hadn't seen before. But at
Speaker 1: the end that they seemed like they kind of got
Speaker 1: word down a little bit. I thought they did a
Speaker 1: nice job just in general compared to things that we've
Speaker 1: seen in previous games. I mean, this was a game
Speaker 1: where we or meet personally. I'm just gonna speak for myself.
Speaker 1: When I was watching the game, it wasn't like I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, freaking Steel, here he goes again,
Speaker 1: and what's happening. You know, it wasn't one of those games.
Speaker 1: I thought they held up pretty nicely. Wasn't obviously perfect
Speaker 1: or oh oh wow, they're doing an amazing job or anything,
Speaker 1: but they just it's like that band aid that we
Speaker 1: talked about sometimes. You know, you want the band aid
Speaker 1: to be able to stick and not start peeling off
Speaker 1: in the middle of the day, and that's what they did.
Speaker 1: I thought they stuck. There was only one little peel,
Speaker 1: but then they get it back down and it stuck
Speaker 1: throughout the game. I thought, good Dave. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I brought it up yesterday. If like, you know, I
Speaker 1: great on a curve, like I am, I am the
Speaker 1: nicest teacher because if you're not, if you're not supposed
Speaker 1: to be there, like if you're not, if you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to be in the lineup, I am going to
Speaker 1: be very nice to you. And I thought, I thought
Speaker 1: they played great all things consider. I mean, they averaged
Speaker 1: four yards per carry because Zeke was productive on the ground,
Speaker 1: Dalton only got sacked once. Yannick and Gockway, Calais Campbell,
Speaker 1: Pernell McPhee like, these are really good NFL pass rushers
Speaker 1: and have been for a long time. Jason Garrett and
Speaker 1: they I mean they didn't. They did not wreck that game.
Speaker 1: They gave up one sack. Andy Dalton had time to
Speaker 1: find eight receivers. He had his best day as a
Speaker 1: passer since he's had to come in. So I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't win, and maybe they did wear down, but
Speaker 1: you're talking about Brandon Knight, Connor McGovern and Terrence Steele.
Speaker 1: So with I mean, with all of that in mind,
Speaker 1: I thought they played great. I can't recall a time
Speaker 1: this year when we've or since the season has began,
Speaker 1: that we have talked about Joe Philbin by name. But
Speaker 1: should we be talking about him if if this offensive
Speaker 1: line is playing better, and even against the team where you,
Speaker 1: like Dave said, they had a lot of pass rushers
Speaker 1: on that team, and I know going into game, my
Speaker 1: expectation was not that they would give up only one sack,
Speaker 1: and that they would be able to be effective at
Speaker 1: least in parts of the game. In the running game.
Speaker 1: Should we be talking more about the job that Joe
Speaker 1: Philbin is doing with this remade offensive line, Nick, Well,
Speaker 1: I think you know he's done. He's done a good
Speaker 1: job with having to teach these guys. You know, he's
Speaker 1: been doing a lot more teaching than he thought. He
Speaker 1: didn't think he'd have to really teach the left hawp.
Speaker 1: You take this job, You're probably thinking, I just gotta
Speaker 1: show him, Like I guess this is the play we're doing,
Speaker 1: so go do it. Yeah, I mean, if you think
Speaker 1: about it, you say, Joe, you know, before the season,
Speaker 1: what do you got to get done? Like off the record,
Speaker 1: he's like, I gotta get Connor Williams to play at
Speaker 1: the top level right now, It's like, well, Connor Williams
Speaker 1: is that you know, he's the veteran guy out there
Speaker 1: and he's he's he's what he is. I gotta get
Speaker 1: these other guys to learn how to play. If that's
Speaker 1: how different and upside down the position has been Amber,
Speaker 1: I think it depends this A lot has been thrown
Speaker 1: at him. He's had I mean out of anyone else
Speaker 1: on the team. I think as far as coaching, he
Speaker 1: has to have deal with the most because of all
Speaker 1: the injuries and all that. But I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: as far as like I would assume Mike McCarthy has
Speaker 1: the final say as far as who makes it into
Speaker 1: the lineup or what. But there are still some of
Speaker 1: the decisions are very questionable. Earlier at the season that
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, we all on this show talked about it,
Speaker 1: and we all saw it, So how come there were
Speaker 1: things that they weren't willing to make changes despite of
Speaker 1: the things that they were seeing week after weeks. So
Speaker 1: to me that that's just very questionable there. But if
Speaker 1: we're talking about recent weeks, like after the Sack Martin change,
Speaker 1: I would say, yes, I've seen some improvement there about
Speaker 1: as far as some of the things he's done, But
Speaker 1: just in general, there are some things that it makes
Speaker 1: me wonder how much, say does he really have or
Speaker 1: is he just following why Mike McCarthy is saying and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: these are the guys we need it out there. All
Speaker 1: of that it makes me just wonder about those conversations
Speaker 1: and who has at the end of the day, the
Speaker 1: more power to figure out who is going to be
Speaker 1: playing in the lineup, Dave, I am beaming over here, Age.
Speaker 1: That was just masterfoots and wonderful that you took the
Speaker 1: words right out of my mouth. I mean, okay, you
Speaker 1: know the coaches, Yeah, Joe Philbin deserves a lot of
Speaker 1: credit for stabilizing this thing with how bad it's gotten.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, with what they're down to to
Speaker 1: be playing competently awesome, well done, But what about September
Speaker 1: like and AG's absolutely right, Like I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's Joe Philbin's fault or if it was a Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy thing, But who decided Terrence Steele was the day
Speaker 1: one guy, and who decided that he needed to be
Speaker 1: the day one guy for like a month? I mean,
Speaker 1: Brandon Knight's better than him. He he just is. I
Speaker 1: don't care what anybody says. But they didn't think that,
Speaker 1: and they were wrong, and they didn't really adjust to
Speaker 1: it until injuries forced him. What about the Zach Martin saga,
Speaker 1: you know, fantasy football nonsense. I'll never I will never
Speaker 1: let go of that because it was wrong and dumb
Speaker 1: then and we were right. Is that Joe Philbin's fault
Speaker 1: or Mike McCarthy's. I don't know, but I thought they
Speaker 1: made a lot of questionable decisions early in the season
Speaker 1: when they had much better health on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and you know now that they're down to it. I
Speaker 1: do think they're doing a good job and they deserve
Speaker 1: credit for that, but I'm not going to forget the
Speaker 1: weird things that they were doing earlier. It's good stuff,
Speaker 1: all right. So how much do you think this odd
Speaker 1: week for the Cowboys will affect these players? They went
Speaker 1: from Tuesday night road game to a Sunday noon road game.
Speaker 1: It'd be hard enough if you were going to be
Speaker 1: at home on one of those two, but having to
Speaker 1: travel for both of them, and going from a night
Speaker 1: to a noon, like just the time period and the travel.
Speaker 1: How much do you think that affects this team? Let's
Speaker 1: start first with you ag a lot, especially after looking
Speaker 1: at what happened last week. I mean, it makes me
Speaker 1: wonder how bad they're gonna look in this game. Despite
Speaker 1: everything that Bucky said about how the Bengals are right
Speaker 1: now and all that, it's like, okay last week, they
Speaker 1: have like ten days to prepare for the game, and
Speaker 1: to me, they looked absolutely unprepared when he got to it,
Speaker 1: when they got to play against the Ravens. So when
Speaker 1: you get such a short week, it could go either way.
Speaker 1: It could be a google one side where they really
Speaker 1: kick things up and you know, you get the adrenaline
Speaker 1: rushing and all that. But on the other hand, it's
Speaker 1: like then they could really look bad because clearly, or
Speaker 1: as of right now, I just don't think they have
Speaker 1: going good use of their time during the week. I'm
Speaker 1: not there or anything, but just looking from the outside,
Speaker 1: they didn't take advantage of last week and all the
Speaker 1: days they had, so it makes me really question about
Speaker 1: this week and how they're really utilizing this time right now. Dave,
Speaker 1: I think everything she just said is right. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's like playing on it It's basically
Speaker 1: like playing on a Thursday. It's a very similar amount
Speaker 1: of downtime. So I think everything she just said is right.
Speaker 1: But I guess if I'm looking for a silver lining,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it helps that, like you, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't have time to dwell, you just kind of got
Speaker 1: to dive right back into it. It's it's just like
Speaker 1: autopilots like, Okay, I don't have time to be I
Speaker 1: don't have time to be embarrassed or getting get in
Speaker 1: my feelings about where things are, like, we just gotta
Speaker 1: go get ready for this, and you know, so maybe
Speaker 1: there's almost like an autopilot aspect to it where it
Speaker 1: can help you focus a little bit because you don't
Speaker 1: have time to do anything else. I think this might
Speaker 1: be the first time that you know, you know, Bill
Speaker 1: Parcells was famous at kind of doing things to kind
Speaker 1: of needle the players a little bit, whether put a
Speaker 1: tank of gas in the guy's lockers, see if you
Speaker 1: have any gas up, or the mouse traps or whatever.
Speaker 1: This might be the first thing that we've seen out
Speaker 1: of Mike McCarthy, you know where he's it's a short week.
Speaker 1: You're playing a team that isn't very good, justlike you,
Speaker 1: and now you're gonna question the effort or you're gonna
Speaker 1: when the when the question is asked. You didn't close
Speaker 1: the book on it like he usually protects the players.
Speaker 1: He didn't say Daryl Whorley was a bad player at
Speaker 1: all when he wasn't and everyone knew that he wasn't
Speaker 1: playing well, but he didn't do that now he's kind
Speaker 1: of doing it for this week. So maybe that's his
Speaker 1: way of kind of because Jalen Smith's talking about it
Speaker 1: and Zeke's talking about it, that might be a way
Speaker 1: that he's kind of saying, all right, you know, I
Speaker 1: got to get him in gear. Yeah, and that might
Speaker 1: be the McCarthy way of doing it. You kind of
Speaker 1: have to challenge them right in order just challenging mentally,
Speaker 1: like are you capable of being? When he was at
Speaker 1: Green Bay and things were bad, he could say, Hey,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers gonna make the play. Well you don't have
Speaker 1: that right now, so you gotta figure out way, and
Speaker 1: maybe this is this is the way to do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought Bucky's words were really strong but accurate.
Speaker 1: You know this, they don't win this game. You know
Speaker 1: the finger point and starts right there, Well, it doesn't start,
Speaker 1: It just continues. It's been there, and I know we
Speaker 1: talked to me, you know, Dave, you mentioned it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's very similar to playing a Sunday and then a
Speaker 1: Thursday game. I don't know, And maybe this happens a lot.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it with the Cowboys, where you would
Speaker 1: go from a night game on one. Let's say you
Speaker 1: played a night game on Sunday and then you would
Speaker 1: play on a Thursday, and both of them being road games.
Speaker 1: I think that's part to me that seems like this
Speaker 1: is so unprecedented because teams aren't really asked. Typically, they
Speaker 1: protect teams a little bit more and they try to
Speaker 1: put them earlier, give them a little bit that extra time,
Speaker 1: or at least don't make them both it's technically a Friday,
Speaker 1: though honestly it's technically yeah, it's like a Friday. Basically,
Speaker 1: it's a four and a half. They got four and
Speaker 1: a half days basically. And again, when you do four
Speaker 1: and a half days and both of them are road games,
Speaker 1: that's the part that I think true really really is
Speaker 1: tough for them. And again, nobody's crying for you. This
Speaker 1: is the NFL. Everybody's gonna have things they got to
Speaker 1: deal with, and so you have to just go out
Speaker 1: there and play. But I do think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit of a challenge and I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see how they respond to that. I've been crying for him,
Speaker 1: keep been crying for I've been crying about it, like
Speaker 1: I've been talking about it forever. I think this is
Speaker 1: a crap. It's crap what they did. You said it
Speaker 1: since the moment they announced it, like, what are we doing? Oh?
Speaker 1: Mom saying now? I was like, this doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: This is bad. I don't like this at all. You know,
Speaker 1: Cowboys have to play on Sunday and the Ravens have
Speaker 1: to play. Ravens has playing on Monday. Oh, this is
Speaker 1: really crap. Like that's what I lost it right there
Speaker 1: with the raven I found out what the Ravens are doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, One more question I have for you guys
Speaker 1: before we get to our picks. How much an advantage
Speaker 1: you think Andy Dalton has in this game going up
Speaker 1: against his former team, A team that you would think
Speaker 1: maybe he knows some of this personnel, some of the
Speaker 1: things they do rather well, let's start first with you, Dave.
Speaker 1: I've always thought that's a little bit overrated, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. I mean, a guy that's been in
Speaker 1: the league as long as Andy Dalton, I would I
Speaker 1: would hope he can for I mean, I would hope
Speaker 1: that he can get a really good picture of what
Speaker 1: a defense is doing, just based on a week of
Speaker 1: film study. Anyway, And then you think about You know,
Speaker 1: this is a young Bengals team that's changed, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of things just in the one season Sin
Speaker 1: Stalton left. You know, they drafted some young linebackers. They've
Speaker 1: got some young guys playing, so I mean, you know
Speaker 1: this ain't this. Ain't Vantes Perfect and Carlos Dunlap. Those
Speaker 1: guys are gone, you know, so um yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it helps, like he practiced against a
Speaker 1: few of these guys, so maybe he knows their ticks
Speaker 1: and their tells a little bit. But I've always thought
Speaker 1: that was a little bit overrated. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's something, but not just this huge ace
Speaker 1: up his sleeve, if I had to guess. Yeah, Nicky
Speaker 1: made me laugh a little earlier Dale the radio show
Speaker 1: when you mentioned to Kiel Spikes, I didn't, like, I
Speaker 1: don't know where did you get that one? Like you
Speaker 1: just pulled out one out. Yeah, I don't know any
Speaker 1: players on the Bengals team. And then I tried to
Speaker 1: like do some more and like, well, I thought of
Speaker 1: one cornerback and I thought he might be dead, honestly,
Speaker 1: and I wasn't gonna say his name. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't you know what, I'm just gonna stop. I
Speaker 1: think Dave's right about that. I think if Tom if
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers were playing at the Patriots this year, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady been in there forever, the systems are very I
Speaker 1: mean like like he's been around the system forever and
Speaker 1: it doesn't really change. I think Tom Brady could get
Speaker 1: a little bit of a benefit there. But like Dave said,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's been so many moving parts there for
Speaker 1: the for the Bengals that I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: if he would really do that. I just think his
Speaker 1: motivation will be there, and his motivation seems like it
Speaker 1: could be there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree with everything
Speaker 1: they said. It's not like if you were to, ye, oh,
Speaker 1: what are some of the advantages that the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: this week, that would not be one of them. I
Speaker 1: would not be talking about, oh yes, we got Andy Dalton,
Speaker 1: he played for the Bengals. No, So I just I
Speaker 1: don't see it as an advantage whatsoever. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get to our picks. Let's hear what you guys have
Speaker 1: to say. What you think is going to happen this
Speaker 1: Sunday at noon when the Cowboys take on the Big
Speaker 1: Goals at AT and T Stadium. Let's start first with
Speaker 1: mister Hellman, what you got? I was really hoping you
Speaker 1: were gonna let me go last today, all right? Which no,
Speaker 1: But that's fine, that's fine. I'll step out. I'll step
Speaker 1: out on a limb. I'll take I will take y'all
Speaker 1: behind the curtain of how I think about these picks,
Speaker 1: because in a vacuum, in a vacuum, I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are the better team. It may it's perfectly logical
Speaker 1: that they're a road favorite. I think they should win
Speaker 1: this game. They should, but I'm not and I don't
Speaker 1: know what y'all are gonna say. So maybe this is pointless,
Speaker 1: but I am not going to let us unanimously pick
Speaker 1: the three and nine Cowboys. That is ridiculous. A three
Speaker 1: and nine team that has gotten blown out seven times.
Speaker 1: You realize they've only they've only lost by one possession
Speaker 1: three out of the nine times, and two of those
Speaker 1: three where when Dak was in the lineup. So with
Speaker 1: the with the X exception of the Pittsburgh game, they've
Speaker 1: basically gotten their ass speed and all of their losses
Speaker 1: eleven points, twenty five points, twenty two points, uh seventeen
Speaker 1: points the other night, so and I looked this up
Speaker 1: before the show. The only team with the worst point
Speaker 1: differential is the Jets, who haven't won yet. By the way,
Speaker 1: So it's utterly insane to think that all four of
Speaker 1: us should pick the Cowboys to go on the road
Speaker 1: and beat anybody. So I don't. I don't feel good
Speaker 1: about picking them to lose, but I just think somebody should.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm gonna do. Uh, you know, it'll
Speaker 1: probably be an ugly game. Bengals find a way to
Speaker 1: like kick a field goal to win, like twenty to
Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen whatever. I don't know, and I don't
Speaker 1: even really I think the Cowboys are gonna win. But
Speaker 1: I just can't. I can't let all four of us
Speaker 1: pick the pick I haven't even picked. That's awful presumptuous.
Speaker 1: And will you change that? Will you change your pick?
Speaker 1: Everybody goes down the line of like Bengals, Bengals, Bengals, Bengals.
Speaker 1: Yeah if if somebody else, if somebody else picks the Bengals,
Speaker 1: I'll switch to the Cowboys. Sure, absolutely all. Hey, hey
Speaker 1: Dave Dave on on our written form of gut feeling
Speaker 1: like there's already been a Bengals pick. I'll just let
Speaker 1: just let you know. So, oh nice, Okay, Well, maybe
Speaker 1: I'll pick the Cowboys, but Mickey pick. No. No, Mickey
Speaker 1: just conveniently forgets to send me his pick sometimes if
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to pick, if he doesn't want to,
Speaker 1: like if it's like Cowboys at Ravens or Steelers, like,
Speaker 1: I don't get one from Mickey, I don't know, I'll
Speaker 1: get it. I'll probably get one, all right. Uh Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say I hope the Cowboys win this weekend.
Speaker 1: But you know when you love someone and they hurt
Speaker 1: you and it's just too reason for you to forgive them,
Speaker 1: and it's just like you just can't do it. I
Speaker 1: just can't do it. I just cannot do it right now.
Speaker 1: So I cannot forgive the Cowboys for the pain they've
Speaker 1: put me through so far. So I'm I hope they win,
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna have to go with the Bengals winning
Speaker 1: this game, especially because of the short week. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I quite trust their ability to utilize this
Speaker 1: time very well and do what they need to do
Speaker 1: and come in prepared and regardless of the Bengals being
Speaker 1: so bad right now. But I'm gonna go with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I don't know the score, I don't care. Maybe a
Speaker 1: bad school, I don't know, seventeen fifteen, don't really matter.
Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna go with the Cowboys losing and
Speaker 1: back to you, Dave. All Right, So now I picked
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Cowboys win thirty five twenty one. Offense looks great. No,
Speaker 1: I'll stick. I'll stick with a g I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't want her to ride that train alone, all right.
Speaker 1: I just you know, I've seen I know the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: The secondary is gonna be really it's gonna be bad.
Speaker 1: But who's gonna throw the ball to him? If it's
Speaker 1: Brandon Allen. I mean, I've seen Brandon Allen play every
Speaker 1: college game of his career, and I never thought he
Speaker 1: would actually play a game on Sunday, and he does,
Speaker 1: and he's playing, and you know, and we know why.
Speaker 1: There's been injuries too. So I just don't think the
Speaker 1: Bengals are gonna be that great on offense. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're that great on defense. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be kind of an ugly game. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I just feel like it's gonna be like rainy and
Speaker 1: overcast and just not is it. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just don't think it's gonna I just look at it
Speaker 1: as my lass and say, I think the Cowboys will win,
Speaker 1: though I do. I think they'll win twenty six seventeen,
Speaker 1: and you know, I just I just think they're better.
Speaker 1: They're better team Zeke doesn't play though I really want
Speaker 1: to change my pick. Nope, But what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Will you've picked? I picked this game? If this happens this,
Speaker 1: Derek's like, I'm gonna make two picks based on who
Speaker 1: might be available. I think everybody here, including Dave just now,
Speaker 1: ye see, everybody has made two picks. Amber does a
Speaker 1: week at least you've done it. Does y'all used to
Speaker 1: make fun of me. Y'all used to make fun of me,
Speaker 1: especially Dave talked crap about me picking both sides. But
Speaker 1: look at y'all now, yeah see it's funny when Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fun when I do it. All right, So here's
Speaker 1: we go. Here's I actually think this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a high scoring game. Like, I think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of scoring on both sides because I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys secondary will basically. I mean, we saw Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd go for seventy two last week. They got some
Speaker 1: receivers over there, even with a quarterback that's not great.
Speaker 1: Like if you got receivers that are getting wide open,
Speaker 1: you can throw. That's the college game. You can throw
Speaker 1: to a wide open wide receiver. And so I think
Speaker 1: this game is gonna have some scoring in it. I
Speaker 1: do think the Cowboys offense played pretty well last week
Speaker 1: against a much better defense. I think both these offense
Speaker 1: are actually gonna play pretty well. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: come down to a very close game. I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys get the edge. They win twenty seven twenty six
Speaker 1: in a barn burner, a barnburner for the ages that
Speaker 1: we'll all be talking about all next week about how
Speaker 1: great a game it was. I'm just playing. But the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will win this game. It'll be a sporting game
Speaker 1: and uh and we'll tell you what went right and
Speaker 1: wrong for the Cowboys on Monday till then. For Nick
Speaker 1: Eatmdave Helm and Amber Garcia. I am Derek Hilton. This
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