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Speaker 1: Star in Friscolatt. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. Mickey, did you wait at
Speaker 1: the camera? Did saluted? I didn't see you? Okay? Can
Speaker 1: it be Friday already? It's Friday here at the Star.
Speaker 1: We are a little over forty eight hours. I haven't
Speaker 1: done the math on it away from Cowboys versus Saints
Speaker 1: on Thursday night at at and T Stadium and puzzle
Speaker 1: looks from Mickey Spagnola and Brian brought us. They're doing
Speaker 1: the mathven twenty kickoff on Thursday night, as we talked
Speaker 1: to you at nine thirty four on a Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: which is actually a Friday morning by the Cowboys work week,
Speaker 1: because of course this is a second straight Thursday game,
Speaker 1: and then they get the mini buye on the weekend,
Speaker 1: and then the Philadelphia Eagles come to town. We're in
Speaker 1: the middle of a three game homestand for your Dallas Cowboys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about that? Better take advantage of every single one
Speaker 1: of them counts too. They do everyone everyone the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. And according to Jerry, Oh, they're almost
Speaker 1: win now every place. Brian, I subscribe to your theory. Now,
Speaker 1: that's right. They're desperate. Please come my direction, guys, It's
Speaker 1: come my direction. They're desperate. Yeah, and Jerry one, thank
Speaker 1: you Mickey for Sandward, I'm desperate. Mickey hates the desperate theory.
Speaker 1: Although Jerry on the radio this morning on the fan
Speaker 1: Local League, how was it phrased? It was about being
Speaker 1: a desperate team. They were more sprit when they were
Speaker 1: what was the record three and five? Yeah, than they
Speaker 1: are now. But they need to keep that desperation right
Speaker 1: now because it seemed to work the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: You know. The other interesting thing, and I think he's
Speaker 1: right about this because everybody kind of misconstrued what he
Speaker 1: was trying to say on Friday and again this morning
Speaker 1: when he was comparing some things to the super Bowl, right,
Speaker 1: and it's like, no, he's not saying this is the
Speaker 1: Cowboys super Bowl because if you win, then what do
Speaker 1: you gotta gotta? You gotta play again next week. He's
Speaker 1: going to question the super Bowl thing, right, You gotta
Speaker 1: play against it. What he was trying to say is
Speaker 1: the importance of every play in the game is like
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. You have to treat it like a
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Play. Yes, it's like whateverything about this. When
Speaker 1: you watch baseball for one hundred and sixty two games,
Speaker 1: you kind of casually watch, you fall asleep, whatever. When
Speaker 1: you get to the playoffs, every pitch is important. You're
Speaker 1: locked in. Oh he threw a curveball. Oh why did
Speaker 1: he throw over that plate? The ball should have been
Speaker 1: in the dirt because he had two strikes on the guy. Right,
Speaker 1: you go through that, And that's what he was trying
Speaker 1: to point out about this game, that every play, every pass,
Speaker 1: every fumble is takes on the importance of a super
Speaker 1: Bowl because you're playing a team that just won ten
Speaker 1: straight games. Okay, so you're buying that what every play
Speaker 1: is important? Yeah? Yeah, I think so. I think we'll
Speaker 1: be locked in on this game right from But what
Speaker 1: if they go out and just flop well next week,
Speaker 1: I know, but does that mean every play the following
Speaker 1: week is Yeah. Absolutely. It's like the old Duane Thomas quote.
Speaker 1: If this is the ultimate game, then why do they
Speaker 1: play it again? Next year. Yeah, and you can't have
Speaker 1: the ultimate game in game twelve, that's right, see, but
Speaker 1: you can treat each play like it's the ultimate play.
Speaker 1: Last Friday, though, Jerry was talking about the importance of
Speaker 1: what we can prove to ourselves about playing well in
Speaker 1: this game. Sure this part if this guy, this team's
Speaker 1: coming in and they've got all the accolades and and
Speaker 1: we're playing well, it's kind of a statement game for us.
Speaker 1: You know, change if you get blown out, But what
Speaker 1: happens if you lose? Yeah, it doesn't change. It can't
Speaker 1: change because what I'm trying to say, I got Washington
Speaker 1: and Philly playing each other though, hello kid Garrison going,
Speaker 1: hey guys, they're gonna gain a game, and one of
Speaker 1: those have to lose, right, Yeah, they don't have to.
Speaker 1: They could tie. Philadelphia's a good point. Philadelphia's got the Rams.
Speaker 1: And also the Houston Texans left too. From the mistaken
Speaker 1: who seem to be marching on. They are marching on.
Speaker 1: I thought they were going to be in trouble last
Speaker 1: night and then they just boy, they put their foot
Speaker 1: on the pedal. I don't know, I mean straight ninety
Speaker 1: seven yards? Is that what it was? Touchdown? No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I I hear what I say. I'm from the I'm
Speaker 1: from the theory of all win, and I understand what
Speaker 1: Mickey's saying. But you know, I mean also, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, though, if they lose this game, what
Speaker 1: does that mean? That means you're six and six and
Speaker 1: you got four games to go, and in all likelihood,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia beats Washington on Monday night and everybody six and
Speaker 1: six with four games to go. Yeah, and the object
Speaker 1: is to get in the playoffs, right, I agree to that,
Speaker 1: And the easiest way to get into the playoffs is
Speaker 1: how win the division. There you go, that is, but
Speaker 1: Mickey will tell you got wild card hopes too. You
Speaker 1: do well? You do? You get a home playoff game
Speaker 1: if you win the division. Yeah, that's what I was
Speaker 1: kind of thinking about it, right, take care of that,
Speaker 1: take care of that division. And how many wins does
Speaker 1: it will it take to win that division? Maybe nine?
Speaker 1: You're with nine, so that would be three, three and
Speaker 1: two down the stretch, I was gonna say ten. I
Speaker 1: think I'm one. I think I think you gotta win
Speaker 1: ten myself. Hmm, I'll go you're gonna say, Washington or
Speaker 1: Philly wins three of the next five. See, I can't
Speaker 1: figure out playing each other a couple of times twice. Right,
Speaker 1: there's two losses in there. I can't Summer nine might
Speaker 1: do it. And you figure out Philadelphia because okay, wow,
Speaker 1: they beat Washington, right Giants? Excuse anybody giving them a
Speaker 1: ton of credit for that? I mean, no, okay, hear
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But but they're they improved. They want
Speaker 1: a game, and it's like, you're gonna have to beat
Speaker 1: that same Giants team. If you read if you read stuff,
Speaker 1: everybody's like, Okay, everything's great. Now you know, they figured
Speaker 1: out who their running back is and they're overcoming their injuries,
Speaker 1: when the week before it was like, well what happened
Speaker 1: last year? They overcame all these injuries, and now this
Speaker 1: year they can't over overcome their injuries that they lose
Speaker 1: the formula. Okay, they are Philadelphias. Okay, here's what Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia's five and six. Yeah, they play at home against Washington.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give him a w for that six and six?
Speaker 1: Okay at Dallas hmm, okay, we won't. We won't. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get through this week at the Rams. All
Speaker 1: that puts him at six and eight, Houston six and nine.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, at Washington six it won't matter. Okay,
Speaker 1: So look, but if you do, now, if you do, okay,
Speaker 1: if you do, Washington's sketch. Okay, but but but okay,
Speaker 1: just a review in a nutshell. Philadelphia has got two
Speaker 1: games where you're right, okay, two games against the Redskins,
Speaker 1: and then they play and they play at Dallas at
Speaker 1: the Rams and home against Houston. Okay, which would probably
Speaker 1: be a game that will matter to Houston second to
Speaker 1: last game of the year because Indianapolis has been playing
Speaker 1: well and you've got to play Indianapolis too, right, all right,
Speaker 1: now over there easier to Washington is anything. Do we
Speaker 1: know that Washington plays two games against the Eagles, Okay,
Speaker 1: Sandwiched around this schedule, Giants win at Jacksonville, win frauds
Speaker 1: at Tennessee when maybe, okay, maybe Tennessee. Come on, really,
Speaker 1: Cult McCoy, that's the most embarrassing loss you've had this year.
Speaker 1: They lost their quarterback and an offensive line. They can't
Speaker 1: the following week they beat the Patriots, did they not? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But everybody who's everybody who's left the Patriot organization. It's
Speaker 1: gone somewhere. Detroit's beat the Patriots, and so has Tennessee.
Speaker 1: But let's say Washington and Philadelphia split their two games, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so each have a win. Washington has games against the
Speaker 1: Giants and at Jacksonville. That gets them to three wins,
Speaker 1: regardless of what they do against Tennessee. Right, So that's
Speaker 1: nine right for them? That would be nine for them,
Speaker 1: and if they beat Tennessee, it would be ten. Okay,
Speaker 1: based on just pure projections, I'm gonna say I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with nine, okay, right, Yeah, we need to review
Speaker 1: the Cowboys schedule. They have to play Jacksonville, which, yes,
Speaker 1: they're playing at jackson and they're firing everybody, right, right.
Speaker 1: They benched Blake Bortles, That's what I'm saying, changed the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, right, they did that. But I McCall its
Speaker 1: son right, yeah, Hacket, Yeah, which unfortunate. Only in the
Speaker 1: morning news this morning, the first paragraph said they they
Speaker 1: fired their offensive quarter in Hackett. And then the second
Speaker 1: quarter is and not only are they changing quarterbacks, they
Speaker 1: got rid of their offensive former Cowboys offensive court. Hacket. No, No,
Speaker 1: they said that it was paragraph, It's like, oops, thanks
Speaker 1: seeing That's why I tell you got to have good
Speaker 1: editors like you. Thanks Mick, right and then and then
Speaker 1: just to review the cowboys remaining schedule, New Orleans on Thursday,
Speaker 1: and then home against Philadelphia at an Indianapolis team that
Speaker 1: research on five in a row, going on six in
Speaker 1: a row because the team they played Jacksonville on Monday
Speaker 1: or Sunday, and then Tampa Bay and the Giants. I'm
Speaker 1: not look, I'm not saying they're just gonna back into
Speaker 1: this thing, but let's we gotta see what Washington is
Speaker 1: without Alex Smith. They didn't win the first game without them.
Speaker 1: They've got injuries all over the roster offensive line, Yeah
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean what are they We don't know
Speaker 1: at this point with without their quarterbacks. So Philly, Philly
Speaker 1: could could catch on, who knows, But like Brian said,
Speaker 1: that's some tough games ahead. Hey, I rode off. See
Speaker 1: I rode off the Eagles when I came in from
Speaker 1: putting Christmas lights out on a Sunday after dude, I
Speaker 1: saw they were trading the Giants nineteen to three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then I got finished with the next row of Christmas lights.
Speaker 1: I came back get in. They had one, so they
Speaker 1: were back at it. That's this league. I might have
Speaker 1: to hire you to put mine up. No, no, I
Speaker 1: don't I put them out. I don't put them up.
Speaker 1: They go on the sidewalk. I don't get on a roof.
Speaker 1: That all being said, this is a must win, mister
Speaker 1: brought us really, yeah, I mean you got to go
Speaker 1: into this thinking if we chose it over if they lose, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's not over. But you gotta have that. You gotta
Speaker 1: have that. You can't you can't list the games. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. You can't. Can't lose any games. So you've
Speaker 1: got just win. So are we saying you've got little
Speaker 1: chance against the Saints unless you go in with that
Speaker 1: mindset that this is a critical game that you may
Speaker 1: or may not must win. I think no. I just
Speaker 1: think they've they've they've had a certain mentality the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. He disagrees with it, but I think they've
Speaker 1: had a certain mentality and it's worked for him. I
Speaker 1: really do. I think they've they've kind of had that
Speaker 1: urgency there. And and what Jerry is saying, you got
Speaker 1: to be on point every play against the team, like
Speaker 1: the Saints, no question about it, because they can burn
Speaker 1: you on any given play. Sure, they can embarrass you.
Speaker 1: This is a team that will try and embarrass you
Speaker 1: if they can't. And that heightens your senses too. Just
Speaker 1: knowing how good a team is that you're facing doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you don't think you can beat them, but you
Speaker 1: know your antennas are up just a little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit more. There's no slack. You can't relax, you know,
Speaker 1: you take the mentality they did in what was it
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine when they went out there and
Speaker 1: beat them twenty four seventeen seventeen. Yeah, you know Marcus
Speaker 1: ware game. You wish you had de Marcus Ware rushing
Speaker 1: that would get to Marcus Lawrence. You might have Taco
Speaker 1: rushing now, yeah, give us that mistake. Last week, though,
Speaker 1: what Taco playing Taco? He's getting closer. He was closer
Speaker 1: last week. You gonna tell me he's gonna play this week?
Speaker 1: What do you He was full on Monday. That's a
Speaker 1: good sign. And by the way, why don't we have
Speaker 1: injury reports earlier in the week on these Thursday weeks.
Speaker 1: I don't want to understand why they skipped Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't have to do one. So yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Why doesn't the league make them do one
Speaker 1: on a sudden one because the games? I don't think
Speaker 1: the league office is open Sunday, so that's another subsidering.
Speaker 1: I think that's considering they play games on Sunday. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're right. No, that's why they know the train schedule
Speaker 1: to Connecticut, though I promise you that they don't have
Speaker 1: it processed. Well, they had a game on Monday, yes,
Speaker 1: So anyway, I think the key things, I mean, we
Speaker 1: knew Austin when ready, Irving wasn't ready, Sean Lee, um,
Speaker 1: who else? Uh Swain, Jeff Swain with those guys weren't
Speaker 1: going to play. So the key thing is Taco looks
Speaker 1: like Swain. Yeah, sorry, she should be Swain, Um should
Speaker 1: be Zach Martin Mom limited as they listened are And
Speaker 1: I sorry about that, folks. Yeah, I really like them.
Speaker 1: They're really nice people, very nice. Us. Swain was at
Speaker 1: least limited, so he was out there. Uh, Sue a
Speaker 1: Philo limited, so at least he was out there. Connor
Speaker 1: Williams full so he's out there. Tyrann Smith was not
Speaker 1: out there. We're worried about that one. Guys, I am
Speaker 1: now Jerry indicated probably looking at game time again like
Speaker 1: last week. But I didn't like it when he said
Speaker 1: like last week because he was Yeah, last week he
Speaker 1: wasn't good. Yeah, we'll see, so see. But again, you
Speaker 1: know they'll they'll probably you have him listed as DNP.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe today he does a little something,
Speaker 1: then he'll be questionable for the game. And you know,
Speaker 1: those guys get all excited on the radio that we
Speaker 1: don't get the accurate injury stuff, and it's like he's
Speaker 1: not obligated to tell the Saints anything, let alone you.
Speaker 1: That's all he's obligated to do right there, right on
Speaker 1: that sheet of paper. And so will we get one
Speaker 1: tomorrow for the walk through as well? And it's a
Speaker 1: Thursday game, we'll get the final. We usually get the
Speaker 1: final because it says Monday, Tuesday Wednesday game status. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we get extra one. We got one last week
Speaker 1: on Wednesday Wednesday. Yeah, all right, and the Saints the
Speaker 1: only person they had not practice was Tehran Armstead tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a peck. Everybody else was they listed was limited. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Bush Rod started against Atlanta in that game and that
Speaker 1: offensive line strength of that team, without without question, without question,
Speaker 1: this is one of the better offensive lines that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will face this year. And is it the best
Speaker 1: one they faced? You think yes so far? Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: yes it will be and and it and really if
Speaker 1: you look at it, you know, Ryan Ramcheck against a
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence will be a very good matchup. Ramcheck alin
Speaker 1: his second year out of Wisconsin. Wisconsin's done a great
Speaker 1: job putting Lynman in this league. But Ramcheck is I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a big, strong, athletic guy and he can he
Speaker 1: can match up with Lawrence. This will be, uh, this
Speaker 1: will be interesting to see how the plan of attack
Speaker 1: that Lawrence takes against him, you know, because usually Lawrence
Speaker 1: can out athlete and outpower guys. This guy's kind of
Speaker 1: a combination of both. And then he's got this Larry
Speaker 1: Wolford next to him, and and that you know, to me,
Speaker 1: that's a big, strong guy too. So that right side
Speaker 1: of that Saint's offensive line has got some power to it.
Speaker 1: And you know, and some of the good combinations they've
Speaker 1: been able to work is when they've been able to
Speaker 1: get Crawford inside and some of those Nickel rushes and
Speaker 1: then have him penetrate and then have Lawrence play on
Speaker 1: the move. So the Saints are able to match up
Speaker 1: Max Unger. Their center's pretty good. We need to see about,
Speaker 1: like I say, the left tackle spot, so bush Rod
Speaker 1: would be the guy that you know, he would be
Speaker 1: the weakest of you know, Andrew's Pete as their guard too.
Speaker 1: There's another They've got some really big inside guys and
Speaker 1: that that's kind of the same plan that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: had played throughout their you know time here is get
Speaker 1: the big inside guys. They have to keep the front
Speaker 1: of the pocket cleaned for Drew Brees because he can't see.
Speaker 1: He can't see over the line, so he has to
Speaker 1: move and they have to keep the front so he
Speaker 1: could step up and make throws. That's that's the key,
Speaker 1: and that's why a reference irving at the end of
Speaker 1: the show yesterday knowing obviously he's not back to practice,
Speaker 1: but a guy like that is. It could be a
Speaker 1: huge havoc. Yeah if you win, if you win, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you win, and you get inside on on breeze. That's
Speaker 1: that's what you have to do. But it'll be tough.
Speaker 1: Like I say, these these guys are really a very
Speaker 1: good offensive line. So you just do Si dough and
Speaker 1: put him on the other side. Who's that, Lawrence? Yeah,
Speaker 1: put him on the right side. They've done it before.
Speaker 1: They have done that before. Let's see if they do that.
Speaker 1: If you're banging your head against the wall on the
Speaker 1: left side, go right side. How do you guys want
Speaker 1: to play against Alvin Kamara? How do you want to
Speaker 1: handle him? I'm just asking no plan. If you're interesting.
Speaker 1: You know that ice skating thing that happened, the ice
Speaker 1: skating thing. Oh, Nancy Kerrigan entering the stadium, that's the
Speaker 1: best way to handle him. They love your plan, by
Speaker 1: the way, I mean, think about it. That's an outstanding plan.
Speaker 1: Is one of the Harding reference on this show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we just did. If you don't know what Micky's talking about,
Speaker 1: look up Tanya Harding. Yeah, and your fancy karag. In
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, I was in Detroit. Four years ago.
Speaker 1: I was in Detroit and that's where the championships were
Speaker 1: being held. I was in my hotel room. We're geting
Speaker 1: ready to play the Lions, and that came on the news.
Speaker 1: It was really that whole thing. Yeah, the championships were
Speaker 1: in Detroit the Skating Championships. That it happened at that time,
Speaker 1: and I was happened to be in the same city.
Speaker 1: I had no idea what we were going to talk about.
Speaker 1: Did you find that he's on it? He is on it?
Speaker 1: He is on it? How do you handle? I mean,
Speaker 1: he's impossible. You know what we need to do. We're
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Speaker 1: a runner, is he's just as great as a pass catcher.
Speaker 1: It's very obvious by the numbers. It's very obvious by
Speaker 1: the way the Saints use him. I think you have
Speaker 1: to treat Alvin Kamara differently. I think this is like
Speaker 1: when you start talking about how do you play guys
Speaker 1: like Zach Ernst, those guys the tight ends, we talk about, oh,
Speaker 1: safeties and this, that you treat like a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys have to treat Alvin Kamara like
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. And I'll tell you how they treat
Speaker 1: him like a wide receiver. We haven't seen very much
Speaker 1: of them playing dime package stuff. We haven't. I mean
Speaker 1: it's been primarily, you know, a lot of single high stuff,
Speaker 1: a lot of man underneath, but it's been a lot
Speaker 1: of of Anthony Brown. I think this is a game
Speaker 1: where you take that, maybe take the extra rusher off
Speaker 1: the field, or take the linebacker off the field. We
Speaker 1: talked about three man line. Mickey's right about that. I
Speaker 1: think you have to play that way. I think you
Speaker 1: have to treat Alvin Kamaro like a wide receiver. I
Speaker 1: would not be one bit surprised. And then if it
Speaker 1: was me just looking at it, I would say I
Speaker 1: would put Jordan Lewis on Alvin Kamara. I would have
Speaker 1: him cover him out of the backfield. If they put
Speaker 1: him in the slot, you got a match up there.
Speaker 1: If they put him wide, you got a match up there.
Speaker 1: But I'm not saying you could probably do it every
Speaker 1: single down. I think you're gonna have to find a
Speaker 1: way to get linebackers involved in stuff. But if it
Speaker 1: comes down to crucial down in distant situations, I'm treating
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara like he's like he's their second best wide
Speaker 1: receiver behind Thomas. Concerning they've got all these other guys.
Speaker 1: They throw touchdown passes to treat him like a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: cover him like a wide receiver, use your dime player
Speaker 1: to cover him. Well, I think that's a plan because
Speaker 1: they do treat him like a wide receiver. He's not
Speaker 1: just a bailout. Let's throw the screen to him, right,
Speaker 1: you know, beat the blitz kept guy. I mean he is.
Speaker 1: He is their offense in a lot of ways. Uh
Speaker 1: and Michael Thomas as well. But that's that's interesting. I mean,
Speaker 1: have you seen other teams do that? No, not really.
Speaker 1: I just to me, I think it's I think it's
Speaker 1: one of those plans where I'm gonna try something unconventional
Speaker 1: and hope that it works. You know, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: Fritz Schermer back in the day and play big Nickel,
Speaker 1: and you know I'm gonna do things. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to give him the same look over and over again.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know Kamar sees his shares of safeties
Speaker 1: and linebackers and he just eats them alive. I just
Speaker 1: think you have to They use him so many different
Speaker 1: ways in the passing game, and I think you have
Speaker 1: to treat him like he's He's a big weapon for them.
Speaker 1: And if you take your best cover guys and put
Speaker 1: him on there, on his ability to stop him from
Speaker 1: catching the football, I think that's the you know, I
Speaker 1: would rather die that death than die the death of
Speaker 1: trying to cover him. Play him in a way where
Speaker 1: he's gonna have eight catches for eighty yards and two
Speaker 1: of them are touchdowns. I just I don't think I
Speaker 1: can play that way. Plus, if you zone him, you
Speaker 1: get him in space. Good night. Trying to tackle him
Speaker 1: good night if he catches the ball. And Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: might not be the best answer for tackling. But I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about I'm thinking about size for size, and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about coverability for guy who can make plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the one thing I thought of when you
Speaker 1: mentioned his name, is that Jordan's like Buck ninety five.
Speaker 1: He's kind of a slender player. But guy, yeah try,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, if he can hang on, people
Speaker 1: get to him, that kind of thing. But I just
Speaker 1: don't think you could play Alvin Kamar straight up and
Speaker 1: expect to have good things happen. Well, let's put this
Speaker 1: in perspective. Michael Thomas is their leading receiver a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, the second leading receiver in the NFL with
Speaker 1: eighty six catches for a thousand eighty yards. Already, their
Speaker 1: second leading receiver is Elvin Kamar with fifties seven catches
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns. Yeah, the Cowboys leading receiver is Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott with forty seven catches. So that kind of gives
Speaker 1: you an idea of how much they lean on him,
Speaker 1: because if I remember correctly, this last game, it was
Speaker 1: a bunch of rookies. Yea at the rest of the
Speaker 1: wide receivers, right, four undrafted guys that they had in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: scored four touchdowns, I think, yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: when you talk about good, we talk about focal points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's those two guys for mister Breeze. So they better
Speaker 1: make sure that Drew Brees is not standing in the
Speaker 1: pocket with his arm up in the air and taking
Speaker 1: all these little baby steps waiting, waiting, waiting, and then
Speaker 1: throwing somebody that's wide open. They better get in his face.
Speaker 1: Maybe they can get two tall Jones to play one game.
Speaker 1: What do you think we mentioned that yesterday? I like
Speaker 1: so much. I repeated the run pass mix for the
Speaker 1: Saints pretty balanced. The well, you know, look, you look
Speaker 1: at it statistically, and the Saints have are the second
Speaker 1: most rushing attempts in the league right and now on
Speaker 1: the on the contrary, their defense, opposing teams have the
Speaker 1: fewest rushing attempts against them play behind exactly. And so
Speaker 1: my question is score stat skewed or when the game
Speaker 1: is on the line, how much are they a run
Speaker 1: past fifty fifty mix or how close to a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty mix or is that stat skewed because they are
Speaker 1: ahead and they're just running the ball late in the
Speaker 1: game and they add to their rushing total. And one
Speaker 1: of the reasons I asked that is their yards per
Speaker 1: attempt rushing is twentieth in the league. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that it's more about them trying to really balance their team.
Speaker 1: I really do. And I don't think it but that
Speaker 1: you're right though, they get a lead and they force you,
Speaker 1: they make you one dimensional by the way they play offense.
Speaker 1: You guys covered a Super Bowl team here, several Super
Speaker 1: Bowl teams that threw early and ram late, right, And
Speaker 1: I think that's really the game plan that Sean Payton
Speaker 1: would like to play with. I mean, they haven't had
Speaker 1: the success they've had some games, so they've just given
Speaker 1: up and trying to run the clock out. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think if if this New Orleans Saints had to
Speaker 1: go into a game and run the football, I think
Speaker 1: they damn will could go in there and run the football,
Speaker 1: especially with that offensive line that they have. If you
Speaker 1: look at the Thanksgiving game against Atlanta the other night,
Speaker 1: they tried to establish ingram early on the ground first
Speaker 1: drive of the game and set it up that way.
Speaker 1: They I mean, they they try to be fifty fifty
Speaker 1: in a way. Yeah, they really do. Yeah, and they've
Speaker 1: got two backs who can get it done, and they've
Speaker 1: got an offensive line that gives them holes. But again,
Speaker 1: it does go back to Breeze in that passing game
Speaker 1: and setting up guys for yards after the catch. You know,
Speaker 1: he's extremely accurate. He's completing seventy six percent of his passes,
Speaker 1: and they're not you know, they're an explosive offense, but
Speaker 1: they're not just running a bunch of nine routes either.
Speaker 1: That's ten percent more than the next game. Next guy. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: they've always been a kind of a guy. Actually, it's
Speaker 1: his quarterback rating. It's ten points higher than the next person. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But seventy six percent. That's going to set a record
Speaker 1: this day and age. Yeah, like you'd probably see more
Speaker 1: of that, but you know it. Guess what over the
Speaker 1: last four games, Dak has completed seventy percent of his passes.
Speaker 1: Sure last four games? How has his team been defensively? Where?
Speaker 1: Where's your biggest concern? Is your biggest concern? Third down?
Speaker 1: Red zone? Mental mistakes? Where's your biggest concern when you
Speaker 1: have to defend the Saints? Oh? Defend them? Yeah, defend them? What?
Speaker 1: What are you worried about the most? You worried about
Speaker 1: your third down defense? Are you worried about your red
Speaker 1: zone defense? Are you worried about them just making you
Speaker 1: the pace that you have to play at to defend
Speaker 1: them too difficult? You know, I'm making them sound like
Speaker 1: they're the Saint Louis Rams of nineteen ninety nine. But
Speaker 1: they put up number they're putting up those kind of Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're putting up crazy numbers. But if you're the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: what's the one area that you can't afford a breakdown? In? Uh?
Speaker 1: Run defense? So you're saying if Camara, if they get
Speaker 1: it going with with those two guys, that it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard to stop them offensively, yes, because third downs
Speaker 1: not going to be very big if they're running the ball. Well,
Speaker 1: I remember that game we went to Gona, had like
Speaker 1: thirty eight first downs that game at the Superdome. That's
Speaker 1: the set records there. Yeah, that that that is the
Speaker 1: worst I've ever been a part of a team. Being
Speaker 1: a part of a team and watching that, that was
Speaker 1: that was as disheartening as I you know, they were
Speaker 1: watching ten yards of play, I think. Yeah, it's funny
Speaker 1: you mentioned first downs. I was just looking at their
Speaker 1: first downs. Yeah, and they've got two hundred eighty two
Speaker 1: first downs on the season. The Cowboys have two hundred eleven.
Speaker 1: And I was trying to figure out, okay, kind of
Speaker 1: getting engage statistically about their past run. They have one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine first downs passing ninety nine rushing.
Speaker 1: Dallas has one hundred eleven passing and eighty four rushing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a much closer, right mix there. So what's their
Speaker 1: third down conversion for someone? I don't have it in
Speaker 1: front of me. Well, you have the stats there. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't have that stat here. Oh wait, I got it.
Speaker 1: I just you know, I worry about them. I worry
Speaker 1: about Dallas. We're losing receivers and routes, the confusing and
Speaker 1: Dallas has played pretty well, not giving up the big plays.
Speaker 1: But I just worry about the pressure that this this
Speaker 1: group puts on you offensively, when you have to deal
Speaker 1: with running backs, you have to deal with some tight
Speaker 1: ends that can actually catch, and you have to deal
Speaker 1: with Thomas and those guys running rout See. You know,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you make a stop, you make
Speaker 1: a stop in the next you know, it's, oh, it's
Speaker 1: big play, and then okay, then you don't make a stop.
Speaker 1: Now it's a big play, big play, and you know
Speaker 1: you're kind of you're just you just never are comfortable
Speaker 1: playing these guys. So this is what I was afraid of.
Speaker 1: Their third down conversion percentage is forty seven percent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's almost fifty. Well, the Atlanta Falcons were high, the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons when the when the Cowboys played the Falcons,
Speaker 1: the Falcons were I think leading the league at fifty
Speaker 1: percent or you know, damn near fifty percent. And you
Speaker 1: know that's hey getting stops in this game. I don't
Speaker 1: care where they are getting. I mean, you make them
Speaker 1: punt of course it's a win, but how many times
Speaker 1: can you make them punt? That's yeah, that's you know,
Speaker 1: both teams are gonna be looking at that and saying, okay,
Speaker 1: you know Dallas is playing well offensively. You know, the
Speaker 1: Saint you're probably thinking, how okay, how many times can
Speaker 1: we make them punt? Last three games? Cowboys third down
Speaker 1: percentage fifty percent? Yeah, first eight games I think it
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it's terrible. You know there was a
Speaker 1: time there was twenty three I think at one time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was terrible. You know, they're sustaining drives too, so,
Speaker 1: but they haven't topped. They topped thirty points twice this year.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. If everybody wants to say
Speaker 1: game land hold the ball, no way. I've seen teams
Speaker 1: hold the ball lose two. We had a mail back
Speaker 1: question about that this year. Yeah, you can't play keepaway
Speaker 1: against teams. You can't play scared. You can't play keepaway.
Speaker 1: If you don't score, you don't finish. If you don't finish,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna win. I don't care how long you
Speaker 1: hold the football. Jason Garrett was asked about that yesterday,
Speaker 1: I think or two days ago, and he said, you
Speaker 1: just gotta It doesn't matter how long the drive is.
Speaker 1: Just sustain the drive, however long it takes to score points.
Speaker 1: Touchdown now preferably could you get would you like to
Speaker 1: have some seven minute drives and eight minute drives adown
Speaker 1: as long as you score. But they'll take a ninety
Speaker 1: yard touchdown past to Mary Cooper too. They've played eleven games.
Speaker 1: I guess how many punts they're averaging per game? Well,
Speaker 1: just a point two, because Thomas moore Stead has twenty
Speaker 1: four punts on the seas very good? Is that a
Speaker 1: league low? So said twenty five? Yes, he does two points.
Speaker 1: The averages over forty, the averages forty six and a
Speaker 1: half yards of punt, but he doesn't qualify among the
Speaker 1: league leaders because he doesn't have enough. I think four.
Speaker 1: I think I think they've had three games where they
Speaker 1: haven't punted. I think I'm right. He's got the best
Speaker 1: job in the NFL. Well right now, he does doesn't
Speaker 1: have to go out there. Yeah, I just I just
Speaker 1: there's all right. Let me ask you this deep snapper two,
Speaker 1: by the way, more concerned, more concerned? If should the
Speaker 1: Saints be more concerned? What should the Saints be concerned about.
Speaker 1: Let's let's focus on what they should be concerned about.
Speaker 1: And they got like the number one rated rush defense
Speaker 1: in the league. A lot of that is we've seen
Speaker 1: what other team do we play this year that somebody
Speaker 1: else try Troy same way? Yeah, exactly, they've got the
Speaker 1: same problem that these other teams have had. What do
Speaker 1: we yeah, same way? What do we do with a
Speaker 1: Marii Cooper? You say the Saints? The Saints have to
Speaker 1: So you pick your poison. You're gonna try and stop
Speaker 1: Zeke from running the football, or you're gonna a you're
Speaker 1: gonna stop a Marii Cooper? Right? Which one? You're Dennis Allen?
Speaker 1: We have this discussion now. It seems the lovedy bells
Speaker 1: Dennis Allen. Yeah, you know who their third leading rusher
Speaker 1: is in attempts Hill. Yes, yeah, you get there's another problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's another problem. Thirty two one seventy four. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a snap that reck snapped at him and raise it tough.
Speaker 1: It's almost six yards. About the watch Minnesota game they
Speaker 1: try to try. This is a great play. They threw it.
Speaker 1: They had a reverse, they were going to run a
Speaker 1: fourth and one. They were gonna run a toss going left,
Speaker 1: but they tossed him the ball going back to the right,
Speaker 1: and everybody's flowing to the left. But Drew Brees kind
Speaker 1: of sneaks out and they're gonna throw him the ball.
Speaker 1: On fourth and one, they're gonna try and throw a
Speaker 1: throwback to you know. So Yeah, Sean Payne, he's been
Speaker 1: a little cute there for that TV game. Get Ready,
Speaker 1: No Cowboy, get ready. Yeah, he's gonna do something cute
Speaker 1: this game. Get ready. Yeah. Yeah. Horace in Atlanta has
Speaker 1: been holding Horace. You're on talking Cowboys rant. Thanks for
Speaker 1: taking my call, guys. Yeah, I'm concerned mostly with them
Speaker 1: throwing the ball steep and hitting our safeties. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've given up big plays, especially against Seattle. Our safeties
Speaker 1: have been exposed a couple of times. I think Brian
Speaker 1: is right about trying to put in another corner or
Speaker 1: something to cover Kamar, because I think he might expose Jalen.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jalen has been good, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but he's not. He hasn't been as good as Vendor
Speaker 1: as She's gotten lost a couple of times in games.
Speaker 1: But the thing that I'm really concerned about mostly is
Speaker 1: that it's going to come down to coaching. I don't
Speaker 1: think that our coaching can stack up against theirs. And
Speaker 1: I say that because I think that our team can
Speaker 1: play with him. I think we have the talent. I
Speaker 1: really don't expect and I heard you guys mentioned that
Speaker 1: you're expecting Taco will be back. Look, Taco is is
Speaker 1: not affecting the game. He got a sack because he
Speaker 1: was unblocked, and he has one sack of the season,
Speaker 1: so I don't expect him to play a big role.
Speaker 1: But we need to Marcus Lawrence. I would much better
Speaker 1: have David been playing than Taco. But I really think
Speaker 1: that we are going to need uh better coaching. And
Speaker 1: I think and the point I really wanted to make
Speaker 1: was I wanted to ask you guys, at what point
Speaker 1: will this front office and this staff realized that Dak
Speaker 1: won't grow until you get him a great coach to
Speaker 1: coach him. As far as I mean, I know, Brian,
Speaker 1: you've been very critical of Dak over over the season,
Speaker 1: and I know Nick Eatman has been as well, but
Speaker 1: I don't and I think that's kind of unjustified because
Speaker 1: he has been there on raw talent and not really
Speaker 1: had the coaching that a lot of elite players get.
Speaker 1: I think that they need to take the next step. Wondering,
Speaker 1: I'm wondering when will he get that coaching? Yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm gonna say this, the last three
Speaker 1: weeks not better offensively for DAK, better for coaching, better
Speaker 1: for those things. I think, better all the line. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's been a blessing that unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 1: the gentleman had to get hurt for them to put in,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah we lost. He must have taken too much time. Helo.
Speaker 1: Is that who he's gonna say? Yeah, usually talk about
Speaker 1: sue fel like guys made the difference. Yeah, he's I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean I have been very critical, but
Speaker 1: I think though that you have to give these coaches
Speaker 1: a little credit for what they've done in this winning streak.
Speaker 1: Though I think the offense looks different, you know, I
Speaker 1: think Mickey's been right. I mean, you get better players
Speaker 1: around the guy. I'm not gonna sit there and hang
Speaker 1: this one on on Kellen Moore, you know, and let's
Speaker 1: you know, me and coaching low, low hanging fruit. You know,
Speaker 1: that's if I just I think they've been more creative
Speaker 1: with some of the stuff, the scheme stuff. They've had
Speaker 1: better execution, done a better job of block, and they've
Speaker 1: done a better job of catching the football, done a
Speaker 1: better job of manipulating first downs, on third downs. You know,
Speaker 1: they've done a better job in the red zone. You know,
Speaker 1: they've just done a better job overall. You know how
Speaker 1: many passes you think Drew Brees is thrown? Just take
Speaker 1: a guess. Eleven games. I'm gonna say you averages thirty
Speaker 1: thirty three, fifty six. Yeah, there you go. Now, I'll
Speaker 1: take a guess how many times he's been sacked. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say he's been sacked eleven times. Anybody else that
Speaker 1: sounds good? Head? Yeah, head? Yeah, all right. Now, So
Speaker 1: is that coaching, that's that offensive line? He's playing awfully? Well,
Speaker 1: they're doing well. And I bet Dak's and I know everybody's,
Speaker 1: Oh he holds the ball too long? Yeah? What has
Speaker 1: he been sacked? Like thirty two times? Most in the league.
Speaker 1: It's up there, No, it's thirty six. It was thirty
Speaker 1: two going into So we're now ahead of the giants
Speaker 1: in Arizona and those people. I think it's right up there.
Speaker 1: So he's been sacked. Looked like he was gonna get
Speaker 1: some times the other day. Thirty eight times, yeah, thirty
Speaker 1: eight all right, But I'd like to know what has
Speaker 1: been the sack numbers the last three weeks? Is four
Speaker 1: or four last week? So we average in four a game?
Speaker 1: Is that what we're averaging? Four in the first half? Yeah,
Speaker 1: last week and then zero the second talking and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you, but I say five four two four five
Speaker 1: against Tennessee four Philadelphia two Atlanta for Washington. So he's
Speaker 1: playing well, But that's nine. That's fifteen sacks and four
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Speaker 1: a week from Wednesday because he's gonna be on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys legend. That's exactly all right. He came to Atlanta
Speaker 1: for the game just as a fan had him on
Speaker 1: the show. And yeah, that was a that was a
Speaker 1: good piece on him. He gets remembered too much, I
Speaker 1: think for the jud drop. Yeah, and that's what you
Speaker 1: pointed out on the pace last night, that if we
Speaker 1: aired on Fox Sports Southwest last night. But you know,
Speaker 1: a seventh round pick who developed into a starting receiver
Speaker 1: for this team, he had a good career, good career.
Speaker 1: He did set your DVRs because that thing shows about
Speaker 1: eleven or twelve times. Yeah. Yeah, and before we get
Speaker 1: to the new good player and I and what I
Speaker 1: liked about him was his he had a his attitude.
Speaker 1: I just liked he was a tough guy. Those DeSoto
Speaker 1: kids are tough guys and Um, you know he kind
Speaker 1: of typified that and it came out of Northwest Oklahoma state,
Speaker 1: right and made himself into an NFL player. All right. Um, turnovers, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Saints the last nine games have turned it over
Speaker 1: just five times. Okay, has a lot to do with
Speaker 1: those ten sacks on the season that they've given up
Speaker 1: only ten. That's where turnovers start in the pocket. Rod Marinelli,
Speaker 1: that's him. Their first two games, they lost to Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay in the season opener forty eight to forty. They
Speaker 1: actually took a seven nothing lead in that game and
Speaker 1: then got outscored by fitz Magic forty eight to seventeen
Speaker 1: through the end of the third quarter and scored sixteen
Speaker 1: and the fourth to make it look closer at forty
Speaker 1: eight to four. See, this is what scares me even
Speaker 1: you know, we talk about build the lead, double digit
Speaker 1: leads and all that. The way this guy plays that,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, yeah, you're sitting there thinking, okay, there's oh,
Speaker 1: there's a minute twenty left though, cowboys got this one,
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, when you played Drew Brees, it's man,
Speaker 1: please look at their three zero's hit because you just
Speaker 1: don't know, kind of like playing Rogers. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean just like that's got a minute twelve on the clock.
Speaker 1: That's I must playing these guys. I must. I hate
Speaker 1: playing last year when we said, imagine they scored thirty
Speaker 1: points in those games and they lost two of them
Speaker 1: when they scored thirty, imagine scoring forty and getting beat
Speaker 1: and what was it forty eight when they lost when
Speaker 1: they lost the Denver Yeah, yeah, fifty one, forty eight.
Speaker 1: He's got two interceptions, right right? Twenty nine touchdowns, two picks.
Speaker 1: That's wrong, and how does that happen? I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1: I saw one of the interceptions. I forgot who it
Speaker 1: was against. I was watching, I was watching film. What
Speaker 1: game do you have an interception in? Here? It just
Speaker 1: recently was Atlanta? Did Atlanta pick him off last game?
Speaker 1: I think it was. I'm sorry, I was like, I've
Speaker 1: watched Atlanta Minnesota. I'm just trying to watch people that
Speaker 1: might against Atlanta last game? Yeah, yeah, I just it's
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to which is why they only got
Speaker 1: thirty one points? Was the po because off? Let me
Speaker 1: I see this? Are the Cowboys capable of playing a
Speaker 1: perfect game? A perfect game? A perfect game? No, because
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody is, and they're not. We sound
Speaker 1: like we're making this team in that where's the Florida
Speaker 1: lee on their helmet? They're play perfect games. We're making
Speaker 1: that sound like that because almost perfect against Detroit. Weren't
Speaker 1: they cowboys? But here's what happened. I don't go ahead.
Speaker 1: Here's what can't happen. First in goal at the four
Speaker 1: and end up with a field goal, which has happened
Speaker 1: in two consecutive weeks. Got a cash in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't turn it over, and you need to find
Speaker 1: a way to get the ball from them. Now, maybe
Speaker 1: it's not an interception. You said it starts in the pocket.
Speaker 1: They had a couple I go back to this oh
Speaker 1: nine game, Okay, but they this was a team that
Speaker 1: was putting up thirty six points a game back then too.
Speaker 1: They got two st sack strip fumbles against him. Then
Speaker 1: that's how you're gonna get the ball from It's got
Speaker 1: to be a d Law special in this game, probably undefeated.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to affect him that way because he's
Speaker 1: not He's not going to hand it to you in
Speaker 1: the past. Okay, Then what I'm asking them is, we
Speaker 1: don't think they could play a perfect game. I mean,
Speaker 1: let mean perfect in the way of, like Mickey says,
Speaker 1: when you get down the red zone, score touchdowns, you know,
Speaker 1: not give up huge chunk plays, get a turnover. Yeah,
Speaker 1: plus not have a fifty yard kickoff return against you.
Speaker 1: You know, last four games, I've looked it up yesterday,
Speaker 1: they've had eight possessions first in goal and they've only
Speaker 1: scored four touchdowns, only scored four times. The other were
Speaker 1: field goals. That can't happen again, Mickey, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a gut punch stat right there. Cannot happen the Saints
Speaker 1: the last five games. You know me sacks they've given
Speaker 1: up the last five games, which they've scored thirty forty five,
Speaker 1: fifty one, forty eight and thirty one points to very
Speaker 1: many two one one sack, And they went a four
Speaker 1: game stretch without giving up a sack, and then Atlanta
Speaker 1: got to them one time. Yeah, and Atlanta is really
Speaker 1: not known for rushing the path, well except for last year,
Speaker 1: but they didn't. Dallas held then the two Dallas you
Speaker 1: give have two sacks against sim What does that tell you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I think they put this team
Speaker 1: put so much pressure on you. And I use the
Speaker 1: word perfect, but in reality you you almost you can't
Speaker 1: afford a muff punt or a holding penaly on a
Speaker 1: twelve yard run. You're not talking about Dak going Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Yeah, I'm not talking about Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: numbers twenty five and twenty five. I can't hand the
Speaker 1: next yeah, yeah, yeah, you give them yeah, you you
Speaker 1: fumble the ball, you get a holding call on a screen.
Speaker 1: You know you have a you get off the field
Speaker 1: on third down, but Anthony Brown gets called for illegal
Speaker 1: hands the face. You can't have a sloppy game, No,
Speaker 1: you can't. That's how you you really they this team
Speaker 1: puts like I keep saying this, they put so much
Speaker 1: pressure on you not to make a mistake, and they
Speaker 1: force you in the mistakes. That's why if you win
Speaker 1: the toss, you better take the ball. Do not give
Speaker 1: them the ball? I think so, don't give them any
Speaker 1: So you don't. You don't defer because a position to you,
Speaker 1: you want to be down seven nothing, you know what
Speaker 1: the you know what you want? Do you want to
Speaker 1: take the chance of having them have a possession, a
Speaker 1: scoring possession At the end of the first half, and
Speaker 1: a scoring possession at the beginning of the second half
Speaker 1: of the first half. Well, but they've got to do
Speaker 1: a pretty good job of managing that clock. Well, then
Speaker 1: they can have the ball at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: game at the end of the half. Do you know
Speaker 1: what the number is for number of deferred to the
Speaker 1: second half? So I heard this, I heard the stat
Speaker 1: You know what the number is now for coaches that
Speaker 1: the percentages on that eighty ninety five percent of the
Speaker 1: coaches in the league were now deferring the second They
Speaker 1: can play the five percent rule. I get them, absolutely,
Speaker 1: you got faith in this defense to hold them at
Speaker 1: thirty or under. I mean, do you think that they
Speaker 1: hold them under thirty? They got a shot to win
Speaker 1: this degree. I looked it up. I mean, this is stats, right.
Speaker 1: There's two teams that are statistically are better defenses that
Speaker 1: they've Saints have played. That's it. Minnesota one of them.
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Baltimore leads the league and they I think
Speaker 1: it was thirty and twenty four points allowed, respectively. If
Speaker 1: you can in that area, you know, and the way
Speaker 1: your offense is playing, I think you got a chance. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's here's the stat I want if if I take
Speaker 1: the ball first, I want to know who gets the
Speaker 1: most possessions in a game. Okay, somebody go find that
Speaker 1: next gen folks. Yeah, Art, get off my lawn. I
Speaker 1: take the ball first in a game, do I end
Speaker 1: up with more possessions or do they come out equal?
Speaker 1: It's like tic tac toe who goes for easy wins?
Speaker 1: Oh oh, Douglas Douglass drop. That was very aggressive, very violent,
Speaker 1: almost two. You know, I you want to bet your
Speaker 1: salary on making that play call? You got one? Do
Speaker 1: you play with the home Do you try with the
Speaker 1: home defense though Mickey to get the stop? Yeah? Do
Speaker 1: you play? You play with the noise factor? Saw I
Speaker 1: saw noise affect a game the other day at Kyle Field.
Speaker 1: I saw noise affect a game. I'm hopeful that they
Speaker 1: can now. The problem is you're in a fifty fifty stadium,
Speaker 1: likely this Thursday night. You're likely you're like Mickey, might
Speaker 1: be right taking the ball. It might not matter because
Speaker 1: those Saints fans might be just as loud as your
Speaker 1: fans when you have the ball, and you know what,
Speaker 1: the the away team they don't get in their seats late, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they got no place to go usually tailgate, right,
Speaker 1: they're anxious to If you look at the Cowboys when
Speaker 1: they're on the road, their fans are in the stadium. First. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just saying this will be a fifty fifty. Not give
Speaker 1: them the ball first? Why wouldn't you put yourself behind
Speaker 1: seven to nothing because in the second half and they
Speaker 1: get they get a two minute drive before the half,
Speaker 1: and then they got that in their back. If I
Speaker 1: get a two minute drive, that would be nice. That
Speaker 1: means the what's the what's the wind streak? When they're deferring,
Speaker 1: they're two, they're they're the last three. They've had two defers.
Speaker 1: They've deferred rights Philadelphia, Atlanta they deferred. They deferred both.
Speaker 1: They weren't playing the Saints. I put the confidence in
Speaker 1: my defense right there and say, look, we trust you guys.
Speaker 1: Let's let's start this thing. But they can't score if
Speaker 1: I got the ball, you hope right? No, they's wait
Speaker 1: three plays. Fine, but they've got to wait three plays.
Speaker 1: I think robs onto seven, you hold these guys under thirty,
Speaker 1: You keep this twenty eight or under. I think they
Speaker 1: got a shot to win an opportunity. I think they do.
Speaker 1: You can't let this thing get in the thirties or forties.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course they it gets that. It's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a thirty four seventeen game. If that happens.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all will be talking Talking Cowboys again tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I got TV duties tomorrow. I gotta figure I gotta
Speaker 1: tell them to go cover this guy with a cornerback.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, Jordan Lewis, all right, we'll
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