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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, October sixteenth, twenty twenty, season sixteen, episode
Speaker 1: number forty six. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: I got Nick Eatman here live with me in the
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios. Got Amber and Dave on the show.
Speaker 1: Dave looking a little perplexed. I don't know why we'll
Speaker 1: get into that. I'm sure at some point during the show,
Speaker 1: and uh, we're gonna start first though, talking a little
Speaker 1: bit about Mike McCarthy had a press conference. He talked
Speaker 1: about two players. Will get some updates on on those guys.
Speaker 1: Then we'll get you guys ready for Cowboys Versus Cardinals
Speaker 1: that happens this Monday night. I have a series of
Speaker 1: questions I'm going to pose to these guys and it'll
Speaker 1: get you ready for the show. And then we're gonna
Speaker 1: take some time to hear from you guys. If you
Speaker 1: have questions, make sure you get on Twitter. You hit
Speaker 1: Amber up. She can make sure that your question gets
Speaker 1: answered as many as we can get to. So hopefully
Speaker 1: we can spend the majority of the final segment just
Speaker 1: answering fan questions because we very rarely get to do
Speaker 1: questions on this show because Nick and Dave talked too much.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's jump right in. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy and somebody with the eight hundred word rundown
Speaker 1: maybe needs to take some responsibility for what we do
Speaker 1: and don't do on the show. Hey man, I'm just
Speaker 1: calling it like I see it. You know, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying yea. Also, that's okay. I was just I was
Speaker 1: trying to look curious and engaged, and I came off
Speaker 1: looking confused. Okay, good, good good. I'm glad you weren't confused.
Speaker 1: So I'm actually gonna go to you first. You tell
Speaker 1: me what a coach McCarthy you have to say about
Speaker 1: Layton Vanderesh I guess, and what his prospects look like
Speaker 1: going into this game Monday night. He said he looked
Speaker 1: like he hadn't missed a beat, which is super encouraging.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we talked about this last week.
Speaker 1: You just have to readjust your expectations for the practice
Speaker 1: week today. This practice that's happening as we speak is
Speaker 1: the only padded one of the week. It's the longest one,
Speaker 1: so this is really where they're going to find out
Speaker 1: where he is. And Mike said that how he feels
Speaker 1: in the morning when they come in for Saturday will
Speaker 1: probably dictate what they do with him. Unrelated to any
Speaker 1: of that, I just I'm you know, I think Nick
Speaker 1: has brought it up a few times, like it's just
Speaker 1: kind of amazing that a guy who broke his collar
Speaker 1: bone on September thirteenth is maybe preparing to play in
Speaker 1: a game on October what nineteenth. I mean, that's that's insane.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens, but very fast progress for
Speaker 1: Layton Vanderesh. Nick talk to me about Randy Gregg. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that seemed to get some rave reviews, not
Speaker 1: just from McCarthy, but there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: from Jerry to Stephen to players, and we're talking about
Speaker 1: him yesterday and how he performed in his first I
Speaker 1: guess first practice back even without pads. What'd you what'd
Speaker 1: you hear? Well? I mean, let's see, I forgot exactly
Speaker 1: what what Zeke said. Dave Dave wrote an article about it.
Speaker 1: He said, he looked, he looked lights out and as
Speaker 1: good as he can remember him looking. Stephen said, nothing's changed.
Speaker 1: He's still special. So um, yeah, I think And what
Speaker 1: I thought what Zach Wharton said was was interesting too,
Speaker 1: about him gaining muscle and and gaining weight, but also
Speaker 1: still having that that quick first step. However, let's let's
Speaker 1: also remember that DeMarcus Ware I'm sorry, Marcus Lawrence who
Speaker 1: looked like DeMarcus say, are we talking a couple lot
Speaker 1: every time? No? No, no no, no, d law who looked
Speaker 1: like Dware and Alden Smith who looked like two thousand
Speaker 1: and eleven. And we're just having a party at the
Speaker 1: quarterback in training camp. So andy, I mean, so Gregory
Speaker 1: going up against this offensive line. Let's see, let's wait
Speaker 1: till it gets to the game, and let's see what
Speaker 1: happens when they're actually trying to block them to the
Speaker 1: ground and there they've actually played more than five games
Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah, ironically, that was my first thought,
Speaker 1: and right or wrong, my first thought was, Man, that's
Speaker 1: something about the tackles to me more than anything else.
Speaker 1: And again it goes back to training camp and how
Speaker 1: great we thought these past rushers were during training camp.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I think we've had moments from
Speaker 1: particularly from Tank and from Aldon Smith. We've seen moments
Speaker 1: this year when they've looked really good in games. But
Speaker 1: it did speak more to me about the tackles than
Speaker 1: it did about Randy Gregory. Nothing against it Randy Gregory,
Speaker 1: but I'll hold judgment until I can see him in
Speaker 1: an actual game. All right, let's jump in. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about Cowboys versus Cardinals, and I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: this first question to you. Start with you on this one.
Speaker 1: What part of the Arizona offense is it that Alice
Speaker 1: will have to most focus on stopping If they're going
Speaker 1: to get a win, Kyler Murray running or DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: catching passes. I think to me it would have to
Speaker 1: be DeAndre Hopkins, just because I feel like with the
Speaker 1: running game, even though it has been a problem for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense, with a running game, you at least
Speaker 1: have more guys that can jump in and work towards
Speaker 1: trying to stop that rather than having DeAndre Hopkins over
Speaker 1: there by himself with another man or two guys on him.
Speaker 1: It's just when you look at man versus I guess,
Speaker 1: group versus one player, I tend to go towards the
Speaker 1: running game. You have more guys trying to stop, so
Speaker 1: I need to they need to focus on trying to
Speaker 1: take out Hopkins because that guy is just amazing, Dave.
Speaker 1: Obviously there's things kind to tie together, don't they. I
Speaker 1: mean what I mean by that is, if I'm trying
Speaker 1: to stop Kyler Murray from killing me on the ground,
Speaker 1: I probably want to play a ton of zone. At
Speaker 1: least I would, because that's how you wind up given
Speaker 1: up eighty yards to a quarterback, as if everybody has
Speaker 1: their backturn worrying about an assignment, and you know he
Speaker 1: just leaks out for easy five to fifteen twenty yard games.
Speaker 1: So I want to play a lot of zone in
Speaker 1: this game to try to neutralize that. But like, can
Speaker 1: these guys successfully coordinate that. They've had problems with it
Speaker 1: many times this year. They've They've lost guys on at
Speaker 1: least four, if not five, six, seven occasions, So you know,
Speaker 1: they just have to be more cohesive. They have to
Speaker 1: be able to communicate more clearly. Hopefully you know, this
Speaker 1: whole thing with Mike Nolan being on the sideline can
Speaker 1: help with that because I mean, and for my money,
Speaker 1: I would rather stop Kyler. I would rather not give
Speaker 1: up that easy yardage. But at the same time, you
Speaker 1: can I afford to lose the guy. I mean, Hopkins
Speaker 1: is gonna make his fair share of plays, but you
Speaker 1: can't lose him the way that we've seen. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's Kyler, but but I have a feeling trying to
Speaker 1: stop that it's going to hurt them in the passing
Speaker 1: game as well. Nick. Yeah, I mean it's it's like
Speaker 1: getting kicked in the face or punched in the face.
Speaker 1: I mean what I mean, They're both gonna hurt. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I think that's probably the
Speaker 1: focus would be on Hopkins because you know, as Dave said,
Speaker 1: Hopkins can can get free and that's a quick touchdown.
Speaker 1: I don't know if if if Kyler's gonna bust off,
Speaker 1: you know, run for a touchdown, he probably could, but
Speaker 1: I just think that, yeah, you know, you'll die a
Speaker 1: slow death if he keeps getting first downs. But I
Speaker 1: think it'll be a quick touchdown to the house if
Speaker 1: if you know, if Hopkins goes off. So, I mean
Speaker 1: the answer is both. But I think I think you've
Speaker 1: got to make sure you don't have those those big
Speaker 1: plays in the secondary. Yeah, you can kind of account
Speaker 1: I think for for DeAndre Hopkins. Hopkins doing what he
Speaker 1: does against most teams, as long as he doesn't go crazy.
Speaker 1: You know, if he has a day where he has
Speaker 1: five catches, one hundred and fifteen yards, maybe a touchdown,
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys can win that game. You combine
Speaker 1: that with a game where Hopkins, I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: where Kyler Murray is running all over you and moving
Speaker 1: the chains regularly throughout the game. I just don't think
Speaker 1: you can sustain that. So I think, more than anything else,
Speaker 1: they gotta make him stay in the pocket. They gotta
Speaker 1: make him beat him, beat them from the pocket. And
Speaker 1: if he does, you tip your cap to him. But
Speaker 1: I think that's the best shot the Cowboys have at
Speaker 1: winning this game, at least from the standpoint of what
Speaker 1: they'll have to do defensively. All right, let's move on
Speaker 1: to the next question of the offenses that Dallas has faced.
Speaker 1: Where does Arizona rank? You got Seattle, you got the Rams,
Speaker 1: you got Cleveland, you got Atlanta. We'll just leave the
Speaker 1: Giants out for now because I don't know that they
Speaker 1: necessary rank up there with those top ones. But where
Speaker 1: would you rank that Arizona offense relative to the other
Speaker 1: offenses the Cowboys have played. Let's start first with you, Dave. Okay,
Speaker 1: if this is the sixth team they've played, I'd probably
Speaker 1: put them fourth, maybe, I think, I mean in Seattle,
Speaker 1: I think I would definitely take over them. LA is
Speaker 1: just more of a well oiled machine. Although I like
Speaker 1: Kyler more than I like Jared Goff, I like Hopkins
Speaker 1: more than any of those receivers, But the Rams offense
Speaker 1: is just cleaner, better, and then I'd probably take the Browns.
Speaker 1: You can even make an argument for the Falcons based
Speaker 1: off talent alone, but I won't do that because the
Speaker 1: Cardinals at least have a winning record. Um, it's funny,
Speaker 1: like the Cardinals, they're they're very impressive looking, and I
Speaker 1: mean they are talented. I think you know, they're eleventh
Speaker 1: and offense, but they're mediocre at scoring. They're very inconsistent,
Speaker 1: and you know, it goes to the point Nick made
Speaker 1: yesterday that like you know this ain't the twenty eleven Packers,
Speaker 1: like they are a flawed team. They can crew a
Speaker 1: ton of u crew, they ucrew a ton of penalties.
Speaker 1: They don't finish drives. You know, they're only averaging twenty
Speaker 1: five points a game to fight all this firepower. So
Speaker 1: I mean they're good, but yeah, probably probably fourth, Nick,
Speaker 1: where do you rank? I like that. I like fourth.
Speaker 1: I mean I think and I think he makes a
Speaker 1: really good point without the rams because you know they're
Speaker 1: not as flashy, don't They don't know who the running
Speaker 1: back is. The receiver is probably one of the most
Speaker 1: underrated receiver. Both of them are both of them are
Speaker 1: very underrated. Cup and would uh golf. You know he's
Speaker 1: he's golf. He's the number one overall pick. But he's
Speaker 1: but you know, he has his issues. He's played in
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. There's not a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: haven't said that. Um, So I just think that I
Speaker 1: think that's that's good. I would probably go Seattle because
Speaker 1: I think their quarterback is playing the best in the game.
Speaker 1: I mean last week when he was going against the
Speaker 1: vicause we were about to leave to go um to leave,
Speaker 1: you know, the stadium and everybody knew he was gonna
Speaker 1: score tight down. Everybody everybody knew yeah he you know,
Speaker 1: I say to him number one, and then but I
Speaker 1: like fourth for the Cardinals, all right, Amber, Um, I
Speaker 1: would put them right in the middle. I think that
Speaker 1: the Cardinals is a team that if this is something
Speaker 1: that we haven't seen the Cowboys go up against, it's
Speaker 1: not a winning record team. It's not a losing completely
Speaker 1: losing record team either, So it's like it falls right
Speaker 1: in the middle. So I'm really really curious to see
Speaker 1: how the Cowboys are able to handle at least those
Speaker 1: kinds of teams and get a better idea of what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can actually do this year. Because when we
Speaker 1: talk about analyzing the Cowboys first, you know, month and
Speaker 1: a half or so of the season, it's like, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: if you look at the team that they've lost too,
Speaker 1: they're doing better, so maybe they're they're not as bad
Speaker 1: as we think. It's just the kind of talent that
Speaker 1: they've gone up against. So now we get a team
Speaker 1: that kind of falls right there in the middle. So
Speaker 1: hopefully the Cowboys are able to succeed in this game
Speaker 1: and give us at least a better idea of what
Speaker 1: they can do for the rest of the season. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I'm an Arkansas raised a back fan.
Speaker 1: Of course, are you. In two thousand and seven, they
Speaker 1: were to play number one LSU. Yeah, and someone asked me,
Speaker 1: while you don't have a chance to win the game,
Speaker 1: they're beautiful, you don't have a chance to win the game.
Speaker 1: I said, well, we do have the best player on
Speaker 1: the field, Darren McFadden. He's the best player on the field.
Speaker 1: And elishe was number one. But we have the best player,
Speaker 1: and if you have the best player, you can win.
Speaker 1: And we did win that game, and elishe still won
Speaker 1: the National championship, So Dave, Dave's fine with that, but
Speaker 1: that year. But what my point is is the Cardinals
Speaker 1: maybe fourth on offense is the way you ask the question.
Speaker 1: But Hopkins is the best receiver, and as the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: Murray's probably two behind Russell Wilson. So they're not all
Speaker 1: putting it together. But on any given night, on a
Speaker 1: Monday night with the you know, bright bright lights, I
Speaker 1: don't you know, that's what's scary. They may be number four,
Speaker 1: but they have two guys that can take over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the interesting part is when I asked the question, Nick,
Speaker 1: I actually was thinking to myself, this is a kind
Speaker 1: of a tricky question, because you're right. I think Dave
Speaker 1: hit it on the head when he talked about the Rams.
Speaker 1: They are a well old machine. However, when you think
Speaker 1: about the kinds of matchup problems that this particular offense
Speaker 1: can give the Cowboys, I'm talking about the Cardinals, I
Speaker 1: think that I'd put them right up. There is maybe second, yeah,
Speaker 1: because because the unique challenges that they present from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of this dynamic quarterback and this wide receiver that
Speaker 1: I think is the best in the game. And I
Speaker 1: think he's one of those receivers. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you try to take him out of a game. You
Speaker 1: could put two guys on him. Good luck. He's still
Speaker 1: gonna get open, he's still gonna make his catches. He's
Speaker 1: still gonna do what he does. Right. So I look
Speaker 1: at this offense and I would probably put him up.
Speaker 1: There's maybe number two probably between them and Cleveland. I
Speaker 1: would put the Rams probably below them, because I do
Speaker 1: think they present some challenges that the other offenses just
Speaker 1: don't present. Get them. Yeah, But doesn't that I mean,
Speaker 1: you can apply that to the Cowboys like in a vacuum.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are one of the two or three best
Speaker 1: offenses in football, but they can't get out of their
Speaker 1: own way. They're minus aid and turnover differential. They start
Speaker 1: in a hole every week. It's why they have a
Speaker 1: losing record. And I think, you know, the Cardinals aren't
Speaker 1: as bad as the Cowboys, but they have a lot
Speaker 1: of the same problems, like I said, like they can't
Speaker 1: finish drives. They their minus four and turnover differential, I believe,
Speaker 1: So I do agree with you that they have, you know,
Speaker 1: scary difference makers that we haven't seen the quality of
Speaker 1: every week. But if you can't get if you can't
Speaker 1: get out of your own way, if you're taking bad sacks, penalties,
Speaker 1: turning the ball over, it doesn't always matter, as the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have demonstrated very often this season. But what we
Speaker 1: also have seen this season is that this defense, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense against much lesser quality opponents or much lesser
Speaker 1: quality offenses or offensive players in my position, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: have played really, really poorly. And so now you match
Speaker 1: them up against guys of this caliber, maybe that's their
Speaker 1: antidote to a lot of the issues they've been dealing with. Right,
Speaker 1: very fair, very fair. All right, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our first break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: I'll have some more questions. And real quick, did you
Speaker 1: have something you were about to say there too? I
Speaker 1: think if you were jumping in on something, I was
Speaker 1: just gonna I mean, Dave just basically said it. I
Speaker 1: was just gonna say the same thing that the same
Speaker 1: story can be applied to the Cowboys offense and at
Speaker 1: any given moment, I mean, the story might be a
Speaker 1: little different because we haven't fully seen what Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: can do inside the offense, but it could have been
Speaker 1: applied the same way. It's like, oh, at any given moment,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys stopped turning over the ball, and then we
Speaker 1: start seeing the kind of offense that they've been playing
Speaker 1: in the second half of the game. We start seeing
Speaker 1: it from the start of the game. So it's it's
Speaker 1: a very tricky situation, very interesting season because you you
Speaker 1: can see what they can possibly become, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, you can see how terrible they can be.
Speaker 1: And frankly, that's that's a great point. But I think
Speaker 1: right now this is the part of season where you
Speaker 1: start seeing the differentiation like what you've seen to this point.
Speaker 1: Is the potential now is when the guys, the teams
Speaker 1: that are really good, they'll start to separate themselves. The
Speaker 1: teams that are really bad, they'll continue to do the
Speaker 1: things that they've done that you've said that could be
Speaker 1: the reason why they're not very good, and they will
Speaker 1: be just bad. Right, So, I think this is a
Speaker 1: party we're about to see. Will the Cowboys continue to
Speaker 1: be that team? Will Cardinals continue to be that? You
Speaker 1: can also have another option. You can be like really
Speaker 1: good one week and then bad at the next, and
Speaker 1: then good and then then bad and bad, and that
Speaker 1: finishes you around the eight and eight mark, and maybe
Speaker 1: both these teams are that. All Right, We're gonna take
Speaker 1: our break. When we come back, I am going to
Speaker 1: ask you guys the question around the guys that may
Speaker 1: be coming back. We had Anthony Brown comeback last week,
Speaker 1: possibly late, and Vandersch this week. My question is how
Speaker 1: much do those guys change what this defense has been
Speaker 1: through the first five games, and it is it enough
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Speaker 1: to the second segment of the Breakwell Life from SWBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage Studios. At the Star. We're talking about Cowboys were Cardinals.
Speaker 1: That game happens Monday night on Monday Night Football. But
Speaker 1: we're getting you guys ready today and telling what we
Speaker 1: think is going to happen. We will have our predictions
Speaker 1: in the final segment of the show. But let's jump
Speaker 1: back in. We've been talking about this Cardinals offense and
Speaker 1: some of the playmakers they have on that offense. Last week,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys got Anthony Brown, their cornerback, back from injury.
Speaker 1: This week, it looks like there's a possibility Laton vander
Speaker 1: esh will be back as well, which is probably as
Speaker 1: big of a guy that they're wanting to get back
Speaker 1: from his defensive all the guys that they've lost on
Speaker 1: defense this year, he's probably the guy that you point
Speaker 1: to that you think can have the biggest impact. My
Speaker 1: question is, is the impact of having him back and
Speaker 1: having Anthony brownback enough that this defense changes from what
Speaker 1: it's been in the first five weeks substantially enough to
Speaker 1: where we see a difference on the field. Let's start
Speaker 1: first with you, Nick Well. I mean the standards up there,
Speaker 1: I mean, you better score a touchdown. I mean, Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown comes back, Lake comes into the score. I think
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it's a couple of stops. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you think about having just a better player at
Speaker 1: corner that helps, a better linebacker that helps, And a
Speaker 1: couple stops here and there on third down gets you
Speaker 1: off the field. That's just another possession, and that could
Speaker 1: lead to seven ten points the other way. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think that that stuff helps. And you know,
Speaker 1: you can roll people, can roll their eyes and go
Speaker 1: all these as you're gonna make a difference. They wouldn't
Speaker 1: be starting if they were if they weren't better. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you want your better players in there, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they should help. If they're not, then you know,
Speaker 1: why did you give them all that money? Why'd you
Speaker 1: draft them? Yeah? Amber, Well, when you're at the bottom,
Speaker 1: off the bottom at that point, anything helps. So yes,
Speaker 1: I'm expecting that to be helpful, not just because of
Speaker 1: mainly because of their experience. I mean, they're athletic guys
Speaker 1: and hopefully they're they're fully healthy once they hit the
Speaker 1: fill again. And you know, Anthony Brown had a good,
Speaker 1: great comeback, let's say, because of that one play. But
Speaker 1: I expect they're they're veteran experience to be able to
Speaker 1: help kind of glue back the whole defense as far
Speaker 1: as all these communication problems, because they're they're more experience.
Speaker 1: I would I would think that they will handle better
Speaker 1: all the changes that have happened in the defense. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't know how complicated it has been under Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan and everything that he's teaching them and all that,
Speaker 1: but clearly it's been an issue. So so having them
Speaker 1: back and adding the variant experience back on the field,
Speaker 1: I think it's always a plus. Dave, I'm gonna steal
Speaker 1: this point from Rob Phillips because it was a good
Speaker 1: one and it kind of blew my mind when he
Speaker 1: said it. It's basically, I mean, it's been a calendar
Speaker 1: year since Layton Vanderesh played a full game for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: because you know it was around late October when he
Speaker 1: started having problems with his neck. Last year, they shut
Speaker 1: him down in early November. Obviously, he didn't make it
Speaker 1: through the season opener. It can't hurt. It can't hurt
Speaker 1: that he's out there. I don't think he gets hurt again.
Speaker 1: But I assume they wouldn't put him out there if
Speaker 1: he wasn't ready, So it can't hurt. But I can't
Speaker 1: bring myself to believe that it will definitely make a
Speaker 1: tangible difference because it's been I mean other than like
Speaker 1: two possessions against the Rams. It's been a year since
Speaker 1: the guys played football, and we've already seen basically all
Speaker 1: of these guys have struggled to adapt to a new scheme.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Layton vander esh won't have those
Speaker 1: same problems. You know, he's gonna need time to get
Speaker 1: his feet underneath him, get comfortable, get back to playing
Speaker 1: fast and playing with his instincts as he tries to
Speaker 1: learn a new scheme for the first time in his
Speaker 1: pro career. So it'll be nice to have him out there,
Speaker 1: but I can't bring myself to say, like, yes, they
Speaker 1: will definitely be a lot better right away because of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a really great point. I didn't think about how
Speaker 1: long he has been since he's played a full NFL game.
Speaker 1: NFL games, that's a long time. So I guess we
Speaker 1: do need to temper our expectations just a bit, even
Speaker 1: if he even if he plays this week. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on. The next question I have for you
Speaker 1: guys is, let's assume for a second that the defense
Speaker 1: can continues to be what it has been through the
Speaker 1: first five games. How likely are the Cowboys to win
Speaker 1: a shootout without Dak Prescott. Amber, Let's start with you.
Speaker 1: I think it's possible. I think that that Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: has the experience and all that, and I mean, look
Speaker 1: at the moment of the game that he came in
Speaker 1: last week against the Giants. I mean that was towards
Speaker 1: the end of the game, and my question would be, Okay,
Speaker 1: can a player kind of kick in full gear towards
Speaker 1: that that last quarter of the game. And based on
Speaker 1: that little, tiny, small amount that we got to see
Speaker 1: from him, I think I think it's possible. He has
Speaker 1: the arm. I've seen him be very accurate and precise
Speaker 1: with his throw, So I don't think that if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys lose, it wouldn't necessarily be because of the quarterback
Speaker 1: not being able to keep up with what is being
Speaker 1: asked and required to do. Dave, let's be very fair
Speaker 1: to Andy Dalton. And I mean, like I'm the president
Speaker 1: of the Dak Prescott fan club, but they weren't winning
Speaker 1: more of these games than they were losing when he
Speaker 1: was doing this. I mean, that's a testament to how
Speaker 1: sloppy they've been. So if they wind up in the
Speaker 1: type of shootouts that they've been in these first five weeks.
Speaker 1: It's probably not just because the defense is bad, but
Speaker 1: the offense is continuing to not do anybody any favors.
Speaker 1: And they couldn't overcome that when Dak was here. So
Speaker 1: I have a hard time believing anybody else is going
Speaker 1: to be able to do it either. I mean, they
Speaker 1: absolutely have to play cleaner on offense to win games, period,
Speaker 1: no matter how high scoring it gets. Agree, I mean,
Speaker 1: I agree with with both. I mean, I think he
Speaker 1: can get the job done. But again, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if it's Dak or him. It's not a recipe for
Speaker 1: success to go winning games to do to keep playing
Speaker 1: that way, and so you know they need I think
Speaker 1: with him, they need to get a lead and they
Speaker 1: need to play that way and it'll help with Zeke,
Speaker 1: and I think it'll be it would be better for Dak,
Speaker 1: just like it would be better for Andy Dalton. So
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, I don't I think Dave. They both
Speaker 1: said it. They weren't winning games with shootouts. They really weren't.
Speaker 1: They were one in three winning these shootouts. I guess
Speaker 1: you could say now they're two and three in shootout games.
Speaker 1: So that's not the way I don't think this team
Speaker 1: needs to play suppressed with that defense. Yeah. The one
Speaker 1: thing I will say is I think if they get
Speaker 1: into situations where they're having to just throw the ball
Speaker 1: fifty seven times, I think Dak kept them in games
Speaker 1: like that, and they had opportunities and all those games
Speaker 1: to win. They had opportunities to be in the game
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, and if they could
Speaker 1: have made a player two here or there, maybe they
Speaker 1: win those games. I don't think it necessarily plays out
Speaker 1: like that with Andy Dalton, and that's not because of
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. That's because of what they got on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. I think if teams are lining up with
Speaker 1: the knowing Dallas is throwing the ball, I don't think
Speaker 1: this offensive line can hold up for him. And I
Speaker 1: think they're they are less concerned about the fact that
Speaker 1: he's going to break the pocket and hit him for
Speaker 1: a big play. And I think they were with Dak.
Speaker 1: I don't think they would be with Andy Dalton. And
Speaker 1: we've talked about it. Yeah, Andy can move around and
Speaker 1: probably can pick up some yards here and there. I
Speaker 1: don't think teams will necessarily be worried about that, and
Speaker 1: I think that makes them not be as slow incoming
Speaker 1: to get him, and I think that could be a
Speaker 1: problem for the Cowboys. I think the Cowboys need to
Speaker 1: keep that that that amount of passes down under forty
Speaker 1: in my opinion, to give themselves the best chance to win.
Speaker 1: And if they getting to shootout where they're doing what
Speaker 1: they were doing earlier in the year, I don't think
Speaker 1: they have much of a shot with what they've done
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. With what they're doing on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, I have to go back and watching that game.
Speaker 1: We didn't really talk about that much. What do you
Speaker 1: guys think about the offensive line play in the game
Speaker 1: against the Giants. Let's start first with you, Nick. I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought they did okay. I mean it
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't great, but you know, they ran the
Speaker 1: ball at times when they needed to. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I think Brandon and I just continues to get better.
Speaker 1: It looks like Steele had you know, still finished the game.
Speaker 1: I mean that's good for him. You know, that's what
Speaker 1: the first time in a couple of weeks that he's
Speaker 1: done that, and so that was good. I mean, it
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't overly impressed, but it was it was
Speaker 1: definitely good enough to win, and you know that those
Speaker 1: guys are going to continue to try to get better here.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Dave, I think we I mean,
Speaker 1: we mentioned this a little bit earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: I was I was very impressed with the interior three,
Speaker 1: particularly you know, Tyler Bodest making his first official start.
Speaker 1: I know he got snaps the weeks before, but his
Speaker 1: first real start, I thought he was really encouraging. And then,
Speaker 1: you know, it's always a good thing when you say
Speaker 1: you don't notice the tackle play like. That's not to
Speaker 1: say they were perfect, but they certainly you know, they
Speaker 1: weren't jumping off the screen because your quarterback wasn't getting
Speaker 1: annihilated every two or three snaps. So encouraging, But just
Speaker 1: like everything we say about that game, it doesn't I mean,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't say a whole lot to me. The
Speaker 1: Giants don't exactly have a ton of horses there. And
Speaker 1: this week it's going to be really interesting. But you know,
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones is out, so it's not the traditional oh
Speaker 1: they gotta they gotta watch that guy, because this is
Speaker 1: going to be a strain on the entire offensive line,
Speaker 1: because there's gonna be pressure coming from every different angle.
Speaker 1: You know, Bucky talked about how the Cardinals like to blitz.
Speaker 1: They've got through four or five guys with two sacks
Speaker 1: on this defense, and so you know it might not
Speaker 1: be all on the tackles this week. And I gotta
Speaker 1: be honest, I'm pretty concerned at the communication aspect of it,
Speaker 1: because you got a lot of new guys, a lot
Speaker 1: of guys who haven't played a lot of games, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna need to be picking stuff up. This is
Speaker 1: a week where Zeke Elliott can really show his value
Speaker 1: in that regard because they're gonna need him to pick
Speaker 1: up some pressure. I would guess amber I agree with
Speaker 1: everything they just said. I don't remember a moment in
Speaker 1: the game of watching that game where I was like, man,
Speaker 1: these guys suck. They need to figure something out. So
Speaker 1: when you don't notice something sometimes it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1: And I know that the Diack injury was the high
Speaker 1: life and the main headline of the week, but win't
Speaker 1: start the week either talking about Man, the Cowboys need
Speaker 1: to shuffle this old line and kind of rethink where
Speaker 1: they want to place some of these guys and move around.
Speaker 1: So I guess as of if we're specifically judging about
Speaker 1: from the Giants game, that were just okay, And hopefully
Speaker 1: that's something that we don't notice this week either. One
Speaker 1: thing I will point out, I went back this morning actually,
Speaker 1: and I went and watched all the offensive plays just
Speaker 1: starting just looking directly at the offensive line. One thing
Speaker 1: I was a little bit shocked at is Brandon Knight actually,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, had more bad plays in that game
Speaker 1: than I'd seen him have in some of the previous games.
Speaker 1: There were some moments in that game where where Dak
Speaker 1: basically billed him out. Dak got rid of the ball
Speaker 1: quickly on situations where there would have been sacks otherwise.
Speaker 1: And when I look at it, really even in the
Speaker 1: running game, they really were getting a lot of success.
Speaker 1: They were getting in the running game, especially early on
Speaker 1: the right side, not on the left side. You know,
Speaker 1: Connor Williams still has some issues with power and there
Speaker 1: was one play particularly where he basically got washed all
Speaker 1: the way from his side over to the right side
Speaker 1: to blow up to play. The right side actually blocked
Speaker 1: the play really well, but Connor gets washed into the
Speaker 1: running back and and it ends up only being a
Speaker 1: few yards for Zeke. But overall, I agree with you guys.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like killer offensive line play. It wasn't the
Speaker 1: kind offensive line play that completely stops your offense from
Speaker 1: being able to operate. And obviously they were able to
Speaker 1: get results in the run game, so I was pretty
Speaker 1: excited about what I saw watching it. Overall, I do
Speaker 1: think there's still some issues there, particularly on the left
Speaker 1: side and particularly at the tackle spots. They did help
Speaker 1: still quite a bit, but I'm still a little bit
Speaker 1: concerned about that, and I'm definitely concerned against a team
Speaker 1: like this that's going to bring pressure from a lot
Speaker 1: of places. Dave, you have something I just I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know that we give Dak enough credit for
Speaker 1: how Night and Day better he is at navigating an
Speaker 1: unclean pocket. I mean, he's, you know, go turn on
Speaker 1: some tape from twenty seventeen and see how he's, you know,
Speaker 1: bringing his eyes down to basically panicking trying to get
Speaker 1: away from pressure. He's so much better at that than
Speaker 1: he used to be. Yeah, and to be very honest,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how good Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: is at it. I'll I confess I haven't watched a
Speaker 1: ton of like tape of the Bengals over the last
Speaker 1: four or five years. So I mean that's gonna be
Speaker 1: big if an unclean pocket, because let's be honest, you're
Speaker 1: not going to have it very often with what you're
Speaker 1: working with on the offensive line. All Right, We're gonna
Speaker 1: take our final break when we come back. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask a very simple question, two very simple questions to
Speaker 1: you guys. If there's one player you have to identify
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, and then one
Speaker 1: player on the defensive side of the ball that needs
Speaker 1: a great game in order for Dallas to win. Who
Speaker 1: will it be? Do that when we come right back.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Cardinals. Got a simple question for each of
Speaker 1: you guys, will start first on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Give me one player that if he needs
Speaker 1: to have If if there's one player has to have
Speaker 1: a great game in order for them to win, who
Speaker 1: will it be offensive? Let's start with you Amber. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna cheat a little bit, but that's okay. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: choose Zekiel Elliott. I think that the Cowboys, if they're
Speaker 1: successful at running the game one, it would mean that
Speaker 1: the offensive line was doing their job as well. So
Speaker 1: Zeke once he gets you know, we've seen it, We've
Speaker 1: seen it happened that the Cowboys tend to win games
Speaker 1: when Zeke has a good day of running the ball.
Speaker 1: So I think that's gonna help the defense as well.
Speaker 1: And it's just overall, if Zike has a good game,
Speaker 1: it just kind of, in my mind, starts aligning everything else.
Speaker 1: So that's my offensive player that needs to have a
Speaker 1: great game. Nick can't argue. I mean it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is the answer. I'll see if I can come
Speaker 1: up with somebody else. But but I mean, she's right,
Speaker 1: it is if he could play a great game, then
Speaker 1: great games mean that they're running the ball well, or
Speaker 1: he's picking up blitz is like Dave mentioned earlier, or
Speaker 1: you know, like he's maybe catching some screens out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. We might see a little bit more of
Speaker 1: the screens. It's what Bucky was saying. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I definitely think Zeke's the guy that needs to have
Speaker 1: a really good game. But but I'll also say that,
Speaker 1: you know, Dalton Schultz because blitz is are going to
Speaker 1: come from all areas here and he's you know, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be able to pick that up, and
Speaker 1: if not, you need to be hot and be ready
Speaker 1: to go turn around, boom five yards, get up to field.
Speaker 1: So I could see the tight end really being a
Speaker 1: safety valve here for Andy Dalton, and I think Dalton
Speaker 1: schultzon needs to have a big game. Dave, I got
Speaker 1: one for you, all right, guy by the name of
Speaker 1: Tyler Beatish, because again we just we just talked about this.
Speaker 1: It's you know, the Saint Miles Garrett. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be six or seven different guys coming from a variety
Speaker 1: of different places. A lot of that's on the center
Speaker 1: to identify the protections, get him into the right ones,
Speaker 1: make sure everybody's on the same page. And then obviously
Speaker 1: in the run game, he needs to be a viable
Speaker 1: blocker there as well. So if he's not playing well,
Speaker 1: they will probably struggle to run the ball and they're
Speaker 1: gonna get sacked four or five times and ruin some drives.
Speaker 1: So he needs to be on his fees and cues.
Speaker 1: I mean, Zeke is a good answer too, obviously, but
Speaker 1: if you want something a little more outside the box,
Speaker 1: that would be my answer. You know, actually that's a
Speaker 1: great point, Dave, And I'll tell each you guys get
Speaker 1: a chance to go back and watch some of that
Speaker 1: Giant's game at the beginning, at the early part the
Speaker 1: first two or three series. Notice how there were a
Speaker 1: lot of the problems that they had on the offensive
Speaker 1: line seemed to be issues of coordination. You'd have a
Speaker 1: guy that was kind of passing a guy off, but
Speaker 1: he didn't completely pass him off, and so the guy
Speaker 1: didn't gets through and can get to the quarterback. You'd
Speaker 1: have situations where guys were kind of they'd kind of
Speaker 1: get into a hole and you'd have an offensive I
Speaker 1: saw in one place still was literally just standing in
Speaker 1: space while there was a defender running towards the quarterback
Speaker 1: like it's just it seems like and it wasn't just
Speaker 1: a situation of one guy getting beat. It was situations
Speaker 1: where they haven't played enough as a as a unit
Speaker 1: of five to really understand, Okay, how long do I
Speaker 1: need to hold this guy before I passed him off
Speaker 1: to you? And who's gonna take who on each of
Speaker 1: these plays? And so that's a great point, Dave, when
Speaker 1: you talk about Tyler beatis, he's gonna be the ones
Speaker 1: gonna have to make those calls, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: up to the five to play as one unit rather
Speaker 1: than those individuals. All right, let's go to the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Let's start first with you, Dave. Defensively,
Speaker 1: who is the one player that has to have a
Speaker 1: great day for the Cowboys to win. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: keep saying Jalen Smith probably every week because even and
Speaker 1: to his credit, he well, I mean, you can say
Speaker 1: the linebackers, but I mean Jalen Smith is still I mean,
Speaker 1: Offensives are going to try to take advantage of him
Speaker 1: in space until he consistently proves that they can't do it,
Speaker 1: and he played great. He played great last week. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to but it's a whole new challenge and
Speaker 1: maybe the most elusive quarterback in the NFL, certainly one
Speaker 1: of them, and that's just that's what scares me. I mean,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones had some success doing that last week. It
Speaker 1: didn't kill him too much, but extending plays getting away
Speaker 1: from pressure, he didn't hurt him running, but Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: will if he's able to get outside of the pocket
Speaker 1: or if the pass rush can't get him on the ground,
Speaker 1: um so in and then in addition to coverage, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Jalen Smith is It's it's going to be
Speaker 1: a challenge and for Layton too if he plays. The
Speaker 1: linebackers are just going to have to be able to
Speaker 1: limit the impact that he can do as a as
Speaker 1: a runner. Nick Xavier Woods, and I say that safety
Speaker 1: because I don't know who the other safety is going
Speaker 1: to be. But whoever the safety is going to be
Speaker 1: that also has his eyes on DeAndre Hopkins because they
Speaker 1: can't just let one corner go out. Whoever that is,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say it's Xavier Woods, it might be
Speaker 1: Diamond Wilson or Stephen Parker or whoever whoever else. Darian Thompson.
Speaker 1: Thompson played more than I thought he would for a
Speaker 1: guy that got benched. He's stills out there on Nickel
Speaker 1: whoever it is that's going to be cheating over there
Speaker 1: to watch DeAndre Hopkins and be with him on some
Speaker 1: of those jump balls. That safety has to have a
Speaker 1: really good game because you cannot let DeAndre hopk to
Speaker 1: just go crazy on them. So that's that's gonna be
Speaker 1: my pick. As Zeger woods Emper, I'm with Nick on
Speaker 1: this one. The defense, it's having so much problems, so
Speaker 1: many problems that it's hard to say, okay this, I
Speaker 1: need this one specific guy to to have a great
Speaker 1: game in order for them to win. It goes far
Speaker 1: beyond than that. So if I had to pick someone,
Speaker 1: I would go with whatever whoever the dB is that's
Speaker 1: trying to cover h Deannder Hopkins, mainly because not only
Speaker 1: is it Hopkins, but two in previous game we've seen
Speaker 1: how there's so much freaking separation between a receiver and
Speaker 1: a dB. It's ridiculous. So I need that person to
Speaker 1: be able to keep up and not allow that must
Speaker 1: separation and allow them to get in the end, Zoe.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been killing them this whole season, so uh,
Speaker 1: that would be my answer. Whoever's on Hopkins watch, all right,
Speaker 1: here's we're gonna do. We're gonna take the final five
Speaker 1: minutes of the show to see if we can get
Speaker 1: a question or two in from the fans. Amber, what
Speaker 1: do we have? We'll go, We'll get it. We'll get
Speaker 1: what when When you're talking about the comparison between Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton and Dak Prescott, do you guys believe that Dalton
Speaker 1: actually does need less time to get red red red
Speaker 1: of the ball as opposed to what Dak Prescott was
Speaker 1: having to deal with. So basically, can Andy Dalton get
Speaker 1: rid of the ball faster? Yeah? I think he can
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball. I mean, anybody get rid
Speaker 1: of the ball fast. But I think the question is
Speaker 1: is that when that linebacker or defensive vents on his
Speaker 1: back like it's a sack with Dak like he might
Speaker 1: just shake him off or whatever and stiff arm the
Speaker 1: guy and keep going. I mean, I think that's the
Speaker 1: elusiveness is probably the big difference there and avoiding sacks
Speaker 1: and in the pocket there. But yeah, I think he can.
Speaker 1: He can get rid of the ball quickly. I think
Speaker 1: he'll recognize things fairly quickly. Um. But but I think
Speaker 1: the biggest difference is going to be just avoiding the sacks.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting point that, you know, maybe, and I'll
Speaker 1: take Dak's playmaking ability every day of the week, but
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is probably more likely to concede defeat, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which can be a good thing because Dak not conceding
Speaker 1: defeat sometimes leads to turnovers. So, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think Dak had a problem getting rid of
Speaker 1: the ball on time for the most part. But maybe
Speaker 1: Dalton will be a little more willing to to, you know,
Speaker 1: call it a loss and live to fight another day,
Speaker 1: and maybe that can help him play a little bit cleaner.
Speaker 1: It's something to consider. Yeah, I would say this too.
Speaker 1: I think there's kind of this narrative out there that
Speaker 1: Dak holds the ball too long at times because he's
Speaker 1: and decisive. I don't think that's the case. In instances
Speaker 1: where he holds the ball longer, I think what he's
Speaker 1: doing he's actually trying to give his receivers time to
Speaker 1: get open to make a big play, And that's the
Speaker 1: balance that any quarterback has to play, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: have the same balance to play, is okay? I see
Speaker 1: that if I can give Gallop two more beats, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be open down the sideline. So let me see
Speaker 1: if I can hold, and then you try to hold.
Speaker 1: Sometimes good things happen, sometimes bad things happen. You have
Speaker 1: to figure out what moments in games. I remember Romo
Speaker 1: talking about this a lot. You got to figure out
Speaker 1: the moment in the game that you feel like you
Speaker 1: can take those kinds of chances where there are other
Speaker 1: moments where you can't. But so so when you talk
Speaker 1: about holding on the ball, I don't think it's necessarily
Speaker 1: a matter of canny get rid of the ball, quicker.
Speaker 1: I think it's a matter of will he be prone
Speaker 1: to doing that? And if he's prone to doing that,
Speaker 1: will he be willing to take the chances at times
Speaker 1: when he should take the chance to hold it a
Speaker 1: little bit longer so he gives us receiver that opportunity
Speaker 1: to make the big playdown feel Yep, I don't think
Speaker 1: we have time for another question there. Yeah, we're picking games.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we are picking Yeah, Like I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say screw that show that comes after us. But either way,
Speaker 1: all right, so let's go to that. Let's go to predictions.
Speaker 1: Let's go to predictions. I know, right, let's go to
Speaker 1: the predictions. Let's start first with you Amber, who's gonna
Speaker 1: win this game? What's gonna happen? Oh? Okay? Then think
Speaker 1: I will go um. I think you know, I think
Speaker 1: that the Dallas Cowboys star attracts, loves attracting drama and
Speaker 1: loves keeping you on your toes and guessing and all that.
Speaker 1: So I think that mainly because of that, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a game where, although I don't trust the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense whatsoever, I still think that that there the
Speaker 1: offense is gonna manage to just be the one who
Speaker 1: walks out of the game scoring the most points. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a game where we're gonna start hearing about,
Speaker 1: oh well, maybe the Cowboys don't need to give Dak
Speaker 1: a big contract. Maybe Andy Dalton can be the guy
Speaker 1: that they can stay with. So all of that drama
Speaker 1: it's coming our way. I feel it, or I think so,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys for you out a way to win
Speaker 1: this game. And also because of Dock's injury. I think
Speaker 1: that the energy around the team and the building it's
Speaker 1: a little different to where I feel like maybe they're
Speaker 1: playing to get this win for Dick again. So Cowboys win,
Speaker 1: I would say something like thirty five, thirty two. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a close game, all right, Nick, You know
Speaker 1: what's been the Cowboys record here in the last decade
Speaker 1: or so. It seems like every year they finish eight
Speaker 1: and eight, Well and eight, okay, so if they win,
Speaker 1: they'll be what three and three. That seems on track
Speaker 1: to me. And I like both points the Amber made.
Speaker 1: I do because it's crazy weird NFL and that just
Speaker 1: when you think this happens, it goes the other way.
Speaker 1: I do think the energy Monday night football, I think
Speaker 1: it'll be going there now. Again, you have to you
Speaker 1: have to fight that off from the Cardinals because this
Speaker 1: is it's just like what you know the Yankees have
Speaker 1: and Notre Dame has and all that. You may not
Speaker 1: make good enough to handle it, but like teams come
Speaker 1: in and they see that, they're like, oh, we're getting
Speaker 1: to give them an you know, the everything they've got.
Speaker 1: I still think the Cowboys find a way. I think
Speaker 1: they play a cleaner game. I think Andy Dalton will
Speaker 1: be He'll play a good game, and I think Zeke's
Speaker 1: gonna just ball out. I really believe so. And I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys win. I like it close. I like
Speaker 1: thirty seven thirty six close, all right, Dave, no fighter?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah. I don't think anybody is crazy to pick
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in this game. It's you know, I think
Speaker 1: the line is a dead heat, you know. And as
Speaker 1: we keep saying, like the Cardinals aren't this amazing team,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say they're world beaters, but guess what,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are pretty mediocre too, and they're beat to hell.
Speaker 1: They don't have any of their good players, and even
Speaker 1: if they get some of them back, I just I
Speaker 1: don't think I believe that they are gonna make that
Speaker 1: instant impact that some people expect. I can't help but
Speaker 1: think about the fact that, you know, we keep expecting
Speaker 1: them to play this clean game and it keeps not happening.
Speaker 1: I think the Dak angle is really interesting. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: they come out and play fired up for him. But
Speaker 1: I can't help but think about the fact that Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton fumbled a snap on one of his first possessions
Speaker 1: in the game, So like, maybe he's got ball security
Speaker 1: issues too. Maybe this is just who they are. But
Speaker 1: with everything going against this team and from what we've
Speaker 1: seen from this defense, I can't bring myself to pick
Speaker 1: Dallas to do this. Not, you know, I just I
Speaker 1: have nightmares about you know, Kyler Murray feels like he's
Speaker 1: gonna run for one twenty in this game. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a crazy competitive game. But I'll take
Speaker 1: the team with the better quarterback and the less issues,
Speaker 1: and I think Arizona wins thirty one twenty seven. All right.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be an offensive game.
Speaker 1: I think both offenses are going to score a ton
Speaker 1: of points. I don't think it's gonna feel like a shootout, though.
Speaker 1: I kind of think they're gonna be ebbs and flows
Speaker 1: to this game. They're gonna be moments when there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of scoring. There're gonna be other moments there's
Speaker 1: gonna be bop you get quick scores. But I think
Speaker 1: both offenses when you finish the game, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of yards. They're gonna have a lot of points.
Speaker 1: I do think, though, that the Cowboys end up getting
Speaker 1: to win just because you know, I think it's kind
Speaker 1: of a pick them game and some I'm gonna default
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys, but I think this is a toss up.
Speaker 1: I think these teams they as you were saying earlier, Nicky,
Speaker 1: these are two teams that, yeah, they're good. I mean
Speaker 1: they're good. They have good offensive weapons, but they can't
Speaker 1: get out of their own way, and so both will
Speaker 1: make mistakes. Both will also have some really big days.
Speaker 1: I think Kyler Murray go to your point, Dave, I
Speaker 1: think Kyler Murray has see he's gonna approach that. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna gonna approach one hundred yards rushing. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have a field day on this defense
Speaker 1: because they have not shown me yet that I can
Speaker 1: rely on the fact that they're gonna stop the run.
Speaker 1: All that being said, I think Dallas ends up pulling
Speaker 1: it out in a close when thirty seven thirty four
Speaker 1: is my final score, and we'll see where it goes
Speaker 1: from there. All right, we appreciate you guys joining us.
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