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Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Bronis, Rob Phillips,
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Speaker 1: football weekend, a holiday football weekend at that. This is
Speaker 1: talking Cowboys and the Cowboys with a chintz to clinch
Speaker 1: the NFC East Done Sunday afternoon in front of the
Speaker 1: home folks at at and T Stadium, and right off
Speaker 1: the top, I'd like to make a pact with you guys.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do that we'll gar and tea
Speaker 1: a Cowboys victory. I'm already planning on wearing my Cowboys
Speaker 1: Tommy Johns on Sunday. If everyone will wear their Cowboys
Speaker 1: Tommy Johns on Sunday, will guarantee of victory. What do
Speaker 1: you say? It sounds good. I gotta get mine washed,
Speaker 1: go for it. Were mine on Wednesday, So I gotta
Speaker 1: get them washed. Okay, but sure, yeah, we'll take a
Speaker 1: picture together. Tommy john that's a bad that this group
Speaker 1: that this group that's a bad idea. We don't have to.
Speaker 1: I have no interest in being part of that, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever clothes on? Oh well, how would we? Oh just hey,
Speaker 1: just no, they're not riding up right? What about this?
Speaker 1: I just had this visual. I'm trying to purge every visual.
Speaker 1: Right now, we take a picture of our Tommy John's right,
Speaker 1: just Tommy John's just not wearing them, but just now
Speaker 1: wearing them. No, no, we're not doing that, like we're
Speaker 1: at the beach then and this show has gone so bad?
Speaker 1: And then where at then on top of that, where
Speaker 1: our stats and cowboy hats. That's the worst idea I've
Speaker 1: never had your entire I love all the products, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not. I'm not a magic Mike and
Speaker 1: you're black Tommy. No, no, no, we're not. Imagine I've
Speaker 1: lost weight, but not then. All right, so here we are.
Speaker 1: It's a week sixteen in the National Football Great slate
Speaker 1: of games starting on Saturday that yeah impact the Cowboys
Speaker 1: somewhat and uh and then the big game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And how you're feeling about things, Brian, you've been breaking
Speaker 1: it down all week. Yeah, you know what, I usually
Speaker 1: save this for the end. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: that my game plan and every week I do a
Speaker 1: thing called Cowboys win if Dallas wins. If this, to me,
Speaker 1: is a game that you have got to just go
Speaker 1: out and it's not about execution and it's not about
Speaker 1: you know, play calling and all that this. You've got
Speaker 1: to go out there and destroy Tampa's will to compete
Speaker 1: in this game. That You've got to go out there
Speaker 1: and give them a reason to quit, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've made some changes with Mark Duffner now becoming a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. They're playing a little bit better there. They
Speaker 1: can rush the past, or they got an offense, he'll
Speaker 1: throw it around a little bit. But there's a reason
Speaker 1: why this team is five and nine, and you've got
Speaker 1: to go out there and make them quit. You've got
Speaker 1: to go out and find whatever whatever awful, dark feeling
Speaker 1: you had in your stomach when you were three and
Speaker 1: five and bring that back up this week and play
Speaker 1: with that kind of attitude. You know, you you there's Tampa.
Speaker 1: Tampa is looking for a reason. They've got one foot
Speaker 1: in the parking lot right now. Don't give them a
Speaker 1: reason to hang around this game, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: and you could say, oh, they need to red zone
Speaker 1: and block and this, and no, just go just take
Speaker 1: it to them. Play like you've played the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis game. Indianapolis played that way. They did that
Speaker 1: to you. You need to go out and play against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay that way today to win this game. Take
Speaker 1: out your frustrations from last Sunday on them. You need
Speaker 1: you don't need this to go any further. Just go
Speaker 1: go replay what I just told the guys on the fan. Well,
Speaker 1: we didn't have an opportunity to hear that. Don't replay it.
Speaker 1: I see if you can recreate and recreate it without
Speaker 1: I said, go out there and knock the devil out
Speaker 1: of them to start, and let them go find a
Speaker 1: nice soft pill to put their heads out. I agree
Speaker 1: with you. Don't give them a reason to play. Don't
Speaker 1: give them a reason to stick around and say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, we can win one. Yeah we can
Speaker 1: still beat the Cowboys at and T Stadium. Yeah, don't
Speaker 1: give them any reason. Yeah, so it might might. I
Speaker 1: mean my one gift two gifts to the Cowboys on
Speaker 1: Wednesday was Zach Martin played. I think that's going to
Speaker 1: be delivered that's a and the other ones take the
Speaker 1: first drive of the game and go stuff it right
Speaker 1: down their throats and score it touchdown. Yeah, not a
Speaker 1: field goal, So you're not deferring. I am taking the
Speaker 1: ball and going down and scoring. M I like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't hear your I didn't hear you say that
Speaker 1: on one oh five three. But I like your attitude.
Speaker 1: I think that's you saved it for here. Yes, I said,
Speaker 1: I said it with a little more. Go ahead, Bryan
Speaker 1: intensity No, Rob, I'm sorry. No, y'all are absolutely right.
Speaker 1: You still have to do the things better that you've
Speaker 1: been doing poorly in recent weeks to win this game, though.
Speaker 1: You got to be able to finish drives because this
Speaker 1: is a team that you're playing that can move the ball,
Speaker 1: and Dak Prescott has got to get more protection upfront.
Speaker 1: Those things still have to happen for you to win
Speaker 1: decisively in this game, and I think it can be done.
Speaker 1: But they've got some things offensively that they've got to
Speaker 1: show up, and they might win this division by default.
Speaker 1: Who knows, you know, Washington might lose on Saturday, Philly
Speaker 1: might lose on Sunday. He might not matter what the
Speaker 1: result is the odds are still heavily in your favor
Speaker 1: that you're gonna make the playoffs. But I'm looking you know,
Speaker 1: if you're looking down to January, there's things they've got
Speaker 1: to fix as well. Yeah, and fix QUI well, look well,
Speaker 1: I think in Zach Martin back is. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: having an all pro pro bowled guard back in the
Speaker 1: lineup helps. I think suel Philo will help. He had
Speaker 1: a full practice yesterday. I think it's looking good for him.
Speaker 1: Um So getting healthier up front in general, I think
Speaker 1: helps your chances of both those things. And I'm with you,
Speaker 1: I think defensively, I've marked that one as an aberration.
Speaker 1: I think they're much better than what they showed. Uh, mistackles,
Speaker 1: all those things. They can get that cleaned up. Everything
Speaker 1: you're talking about that needs to be fixed was not
Speaker 1: fixed during that five game winning stream. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: kind of going that route myself. Now now that you
Speaker 1: lost one, Oh my god, this in this, in this,
Speaker 1: it's been this, this and this. They were able to
Speaker 1: were coming during the five game winning streak. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you'll lose one and now everybody's on board. With the
Speaker 1: offensive line. I don't think that's it. They're just on
Speaker 1: board with the red zone that's been going on all
Speaker 1: season long. Now they're on board with the sacks. Oh,
Speaker 1: quarterback can't get sacked that many times. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's it. I think people were very worried by that
Speaker 1: performance because it wasn't an aberration, because it was innuation
Speaker 1: of problems, as you just said, but it was the
Speaker 1: things that have been haunting them all season's. That's right,
Speaker 1: and you're in you're in mid December, late December, and
Speaker 1: it's still cropping up. And what happens when the defense
Speaker 1: has had they won? Nobody would have brought this stuff up.
Speaker 1: I think it's been been talked about on this show. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, but I'm saying, do you see what's going
Speaker 1: on now? And the press conferences, the questions that he's
Speaker 1: getting those weren't the questions two weeks ago or three
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and those same things have been haunting them
Speaker 1: all season long. I don't know things, Robert, I really don't. Well,
Speaker 1: I just said getting getting Zack back helps, you know,
Speaker 1: so a philo helps? Oh? No, playing with Zach Mark, Yeah,
Speaker 1: clearly a good thing. But you guys are absolutely right.
Speaker 1: This is I mean, this red zone ranking is a
Speaker 1: season long thing. It's not I think we all as
Speaker 1: a show worry about what could happen to this team
Speaker 1: in the playoffs with no protection, with no ability to
Speaker 1: score in the red zone. You know, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we're all worried about that. To your of the opinion
Speaker 1: that the red zone fix can happen until there's a
Speaker 1: personnel fix in the off season, I think I think
Speaker 1: the thing. I think the Rob was going the right
Speaker 1: way when he was starting to talk about health. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that I do think that's clearly the case.
Speaker 1: I think they have to figure out whether that's whether
Speaker 1: that's a scheme change, personnel change, coaching change. This is
Speaker 1: something that will be a long, hard study when this
Speaker 1: is all said and done. You're right about that. The
Speaker 1: one thing I'll say about the red zones. Every time
Speaker 1: they get down there, I have hope because they have
Speaker 1: Zekiel Elliott and because they have Dak Prescott, because we've
Speaker 1: seen those read option plays work for them with Dak
Speaker 1: with Zeke. Every time they get down there, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: they've got there. They have talent to score and score quickly.
Speaker 1: It kind of surprises me every time they stall it
Speaker 1: really does. Maybe I'm maybe I'm a sap, but it
Speaker 1: kind of no. I think we've all I think we
Speaker 1: all believe in Zeke and Travis, Zack Martin and Tyrann Smith.
Speaker 1: We all believe in those guys. It's that we just
Speaker 1: keep we haven't been proven that has been proven to
Speaker 1: us that it can work. But see the problem is,
Speaker 1: and Lenahan finally spelled it out yesterday. Just what you said. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got Dak and we got Zeke, but you know
Speaker 1: what that mother eleven guys know the same thing they're
Speaker 1: key in on twenty one and four, is what he says.
Speaker 1: And it's like that that somebody else has got to
Speaker 1: step up in those situations. Somebody's got to get open,
Speaker 1: somebody's got to catch the ball, somebody's gotta the second. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but but they're gonna look at twenty one
Speaker 1: and four. We're stopping them now beat us. Now, I'll
Speaker 1: allay my you know my bet on stopping twenty one
Speaker 1: in four. Now, find somebody else is gonna beat me
Speaker 1: from the four yard line. But if you as we
Speaker 1: chronicled earlier this week, the last couple of years, they
Speaker 1: were perfectly fine in the red zone. Yes, they were
Speaker 1: third in the league in the red zone in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: They were sixth in the league last year in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Seventy two eighty two exactly eighty eight, right,
Speaker 1: makes a big difference, that's right, seventy two eighty two
Speaker 1: eighty eight. That that right there in itself, That's that's
Speaker 1: where I talk about where Lenahan is looking at it
Speaker 1: in saying they know the eleven no when eleven no,
Speaker 1: but eleven are trying to stop three other things. I
Speaker 1: didn't even include twenty one. And I didn't include four
Speaker 1: in there, you know, like Mickey was talking about, that's
Speaker 1: five different options that you have right there, you know,
Speaker 1: or well, Travis Frederick being the center. But at least
Speaker 1: I've said this, but even last you didn't have zag
Speaker 1: Martin either. What happened, Yeah, what happened? When you know? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they what happened. They run a fourth down play to
Speaker 1: try and get a first down, to try and get
Speaker 1: a fresh set of down to the goal line backdoor play.
Speaker 1: They don't get the guard across. That was no center
Speaker 1: and not your regular right guard playing there. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: are those fixable right now? I mean they are fixable
Speaker 1: if you put seventy back in the lineup, which Mickey's right,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play. He's gonna play for you heard good
Speaker 1: things about him yesterday. But again, is it Is it
Speaker 1: gonna be enough when you get into the playoffs. That's
Speaker 1: my worry about this football team. I don't worry about
Speaker 1: the defense. I worry about I worry about what this
Speaker 1: offense is going to do. And the other thing Scott
Speaker 1: Lindhan said yesterday was he thinks guys maybe press in
Speaker 1: a little bit because they've had trouble down there and
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't have that. Here we go again thing.
Speaker 1: You know, Oh, he's got it right now. There's catchable plays,
Speaker 1: you know, Ola, Wally Beasley, Noah Brown. Although that wasn't
Speaker 1: a great throw by Dak because of pressure a few
Speaker 1: games ago, they've had opportunities. You know, these tight ends
Speaker 1: are coming along. Maybe that can help down there. Um
Speaker 1: but you yeah, you said it. It's not the same
Speaker 1: red zone group that. Oh no, We've all said it.
Speaker 1: This is nothing new to us. How many catches have
Speaker 1: the tight ends made in the red zone. It's a
Speaker 1: good question. That's a great question, Bill, Bob, you got it.
Speaker 1: I don't answer. I don't have the answer. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember the ones that they had that were touchdowns.
Speaker 1: We haven't had any of those. You haven't had Blake.
Speaker 1: We haven't had the Blake jar when touchdown down there,
Speaker 1: we haven't had a We tried to throw the ball
Speaker 1: earlier to Rico Gathers in a jump ball situation there. Well,
Speaker 1: I got an answer to this question. How many touchdowns
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I was trying to give me some time,
Speaker 1: trying to give you some time. Yeah, I was the
Speaker 1: tight ends have I don't think the time they have one.
Speaker 1: They have one one one Jeff Swain, Jeff Swain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking healthy time. Yeah, Jeff's still out. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of zeros here. And by the way,
Speaker 1: we get we get tweets about questions about Jeff swam
Speaker 1: and when he might be able to return. Anybody got
Speaker 1: any else I do? I was told that he cannot
Speaker 1: even think about playing until the screws come out of
Speaker 1: his wrist. And when I was talking to him Wednesday,
Speaker 1: he said the screws, uh, probably will come out in
Speaker 1: two weeks, so that's the end of the season. And
Speaker 1: then he said I've got to get movement back in
Speaker 1: my hand. There's a rod in there. And he goes
Speaker 1: and he showed me he was doing this. He goes, see,
Speaker 1: I can do this here here I can't. And I
Speaker 1: was thinking he's done. Yeah, he's not going to play again.
Speaker 1: There you go, not this year. Yeah, unless you make
Speaker 1: a long playoff. Maybe by the super Bowl. Well, this
Speaker 1: is this Bill's twelve game. All right, Now, we got
Speaker 1: blown last week, but all right, this is where we
Speaker 1: think about getting the cornerback on it. CJ. Good one,
Speaker 1: good one back on back at practice because he yeah,
Speaker 1: he's back at practice. But if they're gonna make a move,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to use a roster spot. And it
Speaker 1: sounded like no one whoever else is on. Are Dayton
Speaker 1: Jones not gonna make it? William's not gonna make it back? Yeah,
Speaker 1: if they're gonna activate, if they're gonna activate a guy,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to make a roster spot move. Is
Speaker 1: it gonna come from Swam or is it gonna come
Speaker 1: from David Irving? You know, those are two spots right
Speaker 1: there that you can kind of think about. And they
Speaker 1: want good One back on there for special teams they do.
Speaker 1: They do, so we'll see if they canna have a
Speaker 1: difficult choice this weekend too. It's thinking about their forty six.
Speaker 1: If in fact, the general manager would like to see
Speaker 1: Taco play a little more, you know, he said, hey,
Speaker 1: I'd like to let you know. And every once in
Speaker 1: a while, when the general manager says he'd like to
Speaker 1: see Rico Gathers play a little more, Rico Gathers played
Speaker 1: a little more. So if you're smart, you kind of
Speaker 1: figure that out. You get Taco out there some way. Now,
Speaker 1: that means somebody's gonna have to sit, you know who
Speaker 1: sits in that regard. I mean, I'm sure that's a
Speaker 1: full another thing that we can get into. But and
Speaker 1: here's a positive, because we've talked about a lot of
Speaker 1: things that haven't gone right so far, they're they're pretty
Speaker 1: healthy all things considered. In mid December, as I knock
Speaker 1: on wood, I mean, they're getting healthier. They've got decisions
Speaker 1: to make from fifty three to forty six on Sunday
Speaker 1: because a lot of guys are coming back ready to go.
Speaker 1: I don't know about Tavon. I wouldn't I wouldn't get him.
Speaker 1: He's still he's still limited trying to work his way back.
Speaker 1: He didn't sound like he was, you know, one hundred
Speaker 1: percent last week. But other guys are getting back. Shawn
Speaker 1: Lee's getting back. You know, you can judge that one
Speaker 1: by how Garrett answered the question. Yeah, did we over
Speaker 1: not we Maybe maybe too much conversation about the Shawn
Speaker 1: Lee situation. Maybe that's taking care of itself. Did we
Speaker 1: over over meaning that he's got to play, He's got
Speaker 1: to you know, how do you take vander esh off
Speaker 1: the field? And you know all that well wringing of
Speaker 1: hands and gnashing of teeth caught me in as being
Speaker 1: surprised that he played last week. Yeah, I thought they'd
Speaker 1: give him another week and then this would be the
Speaker 1: week he comes back. Yeah, and basically seven plays. That's
Speaker 1: must have been thinking the same thing I was. I
Speaker 1: think that they're they're thinking well, and and they kind
Speaker 1: of explained it this way that it's kind of like
Speaker 1: training camp preseason for him, working him in gradually you're hoping,
Speaker 1: you're hoping this is a playoff run, and so you know,
Speaker 1: just kind of manage it and get him back. Because
Speaker 1: I was happing a couple different times and and it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a little more than seven. But
Speaker 1: I think you know, the score got out of hand
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, I think he came off the field after.
Speaker 1: So we're saying more Shawn Lee this week? Yeah? Or
Speaker 1: are we saying Sean Lee for twelve plays? Yeah? Maybe
Speaker 1: something like that, maybe fifteen just a guess. I don't
Speaker 1: because I'm just asking guys. I mean we, I mean,
Speaker 1: Brian Broadus made a big deal about Shawn Lee needing
Speaker 1: to play, you know, I mean I made a big
Speaker 1: I mean like, hey, once he's back, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: one of your better players, he's what you gotta get
Speaker 1: him on the field. They laughed at me and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know brought us. No, that ain't gonna happen. I
Speaker 1: think that they agree that they want him on the field,
Speaker 1: but I think that it's how much they cost. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. They've been burned now twice this season
Speaker 1: where he's come back and then been shelved for six weeks,
Speaker 1: and so now they've decided okay, And when you look
Speaker 1: at it, even back in the preseason, he didn't play
Speaker 1: in preseason games to work himself in. So now I
Speaker 1: think that they've decided, okay, we got to treat it
Speaker 1: as this is the beginning of his season and we
Speaker 1: have to just gradually get him up to reps. You know,
Speaker 1: run it out of games here, aren't we. The encouraging
Speaker 1: thing is he said he's good. Yeah, he said he
Speaker 1: feels good. Feels like nothing went wrong in the game.
Speaker 1: So that was a good thing. And as for Zach Martin,
Speaker 1: when I passed him in the hallway, I said, getting better,
Speaker 1: and he goes better and I said, okay, better. He
Speaker 1: went over there chop blocked you. How he was going
Speaker 1: to eat those raviolis? Yeah, lobster raviolies where were excellent.
Speaker 1: He's he's Jason witten Man. He's if he can but
Speaker 1: if you win, he can move. He win this game.
Speaker 1: You have a you have a unique situation that you
Speaker 1: could take advantage of of him resting, take advantage of
Speaker 1: the runner. I'm I'm all for the win. This game
Speaker 1: would be huge just for the runner, just to give
Speaker 1: him a chance. You know, he's putting on this face
Speaker 1: of give me the ball, give me the ball, give
Speaker 1: me the ball, and we're all like, yes, give him
Speaker 1: the ball, give him the ball, give him the ball,
Speaker 1: Start the ball to him, give him the ball. More
Speaker 1: you know, and now and now he's just like he's
Speaker 1: this poor. You know, it's like watching an endurance race,
Speaker 1: like a lament, you know, where the cars at the
Speaker 1: end have gone nine hundred and seventy laps and they're
Speaker 1: just banged up and beat up and they're trying to
Speaker 1: finish a race to win a trophy. You know, he's
Speaker 1: touched the ball three hund that's my racing reference for
Speaker 1: the day, three fifty eight time. Yeah, there you go
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty eight times. You might have to
Speaker 1: four hundred times. This guy might have to touch the
Speaker 1: football for you. So that's like twenty about twenty four
Speaker 1: twenty five times a game, and every one of those
Speaker 1: hits is like just he's like, especially lately, he's hitting people.
Speaker 1: Do you think you think he's taking hits because he's
Speaker 1: not speedy, not quick, can't avoid. I think he's taking
Speaker 1: hits because he's stubborn. Yeah, there's that's a good answer, Mickey.
Speaker 1: He thinks he's gonna run everybody over, And Mickey's got
Speaker 1: the right answer there. I was thinking that maybe he's
Speaker 1: just he's so banged up he can't he can't run,
Speaker 1: he can't run away from get just quite get away.
Speaker 1: No one thing he does. He talk about the offensive line,
Speaker 1: kind of setting the tone for the team when the
Speaker 1: offensive line is healthy. And you know, he has that
Speaker 1: toughness about the way he is. He's for that entire
Speaker 1: yeah type offense that they want to have, right and
Speaker 1: he is the bit between his teeth gap. He he he
Speaker 1: wants you, He wants the ball, as long as that
Speaker 1: official didn't come running in from fifteen yards behind the
Speaker 1: play and throw a flag. Oh, you're being too rude, Zeke,
Speaker 1: You're being too rough. All right. I have a question
Speaker 1: this is going forward next week. Let's say the Cowboys
Speaker 1: win over Tampa Bay hallelujah, and then you want to
Speaker 1: rest Zeke and not play Zeke or a limited number
Speaker 1: of the next win the rushing title. Well, okay, it
Speaker 1: might mean money for him too. How many backup running
Speaker 1: backs do you have? Well, you really you have. You
Speaker 1: can use Ola Wally as a single back and you
Speaker 1: can't use Hey, and you could use Rod Smith as
Speaker 1: a back obviously Smith Smith giant killer. Okay, remember yeah,
Speaker 1: last time? Yeah, okay, So my question is running in receiving.
Speaker 1: My question is next week and when you're looking at
Speaker 1: the roster and so forth. Yeah, Jackson, I mean that
Speaker 1: can you afford to bring him up? That's my question
Speaker 1: is unless you want a story on the Mickey David
Speaker 1: I guy. Yeah, I are David Irving, ir Swam, I
Speaker 1: are all the guys that were gonna be inactive. So
Speaker 1: my question is, can you play a game against the
Speaker 1: Giants with only Rod Smith as you're running back? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think those are those would be your two backs.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Rod get ready for thirty carries. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he would love that, you know, he would love that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like your idea. What do you want to bring
Speaker 1: somebody up? If if I'm gonna put somebody on ir oh, okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, Okay, right, if you can do the ir trick,
Speaker 1: I'm all for yourself. You're worried about too too much
Speaker 1: work for yeah, yeah, I mean because just because you
Speaker 1: don't want to Smith, but you get you getting the playoffs.
Speaker 1: There's no tomorrow. Yeah right, there's no tomorrow. Let's let's
Speaker 1: let's be honest there. But this is the same way
Speaker 1: the Cowboys used to do it with him at back
Speaker 1: in the nineties. I remember he's going into late in
Speaker 1: the season and I mean they basically all they had
Speaker 1: on their roster at running back one guy him at Smith,
Speaker 1: Darryl Johnston and Derek Hammy ag. Yeah, they didn't even
Speaker 1: have a backup running back. They had two fullbacks, you know.
Speaker 1: And then they would sign up Blair Thomas late in
Speaker 1: the season, you know, just to have somebody whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and they've had the luxury of cutting Curvin Richards,
Speaker 1: well you might, you might do it to bring the
Speaker 1: runner up just so you don't have to deal with
Speaker 1: that in the off season if you want to keep them,
Speaker 1: you want to keep him. Yeah, you're kind of throwing
Speaker 1: him the other thing. You're throwing it the other art.
Speaker 1: If you're throwing them a bone there by putting him
Speaker 1: up on the rostery, give him a little bit more
Speaker 1: money that way. Now you have to make the decision.
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be on your playoff roster? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's the decision you have to make. Hopefully, those
Speaker 1: are decisions the Cowboys will have to make next week,
Speaker 1: I hope, and we continue with more Talking Cowboys and
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Speaker 1: Good morning man, How are you good? Good you? Hey?
Speaker 1: My concern is I don't want to watch another defensive
Speaker 1: effort like we just saw. So I'm going to ask
Speaker 1: you if we're watching the same thing against the Bucks
Speaker 1: and their gashing this with the inside trap all day
Speaker 1: and we can't rally to the underneath, throw and make
Speaker 1: the tackle, what is the schematic answer. Do you walk
Speaker 1: up the backers, do you go with a nine man
Speaker 1: front and man at press fan outside? What do we
Speaker 1: do to give an injection to the defense and get
Speaker 1: them going again? I just don't want to watch us
Speaker 1: continue to line up the same way and continue to
Speaker 1: let the same thing happens. Thanks for taking my call. Guys,
Speaker 1: thanks lady. When I was talking about the sky fallen,
Speaker 1: yeah that I had. We had had a defensive question
Speaker 1: in a while. Have we sky's falling to? Are you
Speaker 1: concerned about what you saw last week against Indianapolis? Only
Speaker 1: if we play Only if we play Indianapolis's offensive line
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl you go unless Yeah, the team
Speaker 1: a comparable team to that would be the Saints. The
Speaker 1: Saints offensive line, doesn't you know. But Dallas did a
Speaker 1: great job of attacking that front. You know, I nobody
Speaker 1: wants to watch that to me, and I think I
Speaker 1: think I think it wasn't about scheme last week. I
Speaker 1: think it was about the physicality of the of the Colts. Now,
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett will tell you that they had some bad
Speaker 1: run fits. They'll tell you that they got you know,
Speaker 1: they got beat up a little bit up front. The
Speaker 1: coverage stuff we knew going in. I mean, we talked
Speaker 1: about this guy's I thought the whole show, A lot
Speaker 1: of the shows in the breakdown the Colts was they'll
Speaker 1: try to nickel and Dimei to death. You know, that's
Speaker 1: and they got protection and they were able to hit
Speaker 1: some routes and but I think it was more about
Speaker 1: what the Colts were able to do up front than
Speaker 1: it was more about the cowboys inability to scheme. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen anybody this year man handle them like that.
Speaker 1: So I'm going on, I'm going on, what fourteen games
Speaker 1: of work here? Body of work. I think I'm okay
Speaker 1: with this defense. Now. If something happens, I'm sure they'll
Speaker 1: have to make some adjustments. But I don't see Tampa
Speaker 1: coming into this game and doing to them what the
Speaker 1: Colts did to them. I just don't. Jalen Smith talked
Speaker 1: about playing the right way yeah, yesterday, and I think
Speaker 1: they to me, I took it as they got out
Speaker 1: of doing what they normally do. And a lot of
Speaker 1: that's just being fundamentally sound. Some of it is the Colts.
Speaker 1: Quinton Nelson's fun to play, Yeah, Clinton, Nelson, Kelly, those
Speaker 1: guys are no fun to play. That's a team. It's
Speaker 1: no fun to play, especially with that front. That front's
Speaker 1: only gonna get better. That's a young front, you know,
Speaker 1: so especially when they've got the lead on you. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and they got a quarterback that sits there, and he doesn't,
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, he hands
Speaker 1: his uniform back to the equipment. Man, I don't worry
Speaker 1: about washing that one. You know, I'll wash that one.
Speaker 1: I didn't get touched today, you know. So I think
Speaker 1: it's more about them. The way that the way that
Speaker 1: Tampa can hurt you is with the chunk plays. That's
Speaker 1: what can hurt you. Yeah, And if you don't, if
Speaker 1: you don't handle their ability to throw the ball down
Speaker 1: the field, then you're gonna have problems. Then you're then
Speaker 1: you're Jument's gonna be like, Okay, what do you do
Speaker 1: on the line? You play zone, you play man? Do
Speaker 1: you do you deny them on the h do you
Speaker 1: deny them on the line of scrimmage? Do you blitz guys?
Speaker 1: You know? I think that's how hell that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: blitz people last week and couldn't get home. I kind
Speaker 1: of told you about what what happened to them in
Speaker 1: that football all right, let me ask you a question
Speaker 1: that I was asked by our former intern here with
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Speaker 1: that with Tampa Bay Bucks dot com. Okay, I was
Speaker 1: on with them and we did a little crossfire, and
Speaker 1: so she would posts some questions. Who's going to have
Speaker 1: the better game on Sunday, the Tampa Bay defensive line
Speaker 1: or the Dallas defensive line? Wow, because both teams are
Speaker 1: a little compromise when it comes to blocking, you know,
Speaker 1: And I feel like that it's interesting when you hear
Speaker 1: it from the Tampa Bay or or any opponent's perspective.
Speaker 1: We focus so much on yeah our no, no, no,
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely, it's interesting here in their perspective on their players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they they they've got some they've got some issues. I
Speaker 1: think a tackle, but you've got an issue at guard,
Speaker 1: maybe left guard, maybe a little bit at center. You know,
Speaker 1: it's been you know, compromised a little bit, maybe with
Speaker 1: the left tackle. Right now, you're facing a guy, a
Speaker 1: young guy with a lot of size and a lot
Speaker 1: of quickness. Yeah, and he's finally coming around. I saw
Speaker 1: where last week he had his I assume you're talking ya, Yes,
Speaker 1: he had his career high nine tackles ye last week, right, So, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's pretty tough, and you know he missed a lot
Speaker 1: after tearing his calf muscle right in training camp. So
Speaker 1: they have gotten better since since they've made the switch, though.
Speaker 1: I mean the record isn't better, but the defense has
Speaker 1: played better. Yeah, they've gotten more pressure, they've gotten more sacks. Know,
Speaker 1: that's the thing I always worry about with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Mickey's got me worried too, about us having a drive
Speaker 1: of the football. You know. Okau's the answer to the question.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure it out because I don't think Tampa.
Speaker 1: I don't think Tampa. I think Tampa can make just
Speaker 1: as many mistakes as you can. You know, I think
Speaker 1: if you said player for player, you would, okay, Tyron
Speaker 1: Smith for you know, Tyron Smith for Donovan Smith. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Tyren Smith, Ali Marpett for the guard
Speaker 1: for Suefilo. I think I'm gonna take Ali Marpett there. Okay.
Speaker 1: Ryan Jensen hasn't lived up to where he was. He's
Speaker 1: a ten million dollar year center. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: lived up to that. But if you said, okay, who
Speaker 1: gets paid more? Ryan Jensen gets paid more? Is he
Speaker 1: playing better than Looney? Probably not? You know, maybe that's
Speaker 1: a wash right there. You know, beck Knock I Ben
Speaker 1: Knock Im Caleb Bennock. I don't know was a tackle
Speaker 1: their guard? I mean he yeah, I mean he I
Speaker 1: watched him. I don't I'm not overly impressed. And then
Speaker 1: I told you about DeMar Dotson. Yep, with what he's done.
Speaker 1: I think he's a slow footed guy. I think that
Speaker 1: if you want, if people are excited about about maybe
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence getting some pressure, it will just be a
Speaker 1: good opportunity right here. So maybe the question should be
Speaker 1: which offensive line can play better? Yeah, which is capable
Speaker 1: of playing? I see my answer yesterday was different than
Speaker 1: what my answer would be today because yesterday I had
Speaker 1: Zack Martin out because practiced yet, and I've got Zack
Speaker 1: Martin in and so I would Yesterday my answer was,
Speaker 1: I think Tampa Bay will have their defensive line will
Speaker 1: have more stats, more success in the game, just because
Speaker 1: of the cowboy depleted that Cowtany's offensive line. But with
Speaker 1: Zach Martin back, I feel a little bit better about that,
Speaker 1: don't you. Yeah, it's which quarterback is going to play better?
Speaker 1: Which quarterback would you trust in this game? Da? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because I think this game could come down two turnovers
Speaker 1: and which guy takes care of the ball better? And
Speaker 1: I know Dak has had some some turnovers, but I
Speaker 1: think over the course of his career, he's been better
Speaker 1: protecting the ball. And it may come down to who's
Speaker 1: you know, who's not giving it away and Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: has given it away all season long. Is Dallas capable?
Speaker 1: Is Dallas capable of accepting turnovers? Are we accept Are we? Yes?
Speaker 1: We okay? You mean capable of ball skills? Making a play?
Speaker 1: Are we are we? Are we capable of this? Or
Speaker 1: we just holding our breath every time the balls tipped
Speaker 1: in the air. And Byron Jones playing at a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl level this this year, making the Pro Bowl without
Speaker 1: an interception. It's the first time since two thousand and
Speaker 1: ten that a player has been voted into the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl without an intercept. It was that there were two
Speaker 1: in two thousand and ten. Seriously, it was. I was
Speaker 1: thinking it was forever. Yeah, I went back when I
Speaker 1: started looking, and then I got back, oh, two thousand
Speaker 1: and ten. There it is. Now he's got a chance
Speaker 1: if he gets a pick right the next two games.
Speaker 1: You know who it is? Yes, there's two. One lived
Speaker 1: on an island, vas yep. And the other one was
Speaker 1: with the Raiders. Oh oh, Woodson Woodson, No, No, now, yeah,
Speaker 1: same year they did neither one of them an interception
Speaker 1: and made the Pro Bowl. Was freaking it never happened.
Speaker 1: I better never happened in Cowboy. He said, Okay, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this easy and everybody, because everybody's trying
Speaker 1: to come up with something to worry about, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's fair. Here's my worry. That's what coaches do. And
Speaker 1: and Rob's gonna help me with this. Oh, because it's
Speaker 1: a basketball analogy. You know how you fall behind in
Speaker 1: a basketball game by twenty points and then you have
Speaker 1: to rally, and then you work like the devil to
Speaker 1: catch up, and you catch up and then you got
Speaker 1: nothing to finish? Are you worried that three and five
Speaker 1: and you had to work like the devil to get
Speaker 1: to eight and five? And how do you have anything
Speaker 1: left to get to the finish line? Don't be so logical, Niki.
Speaker 1: Do you have the intensity, you have the will, the
Speaker 1: physicalness to get to the finish line? Because it happens
Speaker 1: in basket. We've seen it, especially in the NBA. Right questions,
Speaker 1: I've seen that so many times covering those Mavericks game
Speaker 1: back in the eighties. It's like they work like heck
Speaker 1: to get back in the game, and it's now, you
Speaker 1: got it a one point game? Are you are? You
Speaker 1: tie it? And it's like you climb the mountain and
Speaker 1: you kind of take a breath and then the other
Speaker 1: team of of a sudden it hits the pedal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: send you right back where you came. Yep. That's if
Speaker 1: I had to worry about something. Where did you come
Speaker 1: up with this? I like last night it was like
Speaker 1: they expended spending so much energy get where they where
Speaker 1: they are? Yew, can you finish? Yeah? Now, if you
Speaker 1: want on something to worry about, worry about that. But
Speaker 1: don't they they don't have anything left in the tank.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. But that's it's different than a basketball analogy
Speaker 1: because is that's through the course of one game. This
Speaker 1: is every week, I know, get a little break at
Speaker 1: the same kind of but hey, win this one, like
Speaker 1: we've been talking about, and you might get a chance
Speaker 1: to get your breath. I know. So I'm with you.
Speaker 1: But they've I think about the energy they've expended over
Speaker 1: these five wrong three two games on the road, three
Speaker 1: and twelve days, grind away for sixty minutes against the Saints,
Speaker 1: and then the next week you got to go overtime
Speaker 1: to win. That's a lot of energy he's got mentally strong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got to hope they got something left and that
Speaker 1: last week wasn't an indication of I think they took
Speaker 1: a deep breath last week. But I think they, especially
Speaker 1: with the makeup of the roster and what we've talked
Speaker 1: about the health of the roster relative health of it,
Speaker 1: that they've got enough to get it back to. Going
Speaker 1: to Nicky's point, but they're a young team, right, right, right,
Speaker 1: And maybe they don't know better. Yeah, maybe in a
Speaker 1: it's more I think about I'm thinking, and Mickey's making
Speaker 1: a damn good point there. They need to get the
Speaker 1: shirts out, finish the fight. Yeah. And then and then
Speaker 1: I'm and then I'm thinking, well, maybe it's a young team.
Speaker 1: They're young. This is not a veteran team that's had
Speaker 1: to battle back, you know what I'm saying that had
Speaker 1: they they've It's not a it's not one of those
Speaker 1: teams where it's a bunch of Jason Witten's and guys
Speaker 1: like that. It's it's it's young guys. They're all in
Speaker 1: their twenties, mostly early twenties. Maybe maybe that's your saving grace, Mickey.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's as good as your point is. But maybe,
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't think about that way. But maybe
Speaker 1: that's your saving grace is the fact it is such
Speaker 1: a young team. But I think I think you're I
Speaker 1: think the problem you run into is your war out
Speaker 1: in a couple of positions where you don't need to
Speaker 1: be war out, mainly that running back. There is a
Speaker 1: season in Cowboys history, a couple of seasons in Cowboys
Speaker 1: history that kind of plays to your point. In ninety two, okay,
Speaker 1: they stubbed their toe against Washington in Week fifteen and
Speaker 1: then came back and finished strong. Okay. In ninety three,
Speaker 1: of course, they dug a hole to start the season
Speaker 1: with the Emmett holdout, and he wasn't there the first
Speaker 1: two games, so they started ohing two and they rattled
Speaker 1: off seven straight wins, and then they had stubbed two
Speaker 1: to two toes, including the leon let on Thanksgiving Day,
Speaker 1: and they were even though they battled all the way back,
Speaker 1: they were strong enough mentally to close that season strong.
Speaker 1: Course that was a great team too, Yeah, no, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: young team though, wasn't it ninety four still. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: ninety four though they had the coaching change and they
Speaker 1: reeled off. I mean they were but ten and two
Speaker 1: at one point and then lost two of their last
Speaker 1: three and you know what happened sure after that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had fourth and one in Philly in December, and
Speaker 1: then they were able to salvage get in the top seed,
Speaker 1: and we're able to have enough gumption about them to
Speaker 1: make the total run to survive the Super Bowl. Survive.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what though, that's I like what Mickey's saying,
Speaker 1: but I just feel kind of feel like that. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's a young team that we're getting ready
Speaker 1: to find it. Yeah, if if, if they get into
Speaker 1: this game, this is this would be my biggest fear.
Speaker 1: And I'll take it a step further if they lose.
Speaker 1: If they lose, now, I'm really worried about a young team. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm really worried about a young team going to New
Speaker 1: York and win in a game. That's where I would
Speaker 1: That's where I would say, Okay, I'm trying. I see
Speaker 1: Mickey's point. Now I'm gonna take it a step further,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna put it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tie it to the young team. I think, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fair. They also could they don't they don't have
Speaker 1: the energy and they don't have the experience. Well, they
Speaker 1: also could still back into this thing. But yeah, but
Speaker 1: I hear you, moving forward even if they backing in
Speaker 1: doesn't bode well, no, I know, moving forward, No, right,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think if they back in, nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna favor them against Seattle or anything. Right, And if
Speaker 1: they if they back in, then what tests the championship
Speaker 1: medal of this team is how they do in the postseason.
Speaker 1: Right now we're testing it, and but they still need
Speaker 1: to do in the postseason. But first things first, they
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Speaker 1: sure how much his wife liked him. Oh, No, she
Speaker 1: left the door open one night and we came in
Speaker 1: and put shavy creeball over his face while he was
Speaker 1: in bed. What the hell I would shot that as somebody.
Speaker 1: I guess it's better than writing with a It's better
Speaker 1: write with a sharpie, pass out with draw mustache. Frank,
Speaker 1: you know I was in college. Yeah, we had just finished.
Speaker 1: He was an adult at that time. I graduate. I
Speaker 1: had graduated. He was in favor, no more favor. All right,
Speaker 1: what was your question? Question? Real quick? I know, I
Speaker 1: just take one minute. When I'm taking cough medicine right now,
Speaker 1: when it says non drowsy, do you believe them non
Speaker 1: drowsy during the day? Do you believe him? No? Not
Speaker 1: at all. That's just a prank. So if I'm taking
Speaker 1: no Roy, I'm gonna pass out at three o'clock today
Speaker 1: at my desk, I believe it. Because if you take
Speaker 1: the stuff that doesn't say it, yeah, you will get drowning. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure. I just never known. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was a bit, you know,
Speaker 1: like a yeah, take non drowsy. You know, I'm see
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You take like a big bite too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like day quill, you know, you take and then like
Speaker 1: in like thirty minutes later, you're at your head on
Speaker 1: your desk. You know, you're on your computer and it's
Speaker 1: all z's. It's like they're not lying when they tell you,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're gonna take some sort of medicine,
Speaker 1: to take it with a meal or with food. They're
Speaker 1: not joking. Who operates heavy machinery too? By the way,
Speaker 1: that's another one that was at back in the day.
Speaker 1: Don't operate heavy machinery. Okay, I'm gonna jump out here
Speaker 1: and do the bulldozer, you know the backyard. What what?
Speaker 1: I don't even how to use a screwdriver? I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you operated a heavy machine the back hole
Speaker 1: in yard till I was thirty? I mean thinking of
Speaker 1: operating heavy machinery. Did you see the Browns offensive line
Speaker 1: coach Bob Why Bob while he's the best. I love
Speaker 1: Bob that I've known him. Yes, Bob the best, and
Speaker 1: he was on the blocking and then like the next day, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he breaks his ankle. Whoa, Yeah, Bob's a good dude guy.
Speaker 1: I wish every I wish everybody could hang out with
Speaker 1: Bob Wiley. He is so much fun to be. He
Speaker 1: he the personality was great on that show. But that's
Speaker 1: what Bob Wiley really is. He's that kind of guy.
Speaker 1: He's just an old school fun guy to be. I'm
Speaker 1: glad glad Cleveland's having some success. And so you were
Speaker 1: with him where you know, I've know Bob, you know
Speaker 1: around you know, you go these pro days and stuff,
Speaker 1: and Bob's working out offensive lineman and you know, so
Speaker 1: you get to know these coaches and stuff. They're friendly,
Speaker 1: they know all the great places to eat, you know,
Speaker 1: the coaches that Bob Bob Bob. Which former cowboy assistant
Speaker 1: would you love to hang around with? Which one popped
Speaker 1: to mind immediately? But who do you have? Well, mine's
Speaker 1: not fair because I don't go around with him. But
Speaker 1: Tony Wise coach Joe Shoe, Oh coach show was Wise?
Speaker 1: Who I thought? Tony Wise is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But I had another one. Yeah, Oh, Joe Brodsky, he
Speaker 1: was just hon this is the day was long. Joe
Speaker 1: Brodsky had no filter. He really had my He was
Speaker 1: like Walt yours. Yeah, that's the scouting version. Walt was
Speaker 1: a former scout that said whatever he wanted to, even
Speaker 1: in the draft room. Even that's exactly right. My brother
Speaker 1: in law still tells the story of Cowboys training camp
Speaker 1: and he's watching Joe Brodsky and my brother in law
Speaker 1: he's actually a vice chancellor at Texas Tech. Now but
Speaker 1: not to brag, but uh but Texas Tech alum. And
Speaker 1: so Timmy Smith Texas Tech. Yes, yea, he was watching
Speaker 1: Cowboys in but he was with Cowboys in three camp
Speaker 1: and this was after his super Bowl performance for the Redskins. Um.
Speaker 1: Timmy was not a four point student, not at all,
Speaker 1: but it that way. And uh, Billy, my brother in
Speaker 1: law tell us the story of Brodsky watched the running
Speaker 1: back drills, stopping the drill and said, Timmy, this is
Speaker 1: your left, your right, that's Joe. That was Joe, absolutely Joe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great coaches, great coaches on that staff the Bucks stop here.
Speaker 1: Huh y, we're gonna actually we're gonna see that headline,
Speaker 1: uh Monday morning. Right for anyone who who takes a newspaper,
Speaker 1: Yeah you do? YouTube? YouTube? Rob doesn't Yeah exactly not
Speaker 1: yea online though, right online schure read why not? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Digital newspaper. Okay, So let's go around the horn, Mickey,
Speaker 1: you wanted to go first, because you were talking about
Speaker 1: your pick the click right yesterday. Weren't you like getting
Speaker 1: on Rob about his your his guy? I had one,
Speaker 1: he had picked one, so yeah, go ahead, get oh okay,
Speaker 1: now check off. Oh he was gonna steal. Well, go ahead,
Speaker 1: So I'm going first. I got the Cowboys in this game.
Speaker 1: I think they win it on their own. I think
Speaker 1: there's a chance they don't have to. We'll see what
Speaker 1: happens because Washington and Filler are both playing good teams.
Speaker 1: We'll see what they do. But I just think this defense,
Speaker 1: more than anything, gets back to doing what they do.
Speaker 1: I think it's DeMarcus Lawrence kind of a game where
Speaker 1: he's going to impact the game defensively and kind of
Speaker 1: lift up the other guys around him, and they win
Speaker 1: their style of game, something like twenty four seventeen Cowboys
Speaker 1: and the guy I'm looking at pick a click is
Speaker 1: in the secondary. Jeff Heath has eight career interceptions and
Speaker 1: three against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a couple of
Speaker 1: different games. He always seems to come up big against
Speaker 1: those pirates. Erry did research. Yeah, yeah, and yeah. He
Speaker 1: has multiple interception games on his ledger. In his career.
Speaker 1: He's just so you're going to a two pick game? Maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: why not? Why not? Why not? Cowboys win the East? Eric,
Speaker 1: get your hat, get get your hat ready. Cowboys twenty seven,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay twenty Oh, Mickey another seven point after a
Speaker 1: show it out, it's your pick. My pick is gonna
Speaker 1: be one. Ezekiel Elliott like it. I mean yards he'll
Speaker 1: have combined two hundred yards two hundred from scrimmage. Okay.
Speaker 1: Bill Jones is the now newly crowned gut feeling champion
Speaker 1: picking games for Dallas Cowboys dot com because why you
Speaker 1: still two games left? But if I pick something, you're
Speaker 1: just gonna pick the same. Right, You're you're not gonna
Speaker 1: win this championship, Robert, You're not gonna win this championship
Speaker 1: on my watch. It's our staff predictions, staff predictions. Give
Speaker 1: me the Cowboys in this one, twenty six to twenty.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say this is gonna be a big
Speaker 1: one for your quarterback. This quarterback, this team has. The
Speaker 1: Buccaneers have a good rush, but I think there's some
Speaker 1: plays to be made. I always say this when you
Speaker 1: watch sometimes a second this team will play some zone
Speaker 1: coverage against you if they get in some zone coverage,
Speaker 1: they get some too deep coverage. Dack's gonna have to
Speaker 1: take advantage of that. Give me the quarterback in this
Speaker 1: game and not calling it like a game like Philadelphia
Speaker 1: where he's throwing you know, fifty some odd passes. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be efficient. I think he's gonna be accurate,
Speaker 1: and I think that he's gonna the difference will be
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns. I do. I have the Cowboys
Speaker 1: winning this one, Mickey, twenty six to twenty. About that,
Speaker 1: I went one point off yours. I'm gonna give you,
Speaker 1: but I wrote it down. I wrote it down earlier.
Speaker 1: But that's yeah, twenty six twenty Cowboys, get your hat,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, enjoy it, and then let's figure out how
Speaker 1: to get things rested up for the playoffs. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give Dak sixty yards rushing. Oh oh, da'sna but he
Speaker 1: got Bill Jones all right. I recall a Cowboy Buccaneer
Speaker 1: playoff game in nineteen eighty two. Okay, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: Doug Williams playing quarterback, and that nineteen eighty one season,
Speaker 1: those Orange eighteen eighty one season, it was January second,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, and the Cowboy always the Bucks stopped here. Shutout,
Speaker 1: wasn't it? It was a shutout? Yeah, it was thirty
Speaker 1: eight to nothing. And I'm going with a duplication of
Speaker 1: that game, the Cowboys thirty eight to nothing over the
Speaker 1: years Byron Jones, Pro Bowl cornerback Byron Jones gets not
Speaker 1: one but two interceptions of Jamis Winston. He's gonna shut
Speaker 1: down Mike Evans. He's gonna win some jump He's gonna
Speaker 1: win at least one jump ball. So Bill's just taking
Speaker 1: that snow globe and just turning it upside down. Everything
Speaker 1: that's been going wrong or different. Yea, all problems fixed.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go download that play by play, so
Speaker 1: I have to refer to when the game's over. There
Speaker 1: you go. There it is. I just as I was
Speaker 1: sitting here, I had actually thirty eight to ten, and
Speaker 1: then I thought, no, wait a second, they you seek
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay way back when I think it was a shutout,
Speaker 1: and so I just picked it up. Thirty eight to nothing.
Speaker 1: That the first round game. That was a divisional playoff game,
Speaker 1: yeen eighty one. And then the next week they went
Speaker 1: to San Franciscisco. Yeah, yes, yeah, but no one remembers
Speaker 1: that thirty eight. I was some reason they remember what
Speaker 1: happened the following week. I did remember at ten six
Speaker 1: Buccaneer win it at the at the their place. That
Speaker 1: when fifteen. That's when Nick just the saltiest post games,
Speaker 1: saltiest Furst game report I've ever seen. Nick goes, I
Speaker 1: can't believe we just got beat by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: He had two picks in that game. Well, what was that?
Speaker 1: They had a weird score. They got a defensive holding
Speaker 1: call in that in that game too at the end,
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath remember they had it was kind of a
Speaker 1: strange way to end the game. Then they have a
Speaker 1: weird score and it was it two thousand and one
Speaker 1: or two thousand and two with Quincy Carter at quarterback
Speaker 1: and they got beat like ten to six. It was
Speaker 1: it was ten six? Was it the opener? It was?
Speaker 1: It was nine thousands into two thousands six, two thousand
Speaker 1: and one. Yeah, it was nine thousand degrees wearing blue jersey. Okay,
Speaker 1: speaking of that nineteen ninety one of my favorite Cowboys
Speaker 1: Buccaneers game by Aman to Michael Irvins, left the sideline
Speaker 1: and it was a seventeen thirteen Cowboys win at Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: And that was the hottest locker room I have ever been.
Speaker 1: Oh no, the old suburb, No that i'd been there.
Speaker 1: I just remember the trust. The locker room was as
Speaker 1: big as this room. Yeah, nob was bad because these
Speaker 1: six players in forty six members of the media in
Speaker 1: the same room with showers on in Tampa. Didn't They
Speaker 1: played Tampa twice that year? Oh lord, let me look,
Speaker 1: here's the musical. Have my read? They played him? Yes,
Speaker 1: they did, a couple of weeks later they played They
Speaker 1: played him a couple of weeks earlier too, And then
Speaker 1: that was Michael Irvin's coming out priorty after he tore
Speaker 1: as They said, why would they play him so close
Speaker 1: together as Tampa? Never mind? All right, Y'll be here
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. Right, we should be okay, very good, So
Speaker 1: joy the game? Why not Christmas Eve. This is production
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