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Speaker 1: your hosts Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, Taylor Stern and
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips. Welcome everybody into the SWBC Mortgage Studio. I'm Taylor,
Speaker 1: joined by Brian, Rob Mickey on this Friday before the
Speaker 1: Cowboys head to Atlanta to face the Falcons. Of course,
Speaker 1: lots of news here at the Star and Frisco is
Speaker 1: always and it's tour Friday, so it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have feistiness. We have lots of news to
Speaker 1: break down, of course, Ezeki Elliott. Hopefully you guys have
Speaker 1: heard all of our content on that since the news
Speaker 1: broke yesterday afternoon. But before we get to that, I
Speaker 1: want to know everyone's doing. And then Mick Mick's gonna
Speaker 1: run us through the injury report and we're gonna just
Speaker 1: keep on rolling. Guys doing good. Like you said, keep
Speaker 1: on rolling, right, they got to keep on rolling as
Speaker 1: a football team. Good coach, good coach. So before we
Speaker 1: get into all the Issygillett news, and we have lawyer
Speaker 1: Rob break it down and everyone Mick, why don't you
Speaker 1: run us through the injury report because this is the
Speaker 1: first week I feel like in a long time, you
Speaker 1: have some very very key injuries that need to watch.
Speaker 1: Anybody you're particularly interested in Ron Smith. Smith was not
Speaker 1: out there and I tried to stay as long as
Speaker 1: I could so he didn't backdoor me, right yeah and
Speaker 1: come in. But they were going through individual drills and
Speaker 1: he was not out there. So that's a d NP
Speaker 1: for him. Three days in a row. It doesn't look good.
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see how they designate him. I
Speaker 1: found out though, that you can make him questionable, questionable
Speaker 1: or even doubtful even though he hadn't practice all week.
Speaker 1: But what do you guys? And they've eliminated probable, So
Speaker 1: I don't think he plays Yeah, branded the old I
Speaker 1: don't think they're sing. I don't think they're trying to
Speaker 1: pull any fat. No, I don't think so either. Also
Speaker 1: not practicing Jeff Swain uh. Jason Garrett told us that
Speaker 1: in the walk off he uh did something with his
Speaker 1: knee and wasn't going to practice today. So that'll be
Speaker 1: an interesting one to watch if they want to keep.
Speaker 1: If he can't go and they want to keep three
Speaker 1: tight ends available. Maybe, Um, I forgot his name, Blake
Speaker 1: Jake Jarwin. I was going, I was gonna, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, you gonna pull it off? Yeah, I couldn't
Speaker 1: remember his name. Jarwin, Oklahoma State, see like eighty nine
Speaker 1: or something. Yes, sir, so yeah I got that part.
Speaker 1: Uh so maybe he's active if Swain can't go. Evidently
Speaker 1: they did do a test on it and came back negative,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens there. But after that, MALIEK.
Speaker 1: Collins was out there, Um Brown was out there. A
Speaker 1: Woozier was out there. Bailey was out there doing the
Speaker 1: same thing he did yesterday, which was basically go through
Speaker 1: warm ups stretching and then goes outside and begins his rehab.
Speaker 1: And Dez Bryant was out there there you go, and
Speaker 1: he d good news, moving around quite well, I might add.
Speaker 1: And just before I walked off, he ran a little
Speaker 1: They were doing those little individual routes and against air,
Speaker 1: and he did a little bit of a It was
Speaker 1: kind of a down and out about twenty yards, caught
Speaker 1: the ball one handed, going towards the sideline, pulled it
Speaker 1: in and tippy dode down the sideline and stayed in bound,
Speaker 1: so I would say he's probably good to go, and
Speaker 1: that's probably the best news I gave you. And obviously
Speaker 1: not there Ezekiel Elliott, who began his suspension immediately. What
Speaker 1: was it about two thirty yesterday when that position came
Speaker 1: down around there, So at that point he was suspended.
Speaker 1: I wonder if he had to fly back on his own. So, yes,
Speaker 1: the three judges that we gave you guys a full
Speaker 1: scouting report on yeah day, well i'll tell you what
Speaker 1: they did not ring. And it was kind of odd,
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe it was just where we were
Speaker 1: sitting brand but you know, you and I were talking
Speaker 1: and seemed like everything we were hearing at least tweets
Speaker 1: different reports coming from New York, it sounded favorable for
Speaker 1: ze Gilliet and of course the news comes down. Now
Speaker 1: there is going to be another hearing on December first,
Speaker 1: so we can get into what that means. But Zeke
Speaker 1: Elliott for the time being is suspended. Yeah, kind of
Speaker 1: get hurt because you have a Thanksgiving Day game on
Speaker 1: the snow. You get the Thursday after Thanksgiving because they
Speaker 1: play Washington, play Washington December. Yeah, November, you could have
Speaker 1: been it could have been a three three week thing.
Speaker 1: Possibly if you've got have been ruling in your favor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's probably. Lawyer Rob says it's probably a
Speaker 1: long shot to get him back before the six games
Speaker 1: are over. I mean there's a chance it's an expedited appeal,
Speaker 1: so it's a couple of weeks before what do you
Speaker 1: look at the fact that they ruled it to be expedited.
Speaker 1: That is a consolation. Yeah, But it all depends on
Speaker 1: how long it takes them to deliberate, how many people,
Speaker 1: how how involved is that appeal going to be. Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be three new judges, three new judges and
Speaker 1: these guys got it done in an hour and a half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But it's also of the overall case, right, it's not
Speaker 1: just we're not just ruling on an injunction here, so
Speaker 1: like more the merits right than just. I listened to
Speaker 1: the majority of the arguments from yesterday and in the
Speaker 1: when the NFL was making their point. One of the
Speaker 1: things one of the judges pointed out was that in
Speaker 1: this case, if it wasn't for a legal procedure, Judge
Speaker 1: Mazant had ruled in Zeke's favor. Yeah, and that would
Speaker 1: have taken precedence and they would have had to appeal
Speaker 1: and prove that ruling wrong, other than going to the
Speaker 1: court in New Orleans to say, hey, they jumped a gun.
Speaker 1: He didn't have or asdiction to do this. So they
Speaker 1: actually went to the point of pointing that out to
Speaker 1: the NFL's lawyer when he was making his argument. So
Speaker 1: the funny thing was when we were reading the live tweets,
Speaker 1: most of the live tweets were coming out on what
Speaker 1: the judges were asking the NFL lawyer right. What didn't
Speaker 1: come out is what they were asking Zeke's lawyer right,
Speaker 1: And a lot of it had to do with evidence exclusion,
Speaker 1: their charge of right, and they basically were saying, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the commissioner has this right, the arbitrator has
Speaker 1: this right. They can't make the accuser show up to testify,
Speaker 1: even though the guy pointed out they didn't even ask.
Speaker 1: And then they got into this all this stuff about
Speaker 1: when did Lisa Friel say this? When did they show
Speaker 1: the commissioner that? And they were questioning the attorney on
Speaker 1: evidence exclusion. They did question the NFL on irreparable arm
Speaker 1: And that's why I thought the thing was turning because
Speaker 1: they said, hey, you took fourteen months to investigate this thing.
Speaker 1: What if he took four more months and the season
Speaker 1: was over, right, So you obviously weren't in a hurry
Speaker 1: to have him suspended. Yeah, and then the NFL guy
Speaker 1: pointed out, but the reason we want him suspended because
Speaker 1: let's say he gets injured and then he can say,
Speaker 1: I'll take my six game suspension now while I'm injured,
Speaker 1: and we don't want players kind of manipulating the system. Rob,
Speaker 1: you look frustrated. No, I'm not. I just I mean,
Speaker 1: it didn't take him very long. It took him thirty
Speaker 1: minutes after it was over. It seems like they knew
Speaker 1: what they were going to do. They had a good
Speaker 1: feeling about this be my impression of it. But why
Speaker 1: do you think they ordered an expedited hearing on the appeal?
Speaker 1: They kicked the can down the street a little further
Speaker 1: make him feel better or what? Yeah, well, you know,
Speaker 1: let's have three other judges to decide what they want
Speaker 1: to do, because it's what we thought wouldn't happen till
Speaker 1: April May. I haven't. I haven't figured out this case yet.
Speaker 1: I know, I know for a fact though, it's the
Speaker 1: Article forty six. Though. Oh they brought up Article forty
Speaker 1: six Section A. Yeah, I know, it's Article forty six,
Speaker 1: and nobody wants to hear about that because you've given
Speaker 1: the Commission of the power the players have. They've given
Speaker 1: the commission of the power to hear these to be
Speaker 1: judge and jury. Yeah, so you've you've signed away that, right.
Speaker 1: But I yeah, every time that I want to believe
Speaker 1: that I have an understanding, No, I don't even yes,
Speaker 1: even great. It reminds me so much of the difficulty
Speaker 1: that I think that we all share when you're trying
Speaker 1: to predict how football games are going to turn out.
Speaker 1: You know, you think you have all the facts, you
Speaker 1: think you have all the information, and then it goes
Speaker 1: a completely another direction. Yeah, you know, And that's and
Speaker 1: that's what this legal thing has become for me. I
Speaker 1: just keep looking back at Article forty six and I
Speaker 1: say that to me, is what these judges based their
Speaker 1: opinions on. Now I haven't seen this, maybe Rob has,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Did we see what the decision was?
Speaker 1: Was it like a clean sleep three zero? I didn't
Speaker 1: hear a score a scoreboard split decision? No, didn't get
Speaker 1: a scoreboard there. But you know, if I think if
Speaker 1: you've got a split decision, you would have we would
Speaker 1: have heard from one of the judges in their opinion
Speaker 1: say this is why I felt the way I did.
Speaker 1: But they haven't even written anything yet. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: that unless it hasn't just been that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just check their website. The six
Speaker 1: games go on. Figure out a way now to play
Speaker 1: with it. I mean, the bottom line with all this
Speaker 1: is that you're not going to see him at least
Speaker 1: for four games and probably all six. So it is
Speaker 1: what it is now. I mean, I feel like we talked.
Speaker 1: We talked about this on the podcast yesterday when the
Speaker 1: news came down. I feel like we sat on the
Speaker 1: tennis court at knox Nard and said, more or less,
Speaker 1: this very well could happen if he gets to New York.
Speaker 1: It's labor law, it's in the NFL's backyard, and there's precedent,
Speaker 1: there's the Brady case, and here we are. So you know,
Speaker 1: the unfortunate thing for the Cowboys is they're five and three,
Speaker 1: they're in a playoff race. Here, they're just now starting
Speaker 1: to get some momentum with their offense, with their defense,
Speaker 1: and can that sustain itself without your best player, very
Speaker 1: very quite possibly your best player on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's him or Dak or one of your offensive linemen
Speaker 1: or Shan Lee. So I just you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be difficult. I mean, I'm always the wet blanket
Speaker 1: guy with the crew because I just look at this
Speaker 1: and say, you know, you start taking guys away, you
Speaker 1: start taking things away, take away, Tyren Smith put a
Speaker 1: banged up, Does Brian out there take Ezekiel Eliat away?
Speaker 1: You know, you're that's that's stuff you have to deal with.
Speaker 1: But you know what, it's going to compromise how you
Speaker 1: play this football game. Would you argue that it's been
Speaker 1: difficult this entire season for the team or do you
Speaker 1: think they've been able to manage some stability, some focus
Speaker 1: with this whole ongoing process and well they're five and three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm saying, you know, have they have
Speaker 1: you still seen what you wanted to see from them
Speaker 1: outside of everything off the field? Oh? I think that,
Speaker 1: Like Rob says, though, offensively, you're kind of getting things
Speaker 1: on track. That fourth quarter of the Green Bay game
Speaker 1: kind of kind of got you in the right direction
Speaker 1: of what you've been able to do the last three
Speaker 1: games in a quarter. Uh, you know, it's a shame
Speaker 1: that you're going to lose that that part of your
Speaker 1: offense because to me, as much as we want to
Speaker 1: say the defense is turned around, Mickey's right about this.
Speaker 1: A lot of the time the points, the points, the
Speaker 1: ability to score a lot of points put you now
Speaker 1: at least gives them an opportunity. Now, they might lose
Speaker 1: games and it shootouts, you know, we've seen that happen,
Speaker 1: but at least, like you say that, the points have
Speaker 1: allowed them to play defense at a little bit different level.
Speaker 1: And there you know, as as they're as they're working
Speaker 1: through those games, you know they're they're having some young
Speaker 1: guys step up, they're having some pass rush, they're tackling better,
Speaker 1: Sean Lee and Anthy Hitchens are tackling. I mean, those
Speaker 1: of the things that help your defense is because your
Speaker 1: offense has got you an eleven point league going into
Speaker 1: the you know, the final drive. I don't think Tay,
Speaker 1: this whole saga has really weighed on the players minds
Speaker 1: day to day, game to game. As much as people
Speaker 1: want to think outside. I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: it's probably weighed on Zeke, but I think it's pretty
Speaker 1: telling what Jason Garrett said in his press conmerce today,
Speaker 1: he didn't give the team a dissertation about what's going on.
Speaker 1: I think the team's very well aware of what's been
Speaker 1: happening here. But you saw the juice that he gave
Speaker 1: them last Friday when he came in the locker room
Speaker 1: and oh, he's ready to play as eligible to play.
Speaker 1: The guys were fired up, as Brian said, standing ovation.
Speaker 1: They know exactly what he means to this offense. And
Speaker 1: that's no disrespect to the other backs. He's just the
Speaker 1: special back, and like Brian said, they've got to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to I mean, you can't replace him
Speaker 1: with one guy. I think it's got to be three
Speaker 1: guys who kind of bring a little something different each
Speaker 1: to the table. I think about him all the time
Speaker 1: in this way. As great as Tony Romo was, yeah,
Speaker 1: they still drafted this kid to help Tony Romo. You know,
Speaker 1: you kind of think about you know, yeah, initially was Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tony Romo is one of the best quarterbacks ever to
Speaker 1: suit it up here, and you know, but they still said,
Speaker 1: you know what, we can get Tony some war help here,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's what Prescott's done. I mean he
Speaker 1: is again i'd say it's thirty three percent of your offense.
Speaker 1: And he's also your blitz pickup guy. And he's also
Speaker 1: your short yardage back. And he's also your guy on
Speaker 1: the backfield that catches of football. He's also the guy
Speaker 1: on the goal line when it's when you know you're
Speaker 1: going to run the football and it's two yards, he
Speaker 1: gets three yards, it gets in the end zone. He's
Speaker 1: also your home run threat besides Deza. So it hasn't
Speaker 1: affected him. It's affected him that he's been on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now we'll see if it affects him. That's what the
Speaker 1: question you're going to ask me on Monday, right and
Speaker 1: probably Wednesday, and probably the next day and the next
Speaker 1: one day. You know, is Zeke's absence affecting them? Now?
Speaker 1: What you hope? It's your guts say it'd make that
Speaker 1: the poll every day. Yeah, did it affect him? I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if it'll affect him from a energy standpoint. That's
Speaker 1: a good point. Now, obviously there's going to be some
Speaker 1: effect with his absence from a from a playing standpoint,
Speaker 1: But now are they down, you know, oh, Zeke's not here.
Speaker 1: What do we do? Or are they soldier forward? And
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of that's going to have
Speaker 1: to do with the coaching staff to make sure a
Speaker 1: depression doesn't set in. Because Zeke's not here, They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to double down on making sure they're ready to play.
Speaker 1: For one of the good things this head coach has
Speaker 1: done is he keeps his teams in games. And he
Speaker 1: I mean he's remained even key. Yes that's true. So
Speaker 1: he wasn't the one that was hooping in Holler and
Speaker 1: last Friday right now, the players got fired up and
Speaker 1: you know, they were playing the music and doing normal
Speaker 1: stuff today, I think that they should understand that they've
Speaker 1: got to individually have a bigger burden now absolutely on
Speaker 1: this team's success. And I'll tell you the other thing
Speaker 1: they understand is they better mind themselves because if this
Speaker 1: can help and happen to Ezekiel Elliott, it can happen
Speaker 1: to you, right, And so maybe the NFL wanted this up.
Speaker 1: Is the big deterrent. You better not mess around because
Speaker 1: these courts aren't going to rule in your favor, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I wonder if it is almost a benefit. Maybe
Speaker 1: this is a stretch to say this, but that it
Speaker 1: is a road game this weekend, because sometimes these guys,
Speaker 1: you know, you brought it up, Mickey, Coach Garrett is
Speaker 1: so good even kill on road games. They have great focus.
Speaker 1: They know this is a business trip, you know, with
Speaker 1: an out of sight, out of mind type of perspective,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of you have that time in the
Speaker 1: plane to really focus on the game. That plane ride
Speaker 1: always going to whatever is they're sleeping. But there's really quiet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is really quiet. Yeah, and just the mentality of
Speaker 1: it's just us of out here. Yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like that, like us against this and now you're not
Speaker 1: in the home stadium where they do a great job
Speaker 1: of showing every player that everyone's excited about. I mean,
Speaker 1: I felt like it saw Zeke on the JumboTron million
Speaker 1: times last week. You know, So maybe this is some
Speaker 1: benefit to be like yo rally. Yeah, we'll see when
Speaker 1: the first when the first difficult situation comes in a game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what you said. You asked Mickey that what's
Speaker 1: your gut feeling, Brian, And I'll ask you the same
Speaker 1: roun before we go to our first break. I think
Speaker 1: it's I think there's enough talent around, you know, with
Speaker 1: the running back situation to be effective. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's going to be great. I feel like though you're
Speaker 1: you're putting a lot of pressure on the quarterback. But
Speaker 1: you know, the quarterback has played very well this year,
Speaker 1: you know, and so you're gonna have to ask him
Speaker 1: that you're gonna lean on him a little more. We
Speaker 1: always talk about leaning on the line. I think Dez Bryant,
Speaker 1: you know, the reason why he's banged up is and
Speaker 1: he's going to come back and try and play this
Speaker 1: week is because he knows what's on the line. He
Speaker 1: knows with his teammates, he knows they need a lift,
Speaker 1: you know, if he could go out there and provide
Speaker 1: a lift. I think everybody has to play with that
Speaker 1: type of attitude that you know what, Hey, we lost
Speaker 1: a big, big part of what we are. We lost
Speaker 1: our identity to a point, but somebody's gonna have to
Speaker 1: step up and take that role, you know, And I
Speaker 1: for the next six weeks, you can't feel sorry yourself.
Speaker 1: Nobody feels sorry for yourself in this league. There are
Speaker 1: people all over the league saying, you know what Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman last, Yeah, nobody's feeling sorry for you. I mean
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, topbreak, Richard Sherman. You know that people
Speaker 1: are saying, hey, toughbreak, Cowboys, you lost a Zeka. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like though that, but you better figure it
Speaker 1: out quick because you don't want this. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: really basically, I still believe. I don't think I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say you're not fighting for the division because you look
Speaker 1: at how many games are left, and you know what
Speaker 1: the Eagles have and what they've done so far, and
Speaker 1: you got to give them credit for that. You play
Speaker 1: them two more times and that will that be enough?
Speaker 1: But you know, you got to think about where you're
Speaker 1: positioning is and you just can't give games away and say, oh,
Speaker 1: only because Zeke Elliott's not here, we're playing like crap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this this opponent too, it's a little concerning because
Speaker 1: Atlanta is more talented than what they've shown off. Absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: And you just have to think at some point, as
Speaker 1: well as the Cowboys defense is playing, maybe it's not
Speaker 1: this week. They're gonna break through and they're gonna put
Speaker 1: up thirty points in a football game, because I don't
Speaker 1: think they've done it all year long, or least at
Speaker 1: least not in the first Maybe there's three games, the
Speaker 1: green Bay game, the Green Bay game, I think they
Speaker 1: I think they beat Green Bay with thirty. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on their offense to get it
Speaker 1: going this way. So you know they've been up, they've
Speaker 1: been able to get off to fast starts in games.
Speaker 1: Cowboys gonna have to match that. One thing that does
Speaker 1: lend some optimism without Zeke in this game specifically, is
Speaker 1: that the four games that Atlanta has lost this year,
Speaker 1: they've given up one hundred and fifty four rushing yards average.
Speaker 1: They have allowed teams to run on them. So you
Speaker 1: look at it and you say, it's still our offense.
Speaker 1: It's still our scheme. We have backs, we trust, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to run our offense the best ability
Speaker 1: that we can. And having Dez it maybe eighty five percent,
Speaker 1: If he's eighty five percent, maybe maybe that's enough to
Speaker 1: give you a boost and give you the balance you
Speaker 1: need in this matchup. You know, the weird thing that
Speaker 1: they've given up rushing yards is basically didn't Dan Queen
Speaker 1: come there with his defensive scheme from Seattle, and we
Speaker 1: know what Seattle does, right. They they jammed the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, play single safety high right, and and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys they're gonna get ready for it. That's what they're
Speaker 1: gonna see. Now. Can these running backs plow through the
Speaker 1: eighth man front right way Zeke does, right, because the
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't normally back off from that. But that's what
Speaker 1: they're gonna face right now. I'm wondering if, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, Dan Quinn's gonna make sure his team doesn't
Speaker 1: get relax and go ha no Ezekiel Elliott. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got it made Sunday right, and and not relax and
Speaker 1: think that these other like I keep saying, these other
Speaker 1: two guys or three guys ain't going out there on
Speaker 1: metal crutches. You know, they can still run the football
Speaker 1: over ten thou yards might right, Rob about backup running
Speaker 1: backs that you got going into this game. Not everybody
Speaker 1: has that, and most of it is the two veteran guys.
Speaker 1: But Rod Smith has shown he can run the ball too,
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's over. I mean, that's that's that's experience
Speaker 1: and depth that most teams don't have. It's not like
Speaker 1: they don't have a proving guy back there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put it back on the defense, back on how to
Speaker 1: play well. Yeah, if they'll they will cobble together enough
Speaker 1: points to win. Well, that's offense. But don't make them
Speaker 1: score thirty. Yeah, don't make them score forty to win.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven twenty four needs to be enough. Make he's
Speaker 1: just given his predictions at the end of the first segment,
Speaker 1: he's fired up. He's right. I appreciate you guys giving
Speaker 1: such a great explanation into all of this. It has
Speaker 1: been very confusing, and you guys have done a great
Speaker 1: job helping everyone get a little bit more understanding on this.
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Speaker 1: you brought it up. Jeff Swaim was injured this week,
Speaker 1: and the tight end that sometimes goes under the radar.
Speaker 1: Jeff Swaim injured had an MRI already waiting to year results.
Speaker 1: So what do you guys think about this injury and
Speaker 1: how this will affect the tight ends? I thought you
Speaker 1: brought up a good point, Mickey. Of course they did
Speaker 1: bring up Blake Jarwin, the tight end from Oklahoma State
Speaker 1: two weeks ago to the active roster. What do you
Speaker 1: guys think of this? Nothing? Ah? I mean, if we're
Speaker 1: gonna worry about the third tight end or the second
Speaker 1: tight end causing you a game, obviously it doesn't help
Speaker 1: because when they go three tight ends, at least they
Speaker 1: have three guys capable of running out for a pass.
Speaker 1: I don't think Blake Jarwin's probably ready to block in
Speaker 1: this league. Yeah, I think That's why I was going
Speaker 1: to more so ask the blocking, but out there for
Speaker 1: two tight end sets, I would rather see more of
Speaker 1: Ryan Switzer than I would Blake Charlwin. If that's if
Speaker 1: that means, if you want to go personnel wise, give
Speaker 1: me more of Beasley and Switzer with the big play potential,
Speaker 1: then say, okay, we're gonna get in thirteen personnel and
Speaker 1: just try. And I think your twelve personnel stuff is okay.
Speaker 1: I think your twenty one personnel stuff is okay too.
Speaker 1: When you put in I think we're gonna see more
Speaker 1: of Keith Smith, you know, with the in these next
Speaker 1: six weeks. So if Blake Jarwin's part of that, if
Speaker 1: you're focusing on him, probably the wrong thing to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: focus on focus on getting Switzer more involved, Focus more
Speaker 1: on getting Keith Smith involved as well. Why do you
Speaker 1: say more Keith Smith? Do you think the backs are
Speaker 1: more comfortable with the eye formation backs they're gonna need,
Speaker 1: They're gonna need some physicality running the football. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: gonna need. And Alfred Morris is a good one back runner.
Speaker 1: I will say this though, I think in some third
Speaker 1: those third down situations, those fourth down situations, Garrett's even
Speaker 1: said it. He goes, you can't get crazy on fourth down,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, we saw him go for fourth
Speaker 1: and on his side of the fifty. He's kind of
Speaker 1: one of those Hey, I've got to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: how this is gonna work. I say, ninety percent of
Speaker 1: the time I was talking about this, ninety percent of
Speaker 1: the time on third and one, fourth and short, that
Speaker 1: kind of you were getting that and the league averages
Speaker 1: sixty eight percent on that. So that's a big, big
Speaker 1: difference right there. That takes that. You know, when you know,
Speaker 1: when you get sustaining drives, protecting your defense, helping you know,
Speaker 1: all those things that we were talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: they got to find a way to keep that going.
Speaker 1: You can't go back to where this offense was two
Speaker 1: years ago when they were struggling on third down and
Speaker 1: one and everyone was a and then it was a
Speaker 1: play call. Oh he got cute, he did this. He
Speaker 1: did that. I mean they had to because they couldn't
Speaker 1: run it. Run it now. So yeah, that's why, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's why you have Keith Smith. Although they
Speaker 1: gave them a little little something to think about on
Speaker 1: that third and one against Kansas City when they read
Speaker 1: option did the little no the little swing pass? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was it was? It too? One of the tight ends
Speaker 1: or was it Beasley that they threw short Beasley short pass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's to me that just you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be different. It's gonna be and
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything everybody doesn't already know, but it
Speaker 1: you just you're you're it's sometimes it's like it's really
Speaker 1: easy on that place sheet to look down there and say, okay,
Speaker 1: give the ball to twenty one here, absolutely, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be secondary six and it's second and six. Okay,
Speaker 1: give the ball to twenty one again, it's third and one.
Speaker 1: Give the ball to twenty one again, it's a first down,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, three minutes is off
Speaker 1: the clock, you know. Yeah, and then and your defense
Speaker 1: is sitting over there kind of sipping gait or eight
Speaker 1: and thinking, oh, man, Zeke could just get this one home.
Speaker 1: You know, we got a lead here, let's go. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that's where you're gonna be different. Coach Garrett said
Speaker 1: last week, Hey, Zeke is one of those players that
Speaker 1: when they are big moments, he wants the ball. Great
Speaker 1: players that He said that just last week. And so
Speaker 1: to see that, Brian, You're right, that's gonna be a heavy,
Speaker 1: heavy miss. Yeah you said, you mentioned the down and distance.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that gets you two three, four extra yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just because of his physicality and his ability to make
Speaker 1: guys miss. I think Alfred Morris can make guys miss
Speaker 1: in the whole. He can't, you know, he can do that.
Speaker 1: But the physicality maybe that's where Rod Smith comes in
Speaker 1: to provide that element in short yard of situations, we'll see.
Speaker 1: We got to figure that out. Yeah, that's what you
Speaker 1: have to do when you get to this game. And
Speaker 1: you know, the sad thing about it is that you
Speaker 1: kind of had it figured out with a sque Elliott.
Speaker 1: You had it. You had it figured out last year,
Speaker 1: and you had it figured out a little bit this
Speaker 1: year too. You know, you're starting to get those things
Speaker 1: going forward in a right way. And you know, I
Speaker 1: just to me, it's it's it's it's it's really disheartening
Speaker 1: and disappointing because you know this this team is capable
Speaker 1: of a run, they really are. But yeah, but you
Speaker 1: just now have to stop and change a tire and
Speaker 1: you don't point, and you don't have a tire ern
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, and one of the things
Speaker 1: um Lenahan pointed out when he was talking about workload
Speaker 1: yesterday for practice at the end he kind of trailed off,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people missed it, he said.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Rod's been getting a lot of
Speaker 1: work too in situation, so it's not like he's been
Speaker 1: sitting there and not practicing, right because they've been getting
Speaker 1: him ready for those times I've used him. So yeah,
Speaker 1: don't don't discount this is you said it headed monster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you said it earlier. Though it might start off with
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris and then it ends up as the it
Speaker 1: ends up as being somebody else. And my owner spoke
Speaker 1: highly of Darren McFadden this morning. By the way, hothand
Speaker 1: Scepter this weekend against Tella. Shoot, oh, there you go.
Speaker 1: It's always a tough matchup. Yeah, yeah, I take an
Speaker 1: hello there, I would be sad. No, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think Alfred sounds like Lenahan said, he probably gets
Speaker 1: the first shot at it. But does this thing kind
Speaker 1: of sort itself out over the course of these next
Speaker 1: four quarters, next couple of games, who's running the ball best?
Speaker 1: And then maybe you do settle on one guy. For
Speaker 1: the most part, it's possible. I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: going to see a true three man committee for six
Speaker 1: or eight games. They haven't really shown that they've found
Speaker 1: a guy and kind of rode with that guy. That's
Speaker 1: been history. I mean not to say it won't be
Speaker 1: different this time around, but if you look at since
Speaker 1: Scott Linehan has been here, it's been usually generally a
Speaker 1: one guy show and then as they supplement as they
Speaker 1: go along. So it'll sort itself out. We hope it does.
Speaker 1: It will. Positivity from you, Mick, it's gotten into you.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, I don't know. I like that positively.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying being realistic. But you're gonna put it
Speaker 1: on the defense, right, But yeah, just don't make me
Speaker 1: score thirty points. Yeah. See, that's the that's and that
Speaker 1: was your safety blanket, that was your stat was that's
Speaker 1: what helped this defense throughout. Yeah, if they could score
Speaker 1: thirty points, perfect seg Mick. Give us the injury report
Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Falcons yesterday. Well, all I know is
Speaker 1: Julio Jones didn't practice again. Who now he may be.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that like I'm excited for injuries in
Speaker 1: the same boat as uh Dez because Dez didn't practice yesterday,
Speaker 1: right either, and I imagine he's going to practice today.
Speaker 1: So from I mean, from their injuries, I think that's
Speaker 1: probably the most important one too. I'm guessing those guys
Speaker 1: that were limited, like DeVante Freeman, he's gonna be good. Yes,
Speaker 1: Matt Bryant, you know, I don't know. They signed a
Speaker 1: new kicker, signed a new kicker, So Mike Meyer, he
Speaker 1: might not make. It's one of my good feelings in
Speaker 1: this game, you know, kickers. Kickers, Yeah, come down to
Speaker 1: a stop or a missed field goal, either way the
Speaker 1: best time. But think about that though, either it could
Speaker 1: go either way. I mean, we've just kind of seen
Speaker 1: our guy make extra points and bang them off the uprights,
Speaker 1: you know, true, Yeah, but I mean the trick shot.
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, perfect kind of stuff. Perfect. I hope
Speaker 1: that that doesn't come down to that, but it very
Speaker 1: well could. So that last week, if you don't score
Speaker 1: a lot of points, and they're not going to score
Speaker 1: a lot of points, what does it usually come down
Speaker 1: to some kind of kick? Every extra point is important,
Speaker 1: every extra point, guys, of course, lots of questions. Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: the defending NFL MVP Yeah, a lot of people are
Speaker 1: asking questions like, why is he not having the production? Well,
Speaker 1: their return team, the Atlanta's punt return team not good,
Speaker 1: not putting him in good field position at all. So
Speaker 1: really a matchup that I'm watching an underrated one. Chris
Speaker 1: Jones verse the Atlanta return team. If you're talking about
Speaker 1: coming down to kicks, you're talking about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it comes down to field position too. Well. Chris
Speaker 1: Jones has the ability to flip the field. You know,
Speaker 1: he has the ability. The directional punting is a weapon,
Speaker 1: and if you can find a way to you know,
Speaker 1: with Cavon Fraser and those guys covering. You know, Mickey
Speaker 1: talks about blocking guys. You know, well, Caloy was doing
Speaker 1: a nice job of getting their gunners down the field
Speaker 1: and making that work. But then you got a guy
Speaker 1: like Jones that could punch you in a corner and
Speaker 1: then build guys around him. So yeah, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's key in any football game, but especially with what
Speaker 1: you have in Chris Jones. Yeah. Yeah, Cavon Frasier Rogers
Speaker 1: talking to him yesterday, he gave Jones credit for being
Speaker 1: that guy to put them in the right spots. And
Speaker 1: Cavon has been doubled a lot. Uh yeah, in coverage
Speaker 1: on punt coverage, but he still got ten tackles, leads
Speaker 1: the league or leads the team, might be up there
Speaker 1: in the league stats as well. So he was an
Speaker 1: active a game too, Yeah, which shows you. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna happen again. Yeah, but absolutely. And
Speaker 1: the other thing to field position. I said earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, Atlanta hasn't really handed Matt Ryan extra possessions.
Speaker 1: They only have six takeaways. That's I think tied for
Speaker 1: the lowest in the league. So hey, don't give him
Speaker 1: any extra possessions if you're Dallas. Yeah, absolutely. Now looking
Speaker 1: ahead at Julio Jones. Okay, so if we're not going
Speaker 1: to let them score, and we're not gonna let Julio
Speaker 1: Jones and Davante Freeman have a day, Tevin Coleman, how
Speaker 1: do you do that in this game? You know, are
Speaker 1: they going to attack this Cowboys secondary? Are they going
Speaker 1: to expose them? Well, he's always looking for Julio. I'm curious,
Speaker 1: how do you think middle of the field, Middle of
Speaker 1: the field, middle of the field, get ready for that?
Speaker 1: The Falcons. He tends to throw the ball. When he's
Speaker 1: throwing short, he throws flat to the flats, and when
Speaker 1: he throws downfield, it tends to be in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. He's one of those guys it's not
Speaker 1: afraid to make that if you're playing too safety's you're
Speaker 1: playing single high, He's not afraid to take a shot
Speaker 1: down the middle. Their receivers are really good on double moves.
Speaker 1: Be ready for that. We talked about what the problems
Speaker 1: that Anthony Brown has had a little bit with the
Speaker 1: double move peeks inside all of a sudden he'd lose
Speaker 1: his track of where this guy is. So I expect
Speaker 1: that the Falcons will will will try and attack the
Speaker 1: middle of field. Austin Hooper the tight ends, another guy
Speaker 1: you have to kind of watch work in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. But they will take some shots. I mean,
Speaker 1: Kansas City took some shots with Hill. The Falcons will
Speaker 1: do the same thing in this football And they've missed
Speaker 1: a couple of different opportunities too the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks for some shots that were open and just could not.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I absolutely they're one of the better teams
Speaker 1: in the league. Dallas is the third in the league
Speaker 1: in in sacks and then you've got Atlanta as a
Speaker 1: top fifteen, top twelve, I believe when it comes to
Speaker 1: protecting the quarterbacks. So something's gonna have to give there.
Speaker 1: Can you control the running game? Can you make Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan have to throw the football? And can you get
Speaker 1: to him so they don't get those deep shots? Yo, Dino, Yo, Dino,
Speaker 1: tell me more. Send them. That's the way you send
Speaker 1: those guys can get a pass rush. Yeah, just like
Speaker 1: they did against Kansas City. They they're gonna have plays.
Speaker 1: They're gonna make plays. Yeah, you just hope they make
Speaker 1: them and you don't give them to them like missed assignments. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what you that's what you're worried about in the
Speaker 1: Kansas City game last Yes, you're worried about guys. And
Speaker 1: actually it was one of the better assignment games they had.
Speaker 1: If you look at the interception that was made, Orlando
Speaker 1: Scandrick with a smart play coming off, you know, coming
Speaker 1: out of his zone, reading exactly knowing what's going on, ball,
Speaker 1: going to the middle of the field. He's there, Jeff
Speaker 1: heat driving on a football. You gotta have all that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The only bust you really seem to have was the
Speaker 1: Hill Mary at the end of the half, and that
Speaker 1: was I mean, that was just Strategyoki. Yeah, well that
Speaker 1: was a couple of that was all hill Yeah, a
Speaker 1: couple of mistackles and but he freezes you. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: freems a lot of yards to start with. Superhero he
Speaker 1: is man is Yeah, gets seven guys that freezing their
Speaker 1: steps and just watch them. Yeah. Weird question, guys. Do
Speaker 1: you guys know if the Falcons are wearing red jerseys
Speaker 1: this weekend or what is their jersey color. I'm not
Speaker 1: aware of that. It's got a weird u weird tweeting
Speaker 1: that took my notice. Well, the Cowboys are only wearing blue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Charger game, in the in the New York Giants game.
Speaker 1: So yeah. Somebody said the Boys have beat all the
Speaker 1: red jersey teams. They have played some, and they do
Speaker 1: it again. There we go. Where's my phone number? I'm
Speaker 1: calling Vegas, Arizona, San Francisco, Washington, Kansas City. I consider
Speaker 1: a red jersey they're wearing. Yes, they're wearing the red
Speaker 1: jersey with the white pants. Two falcons there. It is book.
Speaker 1: That's funny though, it really is. That's what Washington's red
Speaker 1: kind of burgundy. Isn't it burgundy? And that was their
Speaker 1: their their alternative jerseys. Yeah, it didn't wear their normal one,
Speaker 1: right because somebody said, that's a nice jersey, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't go with their helmet. I said, what's because that's
Speaker 1: not their jersey, right, And you can't change helmets any
Speaker 1: here and define red, define define red? Ent who are
Speaker 1: at the goat of my fantasy team? It is yes red?
Speaker 1: Is she all that red in the stadium last week? Mickey?
Speaker 1: I did see all that red. It showed up pretty
Speaker 1: prominent at lead too, didn't it? Did They were doing
Speaker 1: the chiefs chant? What do they call that chopper? The
Speaker 1: chopper they do the Florida State? Is that what they
Speaker 1: Every Indian associated team does that? It seems like Cleveland
Speaker 1: Indians do it too. All right, well, there we go
Speaker 1: school information. That's also breakdown. We need guys. There we go.
Speaker 1: What's the point for a rank them anymore? Should we
Speaker 1: get to rank them? Least? It's not it's not lime green.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous about inactive holding because of that. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's a great third segment talk because we're gonna fight
Speaker 1: over every one of them. I feel like rank them
Speaker 1: pretty obvious while the injured guys. Is it though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna put seventy seven down? Yes, I did. I did. Oh,
Speaker 1: Ryan gave him the old heave out. Don't you think
Speaker 1: I did. I have no problem with that. I mean that, okay,
Speaker 1: ban less, he did something. You really a boy? You're
Speaker 1: really I was just thinking that it would be a
Speaker 1: good ender conversation. That's fine, Well, then save it for
Speaker 1: the end. Save it for the end. Then let's rank them.
Speaker 1: Then it's rank them because make you saying it's all defense.
Speaker 1: So he's got to go with a defensive guy. And
Speaker 1: I feel like you can choose to Marcus Lawrence this
Speaker 1: week because he didn't get a sack last week. Oh
Speaker 1: I'm eliminated. He choose Dino, he said, Dino's his guy,
Speaker 1: said yo, Dino or Rodino sets his guy yo. It
Speaker 1: was like a you guys don't know about yo, Renny So,
Speaker 1: Renny Rinten, I don't like when you say yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't well, you know you have you ever seen about
Speaker 1: things we can't help when we were born? That's why
Speaker 1: I said it. You say something and I don't know
Speaker 1: what a snapchat makes some makes makes some reference. It's okay,
Speaker 1: chat send it, send it. Yeah, you know about send it. No,
Speaker 1: I have no idea brilliant figure in our pop culture. Okay,
Speaker 1: why don't you use it? I do every time you
Speaker 1: say that? All right, all right, okay, so you said
Speaker 1: you said David, I got Yo Dino for Mickey. Yes, hey,
Speaker 1: you got somebody, jak Prescott. Is that cheating? No, not
Speaker 1: at all, Brian, you got someone. I'm thinking, go ahead, Rob,
Speaker 1: if you got somebody. I'm because I'm caught between a
Speaker 1: couple of guys in my brain. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Rod Smith, who put the fire out there. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: goal line guy. We'll see. I'm gonna go with someone
Speaker 1: unusual here. I'm gonna go with Anthony Brown. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what. I'm gonna go with Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: because I need Anthony Brown to play very well in
Speaker 1: this game. I don't need Anthony Brown to peak and
Speaker 1: get beat. I need Anthony Brown to play with some technique.
Speaker 1: I need it. If they're gonna attack him, I need
Speaker 1: him to make He's been making some tackles. Nice job
Speaker 1: on the forced run the other day, the toss sweeper,
Speaker 1: he comes up. Nice fit. Garrett was talking about this
Speaker 1: fits I need him to make a play. I need
Speaker 1: him to be if they're gonna attack, go high point
Speaker 1: of football, Go get you an interception this week. You
Speaker 1: think all these corners are gonna see a little Julio, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because they move him around, they trying to get him off.
Speaker 1: So I'm saying I asked Garrett about the you know,
Speaker 1: how come teams are with traveling guys, and he talked
Speaker 1: about the run fits in the way you know it
Speaker 1: says sometimes three four teams are a little bit They
Speaker 1: have it a little bit because you're not worried about
Speaker 1: the fits, so you could play, you could play your
Speaker 1: secondary in a way that you can play with more traveling.
Speaker 1: He goes, now not to say not in all four
Speaker 1: three teams don't travel, but he says it's a little
Speaker 1: bit different because of the run fits, which makes a
Speaker 1: heck of a lot of sense. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it. All right, Well, then we've hinted at it enough.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to our final break. We're gonna come back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Rob's Twitter pool, and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: inactive So stay with us. We'll be right back to work.
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Speaker 1: heels of the Zeke News. If he indeed sir the
Speaker 1: full six game suspension and looks like he's going to
Speaker 1: serve at least four games, will be the Cowboys record
Speaker 1: during that six game stretch. Got three options, winning record,
Speaker 1: losing record, or a split three and three, winning or losing. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so four and two. This is a This is an
Speaker 1: anti Jason Garrett pole because he's just having trying to
Speaker 1: have a good Friday. But I'm right, I'm looking all
Speaker 1: the way to Christmas. Eve y'all you look, you're looking
Speaker 1: at the big picture, the Falcons, the Eve Focus Chargers,
Speaker 1: the Redskins, and then the Giants, right right, Yes, that
Speaker 1: all six. That's only five to me, Am I missing one. Falcons, Eagles, Chargers, Redskins, Giants, Washington, Washing, Washington.
Speaker 1: So you have another one? No? No, yeah, Washing before
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Speaker 1: That's a Thursday night. Falcons, Eagles, Chargers, Red Skins, Giants, Raiders,
Speaker 1: Raiders Raiders one. Yeah. Anybody got a thought? Where where's
Speaker 1: the Raider game? Here? It's here? No, it's an Ok,
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Speaker 1: our schedule right. Is it the fifth of the six games? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's the last, it's the last, last one. We have
Speaker 1: to work here. Yeah. Hey, we've just been keeping our head.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. The schedule is just sitting
Speaker 1: right here, lugging week by week. You know, that's just
Speaker 1: worry about Sunday. I'm gonna say, if they can get
Speaker 1: a split, then go three and three. That would get
Speaker 1: them to eight and six and you're still in position
Speaker 1: for a wild card spot. Hell, you might still be
Speaker 1: in position to win the division. Never know who's your
Speaker 1: depends you beat? Yeah? Who are here? I think you
Speaker 1: gotta be Philly at home losses where they come from.
Speaker 1: Maybe Atlanta maybe, I mean, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Washington could be tough. I look
Speaker 1: at look, this is Phillies by way. Oh, can I
Speaker 1: have a Mickey's writing? Can I have a Mickey's write
Speaker 1: in for this one? A write in? Yeah? You put
Speaker 1: undefeated on that. I just got it covered, right, winning record.
Speaker 1: Probably would have won undefeated because the fans are sick
Speaker 1: of here about how they don't have a shot, right
Speaker 1: win them all. I look at the schedule and I'm
Speaker 1: saying that they can still win every one of these games,
Speaker 1: especially these division games. I mean any they're always toss ups.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Oh, Brian didn't feel that way. I
Speaker 1: know I'm struggling with this right now because I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think. I'm struggling with this Atlantic game. I've gone
Speaker 1: back and forth on it. I have to, I really have,
Speaker 1: because it's it's such a but I was wrong last
Speaker 1: week about the Kansas City games, so I kind of
Speaker 1: feel the same. I feel a little bit. I felt
Speaker 1: really strong about the Kansas City game, and I've gone
Speaker 1: back and forth with this Atlanta game. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be difficult. I like their chances to beat Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: which is crazy to say because it's a division opponent,
Speaker 1: you know, and and the game has in fact at
Speaker 1: home on a Sunday on a Sunday night, and if
Speaker 1: you're coming off a game where things kind of don't
Speaker 1: go well in Atlanta. You talk about the bounce back.
Speaker 1: But the Cowboys play well on the road. They really do.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'm worried about games like the Charger game.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about a team it has really good pass rushers.
Speaker 1: You know, things aren't settled down with by you know,
Speaker 1: by that time. I think that I worry about that.
Speaker 1: I worry about with Philip Rivers playing quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: they're kind of a kind of a hot and cold team.
Speaker 1: The Giants, I think you take to w there. I
Speaker 1: think they're a train wreck. Oakland is not going to
Speaker 1: be easy to go to on a Sunday night and
Speaker 1: win because they might be in the same situation that
Speaker 1: you're in with the you know, trying to win to
Speaker 1: get into playoffs type of type of thing. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you're picking three and three. There's assigned me that wants
Speaker 1: to pick two and four, But I think that's closer
Speaker 1: to three and three. Bick, give me four and two.
Speaker 1: All right, what's your what's your two losses? It's going
Speaker 1: to be they're Atlanta Philadelphia. H So you're gonna go
Speaker 1: back to one one of those two, Okay, So yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, um, and then gonna be either the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Oh I forgot Washington. Yeah, I'm saying I worry about
Speaker 1: Washington the second time around, even though it's here, it's
Speaker 1: here till the Thursday night, and it's a short week
Speaker 1: them are they coming off by short week? Short week
Speaker 1: for them for them, short week for them, normal week
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, right right, right? Short week for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Chargers, right right, which is not a
Speaker 1: common opponent. Yeah. So, if I'm picking two losses, I
Speaker 1: think it's it's either Atlanta or Philly one of those.
Speaker 1: And then I don't like the idea of going to Oakland. Okay,
Speaker 1: other than the Giants came, what game could they not
Speaker 1: afford to lose? The Eagles came, you gotta win your
Speaker 1: division games to stay out. I think the Eagles, no doubt,
Speaker 1: you got you got No. I was just asking, I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you think the Eagles have running away with
Speaker 1: its far. Now you're just hoping for a wild card. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at a better a good record. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to, not necessarily. I mean, they're three games
Speaker 1: up on Dallas, but you play him twice. If you're
Speaker 1: if you're two and four, say you two and four,
Speaker 1: that makes you seven and seven, which I don't think
Speaker 1: get you. I think you're Then you'd have to win
Speaker 1: two games, right. I don't think nine wins get you
Speaker 1: in the playoffs this year, guys, I'm sorry not if you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you got to win your division. And so if you,
Speaker 1: if you, if you somehow three and three or better
Speaker 1: is your hope. You better you better be three three
Speaker 1: and three or better, that's your hope. Eight and six.
Speaker 1: You win your last two games, and Philadelphia could be
Speaker 1: in a situation like Dallas was last year where they've
Speaker 1: got things kind of wrapped up. They have nothing really
Speaker 1: to play for. They got the one or two seed
Speaker 1: and maybe Dallas has to go in there, and that
Speaker 1: Seattle game could damn will come down to a playoff spot.
Speaker 1: This Atlanta game is huge because they're four and four,
Speaker 1: they could be in the wild card spot at the
Speaker 1: end of this, and then it's a head to head victory. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of the two teams. You don't think they You
Speaker 1: don't think Zeke's gonna get Wallly pipped? Is that what
Speaker 1: you're telling me? I think he plays when he's healthy, okay,
Speaker 1: or when he's back. Yes, I do, I sure do. Wow.
Speaker 1: I hope Alfred Morris isn't listening to this. I know
Speaker 1: Morris might take his job just the way Dak took
Speaker 1: Tony's job. It ain't happening, huh so if it but
Speaker 1: if it goes too and four, do you feel like
Speaker 1: it's over? I think they would be in trouble if
Speaker 1: they go to and four. Yeah. Just because Zeke's back,
Speaker 1: it doesn't assure winning those last two. Yeah. And again,
Speaker 1: I just don't feel like that with what you know,
Speaker 1: with teams like the Vikings, the Saints, the Seahawks, Lions,
Speaker 1: the Carolina Rams Lions. Yeah, I mean you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to find a way to You're gonna have to Maybe
Speaker 1: ten will get you in if you think about it,
Speaker 1: ten I'll get you in. It usually gets you in. Okay,
Speaker 1: somebody's got to start losing. They're playing each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not everybody's gonna keep winning. The best thing would be
Speaker 1: to sweep the sweep the Eagles like the Giants swept
Speaker 1: you last year. Rarely do you get in with less
Speaker 1: than ten wins, though, I'm with you there, unless you're
Speaker 1: unless you're one of those terrible divisions that right, you're
Speaker 1: seven and nine Seattle a few years ago, sixty go ahead. No,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I have a hard time
Speaker 1: making my decision. I'm scared about this weekend. I feel
Speaker 1: like I will know better. That's such a scapegoat answer
Speaker 1: after this weekend, But I say that because, Okay, if
Speaker 1: they can go there and get this win, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look at all of the other games so differently, so differently.
Speaker 1: It's it's a great point because we've gone a year
Speaker 1: and a half of this is a Zeke fueled offense.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen it really without him if you count
Speaker 1: that last game of the season last year when they
Speaker 1: had wrapped up. So yeah, it's kind of a brave
Speaker 1: new world for this offense. UM Now. The only thing
Speaker 1: that does scare me is that you're going up against
Speaker 1: the Falcons, who are eighteenth in rush defense, and then
Speaker 1: the next week you have the Eagles, who are number one,
Speaker 1: So that's a tad had a bit different there, so,
Speaker 1: but this team did his face the Eagles coming off
Speaker 1: a bye though. But you know what, though, I'm okay
Speaker 1: with Dallas playing that. I'm okay with Dallas playing the Eagles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really am. When we were talking to Manny, whose
Speaker 1: birthdays today, he was saying that you never want a
Speaker 1: bye right when you're feeling hot. Yeah, right, when you're
Speaker 1: feeling hot, it's like you get into your head a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah. See, but if Dallas goes and loses
Speaker 1: this game, that puts them what three and a half
Speaker 1: back now of the of the Eagles. Yeah. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're honestly thinking about teams around you. That's why you
Speaker 1: kind of needed the Giants to step up and beat
Speaker 1: the Rams. You know, you need some of these teams
Speaker 1: that are kind of a little hot. You need the
Speaker 1: Saints to lose, you fall off of Yeah, you need
Speaker 1: the Saints to find a three or four game losing street.
Speaker 1: You need some teams to you know, well, you're kind
Speaker 1: of going up. You need the other's teams to obviously
Speaker 1: go down. Well, the fantsaft faith sixty eight percent say
Speaker 1: winning record in a stretch four and two, right or better? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mickey's the voice of the reason right on that there's
Speaker 1: only well, right now, other than the teams that are
Speaker 1: leading their divisions, there's only two teams with better record
Speaker 1: than the Cowboys, Carolina, one of them Carolina and the
Speaker 1: and the and then the uh um Lions, the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: the Hawks. Seahawks are six and three, okay, because they
Speaker 1: played They've played an extra game. Yeah, I played last
Speaker 1: night and Carolina is six and three. They played an
Speaker 1: extra game, right, So from a winning percentage stamp or
Speaker 1: in the lost column, right, the only teams that have
Speaker 1: fewer losses than the Cowboys are in first place. And
Speaker 1: you're playing the Seahawks at the end of the year, right,
Speaker 1: so that could hopefully take care of one of those.
Speaker 1: It's just, yeah, you just can't. You can't go in now.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of four and fours two, yeah, including
Speaker 1: the Redskins and Lions, Packers, the Falcons, and that's it
Speaker 1: because the Cardinals dropped to four and five. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, brand Well, why don't you give me your
Speaker 1: inactives and let's see what you're thinking over there. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think exactly. I had Bailey and to lose
Speaker 1: a pizza, I'm gonna put a Woozier on this list.
Speaker 1: You kind of have to now with the old sway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's like I went Bailey, a Woozier,
Speaker 1: I went to rant uh March, Lillard, Smith and Swim
Speaker 1: And I don't know who they're going to add, oh, Tyrn,
Speaker 1: Tyren Sr. I don't know who. And if they bring
Speaker 1: they can they can bring the roster. Yeah, they could
Speaker 1: bring They could bring Kellen Moore back. You know, they quarterback,
Speaker 1: your third quarterback. I think that would be the cleanest
Speaker 1: thing to do, unless they want to bring back or
Speaker 1: they want to elevate newly signed I always say his
Speaker 1: name wrong Bolero. Uh is there is there some sort
Speaker 1: of rule they got to have fifty three? Well, they'd
Speaker 1: have to release they they have to they would have
Speaker 1: to release two off their practice squad if they go
Speaker 1: light into the game. That's a rule. That's a rule.
Speaker 1: So you can just bring them back on Monday, can't you?
Speaker 1: Right right? You don't need them after I would just
Speaker 1: you're already paying Kellen Moore, bring him up on the roster. Easy.
Speaker 1: But but what let me but let me think about this.
Speaker 1: Those guys you release are basically free agents right now.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this though about Kelly Moore,
Speaker 1: because now we're past the waiver period. Who would have
Speaker 1: to go through you'd have to go through waivers if
Speaker 1: somebody Now if you if you made that move where
Speaker 1: you had to you had to go get a guy.
Speaker 1: The Eagles pick up Kellen Moore, Martello Spinnett got picked
Speaker 1: up by the patriotis rotator cuff. Yeah, so you just
Speaker 1: release the guy you just signed. Yeah, no, well he's
Speaker 1: a practice squad, practice squad, right, saying right, yeah, if
Speaker 1: you don't, and then you only got to make six inactive, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I did. I made six. I made six
Speaker 1: and active right now pending if a guy got signed.
Speaker 1: So Sway and Smith are injuries and a Woozier. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know if he fits into what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do right now, even though he's practicing. What
Speaker 1: if you just go with two tight ends, that's possibility too.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know jar one's going to help
Speaker 1: you and just go jumbo Joe if you need to
Speaker 1: jumbo Joe, or you go use your fullback instead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your fullback instead. I mean, you know the tight ends
Speaker 1: gets hurt. You can, you can? That's what if you
Speaker 1: want if you wanted to use march Lillard, who is
Speaker 1: your a special teams guy, or you wanted to get
Speaker 1: a Woozier active, Yeah, that's how I would go about him.
Speaker 1: Those are all kind of what I'm projected. And Wuz
Speaker 1: was moving well out there. So next week for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if it's not this week now, yeah, next week? Man,
Speaker 1: who would it gets that? Who would have thunk it?
Speaker 1: Can't wait for some pizza? Hey? That helps? Yeah? Here
Speaker 1: another Robsk pizza too, everybody's and we're both winners. Yes,
Speaker 1: matter deep dish, deep dish. Oh is that where we're
Speaker 1: going for? Yeah? The only option we have here. I'm
Speaker 1: bo absolutely, I'm buying. It's it's Mickey, it's Mickey's. Oh
Speaker 1: it's your twos. If you were in I wrote about
Speaker 1: you too my final my final notes. I wrote the
Speaker 1: fence just enough to benefit on this thing. I didn't
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll chip in a couple of bucks
Speaker 1: about Okay. Now, I don't mind buy throwing dollars at you.
Speaker 1: I don't mind buying the pizza man. How many Cowboys
Speaker 1: fans do you think we'll have a twenty eight three
Speaker 1: sign going into that Mercedes ben Stadium? So mean, so yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a friend who's a director of college scouting there,
Speaker 1: Steve Sabo, who waited twenty three years ag to a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and then he lost that way, and he goes,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever get back. That's that's
Speaker 1: the hard thing about this. How much does that just
Speaker 1: wreck a team? It's he still feels this day he
Speaker 1: goes on the road. He calls me and he says,
Speaker 1: today I woke up and I still feel disgusted that
Speaker 1: I that might have been my only chance to win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl and it and it went down that way.
Speaker 1: I like Seattle a couple of years ago. Did they
Speaker 1: ever get past the goal line? Deal with Wilson? I
Speaker 1: got rid of Marshallton Lynch. I mean he he kind
Speaker 1: of likes to be retired. Yeah. You'd like to say
Speaker 1: he just move forward, but I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Cowboys never got over the catch. That's true too, That's true.
Speaker 1: You interview those guys all the time, right Downs and
Speaker 1: Walls and all those I mean, all those guys that
Speaker 1: played any white still be Yeah, I told you about
Speaker 1: what he didn't want to watch it in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: He said, absolutely not. And next day or next week, guy,
Speaker 1: I said, so, did you watch it? He goes, no,
Speaker 1: I told you I wasn't watching it. Yeah, yeah, shut up, bicky. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But that next year was the strike season, so that
Speaker 1: was kind of a goofy here. But again they won't.
Speaker 1: They got in the tournament and made it to the
Speaker 1: NFC title game, and then after that and win another
Speaker 1: playoff game until ninety one, and think about what and
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers take off, see how the cowboys
Speaker 1: twice kind of how the forty nine ers revived themselves
Speaker 1: because if it wasn't for the catch, the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers ain't the forty nine ers. No, And then in
Speaker 1: ninety four, when they spotted them a twenty one point
Speaker 1: lead in the NFC title game, they won, and then
Speaker 1: they were good again. What they didn't go, but they
Speaker 1: were good to get in ninety five and ninety six.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, so yeah, cowboys helping out the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers with weird stuff. Red jersey though, so listen again,
Speaker 1: so you're looking at about the red jerseys that's cool.
Speaker 1: I just see, you know, I feel like that's all
Speaker 1: everyone talks about in this game, that they had to
Speaker 1: play the Super Bowl. It wasn't like any other super
Speaker 1: Bowl you'd ever seen before. No Super Bowl had ever
Speaker 1: had a team come back from a fourteen point to Fiicient.
Speaker 1: Of course that was twenty eight point? Was it twenty
Speaker 1: five points? And then over time it's amazing how Atlanta
Speaker 1: just crumbled in the second half offensively. You know, one
Speaker 1: of the things we didn't talk about, And we don't
Speaker 1: have time now, but do yourself a favor and listen
Speaker 1: to Jerry Jones's segment on the Fan today. It was Yes,
Speaker 1: it was very very good. That's good. Questions the commissioner stuff,
Speaker 1: and basically saying his problem is not Roger Goodell, it's
Speaker 1: the title commissioner and how much authority we're giving one
Speaker 1: person to make these decisions that owners should have a
Speaker 1: hand in making. So he's thinking this should be sort
Speaker 1: of like some sort of congress here where you everybody
Speaker 1: gets a vote at the center from Texas, Yes, vote
Speaker 1: for this. Yes. And he thinks that you know when
Speaker 1: when when they come up with a renegotiated contract or
Speaker 1: an extension it shouldn't be a six man decision. It
Speaker 1: should be a thirty two man decision. And he was
Speaker 1: very good. Yeah, and ladies and person, he was very
Speaker 1: good about that. And he was saying, he goes in,
Speaker 1: we've gotten examples. We've got one guy making a decision
Speaker 1: on the anthem, we got one guy making a decision
Speaker 1: on somebody's suspension, and it should be more. It's too
Speaker 1: much power for one person. It's a good point and
Speaker 1: it's worth listening to. He was really good. He was
Speaker 1: really calm and well thought out of the stuff he
Speaker 1: said today. So it kind of made you know, because
Speaker 1: you read stuff and it's all this it seems like
Speaker 1: all this espionage going on. He goes. No, he goes,
Speaker 1: I'm basically saying, we all need to make a decision.
Speaker 1: I don't want to make decision, but everybody should have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to make that decision. So, yeah, it's worth
Speaker 1: listening to. Great points. I like hearing all of this. Well, guys,
Speaker 1: it's been a long week, and I appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: always hanging in here. At least we know now no
Speaker 1: Zeke and we'll see how these cowboys fair. But stay
Speaker 1: tuned to everything that these guys will have over the weekend. Ever,
Speaker 1: a short week with the Cowboys, it's not. You're right
Speaker 1: up Thanksgiving, I guess Thanksgiving and we get to eat,
Speaker 1: so that's a good time. No zip beating, though sad times.
Speaker 1: All right, have a good weekend. We'll see you guys
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