WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: An Update On The NFC 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:12.039 a Break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.920 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:21.880 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:27.160 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:32.040 It is Tuesday, December fifth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, episode 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.080 number eighty four. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.560 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.400 We appreciate you guys take it some time with us. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:41.920 I know it's been a while since we've been on 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.159 the air together. We've been on in mixed groups, but 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.680 we're back in the studio. How's everybody feeling this morning? Awesome? Awesome, 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:55.880 so good, greatness, good good. All right, let's talk some 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.920 Cowboys football. We're gonna do a couple of things today. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.680 I first want to talk a little bit about the 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.520 Cowboys and the playoffs. I know on our joint show 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.240 yesterday we talked a little bit about that, but I 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.280 want to nail you guys down on some specifics about 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.119 the teams that are ahead of the Cowboys right now 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.360 and looking at what they've got coming up and what 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.120 they have to do in order for the Cowboys to 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.760 be able to even winning out, because I think that's 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.959 the first part that has to happen. But with that happening, 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.080 what the realistic likelihood is in each of your opinions 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.280 that these other teams will do the things that they 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.119 have to do in order for the Cowboys to jump 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.800 past them. And we'll do that. But before we get 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.080 to that, I did want to talk a little bit 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:38.520 first about an injury concern Orlando Scandric. What do we 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.160 know at this point about Orlando's injury and what his 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.199 possibilities are as far as time that he may miss. Well, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.720 they're just gonna take it day by day with him, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:53.120 sounds right. And transfer transverse process and the same thing 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:58.280 as romo Yes, yeah, okay, So it's amazing the stuff 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.280 you learn about injuries because of football. You're like, oh, yeah, 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.200 you're transversal process. I know I've heard that before. Sure, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.720 I couldn't tell you, couldn't tell you really where it 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.200 is or what it looks like, but I know it's 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.120 the romo bone. And you are the offspring of a 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.839 doctor it's true, so you should know those things, right, 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:16.120 he's a kind ecologist. I mean, yeah, not the same, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:22.960 not the same at all. Yeah, yeah, that um. But 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.160 Jason Garrett made it sound yesterday like they're not ruling 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.440 him out at all. Really, I mean, take that for 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.280 what it's worth. I mean, Jason Garrett wouldn't rule a 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.240 guy out if he was missing a limb. But you know, 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.440 Romo missed one game in twenty fourteen with the same injury, 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.760 so and you know, Garrett also kind of allowed that 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.480 it depends on the position. I mean, cornerback. You're not 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.519 necessarily taking shots to your back, So I'd be I'd 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.399 be kind of surprised if he plays this week, right, 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.960 I would be surprised. But at the same time, you 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:59.040 never know what Scandrick. I mean, sometimes it sounds like 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.040 he's you know, it's really like the worst thing, and 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.920 then he comes back and he'll play and can't tell 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.280 from really how he's making it out to be. So 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.320 I think he I mean I think he might play. 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.160 Actually yeah, I don't. We'll find out. And what what 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.480 recourse do they have on the roster? Do they have 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.000 any corners on practice squad? I mean, I guess they don't. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.160 They could just make him inactive because I was gonna 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.679 have been Wickery has been inactive. They've been making do 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.760 without cheeto for a month at this point, so they 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.120 could just use ben A if they wanted to, if 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.440 they I think he's gonna play though, honestly, that would 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.880 be amazing to me, just I mean, I you know, 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.240 like we just said, Roma only missed a week. It's 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.800 not it's not the be all end all of injuries. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.080 But you still have a cracked, slash broken bone in 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.480 your back and he is getting I guess. On the 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.720 on the positive side, it is a ten day break, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.800 so it's like a week and a half until their 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.840 next game, right, so so maybe that factors in. Yeah, 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.320 it's a difference for them to be ready to play. 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.360 But can we just stop and kind of marvel at 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.280 that for a second, Like that you have a broken 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.120 got like a three day break, so like maybe he 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.400 can play with this broken bone in his back, Like 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.560 that's insane. It is I that's football. I would sit 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.320 this week out if it were me. But I mean, 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.120 I mean, they are playing the Giants, So what are 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.480 you trying to say? I'm just saying and it's sort 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.240 of like a bye weekend. Wow, damn, don't say that, 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.520 because that that and then that makes me really nervous, like, 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.880 oh god, that's that's. I hate when that happens, Like 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.799 when you're just like, oh, it's just whoever in college football, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.200 when your team plays a seller dweller. In college football, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.799 you're like, great, yeah, we can get the starters out early, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.920 like this will be an easy week. In the NFL, 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.559 you're just like, ah, such things I don't want unless 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.520 it's Cleveland. Cleveland officially is there be s Because the 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.080 Cowboys played the Browns last year and I believe they 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.200 were winless, and around this building heading into that game, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:52.240 everybody was terrified, not me, maybe not I remember. I 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.640 actually remember. I remember brought us being scared of that 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.080 and I was like, they will kick their ass by 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.880 twenty one point, and he was worse than that. It 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.640 was twenty five. They were bad. I mean, they're just bad. 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.039 But the problem is the Cowboys were a good team 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.080 playing a bad team. Now the Cowboys are an average 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.360 team at best right playing without Zeke, I think they're 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.240 an average team at best playing a bad team, a 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:20.080 bad team playing a division rival. That's the fired team. Wow, 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.000 what happens when you fire your coach and you go 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.360 to the Meadowlands? You play four fifteen? Actually one, it's 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.040 one o'clock this time. I understand it's one pm, but 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.359 you know, the new version the Giant, the Giants version 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.160 maybe is gonna be they're trying to one o'clock My 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.159 life stadium. Yeah, all right, Um, one other thing, you 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.320 guys can catch me up on Sean Lee. What's he 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.440 looking like for this week? Like he's gonna play good 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:50.200 to go perfect? I mean, they're gonna there's always more 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.960 to it than that. I'm sure they're gonna ease him in. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.960 I wouldn't be surprised if he's limited to start the 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.000 week out. He talked to him at the hospital visits. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.640 I did how many questions before you got to that? 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.480 Actually we started with that. It was it was you 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.159 good to go blah blah blah playing the Giants? What 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.000 will it be like without Eli? This was at like 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.040 nine thirty in the morning. We didn't know Eli was 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:10.920 back in the lineup at the time. He's like, oh, yeah, 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:12.720 we actually had another coach. Yeah, it'll be it'll be 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.520 kind of weird not playing against him. He's the only 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.920 Giants quarterback I've ever played against. Two hours later he's 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.840 starting again. Um no. But we started with the injury 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.080 stuff and then we are like, all right, what is 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.960 the hospital visit? Oh yeah, just kind of it goes 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.120 the other way around. Usually you try to they were 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:28.920 beating around the bush, but we try to ease into 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.160 it with some polite questions. But with Sean we were 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.320 just like, you're playing, what's going on here? And he's like, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.960 I'm good, good to go? Well, yeah, okay. Thirty seconds 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:41.600 with Dak Prescott so and it was hospital visits. Why 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:47.080 does your hand look all puffy like that? Saying yeah, 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:52.720 his hand is very swollen, doesn't look good. But he says, oh, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.960 I signed autographs and I've you know, shook hands all day. 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.560 I'm fine. I think he's gonna be funny. He's there's 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.359 nothing he can do. It's just kind of it'll just 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.159 go down. If it's not broken, then you just wonder 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.960 about the grip of it. But he always plays well 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:10.720 at the Metal Lands. So all right, let's let's move 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.440 into this playoff talk. And I know sometimes people get 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.360 a little I know Nate was not very happy with 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.520 playoff talk yesterday. Of course he wasn't, but but I 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.360 do think it's worth talking about because, to be honest 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.400 with I think fans care about it because fans are 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.960 looking at this thing and saying, you know, basically, until 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.560 the Cowboys are out of it, they want to know 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.160 what are the possibilities that they can squeak into the tournament, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.400 because that's the object, Like, if you can squeak in, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.480 it doesn't matter how you get there. If you can 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.040 get in, then you never know what happened. But I 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.720 can understand why Nate's frustrated by it. But at this stage, 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.120 because even though we're in December, there's still four games 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.720 to go, and there's nothing that any of these other 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.680 teams will do. It doesn't matter if the Cowboys don't 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.200 take care of their So that's like they have to. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.640 I mean, that's why I believe if they went out, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.400 they're in the playoffs. Okay, well that's where we're going. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.280 They're going to be in the playoffs because right now, 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.520 when you look at it, it's it's a pretty daunting 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.640 task when you look at where they sit and what 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.000 that what has to happen. Let me run this down 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:07.960 for you and then I want to go team by team, 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.560 and I want you guys to tell me how likely 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.680 it is in your opinion that these teams do what 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.480 they need to do in order to help the Cowboys. 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.920 All right, Yeah, let's just remember that the Cowboys are 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.040 gonna go four and oh they have five in this scenario, 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.600 daunting and all this stuff like the league's about to 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.520 be flipped upside down anyways, so somebody's gonna fall on 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.800 its head too. I hear what you're saying. I'm saying 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.160 under this scenario, we are assuming that the Cowboys are 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.360 gonna go They're gonna win all the rest of their games, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.760 right craziness. And then if that happens, these other things 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.520 have to happen, then they have at any other point 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.000 this season. Yeah right, all right, that's a big assumption, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.559 but that's what we're gonna assume for a second. It's 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:49.040 fine just to have this conversation, all right, whoa, Hey, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.280 they only need to go to and oh before before 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.600 Zeke comes back the Christmas present comes back. Yeah, so 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:57.720 I'll just take Zeca. Is he gonna be playing running 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.000 back or three technique? Wow? I don't know, that's a 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.440 super duper size. I think he could be pretty good, though. 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.880 Nobody's got faith in my guy to show up in shape. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.760 Huh Like I don't know or is he no idea? 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.800 But I bet he's pissed right now. He's been tweeting 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.600 the Battlehouse State. That's good, so he's watching it one 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:20.480 time right now. He's too fat. I think I just 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.880 missed those press conferences. I think you do too. He's 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.440 pissed off and he should be. He's gonna show up 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.480 and wonder who that was about? Roy? I was thinking 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.439 Roy could have been Marcus Spears. He called Marcus Spears 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:36.640 Fats Domino. You know I saw last night this is 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:40.760 off the subject Colston Weatherington, the old name from back 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.439 in the day. Nick probably yeah, see it called him 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.400 big Sea. Yeah, I'll tell you what that two thousand 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.679 and one Look the part two thousand and one draft 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:54.120 was one of the best arena league draft in the NFL. Yeah, 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.160 where's brought us? Get him in? He'll get My favorite 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.320 thing for y'all that are listening, one of the best 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.280 things that happened at our job is when Nick starts 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.719 recounting the old Cowboys draft, how bad they were that 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.320 brought us had a hand in and brought us is like, yeah, 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.440 we saw. He says, the same thing. You were put 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.080 on this earth to remember all the bad drafts we have. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.040 So I was out of a job right way to go. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.800 It never gets old. And the thing about it is 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.560 he takes a beating for it, but he was on 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.720 the pro side of it for most of the time. 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.040 I mean, but you know him, he's the same guy. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.040 So he's gonna be like, hey, we all had a party. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.000 It falls on the sword. But but every time Brian 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.280 brought us has ever run into Dave Campo, he apologizes 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.960 to him, and I've heard it's kind of uncomfortable because 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.280 Dave doesn't really know what to say. It's fine, okay, 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.640 I mean literally, Brian was a part of one of 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:48.439 the best free agent pickups they've ever had ever, Leroy Glover. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.160 That was is one of the best signings ever and 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.959 I think he was had a big part of that. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.680 He did, so he'll tell you all about it. I'll 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.679 tell you about it. But he also will he takes it. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.640 He takes he'll take it. He'll take it, all right. 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.040 So here's we're gonna do. We're gonna go through this 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.920 list of teams and I want to I'm gonna start 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.560 from the bottom. I'm gonna start with the teams that 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.160 are closest to the Cowboys. Right now, there are six 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:14.240 teams that are right now either positioned as high as 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.559 wildcard teams right now all the way down to teams 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.920 that are vying for the wild card, and there are 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.439 six of them ahead of the Cowboys right now. I'm 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.840 sorry on two three, there are five of them ahead 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.360 of the Cowboys right now. So basically, you've got six 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.920 teams that are battling for two wildcard spots. Does that 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.240 make sense? Yes, So let's start from the bottom ahead 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.400 of the Cowboys. Five of them ahead of the Cowboys, 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.400 right yep. So let's start from the bottom at the 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.440 ones closest to the Cowboys, and I'll tell you what 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.520 they need to do. I'll tell you what their schedule 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:41.880 looks like, and I want you to tell me how 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.960 realistic it is that they're gonna do that. Right The 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.920 Green Bay Packers right now are six and six. They're 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:52.640 playing this weekend at Cleveland, and then next week they 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.600 get Rogers back and they have to play at Carolina, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.240 at Minnesota, at Detroit. The Cowboys need them if the 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.080 Cowboys went out. The Cowboys need them to lose only once. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.440 How realistic is the Green Bay Packers lose once? They 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.040 better lose to the Browns this weekend. Man, I'm telling 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.360 you if they do, if they find a way past 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.960 the Browns, I'm putting them in the playoffs. Yeah, yes, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.320 are you kidding me? It's hard to bet against him. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:16.920 I mean, you got other than the fact they're playing 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.320 at Minnesota. Minnesota is playing out of its mind. I 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.319 don't care, like I'm sorry again, and people give me 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.520 crap about it. I love Aaron Rodgers too much, I 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.040 get it, but he's the man, and Minnesota's the team 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.640 that hurt him, and like he's gonna be so pissed 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.760 off to play that game. I think, yeah, if he 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.080 gets back and they're seven, So if they're seven and 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.400 six and he comes back, they're going three, No, like 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.200 I would bet on it. So they're not gonna They're 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:42.800 gonna be one of the playoff teams. So now you're 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.959 down to five teams battling for one spot. That I mean, 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.720 that's I mean, I get nixt point that if the 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.360 Cowboys really get on a role like some other some 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.800 other breaks will fall their way, and like some teams 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.080 have to lose. There's a lot of divisional games coming up, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.480 but like a lot of stuff has to go their 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.160 way over these I mean, even if they went out, 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.480 they still need some help. Like their percentage of making 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.480 the playoffs only at like seven or eight. Oh yeah, 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:06.680 they need they need a lot of help. That's what 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.160 we're going through right now. A lot of help. Amber Well, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.000 I mean according to you guys that they're no, no 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:19.280 team is gonna lose against the Browns, so they need 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.640 I mean no, that would be the most NFL thing ever. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.400 Is like everybody's like, if they beat the Browns, Rogers 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.000 comes back, they're going and then and they look past them, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.160 They look past them thinking just got one more game 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.319 to get through. They're playing at Cleveland. That would be 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.400 Nick's like I think, I mean, seriously, why wouldn't Cleveland 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.640 Still hasn't won, have they? No, that's the kind of 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.199 game that a windless team wins. I imagine Aaron Rodgers 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.760 walking through that locker room, like after they lose to 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.400 the Browns, He's just like really, like, y'all are pitiful, 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.200 Like you can't help me out, You can't beat the 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.480 Browns and help like, help me, help you get get 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.280 me a seven and six record so I can get 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.920 us to the playoffs. And you can't even do that. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.080 I don't think they'll go three and now with him, 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.400 He don't. Don't they'll lose one. You think they'll lose one, Yamber, 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.720 you think I don't think he'll be he can't. Yeah, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.960 it's hard to bet against him, but there must be 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.360 a loss right in there like him. But the bone 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.680 is the bone, right, I mean, it wants the bones heel, 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.160 the bones healed. I tell that to Tony Row. We 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.800 have we I think we are all pretty experienced and covering. Yeah, 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.720 the broken collarbone injury, and I mean we haven't really 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.200 ever seen anybody come back from it, and it'll be 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.480 pretty early if he comes back, so well, I think 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.760 so it's gonna end up being like eight weeks. Wasn't it? 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.920 Wasn't it a collar bone that he came back from 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:47.080 in twenty thirteen and he he put the he put 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.960 the Packers in the playoffs with the last second one 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.840 against the Was that a collar bone? I thought it was? No, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.080 I don't remember, but oh, you know what, that's not true, 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.680 I said. He hadn't come back. Romo came back from it, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.240 but he didn't look great. No, that's true. I mean 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:01.920 it took a while for him to get going and 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.560 then he and he reinjured it. So I'm just not 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.320 I'm not. I don't think Superman is coming back this year. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.080 I think he'll come back and he'll help him. He'll 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.720 probably be better than the other guy, but I don't know. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.520 I think it'll be he'll be good enough. I think 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.440 that Rogers return is gonna help the Cowboys because he's 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.160 gonna beat some of those teams. Welcome. It's at Caroline, 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.080 it's at Minnesota, and it's at Detroit. Which Detroit's gonna 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.880 be the next team we talk about? Um they right now. 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.200 They finished the season with four straight road games. No, no, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:34.320 no, no no, Green. Minnesota's got to be at home Minnesota. Yeah, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.640 that's where he No, Minnesota's home. He got hurt. He 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.200 got hurt at matt Minnesota, so that that game will 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.600 be at home, probably at Cleveland, and then home against 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.960 um who will say Carom against Minnesota at Carol. Maybe 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.040 that's it. I don't know, it doesn't matter all right, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.640 But Dave, you're the only one saying that right now 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.640 that Rogers that that they win down the show. You 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.800 think they went all for their remaining games. I'm not 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.520 betting against my guy. If they lose, then it'll be 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.440 at the Browns this weekend. All right, let's turn to Detroit. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:08.120 Detroit is also six and six, and they have they 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.600 need to lose one game for the Cowboys to move 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.760 ahead of them. They're playing at Tampa Bay, They're playing 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.600 Chicago at Cincinnati, and then they finished the season against 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.280 Green Bay. None of those teams other than Green Bay 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:24.400 seems like a really certainly not great teams. None of 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.840 them probably are going to be in playoff contention. However, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.520 Detroit's not playing great right now themselves. Can I do 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.160 my best Eatmon impression? Yeah, it's the Lions, Like, why 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.520 why are we talking about They're gonna go They're gonna 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.600 go eight and eight or seven and nine. Okay, they 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:43.600 are the quintessential can't keep it together. Vikings are gonna 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.840 beat the Packers again, and the Packers are gonna beat 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.960 the Lions, so both of them. Last year was the 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.600 first time the Lions have ever kept it together long 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.960 enough to make the playoffs, right, like they started six 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.960 and two, and I think they finished nine and seven, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.040 Like they didn't even finish that strong, and they eked 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.440 in and they lost by like thirty points to the 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.560 Seahawks in the playoffs, so like even when they get there, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.280 it doesn't matter, Like they're not making the playoffs, all right, 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.240 Let's move on to Atlanta. Atlanta right now seven and five, 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.960 they're game ahead of the Cowboys, but they also have 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.840 a tie break because they beat them head to head, 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.040 which means that the Cowboys really need them to lose 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.439 twice or at least a game and a half in 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.240 order for the Cowboys to be ahead of them. They 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.719 have down the stretch, they play New Orleans at New 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.080 Orleans and at home, so they play New Orleans twice. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.160 They're sandwiched in between those games is a road trip 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.360 to Tampa Bay and then they finished the season against Carolina. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.600 Do they lose two of those final four need to 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.800 be big Saints fans for the next month, And could 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.080 you kind of want the Saints at this point to 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:50.320 push ahead, just keep winning, right, I mean with the Seahawks, 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.679 I'm sorry, with the Eagles losing on Sunday night, the 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.880 Saints are in play for a buy now too, so 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.200 I would imagine they're going to be pretty motivated. So yeah, 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.600 the Eagle game was was like a double way. I 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.000 mean for sure because now I did Seattle win, But 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.800 I don't see any way Philadelphia has nothing to play 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:09.920 for it the last game of the season. If even 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.920 if it's just to to get home fill advantage advantage, 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.240 or they may be sitting in the number two spots, 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:16.720 they don't want to fall to three. I mean, the 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.800 way the Vikings are playing, the way the Saints are playing, 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.400 that game's gonna mean something. Even if it's one and two, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.040 gonna have a buy and you got a big battle 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.120 and for that top spot for the where the championship 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.840 game will be, it's worth playing. So you're saying we 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.600 could still get flexed. Oh yeah, I thought about that. Yeah, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.560 there's a there's a likely if the I'll say this, 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.440 if the Cowboys get on this winning streak and they 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.120 have one up until that point and Philly has something 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.280 to play off play for, you best believe that game's 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.600 gonna get There would be nothing like greater in the 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.240 world than to just be sitting like on a plane, 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.240 just eating like a like a cheese and Packers and 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.359 be like, hey, we happened New Year? Ye okay, whatever, 0:18:55.359 --> 0:19:02.120 I gotta like this you too? Oh that would be miserable. Yeah, 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.000 first world problems. Although although if they actually win the 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:07.800 game and they're in the playoffs, does that change it 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:12.000 a little bit? That that blame would be pretty pretty lit. 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.120 Just gonna say one thing that you got to remember 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:21.240 here is, yeah, Falcons, Packers, those those teams have a 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.440 tie break. I get it. But if it comes down 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:28.080 to let's say that Seattle loses a game and you 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.160 beat you have to beat Seattle. So now you're tied 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.320 with Seattle and you're tied with Atlanta. You know it 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.800