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Speaker 5: Doing well? Doing well?
Speaker 6: Obviously you're doing very well, Kyle. Why is that you
Speaker 6: have a sea through watch on? Have you ever seen
Speaker 6: something like that?
Speaker 7: James? I have.
Speaker 1: It's like broken on the back end.
Speaker 7: I don't wait, don't show the back and show the
Speaker 7: front end that huh? I hate? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could not care less.
Speaker 7: I've never seen nothing like it before. You know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying. Beamer transparent watches.
Speaker 1: That's just because I couldn't pay for the rest of it.
Speaker 6: Wow, they just unveiled a freaking invisible cloak, and now
Speaker 6: he comes out with invisible cloak.
Speaker 1: There's an invisible cloak.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you never seen it, like like Harry Potter style.
Speaker 7: You guys didn't see that.
Speaker 5: Really, No, it was the same email you get the cyber.
Speaker 7: You know, the United States did not create the technology.
Speaker 7: I'll say you that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, there's no way beamer you you creepy saw
Speaker 5: it online?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was awesome. I just don't know where
Speaker 1: in society that would fit.
Speaker 7: Oh, there's plenty of places.
Speaker 5: Not in society necessarily, what I'm saying legal society.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, in a normal legal society. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a solid purpose for that.
Speaker 5: Kids playing hide and seek?
Speaker 1: Fine, all right, even then that might be terrible. That
Speaker 1: could be that could disaster.
Speaker 7: What would you do with an invisible cloak?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, uh tracked out sources.
Speaker 7: Probably no, I probably work himself into the team meeting.
Speaker 8: Probably would probably would have went a grape vine over
Speaker 8: the weekend and try and figure it out how this
Speaker 8: group came up with leaving Florida State out of the copy.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like that, just.
Speaker 8: To hear, just to find out who is the most
Speaker 8: against it, and I would tweet all that out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you would use it for sources. What would
Speaker 1: you do with an invisible cloak? Eight one seven two
Speaker 1: nine zero This is a dangerous thing. You'll be nice
Speaker 1: eight one seven two nine zero three two nine eight.
Speaker 1: That's that's a fun question. Invisible cloak?
Speaker 7: What would you do with it? Well, I can't believe
Speaker 7: that it's real actually existence. Yeah, who has.
Speaker 1: That much time on their hands to say, look, you
Speaker 1: know what, let me build an invisible club.
Speaker 7: Not the United States, obviously, We've got a lot of others.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, fact yeah, fair. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to news and notes. Cowboys of course off yesterday that
Speaker 1: was the down day of the week and it's back
Speaker 1: to a normal schedule, which, thank goodness it is. We're
Speaker 1: done with the short weeks.
Speaker 7: It feels weird because of it, though it does.
Speaker 1: It feels like this week is going to drag on forever.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Jam and I were just talking.
Speaker 6: It doesn't even feel like a game week, Like it
Speaker 6: just feels different because normally we'll be within what almost
Speaker 6: forty eight hour role right now.
Speaker 5: But right now, yeah, yeah, not a ton of news
Speaker 5: and notes obviously coming off of Tuesday. The only thing
Speaker 5: which we mentioned already this week is we will get
Speaker 5: an update today on Peyton Hendershot and his act decision.
Speaker 5: I don't know, yeah, if he can, yeah, decision on it.
Speaker 5: If he can be activated to the fifty three man
Speaker 5: rosters today. His twenty one day practice window is up,
Speaker 5: So either he gets activated and someone drops down and
Speaker 5: is released on to the practice squad, or he is
Speaker 5: on the IR for the rest of the season.
Speaker 7: So what are you leaning towards?
Speaker 5: I think he ends up on the i R for
Speaker 5: the rest of the season. That's I don't know anything there,
Speaker 5: but that's that's just kind of like my hunch feeling here.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree, same thing I think.
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't, I don't know for sure, but
Speaker 8: it seems like that's the way it's leaning, kind of
Speaker 8: like how you thought the Jack Leonard thing was leaning
Speaker 8: towards Philadelphia. So I was wrong on that though. I
Speaker 8: thought he was leaning towards the Cowboys. They become the Cowboys,
Speaker 8: So hey, what do I know?
Speaker 6: I agree, I think he's probably going towards ir as well.
Speaker 6: But I would like to see him utilize on this offense.
Speaker 6: I think he would be another huge resource. Only only
Speaker 6: caveat there is if he was on the field, you're
Speaker 6: most likely in a passing situation.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I don't think that you think.
Speaker 6: That less of Ferguson's abilities to take him off the
Speaker 6: field and and replace him with Hindershot.
Speaker 9: And Ferguson excelling at all, Yes, factored in with it
Speaker 9: with you?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 9: How about with you?
Speaker 5: Do you?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Absolutely, just because I mean that's a that's a legitimate
Speaker 5: sig in that you have out there. Schoonmaker is stacking confidence.
Speaker 5: And then for me, it boils down to do you
Speaker 5: want another receiving threat out there or do you want
Speaker 5: another or another run blocker in the red zone. I'd
Speaker 5: rather have another run blocker in the red zone, So
Speaker 5: keep Sean McEwan. That's kind of my thought on it.
Speaker 5: I feel like this receiving group is doing just fine
Speaker 5: right now. Obviously Dak Prescott's doing just fine right now.
Speaker 5: If the pass offense was a struggle and there was
Speaker 5: you know, Jake Ferguson wasn't playing as well as he
Speaker 5: has been, then maybe I throw Hendershot back in there.
Speaker 5: But for me, if I'm making the decision, I'm keeping
Speaker 5: him on ir and rolling with McEwan.
Speaker 7: So you're saying that training training camp showdown next.
Speaker 5: Year, it's gonna be a fun one. I'm telling you,
Speaker 5: between Hendershot, whatever McEwen can do between now and then
Speaker 5: and then John Stevens Junior, that's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 5: be a blast. Even Scoonmaker he's involved in that in
Speaker 5: that mix as well, So it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we've put too much stock into what we've
Speaker 1: seen from Peyton Hendershot on the field of training camp
Speaker 1: and things like that, because in the game he hasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily produced. He had eleven receptions last year one hundred
Speaker 1: and three yards. He has one catch for three yards
Speaker 1: this year prior to the injury.
Speaker 7: It's pretty solid.
Speaker 1: Over twenty games.
Speaker 6: You say, twenty tea, how many attempts, how many targets
Speaker 6: you have targets?
Speaker 1: I can give you that.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's still not crazy production. The reason I
Speaker 5: kind of gave the face was because.
Speaker 1: Like eighteen targets, twelve receptions.
Speaker 6: I mean, we can say the same thing about be
Speaker 6: Cooks prior to you know, the last few games Unifation.
Speaker 7: I get it. I mean, but you have to start somewhere,
Speaker 7: get it track.
Speaker 8: It would be interesting if John Stevens or Peyton hendershot
Speaker 8: next year elevate themselves to where they're on a level
Speaker 8: where you're like, we can play these guys all the time,
Speaker 8: just because I think of schoon Makers clearly the guy
Speaker 8: they look at that way, his second round pick.
Speaker 9: Ferguson's clearly there.
Speaker 8: And it just makes me think of the rest of
Speaker 8: the NFL, like, how many teams have three tight ends
Speaker 8: that you can really try? I mean, how many teams
Speaker 8: really have even two trucks? I go back to I
Speaker 8: think it was two years ago, I think in free
Speaker 8: agency when the Patriots like that was like their key thing,
Speaker 8: like was to get Hunter Henry and man, I'm Jona
Speaker 8: Blink on the other.
Speaker 1: But it was Don Smith.
Speaker 8: It might have been, but it was just like they
Speaker 8: were going to get their two you know, veterans tight
Speaker 8: ends and try and build around it. For the Cowboys
Speaker 8: to possibly have found that and maybe even have a third,
Speaker 8: that would be really impressive and obviously be great for
Speaker 8: dak How.
Speaker 1: How imperative is that I caught Isaiah in the middle
Speaker 1: of the yond.
Speaker 7: Yes, it was. How did it went to the US
Speaker 7: women's National game last night?
Speaker 1: That was right? But how fun was that?
Speaker 7: It was good? Where was it they played against China?
Speaker 1: Is that why you're yawning? It was a little late start,
Speaker 1: little late late night night. It took the kiddos though.
Speaker 7: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: Nice there you go. Uh, when you have tight ends
Speaker 1: like that to rely on heavily, and we've talked about
Speaker 1: this in the past with Dalton Schultz, how what does
Speaker 1: that do for a quarterback mentally that you have multiple
Speaker 1: guys that can be that safety net, not just one
Speaker 1: player specifically, because in the past for the Cowboys it
Speaker 1: has been one player. First it was Jason Witten, then
Speaker 1: it was Dalton Schultz. Now you feel like there's multiple
Speaker 1: guys that can do that. And of course the athleticism
Speaker 1: from this tight end room can take the top off
Speaker 1: of a defense as well.
Speaker 6: I think it's huge because, especially in this style of
Speaker 6: offense where you're using two tight end sets a lot,
Speaker 6: you're not as worried about where your primary tight end
Speaker 6: is lined up, Is he attached, is he you know,
Speaker 6: is he had does he have.
Speaker 7: To have his hand in the ground.
Speaker 6: Is he on the right side or is he on
Speaker 6: the left side, Like you're less concerned about those things.
Speaker 6: You can come into two tight tight end sets and
Speaker 6: have a tight end on each side and feel good
Speaker 6: about either direction.
Speaker 7: If you need to.
Speaker 6: Over over a play, if you need to change the protection,
Speaker 6: if you need to change the route concepts, Like you're
Speaker 6: you're not as concerned about what you're doing there because
Speaker 6: you're not taking away from one's abilities. Right, you feel
Speaker 6: comfortable with both guys. You know they both can block,
Speaker 6: they both came run the routes, they both can catch
Speaker 6: the ball. So now I'm like, Okay, now I could
Speaker 6: play this even Steven and go whatever direction is best
Speaker 6: in favor of the team and us and us being
Speaker 6: successful in that particular play instead of being kind of
Speaker 6: catering to what that particular player does best.
Speaker 1: One last thing, You're done with news.
Speaker 5: And yeah Tuesday, Super super Light have more coming out
Speaker 5: of today.
Speaker 1: I want to hit your Nicked Knight playoff scenarios because
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things on there that I think
Speaker 1: would be great for listeners to hear. The Cowboys would
Speaker 1: take first place with a win on Sunday, However, the
Speaker 1: Eagles would still control their own destiny the rest of
Speaker 1: the way. What are some of the scenarios that fans
Speaker 1: should probably keep an eye on as we get down
Speaker 1: the stretch. I know there were a lot of different
Speaker 1: theories out there with the forty nine ers in the
Speaker 1: Eagles game this past Sunday on who would be more
Speaker 1: beneficial for the Cowboys to see win. A lot of
Speaker 1: people thought it would go one way or the other
Speaker 1: just based off of seeding come playoff time. But out
Speaker 1: of your scenarios, what are some of the ones you
Speaker 1: want to highlight?
Speaker 5: Yes, so, I think, first off, it's important to highlight
Speaker 5: that this game is the most important game on the
Speaker 5: entire seventeen game schedule and determining playoff implications. If the
Speaker 5: Cowboys lose on Sunday, you may as well play your
Speaker 5: SHARPI out and write them in as the number five
Speaker 5: seed and they are going to go play the NFC
Speaker 5: South winner. Who would be Atlanta, New Orleans or Tampa Bay.
Speaker 5: I wrote a NICKD. Knight that maybe Tampa Bay probably
Speaker 5: the best matchup there, but I feel like you have
Speaker 5: confidence going into any three of those matchups. But if
Speaker 5: the Cowboys were to win, that's when things get a
Speaker 5: little bit interesting. You mentioned, We've talked about it last
Speaker 5: week as well. The first tipebreaker would be that divisional record.
Speaker 5: At the end of the season, if they were to
Speaker 5: win out, Philadelphia has two more games against the Giants.
Speaker 5: Cowboys have one more against Commanders. If they were both
Speaker 5: to win out, then they would still be tied in
Speaker 5: that divisional typebreaker. Then it would go to the second
Speaker 5: type breaker, which is common games. And again, if they
Speaker 5: were both to win out, it would be ten and
Speaker 5: two both of them, which would go to the third typebreaker,
Speaker 5: which would be conference record, and Philadelphia would have the
Speaker 5: advantage there. They only have two losses against Dallas's three.
Speaker 5: So best case scenario, Dallas beats Philadelphia on Sunday, what
Speaker 5: are you rooting for? You're rooting for the Giants to
Speaker 5: beat Philadelphia one of those two games because if they're
Speaker 5: able to do that, Yeah, exactly, Because if they're able
Speaker 5: to do that, not only will Dallas be a game
Speaker 5: above Philadelphia, but they would own the first tiebreakers, so
Speaker 5: that would almost give them two games of flexibility there.
Speaker 5: That would be the best path towards winning the NFC East.
Speaker 5: So if who knows, maybe Tyrod Taylor comes back and
Speaker 5: gives you a little bit of magic. But I kind
Speaker 5: of mapped out as well what it could look like
Speaker 5: for the Cowboys to get the one seed. It's really
Speaker 5: unlikely because they would need the Niners to drop a
Speaker 5: game at some point, and the way the Niner schedule
Speaker 5: looks right now and the way they're playing, I just
Speaker 5: don't see that happening. But if they're able to do
Speaker 5: that and Dallas wins out, then they have that one seed.
Speaker 1: So San Francisco has Seattle, Arizona, Baltimore, Okay, yeah, Washington, Baltimore, Yeah, Washington,
Speaker 1: and then Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: So interesting is that Arizona game is really important?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? We said it, well, we said it as soon
Speaker 5: as it happened. I feel like I was like, this
Speaker 5: is going to come back to bite them late because
Speaker 5: if they were ten and two right now and they
Speaker 5: would still be tied in that conference tiebreaker with Philadelphia,
Speaker 5: this game would be huge. Then they could own the division.
Speaker 5: Coming out of this game.
Speaker 1: You'd be up by two games with what is it?
Speaker 1: Five to play? Four to play to play?
Speaker 5: Is what it is?
Speaker 1: Is what it is? No, it definitely is what is
Speaker 1: and qut trivia question?
Speaker 5: We were doing this should can you name all five starting
Speaker 5: offensive lineman in the Cardinals game?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 8: You delete games because you're bringing it up. It makes
Speaker 8: me want to say that when the name started at
Speaker 8: TJ Bass.
Speaker 5: He did start at one of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll started left tackle tackle.
Speaker 7: Awesome Richards. No, it was left left.
Speaker 8: Guard Tyler Smith, center Tyler Beatdish. Oh, so then that
Speaker 8: would have been No.
Speaker 9: Who is long?
Speaker 5: We had the same thing going on to the meeting.
Speaker 1: This is what we do in our meetings here.
Speaker 9: He's not even on the team now.
Speaker 1: Yes he is, he is.
Speaker 9: He's on the active roster.
Speaker 5: Frock Hoffman, Okay, was the right guard practice Zach?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 9: No, that was I'm sorry, and that would be Terrence Steele.
Speaker 5: There you go, man, that's it.
Speaker 8: I mean, you think Dak would be putting up these
Speaker 8: m VP numbers playing behind that offensive line for the
Speaker 8: last six seven games.
Speaker 1: Probably that's probably not.
Speaker 5: But but yeah, those are the playoff scenarios there, and
Speaker 5: again a lot determines on the outcome of Sunday. If
Speaker 5: they lose, may as well just get your just lights
Speaker 5: ready sharp plan on New Orleans and Tampa.
Speaker 1: Bay uh, Philadelphia schedule. Of course, it goes Dallas this week,
Speaker 1: Seattle next week, which is Seattle's going to be in
Speaker 1: desperation mode pretty quickly. They play San Francisco this week,
Speaker 1: and then they follow up with Philly next week. They
Speaker 1: need a win pretty badly, and then it goes New York, Arizona,
Speaker 1: New York down the stretch for Philadelphia. Maybe the one
Speaker 1: thing that can benefit, like you said, Tyrod Taylor may
Speaker 1: be finding a little bit of magic there from the
Speaker 1: Giants standpoint, but I think you're gonna see Tommy Cutlets
Speaker 1: and the New York Giants. But the fact that they
Speaker 1: play him two times in three weeks, maybe that's a benefit.
Speaker 1: It's hard to beat the team two times in three weeks.
Speaker 5: That's that's the best. That's the look at me, like
Speaker 5: that's the best optimism you could have. But like again,
Speaker 5: it's it's it's highly unlike.
Speaker 1: Trying to see it with the glass half full.
Speaker 8: The best you can go to his last year's game
Speaker 8: at Washington. I mean, there's reason that the Cowboys still
Speaker 8: need to win that game. They're at Washington. Washington's not
Speaker 8: very good. You would think nine out of ten times
Speaker 8: they're winning that game and not only did that win it,
Speaker 8: that wasn't really even that close.
Speaker 1: So do you think it benefits this Cowboys team the
Speaker 1: fact that they have to kind of go pedal to
Speaker 1: the medal here though? Down the stretch, they can't let
Speaker 1: up for a game. There's no there's no room for error,
Speaker 1: even if they get some help outside of it. We're
Speaker 1: talking about scenarios that include the Cowboys winning out, and
Speaker 1: that's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think that.
Speaker 8: I don't think it'd be any different than it has
Speaker 8: been though, because they still needed to win all the
Speaker 8: way to the end last year. And some will argue, okay, well,
Speaker 8: they weren't going to catch the Eagles anyway, so they
Speaker 8: but they played all their started against Washington.
Speaker 9: They obviously were playing to win that game.
Speaker 8: And I could see it being the same thing, exact
Speaker 8: thing this year, where it's like, we look at that
Speaker 8: right now, but going into that final week at Washington,
Speaker 8: Philly might already technically have it locked up. And so
Speaker 8: are you really playing that Washington game like that?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 8: I can see us watching that Detroit game that's the
Speaker 8: last home game, and thinking like, oh, this is gonna
Speaker 8: have so much implications and then Philadelphia takes care of
Speaker 8: business and it doesn't really end up mattering that much.
Speaker 8: So in that case, I don't see it being that
Speaker 8: much different. I mean, this season could be very similar
Speaker 8: to last year, where you could be going to Tampa
Speaker 8: Bay and then you could be going to San Francisco
Speaker 8: or you know so, and then that'll be how this
Speaker 8: team will be.
Speaker 9: Judges. Can it get past what it did last year?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: They go to San Francisco again. I might not get
Speaker 5: on the flight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was. It was dramatic. That is dramatic, you guys.
Speaker 7: Do you guys feel as if they would win out?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: No, so I honestly I do feel like that scenario
Speaker 5: where the Eagles lose a game to the Giants, that's
Speaker 5: that's what you need to happen, because you're going to
Speaker 5: lose one down the stretch. I mean, they're going to
Speaker 5: Buffalo and Miami back to back weeks. If they come
Speaker 5: out of that two and zero, wow, Yeah, and then
Speaker 5: they got to play Detroit on it which week?
Speaker 6: So the remaining schedule outside of this week? Okay, what
Speaker 6: team do you guys feel will be the most challenging
Speaker 6: for Dallas.
Speaker 5: I always feel like Miami's the biggest challenge on the schedule. Really, yeah,
Speaker 5: just because their speed is going to be unreal.
Speaker 7: That's tough.
Speaker 5: It's it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 8: Really, if you could tell me the elements of Buffalo,
Speaker 8: that would help. But with me not knowing what it's
Speaker 8: going to be, sure, I would also say Miami. But
Speaker 8: if you tell me it's just like this snowy, awful
Speaker 8: Buffalo type weather, then I would say that that builds
Speaker 8: the game.
Speaker 7: Is see, I think it's Detroit. Okay, why is that?
Speaker 7: Because they're more physical. They're very physical, but Dallas. Dallas
Speaker 7: has struggled with physical teams.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that Detroit would speed. I don't disagree
Speaker 6: with that, but there's things that you can do about that. Sure,
Speaker 6: Dallas has struggled with physicality. The forty nine ers beat
Speaker 6: up Dallas multiple years now because of physicality, and.
Speaker 7: Detroit beat up Dallas with the physicality.
Speaker 6: Dallas won the game, but they made it dog on
Speaker 6: interesting because they were just beating the crap out of
Speaker 6: them and everybody was getting hit. Yeah, and I foresee
Speaker 6: that being their tenacity, their relentlessness, their physicality, all those
Speaker 6: things about Detroit scared of crap out of me when
Speaker 6: I look at it any comparison to Dallas.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just knowing how Detroit's played for the last I
Speaker 8: don't know, thirty plus years of my life. There's a
Speaker 8: part of you though that anytime that you really get
Speaker 8: up for thinking like this is gonna be a big
Speaker 8: matchup whatever like that, that they've laid a lot of eggs.
Speaker 8: So that's the only reason why. And then also they're
Speaker 8: putting Jimmy Johnson the Ring on or halftime that show.
Speaker 8: I mean, come on that place, canna be rocket now.
Speaker 8: The other thing I just have to bring up because
Speaker 8: sometimes I feel like we gloss over it and maybe
Speaker 8: they lose this weekend and maybe well it'll change the narrative.
Speaker 8: But the reason why I would also side with Nick
Speaker 8: on possibly Miami or Buffalo is just because of how
Speaker 8: good the Cowboys have played at home, and if they
Speaker 8: were playing at Detroit, maybe it'd be a little bit
Speaker 8: maybe that would put it there, But just because they've
Speaker 8: played so well at home, I give the edge to
Speaker 8: maybe one of those two road games.
Speaker 1: By the way, the conditions were within the ten day
Speaker 1: forecast on the weather change. Gotcha. Sorry, mainly cloudy, high
Speaker 1: near thirty five with wins from ten to fifteen miles
Speaker 1: an hour, mostly cloudy skies at night with a low
Speaker 1: of twenty nine.
Speaker 7: It's awful. It's less about the temperature, more about the wind.
Speaker 7: Win the wind, the.
Speaker 6: Win at thirty five miles, I mean, at thirty five
Speaker 6: degrees at fifteen miles perur wind, that's gonna feel like
Speaker 6: twenty seven twenty eight, Like, that's gonna that's what cuts through.
Speaker 1: Your There is a twenty five percent chance of precipitation.
Speaker 5: There's forty five the day before, so maybe that moves up.
Speaker 7: That actually helps up.
Speaker 8: I mean, there's probably a ten percent chance they don't
Speaker 8: even play the game there and they have to move
Speaker 8: into Detroit or somewhere else like they've had to do.
Speaker 9: It's snow games awesome.
Speaker 1: I like that Beamer is ready to roll, all right.
Speaker 1: When we come back here on Talking Cowboys, we're going
Speaker 1: to take a look at the defensive preview for this
Speaker 1: Cowboys team. How do they stack up against Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: and the weapons on the Philadelphia offense. More Talking Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look at the defensive matchup.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, the RPO and all these weapons. They put
Speaker 1: up some pretty incredible numbers throughout the year, but not
Speaker 1: necessarily scoring off the chart. They've had some struggles in
Speaker 1: the red zone throughout the year. Jalen Hurts and Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott both rank inside the top three of offensive touchdowns,
Speaker 1: though in twenty twenty three, Hurts his second, Prescott is third.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is the only one in front of both
Speaker 1: of them. When you look at this offense, Isaiah, and
Speaker 1: based off of what you've seen, not only this year,
Speaker 1: but over the last couple of years, what do they
Speaker 1: do best as a unit?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 6: I think they're just effective in getting downhill. I believe
Speaker 6: that these guys have a solid running game. I really
Speaker 6: like their running game, whether that comes on the heels
Speaker 6: of Ondre's swift or whether that comes to Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 6: Last time Dallas faced the Philadelphia Eagles, Jalen Hurts was injured,
Speaker 6: and I think a lot of people are forgetting that
Speaker 6: or choosing to ignore that he was not whole. I
Speaker 6: think he's more whole now than he was. He's really
Speaker 6: starting to cross the line of screamage like he used to.
Speaker 6: He's utilizing his legs to get first downs, getting out
Speaker 6: on the edge, throwing the rock. I think these guys
Speaker 6: obviously have the weapons on the outside. You have the
Speaker 6: big physical receiver, you have the fast receiver, much like
Speaker 6: Dallas face last week in Seattle. You got the big man,
Speaker 6: you got the speed guy. Which one you're gonna put
Speaker 6: your point of emphasis on to try to shut down?
Speaker 6: Can you shut down both? Not really sure. Dallas Goddard,
Speaker 6: We've got to see about his availability if he's going
Speaker 6: to be there. But these guys just do a great job.
Speaker 6: They're officing line is solid. I like their old line.
Speaker 6: I think their physical I think their tenations. I think
Speaker 6: they try to be nasty. But you know one thing
Speaker 6: that I think in terms of opportunity is you've seen
Speaker 6: these guys before, you know what they do. They don't motion,
Speaker 6: they're not trying to trick you. I think in terms
Speaker 6: of just lining up. These guys are thirty first.
Speaker 7: In the league.
Speaker 6: In terms of shifts and motions, they don't really do
Speaker 6: a lot of that. So when they when they step
Speaker 6: to the line of scrimmage, you know where these guys
Speaker 6: are going to be at. You're not worried about making
Speaker 6: any adjustments there. It just comes down to communication, and
Speaker 6: then you do have an opportunity to get some turnovers
Speaker 6: against these guys. These guys have I think fourteen takeaways
Speaker 6: this year, so there give they've given the ball up.
Speaker 6: Jalen Hurts has coughed the ball up a number of times.
Speaker 6: He doesn't like pressure, he doesn't like people all in
Speaker 6: his face. So there is opportunity there. As dangerous as
Speaker 6: these guys are with all their weapons and their system,
Speaker 6: they're not trying to trick you. I'm not going to
Speaker 6: say the second part of that, but they're not trying
Speaker 6: to trick you. But they but they will come downhill
Speaker 6: and if you can't stop the run, like we've talked about,
Speaker 6: they will do it over and over again. There that's
Speaker 6: just who they are at heart, That's who their coach is.
Speaker 6: He's he's that arrogant of a guy where he would
Speaker 6: just take the air out the ball.
Speaker 8: It's funny too, Like I think a lot of people
Speaker 8: looked at the way dron Bland played last Thursday, and
Speaker 8: there's concern, you know, because of Mike I said for
Speaker 8: the game. You know, similarities between Philly's receivers and Seattle
Speaker 8: a little bit. And there's the oh DK Metcalf was
Speaker 8: able to do this, what if AJ Brown's able to
Speaker 8: do that? So I'm asking you guys, because I'm fine
Speaker 8: with this, So I'm wondering if you guys agree. So
Speaker 8: that last game against the Cowboys, AJ Brown seven for
Speaker 8: sixty six in a touchdown, Devonte Smith three for fifty
Speaker 8: one in a touchdown. I would be fine if they
Speaker 8: can if that's their production again or do you think
Speaker 8: that that's too much?
Speaker 5: No, I think that's fine. I think if the defense
Speaker 5: does exactly what they did the first time against Philly,
Speaker 5: then I think this offense can win this game. Obviously
Speaker 5: you'd win a little bit more leeway, but I feel
Speaker 5: like if that's the defensive effort that they put across.
Speaker 5: I think this offense has developed more in the last
Speaker 5: five weeks, especially in the running game, to be able
Speaker 5: to score more than twenty eight points against this team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is the part of the year where
Speaker 1: and we saw it against Seattle a little bit. Seattle
Speaker 1: was a good test for this offense as well. But
Speaker 1: you're starting to see this offense click. And we've seen
Speaker 1: it over the last five games. Right, It's continuously gotten better.
Speaker 1: You've seen it crescendo up to this point. This is
Speaker 1: the point they I wanted it to peak right here
Speaker 1: in this game. Like you said a moment ago in
Speaker 1: the first segment, Nick, that this is the most important
Speaker 1: game of the regular season. They know that across the hall,
Speaker 1: they know that this is when they want this offense
Speaker 1: to be at its best, other than, of course, a
Speaker 1: playoff push. But you got to win this game to
Speaker 1: set you up better for that playoff push. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: actually excited to see what this offense has in store.
Speaker 1: I think the defense does very similar to what it
Speaker 1: did the first time around against Philly, even with the
Speaker 1: struggle that they had last week against Seattle. It's a
Speaker 1: different challenge though, because Gino Smith doesn't run as much
Speaker 1: as he used to either. Jalen Hurts leads that the
Speaker 1: NFL in terms of quarterback rushing touchdowns. I like this
Speaker 1: that Prescotten Hurts will be the fifth matchup between the
Speaker 1: outright passing touchdown leader and the outright quarterback rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: leader in December or later. Since twenty ten five times,
Speaker 1: three of the first four times were won by the
Speaker 1: quarterback leading the NFL in passing touchdowns.
Speaker 5: And that would be press guy is like eight of
Speaker 5: his ten rushing touchdowns from one yard out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, Gosh, that's why.
Speaker 7: I actually, that's wow.
Speaker 6: That's yeah, Beamer off the top rope. I don't want
Speaker 6: to sound like Deybbie Downer, but I'm just being you know,
Speaker 6: I'm a realist.
Speaker 7: I just from my perspective.
Speaker 1: It's like what Mike and New York told you yesterday.
Speaker 7: We know you're picking Philly.
Speaker 6: I just want people to be aware that what you
Speaker 6: saw last time against Philly was a reduced version of
Speaker 6: who they are offensively, Okay, and that's just that's not
Speaker 6: taking away anything from what our defense did, how successful
Speaker 6: they were, but that was a reduced version of what
Speaker 6: they're capable of. And I'm not saying that they're going
Speaker 6: to display what they're capable of this week. I mean,
Speaker 6: Dallas has a chance to shut it down. But that
Speaker 6: was taking what your quarterback does best and saying, don't
Speaker 6: get out the pocket because you can't get out the
Speaker 6: pocket right, don't run, don't do RPO, don't do zone
Speaker 6: read option, don't do any of these things that you're
Speaker 6: capable of doing, which makes us more of a threat
Speaker 6: offensively because you didn't have the ability to do so.
Speaker 6: Once his knee got compromised, he was he was done.
Speaker 6: I think he got out the pocket maybe a handful
Speaker 6: of times, and you saw that he did not want
Speaker 6: to get out of the pocket. He was gimpy as all
Speaker 6: get out. So I'm just saying that to be realistic.
Speaker 9: Ran ten times.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I'm saying like, but you could tell when
Speaker 6: he ran it like it was like, yeah, like let
Speaker 6: me grizz out of bounds, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: Like he was like, give me out of bounds now.
Speaker 6: So I just want people to be realistic about that
Speaker 6: in terms of looking back at what they what Dallas
Speaker 6: did and say, oh, we're going to be better this time.
Speaker 6: Just just just timper your expectations and be realistic and
Speaker 6: have your office prepared to be able to score some points.
Speaker 1: They also took away They also in doing that with
Speaker 1: dialing it back and simplifying their offense, they also took
Speaker 1: care of the football. They never they didn't have a turnover.
Speaker 1: They had a couple fumbles of course late in the
Speaker 1: game that nearly gave probably took your football. Probably on
Speaker 1: the other side of it, Jalen Hurts, whenever he has
Speaker 1: been healthy, has been giving the football away at a
Speaker 1: high rate, four team giveaways in fact. So maybe this
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for the Dallas defense to be aggressive
Speaker 1: and to get after Jalen Hurts to the fact that hey,
Speaker 1: maybe he wants to play hero ball and that's when
Speaker 1: he turns it over, So he could open up possibilities
Speaker 1: on one end where like I agree with you, Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts was not okay in that last game against Dallas,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty painfully obvious. But now that he
Speaker 1: is okay, it just means he has an opportunity.
Speaker 9: To MAT's funny.
Speaker 8: It's funny you guys say that though, because so I
Speaker 8: brought off his game log from this year, and yeah,
Speaker 8: he only threw three for two hundred and seven yards.
Speaker 8: Okay against Cowboys the first time, but he was seventeen
Speaker 8: of twenty three, passing two touchdowns, no interceptions. His his
Speaker 8: passer rating was one thirty point two. It's the second
Speaker 8: highest that he's had all season since then. Passer rating
Speaker 8: Hays City Chiefs game sixty four point six, Bills ninety
Speaker 8: six point two, Niners eighty five point two.
Speaker 7: So we're just saying, don't hit him, keep him in
Speaker 7: a pocket.
Speaker 8: I mean, he was just on it. He was on
Speaker 8: a run there. I'm just no, I'm not believe me.
Speaker 8: I think Jalen Hurts is great. I'm just saying that there,
Speaker 8: even though he was banged up at that time. Those
Speaker 8: three games in a row Miami, Washington, Dallas, his passer
Speaker 8: rings like one O nine, one thirty five, one thirty
Speaker 8: and these last three games it has not been on
Speaker 8: that level.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So with that being said, Nick, who do you
Speaker 1: feel like on the defense has to have their best game?
Speaker 5: I feel like it's those the interior defensive line. Because
Speaker 5: whenever I was going whenever we were going into the
Speaker 5: first game against Philly, the thing that I worried about
Speaker 5: was DeAndre Swift, and if Hurts is a little bit
Speaker 5: more healthy and he's able to get out of the
Speaker 5: pocket and kind of expand the running game a little bit,
Speaker 5: that's going to expand opportunities for DeAndre Swift. And that's
Speaker 5: still a weapon that I fear on that offense because
Speaker 5: I don't feel like Dallas has really seen the full
Speaker 5: potential of what that weapon can look like against this
Speaker 5: Dallas defense. So yeah, those guys in the middle, Jonathan Hankins,
Speaker 5: Mazzie Smith, Neville Gallimore when he gets in also a Digiezua,
Speaker 5: those guys need to have a really strong outing again.
Speaker 5: They've they've been stacking good games in the last couple
Speaker 5: of last couple of weeks, So if they can keep
Speaker 5: that going, then then I feel good about how this
Speaker 5: defense can stop the rushing attack from Philadelphia. And if
Speaker 5: they can do that, then I think we're gonna have
Speaker 5: a similar offensive output from Philadelphia that we had last time.
Speaker 1: On another part of the defense that maybe hasn't had
Speaker 1: their best couple of weeks, and if anything has maybe
Speaker 1: been criticized for it at the safety position, how impreparative
Speaker 1: is their play on Sunday night. Being able to see
Speaker 1: Jay Ron Curse play better, MALIEK. Cooker play better. Donovan Wilson.
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson stepped up, made a huge play on fourth downhill.
Speaker 1: De Lawrence DeMarcus Lawrence kind of have that stop on
Speaker 1: Zach Charbonne at the goal or at the line of
Speaker 1: the game. Can those three guys they'll play a complete game?
Speaker 1: And how bad is that needed for this Dallas defense?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that would be big because obviously you don't want
Speaker 5: to have these receivers take the top off this defense.
Speaker 5: That would be that would be pretty catastrophic in my
Speaker 5: eyes if they're able to work a downfield passing game
Speaker 5: with the weapons that they have in the receiving core.
Speaker 5: So yeah, obviously, yeah, these safeties need to play well.
Speaker 5: Mollie Cooker as well. Whenever he's in those single high situations,
Speaker 5: He's been up, he's been down, He's had his moments
Speaker 5: this year. I think if he could just stack really
Speaker 5: good reps on Sunday, then they could limit that passing
Speaker 5: attack and keep everything underneath. They can keep everything underneath.
Speaker 5: I feel good about what the second level and what
Speaker 5: these dbs can do to keep everything from letting it,
Speaker 5: letting it kind of lead out. You know, the DK
Speaker 5: Metcalf Gearre at Wilson touchdowns. So we've had this year
Speaker 5: that we've seen this year.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I feel like with both these teams, honestly,
Speaker 8: I think the game will be decided by the two
Speaker 8: quarterbacks on who can get outside the pocket and extend
Speaker 8: plays the most, whether it be with their legs or
Speaker 8: to you know, Mike McCarty always talks about the two
Speaker 8: point three extend it beyond that to create bigger plays
Speaker 8: down down the field, and that very well could be
Speaker 8: Jalen Hurts, but that could be Dak Prescott too, especially
Speaker 8: with the way he's been playing lately. So if you
Speaker 8: tell me they keep Hurts in the pocket and they
Speaker 8: are able to contain him a little bit, I really
Speaker 8: like the Cowboys chances. But if he's getting outside running,
Speaker 8: you know, extending plays for aj Brown stuff down the field, yeah,
Speaker 8: the Cowboys are in trouble then.
Speaker 6: M because something to keep an eye on, something to
Speaker 6: keep eye on. I want to highlight Marky's bell. I
Speaker 6: need Marku's bell to have a heck of a game.
Speaker 6: And yes, I think that, you know what, maybe maybe
Speaker 6: back pedal a little bit talking about the defensive backs.
Speaker 7: I don't know the last time that we have been
Speaker 7: in a position to praise the safety trio that we
Speaker 7: have on this roster.
Speaker 6: I think you think in a couple it's been a
Speaker 6: while since we like sung the praises of these of
Speaker 6: these safeties now, prior to contract extensions and things of
Speaker 6: that nature.
Speaker 7: Oh, they're balling.
Speaker 1: They were the talk of training camp.
Speaker 6: It's being kind of quiet, and I'm not sure if
Speaker 6: that's because we're paying less attention. I'm not sure if
Speaker 6: that's because they're not making as many plays. But I
Speaker 6: don't feel as if that trio has been as impactive
Speaker 6: as they have once as they once were, and we
Speaker 6: need a resurgence of that, whether that be from the
Speaker 6: coverage standpoint, whether that be from having hard hits Donald,
Speaker 6: I haven't obviously he made a big tackle. I don't
Speaker 6: know the last time that we saw Donald have a
Speaker 6: big hit right and have that enforcement that he used
Speaker 6: to have near the middle of the middle of this
Speaker 6: of the defense and the line of scrimmage. A couple
Speaker 6: of years ago, this dude was a complete dog up
Speaker 6: there right, being a force to reckon with. Kurs was
Speaker 6: coming up there putting vicescripts on tight ends. You know,
Speaker 6: these are all the things that we were talking about.
Speaker 6: Haven't heard that, so I want to see a resurgence
Speaker 6: of that. But in terms of this game and taking
Speaker 6: away one of the things that this team does very well,
Speaker 6: Markus Bell has to have a heck of a game. Yes,
Speaker 6: that's not taking away the interior defensive line Ohsa Digiezuo.
Speaker 6: Those guys have to do their deal to be able
Speaker 6: to take away the internal rend, the running game, and
Speaker 6: the RPO. But Marku's Bell has a high task and
Speaker 6: that's going to be shadowing Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 7: That's his role.
Speaker 6: I think he's done a great job of that with
Speaker 6: other running backs. That's going to be his role most
Speaker 6: likely this week against Jalen Hurts and preventing him from
Speaker 6: being able to get outside the pocket and applying that pressure,
Speaker 6: forcing him to throw some some air and throws, and
Speaker 6: putting pressure in front of him his face to make
Speaker 6: him fumble even possibly. But I think he's going to
Speaker 6: play a big role in this game. Obviously, it's going
Speaker 6: to be a collective effort at all three levels. But
Speaker 6: in terms of shutting down Jalen Hurts, I'm looking to
Speaker 6: Marcus Bell.
Speaker 1: Got to have a big game, and really that safety
Speaker 1: group in general has to step up in a big
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Speaker 7: Let's go, Jayu.
Speaker 8: I'll be honest with you, I think that the national storylines,
Speaker 8: because here's one of them I obviously was going to
Speaker 8: talk about with you guys would be Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 8: coming back potentially from that Achilles and they're terrible, and
Speaker 8: so I'm like, let's just make this about the Cowboys,
Speaker 8: so that if the season ended today, they would be
Speaker 8: the fifth seed and having to go play the NFC
Speaker 8: South champ right now, that would be the Falcons. But
Speaker 8: the Falcons, Bucks Saints are all kind of in that group.
Speaker 8: I wanted to ask you, guys, if you can pick
Speaker 8: if that ends up being the case for them, you
Speaker 8: can pick.
Speaker 9: Where they go.
Speaker 8: What's the best one of those environments teams whatever for
Speaker 8: the Cowboys to face, and what's the worst one, like
Speaker 8: the one that you absolutely don't want to see.
Speaker 9: Because for me, I'll just start with the best one.
Speaker 9: To me, I think it's Tampa Bay.
Speaker 8: You already went there last year and beat them with
Speaker 8: Tom Brady a ton of Cowboys fans.
Speaker 9: I would expect the same there.
Speaker 8: Again, I wouldn't love the road environment as much of
Speaker 8: those other even though there'd be a ton of Cowboys
Speaker 8: fans either of them. I think that Tampa Bay would
Speaker 8: be the one that you'd want the most. But I
Speaker 8: want to hear your guys takes on this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1: I would agree with Tampa Bay being the best scenario
Speaker 1: because they're just not the same. And like you said,
Speaker 1: they Tampa Bay fans are even not as all in
Speaker 1: as they were whenever Tom Brady was there the TV.
Speaker 1: The Tampa Brady fans.
Speaker 5: Have left well, I think they're Ravens fans now or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like they're all over everywhere else.
Speaker 6: Yeah, give me Atlanta, but okay, give me Atlanta there's
Speaker 6: nobody that I fear out on Atlanta's team Bejon six,
Speaker 6: and there's no I don't fear neither one of those
Speaker 6: guys in terms.
Speaker 7: Of what they've done in at least he's there.
Speaker 1: Any j Turell, I.
Speaker 7: Don't fear those guys. There's a Mike Evans.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like Mike Evans, and that's who else Kate
Speaker 5: Mike Evans, Kate.
Speaker 7: Oughten, Kay, Tampa has a company, guys.
Speaker 1: I think my least favorite of the bunch would be
Speaker 1: New Orleans going on the road and playing in Super
Speaker 1: and and I honest just I just don't trust New
Speaker 1: Orleans and the fact that they're going to find a
Speaker 1: way to play well in that game, like they're so
Speaker 1: streaky and.
Speaker 7: Car gives you a chance to win plenty of times.
Speaker 1: And then you've got Winston who could either throw for
Speaker 1: thirty picks touchdown.
Speaker 8: So Atlanta is four and two at home this year,
Speaker 8: Tampa Bay is three and three, and the Saints are
Speaker 8: surprisingly two and three at home.
Speaker 5: Selfishly, I'd want to go to New Orleans. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: I think the best the best case scenario.
Speaker 1: Why is that, Nick? Why would you want to go
Speaker 1: to New Orleans?
Speaker 5: Love that place. You to join me on on New
Speaker 5: Year's Day, make a make an early trip out there.
Speaker 5: So I'm already already out of the stadium, real real.
Speaker 9: Quick, enough of that. What is your guys favorite NFL
Speaker 9: road city?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: Because I thought it because a lot of people would
Speaker 9: probably say New Orleans if you're.
Speaker 7: New Orleans.
Speaker 6: Was the craziest road environment that I've ever played in,
Speaker 6: Like rocking, freaking y yang twins, stand up and get
Speaker 6: crunk after every time they score.
Speaker 8: I mean, so that was regardless of the team that
Speaker 8: you were on, you felt like it like there wasn't
Speaker 8: more when you were with the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: New England.
Speaker 1: Okay, New Orleans is up there. I haven't been there.
Speaker 1: I mean I've been to Miami. I haven't been as
Speaker 1: like an.
Speaker 7: NFL Miami atmosphere.
Speaker 1: Not the same thing.
Speaker 7: I liked.
Speaker 5: I'm really looking forward to Buffalo.
Speaker 7: That a little cool.
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward.
Speaker 7: It feels like a high school stadium.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's the only thing. And they're building that new
Speaker 5: stadium so like here in like five years and you
Speaker 5: know that. But the next time the Cowboys, Buffalo feels
Speaker 5: like high school. Miami feels like eh whatever. Minnesota, Minnesota,
Speaker 5: is nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kansas City would be up there.
Speaker 8: I'm not saying it's number one for me, but I'm
Speaker 8: not just saying it because he's sitting here. But Seattle's
Speaker 8: pretty high in there too. Yeah, Like it's a cool city.
Speaker 8: It's down the stadium's downtown, walkable stuff, and US an opponent. Yeah,
Speaker 8: stadiums so loud. And that's just a really cool advice.
Speaker 1: You're there as a broadcaster.
Speaker 7: Was there?
Speaker 5: They just have really bad service in the restaurants. That's
Speaker 5: about the only thing that's true.
Speaker 7: That's true.
Speaker 9: You at one more, Yeah, let's do one more.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 8: So again, I want to keep it to a Cowboys
Speaker 8: thing here, and right now everything in the NFC is
Speaker 8: being talked about is forty nine Ers, Cowboys, Eagles, and
Speaker 8: I feel like everyone thinks that that's going to what
Speaker 8: it's going to come down to who wins the NFC.
Speaker 8: So right now, the forty nine Ers, I feel like
Speaker 8: are in the driver's seat. I think they clearly look
Speaker 8: like the best team with what they've done against the
Speaker 8: Eagles and Cowboys this year. So I'll just ask you
Speaker 8: who has a better chance of being the forty nine
Speaker 8: Ers in the playoffs.
Speaker 9: The Cowboys or Eagles.
Speaker 5: Oh, no, gosh, Detroit, that's a trick question.
Speaker 9: I feel like they would both probably be on the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably, Yeah. I think San fran Is probably gonna
Speaker 1: run the table, or at least get close to running
Speaker 1: the table down the stretch, did you I would say
Speaker 1: that they.
Speaker 6: Put Chase Young in in garbage time. I'm watching that
Speaker 6: and I'm like, is garbage time and Chase Young's chasing you?
Speaker 1: Hm? Chasing you?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: He's what to do there, Chase Young?
Speaker 7: It's crazy? Yeah, yeah, I was literally watching, I'm like,
Speaker 7: what the hell?
Speaker 8: In a way, I kind of like the Cowboys because
Speaker 8: of the fact of I do think if that if
Speaker 8: both of them played at San Francisco, I do think
Speaker 8: that the Philly spread would be smaller. I do think
Speaker 8: that the Cowboys most people would be expecting them to
Speaker 8: lose that game. But I think that there's a little
Speaker 8: bit of There's they've been such a thorn in your side.
Speaker 8: They're thinking they're going to be everybody thinks they're going
Speaker 8: to be you. There's it's like one of those few
Speaker 8: places where the Dallas Cowboys can be an unequivocal underdog,
Speaker 8: And so because of that, I don't know that there's
Speaker 8: that same feeling with Philly where I think people might
Speaker 8: look at is you know, if they had their quarterback
Speaker 8: last year, this game would have been different or maybe not.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 8: There's a little bit more debate there where I think
Speaker 8: a lot of people just look at as like, oh, well,
Speaker 8: you know, San Francisco is gonna beat the Cowboys. And
Speaker 8: anytime in sports where you just think it's like this
Speaker 8: foregun conclusion, that's usually when wild stuff happens, you know.
Speaker 5: I think I'm looking at the Cowboys there just because
Speaker 5: they're a much different team than when they went up
Speaker 5: there on Week five. Yeah, offense is different. Defense has
Speaker 5: found a little bit more chemistry with a couple of
Speaker 5: pieces that are out and a couple of pieces that
Speaker 5: have kind of fit in. I think they are a
Speaker 5: different team than they were in Week five. So I
Speaker 5: would say the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I liked your reasoning.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 1: I would probably say from a roster standpoint, Philadelphia is better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just because of the trenches and what they can do
Speaker 1: from a defensive line standpoint to try and stop the run.
Speaker 1: They didn't do a great job of it on Sunday
Speaker 1: against San fran The thing that Dallas would have there
Speaker 1: is You're right, it's they're written off in that game immediately.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody would really, with a clean conscience
Speaker 1: pick the Dallas Cowboys to win that game. If it's
Speaker 1: Cowboys and forty nine Ers, or even whenever they've met
Speaker 1: the last couple of days, somebody would do it, but
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be with a clean conscience. You would pick
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to win over the forty nine.
Speaker 5: Ers in San Francisco if it happened tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Because I don't trust Brock Party.
Speaker 6: Okay, I think the past Rush MVP favorite Brock Party
Speaker 6: that I don't trust Brock Party, and I think that
Speaker 6: Brock Party will lay down when pressure is put on him,
Speaker 6: and I.
Speaker 1: Think that the first.
Speaker 7: I think Dallas presents the first.
Speaker 6: I think Dallas presents a greater opportunity to apply pressure
Speaker 6: at Brock Party than the Philadelphia Eagles defensive front.
Speaker 5: Does I disagree? I disagree.
Speaker 7: That just happened.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 5: I'll let you have it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like it. You agree, I'm happy disagree, But
Speaker 7: it's just not convinced of party and it's.
Speaker 1: Not going to be a foregone conclusion when you walk
Speaker 1: into that building, because there's gonna be plenty of Cowboys fans.
Speaker 1: There would be a chance to be on the road
Speaker 1: and to finally take care of business against the team
Speaker 1: that's knocked you out the last couple of years. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be a pride factor into it.
Speaker 5: I do y'all feel like there's any team in the
Speaker 5: AFC that is like in the same tier as Philadelphia
Speaker 5: and San Francisco in the AFC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Baltimore, Baltimore, Kansas City, Miami, Kansas City. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not counting.
Speaker 8: Out Kansas if it was like the AFC, yeah, sure,
Speaker 8: but the Kansas City been there, done that. Kansas City
Speaker 8: would scare me more than the Dolphins. Okay, yeah, not me,
Speaker 8: Like who just comes out of nowhere like that.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 8: I said this earlier in the year, like the Dolphins
Speaker 8: would to just be this team where oh, yeah, this one,
Speaker 8: you're boom boom boom, put it all together.
Speaker 9: Super Bowl Like, I mean, it's possible.
Speaker 5: But Miami feels like the Detroit of the AFC for me. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they're nine to three, hadn't really been anybody. They're dangerous, yes,
Speaker 5: and they could you know, win a big playoff game,
Speaker 5: but like, I don't feel like they'll reach the super Bowl.
Speaker 9: Baltimore Baltimore cases Baltimore.
Speaker 1: I was probably ranked Baltimore one, Kansas City to Miami three.
Speaker 9: And for me, it's not even Kansas City.
Speaker 8: Like as in the Chiefs organization, it's like what team
Speaker 8: is Patrick Mahomes exactly? You just don't want it because
Speaker 8: he can just have this huge game in boom.
Speaker 7: You're how many first round receivers are they going to
Speaker 7: get this year?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Reading a different receiver every week after a Chiefs game
Speaker 5: would be like, so a Roma Dune say, they're going
Speaker 5: to get.
Speaker 1: Those guys looking pretty good, SMU prospect is pretty good.
Speaker 7: They're going to get any more?
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Speaker 5: We had a fun text in about the invisibility Cloak
Speaker 5: guy said I would get on the field during the
Speaker 5: game and just knock people down, trip the other team's quarterback,
Speaker 5: et cetera.
Speaker 7: That's the best response. That's best response.
Speaker 1: I wonder if this Philadelphia sideline has already invested in
Speaker 1: an avilable invisibility cloak for their security officers. Big Dom,
Speaker 1: Big Dom, you be an XXL cloak? All right?
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