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Speaker 5: I'm Kyle Yeoman's gentlemen. Hope you enjoyed your your long weekend.
Speaker 1: I did a little bit, The rest was good.
Speaker 3: Got some baseball on the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was kind of a mixed bag, you know.
Speaker 6: Stressful day for me today for those who uh who
Speaker 6: haven't opened their eyes and seen my my attire to day.
Speaker 1: My braves are up against it. You gotta win one.
Speaker 1: Gotta win one.
Speaker 3: You gotta win one, right, just one, only one, because.
Speaker 6: We won if we if we sweep the Mets, then
Speaker 6: the Diamondbacks get get in. If we split with the Mets,
Speaker 6: then we and the Mets get in and the Diamondbacks
Speaker 6: are out.
Speaker 5: If the Mets sweep, I think there's a gentleman's agreement
Speaker 5: there between the two teams.
Speaker 6: You so, but hate hate hate hate hate, So I
Speaker 6: don't I don't think so, but I will say, uh,
Speaker 6: I think I think it's a situation where if we
Speaker 6: can go ahead and win the first game, then we'll
Speaker 6: probably throw some you know, triple a arm at uh
Speaker 6: walker out there. There you go, there you go, because
Speaker 6: then we got a we got a plan for the
Speaker 6: wild card, and then that does help the Mets. So
Speaker 6: the Diamondbacks are kind of, you know, behind the eight ball,
Speaker 6: that's their problem. We just need to get our win
Speaker 6: stress and then my dogs. I know you guys saw Saturday.
Speaker 7: Man, that was a game. That was a bro that
Speaker 7: was a game, and I knew I was not gonna
Speaker 7: come here. I was not gonna come here and and
Speaker 7: uh give you a hard time about the Bulldogs.
Speaker 3: I wasn't gonna give you a hard time.
Speaker 5: That was a great That game was a class, instant
Speaker 5: classic of a football game.
Speaker 6: It was, but you know, fall intents and purposes. It
Speaker 6: was a damn good sports weekend. Cowboys won on Thursday
Speaker 6: to start it off. Yuh dogs at least, you know,
Speaker 6: showed some fight braves handle business in two consecutive days.
Speaker 1: And I just need to handle business today.
Speaker 7: It doesn't help when there's a cyborg that plays for Alabama,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like I was seventeen years Williams maybe my new favorite
Speaker 5: player ever, like of all time, genuinely insane.
Speaker 1: The players, you know, game on the line.
Speaker 6: Let's do one one on one with no single with
Speaker 6: no safety high on him.
Speaker 3: Let's just let's do that.
Speaker 5: And it wasn't really a smart move right after you
Speaker 5: take the lead for the first time after trailing thirty
Speaker 5: to seven or whatever.
Speaker 7: Seventeen he's clearly a freshman then.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: He left high school early to enroll at Alabama by
Speaker 5: like a year and a half, Like it was way
Speaker 5: early to roll.
Speaker 3: And it's not only a starter.
Speaker 1: But as a dude, he's a monster tall, is he?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: He's only like five ten maybe, Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's build.
Speaker 6: Let me see the Eagles lost too, so that that also, yeah,
Speaker 6: that was fed sensation, sensation, and.
Speaker 7: You also have Aaron Rodgers losing, the Packers losing. It
Speaker 7: was just kind of good.
Speaker 3: I found myself.
Speaker 5: Yes, Trevander's ruined it, but it's just sitting at home
Speaker 5: yesterday and just looking up and down the slate of
Speaker 5: NFL games and saying, you.
Speaker 3: Know what, the Cowboys, it wasn't pretty on Thursday.
Speaker 5: You can definitely critique what happened, but a win is
Speaker 5: a win, and we said that on Friday, and that's
Speaker 5: that that that energy doesn't change. But whenever you see
Speaker 5: the Bears beating the Rams, the Vikings absolutely torching, the
Speaker 5: Packers again at the Colts beating the Steelers, the Broncos
Speaker 5: beating the Jets, the Bucks beating the Eagles, you go
Speaker 5: up and down the list of the NFL yesterday delicious.
Speaker 3: I like, I'm good with a win, Give me the win,
Speaker 3: give me two and two. I'm okay. It's not perfect
Speaker 3: and there's a long way.
Speaker 5: To go for this football team, but in the grand
Speaker 5: scheme of the NFL, anything can happen any given Sunday.
Speaker 3: You hear it all the time. I thought yesterday was
Speaker 3: a great example of that.
Speaker 7: It's almost like it's hard to win a game in
Speaker 7: the NFL.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rumor has it. Yeah, according to it's difficult.
Speaker 3: Those other guys also get paid a lot of money.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, get your win or whoever you can and
Speaker 6: look to improve.
Speaker 1: And we talked about it on Friday.
Speaker 6: It was like, you know, it, don't hang the banner
Speaker 6: after beating the New York Giants, but it's still a win.
Speaker 1: It's a win in the conference, to win in the division.
Speaker 6: And then a couple of days, three days after that,
Speaker 6: you see the Eagles get blown out by a conference
Speaker 6: opponent in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and now they're at
Speaker 6: two and two and they look like they're the ones
Speaker 6: that are in shambles. Right, So funny how week to
Speaker 6: week league baby, Funny how the storylines changed week to week.
Speaker 6: So the Cowboys just need to start taking advantage of
Speaker 6: this though. They need to start taking advantage of teams
Speaker 6: like the forty nine is struggling, the Rams struggling, the
Speaker 6: Eagles struggling and maybe trying to create some distance. And
Speaker 6: you got to catch Sam Donald. I can't believe I
Speaker 6: just said that. You have to catch Sam Donald and
Speaker 6: the undefeated Vikings as well, so you want to close
Speaker 6: that gap?
Speaker 5: Oh man, Thank god, this is like the first year
Speaker 5: and god knows how long the Vikings are not on
Speaker 5: the schedule for the Cowboys, And I'm thankful for that. Hey,
Speaker 5: Sam Donald, because Sam darnoum VP talks just like we
Speaker 5: all predicted, right, Yeah, I had that on my being.
Speaker 7: Go Cardi as I said it in on February ninety six.
Speaker 1: Sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody go back and check the table.
Speaker 1: The first of Weary Never Weary.
Speaker 5: Ryan Williams is listed at six foot that's a lie.
Speaker 7: It's he's like, yeah, five eleven or something, yeah, five twelve.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what he takes his art supports out.
Speaker 7: He's somewhere around there. But dude is a cyborg, genuine, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Player and all respect.
Speaker 6: I know there's is quite genuine football hate between US
Speaker 6: and UH in Alabama, But much like on on Twitter,
Speaker 6: had fun watching the game with you know, Road Tide
Speaker 6: guys and gals on Twitter.
Speaker 1: It was nothing but respect. After a game like that,
Speaker 1: nothing but respect.
Speaker 7: I don't know how else you handle it, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are other ways to handle it, but.
Speaker 7: But but I don't know why you would do that
Speaker 7: when it was a game.
Speaker 6: Like that Heavyweight about twelve or exactly that almost thirteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, time will.
Speaker 7: And Bama just happens to be all niners.
Speaker 6: But you know what I think, right, But what I
Speaker 6: think will happen to that point is I think that
Speaker 6: if you look at how we came alive in the
Speaker 6: second half, this might be a situation where because our
Speaker 6: offense have been struggling to find without Bowers and McConkie,
Speaker 6: that we've been struggling to find who's the downfield through
Speaker 6: who's the explosive guy?
Speaker 1: Supposed to be Love It supposed to be Bill.
Speaker 6: But you know, we woke up and maybe this is
Speaker 6: the pivotal pivot point for our offense because we got
Speaker 6: a gauntlet to finish. Yeah, we gotta go to Auburn,
Speaker 6: and I mean we have we have other things to
Speaker 6: take care of. So hopefully we'll see them again down
Speaker 6: the road. You hear that, Bam, we're coming from more
Speaker 6: about a week coming for more but later for that
Speaker 6: Braves win, and later for that Cowboys. One love that
Speaker 6: Eagles lost, and now let's talk about what the Cowboys
Speaker 6: are up against adversity wise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that was kind of gonna be my transition.
Speaker 5: It was a great football weekend, lots of good distraction,
Speaker 5: lots of opportunity to kind of get away from the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: but you can never truly get away.
Speaker 3: From the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: And Micah Parsons have you been on ESPN? Yeah, DeMarcus Lawrence,
Speaker 5: have you ever tuned in?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, both guys.
Speaker 5: Out for maybe longer than initially anticipated. We came in,
Speaker 5: came out here Friday and said, you know what my said,
Speaker 5: he was good. The law wasn't didn't seem super serious.
Speaker 5: Whatever it may be, sure enough, it's pretty serious for
Speaker 5: both guys.
Speaker 6: Yes, pretty serious. So kind of a mixed bag of news.
Speaker 6: Let's start with the bad. Yeah, Marcus Lawrence, de Marcus Lawrence.
Speaker 6: After the game, he said that he was he was
Speaker 6: in pain with his foot, but he said that he
Speaker 6: kind of downplayed it, which players tend to do. News
Speaker 6: came out that it's it is a foot spray, not
Speaker 6: a fracture. That is key to remember because De Marcus
Speaker 6: has dealt with a foot fracture before that cost him
Speaker 6: a lot of time not so long ago. So good
Speaker 6: news is no fractures. The X rays were cleaned. The
Speaker 6: MRIs were clean in that regard. They were seeking a
Speaker 6: second opinion per Stephen Jones on Friday. But DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 6: is likely to be out upwards of four plus weeks,
Speaker 6: so he is a prime IR candidate. Boy I would
Speaker 6: go ahead and pencil him out for the next four weeks.
Speaker 6: What works in the Cowboys favor is one of those
Speaker 6: weeks is a bye.
Speaker 1: So there's that.
Speaker 6: Michael Parsons much better news, But there's an asterisk next
Speaker 6: to his He's been deemed as week to week by
Speaker 6: Stephen Jones and the Cowboys okay, so he's not been
Speaker 6: ruled out versus the Steelers. Stephen Jones make sure to
Speaker 6: make that clear. He also said that he was seeking
Speaker 6: the second opinion Michael Parsons was to see what that
Speaker 6: looks like. They're coming off of a many by what
Speaker 6: did that extra two or three days of resk look
Speaker 6: like for Micah will know as early as this Wednesday
Speaker 6: when they get back to the practice field to prepare
Speaker 6: for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But it does sound like even
Speaker 6: if Michael Parsons misses this game and maybe maybe maybe
Speaker 6: even the Detroit Lions game, he has a solid shot
Speaker 6: of being on the field against the San Francisco forty
Speaker 6: nine ers, So much better news on that front. But
Speaker 6: however you slice it, DeMarcus Lawns is going to miss
Speaker 6: some time, and if Michael Parsons misses any amount of
Speaker 6: time in conjunction with that, you're without your two best
Speaker 6: edge guys period. So you gotta figure that out. And
Speaker 6: there are some real question marks there.
Speaker 7: Real nice to have Sam Williams, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you lose.
Speaker 6: So as it went, you lost Durrance so Armstrong and
Speaker 6: Dante Fowler the Free Agency. They went to Dan Quinn
Speaker 6: and the commanders, and then Sam Williams was tasked was
Speaker 6: stepping up. He Terris his a c l at the
Speaker 6: beginning of the training camp. So then it's hey, it's
Speaker 6: a Marshaw kneeling show. Fantastic, I love it. Problem is
Speaker 6: he can't be in three places.
Speaker 3: You know he cannot?
Speaker 7: Are you sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I having figured that one out on that's not happening.
Speaker 3: Were shot.
Speaker 6: So then the question becomes who steps up in addition
Speaker 6: to Marshaw kneeling, Because yes, kneeling is going to get
Speaker 6: that many more rips, but it's got to be more
Speaker 6: than the rookie.
Speaker 1: So who is it? Who is it? Who is it?
Speaker 7: That's a great question.
Speaker 6: Who the answered Josh, I think you gotta have get
Speaker 6: some binoculars out and start start searching.
Speaker 7: I don't know, man, I'm I'm of the opinion that
Speaker 7: one hundred percent. I think you look outside, you look
Speaker 7: at what's available. Al Quad and Mohammad was a big
Speaker 7: name of training camp that you know.
Speaker 3: We liked.
Speaker 1: We we thought he'd stick.
Speaker 7: We thought he'd stick. He did not. I think that's
Speaker 7: a possibility there. But I always am in favor of trades.
Speaker 7: I'm always in favor of building your team through uh
Speaker 7: bartering in in certain senses, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: But I don't think that's what they'll do based on
Speaker 7: the team that we're talking about.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's possible, and we will refrain other teams,
Speaker 6: it is possible, and we will refrain.
Speaker 1: From saying names.
Speaker 7: We can't we can't say name.
Speaker 6: But I do think that, you know, looking into a
Speaker 6: possible trade, that should be a viable discussion. I agree
Speaker 6: with you there free agency you have, but.
Speaker 7: Is it is it here?
Speaker 1: We'll lose a couple.
Speaker 6: Of games and it becomes that much more of a
Speaker 6: viable conversation.
Speaker 7: But you lose games and then you're like, well, I
Speaker 7: mean Mike is coming back. Well I was coming back,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I think that's to me, that's that's fair.
Speaker 6: But to that point, I will say this, it's a
Speaker 6: it's a Zimmer defense or defensive construct that has shown
Speaker 6: me in training camp that although not necessarily the biggest traders,
Speaker 6: they did go and get Jordan Phillips via trade to
Speaker 6: that point, but they do a lot in free agency
Speaker 6: under Zimmer. It seems so far, I'll say that. So
Speaker 6: you know, you went and you got a guy like
Speaker 6: Carl Lawston. He's gonna be tasked with stepping up as
Speaker 6: well in a huge way. And then you saw how
Speaker 6: they cycled guys in at the linebacker position. That's how
Speaker 6: Nick Vigil got here, right. You saw how they added
Speaker 6: some more guys and theval Joseph ended up here as
Speaker 6: well Albert Huggins. At one point, I mean, they're willing
Speaker 6: to go into free agency, and there's some names in
Speaker 6: free agency. Shaq Lawson comes to mind, right, yep, just
Speaker 6: as one.
Speaker 7: But it didn't want to come your last night.
Speaker 1: But before to.
Speaker 6: Your point, though, Josh before they start looking outside the building,
Speaker 6: they're going to look inside the building. I agree, and
Speaker 6: start pointing at guys and saying you, you, and you.
Speaker 3: I think it goes in order like that. I think
Speaker 3: it goes in the building.
Speaker 5: Somebody's got to step up, whether it's Marshawn Neeland, it's uh,
Speaker 5: some of these other guys that are lost.
Speaker 3: And the guys you just mentioned. Then.
Speaker 5: I think the second level of that is get on
Speaker 5: the phone, see who's out there, see who's available.
Speaker 3: There's guys.
Speaker 5: I think if you're looking to make an impact without
Speaker 5: Parsons and d Law, you're not gonna get it from
Speaker 5: Shack Loss and Randy Gregory on the open market, like
Speaker 5: you're not going to get it from those.
Speaker 6: On top of that, I think Randy might be done
Speaker 6: with football. He might be entirely based on his his
Speaker 6: uh not back and forth and based on his short
Speaker 6: stay with the Tampa Bay book.
Speaker 3: Ineers, it doesn't seem I think promising.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think he's don't. Yeah, so that's awesome.
Speaker 5: You can maybe go get Villiami Fojoko who's still out
Speaker 5: there still.
Speaker 3: He was kind of a twainer for you.
Speaker 5: More so, they were trying to push him inside than outside.
Speaker 5: I mean you already you've seen that, You've you've read
Speaker 5: that book before.
Speaker 3: You know how it is to do that.
Speaker 5: That's a dire stre That's what I'm saying. And maybe
Speaker 5: this is dire straits. We just mentioned how they've lost
Speaker 5: their top three guys and you're relying on a rookie
Speaker 5: to be your top ed rusher. There's not a whole
Speaker 5: lot of other things that I would say are dire
Speaker 5: straits in this league.
Speaker 3: And so I.
Speaker 5: Think number two on that possibility list one is inside,
Speaker 5: see who can step up. Number two is get on
Speaker 5: the phone and see what you can do in terms
Speaker 5: of a trade. And then dire straight dire straits. You're
Speaker 5: hitting this list of free agents, guys like Shack Lawson,
Speaker 5: Austin Bryant, Raheem Green, Shane Ray, Ellerson Smith, Marky Haynes.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: Markey Haines was one that I looked.
Speaker 3: At as well. Yeah, those are kind of the only
Speaker 3: names that are intriguing there. I mentioned Brandy Gregory.
Speaker 1: I just I don't agree with you. I just think
Speaker 1: that he's done with football.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I mean, do you call this dire straits
Speaker 5: if it comes to the addresser spot because I'm pretty
Speaker 5: close to that.
Speaker 6: Well, So here's the problem is you have to look
Speaker 6: at it contextually as a whole. Right, we're coming off
Speaker 6: and thankfully shouts out to guys like Mazzie Smith and
Speaker 6: that interior offensive defensive line for showing that they can
Speaker 6: go up against run of any sort and stop the
Speaker 6: period of any type of run. So that's promising, but
Speaker 6: small simple size as far as the positive nature of that.
Speaker 6: The bigger simple size is that they struggle against the
Speaker 6: run because of the interior. So if you struggle against
Speaker 6: the run because of the interior, and now you're losing,
Speaker 6: especially Marcus Lawrence arguably the best edge defender against the run. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I could say this is dire straits, right, I could
Speaker 6: say that, and I would be well within my rights
Speaker 6: to do so. I think Marshawn Kneeland moves over to
Speaker 6: that side with the Marcus Lawrence was playing, and he
Speaker 6: gets to start there. And Marshan Nieland is a monster
Speaker 6: at stopping the run on the edge. He absolutely is,
Speaker 6: I love you, but he's likely not going to play
Speaker 6: one hundred percent of the defensive snap.
Speaker 1: So who rotates in with him? Right?
Speaker 3: But I kind of just.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at the linebackers now right and applies more
Speaker 5: stress to the line. It's going to make the interior
Speaker 5: have to play better. They're gonna have to take a
Speaker 5: step up. But how can you maybe hide some of
Speaker 5: those inadequate whenever it comes to edge rushers by using
Speaker 5: your linebackers and blitz cover in blitzes and different things
Speaker 5: along the way. Because that was one of the big
Speaker 5: things for Maris Leafoul out of the draft was the
Speaker 5: fact that Mike Zimmer can disguise a blitz with Mary's
Speaker 5: Leafoul and then bring either late pressure or just bring
Speaker 5: it on the interior or on the edge. Maybe you
Speaker 5: do the same thing with to Marvin overshow a lot
Speaker 5: of those guys are able to do multiple things. How
Speaker 5: do you hide it if you have some of those
Speaker 5: those lapses in terms of edge talent.
Speaker 7: I mean to kind of go back to your question
Speaker 7: about dire straits. I think two games isn't dire straits.
Speaker 7: I think, at least for this team now, it is
Speaker 7: about disguising blitzes. It is about managing that the team
Speaker 7: that you do have currently and being able to stop
Speaker 7: the run. But I think that just opens up windows
Speaker 7: for passes down the middle of the tight ends.
Speaker 1: The problem the tight.
Speaker 7: End game, I think, which we've struggled with in the past.
Speaker 7: I think that to me is a it's a it's
Speaker 7: a red flag. But I don't think it's dire straight
Speaker 7: at the moment.
Speaker 6: And I'll say this when you answer your question, Kyle,
Speaker 6: if you're going to lean and you're going to lean
Speaker 6: more heavily on your linebackers, does that mean you run
Speaker 6: more you know, four to three base to keep three
Speaker 6: linebackers out there so you can disguise and send one,
Speaker 6: et cetera, et cetera. But then that takes a defensive
Speaker 6: back off the field. You know, you're running less nickel
Speaker 6: against you know, teams that maybe want to run more
Speaker 6: twelve personnel. They want to get the tight end involved
Speaker 6: up the seam. It sacrifices coverage to support the run,
Speaker 6: and sometimes it'll work and sometimes you'll get burned. So
Speaker 6: you just gotta gotta be careful with that. And that
Speaker 6: that's the problem with this. So I can agree that
Speaker 6: it's not necessarily dire straits yet. And that's why I
Speaker 6: paused after that. You know, you post the question, cal
Speaker 6: because it's kind of like until I see it, I
Speaker 6: can't really be too concerned or too thrilled about it.
Speaker 6: But red flag is the better way to put it.
Speaker 6: It's most certainly a red flag.
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, it's it's something to worry about. And I
Speaker 5: think over the next two games, I mean, I'm looking
Speaker 5: at Najie Harris and Pat friar Mouth. You talk about
Speaker 5: twelve personnel and capable tight ends, capable running backs. Those
Speaker 5: two are capable for the Steelers, and then you go
Speaker 5: up against Detroit and to step up in both.
Speaker 3: Regards, Sam Laporta and Jamior Gibbs.
Speaker 5: I mean, you've got guys that you're going to have
Speaker 5: to stop out of these next two weeks. Oh and
Speaker 5: by the way, you've got the forty nine ers after
Speaker 5: the buye, So hopefully by that point after the buye,
Speaker 5: if if all is well, then maybe Mike is back
Speaker 5: and then you.
Speaker 3: Have to wait a little bit longer for d Law.
Speaker 5: But we talked about how important this stretch is for
Speaker 5: the Cowboys and how crucial it could be to how
Speaker 5: this season unfolds, and not having those two guys on
Speaker 5: your team, I think it is dire straits in terms
Speaker 5: of the edge rusher position, they're going to have to
Speaker 5: have somebody either set step up significantly or maybe that
Speaker 5: phone's got to start ringing.
Speaker 6: Now, as far as the pass rush is concerned, it's
Speaker 6: not a riff leg. It is dire streets because the
Speaker 6: past two games they've not been able to get significant pressure.
Speaker 6: Even with the even with and Michael Parsons, they've not
Speaker 6: been able to get to the quarterback as far as
Speaker 6: sex or concern. So if you're talking about defending the
Speaker 6: run red flag, Marshawn can maybe step in set that
Speaker 6: edge called austin, but when it comes to getting after
Speaker 6: the pass back, you just lost the general. Maybe we'll
Speaker 6: see if Michael misses the Steelers game, but maybe for
Speaker 6: a game ish you're without a generational pass rusher and
Speaker 6: you're without who is currently the team leader in sacks
Speaker 6: and DeMarcus Lawrence yep.
Speaker 1: So as a pass rush team, you are in dire straits.
Speaker 6: Who steps up in that capacity that's where it really
Speaker 6: becomes a question. And then with the run defense, you know,
Speaker 6: not only does it stress the linebackers to try to
Speaker 6: figure out, okay, maybe we'll run more base, we can
Speaker 6: send a third linebacker at the edges to kind of
Speaker 6: help seal that against the run up the middle kind
Speaker 6: of disrupt that, but the stress moves backwards, so it
Speaker 6: goes from the defensive front to the linebackers. And now
Speaker 6: because the linebackers are more stressed, now, the safeties have
Speaker 6: to do more work against twelve personnel Andy Gibbs and
Speaker 6: the porter and those and you know, the tight end coverage.
Speaker 6: The stress just simply resonates backward. And that's not what
Speaker 6: you want because then what happens is you get cooked
Speaker 6: over the top.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm tired of being sad. I'm tired of being
Speaker 5: said I'm sad. I'm sad because I don't want the
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 7: Want a reminder.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cowboys won, even lost.
Speaker 6: Adversity happens everything the NFL, no excuses, figure it out
Speaker 6: and go win the damn game.
Speaker 3: Sounds good.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 3: Pack. With that being said, I wrote an article this
Speaker 3: past weekend. You high five.
Speaker 5: Five reasons to be optimistic moving forward after the first
Speaker 5: month of football. We'll talk about it and we'll give
Speaker 5: our own reasons to be optimistic for this Cowboys team
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Speaker 3: All right, high five.
Speaker 5: So this is an article series that I began back
Speaker 5: in training camp, and it's basically, Man, I have a
Speaker 5: lot of fun writing it, and so I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5: This was Josh's idea to put it on the show. Actually,
Speaker 5: he kind of gave me the idea.
Speaker 2: This week ago.
Speaker 1: Sorry fumble.
Speaker 3: That's what you get for giving good ideas. Did you
Speaker 3: get coffee spilled on the table. It's just a little
Speaker 3: bit care.
Speaker 1: That's a white shirt he's got on too. We try
Speaker 1: to take you.
Speaker 3: Don't think it's splashed that way. I think we're good.
Speaker 3: All right, but high five.
Speaker 5: It's basically every week on Friday, I release a top
Speaker 5: five list of whatever topic I feel like is relevant
Speaker 5: for the week, so on certain occasions, it's biggest dual
Speaker 5: threats that the Cowboys face on the season. Top five
Speaker 5: moments all time between the Cowboys and the Saints. This
Speaker 5: past week, though, I did top five reasons to remain
Speaker 5: optimistic after the first month of football, and.
Speaker 3: The way that I put it is September football.
Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy's talked about it, and it's never perfect, even
Speaker 5: if you're four and oh, like the Minnesota Vikings, I
Speaker 5: think everything is as close to perfect as you can get.
Speaker 5: But I guarantee you if you ask, they're coming down,
Speaker 5: Sam Darnold, Do you ask anybody, It's not perfect. It's
Speaker 5: rarely pretty, it's rarely good looking football. But the fact
Speaker 5: that the Cowboys emerged at two and two did what
Speaker 5: they needed to do in one two games they probably
Speaker 5: should have won, and they lost one game they probably
Speaker 5: shouldn't have lost, and that would be the same things.
Speaker 5: So I would have said three and one was a
Speaker 5: ceiling for this team. After one month of football, they're
Speaker 5: two and two. That's one game off.
Speaker 3: I'm okay.
Speaker 5: I gave five reasons to be optimistic moving forward, and
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start with number five.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 5: Number five is the fact that not only are you
Speaker 5: getting better on that defensive line, but your offensive line
Speaker 5: in Cooper BB is showing some solid stuff moving forward.
Speaker 3: I like what I've seen from Cooper BB.
Speaker 5: Again, not perfect, but in terms of a guy that's
Speaker 5: stepping into a starting role, switching positions, moving from guard
Speaker 5: in college to the center position in the NFL, I
Speaker 5: think he's done a phenomenal job to this point and
Speaker 5: he's starting to become an anchor of your offensive line
Speaker 5: right absolutely.
Speaker 7: And you also have to give Tyler Guyton some credit
Speaker 7: to I know it hasn't been pretty all of these games,
Speaker 7: if not, but.
Speaker 6: It's also a much more difficult position to be plopped into.
Speaker 6: I talked about this starting left tackle. You're on an island. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you're on an island and you're being isolated and it's
Speaker 6: right into the fire. So he's shown flashes of what
Speaker 6: he can be and he's shown flashes of struggles, and
Speaker 6: like we talked about, he just needs to stay off
Speaker 6: of the officials radar as far as holding his concern
Speaker 6: because now they're flagging them even when it's not a thing.
Speaker 6: But when you talk about Cooper BB shouts out to
Speaker 6: Coop Deville, because he is.
Speaker 1: He is looking quite luxurious.
Speaker 6: Coop Deville, right, he's looking quite luxurious as these games
Speaker 6: begin to go on. Four games in he's on had
Speaker 6: arguably one bad game, which was the game against the
Speaker 6: Ravens when he allowed three pressures. But again, the entire
Speaker 6: offensive line was basically a turnstyle in that game. So
Speaker 6: it's kind of a butterfly effect all the way down
Speaker 6: the line, the front five, but you know, zero pressure
Speaker 6: is allowed. Hell of a bouncepec game against the New
Speaker 6: York Giants, against one of the best defensive fronts in
Speaker 6: the NFL. So for all the fun you can make
Speaker 6: of the New York Giants, and yeah, they're a bad
Speaker 6: team overall, that defensive line is not to be fooled
Speaker 6: around with with Dexter Lawrence and guys, and Cooper BB
Speaker 6: did more than hold his own.
Speaker 1: So shouts out to Coop Deville and shouts out to
Speaker 1: him making Kyle's high five boom deservedly so so.
Speaker 5: The way that I put it on here too, it
Speaker 5: was out of all of the five starting offensive lineman,
Speaker 5: he has the second lowest pressure percentage, which is supposed
Speaker 5: to happen from your center. Your center is not supposed
Speaker 5: to allow a ton of pressures. But remember in context,
Speaker 5: change in position, rookie center, all the turnstiles on the
Speaker 5: outside of the offensive line. There's a lot of things
Speaker 5: going on there. Only Tyler Smith has a lower percentage
Speaker 5: than Cooper Beebe. He has a lower percentage than Zach Martin,
Speaker 5: has a lower percentage than Terrence Steele, and of course
Speaker 5: a lower percentage than Tyler Guyton as well. So I
Speaker 5: like what I've seen so far, twenty two pass naps
Speaker 5: and zero pressures against New York and of course an
Speaker 5: ability to anchor that offensive line is a big thing.
Speaker 3: Number four.
Speaker 5: How about special team's success for the Cowboys speak? I mean,
Speaker 5: do they have the best special teams unit in football
Speaker 5: right now?
Speaker 3: I think it's hard to argue against it.
Speaker 7: Well, they have the best special teams coordinator in all
Speaker 7: football maybe kick football darn and possibly the best kicker
Speaker 7: in all football currently. Justin Tucker is not that guy.
Speaker 1: Arguably the best returner, which is why he gets kicked
Speaker 1: away from all the time.
Speaker 5: There you go, and they say you could say you're
Speaker 5: top five in punters too, Brian Anger is the top
Speaker 5: five in the league.
Speaker 3: I mean, talk about I mean.
Speaker 5: Has been perfect so far, hasn't a says no mistakes.
Speaker 3: You have the best kicker in the league.
Speaker 5: You have possibly a top five, top ten punter, and
Speaker 5: maybe a top five returner.
Speaker 7: Yes, I would say top five returns.
Speaker 3: I would say that's the best special teams unit in
Speaker 3: football in terms of the big.
Speaker 5: Name special teamers, right, I mean special teams unit like
Speaker 5: kick coverage, punt return, punt coverage, that kind of thing.
Speaker 5: That's all I guess I'm looking for the word here.
Speaker 3: That's all relative.
Speaker 1: You also have very impactful role players on special teams.
Speaker 10: C J.
Speaker 6: Goodwin, for just got reminded of how impactful of guy
Speaker 6: like CJ.
Speaker 1: Goodwin is.
Speaker 6: And for those that are wondering coming into the season, well,
Speaker 6: why CJ. Goodwin is still taking up a roster spot
Speaker 6: because of that? Because of that on side kick? You
Speaker 6: get that on side kick in Are you still asking
Speaker 6: that question? No, you should have been asking.
Speaker 7: That's the spot, that's where, that's where the spot, that's why.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh. Number three more snaps for Demarvian Overshown. Yes,
Speaker 3: I know you guys like that.
Speaker 7: We're seeing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Chef's kiss He's starting to not only and.
Speaker 5: By more snaps, I mean just playing football, just being
Speaker 5: out there and getting better. He is having more snaps
Speaker 5: and more appearances in base, which I think all of
Speaker 5: us which is what we were asking for.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, you know you've seen at least the coaches
Speaker 7: have handled handled him as a sort of a ramp
Speaker 7: upod you know what I mean. He had a ramp
Speaker 7: up period this season. He wasn't even starting over Maris Lefo.
Speaker 7: Now that's over, but he has not one snap played
Speaker 7: like he has been ramping up to anything. That guy's
Speaker 7: been a cheetah. He's been going from zero to one
Speaker 7: hundred with an anger, a vigorous anger.
Speaker 1: Brian is a little bit of Tarantino in it, a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 5: Do you think that's high enough for for overshown number
Speaker 5: three on that list?
Speaker 1: I probably would have win his highest top two.
Speaker 11: Wow, Okay, because look at the games that he wasn't
Speaker 11: necessarily a headliner, ran where the games where it was
Speaker 11: mostly base, and they had involved him more so on
Speaker 11: the base.
Speaker 6: But when they unleashed him versus Cleveland, they unleashed him
Speaker 6: versus the Giants, he stole the show in both circumstances.
Speaker 6: And this is a guy who again although technically he's
Speaker 6: not a rookie. In reality, he's a rookie. So you
Speaker 6: talk about contextually for a guy like Cooper Bebe right,
Speaker 6: apply to science, Yeah, apply science. Apply that same context
Speaker 6: to a guy like Marveon Overshown, who, unlike Cooper Bebe,
Speaker 6: is also returning from a torn acl in addition to
Speaker 6: having never taken an NFL snap prior to what he
Speaker 6: did in Cleveland. So I would I'm comfortable going top
Speaker 6: two as far as potential coming out of September that
Speaker 6: I said this at after Cleveland game. I hadn't even
Speaker 6: been before Cleveland, but I'll say after Cleveland he has
Speaker 6: Pro Bowl rookie season written all over him.
Speaker 3: Could be.
Speaker 1: So if that's the case, how can he not be
Speaker 1: viewed in the top two spots.
Speaker 7: He just has that that passion.
Speaker 1: Clearly he's having a blast, dude.
Speaker 7: You see it on the field. He's just a ball
Speaker 7: of energy, he really is.
Speaker 5: There's a shot, a video shot from Drew Ferguson's team.
Speaker 3: I don't know who specifically. Drew's team does a.
Speaker 5: Great job, but it was at MetLife Stadium after the
Speaker 5: national anthem.
Speaker 3: There's fireworks in the background.
Speaker 5: The lights are still kind of off and it's like
Speaker 5: ambiance of like blue lighting really for the Giants, but
Speaker 5: it just shined off of the white uniforms and he
Speaker 5: had his helmet off and he was just smiling.
Speaker 3: It looked like he was laughing at just joyful, and
Speaker 3: it was really cool. It was refreshing to see.
Speaker 5: Of course, if they would have lost the game, I
Speaker 5: don't want to see anything like that. However, the fact
Speaker 5: that they won the game. He played so well, and
Speaker 5: it was prior to the opening of that football game.
Speaker 5: I thought it was a cool thing to see.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a really cool shot. Whoever got
Speaker 3: it shout out to you.
Speaker 6: The guy's a football player and he's having the time
Speaker 6: of his life and he's just getting started.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think he appreciates the journey that it
Speaker 5: took to come back from the injury.
Speaker 1: He does.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of guys are just like, you
Speaker 5: know what, that is time that's wasted. That's a portion
Speaker 5: of my life I don't want to get through. I
Speaker 5: think over shown learned from that time, and you can
Speaker 5: see it being applied.
Speaker 3: It was a day out.
Speaker 7: It was so unceremonious and granted, no injury is going
Speaker 7: to ceremony. Yeah, but it happened in the preseason and
Speaker 7: then it was just done. You know, It's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 7: he was shining, he was doing great. We were all
Speaker 7: really hot, like, oh my god, are you seeing this
Speaker 7: guy out here? And then unceremoniously, you know, went out
Speaker 7: in the Jags game, which was really tough, Seahawks Seahawks game,
Speaker 7: which was really tough. And then to see him come
Speaker 7: back the way that he has.
Speaker 5: It was like eleven pm Central time. Whenever it happened,
Speaker 5: like it was late at night. It was a seven
Speaker 5: nine pm Central kick. It was like in the middle
Speaker 5: of the second quarters.
Speaker 7: I still have not caught up on sleep from that day.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, either this is shocking.
Speaker 6: This is a guy in de mo fionovshown who made
Speaker 6: his time, his rehab time as productive as possible. Every
Speaker 6: second it was either spent with you know, reflecting on
Speaker 6: the journey and the appreciation of appreciation of the journey
Speaker 6: to get back, or it was swatting flies to improve
Speaker 6: reaction time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you kidding crazy?
Speaker 1: He's a dude.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: He's a dude.
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Speaker 3: Let's do it.
Speaker 5: Number two dorom Bland eyeing a return and I kind
Speaker 5: of led this off of Patrick's article that was also
Speaker 5: on Dallas Cowboys dot com, and it was about Mike
Speaker 5: McCarthy alluded to the mini buys the first real weekend
Speaker 5: where you can see.
Speaker 3: The timeline developed for dram Bland, and.
Speaker 5: All signs at least right now are pointing to a
Speaker 5: return sooner than anticipated.
Speaker 3: So may I don't think that's going to be this week.
Speaker 5: They got to start a twenty one day pet practice
Speaker 5: window exactly, so it's not something immediate, but over the
Speaker 5: near future, you're gonna get an all pro cornerback back
Speaker 5: on your defense.
Speaker 1: Yes you are, Yes you are.
Speaker 7: Would you rather have him, uh for the Lions game
Speaker 7: or for the Niners game.
Speaker 5: I would rather have him for the Lions game because
Speaker 5: then I can also have him for they.
Speaker 7: Wouldn't you want to give him a little bit extra time?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I feel like it's most important.
Speaker 3: You're saying to play a conservative.
Speaker 6: I think the answer to that question lies in how
Speaker 6: effective or ineffective this pass rush looks against the Steelers,
Speaker 6: because if your pass rush continues to struggle, guess what,
Speaker 6: You're gonna need better coverage, right, And if that's the case,
Speaker 6: then you're about to go up against you know, Jerret
Speaker 6: Golf and his his weapons. And I'm rock you know Brown,
Speaker 6: Sam Brown and uh and Sam Laporta and Gibbs and
Speaker 6: I mean, so I would rather have him back for
Speaker 6: the Lions. Now we're having this talk again. This is contexular. Yeah,
Speaker 6: this is speculative, and this is conjecture, folks. Because it's
Speaker 6: going to be up to the Cowboys. Twenty one day
Speaker 6: practice window has to be activated first. I'm of the
Speaker 6: belief that that happens this week as far as them
Speaker 6: opening that window. And for those that don't know the
Speaker 6: technicality of it, Once that twenty one day window is open,
Speaker 6: Cowboys have twenty one days to either put him on
Speaker 6: the active roster or he reverts to season ending, ir
Speaker 6: So you also got to be careful when you open
Speaker 6: up that window because when it closes, it closes until
Speaker 6: the next season. But I think that this is when
Speaker 6: they open it because you look at the schedule and
Speaker 6: the bye week conclusive and everything. I think this is
Speaker 6: the good time. I think that's kind of what McCarthy
Speaker 6: was hinting at when I was asking him directly at
Speaker 6: you know, what's the timeline on Bland? He was like, well,
Speaker 6: we always not always, but since the injury happened, we
Speaker 6: were looking at leading into Week five and the Pittsburgh
Speaker 6: Steelers as we'll have more data than we'll have a
Speaker 6: better look at him. Feels like they're going on because
Speaker 6: he reappeared at practice, yeah, before the Ravens game as
Speaker 6: a matter of fact, So if he's been out there
Speaker 6: on the sideline getting his rehab work in, so I
Speaker 6: think this is when it happens. But as far as
Speaker 6: when he comes back, we don't know yet. But I
Speaker 6: would like to see him back for the Lions if
Speaker 6: he's ready.
Speaker 7: They got weapons. You got to be concerned about that,
Speaker 7: especially well they played at night, so we haven't really
Speaker 7: seen them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, brand new uniforms that I too, all black jerseys
Speaker 5: and then they got the blue helmets. All black jerseys before,
Speaker 5: but but the blue it's like a like a it's
Speaker 5: almost like this blue helmet and it's got like a
Speaker 5: black interior stripe.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a wild. The black logo, it's pretty sweet.
Speaker 1: It's cool.
Speaker 3: They look good.
Speaker 5: If we ever did a black uniform, oh man, I
Speaker 5: would love it, right, yeah, I'm all for it.
Speaker 3: North Texas had some sweet black uniforms.
Speaker 5: North Texas uniforms lately, dude told, yeah, top notch, go
Speaker 5: like green like that. But same record as Georgia too.
Speaker 5: They're both four and one there, Yeah, how about that
Speaker 5: might as well?
Speaker 1: I mean the same thing here.
Speaker 5: Ye are our our Both of our quarterbacks led the
Speaker 5: league in passing this past We have four hundred and.
Speaker 3: Sixty nine yards.
Speaker 1: Had some context fifty burger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one team had a fifty burger.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to pooh pool on your parade. You're
Speaker 6: doing your thing, shouts out, shouts out.
Speaker 3: Mingering by the level to this though, all right. The
Speaker 3: number number number one on.
Speaker 5: The this Week's High five in terms of reasons to
Speaker 5: be optimistic moving forward. Dak Prescott's twenty twenty three. Encore
Speaker 5: is the way that I have it, and he of
Speaker 5: course number two in MVP voting last year.
Speaker 3: The way that he's played this year is just as good.
Speaker 3: He's better, right, guy, I want Jalen.
Speaker 5: I want nothing to do with Jalen Hurts period. I
Speaker 5: think you it may be cliche, and I said that
Speaker 5: in the article. It may be cliche just because Dak's
Speaker 5: your your quarterback. One, he's your guy, but he's playing
Speaker 5: super good football. And if he's playing good football, then
Speaker 5: you've got a shot.
Speaker 7: Cliche A or not. That's the guy. Yeah, that's the guy.
Speaker 7: That's the begins and ends. It begins and ends with
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 6: They just got they being the offense. They just got
Speaker 6: to stop leaving meat on the ball. You know, you
Speaker 6: left meat on the bone in Cleveland. After you got
Speaker 6: Brandon Cooks involved. You went on a you know, two
Speaker 6: games struggle, two plus game struggle. You didn't come up
Speaker 6: live again until the fourth quarter against the Ravens. You
Speaker 6: were able to successfully carry that over into the first quarter,
Speaker 6: first half against the Giants, and then you kind of
Speaker 6: went cold again. Right, So consistency has to be the
Speaker 6: name of the game here, But yeah, Dak Prescott, he's
Speaker 6: he's carrying because your defense is struggling, and you're two
Speaker 6: and two.
Speaker 3: And your wide receivers and wide receivers are struggling, your.
Speaker 1: Run games non existing still three right, You're not getting
Speaker 1: production from tight ends not named Jake Ferguson. So yeah,
Speaker 1: against the Ravens again, Turnstile offensive line, the pressure was
Speaker 1: there and he's still producing. So has he Does he
Speaker 1: have some throws he would like back? Absolutely?
Speaker 6: I mean I could show you a list of throws
Speaker 6: that he would like back. Also true, I could show
Speaker 6: you a list of throws that not many other quarterbacks
Speaker 6: could have made in the face of the pressure that
Speaker 6: he was up against. So he's carrying. And if October
Speaker 6: football can be cleaner and more consistently dynamic for the offense,
Speaker 6: and that goes to the weapons around Dak Prescott, then
Speaker 6: we might be talking a little less about the defense
Speaker 6: needing DeMarcus Lawrence back so quickly because the offense can
Speaker 6: be carried. But we've seen Dak Prescott in this offense,
Speaker 6: not this specific offense, but we've seen Dak Prescott carry
Speaker 6: this team in Yere's the past when the defense was
Speaker 6: just not at pre Dan Quinn era when you couldn't
Speaker 6: buy a stop and Deak was throwing for forty touchdown
Speaker 6: was in forty nine hundred yards.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I think it's gonna have to look a
Speaker 7: lot like that Dak Prescott in order for us to
Speaker 7: win these next like three or four games. And I
Speaker 7: think you're gonna have to see him absolutely bomb it
Speaker 7: through throughout the next three games. A big a stat
Speaker 7: that Nick Harris tweeted out that is kind of surprising
Speaker 7: to me is that Ceedee Lamb has disappeared from the
Speaker 7: Dallas Cow was in the second half of nearly every
Speaker 7: of every game in the season. So in Cleveland had
Speaker 7: one reception for three yards, New Orleans zero receptions, Baltimore
Speaker 7: one reception, nine yards, Giants one reception.
Speaker 1: For four yards, made on the bone.
Speaker 7: Need to find CD in the second half, and I
Speaker 7: know that's that obviously, the Baltimore game was notwithstanding intermed.
Speaker 7: That's an outlier obviously as far as the CD goes.
Speaker 7: But there are three other games right there where he
Speaker 7: has one or zero receptions. Yeah, you gotta find him
Speaker 7: in the second half. Got to find a way to
Speaker 7: get it done. All right, Let's take our second break.
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Speaker 5: Kyle Yeoman's all right real quickly here, guys. We're running
Speaker 5: out of time and talk to a little too much Cowboys,
Speaker 5: which tends to happen on a.
Speaker 3: Show called Talking Around It.
Speaker 1: We're not just we're talking.
Speaker 5: We're talking around the NFL most surprising team.
Speaker 1: So far, mostly present team in the NFL so far.
Speaker 6: It's gotta be Sam Donald in the mid So it's
Speaker 6: gotta be and it's not simply because the Vikings are
Speaker 6: four and oh, I mean, I think we all agreed
Speaker 6: that they will be competitive, but when you look at
Speaker 6: you know, you lose your rookie.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: And then Sam Donald comes in, and we know the
Speaker 6: history of Sam Donald in this leading league, and you're like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 6: all right, they're just gonna have to try to figure
Speaker 6: things out going forward. Sam Donald is like, you don't
Speaker 6: have to figure a damn thing out.
Speaker 5: He's like, I'm twenty seven years old and we're gonna
Speaker 5: fight for an MVP award and home field advantage in
Speaker 5: the NFC.
Speaker 6: Sam Donald does that sound and Justin Jefferson are going off.
Speaker 6: So yeah, for me, it's it's the Vikings and Sam Donald.
Speaker 3: And I think this says a lot about Justin Jefferson too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean everybody already rected him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the respect was already super high for how how
Speaker 5: talented he is. But the fact that he just stepped
Speaker 5: in and got rid of one of the better quarterbacks
Speaker 5: in the league, and fight me on it, Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3: Is still a good quarterback.
Speaker 5: Oh, let me be completely honest. Here, he leaves, goes
Speaker 5: to Atlanta, they bring in a rookie. Still looks great
Speaker 5: with the rookie in training camp before the injury or
Speaker 5: whatever that may be. And then there's Sam Donald and
Speaker 5: this dude's acting like he's catching passes from from Peyton
Speaker 5: Manning back there. I mean, it's it was, It's really
Speaker 5: impressive with Justin jen There's.
Speaker 6: Only one other receiver that I would well, only one
Speaker 6: receiver that I believe tops Justin Jefferson in the argument
Speaker 6: of he can be great no matter who the quarterback
Speaker 6: it is, it's Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 7: Oo interesting that's been done.
Speaker 6: He's been really good despite their quarterback play prior to
Speaker 6: Jays Daniels being really bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is the same.
Speaker 6: As far as talent levels are concerned, Justin Jefferson is
Speaker 6: a b to produce at a high level regardless of
Speaker 6: who is throwing you the ball.
Speaker 1: See that, I think I could.
Speaker 7: See he's up there and not a lot of players
Speaker 7: have that sample size a lot and not a lot
Speaker 7: of players have that sort of what's the word quarter
Speaker 7: And I was gonna say, but yes that, yeah, just
Speaker 7: bad quarterbacks on the roster that they keep throwing to him.
Speaker 7: And you know you've seen I don't know that you
Speaker 7: would see that with other receivers on this team, you
Speaker 7: know what I mean, Like, it's hard to mean we're.
Speaker 3: Not gonna know what it is.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna CD to step back.
Speaker 6: When Dak was injured and when Dak reappeared, CD, you know,
Speaker 6: became CD again. So and it's not a knock the CD.
Speaker 6: It's just kind of is what it is.
Speaker 7: And it ain't all right surprising for me because Patrick
Speaker 7: Hardy said the Viking, I'm gonna go with the Falcons.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go with the Falcons because, like you said.
Speaker 3: Everybody that Kirk Cousins has had an impact on.
Speaker 7: Right, Kirk Cousins is a dude. Like he really is
Speaker 7: a dude, Like I'm I'm I'm not gonna I'm not
Speaker 7: gonna play around. No, he's he's a damn good quarterback.
Speaker 7: I think I think he's up there with Dak on
Speaker 7: terms of ability, on terms of of decision making.
Speaker 3: For the most part, Dak is better. But I see
Speaker 3: what you're saying, But like a hair, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 7: I think they're they're right there in the conversation.
Speaker 3: Their numbers are actually super comparable.
Speaker 6: I think Kirk is eating playoffs in as well in
Speaker 6: how he doesn't get rattled because he's seen it all. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and you can in those close games, close games you
Speaker 6: could see. I mean, they almost took the Chiefs down
Speaker 6: in Atlanta. If and if not for what you could
Speaker 6: argue as a DPI that should have been called in
Speaker 6: the end zone, then.
Speaker 1: Maybe they do take the Chiefs down in Atlanta.
Speaker 6: So I think it's just it goes to the fact
Speaker 6: that Kirk has been in the league so long, he's
Speaker 6: seen it all, and he's like cool hand Luke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, his prime time Kirk is not a thing anymore. No,
Speaker 3: it's not a thing anymore. I loved they play on
Speaker 3: Thursday this week.
Speaker 7: By the way, his press conference earlier, it was yesterday
Speaker 7: after he was talking, it's like, so, you know, what's
Speaker 7: the difference like being in Atlanta. He's like, there is
Speaker 7: this really cool thing where the stadium was like doing
Speaker 7: a swag and surf. Yeah. I like that when they
Speaker 7: were like swaying back and forth like you like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he like Kirk went to Atlanta and got some
Speaker 1: Magic City Wings and they took the change with them
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 7: He's got a little sauce to them. But I think
Speaker 7: the NFC conference as a whole, there are a lot
Speaker 7: of really good teams, it really is, and.
Speaker 1: Which is why the Cowboys need to start staggering.
Speaker 7: However, if you look at the back half of the
Speaker 7: Cowboys season, and granted, you know, you still have to
Speaker 7: be a really good team to to make the playoffs,
Speaker 7: no doubt, but I think if you look towards the
Speaker 7: back half of their season, there's plenty of room to
Speaker 7: make up. There's plenty of room to make up, regardless
Speaker 7: of what their record is at Thanksgiving.
Speaker 5: Most disappointing team so far this season, Josh, what you get.
Speaker 7: The fact that the Eagles somehow keep winning ball games.
Speaker 3: That's disappointing.
Speaker 7: That's disappointing because they're, uh, they're They're not a great team.
Speaker 7: There really aren't. They shouldn't have the record that they
Speaker 7: have currently. They should probably be one in three. In
Speaker 7: my opinion, it's disappointing to me that they've won any
Speaker 7: games at.
Speaker 3: All, that they exist.
Speaker 7: Actually, it's disappointing that they exist on this earth. There's
Speaker 7: already a team in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: Like, just just leave it to one. Just leave it
Speaker 3: to one, and starting next week we can leave that scene.
Speaker 6: God, I'm going to the AFC with this one. It's
Speaker 6: gotta be the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3: That's a good one.
Speaker 6: It's got to be Jacksonville, oh and four. And Doug
Speaker 6: Peterson was brought in to be the QB whisper for
Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence, and Lawrence gets the megabag and for all
Speaker 6: the flack that you know, Cowboys uh coyw's quarterbacks get
Speaker 6: and Dak Prescott being the latest one, he got his
Speaker 6: bag and all this pressure, and yeah, one hundred percent
Speaker 6: I get it.
Speaker 1: But then when you look.
Speaker 6: At a smaller market in like Jacksonville, they gave Trevor
Speaker 6: Lawrence a record setting bag at the time, and now
Speaker 6: they're on four after doing so mass and now Doug
Speaker 6: Peterson is on the hot seat. Yeah, and he went
Speaker 6: from scorching right, He went from the ice cold seat
Speaker 6: to the hot seat in a matter of four games.
Speaker 6: So for me, Jaguars are the most disappointed right now.
Speaker 5: I'll take just to be different here, I'll say Cincinnati,
Speaker 5: the team that beat Jacksonville this week for the first win.
Speaker 5: The battlespointed, Yeah, but that's the thing is, Yeah, sure
Speaker 5: they beat Jacksonville, but I don't think it anybody expected
Speaker 5: Jacksonville to be a legitimate Super Bowl contender. With Joe
Speaker 5: Burrow back in the fold, you could say that about
Speaker 5: Cincinnati going into the year. Doesn't look like that yet. Sure,
Speaker 5: they've played some tough competition early on. A couple of
Speaker 5: these games are pretty tough ones overall.
Speaker 3: I mean Kansas.
Speaker 5: City actually, just kidding, they played New England, Kansas City,
Speaker 5: Washington and Carolina.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's not get carried away here.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'll say Cincinnati is my disappointing team.
Speaker 7: But Joey looked actually looked better, look better.
Speaker 1: He looked better against a most disappointing Jackson.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I just wanted to say, Joey, I'm not handing out
Speaker 6: excuses because cowboys don't get any.
Speaker 5: So this is going to be a funny answer. Your
Speaker 5: current MVP right now, Sam Donald?
Speaker 13: Is it?
Speaker 7: Sam Donald?
Speaker 1: How can it not be?
Speaker 6: I mean, it's weird to say it tastes strange on
Speaker 6: the tongue when you say it.
Speaker 1: But through the first four week.
Speaker 3: Beat the Panthers yesterday, sorry not.
Speaker 6: Jack's first through the first four weeks, and course this
Speaker 6: can change over the course of the next three months.
Speaker 1: Of course it can't.
Speaker 6: But you can't legitimately looked me in the face through
Speaker 6: the first four games and say and say there's a
Speaker 6: more potent front runner for MVP than Sam Donald. Expectation
Speaker 6: versus production. The expectation was in almost said the wrong
Speaker 6: word in the sewage.
Speaker 1: It was in sewage. It was an e septic tank.
Speaker 6: When they lose the rookie Sam Donald comes in, they're like, oh,
Speaker 6: this season is a rap.
Speaker 1: No expectations, and then look at the production.
Speaker 3: What would you say.
Speaker 7: If we're talking expectations, I think so far, you're MVP
Speaker 7: so far, four weeks, so far, Daniels, I think I think.
Speaker 1: The expectation is different because look at.
Speaker 7: The completion percentage. Dude, for a rookie, I do what
Speaker 7: you're saying, past completions, he has thrown one interception.
Speaker 6: Man, not taking anything away from that young man. He
Speaker 6: is playing on believable. Yes, that being said, he was
Speaker 6: supposed to come in playing unbelievable. That's why you use
Speaker 6: a pick like that on a quarterback.
Speaker 7: I don't think the expectation. I don't think the expectation
Speaker 7: for Washington was that it was that because but it
Speaker 7: was that.
Speaker 1: He would turn.
Speaker 6: It was that he would help dan Quinn turn the
Speaker 6: culture as quickly as your one.
Speaker 7: You agree with that, No, I don't think so. I
Speaker 7: don't think so.
Speaker 6: So then why would you you use a high pick
Speaker 6: on a quarterback like that because you expect that it's
Speaker 6: going to happen as early as you're one year one?
Speaker 7: For me, for that team that we saw last year,
Speaker 7: that that team, I don't I don't see the.
Speaker 6: New head coach, revamped roster, high pick on the quarterback historically.
Speaker 6: I'm not taking anything away from that. What I'm saying
Speaker 6: is expectations for jayde Daniels in the new and the
Speaker 6: new look Washington Commanders were stratospherically higher than what they
Speaker 6: were for Sam Darnold come in supposedly to just manage
Speaker 6: the losing US Minnesota Vikings. Yeah, right, bus drive as
Speaker 6: the bus started at the top over the bridge. That's
Speaker 6: what everybody expected. He's four and oh and it's not
Speaker 6: because he's managing the game, he's airing it out. Yes, So,
Speaker 6: Jane Daniels, he's playing ridiculous football right now.
Speaker 7: A historically great start to his NFL fair enough, historically.
Speaker 3: I wish we would have started this segment a little
Speaker 3: bit earlier. Yeah, we got a good, good stuff. We've
Speaker 3: got to go.
Speaker 5: My MVP's a fourth round compeak doing that MVP. So
Speaker 5: far Chandler Morris of North Texas Athletics. He's been fantastic
Speaker 5: to this point in the season. All right, friend John Rodriguez,
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