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Speaker 1: it going? Everybody? Everybody good? Swell tastic. Man. I'm a
Speaker 1: little upset. Why is that? Because I I have been
Speaker 1: celebrating all night and this morning because you get a
Speaker 1: big ESPN check that came into oh good, Oh, but
Speaker 1: but I just celebrate. I mean, I felt like I
Speaker 1: thought that I thought the NFC East was ours. I
Speaker 1: thought last night the Eagles to win big game. Did
Speaker 1: you toast yourself last night? I did? Oh? I did?
Speaker 1: I did? And so I come in and I've had
Speaker 1: several people let me know that that was not a
Speaker 1: lock last night, that there are still some math that
Speaker 1: needs to happen. And obviously, Pete, we thought we were
Speaker 1: going to get you to explain all of this. I
Speaker 1: don't do typebreakers, not it's not my thing. Tell me
Speaker 1: what it was? Premature, that's what you're saying. And as
Speaker 1: my wife says, anything that starts with premature can't be good.
Speaker 1: So true, so true. So anyways, let's outline why skip right,
Speaker 1: I'm going right over there. Uh, let's outline why the
Speaker 1: playoff scenario is what it is because the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: not clinched the NFC East yet they have not clinched
Speaker 1: it yet. They can clinch it however this week with
Speaker 1: either a Dallas win, Philadelphia loss, or a combined one
Speaker 1: point five wins from so basically two wins from a
Speaker 1: number of difference too. So there's a lot of math
Speaker 1: in there's the reason why they did not clinch yesterday.
Speaker 1: There was a chance in week fifteen that they could
Speaker 1: have clinched. But the reason why is because you needed
Speaker 1: a slew of games to go your way prior to
Speaker 1: your game, even I'm talking Saturday early Sunday, to go
Speaker 1: your way, and it didn't. So it kind of made
Speaker 1: it to where even if Philadelphia beat Washington last night,
Speaker 1: if they go into the final week and Philadelphia were
Speaker 1: to win out, Dallas were to lose out, Philadelphia would
Speaker 1: indeed win the division. Here yourself say that again, that's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's exactly what it is. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. It's ninety nine point five percent
Speaker 1: chance that the Cowboys win the division right now. The
Speaker 1: magic number is like point three seven two five, Like
Speaker 1: it's you know, win a game, win a game, and
Speaker 1: or somebody else loses for you, and you're good. You're
Speaker 1: Golden You don't even honestly, you don't even have to
Speaker 1: win or lose out and Philly win out. But if
Speaker 1: everything else goes to plan and somebody else loses along
Speaker 1: the way, you still win the division. Damn. It's really
Speaker 1: weird and I don't honestly, I can't go through it all.
Speaker 1: It's a lot in the head. So there's nothing that
Speaker 1: outlines is specifically. Here's one scenario I do know with
Speaker 1: an assist from Chris yesterday because fans are asking if
Speaker 1: we're jumping ahead here. If the Cowboys, Packers, and Bucks
Speaker 1: all have the same record at the end, which means
Speaker 1: who gets the one seed, Tampa Bay would win out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dallas would win out and Green Bay would lose one
Speaker 1: more is the most likely scenario. Yes, it's conference record, correct, Chris.
Speaker 1: Because they don't all play each other, so there's no
Speaker 1: head to head involved. So Cowboys at the moment eight
Speaker 1: and one in the conference, eight and two is green Bay,
Speaker 1: six and four is Tampa. But why wouldn't Tampa be
Speaker 1: ahead of us being that they wanted to head to
Speaker 1: hit matchup. The headead does not come into play when
Speaker 1: it's a three team parlay. Yeah, so if all three
Speaker 1: teams are tied, the Cowboys have the advantage, and seeing
Speaker 1: that they would have to win out for that to
Speaker 1: be the case, most likely they would have an eleven
Speaker 1: and one record in the NFC, so they would be
Speaker 1: the top seed. So that's the best case scenario to
Speaker 1: get to the one seed. They're kind of sitting pretty
Speaker 1: if they just keep winning. I just want to make
Speaker 1: sure that I was I wasn't the only one that
Speaker 1: wasn't worried about the NFC East is more so worried
Speaker 1: about the conference. No, Okay, No, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people asking about both. Okay, so everybody's jumping way ahead.
Speaker 1: Well I'm an NFC He's just wouldn't the rest of
Speaker 1: your games exactly? Just just take care of business, right,
Speaker 1: get it done. Yeah. The thing about the conference records,
Speaker 1: if if if Dallas wins out, the lowest they could
Speaker 1: be is the three seed. And the only reason they
Speaker 1: could be the three seed is if them and Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay in the season with the same record, because head
Speaker 1: to head then comes into play. If it's just them two,
Speaker 1: green Bay would be the one, then you would have
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay as the two, and you would be the three.
Speaker 1: Went out, you're at least the three seeds, Beam Casitas
Speaker 1: as it stands right now, Beamer, if you have opportunity
Speaker 1: to check this out. If we were to three seed,
Speaker 1: who we play? And if we were to two seed,
Speaker 1: who will we play? Right now? It's the Saints the seventh.
Speaker 1: If it ended today, it would be the Saints. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's two v right at six? Is San Francisco right now? Yes? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's really well right now, yes, you don't unless Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay were to lose a just another shocker game, much
Speaker 1: like they did last week. So it's definitely possible. It
Speaker 1: could definitely happen. It could absolutely happen, and the madness
Speaker 1: might just be be underway because of what we saw
Speaker 1: last week, the Lions beating the Cardinals on the forth
Speaker 1: on Tampa losers, have them play the Saints. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: not playing the Saints again. They got Carol, They have
Speaker 1: Carolina twice, and then they have the Jets their number.
Speaker 1: It's like a kryptonite thing. Yeah, exactly. But if unless
Speaker 1: that happens, unless Tampa Bay loses one of those three
Speaker 1: games against Carolina twice or the Jets once, which is
Speaker 1: a long shot, then there's really no way that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are the two seed. They're either the one seed
Speaker 1: or the three seeds. Sweet, it was in terrible ship shape.
Speaker 1: Right right now you're playing Minnesota. Oh, Minnesota, not the Saints. No,
Speaker 1: it's Minnesota right now, okay because of their win. H yeah,
Speaker 1: there's seven and seven. I'm looking at the sheet to
Speaker 1: my right and it says the seventh seed right now
Speaker 1: is Minnesota? Interesting left, so well, it's the wall to
Speaker 1: my left. The Cardinals right now are in ugly spot. Ugly?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna win their division? They may not even
Speaker 1: make the playoffs? Oh, come on, I don't know that
Speaker 1: might be done. What are you talking about? They just
Speaker 1: lost the Detroit, They have Indy, they have Dallas in
Speaker 1: Seattle to finish out the season. Yeah, they'll steamroll Seattle. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I can't dispute that. Okay, but division again, and may
Speaker 1: lose two of their last three. Now Arizona would play
Speaker 1: the Rams ended today in San Francisco, would end up
Speaker 1: playing Tampa Bay. Well, bottom line, heck, I'm sorry. So good?
Speaker 1: You know, do you have another another bottle? Yeah? That's
Speaker 1: the exciting part is you got to celebrate. Now you
Speaker 1: get to turn around and celebrate again. You have an
Speaker 1: excuse getting another bottle that it is you can go celebrating,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna celebrat the one seed whenever that
Speaker 1: comes up as well. It's coming there. You go. All right, Rob,
Speaker 1: let's get into some news and notes. We we hit
Speaker 1: it backwards this morning. We went we went from playoffs
Speaker 1: scenarios first into now. But what's going on around this
Speaker 1: Cowboys team? Cowboys are back to practice today. I believe
Speaker 1: insert Isaiah headshake here. I believe it's going to be
Speaker 1: a very light practice once again on a Wednesday. Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's straight up walk through style
Speaker 1: like it was last week, but it's going to be
Speaker 1: pretty light. I imagine it'll be more heavy on the
Speaker 1: film study because their opponent just played last night and
Speaker 1: they've got a It helps that you played them two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, but you got a cram in that that
Speaker 1: part of it. The film study as well. Uh No,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna it's just one kind of recap.
Speaker 1: So we're virtual meetings this week. Yes, they're watched primarily
Speaker 1: all film today most likely, and then walk through and
Speaker 1: it's Wednesday. Um, yeah, that's what Mike said it would
Speaker 1: probably light light hurt today and then you have a
Speaker 1: normal practice is Thursday. They've got two padded practices left
Speaker 1: this season, so he's been saving them like they practiced
Speaker 1: in Shell's last Thursday. You're ten years too early, bro, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all it is, too Yeah, no more two a days,
Speaker 1: just ten years too early. Two days are gone, more money,
Speaker 1: less wear and tear. It's not a bad humble. You're
Speaker 1: not bad, not bad. So they're back to work. They're
Speaker 1: meeting virtually. They had another positive or at least a
Speaker 1: COVID reserve list situation with add and Dirty, their defensive
Speaker 1: line coach. So cross your fingers for no more cases
Speaker 1: the rest of the week. Man, there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: severe lack of that is not British position. You need
Speaker 1: that in eloquence on the sideline this week. No more
Speaker 1: British eloquence at least this week from add and Dirty,
Speaker 1: one of the one of my favorite position coaches, I think,
Speaker 1: and everybody's favorite, because he's become a star thanks to
Speaker 1: the sounds of the sideline that you can find with
Speaker 1: the subtitles for the sub titles that are nice in
Speaker 1: cursive because of his British acts Alex Lilly. Also, the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl rosters are unveiled tonight in prime time to
Speaker 1: make you wait all the way till seventh Central, I believe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we can talk about that tomorrow. Yeah, we can
Speaker 1: make our predictions today if you want. Yeah, how many
Speaker 1: guys do you guys believe we're gonna have on the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl? Let's go through that reserves. I'm not talk
Speaker 1: about reserves. I'm talking about just straight up there. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're saying starting in the Pro Bowl. Yes, okay, Well
Speaker 1: let's start a quarterback, right, No, that's gonna be a no.
Speaker 1: Let's start a let's go to running down. That's a
Speaker 1: no as well. Wide receivers. Whoa, whoa, whoa? Whoa, whoa? Whoa?
Speaker 1: What are you thinking? I think Zeke gets in? Okay,
Speaker 1: I think he's got a great shot to get in.
Speaker 1: Look at look at the rushing stats. He's tied with
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson for I think for second in the NFC.
Speaker 1: M Am I wrong about that. I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 1: But no, you're not. Yeah, Who's I'm blinking on who's first?
Speaker 1: But he's he's right, he's right there. Who votes who
Speaker 1: votes on us again, it's fans in. Yeah, players a
Speaker 1: good shot that he gets voted in. He's two time
Speaker 1: rushing champ. Why are you so against I'm not against him.
Speaker 1: I just don't believe it. I know what the stats
Speaker 1: d D. Cook. The run game has not been the
Speaker 1: run game. He's been very banged up. Yeah, but he's
Speaker 1: Zeke and he ran it really well early in the
Speaker 1: season and he's been pushing through it. Yeah. Ties eight
Speaker 1: sixty two Dalvin Cookson first, So Cook is the only
Speaker 1: one that's hit a thousand yards in the NFC. And
Speaker 1: then you got the AFC where there's three guys Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 1: Joe Mix and Nick Chubb. Derreck Henry has nine thirty
Speaker 1: seven and that dude hasn't played in like four weeks, so,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. You're right. We talked about this off air,
Speaker 1: like the rushing stats is they're down across the league
Speaker 1: those two thousand yards this year. No, And are we
Speaker 1: going to receiver next? Yeah, let's go to receivers um
Speaker 1: maybe maybe cd CDs up there and catch. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: I they the depth on this roster kind of cancels
Speaker 1: each other out in terms of stats because they spread
Speaker 1: it around. What about tight end? So we have one
Speaker 1: pro bowler on offense is what we're seeing right now. No,
Speaker 1: we haven't gotten the offensive line. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm You're saying, well, Zach Martin's flock because
Speaker 1: you don't think tight end either, Right, No, what about
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz who has been other than maybe a George
Speaker 1: Kittle in the NFC, who else Goddard hasn't been that great?
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz has been right up there with Goddard in
Speaker 1: terms of praise. It's hard to get over down on
Speaker 1: the other side of you got up on the wrong
Speaker 1: side of the bed. Have the vote, but people are voting.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess whatever whoever is voting, they're
Speaker 1: gonna think about what's happening lately. Right, what have you
Speaker 1: done for me lately? You guys heard that song pre
Speaker 1: pre surgery Janet. Okay, So that's why Jonathan Taylor's the
Speaker 1: leading vote yet, right, Right, So Schultzenegger, had we stopped
Speaker 1: in the first six games, yeah, Schultzenegger would have been
Speaker 1: in there. Zeke would have been in there. But as
Speaker 1: of late, that's had a substantial drop off. I know
Speaker 1: you're not a stat guy. I'm not a say that's
Speaker 1: not your thing. However, Derek, here, we gets in there
Speaker 1: based off of where he left off and where those
Speaker 1: numbers sit right now. I think. I mean, yeah, bro,
Speaker 1: he's still up there in the stat That's That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, though, Like it's a question mark because
Speaker 1: he hasn't been around lately. Yeah, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. No, that's a great question because
Speaker 1: that goes back to like Tyran Smith, Like, I think
Speaker 1: if Tyron doesn't miss games, he's definitely in. I think
Speaker 1: maybe because he's missed time. We'll see what lately lately,
Speaker 1: they haven't been as productive lately, they haven't been as healthy. Lately,
Speaker 1: they haven't been able being as productive. Chris, you were
Speaker 1: going to add something there, and lately they've been the
Speaker 1: noon game. Oh yeah, so siye. Well, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: is when you play on the national stage early in
Speaker 1: the season, people see you and that's when they start voting.
Speaker 1: Pits has better numbers than Schultz. Actually, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Zeke Tyring, Zach, Micah
Speaker 1: parsons Um, Trayvon Diggs. Am I missing anybody? You guys
Speaker 1: aren't gonna like this, but it's gonna be outest you
Speaker 1: know that, right? What why he's a leading vote getter
Speaker 1: at Center? Is he really? Yes? I love that. Really
Speaker 1: he has something was going on with him the other day.
Speaker 1: He's been playing better. Yeah, he's been playing yes. But Chris,
Speaker 1: who's leading that whole campaign for be honest, she started early.
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's a there's a group of faith.
Speaker 1: He's like in the top maybe one or two and
Speaker 1: vote getting Yeah, amongst fan votes like Wisconsin, alum's just
Speaker 1: stuffing the ballot marks. So telling you somebody got traffics.
Speaker 1: Fredericks out there campaigning. They're jumping around up in his
Speaker 1: campaign manager just say the hell of a job mat
Speaker 1: the fans going, hey, do they have a center that
Speaker 1: went to Wisconsin? Yeah, it's pretty good, right yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Zach Martin is the highest vote getter right now out
Speaker 1: of guards. That is crazy, that'd be awesome. Trayvon Diggs
Speaker 1: is the highest TB. So Diggs will be in pretty locked.
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is gonna be a lock, yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: But can I just say how so we have three locks?
Speaker 1: Three locks. Yeah, pretty would you guys agree on that?
Speaker 1: Which what locks? Martin, Diggs and Parsons three locks? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: and there's a couple of babies, right, am I buy
Speaker 1: myself in this one? No, I'm withing, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: But I hope none of them play in that game.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I agree. I hope not of THEMMA play either.
Speaker 1: None of them we can shake like, thank you very
Speaker 1: much for your service. Now you play in a super
Speaker 1: bo Yeah, that's not I don't know that's the Pro Bowl, man.
Speaker 1: They just they've totally goofed that up. It's not the
Speaker 1: way you say. Sat Toyota Stadium in Frisco. Stop, I've
Speaker 1: lost track. It might be Miami Center, Vegas. They started
Speaker 1: moving around. I remember my first year when we went
Speaker 1: thirteen and three and we had thirteen Pro Bowlers. I
Speaker 1: remember TiO took our whole position group. He was that
Speaker 1: was his Christmas give to us. He flew our whole
Speaker 1: position position group receivers out to the Pro Bowl, set
Speaker 1: us up, and we went out there and watched them play.
Speaker 1: Is it Hawaii? Yeah? Yeah, he looked us up. Man
Speaker 1: with friends like those you telling whatever happened? Tell give
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Speaker 1: all of us out to watch you. Listen here, man,
Speaker 1: if I started getting checks like Beamer, I got you
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Speaker 1: we're into our second seven. Let's let's uh, let's preview
Speaker 1: the Washington football team offense. We've already seen this Washington
Speaker 1: football team offense. Saw him two weeks ago. I saw
Speaker 1: him a couple of hours ago. Yeah, you saw him
Speaker 1: a couple hours ago. We saw him last night too.
Speaker 1: We didn't get to talk about the reactions of that game,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about it. Uh. Went about as planned
Speaker 1: as you would think, with the issues that Washington's going through,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia being at home and kind of working off of
Speaker 1: that as well. But Washington jumped out to a ten
Speaker 1: o start, but it was Philadelphia coming out away with
Speaker 1: a win twenty seven to seventeen the final score, and
Speaker 1: like heck, Marsdi thought it was time for celebration, but
Speaker 1: not just yet. We'll get there. No, you know what,
Speaker 1: if I can this is so hard to say compliment
Speaker 1: the Boo Eagles on anything they're running game. I was like, god, man,
Speaker 1: well I want some of that, you know, ring that defense,
Speaker 1: so we can go Zeke eighteen carries one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty one yards. They had two hundred and thirty eight
Speaker 1: yards rushing by the end of the night, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: where were these guys? We just saw these guys they
Speaker 1: put in five hundred and nineteen yards of total offense
Speaker 1: against that they were at full steam on the defensive line.
Speaker 1: That's what I was That's what I was surprised by.
Speaker 1: I was very surprised that these guys allowed the Eagles
Speaker 1: to run the ball on them like that, because I
Speaker 1: know they're they're they're their past rush isn't as effective
Speaker 1: as you would believe it would be. They're they're they're pretty,
Speaker 1: they're standing up a lot, They're not really rushing with
Speaker 1: a lot of technique, but they're running. They're rushing defense
Speaker 1: typically is something that I personally feel that they should
Speaker 1: be pretty confident with. And they just got just ran
Speaker 1: through like Seaweewater yesterday. It was bad. Yeah, I'm jumping ahead,
Speaker 1: but it'd be interesting to see if the Eagles continue
Speaker 1: this and it gets to Week eighteen and maybe the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have their division sewn up, but the Eagles are
Speaker 1: really playing for something Week eight team because they're there.
Speaker 1: That was a big win for them. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: at seven and seven, which means they're tied for that
Speaker 1: final spot because of tie breakers, though they are out
Speaker 1: of the final spot in the NFC race, so they
Speaker 1: absolutely entering the final three weeks of the year, have
Speaker 1: an opportunity at a wildcard spot. Speaking of the Washington
Speaker 1: football team offense, they didn't look much better than the
Speaker 1: defense did yesterday. Two hundred and thirty seven yards. They
Speaker 1: had just sixty three on the ground. Gibson bottled up
Speaker 1: for fifteen carries twenty six yards, and he was bottled
Speaker 1: up the first time around against the Cowboys as well.
Speaker 1: But Garrett Gilbert former Cowboy Geasy was out there starting
Speaker 1: for Washington football team and spot duty for Taylor Heinekey
Speaker 1: and Kyle Allen, who were both on the COVID serve list.
Speaker 1: So well, you think I was so positive to say
Speaker 1: about about the wagon, I did, and I and I
Speaker 1: said before I thought it was his. The backup position
Speaker 1: was his to lose, and he lost it. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's amazing to see what he did and spot duty
Speaker 1: on the short notice. You could see, man, he could
Speaker 1: make some throws. But boy, by the end of the
Speaker 1: night boy. He was a dusty old cowboy. Wasn't here?
Speaker 1: And you were wrong about that competition, by the way,
Speaker 1: now I'm just saying, I mean, wasn't Nobody knew that
Speaker 1: was a competition until it was a competition in the
Speaker 1: dress rehearsal game and all of a sudden Cooper rushes
Speaker 1: playing more. It's like, oh, okay, oh yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was Garrett Gilbert's job to lose at the backup spot,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you come in and
Speaker 1: it was like, wait a second, where's where's Garrett? Where
Speaker 1: did you gotta here? Oh? Wait? But I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: give him some credit because he came in three days
Speaker 1: ago and that's crazy, you know, kind of like he
Speaker 1: did last year in the Pittsburgh game. So, after the
Speaker 1: evaluation of both of those quarterbacks, Heineke and Gilbert, who
Speaker 1: would you rather see starting on Sunday night? Who will we? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Double g You would rather Gilbert than Heineken? Yeah? You
Speaker 1: know him? Huh yeah, got enough tape on him. I
Speaker 1: got you. You went up against Jalen Smith last week.
Speaker 1: You want to do that again at the quarterback position too?
Speaker 1: Why not keep the party going? I know, Ford has
Speaker 1: the Marky. We want to see the Mark. That was
Speaker 1: a very interesting plan, So we're gonna go back with that.
Speaker 1: I don't you know. My thing is I think that
Speaker 1: this defense is should be in hunt mode whoever they
Speaker 1: bring out there. I think for for our front seven um.
Speaker 1: Watching that Washington game, I was just so, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: this is going to be absolutely horrible for them on
Speaker 1: Sunday because they came out lifeless. They had nothing, and
Speaker 1: although the Eagles had just come off of a bye,
Speaker 1: they're fully rested. And obviously Washington was in a dog
Speaker 1: fight last week with US and it showed, and it's
Speaker 1: they're gonna be I don't know how they're gonna get
Speaker 1: prepared for a Sunday night battle versus US. I just
Speaker 1: think their offensive line is so compromised. And man, Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cox was all over them last night. We talked about
Speaker 1: it before the show, like a guy that can still
Speaker 1: make plays at a high level after so many years
Speaker 1: as Fletcher Cox. But I just can't wait to run
Speaker 1: into these guys on Sunday. I'm with Heck, it doesn't
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who their quarterback is Sunday. If they
Speaker 1: can't block any doesn't matter if they can't block any
Speaker 1: better than they did the first time around. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned I think they sit on the broadcast last night,
Speaker 1: Washington's on their fourth center of the season. Crazy started.
Speaker 1: Didn't have shur if they didn't have um Larson in
Speaker 1: the game, and it showed, it showed, and so the
Speaker 1: pressure they got Cowboys did in the first meeting. Not
Speaker 1: to mention the fact that I think Gibson only had
Speaker 1: sixty yards something like that in the first meeting. They
Speaker 1: averaged three yards of carry last night. If they can't
Speaker 1: win the line of scrimmage, then it's going to be
Speaker 1: a repeat of last time around. Tell you how bad
Speaker 1: Gifts's night was. He had fifteen cares for twenty six yards.
Speaker 1: Got hit in the backfield a lot. Yeah. Yeah, our
Speaker 1: defensive line is salivating right now. Got looking at this
Speaker 1: film seeing a tired Washington team on Tuesday. Osa nutrition
Speaker 1: are well rested, They're gon be coming in hot. There's
Speaker 1: going to be a problem for Washington. It sucks that
Speaker 1: they had to play last night and they had to
Speaker 1: turn around. I feel bad. I'm not gonna feel bad
Speaker 1: that they when they lose on Sunday, but I feel bad.
Speaker 1: A physically, they're not going to be recovered. I agree.
Speaker 1: I said it last yesterday. I mean he moved the game.
Speaker 1: But then they've played the night game and then turn
Speaker 1: around and now they did have It wasn't even a
Speaker 1: home game. They got to fly home and then try
Speaker 1: to get back to work on a Wednesday. That's not ideal.
Speaker 1: They may have Bill probably either have Heineke or Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen back. I think so yeah. I mean, it almost
Speaker 1: had a back last night. I think one would clear
Speaker 1: protocol about but we'll see. I think I think at
Speaker 1: that point it's pretty At this point, it's pretty easy.
Speaker 1: They may even get back for a week of practice
Speaker 1: to test out of so I think they'll be all
Speaker 1: right in terms of the quarterback position. But Brandon Shurf,
Speaker 1: you mentioned him. He was placed on the COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: reserved list, but he was placed on it yesterday, so
Speaker 1: that might get kind of tight on whether or not
Speaker 1: he's available. There's a couple guys in that rotation on
Speaker 1: that offensive line that may or may not be available.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys defensive line certainly looking their chops at
Speaker 1: the moment. But that brings me to my next question.
Speaker 1: Throughout the season. We've provided a lot of spotlight on
Speaker 1: that defensive line, and it has been earned by Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: by Randy Gregory, now DeMarcus Lawrence into the mix. Those
Speaker 1: guys have earned the spotlight. But outside of Treyvon Diggs,
Speaker 1: are we underrating the rest of the Cowboys secondary for
Speaker 1: what they've been able to do? Because you're seeing the
Speaker 1: numbers of interceptions climbed for Jordan Lewis, for Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: Mallie Hooker has been getting in on the action. We've
Speaker 1: also mentioned Jayrn Curse, So maybe outside of Curse and Diggs,
Speaker 1: is this secondary under rated? I don't think they're underrated.
Speaker 1: I believe that they are. I think Curse has gotten
Speaker 1: all the credit and that he's due. I think we
Speaker 1: were we were shouting at the mountaintops about Curse ever
Speaker 1: since camp. Really really he's been doing well since then,
Speaker 1: so I think he's got his due diligence. In terms
Speaker 1: of a Brown and Jay Lou, they might be undervalued,
Speaker 1: maybe it might probably probably made the best way to
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily talking about our show specifically. I'm talking
Speaker 1: as Cowboys name for sure. Now I'm talking about Yeah,
Speaker 1: those two are probably undervalued because most teams have a
Speaker 1: two or three hitted monster, and Dix takes out typically
Speaker 1: takes out the number one monster. Okay, but now you
Speaker 1: got those other two guys that have to pick up
Speaker 1: the slack in that regard. So they are undervalued in
Speaker 1: that regard because they do make plays. Brown's made made
Speaker 1: some plays. Jay lou stepped up last game. I just
Speaker 1: think that they haven't probably been as consistent as you
Speaker 1: would have liked them to be when you start thinking
Speaker 1: about how much. I guess every time you put a
Speaker 1: value on how much money they're making you hit, there's
Speaker 1: an expectation that comes along with it. And I think
Speaker 1: when you put that dollar next to their next to
Speaker 1: the value that they've actually presented on this team, I
Speaker 1: don't think it necessarily always adds up. But they are
Speaker 1: being productive. Yeah, no, I agree. It was I was
Speaker 1: talking to helm and yesterday and there was a national
Speaker 1: broadcast that was seeing the praises of the Cowboys secondary
Speaker 1: not just Trayvon Diggs, but Anthony Brown. Anthony Brown's bawling out.
Speaker 1: And when you hear that nationally, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: surprise because I feel like like you've mentioned Cowboys nation locally.
Speaker 1: Everybody beats up on Anthony Brown. But and and look,
Speaker 1: he's been targeted a lot lately, pretty much ever since
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving game when everybody, you know, yeah, they started out,
Speaker 1: they dumped out the Kate. I think I think that
Speaker 1: one was a little bit warranted in terms of him
Speaker 1: getting talked about negative way. No, for sure, but I
Speaker 1: think I'm just saying overall this season, I think he
Speaker 1: has played well. I think he's made a lot of plays. Um.
Speaker 1: I think I think jay Ron Kursh should be serious
Speaker 1: consideration for the Pro Bowls issue too. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna get in, but I think he has had
Speaker 1: such an impact the guide has not come off the
Speaker 1: field for the defense, a defense that has had by
Speaker 1: far the biggest turnaround this season. And Lee Hooker. I
Speaker 1: asked Mike McCarthy about him yesterday or Monday. He said,
Speaker 1: that's the best game he's played for US six tackles.
Speaker 1: He was the highest rated defensive player by PFF in
Speaker 1: the game last week and first pick since the Achilles
Speaker 1: injury that they had a couple of him, And just
Speaker 1: looking at I mean, he's rounding into shape and you
Speaker 1: see it now with the way that he's closing on
Speaker 1: tackles and the interception. But you're you're right, you you say,
Speaker 1: speak about Jordan Lewis and Anthony Brown. For me, Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 1: his physicality has been unsung, you know for such a
Speaker 1: little guy boy. He brings it in the running game
Speaker 1: and he's so aggressive and I think he's a tone
Speaker 1: setter on our defense and not a lot has been
Speaker 1: made about that. But you know, when you talk about
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown and him being targeted, he understands it every
Speaker 1: game because of what trey Von Diggs is doing is
Speaker 1: so damned special that quarterbacks that have it at least
Speaker 1: a marble rolling in their brains are not going over
Speaker 1: to number seven side at all, And so most of
Speaker 1: the time thirty is getting all of the targets his way. Man,
Speaker 1: we had a guy here a long time ago by
Speaker 1: the name of Larry Brown that ends up being an
Speaker 1: MVP in the Super Bowl because hey, it's a Dean
Speaker 1: Sanders on the other side. Hey, And this is what
Speaker 1: it leads to, because no one wants to go over
Speaker 1: to your side. So I'm not maybe i'm speaking that
Speaker 1: into existence for you, Anthony, but I'm just saying you
Speaker 1: know this defense all in all, and the Michael Parsons affecting.
Speaker 1: You go back to the New York Giants tape, the
Speaker 1: Giants have basically said, we're not gonna let eleven beat us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna slide protect to wherever number eleven is. But
Speaker 1: they just left some other things to be desired from
Speaker 1: some other guys that we have. And my goodness, I
Speaker 1: don't know what how Tank finishes this season, but right now,
Speaker 1: Tank Lawrence is like, if you're gonna have a one
Speaker 1: on one matchup with him, for him, he is going
Speaker 1: to eat for the rest of the season. Man, that's scary.
Speaker 1: The fact that he joined this defense d Law did
Speaker 1: and me imediately there were four takeaways in three straight games,
Speaker 1: and he has to do with a lot of that.
Speaker 1: He has to do with the pressure. I mean, the
Speaker 1: pick that Jordan Lewis was his doing. It's the way
Speaker 1: that he hit Mike Glennon, punched him in his mouth.
Speaker 1: Turn around in the way that he punched the ball
Speaker 1: out against actual se Quon Barkley, who hadn't fumbled at
Speaker 1: any point throughout this season. So, I mean, d Law
Speaker 1: comes in and he's played that X factor, But who
Speaker 1: is the most valuable player on that defensive side. Because
Speaker 1: we've mentioned the Digs and the Parsons being in that
Speaker 1: player of the Year conversation, But now that they're all
Speaker 1: together and they're all playing, who is the one that
Speaker 1: makes the whole thing go? That's I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: really hard. I mean, obviously you're gonna pick out Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: I'm just let me just say this, Number ninety six,
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore. Of y'all want to watch a tree, watch
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore. He is carrying offensive lineman like groceries right now.
Speaker 1: He is. We talk about Brent Urban and his impact
Speaker 1: of gobbling up blocks the beginning of the season and
Speaker 1: him going on ir was one of those things that
Speaker 1: you're like, man, dude, that's it's kind of hard to
Speaker 1: see because of what his impact was in the running game.
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore is stepped in nicely, and it looks like
Speaker 1: the way that he's playing, he must have been locked
Speaker 1: up in the room just salivating at the opportunity to
Speaker 1: get back on the field, because every snap that he's
Speaker 1: taken he is playing, I mean, he is exploding off
Speaker 1: the ball at the point of attack. There are not
Speaker 1: a lot offensive linemen that want to deal with him,
Speaker 1: but the rotation is murderous and every guy that comes
Speaker 1: in there's no breaks at all. So it's hard to
Speaker 1: say right now because they're playing so well as a group.
Speaker 1: I'm saying Galimore, I think to make it. That's a
Speaker 1: loaded question, it is, but I think that this defense
Speaker 1: needs Gallimore. I think they need him. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of other positions on this team that are interchangeable,
Speaker 1: but I think that one position at the at the
Speaker 1: nose guard or whatever, detacl position, whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it, for him, we need him. And simply because
Speaker 1: of it, because everything to heck, we just just just
Speaker 1: spoke on. He disables offenses from just saying we're gonna
Speaker 1: come downhill and they He forces guys. Not only does
Speaker 1: he have that presence in the running game, but also
Speaker 1: in the passing game. He's able to push the pocket,
Speaker 1: He's able to force that pocket bat so he takes
Speaker 1: away that pocket. He turns that you shape pocket into
Speaker 1: an M. You know, he turns it into an M.
Speaker 1: And these guys have to try to find up, step
Speaker 1: up and find out the little canals and and if
Speaker 1: you can't go up the middle of you're getting pressure
Speaker 1: from up the middle, where do you have to go?
Speaker 1: I go to the edges. Well, now, when you go
Speaker 1: to the edges, I got freaking Gregory and I got
Speaker 1: freaking d law right. Ellen. By the way, when we
Speaker 1: want a blitz, we can isolate your guard and bring
Speaker 1: Parsons as well. So and then you got Osa and
Speaker 1: all these other guys that have contribute. But in terms
Speaker 1: of necessity, it has to be Gallimore. That's yeah, because
Speaker 1: quarterbacks hate middle pressure. They hated more, probably more than
Speaker 1: edge press. Absolutely. Um, I'll go Mica just because I
Speaker 1: think where would they be without him this year? Um,
Speaker 1: Randy's missed four games, Tanks miss ten, Gallimore has missed
Speaker 1: all but two. He's held this thing together in the
Speaker 1: front seven, not at multiple positions. But I wouldn't leave.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't lose sight of Randy Gregory and what he's
Speaker 1: the impact he has had when he's been in the game.
Speaker 1: He has become their to me, their best pure pass
Speaker 1: rusher and just gifted rushing off the edge, and he's
Speaker 1: a pretty good run defender two man. He is so
Speaker 1: quick off the snap, the way that he explodes off
Speaker 1: the side and just gets in the face of a
Speaker 1: left tackle or a right tackle. So yeah, there you go.
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Speaker 1: I like the mic a little back and forth. It's
Speaker 1: very subtle into the ears of a listener to I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for it to just completely hit the ground. Not
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Speaker 1: I had nothing to do. What just happened. It's got
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Speaker 1: to that scene, and we'll go right back to it.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you've joined us throughout any point
Speaker 1: of this year of Talking Cowboys, you have learned by
Speaker 1: now that Isaiah just thinks in movie clothes. That's it.
Speaker 1: They're just phrasing quote. It's a big filing cabinet in
Speaker 1: his head and he just pulls out a movie quote
Speaker 1: and that's his sentence and he throws out there that
Speaker 1: and then there's like a small one for football upright, Man,
Speaker 1: it works. It's wild all talking about cowboys. Trend setting.
Speaker 1: By the way, what are you talking about about the benches?
Speaker 1: Would you call me? You're talking about Washington and Philadelphia
Speaker 1: both bringing their benches. Dallas didn't bring their own bench,
Speaker 1: right that they did not. They did not. They rented one,
Speaker 1: and and the company that they rented it from said, well, shoot,
Speaker 1: we have an opportunity, let's do it up. They wanted to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they want to press ja. So yeah, yeah, all the
Speaker 1: bells and whistles and now everybody's talking about everybody wants
Speaker 1: their own and now Washington has their own. Yeah, b
Speaker 1: wildb your own bench. It is. That's that's pretty funny
Speaker 1: and pretty soon and Chris, I agree with you. It
Speaker 1: is a trend setting because now Washington's done and now
Speaker 1: Philly done. There were other teams out of It's gonna
Speaker 1: be across the league in like one year. Washington bringing
Speaker 1: their own benches here yes, yep, guaranteed. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be eight knows me eighty one degrees. But oh, that
Speaker 1: didn't make any sense. Why don't you bring your own bitches? Well, hell,
Speaker 1: they might have the game out open the door, might
Speaker 1: open it all up. Yeah, whynot. It's gonna be eighty
Speaker 1: five on Christmas? Here. Wow, I'm thinking about one of
Speaker 1: my cousins house for a pool party for Christmas, for Chris,
Speaker 1: for Christians. We talked about it on the way here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a fool party on Christmas. We invite,
Speaker 1: are you Chris? Chris is gonna go to the lake,
Speaker 1: gonna go open up the smoker. You have to do that, right, Like,
Speaker 1: if you have an opportunity, you have to have a
Speaker 1: pool party on Christmas. How many times do you have
Speaker 1: a opportunity to do that? California? I mean that's about it.
Speaker 1: Maybe Florida, Arizona, Arizona. Yeah, Chris has a pool. No
Speaker 1: one's ever seen it ever, have to invite? Did you
Speaker 1: hear the hurt there? He of course he hasn't had
Speaker 1: an invite here the way he said that, Ah, it's
Speaker 1: a nice pool too. It's been nice. So you've seen
Speaker 1: what I saw it whenever he was building it. So
Speaker 1: did you? Heck, yeah, you said you built the pool
Speaker 1: at your house. You didn't buy the house with the pool? Wow? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw. I saw the concrete being laid down. I
Speaker 1: was there for the foundation. Heckum, And I still also
Speaker 1: have beamer. Do you have a pool at your house?
Speaker 1: I do not. Do you have a pull at your house?
Speaker 1: I mean neither. The Beamer's only one. Huh. Kyle has
Speaker 1: one at his house. I'm at at apartment. He shares
Speaker 1: it with thousand people. There's usually kids at that apartment
Speaker 1: at that pool. So Kyle with a Brazilian shorts, he
Speaker 1: has a pair? Why not? All right, what's going to
Speaker 1: change for this Washington offense? Rob going, We'll start with
Speaker 1: Isaiah then nothing nothing changes. They just it's just a
Speaker 1: it's just all around bad situation for them. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: quarterback was out, he didn't have any apps last week.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously he'll get back on the roll. Hope
Speaker 1: you hopefully he gets back in practice and he gets
Speaker 1: off of the COVID list. Then they have the offensive line,
Speaker 1: they have the issues there. Um, they're coming off a
Speaker 1: game literally last night. So these guys are gonna have
Speaker 1: what seventy two plus just hours to get back healthy.
Speaker 1: Somehow Someway and in our defense is playing the best
Speaker 1: ball of their careers. It's just a bad scenario for them. Defensively.
Speaker 1: They just got walked through like hot dog water UM
Speaker 1: last night, which hopefully we can continue to build upon
Speaker 1: our running game UM. That should give our office in
Speaker 1: line the confidence that they need to go out there
Speaker 1: and just thrash these guys, regardless of the big names
Speaker 1: that they have on that defensive front. It's a huge
Speaker 1: opportunity for us momentum wise, and there their entire organization
Speaker 1: is going an entirely wrong way. So I say it
Speaker 1: just previewed the entire game, So we're done today here.
Speaker 1: He left no meat, so kind of going along with
Speaker 1: what you said though again and going back to the
Speaker 1: Week fourteen matchup, they found a rhythm offensively late in
Speaker 1: that game, and Kyle Allen was the one that brought
Speaker 1: them that rhythm and that momentum. Do they go back
Speaker 1: to that now that Garrett Gilbert started last night, both
Speaker 1: of those guys Heineke and Allen were unavailable against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Do they go back to Kyle Allen? And then maybe
Speaker 1: he's the one that leads to the charge against Dallas
Speaker 1: this week. I think they go to Heineke if he's healthy.
Speaker 1: He got him a four game win streak, got him
Speaker 1: back to five hundred. He's their starter, so I would
Speaker 1: think they go back to him. And they do have
Speaker 1: weapons on the outside of mean mclauren sims they can,
Speaker 1: you know, but but hey, Digs did a nice job
Speaker 1: on mclauren. And if you can't run the ball, I mean,
Speaker 1: the best run they had that I saw in the
Speaker 1: game last night was a reverse to Carter. So if
Speaker 1: they can't get anything going up front, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a It's gonna be a long day for them now.
Speaker 1: And I believe they go back to Heineke, at least
Speaker 1: I hope they do. But I think, you know, for Heineck,
Speaker 1: he's you know, we had him seeing ghosts and he
Speaker 1: didn't know what to do. But I still respect Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 1: We've seen what he can do, and just Trayvon Digg
Speaker 1: did such a wonderful job against him, and not only him,
Speaker 1: just following all of the number one receivers. We talked
Speaker 1: about his interceptions, but just his ability to shut guys
Speaker 1: down and limit their catches. He did a verse Terry
Speaker 1: McLaren obviously gave up the touchdown two weeks ago. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I think for the Washington football
Speaker 1: team is going to be there. They're gonna try and
Speaker 1: rely on their running games. That's what gets everything to
Speaker 1: tick for them. And when you see last night, when
Speaker 1: the running game fails them, pretty much everything else fails them.
Speaker 1: And just going back to what going with what you said, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I think the turnaround is going to be too quick
Speaker 1: for them, and they're a team that's looking for the ground.
Speaker 1: You know, they're looking for somewhere to lay down. They're
Speaker 1: going in the wrong direction. They recognize that they don't
Speaker 1: have the dogs even to compete, and you saw it
Speaker 1: last night, Yeah, allowing zero receptions and three targets. Trayvon
Speaker 1: Diggs did against McLaurin in week fourteen, and then last
Speaker 1: week he actually turned around and had a better week
Speaker 1: against New York Giants. I mean they didn't really throw
Speaker 1: the ball around a lot either, but they allowed a
Speaker 1: twenty seven passer rating whenever he was targeted last week
Speaker 1: as well, So a couple back to back games where
Speaker 1: he's been exceptionally strong, and it's defense is scorching hot
Speaker 1: right now. I mean with the turnover differential, everything that
Speaker 1: they're doing right now, you can rely on them. It's
Speaker 1: like we talked about earlier in the week, man, who
Speaker 1: are you more excited to see? Is it the offense
Speaker 1: of the defense? And right now you feel like every
Speaker 1: time these guys get on the field, you go, we're
Speaker 1: watching something special happen. We are watching something special. That's
Speaker 1: the thing is every single time. And you wrote a
Speaker 1: column on it right the three and out, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you talked about thirty one reasons why you're watching something
Speaker 1: special and it's a great article, by the way, go
Speaker 1: read it on Dallas Cowboys dot com. You're welcome. But
Speaker 1: that's the thing is, every time that defense takes the field,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see something exciting. Even if it's a drive
Speaker 1: and it doesn't work out in a turnover, takeaway, whatever
Speaker 1: or punt, you still feel like something's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I mean takeaways, do you guys project the sweeten three?
Speaker 1: H two? Two? Yeah, I'm gonna go with two. I
Speaker 1: mean that's been a lot, it's been a lot. If
Speaker 1: we do four again, I'm just you know I said
Speaker 1: that you're gonna go right back to it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: told you guys from the beginning, they're gonna have four again.
Speaker 1: But are you that guy that believes I mean, I
Speaker 1: know you're offensive minded, So if we need anything offensive minded,
Speaker 1: we're gonna come to that side of the table. But
Speaker 1: do you believe defenses win championships? Absolutely? Absolutely, And the
Speaker 1: way that this defense is playing, they will put this
Speaker 1: organization in a position to win championships if they continue
Speaker 1: playing at this level, especially against Washington this coming week,
Speaker 1: they're dan Quinn will not allow them to have a
Speaker 1: running game. I think dan Quinn is competitive enough to
Speaker 1: say to heck with this, And how dare the Giants
Speaker 1: coming here thinking they're gonna run the ball against us?
Speaker 1: We're gonna share this up right right now, um, and
Speaker 1: then they're gonna Washington's gonna be in a position where
Speaker 1: they have to drop back and throw the ball. Defensive
Speaker 1: line is gonna add pressure, heineke. I don't care who's
Speaker 1: that quarterback. They're gonna be tossing it up like two pockets. Intersection. Hello,
Speaker 1: can we can we go back to what you said
Speaker 1: at the start of that about where this defense can
Speaker 1: take you because I just want to end on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they would put them in a position to win a champion.
Speaker 1: Say it louder, please, they would put them in a
Speaker 1: position to win a championship. You didn't say it louder,
Speaker 1: You said it faster. They will put them in a
Speaker 1: position to win a champion. That's what I like to hear.
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