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Speaker 1: hosts Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us Taylor Stern and Rob Phillips.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome into the SWBC Mortgage Studio on
Speaker 1: this Friday before the Cowboys take on the Chiefs. I'm Taylor,
Speaker 1: joined by Mickey, Rob and Brian and not a lot
Speaker 1: it's really going on today. We're just you know, looking
Speaker 1: toward the weekend and chilling. I'm just kidding because if
Speaker 1: you guys are Cowboys fans, what you are if you're
Speaker 1: tuning in? Ezeki Elliott has been announced as eligible to
Speaker 1: play this Sunday. So the hell Mary was a complete pass?
Speaker 1: Mick whoa catch? He caught it in bounds, in bounds,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure the NFL thought it was out of bounds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no review, no, Dean Blancino, Yeah, they didn't go back
Speaker 1: to the video review on the on Judge Carney's decision today,
Speaker 1: John Carney, remember old John Carney. I do I give
Speaker 1: a kicker? This was Susan Carney. Well maybe maybe some
Speaker 1: relations we've we've seemed they need to get her on
Speaker 1: the three judge panel next week. Yeah, we do. So
Speaker 1: what happened exactly? Of course, we wake up to this
Speaker 1: news and and you know, everyone was pretty convinced that
Speaker 1: this was going to be in effact, Brian, you being
Speaker 1: one of them, you know, this was something that looked
Speaker 1: like it was not going to get overturned or accepted. So, Mickey,
Speaker 1: can you walk us through what happened? Well? I think
Speaker 1: why everybody thought it was a long shot was fact
Speaker 1: that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York
Speaker 1: was supposed to be closed yes, yesterday and today, and
Speaker 1: it sounded like as soon as they can hear the
Speaker 1: request for a stay would have been next week. Now,
Speaker 1: I did read at some point somebody said, well, some
Speaker 1: judge can come in and make a ruling on it. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Susan Karney, God bless her, came
Speaker 1: in or she ruled from home. You know, do have
Speaker 1: internet and WiFi and things like that, and she could
Speaker 1: just send in an email and say yeah, here's my decision.
Speaker 1: So basically, because they couldn't get a three judge panel
Speaker 1: together in time, they decided, you know what, we'll hear
Speaker 1: this as soon as possible so they called it an
Speaker 1: administrative stay and pointed out that they would rule on
Speaker 1: the appeal expeditiously. I think we learned that word last
Speaker 1: summer when the Cowboys were supposedly looking for a veteran
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. So in the meantime, this lady decided that
Speaker 1: game's missed our irreparable harm and decided, okay, well you
Speaker 1: play while we make this decision, or until we make
Speaker 1: this decision. So ruled this morning. I think it's about
Speaker 1: nine o'clock. We find out that you know, he's eligible
Speaker 1: to play this game. And this has no bearing on
Speaker 1: the merits of the case. Meaning they're not saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we think you got a pretty good case here and
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna win it. They're just saying, unlike Judge Catherine,
Speaker 1: that miss games are irreparable harm. Yes, they're allowing him
Speaker 1: to play until the appeal is hurt exactly. Absolutely. There
Speaker 1: hasn't been a resolution there, so let him continue to
Speaker 1: be on the field. And I don't know how soon
Speaker 1: it'll be. It could be tuesday, it could be two weeks,
Speaker 1: who knows. But this the brief stay is until they
Speaker 1: can hear the case. So we'll see how soon they
Speaker 1: can get three judges together for a panel to basically
Speaker 1: hear the deal. Little by little, they're just kicking this
Speaker 1: can on down the road. Judge, Susan just came into
Speaker 1: checker mail. Maybe, Hey, Susan, got something for you. You
Speaker 1: know what's going on Amazon package girl end. It's pretty
Speaker 1: high profile too. Hey hey Susan. Yeah, Hey Susan, this end.
Speaker 1: Susan there said there's this folder on your desk you
Speaker 1: might want to take a look at. And technology is
Speaker 1: good techno, right, yeah, resolutely. Yeah, I didn't say technology
Speaker 1: wasn't good. Yeah, well I said Twitter is not good.
Speaker 1: That's all all right, Well it's really good. When Ezekillett
Speaker 1: takes to his own Instagram to post a video of
Speaker 1: himself driving up to the facility this morning with a
Speaker 1: caption better late than never. Yeah, and as you've seen
Speaker 1: on Twitter, probably by now, zekiellet is back out at
Speaker 1: practice getting ready for this week. Rob. You listened to
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones this morning? How did he respond? Only the cowboys, man,
Speaker 1: Only the cowboys. That's why we get to do what
Speaker 1: we do. Why I love this job. He was giddy,
Speaker 1: He was positively giddy on the radio this morning, and
Speaker 1: He even said he's never seen anything in his time
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys so ambiguous, ambiguous circumstances where week to
Speaker 1: week you just don't know if a guy's going to
Speaker 1: be on the field, and it's totally at the mercy
Speaker 1: of various courts rulings. So it's been a roller coaster
Speaker 1: for everybody. Tay has spoken to that many times that
Speaker 1: it's got to be affecting Zeke. He said a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, it's a little tiring, and I think
Speaker 1: this is probably his biggest test yet when you think
Speaker 1: about it, because he was suspended I think for all
Speaker 1: of a day a couple of weeks ago, and got
Speaker 1: back in time for a full week of practice and played.
Speaker 1: I forget which week it was at all running together now,
Speaker 1: but now you're talking about him missing really the meat
Speaker 1: of your prep week. I mean, Wednesday is your day
Speaker 1: in pads, it's your heaviest workload day. Friday is kind
Speaker 1: of a clean up type day. But still there, sound
Speaker 1: confident that he'll be caught up and ready to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked about this on their blueprint. The thing that
Speaker 1: could affect him running into football will not be a
Speaker 1: prompt for him What will be a problem for him though,
Speaker 1: is the fact that if with Kansas City and some
Speaker 1: of their blitz packages, some of the protection packages, you know,
Speaker 1: where he needs to fit. I mean, he'll he'll study up,
Speaker 1: He'll be fine in a lot of ways. But like
Speaker 1: I say, the reps part of it, I think is
Speaker 1: because if you do make a mistake, they can go
Speaker 1: back and say, okay, wait, this is what you need
Speaker 1: to look at. This is what you need to see.
Speaker 1: So I don't worry about handing the football to him.
Speaker 1: I worry about though, with because they have repped Morris,
Speaker 1: they have repped Smith, and they have repped McFadden, and
Speaker 1: you know, they do have a blitz period every day
Speaker 1: that they run where you know, eight plays, here we go.
Speaker 1: This is this is how we're going to attack their blitz.
Speaker 1: You know, if this turns into a game where all
Speaker 1: of a sudden it is a shootout and you have
Speaker 1: to throw the football a ton, you know, let's see
Speaker 1: if if if he's assignment sound there, I think that'll
Speaker 1: be important. But just just handing him the ball to run, yeah,
Speaker 1: just act like they sat him out two days because
Speaker 1: it's foot hurt. Yeah, And it's like Okay, let's go
Speaker 1: practice down. The part is he wasn't in the meetings.
Speaker 1: That's I understand that. Yeah, but they gotta practice today.
Speaker 1: They could play, they gotta walk through. They gotta walk
Speaker 1: through tomorrow. To make the walk through a little bit
Speaker 1: more and walk through there's ways to compense. Say that's
Speaker 1: missing the details. Yeah, that's the only issue I would
Speaker 1: see with him. That's the only issue if in fact
Speaker 1: that they don't get the rep as many as they want.
Speaker 1: You know, he generally takes every single rep that they
Speaker 1: have when they go with their first offense. And I'll
Speaker 1: guarantee you when they got and did their little skeleton
Speaker 1: drills where they lined up and threw the ball against
Speaker 1: air or did formations and ran a play, he was
Speaker 1: first up. He was no messing around whatsoever. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what. And it happens on Friday all the time.
Speaker 1: A little more bounce and everybody's step because it's basically
Speaker 1: the last work day, because I don't know if they
Speaker 1: considered the game work, but practice his work. Things were
Speaker 1: pretty spirited out there. There was a little bit more
Speaker 1: hop and everybody's stepped, a little bit more screaming, a
Speaker 1: little extra dancing by Joe Looney, who was all in,
Speaker 1: had his black undershirt on. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: was trying to do some Tonga dance in the middle
Speaker 1: or the hakka dance. And then he started again when
Speaker 1: they started doing stretch and people were hooting and hollering,
Speaker 1: so I could tell that the vibe was just a
Speaker 1: little bit a little bit different out there, and I
Speaker 1: think everybody was glad to see him, you know. I
Speaker 1: saw him walk in. I don't know if he was
Speaker 1: going into a team meeting or the offensive meeting. It
Speaker 1: was about nine thirty nine thirty five. He was upstairs
Speaker 1: getting ready to walk into a meeting, so he got
Speaker 1: here pretty quick because the ruling didn't come down to
Speaker 1: bright nine o'clock. Yeah, so he didn't take much time.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he didn't go one hundred miles an hour on
Speaker 1: Sam Rayburn to get here. I was with Mickey. I'm
Speaker 1: on this because I was downstairs at the in the
Speaker 1: dining hall and was walking through and Dez came jogging
Speaker 1: by and he yelled at me. He goes, he's playing,
Speaker 1: he's playing, you know, and he was running right into
Speaker 1: the meeting. So yeah, I think everybody is pretty excited
Speaker 1: about having him back, at least for this week against
Speaker 1: a very difficult opponent. Is everybody is Darren McFadden is
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris. I mean I had a quote from him yesterday,
Speaker 1: Rob did I thought was a great quote that showed
Speaker 1: this running back group is like, Okay, we're good too. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I think you're Your job as a teammate overrides has
Speaker 1: to override being a competitor and wanting to play. And
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be happy for him playing,
Speaker 1: but I think it's more Yeah, Morris's comments about being
Speaker 1: kind of insulted was more directed towards the media, like
Speaker 1: you guys think we can't come in there if needed
Speaker 1: and do the job. And I think they were They're
Speaker 1: anxious for that opportunity. But you want to win football games,
Speaker 1: bottom line, and you got to have a guy like
Speaker 1: Zeke with you to ride with you in this type
Speaker 1: of situation. This is probably the best team they played
Speaker 1: all year long. Certainly it'll be the best offense I
Speaker 1: think by far. I mean the defense doesn't look good.
Speaker 1: What saved this defense is their ability to take the
Speaker 1: ball away, but they sure give up a ton of
Speaker 1: yards their offense saves them two. Yeah, their offense puts
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on you. You You have to keep
Speaker 1: up with them. It's volleyball, right, and if you don't,
Speaker 1: you know, and if you don't keep up, then they
Speaker 1: can bury. They make you one dimensional and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, then it becomes about you know, justin Houston
Speaker 1: and those guys, so d Ford and those guys screaming
Speaker 1: off the corner. But to Tay's point, and we'll get
Speaker 1: into inactives, if we goes back to status quo, it's
Speaker 1: big Fadden inactive. I mean, it goes from goes from
Speaker 1: having a role in this game, maybe a pretty significant role,
Speaker 1: to not playing. We'll get into inactives, but first I
Speaker 1: want to talk about Okay, so this stay now. You know,
Speaker 1: when the decision comes for ze Gillett, more people are
Speaker 1: looking now it could effect if the Cowboys make it
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. Now it doesn't. Well that's what Jerry
Speaker 1: addressed it. Right, Well, it just came out just now, Mick.
Speaker 1: There's a new article on ESPN that says the NFL
Speaker 1: is insisting that if Ezekieliott does get suspended, it will
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs as well. Yeah, but then There's
Speaker 1: another one from Amy Dash that says camp Zegilliott's camp
Speaker 1: would challenge the NFL if they try to spend during
Speaker 1: the playoffs because Goodell's original letter only said regular season games. Well,
Speaker 1: most suspense suspensions go into the playoffs. They'll they'll say,
Speaker 1: now that's not what we meant. They'll make it up
Speaker 1: as they go anyway, Jerry said, Jerry said, Jerry said,
Speaker 1: is his assumption. Assumption it would care all games except
Speaker 1: pres and the way it was worded that And my
Speaker 1: assumption is because it came out in August, they didn't
Speaker 1: want you to because I had the question to ask me.
Speaker 1: It was like, do the four preseason game counts to
Speaker 1: the six? Right? Absolutely? Not right. So I can't imagine
Speaker 1: you could sit here and have a year long suspension
Speaker 1: and then you get to the playoffs and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm playing, and I've you see fans reaction on Twitter today,
Speaker 1: you know, oh, no, they're kicking this down the road.
Speaker 1: And eventually everybody says, the odds are he's gonna lose
Speaker 1: and he's gonna have to sit. So what if this
Speaker 1: team does make the playoffs, Well, I argue, if you
Speaker 1: don't win, this game Sunday. Your odds of even getting
Speaker 1: their decrease anyway. I think you've got to have him
Speaker 1: on the field as much as you can. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think you. I don't think you look at
Speaker 1: this and say, oh man, he's playing. That sucks. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this original decision came down on August eleventh.
Speaker 1: If you can believe that they would argue a technicality
Speaker 1: of wording, you think O that never. I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: I mean that that would be silly to me. We've
Speaker 1: seen I know, I know, I know, because it says
Speaker 1: regular season. So what if he serves five games, he's
Speaker 1: got one more to go, and you're gonna say, okay,
Speaker 1: season open, or you can do the other one, but
Speaker 1: go ahead and play. I would actastic. I would assume
Speaker 1: they will challenge anything I would. I would say that
Speaker 1: would be unfair. Yeah. Yeah. Is this making a mockery
Speaker 1: of everything? I mean, you know, so many tweets are
Speaker 1: coming out, like you know, what people need to understand
Speaker 1: is this whole thing comes down to how a particular
Speaker 1: judge interprets the law. Yeah, and if you get the
Speaker 1: right judge, you can win. You get the wrong judge Catherine,
Speaker 1: you lose because right here, Judge Crotty basically, when he
Speaker 1: was trying to rule on irreparable harm, he said, on balance,
Speaker 1: the defendant's hardship substantially outweighs the plaintiffs, which means Zeke
Speaker 1: has more to lose by not getting a stay than
Speaker 1: the NFL. This whole thing is kind of like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys record. It's almost like four to three, you know,
Speaker 1: like four judges have ruled for Zeke and three halfs right,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately the ones going, the ones that haven't, the
Speaker 1: one that needed to, you know, it was her opinion, right.
Speaker 1: The three judge panel in New York, I mean in
Speaker 1: New Orleans was two to one. So one judge thought,
Speaker 1: oh okay. The Texas judge thought, oh okay. Karate thought
Speaker 1: oh okay, and she goes absolutely not clean. Sweet, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you haven't proven anything that this should be allowed. Can
Speaker 1: I ask smarter people than me a question? Then we
Speaker 1: better get Jason Cohen down. I'm just I'm asking you guys, though,
Speaker 1: because I think you guys will know the answer. Is
Speaker 1: this something is the NFL, I mean excume is the
Speaker 1: players Association fighting for something bigger here with the way
Speaker 1: that this is handled for disciplinary reasons. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: the NFL is fighting for something bigger, ycause says this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they lose this, then they've basically set a precedent going forward,
Speaker 1: deciding to prosecute somebody in the league that hasn't been
Speaker 1: prosecuted or charged in the core legal system. Yeah. I've
Speaker 1: said that alone. But I mean that's why they're fighting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm asking this question because it seems like
Speaker 1: to me, the league, the league doesn't want to give up.
Speaker 1: The players Association realizes what's at stake. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: really it might be Ezekiel Elliott's name, but it's about
Speaker 1: something bigger. To stop being about just about Zekel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every Yeah, every player in the league should be behind this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every player because that affects them. Right. See that's where
Speaker 1: that's where to me, Ezekiel Elliot's name just happens to
Speaker 1: be on top of the letter head, you know, or
Speaker 1: the top of the docket. You know. This is about
Speaker 1: something bigger. Why is this Kurt Flood? Yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: know the Kurt Flood. Yeah. There it's a free agency. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's baseball right, it was Baseball seven is the first
Speaker 1: player to challenge the free agency system. Yeah, and when
Speaker 1: the courts ruled in favor of Kurt Flood, he ruled
Speaker 1: in favor of every player he came after him, and
Speaker 1: that there would be like that, that would be free agency.
Speaker 1: I learned something new every day to Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: see this, this might affect other things as well as
Speaker 1: including Goodell's extensions. I do I do believe that. Well,
Speaker 1: he's got six guys on his side. Yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: six the Cowboys would play without him. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: think they're sitting there going, no, we don't want him eligible? Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: Clark Hunt, Clark Cutting. Clark Hunt lives here in Dallas.
Speaker 1: Cancer's owner, you know, the great son of Lamar Hunt,
Speaker 1: and Clark's probably he probably picked up the paper now
Speaker 1: looking at it. An't going my gosh, my own hometown.
Speaker 1: He goes and I thought I could keep the Preston
Speaker 1: Road Trophy. There's no questions. The best this, there's no
Speaker 1: question this is. This is going to be a standard
Speaker 1: to how future cases, how much power hour does the
Speaker 1: NFL ultimately have? Right, The outcome of this will decide that.
Speaker 1: In addition to like we said yesterday, the new CBA
Speaker 1: is going to be that's gonna get ugly, get ugly. Well,
Speaker 1: and that's what's seeing that and think about what you said,
Speaker 1: because that's what they're they're they're using the Tom Brady
Speaker 1: case as the precedent that the courts ruled in favor
Speaker 1: of the league, and the league's leaning real hard on that.
Speaker 1: And if they get this one, they got a clean
Speaker 1: sweep now. But if they don't, yeah, they're they're in trouble.
Speaker 1: This is if they want to administer their you know,
Speaker 1: their CBA punishment the way they have sure, because the
Speaker 1: courts are gonna say, hey, we're gonna judge how fair
Speaker 1: you were? Right? We don't want you railroading things through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and seeing and I hope everybody understands what we're talking
Speaker 1: about here. We're not talking about did Zeke do it
Speaker 1: or not. We're just talking about getting a fair shake
Speaker 1: in the arbitration system. And he didn't. I don't care
Speaker 1: how anybody looks at it. He didn't. And that's what's
Speaker 1: at stake right now. Was it fair or not? Can't
Speaker 1: just say yeah, I know this, I know this. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to this person. We're gonna talk to this person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't want this person being cross exam yea.
Speaker 1: By the way, yeah, I don't feel like that she's
Speaker 1: gonna be very favorable for us, so let's kind of
Speaker 1: avoid her. Yeah yeah, absolutely. Yeah. All right, well, let's
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Speaker 1: last practice here at the Ford center forward center at
Speaker 1: the Star here this week getting ready for the Chiefs
Speaker 1: and a Luckily we had some tweets that said Dan
Speaker 1: Bailey and you were out there. Dan Bailey and Millie
Speaker 1: Collins were the only absentees from the media portion today. Actually,
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey was there, he just wouldn't. He was just
Speaker 1: playing catch on the sideline. Spotted him in the hallway yesterday.
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen him at him. Yeah he was. He
Speaker 1: was gingerly walking. He's not going to play for the
Speaker 1: rest of this month. Yeah, it's just enjoy your deep
Speaker 1: fried turkey. The worst Thanksgiving man, it's got to be
Speaker 1: the worst injury a kicker can have, other than a
Speaker 1: broken foot. It's your legs. It's made right, how you
Speaker 1: make your living. I mean, even with a broken foot,
Speaker 1: swing your leg would have past on it right right.
Speaker 1: But he had a hand injury or anything else, you'd
Speaker 1: be fine. So yeah, filling with the groin injury and Collins.
Speaker 1: Collins wasn't out there. Tyrone was moving pretty well when
Speaker 1: they were doing their little runaround. Stuffy's tank was dancing.
Speaker 1: He looked good. Cole Beasley's good and be good to go.
Speaker 1: I'm told he had a really good practice yesterday and
Speaker 1: he was back out there today, so if he had
Speaker 1: any side effects, they wouldn't have left him back out
Speaker 1: there today. So he's good to go. Wuzier was doing
Speaker 1: his normal deal, kind of warmed up with the team
Speaker 1: and then he'll go and practice outside by himself and yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever they do with him. And they're going to be
Speaker 1: ultry conservative with this sign because think about he's gone
Speaker 1: out twice and come back twice, and we know how
Speaker 1: Britt doesn't like guys he rehabed to come back to him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this one he's gonna have to really prove that
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. And Dez was there, he was fine.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think whoever else was Limited said about MALIEK. Collins? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said Malik wasn't there. He DMP so that that
Speaker 1: looks kind of serious for Sunday. Yeah, we'll see any
Speaker 1: other updates. Yeah, Tryan Price was on the practice report yesterday,
Speaker 1: but he was full. It just showed a back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Now that's if we if you're getting into MALIEK.
Speaker 1: Collins playing that nose tackle spot, okay, and if there's
Speaker 1: any compromise there at all, That's one of the things
Speaker 1: I'm gonna write about in my notes today. My final
Speaker 1: thoughts it is, it's Brian Price, it's Richard Ashe. You
Speaker 1: know you're gonna have to, you know, play this run defense.
Speaker 1: You know, Mickey's got to plan it. Hey, I need
Speaker 1: to see I need to see my nose play well,
Speaker 1: and I need to see my three technique play well.
Speaker 1: I got my linebacker someplace. But now you might be
Speaker 1: a little compromised at how long if if Mallie Collins
Speaker 1: does play, how long can he go? Yeah? The foot,
Speaker 1: the foot, Yeah, the foot. So that's something to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on as we get to the pregame show. Tay,
Speaker 1: I know you guys love your field reports and something.
Speaker 1: We need to keep an eye on you and Rob. Yeah. Plus,
Speaker 1: I don't think they want to mess around with Crawford
Speaker 1: like saying, Okay, we'll slip back to one and Benson
Speaker 1: Mayo comes out there. I think Crawford needs to stay
Speaker 1: right anywhere. Oh you're saying, yeah, exact, because he can
Speaker 1: move inside. Yeah, you could kind of flip him impriving
Speaker 1: however you want to work that right, But that's that's
Speaker 1: too many moving parts, right, Mallie Collins was poked in
Speaker 1: the eye last Sunday as well during the Redskins game,
Speaker 1: and he was seen wearing some sunglasses fashionable. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're fashionable as they were protective. Oh, those
Speaker 1: are hard to get. Those are hard to kind of
Speaker 1: get from the eye doctor. Not very fashionable. Not proud
Speaker 1: as he's seeing double or oh touche kind of like,
Speaker 1: not tackle the right guy, I hope not tackle them all. Tackle, tackle,
Speaker 1: grab everything, anyone that's in your way. Hit the one
Speaker 1: in the middle. Yeah, yeah, we'll look into I can't
Speaker 1: see the ball before we get to the inactives for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Not much change for the Chiefs practice
Speaker 1: report as well. It was pretty much exactly the same
Speaker 1: as the day before, So they're not looking at that
Speaker 1: many injuries, but the one that I'm concerned about, not concerned,
Speaker 1: but looking at particular. Yeah, another back you're talking about that.
Speaker 1: You brought that up the other day, and I was
Speaker 1: kind of thinking that D four to play, but a
Speaker 1: D and P. I need to see what happens today
Speaker 1: with him. Yeah, I mean he could, he could. He
Speaker 1: could cause some problems on the outside for you though.
Speaker 1: You just have to be him and that and justin Houston.
Speaker 1: Yeah what they with their ability to rush. If it
Speaker 1: turns into a track meet, you're gonna need Both sides
Speaker 1: are gonna need as many of those guys that can
Speaker 1: get to the pastor I mean this game to me,
Speaker 1: I don't know about you guys. This game is gonna
Speaker 1: come down to two second half stops. If you could
Speaker 1: get two second half stops, if the game's tight, both
Speaker 1: teams are going back and forth, it's gonna be two
Speaker 1: stops somewhere. Maybe one in the third, one in the fourth.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna have to come up with two stops.
Speaker 1: That's just my if you want one of those gut feelings,
Speaker 1: I'm not even right about that today. So you're thinking,
Speaker 1: like another game, somebody he's at home. Yeah, somebody on defense,
Speaker 1: somebody on either defense is gonna have to get a stop.
Speaker 1: And I know it's captain obvious to say, oh yes,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if really each any defense could
Speaker 1: stop the other one. I mean I can really. I
Speaker 1: think I think the Chiefs are gonna make some huge
Speaker 1: plays in this game. I think the Cowboys are gonna
Speaker 1: make some huge plays. Inness what do you think is
Speaker 1: a better quarterback Alex Smith or Derek Prescott at this
Speaker 1: point right now, Well, Smith's playing better. Smith is playing better,
Speaker 1: no interceptions on the season, eighteen touchdowns. He could be
Speaker 1: he could be the MVP if he keeps this up.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's having that type of season where he's
Speaker 1: just not making mistakes. That's a big thing. And that's
Speaker 1: a big thing. And you know, his yards per attempt
Speaker 1: is what's most impressive to me. Along with that, he's
Speaker 1: he's he's averaging more yards pert tempt going down the field.
Speaker 1: It's not like he's just driving the bus, dinking dunk
Speaker 1: down the field, which has been kind of his rep
Speaker 1: that's he's making plays for this offense and not turning
Speaker 1: it over. And really, Andy Reid's done it he alway,
Speaker 1: He's done it throughout his career. He always puts his
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in good situations to make plays. Eight point four
Speaker 1: yards an attempt, pretty that's significant. And he's and you
Speaker 1: know when he gets in trouble, he's made some key
Speaker 1: scrambles too. I mean, you have to be you have
Speaker 1: to be alert. You know, some spy stuff going on.
Speaker 1: Don't let him break the pocket and take off running
Speaker 1: on you. You know, when you're playing Deacon, whoever that
Speaker 1: linebacker is, whoever that the defensive back is. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're if your job is to spy, spy, don't
Speaker 1: let don't let him take off on a third and
Speaker 1: seven and get you know, fifteen yards on you that
Speaker 1: that could be a problem too. But I think Dak
Speaker 1: Dak has played better than his numbers. Say absolutely, his
Speaker 1: numbers are good. They're not Alex. It's no disrespect if
Speaker 1: you're comparing him. If you're comparing the two, you know,
Speaker 1: he gives you some pause. It does give you some pause.
Speaker 1: But if you look overall what Kansas City's done, you
Speaker 1: know who compares them frequently is Dan Mullen because, of
Speaker 1: course he coached Alex Smith at Utah. Actually, Alex Smith
Speaker 1: was in Dan Mullen's wedding, if you can believe it
Speaker 1: or not. Yeah, he was a very young coach at
Speaker 1: the time when he was with Urban Meri at Utah
Speaker 1: and very very close to Alex. He was in his
Speaker 1: wedding of course. Then Dak Prescott is his guy at
Speaker 1: Mississippi State the summer when we went to go visit,
Speaker 1: me around some great quarterbacks. Yeah, Tebow, Yeah, Pebo might
Speaker 1: be the best college quarterback every twomey. Oh absolutely, But
Speaker 1: the summer when we were talking about it, he was
Speaker 1: comparing Alex Smith and Dak frequently. Yeah, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of their poise and their ability to kind of shut
Speaker 1: out the outside noise. Yeah. Rough start to his career
Speaker 1: is San Francisco, but definitely found at home in Kansas City. Well,
Speaker 1: Dak said that when he was at Mississippi State, they
Speaker 1: studied he studied Alex Smith, rightw they ran particular plays
Speaker 1: in particular offense. Right, So, yeah, Melon's had a big
Speaker 1: effect on both guys. First one to forty wins, Wow,
Speaker 1: thank you forty? Yeah, whatever, who whoever gets there first, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you may have to there's no question you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do. You guys think that Cream Hunt is a
Speaker 1: contender or a pretender. And I say that because Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: he's had a great start sobbing in this year for
Speaker 1: at their starter running back who got injured in the preseason.
Speaker 1: But you know, is he going to find some bumps?
Speaker 1: Is he going to be able to Uh? Well, he
Speaker 1: already has exactly he has against the Steelers and then
Speaker 1: even this past week again to the Broncos. But what
Speaker 1: I what I'm saying is, you know, it's like, is
Speaker 1: he really the real deal running back? Yeah? I do
Speaker 1: think so, I do. I think that, And I think
Speaker 1: Mickey's biggest nightmare should be everybody's nightmare that they load
Speaker 1: up and start running this football and then he shows
Speaker 1: patience running front side, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're overly aggressive on the backside. Damian Wilson's in the
Speaker 1: game and he comes flying down inside and missus a tackle,
Speaker 1: or Jeff Heath missus a tackle, or somebody misses attack
Speaker 1: on the whole, and what should have been a three
Speaker 1: yard game turns into an eight or nine yard game.
Speaker 1: I think that's where you have to be a little
Speaker 1: bit nervous about playing. I think this guy's a real
Speaker 1: player because A he has that that type of ability
Speaker 1: to carry the football a bunch and be successful. But
Speaker 1: b he could also you could throw it to him
Speaker 1: and he can have success too. So he's a kind
Speaker 1: of a dual threat guy in that way. What do
Speaker 1: you what do you how do you qualify real deal?
Speaker 1: Like what I'm saying is, you know, will he continue
Speaker 1: to have this success throughout the season. Of course, We've
Speaker 1: seen him have some bumps, But is he the guy
Speaker 1: that's going to be like an Ezekiel Elliott? You know,
Speaker 1: I mean look at it this way. He's I mean,
Speaker 1: he's lad in the league in rushing. He's got seven
Speaker 1: hundreds sixty three yards. Yes, he's played one more game
Speaker 1: than Zeke and he's only seventy three yards ahead of him. Right,
Speaker 1: So if you're comparing him to Zeke and Zeke's production,
Speaker 1: it looks like he's pretty real. Right. Yeh, He's pretty comparable.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I think I go back to
Speaker 1: the throwing the ball apart to him too, right. You
Speaker 1: know that's something that's always been a really staple of
Speaker 1: the and you read offense, is that ability to have
Speaker 1: a back that could be a little bit of a run, run, run,
Speaker 1: and then hey, I'm gonna throw you a red zone
Speaker 1: screen for twenty eight yards of a touchdown kind of
Speaker 1: kind of remember the twenty yard touching on twenty eight
Speaker 1: outside the red zone. The Eagles running back that kind
Speaker 1: of was Westbrook actually was was a Deuce Staley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Douce Staley was the Douce Staley was more of a
Speaker 1: physical Yeah, but he could catch the ball too right,
Speaker 1: he could. He wasn't as good as what Westbrook was
Speaker 1: a guy. Yet when they got Westbrook in there, then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that ability to throw screen passes
Speaker 1: the way that Kansas City could very well control your
Speaker 1: rushes say, Okay, we're gonna throw screens all day. We're
Speaker 1: gonna make you have to defend screens. You know, we
Speaker 1: saw what happened in the the other day in the
Speaker 1: Washington game. What happened they got a screen that went
Speaker 1: out the left side there for a big, chunky yards.
Speaker 1: You know, if your linebackers aren't getting over that, Chris
Speaker 1: Thompson Thompson R. Thompson called like an eighteen yard screen
Speaker 1: going to the left. It's kind of early running back
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I just
Speaker 1: if you don't play things well, teams will say, oh,
Speaker 1: let's see if you can cover these screens. Let's see
Speaker 1: if you can get over there. I mean, sometimes you
Speaker 1: get them in man coverage and Shaun Lee, you know,
Speaker 1: goes over and breaks things up. And then other times
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my gosh, to drop the back coming
Speaker 1: in the flat and here he goes up the sidelines.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, the passing game is where he can
Speaker 1: still always have an impact. But to your point, I mean,
Speaker 1: the most impressive thing to me about Zeke the last
Speaker 1: year and a half is team start keying on him
Speaker 1: and loading up the box and he's still productive and
Speaker 1: an offensive line is still productive. And we saw Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're keying on him a little more,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have that one hundred yard all purpose
Speaker 1: yard game this past week. So you know, are we've
Speaker 1: seen Denver take people out of games. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, team's gonna adjust and see why this guy is.
Speaker 1: You have to focus your defensive game plan around him.
Speaker 1: So how does he respond? But he does have that
Speaker 1: versatility to still leak out get plays in the passing
Speaker 1: game on you. Yeah. Absolutely, Well, let's get into the
Speaker 1: inactives for the Cowboys. This is what I believe to
Speaker 1: be the seven guys that will be down for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Of course, guys me if I'm wrong at the end,
Speaker 1: but let's get through him all right. Eighty nine I'm
Speaker 1: saying Blake Jarwin is inactive ninety six MALIEK. Collins. That's
Speaker 1: kind of a surprising when you get to Justin Durant,
Speaker 1: the linebacker, cheetom, Dan Bailey, the obvious one there, twenty
Speaker 1: Darren McFadden and seventy five Byron Bell. Yeah, so of course, Yeah, MALIEK. Collins,
Speaker 1: I assumed he would be down after I've seen, you know,
Speaker 1: the up and down of his practice week, especially not
Speaker 1: being there on a Friday. What if he what if
Speaker 1: he's ready to go, If he's ready to go, That's
Speaker 1: that's where we have host down. I think I think, Tay,
Speaker 1: I think you've got three. Tay, I think you've got
Speaker 1: I think you've got six of the seven. I really
Speaker 1: really do. I think the one that we have the
Speaker 1: question on Mickey just asked, was MALIEK. Collins. They made
Speaker 1: me trying just to get him to Sunday. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: that could be. That could be very well it But
Speaker 1: I if you did you go fifty to fifty three three? Yeah,
Speaker 1: fifty to me, this is where it comes down to
Speaker 1: Justin Marshall, Yeah, it comes down. Yeah, here we are.
Speaker 1: I get in trouble just saying numbers. Sorry about that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, if it's if it's March Lillard or I
Speaker 1: think that there. I think that that Noah Brown is
Speaker 1: one of these guys they rely on on special teams now,
Speaker 1: So to me, it's always like, Okay, well, who Noah
Speaker 1: Brown or March Lillard Marshall Lillard played two seasons for
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, or what about ash see
Speaker 1: if yeah? Yeah, I don't, I don't think so. I mean,
Speaker 1: I I think this is gonna be one of those things.
Speaker 1: We get to the field report on Sunday and Tay's
Speaker 1: gonna tell me the inactives are and then we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with with Malie Collins. But I think I
Speaker 1: think you've got six of the seven right now, with
Speaker 1: fifty three being March Lillard as being the potential with
Speaker 1: Collins just Kyle Wilbur on this injury report this week. No, no,
Speaker 1: he's not. If he's good to go, then my guests
Speaker 1: would be, you keep Noah Brown up if if Malik
Speaker 1: can go, and and you you go a little lighter
Speaker 1: at Lightemacker, Well, who did they who did they put
Speaker 1: in there for Irving at the three when they went
Speaker 1: to their second line this last game, Like when Irving
Speaker 1: came out, I don't remember seeing it, and I know
Speaker 1: he didn't play every play, No, because they would use
Speaker 1: price in ash. No, it was Collins. Collins, Yeah, Collins, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, Yeah, that's how they played it. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: well then that's easy as it is now. The one
Speaker 1: that I was also concerned about was Darren McFadden. You know,
Speaker 1: if they were putting Morris as the potential starter for
Speaker 1: this weekend looking at more or McFadden as the second back,
Speaker 1: would he then be active this week A lot of
Speaker 1: people are saying, play all all the running backs this weekend.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that will happen. For I don't
Speaker 1: think it will happen. I would say twenty as an
Speaker 1: active Like why keeping Rod Smith up? Because if everything
Speaker 1: he gives you on special team? So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you would probably be sas quo the way it's been
Speaker 1: for seven games. Yeah, if you if you if, if
Speaker 1: you're you would not trust four running backs plus the
Speaker 1: two plus the fullback. I just think that's asking too much.
Speaker 1: I mean, we talk about how many cares just Morse
Speaker 1: getting a game anyway, you know, and then on Thursday
Speaker 1: he had eighteen and game thirteen. Yeah, so that doesn't
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense to play it. Just keep
Speaker 1: playing the way you're playing with these running backs, and
Speaker 1: then and then when we get to the point where
Speaker 1: we run out of court stuff, then we'll then you
Speaker 1: just will that ever happen? Though, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it may never end, you know, because then if it goes,
Speaker 1: you're right next week then you're looking at the Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve game for his return, which would be the Seahawks. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing I got. I got my
Speaker 1: midst incredible. They get I get my mean nasty running
Speaker 1: back back. I was asking for one. You got him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want. I wanted a mean, nasty running back and
Speaker 1: I got him back. And the players know it too.
Speaker 1: How excited the juice the guys, the reaction to it.
Speaker 1: I mean, they love all these backs, but I mean
Speaker 1: Zeke is special about it. From back is different. I
Speaker 1: was talking to someone randomly around this building and they're
Speaker 1: closer to the team than I am, and you know,
Speaker 1: they were asking me, are you concerned about this game
Speaker 1: and this weekend? I was like, yeah, I have no
Speaker 1: Zeke And they're like, I think some of these players
Speaker 1: are a little bit ready to show everyone that it's
Speaker 1: not just Zeke who could win this football game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hope so, especially you know, when you have somebody
Speaker 1: who's leading the league in sacks, you know, a defense
Speaker 1: that's finally showing up, like, hey, we can be a
Speaker 1: difference maker in a football game. Tyrone Crawford Special Teams
Speaker 1: Player of the Week, and he just told me first
Speaker 1: to forty wins it maybe sometimes it's not what we
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be. Well, I'm not saying it's gonna
Speaker 1: be in the teams, but I'll say it again, this
Speaker 1: is the game we find out if this defense is
Speaker 1: for real or not. I played a run defense for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll find out. Yeah. I think they're gonna give up
Speaker 1: some big plays in the secondary. Myself, I just I
Speaker 1: just don't see him. I just don't see him completely
Speaker 1: covering all the weapons that the Chiefs have. I'd just
Speaker 1: be ready for a big play, a big play, a
Speaker 1: big play, and then hope, like hell, you get those
Speaker 1: two stops I asked you, then and then you somehow
Speaker 1: get ten points, fourteen points, many four point place here,
Speaker 1: you know what you hope four point play if you
Speaker 1: get if you get beat on a play like that,
Speaker 1: you physically got beat, right, somebody didn't bust an assignment
Speaker 1: and let Tarik hill run down the hash uncovered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know we've seen Oh I thought we were in
Speaker 1: zone now No, you was your man. You know one
Speaker 1: of those things you know covered the guy make sure
Speaker 1: you don't bust the coverage. Yeah, that's what That's what
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Speaker 1: for the city, Robert, get to your Twitter pole. Yo. Okay,
Speaker 1: most important key Sunday versus Kansas City. What's the biggest
Speaker 1: factor for Dallas to get a win. We've talked about
Speaker 1: a lot of them this week. I've got four. Oh,
Speaker 1: we got four right ends well for you, Mickey five? Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: stop the run. Number one two, pressure Alex Smith. Brian's
Speaker 1: been talking about, keep him in the pocket, make him
Speaker 1: hold the ball, Yes, make him hold that ball, keep
Speaker 1: him in the well. Marionelli say number three, this was
Speaker 1: posted yesterday. Keep the running game going. That was with
Speaker 1: Zeke not in mind. You got to keep the running
Speaker 1: game going. Yeah, I'm with you. Or red zone score
Speaker 1: focusing on those four point plays. Brian talked about it, well,
Speaker 1: red zone, thirty yard line, inside the thirty or twenty
Speaker 1: guys got a number one. I know what's tying? I
Speaker 1: voted for? Who'd you vote for? Red zone scoring? Okay.
Speaker 1: One of the best teams in the league when it
Speaker 1: comes to it comes to third down conversions. Opponents have
Speaker 1: only been able to convert nine percent of the time.
Speaker 1: That's a great stat on third down. Yeah, when nigget
Speaker 1: inside the red zone. So Cowboys has done a nice
Speaker 1: show you. The Cowboys are at forty seven percent on
Speaker 1: those conversions. So keep keep finding a way to convert
Speaker 1: on third downs. Get in the red zone. There, I
Speaker 1: can say convert and finish those drives with scores four
Speaker 1: point plays. Miss stern I said red zone as well,
Speaker 1: But I also feel like you have to look at
Speaker 1: their side two. They have one of the best red
Speaker 1: zone tight ends in Travis Kelsey. You know that most
Speaker 1: likely he's going to get that when they're down there
Speaker 1: at the goal line. So yeah, I'd love to see
Speaker 1: this defense Shoup. I mean, they were able to hold
Speaker 1: a lot of teams to just field goals. I'd love
Speaker 1: to see them get some turnovers in the end zone.
Speaker 1: They've able to do that in the past. And the
Speaker 1: other thing I worry about is them just picking on
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown. Can't give up those big plays down the field.
Speaker 1: I'll go with stop the run, and that's been a
Speaker 1: key for this team. When they haven't done it, they've
Speaker 1: lost games. And Marinelli spoke about it yesterday. Coach Rod
Speaker 1: how they're exotic in their looks. They throw a lot
Speaker 1: of different personnel packers at you to try to kind
Speaker 1: of throw you off a little bit, but ultimately they
Speaker 1: want to pound the rock. They want to run the
Speaker 1: ball and play off of that. So they've got to
Speaker 1: be able to be physical and stop that. Who you got, mick,
Speaker 1: stop the run? All right? But I do have a
Speaker 1: write in vote. Oh here we go. Gas. Do not,
Speaker 1: absolutely do not turn the ball over. That's good. They
Speaker 1: are a plus ten plus ten. Yeah, they don't make
Speaker 1: mistakes and that's probably what saved this defense that's ranked
Speaker 1: thirtieth in the league. They get takeaways yea, which prevents
Speaker 1: teams from scoring. Cannot turn the ball, Zeke, don't fumble
Speaker 1: on your first this week. You know, I get you're
Speaker 1: out there, you're excited, but not this week. Can't have it.
Speaker 1: Don't muff a punt, don't have a drop pass, get
Speaker 1: intercepted and returned for a touchdown. None of that stuff.
Speaker 1: If you didn't know, goofies, if you didn't have the
Speaker 1: rite in. When you're saying the run defense, run deep,
Speaker 1: you got to stop the run. Yeah, but my ride
Speaker 1: in would be that one well run defense wins this
Speaker 1: one of the closest polls, we've had twenty nine percent,
Speaker 1: stop the run, twenty five percent, pressure alex twenty eight percent,
Speaker 1: keep the run game going, and red zone scoring got
Speaker 1: eighteen percent. So it was all indus. They're all important.
Speaker 1: All I know is I know you better just keep scoring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: keep scoring. Put as much pressure on them two stops
Speaker 1: and keep scoring. That's all I need. I wonder if
Speaker 1: the Chiefs will get held or called for holding calls
Speaker 1: this weekend because nobody else does. Nobody else does. Let's
Speaker 1: see the Cowboys, you know, Tyrn Smith will just be
Speaker 1: doing his job and we get called. They get called
Speaker 1: for holding on touchdowns, not they us, the Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we should do a poll. That's what it is like.
Speaker 1: And you get you get a whole appealing on a
Speaker 1: touchdown a four point play in that game, right because
Speaker 1: they end up kicking a field goal. Absolutely, Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: we'll do a poll. That's the toughest thing to define
Speaker 1: a catch or holding in the NFL. Butler, the Brice Butler, Fenel,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what happens more often is trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what holding is. You know, every once in
Speaker 1: a while you get to catch thing. Maybe once or
Speaker 1: twice a game majority of holding or a key playoff game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but how many times you get holding a game? About
Speaker 1: five for both teams. Football lifers like Brian will tell you.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can call holding on every single player.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. That's why I thought when Tyrant
Speaker 1: Smith's hands get inside like that, there's just a quality
Speaker 1: block for me because I see that every day watching
Speaker 1: take Now, I understand when they get outside and you're
Speaker 1: trying to hook guys, I get that. Like, yeah, call
Speaker 1: that Frederick point a few weeks ago that was maybe questionable.
Speaker 1: But if your hands are inside, in your hands are inside,
Speaker 1: you're you're driving a guy. Tyren Smith is so strong
Speaker 1: when he drives a guy, it makes it look bad.
Speaker 1: It makes a guy that, I mean, it looks I
Speaker 1: mean the guys flop. That's what I'm getting ready to say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like we're turning in the soccer. Oh god, I
Speaker 1: just got any flopping. Yeah that again, Mick, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And those guys get paid. They seed enough football to
Speaker 1: be able to tell the difference between a darned flop
Speaker 1: and getting held in and grabbed. And the other thing
Speaker 1: is you got the guy blocked and he turns around
Speaker 1: to run after him, and he's acting like you're holding
Speaker 1: him from behind. Well, why had you? You just bailed out?
Speaker 1: You know they they see things too late, you know,
Speaker 1: see it. Don't react you turn in, look and go,
Speaker 1: oh look what's going on there? No, it's been going on.
Speaker 1: Watch the thing. In your next life. You're going to
Speaker 1: come back as an NFL. I am, yes, you are.
Speaker 1: You know what a lot of money. And at the
Speaker 1: the last day at fifth grade, the teacher would have
Speaker 1: roused the room and predicted what everybody was going to become.
Speaker 1: I said you were a pizza maker. No, she said,
Speaker 1: I was going to be an official and a referee.
Speaker 1: Well you're always you're always arguing. Probably he likes the
Speaker 1: power of being This is this, I'm right. I was
Speaker 1: the guy that was fair when we played softball. Fair.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I'm telling you I would have done
Speaker 1: that if I didn't end up with the job I did.
Speaker 1: I had to work on weekends. Yeah, I couldn't. You know,
Speaker 1: what would you referee basketball? I'd love to do basketball? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I could see you being like everybody hating you like
Speaker 1: they do em. Yea, the officials like oh, we got
Speaker 1: Spagnola again. I didn't never heard like when they have
Speaker 1: the finals. Yeah, they always complain who the official? It
Speaker 1: was the guy that used to see everybody up? Was
Speaker 1: it Joey Crawford? You're the Joey cross up. I just
Speaker 1: argued with you, maybe you could have been the ref
Speaker 1: for the Utah Jazz because our caller, Johnny is from
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City and he can watched you. Then, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? How about that? Hell are you
Speaker 1: pass that? They just converted about that? Ezekiel Elliott back
Speaker 1: on the field. It's a good Friday. It's a good Friday.
Speaker 1: I'm just excited to have him back on the field.
Speaker 1: I think just increase their chances of winning. And I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see this game. It's a possible Super
Speaker 1: Bowl you know, appearance both of these teams. So I
Speaker 1: just want to hear your take on that. Thanks guys,
Speaker 1: thank you. Super Bowl run. I got some hard teams down.
Speaker 1: It's a little early for that. I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: say that but not yet. But um, I was looking
Speaker 1: up and I know it's stat related, but when you
Speaker 1: have a quarterback that's playing as well as Alex Smith
Speaker 1: in terms of passer rating in the history of this league,
Speaker 1: like he's it's it's in the top ten that he's
Speaker 1: at in NFL history right now for a season and
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So Kansas City's playing championship type football right now. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you this great test, he said yesterday, I
Speaker 1: think you said this team would be seven to one, right,
Speaker 1: they should be. If it was seven to one, would
Speaker 1: you feel differently then? Yeah, like if the defense was
Speaker 1: Because the quality of the team team right now is
Speaker 1: not matching the record. Okay, let me ask you my
Speaker 1: opinion is if you had the defense from last year
Speaker 1: and you have the record of four and three, but
Speaker 1: the defense from last year that I trusted, yeah, would
Speaker 1: you feel like this was a Super Bowl? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I think I mean, there's there's more youth on
Speaker 1: this defense than there was last year. And but we've
Speaker 1: said all along, you get to December and you're still
Speaker 1: in it, guys will be better than they were in
Speaker 1: sept Hope. Yeah, hope. They were a super Bowl team
Speaker 1: last year, they just didn't make it. Yeah, they were
Speaker 1: that quality of team. Yeah, the defense is holding you
Speaker 1: back in your mind? Is yep. What if Zeke gets
Speaker 1: suspended six games? That hold you back even more. That's
Speaker 1: where my reservation a little bit? Is this a little bit?
Speaker 1: And yes, a little bit of a lot well the defense,
Speaker 1: But say then the defense has to become a bigger
Speaker 1: factor in everything to win games. Yeah, can't can't say Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna win thirty five thirty. You know you're not
Speaker 1: going to do that every week. So that's why I'm saying,
Speaker 1: this game right now is going to be the barometer
Speaker 1: going forward. So if you get and you'll read it
Speaker 1: tonight in my column, what if? What if? What if
Speaker 1: Dallas loses this game? What if this Dallas? Is this
Speaker 1: this game twenty eight to twenty four? Do you feel
Speaker 1: like the defense did their job? Courage? Then yes? But no,
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, would you say, you know what, defense
Speaker 1: did everything eight? If you'd have said twenty four, twenty,
Speaker 1: then I would okay, absolutely, yeah, twel Okay they kick
Speaker 1: a field goal to win at twenty one. Yeah, then
Speaker 1: you say, are about the def defense did enough to
Speaker 1: win this game and offense let them down? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: they offense things that nobody ever said. The offense has
Speaker 1: gotta gotta do its deal? Just like last year? Right?
Speaker 1: Why were they winning most of those games? The offense
Speaker 1: was averaging until they punted the last game of the season.
Speaker 1: They were at like twenty seven points a game. Eight.
Speaker 1: Hey just said something really important. How's the kick time
Speaker 1: to go? How's the kicker going to continue to kick?
Speaker 1: Because I can only worry about so many Well, I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you. You know you got four point placed.
Speaker 1: Let's not worry about anything else. Score touchdowns? Can you
Speaker 1: just score touchdowns? Nugent was really good last week, but
Speaker 1: it's week to week with kickers. I mean, we take Dan.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, wet blanket here we go close games.
Speaker 1: That's me. I'm wet. I'm not trying to be wet
Speaker 1: blanket mine. I'm just saying, you gotta in these close
Speaker 1: games clutch kicks. He's got to continue to be consistent.
Speaker 1: And you know, it was a good starting. It's a
Speaker 1: good point. But I also think field position will be
Speaker 1: a big thing. Even making thirty three yard extra points.
Speaker 1: That's what got him fired the first time. I know
Speaker 1: it's for some reason. It's in the back of my mind. Right.
Speaker 1: Not a big guy, is He's not. He's a lot
Speaker 1: shorter than I expect. He's a skinny me, skinny button,
Speaker 1: good old skinny butt, Mike Nugent, I'll tell him that.
Speaker 1: At lunch man well, three weeks ago, we're sitting here
Speaker 1: talking about the Packers loss, and Mickey was very about
Speaker 1: the play of the game being the Ryan Switzer punt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, the muff punt Ryan Switzer. Back at at
Speaker 1: and T Stadium this weekend. Oh, that was the Rams game.
Speaker 1: That's a ram Ram Rams Rams. I apologize, no, no problem, Yeah, readers,
Speaker 1: where you're going? Yeah, go ahead. The interception was the
Speaker 1: the bad one to pack. Yeah, yeah, Ryan Switzer, don't
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, we got give him good field position
Speaker 1: for the offense to be in a better go about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just gotta make sure he catches the ball and
Speaker 1: there won't be any wind or rained in his face.
Speaker 1: Was he tracking it poorly? Though? The other day? What
Speaker 1: was up with that? Looked like me out there, the
Speaker 1: ones that were circus tent over, the ones that were short,
Speaker 1: he should have gone up and kill it. The one
Speaker 1: that went over his head, I can excuse it. The
Speaker 1: wind was conceptive, you could tell from your press box. Yes,
Speaker 1: because we're underneath making what's the time on the clock?
Speaker 1: Is the game over yet? I don't know. I got
Speaker 1: that question one more time, but you couldn't if you're
Speaker 1: literally the press box. Oh, I been here. That's why.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm so glad I don't sit it on
Speaker 1: the TV. And I'm like her that that was my seat.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I don't go with you see any
Speaker 1: one of these deals. When they go to third down
Speaker 1: and they take away the down and distance and time
Speaker 1: on the board, you can't see it. Yeah, it flashes
Speaker 1: third down, right, something to address in the offseason. I
Speaker 1: think that's why I address the food that keeps my part.
Speaker 1: It did my TV on or my computer on with
Speaker 1: the TV broadcast that I got yelled at there for
Speaker 1: doing that because I was taken up too much bandwidth.
Speaker 1: Let it go where it's press box in Washington. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tell them that. You know what? So I'm found Sam
Speaker 1: played about my seat. Yeah, and he goes, next time
Speaker 1: you're here, why don't you complain to Tony Wiley you'll
Speaker 1: get a better seat. I go, okay, I'll get on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get our rank. Thems in rob do it. I
Speaker 1: hadn't thought about it. No, hell, oh, I thought you
Speaker 1: didn't need to do that. Rank. You're same guy every
Speaker 1: week as well, the law as well. Okay, Mick, we
Speaker 1: got you down. This is not even fun. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that's what Nate did to us, and it wasn't It
Speaker 1: wasn't fun. So yeah, you don't get law. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, no, just goes go somebody around and I'll
Speaker 1: pick somebody. You go, Bran, I'll go ahead. Take Seriously,
Speaker 1: I knew you to think about this one from Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: Whoa Dak Prescott. It's going to be like, Okay, Dan Mullen, No,
Speaker 1: you loved Alex. I wasn't in your wedding. You're already
Speaker 1: married by the time, but I should be in all
Speaker 1: of your weddings. Everyone like, oh, line, you guys are
Speaker 1: going to love Dak Prescott this weekend. I think he
Speaker 1: is obviously been preparing for son Zeke, so he's got
Speaker 1: a lot on his plate. Hopefully Zeke kind of helps
Speaker 1: that so he can just show up and just go out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with David Irving and he was great
Speaker 1: yesterday in the locker room talking about his journey. Came
Speaker 1: from Chiefs practice squads that he owes them a lot.
Speaker 1: He don't know where he would be if they didn't
Speaker 1: take a chance on him initially. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big game for him, and it's
Speaker 1: important for him to get going because if you're gonna
Speaker 1: limit big plays down the field, they've got to get
Speaker 1: some pressure on Alex Smith. I'll go with David Irving
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, Byron Jones, you know, And I don't think
Speaker 1: it's all gonna be Byron Jones taking Travis Kelsey. But
Speaker 1: every time that Byron Jones is on Travis Kelsey, make
Speaker 1: it as hard as you can for him to catch
Speaker 1: the football. I'll be okay with some past interferences because
Speaker 1: I think officials sometimes they give it to us, sometimes
Speaker 1: they don't. So be aggressive, stay aggressive, battle your battle
Speaker 1: your rear off to try and make a limit as
Speaker 1: many big plays as you can there. Maybe they can
Speaker 1: handle things with Hill, you know, maybe. I mean he's
Speaker 1: like a sixty percent catcher. Travis Kelsey is a higher
Speaker 1: catcher than in most So I battle your rear off,
Speaker 1: Byron Jones and do some good. Okay, So we said
Speaker 1: Dak David Irving Byron Jones, Mickey Specnola and Des Bryant.
Speaker 1: There you go, Ben demand Bryant, whose birthday is common Row, Yeah,
Speaker 1: common right now try to pick a one bee and
Speaker 1: it's gonna sound really strange. Cole Beasley, I know he's
Speaker 1: coming off the concussion stuff, but they need to get
Speaker 1: him going. And you know what they I mean, we've
Speaker 1: saw some stuff with with Ryan Switcher playing some offensive snaps,
Speaker 1: but they need to get Cole Beesley. This could be
Speaker 1: a game where a four or five catch Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: day all of a sudden, keeps change moving all of
Speaker 1: a sudden. It's not you. It maybe Dez covered up
Speaker 1: and we'll be done. Get open on the play. Wittens.
Speaker 1: They're taking Witt out. You know, watch watch Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: in this football game a little bit. I know he
Speaker 1: had that. I could say the concussion stuff, but keep
Speaker 1: an eye on this one like that. We can't say
Speaker 1: Tony Romoka. They'll be in the broadcast booth. Oh sure,
Speaker 1: I'll have a good broadcast. He will. He had a
Speaker 1: great broader. If we're calling out plays, I heard more
Speaker 1: than one. Lynn Han said that Dak said that in
Speaker 1: these production meetings this week, they're gonna tell him, Hey,
Speaker 1: just kind of don't don't give away any secrets on us,
Speaker 1: don't don't put us in that. I was working last night,
Speaker 1: so I was listening with one year. Was he doing
Speaker 1: it last night? And he did, Yeah, he's doing this
Speaker 1: at MetLife Stadium last night. And it was pretty funny
Speaker 1: because Jim Nance goes, oh, you know, we're going to
Speaker 1: Dallas this weekend and he goes, oh, yeah, we are.
Speaker 1: And Nance was like, well, you'll have a great outpouring
Speaker 1: for He goes, yeah, I have good relationships in Dallas,
Speaker 1: my wife and kids. I'm wondering, I'm wondering, Uh, do
Speaker 1: they allow the coaches in the box like to have
Speaker 1: a TV broadcast and listen to the game. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they do. I'm sure somebody to be listening. Although it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter adopt by time they commune to snap it,
Speaker 1: it's like it's too late, the TV's on. A where
Speaker 1: he could where he could kind of kind of be
Speaker 1: insightful for the fans, is that they get in a
Speaker 1: two minute situation and he says, oh, and they have
Speaker 1: a time out. He could kind of say okay, hey,
Speaker 1: their thought process here is to try and get the
Speaker 1: ball here and then trying. You know he can, he's
Speaker 1: been good at that this season. Well, he could say, okay,
Speaker 1: this is because he talked about the Raider I think
Speaker 1: it was the Raider Chief game. He was saying, this
Speaker 1: is where the Raiders need to attack. It's too deep.
Speaker 1: They need to put the ball right here. So he
Speaker 1: could offer some insight of where Scott maybe with play
Speaker 1: calling would be more aggressive, not aggressive, where he might
Speaker 1: thinking about attacking just looking at you know, he's seeing
Speaker 1: Kansas City play a lot, so he understands what they
Speaker 1: do defensively. So it's as I mean, you can mike
Speaker 1: me up. I'll tell you what they're doing in two minute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: first play, they're going to hand off to Zeke. The
Speaker 1: second play, it's going to be a past to Witton.
Speaker 1: Third down, they're down there, already got a first down. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now we're moving the ball. We're moving the ball,
Speaker 1: and now we can throw the ball around because we're
Speaker 1: up about the thirty five or forty yards. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about the the ball inside to Jason, inside to dos
Speaker 1: Brian for a big play too. Yeah, I'm thinking about well,
Speaker 1: thank you guys. Hey, we got this thing covered. Roma'm
Speaker 1: gonna be here today. You think, is they coming in
Speaker 1: to do interview? I'm sure you'll wear his ass out.
Speaker 1: I will, all right. Well, thank you listening to us
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