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Speaker 1: Everson Walls, and Nicky Spagnola. And there we go, Dallas
Speaker 1: Howboys stand stand. I love it. It's we're stampeding into
Speaker 1: the final weekend of this NFL season and Mickey Spagnola
Speaker 1: has just the cap on for the stampede fight song
Speaker 1: from the sixties. You've got the cowboy or riding the
Speaker 1: horse logo from the sixties on your cap, and I
Speaker 1: thought it would be only appropriate to wear it today
Speaker 1: when we played the song, right, Cowboy Joe, Cowboy Joe,
Speaker 1: that's right, it's on the logo that used to be
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys before they change it. And if
Speaker 1: anybody's been paying attention the coaching staff on the sideline
Speaker 1: of late when they've been wearing the sweatshirts, they got
Speaker 1: the huge cowboy Joe logo on the front of that sweatshirt.
Speaker 1: Cowboy Joe making a comeback. And these are hard to
Speaker 1: find because the first time the pro shop they didn't
Speaker 1: have one in my size, and then I went back
Speaker 1: right before Christmas and they had one. So I said, okay,
Speaker 1: for old time's sake, I'm gonna buy it. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much I'll wear it, but I'm buying one.
Speaker 1: So I have the logo, all right, So there you go.
Speaker 1: So it's Friday. We are set for Washington. The man
Speaker 1: who wrote the book on the rivalry. Let's go Dallas
Speaker 1: versus Washington. Here inside the SWBC podcast studio, and we
Speaker 1: have an empty seat to my ride over here Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and I just can't recall. He said there was some
Speaker 1: point that he was not going to be able to
Speaker 1: be here. Maybe we have reached that place. Had a
Speaker 1: real confusing conversation on what he had to do and
Speaker 1: when he had to do it. And he's involved in
Speaker 1: one of these college showcase of it, yes, yes, like
Speaker 1: the All Stars coaching. He's coaching, and we can't remember exactly.
Speaker 1: And he said something about, yeah, one of the practices,
Speaker 1: but I think I can call it. I thought he
Speaker 1: was talking about next week, but maybe who knows. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's why he's not here. So anyway, anyway, we'll try
Speaker 1: to shuffle along and see how well we can do
Speaker 1: getting you ready for a game that used to be
Speaker 1: a rivalry. And I bet if you did a survey
Speaker 1: in both locker rooms, you wouldn't find a dozen guys
Speaker 1: that knew that this was a big rivalry back in
Speaker 1: the days. Outside of the fact it is a division game, yes,
Speaker 1: but they don't understand the magnitude of the rivalry, going
Speaker 1: back really to the Clint Long Ladies. The bitterness, right,
Speaker 1: the bitterness the George Allen coached watching those teams from
Speaker 1: the seventies. Yeah. Absolutely, And I'm not and I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: to pull back the curtain here. There's a window behind
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Speaker 1: loudspeaker and they can listen to us as they walk by.
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Speaker 1: that we are Dallas Cowboys dot Com. They come by
Speaker 1: and say, and that's where one oh five three the
Speaker 1: fan does their broadcasts. Well, they do it here too,
Speaker 1: but they're just not here. Ever, except during the draft
Speaker 1: exactly like once a year, once a year. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what they do the broadcast. So I want
Speaker 1: to see I'm going to put a sign up we are, well,
Speaker 1: you should we should Okay. Remember when you were in
Speaker 1: high school they would say we are and whatever the name? Yes, right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, um, so I know more important things. The
Speaker 1: most important thing, yes, is DeMar Hamlin. And this is
Speaker 1: already a victory weekend. As if you haven't caught the
Speaker 1: news today, DeMar Hamlin has improved to the point that
Speaker 1: he was able to FaceTime in to the Bills team
Speaker 1: meeting today and the Bills players were able to stand
Speaker 1: up and cheer for him as they made the connection
Speaker 1: with him, and I think he flexed his muscles for
Speaker 1: him and he was able to tell him I love you,
Speaker 1: And just an unbelievable moment for the Buffalo You know,
Speaker 1: if they were crying when this happened, they were balling
Speaker 1: their eyes out today, man, guaranteed. I got I was
Speaker 1: listening to the Sean McDermott press conference driving in and
Speaker 1: I get goosebumps just just talking about it here. I mean,
Speaker 1: what a moment that is, and what a job done
Speaker 1: by everyone involved in the medical staff, the training trainers
Speaker 1: for the Bills, the Bengals, the staff on site there
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati and at the hospital and so forth. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a man who has come back to life.
Speaker 1: They brought him back from to life, and I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just an unbelievable And the doctors were right on
Speaker 1: yesterday when they did the press conference and they were
Speaker 1: talking about whatever reaction in DeMar Ad and they said
Speaker 1: one of the things he wrote on the on the
Speaker 1: on the piece of paper where they were discussing with him.
Speaker 1: His first question was did we win? And their answer
Speaker 1: was you won? You won in the game of life.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm gonna start crying right now,
Speaker 1: just you know, thinking. But they're right. I mean, he won.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable job by those folks. Uh. They're the ones that
Speaker 1: should get a standing ovation, right Uh. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: at some point they will all be recognized, everybody that
Speaker 1: had a hand uh in preserving his life. And the
Speaker 1: fact that he was face timing with them today. And
Speaker 1: I learned a new word because we know about um incubated, Well,
Speaker 1: he was excubated when they take it out, that's what yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: which is also a great sign that means the lungs
Speaker 1: are working on their own failing because yesterday they said
Speaker 1: it was that like fifty percent, but they needed to
Speaker 1: make sure that it was for sure that they didn't
Speaker 1: want to have to do it again, like take it
Speaker 1: out and have to put it back in. So uh yeah,
Speaker 1: just a minor miracle that he's able to uh talk
Speaker 1: with his team at this point. And I guess maybe
Speaker 1: at some point come home, right, Yeah, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what the timeline would be on that, but
Speaker 1: I mean or how he gets home. Yeah, but Cincinnati
Speaker 1: to Buffalo that's still a pretty long yeah drive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how that works. But it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: such a great story. And so he's he's my comeback
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. Yeah, that's we're talking about Brian
Speaker 1: Brian Brian Robinson. Everson nominated him as a comeback Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. That's got to be the next year,
Speaker 1: that's right. Uh yeah. For now, well, they just the
Speaker 1: nfl PA just named him the uh community they have
Speaker 1: a national Community Player of the Week, and they named
Speaker 1: him that this week for you know whatever. However, everybody
Speaker 1: responded to his charity, yeah, which was yeah, pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just a heartwarming story. Well as far as
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are concerned taking on this Washington team, and
Speaker 1: we'll get into that over the course of the next
Speaker 1: forty minutes or so. Here. And I know that the
Speaker 1: NFL in regards to the Hemlin situation and the Bills
Speaker 1: game against the Bengals, they made the announcement yesterday that
Speaker 1: the game will not be resumed. And there's a meeting
Speaker 1: going on that just probably just started, Jerry said, was
Speaker 1: supposed to start as soon as he got off the rate.
Speaker 1: Well it might an hour ago, he said, eleven eleven
Speaker 1: hour time. As they are voting on what to do
Speaker 1: about the playoff ramifications. Okay, so and you got the
Speaker 1: list in front of you. So what they were voting
Speaker 1: on yesterday or whatever day? Cedee Lamb spoke when something
Speaker 1: asked him about the scenarios of the playoffs, and he
Speaker 1: said them damn things stressed me out right. So I've
Speaker 1: got the list here. I started reading all the different
Speaker 1: things that they're supposed to vote on, and I thought
Speaker 1: I was back in high school physics class. That when
Speaker 1: I every day I left, I had a headache because
Speaker 1: I didn't understand physics. I thought I was going to
Speaker 1: be like a scientist, right. I love science. I used
Speaker 1: to participate in science fairs and things like that and
Speaker 1: you know, make a project or whatever. I started reading
Speaker 1: this stuff and it was like, Okay, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to help me. It's way too complicated. And when I
Speaker 1: got to the last one, just let me read this
Speaker 1: to you. It says here, in what scenario would the
Speaker 1: home team in a Bengals Ravens playoff game be determined
Speaker 1: by a coin flip? The Baldimar Ravens defeat the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals in Week eighteen, and the Ravens end up as
Speaker 1: the number six seed in the playoffs. However that scenario
Speaker 1: works out. In this scenario, the Bengals, as the AFC
Speaker 1: North champions, would hold the number three seed and would
Speaker 1: be scheduled to face the six seeded Ravens during Super
Speaker 1: Wildcard Weekend. The Ravens will have beaten the Bengals twice,
Speaker 1: but will still have a lower winning percentage because the
Speaker 1: Bengals will have only played sixteen games while the Ravens
Speaker 1: have played seventeen games. To try to solve this inequity,
Speaker 1: a coin flip would determine which team has old field advantage.
Speaker 1: In the event the Ravens win the coin toss and
Speaker 1: host the Bengals, Cincinnati would still have the number three
Speaker 1: seed and the Ravens would have the number six seed.
Speaker 1: How do they come up with all this stuff? The
Speaker 1: Ravens only end up as the number sixth seed in
Speaker 1: the scenario. If the Chargers also beat the Broncos in
Speaker 1: Week eighteen, the Charges would be the number five seeds. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: And then they went through all of the possibilities. Yes, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's official now. The NFL voters officially
Speaker 1: voted in the last hour here in favor of modifying
Speaker 1: the playoffs structure to account for the tiebreaker situation that
Speaker 1: could arise depending on the outcome of Sunday's games. All right,
Speaker 1: you want to briefly, I got, I got, give the highlights.
Speaker 1: According to NFL re search, and I think this is
Speaker 1: what they were planning. It says the Bengals, if clinched
Speaker 1: the AFC North Ravens cannot win the division. Okay, The
Speaker 1: Bengals can no longer obtain the AFC's number one seed
Speaker 1: and first round by the Chiefs clinched the number one
Speaker 1: seed with a win at the Raiders or a Bill's
Speaker 1: loss versus the Patriots. The Bills clinched the number one
Speaker 1: seed with a win versus the Patriots and a Chief's
Speaker 1: loss at the Raiders. Okay, that makes sense. The Bengals
Speaker 1: will finish as the number two seed with the win
Speaker 1: versus the Ravens and a Bill's loss to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: In any other scenario, the Bengals will earn the number
Speaker 1: three seed. So did they vote on this is exactly
Speaker 1: what they're going to do and go on winning percentages. Apparently,
Speaker 1: whatever the resolution was, they approved the resolution, So whatever
Speaker 1: you're reading there has approved. Now briefly here in scenario
Speaker 1: number one, just to Buffalo in Kansas City, if they
Speaker 1: both win or both tie this weekend, a Buffalo versus
Speaker 1: Kansas City championship game would be at a neutral site. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's scenario number one. Scenario number two, if Buffalo in
Speaker 1: Kansas City both lose, Baltimore wins or ties, a Buffalo
Speaker 1: versus Kansas City championship game would be at a neutral site.
Speaker 1: That's okay, okay, anyway, that's it's a neutral site if
Speaker 1: it's Buffalo versus Kansas City, and if so, the neutral
Speaker 1: site will have to be at a stadium that if Baltimore,
Speaker 1: If Baltimore defeats Cincinnati, and if those two clubs are
Speaker 1: scheduled to play a wild card game against one another,
Speaker 1: the site for that game would be determined by a
Speaker 1: coin toss. People in Cincinnati are upset, I would imagine, yeah,
Speaker 1: so because they because winning percentage wise, they have a
Speaker 1: better record than what Baltimore would have. Even if they
Speaker 1: lose to Baltimore and Baltimore has the has a head
Speaker 1: to head tiebreaker, well they're not tied because if you
Speaker 1: go by winning percentage, Cincinnati has the higher winning percent
Speaker 1: because they didn't play that one game. Because they didn't
Speaker 1: play the one game. So the team that wins the
Speaker 1: coin flip and they're going to find a neutral site,
Speaker 1: do they get to pick the neutral site? No, the
Speaker 1: coin flip is for home and a way I believe yeah,
Speaker 1: for Baltimore Cincinnati site for that game would be determined
Speaker 1: by a coin tis Cincinnati wins um anyway, the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Kansas City days the site because Buffalo beat Kansas City
Speaker 1: and if they would have won this weekend against excuse me,
Speaker 1: they would Buffo Buffalo beat Yeah, Buffalo beat Kansas ciety.
Speaker 1: If they would have beat Cincinnati this weekend, they would
Speaker 1: have had the number one seed in home field advantage.
Speaker 1: So they're saying that game, if it happens that way,
Speaker 1: would be in a neutral site. Correct, Ye, because that
Speaker 1: the extra game they did not play. Who picks the
Speaker 1: neutral site? The NFL? The NFL? Yeah, some of the
Speaker 1: some of the scenario that's a long way between Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Well no, but the scenarios were kind of like Indianapolis
Speaker 1: or like Detroit. It's got to be indoors, right, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not Detroit because Detroit is take is redoing their field. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Indianapolis probably, But they're also talking about all they're
Speaker 1: also talk being outdoor teams. That they might even select
Speaker 1: an outdoor stadium just because their their teams are built
Speaker 1: to play out Cleveland or whatever. Chicago. Yeah, so anyway,
Speaker 1: but someplace easy to get to regardless. That's what they're
Speaker 1: doing with that, which is different than what we had
Speaker 1: proposed earlier this week, which was just just go by anyway. Well,
Speaker 1: they had a better computer than we did. Well, the
Speaker 1: one thing they could not do was they could not
Speaker 1: resume the game. Yeah, it's It's that was impractical, right,
Speaker 1: If you're gonna delay playoffs and stuff like that, it
Speaker 1: just wasn't gonna happen. All right, let's dive into doubt
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Speaker 1: m Dallas versus Washington, the Cowboys and the Commanders. It
Speaker 1: is a three twenty five kickoff on Sunday and the
Speaker 1: scenario that the Cowboy fans need to be concerned with
Speaker 1: On Sunday, Cowboys win, Giants beat the Eagles. We'll take
Speaker 1: it as step farther. Cardinals beat the Niners. There's your
Speaker 1: dream weekend, right exactly. You may have taken it one
Speaker 1: step beyond our imagination, but you're exactly that happens. If
Speaker 1: that happens, the Cowboys not only win the division, have
Speaker 1: home field advantage, but also a first round by thanks
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals. In who are they starting a quarterback?
Speaker 1: That's right? Yeah, we're not holding out one. I think
Speaker 1: this is the third week he's been there. But strange,
Speaker 1: stranger things have happened. I can't think of one right
Speaker 1: off the top of my buzz. Why you play the game, right,
Speaker 1: that is why you play to beat Washington and not
Speaker 1: say oh, we gotta have rest. You know what, you've
Speaker 1: had ten days and and think about this, if they
Speaker 1: had gotten if they had got the buye, they would
Speaker 1: have another week of rest if you rested this week, right. Uh?
Speaker 1: So I think that their attitude. The players have said it.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said it, Uh, we're going to Washington to
Speaker 1: take care of our business. And Dak said, and you know,
Speaker 1: we can't worry about what's happening up north. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he meant up north, but I guess Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and the Giants is up north then out west. But
Speaker 1: I just think that's the way you got to play it.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can sit there and say now
Speaker 1: now we are have no interest in winning the game. Now.
Speaker 1: The other question that's come up, Bill is so are
Speaker 1: you going to be watching the scoreboard and if one
Speaker 1: of the teams is, you know, if the Eagles are
Speaker 1: blowing out the Giants, then do you pull your guys
Speaker 1: out of the game? Uh? And um, you know Jerry
Speaker 1: was talking about that and he said, we're not looking
Speaker 1: at scores of other games. You just don't do that.
Speaker 1: And McCarthy at least said, well, we got a lot
Speaker 1: of coaches at the game that can keep tract of
Speaker 1: what's going on up there, and it will be interesting
Speaker 1: to see if Jalen Hurts is ready to play. Now,
Speaker 1: everything they're saying up there is that you know he's
Speaker 1: looking better, but Sirianni always qualifies it and says, then
Speaker 1: we'll see. We got to see what happens on Friday
Speaker 1: in practice. If he's good to go, you would think
Speaker 1: he's going to play, even from the standpoint of even
Speaker 1: if they did not have any playoff ramifications from it,
Speaker 1: even if it were their fate was already sealed. Let's
Speaker 1: say they win the game, all right, he did not
Speaker 1: play against Dallas two weeks ago, he did not play
Speaker 1: last week, Okay, he wouldn't play this week, and then
Speaker 1: they would get the first round by next week and
Speaker 1: they will play again, right, and so it would be
Speaker 1: five weeks in between the last time he played in
Speaker 1: a game, which was against Chicago and whatever their first
Speaker 1: playoff game is, and so I think he could use
Speaker 1: just the work. So what they're doing kind of reflects
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys are doing now with Layton vander esh
Speaker 1: who they think is going to be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But he's practicing this week, not not in any physical
Speaker 1: but McCarthy said, we'll see how he does in seven
Speaker 1: on seven On Saturday yesterday when they were in pads,
Speaker 1: he was out there, but he didn't take part of
Speaker 1: any team stuff. But they wanted to get him back
Speaker 1: in rhythm, back you know, he's the play caller, and
Speaker 1: start doing all those things. So maybe they're doing that
Speaker 1: what hurts you know, they're showing that, okay in warmups
Speaker 1: he's throwing the ball and but what they can't, what
Speaker 1: they can't uh simulate, is what happens when he gets hit.
Speaker 1: You know, what happens when he falls on that shoulder,
Speaker 1: and so you know, you may be able to throw
Speaker 1: the ball um, but again, do you really want to
Speaker 1: risk that this week if you're kind of I don't know.
Speaker 1: So that's going to be a big decision for them,
Speaker 1: and that's why they head coach gets paid the big bucks.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Anyway, there's the scenario for the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: be looking at and pretty simple too. We could have
Speaker 1: explained at the CD. You know, it would have been
Speaker 1: it would have been nice if the Raiders would have
Speaker 1: taken care of some business last week and beating the
Speaker 1: Niners when they had an opportunity, and then you'd really
Speaker 1: be looking at it would be very simple, Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: and how to have I mean, to have the first
Speaker 1: round by would be and at home field advantage would be.
Speaker 1: They're still going to kick themselves in the for losing
Speaker 1: that season opener the way they did nineteen to three
Speaker 1: to a Tampa Bay team. Are they eight and eight
Speaker 1: right now? They're right at that. Yeah, we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a feeling. We're gonna be talking about him
Speaker 1: a lot next week. Yes, yes, and maybe we'll find
Speaker 1: that by virtue of that game they have to beat
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay now on the road road to get to
Speaker 1: it was home to open the season, and you didn't
Speaker 1: score a touchdown after leading the NFL last year in
Speaker 1: points scored and you were the number one offense. But
Speaker 1: and as we kind of reflect back on this season, right,
Speaker 1: what happened at the end of that game, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: getting hurt, as it turns out, set a tone for
Speaker 1: this season as Cooper Rush was next man up, right,
Speaker 1: and then what he did the next five games put
Speaker 1: them in a position to be where they are now.
Speaker 1: Without him, they may not be sitting here. We might
Speaker 1: not be we'd be in we'd be sitting there, were
Speaker 1: doing Washington right podcast right now, which is what about
Speaker 1: next year? Or are they'd be you know, vying for
Speaker 1: the number seven seed or something like that could very
Speaker 1: well be he won four games. If they don't win
Speaker 1: those four games, you know they're they're in jeopardy of
Speaker 1: being a wildcard team and you know, having to go
Speaker 1: down to the last game with the Giants probably to see, uh,
Speaker 1: you know who gets in. They would be in that
Speaker 1: three team scenario of Green Bay, Detroit, and Seattle that
Speaker 1: they're all in right now. Well, and you could compare
Speaker 1: it to Washington. Washington started the season one and four.
Speaker 1: Cowboys were looking at one and four basically is who
Speaker 1: were they playing the next week? Cincinnati? Everybody had them
Speaker 1: losing that day. Everybody had they were going at the Giants.
Speaker 1: And then the Giants turned out to be a playoff team, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: they won that game, and then two weeks after that
Speaker 1: they were having to play the defending Super Bowl champions. Well,
Speaker 1: and in between it was a game against Washington a win,
Speaker 1: and then it was at the Rams, yeah, and then
Speaker 1: at Philadelphia. So they were looking at what maybe one
Speaker 1: and four two, And turns out they won all four
Speaker 1: of those games and four and one going to Philadelphia yea,
Speaker 1: which was the polar opposite of what Washington was at
Speaker 1: that point in the season one and four. Now Washington
Speaker 1: got it back together the next seven games. They won
Speaker 1: six of their next seven. But here lately they've lost
Speaker 1: three straight and had a tie right before that, which
Speaker 1: put them out of the playoffs. So Cooper Rush MVP
Speaker 1: and then what the Cowboys have done since that came
Speaker 1: back has been pretty remarkable. Offensively, Yeah, no, the amount
Speaker 1: of points they've scored. Everybody's quick to point out the interceptions,
Speaker 1: the fact that they have have you know, after that
Speaker 1: Detroit game, I think it's thirty six points a game
Speaker 1: despite the interceptions. That tells you how good they are
Speaker 1: offensive of If they don't turn the ball over, if
Speaker 1: they don't drop passes the interceptions, if they don't run
Speaker 1: bad routes into interceptions, this team would would have been
Speaker 1: scoring forty points a game. Think about that, and and
Speaker 1: but that gets overlooked. And I understand that the turnovers
Speaker 1: they're they're huge, and especially when you're gonna be playing
Speaker 1: better teams, But that hasn't stopped them yet. They've been
Speaker 1: that good offensively. That's why, you know, what you hate
Speaker 1: to see is having to make changes on that offensive line,
Speaker 1: because that offensive line without tying Smith, by the way,
Speaker 1: has been awfully, awfully good, you know. And I remember
Speaker 1: when you know Jerry was saying, well, yeah, we get
Speaker 1: tiring back in mid December, and everybody's like rolling their eyes.
Speaker 1: He's not coming back. He had surgery to repair a
Speaker 1: torn tendon off the hamstring to the knee or whatever
Speaker 1: it was. And now here he's back. And it's a
Speaker 1: god sin because now they got him at right tackle
Speaker 1: because they lost Terren Steele. If they hadn't lost Terren
Speaker 1: Steele and they lost beyondis it Wou'd have been very simple, right,
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith goes plays left tackle, McGovern goes play center,
Speaker 1: and Tyler Smith goes in and plays left guard. But
Speaker 1: that ain't the situation they're facing right now. Okay, when
Speaker 1: you look at the commander's practice report and you touched
Speaker 1: on it yesterday before yesterday's practice report came out, and
Speaker 1: worst didn't it? Well, yeah, and so there were how
Speaker 1: many dnps the first day one, two, three, eleven, six, seven, okay,
Speaker 1: So eleven dnps and then on Thursday they added another
Speaker 1: one due to illness, Nathan Gary. But how many you
Speaker 1: counting up there? And they got ten and they put
Speaker 1: one of the guys that dnpe Antonio Gibson on IR
Speaker 1: and IR and then Montez Sweat went to full. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I was talking on the radio with Kevin from
Speaker 1: DC and he said, he said that these these injuries,
Speaker 1: they're legitimate, they're not so the So the ones who
Speaker 1: have been did not participate the last two days likely
Speaker 1: are not going to play in this That's what he said. Okay,
Speaker 1: So running down that list, Jonathan Allen, two time Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl defensive tackle, he's been out too, I think. Well,
Speaker 1: he played seventeen snaps last week, alright, so apparently he
Speaker 1: got hurt last week's game because he didn't have his
Speaker 1: full number of plays. Jam And Davis linebacker as a
Speaker 1: starter Cam Curl safety. We mentioned Gibson who didn't play
Speaker 1: last week on IR. Now, Andrew norwell starting guard is out,
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson, and they have not officially declared them out yet,
Speaker 1: but these are ones who have not practiced this week.
Speaker 1: Andrew Norwell's starting guard, Brian Robinson, who was the starting
Speaker 1: running back for much of this season after coming back
Speaker 1: from his gunshot in the preseason. You mentioned Cornelius Lucas.
Speaker 1: I have not yet, Jim, I have not starting right tackle. Yep,
Speaker 1: piece he in fact, he got hurt last week. He
Speaker 1: had forty two snaps last week, so he's starting right tackle.
Speaker 1: He's another one. So there's two starting offensive linemen that
Speaker 1: there will be missing in all likelihood. And now they're
Speaker 1: down to their third running back with Gibson and Brian
Speaker 1: Robinson out, and of course most importantly, they are starting
Speaker 1: the rookie Sam Howe at quarterback right and one of
Speaker 1: their starting corners. How do you say it is a
Speaker 1: Juice just Saint Benjamin's Saint Juice. Saint Juice is DNP
Speaker 1: these last couple of days with an ankle um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they're kind of beat up. And but Saint
Speaker 1: Juice didn't play last week, so they've been they've been
Speaker 1: going without him, at least he didn't play last week.
Speaker 1: So anyway, and you mentioned one of their uh Monte
Speaker 1: sweat though league he was full participating yesterday. Okay, the
Speaker 1: handful for the Cowboys though, as far as the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense goes. They Durn Payne, defensive tackle, has eleven and
Speaker 1: a half sacks this season, and Montes Sweat, who now
Speaker 1: has a full participant in practice yesterday, has eight sacks
Speaker 1: on the season. They also have Chase Young back here.
Speaker 1: The last couple of games, was that the guy was
Speaker 1: it m Payne that I peeked in on when you
Speaker 1: were getting ready to do the Mike McCarthy Show with
Speaker 1: Will McClay. Was that where I saw the highlights of
Speaker 1: this guy? Yes, yeah, oh my, yeah. He's an another
Speaker 1: Alabama guy. Durn Payne and Jonathan Allen, their two interior
Speaker 1: defensive tackles are both from Alabama and Payne eleven and
Speaker 1: a half sacks season. This is his contract here, so
Speaker 1: he's about to go on the market. And I mentioned
Speaker 1: I said to Will McClay, I said, he picked a
Speaker 1: good year to have eleven and a half sacks. He's mean,
Speaker 1: he was Reggie whiting those guys on those highlights, just
Speaker 1: one arm and throwing guys to the side. And the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to be changing up what they have
Speaker 1: inside with we're assuming Connor McGovern at center and Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith moving back to guard. Uh yeah, that guy's a load.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's not a cakewalk. Even though they've got
Speaker 1: all these injuries and they've lost, you know, they haven't
Speaker 1: won a game. And last four it is it hard
Speaker 1: at all from the Cowboys perspective um, getting ready to
Speaker 1: play against a team that is out of it. I mean, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: it always is, don't you remember? And and and because
Speaker 1: this is the second straight week because Tennessee they weren't
Speaker 1: out of it, but they weren't playing I mean, they
Speaker 1: weren't playing any because in that game did not matter
Speaker 1: to them last week, And and and think about it.
Speaker 1: And McCarthy was asked the question that when you're playing
Speaker 1: a team that has nothing to play for, are they
Speaker 1: more dangerous? And are they more aggressive? And he goes, well,
Speaker 1: he goes, Ron Rivera offensively has always been aggressive. Jack
Speaker 1: del Rio, the defensive coordinator, has always been aggressive. And
Speaker 1: now you have to look at it. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's a four down series, right, just go for
Speaker 1: it on fourth down. Ain't got nothing to lose. Fake punts,
Speaker 1: squib kicks. All right, here's here's a trick play look
Speaker 1: out for. Yeah, if Washington score, if it's a two
Speaker 1: point conversion situation or even a fourth and one or whatever.
Speaker 1: Did my research on Sam Howe. Okay, when he's at
Speaker 1: North Carolina and the Military Bowl, he caught a touchdown pass.
Speaker 1: Oh really, Philly Special, Philly Special touchdown pass to Sam Howe.
Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind on Sunday. I would
Speaker 1: not at all be surprised if they got into that situation,
Speaker 1: if they would run they Filly Special to Sam how
Speaker 1: And they're probably before and it worked, and they're probably
Speaker 1: not hesitant to use him as a running quarterback, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, what do they got to live in the preseason?
Speaker 1: You look back at his preseason tape and he ran
Speaker 1: for a touchdown in one of the preseason game, at
Speaker 1: least one touchdown that I saw. And so the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have spent a lot of time this week just studying
Speaker 1: what he did in the preseason with Washington this year
Speaker 1: and looking at a lot of North Carolina film. Whereas
Speaker 1: Bill pointed out the other day, he ran for one
Speaker 1: hundred and twelve yards eight hundred and twelve yards his
Speaker 1: last year there, and eleven touchdowns. Right, And I was
Speaker 1: when I was doing a deal in DC this morning,
Speaker 1: they pointed out that, well, the year before they had
Speaker 1: two one thousand yard rushers and they moved on and
Speaker 1: they were having trouble running the ball, so they just said, okay,
Speaker 1: Sam take off and long ago was the offensive Quardner.
Speaker 1: Maybe get the story right, but but yeah, now you
Speaker 1: got to worry about a running quarterback, and that gives
Speaker 1: them an extra blocker. It gives you another dimension that
Speaker 1: you have to worry about. So yeah, you better not
Speaker 1: go up there and just take this thing for granted,
Speaker 1: because you may. All those scenarios don't work unless the
Speaker 1: Cowboys win. All right, when we come back here on
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Speaker 1: And you know what the commanders are doing. They pick
Speaker 1: this game for this opportunity to retire a jersey. Sonny
Speaker 1: Jurgensen's number nine will be retired on Sunday as the
Speaker 1: Cowboys come to town on Rivalry weekend. Did you write
Speaker 1: about Sonny Jurgensen in your book. I'm sure we did.
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Famer, five time pro bowler, one
Speaker 1: of the one hundred and seventy people in the Washington
Speaker 1: Ring of Fame. That I'm right. I'm sure my cohorts
Speaker 1: in writing the book took care of the Sonny Jurgison
Speaker 1: angle eighteen seasons in the NFL, eleven as the quarterback
Speaker 1: in Washington. Sonny Jurgensen, a long time member of their broadcast,
Speaker 1: say he's not still doing radio, is he? I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what's what's going on with the Lizzie because he
Speaker 1: had been. I wonder if they list that in their
Speaker 1: media thing here. I'm not sure, but anyway, that's what's
Speaker 1: gonna go on in addition to the game, I think he.
Speaker 1: I think it says here the host of the radio
Speaker 1: network is Julie Donaldson, play by play is Bram Weinstein,
Speaker 1: and analysts is London Fletcher. So you got a host,
Speaker 1: a play by play in an analyst. How does that work?
Speaker 1: That's on their radio broadcast? What it says right game.
Speaker 1: This is the first time we've ever run down the
Speaker 1: but it will be the number radio team, the number
Speaker 1: one to get you ready for the game, the number
Speaker 1: one broadcast crew for Fox since we brought up Sonny
Speaker 1: Jourgensen and then number nine. Let me just go ahead
Speaker 1: and kick off the picks to click. There. Should I
Speaker 1: do that? Yeah? Go ahead. Everson accused me of using
Speaker 1: gimmicks for my peace to click. Here's my gimmick this week,
Speaker 1: number nine, my pick to click. It's time, it's Turpin time.
Speaker 1: It's time for Cavanta to take one to the house.
Speaker 1: Don't you think he's a Pro Bowl kick returner? Right? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: If you're a Pro Bowl kick returner, you take one
Speaker 1: to the house, right And he did it in the preseason,
Speaker 1: not once, but twice in one game. So as Washington
Speaker 1: retires the number nine, the Cowboys number nine, Cavante Turpin
Speaker 1: not once but twice takes it to the house. And
Speaker 1: in honor of his alma mater, his alma mater TCU
Speaker 1: playing in the National Championship game on Monday, in the
Speaker 1: same stadium that Cavante Turpin had a punt return and
Speaker 1: a kickoff return for a touchdown in the preseason playing
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboy I like it, so there it is.
Speaker 1: I wish Efferson was here for my gimmicky pick this week,
Speaker 1: But you wait until it comes true. On Sunday and
Speaker 1: you can replay this. I wrote down my score and
Speaker 1: my pick for the click and I can't find it,
Speaker 1: but I remember after regard to rely on memory. There,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll give you time to think about what's
Speaker 1: what's so? Then, well, I didn't give my score. Okay, Oh,
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to use a nine again.
Speaker 1: Did you fill up your lawnmower this week? Yeah, don't
Speaker 1: have to bowl the line this time of the year,
Speaker 1: young producer supreme Um. But along those lines, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with a lower scoring game than normal, okay for
Speaker 1: this Cowboys team in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys win by