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Speaker 1: It is Friday, number eight, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number seventy eight. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are locking SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. It's
Speaker 1: our opportunity to get you guys ready for the upcoming game.
Speaker 1: Cowboys to play the Vikings this Sunday. It is a
Speaker 1: Sunday night football game. And by the end of this show,
Speaker 1: you guys will know exactly what's gonna happen, because these
Speaker 1: guys are going to tell you exactly what's going to
Speaker 1: happen this Sunday. Let's start first by talking about some injuries.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about. Amari Cooper had an MRI.
Speaker 1: What are the results and what you we expect from
Speaker 1: him this weekend? The results, actually, nobody knows what the
Speaker 1: results are because Amari himself said he forgot he just
Speaker 1: said he had forgot the results. He was basically like,
Speaker 1: all that's really complicated, which I sort of get because
Speaker 1: you're like, well it was negative positive, like his positive
Speaker 1: positive is bad and negative is good. You know, like
Speaker 1: it is kind of confusing. He literally said, he asked
Speaker 1: the doctors is it manageable? Can I play through it?
Speaker 1: And they were like yeah. He was like, cool, then
Speaker 1: let's do it. All right, let's five fifty. That's when, well,
Speaker 1: that's when the inactives come out, and I would imagine
Speaker 1: it'll be all the way through that. You know that
Speaker 1: he'll be out there and try to give it a
Speaker 1: go and see how much, because he said he can
Speaker 1: try to manage it, and that's managing is the pain.
Speaker 1: So you know you're gonna hear a report that says
Speaker 1: he's not playing. Probably you can hear report that says
Speaker 1: he is playing. You know, he was out there. He
Speaker 1: was out there this morning. I hesitate to say he
Speaker 1: like practiced, because first of all, we only see fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: and second of all, he didn't put on a helmet
Speaker 1: during that stretch. He was you know that he was
Speaker 1: working with Britt Brown, the rehab director, doing stretching and
Speaker 1: getting himself right, and Brett Besh was helping him stretch
Speaker 1: his hamstrings out. I didn't see him do anything football
Speaker 1: related in the twenty minutes we were there, so, but
Speaker 1: he was out there, so I assume that means he's
Speaker 1: going to try something when you know practice is going
Speaker 1: on right now, Hopefully he's doing something. Was definitely not
Speaker 1: making the same mistake in the game against the Jets
Speaker 1: when you chose to keep the receivers that you did
Speaker 1: and not make somebody else. Yeah, I have that reaching
Speaker 1: down as a part of inactives. But I guess that's
Speaker 1: the point I was going to make too before we
Speaker 1: get to inactives, is you look at this, and there
Speaker 1: have been two games now where he's kind of felt injury,
Speaker 1: felt injured at the early parts of the game. One
Speaker 1: he was able to play, one he wasn't. So regardless
Speaker 1: of how he plays or how he looks or feels
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the game, that might not also
Speaker 1: be the dictator of how much he's going to play.
Speaker 1: If he gets into the game and immediately something happens
Speaker 1: to where it just seems like this is not this
Speaker 1: is not a for sure thing. One way or my
Speaker 1: depth is going to be limited somehow, someway, I'm going
Speaker 1: some other position is gonna get cut because of this
Speaker 1: week because I need my best route runner, whoever that
Speaker 1: is between Devin Smith and Cedric Wilson to be active
Speaker 1: for this game. Okay, and you have to cut cut
Speaker 1: down another position, not cut No, yeah, until six we're
Speaker 1: cutting somebody. Yeah, I hear you. Okay, so so real quick,
Speaker 1: let's just catch up on a couple other injured injured guys.
Speaker 1: There were several guys that were limited. Cam Fleming still
Speaker 1: has not practiced. My assumption he's definitely going to be out.
Speaker 1: But Nick jokes about it, but like, yeah, calf injuries
Speaker 1: must suck. I mean it, he knows. Yeah, well, you
Speaker 1: know they suck when you don't rehab it at all.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, no offense to Nick, but you
Speaker 1: no offense to Nick, but you would have thought like
Speaker 1: a pro football player with access to all this stuff,
Speaker 1: like I Yeah, I don't want to say I'm surprised
Speaker 1: he's not out there, but clearly it is. It's it's
Speaker 1: a big thing for him to get back from. Well,
Speaker 1: mine has been two weeks ago. Mine has been five months,
Speaker 1: and I still feel it now now you're forty plus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: little limited, yeah, a little limited on no doubt, not
Speaker 1: like a non athlete, right, yeah, I mean so it's
Speaker 1: a little different. But yeah, but brit and Jim both
Speaker 1: said I could go in there and do something. I
Speaker 1: forgot what it was called, but something No, no, I
Speaker 1: forgot exactly what it was, but basically just kind of
Speaker 1: like drains out, you know, the swelling and stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what a rain out. Oh no, no, kay Camplin,
Speaker 1: he's been doing that. I'm sure it's just it takes
Speaker 1: a little bit. He's out, He's he's not playing this week,
Speaker 1: all right. So I'm just saying that. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like the typically you're like guessing, like, well, he was limited,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? Like, No, this is Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: and he's in. So let's talk about these limited guys.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about jeff Eith and Layton Vandersh,
Speaker 1: particularly because I think the other guys Lyle Colin, Shawn Lee,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, Tyren Smith, it seems like these are just
Speaker 1: kind of things that are gonna be around for them.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about those other two though, jeff Eth and
Speaker 1: Layton vender vanderesh j I mean, Jerry said on the
Speaker 1: radio today on on the Fan that he expects him
Speaker 1: to be out there and ready to go, and I
Speaker 1: think Jeff Heath is the same. He's been practicing all week.
Speaker 1: He was, I mean, he was all trees on the knee. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that's interesting when you think about it, because
Speaker 1: it's not it's not your head, it's not your thigh,
Speaker 1: it's a it's ben Benz. That's exactly right and feel good.
Speaker 1: So when you talk about stitches, that's where you start wondering,
Speaker 1: like is it I would think mentally, I'm all, I
Speaker 1: would always be thinking he's gonna break, Like is a
Speaker 1: stitch gonna break? Because I'm constantly having to move You
Speaker 1: don't want to move it because I got stitches there, right,
Speaker 1: So kirs were going to be running up to it
Speaker 1: and stitch it. Yeah, But I wonder if mentally though, yeah,
Speaker 1: he had the bloody suck. Okay, even Derek knows that
Speaker 1: I'm for what team phill Oh my god, he did
Speaker 1: pitch for Philly? He did? When did that happen? He was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, and I take it, um, But
Speaker 1: what I've seen some people on Twitter be excited about
Speaker 1: poor Jeff Heath getting injured and the possibility of seeing
Speaker 1: more of Darien Thompson. Do you guys really think that
Speaker 1: Darien Thompson could be noticeably better? Was better last week? Okay? Okay,
Speaker 1: but he made some plays last week. I think he's better.
Speaker 1: I do too. I kind of think he is better.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you have a good game and that's
Speaker 1: that you could be. You could be two weeks from now,
Speaker 1: and let's say Darien Thompson played all those games, and
Speaker 1: you're right, we might be talking about him the same
Speaker 1: way that we've talked about Jeff Heath when he's had
Speaker 1: bad moments, right, I mean, that could happen. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: in that one game sample size, I thought Darien Thompson
Speaker 1: played really well. I think he did too. But I
Speaker 1: think that's a classic case of like small sample size bias,
Speaker 1: Like what did what did Darien Thompson do that was
Speaker 1: great besides fall on a fumble which he gets kind
Speaker 1: of work that. So what is Jeff Heath's best quality?
Speaker 1: He's around the ball like he does stuff like that time.
Speaker 1: So a fumble for me doesn't convince me that he's
Speaker 1: better than Jeff Heath. But also there was another play.
Speaker 1: There was another play on the goal line where they
Speaker 1: stopped him for like a two yard loss. He was
Speaker 1: the guy darting in there. Nothing that is not a
Speaker 1: playoff he and he actually did that against the Dolphins too.
Speaker 1: He was in on a play like that, but not
Speaker 1: bad okay, But and it puts Jeff Heath in his
Speaker 1: best position, which is full time on special teams player
Speaker 1: and then a nickel dime player on. So do you
Speaker 1: think Darien starts this week? I think Keith will be
Speaker 1: active if he If he is active, I don't think
Speaker 1: this coaching staff doesn't make him the starter. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: kind of agree. I don't think Darien Thompson did enough
Speaker 1: to where they have to do that, And I don't
Speaker 1: think if they have to do that, they would. I mean, again,
Speaker 1: we know how much they value veterans. They value their veterans,
Speaker 1: and it takes a lot. It takes a guy really
Speaker 1: playing his butt off for them to feel like they
Speaker 1: have to not make the move. But I think I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any way that he's not the starter. Okay.
Speaker 1: But I will also say this about a safety. Sometimes
Speaker 1: with a safety, when you finished watching a game, if
Speaker 1: you haven't seem like you haven't heard their name. Sometimes
Speaker 1: that's as much of a thing that they had a
Speaker 1: great games as seeing some of those plays. Because think
Speaker 1: about when we when we typically have a problem with
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath, it's because he missed an angle and didn't
Speaker 1: get a tackle, he missed a tackle, he missed an assignment,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's it's it ends up being a
Speaker 1: really big play. So if you're not giving up those
Speaker 1: kinds of things, then you're doing what you should be
Speaker 1: doing as a safety. Safety is are just like offensive lineman. Um,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's interesting. I don't I mean no, Jeff
Speaker 1: heats tough as nails like he I mean, if he
Speaker 1: can move his leg, he's gonna play. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you're right, Like if he's healthy enough to be active,
Speaker 1: then he'll probably start. I do like having Darian Thompson available.
Speaker 1: The interesting thing will be is, even though I believe
Speaker 1: Jeff will start, how much do they start mixing those
Speaker 1: guys in and out. Do we start seeing Darian Thompson
Speaker 1: out there a little bit more? That can be a
Speaker 1: significant thing. And certainly when you go into this offseason,
Speaker 1: you think about what can happen next year. We could
Speaker 1: start seeing some of that this year. I think, all right,
Speaker 1: let's based on that. Then let's get to the inactives.
Speaker 1: We've said cam Fleming's definitely out. My assumption is Redmond, Gifford, Jackson,
Speaker 1: and Hill will also be out. They get you to five, right,
Speaker 1: who the last two? Because last week he had Devin
Speaker 1: Smith and Cedric Wilson. You guys just talk about the
Speaker 1: receiver position. You don't feel comfortable with both those guys
Speaker 1: being inactive the presumption one of them would be I
Speaker 1: would think who would you keep? Who would you keep him? Well,
Speaker 1: let's throw this, just throw this out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're going to have a better feel on it too.
Speaker 1: So if they feel confident about Cooper, you could sit
Speaker 1: them both. Like remember it really bit them against the
Speaker 1: Jets because Cobb wasn't playing either. Cobb's fine, So they
Speaker 1: could sit Smith and Wilson if they want to. Do
Speaker 1: you feel comfortable with that? No? All right? I would
Speaker 1: I would bring up Devin Smith. He's like more valuable
Speaker 1: as like an ex slash downfield receiver than than Wilson.
Speaker 1: The questions versatile, feel that a little better you do
Speaker 1: have cob and if something happens to Cooper or any
Speaker 1: of the receivers. How much of a difference is it
Speaker 1: between Ventel Bryant and the you know, the best guy
Speaker 1: you've got Smith or Wilson. I've never seen Ventel Bryant
Speaker 1: do anything actually wide receiver Like he was on the
Speaker 1: field of the Jets game in the goal line. He
Speaker 1: had to go out there and they didn't throw it
Speaker 1: to him, of course, Okay, but I mean I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: is it worth I mean, is it worth just keeping
Speaker 1: him out? You do have that receiver out there, so
Speaker 1: maybe they don't put another guy up and just say yeah.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if they put him both down.
Speaker 1: They've I mean not saying I agree with it, but
Speaker 1: that wouldn't surprise me. I think a spot you have
Speaker 1: to consider at some point. I don't know if this
Speaker 1: coach of staff will do it. But Dalton Schultz hasn't
Speaker 1: given you anything anywhere. He's not giving you any thing.
Speaker 1: One forgetting about him. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's not good
Speaker 1: at all. He's not He's not providing anything on offense
Speaker 1: at all. I think he played one snap last week
Speaker 1: and then on special teams. Um, he gave up a
Speaker 1: play down the field that Paulard got tackled and he
Speaker 1: just missed his block. He's not on a lot of
Speaker 1: special teams positions or you know, teams, so you know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't never he hasn't never really done anything. You
Speaker 1: think they were doing any Yeah, I don't, But I
Speaker 1: was told today that very few teams, just a handful
Speaker 1: of teams dress eight linemen and three tight ends. It's
Speaker 1: just they just don't. They don't usually do eleven. That's
Speaker 1: a really good point because like I'm sitting here thinking like, well,
Speaker 1: if something happens to Jarwin or Witten, you need that
Speaker 1: third tight end or you'd probably like to have one.
Speaker 1: But I mean, Joe Looney money can go in there
Speaker 1: and do it. And by the way, right now, they're
Speaker 1: doing twenty one personnel as much as they're done twelve
Speaker 1: personnel or thirteen personnel, and they're not doing a lot
Speaker 1: of what do we all? I'll agree that that seems unlikely.
Speaker 1: It does. Yeah, I think it's worth I met Schultz
Speaker 1: was out there. Yeah, I mean, yeah, he's out there,
Speaker 1: But was he on the teams that are going to play?
Speaker 1: You know what? I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: this is a game where I'd love to see said
Speaker 1: I'd love to see Devin Smith active, because I do
Speaker 1: think this is a game where they're going to probably
Speaker 1: have some challenges stopping trying to run the ball. This
Speaker 1: is a really good front and your best option maybe
Speaker 1: to throw the ball, and way one way to loosen
Speaker 1: it up a bit is to get down feel so
Speaker 1: about that. I actually for the purposes of protecting myself
Speaker 1: with Cooper, but also for the purposes of just giving
Speaker 1: me another weapon to use. Maybe down Phil, I think
Speaker 1: i'd rather I'd like to see him out there this week.
Speaker 1: I think if they so, they'll either sit both of
Speaker 1: those receivers or they'll bring one up, and then I
Speaker 1: would think your seventh and active would be Donovan Wilson
Speaker 1: in that scenario. Safety Yep, all right, let's take our
Speaker 1: first break. When we come back, we will get into
Speaker 1: a couple of questions I have for these guys. We'll
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Speaker 1: a couple of questions for you guys before we get
Speaker 1: to some phone calls. I remember you guys can call
Speaker 1: us eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven.
Speaker 1: I was looking at the numbers of the kicker. We
Speaker 1: talk about the offense and the defense through extensively on
Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday every week, but this week I thought
Speaker 1: it's interesting when you look at these kickers. Dan Bailey
Speaker 1: obviously was with the Cowboys for many years. Cowboys cut
Speaker 1: him heading into last season. Didn't really have a great
Speaker 1: year last year, but this year kicking pretty well. Right now,
Speaker 1: he's ranked ranked eleven among kickers as far as his
Speaker 1: field goal percentage. He is eighty seven percent overall, so
Speaker 1: only to missus King between forty and forty nine, which
Speaker 1: is okay, three to five, he's three or five in
Speaker 1: that range. All the others he's he's been perfect. Brett Maher,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, for the Cowboys seventy two percent.
Speaker 1: He is now ranked twenty seventh in the NFL. He's
Speaker 1: missed one at the thirty to thirty nine range, and
Speaker 1: then he's four of seven fifty plus, which again that's
Speaker 1: very very okay. Fifty pluses is never going to be
Speaker 1: a gimme that. All being said, you have to also
Speaker 1: throw in the fact that we were the amounts of
Speaker 1: attempts for each of them. Both of them have attempted.
Speaker 1: Thought Bailey kicked fifteen and Maher kicked eighteen, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that. They were played thirteen thirteen and then
Speaker 1: an extra points. This was something that was really interesting.
Speaker 1: Brett Mayer has been perfect and extra points twenty six
Speaker 1: of twenty six. Bailey has been twenty five or twenty seven.
Speaker 1: He has missed two extra points. My question for you guys,
Speaker 1: I know that most of you, if not all of you,
Speaker 1: were really surprised when the Cowboys made the movie that
Speaker 1: they made heading into the season last year, do you
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys should have been more patient with Dan Bailey? No,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm surprised at the time he caught us
Speaker 1: off garden, and we were surprised for different reasons because
Speaker 1: he's spend a whole on the training camp and watching
Speaker 1: practice and kind of all felt like we kind of
Speaker 1: not got burned by them, but just kind of got
Speaker 1: burned by and not, well, you didn't. They didn't even
Speaker 1: allow him to get in those preseason games, and well
Speaker 1: did he that. You're right, but I get crazing is
Speaker 1: a little weird because from what I've been told and
Speaker 1: I think we've all kind of been told, is Dan
Speaker 1: didn't really want some of that that competition. Dan didn't
Speaker 1: want some kicks if it's not the holder and snapper
Speaker 1: that he wanted, so he didn't really want to compet.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, it's not up to you. Like, if
Speaker 1: I'm your coach and I'm telling you go out there
Speaker 1: and kick the ball, you go out there and kick
Speaker 1: the ball. That's as simple as that. It's very simple.
Speaker 1: I mean, especially when you had the second half of
Speaker 1: the season that he had where he was struggling and
Speaker 1: coming back from that injury. I mean, it's not up
Speaker 1: to you. You go out I get it that you
Speaker 1: let me have somebody and my guy holding the ball
Speaker 1: here that I've trusted for all these years. No, no, Like, well,
Speaker 1: but here's the deal. You're right. But ultimately, if they
Speaker 1: didn't make him go out there and kick, he was
Speaker 1: still held accountable for not wanting to kick, because they
Speaker 1: ended up making the move right. So you can either
Speaker 1: go kick under whatever circumstances, or it's gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: be judged by the fact that you were unwilling to
Speaker 1: kick in some of those circumstances. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't really think the fact that like they didn't they
Speaker 1: didn't cut Dan because he like just severely dropped off
Speaker 1: in his ability to kick. He lost the confidence of
Speaker 1: the coaching staff for whatever. Well for that reason, I mean,
Speaker 1: like he I don't know, for lack of a better word,
Speaker 1: Like what we've heard is that he was like squeamish
Speaker 1: about it, basically, like and I totally understand why that
Speaker 1: would scare a coaching staff, Like if you think your
Speaker 1: kickers like afraid, that's not that for animality that you
Speaker 1: just said it works on just about every position. Go
Speaker 1: out there and play linebacker and make the play, but
Speaker 1: mentally as a kicker, they're trying to massage that at
Speaker 1: the same time. And then let's not let's not forget
Speaker 1: that money is always a factor here and it was
Speaker 1: there three million or five hundred thousand, So all right,
Speaker 1: yes or no? Did they did they make a mistake?
Speaker 1: That's what you're asking they make a mistake? A mistake
Speaker 1: they didn't because Dan was terrible last year too. And
Speaker 1: that's the part, like I go back to his even
Speaker 1: if you play it, play it through and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: let him continue to be their kicker last year. He
Speaker 1: was not very good last year, and I think by
Speaker 1: the end of the season Cowboys have been like, that's
Speaker 1: two straight years. We got to make a move. So
Speaker 1: they still would have made the decision that they ended
Speaker 1: up making. They just made it. At The other thing, too,
Speaker 1: is like this is a long trend in football. I
Speaker 1: like a kid, like you could have a great kicker,
Speaker 1: he loses it, he gets cut, he goes somewhere else
Speaker 1: and kind of you know, the change of scenery. It's
Speaker 1: so it's such a mental position, like the change of scenery,
Speaker 1: the change of people that you're working with, new relationships.
Speaker 1: I think you know. Howska is a name that comes
Speaker 1: to mind, Like he was great in Seattle for so long,
Speaker 1: got cut, fell out of favor, and went and succeeded
Speaker 1: with the Bills and a couple of other places. Robbie gold, Um,
Speaker 1: who's the guy that was in Philly forever? That's gonna
Speaker 1: drive me crazy? Same thing Acres. Yeah, they cut him
Speaker 1: and he went on and had second life in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: It's just a thing that happens. So he still is
Speaker 1: an Eagle because he went out there and tried to
Speaker 1: punk the cowboy. He did He'd sounded like a twelve
Speaker 1: year old boy when he did it, but he did
Speaker 1: maybe try. But yeah, I mean no, Terry, I was
Speaker 1: hurt by it. I guess it's we know you still
Speaker 1: have this poster. I don't know. I I moved on.
Speaker 1: I replaced it with this year's schedule, so he's no
Speaker 1: longer part of I think I'm over it. It was
Speaker 1: a breakup that lasted a while, but I'm over it.
Speaker 1: It was just one unexpected and two Obviously I wasn't
Speaker 1: part of those conversations that they were having. I don't
Speaker 1: know how he was behaving or responding to everything, but
Speaker 1: my from the things I did get to see, what
Speaker 1: bothered me was the fact that we didn't really get
Speaker 1: to see anything as far as giving him a chance.
Speaker 1: But like Nick was Stongamo, did he want to get
Speaker 1: that chance? That's the question? You know what? It sorry,
Speaker 1: you know what? It actually reminds me of thinking about it.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of when they cut where it is
Speaker 1: like he's one of the best to ever do it
Speaker 1: at his position. It's disappointing that it had to be done.
Speaker 1: It was probably for the best. Sucks to go see
Speaker 1: him succeed. I'm not sure, Like where wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: the guy he was in Denver. Here he didn't have
Speaker 1: the help well they but not only that they used
Speaker 1: him differently. He wasn't there every day. Now, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He needed to be on a line with
Speaker 1: a guy like von Miller to kind of free him
Speaker 1: up and not be the focal point of the pass rush.
Speaker 1: So you see him get thirty sacks and three years
Speaker 1: with Denver and you're like, damn, the Cowboys screwed up?
Speaker 1: Or did they? Because like you're taking that cap hit
Speaker 1: and I don't think he would have produced like that here,
Speaker 1: So it's disappointing, but I don't necessarily think they played
Speaker 1: it the wrong way. And I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: similar with Bailey yea, and I think everybody wants him
Speaker 1: to do well up for Sunday. You know, he can
Speaker 1: chank a couple and he'll be fine if that happens.
Speaker 1: And felt like him. Everyone likes good guy. The fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is you look at Mars numbers and I,
Speaker 1: as I was going through this and really paying attention
Speaker 1: to them, he's actually had a really good year. And
Speaker 1: the reason why I say that his percentage seems down
Speaker 1: at seventy two, twenty seventh in the league. The issue
Speaker 1: is three of his miss three of the four misses
Speaker 1: he has right now are fifty plus may and that
Speaker 1: means they have a lot of confidence in him to
Speaker 1: make those. They are not afraid to throw him out
Speaker 1: there on the forty yard line. But that's not a gimme,
Speaker 1: and so for anybody to hold that against him, especially
Speaker 1: when he's converted to sixty plus yarders, it's almost like
Speaker 1: you looked at as a washing. My opinion he's only
Speaker 1: had one mississ year that I look at him like,
Speaker 1: you should have made that job. That's pretty good. Last
Speaker 1: night's game, yes, part of you know, the missed extra
Speaker 1: point that was big for the Raiders, you know, and Besacia,
Speaker 1: I'm lost his mind or Gurdon lost his mind, Onscia.
Speaker 1: But you know, you get to the Okay, it gives
Speaker 1: the Chargers a chance. Ball's the twenty five yard line.
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't do anything. But if you're the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: You're like, we gotta get to the forty five yard line.
Speaker 1: We gotta get to the forty five yard line for
Speaker 1: a sixty two yard attempt, you know, still low percentage,
Speaker 1: but he can make a sixty two maybe even further
Speaker 1: than Yeah, And so that is a weapon that it
Speaker 1: is a weapon before end of the game, into the half.
Speaker 1: To get to that point in the field, that's not
Speaker 1: something that you have the luxury with Bailey. With Bailey,
Speaker 1: you gotta get to the Uh. He could fifty seven,
Speaker 1: maybe thirty, so I think his I think his career
Speaker 1: long was fifty six sounds about right. But I mean
Speaker 1: in the game, you're gonna try, Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch what if this game comes down to
Speaker 1: a kicking war just between kickers, like it will, I
Speaker 1: actually totally expect that this is gonna be so close
Speaker 1: that the kickers are going to ultimately decide this game.
Speaker 1: I just hope you know you're right, Like what Maher's
Speaker 1: ten of fourteen or like he's he's kicked so many
Speaker 1: kicks from fifty plus? How many is it for? Four
Speaker 1: to seven? Four or seven? Excuse me? So that's great,
Speaker 1: and I don't yeah, I don't hold those against him,
Speaker 1: but hopefully, yeah, just no misses from inside forty which
Speaker 1: he's only got one of those this year, which he
Speaker 1: hasn't kicked that many from that close range either, Like
Speaker 1: they've been good enough in the red zone that they
Speaker 1: haven't been putting that on him, true, and hopefully they
Speaker 1: don't because that's that's that's that was the thing. That's
Speaker 1: like nobody's mad at Brett Maher for missing from fifty plus.
Speaker 1: People get upset when you miss thirty six yarders, So
Speaker 1: that scoring touchdowns in the red zone. That may also
Speaker 1: be the reason why he is a perfect fit for
Speaker 1: this offense, if they can play like that to where
Speaker 1: when they get in those areas, they're actually converting touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and what you really get from him is the benefit
Speaker 1: of that weapon that's back. They're kicking sixty two yarders,
Speaker 1: then maybe that's a perfect fit for what this offense
Speaker 1: does and you don't have to worry about. Like Dave said,
Speaker 1: we're picking games. We're just about to get to that.
Speaker 1: A lot of kicker talk. I know it's justified when
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey's playing, though. Absolutely Okay, so let's go around
Speaker 1: the table. Give me some some predictions for this game.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with you Amber. Why. I hate your face.
Speaker 1: I hate predicting. You know what. I was upset earlier
Speaker 1: this week, you guys on that side of the room
Speaker 1: that didn't necessarily agree with me and Dave on the
Speaker 1: type of game we saw against the Giants. I was upset,
Speaker 1: but this is what always happens. I end up getting
Speaker 1: over it Towursday's point to Friday or so I start
Speaker 1: be leaving in the Cowboys once again. I'm excited about them,
Speaker 1: so I expect them to go out there perform good
Speaker 1: enough to for them to win the game. I do
Speaker 1: think that we're gonna be talking about both kickers throughout
Speaker 1: the game, and that's probably going to be one of
Speaker 1: the headline headlines that night. But Cowboys win. Um buy
Speaker 1: a field goal. Don't ask me final score. I don't care.
Speaker 1: They just win by a field goal, all right, Dave.
Speaker 1: Two remarkably similar teams. Very strong defense, is good against
Speaker 1: the run, to very great running game games. Strength on strength.
Speaker 1: So what are the differences. I think the Cowboys secondary
Speaker 1: is better equipped to handle a Vikings passing game that
Speaker 1: doesn't have feeling than the Vikings secondary. I'm I'm assuming
Speaker 1: Cooper is going to play, for all it is big
Speaker 1: and honestly, if he you know, if word comes down
Speaker 1: that he's not going to play, I'll change my pick.
Speaker 1: I think it's that big of a deal. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: he's gonna play. And so Cowboys passing attack against the
Speaker 1: Vikings secondary is a bigger strength than vice versa. Also,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in Kirk Cousins in the clutch. I
Speaker 1: just don't. And I'm like, there's no way to quantify
Speaker 1: that with stats. But I don't trust him to come
Speaker 1: through in a moment like that. I absolutely trust Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott to do that, and I think that'll make the difference.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be pretty dramatic. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it comes down to like a field goal, but you know,
Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty three, you know, one possession game
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. But I think the Cowboys win
Speaker 1: if Cooper plays. Yep, I was gonna say twenty four
Speaker 1: twenty one, eight field goals to seven for Maha, but
Speaker 1: I think that actually, I think the Cooper things huge
Speaker 1: if he plays. If he doesn't, I think I've got
Speaker 1: the same game Dave's got, but the Cowboys will score
Speaker 1: another touchdown there. I got thirty four to twenty three.
Speaker 1: They're better than the Vikings. I don't believe in Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins either, and I think they've proven they can shut
Speaker 1: down a big time back that it will be the focus.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Vikings have of these other
Speaker 1: weapons that will hurt him. If they commit to that,
Speaker 1: this team can rush with four guys now, and that'll
Speaker 1: be huge. So I think I think the Cowboys win
Speaker 1: thirty four twenty three. That means some few field goals
Speaker 1: there for Maha, and I see missus an extra point.
Speaker 1: I think this game. I agree with you guys that
Speaker 1: I think these teams are really really similar, but I
Speaker 1: think the story we'll be talking about on Monday, will
Speaker 1: be about these these two defenses. I think it'll be
Speaker 1: the kind of game that we saw when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: play the Saints. I think these two defenses are going
Speaker 1: to make that low scoring, not that low scoring, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna be lows oring. I actually think that this
Speaker 1: is gonna be one of those games that are gonna
Speaker 1: that the defenses will be what what is the storyline
Speaker 1: come Monday? Because I don't think either team will run
Speaker 1: particularly well against these other the other defense they keep
Speaker 1: because of that, getting turnovers, well that's the part I
Speaker 1: don't I'm not I'm not saying they're gonna be turnovers.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna run I don't think either
Speaker 1: team's gonna run particularly well. I saw what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: did last week to say Kuon Barkley Um and this
Speaker 1: kind of defense. You saw what it did to Um,
Speaker 1: what it did to Zeke when they played the Saints.
Speaker 1: So I think there are ways to stop these two
Speaker 1: running games. They're both high powered running games, but I
Speaker 1: think they get slowed down. I think the points that
Speaker 1: are scored are gonna have to be scored through the air.
Speaker 1: I think it's twenty sixteen final Cowboys win. But the defense,
Speaker 1: that's a good that's a that sounds right. The defenses
Speaker 1: are going to be the story of this game. What's
Speaker 1: wrong with us? Like this is a five and three
Speaker 1: team and we're just we're just every week. It's about
Speaker 1: the expectations that we went into this year thinking they
Speaker 1: were so good, and I think I think we're still
Speaker 1: For me anyway, I'll speak for myself thinking they were
Speaker 1: so good, and my expectation is still that they're gonna
Speaker 1: get this thing rolling. And I just maybe it's just me, no,
Speaker 1: but that's what exactly what I feel get out of
Speaker 1: my head right now, is they're gonna get this thing out.
Speaker 1: The Vikings are full of names. Honestly, I think they
Speaker 1: got a lot of names on defense. They got a
Speaker 1: name at quarterback because he makes a ton of money
Speaker 1: to play Devil's advocate. Couldn't very good. They get a
Speaker 1: lot of points. Couldn't you say that about the Cowboys?
Speaker 1: You can't. Okay, they're at home and they they're gonna
Speaker 1: play well at home on Sunday night, and I think
Speaker 1: that they'll they'll win. I think those scores and points,
Speaker 1: I don't think look at the Vikings. They're shutting people down.
Speaker 1: Well they're they're only giving up what's seventeen points a game.
Speaker 1: It's not a lot seventeen point six. I think they're
Speaker 1: not a lot. Number one team in though, I just
Speaker 1: in the NFL coming in, I mean, they got the
Speaker 1: number one team. I can't reconcile the difference between who
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been and who I think they can be,
Speaker 1: and so I just keep, I just keep. I'm with
Speaker 1: betting on black that it's gonna hit, and hopefully I
Speaker 1: don't look stupid on Monday, but I really do. Playing
Speaker 1: at home, I just yeah, I think they're better. We'll
Speaker 1: be back on Monday, tell you what went right and
Speaker 1: what went wrong for the Cowboys till then. For Nick Eatman,
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