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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. I'm Heckma Harrison always on deck here
Speaker 1: at the desk, joined by my guy be from Ohio. Yes, hey,
Speaker 1: the only forty two week acknowledge around. You know, my
Speaker 1: man Buried Church is in the building, and uh, the
Speaker 1: man that does everything around here decided to stop in
Speaker 1: in here. I mean when I say does everything, he's
Speaker 1: busier than one legged man in the boe. But kicking contests.
Speaker 1: That would be one Kyle Yeomans. What's up, guys, my
Speaker 1: player partner, what's going on with you? Man? Nothing much?
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's actually a down Friday today. So
Speaker 1: Heck hit me up last night and was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I was like, actually, I'm a
Speaker 1: little more free on Fridays this week than than I
Speaker 1: have been. I was like, let me pop on in
Speaker 1: and get on the Player's Lounge, my second favorite show
Speaker 1: here le Lounge. I love ye. Look, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: an opportunity. I spend so much time with the dude already,
Speaker 1: so why not why not double down on the time
Speaker 1: that I spend with him already and get things going.
Speaker 1: But Kyle, you may not know this, but this is
Speaker 1: the way that I host shows. I like it. This's
Speaker 1: already fire right, this is the way I host shows.
Speaker 1: In before I started with any topics anything, I always
Speaker 1: ask how are your mentals? What's going on on your mind?
Speaker 1: Because as men, we don't check on each other like that,
Speaker 1: So just we we we check on each other just
Speaker 1: to see what's going Also, BC, I'm gonna start with you, man,
Speaker 1: how's your mind? Brother, how's your mentals? It's a beautiful day,
Speaker 1: great day. You got a little workout in earlier. You know,
Speaker 1: freshly shaved here you can't see it right now, but
Speaker 1: it's definitely freshly shaven. So it's a beautiful day. Man.
Speaker 1: Can't ask for better? Man, right, I love that. I
Speaker 1: love name Kyle, how about yourself? Brother? You know what's
Speaker 1: good because this week is and like you said, I've
Speaker 1: been busy and running around and stuff, but I don't
Speaker 1: have a college game on on Saturday this week. Of course,
Speaker 1: if I would, I would probably be doing it with you.
Speaker 1: But I've had a chance to kind of reset a
Speaker 1: little bit halfway through the season, or I guess a
Speaker 1: third of the way through the season. Week seven is
Speaker 1: the start of the second third into that final third,
Speaker 1: so uh yeah, a little bit of a reset this
Speaker 1: week and really trying to trying to get things right
Speaker 1: for Cowboys Nations. So it's man, we're gonna take you
Speaker 1: off the script. Man, I'm sick of as you are,
Speaker 1: not gonna come on? What are you talking about? One? Yeah,
Speaker 1: hold hold hold of kai check it out. I'm only
Speaker 1: watching right here, all right, Kyle, check it out. I
Speaker 1: gotta ask you, so, okay, if the people don't know
Speaker 1: Kyle is about to get married, I am hey, So
Speaker 1: when I ask about your mental I need you to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'll stressed out, okay because I'm planning and I don't
Speaker 1: have no money. That's there, you go. Joke the Ducats.
Speaker 1: He just had them right now. That I did not
Speaker 1: have the duckets. That is not the case. I do
Speaker 1: not have that. It's stressful, but it's fun at the
Speaker 1: same time. Like that's the thing about it so far.
Speaker 1: And my fiance Laurina is so she's so fantastic. I mean,
Speaker 1: both of y'all have had the chance to meet her,
Speaker 1: and I'll kick the covers there not even closed. I
Speaker 1: mean I'm Brian Anger and this stuff right now all
Speaker 1: pro So, Yeah, it's stressful, but it hasn't gotten to
Speaker 1: the point where it's overwhelming, which is great. I mean,
Speaker 1: even in the midst of football season and trying to
Speaker 1: get all that stuff organized. The wedding stuff's been so fun.
Speaker 1: We picked out a wedding cake this week, which has
Speaker 1: been that was really really fun. So yeah, it's been good. Dude.
Speaker 1: That is that? Is any any any marriage advice Barry?
Speaker 1: Do you? Barry? Barry gives us plenty of wedding advice.
Speaker 1: Whenever we're sitting in watching the games in the studio,
Speaker 1: He'll over little yeah, just pop them up and throw
Speaker 1: the happy wife, happy life. That's what I go for, man,
Speaker 1: that's I like it. So I got all right, question,
Speaker 1: then you know you're getting married, so all of the
Speaker 1: everything is pretty much fresh. First place that you guys,
Speaker 1: where'd you guys meet? So we met at the University
Speaker 1: of North Texas. So we both went to U and
Speaker 1: it's a love miss bro Oh yeah, it's a love miss.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to go to Kent States, little brothers, Come on, disrespect.
Speaker 1: It's got to come to a close right now. We're
Speaker 1: just gonna all that, you know what. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a little good yall in North Texas. Yeah, we that
Speaker 1: at U and T worked at the student television station there,
Speaker 1: and then we had a lot of mutual friends and
Speaker 1: we were in the same friend group for a little
Speaker 1: bit there, and then we kind of went our separate ways.
Speaker 1: She graduated a year before I did, so she graduated
Speaker 1: and went off into the workforce and did her own thing.
Speaker 1: She was an entertainment host for a couple of different places,
Speaker 1: most notably Disney Cruise Line, and then whenever COVID happened,
Speaker 1: her cruise Line life shut down, right, and I had
Speaker 1: just gotten on with the Cowboys, and I had been
Speaker 1: through a season with them in twenty nineteen, and then
Speaker 1: I had just done some on air stuff for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. So when we went virtual and everything
Speaker 1: just kind of split up. Uh. It took a couple
Speaker 1: of months and then we we kind of started reconnecting
Speaker 1: and texting each other and then rest is history. Hang out.
Speaker 1: That's good man, hey, man being the being the guy
Speaker 1: that has been married longer than than than this guy.
Speaker 1: You know, like I told you before, like my financial
Speaker 1: advisor told me, okay, do it early. Uh huh and often? Sure, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: And I got dirty minds, and I know what y'all thinking.
Speaker 1: That's what I went straight to. That Barry's Barry's also truth.
Speaker 1: He's honest. And I'm talking about a state planning Okay, finally, okay,
Speaker 1: you're talking about later, We're talking about a state planning
Speaker 1: planning it out. He said this earlier, like in the week, Chris,
Speaker 1: and it was the same reaction there as I had
Speaker 1: just now. I was like, Okay, let me make sure
Speaker 1: that I'm thinking the right thing here, trying to help
Speaker 1: me out left field somewhere, trying to help you out, man,
Speaker 1: But hey, get it. The show. We hey, we talked
Speaker 1: about the love. We got a mind together, man. We
Speaker 1: got to talk about what's going on Sunday at twelve
Speaker 1: o'clock and tell us we got us a game. Let's
Speaker 1: do it, dude, we got us a game. And you
Speaker 1: know what, this is the part of the season man,
Speaker 1: that really has us all kind of out of whack.
Speaker 1: You're you're at a point in your in your season
Speaker 1: where you're saying to yourself, are we aren't we all right?
Speaker 1: And so when you look at this game coming up
Speaker 1: against the Lions, guys, are you are you in the
Speaker 1: mode of, hey man, this is just what the doctor ordered,
Speaker 1: or hey watch out, I'm in the motive. This is
Speaker 1: just what the Doctor order, especially for the offense, because
Speaker 1: we're looking at Detroit right now. Defensively, you know, we
Speaker 1: just let's be on. We're on us on this show, right,
Speaker 1: So they're tracked. They're terrible, all right, giving up you know,
Speaker 1: most yards on the ground, passing yards. You can do
Speaker 1: whatever you want to this defense. So to me, this
Speaker 1: is just what the Doctor ordered. Offensively, especially you got
Speaker 1: number four coming back into the fold. I think he'll
Speaker 1: be able to you know, he'll start out slow. I
Speaker 1: think he'll start out slow, a little bit of rusty.
Speaker 1: You know, you got to get that connection back with
Speaker 1: your wide receivers out there because it's been such a
Speaker 1: long time. But they'll start out slow and eventually he'll
Speaker 1: get his foot back in the ground and he'll be
Speaker 1: able to do big things out there. And I think
Speaker 1: this is a game where it all starts out. I
Speaker 1: think Dak Prescott gets his mojo going, gets this engine
Speaker 1: back going. We stick to the ground a little bit
Speaker 1: because I feel like, like I said, you could do
Speaker 1: whatever you want to this defense. So I think we'll
Speaker 1: stick to the ground a little bit. But Dak he'll
Speaker 1: get his arms stretched out a little bit out there
Speaker 1: and he'll be able to throw some darts. So I
Speaker 1: think this is just what the doctor ordered. Offensively, defensively,
Speaker 1: we just gotta stick to what we've been doing, right,
Speaker 1: Just stick to what we've been doing. They got weapons
Speaker 1: out there, but if we do what we do, it
Speaker 1: should be a no contest. Do you believe that the
Speaker 1: confidence right now for this game is fake confidence? Do
Speaker 1: you are you? Do you need to temper that with
Speaker 1: not being overconfident with an opponent coming off of a
Speaker 1: bye week. Yeah, we may be playing the Lions down
Speaker 1: a little bit here. I think I think the confidence
Speaker 1: is real. This team realizes, especially after what Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: was able to do and come in and write the ship,
Speaker 1: not only just survive, but write the ship to get
Speaker 1: four wins in five games. That's enough to build your
Speaker 1: confidence into the back of the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: It's you don't want that confidence to turn into cockiness.
Speaker 1: That's where it's different exactly because you can it could
Speaker 1: be a little bit of both of what you had
Speaker 1: said previously. Is this a game where you're worried about
Speaker 1: but is it a game where you also could get right?
Speaker 1: This could be exactly what the doctor ordered. A bad defense.
Speaker 1: You said, their bottom in the league in multiple categories.
Speaker 1: They're the number thirty two ranked team in the in
Speaker 1: the entire NFL in terms of defensive grades, yardage allowed,
Speaker 1: points allowed, doesn't matter. They've been bad. So guess what
Speaker 1: the offense could be great? Or you could come in
Speaker 1: thinking that and you're over analyzing and you're saying, hey,
Speaker 1: confidence level is skyrocket high. We don't need to really
Speaker 1: look at this the same way as we did last
Speaker 1: week in a highly emotional game against Philadelphia. Be careful
Speaker 1: in doing that, because if you come in you overlook
Speaker 1: the Lions. They've got an offense that can score. They
Speaker 1: sure as heck can run the football. They can run
Speaker 1: it really well with the best of them in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Your defense is what's been the weakness stopping the run.
Speaker 1: So you gotta you can't overlook them, but you should
Speaker 1: have confidence to go in and win this football game
Speaker 1: because you're at home. You're the better team on paper,
Speaker 1: but you can't let it slip up on you, because
Speaker 1: if it does, you're going to be in a whole
Speaker 1: lot of trouble, especially if you get off to a
Speaker 1: slow start. When the game ended. When the game ended
Speaker 1: last Sunday night, there were a few very there were
Speaker 1: position groups, and I think that you looked at and said, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta get better in this group, right, I gotta ask.
Speaker 1: I mean because if you look around the NFL right now,
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers just traded Christian McCaffrey to the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, and there's somebody that's obviously gearing up for
Speaker 1: a run, and that's the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Now there are teams in the NFC, in the AFC
Speaker 1: obviously looking at this move and they're saying, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what are we doing to keep pace with this move,
Speaker 1: especially in the NFC if you're looking at position groups, Guys,
Speaker 1: which position group are you looking at right now? Especially
Speaker 1: after that Eagles game and you're saying yourself, we gotta
Speaker 1: be better here, Kyle, I start with you. Which group
Speaker 1: was that? Yeah, it's tough because I think they kind
Speaker 1: of go hand to hand the two that I was
Speaker 1: really looking at, and this could even go out to
Speaker 1: the outside as well. But I really think it's the
Speaker 1: linebacking corps and the interior, especially when going up against
Speaker 1: the run. Mike McCarthy said it today. Teams don't want
Speaker 1: to throw the football against the Cowboys right now because
Speaker 1: that pass rush is nasty. So what do they do instead?
Speaker 1: They run it straight at them. They run right down
Speaker 1: the center of the defense. They splice through there, and
Speaker 1: that's how they have their success because then it throws
Speaker 1: off the pass rush and it's able to balance things out.
Speaker 1: So how do you stop that? You have good reads
Speaker 1: at the second level from your linebackers. Anthony Barr, Layton Vanderesh,
Speaker 1: both of them did not have good games against Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: You go back and you watch the tape. They're getting
Speaker 1: pushed off the ball, They're getting washed down by multiple
Speaker 1: guys at the second level. Philly did such a good job,
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey specifically of getting up the field and walling
Speaker 1: off those guys. So my linebacker's got to be better.
Speaker 1: But how can linebackers play better? The guys in front
Speaker 1: of them him at the interior of that defensive line
Speaker 1: have too as well. So I think it's a combination
Speaker 1: of the two. And then if that wasn't enough, if
Speaker 1: it's the interior run game that you can't slow down,
Speaker 1: you got to be better on the edge too, in
Speaker 1: terms of run defense from your corners, Trayvon Diggs, and
Speaker 1: I like the way that you guys said it. You
Speaker 1: tell the truth on this show. Trayvon Diggs has been
Speaker 1: downright bad against the run this season, bad on multiple occasions,
Speaker 1: and honestly, it looks like it's a choice of his.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want the smoke, he doesn't want it, he
Speaker 1: doesn't go in there, and he doesn't make the tackle.
Speaker 1: He's got to be better against the run. He's been
Speaker 1: okay in coverage, he's done his thing in coverage, but
Speaker 1: against the run, they've got to be better on the edge.
Speaker 1: So I would say the linebackers first, followed by interior
Speaker 1: and then on the edge with the corners, all of
Speaker 1: that against the run. So improvement if you if you're
Speaker 1: looking around and you're saying, all right, guys, there's a
Speaker 1: cover and then there's a button, pressing the button. I'm
Speaker 1: pressing the button. Button, Brad, I'm smashing the button because
Speaker 1: I could make improvements on this team to get to
Speaker 1: the next level. What position group are you saying, BC man,
Speaker 1: that's tough, man, And you know what, I'm gonna look offensively, okay,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna look at that wide receiver room and
Speaker 1: now you know, and it's tough because you know it's
Speaker 1: early in this season. They didn't have Dak out there.
Speaker 1: I understand all that, but when you look at it,
Speaker 1: the separation just wasn't there. It hasn't It hasn't been
Speaker 1: there at all. And I think the Eagles really exposed that.
Speaker 1: If you look at it, there was no no receiver
Speaker 1: out there had a step on anybody. And I understand
Speaker 1: Eagles got one of the top secondaries in the in
Speaker 1: the NFL. They got Slay, they got Bradberry, they got
Speaker 1: Maddic so they have an extremely solid secondary out there.
Speaker 1: But even before that, I just didn't see these receivers
Speaker 1: getting massive separation out there. So that's a unit I
Speaker 1: would look for. But the only problem with that is
Speaker 1: where are you gonna go? You know what what receivers
Speaker 1: are out there that you women and what you got.
Speaker 1: I can't say his name, but he plays for a
Speaker 1: team that's blue and black and it's in Carolina and
Speaker 1: one of the Carolinas Northurst out. I don't really want
Speaker 1: to specifically, I don't think. I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: let that. Can't say anything, but yeah, but it's just
Speaker 1: to me, it's like the separation just isn't there. Offensively,
Speaker 1: you got the run game. I think the offensive line
Speaker 1: they're improving weekend and weekend, they're getting better and better.
Speaker 1: And then you look on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: I gotta agree with my man Kyle here, that interior
Speaker 1: part of that defensive line. I'm talking Gallimore or Dicky
Speaker 1: Zua against the Pastor. They're rushing great, they're getting up field,
Speaker 1: they're getting after the quarterback. But in the run game,
Speaker 1: and we saw it last week and I understand the
Speaker 1: Eagles run game, it's it's a different scheme. It's it's
Speaker 1: a totally different game and it's tough to read. That
Speaker 1: RPO game is extremely tough on your linebackers and your
Speaker 1: defensive line, but overall, teams have been able to gash
Speaker 1: us up the gut. So to me, how I'm looking
Speaker 1: at that defensive line. I'm looking at those interior two
Speaker 1: tackles right there. Linebackers. I feel like they've had a
Speaker 1: solid season. I feel like lvee bar they've had a
Speaker 1: solid season. And that RPO run game, I mean it's
Speaker 1: extremely tough. Yeah they just got they got Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was that was it. You look at that linebacker corps.
Speaker 1: You gotta have great as going against RPL. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's tough for anybody out there. But that defensive line,
Speaker 1: that interior dtackle, I'm looking at that, and if I'm
Speaker 1: looking offensively, I'm looking at the wide receiver. It's the
Speaker 1: only problem is I just don't know who you get.
Speaker 1: I don't know who you get out. So we're talking
Speaker 1: if if if we're talking about the button here and
Speaker 1: you lift that case and when you smash the button,
Speaker 1: the button is giving us an automatic fix. It's just yes,
Speaker 1: it is. It's like that guy comes Sparkles and he
Speaker 1: is yes, CONFI I think I would smash that button,
Speaker 1: not for linebacker, not for interior. But I think right
Speaker 1: there with you, I've got wide receiver that would be mine.
Speaker 1: Smash the button and here he is booms to fix
Speaker 1: all it would be will to talk about free agents
Speaker 1: right now, though, yes, okay, you can't hit that are
Speaker 1: guys that are on other teams. Is there any free
Speaker 1: rad receivers that you can think? I mean, because I
Speaker 1: know the guy that comes to the top of the
Speaker 1: man's JJ CO that's that's another guy off al That's
Speaker 1: that's where that conversation starts and ends when you talk
Speaker 1: about the ACL, because you already have a guy on
Speaker 1: your team within ACL and you're seeing kind of the
Speaker 1: pull back on him coming back to y Yeah we did.
Speaker 1: And but but Kyle, I want to go back to
Speaker 1: what you were talking about about the linebacking corps. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think the defensive line has been solid
Speaker 1: and in these games leading up to the Philadelphia Gaming.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to more about the defense later. But
Speaker 1: I question, especially with Anthony barr H and Layton Vanderesh
Speaker 1: watch Abrill Cox hadn't gotten anymore run and that to
Speaker 1: me has been a question area for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: He's getting some some special team work, but he's not
Speaker 1: able to break the lineup on defense. And he's a guy.
Speaker 1: Let's just say he was tagged immediately that coming into
Speaker 1: the out of the draft that his weakness was against
Speaker 1: the run. So I don't know how much of that
Speaker 1: helps you anyway, because you know that he's better against
Speaker 1: the pass and he is against the run. But those
Speaker 1: are the question marks that I have, especially for our
Speaker 1: linebacking corps that's getting a little older. We have a
Speaker 1: guy in Laton Vanderes is on a one year contract,
Speaker 1: Anthony bar I don't need another one year, proved deal
Speaker 1: bridge player. But all those things being considered, there's a
Speaker 1: lot to be desired at the linebacker position that we're
Speaker 1: not getting in the way that Michael Parsons is playing
Speaker 1: right now in dan Quinn's rotation. It's more of a
Speaker 1: blitzing a gap linebacker. Now we have seen him full
Speaker 1: guys like we saw last week. He's out and coverage
Speaker 1: with Dallas Goddard, but that's from the edge position. That's
Speaker 1: not like he's out there playing a natural linebacker position
Speaker 1: that we would see with other linebacker. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: answer to Jabrille Cox. I actually ask somebody that yesterday
Speaker 1: when we were in locker room, and he's just not
Speaker 1: moving as well as you would want him to. He's
Speaker 1: still kind of still lingered by that injury just a
Speaker 1: little bit. He's healthy, but he's just not back to
Speaker 1: the movement the range of ability that he can do,
Speaker 1: which his strength has been in coverage. Like heck Mas
Speaker 1: said initially, that's that was what they drafted him for
Speaker 1: in the fourth round, was to be a coverage linebacker,
Speaker 1: the guy who you really want as a guy to
Speaker 1: come in and help stop the run. Damon Clarkark, that's
Speaker 1: the guy who you would and he's on his way
Speaker 1: back too, So I think both of those guys are
Speaker 1: going to have a role at some point down the line.
Speaker 1: Jibro Cox, he's healthy, he's playing, he's playing on special teams,
Speaker 1: but the range of motion just isn't there as as
Speaker 1: quickly as they wanted to be for a linebacker to
Speaker 1: specifically take snaps away from Layton vander rash and away
Speaker 1: from Anthony Barr, Whereas Demon Clark could come in and
Speaker 1: depending on when he's back to one, he could be
Speaker 1: that downhill guy that you've wanted in that second level. Now,
Speaker 1: and going back to what you were talking about about
Speaker 1: wide receiver, I have nobody has been. Yes, Keith Sweat,
Speaker 1: where are you what I need to because I have
Speaker 1: been the Cede Lamb pump pump waiver. Okay, I need
Speaker 1: you Cede Lamb to be a number one receiver. But
Speaker 1: it has not happened. It does not happened. I think
Speaker 1: the expectation with him and Michael Gallub was that these
Speaker 1: two young stud wide receivers could be the future of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, and I just haven't seen it. From me.
Speaker 1: Noah Brown has been more sturdy, which I don't know
Speaker 1: why that makes me feel bad when I say that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it kind of doesn't feel bad to say that because
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the same resources used as Ceedee Lambs.
Speaker 1: But one of the first round draft picks, the expectations
Speaker 1: are different. I mean, Ceedee Lamb's numbers are better than
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, but that shouldn't be something to be celebrated.
Speaker 1: That should be something to say, Oh, Cede Lamb's a
Speaker 1: first round pick who's supposed to be the number one
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Why is his number? Why are his numbers
Speaker 1: only barely marginally better than Noah Brown. That's there's no
Speaker 1: reason that should be. We had a play that we
Speaker 1: had to uh, they went to review on for Noah
Speaker 1: Brown in the corner of the end zone. Obviously that's
Speaker 1: a baller play. And these are the plays that I'm
Speaker 1: looking around and saying, hey, bro, I see you that
Speaker 1: I need you to make that. We need that same
Speaker 1: swim from the second half New York exactly running ass
Speaker 1: over for the extra yard snotty knows he was. Where's
Speaker 1: that sweat gone? That's a great point because he came
Speaker 1: into that game, was criticized and then guess what first
Speaker 1: half did not play well? Dropped a pure touchdown pass,
Speaker 1: came over and he was livid. You could see he
Speaker 1: was not happy. What did he do? He compartmentalized it
Speaker 1: and he ran over some cats. I mean that's what
Speaker 1: he did. He went after guys, and that's what you want.
Speaker 1: You want that lethal mentality. Look, what did DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: do last night? I've seen it first first game. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of guy you expect him to be, and
Speaker 1: it's it hasn't shown it and it looks like in
Speaker 1: the body language with CD and we've talked about this before.
Speaker 1: But you know when things aren't going as well, you
Speaker 1: see it all the time. It's just like, ah, my goodness,
Speaker 1: like the arms are playing it. I'm just come on,
Speaker 1: my guys, like grocery store with your mom. No, you
Speaker 1: can't have it looked at it. We know you're dealing
Speaker 1: with and nothing against Cooper Ross, but you know he's
Speaker 1: not Dak Prescott. We know what you've been dealing with.
Speaker 1: You gotta be that number one guy to help lift
Speaker 1: everybody else upright, No, but the body language is just
Speaker 1: not there without looking at it. Where do you feel
Speaker 1: like Ceedee Lamb ranks in terms of the wide receivers
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now? If you had to put
Speaker 1: a number on it. Where does he rank in terms
Speaker 1: of yardage right now? Just yardage or like potential yardage
Speaker 1: right at production? To this point, I still think he's
Speaker 1: like twelve eleven, Okay, so he's a little bit further
Speaker 1: down than that. Where do you think I'm thinking twenties twenties? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's sixteen, So he's right in the middle of where
Speaker 1: you guys are in terms of total yardage, but in
Speaker 1: terms of receptions, he's even further down than that. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's probably hold up just a second. Yeah, he's outside
Speaker 1: the top twenty five in terms of receptions, and then
Speaker 1: his longest reception of the year thirty yards. That's it.
Speaker 1: Like it was supposed to be the yat. He was
Speaker 1: supposed to be the guy. When he gets it in
Speaker 1: his hands, it's electric. Yeah, we haven't seen it. This
Speaker 1: is like, this is the part of the show where
Speaker 1: we have to woos together. Hey, you just brought up
Speaker 1: the word criticism and we're gonna talk about a guy
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Speaker 1: play on the players lounge and uh, yeah, I got
Speaker 1: a bit of information and yeah, I hate to see
Speaker 1: hate to see it. Hey, no, no, let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. We're in the middle of a broadcast last
Speaker 1: night in him doing a high school game, and I
Speaker 1: think I said, you hate to see it, like three
Speaker 1: times doing the broadcast. And then then there was one
Speaker 1: time when the quarterback fumbled. They were driving this as
Speaker 1: a team. Man hasn't had a win yet. He gets
Speaker 1: the ball poked out from behind and he says it
Speaker 1: and then I said, and he looks at me and
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Speaker 1: the middle of the broadcast, like we are spending way
Speaker 1: too with time with Barry Church when all the words
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Speaker 1: So guys, uh, look my favorite subject. You know what
Speaker 1: it is? My guy? You know heym might do number four.
Speaker 1: I talked about him anyway, any anyway, you don't have
Speaker 1: to push me to talk about Dak Prescott. Hey, can
Speaker 1: we talk about Dak Prescott? Yes? Okay, cool aslutely sweet,
Speaker 1: Yes we can talk about talk about But you know what,
Speaker 1: something controversial happened this week. Uh the Ringer came out
Speaker 1: with this list of quarterbacks and listed at number seven, one, two, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: and behind him was I think the list behind him
Speaker 1: was even more impressive, guys. And that's what I really thought,
Speaker 1: that this was gonna get one buried Church steamed here
Speaker 1: and listen to this. Behind him is Burrow, Lawrence Cousins, Stafford, Murray,
Speaker 1: and Hurts, of course. But Dak is at number seven. Barry,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to start with you, what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts in the NFL ranking of one reign da quote
Speaker 1: of Prescott as a number of seven quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I just don't know how right? How are we talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, body of work, what he's done since he's
Speaker 1: been in the league. Okay, I get you on that,
Speaker 1: but if we're specifically talking about this season, how is
Speaker 1: he number seven? How is he above all these other guys?
Speaker 1: To me, it makes no sense. The last time we've
Speaker 1: seen Dak Prescott was against Tampa Bay. Was he a
Speaker 1: top was her seventh quarterback? Then? I don't. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say so. The time before that forty nine Ers play
Speaker 1: half game, was he you know? A seven? No? So
Speaker 1: without playing since week one where it was not your
Speaker 1: best performance. Now, if anything, it was one of his worst. Exactly,
Speaker 1: how are you a top seven quarterback in the National
Speaker 1: Football League when you got all I'm looking at this
Speaker 1: list right now, I'm sitting there like, wait a second.
Speaker 1: You know you got you know, Burrows behind you, Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: who's been playing pretty good this year. Yes, yes, Kirk Cousins, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're trying to tell me this year. I'm not talking.
Speaker 1: I know how people think about currime time, Kurt. I
Speaker 1: know they think about him like that, he's still terrible
Speaker 1: in primetime. Have been playing good football, accept prime time,
Speaker 1: accepting prime time, but they got his team going right now.
Speaker 1: The man hasn't played since week one, and you're putting
Speaker 1: him above the likes of these people. I just don't
Speaker 1: see it. If we're going back, like I said, a
Speaker 1: body of work or potential when he's fully healthy. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think that's what this is. I because I agree
Speaker 1: with you, there's no way he should be a top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback if you if you're based off of this
Speaker 1: this week, because if you look at I mean this
Speaker 1: year rather because if you look off of this year
Speaker 1: his only appearance, he went fourteen of twenty nine for
Speaker 1: a buck thirty four and any sections. No, he's a
Speaker 1: bottom five quarterback in terms of his performance that he's
Speaker 1: had this year. But if you're talking about a guy
Speaker 1: who can come in and win you football games, there's
Speaker 1: excitement around the star for a reason. It's because he's
Speaker 1: a good quarterback. He's an above average, if not really
Speaker 1: good quarterback at times depending on how he's playing. He
Speaker 1: hasn't shown that in twenty twenty two yet, but like
Speaker 1: you said, over the course of his year or his career,
Speaker 1: he has, so in my mind, it wouldn't make sense
Speaker 1: for this to not be full body of work included.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at some of the other guys
Speaker 1: that are in the league right now. Matthew Stafford, he
Speaker 1: struggled this year. He hasn't played well this year. Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow hasn't been lighting up the stat sheet this year either,
Speaker 1: But I would still probably put him ahead. We can't
Speaker 1: because when you're not another guy, you're on the field.
Speaker 1: So if you're talking about the twenty twenty two season
Speaker 1: in a vacuum, no, this should not be the number
Speaker 1: seven quarterback. But if you're talking about grand scheme of things,
Speaker 1: career achievements and pure potential, Dak Prescott's a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 1: Let's just go grand scheme. I what you what you
Speaker 1: have done since you've got into the league, So no potential,
Speaker 1: this is this is what you've done, what you've done.
Speaker 1: He's sent sixteen to now you put you putting him over?
Speaker 1: You put him over Kirk? Yes, why I would put
Speaker 1: him over Kirk. Why he's been a better quarterback or
Speaker 1: better quarterback in more games than Kirk. Cresent's for sure.
Speaker 1: Any sure, Kirk? Are you kidding me? Yeah? Let me
Speaker 1: pull it up, Let me pull up, let me just
Speaker 1: let me just this is me keeping it real. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've already told you this is my favorite guy. To
Speaker 1: talk about. But when I look at this list and
Speaker 1: I see him at seven, even I say that's too high.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would put him at seven,
Speaker 1: but I would put him as a top ten borderline guy.
Speaker 1: I have problems with Joe Burrow. Let's just start there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, okay, and as a quarterback, as a guy
Speaker 1: that can throw me as a passer, just the way
Speaker 1: that this guy operates in the pocket. Joe Burrow, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just if you just eyeball this thing.
Speaker 1: He's a Joe Burrow is a better quarterback. Kirk Cousins statistically,
Speaker 1: just based off of his numbers. I mean, fourth quarter
Speaker 1: drives things like that. People down Kirk Cousins in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, but he has the numbers to go
Speaker 1: with it as well. See I disagree, as you should. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I disagree. I think Dak Prescott has been a much
Speaker 1: better fourth quarter quarterback. He's one of the best in
Speaker 1: the league in terms of leading game winning drives, latent games,
Speaker 1: and then can we just I mean I was looking
Speaker 1: up comparison numbers. I didn't even know this was the case.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cusins has thrown fifteen more or excuse me, He's
Speaker 1: thrown forty I'm bad at maun forty five more interceptions
Speaker 1: in his career than Dak Prescott. Yes, and he's done
Speaker 1: so in forty more games. So it's that's almost an
Speaker 1: interception a game from here on out for Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: and he would finally get to that number. So it
Speaker 1: hasn't been great by any stretch of the imagination. And
Speaker 1: then touchdown passes. I mean, it's the numbers add up
Speaker 1: better for Dak Prescott now than it does for Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: even about his career and game winning drives. Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: has nineteen, Dak has seventeen. Just based off of those numbers,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like their leaps and bounds of
Speaker 1: separation between the two quarterbacks. And look, I just when
Speaker 1: I saw the list, I'm like, okay, you know, cool deal.
Speaker 1: I look at I look at Dak as a gamer,
Speaker 1: a baller, a guy that's gonna show up and be
Speaker 1: game time ready, lead your team. He's gonna do what
Speaker 1: it takes in that fourth and one situation. There's nobody
Speaker 1: I would rather have at the quarterback to be able
Speaker 1: to get that one yard. He will sacrifice it. We've
Speaker 1: seen it in the Seattle game. There's nobody you rather have.
Speaker 1: I'm telling I believe. I mean, of course there are, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yes, you know, Aaron Rodgers plays for
Speaker 1: a Green Bay. I don't think I can have him,
Speaker 1: you know. But I'm just saying that Dak Prescott, I
Speaker 1: know that he is a quarterback that we can trust
Speaker 1: and rely on even in those situations. And I got
Speaker 1: a nugget I want to want to throw at you
Speaker 1: guys here, but I just think that there are times
Speaker 1: where the scrutiny for him moves back and forward. The
Speaker 1: way that they jump judge him. And I've said it before,
Speaker 1: like if they want to go on the sample size,
Speaker 1: he can go thirteen and four or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and they'll start from the Denver game, or they'll say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's been from the last two games that he played,
Speaker 1: or let's go back to the first game, or let's
Speaker 1: go back thirty six game, thirty six starts, and won't
Speaker 1: even count that he, you know, snapped his leg and
Speaker 1: half right, all of those, all things being considered, and
Speaker 1: we'll never mention that he was Rookie of the Year. Okay,
Speaker 1: you won't say that, but I just believe for our
Speaker 1: team right now, the way that it's constructed, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: is the quarterback that can lead this team potentially to
Speaker 1: the to where we're trying to go, and that's to
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. That's intentional though. I mean, that's why
Speaker 1: they build the team this Absolutely they built it to
Speaker 1: be around Dak Prescott. So let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: where what quarterbacks do you want me to read off?
Speaker 1: Some quarterbacks? You tell me above or below Dak Prescott?
Speaker 1: Go ahead, you wanna try and do that? I mean,
Speaker 1: these are the easy ones. Josh talking about work. Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: Yeah above, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady. Okay, good.
Speaker 1: So here's the guys that are kind of right there
Speaker 1: in at least the conversation. Justin Herbert, is it too
Speaker 1: early to tell? I still Papa Dak above to my guy,
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert's probably the better quarterback right this second. If
Speaker 1: you're talking about body, body of work, it's different. I
Speaker 1: gotta go Joe Burrow. I gotta go with Joe. If
Speaker 1: you're talking about body, he's been, he's been to the
Speaker 1: won the big games. So I gotta give it Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson MVP. He's won an MVP. Yeah, I gotta god.
Speaker 1: They got the same amount of playoff wins what they got. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty close. I haven't looked at that. And the
Speaker 1: guys want a m VP. Yeah, I gotta go. Jalen Hurts. No,
Speaker 1: not that guy. I agree. Matthew Stafford. I know he's
Speaker 1: won a ring, but he wasn't that won that ring.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't. Yeah, he helped get there, and he helped
Speaker 1: play well when he did, and he has crazy numbers.
Speaker 1: But it's like, if you're asking me who I want
Speaker 1: to leave my team, I'm going Dak over over Stafford. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: what about you, Dak? Okay, Kirk Cousins that Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: that you would put Kirk Kyler over Dak from me?
Speaker 1: Be personal? What would be the separation with Kyle? Think
Speaker 1: Kyler can do more. I think he challenges defenses more
Speaker 1: than what Daks with his legs and his arms. He's
Speaker 1: more dangerous overall. I would rather go against Dak than
Speaker 1: go against Kyler Murray in a game. Russell Wilson, he's
Speaker 1: been to the upper echel. I'm going right now, but
Speaker 1: it's kyd be looking at him right now. I'm looking
Speaker 1: going off of what I just saw the other day. Yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: Russell Russell right now, give me Dad every single day.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr. That's a comparison, I think. But yeah, Jimmy Garoppolo, Dak.
Speaker 1: There you go. So the reason I mean, that's even
Speaker 1: fifteen quarterbacks right there, I just named half of the league.
Speaker 1: The other guys aren't in the same contention. Ryan Tannahill,
Speaker 1: Gino Smith TWOA Tungavloa, Trevor Lawrence better lately but still
Speaker 1: not there, Kinney Pickett, Matt Ryan, Daniel Jones. No, no,
Speaker 1: he's a top ten quarterback. That's easy money. You cannot
Speaker 1: tell me that Dak Prescott's not a top ten quarterback
Speaker 1: in the league. Ten. Yeah, right, So I gotta ask
Speaker 1: you this, guys. The expectation that's put on Dak, all right,
Speaker 1: he seems to be and I don't want to use
Speaker 1: the media as a part of this, but he seems
Speaker 1: to be in a lose lose situation. If he comes
Speaker 1: in any wins, you're supposed to. They pay you to
Speaker 1: do that, Okay. The only thing that's gonna get him
Speaker 1: to to be the Golden Boy is going to be
Speaker 1: win a super Bowl, go to a super Bowl, win
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. Do you think that the burden that
Speaker 1: in expectation, that that's on him is too heavy? No? No,
Speaker 1: I think that's you get what you get when you're
Speaker 1: wearing that Star man suld cover more than any if
Speaker 1: you if you're playing for America's Day, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: to scrutiny. And I mean even when you play great,
Speaker 1: they're gonna nitpick. Everything's under a microscope when you had
Speaker 1: that Strow on your helmet. Now, if you were playing
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville or Cleveland, wouldn't be that way. You can win.
Speaker 1: You can win the game throwing two interceptions, but you're
Speaker 1: running for three hundred yards and win. He's great, But here,
Speaker 1: look he threw that incompletion right there, like it's you're
Speaker 1: gonna it's it's the star. Look at Joe Burrow. Joe
Speaker 1: Burrows played terrible football this year, but he's still Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow because he's been to the game in Cincinnati. Even
Speaker 1: if you go to the game and you lose it here,
Speaker 1: it's not winning the game. You gotta win the title here.
Speaker 1: It's also it's so interesting for me to look at
Speaker 1: it because it is so hard to win a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: so unbelievably hard to win a super Bowl. Look at
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks that have won it. Patrick Mahomes, he's upper echelon,
Speaker 1: he's won one. Aaron Rodgers, he's one of the greatest
Speaker 1: of all time. One. Tom Brady. That's different. Let's not
Speaker 1: talk about Tom Brader. Matthew Stafford. He's won one, but
Speaker 1: people still don't even see him that. We don't even
Speaker 1: really look at him that way. Russell Wilson one one.
Speaker 1: We just talked about a body of work over did
Speaker 1: have two? Yeah, you should have to. There are so
Speaker 1: many guys on this list that are good quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: have been great quarterbacks but have not won a superb
Speaker 1: Look at look at Romo. Look at the numbers he
Speaker 1: was able to put up in those years. Didn't Sniff
Speaker 1: did not. Sniff didn't Sniff had some teams. But he
Speaker 1: had some teams and he put up great numbers, but
Speaker 1: he was under them. He was under the scrutiny as well. Guys,
Speaker 1: we could talk about this all day. I meant, I
Speaker 1: meant to stand upon that. I did exactly that. In
Speaker 1: the last segment, we are going to make our picks
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Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman's and Buried Churches. Yeah, we even have some
Speaker 1: spirited debates. And guys, I want to say to you
Speaker 1: that last Sunday, I had deja vu of a evening
Speaker 1: last year here at home against the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1: That Eagles game reminded me in a lot of ways
Speaker 1: of the forty Hins game. And I'll tell you how
Speaker 1: it was the first game that I've seen since the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers where we got bullied up front. I
Speaker 1: didn't see that in Tampa against the Bucks, but I
Speaker 1: did see that against Philadelphia, and it bothered me. It
Speaker 1: bothered me because you know how the bully gets bullied sometime,
Speaker 1: and I think that our defense came into this season
Speaker 1: the way they've been playing, they've been bullying people. But
Speaker 1: Philadelphia said, we're going to deliver the first blow and
Speaker 1: we're gonna bully you. But what bothered me even more
Speaker 1: about that was that against the forty nine ers, a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that we see on Twitter with you know,
Speaker 1: big Twitter thumbs and you know, guys that are get
Speaker 1: in front of the camera, they disappear. They tend to
Speaker 1: disappear in those critical moments where you need the plays
Speaker 1: to be made right. The same thing happened against Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say any name, no, no, no. Yesterday
Speaker 1: yesterday we cooked. We cooked somebody and we can't cook it.
Speaker 1: We did it for much yesterday. Oh hey, we went
Speaker 1: we went a whole cooking. My guy, and who did
Speaker 1: you cook? Man? Man? We had Toby, Yeah, we cook.
Speaker 1: But yay. All you have to do is look at
Speaker 1: the roster and think about those guys man against Philadelphia
Speaker 1: that disappeared. You did, hey man, It's like you know,
Speaker 1: you got the homeboard. It's always mouthy, that's always talking,
Speaker 1: and then as soon as it go down, milk carton missing,
Speaker 1: you don't know where it is. Right. There is a
Speaker 1: lot of that going on, and I saw that on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and it bothers me. It bothers me about the defense.
Speaker 1: And so therefore I gotta ask you this, guys, after
Speaker 1: that Philadelphia game where you worried, did you have any
Speaker 1: concerns about this defense? Because prior to that, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you thought you had it. This is an elite defense.
Speaker 1: It still is a deal to lead defense. I don't
Speaker 1: have the worries, partially because Philly has built their roster
Speaker 1: to beat one team, and luckily it's been beating some
Speaker 1: other teams. But they built their roster to beat the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, no doubt in my mind, that's what they've
Speaker 1: done the last couple of years. So the fact that
Speaker 1: they had success against the Dallas Cowboys does not surprise me.
Speaker 1: Even though the defense as good as they are, what
Speaker 1: did they do? They took Michael Parsons out of it,
Speaker 1: and how do they do that? They made him think?
Speaker 1: They made him think rather than play, because then you
Speaker 1: have to sit there and you have to make a decision.
Speaker 1: Do I take Jalen Hurtz, Do I take Miles Sanders,
Speaker 1: or do I drop back into coverage and try and
Speaker 1: defend the past, because there's three different things Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: has to think about rather than in other opportunities. It's
Speaker 1: Seaball hit ball, go Micah he funk, which this week
Speaker 1: it's back to Seaball hit ball, and you're gonna get
Speaker 1: after Dak or excuse me, Jared Goff to get in
Speaker 1: the backfield. That's how you have success with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: Or take him out of it, make him think, because
Speaker 1: then he has a step behind. Still a really good player.
Speaker 1: He's still had a solid game, but he didn't have
Speaker 1: a Michael Parsons impact. That's how they won that game,
Speaker 1: as they bullied him by just making them think, and
Speaker 1: then they bullied all the other guys around them because
Speaker 1: there was no success with Michael Parsons. Yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not too worried. I'm not too worried. I understand. You
Speaker 1: know what Philly goat that RPO scheme that I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a one off scheme you're gonna
Speaker 1: go against and nobody does it as nobody, nobody does it.
Speaker 1: Do what You gotta have a quarterback that's done it
Speaker 1: for years and years, and that's what Hurts has been
Speaker 1: able to do. Um. So you know when next time
Speaker 1: they see Philadelphia, I can see dan Quinn just saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, screw all the thinking, just running hit
Speaker 1: hit Hurts hit every time he does that RPO, just
Speaker 1: running hit him dead in his mouth, and eventually he
Speaker 1: gonna just show it quick gonna. I don't want no
Speaker 1: pieces of that. If you keep lighting that boy up,
Speaker 1: I'm promise you he's gonna man, we ain't gonna run
Speaker 1: an RPO no moreca It's gonna get a quarterback kill
Speaker 1: because you leave in Michael Parsons unblocked. Yes, the only
Speaker 1: reason he didn't get killed because, like you said, he
Speaker 1: was thinking. He was slowing down. All right, what do
Speaker 1: I do here? What do I do here? Dan Quinn?
Speaker 1: I'm sure next time they go against whoever's on that end,
Speaker 1: they're gonna say, if they shown that RPO to you
Speaker 1: don't even think about the runner to pat just go
Speaker 1: straight through Hurts his mouth, and I promise you'll stop
Speaker 1: running it. And they only scored six points in that
Speaker 1: second half for a reason, Dallas made an adjustment and
Speaker 1: they took away the RPO. They definitely did that. Third quarter,
Speaker 1: they had nothing going on the RPO and it allowed
Speaker 1: the offense to find some success. Then what did they do?
Speaker 1: They completely flipped the script Philly did, and in credit
Speaker 1: to them, they ran the dang ball as quickly as possible,
Speaker 1: eleven straight plays, just boom boom boom boom down the
Speaker 1: field and then they were like, oh, guess what, we
Speaker 1: still have this RPO. Yeah, we get it twice and
Speaker 1: they got in the end zone. So it's different. I
Speaker 1: think the adjustment will be made. They have the tape.
Speaker 1: Now wait till Christmas Eve. I think Dallas wins that game.
Speaker 1: I make an early prediction. If everybody stays healthy and
Speaker 1: everything's the same going into that, give me Dallas and
Speaker 1: that one. But this one just did not work out
Speaker 1: in their favorite because Philly came in and had the
Speaker 1: better game plan and the better execution. Yeah, we called it.
Speaker 1: We called for for Micah and the way that he
Speaker 1: played it was paralysis by analysis. I like it, you know,
Speaker 1: and you talked about making him think. It slowed him
Speaker 1: completely down, and the defensive game play came to a
Speaker 1: screeching halt. But guys, this is the moment. This is
Speaker 1: the moment someone is going to jump out of the
Speaker 1: cake and do something controversial. BC, I'm gonna start with you.
Speaker 1: It was happening. What you got? Who are you picking
Speaker 1: on this Sunday? So I gotta keep a big fan
Speaker 1: of DeAndre Swift right, Oh yeah, Jamal Jamal Williams, fan
Speaker 1: of Monra, of Saint Brown, Hakas Tjig go out there.
Speaker 1: But dude, I gotta keep my record, Christine. All right,
Speaker 1: you know I'm leaving everything right now. I'm leaving every Thursday,
Speaker 1: Sunday Monday. I got the best record out of anybody
Speaker 1: on the lounge. Cowboy's gonna win this one handedly. I'm
Speaker 1: going twenty eight to ten, twenty eight. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that man, all right. Yo. So Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: is from Clifton, Texas, which is about thirty miles northeast
Speaker 1: of my hometown of Waco. I spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time out in Clifton. You had a couple of baseball
Speaker 1: games and stuff out there. I know that town. Well.
Speaker 1: They built they built him good. I like Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: a lot. I think he's got a great mindset, he's
Speaker 1: got a fantas pastic opportunity to to do some good
Speaker 1: in Detroit. I think that good starts later. Though. There's
Speaker 1: no way the Cowboys lose this game at home. They're
Speaker 1: gonna get their guy back. They're gonna win this football game.
Speaker 1: I've got a shirt on that's an inside joke from
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys that says Tiger milk, Tigers Lions. And then
Speaker 1: the next week the Bears give me the Cowboys. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: thirty two to thirteen is my final Oh man, it's offense,
Speaker 1: is man? Everybody they get back to thirty I think
Speaker 1: they do. I like that because I'm hey, man, he no,
Speaker 1: guess you'll already know. I mean, I like what you said.
Speaker 1: I believe this is the get right game that we need.
Speaker 1: I believe that this defense is the right amount of
Speaker 1: ticked off about that they the right amount of ticked off,
Speaker 1: and they want to get back to that elite status
Speaker 1: that everyone was talking about. Hey, I'm with you, Kyle.
Speaker 1: To a certain degree, there was some exposure on defense,
Speaker 1: and I think especially Micah doesn't want teams to start
Speaker 1: circling him and saying, oh, pinning the tail on this
Speaker 1: guy right here, because we can slow this whole thing down.
Speaker 1: So I expect for Michael to have a monster game.
Speaker 1: I think dan Quinn moves him all around. I anticipate
Speaker 1: a few picks as well, because your boy Jeric Golf,
Speaker 1: he gets happy feet, he starts burping the baby. He
Speaker 1: does a lot of that stuff in the pocket and
Speaker 1: he will do that in his defense is just not
Speaker 1: very good. So this is the game for Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: to come back. So I'm saying Cowboys thirty one to ten,
Speaker 1: thirty one to ten, that's twenty eight ten. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: thirty one ten right around. Yeah, so we're right there.
Speaker 1: But guys, man kay, well, thank you for coming in. Hey,
Speaker 1: and on Fridays we still do it the same, so
Speaker 1: you might want to take your off jowboy Nay said.
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