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Speaker 1: Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, November twelfth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number sixty. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: latest edition All the Break Life in the s WBC
Speaker 1: Morri Studios at the Star. We are gonna get you
Speaker 1: ready for Cowboys versus Falcons is Sunday at at and
Speaker 1: T Stadium. It's a noon kickoff. We got some big
Speaker 1: picture storyline items that we're gonna hit today in order
Speaker 1: to get you ready for that game. Nick, real quick,
Speaker 1: give me a sixty. Um. There's a guard named Derek
Speaker 1: Isaac Good good He's he's sixty, is he not? He
Speaker 1: might have been before you left. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean that sounds all right. I guess maybe Derek Cannard
Speaker 1: was the guard that I was talking about. They called
Speaker 1: him Big Baby. Nate liked him because he said he
Speaker 1: was bigger than him, So he's big. Yeah. Derek Canard,
Speaker 1: he played back in the in the nineties. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really not a lot of guys that have worned sixty
Speaker 1: in a game. Backup he played. He played in the
Speaker 1: in the middle of the nineties. He was like a
Speaker 1: backup center guard. But he played a lot. He played.
Speaker 1: He was a big dude. Uh, I mean, especially bigger
Speaker 1: than Nate. So that tells you a lot. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you missed yesterday that we didn't talk about fifty No,
Speaker 1: but dat was on. He was on the show Wednesday
Speaker 1: night up Crosstalk, Cowboys Crosstalk. He was up there so
Speaker 1: talking and so he was. He was a good fifty nine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not alone doing it. He was doing radio in
Speaker 1: sant Antelo. Yeah. I don't think he is anymore. Now.
Speaker 1: I should have listened to the show. Shannon would tell
Speaker 1: us what he's doing now or Mickey. That's what I thought.
Speaker 1: I thought he was a restaurant to work to Chick
Speaker 1: fil A, And yes, you know that's that's actually that's
Speaker 1: big because I believe if you own a Chick fil A,
Speaker 1: it means you have to work at Chick fil A's
Speaker 1: correct for two years. I mean you have to do
Speaker 1: go through all the steps and stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's so. Dat was in there making
Speaker 1: like hey, yeah, get a doctor pepper Chick because of
Speaker 1: Dat can't take your order place. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1: I wish I could have just driven up and been
Speaker 1: like that, Hey, how are you doing? Cool? Okay number
Speaker 1: one with fries. Yeah, probably not sponsored, but whatever. And
Speaker 1: I think they tell you where your restaurant has to be.
Speaker 1: You can't like, oh, you don't tell him like hey,
Speaker 1: so you just put in basically say give me all
Speaker 1: the restaurant and they say, okay, we're gonna put your
Speaker 1: this location the general area. And they're like, hey, we
Speaker 1: want to put one here. Would you like to own
Speaker 1: that one? Does that make sense? Okay? Can't You can't
Speaker 1: be like, hey, it'd be great spot to put one
Speaker 1: right next. Well, basically what you have to do is
Speaker 1: you have to find a spot. Then you have to
Speaker 1: find the smallest parking lot in the world to put
Speaker 1: it right there with it. That's that's I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: I mean, one of my buddies that said this a
Speaker 1: long time ago. It's one of the funniest things ever.
Speaker 1: He's like, when my son gets old enough to drive,
Speaker 1: I'm just taking him to a Chick fil a parking
Speaker 1: lot and let him, you know, maneuver in there, because
Speaker 1: if you can do it through there, you can get
Speaker 1: through anywhere. Good point. That is a good point. All right,
Speaker 1: let's catch up on I would usually we talk about injuries.
Speaker 1: I only think there's one injury we're talking about this week,
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith. What are we hearing and what are you
Speaker 1: expecting to happen come Sunday. I'm start with expecting, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm expecting him to not be there and play. I'm
Speaker 1: not expecting him to play. Okay. He hasn't done much
Speaker 1: this week, he hasn't done any practicing, but they're still
Speaker 1: that they do. They don't practice today, they practice tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And McCarthy said multiple times today that if he doesn't
Speaker 1: do anything about him or he's not gonna play. But
Speaker 1: they're still sort of holding out hope that he can
Speaker 1: do that. But yes, I guess because it's tiring and
Speaker 1: because of the nature of the injury, I just have
Speaker 1: a feeling he won't play. That's my guess. How guess
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna keep the same line it. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking in Spanish, I almost starry speaking Spanish. Sorry, the
Speaker 1: same lineup. I don't if that's good or bad that
Speaker 1: you were going to do that, because it might mean
Speaker 1: you have some really strong opinions there um no, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like they're gonna keep the same lineup, keeps
Speaker 1: still on that side, which y'all, I really said it.
Speaker 1: I'm not happy with the decision, but don't be better
Speaker 1: than well, that's what I was going to ask you.
Speaker 1: I was actually just gonna ask you that, do you
Speaker 1: think with a week more of work, do you expect
Speaker 1: him to be better than he was last week? We
Speaker 1: know he's not tiring. He's not gonna be tiring. That's
Speaker 1: that's that's not what who he is. But you think
Speaker 1: he'll be better. Obviously he's gonna keep improving game after game.
Speaker 1: But I feel like at this point in a mid season,
Speaker 1: I'm wanting the least changes as possible. You know, when
Speaker 1: something is working, I don't want to mess with it.
Speaker 1: So that's why that's how I see it. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be fine, he might hold up. He's gonna keep
Speaker 1: improving week after week, but We're at the point of
Speaker 1: the year that I'm like, I'd rather not just put
Speaker 1: Lyle on less Lyle unless they did try it in
Speaker 1: practice and he completely butchered the whole day. In let's
Speaker 1: let's focus on that. I mean, I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: that happened, right, but we don't know. But they didn't practice.
Speaker 1: But Lyle missed the whole season last year. He came
Speaker 1: back to training camp, came back to preseason games, and
Speaker 1: the first couple of games he hasn't been great at
Speaker 1: his normal spot right which right tackle and left tackle
Speaker 1: is always considered to be harder than right tackle. So
Speaker 1: if he hasn't if he's come back to his normal
Speaker 1: spot hasn't been great, what do you think it would
Speaker 1: look like on the left side. Yeah, and not only that,
Speaker 1: but you factor in the fact that they are telling
Speaker 1: us that this is a shorter term injury. And this
Speaker 1: is what Bucky was talking about earlier this week. If
Speaker 1: you want to get Lyle kind of back in the
Speaker 1: groove on the right side, the last thing you want
Speaker 1: to do is maybe throw him to the left, and
Speaker 1: then Tyrn's back in a week or two, and now
Speaker 1: you got to throw him back to the right. Now
Speaker 1: he's not better at the right. He hadn't worked himself
Speaker 1: back into shape and the right, but he's been trying
Speaker 1: to do the it just gets very, very convoluted. So
Speaker 1: it makes more sense just to say, my swing tackle
Speaker 1: will put him over there, and let's just work with
Speaker 1: whatever we got to work with. But if he doesn't
Speaker 1: play well this week, I think you really start you
Speaker 1: have to look at tie and Seki as a possible
Speaker 1: left tackle replacement. Then I'm not sure Tian Seki will
Speaker 1: be any better than the last week, not either, but
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just you have to try something. Do
Speaker 1: you think do you think part of the issue is
Speaker 1: also he is on the left side with Connor Williams
Speaker 1: versus being on the right side with Zach Martin. I mean,
Speaker 1: and sometimes the guy that you're beside can help because
Speaker 1: the communication may be better. They may be able to
Speaker 1: have the ability to kind of help you out a
Speaker 1: little bit more in tough situations. Probably, Like do you
Speaker 1: think that that's a part of this as well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure it's It doesn't hurt,
Speaker 1: you know, it only helps to have, you know, And
Speaker 1: Zach Martin is is the best guard in the league
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and Carlin Williams is isn't the best
Speaker 1: guard in the league. That's a great analysis right there.
Speaker 1: He's not. He's not the best guard in the league.
Speaker 1: So anymore, there you go. What else? It's so true,
Speaker 1: it's like it's yeah, that's that's good. Nick, that's good.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into this. We got some storylines
Speaker 1: later in the show. Also, we got Amber's got a
Speaker 1: game for us, so we'll do that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But let's start with some of these storylines. Here's my
Speaker 1: first question for you guys. What do you think is
Speaker 1: the most important key to Dallas's offense getting back on track?
Speaker 1: After last week where they were uncharacteristically bad, that they
Speaker 1: have not had a game like that all season, what
Speaker 1: do you think is most important key to them getting
Speaker 1: back to where they were? Well? I think for them,
Speaker 1: I mean that you could say, you know, be balanced,
Speaker 1: run the ball, spread it around, you know, all the
Speaker 1: cliche things you say, but but you know, I think
Speaker 1: the most important thing. But after a game like that,
Speaker 1: it's probably just to score early. I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: take the ball to start the game. If you win
Speaker 1: the toss, but I think that you need you know,
Speaker 1: I think the best thing for them is to score early.
Speaker 1: If they can get a drive and score early in
Speaker 1: the game, I think that'll that'll really kind of you know,
Speaker 1: take them to that to that next level. That's that's
Speaker 1: to me, the biggest thing, just that flush is that
Speaker 1: other game out completely. You go, you score, you get
Speaker 1: a lead, you get back on track, so to speak,
Speaker 1: and then I think from there they can they can
Speaker 1: play in downhill. I think, Um, for me, it's hard
Speaker 1: to kind of single one thing out, but I would
Speaker 1: say just what they're doing this week, like refocusing after
Speaker 1: getting slapped in the face that side of their face,
Speaker 1: kind of cooling off and being like, Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: on the other side to be slapped because we have
Speaker 1: seen them being very much capable of overcoming every single
Speaker 1: obstacle and we know they can be a really powerful
Speaker 1: offense in scoring. So it's there, it's there, you know,
Speaker 1: you know they have it. So I think that's just
Speaker 1: it comes down to them being humble, refocused, prioritizing and
Speaker 1: having their game plan figure it out. I trust Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: I trust he's what he's been doing this year and
Speaker 1: coming up with creative ways to move the ball. So
Speaker 1: to me is that but if I had to pick
Speaker 1: something specifically in the game, is just mainly what happens
Speaker 1: in the old line, given that the protection he needs,
Speaker 1: even because we saw a last game and that's how
Speaker 1: we were talking about, well, the ankle is great because
Speaker 1: he had to run several times he got to Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was running out of the podcast because there was
Speaker 1: no protection there. So I would say if there is
Speaker 1: any kind of hesitation with him trying to connect with
Speaker 1: the guy, is just comes down to the old line,
Speaker 1: just trying to be as solid as possible. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing I'll point out if there was one
Speaker 1: thing that changed that they could change from last week
Speaker 1: to this that I think would make the difference, it
Speaker 1: would be Dak and Dak playing at the level that
Speaker 1: we're accustomed to seeing. Dak. We've heard some you know,
Speaker 1: he talked yesterday and talked about how footwork wasn't great
Speaker 1: sometimes throwing off the back foot. Those are the kinds
Speaker 1: of mechanics that I think sometimes as as fans, we
Speaker 1: don't always think about when a guy is coming back
Speaker 1: those kind of things. You think, well, they can just
Speaker 1: jump right back in but not having the repetitive motion
Speaker 1: of doing it daily as you've been doing all season,
Speaker 1: all the way back to minicamp. Right getting away from that,
Speaker 1: even for a week or two, there's a difference. Your
Speaker 1: body just loses some of that muscle memory, and that
Speaker 1: especially when you're talking about these are split second decisions.
Speaker 1: Like literally these guys are like you. They said he
Speaker 1: had We were looking at some of the stats. He
Speaker 1: had a long time in the pocket this games. He
Speaker 1: had three seconds versus two. Think about that, like, you're
Speaker 1: having to make decisions so fast and having to do
Speaker 1: things so quickly that if your muscle memory isn't on
Speaker 1: point to where your body is just reacting versus you know,
Speaker 1: versus you having to think about it and do it,
Speaker 1: that makes a difference. And so I think if Dak
Speaker 1: is better this week, even though there were some drop
Speaker 1: balls last week, I think if Dak is better, there's
Speaker 1: less a percentage chance that even if they have some
Speaker 1: drop balls that they won't connect on some of those
Speaker 1: plays that would have made a difference last week against
Speaker 1: that team. So I think if Dak is better, I
Speaker 1: think they get this offense backrolling. It was a second
Speaker 1: worst completion percentage game of his career and the worst
Speaker 1: when it doesn't snow. I mean, the other one was
Speaker 1: a snowy game against the Giants his rookie year, which
Speaker 1: by the way, they had won eleven straight when they
Speaker 1: when they played that game, and so here they are,
Speaker 1: you know, sixth straight. But the big difference obviously with
Speaker 1: him coming back from injury and the guy's being out
Speaker 1: and the receivers being out, and it just it just
Speaker 1: was a perfect storm to be terrible all the way
Speaker 1: across the board. We're joined by David Hellman coming from
Speaker 1: talking to coach mart Did he give you anything good? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to throw some of that out there? Trade
Speaker 1: keep going up on these octaves, trade secrets, trade secrets.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about it in the break. Yeah, there we go. Good. Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe sprinkle some of it in there. No one today,
Speaker 1: what's up? All right? Yeah? I just information sessions, we'll
Speaker 1: call them. They're very useful. All right, Well, I'll throw
Speaker 1: the question of you go through these guys, Uh, if
Speaker 1: you could identify one thing, what would be the most
Speaker 1: important key for Dallas this week for their offense to
Speaker 1: get back on track. I mean, I'm sorry if this
Speaker 1: sounds glib, But how about just like play good football.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean like, I don't mean because they lost.
Speaker 1: I mean they all played terribly. Like Dak's footwork was off.
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper dropped his only his first first drop of
Speaker 1: the year, first time he's been targeted and didn't catch it. Um,
Speaker 1: you attribute that to focus, So they're more focus focus, rust,
Speaker 1: especially in Dak's case where he can't do or wasn't
Speaker 1: able to do as much because of the calf injury.
Speaker 1: Probably focused, Probably pressing because the game started off against
Speaker 1: you and you're just scrambling to try to catch up.
Speaker 1: Like I know, like I said, that sounds almost like
Speaker 1: a smart Alec reply, But I don't think anybody on
Speaker 1: the entire offense played a sound game, and I think
Speaker 1: correcting that would go a long way. I am not
Speaker 1: to take too much credit away from the Broncos, but
Speaker 1: they didn't do themselves any favor with their own play.
Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna go ahead and take our first break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, We're gonna dive a little bit
Speaker 1: more into some of the storylines heading into this game.
Speaker 1: Particularly we're gonna talk about the pass rush and what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys need to do in order to get some
Speaker 1: pressure on Matt Ryan. We'll do that when we come
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Speaker 1: It is the second segment of the Break Life in
Speaker 1: the SWUBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, would talking big
Speaker 1: picture storylines heading into Cowboys versus Falcons my neck. My
Speaker 1: second question for you guys is, well, Dallas get pressure
Speaker 1: on Matt Ryan without Randy Gregory or DeMarcus Lawrence. And
Speaker 1: if so, how nick Um those guys are gonna have
Speaker 1: to PLU mean the bash him and Armstrong and Gholston.
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna have to uh do their job
Speaker 1: on the outside and wherever they put Parsons, wherever that is.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to, you know, to be as good
Speaker 1: as as as he's been. Oh yeah, man. And the
Speaker 1: thing about quarterbacks like this, Matt Ryan and you know
Speaker 1: Eli Manning kind of I mean, they're they're they're they're
Speaker 1: not gonna beat you with their athleticism, but they know
Speaker 1: how to get rid of the ball, So you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, to me, the best, the three guys that
Speaker 1: are gonna help the pass rush of the most are
Speaker 1: gonna be Anthony Brown, Trayvon Diggs, and Jordan Lewis. If
Speaker 1: they can get their guys locked in and not get
Speaker 1: beat early on and force him to make some tough decisions,
Speaker 1: then I think that's going to help the pass rushmore
Speaker 1: than anything. I'm gonna say. No, Matt Ryan is very
Speaker 1: good at getting rid of the ball. Like Nick just said,
Speaker 1: like a quarterback who knows where he wants to put
Speaker 1: the ball before it's even snapped is always going to
Speaker 1: be tough to sack. That's why Brady doesn't take a
Speaker 1: lot of sacks historically. I just hope. So. No, I
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna be able to consistently pressure him,
Speaker 1: but I don't need it all the time anyway. If
Speaker 1: if and I'm looking at Micah Parsons specifically, I'm sure
Speaker 1: they're gonna use him as a blitzer. I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: gonna do some situational edge rush and I don't even
Speaker 1: need you to sack him. I just need you to
Speaker 1: make him uncomfortable enough that the throw is off or
Speaker 1: he's got to get rid of it, or he's got
Speaker 1: to check it down when he's looking for something else.
Speaker 1: If Micah Parsons can do that a couple a handful
Speaker 1: of times in crunch situations, red zone, end of half scenarios,
Speaker 1: that's good enough considering what they're lacking. But I don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be able to consistently pressure him in
Speaker 1: the flow of the game. I guess we'll have to
Speaker 1: tune in on Sunday the game. No, but I just
Speaker 1: don't see any other That's what McCarthy said yesterday. He
Speaker 1: was like games at noon. Oh, I'm sorry, Wow, you
Speaker 1: are on one. Did not didn't pick that up at all.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm bad and dumb. I'll go in the corner.
Speaker 1: But I just don't see any other way with like
Speaker 1: them being successful without using the help of Micah and
Speaker 1: everything that Dave said. And I know your Nick is
Speaker 1: not necessarily a fan of that idea, and he wants
Speaker 1: it to be you know, here and there, but not fully.
Speaker 1: But I just it's it's kind of like pick your
Speaker 1: poison type of not pick your poison. What nothing I
Speaker 1: was telling Derek. I want to talk when you're done oh,
Speaker 1: don't be distractable. No, but it depends, okay, which which
Speaker 1: area of the field are you willing to sacrifice a
Speaker 1: little more. You know, these eyes in the backfield are
Speaker 1: gonna need help from whatever pressure they can create up front.
Speaker 1: So I would rather create as much pressure as I can,
Speaker 1: even though it's not gonna be easy, but with a
Speaker 1: guy like Mica and relieve some of what's been happening,
Speaker 1: you know, some of the all the work on the backfield.
Speaker 1: So other than that, I just don't see how it's
Speaker 1: fully successful. I think Dave. I think it was Dave
Speaker 1: that said it best. I don't change my whole tune.
Speaker 1: I don't really care where Parsons lines up. He needs
Speaker 1: to play eighty to ninety percent of the snaps. Don't
Speaker 1: this rotating him at forty to fifty percent like to
Speaker 1: happen in the Charger game. I'm not okay with that.
Speaker 1: He needs to be on the field. There were some
Speaker 1: two point conversions in that game. There were plays where
Speaker 1: he just wasn't out there because it wasn't his turn.
Speaker 1: Now he needs to play lineback if it's almost a
Speaker 1: linebacker and moving around. That's what I want him to do.
Speaker 1: I want him on the field. So wherever that is,
Speaker 1: let's get him on the field. All right, Let's go
Speaker 1: onto the next question. How much does the move from
Speaker 1: Zeroline to Hira lah Who Hallelujah hurt your earliest. I
Speaker 1: can't say that. I can't say Hira lah Who because
Speaker 1: I can't say that. I just said it good, not
Speaker 1: the other word. That Christmas word doesn't come out. An
Speaker 1: he can't say it. It doesn't. It doesn't come out. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't do it. It's terrible. But Hira lah who's working? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were there like Amber. You just said it right now,
Speaker 1: Hira la Who. We're good. The whole show can say
Speaker 1: Hira lah Who. Yeah, we're all good. I'm good. All right.
Speaker 1: So how much does the move from Zeroline to Hira
Speaker 1: La affect Hira lah who affects Dallas on special teams?
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about field goals, talking about extra points
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about kickoffs, canny watermelon, I mean, can
Speaker 1: he do that? Does he has to? It's not gonna
Speaker 1: be good. I say, I hope he doesn't need to, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's another McCarthy. We'll see will I mean,
Speaker 1: how can you do this guy's never kicked. He's never
Speaker 1: kicked a game, he never kicked in an NFL game,
Speaker 1: he's never kicked in America, I mean, like in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But a position like that, how much does it really
Speaker 1: really change to practice? Okay, but my point is when
Speaker 1: you're looking at a position like that, you know, because
Speaker 1: we can talk about receivers, tackles, but oh, it's very
Speaker 1: very different compared to practice when you're in a game.
Speaker 1: But then for a kicker, how much does that really
Speaker 1: change when like comparing practicing game in high school people,
Speaker 1: you had to do a speech, you did it in
Speaker 1: front of your mirror, you rocked it, and then you
Speaker 1: stood up there in front of twenty eight people, and it's, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that has but this is not
Speaker 1: the same thing. But this guy has six years of
Speaker 1: experience in the CFLs Day said, like, I didn't look
Speaker 1: up the numbers, but you said, get a decent number
Speaker 1: of people at those stadiums fifty sixty thousand people. So
Speaker 1: this is not something that he's unfamiliar with when it
Speaker 1: comes to even the crowd aspect. Right, But true, all
Speaker 1: that is true. I just know that every year they
Speaker 1: don't just take the All Star kicker from the CFL
Speaker 1: and put him in the lead. It just doesn't happened.
Speaker 1: There's always an All Star kicker. It doesn't always move
Speaker 1: to the NFL. It's gonna be different. And I think
Speaker 1: we're fooling ourselves if we don't think it is. But
Speaker 1: we'll see. He might just he might just go out
Speaker 1: there and rocket. Those numbers are good. Those are good numbers,
Speaker 1: I think more than more than the crowd. Conditions for
Speaker 1: a kicker matter more. And so he's kicked through that.
Speaker 1: I like what There are no conditions at AT and
Speaker 1: T Stadium pretty much. I mean can be if they
Speaker 1: decided they want to open the doors, and they might
Speaker 1: actually again, I mean that's what That's what they banked
Speaker 1: on last year was that, you know, help with COVID
Speaker 1: and all that has opened those doors, get the air
Speaker 1: going through. They haven't always done it this year, no,
Speaker 1: I think they've done it twice. It did last game,
Speaker 1: they did it last week. Never opened the roof though,
Speaker 1: most gorgeous day you could ever ask for, But they're
Speaker 1: not going to open them. They don't even when it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful day like I thought that would be the norm,
Speaker 1: and when a beautiful day, they'd open it. I just
Speaker 1: that's just not It's not a thing. They don't like
Speaker 1: the roof open for whatever reason, only if they get
Speaker 1: asked by ESPN or NBC for a night game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't know if the roof's ever
Speaker 1: been open for a day game. I'd have to look
Speaker 1: that up. I don't know that it has because you
Speaker 1: can tell by the by the sunlight on there. It's
Speaker 1: there's been some That's what I like about it is
Speaker 1: it looks like Texas Stadium when they do well what's
Speaker 1: I figured they'd open it a lot to make it
Speaker 1: look like Texas Stadium. But whatever. Um, I'm curious about
Speaker 1: the kickoff aspect with Lerim. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: got the leg strength to consistently banging out of the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone. And Cordarrel Patterson has Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame credentials as a kick returner, so fearless, he's
Speaker 1: I mean, he's great, he will, he will if he
Speaker 1: gets to eight yards deep. He's coming out right pretty much.
Speaker 1: He's always done that. He's not afraid. And I if
Speaker 1: anybody's got the green light, you would guess that it's him,
Speaker 1: so just something to watch. I'm not I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a touchdown, but I just it makes
Speaker 1: me curious. What's harder for you to spell Hira law
Speaker 1: Who or Cordurel Patterson Hira law who, just because I
Speaker 1: didn't know who he was until a month ago, Whereas
Speaker 1: Patterson's been in the league for he actually his name though.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like there's two rs, three ls, and
Speaker 1: he was even it's one one R, no one are
Speaker 1: the first time, two hours, the second time, two ells
Speaker 1: and two els, two ells. I didn't a little, he wrote.
Speaker 1: They wanted to draft him. They I was gonna. I
Speaker 1: wrote yesterday about all the recent It's eerie. I wrote
Speaker 1: a whole column about it. Just the Cowboys and Falcons
Speaker 1: have occupied an eerily similar place in the NFL hierarchy.
Speaker 1: Like they haven't been good consistently over the last decade,
Speaker 1: but when they have been good, they've been good at
Speaker 1: the same time. Their records have been similar, so they're
Speaker 1: always around each other. You know. Atlanta traded up for
Speaker 1: Tack McKinley, which is who Dallas wanted. They settled for Taco.
Speaker 1: They took aj Tarrell which opened the door for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to draft CD and then yeah, even going I
Speaker 1: remember the um, well that's not Atlanta, do Dave. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Minnesota drafted Patterson right out from in front of Dallas,
Speaker 1: and I remember Derek Dooley, who coached Adderson at Tennessee,
Speaker 1: was furious. He was just like, they're taking all our guys.
Speaker 1: What is happening here? So it's interesting how those guys
Speaker 1: take it so personally, which is whenever you get your
Speaker 1: guy taken, they took our God, that's what makes the
Speaker 1: draft fun. I mean a lot of things make the
Speaker 1: draft fun, but yeah, it's it's interesting the way. Same thing. Um,
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley was a guy we talked about a lot
Speaker 1: the year he came out, and they opted for Layton,
Speaker 1: and then five or six spots later Atlanta took Ridley.
Speaker 1: So just a lot of a lot of weird coincidences
Speaker 1: with these two teams. Let's get one more question, a
Speaker 1: big picture question. Who has a great advantage due to familiarity?
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn or Matt Ryan? Uh? True? Um, I asked you.
Speaker 1: I gotta asked this question yesterday. I think it's um,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan has it has more of an advantage. I
Speaker 1: think just seeing concepts and style of the way that
Speaker 1: that dan Quinn likes to play. I know he's got
Speaker 1: different personnel, but I think when you're a quarterback, like
Speaker 1: like Matt Ryan, you've had to be a student of
Speaker 1: the game for a long time. I feel like he
Speaker 1: will be able to kind of I mean, just be
Speaker 1: able to understand the approach of what Quinn's trying to
Speaker 1: do more so than Quinn can do it with Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: Because do you think he's running the same the same
Speaker 1: defense here as what he ran in it later? No?
Speaker 1: I mean which I would I would say Quinn, because
Speaker 1: unless Quinn's been lying to us, he he's talked a
Speaker 1: lot about how he's completely revamped this whole thing. It's
Speaker 1: a he's not just running Seattle cover three. That's not
Speaker 1: what he does. I'm talking about being distractable, right, Um,
Speaker 1: So I'd say Quinn just began. I mean to be fair,
Speaker 1: Ryan's in a different scheme with different personnel as well,
Speaker 1: but you just develop such a level of familiarity with
Speaker 1: your quarterback coaching there for six years. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: just think dan Quinn just as an example, It's like
Speaker 1: I know a slot blitz and this part of the
Speaker 1: field is going to mess with him or what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's just generic example, But like dan Quinn knows his tendencies,
Speaker 1: he knows his body language, he knows what rattles him
Speaker 1: and what doesn't. And Matt Ryan knows a lot about
Speaker 1: dan Quinn obviously, but it's just all different personnel and
Speaker 1: according to Quinn, a very different scheme from what he
Speaker 1: was doing when he was still a head coach. So
Speaker 1: I think I would bet on Quinn. I would agree
Speaker 1: with that mainly because I'm looking for from the like
Speaker 1: experienced perspective and like, who's the coach here, who's the
Speaker 1: one that And I'm not saying obviously a quarterback has
Speaker 1: to study and he has experience too, but as far
Speaker 1: as like who invested, that is his job full on
Speaker 1: one thousand percent. So I would imagine that dan Quinn
Speaker 1: would be the one to actually benefit the most in
Speaker 1: this scenario. But it'll be fun, it would be fun
Speaker 1: to watch and actually see what actually happens. I just
Speaker 1: think when you're out and you're practicing, you know, and
Speaker 1: you're practicing against the defense, like he's actually seeing their
Speaker 1: concepts more when you're I mean I don't know how
Speaker 1: many times that dan Quinn's actually studying how to stop
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. No, but what he does know, and this
Speaker 1: is the part where I think I agree on on
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan on dan Quinn being having the advantage is
Speaker 1: any successful head coach in the NFL has to know
Speaker 1: his quarterback really, really well. And that means I think
Speaker 1: Dave hit it on the on the head when he said,
Speaker 1: you know his body language, how he responds in certain situations,
Speaker 1: what he's trying to do when he gets a little
Speaker 1: bit rattled, when he gets into those are the kinds
Speaker 1: of things that a head coach has to read from
Speaker 1: his quarterback to know, Okay, how do we keep him
Speaker 1: out of bad situations? That's the part where you don't
Speaker 1: have He doesn't know that about dan Quinn necessarily, right.
Speaker 1: It's like he doesn't know the body language part and
Speaker 1: all that he's gonna be. He's gonna be up in
Speaker 1: the press box something, not the press box, but up
Speaker 1: in the coaches boot so he's not gonna even see him.
Speaker 1: So I just I just think it's it's it's just
Speaker 1: a familiarity. It's just kind of knowing. We all know people,
Speaker 1: you know, well, you can kind of see on their
Speaker 1: face when things aren't going right, and you know how
Speaker 1: they typically respond in those situations. You know what things
Speaker 1: really push their buttons. And so it's those kind of
Speaker 1: things that are that are more mental that I think
Speaker 1: that I'm more mental that can create some problems for
Speaker 1: Ryan that may not be the same for for dan Quinn. Disagree,
Speaker 1: just like I did yesterday. Good, all right, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: a game for us. You got some questions, Let's go
Speaker 1: which is there? All questions kind of more since we're
Speaker 1: mid season, just general overall, not necessarily focused on this
Speaker 1: game for this weekend. Okay, okay, So if they always
Speaker 1: where to lose another game, which one do you think
Speaker 1: would hurt them the less, the least least? Yes, which
Speaker 1: one would you prefer them to if they had to
Speaker 1: lose another game? Which opponent it was losing the AFC
Speaker 1: always lose the game? That's going to affect the You
Speaker 1: got two operations, got a specific team, Well, they've got
Speaker 1: two AFC teams on the horizon right here. So I
Speaker 1: think those are their last AFC games of the year,
Speaker 1: right yeah, because they've already played Denver in LA and
Speaker 1: New England. So yeah, and I said that, Yes, Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't believe in bad juju anyway, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to put this out into the world. But
Speaker 1: like they could lose, like they could lose all three
Speaker 1: of these and they would still everything they need to
Speaker 1: do would still be out in front of them. Division
Speaker 1: schedule is backloaded. They still got to play four of
Speaker 1: the six division games. I think they could lose all
Speaker 1: three and probably still have the division lead depending on
Speaker 1: what happens with the other teams. And I know that's
Speaker 1: not what anybody wants to hear after a six and
Speaker 1: one start, but that's what we always talk about. Like
Speaker 1: football is it's a living, breathing season, right, Like you
Speaker 1: could suck for the next three weeks and then get
Speaker 1: Randy and DeMarcus Lawrence back and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: your pass rushes humming and all this other stuff is
Speaker 1: happening and everything's still out in front of you. So
Speaker 1: that's a long answer, But like they could, they could
Speaker 1: have a real slump here and it still wouldn't affect
Speaker 1: their ability to accomplish the Chiefs. Chiefs would be the
Speaker 1: word would hurt them the least, I think, more than
Speaker 1: the Raiders. And the reason why I would say that
Speaker 1: is because I kind of want them to get on
Speaker 1: a I think they need to have the positive momentum
Speaker 1: of the Raiders game to get a win so the
Speaker 1: least would be, you know, you go out there and
Speaker 1: you beat Kansas City, then they'll be printing Super Bowl
Speaker 1: tickets again. And then you go in four days already
Speaker 1: lose the Raiders. I mean that's just like here we
Speaker 1: go again. I think if you know, you lose the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: they're going to figure it out. They got a great quarterback,
Speaker 1: they got a great crowd, coach, all that on the road,
Speaker 1: But come back four days and go and beat the Raiders.
Speaker 1: I think that would, like you said, help the momentum.
Speaker 1: So if it's one of the other, I would say Chiefs, ye. Well.
Speaker 1: And then within the division, I mean there's no such
Speaker 1: thing as a good division loss, but um, it's almost
Speaker 1: you have to figure out who do you think is
Speaker 1: the worst team in the NFC East and loose to them,
Speaker 1: because then like you want to beat the team you
Speaker 1: think has any shot if there is one, of getting
Speaker 1: back into the division race. I mean, I'm always going
Speaker 1: to be leary of Washington. Just be like, they haven't
Speaker 1: had their quarterback. He's gonna come back. It's one point,
Speaker 1: and I know the defense has been bad, but again,
Speaker 1: you can figure things out as the season goes, and
Speaker 1: so them, and but then like it seems like Philly
Speaker 1: might be sort of getting their act together. I can't tell.
Speaker 1: I know, it's all these seems like you're just like
Speaker 1: they look bad, but you never know. There's something good
Speaker 1: about that though too. They all like kind of have
Speaker 1: the arrow pointed up. Maybe not Washington just yet, but
Speaker 1: you think that they might. But the good thing is
Speaker 1: is they got to play each other. That's always a thing.
Speaker 1: They always kind of beat each other, just like just
Speaker 1: like it's tough with the Cowboys beating them, because you know,
Speaker 1: the division games are always tough. But if they just
Speaker 1: kind of hold serve at home and win their games
Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff, that'll just keep them at
Speaker 1: that level down there, and they hope, you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can if they get there. If New York
Speaker 1: gets Saquon back and he's healthy, I actually think that
Speaker 1: could make a big difference. They're not playing horrible football
Speaker 1: right now. Their defense is actually pretty good. I just
Speaker 1: I look at them and I'm like, man, they really
Speaker 1: just need that. They need that offensive player that can
Speaker 1: make big plays for them. They don't have that right
Speaker 1: now in their offense. I don't think they got a
Speaker 1: lot of receivers that are kind of miss hit or miss.
Speaker 1: They don't have a guy they can rely on at
Speaker 1: office to make me play for I'm out on them
Speaker 1: until Daniel Jones does something to prove that I should
Speaker 1: think that he's good. He's not great. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's good. So this is the second time the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have faced the team that picked up a road win
Speaker 1: at New Orleans the week before, Right, didn't the Giants
Speaker 1: do that, beat them on the road? Point? I think
Speaker 1: about that, And then the Atlanta did the same thing.
Speaker 1: And there they come in and just beat the Saints.
Speaker 1: And it's funny too, and I'm not saying anybody's wrong,
Speaker 1: but these things have residual effects. It's like they went
Speaker 1: into the Dome and beat the Saints and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: are these the Saints that were that really terrified you? No,
Speaker 1: Saints are probably the most maddeningly inconsistent team in the NFL. Right,
Speaker 1: and they got five wins. Yes, that's amazing, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're messing up the game. Let's go, let's play the game.
Speaker 1: That's the whole point. But um, injury wise, up until
Speaker 1: this point of the season, which injury do you think
Speaker 1: will have affected the Cowboys the most. We're talking about
Speaker 1: right up until right now, Yeah, because we don't know
Speaker 1: really what's going to happen. I mean, not having he
Speaker 1: was your best defender when the season started. Not having
Speaker 1: arguably your best defender for the entire season at this point,
Speaker 1: I'm sure has had an effect. The flip side of
Speaker 1: that is, it's exciting that you're getting him back at
Speaker 1: some point. But when DeMarcus, when you suck that one
Speaker 1: without him, yeah or six, how much better could they
Speaker 1: have been? Instead? We'll see. I mean, well, Brandy hasn't
Speaker 1: missed any time yet, he missed one game. You're saying,
Speaker 1: you're up until now, right now with the injuries that
Speaker 1: we currently know, and we know that Randy my miss
Speaker 1: like what three elite maybe he's gonna miss three games,
Speaker 1: So I miss, I think I'm misunderstanding the question. I
Speaker 1: thought you were talking about the biggest thing that's happened
Speaker 1: to this point in the season, well, including the injuries
Speaker 1: that we currently know of. I will into Marcus Larrence.
Speaker 1: I would actually I would go the other day because
Speaker 1: I would think about it from a standpoint of consequence.
Speaker 1: As you get back, they haven't played with DeMarcus all
Speaker 1: season and the defense has been markedly better than it
Speaker 1: was last year. That doesn't mean when he comes back,
Speaker 1: they're not going to be even better, you would think,
Speaker 1: and he's going to add something that they don't have.
Speaker 1: But I look at Tyren Smith and last week his
Speaker 1: replacement was a problem. And if you want to go
Speaker 1: even farther and get a little bit, you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit crazy with this, maybe you even say the
Speaker 1: injuries heard him most has been Dak. Because Dak's return
Speaker 1: last week, the product of how he played might have
Speaker 1: been he didn't play like that because of the Bronco right,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I mean they played well, but I think
Speaker 1: the fact that he was missing time and all that,
Speaker 1: I think that certainly affected him more than Denver. I
Speaker 1: was focusing on defense because there have been so many
Speaker 1: more injuries on defense. But that you're right now, I
Speaker 1: think Tyrn's the right answer because I have all the
Speaker 1: confidence in the world that Dak that was just a blip,
Speaker 1: like whatever you want to call I don't. I'm not
Speaker 1: worried that he's gonna play early on Sunday. I am
Speaker 1: worried about what the tackles are going to look like.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, Randy missed the second game of the year.
Speaker 1: Is that what happened? Yeah, with COVID. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: so they went into the Chargers with okay, and they
Speaker 1: lost to Marcus the same week they I mean, they
Speaker 1: were in this situation week two as well. Let me
Speaker 1: throw this at you, though, do you think maybe Zach
Speaker 1: Martin would be considered because the game he missed. I
Speaker 1: think if they would have had him, their running game
Speaker 1: probably would have been a lot better, and maybe they
Speaker 1: win that close game against Camp with us start the season.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're wrong, but I can't just go there,
Speaker 1: you know, just don't guarantee you Yeah, yeah, but wouldn't
Speaker 1: like they were horrible. They just didn't. And it's Brady
Speaker 1: and it's the reigning champs playing on Banner Night. Oh no, man,
Speaker 1: I mean they get if they get it. I mean
Speaker 1: we're talking like one play, Yeah, one play, either they
Speaker 1: run the ball in front of touchdown or or at
Speaker 1: that final drive they just get one more first down,
Speaker 1: one more first down, then another short field goal. Actually
Speaker 1: well you know, and sometimes an all program yard can
Speaker 1: just help you like that, Like I mean, if they
Speaker 1: would have got one more first down, bleed the clock down,
Speaker 1: kick a field goal, win the game. But then who
Speaker 1: knows that they go and play the beat the Chargers.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean, that's just the way of this.
Speaker 1: You can make fun of me all you want, ag
Speaker 1: but I believe in the law of averages implicitly, Like
Speaker 1: if they beat Tampa, they for some reason, they're not
Speaker 1: going to five win. They're not. Yeah, they're not seven
Speaker 1: and oh because because of that one thing. There's I
Speaker 1: just there's too many weird factors in the NFL. If
Speaker 1: you have to pick one thing, what would be the
Speaker 1: biggest fix that this Skyways team needs for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season healthy tyrants Man, please please tyrant I
Speaker 1: would say short yardage. Yeah, figure out short yardage because
Speaker 1: right now they're not very good in those situations. Figure
Speaker 1: out how to if you got to get to a
Speaker 1: fourth down and one fourth and one fourth and two,
Speaker 1: figure out how to pick that up and you got
Speaker 1: you got enough pieces on this offense to be able
Speaker 1: to consistently do that, and they're not consistently doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think that's the right answer.
Speaker 1: Center guard in the middle there and there's no doubt
Speaker 1: and you know, we can say all we wanted about what.
Speaker 1: Washington doesn't look very good. The last two times the
Speaker 1: Cowboys a face Washington, it was not pretty. Now the
Speaker 1: offensive line doesn't look the same. Jack Martin hadn't hasn't
Speaker 1: played guard in any of those games. Tyran Smith didn't
Speaker 1: play in those games. But I mean that's the last
Speaker 1: time we saw Washington. They were scoring more more points
Speaker 1: than the Cowboys offense. Was seemed like the defense was
Speaker 1: scoring all these points. So Dak was missing from those
Speaker 1: games too, that's worth bringing up. Yeah, fair, but I
Speaker 1: mean you can't block them. He can't block them though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that that first one, the first
Speaker 1: Washington game just was ridiculous. Like the line was a mess.
Speaker 1: Dalton got concussed in like the second quarter. Nobody cared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that looks like that hurt. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure the that was they wasn't it. That was
Speaker 1: the week after Dak, right, Yeah, there was such a
Speaker 1: hangover on that team. They that's throw that game out
Speaker 1: completely anyway. Okay, Uh, we know a lot of guys
Speaker 1: are under this is their contract year, so biggest priority
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys going into free agency. Oh god, there's
Speaker 1: so many good choices on Randy. Randy, Randy. You get Randy.
Speaker 1: Everybody else is like, Okay, maybe we want you, maybe
Speaker 1: we don't. I don't know. If I could serve anybody,
Speaker 1: it would be Randy. And it's yeah, he plays the
Speaker 1: most valuable position of any of them. The story's so good,
Speaker 1: just the way the way that their patients paid off
Speaker 1: with him. And he's still a relatively young player in
Speaker 1: terms of age and the amount of football he's actually played.
Speaker 1: One him, you can keep him like, you can just
Speaker 1: tag him and you don't even have to worry about it.
Speaker 1: I just I don't I don't remember when it happened,
Speaker 1: but I suggested that in the spring. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I was like, he could play his way into a
Speaker 1: franchise tag and I feel like nobody agreed with me. Right, well,
Speaker 1: we just ignore you. Sometimes it's fairly busy thinking out
Speaker 1: other things. Okay, all right, find the clip, I'll go
Speaker 1: find it. Receipts. I'm fine with that answer. I just
Speaker 1: wonder if you're that means you have two pass rushers
Speaker 1: or one. That's what I wonder worst. While you do it,
Speaker 1: can you keep tank if you do that? I think
Speaker 1: you can. Yeah, look at look at the rams. They
Speaker 1: figure it out. Okay, if you're willing to just completely
Speaker 1: mortgage everything and cannon ball into the pool, you can
Speaker 1: do whatever you want. Yeah, And I'm not saying that's
Speaker 1: definitely a bad idea. You just gotta be committed. I mean,
Speaker 1: at some point, you look at this team, you say
Speaker 1: you got a lot of talent. Man, at some point
Speaker 1: you say, push them all in. See what happens. Sean
Speaker 1: mcfaih is gonna get fired in three years. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be three and fourteen or three and fifteen, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, it's gonna talent depleted. And yes, like,
Speaker 1: well what happens. It's like, what do you mean? What happened?
Speaker 1: They went all in the twenty twenty one and they
Speaker 1: got bounced in the playoffs and then they ended up
Speaker 1: not drafting it. I mean, even what they did a
Speaker 1: quarterback that's an older quarterback, that's and I'm thinking another
Speaker 1: four it's worth. I mean, you know, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: two or three years to try to win a super
Speaker 1: Bowl with this roster, and if it works, nobody's gonna care. Yeah, true,
Speaker 1: especial if it works multiple times, like he will, It'll
Speaker 1: be okay, It'll be fine. Yeah, it's it's I think
Speaker 1: it's I love it. I'm I'm fascinated by it because
Speaker 1: if it works, it could severely change attitudes in the
Speaker 1: league about that type of stuff, because that the reason
Speaker 1: people don't do that more often is because football is
Speaker 1: so hard to predict. Like you could push your chips
Speaker 1: in the middle of the table and Tony Romo breaks
Speaker 1: his back during a preseason game and all of this
Speaker 1: hard work is undone by a flukey play. But the
Speaker 1: Eagles did it. They won a Super Bowl and didn't
Speaker 1: change many hearts and minds? Did did they go all in?
Speaker 1: It seemed like that year they were just like it
Speaker 1: seemed like they were doing then what the Rams are
Speaker 1: doing now, where they were just like, I think, pick
Speaker 1: up this guy, pick up this guy up. The Eagles
Speaker 1: added a lot of talent, but it wasn't as you
Speaker 1: think it was. His drastic drastick is a better word.
Speaker 1: I was about to say reckless. The Ms are this
Speaker 1: is the Rams are drastic the ram Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it borders on reckless, which it's gonna I just I
Speaker 1: wonder if it works out I think you have to
Speaker 1: start having conversations about like, how do we overvalue draft picks?
Speaker 1: Do we? But do we worry too much about the
Speaker 1: future when you have an opportunity in front of you.
Speaker 1: But the thing is is Odell's gonna have to fit
Speaker 1: in up there. He has to. He has to change
Speaker 1: some of the ways that he's you know, reportedly you know,
Speaker 1: been acting in Cleveland, and and he's gotta you know,
Speaker 1: if he didn't get the ball enough there, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to, you know, make sure he gets the I mean,
Speaker 1: but I think he I would like to think that
Speaker 1: he will, you know, I'd like to think he picked them.
Speaker 1: They got They got a lot of receivers, a lot
Speaker 1: of good receivers. They do. But they're but you know,
Speaker 1: when you're winning, you can you can, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of deal with that kind of stuff. But we'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I've made the point. I don't remember when
Speaker 1: I said it. I just I think O'Dell and Dez
Speaker 1: are very very similar players and people. I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if they're they're winning twelve or thirteen games,
Speaker 1: I think he'll be fine having a role. But when
Speaker 1: they hit choppy water, that could be a problem. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be healthy. Yeah, I mean, if he's that's the
Speaker 1: big thing. We saw he's still he'd still be running
Speaker 1: in that reverse against them last year. You know, God,
Speaker 1: I mean you know he was healthy and he and
Speaker 1: he showed it. All right, real quick. You don't have
Speaker 1: to you don't have to go to me. I've done it.
Speaker 1: Nicks at thirty one, we said it's thirty five thirteen,
Speaker 1: thirty five thirteen. All right, yeah, all right. So here's
Speaker 1: the thing you got to remember. Garrett nuss Meyer is
Speaker 1: gonna get in on Saturday night. They're gonna let him
Speaker 1: play because the season's a watch anyway. Jalen Catalan's hurt,
Speaker 1: Arkansas's secondaries kind of where we go, Let's go. He's like,
Speaker 1: he's very athletic, he can run around, extend plays. He's
Speaker 1: got a cannon arm. I think it's gonna be high scoring.
Speaker 1: I think Lsu wins a shoot. Nust Meyer is that
Speaker 1: Nuss Yes, Nuss's kid is gonna play. He's probably not
Speaker 1: gonna start. So I don't like thirty thirty one twenty
Speaker 1: seven Tigers. But people that don't know he saw an
Speaker 1: Lsu versus Arkansas and and we do have a bet
Speaker 1: on that? Will you here Tuesday when we make What
Speaker 1: color is the jersey that it brought us? Jersey? Purple? Okay,
Speaker 1: so Nickolie to be wearing a white LSU jersey on
Speaker 1: Monday or Dave will be wearing a Arkansas razorback head gear? No, right,
Speaker 1: we will have facebook. Yah, you bring the face. This
Speaker 1: is the closest Arkansas has ever had a chance to
Speaker 1: win this game. You know, I think I cannot wait?
Speaker 1: What time is the game? Six thirty? Yeah? Arkansas is
Speaker 1: a road Arkansas is a road favorite. That's disgusting. Come on,
Speaker 1: what's going road favorite? They've been the better team this year?
Speaker 1: Been Arkansas has been the better team this year. It'll
Speaker 1: it'll it'll be a fun though. I think I think
Speaker 1: we got it. It'll be more fun Monday and it
Speaker 1: will be we'll see, Oh, trust hope. But I hope
Speaker 1: that freshman play, I really do. I mean, he could
Speaker 1: be great, but I wouldn't mind the freshman quarterback being
Speaker 1: out there. Dave, you want to give me a prediction
Speaker 1: out Boys games? Yeah? Um, I think. I mean. The
Speaker 1: one thing I know is Dallas is going to play
Speaker 1: a better game. Like I said, no, disrespect to the Broncos.
Speaker 1: I think it was way more about what they didn't
Speaker 1: do than what Denver did. Uh, it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: It's the NFL. Losing gr Randy doesn't help. The Falcons
Speaker 1: offense has the potential to blow up on you. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think Dallas is they're better. They're going to
Speaker 1: play a better game. I do think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: kind of stressful. I got thirty eight twenty seven shootout,
Speaker 1: Cowboys win, But definitely it's gonna be a stressful affair. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the defense is not it's gonna have a
Speaker 1: hard time. I just think that without Randy that's just
Speaker 1: gonna kind of mess things up for them. But I
Speaker 1: think that the offense will pick it up and do
Speaker 1: their job for both eyes of the ball. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be throwing touchdown passes even to a point conversion in there.
Speaker 1: Why not Cowboys win? M thinking like thirty twenty six
Speaker 1: twenty six? All right, I also think the Cowboys will win.
Speaker 1: I think it will be a game that I kind
Speaker 1: of agree with Nick. I think Cowboys will come out
Speaker 1: and they will be highly motivated, and I think they'll
Speaker 1: be very focused and I think the better team will win.
Speaker 1: I think they win thirty one calling for the blowout, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think thirty one to like sixteen. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be one of those games it's kind of lopsided
Speaker 1: and Cowboys just kind of take control early and take it,
Speaker 1: just run away with the game. I don't think I'll
Speaker 1: be close. Monday is gonna be forget LSU Arkansas. Monday
Speaker 1: is gonna be so rough. If if we're wrong, Hey,
Speaker 1: if we're wrong, then the whole tone of the show
Speaker 1: next week will be very different than anything we've experienced this.
Speaker 1: It's gonna go like it will change every single flip.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go from planning out Super Bowl parades to
Speaker 1: when does the draft show sea We maybe having those
Speaker 1: kind of conversations. All right, Appreciate you guys, Joannas be
Speaker 1: back next week for Nick Even, Dave helm and Ambergarcia.
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