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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number fifty five. Welcome
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Speaker 1: Chris Beam. All right, Nick, let's let's get some updates done.
Speaker 1: Some injuries, um it I mean obviously there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people listed on the on the injury report
Speaker 1: this week. I think the most interesting one with CD
Speaker 1: because it happened during this week. It's not like it's
Speaker 1: coming off a game that he came back into or something.
Speaker 1: What are we hearing at this point about CD and
Speaker 1: his possibility of playing this week? The McCarthy said the
Speaker 1: court was he's not of high concern. It comes to that,
Speaker 1: and that goes It's the same with all the other receivers.
Speaker 1: So UM, I think it's it's concerning just because they're
Speaker 1: they're they're all on the list, but I think all
Speaker 1: of them are are expected to play, and that includes Michael.
Speaker 1: That includes Michael Gallup. He said he looks looking good.
Speaker 1: Now they have to make a roster spot for him.
Speaker 1: They don't have to play him, but I think it
Speaker 1: might come down to just the comfort level on where
Speaker 1: CD is, where a Mari is, UM obviously Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown. If they feel like they need to play
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, they probably will. If everyone was completely healthy,
Speaker 1: that they may not play him. But I think he's
Speaker 1: he's good to go, And if they can figure out
Speaker 1: a spot on the roster, which I'm sure they can,
Speaker 1: then I bet Gallup can play this weekend. It probably
Speaker 1: would make sense to do it, considering all the other
Speaker 1: injuries and just CD a little banged up. Mary's always
Speaker 1: banged up, But I would imagine there they're all out there,
Speaker 1: even Gallup. Do you think it factors in questions for
Speaker 1: both you guys, do you think it factors in that
Speaker 1: you've gotten so much production out of your wide receiver
Speaker 1: group that there's no reason to push him out there
Speaker 1: unless he's at a point where you're like, he's one
Speaker 1: percent ready to go put him out there. Yeah, his
Speaker 1: wind is up, all those things, he's ready to go
Speaker 1: before you actually put him back out there. Not to
Speaker 1: take it a full step further and talk like beyond
Speaker 1: this season right now, but I actually received multiple questions
Speaker 1: about Michael Gallup and what happens with his return, with
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson having so much success currently and maybe then
Speaker 1: realizing like, okay, we can actually I mean we have
Speaker 1: been doing it without Gallup? Does that really hurt Gallop?
Speaker 1: As far as like, well, do we resign him? Do we?
Speaker 1: Clearly they didn't opt out for trading him or doing
Speaker 1: anything with him, But as far as his future, I
Speaker 1: don't know where, like where you guys feel about that
Speaker 1: if that would even be an option to where like,
Speaker 1: although he would be pretty high huh, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: what are you saying? I'm confused? No, I mean I
Speaker 1: think the point is the question everybody has kind of
Speaker 1: been mulling, which is then while he's been out. Essentially,
Speaker 1: you've seen that that Cedric can do the job right Basically,
Speaker 1: like you know, I was rambling quite a little, but
Speaker 1: because I'm thinking in my head but thinking out loud
Speaker 1: and going back to the questions I was receiving. But
Speaker 1: basically what Derek is saying is, now that you've seen
Speaker 1: what Cedric Wilson has been doing, do you really need
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup in the future? You know, And that was
Speaker 1: regardless of what Cedric Wilson was doing, that was a
Speaker 1: big question anyway. It's like him, let's can't resign Cedric Wilson. True,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta figure out you got to sign
Speaker 1: him as well. And the question becomes how much are
Speaker 1: you willing to pay if or do you even when
Speaker 1: you start talking, well, when you start talking about the negotiation,
Speaker 1: that's where it becomes a situation where do you put
Speaker 1: it out there to both of them, like both their agents,
Speaker 1: we're only going to sign one and here's kind of
Speaker 1: what we're looking at, and then you kind of figure
Speaker 1: out where you can get the best deal between the two.
Speaker 1: The interesting thing here is more in that in this
Speaker 1: vein is for me, like what does Michael Gallop Garner
Speaker 1: on the street, Like, how many teams look at him
Speaker 1: and say he is a product of a system and
Speaker 1: other guys ahead of him that may have been getting
Speaker 1: more attention versus we can bring him and here into
Speaker 1: our team and I'm talking about other teams out there,
Speaker 1: and we can make him the number one or the
Speaker 1: number two, pay him really great money, and he can
Speaker 1: produce at the same level that he produced in Dallas
Speaker 1: when he had the thousand yards season. That's the question,
Speaker 1: And I don't know if I don't know if I
Speaker 1: know the answer to that question right now. Obviously, their
Speaker 1: scouting departments will make those kinds of determinations. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of time to figure it out.
Speaker 1: A lot of things will happen in between now and then. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, there might be a completely different narrative when
Speaker 1: it comes to the wide receiver position. I think the
Speaker 1: good thing is now is that they have they have
Speaker 1: a lot of the surplus and receivers get them out there. Um,
Speaker 1: if Amri has to sit out a game at some point,
Speaker 1: which could happen, I mean he's dealing with so many things.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe once Gallup gets back, maybe they'll do
Speaker 1: that and just rest him for a game or two, Um,
Speaker 1: if if, if that's needed. Um, this might just be
Speaker 1: what but Amri does. I don't think you have to
Speaker 1: make any decisions on anything. Um. And it's it's a
Speaker 1: good problem to have. But but there's good. Like you said,
Speaker 1: there's gonna come down to They're gonna to figure out
Speaker 1: at some point when who who do they want to keep?
Speaker 1: They want to keep this third best receiver, or they
Speaker 1: want to keep a guy that is showing the versatility
Speaker 1: that nobody else on this team has it. And now
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Cedric Wilson. Yeah, I was just gonna
Speaker 1: add that also, that's a perfect position for a guy
Speaker 1: that's her to come in and transition back into the
Speaker 1: game because of all the rotations that happen where you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily me to absolutely have him out there the
Speaker 1: hun of the time. All Right, Christmas, Right, Christmas, buddy,
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Guys love it. Those who are watching the show.
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about you. I figured it could be
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Speaker 1: Thanks story, Dave war just a red shirt, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, everyone two days ago was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it must be Christmas around here because because it was
Speaker 1: red that's that's not true. That's fine. What we don't have.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna do this every day? I'm sure we
Speaker 1: were talking about we're gonna do it every day. Sure,
Speaker 1: we were talking about some interesting football stuff. We were
Speaker 1: talking about Michael Gallup and we're talking about Cedric Wilson.
Speaker 1: We're talking about who's your better third wide receiver? Who
Speaker 1: they're gonnas gonna be? Well, I mean that's kind of
Speaker 1: the I mean, that's kind of the basis of the
Speaker 1: conversation here, is like, if you have to choose between
Speaker 1: the two, because Nick made the point obviously both of
Speaker 1: them are going to be free agents after this year.
Speaker 1: If you got you gotta if you gotta make who's
Speaker 1: your better third receiver? You mean for the long term?
Speaker 1: I thought, I was like, who cares? They're both They're both. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the question was the long term youth you
Speaker 1: think that you think will play? Oh, I didn't mean
Speaker 1: Sunday necessarily, I just mean in general, you can rotate
Speaker 1: receivers in and out. Um, I think he's got a chance.
Speaker 1: I really I wonder if Gallop's availability comes down more
Speaker 1: to like, just do they need him? I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what It's kind of a mean thing to say about
Speaker 1: your number two. But um, you know, do they need
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle more than they might need him? I
Speaker 1: think that they still. I think they have two open
Speaker 1: roster spots right now. I think it might just come
Speaker 1: down to need. But Mike said number two, You think
Speaker 1: he's the number two? What I think if I, X
Speaker 1: and Z, you know, like he's out on the outside,
Speaker 1: he's technically the number two receiver. Potato Potato. Well, the
Speaker 1: reason the reason why I ask you like that is
Speaker 1: because do you think that they've played CD in a
Speaker 1: different role while he's been gone, and so does he
Speaker 1: slide back to be the slot guy or is you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying that's more getting all. I mean,
Speaker 1: Gallup is the least likely of the three to play
Speaker 1: in the slot. Amari and Lamb do it more so.
Speaker 1: I just think I think Mike is more likely to
Speaker 1: be on the outside of the formation and the other
Speaker 1: two can do whatever they want. Probably, Um, if he
Speaker 1: doesn't play against Denver, I'll bet yeah, any money he
Speaker 1: plays against Atlanta. Yeah, like I mean, yeah, he'll he'll
Speaker 1: be one of these next two games. I think whether
Speaker 1: or not he gets elevated Saturdays maybe about need. But
Speaker 1: I did. He posted on Instagram this morning and the
Speaker 1: caption was literally elevate and it was like a picture
Speaker 1: of him jumping up for a ball, and I was like,
Speaker 1: are you is this like a little play on words?
Speaker 1: Are you making a joke about coming back to the roster?
Speaker 1: So we'll see. You don't think it was warranted that
Speaker 1: I on the radio this morning fielded a question about
Speaker 1: a former Giants receiver who is probably going to be
Speaker 1: a former Browns receiver. You know, it's interest not probably.
Speaker 1: I think he is now a former brown you know
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Speaker 1: if it's if it should be here, if it should
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Speaker 1: Studios at the star Let's Talk before we get the storylines.
Speaker 1: There was a question that came up. Joe Gomez asked
Speaker 1: this question. Nick, you mentioned it before we went to
Speaker 1: break Oldell to the Cowboys. What do you think why
Speaker 1: no need? I think we're all kind of on the
Speaker 1: same page. And give me the good rationalist to why
Speaker 1: for fans out there that are saying, but why not
Speaker 1: he's Oldell Beckham, just give the rationale because we just
Speaker 1: tried to figure out how Michael Gallup, who's going to
Speaker 1: get a bag of cash at some point in the offseason,
Speaker 1: is going to fit into the third or fourth receiver.
Speaker 1: Cowboys have a fourth receiver on this team right now
Speaker 1: that's going to get a lot of money. Not assure
Speaker 1: who it is that they don't need a guy that's
Speaker 1: coming in here that's not one hundred percent healthy. He's
Speaker 1: obviously had issues in that locker room. His dad won't
Speaker 1: get off Twitter. I mean, there's just issues that don't
Speaker 1: don't seem to need to be play into this because
Speaker 1: I don't think he's the guy that's making that catch
Speaker 1: over Brandon Carr anymore. I don't. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: doing that anymore. I could be wrong. I think he
Speaker 1: still has that talent. But is it were like, if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys desperately needed a receiver, I'd be pounding the table,
Speaker 1: but they don't. I'm wearing an LSU sweatshirt. I love
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, He's I love him. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: the bad guy that he gets painted as a lot.
Speaker 1: But does drama follow him everywhere he goes? Yep? Did
Speaker 1: the Cowboys need him? Nope? So why are you inviting
Speaker 1: that into your locker room unless there's a need. One
Speaker 1: of the things about that I love about this wide
Speaker 1: Receiver Corps is the fact that they seem to be
Speaker 1: everything we see in here to be very unselfish. They
Speaker 1: are very much about the team. They celebrate each other
Speaker 1: when it comes to getting the ball and whoever. And
Speaker 1: there's even to the point where it's kind of playful,
Speaker 1: like can I get this one? You want to get
Speaker 1: this one? Like that's the part of this wide receiver
Speaker 1: group that actually works, because in an offense like this,
Speaker 1: you've got so many weapons, everybody has to be about
Speaker 1: the team. If you get one person that's about, hey,
Speaker 1: I need the ball, it disrupts everything and then everybody
Speaker 1: else starts being territorial. The reason why it looks like
Speaker 1: he's going to be out in Cleveland. Is because he
Speaker 1: wanted the ball. He wanted the ball more, and so
Speaker 1: I think just Dad alone says to me, like this
Speaker 1: isn't that would be a horrible fit for this team
Speaker 1: because that's what they don't have on this team right now. Well,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's a coincidence if you remember
Speaker 1: going back to when he was really when he was Odell,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was on a Hall of Fame New York.
Speaker 1: He was on a Hall of Fame pace the first
Speaker 1: two or three years of his career. And I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a coincidence that him and Deaz were really tight,
Speaker 1: like like if you remember that, like they were they
Speaker 1: loved each other, and I like he reminds me a
Speaker 1: lot of Deaz. I know, if he's like, I need
Speaker 1: the ball, I need the ball, I assume he's probably
Speaker 1: frustrated because he wants to help the Browns win and
Speaker 1: they're not. To him, that means to get him in
Speaker 1: the ball and he's not touching the ball and they're
Speaker 1: four and four. Des was the same way, and we
Speaker 1: used to go back and forth like is he selfish
Speaker 1: or does he just is he just passionate about winning?
Speaker 1: And fortunately that's not the Cowboys problem to deal with
Speaker 1: right now. And why would you want to invite that
Speaker 1: on your team if you again, like the New Orleans Saints,
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas just announced that he's out for the year,
Speaker 1: Go get Odell or I'm sure there's five other the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers probably could use some help at receivers,
Speaker 1: Green Bay, whatever. Yeah, there's a bunch of teams that
Speaker 1: could use him, and it's worth the risk. Chiefs. There
Speaker 1: is no need. That's a good one. Actually, there's no
Speaker 1: need here. They have four really really good, reliable receivers
Speaker 1: and then a fifth that they draft. Like, it's just
Speaker 1: there's no need for it. And as soon as des left,
Speaker 1: that's when I feel like you started getting some some
Speaker 1: of the chemistry back up between the receivers. I mean
Speaker 1: Cole was gone before DEAs, right, Yeah, he was already
Speaker 1: Cole you know, Cole left after death. Yeah, because they
Speaker 1: cut Deaz before the eighteen season, and then Cole was
Speaker 1: still here. Beasley left after eighteen. Right, we really already
Speaker 1: forget We don't have guys like that anymore, I know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because yeah, I thought he's the hail Mary. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, um tyl, let's do this. Let's get into
Speaker 1: some of the storylines of the game. To me, this
Speaker 1: is in a week where there aren't a lot of
Speaker 1: storylines because I think most people look at this as
Speaker 1: a kind of a lopsided game. Um, I think one
Speaker 1: of the biggest storylines is revolves around Dak. My question
Speaker 1: for you guys is this Dak completely healthy and can
Speaker 1: he play without risking further injury to the calf. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on day? Um, this isn't his decision.
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't a this is what I think. Whatever,
Speaker 1: if he goes out and lines up to play, then
Speaker 1: I think that the medical team has has pretty much
Speaker 1: said this. He's healthy, he's healthy, not healthy enough to play,
Speaker 1: but he is healthy. That he's healthy. Just held this
Speaker 1: early November game with the Cowboys with a big lead
Speaker 1: in their division, and all that is that he's their
Speaker 1: quarterback and he's gonna play, and that's that's what it is.
Speaker 1: If they thought there was any chance of him not playing,
Speaker 1: I don't think they would. They actually like the which
Speaker 1: this makes sense, it's not groundbreaking, but like on Sunday
Speaker 1: and We're like, if he doesn't play, he will be
Speaker 1: one hundred percent ready to be full go by Wednesday
Speaker 1: when we start practicing. That was the game plan heading
Speaker 1: into the Vikings game, and it's completely worked out. Dak
Speaker 1: was at Dak was funnily transparent yesterday. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's a work he was. It was. It
Speaker 1: was interesting how transparent he was, because he's really good
Speaker 1: at talking a lot without saying anything. Yeah, he told
Speaker 1: us the tackle lineup. He was like, yeah, Terren's gonna
Speaker 1: play on the left. I was gonna play on the right.
Speaker 1: Everything was like, thanks, thank you. You're like, I mean
Speaker 1: we kind of coaches said I'm not gonna tak. We
Speaker 1: kind of figured, but like thanks for confirming. And then, um,
Speaker 1: the other thing he said that was funny was his
Speaker 1: first rep of team was like a rollout classic Dack
Speaker 1: like throwing on the run and he threw it. I
Speaker 1: don't remember if he completed it, but he threw off
Speaker 1: his foot and he was like, damn, probably shouldn't have
Speaker 1: done that on my first rep back from injuring my calf.
Speaker 1: But like, nothing bad happened, but it just speaks to
Speaker 1: how good he feels that he wasn't even thinking about
Speaker 1: like maybe don't throw off of your calf on the
Speaker 1: first rep back in practice. Yeah, And that's actually one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I asked this question is because
Speaker 1: when you don't get the context of how he was
Speaker 1: saying it, it just reads kind of as, oh, did
Speaker 1: he feel a little something, and he didn't. He did not,
Speaker 1: And that's that's I think, what what not? What was
Speaker 1: not report? I didn't see that anywhere being reported that.
Speaker 1: It just kind of they put out the quote and
Speaker 1: I'm like, so, so, did he feel something or or not?
Speaker 1: But that's good, that sounds good. McCarthy said he talked
Speaker 1: to him this morning, play caller meetings, quarterback meetings, whatever,
Speaker 1: and he's, yeah, he's good, he's gonna play. He feels good.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about his health. Okay, purely the way
Speaker 1: they handle last week with his injury and him trying
Speaker 1: to play for the game against the Vikings. I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought the fact that they waited like literally last minute,
Speaker 1: right minutes before turning in the inactives and all that
Speaker 1: in the list, it was amazing. And the decision making
Speaker 1: of being like, you know what, let's just sit him
Speaker 1: down and not really risking it. That speaks volume to
Speaker 1: what they're doing too, and not you know, just having
Speaker 1: confidence in their back up and just not wanting to
Speaker 1: harm him at all for any means. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: don't even know if that's if that even happened that
Speaker 1: way like that that's what they said happened. And but
Speaker 1: you also heard that Dak told the team or told
Speaker 1: players on Thursday or Friday he wasn't going to play.
Speaker 1: To me, that speaks volumes for what the almost all
Speaker 1: that thing happening on game day on the fiel. And
Speaker 1: I also think part of it might also be in
Speaker 1: you and I talked about this. Sometimes you know how
Speaker 1: it is when you have kids, you kind of you
Speaker 1: kind of play along. Sometimes you know what the outcome's
Speaker 1: gonna be, but you kind of play along with them
Speaker 1: just so they feel like you played along. So I
Speaker 1: do wonder if some of it was kind of like, Okay, Dak,
Speaker 1: we'll wait up until the game and we'll kind of
Speaker 1: let you warm up, and but but we know you're
Speaker 1: not playing it. You know you're not playing, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna play along, and we'll just kind of do this
Speaker 1: and and then we'll say Okay, those videos that we're
Speaker 1: being released, but as you were watching, Yeah, but as
Speaker 1: you watch it, but as you were watching it, it
Speaker 1: actually the first little bit he was working on the chords.
Speaker 1: But then when I actually started woman with the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: actually started throwing. He wasn't even throwing like usually the
Speaker 1: starter is throwing with the ones and getting He wasn't.
Speaker 1: He was like throwing at the end of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just didn't. There were a lot of things that
Speaker 1: said he wasn't really playing, but you know, he told
Speaker 1: him Marie on Friday that he was down. But yeah,
Speaker 1: my point to all that is the fact that I've
Speaker 1: been covering this team for a long time. When things
Speaker 1: happen on Thursday or Friday, they get out by Sunday
Speaker 1: that that happens. Yeah, they they're not getting out. Things
Speaker 1: are staying in. I mean, this is a close nack team. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: if dad wants to say he wants to, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: for sure, for the most part, like I agree, it's
Speaker 1: way more McCarthy's. I'm giving the credit to McCarthy. I
Speaker 1: assume it's McCarthy. He's kind of put a lid on
Speaker 1: the typical Cowboys news leaks that we've gotten used. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and usually that newsleak is it happens on you know,
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning on the fan and Friday after the morning
Speaker 1: on the fan. Well it might. It might also be
Speaker 1: there Jerry Jones, right, Jerry's name, Jerry Jones, the coordinated. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe that's it. Maybe it's not that he's putting a
Speaker 1: lid on as much as it is like, let's just
Speaker 1: be a little more coordinated thing. If I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it and you're gonna say this, like let's just know
Speaker 1: what we're saying. Yeah, so a little more coordinated. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's it. I don't know. Um wait, totally not related
Speaker 1: at all. Who I'm sorry? Who was fifty five? We
Speaker 1: didn't play, We didn't do fifty five? Give me fifty five.
Speaker 1: I'm stealing it from you. Rolando mcclan let's go. I
Speaker 1: love my guy, and I really that was that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that guy that you would like. If he
Speaker 1: ever got it together, he would be in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, no doubt. He's the one guy that I
Speaker 1: remember sitting up in our wherever we are in the
Speaker 1: press box, usually pretty high without binoculars. When he made
Speaker 1: the tackle, you knew it was him because he hits
Speaker 1: you at the thirty four. That was where the next
Speaker 1: play was thirty four. I mean everything came to stop
Speaker 1: when he hit you. Yeah, you were moving forward. He
Speaker 1: had a ton of talent. That's a good one. Fifty five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure there's a better one. Roy Jordan
Speaker 1: was a fifty five. It was a pretty good player.
Speaker 1: He's in the ring. There's a right answer in mind.
Speaker 1: I just love it. They love they love those gambles
Speaker 1: where they buy low on something that didn't work out
Speaker 1: and they got They got like twelve amazing games out
Speaker 1: of him. I wish he had been able to keep
Speaker 1: it together. I'm starting to feel old because and it
Speaker 1: wasn't even that long ago. But the fact that when
Speaker 1: you guys are bringing up players now that I know
Speaker 1: the name and that I know who you're talking about,
Speaker 1: My damn, bro, you just had a kid man You're
Speaker 1: getting all right, right, we're all growing up here. That
Speaker 1: sentence usually doesn't happen like that. Bro, you just had
Speaker 1: a kid man. Man throw a dude in there at
Speaker 1: the end, all right, real quick. I had one of
Speaker 1: the storyline I wanted to hit you guys with with
Speaker 1: actually I'm trying to decide which one I want to do. Actually,
Speaker 1: let's go with this one. After seeing what Certan has done.
Speaker 1: Are you happy at Dallas? I mean that Denver took
Speaker 1: him before Dallas had the opportunity to make that choice,
Speaker 1: because I think we all agree that had certain been there,
Speaker 1: he probably would have been the Cowboys pick. How do
Speaker 1: you think that all played out for Dallas? I think
Speaker 1: the biggest answer to that has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: Parsons or Certain. It's number seven. Trayvon Diggs has been
Speaker 1: a player that you hadn't even thought he was gonna be.
Speaker 1: He thought he was gonna be good. You don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be like this, And so knowing that, knowing
Speaker 1: that he I mean, he's great. He's making Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: a better player. On that side. I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: don't need Certan. That would have been awesome to have.
Speaker 1: But I don't think anyone thought that that Diggs was
Speaker 1: ready to take the leap right now. And I don't
Speaker 1: think people thought that a part has had this much
Speaker 1: in his bag, that he could do so many different things.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm glad for that because they're getting him
Speaker 1: way better linebacker. Than they thought, and the cornerback need
Speaker 1: isn't as strong as they thought because of Diggs turned
Speaker 1: into a star. It's completely unfair to try to answer
Speaker 1: this right now. And well, well, if that's how you
Speaker 1: feel unfair, If that's how you feel, that's how you feel,
Speaker 1: that's fine. And Miga Parsons was I have already admitted
Speaker 1: many times like I was wrong, Like he's a way
Speaker 1: he's been a way better pick than I thought he
Speaker 1: would be. He's probably gonna win Defensive Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year if I had to guess. I'm not hating on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys for picking them. I just these things play
Speaker 1: out over years and years. I mean, was Zeke the
Speaker 1: right pick over Jalen Ramsey or do we want to
Speaker 1: have that conversation. It Sure, it looked unquestionably like the
Speaker 1: right call for about three years. Now it's up for debate.
Speaker 1: Or maybe you could even unequivocally say they should have
Speaker 1: taken Ramsey. If you draft a cornerback who's at the
Speaker 1: top of his game, he can do that for a decade.
Speaker 1: I mean, Patrick Peterson is not who he used to be,
Speaker 1: but he was locked down in Arizona for ten years.
Speaker 1: They didn't maximize on that. But I mean, that's such
Speaker 1: a valuable position and it's got such longevity, And that's
Speaker 1: the reason why I asked point the question actually, because
Speaker 1: I think right now most people would say Mike is
Speaker 1: having a larger impact, sure for his team, but the cornerback.
Speaker 1: Having a cornerback like that, and then if you had
Speaker 1: two of them, you don't know how much dividend that
Speaker 1: pays for you five ten years, don't. We don't know
Speaker 1: how good Certan's gonna be. Maybe maybe he'll be a
Speaker 1: bust and Michael will unequivocally be the better pick, but
Speaker 1: he could be making Pro Bowls at thirty three when Mica.
Speaker 1: By the time Mike is thirty three, there will have
Speaker 1: been some decline probably. I mean, it's just that that's
Speaker 1: the fun of it. Like I said, I was totally roight,
Speaker 1: like Michael was a great pick. He's been far better
Speaker 1: than what I thought he would be. But I just
Speaker 1: I don't think you can decide what the right pick
Speaker 1: was halfway through their rookie year the way I see it,
Speaker 1: and I am super happy that he worked out that way.
Speaker 1: I wasn't at the time. I was like, oh, seriously,
Speaker 1: but Now I really am because you look at the
Speaker 1: defense and now you have a badass on all three levels.
Speaker 1: You got Randy Gregory playing the way that he's doing.
Speaker 1: You got Micah Parson doing what he's doing. And on
Speaker 1: the back you got Trevor Dick. So in all three levels,
Speaker 1: it's not like remember when Jerry Jones, like after a
Speaker 1: draft day, he would go in the press conference and
Speaker 1: be like, well, we get pressure. We attacked the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's where it all starts. You get pressure, it helps
Speaker 1: back there the backfield. You have help your safeties. Do
Speaker 1: you help your cornerback? Well, now you got a badass
Speaker 1: on all three levels. So I'm just happy how it's
Speaker 1: worked out. All right, good. I just I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't I'm not trying to bury Mica. I just I
Speaker 1: want to I'm making my point again. But like, imagine
Speaker 1: Certain's having a decent season for them, right, Like I
Speaker 1: think he's got well, he's got a good year. He's
Speaker 1: got two picks five break of Actually interesting part because
Speaker 1: he's had a good year. It's just at cornerback you
Speaker 1: can't make the same impact sure as you can how
Speaker 1: they're using my Like again, Mike is great. This isn't
Speaker 1: about Michael, But like, imagine if they had him and Diggs,
Speaker 1: how excited people would be if Diggs was doing what
Speaker 1: he's doing now and you've got a rookie and then
Speaker 1: imagine if he makes a jump like Diggs has in
Speaker 1: year two. That's the type of thing you make a
Speaker 1: nickname for, like Legion of Boom or like No Fly Zone.
Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty exciting too. I'm just like, again,
Speaker 1: these things play out, and I'm the way they did
Speaker 1: it was great, Sir. Tan wasn't even available, so it's
Speaker 1: not even like they made a mistake, right exactly, Smith
Speaker 1: would most likely steel ball. You still be here, you
Speaker 1: would laing about what the linebackers were doing. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: because Michael wouldn't be here. Yeah, No, that's and yeah,
Speaker 1: because that's the part that gets a little bit tricky,
Speaker 1: right you. Like, I think the point that you made,
Speaker 1: Amber was was really the right point is that now
Speaker 1: you've got a really great player at every level of
Speaker 1: your defense, as opposed to let's say, in this instance
Speaker 1: where you may have two great cornerbacks but your linebackers
Speaker 1: still aren't quite there yet, and teams figure out ways
Speaker 1: to be basically explit you would have drafted Jabral Cox
Speaker 1: probably in the second round. Good point. And but he
Speaker 1: was he would he have been ready to play at
Speaker 1: the level that you need him to play anywhere. He
Speaker 1: would have played a lot more in training camp. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't have been waiting to get on the field.
Speaker 1: And that's that's why the draft is the best. I
Speaker 1: love the draft. Josh Show next week, I just plan
Speaker 1: just I love that. I love that. All the nicknames
Speaker 1: that Michael Parson says, the one he likes the best
Speaker 1: is there's the water boy. Yeah, so that he's the
Speaker 1: water bos because he hits anything that moves. Probably Boucher
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Speaker 1: We haven't done this in a long time, but it's
Speaker 1: time for a game of c or no Amber bringing
Speaker 1: it out about a fifteen minutes. We'll go a little
Speaker 1: over today. We don't care about that next show. So
Speaker 1: now it goes on to one ago. You want to
Speaker 1: go an hour, let's going out right, okay? Will the
Speaker 1: co always be more disciplined this week and commit less
Speaker 1: penalties than they've been averagch in so far? Yea, not,
Speaker 1: I hope not seriously. I mean I don't I like it.
Speaker 1: I like what it's what it's doing. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: the fifteen yard penalties, you've got to clean those up.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's there's I don't think it's
Speaker 1: just a coincidence that this team's getting a lot more turnovers,
Speaker 1: more sacks, and they're they're they're playing that way, they're
Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive. I think the thing is
Speaker 1: is when on offense, I said this on yesterday's show
Speaker 1: Media Match, I guess when they're first and twenty they
Speaker 1: can overcome it. They have that kind of offense that
Speaker 1: can do that. And they also been but don't break
Speaker 1: they're really they're getting pretty good on goal line defense
Speaker 1: as well, So you don't want to make a habit
Speaker 1: out of it, but I think it leads to other
Speaker 1: positive things. So as it stands right now, I'm not
Speaker 1: too concerned by it. I'll say, see, specifically on offense,
Speaker 1: these last two games have been pretty sloppy in that regard,
Speaker 1: especially in New England. They were both road games. Crowds
Speaker 1: making a bunch of noise when you're on the road
Speaker 1: and you're on offense. Plus, I don't, especially now that
Speaker 1: von Miller's gone, I don't think the Broncos have as
Speaker 1: good to the level of talent rushing the passer and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I bet I bet we see it.
Speaker 1: They not. They cut down in the holdings and the
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I say, see, I agree with that
Speaker 1: as well. I will tell you this only the only
Speaker 1: penalties I'm really concerned about the ones you were mentioning,
Speaker 1: those offensive penalties. Yeah, I mean they got to clean
Speaker 1: up the holding penalties. That's that's a problem. But a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff happens on defense. Here's the one CAVEAT
Speaker 1: will make is the stupid penalties like don't don't run
Speaker 1: in and you know it's a bad situation. Like you
Speaker 1: run in and like when Gregory kind of slung the
Speaker 1: guy off the pod, like, okay, I get it, but
Speaker 1: that's just that's not an overly aggressive penalty. That's just
Speaker 1: a penalty of just being kind of crazy, like slow down,
Speaker 1: be a little bit smarter, Like if you hit a
Speaker 1: guy close to the sideline, Hey, I don't think, hey,
Speaker 1: you go for it because if you're not out yet,
Speaker 1: you hit him. And so I don't really have I
Speaker 1: don't really have a problem with those kind of things,
Speaker 1: those overly aggressive kind of penalties. So I think it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of being smarter and get rid of
Speaker 1: the freaking holdings calls on offense. Like if you do that,
Speaker 1: I feel like this team is right where it needs
Speaker 1: to be from standpoint of managing penalties. This one's fun
Speaker 1: with some of the things that killen Moore has been
Speaker 1: doing an offensive lineman, we'll score a touchdown. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he said this week or at any point
Speaker 1: he said this week. The law of averages is not
Speaker 1: on your side if you're predicting that for one week.
Speaker 1: So I'll say no, but this season, absolutely it's gonna
Speaker 1: happen this season. Last clearly your law of average was
Speaker 1: wrong last week. What are you talking about? Remember when
Speaker 1: you said by law of average, the I mean you're
Speaker 1: not infallible. Yeah, I mean whatever, it's still it plays out, Okay.
Speaker 1: I mean if if they play that game ten times,
Speaker 1: how many do they win? I'm just saying again law
Speaker 1: of eight four. I'd say, yeah, they play that game
Speaker 1: ten times? Yeah, the four I'm with Nick. Whatever. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about the fact Cooper rushers in there. Yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: part of it. I forgot about that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so no, I'll probably still give them fifty like it's
Speaker 1: a fifty percent either they are better teams. They're better
Speaker 1: team I'd say, I know this week, Yes for the season,
Speaker 1: Yes for the Sea. Sorry, I actually will say c
Speaker 1: for this week. I'm actually you know why, because I
Speaker 1: think this is the kind of game where you could
Speaker 1: do that kind of stuff to put it on tape
Speaker 1: just so teams have to acknowledge it. So when you
Speaker 1: get to better games against better teams, then they have
Speaker 1: to acknowledge. In fact, you might actually hand the ball
Speaker 1: off to one of those offensively cool who McGovern, Connor McGovern,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go, right, tie Insecky. In my head,
Speaker 1: I'm like, who is deserving of carrying that ball into
Speaker 1: the time but into the end? Yeah, the thing is,
Speaker 1: I mean from that from the Hulk package, which now
Speaker 1: is different because Lall is going to be starting on
Speaker 1: the right side or whatever. But but from that package,
Speaker 1: I think if you hand the ball to Lil Weep,
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm just that that position right there, man.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this though, there's nothing that stops
Speaker 1: them in the Hulk package from putting him back there
Speaker 1: and putting in Ski over at tackle and you still
Speaker 1: run it with the same personnel. I just think you could.
Speaker 1: You could would fumble. I don't feel great about it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: carrying the ball. I would rather they like peel off
Speaker 1: the line and go stand in the flat for a
Speaker 1: catch like I like that better than trusting him not
Speaker 1: to fumble. I think McGovern is the best option. I
Speaker 1: bet they don't mess around with that much this week though,
Speaker 1: just because I mean they're a little shorthanded, they don't
Speaker 1: have everybody where they would prefer him. I bet I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think we'll see the whole Okay, we'll see
Speaker 1: if you need the Hulk package. Though, I think because
Speaker 1: you know, mc govern will still be at the right
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Bohannah Bohannah is the left left side guy.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's gonna be wild in the press box
Speaker 1: if that ever happened. Yeah, yeah, but specific I mean
Speaker 1: Nick's been talking about that since training. Is if anyone
Speaker 1: ever thought about about what might happen if, like, you know,
Speaker 1: late in the game, fourth quarter or whatever, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys like actually finally flee flicker this thing or a touchdown,
Speaker 1: like I might really get kicked out of the press box,
Speaker 1: I think because you're not supposed to have any kind
Speaker 1: of I think, you know, like reactions or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Our beat doesn't listen to that. Anyway. We will. We
Speaker 1: work with Clarence Hill. Clarence is just loud. It doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: like it's not he's cheering. He's not. He's not cheering.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you guys are not all like y'all
Speaker 1: are better than Clarence. But like between the three of y'all,
Speaker 1: somebody's narrating the game at all times. So absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: you didn't yere in Minnesota. I was doing it the
Speaker 1: whole game, but you couldn't hear it because it was loud.
Speaker 1: It was like yeah, yeah, open air press box. And
Speaker 1: I found the longer I've done this, the more I
Speaker 1: really don't care about their rules. I'm gonna talk as
Speaker 1: much as we were at a place okay, e VP,
Speaker 1: I don't care, three or four years ago and we
Speaker 1: were in Philly. Somebody got kicked out. Remember that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it kicked out for for that reason. Because they invite
Speaker 1: just the most random people will wind up in there,
Speaker 1: like it could be like friends of the person who
Speaker 1: like runs the press box and they're like wearing a jersey.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, oh, that happens in Washington all time.
Speaker 1: They'll have former players sitting in there, and they're just
Speaker 1: like cheering the whole game, Like this guy in the
Speaker 1: art Monk jersey, like he's gonna have to go. You
Speaker 1: ever have you ever had the pleasure of sitting next
Speaker 1: to Calvin Hill at a Cowboys game? Yeah? He I
Speaker 1: mean he's sitting there like go go, And then they'll
Speaker 1: ask your question like wasn't that off sides And you're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's Washington. Can't see I can't see anything. Calvin. Sorry, good.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna add to that before Nick interrupted me. No,
Speaker 1: was gonna say. It'd be interested interesting if that's something
Speaker 1: that Kellen Moore does decide to do this week, though,
Speaker 1: with Dad coming back from an injury, maybe not being
Speaker 1: such a mobile quarterback, even though he's supposed to be
Speaker 1: moving fine and Dave said it at practice he's been
Speaker 1: moving fine and all that, but you know, as far
Speaker 1: as someone carrying the ball in there, that would be interesting.
Speaker 1: His injury. Um anyways, okay, still and gallup will allow
Speaker 1: us to rest Amar and Tyrant late in the season
Speaker 1: while still competing for a first round by c R. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm like, when when you say rest them for the season,
Speaker 1: you mean like during them, Like yeah, like literally sit
Speaker 1: them for a game with them being kind of banged up.
Speaker 1: You know, Tyrn it sounds like he's not gonna play
Speaker 1: this weekend, So then you got a Mari who's kind
Speaker 1: of banked up as well. If he gets to a
Speaker 1: point where you're like, you know what, let's sit them
Speaker 1: both just to rest so they're ready for playoffs and
Speaker 1: all that. The only way I would say no, because
Speaker 1: the only way that happens is if they have already
Speaker 1: locked up whatever they can lock up, And I think
Speaker 1: this is going to play out till the final week
Speaker 1: of the season to fee it figure out who's going
Speaker 1: to get that number one seed in the NFC. You're
Speaker 1: not You're not sitting Pro Bowl players if they're healthy
Speaker 1: enough to play, unless you have everything locked off, which
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't imagine that's going to happen. I mean,
Speaker 1: look around the standings. Um not so no, I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean you think about it too, Like everyone wants
Speaker 1: that number one seed. Obviously you want that for sure
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. Number four you don't want that because
Speaker 1: you got to face a pretty good number five right off,
Speaker 1: right off the shoot. But even two and three, even
Speaker 1: the difference there, I mean, think about if it was
Speaker 1: one game so you could be the two instead of
Speaker 1: the three. All it takes is that number four seed
Speaker 1: knocking off one and you have a chance to host
Speaker 1: the NFC championship games. So I mean, like everything matters,
Speaker 1: Everything matters when you when you're talking about playoffs, well,
Speaker 1: every game it's gonna matter probably at the end. That's
Speaker 1: I mean. And Tyron's not gonna play this week. I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see how that develops, because I mean, Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said he doesn't have long term concerns about it.
Speaker 1: Does that mean he can play against Atlanta? How you
Speaker 1: know how many weeks does he need? Um? But once
Speaker 1: he is healthy enough to play again, you're not you're
Speaker 1: not resting him. I don't think, well, Tank be back
Speaker 1: for the Kansas City game. No, that's fast, that's that's
Speaker 1: really only I mean, that's three weeks away. He hasn't
Speaker 1: even started practicing. Um. I can't wait to see that.
Speaker 1: Like that is probably of all the storylines around the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: that's the one that's most interesting to me. I just
Speaker 1: want to see what happens when both he and honestly,
Speaker 1: I think I think a perfect spot for him would
Speaker 1: be the Raiders on Thanksgiving. It's coming back from a
Speaker 1: broken foot injury. If he plays against Kansas City, which
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have given it as quick of a no
Speaker 1: one had been like maybe, because it sounds sounds like
Speaker 1: he's really starting to get close. We've seen him out now,
Speaker 1: he's actually working outside, so I think we're close there.
Speaker 1: But it would not be before Kansas City. It would
Speaker 1: be Kansas City, and then you've got to come back
Speaker 1: and play in four days. I think, let's you know,
Speaker 1: because the other guys, Doran, Randy's been hobbled whatever, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be banged up. They're gonna be so don't even
Speaker 1: put that on his plate. He comes back, it's not
Speaker 1: a short week for him. It's a long two and
Speaker 1: ansh and he's fresh. That's the game. That's my target
Speaker 1: on a short week. Sounds like probably my targets thanks him. Thanksgiving? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say Thanksgiving or May. And if that's not possible,
Speaker 1: then what's gonna be. That's gonna be a tough game,
Speaker 1: you think. Yeah, I'm not a believer in the Raiders
Speaker 1: for some reason. I don't know, I'm just not. It's
Speaker 1: something about him, and I just I'm not buying. I mean,
Speaker 1: they they've had their issues this year, there's no doubt,
Speaker 1: and they got the you know this late latest, you know,
Speaker 1: own distraction and all that, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: call it distractions. Such a tragic thing that happened, but
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a distraction to the team too.
Speaker 1: And you know, you know first round pick from two
Speaker 1: years ago, the first in my opinion, their best receiving
Speaker 1: threat is a tight end, and I think that makes
Speaker 1: it hard. That is that is a I mean that
Speaker 1: that is not a very accurate description of Darren Waller. No, No,
Speaker 1: I yes, I get that. The point I'm making no
Speaker 1: is I think when that is your best receiving option,
Speaker 1: I think it makes it hard if you get in
Speaker 1: a game where you got to just go back and
Speaker 1: forth with a team scoring, because I've seen games where
Speaker 1: teams have taken Darren Waller out of the game. Because
Speaker 1: if if that's the best you got, then there's a
Speaker 1: way to be able to kind of neutralize a really
Speaker 1: good tight end. Yes, valued listener, we are talking about
Speaker 1: the Raiders two days before the Broncos games. That's how
Speaker 1: little we think of this opponent. We can do that
Speaker 1: we don't have to play something. I know, I'm kidding
Speaker 1: you know. Then they're gonna come and slap us in
Speaker 1: the face our own home. Hey, what we know about
Speaker 1: what we know about the NFL is once everybody believes
Speaker 1: one thing and the NFL is way showing you something different.
Speaker 1: So always we'll see how that goes. The fact that
Speaker 1: they can't stop the run very well, that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the Abronco's biggest challenge. There is this
Speaker 1: because that the Cowboys will will now let's see, you know,
Speaker 1: with not having tire in there. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: think Terrence Steele's played well. I think Lyell will be fine,
Speaker 1: so you know, I think that they'll still be able
Speaker 1: to function. And we'll see what happens with Dak. But
Speaker 1: that's what I think. It's gonna be hard for denver
Speaker 1: Is because they're just they're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: really stop the run. Well, I did have a couple
Speaker 1: of people ask about that. Seeking Paul are both with
Speaker 1: one hundred plus carry a yards this Sunday. I could
Speaker 1: see it. I mean I could see it. It's gonna
Speaker 1: take a big run by Pollard. He's gonna have to
Speaker 1: bust run. He can, but I mean he's gonna have to.
Speaker 1: That's usually what happens with a It's not just steady
Speaker 1: steady Eddy or the whole game one hundred hundred each.
Speaker 1: I mean it's somebody got a sixty four yard run
Speaker 1: in there. They're going over one fifty as a team,
Speaker 1: I think I don't know yet. No, not two hundred,
Speaker 1: I mean not one hundred each. That's I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's wild. When it happens, it doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 1: Here's what I will be interested to see. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what I think of this yet, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out if a part of what we've seen
Speaker 1: from Terren still has been about the fact that he's
Speaker 1: been on the side with Zach and now that he's not,
Speaker 1: is that left side going to be a bit of
Speaker 1: a problem for them, particularly running the ball. I don't
Speaker 1: know that that's that they're strong on that side like
Speaker 1: they are with time when tyrants are obviously with tyrants there,
Speaker 1: but I just wonder if this is going to make
Speaker 1: them a team that just basically has to go to
Speaker 1: the right and at some point if Denver says, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's overload the right side and force
Speaker 1: them to go left and we think we can manage
Speaker 1: to hold up there. I just want to see how
Speaker 1: that works out, because I think we'll learn a little
Speaker 1: bit about Terren still. This weekend, we got the we
Speaker 1: have the drop broadest here we go, Jammer right up
Speaker 1: your rear, and I'm like, okay, overload the right side.
Speaker 1: I got Zach and the biggest bully of the offensive
Speaker 1: lineman in terms of and maybe it's enough grading, Maybe
Speaker 1: it's enough. All I'm saying is I just want to
Speaker 1: see how that all plays out there we go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to say, blays out. I think there's
Speaker 1: that's an interesting little side nugget to keep it an
Speaker 1: eye on this Sunday, so we'll see. All right, here's
Speaker 1: what's gonna do. We're gonna go ahead and get our
Speaker 1: predictions before we end the show. Let's start with you, Amber,
Speaker 1: Let's go first. Do you think's gonna happen? Uh? Dave
Speaker 1: is getting into my head, but I will not allow
Speaker 1: it with your stupid law of probabilities and averages and
Speaker 1: fair Oh that don't be like me. Oh that was fun.
Speaker 1: That was fun. That was a good sentiment. Anyways, Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Cowboys will definitely win. It's gonna be an exciting game. Loud.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun with Dak being back in there
Speaker 1: on the field. I would imagine what a score. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, uh, thirty two, twenty four something like that.
Speaker 1: Oh you think there's gonna score twenty four? Okay? I
Speaker 1: like it all right, I don't make it interesting. At
Speaker 1: least it'll be an interesting game. I'm not expecting the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to really clean up their penalties and all that.
Speaker 1: So I think that's gonna give them somewhat of an
Speaker 1: advantage in scoring games, but they're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to catch up to them. All Right, the game, Dave Nick,
Speaker 1: which you want to go? I want to go? I
Speaker 1: don't care. They've probably gonna pick the same score or
Speaker 1: doing it as we've been doing that a lot. It's
Speaker 1: it's chili, It's it's soup season. So what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do Christmas? It's no, it's fall, it's soup season. That's
Speaker 1: start small man, Like you just jump right in. You
Speaker 1: just cannonball right into the Christmas season when there's so
Speaker 1: many there's so many other things. Like week it's finally
Speaker 1: cold enough in Dallas to drink like the pumpkin spice lattes.
Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna fire up
Speaker 1: my crock pot. It's soup season. Throw some chicken breaths
Speaker 1: in there, glasses, two glasses of wine. And the thing
Speaker 1: about a crock pot is it takes time, Like you
Speaker 1: can get four hours, six hours, but eventually you open
Speaker 1: it up and the chicken breast you throw in there.
Speaker 1: You can just pull it apart us. And that's what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are. They're gonna crock pot the Bronch. What
Speaker 1: takes longer, that's longer cooking or getting your pick for
Speaker 1: the game. It was great, you have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: go first. Said, they're gonna love it. It's gonna it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna take time. The Broncos they're they're stingier than
Speaker 1: they probably get credit. Four. I don't. They're not just
Speaker 1: gonna jump out to the races, but over time they
Speaker 1: will pull away. I would say thirty to ten, um,
Speaker 1: which I love that you picked thirty two. I looked
Speaker 1: this up. With Dak's starting, the Cowboys haven't failed to
Speaker 1: score thirty points since October of nineteen when they lost
Speaker 1: to Green Bay. They average since they traded for a
Speaker 1: Mari at home at home, sorry at home, like the
Speaker 1: charges at home. I'm sorry, you're right. That is a
Speaker 1: key distinction, Um. And since they traded for a Mari,
Speaker 1: which is when I really consider like that's when Dak
Speaker 1: came into his own as a passer. They averaged thirty
Speaker 1: two points per game at home since they traded for
Speaker 1: a Mari. So thirty to ten. It'll be close at halftime,
Speaker 1: and by the fourth quarter it'll be comfortably not a game.
Speaker 1: All right, I got twenty eight sixteen Dallas. Uh, same thing.
Speaker 1: It'd be, you know, kind of a gritty performance there
Speaker 1: for Denver for a little bit. I won't be the
Speaker 1: best game the Cowboys have played. I'll I think they'll
Speaker 1: kind of I think they're going to kind of yuck
Speaker 1: it up a little bit at the Broncos. Will um,
Speaker 1: it'll take a little bit, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Croc pot Worthy, but it will. It'll take them some
Speaker 1: time to kind of more of an air fryer get
Speaker 1: it going, and then all of a sudden, the next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, it's done. Twenty sixteen Dallas. All right. I
Speaker 1: think Dallas also gonna win. I think that it will
Speaker 1: be a blowout. I think it'll it'll probably I think
Speaker 1: the scoring actually for Denver will happen a little later
Speaker 1: in the game. Uh, just kind of whin Dallas gets bored.
Speaker 1: But I think they ultimately end up winning. Thirty four
Speaker 1: sixteen be just a regular win for the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and they will move on to their next opponent, the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcon. So appreciate you guys joining wining for your
Speaker 1: cooking reference. I don't have one. I don't have a
Speaker 1: go gumbo at Dave's house tonight. You're all you're not invited.
Speaker 1: You can't come. Sorry, no, yeah, I mean if you
Speaker 1: actually wanted to eat. Uck, y'all have really y'all got
Speaker 1: families and stuff. You're not coming. I thought we could
Speaker 1: go away, kid, I thought we could. I thought we
Speaker 1: could bring the kids with us. Kids. They'd love to
Speaker 1: see Uncle Dave. Right, I'm just imagining all of y'all
Speaker 1: crammed into my like shoebox apartment. I just I don't
Speaker 1: know how well that would go. I think it would
Speaker 1: be awesome. It will be a come down, all right.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys. You want us, We'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 1: We'll let you know what when right and wrong for
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