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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, December fifth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode
Speaker 1: number ninety. Welcome to another edition of The Break, live
Speaker 1: from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. It
Speaker 1: is Cowboys versus Eagles week, so there's a lot we
Speaker 1: gotta talk about. Dave's gonna give us a scouting report
Speaker 1: on the Eagles offense a little later in the show
Speaker 1: tomorrow we'll get to the defense. But first I want
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about some injuries. There have
Speaker 1: been quite a few guys, five in particular, who've missed
Speaker 1: several games. And after kind of going through the gauntlet
Speaker 1: of what the Cowboys have to go through when they
Speaker 1: get to Thanksgiving every year, that game than Thanksgiving Day,
Speaker 1: than the game after um, and then having that ten
Speaker 1: day break, UM, I'd like to catch everybody up on
Speaker 1: what you guys think right now regarding these five players. Now,
Speaker 1: I understand you may not have a definitive word, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw out the name. What I really want
Speaker 1: you to just tell me is what's the last thing
Speaker 1: you've heard on this guy and where is he right
Speaker 1: now in his in his progression to come back. So
Speaker 1: let's start first with Sean Lee. That's the sorry, go ahead. Well,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, the last thing I've heard
Speaker 1: is what just just not at practice today? Not practice?
Speaker 1: That's what what you know was happening. It's actually happening
Speaker 1: right now. You were there for Garrett and maybe the
Speaker 1: walk off he might have had a little bit more
Speaker 1: about what their plan is. With Sean, Uh, he's not
Speaker 1: practicing today. Keep an eye on him the rest of
Speaker 1: the week. That's kind of what I was gonna say
Speaker 1: is It's a funny thing, is you know Sean said
Speaker 1: he's optimistic he can practice this week. That turns into
Speaker 1: you know, he's gonna get his starting job back, and
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do with these linebackers? And uh,
Speaker 1: he still needs to practice, and so we'll see how
Speaker 1: that for the rest of the week. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's not out there to start. So, and the
Speaker 1: interesting thing I heard yesterday when Jerry was talking about
Speaker 1: Sean Lee was he talked about him, but then he
Speaker 1: also said, we're not going to rush him back. And
Speaker 1: they've been saying that throughout this We're not rushing this thing.
Speaker 1: We're not going to rush him back. So my assumption
Speaker 1: has always been until he gets to the point where
Speaker 1: he's practicing fully and I mean fully for a week,
Speaker 1: I would be kind of shocked if I see him play. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is one of those situations where
Speaker 1: God gets to Thursday or Friday and maybe can go
Speaker 1: through walkthrough, so you run him out there on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be very very cautious with
Speaker 1: this because they don't have a need to force him back, right,
Speaker 1: I would agree with that completely. Yeah, and so, but
Speaker 1: but that's good that that sounds good for them. You know,
Speaker 1: Sean Lee's probably wanting to come back and play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't make the decision. No, he doesn't. But
Speaker 1: I mean it's well, it's great. I mean, Witt made
Speaker 1: a decision for fifteen years. Whitton is different. We know
Speaker 1: that Whitnines has done things that I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I don't think is gonna be out on the field
Speaker 1: saying late and go back, go back, like they send
Speaker 1: him in. He's like, no, no, I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: come off the field. You go back. Jason dictated a
Speaker 1: lot of games that other players don't get to dictate.
Speaker 1: And no, I mean Jason didn't deal with a lot
Speaker 1: of severe injuries injuries period, right, he dealt with him.
Speaker 1: He dealt with him playing a little bit a little
Speaker 1: bit different though, I mean, Sean is all you know,
Speaker 1: when Sean's hurt, it's stuff you can't play through, right,
Speaker 1: um and so and yeah, I mean you know, if
Speaker 1: if they were playing without him the way they played
Speaker 1: without him last year, he probably it would be a
Speaker 1: different story. But that's not the case. All right, let's
Speaker 1: move on Tyren Smith. He was out there today limited
Speaker 1: participants A good sign, yes, Um, and that's different Wednesday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably won't be like truly full the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: if I had to guess. I mean, even even if
Speaker 1: it says he does everything like they're you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's he's Tony Romo. Now he's you know, they're gonna
Speaker 1: watch him. They're not going to give him a heavy
Speaker 1: workload during the week. I know, like that, that's weird. No,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of yesterday, like with Tyrant, Like I just
Speaker 1: he's walking in the locker room and I mean just
Speaker 1: walking him. He looks he looks pretty good, and he
Speaker 1: looks like he's ready to go. But he's one of
Speaker 1: those guys. Nice guy. He really is a nice guy.
Speaker 1: But he's he's kind of got that mentality all the way.
Speaker 1: Like he's one of those guys that's walking, you know,
Speaker 1: and you're kind of in the path, and like you
Speaker 1: need to move or you're gonna get hit. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a fre there's not like, well excuse me. He's
Speaker 1: just like walking, you know, and you're like excuse me, sorry,
Speaker 1: because if you don't, then he's gonna just that's the
Speaker 1: path he's taking, you know what I mean. He's not
Speaker 1: like rude about it. It's just like I'm not really
Speaker 1: moving And if you knock you down, he'd probably help
Speaker 1: you up. Maybe, No, I think he would. He's a
Speaker 1: nice enough guy. I think you would help you up.
Speaker 1: He's just like I would suggest that you get out
Speaker 1: of the way, okay, maybe just don't like you. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not even a dislike he likes everybody.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, he's he's a super nice dude. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like he's he focused. Is that the word we're looking for? Focus?
Speaker 1: Like blunt, Like you know, like when he's in a
Speaker 1: great mood, he's like, hey, tire, what's going on? Good?
Speaker 1: Just like he's a man in a few words, he's
Speaker 1: a man of action. Yep. That's a good good or bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good thing. Wow, I I I think he
Speaker 1: it's Wednesday. I don't have to assign playing time, but like,
Speaker 1: but you can give me an opinion. This is this
Speaker 1: is why I think this is why he didn't play
Speaker 1: against the Saints. I think you know, they're gearing him
Speaker 1: up for this and I would be pretty surprised if
Speaker 1: he doesn't play in this game. Okay, too awesome, Jeff Swain,
Speaker 1: I would be surprised if he plays. He I mean,
Speaker 1: I understand you can take like like wraps and stuff
Speaker 1: off your hand, but it's not a full fledged like
Speaker 1: cast that like the whole team has signed. But like
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like pretty hefty. Yeah, it's a cast.
Speaker 1: I mean, and he's not a defensive player. He is
Speaker 1: an offensive. Yeah, he has to catch it. Just it
Speaker 1: just doesn't look like he's playing in three days. They
Speaker 1: saw him in the locker room and he's just no,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that, all right, Taylan Austin the day
Speaker 1: dancing man didn't seem a practice. He was not a
Speaker 1: he's not practicing. I'm I hate. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say I'm surprised, because again, you know, you don't I
Speaker 1: don't know these injuries. I'm not tavan. I don't know
Speaker 1: how he feels. But you know he's been missing since
Speaker 1: the Jaguars game. Yeah, I got hurt. And he's been
Speaker 1: out since so mid October, so you're talking like six
Speaker 1: weeks at this point. You had the extra week for
Speaker 1: him to not be practicing at all like it is.
Speaker 1: It is kind of surprising to me, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's a groin injury for a fast twitch guy whose
Speaker 1: entire skill set is based on his speed. So, and
Speaker 1: I've seen all kinds of ranges when it comes to
Speaker 1: groin injuries. I mean, you remember Black in the Day,
Speaker 1: that groin injury that that Terrence Newman had that was
Speaker 1: sounded like it was pretty nasty. Uh, didn't Mo have
Speaker 1: one at one point that I ended up in surgery
Speaker 1: or something. Well, I mean memory serves on Terrence Newman,
Speaker 1: I mean that that that was more than that wasn't right.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying it's so from what I understood. And
Speaker 1: again I'm not a doctor, but I don't think but
Speaker 1: it started as a groin injury and somehow ended up
Speaker 1: in an abdomen Yeah, that's somebody. Somebody told me within
Speaker 1: the last week that Tavon's thing was so severe that
Speaker 1: he felt it up in his oblique and I just
Speaker 1: wanted to curl into a ball, like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like that sounds so pain. And then it reminded me
Speaker 1: when he got hurt in that game. He literally like
Speaker 1: kind of crawled off the field and was just on
Speaker 1: the sideline like in a heap watering like I can
Speaker 1: imagine why you felt that way, Like that sounds. I
Speaker 1: guess My point is, like groin injury, when you hear growing,
Speaker 1: don't just assume it's just your average every day. This
Speaker 1: ain't like I got a little pain down here. It's
Speaker 1: my thigh. It hurts, you know, like it's a little
Speaker 1: more so it's hard to It's hard to unless you
Speaker 1: know the medical prognosis is hard to really know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but so's he's still not practicing. It's it's never good
Speaker 1: if you're not practicing on Wednesday. I hope we didn't
Speaker 1: reinjure it. You know why, You're just all on this
Speaker 1: dancing thing. Like I'm just telling you. It doesn't look
Speaker 1: look like he's that hurt. But he he he's dancing down,
Speaker 1: getting down out there down. Yes, he's like Dave at
Speaker 1: training camp. That's literally I mean Dave. Dave could pull
Speaker 1: a growing way better what he does, way better than me,
Speaker 1: but same basic lists. Yeah, okay, um, David Irving, No, no,
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, I just I don't see it anymore.
Speaker 1: That's you know what I think. You don't think this
Speaker 1: year he's gonna be back. They get a playoffs, he's
Speaker 1: back by the end. At this point, we can has
Speaker 1: a better chance of playing. Wow, I just start that
Speaker 1: MS already didn't start thanks to some people out there somewhere.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I it's clear. I mean, you know, fans,
Speaker 1: Fans are not stupid like you, Like you follow the team.
Speaker 1: You can tell the difference between Like I sprained my ankle,
Speaker 1: but I'm at practice every day. I'm working out on
Speaker 1: the side, like there's pictures of me. I. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen David Irving since the Tennessee game, I don't think,
Speaker 1: and therefore I know the fans haven't seen him. Uh,
Speaker 1: and like it's different. There's there's something almost like he's
Speaker 1: on IR like with Terence Williams, Like I don't expect
Speaker 1: to see him, so I don't see him. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: but I'm I kind of wonder if, yeah, if it
Speaker 1: feels I mean, does it feel like that to you guys,
Speaker 1: like almost like he's on IR and just kind of
Speaker 1: isn't really a surprise, like you know when he was
Speaker 1: kind of missing time and you kind of thought he
Speaker 1: might come back for a little bit, and then it
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me if he got hurt somehow and then
Speaker 1: didn't play. I mean because because the difference is is
Speaker 1: the checks are still coming in now. Um, I just
Speaker 1: it just doesn't surprise me at all that this is
Speaker 1: going on. And I think I think this is I
Speaker 1: don't know why the Cowboys haven't done more than this,
Speaker 1: like maybe either release him. But as a as a
Speaker 1: vested veteran, I mean as a veteran, if he is, yeah,
Speaker 1: here Week one did his contracts guaranteed? Right, Well, he
Speaker 1: wasn't here for a week one technically, I don't know
Speaker 1: how how that works, but he wasn't hearing well, yeah,
Speaker 1: as a restricted I don't even know he's a restricted
Speaker 1: free agent. I'm not really sure. But at this point,
Speaker 1: you're only talking about like, yes, you're not saving any
Speaker 1: money as a point. No, no, you're not saving any money.
Speaker 1: But you just get a roster spot, you get a
Speaker 1: guy that can practice for you, and you know, and
Speaker 1: if he signs with another team, so be it. I mean,
Speaker 1: are all the problems going to go away that he's
Speaker 1: dealing with and all that stuff? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's going to do that. And
Speaker 1: you know there's well maybe he would sign with another
Speaker 1: team and get a chance to make a playoff run.
Speaker 1: I don't, Well, the hottest teams in the league right now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this on one of the hottest humans in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to speak. I want to speak clearly because
Speaker 1: I mean, as far as I'm aware, Rico Gathers has
Speaker 1: not been a problem for the Cowboys since I mean
Speaker 1: this year. While we call it probably like a hard
Speaker 1: guy to deal with, like as far as I know,
Speaker 1: he's been a model citizen. But it reminds me. It
Speaker 1: reminds me of the Rico situation, where it's like, like,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you could do something with his roster spot,
Speaker 1: but like the fear of letting him be somebody else
Speaker 1: is talented player is what keeps him around base or
Speaker 1: the chance that he comes back and just kind of
Speaker 1: actually can give you something that church significant. Like they've
Speaker 1: seen him come in and be able with relatively little work,
Speaker 1: be able to make a difference, and they may be thinking,
Speaker 1: maybe he gets it together and actually shows up ready
Speaker 1: to do something, and we're we're week seventeen heading into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's valuable, right, And I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods is playing great, Daniel Ross and Karan Reid
Speaker 1: have given you something, Malie Collins and Tyrone Crawford, so
Speaker 1: like you're not just dying at that position where you
Speaker 1: need to do something else. But yeah, they have to
Speaker 1: be frustrated. And I don't know the ins and outs,
Speaker 1: but it's weird because I mean, that's a I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's a painful injury, but it's a routine injury in
Speaker 1: the sense that like the guy shouldn't just be off
Speaker 1: the radar, you know, like and he is habbed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just to be clear, he's off the radarf for us,
Speaker 1: there is a possibility that he could be working out
Speaker 1: with the trainers absolutely the evening and nights when we
Speaker 1: aren't there and around and don't have access to that
Speaker 1: area of the building. Who knows, But I just want
Speaker 1: to make make aware that there is a possibility that
Speaker 1: he's still doing those things, just not doing them when
Speaker 1: the media or when we're around. Yeah, you know, it's possible.
Speaker 1: It's possible, but it's a it's a fishy situation. Just
Speaker 1: when you've been around a football team and covered the
Speaker 1: way injuries are handled. This as an outlier, like it's
Speaker 1: not usually like this. All right, we're gonna take our
Speaker 1: first break. When we come back from our break, we're
Speaker 1: gonna jump into the Philadelphia Eagle offense. Days, gonna give
Speaker 1: us his his preview, and we'll keep going with the show.
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Speaker 1: the second second of the break Life from the SWBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage studios at the start, talking Cowboys versus a Eagles
Speaker 1: Day's gonna give us a scouting report, Ambert, thank you
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Speaker 1: us your your scouting report on these Philadelphia Eagles in
Speaker 1: their offense. The fun thing about division games is we
Speaker 1: already did this once, so you know you kind of
Speaker 1: have an idea of what to look for. Um, it's
Speaker 1: been a month, you know, I mean obviously a month
Speaker 1: is a long time. Like. The biggest difference for me though,
Speaker 1: is just Josh Adams. That's that's a name to know,
Speaker 1: and he's not He's not like lighting the league on fire.
Speaker 1: But you know, without Jayagie, they seem to have found
Speaker 1: their feature back in him. Um he I wrote it
Speaker 1: down somewhere on one of these pieces of paper. Uh,
Speaker 1: I swear to god, I did. Oh. Yeah. He started
Speaker 1: the last three games at running back. He's averaging sixteen
Speaker 1: carries and said York seventy four yards per game in
Speaker 1: that stretch. Two hundred and twenty two of his three
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty four yards this season have come in
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. So clearly they've found something they like. Um,
Speaker 1: he's a he's six two, two thirty. He's a big guy.
Speaker 1: He's got deceptive agility. He's good at bouncing the ball outside.
Speaker 1: So what's up Layton Vanderesh and Jalen Smith? Another big
Speaker 1: challenge for you that I mean, he looks like a
Speaker 1: tough guy to corral. I mean, if he gets to
Speaker 1: the second level, that's problematic. So that's that's probably the
Speaker 1: biggest difference. Darren Sprowles is back. Shockingly, though he did
Speaker 1: not catch a pass in this Washington game, he had four.
Speaker 1: They using him the same role the third downs primarily. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they were, I mean they were so they were.
Speaker 1: I mean they still do a committee. Corey Clement still
Speaker 1: gets a decent amount of carries and receptions and then
Speaker 1: they can bring Sprowls in. So yeah, I mean they
Speaker 1: use running backs in that third down roll. It wasn't
Speaker 1: Sprowls here. He had four carries for twenty two yards.
Speaker 1: I have to imagine they're going to try to use
Speaker 1: him as us though. That's what he's so good at.
Speaker 1: Clements got eighteen catches on the year. No, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: twenty five. And Wendell Smallwood is another guy who they
Speaker 1: used a lot as a receiver. So you can use
Speaker 1: Scrolls in that role if you want to. That's what
Speaker 1: I would imagine they would do, which is why it's
Speaker 1: surprising that they didn't against Washington. Zach Ertz. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you watched the last game, I don't need to
Speaker 1: say anything. I didn't realize this. Nick and I talked
Speaker 1: about it this morning. He's, barring an injury, he's gonna
Speaker 1: break Jason Witten's record for our receptions by a tight end.
Speaker 1: Did you hear the really cool story they said during
Speaker 1: the game the other night? During the Monday night game,
Speaker 1: I was at the Christmas party, not paying attention to
Speaker 1: the game, so I was running a little bit late
Speaker 1: because of somebody else with But beside the point, they
Speaker 1: were talking about the fact that it was Jason Witten's
Speaker 1: last game, and zach Kurtz had told him multiple times
Speaker 1: over the years, man, you were the guy looked up
Speaker 1: to thank you for being the role model for me,
Speaker 1: Like you were the guy really wanted to be like.
Speaker 1: And they got to the final game and it was
Speaker 1: a game last year at Philly and uh and and
Speaker 1: Jason at Jason says he had never taken part in
Speaker 1: jersey swap. That day he decided to let zach Ertz
Speaker 1: have his jersey. So Zach Kertz not only got his
Speaker 1: final game, but the only game that he ever did
Speaker 1: a jersey swap. Zach Ertz has the jersey makes you
Speaker 1: kind of wonder, and then he's gonna get the record
Speaker 1: makes you kind of wonder if Whitten knew he was
Speaker 1: done playing football maybe or was at least sidering it. No,
Speaker 1: I would think absolutely not, or he wouldn't have done that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think. But for a guy that that would
Speaker 1: why would Zach Hurtz get your final jersey? Well, if you,
Speaker 1: if you want to do it from a standpoint, I
Speaker 1: think of it like this, if he was looking at
Speaker 1: himself and in his place as a tight end, and
Speaker 1: this is kind of yeah, I mean like maybe that
Speaker 1: was and he and the guy he has a lot
Speaker 1: of maybe he has a lot of respect for the guy,
Speaker 1: and he's like, here you go, go take it. I
Speaker 1: think I think twenty four hours before Jason Witton was
Speaker 1: over there doing the inner the press conference. I think
Speaker 1: he was he had decided he was playing, and then
Speaker 1: he decided he's not playing. So I don't think on
Speaker 1: that last game of the year, you're well, you're right,
Speaker 1: I don't want to speak. Maybe he didn't in his mind.
Speaker 1: I don't think he had made up his mind that
Speaker 1: he was done playing football, but it was at least
Speaker 1: in his mind that it might be his last, because
Speaker 1: otherwise he doesn't even do the tryout for if it
Speaker 1: wasn't even something that he was considering at that point.
Speaker 1: What a game to go out on though, starters shut
Speaker 1: out the champs right now, there you go, great game.
Speaker 1: I mean, Urtz is unreal though ninety three. He's at
Speaker 1: ninety three, so he needs seventeen. He caught fourteen again,
Speaker 1: four points last seventeen and four. I mean he's catching
Speaker 1: something like nine balls per game. And I mean, like
Speaker 1: I see is their offense. He is end out about it.
Speaker 1: I think. You know, I'll due respect to Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. I think he's the best all around
Speaker 1: tight end in football right now. He's not He's not
Speaker 1: like this smaller blocker, but he's good enough. He's I mean,
Speaker 1: he's basic. Yeah, he's way more athletic. I wasn't covering
Speaker 1: the team in Witten's hey, but I think he's more
Speaker 1: athletic than Witten ever was. Witten was never that athletic.
Speaker 1: He's he is, he can play. He's basically a big
Speaker 1: wide receiver who can block adequately. Does he wham the nose?
Speaker 1: I don't know if he can wham the nose as
Speaker 1: well as Wit, but and you guys explained what that means.
Speaker 1: Fans out there heard this story. It's Jason Garrett's second
Speaker 1: favorite story about Witton besides the hy option story. And
Speaker 1: just you know, he's Jason Witten. He's been to ninety
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls. Like, you don't need him to eat, like
Speaker 1: to take on the nose guard on that he does
Speaker 1: a block on the nose. Special teams play. No, this
Speaker 1: is just a it was just a regular where he
Speaker 1: and he goes in motion. He supposed to wham the nose.
Speaker 1: Tried to get the other tight end to do it,
Speaker 1: and Witten was like, you don't think I can wham
Speaker 1: the nose, Like, what the hell's wrong with you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we do. We're trying to. I can wham the nose.
Speaker 1: There's the next play. As we talked about a little earlier,
Speaker 1: Wit got to do what he wanted to do pretty much. Yeah, um, no,
Speaker 1: Wit can wham the nose, but he can't split out
Speaker 1: wide and run a slant and catch the ball like
Speaker 1: he's freaking true. Alshon Jeffrey which zacharyots can do a
Speaker 1: touchdown in the Super Bowl? Yeah, or whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it. It was a it was a touchdown.
Speaker 1: But saying that play right there, we never saw Whitten
Speaker 1: do that. He just absolutely eats over the middle of
Speaker 1: the field all routes, any routes. But he's all. He's
Speaker 1: got the athleticism. He runs like deep crossers and stuff
Speaker 1: that you see receivers do. He can do it all.
Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, he's He's the most important
Speaker 1: part of this matchup from a defensive standpoint. Obviously you
Speaker 1: saw that if you watched the last game. Keep doing
Speaker 1: it or which Nixt got him on his fantasy team it.
Speaker 1: You know, Brian wrote about this this morning, is they
Speaker 1: didn't do this last time. But do you consider moving
Speaker 1: Byron Jones inside and letting him deal with it. He's
Speaker 1: done that before. He's had success against a lot of
Speaker 1: tight ends, including Arts for the millionth time. It doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like something that Rod Marinelli and Christopher Shard liked doing.
Speaker 1: But you know, however, I think a big difference. Though
Speaker 1: you talked about Adams the runner, I think one of
Speaker 1: the bigger differences right now with the Eagles is that
Speaker 1: Tate is now starting to look more like the golden
Speaker 1: Tate we've seen before. He wasn't that first game. He's
Speaker 1: kind of he's doing what slow slow start for him.
Speaker 1: He's got eighteen catches for one hundred and eighty two
Speaker 1: yards since they traded him, and almost half of that
Speaker 1: production came on Monday night. He finally had the game
Speaker 1: that they were hoping for from him. He's kind of
Speaker 1: limited before that. So yeah, I mean, that'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: And that's one extra guy that you got to worry about,
Speaker 1: which I mean he's probably well, no, he's honestly, he's
Speaker 1: he's not their best receiver because they do still have
Speaker 1: all Shan Jeffrey. He's not lighting the world on fire,
Speaker 1: but he's a big, talented guy, which it sounds great
Speaker 1: to move Byron, but then you're asking somebody else to
Speaker 1: deal with a six three receiver. But I think I
Speaker 1: think here's the thing that consider here is that we
Speaker 1: hadn't been used to the Cowboys making the kinds of
Speaker 1: adjustments on defense where they say, Okay, we're going to
Speaker 1: try to make these create these matchups that we like
Speaker 1: rather than just letting offense dictate. And they did it
Speaker 1: in this last game against New Orleans. They specifically did
Speaker 1: some deep things defensively that we hadn't even seen before
Speaker 1: because they were trying to to affect that offense. And
Speaker 1: so my question for you guys is is this offense
Speaker 1: that the Eagles have it has a similar number of
Speaker 1: talented offensive weapons. When you look at the receivers and
Speaker 1: Jeffrey and Golden Tate, and you look at Darren Sproles,
Speaker 1: who is a unique guy that can come out of
Speaker 1: the backfield, and you look at Zach Erst, who is,
Speaker 1: as Dave says, the best tight end in football. They've
Speaker 1: got an array of guys and different kinds of guys.
Speaker 1: What makes you think the Cowboys don't look at that
Speaker 1: and say, hey, maybe we make some adjustments and do
Speaker 1: something a little different, even if it means taking Byron
Speaker 1: Jones and throwing him on their best option to limit him.
Speaker 1: And if we can limit him, we fuck the rest
Speaker 1: that offense. It's not going to be as good. I
Speaker 1: don't like Byron Jones on Earth's because I don't like
Speaker 1: because you still you're talking about a number one receiver
Speaker 1: in Jeffrey A Golden Tate has been a number one
Speaker 1: Nelson Aguilars was a first round pick. I think he's
Speaker 1: you know, he's not doing great things, but he's he's fine.
Speaker 1: He's fine. He's not living up to the building of
Speaker 1: his pick. But I think I would put Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: on Earth's really, Oh, that would be a heck of
Speaker 1: a draw for him. He gives up a lot of
Speaker 1: side I'm playing basketball here. We're not going to get rebounds.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, no, but if the balls being thrown
Speaker 1: up high, is he really going to be able affect that?
Speaker 1: I think so? How you act like every play is
Speaker 1: a jump ball to the corner. No, that's not what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I mean, like, that's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Way quicker than Nerts, so he can get to whatever
Speaker 1: he's trying to do. He I mean, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: just like out move him with his hips. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be right there now. If the ball is up in
Speaker 1: the air, yeah, that's fine. But he's not Rico. That's
Speaker 1: gonna just like ask his way back in and no.
Speaker 1: But I think the reason why Byron, the reason why
Speaker 1: Byron Jones could play tight ends is because Byron Jones
Speaker 1: has extremely long arms. I get so he might not
Speaker 1: be as tall, but he has really long arms and
Speaker 1: he can right. So I don't think guy's just as
Speaker 1: quick and he can stay with Kamara. Then he's gonna
Speaker 1: any kind of double move that Earth's is gonna do,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be right there now. He's gonna have to
Speaker 1: go up and get it. I mean, I just think
Speaker 1: it's a good It's be a good man if every
Speaker 1: pass is up in the air. If the Eagles see
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis on Earth, don't they It's like every time
Speaker 1: I jump balls for the rest of the night, I'll
Speaker 1: take my chances. He's not the most accurate quarterback ever.
Speaker 1: I guess I just look at it as we just
Speaker 1: talking about the volume that they try to feed arts.
Speaker 1: I think if you can disrupt that, and if that
Speaker 1: even means taking your best cornerback and putting him on him,
Speaker 1: if you can disrupt that, then it makes that entire
Speaker 1: It puts a lot more pressure on than the entire
Speaker 1: offense to do something different than they typically do. I saw,
Speaker 1: I want to say it was I remember it was
Speaker 1: a key to leave. I don't remember what team he
Speaker 1: was on, but they were playing the Patriots years ago,
Speaker 1: and they put it basically, they lined him up across
Speaker 1: from Gronk pretty much the whole day, and that offense
Speaker 1: it had some hard times, like trying to figure out
Speaker 1: and at that time, the Patriots offense was really Gronk,
Speaker 1: like he was their best playmaker. Gronk. Gronk might still
Speaker 1: be the best tight end in football. He's just been
Speaker 1: hurt so much recently. I didn't think of even when
Speaker 1: he's healthy, though he hasn't this year. He's not the
Speaker 1: same dude. The injuries, Yeah, maybe they're mounting to the
Speaker 1: point where he's just not the same. I feel all
Speaker 1: right saying ERTs, but like Gronk Gronk's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: He is, no doubt, no doubt about that. I could
Speaker 1: live with Buyer and dealing with arts, and then that
Speaker 1: means Cheeto probably has to cover alshon jeff Free because
Speaker 1: I mean Jeffrey's size bothers me. I still think about
Speaker 1: that twenty thirteen game. Jeffrey and Brandon Marshall were just
Speaker 1: out jumping the Dallas secondary on it felt like every
Speaker 1: snap Um and then Anthony Brown, I feel like he
Speaker 1: could cover Golden Tate. That's Tate. Tate's scary just because
Speaker 1: he moves around so much. He's there. You know, this
Speaker 1: offense doesn't look like the Saints in terms of the
Speaker 1: amount of pre snap motion, but they do. They do
Speaker 1: nobody but yeah, but they do that, and Tate is
Speaker 1: usually the guy that does it because he you know,
Speaker 1: he can go out outside, he can laugh in the slot,
Speaker 1: he moves into the backfield and does just you know,
Speaker 1: trying to move the defense around and show the offense
Speaker 1: a look, you know, see what they're looking at. So
Speaker 1: he's the guy to watch there. Um Carson Wentz certainly
Speaker 1: not having an MVP caliber season, but he's a very
Speaker 1: scary guy because he is he's he's really good. He's
Speaker 1: a good pocket passer um and he's he's not a
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback, but he has the mobility to extend plays
Speaker 1: and turn it into playground football, which is always a
Speaker 1: stressful thing to watch. So let's take our second break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, I do want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about the offensive line. I want you to
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about what's happening there, how
Speaker 1: they're looking regarding their injuries relative to when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: played him the first time. We'll do it when we
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Speaker 1: let's jump back in, Dave, we were talking about the offense.
Speaker 1: You've given us a good assessment of their skill positions.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the offensive line. No, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's fair to say I buried the
Speaker 1: lead because you think back this this offensive line was struggling.
Speaker 1: The last time they played Lane Johnson didn't play. He's
Speaker 1: still dealing with some stuff. So that's something to watch.
Speaker 1: But you know, Jason Peters is expected to play in
Speaker 1: this game. Isaac sue amalo I hope, I said that
Speaker 1: right is back. Um. I know pro football focuses and everything,
Speaker 1: but it can give you a gauge. And they were
Speaker 1: ranked as the best run blocking and the fifth best
Speaker 1: pass blocking line in the league. For this past week.
Speaker 1: They they mauled Washington. They they put up for that's
Speaker 1: a good defensive front. Yeah. They put up one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty rushing yards on him, four hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: total yards, did not give up a sack. Uh. And
Speaker 1: that's I mean, if you can protect Carson Wentz suspect.
Speaker 1: You know, if he can extend plays and he's not
Speaker 1: got guys collapse in the pocket on him, that's trouble.
Speaker 1: So this is quiet. I mean they were the best
Speaker 1: offensive line in the league last year, big part of
Speaker 1: why they won a Super Bowl. Uh. If if they
Speaker 1: can round that back into for him, it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be something to watch. Although Lane Johnson is still something
Speaker 1: to watch. I'm not sure if he's gonna be back
Speaker 1: for this game. Jason Peters left that last game. Jason,
Speaker 1: Jason Peters, Trent Williams, and Tyrone Smith are all quietly
Speaker 1: like the same guy. Like they're they're so good, so good.
Speaker 1: But you every week you're like seeing how play? What's
Speaker 1: Oh he's got another problem? Like he broke something out
Speaker 1: right now right try Williams had to go to the hospital.
Speaker 1: H he did. He didn't fly home to DC after
Speaker 1: the game in Dallas because he like broke his ribs.
Speaker 1: So yeah, all three and all three of them are tough.
Speaker 1: They're just guy warriors. Yeah. I mean, Jason Peters is
Speaker 1: what probably like thirty six and Skin's gonna win another game.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't on it. You know, when people were saying,
Speaker 1: maybe we should hope for the Redskins to win this game.
Speaker 1: I can I can see why. I get it. As
Speaker 1: soon as Sanchez became their quarterback, it was like I
Speaker 1: want more, Yeah, I want to see more of that.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, okay, for for the reader, I everything I
Speaker 1: said about that game, I said with the thought that
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy was going to be playing quarterback for them,
Speaker 1: not Mark Sanchez. Could not have seen that coming. But
Speaker 1: I still you know, it's the way it worked out.
Speaker 1: It's right in front of you, Like, beat the Eagles
Speaker 1: at home. If you can't do that, what are you
Speaker 1: even complaining about it? Like it's going to get tougher
Speaker 1: than that, Yeah, any the Eagles at home. To be
Speaker 1: honest with you, all those teams that are right there
Speaker 1: in the mix for not only the division but also
Speaker 1: for the wildcard, teams like Cowboys have the easiest schedule
Speaker 1: I think by far of any of those other teams
Speaker 1: that are in the mix that have as much talent
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys do. So you're right, if you can't win,
Speaker 1: and if you can't do what you need to do
Speaker 1: it get in the playoffs at this point, this that's
Speaker 1: on you. If you're like, you know, in college basketball,
Speaker 1: maybe you build up a lead in the standings and
Speaker 1: hang on and then you're like, well we've lost three
Speaker 1: in a row, but we're still two and for Like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work that way in the NFL. You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't coast into the playoffs by not winning games.
Speaker 1: That doesn't happen. So just go beat the Eagles at home.
Speaker 1: Ye it would be nothing better than not only putting
Speaker 1: yourself in but putting them out right. That's always the best.
Speaker 1: It's insane, like the swing. It's like, it's a ninety
Speaker 1: eight point five percent chance you make the playoffs if
Speaker 1: you win this game, and it drops to like sixty
Speaker 1: two percent. If you don't win this game, you probably
Speaker 1: won't win the tiebreaker against the Eagles if you get
Speaker 1: If they lose to the Eagles and then they ended
Speaker 1: up being tied, the Eagles are going to have an
Speaker 1: advantage on you because they they're that wouldn't make them
Speaker 1: four and one in the division and you're three and
Speaker 1: two and they got to just play the Redskins and
Speaker 1: you gotta play the Giants just to tie them. So
Speaker 1: it's not like they would have to lose the Redskins.
Speaker 1: You'd have to beat the Giants. It's not likely that
Speaker 1: you're gonna win a tiebreaker on the Eagles. If they're
Speaker 1: good enough to come down here and beat the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: then you can't. They're good enough to beat at least
Speaker 1: one of the Rams and the Texans to agree with that,
Speaker 1: And that's what I was saying. If they get on,
Speaker 1: if they beat the Cowboys, to me, they are officially
Speaker 1: on a role, and we saw when they were on
Speaker 1: a role last year. They beat a lot of good
Speaker 1: teams down there going into the playoffs and in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So it's this team. This game will tell me a
Speaker 1: lot about one of these two teams. Yeah, one of
Speaker 1: these two teams I think will be poised to be
Speaker 1: able to do something in the playoffs. It's you know,
Speaker 1: you don't need to be I mean, it's better if
Speaker 1: you are, but you don't need to be a good
Speaker 1: team until December, like if you if you can just
Speaker 1: hang around the conversation till the last like five games.
Speaker 1: We've seen those teams a lot a lot of times.
Speaker 1: You don't want to peak too early, though, No, you don't.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have done that because all those years that
Speaker 1: Romo was good. He didn't hardly lose in November, but
Speaker 1: it was get to December and then it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I well not Romo. Well, Romo kind of he
Speaker 1: put that narrative to bed. I got. I can't say
Speaker 1: he put it to bed, but he had a really
Speaker 1: great December in twenty fourteen. And then the twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: team obviously they just rolled over everybody. Yeah, except do
Speaker 1: you think the Giants When you say that, were you
Speaker 1: thinking about the New Orleans game and thinking that maybe
Speaker 1: that was their peak moment and that maybe somehow you
Speaker 1: fall off from them. I'm just saying, like you're talking
Speaker 1: about the Eagles are official on a role like who cares?
Speaker 1: Because the Saints were on a ten game streak, and
Speaker 1: then if that, if the Eagles were to beat the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys were on a roll too. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: you can get beat every week even if you're hot
Speaker 1: right now. The league is set up to the point
Speaker 1: where you kind of start feeling good again and then
Speaker 1: you drop off. So the Eagles are gonna lose again
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of times. Maybe I don't like him
Speaker 1: at all, Okay at all? Like I'm just sitting here,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, I you know, I don't hate much,
Speaker 1: but I hate them. I'm gonna start calling you famber
Speaker 1: doesn't really work if it was an end instead never mind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want them to lose really bad. Well, and I
Speaker 1: hope everyone listening is like, yeah, good. I mean you're
Speaker 1: speaking their language, because absolutely there's you know, everyone hates them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. Educate me on this, because I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not a lifelong Cowboys fan. I'm still relatively
Speaker 1: new to this whole thing, but like I am under
Speaker 1: the impression that, uh, the the Cowboys quote unquote biggest
Speaker 1: rival kind of changes with who's the best. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: the Eagles just won a Super Bowl. They've been good
Speaker 1: more often than not for most of the time that
Speaker 1: I've been here, whereas the you know, the Giants have
Speaker 1: been pretty trash other than one season where they were
Speaker 1: the wild card. And but you know, when the Giants
Speaker 1: were winning Super Bowl, weren't they the Cowboys biggest rivals
Speaker 1: winning super Bowls? Excuse me, and it's been a long time,
Speaker 1: but when the Redskins were really good in the eighties
Speaker 1: and the early nineties, and weren't wasn't that, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: people talk about Cowboys Redskins like you've like, this is
Speaker 1: one of the most important rival reason in football, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, really, because it seems like it lacks used
Speaker 1: to me. So my point and then for every person
Speaker 1: that says that, though, there's somebody that's like, no, it's
Speaker 1: always the Eagles. The Packers and the Vikings have I
Speaker 1: have a good rivalry going on two and and and
Speaker 1: that that's kind of like the Cowboys and Eagles, or
Speaker 1: maybe Cowboys and Giants. But when when both teams are good,
Speaker 1: Packers and Bears take you way way back. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that's what I think the Cowboys Redskins is. Whenever the
Speaker 1: it's it's they're they're good, then you bring back like
Speaker 1: this is the real rivalry. But these other teams have
Speaker 1: come in. There's just more disrespect with the Eagles both
Speaker 1: there and I mean, it's the most venomous of the degree.
Speaker 1: And I started with a start the people, that's the
Speaker 1: people in Phillies. There's no there's no respect in this rivalry.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's at least some respect in the
Speaker 1: Giants and Redskins, right, So that's why I don't like
Speaker 1: the Eagles, they're they're fan base. It's just them. And
Speaker 1: then the Raiders. I don't like the Raiders either, but
Speaker 1: those are I love Tutors, Oh, I love. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're terrible right now, Jeremy. I just that's why I
Speaker 1: love the black Hole and the Yeah, the Raiders are great,
Speaker 1: but best uniforms in the NFL for my money. The
Speaker 1: interesting thing about it, though, is that I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody is as big and this I hope this comes
Speaker 1: off the sounds the right way, but nobody is as
Speaker 1: big a rival. Everybody perceives the Cowboys a big arrival
Speaker 1: than the Cowboys perceived them. What I mean by that
Speaker 1: is this week in Philadelphia, all over the city, what
Speaker 1: they're saying is Cowboys, we Cowboys with Cowboys week, Like
Speaker 1: they go crazy getting ready for the Cowboys game, and
Speaker 1: fans get into a fury over Cowboys games. And I
Speaker 1: think it's the same thing in New York. I think
Speaker 1: it's the same thing with the Redskins. There is this
Speaker 1: hatred for the Cowboys that I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: the same level of hatred. Now, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans will hate these teams, but I don't think
Speaker 1: it's as venomous as you guys are saying with any
Speaker 1: of those teams. I don't think there is just like
Speaker 1: this such a despise. And I think it's probably because
Speaker 1: for so long, and I'm talking about back in the
Speaker 1: seventies nineties, the Cowboys were so good that I think
Speaker 1: the team, the fans of those cities just absolutely absolutely
Speaker 1: hated them, and I think that's created that level of venom.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys are always kind of sitting on the
Speaker 1: perch kind of like in those years, at least sitting
Speaker 1: on the perch kind of like, yeah, you hate us,
Speaker 1: but it's got like Houston too, Houston fans hate the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Cowboys care less about to think about it like this.
Speaker 1: There's thirty two teams that live in this country. I
Speaker 1: mean that the thirty two teams, and yeah, one of
Speaker 1: them has this this nickname. No. Yeah, so it's like
Speaker 1: when we're here too, I mean like kinda no, there
Speaker 1: are literally no one likes that America's team when this,
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys roll up on your schedule, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if you're in the AFC West, Like when we
Speaker 1: went to Denver last year, I just I remember being
Speaker 1: taken aback, Like why do y'all care so much? Y'all
Speaker 1: hate so we play all like once every four years.
Speaker 1: Like like the signs on the highway leading to the
Speaker 1: stadium were like beat the Cowboys. They shot just slams,
Speaker 1: Like where's this coming from? Why do y'all care? There
Speaker 1: is just read I read something the other day about
Speaker 1: and from a colts um. It was a Indianapolis paper,
Speaker 1: I guess Indianapolis Star, and they were talking about Darius
Speaker 1: Leonard is not going to win Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: because I mean because he doesn't wear a star in
Speaker 1: his helmet. It's basically what they said. He doesn't wear
Speaker 1: a star in his helmet, and he's not going to
Speaker 1: be able to compete with Layton Vanderesh, which when you
Speaker 1: look at the rankings right now. I saw something on
Speaker 1: ESPN and Vanderesh is the fourth best rookie for Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year voting, which means I think there is
Speaker 1: something to be said for that. Like then, the visibility
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys plays a role in that, and that's
Speaker 1: why when they're good, they send so many people to
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, and it certainly will help Layton Vanderesh,
Speaker 1: But I don't think that's completely true because a dude
Speaker 1: that plays for the most unseen team in the NFL
Speaker 1: is probably gonna win Defensive Rookie of the Year, and
Speaker 1: that's Darwin James. Like they get out sold in their
Speaker 1: home stadium every you think part of this because the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are kind of looking at him, and so fans
Speaker 1: kind of knew about him because the Cowboys. I'm just asking,
Speaker 1: I think that's because he's bawling the hell out, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. I'm just saying, though, I do think
Speaker 1: there is something to that. Neby not that and that's
Speaker 1: a that's a little bit, that's a little bit, that's
Speaker 1: all over. But I'm just saying, though, I do think
Speaker 1: there is something too. I saw a clip somebody sent
Speaker 1: me a clip just yesterday and it was it was
Speaker 1: a it was a national media person talking about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and just saying, like, think about it from this perspective.
Speaker 1: If tomorrow, if at the end of this season, Belichick
Speaker 1: and Brady both said we're done, we're out, do you
Speaker 1: think that the networks are gonna be next year as
Speaker 1: they start putting together schedule like clamoring for we want Patriots.
Speaker 1: We want Patriots, we want Patriots now, and then think
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys when they were five and eleven. Think
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys when they had relatively unknown players on
Speaker 1: their team. Throughout a good part of the two thousands,
Speaker 1: and every single year, the networks are saying, give us Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Give us Cowboys, Give us Cowboys. There is just something
Speaker 1: about the brand and the popularity of the brand, whether
Speaker 1: you're rooting for them or against them, that people care about.
Speaker 1: People care about it one way or the other, but
Speaker 1: people care and that that's something that most teams don't have.
Speaker 1: It's like the Cowboys, the Yankees, the Lakers, Duke Basketball,
Speaker 1: and Notre Dame football, like those are the probably the
Speaker 1: big five? Am I forgetting anybody? Maybe the Packers throw
Speaker 1: them in there too. Luke Basketball? Do you said? I said,
Speaker 1: Duke Basketball? Yeah? You love him? You love them or
Speaker 1: you love to hate him. You're gonnach You're gonna watch him,
Speaker 1: You're gonna watch all right. Appreciate you guys. You want
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