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Speaker 1: Hello guys, Today's Tuesday, December twelfth. Derek Eagleton is still
Speaker 1: vacationing in the Bahamas. Um, we hope he's. We still
Speaker 1: have Nick and Dave grinding it away. You're damn right,
Speaker 1: you do right? Bahamas? Where is Yeah, he's at the Bahamas.
Speaker 1: We're down here fighting for our lives. Seven and six
Speaker 1: ball club trying to find a way into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and Derek's just taking a run around Central Park somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's he was real excited to take a run around
Speaker 1: Central Park. That's what he wanted to do. That's what
Speaker 1: he's in New York. He says he's in meetings, but
Speaker 1: he was touring. I think there was a statue of
Speaker 1: liberty stuff like that. Selfies. Bum. We'll find out. He'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow with us. I think Today's episodes episode
Speaker 1: maybe eighty nine, something like that. We're good and really accurate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll just go it's not here. So the number of
Speaker 1: people that care what episode it is it's down to zero.
Speaker 1: He tweeted on me about it this morning, wanting to
Speaker 1: make sure I got it right and you didn't even
Speaker 1: read it. No, he was asking me what episode numbers it?
Speaker 1: Who cares? Say? If you want to tell people what
Speaker 1: episode number it is, maybe you come do your job right.
Speaker 1: There's probably people out there that know that because the
Speaker 1: other day when we played this horrible drop from me um,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of people that replied back with
Speaker 1: their theory of what it was. Yeah. Good, it's so
Speaker 1: most of the people, the majority people think that I
Speaker 1: was referring to Ron Leary. Yeah, but I still don't
Speaker 1: think that was a problem though he didn't have one.
Speaker 1: That's why his pants would fall down. So why would
Speaker 1: you have said that it's a decent point, that's a
Speaker 1: that's good point. Crack reporter there can't get him on all.
Speaker 1: I still think it's DeMarco. I do too. I don't
Speaker 1: think I would have said that about an offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe, And that's you know, like, who's butter
Speaker 1: Learry or Collins. Why do you think he's better? And
Speaker 1: maybe I said that, but remember now, Douglas had this
Speaker 1: drop for a while and he's been saving it, so
Speaker 1: this seems like it's got some Douglas has a good memory.
Speaker 1: He might he might know, like he might just be
Speaker 1: able to be like, oh, yeah, you're talking about DeMarco. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he's got it. It makes me laugh every time.
Speaker 1: All Right, Okay, guys, does Dave have a drop? I mean,
Speaker 1: do we have anything like that on Dave? I mean,
Speaker 1: the one that knows You've said a thousand things. The
Speaker 1: one Douglas always like to pull out on me was
Speaker 1: do I look like I suck? Well, you just created
Speaker 1: one right when you were when you're not on Hanging
Speaker 1: with the Boys or on air anymore, rated all the
Speaker 1: Dave drops. That's okay. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad we
Speaker 1: got that discussion in. So let's find out big picture. Now,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen? Nick, what's so funny? Dave knows? I
Speaker 1: do know, and I'm just choosing not to acknowledge it.
Speaker 1: I asked him to recreate a drop, and he just
Speaker 1: created one, right then. Okay, let's keep going, move forward,
Speaker 1: Come on, bust R. Big picture. What's happening now? Obviously
Speaker 1: we already know that the Cowboys must win all the
Speaker 1: remaining games in order to attempt to make it into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. What's going on in the division? Well, in
Speaker 1: the division divisions? Obviously the Eagles have clinged. Yes, they
Speaker 1: have their title. And now the biggest thing that comes
Speaker 1: to to for me when it comes to the division
Speaker 1: is where the Packers gonna finish? Like, are they gonna
Speaker 1: finish second in their division? Because I'm sure once again
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna finish second probably and have to
Speaker 1: face him. Theoretically, I'm looking at the standings right well,
Speaker 1: Lions the theoretically, I guess they could still finish first.
Speaker 1: Like the Vikings are ten and three, they have a
Speaker 1: three and one division record, the Packers are two and two.
Speaker 1: They still there's a lot of division games still to
Speaker 1: play there, so I don't think you see them runner
Speaker 1: the table. You see Aaron Rodgers definitely starting that well,
Speaker 1: I know he can come off of these They have
Speaker 1: not released that information yet, Like McCarthy had a big
Speaker 1: press conference yesterday where they were basically like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't know yet. We're still evaluating him. You know, we
Speaker 1: need an answer soon, obviously, because we got to start
Speaker 1: practicing and stuff. But can't. What was that stat you
Speaker 1: told me on the plane about Rogers is one and
Speaker 1: seven at overtime in his career and Brett Huntley's two
Speaker 1: and oh, it's awesome. That's awesome. He's gonna come back,
Speaker 1: start the game. They're gonna go to overtime. They were like, hey, Aaron, uh,
Speaker 1: we're going to the bullpen here. Uh. Hunley's two and oh,
Speaker 1: you don't really have success here, that's I mean, that
Speaker 1: goes over. Well, he wins it in regulation. He didn't
Speaker 1: need overtime most of the time. Doubt it. How do
Speaker 1: we know that Rogers I'm talking about right now? No,
Speaker 1: we do know it. Yeah, yeah, Lois knows it. We
Speaker 1: know what we were right there. Um, just one game,
Speaker 1: you know. It's funny like that, like the one game,
Speaker 1: one play one you want that run the ball and
Speaker 1: don't score right there and take off the time. How
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so funny how it's just one game
Speaker 1: at the time, and then we got twelve more. But
Speaker 1: now you fast forward to now and you're sitting at
Speaker 1: seven and six. If you were at eight and five
Speaker 1: and you had a win over the Packers, Well, obviously
Speaker 1: they're out of it. The Packers would have been out probably. Um.
Speaker 1: You know what's wild to me? I made this point
Speaker 1: the other or yesterday. You don't even have to be
Speaker 1: eight and five if you if you go if you
Speaker 1: go into the six game, Zekes Spension and you're like,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go three and three, but you flip those
Speaker 1: results so that you beat Atlanta and you lose to Oakland.
Speaker 1: Let's say you're still seven Kansas City. Yeah, you trade
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Atlantic game. Well that was but yeah,
Speaker 1: or you know you you you beat Yeah, just say Oakland,
Speaker 1: what was the other win besides they've won two games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you flip Bakland in Atlanta. You're still seven and six.
Speaker 1: But you're feeling way better about yourself record, a lot
Speaker 1: better about yourself than you do right now. So that's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the nature of the NFL. But to
Speaker 1: your point, Amber, Cowboys can't win the East. They we
Speaker 1: said yesterday. I think the official statistic is four percent,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people have tweeted me about that,
Speaker 1: and I get it. It's a little misleading because if
Speaker 1: you win all three of your games, that percentage shoots
Speaker 1: way up. But that's part of you know, it's five
Speaker 1: to thirty eight. It's the company that predicts the election
Speaker 1: all the time. Um, But that's part of it. Is
Speaker 1: the odds that they win all three of their games
Speaker 1: and get the breaks they need. Sit somewhere about. It's
Speaker 1: like when you're playing fantasy and they maybe it's on
Speaker 1: like Yahoo or something, it says the you got ninety
Speaker 1: percent chance of winning, and the next thing and it
Speaker 1: goes down to seventy five because someone scored a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Is for Levion Bell to have a forty yard touchdown, right,
Speaker 1: and then you're like, what happened here? So that would
Speaker 1: obviously change if they if they can get this win.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the one where I think that you know
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. It will be a tough game for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and it's a tough place to play, and
Speaker 1: I mean they haven't won a regular season game appear,
Speaker 1: I mean this is a misleading staff, but they haven't
Speaker 1: won a regular season game in Oakland in twenty two years,
Speaker 1: but they've only played there like twice. I would guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: because something weird happened and I don't know why, but
Speaker 1: something weird happened in the two thousand and nine I think,
Speaker 1: I actually, I do know the answer to that, which
Speaker 1: something to do with baseball. No, when the Rams played
Speaker 1: in Saint Louis, there was some kind of rule that
Speaker 1: teams weren't allowed to go to Seattle in Oaklands in
Speaker 1: the same year or something like that, and so a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff got shuffled around to keep teams
Speaker 1: from having to take you know, so many long long
Speaker 1: road trips. I got you. It affected the Cowboys. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys I mean because because they played Kansas City in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine and with the miles ofsting game
Speaker 1: and then twenty thirteen and Oakland played in two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine and thirteen at home. Both of those games
Speaker 1: were Thanksgiving Day games. So it somehow they haven't played
Speaker 1: in Oakland since two thousand and five, A great game,
Speaker 1: by the way. Well, no, I was gonna say, it's
Speaker 1: very difficult. It's gonna be Oh hell, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: past their control at this I mean, it's been past
Speaker 1: their control. If they win all the games, you can
Speaker 1: really control what the other teams. That's right, You're right.
Speaker 1: At this point, they do not control their own destiny.
Speaker 1: I don't think you would say that. No, no, because
Speaker 1: if everyone, if it falls right, that you need all
Speaker 1: these brands. But I guess you know not yet. But
Speaker 1: I mean I'm sure if he gets down to it.
Speaker 1: I think if they win this game, you know, I
Speaker 1: think if if they win this game and they win
Speaker 1: and they go and beat Seattle, I would I would
Speaker 1: imagine that if I still think they're gonna get in
Speaker 1: at ten at six. If if this scenario has well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun because it's I mean, this is
Speaker 1: why the NFL sets the schedule up this way like this.
Speaker 1: The schedule is just backloaded with games that are going
Speaker 1: to determine this. I mean, Panthers play the Packers this week,
Speaker 1: The Saints play the Falcons again, the Seahawks play the Rams.
Speaker 1: So I mean you're talking three or four games that
Speaker 1: are going to directly the lie. I think the Lions
Speaker 1: play the Bears. That's not really very sexy, but but
Speaker 1: they'll lose, maybe the Lions. The Lions want to lose.
Speaker 1: I want to lose every game. Just teams don't always
Speaker 1: I don't take them seriously. I don't either. Sorry, Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions fans that might be listening, but um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so I mean this stuff is all, oh no, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Lanta plays Tampa, right, and then sheet had that sheet schedule.
Speaker 1: It's okay, okay, Um, we're talking about Seattle. You know
Speaker 1: what the thing with Seattle is, they're they're pretty much
Speaker 1: taken care of right from the Cowboys standpoint. They lost
Speaker 1: that one game, lost the game they need to and
Speaker 1: so so now if the Cowboys went out, Seattle is
Speaker 1: not really not really worried about Seattle. No, because if this,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys beat the Seahawks, that would drop them
Speaker 1: to six losses and you have head to head as
Speaker 1: long as you went out. Yeah that In fact, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone keeps talking about Atlanta, how you have to get
Speaker 1: two games up on Atlanta. But I've said, I feel
Speaker 1: like I've said this a thousand times. If you can
Speaker 1: get into a three way tie, and let's say Seattle
Speaker 1: is one of them, Atlanta Seattle, and I don't know
Speaker 1: did they play if they play that, Blanta and Seattle
Speaker 1: did play plan to win? I don't remember a lot
Speaker 1: better Seattle won. I don't remember if the time, because
Speaker 1: I'm telling the Cowboys are going to have a pretty
Speaker 1: good record in a division. They're gonna be eight and
Speaker 1: four in the conference, and that that's gonna help them.
Speaker 1: There's not There's gonna be some teams with with a
Speaker 1: record worse than that. Yeah, those two losses in the
Speaker 1: AFC are gonna come out to be pretty good, it really.
Speaker 1: I mean look at us just talking like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be ten and six, like without a doubts you have
Speaker 1: to to even entertain the thought of making the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if I had to bet on it right now,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know that I think that they'll
Speaker 1: get there. I don't know that I think that they'll
Speaker 1: win all three of these games. But like I said yesterday,
Speaker 1: you only have to win one before the whole dynamic changes.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a completely different team with Ezekiel
Speaker 1: ellis right, And that's that's what I think that we're forgetting.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we're kind of we got, you know, knee deep
Speaker 1: into this funk of November, and that's like this team's
Speaker 1: not very good, and well, right, that team wasn't very good.
Speaker 1: The team that didn't have Zeke didn't. I mean, we
Speaker 1: know who are the three best, the three most valuable
Speaker 1: players on the team are, Like, we know who they
Speaker 1: are now, there's no doubt that Zeke, it's Tyrans Sean
Speaker 1: Lee and you don't have them in Atlanta get thrashed. Yep,
Speaker 1: you don't. Tyr did not come back in Philly, right, No,
Speaker 1: how many games do they lose with Zeke here? I
Speaker 1: don't know'll be It'll be tough even with him coming back.
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing that this team hasn't been
Speaker 1: good at this season is consistency. It's hard to see
Speaker 1: them winning out all this game back to back, back
Speaker 1: to back if they haven't been able to be consistent
Speaker 1: all season. I agree with that. Yeah, but you know
Speaker 1: they did. They had everybody when they got their doors
Speaker 1: blown off in Denver. That's true, had everybody. That's true.
Speaker 1: That's the one game, and you can go back to
Speaker 1: many years and just this one game. That's just it
Speaker 1: makes no sense. There's nothing about that game that makes
Speaker 1: any sense at all. The Denver Denver sucks. They're a
Speaker 1: really bad football team. Forty nine, I think, yeah, And
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was about the game. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a believer in that. I'm gonna believer. I mean,
Speaker 1: what else is lame on? The lame it on the
Speaker 1: lightning delay, I don't know. I mean, blame it on
Speaker 1: the rain. We always so it is. We always joke
Speaker 1: about like like eighty yards is a bad day for
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott and he had eight that day, eight eight yards.
Speaker 1: But no, I mean like it's a it's a good
Speaker 1: point amber and that's you know, they think that they
Speaker 1: they did get they did win three in a row.
Speaker 1: They did, and they also lost three in a row. Streaky.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't but that. The thing that scares
Speaker 1: me going into this Oakland game is you can't just
Speaker 1: throw that out because that's the team. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know they have Sean Lee. I know they have Sean
Speaker 1: Lee and that makes a difference. And Hitchins they're defeated.
Speaker 1: They are four no when they both play. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much stock do you put in
Speaker 1: to two convincing wins against teams New York? Was it
Speaker 1: became a good win? I don't know if convincing is
Speaker 1: the right word. Like convincing you should probably dominate from
Speaker 1: beginning to end and that's definitely not what happened in
Speaker 1: New York on Sunday. I just I just think it's
Speaker 1: it goes just another example. Just don't beat yourself. Just
Speaker 1: just you know, make sure that you take care of
Speaker 1: the ball, take care of what you need to do,
Speaker 1: and by the end of the game, you should be
Speaker 1: winning these games. Now, they don't have another team on
Speaker 1: the schedule like that though. There's not anybody that you're
Speaker 1: just heading shoulders better than talent wise, That's what and
Speaker 1: that's the thing that bothers me. Yeah, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: going on the road to play and like I said,
Speaker 1: I think I said this yesterday too. Like Oakland is
Speaker 1: probably even more disappointed with the way their season has
Speaker 1: gone than the Cowboys are because they didn't have the
Speaker 1: suspension or any of that type of stuff. They got
Speaker 1: their MVP caliber quarterback back, and it's just been bad
Speaker 1: for them. I mean, they're six and seven, they're five
Speaker 1: and six in the AFC, which is not the AFC's week.
Speaker 1: It looks like they're two and three in the division
Speaker 1: and the division isn't as strong as it looked when
Speaker 1: the season started. But I mean they still have Beast
Speaker 1: mode cars still there. I don't know what's going on
Speaker 1: with Cooper, but Jared Cook, who Cowboys fans should remember,
Speaker 1: is there like this is this is a better team
Speaker 1: than the two that the Cowboys have beaten the last
Speaker 1: two weeks. You know, in last night's game, if it
Speaker 1: proved anything, it just shows that, you know, the teams
Speaker 1: that are that are still fighting, that are hungry. How
Speaker 1: about that? How about my guide? How about that Amber?
Speaker 1: Can you believe that? Can you believe what happened last night? Nope?
Speaker 1: I cannot is You're just speechless. You don't even want
Speaker 1: to talk about how about that Jay, Jay freaking Cutler,
Speaker 1: like probably one of the best three games of his career. Honestly,
Speaker 1: can you think about it? Yeah, outdueled Tom Brady. Their
Speaker 1: defense just beat him up. Yeah, hey your guy Xavien Howard.
Speaker 1: Nice day. All right. Well, now we that we've discussed
Speaker 1: all that, it would be very, very tough for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but the possibility is still out there. So I'm it's
Speaker 1: it's a tough it's a tough hill to climb, and
Speaker 1: it's a total cliche, but like it really is as
Speaker 1: easy as just thinking about this Oakland game, Like you
Speaker 1: really can't get day by day. I mean at least
Speaker 1: week by week. You don't have to go Wednesday, Thursday,
Speaker 1: Friday like Garrett likes to do. But like, if you
Speaker 1: can win this game, then there's every reason to hope
Speaker 1: that the last two weeks will look nothing like what
Speaker 1: we've seen over the last six you know, like I mean,
Speaker 1: if you can just compartmentalize it and not worry about it.
Speaker 1: And the other nice thing I thought about this too.
Speaker 1: I think the Falcons play on Monday night this week,
Speaker 1: but you're playing Sunday nights, so you'll get to sit
Speaker 1: back and watch and see, you know, all these other
Speaker 1: games as they happen. So like by the time the
Speaker 1: Cowboys kick off on Sunday night this week, you'll have
Speaker 1: a pretty good idea of who has helped you and
Speaker 1: who hasn't. So can you please ask Jason Garrett that
Speaker 1: in the press conference? So, coach, you're getting ready on Sunday,
Speaker 1: like you think like you'll kind of have an eye
Speaker 1: on the TVs. Well, the players know what that we're
Speaker 1: just gonna take it day by day. That would go
Speaker 1: over well, oh man, he's gonna give you, yeah, he'll
Speaker 1: give you that smile. I think he'd give you. They
Speaker 1: don't know how to calculated all of our decisions are Hey, whatever,
Speaker 1: that might be awkward. Did you see Belichick's post game
Speaker 1: last night? Yes, that was brutal. Yep, I'm glad I
Speaker 1: don't have to deal with that every week. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was just But but I think my point to that
Speaker 1: is is that you know, the Dolphins are still alive, right, yeah, theoretically,
Speaker 1: I mean, they'll hanging in there. They're they're there somewhere.
Speaker 1: So Oakland is still hanging in there. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the thing. And that's what the Cowboys are still are
Speaker 1: hanging in there. That that's why these these games are tough.
Speaker 1: I mean, the playoffs have have begun for some of
Speaker 1: these teams, Miami being one of them, the Cowboys or another.
Speaker 1: Oakland now is another one. And you know, Seattle might
Speaker 1: begin to that mode too, where it's going to be
Speaker 1: a desperate game. That Christmas Eve game is gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: I mean there's only there's oh first of all, yeah,
Speaker 1: but okay, the Eagles have clinched their playoff spot, and
Speaker 1: I guess maybe the Falcons probably I mean, sorry, the
Speaker 1: Vikings feel pretty good that they're going to make the
Speaker 1: playoffs everybody else. It's like, I mean, that's the same.
Speaker 1: They're nine and four and they have no breathing room whatsoever.
Speaker 1: There's no way that the Eagles will be clinched anything, right,
Speaker 1: Definitely not true. They can clinch hall. They can at
Speaker 1: least clinch a bye this week, if not home field
Speaker 1: throughout this week. Yeah, how because they are eleven and three,
Speaker 1: eleven and two. They're eleven and two. Yeah, they're be
Speaker 1: twelve and two. I don't know, but you think that
Speaker 1: they if they win, they get at least to buy
Speaker 1: I know, because yeah, because then the only team that
Speaker 1: can be better than them is Minnesota with three losses,
Speaker 1: because and that loss to the that loss to the
Speaker 1: Chiefs is big for them, right, because that means they
Speaker 1: don't they're in pretty I mean all right, they're not
Speaker 1: in great shape because they don't have their quarterback, but
Speaker 1: they're in pretty good shape as far as making the
Speaker 1: playoffs go. All right, guys, we're gonna go ahead and
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Speaker 1: Back to the break. All right, guys, we are back
Speaker 1: to our second man on the break. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: some Pro Bowl. I believe this is the last week
Speaker 1: for voting, so we're gonna discuss who from the Cowboys
Speaker 1: do you guys think will make the Pro Bowl? You know,
Speaker 1: there have been years where it's been that funny joke
Speaker 1: where they finished what six, they had six wins, four wins.
Speaker 1: A few years ago they had just four wins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they had six Pro bowlers on that team. Did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's been some where they they've had more Pro Bowlers
Speaker 1: than they had victories. Um, this year, there's seven wins,
Speaker 1: probably gonna be ten. I mean, that's that's pretty much
Speaker 1: what we were predicting, right, I'm not ready to go
Speaker 1: seven and ten. They won't have that many Pro Bowlers though, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would be. So I'm looking sorry, go ahead, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying I'm looking at the I'm kind of just
Speaker 1: jotting some names down here, some guys that definitely are
Speaker 1: gonna make it, and then all right, mother, I'm curious,
Speaker 1: like and that's I don't mean this in a mean way,
Speaker 1: but just the way this season's gone, Like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of Okay, for instance, Sean Lees played at a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl level, but probably for not enough games to
Speaker 1: make it. The same thing goes for Ezekiel Elliott. So
Speaker 1: like what I like, who do you think is a lock?
Speaker 1: I think DeMarcus Lawrence is a lock. Yes, it's fourteen
Speaker 1: and a half sacks, and even though his little tirade
Speaker 1: the other day, I don't think that's going to affect him. Really,
Speaker 1: he laws a lock. He's leading the league in sacks.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much the only real lock. As I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the I want to sounding like you had a
Speaker 1: few lockdown already, not not lock locks. But I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna dismiss Zeke. I mean, okay, he's got he's fourth
Speaker 1: in the NFC and rushing so probably depends on what
Speaker 1: he does in the last Well, no, it doesn't because
Speaker 1: voting ends this week. Never mind, right, I mean, and
Speaker 1: j Ji E's fifth, but a lot of those came
Speaker 1: from the Dolphins. Yeah, so Carl Tho hides behind him,
Speaker 1: blunts behind him, Freeman so I mean in front of him,
Speaker 1: Gurley Howard from the Bears, Ingram from New Orleans, Kamara,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about just well, I mean, but yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a running back and he's got six
Speaker 1: hundred and eight rushing yards. But he's got a lot
Speaker 1: more all purpose yards than that. I would bet he
Speaker 1: makes it too. Yeah, he probably, he probably will. But
Speaker 1: I mean, Zeke's at seven eighty three, he's been sitting
Speaker 1: there and he maybe get two thousand. How many how
Speaker 1: many touchdowns does he have? Seven? I mean that's tied
Speaker 1: for third in the conference. I mean, so his numbers
Speaker 1: are going to be good enough, especially if he can
Speaker 1: have a couple of nice games here, and especially because
Speaker 1: you know one of those guys will probably go to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl if yeah, sould bezy, So he could be.
Speaker 1: So just don't dismiss him. I'm not writing him off.
Speaker 1: But here's a couple more that are pretty good locks.
Speaker 1: I think Zach Martin, Okay, I mean he's he's gonna
Speaker 1: make it probably every year that he breathes. And then
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick. Yeah, I mean those two right there. So
Speaker 1: I think those three are in Tyrn Smith. See that's
Speaker 1: and again I don't mean it in a mean way,
Speaker 1: but that I mean, that's that's almost like a reputation
Speaker 1: thing like once you once you get in once or twice,
Speaker 1: then the snowball just starts rolling and you're a known
Speaker 1: name and everybody knows how good you are. And don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, I mean games as he missed two two.
Speaker 1: I think he missed two games, but even I mean
Speaker 1: one of them, like records were broken. It's a good point.
Speaker 1: So well, this shows like just how good he is.
Speaker 1: That's like the old argument though that like you know,
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning should have been twenty eleven NFL MVP, Like
Speaker 1: has he missed? I know he didn't play a game,
Speaker 1: but I mean I think you can miss what's the
Speaker 1: cutoff of games you could miss and still be a
Speaker 1: pro bowler. I would guess like three or four one
Speaker 1: I missed two and one of them his value was
Speaker 1: definitely on display. Yeah, So I mean that's what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna move him back up to the lock his lockdown.
Speaker 1: I think I think the three of them and and
Speaker 1: they're great players, don't get me wrong, But like I said,
Speaker 1: like once the snowball gets rolling, and once you're kind
Speaker 1: of established as like no names in the NFL, it's
Speaker 1: it's easier to make it in. Now on the on
Speaker 1: the plane the other day, or remember it's on the bus.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. We were talking about this um and quarterback.
Speaker 1: Now three you have to be probably in the top
Speaker 1: six maybe to even be considered this and I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the quarterbacks some point here here we go, Um,
Speaker 1: he's really not in the top six of the NFC
Speaker 1: because you know, somebody's gonna go to the Super Bowl. Well,
Speaker 1: one of the guys is out, now, Wentz, Wentz, We'll
Speaker 1: he'll still make the Pro Bowl. He'll be an out.
Speaker 1: I mean he won't go. He won't go. So he's out.
Speaker 1: So as long as the Eagles don't go to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, that means somebody else in this group of
Speaker 1: Breeze and Golf and Keenum is Russell Wilson. Maybe Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is definitely gonna make the Pro Bowl. But you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta remember you have a couple of guys like that,
Speaker 1: and then Aaron Rodgers probably won't play in the game.
Speaker 1: If even if he gets picked, I don't think he would.
Speaker 1: I don't think he would make it anyway. So so
Speaker 1: I think I think right now, if you just had
Speaker 1: to pick three guys from the NFC and go ahead
Speaker 1: and pick four, because Wentz will not make it. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking what Russell Wilson Breeze Golf sounds about right
Speaker 1: based Keenum, Keenum, Stafford, Ryan Cam I mean you could
Speaker 1: throw any of them in there. That's I mean, let's
Speaker 1: be perfectly on it. Like and I said, I mean
Speaker 1: Dax's numbers were incredible at about the midpoint of October,
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought he was having a really great season.
Speaker 1: But since the Zeke suspension, I'm not trying to argue
Speaker 1: too hard that I think he should be in the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl based on the way this all this has gone.
Speaker 1: You're saying, as my man Rod Smith said, don't be surprised.
Speaker 1: Never well, never bet against the Cowboys to get guys
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl anyway. I mean, that's that much
Speaker 1: is Obviously, he's a fun he's a fun player to watch.
Speaker 1: And you know, if if you get to the point
Speaker 1: where he's an alternate and you want to put him in,
Speaker 1: I could see that that that helps the NFL the
Speaker 1: guy like Dak Prescott goes in there. Sure, I've seen it,
Speaker 1: so wouldn't would definitely dismiss him. Now, you just said
Speaker 1: we had like seven the year they won four games? Right,
Speaker 1: Oh wait, hold on, hold on, or you get into
Speaker 1: other names. Okay, I'm gonna I think you're gonna go
Speaker 1: down a different road here. So just just a second,
Speaker 1: all right, you gonna name another player? I was going
Speaker 1: to hold on just just like so. Back in the summer,
Speaker 1: we do this thing called twenty questions. Twenty questions. You
Speaker 1: guys should be familiar with this. We you know, basically,
Speaker 1: we do it so we can have some content while
Speaker 1: everyone's going on vacation. Twenty questions. Each day we pick
Speaker 1: a topic. One of the questions was which player in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen will make his first Pro Bowl? So, oh,
Speaker 1: first Pro Bowl? So I went down. I remember what
Speaker 1: my answer was. Okay, I don't think I don't think
Speaker 1: it is bad. I think it's probably No. He wasn't
Speaker 1: on the list there, all right. So Rob for he
Speaker 1: played the game and he said, Lyell Collins, it's not
Speaker 1: a bad guests not a bad one I thought, I
Speaker 1: said yesterday, I think he's playing really well. He is
Speaker 1: playing really well. I don't know if it's at a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl level. I don't know if they'll they'll put
Speaker 1: three or four in there, but maybe Brian stayed with
Speaker 1: the same last name and went with Malik Collins ye,
Speaker 1: which at the time looked really good. And yep, he
Speaker 1: was one of the two or three players we just
Speaker 1: kind of missed on from training camp. Just say, man,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a great year. He just hasn't. He's
Speaker 1: had a bum foot trying a little bit. Yeah, really
Speaker 1: think about it. When's the last time Malique has really
Speaker 1: made a play anything? Oh? Yeah, no, I know positive
Speaker 1: not like but off side. I don't remember the last
Speaker 1: time he like really flashed. And it might have been
Speaker 1: the summer um. Remember when in the in the break
Speaker 1: when I was like, what am I doing? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: picked Jeff Heath, I said, one way or another. I
Speaker 1: thought he would be kind of a special teams guy. Hey,
Speaker 1: he's leading the team and picks man. Yeah, don't be
Speaker 1: so hard on yourself. But he not making the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl m because even the Cowboy fans don't like him.
Speaker 1: See that's the thing. I mean, you got to have
Speaker 1: your own fan base like him, and then they do not.
Speaker 1: You picked Chris Jones. Oh I see, I thought I
Speaker 1: picked MALIEK. Collins. I guess I changed my mind. Jones,
Speaker 1: All right, way to go me. That's the one player
Speaker 1: that other than DeMarcus Lawrence, that's the one player that
Speaker 1: absolutely deserves to make if I could, if I could
Speaker 1: because DeMarcus Lawrence is gonna get paid out the wazoo
Speaker 1: no matter what, Like he'll be Okay. If I could
Speaker 1: like stand on the table for anybody, it would be
Speaker 1: Chris Jones. He has had the most consistently awesome season
Speaker 1: of anybody on this team. He's been absolutely unbelievable. Yeah
Speaker 1: he is. He is amazing. He can put the ball
Speaker 1: anywhere he wants it. And I was talking to some
Speaker 1: people yesterday and they were saying the pre game, he
Speaker 1: was like, this is unbelievable. This this wind. It says
Speaker 1: that there's like a ten mile an hour wind and
Speaker 1: it's like it's all over the place, Like I have
Speaker 1: no idea where the ball is going to go, and
Speaker 1: neither did Dan Bailey. And then, you know, so I
Speaker 1: think maybe that it made me felt a little bit
Speaker 1: better about Bailey, just knowing that Chris Jones was kind
Speaker 1: of the same way, just just just in the pre game,
Speaker 1: they were just trying to figure out what they were
Speaker 1: doing and they never got a good gauge on it.
Speaker 1: So it's not an easy place to kick or the
Speaker 1: ray thing that you picked him. I mean, when you're
Speaker 1: looking at thoughts about who would make the pro Bowl
Speaker 1: punting isn't the one quolt that you even think of
Speaker 1: right away if you want to, if you didn't eliminate
Speaker 1: a lot of players by saying it's got to be
Speaker 1: your first, it's true, but okay, yeah, yeah, that's true,
Speaker 1: if you want to look behind the curtain. I feel
Speaker 1: like me and Brian probably both were thinking Malie Collins,
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, well, you're you're the
Speaker 1: offensive defensive line guy. Anyway, you do that and then
Speaker 1: I'll come up with somebody else because it would be
Speaker 1: boring if we picked the same. Yeah, but but that's Chris.
Speaker 1: I remember saying all summer that I thought Malik would
Speaker 1: lead the team in sacks, and he's just got one,
Speaker 1: I think, and DeMarcus is leading the NFL. I never,
Speaker 1: in my wildest dreams, I never Maliks. Whatever he's got,
Speaker 1: they took half of it, remember away from yeah, from
Speaker 1: Lawrence in that first game, but I said it was
Speaker 1: it was gonna be um David Irving, That's who I said.
Speaker 1: Even with four games. Well, for a while he was
Speaker 1: on page to do that and he just stopped. But
Speaker 1: I feel bad like the special teams guys, like my
Speaker 1: heart goes out for them because like we're I mean,
Speaker 1: we're sitting here like, well, maybe Deck will get in
Speaker 1: because the quarterback goes to the super Bowl and these
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks pull out, Like you can be the eighth
Speaker 1: best quarterback and still make it. Not if you're a
Speaker 1: kicker or a punter get in. They take one from
Speaker 1: each team and then or from each conference and unless
Speaker 1: you were, unless that guy goes to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Like I've never heard of a kicker or a punter
Speaker 1: pulling out so like, I mean, Chris Jones has been arguably,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the two or three best hunters
Speaker 1: in the NFL for for several years now, and it
Speaker 1: seems like he's never even come close. So um, And
Speaker 1: that's the like I said, like these guys get in
Speaker 1: on you know, reputation. And that's not to say that
Speaker 1: that you're not good, but people aren't really analyzing punter
Speaker 1: stats to see like who's really the best? You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? You know where he ranks in the
Speaker 1: NFL and in average probably way down if I had
Speaker 1: to guess, twenty sixth yep, But what about like net
Speaker 1: and net though that's uh, he's ninth, that's still not
Speaker 1: as good. As I thought it would be. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's just it's the ability. Well, I'll say this, inside
Speaker 1: the twenty he's leading, he's got twenty nine um that
Speaker 1: that second place. So that's and I get That's my
Speaker 1: point is, you know people look at like, well, what's
Speaker 1: his average? How many yards per punt is he averaging?
Speaker 1: What's how how much are they were like watch watch
Speaker 1: the games and see where he's pinning these teams and
Speaker 1: see how many punt returns he's given up. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many how many guys have returned punts more than
Speaker 1: like a couple steps against Chris Jones this year, and
Speaker 1: how many times has he penned the opposition down. That's
Speaker 1: that's that's the thing right there. The way, when you
Speaker 1: look at return yards, that's where the Cowboys are first
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I mean the guy so if you
Speaker 1: look at just leading leading punter ranked first, some guy
Speaker 1: named Kern from Tennessee, I don't know his first name.
Speaker 1: He's top on the last air net, punting forty five
Speaker 1: point five. But they've given up two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: eight return yards. Remember Switzer had an eighty three yard
Speaker 1: return on one run. So Chris Jones fifty five yards
Speaker 1: return on the season on the season, So if you
Speaker 1: mean usually you get one or two breakdown, then you
Speaker 1: give up a fifty yard or let's say he's averaging
Speaker 1: for a game and he's played thirteen games, So what's
Speaker 1: the math on that helped me out, Well, he's punted
Speaker 1: the ball fifty four times and there's been fifty five yards. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. That's that's the sat right there. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And I hope that people that doing this, you know,
Speaker 1: look at the voting, can kind to think of it
Speaker 1: that way. He really has been I hope, I hope
Speaker 1: people are paying attention. He deserves it. And it's like,
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, he probably won't get it
Speaker 1: because only one punter gets to go. But he deserves it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: another go ahead and go ahead. Another player that we
Speaker 1: thought might have been in that list. I remember we
Speaker 1: talked about guys that might make it. Uh they're either
Speaker 1: going to be Jones or or Collins, and Byron Jones's
Speaker 1: name was mentioned, especially after training camp. We thought, man,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a great year. You know that lying
Speaker 1: around has not happened. Even with the defensive touchdown I
Speaker 1: think we've been able to see that he's not. I
Speaker 1: would be I would be relatively surprised if a defender
Speaker 1: other than d Law makes the Pro Bowl. I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe even like while I thought An is
Speaker 1: Irving gonna just play so well that you have to
Speaker 1: get him on there, is that wise? But the other
Speaker 1: um I said this in the mail back today, I
Speaker 1: think if if he had been healthy for the first
Speaker 1: month of the season, I think it's hi. He wasn't.
Speaker 1: So it's one more big punt return out of Switzer
Speaker 1: and then you'll find yourself doing that. Oh well, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: voting will be closed by the time he does that.
Speaker 1: Well did he even fit on the plane? You mean
Speaker 1: h whoa, Okay, that's good. No, he's good. I mean,
Speaker 1: you get one more part return like that or kick
Speaker 1: return I've seen. I mean, they'll put rikies in there.
Speaker 1: You remember Johnny Knox? Oh wait, you mean you mean
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl because you don't even have to
Speaker 1: go back that far because he conducted it last year.
Speaker 1: I mean turn Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do remember
Speaker 1: Johnny Knox. It's a shame that he got hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, well, remember this is the last week to vote.
Speaker 1: So if you guys want to vote for your favorite
Speaker 1: Cowboy to make the Pro Bowl, go ahead and do so.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna be answering some questions from Twitter. Here's
Speaker 1: the first one, speaking of Byron Jones just a moment ago.
Speaker 1: Is it time to give Caven Frazier the starting job
Speaker 1: over Byron Jones based on the way he tackles and
Speaker 1: makes place. I'm a little worried about that. I still
Speaker 1: haven't seen a lot of plays where Frasier's in the
Speaker 1: back end. He's got it all covered. And I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: they they you know, they have a few breakdowns back there.
Speaker 1: Um at the very least. I like the fact that
Speaker 1: Byron is athletic enough to yeah, rush to those plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he you know, he's not amazing, but I think
Speaker 1: he's better in I would say he's better in covers
Speaker 1: in Cavon right now. And that's the thing we talked
Speaker 1: about this I think was it was Washington where he
Speaker 1: really balled out, right Cavon, Yep, Yeah, it's it's Yesisco too.
Speaker 1: Let's let's just get through the season. You know, like
Speaker 1: you got three more of these games you're scrapping to
Speaker 1: try to make the playoffs. Like all hands are clearly
Speaker 1: on deck. I mean, you've got rookies all across your secondary,
Speaker 1: you're rotating your safeties. Uh, like this now is not
Speaker 1: the time for like sweeping changes where all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Iron Jones isn't playing, you know, like your your safety
Speaker 1: play clearly hasn't been up to snuff for most of
Speaker 1: the season. Worry about that in the offseason. Like, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to bench people right now. I'm trying like
Speaker 1: everybody that can help needs to help, right They did
Speaker 1: rotate the Washington game, you know, Um, yeah, two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: they did rotate those. But they that's probabout as far
Speaker 1: as yeah, well and they did. I talked to Cavon
Speaker 1: about that after this Giant's game. They apparently they were
Speaker 1: on the same plan like every two series or so,
Speaker 1: like he got in about the same amount, didn't flash
Speaker 1: quite as much. But either way, But that's my point, like,
Speaker 1: rotate them, if you want to rotate them, get your
Speaker 1: guys in there. But like these these you know, people
Speaker 1: want to see these sweeping changes where Cavon's out there
Speaker 1: all the time and Byron's never out there. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's happening. You know, Cavon was benched. I mean
Speaker 1: at one point this year, like inactive for a game.
Speaker 1: Remember that, I mean back two or three, and I
Speaker 1: think he came back against San Francisco maybe and and
Speaker 1: had like a really big play. It was like, you know,
Speaker 1: don't do that again. So you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's ready to take on starting job. I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Dave. I think he needs to just just
Speaker 1: do what they're doing and then we'll get to the
Speaker 1: offseason and figure it out and figure out if maybe
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, this is the position he needs to be playing.
Speaker 1: I think you've got about four I mean, all of
Speaker 1: your safeties are they're good enough to be out there,
Speaker 1: They're not good enough to be your starter. And that's
Speaker 1: just the situation that they're in right now. And get
Speaker 1: get through the season with what you got and figure
Speaker 1: it out from there. I don't see anybody in free agency.
Speaker 1: I don't see the Cowboys signing any defensive back in
Speaker 1: free agency less unless they let unless they were to
Speaker 1: cut Scandrick, which I don't really see that happened. We
Speaker 1: looked at this contract. It just you're not going to
Speaker 1: find a better value out there than what you have
Speaker 1: with scandricks. So yeah, I don't. I don't see that happening.
Speaker 1: And there with so many young guys with the corners
Speaker 1: and rookies, I'm amy corners and safeties that are that
Speaker 1: are rookies this year. I just don't. I don't see
Speaker 1: you would add somebody to the mix like that. You
Speaker 1: might draft someone, but not. All right, let's go ahead
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Speaker 1: All right, And then we were talking about Orlando Skean
Speaker 1: Drake and we all agree that he will probably still
Speaker 1: be here next year based on his contract and all that.
Speaker 1: So here's another question from Twitter. Do you guys think
Speaker 1: that he has a chance to lose his starting job
Speaker 1: to one of these rookies? Wow, well, he definitely has
Speaker 1: a chance. You know what, happens. The good question is
Speaker 1: a really good question. I don't think he I think
Speaker 1: if you're going to do that, you should cut him.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think he'll lose the job. Who's better?
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys don't play better than him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be it'll be a close, good competition, just just
Speaker 1: you're out there and compete. He'll probably win. If he
Speaker 1: stays healthy, he'll he'll probably usually does mean he's but
Speaker 1: but I tell you what, what will help him. There's
Speaker 1: questions like that and stories like that. He'll hear one
Speaker 1: thing and then he'll he'll yell at all the media
Speaker 1: that everyone's saying, and everyone's saying that they you know,
Speaker 1: and hell, those chips on his shoulders. That's that's what
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan did. So I'm not comparing Orlando Scanner to
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. But like you know, competitors and athletes use
Speaker 1: stuff like that to motivate him. You just hear one
Speaker 1: thing and you just go with it. I don't think
Speaker 1: he will be replacing it, not this year. I don't
Speaker 1: think those rookies are that are good enough to do that,
Speaker 1: not at his job. Put it that way, Um, I'll
Speaker 1: believe he's not out there when I see it, I
Speaker 1: mean he's been well. I also think there's three three
Speaker 1: corners on the team. You pretty much play three in
Speaker 1: which three are going to be better than It was
Speaker 1: so awesome on Sunday when the Cowboys announced their starting
Speaker 1: lineup and it was nicol like that was their starting lineup.
Speaker 1: They only had two linebackers, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: good this I'm talking about PR. I'm like, thank you
Speaker 1: for calling it what it is, and like, we don't
Speaker 1: need to worry about who's starting at SAM when we
Speaker 1: know that three corners are going to be out. Yeah, yeah, okay, guys.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys will be resuming their practice today. Do
Speaker 1: you guys expect David Irving to practice? Today will be
Speaker 1: more of a walkthrough. Tomorrow will be the regular practice
Speaker 1: that you will see, but it will do some things today.
Speaker 1: I would imagine all expecting him to be back this week. Yes,
Speaker 1: I do expect him to be just a guess, but
Speaker 1: I think I think one thing we have noticed about concussion,
Speaker 1: well this is his second week too. Yeah, he'll be back,
Speaker 1: but I think that when you start to just see
Speaker 1: what happens on that first day, I think if he's
Speaker 1: out on Wednesday, I don't. I don't think he'll be.
Speaker 1: I don't think. No, you're you're The first day is
Speaker 1: big for stuff like that. This is his second week though.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, But that's what I'm saying even more even
Speaker 1: more so for sure. But like with concussions, like I
Speaker 1: don't you don't like gradually work your way back. You're
Speaker 1: either back or you're not. You're not good, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like, like I brought this up before,
Speaker 1: like Zach Martin was pulled out of the what was
Speaker 1: it the Chargers game and then but the first day
Speaker 1: of practice for the Redskins, he was at least limited.
Speaker 1: He didn't do everything, but like he wasn't he went
Speaker 1: out to practice, you know twelve weeks ago. Well there's
Speaker 1: that too. And about this Brian, we kind of talked
Speaker 1: about him yesterday, but not so much. Um. He didn't
Speaker 1: have a great beginning of the game, but then eventually
Speaker 1: made some place. Do you guys think that now he's
Speaker 1: about to be on the right track and finally, you know,
Speaker 1: get on that consistency to start being the desk that
Speaker 1: has been wanting to see. I don't know, man, I
Speaker 1: it's interesting. You go back and watch that game and
Speaker 1: it's it's evident, especially like down in the red zone.
Speaker 1: It's obvious that like defenses still respect what he can do,
Speaker 1: especially one like the Giants that is missing cornerbacks. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was doubled in the red zone a good portion
Speaker 1: of the day. Ironically, one of the times they didn't
Speaker 1: double him, he broke a tackle from Brandon Dixon and
Speaker 1: took it fifty yards to the house. It was it
Speaker 1: was good to make see him make a play like that.
Speaker 1: I just that the drop. The drop really left a
Speaker 1: bad taste in my mouth, just because and I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I know that Dak could have thrown a better ball
Speaker 1: and maybe it's a touchdown if he does. But that's
Speaker 1: that's his specialty, is going up and getting the ball
Speaker 1: in the air like that and snatching it over a
Speaker 1: dB and have it hit it. I mean, it just
Speaker 1: went right through his hands. It's just like that. He's
Speaker 1: that's his calling card, and it was a bummer to
Speaker 1: see him miss that play. Where do you think in
Speaker 1: the NFC, Because we talked about Pro Bowl earlier, where
Speaker 1: do you We didn't really mention him at all, But
Speaker 1: where do you think he ranks in receptions in the NFC,
Speaker 1: had a guess twelfth lower, Well, I would go lower
Speaker 1: among wide receivers, just wide receivers. How many does he have?
Speaker 1: It's sixty one. He's eighth, eighth. That's shocking to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, he says tenth, but he's got two running
Speaker 1: backs ahead of him. So where's the ranking? Yards? Yards
Speaker 1: though the other one, and that's what's interesting. Yards. He's fourteenth,
Speaker 1: and that's usually flip side. That just goes to show
Speaker 1: his eleven point seven average. That's not an elite player
Speaker 1: right there. That's sorry, that's not an elite number. Eleven
Speaker 1: point seven. That's got to be the lowest of his
Speaker 1: entire career. Yeah, I mean that was what Witten was
Speaker 1: having for years. Is eleven? Wittens down now to eight
Speaker 1: point eight. But a number one receiver should probably be
Speaker 1: averaging between fourteen and seventeen. Well, right, let's just let's
Speaker 1: go to it. Then, let's see what the old you know,
Speaker 1: pull up ab for me. I am NFL receiving leaders
Speaker 1: number one. Antonio Brown, did you guess that one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Fifteen point two. There you go. Julio Jones is fifteen
Speaker 1: point nine. There you go. Fourteen is Hopkins. Fourteen point
Speaker 1: five is Adam Delon having a hell of a year.
Speaker 1: Allan forgot his first name for the Chargers, Keenan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis didn't forget thirteen point eight. Dez is eleven
Speaker 1: point seven. I mean, you know, there are guys like
Speaker 1: Golden t eight ten point eight, Larry Fitzgerald is ten
Speaker 1: point six. So I mean it's around that number. But
Speaker 1: for Dez, who doesn't get a ton of catches, that's
Speaker 1: where you expect the average to be a little bit bigger.
Speaker 1: He just hasn't had those trunk plays like he had
Speaker 1: Sunday in that game. I want to say, so he
Speaker 1: had fifty He finished with fifty last year and he
Speaker 1: missed three games. So fifty catches I believe. So sixty
Speaker 1: six touchdowns, that's a pretty good number there. And you know,
Speaker 1: when you it's when you think about Antonio Brown has nine,
Speaker 1: it's it's okay when when has a one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety yard games. I'm just saying from a touchdown stand,
Speaker 1: Polo Jones has three, I mean touchdowns. Oh yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: It's just that he needs he needs to get more
Speaker 1: of those big plays. That's I mean that seemed basically,
Speaker 1: what you're telling me is the old Clarence Hill adage
Speaker 1: of I mean, statistics can lie to you. Oh yeah, basically.
Speaker 1: I mean if you watch, if you've watched all thirteen
Speaker 1: of these games intently, you know you know what the
Speaker 1: situation is. Ye, I don't believe so no, I think
Speaker 1: we lost you. You want to use mine. I was
Speaker 1: just gonna say, oh, stats do lie huh, oh, here
Speaker 1: we go. You're really bringing something up from week two?
Speaker 1: That what's happening right now? Oh damn it? Not giving
Speaker 1: you my mic? That's funny, and she's like, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, I want this. I was just gonna say, whoa,
Speaker 1: I totally forgot what what was that first half? Second half?
Speaker 1: That back is better in the Yeah, we are. We
Speaker 1: are past that, which because I think we were both wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's a stretch there when he was
Speaker 1: pretty bad in both halfs. Yeah. So but now he's
Speaker 1: back to being he's back to being great again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he was. I mean that's what I wrote my
Speaker 1: column that I said he was great. He was, he was, No,
Speaker 1: he waste in that game. He just needs some help.
Speaker 1: I mean, like all quarterbacks do. But he doesn't need
Speaker 1: a ton Just give him a little bit of help
Speaker 1: and he can he can be great. Again, those guys
Speaker 1: did a lot of the work. But is it is
Speaker 1: okay to admit that your second year quarterback needs good
Speaker 1: players around him to be successful, Like it's all right
Speaker 1: that he can't just create everything on his own the
Speaker 1: way Aaron Rodgers or Russell. But I watched that play
Speaker 1: with with Brian the eighty one year touchdown, and I mean,
Speaker 1: he did a really nice job of just of of seeing,
Speaker 1: oh man, the middle is pretty open and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be wide open if I can just put rod Smith
Speaker 1: over here. And now there's no one there, and he
Speaker 1: takes ball and he says, I'm looking over here, but
Speaker 1: I'm not looking. I'm just giving rod Smith enough time
Speaker 1: to get open. And to that point, you know, we
Speaker 1: can criticize him, and he deserves criticism. But the safety
Speaker 1: shaded to Dez Bryant on that Like he had his
Speaker 1: eyes all over Dez on that play and open it
Speaker 1: up for right. So that's and that's the thing about
Speaker 1: Dez that the game, you know, um two weeks ago
Speaker 1: against Washington where he had the touchdown, then he had
Speaker 1: the PI in the end zone. He dropped the touchdown,
Speaker 1: but he was absolutely behind the guy. He burned him
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage. Then he made another play
Speaker 1: where he said, get off me, brother, or get off me,
Speaker 1: big boy, or get off me. Yeah. Yeah, you want
Speaker 1: to say it that, you know, I was. I was
Speaker 1: watching the NFL network, NFL Chris Rose whatever his name, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're watching the highlights and he makes the catch
Speaker 1: and he just ye up in here. He says, get
Speaker 1: off me. You know. I was like, that's close, it's
Speaker 1: not go omb I want to say. He did that
Speaker 1: to Patrick Robinson six or so years ago against the Saints.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, when he had those two touchdowns in both
Speaker 1: like fifty two yard touchdowns. Yeah, yep. No, he he
Speaker 1: needs to get back to that. And I think with
Speaker 1: with all players, it could be a confidence could be
Speaker 1: up and down. I know you would you think, well,
Speaker 1: Dez never loses confidence. It doesn't look like he does.
Speaker 1: But I was watching him on the sideline after that,
Speaker 1: after that drop, and I mean he was so upset
Speaker 1: with himself. I mean, he that's a Dez Bryant play,
Speaker 1: and I'm so it's good to see him come back
Speaker 1: and still he still gets that that that double coverage
Speaker 1: from the you know, from the defense he does and
Speaker 1: again back to back. These are probably his best two
Speaker 1: games of the season. So if he can keep that going,
Speaker 1: Seahawks are depleted in the secondary. It's Oakland. Oakland fired
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator. They have be awesome. Oh do they? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: I know that was a decade ago. Can you believe that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who their corners are. Um, well,
Speaker 1: they drafted the kid out of Ohio State, but he's
Speaker 1: on I R. I've been drafting from Houston like four
Speaker 1: or five years ago. That didn't work out. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that sounds familiar. At their defense isn't anything. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna find all this out tomorrow, you're right, or
Speaker 1: actually Thursday when you do the defense stuff. You're right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get Derek back tomorrow. But then Derek's gonna
Speaker 1: be gone again, so we can't again. Yes, great, right,
Speaker 1: it's football. Football players play football during football season, and
Speaker 1: football analysts analyze football hosts whatever. All right, guys, we
Speaker 1: talked about free agency and all that. Do you guys
Speaker 1: feel that or do you guys expect the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: be a little more active during this upcoming free agency.
Speaker 1: I think they do exactly what you've been doing every
Speaker 1: you just let those players come to you, start mail.
Speaker 1: Start emailing me your angry emails now so we can
Speaker 1: get it out of the way. I mean, don't I
Speaker 1: mean DeMarcus Lawrence. They'll find something to do with him.
Speaker 1: David Irving in that regard, yeah, I mean demarking guys,
Speaker 1: David Irving, Zach Martin, maybe bring back. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think Anthony Hitchins is going to wind up out of
Speaker 1: their price range. But maybe who were I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Rice Butler and do anything for you? Is that moving
Speaker 1: anybody's needle? That type of stuff. But for the fourth
Speaker 1: year in a row, I'm not expecting them to be
Speaker 1: making splash signings. I don't think they have the cap
Speaker 1: space to do that on top of the work they
Speaker 1: have to do with their own players, and I don't
Speaker 1: think they want to. Well, they need to do better.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I understand that the priority wasn't high
Speaker 1: and they didn't spend a ton of money, but there's
Speaker 1: no way that they thought Demontre Moore, Stephen Paya and
Speaker 1: Nolan Carroll and then there's a fourth guy, miss a
Speaker 1: Byron Bell. Those four guys would not be playing for
Speaker 1: you suree of them off the team, one of them
Speaker 1: doesn't play. Yeah, I mean they could, they could better,
Speaker 1: especially when when you when this is a team where
Speaker 1: injuries and suspensions have hurt the depth and they didn't
Speaker 1: have it that those type of pickups. I mean, they
Speaker 1: could have used a cornerback, a veteran cornerback to be
Speaker 1: better than Nolan Carroll. Absolutely so. They they don't put
Speaker 1: a lot of resources in but the last two years
Speaker 1: they have not done well. They've said Ric Thornton has
Speaker 1: not on this team. Those three guys that just mentioned
Speaker 1: aren't on this team. They need to step that up
Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, I'm interested though, like we're
Speaker 1: kind of running out of time, but it's interesting to think, like,
Speaker 1: you know, you go into it, they didn't do enough.
Speaker 1: Nolan Carroll didn't really factor this season. But by the
Speaker 1: time this season's over, won't you feel you're not gonna
Speaker 1: feel good about your playmate in the aspect of playmaking,
Speaker 1: But like top to bottom, you feel all right about
Speaker 1: your depth in the secondary, don't you. I mean, going
Speaker 1: into twenty eighteen, you'll have all your rookies who will
Speaker 1: have a year of experience. Anthony Brown hasn't had a
Speaker 1: great year, but he's got another year. You expect Orlando
Speaker 1: Scandrick to be around. Whatever you feel about them. All
Speaker 1: of your safeties will still be there, and so you know,
Speaker 1: to have that depth chart and then maybe add a
Speaker 1: draft pick on top of it. I think secondaries is fine.
Speaker 1: That yeah, it doesn't bother me. Linebacker situations a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different story. I'd like to see. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see them maybe add a defensive tackle somehow,
Speaker 1: which I mean they tried that, mind. I mean no,
Speaker 1: I would say a nose, big sloppy guy, big trash
Speaker 1: canful of dirt, daddy, a big trash canful of dirt,
Speaker 1: which they tried that with Cedric Thornton and again, and
Speaker 1: oh he's too athletic. I want you want a bigger,
Speaker 1: batter guy. I want someone that said, you know, he
Speaker 1: ran a five eight forty and it's not bad for
Speaker 1: being three hundred and forty pounds. Okay, that's what I want.
Speaker 1: You want Vince Wilfork and a track star turned football
Speaker 1: player to play widers. Yeah, Hey, Nike, this is Mike McCord.
Speaker 1: We're gonna need a six ax here for this, for
Speaker 1: this new guy we drafted. Thank you. But this equipment manager,
Speaker 1: head equipment manager, right, huh? Get it right? Well? I
Speaker 1: thought when you say equipment manager, but I I guess
Speaker 1: my point is he's the equipment manager trying to think,
Speaker 1: trying to think of places where you could realistically add
Speaker 1: talent and do a better job of it. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: no specific like in free agency, because that's where you
Speaker 1: got to start before you get to the draft. Probably
Speaker 1: offensive line. Maybe I don't think that's a bad idea.
Speaker 1: Maybe it like a better tell. But they tried. I
Speaker 1: mean it's not like they didn't try. It went Byron Bell,
Speaker 1: we forgot. I mean, talk about signing your own. Jonathan
Speaker 1: Cooper is a guy they probably need to talk to
Speaker 1: or figure figure out how they feel about that. What
Speaker 1: about running back? Yeah, you like the draft? Well, Rod's Rod.
Speaker 1: Rod's under contract for another year and I'm like, Rod,
Speaker 1: I'm bring on, bring on the draft. Give me a
Speaker 1: third or fourth round pick. Add that in there with Zeken.
Speaker 1: You guys were saying the other day that this was
Speaker 1: a deep class already. I mean, I'm not up to
Speaker 1: enough like Brian and danar But that's what you want
Speaker 1: to draft another one? Absolutely, yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: I mean because he look at look what uh you
Speaker 1: watched the game Kenyan Drake. They found him in the
Speaker 1: fifth or sixth round? What does he have? What do
Speaker 1: you mean, like, what's what skill set would he he's
Speaker 1: he's a baller, he's a he's like Kamara. He can
Speaker 1: runs and as a receiver. He does everything. He does everything.
Speaker 1: He's the guy in the in the NFC, the NFC,
Speaker 1: in the National Championship. Yes, they just took the kick
Speaker 1: off and said, I'm just gonna come over here and
Speaker 1: They're just gonna go over there and I'm sing hundred
Speaker 1: yards and win the game. That's him theoretically win the game.
Speaker 1: But yeah they didn't. Right, um tomorrow, let's go back
Speaker 1: on that list. I know we're out of time, but
Speaker 1: that list you name three or four players about Wow,
Speaker 1: they're you know, this has been kind of a crappy
Speaker 1: season because these three guys are out. You went back
Speaker 1: and tweeted it out and you did a whole list
Speaker 1: of players, Oh, injured players, players that are not playing
Speaker 1: for their teams. Unbelieving let's look at that list and
Speaker 1: let's kind of see like what their team did because
Speaker 1: of it. I mean, I know that there's some guys
Speaker 1: that are key players, some are the marquee players of
Speaker 1: the team. But yeah, it looks like just by what
Speaker 1: you had. When you lose your top player, things don't
Speaker 1: go well for you. Not great, not great. Bob, all right, guys,
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