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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Break. Thank you Derek
Speaker 1: for that awesome smile to shine and Brian, this room
Speaker 1: up a little more. Anyways, we're gonna have a fun
Speaker 1: show today. First of all, I want to start off
Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott and him being nominated by his teammates
Speaker 1: as Walter Peyton. I have trouble saying that name Man
Speaker 1: of the Year the Men of the Year award. He
Speaker 1: was nominated and it surprises us to him being chosen
Speaker 1: by his teammates compare us to other guys. Yes, really, yes? Why?
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I thought it would be other
Speaker 1: other people. I don't know, I wouldn't I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: thought that Dak Prescott would be the guy this year
Speaker 1: for that, but surprised me too. I can't come up
Speaker 1: with it, but I wasn't shocked at all. Surprise is
Speaker 1: not the right word. It's impressive, Like, I mean, definitely impress.
Speaker 1: Guys who get nominated for this award are typically long
Speaker 1: time NFL vets, and I know das in his third year,
Speaker 1: but I mean the Larry Fitzes of the world. Jason
Speaker 1: Witten won it in his what tenth season in the
Speaker 1: league something like that, um JJ Watt, who's obviously like
Speaker 1: a household name, and that's in part what helped him
Speaker 1: raise so much money for Hurricane Harvey relief. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: you know, these are usually very established, very uh well
Speaker 1: known name. So to see Dak get nominated for it
Speaker 1: at um what twenty four twenty five, it's not surprising,
Speaker 1: but very impressive and does deserved. I mean he does
Speaker 1: you know, he does a lot of work for cancer
Speaker 1: research and awareness, and you know, it seems like he's
Speaker 1: always doing something in the community. So I think it's deserved,
Speaker 1: but definitely impressive. Yeah, I think honestly, the reason why
Speaker 1: I wasn't shocked is because I think I agree with Dave.
Speaker 1: Typically these are more senior and and vet laden type
Speaker 1: you know award. But anyway, I do think that this
Speaker 1: was a situation where because of kind of how Dak
Speaker 1: hit the scene and hit the scene quickly and just
Speaker 1: immediately rose to this level of stardom, and then on
Speaker 1: top of that his story about his mom and his
Speaker 1: relationship with his mom and his mom dying of cancer.
Speaker 1: I think that took that whole part of him and
Speaker 1: integrating that into his platform, into his career down the
Speaker 1: two kind of became synonymous and and he's done a
Speaker 1: good job I think of using that platform to then
Speaker 1: invest a lot into bringing awareness to cancer research. So
Speaker 1: I think from that standpoint, I'm not really shocked, because
Speaker 1: I think it's just it just goes hand in hand
Speaker 1: with what he's in a short period of time that
Speaker 1: when you really look at it, he would be the
Speaker 1: one guy who, though, who does the most as far
Speaker 1: as like community things and you know, the whole cancer
Speaker 1: thing that you mentioned, and compared to his other teammates,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anybody else that really does much
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know. There's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that have foundations and a lot of guys that do
Speaker 1: some great work, and actually they do, but someone that
Speaker 1: you hear about a lot, you know, like for example,
Speaker 1: when Brendan Carr was here. You knew car did a
Speaker 1: lot of that stuff and help out, like reading at
Speaker 1: schools and stuff like that. I'm just saying, like most
Speaker 1: spoken of. Also, I think the fact that with Witten
Speaker 1: not here this year and shaun Lee Hurt and Frederick Hurt,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that it also made more sense
Speaker 1: too for Dak kind of opened the door I guess
Speaker 1: if you will. It's not that he's not deserving. I
Speaker 1: think Alan Hurns would have been a good choice as well.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah about Cavon Frasier. Yeah, I mean, which,
Speaker 1: not to take anything away from Dak, but there are
Speaker 1: quite a few guys on this team that do a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of cool work in the community.
Speaker 1: Good all right, now moving on to some good alf
Speaker 1: football trash talk and what's fun without some trash talking.
Speaker 1: And this week the Eagles decided to get that started
Speaker 1: their linebacker and helped me out with his name. We'll
Speaker 1: use that term very loosely too. What linebacker? Okay, Like
Speaker 1: that's a little extreme averages three tackles a game. Let's
Speaker 1: let's be a little bit. He's a captain and a starter.
Speaker 1: It's not like I understand it, but I'm saying his
Speaker 1: production says he's not a very valued member of the team. Literally,
Speaker 1: I mean a linebacker that average is three yards, I
Speaker 1: mean three tackle talking right, he's Damian Wilson. But that's
Speaker 1: exactly right. Let's again, Damian Wilson has started. We say
Speaker 1: his name first. Sure, I'm just some people that a
Speaker 1: little extreme to say he's barely a linebacker, like he's
Speaker 1: a player, gets some tackles and him Okay, cool, what's
Speaker 1: his name? Come help me out. I'm Gruzier Hill or
Speaker 1: Jay I'm sure Dave. We'll talk about that. We'll get
Speaker 1: into the defense about his excellent work whatever. That's part
Speaker 1: of the problem, right, that's the problem why he said
Speaker 1: what he said, Because we're sitting here and trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what his name is. He's trying to get
Speaker 1: a little pub Yeah, I mean a little bit. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's some headlines going. Well here, we're talking about it
Speaker 1: here today because he was a great player and he
Speaker 1: made sacks. But if you know, if you didn't, you
Speaker 1: have to get his name and say it a few times.
Speaker 1: But I love trash talk from good players, Like I
Speaker 1: love when good players say like I loved what Cam
Speaker 1: Jordan said at the end of the of the Saints,
Speaker 1: thing like that that creates intrigue, and remember this is
Speaker 1: all entertainment, So I love that kind of stuff. That
Speaker 1: stuff works for me. I just don't like the guy
Speaker 1: that's you know. To me, it's kind of like the
Speaker 1: guy that you know the elementary school and you're on
Speaker 1: the playground and two kids are kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: squaring off, and he's the guy that puts the stick
Speaker 1: on one of the shows said I bet you won't
Speaker 1: knock it off. Like he's the guy that's instigating it,
Speaker 1: but it's not going to really be in the fight,
Speaker 1: Like he's not going to really contribute anything to the fight,
Speaker 1: but he's instigating the whole thing. I just don't Aubrey
Speaker 1: Drake Graham said it best bench players talking like starters.
Speaker 1: I hate it. Yeah, there we go. That's a good
Speaker 1: way to put it. And I don't really like but whatever.
Speaker 1: Loved Bryce Butler well, you know, I mean Bryce was cool.
Speaker 1: Bryce did that. Yeah, but I I didn't like it
Speaker 1: when Bryce. I know, I don't like the guy. Did
Speaker 1: you read the quote. I haven't gotten to it. It
Speaker 1: is good. It's a good bet that anybody that's listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast knows exactly what he said, yeah, but
Speaker 1: feel free to like. But for those who haven't heard it,
Speaker 1: he basically said, look at Dallas history, they always choke,
Speaker 1: so we'll go down there and make them choke. Pretty simple.
Speaker 1: But I love the quote. It would sound better coming
Speaker 1: from a good player or a bet Fletcher Cox said
Speaker 1: that I'd be like, all right, let's do it. Gonna
Speaker 1: be fine, let's go, you know, but it was. It
Speaker 1: was still an interesting close. You're here, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's gonna be brought back in the locker room and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Not according not according to Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: what he said. He said, I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, and we're focused on Thursday. We don't do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jason may not, but I'm sure the guys being very factious.
Speaker 1: I don't know this, but I would bet ten dollars.
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett plastered the quote up there at the front
Speaker 1: of his team meeting. It won't be the first time
Speaker 1: he ain't gonna tell us that. Yeah, I have a question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is he wrong? Yes, he's wrong. You don't think he's wrong.
Speaker 1: I mean, here's why Here's why I think he's wrong
Speaker 1: is because if you want to say the history, the
Speaker 1: one thing Cowboys fans actually can put their hat on
Speaker 1: is the history of this team. You want to talk
Speaker 1: about choking, talk about a team that hadn't for how
Speaker 1: many years, hadn't gotten in NFL. Does I know how
Speaker 1: does the guy like he's a young guy that's like
Speaker 1: in there, you know, the history is three years ago,
Speaker 1: four years ago and all that, But which is really
Speaker 1: all that matters because you know, nothing that Ron Jaworski
Speaker 1: did or didn't do or Donovan McNab is gonna affect
Speaker 1: him in this game. Right. So, but I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: is the Cowboys and Eagles, Like I said the other day,
Speaker 1: I've seen this game before. I've seen the Eagles coming
Speaker 1: in as underdogs and they actually you know that they've
Speaker 1: got more to play for, even though it's kind of similar,
Speaker 1: and I still and I've seen the Eagles win this game.
Speaker 1: So that but you've all seen this game. You've also
Speaker 1: seen the opposite. You saw that year when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: had to play them back to back into the season
Speaker 1: and in the playoffs first week of the playoffs and
Speaker 1: destroyed the seeing it right, I know, but I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: we've seen this one. We've seen this one go back
Speaker 1: and forth. I know, I know, I just think this
Speaker 1: is a dangerous game. Actually, after get the Eagles, forget that.
Speaker 1: I've seen division teams come in here and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: did it. The Cowboys were the underdogs and they won
Speaker 1: four weeks ago, especially after a big win. I mean,
Speaker 1: it all sets up nicely for the Cowboys to have
Speaker 1: a letdown week. You're going to do something that the
Speaker 1: world thought you couldn't do, and then the next week
Speaker 1: you get it handed to you. Like that happens in
Speaker 1: the NFL. We've seen that happen with many teams. Even
Speaker 1: though he's one of our best players on this team
Speaker 1: in this building. But don't you think the Saints fans
Speaker 1: on Saint Talk or whatever, was like, who's de Marcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence again? Well, yeah, yeah, yes, he's actually yes, which
Speaker 1: really well, I saw this play out on heres a
Speaker 1: pro bowler, but that there's a lot of Pro Bowlers
Speaker 1: that you don't really know. I saw this play out
Speaker 1: on Twitter absolutely because Saints. Twitter went wild with that,
Speaker 1: and there were plenty of people saying who and then
Speaker 1: in the comments you're like, uh, this guy was an
Speaker 1: All Pro. If you don't know him, you're not a
Speaker 1: football fan, right, Like, I mean, you know it's happened,
Speaker 1: But I wish I could. I wish I could pull
Speaker 1: myself back, because I really it's surprising how a little
Speaker 1: of a household named de Marcus Lawrence is. I completely
Speaker 1: believe that. Obviously that sounds silly on Cowboys break, But like,
Speaker 1: if I'm really just paying attention to the Saints or
Speaker 1: the if I'm just a diehard Broncos fan, like do
Speaker 1: I one hundred percent? Am? I just? Do I really
Speaker 1: know about de Marcus? I agree with probably not that
Speaker 1: tackle for the tight is that really good? Remember the
Speaker 1: defensive tackle? Oh oh Darrell Casey. Okay, I mean you know,
Speaker 1: but that's also but that's also a case of a
Speaker 1: fan being ignorant and I don't mean it well and
Speaker 1: that dumb. I'm that ignorant as in't just not knowing.
Speaker 1: If you google that's very different than Gruiser Hill. If
Speaker 1: you google DeMarcus and there were you know, people on
Speaker 1: Twitter like google him, do it and see what he's
Speaker 1: done us three years, you'll know. Whereas you google Camu
Speaker 1: Gruiser Hill and you're like, okay, I mean, okay, he
Speaker 1: like he's he's Damian Wilson. Good for him, Like he's
Speaker 1: on an NFL team. That's about it. And I would
Speaker 1: have caught that fast. Did he dropped a pass? He
Speaker 1: His two biggest moments prior to this quote were dropping
Speaker 1: what would have been a pick six from Dak in
Speaker 1: the first game this year and last year when the
Speaker 1: Eagles put it on the Cowboys at AT and T.
Speaker 1: Their kickers suffered a concussion and he was their emergency guy.
Speaker 1: If you remember, it went viral. He missed the net practicing,
Speaker 1: remember he and that was his other claim to fame
Speaker 1: he did have. He did successfully kick off four times
Speaker 1: in that game. Now, yeah, I thought he was pretty
Speaker 1: good as a kickoff. They well, they didn't ask him
Speaker 1: to kick any field goals, but he was pretty good
Speaker 1: as yeah. Yeah, yeah, So, I mean, man, the first
Speaker 1: thing I did when I saw the quote was I
Speaker 1: went to look up who he was, and then it
Speaker 1: confirmed to me he's a guy that probably shouldn't be
Speaker 1: making that comment in my opinion. Now, again, you have
Speaker 1: the right to say whatever you want to say. I
Speaker 1: just I think if you're not one of the guys
Speaker 1: that's actually going to make it happen. You probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: be talking about other people making it happen. Fans made
Speaker 1: comments all the time. It's just like the difference here
Speaker 1: that he's actually on the team necessarily helping on the field.
Speaker 1: So it's just like a fan guy who's also happens
Speaker 1: to be a player, kind of talking. But nobody takes
Speaker 1: a fan like the fan that says that nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: blow it up and it's gonna be on Sports Center
Speaker 1: right when a player says it. Well, the difference, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the difference. So I mean, I just kind of
Speaker 1: like dismiss it, like it doesn't really matter because I
Speaker 1: go back to what DeMarcus Lauren said. He said we're
Speaker 1: gonna choke him out too, I mean, and or he
Speaker 1: didn't say we're gonna choke him out. He said this
Speaker 1: is how you win. His was as strong as this
Speaker 1: other guy. But at the end of the day, that
Speaker 1: didn't help the Saints. It didn't help them win the game.
Speaker 1: Their offense played the worst game that they have so
Speaker 1: that doesn't help either way. It just kind of makes
Speaker 1: this if it puts a little extra pep in your
Speaker 1: step fine, that's not gonna mean I will. I mean,
Speaker 1: when I first heard it, I was like, I'm exactly
Speaker 1: with you. I'm like, well, if Tank says this, maybe
Speaker 1: you'd prefer he didn't. But he's your best player, Like,
Speaker 1: you're gonna ride with him. You're not gonna tell him.
Speaker 1: What's what this guy? You think? Maybe Fletcher Cox had
Speaker 1: some words for him, like what on earth are you doing?
Speaker 1: Although I'm supposed to say that if anybody's number one,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say a name an Eagles player and
Speaker 1: I'll find something in Cindy or they said about the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: they Kelsey said something before the first Kelsey fletch. I
Speaker 1: literally um in twenty fourteen. This happened in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox and Benny Logan were like, we're tired of
Speaker 1: hearing about this offense. They're not that good, and they
Speaker 1: came in here and smashed them. Yeah, they do it
Speaker 1: all the time. They don't. Eagles do not have that
Speaker 1: attention to boringness that Jason Garrett does. Yeah, although I'm
Speaker 1: looking at it, he's he is a captain, he's a
Speaker 1: special team's captain. But maybe he has some cloud in
Speaker 1: the locker room. I mean, I don't follow that team
Speaker 1: the way that Eagles break does, so maybe he does
Speaker 1: have the cloud to say that, but either way, it's
Speaker 1: a talking point. I thought it was really funny. Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson today he called it an unfortunate comment, and somebody
Speaker 1: asked him. He's like, well, are you worried about being
Speaker 1: bulletin board material? And he's like, it already is like
Speaker 1: what he might worried about it, he ain't gonna do
Speaker 1: anything about it at this past, so you might as
Speaker 1: well keep going. And it does. It doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. It's fun for fans,
Speaker 1: and fans get into it and it gives them something
Speaker 1: to talk about, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's not going to change the outcome on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we really won't. The fact that the Cowboys are at
Speaker 1: the situation where now they can choke, you know, because
Speaker 1: they haven't been in that situation. And and and I
Speaker 1: don't think that they feel that way because I know
Speaker 1: they're saying backs against the wall, let's see if they
Speaker 1: play like it, but they are saying that at least
Speaker 1: you can't you can't underest him. I mean, we've already
Speaker 1: said it. But I saw a graphic on Twitter this morning,
Speaker 1: like the difference between if you win and lose this
Speaker 1: game is it's insane any and for the Eagles too,
Speaker 1: like if they lose this game they have a seventeen
Speaker 1: percent chance of making the playoffs, and if they win,
Speaker 1: it's up to like fifty. Like, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: They're all important, Amber, I know, I know, but this
Speaker 1: is a really important game. This is really really important.
Speaker 1: Don't say this to Brian if this game is more
Speaker 1: important than some other games, I'm sorry it is. That's
Speaker 1: the way this works. This is like in a basketball
Speaker 1: game five, you know, with five seconds to go and
Speaker 1: you're down one. I mean, this is this is what
Speaker 1: it is. You make the shot and you win. If
Speaker 1: you miss, you lose. I mean it's not like it's tied.
Speaker 1: We're going to overtime and all that. This is pretty
Speaker 1: much what it comes down to. Now. Can you figure
Speaker 1: out other ways From the Cowboys standpoint, yeah, maybe, but
Speaker 1: they don't have the tiebreakers. If they lose, they are
Speaker 1: not in first place anymore. If they lose the I
Speaker 1: actually think though that the Cowboys Cowboys losing is less
Speaker 1: um less of a death nail than the Eagles losing.
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles lose, it becomes a lot harder
Speaker 1: because now they're at six and seven. Cowboys would be
Speaker 1: at seven and six. And to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: if you look at the way things will fall out
Speaker 1: this weekend, there's a good chance even if the Cowboys lose,
Speaker 1: they're still in that wildcard spot. I kind of I'm
Speaker 1: so everything's still in front of it. That's why I
Speaker 1: really like that analogy though, that Nick just made, because
Speaker 1: if you make this shot, you win, and if I lose,
Speaker 1: maybe you can foul people and you work your way back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it is a great analogy. Just make the shot
Speaker 1: and you'll win, way easier than having to do all
Speaker 1: that crap though, which I love. That's how you put
Speaker 1: it earlier in the week of if you're good, go
Speaker 1: win the game, Like that's the point. You got the
Speaker 1: opportunity to put them away and to cement yourself. Go
Speaker 1: win the game, you know, make the playoffs without winning.
Speaker 1: You've seen hoosiers, right, No, what I haven't either. Wh
Speaker 1: who's the odd ball here? How many ye America? How
Speaker 1: many in America? Jimmy, I think we're really angry with
Speaker 1: Jimmy chit would do you want to make your point
Speaker 1: before we go into breakers? Understand play? Yeah, just thousand
Speaker 1: and they'll get this. Yeah, because they had a player.
Speaker 1: Now you go, are you gonna mess it up for us? No? No,
Speaker 1: because if you haven't seen it after the twenty fifth
Speaker 1: anniversary came out, and if you haven't seen it, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna see it. Jimmy Chitwood the best player they've
Speaker 1: seen around these parts in fifty years. Whatever couldn't miss.
Speaker 1: He was the best player. Took this little team all
Speaker 1: the way to the title. They get down to the
Speaker 1: very end, this is gonna make it a lot more
Speaker 1: sense than you think. And there their coach. They're witty, strong,
Speaker 1: tough coach, Norman Dale. At the very end, last play,
Speaker 1: they're down one. I believe down one, have a chance
Speaker 1: to win it in nine seconds to go, and he says,
Speaker 1: they think you're gonna get the ball, Jimmy, we're gonna
Speaker 1: use you as a decoy and he's gonna shoot it.
Speaker 1: And everybody was like, oh god, really, he's like they
Speaker 1: outthinking themselves, you know, kind of when you get down
Speaker 1: to the four yard line and you don't run, so
Speaker 1: basically what they did was is then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're sitting there, what's wrong with you guys? And he says,
Speaker 1: I'll make it. That's all he said. That's like his
Speaker 1: whole line for the whole show was a random dude
Speaker 1: on the bench. No, no, no, no, Jimmie Chip said
Speaker 1: I'll make it. I don't remember, and I like talk
Speaker 1: because he's just he's a weirdo. Yeah, sort, he's just quiet,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it's okay, let's change it up.
Speaker 1: You get the ball, you drive, and you shoot and
Speaker 1: you win, and you, you know, have the greatest movie
Speaker 1: of all time that most people haven't seen. I guess
Speaker 1: in this room. But my point is, don't I don't
Speaker 1: think yourselves, coach, and also go with the best player
Speaker 1: who's brought you here. Let him shooting at the end,
Speaker 1: and go see hoosiers. All right, great point, Nick, Thank
Speaker 1: you for sharing that. We're going around. We'll go into
Speaker 1: a quick break when we come back. We'll diving too,
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break Star Wars. All right, let's great break.
Speaker 1: Let's do a movie podcast, break Up the Breaks. I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about football today? Does it in
Speaker 1: the movie podcast. Ken. Oh yeah, Ken does like a
Speaker 1: super popular movie podcast. Rolls as eyes when we talk
Speaker 1: about movies. Oh, I'm sure he was throwing stuff at it,
Speaker 1: just like you were. That we hadn't seen Hoosiers. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he was probably like, we just spend the whole
Speaker 1: break discussing old movies, classic movies. Casablanca. Yeah, can't. When
Speaker 1: we get off the air, tell Derek why Casablanca is important.
Speaker 1: Casablanca anyway, frinkly, my dear, that's gone with the wind.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, he might he hurt us, all right.
Speaker 1: Before we get into the defense, the Eagles defense, real quick,
Speaker 1: I wanted to give a really uh quick update on
Speaker 1: the injuries. If anything was different than one I saw yesterday.
Speaker 1: I got one. Sean Lee, Taylon Austin not playing, yeah
Speaker 1: at all. No, not bled out. I mean well no,
Speaker 1: the team not officially, not officially, but Tavan is still
Speaker 1: not practicing. Shawn Lee was maybe doing stuff with the trainers,
Speaker 1: but not practicing, which again, you know Thursday, guys that
Speaker 1: have been out all week or you know, for all months,
Speaker 1: probably not. And you know you saw on Twitter what
Speaker 1: I've been saying. No, finally you saw the locker room.
Speaker 1: There's a video of Tavon Austin in locker room. Hilarious,
Speaker 1: It's hard. We brought that up to Garrett to day
Speaker 1: and he was Somebody was like, he's been moving around
Speaker 1: a lot better, and Garrett was like, yeah he has.
Speaker 1: Garrett saw that. Yeah, well he sees him at practice
Speaker 1: every No, not that he doesn't need to see the
Speaker 1: video on Instagram. He sees him dancing at practice every day.
Speaker 1: So I think Garrett's on Instagram. I really doubt it.
Speaker 1: Guessing that, I really although he might have run her
Speaker 1: account just a G seventeen that would be you know
Speaker 1: is um you know what? And I'm not going there, Okay,
Speaker 1: Tavon Lee no uh irving Jason. Garrett did say he's
Speaker 1: here today. By the way they heard he heard the
Speaker 1: show yesterday, not at practice up and not at practice,
Speaker 1: but he's here, um all the standings. He was like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, who else there was a four yesterday?
Speaker 1: Cheeto's back. He was sick yesterday. He's back. Garrett says
Speaker 1: he's feeling better. Oh and Jeff's I mean Jeff sway movy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's got cast on his own. So I've been
Speaker 1: talking about the offensive line that Tyran was there, was
Speaker 1: there super feeling? Was the feeling like I know that
Speaker 1: they look like they're gonna probably play. Tyreland didn't have
Speaker 1: a great game the last game, and I suspect that
Speaker 1: the injury had something to do with that. Yes, what
Speaker 1: how's he feeling? I have not talked to him specifically.
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett did say they don't anticipate making a change
Speaker 1: assuming he's feeling healthy enough to play, which it looks
Speaker 1: like he is because he's been at practice all week.
Speaker 1: Tyron was doing he was at he was doing offensive
Speaker 1: line drills. We don't get to actually see practice, but
Speaker 1: you know the stuff they're doing before practice. He was
Speaker 1: part of it. So it looks like he's ramping up
Speaker 1: his activity. I fully expect him to play, you know,
Speaker 1: I was Are we almost there to talk about the Eagles? Sure? Real?
Speaker 1: Real quick, real quick. I looked at this stat the
Speaker 1: of the day of a surpri Who do you think
Speaker 1: leads the lead, leads the team and penalties called against?
Speaker 1: You already tell me Lyle Collins. Okay, he's got huh,
Speaker 1: he's got ye, there's somebody with more. No, he's he's
Speaker 1: the leader and Tyron Smith has four and the second
Speaker 1: most guy is Byron Jones with five. Okay, they throw
Speaker 1: at him, yeah, PI A lot of his come on
Speaker 1: special teams. You know, I would say it, well, I
Speaker 1: would say zero zero penalties called against Cheeto. That that
Speaker 1: seems weird to me. I mean, I thought i'd seen
Speaker 1: I thought i'd remember to penalty by him, but it
Speaker 1: might have been declined. It doesn't even that's not even
Speaker 1: on the list either, like the client is on the
Speaker 1: on the really zero all the way around. But that
Speaker 1: that kind of goes back to what we've been saying
Speaker 1: about Cheeto, doesn't. It is like he's not getting burned,
Speaker 1: he's not getting flagged. His coverage is good. It just
Speaker 1: it just isn't good enough sometimes because it's the NFL.
Speaker 1: Like I firmly believe that he has had he has
Speaker 1: he hasn't had a good seat. He has played well
Speaker 1: this season for the most part, and it just doesn't Well,
Speaker 1: you don't think he's had a good season. No, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm saying he's played well, but he doesn't have the
Speaker 1: stats to show for it. He doesn't, you know, neither
Speaker 1: does Byron though. I mean, well, but that's the thing.
Speaker 1: About it. How often have you seen a guy that
Speaker 1: people are actually saying, this guy's having in he has
Speaker 1: zero interests. That is. That's the crappy thing about playing corner, though,
Speaker 1: is if you're not picking off balls, nobody's given you credit.
Speaker 1: But at least Byron, like the pffs of the world
Speaker 1: and the people who watch tape are like, this guy's
Speaker 1: doing this, Like Michael Thomas only have five catches for
Speaker 1: forty yards. Byron's only allowing one completion per ten targets,
Speaker 1: like you can chart that type of stuff, Cheeto. I
Speaker 1: still think he's playing well, but he's giving up the
Speaker 1: catches in the yards like because nobody wants to throw
Speaker 1: a buyer. And that's again, it's such a thankless position
Speaker 1: because I think he's played really well and he just
Speaker 1: the resume doesn't indicate that he has you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, It doesn't look like it, But I think
Speaker 1: he's played well. It's I said this on a show before.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of Felix Hernandez. Like Felix Hernandez was
Speaker 1: the best pitcher in baseball for like two years and
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have known it because his team was so terrible.
Speaker 1: That's why they always say stats. Lie didn't mean just stats.
Speaker 1: Bring up the Seattle Marry. No, it's all good. Now,
Speaker 1: let's tell me about this defense and what's different this
Speaker 1: time around. And I thought about when I was doing
Speaker 1: this evaluation, which I mean, it's the team we just
Speaker 1: played a month ago, so it's not the first time
Speaker 1: I'm looking at him. But remember last year, how much
Speaker 1: credit we and everyone else gave the Eagles for weathering
Speaker 1: their injuries, And I mean, it happens every year, they
Speaker 1: had a lot of them. Last year, staying healthy is
Speaker 1: such a big key in the NFL. But then you know,
Speaker 1: the Eagles bucked that trend, like they were banged up
Speaker 1: and they still won the Super Bowl, and everybody's like,
Speaker 1: we'll see no excuses look at the Eagles. Well, it
Speaker 1: just goes to show how freakish the NFL is because
Speaker 1: the same thing's happening this year and they're not handling
Speaker 1: it well specifically in there. I mean, I really think
Speaker 1: the decimation of the Eagles secondary is probably why they're
Speaker 1: in this boat in the first place. Rodney McCloud, really
Speaker 1: good safety has been out for most of the year.
Speaker 1: Jalen Mills was out the first time they played. He's
Speaker 1: your preferred, one of your preferred starting cornerbacks. He's been
Speaker 1: hurt for a large chunk of the year, won't play
Speaker 1: in this game. Most likely Ronald Darby towards ac in
Speaker 1: the first Cowboys game. So all right, three of it.
Speaker 1: That's their top three. Three of your top four defensive backs.
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins is still there, but three of your top
Speaker 1: four preferred dbs are out and have been out. Mcloud's
Speaker 1: been out since like Week three or you know, very
Speaker 1: early in the season. And it shows like these you know,
Speaker 1: this is a talented defense that just can't hold up
Speaker 1: against the pass. Because they're asking guys who I've You've
Speaker 1: never heard of Camu Gruiser Hill, I've never heard of
Speaker 1: any of these guys. I remember Sidney Jones, whom he
Speaker 1: was the Washington corner who tours Achilles during a pro day.
Speaker 1: So he's in his second season, but it's his first
Speaker 1: season playing NFL football. He is now you know, he
Speaker 1: was their nickel going into the season and now he's
Speaker 1: one of their starting boundary corners. Avante Maddox is another guy,
Speaker 1: young player, guy they were not leaning on. He's starting
Speaker 1: at your other corner spot. Malcolm Jenkins is still there,
Speaker 1: and now they're saying a guy by the name of
Speaker 1: Cravon LeBlanc might start at safety this week for lack
Speaker 1: of a better option, Like they're just I mean, imagine
Speaker 1: if imagine if Tyree Robinson and Donovan Olumba had to
Speaker 1: be your starters for this defense. Like that's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about here. Look pretty good in training camp at moments,
Speaker 1: not in the games, not in the preseason games. So
Speaker 1: that's that's really the big thing for me, because the
Speaker 1: rest of this stuff is the same, Like Mike Michael
Speaker 1: Bennett's still there, Brandon Graham's still there. They flip flop
Speaker 1: it in. Fletcher Cox is still a beast. Helodi Nada
Speaker 1: seems like he's been playing for twenty years. The fronts
Speaker 1: still the same. Jordan Hicks might not play in this game.
Speaker 1: He's hurt as well. Like again, they just they are.
Speaker 1: They are banged up, and they're not handling it as
Speaker 1: well as they did last year, and arguably they had
Speaker 1: they had more at least name type guys that were
Speaker 1: hurt last year. We think about their left tackle in
Speaker 1: their quarterback, that was the big one, no doubt. So Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the fact that they're not handling as well. This
Speaker 1: year seems to be a bit challenging. But it might
Speaker 1: also because they've lost all those guys at one position.
Speaker 1: When you get decimated at one position and one that's
Speaker 1: so critical as cornerback, that can really really kill you. Also,
Speaker 1: you remember their their ballyhoo'd run defense. It's taken a hit.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the Cowboys exposed that, and it hasn't
Speaker 1: been a whole lot better the last two weeks the Giants,
Speaker 1: which the Giants gashed him for one twenty six on
Speaker 1: only eighteen carries, which is seven yards per carry, and
Speaker 1: it was a close game, like the Giants. Actually, now
Speaker 1: that I think about it, the Giants got murdered because
Speaker 1: I think sae Quon Barkley touched the ball four times
Speaker 1: after halftime in a game that they had a lead
Speaker 1: in they had like a big run. Yeah, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of people talking about that on national media.
Speaker 1: Makes how could they do that? Absolutely no sense, clear,
Speaker 1: I mean, eighteen carries when you're averaging seven yards a
Speaker 1: pop makes no sense to me. And then obviously Washington
Speaker 1: they had one hundred and forty yards on fourteen carries,
Speaker 1: ninety of which came on one busted. You know, Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson went to the house from ninety yards away, still
Speaker 1: seven point four yards per carry. They've dropped from second
Speaker 1: to tenth in rushing defense since the last time these
Speaker 1: teams played. So they're hurting especially I mean this secondary
Speaker 1: and I know Brian saying the same thing, like you
Speaker 1: got to be able to take advantage of them with
Speaker 1: the pass. That is part of that is part of
Speaker 1: the problem that they're they're dealing with trying to stop
Speaker 1: the run because maybe they're filling extra pressure to get
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback. They're rushing maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: more on discipline because they don't want to leave that
Speaker 1: secondary back they're having a cover for too long. Well,
Speaker 1: you also, you can't stack the box. I mean that's
Speaker 1: basically what it is. I mean the teams to try
Speaker 1: to stack the box. Its good running backs. You can't
Speaker 1: do that. When you that that leaves your secondary exposed.
Speaker 1: You got to give them help and then therefore you know,
Speaker 1: getting gashed. I mean, it's just simple. They do have
Speaker 1: five sacks the last two games. That's a really good point.
Speaker 1: I mean, if Jordan Hicks can't play in this game,
Speaker 1: then that's your best linebacker two. So we've I mean,
Speaker 1: I know the front gets the credit, but linebackers are
Speaker 1: such a big element of run defense. That's what we've
Speaker 1: seen it here. So this is just a short staff defense.
Speaker 1: So so what's the area that the Cowboys offense should
Speaker 1: be most concerned with. I would say their pass rush
Speaker 1: because this offensive line and Dak have struggled so much
Speaker 1: with that. Five sacks in the last two games thirty
Speaker 1: first on the year is their middle of the pack,
Speaker 1: which doesn't sound that great, but they're right behind the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Like Cowboys only have thirty three, So I think we
Speaker 1: would all agree the Cowboys pass rush has been good
Speaker 1: more often than not. So that's what I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what you're dealing with here. I mean, Michael Bennett and
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham coming off the edge with Tyrone being Gempi.
Speaker 1: And again, the Cowboys have thirty three sacks. Their defense
Speaker 1: has has a thirty SAgs have sacked thirty one times.
Speaker 1: What you're saying the Eagles defense has thirty one sacks
Speaker 1: on the year and the Cowboys have thirty three. Sorry,
Speaker 1: So I mean you're talking about comparable units. That's my
Speaker 1: point right, Um, I don't know that anybody. I don't
Speaker 1: think they have a guy that's as good as de
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence. But combine you know, Graham and Bennett move around.
Speaker 1: I think you know, if if Tyron's struggling because he's heard,
Speaker 1: I think they'll put their better rusher on him. Take
Speaker 1: your pick. Obviously, if Xavier sue A Filo is still
Speaker 1: dealing with an ankle, that doesn't sound great when you're
Speaker 1: dealing with a guy like Fletcher Cox. I know he
Speaker 1: did great in the first game, but if he's injured,
Speaker 1: so their pass rush for sure, and they got after,
Speaker 1: they got after Colt McCoy and Mark Sanchez in that
Speaker 1: game on Monday, so that is that's what bothers me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think if they get him into situations where Cowboys
Speaker 1: are forced to have to pass a lot, that's when
Speaker 1: this game really changes. Because as long as the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can keep balance, I think the Cowboys can have a
Speaker 1: field day with this against this defense, just because again
Speaker 1: the challenges they're having stopped in the run and the
Speaker 1: pale challenges are having on the back end. I think
Speaker 1: if there's balance, I think you can do well. If
Speaker 1: you get him in a situation where you have to throw.
Speaker 1: Now that pass rush gets even more fierce, and I
Speaker 1: think that could be more of a problem, which you
Speaker 1: never want to have to throw because you're trailing obviously,
Speaker 1: But like I wouldn't be downs like down a distance,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be opposed to them passing to set
Speaker 1: up the run. I know that goes contract, but like
Speaker 1: we've I mean, I'm no longer I no longer think
Speaker 1: that they can't throw the ball because they've been able
Speaker 1: to since Cooper got here, and with I mean Sidney
Speaker 1: Jones is your best corner right now, and he is
Speaker 1: basically a first year player. He hasn't been terrible, but
Speaker 1: he's by no means a match for Mary Cooper. Is
Speaker 1: basically what I'm saying, Yeah, I think you can get
Speaker 1: chunks against these guys and open things up for your
Speaker 1: run game, which that sounds all kinds of fun. Like
Speaker 1: if you can play a defense where they can't afford
Speaker 1: to focus on Zeke, then you just shouldn't have a problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I just I guess the point I was making
Speaker 1: is even in down in distance, if you're getting in
Speaker 1: a lot of second and law, it's a lot of yea.
Speaker 1: And it creates a scenario where the defense knows you
Speaker 1: have to pass. Now it's not even a decision they
Speaker 1: have to make of whether they're going to bring that
Speaker 1: safety down or not. They definitely keep that safety back,
Speaker 1: and the rushers know we're going to get the quarterback.
Speaker 1: We don't have to be as disciplined in our lane.
Speaker 1: So I just think to Cowboys can stay if they
Speaker 1: could stay ahead of the change, if they can keep
Speaker 1: them off balance and use both the pass and run,
Speaker 1: I think I think offensively they'll be able to do
Speaker 1: the things they want to do. Let's go ahead and
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Speaker 1: fun segment since that's your area of expertise. We got
Speaker 1: our guy here on the line, Steve Buchanan from Draft Kings,
Speaker 1: talk a little bit of fantasy football with us. Steve,
Speaker 1: what's up? How's it going, guys? The only time stats
Speaker 1: why is when the productions don't go all right. That's
Speaker 1: the only time when what you wouldn't know anything about
Speaker 1: that though, would you. No, no, I never tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit about this Cowboys Eagles matchup. Give us
Speaker 1: a give us, give us one or two matchups in
Speaker 1: this game that you that you think from a fantasy
Speaker 1: standpoint can have a big impact, but also just from
Speaker 1: a fan standpoint, can have a big impact on how
Speaker 1: this game is gonna go, how it's gonna play out.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, it's hard not to love the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense in this game. Already. Men, we saw what they
Speaker 1: did to the Eagles defense, as you want to call
Speaker 1: him that already. You know, just a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: in Elliott absolutely ripped them apart one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: one rushing yards. Since that game, actually, the the Eagles
Speaker 1: have allowed over one hundred rushing yards in four straight
Speaker 1: games since they played the Cowboys. Before that, they had
Speaker 1: only allotted one in the first eight games. That's just
Speaker 1: been a huge area that they haven't been able to
Speaker 1: defend as a play. And then from the other side
Speaker 1: to Golden Taste, to getting more involved when the Diagle's offense.
Speaker 1: When he first played against the Cowboys and we ten,
Speaker 1: he only played on twenty three percent of their snaps.
Speaker 1: But he's been so much more involved in the song.
Speaker 1: Last week he caught seven of his seven targets with
Speaker 1: for eighty five yards. And man, that's the years that
Speaker 1: I worried about for the Cowboys this week because you know,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown is usually the one that they're covering the flood.
Speaker 1: He's just scored on twice in the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: so I would if that's a they're going to exploit,
Speaker 1: but just a liverall this this is such a smash
Speaker 1: spots for the Cowboys against the Eagles. One question that
Speaker 1: I have, and I know that the fantasy football that
Speaker 1: that you're dealing with with DraftKings, is is it the
Speaker 1: daily where you you have a signed number for or
Speaker 1: value for the guy? Where does zach ERT's rank among
Speaker 1: offensive players? I guess Gurley would be number one, but
Speaker 1: I mean is Earth's in that group? I guess because
Speaker 1: he catches so many passes? Yeah, I mean he has
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty one targets on the season. I
Speaker 1: mean he just gets a map of a number over
Speaker 1: ten a games for them, and he's been their biggest
Speaker 1: playmates or even with the addition of Faith and he's
Speaker 1: still been the guy that Carson Wentz hasn't going to it.
Speaker 1: You know, even with Wayne's having some struggles of the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks, you know, Earth is still getting
Speaker 1: nine touches, seventy touches, gets fourteen against the Cowboys. I'm play,
Speaker 1: but I mean he's amongst one of the best, especially
Speaker 1: at a tight end position. That just feels like it's
Speaker 1: really fallen off the season. You know, just buy my
Speaker 1: home team, Rock Grontowski. He's been almost a non factor
Speaker 1: the entire season. And that's somebody people used to rely
Speaker 1: on weekend and week out. So Eart along with probably
Speaker 1: George Kennell, some of the talk tight ends of the week.
Speaker 1: Right now, what are you saying from Josh Adams that
Speaker 1: tells you that he either is a guy that can
Speaker 1: have a big day or a guy that that won't
Speaker 1: really do much against this Cowboys defense. See, the problem is, too,
Speaker 1: is that they want to utilize out of the tour.
Speaker 1: He's had over twenty carries the past two weeks. But
Speaker 1: the problem is there's just so many mouths to seed
Speaker 1: in that offense. It's hard to rely on him weekend
Speaker 1: and week out. And even though we had twenty carries
Speaker 1: last week had eighty five yards and that was about
Speaker 1: the end of it. You know, for fantasy perspective, that's
Speaker 1: not that creative a game. We're not scoring touchdowns and
Speaker 1: you're not catching anything out of the backfield. He doesn't
Speaker 1: really get any carded. He haven't seen more than six
Speaker 1: since he started really getting going in a week eleven,
Speaker 1: and then it went down to one and didn't even
Speaker 1: didn't see one last week again for red skin. So
Speaker 1: he definitely has the talent. I think they just really
Speaker 1: need to rectify what they're going to do in that
Speaker 1: backfield because he's getting some decent amount of carries, but
Speaker 1: he doesn't get to to as much. You talked a
Speaker 1: lot about targets, and then earlier this week, Dave was
Speaker 1: sort of talking about his fantasy teams, thinking Michael Gallup, Um,
Speaker 1: is he where does he factor in on this? Is
Speaker 1: he a guy that's starting to get a little bit
Speaker 1: more play? Oh? Absolutely so. I mean you've seen thirteen
Speaker 1: targets over his last two games, and this little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, seems like Dak is really getting him a
Speaker 1: poor with I mean, you look at you know, obviously
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley's been man forever, but Beasley seems be falling
Speaker 1: more and more out of this bottense. I mean, Down's
Speaker 1: seeing seven targets last week six the week before. You know,
Speaker 1: we'd like to see him get in the end zone
Speaker 1: a little bit more, but you know we've got Amari Cooper.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't really need to take Calvin that
Speaker 1: spot there. But yeah, he's doesn't get a lot more involved,
Speaker 1: at least on Draftking he's Chiefs this week. He's only
Speaker 1: thirty seven hundreds, So I'm not gonna cost you want
Speaker 1: to take a chance with him, but's really any receiver
Speaker 1: and that's on the field for the cowboy has only
Speaker 1: a chance against this ego secondary was throwing out guys
Speaker 1: out there. I think they're just grabbing up three at
Speaker 1: this point if he's thirty seven hundred, Like what what
Speaker 1: what is Zeke? What's the comparison there? Yeah, so Zeken
Speaker 1: this week is one of the most expensive aged six hundreds.
Speaker 1: So it's a massive, massive different. Hey, real quick, we
Speaker 1: got James you Cannon from Draft Kings onwards before we
Speaker 1: let you guys, did have one question that's a bigger
Speaker 1: NFL question. A lot of teams entering the playoffs this week,
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that are entering the playoffs probably
Speaker 1: have James Connor. Which way do you go on that?
Speaker 1: Do you go with a guy like Jayalen Samuels or
Speaker 1: do you go with Stephen really or do you just
Speaker 1: stay completely away from that. See, the thing with Samuels
Speaker 1: is that I think he has more upside, at least
Speaker 1: in a Stanity perspective, because he was basically used as
Speaker 1: a tight end in college. I mean, he is just
Speaker 1: absolutely a beast when it comes to catching out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. So I think they'll mix in Wiley. But
Speaker 1: I mean, we haven't seen Whitley play a snap since
Speaker 1: I think Week ten at this juncture, so I can't
Speaker 1: imagine all of a sudden he gets thrusted into this
Speaker 1: role is going to be good for you know, fifteen carries.
Speaker 1: You know, Samuels has been hasn't been as involved as
Speaker 1: they haven't needed to, but he has some really good hands.
Speaker 1: He's a fast guy. I think they're gonna feature him
Speaker 1: more if at the end of the day, if you know,
Speaker 1: Michell doesn't come back, is going to be their main guy.
Speaker 1: Saniel should be that second guy next season. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna take a look and what he has this
Speaker 1: week all right, Steve Man, we appreciate you taking some
Speaker 1: time with us today. We'll have you back next week.
Speaker 1: Talk a little more fantasy. That was just certain you
Speaker 1: Cannon from Draft Kings. Never bet against an LSU Tiger.
Speaker 1: It's all I'm gonna kid Rid Stephen Ridge. Really, who's
Speaker 1: the you gonna rush for a hundred yards and Michael
Speaker 1: Gallups find at Michael Gallops finding the end zone this week?
Speaker 1: You heard le Collins. I mean that's all I got.
Speaker 1: So what so what he leaves the team and starts
Speaker 1: My great point with he leads the team and starts
Speaker 1: at right tackle too, So okay, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that lead and starts at their posis. I bet
Speaker 1: they would have won in the seventh overtime. We want
Speaker 1: to bring that up. I don't know why we had
Speaker 1: to do that. What that has to do with anything, nothing,
Speaker 1: It doesn't. It's just that if I was off his
Speaker 1: boy Lyle, I'm just kidding, like he's he's playing, but
Speaker 1: it I mean, it's I think that they're finding out
Speaker 1: over there that I mean, it's you can go after him,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he's that's that's what the league is.
Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna pick your poison. You're gonna go tiring.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna go up against Lyle? It's one of
Speaker 1: the more disappointing storylines of this season. I mean, he
Speaker 1: hasn't been just awful, but he played. I just I
Speaker 1: thought the world of how he played from like the
Speaker 1: bye week until the end of the season last I mean,
Speaker 1: he handled Khalil Mack, he handled you know these Redskins
Speaker 1: path he I just he was great and it has
Speaker 1: not translated as well as you would have hoped this year.
Speaker 1: I was expecting a Pro Bowl caliber year. Absolutely, I agree.
Speaker 1: He hasn't. He hasn't had an injury, has he? Like if?
Speaker 1: I mean he's playing with something though, isn't he Everybody
Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah, yeah, but nothing like major where
Speaker 1: you would know he played it on the injury type
Speaker 1: of stuff. I mean, he had a back thing that
Speaker 1: was pretty serious by the end of last year. But
Speaker 1: as far as I know, there's nothing terrible bothering to
Speaker 1: get one because that's when he was playing great last year.
Speaker 1: Knock on wood, don't get injured. But i'mber saying he
Speaker 1: played really yeah, really good. Don't get hurt, Elsie, don't
Speaker 1: get hurt. All right, Well, that is all the time
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