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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, O number nineteenth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen,
Speaker 1: episode number eighty five. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton take some questions that way as well. Let's
Speaker 1: jump right in. Let's talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: NFC East. Right now, Cowboys are at the top of
Speaker 1: the NFC East. At six and four, they face the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. This week at New England Philly at
Speaker 1: five and five, we'll be facing Seattle. I've asked this question,
Speaker 1: I keep asking it every week, and I want to
Speaker 1: ask it again in this show to start things off,
Speaker 1: what's your level of comfort as is where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are that they win the NFC East after what happened
Speaker 1: last week? The Eagles take a lost, Cowboys get a win,
Speaker 1: and then this week Cowboys are facing a much tougher opponent.
Speaker 1: Eagles still have a tough opponent as well. You win
Speaker 1: this game, like I've been predicting for a while, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles lose to the Seahawks, and I think it's
Speaker 1: all but clinched. Really, yeah, what do I mean? Really?
Speaker 1: Just go on the road to the stadium where nobody
Speaker 1: wins and be the best team in the league and
Speaker 1: you clinch the division. Yeah, but those two things would
Speaker 1: happen then, Yeah, you basically like I was crazy for saying,
Speaker 1: really like there's a lot more football has you have
Speaker 1: a whole another month, five, five and six, it'd be
Speaker 1: seven and four. You have two game lead on him.
Speaker 1: You're assuming they're gonna lose this weekend. And I'm saying Miami.
Speaker 1: I'm not Miami. I'm not talking about Miami's on a role.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about that about just you know, just
Speaker 1: in Jural. Those two things have to happen. You lose
Speaker 1: the Seattle, you're saying they lose Sattle, Cowboys win in
Speaker 1: New England. It's all but done, pretty much. Tell me,
Speaker 1: tell me that it wouldn't be the case. I okay,
Speaker 1: I will. Well, Actually I was gonna that was Actually
Speaker 1: he pushed us right into the next question because I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, okay, let's look at let's think of
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys have here over the next five weeks.
Speaker 1: The champs, I get it, they're at in New England.
Speaker 1: But then that's what Cowboys do. And then they to
Speaker 1: Chicago's four and six. That's the easiest of these five.
Speaker 1: Then they play the Los Angeles Rams, who are now
Speaker 1: six and four, and then they play the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: at Philly. That's now five and five. So that's a
Speaker 1: pretty tough stretch there, right, Let's let's like really walk
Speaker 1: through it. So let's say, let's say the Eagles loose
Speaker 1: of the Seahawks and the Cowboys beat the Patriots. So
Speaker 1: seven and four, five and six. Then the Cowboys play
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving against a Bears team that would be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I mean, sorry, Bill's team that would be
Speaker 1: in the playoffs if the season ended today. They're seven
Speaker 1: and three three not saying the Cowboys can't beat them,
Speaker 1: but that's not an easy game. Easy game Chicago in December.
Speaker 1: It's a tough thing to do. I don't care how
Speaker 1: good or bad the Bears are, Josh Black, Okay, even
Speaker 1: still split those things. Eight and five, the Eagles beat
Speaker 1: the Dolphins to climb to six and six. The Eagles
Speaker 1: will beat the Giants at home to climb to eight
Speaker 1: and six, So then the Cowboys they just get to
Speaker 1: eight and six, seven and six. I'm sorry, So the
Speaker 1: eight and five, seven and six. Then the Cowboys play
Speaker 1: the Rams, okay, and the Eagles play the Redskins. That's
Speaker 1: a win, that's a win of all wins. So it'll
Speaker 1: come down to the Eagles and the Cowboys eight and six,
Speaker 1: even if the Cowboys beat the Bears, then it's eight
Speaker 1: and six verse nine to five, and the Cowboys go
Speaker 1: to the link like so the Eagles are still right
Speaker 1: there and it all comes down still to that game.
Speaker 1: And this is all predicated on the Cowboys beating the
Speaker 1: Patriots in Gillette Stadium, which I'm not saying they can't
Speaker 1: do but would be very very impressive, right so, And really,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're silly for thinking that. But even
Speaker 1: if even if what you suggest happens on Sunday, Cowboys
Speaker 1: win Eagles lose, I don't think the NFC East is
Speaker 1: remotely close to being decided, all right. I just you know,
Speaker 1: the thing that you put in there was the Eagles
Speaker 1: getting hot, getting on a roll and all that. And
Speaker 1: I understand that their their schedule is not I mean,
Speaker 1: it is favorable for them, but there they would be
Speaker 1: a five and six football team going in there and
Speaker 1: trying to do that. And what they have shown is
Speaker 1: over the most over the last I would say, ten
Speaker 1: years or so. I understand they won a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: but they will tank towards the end of the year
Speaker 1: that they've done that for the most part. So I
Speaker 1: just don't think that they'll I mean, if they got
Speaker 1: down two games, that's gonna be really hard for them
Speaker 1: to come back because they're going to have to basically
Speaker 1: run the table to get there. Down. That schedule shows
Speaker 1: that they could, but there, I mean, they haven't proven
Speaker 1: that they could do that, all right. So let's look
Speaker 1: at those five games. Those next five games the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have at New England against Buffalo, at Chicago against the Rams,
Speaker 1: and at Philly. How many of those games do you
Speaker 1: think realistically the Cowboys win, Danny, how many games is
Speaker 1: that that's the next five games? How many think they win?
Speaker 1: I'm going between two and three. I think this could
Speaker 1: be the time they beat the Rams. And for some reason,
Speaker 1: just for following the Cowboys and being a fan, I
Speaker 1: really wouldn't be surprised if they go in and they
Speaker 1: beat New England. It just it seems like a very
Speaker 1: Cowboys thing to do. I heard somebody say to radios,
Speaker 1: a national guy sayales radio, that would be said to
Speaker 1: cow right, it sounds like a Cowboys thing to do.
Speaker 1: I think I don't know yet. Between Bills and Bears,
Speaker 1: that's where I think they really could split. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say two to three, two to three, Dave say
Speaker 1: they win three of those. I think I I'm not
Speaker 1: going to pick them to beat the Patriots. I hate
Speaker 1: to spoil the Friday Show. Sorry. I know it would
Speaker 1: be a Cowboys thing to do, but also I don't
Speaker 1: know to something like that. It's like that's like snowballing
Speaker 1: into the narrative where it's like, you know, somebody's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that would be such a Cowboys thing to do, and
Speaker 1: it's funny, and then all of a sudden you're like yeah,
Speaker 1: and like you're not even really thinking about the actual matchup.
Speaker 1: You're just like, that's that's what they do. So that's
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. And I'm not ready to say
Speaker 1: that I think so. No, I don't think they beat
Speaker 1: the Pats, but you know, they can beat the Bills
Speaker 1: at home, they can beat the Bears, and between the
Speaker 1: Bills and the Rams, like they'll probably they'll split those
Speaker 1: two games, and then the Cowboys own the East. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. Is like, as as middling and unpredictable as
Speaker 1: I think this team has been, Cowboys owned the East.
Speaker 1: I have every confidence that they can go up to
Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field and beat the Eagles. And that seems
Speaker 1: like that's what it's going to come. And that's I mean,
Speaker 1: I would I would bet a paycheck that the East
Speaker 1: will be decided by that game. Right well, you know
Speaker 1: three if they win three games and then I don't
Speaker 1: know why you stopped at five, because it's it goes
Speaker 1: to six and does it. Well, that's the thing. If
Speaker 1: they go three and two, they'll go four and two.
Speaker 1: You know, if they go two and three, they'll go
Speaker 1: three through. They're gonna probably win that last game against
Speaker 1: And really it was only because I wanted to look
Speaker 1: at the teams that are the most that this five
Speaker 1: game stretch, you're looking at teams that are all good teams.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm not playing as well as others like the Bears,
Speaker 1: but they're still a good tea. Just remember though that
Speaker 1: you know you're talking about the Eagles having these games
Speaker 1: that they're definitely gonna win. Well, that's the case. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys have got that one too. So yeah, ten and six.
Speaker 1: If you if they go three and two, like they've
Speaker 1: just suggested, in that five games, they'll probably four and two.
Speaker 1: That's tenants six. You're looking at a five and five
Speaker 1: Eagles team right now that you know they have to
Speaker 1: you know, if they they run the table, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to run the table to get to eleven and
Speaker 1: five to obviously beat the Cowboys. They're tiebreaker wise though,
Speaker 1: they you know, if they just finished ten and six
Speaker 1: and one of those losses is not against the NFC East,
Speaker 1: Like if they lose to the Seahawks and then run
Speaker 1: the table, yeah, they would probably win the division, right
Speaker 1: because if the tiebreaker would go head to head, which
Speaker 1: would be split division record, which would be splitting Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then they I think the NFC East record, and
Speaker 1: then they they're probably gonna have that you mean NFC record, NFC,
Speaker 1: I mean NFC Cowboys have lost a lot of NFC Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're gonnaud of the n East and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to come, you know, beat Seattle. Well don't men
Speaker 1: if they lost the I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: we're getting ahead, but I just this is a this
Speaker 1: is a chance to really this is the team that
Speaker 1: the Eagles could lose to and the Cowboys. You know,
Speaker 1: if you beat the Patriots, then you know, the parade
Speaker 1: talks are gonna come back up again, like where are
Speaker 1: we going to do that? So okay, so besides the
Speaker 1: Philly game, which games you think is the most important
Speaker 1: game for them to win? Of those five, I mentioned
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I'm sorry, I was not making the Patriots
Speaker 1: ow it's meaning to say beside the Eagles game. We
Speaker 1: all know how important that game is. Besides the Eagle game,
Speaker 1: is there another game here that you like they really
Speaker 1: need this game for whatever reason? It could be because
Speaker 1: of tie breaks. It could also be because of just mentally,
Speaker 1: if they lose this game, it would be so devastating
Speaker 1: for them to lose, right, So they could be whatever reason,
Speaker 1: What do you think is most important game for them
Speaker 1: the win outside of the Philadelphia game? Maybe the Rams
Speaker 1: just because they've run over the Cowboys however many times
Speaker 1: they've played the last year, year and a half, Okay,
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I think it's also fun when
Speaker 1: you get to see the comparisons of quarterbacks. I like
Speaker 1: seeing when then we play the Eagles and Dak with
Speaker 1: Wentz and Dak with Golf, and so I think that
Speaker 1: could be an important game for the win, for the
Speaker 1: mental aspect of getting over that hump of just getting
Speaker 1: destroyed by the Rams whenever you've played them. This is
Speaker 1: gonna sound counterintuitive, but as long as they don't, they
Speaker 1: could lose these next two games and fall to six
Speaker 1: and six and that would make them one and three
Speaker 1: against the AFC East, which is bad. But as long
Speaker 1: as they don't lose any more NFC games, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't care as a strong way to
Speaker 1: phrase it. But the NFC is more important. The Bears
Speaker 1: are probably out of it, if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: but the Rams are right there in the wild card hunt.
Speaker 1: And again your NFC record, I mean, if you can
Speaker 1: beat those two teams, you salvage that. Throw in division
Speaker 1: wins against the Redskins and Eagles. I mean as I mean,
Speaker 1: if I had to pick, I want NFC wins over
Speaker 1: everything else. I mean, as silly as it sounds as
Speaker 1: the Redskins really, because that's that's what's going to keep
Speaker 1: your division record the way it is. I mean, and
Speaker 1: that's one they should be able to win. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying those you know, it's it's as important. We're
Speaker 1: kind of saying it's easy, but it is definitely important.
Speaker 1: And you know what Danny said, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: With the Rams. Um you could make the you can
Speaker 1: make the case with all of them. Really with the Bears,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a long weekend after that. You know,
Speaker 1: you need to go and get that win. If it
Speaker 1: doesn't go down like I am predicting against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: if they do lose to the you know, the best
Speaker 1: team in the history of football, and and lose that game,
Speaker 1: coming back in four days and beating the Bills and
Speaker 1: beating finally beating a team with a winning record, because
Speaker 1: they have not they have not beaten a team right
Speaker 1: now with a winning record, and that just they need
Speaker 1: to do that, and Bills would be sitting there and
Speaker 1: it would be a good win. It's always good on
Speaker 1: the biggest stage, Thanksgiving. I don't mean you want to
Speaker 1: lose to the Bills. You don't want to lose the
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Speaker 1: whether he should legitimately be in the MVP in the conversation,
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Speaker 1: could make him maybe make him a part of that conversation.
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break, Welcome back. It is a second
Speaker 1: second of the Break Life in the s WBC Mortgage studios.
Speaker 1: At the start, let's jump in. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott now right now, he's leading the league in
Speaker 1: passing guards with three thousand, two hundred and twenty one
Speaker 1: to me, having I think obviously the best career a
Speaker 1: season in his career, but also think that if you
Speaker 1: start comparing it across the board to the other quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that are in the league, and certainly those that are
Speaker 1: being discussed as MVP candidates, I think he makes a
Speaker 1: favorable comparison in a lot of a lot of categories.
Speaker 1: The one that's noticeably not there is number of wins
Speaker 1: for the teams, which quarterbacks gets saddled with. So question
Speaker 1: for you guys is do you think that Dak should
Speaker 1: be legitimately be in the MVP conversation? No, Nine aren't
Speaker 1: nine right now. They're six and four. They're barely above
Speaker 1: five hundred, and they haven't had those signature wins. They
Speaker 1: hasn't been clutched in the fourth quarter. They've beaten the
Speaker 1: teams they're supposed to beat, and they haven't beaten the
Speaker 1: teams that they need to beat. So and I'd think
Speaker 1: he's got more help around him than some of those
Speaker 1: other guys. Having a great year Pro Bowl year, for sure,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say he's the MVP of the league. See,
Speaker 1: that's actually I think that's That's my point that I
Speaker 1: keep coming down on, is like there's never any nuance
Speaker 1: when you try to have these arguments, because yes, I
Speaker 1: think he should be in the conversation. No, I would
Speaker 1: not vote for him to win MVP. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Trey Wingo said it last night on whatever
Speaker 1: their show is after Money Night Football, where he's like,
Speaker 1: he's on the short list of guys to talk about
Speaker 1: when you're talking about MVP. He's going to the New
Speaker 1: York for the highest I mean that's a great analogy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would be happy to invite him to New York.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to vote for him to win it,
Speaker 1: not yet at least. I mean, for my money, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: it's not even. And you make a great point, Nick
Speaker 1: that look at the help. I mean, Dak's got Pro
Speaker 1: bowlers at three of his five line spots. He's got Zeke,
Speaker 1: he's got Amari Cooper, He's got a ton of help,
Speaker 1: whereas Russell Wilson is, Oh my god, he's just drawing.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just pulling rabbits out of his hat
Speaker 1: every week. That's why I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: for that reason, and I look at help and all
Speaker 1: that for what Lamar Jackson is doing in Baltimore and
Speaker 1: just kind of elevating them too. That too, he would
Speaker 1: probably get my vote there. And I heard the guy,
Speaker 1: I guess the guy on TV last night or might
Speaker 1: have been Booger McFarlane that he kept pushing for Michael Thomas.
Speaker 1: You know, Michael Thomas is having a phenomenal and when
Speaker 1: you didn't do that with different quarterbacks, that that right
Speaker 1: there just proves that you're the guy, you know. So
Speaker 1: that's a good point too. But that's the thing. But
Speaker 1: he can still be in the conversation. That's every Like
Speaker 1: the minute you say he should be in the conversation,
Speaker 1: people think you're advocating for him to win. That's not
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Not yet, at least we look at
Speaker 1: his numbers. He's having an incredible career season. He's leading
Speaker 1: the league in passing yards. He's he's out of his mind,
Speaker 1: And you're right, he hasn't done enough to win them
Speaker 1: the games that they've won, and he hasn't pulled any
Speaker 1: of those like really tight ones out of the fire.
Speaker 1: Can you fast forward me like a whole week or Monday,
Speaker 1: see how he does. Yeah, if he outduels Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and he throws for you know, three hundred yards and
Speaker 1: they win and on that yeah yeah, then now now
Speaker 1: either seven to four, that just beat the Patriots, have
Speaker 1: a conversation. Yeah, yeah, now you can. You can talk
Speaker 1: about not only that, but then he turns around and
Speaker 1: his next two games after that are like the only
Speaker 1: game on Thanksgiving. Everybody in the world will be watching
Speaker 1: Thursday night football. Bears. Yeah, man, I feel like not
Speaker 1: everybody in the world watches Thursday night football, but it's
Speaker 1: the only game on on Thursday night. He has every
Speaker 1: opportunity in the world to really state his case. All right,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna throw this question at you. We did
Speaker 1: this back during training camp, Danny. You might not have
Speaker 1: remembered this because you weren't with us at that time,
Speaker 1: but here's what we talked about. We went through a
Speaker 1: whole list of quarterbacks in the NFL, and we said
Speaker 1: I thought about it all worse than Dak. Right. I
Speaker 1: want to say, you guys may correct me on this.
Speaker 1: I want to say Dak ended up somewhere around twelve
Speaker 1: to fifteen. Is that accurate? It was somewhere between. I thought, Yeah,
Speaker 1: nine was the answer? Was it nine or ten better
Speaker 1: than him? Yes? Yeah, I think it was nine or
Speaker 1: ten that were definitively better and that kind of Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So here's my question at this point, what does deck
Speaker 1: on We don't have to go through all the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Has he now gotten into top five in your opinion
Speaker 1: in the NFL? And I'm again we have to go
Speaker 1: with just this year. I'm not talking about career because
Speaker 1: obviously then you start pulling in guys that have had
Speaker 1: long careers, if won super Bowls, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this year. Is he a top five quarterback?
Speaker 1: How he's played in the NFL? I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: put him at five in the five. Give me five
Speaker 1: that are better Pat Mahomes, Drew Brees, Russell Wilson, Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: This year, I mean, if if we're playing one game
Speaker 1: with the universe on the line, Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's like when I think about this, that's what I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: like one game to win the Super Bowl. You're picking
Speaker 1: like it's a playground. One game. Okay, Drew, I'll take
Speaker 1: Drew Brees right now. If the case, you're probably still
Speaker 1: going to take Brady no that kind of year. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I mean, Matt Ryan, guys like that. Like
Speaker 1: that's where it gets stuff. Really, what you're asking is
Speaker 1: is he is he gonna be in the Pro Bowl?
Speaker 1: I mean all that kind of what I'm really trying
Speaker 1: to figure out is based on how he's played this year?
Speaker 1: Is he a top five caliber quarterbacks? That's the best
Speaker 1: quarterback this year? Lamarmar Jackson, Russell Russell one of those
Speaker 1: two that's one in two Watsons forgot about Dean You
Speaker 1: should be playing better than him. I think overall, I
Speaker 1: would say they're about the same in my opinion. They're
Speaker 1: about at the same level in my opinion. Put them
Speaker 1: and that's now, and that's like even I don't put
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson definitively above Dad just well, I've I've heard
Speaker 1: that before too. I mean, I mean, there is a
Speaker 1: changing dynamic to the quarterback position about it. And also
Speaker 1: I looked at this the other day. Top five offenses
Speaker 1: in the league. Top five offenses in the league have athletic,
Speaker 1: mobile quarterbacks that happened to be African American. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying DeShawn Watson, Lamar Jackson, Pat Mahomes, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: Dak Press. The position has changed. Yeah, those guys right
Speaker 1: there now, they're throwing the ball. It's not like it's
Speaker 1: you know, Lamar's different beasts altogether. But I don't think
Speaker 1: it's coincidence. Those five guys are mobile and mobile. But
Speaker 1: but I mean Mahomes is getting done with his arm,
Speaker 1: and so is Dak right now, really so and Russell
Speaker 1: as well. Like Russell, Yeah, Russell's probably the smartest quarterback
Speaker 1: that i've I mean, he is just so smart and
Speaker 1: how he plays between the run, when he runs and
Speaker 1: when he doesn't, how he gets down like he is
Speaker 1: just a phenomenally smart quarterback. Probably are five right there, right, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Matt Ryan, but that's okay, Lamar Jackson, Matt Ryan, uh,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson like I know he's hurt, but Matt Stafford,
Speaker 1: like all of those guys are really great quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: I would not definitively take over Dak right now. That's
Speaker 1: again Green Bay. We're leading to. Oh I kind of set. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's up there. He should be up there. Rogers when
Speaker 1: we were talking about you were when Dave was saying,
Speaker 1: you know, those clutch moments, one game on the line, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would take Rogers, Rogers and Brady Rogers, Bradys. You
Speaker 1: can't help but do that my homes Wilson. I think
Speaker 1: those are the only five that I'm definitively ready to say.
Speaker 1: And then and take into account the fact that Brady's
Speaker 1: forty one, Dak is twenty six and a half, like,
Speaker 1: that's obviously important. I certainly you know, if I'm building
Speaker 1: a team, I wouldn't take Tom Brady over Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: not even close. Okay, So that being said, if we
Speaker 1: all agree that he's in that six to eight range, right,
Speaker 1: if we can agree on that right now, based on
Speaker 1: where he is this season, top ten for sure. I
Speaker 1: personally said before the season, not having a contract doesn't
Speaker 1: really change anything. Ultimately, the amount of money he was
Speaker 1: going to get is what he's gonna get, both on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys side or on his side. I don't think
Speaker 1: he loses his value. I don't think he necessarily gains value.
Speaker 1: But the caveat that we're now saying is that he's
Speaker 1: playing out a level where at least people are having
Speaker 1: the conversation about him as an MVP candidate, right, has
Speaker 1: he earned some money here in your minds or would
Speaker 1: you be one if you were making that decision, would
Speaker 1: you be willing to pay him more money than you
Speaker 1: were willing to pay him three months ago? I would
Speaker 1: say yes. And when I see that, I see kind
Speaker 1: of what we saw in this last game specifically, is
Speaker 1: when you don't have the run game, he can make
Speaker 1: the passing game work. And that was not consistent last year.
Speaker 1: And so I think seeing that jump from last year
Speaker 1: to this year and seeing that he can really carry
Speaker 1: this offense when he doesn't necessarily have zech to rely
Speaker 1: on to get the run game going for whatever reason
Speaker 1: that could be, that's why I think he's more deserving
Speaker 1: now than he was three months ago, because we've seen
Speaker 1: he can make it work. Well, let me ask you
Speaker 1: this question real quick. Before you did, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you this question. Is that a situation though, that
Speaker 1: maybe he's getting it to work because attentions being more
Speaker 1: paid to the running game And if teams did the
Speaker 1: flip and say it, okay, we're gonna stop, we're going
Speaker 1: to play more coverage, could he still be able to
Speaker 1: move the offense if he didn't have a running game
Speaker 1: or if he didn't or if he's facing a team
Speaker 1: that was going to play a lot more coverage, because
Speaker 1: it's a difference there, right, But then he's still the
Speaker 1: quarterback that's handing the ball off to Zeke, and Zeke's
Speaker 1: the guy running in and all that. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is a classic pick your poison type of offense that
Speaker 1: they've gotten right now that they're they're killing them. But
Speaker 1: when you start talking about again, when you start talking
Speaker 1: about a guy like a Russell Wilson, if we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about categories and quarterback, the difference with Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is he doesn't have a big time running back.
Speaker 1: I mean he has some good running backs, he didn't
Speaker 1: have a big time running back, and he doesn't have
Speaker 1: huge receivers like he's got some good ones, not great receivers.
Speaker 1: So you look at it from that standpoint, and he's
Speaker 1: able to make that offense go. So you can pick
Speaker 1: your poison at the end of the day, that quarterback
Speaker 1: has ability to be in no matter what. Trying to
Speaker 1: make him higher, you know, a higher paid quarterback than
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson because he hasn't done what Russell has done
Speaker 1: in the postseason at all. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know why how his his agents can even argue that
Speaker 1: they will somehow, but I don't think they can. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's where it comes in, though, is I don't
Speaker 1: really feel much differently about it, And I think that
Speaker 1: probably depends on where you were three months ago. Three
Speaker 1: months ago, I said, Dak's going to get paid at
Speaker 1: or near the top of the market just because he's
Speaker 1: the next quarterback that's up. And that's how this works,
Speaker 1: does it? Though? Because Goff got a new deal, Wentz
Speaker 1: got a new deal, they were not at the top
Speaker 1: of the market. Now were around that I said at
Speaker 1: or near and where I mean they come in at
Speaker 1: like third and fourth, like Russ is at thirty five,
Speaker 1: and I think Ben is slightly below that. Keep in
Speaker 1: mind Ben's deals a lot different. It's like a two
Speaker 1: year deal because he's much older. So in terms of
Speaker 1: like young guys, Daks certainly, just by nature of economics,
Speaker 1: he would have come in above Golf and Winz, Like
Speaker 1: if he had signed in August, he would have been
Speaker 1: above those guys. So I never had any beef with that. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're one of those people that was like, he
Speaker 1: needs to settle for twenty eight or thirty because that's
Speaker 1: who he is and he needs to shut up and
Speaker 1: be happy about it and blah blah blah. If you're
Speaker 1: one of those people, then he's absolutely lost gained money
Speaker 1: over the last three months. But now do I think
Speaker 1: from where I was thinking, like a somewhere between thirty
Speaker 1: two and thirty four, do I think he has earned
Speaker 1: more money to the point where now we're talking about
Speaker 1: like topping Russell Wilson hitting the forty mark that we
Speaker 1: all said was a joke. I want to see how
Speaker 1: this plays out. Would you give him thirty five or
Speaker 1: thirty six right now? Yeah? Yeah, probably because we would.
Speaker 1: But I want to see the argument. I want to
Speaker 1: see where the season goes. I want to see him
Speaker 1: do what he did against Detroit, against great teams, and
Speaker 1: I want to see him will this team deep into
Speaker 1: the playoffs, not because nobody else around him is any good,
Speaker 1: but because he's that much better. Elevate your team, Elevate
Speaker 1: the team to a level the Cowboys haven't been to
Speaker 1: get him to the NFC Championship game. Throwing for three
Speaker 1: fifty four hundred, you can have forty if you want it.
Speaker 1: I will say this yeah. I will say this though,
Speaker 1: if you look at his trajectory, and we've talked about
Speaker 1: this a lot with Deck, from where he started to
Speaker 1: where he is now, every year he gets better and
Speaker 1: better and better. And you look at guys like Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: they'll start off their career and they may be in
Speaker 1: a situation where the team is really focused on having
Speaker 1: a great game, focus on having a really good defense,
Speaker 1: and at some point it starts to flip. We may
Speaker 1: be right now witnessing that flip that at some point
Speaker 1: a year or two years from now, the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: to make the decision because all the money comes due
Speaker 1: that Hey, you know, maybe we can't invest as much
Speaker 1: as we invest in our offensive line or in our
Speaker 1: running back position. Maybe we need to really just focus
Speaker 1: on the fact that we're gonna have a great quarterback.
Speaker 1: And he's starting to look more and more like at
Speaker 1: some point he may be that caliber of player. So
Speaker 1: getting him at thirty five right now may actually end
Speaker 1: up being a bargain for you if he continues along
Speaker 1: this trajectory. We don't know that, but if he continues
Speaker 1: along the strector. But that's why a deal is probably
Speaker 1: not going to get agreed to right now, like true,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Cowboys might be like, yeah, okay, we'll pay.
Speaker 1: We'll pay you thirty four to thirty five right now,
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, I know you will, but but
Speaker 1: I want I want more. And I got seven and
Speaker 1: six seven maybe more games to prove that I'm worth it.
Speaker 1: So things did change, and I didn't personally think things
Speaker 1: would change much during the season, but I do think
Speaker 1: the way he's played, he certainly thinks I'm sure his
Speaker 1: representatives think thinks that things have changed and they will
Speaker 1: be negotiating under that. I think his floor has risen
Speaker 1: since the season started, because again in August, we were
Speaker 1: probably saying somewhere between thirty and thirty three, and now
Speaker 1: I'm like, thirty four is the absolute lowest I could
Speaker 1: ever see, but it'll probably be higher than that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he's out playing the two guys I got those
Speaker 1: deals that they're went. You know, it's drastic ru Rustlers,
Speaker 1: wins and golf. Those are the two guys that he's
Speaker 1: playing and and and out playing right now, right are
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Speaker 1: But um, from what I hear, they're actually gonna make
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Speaker 1: the big board and the kind of stuff they put
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Speaker 1: gonna do a lot of those kinds of elements. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of people like the DCC and
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Speaker 1: It is going to be a pretty festive atmosphere. So
Speaker 1: if you've got kids, especially like for adults, sometimes you
Speaker 1: just want the game, But if you got kids and
Speaker 1: they're into it and they need the extra excite excitement
Speaker 1: for them to get into it, like this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a really really cool way to watch a game
Speaker 1: if you're not at the stadium, which obviously when we're
Speaker 1: on the road, you're not at the game. So I
Speaker 1: think it's really cool. If I were here, I would
Speaker 1: probably get my kids and force them to come out
Speaker 1: here with me to watch it. But I do think
Speaker 1: it'd be a cool event if you get a chance
Speaker 1: to come out to come check it out, because it'll
Speaker 1: be pretty cool. All right, let's get back in, Let's
Speaker 1: get some questions. We got some phone calls and number
Speaker 1: eighty eight eight five five two two ninety seven. We
Speaker 1: got a call from Kyle in Austin. Kyle, what up, Hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: hey up a long time listener. I'm big fan of
Speaker 1: all the shows. Appreciate you guys. Thank you. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: it makes them drive to work every day a whole
Speaker 1: lot easier. We appreciate it. And I will say this,
Speaker 1: you know, Dak's playing playing well. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's uh the MVP as of this point. There's
Speaker 1: some games that he's made some mistakes, you know, and
Speaker 1: we went down to New Orleans game you know with
Speaker 1: the Star Sports Tours put the plug in for those guys.
Speaker 1: They're fantastic. Yeah, but he has got to there's there's
Speaker 1: just a couple of mistakes that he makes and I think, yes,
Speaker 1: he progresses, he will be there, but I don't think
Speaker 1: he's had that MVP. Let yet as of yet, and
Speaker 1: they built a team around him that is a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl contending team and some of those other guys desertial effect.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson doesn't have that, that's for sure, and Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes doesn't have that. So I've had to put those guys.
Speaker 1: Eve Lamar actually higher than him on the MVP talk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't disagree, well, they don't disagree at all there,
Speaker 1: but you know, being in the in the conversation is good.
Speaker 1: That's where you want your quarterback to be. The one
Speaker 1: thing that I think that the Cowboys need to do better.
Speaker 1: And Dad, this goes with Dad. They have got to
Speaker 1: figure out ways to pass the ball from the seventy
Speaker 1: yard line, from the nine yard line, from the three
Speaker 1: yard line, because if they're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: run it in, they still have to figure out ways
Speaker 1: to to get that blocked better and scheme it open.
Speaker 1: You know. I mean last night you watch the Chargers,
Speaker 1: they went for two down nine. Don't understand that I
Speaker 1: didn't think that was a good idea with a minute
Speaker 1: to go in the third quarter, down nine because if
Speaker 1: you don't get that, then now you're you're guaranteeing that
Speaker 1: you have to go down twice and score. But they
Speaker 1: drew up a play that they probably knew was going
Speaker 1: to work one thousand percent and it did. And tight
Speaker 1: end was wide open or what maybe one of the
Speaker 1: tight end, Yeah it was. But I'm just saying they've
Speaker 1: got better with passing the ball in there, and I
Speaker 1: think that goes with Dak and that goes with Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore and all that. That's the one knock, I think,
Speaker 1: because when you get down there and you're not going
Speaker 1: to run it in from the four yard line on
Speaker 1: third and goal. They haven't proven that they could do that.
Speaker 1: And the beauty is they have the talent on the
Speaker 1: field to really be able to do some interesting scheme
Speaker 1: things when you start thinking about all the different parts
Speaker 1: they could use, between Pollard and Zeke and Dak being
Speaker 1: able to run versus throw, and then the receivers that
Speaker 1: you have and then the tight end, like they have
Speaker 1: a lot, they have lots of options to where they
Speaker 1: can create these interesting scenarios where defenses really have to
Speaker 1: kind of choose which way they're gonna go, and in
Speaker 1: making a choice, something's gonna come open, right It Just
Speaker 1: you're right, they're gonna have to just figure out how
Speaker 1: to use those things and how to have what they
Speaker 1: do this week build on what they can do next
Speaker 1: week and the week after and the week after, because
Speaker 1: that's how you you ultimately get people to bite on
Speaker 1: things you want to do you want to be able
Speaker 1: to do. Right. All right, let's take another call. We
Speaker 1: got a call from Bobby in Oklahoma. Bobby, what up? Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call. Problem. I wanted to quickly
Speaker 1: tell you about two or three things I'm expecting Sunday,
Speaker 1: and once your opinion on knowing the team and the
Speaker 1: coach we're gonna play, I think the number one thing
Speaker 1: is they will figure out a way to take advantage
Speaker 1: of our poor special teams. I don't know if it'll
Speaker 1: be a turnover, if it'll be a muff, if it'll
Speaker 1: be a return, but Bill Belichick is just too good
Speaker 1: at exploiting your weakness, and along that line, I think
Speaker 1: I would expect it's out of their norm and I
Speaker 1: would expect a heavy run game of power. Dallas had
Speaker 1: problems stopping that this year, and until they show they
Speaker 1: can stop it, Bill Belichick has proven that he will
Speaker 1: continue to do something to you stop it and then
Speaker 1: I'm worried about some of those imp throws that that makes,
Speaker 1: like the one that Slay missed on the interception. They
Speaker 1: got too good a cornerbacks that want instance, So I'm
Speaker 1: just worried about coaching and discipline in this game above
Speaker 1: all out. I'm just wondering your thoughts. All right. I
Speaker 1: watched that game. We were flying back. We got to
Speaker 1: watch some of the Eagles Patriots game, and they just
Speaker 1: don't have They just make smart plays. I mean, they
Speaker 1: are a smart football team. They don't beat themselves, and
Speaker 1: they don't miss opportunities, don't And one thing that I
Speaker 1: watched in that game is every time the Eagles, even
Speaker 1: when they caught the ball, man, those guys are all
Speaker 1: over them. They cover really well. So, yeah, those corners
Speaker 1: as at mccordy and Gilmore are those are the two corners.
Speaker 1: And then well they have a mccordy at safety, Tamoth Brothers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but those those corners are good. And you know, Slay
Speaker 1: is good. They just they got they got fortunate in there. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: you listen to Amari talk after game, he said he
Speaker 1: knew he wasn't gonna be able to get that ball
Speaker 1: because of the trajectory. I mean, your eyes tell you
Speaker 1: something different, because it looked like it went straight through
Speaker 1: his hands. But he said, based on the trajectory, he
Speaker 1: didn't think he had a shot to make that play.
Speaker 1: I was kind of saying that yesterday too, the way
Speaker 1: his body turned that Yeah, with Dak facing Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: as saying there's no way he could have made that play.
Speaker 1: He didn't think. That's why he knew it would get
Speaker 1: to him. But you know who knows. The cliche with
Speaker 1: the Patriots is that they are you know, it really
Speaker 1: is a cliche, but it's true. Is like they're gonna
Speaker 1: take away the best thing you do and make you
Speaker 1: beat them another way. I'm curious what that means. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like what do they think. Are they going to load
Speaker 1: up on Ezekiel Elliott? Are they gonna just go out
Speaker 1: of their way to double Amari Cooper and make the
Speaker 1: other receivers step up the way they did against Detroit?
Speaker 1: Do you? I mean, which it's a little bit harder
Speaker 1: for a quarterback, but are you going to clog and
Speaker 1: cover and just not give Dak any throwing lanes? Like?
Speaker 1: What do the Patriots think is the Cowboys best bet
Speaker 1: to beat them? And I don't necessarily know. I will
Speaker 1: say this. The one thing you seem to notice watching
Speaker 1: the Patriots is it's not like other teams where they
Speaker 1: come in with their game plan and that's what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do, or maybe you can just do that for
Speaker 1: a half. They had just it seems like from series
Speaker 1: to series. So the first series, he could be, hey,
Speaker 1: we noticed the Cowboys love to run. On their first series,
Speaker 1: We're gonna stop the run and make them do something else.
Speaker 1: Hey we noticed by the time they figure out the
Speaker 1: run isn't working, they start going to a march. So
Speaker 1: the second series, we're gonna stop the mark. Like, I
Speaker 1: just think this coach is on a whole different level
Speaker 1: when it comes to how he prepares his team and
Speaker 1: how they morph game to game and within games to
Speaker 1: what they do. I mean, how often do you see
Speaker 1: teams that go from three four to four three in
Speaker 1: games like they do that. These guys run like a
Speaker 1: one six four. It is crazy and it goes against
Speaker 1: what Jason Garrett's philosophy is. And that's you know, that
Speaker 1: philosophy of we do what we do that gets your
Speaker 1: ass kicked against guys like this, because he's like, please,
Speaker 1: do what you do because I fixed it. I know
Speaker 1: how to beat it. And if you're just gonna be
Speaker 1: hell been on doing that, then you're not gonna win. Now.
Speaker 1: I know that it's a little bit more than that.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have made adjustments. You can't say that they don't.
Speaker 1: They're one of the best teams in the third quarter
Speaker 1: this year, they come out of halftime. They've been making adjustments.
Speaker 1: But this is it's going to be on a different
Speaker 1: level here. And I think David makes a great point
Speaker 1: like that. I'm sure Belichick, you know they have an answer.
Speaker 1: But if you say, well, you know, we can't let
Speaker 1: Dak beat him, we're going to have to make sure
Speaker 1: that he doesn't get that, Well, that's kind of what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have won it all along. Yeah. I also
Speaker 1: like that point of the phone call about special teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think we've talked enough about how inconsistent special
Speaker 1: teams has been, both when they've been returning and when
Speaker 1: they've okay, been punting. So what do you think is
Speaker 1: the biggest problem for special teams right now? You can
Speaker 1: throw out punt returns, you could throw out field goals,
Speaker 1: you could throw all coverage units. What do you think
Speaker 1: is the biggest channel? Here is something I wonder about.
Speaker 1: I want to clarify this too. Think about Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: Somebody actually asked Garrett about it yesterday and he clarified
Speaker 1: he had two really memorable kick returns. He messed up
Speaker 1: the opening kick he tried to or yeah it was
Speaker 1: or was it the going yeah? The kick after the
Speaker 1: Lions touchdown he sort of tried to kneel on the
Speaker 1: half yard line and realized that which But the one,
Speaker 1: the second one in the fourth order, was actually a
Speaker 1: great play by Tony, like he played that the way
Speaker 1: he was supposed to. They were basically trying to have
Speaker 1: their kick and eat it too. They didn't want to
Speaker 1: run a full hands team, but they didn't want to
Speaker 1: run a true kickoff team, so they basically were like,
Speaker 1: just get up on the five and if it goes
Speaker 1: over your head, then you say kick and needed too.
Speaker 1: Yeah he did. You didn't get that, I I said, cake,
Speaker 1: But he did it without even pausing. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you'll pause it can catch it, but he didn't. I'm
Speaker 1: not as clever as y'all think I am. I didn't
Speaker 1: do that on It was good either way it went
Speaker 1: over his head and just took a fantastic bounce like
Speaker 1: I mean, nine out of ten times that goes through
Speaker 1: the end zone and it's not a big deal. The
Speaker 1: main point, though, is I wonder if the Patriots see
Speaker 1: that and try to exploit a rookie running backs decision
Speaker 1: making process like sky the ball and try to have
Speaker 1: it bounce inside the five, try to make him make
Speaker 1: a judgment on whether or not he needs to come
Speaker 1: out to feel it. I wonder if that could bite.
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of stuff that Belichick does. He
Speaker 1: looks for those kinds of sometimes weaknesses that other people
Speaker 1: don't really recognize, and he says, I'm gonna test this.
Speaker 1: I'll just test it and let's see what happens. And
Speaker 1: sometimes it pays off big dividends for them. I mean
Speaker 1: they are gonna be I think they're gonna be going
Speaker 1: for the ball. After Zeke had that fumble last week.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be looking for opportunities. There's been two games
Speaker 1: this year, games where jeekes giving it up. I think
Speaker 1: they look at that and say, hey, there's an opportunity
Speaker 1: for us to get turn offs. And this defense is
Speaker 1: really good at getting turned and in the start of
Speaker 1: the game. We see I mean so many slow starts. Yep.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, injuries have certainly hurt that
Speaker 1: special teams. It always does. I mean, that's that's where
Speaker 1: the trickle down is when you've got backups that now
Speaker 1: have to play and start and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you have backups and special teams and that's where
Speaker 1: the kind of confusion comes into play. So it's not
Speaker 1: an excuse. That's what good teams have that they they
Speaker 1: have they figure out ways to do that. But I
Speaker 1: think injuries by far have been a contributing factor to
Speaker 1: the to the special team's issues. But doesn't matter, No
Speaker 1: one cares. You got to clean it up this week
Speaker 1: and you should have heathback. Yeah that's nice, but you know,
Speaker 1: kick the ball out of the end zone. I mean
Speaker 1: that kick it out of the end zone and the
Speaker 1: easier said than done, especially outside, But they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do that. And this guy can make a sixty
Speaker 1: three yard field goal without a tea. He needs to
Speaker 1: be able to get get that ball out and not
Speaker 1: make it an issue. And maybe when it's it might snow.
Speaker 1: It might be snowing at this game. I don't know,
Speaker 1: if y'all have looked at the forecast, it's like it
Speaker 1: won't be at the watch party. Thank you, Danny. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, will we wish it's snow is in
Speaker 1: the forecast in Foxboro there's a low of twenty six.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it will be snowing during the game.
Speaker 1: The point being, I don't think that I would try
Speaker 1: very many super long field goals in these elements. That's hey,
Speaker 1: that's what I was getting at. We'll see, I mean,
Speaker 1: well that's been you know, one of those things we'll
Speaker 1: see in pregame warm ups and you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: one way it will be different than the other. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a lot of different things with the special
Speaker 1: teams unit. You know, it's been the punt, it's been
Speaker 1: punt coverage. It's it's you have to wonder how much
Speaker 1: is the execution or just communication. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's been a major issue. I mean, obviously the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks we've talked about that a lot. I
Speaker 1: think is mostly communication, but it's sometimes when you keep
Speaker 1: these players in the you know as your third team,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever receiver, tied end, lineman, whatever you know,
Speaker 1: you're keeping them for their for their ability to play
Speaker 1: that position, but they become a liability when you have
Speaker 1: to play them on special teams. And that's that's been
Speaker 1: something that it's always a tough balance. Is this guy
Speaker 1: going to be on the team because of special teams
Speaker 1: or is the on the team because in some two
Speaker 1: or three years we think he's going to be a
Speaker 1: really good player at this position, But right now we
Speaker 1: got to have a play special teams. People used to
Speaker 1: get so mad because it seemed like when rich Bisaccio
Speaker 1: was here, he had like seven guys on the team.
Speaker 1: We're just here to play special teams, and it used
Speaker 1: to aggravate people. But your special teams were pretty good, right,
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