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Speaker 1: It is Friday, October twenty third, twenty twenty, season sixteen,
Speaker 1: episode number fifty. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We're life in the s WBC Mortgage studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: it's a freaky Friday, so we're gonna figure out what's
Speaker 1: gonna go on This Sunday. Cowboys will face the Washington
Speaker 1: football team in Washington at noon. Uh, Nick, you are
Speaker 1: making that trip to Washington. Um, luck with that and
Speaker 1: we'll get back here. I know it's gonna be fun. Well, bet,
Speaker 1: this is one of the ones I'm not really like.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I really wish I was going because going
Speaker 1: to that stadium, it's just get yeah, and we're getting great.
Speaker 1: We're getting in really late. Uh. You know, normally you
Speaker 1: get in about five o'clock five thirty, regardless of what
Speaker 1: time it is five to thirty. It's getting in a
Speaker 1: lot later than that, like seven thirty. You just got
Speaker 1: turned around, and well, I think like you're going out. No,
Speaker 1: you're like you got to be in your room and
Speaker 1: get some food and call it a night. Right. Almost
Speaker 1: named the hotel we're going to, But that's probably good.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the food. It's the only place, you know, who
Speaker 1: knows what the food's gonna be. But the press box
Speaker 1: is the only place where I've seen media go. I'm
Speaker 1: just going downstairs to get food. Like literally, media will
Speaker 1: go and buy food at the concession stand rather than
Speaker 1: eat what they have in the press box for free.
Speaker 1: That tells you a lot about the food that's offered
Speaker 1: in the press box for free. I mean, Dave, worst
Speaker 1: stadium in the league, Dave, you know what. I don't
Speaker 1: hear him right now, but I bet he's gonna be like, yes,
Speaker 1: by far, we lost, Dave. Um, Well it's a good start.
Speaker 1: But I will answer the question, yes, best worst stadium
Speaker 1: in the league by far, not even for lots of reasons,
Speaker 1: for lots of reasons, not not even closer. Who knows.
Speaker 1: I don't even I don't I don't know where I'll
Speaker 1: be who knows what it should It should be interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is gonna You know, the Cowboys play
Speaker 1: well here. I mean nine out of the last twelve
Speaker 1: they've won, but with probably a lot more to do
Speaker 1: with the team than the they're facing than the stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what I'm saying is is that they play well there.
Speaker 1: I mean, and it doesn't not always with the team.
Speaker 1: I mean this, We've seen bad football teams go in
Speaker 1: here with Matt Castle as a starter and they turn
Speaker 1: it around and they win. So you know, it's always
Speaker 1: been a game where the records don't matter as much.
Speaker 1: And this time, you know, both teams are struggling, if
Speaker 1: you will, struggling. All right, let's go ahead and jump in.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about this roster. I have
Speaker 1: a few different topics we need to hit there. Let's
Speaker 1: get some injury updates. Let's start first with Zach Martin.
Speaker 1: What are we hearing about Zach Martin. I guess it's
Speaker 1: going to be me here since Dave's out. I think
Speaker 1: Zach Martin has is gonna be a game time decision.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't look like it's it's It looks like
Speaker 1: there's a better chance that he doesn't play in this game.
Speaker 1: He hasn't practiced so far this week. They don't do
Speaker 1: a lot today. They'll do some stuff tomorrow. I think
Speaker 1: he goes on the trip to Washington, but I don't
Speaker 1: if I had to guess right now, I don't think
Speaker 1: he will play in this game. What about Alden Smith?
Speaker 1: He had an injury last weekend, has been practicing limited
Speaker 1: on a limited basis this week. What are we thinking
Speaker 1: about him for this weekend? I think he's got a
Speaker 1: much better chance to play. It seems like he will be. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's not only going on the trip, but it looks
Speaker 1: like he is going to play in the game. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said said as much that he thinks he expects
Speaker 1: him to be out there. Talking about Sean Lee and
Speaker 1: Cheetobe Owoogier, both guys are guys that have been on IR.
Speaker 1: They're eligible to return at whatever point the team games
Speaker 1: in ready, they've started that process. Where are they right
Speaker 1: now in their recovery and return they I don't see
Speaker 1: him there for this game. Dave and Naber might have
Speaker 1: different thoughts there, but I mean, I think and I am.
Speaker 1: I can you hear me now? Yes, yes, we can
Speaker 1: hear you, Sean Lee Cheeto, Hey, Sean Lee Cheeto. No,
Speaker 1: that's not that's not happening. Um, they are practicing. It's
Speaker 1: good to see him out there. Don't look for them
Speaker 1: on Sunday. UM, don't look for Zach Martin on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think you already said that, UM, and Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: is worthy of being on the forty eight. That's a
Speaker 1: direct quote from Mike McCarthy. So, and what do you
Speaker 1: expect Randy Gregory's role to be this weekend? What do
Speaker 1: you expecting to see from him? Well, I would assume
Speaker 1: it's kind of similar to what we've seen from him
Speaker 1: in past years, where they don't necessarily put him out
Speaker 1: there the whole time. They're just kind of easy him in,
Speaker 1: give him some reps game Dave reps. So I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be expecting too much, but but at least seeing him
Speaker 1: on the feeling getting him back onto that because we
Speaker 1: know how different and real game is compared to practice.
Speaker 1: So I would expect them to just kind of easy
Speaker 1: him in it. But I'm super I'm really excited to
Speaker 1: see what happens. I know that we all none of
Speaker 1: us expected Adam Smith to do what he has been
Speaker 1: capable of doing. And I know we've seen this from
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory in the past, but I am excited to
Speaker 1: see if he can bring something similar, something fresh, some
Speaker 1: extra energy to the defensive line. So we'll see what
Speaker 1: all he does. Dave, I want you to take me back.
Speaker 1: I want you to take the fans they're listening right now,
Speaker 1: take them back to the time when Randy Gregory was
Speaker 1: playing for this team and give me a scouting report
Speaker 1: on the type of player that he was good and bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, I think, fortunately, it'll probably be
Speaker 1: pretty similar, just because he was in a similar situation
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. He was coming off a lengthy absence
Speaker 1: because of suspension, and they used him as a situational guy,
Speaker 1: you know, an obvious passing down guy. I think he
Speaker 1: finished he finished that season with only like twenty five
Speaker 1: tackles because he was you know, they played him on
Speaker 1: a pitch count basically, But he had six sacks and
Speaker 1: twenty five pressures. So when you put him in a
Speaker 1: situation where he can go get the passer, he's pretty
Speaker 1: damn good at it for a guy that hasn't gotten
Speaker 1: to play a lot of football. And then obviously. You know.
Speaker 1: The downside is I guess you would call him a
Speaker 1: very undisciplined player because he was good for an offside
Speaker 1: flag or two seemingly every single week. But man, he's
Speaker 1: he's fun to watch. Like I think about that. I
Speaker 1: think it was against Tampa in twenty eighteen, he stripped
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston in the pocket and Jalen Smith recovered it
Speaker 1: and returned it for a touchdown, and it was kind
Speaker 1: of like this moment where you were like, Wow, maybe
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were right about these guys. And two years
Speaker 1: later now you're questioning it again. But it was a
Speaker 1: really it was a really fun moment at the time.
Speaker 1: That's probably that's the biggest Randy Gregory memory that I have.
Speaker 1: But I mean, for a guy, like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: for as little football as he has actually played, he
Speaker 1: has shown some real potential if he can play a
Speaker 1: little bit more disciplined. And Nick, I heard you this
Speaker 1: morning on a one h five dot three the Fan.
Speaker 1: You were doing a hit there and talked about Randy
Speaker 1: Gregory and some of your recollections of him and what
Speaker 1: kind of player he is. What are your thoughts with
Speaker 1: him coming back? What are you expecting to see from him,
Speaker 1: and where do you think he'll be as far as
Speaker 1: you know, the kind of play you can can get
Speaker 1: out of him at this point his career, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's hard to say. And of course I
Speaker 1: mentioned there on that show that I temper all the
Speaker 1: raving about what he looks like in practice because they
Speaker 1: still go up against the Cowboys offensive line. So how
Speaker 1: do we judge anything right now with that? But if
Speaker 1: you know, if he looks quick and he's put on
Speaker 1: some weight and you know, and it's been good weight,
Speaker 1: looks like it, you know he needed to bulk up
Speaker 1: some and so you know, if he can be a
Speaker 1: player that can kind of help with the run game
Speaker 1: at times but also get around that edge, just be
Speaker 1: better than what they have and that shouldn't be that hard.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he can just provide a little bit
Speaker 1: of a spark, I think that that'll be something that
Speaker 1: this team has been missing for sure. Questions do you
Speaker 1: think he can do that with such a long layoff? Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean I can't say no. With watching Alden Smith.
Speaker 1: I mean I just I know they're different people, different players,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, but you can't I think Bucky said
Speaker 1: it too. I mean, when you see Alden Smith, you
Speaker 1: can't say no, it's not possible. And I think they're
Speaker 1: not going to give him a huge role. I mean,
Speaker 1: he can't have a big role going there on pass
Speaker 1: rushing downs. Try to be disruptive. He can probably do that.
Speaker 1: And I did not remember that he was the one
Speaker 1: that made that tackle against Jameis Winston. I mean, I
Speaker 1: remember Jalen Smith, but I didn't think I thought it
Speaker 1: was d Law. I didn't think it was Gregory that
Speaker 1: made that. So Stephen Parker safety was moved to the
Speaker 1: active roster. He's a guy that they've been kind of
Speaker 1: popping up on game days, but now he's on the
Speaker 1: active roster. Was this a move because they expect him
Speaker 1: to play more at safety or is he a special
Speaker 1: teams guy? Or is this a situation where they just
Speaker 1: added a little more depth to their secondary. What do
Speaker 1: you think, Dave? I mean, he's been in there playing
Speaker 1: safety the last couple of weeks, so I would imagine
Speaker 1: it almost you know, it seems like they're doing this
Speaker 1: thing by committee because they don't have somebody that's good
Speaker 1: enough to just nail down the role like Xavier Woods
Speaker 1: is out there, and then depending on the snap, it
Speaker 1: seems like sometimes it's darry and Thompson, sometimes it's Donovan Wilson.
Speaker 1: And I think they'll probably throw Stephen Parker in the
Speaker 1: mix as well. I know they've been really impressed with
Speaker 1: what they've seen from him in practice. I can't say
Speaker 1: that it like he's jumped off the tape to me
Speaker 1: watching the games. But again, it's like safety by committee,
Speaker 1: Like if you don't have one guy that can do it,
Speaker 1: you might as well just throw numbers at it, right right,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna do this. We're gonna check our
Speaker 1: first break a little bit early. We're gonna come back,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna dive into the Washington football team versus
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Speaker 1: about both the offense and the defense and how we
Speaker 1: think they're gonna perform this week. We'll do that. We'll
Speaker 1: actually have some talk in the third segment about the
Speaker 1: NFC East. An interesting game last night between the Eagles
Speaker 1: and the Giants. We'll talk about that a little bit,
Speaker 1: and we'll get our predictions for the week. We'll do
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the Washington football team versus the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That happens is Sunday at noon in Washington. My first
Speaker 1: question for you guys Washington. Washington has the third worst
Speaker 1: scoring offense. Dallas has the worst scoring defense. Which one
Speaker 1: will be better this weekend? Washington's offense or Dallas's defense.
Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Amber. I would like to think
Speaker 1: that the defense he's able to start doing something better
Speaker 1: than the previous games. But based on just everything that
Speaker 1: has happened this season, I mean, there's no way that
Speaker 1: I can sit here and say, oh, yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 1: stop Washington regardless of them not having a great offense
Speaker 1: like we've seen it happen. I mean, they have not
Speaker 1: really been able to stop anyone. I really thought that
Speaker 1: was gonna be the case with the Giants, and the
Speaker 1: Giants ended up scoring over what was the thirty points.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the exact amount of numbers, but I
Speaker 1: just I it's gonna be a tough game. But the
Speaker 1: Dallas defense, it's gonna end up allowing points, just like
Speaker 1: they've been allowing points all throughout the season. Nick, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that Layton vander Esh's return and being back
Speaker 1: for this game, I think this is a type of
Speaker 1: game where you'll see him really be a part of
Speaker 1: the defense. I think with a wide open threat with Arizona,
Speaker 1: with Kyler Murley running, I think it's kind of tough
Speaker 1: to you know, he's not He's not that quick of
Speaker 1: a linebacker. He's aware. But but I mean I think
Speaker 1: in a game like this, I think you'll see him
Speaker 1: out there more and I think that he'll, you know,
Speaker 1: that will help this defense. I think Randy Gregory will
Speaker 1: help some there off the edge, so they're getting some
Speaker 1: players back and then they're just not going to be
Speaker 1: facing guys that that should, you know, hurt them that bad.
Speaker 1: So I think I think the defense has a better
Speaker 1: chance of step it up. I think I think Washington's
Speaker 1: offense is what it is, Dave. I don't trust this
Speaker 1: defense at all to do anything different than they have done.
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree with everything that they've said, but
Speaker 1: I mean you still got Terry McLaurin and he can
Speaker 1: run really fast in a straight line, which is all
Speaker 1: that anybody has needed to do over the last month
Speaker 1: or so. Um. But I will say the one thing
Speaker 1: that gives me confidence is Kyle Allen is awful in
Speaker 1: terms of like pocket presence and taking well. I mean
Speaker 1: he's not very good anyway, but like he's off in
Speaker 1: the pocket. I saw a staff this morning. He's got
Speaker 1: the second worst EPA when it comes to strip sacks,
Speaker 1: only behind Daniel Jones, who you will remember the Cowboys
Speaker 1: got a strip sack return, you know, and return it
Speaker 1: for a touchdown against him. So if they can get
Speaker 1: to Kyle Allen, then they should be able to you know,
Speaker 1: make make some hey there. Obviously they've got to do that.
Speaker 1: They haven't been consistent, but I would like to think
Speaker 1: that they can turn his bad pocket presence into a
Speaker 1: short field or two, which would go a long way
Speaker 1: to help in this offense. Yeah, I agree with everything
Speaker 1: you guys are saying. And I thought it was interesting
Speaker 1: that up until Dave, nobody mentioned Kyle Allen, because that,
Speaker 1: to me is the interesting part. Like, you look at
Speaker 1: all these teams of Cowboys have played, he is by far,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the worst quarterback that they've paid played
Speaker 1: to this point. Now I know that's also that that's
Speaker 1: the death nail for the Cowboys deep. It's like as
Speaker 1: soon as we start throwing out those kinds of edicts,
Speaker 1: that's when they just get completely roasted. And everybody's like,
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen's ready for the Pro Bowl. But my point is,
Speaker 1: I think this is the this will be the quarterback
Speaker 1: that is probably least proficient of all the guys they've
Speaker 1: played so far, and I think because of that, I
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of faith in the defense right now,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense. What I do have some faith and
Speaker 1: is in the fact that Kyle Allen hasn't played very well,
Speaker 1: and because he hasn't played l well, I don't think
Speaker 1: he gets going this week. I agree with you, Dave
Speaker 1: on McLaren. I think McClaren is the one guy you
Speaker 1: got to be really concerned about, and so I think
Speaker 1: they'll get some plays. He'll get some plays out of
Speaker 1: this defense. I just don't think it'll be enough. I
Speaker 1: think when you look at the two, I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense will be better. All right, let's me want
Speaker 1: to the second question Nick, you mentioned a little while ago.
Speaker 1: One thing we know is that the Cowboys defense they
Speaker 1: can make someone bad look good. So there's that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's to the point where it doesn't even necessarily matter
Speaker 1: who the opponent is. It's now up to it's just
Speaker 1: all on the Cowboys at this point. It's it's all
Speaker 1: up to them, like it's up to them to be
Speaker 1: able to start changing this whole narrative because right now,
Speaker 1: like I can care less who the opponent is, It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if they're at the bottom of the list.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys still will make mistakes and end up making
Speaker 1: them look good. I agree with all of that. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying, though, is when you look at this Washington offense,
Speaker 1: this there is not really a good comparison of a
Speaker 1: team that they played. I know, we think that the
Speaker 1: Giants are bad. To me, the Giants are light years
Speaker 1: ahead offensively than what Washington is. If you watch offense,
Speaker 1: their offense, they just are not I mean, they're really
Speaker 1: really bad. So you're right there, there's bad versus bad.
Speaker 1: My question then becomes which one is worse? And I
Speaker 1: think in this instance, this may be the one offense
Speaker 1: in the league that the Dallas defense may be better than.
Speaker 1: But we'll all see, And you're right, Amber, I do
Speaker 1: think what we've known and what we've seen over time
Speaker 1: is that sometimes you get you look at these kind
Speaker 1: of matchups and you're like, well, certainly Cowboys get it
Speaker 1: going here, and for whatever reason, it doesn't get going.
Speaker 1: So there's a real possibility that happens. Let's move on
Speaker 1: to that second question, Nick, you mentioned about Layton vander
Speaker 1: esh playing last week. I want to take you guys
Speaker 1: back to last week, and I'd like you guys to
Speaker 1: tell me how you thought he played and how much
Speaker 1: of a difference do you think he made in this defense,
Speaker 1: particularly last week against the Arizona Cardinals. Nick Le'll start
Speaker 1: with you. You know, I was just looking at his
Speaker 1: snaps right now. He played fifty percent of the snaps
Speaker 1: fifty one percent, so that you know, there wasn't a lot,
Speaker 1: and that might be by design. I would think, you know,
Speaker 1: they want to see how he comes out of this game.
Speaker 1: I thought he played. Okay, I didn't. I didn't notice
Speaker 1: him a lot. Obviously he's only a play out there
Speaker 1: half the time. But I do think again, I think
Speaker 1: a game like this he will play more. It'll be
Speaker 1: you know, they'll run the ball more. It'll be kind
Speaker 1: of in the trenches a little bit. And I think
Speaker 1: this game suits him better. And I think you'll you'll see, oh, Layton,
Speaker 1: Layton's back for this game, Dave, Yeah, I agree. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll just say I didn't really notice him. He played
Speaker 1: fifty percent in the snaps. I think he had three tackles.
Speaker 1: That's to be expected. I mean, not only has he
Speaker 1: been off for a month, but again no offseason. He
Speaker 1: was out for most of last year. I would it's
Speaker 1: gonna take him some time. We talked about the play
Speaker 1: that Darius Butler broke down the pop pass to who
Speaker 1: was a Kirk or whatever one that Anthony Brown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you go back and if you go back and
Speaker 1: watch that, Yeah, if you go back and watch that play,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, Why are you still in the end zone?
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith? What are you looking at? Leyton vander Esh
Speaker 1: diagnoses the play beautifully. He just happens to be on
Speaker 1: the wrong side of the formation. So that was really
Speaker 1: encouraging to think that, you know, his instincts are still
Speaker 1: with him, And yeah, I would imagine he'll continue to
Speaker 1: improve as he goes along, and playing a bad offense
Speaker 1: should only help with that hamper. You know, one thing
Speaker 1: that I did notice is his energy. I mean he
Speaker 1: out of the whole defense. I mean, he was a
Speaker 1: player that he was noticeably more energized than everyone else
Speaker 1: on defense. And I'm sure that's a product of a
Speaker 1: competitor sitting watching the game from afar, seeing the way
Speaker 1: that his defense is playing and him not being able
Speaker 1: to help out. So I'm sure that that has something
Speaker 1: to do with Okay, now he's ready to go in
Speaker 1: there on the field and do something. So the one
Speaker 1: positive thing, and I'm sure he's going to get better
Speaker 1: this weekend, but that's something that was good to see,
Speaker 1: just a player in there with some energy, bringing some
Speaker 1: extra little spark into that very dull defense. One of
Speaker 1: the things I noticed, it's funny, one of the things
Speaker 1: I noticed about him was there are a few plays
Speaker 1: that he came very close to making that he didn't
Speaker 1: end up making it. Obviously, that's not good enough for
Speaker 1: a guy like him, we expect better. But like you said, Dave,
Speaker 1: I think the thing about that is in most of
Speaker 1: those instances, the reason why he was even close is
Speaker 1: because you could see he recognized what was going on early.
Speaker 1: He just didn't have the whatever it was to get
Speaker 1: there to make the play. Part of that, it's specifically
Speaker 1: on places where he was trying to chase down Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: Is Kyler Murray like. He's a different level of speed
Speaker 1: and quickness that sometimes can make even the best defensive
Speaker 1: players look foolish. But that all being said, I actually
Speaker 1: like the fact that he did look like he recognized
Speaker 1: what was going on. It's one of my biggest critiques
Speaker 1: of Jalen Smith over the first six weeks of this
Speaker 1: season is that he doesn't always seem to recognize what's
Speaker 1: happening quick enough and then be able to react quick enough.
Speaker 1: I think we were seeing those things from Layton. Now
Speaker 1: he's got to get hisself back into the right kind
Speaker 1: of shape and I think he'll make place for this defense.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the next question. Last week,
Speaker 1: Justin Hamilton and Neville Gallimore played more against Arizona. How
Speaker 1: did they play? And are you ready to play them
Speaker 1: more than Don Terry Poe at this point? At this point,
Speaker 1: who I think we all agree has been a disappointment.
Speaker 1: Let's start first with you, Dave. Yes, absolutely, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Justin Hamilton is kinda he was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a Twitter star. I guess if
Speaker 1: you're like looking for a positive, that came out of
Speaker 1: that game and just looked like he was active. It
Speaker 1: looked like he wasn't getting blown off the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: You know, he's not Aaron Donald or even half of that,
Speaker 1: or you know Snacks Harrison at his peak, like's not
Speaker 1: he's not at all pro nose tackle. But it just
Speaker 1: seemed like you were getting better push and you know
Speaker 1: I hate, I mean, better, better pursuit all of that stuff,
Speaker 1: better athleticism, I mean, we we all agree Poe has
Speaker 1: been a liability for this defense. I don't know how
Speaker 1: hard it is to upgrade what you've gotten out of
Speaker 1: that over the last four or five weeks. Amber, I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, It's not like I sit there and absolutely
Speaker 1: like focus on the the tackle position during the whole game.
Speaker 1: So I did have to pull out the stats for
Speaker 1: this one. And I know we all know that Dantari
Speaker 1: Po has not nearly been doing and been doing enough
Speaker 1: at all. But based on the stats, in six games,
Speaker 1: Dontari Po has been able to accumulate a total of
Speaker 1: seven tackles. And then you look at Justin Hamilton in
Speaker 1: just this one game he got a combine of three tackles,
Speaker 1: so nearly on stats, I'm gonna go with absolutely, get
Speaker 1: Dontary Post out of there, put Justin Hamilton, let him
Speaker 1: do some more things. I mean, look, he's almost caught
Speaker 1: up to Dontarry Post stats in just one game versus
Speaker 1: six games that he has played, So yes, put him
Speaker 1: in there. They do need a change because he hasn't
Speaker 1: been working all fair, Yeah, I mean, typically stats for
Speaker 1: your defensive tackles shouldn't They don't matter as much typically
Speaker 1: because you want them to just be there clog up
Speaker 1: the middle. Other guys make plays. But over the course of,
Speaker 1: like she said, six games, I mean you can you
Speaker 1: would imagine you get a few, you get in there,
Speaker 1: and that's the thing. He's not clogging up the middle
Speaker 1: po I mean, he's never gonna win any foot race
Speaker 1: or anything like that. We understand that, but that's not
Speaker 1: his job. His job is to be in there, take
Speaker 1: these double team blocks and let other guys free them up.
Speaker 1: And that certainly isn't happening. So if what's the benefit there,
Speaker 1: I mean that there hasn't been any benefit for him.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I mean, anybody, he's got to be better.
Speaker 1: Hamilton's hungry, ready to go. He looked active. I think
Speaker 1: he'll be better in this game as well. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you the stat that matters for defensive tackles rush
Speaker 1: yards against. And we've seen this rush defense be horrible
Speaker 1: and a lot of that, A ton of that has
Speaker 1: to do with the fact that up the middle he
Speaker 1: gets washed out and moved out of the way, and
Speaker 1: on the outside he is not doing anything to help
Speaker 1: his linebackers out. They are regularly getting an offensive linement
Speaker 1: on them before they even get into the play and
Speaker 1: they aren't able to get off those blocks a lot
Speaker 1: of times. So I think both ways, you have to
Speaker 1: look at the defensive tackle and say, especially at one technique,
Speaker 1: can say you're not doing your job if you're getting
Speaker 1: just run on like that. Right, are you laughing about?
Speaker 1: Just an inside joke, I'll tell you at the break.
Speaker 1: Oh god, I got a good staff play. All right,
Speaker 1: wait for that. All right, let's go to the next question.
Speaker 1: Next question, Dallas or Ken Dallas slow down Washington's pass rush?
Speaker 1: And if so, how Let's start with you Nick man Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta get the ball out quick. He
Speaker 1: would love for the Cowboys to be a good screen team.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, they're not terrible. They're not terrible
Speaker 1: at it, but they're they're not like they're not great
Speaker 1: at it. But this is the type of game where
Speaker 1: you would you would want them to be to be great.
Speaker 1: But the problem is is the the Red team doesn't
Speaker 1: blitz as much like like the Cardinals. Did you know
Speaker 1: the real Red team like they blitz all the time,
Speaker 1: And so you know, it's this team just rushes with four,
Speaker 1: so their linebackers are in position for screens and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. You gotta get the ball out to your receivers, slants,
Speaker 1: bubble screens. They're gonna have to go and make plays
Speaker 1: and make make you know, get the ball in their hands,
Speaker 1: break tackles. That's one way to do it. The running
Speaker 1: backs out of the backfield, and I think this has
Speaker 1: got to be a huge game for Dalton Schultz. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have to work those linebackers work the middle of
Speaker 1: the field and you know, just you gotta get the
Speaker 1: ball out quick. But those those guys have to be
Speaker 1: ready to catch the ball. Dave, I've already made it
Speaker 1: very clear how scared I am of this pass rush.
Speaker 1: But if you're looking for optimism, don't forget. They really
Speaker 1: padded their stats against Philly in that season opener. They
Speaker 1: sacked Carson Wentz eight times that day, so they have
Speaker 1: half of their total from one game. The last three
Speaker 1: weeks they got they got to Daniel Jones once, they
Speaker 1: got to Jared Goff once, they got to Lamar Jackson once.
Speaker 1: So yes, they're very good. Clearly, you can mitigate that
Speaker 1: if you're about your business now. I mean, Baltimore has
Speaker 1: an amazing offensive line that's really not fair. But the Giants.
Speaker 1: The Giants don't. And we know firsthand from watching the
Speaker 1: Rams that they're just great at getting the ball out
Speaker 1: of Jared Goff's hands, Like that's one of the keys
Speaker 1: to their success. So it can be done. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much I trust the Cowboys to do it
Speaker 1: because they are not as creative. You know, they'll they'll
Speaker 1: run running back screens, but like you don't see the
Speaker 1: tunnel screens and the jet motion the stuff that the
Speaker 1: Rams do with Robert Woods. We haven't seen that from them. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they dusted off this week. I kind
Speaker 1: of doubt it. So it's on. It's on the offensive
Speaker 1: line to play really well. But I mean, at the
Speaker 1: very least they need to design, you know, short drops
Speaker 1: and quick throws for Andy Dalton. Um. I think it's possible,
Speaker 1: but I don't trust them to be as successful as
Speaker 1: some other more creative offenses. Yeah, I was just gonna
Speaker 1: say about that, Um that you know, Dave, You're right,
Speaker 1: they don't. They're not creative like that except for two
Speaker 1: point conversions. It seems like in the two point conversions.
Speaker 1: We see some like cool plays with the market Cooper
Speaker 1: flipping around. Yeah, maybe do that. I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot of second and five. Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: third and two, third and three situations. So you know,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be right down there to do
Speaker 1: some you know, let's have some fun. Yeah. The other
Speaker 1: thing I'll throw out two. Dave and you mentioned this
Speaker 1: about the about what you see from the rams. It
Speaker 1: was I think against the Giants where you saw the
Speaker 1: Cowboys running a lot of boots. They were just doing
Speaker 1: some different things that were kind of these misdirections. I
Speaker 1: combined what Dave said and what Nick said. Nick, you
Speaker 1: were talking about Dalton Schultz in that game. One of
Speaker 1: the things they were doing, they were going on those
Speaker 1: boots and they'd have either a tight end or they'd
Speaker 1: have another receiver coming from the opposite side of field
Speaker 1: going on a drag across the field, and it would
Speaker 1: create these interesting little plays for you because the defense
Speaker 1: starts flowing one way because the handoff looks like it's
Speaker 1: going one way, and then the quarterback boots around and
Speaker 1: he's got room, he's got time, he can make a throw.
Speaker 1: So I want to see some of that. That's what
Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff you see from the Rams
Speaker 1: all the time, that that misdirection. They show you one thing,
Speaker 1: they get you flowing one way, and then they go
Speaker 1: back the opposite way. I think the Cowboys can do it.
Speaker 1: We saw it in the Giants game. Question is can
Speaker 1: they do it with Andy Dalton and can they be
Speaker 1: consistent with it enough to where they keep this defense
Speaker 1: off balance. If you can get this defense off balance,
Speaker 1: then I think that front four has to pause just
Speaker 1: a bit. You slow down just enough that helps your
Speaker 1: offensive line and maybe that means the Cowboys can have
Speaker 1: a chance of being able to complete some pass. All right,
Speaker 1: here's my final question on Washington versus Dallas. Can I
Speaker 1: can I ask a question? Sure? Absolutely? Going back to that,
Speaker 1: Let's say let's say they do go into the game,
Speaker 1: start off the game with like creative plays like that. Offensively,
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore has this nice little plan game plan, but
Speaker 1: then we see that's not necessarily working, it's just not falling.
Speaker 1: I mean at that point in the game, let's say,
Speaker 1: what second quarter, are you wanting the Cowboys to kind
Speaker 1: of keep pushing that or do you at that point decide. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just take it back. Let's just try to play
Speaker 1: more conservative because I mean, one of the things that
Speaker 1: we heard, I mean last week going into the previous
Speaker 1: game with Andy Dalton, would the Cowboys be playing some
Speaker 1: more conservative football based on the fact that they have
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton a quarterback and not that Prescott. Well, let's
Speaker 1: be click, we'll see good, Dave. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: asking them to be like crazy aggressive, like if you go,
Speaker 1: if you go watch some of the stuff that the
Speaker 1: Rams did to the Cowboys, like it's it's really simple stuff,
Speaker 1: just you know, boot bootlegs that get goff moving out
Speaker 1: of the pocket or get you know, I don't understand
Speaker 1: why the Cowboys don't like jet motion, like just I
Speaker 1: mean that what Christian Kirk did the other night, like
Speaker 1: give the ball to the wide receiver moving across the formation. Um,
Speaker 1: these are these are basic things that most football teams do.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not asking them to pull out Nick's flee
Speaker 1: flicker in this game. I think that would be a
Speaker 1: terrible idea. So I don't want them to be because
Speaker 1: Dalton don't get murdered. Maybe I don't, I don't, but
Speaker 1: everyone's trying to get Zeke get everyone's and he's going
Speaker 1: to pitch it back. But when you're running without anybody
Speaker 1: getting in your way, then you can kind of get
Speaker 1: both of them, right. I just that's that. I don't
Speaker 1: like that either, Dave. I'm with you. Go ahead. I
Speaker 1: don't want them to get crazy aggressive. I just want
Speaker 1: them to be more creative and how they get the
Speaker 1: ball out of Andy's hands. Yeah, I totally agree. This
Speaker 1: was not about getting crazy. This is about just misdirection,
Speaker 1: show things a lot of play action. And by the way,
Speaker 1: in order to get play action to work well, you
Speaker 1: gotta run the ball well. So I think they have
Speaker 1: to give a healthy dose of running the ball and
Speaker 1: show that they're committed to running the ball, even if
Speaker 1: it doesn't work as well early on. You gotta show
Speaker 1: that you're committed to running the ball. And that means
Speaker 1: that if you go three and out because you're running
Speaker 1: a little bit more, that's okay, you gotta punt it.
Speaker 1: But I just think in a game like this, you
Speaker 1: got to show them that you're committed to the run.
Speaker 1: That'll help you create those play action opportunities and maybe
Speaker 1: help your boots and that kind of thing. Because teams
Speaker 1: have to start really really paying attention to the run.
Speaker 1: I'm really interested to see if they get in third
Speaker 1: and short, even down on the goal line. I think
Speaker 1: you've got to go back to the Antoine Woods package.
Speaker 1: And we didn't see it last week or even the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, but I think it's it's important
Speaker 1: because that offensive line is night. When you go big
Speaker 1: on big, you're gonna lose. You're gonna lose. And hopefully
Speaker 1: that they're not stubborn enough to think just run them
Speaker 1: over because they won't think. You gotta get some big,
Speaker 1: bigger guys in there. And I think, you know, Antoine
Speaker 1: can certainly help with that poem. I'm gonna take our
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Speaker 1: and what we think is going to happen, and the
Speaker 1: big question, who do we think is the team to
Speaker 1: beat in the NFC East. So that when we come
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Speaker 1: time here in the final segment to talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about the NFC East. This division is not very good.
Speaker 1: They have one win against a team that has oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. They don't have a win against a team
Speaker 1: that has a winning record. The closest is San Francisco,
Speaker 1: who is now three and three, so they're five hundred.
Speaker 1: At least they did get a I think it was
Speaker 1: the was it the Eagles that beat the forty nine
Speaker 1: ors three? So there's one win against the team that's
Speaker 1: five hundred. All the rest of the wins have come
Speaker 1: against teams with losing records. Majority of the wins have
Speaker 1: come against each other basically. So this is a team
Speaker 1: that is not This is a division it's not doing
Speaker 1: very well against the rest of the NFL. But they
Speaker 1: got to send somebody to the playoffs. And so the
Speaker 1: question for you guys is, based on what you've seen
Speaker 1: through six weeks, who is the favorite in this division
Speaker 1: to go to the playoffs. Let's start first with you Am,
Speaker 1: where you have that look like you have something burning
Speaker 1: to say, because I will never, ever, ever pit the
Speaker 1: Eagles for anything at all. I cannot stand the Eagles,
Speaker 1: but I gotta be fair and say that I do
Speaker 1: think that looking at all the games so far, the
Speaker 1: Eagles are starting to turn it around a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have had some competitive games. So it's
Speaker 1: a tough one. It's a tough one, and the worst
Speaker 1: part is that it's all so situational football, like so
Speaker 1: situational moments, where if they couldn't clean up if everyone
Speaker 1: in the NFS well, between the Eagles and the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: if they can start cleaning up their game a little
Speaker 1: bit more and stop making so many little mistakes, I mean,
Speaker 1: they can start really turning this whole season around and
Speaker 1: making the nfcas look a little bit better than what
Speaker 1: they've been looking like so far. But it's it's pretty
Speaker 1: close between the Eagles and the Cowboys right now. I
Speaker 1: have seen more competitiveness from the Eagles, though, Dave. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's the Eagles absolutely. That's not to say
Speaker 1: the Cowboys don't have a chance, but I'm just tired
Speaker 1: of not I'm tired of not seeing this team make
Speaker 1: any progress like Mike McCarthy said earlier this week, like,
Speaker 1: we're not a better team in week six than we
Speaker 1: were in Week one. I mean, and it's been six weeks,
Speaker 1: it's been almost half the season. We have not seen
Speaker 1: them fix any of the things that are contribute to
Speaker 1: their losing ways. Then you look at the Eagles, which
Speaker 1: I mean, you know they've they've been much more competitive.
Speaker 1: You know, they haven't beaten anybody impressive, but neither have
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and their injuries. They have a lot of
Speaker 1: them as well, but their injuries seem like they're like,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get some of these guys back. They're gonna
Speaker 1: get Miles Sanders back, They're gonna get Zach Ertz back.
Speaker 1: Jalen Raager will be back eventually, Lane Johnson hopefully they'll
Speaker 1: give him a chance to get healthy. Most of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys key injuries aren't coming back, Like you're not getting
Speaker 1: Tiring and Lyle, you're not getting Dak Prescott back. So
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles have a much better chance to
Speaker 1: round into form over the next five to six weeks
Speaker 1: than the Cowboys do. And until I see some notable
Speaker 1: progress from the Cowboys and just playing cleaner football, it's
Speaker 1: hard for me to think that they're just going to
Speaker 1: magically turn it on, especially knowing that so many of
Speaker 1: their best players are done for the year. I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, let me apologize to Carson Wentz because
Speaker 1: I said Andy Dalton might be the best quarterback in
Speaker 1: the division. He's not. Carson Wentz is a much better quarterback.
Speaker 1: Just kill my next question. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that your next question might be who's
Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the division whatever. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is better than Andy Dalton quarterback one of
Speaker 1: the other's great throw to win the game needingtime you're
Speaker 1: throwing to a five five running back, you have to
Speaker 1: drop it in there. He did a nice job with that,
Speaker 1: but Evan Ingram catches the ball and they lose. And
Speaker 1: then I don't think everything Dave just said. I don't
Speaker 1: think he even says all of that if they lose
Speaker 1: that game to the Giants, because this shows just how
Speaker 1: bad they really are. Now they are going to get healthier.
Speaker 1: I agree with that, and I think the Eagles are
Speaker 1: the team to beat over there because they seem to
Speaker 1: figure it out. They have a better quarterback, and they're
Speaker 1: going to get healthier than the Cowboys. I do agree
Speaker 1: with that. But they're they are not good. They're not
Speaker 1: good at all. Anybody can beat them. Oh, don't don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. I don't think they're good. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they don't have to be good to win. Ye, you're right,
Speaker 1: this whole like they have, nobody's beating the team doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: doesn't care. Yeah, but yeah, the way they played Baltimore,
Speaker 1: you know, they went up there and fought with them
Speaker 1: and probably you know, could have tied the game and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You don't really I don't know you
Speaker 1: say that about the Cowboys, but I mean they okay,
Speaker 1: well they compete with Seattle too, so I mean, but
Speaker 1: it's just that you can't judge anything except for last
Speaker 1: week because nothing this is all you know, that was
Speaker 1: all before Dak got hurt. Now it's just what is
Speaker 1: this team? We still don't know what this team is. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's the point I would make. Is I think
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, we thought, or at least I thought,
Speaker 1: this was a good to above average offense and a
Speaker 1: bad defense, which made the team an average team the NFL.
Speaker 1: I figured they'd be a seven and nine, eight and eight,
Speaker 1: nine and seven type team. Since then, we've had one
Speaker 1: game to see Andy Dalton as a starter. And again
Speaker 1: I'm not placing all the blame on Andy for what
Speaker 1: we saw last week, but what I know is in
Speaker 1: the one game I saw him as the starter. This
Speaker 1: offense is a bad offense. This defense is a bad defense,
Speaker 1: which makes us a bad team. This is why right now,
Speaker 1: I don't see any scenario where the Cowboys will be
Speaker 1: better than the Eagles by the end of the season
Speaker 1: unless somehow they can turn around what they're doing on offense.
Speaker 1: And maybe there is a possibility that Andy Dalton, you know,
Speaker 1: he's just starting to kind of getting some reps, he'll
Speaker 1: be better. He'll get this offense able to manage or
Speaker 1: able to be able to move the ball, even with
Speaker 1: this offensive line, because you gotta work around this offensive line.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get healthier there. But maybe he gets
Speaker 1: to the point where he can move this offense in
Speaker 1: the same way that Dak was with the offensive line
Speaker 1: he has. But as of right now, I don't see
Speaker 1: any any reason to believe that the Eagles are not
Speaker 1: the team to beat based on what I've seen so far,
Speaker 1: and that the Cowboys have two teams on their schedule
Speaker 1: that you're like that they're not gonna win, probably Eagles,
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry, not everyone else, I mean, no one
Speaker 1: else on their schedules, Like there's no way I could win.
Speaker 1: The problem is Philly's already played both of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: didn't beat him, played him, okay, but it didn't beat him.
Speaker 1: But I mean, and the Eagles will probably play all
Speaker 1: of those teams the Cowboys have as well. So the
Speaker 1: schedule of the injuries, all that, the quarterback, all that
Speaker 1: seems to point towards Philly. All right, real quick, I
Speaker 1: want to get your your opinions on the best quarterback
Speaker 1: in the division. Nick, you've already said you think Andy Dalt,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, you think Carson Wentz is the
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the division. I assume, yeahs you're not
Speaker 1: putting one of those other two guys ahead of him.
Speaker 1: So let's go to Amber and Dave. Let's start with you, Amber,
Speaker 1: who do you think is the best quarterback in the division.
Speaker 1: I have to judge based on just the games that
Speaker 1: I've been able to see, and it's not much and
Speaker 1: probably not fair because Carson Wentz has had far more
Speaker 1: games than what we've seen from Andy Dalton this season.
Speaker 1: But in regardless of certain people making comments and saying, okay, well,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton actually played an okay game, it wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1: I saw it pretty bad. I did not like when
Speaker 1: I see what I saw Maryland, and maybe because my
Speaker 1: expectations were a lot higher coming from a veteran guy,
Speaker 1: but the way that I saw him play it just
Speaker 1: did not inspire me anything. It just looked like a
Speaker 1: guy with no experience, like I expected him to be
Speaker 1: more polished. But again, gotta be fair and say, okay, well,
Speaker 1: he hasn't had the first team reps as he would
Speaker 1: when he wasn't a starter, you know, so at this
Speaker 1: point I would agree with Nick. I would go with
Speaker 1: Carson Dave. I don't want to pat myself on the back,
Speaker 1: but like you can go find audio of me before
Speaker 1: the Cardinals game saying everybody, let's calm down. I know
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz has had a rough month, but he's still
Speaker 1: a pretty darn good player. And he is, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's He's had a lot of problems. Obviously, the injuries
Speaker 1: are insane. It seems like he's lost some confidence but
Speaker 1: he is still a quarterback that's capable of willing his
Speaker 1: team to victory, which he did last night and he
Speaker 1: almost did against Baltimore. And I just don't think Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton's ever been that quarterback. I mean, what was what
Speaker 1: was the line on Dalton when he stepped into the
Speaker 1: starting lineup, It was like, well, with this supporting cast,
Speaker 1: he could be pretty good. Carson Wentz hasn't had a
Speaker 1: supporting cast since twenty seventeen. Like he's it's a mass
Speaker 1: unit up there, and he still finds ways to piece
Speaker 1: you know, competent effort together. So it's it's Carson in
Speaker 1: three years, though, who do you think it'll be? You mean,
Speaker 1: when Dak's back, Dak Prescott? I mean, it's Dak right
Speaker 1: now if he's healthy. Yeah, I agree. I mean, here's
Speaker 1: three years, though, I still think it's Dak Prescott. You're
Speaker 1: assuming Dak won't be here? Is that? I mean, he'll
Speaker 1: probably be here, But I mean, do you think Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones will be up there? Honestly, I think Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: I think Daniel Jones a really good quarterback and the
Speaker 1: only reason, the only reason I'm not putting him ahead
Speaker 1: of Carson Wentz right now is because of the factor
Speaker 1: that Dave threw in, which is he's not able to
Speaker 1: will his team to win like Carson Wentz is. But
Speaker 1: I'll say this, if you watch that game last night,
Speaker 1: there was some absolutely dumb throws that Carson Wentz made.
Speaker 1: There was one that was the interception where I don't
Speaker 1: know who exactly he was throwing it too and why
Speaker 1: he thought that was gonna be a completion. And then
Speaker 1: the other one where he's scrambling out of pocket he
Speaker 1: goes back probably twenty thirty yards and then runs forward
Speaker 1: and throws opposite field. Should have been intercepted. I mean,
Speaker 1: he does that kind of stuff where you're like, what
Speaker 1: is this guy seeing? What is he thinking? So I
Speaker 1: don't think Carson Wentz is a right now. He's not
Speaker 1: playing like a good quarterback to me. He's playing like
Speaker 1: an extremely average quarterback in at moments on the side
Speaker 1: of of of being a bad quarterback. But that's what
Speaker 1: you got in this division right now. Nobody's better than
Speaker 1: him right now, I guess is the problem if if
Speaker 1: if Jones takes it to the house and doesn't get
Speaker 1: tripped over the eighteen yard line or whatever, I think
Speaker 1: there's a different opinion about him all the way because
Speaker 1: it's like, man, that guy just took an eighty eight
Speaker 1: yards and now instead it's like, nah, he's not he's
Speaker 1: not athletic. He trips and fall. I don't think anything
Speaker 1: like that. Before they still score on that drive. You're right, Nick,
Speaker 1: If if Evan Ingram just catches, I mean that was
Speaker 1: a beautifully thrown gay. Yeah. If Evan Ingram just catches quarterback,
Speaker 1: but he ain't bad, I don't know. I just said
Speaker 1: that about Daniel Jones. He's going to be pretty good.
Speaker 1: And Markley and those guys get there, you know, with
Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator. I mean, they're gonna be good. But
Speaker 1: I think that Dak. I mean, I still think Dak
Speaker 1: is the best quarterback he will be, but he can't
Speaker 1: sleep on him. I mean, I think Daniel Jones is
Speaker 1: gonna be good. I think it's a real possibility in
Speaker 1: three years, like you say that Carson Wentz will be
Speaker 1: the third best quarterback in the NFC. So I totally
Speaker 1: think that's a possibility. I'll move on before that. About that,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get our predictions real quick before we
Speaker 1: end the show. Let's start first with Dave. Dave, give
Speaker 1: me your prediction for this weekend. I don't remember the
Speaker 1: last time I hated picking a game this much. I really,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm so serious. I hate it. I don't
Speaker 1: trust the Cowboys. I don't want to pick them to win.
Speaker 1: They don't deserve to be picked to win. But I still, like,
Speaker 1: you look at it on paper and you say, like,
Speaker 1: I still think the Cowboys are a better team except
Speaker 1: the one big caveat that the thing that the that
Speaker 1: Washington does the best is rush the passer, and that's
Speaker 1: get's gonna be a huge problem for this offensive line.
Speaker 1: And I just think I think it's gonna be a sucky,
Speaker 1: ugly game. I think the score is gonna be something
Speaker 1: awful like eighteen to sixteen, like a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: field goals, maybe a miss two point conversion somewhere in there.
Speaker 1: And I'll just I'll take the Cowboys very reluctantly, but
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be surprised if I regret that on Sunday.
Speaker 1: All right, Amber, I know I've said this before, but
Speaker 1: I mean it this time. I'm serious. If the Cowboys
Speaker 1: loose to Washington, that is it. Next week, I'm picking
Speaker 1: the Eagles, and then I'm picking Pittsburgh. I'm picking at
Speaker 1: the opponent for the rest of the year. I'm serious.
Speaker 1: We'll just know going in who Amber's picking, like, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't even asking me. Okay, okay, I won't take it
Speaker 1: as far as the whole season, but at least next
Speaker 1: week I'm definitely peaking the Eagles if the Cowboys lose
Speaker 1: this weekend. Now, I just to say something I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say twenty seventeen, I, like Dave said, I absolutely don't
Speaker 1: trust the Cowboys whatsoever. But because it is against Washington,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go ahead and say Cowboys win. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, neither team deserves to be picked. I mean,
Speaker 1: but what I keep thinking is, is Washington break over there.
Speaker 1: You know that they do every every day for forty
Speaker 1: five minutes. There's no way you can pick their team
Speaker 1: to win. There's no way you can be like, whether
Speaker 1: they're gonna win, they're gonna you just they don't deserve
Speaker 1: to be picked. Neither do the Cowboys. I agree with
Speaker 1: both of them. I think it's gonna be an ugly game.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be I picked that earlier to
Speaker 1: twenty to nineteen is my pick. I think. I think
Speaker 1: the oddsmakers have it as a one point favorite free Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and that's all they get. For me. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen because because Washington missed an extra point or
Speaker 1: something like that. I mean, I know the Voto confidence
Speaker 1: isn't good, but you shouldn't because that really, this team's
Speaker 1: only played one game and they got beat thirty eight
Speaker 1: to tend to the Cardinals. That's that's why we're all
Speaker 1: so reluctant. None of this that we've seen before even matters.
Speaker 1: It's one game that they put on tape, and the
Speaker 1: tape should be burned. And that's the point. Right now.
Speaker 1: I want to see how Andy and this offense response,
Speaker 1: because if I see what I saw last week, then
Speaker 1: my expectation for the rest of the season is that
Speaker 1: this is gonna be just a as Amber called yesterday's show,
Speaker 1: this is not gonna be great, right, So I do
Speaker 1: think I do think though that I want to give
Speaker 1: a little more deference to the Cowboys just because I
Speaker 1: think Washington's offense is worse than Dallas's defense. That says
Speaker 1: a lot, but I really do believe that, and so
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day. That's the difference.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys get a win sixteen thirteen. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be a lot of scoring. Everybody
Speaker 1: makes sure you got lots of food and drink because
Speaker 1: you're gonna need to entertain yourself at moments during this game.
Speaker 1: But I do think the Cowboys get a win sixteen thirteen.
Speaker 1: And we'll be back here on Monday to tell you
Speaker 1: if we were right or wrong and what happened and
Speaker 1: what went right and what went wrong for the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys till then, for Nick Even, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia,
Speaker 1: I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been the Break live on
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