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Speaker 1: twenty three, Season eighteen, episode number one oh seven. Welcome
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Speaker 1: and today we get you ready Cowboys versus Bucks beginning
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. Hopefully not the end of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but we'll get you ready for that game. Lets you
Speaker 1: know what we're thinking. I also let you know I'll
Speaker 1: make sure to capture that moment. I'll have my phone
Speaker 1: ready to capture you and Nick getting emotional. Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: happy I have already. First of all, we're taking an
Speaker 1: off air conversation onto the year. Nick and I were
Speaker 1: talking about, like if the Cowboys actually get on a
Speaker 1: magical run and should get to a super Bowl. The
Speaker 1: question was would we cry? And I told Nick like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought about it, and I do think I would
Speaker 1: probably she had a tear. I'll have my phone ready.
Speaker 1: You don't need to capture that. Once in a lifetime.
Speaker 1: You'll be so overwhelmed with all the things that you
Speaker 1: have to do to get ready for that game. I'll
Speaker 1: be crying for that. That's that is a true statement
Speaker 1: from what I hear, like my colleagues around the league,
Speaker 1: ye've experienced. Yeah, that's why I hear why it takes
Speaker 1: two weeks to go play that game, right exactly, all
Speaker 1: the things you have to do. There's a lot to do.
Speaker 1: But trust me, I will be happy to take on
Speaker 1: that task. But those tasks because we have well, I
Speaker 1: get emotional every year when there's like a team that
Speaker 1: wins a Super Bowl and they have like some story
Speaker 1: like behind a player or a coach and they're like
Speaker 1: super emotional just watching them on my couch. Of course
Speaker 1: getting emotional too, But you know, honestly, part of why
Speaker 1: I would be so excited would be because and I
Speaker 1: really and truly believe this is not me kind of
Speaker 1: pumping you guys up. But I think I have the
Speaker 1: best media team in the country, and I think putting
Speaker 1: the creativity of this team to work on that kind
Speaker 1: of stage where you can tell those kinds of stories,
Speaker 1: I think you guys would do some phenomenal work. And
Speaker 1: we've never had an opportunity to really do that. And
Speaker 1: and that's where I'm just like, man, I would love
Speaker 1: to see this crew, this group right here, put some
Speaker 1: content around a Super Bowl, around even a championship game.
Speaker 1: I think it would be phenomen It's why you do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why the players play so they can
Speaker 1: go and play in that game. But that's why we
Speaker 1: do what we do, so you can experience all of
Speaker 1: that and the ride with them. And we haven't we
Speaker 1: haven't done that. We haven't been able to so who
Speaker 1: knows just talking about it. I mean, let's just so
Speaker 1: it's like that lottery ticket, like, oh man, if only
Speaker 1: I could win the lottery. Baby steps though, and it
Speaker 1: starts this week because it's also something we've never seen
Speaker 1: and it's been thirty years. I mean, I remember, I
Speaker 1: remember it was probably my favorite game of all time.
Speaker 1: You know, Brian just said it that the Super winning
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, I mean, getting to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: was almost more enjoyable than winning it. But my favorite
Speaker 1: game of all time for the Cowboys just when they
Speaker 1: beat the forty nine Ers in nineteen ninety two for
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game, which is the last time they've
Speaker 1: won a road game in the playoffs. How was that
Speaker 1: the game was parking? I was working. It was my
Speaker 1: first year of scouting, and I was sitting in the
Speaker 1: box with San Francisco fans. John Dorsey, former general manager,
Speaker 1: you were scouting with Green Baths. I was scouting my
Speaker 1: first year with Green Bay and John Dorsey and I
Speaker 1: are out the East West game out in Palo Alto, California.
Speaker 1: Dors goes, Hey, man, I got two buddies. I got
Speaker 1: buddies to have a box here for the candlestick for
Speaker 1: this game. You interested. I'm like, man, I'm from Dallas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta go right. So I sat there, had all
Speaker 1: my Green Bay gear and all that. These fans from
Speaker 1: San Francisco were going in on Dallas. They were going
Speaker 1: in on people from Dallas. They were saying alk and
Speaker 1: I sat there the whole game, the whole game, the
Speaker 1: whole game, the whole game. When he caught that ball
Speaker 1: and took off running Alvin or Harper. I started in
Speaker 1: I go run un run, and everybody turned and looked
Speaker 1: at me, and I said, you m Effers had been
Speaker 1: all talking about Dallas all day and what a terrible
Speaker 1: city it is. I'm from Dallas. And John Dorsey looked
Speaker 1: at me, go it's time to go break And they
Speaker 1: were not expecting that because your Green Bay I did.
Speaker 1: I had all my Green Bay gear and when I
Speaker 1: was quiet the whole game, and when he caught that ball,
Speaker 1: I started screaming and and he you know, it turned
Speaker 1: out well, and literally John looked at me and he says,
Speaker 1: we gotta go, and I said fine, And I just
Speaker 1: I didn't even thank the people. I sat in the
Speaker 1: box with the whole game. It was just constant, well,
Speaker 1: Dallas is this and can you believe it's about? You know?
Speaker 1: And I just as a as a guy growing up
Speaker 1: season tickets for twenty years, I'd had enough. I'd had
Speaker 1: enough of these fans, you know. I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: that to me is my number one play of all time,
Speaker 1: to Alvin Harper. But because the forty nine Ers had
Speaker 1: come back in the game, they cut it to four.
Speaker 1: The crowd's going nuts. It's four minutes to go. It's
Speaker 1: like four minute offense? What do you do with four
Speaker 1: minute offense? Here it is and I mean Summer all Madden.
Speaker 1: They're like, this is a championship game. This shopped up field.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and this is it's four minutes to go.
Speaker 1: You're on the twenty yard line. What do you do?
Speaker 1: And you throw it? You go back to pass and
Speaker 1: you throw it to Alvin Harper on a twenty yard
Speaker 1: slant and he takes off for seventy yards and it's
Speaker 1: like you go right at him, know, and that's the
Speaker 1: epitome of like trying to take this game over and
Speaker 1: and playing to go win, you know, win a trip
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. It reminded me because San Francisco
Speaker 1: had given me heartache before and eighty one with the
Speaker 1: catch Dwight Clark, because that was a pretty good cowboy
Speaker 1: team that you know. I mean, if you remember how
Speaker 1: that game ended, Drew Pearson gets horse collared before there
Speaker 1: was horse collaring, I mean, they're gonna he if he
Speaker 1: breaks free, Dallas is gonna win that game a game.
Speaker 1: But everybody just remembers the catch, and you talk about
Speaker 1: crying and getting emotional when that game was over. I
Speaker 1: sat there in my you know, my friend's apartment. I mean,
Speaker 1: like tears were in them. I'm like, man, what just happened?
Speaker 1: This is what just happened, you know. And that's the
Speaker 1: kind of thing these fans, I mean, we just cowboy
Speaker 1: fans haven't experience I mean, they've experienced the heartache, but
Speaker 1: you know, to experience the joy of a ninety two
Speaker 1: game or something like they are a super Bowl win
Speaker 1: or something, it's it's it's it really really is amazing.
Speaker 1: And that's the part where you know, we talk about
Speaker 1: how emotional will be. There a lot of people out
Speaker 1: there listening right now that if you're listening to The Break,
Speaker 1: a lot of you guys are listening to us on
Speaker 1: you know in June, right you're still listening to our
Speaker 1: show every week. And those fans talk about emotional because
Speaker 1: they're the ones that have had to listen to all
Speaker 1: the criticism and all and they're the ones that are saying, oh,
Speaker 1: my team's gonna be good this year, my team's going
Speaker 1: all the way and then get disappointed. Right So for them,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be that same sort of emotional release of
Speaker 1: finally but you know, they got a lot to do
Speaker 1: to get there, and I guess let's talk about that.
Speaker 1: Let's start talking first about Xavier Rhodes. He's obviously the
Speaker 1: Cowboys picked him up last week. How much is he
Speaker 1: gonna be able to Like I heard somebody say yesterday,
Speaker 1: you don't pick up a player like that for him
Speaker 1: to set on your practice squad. You pick him up
Speaker 1: because you think you can use him. Is he going
Speaker 1: to be able to be used this weekend? And how
Speaker 1: do you think they'll use him? I think he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I don't know if he'll be
Speaker 1: the starter on the other side or on Bland will
Speaker 1: be and thrown Bland on the injury report, so that's
Speaker 1: a that's a good sign, not even on the injury
Speaker 1: report from the injury from last week. But I think
Speaker 1: I think Roads will play a lot. And you know
Speaker 1: one thing, Well, I'll get into a story in the
Speaker 1: locker room a little bit. I'll let Brian kind of
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about him and what he
Speaker 1: might be able to do. But I think that that
Speaker 1: he's definitely pretty comfortable in this situation right now. You
Speaker 1: got you gotta thought him this one No, I just
Speaker 1: gotta I liked his input when he was talking to
Speaker 1: the media, just his attitude. You know, he's he keeps
Speaker 1: talking about being ready to go, ready to go, and
Speaker 1: so far the guys that they have brought in have
Speaker 1: seemed to be ready to go. So that's the upside,
Speaker 1: or at least a positive sign that I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe he can be similar to a guy like t
Speaker 1: Y that came in here and was plugged in right
Speaker 1: away and effective. Yeah, fresh, the fresh body, and he's
Speaker 1: he says he's ready to go whenever, and he so
Speaker 1: physically he seems to be there. So I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see what he can bring once he's put in the Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was listening to Nick on the radio one oh
Speaker 1: five three this morning driving in and you said something
Speaker 1: I thought was really good. I just need him to
Speaker 1: be good one time, you know. I just need him.
Speaker 1: I mean I need him to you know, I need
Speaker 1: him to find a way to be a savvy veteran.
Speaker 1: Much like what you said about t Y Hilton. What
Speaker 1: was t Y Hilton's first impression that we got to him.
Speaker 1: It was a fourth down pass interference draw on a
Speaker 1: huge play and then a huge play down the sidelines.
Speaker 1: That was our impression of him right off, to jump
Speaker 1: a guy like he hadn't played all year, and now
Speaker 1: he's playing in a meaningful game and helping you win
Speaker 1: the game. And so to me, that's all you have.
Speaker 1: That's that means. It's it's sad that it's got to
Speaker 1: the point where Kelvin Joseph is not as good as
Speaker 1: dron Bland. It's it's it's sad that that happened, you know,
Speaker 1: And but you have to there. The one thing this
Speaker 1: team has done a great job of this year I
Speaker 1: think of the coaching staff is if somebody's not good enough,
Speaker 1: they don't keep playing him. You know, they realize, hey,
Speaker 1: they're throwing everything they can at this cornerback spot and hoping.
Speaker 1: You know, Xavier Rhodes has the length, he has, the toughness,
Speaker 1: he has, the veteran intellect that they need. He just
Speaker 1: can't run as well as he once did. And so
Speaker 1: if you play on guts and guile and toughness and
Speaker 1: everything else, that's what you're gonna probably get from Xavier
Speaker 1: Woods in this game. Rhodes. Excuse me, Yeah, So let
Speaker 1: me ask you this, if if what he has his size, physicality. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and what we saw in that last game of Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: which is they're gonna try to challenge your corners on
Speaker 1: the perimeter with the run game and their ability to tackle.
Speaker 1: Does he then become an asset to you if they're
Speaker 1: doing if they if that is the game play and
Speaker 1: they're trying to employ, has he become an asset? I
Speaker 1: feel like that they're better. I feel like that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are better now playing perimeter defense. Just because the
Speaker 1: corners are different. It doesn't help you covering. You know,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown could retreat, Digs can retreat, you know, in
Speaker 1: a playoff game. I just love to see Diggs just
Speaker 1: like you know what, I'm not going to retreat. I
Speaker 1: saw what happened to me last time we play these guys.
Speaker 1: I need to play with force. I need to play forward.
Speaker 1: I need to make that ball go back inside to
Speaker 1: vander Esh and those guys, you know are Wilson. I
Speaker 1: need to make this ball, you know. I need to,
Speaker 1: you know, make sure that my force doesn't give them
Speaker 1: reason to capture the corner. I think this team plays
Speaker 1: better perimeter defense because you've got guys that are willing
Speaker 1: to do that. Bland's willing to do that. Right is
Speaker 1: willing to do it. Right doesn't always cover, but right
Speaker 1: will at least step up, you know, And that's all
Speaker 1: you need. You don't need somebody retreating at the point.
Speaker 1: They're going to challenge Digs in this game because what
Speaker 1: they figure out is if they can run the ball
Speaker 1: at Diggs and get him war down, having to deal
Speaker 1: with that, he's not going to be able to cover
Speaker 1: as well. It's just like it's like past It's like
Speaker 1: when you run the ball successfully on offense, it wears
Speaker 1: pass rushers down. Look at Michael Parsons, you know, he
Speaker 1: gets war down and he has to continue to deal
Speaker 1: with that kind of stuff. So, yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a challenge. But I hope that Digs remembers what happened
Speaker 1: in week one and then makes that decision to come
Speaker 1: and try and help. Let's take our first break when
Speaker 1: we come back. I ask some questions for you guys
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Speaker 1: All right, let's let's get into some matchup questions and
Speaker 1: some game type questions. Here's my first question for you guys.
Speaker 1: Which is more important for the Cowboys to fix. They've
Speaker 1: been having some issues with both of these things. If
Speaker 1: they're gonna win against Tampa Bay run defense or rushing offense.
Speaker 1: I need him to run the ball. I need him
Speaker 1: to run the ball. I need to find ways to
Speaker 1: I need to find ways to keep drives going. I
Speaker 1: need to find a way to stay ahead of the chains.
Speaker 1: Quarterback plays so much better when they're playing ahead of
Speaker 1: the chains. Offensive coordinator gets in some rhythm. You know,
Speaker 1: Tampa is not a great running team. They're gonna try,
Speaker 1: and they probably feel like they can. They have confidence
Speaker 1: that they can. I kind of feel like you're a
Speaker 1: little bit better prepared for that to play the run
Speaker 1: defense with vandershback Hankins. They didn't see Hankins the first
Speaker 1: time around, and they're dealing with some issues at center
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay with Jensen. They don't know if Jensen's going
Speaker 1: to play in this game, and they're other guys are
Speaker 1: nicked up too as well, So I would kind of
Speaker 1: kind of keep an eye on that. But I feel
Speaker 1: like if you let me, if you let me run
Speaker 1: the football, my offense is going to be able to
Speaker 1: move the ball and score points. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: comes down to, you know, who do you want on
Speaker 1: third and nine? I mean, what makes you feel better
Speaker 1: Dak completing the third to nine or tom Brady completing
Speaker 1: a third of nine, And I think it would be
Speaker 1: tom Brady. So to me, if you stop their run,
Speaker 1: you still got to deal with them, which yeah, you
Speaker 1: can rush the passer on them, but you still got
Speaker 1: to deal with him as opposed to if you're in
Speaker 1: third and nine situations. I don't like that. I don't
Speaker 1: like the way they play defense to try to disguise
Speaker 1: things for Dak. I think a have to run the football.
Speaker 1: I think that I agree with Brian running ball. Well,
Speaker 1: were you asking defensively? I'm saying both, Like what's more
Speaker 1: important for the Cowboys to fix their rushing offense so
Speaker 1: they run the ball better, or for them to fix
Speaker 1: the rush defense they can stop Tampa Bay from running
Speaker 1: the ball. I would say stop Tampa Bay more than
Speaker 1: the running the run defense. I would like them to
Speaker 1: be able to rush the passer a lot better. Get
Speaker 1: back to pressuring the passer, because even though they've been
Speaker 1: struggling with stopping the run all year long, I feel
Speaker 1: that they were a lot more successful when they did
Speaker 1: find a way to get to the quarterback and I
Speaker 1: kind of slowly started fading away and they started dropping
Speaker 1: down on both things, like now you don't have a
Speaker 1: line that's rushing the pass or and now you don't
Speaker 1: have a line that's being able to stop the run either.
Speaker 1: So if they're able to just kind of get back
Speaker 1: into pressuring the quarterback Micah parton being the problem for
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, I think that automatically, quote unquote, they should
Speaker 1: play a better game defensively and therefore also help your
Speaker 1: offense to get back hopefully to what they can be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you flip the question and told me would you
Speaker 1: rather have pass rush or run offense, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: pass rush because to me, I don't think Campa can
Speaker 1: run the ball there passing game there first in the
Speaker 1: league in attempts, their first in the league in yards.
Speaker 1: You know that's they don't score points. If I could,
Speaker 1: if you told me, I could get after them and
Speaker 1: affect the game one way, give me my pass rush,
Speaker 1: because if Tampa's not gonna run the ball, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: need to stop them throwing the ball. But no, no, no,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I was just gonna say, but I think
Speaker 1: this is a chicken and egg kind of thing. I
Speaker 1: actually think their ability to rush the passer starts with
Speaker 1: can you stop the run? Yeah? And I think that
Speaker 1: what we saw earlier, the team throws the ball, they
Speaker 1: abandon the run. Yeah, But I get My point is
Speaker 1: people they don't even try. My point is, though, in
Speaker 1: games where the Cowboys have lost this year, and specifically
Speaker 1: games where they typically it goes hand in hand, when
Speaker 1: they haven't able to stop the run, then what ends
Speaker 1: up happening is because they can't stop the run, they
Speaker 1: kind of get worn down, they get a little frustrated,
Speaker 1: and then their pass rush slows down, and then they're
Speaker 1: not getting the pass rush. To me, if you can
Speaker 1: stop the run and they talk about it all the time,
Speaker 1: you earn the right to rush the pastor earning the
Speaker 1: right to rush the pastor is about stopping the run.
Speaker 1: Once you stop the run and you make the other
Speaker 1: team one dimensional, now you have a chance to just
Speaker 1: let loose and go get the quarterback there comfortable earlier
Speaker 1: this year because I mean every time after every show
Speaker 1: we would say, if one thing that the defense needs
Speaker 1: to fix is the run, stopping the run, So what's
Speaker 1: the difference? My thing is, I think as the season
Speaker 1: warre on, teams started realizing if you just don't abandon
Speaker 1: your run, like if you just stick with your run,
Speaker 1: this team will give up yards in the running game.
Speaker 1: And what we started to see is as a season
Speaker 1: went on, more teams started saying, you know what, even
Speaker 1: though we're down, we're not gonna get away from the run.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep running the ball. And I think that's
Speaker 1: how the Green Bay game played out, Like they just
Speaker 1: kept running, They kept running, and they didn't get out
Speaker 1: of it. They were like, we might be down, we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep running the ball, and they got right back
Speaker 1: in the game. And so I think what happened this
Speaker 1: team's realize this team is more concerned with getting after
Speaker 1: the passer. And if you stick to the run and
Speaker 1: you keep pounding at them, eventual it's gonna hit and
Speaker 1: eventual it's gonna work, right, And I think if they
Speaker 1: want to be able to be good rushing the passer,
Speaker 1: it starts with can you stop the run and force
Speaker 1: a team to get so frustrated to where they then
Speaker 1: start feeling like they gotta throw? And then you got
Speaker 1: just feel like by doing that, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you kind of get neither. You're still having
Speaker 1: them run on you, like run the ball on you,
Speaker 1: but then also not getting to the quarter but not
Speaker 1: if you stop the run. That's the point. If you're
Speaker 1: dedicated to stopping the run, then as the game wears on,
Speaker 1: the hope is. The hope is as you as you
Speaker 1: stop the run, eventually they get away from it and
Speaker 1: then they become one dimensionally. And when you know that
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing, I'll put this team up against
Speaker 1: any team going to get the quarterback. Well, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the thing about this team though in Tampa. They give
Speaker 1: up on the run. They give up, so you're immediately
Speaker 1: from the word go they're one dimensional. So yeah, you
Speaker 1: know if you if you told me getting after, if
Speaker 1: you said, hey, get after the passer. Yes, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: watched enough game. We've all watched this quarterback play Super Bowls,
Speaker 1: things like that. When he has grass stains on that
Speaker 1: jersey of his, it's usually a bad day for them
Speaker 1: because the more you hit him, the more it affects him.
Speaker 1: It's forty five years old. Just keep hitting him, you know,
Speaker 1: that's the idea in this game. Brian, Earlier this week
Speaker 1: you said you were going to steal a question and
Speaker 1: from Derek and use it on the radio. Did you
Speaker 1: do that? I did? Okay, So I don't mind stealing
Speaker 1: something that was presented to me today. Did you hear
Speaker 1: on the L five three? Really really good question? And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I used it yesterday
Speaker 1: in our show. Okay, they stole it from y'all. I
Speaker 1: think they did. That's fine scenario. And they asked McCarthy
Speaker 1: this too, which he didn't play along of course not
Speaker 1: you know, but you're up six and Brady has the
Speaker 1: ball at the twenty yard line and their own their
Speaker 1: own twenty gotta go eighty yards to win the game,
Speaker 1: but three minutes to go four minutes to go, or
Speaker 1: you're down six, you've got the ball at the twenty
Speaker 1: yard line and Dat they got the ball and they
Speaker 1: got to go go win the game. Which scenario do
Speaker 1: you like the best? It's gotta be Dat has the
Speaker 1: ball because you give you give three minutes to Brady.
Speaker 1: I've seen Brady do it a minute and a half. Okay,
Speaker 1: you give him three minutes that week one game, minute seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I ain't trust that. Like you're one of the best
Speaker 1: in the league. You talk about giving them ball at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. Now, the only thing that
Speaker 1: that I do like about that, let's say it is
Speaker 1: four minutes. The way I look at that is maybe
Speaker 1: scores in a minute and a a half and Dad gets
Speaker 1: the goal, right, Maybe that works. Maybe that works. I
Speaker 1: don't know. He's not, but you know, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't love the idea. I was just telling you
Speaker 1: guys upstairs, I don't love the idea of a close game.
Speaker 1: If it's a close I don't feel like I don't
Speaker 1: feel confident in the fact that most any team in
Speaker 1: the NFL, if you're playing a close game against Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: good luck with that. I just don't I don't I'm
Speaker 1: never gonna bet against that because I've seen too many
Speaker 1: times when that twenty eight to three lead ain't safe.
Speaker 1: Like I don't. I just don't trust that, you know, No,
Speaker 1: I took I took defense though giving the league you did,
Speaker 1: just give me the lead. Yeah, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: like it. I said it. That's what I said. Like
Speaker 1: there are no fingernails. You know, you'll you'll, you will
Speaker 1: be nervous as hell. But the one thing he might
Speaker 1: be confident is when the game turns into that. We've
Speaker 1: seen Dad huh, move the ball, move the ball, move
Speaker 1: the ball, and now we've also seen interceptions and stuff
Speaker 1: before the half and things like that. But I would
Speaker 1: be comfortable with Dac playing in that type of a
Speaker 1: setting where it's like, I got to move the ball.
Speaker 1: I don't have time to think. I just keep throwing
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, and it works out the other guy.
Speaker 1: You just know when you're on that sideline and it's
Speaker 1: all right, well, you know field goal is good and
Speaker 1: you know the score, and then you're like, okay, he's
Speaker 1: got a minute forty one time out and all he
Speaker 1: needs a field goal and you see that look on
Speaker 1: his face. They always show him on the sideline that
Speaker 1: look on his face like, oh yeah, I got him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's like, remember the first time, the two years ago,
Speaker 1: what did he do? He kept throwing the ball out
Speaker 1: of bounce on purpose, just to keep eating the clock up.
Speaker 1: Do you had nothing left? That's the kind of that's
Speaker 1: how he manipulates things. That's that's the problem you have
Speaker 1: when you play him and Rogers and guys like that.
Speaker 1: They're thinking, wait, Manning that fifty one to forty eight
Speaker 1: game that hadn't down. These these quarterbacks are thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna milk this clay. And he just kept throwing
Speaker 1: it out of bounce, you know, just to get time
Speaker 1: off the clock. And then all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: just now you're kicking a field goal and you're going
Speaker 1: home unhappy. Yeah, it's it's hard to play these guys,
Speaker 1: even if as old as that guy is, because they
Speaker 1: got playmakers on the outside, and they could throw the
Speaker 1: ball to Fournette on the screen or white and go,
Speaker 1: you know, first play they get the ball, they throw
Speaker 1: the screen to Fournette for eighteen yards and you're like,
Speaker 1: you know, now you're you know, it's just tough. I'm
Speaker 1: with you, Derek on this one. I think I give
Speaker 1: me Dak. I'm taking Dak every time. I don't want
Speaker 1: nobody wants. He's forty five years old and we're acting like,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's to play defense. I'm just saying, I
Speaker 1: trust my best player and that's what it is. And
Speaker 1: I don't have You're not stopping the run. You're not
Speaker 1: going from stop against Philadelphia, not gonna go on a sweep.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna you know, it's not gonna It's gonna
Speaker 1: be Digs covering their best guy, Micah Parsons rushing. And
Speaker 1: I'll just take my chances. I mean, and if they score,
Speaker 1: I'll take my chances. They missed the extra point. I
Speaker 1: don't Xavier Rhodes is playing the game of his life.
Speaker 1: It's going to be Joseph Joseph. I don't know how
Speaker 1: he plays. Yeah, you think, yeah, I mean, we'll see
Speaker 1: Rhodes got to be active for somebody. Let me throw
Speaker 1: this question at you, guys, Typically successful playoff teams, we'll
Speaker 1: do something a little different in the playoffs. You'll see
Speaker 1: something different about them. What's more likely to happen this weekend?
Speaker 1: Turpin is used on offense Gallup has used more downfield
Speaker 1: on some big plays, or t t Y has a
Speaker 1: phenomenal game, has the game of his life, and they
Speaker 1: use him a ton. What's more likely to happen? Why? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think any any play that they had for Turpin,
Speaker 1: I mean after the ball hit him in the face,
Speaker 1: like they're like, yeah, it's got that one. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But even then, Like, has there been a successful play
Speaker 1: where Turpin has been on offense? Yeah? Couple, couple. I
Speaker 1: mean the option play they ran against tamp in Week
Speaker 1: one where Dad got a first down. He faked the
Speaker 1: option running it moved White the linebacker, and he went
Speaker 1: up inside for a first down. That was a team
Speaker 1: in the average for rush. Yeah, five point six. That's
Speaker 1: it with two? Are you very serious? Yeah? Five point six?
Speaker 1: At least a team he gets the corner on those Jets.
Speaker 1: I mean, Ballard's like five three. I mean it's really good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm saying I would have thought there were some other
Speaker 1: guys like I would think CD, for example, he's had
Speaker 1: those runs where he's you know, so I would think
Speaker 1: his average would be a little bit high. I think
Speaker 1: I think, Okay, I'm gonna say some different here. We've
Speaker 1: We've thrown a lot of dirt on Gallup. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of dirt. I'm saying they're gonna go vertical game
Speaker 1: with him. I think you're gonna this is gonna be
Speaker 1: one of those games where you're gonna finally see a
Speaker 1: smile inside that helmet, you know, with the ball going
Speaker 1: down the field and him catching the ball. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna use turpin. If they use turpin, it
Speaker 1: will be in some kind of we haven't seen the
Speaker 1: fake anything yet or the throwback, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bones has got something that's gonna Television games like this,
Speaker 1: the coordinators always have something they're gonna gallop. This is
Speaker 1: the time for Michael Gallup to bear ry everything that
Speaker 1: everybody said negatively about him this year in this game.
Speaker 1: That's if they If they're gonna do something, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a downfield shot couple of them on the second.
Speaker 1: Do you expect um that if beyondat starts, do you
Speaker 1: expect McGovern to be the left guard? Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1: I expect everybody to go back to their spots. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Lets I just need that right tackle to say, well
Speaker 1: you are applying something, but um Tyler Smith said in
Speaker 1: the locker room yesterday that he doesn't know where he's
Speaker 1: gonna play, and I don't know if he's just being
Speaker 1: coy as a rookie. I don't know if he's doing that.
Speaker 1: But he's like, I'm not sure if I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: playing guard or tackle? Is that because they don't know
Speaker 1: about Beyandnat yet, Like they don't know for sure if
Speaker 1: he's gonna be playing Maybe? I mean, I just I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what the what the setup
Speaker 1: is going to because I look at it like this,
Speaker 1: the fact that he was full yesterday, full practice, I
Speaker 1: would say that they're probably and just talking to folks,
Speaker 1: they're getting him read. If Tyler stays a guard, that
Speaker 1: means that Peters is still at left tackle that I
Speaker 1: don't know how that could be the scenario that they
Speaker 1: think is the best option for this offensive now. Probably not.
Speaker 1: I just I'm just not sure what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: And and when you say different packages, it makes me think,
Speaker 1: what if what if there's something for McGovern as a
Speaker 1: as a lead blocker? You know, what if something like that,
Speaker 1: if you if you get in a situation where you
Speaker 1: where you're trying to get short yardage goal line, maybe
Speaker 1: that happens, but I think on other plays he should
Speaker 1: be in their guard. I think it should be honest
Speaker 1: in McGovern and McGovern has played a lot against the
Speaker 1: Bucks because even last year when so he's played some
Speaker 1: and I don't think you're gonna have that that, you know,
Speaker 1: scared to do anything in the middle. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: gotta be they've got to be able to move the
Speaker 1: ball some way in the middle. You know. Let me
Speaker 1: throw this one other question. It's kind of on the
Speaker 1: same vein as the as the last question. But before
Speaker 1: we go to break um we somebody mentioned a little
Speaker 1: earlier in show that you just need that one player,
Speaker 1: you need that one game. From from this vet, they
Speaker 1: got a lot of guys like that that a little
Speaker 1: long in the tooth, and if you're gonna need a game,
Speaker 1: this might be the game. Which one is more likely
Speaker 1: to have that kind of game of these guys Tyrn Smith,
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton, Xavier Rhodes, or Anthony Barr. I would
Speaker 1: put Anthony Barr fourth on that list, unless the ball's
Speaker 1: going right at him. Yeah, I would say that probably
Speaker 1: from what I've seen so far from Tyrn Smith, I
Speaker 1: would probably put him second on that list. Xavier Rhodes third,
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton first. I like that. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: jumped around all over the place. We got you, said,
Speaker 1: t Y tyrn Um, Xavier and Anthony Barr. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think the thing with Anthony Barr that I
Speaker 1: having vander Eshbach really helps Clark in my opinion, because
Speaker 1: Clark needs Clark needs him telling him be ready for this,
Speaker 1: be ready, this is that run play over here, could
Speaker 1: be ready, be ready, and you know you need that.
Speaker 1: We saw it last week the first touchdown the Commanders have.
Speaker 1: If vanders just there, he is not going to let
Speaker 1: Terry McLaren run across the field untouched Clark did vand
Speaker 1: Rush is going to step up and smash across or
Speaker 1: on that play. That play is not going to happen
Speaker 1: with him standing there. You know who who I think
Speaker 1: is another X factor. I don't know how about how
Speaker 1: old he is, but he's a veteran. Is Brian Anger's
Speaker 1: got to do well. I'm glad you said that. He's
Speaker 1: got to do a good job because yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: not just him Overton, Let's not. Let's be clear about
Speaker 1: this one. Yeah, miss extra point was on him him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the block, punt, the block, but also when he's dropped
Speaker 1: the snap, yeah, I mean, should have caught it, but
Speaker 1: it was why I mean, he's having to move. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, that's when your eyes start coming off the
Speaker 1: ball because if they are rushing from the right and
Speaker 1: from his right side. Now he's kind of thinking about
Speaker 1: that because now you're you're kicking right into the teeth
Speaker 1: of it. So the balls need to be where it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: be so Overton, but really Anger, if you can pin
Speaker 1: him back and play some field position with them, and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady could drive ninety nine. I'm sure he can,
Speaker 1: but put some pressure on him having a stand in
Speaker 1: the end zone. It's a little bit different. You check
Speaker 1: down a lot quicker, you can get off the field.
Speaker 1: Anger and the special teams. I think it's gonna be big.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see it where Dallas can find ways
Speaker 1: to make them have to run the football or try
Speaker 1: to run. I mean, make them make them prove to
Speaker 1: you that that you know they haven't run it all year.
Speaker 1: They ran it on you in Week one, but since
Speaker 1: then it's been you know, White has been better than
Speaker 1: Fournette when you watch, but I mean that's to me,
Speaker 1: if you pin them back at least they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to use some place to try and maybe create some
Speaker 1: distance there. I think Hankins is the bit you asked
Speaker 1: it the other day. Which guy coming back to me?
Speaker 1: It's Hankins more than be Oddish, that's close but in
Speaker 1: vander But I like. I think Hankins. I think that's
Speaker 1: a that's an element we haven't seen against the Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: and I think that it'll be it'll be a little
Speaker 1: bit different there within there they're banged up at center two.
Speaker 1: I mean, let that big man eat inside with vander
Speaker 1: Esh behind him. We're going to take our final break.
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Speaker 1: Playoffs Welcome Back, final segment of The Break Life from
Speaker 1: the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. I let
Speaker 1: off with this as we were heading into the break.
Speaker 1: It is a question that I think has been asked
Speaker 1: around every show, national and local this week, and Chuck
Speaker 1: Negren asks it on Twitter. Have you guys lost faith
Speaker 1: in dec I haven't lost faith, but there's a side
Speaker 1: of me that when I kind of looked at the
Speaker 1: coaches would be a value in twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 1: then you would evaluate Dak in twenty twenty three, and
Speaker 1: then by twenty twenty four you needed to figure out
Speaker 1: if you needed to use a draft pick on a
Speaker 1: quarterback or where you were you're going to extend this guy.
Speaker 1: The thing that bothers me the most is just the
Speaker 1: it's just it's the decision making that it's it's not
Speaker 1: the it's not the trying. It's or not the you know,
Speaker 1: it's not the it's just sometimes you make those throws
Speaker 1: and you're like, you, as a quarterback, you can't, you
Speaker 1: just can't. So I lost faith in his decision making.
Speaker 1: That's where I've Sometimes the decisions are brilliant and you're
Speaker 1: you're just like, Wow, what a great play, and other
Speaker 1: times you're like, you can't throw that ball. You can't
Speaker 1: throw that ball, and I don't think you. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you could get that out of him. I
Speaker 1: really really don't, because he's always I've said this before,
Speaker 1: he's always going to live to He's always going to
Speaker 1: live to fight to keep the play going. You know,
Speaker 1: that's his belief. That's the way he's playing. That's way
Speaker 1: he leads his life. You know, he's never told he
Speaker 1: could pass. He you know, his college coaches they didn't
Speaker 1: think he practiced well. He didn't throw the ball well.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's developed along the way, but what he
Speaker 1: hasn't developed is the decision making. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the thing that I've lost faith in. I haven't like
Speaker 1: lost more faith in him. I mean I've you know,
Speaker 1: I've always been somewhat critical of him at times, but
Speaker 1: as just standing in the pocket and throwing it's not
Speaker 1: his thing. It's not his game. He gets confused with
Speaker 1: coverages and stuff like that. He's got to go be
Speaker 1: a football player that plays quarterback, not a quarterback playing football.
Speaker 1: If he's a football player and he's running around and
Speaker 1: he does a little goomb every now in a game,
Speaker 1: they get off me. Go make some plays. That guy
Speaker 1: has got to win the game. That guy that's flipping
Speaker 1: over Seattle to go get to get those extra yards
Speaker 1: to win his playoff game. That's the guy be fearless
Speaker 1: and go out there and play. I don't I don't have.
Speaker 1: I have lost faith in that. They've got to put
Speaker 1: him in the right situations. But I think he can
Speaker 1: go win games in the playoffs. I believe that still. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so too. He can. He can win games
Speaker 1: for you. Again, he just does. He does need the
Speaker 1: supporting cast, he does need the old line to be working,
Speaker 1: he does need the running game to be working. He
Speaker 1: does need those receivers that can catch passes. So it's
Speaker 1: it's a tough one because where were you rating dak
Speaker 1: to begin win with. And it's one of those like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it is what it is is. You can't keep thinking
Speaker 1: that he's going to become that Aaron Rodgers, that Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: that Mahomes. He is what it is. And if that's
Speaker 1: the quarterback you decide to have, then you gotta make
Speaker 1: sure you give him the support that he needs. You
Speaker 1: gotta make sure you position him in the right position,
Speaker 1: like call the right place for him, try to cater
Speaker 1: to him. Have the tight ends working for him because
Speaker 1: he seems to be really, really good with the tight ends.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's just a tough one. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I do think that he
Speaker 1: can be the type of quarterback that can win games
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, the fact that we're all kind of
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Nick was far more positive than
Speaker 1: I know I was about it. But the thing about it,
Speaker 1: we're all struggling with that right now, we're all struggling
Speaker 1: with you know, you want to believe, you want to
Speaker 1: believe there's so much to love. Yeah, from him, there's
Speaker 1: no question, but there's I don't want this to be
Speaker 1: one of those games where it ends up and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the turnovers of the factor in
Speaker 1: the game and he has to stand up there and Nick,
Speaker 1: for the eighth straight week, ask him the turnovers? Can you, Dak,
Speaker 1: can you address what happened with you know? And then
Speaker 1: he has to know I've got to be better. I've
Speaker 1: got to be better, you know, and we're all we're
Speaker 1: all kind of like we're losing faith on I gotta
Speaker 1: be better. You know. That's where I I amber's right.
Speaker 1: You want to just love the player because of where
Speaker 1: his background and what he's where he's come from, and
Speaker 1: what he's overcome and all that. You want to want
Speaker 1: to love the player, and the reason why you're in
Speaker 1: the playoffs back to back is because the guy. You know,
Speaker 1: if if if he had half the interceptions, if he
Speaker 1: had half, we'd be talking about what a great year
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott had. You know, if if you believe in
Speaker 1: analytics and numbers and all that, the numbers will overwhelm you.
Speaker 1: But the one number that really overwhelms you or the turnovers,
Speaker 1: you know, and a lot of that has to do
Speaker 1: with there's just there's balls that bounce off people the
Speaker 1: volleyball players we have sometimes, but there's a lot of
Speaker 1: it has decisions, you know. I mean that throw against
Speaker 1: the Commanders last week on the outside was one of
Speaker 1: the worst throws. You can't make that throw, and that's
Speaker 1: that's the that's the thing that we all struggle with.
Speaker 1: I think watching him play that one more question for you,
Speaker 1: OK ahead, I was gonna say, I also think there's
Speaker 1: some blame to be put on like Kellen Moore and
Speaker 1: the coaching because and I'm not saying you can't go
Speaker 1: through a whole season, playing like how you were playing
Speaker 1: with Cooper Rush. At some point you gotta be aggressive
Speaker 1: and you got to go for it. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, how comes Again it's a bad comparison, but
Speaker 1: you were playing such a more, more much game, yea
Speaker 1: more cleaner game, being more okay quote unquote conservative, but
Speaker 1: it was kind of working. You were moving the chains
Speaker 1: and doing Again, I just forgot for a moment. A
Speaker 1: lot of it had to be because of the defense
Speaker 1: and what they were doing for you at the same time.
Speaker 1: So that's the only reason I want. But that's to
Speaker 1: your point. You need people around him, not only the
Speaker 1: offensive players, but the defensive players were you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you got to have that kind of help. But just
Speaker 1: there's some type of game that you can construct that
Speaker 1: it works better for a guy like Dak that is
Speaker 1: more aggressive than what you got with Cooper Rush, but
Speaker 1: also kind of keep it tighter and cleaner for you.
Speaker 1: All right, one more question before we take our get
Speaker 1: our predictions for the game. Andre Britton says, who outside
Speaker 1: of Dak do you think us to play with the
Speaker 1: as the best version of themselves for the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: be successful this week? Oh? Well, the best version of
Speaker 1: themselves would be Ezekiel Elliott. I mean, if he could
Speaker 1: be the best version of himself, I think that would
Speaker 1: be I would be great. I mean because the best
Speaker 1: version for him, like like ever or like this season. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, if you're gonna get one guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna have that game, give me who is that guy?
Speaker 1: Give me Zeke because not only is he running the
Speaker 1: ball and he's being efficient and he's being physical, but
Speaker 1: he's taken it to their ass. That's what he's doing,
Speaker 1: and he's eating. He's eating every every play, he's going
Speaker 1: looking right at that ship and he's eating and he
Speaker 1: keeps doing that. Yeah, give me that guy. Give me
Speaker 1: hall of fame. Tyrn Smith, you know on that right side,
Speaker 1: because I know that right I know, I know that
Speaker 1: right guard will do his job against Fiedavea the best
Speaker 1: he can't. But he's gonna need seventy seven to slam
Speaker 1: that guy in those that number fifty in the ribs
Speaker 1: a couple of times to get him over to move
Speaker 1: him and then he can go. Give me hall of
Speaker 1: fame seventy seven at right tack. Well, let's take it
Speaker 1: to defense. Give me Michael Parsons and be the best
Speaker 1: version of himself. Last couple of games during the times
Speaker 1: you can see he's kind of off his game, like
Speaker 1: not playing at the intensity that he usually plays in
Speaker 1: and sometimes kind of feeling a little lost at times.
Speaker 1: So typically when you got a game where Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: is just killing it, you tend to win that game.
Speaker 1: Not only that, but I'll say this, and I agree
Speaker 1: with you and Bro I would have said Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: But one thing that we haven't seen as much here
Speaker 1: down the stretch is earlier in the season, there'd be
Speaker 1: times in games when you most need a big defensive
Speaker 1: play and he just showed up. That's what they need
Speaker 1: this week They need if you're gonna get to that
Speaker 1: scenario where it's that final drive and you gotta make
Speaker 1: a stop, I need Michael Parsons to be Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: I mean the Michael Parsons is so disruptive that every play,
Speaker 1: like Tom is as he's getting up off the ground,
Speaker 1: he's slamming the ball, He's looking at his left tackle like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing Smith? Playing over there? They need
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons to be Michael Parsons this weekend. And I
Speaker 1: think if he can do that. I think this is
Speaker 1: a this might be a blowout type game if Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons can be a Michael Parsons that we know under
Speaker 1: the radar players like that. You know, you want everyone
Speaker 1: to play their best game and and the obvious answer
Speaker 1: like when you're back other than that, But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm out a guy like Layton Vanderesh, Yeah, we've seen
Speaker 1: his best game. Ye his best games would have been
Speaker 1: you know, three or four years ago. But he can
Speaker 1: come back and play to that level. How about Minnesota
Speaker 1: Viking Xavier Rhodes Okay, whenever, you know, whenever he was,
Speaker 1: whatever game did Xavier Rhodes played where? Yeah, exactly, But
Speaker 1: I know I know that one guy's gonna have to play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tell you a story on the locker room about um
Speaker 1: Xavier Rhodes, UM from yesterday. I thought it was interesting. So,
Speaker 1: you know, first first week here, first couple of days,
Speaker 1: he's talking to the media, you know, and had long
Speaker 1: conversation and it was good. And then he kind of
Speaker 1: see that jay Ron Curse. Everyone's gathering around Jayron Curse
Speaker 1: making an announcement that he is the twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: season Good Guy Award and that's that's something given from
Speaker 1: the media to the players. Guys, great interview letter not
Speaker 1: only accessible but gives well thought answers. Is you know,
Speaker 1: accountable um and and not afraid to say some things.
Speaker 1: And so he was getting that award and all that.
Speaker 1: Well here comes Xavier Rhodes who knew him from a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago at Minnesota, and he comes in
Speaker 1: and breaks the whole thing up and he says, wait,
Speaker 1: does he went an award? Yeah, just takes his water
Speaker 1: bottle and just dumps it all on that, all on
Speaker 1: his phone, all on the next guy next to him,
Speaker 1: his clothes and phone and all over Clarence Hill, which
Speaker 1: was funny. And so the way, yeah, he's got the microphone.
Speaker 1: Clarence made the announcement. So he was actually okay but
Speaker 1: for that one, but not on media match or anything
Speaker 1: like that. But it's just funny how he's been here
Speaker 1: like six hours and he already like dumping water on people.
Speaker 1: So whatever I mean, hopefully he's comfortable, he's back to
Speaker 1: his his uh you know, he's feeling good about playing
Speaker 1: and all that. So fun to see him. All right,
Speaker 1: it is time predictions. Let me say real quick and
Speaker 1: use that wait till last. But it's kind of hard, Nick,
Speaker 1: you saw me this morning, you walk in. It's like
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard not to Cowboys. So let's just say, okay,
Speaker 1: my pick Cowboys. I actually think Cowboys win this weekend.
Speaker 1: Now let's get to the other predictions. Nicho, let's start
Speaker 1: with you. Um, I have a hard time to live. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a hard time. I've never seen them win
Speaker 1: a game on the in the road. I've never seen
Speaker 1: beat in playoffs, and I've never seen him beat Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: And I've never seen all these things. And I'm letting
Speaker 1: all of that. I'm letting Quincy Carter's struggles and and
Speaker 1: Romo's struggles and all of them, Wade, Phillips, Garrett, all
Speaker 1: of that affected me here. And that's not really catch them.
Speaker 1: To catch all of these things. Um, it's not their burden.
Speaker 1: What it is is this is a better football team
Speaker 1: than the Bucks have shown this year. They've been better.
Speaker 1: We've seen them play great, we've seen them play bad,
Speaker 1: but we've seen them play great a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Dallas to win this game twenty
Speaker 1: nine to twenty. I'm not making it a one possession game,
Speaker 1: because I don't think that's good for the Cowboys. So
Speaker 1: to win it, they're gonna have to be on them
Speaker 1: all game and hold on for dear life. Hamper, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I've always had this battle of like my
Speaker 1: heart and my logic. My head says, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with my heart. I just even though I can
Speaker 1: see every single possible scenario happening this weekend, I still
Speaker 1: think that they typically come back better after a loss.
Speaker 1: They bounce back and they're focused, and they're gonna go
Speaker 1: out there, and some magic tends to happen at different times.
Speaker 1: When you get into the playoffs. You never you can
Speaker 1: expect the unexpected at time. So I think that they're
Speaker 1: gonna bring it and they're gonna end up winning twenty
Speaker 1: three twenty one. That's what I had in my head.
Speaker 1: A closer game is going to be one of those
Speaker 1: where we're just kind of sweating, but yeah, Dallas wins,
Speaker 1: Amber's gonna get her wish uh. Michael Parsons is going
Speaker 1: to go after Donovan Smith in this game. That's where
Speaker 1: that's where this game can hinge very well. Knocking Brady
Speaker 1: down the grass Stained game, that's all I talk about
Speaker 1: all the time, Dallas twenty seven, Tampa Bay twenty three.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, that is a rap. We will not
Speaker 1: be on the air Monday because a lot of us
Speaker 1: will be in Tampa getting ready for Cowboys versus I'll
Speaker 1: be one, five three. The fans. Absolutely, you can listen
Speaker 1: to seven. Yeah, good show, thank you. Check that that out.
Speaker 1: You also got a pregame show. Sorry, four o'clock. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: four o'clock all right, so you gotta check it out.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Tuesday. Hopefully we will be talking
Speaker 1: about a continuation of the playoffs. That would be very exciting.
Speaker 1: Either way, we will be back on Tuesday. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you what went right and wrong for the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: break it all down for you till and for Nicky.
Speaker 1: Mbrian brought us an Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Ekleton. This
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