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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, October second, twenty twenty, season sixteen, episode
Speaker 1: number thirty six. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: It is the final episode of the week. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get you guys ready for Cowboys versus Browns that happens
Speaker 1: this Sunday at noon at at and T Stadium. And
Speaker 1: very excited for this game because my hope is that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will put it all together against the team
Speaker 1: that Amber feels like is not very good and get
Speaker 1: a win here that we could all be proud of.
Speaker 1: Welcome to show, everybody. Let's start first start with an
Speaker 1: injury update, Dave. Why don't you give me an update
Speaker 1: from the coaches press conference A day on Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: and Marcus Larns's what's their outlook for this weekend? They're
Speaker 1: playing that's the outlook, they're playing. Honestly, Mike McCarthy hasn't
Speaker 1: always been super forthcoming with injury stuff, so I was
Speaker 1: very surprised. I mean, he did kind of couch it that,
Speaker 1: you know, they'll see make sure there's no setbacks between
Speaker 1: now and Sunday morning. But he basically was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think both of those guys are going to play.
Speaker 1: They're on track, and that's a good thing for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: This weekend, you're heading into a game against one of
Speaker 1: the premier pass rushers in the league. How much does
Speaker 1: this help them? Amber a lot? I mean, I would
Speaker 1: hope that the Tyrant is able to really play this day.
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's another one of those scenarios where
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, he'll go out there at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the game, I mean, prior of the game starting,
Speaker 1: just to see how his body is feeling. If that's
Speaker 1: gonna end up being a game day decision. But obviously,
Speaker 1: anytime you get a guy back like Tyrant, that is
Speaker 1: going to be something positive for your old line. Just
Speaker 1: in general. All right, we're gonna jump into some game previews,
Speaker 1: and Nick, I'm gonna start with you this first question
Speaker 1: that we have, and I got a list of questions
Speaker 1: here that's gonna help break down this upcoming matchup Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Browns. But let's start with you, Nick. The first question.
Speaker 1: McCarthy said, earlier in this morning, he had a call
Speaker 1: with our radio, our sister, our partner the fan here
Speaker 1: locally one on five dot three the Fan, and he
Speaker 1: said that they were purposefully aggressive on special teams to
Speaker 1: start the season, but he wouldn't really divulge details as
Speaker 1: to why he was pressed on and he said that's
Speaker 1: not something he'd want to necessarily divulge. I thought it
Speaker 1: was an interesting comment because I never really heard a
Speaker 1: coach talk about doing certain things at certain points in
Speaker 1: the year, specifically to prepare them for other parts of
Speaker 1: the year. What would you think would be the reason
Speaker 1: why the Cowboys might want to be especially aggressive on
Speaker 1: special teams to start to see them. Well, there's different reasons.
Speaker 1: I'll pick one. I think that what this team and
Speaker 1: this franchise needed was a culture change. Everyone knew that,
Speaker 1: saw that felt that, and this is one of the
Speaker 1: things to do that is to come in here and
Speaker 1: show that you're going to change it up. You know, Now,
Speaker 1: this whole year has been a culture change just because
Speaker 1: of things out of our control. But I think as
Speaker 1: far as the football goes, I think Mike McCarthy wanted
Speaker 1: to come in and prove that they're going to do
Speaker 1: things differently. They're going to be more aggressive, they're going
Speaker 1: to take more chances, and I think that one of
Speaker 1: the ways to do that is to do some things
Speaker 1: shake it up to the way that you've never had. Now,
Speaker 1: there's other reasons for it, but I think that was
Speaker 1: one of them as well. Amber, What do you think
Speaker 1: what do you think is the reason why the Cowboys
Speaker 1: may have been especially aggressive on special teams to start
Speaker 1: the season. I would as him, you always want to
Speaker 1: get put different things on tape just to keep opposing
Speaker 1: teams from kind of guessing what you're going to do.
Speaker 1: The only thing when I think about that is that
Speaker 1: you want when you do that, you want to be
Speaker 1: successful on making those plays actually happen. And that hasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily been the case for the Cowboys special teams group,
Speaker 1: where they have been making mistakes and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: how much does that really scare the opposing team? I mean,
Speaker 1: do they see that as an advantage of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: special teams are susceptible to making mistakes, so we're just
Speaker 1: gonna prepare to attack them this way. So that's all
Speaker 1: I can think of of wanting to put things on
Speaker 1: tape to keep your posing guessing. But I just I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it really working for the Cowboys so far. Dave,
Speaker 1: what do you think and do you think it's it's
Speaker 1: helped at all? Whatever that that strategy may have been,
Speaker 1: or whatever you think of that strategy. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's helped because it hasn't worked, but I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think Nick and Ag laid it out
Speaker 1: pretty well for me. I think it's it's probably just
Speaker 1: all about tendencies, showing future opponents what you're willing to
Speaker 1: do and influencing the way that they play you. Which yeah,
Speaker 1: like Amber said, like the irony is that it hasn't
Speaker 1: really worked. But if you've got teams second guessing the
Speaker 1: way you're going to handle things on special teams, I
Speaker 1: would imagine it can work as an advantage as the
Speaker 1: season goes along, even not you know, not necessarily when
Speaker 1: you want to do something crazy, but changes the way
Speaker 1: that they cover you for standard stuff. So that's that's
Speaker 1: the best that I have. Hopefully it works a little
Speaker 1: bit better as they continue to do it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think I agree with you guys that it
Speaker 1: definitely could help just putting it on tape. I think
Speaker 1: it could also kind of hinder a little bit because
Speaker 1: I think you get farther into the season, if teams
Speaker 1: kind of have seen some of the things that you're
Speaker 1: willing to do, then they may be a little bit
Speaker 1: more prepared. So you're not going to take anybody by surprise.
Speaker 1: That element is now probably gone to some degree, and
Speaker 1: so I do think that it can It can kind
Speaker 1: of go either way on you there, Let's go to
Speaker 1: the next question. Here's the question the greatest challenge for
Speaker 1: the for the Dallas Dallas controlling Miles Garrett or stopping
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, which is a greater challenge for them. Nick,
Speaker 1: let's start with you. The greater challenge would probably be
Speaker 1: I would say stopping Miles Garrett. That definitely is the
Speaker 1: biggest That's the area that that would hurt this team
Speaker 1: the most if he can't get get him blocked. But
Speaker 1: but I would say, you know, Tyron will help there.
Speaker 1: Even if he doesn't rush against Tyron, I think able
Speaker 1: to give some help to the other side of it,
Speaker 1: and maybe you know, Chip double team, whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: But I think having Tyron on one side certainly would help.
Speaker 1: But I think that would be the biggest key for me, Dave.
Speaker 1: It's chubbed for me because what Miles Garrett does. You
Speaker 1: can't completely control it, but you have a large say
Speaker 1: in how that plays out. You can get the ball
Speaker 1: out of the quarterback's hand quickly, you can run the ball,
Speaker 1: you can misdirect, you can move you know, you can
Speaker 1: roll Dak away from wherever Garrett's rushing from. You can
Speaker 1: do a lot of stuff to negate a pass rush.
Speaker 1: You just got to tackle Chubb and not very many
Speaker 1: people have success, and this Cowboys defense has been susceptible
Speaker 1: to it at times, so that's scarier for me. Honestly, Hamber,
Speaker 1: I would say with Chubb as well, just because, yes,
Speaker 1: MOUs Garrett, he's a very talented guy. But the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have already faced some talented players on on the opposing
Speaker 1: defensive line and they've been able to kind of manage this.
Speaker 1: And yes, it's gonna be a problem, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I can't get over the fact
Speaker 1: of previous years, and I know every year it's a
Speaker 1: new team, and especially now with the new coaching staff,
Speaker 1: but I've seen well too often how the running game
Speaker 1: can really hurt the Cowboys, how the opposing team can
Speaker 1: really attack the Cowboys defense using the running backs, running
Speaker 1: backs that aren't necessarily the best a round the league,
Speaker 1: and they've been able to make it happen. So I
Speaker 1: would go with with Chubb for sure. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I agree with AG and UH and Dave on this one.
Speaker 1: I think that when you look at this Cowboys have
Speaker 1: been able to figure out ways to to get their
Speaker 1: quarterback time to be able to throw the ball. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's been a problem in and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I think they face some pretty good pass rushers, maybe
Speaker 1: not the same edge rusher as they're facing this weekend,
Speaker 1: but I think there's some ways they can neutralize that.
Speaker 1: Stopping the run to me as a bigger challenge for
Speaker 1: this team because I just I know that there are
Speaker 1: games when they just kind of have have these lapses
Speaker 1: where they just can't seem to get it right. It's
Speaker 1: two different questions, though, really, I mean it seemed like
Speaker 1: there y'all were answering it differently. I think I think
Speaker 1: that it's like, is it what's the bigger challenge or
Speaker 1: what is you know, what do we see happening? Actually,
Speaker 1: I mean do we see them? I mean does this
Speaker 1: team built to stop the run? Because I think I mean,
Speaker 1: if you have a pass rusher that that that that
Speaker 1: you can't block, that's that's the biggest thing. Now the
Speaker 1: question is are they gonna Are they going to block them?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna tackle Nick Chubb? I mean, I think
Speaker 1: there's two different things. But I think I think go
Speaker 1: into a game, you can you can definitely wreck you know,
Speaker 1: a defensive end can definitely wreck the game. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you will, but I mean that to answer
Speaker 1: your question, I mean, I still think it's it's Miles Garrett,
Speaker 1: and I hear what you're saying. I guess the way
Speaker 1: I look at it is again, I think the challenge
Speaker 1: here is how do you how do you negate either
Speaker 1: one of them or how do you neutralize one of them?
Speaker 1: And I think the it's a bigger challenge to me
Speaker 1: to stop Chub than it is necessarily to stop Garret,
Speaker 1: because I think there's some things you can do to
Speaker 1: kind of neutralize Carrett a bit a bit more than
Speaker 1: maybe the running game. Let's roll to the next question,
Speaker 1: who has a better set of offensive weapons? We heard
Speaker 1: Bucky earlier this week say that this may be the
Speaker 1: best set of offensive weapons as the Cowboys that faced
Speaker 1: all season, and I think they face some pretty good
Speaker 1: offensive weapons. But who has better offensive weapons? You got Chubb, Hunt, Beckham,
Speaker 1: Landry on one side, you got Elliott, Cooper, Gallop and
Speaker 1: Lamb on the other. I purposefully did not include the
Speaker 1: quarterback because I think that slants it way too much.
Speaker 1: But looking at the skill position, who has the better
Speaker 1: offensive weapons? Let's start first with you Amber. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the Cowboys. Yeah, those other guys are pretty talented.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, and I know you said
Speaker 1: you purposely left the quarterback out, but I have to
Speaker 1: lean on the quarterback. I think that Dak Prescott is
Speaker 1: currently a better quarterback. He's the one that starts with
Speaker 1: the ball in his hand and hands it off to
Speaker 1: one of those guys. So I think that that just overall,
Speaker 1: including Dak Prescott in there, I would definitely just pick
Speaker 1: the Cowboys within that group, Dave, you didn't even mention
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, did you did not, and you could throw
Speaker 1: him in there if you want to. That's that's honestly
Speaker 1: really tough. I don't I mean, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's a wrong answer. I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have three great receivers. The Browns really have two. But
Speaker 1: the Browns have a much much better tight end. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Browns have two legitimately really good running backs. We
Speaker 1: don't know if Kareem Hunt's gonna play in this game,
Speaker 1: but you would you would say their backfield is deep
Speaker 1: at least, if not better. Um, that's really tough. I'd
Speaker 1: probably say the Cowboys because they have the extra receiver. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I you know, uh that that's hard. I'd say
Speaker 1: Cowboys because it's a Cowboys show. But like, I don't
Speaker 1: think Browns is a wrong answer. So you're staying over
Speaker 1: there on Brown's break right now, they're like the Browns
Speaker 1: all the way on Brown's break, They're like, are you kidding?
Speaker 1: Like who they're playing at tight end? Who's you know?
Speaker 1: Like get out of here? Yeah all right, Nick, you
Speaker 1: got well, I mean you do have to factor in
Speaker 1: the quarterback, like she said, because he makes those guys better,
Speaker 1: you know. And um, so I'm looking at it like
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes gets to pick which team he wants to
Speaker 1: play on. You know, if that would happen. God, I
Speaker 1: hope that's not tampering. But I'm just talking about the
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the league having the options I would
Speaker 1: I would say Cleveland, Okay, why because I think that
Speaker 1: I think Baker Mayfield doesn't help those guys enough. I've
Speaker 1: seen Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham really you know, play
Speaker 1: at a very high level and when they don't have
Speaker 1: the quarterback helping them. And the same with the Marii Cooper.
Speaker 1: I think Mark Cooper was struggling too before he got
Speaker 1: into a better offense. I think the two backs are
Speaker 1: way better in Cleveland. I don't say yeah, they are,
Speaker 1: yeah better. Well, Hunt is better than Tony Pollard, and
Speaker 1: I think is that because he's had more opportunity than
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard has. I mean, obviously he was a starter
Speaker 1: in Kansas City before. So I think I think I
Speaker 1: think those two give you give the check mark to
Speaker 1: running backs there because of the two. The tight end
Speaker 1: gets it and then the receiver. He would go to
Speaker 1: Dallas because of what Dave said the third receiver. But
Speaker 1: I just think it's so close. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a tough one. But I would say Cleveland,
Speaker 1: I guess, all right, you would probably say O'Dell is
Speaker 1: the best of the five right now. Probably maybe I'm biased.
Speaker 1: I mean, I obviously I'm of us say definitely your bias.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll say this Odell what he was doing
Speaker 1: early in his career in New York. Yes, you would
Speaker 1: say that I have not seen that Odell since he's
Speaker 1: been in Cleveland. Now, part of that is what Nick's
Speaker 1: talking about. I don't think he has the trigger man
Speaker 1: to get him the ball in those places where he
Speaker 1: can make those great catches and show us that all
Speaker 1: the time. But again, you can only go about what
Speaker 1: you see. I haven't seen that O'Dell since he's been
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. I don't I don't put I don't think
Speaker 1: his production has been a top ten, top fifteen receiver
Speaker 1: since he's been in Cleveland. And I do think Amari
Speaker 1: is that type. Yeah, that's a good one. That they're
Speaker 1: very close, very very close. All right, let's go on
Speaker 1: to the next question. If Dallas does one thing better
Speaker 1: in week three than they did in week I'm sorry
Speaker 1: in week four, then they did in week three? What
Speaker 1: would be to have the biggest impact and how likely
Speaker 1: is it to happen. Let's start first with you, Dave.
Speaker 1: This is basic, Like, this isn't even analysis, just whin
Speaker 1: the fricking turnover battle. And if this team can stay
Speaker 1: neutral or win the turnover battle, they're gonna win like
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen games. The problem is that they've been
Speaker 1: very careless with the ball the last two weeks. And
Speaker 1: you know it's early, but it doesn't look like this
Speaker 1: is a this is a defense that's gonna finish with
Speaker 1: more than fifteen to eighteen takeaways, Like unless something crazy happens,
Speaker 1: that's we just haven't seen that. So it's going to
Speaker 1: take the offense playing much cleaner football to even stay neutral,
Speaker 1: let alone win. But if they can do it, if
Speaker 1: they if they're either neutral or positive and turnovers, they're
Speaker 1: gonna win so many more games than they lose. And
Speaker 1: that just hasn't been the case so far. Amber That's
Speaker 1: exactly what I would say as well. I'm not even
Speaker 1: asking the Cowboys defense to get the ball. I'm not
Speaker 1: even asking them to get some turnovers for their offense.
Speaker 1: I'm not given up on the Cowboys offense to All
Speaker 1: I'm asking is for the Cowboys offense to hang onto
Speaker 1: the ball and quit making the mistakes that they've been
Speaker 1: making so far. It is it has cost them, and
Speaker 1: it's very important, and I don't expect to see veterans
Speaker 1: like dak or Zeke just let the ball loose on
Speaker 1: little things that shouldn't be happening it. And the thing
Speaker 1: that concerns me is how often we've seen it, Like
Speaker 1: I thought, oh that was that one game. Okay, next week,
Speaker 1: you'll get better, but it's still kind of carrying over
Speaker 1: a week by week where they make little mistakes like
Speaker 1: that that at one point it needs to stop. So
Speaker 1: hopefully that point is this weekend. Nick Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: what do they gotta do better? I mean, stop the
Speaker 1: deep ball, obviously, but also you know, it was a
Speaker 1: seven point game, but a lot of these games are
Speaker 1: going to be even closer than that. They gotta they
Speaker 1: gotta make their extra points. I mean, they gotta kicking games,
Speaker 1: gotta be short up. I mean, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on there, but I mean having blocks and missing
Speaker 1: extra points and drop it the kickoff. I mean, these
Speaker 1: are routine plays that like I said last week, these
Speaker 1: are routine plays that we will see tonight on Friday night,
Speaker 1: you know, high school football, and so you see it
Speaker 1: on Saturday, definitely have to see it on Sunday. And
Speaker 1: that's that's just inexcusable. Yeah, you know, I'll throw this
Speaker 1: one out there. I think really what we're seeing that
Speaker 1: the story for me this season is can the Cowboys finish?
Speaker 1: Because in all three games they were in position and
Speaker 1: in one of the games they were able to make
Speaker 1: the play that needed to be made in order to
Speaker 1: win the game, and the other two they weren't. And
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the storyline all season. When
Speaker 1: you have a defense like they have that's not really
Speaker 1: going to get a lot of stops, and probably in
Speaker 1: critical moments when you're playing good teams, they're probably not
Speaker 1: going to get that stop. It's gonna be up to
Speaker 1: Dak and the offense to be able to figure out
Speaker 1: a way to be able to move the ball down
Speaker 1: the field and either tie or win, right, And I
Speaker 1: think that's going to be the storyline. If they can
Speaker 1: do it, and if they can be successful in it,
Speaker 1: they'll get way more wins and losses. If they can't,
Speaker 1: then I think that's going to be a challenge for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know one of the things that they I guess
Speaker 1: you could say they had to lead against the Falcons
Speaker 1: in the second half because they kicked it at the game,
Speaker 1: you know, as the time was out. But they've only
Speaker 1: led by one point. They they've only led by one
Speaker 1: in all three games they have. They have led in
Speaker 1: the second half, but only by a point. And they've
Speaker 1: never led by more than one point. I think it
Speaker 1: was fourteen thirteen and Rams, and of course it's to
Speaker 1: forty thirty nine and then thirty one thirty for just
Speaker 1: a second against Seattle, But that that goes to show
Speaker 1: that they're not playing. I mean, just think how better
Speaker 1: the offense could be and the defense would be if
Speaker 1: you could have more than just a one point lead.
Speaker 1: So I think I think getting out to a fast
Speaker 1: start is really critical here. Yeah, and against against teams
Speaker 1: that are not as good. Maybe they can manage to
Speaker 1: do that. Against good especially good good offenses, I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in situations where they're just teams are
Speaker 1: gonna match them. If they go out to score, then
Speaker 1: that team are gonna come right back and score, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in these close games and they're ultimately
Speaker 1: gonna have to fancy. Think about Atlanta and Seattle. They
Speaker 1: they're not built to hang on to leads like that
Speaker 1: because they you know, they like to throw it around.
Speaker 1: So Atlanta, that's not comfortable trying to run out the clock.
Speaker 1: They want to really throw it around. But Cleveland gets
Speaker 1: up by ten or fifteen points, they'll they'll be just
Speaker 1: fine because that's the way they want to Actually gonna
Speaker 1: get to be a problem for the Cowboys because they
Speaker 1: can run the ball, and they can run it well. Right,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna take our first break when we
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Speaker 1: before the Break, I let you guys know we're gonna
Speaker 1: The question I'm gonna ask you coming out of the
Speaker 1: break is if the Cowboys lose, the primary reason will
Speaker 1: be blank. I'm gonna start first with Amber. If the
Speaker 1: Cowboys lose, the primary reason I think will be because
Speaker 1: they weren't able to get out of their own way.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys have actually had a pretty If
Speaker 1: you take out all the mistakes, there would be so
Speaker 1: much better. We've seen when they play good. We've seen
Speaker 1: when they just get the offense moving, regardless of what
Speaker 1: the defense is currently struggling with this offense, I see
Speaker 1: them as having the capability of carrying the team, but
Speaker 1: right now they just can't get out of their own way.
Speaker 1: If they clean up the game, if they if they
Speaker 1: stop getting penalties, which have again cost them a lot
Speaker 1: this year so far, I think they can win the game.
Speaker 1: But if that's not the case, then we'll end up
Speaker 1: seeing another loss. That's actually a great point, and because
Speaker 1: I think all season, like if you go back and
Speaker 1: look at all these games, there's just this whole litany
Speaker 1: of mistakes that they've made throughout the games, and and
Speaker 1: some the one time in Atlanta they were able to
Speaker 1: overcome them. The other two games they were not. Nick
Speaker 1: what your answer, Yeah, I think if they don't, if
Speaker 1: they have to kick field goals, I think that they'll
Speaker 1: win in this game if they get down and bog
Speaker 1: down in the red zone, get penalties or even turnovers,
Speaker 1: and settle for three points, which isn't always three points,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean you have to kind of wonder
Speaker 1: about the operation of everything right now on the special team.
Speaker 1: So but they they've got to cash in and they've
Speaker 1: got to get touchdowns. We know that these games are
Speaker 1: going to be high scoring, so I've ever really seen
Speaker 1: a lot of high scoring games with field goals. So
Speaker 1: you've got to score touchdown. So I think that just
Speaker 1: like she said, I mean, you can't have those mistakes
Speaker 1: when you're trying to go score touchdown, Dave. If they
Speaker 1: if they lose, I assume it's because the defense can't
Speaker 1: hold up. It's into the bargain. And when I say that,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not asking I'm not asking them to
Speaker 1: hold anybody to ten points. But you know what we've
Speaker 1: seen in the last two weeks is it's rough. I mean,
Speaker 1: thirty nine points, thirty eight points, busting coverages. You know,
Speaker 1: you think about what Odell could do or if if
Speaker 1: Chubb just absolutely gashes them and they can't do anything
Speaker 1: about it. Because I have absolute confidence that the offense
Speaker 1: can score twenty seven, twenty eight thirty points, like I
Speaker 1: just do even with you know, even with Miles Garrett
Speaker 1: and all that. Like, I believe in the offense. So
Speaker 1: I just need the defense to force a field goal
Speaker 1: or two, or hey, get a takeaway. That would be great.
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of optimism that they will,
Speaker 1: but that would be wonderful. So I just need a
Speaker 1: little extra, just a little bit more from the defense,
Speaker 1: make that one extra stop that lets you win the
Speaker 1: game twenty eight to twenty four instead of losing thirty
Speaker 1: one to twenty eight. All Right, we're gonna start a
Speaker 1: new segment today, and I want to preface this by saying,
Speaker 1: we actually got into this conversation yesterday with Bucky Nick.
Speaker 1: You asked him about it, and he explained what it is.
Speaker 1: Where's Waldo. It's kind of this scouting term of looking
Speaker 1: for the guy that is the most the point of
Speaker 1: greatest vulnerability for the opponent. So what I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna do is we're gonna wait, why do you look
Speaker 1: like that? It's just just because you're so diplomatic the
Speaker 1: way you say it. I mean most people just be like,
Speaker 1: who sucks? I mean, like I don't want to say it, like, no,
Speaker 1: that's great, that's rude. I'm not rude. Director. So here's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. You're gonna play the game. You're
Speaker 1: gonna play the game where we single out the weakness
Speaker 1: on the team. But you don't want to be rude
Speaker 1: about Yes, I don't want to be rude about it.
Speaker 1: There's a better way to say it. You can say
Speaker 1: it nicely. As my wife always says, a shout out there,
Speaker 1: it's a birthday. But as my wife always says, like,
Speaker 1: there's a nice way to say everything. Well, right, just
Speaker 1: a good way to say everything. It's It's funny when
Speaker 1: what I talked about Baker Mayfield and he said he
Speaker 1: was overdrafted. That's like when they say at the bar,
Speaker 1: I think you've been overserved. No, you're drunk. That's what
Speaker 1: it is. You suck. That's what. Okay? All right, So
Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. We're playing, Well, where's Waldo.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the team and the side of
Speaker 1: the ball, and you're gonna tell me who's Waldo? All right?
Speaker 1: So actually let's start with the Browns. Brown's offense, Nick,
Speaker 1: who's Waldo? And by the way, it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be a person. It could be a position groups so
Speaker 1: you could say secondary or whatever. This could be famous
Speaker 1: last words, but I mean, it's the quarterback. It's that guy.
Speaker 1: I just I don't like him. I mean, he I
Speaker 1: respect what he's done, but I don't I don't talk
Speaker 1: about personal. No, it's not personal with him. I never
Speaker 1: met the guy. I mean, I'm sure you know if
Speaker 1: he was huh, you don't like A and M, you
Speaker 1: don't like Oklahoma. So I think it probably what is
Speaker 1: it tech? Baker Mayfield tech? And then yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean yeah whatever. But but let's guys move around a lot.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, the same thing that that everybody
Speaker 1: other than OU fans hated about him, it is probably
Speaker 1: the reason why he was good and why he got it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just plays with that and his players,
Speaker 1: you know, gravitate toward him. But I just don't think
Speaker 1: that he has the arm talent to just kind of
Speaker 1: lead them down the field to make all the throws.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's that mobile to do that. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're yeah, I'm sure they have a left guard or center.
Speaker 1: That's probably a weak link. But I think that he's
Speaker 1: you gotta make him beat you, and yeah, because they
Speaker 1: have a lot of those those weapons. He gotta put
Speaker 1: it the ball in his hands to say, hey, this
Speaker 1: guy's gonna beat this. And he hasn't just proven that
Speaker 1: he can go and do that. So I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say here, I don't like calling him Waldo, but
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think I think he's the one
Speaker 1: that he's not. You know, he's not gonna lead him
Speaker 1: Amber Brown's offense. Where's Waldo? I was gonna pick the
Speaker 1: quarterback as well, just because, like I mentioned earlier, that
Speaker 1: is that is who gets the ball in their hands first,
Speaker 1: Like the ball doesn't get to Odell without getting to
Speaker 1: him first. So I think if the Cowboys defense manages
Speaker 1: to make him uncomfortable throughout the game, creates some pressure,
Speaker 1: just get hit. I don't see him as a type
Speaker 1: of quarterback who is able to keep that poise all
Speaker 1: through throughout the game, stay focused, manage to get out
Speaker 1: of the pocket, and be precise with his throat. So
Speaker 1: I think that's just the easiest point of attack for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys this week. Just make him uncomfortable, and then
Speaker 1: dad just trickles down to everything else, just simplifying things
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys secondary and just so on. I mean,
Speaker 1: it seems pretty obvious like, yeah, attacked the quarterback, but
Speaker 1: I think that he has the biggest effect if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys really do pressure him throughout the game. Helman, I
Speaker 1: want to be very clear, he's definitely not a bad player.
Speaker 1: But Jedrick Wills is a rookie starting his fourth career game.
Speaker 1: He's a top ten pick at left tackle. Like, he's
Speaker 1: a good player and he probably will be for a
Speaker 1: long time to paraphrase Jason Garrett, but he's still a rookie.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys have the NFL sack leader and two
Speaker 1: Pro bowlers, and they should be able to make this
Speaker 1: guy's life uncomfortable. That that should be a benefit for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. If they can't, then what the hell's going on?
Speaker 1: And the beauty of it is. I think Baker Mayfield's
Speaker 1: biggest problem is he's just not one hundred percent comfortable
Speaker 1: in the pocket. He gets happy feet, he likes to
Speaker 1: bail out of there. So you don't even have to
Speaker 1: get sacks. Just make him uncomfortable, make him have to move,
Speaker 1: and you should be able to have success doing that
Speaker 1: against the guys starting his fourth career game. You would
Speaker 1: like to think, at least, all right, Dave, we're gonna
Speaker 1: double back. Give us the where's Waldo? On the Browns defense.
Speaker 1: I would like to think it's the cornerbacks. You know,
Speaker 1: our buddy Terrence Mitchell's out there are the old Cowboys
Speaker 1: draft pick who loves to hold people. Denzel Ward. I
Speaker 1: think he upgraded his status so it looks like he's
Speaker 1: gonna play, but he's dealing with He's dealing with an injury.
Speaker 1: So you know your your first round picks dealing with
Speaker 1: an injury. You don't have a lot else there. By
Speaker 1: the way, that's the strength of the Cowboys entire rosters receivers.
Speaker 1: So if you can protect Dak, I gotta believe there's
Speaker 1: gonna be open receivers all over the field. Amber where's
Speaker 1: Waldo on the Browns defense? Just a secondary in general,
Speaker 1: just because I mean, we we've talked about the kind
Speaker 1: of pressure that they can have on your offense and
Speaker 1: just stopping or trying to stop the running game. So
Speaker 1: I think that that there's gonna be a pretty good
Speaker 1: battle there. But where the Cowboys can take advantage is
Speaker 1: using Dak's mobility, getting out and just throwing the ball
Speaker 1: to the receivers. That in my opinion, I mean, they've
Speaker 1: played pretty well just in general, so I think that
Speaker 1: that's the weakest length just because of how good I
Speaker 1: see the Cowboys receiver group being Yeah, it's Mitchell for me.
Speaker 1: He h. We was here and he was he was
Speaker 1: a feisty player and he still is, I'm sure and
Speaker 1: he you know, he's very aggressive. But but you know,
Speaker 1: they drafted Ward number one because they needed help there,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if he's lived up to those expectations.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, I mean I think he's He's been pretty good,
Speaker 1: but you know, he's still a young ownerback as well.
Speaker 1: But Mitchell on the other side, I think that's where
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to attack. All Right, We're gonna take
Speaker 1: our final break. We'll come back and we'll find Waldo
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Speaker 1: it is the final segment of the Break. We a
Speaker 1: lie from the SWBC Mortgage studios. At the start, we're
Speaker 1: playing our new segment called Where's Waldo. We talked about
Speaker 1: the Browns and their points of vulnerability. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys side. Let's talk about the Cowboys offense. Amber
Speaker 1: Where's Waldo? On the Cowboys offense? It has to be
Speaker 1: someone on the O line just depends on what combination
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do up going with this weekend. I don't
Speaker 1: know how they're gonna decide to make their little combos here,
Speaker 1: but it all depends on what happens with Tyran Smith,
Speaker 1: if he plays or not. But I think your weakest
Speaker 1: link would be someone on the on the old line. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna and the game for you,
Speaker 1: but out of the whole offense, it just just someone
Speaker 1: on the old line, one of those end positions, their
Speaker 1: tackle or if they shovel things. I just don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, is they gonna be Connor Williams there playing
Speaker 1: the way that he's been playing, So just the old
Speaker 1: line in a session there, Nick, I mean, I'm one
Speaker 1: hundred percent confident that this is gonna be. I know,
Speaker 1: I know whoever I pick, I will probably get to
Speaker 1: the chance to talk to this. So the game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: after the game, they don't see this segment, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, think about what Dave just said. The left
Speaker 1: tackle wells, I think Cleveland. I mean, top ten pick,
Speaker 1: fourth fourth start, you gotta go after him, right, Well,
Speaker 1: what does that say about Terrence Steele on the right side,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean Terren Steele as gritty as he
Speaker 1: might be, and he's surpassing expectations. Yeah, I mean Miles
Speaker 1: Garrett's gonna go after him, not so much Tyrann Smith,
Speaker 1: I would think, so I would say the right tackle,
Speaker 1: and I think the right tackle will be Terrence Steele, Dave.
Speaker 1: I think that's the right answer, and I'll just flop
Speaker 1: it for the sake of being interesting, I guess. But
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot you can do about the
Speaker 1: tackle situation. I mean, you're gonna have to play steel
Speaker 1: or night. I guess. You know, you can kick Zach
Speaker 1: out there in an emergency, but you're down to these
Speaker 1: last options because of the injuries that you're facing. Whereas
Speaker 1: I am curious about the interior. It hasn't been an
Speaker 1: amazing start for either Connor Williams or Joe Looney, and
Speaker 1: there is stuff you can do about that. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't seem to want to, but Connor McGovern's still
Speaker 1: there and Tyler Biottish played very well, I thought, in
Speaker 1: his debut the other day, So I don't I don't
Speaker 1: anticipate them doing that coming into this game. But maybe
Speaker 1: if those guys continue to struggle, there's stuff you can
Speaker 1: do there, and so I've got a really close eye
Speaker 1: on what they look like this weekend. You mentioned Connor McGovern.
Speaker 1: Coach McCarthy actual talked about him this morning on the
Speaker 1: on the College. You hear what he said, and then
Speaker 1: what were your thoughts on that. He said he's still
Speaker 1: a developmental player, and I, you know, I think I
Speaker 1: think the coaching staff just leans toward the experience in
Speaker 1: both of those regards. Obviously, Connor's in his third year
Speaker 1: as a starter and Joe has been in the league
Speaker 1: for almost a decade at this point. And that was
Speaker 1: kind of my thought process heading into training camp, is
Speaker 1: that the guys that have been there and done that
Speaker 1: are going to have the leg up over somebody that
Speaker 1: doesn't have any NFL snaps. It is curious though, I mean,
Speaker 1: Tyler Biattas has gotten in and has looked good doing
Speaker 1: so they haven't done the same with Connor McGovern. I
Speaker 1: wonder what level that they would have to struggle out
Speaker 1: before they would be willing to look at that. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't give you a lot of optimism that they
Speaker 1: feel that Connor McGovern can do that for him, right now,
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's go to Cowboys defense. Where's Waldoll
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys defenseample, let's start with you, Takendary. Just
Speaker 1: based on last week's game, I mean, some of the
Speaker 1: separations that you saw between a receiver and a guy
Speaker 1: on the secondary, that's just ridiculous and it cannot happen
Speaker 1: again this week, especially when you're playing a guy like
Speaker 1: Odell where he's so skilled. So I think that there
Speaker 1: are many different points that you can point out in
Speaker 1: the defense as a whole. But I would just say
Speaker 1: the secondary, Dave. Again, I think that's the right answer,
Speaker 1: But I'll switch it up and just say between Nick
Speaker 1: Job and Austin Hooper, I bet that Cleveland Browns are
Speaker 1: gonna challenge Jalen Smith a lot this weekend, and and
Speaker 1: he's gonna need to rise to that occasion. He's, you know,
Speaker 1: he's kind of on an island. Joe Thomas has played well,
Speaker 1: But when I say he's on an island, I just
Speaker 1: mean Leyton's not out there. Sean Lee's not ready either.
Speaker 1: He's supposed to be the best player in your linebacker corps.
Speaker 1: Us He's had moments. He I mean, he played better
Speaker 1: after Week one I thought, but he's also he's had,
Speaker 1: he's gotten exposed a few times. The play that Tyler
Speaker 1: Higbee made on him in week one is still burned
Speaker 1: into my brain. That's why I brought up Austin Hooper.
Speaker 1: So between dealing with the tight end and making sure
Speaker 1: the running backs are on the ground, I think the
Speaker 1: Browns are gonna try to challenge Jalen Smith and see
Speaker 1: if he's up to it. I agree with you on
Speaker 1: that one, Dave. Sorry, Nick, I would say the answer
Speaker 1: for me would be Diggs thinking about Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: I think he's a good player. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be. But I the game is called
Speaker 1: where's Walden? Like who do we attack here? And that's
Speaker 1: who teams are attacking when it comes to the I
Speaker 1: mean they are going after him. Um, he is getting
Speaker 1: close to interceptions. He's got the ball in his hands
Speaker 1: every time every game. He's not picking it off, but
Speaker 1: he will, he will, He'll get there. Um that might
Speaker 1: even be my gut feeling this week because that he
Speaker 1: finally gets an interception. But I'm just saying that's where
Speaker 1: the attack point is and they're gonna keep doing that
Speaker 1: until he proves them and he will. He's gonna he
Speaker 1: reminds me of uh maybe like a Geners Jenkins type player,
Speaker 1: where he's aggressive, he's gonna get an interception, he's gonna
Speaker 1: give up some plays as well. All right, before we
Speaker 1: get to our predictions, we're gonna do a little. I know,
Speaker 1: I think I have no idea. Nick, Let's start with you.
Speaker 1: What do you know? I know they're gonna go after
Speaker 1: Treyvon Diggs. Now, I know that I know that that
Speaker 1: the the secondary will be better this week, the Cowboys secondary,
Speaker 1: because it can't get worse. I mean it can't. I mean,
Speaker 1: he really can't. Well, no, you can't get worse because
Speaker 1: they're playing, in your opinion, a lesser quarterbacks. That quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think I think that they will. They will, I know,
Speaker 1: Sorry I say I think I know that the secondary
Speaker 1: will play much better this week. All right, Dave. I
Speaker 1: know that the Cowboys have the better quarterback in this game,
Speaker 1: and if they can protect him, then I think that
Speaker 1: they'll win it. I don't pretty simple, amber, h. I'm
Speaker 1: having a hard time trying to say what I think
Speaker 1: I know because I don't want to hear you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna challenge you on this is that. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: have a great answer. I'm just gonna say, I know
Speaker 1: that Aldona Smith is gonna be your best player on defense.
Speaker 1: I think that that one I can see I can
Speaker 1: say more confidently. Okay, let me challenge you on that
Speaker 1: with that. I'm just playing. I'm just playing, all right.
Speaker 1: Here's what I know. I know the best offensive line
Speaker 1: group that this team could put on the field right
Speaker 1: now would include Zack Martin at right tackle. That's what
Speaker 1: I know, all right. I think Nick, start with I
Speaker 1: think I I think that Seedee Lamb is gonna be
Speaker 1: the best receiver on the field in this game. I
Speaker 1: think I think he is going to have his breakout game. Um,
Speaker 1: I just I just feel like it's kind of a
Speaker 1: rotation thing. And it happened and it was Gallops turn,
Speaker 1: and now it'll it'll be It'll be CD. I'm seeing
Speaker 1: it down the center of the field, foamy. Maybe not
Speaker 1: eighty yards, but like I can see from the slot area,
Speaker 1: I see some big plays for Ceedee Lamb. I think
Speaker 1: he scores his first touchdown, he'll be the best receiver
Speaker 1: on the field. Dave, what do you think both sides?
Speaker 1: I think that if the Cowboys are actually a good team.
Speaker 1: They should win this game. Um, there's no shade and
Speaker 1: losing on the road to want of you know, either
Speaker 1: the best or second best quarterback in the league. I mean,
Speaker 1: Russ is out of his mind. The Rams look like
Speaker 1: a playoff contender. The Falcons, you know, they played the
Speaker 1: worst first quarter in Cowboy history. Like it all kind
Speaker 1: of it makes sense. But this Browns team is just
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys, like they're talented without a lot to
Speaker 1: show for it. They got their doors blown off by
Speaker 1: the only good team they've played this year. Um, I
Speaker 1: already said I think they have the better quarterback and
Speaker 1: if they can't find a way to win this game,
Speaker 1: then they're probably just not all that good. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to readjust my expectations for what the season's going
Speaker 1: to be like. All right, Amber, what do you think
Speaker 1: that's fair? By the way, before see that's that's it's
Speaker 1: a very good statement. That's what it needs to be.
Speaker 1: A cow bite right there, cow bite Thomas Thomas hit it.
Speaker 1: I think, I really do think this is a game
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys who will be able to find a
Speaker 1: really good balance between the running game and the passing game.
Speaker 1: I know it's going to be a challenge to get
Speaker 1: you know, the running game going, because of the kind
Speaker 1: of defense that Cleveland has. But for some reason, I
Speaker 1: do think that the Cowboys will be able just to
Speaker 1: to play around with trying to figure out the balance
Speaker 1: and not really exhaust one option versus the other. All right,
Speaker 1: And what I think is a Brandon Knight and Terence Still,
Speaker 1: whichever is on the right side, will be outmatched by
Speaker 1: a Miles Garrett, which will lead to some significant problems
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys offense. And at some point in this game,
Speaker 1: I think Zack Martin ends up being the guy that
Speaker 1: they slide out there in order to protect and give
Speaker 1: them a better opportunity to be able to complete some
Speaker 1: of their passes. All right, so let's get to the
Speaker 1: final part. I have no idea Nick, we start with you.
Speaker 1: I just have no idea what to expect from special teams.
Speaker 1: I think that their coach is good, he's been there
Speaker 1: for a long time. But but you know, veteran special
Speaker 1: teams coaches doesn't That doesn't always mean that you have success.
Speaker 1: And so right now, it's just one thing after another,
Speaker 1: and it's never the same thing. It's just something, And
Speaker 1: so I just don't know if you can count on
Speaker 1: the special teams. I just have no idea what to
Speaker 1: expect from them, Dave. I hope Nick was right with
Speaker 1: what he knows, because I have no idea if we're
Speaker 1: gonna see a better effort from the secondary in this game.
Speaker 1: You know, hopefully they really buckled down on the details,
Speaker 1: because Odell Beckham and Jarvis Landry are They're twitchy guys,
Speaker 1: like they're such good route runners. You know, Dk Metcalf
Speaker 1: like he's just fast. Odell Beckham and Jarvis Landry can
Speaker 1: create separation on their own with the way that they play,
Speaker 1: and it scares me to think, you know what kind
Speaker 1: of breakdowns might be in store while these guys wait
Speaker 1: for some of their cornerbacks to come back. That's that's
Speaker 1: the bit I said it earlier in the week. That's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me is is can the secondary
Speaker 1: improve on what we've seen in the last two weeks?
Speaker 1: All right, Amber, I would say I have no idea
Speaker 1: how well the Cowboys defensive line and linebackers will be
Speaker 1: able to play in this game. Like one, can they
Speaker 1: put enough pressure? Can they get to the quarterback enough?
Speaker 1: And two can they actually stop the run? Can they
Speaker 1: We've seen the success that Cleveland has had with the
Speaker 1: running backs, and I quite frankly don't don't fully trust
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense to fully be able to dominate that
Speaker 1: area of the game. All right, And what I have
Speaker 1: no idea about is if this team is any good
Speaker 1: or if they're just having a having to find a
Speaker 1: way with their news game and not having as much
Speaker 1: prep time. I want to see against a team that
Speaker 1: is at best comparable to them, at worse lesser than them.
Speaker 1: I want to see if they can just come out
Speaker 1: and be more balanced in their run and their passing attack,
Speaker 1: in their run and their passing defense. I want to
Speaker 1: see if what we've seen so far this year has
Speaker 1: been just them trying to find their way, and we've
Speaker 1: seen some good things and we've seen some bad things.
Speaker 1: Can they level that out now against an equal or
Speaker 1: lesser opponent. That'll tell me a lot about how good
Speaker 1: this team really is or is not. All right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and real quick get our predictions before
Speaker 1: we end the show. We're gonna start first with you, Dave.
Speaker 1: What happens is Sunday? I sort of said it. I
Speaker 1: just you know, if they're actually good. They should find
Speaker 1: a way to win. You know, dealing with Myles Garrett,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. I get that. You know, the
Speaker 1: Browns are a very good team. I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: they're bad. But you've got enough talent and you've got
Speaker 1: enough things working in your favor that you should be
Speaker 1: able to win. I think the passing game is gonna
Speaker 1: be wide open for Dak if he can stay on
Speaker 1: his feet. And like I said, I think Dak's the
Speaker 1: better quarterback. I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I trust Dak to outplay Baker Mayfield. I got Cowboys
Speaker 1: thirty eight twenty seven. But it's not It's not gonna
Speaker 1: be comfortable. It's gonna be one of those situations where
Speaker 1: you know the Cowboys are up by two or three
Speaker 1: and they score a touchdown late to kind of ice it.
Speaker 1: You know it'll be close way for the vast majority
Speaker 1: of the game, but you know they put it away
Speaker 1: to go up by two scores in the final two
Speaker 1: or three minutes. Camber, what happens this Sunday? Oh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be easy, piec. The Cowboys got this in the pocket. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. It never goes that way. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: can never just give you a peaceful game. But regardless
Speaker 1: of all the talent and based on the games that
Speaker 1: we've seen so far, I just don't fully I'm not
Speaker 1: fully convinced of the Browns just yet, not that I'm
Speaker 1: fully convinced about the Cowboys either, But I do see
Speaker 1: the Cowboys just being able to get a win in
Speaker 1: this one. I see them being the most dominant team.
Speaker 1: I think that they might be able to turn things
Speaker 1: around a little bit on defense. So without being said,
Speaker 1: I do think the Cowboys win as long as they
Speaker 1: don't make freaking mistakes. Stop dropping the ball, stop giving
Speaker 1: giving the ball away, and don't freaking get penalties. Stop
Speaker 1: that boys win. I would say, like twenty eight twenty four,
Speaker 1: something like that, Nick Europe, twenty eight twenty three. It
Speaker 1: was put on the I said on the radio this morning,
Speaker 1: so that that was the score, So that that's that's
Speaker 1: not I'm not copying anybody square. I just think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will make mistakes. They're gonna keep making them. It'll
Speaker 1: be They'll be good enough though, to win. They've got
Speaker 1: the better quarterback, and they've got they've got some playmakers
Speaker 1: that that will help them be the team that they
Speaker 1: should beat. All right, I actually think the opposite of
Speaker 1: that nick. From the standpoint, I actually think this will
Speaker 1: be a much cleaner game for the Cowboys. I think
Speaker 1: they will start to round things out a little bit,
Speaker 1: and they'll start to settle in and you'll see a
Speaker 1: lot better brand of football from the Cowboys here in
Speaker 1: Week four. I actually think it'll be a lot less
Speaker 1: of a close game than we than we've seen over
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. I think the Cowboys win. I
Speaker 1: think they win thirty one twenty. I think there'll be
Speaker 1: some moments when their defense will go some plays just
Speaker 1: because their defense is not great. We know that, but
Speaker 1: I do think overall, I don't think Cleveland and We'll
Speaker 1: be able to keep up with the Cowboys. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will just outpace them. I think they'll get
Speaker 1: out to a faster start, and I think they will
Speaker 1: finally get an opportunity to see this pass rush in
Speaker 1: situations where they have a lead and they can kind
Speaker 1: of pin their errors back. I do think I expect
Speaker 1: in that kind of situation, Cowboys are going to have
Speaker 1: four or five sacks in this game. Because I think
Speaker 1: they'll have some opportunities to really get after the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and I think they'll make the most of it, all right,
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