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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number ninety seven. Welcome
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Today we get you ready for Cowboys Versus Titans.
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Speaker 1: check out Cowboys versus Titan. So today we get you ready.
Speaker 1: Let's start first with an injury update. Uh, looking at
Speaker 1: the injury report, nothing really surprising except for one thing.
Speaker 1: Tony Pollitt pops up there with a thigh injury. Did
Speaker 1: not practice yesterday. What do we know? I don't then
Speaker 1: keep an eye keep an eye on that one. That one,
Speaker 1: that one's it. I know the I know the general
Speaker 1: manager came on one oh five three the fan this morning.
Speaker 1: It kind of gave him a clean bill of health.
Speaker 1: And then but the more you really dig into that,
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that one, that that's a short
Speaker 1: week getting ready to go, it's it's an injury that
Speaker 1: they need to monitor. So uh, don't don't be so
Speaker 1: sure about that one as we speak right now. I
Speaker 1: just I had asked the GPR staff yesterday in the
Speaker 1: morning if Tony Pollard has been on the injury report
Speaker 1: all year, and this is before that even happened. I
Speaker 1: was just like, here's a you know, running back that's
Speaker 1: under size, that that it gets the ball a lot,
Speaker 1: and you know, that was the big question mark about him,
Speaker 1: and he's gone through a whole season, he's getting close
Speaker 1: to a thousand yards um and he you know, made
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl and all that, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's even been on the injury report, especially at
Speaker 1: the end of the week, like to have a status,
Speaker 1: and then here he is. I like, just like that,
Speaker 1: thanks Nake. I hope he gets his thousand yards. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you will if he doesn't play far
Speaker 1: away thirty one yards, Oh well, I think it's less
Speaker 1: than that now. I think he's in the twenties and
Speaker 1: I and he needed thirty one. He needed thirty one
Speaker 1: and he got eighteen. So yeah, and then you're in
Speaker 1: a situation where the worst game he played this year
Speaker 1: was against the Commanders. They had like eight yards, like
Speaker 1: eight carries for nine yards. If the Eagles, he's almost there.
Speaker 1: I got my graphic ready, So well you're graphics ready.
Speaker 1: So he's to get there. You better adjust some numbers,
Speaker 1: doesn't Yeah, seven it was a career year for Tony Poll.
Speaker 1: I mean, if the Eagles win this week against the
Speaker 1: Saints and then they lock at you know, the division,
Speaker 1: and so you go into Washington and you don't need
Speaker 1: any thing. I mean, there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that don't play. Let me ask you this, how
Speaker 1: realistic do you guys think it is that Dallas still
Speaker 1: gets you know, see East title? How realistic is that?
Speaker 1: I the chances, the chances improved after your game, and
Speaker 1: the only reason to improved because they have to figure
Speaker 1: out and know what they're gonna do for Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: being out that is a problem for them. And so
Speaker 1: now you have a quarterback who's dealing with, you know,
Speaker 1: a joint problem in a shoulder that's just throwing and
Speaker 1: it's just throwing arm. And so there's there's like I've
Speaker 1: learned this about this the AC joint you can inject.
Speaker 1: There's another joint, the SC joint, that I've learned that
Speaker 1: you can't. It's a little bit more of a risky thing.
Speaker 1: So they're kind of dealing with, Okay, which one is it?
Speaker 1: But it's definitely a joint problem. I think if it
Speaker 1: was an AC joint, they would have that. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll see them injected and try and play. But if
Speaker 1: it's the other one, then they're there. That's that's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a different ball game there. But him
Speaker 1: being out, they lost their nickel corner, who's a really,
Speaker 1: really good player. They're trying to get back players, you know,
Speaker 1: so they have to be concerned because they're playing teams
Speaker 1: that are trying to get in. The Saints are trying
Speaker 1: to stay alive, they really are. I mean they have
Speaker 1: to play, they have to go and and you're in
Speaker 1: the Giants at the end of the year. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have there. The Giants are trying to maintain stay
Speaker 1: in the tournament themselves, so you know they're in. They're
Speaker 1: in a kind of a weird situation where they can't
Speaker 1: really say, oh, we're gonna rest guys in this. They
Speaker 1: got to go try and win one game, and once
Speaker 1: they win that one game, then they're they're home free.
Speaker 1: But until they win that one game, I think it's
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, you just keep playing, You keep playing it
Speaker 1: and and hope that maybe somehow, some way this thing
Speaker 1: at the end of the year because of injury, flipped
Speaker 1: your way. Yeah. I just think it's it's just kind
Speaker 1: of ironic. I'm sure the Cowboys would like to to
Speaker 1: be locked in. I mean, they want to win the division.
Speaker 1: But if you're not gonna win it, I mean, you
Speaker 1: gotta keep playing these games. I mean, they would like
Speaker 1: like to go into Washington and not have to play
Speaker 1: for anything. But if the Saints beat the Eagles and
Speaker 1: you you've taken care of business against the Titans, then
Speaker 1: you have to. And they're gonna play them at the
Speaker 1: same time. You know that's gonna be exactly noon or
Speaker 1: probably a three o'clock game on that What a dream
Speaker 1: that is if that happens. You do have no idea
Speaker 1: how many Eagles fans I got my Twitter right now,
Speaker 1: I can for yes, why you engaging them on Monday
Speaker 1: morning or Sunday morning? Would you? No? I haven't entertained
Speaker 1: a lot of them or anything, but for lack of
Speaker 1: better word, but the amount of stupidity that I have
Speaker 1: to read, like the things that are illogical, that they
Speaker 1: make no sense. I'm like, they tend to forget what
Speaker 1: that game looked like when we played them at their
Speaker 1: home back with Cooper Rush. It's ridiculous. It makes me
Speaker 1: so mad. So for their script to start switching like that,
Speaker 1: oh what is slapping the face? That would be it
Speaker 1: would be great. I mean, I mean, you know, Rocky
Speaker 1: was tough, but he wasn't smart, you know, saying I
Speaker 1: mean he was, that's that's what he was. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was tough. You're probably you're probably looking at right now,
Speaker 1: maybe a twenty twenty five percent chance. I would say
Speaker 1: it went from like probably five to you know, twenty five.
Speaker 1: And when once you win the game and then they
Speaker 1: start losing, guys, kind of four things gotta happen. We
Speaker 1: said last week, six things got to happen, and two
Speaker 1: of them happened in the And here's here's the interesting
Speaker 1: thing about it is if they should happen to lose
Speaker 1: He's Final two and Dallas Wendsay's Final two. At first,
Speaker 1: the way you were thinking about it was, oh, it'd
Speaker 1: be nice to get to the A one seed, but
Speaker 1: actually what is more likely is you end up in
Speaker 1: the two seed, which means you don't get to buy
Speaker 1: because right now Minnesota would have a record if they
Speaker 1: went out as well, so you would probably get the
Speaker 1: two seed, which means you play next week, you get
Speaker 1: a home game, but then in week two you play
Speaker 1: the third seed most likely, and that would be San
Speaker 1: Francisco coming back to Dallas. So there's, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: that that look on your face kind of that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. The five seed is not a bad place
Speaker 1: to be. I go play Tampa or Carolina or whoever,
Speaker 1: and then maybe play Philly and trust Minnesota two games,
Speaker 1: you know, the one they might end up in a playoffs. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing about it, I'm my I've exhausted myself understanding
Speaker 1: being in the five hole. Yeah, I've kind of realized
Speaker 1: that's where I'm probably gonna be. I've tried to figure
Speaker 1: out who could beat the teams ahead the teams who cannot,
Speaker 1: because every week in wild Card weekend, there's one game
Speaker 1: or two games where you go. I never saw that.
Speaker 1: I never saw the seventh seed going and knocking somebody off.
Speaker 1: I mean, these teams, but there's a lot of teams
Speaker 1: that are just like I said I said before, just
Speaker 1: spewing oil, trying to get to the just trying to
Speaker 1: get in the tournament right now. And so you know,
Speaker 1: you're do you really trust Minnesota? I don't. Heck no,
Speaker 1: but I would love to. Honestly, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: this about Minnesota. Came up with I've found this that
Speaker 1: they are eight and one at home, just like the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: They have outscored their opponents at home by sixteen points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're eight and one. Yeah, the thirty seven point loss
Speaker 1: at home. You know, that didn't really help. But then
Speaker 1: other than that, they won and in the close games
Speaker 1: and all that. Cowboys are eight and one. They've outscored
Speaker 1: their opponents by ninety seven points. So it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: that's about what it should be when you win eight
Speaker 1: out of nine games. But it's just funny how Minnesota
Speaker 1: that one loss was like the worst loss they've ever had.
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, they were down thirty thirty points to
Speaker 1: the Cults in a game, you know, and and it
Speaker 1: took a miracle finish. So if you trust them, good
Speaker 1: luck with that. I mean, there's there's somebody that's going
Speaker 1: to do And I'm trying to think, Okay, who's the
Speaker 1: team that could go from the bottom of the six
Speaker 1: seven area they can go beat Philadelphia. That's I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Green Bay played Green Bay was down thirteen to nothing
Speaker 1: too or watched the game on film and then Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is like fourteen thirteen just stormed back in the
Speaker 1: game and then got hurt. Yeah, and their defense over
Speaker 1: the last I know you were talking about their defense,
Speaker 1: but over the last I saw this graphic yesterday. For
Speaker 1: the last three games, their defense has been holding teams
Speaker 1: I think the seventeen is the average, like, yeah, Packers,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So you start talking about those teams that
Speaker 1: that nobody would want to see in the playoffs. Eve,
Speaker 1: no matter how they've played all season, Green Bay and
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is one. The playoffs have started already for them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's been that way. Are at home against
Speaker 1: the Lions and the Vikings, So they have to win.
Speaker 1: They have to win those two games, right and then
Speaker 1: and then all the Commanders have to do is lose one.
Speaker 1: Is that? Am I right about that? I don't think
Speaker 1: this right. I don't know, because they have that tie.
Speaker 1: Because they have that tie, I think the Commanders they're
Speaker 1: half a game ahead of all those Commanders be I'm
Speaker 1: watching to play Cleveland. Yeah, yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 1: Cleveland is. I mean they're out of the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: don't know that. But yeah, sometimes they play, sometimes they don't,
Speaker 1: sometimes they play. Well, I don't know what they are
Speaker 1: they are. That is so weird. That is so weird
Speaker 1: that well, I guess it's weird for the Cowboys too,
Speaker 1: to have an AFC game this late in the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just kind of a straight because of
Speaker 1: the because of the extra game they throw that AFC game,
Speaker 1: and the three of the NFC teams, three of the
Speaker 1: NFC East teams all play in the AFC. Yeah except
Speaker 1: for Philly, but the Giants also play the Colts. Who
Speaker 1: was Philly plans? Yeah see, And now that you catch
Speaker 1: the Colts, they're gonna keep on with with that quarterback
Speaker 1: who was awful last night. Yeah, Nick Foles, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's man. You just got to try and figure
Speaker 1: it all out. But to answer your question, I feel
Speaker 1: better about it than when I felt before the kickoff
Speaker 1: of the game the other day because because things are
Speaker 1: starting to happen to the Eagles. Let's let's be real
Speaker 1: honest about this too. Their defense at full strength was
Speaker 1: awful the other day. If you talk about it, mean
Speaker 1: awful in a way of giving up yards, giving up
Speaker 1: points more than they've been, more than they've been. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't say, well, this was just a bad this
Speaker 1: was just a bad. No, you didn't cover very well.
Speaker 1: Pass rush was there, but the quarterback just ate you up,
Speaker 1: you know. So to me, I'm I'm I'm encouraged by
Speaker 1: what I saw the other day because I was kind
Speaker 1: of going into the game thinking, man, Philadelphia doesn't have
Speaker 1: any weakness. They really don't. They've got some weaknesses over there,
Speaker 1: and they're starting at starting to be injuries or starting
Speaker 1: to hurt them a little bit, which they've been really
Speaker 1: healthy exactly. Mike McCarthy can stick it to the Packers
Speaker 1: without even playing them. If you think about it here
Speaker 1: just these last few weeks. If he beats i mean lose,
Speaker 1: the Commanders, well like, yeah, Commanders could be sitting here
Speaker 1: and Green Bays like we've got to win this game
Speaker 1: so we can go and and we gotta have we
Speaker 1: gotta win and watch it has to lose and then
Speaker 1: it's like see it, everybody cooperage just own the ball
Speaker 1: to Jalen Tilbert. You know, yeah, that could very well happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, I wouldn't worry about it at all
Speaker 1: when you know it could happen. If you go out
Speaker 1: for yourself, care about it, yeah, yeah, because nobody feels
Speaker 1: sorry for you. But if if Philly goes to New
Speaker 1: Orleans and wins this weekend, then you need to treat
Speaker 1: that game like because, like you said, depending on you know,
Speaker 1: what happens in the NFC South and what day you play.
Speaker 1: You know, you got to steal rest when you can. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's one where you you make you probably go
Speaker 1: into that and you say, well, we'll play our starters
Speaker 1: for a quarter and U and they didn't get them
Speaker 1: out of there and let them, let them relax a
Speaker 1: little bit, especially if the commanders are trying to win.
Speaker 1: That's that's the last thing you need. That front seventy
Speaker 1: and off on dost like that. Yeah, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: let's talk Tennessee offense versus Dallas defense. Let's start first
Speaker 1: with the quarterback, um Ryan Tannehill is out an ankle injury.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this question, Brian, Yeah, what threat,
Speaker 1: if any does Malik willis pose running the football. That's
Speaker 1: the thing about it is the ability to scramble. He
Speaker 1: is not very accurate right now. It's a problem the receivers.
Speaker 1: I mean, the receivers have been having trouble with getting
Speaker 1: some separation, and then you have a quarterback that can't
Speaker 1: really accurately throw the football yet. And I was talking
Speaker 1: to my buddies down in Jacksonville about this because they
Speaker 1: play the next week, and I, you know, I was saying, listen,
Speaker 1: what do you see in Tennessee. You know they're they're thinking,
Speaker 1: they're worried about them the next week having to play
Speaker 1: against Josh Dobbs, who they got off the practice squad,
Speaker 1: who was a practice squad player with Detroit and they're
Speaker 1: worried that because Josh Dobbs can throw the ball better
Speaker 1: than what Malik Willis and he gives you a little
Speaker 1: the RPO stuff too that you know, the ball handling things.
Speaker 1: They know playing Willis is going to be a not
Speaker 1: being accurate, but all of a sudden you rush and
Speaker 1: he's super elusive. If you watched him play at Liberty,
Speaker 1: he's a transfer you originally with the school at Auburn
Speaker 1: and transferred to Liberty and brought their program to a
Speaker 1: really a high level there at Liberty because of his
Speaker 1: ability to run and throw. I mean there was times
Speaker 1: where watching play against the Little Miss, he was accurate.
Speaker 1: The thing about him right now is he's hurrying everything.
Speaker 1: He doesn't really see everything really well. I think you
Speaker 1: can confuse him. He's a rookie guy. Third round pick,
Speaker 1: probably should have gone higher. But the thing that you
Speaker 1: have to worry about is him just taking the ball
Speaker 1: and dropping back and all of a sudden he sees
Speaker 1: lane and then he takes off a running. That's that's
Speaker 1: the biggest threat that you'll deal with right now. The
Speaker 1: receivers trailing Burkes has been banged up for him. He's
Speaker 1: a I loved him coming out of Arkansas. I thought
Speaker 1: he was a super player, you know, when you're catching
Speaker 1: the football, running after catch. He did everything at Arkansas.
Speaker 1: Snap him the ball, he runs, Tossing the ball, he runs.
Speaker 1: He's a big body guy. They went and got Robert Woods,
Speaker 1: you know, last year, and he's kind of shown up
Speaker 1: a little bit. Racy McMath is another guy that they
Speaker 1: kind of Yeah, so it's it's a it's kind of
Speaker 1: a collection of guys right now. They you know, they
Speaker 1: trade away Brown and that made that look remarkably different there.
Speaker 1: They've struggled a little bit on the offensive line right
Speaker 1: now because they're banged up. Nicholas petite Free, who they
Speaker 1: drafted out of Ohio State, is a big, long tackle
Speaker 1: who not the not the quickest defeat, but he's banged
Speaker 1: up a little bit and we'll see what happens game
Speaker 1: time with him on the other side. If you want
Speaker 1: somebody to attack the left tackle, Dennis Daily as the guy.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that got a trade from Carolina. He's
Speaker 1: number seventy one. He's the one that laid off the ball,
Speaker 1: struggles with quickness, doesn't redirect all that well, and he's
Speaker 1: the left tackle. But they they've struggled with him in
Speaker 1: the lineup really block and all right, we haven't talked
Speaker 1: about Derek Henry. My buddies in Jacksonville think they're gonna
Speaker 1: play this thing like a preseason game. They think that
Speaker 1: this game does not matter. It does not matter. I mean,
Speaker 1: my guys, are my guys down there, like listen, you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna get just a skeleton type of a lineup.
Speaker 1: You know, Henry not playing. You know, they'll pick some
Speaker 1: guys out that they don't want to play. The problem is, though,
Speaker 1: if Henry does play, that's that's everybody knows that that's
Speaker 1: the I mean, I'm watching the Texans last week, and
Speaker 1: you know, and Petrie, that really good safety at number
Speaker 1: five from Baylor, who's just knocking everybody out. And I
Speaker 1: mean you should see him trying to hit this guy
Speaker 1: running the ball. They throw him the ball occasionally, they
Speaker 1: it's second to ten, they hand in the ball, he
Speaker 1: gets twelve yards, you know, I mean, just he's a
Speaker 1: hard guy, Derrick Henry, hard guy to tackle. He's just
Speaker 1: so big and he and you could see that these
Speaker 1: defenders don't want to tackle him. They just don't mean
Speaker 1: hell no, I mean he comes running through there, and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh in the safety is like I say,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, Petrie's like all right, He's like
Speaker 1: launches himself into him and he's just bouncing off. It's
Speaker 1: like tennis balls on a tank. You know, he's bouncing
Speaker 1: off the guy. And you know that's the problem. But
Speaker 1: maybe Dallas catches a break. Maybe Dallas catches a break
Speaker 1: that they do rest him in this game because it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to the Tennessee's playoff hopes. The following week does.
Speaker 1: So that's where I'm saying left tackles a It's a
Speaker 1: kind of a mixed group of wide receivers. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the quarterback can get them the ball. Their
Speaker 1: offensive line struggles. Dennis Daily, the left tackles the one
Speaker 1: you go after, and if Derrick Henry plays, buckle up buttercup. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the Jacksonville your buddies at Jacksonville, they're they're talking
Speaker 1: to the Titans people, you think, are they They know
Speaker 1: they have a feeling going into this game they're really
Speaker 1: worried about. They think if they had to play Malik
Speaker 1: Willis in this game, they would win. They feel like
Speaker 1: they we we've got the we've got the better situation
Speaker 1: at quarterback. The thing they worry about with Willis is,
Speaker 1: and you can watch it on tape. He does run,
Speaker 1: but when he drops back to pass, it's like throwing
Speaker 1: a ball into the ocean. He just doesn't know where
Speaker 1: it's gonna go, or you know where it's gonna land,
Speaker 1: or anything like that. Right now, that's the way he's playing.
Speaker 1: But you say, they might try and get Joshua Dobbs
Speaker 1: some work, the backup quarterback, might try and get him
Speaker 1: some work to get him ready for the other games.
Speaker 1: And he throws the ball better than what Willis throws. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just to give you some perspective on what Willis has
Speaker 1: done so far this year. He has started three games.
Speaker 1: He is attempting sixteen passes per game on average. His
Speaker 1: fifty one percent completion rate ain't that good. He has
Speaker 1: averaged seventy eight yards passing in each of those three games,
Speaker 1: has not gone over ninety nine. Still hasn't gone over
Speaker 1: a hundred yards in any of those three games he
Speaker 1: started in a game in a game under a hundred
Speaker 1: yards passing, He's been sacked ten times and he has
Speaker 1: three interceptions. So, yeah, this level of passing it shouldn't
Speaker 1: be a problem for the Cowboys. Let's just put it
Speaker 1: like that. Really, it is all about can you stack
Speaker 1: the box and stop their run, especially if Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: is there, And that would be a question I have
Speaker 1: for you, Brian. Obviously the Cowboys at the first team
Speaker 1: to face them in this kind of situation, they keep
Speaker 1: putting up a ton of yards on the ground. Our team,
Speaker 1: I would assume teams are stack in the box. How
Speaker 1: are they so successful being able to run even when
Speaker 1: teams know all you got to stop the run there
Speaker 1: there There big thing is though they're they want to
Speaker 1: get the ball. They try and get the lineman moving
Speaker 1: and then make you move and then they can the
Speaker 1: ball to Henry. And once they get you moving, they
Speaker 1: don't feel like the teams that have played been able
Speaker 1: to play. The Texans had a couple of plays where
Speaker 1: they were able to get penetration up the field and
Speaker 1: it's stopped him before he got going, like they immediately
Speaker 1: like they shot gaps and all of a sudden they're
Speaker 1: handing the ball and it's a face to face collision. Yea.
Speaker 1: You know, they want to get you moving and then
Speaker 1: once they get you moving, they just feel like that.
Speaker 1: If you're moving, you can't you can't firm up and
Speaker 1: get tacked. Arm tackles won't work. No, No, it's your
Speaker 1: right teams. I'm serious. It's second to ten and they
Speaker 1: and it's like it's got you know, they got the
Speaker 1: whole team in the box and they hand the ball
Speaker 1: to the guy and he just blasts through guys and
Speaker 1: it's a sick seven yard game and or he's fallen
Speaker 1: at the yellow you know, the sticks. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: crazy to watch this guy play and how and he
Speaker 1: gets stronger, he just I mean, it's like long runs.
Speaker 1: It's a sixty yard run, fifty yard run with this guy,
Speaker 1: it's incredible. I hope he doesn't play. I really don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I hope he does, and I
Speaker 1: hope he's six. Do you rest some of those guys
Speaker 1: and then with the game not being that important to
Speaker 1: them because of their situation, what are some of the
Speaker 1: things that you are looking for the Cowboys to do?
Speaker 1: Is is this a game where maybe they can kind
Speaker 1: of do something with the pass rush and kind of
Speaker 1: give some life there? Yeah? I think with Willis, I
Speaker 1: think with Willis, to me, this is now the game
Speaker 1: plan where I think teams that have the running quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think that you look at what the Texans did,
Speaker 1: you know, the the the RPO stuff, the things that okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it, read it, read it, pull it, run,
Speaker 1: you know. And so this comes down to, I don't know,
Speaker 1: this guy can't throw the ball well enough to kill you.
Speaker 1: The problem is if you rush and you don't get
Speaker 1: there and he takes off running, now you've got big issues.
Speaker 1: This game is going to be really about playing with
Speaker 1: discipline because I don't think he could beat you throwing
Speaker 1: the ball. I think he could beat I think he
Speaker 1: could beat you taking it dropping back and seeing man coverage.
Speaker 1: And then you know, you're running a twist game up
Speaker 1: front and you don't get somebody home, and now he
Speaker 1: just takes off running. That's the thing that I you
Speaker 1: talk about the pass rush, this is not like a
Speaker 1: traditional drop back quarterback throw the ball. So your pass rush, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you could kind of confuse him and make him
Speaker 1: hold the ball, and teams have been able to do
Speaker 1: that a little bit. But yeah, and these tackles, I
Speaker 1: think you could do something with these guys that, like
Speaker 1: I say daily, we'll see what petite free. What they
Speaker 1: how his health is, But to me, it's going to
Speaker 1: be about disciplined. Stay in lanes and don't let this
Speaker 1: guy run the football if you if you can make
Speaker 1: him throw the football, you make him throw the football.
Speaker 1: They're gonna lose this football game. All right, We're gonna
Speaker 1: check our final break. We'll come back. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the Tennessee defense versus Dallas offense. Some interesting things there
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Tennessee defense versus the Cowboys offense. Uh
Speaker 1: they are right now. Tennessee's defense thirty first in passing
Speaker 1: yards allowed. However their second in rush yards. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna let you run the ball. It's one of
Speaker 1: the situations where you can't run. Yeah. Hey, but if
Speaker 1: you want to throw the ball, yeah, feel free. My
Speaker 1: question is where they most vulnerable in the passing game
Speaker 1: and in their past defense. Yeah. The problem is though
Speaker 1: their their secondary has been been given up plays. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing about it is when I watched the
Speaker 1: Chargers game and the way they were throwing the ball
Speaker 1: and stuff, they've been a little bit banged up in
Speaker 1: the secondary. To Christian Fuller, Fulton has their second round
Speaker 1: pick has been banged up at corner, nickel back, a
Speaker 1: Moni hooker. They have a hooker on their team too. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was he's been, well they do we have a hooker?
Speaker 1: They have hooker? Right? Guy? Are the ones laughing? Just like,
Speaker 1: where are we going? With this go ahead. They have
Speaker 1: a hooker, a money they have a money hussey. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you that's it's just factual. It's not
Speaker 1: making this stuff up. Okay, try and give you knowledge
Speaker 1: at this point in time. Depends on how you take it.
Speaker 1: Just Roger McCary, though, who they've got is a cornerback.
Speaker 1: He's actually really, really, really good. He's number twenty one.
Speaker 1: You might have seen him if you're watching the highlights
Speaker 1: they had to play where they tried to the Chargers
Speaker 1: tried to. It's really cool on film. Chargers tried to,
Speaker 1: like right before the half, tried to throw the ball
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe get the score right before the half,
Speaker 1: and McCary like is out of balance and he volleyballs
Speaker 1: it back to his teammate for an interception in the
Speaker 1: end zone there. So yeah, Joshua Kalou is the warhouse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was an intentional one, right, not a volleyball, Like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Kevin Bayard is their safety. He's really really good, number
Speaker 1: thirty one. You have to keep old as he seems
Speaker 1: like he's been in one hundred and twenty sixteen, two
Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen. For some reason, I just feel like
Speaker 1: he's been in the league, the Pro Bowl like four times.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's surprise he didn't make it this Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they but they they are really they're they're banged up
Speaker 1: in a little bit. Their defensive line with the DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Walker Tart Jeffrey Simmons is one of my favorite players.
Speaker 1: And then they've got back Autry number ninety six, and
Speaker 1: he had a knee injury, so they got him back.
Speaker 1: This front four, I think it's good. The problem is
Speaker 1: they're so banged up at linebacker. Zach Cunningham who they
Speaker 1: got from the Texans. Dylan Cole has been banged up.
Speaker 1: Bud Dupree, who I think is their best pass rusher,
Speaker 1: is dealing with some stuff right now too, so they've
Speaker 1: had to go with some uh, some backup guys. Monty
Speaker 1: Rice number fifty six at linebacker. He's around the ball.
Speaker 1: They have Terrell Basham on their team by the way too,
Speaker 1: that didn't even really notice him very much, but just
Speaker 1: to let you know that. But the front four is
Speaker 1: that they're not going to let you run the ball
Speaker 1: because of the front four and the and the secondary
Speaker 1: gives up plays. Again, you have to watch Kevin Byner
Speaker 1: because he's a guy that if you overthrow, underthrow, he's
Speaker 1: usually in position. He's a turnover guy. He's his whole
Speaker 1: career has been getting turnovers. And again I think Roger
Speaker 1: McCrary number twenty one, who they got from Auburn second round,
Speaker 1: he is the one that a long, rangy guy don't
Speaker 1: throw at him on the other side. Whoever's playing on
Speaker 1: the other side for those guys, it might be Greg
Speaker 1: Mabon will be the guy who they got off the street,
Speaker 1: number thirty two. He's been kind of getting a lot
Speaker 1: of their work since. So it's a it's a good
Speaker 1: defense up front, but it's a little bit banged up
Speaker 1: right now, GA, after coming off a game where or
Speaker 1: Dallas gave up, gave up six sacks to Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: looking at Jeffrey Simmons there in the middle of defensive tackles,
Speaker 1: the seven and a half sacks, that's a lot for
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle. Where does he typically line up and
Speaker 1: who is he matching up with against Dallas? Hey, well,
Speaker 1: after what happened to after what happened to McGovern in
Speaker 1: that game last week. Yeah, Jeffrey Simmons is going to
Speaker 1: play on the outside shoulder of McGovern and and it's
Speaker 1: gonna give it heck. You know, you get also think
Speaker 1: about sliding a center over to kind of take to
Speaker 1: kind of help him. I leave, Zach Martin and like,
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm beodish, I'm blocking, I'm keeping on
Speaker 1: my left eye over here. And all right, sorry, Zach
Speaker 1: got to go, you know that kind of thing, or
Speaker 1: even maybe start that way, because Jeffrey Simmons is powerful.
Speaker 1: He's explosive. He came at a college in Mississippi State
Speaker 1: in in uh twenty nineteen, and he had a bad
Speaker 1: need missed the whole rookie sea, missed this whole rookie season, uh,
Speaker 1: and then got healthy. And man, he is a pain
Speaker 1: in the rear to deal with because of he's that
Speaker 1: he plays that three technique undertackle outside shoulder and yeah,
Speaker 1: be odish, Well we'll have a handful of him. Is
Speaker 1: there anyone on their line though you might think they
Speaker 1: might rest or Oh, I would hope that. Yeah, Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: if you ask you asked me to start. And that's
Speaker 1: a great question, by the way. Yeah, jeff Simmons doesn't
Speaker 1: need to be playing like hey, Kevin Strong, come on down,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, you know, any but any one of
Speaker 1: those guys I would have he could play playing there
Speaker 1: at the three. But you know, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: if you were to take away like one of their
Speaker 1: best offensive players, you would take away Derrick Henry, you
Speaker 1: take away one of their best defensive players, it would
Speaker 1: be Jeffrey Simmons in my opinion. So maybe they'll sit
Speaker 1: him in this game. I say, they got some guys
Speaker 1: to bud Dupree is their best pass rusher and he's
Speaker 1: banged up right now, so they'll probably sit him this
Speaker 1: week and then try and work Dupre been there. Budd
Speaker 1: dupri When did they get him? I know he was
Speaker 1: from the Steelers, had originally drafted by the Steelers, realized
Speaker 1: he was there, Yeah he was, and uh he came
Speaker 1: with Tennessee in uh in twenty one. Twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: is when they got him in. You know, it might
Speaker 1: be a situation where they're going to play their guys,
Speaker 1: you know, to start the game and we'll see how
Speaker 1: how it goes. Um. But you know, I think how
Speaker 1: boys can can get on him and take the lead
Speaker 1: and and you know, maybe maybe go up by ten
Speaker 1: points or so, maybe more. That might be a situation
Speaker 1: where they say, all right, we're gonna sit everybody. We're
Speaker 1: gonna you know, we'll start resting some guys, especially in
Speaker 1: their injury situation. Two, like guys that have been banged up,
Speaker 1: that have been they have a lot of them, They
Speaker 1: have a lot of monday've been struggling. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: looking at the weather. I was gonna ask you about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was looking at it right now. So for Thursday,
Speaker 1: it's it's actually gonna be their best it's their best day.
Speaker 1: At fifty eight. It's the high and low lows forty two.
Speaker 1: So low forty two, high fifty eight. You're thinking, what
Speaker 1: forty five forty seven? Game time ten times forty eight, Yeah,
Speaker 1: forty eight, but you don't even need a code. But
Speaker 1: no time out, time out. I'm I'm gonna tell on
Speaker 1: the field before the game it like it's gonna be cold.
Speaker 1: Oh no, the one of the coldest games we ever
Speaker 1: coming off Christmas night, right what we played a day
Speaker 1: game there when Mississippi River is it, I don't know,
Speaker 1: might be the Tennis Tennessee River. Whatever, it's a body
Speaker 1: of water and it's cold, yeah, yeah, and it's coming
Speaker 1: in the water's coming I mean, it's not like you're
Speaker 1: playing in Chicago. No, No, it's not Chicago. Like the
Speaker 1: wake effect, you know, kind of a thing. It'll be
Speaker 1: colder than what it says, like down it will be.
Speaker 1: It'll be it'll be coming off the bus, it'll feel
Speaker 1: colder like got your picture, hadn't been here in years. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: let's go press best press box in the league by
Speaker 1: the way, blow low seat sandwiched between the two worst? Yeahville.
Speaker 1: I mean Jacksonville is not the worst press box the league. Oh,
Speaker 1: just the experience, the whole experience is the worst. And
Speaker 1: the views okay, but they do have the bars, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the bars are are the it's the problem. But it's
Speaker 1: but it's a low everyone says, and like everyone, I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to a single person that was on the
Speaker 1: trip that said they like Jacksonville. They're like that place thinks.
Speaker 1: I hate it. I know, I literally have. I had
Speaker 1: a good time except for the press box. They had
Speaker 1: terrible food that was star So we're so spoiled here
Speaker 1: we are we are. I'm okay with that. We had
Speaker 1: this discussion on the radio how we will complain about
Speaker 1: free food? Yes, I was getting nutrition a sprite or
Speaker 1: soda drink. I don't even know that that was my's
Speaker 1: eating ice cream as a meal, because that's the only
Speaker 1: thing that was good. Not even the salad was good.
Speaker 1: That tells you did she sit there and like see
Speaker 1: what she does all the time, just moves food around
Speaker 1: on her plate. I'm an eater, I eat a lot.
Speaker 1: I like eating, but that I've seen you move food, Derek,
Speaker 1: and he was not in a good movie that. I
Speaker 1: don't like it when I don't have good food. I
Speaker 1: love the fact that in the media is we get
Speaker 1: free food, free seat, free parking, and we will cood
Speaker 1: plain Jarry's fault. It's Gary's fault because we are used
Speaker 1: to having great food at at and T Stadium and
Speaker 1: then you go to other places where it's subpar, and
Speaker 1: you're like, what wrong with this? And you don't understand
Speaker 1: this is not even what do you mean? I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I'm prison food, Okay, haven't been to prison? We get
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson on the phone right now, please, Doug Brian.
Speaker 1: Has Brian been to prison? Yeah? Joke, guys, that is
Speaker 1: supposed to be I know, not prison jail. I think
Speaker 1: a prison. I wouldn't make it difference. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get the predictions. What do you guys think is gonna
Speaker 1: happen this week? Yeah, it's it's our last show. Not
Speaker 1: even ready for that. It shouldn't take long. Prediction goes
Speaker 1: like seven different places for me. So I got to
Speaker 1: make sure I have the same one for tomorrow and
Speaker 1: all that. I got to carry it over for four shows,
Speaker 1: four platforms. Go ahead, I'm twenty seven thirteen gop sorry thirteen, yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: thirty seven, sixteen Dallas, let's go ten, really tighten up, really, Nick,
Speaker 1: thirty four to nine Dallas. All right, get some sacks
Speaker 1: and I will go thirty four thirteen. I think they. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the defense gonna get some sacks this week. They all
Speaker 1: get back on the mccarthield press commence, I told you
Speaker 1: I don't have that. Nine. You don't have that. No, No,
Speaker 1: nine's a good one. I think. I think this guy
Speaker 1: I was actually thinking about nine. I said, they'll getting
Speaker 1: in z On once. If Derrick Henry plays, they'll get
Speaker 1: in yea, if Derrick Henry play. I'm just kind of
Speaker 1: counting on him not playing because if he count if
Speaker 1: he does play, does your score change? I think so?
Speaker 1: I mean look, I think, well, maybe give the Titans
Speaker 1: another touchdown. Maybe it's maybe it's twenty seven to twenty
Speaker 1: field goals or or is there kicker a follow link kick? Yeah, Greco,
Speaker 1: it was Dale Greco. What is the kicker? Bull Bullock? Bullock, Yeah, Bullock.
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard that name in a long time. Greco.
Speaker 1: Derek's still bitter. They moved them, the Oilers. Do you
Speaker 1: know people in Houston that cheered for Yes, I know
Speaker 1: one friend of mine from high school, one friend from
Speaker 1: high school that still is a huge Tights fan. He
Speaker 1: moved with them, and everybody else was like, I ain't
Speaker 1: rooting for them. Like they left, yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: said some things like when they were on their way
Speaker 1: out of the door that Bud Adams. Yeah, yeah, missus
Speaker 1: Adams is running that team now, oh daughter, All right,
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, Jonas. We'll be back on Friday. Friday,
Speaker 1: we will be back in studio. We'll let you guys
Speaker 1: know what when right and wrong for the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: we'll start, hopefully maybe you start getting you guys ready
Speaker 1: for the final game of the season, Cowboys versus uh Commanders,
Speaker 1: and we'll see where the Cowboys fall at that point
Speaker 1: as far as what's going on the NFC East till
Speaker 1: then for Nick Eatman, Brian brought us Amber guar See.
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