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Speaker 4: This is our last show of the week, as just
Speaker 4: tweeted out, but we've got big news and we end
Speaker 4: this one on a high note. A little frustrating because
Speaker 4: those of us at NFL Network and I know, Haley,
Speaker 4: you were out there at practice all waiting to see
Speaker 4: what Dak Prescott looked like yesterday. As we described to everyone,
Speaker 4: it was a walkthrough. But as Mike McCarthy told us
Speaker 4: this morning, he had about forty throws in that seventy
Speaker 4: play mock game. He looked good and he was going
Speaker 4: to get time in with the one as they went
Speaker 4: through practice and again to peel the curtain back a
Speaker 4: little bit. The media only has access to thirty minutes
Speaker 4: of practice, and so we are there, yeah, you're there
Speaker 4: in the full thirty minutes, and outcomes Dak Prescott onto
Speaker 4: the field and what initially stood out to me. And
Speaker 4: I don't know I'm referencing to Haley because Haley's at
Speaker 4: practice with me. You poor girls drive in from Fort
Speaker 4: Worth and all over to get here to do the show.
Speaker 4: But what stood out to me was that he didn't
Speaker 4: have a brace on the thumb and he was high
Speaker 4: fiving his you know, his his teammates, which I thought
Speaker 4: was a big deal. You know, you're high fiving. He's
Speaker 4: gripping Ezekiel Elliot as they do, like their little bro shake.
Speaker 4: And then we were finally able to catch up with
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott and I love that. It certainly seemed like
Speaker 4: it was tracking that way. But Todd Archer just point
Speaker 4: blank said, sorry, you plan on Sunday, which is my
Speaker 4: next question, and he emphatically said I am, and he goes,
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I am. And I even joked them
Speaker 4: a little bit. I said, are you trying to play
Speaker 4: coy with us? He's like, nah, that's just you know
Speaker 4: what the coaches want. But I I think we all
Speaker 4: got a sense of Dak was back on track when
Speaker 4: we saw him throwing on the road against the Eagles
Speaker 4: listed as questionable. And so I'll start with you aish
Speaker 4: as we typically do. How does the offense change when
Speaker 4: you have Dak under center.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think that some of the plays, well, honestly,
Speaker 5: if you look at a lot of the play designs,
Speaker 5: there were opportunities for these guys to make big plays
Speaker 5: down the field. We talked about moving meticulously down the
Speaker 5: field with the run game stuff like that.
Speaker 6: I think things are just going to open up a
Speaker 6: little bit more.
Speaker 5: I think that you can confidently go into games and say, hey,
Speaker 5: if we need something here, we can go for it here.
Speaker 5: Also too, you look at those third and shorts, those
Speaker 5: types of stuff like that, I think he is the
Speaker 5: person to make the better decision there or also use
Speaker 5: his legs in these and maybe in these opportunities. So
Speaker 5: I think that all around, maybe you open up your
Speaker 5: offense more moving forward.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just think too. One thing that I really
Speaker 7: enjoyed I caught the tail end of Dak speaking in
Speaker 7: but one thing I really enjoyed him talking about today
Speaker 7: was how much he learned in this time, you know,
Speaker 7: from not being on the field. And he didn't go
Speaker 7: into specifics because I don't think he ever does, But
Speaker 7: I just love that he that self scout that we've
Speaker 7: been emphasizing so much with Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 8: He really took that to heart, and I think while
Speaker 8: it may not.
Speaker 7: Be a different from you know, a like skill set
Speaker 7: per se with Dak, he maybe he hasn't improved skill wise,
Speaker 7: but just that taking that next step as a leader,
Speaker 7: taking that next step as a starting quarterback, I think
Speaker 7: that's going to be exciting to see on Sunday.
Speaker 9: I think the most exciting thing was solidified for me
Speaker 9: today seeing both Micah and CD talking about Dak, because
Speaker 9: they lit up like a Christmas tree. I mean, it
Speaker 9: was such a different energy and such a different form
Speaker 9: of excitement I think coming from these guys than we've
Speaker 9: seen these past few weeks, and so being around CD
Speaker 9: when he was talking about him was something. But then
Speaker 9: Micah and Dak were standing next to each other for
Speaker 9: a portion of their locker room interview and just the
Speaker 9: banter back and forth with them, and you can just
Speaker 9: see it. You can hell how excited these guys are
Speaker 9: to have their leader back, and it's just so exciting
Speaker 9: for everybody really in the building. I felt like there
Speaker 9: was just a little energy lift with Dak talking after
Speaker 9: the media felt like kind of a sigh of relief
Speaker 9: from everybody, be like, Okay, it's finally over. We can
Speaker 9: move the page, we can turn the page, and Dak's back.
Speaker 9: It's exciting.
Speaker 4: I think some of the things that really stood out
Speaker 4: to me too were, you know, when Dak went through
Speaker 4: his injury with the ankle, when you go on IR,
Speaker 4: you aren't as present as you can be. And as
Speaker 4: much as people knocked Jerry Jones and staff for keeping
Speaker 4: him around, you know, the window for IR injured Reserve
Speaker 4: is four weeks for those that aren't in the know
Speaker 4: watching the show, because I want you guys to be
Speaker 4: as educated as some of us about football. And these
Speaker 4: are things that I learned along the way too, But
Speaker 4: that would have essentially meant he couldn't be on the
Speaker 4: sidelines for some of this stuff, and he was able
Speaker 4: to be fully engaged and everything from I loved Michael
Speaker 4: Gallup saying, you know, we need water bottles at practice.
Speaker 4: That's what he done. And Zeke said, he's not a diva.
Speaker 4: You know, he's gritty. He talks that s and he said,
Speaker 4: you know, it's his relatability. And that is why as
Speaker 4: we talked about this quarterback controversy, I had to laugh
Speaker 4: because You know, there's a lot of people that talk
Speaker 4: about these teams but aren't in the locker room. They
Speaker 4: aren't practice, they aren't at the games. They don't have
Speaker 4: relationships with the players in the sense that you know
Speaker 4: what's going on in there. But if you know this team,
Speaker 4: the reason why Dak won that starting job was Tony
Speaker 4: Romo was not around here rehabbing when he got injured.
Speaker 4: Dak was. That's when they started introducing it was locker
Speaker 4: room basketball where they had the basketballs in the trash cans.
Speaker 4: But even when he became the starter, bringing those guys
Speaker 4: to San Diego, bringing those guys to Miami, the relationship
Speaker 4: that he has with the players, even Tyler Smith, the
Speaker 4: young rookie tackle, you know, he texted him and invited
Speaker 4: him to a charity event, you know, not long after
Speaker 4: he was here with the team. Those are the little
Speaker 4: things that add up and the little things that matter.
Speaker 4: A couple of other sound bites that stood out to
Speaker 4: me today when asked about Dak, Ceede said he looked
Speaker 4: like Dak Yeah, big time throws during the team period.
Speaker 4: It was even Ezekiel Elliot who said, because I asked him,
Speaker 4: when did you guys start seeing how good he was looking.
Speaker 4: I think it was CD said, you know, I started
Speaker 4: with the nerf ball and then it was in the football.
Speaker 4: But then it was Ezekiel Elliott who said he was
Speaker 4: tearing up the Scout defense last week, and I just
Speaker 4: love that, Micah to your point and welcome to the Scrumps.
Speaker 4: I love you walked in the building today and I said, wait,
Speaker 4: are you credentialed now? So exciting to see you asking
Speaker 4: questions and being in the locker room because I know,
Speaker 4: you know, for a lot of people out here watching
Speaker 4: the show, they would love to have that access. They
Speaker 4: would love just sort of get in the locked So
Speaker 4: I'm love seeing your development and getting to do that.
Speaker 4: But Micah Parsons saying that when they were out there
Speaker 4: on the field and he showed up, he said welcome
Speaker 4: to the s show in other words, like I'm not
Speaker 4: going easy on you that you're just back. But I
Speaker 4: just to your point, I love the energy, the enthusiasm,
Speaker 4: and they're coming off a tough division loss, but you
Speaker 4: get the sense these guys truly feel. And it was
Speaker 4: even Zeke who said this, we've got a lot of
Speaker 4: momentum right now. We know it's a bit of an
Speaker 4: uphill battle. We've got to win the division, but they
Speaker 4: feel good about where they're at right now.
Speaker 9: And the banter with that too is Micah was talking
Speaker 9: about how they were practicing again and he told Dak, yeah,
Speaker 9: welcome to the S Show. And when Dak went up
Speaker 9: to interview, Dak's like, yeah, well we scored a touchdown
Speaker 9: on that drive. So I just want to throw that
Speaker 9: out flip.
Speaker 5: And I wanted to add on like even the pictures
Speaker 5: of him, just just seeing him run out the practice,
Speaker 5: like he looks like he's floating, like you can see
Speaker 5: he's he's happy, and he brings that to the game.
Speaker 5: But I think that's an important element that we don't
Speaker 5: talk about, is like, like you were talking about, these
Speaker 5: guys know what they have in him, and so like
Speaker 5: I like those opportunities that they have for turnovers and
Speaker 5: stuff like that, Like they know this guy can go
Speaker 5: down there and score with them. So I think it's
Speaker 5: important that they get their leader back. I know they
Speaker 5: can feel that in the locker room.
Speaker 6: I wish I was there today well.
Speaker 4: And also you know, we talked about this quarterback controversy.
Speaker 4: I love that CD was sort of asked this uh
Speaker 4: by one of the Channel eight reports, maybe it was
Speaker 4: a Fox reporter, and he says, you ain't that slick? Yeah, like,
Speaker 4: but a lot of these guys know. And even Zeek pointed,
Speaker 4: you know, to the star on the backboard behind him
Speaker 4: as he was getting interviewed, like why was this even
Speaker 4: a topic? And nobody's disrespecting Cooper around here. It's just
Speaker 4: Dak can take the top off this offense. And he
Speaker 4: was also asked about the difference between week one and
Speaker 4: week seven. There was no continuity on that offensive line.
Speaker 4: You were having a rookie, you know, that was starting
Speaker 4: there at left tackle. It seems like that offensive line
Speaker 4: is really settled in as of late. The communication is strong,
Speaker 4: and we go back to having those two tight ends there.
Speaker 4: They're not only blocking guys, but they're guys that you
Speaker 4: can use in your receiving game. Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard,
Speaker 4: who quick tease, We'll be talking a little bit about
Speaker 4: the run game, where I think it's going to be
Speaker 4: important this week on the other side of this break.
Speaker 4: But I just think that he has weapons. I mean,
Speaker 4: he didn't have Michael Gaalp. They wanted to bring that
Speaker 4: up and then we'll see if Dalton Schultz, I mean,
Speaker 4: Dalton Schultz has been a bit of a security blanket
Speaker 4: for DAK. I don't know what's going on with Dalton, though,
Speaker 4: I think he was a full participant.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I think it's just one of those
Speaker 7: things where like some players really need their quarterback, you know,
Speaker 7: And I think Dalton is one of those guys where like,
Speaker 7: for whatever reason that he just never developed that rapport
Speaker 7: with Cooper. And then you tack on a PCL, which
Speaker 7: I said from the very beginning, with a PCL injury
Speaker 7: in particular, those are almost, I don't want to say
Speaker 7: worse than ACL injuries, but from a management standpoint, they're
Speaker 7: harder because there's no tear, so you don't require surgery.
Speaker 7: But like you said, it's nagging and it doesn't go
Speaker 7: away unless you properly let it heal.
Speaker 4: And yeah, that was the class your members. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: it said tough. He said that it really slowed down
Speaker 4: his burst. It happened week you can against Carolina.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I just think, like you mix that he's
Speaker 7: missing the quarterback, he's playing on the tag and you know,
Speaker 7: maybe isn't happy.
Speaker 4: About that, and it's head that these rookies are stuffing exactly.
Speaker 7: So I just think there's a lot of layers. My
Speaker 7: hope with Dalton is Dak comes back. He's starting to
Speaker 7: feel a little bit better.
Speaker 8: It's good.
Speaker 7: We'll talk about the injury reporting a little bit, but
Speaker 7: it's good that he's been a full participant again at practice.
Speaker 7: And you just hope that they get that rhythm back
Speaker 7: because just like Mike McCarthy is saying Dak needs to
Speaker 7: find his timing, he's also said that with Dalton as well. Well,
Speaker 7: Dalton just needs to find that timing, and I think
Speaker 7: that timing comes with playing with Dak.
Speaker 9: And something else too, is Mike McCarthy talk this morning
Speaker 9: about the I asked him, well, how is the mental
Speaker 9: aspect of all of this? How important is that? And
Speaker 9: he said that's the last hurdle, And so I think
Speaker 9: a lot of it too could be a mental aspect
Speaker 9: too with Dalton Schultz, which if he can sit there
Speaker 9: and he can admit, hey, I'm just mentally I'm not
Speaker 9: ready kind of like Michael Gallup did, Hey, more respect
Speaker 9: to him for that, but I don't know why to
Speaker 9: know what's going on.
Speaker 5: To add to your point though, like about you know,
Speaker 5: some players needing their quarterback. I mean if you look
Speaker 5: at if you look at just how the offense was
Speaker 5: even run with with Cooper Rushlake, he attacked the middle
Speaker 5: of the field when it was one hundred percent necessary,
Speaker 5: But you didn't get like, besides this game, you weren't
Speaker 5: really getting a lot from your tight ends in passing.
Speaker 5: And that's actually something I was looking forward to to
Speaker 5: this week. I think we could see the tight ends
Speaker 5: get more involved. You could see Dalton Schultz actually have
Speaker 5: some you know, good passing plays in this game as well.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's the offense also too, was less tightened
Speaker 5: receiver available, I guess you want to say as well.
Speaker 5: So I think that may be a different you see too,
Speaker 5: is that these Titans get more involved.
Speaker 7: It just feels like this is like the last step
Speaker 7: almost that this team needs. You know, like first game
Speaker 7: was not a reflection of what you know this team
Speaker 7: was capable of. They have built over the last couple
Speaker 7: of weeks. They've done it with the backup quarterback. The
Speaker 7: defense has really found it stride, and I think with
Speaker 7: Dak coming back now, it's kind of like watch out.
Speaker 9: And also the defense finding its stride. You have a
Speaker 9: very hungry lion who not only mentioned he was ready
Speaker 9: for lunch during that interview.
Speaker 8: But he also was good Tank.
Speaker 9: He also mentioned that, you know, coming off of a loss,
Speaker 9: how that made him feel, and how he did a
Speaker 9: lot of self scouting, a lot of self reflecting. So
Speaker 9: I think Mike is the kind of guy that when
Speaker 9: he loses, he's not going to stay in defeat. He's
Speaker 9: going to sit there and he's going to do everything
Speaker 9: he can to come back. He also talked about that
Speaker 9: competition he had going with Tank and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 9: I'm not winning right now. So he's so competitive in
Speaker 9: that competitive nature I think really is going to be
Speaker 9: brought out in Amplified, even though they're not on the
Speaker 9: same side of the ball. Asking him like, Hey, how
Speaker 9: is it going to be different not seeing Dak on
Speaker 9: the sideline anymore? He's like, Oh, I'm kind of gonna
Speaker 9: miss it, but you know, I won't get to go
Speaker 9: up to him afterwards and see all that. But I
Speaker 9: think really you're gonna see an amplified Micah Parsons coming
Speaker 9: off of a loss, especially in primetime to the Eagles.
Speaker 9: I think this is going to be a very good
Speaker 9: week for Micah.
Speaker 4: And unsung hero Mike McCarthy. I mean, twelve and five
Speaker 4: last season with all the injuries, four and one without
Speaker 4: your starting quarterback this season. I just I love what
Speaker 4: I'm seeing from this locker room and how it's built.
Speaker 4: You know, they wear the word resilience on their sweatshirt,
Speaker 4: and I truly feel like they've embraced it and they
Speaker 4: believe it. All Right, pass or run? I think that's
Speaker 4: a big question. What can we expect to see from
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott in his return against the Lions at AT
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Speaker 7: So from the Cowboys sided, things looking pretty good. Pretty
Speaker 7: Much everybody was full participant, including Ceede Lamb, who was
Speaker 7: limited yesterday with a hip. They did have a new
Speaker 7: edition with Matt Willesco going on. He was limited today
Speaker 7: with a shoulder injury. But other than that, the Cowboys
Speaker 7: looking pretty good. It's good to see that full next
Speaker 7: to Dak Prescott for two days in a row.
Speaker 8: On the Detroit side, though, things are still.
Speaker 7: Looking a little Oh sus, you got DeAndre Swift who
Speaker 7: is limited.
Speaker 8: DJ Chark did not practice as well.
Speaker 7: I actually saw on Twitter today from Danny Rodgers, who
Speaker 7: will be joining us in a little bit. She said
Speaker 7: he was in a walking boot today. She said it
Speaker 7: looked worse. He said that it looked worse than what
Speaker 7: it actually was. It was more primentitive. But anytime you
Speaker 7: see a walking boot, it's I've been in a boot,
Speaker 7: so I know that.
Speaker 8: Let's see who else is on this list.
Speaker 7: Charles Harris did not practice, Matt Nelson, Bobby Price, Frank Ragnow. So,
Speaker 7: just a lot of guys on and off the board
Speaker 7: who are limited.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 7: The one thing that stands out to me though, a'm
Speaker 7: and Ross Saint Brown. He was kind of banged up
Speaker 7: last week with an angle injury. He has been full
Speaker 7: for the last two days.
Speaker 6: So did you say the center, Frank Ragno? Yes, you
Speaker 6: said he was limited.
Speaker 8: Frank Ragno, foot limited.
Speaker 6: It's important days when you talk about what they do well.
Speaker 4: The Lions run the ball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they run the ball well, and that's the center,
Speaker 5: Like Frank is a big part of what they do
Speaker 5: in the power run and a lot of their pools.
Speaker 4: He's the lead. He's a lead blocker.
Speaker 5: Often, So that's something to take a look at and
Speaker 5: keep an eye on as well.
Speaker 8: They've got a couple guys on here on the line.
Speaker 7: So Taylor Decker did not practice yesterday, but he was
Speaker 7: a full participant today.
Speaker 8: Let's see who else.
Speaker 7: Matt Nelson a tackle he did not practice today. I
Speaker 7: know we talked a lot about the offensive line of
Speaker 7: the Lions yesterday, So yeah, you're right, definitely some important
Speaker 7: things to pay attention.
Speaker 9: And also when you're talking about a team that's tried
Speaker 9: their goal is to stay out of like third and
Speaker 9: seven plus territory, that is huge, especially when it comes
Speaker 9: to third downs to not having your center. Big yikes
Speaker 9: for the Lions.
Speaker 4: Well, particularly because that's been an area of strength for
Speaker 4: them offensively. Like we're not giving this Lions team a
Speaker 4: lot of credit heading into Sunday because they do have
Speaker 4: a one in four record, but if you look at
Speaker 4: the points that they can put up on the board,
Speaker 4: I mean in their losses. They put up thirty five
Speaker 4: points Week one, they put up twenty seven or thirty
Speaker 4: six points week two, twenty four points Week three, forty
Speaker 4: five points week four. This is a team that can
Speaker 4: score and then.
Speaker 8: When you can zero point the next week.
Speaker 4: They've got the number two high scoring offense in the league,
Speaker 4: which is crazy, third highest scoring offense in the league,
Speaker 4: eighth rushing scoring offense in the league, and that could
Speaker 4: hurt the Cowboys. I mean, their rushing d got exposed
Speaker 4: last week against the Eagles. Now you're dealing with a
Speaker 4: different quarterback in Jalen Hurts, but it's definitely an area
Speaker 4: that can exploit. Here's where they're getting killed defense. Yes,
Speaker 4: they are last in the league in total scoring on defense,
Speaker 4: last and scoring last in the rushing game. And so
Speaker 4: that brings me to our segment run or pass with
Speaker 4: Dak back under center. We keep talking about the reason
Speaker 4: why I think Mike was reluctant to give us the
Speaker 4: all systems go is because he kept talking about rhythm
Speaker 4: and timing are important. It's one thing to clear the
Speaker 4: medical hurdle, it's another to get the rhythm and timing back.
Speaker 4: And I would submit that it's a little bit easier
Speaker 4: for him this time around, just because, as he's talked
Speaker 4: about today, he's gone through the mental reps, he's been
Speaker 4: on the sidelines. It's a little bit different than like
Speaker 4: Tyron Smith hasn't been around here. I think that's gonna
Speaker 4: be a little bit harder, you know, for him and
Speaker 4: guys that have been away from the building.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: But Zeke was very boolish about the importance of this
Speaker 4: team doing what they've said they wanted to do the
Speaker 4: last two years. They want to be your run first offense.
Speaker 4: They want to establish and impose their will, and you
Speaker 4: do that by sustaining drives by running the ball. And
Speaker 4: even as he said, I love that Zeke keeps saying
Speaker 4: this because this speaks to the team camaraderie. It's not
Speaker 4: just Zeke that he believes is a guy that should
Speaker 4: run the ball, but also Tony Pollard. And so when
Speaker 4: we talk about simplifying the offense, Ayisha, when we talk
Speaker 4: about what Dak has seen from the sidelines, and we
Speaker 4: talk about helping establish that rhythm wearing down opposing defenses,
Speaker 4: do you see them leaning on the run, particularly when
Speaker 4: we look at how bad this Lion's defense is against
Speaker 4: the run.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I expect for them to lean on I hope
Speaker 5: they lean on the run.
Speaker 6: That's a smart thing to do.
Speaker 5: But I think with Dak in any passing situations, I
Speaker 5: would just do boots, waggles, little short stuff, getting him
Speaker 5: rolling out the pocket if he wants to.
Speaker 6: That's why I think he's one of the most comfortable.
Speaker 6: I think he's comfortable in the pocket.
Speaker 5: But early in his career when they did have a
Speaker 5: steady run game, you saw a lot of little quick
Speaker 5: gouts to the tight ends, little short.
Speaker 4: Stuff just to get him back in the groove.
Speaker 6: We get the ball, you know, out of his hands
Speaker 6: or whatever.
Speaker 5: And then from there, if they are steady with the
Speaker 5: run game, it's gonna open up the pass and I
Speaker 5: think that's gonna make it easier for some of this
Speaker 5: receiver cord that we've talked about is still finding an identity.
Speaker 5: I think that the run game is gonna help that
Speaker 5: and continue to help that because you've seen the big
Speaker 5: plays that come from play action. I think that's a
Speaker 5: big part of what Dak said that he saw on
Speaker 5: the sideline. It's like, hey, this begets this like this
Speaker 5: makes this open up, This makes this open up.
Speaker 6: So I expect for them to. They may take shots though.
Speaker 5: Like I honestly, I'm gonna be honest with you, Like
Speaker 5: the Lions, they can get wonky, they can do some
Speaker 5: stuff on special teams, they can trick you, they can
Speaker 5: do different stuff. And I think that this game may
Speaker 5: have more explosive and weird stuff going on than what
Speaker 5: we expect. Like it may not just be let's just
Speaker 5: run the ball, y'all just gonna go down the field.
Speaker 4: It might be like why they do that right there?
Speaker 4: I love that you just jogged my memory because there's
Speaker 4: so much sound as you're covering this team, right You've
Speaker 4: got Jerry Jones that talks to a week, You've got
Speaker 4: Steven Jones, you've got Mike McCarthy, and you've got all
Speaker 4: the players. But what Mike McCarthy said earlier in the
Speaker 4: week is this may be the toughest special teams that
Speaker 4: they face all season, as much credit as we've given.
Speaker 9: The ranked number two in the league special teams.
Speaker 4: So I just I think this is an area that,
Speaker 4: to your point, I think could be one of those.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say it's a trap game. I
Speaker 4: know it's an uncommon opponent, but I do think it's
Speaker 4: interesting that Mike McCarthy conceded that the reason why they
Speaker 4: didn't do a full practice yesterday and brought into the
Speaker 4: guys a little bit late is they wanted to get
Speaker 4: a jump on some of that and so I imagine
Speaker 4: Bones Fossil was in there as a special teams coach,
Speaker 4: giving them a little insight into how you defend against this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then last week, you know, with special teams
Speaker 5: and Bones talked about in his interview like they had
Speaker 5: a big return, you know, pull back because of penalties.
Speaker 5: I think they want to be better there. But field
Speaker 5: position was super important last week. It has been important
Speaker 5: all week. And when you're talking about winning time of
Speaker 5: possession and being able to move methodically down the field,
Speaker 5: like special teams is going to be important, Like where
Speaker 5: they're starting is going to help this offense regardless. So
Speaker 5: that's another element of this offense running the ball and
Speaker 5: being successful and Dad getting in a rhythm.
Speaker 6: Is that not pinning him deep?
Speaker 5: That's not a good way for him to start off
Speaker 5: coming back to this team.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think for sure you go with what's been working,
Speaker 7: and I think right now what's been working is the
Speaker 7: run game, especially coming off of a game like Zekad
Speaker 7: last week where he's kind of finally getting back to
Speaker 7: that iconic Zeke that we remember when he came out
Speaker 7: of college. So I think obviously you lean on that,
Speaker 7: you lean on Tony to your point, you know, like
Speaker 7: those chunk plays have been really big. Tony's touchdown still,
Speaker 7: to me, is the most impressive thing this offense has
Speaker 7: done all season, other than that Jake Ferguson two step,
Speaker 7: because that was so clean hit it. Yeah, But for me,
Speaker 7: you know, I came here from Miami, so I was
Speaker 7: covering the Dolphins and this reminds me of the conversation
Speaker 7: surrounding to in the off season was he didn't have
Speaker 7: any arm strength, he couldn't get the ball down the field.
Speaker 7: They signed, you know, Tyreek Hill, and they had Jalen
Speaker 7: Waddle and there was pointless because Tua wasn't going to
Speaker 7: be able to get them the ball. So what do
Speaker 7: they do the first game of the season, drops back
Speaker 7: and unloads a killer pass down the field to Tyreek
Speaker 7: Hill for like fifty plus yards. That's kind of the
Speaker 7: vibe that I'm getting, you know, from what Dak might
Speaker 7: do on Sunday, like why not, you know, like we
Speaker 7: haven't had those big plays from Cooper yet, so shoot,
Speaker 7: why not try it?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 7: That's me being optimistic, that's maybe the fan in me
Speaker 7: talking a little bit, But I could see something like
Speaker 7: that to where like again like, that's kind of the
Speaker 7: stuff that this offense has been missing, the pizzazz, the
Speaker 7: razzle dazzle, those big plays. And so I don't Dak
Speaker 7: if you're listening.
Speaker 4: I don't want them to razzle dazzle too much.
Speaker 8: No, right lately, not too much. I'm I'm with you though.
Speaker 4: In the sense that I think you want to establish
Speaker 4: your identity and set the tone of the game because
Speaker 4: that's what you've seen success. Yeah, when they score on
Speaker 4: the opening drive, well that's huge.
Speaker 9: And I think setting up for success goes in so
Speaker 9: many different variations that we've seen. Could have been the
Speaker 9: cowboys y fall if they hadn't won that game, and
Speaker 9: essentially was their downfall for the loss to the Eagles.
Speaker 9: You look at field position, you look at time of possession,
Speaker 9: you look at penalties, and and you know things that
Speaker 9: they kind of brought upon themselves in those ways. So
Speaker 9: I think setting up for success starts in many ways,
Speaker 9: but also establishing the run also establishes the play action
Speaker 9: which we know will lead to the passing game. So
Speaker 9: I think to your point about wanting some razzle dazzle,
Speaker 9: I'm the.
Speaker 8: Fan a little don't want you, like Jane said, yeah,
Speaker 8: just but.
Speaker 9: To come out of the gates and set the tone
Speaker 9: that Dak is back, I think is so important for
Speaker 9: the confidence of that entire team and and the offense
Speaker 9: because I mean, hey, they're coming off of a tough loss,
Speaker 9: and I'm not saying they're down. That is not the
Speaker 9: vibe that you're feeling in the.
Speaker 8: Lost Years practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 9: There are They're not. They're not down anyway. But to
Speaker 9: set the tone to say this is who we are,
Speaker 9: this is our identity, and we're back, I think that's huge, fright.
Speaker 5: I think that's I think that's another thing that's important is,
Speaker 5: like we talked about it at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 5: is like that they're putting good type out there, and
Speaker 5: this game, to me, with Dak under center is going
Speaker 5: to be important for future teams to like, because they
Speaker 5: haven't seen Deck since Week one, right like, and there
Speaker 5: are new toys right.
Speaker 6: Like, so it's like, let's see what they look like here.
Speaker 5: So I do agree that it's important for them to
Speaker 5: establish like, this is our identity, this is what we do,
Speaker 5: and for Okay, Shaw forgot like because I mean it
Speaker 5: is it's it is very like people very quickly forget
Speaker 5: that this offense is explosive. And granted you have lost
Speaker 5: an Amari Cooper or whatever the case may be, but
Speaker 5: it's like they still have guys. They still got guys,
Speaker 5: and I think it's important that they come out here
Speaker 5: and show that because the offense for the majority of
Speaker 5: this time has been very you know, it's been very normal.
Speaker 4: Very normal is the word I'm gonna use.
Speaker 6: It's been very normal.
Speaker 4: So yes, I love it. You know, Jimoon Clark is
Speaker 4: your pet cat mind's Michael Gallup, and so I love
Speaker 4: I love the Michael Gallup Dak connection, and we didn't
Speaker 4: get to see that week one, so I'm looking forward
Speaker 4: to see it in a week seven.
Speaker 8: I like that you said pet cat. I've never heard that.
Speaker 9: I think we all have a pet cat. Mine's definitely Cavante.
Speaker 9: Mine is definitely Cavante turping. So to see some possible
Speaker 9: Dak Cavante chemistry going on, that is something I would
Speaker 9: keep a very close eye out.
Speaker 8: So I'm gonna have to ponder my pet cat.
Speaker 7: I feel like they're I feel like they're all my
Speaker 7: pet cats because now I talk to them like they're
Speaker 7: all just.
Speaker 4: There's some likable cats. You've got to get to Danny
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Speaker 4: Well, one of the folks we're excited to see in
Speaker 4: town on Sunday is Danny Rodgers. She's the beat reporter
Speaker 4: for the Detroit Lions who did an incredible job for
Speaker 4: us on NFL Network and are Better Together coverage, which
Speaker 4: is an extravaganza of all the training camps. So no
Speaker 4: one better to talk about this team than you, Detroita
Speaker 4: than you, Danny, So thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 4: Let's get right back into it. We've been talking a
Speaker 4: little bit about offensively one of the best in the league,
Speaker 4: defensively one of the worst. What were they able to
Speaker 4: glean from the bye week That lends itself to maybe
Speaker 4: this team could be improved, particularly given the fact that
Speaker 4: they've got such a host of injuries.
Speaker 12: Yeah, this is all great questions. It all centers around
Speaker 12: that defense. And we heard from defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn today.
Speaker 12: That was the first day of hearing him from him
Speaker 12: since the bye week, and I can tell you that's
Speaker 12: the first time this season season he looks tired. Masical
Speaker 12: didn't really take a bye week, and that's what most
Speaker 12: of the coaches said that Yeah, we didn't play last week,
Speaker 12: but it didn't feel like a bye week because they
Speaker 12: were back to the drawing board trying to figure out
Speaker 12: what's dismantled against New England where they shut out the
Speaker 12: Lions and then put up twenty nine points on the scoreboard.
Speaker 12: The defense, so defensive wise, right now they are dealing
Speaker 12: with with one key injury there Charles Harris defensive end.
Speaker 12: He's a really good book end with the rookie aided Hutchinson,
Speaker 12: So we're not sure if we're going to see Charles Harris.
Speaker 12: He didn't play at New England. He hasn't practiced yet
Speaker 12: so far this week. But the defense, it's kind of
Speaker 12: kicking themselves in the foot. There's a lot of things
Speaker 12: that need to happen up front first, and it starts
Speaker 12: with getting pressure on opposing quarterbacks. I love what coach
Speaker 12: Glenn said today. Everyone hurts on the sacks and when
Speaker 12: I look at the Dallas defense, of like, yeah, sacks
Speaker 12: are all over the place, meaning that he leading the
Speaker 12: NFL a sacks coach Glenn though he's a secondary guy,
Speaker 12: he played in the secondary for about fifteen years in
Speaker 12: the NFL. He's looking for quarterback pressure that result in takeaways.
Speaker 12: So no matter how you look at it, stuff has
Speaker 12: to go on upfront. Things have not been cooking. There
Speaker 12: have been injuries, and the defense was really what was
Speaker 12: lagging behind coming into this season for the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 12: They haven't had they haven't made the stress they needed to.
Speaker 12: A couple of players were benched against New England. Ammani o'rouarier,
Speaker 12: who is considered a veteran in this league now in
Speaker 12: its fourth year, he was in he was a healthy scratch.
Speaker 12: So this this staff such a very clear message to
Speaker 12: this team that you have got to make this team
Speaker 12: better and contribute and compete at a very high level
Speaker 12: or you just won't play. So Sunday, we're still not
Speaker 12: sure what kind of Detroit lines defense we're going to
Speaker 12: see they've been mixed matching pieces, trying to figure out
Speaker 12: which scene works best with which personnel. So we're all
Speaker 12: kind of going to see together Sunday who's starting and
Speaker 12: who's not, and who's healthy and who's not healthy enough
Speaker 12: to get back in this in this ball game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Danny, it's all so.
Speaker 5: I that's interesting that you say that, because when I
Speaker 5: listened to Mike McCarthy's press conference yesterday, he talked about,
Speaker 5: you know, kind of not you know, not counting out
Speaker 5: what they're going to which what the lines are going
Speaker 5: to be doing defensively, because and I think a big
Speaker 5: part of that is because, like you just said, there's
Speaker 5: so many different rotations, there's so many different guys in
Speaker 5: and out. I would assume that it's difficult to plan
Speaker 5: and scheme for those gentlemen because of that. I do
Speaker 5: want to ask you a question about Jamal Williams and
Speaker 5: uh and my baddies just slip my mind the other
Speaker 5: running back swift. Yes, Yes, I do want to ask
Speaker 5: about those two gentlemen. Are how are they looking and
Speaker 5: are you, you know, do you have a feel for
Speaker 5: what their progress has been this week as far as
Speaker 5: playing yeah.
Speaker 12: So Jamal Williams he is our workhorse. He's considered running
Speaker 12: back number two, but he really is that one two
Speaker 12: punch with running back DeAndre Swift. So Jamal's healthy, he'll
Speaker 12: be ready to go. He took a major. He's just
Speaker 12: most of the load. While DeAndre Swift has been that
Speaker 12: an ankle injuries, had a couple of injuries. He's will
Speaker 12: batten ling. So the other six actually sprang to his
Speaker 12: ankle in Game one against the Philly against Philly went
Speaker 12: on to play an interlimited role weeks two and three
Speaker 12: and shot out weeks four and five. So he has
Speaker 12: been practicing this week and we do anticipate him to play.
Speaker 12: I anticipate him to play anyway, so we'll have that
Speaker 12: one two punch. And I asked Dan Campbell yesterday, which
Speaker 12: is so I got to me was the one two punch?
Speaker 12: I Dallas has Tony Pollard and Azikil Elliott and He's like, yeah,
Speaker 12: I do think of them very similar to our one
Speaker 12: two punch in Jamal and DeAndre.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Danny, it's Hayley obviously.
Speaker 7: Today Dak kind of breaking the internet by an officially
Speaker 7: announcing himself as the starter for Sunday's game. Obviously, we'll
Speaker 7: get that confirmed tomorrow when we get to hear from McCarthy.
Speaker 7: But when it comes to preparing for, you know, a matchup,
Speaker 7: how is the how's the mentality been? How has the
Speaker 7: preparation been preparing for a Dak as opposed to preparing
Speaker 7: for a Cooper?
Speaker 12: Yeah? And I asked Coach Campbell this specifically yesterday while
Speaker 12: we were breaking down some films of the Cowboys, I
Speaker 12: was like, how different is it prepping for Dak, who
Speaker 12: saw some action in Game one, hasn't seen any yet
Speaker 12: so far this season, so you have very limited tape
Speaker 12: on him in this season. Yet he's still he's still
Speaker 12: a veteran in this league. And so Coach Campbell broke
Speaker 12: down a couple of scenarios of when he was in
Speaker 12: New Orleans and Miami of the quarterbacks that they had
Speaker 12: been prepping for, and about two out of three times
Speaker 12: when when quarterbacks came back, the starting quarterbacks came back
Speaker 12: from injury, you got their best game. There was one
Speaker 12: game one instance where it was a bad outing for
Speaker 12: a QB one coming back from injury. He said, look,
Speaker 12: we are going to prepare for Dak Prescott's best game
Speaker 12: of his career coming into this into this one, you
Speaker 12: just you can't not prepare in that fashion. So didn't
Speaker 12: give a whole lot to uh Cooper Rush. Although we
Speaker 12: uh we uh have a close connection with Cooper Rush.
Speaker 12: One of our our very challenged producers is his brother
Speaker 12: in law, which is kind of crazy to think. So
Speaker 12: we are, we're big Cooper Rush fans in the but
Speaker 12: but yeah, so so coach him on the team. They're
Speaker 12: preparing for Dak Prescott's best game despite the lack of
Speaker 12: time he's been on the field this year.
Speaker 9: Hey, Danny, it is Jess and we were just talking
Speaker 9: about the Lion's special teams and maybe how underappreciated they
Speaker 9: really are. They're ranked number two in the league. What
Speaker 9: do you think has been a key component to their
Speaker 9: success this season?
Speaker 12: Gosh, when you say ranked number two in the league,
Speaker 12: it's kind of surprising because right now the Lions are
Speaker 12: having some loads in the kicker position. Gosh, someone told
Speaker 12: us a stat today. The lines have gone through ten
Speaker 12: kickers since they released Matt pray Or and he went
Speaker 12: to Arizona for the Cardinals the Pro Bowlers, So that's
Speaker 12: kind of surprising. You say that there were no field
Speaker 12: goal attempts even at all. Against New England, Detroit went
Speaker 12: oero for six on fourth down conversion, so there are
Speaker 12: woes with the kicker position. However, Dave fit is one
Speaker 12: of the best special teams coordinators and I think a
Speaker 12: lot of NFL coaches would agree with me on this.
Speaker 12: He's one of the best special team coordinators in the league.
Speaker 12: He's very methodical. He will stand there talking to you
Speaker 12: for hours if you let him about the game and
Speaker 12: everything surrounding it. So you have a really good returner
Speaker 12: in Colle Raymond. You're gonna get another chief special teams guy,
Speaker 12: and Jerry Jacobs who's been out for the last year
Speaker 12: rehaving an apl he'll be able to come in and
Speaker 12: make an immediate impact here soon. But they take a
Speaker 12: lot of special they take a lot of pride and
Speaker 12: special teams. It's had, it's had some plays where it's
Speaker 12: really turned the momentum in games, which has been great
Speaker 12: to see. And they're just yeah, now they're looking for
Speaker 12: a setting four set field goal as well as as
Speaker 12: a kick returner.
Speaker 4: Now, well, Danny, I'm good on questions. Do you have
Speaker 4: one more? Aha?
Speaker 5: So you're just gonna say Jack Fox the punter also
Speaker 5: as well as a weapon. He can.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't let me forget he tell you don't forget
Speaker 4: about him because.
Speaker 3: He all.
Speaker 12: I categorize him as TV number two.
Speaker 6: That's how important. Yes, you're right, thank you for that,
Speaker 6: very very good, Danny.
Speaker 4: Like I said, the one thing I'm so proud about
Speaker 4: this show that we do here, Girls Talk Voice Talk,
Speaker 4: is we have so many smart women talking football, and
Speaker 4: I always hope that the listeners don't fill a drop
Speaker 4: off when they're listening to men talk about the game
Speaker 4: or the women. But when I talk to someone like
Speaker 4: you and here you break down Detroit Lions, it's just
Speaker 4: it's so exciting. So thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 4: I know you've got a lot going on plus travel,
Speaker 4: so we hope to have you on here again. Probably
Speaker 4: won't be that soon though, since we've last saw the
Speaker 4: Detroit Lions back in twenty nineteen. But thank you so
Speaker 4: much for taking the time today.
Speaker 12: Thanks Danny, thank you, Thank you, guys. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: All right, ladies, As we were talking to Danny Rodgers Hayley,
Speaker 4: we saw some breaking news as it relates to one
Speaker 4: of the offensive linemen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Matt Lasco. He was the only player listed as
Speaker 7: limited today. He had a subluxation of his shoulder. It
Speaker 7: looks like it was suffered in training camp. According to
Speaker 7: Patrick Walker Upstairs, surgery has always been an option. So
Speaker 7: it's looking like he's going to have to have surgery
Speaker 7: on that shoulder, and his twenty twenty two outlook is
Speaker 7: not looking promising.
Speaker 6: I'm glad to getting over with.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be honest, like my niece, I mean, I
Speaker 5: have experience here with this this and my niece had
Speaker 5: this exact injury for the majority of her collegiate career
Speaker 5: playing basketball, and like.
Speaker 4: She put the surgery off. She put the surgery off.
Speaker 5: And every time you do, it's just making it worse.
Speaker 5: So it's just like you might as well just go
Speaker 5: ahead and get it done. So I'm glad that he's
Speaker 5: just going ahead.
Speaker 6: And getting taken care of.
Speaker 5: So hopefully he can get back next year because we've
Speaker 5: seen some good things from him as that left tackle.
Speaker 1: Up left tackle.
Speaker 4: It's tough that offensive line.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: They just can't catch breaks this season, right, can't catch
Speaker 4: a break.
Speaker 7: Battle tested, I think is an understatement, no doubt.
Speaker 4: Well, like I said, at least I think the bright
Speaker 4: spot is this group has really been able to step up,
Speaker 4: you know. I think the one thing that stood out
Speaker 4: today is is Dak talked about the depth that they've
Speaker 4: been able to establish both offensively and defensively from week
Speaker 4: one to week seven. So that's some good news. Before
Speaker 4: we wrap up, I do want to go around the table,
Speaker 4: as I typically do. Who do you think is going
Speaker 4: to have a big performance with Dak back under center?
Speaker 4: I shall start with you, and then before I wrap
Speaker 4: we'll get to pass interference.
Speaker 6: Peter Tatt's is always me.
Speaker 4: You're right across from me. I just stare at you
Speaker 4: like it's so much pressure.
Speaker 9: Diamonds are made under pressure.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, I didn't want to.
Speaker 9: I won't be cliche.
Speaker 8: Say it.
Speaker 9: Do it.
Speaker 4: We're all waiting for it.
Speaker 8: Don't do it if you don't say it.
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 4: I think it's it.
Speaker 6: I think, like we talked about, I think it's important.
Speaker 5: This shows what he is with his number one and
Speaker 5: I hope that starts this week.
Speaker 7: All right, Yeah, I think the obvious answer is Dak Prescott.
Speaker 7: So I mean, I think we're expecting by him to Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, But if I'm digging a little deeper.
Speaker 7: I honestly, I want to say, uh, Michael Gallup, I
Speaker 7: think this is a really good opportunity for him to
Speaker 7: kind of remind.
Speaker 4: People Cat I did.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I'm just excited for him to kind of
Speaker 7: get back into the stat sheet and get back to
Speaker 7: people remembering like, oh, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: That guy's kind of crazy. Yeah, he gets the ball
Speaker 6: in his hands exactly.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm gonna go with my pet cat. I'm gonna
Speaker 9: go with Cavante Turpin because I definitely think now that
Speaker 9: you have that stability in a QB one, you're going
Speaker 9: to start to see the chemistry really forming with these
Speaker 9: younger wide receivers and Dak and I think Cavante hopefully
Speaker 9: being integrated more into the offense. You're going to see
Speaker 9: that a little bit this week and then obviously through
Speaker 9: the progression of the season. But Cavante Turpin my forever
Speaker 9: pet cat, and I'm very excited to see what he does.
Speaker 9: And I'm I'm banking on one of these days, I'm
Speaker 9: gonna say he's taking it home and it's gonna happen.
Speaker 8: So I'm guaranteed it on Sunday.
Speaker 9: So he was very close.
Speaker 4: I actually thought of you, Jess. I was like, your
Speaker 4: your little pet cat there, little kitty cat.
Speaker 9: I meant to fight in the locker room today. I
Speaker 9: couldn't calle Kim. I couldn't find it in the locker
Speaker 9: room today. But I was gonna say, like, how much
Speaker 9: more do you want this? Because you were so close
Speaker 9: to it, So don't worry, y'all. Don't worry. My pet
Speaker 9: cat is going to take it home better than the
Speaker 9: black cat during the New York game.
Speaker 4: That we saw smaller than me when you stand Nextican
Speaker 4: like he is a small man, but small but mighty
Speaker 4: before we get to pass interference. I love that Danny
Speaker 4: brought up you know. I for me, a storyline that
Speaker 4: I'm going to be talking about on Sunday is what
Speaker 4: team are we getting as it relates to the Lions.
Speaker 4: I mean they're benching players in terms of healthy scratch,
Speaker 4: trying to send a message. I was bullish on the
Speaker 4: Lions when I watched Hard Knocks. I mean, Dan Campbell
Speaker 4: had me wanting to run through a freaking wall.
Speaker 8: Yeah I got to do it.
Speaker 4: And they go from averaging thirty five points per game
Speaker 4: and week five to a complete shutout, something that we
Speaker 4: haven't seen from an NFL team since Week eleven and
Speaker 4: twenty twenty, they get that break. But again, I just
Speaker 4: you know, the Cowboys can put points up on you
Speaker 4: and you've got this defense. Especially if the defense scores,
Speaker 4: this could get really ugly, really fast for Detroit. But
Speaker 4: we'll sort of see how that shakes out.
Speaker 9: Jess.
Speaker 4: How about a little past interference before we wrap this up?
Speaker 9: All right, but you also didn't answer who your player is.
Speaker 4: Why, said Michael Gallop?
Speaker 9: Oh, you're your pet cat.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's my pet cat.
Speaker 8: All right, we're going sharing a cat. We're sharing a cat.
Speaker 9: We love a good cat.
Speaker 6: Lady.
Speaker 9: Well, your past interference for today is the Cowboys have
Speaker 9: a fifteen eleven record against the Lions all time, and
Speaker 9: in that they average around three touchdowns per game. The
Speaker 9: largest lead that the Cowboys have ever won against the
Speaker 9: Lions was back on September fifteenth, nineteen sixty eight, where
Speaker 9: the score was fifty nine to thirteen. How I would
Speaker 9: love for that to be the score were and come
Speaker 9: victory Monday, we're talking about that kind of shut out.
Speaker 4: Could you imagine? Though, we're talking about a one and
Speaker 4: four team. Dak comes back and we're dealing with like
Speaker 4: one of those weird trap games.
Speaker 9: Jane not just saying nontoics.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys ever study like Marcus really,
Speaker 4: I always think, like what the worst possible outcome is,
Speaker 4: so that you stay prepared.
Speaker 5: The worst thing is them not being able to stop
Speaker 5: them running a ball. Yeah, so the Cowboys linebackers are
Speaker 5: definitely gonna have to come play because again, this this
Speaker 5: offensive line is very capable of moving people. They also
Speaker 5: have only allowed seven sex, so this may be a
Speaker 5: game to where you don't see a lot of sex,
Speaker 5: but you do see pressures or you just playing your assignment,
Speaker 5: playing your gap, and guys aren't getting passion.
Speaker 4: And on the Rember she did say your boy Charles Harris.
Speaker 4: The defensive end I think is it's just why I
Speaker 4: love having the I'm writing notes. I'm like, oh, that's good.
Speaker 4: I'll hone in on that. Not having Charles Harris there
Speaker 4: to sort of booking with Aiden.
Speaker 5: Hutches because Aiden is doing a lot by himself as
Speaker 5: a young player.
Speaker 9: And on the optimistic side of that, everybody this year
Speaker 9: is also.
Speaker 4: Dony optimistic all day.
Speaker 9: It could be a game that breaks the Lions and
Speaker 9: the Lions offense because you have a very hungry lion
Speaker 9: that is ready to eat, especially after what the Cowboys
Speaker 9: we have the mic drop. You're right, they got.
Speaker 6: Their opportunity to show they can that's the worry of
Speaker 6: a lot of people. Can they stop the run.
Speaker 5: This is a team that can run the ball, regardless
Speaker 5: of what you think, and they can show they can
Speaker 5: stop at this.
Speaker 4: I think the only thing that gives me a confidence
Speaker 4: is they weren't exactly out of it with Philly, and
Speaker 4: I think that's gonna be the toughest run team that
Speaker 4: they face all season.
Speaker 8: I just hope everyone has fun.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be fun. Are you going?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 4: You gotta go? You work words, ladies, Thank you for
Speaker 4: another fun one. I will be rejoining the show back
Speaker 4: on Wednesday and Thursday. You guys will have Christy Scales
Speaker 4: in here on Monday, hopefully talking a victory Monday. For
Speaker 4: those who've tuned in and for the followers that have
Speaker 4: stayed loyal, we appreciate you. We'll see you next time.
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