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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys
Speaker 1: training live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brothers, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: and Bill Jones. You talk about a fabulous football Friday
Speaker 1: edition of Talking Cowboys? Is this ever one? Wow? Till
Speaker 1: Mickey walks in? Wow? Oh? What we can say about Mickey? Why, yes,
Speaker 1: we do. He sounds sick too, which should just broke
Speaker 1: his food even more than just make sure you call
Speaker 1: in folks and just kind of give me grief today.
Speaker 1: I'd appreciate that he's more grumpy than usual. I kind
Speaker 1: of with hearing some coughing going on over there, and
Speaker 1: then yeah, it's like and I said bless you, and
Speaker 1: he didn't answer back, and oh my struggling. Oh, this
Speaker 1: is a weekend. You need to be fully healthy for
Speaker 1: the next four days, including an NFL Sunday that wraps
Speaker 1: up the regular season, and we'll get into the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and the Giants. But actually there's games today, of course,
Speaker 1: in college bowl games, and then it really gets good
Speaker 1: tomorrow and then Sunday. The NFL has done a great
Speaker 1: job in setting up the schedule for Sunday in my opinion,
Speaker 1: and we'll get into that. And then Monday there's great games,
Speaker 1: including your Aggie's playing and your Bayou Bengals are playing
Speaker 1: right on Monday, absolutely, and then New Year's Day until
Speaker 1: you know, we're a New Year's Day team. That's right Tuesday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on Tuesday again, Central Florida, right in the Fiesta Bowl,
Speaker 1: right right right, and you're in the um pulling one. No, no,
Speaker 1: that's the old days bill. We're climbing up man tax
Speaker 1: Layer Bowl. Okay, the Gator Bowl. No, it's the tax
Speaker 1: Layer Bawl. It's no longer the Gator Bowl. Gator Bowl
Speaker 1: sounds more traditional. Look who's walking in and it's this
Speaker 1: guy whose team is playing on New Year's Eve. He
Speaker 1: just walked in. Now Zoo Tigers play Oklahoma's State and
Speaker 1: the Liberty Bowl. Liberty Bowl. Yeah, I've covered the Liberty
Speaker 1: Bowl before. Well, you could cover it again this year
Speaker 1: if you'd like. They're not having napkin at the Dinahola.
Speaker 1: They didn't have any bacon either. Oh no, nobody hovers
Speaker 1: over the Bacon area more than Mickey, he can get
Speaker 1: it on the run. I need my headsets. No, no,
Speaker 1: you don't. Yeah, just keep Yeah. I know you're even
Speaker 1: better if you can't hear what we're saying. Crumbs are
Speaker 1: flying all over the place. What is going on? I
Speaker 1: was eating my breakfast, okay, okay, you know I don't
Speaker 1: come in and just sit around like you guys and
Speaker 1: didn't show up at nine thirty. I got work, dude,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was having breakfast here this morning,
Speaker 1: and they had napkins and forks. Yeah. Probably that's probably
Speaker 1: why I didn't have any bacon left. Rod sad on
Speaker 1: the turkey sauce is just good here though. And you
Speaker 1: got your bazoom gear on. I do. I'm ready, okay, rob,
Speaker 1: let me have it? What? Let me have it for
Speaker 1: wear in Oklahoma? Yeah? You are? You? Are you punting
Speaker 1: on Saturday night? That the plan? I mean, You've got
Speaker 1: Bill's hope he gets a PlayStation game here? And can
Speaker 1: you put any more on? That's what? No? Wait, hold
Speaker 1: everything here? We got one item you just draw off?
Speaker 1: Oh you item right here? Okay? Which is a cap
Speaker 1: yeah okay, which is ancient? Yeah, and a cotton bowl
Speaker 1: fleece like you just got done with media day exactly.
Speaker 1: They're not playing in the cotton Ball exactly, So I'm
Speaker 1: banking tribute to the Cotton Bowl as well for the
Speaker 1: watch at least covering the cotton Ball. Or are you
Speaker 1: off so you can watch it? I'm off so I
Speaker 1: can watch it. Yeah, consume it. That's right? Kick off?
Speaker 1: What seven? Oh, Cotton Bowl is the early game? They
Speaker 1: got the good game in prime time while we're flying
Speaker 1: three o'clock kickoff for the Cotton Bowl. Notre Dame in
Speaker 1: Clemson actually be a pretty good game a bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Alabama play in the Orange Bull at seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think o US got a shot
Speaker 1: in this one. I really do what someone does, No, no,
Speaker 1: and I do. And I'll tell you why. I think
Speaker 1: Alabama to me, the running quarterback that can throw, that's right,
Speaker 1: that seems tolutely, that seems to be their kryptonite. The
Speaker 1: running quarterback that can throw. Why did Clemson beat him? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It should beat him twice. Clemson also had how many
Speaker 1: first round picks on defense? I just I was at
Speaker 1: a at a bar one of our road trips, and
Speaker 1: I watched Kansas put up forty Yeah, and Army did too.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. No army put up twenty one. Well,
Speaker 1: but army put up seventy on Okla army. But this
Speaker 1: is what I'm telling this is what you have to
Speaker 1: outscore Alabama. You have to outscore Alabama in every possession.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma is capable of doing that. They're they're capable of Now,
Speaker 1: Alabama's defense is unique, unique, no question about a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of draft picks on that. But you
Speaker 1: think Alabama's defense is better than George's defense last year
Speaker 1: with Roquan Smith in the middle, and yeah, I do. Okay,
Speaker 1: this this Quinton, this Quinton, will Winns, Williams yea and
Speaker 1: Will McClay. I asked him yesterday, Okay, who do I
Speaker 1: need I'm start watching study Alabama. Who do I need
Speaker 1: to look at? You gotta watch receiver, the linebacker, the safety.
Speaker 1: They've got some legitimate defensive players up the middle. So
Speaker 1: and that's one of the great things bringing it back
Speaker 1: to the NFL the next four days is looking at
Speaker 1: these NFL draft prospects as well. Yeah, it is fun
Speaker 1: for around Pickleson's got it, Clemson's got a lot of them.
Speaker 1: It would have been nice to watch Clemson's defensive tackle
Speaker 1: play too. That's right, and he's out, We're gonna get
Speaker 1: to the cowboys here. Somebody are point I understand. He
Speaker 1: was like, point oh two over the limit. One more guys,
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty pounds, One more thing about ou.
Speaker 1: Did you see the clip from the Alabama interview, Yeah, Williams,
Speaker 1: he started it was him, Yeah, he started talking about
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Then he stopped himself. He said something like,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Kylin Mura, guys like tackling Jello. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he seriously, but I don't think Kyler Murray's is
Speaker 1: He stopped the guy. Does you want to keep going?
Speaker 1: He goes, no, no, this I was kidding about to
Speaker 1: getting talking with Kyla stuff. But this is to me
Speaker 1: this Alabama Oklahoma has got, I think, the recipe to
Speaker 1: beat him, just because you have to put pressure on
Speaker 1: them to score. I mean that's what Oklahoma does. They
Speaker 1: make you have to score along with them, and that's
Speaker 1: a and that's a problem for a lot of teams
Speaker 1: to do. Now, Oklahoma, Alabama keeps saying Alabama's got capabilities,
Speaker 1: but can they score every single possession? I think Oklahoma can.
Speaker 1: And asking will McClay about about that Lincoln Riley and
Speaker 1: he said that the thing that Lincoln Riley's got, he's
Speaker 1: got the all the answers on offense. Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: that's that's the wouldn't be surprised. I wouldn't. I believe so.
Speaker 1: But that's huge if. Of course, he had a horrible
Speaker 1: game against Texas in the Big Twelve champions He had
Speaker 1: like five drops. But he And by the way, Marquise
Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown is the cousin of Antonio Brown of the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. There you go. And so all right, now
Speaker 1: we were talking yesterday and Brian, you brought up a
Speaker 1: great thought on what the NFL needs to do with
Speaker 1: the schedule on Sunday. Vicky brought it. He brought it.
Speaker 1: I just got the time right. I'm just Mickey had
Speaker 1: the games right. Let them all play at the same time,
Speaker 1: at the same time. But I was the one that
Speaker 1: tried to do the math to say play them all
Speaker 1: at three o'clock Central. They basically have done that. I
Speaker 1: noticed the afternoon games are all starting at three twenty five.
Speaker 1: They are. But what they have done and I think
Speaker 1: the NFL has done a great job in setting it
Speaker 1: up now they haven't as you proposed, just play them
Speaker 1: all at the same time. They have done it to
Speaker 1: wear each each game that matters to another each like
Speaker 1: for instance, the early games of course the Cowboys, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, right, okay, Texans are playing at noon and
Speaker 1: the Patriots are playing at noon, right okay, and so
Speaker 1: it matters second seed, second seed in the AFC. All
Speaker 1: the other games that matter as far as divisional or
Speaker 1: playoff positioning or at three twenty five basically right, And
Speaker 1: so they had they filled in the schedule at noon,
Speaker 1: but as far as the playoff positioning, they're all at
Speaker 1: three twenty five, with the exception of the Indianapolis Tennessee game,
Speaker 1: which is the primetime game, which it's a playing doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what happens in another another game there. So they
Speaker 1: they've done a great job, which makes for this Sunday
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to. I mean, you look at that,
Speaker 1: the way it sets up for Sunday us watching games,
Speaker 1: and yeah, we get to watch Cowboys play the Giants
Speaker 1: at noon, and then that three twenty five window. While
Speaker 1: it's saying it's gonna be great, just as things are,
Speaker 1: people start trying to win playoff spots or playoffs, seeding
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, and then you got the prime
Speaker 1: time game, which is basically a playoff game. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and I noticed it this morning because I was trying
Speaker 1: to see because the Rams need to win if the
Speaker 1: Bears win, to solidify second sight. But they they're playing
Speaker 1: at the same time, right, and it's like, oh, Minnesota Bears,
Speaker 1: they're playing at three twenty five. Oh, well, the Rams
Speaker 1: in San Francisco playing at three twenty five, so they'll
Speaker 1: know now where it comes down to. Though, what if
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott only had a fifty yard lead on Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley for the rushing race and the Cowboys played early,
Speaker 1: and you don't know if Gurley's gonna play or not,
Speaker 1: So that that was a little bit unfair, I thought.
Speaker 1: But yeah, for the for the seatings, there seem to
Speaker 1: be all playing at the same time. Yeah, And so like,
Speaker 1: for instance, the Bears, they're sitting there playing the Vikings
Speaker 1: and they can be looking at the scoreboard and they
Speaker 1: see if they see that the Rams are up twenty
Speaker 1: one nothing on the Niners, then they can make a
Speaker 1: decision that, Okay, we're not going to improve our We're
Speaker 1: not going to get a first round by so we
Speaker 1: can rest players if we want to. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like Philadelphia is going to get in this thing? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: you think the Bears are Bears are going to go
Speaker 1: out and just win this thing out right against Minnesota,
Speaker 1: I would I just try to keep winning and because
Speaker 1: but I'm with you on Philly because I don't think
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody's playing as well right now
Speaker 1: as Philly. And it even goes back to the Cowboy game.
Speaker 1: They played a great game here a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: They just didn't get it done in overtime. So why
Speaker 1: you know why I want Philly in this tournament? Because
Speaker 1: Dallas is beaten twice. I think Dallas kind of understands
Speaker 1: now how to play them. But I also think that
Speaker 1: they're good enough to beat one of the one or
Speaker 1: two seats. I think they're good enough to go and
Speaker 1: knock one of those guys out. So if they were
Speaker 1: to win their first round game, they play the Saints
Speaker 1: right right, lowest seed remaining right, So that's that's that's
Speaker 1: I don't think that I don't think that Chicago. Chicago
Speaker 1: would have to go Dallas would have to go to
Speaker 1: New Orleans. You know. I just I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to eliminate one of the one or
Speaker 1: two seats, and you would rather if I if I'm
Speaker 1: the cowboy, I think the Rams are susceptible. That's if
Speaker 1: Girly is not. That's what I'm saying though. That's why
Speaker 1: I think if you got Philadelphia in this tournament, you know,
Speaker 1: and they could beat they could beat the Bears and
Speaker 1: then go to New Orleans and then go to New
Speaker 1: Orleans and win a game. Now, now your path is
Speaker 1: like through La instead. Yeah, exactly, exactly. See, that's kind
Speaker 1: of where if if you just want to be crystal
Speaker 1: ball guy and try and figure out the best path
Speaker 1: for you to get to the and I know guys
Speaker 1: will argue with you, No, you want to play the
Speaker 1: best competition and all that. Okay, whatever, best, just give
Speaker 1: me the best path. I'm about the path of trying
Speaker 1: to get to the finals. We were rewatching the Romo
Speaker 1: Bobble Seattle. I was incredibly loud that day's randomly yesterday
Speaker 1: in the office, and the parcels told us this when
Speaker 1: we did the deep Blue I think he can't did he?
Speaker 1: I think he did? Garrison. They the following week. Had
Speaker 1: they won, they would have played a Chicago team that
Speaker 1: they felt like they could have could have beaten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a team that got to the Super Bowls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know they didn't have great quarterback play. I
Speaker 1: think Grossman was the guy. I mean, they felt like
Speaker 1: they could have gone up and won that game. So, yes,
Speaker 1: easiest path all the way. Yeah, there's people that, like
Speaker 1: I said, though, people that argue with you, Oh, no,
Speaker 1: you want to take their best shot. You want to No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm about the path of I don't want to call
Speaker 1: these paths at least resistance, But I'm just saying, what's
Speaker 1: the best thing that could set up for you Philadelphia
Speaker 1: being in the tournament and being hot. But you know,
Speaker 1: I can say you've beaten him twice and people say, well,
Speaker 1: brous it's hard to beat him a third time. I'll
Speaker 1: take my chances playing. I'll take my chances kind of
Speaker 1: understanding how to play Philadelphia. And you get him at home,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, you exactly see him until the championship. And
Speaker 1: that's right. You get him in a home game in
Speaker 1: your city, in your city. But there I think Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: of the lower seeded teams, is the one group of
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you got to hope again Seattle
Speaker 1: might be a team that could beat one of the one,
Speaker 1: but that means they're beating you. You know, that means
Speaker 1: you're out of the tournament. Seattle is playing well right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go to you play Kansas City. Win that game. That's
Speaker 1: impressed us. The week before to forty nine ers, which
Speaker 1: is a division game that was in Seattle, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: ganger City. See that's that's the thing about See, that's
Speaker 1: the thing about Seattle. We we, like you said, we
Speaker 1: were watching that game last yesterday afternoon. It was so
Speaker 1: when Romo dropped when he when Romo was running with
Speaker 1: the ball, it was I've never heard I mean, and
Speaker 1: I trust me, I my career had played Tiger Stadium,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that's a loud place, and I've
Speaker 1: heard some roars, but that that was as loud a
Speaker 1: crowd as I've ever heard that in a game. Was
Speaker 1: the football as shiny as it was in person? Now,
Speaker 1: it was awful, but that day that's home field though.
Speaker 1: That's what you gotta do. You got to trick it
Speaker 1: up a little bit if you can. It's the the
Speaker 1: first down they gained reversed again, didn't change. I don't know, mickey.
Speaker 1: They caught a break in the Lions game here one
Speaker 1: time on a passenger fronting to do with that game,
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm just saying, I mean, it's time
Speaker 1: had the first down. Yeah, that was that was so
Speaker 1: ridiculous the change. They did not have the angle to
Speaker 1: reverse that, that's right, Yeah, not like they have these
Speaker 1: days with more cameras there. There's no way in the
Speaker 1: world that should have been reversed. Exactly what. I had
Speaker 1: a first down at the one yard line and they
Speaker 1: could have played with the clock in Seattle, would have
Speaker 1: never touched the ball again. But looking at these other teams,
Speaker 1: well I was crowded. Ever heard? Yeah you speaking of that?
Speaker 1: We had a preseason game. So the year after all
Speaker 1: those places, the Seahawks went to the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: oh four, what year was anyway, they came back to
Speaker 1: Seattle first game after going to the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: losing in the old five season whenever it was. And
Speaker 1: I remember being in that press box for a preseason game.
Speaker 1: Oh it's tough. Well, I can't believe how loud this
Speaker 1: crowd is in Seattle. Oh I remember that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they were a break. They were rebbed up because
Speaker 1: it was the Super Bowl finalist. Whatever you got the
Speaker 1: NFC champions from the year before playing their first preseason game.
Speaker 1: Think you put Seattle the old Metrodome in the Superdome
Speaker 1: and just line them up together. That's Ganja Cities loud too,
Speaker 1: and Stanzas City for an open air stadium is one
Speaker 1: of the loudest places I've ever been in my life.
Speaker 1: I'll give you two loud ones. The playoff game in
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine at Minnesota, that was crazy bad.
Speaker 1: That was unbelievably loud. Cowboys offensive line could Yeah. When
Speaker 1: they came out for warm ups to led Zeppelin, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, I mean it was so loud
Speaker 1: in that and they got in the motorcycle yeah, Ragnar.
Speaker 1: Ragnar called them agbar. And then in the ninety one
Speaker 1: playoff game at Detroit in the Yeah, Eric Kramer. They
Speaker 1: beat the Cowboys early in the season like thirty something
Speaker 1: to ten, and so they get to the playoffs and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there going, you know what, this team's pretty hot.
Speaker 1: One six in a row. Now went on the road
Speaker 1: beat the Bears. Eric Kramer's not gonna beat them again. Oh,
Speaker 1: I've lost Eric Kramer before, and so I was hard
Speaker 1: and this was this was this was the year the
Speaker 1: Times Harold went out of business. And I was helping
Speaker 1: out with Carol d and so I was sitting in
Speaker 1: some auxiliary press box. We were in the second or
Speaker 1: third row the Silver Dome. In the Silver Dome Rich Pamenco,
Speaker 1: who was at the Carol idea time, And we're sitting
Speaker 1: in the stands and they played the national anthem right
Speaker 1: and after the national anthem, my ears were ringing, and
Speaker 1: here myself think right, and I said to myself, I
Speaker 1: don't like my pick to now boys winning this now?
Speaker 1: Sure enough, Eric Kramer did it again. That's seat thirty
Speaker 1: something to ten. That's the coldest indoor stadium I've ever
Speaker 1: been in my life. I was like I was window.
Speaker 1: I was on the side of blowing smoke in the
Speaker 1: side in side. It was so cold. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it was cold. We played there so many times and
Speaker 1: there without a parking pass either. Yeah. About to see
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders reincarnated this weekend. Maybe I was climbing fences
Speaker 1: to get over the highway to get to my car. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just watching Rob's face. I have been there, rolled
Speaker 1: down the hill in the snow bank. Oh, I know,
Speaker 1: it's pitch dark, and we really need a split screen
Speaker 1: here where, But Mickey starts telling stories like this this
Speaker 1: to have a picture of Rob's face. As Mickey talks
Speaker 1: and tells us slandering into the woods three o'clock and
Speaker 1: it's already dark. I trust me, I've lived there. I
Speaker 1: go to hang my computer on the top of a
Speaker 1: like a six or eight foot fence, climb over it,
Speaker 1: get on the walkway, get to the end of the deal,
Speaker 1: and go over another fence. And then I looked over
Speaker 1: in the parking lot and there's one car in the
Speaker 1: parking lot in this pitch darks and it's Detroit. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So so yeah, we will be definitely making plans, might
Speaker 1: be building around the practicing around the Lego. I think
Speaker 1: Mickey's applying something here that's a good point. Mickey might
Speaker 1: be saying they're booking the Ford Center Legos maybe outdoor
Speaker 1: practices that week. Yeah, Yeah, maybe they'll have legos outdoors practices. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can be alternate arrangements for the Legos. Maybe becomes
Speaker 1: practice in Cabo that week. Yeah, oh boy, Mickey, you
Speaker 1: wanted to take the direction of this segment here, I did.
Speaker 1: So we keep talking about this, uh meaningful direction of
Speaker 1: the last segment, meaningful or meaningless game for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and you know, will they want to go out and play?
Speaker 1: What are the Giants playing for? That's a fair question.
Speaker 1: I thought at one time the Giants, if they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have had those back to back losses to Tennessee and
Speaker 1: too Indianapolis, they were playing to be eight and eight. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're five and ten. They've got a they've got
Speaker 1: a Dave Gentleman's back as the GM got a first
Speaker 1: year head coach, got a first year head coach. Could
Speaker 1: this be Eli Manning's last game? Well, there you go,
Speaker 1: that's that's what they're playing for. They have they said
Speaker 1: that we're gonna out of Sunday. I'm trying. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to do do so is that gonna jack up? Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: Junior play last week and hadn't practice all week to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going out there and play because I want us
Speaker 1: to be six and ten. But you need to worry
Speaker 1: about the second coming of Barry Sanders. I understand that.
Speaker 1: And then this, even Evan Ingram the tight end, can
Speaker 1: give you some problems. But does he want to play?
Speaker 1: All right? I think there's I think there's certain I
Speaker 1: think these guys do have pride. Yeah, and it's and
Speaker 1: it's a depelling game. It just occurred to me. That's all. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I five and ten. It doesn't doesn't. Beating the Cowboys
Speaker 1: mean something to every team in the But if they lose,
Speaker 1: they get to maybe the second pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: I think, well, yeah, and none of the quarterback, quarterback
Speaker 1: Chris Herbert is stay in school. Yeah, so you need
Speaker 1: to work on that offensive line some more so the
Speaker 1: duke quarterback is going to be the top quarterback Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray or Kyler Murray. He's keeping his options open, right
Speaker 1: he is? Yeah? Interesting, I don't see. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: think that I think that the Giant, I think it
Speaker 1: makes their green bag trash bag Monday a little bit
Speaker 1: better if they win beat the Cowboys. Yes, I that's
Speaker 1: what And I understand where you're going here. Mickey. I
Speaker 1: really really think they're going to convince themselves of that.
Speaker 1: I do. I do. I think they're going to convince
Speaker 1: themselves that that trash bag Monday needs to be a
Speaker 1: happy one, half empty MetLife Stadium. I don't know about
Speaker 1: that twenty degrees, Nicky, you're making it sound a lot worse.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be forty. I'm Sonny. I heard
Speaker 1: twenty and Sonny Nicky's making it sound like that there's
Speaker 1: that we're gonna playing this game and we're going to
Speaker 1: the tundra mars. Yeah, no, I will. I think. I
Speaker 1: think if you're the Giants, you know, you look at
Speaker 1: that situation and you say, you know, let's try and
Speaker 1: finish this thing on a high note. Yeah, because they
Speaker 1: started off what was the record start if oh in five,
Speaker 1: oh and six, they were not very good. They were
Speaker 1: one when it's six one in four, No, one in five,
Speaker 1: one and six, one in six seven. Actually, yeah, so
Speaker 1: you know to come back and yeah, that's what they've done.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what I don't. I think that Pat
Speaker 1: Schermer will have them ready to play, and now will
Speaker 1: the Cowboys be ready? But the thing that Cowboys have
Speaker 1: I think going for him is they've got they've had
Speaker 1: rotational guys that have played all year, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think that they'll want to finish out. I mean
Speaker 1: I think not finished. I think they'll want those rotational
Speaker 1: guys want to be you know, you're you're trying to
Speaker 1: play to say, hey, am I gonna be one of
Speaker 1: the forty six in the playoffs? You know, I think
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin has got the bit between his teeth in
Speaker 1: this game a little bit. You know, he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to be a scratch anymore. Yeah, you know, I think that.
Speaker 1: You look at how about how about Taco? You know,
Speaker 1: Taco needs to you know, we kind of talked about him.
Speaker 1: You know there you used to get a lot of
Speaker 1: playing time. Yeah, exactly, him Randy Gregory, And we've talked
Speaker 1: a lot about Randy Gregory. How about how about Ross
Speaker 1: Read those guys that are gonna play as well. No,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm saying, you know, those guys got something
Speaker 1: to play for. Wow, that's why that's what you're on
Speaker 1: a waiting team. Yeah. I think the fact that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys with the backups are going to try and win
Speaker 1: the game. I'd say the backups because with forty six
Speaker 1: you can't sit everybody. It's not Yeah, it's not like
Speaker 1: the dress rehearsal presets where you can put a whole
Speaker 1: other team out there. No, but what were the Cowboys
Speaker 1: playing for last last year's week seventeen? Right, Pride finished strong,
Speaker 1: winning record, winning record. He didn't want to be eight
Speaker 1: and eighth. It was that was very clear that he
Speaker 1: did not want to be eight and eight. But I
Speaker 1: think having a first year coach and they went out
Speaker 1: there and kicked their butts six to nothing. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I think having a first year coach game with the Giants,
Speaker 1: you're trying to set a tone, you know, send a
Speaker 1: message to your team for next season. We're going to
Speaker 1: finish the season strong. I think I guarantee you that's
Speaker 1: the message up there. Now, whether it gets done, we'll see.
Speaker 1: You could absolutely be right, Mickey. It could get to
Speaker 1: the point where if Dallas has a couple of really
Speaker 1: good drives and they three and outce Eli Manning starts
Speaker 1: to collapse in the pocket because of pressure. You know,
Speaker 1: we could see them, you know, have one foot in
Speaker 1: the parking lot. But I just kind of feel like
Speaker 1: this is a team that this team I swear they were.
Speaker 1: They were trying to get eight and eight. They really
Speaker 1: were until they so they played those two AFC South
Speaker 1: games until they got shut out by Tennessee. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a hard game for them. That was really a
Speaker 1: hard game. And and so I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just kind of feel like that if this is
Speaker 1: Manning's last game, and maybe they maybe maybe you know that.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe then that locker room they know that. Maybe
Speaker 1: we don't know that, but maybe in that locker room
Speaker 1: they have that feeling that he's saddled up some people
Speaker 1: and say, hey, let's go out there one more time.
Speaker 1: Of course, last year, or Dell's gonna want to go
Speaker 1: out and play, then no, he won't. Oh he's not playing.
Speaker 1: He's not playing. He's too injured to play. Of course,
Speaker 1: last year in New York, it was kind of emotional
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys went up there and Eli had just
Speaker 1: been benched. Yeah, brought back to the starting lineup. Cowboys
Speaker 1: withstood that, you know, at the incredible day. Bottom line
Speaker 1: for the Giants as opposed to last year late in
Speaker 1: the season, they don't have any options at quarterback, yeah,
Speaker 1: for next year unless it's Eli. Right now, well, I
Speaker 1: mean because they're because they drafted. But if they thought
Speaker 1: highly and he was like a fourth rounder, wasn't he Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's yeah, he'd be getting some playing time now and
Speaker 1: they aren't throwing him out there. So maybe maybe it's again,
Speaker 1: maybe this is Eli Manning's final, you know, goodbye, and
Speaker 1: that that's one of the I'm just trying to answer
Speaker 1: Mickey's question in a way of what would they play for?
Speaker 1: What would they play for? And you know, if it
Speaker 1: was one of those things like you were, if you're
Speaker 1: playing Jacksonville, which Mickey was right about Jacksonville's being frauds,
Speaker 1: you know, they've got questions at coach, at their coach.
Speaker 1: You know, the guys are saying, Okay, it's gonna happen
Speaker 1: the inevitable is going to happen here, you know. And
Speaker 1: you one, you know a team I think is going
Speaker 1: to play their ass off to try and win a
Speaker 1: game is Cleveland. Oh, yes, Cleveland. I think Cleveland wants
Speaker 1: to be eight seven and one. I think they really want,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think they really like Greg Williams.
Speaker 1: And Greg Williams might not get that job, you know,
Speaker 1: but I think that they respect him enough to go
Speaker 1: out there and play their ass off to try and
Speaker 1: win it and ruin Baltimore's season. There is no doubt
Speaker 1: they're treating Baltimore's got to win. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, the the
Speaker 1: AFC North is gonna be a bloodbath weekend. Those teams
Speaker 1: going at each other, you know, I mean Cincinnati is,
Speaker 1: But what's what's their what's their motive? You know, Marvin
Speaker 1: Lewis might be out the door. You never know. What's
Speaker 1: Cleveland's record? Seven seven and one, seven seven and one,
Speaker 1: So they can finish eight seven and one? About that, Well,
Speaker 1: that's last time they had a winning record. That's the
Speaker 1: old pipe Butch Davis was coaching. That's the old Parcels
Speaker 1: line in three. Can't call them losers anymore. That's a
Speaker 1: hurdle to get over, right, Yeah, do not have a
Speaker 1: losing season. Greg Williams is trying to get the job.
Speaker 1: And you know, but if I just I trying to
Speaker 1: tie this back to why people would play? Why people
Speaker 1: would because otherwise, like for the Giants, why play Barkley? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What if he was it? Adam yesterday? Was Adam yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, okay, if I if I misspoken said that
Speaker 1: I wouldn't play Elliott and those guys. I apologize to him.
Speaker 1: I'll admit I'm wrong. I don't think I said but
Speaker 1: if you know, people point out I know a broad
Speaker 1: as she did. Okay, I'm with you if I did.
Speaker 1: I apologize to you. I really do. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's a real to them to play Barkley. They're like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's finish this thing out. You know, he had twenty
Speaker 1: eight yards the last time these two teams played. See Like,
Speaker 1: the difference with the Browns is they have started their
Speaker 1: arrow pointed up all right at their quarterback, and and
Speaker 1: their quarterback has that attitude that hey, we're by golly,
Speaker 1: we're winning. They picked the right guy. And the Giants
Speaker 1: are sitting there right now with okay, they're down with
Speaker 1: their arrow pointed down, yeah, right now until they get
Speaker 1: their figure out who their quarterback is, right and it's
Speaker 1: or they're leveled off right now. Be until they figure
Speaker 1: that out. And they may have to go with Eli
Speaker 1: again next year because they don't have an option. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: but he might just say I keep throwing it out there.
Speaker 1: He might just say, you know what, I'm I'm done.
Speaker 1: I did the best I could. I'm not part of
Speaker 1: I don't want to be part of this rebuilding anymore.
Speaker 1: Has it been fifteen years? Yeah? Oh four, the same
Speaker 1: as Philip Rivers? Yeah? Yeah, oh four? What draft? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So fifteen years, two super Bowl wins. You know, every
Speaker 1: time he goes out there, he looks worse and worse
Speaker 1: and worse. And the only years that he won a
Speaker 1: playoff game were the two years they won the Super Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he won four games each year. He's right, eight and
Speaker 1: four in the postseason the Cowboys, Yeah, yeah, oh and
Speaker 1: four otherwise is in the playoffs. Yeah. I was looking
Speaker 1: at the box score from the first game, and everybody
Speaker 1: keeps talking about him only rushing for twenty eight yards,
Speaker 1: caught fourteen passes, yeah, eighty yards. Yeah, he gets a
Speaker 1: buck twenty five and does the reception thing. Gent's gonna
Speaker 1: win this game. And guess who had a sixty four
Speaker 1: yard touchdown catch in that game. That would be Austin
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin Austin. Yeah about that, So you'd he lit
Speaker 1: up Genorris Jenkins on that one. Yeah, that's one of
Speaker 1: my matchups this week. By the way, do you buy
Speaker 1: the thought of having Tavon using Tavon in such a way. Yes,
Speaker 1: at yes, showing something this next week's opponent has to
Speaker 1: spend some time off. Yes, or general manager came out
Speaker 1: and said something about that, and in his weekly visit
Speaker 1: with one oh five three on Tuesday, I totally agree
Speaker 1: with him on that. I totally agree with Yes, get
Speaker 1: anything you can do to get Tavon Austin involved, and
Speaker 1: it's shown as a weapon, you know, chet sweeps. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you this smoke screens. It's probably a terrible question.
Speaker 1: What was the expectations of Tavon Austin did when you
Speaker 1: were when when that trade was made on that night
Speaker 1: of the draft, when we were working on it from
Speaker 1: this room, what were your expectations of Tavon Austin that
Speaker 1: he would be that little offensive toy that they can
Speaker 1: do a lot of different you want them to draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: gets him Florida internationally needed draft for the guy from
Speaker 1: North Carolina State. Yeah, a gadget guy. Although he although
Speaker 1: he showed us in the in the training camp he
Speaker 1: could be an outside receiver at times as well, he
Speaker 1: kind of showed us he could do a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything. Preseason, I thought, Yeah, I was surprised before
Speaker 1: he got hurt that his snap count was kind of
Speaker 1: as low as it was. You know, he's probably getting
Speaker 1: like seventeen eighteen snaps a game offensively. Can I ask
Speaker 1: this question please, I'm not trying to put anybody in
Speaker 1: a bad spot. More disappointed maybe what he's done or
Speaker 1: what's happened with David Irving. I'm just talking about from
Speaker 1: from a playing stamp. I'm not talking about off the
Speaker 1: field or all that stuff. David Irving could have had
Speaker 1: a bigger impact. Yeah, it's amazing how many fans are
Speaker 1: asking us mail bag all that know about Irving because
Speaker 1: everybody knows the talent level. It's incredible. It just his purability.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't sound like he's close, right, But I'm
Speaker 1: just about I'm just talking about football. Disappointed. I would
Speaker 1: say nothing else say Irving Irvings, no doubt. I mean,
Speaker 1: the opportunity was there for Irving and it didn't happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he was and all those guys are playing well.
Speaker 1: I mean they've made up for it, haven't they. Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: from the standpoint, Yeah, but what if I could just
Speaker 1: put him in there to rush the quarterback on third down? Yeah,
Speaker 1: instead of Tyrone Crawford. What if I got you're not wrong,
Speaker 1: I mean or against try to push that middle of
Speaker 1: the pocket against Russell Wilson or if you see him again,
Speaker 1: guys that need to see oh it'll play play tilted back.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, But my expectations weren't that high for
Speaker 1: Tavon because you hadn't seen it before. Haven'tn't seen it before?
Speaker 1: Every day you've got you see like some promise there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah sure, but where are you playing him
Speaker 1: if you got Cole Beasley on this team? Too? Fair? Okay,
Speaker 1: and unless you're gonna line him up in the backfield
Speaker 1: and use him as a satellite back, or if he
Speaker 1: was really good, you might have not ever traded for
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper. That's good point there, anybody. Yeah, because he's
Speaker 1: not an outside But you know what though he's okay,
Speaker 1: what if what if? Okay, what if Tavon aust had
Speaker 1: show him that he had sixty four yards a game
Speaker 1: touchdown in him every time handing him the ball man
Speaker 1: handed the ball. Stephen Jones came out and said it
Speaker 1: might have been a little too much. Fifteen twenty touches
Speaker 1: a game, Okay, I mean cut that in half. I
Speaker 1: think you're a little bit more realistic. Yeah, but but
Speaker 1: think about that, if if if Tamon Austin is catching
Speaker 1: the ball and it's sixty four yard touchdowns and Jet
Speaker 1: Sweet runs and punt returns and all that, he might
Speaker 1: not be wrong lighting him up in the backfield with
Speaker 1: Zeke and not knowing if they're gonna runs to him
Speaker 1: that out into the slot. In my conversation with Will
Speaker 1: McClay yesterday, we were talking about, um, the Army offense. Yeah, day,
Speaker 1: I just brought up, can you imagine if a college
Speaker 1: football team did like what Switzer did with Ou and
Speaker 1: ran the wishbone against these college deef is now with
Speaker 1: with athletes like that back there? And he said, how
Speaker 1: about us? How about if even in the in the
Speaker 1: NFL with Jack at quarterback, sure line up, Rod Smith
Speaker 1: at fullback, put Tavon at halfback, and in Zeke at halfback.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine what a nightmare that would be for
Speaker 1: an NFL teams. Look what the Baltimore Ravens are doing
Speaker 1: right now. If you want to go have some fun,
Speaker 1: go watch what the Ravens are. The Ravens are Marty
Speaker 1: morning Wig is running a college offense. Seriously, they are
Speaker 1: they are playing read option football now with the Ravens
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson. With Lamar Jackson, they literally I watched
Speaker 1: him in the game they played the Colts the week before,
Speaker 1: you know, and it was it was crazy. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: And that's why I asked Jason Garrett the question to
Speaker 1: walk off do you throw the You throw that raven
Speaker 1: game out because there was so much option in it.
Speaker 1: You know. They they're doing the total opposite of what
Speaker 1: everybody else is doing in National Fall League. No, just
Speaker 1: playing to their strengths, right, their strengths. They have a
Speaker 1: quarterback that is a great option quarterback, and that's what
Speaker 1: they're doing. That's what good coaches do, right. What was
Speaker 1: the other option offense when the wishbone was popular? The
Speaker 1: ver Yeah, yeah, he used to run that down. Baltimore
Speaker 1: is almost doing It's it's Mickey, it's not wrong. It's
Speaker 1: it's like they're lining up multiple formations inside handoff, inside
Speaker 1: hamm spin. I mean there, if you seriously, you go
Speaker 1: watch the Ravens, watch the Ravens play this game this
Speaker 1: week and watch what they do. And they're hard to
Speaker 1: prepare for because you're not used to seeing that. You're
Speaker 1: not they're calling runs for him, they're calling run him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh I got run. Yeah, no, it is. It was
Speaker 1: legitimately a and they're like fake it, throw the pop
Speaker 1: pass and stuff. You know, it's it's a It's incredible
Speaker 1: what they're doing with him, and it's again totally different
Speaker 1: than everyone else is doing. Carolina kind of did that
Speaker 1: with Cam in week one a little bit. I mean
Speaker 1: there was a lot of design stuff and a lot
Speaker 1: of read option stuff, but maybe not to that extent
Speaker 1: or and what happened to it? Yeah, yeah, finished, get hurt,
Speaker 1: yeah finished, Yeah, yep, And he was hurt the last
Speaker 1: half of the season. That's why they that's why they
Speaker 1: went down the tubes. Yeah, the last half of the
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Speaker 1: what's it called? Rob? We got the name of the
Speaker 1: show off the tracks of the tracks. Darren Schmidt has
Speaker 1: has tweeted a couple of times, I'll do it in
Speaker 1: the big text voice if you like, yes please, Kyle
Speaker 1: is not the future and I'm from the area. It's
Speaker 1: likely Eli plays another year. Even if they draft a guy,
Speaker 1: Eli will play and Rook will's sit one year. Big
Speaker 1: TeX's voice for sure. Think he's got a point. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was kind of thinking, though, Okay, if this you know,
Speaker 1: maybe this is something that we don't know, Maybe this
Speaker 1: is something that he's thought about. That's the only reason
Speaker 1: why I brought it up. If they were gonna do it,
Speaker 1: they should have done it last year when they had
Speaker 1: the option of better quarterbacks coming out of the draft,
Speaker 1: and I ultimately went with sae Quon and that's a
Speaker 1: good pick. But but it doesn't look on paper like it's,
Speaker 1: you know, a convenient time to move on from your
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback cast. But he's just he just crumples. Now
Speaker 1: well comes, I'm just saying, you had the option of
Speaker 1: the um Darnold is there. You know, they could have
Speaker 1: they could have gone that route instead. Barkley's a beast,
Speaker 1: had taken Allan, they could have taken Rosen, they could
Speaker 1: have taken they working to get Mayfield. Of course it's
Speaker 1: gone saying they had better options if they wanted to
Speaker 1: go that route last year than they do apparently now.
Speaker 1: I think I think Gentleman was looking for the safest pick,
Speaker 1: and then you know it's about at that high at
Speaker 1: that high. Yeah, I remember when Carson Wentz came out
Speaker 1: and people who are really following it. Yeah, I knew
Speaker 1: midway through his last year at North Dakota State that
Speaker 1: he was probably the guy. But he came down here
Speaker 1: and played in the North Dakota State Yeah championship game
Speaker 1: in Frisco, and that was the first time he got
Speaker 1: on my radar. So it was so there may be
Speaker 1: a guy who emerges here in the next week or two.
Speaker 1: That for me anyway, Well, the people are talking about
Speaker 1: the guy from Duke. Yeah, that's a name. And I
Speaker 1: haven't seen in these corbacks other than just kind of
Speaker 1: like watching games. I've been watching some games with Dane,
Speaker 1: you know, Washington State, Missouri, Missouri. Yeah, there's some quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: It just this is the hard thing about quarterback play,
Speaker 1: because you have an idea is Kyler Murray? Is he
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson? Is he? Is he a guy that will
Speaker 1: be take Will people look at him higher or will
Speaker 1: they look at him at thirty or thirty one? Does
Speaker 1: he have enough size to play in the NFL? Well,
Speaker 1: you could have this same conversation about Baker Mayfield last year. Now,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's not as big as Baker Mayfield. And but
Speaker 1: UM's the way officers are playing, the way office area.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. And a year ago,
Speaker 1: at this time, ever, say who thought Baker Mayfield would
Speaker 1: be the number one pick in the draft at this
Speaker 1: time last year? I'll tell you why I thought he
Speaker 1: had a chance. I thought he did because you picked
Speaker 1: him when we did the thing together with the mock draft.
Speaker 1: You picked him for John Dorsey. I talked to John
Speaker 1: Dorsey about this. Dorsey told me that he needed a
Speaker 1: guy that everybody could look up to because things weren't
Speaker 1: going to always be great. He John felt like this
Speaker 1: was going to be a big rebuild and he needed
Speaker 1: a quarterback that never felt like he was out of
Speaker 1: a game and that everybody the teammates would rally around
Speaker 1: him because he always believed that he had a chance
Speaker 1: to win. That was one of the big reasons why
Speaker 1: he took Baker. I bet you his Rose Bowl performance
Speaker 1: against a good defense Georgia probably convinced John Dorsey. John
Speaker 1: was they're live, He saw him play. Yeah, absolutely, all right,
Speaker 1: Albert in Philadelphia he called yesterday, Hey Albert more today,
Speaker 1: Hello Albert, Hey, hey, do on back from where um Bill,
Speaker 1: you're gonna do that big text voice and as sooner Jersey, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good point. Oh yeah, hey, we get our players
Speaker 1: off from Texas. Is Oklahoma have and they do actually do?
Speaker 1: Big Texa is not there though, Big sooners there? Yeah, um, Brian,
Speaker 1: mostly for you. Um I was watching a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, thanks m W SAA. Something off there between
Speaker 1: something you don't see in the box score, and the
Speaker 1: guy had a clear agenda. He was killing um Byron
Speaker 1: Jones play from last week. And I'll be honest, I'm
Speaker 1: not the biggest Byron Jones fand I'm not okay, But um,
Speaker 1: should we be a little bit worried that more teams
Speaker 1: go towards him? Um, bad things happen for us? You know.
Speaker 1: That's the other day I felt like, in thanks for calling,
Speaker 1: I do I owe him an apology? If if, in
Speaker 1: fact that because some people alerted me no brods, you
Speaker 1: said something things about not playing guys. So I apologize
Speaker 1: to you right here on this program in last year's finale, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he said it now, I think I probably Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I can't remember. I can't remember I I can't
Speaker 1: remember my head for lunch yesterday. But I'll apologize. I
Speaker 1: think that you know, people I got breakfast down today.
Speaker 1: You had it all over your face when you walked in.
Speaker 1: The people, the people that have have kind of gone
Speaker 1: after Byron Jone. What's the type of receiver that's given
Speaker 1: Byron Jones trouble? Has there been a receiver he can
Speaker 1: Is there any type of a pattern, Is there anything
Speaker 1: that we've looked at? Is it? Is it the fast guy?
Speaker 1: Is it the quick guy? Is it the small guy?
Speaker 1: Is it the big guy? Is there one thing that
Speaker 1: Byron Jones you know now now going against Mike Evans
Speaker 1: is not an easy deal. That's just not easy. They've
Speaker 1: got and they've got a couple receivers at Tampa. I
Speaker 1: think that that kid from Penn State it's a good
Speaker 1: receiver too. But is there is there something? I mean,
Speaker 1: is Byron Jones played so well that he doesn't have
Speaker 1: a kryptonite receiver? Or is there is there? Is there
Speaker 1: is there somebody the playoffs you're gonna worry about, you know.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I mean, even I on Barn
Speaker 1: Jones this week, and I have a feeling he's gonna
Speaker 1: walk over Evan Ingram like they did before with just
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that is the quick receiver, the
Speaker 1: small quick or the fast extended speed receiver, a small
Speaker 1: quick one if he can't get his hands on that guy,
Speaker 1: because then he gets the guys got room to run. Okay.
Speaker 1: See that's where I was kind of thinking. I felt
Speaker 1: like that the Cowboys were gonna have a problem with
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers speed, you know, and that and that includes
Speaker 1: a Woozier two that includes you know, when they get
Speaker 1: somebody that can really run jack and separate. You know,
Speaker 1: can these guys catch up? And Mickey's right though, when
Speaker 1: these guys get their hands on him and play position,
Speaker 1: they could stay with you know, they could kind of
Speaker 1: they could jam jam jam and then you know, sink
Speaker 1: and roll with him. I don't think that Byron Jones
Speaker 1: has great speed. I don't think he has great catchup speed.
Speaker 1: And I worry about somebody when, like Mickey says, again,
Speaker 1: when they get past him, so him having a rally
Speaker 1: next week if they play Seattle and yeah, lock it,
Speaker 1: lock it, Baldwin. You see those catches. Those guys made lessons?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Yeah? Those guys are you want
Speaker 1: to face them? Well that you might not have a choice.
Speaker 1: I gotta play somebody. Yeah, you know Minnesota, Minnesota's got
Speaker 1: Twnnesota's got two big tires. Yeah, feeling defense. Ye see,
Speaker 1: that's the thing about it is to me is what
Speaker 1: type of receivers give our guys problems here? And I
Speaker 1: think it's like, I think it's the guys that can
Speaker 1: run that. I think that scares our guy. I mean
Speaker 1: I say scared. I think that makes our guys nervous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think I have to play a guy like that.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say Byron would have trouble with bigger receivers
Speaker 1: by and large, because look at how he's covered tight ends,
Speaker 1: you know, because he has the strange in the frame
Speaker 1: to deal with that. Yes, um so yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: how about the guy like Evans, it's big and Conroy, Well,
Speaker 1: that's it. He's got the total package. Yeah, he's got everything.
Speaker 1: Not every receiver is Mike Evans, right, but there's Mike Thomas.
Speaker 1: H thin some Mike Thomas got some Mike Thomason if
Speaker 1: he cover that guy? Ye, all right, what's gonna happen Sunday?
Speaker 1: We got three minutes left on the show. What's happening
Speaker 1: on Sunday at noon Dallas time? Because we don't know
Speaker 1: that's a fair question what the rotation is gonna be,
Speaker 1: and we're we talked about what the Giants are gonna do.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to win this game. I'll pick New
Speaker 1: York just sheer not knowing what what the lineup is
Speaker 1: gonna be for Dallas over the course of four quarters.
Speaker 1: But I do, and I do think they should try
Speaker 1: to get kind of like a preseason game, try to
Speaker 1: get a good possession or two offensively and have something
Speaker 1: to carry over into the playoffs, because I think they
Speaker 1: needed I think you go back to the last two games,
Speaker 1: especially the Olds game, there's stuff they need to work
Speaker 1: on offensively. Now that might be without a Zach Martin
Speaker 1: or a guy you want to rest, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: Would you be surprised if Mike White is an active
Speaker 1: this game this week? Is inactive and inactive? He surprised
Speaker 1: if he was, Yes, if he was active? Would it?
Speaker 1: Would you be surprised if he was active this week?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I should have better words. Yes, Nicky's calling
Speaker 1: him in. I think Cooper takes over the whole way
Speaker 1: as the rest of us see. I think he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: I think it wouldn't shock me. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: I think this. I think this coach is gonna play
Speaker 1: DAK the whole time. I mean not the whole time,
Speaker 1: but like three quarters of the time. And then Cooper rushes.
Speaker 1: I think Mike White's gonna be inactive this weekend. So
Speaker 1: do you think you think that will play three quarters
Speaker 1: of the game? Could very well, Yeah, could very well
Speaker 1: play three quarters of this game. Now, Now the question
Speaker 1: now the guy who I don't think it's gonna play.
Speaker 1: I don't think Zach Martin is gonna play in this game. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: And I don't think and I think the rotation is
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty significant. Maybe maybe uh Elliott gets a
Speaker 1: series or two. Yes, and then and then Mickey's right,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see Smith, and you're gonna see Jackson. But
Speaker 1: he's gonna play. Everyone else is gonna play. He's gonna me.
Speaker 1: Now we need to see what's gonna happen with Smith.
Speaker 1: I think the only offensive lineman that's not gonna play
Speaker 1: is Zach Martin, that's my guess. So they don't have
Speaker 1: a you know, they don't have a ton of backups
Speaker 1: to play. Yeah, but they could get Cam flaming in there.
Speaker 1: They might at some point, But do you want Cam
Speaker 1: flaming in there when Dak's playing quarterback. I'm picking a
Speaker 1: Cowboys seventeen sixteen win, and they pick to click, I
Speaker 1: was gonna go Darius Jackson. Yeah, okay, I'll go Darius Jackson. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take Tavon for a pick to click. That's a
Speaker 1: pick I'm gonna. I'm gonna I'm with Rob on this,
Speaker 1: I think the Giants kind of rally and find a
Speaker 1: way to win a game. They play their starters the
Speaker 1: majority of the time they try and win Dallas the
Speaker 1: backups just fight them off to a point. But I
Speaker 1: think this is probably gonna be a twenty one seventeen
Speaker 1: game with the Giants winning. And if I had to
Speaker 1: pick a guy, Barkley is going to be the difference
Speaker 1: for the Giants. If he gets one twenty five rush
Speaker 1: in like they did in the Colts game, and then
Speaker 1: he gets another eighty catching the ball, then this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a giantstick. I kind of think that's the
Speaker 1: route that they're gonna go twenty seventeen Cowboys. Giants don't
Speaker 1: want to play, Okay, I hope he was right. Sean
Speaker 1: Lee play. I think he does. I think he does.
Speaker 1: I think Sean Lee does play. Yeah, at I point
Speaker 1: something out about receivers and shut down corners. Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: has one hundred and twenty catches. Zach Ertz has one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen. Davante Adams has one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 1: Adam Thieland has one hundred and ten. Juju Smith Schuster
Speaker 1: has one hundred and six McCaffrey has one hundred and six.
Speaker 1: How do you think these guys caught all these passes?
Speaker 1: It's like every corner in the NFL. Bad No, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is the league. Yeah. I think his question was
Speaker 1: about worried about I know he was worried. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody's worried when you gotta play. Look, there's ten guys
Speaker 1: here with us running back. How does that happen? Okay,
Speaker 1: Mickey's gonna stick around and talk some more and it
Speaker 1: won't be on the air, and he studio, See I
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