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Speaker 1: joined by former Cowboys defensive backs Barry Church and Danny
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Speaker 1: noon from at and T Stadium. The Cleveland Browns, who
Speaker 1: were two on one and over five hundred for the
Speaker 1: first time since twenty fourteen against the one and two
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. All Right, fellas, how we doing on a Friday?
Speaker 1: And mainly mccrab we didn't talk about it this week,
Speaker 1: But how are you sleeping with the new born? How
Speaker 1: are things going at the house? Let me take the
Speaker 1: first two nights were rough, uh, and then after that
Speaker 1: I found out about babies and how they get milk drunk.
Speaker 1: So the baby has been Milton drunk for the rest
Speaker 1: of the week. So she's been sleeping pretty good. We
Speaker 1: wake up maybe maybe two times throughout the night, so
Speaker 1: she's she's a good sleeper. So I'm enjoying it. And
Speaker 1: I also want to say, hey, look, hey man, if
Speaker 1: you're out there, you're listening. Where your mask is important?
Speaker 1: All right? We had we had two issues this week.
Speaker 1: We got Kirk Cousins who don't believe in the mask.
Speaker 1: And we got another guy who went out there and
Speaker 1: did all type of crazy stuff and don't believe in
Speaker 1: the mask. And the already is hitting him in the face.
Speaker 1: So where your mask, protect yourself, protect everybody else? Church.
Speaker 1: How are we doing on a Friday? Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: you know over here at the church household man, we're
Speaker 1: doing amazing. Just another beautiful day out here to be right,
Speaker 1: and you know, just to enjoy the day. Got a
Speaker 1: little work out in so the day has been beautiful
Speaker 1: so far, man, today has been beautiful. All right. We
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Speaker 1: the next forty five minutes as we get ready for
Speaker 1: Browns and Cowboys. We will give you our predictions later
Speaker 1: on in the show. Let me give you the latest
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys. When you're talking about the injury report
Speaker 1: here Tyrn Smith, according to Mike McCarthy, said that the
Speaker 1: left tackle, the all decade left tackle, is on track
Speaker 1: to play. Now, what Mike McCarthy will not do is
Speaker 1: give us any idea of what the offensive line combination
Speaker 1: would look like if Tyrant is there, Meaning does Terrence
Speaker 1: Steal go back to right tackle? Zach Martin said this
Speaker 1: week that he's playing guard. So we've got to wait
Speaker 1: till game day to figure out what they do. And
Speaker 1: you've got to have the contingency in there that the
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith gets hurt, you know, where do you go
Speaker 1: as well? So, gentlemen, I'll start with this, who should
Speaker 1: start right tackle for the Cowboys on Sunday against the Browns?
Speaker 1: Church For me, man, look that that that left tackle
Speaker 1: situation with Tyren Smith. You know, hopefully you know the
Speaker 1: you know, the injury hasn't you know, hampered him in
Speaker 1: any type of way. But just having him over there
Speaker 1: on that left side should be a humongous upgrade for
Speaker 1: this offensive line. I mean, he's on that left side,
Speaker 1: he's on that blind side of Dak Prescott, so when
Speaker 1: he drops back, he shouldn't have to worry about getting
Speaker 1: smacked in the back of the head. Hopefully Tyren's been
Speaker 1: able to hold that side down. But on the right side,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's the trouble part right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, I think you put Terrence Steele,
Speaker 1: if he's healthy in there. You put Terrence Steele at
Speaker 1: the right tackle position. Um. Look, this is a guy,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's an undrafted rookie free agent. Um, he's
Speaker 1: going into what his fourth start throughout the NFL. So
Speaker 1: I think as he continues to play, he'll get more
Speaker 1: confidence in himself and his play will continue to grow.
Speaker 1: But right now, I think that's your best option at
Speaker 1: right tackle, either him or maybe Brandon Knight slides in there.
Speaker 1: But for me, I'm going with Terren Steele. He's had
Speaker 1: his ups and downs, but he's continued to battle and
Speaker 1: I think he'll just get better over time. But what
Speaker 1: we need to fix that that huge problem. We need
Speaker 1: seventy one back. I mean hopefully you know, sooner than later.
Speaker 1: But he'd be a huge band aid on this on
Speaker 1: this oppensive line, as he would if he was able
Speaker 1: to get back. But for me, I got to go
Speaker 1: tearing still at that right tackle position. Yeah, and I'm
Speaker 1: one hundred percent agree with Church, and I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it this way. We hope we get tiring back and
Speaker 1: I hope he's healthy, healthy enough to you know, and
Speaker 1: play the entire game, and then we move over to
Speaker 1: the right side. I would start tearing still, but I
Speaker 1: would have a very very short leash, and if it
Speaker 1: comes down to it, I would go back to what
Speaker 1: we did last week and move to all pro out
Speaker 1: there to right tackle. You know, because if you watch
Speaker 1: the Atlanta game, you see things can go go really bad,
Speaker 1: really quick. So I don't think we want to get
Speaker 1: into situation again to where we end up starting off
Speaker 1: slow because we're not able to take care of that
Speaker 1: right tackle spot. So starts out there, but have a
Speaker 1: real short leash and then go with your best line
Speaker 1: up to protect back and let him make those plays.
Speaker 1: Stay stay with me there, Danny. When you talk about
Speaker 1: the short leash, is it second quarter? Is it halftime?
Speaker 1: I mean when do you Because what you're talking about
Speaker 1: and making that major adjustment of putting um, you know,
Speaker 1: putting Zach Martin out at right tackle, that means you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna switch. You know, You're you're gonna switch your guard.
Speaker 1: Maybe most likely what you what you did last week?
Speaker 1: You switch your guard, center, and your tackle, So you
Speaker 1: went three spots right there. So how soon is it
Speaker 1: for Danny mccraig where you're like, hey, cold Red, get
Speaker 1: this thing on out here, let's make this combination switch
Speaker 1: three guys. Well, well, I'm going this way, and I
Speaker 1: sound like a broken record by saying this. If you
Speaker 1: put still out there, have the game plan ready to
Speaker 1: help him out from the from the start of the game.
Speaker 1: If you're not gonna do that right then you're already
Speaker 1: gonna have an issue. But I'm going series boy series.
Speaker 1: If you get to three to four series in the
Speaker 1: game to where it's really really obvious that there's a
Speaker 1: problem at right tackle and the other team is taking
Speaker 1: advantage of it and focusing on that spot, then you
Speaker 1: got to make the change. You wait till halftime and
Speaker 1: you mess around me. Now, by twenty one, with a
Speaker 1: team that knows how to control the ball, you can
Speaker 1: count that as a loss. Okay, So for you, it's
Speaker 1: probably second quarter when you're talking about making you tu
Speaker 1: about three or four series. Um, it may be second
Speaker 1: quarter when you go ahead and make that move. Here,
Speaker 1: So are the offensive line issues fixable, Danny. Are they fixable? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we saw all fix it. Um you pay, you pay
Speaker 1: guys a lot of money, and then they have to
Speaker 1: go out there and be versatile. They fix it against
Speaker 1: Seattle and you know, push comes to shove. That's the
Speaker 1: same thing that they'll have to do until they're able
Speaker 1: to get seventy one back in tying, you know, for
Speaker 1: fully healthy. So they're able to fix it, and they
Speaker 1: and they can also use the game plan to help them,
Speaker 1: you know, mitigate some of those deficiencies that we have
Speaker 1: on offense due to some of the injuries. But you know,
Speaker 1: they're able to do it. How dangerous can Miles Garrett
Speaker 1: be against this Cowboys offensive line? Church, I'll start with you, man. Look,
Speaker 1: you guys remember that Atlanta game a couple of years back,
Speaker 1: right when there was just a sack parade over there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like Miles Garrett has the ability
Speaker 1: to make that happen this week, especially if he's just
Speaker 1: solely lined up on that right side versus whoever they
Speaker 1: decide to put on that at tackle position. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: this is this is this guy, like I said the
Speaker 1: other day, he's a demon off the edge. This guy
Speaker 1: is a monster. I mean, he's second in the league
Speaker 1: in sacks, and when he gets to the quarterback, it's
Speaker 1: not just you know, let me wrap him up, bring
Speaker 1: him down, let me just put him down a little nicely.
Speaker 1: You know, this guy's coming to the quarterback with a violence.
Speaker 1: I mean he's looking to detach the ball away from
Speaker 1: this quarterback every single time he hits them. So for me,
Speaker 1: I mean, they gotta have a game plan for him
Speaker 1: out there, whether it be like we had you know
Speaker 1: earlier in the season, whether it's chipping with the backs,
Speaker 1: whether if it's chipping with the tight ends. Something's got
Speaker 1: to happen because you do not want to let this
Speaker 1: guy just run rampant through your backfield. I mean, if
Speaker 1: he does and Dak Prescott ends up meeting him in
Speaker 1: the backfield, it's not going to be good for them
Speaker 1: before out there. So for me, I mean, this this
Speaker 1: guy can wreck havoc. He's a game changer. We gotta
Speaker 1: have a plan for this dude. And if we can't
Speaker 1: handle him at the right tackle, man, get the ball
Speaker 1: out of the hands quick I mean three step quick games,
Speaker 1: some type of screen game, or get that man Zeke rolling.
Speaker 1: But we got to figure out some type of plan.
Speaker 1: We can't just let Miles Garrett go out there and
Speaker 1: tee off on Dak Prescott. If we go back there
Speaker 1: and we're throwing the ball fifty sometimes like we've had
Speaker 1: before in games passed, I mean that that feeds right
Speaker 1: up into Miles Garrett's territory and that's what that's what
Speaker 1: he wants. He wants the ability to just rush the
Speaker 1: passer down in and down out. So for me, we
Speaker 1: got to have a plan. But this guy can be
Speaker 1: he can be hell coming off that edge. Yes, same
Speaker 1: for me. But you know, I'm going back to coaching
Speaker 1: on this one, and you watch the film and you
Speaker 1: and you know what type of problems you have on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. I think the best option that you
Speaker 1: have is to take a page out of the Rams playbook,
Speaker 1: you know, a short game. Start off with the short game,
Speaker 1: start off at running and then open up some of
Speaker 1: those D passes. But you have to you have to
Speaker 1: frustrate these guys right the D line. They want to
Speaker 1: rush the passer if they don't have time to do that,
Speaker 1: and you continue that throughout the whole game. These guys
Speaker 1: will get frustrated and you'll be able to do some things,
Speaker 1: you know, deeper down the field as you move on
Speaker 1: through the game, but you have to start with the
Speaker 1: short game and the running game in order to slow
Speaker 1: this passwords down. So I think that's their best bet. Church.
Speaker 1: I'll come back to something you said, and you spoke
Speaker 1: about the Atlanta game a couple of years ago in
Speaker 1: which Chads Green started out there and they left Chad's
Speaker 1: Green all alone, and he kept getting beat by Adrian Clayborn,
Speaker 1: and then they put Byron Bell out there and the
Speaker 1: same thing happened. This is a different coaching staff, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were married to just leaving their tackles out
Speaker 1: there without any help under the previous regime. To me,
Speaker 1: last week gave me the hope that we'll never see
Speaker 1: anything like Atlanta again because they're willing to make the changes.
Speaker 1: And then they even practice it during the week about
Speaker 1: the offensive line combinations, and so that that's where for me,
Speaker 1: I just I just throw that out there, because those guys,
Speaker 1: those guys are going it's a different philosophy. By the way.
Speaker 1: Adrian Clayborne is with the Cleveland Browns, by the way,
Speaker 1: but he's out, so there's right there. These are the
Speaker 1: guys that are currently out for the Cleveland Browns. Greedy
Speaker 1: Williams is out with the shoulder, Adrian Clayboard out with
Speaker 1: a hip, and Tay Davis out with an elbow. Now
Speaker 1: questionable for the Browns as they played the Cowboys on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Guard Joel Patonio with a back, running back Kareem Hunt
Speaker 1: with a groin. He missed two practices, by the way,
Speaker 1: so he had practice all week long. Nick Harris with
Speaker 1: an illness, Jacob Phillips with the knee, Olivier Vernon with
Speaker 1: the abdomen, and Denzel Award their excellent corner with a groin.
Speaker 1: Those gentlemen are all questionable for this football game. Waiting
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys report here, we should probably get that
Speaker 1: maybe top of the hour about who's who's out. I
Speaker 1: don't anticipate anyone out. Tank Lawrence would be the only
Speaker 1: person I can anticipate being out, and I think that
Speaker 1: also would be a game time decision. He's probably going
Speaker 1: to play. That was the most just looking at my
Speaker 1: notes here, That's the most that Mike McCarthy would give
Speaker 1: the Texas media when we were asking him about, like, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on. He's a very secretive guy. He's a
Speaker 1: hockey coach. The hockey coach, and that's that's what Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy is. Man, he's a hockey coach, giving you nothing
Speaker 1: at all. But I'll say this, and you guys know
Speaker 1: this better than me because you've played in this league.
Speaker 1: Knowing that. Taking Lawrence as an injury and he played
Speaker 1: limitedly last week, I'm imagining it's probably going to be
Speaker 1: the same thing that he'll be limited this week if
Speaker 1: he does play. Your thoughts on him a cray, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think he'll be playing. Uh, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how limited he'll be. I think that'll be, you know,
Speaker 1: based on the floor of the game. Uh, if we're
Speaker 1: able to get these guys down and we just need
Speaker 1: our best pass russels out there, I think that he'll
Speaker 1: play a little bit more. But if the game is
Speaker 1: kind of one of those flows where it's going back
Speaker 1: and forth, I think that we'll use them, you know,
Speaker 1: in spot situations to where to where we need him
Speaker 1: the most, and he won't be playing you know, sixty
Speaker 1: and seventy snaps. Look, I just know one thing, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, injury, and he gotta show up. He gotta
Speaker 1: show up, man, and you know, hopefully they get him
Speaker 1: in a you know, a limited basis, maybe just a
Speaker 1: pass rush situations, maybe third downs or whatever. But he's
Speaker 1: got to show up if he's on that field. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we like to say, you know, if, um,
Speaker 1: if you're a player, you know, injuries, they might hamper
Speaker 1: you here and there, but nobody really cares once you're
Speaker 1: on that field. So I'm gonna need him to step
Speaker 1: it up. Take a page out of Alden smith book,
Speaker 1: because for some reason, he's the only one that you know,
Speaker 1: has this thing figured out right now. So he needs
Speaker 1: to step it up because, like I said before, we
Speaker 1: can't have two years back to back where he's not
Speaker 1: our best pass rusher. I mean this, I think this
Speaker 1: defense rides on how how he can be that sparkling,
Speaker 1: how he can be that engine, and we need him
Speaker 1: to be that or it's gonna be a long day
Speaker 1: in Dallas with Cleveland coming in. Okay, So Barry here,
Speaker 1: here's here's my thought on that. I hear you're on
Speaker 1: tank launch. You know you're making the high, you got
Speaker 1: paid the highest contract every cowboy history. You want to
Speaker 1: see some production. But since he's not one hundred percent
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this is if I've ever seen Griffin.
Speaker 1: I on a one year deal. This is my opportunity
Speaker 1: out here to start to start bawling and trying to
Speaker 1: make a difference because I'm trying to get paid. I mean,
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn did an excellent job last year making sure
Speaker 1: he got paid. So you got Alden Smith, who's leading
Speaker 1: the NFL in sacks with four. So if you're Cleveland,
Speaker 1: you're gonna try and make sure that you get some
Speaker 1: pressure over there. So you've got a left tackle and
Speaker 1: Jedrick Willis who's a rookie, So if you're Alden Smith,
Speaker 1: you're trying to you know, you're trying to get over
Speaker 1: there and get at him. So if I'm ever since Griffin, man,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to sit up here and beat Jack Conkling
Speaker 1: and do what I can to get my numbers up,
Speaker 1: because that's one thing we've seen dudes on you know,
Speaker 1: you guys have been there. Dudes in the final year
Speaker 1: of a contract, man, you're trying to make sure you
Speaker 1: get those opportunities and get those numbers up because you
Speaker 1: want to take numbers to the market. And lord knows
Speaker 1: they already saying the salary Cabins going down, so that
Speaker 1: means this is going to be limited funds. So if
Speaker 1: you're ever say Griffin you want to contract, you got
Speaker 1: to bring some big numbers to the market here, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to. But I mean that's all great
Speaker 1: to say on paper, but I mean, what have we
Speaker 1: seen him do lately this season? I mean we you know,
Speaker 1: we want him to go out there and ball out
Speaker 1: and be that Everson Griffin that we saw in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: But for the first three weeks, I mean, we haven't
Speaker 1: really seen much. So it's good to say, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is effort in Gris's chance to go out there and
Speaker 1: ball out and be a difference maker, but yet to
Speaker 1: see that. So until I see something, I'm telling d
Speaker 1: Law you gotta step it up and you gotta be
Speaker 1: that man, because outside of all this Smith, nobody else
Speaker 1: is stepping up. You know. With that, I'll defend Griffin again.
Speaker 1: From this standpoint, we've already seen Tank and Griffins say, look, man,
Speaker 1: we're not feeling this defense. This is not what we do.
Speaker 1: Put me, let me put my hand, let me put
Speaker 1: my hand down and go. I'm just saying this is
Speaker 1: this is what these two guys have told us so far,
Speaker 1: that's all. I mean, you're getting paid million, you get
Speaker 1: paid millions and millions of dollars. I mean it shouldn't.
Speaker 1: We don't. We're not feeling this defense. I mean, y'all
Speaker 1: gotta go out there and perform. I mean all this may.
Speaker 1: He came in here after five years of missing games
Speaker 1: and he's performing great. I mean, you got to figure
Speaker 1: out a way. It's not but he knows all put
Speaker 1: it on the skin. We got. We can't just put
Speaker 1: it on the skin. But Barry, he's played this scheme before.
Speaker 1: He knows. He knows what he's doing in this scheme.
Speaker 1: These other two guys don't. So I go back to
Speaker 1: something that Mike McCarthy said when he got here as
Speaker 1: the head coach. He's like, it's players over a scheme
Speaker 1: that you got to look at your players, do what
Speaker 1: your players do best, and adjust your scheme. So I
Speaker 1: just just just based on what Mike McCarthy said, Barry,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, is, so what are your what
Speaker 1: are your two defensive ends telling you out the gate?
Speaker 1: Hey man, this isn't what we're not feeling what's going
Speaker 1: on here. It's truly not allowing us to do what
Speaker 1: we do on Hey ahead, Danny, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely with Church on this, But to the point
Speaker 1: of the defensive lineman who are struggling, Listen, bro, you're
Speaker 1: making a hundred million dollars. If you don't want to
Speaker 1: take off out of a two point stands, put your
Speaker 1: hand in the ground. I want to see him, Been
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin do what they're best that. This is the
Speaker 1: same thing that we've been we've been echoing the whole
Speaker 1: the whole year. Let the players do what they're best
Speaker 1: at and what it has made them productive. The Marcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence rushing out of two points stan didn't make him productive.
Speaker 1: He's never been productive. He's never done that. So put
Speaker 1: your hand in the ground. You make a hunter of meal.
Speaker 1: I will be a bro. I'm not doing that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out here and do and do what I
Speaker 1: do best and make these plays. And I think that's
Speaker 1: when him and Everyson Griffin needs to do. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see either one of them rushing out of
Speaker 1: a two point stand because that is not what they're
Speaker 1: best at. And and look, it's not like we're asking
Speaker 1: these it's not like, we're asking these dudes to go
Speaker 1: ahead and drop back in coverage and you know, have
Speaker 1: man and man on the tight end while also rushing
Speaker 1: the pastor. I mean we're not We're asking these guys
Speaker 1: to rush the pastor and that's what they've been in
Speaker 1: this league for years doing. They should know how to
Speaker 1: do that scheme or not. I mean, that's all I
Speaker 1: got to say about that. I just feel like, I mean,
Speaker 1: the excuses are out of the gate. We need to
Speaker 1: step it up on a defensive line period. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: that this is good. This is good. This is this
Speaker 1: is why we do this, man, this is why we
Speaker 1: have the back and forth. Ezekiel Elliott. Will he bounce
Speaker 1: back this week? Also, it is an early game for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys on Sunday, starts it new and that's when
Speaker 1: you're in when you're getting ready for the game, you're
Speaker 1: in that kind of brunch mode. You're gonna have breakfast,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have lunch. So we're gonna go over our
Speaker 1: top five breakfast items because personally, to get ready for
Speaker 1: the game, I want to have some breakfast. So we'll
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Speaker 1: So today the three guys who were on it all
Speaker 1: week long, trade Eggs, Tank Lawrence, and Tyrans Smith. They
Speaker 1: have all three as limited for practice on Friday. So
Speaker 1: what Mike mccar arthy told us, Tank Lawrence and Tyrn Smith,
Speaker 1: we're both pretty much on track to play. Tyrant Smith
Speaker 1: from what the way McCarthy put it, expect him to
Speaker 1: start at left Hackle for the Cowboys on Sunday. And
Speaker 1: with Tank Lawrence, I think that he should probably be
Speaker 1: there where he was last week. Could get Seattle, but
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Speaker 1: safeties Danny McCray and Barry Church. All right, gentlemen, it
Speaker 1: is a Neon kickoff. So for me on the media side,
Speaker 1: that means you want to get there at about no
Speaker 1: later than ten thirty and we'd get there earlier if
Speaker 1: there was still one hundred percent full capacity. It's not
Speaker 1: because of COVID nineteen. So about ten thirty I'm getting there,
Speaker 1: which means I still want breakfast. So you guys played,
Speaker 1: what did you guys like? What were your top five
Speaker 1: break because items? As you guys got ready for twelve
Speaker 1: o'clock kickoff, got yeah, yeah. Let me tell you something. Listen,
Speaker 1: I don't before the game. For me, you know, I
Speaker 1: would go in and the breakfast on game day does
Speaker 1: not equal what I really like to eat for breakfast,
Speaker 1: all right, So I'll say I had, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: a scoop of eggs and a piece of bacon because
Speaker 1: I didn't like to eat before the games. It just
Speaker 1: didn't sit right with me. So I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: my regular breakfast met you, which always has to be
Speaker 1: something like chicken and waffles. I need to scrambled eggs,
Speaker 1: and I also order a side of bacon, and I
Speaker 1: got a lot of honey and syrup, all right, and
Speaker 1: then give me give me a tall cup a couple
Speaker 1: of orange juice of emotive if I'm feeling real good.
Speaker 1: But That's where I'm at with it. Chicken and waffles.
Speaker 1: Where do you go get chicken and waffles here in
Speaker 1: Dallas for you gotta yeah, whistle Briches. Uh, they they
Speaker 1: have They have some good chicken and waffles up there.
Speaker 1: They have one in Addison, and they have one out
Speaker 1: here and plain on what's your call again, whistle Bridges. Okay,
Speaker 1: all I never heard of all right, Okay, yeah, they
Speaker 1: got some good stuff, man, check it out. Sure about
Speaker 1: the church out man, give me give me your top
Speaker 1: five church, top five breakfasts? All right, well, definitely. Well,
Speaker 1: first off, man, I used to hate hate noon games man,
Speaker 1: especially when it came to eating breakfast, because I mean,
Speaker 1: you had to get you if you took the early bust,
Speaker 1: which left usually around you know, probably around eight thirty
Speaker 1: nine o'clock just to get to the stadium, so you're
Speaker 1: there pretty early. And the breakfast they have out there is,
Speaker 1: like Danny said, it's kind of a smortgage borg of
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of things. I mean sometimes they have
Speaker 1: the pasta from last night out there and a chicken
Speaker 1: from last night. I mean, it's just some things are
Speaker 1: just you know, it's kind of weird down there in
Speaker 1: the mornings. But for me, I never liked to eat
Speaker 1: heavy because I felt like man around that second quarter,
Speaker 1: second third quarter, it would start to weigh on me
Speaker 1: and I have to you know, I have to go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom and I don't want to miss any
Speaker 1: players or nothing like that. So for me, I had
Speaker 1: the scrambled eggs with cheese, scrambled as with cheese. But
Speaker 1: you know, the cheese probably wasn't a good a good
Speaker 1: choice because I mean, even if I ate light, I
Speaker 1: used to always have to go to the bathroom, so
Speaker 1: cheese wasn't a good choice. But I used to throw
Speaker 1: the cheddar cheese on top of the scrambled eggs, get
Speaker 1: me a side of bacon on there. Um, and if
Speaker 1: I'm feeling if I'm feeling good, if I'm feeling light,
Speaker 1: I might throw a throw a pancake on there. But um,
Speaker 1: that's that's my usual go to before noon games. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I hated doing it, but I needed some
Speaker 1: type of substance before that game. And I mean nine
Speaker 1: times i'd attended it was it wasn't gonna last. You
Speaker 1: don't put ketch up on your eggs, do you? Oh?
Speaker 1: I love it. You gotta you gotta smother them, so
Speaker 1: you put cheese. You put cheese ketchup on your eggs. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've seeing that on your flake and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's that's what's wrong with you, bro, that's y'all don't
Speaker 1: like eggs. I thought everybody did this. That's crazy. No,
Speaker 1: that's that's little stuff. That's little stuff right there. Bro,
Speaker 1: that's nasty, you nasty. Catch up on man knew he
Speaker 1: knew you were you from New you from down south. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So here's here's what I started doing. All right. My
Speaker 1: my dad got stationed um here in fourth Hood in
Speaker 1: the seventies, and that is when I discovered Susa and
Speaker 1: Lo Pico de Guayo. So I have an affinity to
Speaker 1: put that on my eggs, especially if I love a good,
Speaker 1: good breakfast taco. So I like to put some salsa
Speaker 1: on my on my eggs. And that's that. That's that's
Speaker 1: as far as I go. Man, I'm not doing man.
Speaker 1: I can't believe y'all mess with the catch up. I
Speaker 1: can't believe you by yourself. Man, I'm missing out. Many,
Speaker 1: I'm missing out. I'm good. We can have it. So
Speaker 1: so here my top five here, my top five breakfast item.
Speaker 1: So I bacon is number one, man, I love some
Speaker 1: good bacon. I'm into the egg into the eggs, um.
Speaker 1: Because I am from down South. I like some biscuits, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, give some good biscuits man. And then and
Speaker 1: you know good biscuit. Man. Some you can put some
Speaker 1: baking bacon and you know the bacon and the eggs
Speaker 1: on there. That's good stuff. Captain Crunch. If I'm in
Speaker 1: a cereal mode, Oh yes, undefeated baby, you can't go
Speaker 1: wrong with Captain Crunch. And uh a number five for me,
Speaker 1: it's hash Browns. If you can get some good hash
Speaker 1: browns man, with that bacon and those eggs. I used
Speaker 1: to live at the waffle house back in the day
Speaker 1: because it is cheap. Waffle House was cheap, and when
Speaker 1: I was on those early paychecks, man, I could afford it.
Speaker 1: So I love to get some. I love. I still
Speaker 1: love some good hash Browns. So you know it'll give
Speaker 1: me those five breakast items. And and I asked that.
Speaker 1: And we bring this up because the Cowboys kick it new,
Speaker 1: so a lot of folks as they get ready for
Speaker 1: these games, are doing those those breakfasts. Either for me, man,
Speaker 1: a good breakfast taco and especially good risk it man.
Speaker 1: If you get a good risk it breakfast, egg tacos
Speaker 1: cheese on the little but saucy man. Get yourself ready
Speaker 1: for the game, and get ready for kickoff. Man. That's uh,
Speaker 1: that's good stuff right there. Newly, they disrespectful at the wafflehouse. Bro,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Bro, that's the only person the only
Speaker 1: place I know where they will cook your food without
Speaker 1: gloves on or nothing, right in front of your face.
Speaker 1: Like they don't even try to eye it. I you know,
Speaker 1: like I ate it before, but it's it's not my
Speaker 1: place of choice now. Now see, here's a question. Is
Speaker 1: this free or post COVID? You know when you know
Speaker 1: I'm just pre COVID or after COVID. You're talking, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Listen this is I listen, this is this
Speaker 1: is pre COVID. I don't I don't want to listen.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do it, going to go in the
Speaker 1: back of the kitchen, they just be slopping all type
Speaker 1: of the pi piel the cheese off with his head
Speaker 1: and throw it on the grill or the baby. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: what you're doing? That's my food? And then they go
Speaker 1: to the cads rather so they puss in pushing in
Speaker 1: stuff on the cadst go right back to the group. Man,
Speaker 1: y'all got too tickets. I'm just gonna say this, I
Speaker 1: don't know where you're going for your where yours mine is.
Speaker 1: I don't have those issues the people who So I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna simply put in that fashion here, I don't
Speaker 1: know where you are going. I've seen it at multiple
Speaker 1: in different cities, multiple cities, multiple locations, right, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say for me, I haven't had those issues.
Speaker 1: And since COVID has happened, I have a spot that
Speaker 1: I go to and I it's all glove, so it's
Speaker 1: all good. So anyway, I'm just saying I'm sorry for
Speaker 1: your experience. Mind has been a little bit different. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get it right there as you're sitting
Speaker 1: him mess up with southern Southern staple of society here,
Speaker 1: No listen, listen, don't get me wrong. Two thirds in
Speaker 1: the morning, after I leave a nice find establishment, while
Speaker 1: I was listening to some good music, I pull up
Speaker 1: the waffle house. I'm been saying, my choice, I'm not
Speaker 1: going I have to be in that state of mind,
Speaker 1: you know, lea leaving one of those establishments for me
Speaker 1: to go to the waffle house, I don't know. No. Also,
Speaker 1: it's proximitity to the house. I mean, if I was
Speaker 1: still living in Austin, I had a couple of spots
Speaker 1: in Austin that I absolutely loved. If I was covering
Speaker 1: Texas and TCU this weekend down in Austin and I
Speaker 1: got hit up my little breakfast spots. But unfortunately I
Speaker 1: don't have those spots available here to me. By the way,
Speaker 1: Thursday Night football, I don't know if you guys watched it.
Speaker 1: I watched it. It was horrible all my eyes and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out understand. How did the Cowboys
Speaker 1: lose to Adam Gates in the Jets last year? How?
Speaker 1: That's the thing I kept sitting watch that jet. How
Speaker 1: in the world happened last year? We're going there, where
Speaker 1: we're going, We're gonna bring it. We ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: in because it's gonna leave the Garrett talk. I already
Speaker 1: know what this is gonna be. That's what he going again.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let it happen. But I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Adam Gays and Greg Williams, and I loved at the
Speaker 1: end when Vic Fangio ran off the fields like I'm
Speaker 1: not shaking, I'm not shaking out of Gays's hands. But
Speaker 1: how you guys ended this game? So it's not about Jason.
Speaker 1: I just wondered because Scooter mcgrooter also put out the tweet,
Speaker 1: which made me think, as well, yes, you are right, Scooter,
Speaker 1: how did this happen? But yes, so so No, I'm
Speaker 1: not going into the people who are people who are
Speaker 1: not here anymore. I just made me wonder about last week.
Speaker 1: So well, I'll say one thing. I'll say one thing
Speaker 1: about that game yesterday. Both of them teams are down
Speaker 1: right terrible, but I didn't know Sam Donald had wheels
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, did y'all see some of the
Speaker 1: scrambles he was having out there? I mean he made
Speaker 1: a couple of them safeties look crazy out there, and
Speaker 1: then he rushed for like a sixty three yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: I look, personally, I didn't. The game was terrible. Both
Speaker 1: both teams sucked, but I didn't know Sam Donald had
Speaker 1: wheels like that. Man, he's kind of athletic. I missed
Speaker 1: that because I saw people talking about it on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Then I turned the game on it only replay I
Speaker 1: saw was him making it self fall when somebody was
Speaker 1: I think, was rushing to him, and I was like,
Speaker 1: and I turned it right off after. I was like, why, why?
Speaker 1: Why did I let anybody fool me in to turn
Speaker 1: on the Jets versus the Broncos. I would tell you
Speaker 1: that I feel bad for Sam Darnald because it's clear
Speaker 1: the head coach has not made him better. I've seen
Speaker 1: Sam play, you know, watching USC football, and this kid
Speaker 1: right now is not the player he was. They're not
Speaker 1: helping him, and he just he's an inconsistent player. And
Speaker 1: one of the things that's most likely can happen because
Speaker 1: it's the Jets, you know, sitting here with this awful record,
Speaker 1: they may end up with the number one pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. And so you got a lot of people saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're gonna take Trevor Lawrence or I mean, maybe they'll
Speaker 1: take just the fields, take a quarterback. And if I'm
Speaker 1: Sam Jarnald, I'm rooting for that. Get rid of me.
Speaker 1: If that's what I'm If I'm Sam Jonal, get me
Speaker 1: out of here. Let me move on along, because we
Speaker 1: saw what happened to Ryan Tannehill when once he got
Speaker 1: away from Adam Gates. Guy goes out to Tennessee, Resurrects's career,
Speaker 1: and now a guy signed, you know, a huge, huge
Speaker 1: contract in the off season. Here, I think Adam Gates
Speaker 1: is a bad football coach who is riding around living
Speaker 1: off Peyton Manning's recommendation. And I'm sorry. By the time
Speaker 1: Adam Gates was working with Peyton Manning and Denver, Peyton
Speaker 1: was already a Super Bowl winning quarterback. And everybody knows
Speaker 1: that when Peyton Manning went to Denver, they did what
Speaker 1: he wanted to do. He was running practices, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't like Adam Gates was coming up anything created. He
Speaker 1: was just doing what Peyton Manning wanted to do. And
Speaker 1: this man's prolonged this into two jobs. Man, he was
Speaker 1: bad at Miami, and you saw what happened to dudes
Speaker 1: once they got got out of Miami. And now this
Speaker 1: guy's with the Jets and this is a runnerless ship
Speaker 1: and this is a bad football team. And I feel
Speaker 1: bad for Sam Donald. So people talk about Trevor Lawrence. Fine,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, you go out there and ruined your career
Speaker 1: in New York. And if you're saying escape from New York.
Speaker 1: If I'm if I'm Trevor Lawrence and in the football
Speaker 1: season ends and Adam Gates is still the coach, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about coming back for another year. You're not put
Speaker 1: me up there in New York. Man, the history of
Speaker 1: the quarterback, you know, for recently has just not been good.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go there. It's just to me,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just crazy. How you know, Adam Gays
Speaker 1: can continue to get job after job after job. But
Speaker 1: you know, a guy like the enemy down in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: who's doing remarkable things down there with Mahomes and those guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, he seems like he's just stuck in that
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator job. I mean, I mean what you think
Speaker 1: about that? I mean, because I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: Gates just continues to get these jobs. Adam Gates is
Speaker 1: not going to be the head coach of the New
Speaker 1: York chime Jets next year. Okay, that's just it's just
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. It's not sustainable. And with NFL owners
Speaker 1: really pushing to try and get fans in next year,
Speaker 1: I mean all leagues, Okay. Gary Batman has talked about it,
Speaker 1: and the NHL and shows Adam Silver and in the NBA,
Speaker 1: everyone is hoping that in twenty twenty one that they
Speaker 1: can get fans into the stands. Right now, New York
Speaker 1: there's no fans allowed. Um, there's no way they can
Speaker 1: sell to gets to Jet customers if Adam Gaze is
Speaker 1: remaining the head coach. So this is it. So if
Speaker 1: you're Trevor Lawrence, your hope is that somebody comes in
Speaker 1: liking Eric b Ennemy, somebody who who is going to
Speaker 1: who's going to help you as a quarterback. And we've
Speaker 1: seen with Eric b Enemy has been able to do
Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes. They wont an MVP together, They've won
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl together. So that's your hope. And I'll
Speaker 1: say this, I think Eric b Enemy will get a job.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that will help a guy
Speaker 1: like Eric Biennemy, it's gonna be it's gonna be the
Speaker 1: gift of the curse. You're gonna get a job, but
Speaker 1: your contract is not gonna be real great because nobody's
Speaker 1: trying to pat They're gonna have to pay off Adam
Speaker 1: Gaze with the Jets, and what we've seen in the
Speaker 1: past couple of years, the Jets aren't. They ain't spending
Speaker 1: a whole lot of money. So I can see Eric
Speaker 1: B Enemy getting the job. But personally, I would hope
Speaker 1: Eric B Enemy went to a better situation than the
Speaker 1: New York Jets because from the ownership on down, they
Speaker 1: have a lot of problems and there's no talent there.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you watch the game last night, you
Speaker 1: just plu there's no talent with the Jets. So whoever
Speaker 1: the quarterback is and it's gonna be rough. It'll be
Speaker 1: as rough as when Aitman got to the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, where there was just no help around you.
Speaker 1: And that's bad. But Adam Gays overall is an awful coach.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be there. I do believe Eric being
Speaker 1: and he gets a job next year. Your hope is
Speaker 1: that he takes a good job, and that truly is
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Man. You gotta hope you get a
Speaker 1: good ownership and you take and you get a good job,
Speaker 1: because if you're just a coach and they'll allow you
Speaker 1: to pick your staff. And that's one of the biggest
Speaker 1: issues I have with coaching is now you got these
Speaker 1: gms who want to go ahead and pick the staff.
Speaker 1: Now here's how bad the Jets are. They wanted Matt Rule,
Speaker 1: who was coaching at Baylor, but they told Matt Rule
Speaker 1: that you had to take Greg Williams is your defensive
Speaker 1: corder at Adam Gays the offensive order. And Matt Rule said, now,
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'll stay at Baylor. So he stayed at Baylor,
Speaker 1: had a great year. Now he's the head coach with
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers and he's in control of the roster.
Speaker 1: He's got a better job, and we see the Jet
Speaker 1: to where they are. So if you're Eric being to me,
Speaker 1: if somebody's not gonna allow you to beat the head coach,
Speaker 1: where you have final say on the on the fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster and you could be a part of
Speaker 1: the process of selecting players. Don't take the job, man,
Speaker 1: Do not take the job because you will be ruined
Speaker 1: in that fashion if you go that route. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: the point so what point was there uproar with the
Speaker 1: enemy not getting the job in Cleveland? What was he
Speaker 1: up for that job? They interviewed him, They interviewed him.
Speaker 1: I can't and off the tip of my hand, I
Speaker 1: don't really remember what the reaction was up there at all.
Speaker 1: But Andrew Berry, who's running things now, Andrew Berry, who
Speaker 1: actually I know his dad, I know his dad, Drew,
Speaker 1: good guy. But that I have no issues with what
Speaker 1: they did with Kevin Stefanski. I think you looked three
Speaker 1: games into this thing. Kevin Stefanski's at least brought a
Speaker 1: blueprint to the team, and you see what they are now.
Speaker 1: They're running the football. I think they realized that Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield and that's some guy that needs to be dropping
Speaker 1: back thirty times a game and they're trying to protect him.
Speaker 1: So I have no issues with Kevin Stefanci getting them
Speaker 1: getting that job. And also I'm one of those guys
Speaker 1: who for Eric BIENNI like, dude, you don't want to
Speaker 1: go there. Look at there between the GMS and the
Speaker 1: head coach man, this is just not a spot you
Speaker 1: want to go to. So to me, if you if
Speaker 1: you can't get a good job, you're airy bingemy, what's wrong?
Speaker 1: Gonna go back to Kansas City, you know, wait and
Speaker 1: get yourself a good job. They're gonna be jobs open.
Speaker 1: You know, the Atlanta is going to be open, the
Speaker 1: Jets will be open. We know that Okay, there two
Speaker 1: jobs can open right there. And if you're if you're,
Speaker 1: if you're at a spot exactly Atlanta. Atlanta is the
Speaker 1: spot for you. That's a good a good spot. Hey,
Speaker 1: we got to take a break here. Let's get back
Speaker 1: into the Cowboys and Ezekiel Elliott. Can he have a
Speaker 1: bounce back game as they get ready to face the
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Speaker 1: a long time Cowboys reporter joined by former Cowboys safeties
Speaker 1: Danny mc cray at very church. All right, fellas, Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott only had fourteen carries against the Seattle Seahawks, and
Speaker 1: even worse, he only had five carries in the second half. So, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: is this a bounce back game for Ezekiel Elliott? And
Speaker 1: I really shouldn't even say bounceback game? Should I say? Well?
Speaker 1: I should put this way? Well, Kellen Moore, give this
Speaker 1: guy more opportunity. Listen, you took the words out of
Speaker 1: my mother. That's exactly what I was about to say.
Speaker 1: That it is not up to Zeke. That is up
Speaker 1: to the play caller and based on and like I said,
Speaker 1: I only have to go, you know, based off what
Speaker 1: I've seen. And I'm really not sure, you know, because
Speaker 1: I don't know that I did any the identity of
Speaker 1: our offensive. We will come out and try to pass
Speaker 1: or run, so to me, that's up in the air.
Speaker 1: I hope that he gets twenty something carries and Dak
Speaker 1: only throws the ball about twenty five or thirty times.
Speaker 1: That's my hope and dream and wish for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't have any confidence that Keller
Speaker 1: Moore will turn the playbook into focusing on Zeke. For me,
Speaker 1: look like you said, I mean, you made the perfect point.
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to what Kelly Moore decides
Speaker 1: to do as a play caller, especially going against the
Speaker 1: offenses that we're going against. In the Browns, we know
Speaker 1: they're gonna run the rock and they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of time of possession. So for us, we're gonna have,
Speaker 1: you know, minimal chances to strike on offense. And I
Speaker 1: think for us to do that, we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: you know, run the ball with Zeke. I mean if
Speaker 1: if if Kelly Moore allows him to get his you know,
Speaker 1: twenty plus carries and ground this Cleveland Browns defense down, um,
Speaker 1: I think you know he'll be He'll have a bounce
Speaker 1: back game. He'll be able to go out there and
Speaker 1: do what he does best, and that's running pound the
Speaker 1: ball down to these opponent's throats. So for me, it
Speaker 1: all comes down to what Keller Moore decides to do. Um,
Speaker 1: if he does that same thing he did last week
Speaker 1: with the six straight passes, I mean we're gonna be
Speaker 1: in four a long ride because I mean that that
Speaker 1: just brings Miles Garrett into the situation and we don't
Speaker 1: want to do that, man, So we want to frustrate
Speaker 1: him as much as possible. And to do that, you
Speaker 1: got to give the ball to Zeke and hopefully they
Speaker 1: give it to him twenty plus and he's able to
Speaker 1: have that bounce back game that we all need as
Speaker 1: a Dallas Cowboys fans And for any of you folks
Speaker 1: out there who want to who fancy yourselves and some
Speaker 1: analytics guys trying to say that, well, the game script
Speaker 1: dictated that they couldn't run the ball because they were behind.
Speaker 1: They were behind the Atlanta Falcons twenty nine and ten
Speaker 1: at the halftime and the second half. Zeka Elliott had
Speaker 1: ten carries in that football game. They you helped use
Speaker 1: the run game to get themselves back into the football game.
Speaker 1: They did not do that against Seattle. So given zeke
Speaker 1: the football in the second half ten times against Atlanta
Speaker 1: work five times against Seattle did not. Let's make our
Speaker 1: predictions for this football game, Barry Church, I'm going to
Speaker 1: start with you. Who you got, Oh you decided to
Speaker 1: start with me? You know, I'll go ahead and set
Speaker 1: the bar for y'all. I mean, I know what I know,
Speaker 1: y'alla your feed off of what I have. So for
Speaker 1: this one, I'm saying it's a run heavy contest on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, time of possession. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a quick game for me. And so with
Speaker 1: that being said, I got to score seventeen fourteen Dallas.
Speaker 1: They get a late field goal from Greg the leg
Speaker 1: to push them over the top. But for me, it
Speaker 1: comes down to the running games. I think it'll be
Speaker 1: a low scoring seventeen fourteen Cowboys. Okay, alright, alright, alright, listen.
Speaker 1: I have been so low on Baker Mayfield, and that
Speaker 1: is not gonna change this time. I see us going
Speaker 1: thirty thirty one to seventeen Cowboys. I think I think
Speaker 1: we scored some points on these guys, and even though
Speaker 1: we're not able to stop the run, I think we
Speaker 1: caused Baker Mayfield to make some some serious, serious mistakes
Speaker 1: and we get possibly one turnover, and the defense shows
Speaker 1: up just a little bit better than they did against Seattle.
Speaker 1: So I see us for the fourteen point win. Alright, Church, Church,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just give you a couple of stats here.
Speaker 1: That's why I think your prediction is a little bit low.
Speaker 1: Through the first three weeks NFL, NFL teams are averaging
Speaker 1: twenty five point five points a game in three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty nine yards of contest. That's the highest since
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy. So we're seeing a scoring output and Danny
Speaker 1: and I are basically right there together. I'm going Cowboys
Speaker 1: thirty one, Cleveland twenty four. I think the Cowboys end
Speaker 1: up dominating this game, with Cleveland scoring some some good
Speaker 1: old fantasy football garbage points at the end. But I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys realize and no, this is the first
Speaker 1: of three home games in a row. They've got to
Speaker 1: get out here and take control of this. And they
Speaker 1: can't keep talking about correcting mistakes and fixing things. We
Speaker 1: hurt that the second half of last season, and we
Speaker 1: saw it where it got the Cowboys. No more talk.
Speaker 1: It is about doing is Yoda once said, there is
Speaker 1: no try, no do or do not. There is no try,
Speaker 1: and that's where they got to go here. And by
Speaker 1: the way, speaking of of try, I want to amend
Speaker 1: my NBA pick because we have some not Bam out
Speaker 1: of Buyou will not play tonight against the Lakers. So
Speaker 1: Bam out of Bayou with the shoulder is out. We
Speaker 1: got Gordon Drogic with a plan a fashion. I had
Speaker 1: to tear uh, Jimmy Butler. Yeah, man, it's not it's
Speaker 1: not happening for the heat. So just saying it's not
Speaker 1: happening for the heat right now, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: sit with that one. You can conceive, and you can conceive,
Speaker 1: you can conceive, but you're not switching up your We
Speaker 1: gave you opportunities yesterday, man, and you bailed on it.
Speaker 1: You stay strong. That's not the that's not the print,
Speaker 1: that's not the president. We want to sit, bro, because
Speaker 1: after this you will be calling us at halftime trying
Speaker 1: to switch your pick for the Cowboys game. Nah, you
Speaker 1: gotta got sit with us the Cowboy game. Pick us
Speaker 1: on video. I got that on video, so I already
Speaker 1: already on Twitter. Another NFL notes the Titans have more
Speaker 1: COVID cases coming out testing positive according appam Schefter, So
Speaker 1: that Titan Steelers game is not gonna be week seven,
Speaker 1: October twenty fifth, and then the Pittsburgh Baltimore game will
Speaker 1: be week number eight, November first, So adjust your fantasy
Speaker 1: football lineups accordingly. I have James Connor and h James
Speaker 1: unfortunately this weekend. And see what else like it means
Speaker 1: they got to run out Joe Mixon. Yea real quick,
Speaker 1: real quick, real quick, real quick. How how mad because
Speaker 1: because of reports are you know saying that it started
Speaker 1: from a practice squad player on Tennessee? How mad would
Speaker 1: you be if you if your next two or three
Speaker 1: games or postpone because of some guy on the practice
Speaker 1: squad just you know, decided to mess up and go
Speaker 1: get COVID like, how how upset would that make you? Okay?
Speaker 1: Because do they get do they get paid? Do they
Speaker 1: get paid if they don't play? Like if covid situation?
Speaker 1: Are they getting paid for this games too? Well, they're
Speaker 1: still playing the game. It's just basically said on a
Speaker 1: bye week them. So so that's where they're sitting at here.
Speaker 1: And now this practice roster, unlike when you were playing Barried,
Speaker 1: this practice squad roster I has a bunch of veterans,
Speaker 1: so we say practice squads. Truly, we don't really know
Speaker 1: is this some rookie we're talking about or is it
Speaker 1: one of these veterans, because a bunch of these things
Speaker 1: are full with veterans here, so so I know, I
Speaker 1: got to know who the player is. But you know, look,
Speaker 1: we saw the raiders out here this week, you know,
Speaker 1: just forgetting all social distancing power, you know. So so
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be careful about trying to point the
Speaker 1: finger at people who you know, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: we know we don't necessarily know how they got covid
Speaker 1: um and you couldn't you know, you could get it
Speaker 1: just by being at home with someone and somebody else.
Speaker 1: So that's why I'm not ready to point fingers until
Speaker 1: I know a bit more. Now, if we find out, hey,
Speaker 1: this player was you know, frequenting bars or was out,
Speaker 1: then yeah you could say some stuff, but I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: and this right now, in this day and age, man,
Speaker 1: i'd be very careful about just trying to point the
Speaker 1: face and now say you and now you got And
Speaker 1: now they're going with thirteen straight weeks with no bye week.
Speaker 1: Now I mean this because this is considered their bye week.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming so now you got thirteen straight weeks with
Speaker 1: no byewick, I mean I'd be salty, man. That's a
Speaker 1: long season without no break. Telling you keep keeping up? Oh,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, Danny. Now now I'm on a
Speaker 1: different topic. I'm just saying, keep keeping note that three
Speaker 1: weeks in we've had the Raiders out here tripping, We've
Speaker 1: had a practice cloud players possibly go out and be tripping.
Speaker 1: And then we have the coaches who are the NFL
Speaker 1: is thirtain suspending because they don't want to whatever Man's
Speaker 1: gonna sideline. So this is three weeks and we got
Speaker 1: three three things already going on. So you know, we
Speaker 1: got another other fourteen weeks to see see how this
Speaker 1: thing pans out, and Danny, you went right where I
Speaker 1: was getting ready to go. Here, Uh, we're going to
Speaker 1: see more things happen because we're getting ready to go
Speaker 1: into flu, cold and flu season and you're already seeing
Speaker 1: medical experts say this. So look, I anticipate the NFL
Speaker 1: will end up where we saw baseball, where we saw hockey,
Speaker 1: and where we saw the NBA. We'll probably see the
Speaker 1: season have to be pushed out. I do not expect
Speaker 1: the NFL to finish, you know, this this season, and
Speaker 1: the fact, you know, the way they've laid it all out,
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have to see it extended. And
Speaker 1: if it takes that long to play out the season,
Speaker 1: that's fine. But I just think that the Steelers, you know,
Speaker 1: the way this thing has worked out for the Steelers
Speaker 1: in Titans, you know, that's fine. But I just think
Speaker 1: down the road, we're going to see more of this
Speaker 1: and they have to they have to know this is
Speaker 1: going to happen. It's not They're not going to be
Speaker 1: the only team that gets affected by this. So you know,
Speaker 1: this truly is what it is. And unless you're in
Speaker 1: a bubble, in which they're not, it's good it's going
Speaker 1: to happen, and hopefully we'll see I mean college football,
Speaker 1: you know that they're dealing with some of the same stuff,
Speaker 1: the kind of the games we'll see a postponed in
Speaker 1: college football. So the NFL, while it's can handle its
Speaker 1: business a little bit better than college football, we're going
Speaker 1: to see more stuff and just have to see how
Speaker 1: they handle it and how your fantasy rosters get jacked
Speaker 1: around as you have to go deep looking for people
Speaker 1: to plug in there. All right, we're all we're all
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys winning. So the Cowboys win against Cleveland
Speaker 1: at home, that puts him at two and two and
Speaker 1: we'll keep them in first place in the nfcast. That's
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