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Speaker 4: I thought Isaiah maybe would happen schedule.
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Speaker 5: We are playing the Philadelphia Eagles Week one, but we
Speaker 5: do have another game against the Philadelphia Eagles, and then
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Speaker 3: Home and away?
Speaker 5: They're splitting them one home?
Speaker 1: There's okay, I have a Jos Jostradamus moment right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a feeling that we're gonna play the Eagles three
Speaker 1: times this year.
Speaker 3: One would be the playoffs, one more in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: It's just a feeling, just to feel.
Speaker 3: I would love that.
Speaker 1: I think it great.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys go a fair and win.
Speaker 1: All three Cowboys win victory.
Speaker 5: One of them, two of them. Huh ah, three two
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Speaker 3: That's realistic. That's realistic. Now, we've got plenty of notes
Speaker 3: to get to and we'll talk more schedule release in
Speaker 3: the second. In the third segment, we're actually in the
Speaker 3: third segment, we're gonna rank the opponents one through seventeen,
Speaker 3: but we're gonna do it in a blind so it's
Speaker 3: just randomized. They're gonna come through as they come through,
Speaker 3: and then we're gonna rank them from there. That point forward.
Speaker 3: But just like we've talked about multiple times on this show,
Speaker 3: all of the big time news happens after the show
Speaker 3: comes to a club.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you mean what happened last week?
Speaker 3: It happened again? Why George Pickens is now a part
Speaker 3: of the doubts.
Speaker 1: How did you going to talk about the guy from
Speaker 1: the south they called in? Okay, So George Pickens, Yeah.
Speaker 5: That was right after we were talking about wide receiver too. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we were just talking about it, and I was a
Speaker 5: costing Patrick no see Walker for guaranteeing me a wide
Speaker 5: receiver the friday after the draft or no, the next
Speaker 5: week after draft. Anyways, I was just like.
Speaker 1: What you So, it wasn't It wasn't the guy that
Speaker 1: I thought, right, because you guys know I was Hill.
Speaker 1: You thought yeah, But I knew something was happening, right.
Speaker 1: We all knew something was happening, right, because they obviously
Speaker 1: didn't draft anybody.
Speaker 3: They weren't going to sit there and not announce.
Speaker 1: It was going to be a true, one big type
Speaker 1: of situation, right. It was going to be a big splash.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just going to be a guy that can
Speaker 1: come in and fill some type of a role. You know,
Speaker 1: it had to be a big time impact player, which
Speaker 1: is why I was projecting that it was going to
Speaker 1: be that particular individual. However, when you look at them statistically,
Speaker 1: George Pickens actually fairs in a privacy similar sense, if
Speaker 1: not a better sense, in terms of plus twenty yard plays.
Speaker 1: He's going to be a one heck of a deep
Speaker 1: threat for a team that is going to be a
Speaker 1: heavy running team. You started talking about what their identity,
Speaker 1: what they're trying to elicit as their identity going forward.
Speaker 1: They want to be a run first team. And by
Speaker 1: being a run first team, you take the pressure off
Speaker 1: of Dak, You take the pressure off of these receivers
Speaker 1: for having to run forty plus routes a game, and
Speaker 1: now you hopefully can cut that down to twenty five
Speaker 1: twenty five routes a game. And now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you have, out of those twenty five routes, you have
Speaker 1: to distribute the ball between CD scoon Maker. You know
Speaker 1: I'm saying Ferguson and obviously now are a new addition,
Speaker 1: George Pickens. So that's the perfect situation for them. Run
Speaker 1: the ball thirty five times, throw it twenty five times,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of the makeup that they're trying to
Speaker 1: get towards.
Speaker 6: And the good part about wanting to have a heavy
Speaker 6: emphasis on running the ball is it opens up for
Speaker 6: those deep shots that you were Chickens is good at.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 6: The question for me is that I was talking to
Speaker 6: Kyle about this yesterday, is I mean, no quarterback really
Speaker 6: is in terms of like tight window throws and down
Speaker 6: the field ten fifteen twenty yards air yards. Dak Prescott
Speaker 6: hasn't necessarily been the best in those types of situations.
Speaker 4: It hasn't been as strong.
Speaker 6: Suit that said, you know, when you look over the
Speaker 6: course of his career, he really hasn't had a guy
Speaker 6: I think who has the catch radius and athletic ability
Speaker 6: that George Pickens does in the air. I mean, you
Speaker 6: look at Michael Gallup and Amari Cooper. Sure they were
Speaker 6: able to do that, but I don't think they were
Speaker 6: as twitchy and you know, go up and you're you know,
Speaker 6: he he's had a couple of catches where it looks
Speaker 6: like he's laying down in the middle of the air
Speaker 6: and he's still able to come.
Speaker 3: Down horizontal to the ground.
Speaker 6: I don't know if if Dak Prescott's had that before.
Speaker 6: And you look at the the charts in terms of
Speaker 6: where you know, Ceede Lamb and George Pickens catched the
Speaker 6: ball the most, and theybe seem to compliment each other
Speaker 6: really well.
Speaker 4: So charts, this is all, this is all lining up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, charts, charts, traits, characteristics. Yeah, I feel like the
Speaker 5: best comparison that I've seen, and this was Nick Harris
Speaker 5: that brought this up on the Break last week, is
Speaker 5: that he is a gen Z des Bryant.
Speaker 3: See, and that was going to be my one Cowboys
Speaker 3: comparison to what Dak has had in the past from
Speaker 3: me in terms of in terms of des Bryant, that's
Speaker 3: probably the one contested catch guy and athleticism. But I
Speaker 3: think it's a different build of player. There's a different
Speaker 3: type of skill set. And yes they're both contested catch guys.
Speaker 3: Deep threat ability are both there, but Pickens has a
Speaker 3: different edge to him from a from a finesse standpoint.
Speaker 3: He can still have the hands and the finesse that
Speaker 3: maybe Dez didn't necessarily have. Specifically, I think when it
Speaker 3: comes to it, Dak has had receivers in the past.
Speaker 3: He's had Amari Cooper, he's had Dez Brian, He's had
Speaker 3: CD Lamb, He's had Brandon Cooks, Michael Gallup, some of
Speaker 3: these guys along the way. I don't know if I
Speaker 3: can say a pairing fits better together than what they
Speaker 3: have now with CD Lamb and George Pickens solely from
Speaker 3: an x's and o's standpoint, Solely from x's and o's,
Speaker 3: because I know there is some character concern and locker
Speaker 3: room thought process. I don't think it's as big of
Speaker 3: a deal because he's in a proven year, he's in
Speaker 3: a one year deal. He's going to be on his
Speaker 3: p's and q's all the way through the end of
Speaker 3: the season. However, x'es and o's wise, I don't think
Speaker 3: you could have found a perfect fit in a one
Speaker 3: to two punch A one A one b is. Steven
Speaker 3: Jones even talked about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was about to say, they think the same
Speaker 4: way that you're thinking.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: They said that, you know, Stephen Jones on the radio
Speaker 6: yesterday that he feels like Pickens is a one receiver.
Speaker 6: So you've got two ones on the field and you
Speaker 6: can you know that's never going to be a bad thing.
Speaker 4: And you bring up Dez Bryant.
Speaker 6: Well, Steven said that, you know, he reminds a lot
Speaker 6: of people in the Cowboys building about Dez Bryant from
Speaker 6: you know, the contested catchability, but also from the perspective
Speaker 6: of like, hey, you know, he plays with a little
Speaker 6: bit of emotion.
Speaker 4: He plays with an edge to him.
Speaker 6: Sometimes that gets the best of him and that comes
Speaker 6: back to bite him. But they had that with Dez,
Speaker 6: and you know, they know that they're going to have
Speaker 6: that with George Pickens.
Speaker 4: But he made a good point, Kyle. He's going into
Speaker 4: a contract year.
Speaker 6: He has nothing guaranteed in front of him after this season,
Speaker 6: and he's got something to prove, you know, to not
Speaker 6: just to himself, but to everybody out there who's talking about, hey, okay,
Speaker 6: this guy's a locker room cancer, which I don't think
Speaker 6: is the case. The Cowboys did their homework on this
Speaker 6: and they feel like, you know, okay, his teammates liked
Speaker 6: him enough to where he's not going to bring down
Speaker 6: our locker room. Is he very demonstrative sometimes when you
Speaker 6: know maybe he's not getting the ball or the team's losing. Yeah,
Speaker 6: wide receivers do that. I feel like that's that's a
Speaker 6: kind of a comedy. The Lamb did it with wide receivers,
Speaker 6: and maybe he's more demonstrative about it than others are,
Speaker 6: but it's a widespread issue.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 6: That's not to say that, you know, he can't sometimes
Speaker 6: go a little bit too far, but they feel confident
Speaker 6: that he can rein it in and really help this team.
Speaker 3: It's one thing to have one organization say that you
Speaker 3: have had a problem within their walls, like Pittsburgh did
Speaker 3: with George Pickens. It's another thing for the other thirty
Speaker 3: teams in the NFL to see two organizations say the
Speaker 3: same thing. So George Pickens can't afford to come into
Speaker 3: this situation and leave the same way he did with Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: He can't afford to do.
Speaker 5: That, Absolutely not. And another thing about George Pickens that
Speaker 5: this is a contract here for him. I mean, he
Speaker 5: has an opportunity to whether he wants to extend his
Speaker 5: contract with Dallas or get the back somewhere else after
Speaker 5: this season, Right, he has an opportunity. And what better
Speaker 5: way for him to do it than show that he's
Speaker 5: a good teammate, team player. That whole thing.
Speaker 3: I just think.
Speaker 5: I think you bring him in here to fix this
Speaker 5: stuff in a does Brian fashion.
Speaker 3: Do you think it's enough to fix this stuff in
Speaker 3: a does Brian fashion?
Speaker 5: I hope so, I just wanted Chris to use the drop.
Speaker 1: Ye, sorry about that. I'm kind of over the narrative
Speaker 1: of passionate players who lose themselves emotionally being a detriment
Speaker 1: to a team. I'm kind of over that. He is
Speaker 1: a younger player who still has some maturing to do,
Speaker 1: but he has the one element of his game that
Speaker 1: you can't teach, and that's passion. So people say that
Speaker 1: they want passionate players, but they want it in a
Speaker 1: controlled environment somehow, some way. When you're playing one of
Speaker 1: the most violent games on Earth, you can't have everything.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, people, you know what I'm saying. And all
Speaker 1: players aren't made the same. Every team has goons on
Speaker 1: an offense, as at the receiver position, tight end position,
Speaker 1: old line position, running back. Everybody has a goon. They
Speaker 1: have a guy in every meeting room that is looked
Speaker 1: at as being that guy who has the attitude, who
Speaker 1: has a whose passion comes through more boisterous than others,
Speaker 1: you know, saying, So stop trying to make everybody look
Speaker 1: the same, right, So, yes, he gets penalties from time
Speaker 1: to time. Yeah, because he needs to get somebody to
Speaker 1: coach him up on how to harness that energy.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like people having a one up on him.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like losing. Right. People look at last year
Speaker 1: and what he did to Jordan Lewis they were losing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Jordan said something to him and it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't.
Speaker 4: It didn't sit.
Speaker 1: Well, right, He's a competitive guy. Kids throw tantrums. Adults
Speaker 1: are growing. Your kids growing to adults. Right. If that,
Speaker 1: if that problem isn't fixed, then it's gonna continue to
Speaker 1: be the same way, displayed, the same way. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity for this coaching staff to help him develop.
Speaker 1: There's an opportunity for Ceedee Lamb, who I'm on record
Speaker 1: at Kyle Knows in the pre and post game show
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys from Pregame Live talked about multiple
Speaker 1: times about how Ceedee Lamb needed to grow up last year.
Speaker 1: I was very vocal about that, especially early in the season,
Speaker 1: especially early in the season when he was throwing a tantrum.
Speaker 1: And then there was one time, I don't remember what
Speaker 1: game it was, where Ceedee Lamb was literally on the
Speaker 1: sideline throwing a tantrum, literally throwing a tantrum. Helmet is
Speaker 1: going around throwing his arms up, really bad body language,
Speaker 1: and that got caught on film. You remember I told you,
Speaker 1: I said, this is gonna be a one heck of
Speaker 1: a moment for him because for the first time he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to see himself.
Speaker 3: It's a Raven's game Week three last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had to see himself all over social media,
Speaker 1: all on national network television. And when you see yourself,
Speaker 1: when your face with looking at yourself in the mirror,
Speaker 1: you're like, that's what I look like. Everybody has been there, right,
Speaker 1: whatever issues we may have as human beings, when we
Speaker 1: see it as somebody else, we're like, Eh, that's that's me.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I look like. And then what happens,
Speaker 1: that's your aha moment. CD started changing, and his CD
Speaker 1: started blocking, and his CD started acting differently in terms
Speaker 1: of his leadership. He maybe he was thinking the same things,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't coming out of his mouth right. So,
Speaker 1: whether somebody got in his hand, whether it was him
Speaker 1: seeing himself, whatever it was, he took steps forward and
Speaker 1: matured as a receiver like that.
Speaker 5: And he's not on the season. He's not one of
Speaker 5: those demonstrative leaders. He's not going to be verbose. He's
Speaker 5: not going to be talking constantly on the sidelines in
Speaker 5: a way that he just leads by example. He's doing
Speaker 5: what he needs to do on the field. He's about
Speaker 5: his business. Early on in the season last year, I
Speaker 5: was very critical of Ceedee Lamb. I was critical of
Speaker 5: the fumbles and just like looking overall not prepared, and
Speaker 5: a big part of that was losing out on training camp.
Speaker 5: He wasn't there, you know, but he got in a
Speaker 5: groove and obviously towards the end of the season he
Speaker 5: was the most valuable player hands down.
Speaker 3: And he did it without Dak Prescott at quarterback and
Speaker 3: a lot of that did it without a shoulder.
Speaker 5: Dude, it was amazing what he was able to accomplish.
Speaker 5: You bring a guy like George Pickens into not be
Speaker 5: the wide receiver too, but like we're talking about being
Speaker 5: a wide receiver, one b learn to learn with a
Speaker 5: leader next to him like CD and I don't know, man,
Speaker 5: like I guess an example that I can give you
Speaker 5: is Draymond Green. I don't like Draymond you gotta have him,
Speaker 5: but it's nice to have him on your team. He's
Speaker 5: won a lot of champions He's won a lot of championships.
Speaker 5: May not like him, you may not like to go
Speaker 5: up against, but that is a dog.
Speaker 1: Draymond, Kevin Willis, freaking Kevin Willis, Dennis Robman, listen, but
Speaker 1: even just look Cooper flag just yeah, look like this team.
Speaker 1: Look at his team offensive line. Who's your goon? Who Hoffman? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's there, right, He's gonna get you a penalty at
Speaker 1: some point, it's gonna happen. Yeah, but you take that
Speaker 1: because you need that dog on it. Okay, let's go
Speaker 1: to the defensive line.
Speaker 5: Who's your guy?
Speaker 1: Micah Micah, Sam Williams. You know what I'm saying, Like, oh, say,
Speaker 1: he's more, he's more, he has it together, right, I
Speaker 1: would say, but in terms of emotions coming to that's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's what I'm talking on
Speaker 1: the field, Like, Okay.
Speaker 5: So he's all those penalties that you can go.
Speaker 1: Outside of the specialist, you're gonna find one guy in
Speaker 1: every single room who just has that passion that you
Speaker 1: gotta rank. You just gotta rank, you gotta hone it in. Right,
Speaker 1: you got a real women. Sometimes you know what I'm saying, Kyle.
Speaker 1: Sometimes pre cage I got real Amen. Sometimes you know
Speaker 1: he goes crazy. But it's okay. People. I'm saying all
Speaker 1: that to say it's okay and you actually want that, right.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna be a running team as a receiving group,
Speaker 1: everybody can't be nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And one of them in our writers room and his
Speaker 5: name is Tommy Yarish.
Speaker 3: That's what it is.
Speaker 5: Pure dog.
Speaker 3: Somebody in our chat brought it up and said, maybe
Speaker 3: this is a way for Jerry to kind of test
Speaker 3: what Schottenheimer was talking about in his opening press conference
Speaker 3: where he said, I'm great with x's and o's, or
Speaker 3: excuse me, I'm good with x's and o's, but I'm
Speaker 3: great with people, and this is an opportunity to do that.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I cut you off.
Speaker 6: You can have a great culture, but you still need
Speaker 6: guys with an edge.
Speaker 4: I feel like every winning football team.
Speaker 6: When you think about great foot ball teams, even here
Speaker 6: in the past, I mean you think about Michael Irvin,
Speaker 6: and he was he was the ultimate picture of passion
Speaker 6: and you know, sometimes it might get a little over
Speaker 6: the boilover, but he's the playmaker. He made plays and
Speaker 6: you know, I'm not saying that George Picktens is gonna
Speaker 6: have the same impact Michael Irvin does, but in terms
Speaker 6: of the passion and how he demonstrates it, you need that.
Speaker 4: You need that.
Speaker 6: We can't just all be you know, putting our arms
Speaker 6: around each other doing the rockets.
Speaker 3: Stand by name name.
Speaker 1: Championship team. Name a championship team in any sport where
Speaker 1: you can't point to say that's the guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, look at last year. I think Jalen
Speaker 6: Carter is that for Philadelphia. You can you can look
Speaker 6: at a lot of different guys on that roster that
Speaker 6: that have done.
Speaker 5: They got a few of them.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson and those guys out there with like you
Speaker 1: got you have multiple, I gotta have some.
Speaker 4: You gotta have some mean, mean guy like this. This
Speaker 4: is a nasty sport.
Speaker 5: It's not a nice game.
Speaker 6: They said, no, we're not. You know, it's not like
Speaker 6: rockabye baby. But when you put somebody down on the ground,
Speaker 6: you're hitting.
Speaker 1: You're hidden cast bro like you're trying to take people's
Speaker 1: soul every single place. But outside of that, let's look
Speaker 1: at the positive addition. Right, If this is going to
Speaker 1: be a run first team The most dangerous thing to
Speaker 1: a secondary is now play action. Right, it's now play action.
Speaker 1: Now you have two guys who legit can get behind
Speaker 1: your safeties. You have two guys that can run routes.
Speaker 1: When you think about some of the best combos in
Speaker 1: the NFL, right, we did this last week on Good
Speaker 1: Morning Football, the best receiving combos in the league. I
Speaker 1: started making the list. It's freaking extensive. Now, how many
Speaker 1: teams have nice one to two punches, Yeah, right.
Speaker 3: Your whole decision for maybe the Giants, but they have
Speaker 3: molite Bibbers. Who's still a doug facts. Yeah, most teams
Speaker 3: have a possession guy and a deep threat guy. That's
Speaker 3: usually the combination that you have. And in case of
Speaker 3: the Cowboys, both of these guys are possession guys. Both
Speaker 3: of these guys are deep threat guys. Oh and by
Speaker 3: the way, you have tight ends that can work underneath.
Speaker 1: Right. So when you start thinking about the identity of
Speaker 1: this team and what they're trying to do offensively, this
Speaker 1: goes with it.
Speaker 5: This keeps two safeties deep, honest, keeps two deep.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and roll down to one safety. I dare
Speaker 1: you if you roll down to one safety, that means
Speaker 1: that you are literally choosing which one of these guys
Speaker 1: that you want to double if you are doubling them,
Speaker 1: and if you're doubling one, one guy's isold.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, one of the conversations that I had when
Speaker 3: well before they even were in the mix for pickings
Speaker 3: or they were looking at trade and wide receiver. Actually
Speaker 3: I think it was before the draft. I was asked
Speaker 3: or I asked the question, what are you looking for
Speaker 3: in a wide receiver too? Where do you feel like
Speaker 3: you have to go? And the answer I got was
Speaker 3: they want somebody that if ced Lamb is completely shut down.
Speaker 3: Let's say he's completely taken out of the game, he's
Speaker 3: got two receptions for sixteen yards, that's it. Can someone
Speaker 3: else on this roster get you one hundred and fifty yards?
Speaker 3: Can somebody get you a buck fifty? If ceed Lamb's
Speaker 3: completely negated in the game plan and it just doesn't
Speaker 3: happen a lot. But if it does, does Jalen Tolbert
Speaker 3: get you one fifty? Does Cavante Turpin get you one fifty?
Speaker 3: Does Jonathan Mingo gets you one fifty? No, they didn't
Speaker 3: feel like that, and don't I don't disagree. I think
Speaker 3: they had to go get a guy, and all these
Speaker 3: other names that surfaced along the way, the ones that
Speaker 3: were on other teams that we can't talk about specifically
Speaker 3: on this show, the ones that were a free agency,
Speaker 3: like Amari Cooper. Do you feel like this year twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five, Amari Cooper could get you one fifty? Probably
Speaker 3: it's borderline he got Cleveland had some big games from Amari,
Speaker 3: but he would disappear at times too, So he's a buffalo.
Speaker 3: George Pickens exactly. George Pickens can get you one fifty.
Speaker 3: George Pickens can help set the table and be that
Speaker 3: guy outside of Ceedee Lamb. And so you have not one,
Speaker 3: but two guys that you can rely on specifically. So
Speaker 3: you said run first, offense and play action. I'm looking
Speaker 3: at this as they're saying they want to run the ball.
Speaker 3: They drafted an offensive lineman, They're going to be physical
Speaker 3: on the interior.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: Still a question market running back, but you've got two
Speaker 3: dogs at wide receiver. Do you feel like they can
Speaker 3: set that up the right way or is this going
Speaker 3: to be a pass heavy off this?
Speaker 1: I think they want to be two tight ends. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, probably fifty percent of the time. And I
Speaker 1: think that they want to they want to run the ball,
Speaker 1: and then when you get nosy, they're gonna obviously, you
Speaker 1: got ced lamb, you're gonna throw the ball. You got
Speaker 1: your spickings, You're gonna throw the ball. But I think
Speaker 1: that in a perfect world they want to go two
Speaker 1: tight ends and they want to make you make some decisions,
Speaker 1: make some business decisions. Well, I thenk they want Ferguson
Speaker 1: and Schoolmaker on the field. They want CD and George
Speaker 1: Pickens on the field, and they'll put whatever running back,
Speaker 1: whatever running back back there because we have a beastable
Speaker 1: old line. Hopefully that's the intent to be able to
Speaker 1: move guys off the line of scrimmage, that's what they want.
Speaker 1: And then third, now situations depending on who's going to
Speaker 1: step up now to be a wide receiver, three, who's
Speaker 1: going to be the slot guy? You know, is it
Speaker 1: going to be a situation where I think it's either
Speaker 1: where Turpin can make this take steps forward right now.
Speaker 1: If Turpin makes steps forward, when you go to eleven personnel,
Speaker 1: now you can put CD in a slot and you
Speaker 1: put Turping outside if he develops that as a receiver,
Speaker 1: like we know that he his abilities will allow him
Speaker 1: to be he has to put it in the works.
Speaker 3: Played about two hundred snaps in the slot too last year.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean the versatility that you have. Have
Speaker 1: you ever looked at the specs of CD and Pickings
Speaker 1: like it's like almost identical. Yeah, like high weight speed
Speaker 1: is crazy.
Speaker 5: The I love the idea that, like, the best that
Speaker 5: you've seen the Dallas Cowboys offense over the past three
Speaker 5: or four years is when you're feeding CD Lamb far none.
Speaker 5: This move just gives that more credence. You are able
Speaker 5: to feed CD more when you have a guy like
Speaker 5: George Pickens on the outside who is a threat. What
Speaker 5: we've talked about before, the the how awful and sputtered
Speaker 5: along the offense was last year, it's because all we
Speaker 5: really had in terms of a threat was CD Lamb.
Speaker 5: You get another guy that's comparable, that's versatile, that you
Speaker 5: can do all these things with, it just opens that
Speaker 5: up for CD Lamb. But also you can throw to him.
Speaker 5: You know, come on, dude, I love.
Speaker 6: Think I think to add on to that, you know,
Speaker 6: part of where I think the Cowboys offense has been
Speaker 6: at their best with Dak Prescott is when he gets
Speaker 6: to play action, I think quarterback, I think.
Speaker 4: That's his best defense.
Speaker 5: They can fall for it right and years, you know.
Speaker 6: And Asaiah mentioned, Okay, if you want to bring a
Speaker 6: safety down, you're doubling one guy. Are you leaving George
Speaker 6: Pickens one on one? If he's covered by a corner,
Speaker 6: You're like, yeah, you know, we're good. Okay, somebody's in
Speaker 6: the scene as a tight end. Somebody's crossings as a
Speaker 6: tight end, or Jalen Tolb or something like that. So
Speaker 6: they've got options. And Dak Prescott is a smart enough
Speaker 6: quarterback to make the right decision most of the time.
Speaker 6: I think one of the things that I would like
Speaker 6: to see is how Brian Schottenheimer wants to use Jaden
Speaker 6: Blue because when you watch his tape at Texas, Steve
Speaker 6: Sarkisian loves the orbit motions and to get their running
Speaker 6: backs moving early before the snap and just get it
Speaker 6: quickly out to them in space. If you're going to
Speaker 6: run play action, can you incorporate that kind of stuff
Speaker 6: into it? And can you get Jayden Blue the ball
Speaker 6: in space? Because he's going to be a guy.
Speaker 4: Sort of like Cavante Turp. But I think they can
Speaker 4: fill them.
Speaker 3: They use both those guys as similarly, right, And.
Speaker 6: If you can get in on that and get them
Speaker 6: into open space, how does that change your offense?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 6: Can you run the ball well enough to a point
Speaker 6: where they've got to respect that. I think there'll be
Speaker 6: more balanced than people think between run and pass. But
Speaker 6: there's a lot of fun things you can do with
Speaker 6: the players on this team now that you've got George Pickens.
Speaker 3: It's crazy how much they're going to have to build
Speaker 3: that balance. I was going through the stats from last year,
Speaker 3: updating the Spotterer boards, like I said last week, and
Speaker 3: one of the stats that jumped out of me was
Speaker 3: the fact that out of the three hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: seven first downs the Dallas had last year, one hundred
Speaker 3: and ninety two were through the air and only ninety
Speaker 3: eight were on the ground. They had ninety four more
Speaker 3: first downs through the air than they had on the
Speaker 3: ground last year, which is a wild statistic. If you're
Speaker 3: wanting to try and find a balance, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of imbalance there. Now we've got to take our first Brock.
Speaker 3: I know, what do you want to say? Go ahead
Speaker 3: and at it, because we're going to talk to schedule.
Speaker 1: I'm just being a football nerd. I'm just I'm ready
Speaker 1: to until you're excited about it. No, I'm excited about today.
Speaker 1: Say I'm in Pittsburgh. Yeah, I'm very excited about the potential.
Speaker 1: I'm my thought they just came across my head that
Speaker 1: nobody else probably cares about, is I'm intrigued, and I'm
Speaker 1: interested in seeing what the offensive line splits look like.
Speaker 1: I care, Yeah, I care. I want to see what
Speaker 1: the splits are like. Thinking about blue everybody here cares. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but I'll know home. I don't know if
Speaker 1: our listeners understand the complexity.
Speaker 3: And well, then we've got to teach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to teach them.
Speaker 3: We'll go to teach.
Speaker 5: We'll teach them up.
Speaker 3: It's a long way to a lot of them. Do
Speaker 3: a lot of football, all right, a lot of football
Speaker 3: to go, including eighteen games eighteen weeks of a schedule,
Speaker 3: not eighteen games. Yeah, it's coming up. But we're the
Speaker 3: first game, baby, first game of the year. What happened
Speaker 3: to the Eagles late in the schedule. We'll talk about
Speaker 3: how the Cowboys are going to open against the defending
Speaker 3: Super Bowl champs. When we come back with more talking
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Speaker 3: So America's stream is what it is.
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Speaker 3: And don't high five me. I didn't kind of so
Speaker 3: our YouTube comment of the day, Rashad says, where is
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Speaker 1: As h bro, He's just I haven't The thing is
Speaker 1: I haven't lifted all I've been doing is cardio?
Speaker 5: Give me a broco lesson, Dude, give me bro I got.
Speaker 1: I am trying not to lift weights.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, trying not to.
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Speaker 1: if I lift weights, I get I get too big.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, be from Ohio. Yeah. He inspired me. So I'm
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Speaker 3: All right. Cowboys Eagles Week one freaking go Thursday night
Speaker 3: in the opener.
Speaker 1: Of the year.
Speaker 3: The Eagles will be hanging a super Bowl banner at
Speaker 3: Lincoln Financial Field in front of the album.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know who's gonna be working on
Speaker 1: that Thursday night?
Speaker 3: We are, right, and then we're gonna turn around and
Speaker 3: be back on Friday. Hey, look, we've got a graphic there.
Speaker 3: It is NFL Kickoff.
Speaker 5: That's right, we'll be on the dot com side of fact.
Speaker 5: What's bald fade? Let's go will be in his face?
Speaker 1: Huh?
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Speaker 3: a big night Thursday night, and then the Cowboys have
Speaker 3: to wait until they're Week two matchup with a little
Speaker 3: early mini bye. My question to you is, of course,
Speaker 3: Brian Schottenheimer's making his debut and he's going to do
Speaker 3: it on the road against Philadelphia first week of the year,
Speaker 3: defending Super Bowl champs. All of those things line up,
Speaker 3: But you would you rather this early, that trip to
Speaker 3: Philadelphia early, or have it later in the season one
Speaker 3: way or the other.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm kind of mad that this is not
Speaker 1: an international game. Honestly, ky I feel like they just
Speaker 1: don't want Dallas to play you on international games. How
Speaker 1: many years. Has has been ready for a while.
Speaker 3: Twenty seventeen was the last.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's madness, right, all these you can tell you
Speaker 1: eleven international games, we don't get none of them, crazy,
Speaker 1: but you know we got the first game. I like
Speaker 1: the fact that you start off with the Eagles. I
Speaker 1: like it. You get an idea of where you're at early. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: you get whether you win or whether you lose. Obviously
Speaker 1: you want to win, but whether you win or whether
Speaker 1: you lose, you're gonna learn a lot about your team
Speaker 1: that day, and you will be able to make adjustments,
Speaker 1: and you will have time to make adjustments prior to
Speaker 1: your second game in a season. So win or lose
Speaker 1: as long as it's competitive, as long as you have
Speaker 1: an identity that day, you try to impose your will
Speaker 1: on them and you find out where you're at. Obviously
Speaker 1: you hope that you end up with a dub at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, but either way, I think
Speaker 1: that you will have a good idea of where you
Speaker 1: stand with your team because you have just played the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 5: And it allows you to not get too high or
Speaker 5: too low, because if you beat the Eagles, you do
Speaker 5: it on a team that just played definitely late, a
Speaker 5: lot later than you have, and I think at least
Speaker 5: for the Cowboys, it's like, don't let that get to
Speaker 5: your head. If you win that game, it is an
Speaker 5: early barometer of what you said. You have an idea
Speaker 5: of what the team is going to be, and then
Speaker 5: you build from there. First game is not always an
Speaker 5: indication of who's going to win this who knows. See
Speaker 5: many many times we saw a tea the Lion, the
Speaker 5: Lions beat the Kansas City Chiefs opening night? Was that
Speaker 5: two years ago?
Speaker 1: Come on?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: Was it hot last year?
Speaker 5: Indicator of anything? Yeah, you gotta stick, you gotta play,
Speaker 5: And I love it, especially for a Brian Schottenheimer who
Speaker 5: it's like, you're taking this job, and this is what
Speaker 5: you're taking this job for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go under the lights, prime time on the road.
Speaker 5: Don't interview for this job unless unless you want to
Speaker 5: be in a situation like this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right into the fire.
Speaker 1: I think you know.
Speaker 6: The interesting part is, like Asaiah made the point I
Speaker 6: was talking to Nick even about this yesterday's you don't
Speaker 6: really know what a team is until probably week two,
Speaker 6: I think he said, week two.
Speaker 4: I think maybe I give it a Nate says Thanksgiving,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't trust him more.
Speaker 6: But you know that that first game is always so
Speaker 6: interesting because you've just got a bunch of pent up, like, oh,
Speaker 6: finally we get to play somebody that's not us, like
Speaker 6: you've been practicing against each other for so long. And
Speaker 6: in the Cowboys case, it's interesting because they've got to
Speaker 6: sit out there for however many minutes before the game
Speaker 6: and watch the Eagles put up a super Bowl banner
Speaker 6: and it's their biggest rival on the opening night, So
Speaker 6: that hasn't led a fire under your belly as a competitor,
Speaker 6: and you don't really have.
Speaker 1: A great football team.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: I mean, if that doesn't get you fired up and
Speaker 6: ready to play, then then that's get to play.
Speaker 4: I think that's telling. Yeah, you got to try to play.
Speaker 6: Spoiler obviously, you know, regardless of whether they come out
Speaker 6: of there with a winner a loss, it's not going
Speaker 6: to derail their season or you know, say they're going
Speaker 6: to the super Bowl, but it's it's an early chance
Speaker 6: for Brian Schottenderheimer to show, Okay, this we've been talking about, Hey,
Speaker 6: we're gonna play physical, we're going to run the football,
Speaker 6: and we're gonna have a great culture it is. This
Speaker 6: is the spotlight for him to do that, not just
Speaker 6: in front of Cowboys fans and Eagles fans, but in
Speaker 6: front of the entire football world. So he's got a
Speaker 6: chance to show, Hey, his dad had Marty ball, What's
Speaker 6: what's what's shotty ball?
Speaker 1: What's what's Brian ball?
Speaker 3: I feel like sounds like somebody's name.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like what shotty ball look like?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 6: And so he's got a chance to prove he goes.
Speaker 6: He has a chance to show people what that is
Speaker 6: and it's it's cooking to the way it cooks up.
Speaker 6: Is for him to have a really good chance.
Speaker 5: To do that, they'll be shaking in your boots, buddy,
Speaker 5: it's time to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get after it. The one thing about this game, too,
Speaker 3: is that lead into week two, that extra couple of
Speaker 3: days because you get the benchmark, you get that opportunity early,
Speaker 3: and then you get to reset and go for the
Speaker 3: rest of your schedule. It's not like it's a preseason game,
Speaker 3: because it certainly counts and there's a lot you can
Speaker 3: gain from it, but you get that extra many buy
Speaker 3: to go into week two, and it's I mean most
Speaker 3: likely we don't know what the schedule is going to
Speaker 3: look like, but most likely that would be your home
Speaker 3: opener or another I mean either or most likely going
Speaker 3: to be your home opener. You get a chance to
Speaker 3: come home after a little couple days of rest, go
Speaker 3: up against the team that you could possibly beat in
Speaker 3: week two and other guys.
Speaker 1: You get to watch football. That's the other thing from
Speaker 1: a player standpoint. You know, obviously you play that game
Speaker 1: on Thursday, you get a couple of days of rest,
Speaker 1: and then on Sunday, most likely there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: day where you're allowed to sit and watch the rest
Speaker 1: of the league. Right, just see, Hey, okay, this is
Speaker 1: what you've already watched your film multiple times over by
Speaker 1: that point. Now you get to sit back on that
Speaker 1: Sunday and watch everybody else, right, you just see, Okay,
Speaker 1: how do we fair in comparison to everybody else? What
Speaker 1: is the rest of the league doing? Right? What are
Speaker 1: some of the schemes that they're doing? What are some
Speaker 1: of the offense? Like you get a chance to look
Speaker 1: at it, you know, back away from your own team
Speaker 1: and see what everybody else is doing. I think that's invaluable.
Speaker 5: You get to do a little survey.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, give the entire league.
Speaker 4: You have to do a survey.
Speaker 6: But I think it sets up pretty well for this
Speaker 6: coaching staff too, from a game plan perspective, because now,
Speaker 6: I mean, you've got all the time in the world
Speaker 6: anyways for your first week game, but you can look
Speaker 6: at look ahead a little bit and start piecing things
Speaker 6: together as far as the Eagles go, and then you've
Speaker 6: got a couple extra days to relax and get ready
Speaker 6: to recover physically and then get ready for the next
Speaker 6: team that you're playing. So it sets up well from
Speaker 6: a scheduling standpoint to where you can come into Week
Speaker 6: two pretty refreshed playing against a team that does not
Speaker 6: have as long as a break as you have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the rest of the schedule comes out seven
Speaker 3: o'clock tomorrow Central time. Seven o'clock Central Time is when
Speaker 3: everything will be released, and we'll get to talk about
Speaker 3: kind of the rest of the schedule next week on
Speaker 3: Talking Cowboys. Is this Eagles game. I'm excited about it.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a lot of fun Thursday night.
Speaker 3: You get the entire league on top of you. By
Speaker 3: the way, the uh Chris Beam said twenty fourteen against
Speaker 3: the Jags was the last four.
Speaker 5: That's a long time, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Played in over a decade. That's why there's a reason
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 1: There is I mean Thanksgiving, I get it.
Speaker 3: Well, not even Thanksgiving. But the ratings from a Cowboys
Speaker 3: standpoint is going to be the same whether you're playing
Speaker 3: in Carolina or in London, and they're not going to
Speaker 3: try and disrupt a whole lot of that. I think
Speaker 3: it's a ratings thing more than anything.
Speaker 4: I feel like they'll get one soon.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they'll have to at some point. You got
Speaker 3: to be in the rotation.
Speaker 5: Can we given a poem game either? Baby?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I thought this was going to be the game to
Speaker 1: the year. Yeah, because they literally have a ton of
Speaker 1: international games. They're going to Madrid, they're going to the London,
Speaker 1: They're going to uh with Dublin, They're going to they're
Speaker 1: all over.
Speaker 3: The Week one, they're in sal Paolo, Brazil, Chargers versus
Speaker 3: a TVD opponent h September twenty eighth, it is the
Speaker 3: Vikings and the Steelers in Dublin, Ireland. That's gonna be sweet,
Speaker 3: that's awesome. And then the Vikings stay in Europe. They
Speaker 3: go Week four in Dublin.
Speaker 5: Week five, the pre gaming in Dublin, the.
Speaker 3: Vikings play the Browns the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Speaker 1: Like the Vikings get two games international back to back.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Come on, they could have
Speaker 1: given one of those of Dallas.
Speaker 3: I mean the week six Broncos Jets in London, Week
Speaker 3: seven Rams Jags in London, Week nah or Week ten
Speaker 3: Falcons Colts in Germany.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like that's in the Jags,
Speaker 1: like statute of limitation, Like, yeah, we're playing, We're playing
Speaker 1: in London every year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well there he has they're the favorite to possibly
Speaker 3: move over there.
Speaker 1: Well he has a soccer team over there too. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Week eleven Commanders Dolphins in Spain.
Speaker 5: That's the spun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know anyase.
Speaker 3: All right, I've got a game for you, guys. I
Speaker 3: got a game coming up on the other side of
Speaker 3: the break. I want to rank blind rank all seventeen games.
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Speaker 3: To Talking Cowboys. Back here on Talking Cowboys with Tommy Yarish,
Speaker 3: Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah Stanback, I'm Kyle Yeomans with Chris Beam
Speaker 3: in the back. I disagree, all right, this is going
Speaker 3: to be based on toughness. Schedule toughness based on the
Speaker 3: divisional opponents, the conference opponents, and the interconference opponents that
Speaker 3: the Cowboys are going to face this year. Of course,
Speaker 3: you get two games against the NFC East, you get
Speaker 3: one game each, two on the road, two at home
Speaker 3: against the NFC North this year that's the Packers, Vikings, Bears,
Speaker 3: and Lions. Your conference opponents this year end up being
Speaker 3: the Cardinals and the Panthers. Your interconference opponents out of
Speaker 3: the AFC West are the Chiefs, Chargers, Broncos, Raiders. And
Speaker 3: then based on the division placement last year, your interconference
Speaker 3: opponent is on the road against the New York Jets.
Speaker 3: So we've got seventeen games. We're gonna rank these blindly
Speaker 3: one through seventeen, and I'll keep track of it starting
Speaker 3: with at the Detroit Lions. Tough game. Right off the jump,
Speaker 3: Where do you go in your ranking one through seventeen?
Speaker 3: Just place them this early one. You got to put
Speaker 3: them pretty high, right, So.
Speaker 1: We're saying one is the most difficult.
Speaker 3: We're saying one is the most difficult, seventeen is the
Speaker 3: least difficult.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna say Detroit is number one.
Speaker 3: You're gonna put them all the way at the top.
Speaker 3: That's right at Detroit.
Speaker 1: Why because Detroit is one heck of a team, and
Speaker 1: we've struggled with Detroit and their physicality in Detroit is
Speaker 1: difficult as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll go three.
Speaker 5: I'm going three.
Speaker 3: You can go three. So a score of two to one,
Speaker 3: we're gonna put that one at three. Sorry, Isaiah Demon
Speaker 3: but at Lions is at number three? All right? Cardinals
Speaker 3: at home, Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 5: Josh at home.
Speaker 3: Give me.
Speaker 5: Sixteen sixteen.
Speaker 3: Okay, Wow, you think it's a pretty easy game, then
Speaker 3: it should be.
Speaker 4: Should be.
Speaker 5: We'll see is those fourteen Cardinals fourteen?
Speaker 3: Okay, by a score of two to one, We're gonna
Speaker 3: go fourteen Cardinals. There you go, Thank you, Beamer. I
Speaker 3: think he agrees in the back at home against the Vikings.
Speaker 13: JJ.
Speaker 3: Mcaudy, I heard justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: JJ. Let's go with J six five for me?
Speaker 3: Okay, I can go with five. I'm with five, Isaiah,
Speaker 3: you think.
Speaker 1: Your ground, sir? Six?
Speaker 3: Okay, six, So we're gonna go with six.
Speaker 5: All right, there you go.
Speaker 3: So at number six, you've got the Vikings. Next one
Speaker 3: is at the Giants.
Speaker 14: Oh no, oh no, fifteen sixteen, sixteen sixteen, all right, okay,
Speaker 14: at the Giants at sixteen, all right.
Speaker 3: Next one is the Packers at home in Bay. At home.
Speaker 3: You never really seem to beat them here.
Speaker 5: That's a revete.
Speaker 3: That's a tough one.
Speaker 5: Maybe that'll be tough. But I don't know. Man, give
Speaker 5: me a We are of six, don't we?
Speaker 3: Yep, have a six? We have a three? What was
Speaker 3: the Cardinals? I think I messed up the Give me
Speaker 3: a four?
Speaker 4: Four, give me four. I would go five.
Speaker 3: Okay, two, you're that far up there, So we'll go.
Speaker 3: We'll go split the difference. We'll put them at four. Oka,
Speaker 3: So Packers at four.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: So now we've got the Bears on the road.
Speaker 5: Come on, Tommy, Tommy, start on this one.
Speaker 4: Here we go, I feel like the Bears are gonna
Speaker 4: be really good this year.
Speaker 10: What yea?
Speaker 6: I think you'd look at Kayleb Williams year two. Ben
Speaker 6: Johnson's got a lot of weapons he can use.
Speaker 1: Not convince, but I think I would go. They got
Speaker 1: Al Harris Man live other.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 3: Thanks, all right.
Speaker 4: I'm high on the Bears. I think five or seven.
Speaker 5: Of course you are give me eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go give me eight.
Speaker 3: I'll talk with that going eight. That Bears and it's
Speaker 3: on the road, so there's that element to it. At
Speaker 3: the Bears at eight, all.
Speaker 5: Right, come back to this later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's what we're gonna We're gonna end
Speaker 3: up hurting after after that one's over.
Speaker 15: There's gonna be some tough games that you guys gonna have.
Speaker 15: We're gonna have well Kansas City at twelve, guys, exactly.
Speaker 15: Everything is already taking on this blind ranking. I saw
Speaker 15: this idea on Instagram, and we're just gonna go buy it,
Speaker 15: all right.
Speaker 3: Uh, the Eagles at home, Eagles at home, You've got one, two, five, seven, Oh.
Speaker 1: Give me five.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry you said open my bad?
Speaker 3: Yeah five open yeah. At the Jets.
Speaker 5: Seven seventeen oh yeah, low, yeah, low, low, low.
Speaker 3: Hound abouts say seven exactly available?
Speaker 1: Yea one.
Speaker 5: I thought you said that's all we have.
Speaker 3: We've got one, two, seven, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen,
Speaker 3: fiventeen me fifteen fifteen, you said seventeen, you said seventeen seventeen.
Speaker 3: He said, it's the easiest game of the year at
Speaker 3: the Jets. All right, I don't know about that one.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 3: Carolina's on the schedule. Yeah, Carolina's on the schedule. The
Speaker 3: Giants at home is on the schedule. You literally haven't
Speaker 3: lost to them. And hey, guys, how long U We
Speaker 3: just don't.
Speaker 4: Want New York hereSince sixteen.
Speaker 3: At the Giants. Then you got the you've got at
Speaker 3: the Jets. I haven't had a home games Giants.
Speaker 4: All right, whatever's lower, whatever's lowest.
Speaker 5: Next what there's always a chance to split when you
Speaker 5: played next week?
Speaker 3: All right, alright, guys, command at home Olden game against
Speaker 3: the Commanders. We will have the road game, most top five,
Speaker 3: top ten.
Speaker 1: What we have available.
Speaker 3: We have one, two and seven and nine and ten available.
Speaker 3: Let me just run down home or nine at home? Nine? Okay,
Speaker 3: I agree, nine seven, So we'll go with nine. So
Speaker 3: Commanders at home. Here's what we have so far. This
Speaker 3: is not gonna look good. Guys, One and two are open,
Speaker 3: Three is the Lions on the road, Four is the
Speaker 3: Packers at home. Five is the Eagles at home. Six
Speaker 3: is the Vikings at home. Seven is open at the
Speaker 3: Bears is at eight. I don't know about that one, guys.
Speaker 3: Nine is the Commanders at home. Ten open, eleven open,
Speaker 3: Cardinals at twelve at home, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen are open,
Speaker 3: and then sixteen is at the Giants, seventeen at the Jets.
Speaker 3: All right, so next one is at the Broncos on
Speaker 3: the road against the Broncos.
Speaker 5: Oh, that'll be sneaky tough.
Speaker 3: Top ten available, sneak uh one, two, seven and ten?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, give me seven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd go seven, guys, I'll go ten.
Speaker 3: We'll go to Chiefs and Eagles and Chargers. You going ten?
Speaker 5: I'm going where are you going?
Speaker 4: Ten?
Speaker 1: Ten?
Speaker 3: Okay? So at Broncos, will go ten. You're going seven there, Isaiah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you would have been all right, Chargers at home eleven.
Speaker 3: That seems like a perfect eleven. Yeah, what's that about?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Chargers at home? Okay? And then we're gonna go with
Speaker 3: the Commanders on the road.
Speaker 5: That's tougher. He said, seven is open.
Speaker 3: Available, seven is available. That's seven. I think. So one
Speaker 3: and two? Are you guys saving one and two for
Speaker 3: the reigning Super Bowl champions champions?
Speaker 6: Probably I had to trade on Yeah, detrade stuff, I
Speaker 6: would go Kansas City one.
Speaker 5: I would flip those.
Speaker 3: At the Panthers, Uh, what's the last got thirteen fourteen.
Speaker 5: And fifteen fifteen? Giants?
Speaker 3: You still have the Giants at home?
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 3: I haven't done that one. Yeah, you think it's you
Speaker 3: think this is easier. Yeah, at Panthers at fifteen? All right?
Speaker 5: Going to the Chiefs one, No.
Speaker 3: Two too at home against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs two.
Speaker 3: That's available to one and two. Those are the only
Speaker 3: two top ten available. This is gonna be weird because
Speaker 3: it's one and two. Then you got thirteen fourteen as
Speaker 3: the final four two. Okay, where are you going? You're
Speaker 3: trying to decide?
Speaker 5: Oh, where are you going?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I would put it at two. I'd say at the
Speaker 3: Eagles is one?
Speaker 4: I say Chiefs one?
Speaker 3: Still you would put them at one? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: At the Raiders A Raiders fourteen fourteen, thirteen and fourteen.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, with thirteen fourteen left, yeah, thirteen.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'd go fourteen fourteen.
Speaker 5: Okay, so we'll put it at Giants, though.
Speaker 3: You do have the Giants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Giants are gonna be competitive, do you think?
Speaker 3: So At Eagles is at number one? Number one two,
Speaker 3: but we've already got yeah, we've already had two taken.
Speaker 3: So At Eagles is one, and then thirteen is the
Speaker 3: last game of the year at home against the Giants.
Speaker 3: Here's our final ranking. It's not terrible at the Eagles
Speaker 3: at home against the Chiefs, at the Lions at home
Speaker 3: against the Packers, Eagles, Vikings at the Commanders at Bears,
Speaker 3: Commanders at home at the Broncos as ten, So that
Speaker 3: rounds out the top ten. Then it goes Chargers, Cardinals,
Speaker 3: Giants at home, Raiders, Panthers, Giants, and Jets all on
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 5: I might flip the Jets game with.
Speaker 3: With the Panthers the fifteen and seventeen. I think I
Speaker 3: would flip thirteen and seventeen. I would put the Jets
Speaker 3: above the Raiders and Panthers, but I would have the
Speaker 3: Giants as the final two.
Speaker 1: On these you guys think we match it better against
Speaker 1: Detroit than Philly.
Speaker 3: I mean, neither one of them have really both run
Speaker 3: the ball really well.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying it's a great.
Speaker 1: There is the number one. The toughest matchup, that's hard.
Speaker 6: I think they match up better against Philly honestly than
Speaker 6: they do Detroit too.
Speaker 5: But but you got to play them twice, and I
Speaker 5: guarantee you you lose one of those. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a tough.
Speaker 5: It's a toss up for me with the Lions because
Speaker 5: we played them really well two years ago. Last year,
Speaker 5: of course, we got killed.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. I wonder what the chat would say.
Speaker 3: What would you put Eagles? Which one do you chat?
Speaker 5: Are we cooked?
Speaker 3: Which one do you match up better against?
Speaker 1: The Eagles?
Speaker 3: Lions or Chiefs? Which one do you match up against
Speaker 3: between the two? I want to see what the chat
Speaker 3: says across the board. Why do you think the Lions
Speaker 3: are a tougher matchup?
Speaker 1: I just think that they're well balanced all around. I
Speaker 1: think that they have one heck of a running game,
Speaker 1: one heck of a passing game. I think that they're
Speaker 1: they're They're pass rush is nasty. I think they're relentless
Speaker 1: on defense. I think they have a nice little tanem
Speaker 1: at cornerback now that can go out there and cause
Speaker 1: you some issues, while their front seven can get after
Speaker 1: your quarterbacks. I just think that they're stout team, man.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 1: The only reason why they did didn't go all the
Speaker 1: way last year, in my opinions, because of injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and how do you stop the run too? You
Speaker 3: know you can't.
Speaker 1: Teams and I mean you can't.
Speaker 3: Yeah against the Eagles and the Lions.
Speaker 1: Both teams offensively are nasty. The only difference is well,
Speaker 1: now Philly has a one to two punch too. They
Speaker 1: picked up AJ Dillon.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm, so good luck with that stop the run.
Speaker 1: He's he's juggernaut. Yeah. I mean so from that sense,
Speaker 1: when you look at their offenses, I think Detroit's more
Speaker 1: dangerous the the.
Speaker 3: The chat is leaning Lions a little bit toward the Eagles.
Speaker 3: Not a ton of love here for the for the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Though, Chiefs, they got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1: I think that they had injuries last year too. You
Speaker 1: remember they played their whole entire year without their number
Speaker 1: one receiver. Yeah, so he's back.
Speaker 5: Best QB in the game though, Ken knock him for sure.
Speaker 3: A lot of people Tristan said, Dak is four and
Speaker 3: one against the Eagles in the last five games. Was
Speaker 3: those were different Eagles teams.
Speaker 5: And Dak and Jalen Hurts have only gone up against
Speaker 5: each other three times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not a lot. They've They've kind of been in
Speaker 3: and out one way or the other between the two
Speaker 3: of them. But why do you think the Chiefs are
Speaker 3: the toughest.
Speaker 6: I think Patrick Mahomes just in and of itself, like
Speaker 6: just makes it so difficult. And I think, you know,
Speaker 6: what he's able to do with at times in his
Speaker 6: career has not been the best receiving corps. I mean,
Speaker 6: you saw some of it last year when you know
Speaker 6: Travis Kelce is not necessarily what he used to be,
Speaker 6: and even when Kelsey was what he was, you know,
Speaker 6: you look at the receivers around him and it's not
Speaker 6: really great. I think that they've done a really good
Speaker 6: job and Andy Reid's a great play caller. So what
Speaker 6: they're able to do offensively as long as Mahomes is there,
Speaker 6: I think you've got a shot in any game. And
Speaker 6: then you think about you know, Steve Spagnola in that defense,
Speaker 6: you know what they were able to do last year
Speaker 6: to really help I thought carry the team to where
Speaker 6: they got. You know, they've still got a lot of
Speaker 6: good pieces coming back. Chris Jones in the middle of
Speaker 6: the defensive line is still really good. So there's a
Speaker 6: lot to like with Kansas City. And I think they're
Speaker 6: just a consistent winner that's always going to be in
Speaker 6: games and competing.
Speaker 4: It's just a hard team to win against.
Speaker 1: And I lost some guys on defense though they did.
Speaker 3: I would argue they have the best play caller in
Speaker 3: the league right now, and you've got Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: You've got to change both sides of the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, both guys. Yeah, Spag Maull and Red Like you
Speaker 3: would put both of those guys over almost anybody in
Speaker 3: their respective positions across the entire NFL. And it's like
Speaker 3: having two head coaches and two guys that are established
Speaker 3: enough to be head coaches that have just stuck around
Speaker 3: in Kansas City because they have something special going there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would still put the Lions first because I just
Speaker 3: me too. I their roster is almost impenetrable. Eagles and
Speaker 3: the Chiefs both lost a little bit, but they're so
Speaker 3: still so good that there's they deserve to be number
Speaker 3: two at number three.
Speaker 5: I just thought that correct.
Speaker 3: Is that at Chiefs. No, it's at Detroit is what
Speaker 3: it is, what it has here. Yeah, that's tough Detroit.
Speaker 1: I just feel like Detroit, Fordfield, Detroit that we know
Speaker 1: right this, this is gonna be a completely different Detroit. Right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to get accustomed to that. But I
Speaker 1: just think when you look at their roster, they don't
Speaker 1: have any weaknesses, right like they legit have no weaknesses
Speaker 1: in there, and they continue to act and they're relentless.
Speaker 1: That's that's the other intangible. They're just relentless.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Those guys just keep coming.
Speaker 5: After you finish my black rovel coffee and think about.
Speaker 1: It and think about it a little bit.
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three that Dallas will have played at
Speaker 3: ford Field too, so that crowd is going to be nuts,
Speaker 3: unreal nuts. It's gonna be a lot, all right. That
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