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Speaker 1: Now your host, Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, and Shannon Gross. Boy,
Speaker 1: oh boy, it's two guys. You know it's funny. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that. And I'm talking quickly because I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure there's a lot of people that tuned into his
Speaker 1: real show and then they heard that and they were like,
Speaker 1: I'll come back later, but maybe lay let him know.
Speaker 1: This is the break. Yeah, we have a special guest
Speaker 1: with us today, So feel free now to say whatever
Speaker 1: you're gonna say. This is the break? Then why am
Speaker 1: I hosting? Because I didn't want to have to do it.
Speaker 1: That's why. This is where I said at eleven thirty, Yes,
Speaker 1: where he stands out, that's where he sits at eleven thirty,
Speaker 1: and that's not where you sit at whatever. Anyway, this
Speaker 1: is a special day. This is a special day, Nate.
Speaker 1: It's sounding a big ball. You look really good from
Speaker 1: this out of the table by the way, I might
Speaker 1: have to change my spot. Hey man, I'm just glad
Speaker 1: to be here. Man ah Man to the right of me.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Nick? How you doing? Welcome? Welcome to
Speaker 1: Hanging with the Boys at eleven thirty with special guests
Speaker 1: Nick Eatman and Derek Eaton from Cowboys Break. How are
Speaker 1: you guys doing? We're doing good. Nick's already tuned out,
Speaker 1: He's a seven. I think Kirk talks more than you have.
Speaker 1: The beginning of the show, missus her feels like, how
Speaker 1: are y'all? Man? This is awesome? So what's going on
Speaker 1: is Kirk's been out all week. Ambar and Dave from
Speaker 1: Your Show are out, and we were gonna do two
Speaker 1: separate shows, and and Derek was gonna sit in with us,
Speaker 1: and we were just like, why don't we just do
Speaker 1: one show, knock it out and big show, be done?
Speaker 1: The big show, Big show. So we're gonna do things.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do some fun stuff today. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: a lot of calls. How about that. Y'all ever take
Speaker 1: calls on your show? We try once, twice, we try,
Speaker 1: we never get to it. We're gonna take a lot
Speaker 1: of calls, so call us. We got Nick and Dave
Speaker 1: on my show, there's way too much commentary. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of room to get calls in. No, so
Speaker 1: call us if you're a fan of The Break or
Speaker 1: Hanging eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven,
Speaker 1: and Nate's gonna cut you off because we're trying to
Speaker 1: get through as many of these as we can. We
Speaker 1: don't need to hear your life story. You can say hi,
Speaker 1: you can tell us how much you love or hate
Speaker 1: the show, but we're gonna try to get through these.
Speaker 1: So tell us. If you have a question, get to
Speaker 1: your question. If you have a point, get to your point.
Speaker 1: We love you, and then we're moving on. How's that
Speaker 1: that good? That's a good host though, all right, love you,
Speaker 1: that's a great host. All right? Yeah, yeah. What do
Speaker 1: you guys normally talk about on your show? Football? Talk
Speaker 1: about football? Alright? Novel, idea, little works, you've been doing
Speaker 1: it for fourteen years, kind of books, kind of kind
Speaker 1: of an important game tomorrow kind of yeah. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: what so we gotta listen to y'all because how do
Speaker 1: y'all start a show talking about football? So we got
Speaker 1: because we don't know how that work. You know, we
Speaker 1: typically do on a Friday. Okay, it's gonna start by
Speaker 1: talking about the guys we think are going to play
Speaker 1: versus not going. Okay, good, good, Okay. You look at
Speaker 1: some injuries and how much we'll go along with that
Speaker 1: might affect the team. So you want to tell us
Speaker 1: what the injury report looks like, Nick, Well, I want
Speaker 1: to know about one guy who's sue Fela. What is
Speaker 1: the word? Hasn't done anything, don't look positive. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be your n you know, well, actually, let me
Speaker 1: do Yeah, yeah, my my Longhorn. It's a good week
Speaker 1: for long gratulations. By the way, I'm just saying it's
Speaker 1: a good week for long right now. I'm riding a
Speaker 1: high when it comes to sports between my Long Horns
Speaker 1: football and basketball and then the Rockets last night. Yeah hard,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling really good right now. So let's see. Yeah
Speaker 1: don't oh man, Oh my god, yes, sir. But anyway, um, Nate, Actually,
Speaker 1: it's interesting we talked about that. I was on cover
Speaker 1: four this morning and Taylor was saying that she was
Speaker 1: worried about Connor, and she said, I was worried until
Speaker 1: I talked to Nate, and Nate told me something that
Speaker 1: made me feel less concerned. So for me and for
Speaker 1: all people that listen to the break, can you help
Speaker 1: us feel less concerned because we've been talking about this
Speaker 1: week and that's been a big I think it's a
Speaker 1: big concern as far as the way we look at it.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? My thoughts was and then Broadus
Speaker 1: came in and added even more to her confidence. Is
Speaker 1: what I believe there is that he's gotten stronger in
Speaker 1: this short period of time. He's he's the thing about it,
Speaker 1: he's played it ain't like he's been staled just coming off.
Speaker 1: He's gotten stronger, He's gotten more experience. And that's what
Speaker 1: I believe can help him is that he knows how
Speaker 1: to play this game now. He can make some adjestments
Speaker 1: as the game going. Now, will he be get overpowered?
Speaker 1: Not as much. I don't think so. And then when
Speaker 1: broad Est came in was talking brought us and looking
Speaker 1: at the film, he'll believe he'll be a little bit
Speaker 1: more athletic than Sue a Philly And we need to
Speaker 1: move around. We need to make this defense move around
Speaker 1: to give him a lot of misdirection. You know, we
Speaker 1: just don't try to run straight out. I don't try
Speaker 1: to take the game over because they got great linebackers
Speaker 1: that can float, So make give him from misdirection. We
Speaker 1: may do a couple of more polls, but I think
Speaker 1: that this kid has gotten mentally tougher. That's that is
Speaker 1: my greatest thing. As a season go on and you
Speaker 1: have success as a team and as an individual that
Speaker 1: you lock in like man, I don't want that. My
Speaker 1: team may sound so sue a philler, gonna give excuse me,
Speaker 1: your home bull kind of whiz, gonna give everything he's got?
Speaker 1: All right? Who else we got out? Who's not playing? Tavan?
Speaker 1: What's the latest on him? It don't matter, Nick, Nick,
Speaker 1: what doesn't matter? Yeah, I mean, and I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: see we do our show a little bit. I just
Speaker 1: you know, go ahead, I'm sorry. I'm trying. And it
Speaker 1: probably doesn't They don't use them much when he is healthy. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's been healthy for a month
Speaker 1: or two now, and you know he's he just hasn't
Speaker 1: been a factor for this for this team. And now
Speaker 1: they did put some things on tape last week. I
Speaker 1: think we'll see him return some punts. I think we'll
Speaker 1: see a couple of those reverse fake reverses. But he's
Speaker 1: not a gadget player like we thought he would be.
Speaker 1: And you know, like we look at Seattle, Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: is everything we thought Tavon Austin could be. Yea, they
Speaker 1: don't use them that way, They don't need to use
Speaker 1: them that way. Yeah he practiced yesterday, Yeah, yes he did.
Speaker 1: He was out there returning punts and so it was
Speaker 1: on the official injury report. Is questionable, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I think they're giving themselves an out.
Speaker 1: I really believe Stua Filo is tied to Tavon this week.
Speaker 1: I think if if Suffilo can kind of play and
Speaker 1: they go with eight linemen and make them all active,
Speaker 1: I think you gotta you can't have a luxury to
Speaker 1: have extra players. And I think Tavon would be considered
Speaker 1: an extra player. But the fact that he took all
Speaker 1: those punt return reps makes me think he's going to
Speaker 1: be active. Yeah, anyway, there's a linebacker that's inactive. Anybody
Speaker 1: else questionable or not playing tomorrow that we know of.
Speaker 1: UM trying to look, I mean think, but when I
Speaker 1: looked at it yesterday, it was sue Philo was doubtful.
Speaker 1: You had obviously Irving out. Yeah, and then you had
Speaker 1: Tavon's questionable. I think that was it. I think everybody
Speaker 1: else was ready to go. Everybody else was full as
Speaker 1: of yesterday, I think, and we talked about this yesterday
Speaker 1: on our show. Been the safety that was also questionable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can look at it. Thompson. Yeah, we were talking
Speaker 1: about this yesterday. This is and my recent memory, the
Speaker 1: healthiest this team's been going into the playoffs or at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. Because really, David Irving, which
Speaker 1: we haven't seen him around, he's out, Saphila, you know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a big deal. But other than that, Tavon,
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody else is playing, So I couldn't really
Speaker 1: ask for much more. From a health standpoint. Austin, it's questionable,
Speaker 1: Darry and Thompson with a groin is le, so I
Speaker 1: feel a little doubtful. Yeah, so you're right. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think right now you look at this and you
Speaker 1: feel pretty good about the fact from your from a
Speaker 1: health standpoint, but you look at the injury report for
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. They had a lot of guys miss practice
Speaker 1: this week, but they were the same way by the
Speaker 1: final designation yesterday. Most of the guys were full in
Speaker 1: practice yesterday. So both teams seem like they're going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They got a couple of guys actually back
Speaker 1: this game that they didn't have the first game in
Speaker 1: kJ Right, some guys that make a difference, Doug ballwin.
Speaker 1: So so they're they're actually pretty healthy too. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a matchup of teams that are both sitting
Speaker 1: pretty healthy and we'll see who's a better team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go to the phones. Our first caller, George san Diego.
Speaker 1: What's up man, Hey, good morning, everybody. Happy to do
Speaker 1: you're to all of you guys. Great job with the
Speaker 1: show man. Yeah. Um, just a quick quick question. So
Speaker 1: when when the Cowboys played that that Saints game, Willia
Speaker 1: mc ginnis on the NFL Network made a comment saying
Speaker 1: that that that play at the goal line was a
Speaker 1: season changing play for a team and that that would
Speaker 1: change the whole dynamic of this team. And I would
Speaker 1: say that with that play that I think the defense
Speaker 1: has stepped up a little bit. My question is, and
Speaker 1: this goes more to Nate uh Nate as a player,
Speaker 1: you know that you're the quarterback, will when you so
Speaker 1: many games the coach will when you so many games?
Speaker 1: How many games do you think Jason Garrett has won
Speaker 1: for us this year? Thanks for the call, George, This
Speaker 1: last one, yeah, this last one to put him in
Speaker 1: da What do you think he did to help him
Speaker 1: in the game. He got Dack on track, let him
Speaker 1: through the ball for forty plus times. They went into
Speaker 1: this game with that in mind. Uh And and you
Speaker 1: know people said, well, hey, you know, all they do
Speaker 1: is let Shanahan called plays. But a head coach has
Speaker 1: to make some decisions too. And I think this this
Speaker 1: this last game where he got his players ready without
Speaker 1: without tying Ron Smith, without Zeke, without this guy, without
Speaker 1: that guy, with this guy playing limited amount of time. Okay,
Speaker 1: he made a move, a coaching move that everybody in
Speaker 1: the world want to call meaningless. But somehow, some way
Speaker 1: he got his players to believe that this was a
Speaker 1: real game for them. So this is get this last
Speaker 1: game right here? How many games? So did the caller
Speaker 1: just asked how many games Garrett has won? You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? His calls inner game have changed the
Speaker 1: game to help the team, right, Yeah, because there's you know,
Speaker 1: I would say ten I mean, wouldn't y'all? Say you
Speaker 1: wouldn't say ten or ten and six and I would.
Speaker 1: I mean, either he either they don't. You know, either
Speaker 1: you get the credit that he don't. Yeah, it's Berry switch.
Speaker 1: You can't you want to blame Barry Switzer or you
Speaker 1: want to call him a Super Bowl Champian, one of
Speaker 1: the one of the two, like he either you mess
Speaker 1: it up or you or you don't. I just don't
Speaker 1: think it could be both ways. In the Tampa Bay game,
Speaker 1: I mean, we we know for a fact some of
Speaker 1: the things he said it and he called out specific
Speaker 1: players and meetings, specific players who have been doing some
Speaker 1: extra curricular things like hot boying around and clear eye
Speaker 1: viewing and wolf hunting and stuff like that, and he
Speaker 1: called them out and he basically told the team to
Speaker 1: get back on that wall that you've been your backs
Speaker 1: have been against for the last few weeks. And so
Speaker 1: I think he did a nice job in the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay game. And there's other games. I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: what we don't see. I mean, I think Garrett need
Speaker 1: either either you give him some credit for what he's
Speaker 1: done or you don't give him all the blame. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I think he's done a masterful
Speaker 1: job in turning things around. And that's the thing everybody
Speaker 1: associates wins with the calls in the game. When you're
Speaker 1: a head coach, there's so much other stuff that goes
Speaker 1: on Monday through Saturday that fans have no idea what
Speaker 1: goes on behind these walls. You know, we get to
Speaker 1: pull the curtain back a little bit. We know a
Speaker 1: little bit about it. And that's why I've been a
Speaker 1: fan of Jason, especially this year, is because he's always consistent.
Speaker 1: You know what you're getting. It's just like your boss
Speaker 1: when you walk into work. We walk in and Derek's
Speaker 1: all over the place. You don't want to go to work, right,
Speaker 1: but you walk in, you know Derek's gonna be the
Speaker 1: same grumpy you're guy every day. Oh yeah, sorry, I
Speaker 1: got y'all mixed up. But I mean, you know what
Speaker 1: you're getting with Garrett. You know what message he's preaching.
Speaker 1: He's been preaching it ever since he's been here. And
Speaker 1: these guys, I think that's one of the upset right
Speaker 1: now the listeners because they come in at eleven thirty
Speaker 1: and they expect, you know, to have greatness, and then
Speaker 1: they come in and they're like, what is going on here.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. Let's real quick, though, And honestly,
Speaker 1: you made that point about You made that point about Garrett,
Speaker 1: and actually I actually think Garrett is a better coach
Speaker 1: Monday through Saturday. She didn't say better coach. I think
Speaker 1: the best work that he does is Monday through Saturday.
Speaker 1: The reason why I say that is because, and again,
Speaker 1: I do have a perspective that's different than a lot
Speaker 1: of fans, because a lot of fans don't have access
Speaker 1: that I have. But some of the things that I've seen,
Speaker 1: some of the speeches I've seen him give this team,
Speaker 1: some of the things I've heard about how he handles situations,
Speaker 1: sometimes situations that are not very good, how he handles it,
Speaker 1: and how he keeps his players on the same page.
Speaker 1: And after all the time he's been here. The one
Speaker 1: thing I have never seen him maybe you guys have.
Speaker 1: I'm saying I personally never seen it. I've never seen
Speaker 1: the guy that rolls his eyes when you hear the
Speaker 1: Garrett saying, right, we know them all, like stick to
Speaker 1: the process and all that stuff. Like there's so many
Speaker 1: times I've seen players with pass coaches. There's stuff just
Speaker 1: where stin after a while, it's kind of like, here
Speaker 1: we go again. I've not seen that from these players.
Speaker 1: They typically buy into what the coach is saying. Now.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, there could be a player here
Speaker 1: and there that's just kind of like, yeah, I get it,
Speaker 1: but right now, that don't matter. We gotta go do,
Speaker 1: we gotta do. I get that. I'm just saying, though,
Speaker 1: he seems to keep his players on key with him,
Speaker 1: and what you tend to see is the stuff that
Speaker 1: he says to them Monday through Saturday is the exact
Speaker 1: same thing you start hearing from them throughout the week
Speaker 1: as they're doing interviews, and on Sundays after games you
Speaker 1: hear those exact same monitors, those exact same things. He
Speaker 1: has a way of, I think, engaging with his team
Speaker 1: and getting his team to buy into what he's preaching.
Speaker 1: Now you can question his decisions on Sunday, and I
Speaker 1: think that's all fair game. And I think some of
Speaker 1: his decisions haven't been always the right decisions. But I
Speaker 1: think when you think about what a coach he does,
Speaker 1: like you said, the full picture of what a coach does,
Speaker 1: I think what he does Monday through Saturday is really
Speaker 1: really impressive. Now the fans are rolling their eyes and
Speaker 1: we go again. Yeah, I agree. I agree. And that's
Speaker 1: all fair too, by the way, because they don't get
Speaker 1: to see all the other stuff. All they see is
Speaker 1: him go and stand in front of the elector and
Speaker 1: basically give them, give fans. Been a great player for
Speaker 1: a really long time, and so I get all that,
Speaker 1: and that's fair for fan to think that. It's absolutely fair. Nick, No,
Speaker 1: I'm good. Okay, I thought we are. But let me
Speaker 1: ask you this from a player perspective, what do you see?
Speaker 1: What do you think Jason's most valuable asset is to
Speaker 1: this team? You know, it's consistency. It's consistent as a player, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's consistency. But but it just got to win a
Speaker 1: playoff game. You know, you got to win a playoff
Speaker 1: game in And that's been my deal since this started,
Speaker 1: you know what. And that's why I said this game here,
Speaker 1: this last game. You know, they saw as a CA
Speaker 1: coaching staff that our quarterback needs to get going. I've
Speaker 1: been saying for about eight weeks. And he needs to
Speaker 1: move around. He needs to move around, he needs he
Speaker 1: needs for to get this eternal clock back in his
Speaker 1: head on a consistent basis. The coaches thought the same thing,
Speaker 1: and we all knew as long as that left tackle
Speaker 1: held up, he was gonna be in that game. And
Speaker 1: and we saw some nice things that we hadn't saw
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis in twenty and sixteen for our quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's why I say when when When when Dak? When
Speaker 1: you see him talking between times, when watching the game,
Speaker 1: you'll see Dak go pass his quarterback, I mean his coach,
Speaker 1: and Jason would say something. He would say something. Next series,
Speaker 1: he's rolling out there, come out of halftime. Everybody like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's exploding over there. Oh what I'm like? Man,
Speaker 1: he trying to get his quarterback right. And because if
Speaker 1: we all true to the game and Puri City game,
Speaker 1: we know it's gonna come a point where the quarterback
Speaker 1: gonna have to top this team, come on plays where
Speaker 1: he gonna have to say, Okay, now it's time. And
Speaker 1: this ain't ain't the regular season. This this is the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Because if you don't connect and don't make it right,
Speaker 1: you're going home and all the foolishness starts again. You know,
Speaker 1: I call it foolishness, but ye'all may call it something else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go to the phones former in studio guests of
Speaker 1: hanging with the boys. All right, Man, Ray in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: We know you love that music. Don't play that music.
Speaker 1: Don't play that music, not even next week. Then we're
Speaker 1: gonna advance. Look, there's a lot of different scenarios. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm already pumped in geeked. I kind of got a
Speaker 1: little waterflies going through as I'm calling the show. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot of scenarios. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like a chess match between our offense their defense. There's
Speaker 1: so many different formations that we can run from. Is
Speaker 1: Austin gonna play did he practice? Yeah? Nick told us earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna play something. Okay, I missed that, Nick,
Speaker 1: I missed that part of the show. But if we
Speaker 1: run that formation where we have Cole Beasley and Austin
Speaker 1: in the slot to put a linebacker on him, boom,
Speaker 1: just just try to beat that linebacker. Try to go
Speaker 1: to that matchup. But there's just so many My biggest
Speaker 1: thing is the red zone. Number one, our kicker and
Speaker 1: fifty two, and we can't have Connor Williams. I know
Speaker 1: Nick's not worried about him. I hear you, Nick, but
Speaker 1: he can't be getting pushed back in the middle there
Speaker 1: in Dak's space. And so let me ask you this
Speaker 1: right here, Yes, sir, who you got besides Connor Williams
Speaker 1: that I'm worried about? Not no who who don't play?
Speaker 1: Who's playing? If he doesn't play, don't play? Because right now, sir,
Speaker 1: right now, like I told you Monday and anybody listen,
Speaker 1: it ain't about who ain't now. It's about who is there.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Connor gonna get pushed back that
Speaker 1: much to make it. It may make a difference in
Speaker 1: the game, but I just don't think it will go
Speaker 1: ahead on them, sir. About one of those things where
Speaker 1: we have like you talk about Nate, It's like, um,
Speaker 1: we can't have the big plays and we can't have
Speaker 1: their We have to hold up a little bit. We
Speaker 1: can't just have their guys beating any one of our
Speaker 1: interior offensive linemen, like right right off the back. If
Speaker 1: that throws everything off, if we can have a chance
Speaker 1: to adjust either the running back or Dak and Dad
Speaker 1: has to get on the move. Man. Look at the
Speaker 1: Saints game, guys, even though we didn't score that many points. Look,
Speaker 1: how many drives who had a seven, eight, nine, ten
Speaker 1: minute clot chewing drives that kept fru freezes on the
Speaker 1: field on the sideline. So we have to have some
Speaker 1: of that. Look, I'm pumped. Thanks for taking the call,
Speaker 1: all right, and our kicker, and our kicker now he
Speaker 1: already missed one, but we gotta go. Ray, thank you.
Speaker 1: Look get that bread? Yeah, all right, two points? Ray
Speaker 1: brought up. We'll get yours feedback. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about the offensive line? And how do you feel about
Speaker 1: red zone play? Coming off that last game? And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what this made me so mad. In that game.
Speaker 1: You got Zeke, You get Zeke on the four yard line,
Speaker 1: you all this fancy stuff. Rod Smith's in the game,
Speaker 1: four yard three or four yard line. You hand him
Speaker 1: the ball right up the middle. He scores. Why can
Speaker 1: we not do that whenever one of the best running back,
Speaker 1: if arguably the best running back in the league is
Speaker 1: in the game, why do they not do that? Why
Speaker 1: do they get cute and throw a little soft passes
Speaker 1: to the full back. It just frustrates the hell out
Speaker 1: of me. Offensive line, how do you feel about that? First?
Speaker 1: You know, I think Connor Williams is going to be
Speaker 1: a key. I'm a little bit, you know, concerned about him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that he will see we'll see
Speaker 1: how how much better he is. But I think it's
Speaker 1: something to be concerned about. And you know, he got
Speaker 1: benched in the middle of the season. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: he got hurt, but he didn't he didn't get his
Speaker 1: job back. So I think that's something to be concerned about.
Speaker 1: But I do think it's a little different getting the
Speaker 1: ball in the one than on the four. I think
Speaker 1: if they get on the one after that Alan hearns play,
Speaker 1: they push it in. But I think the defense does
Speaker 1: play it, play it differently than when Zeke's in there.
Speaker 1: But I would like to try it more and run
Speaker 1: the ball at the middle. They don't do that. They
Speaker 1: do get cute. Let me ask you this question, do
Speaker 1: you think that maybe they should consider I know Zeke Zeke,
Speaker 1: but do you think that maybe they should consider going
Speaker 1: to going to rod Smith some of the time when
Speaker 1: they're in the red zone, just because he's a bigger
Speaker 1: body and maybe he can give you a little bit
Speaker 1: more push. I don't know, it's just a question. I
Speaker 1: would say I would say absolutely not. Derek, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: asking the question now because it does seem and if
Speaker 1: what you're saying is that you get a different look
Speaker 1: from the defense when Rod's in the game versus when
Speaker 1: Zeke's in the game, didn't Does that make you say, Okay,
Speaker 1: give us that different look and we feel like we
Speaker 1: can run against that. Well, I don't think he gives
Speaker 1: you more of a push at all. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody in the NFL gives you a little bit that
Speaker 1: type of push. Um. I think he's one of the
Speaker 1: strongest back, especially with those legs, so I think he
Speaker 1: is in that head. Yeah. Man, he's got a good
Speaker 1: nose for it, but he's got a water Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think I would go that that round.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it was just that was a
Speaker 1: kind of a different game, different circumstances I think would
Speaker 1: be different. I will also point out it was the
Speaker 1: Seahawks game last time when they used a little something
Speaker 1: different with Tavon Austin in the little shovel pass. We
Speaker 1: talked about that earlier this week, and they actually got
Speaker 1: an end zone from the three or four yard line,
Speaker 1: So there that did work in that game. And we've
Speaker 1: had some some callers that have even called our show
Speaker 1: and asked, can they use that that a little bit
Speaker 1: more and use that in goal line situations or at
Speaker 1: least in red zone situations to give them a little
Speaker 1: bit more some other opportunities to people getting zone. When
Speaker 1: you're running a six to two defense on goal line,
Speaker 1: everybody say the red zone, it is restricted space. Where
Speaker 1: that restricted space applies to the defense too. And as
Speaker 1: an offensive linemer, what you have to do is don't miss.
Speaker 1: Keep your head up. Don't miss you guy. If you
Speaker 1: got two tight ends or fullback and you got Z
Speaker 1: and you're five four, five to four yards in from
Speaker 1: that's goal to goal, you get that ball to Z
Speaker 1: and all you ask from your linement is don't miss
Speaker 1: this guy totally. If you will the guy, nobody stands
Speaker 1: a chance. I don't care who you are. You gonna
Speaker 1: be walking to baby, it ain't happening. But if you
Speaker 1: get something on that guy, Zeke is smart enough and
Speaker 1: got enough wigger in power and explosiveness to get a
Speaker 1: yard or two. Now, how you call plays now changes,
Speaker 1: you know, because now they're like you line up in
Speaker 1: that same formation again. It's like, hey, them Zeke again,
Speaker 1: they're getting pumped. Now. You can do play action, pass,
Speaker 1: you can roll out. It's too many things you can do.
Speaker 1: But if you line up and say, okay, Zeke you
Speaker 1: going motion, or Zeke you seven eight yards deep, and
Speaker 1: I'm back there, standing back here with the quarterback, I'm
Speaker 1: like old, same old offense, same old garbage. We got
Speaker 1: this now this spaces are restricted because nobody's playing nothing.
Speaker 1: They ain't playing to run. So I say, it's the
Speaker 1: reason the fact that they haven't that they haven't run
Speaker 1: it more when they get in those situations. Do you
Speaker 1: think it's because maybe they don't trust their offensive lineman
Speaker 1: or a particular offensive lineman to not with, because otherwise
Speaker 1: then it seems like they would always when they get
Speaker 1: in those situations, they would trust it a lot more.
Speaker 1: You know. Coach Melanahan keeps saying that you know, you
Speaker 1: trick the trick, the trick. Some things you have to do.
Speaker 1: You have to line up and try because it is
Speaker 1: your best player. And believe it or not, you trusted
Speaker 1: your offensive line from the twenty five. You cross the fifty,
Speaker 1: you go down to the twenty five, you go down
Speaker 1: to the twenty. Hey man, now, it's signed to get
Speaker 1: six points. Y'all don't blocked all this time, but now
Speaker 1: we don't trust you. That's that don't sound right right,
Speaker 1: you know, and that you know that just don't sound
Speaker 1: right now all of a sudden, the closer we get
Speaker 1: to the reds, the closer we get from red zone
Speaker 1: to go to go, you trust Zeke less. You trust
Speaker 1: your offensive line less. And the reason I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about Connor is if he if he has not learned
Speaker 1: bull rush me back. I rough for you the bull
Speaker 1: rush me back in a quick with If you bull
Speaker 1: rush me back, we can do some things as we
Speaker 1: should be as an offensive coordinator to be able to
Speaker 1: do some things. If you if you're gonna bulle rush
Speaker 1: me back, but just don't have the quick escape. That's
Speaker 1: what kills quarterbacks. Yeah, you brought up Tavon. I wish
Speaker 1: they could find a way to get him more involved,
Speaker 1: get the ball into his hands five, six, seven times,
Speaker 1: because I think he has the ability to make big plays.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, he's probably gonna have not a
Speaker 1: big play two or three yard run if you do
Speaker 1: a jet suite. But I think he adds a wrinkle
Speaker 1: that really only two other guys on this team. Gallops
Speaker 1: starting to be one of those guys. But Cooper and
Speaker 1: Zeke are really you're only guys that can break a
Speaker 1: play open. And I think Tavon can do it if
Speaker 1: they can just fight. It's like Beasley, you got this weapon.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like you can find ways to get
Speaker 1: him the ball enough. I'd love to see them get
Speaker 1: him involved. They like the caller. The callers said when
Speaker 1: they say the two slot guys, that's when that's when
Speaker 1: Austin is it's most dangerous for us to two slot
Speaker 1: guys because now you can't cover everybody with a corner.
Speaker 1: So now you got to put a safety or you
Speaker 1: got to put a linebacker on one of these guys.
Speaker 1: So that that what he said is so true. Now
Speaker 1: it comes down to the fact is a quarterback gonna
Speaker 1: gonna make his read and throw the ball. This is
Speaker 1: a game where we give on average, we're giving up
Speaker 1: four sacks. That's with Connor Wiggins or that's without Connor Wiggs.
Speaker 1: We're giving up four sacks. What we have learned to
Speaker 1: do as a team. It's kind of play around that,
Speaker 1: but when the playoffs come, you can't ignore that. Because
Speaker 1: it could cost you some serious field position. He could
Speaker 1: cost you some momentum, you know. So what what what
Speaker 1: we have to do is be smart and I play calling.
Speaker 1: Know what you want to do. This ain't a game
Speaker 1: where you can guess. You gotta know what you want
Speaker 1: to do, and you got to go out there and
Speaker 1: try to execute that game playing. Yes, you got to
Speaker 1: make a few adjustions as the game go on, but
Speaker 1: you take your fifteen or twenty best plays and you
Speaker 1: run variations off of that and all other stuff you
Speaker 1: don't worry about. If we got plays that allow us
Speaker 1: to put two guys in the slot, let's use it
Speaker 1: because we can spread them thin that way. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to the phones before we go to break Tony
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. What's up, Tony, Get off the down, gentleman.
Speaker 1: How y'all doing great? How are you doing good? Doing good?
Speaker 1: So my concern and question is since this last game
Speaker 1: against New York and you know, Lenahan and Garrett and
Speaker 1: them deciding to kind of have an air raid, you know,
Speaker 1: so to speak, without Zeke there, and it being successful,
Speaker 1: you know, for the most part, with getting a lot
Speaker 1: of passing yards and Dad getting out of the pocket
Speaker 1: and making throws and being successful. Now that we've got Zeke,
Speaker 1: now that we've got a playoff game, I have a
Speaker 1: concern or maybe should I be optimistic that, okay, well,
Speaker 1: are they're going to get confused and forget that they
Speaker 1: got Zeke and decide they want to have an air
Speaker 1: raid all of a sudden against Seattle? Or should I
Speaker 1: be you know, optimistic and say, okay, well, they've implemented
Speaker 1: this passing game, you know, so to speak with Jarvin
Speaker 1: and getting out of the pocket or whatnot, and they'll
Speaker 1: be able to mix it all up. So should I
Speaker 1: be concerned or should I be optimistic? Let me know
Speaker 1: what y'all think about that great question? And what do
Speaker 1: you guys think. I think they went into that game.
Speaker 1: We're trying to prove a point. We can throw this
Speaker 1: ball around if we need to, Dak, We're putting this
Speaker 1: in your hands. Let's see what you can do, just
Speaker 1: to show the team here's what we can do. I
Speaker 1: could be totally wrong. I think they're going to go
Speaker 1: back to Zeke is the bread and butter of this team.
Speaker 1: But now you know, if you need to come back
Speaker 1: and you need to put it on Dak's shoulders. He
Speaker 1: showed you he could do it. Yeah, he showed you
Speaker 1: can do it if the Giants make the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: mean the Giants aren't in the playoffs. I mean their
Speaker 1: defense isn't very good. So I think you just kind
Speaker 1: of go game to game on what you can do there.
Speaker 1: And I know I don't think they're going to go
Speaker 1: around and say, why are we we can throw now.
Speaker 1: I do think you take elements of it. You want
Speaker 1: to see if Jarwin can you find the holes and
Speaker 1: get open. But I don't think and Seattle's not there
Speaker 1: because they play defense like that. Seattle's in the playoffs
Speaker 1: because they're going to give you different looks. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think the other thing to consider too is I don't
Speaker 1: think they needed this game necessarily to show you that
Speaker 1: Dak could do this. You go back to that playoff
Speaker 1: game they had against Green Bay. He did enough to
Speaker 1: get them back in that ballgame. They just were playing
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, right. His arm was good enough that day
Speaker 1: to take them from where they were. They had dug
Speaker 1: a pretty big hole for themselves, and he threw them
Speaker 1: back into that game. So I think they know that
Speaker 1: he can do it. I like the fact that like
Speaker 1: Nick said, they were able to just try some different things,
Speaker 1: and I think it creates these new opportunities. Maybe in
Speaker 1: your offense puts a few more things on tape. So
Speaker 1: defenses have to consider the fact that maybe Jarwin now
Speaker 1: as a guy that they have to consider in the seams,
Speaker 1: whereas before that's not been a part of this offense.
Speaker 1: Like the opposing defense is probably could go into games
Speaker 1: most of the season and think, we don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about the seams because Cowboys don't really use them, right,
Speaker 1: So that is something they have to consider now that
Speaker 1: they didn't really have to consider four. But make no
Speaker 1: mistake about it, this is a running team. They have
Speaker 1: invested all their money in the run game. That's what
Speaker 1: they do, that's what they do best. Go ahead, Nate,
Speaker 1: you know, I just believe this right here, that you know,
Speaker 1: it don't make sense to sit Zeke if we if
Speaker 1: we're resting now most valuable asset, right, and so I
Speaker 1: go along with these two guys, and the fact that
Speaker 1: you know you were able to put four wide receivers
Speaker 1: out the tight end for in three wide receivers and
Speaker 1: putting him in the slot, and we all these things
Speaker 1: happen but it happened because they needed for Ford to
Speaker 1: get into a rhythm because at some point in time,
Speaker 1: and you hear me say this open over, at some
Speaker 1: point in time, your quarterback will have to downs to
Speaker 1: the bill. Yeah, if you're gonna keep going downs to
Speaker 1: the bill, and and and if you want to separate
Speaker 1: yourself in this league. You know, it's one thing to
Speaker 1: get in the playoffs, but to get in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and be blanked. That shouldn't happen. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: so and to hear just to hear the conversation around
Speaker 1: the Giants game as much as people, you know, bag
Speaker 1: on this coaching staff and talk about the coaching staff
Speaker 1: and the head coach, an offensive coordinator. If they make
Speaker 1: a deep run into the playoffs, that could be from
Speaker 1: a strategic standpoint, one of the best coaching decisions of
Speaker 1: Garrett's career is to play that game, like you said,
Speaker 1: put stuff on tape, make people doubt. Oh, now we
Speaker 1: got to worry about this rinkle. We gotta worry about
Speaker 1: this rinkle. Showing that you could throw the ball, getting
Speaker 1: Dack some confidence. Now he's moving around in the pocket,
Speaker 1: he's finding Beasley. You can win a game without Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper being a big factor, like psychologically and on paper
Speaker 1: and strategically, that could be one of the best decisions
Speaker 1: that he's ever made, is to play to win that game.
Speaker 1: When when you showed up in that stadium, it just
Speaker 1: kind of felt like this is a throwaway game. But
Speaker 1: as that game started playing out and you started seeing
Speaker 1: the reaction of those guys and how much it meant
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Speaker 1: was a big deal. And I didn't get it until
Speaker 1: after the game. I was like, this is why he
Speaker 1: did that, This is why they played to win that
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Speaker 1: what's happen Derek? How are you? Oh? By the way,
Speaker 1: walk through the training table to grab a water brisket
Speaker 1: for lunch. Have you had the brisket here? Nate? Pretty solid,
Speaker 1: pretty solid going to watch after this, Man, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying about Connor Williams. Thank You'm inactive. Right, Let's go
Speaker 1: back to the phone. John in New York? How are you?
Speaker 1: What's happening up? I am, it's not It's not Tommy, John,
Speaker 1: It's just John. And uh, I'm just kidding. I'm fired up, man,
Speaker 1: I'm nervous. I'm fired up. Like last week's game that
Speaker 1: was magical, Like it felt like magic at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, watching Dak do that, after watching Romo
Speaker 1: do that for years, and man, that's a brilliant thing.
Speaker 1: Headed into the playoffs because we know what our defense
Speaker 1: can do. Like if you look at this roster they
Speaker 1: put together, Yeah, scale, scale, scim sir, you have a question.
Speaker 1: I'm just fired up, man, I'm optimistic. I'm no, I'm optimistic.
Speaker 1: I don't got a question. You got Nick looking at
Speaker 1: his phone over there, so working, Yeah, I mean, so
Speaker 1: we're trying to do a show. So you got Nick
Speaker 1: looking at his phone, So Nick, what do you think this? Dude?
Speaker 1: S fired up? I don't know. I'm actually trying to
Speaker 1: figure out. Who's on the All Pro team for the Cowboys? Sorry,
Speaker 1: anybody made team? Byron Jones is on the second team. Uh.
Speaker 1: I believe Von Miller made it as an outside linebacker
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys. But yeah, but there was another guy,
Speaker 1: a rookie Byron Jones made it on the second team,
Speaker 1: Zeke and h Layton van Dress whoa second team All Pro,
Speaker 1: which I think is remarkable. That's a big deal. He's
Speaker 1: rookie that he didn't that wasn't even starting it, by
Speaker 1: the way, I think he's He's probably gonna be about
Speaker 1: fourth and voting of Defensive Rookie of the Year, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. I mean, it was a great rookie class.
Speaker 1: Two of them made it on the All Pro first team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so those two guys that they thought would beat him
Speaker 1: out are both first teamers, Leonard and Dervin James. Hey, hey, John,
Speaker 1: before we let you go, what is your biggest concern
Speaker 1: going into this game? I mean, it's clearly Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and I guess number two. If I could say, it
Speaker 1: would just be Seattle's experience, Like they can make a
Speaker 1: long run. It's just about making a run. And obviously
Speaker 1: I'm nervous about playing Seattle, but anybody can make a
Speaker 1: run at this time. And I think going into the
Speaker 1: game with the momentum we're coming off of, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm just daydreaming about making that run. Do
Speaker 1: you believe in Dak? Do you think he can take
Speaker 1: this team to a Super Bowl? I believe in the mentality. Yes,
Speaker 1: I believe in Dak. I believe in the mentality Dak
Speaker 1: brings to this offense. I don't want to win. What
Speaker 1: I want to do is I want to punch Seattle
Speaker 1: in the mouth and put everybody on notice. Run the
Speaker 1: ball down their throat like Zeke two Russian touchdowns, Dak
Speaker 1: with the Russian touchdown like defense, flying all over the
Speaker 1: field and put everybody on notice. Just punch them in
Speaker 1: the mouth. Everybody's got a plan until they get punched
Speaker 1: in the mouth. And I'd love to see our offense
Speaker 1: do that. All right, man, appreciate the call. We're fired
Speaker 1: up too, be watching. You know what's interesting and Nick
Speaker 1: and I were talking about this a little bit yesterday.
Speaker 1: You hear all the teams talk about you here. A
Speaker 1: lot of people talk about how great the offenses are
Speaker 1: in particularly in this playoff. The teams that are sitting
Speaker 1: at the top of both the AFC and the NFC,
Speaker 1: they're big offensive teams. But I was I was throwing
Speaker 1: this this theory out to Nick that if you go
Speaker 1: back and look at the Super Bowl champion, man, you
Speaker 1: have to go a long way until you get until
Speaker 1: you find a team that doesn't have that didn't have
Speaker 1: a defense that was either top ten as far as
Speaker 1: the number of yards they give up our top ten
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of it of turnovers or takeaways. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day, winning championships, I know it's
Speaker 1: one thing in the regular season. In the playoffs, winning
Speaker 1: championships to me is all about how well your defense
Speaker 1: is playing. You need to have a good offense, and
Speaker 1: like Nate said, your quarterbacks is gonna have to win
Speaker 1: some games for you. They're gonna have to be some
Speaker 1: moments in some of those games and they run to
Speaker 1: the playoffs where your quarterback has to do something remarkable.
Speaker 1: But I think that the most important part, and I
Speaker 1: think the part that the Cowboys have down is you
Speaker 1: gotta be able to play defense and you gotta be
Speaker 1: able to run the ball. And that's to me what
Speaker 1: gives me hope at least that the Cowboys have a
Speaker 1: shot this year to be able to make a deep
Speaker 1: runs because they do have those two things them one
Speaker 1: or two turnovers that main three and out and that
Speaker 1: and that's what that's if you get the one or
Speaker 1: two turnovers. You know, Let's say you your offense going
Speaker 1: three and out and they body language ain't right, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, your defense just go out there
Speaker 1: and get a big sack or a big turnover. That
Speaker 1: that's where defense is doing. Are you kind of shaky?
Speaker 1: You know, uh, shaky defensive wise, you know, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you got zeke. You stopped punching zeke
Speaker 1: at them. See it all players hand handed. And that's
Speaker 1: why I said, it just comes down to can you execute?
Speaker 1: And uh, if you can execute with a good with
Speaker 1: a great defense which we have in your quarterback and
Speaker 1: stay consistent, this is a good game now. And more
Speaker 1: to what you said, Derek, and we talked about this
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Seemed like all the top
Speaker 1: teams in the AFC are the NFC. They all high
Speaker 1: powered offenses, and all the wildcard teams doubt at the
Speaker 1: bottom offense defense, you know, so and most of them
Speaker 1: got started, like in the second half of the year.
Speaker 1: I think about the Cowboys, thinking about Seattle cold. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Colts, like all these teams, like they started getting
Speaker 1: hot as the war on. They started off a little slow,
Speaker 1: but as a team as a season war on they
Speaker 1: got bers the only one that was steady the year.
Speaker 1: And that's why you can't count them out. But they
Speaker 1: got the best defense out. Yeah, this whole bunch, and
Speaker 1: that m is gonna make them a tough ou is
Speaker 1: just because they Yeah, the Ravens suit, but they are
Speaker 1: just really, really really good on defense. Yeah. We talked
Speaker 1: about this this week. There's not a team in this
Speaker 1: group that would surprise me make the Super Bowl on
Speaker 1: AFC side or the NFC. The Ravens maybe, but I
Speaker 1: can see any any of these teams matter, even the
Speaker 1: Eagles sneaking in. I mean, you got Nick Foles playing quarterback. Hell,
Speaker 1: they won it last year. I mean I could see
Speaker 1: any of these teams going to the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: winning it. I honestly, if I had to guess right now,
Speaker 1: if it was just my gut field, I think in
Speaker 1: both the AFC and NFC, the teams that will represent
Speaker 1: those two conferences in the Super Bowl. Are not the
Speaker 1: two teams or will not be the teams that are
Speaker 1: on buys this week. I think it's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those other four teams, one of those grinders that
Speaker 1: just got I think, because I think that's how playoff
Speaker 1: football goes, like those teams that are able to play
Speaker 1: great defense, be able to have those those tough games
Speaker 1: you grind out. The one thing that could be a
Speaker 1: difference there would be New Orleans because New Orleans they
Speaker 1: are the ones that's the most balanced, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: Like their defense is balling too, so they present a
Speaker 1: little bit of a different thing because their offense is
Speaker 1: so high powered or can be so high powered, and
Speaker 1: their defense is really good. But I think that you
Speaker 1: look at all the rest of those teams, I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be one of those other four teams
Speaker 1: that are playing this weekend that ends up representing AFC
Speaker 1: or NFC. Yeah, I don't agree with that. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be one of the buy teams for both sides,
Speaker 1: just because you know, history usually says that that's going
Speaker 1: to be the case, and for a reason. But I
Speaker 1: think the Saints that are the most balanced team, and
Speaker 1: they got the best home field advantage, and they got
Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks. So I think you had all those
Speaker 1: things together that I mean, there's a reason why they're
Speaker 1: in the number one seed. They are going to be
Speaker 1: the team to beat. And no one's really gunning in
Speaker 1: there and beating them since Tampa in their spot in
Speaker 1: their spots, So that's gonna be tough on that end.
Speaker 1: But you're right. I mean, it's balance it all top
Speaker 1: to bottom. I mean, I don't see Indianapolis running the
Speaker 1: table and going from the AFC. But they play good,
Speaker 1: you know, good down football. So it's anybody's game. It's
Speaker 1: gonna come down to it like it's either who makes
Speaker 1: the best players, it's who makes the fewest mistakes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with y'all, man. I just love it. This
Speaker 1: is one playoff. Normally I call this you know this
Speaker 1: week here, you know phony week, you know, we find
Speaker 1: out who's for real and it's not, you know, because
Speaker 1: a lot of teams get upset who you don't think
Speaker 1: can get upset. But this is one time that you
Speaker 1: can watch all the playoffs with just gusto. I mean,
Speaker 1: one game out of the games, that's what I like it.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody in there that ain't earned or work their
Speaker 1: way into this playoffs? You know, nobody back then? This
Speaker 1: is the funny thing. Can This is what amazes me,
Speaker 1: the Rams. If one if this one player comes to play,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna beat the Rams. If this one player, if
Speaker 1: Sue comes to play, that would make a huge difference.
Speaker 1: Nobody can beat them, I promise you, because what Donald
Speaker 1: can do is outstanding. If Sue comes to play, but
Speaker 1: if he just be that same old guy that's just
Speaker 1: getting this thirteen meal ain't worried about I'm witch on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they will be a very tough out. If you put
Speaker 1: those two guys play, who's gonna stop? Really tough Connor
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Speaker 1: too the game, or you're watching from home, wherever you
Speaker 1: view this game, we need you to wear white. Where
Speaker 1: white to the stadium, where white in your living room, white,
Speaker 1: wear white to the bar, whatever. We are whiting out
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Speaker 1: Kelsey says she's wearing a wedding dress. Hell yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going all the I'm going shopping right after this to
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Speaker 1: I missed that show. Dylan and Georgia might be our
Speaker 1: last caller. Make it good? How are you good? Good? Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm tuning in late today. So if y'all covered this,
Speaker 1: I apologize, But uh, do you spy Russell Wilson in
Speaker 1: certain situations depending on down distance? Um, crucial times in
Speaker 1: the ball game? And if game go ahead on my brother?
Speaker 1: I know? And if you do spy him, who is
Speaker 1: your spot? Appreciate it? Good question. That's how you do it.
Speaker 1: You get in, you ask you questions, you get out
Speaker 1: what all. A lot of linebackers can do it. They
Speaker 1: can run, yeah, can run with him? Maybe not, but
Speaker 1: they can run. No, no, they they can get him,
Speaker 1: but they got to bring him to the ground. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it ain't at his straight line speed. He
Speaker 1: gets you just like he Yeah, you know, he got
Speaker 1: a little wit. You have to mix it up, you know.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be surprised if you see some Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 1: you know, do something like that like he did, you
Speaker 1: know a few times with Kamar. I could see him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know because it's I mean, he matches Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson athletically. Um. But you, like you said, if you're
Speaker 1: worried about linebackers, get them to the ground. I mean
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis. But whatever they did, and whatever they did
Speaker 1: in week three worked because he was not a problem
Speaker 1: for them running the ball in that game, Like that
Speaker 1: wasn't That wasn't the problem that they want over the
Speaker 1: top on Kvon Fraser. Yeah, that's the quarterback wants to run,
Speaker 1: but they can just throw. So you better hope that
Speaker 1: that Jeff Heath is playing the full game. Is the
Speaker 1: moral to that story, because that's when they gave up
Speaker 1: that big play and here you go. But I think
Speaker 1: that I think that Christoph Chard will do a good
Speaker 1: job of coming with up with the right game plan.
Speaker 1: And like you said, at times, I don't think you
Speaker 1: do anything every time, but at times they're going to
Speaker 1: figure out the right situations and how to keep him
Speaker 1: and everybody stayed disciplined, and how you rush, make sure
Speaker 1: you keep those lanes claws so he can't squeak through.
Speaker 1: I think they do all those kinds of things. It
Speaker 1: helps out. I'll tell you what. Just do not turn
Speaker 1: that ball over that's up. Just do not turn the
Speaker 1: ball over, you know. And I hate to say this,
Speaker 1: you know. And let it come down to the wire,
Speaker 1: you know. I think it's gonna get ten to fourteen.
Speaker 1: You can't get ten to fourteen points. Just play it
Speaker 1: right on down to the wire. Let's see what our
Speaker 1: quarterback and do it. Let's see what their quarterback can do.
Speaker 1: I can do. Stop it. Stop hey. By the way,
Speaker 1: Dave Hellman did text me a little earlier and he
Speaker 1: was like, just for what it's worth. His prediction is
Speaker 1: that does Cowboys win with a final kick twenty three
Speaker 1: I think he said twenty three seconds left was what
Speaker 1: he said. The Cowboys will no, in the final seconds,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys kicker will make a twenty three yard field
Speaker 1: goal to win. That's his prediction. I kick your name,
Speaker 1: James Harden No, No, that's his prediction. Is he think
Speaker 1: it will be to see your point. He thinks it
Speaker 1: will come down to the wire. And and honestly, I
Speaker 1: do think this will not be a blowout. I think
Speaker 1: both these teams are even though I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a close game. And I think the Kickers are
Speaker 1: gonna matter. They really are gonna matter in this game.
Speaker 1: We got Mom on the phone before we go to her,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna end the show with her. Let's go around.
Speaker 1: Let's go around the table. Start with you, Nate. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on this game, Who's winning and what
Speaker 1: are they gonna do to win the game? Don't look
Speaker 1: at me like that. I need some knowledge. All right,
Speaker 1: We'll go with Derek first. All right, I do think
Speaker 1: this will be a close game. Like I said, I
Speaker 1: think I think this is gonna be ah, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a very low scoring game actually, because I
Speaker 1: think both these defenses will play really, really well. I
Speaker 1: think at the end of the day, Cowboys get to
Speaker 1: win mainly because the home crowd makes a difference. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that if you look at if you look
Speaker 1: at Seattle and their road record, and you look at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys home record, it says the Cowboys are I
Speaker 1: think that says as much as you need to know
Speaker 1: about kind of where where the balance lies as far
Speaker 1: as who has the upper hand, I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: do have the upper hand being at home. They've played
Speaker 1: really well at home, so I think they end up winning,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a close one. I think the
Speaker 1: end score is sixteen ten. Who who? I'm taking logic
Speaker 1: out the window. I've seen these two teams play. This
Speaker 1: year's Seattle was much better. Russell Wilson has more Super
Speaker 1: Bowl appearances and wins than Dak Prescott has games that
Speaker 1: he's won in the playoffs. Uh, Pete Carroll is more
Speaker 1: much more accomplished than Jason Garrett in the postseason. So
Speaker 1: all that being said, I'm gonna pick Dallas. Um, I
Speaker 1: think you're logic right out the window. I think Seadda
Speaker 1: is a better football team. Yeah, I'm picking Dallas. So
Speaker 1: tell me why why if all that logic says one thing,
Speaker 1: and well, I'm just picking Dallas. They've they've done well
Speaker 1: at home this year, and they'll come this far and
Speaker 1: I don't really think that I'm ready for this thing
Speaker 1: to end. So I'm gonna pick Dallas to win the game.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be really close. I think the better
Speaker 1: team doesn't always win, and I think that they're gonna
Speaker 1: find a way and win it. But all that history
Speaker 1: says you would pick the team with a bit more
Speaker 1: playoff experience and the better quarterback. But I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Dallas. You want me to go? Or do you
Speaker 1: want to go last? No? No, no, I'm with Nick,
Speaker 1: But you hit it over, go ahead home, Nick, with
Speaker 1: Nick just throwing all logic out. Oh man, I'm dying faith,
Speaker 1: you know how my heart sits right now? Yeah? There
Speaker 1: we go? All right? Yeah? Nick? Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: guys of Connor Williams versus which I'm I'm with Derek.
Speaker 1: I think this is a totally different team at home.
Speaker 1: I think this crowd. The difference between a home crowd
Speaker 1: and the playoffs and a home crowd at a normal
Speaker 1: game at AT and T Stadium, huge difference. I mean
Speaker 1: this our stadium is one of the loudest in the
Speaker 1: league whenever it comes to playoff football. Now, we haven't
Speaker 1: had very many playoff football games in that stadium, but
Speaker 1: I remember Detroit a couple of years a few years
Speaker 1: ago that was one of the loudest games I've ever
Speaker 1: been to a period. I think that's gonna be yeah, huge.
Speaker 1: I think if Dak takes care of the ball and
Speaker 1: does what he does so well, and that's not turned
Speaker 1: the ball over and he gets outside of that pocket
Speaker 1: and he gets stripped, I think it's gonna be bad news.
Speaker 1: No fumbles, no fumbles. And I think special teams needs
Speaker 1: to step up on the Cowboys side, because they special
Speaker 1: teams includes the kicker. I think if they take care
Speaker 1: of the ball, special teams does a good job. I
Speaker 1: think this defense is good enough to win the game
Speaker 1: for you. I think it's gonna be in the low twins.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going sixteen ten. I think
Speaker 1: twenty four or twenty one, something like that. But I
Speaker 1: also think it's gonna come down. It's gonna come down
Speaker 1: to probably the last possession, just because that's Cowboys football
Speaker 1: and that's Cowboys playoff football. Whoever has the ball last
Speaker 1: is gonna have a chance to win this game with
Speaker 1: about a minute, minute and a half left. Whether that's
Speaker 1: Dak or whether that's Russell Wilson, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I just hope it's Zack. I know here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I know what's gonna happen. I know this is not
Speaker 1: gonna be Cowboys jump out fourteen nothing and take over
Speaker 1: this game. There's gonna be drama. Y'all are gonna come
Speaker 1: down on the field with about six minutes left, and
Speaker 1: we're all gonna be sitting there, sweating and talking to
Speaker 1: each other and going is this really about to happen?
Speaker 1: Is this how this is going down? I just want
Speaker 1: to see I just want to see Nick and Rob
Speaker 1: in the Beanies doing another show, a positive show. I
Speaker 1: can guarantee you that I won't be we won't be
Speaker 1: guarantee in the stadium. No, No, that was funny. Ask
Speaker 1: you this if if this just theoretically called down there, Nate,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, but it was funny. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: heretically that was a really nice beanie. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: it from Nick oh because it plays music. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. We win the super Bowl? Will you wear
Speaker 1: a Hot Boys beanie in your postgame interview? Now? Last word? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that will ever happen. No, William, William
Speaker 1: got you. No, I won't be wearing that. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: before we get out of here, we gotta close the
Speaker 1: show out. Welcome to the show my mother, Mama, Gross, Hi, Hi,
Speaker 1: say hi, Tod, Derek and Dick. Hello Hide Nick, Hi Derek.
Speaker 1: How'd you do last week? Year? Happy New Year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I hadn't talked to y'all since then night, Happy New Year,
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Mother, Gross, I did well. I did
Speaker 1: five and two because we put in the two Bowl games. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: split them. U. Kurt was right, but you need to
Speaker 1: do your disclaimer first before I get I am. You
Speaker 1: haven't picked anything yet. So this is for entertainment purposes only.
Speaker 1: We do not condone gambling in any way. This is
Speaker 1: just my mother having fun. Yes, all right? Are you
Speaker 1: picking all the playoff games? Is that what we're doing? Yes?
Speaker 1: The four? All right? What do you guy? All right?
Speaker 1: The Colts and the Texans. The Texans are given up
Speaker 1: two and a half. I think the game's going to
Speaker 1: be twenty four twenty one, and I think the Colts
Speaker 1: are going to win it. Boom, all right, So the
Speaker 1: Colts plus two and a half. Right, okay, okay, Nate,
Speaker 1: we got some love from Vegas. Dallas. Is the no no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you save that for the end. That's that's the money game.
Speaker 1: Save that one for the end. All right, all right
Speaker 1: to more in Los Angeles Chargers. The Baltimore is given
Speaker 1: up two and a half. I think that Baltimore is
Speaker 1: going to win this game. Baltimore minus two and a half.
Speaker 1: That's the game I'm on the fence about. But I'm
Speaker 1: going with Baltimore. I think they want it. I think
Speaker 1: they want it worse. Okay, the Eagles and the Bears,
Speaker 1: and the Bears are giving up five and a half,
Speaker 1: and Nate, we just got to stay with that Bears.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna stay with them, and I think they're
Speaker 1: going to ride this game out, and we just need
Speaker 1: to get the Eagles out of there. I don't even
Speaker 1: have to worry about them further down the line. All right,
Speaker 1: So Chicago minus five and a half, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, the money game money, gawn, Let's go Dallas
Speaker 1: and Seattle. Dallas finally got their love. They're given up
Speaker 1: two and a half. They're the favorite, and it's probably
Speaker 1: because they're at home. I think the score is gonna
Speaker 1: be twenty one Dallas fourteen Seattle, and I think Seattle's
Speaker 1: going down. Of course, Dallas is going to win it,
Speaker 1: all right, What do they need to do to win
Speaker 1: this game? Mom, because Dak's Dak and Coach Garrett are listening.
Speaker 1: What do they need to do to win this game?
Speaker 1: I think they need to run the ball and confuse
Speaker 1: people a little more. I know we're built around a
Speaker 1: running team, and I know it works, but every once
Speaker 1: in a while you need to throw that kink in there.
Speaker 1: And I think that showed going downfield is possible with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and I think there's gonna be some deciding
Speaker 1: factors with that. And besides that night, this is no doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. Where are you watching the game.
Speaker 1: She's a lady. Um, it's Tatty's sixtieth birthday. She's playing
Speaker 1: Saturday night at the Beechwood and Vicksburg. We're all staying
Speaker 1: at the casino and we're gonna be watching the game
Speaker 1: at UM Sicksburg. There's about twenty evers. Who you got
Speaker 1: Bama Clemson. I didn't even look those up. Shan didn't
Speaker 1: tell me to do anything about the bowl game. There's
Speaker 1: no other game this week. The only game is tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: An that's all you need to worry about. Bama got five,
Speaker 1: they give him them. Okay, Bama. I'm going with Bama.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna do it. Bamma. That's straight up.
Speaker 1: I don't like them, but you know that's the way
Speaker 1: it is. All right, Mom, we're gonna eat brisket. I'll
Speaker 1: have fun. Yeah, continue, listen to the show. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do a show by myself, going in a bonus an
Speaker 1: hour by himself. I'm gonna do album. Get all the
Speaker 1: callers that uh got missed, come on calling. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do Alabama self. Who's producing dons. Don't leave me, I'll
Speaker 1: cover you. I'll cover your night the toiler. All right, mom, Well,
Speaker 1: happy birthday, Patty. Y'all have fun. I'll call you after
Speaker 1: the game. Hopefully we're celebrating the game. All right, Mom,
Speaker 1: you do by Derek Nick. It's been fun. We should
Speaker 1: do this more often. He needs his head bashed in
Speaker 1: for talking to his mom now, he really does, like,
Speaker 1: I ain't the way you should be talking to your
Speaker 1: mama like that. I've heard the way she talks to him,
Speaker 1: So I don't care, Mama, mama, mama exactly, referring to
Speaker 1: the day I shaved my head. Yeah, let's not please
Speaker 1: out that. Wow, even if you take off and do
Speaker 1: them wrong, I know, right, even after she found out
Speaker 1: why I shaved it, she was still not real happy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just right. So Nick understands the relationship such a
Speaker 1: bad well Nate, thanks for bringing it, Thanks Douglas, thanks
Speaker 1: for pushing the buttons. Can't thanks. Man, look at this problem. Man,
Speaker 1: Let's get that bread, goose him and go get them
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