WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Losing Out On Leonard? 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:14.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Players Lounge, 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:19.560 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star. 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:26.160 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:27.520 new he Scruggs. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.960 Here we go playse lound. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:42.120 That's right, Monday, Monday. Let's get it done with SEC's on. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:47.320 Danny mccraig, Heck, here's a lot going on. I'm new 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.000 he scrugs. Congratulations on your conference. Going ahead and make 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.319 us everybody remember day number one. Always get to see 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.720 the table at college football playoff gradually. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:04.280 Oh no, listen, I don't care my school LA. I'm 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.880 watching for entertainment. I don't care who's in it. LSU 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:07.400 ain't in it. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.000 Actually, LSU was a part of the argument which was 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:12.640 saw whether that was a Florida state for like, hey 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.040 we beat LSU and they're like yeah, yeah. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.559 So that's your turn. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.640 That's saying, listen, hey, when you went to NATI, you 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.360 got five years at least, okay, you got five years 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.039 in leave. We won the twenty nineteen we got fire. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:28.920 I don't want to hear nothing about it, man, I 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.280 don't have today. Man, you no no ocean run wild. 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.920 It wasn't became, wasn't because of football. So dude, I 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:36.800 got nothing for you today. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.640 Danny. I know you came in already. You're ready to 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:40.480 go to war already. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.520 I'm okay. I don't get you know, stick put the 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.880 LSU stuff in then and all this. What was your 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.280 thoughts man on the on the college football man when 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.440 they made the picks? Did you feel bad for Florida State? 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.480 I feel bad for the players of Florida State. But 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.080 I understand, you understand. I understand because you know, I 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.000 came up in a time when when Notre Dame was 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:00.840 going to the national champ should be getting the brakes 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.120 blue off of them every season. And then also we 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.560 saw TCU go there last year and everybody, you know, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.000 this great story and all that stuff, and they got 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:09.040 ran up out the building. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.840 They're trying to avoid. I understand that part of it. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.480 So I mean they beat They went out there and 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.320 beat the Michigan team that was out there. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:18.799 Cheating to tc beat them. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:20.160 They lost, and then with. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.440 The championship game, Yes, they got That's what I'm saying. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.240 They got destroyed. I don't think it's about. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.040 The first nobody thought they should have been in, and 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.000 then they went out there and they. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.080 Beat Michigan and you know what, you know what happened. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.480 They lost, and then they Florida State should call them 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.240 and tell them thank you for what's happening to them 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:34.560 right now. 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.040 They don't want to see that. I'm not on the committee. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.040 I don't even and it's just me. I don't think 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:39.600 that was the case. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.760 I think at the end of the day, the SEC 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.680 champion was not gonna get left out. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:46.880 We refer to you on the national championship. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.520 So you believe in Florida State's quarterback was one hundred 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.600 percent healthy, they would have got left out because I 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:54.280 don't believe that. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.919 I once told Bill Hancock, who's retiring executive director of 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.160 the CFPS, like it's only three spots available, the SEC 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.440 champions getting in every year, and it's always happened. And 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.160 last year when Salmon got left out, boy he was 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:09.720 boo hoo, and who they. 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:10.440 We're gonna do it again. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.640 So so so, if Florida State's quarterback is healthy and 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:18.480 they everybody's healthy, they are undefeated. The ACC champions. Who 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:25.079 gets left out Texas. I'm just saying Florida right now. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.560 Okay, you know what I think you just hit up. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.720 It's probably Texas, but they were not leaving out the 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:30.359 SEC chair. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:31.760 Texas probably got left out. 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:33.959 That would have been there would have been nowhere in 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.960 hell that they could have could have left Texas out 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:38.240 of the city, No way. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.480 I believe that a lot of wouldn't have got in. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.880 I believe they wouldn't not after that's just not after, 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.880 not after beating Alabama in Tuscaloosa. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.320 I hear you, man, but this committee has shown you man, 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:50.800 logic does not matter. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.880 Okay, well, look my whole thing about it. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.800 If if I'm Florida say I'm ticked off, I mean 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.280 when you guys, when y'all were undefeated, correct, No, y'all, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:00.560 I lost two. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:01.080 We lost two. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.040 We lost two, and everybody the three teams that y'all 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.600 get y'all, three teams ahead of us, lost on in 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.480 their championship games after we won the SEC championship, So 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.480 we needed West Virginia lose somebody, like a couple of 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.240 other teams. They all lost and that bumped us up. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.720 So it wasn't we didn't get picked over somebody else. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.480 Everything happened how we needed it, that happened for us 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:21.880 to get. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.440 In, and you were the SEC champion. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:28.120 That's right, and that's your point. Yeah, well it was BCS. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:31.880 BCS. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.440 The the SEC carries weight except for the one time 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.200 when Tommy Tuberville was coaching Auburn and decided to have 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.880 acack schedule and they said we're gonna take Oklahoma and USC. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.240 But since then, and by the way, didn't mind that 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:44.599 at all. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.520 They weren't the better team the two exactly. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.200 They weren't the better team of the between USC and 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:55.760 and Oklahoma. But the SEC champion, they just it's different. Uh, 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.560 they the committee views it differently, and it's there. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:03.159 So we'll agree to disagree because I said, I believe 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.520 in Florida State's quarterback is there. I believe, I believe 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.680 and this is just me that Alabama is going to 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.520 get left out of there. And you got Texas, you 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:14.039 got Texas, Florida State, Washington and Michigan and there. The 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.280 problem I have with it is, how do you put 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.039 this Power five thing together and then you say that 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.520 Florida State goes undefeated and they don't make it. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.320 That's what you put this together. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.480 It's almost like full proof system that you put together 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.800 that you wouldn't have to encourage something like this, and 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.039 it happens and you leave Florida State out. Now I 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.880 can see versus the eyeball test, why you would leave 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:35.920 Florida State out of it. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:36.600 I get it. 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.120 I understand it, and I understand how the SEC gets 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.240 the natural bid selection with Alabama. It could have been 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.160 Alabama or Georgia. For me, I wouldn't have had an 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.560 argument with it either way, but Florida State should be 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.400 ticked off. You're not gonna leave Texas out of it 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:55.440 for sure. And man, the Texas Washington matchup, you're talking 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.479 about what I can't wait fun So, but there's a 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:02.680 scenario where there could have been five undefeated. There's a 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.400 scenario where they could have been a Washington undefeated, a 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.480 Georgia undefeated, a Texas undefeated, and the Florida State undefeated 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.600 and then who else Texas. What I'm saying that this 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.919 scenario where that could have happened. You know, I'm saying, 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.080 you try to avoid it, but there's a there's still 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.880 opportunity for somebody to get left out, no matter what 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.080 undefeated whatever, to get left out and still be upset. So, 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.359 you know, Florida State, like they lost their quarterback and 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.320 I feel bad for him if I'm a kid on 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.040 that team, a coach or whatever. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.400 We did everything we were supposed to do right. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.080 But they ain't the first people to get left out. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.880 From the time the first ever college football playoffs started, 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:38.719 they've been hosing. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.120 Yeah they're not they're not the first team and they 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:41.680 had stopped. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.200 So they just they in that room now with the 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.960 rest of them, like, come on in, come on in impetition, 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.880 we know, we know how you feel. Now what happens 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.479 is they go out there and they get you know, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.880 they get blew out by Georgia, which they probably will, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:57.960 I mean, but their heart is not going to be 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:58.520 in that game. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:06:59.359 It better be. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.520 But if they if they if they beat Georgia, then 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.760 that's when you know, were the martyrs and we you know, 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.760 we should have been in. See I told you, see 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:10.280 I told you. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.000 And you know if people won't care, people tc you 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.040 got left out. We played the Peach Bowl, beat beat 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.360 beat Old miss Hey. Thank you, enjoy your rents. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.520 If you end up with two, if you end up 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.880 with three amazing games, nobody's gonna care. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.559 Nobody's will care. They gonna say this is great. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.440 And last year the final, the final four game, the 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.880 two play the two semi final playoff games last year 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:34.440 were great. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.920 You know, Ohio State had Georgia debt. 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.400 Run, homeboy missed the field goal. That Michigan TCU game, 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:42.880 back and forth game. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:43.160 It was. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.600 Those two games were great, which you know, what was 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.720 what everybody wanted in the last one came. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.560 But you know, yeah, your your alma mater. 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.080 Hey baby, I went straight down to the halftime with raining. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.360 First all you know, I haven't lived in l a foreveryday. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.200 I've never seen rain like that, and so Sofi Stadium 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.360 does not have it ain't got nothing on the size 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.400 it saw sunshine. So it's raining sideways and they gave 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.840 us blankets versus cold. LA's cold. It's raining sideways, papers 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.640 all wet. Halftime by like midway through the first quarter, like, yeah, 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.560 this ain't happened. So my man told me they got 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.000 they got Brandy's donuts downstairs. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:22.440 I'm not. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:30.200 I packed everything up, went on downstairs. I'm like, I'm 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.199 gonna sit here in the nice warmth, and the boy 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.720 watching on TV and I'll just ready to interviews. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.240 That thing was a wrap. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.640 I will say this, you know, because everybody, you know, 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.080 if I'm looking at and I'm saying they wanted the 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:42.920 best four teams in there, I think we can all 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.280 agree to. Alabama now is a better team than what 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:46.760 Florida State will be able to put on the field. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.120 Absolutely, you know, from an entertainment standpoint, they're definitely gonna 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.760 these games should be entertained. I'm looking I'm very much 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:57.920 looking forward to uh Texas Rude who Armentary Eagleton his 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:58.920 long horns will be there. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.160 But it's a rematch between. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.920 Alimobile, which Washington beat them last year San Antonio twenty 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.319 seven twenty and then it's it's Michigan Alabama. We saw 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.280 when they announced that, the Michigan folks is like. 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.000 Oh, we got this. We know, we don't want this smoke. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.120 What do we do to earn this smoke? Football man? 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.560 Alabama has gotten a lot better, you know since the 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.880 beginning of the season. The quarterback has gotten better, got bench, 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.800 came back. He looks like a totally different player. I 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.400 know what happened with Aubert. That is a that is 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.679 a rivalry game. It is usually gonna be some weird 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.240 type of stuff happened in that game. But they are 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:34.720 a better team than what they were at the beginning 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:35.640 of the season, So. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.400 I'm looking forward to it. Looking forward to it all right. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.760 Players last watching by Tostito, shack Lenard has decided to 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.600 sign with Philadelphia, and I kind of felt that was 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:43.560 where it was going. 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.800 Putting that picture that you said, well, yeah, it's. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.960 My man John Clark up there NBC Philadelphia, I was like, yeah, okay, 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:52.720 that's where he'll probably end up going. I guess he 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.240 was with the security guard he got kicked out the 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.079 other night and picked him up from the airport. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:01.040 Dumb, dumb, my man, dum dumb. Okay, setting traps. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.480 He touched Michael Parsons, he might get he might get 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.240 get the full hit on Sunday over at and T Stadium. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:09.520 So he signed one year deal with them. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.559 They need the linebackers, so okay, it is what it is, 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.640 you know, being interested to see the Shaquille Leonards actually 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.960 play this weekend against the Cowboys and how. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.400 What he does play. But he's gonna go to Philadelphia. 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:24.840 I'm not shocked at all. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.120 The Cowboys obviously made the pitch Heck, they showed him 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:30.840 how they could use him, but he decided to go there. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.800 Philip, I told y'all from the beginning, I didn't want 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.840 him to use us as a bargainership. I meant it, 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.880 don't let him out of the building. If he's serious 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:38.439 about us. He knew where you wanted to go from 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.800 the beginning to me, uh, if he wanted to be 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.720 here with a sign with us. I think Philadelphia, especially 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.400 with their need at the linebacker position, they suffering right now. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.920 Are the Cowboys suffering at the same page that the 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:49.400 Eagles are? 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:49.520 No. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.280 So obviously, when it came down to the negotiation standpoint, 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.440 he had more leverage and probably leveraged last night's game, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.480 yesterday's game, whereas the senior you need me, So they 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.679 made the more that was probably beneficial for them. But still, man, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.240 you got a player that maybe has some health issues. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.319 It may not be the long term answer for them 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.839 if he can't get healthy this year. Yeah, I think 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.079 you could have helped us. I think you could have 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.480 helped us. Unfortunate that he did go to the Eagles, 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:17.880 But like I said, is what it is. You know, 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.200 like it happens. You had an opportunity. He decided, you 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:22.760 want to go somewhere else. Now he got to see us, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.520 hopefully on Sunday. One of the big time runs that 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.320 Tony Paula be been putting on these defensives. Maybe you 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.679 see one of them that this Sunday. So, I mean, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.960 I still think we have enough to do what we 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:35.360 need to do to go out there and get the 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.600 win against the Eagles. As long as we show up 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.439 you know how we've been playing, and we don't take 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.040 a step back, I think we'll be okay. Now we're 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.240 gonna have a fired up Eagles team though coming here. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.720 So it's gonna be some fireworks. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.480 The Cowboys Eagle game on NBC Sunday and at football 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.680 it is the Marquee game. It is going to be packed. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.280 If you plan on going out to the game, I 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.680 would adviuy you to get the early. Whatever time you 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.920 normally leave, you may want to leave forty forty five 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.640 earlier because everybody is trying to get to this game. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.400 It is going to be the hottest ticket in town. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.559 And for the folks who went out there Thanksgiving Day, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.440 you know it was packed. This is going to be 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.280 next level. This one truly matters. This is a game 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:19.240 the Cowboys have to have, period. They cannot afford to 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:19.920 lose this game. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.400 You gotta win it. Got no choice. Heck, they got 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:24.920 no choice. 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.920 I mean, if you I'm going back to the last 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.360 night's game. Okay, I'm going back to the last night's game, 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.439 and it was it was a point in that game 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.600 where I said, oh, they're not getting off the hook tonight. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.640 I've seen them be down and they make a move 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.280 to get back, but it was like San Francisco. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.560 Is not letting them up off the mat. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.600 They are going to put their foot on the neck 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.000 and continue to expose the weaknesses not only in their 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.760 defense but on their offense. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:51.880 They just didn't have. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.720 They didn't have that whatever it is Jenney sei Kwal 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.920 to get back in games like they had been before. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.439 And man, the people are lying to us in the media. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:02.920 They're saying that. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.320 Running games don't count, because they do. And you saw 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.120 it with CEMC yesterday. That was the difference him being 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.400 able to run in the phone booth against that defensive 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.920 line and get to the second level and the Eagles 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.800 just can't tackle. I don't know if y'all do it. 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.760 I mean, they have tackling problems. But man, that they 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.880 exposed the back half of that that defense. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.319 So heck, and Danny was born in nineteen eighty three, 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.040 so he don't know this. I'm like you and I 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:27.840 know this is. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:35.720 Cluver Lane, your son pain. That's what they My favorite 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:36.600 Rocky by the. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.000 Way, what's your prediction poin? 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.120 That's what they came out and talking. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.959 That noise ran through their little pregame warm up. The 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.839 Sirianni wanted to get a mad. They talked that talk. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.240 They went in there and beat these boys, and you 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.600 got Debo who talked it waving at the crowd. It 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.920 was fun to watch for me, like popcorn watch. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.120 I enjoyed it that like all that was cool. I 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.679 think that's one of those one of those things where 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.040 one team is a little bit they have more motivation 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.360 to come in there and try to fight you because 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:10.120 they lost. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.760 Like I'm coming to get revenged. I got a little bit. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.600 More about me when I come in, So yeah, I'm 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.280 talk a little bit more trash when the other people 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.160 looking at you, like, hey, y'all, y'all just up. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.120 We already beat y'all. So I can. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.880 Understand why Debo and them need to come out and 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.680 do all that. And also that's they brand of football. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.640 Get a little physical, try to get your head, get 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.120 a little dirty, and then go out there, you know, 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.160 and punish. And they did. And they ain't the only 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.480 team that the forty nine ers to punish. I think 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:37.280 them being healthy with Deebo and Trent Williams on the 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.360 on the field at the same time. That's just that's 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.720 just a hard team for you to defend. That's a 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.680 hard team for you to defend. They run a game. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.360 They running game. Rock Party slipped a little bit. Rock 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.600 Purty's the real deal. He can go out there. Shanahan 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.200 caused the right place for him to be able to 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.760 make him. With Ayu and Debo and CMC and George Kittle, 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.560 they put on the full show last night. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.240 So shout out to them. They they came out ready to. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:02.440 Go forty two points. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.560 Philadelphia held eighteen rushers for forty. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.880 Eight yards running the ball and they couldn't run the ball. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.080 Yeah, that was it was a show. That's the way 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.400 you do It's it was a show. Now that's the 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.280 way you do it. I wanted to see. We talk 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.600 about their strengths and we talk about the weakness, but 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.000 the strength of their team has been their ability to 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.320 run and stay balanced. What we saw from San Francisco 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.080 was them sell out to say, you're not gonna be 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.760 able to run the ball, period, We'll take away everything else. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.120 Get we don't care about giving you a J. Brown. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.480 And they frustrated AJ Brown so much last last night, 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.720 and that's maybe that's the key to getting him off 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.080 his game, is just frustrating him because he can be 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.560 his own worst enemy in those situations. But defensively, they 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.600 had no answer for the San Francisco. For the Niners, 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.040 We've been there, I've seen that kind of pressure put 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:54.520 on us. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.160 I've just for the last two weeks. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.200 We're looking to evaluated Seattle when they played against San 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.320 Francisco last week and now looking at this Philadelphia tape 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.960 versus San Francisco. You go, man, once they get you 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.080 in this position where you don't know if they're gonna run, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:11.560 whether they're gonna pass, they just completely nullify your pass rush. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.080 He listen, last night's game did not make me feel 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.720 any better about us. Just so you know, like I 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.640 wasn't watching the Eagles saying, oh yeah, we got a 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.040 better chance at beating them. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.160 Hool that because I want to dive deeper into what 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.080 you just said. Right there, Danny, that deserves a deeper dive. 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:28.720 He said it too quick, didn't you know? 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.320 I want to get a take a break, come back here. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.000 Can give us a deeper dive. He's Danny mc craig, 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.720 former Dallas Cowboys safety of the Rescriens. 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Come on, 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:21.600 come on, let's go. 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:29.280 You know what man I'm I just you know, heckmanize 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:30.680 him around here, man, we feeling good. 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:32.800 Good to watch what we watched here. 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.560 I feel I feel like you're trying to just poor 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.480 little salt in it was on Monday, or or the realism. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.320 Maybe it'sat the realism. I'm not ready to drink the 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.199 realism drink just yet. But that's okay. That's why we're here, 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:45.120 that's why we do the show. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.200 So no, I'm just saying, like me, watching the Eagles 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.560 get beat down like that doesn't make me feel better 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:52.840 about the Cowboy how I felt about how I felt 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.919 about our chances to get the against the Eagles going 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.600 into that game that they played against San Francisco on Sunday. 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:01.480 I still feel the same, and now I feel a 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.240 little bit more like now the pressure is on both teams. 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:06.400 You got a team that just got stumped out like that. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.679 They gotta respond right now. You're gonna get the Cowboys. 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.399 This is playing for so the Cowboys don't tie you 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:13.240 up in the division. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.119 You're going to get a really, really. 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.400 Good effort out of the Eagles, especially if you wasn't 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.159 getting the best, if they would have want, you're gonna 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:22.840 get it now because they have to respond. They in 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.120 the situation to where they need to get a win. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.479 That's going to like the States are hired for both teams. 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.000 But I saw us get stumped out by the forty niners. 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.520 All right, I know what type of team they or 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.119 I know what type of difficulties that they can present 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.280 to a defense. And we watched it happen with the 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.760 Philadelphia Eagles, who had barely been hanging on for the 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.120 last couple weeks. Now they got a shot to sit 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.080 down and say, all right, well, we gotta go see 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.000 what we gotta fix, Cowboys. We need to do that 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.280 proof time and consistency against teams with winning records, and 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.159 this is just another opportunity for us to do that 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.440 against the Eagles. I don't feel like, all of a sudden, 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.159 now we found the magic blueprint to go knock the 0:20:58.200 --> 0:20:58.640 Eagles out. 0:20:58.680 --> 0:20:59.520 I don't feel that way. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.679 So the thing old school sitting here, we're sitting on 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.600 hopes and dreams. Cowboy fans, right now, you got hopes 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.760 and dreams of trying to win this division. Won't get 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:14.080 the one seed if the records all stay the same, 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:15.640 because San Francisco will on the one seed. 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:17.800 But they got bout some more and some they they 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:18.960 got settle. 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:20.920 If everything stays the same. 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.000 But but you got some hopes and dreams, if you're 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.720 a Cowboy fan right now and knowing you can get 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:27.160 it done. 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:28.760 We did, we did the preseason. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:30.800 But I think all of us tin to check our 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:32.679 little magic not chat of integrity. 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:35.680 Let me look, let me look magic sheet of integrity. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.600 I'm telling you. I'm telling you a the time. Yeah, yeah, 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:39.959 you believe. 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.119 I believe, we believe they. 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.040 We lost the two big games already. I was right, 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:47.320 that's right. 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:49.320 Hey man, I'm just saying. 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.040 Right, listen, see what see this is how you're trying 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:53.600 to paint it. I'm not saying that I don't believe 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.159 we can beat them. I'm saying how I felt about 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:59.440 them after we win Blue breaks off of was a 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.679 seat or our offense played very well against Seattle, how 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:04.240 we played against them, I was like, you know what, 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.280 we got a shot to be really really good on offense, 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.680 and we can beat anybody. I still feel the exact 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.000 same way about going into this game. I do not 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:13.439 feel like now we can go out here and just 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:15.800 blow out the Eagles because all of a sudden, chinking 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:17.800 their armor and now we didn't figure out. 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:19.120 How to beat them. I don't feel that way. 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:21.160 I feel like you still need to show up and 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:23.159 this is going to be one of those one of 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:25.520 those classic games. I feel like it's gonna be one 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:25.840 of those. 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:27.760 I don't disagree with you on that. 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:28.000 Man. 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:32.800 Talking to Rodney Harrison today, ask me about some things like, well, 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:34.480 you know, Keys is the game And one of the 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.360 things I told right said, they have got to figure 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:40.600 out these dog on penalties. It is still problematic and 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:42.960 it's gonna hurt you in a game of this type 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:46.200 of magnitude of the team is good with the nine penalties. 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:50.240 The other ninth nine nine and uh nine for one, that's. 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:50.800 Not gonna cut it. 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:51.359 No, it's not. 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:53.600 And especially when you go up against a team that 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:58.000 can can score with you. Those undisciplined things that have 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.399 been happening in Mike McCarthy's tenure here as a coach 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:03.880 as something that I'm sure that he's trying to get 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.760 ahead of and not happen, especially when, like I said, 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:08.159 you play a forty nine ers or you play a 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:11.560 Philadelphia team. And then also limiting the turnovers as well. 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:13.840 You can't turn the ball over versus good teams like that, 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:16.680 and I think Dak Prescott's play has shown you that 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:18.639 if he don't turn the ball over and the defense 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:20.960 can just hold up, we're gonna win some really close 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:24.239 games and we can blow some teams out. Danny, I 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.919 just believe this game was the Philadelphia's gonna play this 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:29.280 game the same way if they had three days rest, 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:31.480 whatever it is they're gonna play because of the NFC 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:36.040 East Divisional game. Look, all I've been looking for when 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:38.400 I've been watching Philly is somebody to expose what I've 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.359 seen Last week when Buffalo played them, I had the 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:43.639 feeling that Josh Allen was already showing it. 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:46.240 Look, they are vulnerable, they can be. 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:49.480 Beat if they had them, and they let Philadelphia off 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:51.359 the hook. They allowed them to get back in that 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:55.000 game and win it in overtime. Yesterday versus San Francisco. 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:57.640 San Francisco just never let up, and it was those 0:23:58.080 --> 0:24:01.240 fourteen every quarter fourteenth. You start to break that game 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:03.399 down and you start to say, man, San Francisco is 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:05.960 on a roll and Philadelphia can't do anything about it. 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:09.560 What made me feel good is just basically saying Tony Pollard, 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:12.320 I hope you're watching this game, because if you can 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:16.919 have some success guys like Brandon cooks our third and fourth, 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:20.439 but Ferguson guys like that they can eat versus this 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:24.520 secondary cook. You are right, because I want I don't 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:26.119 want to knock out players. I'm just saying when you 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:27.719 when you look at the guys who are making those 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:30.400 type of players last night debo coming out of the backfield, 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:32.760 and then you talked about Christian McCaffrey being the guy 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:35.640 Tony Paula Christian McCaffrey not the same player, all right, 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:38.439 I think I think that San Francisco has some different 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:42.399 ways of utilizing those players, and then also having the CMC. 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:45.360 It's a reason why he's made such a difference since 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.600 he's been in San Francisco actually being probably the main 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:51.199 piece of why they're so successful. It's a reason why 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:52.800 is there So Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of 0:24:52.800 --> 0:24:54.639 teams who are not who are not able to handle 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:57.119 a team like San Francisco, especially if they get the 0:24:57.200 --> 0:24:57.920 lead on them like. 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:02.520 That they've cut up and when healthy or absolutely. 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:04.920 What I'm saying is production wise, a guy like Tony 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:07.119 Pollard not only can give you the minute in the 0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:08.919 running game, he can also give it to you in 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:10.920 the passing game as well, and that's where I draw 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:13.639 the comparison between those two. Ceedee Lamb right now is 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:15.960 playing better than any wide receiver in the NFC. 0:25:16.200 --> 0:25:18.440 And you can put de bot name in there as well. 0:25:18.520 --> 0:25:21.360 The numbers don't lie. I'm not. I'm not saying that. 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:24.760 And can we look at Tony Poller's receiving yards for 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:26.919 the last few games, like if we're comparing him to the 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:29.240 Christian McCaffrey touched down every game, all that stuff, it's 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:31.679 not to me, it's not the same. It's not We 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:35.399 don't present the same type of challenges to Philly that 0:25:35.560 --> 0:25:40.760 San Francisco UH does to Philly. We did play Philadelphia 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:43.240 very well when we played them, it ain't the same 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:46.600 head like we got. I'm not I'm not calling I'm 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:48.879 not calling them the same, Danny. I'm saying what they 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:51.199 can do as players as far as the way that 0:25:51.280 --> 0:25:53.800 you can use them. That's why I said, that's why 0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:56.440 Tony Pollad is so important in this game versus Philadelphia. 0:25:56.560 --> 0:25:59.159 Not calling him CMC. What I'm saying is if he 0:25:59.160 --> 0:26:02.080 can have the same type of game production seventeen carries 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:04.800 ninety seven yards in the touchdown, we need that. If 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:07.760 he can have forty catches forty yards, we need that. 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:12.480 But also if Ceedee Lamb can have the same type 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:14.440 of performance that he had before, which was one hundred 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:16.879 and ninety one yards receiving, I'm not asking him to 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:19.920 do that again, but still have that type of production 0:26:20.200 --> 0:26:22.320 and Ferguson and the other guys that you need, the 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:24.399 other cast of characters that you need to show up 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:25.440 and have half production. 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:27.040 We could beat this. I just want to be clear. 0:26:27.359 --> 0:26:29.160 You had one hundred and forty total yards for Tony 0:26:29.160 --> 0:26:31.320 Poller when you just said that, which I don't like that. 0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:34.760 That's not a I gotta see it continuously to believe 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:36.960 that Tony Paul is going to do such a thing. 0:26:37.080 --> 0:26:39.080 I believe Ceedee Lamb is gonna go hand on these guys. 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:41.320 I believe you get Brandon Cooks involved in the game. 0:26:41.480 --> 0:26:43.960 I think he can be a very impactful player in 0:26:44.000 --> 0:26:44.440 this game. 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:47.880 Going back into just looking statistically at that Cowboy game 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:51.720 they lost twenty eight twenty three in Philadelphia. Brandon Cooks 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:53.679 and we spoke about he had one catch in the 0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:57.080 game for seven yards and was targeted a grand total 0:26:57.119 --> 0:26:59.760 of two times. Ceedee Lamb in that game, had sixteen 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:05.120 tardsgets eleven catches. Ferguson had ten targets for seven catches. 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:09.880 Jalen Tolbert five targets, three catches, Michael Gallup three targets, 0:27:09.880 --> 0:27:14.560 two catches. Tony Pollard had three catches in that game 0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:17.880 for twelve yards on five targets and then running the ball, 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:21.639 he was twelve fifty one in the game, no touchdowns 0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:21.840 at all. 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:23.600 And as a team, the Cowboys were. 0:27:23.440 --> 0:27:27.840 Twenty seven carries seventy three yards, averaging three point five. 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:29.760 So I think they got to get the run game 0:27:29.840 --> 0:27:32.919 up in that game there. But to me, I go 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:35.040 back to what you said, and then afterwards when it 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:38.199 was presented to Mike McCarthy, we saw cooks go on 0:27:38.240 --> 0:27:41.960 a run. If they can incorporate cooks into this, let's 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:47.600 say you take the eight targets you gave Tolbert and 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:52.399 Gallop and you throw six to seven cooks, you can. 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:52.920 Have a different game. 0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:56.840 Because we know Philadelphia's secondary is not good. 0:27:57.200 --> 0:27:57.800 It's not good. 0:27:57.880 --> 0:28:00.920 And oh by the way, ryding Hairschbar, somebody gonna help 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:02.760 term steel this week. I'm like, that's a dog gone 0:28:02.840 --> 0:28:03.280 good question. 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:08.080 San Francisco presented a bunch of different challenges to Philly, 0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:10.359 and they're gonna present a bunch of different challenges to 0:28:11.000 --> 0:28:13.200 a lot of different teams. I think us against Philly, 0:28:13.359 --> 0:28:16.680 it's just totally different. Like we're finna play a divisional game. 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:19.080 We went up there last time, all like we had 0:28:19.080 --> 0:28:21.280 a chance to win the game. We played them very well. 0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:23.640 It wasn't very high scoring, but both both teams were 0:28:23.640 --> 0:28:26.560 making plays. And like you said, Tony Pollard, how many 0:28:27.160 --> 0:28:30.240 catches for thirteen yards? Three catches for thirteen yard for 0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:32.960 twelve yards and then fifty yards Russian. I'm saying that's 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:35.240 the difference of like what we would need Tony Poler 0:28:35.359 --> 0:28:37.479 to do. When you watch what Christian McCaffrey has been 0:28:37.520 --> 0:28:39.920 able to do the teams, If we want Tony Poler 0:28:39.920 --> 0:28:41.320 to be able to do that, like he's gonna have 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:43.400 to show us that he's still that he still got 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:46.960 that ninety seven yards Russian and forty yards catching. That's 0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:48.720 a hell of a game and I would love to 0:28:48.760 --> 0:28:49.880 see Tony Pouler do that. 0:28:50.200 --> 0:28:53.760 So what if it's Tony Pollard playoffs against like he 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:55.960 had against the forty nine ers against the Philadelpi team, 0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:57.440 does that you know that kind of. 0:28:57.800 --> 0:28:59.360 I'm better with it, like you just you just have 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:02.280 to be able to run. Like I'm enjoying to put 0:29:02.280 --> 0:29:04.360 it all on Dak Prescott. I'm enjoying it because Dak 0:29:04.360 --> 0:29:07.320 Prescott has been taking care of the ball, throwing multiple touchdowns, 0:29:07.360 --> 0:29:10.800 get multiple people involved. But that running game is something 0:29:10.800 --> 0:29:13.360 that I believe that when you play against teams like that, 0:29:13.480 --> 0:29:15.480 especially if you're able to get a lead, people that 0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:18.959 let Philadelphia off the hook decided not to run the football. 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:21.880 If you able to really have Tony Pouler have a 0:29:21.920 --> 0:29:24.719 real footprinted impact on this game, then I think it's different. 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:26.800 But if you don't, then you're back to playing that 0:29:26.840 --> 0:29:28.520 same ball that you played last time. When you look 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:30.120 at Dallas, when you look at Dallas and you look 0:29:30.120 --> 0:29:32.520 at the wins that they've had, and you look at 0:29:32.560 --> 0:29:36.560 them versus the San Franciscos and the Philadelphias, you do 0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:39.400 have to come away with saying we're missing something. We're 0:29:39.400 --> 0:29:42.600 missing something. Even with all the success that they've had lately, 0:29:42.800 --> 0:29:46.640 you're still saying there's something missing. And I'm saying that 0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:49.400 that ingredient has to be the running game that we're not. 0:29:49.440 --> 0:29:50.440 Able to expose. 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:53.400 Teams move the chains do what we saw last night, 0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:57.160 Christian McCaffrey do. I am not calling Tony Pollard Christian 0:29:57.200 --> 0:29:58.719 McCaffrey for the record. 0:29:59.080 --> 0:29:59.840 I'm saying is. 0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:02.320 If you you get the production out of your running 0:30:02.320 --> 0:30:04.959 game the same that you see San Francisco getting it, 0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:08.480 you will have that production because then Dak Prescott doesn't 0:30:08.520 --> 0:30:11.600 have to play to the defense's traps that they're trying 0:30:11.600 --> 0:30:11.960 to set for. 0:30:12.160 --> 0:30:12.800 And I agree. 0:30:12.880 --> 0:30:16.200 The only thing I'm saying is San Francisco is they 0:30:16.720 --> 0:30:21.880 major in running the football and causing confusion with eyes 0:30:22.040 --> 0:30:24.840 and alignments and motions. They major in that. We are 0:30:24.880 --> 0:30:26.800 not that team, like our scheme is not what San 0:30:26.800 --> 0:30:27.440 Franca Haven't. 0:30:27.280 --> 0:30:29.240 You seen Mike? Have you seen Mike get to a 0:30:29.280 --> 0:30:29.960 little bit of that? Though? 0:30:30.000 --> 0:30:32.080 No, no, no, no, and I have I'm sorry to 0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:34.120 cut you off. I have, I have seen them get 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:37.280 to that. I'm saying it's still different for what Shanahan does. 0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:40.560 How much you can sprinkle in with what Mike Mike 0:30:40.600 --> 0:30:44.320 McCarthy's been doing. They major in making sure that your 0:30:44.400 --> 0:30:46.400 eyes are in the right place, and if they not, 0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:49.640 it's gonna be big runs and big passes all over 0:30:49.680 --> 0:30:52.600 the place. And that's that's what they're gonna present to 0:30:52.760 --> 0:30:53.680 any team that they play. 0:30:53.800 --> 0:30:55.080 All right, let's get a break in here. 0:30:57.400 --> 0:30:59.400 Is it an excuse for a reason being used for 0:30:59.440 --> 0:31:03.840 Philadelphia after yesterday's defeat. 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You know what it is. 0:34:27.400 --> 0:34:29.520 I'm telling you more than anything, it's just that you've 0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:32.680 seen teams the Cowboys started it. They had their opportunities 0:34:32.719 --> 0:34:34.960 to beat this team that was on a roll, on 0:34:35.000 --> 0:34:37.160 a winning streak, And you're saying to yourself, man, we 0:34:37.239 --> 0:34:40.040 had every opportunity. You see another team, Miami come in 0:34:40.239 --> 0:34:42.000 up on them, and then they find a way to 0:34:42.040 --> 0:34:45.920 give the game back to him. Buffalo had him find 0:34:45.960 --> 0:34:48.000 a way to give the game back to him, and 0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:50.640 then last night you just had this feeling like I 0:34:51.320 --> 0:34:53.920 know you, Lyne, I know you are not about to 0:34:54.000 --> 0:34:57.200 lit them, especially after that first quarter that San Francisco had, 0:34:57.280 --> 0:34:59.960 which was a horrible first quarter. They just got up 0:35:00.040 --> 0:35:01.919 off the mat and just started whooping on them. 0:35:02.000 --> 0:35:03.959 That's that should lead you right into your next point. 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:07.279 Because the teams you just named that the Eagles beat 0:35:07.760 --> 0:35:11.080 throughout that whole time with the with the Dolphins, and 0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:13.160 then go out there and beat they beat us, to 0:35:13.800 --> 0:35:17.680 beat the Bills. That's that's Those are some really good teams. 0:35:17.920 --> 0:35:20.120 There's some really good teams. We ain't make an excuse 0:35:20.239 --> 0:35:21.840 for nobody. 0:35:21.920 --> 0:35:26.680 They guntlet his own players, Craig Fire that's today. 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:28.640 Yeah, yeah, that's all right. I just I just. 0:35:30.600 --> 0:35:31.480 The Cowboys. 0:35:31.760 --> 0:35:34.520 Are we Cowboys fans have. 0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:35.840 Hopes and dreams available. 0:35:35.880 --> 0:35:38.000 Again, if I'm watching somebody else, whoop the Eagles. 0:35:42.880 --> 0:35:46.520 Oh yeah, we got my phone out, got my phone. 0:35:47.320 --> 0:35:52.680 The guys in the locker room, we got to bring everything. 0:35:52.800 --> 0:35:55.520 Everything we got you had to anyways on the line. 0:35:55.920 --> 0:35:58.399 I think it's a little different. I think I think 0:35:58.440 --> 0:36:00.879 it means a little bit more at this point because 0:36:00.880 --> 0:36:02.160 at first you had a little cushion. 0:36:02.640 --> 0:36:07.239 Now you ain't got no cushion. Yes, yeah, got my 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:09.000 phone out on video. 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:13.719 So so don't lose it because you saw them get 0:36:13.760 --> 0:36:14.319 their butt wop. 0:36:14.400 --> 0:36:16.600 Like that man checking social media last night. 0:36:17.320 --> 0:36:20.759 It was a national and he's based up in the 0:36:20.880 --> 0:36:24.440 New England area up north. He tweets out that this 0:36:24.480 --> 0:36:27.680 should not be a shock that the Eagles losses thirteen games, 0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:30.520 and I mean three games and thirteen days. They had 0:36:30.520 --> 0:36:33.600 the overtime game against Buffalo. You knew they would be tired. 0:36:33.960 --> 0:36:37.399 One reason why I did pick Philadelphia to get beat 0:36:37.880 --> 0:36:40.200 was the fact that, yes, this is a tough guntlet 0:36:40.280 --> 0:36:42.719 they were on, especially playing Buffalo, and if you don't 0:36:42.760 --> 0:36:44.880 know how to navigate it like the Cowboys do and 0:36:44.960 --> 0:36:45.799 Danny you played here. 0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:47.560 You know about the three games in twelve days. 0:36:47.880 --> 0:36:49.719 If you don't know how to navigate it and you're 0:36:49.719 --> 0:36:51.439 not ready for it, you can't get got. 0:36:51.880 --> 0:36:54.120 But the way they got beat up. 0:36:54.080 --> 0:36:57.239 Okay, I thought Philadelphia because going back here when I 0:36:57.280 --> 0:37:00.200 picked my game, I thought Philly would lose and I 0:37:00.239 --> 0:37:03.840 had them going down thirty two to twenty six. I 0:37:03.880 --> 0:37:05.799 didn't think they was gonna go there and get the 0:37:05.840 --> 0:37:08.360 breaks beat off of I mean, they got the breaks 0:37:08.400 --> 0:37:09.440 beat off of them. 0:37:09.640 --> 0:37:11.600 But is it an excuse the. 0:37:12.120 --> 0:37:14.400 Whole you know, three games of thirteen days, or is 0:37:14.440 --> 0:37:15.919 it a reason why they got it. 0:37:16.120 --> 0:37:18.959 If you gave them ten days rest and they got 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:22.879 up next Sunday and played San Francisco, they get they 0:37:22.880 --> 0:37:25.560 butt beat the same San Francisco. 0:37:25.719 --> 0:37:26.440 Is that good? 0:37:27.000 --> 0:37:29.480 They have all of the weapons, they have the scheme, 0:37:29.520 --> 0:37:32.200 and you were just talking about Shanahan and their attention 0:37:32.280 --> 0:37:34.440 to detail and running the ball the way that. 0:37:34.360 --> 0:37:35.719 They used Kittle yesterday. 0:37:36.600 --> 0:37:39.399 I mean, it was checkmate all over the field, darted, 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:42.239 there was nothing that Sirianni could do. By the time 0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:44.520 they got to the fourth quarter, doll that game was 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:47.000 over with. And I was asking myself, why the hell 0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:49.360 is Jalen Hurst back in his game? Because it's over with. 0:37:50.400 --> 0:37:52.800 It's over with, and so I mean, it doesn't matter 0:37:53.080 --> 0:37:55.719 they pulled the San Francisco proved the point that they 0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:57.560 wanted to from the playoff loss. 0:37:58.080 --> 0:37:59.920 I think I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that. 0:38:00.040 --> 0:38:01.960 What you man, what you think about the because it 0:38:02.000 --> 0:38:04.520 sounds like you're saying nine times out of ten, the 0:38:04.840 --> 0:38:06.920 San Francisco forty nine ers are going to beat the 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:10.319 Philadelphia Eagles, And I don't agree. I don't agree. I'm 0:38:10.360 --> 0:38:12.719 not making any excuses for the God what could they 0:38:12.800 --> 0:38:15.080 I'm not. I'm not making excuses for the Philadelphia Eagles. 0:38:15.200 --> 0:38:19.000 You are correct about the one the Gauntlet, and then 0:38:19.000 --> 0:38:20.680 how many games you play in a certain amount of days, 0:38:20.680 --> 0:38:23.200 and sometimes you just get a bad draw coming off 0:38:23.239 --> 0:38:25.600 the last game that you play in the in that 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:28.080 in that little series. And I think the draft that 0:38:28.120 --> 0:38:31.320 they got last night for the for the San Francisco 0:38:31.400 --> 0:38:34.000 forty nine is to come in after getting beat last 0:38:34.040 --> 0:38:35.919 year in the playoffs because the quarterback is out. 0:38:36.640 --> 0:38:37.760 Are you giving them an excuse? 0:38:37.880 --> 0:38:40.200 I just said, I said, I'm not okay, they don't 0:38:40.480 --> 0:38:43.600 exu You went on the field, you walked out on 0:38:43.600 --> 0:38:44.560 the field, you played the game. 0:38:44.600 --> 0:38:45.320 There's no excuse. 0:38:45.440 --> 0:38:48.160 You've been off for three you played three and twelve. 0:38:48.280 --> 0:38:51.000 No one would have gave the Cowboys an excuse, period, right. 0:38:51.040 --> 0:38:52.839 Not that I'm not. I'm not taking it there. 0:38:52.880 --> 0:38:55.839 I'm telling you that one playing those that many games 0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:57.839 and that in that short amount of time, it does 0:38:57.880 --> 0:39:00.000 take taking a toll on you. But you stepped up 0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:02.560 out there, you prepared all week, and you played the game. 0:39:02.560 --> 0:39:04.439 You don't have no excuse for losing and they didn't 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:08.160 make any this this reporter did. I didn't hit none 0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:11.279 of the Eagles guys in the locker room saying that, hey, 0:39:11.320 --> 0:39:12.800 this is why we lost. They went out there and 0:39:12.800 --> 0:39:14.839 they got they butt whooped, and you know they're gonna 0:39:14.840 --> 0:39:15.120 take it. 0:39:15.160 --> 0:39:18.160 One of the things I have admired about what Mike 0:39:18.239 --> 0:39:20.800 McCarthy's done in his job here the past few seasons 0:39:20.840 --> 0:39:23.640 is he's figured out that schedule of how you got 0:39:23.640 --> 0:39:25.760 to operate this thing, and if. 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:28.080 You haven't done it, there's an adjustment period there. 0:39:28.320 --> 0:39:32.040 And that game against Buffalo overtime game takes something natty, 0:39:32.360 --> 0:39:35.479 but still I thought it would be a close game. 0:39:35.840 --> 0:39:38.839 I did not expect the San Francisco forty nine ers 0:39:38.840 --> 0:39:41.520 to come in there and butt stop them. I mean 0:39:41.719 --> 0:39:45.919 that was the part like, oh oh oh. 0:39:45.520 --> 0:39:47.879 I thought they were stop the fight. Stopped the fight. Yes, 0:39:56.520 --> 0:39:57.200 I think, I think. 0:39:57.280 --> 0:39:59.359 I think watching that game last night, I do believe 0:39:59.360 --> 0:40:01.160 that San Francisco is the better team. I don't think 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:03.480 there's that much better. I don't think there's that much 0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:05.719 better to where every time they playing it's gonna look 0:40:05.800 --> 0:40:06.120 like that. 0:40:06.520 --> 0:40:08.480 I think that right now they are the better team. 0:40:08.560 --> 0:40:10.879 But you would agree, but you would agree that when 0:40:10.880 --> 0:40:13.400 we played them forty two to ten, that they were 0:40:13.080 --> 0:40:15.799 that much better than us at that time. 0:40:15.880 --> 0:40:18.400 Yes, yes, yes, watching that with my own eye, Oh 0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:19.360 yeah it was. 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:21.520 I mean it was a replay with It's not like 0:40:21.719 --> 0:40:23.120 that they miss me. 0:40:23.280 --> 0:40:25.319 But then when you watch Philadelphia play the same game, 0:40:25.360 --> 0:40:27.719 you say, oh, they could play better than than what 0:40:28.719 --> 0:40:31.680 I'm saying. I'm sorry, they're better than us. They're not 0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:34.160 forty whatever the team better than us. I'm saying they 0:40:34.200 --> 0:40:36.200 are better. I still believe at that point they were 0:40:36.200 --> 0:40:37.279 a better team than we were. 0:40:38.080 --> 0:40:39.399 Yeah, I don't. I don't. Yeah, I don't. 0:40:39.440 --> 0:40:43.480 I don't think they're not because this is gonna happen 0:40:43.560 --> 0:40:44.560 because this is the NFL. 0:40:44.800 --> 0:40:45.480 This is the NFL. 0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:48.280 Soon as you put the team up there on the pedestal, okay, 0:40:48.320 --> 0:40:51.280 they're gonna go out there. They got Seattle, they got Seattle. 0:40:51.400 --> 0:40:53.799 This week, they got Baltimore. They still got played. I'm 0:40:53.800 --> 0:40:55.840 watching what the Green Bay Packers doing. You look at 0:40:55.880 --> 0:40:58.239 Kansas City, who were talking about the time like that's like, 0:40:58.320 --> 0:40:59.279 that's the least see that. 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:01.879 This is crazy. That's the lead. That's that's that's my point. 0:41:01.960 --> 0:41:04.200 Spen Son, A rematch it. I don't think they got 0:41:04.200 --> 0:41:04.680 that on paper. 0:41:04.719 --> 0:41:05.520 I don't think they got that. 0:41:05.840 --> 0:41:07.320 I'm leaving him alone, but I need to say the 0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:10.160 full thing. Shout out. 0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:11.360 I know you. 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:12.080 You won't let it go. 0:41:12.400 --> 0:41:14.000 We have been off that. 0:41:14.360 --> 0:41:17.440 You can't we talking about something else. 0:41:22.760 --> 0:41:25.319 And I let it go. It's over. It's over. 0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:31.080 It's not good for the next twenty minutes. It's all good. 0:41:31.360 --> 0:41:37.200 I feel will spill. I don't miss it. 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:37.960 Something. Don't give me. 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:44.680 I got nothing, nothing, I got nothing. Man, listen, I 0:41:44.719 --> 0:41:46.240 know the church will be back and all and stuff. 0:41:46.239 --> 0:41:47.040 We better show up. 0:41:47.440 --> 0:41:50.040 It's a fun week, man, It's a fun week all 0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:54.439 week long. Sunday night football on NBC, the Eagles come 0:41:54.480 --> 0:41:57.359 to town. Uh they call it Dallas weak up there. 0:41:57.600 --> 0:41:59.480 You might as well call it Eagles Week this year 0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:02.480 the boy because at the end of the day, you 0:42:02.640 --> 0:42:05.600 got what you want. You want this, You got hopes 0:42:05.640 --> 0:42:08.040 and dreams in front of you. The Cowboys have to respond. 0:42:08.160 --> 0:42:10.200 No people talk about you and be a winning team 0:42:10.239 --> 0:42:13.200 all year long. Okay, here you go. Even though Seattle 0:42:13.280 --> 0:42:15.200 was six and five. You know who they are. You 0:42:15.280 --> 0:42:17.279 know what it's about. No excuses, get it done. 0:42:17.320 --> 0:42:20.080 How many opportunities do you get to prove that you belong. 0:42:20.239 --> 0:42:22.439 This is another one. Right. We done fail. 0:42:23.640 --> 0:42:26.000 This has failed quite We have failed quite a few 0:42:26.040 --> 0:42:28.839 and here we get another opportunity to prove it. And 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:31.440 that's all you can ask for, especially with the playoff 0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:34.080 seating to being where it is right now, you have 0:42:34.160 --> 0:42:36.919 an opportunity to take advantage of an Eagles team that's 0:42:36.960 --> 0:42:40.319 coming off of loss. You win this game, you tie 0:42:40.360 --> 0:42:43.520 the NFC up and as far as that top seeding. 0:42:43.560 --> 0:42:46.440 And we've been talking about their home playoff winning rate, 0:42:47.239 --> 0:42:49.399 the rate that they've been winning at home, and how 0:42:49.440 --> 0:42:52.000 this team deserves to play a game at home and 0:42:52.040 --> 0:42:54.839 if they're able to get this win, get some luck 0:42:54.880 --> 0:42:57.800 from the Baltimore's and other people in other divisions versus 0:42:57.800 --> 0:43:00.399 San Francisco, they possibly could find themselves. Was the number 0:43:00.440 --> 0:43:03.440 one live up to it. This is a very important 0:43:03.480 --> 0:43:06.279 game going into the last stretch of the season. This 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:08.560 is a very important game just because the way you 0:43:08.600 --> 0:43:11.560 started the season with your first measure stick game and 0:43:11.600 --> 0:43:13.799 then you got your second measure stick game. Now you're 0:43:13.800 --> 0:43:16.319 finna get your third one before you go into what 0:43:16.480 --> 0:43:19.320 is probably one of the toughest endings to the seasons 0:43:19.320 --> 0:43:24.120 that I've ever second, so to start it off with 0:43:24.160 --> 0:43:26.520 the with the confidence and the momentum of beating the 0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:28.480 Philadelphia Eagles, tyning up for first place. 0:43:28.800 --> 0:43:29.720 It is huge. 0:43:30.040 --> 0:43:31.480 It is huge, and to me, it will be a 0:43:31.560 --> 0:43:33.400 huge let down for us not to take advantage of 0:43:33.400 --> 0:43:35.960 the situation of this opportunity. Shout out to your Houston, 0:43:36.000 --> 0:43:38.160 Texas too. By the way, it's a hell of a game. 0:43:38.800 --> 0:43:40.759 You watch that, gull. I think I only missed one 0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:42.719 this week. I think it was It might have been 0:43:42.719 --> 0:43:44.480 the Eagles. 0:43:43.680 --> 0:43:45.839 That's cracked was mind. 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:52.160 So I think I'm in the same I think i'm you. 0:43:53.880 --> 0:43:54.080 Picked. 0:43:54.440 --> 0:43:56.160 You picked the texts after I picked. I'm just telling 0:43:57.800 --> 0:44:00.200 Ross cooking hun. Oh and you got the Patriots. You 0:44:00.200 --> 0:44:02.239 picked the Patriots, didn't you? 0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:09.520 No, it was you yet you the day in the 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:11.640 day for Bill, they asked him like, hey, you want 0:44:11.640 --> 0:44:12.560 to coach the team next year? 0:44:12.640 --> 0:44:14.720 I'm just worried about trying to play Pittsburgh Like, oh. 0:44:14.600 --> 0:44:16.080 He don't even want to be around this stub. Theyre 0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:18.680 about to get no more pick man. Look, we gotta 0:44:18.680 --> 0:44:20.000 talk about this all week long right here. 0:44:20.000 --> 0:44:22.240 It's gonna be fun. Heck, Mac Harrison appreciate you stopping 0:44:22.280 --> 0:44:22.760 by today. 0:44:22.880 --> 0:44:24.680 Stopping by I'll be here the moll. 0:44:29.400 --> 0:44:33.080 Rescue married Church off the golf course and in Toledo. 0:44:33.160 --> 0:44:34.839 See if you giving us forty two dollars, they might 0:44:34.840 --> 0:44:36.120 have won that match championship. 0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:38.760 Dam Y Craye National Champion. 0:44:38.840 --> 0:44:39.759 Love it, man, love it. 0:44:40.000 --> 0:44:44.000 CFP. You gotta vote, You gotta vote. Vote, have voted 0:44:44.040 --> 0:44:47.840 that way? Who you got? Washington, Texas? Oh that's tough, 0:44:48.880 --> 0:44:52.160 but I'm going to Texas way, Dren. Come on, man, Dad, 0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:53.000 can't gonna do that to you. 0:44:53.080 --> 0:44:55.760 All right, man, I'm from the great citat in Houston, 0:44:55.800 --> 0:44:57.400 in a great state of Texas. 0:44:57.400 --> 0:44:59.640 What are you talking about from Washington? I'm all right. 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:02.520 You're going with the might be going to fighting Isaiah 0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:05.399 standing backs man, Husky, you got you got. 0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:08.200 We know he's not gonna pick nobody. He's gonna roll tied. 0:45:08.800 --> 0:45:09.760 You're gonna roll tied. 0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:12.759 Out Washington, Texas. You know what, Purple and gold with 0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:13.280 the dogs. 0:45:13.400 --> 0:45:16.640 I got to roll with the purple and gold dogs. 0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:20.000 Okay, alright, alright, but you all your brothers they going 0:45:20.640 --> 0:45:25.120 good for that, okay. 0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:28.359 In this game? Oh yeah. 0:45:28.440 --> 0:45:32.000 Another thing about the the NFC West Goodness Grace is 0:45:32.040 --> 0:45:35.560 the Cardinals all of a sudden that becomes you go 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:38.480 up in there slipping, and you can lose that game too. 0:45:38.480 --> 0:45:41.239 So I'm looking at San Francisco as one of those 0:45:41.280 --> 0:45:43.680 teams where you still got the Rams who are surgery. 0:45:43.920 --> 0:45:47.200 You got the Arizona Cardinals with Colin Murris playing for us, 0:45:47.480 --> 0:45:50.799 you got Seattle. So yes, the Cowboys have a real 0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:53.440 opportunity here to really make some noise. 0:45:53.800 --> 0:45:54.080 Dreams. 0:45:56.480 --> 0:45:57.439 Try to squash the dream. 0:45:57.480 --> 0:45:58.960 He tried to squash it at the beginning, and then 0:45:59.000 --> 0:46:01.440 he know, I've just seen the way y'all were smiling 0:46:01.440 --> 0:46:03.239 because y'all seen the other team get beat like that, 0:46:03.400 --> 0:46:05.040 y'all smiling like it's gonna help us. 0:46:05.040 --> 0:46:09.000 That don't help us, don't. I don't. Hey that woman, 0:46:09.520 --> 0:46:11.560 that woman ain't got nothing to do with us. 0:46:11.920 --> 0:46:14.880 No mean, I can't enjoy it. 0:46:14.920 --> 0:46:15.279 You can't. 0:46:15.320 --> 0:46:19.360 You can enjoy all right, Chris Beam, appreciate you, Jazz Big, Will, Josh, 0:46:19.360 --> 0:46:20.799 everybody a part of this. 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