WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Statement Game? 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:16.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.680 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:32.200 Star in Frisco. Elliott, Here are Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips, 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.839 and Bill Jones. And it's a Wednesday here at the 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:40.840 Star in Frisco, inside the SWBC Mortgage studios. And yes, 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.960 the Cowboys are headed out on the practice field as 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:48.159 we speak. Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips, and Everson 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.040 Walls once again today as we get you set for 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:55.000 the Patriots. Patriots Week is officially underway now. Jason Garrett 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.440 just completed his press conference, Mickey scribbling down notes as 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.320 we speak, as he just walked into the studios after 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.800 the Jason Garrett walk off. How are you, Mickey? I 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.039 interrupted to walk off. I left. I can it's still 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.360 going all these years. I can read his chicken scratch 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.440 across the table. What he's writing about a roster move 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.600 that they made just now? Right? Am I right? We've 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:23.880 got some breaking news, Mickey. First bet that you're a 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.240 waiter somewhere. What puts the deal? What's the best deal. 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.559 I'm not a waiter. Okay, what are you? Yeah? Okay, 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.440 at the door greater. You know, people get paid for that. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.720 It's just similar to the overalls that you used to 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.559 wear in college at Missouri. You were telling me yesterday, 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.560 but overall tell him people war was that a thing? 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:58.560 I actually had a pair. I try to make it work, 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:03.080 but I realized that's the white thing. I can't No, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.680 I can't picture you ever said it over Please don't pictures. 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.440 But Mickey said back in the seven DC wore overalls. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.240 I did. We gotta have we gotta have a photo, man, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:18.080 But everybody was wearing him. Not everybody, No, not everybody. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.520 Explain what painter pants was. They didn't understand that. I 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:28.000 don't know that either. Maybe. Yeah, okay, you're ready for 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:36.880 the roster move? Now what wasterrom? Yeah? Who's Who's Deontay Burton? 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.320 You heard of him before? Yeah? Okay, miss tell me 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.440 more about you, mister pick twelve, really big twelve guy, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:50.639 Deontay Burton. Oh from that big twelve North. Oh yeah 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.640 that's okay. I figured you had it on your sounds 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:59.440 like a dB A cornerback. Yeah, Deontay Burton. Yep, it's 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.359 Anthony is out. Yes, he's done for the season with 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.920 a torn tricept that was repaired yesterday. So there you go, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.920 there's your roster booth. He was really kind of already 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.560 being replaced by Jordan. Yeah, he had been battling some 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.079 injuries here lately. Yeah, he got what he placed when 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:23.920 he eats Uh sprained his strained his hamstring and he 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.840 missed the game, and then Jordan started the next two. 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:31.160 But this last game, he actually took some snaps on 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.800 the nickel in place of Jordan Lewis, So they were 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.280 kind of easing him back in until that happened in 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.160 the Laga was the fourth quarter. It was in the 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.200 fourth quarter when they had the rash of injuries on 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.200 consecutive plays. They were falling like flies. They did split 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.240 in the nickel last week, but ever since, right, I mean, 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.720 I think he'd earned more snaps Jordan had before before 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.440 this injury for Brown, So, I mean, every time he's 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:55.800 in the game, it seems like, I don't know if 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.640 that's what you see too, it seems like he makes 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.640 plays and he's around the football. They talked about the 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.280 Jets game, they say it was even that interception they 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.560 said he was beat if I'm not mistaken, Yeah, but 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.080 came back still had the ability to just turn around 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.440 and look for the ball. And you'd just be surprised 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.640 at how many will just fall right in your lap, 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.200 you know, just ask Heath. They had he was hit 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.320 in the back of his head, So Larry the back 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.760 of the head. Yep, you know that's it was a 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:27.360 pass breakup. That's a positive, Yeah, that's breakup. The negative 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.080 is he had to pick six yep. Ye at Anthony Brown. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:31.920 And in fact, I've got the snap counts here from 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.839 the last several weeks. Anthony Brown had twelve snaps against Detroit, 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.520 while Jordan Lewis had thirty one snaps. The previous week 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:43.360 against Minnesota, Jordan had twenty snaps. Brown had five and 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.640 one die and in the right in the Giants game. Uh, 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.200 it was fifty one snaps for Jordan Lewis, five for 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.239 Brown and in the back in the Jets game, nineteen 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.679 snaps for Brown. That's a pattern. Yep, that's definitely a pattern. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.440 And then had thirty seven and for Jordan Lewis. So 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.200 which game did he miss? Uh? Would have been the 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.960 Philly game, the Eagles game. So all right, so there's 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.960 those games. Yeah, so he was he was battling an injury. 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.599 But Jordan Lewis has earned the playing time. Yeah, let's 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.440 just call it what it is. He's more of a 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.120 playmaker and that's we just need more of those. Uh, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.200 you know, it's a shame that Heath was leading an 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.159 accept of the last couple of years with maybe four 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.120 or two or three. Well four, I'm talking a couple 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.680 of years total, A couple of year whatever since would 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.920 get in a month. So what we were trying to say, yeah, 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.800 we need turn over minded defensive backs. Well there's the 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.000 reason that Jordan Lewis was a third round draft picks. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.640 I really like his athletic abuilding. I didn't know he's 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.159 so short, you know, I just didn't realize that because 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:53.839 he plays big, which may have been a raging. He 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.599 was a third round draft pick, not a second place. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:58.960 He was a third round draft pick because remember he 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.840 had had off the field deal. Yep, they get resolved, 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.800 not involved, but not until after the draft. Right. But 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.160 you're right, and we've talked about Christopher Shard likes those 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.320 range type dbs. But you know, there comes a point 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.080 in time where you can't keep a guy off the field, 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:14.960 and he's gonna make plays every time he's out there. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.600 And he does play big, and he plays with some 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.760 competitiveness that I think they really like. Plays with an edge. 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.680 He does play with an edge. Well, we'll see how 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.240 he does against some guy named Edelman. Interesting. You gotta 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.719 give him help, You gotta give him help. That's just 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.360 all of this too. Edelman is a favorite target. You know, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.279 let's not be naive. And it's just like when Vikings 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:40.240 came in into Cowboys Stadium. Their whole mindset was, Elliot's 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.880 not gonna beat us. We're gonna make da Elliott is 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.840 not going to beat us. And I'm just wondering why 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.400 we didn't have that same mindset because they talked about 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.280 how these teams will mirror images and Kirk Cousins. I 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.279 still think Dak is much better than Kirk Cousins. But 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.520 Kirk Cousins having a great second half of the year 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.279 so far, and let's make him beat us. You know, 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.800 let's not let's cook run all over the place. Let's 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.039 just stack the line just like they did. Right. You 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.479 don't physically stack at a pre snap. Then we know 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.360 a lot of time they bought a snap. Everyone is 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.560 looking at number twenty one or in Cowboys case, number 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.800 thirty three. So looking at the Patriots, then what do 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.239 you got to take away? You gotta take away Edelman. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.480 You just have to in in certain situations. We know 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.040 he's going to be the primary on third downs. We 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.120 just do it. We watched a little bit of the 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.640 game on the on the flight back we were working, 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.280 but he didn't throw the ball to anybody else. But 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.560 it seemed like the running backs for several weeks, well, 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.920 go ahead, go ahead. Well, it's always been kind of 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.040 part of their game, the screen game with the Backs. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.280 They use Edelman in screens. They just they try to 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.360 move him around, move him everywhere, and but he is 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.920 the guy. I mean he's especially because they've had so 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.320 much turnover at their wide receiver position. I mean they 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.120 trade for snow last. That's that's Brady's got, that's his 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.280 comfort zone. And I would imagine that going to the 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.880 Backs a lot, because as I was gonna say, they're 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.440 gonna everyone's doubling element and so Brady's no food. This 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.880 is my counter, So I'm gonna go to the backs. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.440 I don't know much about that tight end. I don't 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.040 know if he's still using Watson right. Well, he was 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.000 gone for the pretty well I think that was a 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.520 couple of weeks ago. Yeah, yeah, but the other wide 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.920 receivers were kind of nonentities in the game against the Eagles. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.480 Let's just face it, Brady is not where he was. 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.080 You know, he's not that guy that we feared. We 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.280 know that he can be that guy. We don't want 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.480 to wake him up at this point. Uh. That's why 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.640 the defense is so prevalent for them. He's living off 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.040 of them, I mean, big time. Ever since the Super Bowl, 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.000 Brady just hadn't been the guy putting up the big numbers. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:50.040 Now he's made key plays like Aaron Rodgers. You can 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.520 be still that guy in certain situations, but you have 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.760 to be in position to make that final push. That 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.000 means your defense has to help you out. That means 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.400 your running game has to be strong. It means a 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.720 kicking game has to be shore. These are the things 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.040 that make up a good team. That's what I'm hoping 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.559 the Cowboys trying to get there. Okay, I've been monitoring 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.920 the Patriots all season, Okay, and got my mote book here. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.760 It's a big notebook. Okay, guess how many wide receivers 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.240 that they have had on their roster since training camp, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.719 since training camp began. I mean these are guys. No, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.480 I'm not completing, not the undrafted guys. I'm talking guys 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.000 that have previous experience in the NFL. I mean, these 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:35.040 are legitimate guys that are fifty three man roster time. Okay, 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.079 training count yepiften. Hey guy, do you look at my 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:48.480 heat all right? Edelman, Damarius Thomas, Mohammed Sanu, Philip doors Set, 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.600 Maurice Harris, Antonio Brown. I mean I'm including Matthew Slater 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.000 at that, although he's not really he's a special teams guy, 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:59.160 Braxton Barrios, Jacoby Myers, Josh Gordon, Nick Hil Harry, who 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.520 they just got back off injured reserve, Don treill Inman Gunner, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:06.120 Olshevsky who they just put on IR Cameron Meredith. There's 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.360 fifteen guys there. Now, how many tight ends as they 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.320 try to figure out a way to replace Gronk in 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:17.480 this office? Take that? How many tight ends do you think? Six? Four? 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.840 I was gonna say eight might be all I know 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.840 ten tight ends. All I know is they've got seventeen 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.440 guys that have caught pass. Yeah, I wish I'd had 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.000 that stack because I wrote about it yesterday I mentioned that. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.559 But that's okay, So that tight ends twenty five different guys. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.120 Did Watson was on their roster. I think he started 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.840 the season on pup let me see my check my 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.480 notes here. And then he was released October seventh, and 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.560 then he comes back, had an emotional release. Okay, he 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.200 thought he was done with football. Well Belichick brings him 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.840 back to two weeks later and now he's basically they're 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:58.080 they're top tight end. I mean, they're going through these 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.079 tight ends like and it is the greatness of Brady 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.880 in a way, and that they've cycled through guys throughout 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.760 the last twenty years. He's he's frustrated, well he is, 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.040 and part of it is the turnover they've had for sure. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.240 And and like ever said, his numbers are down. Man, 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.040 the media is just kind of burying him a little 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.320 bit this week, were burying him. That's because he was 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:23.000 after the game. He gave Yeah, he gave very short 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.120 answers in this post game after the game, which was 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.000 a win in Philadelphia. But the offense isn't doing what 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.440 normally it does, and he's very frustrated. He can you 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.240 can tell that's a red fla when you when you 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.760 start looking at those receivers that he has. Now you 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.640 look at some new you look at us, said, those 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:43.480 are formidable guys. I like this Harry first round, he'd 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.720 been hurt, right, Yeah, he'd been hurt. Got back. He 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.800 just got back that. In fact, this past week he 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:52.199 was back for the first time um this season. So well. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.400 Having said all that, the two teams have scored the 0:11:55.480 --> 0:12:01.160 exact same amount of touchdowns, although they have six returns, yes, 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:09.480 touchdowns deep sixty four. Are those all defensive returns, bumble returns, 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.040 they have pick sixes or there's some kick returns in there, 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.760 Like four defensive touchdowns, right, so maybe a couple of 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.560 kick returns. They're right at the top of the league 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:19.920 in that. Yeah, they're one tick above the Cowboys and 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.839 points per game. But we talked about it last week 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.200 and ever since I spoke to it, they're starting drives 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.000 really deep in in opposing territory. He's getting all the 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.560 help he needs, and I think that's part of why 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.920 he's frustrated, is they're still not producing a lot of points. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.760 That's a big thing there. And as you can imagine 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.160 with twenty eight takeaways, their starting field position is number 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.240 one in the league. Yeah, number one in the league, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.640 and the Cowboys is down the bottom of the barrel. Well, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:46.400 it helps Dak Polo some numbers. Yeah, that's try, Okay, 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.920 what's why. That's why the Cowboys lead the league in 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.079 total yards because they got farther to go. There's more 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.120 real estate than cover for the count. The only number 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:55.920 you need to know with them is they're giving up 0:12:56.000 --> 0:13:00.440 ten point eight points. Again. Yeah, but they're not right there. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.080 There are, but there's a lot of people listening right 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.360 now or saying, Mickey, stop it right there. Look at 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.880 who they played. Interesting, I guess the interesting eles in 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.520 Baltimore don't count. They gave up. They gave up the 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:19.080 thirty seven the right. That's interesting. Every One talked about 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.960 the Cowboys early on and there they really hawked on it, 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.800 especially when we showed, uh, you know, the proof is 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.600 in the pudding. We showed that when we played against 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.480 better teams, we didn't produce as well, and we obviously 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.360 lost to the Jets. So everyone put their their heat 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.200 on that. As far as the Cowboy was Nobody talked 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.480 about just how New England's schedule was just as weak. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.560 I guess the AFC East is just as bad as 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.880 the NFC East. I don't know what what's Pittsburgh's record, Well, 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:51.480 there's a record, right, yeah, But so if you want 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:57.120 to know, they beat Miami, the Jets, Buffalo, Washington, Giants, 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.640 the Jets, Cleveland, and then they lost to Baltimore and 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:06.240 beat Philadelphia. Pittsburgh is five and five. By the way, 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.240 Well they get the benefit of the doubt because they're 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.120 the Patriots. But when you look at the schedule, it's 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.000 the same type thing, right, I mean, they haven't played 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.679 a ton of really good teams, really, not many at all. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.120 So Billy's a good team. My theory about the AFC 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.520 East hold still and the good teams they played doesn't 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:28.360 like it. I mean he's he kind of minimizes their 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.360 titles a little bit. No, I just said they get 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.720 six and oh usually maybe because they got the goat 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.880 and the goat, they got the guy in the side, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.360 they got the guy quarterback, which is why the rest 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.120 of the AFC East is so bad. They got to 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.960 play New England twice. Yeah, it's two losses right there. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.760 I think we were all a little hesitant and just 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.560 really you know, playing the playing the horn on these guys. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.080 You know, you play them on into the grave. We're 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.800 a little has because of the goat and the goat, yeah, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.040 I mean right, you always think, I think we don't 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.000 want to be the ones to wake them up. We 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.320 don't want to be the ones to well, okay, this 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.880 is the game where they hit their stride. We don't 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.240 want to say that they marked the Cowboys on the 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.840 calendar and said, okay, this is where we started to 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:15.880 march to the super Bowl. We don't want to be 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.880 that team. Yep. All right, So I'm looking at the 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.040 team to get the teams they've played. And right now, 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.320 if you look at the records of those teams they've played, 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:27.560 right now, there are two that have winning records, I 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.640 believe Buffalo. And they won that game sixteen to ten 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.920 in Baltimore, and they lost that game what was it, 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.960 thirty seven Buffalo at the Buffalo is at Buffalo. They 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.520 beat them on the road, yep. And they've got two 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.520 five and five teams. In the season opener against Pittsburgh 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.840 they won thirty three to three, and then last week 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.000 against the Eagles, who are now five and five. They 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.400 won seventeen to ten. So there you go. We'll see 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:55.880 the NFC right upside the NFL right now. You just 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.400 might as well call it parody. You just might as well. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.360 You can't even the teams that win maybe on the 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:05.800 consistent basis, there are still some very dicey games within 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:07.720 that streak to where you go, man, that could have 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.400 gone either way, so to me. Detroit, Yeah, Detroit. They 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.720 played ten games now and nine of them have been 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.720 decided by a touchdown or less. Wow. Well, during the 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.920 game the Lions game on Sunday on Twitter, everybody's freaking 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.520 out because the Vikings are getting blown out by Denver, 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.400 who's not a good team at all. They come back 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.720 and win. But you're right, that's I tweeted that that's 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.320 this league. I mean, I don't know if there's a 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.360 great team this year. The Patriots have a great defense. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.840 The margin between good and average is a couple plays 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.080 a game, sometimes average and bad, And that's why I 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.440 think maybe we overreact a little bit too much when 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.640 they lose to a team like the Vikings. Although there 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.960 are things that could have done better coaching wise, execution 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.240 wise all those things. How about losing to the Jets 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.320 and then the next week New England beats them thirty 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.480 three to nothing. Yeah, that was that's because Belichick was like, 0:16:54.520 --> 0:17:01.200 this is not happening, righty for allowing a b that's 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.320 very focused on this next team coming up. 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The 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:31.240 Cowboys have lost the last five times they've played the Patriots. 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:35.280 Three of those were in New England. Last time they 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.520 beat him was nineteen ninety six at Texas Stadium, wiped 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.239 him out twelve to six. By the way, if you 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:44.880 can believe that. But the last time they beat him, 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:50.080 we have to go back to nineteen eighty seven, November fifteenth, 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:54.240 the Cowboys won the game in overtime twenty three seventeen. 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.800 Oh look, look here we're winning. Footage of this is 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:02.800 herschel Walker sixty our touchdown run on the fourth play 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:06.840 of overtime. Oh he going, and he just smoked everybody. 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:13.320 And I found this. I found this after the game, 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:18.280 Danny White said. He said, all I saw was blue flame. 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:24.680 It looked like the ground was smoking. And how about this. 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:29.040 The play call was slant twenty six sarah whatever that means. 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:33.000 And Everson Walls was playing in that game for the 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:36.879 Dallas and Cowboys, uh that they ended up tying the 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:41.560 game on a Roger rusick field goal, had to kick 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.040 it from the three from it, the ball was at 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:46.240 the three yard line, so it was a twenty yard 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:49.000 field goal and the twenty eight seconds left to tie 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:54.600 it up. The Patriots were being quarterback that day. Steve 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.280 Grogan was hurt. Anybody want to guess who the quarterback was? 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.960 Some guy named Tom Ramsey. Tom Ramsey, Yeah, yes, I 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:04.560 don't even remember that. And I played it again and 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:09.719 you played probably did, right. They only scored seventeen points 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:12.840 and that was kind of the changing of the guard 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:16.280 for the Cowboys at running back because Tony got hurt 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:19.440 in that game a shoulder. He only had six carries. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:23.840 Walker went twenty eight for one seventy three and two 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:27.359 hundred and thirty two total yards in the game. And 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:31.480 I think that was the turning point because Herschel took 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.720 Offer took over, and then they traded Tony in the 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.880 offseason to Denver. Yeah, that was said. Yeah, I thought 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:41.000 that was extremely unnecessary. You just don't get rid of 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.640 a guy like Dosset, especially back then. But he kind 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:47.520 of wanted it. Yeah, but he kind of wanted out 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.480 because they treat him like crap. Right, Yeah, So you 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:52.800 know that's causing effect. I mean that's the reason he 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:56.000 wanted out because the treatment of him. They brought Herschelin 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:58.639