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Speaker 1: Long time Cowboys reporter Barry Church down there at the
Speaker 1: end David Craig two former Dallas Cowboys safeties. Sunday Night
Speaker 1: Football on NBC. Mike McCarthy said today that less Andy
Speaker 1: has some type of practice Tomorrow it's gonna be the
Speaker 1: Bend Nucci Show against the Philadelphia Eagles. The rookie seventh
Speaker 1: round draft pick out of James Madison. You guys are
Speaker 1: former defensive players. When you saw a rookie coming to
Speaker 1: the game as a quarterback, what were your thoughts, Well,
Speaker 1: hopefully you know this doesn't happen, so my guy the
Speaker 1: Nucci out there. But I mean when we saw rookie
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coming in, I mean it was looking it was
Speaker 1: like licking your chops out there, man. I mean you knew,
Speaker 1: especially if they had to throw, like if it was
Speaker 1: you know, they were down fourteen or twenty one points
Speaker 1: or something like that and they had to throw to
Speaker 1: get back in the game. And now you see a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback coming in there, I mean you're licking your chops.
Speaker 1: You know that you're gonna get something. He's gonna throw
Speaker 1: at least something to you. And the thing about that
Speaker 1: is if you can disguise, if you can, you know,
Speaker 1: get him off his game early, because when you're a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, you're thinking about a lot of things. You
Speaker 1: got this this huge D line coming at you, you
Speaker 1: got linebackers barking out commands while you're up there. I mean,
Speaker 1: you got the secondary messing with your head over there
Speaker 1: playing you know, maybe it's three, maybe it's too high.
Speaker 1: I mean you never know. So as a as a
Speaker 1: defensive back coming out there, we used to disguise and
Speaker 1: we would love love licking our chops to see a
Speaker 1: young quarterback coming out there. But you know, hopefully, you
Speaker 1: know Ben, you know, got a little bit of moxy
Speaker 1: to him. You know, hopefully he comes in there and
Speaker 1: takes command of the huddle because this is a big
Speaker 1: This is huge for him. I mean, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of us didn't want this going into the season.
Speaker 1: We didn't want to have to get down to our
Speaker 1: third string quarterback. But I mean, this is huge for him.
Speaker 1: This could be one of his you know, this could
Speaker 1: be his moment, and hopefully he's able to take advantage
Speaker 1: of it. I knew he was gonna get into some
Speaker 1: positivity in the kool aid before he finished to finish
Speaker 1: up his take. But uh, listen, if you are on
Speaker 1: defense and you see this guy coming in, this is
Speaker 1: when when we used to play like Eli Manning, Uh
Speaker 1: Mark Rod marnellis just say, hey, this is the game
Speaker 1: where we're gonna start getting our turnovers right because we couldn't.
Speaker 1: We couldn't find a way to get turnovers. So we
Speaker 1: will find quarterbacks to hype us up and say, look,
Speaker 1: this is the guy right here. He'll throw you one. Right.
Speaker 1: So I think right now their defense is like, listen,
Speaker 1: if you want to get you something, and we already
Speaker 1: discussed this, if you want to have a career day,
Speaker 1: you show up against the Cowboys to get right game.
Speaker 1: So this to get right game. You know, I hope
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen because, like I said, I'm I played
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys and I love the Cowboys. But if
Speaker 1: I'm being realistic, these guys are looking at chops and
Speaker 1: they're waiting to see who gets the first interception. But this,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's definitely you know, he has
Speaker 1: one thing working in his advantage. There's not a lot
Speaker 1: of tape out on him. I mean he threw the
Speaker 1: ball but maybe three or four times last week in
Speaker 1: Washington he was under the rest. I mean it was
Speaker 1: it wasn't a good show him by far. But what
Speaker 1: Philly doesn't have, they don't have a lot of tape
Speaker 1: on him. And we saw that, you know, helping advantage
Speaker 1: when when Andy Dalton came on the field after that
Speaker 1: went down, he came on the field, there was no tape,
Speaker 1: The defenses weren't prepared for Andy Dalton. He came up
Speaker 1: there and lit him up. I mean the next week,
Speaker 1: you know, we saw once you got that tape on him,
Speaker 1: you know, they would kind of corral him. But one
Speaker 1: time I wouldn't Giant Philly Phillies Bears. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: littlem up. But you know he made some he made
Speaker 1: led two scoring. Yeah, yeah he did. He did what
Speaker 1: he did, what he was supposed to do, and they
Speaker 1: won the game against who the giant? Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: just who are weak? It was winning Phi Phillies better
Speaker 1: than New York. Everybody's better than New York, but Philly
Speaker 1: like Phillis. You know, the eighty five Bears, seventeen Jackson
Speaker 1: Jack So everybody's better. Oh we did beat him on
Speaker 1: that on that on on the fleuzy little play, but yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody's better in New York. We are so much better
Speaker 1: than know. Hey, Shannon, can you give me some of
Speaker 1: that Jack Black? That Jack Black? What's got you recognize?
Speaker 1: I recognize you. I saw you right there when you
Speaker 1: came up there. You guys didn't recognize civilian clothes. I
Speaker 1: couldn't recognize him. No, listen, you write my moti. I
Speaker 1: gotta listen to church over here. Hype up the Nucci.
Speaker 1: That's what's wrong. Here we go again. See let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Shannon does one of the great podcast here
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy dot com and just say hanging out here
Speaker 1: as well with the family. Um, okay, so Church, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna address this one to you, okay. And and and
Speaker 1: the reason I'm addressing it to him it is because please,
Speaker 1: you played in the MAC and and that's a Nonpower
Speaker 1: five school. Yeah. Ben de Nucci started off at PIT
Speaker 1: then transferred to James Madison, which is not and this
Speaker 1: is below the MAC and below and below the Mountain West.
Speaker 1: We're talking about that that next level, that that f
Speaker 1: that FCS levels technically what they call it, where Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz ended up playing at in North Dakota State. So
Speaker 1: what's the adjustment when you come from a conference like
Speaker 1: that to the National Football League within your rookie year.
Speaker 1: Give me, give me that baseline because you went through
Speaker 1: it well. For me, you know, the speed was the
Speaker 1: biggest thing because in the MAC, you know, you got
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, you got some talent in the MAC.
Speaker 1: But there's no you aren't touching the speed of the NFL.
Speaker 1: Like every body from the defensive line to the secondary
Speaker 1: to the to the linebackers everybody's fast. You can't just
Speaker 1: outrun anybody in International football league. So for me, the
Speaker 1: biggest adjustment was the speed, and for him, I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the speed of everybody, but also just
Speaker 1: trying to figure everything out on the fly. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is a guy who didn't have OTAs,
Speaker 1: He didn't have a you know, a long training camp
Speaker 1: it was abbreviated training camp, didn't have any preseason games
Speaker 1: under his belt. So he's going into a game right here,
Speaker 1: just you know, off of a week of practice, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard for him to see all these adjustments.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're gonna bring the house on him. They're
Speaker 1: gonna try to make him, you know, flustered out there
Speaker 1: and trying to make him get the ball out of
Speaker 1: his hands quick, decision making quick. So for him, he's
Speaker 1: just gonna have to stick to the game plan. If
Speaker 1: that means running the ball a lot. Look your first
Speaker 1: your first option, your second option win throwing the ball,
Speaker 1: and then you might have to take off use that
Speaker 1: twenty one mile and hour speed we're hearing about. But
Speaker 1: for me, he just can't make the game more complicated
Speaker 1: than it is. If you see cover three out there
Speaker 1: and it's not there, open man, just take off and run.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have nothing else to lose, all right,
Speaker 1: So mcram would have put this one to you. We're
Speaker 1: talking Ben the Nucci as we should the starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be the starting quarterback. But how much is
Speaker 1: this really on Ben as much as it should be
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore coming up with a game plan that that
Speaker 1: really protects him. That you don't want this kid out
Speaker 1: here trying to throw fifty passes on Sunday night football
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia. Honestly, I think it's I think it's fifty fifty.
Speaker 1: But but you also have to put, you know, Zeke
Speaker 1: in there. You have to put Coop in there because
Speaker 1: that they have. Kellen has to come up with a
Speaker 1: game plan that that that caters to the Nucci and
Speaker 1: the fact that he is a rookie and this will
Speaker 1: be his first start. He has to put that out there,
Speaker 1: and then Zeki has to go out there and hang
Speaker 1: on to the ball. Coop and UH and Gallop and
Speaker 1: CD what they will probably have to make a lot
Speaker 1: of contested catches, make some special catches. They will have
Speaker 1: to make some special plays because they are out here
Speaker 1: with a rookie quarterback, and the defense will have to
Speaker 1: turn over the ball are or not let them score
Speaker 1: as much. So it's going to be a team game.
Speaker 1: So but I'm putting fifty fifty. De Nucci has to
Speaker 1: go out there and exit cute the game plan that
Speaker 1: Kellen hopefully puts out there, and then the rest of
Speaker 1: the people around him have to do their job more
Speaker 1: than they had to when Dak was on the field
Speaker 1: or when Andy Dalton was on the field. So is
Speaker 1: this the kind of game where the head coach McCarthy
Speaker 1: goes and finds twenty one and says, hey, look, I
Speaker 1: need you to be the guy that's got the ninety
Speaker 1: million dollars contract. I need you to carry this Look,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have the regular line you're used to
Speaker 1: that made you an All Pro and a Pro Bowl player,
Speaker 1: but I need you to find a way. I need
Speaker 1: you to carry this thing. I think that was last
Speaker 1: week and uh and unfortunately, you know when I came
Speaker 1: on the shore earlier this week, That's why I said
Speaker 1: I was nervous because to me, it looked like he
Speaker 1: was splitting carries with Tony Poller. So is he going
Speaker 1: to twenty one and twenty or they are they putting
Speaker 1: this on twenty ones back. If it's me, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm doing. I'm telling Zeke, hey man, this is on
Speaker 1: you as far as we go, is as far as
Speaker 1: you take us right. And I'm giving you everything you want.
Speaker 1: You need twenty five carries, I'm giving you that, and
Speaker 1: we focusing this on you. We need you to hang
Speaker 1: on to the ball. We need you to lean always
Speaker 1: fall forward, you three to four yards and putting us
Speaker 1: in third and shorts. That's that's what we need from you.
Speaker 1: And I think that will be okay. The quarterback's best friend,
Speaker 1: it's a running back, and that's your opportunity. And we
Speaker 1: can't get frustrated with man. You know, we might be
Speaker 1: down fourteen. We cannot get away from the runs till
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen it happen too many times this
Speaker 1: year where we you know, we start out slow and
Speaker 1: other team kind of picks it up on us and
Speaker 1: we just leave the run, you know, just throw the
Speaker 1: throw to the wayside. We can't. We can't do it
Speaker 1: at that today or this game coming up. We cannot
Speaker 1: lose focus of the run. Even if we get down
Speaker 1: a couple scores. We gotta stay pounding the run because
Speaker 1: if we leave the Nucie out there, I mean, the
Speaker 1: kid could get hurt. We can't. I mean, we gotta
Speaker 1: lean on Zeke. We gotta have that that that top
Speaker 1: back back in the backfield to help us out this
Speaker 1: and and listen once again. The running game in today's
Speaker 1: NFL consists more of just handing the ball off to Zeke.
Speaker 1: It also consists of quickouts. It consists of jailbreak screens,
Speaker 1: It consists of of zone reads. It consists of more
Speaker 1: than just that. So it doesn't just have to be
Speaker 1: the elementary turnaround and get the ball to Zeke on counter,
Speaker 1: get the ball to Zeke on power. It has to
Speaker 1: be a creative type of running. Right. So I want
Speaker 1: to see Cede Lamb and Mary Cooper come around on
Speaker 1: jet sweeps and get and get some carries. I want
Speaker 1: to see quick outs, some hitches from from Mary Cooper,
Speaker 1: get the ball in their hands quick and let them
Speaker 1: see what they can do after. I want to see
Speaker 1: all that that's an extension of the ring game. We
Speaker 1: could and able to slow this rushdown to slow branding
Speaker 1: Graham and all those cocks and all those boys over
Speaker 1: there in Philadelphia. We could see some RPO action. I mean,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen a lot of it this year so far,
Speaker 1: but we could see some RPO action. You know, let
Speaker 1: the Nuccie see. I don't know if that's that might
Speaker 1: be a little bit too much on this. It might
Speaker 1: not that I think about. It might be too much
Speaker 1: on the play because he's gonna have to read the
Speaker 1: defensive end, read the linebackers and see how they're doing
Speaker 1: it as well as you know, should I hand this offer,
Speaker 1: should I pass the ball? So that might be a
Speaker 1: little bit too much on his plate. But right now,
Speaker 1: I mean, we need all the help we can get,
Speaker 1: and and the best way to get them, get them
Speaker 1: acclimated to the game is get the ball out of
Speaker 1: his hand, quick, easy, quick throws, right, get him some confidence,
Speaker 1: let him know that he can actually get in there
Speaker 1: and make those plays. And then and then build off
Speaker 1: of that. Right, So if you get the running game going,
Speaker 1: he start getting some short passes. Defense starts sitting a
Speaker 1: little bit trying to jump some stuff because there's a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback and they thinking that they can get some
Speaker 1: picks off of them. And then you can go over
Speaker 1: the top with play action. I think that that's just
Speaker 1: the floor of the game that you have to try
Speaker 1: to get get figured out. As we're talking about the
Speaker 1: offense getting ready for this this Eagles in Cowboy game,
Speaker 1: the group that I haven't spoken about enough to me,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the most important here. It's the offensive mine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what you're getting with Jim Schwartz, he's bringing
Speaker 1: the house pressure. They're gonna bring. They're gonna do some
Speaker 1: twists and things up there with Fletcher Cox and Brandon
Speaker 1: Graham and Benny Curry. Mean, they're gonna do some different
Speaker 1: things here. And Zack Martin is supposed to be back.
Speaker 1: Zack Martin didn't reveal whether or not he might play
Speaker 1: a little right tackler, but he didn't. But Joe Looney
Speaker 1: could also be back. So is Joe Looney gonna be
Speaker 1: a guard or is he gonna be at center? I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't know yet. Mike McCarthy keeps so much of
Speaker 1: this full secret like a hockey coach, and I kind
Speaker 1: of laughed because he's sitting around here saying, well, you know,
Speaker 1: unless Andy practices, uh, you know, I can't see him going.
Speaker 1: So then we're going to let the whole week play
Speaker 1: out because Jerry, Jerry Jones goes on to the show
Speaker 1: and yeah, don't will be back next we should be
Speaker 1: back next to me, right. We just took me back
Speaker 1: to and Chris being remembers these the days when when
Speaker 1: when Wade was here and so you know, uca Wade
Speaker 1: sit there and had these press conferences and and try
Speaker 1: and you know, play cool with people. And we're like, man,
Speaker 1: Jerry already said that. And one time, man, it was
Speaker 1: some kind of player I can't remember what player that
Speaker 1: they were trying to talk about that they were going
Speaker 1: to sign a release and and Way was like that
Speaker 1: hadn't happened yet, and we're like, Jerry already told it did.
Speaker 1: And then Way he was like, okay, whatever Jerry said.
Speaker 1: I think at one point he asked, like something asked
Speaker 1: him a question and a press conference, and he asked
Speaker 1: before and answering the question, that's what did Jerry say?
Speaker 1: Sounds yeah, that's a real similar to you. I haven't
Speaker 1: been in those meetings we were talking about. I don't
Speaker 1: know nothing about meetings, right, and and so that's why
Speaker 1: I just laughed. So you McCarthy sitting here talking it
Speaker 1: was fifteen ten ten fifteen to day and trying to
Speaker 1: play Corey and then Jerry goes on one the fire
Speaker 1: through the fan and uh, we won't be seeing next week,
Speaker 1: will be here. I'm laughing at that point, like, okay,
Speaker 1: so do you believe it's one hundred percent no chance
Speaker 1: that Andy Dalton is starting this week? I don't think. Again,
Speaker 1: but you know younger practice today? No, No, I think
Speaker 1: if he's no matter if he practices or not, if
Speaker 1: he's clear medically, I think that he'll start if he's cleared. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I'll say here's the most I think you'll see
Speaker 1: maybe in a backup role. Which McCarthy did you know
Speaker 1: say that you know he could back up the Nucci? Yeah? That,
Speaker 1: but I I don't see him. I mean, plus, when
Speaker 1: when when Jerry Jones goes out here on radio show
Speaker 1: and says, yeah, we'll see we'll see you next week,
Speaker 1: Like okay, I mean, honestly, if you're Andy Dalton, are
Speaker 1: you are you trying to rush back to get back
Speaker 1: to get behind that. I mean, I don't know you
Speaker 1: get you getting you, You might get Lonely back, you
Speaker 1: might get Zack Martin back. I mean this this would
Speaker 1: be the time. Listen, I hope he comes back. I
Speaker 1: hope he's healthy enough to get out there and play. Uh.
Speaker 1: If he's not, you know, and and he's he's and
Speaker 1: he's the backup guy. I don't you know, I know
Speaker 1: you're positive. I don't know how long Nucciu is in
Speaker 1: the game. I don't know how long he's gonna be
Speaker 1: in the game. If you have Andy Dalton sitting back
Speaker 1: there active as a backup, it's the Nucci's time. It's
Speaker 1: just time to row. It's going to be. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: going It's going to be when Jerry Jones comes out
Speaker 1: and says, we'll see Andy Dalton next weekend. That's where
Speaker 1: I'm going. Okay, cool, you know, having done this long enough,
Speaker 1: covered enough press conferences, and here, Jered, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Jared all right, these you know, you know, and
Speaker 1: I'm not picking up my card. I'm just this is
Speaker 1: just how it is. I've seen enough of these coaches
Speaker 1: come out here and tell us this, and then we
Speaker 1: go right around here and ask Jared. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was the thing. Garrett would say things like, okay, where's Jared,
Speaker 1: and then soon that was the beauty of Jerry show
Speaker 1: up for training cap because we go get all our
Speaker 1: questions ask Jerry, because Jason would do what any coach
Speaker 1: is supposed to do, be vague and just kind of
Speaker 1: not really give you anything. Jerry gave it to So
Speaker 1: what do you think about that? Though? What do you
Speaker 1: think about that? As as a head coach and you
Speaker 1: got the owner out there, you know you're trying to
Speaker 1: hide something as the head coach, keep played close to
Speaker 1: the vest, and then it doesn't matter because you could
Speaker 1: just go get the answer from the owner. What do
Speaker 1: you what do you think about that outside looking at
Speaker 1: not because you get to get the information from Jerry
Speaker 1: and it makes it It makes it a little easier
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. I'll set it up for you
Speaker 1: two ways. And I used to say this about Jason Garrett.
Speaker 1: I never had any sympathy for Jason Garrett on these
Speaker 1: issues because he turned down the head coaching job in
Speaker 1: Atlanta and he turned out head coaching job at Baltimore
Speaker 1: to stay here. You knew what you were signing up for.
Speaker 1: You played here, you knew you were an assistant. You
Speaker 1: see what it was. So it just comes with the meal.
Speaker 1: And as far as Mark Mike McCarthy goes, this guy
Speaker 1: was trying to get jobs, wanted a job. This comes
Speaker 1: with the meal. And by this time Mike McCarthy been
Speaker 1: in the league long enough to understand and know how
Speaker 1: it works. Not my question. Every everyone knows how it works.
Speaker 1: Do I Do I have any sympathy for these guys
Speaker 1: know because they understand this is what is. It's almost
Speaker 1: as the I harken this back to the Lake George Steinburner.
Speaker 1: Everybody knew when they worked for the Yankees what the
Speaker 1: boss was gonna say stuff, and you just had to
Speaker 1: deal with it. Now, Joe Tory in the book The
Speaker 1: Yankee Yars, Joe Tory had an amazing way of dealing
Speaker 1: with George Steinbern and what he would say and then
Speaker 1: how he would relate it to the players. So one time,
Speaker 1: George Steinbern is mad at his first space with Tino
Speaker 1: Martinez and he's killing him in the papers, and George
Speaker 1: brings him in here. I don't need you to worry
Speaker 1: about that. You're my guy. You're gonna be in the lineup, Okay,
Speaker 1: just do your job. You're gonna be in the lineup.
Speaker 1: And I thought Jason did an excellent job and understanding
Speaker 1: here's Jerry and what he'll say, and here's how I'll
Speaker 1: go about my business. And I thought he did a
Speaker 1: very good job in handling that. And I think, and
Speaker 1: I say this because he was here as a player
Speaker 1: and his assistant. He understood what it was. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for sympathy. I'm just asking, like, what
Speaker 1: do you think about it? Is it? Is it right?
Speaker 1: Is it wrong? Does it undercut you or whatever? Is
Speaker 1: it just part of it? It's just part of it?
Speaker 1: This when it? How many? How many? How many other
Speaker 1: organizations does it happen? And I want to know outside
Speaker 1: looking in, do you think that that that's the that
Speaker 1: you know exactly hurt? Okay, that's what I'm as. I know.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to have no sympathy for him,
Speaker 1: because right, it's been happening to since way and you
Speaker 1: know it's not ideal. But you know, I go to
Speaker 1: the butt. This is what it is when you coach
Speaker 1: the cow. I understand, I understand it, but I'm asking
Speaker 1: what do you think about it? Though? Like, of course
Speaker 1: you come here. If you come here, you know you
Speaker 1: know what you're getting into. I got that, all right,
Speaker 1: that's that's absolutely fine. But as we talk about it,
Speaker 1: what do you think about it? It's not ideal, it's
Speaker 1: not ideal. But at the same time, Bill Parcells had
Speaker 1: a great line and he took the job. Here. It's like,
Speaker 1: this is the big top. You know that. Then in
Speaker 1: his when he said the big top of yourself, it's
Speaker 1: the cowboys. It's gonna be big. There's gonna be distracted.
Speaker 1: This is what it is. And I'm sure Church, when
Speaker 1: you went to training camp, the first time you were there,
Speaker 1: you probably there's the media Jacksonville, about five people. I'm
Speaker 1: over there thinking it's going down. They're like, all you
Speaker 1: gotta do. You gotta come to the podium and do
Speaker 1: this little you know, this little interview. While I'm in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: I'm all right, cools, you know, I'm coming from Downs.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's gonna be like twenty thirty reporters there.
Speaker 1: I come in. It had to beat about the size
Speaker 1: of a closet. And I go and I'm looking like, oh,
Speaker 1: I right, you know, two or three you know reporter.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just different. I was like, maybe I
Speaker 1: must I must not be that popular or something. They
Speaker 1: must be waiting for somebody else. But the first pro
Speaker 1: team I've recovered. When I worked in Austin was the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and then I went to co cover Bill Belichick's Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I was just shocked, like, this is what training camp is.
Speaker 1: This is what the inter this all the people is
Speaker 1: going to show. I'm like, I'm right here next to
Speaker 1: this is hit. I got a one on one. I
Speaker 1: mean it was with the quarterback, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It was. It was just different. And so, well, you're
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy and you take this job, and you've been
Speaker 1: in the league as Mike McCarthy as long as Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy's been, you don't understand this is it. The owner
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Speaker 1: outside the Cowboys facility. This is the Tostito's Championship plause
Speaker 1: up right here at Board Center, Barry Church. Danny mccraig
Speaker 1: knew he scrugs. So I get done with my spin
Speaker 1: class today, all right, was at the gym, get done
Speaker 1: right in the bike, and I checked my phone. Calvin
Speaker 1: Watkins from the Dallas Morning News sitting in a text
Speaker 1: Calvin talking about Oh, I'll tell you what you're talking
Speaker 1: about talking about four and ten against the spread last week?
Speaker 1: Jic quick, hold on, man, then let me finish it,
Speaker 1: I said, So I read the text. I said, nope,
Speaker 1: those picks were all made by Barry Church. He talked
Speaker 1: about how good he was at picking games so so
Speaker 1: much on podcast. I let him do mine for the week.
Speaker 1: Then he says, you need to take it from him. Man.
Speaker 1: So that's how we doing, man, that's how we're doing Calvin.
Speaker 1: Can I remember that. I will remember that because you
Speaker 1: know I was always there for Calvin when he needed
Speaker 1: an interview or something like. I was always right there
Speaker 1: comes so we know his He wasn't anonymous. Way to
Speaker 1: act yourself. I'm dropping down what you were fourteen? What
Speaker 1: are you supposed to say? Oh, optimism, drink some of that? Man?
Speaker 1: What the thing was though? He was getting no new
Speaker 1: he didn't even know what was. But we wasn't even
Speaker 1: talking about the spread and spread was something that wasn't
Speaker 1: even I told you at the time. I said, look,
Speaker 1: we are talking about the talk about you made the picks.
Speaker 1: What's a right? Because I still im gonna still be
Speaker 1: right by my NFC. E's prediction. So as long as
Speaker 1: you get that one pick right, that's it. That's the
Speaker 1: only pick that's last week you lost that pick. It's
Speaker 1: all good. I see this negativity. I'm around. Let me
Speaker 1: just put it into perspective here, okay, because this is
Speaker 1: the thing, this is, this is this is the true test,
Speaker 1: all right, Church, This is what you did last week
Speaker 1: against the other selectors. In the Dallas Warning News, David
Speaker 1: Moore was right there with you against the spread. He
Speaker 1: was four and ten. Okay, they more probably experienced, you know,
Speaker 1: picking these picks and so so straight up he was
Speaker 1: nine and five. That's the opposite of yours. Nine. Dallas
Speaker 1: Warning News blogger John Owning last week five of nine,
Speaker 1: So he wasn't too far off from you. It's five
Speaker 1: and nine against the spread. But he was ten and
Speaker 1: four straight up. Kevin Sherrington the Dallas Warning News against spread.
Speaker 1: Kevin was nine and five straight up. He was twelve
Speaker 1: and two. You know, like I said, you know, Damon Marks,
Speaker 1: you know what are the editors over the Dallas Warning News.
Speaker 1: He was seven and seven against the spread, ten and
Speaker 1: four straight up on PI. Dana Larson Dana Larson the
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Southwest, she was eight and six against the spread,
Speaker 1: ten and four overall. I don't like this road were
Speaker 1: going down. She was killing it. Michael Gelkin who asked
Speaker 1: the long question that somebody didn't like yesterday and said, oh,
Speaker 1: are you talking about my boy? My boy's back not
Speaker 1: a true mick shot, uh, Michael Gelkin last week against
Speaker 1: the spread was six and eight. He was eleven and
Speaker 1: five straight up. This road is week. It sounds like
Speaker 1: it was an easy week side Timkllishaw, Tim Callishaw nine
Speaker 1: and five against the spread, nine and five straight up.
Speaker 1: And Calvin Watkins, who was writing me about your picks,
Speaker 1: was eight and six against the spread, ten and four
Speaker 1: straight up. And you know you wouldn't even you didn't
Speaker 1: even sniff. It was a run, guys. I think Danny
Speaker 1: is to do next week, now you know what? Now,
Speaker 1: Like you said Church, you and David Moore were dead
Speaker 1: last as the spread at four ten. So you got
Speaker 1: company there, okay, you got and when you talked about
Speaker 1: how hey man, all about the straight up picks, everybody
Speaker 1: else won nine minimum at least nine. You're the only
Speaker 1: one who not only you didn't go fight. You had
Speaker 1: a losing record. You had three fifty seven winning. Pretended
Speaker 1: straight up you were five and nine, dude, I mean
Speaker 1: everybody else. Nine and five was the lowest everybody. It
Speaker 1: was ten and six, twelve, two, ten and four, ten
Speaker 1: and four, ten and four, ten and four. Never happened.
Speaker 1: It's never happened in any in in picking predictions ever,
Speaker 1: this has never had. I had the words rec ever, impossible.
Speaker 1: But you're the one who likes to walk around saying
Speaker 1: I am you know you had off week. I had
Speaker 1: a lot of one already this week A second chance
Speaker 1: and it'll happen a second d NFC East champions and
Speaker 1: that's and I'm gonna take that, and I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: it and run with it. Last happened last night. So
Speaker 1: last night we picked the Carolina Atlanta game between us week.
Speaker 1: We didn't do it on the every week. I picked
Speaker 1: Carolina uh to win and I picked at Land against
Speaker 1: the spread. So I'm one and one. We didn't know
Speaker 1: Teddy was gonna get put out the game. You see
Speaker 1: how they came to Teddy defense once he got knocked.
Speaker 1: So what you all what you trying to say? Teddy
Speaker 1: got hit the same way Andy don't And what happened?
Speaker 1: I talk about a scrump. It was they was about
Speaker 1: to get Are you saying that's what the old line
Speaker 1: should have? Absolutely got You gotta show that film. I
Speaker 1: gotta show that film and you say, hey man, they listen,
Speaker 1: I don't care what happens to y'all. All right, you
Speaker 1: go protect your quarterback. Showed the Nucci, since he's starting
Speaker 1: on newis end that we got your back. I watched
Speaker 1: the game and I was like, Oh, that's how it's
Speaker 1: supposed to look. You know how. They're gonna show him
Speaker 1: they have his back. They're gonna protect them, They're gonna
Speaker 1: keep them clean. It's gonna be a clean pocket for
Speaker 1: the Nucci. They're gonna get this done. And they don't
Speaker 1: get then get knocked out the game because his pocket
Speaker 1: wasn't he took off. His pocket was played. He took off.
Speaker 1: That was That was a business decision on on his part.
Speaker 1: All right, that was that was on hit. He got
Speaker 1: a dirty yeah, out of bounds. If you need to,
Speaker 1: you know, you got you got it out. He should
Speaker 1: be able to he can stay. Yeah, he twenty one
Speaker 1: miles and now he's skating around some cash and it
Speaker 1: could happen. Yeah, new looking at me, like man Church.
Speaker 1: You are talking crazy right now, but he was five
Speaker 1: and nine. Every everything you say is crazy. It's about
Speaker 1: the fact, my boy, everybody you felt about Stephen and
Speaker 1: you and you picked up Miami and six. That's how
Speaker 1: I feel about Church. I put your picks out. I'm
Speaker 1: like new picked out, unlike Nui. I'm not gonna try
Speaker 1: to switch up and try to you know, you know
Speaker 1: I didn't pick that. That didn't happen. No, I ain't
Speaker 1: switched up. I'm the boy bro against the kool A.
Speaker 1: We U was against the koul A two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and you switched up nine. You're a cool a drinker.
Speaker 1: I'm a cool a drinker because I still feel like
Speaker 1: we have a chance to win an NFC. All right,
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Speaker 1: straight to the picks here. I was thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll go first, okay, because I already made my picket
Speaker 1: at NBCDFW dot com. I put up on the Twitter
Speaker 1: to the page on my Facebook page new we scrug Sports,
Speaker 1: so you can like me over there. Thirty two ten,
Speaker 1: I said, Philadelphia thirty two to ten. And this is
Speaker 1: just a really tough spot to bring in a offensive line.
Speaker 1: Once again, it is going through another combination of players,
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback and a running back who's probably started
Speaker 1: off the worst of his career. I can think we
Speaker 1: can say that this is the worst Elliott to start
Speaker 1: off his career. Yeah, and we're in an offense that
Speaker 1: hasn't helped the defense because they turned the football over.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen the improving yet. And I've said it before.
Speaker 1: Until I see them play better, it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to pick them. The Eagles are a nine and a
Speaker 1: half point favors nine yesterday. I have seen it as
Speaker 1: high as nine and a half, and based off what
Speaker 1: I've seen against Washington, I can't pick Dallas. And I
Speaker 1: look at that game that the Eagles played against Baltimore
Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh. Well not only that close, but these were
Speaker 1: games in which the Eagles were down, they were down
Speaker 1: double digits in both of them, and then storming back
Speaker 1: at the end. And despite having the same kind of
Speaker 1: injuries that Dallas has had, they've continued to fight. And
Speaker 1: I wonder as well, And this is something we talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about about earlier in COVID, how teams
Speaker 1: would perform that had some type of you know that
Speaker 1: they already knew the coaches, everybody knew what they were doing.
Speaker 1: And I still think that the Cowboys are trying to
Speaker 1: learn defensively how they need to play. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: still trying to get this thing correct, and this is
Speaker 1: a tough week to try and get things correct when
Speaker 1: you have a rookie like Ben de Nucci out there,
Speaker 1: in a veteran defensive coordinator like Jim Schwartz's wont Us
Speaker 1: super Bowl is gonna bring the house. So that's my
Speaker 1: pick I got. I got third to fourteen. I think
Speaker 1: that we were gonna score or touchdown defensively or on
Speaker 1: special teams this week. I think that we'll get one
Speaker 1: of those and that would be seven of our points.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't think they we'll be able
Speaker 1: to stop them, and it would be worse be being negative.
Speaker 1: It would be worse. But Deshaun Jackson is out and
Speaker 1: Miles Miles Standers is out. So somehow it seems like
Speaker 1: we always come up and we get lucky and somebody
Speaker 1: on impact player on the other team ends up ends
Speaker 1: up not playing and it saves us. J Jalen Raker
Speaker 1: is going to play in this game, the first round
Speaker 1: draft pick, the kid out of TCU, who was basically
Speaker 1: Deshan Jackson too. That's why I thought that would cut
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson for two years now. Yeah, yeah, and then
Speaker 1: he had that comment that he made um in the
Speaker 1: off season. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, I
Speaker 1: can't say stuff like this, and your your owner and
Speaker 1: general manager both Jewish. I don't think he needs to
Speaker 1: be making him kind of comments. Man. So I'm surprised
Speaker 1: that he stayed. But well, they kill Riley Cooper and
Speaker 1: they paid rally. They aid him after, they only keep
Speaker 1: him him after they were up against That was a
Speaker 1: part of the conversation, very much part of the conversation. Um,
Speaker 1: but he's not gonna be playing, but Jalen Reagor coming back.
Speaker 1: So Jalen Reagor coming back and Travis Fulgham. So those
Speaker 1: are obviously some weapons. And the Cowboys have got to
Speaker 1: figure out how they're going to defend him, which is
Speaker 1: that's another question. How do the Cowboys defend these guys,
Speaker 1: especially with now you got to speed Murcher and get
Speaker 1: down the field here, how do you you know, what
Speaker 1: kind of coverage do you play? And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: they haven't stopped the run Cowbys giving one hundred seventy
Speaker 1: two yards on the ground. And I don't care. The
Speaker 1: Philadelphia's not gonna have Sanders back there. You can't sleep
Speaker 1: on Scott. Yeah, you can't sleep on you talk about
Speaker 1: a miss mass on linebackers. We saw what happened. Talk
Speaker 1: about linebackers. I'm seeing some angle routes. I'm seeing them.
Speaker 1: The line up at number one, I'm seeing I'm seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff out of Bart Scott, so so Boston,
Speaker 1: Boston Scott, my bad Martil lineback Mark Scott can't wait.
Speaker 1: Great guy. By the way, if you never met Bart,
Speaker 1: that's a guy you want to hang out with. He's
Speaker 1: a good dude. He used to radio embarkment. Great guy.
Speaker 1: All right, man, so is a jamas? Is it time
Speaker 1: for me to go ahead and get your hand, get
Speaker 1: your blue pen and all that stuff and get ready. Man.
Speaker 1: As much as much as I don't want to say it, man,
Speaker 1: I got I got Philly in this one. I got
Speaker 1: Philly taking this one. And you know, as much as
Speaker 1: I want to bet with my heart and say, you know,
Speaker 1: the boys in the new they're gonna figure something out,
Speaker 1: I just don't think that this is the game that
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. I mean, like you said, NEWI Philly.
Speaker 1: They've been dealing with the same type of injuries as
Speaker 1: far as offensive line, as far as skill position as
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have had to deal with. But the major
Speaker 1: difference and the major variables, they were still able to
Speaker 1: keep their quarterback and they still had that same system,
Speaker 1: that same coaching system that they had last year. So
Speaker 1: for me, WinCE, I just think, you know, he's been playing,
Speaker 1: he has to been playing great. He has turned the
Speaker 1: ball over, but there's been laws out there, as there's
Speaker 1: been stretches where he's been, he's looked, he's looked unbelievable
Speaker 1: with it, with the talent he's had. Yeah, he'll give
Speaker 1: you a ball, but he'll also fight and he'll also
Speaker 1: fight you to the end. So for me, the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I mean, they gotta play a perfect game to get
Speaker 1: this win. They gotta, you know, they gotta protect the news.
Speaker 1: She the news. She gotta go out there and play
Speaker 1: turnover free ball. We gotta see the Zeke Elliott of
Speaker 1: twenty and sixteen or defense. He's gonna have to try
Speaker 1: to take the ball away, which we haven't been able
Speaker 1: to do all year. And that's just a little bit
Speaker 1: too much to overcome for these Cowboys. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope and pray that I'm wrong on
Speaker 1: this one that the Boys end up doing something still
Speaker 1: in the victory. But I gotta ga. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be a blowout because there's stretches
Speaker 1: in games where Philadelphia will go and turn the ball over,
Speaker 1: won't run, they won't stop anything. So I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a blowout. I think Philly takes this game twenty
Speaker 1: four to seventeen. But you know, it hurts me to
Speaker 1: say that. I gotta go. I gotta Philly on this one.
Speaker 1: Stop the press, hold on because if this is the case,
Speaker 1: if this is the case, you have to explain to
Speaker 1: me the route to the NFC East Championship. We don't
Speaker 1: be Philly. We still gotta play Baltimore. We still gotta play,
Speaker 1: we gotta play. We gotta play Philly again. We gotta
Speaker 1: play Washington, who just pretty much blew us out. Tell
Speaker 1: me the tell me the route. Steal one, Philly, We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to steal one. I wouldn't be if Dalton
Speaker 1: was in there. I'd be bet with the Boys right now.
Speaker 1: But the new chie I just think it's a little
Speaker 1: bit too much for him to overcome. He's only had
Speaker 1: a week of practice. It's just too much. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to go with Philly on this one. But
Speaker 1: the route to the NFC East, we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: steal one. We're gonna have to steal one, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to just basically sweep the rest of the
Speaker 1: games that we have against the NFC East, and we
Speaker 1: got to steal one where that comes, and you gotta
Speaker 1: hope that Philly, that Philly loses. Oh yeah, it ain't.
Speaker 1: I ain't worried about and I ain't ready about Philly
Speaker 1: running away with they already played. They played some games already,
Speaker 1: so the games that they already lost, we still have
Speaker 1: to play. So we're just gonna writ out Philly just
Speaker 1: winning the rest of these games. No, not the rest
Speaker 1: of them. I'm saying. We still have some games almost
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to steal one, and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to hope on something else. I didn't want to get
Speaker 1: to this point. I didn't want it to get to
Speaker 1: this point. But we're gonna have to hope on something
Speaker 1: else because of this. But I'm telling you, you got
Speaker 1: Obama over here. You just take away Barry Barry Obamas.
Speaker 1: He didn't just throw the whole season away. Better than
Speaker 1: that NFC East, the game that they really need to
Speaker 1: win didn't say last week. The caveat was if Ben
Speaker 1: the Nuti's out there, I gotta I gotta have some strategies. Hope.
Speaker 1: It's better than throwing the whole season away. It's better
Speaker 1: than throwing on So you said we're gonna be three
Speaker 1: and one after this. You're talking about it if if
Speaker 1: Andy don't will be playing after this week, and I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys got better chance when he's in there.
Speaker 1: So so, so we lose this week and then as
Speaker 1: long as Andy don't come still one, we will. No. No,
Speaker 1: now we have to. We are because you said, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: no still one. Mister Cleo over here, We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to steal one. I cannot wait. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: not going saying. Just remember because what you say it's
Speaker 1: gonna come back. I'm standing on mine his handy Dandy
Speaker 1: five and nine last week, one time on one time,
Speaker 1: the one of the things that the Cowboys defense is
Speaker 1: gonna have to do besides you stop the run. Now,
Speaker 1: that's to me, that's number one above everything. Stopped the run.
Speaker 1: And also be wary of Wins because Wins does make
Speaker 1: a lot of plays using his legs. They've got to
Speaker 1: get guys off the field on third down. I'm just
Speaker 1: checking the statistics here. Dallas is twenty seventh in the
Speaker 1: league it and on fourth down they're worse. They're twenty eight.
Speaker 1: So one thing I could see Doug Peterson doing is,
Speaker 1: you know, going for a lot of fourth downs here
Speaker 1: and the belief on third day that they can convert it.
Speaker 1: And we saw Kyle Allen last week running for first hands.
Speaker 1: We saw Matt Ryan running for first hands. And Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz is a better athlete and a better runner. So
Speaker 1: this is gonna be another interesting thing of what do
Speaker 1: they do from a linebacking standpoint. And we're hoping that
Speaker 1: chun Lee. I expect Shunley play. Oh yeah, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: didn't say it, and I don't think they asked him
Speaker 1: on Jerry's show because Jerry Wood told us. But Sean
Speaker 1: Lee being out there is going to be a help.
Speaker 1: But just somebody's gonna have to be weary on third
Speaker 1: downs of Carson Wentz getting Now, we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: heat up this phillyd this Philly offense early and often
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to get We can't let them go
Speaker 1: and have third and manageables. We can't have third and
Speaker 1: six is third and five. They're gonna have to be
Speaker 1: in third and ten pluses. We're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz back there and throwing the ball, because, like
Speaker 1: you said, he'll throw you one. But we just can't
Speaker 1: give him these third and five, Third and six is
Speaker 1: that we've been doing that. I don't know how comfortable
Speaker 1: I feel with our coverage running blitz, but let's let me.
Speaker 1: Let's be I'm gonna be positive again. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: us a path to victory. All right. We talked about
Speaker 1: the offense and what they need to do. They need
Speaker 1: to get some confidence in the end of the nut.
Speaker 1: You start them off with some with some basic hitch routes,
Speaker 1: out routes, getting seeks started. On defense, we need to
Speaker 1: be disciplined. We need to I say, we need to
Speaker 1: run some games on the defensive line, and we need
Speaker 1: to run some basic coverage. We need to run some
Speaker 1: couple of one. You can run his own blitz every
Speaker 1: once in a while, but do some stuff to where
Speaker 1: they are they you make them, you bember, but don't
Speaker 1: break right long if it's long drives, but you hoping
Speaker 1: the field goals, that's perfect. Do not try to sell
Speaker 1: out and then get beat for a ninety yard touchdown
Speaker 1: to have us down by fourteen points. So it sounds
Speaker 1: like a lot of third and manageables. Man, Yes, you
Speaker 1: gotta heat. I think you gotta heat. I mean, I
Speaker 1: see what you're saying, but I just think you gotta
Speaker 1: heat him up. Man, you gotta get him off his rocker,
Speaker 1: like you gotta confuse him, gotta do something to him.
Speaker 1: We heat it up. I mean, we had, but this
Speaker 1: is just what we got to do. Like we were
Speaker 1: at the point right now. We just can't throw a
Speaker 1: D team out there, defense out there and be like,
Speaker 1: all right, we're good. We're gonna have to do something
Speaker 1: like this is like this, like it really has to
Speaker 1: be the week that we've done stuff that we have
Speaker 1: not done all year, even even from the beginning when
Speaker 1: Dak was playing. We gotta eat him up. We gotta
Speaker 1: play coverage, we gotta we gotta get some pass rush
Speaker 1: on him. We gotta run the ball. I mean, we
Speaker 1: gotta it's just teams we gotta do. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying all this stuff has to get done for
Speaker 1: us to win. But yeah, that is the route to winning.
Speaker 1: We have to be super discipline and we also like
Speaker 1: this is huge. We have to make some type of
Speaker 1: difference on special teams in a positive manner. I see
Speaker 1: that you have to make a play on special teams.
Speaker 1: You have to get the team apped up. Is nothing
Speaker 1: like one of those miscellaneous scores. Nothing, nothing like that
Speaker 1: where they've been scared from them past the fakes right
Speaker 1: out of the game. That they've got to do what
Speaker 1: they did on the first Sunday night football game when
Speaker 1: they played the Rams, can't have any turnovers. Then they
Speaker 1: played turnover free ball, cannot have any turn Since that game,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have turned the ball over at least twice
Speaker 1: every game. And we were in that game. We were
Speaker 1: in to the at the very end. So to me,
Speaker 1: that's you know, we can talk all these different things,
Speaker 1: but ultimately, if the Cowboys are giving the way, giving
Speaker 1: away the football on offensive, put the defense in. You know,
Speaker 1: when they got were phillies ten yards away from the
Speaker 1: red zone, it's it's gonna be hard to win win
Speaker 1: like that, and they've got to try and get one
Speaker 1: of these balls that Carson went seemingly every week tries
Speaker 1: to give away. They've got to go and get some
Speaker 1: of those. But the turnover game has got to be
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys first off win, can we win? Can
Speaker 1: we win time and possession? Also, it was that was
Speaker 1: one time of possession last week. But once you get
Speaker 1: the takeaways, I mean, when you're giving the ball away
Speaker 1: and making it real easy that Washington's got a you know,
Speaker 1: a nice quick short field. And Jerry Time talked about
Speaker 1: on this radio show. You too many times the d
Speaker 1: and people are mad at the defense, but too many
Speaker 1: times the offense has put the defense into bad possession.
Speaker 1: But that but doesn't that play into talent posession, Like
Speaker 1: you win the talent possession. But they had short field,
Speaker 1: so they were scoring. You know what, say they didn't.
Speaker 1: They didn't need to have a ball that long. So
Speaker 1: stats like that stack can fool you depending on where
Speaker 1: the offense starts. But that was because that was just
Speaker 1: the first time, the one time of possession there. And
Speaker 1: remember unfortunately really it was because you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't see us win the time with possession. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna have to make some really some splash
Speaker 1: plays until many. You're hoping maybe this week things can
Speaker 1: turn around for the Cowboys to at least just play better.
Speaker 1: But but we'll see that's the main thing. We can
Speaker 1: just get a better tape out there. That's it, just
Speaker 1: out there. Okay, so we've made our picks here. Church
Speaker 1: has Philly winning twenty four seventeen, which means, by the way,
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are gonna cover. Okay, you got them, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got them covering, got them covering. Since we're doing
Speaker 1: spread and all that good pray. You got the Cowboys
Speaker 1: thirty to fourteen losing to Philly. I've got the Cowboys
Speaker 1: losing thirty two to ten to Philly. So we both
Speaker 1: are saying that the Philly is also going to cover
Speaker 1: the spread. So hey, look, it was fun to be
Speaker 1: out here today at until stee those Championship plaza here
Speaker 1: at Ford Center. Thank the folks over here at funtwn
Speaker 1: RV for the tailgate and all the folks who came
Speaker 1: out here and gave us some good food. Fellas, we'll
Speaker 1: text each other during the game is always on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I'll be a long night for me since the
Speaker 1: game is on same here. I'll be in the post game,
Speaker 1: I probably won't get hunt around twelve something, I'll be
Speaker 1: hanging out. I'll be hanging out listening to y'all, listening
Speaker 1: to y'all talking and laughing because no Tradamin's over here,
Speaker 1: is uh actually not? You pick Phillies, So I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be laughing at you. You're right. But if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do win, Oh, it's going down on Monday.
Speaker 1: It's going I don't care, it's I don't care, it's
Speaker 1: going down. We got if it's time to go, says
Speaker 1: this show is run. We gotta get him out of here. Harrison,
Speaker 1: go pick kids, gotta go pick his kids up with
Speaker 1: your chest. He got a good time to go. Well,
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