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Speaker 1: wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, October sixth two thou seventeen,
Speaker 1: Season thirteen, episode number fifty one. Welcome to another edition
Speaker 1: of the Break. We're locking me s WBC Mortgage Studios
Speaker 1: at the Star and we're getting you guys ready for
Speaker 1: Cowboys Packers at game will kick off this Sunday at
Speaker 1: three twenty five, three thirty five somewhere in there in
Speaker 1: three thirty round there. Cowboys will take on the Packers.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is coming to town, and so we gotta
Speaker 1: get you guys ready for that game. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: what our crazy predictions are and what we think is
Speaker 1: going to happen in the game before we get to that,
Speaker 1: as we do every Friday, we'll definitely talk about injury reporting,
Speaker 1: what we think is going to happen from a standpoint
Speaker 1: of inactives, I think that's gonna be an interesting conversation
Speaker 1: this week, just because of so many different moving parts.
Speaker 1: But how's everybody doing? This morning's Friday? Oh doing guys? Seriously,
Speaker 1: it's Friday. We wanted Garrett to go first. Okay, good coach, great, awesome.
Speaker 1: I wish just one that's not good. You could have
Speaker 1: just a little bit of enthusiasm about anything. Honestly, Fridays
Speaker 1: during football season is one of my favorite things in
Speaker 1: the world. Like, I love Yeah, I really can tell that, right,
Speaker 1: I don't show enthusiasm bite me, sorry, Wow, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a little much. I love a little aggressive. I love
Speaker 1: Fridays during football season. Okay, there's an energy in the building.
Speaker 1: You know, you have tomorrow off, get to watch my
Speaker 1: college team lose, you know that. Like there's not as
Speaker 1: much going on on a Friday, Like I probably won't
Speaker 1: have to write as much as I do the other
Speaker 1: five days of the week. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: energy last week, last Friday, Friday. Yes I don't remember that,
Speaker 1: Yes you do. I do. You want to mention it?
Speaker 1: Why you were so energetic probably on Friday and the
Speaker 1: rest of the weekend. Oh, Friday afternoon, I thought you
Speaker 1: were being Friday on our show, No Friday Afternoon. We
Speaker 1: haven't talked about that. I think people know at this point,
Speaker 1: now how would they know? I tweeted it everyone. I
Speaker 1: put it out there and let everybody know. But last Friday,
Speaker 1: last Friday, last Friday Afternoon, we found out some pretty
Speaker 1: exciting news that we got nine nine Emmy nominations for
Speaker 1: some of the content we produced last year, including including
Speaker 1: each of our Blue documentaries from last year were nominated.
Speaker 1: Are finished this Fight campaign, which Kent was very involved in, Dave,
Speaker 1: you were very involved in that project, got three nominations.
Speaker 1: And then on and then we had Cover four, which
Speaker 1: is our new show that we started last year that
Speaker 1: got nominated in its first year in production. And then
Speaker 1: of course the Lovely Miss Amber Garcia was nominated once
Speaker 1: again for some almost Cowboys. Actually, you guys won last year,
Speaker 1: so you're the vets in the group. This is like
Speaker 1: nothing important to you, guys. You already have a trophy, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But it's still exciting, and I guess the serious even
Speaker 1: more exciting just because everyone is part of it now.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's exciting, that is and I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: We'll find out the week of the Atlanta game November eleventh.
Speaker 1: I think it is. We'll find out how many we win.
Speaker 1: If we win, hopefully we'll get a few, and that'll
Speaker 1: be very exciting weekend, very exciting for nine. Huh, let's
Speaker 1: go for nine. Go for nine? Why not your finalist?
Speaker 1: How about nine? That would be that would be a
Speaker 1: good sweep. We could get nine. You know, Kent's names
Speaker 1: on four of them. Four yeah, yeah, So congratulations to
Speaker 1: Kent yep, Kent Stunna. Is that a phenomenal year? As
Speaker 1: as the whole group, I think, thank you. I did
Speaker 1: a lot this year, so really good. Trying to get
Speaker 1: that trophy. I don't care about nominations, I know, right,
Speaker 1: we want the trophies. Trying to get that trophy. And
Speaker 1: and the bad part about it is we all got
Speaker 1: to work that weekend in Atlanta, so there's a good
Speaker 1: chance that we won't even be able to be there
Speaker 1: to accept our own awards. We'll have to kind of
Speaker 1: do it from Atlanta. Can post your trophy from the
Speaker 1: Graham later in the week. It doesn't matter when you
Speaker 1: get it. It's fine. Yeah, So we'll figure it all out,
Speaker 1: all right. We appreciate you guys joining let's talk some
Speaker 1: Cowboys football. Let's first start with injuries. Yesterday, a few
Speaker 1: things that popped up on the injury report there were
Speaker 1: a little different than Thursday. Tyren Smith did not practice yesterday.
Speaker 1: He was limited the day before. Anthony Brown popped up
Speaker 1: on the injury report as a limited participant in practice
Speaker 1: with an injury. So let's start with some of the
Speaker 1: guys based upon the list. I'm gonna throw out a
Speaker 1: few names, and I want you guys to tell me
Speaker 1: what you're thinking and what you're hearing about them and
Speaker 1: the likelihood have been playing. Let's start first with Tyren Smith,
Speaker 1: who did not practice yesterday. I think that's becoming a
Speaker 1: big issue here. We'll find out today how much he
Speaker 1: does because if he misses another day of practice here,
Speaker 1: I think you're starting to say that this is going
Speaker 1: to be a setback. But if they're just figuring out
Speaker 1: ways to man and into this back injury that they've
Speaker 1: they've known about for a while, he kind of dealt
Speaker 1: with the training camp. They're just going to figure out
Speaker 1: ways to manage it. Then this is, I think Dave
Speaker 1: said yesterday, is something he's going to deal with probably
Speaker 1: for a long time. But The goal, obviously is to
Speaker 1: get him ready for Sunday, and this is kind of
Speaker 1: the way to do that. So I think if he
Speaker 1: doesn't practice today, I think it'll be a little bit
Speaker 1: more telling of how serious this is. If he can
Speaker 1: do something be limited, then he'll probably be out there,
Speaker 1: but only time will tell how effective that will be.
Speaker 1: He'll probably have to take like a shot or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think day I'm not worried that he's not going
Speaker 1: to play. Do you think he's playing? Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think that likes This isn't as far as I
Speaker 1: understand it, This isn't disc related and I don't think
Speaker 1: he can make it worse by playing. So he's an
Speaker 1: all pro. I think they'll find a way to get
Speaker 1: him ready and then he's got a week off after
Speaker 1: this to get right. So I could be wrong, but
Speaker 1: I am leaning toward thinking he'll be there all right.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to Anthony Brown. Anthony Brown was limited
Speaker 1: participant yesterday in practice. He's first first time he's popped
Speaker 1: up on the injury for this week. What are you
Speaker 1: hearing and what do you think's gonna happen? Not? I
Speaker 1: just want to know why these guys keep getting hurt
Speaker 1: in practice. Yeah, it's three doing It's three in a week.
Speaker 1: It happens every Thursday. It seems like they're not on
Speaker 1: it on a Wednesday, but then Thursday they pop up.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but but those guys, I guess Chas
Speaker 1: Green did not play no Byron Jones a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago did And I would imagine Anthony Brown will play
Speaker 1: through this. But if not, you know, you have some
Speaker 1: you have a little bit of depth at corner. You
Speaker 1: can figure something out. But I would imagine that he's
Speaker 1: still gonna be able to do something in play. I agree. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Shaun Lee. He has not practiced all week,
Speaker 1: did not play last week. You thinking he's out now, Dave,
Speaker 1: I do why? Because this, like this is an injury
Speaker 1: that can't get worse if you try to play on
Speaker 1: it too soon. Hamstring hamstring, And you've got a bye
Speaker 1: week coming up, so he's got a chance to be
Speaker 1: to rest for three weeks and then hopefully this won't
Speaker 1: be an issue as opposed to force him out on
Speaker 1: the field and you get a quarter out of him
Speaker 1: and then it's worse and you don't have him until Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I could be and you know, again, never rule you
Speaker 1: should never rule out an All Pro player until he's
Speaker 1: officially ruled out. Those guys have remarkable ways of getting ready.
Speaker 1: But he hasn't done anything in two weeks football wise,
Speaker 1: and it's just I just don't have a lot of optimism.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I think it would be smart to give
Speaker 1: him that extra time, especially with the bye week. So
Speaker 1: I'm your agreeting, is it? I think? Yeah, I definitely
Speaker 1: agree that it's not looking good because for him, he's
Speaker 1: the guy that he needs to practice. You know. Now,
Speaker 1: he's one player who could go out without practicing and
Speaker 1: would be pretty effective because just all the preparation he does,
Speaker 1: but he can't really tell him that he knows that
Speaker 1: he needs to prepare a certain way. And the fact
Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to practice now for almost two
Speaker 1: full weeks, I don't think he would even be comfortable
Speaker 1: going out and playing in a game like this. Now. Again,
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, like let's see what happens today,
Speaker 1: but I mean, if he does something today that shows
Speaker 1: some progress, but if if he's another DNP just did
Speaker 1: not practice, then there's no way he could play. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't think he would want to play this game, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys would want him to with a buy coming
Speaker 1: up in a chance to get his hamstring fully healthy.
Speaker 1: Also keep in mind, I do feel pretty confident thanthy
Speaker 1: Hintians is going to play this game. So that gives
Speaker 1: you numbers, and it gives you one of your starters backs.
Speaker 1: He's been a full participant in practice all week, so
Speaker 1: that certainly does look good for him. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna play. You know, that doesn't mean they're not gonna
Speaker 1: miss Sean Lee, but actually he's been practicing it will
Speaker 1: He's been playing week side, you know, getting him ready
Speaker 1: for dude, that's throughout during training camp. He's the starting mic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been playing well because Sean can't, And so I
Speaker 1: think it would be him and Jalen and Jalen and
Speaker 1: Durant would probably rotate the way they did at the
Speaker 1: start of the year. You know, Anthony Hitchins doesn't Sean Lee.
Speaker 1: I think he would even say that. But that should
Speaker 1: help you a little bit. I don't know that you
Speaker 1: look as bad at linebackers you did last week. If
Speaker 1: he's in there, you think they'd have him in at
Speaker 1: a Nickel give him a full load most definitely. I mean,
Speaker 1: like this is you know, it's kind of similar to
Speaker 1: the tyring Lee thing, Like I don't think this is
Speaker 1: an injury that's gonna get worse. I mean, he's he's
Speaker 1: good to go. That that fractures healed. It's not a
Speaker 1: muscular or soft tissue thing. So if he can play
Speaker 1: a figure, he can probably carry a full load, all right.
Speaker 1: One other guy wanted to throw out there, Stephen Paya.
Speaker 1: Although he's been missing, he's miss practice quite a bit
Speaker 1: during this the first four weeks of the season, he
Speaker 1: still has managed to play. Do you ever get to
Speaker 1: a point where you start to wonder, like is this
Speaker 1: serious enough where really they need to sit him down? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been wondering that. That's I mean not even Tony
Speaker 1: Romo took full weeks off of practice multiple weeks in
Speaker 1: a row. Um, it's weird he keeps playing. I would
Speaker 1: argue he probably hasn't been as effective. He certainly hasn't
Speaker 1: looked as effective as he did at training can rum.
Speaker 1: But it's one of those things where do you manage
Speaker 1: it and play at kind of like DeMarcus Lawrence last year.
Speaker 1: Do you manage it and play at sixty percent, or
Speaker 1: do you sit down and not have one of your
Speaker 1: starting caliber guys for a prolonged period of time. Um.
Speaker 1: I heard somebody suggest maybe Ui rhm and bring him back.
Speaker 1: But then Charles Tapper broke his foot this week, So
Speaker 1: that's that hurts. That hinders your ability to bring guys
Speaker 1: back from my arc bec as you get too So
Speaker 1: he might be one of those you think Taper. I
Speaker 1: don't think Tapper's coming back? Well, okay, and that's the case,
Speaker 1: and um Gathers probably isn't either. Yeah, maybe I don't
Speaker 1: even know what to make of that, but um, regardless
Speaker 1: either and even all right, even if you're not doing
Speaker 1: the math on bringing him back, you're still he's gone
Speaker 1: for eight weeks, So he's gone until what December? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Amber, with David Irving coming back this week, would
Speaker 1: you consider the possibility of making David Irving you're starting
Speaker 1: defensive tackle and and that gives you more flexibility to
Speaker 1: make the decision than maybe you want to sit Paia
Speaker 1: for a week, knowing that you have an extra week
Speaker 1: there with the bye well Horn, could you guys refresh
Speaker 1: my memory? Is this the first time that Paya misses
Speaker 1: practice more than once, Yes, during one week ing the
Speaker 1: same week. I think this is the third time he
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that I thought that happened last week.
Speaker 1: It's either a second or well, I know he's missed yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: But is this the first time that I thought last
Speaker 1: week he missed multiple? Did he not? I remember fairly,
Speaker 1: I'm fairly confident that he has not practiced since like
Speaker 1: week two or three, at least at all at all. Wow, really,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know he's been on the
Speaker 1: injury report weeks now. So yeah, but back to your question, Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think having David Irving back it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to Malie Collins the other day
Speaker 1: and you should have seen his smile. As soon as
Speaker 1: I mentioned David Irvin's name, he gave me the biggest
Speaker 1: smile ever and was so excited to have him back
Speaker 1: on the line. And he was just telling me how
Speaker 1: much of a big help he is, not only I
Speaker 1: mean to everyone, not just in what he does for
Speaker 1: himself specifically, but whatever he does also helps everyone else
Speaker 1: on the line. So I think it'll be good to
Speaker 1: have him as a starting guy, and that that may
Speaker 1: give them the flexibility they need to if they want
Speaker 1: to sit Pie for a week and give him two
Speaker 1: weeks essentially, I could give him some opportunities there. Cardinals
Speaker 1: game two weeks ago, did not practice, did not practice,
Speaker 1: did not practice questionable, and then played right. And then
Speaker 1: against the Rams, did not practice, did not practice limited
Speaker 1: and then played. So he had multiple practice, multiple weeks
Speaker 1: of not practicing through the week twice so far, and
Speaker 1: I guess this week will be three times that he's
Speaker 1: had multiple days of not practicing. So he's played those
Speaker 1: other two games. We'll see. But then again, they didn't
Speaker 1: have again, they didn't have Irving at that point. Now
Speaker 1: having Irving will it'll be interesting to see if they
Speaker 1: feel like they have some flexibility now that Irving's back.
Speaker 1: It'll definitely be good for him because he hasn't again
Speaker 1: he has they haven't had enough guys for Paia to
Speaker 1: even take a little break and sit down, you know,
Speaker 1: So it'll be good for them and just put Irving back.
Speaker 1: He's healthy, he's been training, he's been staying in shape,
Speaker 1: so that's to me, that would be the smartest idea.
Speaker 1: All right, great, let's move on. Let's talk about inactives.
Speaker 1: I think we could probably all agree that Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: Darren McFadden are two guys that will be inactive. Let's
Speaker 1: start going through the list of the other guys that
Speaker 1: we think could be. Shan Lee. I know, Dave you
Speaker 1: said you think he's down. Do you guys agree that
Speaker 1: Sean Lee's down? Yeah? I mean, haven't seen anything yet
Speaker 1: to suggest that he's not. Okay, Amber, Yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 1: At three, let's talk about the cornerback position. Ben Abin
Speaker 1: Wickery has been playing. There are two guys that have
Speaker 1: not been playing in Cheetah Woozier and Nolan Carroll. How
Speaker 1: many of those guys you think will be up this week?
Speaker 1: So I guess let me flip that question. How many
Speaker 1: of those guys you think are down this week? And
Speaker 1: who do you think it'll be? Because I don't think
Speaker 1: they'll have all three active, I think we can go
Speaker 1: with Ben a Yeah, I've seen we thought he was
Speaker 1: going to get cut before the TAP's guy, Nick, Why
Speaker 1: you've been talking about him? Time put him in? Do
Speaker 1: something with him? Well, just I said that when you
Speaker 1: have four corners and two of them have never played,
Speaker 1: and one of us heard, and then you end up.
Speaker 1: You know, do you have a fifth guy there? But
Speaker 1: in this case, now you've got everyone seemingly back, He's
Speaker 1: an easy choice for to be an active I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get that draft pick back. Do you wonder a
Speaker 1: little bit about Carol from last week, because it seemed
Speaker 1: like the way things are going last week that maybe
Speaker 1: he had a shot of playing last week and was
Speaker 1: a was a scratch. Do you think that maybe that
Speaker 1: there was more to that than just d injury. Maybe
Speaker 1: they just made a decision that he wasn't the guy
Speaker 1: they wanted to have up. Um, I don't think so. Uh.
Speaker 1: And listening to Garrett yesterday, he made it sound like
Speaker 1: that they're gonna all play and all of them, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And he made it sound like he didn't want to
Speaker 1: say who's gonna return to the starting lineup, Brown or Carol,
Speaker 1: But he said we're gonna, you know, we're gonna need
Speaker 1: all of them. So I don't I think that Carol
Speaker 1: does come back this week? Okay, so you think benabian
Speaker 1: wickery is down? So now we're at four. The way
Speaker 1: Cheeto was running around the locker room the other day,
Speaker 1: he certainly doesn't looked like his hand father and him right,
Speaker 1: all right, so let's four down. What do you think
Speaker 1: about Noah Brown wide receiver, sixth wide receiver they were
Speaker 1: using him. I mean, he gets out there a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if it's if it's smart
Speaker 1: to have six receivers active, But when you have all
Speaker 1: these specialty guys that only do a certain kind of things,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think he does play special team,
Speaker 1: I mean he does. He runs down and does something
Speaker 1: special teams, so you don't you have the guys that
Speaker 1: don't do that. Bryce doesn't do that, and Beasley doesn't
Speaker 1: do that. So you're having your third and fourth receivers
Speaker 1: that don't play special teams. You kind of need that spot,
Speaker 1: you know. And Switzer is kind of he's kind of
Speaker 1: got his own role. Well can we throw Jonathan Cooper
Speaker 1: on there? Yeah? And I guess that's where we're at
Speaker 1: right now. We got four guys. We feel pretty certain
Speaker 1: that there are four spots that will be down. You're
Speaker 1: kind of working for those other three spots between guys
Speaker 1: like Stephen Paia, maybe Chaz Green, maybe Cooper, maybe Taco
Speaker 1: possibly a guy like a Noah Brown if you want
Speaker 1: to get really crazy, maybe a Cavon phrase like, there
Speaker 1: are there are those kind of guys that you have
Speaker 1: to kind of start thinking about it. But you've got
Speaker 1: three spots. So who are those three guys you think
Speaker 1: that possibly end up being down this week? Well, i'm
Speaker 1: I'm I think Cooper needs to sit. If Chaz Green
Speaker 1: is full, he's he's I think he's your better starting
Speaker 1: left guard. I know Aaron Donald wasn't a great matchup
Speaker 1: for anybody, but I also with with Tyrn Smith having
Speaker 1: back and back problems, Byron Bell can't sit. Um, Cooper's
Speaker 1: the least versatile of all of those kind of in
Speaker 1: between offensive linemen as far as I'm concerned. Joe Looney
Speaker 1: can play center and guard if something were to happen
Speaker 1: at Chazz And if I mean, if chadz is practicing
Speaker 1: full all week, which he is, then I would assume
Speaker 1: he can play. So you know, it's not a knock
Speaker 1: against Cooper though it doesn't. But if I mean, if
Speaker 1: he's full, then he should play. And if he gets hurt,
Speaker 1: then you've got Joe Looney. Yeah, that's my point. Um,
Speaker 1: I think I would try to go eight offensive linemen
Speaker 1: this week if I could. I think that would be
Speaker 1: my lad. I think I would go Noah Brown down
Speaker 1: before I would I would sit eight. I mean I would,
Speaker 1: I would dress eight offensive linemen this game. I think
Speaker 1: we've been saying that though at least I know you
Speaker 1: and me, I know you think all differently. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love knowing him, but again we keep saying that
Speaker 1: and talking about setting him out or making him inactive.
Speaker 1: But the Cowboys aren't. I mean, we haven't seen them
Speaker 1: do that. They seem like they would. They've also, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's because they've had so many injuries
Speaker 1: that they could they could basically keep some guys active
Speaker 1: that but for injury, would probably be inactive. And I
Speaker 1: think Noah Brown's one of those. Now that you're starting
Speaker 1: to clear up your injury reports, some I think it's
Speaker 1: going to have to be some hard decisions, and I
Speaker 1: do think Noah Brown kind of falls in that category. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's a nice to have. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's a necessary right, and that's usually the guys that
Speaker 1: didn't know being inactive. You know what you think about
Speaker 1: it when you lose two linebackers like they did with
Speaker 1: Hitchens and Sean Lee and get down to four active
Speaker 1: guys most teams would have gone to the waiver wire
Speaker 1: or somewhere and picked up a linebacker, which would have
Speaker 1: cut a position like that with Noah Brown, so he
Speaker 1: was fortunate, like you said, to be active in getting
Speaker 1: you know. But but they've only had four active linebackers.
Speaker 1: When Hitchings comes back, they'll have five active linebackers, and
Speaker 1: when Lee comes back, they might have six. Right, So
Speaker 1: something's got to give somewhere, you know. And you talk
Speaker 1: about those special team spots, maybe that's one of those
Speaker 1: special team spots. And that does I think when you
Speaker 1: start talking about guys that can come back and play
Speaker 1: special teams, that affects even a guy like Cavon Frazier,
Speaker 1: who I think his best asset that he's given to
Speaker 1: this team right now is in special teams and that's
Speaker 1: been a little shaky at times. So and also he's
Speaker 1: a guy that becomes a little bit expended a little bit.
Speaker 1: And also with the fact that you know, we're starting
Speaker 1: to hear a little bit that Cheetos doing some things
Speaker 1: some at safety, like like we had anticipated when they
Speaker 1: drafted him. That that's the versatility that he has, so
Speaker 1: he can do some things safety standpoint you know, Xavier
Speaker 1: Woods is starting to earn a little more playing time
Speaker 1: and he's versatile, right right, so he can kind of
Speaker 1: drop down a little bit, so that they look at
Speaker 1: this probably differently than we do because of what Xavier
Speaker 1: Woods and Cheeto what they could do and say, you know,
Speaker 1: we might they might sit two corners if they wanted to.
Speaker 1: I just don't know who they would be. Well, that
Speaker 1: was kind of the reason why I was getting to
Speaker 1: Carol because I think if if Cheeto's back, they do
Speaker 1: have a little flexibility to decide which way they want
Speaker 1: to go. And then remember the last time we saw Carol,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that good. I mean when he played against
Speaker 1: Denver in that first part of the game, most of
Speaker 1: the first half, I mean he was he was having
Speaker 1: some struggles out there. So I just think that's something
Speaker 1: worth considering. But the Packers really don't throw the ball
Speaker 1: that well their receivers and quarterbacks, so that doesn't matter
Speaker 1: matchup for him. Yeah, so is let's let's talk tackle Charlton.
Speaker 1: Any chance that tackle ends up being nadd man out
Speaker 1: this week, I would have I would have absolutely said
Speaker 1: that he will probably be inactive. But y'all are talking
Speaker 1: me into sitting down Stephen Paia, which that would be
Speaker 1: nice for him because it gives him away onto the field.
Speaker 1: So your your bet would be Paya. And who are
Speaker 1: the other two? You still need two more? Did we?
Speaker 1: Did we rule Noah Brown inactive? Well? Yeah, I'm asking you.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, Noah Brown, Paia? Who else? Who's your third? Carol? Carol?
Speaker 1: You would sit Carol harn't been a whatever. I mean
Speaker 1: one of those two probably been a because you can
Speaker 1: save yourself a draft pick and because you paid Carrol
Speaker 1: three million dollars. But I don't have a ton of
Speaker 1: confidence in no one. Carroll. All right? Nick, who are
Speaker 1: your three from that whole group? Um, I would say
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, I'm gonna sit him down. I'm gonna sit Tapper.
Speaker 1: I mean not Tapper, I mean Tacco. Tacco say wow,
Speaker 1: Tacos novel idea. Nick, Yeah, said, I got us on.
Speaker 1: It works Taco is what I'm say. Uh, they're both
Speaker 1: the same. They haven't really done anything, and they probably
Speaker 1: won't this year. But Tacco has a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a chance now. Um he I'm gonna sit him
Speaker 1: for this game. And then I probably would sit Frazier
Speaker 1: do you keep ye. Yeah, yeah, they're I think they're
Speaker 1: just managing him to play these games. He's probably not
Speaker 1: as effective they are. They definitely are. I mean they've
Speaker 1: been saying that, but who you're a defensive lineman now,
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying, Well, you get now you
Speaker 1: have with Irving back, you have Price Irving, and you
Speaker 1: have a Malik, so you really can't have a three
Speaker 1: man rotation without him in the lineup, which they didn't
Speaker 1: have that flexibility before. I don't know if they'll do this,
Speaker 1: but I would totally sit Paya and let again. You
Speaker 1: get a bye week after this, so he's got two
Speaker 1: weeks where he doesn't have to play. Right, It's probably
Speaker 1: not gonna make the injury go away, but at least
Speaker 1: it'll feel better. Yeah, and if something happens, you always
Speaker 1: still have Crawford you can drop down. So I think
Speaker 1: with three guys in the rotation at defensive tackle and
Speaker 1: another guy that can jump in there if you need
Speaker 1: him to, and Taco can play there at times. For
Speaker 1: a millionth time, maybe they should try Taco at tackle
Speaker 1: because the end is not it's not awesome so far,
Speaker 1: so well, we just gotta I think people have to
Speaker 1: stay patient with that one, because I mean, you do
Speaker 1: you said even during the draft show, I remember hearing
Speaker 1: you guys say, this is gonna be a guy that's
Speaker 1: not a ready made You know, I'm not closing the
Speaker 1: book on Taco by any stretch of the imagination. But
Speaker 1: if you could move him to tackle and see if
Speaker 1: he can give you something there might as well. It's
Speaker 1: a long season, it's a long career. Like he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be a right in exclusively for the rest
Speaker 1: of his career, right Amber, Who are you three? Um?
Speaker 1: I would go with Noah Brown Pie. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: I would choose to see the Carol and put Benny
Speaker 1: out there. And I don't care about the money. I just,
Speaker 1: first of all, yeah, not my pocket, but I just
Speaker 1: I don't like what I've seen from Carol. I would
Speaker 1: like to see if Bennett could do any better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So those would be mine. All right, We're gonna take
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Speaker 1: have a call first from Mike in Arizona. Mike, what up? Hey?
Speaker 1: Happy Friday in my hands day Cowboy Break gets Hey,
Speaker 1: what up, dude, congratulations on your nominations. It's awesome you guys.
Speaker 1: Like I said before, you make me a better fan
Speaker 1: or knowledgeable. Um, mister Haleman's keep your objectivity, bro. You're
Speaker 1: not a pessimist. You're a realist. And who cares is
Speaker 1: Joe fum Flower gets his Tommy Johns and the watch.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I appreciate that. Thank you
Speaker 1: for real man. Last thing is you know all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want to talk college basketball, like you know
Speaker 1: how Roy Williams does it call the time out and
Speaker 1: he goes straight through with the clock is taken. He
Speaker 1: doesn't stop for the defense to set itself. Um, this
Speaker 1: cook core leads to too many dream at the end
Speaker 1: when in a playoffs great game, when Dak closed the
Speaker 1: ball the first down, he he stopped the clock. And
Speaker 1: last week he stopped the clock. He killed the downs
Speaker 1: for us. And it wouldn't it be better if they
Speaker 1: had something in their hip pocket him and Dance to
Speaker 1: get something out of that first down, in and out
Speaker 1: instead of just clocking it taking a shot because clusing
Speaker 1: that down, I'm really killed the secured us from a
Speaker 1: playoff game. And Terry kicked that ball and he killed
Speaker 1: us last week, but really optimistic. I love you, treaking
Speaker 1: me to last to this Friday. The baby latist manow Right,
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. I picked my mood up. Can
Speaker 1: you just tell me him? What was the last thing
Speaker 1: he said? I think it was in Spanish. What did
Speaker 1: he say? Did you're here? Right at the end? I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't understand what he said. Well, he's very knowledgeable
Speaker 1: of the shows, and of all the shows. I mean
Speaker 1: just just the Tommy John reference and the Joe from
Speaker 1: flower Mouth. He's watches all the shows. I agree with them.
Speaker 1: One hund about the clock in the ball um. I
Speaker 1: said it to Rob or somebody on the field, I said, everybody, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it was the people in the first row
Speaker 1: heard you. I don't think it was that big a deal.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think I was like that upset
Speaker 1: about it. But I just kind of was like, hmm
Speaker 1: about that. I even thought about that Packers game. Now,
Speaker 1: it might have been Dave sitting next to me, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Because of that very reason. You're trying to go get
Speaker 1: a touchdown. All you need is to be around the
Speaker 1: twenty yard line, and so you can throw it into
Speaker 1: the end zone. You need to get where the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: got last week, I mean last night, to throw it
Speaker 1: into the end zone, and so you need all the
Speaker 1: downs you can get. And I agree with that. And
Speaker 1: if they need to come up with something on that situation,
Speaker 1: some kind of quick out back shoulder fade, and that's
Speaker 1: a perfect time for a back shoulder fade. You don't
Speaker 1: have to be get the goal line to throw that.
Speaker 1: Sell it like you're going deep, which is something you
Speaker 1: can't do at the goal line. Sell it like you're
Speaker 1: going deep. Throw it back shoulder fade, try to get eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten yards to get a bounce. I don't disagree, but
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's very hindsight as twenty twenty especially,
Speaker 1: you know, as great as he was last year and
Speaker 1: as good as he is and as great as he
Speaker 1: can be, Deck's still a young quarterback. He's twenty four.
Speaker 1: He's that what was his twentieth start or something like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't you know, even Jamis Winston's in
Speaker 1: his this is third or fourth season in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that. I don't know. And then you know,
Speaker 1: obviously you know, the Aaron Rodgers is of the world
Speaker 1: can obviously pull that off. Tony Romo had fourteen years
Speaker 1: of experience under his belt by the time he retired,
Speaker 1: so he'll he'll get there. That's you know, if if
Speaker 1: you want your second year starter to spike the ball,
Speaker 1: to get the best play call in mind and just
Speaker 1: figure everything out, it doesn't bother me. I think ideally
Speaker 1: you would handle it differently and maximize your opportunities to
Speaker 1: move the ball. But all of that considered, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to kill them for that. I think he's I
Speaker 1: think Deck's boiled a bunch of people because he played
Speaker 1: so well in his rookie year. I think people forget
Speaker 1: he's just in his second year and the maturation it
Speaker 1: still has to happen in order for him to become
Speaker 1: an elite quarterback. Well, that's it's still vast. That's what
Speaker 1: made this That's what made the storylines all offseason so interesting.
Speaker 1: Is how are you going to follow that up? Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: and unless you're elite, it's hard to follow that up.
Speaker 1: He is a victim of his own success. No, I
Speaker 1: do not feel sorry for him. He was awesome last
Speaker 1: year and that's you know, you set that standard for yourself.
Speaker 1: He has high expectations for himself. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: moping about it. He made a funny joke the other
Speaker 1: day where he was like, you know, somebody was like,
Speaker 1: did your phone blow up because you escape from Aaron Donald?
Speaker 1: And he was like, no, nobody loves you when you lose.
Speaker 1: Like you don't get any text messages when you lose.
Speaker 1: That's the way it works. Yeah, I've been saying that
Speaker 1: all week. It comes with the dinner, like, expectations are high.
Speaker 1: Nobody feels sorry for you when you don't meet him. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I do think he's a victim of his own success,
Speaker 1: but that's that's part of being the starting quarterback for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Feel sorry for Nuke Folk? Oh wow a
Speaker 1: little bit? Yeah, I mean why because that sucks. Like
Speaker 1: that's on him. He can control that. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, He's still a person, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: he feels terrible about it. Like, yeah, yeah, he absolutely does.
Speaker 1: I'm not disputing that. But but you gotta do your job.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're a kicker, you got one job.
Speaker 1: If I don't do my job and I get fired,
Speaker 1: you can still put all the blame on me and
Speaker 1: still feel sorry for me because I'm going through some
Speaker 1: rough things. I'm losing my job. I gotta you know,
Speaker 1: I got all this stuff to figure out. I probably
Speaker 1: don't feel very good about it. Yes, okay, so let
Speaker 1: me let me rephrase that as a human being, I
Speaker 1: feel sorry for him that he's not doing job well
Speaker 1: as a kicker. But as a kicker, you gotta do
Speaker 1: your job. Like you were saying about the quarterback, you
Speaker 1: just gotta do your job. It's part of it comes
Speaker 1: with the with the mill. You know, when when I
Speaker 1: was when back in like the eighties, when I was
Speaker 1: still you know, watching young Cowboy fan and Joe thiseman
Speaker 1: got in the booth like he's horrible, like not like
Speaker 1: Joe thisman mainly because he was just the quarterback of
Speaker 1: the Red Skins. It doesn't matter if he was good,
Speaker 1: Phil Sims, no one liked him because you didn't really
Speaker 1: like him as a quarterback. So if you don't really
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys and didn't like Tony Romo, then you
Speaker 1: probably don't like Tony Romo as the announcer. But if
Speaker 1: you watch the last night, the last drive of the game,
Speaker 1: like you can see exactly what a quarterback is thinking there,
Speaker 1: And I thought it was brilliance. I mean, I thought
Speaker 1: him saying, okay, they're they're fine, They're fine, They're gonna
Speaker 1: spike you with three seconds to go, and it was
Speaker 1: already twelve and by the time Winston finally got it
Speaker 1: down his three seconds exactly. You know, he's sitting there
Speaker 1: calling everything. You just you got into the mindset of
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the two minute drill, which was something
Speaker 1: that Tony did very well. That was something he was
Speaker 1: really good at. It was probably the best time the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator was calling plays when he was there, because
Speaker 1: he was the offensive coordinator, And I just thought it
Speaker 1: was amazing. Now, if you don't like Tony and all that,
Speaker 1: then you're probably gonna be like, dah, this guy he
Speaker 1: talks too much and he tries to be too smart
Speaker 1: and all that. But I thought it was great last night,
Speaker 1: that last drive of the game. Did you see that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, to be honestly, I think the whole game.
Speaker 1: I love listening to here. Yeah. He's really good to
Speaker 1: take because it again, you're what I like about it
Speaker 1: is he takes you inside the game and gives you opinions,
Speaker 1: and I don't think everybody does this well. Gives you
Speaker 1: opinions that you wouldn't know otherwise about what's happening on
Speaker 1: the field in the huddle as there, what the quarterback seeing,
Speaker 1: and what he's thinking, you know, those are kind of things.
Speaker 1: I think that's an extra dimension to him being a commentator.
Speaker 1: I thought the two minute drill stuff was fantastic. I
Speaker 1: think his obvious his expertise is amazing, and he definitely
Speaker 1: teaches you stuff about the game. I think he probably
Speaker 1: needs to learn not to like step all over the
Speaker 1: rest of the broadcast because he and I think he
Speaker 1: just gets so excited like that's experienced. Though. I think
Speaker 1: he likes what he's doing and it's fun, but he
Speaker 1: can kind of dominate it at times where he doesn't
Speaker 1: need to. And what was the other thing I was
Speaker 1: going to say, Oh, I get that. It's really impressive.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I could do it like I don't
Speaker 1: need you to predict every play well, and not only
Speaker 1: like he's wrong sometimes he kept doing it. On the
Speaker 1: last drive last night for the Patriots, he was like,
Speaker 1: all right, they're gonna motion a guy. This is going
Speaker 1: to be a screen and then Brady took a shot downfield,
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, you're not always right,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I don't care that you know what's coming.
Speaker 1: I want you to explain why they did it after
Speaker 1: it's over, right, or explain why you think this is
Speaker 1: this would be a good play right here, because not
Speaker 1: necessarily as a here I'm predicting the play. Let's play
Speaker 1: predict the play, right, I get what you're saying, so
Speaker 1: right when the snap's going on, right to be talking
Speaker 1: over it like that, I mean, just like at a
Speaker 1: time out. All right's third and seven. What are you
Speaker 1: thinking here? I think you know, say it there. That's great,
Speaker 1: but not like based off what he sees and you know,
Speaker 1: and he's considering that he's a month into the job, though,
Speaker 1: I think he's fantastic. Yeah, he'll learn a lot over
Speaker 1: this season. He will get better. NANCE did kind of
Speaker 1: call him out on one because there was like a holding.
Speaker 1: Looked like there's a flag on a punt return, which
Speaker 1: is always coming back, but in this case, it was
Speaker 1: a It was a call on the kicking team, and
Speaker 1: Brady goes up to the ref and Brady's pointing this way,
Speaker 1: you know, So then Tony's like, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say. This is gonna be against the bait, against
Speaker 1: the Bucks. And Jim Nance was like, you know, I
Speaker 1: see that too, Tony. I can see Brady, You're not
Speaker 1: that smart. If I was not that smart, Nance in
Speaker 1: week one was probably like this is incredible. He predicts everything,
Speaker 1: and by week five he's like all right, all right, Tony, cool,
Speaker 1: thank you. Let me write this down predicting what so
Speaker 1: what's going to happen here? Yeah, all right, let's let's
Speaker 1: get to some more questions. We got a call from
Speaker 1: Isaac and Houston. Isaac, what up, Hey guys, good morning.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to talk about Zeke for a moment. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, with this whole legal case surrounding him, it's
Speaker 1: easy for US fans just a few players as you
Speaker 1: know NFL Madden character. But if you think about it
Speaker 1: from obviously, he's a human being who deals with this
Speaker 1: legal situation outside of his regular work schedule, which is
Speaker 1: probably insane. That being said, his performance over the past
Speaker 1: you know, four weeks has obviously been a lot lower
Speaker 1: than it was last year based upon simply performance, not
Speaker 1: necessarily you know, Zeke's reputation, etc. Would it be a
Speaker 1: fair argument to say that it might have been and
Speaker 1: almost better to simply have Zeke serve his his suspension
Speaker 1: right at the beginning of the season versus drag on.
Speaker 1: Now he's you know, it's impacted him at least it
Speaker 1: looks like it's impacted him throughout this part of the
Speaker 1: season so far. So I'll hang up and less of
Speaker 1: the answer. Hey, Isaac, Isaac, real quick before you go,
Speaker 1: So are you are you asserting that you think that
Speaker 1: most of the problems in the running game are because
Speaker 1: of Zeke and not because of the offensive line? Um? No,
Speaker 1: I definitely wouldn't say most of them. Um, but I
Speaker 1: do I do in my opinion, it does look somewhat like, um,
Speaker 1: it has been his because we have seen um last year.
Speaker 1: You know, he would break some tackles even behind the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and gain at least two or three yards. Um.
Speaker 1: But there may have been somewhat of a factor that
Speaker 1: played into this legal situation, him just being exhausted. All right,
Speaker 1: thanks for the carmen. You guys agree. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and label that a pretty big stretch.
Speaker 1: First of all, and this goes back to what we
Speaker 1: used to argue about a training camp. You know, it's
Speaker 1: funny because the caller said, you have to think of
Speaker 1: players as more than real life Madden players. But as
Speaker 1: far I mean, as far as we are to understand it,
Speaker 1: the whole reason he's not suspended right now is because
Speaker 1: he's adamant that he didn't do anything wrong, and so
Speaker 1: he's fighting this literally, I mean, he's taking this into
Speaker 1: other states and the federal level to try to fight
Speaker 1: for what he thinks is right, which is that he
Speaker 1: didn't do anything in the NFL's investigation process was flawed.
Speaker 1: So to just say, you know, take the suspension, sit down,
Speaker 1: don't worry about this, just admit that you did all
Speaker 1: these heinous things, and then come back and this won't
Speaker 1: be a problem, which, first of all, that's absurd because
Speaker 1: this will still be a problem. You'll still have that
Speaker 1: following you. If you admit to it and serve your suspension,
Speaker 1: you will be a pariah in the media, in the
Speaker 1: fan base, so it doesn't just go away because you
Speaker 1: sit down for six weeks. On top of that, how
Speaker 1: absurd do you sound in August saying well, maybe the
Speaker 1: team will just be better if Zeke sits down and
Speaker 1: doesn't play. I mean, even as much as the running
Speaker 1: game has struggled, he's still one of your five best players.
Speaker 1: Nicko will argue that he's your best player, So that
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Yes, the run game has struggled,
Speaker 1: it's like middle of I didn't even realize it was
Speaker 1: as bad as it's been. It's the middle of the pack.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you this question. If it's fourteenth
Speaker 1: in the league, I mean, the numbers are there, you
Speaker 1: can go look at it. Yeah, I get that. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying. And my point I was gonna make is
Speaker 1: if Denver is not included in that, because that number
Speaker 1: takes that average down so much. No, no, no no, no no.
Speaker 1: It's the difference between an average and a median, right.
Speaker 1: That's why you do the two different calculations. It's because
Speaker 1: you're trying to look at outlies and say how much
Speaker 1: did the outlier effect. You're the guy, You're the guy
Speaker 1: that hates when the fan takes I'm not saying take
Speaker 1: it out. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: is when you factor in the fact that that was
Speaker 1: such a low production, My question is has the Running
Speaker 1: game been bad overall or did you have a really
Speaker 1: bad game there? That's my question. Even in the games
Speaker 1: where it hasn't been that bad, it hasn't been on
Speaker 1: the level it was. Okay, that's fair, but I don't
Speaker 1: know that it's been as bad as saying the running
Speaker 1: game has struggled. I think it had a game with
Speaker 1: a running game struggled. I think last game they ran
Speaker 1: the ball really effective. And you were the one personally,
Speaker 1: you were the one that has said over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks that you look at those other three
Speaker 1: weeks and overall this running game has been pretty good.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you were the one to say it
Speaker 1: has been effective. It was second best in the league
Speaker 1: last year. Come down there. No, I'm just saying like
Speaker 1: he doesn't appreciate that I called him out for doing
Speaker 1: what he called that guy out for to day. That's
Speaker 1: not calling me out. I'm saying that you're the one
Speaker 1: that said the running game has been good, it has
Speaker 1: been effective. It has not been dominant. It was no,
Speaker 1: you just said it was ineffective. It was. It has
Speaker 1: not been up to the level that you expect of it.
Speaker 1: It has not been up to the level that it
Speaker 1: needs to be for this team to be a playoff
Speaker 1: target target. It's not a moving target. If the if
Speaker 1: this team and this offense are going to reach the
Speaker 1: level they need to the point where they're winning ten, eleven,
Speaker 1: twelve games and going to the playoffs, it has not
Speaker 1: been affect. It has been good too, better than good
Speaker 1: on an NFL level. But this team was vastly better
Speaker 1: than that at running the ball last year. Would you
Speaker 1: agree with that? Yes, I agree with all right, that's
Speaker 1: not what you said at first, but I agree with
Speaker 1: that they have struggled again. You can take this back
Speaker 1: to the deck thing. They have struggled up to what
Speaker 1: the level of expectation was. I think you can place
Speaker 1: the blame on a lot of different people for that.
Speaker 1: I don't really and I'm sure the legal thing is
Speaker 1: weighing on Zeke, but I don't really buy that, like
Speaker 1: he's not breaking tackles in the backfield or he's not
Speaker 1: hitting the hole the right way because he's so exhausted
Speaker 1: from the legal thing. If I know anything about athletes,
Speaker 1: he probably blocks that out the minute he gets to
Speaker 1: the stadium on Sunday. That's not what it's about. Always
Speaker 1: It's not always about getting to the stadium. It's about
Speaker 1: are you doing what you need to do on Wednesday
Speaker 1: night to stay up here and look at the tape
Speaker 1: and watch what the Broncos are doing? And are you
Speaker 1: just saying you know what everyone else is leaving, I'm leaving,
Speaker 1: I'm good and I'm good, or I gotta go run
Speaker 1: over here, I gotta go meet with my cart or whatever.
Speaker 1: I've said it a thousand times. I mean, teams don't
Speaker 1: get beat on Sunday. They could beat on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Speaker 1: And you're running back. I mean, is he Is he
Speaker 1: preparing everything that he needs to prepare? And I think
Speaker 1: that there's no way that this thing is not weighing
Speaker 1: on him. But I don't understand the caller really to say, well,
Speaker 1: what should they have done things differently? Or is it
Speaker 1: just was it? More like do you think it would
Speaker 1: have been better to get it knocked out? But at
Speaker 1: to Dave's point, you don't believe that you should be there.
Speaker 1: If you don't believe you should be in this situation,
Speaker 1: then you are going to fight it. We saw yesterday
Speaker 1: in the day before things matter, you make a decision
Speaker 1: and you think you're being funny or whatever, and it matters.
Speaker 1: It matters to sponsors. And so that's for that comment.
Speaker 1: Talking about new about cam Newton's comment and how one
Speaker 1: of the sponsors and one of his sponsors dropped him.
Speaker 1: So what do you really want to put if you
Speaker 1: do think you're you're not guilty of domestic violence and
Speaker 1: domestic you really want to put that on you just
Speaker 1: because I want to get this out of the way. No,
Speaker 1: that doesn't work like that, Okay, And I get all that. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I get all that, But at the same and I
Speaker 1: don't know how the whole legal thing works out, how
Speaker 1: the process is and all that, but once it's submitted
Speaker 1: to a court or something, there's nothing more you're really doing.
Speaker 1: You're waiting for a response. So it's not like he's
Speaker 1: sitting at home or whatever, going every day, just sitting
Speaker 1: and this whole thing is waiting on him. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. I mean, there's still strategy that
Speaker 1: they have to talk about it and he has to
Speaker 1: deal with his attorneys on Okay, So if this happens,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this, and there's this briefing that we
Speaker 1: want to file, and we think that the NFL is
Speaker 1: going to do this, or if they do this, then
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this. Yeah, before it's out right now,
Speaker 1: I mean, how much of that are you still doing? Well,
Speaker 1: they're still preparing. They still have a case that they're
Speaker 1: preparing for because if the court says, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep this stay in place, whether they say it that
Speaker 1: or not, they're still going to at some point a
Speaker 1: court is going to hear this case. So the leg
Speaker 1: the legal guys are still having to be preparing for that.
Speaker 1: And I would assume, I would assume that that Zeke's
Speaker 1: at least somewhat a part of that, because he wants
Speaker 1: to know what is his legal defense, Like what are
Speaker 1: y'all want to say? Say, I'll try to get me
Speaker 1: out of this. I mean, I know he has to
Speaker 1: deal with him, but at this point, how much do
Speaker 1: you really think he is involved in those conversations. I
Speaker 1: don't know. All I could say is, if it were me,
Speaker 1: i'd be very involved because this is my life. If
Speaker 1: it was you, yeah, that's say. I can't speak for him.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know even well, even if
Speaker 1: he's not a part of this at all, And this
Speaker 1: week of all weeks. I mean, the federal court is
Speaker 1: weighing this decision right now, and even if he hasn't
Speaker 1: met with his attorneys and weeks, that's something I'd be
Speaker 1: thinking about a lot, be worried about it. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: would keep me up at night for sure, because that's
Speaker 1: something that affects my livelihood, it affects my personal reputation
Speaker 1: like that would be a hard thing to deal with,
Speaker 1: I think personally for me, just having to deal with
Speaker 1: that mentally of not knowing and knowing that this court
Speaker 1: is deliberating on it, and I get that. I just
Speaker 1: think if it's something that's I mean, at this point,
Speaker 1: it's out of your hands. So when it's like that,
Speaker 1: are you really going around the whole day with that
Speaker 1: whole thing just circling your head twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That hasn't happened to me. I'm just
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's just my assumption of things. I
Speaker 1: don't if I'm trying to put myself into that situation,
Speaker 1: and at this point, I don't think I would be
Speaker 1: going around all day thinking about that. I would try
Speaker 1: to focus on the support in the game, try to focus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would, but I will, I will go back to
Speaker 1: you and give you credit to what you just said
Speaker 1: a minute ago, which is and I know right, and
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't mean this to sound condescending or
Speaker 1: dismissive toward fans, but we just answered this on the
Speaker 1: mail back to you, know Lyle Collins at right tackle
Speaker 1: like he hasn't played like an all pro, so a
Speaker 1: lot of people want to move him back to guard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's just that it's that quick turnaround attitude where
Speaker 1: it's like, well it's it doesn't look as good as
Speaker 1: it did, so fix it. Move it back to what
Speaker 1: I think it might be so that it can look
Speaker 1: good again. Fix it now, now, now, now, now, now,
Speaker 1: whatever has to be done to make it look better,
Speaker 1: now do that. As opposed to it's this is a
Speaker 1: hard league to play in. You got to grind some
Speaker 1: stuff out, You gotta figure some things out. This line
Speaker 1: has to figure out how to work with each other,
Speaker 1: because two fifths of it is not the same. You're
Speaker 1: running back has all kinds of baggage that he's trying
Speaker 1: to sort through right now. Maybe he's distracted, maybe he's
Speaker 1: not all there, Maybe he just isn't seeing it as well,
Speaker 1: maybe defenses are doing things that he's not used to,
Speaker 1: and all of that considered, they are still running the
Speaker 1: ball fairly well compared to most of the teams in
Speaker 1: the league. It does not look as amazing as it
Speaker 1: did last year, and I think which is hard to
Speaker 1: do because they had a phenomenal year. Everybody would agree
Speaker 1: that that's kind of a bummer because it's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun to watch them run for two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty yards per game. But the fact that they're only
Speaker 1: running for one hundred and forty year, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: that's not the end of the world one month into
Speaker 1: a sixteen game season. So you know, as much as
Speaker 1: it might that knee jerk reaction to say fix it,
Speaker 1: change it, whatever you got to do, like, that's usually
Speaker 1: not the best way to go about these things. The
Speaker 1: best way to go about these things is to evaluate it,
Speaker 1: keep working at it, give everybody some time to kind
Speaker 1: of let it come together and just take some breaths.
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Speaker 1: We only have about eight minutes left from the show
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll get some predictions from some fans. You
Speaker 1: guys call us two one four eight seven to twenty
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Speaker 1: Let's start with Amber today. Amber, give us a crazy prediction,
Speaker 1: and what's your prediction for the game. Let's see, um,
Speaker 1: let me go hi forty three forty Packers. My crazy
Speaker 1: prediction would be that the Cowboys win. And she's hedging
Speaker 1: her bets. You can one of them, right, yeah, one
Speaker 1: of them? Right? Better? Blue? I mean okay, moving on, um,
Speaker 1: crazy prediction Cowboys win? Does Bryant catches eighty five percent
Speaker 1: of his passes. He scores two touchdown, one gets called back,
Speaker 1: but the last touchdown he gets that's a winning touchdown
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. So you think the Packers are gonna win,
Speaker 1: but you think yes, But I'm going to my crazy prediction.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Okay, this is my final score. Predictions contradict
Speaker 1: each other. You're just trying to make sure you'll be
Speaker 1: right one way or the other on Monday. Okay, Amber
Speaker 1: ed Vegas, red black. That's what you do. That's what
Speaker 1: I learned. Yeah, you put him on most sides. Do
Speaker 1: you get something? All right? Look all right, Dave Um.
Speaker 1: This is a good segue since we just wind about
Speaker 1: the running game for ten minutes before the break. I
Speaker 1: think this will be the most Cowboys like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: running game will look or has looked all year. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking one one forty one for Ezekiel and something like
Speaker 1: you know, one eighty or one ninety. As a team.
Speaker 1: I don't think it will be enough. I think Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is special, and I think the Packers will win
Speaker 1: thirty one twenty eight, right all right, Niki? Now I
Speaker 1: think um crazy prediction is that Jeff Heath will have
Speaker 1: another interception off of Aaron Rodgers and we'll be like, man,
Speaker 1: he needs to face him all the time, because if
Speaker 1: you face him, you'll get it picks. I think you'll
Speaker 1: get an interception. I do think the running game will
Speaker 1: will will fare well in this game, and I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going to win. I'm gonna say twenty
Speaker 1: seven to twenty one, and that's a later touchdown by
Speaker 1: the Packers. I think the Cowboys are gonna control the game.
Speaker 1: They're gonna win. I think injuries are going to be
Speaker 1: an issue for Green Bay more than they will be
Speaker 1: for Dallas. And I think you'll see some energy and
Speaker 1: that's the a and we have not seen. We definitely
Speaker 1: didn't see last a week. But they didn't give them
Speaker 1: any reason too. I think this will be a big game.
Speaker 1: A lot of Packer fans, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: Cowboy fans. It'll be exciting. I think Dallas will win
Speaker 1: it all right. My crazy prediction is this Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: will get five sacks with the return of David Irving. Prediction,
Speaker 1: they will get a ton of sacks and it will
Speaker 1: feel like they are just beating up on Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers will still do his thing, but they're gonna
Speaker 1: They're gonna get a lot of sacks on him. And
Speaker 1: I actually think the defense will score this week. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's an interception or fumble or what,
Speaker 1: but I think defense is going to score. And I
Speaker 1: think that's going to be ultimately how the Cowboys win
Speaker 1: this game. It's because they're gonna need some help from
Speaker 1: defense and our special teams to win this game. I
Speaker 1: think they end up winning though at home thirty eight
Speaker 1: thirty three over Green Bay. If I will say this,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys win this game, it is because this
Speaker 1: pass rush really gets after this Green Bay line, which
Speaker 1: looks like it will again be depleted. Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of the ball quick, so they gotta
Speaker 1: be good. Um, I think you know. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: think the secondary is probably better than it gets credit for.
Speaker 1: But they're not gonna beat Rogers and these receivers head up.
Speaker 1: So if they're If the Cowboys win, um, it's because
Speaker 1: the pass rush doesn't give Rogers any room to do it.
Speaker 1: And as a part of that, if they can force
Speaker 1: him into some bad decisions or hit him and make
Speaker 1: the ball come loose and right. That's how you beat
Speaker 1: this team, is that you're gonna have to really harass Rogers.
Speaker 1: Because even with that, Rogers still gonna do his thing.
Speaker 1: He's still gonna get yards, he's still gonna get touchdowns.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna have to harass him enough to where
Speaker 1: they slow him down on some of those drives and
Speaker 1: get a short feel for the offense. At times, I
Speaker 1: do think the offense is gonna better. I'll give you
Speaker 1: nick on that. I think this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: good game for the offense. So for a four person show,
Speaker 1: we have three picks for the Cowboys and two for
Speaker 1: the Packers. That's true, four persons show person show. Didn't
Speaker 1: think that was possible, but hey it is. It can happen.
Speaker 1: Let me think can happen on this show. We know
Speaker 1: one person's gonna be right on the money, and she
Speaker 1: will brag about it. Oh yeah during the I'm sure
Speaker 1: in the press box. We won't even be out of
Speaker 1: the press box yet she's gonna be already like this.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, this is a game that I have
Speaker 1: struggled to pick. Who's gonna win. Clearly, yes, clearly, clearly
Speaker 1: I just again, just going up against Aaron Rodgers, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be really difficult to beat him, just because of
Speaker 1: everything that he can do. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I think that the Cowboys, they're looking better health wise.
Speaker 1: They they can do things to stop them. But I
Speaker 1: just don't think it'll be enough. I don't That's why. Whatever,
Speaker 1: So you're picking the Packers. But crazy prediction is okay, reality,
Speaker 1: she's kind of reality is Packers win? Crazy prediction here
Speaker 1: if we get yeah, that's crazy she's got. She's standing
Speaker 1: on top of the fence and just like waiting to
Speaker 1: see which side she needs to jump over on it,
Speaker 1: and she'll do it after the game. I just said
Speaker 1: it reality now in a in a crazy world, in
Speaker 1: my head, I would go with the Cowboys. This sounds
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys are like I don't know that, like
Speaker 1: expected to lose by like two touchdowns, which they are
Speaker 1: still favored, just still favorite by two. I thought about
Speaker 1: that though they're favored by two, which means there's home
Speaker 1: field advantage typically gives you three or four points. So
Speaker 1: the oddsmakers are saying the Packers are a little bit bad,
Speaker 1: and what what people forget? The oddsmakers don't set that
Speaker 1: based upon necessarily who they think is gonna win. No,
Speaker 1: that's the odds based on what'll make you get people
Speaker 1: to bet right. So this could be one of those
Speaker 1: situations where they know, hey, yeah, you favor the Packers.
Speaker 1: Not many people are necessarily going to bet on that
Speaker 1: you favor the Cowboys. You might get a lot more action.
Speaker 1: So who knows. All right, let's uh real quick, let's
Speaker 1: get one more question. We gotta call from Rob in Vegas. Rob,
Speaker 1: what up? Rob? You there? I'm here, all right? What
Speaker 1: you got crazy? I think the Cowboys win thirty four thirty.
Speaker 1: I think this is uh. I think it's a very
Speaker 1: important game for the Cowboys just to show that they
Speaker 1: could beat a good team. I mean, you beat the Giants,
Speaker 1: they haven't won a game, and you beat Arizona, which
Speaker 1: isn't good. So I think they have to proof to themselves.
Speaker 1: They're at home. Let you let the fans down. And
Speaker 1: I think he gave one away last week. I think
Speaker 1: the defense is better prepared to beat them this year
Speaker 1: compared to lash year because of I think they got
Speaker 1: more athleticism in the back end, and I think they
Speaker 1: got a better pass rush, and I disagree with David.
Speaker 1: If this team, if Zeke has one hundred forty yards
Speaker 1: rushing and they lose, then you really better be concerned.
Speaker 1: But I think this is a game where Zeke is
Speaker 1: going to do just about everything catching the ball. I
Speaker 1: think he's in better shape now. When he first started,
Speaker 1: I think he was a little heavy, you know, a
Speaker 1: week one, week two, he looks then a little more explosive. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of stress. Some people lead, who knows,
Speaker 1: And I just think I think the Cowboys need this
Speaker 1: game just for them their mind going to the buy.
Speaker 1: And that's my predictions. Thirty four thirty All right, thanks
Speaker 1: for the call. We will see this. They ran for
Speaker 1: one ninety against the Rams and last year so oh no,
Speaker 1: m yeah, and lost. But you know, here's the other
Speaker 1: thing I just thought about as he was talking. If
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season somebody told you after
Speaker 1: the first five weeks Cowboys would be three and two,
Speaker 1: would you say that's realistic, that's probably the way it's
Speaker 1: going to go. Ish, Yeah, that's you look at the
Speaker 1: first month and I wouldn't have said that one of
Speaker 1: the losses would come to the Ram. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess the point I'm making is he said you gave
Speaker 1: away one of the Rams. Well, I think most people
Speaker 1: probably agree that. They think they thought that if there
Speaker 1: were going to be games that they would lose in
Speaker 1: this first in the first five games, the Packers would
Speaker 1: be one of them. So you have an opportunity maybe
Speaker 1: still won back if you have that mindset. I guess
Speaker 1: I wrote that in my column yesterday, is you gave
Speaker 1: away one that you should have won, which means you
Speaker 1: have to step still one you're probably not supposed to.
Speaker 1: But talking about the first five or six games of
Speaker 1: the year, you didn't know you were going to have Zeke,
Speaker 1: so I didn't If you didn't have Zeke, what were
Speaker 1: you expecting three and two, three and three? I don't know?
Speaker 1: All right, we will find out on Sunday kick time
Speaker 1: round three thirty or so. Check it out. When Monday,
Speaker 1: we'll be back to tell you what went right and
Speaker 1: what went wrong for the Cowboys. Till then, for Nick Eatram,
Speaker 1: Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia, I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been
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