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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Susy November thirtieth, twenty twenty one, season seventeen,
Speaker 1: episode number seventy. Welcome to the latest edition of The
Speaker 1: Break Real, Live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At
Speaker 1: the start, we've got a few things we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into today. We're gonna be joined by Bucky Brooks in
Speaker 1: our second segment to talk about the New Orleans Saints
Speaker 1: versus the Cowboys. We got some big picture storylines we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about. We've got a big injury list slash
Speaker 1: COVID list slash suspension list that we'll need to go through.
Speaker 1: Even a player added this morning to and Coach McCarthy's
Speaker 1: press conference that he just did a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1: So let's start there. Let's talk first about some injuries.
Speaker 1: Let's start with a Mariy Cooper. What are we hearing
Speaker 1: about a Mariy Cooper at this point in his return
Speaker 1: from COVID. Marie Cooper might be hard pressed to play
Speaker 1: in this game. That's just me reading the tea leaves.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said this morning, he's back in the building,
Speaker 1: but he's not feeling the best. Sounds like he's still
Speaker 1: got some lingering effects, which Amber and I were just
Speaker 1: talking about this on the way downstairs. As far as
Speaker 1: I understand it, I have not knock on Wood contracted
Speaker 1: COVID during this entire thing. But you can have symptoms
Speaker 1: that persist after you stop testing negative for some people
Speaker 1: for a long Yeah, sure, like it can stick with
Speaker 1: you for a long time. Maybe if he talked about
Speaker 1: that last year when he had COVID, he said he
Speaker 1: felt some things after he was past COVID, right, So
Speaker 1: I don't know this for sure, but I have a
Speaker 1: hard time believing they would let him back in the
Speaker 1: building if he was COVID positive. But you can have
Speaker 1: those symptoms after you stop testing positive, So that sounds
Speaker 1: like something he's dealing with. They have a practice today,
Speaker 1: McCarthy said, He's TBD. They do. They do a mock
Speaker 1: game sort of walk through practice tomorrow before they leave town,
Speaker 1: and Mike said, if he can't do something tomorrow, then
Speaker 1: he probably won't play in this game, So we'll see.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones said this morning that he thought Amari would
Speaker 1: be good to go, but Jerry's usually Jerry's not even
Speaker 1: half glass. He's not even glass half full. He's just glassful.
Speaker 1: He's just like, yeah, we're good. Amar's going to play,
Speaker 1: But I don't feel good about it right now on
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. It makes me and I doubt you guys
Speaker 1: have the answer to this. But going back to that
Speaker 1: and how cautious they are being currently with all these
Speaker 1: new cases are in test being positive to have popped
Speaker 1: up recently, with him testing negative and then having lingering
Speaker 1: effects of like not feeling too well or a little
Speaker 1: cough here and there, do you do you still risk it?
Speaker 1: Like you know, I don't know even if you're still
Speaker 1: testing negative, Do you still want him or are you
Speaker 1: being extremely extra cautious at least this week and just
Speaker 1: keep him out? Well, I would assume. I would assume
Speaker 1: at this point he's beyond the point of being contagious.
Speaker 1: That's why they're letting him back in the building now.
Speaker 1: As Day said, that doesn't mean he's not necessarily that
Speaker 1: he's necessarily feeling better. He may still have some lingering effects.
Speaker 1: And then that just becomes a matter of how do
Speaker 1: you feel. It's no different than if you had you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you if you had a cult,
Speaker 1: you know, the flu, you might be past being contagious,
Speaker 1: but you just might not feel good. And then it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of how do you feel. And if
Speaker 1: he feels okay, he plays. If he does, then they
Speaker 1: have to question do they put him out there knowing
Speaker 1: that maybe his conditioning isn't right, maybe isn't feeling up
Speaker 1: to par whatever that might look like. Yeah, and McCarthy
Speaker 1: mentioned that as well, there's a conditioning aspect to it,
Speaker 1: like he needs to get onto a field and run
Speaker 1: some routes and prove that he can feel good. I
Speaker 1: guess it is. It is interesting, though, and I absolutely
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't intend to like make light of
Speaker 1: this virus that has killed so many people and been
Speaker 1: so awful for all of us. But like, if he's
Speaker 1: not contagious and he's just feeling under the weather, like
Speaker 1: if a guy had the flu two years ago, if
Speaker 1: a guy had the flu, we'd be like, ze pack
Speaker 1: and some gatorade. He's gonna play like I've been great
Speaker 1: about that. So it sounds ridiculous to say, like, well,
Speaker 1: he can play through it because it's COVID is this
Speaker 1: awful thing. Like your brain goes to a different place
Speaker 1: when you hear that. But that was something we were
Speaker 1: very comfortable with in the before times, you know. So
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that he needs to play through it
Speaker 1: if he's feeling crappy. But I do kind of think
Speaker 1: about that sometimes, about how just perception can kind of
Speaker 1: change the way that you feel about these sorts of things. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't know, we'll see, but if
Speaker 1: he can't get out and run routes and prove that
Speaker 1: he's just feeling up to it, then he's probably not
Speaker 1: doing you any good anyway. What you have to remember
Speaker 1: in a lot of aspects, COVID is a respiratory illness. Sure,
Speaker 1: So for a guy that's going to go out and
Speaker 1: run basically what's an equivalent to maybe a half marathon,
Speaker 1: I don't know during a game how many miles they run.
Speaker 1: I want to say, I want to say that somebody
Speaker 1: did a study, and it was like seven, eight, maybe
Speaker 1: even nine miles that a receiver would run in the
Speaker 1: course of a game. But I don't know that to
Speaker 1: be sure. I'm just soccer players usually run between six
Speaker 1: and eight and they never stopped and they never stopped running.
Speaker 1: That's but either way, the point they're talking about running
Speaker 1: a lot. The point is you're sprinting a lot, and
Speaker 1: for someone coming off a respiratory disease, if if they
Speaker 1: are still having those effects, they maybe just very difficult
Speaker 1: to do when you're compromised a bit. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Ceedee Lamb. Where is he in his recovery
Speaker 1: and his return that from dry concussion, he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: I feel like that Ceedee Lamb is that's that's overweight.
Speaker 1: He he said he wasn't feeling like himself last week,
Speaker 1: which makes total sense. Um didn't clear his protocol. But
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been full every day this week, says
Speaker 1: he feels fine, and he himself said he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some good news to Marcus Lawrence. Where
Speaker 1: is he supposed to be back? I mean, he says
Speaker 1: he's are they they say he's gonna be back. I
Speaker 1: mean Jerry says he's gonna be back, but I mean
Speaker 1: Jerry said Mary's gonna be back. I fully expect Mary
Speaker 1: to be back. Um, but no, I think Tank is
Speaker 1: gonna play. I don't know how well he'll play or
Speaker 1: how you know his conditioning will be, but he'll be
Speaker 1: out there, and he's gotta be better, I would think
Speaker 1: than the guys that they that they have. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about maybe not Dori's armstrong right away, but
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you're thinking about the guys that
Speaker 1: are rushing in the past or I'm sure he'll give
Speaker 1: him a little bit of a boost there, and then
Speaker 1: over time, I think he'll, you know, two or three games,
Speaker 1: he'll probably get back to his normal self. That's what
Speaker 1: my anticipation is. Yeah, I would imagine you're going to
Speaker 1: have a plan for him. It's been he hasn't He
Speaker 1: played the season opener and nothing else. Didn't have a
Speaker 1: training camp, by the way, so um just has not
Speaker 1: had a ton of opportunity to play football. So I
Speaker 1: would imagine maybe there's a snap count or certain situations
Speaker 1: like I'd be kind of surprised if they just threw
Speaker 1: him out there and let him play sixty five snaps.
Speaker 1: But but but I think he will play. Is there any
Speaker 1: level of concern with Terrell Basham, another defensive end who
Speaker 1: was limited yesterday in practice? Where are we with him?
Speaker 1: You know, when you look at the injury report, you
Speaker 1: don't always look at the guys like that, like, M sorry,
Speaker 1: you gotta starter. He's a starter on I mean, but
Speaker 1: I mean Cedric Wilson have another Yeah, I mean practice
Speaker 1: walked away the other day in a walking boot, and
Speaker 1: he didn't practice. And if Mary doesn't play, then that
Speaker 1: that's a problem to you. So I mean, I'll be
Speaker 1: honest though I don't think there was a lot of
Speaker 1: questions about Bashaim. Yeah, where he is well? And I
Speaker 1: was fortunate enough to be our pool reporter at practice. Okay,
Speaker 1: he was out there. They were They were playing cash money,
Speaker 1: all the old all the good old stuff by the way,
Speaker 1: like the old New Orleans, the old Juvie, the old Wayne,
Speaker 1: like before a million. He was bad. We don't stop it.
Speaker 1: But what But my point is Terrell Basham was like
Speaker 1: dance into the music and having good He looked like
Speaker 1: he took second thinking. Okay, the type of play call
Speaker 1: is is this is a design ball you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I think is this creative from major cash Money Millionaires
Speaker 1: taken over for the nine nine and the two thousand.
Speaker 1: It's one of my least favorite things. When you two
Speaker 1: start arguing about rap. It's like, I hate it because
Speaker 1: it's like it's never gonna be settled. It's like a cowboys.
Speaker 1: We don't we don't argue over over hire about what
Speaker 1: we do. Is like we just know that we have
Speaker 1: different tastes, we got different errors. Derek's like stubborn, that's
Speaker 1: all I'm not. I'm just you know, we see hip
Speaker 1: hop music differently, but you were just talking about something
Speaker 1: that we agree on, Like that was pretty good. You
Speaker 1: would cash money back, You would think that y'all would
Speaker 1: see it differently. Yeah, maybe, well maybe not if you
Speaker 1: know Dave. Derek just Derek just thinks like nothing good
Speaker 1: has happened since like what two thousand and two night
Speaker 1: hip hope, Very little has happened dude since late ridiculous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous, but it's it's every once in a while
Speaker 1: something pops up. I was actually gonna ask Nick, do
Speaker 1: you have any lyrics you want through out there from
Speaker 1: the nineties cash money or Wayne or like you know
Speaker 1: nineties hip hop. No, not really, you don't have anything
Speaker 1: just like no, if it's not, I mean I say
Speaker 1: last week you know and which By the way, that
Speaker 1: song has the greatest rap lyric of all time California
Speaker 1: love it in that second verse there, that's it, though
Speaker 1: you want to tell everybody what it is class, you
Speaker 1: guys know what it is? Okay, all right, cool, um,
Speaker 1: let's let's say I don't say the H word on
Speaker 1: the air. Okay, go ahead, sure, let's talk about Zeke Elliott.
Speaker 1: He is a he is not really on the injury port,
Speaker 1: not really injured per se, but certainly not feeling great.
Speaker 1: Hasn't been great, got a little bit of a I
Speaker 1: wouldn't call it a rest last week, but certainly wasn't
Speaker 1: playing as many snaps as he's played in most other
Speaker 1: games this year. Where you guys, where you guys sit
Speaker 1: with regards to what's happening to Zeke right now? Should
Speaker 1: the Cowboys look at maybe having another week, Well, maybe
Speaker 1: they do less with him. It sounds like they're planning
Speaker 1: to do more. But what are your thoughts on where
Speaker 1: he is right now? My opinion about this whole thing
Speaker 1: hasn't changed this entire time. I know he's hurting, I
Speaker 1: know he's probably compromised, But if he wasn't feeling up
Speaker 1: to it, then I would say, by all, of course,
Speaker 1: sit down. But like he he keeps saying the same thing.
Speaker 1: He's gonna got through it. He's got ways to get
Speaker 1: through it, and they need him. He's I don't really
Speaker 1: care as much about his explosiveness. Like he's too valuable
Speaker 1: as an all around player. I don't want Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: and Corey clement In pass pro all night against this
Speaker 1: defense on the road in an environment where it's going
Speaker 1: to be loud and you don't have the benefit of
Speaker 1: being able to communicate. Hell, no, I need zeke In.
Speaker 1: There's protecting like he does too much. He's been underrated
Speaker 1: as a receiver this year. They're not always great catches,
Speaker 1: but like the number of times he's bailed Dack out
Speaker 1: with some great catches, some of the best of his
Speaker 1: career in my opinion. No, he's too valuable as an
Speaker 1: all around player to sit. If he doesn't absolutely need
Speaker 1: to sit. They've got three to four days off when
Speaker 1: this is over, Like they're not going to be back
Speaker 1: on a field after this game. Until Wednesday. That's so
Speaker 1: from Thursday night until it is. It's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: And McCarthy has specified like he's going to do everything
Speaker 1: he can to give them as much time. So live
Speaker 1: in the cold tub, get some acupuncture, whatever it is
Speaker 1: that you got to do over the weekend, do it.
Speaker 1: But I need Zeke in this game. Real quick talk
Speaker 1: about Tristan Hill. He gets to amended two games. I honestly,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know this happened until it was probably
Speaker 1: the next day when I saw the video on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Did you guys see it happening? What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on him being suspended and what happened there at the
Speaker 1: end of the game versus the eraiders. I mean, he
Speaker 1: punched a guy in the face, that's in the face, then, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then he didn't get punched back. Obviously that's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. He made sure that didn't happen, so he
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I didn't. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't agree with anything that happened there with that, Okay,
Speaker 1: what you don't agree with I don't. I mean, from
Speaker 1: what we know, didn't agree with him punching a guy
Speaker 1: in the face. And then he didn't, you know, then
Speaker 1: he backed away from that obviously. Then the two games
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense for what we know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: see Kadarius Tony hit Demonte Casey in the face and
Speaker 1: he didn't get anything. Um, you know, the Chiefs guy,
Speaker 1: as was pointed out upstairs a few minutes ago, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna steal the line, but the Chiefs guy, you know,
Speaker 1: basically just sprayed the whole bench, you know, and and
Speaker 1: that that's fine. Nothing there we got. We got to imaginary, well,
Speaker 1: we got a safety on our on our team that
Speaker 1: that got arrested for d WI and we're still figuring
Speaker 1: out what his suspension is going to be. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that's a big deal in our world too,
Speaker 1: So like I just don't understand from what we know
Speaker 1: why that's a two game suspension. But you know, I
Speaker 1: have a problem with it. Typically just got fine first time. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: but here's the deal. I don't think we've seen I
Speaker 1: certainly haven't seen any time that I can can recall
Speaker 1: recently where a player hit another player following the game,
Speaker 1: because I do think there is some difference between during
Speaker 1: the game heat of the moment guy punches another guy,
Speaker 1: you might get ejected in that game, you certainly will
Speaker 1: get fine Richard Sherman and Trump that was, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was after game. And I saw that one that was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was when the Legion of Boom was still the
Speaker 1: Legion of Boom, right, And so yeah, that just doesn't
Speaker 1: happen very often. And I don't even know, do you
Speaker 1: know what happened with Trent Trent Williams And I'm sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was. Two games are not,
Speaker 1: but but I do think there's a difference to be
Speaker 1: made there, and I think there's a legitimate difference in
Speaker 1: me made. What you don't want as a league. You
Speaker 1: don't want guys going after each other after the game's over.
Speaker 1: That can turn into a really big problem really quickly,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of things that happen on the
Speaker 1: field that can turn into that if you allow it too.
Speaker 1: So I could see what that's an issue. Two games
Speaker 1: does still seem kind of see it seems Trent Williams
Speaker 1: got fined eight grand and wasn't sid I mean it
Speaker 1: was it was a playoff game, so it was the
Speaker 1: last game of the year. But still the league has
Speaker 1: never the league has never cared about carrying things over.
Speaker 1: That's I do agree with you. Like the fact that
Speaker 1: it happened after a game. It seemed kind of premeditated,
Speaker 1: like Tristan Hill was kind of hanging out waiting for it.
Speaker 1: But I mean the league's inconsistency with that stuff has
Speaker 1: always been it's just awful. There's no rhyme or reason.
Speaker 1: There's no clearly outlined like reasoning for it. You never
Speaker 1: know it, and it's it's bs honestly, and the players
Speaker 1: probably should have collectively bargained for something better, Like there
Speaker 1: needs to be a panel with like a panel with
Speaker 1: a guy with an arbiter. It needs to be out
Speaker 1: of Goodell's hands. It never will be. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you for that kind of stuff. Is it Goodell who
Speaker 1: actually hands it down? Or does he have someone does
Speaker 1: that in these circumstances, I think there's somebody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I shouldn't pop off too much because I don't
Speaker 1: know the ends. And I thought it was Troy Vincent,
Speaker 1: but I think I think it is. But you know,
Speaker 1: he's not a repeat offender too, which is you know,
Speaker 1: usually stuff like that happens you see with in Dominican
Speaker 1: Sue and issues that he had. It was because it
Speaker 1: was the second time, third time, but I mean Tristan
Speaker 1: Hill hasn't played enough to have you know, well, hold
Speaker 1: on now, I mean hold on, you thinking about the
Speaker 1: alligator get fined for that. I don't remember asking a
Speaker 1: lot of question. That's even a little bit different than
Speaker 1: this kind of situation, like that's kind of you kind
Speaker 1: of can give guys benefit of doubt that he was
Speaker 1: just kind of making a tackle and yeah, whatever, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's very different than walking up to a
Speaker 1: guy after a punch. He was. He was fine seven
Speaker 1: grand for the alligator role last year. So still, I mean,
Speaker 1: two games just seems really steep anything. It's certainly just
Speaker 1: in one punch of a guy. Again, the fact that
Speaker 1: we still haven't heard and maybe never will hear anything
Speaker 1: about Demante CAZy, never nothing. We just sat on pins
Speaker 1: and needles for like two years with the Tyrone Crawford thing,
Speaker 1: and we were like, well, Gus, they're not going to
Speaker 1: do anything. And then five days after Tristan Hill punches
Speaker 1: a guy who's wearing a helmet, they're like, we have
Speaker 1: to act on this right now. I just I don't
Speaker 1: get their methodology at all. Yeah, if I were, if
Speaker 1: I were the players in the next collective bargaining agreement,
Speaker 1: I would definitely say, give me a schedule. I want
Speaker 1: to know this offense, this fine or suspension, and do
Speaker 1: as much as you can to define that so that
Speaker 1: it's very clear, so players know the consequence of whatever
Speaker 1: bad behavior they have. Cowboys might want to try to appeal,
Speaker 1: you know, for him to appeal, they are he's happening today,
Speaker 1: Play that's happening today, and and Mike McCarthy says that
Speaker 1: if they do, if he wins it, then obviously he
Speaker 1: would be available to play today. But I've very rarely
Speaker 1: heard of a player appealing and winning. I've got a
Speaker 1: bridge in Brooklyn to sell anybody who thinks the league's
Speaker 1: gonna overturn that that basically basically means they overturn their
Speaker 1: own decision. You know, it's not about overturning it. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get your true games. What I would try to
Speaker 1: do if I'm the Cowboys there for him, I mean,
Speaker 1: is get back here, you know, play this game so
Speaker 1: Neville Galimore can come back in the next week. And
Speaker 1: then when you do get suspending the Neville Galimore sitting
Speaker 1: there but it sounds like they're gonna hear it today,
Speaker 1: so it ain't gonna sure would be nice. And by
Speaker 1: the way, it's John Runyon who is now there, Johns
Speaker 1: who drops the suspension, And that also may be why
Speaker 1: you're seeing such a different skin to do it. My
Speaker 1: guess is John Runyon wasn't doing it back when Sherent
Speaker 1: Williams had his altercation with Richard Sherman. So as a
Speaker 1: new guy is handling that, he may look at things differently.
Speaker 1: And if there is no you know, no schedule of
Speaker 1: this offense produces this result, then and you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: have in it. He one of the dirtiest players in
Speaker 1: the game. John Right, I don't. I'm not gonna call
Speaker 1: the guy dirty, but he was involved in a lot
Speaker 1: of crap when he was with the Eagles, and he's
Speaker 1: the guys. Let's just get Rashid Wallace to come in
Speaker 1: for the NBA and do that kind of stuff. Led
Speaker 1: the world in technical vouls. Both teams played hard. The
Speaker 1: thing is is Derek Brooks and James Thrash is the
Speaker 1: guy who they have to hear his appeal. By the way, well,
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. James Thrash seems like both stand
Speaker 1: up kind of guys, all right, we're gonna No. I
Speaker 1: just I feel like I need to make it clear,
Speaker 1: like Chris Tristan Hill deserved some punishment for that, Like
Speaker 1: that's not professional, it's not okay, Like that's not what
Speaker 1: I'm defending. And I don't think anybody would and just
Speaker 1: don't understand the NFL is just so off the rails
Speaker 1: when it comes to how they make these decisions. That's all.
Speaker 1: Like I really I don't have a problem with the
Speaker 1: punishment so much as the inconsistency from the league. And
Speaker 1: you know, from from Tristan Hills standpoint, I mean, what
Speaker 1: the what the Cowboys? What we thought from him? You
Speaker 1: know when when he was drafted, it was he he
Speaker 1: could be, you know, a good rusher, he can get
Speaker 1: up the field. He's an active player. He's a little
Speaker 1: bit immature, though we've seen more of that than we've
Speaker 1: seen what we've seen the player that they drafted in
Speaker 1: the second round unfortunately. And that's just my ironic too,
Speaker 1: because no, I agree with you, but he played pretty
Speaker 1: well against three years. I thought like he was active,
Speaker 1: he was so he did he had he had a
Speaker 1: pretty good game and he gets up the field, he's
Speaker 1: not easy to block. Yeah, um, but you know he has.
Speaker 1: It's been mostly the other stuff so far. And this
Speaker 1: is year three, year three. All right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: our first break. When we come back, we're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about this New Orleans team. Just tell me, just as
Speaker 1: a big picture thing, what would you say is the
Speaker 1: biggest reason why they've struggled so much this year. They
Speaker 1: are five and six certainly don't look like the Saints
Speaker 1: teams that were used to seeing regularly. What do you
Speaker 1: think is the biggest reason? Team and transition. You lose
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame quarterback and Drew Brees, you don't
Speaker 1: have an all Pro receiver in Michael Thomas, your star
Speaker 1: running back album Kamari has been getting out the line up,
Speaker 1: so have a lot of different pieces that you're trying
Speaker 1: to juggle and reassemble. And so it's one of those
Speaker 1: deals where Sean Payton can anticipate the team being one way,
Speaker 1: but then you get into the regular season and you
Speaker 1: have to play a different way. And so it just
Speaker 1: hasn't come together for them. And so without Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: when you really look, you see, I mean look, a
Speaker 1: lack of high end personnel at wide receiver. And when
Speaker 1: you compound that by not having Alan Kamark, they just
Speaker 1: don't have the ability to score points like they used to.
Speaker 1: And so the defense has been solid. The defense has
Speaker 1: the potential to do it, but it's different when you
Speaker 1: go from being an offensive centric team to non needing
Speaker 1: to be a defensive or unit team. And I think
Speaker 1: that transition has kind of caused them to kind of
Speaker 1: be a five under squad. Becky, what do you expect
Speaker 1: from the quarterback position? Taysom Hill is supposed to start,
Speaker 1: But do you think that they'll they'll rotate two guys
Speaker 1: in there. Do you think it's just going to be
Speaker 1: his the whole time? I mean, I think if your Dallas,
Speaker 1: you have to be ready for both guys because that's
Speaker 1: how they typically have operated. Taysom Hill has started games
Speaker 1: and the games before as a qv one, but you know,
Speaker 1: like the game changes when he's in there, right. I
Speaker 1: think sometimes when they put him in a quarterback they
Speaker 1: take away some of the superpowers in terms of being
Speaker 1: able to be a change of Swiss Army Knight. I
Speaker 1: think you're expect to see a little more quarterback one game.
Speaker 1: The passing game would be a little more non rhythmic
Speaker 1: because he's not a guy that traditionally throws on time.
Speaker 1: He's not a rhythm passes, and so you have to
Speaker 1: be ready for more improvisational play. G dbs have to
Speaker 1: plaster and stick to their guys more in casey scrambles
Speaker 1: and all that. So it's a change up. But I
Speaker 1: think the good thing for dan Quinn. Has he seen
Speaker 1: him before because he was in a division for a while,
Speaker 1: so he kind of understands who he is as an athlete.
Speaker 1: And then it's about making him be uncomfortable, making him
Speaker 1: as a third of wall more than normal. How nervous
Speaker 1: do you think that Cowboys should be about the Saints
Speaker 1: pass rush? Just looking mainly at numbers, Cam Jordan's not
Speaker 1: putting up those type of numbers were used to. Doesn't
Speaker 1: look like Marcus Davenport's gonna play or he might not play,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, just with how much this group has
Speaker 1: struggled over the last month, I mean, how does this
Speaker 1: this front stack up to some of the other ones. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, desperation brings about different game plans, and so
Speaker 1: this is a team that is desperate to stay in
Speaker 1: the playoff hunts. So all those stats and things that
Speaker 1: we think about prior to this game can go out
Speaker 1: the window because now you're trying to heat people up.
Speaker 1: And so then if you're heating them up, you're bringing
Speaker 1: pressure from everywhere. It's a randomness to how you come
Speaker 1: about it that's hard to prepare for. And so I
Speaker 1: think debt has to do with a lot of it
Speaker 1: by what's an area that the Congress could catch some
Speaker 1: type of break when facing this opponent. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I think what you want to do is before you
Speaker 1: can really even think about the things, you want to
Speaker 1: make sure that you get back on track, all right.
Speaker 1: I think the rough ass ratio got out of whack
Speaker 1: last game. They need to make sure that they've run
Speaker 1: the football regards of who's the running back twenty part
Speaker 1: of needs to be a big part of it. I
Speaker 1: think Dak Prescott has a together way to play better
Speaker 1: and so in some of these what you want to
Speaker 1: do is simplify and do less, not more, so you
Speaker 1: can get back on track. The Cowboys really haven't played
Speaker 1: great football over the last four games. You gotta simplifier
Speaker 1: and get back to doing the base and so you
Speaker 1: can get back on track and get your confidence right.
Speaker 1: All right. I know we gotta get you out here, Bucky.
Speaker 1: So before we let you go, we do need to
Speaker 1: get a prediction on what you think is going to
Speaker 1: happen Thursday night in New Orleans. I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have to get back on track. I think like the
Speaker 1: up and down nature of the way they perform, they're
Speaker 1: on high alert. Getting Amark Cooper back hopefully see the
Speaker 1: land back. That should help. But then you have the
Speaker 1: coaching situation where dan Quinn has to take over. I
Speaker 1: think all hands should be on deck because the Washington
Speaker 1: football team is closing fast. This has to be one
Speaker 1: where they played much better than they played previously. I
Speaker 1: expect them to do that because this should be a
Speaker 1: wonder the game. This should be a game that they
Speaker 1: chalk up at the deck. All right, Bucky, we appreciate you.
Speaker 1: We'll let you go. We're gonna take our final break.
Speaker 1: Come back. We've got some storylines we've got to talk
Speaker 1: about going into this game. We'll do that when we
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Speaker 1: life from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the Star, we
Speaker 1: are going to talk big picture storylines heading into Cowboys
Speaker 1: Versus Saints this Thursday Night. Thursday Night Football and let's
Speaker 1: start first with the biggest storyline. I think that just
Speaker 1: from a storyline perspective, Cowboys don't have their head coach.
Speaker 1: My question for you guys is how big of a
Speaker 1: deal is it that they don't have the head coach
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy for this game. I said this on the
Speaker 1: radio this morning. I don't it would be silly to
Speaker 1: just say like it doesn't matter at all just because
Speaker 1: you're drat, you're changing everything about your game day operations.
Speaker 1: It's a different person. It's everything gets shuffled. Joe Witz
Speaker 1: going to be up in the booth now, So now
Speaker 1: you're two different people that have been next to each
Speaker 1: other all year communicating. Dan Quinn hasn't had to do
Speaker 1: all of the overseeing that he he's going to have
Speaker 1: to do. So there's definitely a difference. But two thoughts
Speaker 1: come to mind. One is like sort of the tongue
Speaker 1: in cheek joke we've had all year of like, well
Speaker 1: what does Mike McCarthy do? Really Well, we're about to
Speaker 1: find out. I mean, we'll see. And if there's anybody
Speaker 1: that should be equipped to do this, I would imagine
Speaker 1: it's a guy that was a head coach for what
Speaker 1: six years five six years and made it halfway through
Speaker 1: last season, so it's really only just now been a
Speaker 1: full year since he stopped doing it. It's played plenty
Speaker 1: of games in the Superdome. He coached the Falcons like
Speaker 1: this just this shouldn't be too daunting for dan quinn. So, like,
Speaker 1: I think it's a best case scenario. Yeah, those guys
Speaker 1: are important too. I mean, in any profession, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of positions out there where it's like, okay, what
Speaker 1: does that person do? They just sit around and make decisions.
Speaker 1: But yeah, every people need those those guys or girls.
Speaker 1: I mean they need them, They need the decision makers,
Speaker 1: and so it just trickles down and so I think
Speaker 1: that they'll be five six people that are probably going
Speaker 1: to be a lot more stressed than they normally are
Speaker 1: because it's just different things that they're going through. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's the reason why you have head coaches
Speaker 1: like that, and I think I think McCarthy, you know,
Speaker 1: handles it well. But but yeah, I mean he doesn't
Speaker 1: call the plays, but he makes the decisions. Now, some
Speaker 1: of the decisions have been questioned. I mean every game
Speaker 1: there's a couple that we questioned with him, and you
Speaker 1: know he did it in this last game, which I
Speaker 1: do think that's interesting though, is dan Quinn because and
Speaker 1: we brought this, We joked about this yesterday, like people
Speaker 1: keep trying to call him an interim coach, he's not.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's still the head coach of this team. And
Speaker 1: when he was answering all these questions about the game
Speaker 1: day operations yesterday, he went out of his way to
Speaker 1: not call dan Quinn like the acting head coach. He
Speaker 1: was like, Dan's gonna come down and help with the
Speaker 1: mechanics of all that, which I totally get. But I
Speaker 1: wonder like, is dan Quinn just going to consult the
Speaker 1: book of Mike? Like does he have does he have
Speaker 1: Mike's preferences written down on a notebook and he's like, okay,
Speaker 1: this this is fourth and two in plus territory, like
Speaker 1: we're gonna go for it. Or is dan Quinn does
Speaker 1: he have autonomy to do what dan Quinn would do?
Speaker 1: Gotta have autonomy, right, I mean I would think if
Speaker 1: it was a guy that was not previously a head coach,
Speaker 1: didn't have that level of experience, thing, you may do
Speaker 1: a little more to kind of guide them I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing Mike would be like, look, you're going to
Speaker 1: be running the show for this game. Run the show, sure,
Speaker 1: and I agree with you to a degree, but like,
Speaker 1: do you have a conversation of like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: this is kind of the guidelines of who we are
Speaker 1: and who we want to be. Like those conversations probably
Speaker 1: going on all c sure, right, yeah, Kellen Moore's talked
Speaker 1: a lot about like, you know, it's not some big
Speaker 1: dramatic thing for us when we go for it on
Speaker 1: fourth down, like this is baked into our philosophy. But
Speaker 1: now you have a and I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: dan Quinn's tendencies from when he was at in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but like, but now you just have a
Speaker 1: different mind, and a defensive mind, by the way, who
Speaker 1: ultimately has the final stay over this stuff. So I
Speaker 1: just wonder if we're if we're going to see a
Speaker 1: new look in terms of the decision making. And I
Speaker 1: don't think we can answer that until we see it.
Speaker 1: I personally believe that Mike McCarthy goes into it says
Speaker 1: this is you know, if he montells Jordan's these things,
Speaker 1: So this is how we do it. That would be terrible.
Speaker 1: It really would be because think about last night's game.
Speaker 1: If you watch that crap last night, what if what
Speaker 1: if the Washington had a coach that said, this is
Speaker 1: how we're going to do it. Well, your your kicker
Speaker 1: just got hurt, or in this case like Zoroline, maybe
Speaker 1: he has a bad game, or maybe the Cowboys just
Speaker 1: cannot pick up one yard at all, So you get
Speaker 1: to fourth and one, fourth and two, where the Mike
Speaker 1: would do in previous games. Every game takes on a
Speaker 1: different life of its own. If Zorline goes out there
Speaker 1: and miss is an extra point in a twenty eight
Speaker 1: yard field goal, knock on the biggest oak tree you
Speaker 1: can have, that's fine. But if that happens, then it's
Speaker 1: fourth and two from the twenty six yard line. It's
Speaker 1: got to be a different call than what we normally
Speaker 1: do because you got to play within the game. I
Speaker 1: personally think that, yeah, they'll be fine to a certain extent,
Speaker 1: and yes, he's had Dan Queen has had that experience.
Speaker 1: But what concerns me in a way and worries me
Speaker 1: is the thought of knowing they haven't played great in
Speaker 1: the past few weeks. So, okay, I want my defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator to be fully focused on what his job is.
Speaker 1: I want Kellen Moore to be fully focused on what
Speaker 1: he does. So now you got Dan Queen, who's up
Speaker 1: at the booth usually. Now he's on the field. Now
Speaker 1: he's taking a different, bigger role, having to deal with
Speaker 1: other things. And it's not ideal when they've been playing
Speaker 1: the way that they have been playing these past few weeks,
Speaker 1: and then you add this new element to it. Not
Speaker 1: like you have many other great choices, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's just I hope they manage
Speaker 1: it well, but hopefully it won't take away with what
Speaker 1: he has been doing with the defense overall, which we
Speaker 1: know that they do need to help on defense, and
Speaker 1: especially when the offense has been playing the way that
Speaker 1: they have been playing. Yeah, I think we're you're thinking
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking. Bones Okay, I wouldn't go as far
Speaker 1: as because I love it. I love him. Let's just
Speaker 1: light this whole thing on fire, get wild. No, No,
Speaker 1: the games are stressful enough to add that kind of
Speaker 1: element to it. I think it would be great. I
Speaker 1: think dan Quinn will do a great job, but I
Speaker 1: mean it would be fun he would have, he would
Speaker 1: have more time to focus on the defense. It might
Speaker 1: be on the field a lot if Bones is calling
Speaker 1: it too. We're good, We're good. We gotta we got
Speaker 1: a solution. We're gonna work with that. All right. Here's
Speaker 1: the next big picture question after you guys, what will
Speaker 1: be the starting offensive line? And does Lyle keep the
Speaker 1: job when Terrence still returns from COVID protocol. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's fair to ask me that question because we
Speaker 1: see what happens. Well, they just not only that, like
Speaker 1: they clearly don't know, like they can't make up their minds.
Speaker 1: They're rotating guys during a game. So they's going to coach?
Speaker 1: Yeah that too, I mean, yeah, the coaches aren't even
Speaker 1: part of this. What is happening with that. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be Londa Wells, the tight ends coach is gonna is
Speaker 1: sliding over to do that. He's got that in his background.
Speaker 1: We did this yesterday, right before you got here. I
Speaker 1: believe we tried our best and and it doesn't seem
Speaker 1: that difficult at the moment to say left the right,
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith, Connor McGovern, be Odish, Zack Martin and then
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins. To answer your question, I don't know, because
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones made it very clear this morning that Terrence Steele.
Speaker 1: He said, basically, Terrence Steele's played better than Lyle calls
Speaker 1: or he's the better option. That's why he's been playing
Speaker 1: is because he has played better at right tackle. He
Speaker 1: also says that Lyle is not getting punished for anything
Speaker 1: like that, So it's just it's, you know, whatever the
Speaker 1: term you want to use. They feel like Terrence is
Speaker 1: a better option, and they also probably are already deciding
Speaker 1: who's going to be here next year. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: got to be a big part of it. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: why McGovern's playing over Connor Williams. It's hard, are you
Speaker 1: saying that? Get your thought is that Lyle won't be here?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying. I think it's safe to
Speaker 1: say that. Yeah. I mean it's hard to watch this
Speaker 1: and like not think about those things right at the
Speaker 1: very that's probably the best way to say it. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. I don't know the answer to that,
Speaker 1: but it's hard not to think about that stuff. And
Speaker 1: I said this today too. It's like when you're rotating
Speaker 1: guys in the middle of a game after like you
Speaker 1: made the big dramatic switch to Connor McGovern and it's
Speaker 1: a storyline, and then like a week later, you've got
Speaker 1: Connor Williams rotating in a very similar thing happening with
Speaker 1: Terrence and LC. It makes me think that there's a
Speaker 1: difference of opinion somewhere on the chain of command, whether
Speaker 1: the front office thinks one thing and the coaching staff
Speaker 1: thinks the other, or the head coach thinks one thing
Speaker 1: and the offensive line coach thinks the I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's weird. You never you will not convince me
Speaker 1: that exactly exactly like you won't important. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: You're not gonna sit up here and tell me continuity
Speaker 1: over everything and fantasy football nonsense. To bring that up
Speaker 1: one more time and then must stop that. And well,
Speaker 1: and did you go into a game and you rotate?
Speaker 1: Nobody does that? It does fantasy. That's like it's nineteen
Speaker 1: like in the nineteen fifties, like player like teams would rotate.
Speaker 1: They would have like, oh, this is our first quarter
Speaker 1: defense in our second like yeah, that happened back then
Speaker 1: when freshmen weren't allowed to play varsity. That was a
Speaker 1: million years ago. They don't do this in modern football,
Speaker 1: and so they should have back in the nineties, they
Speaker 1: should have rotated at all. I was actually thinking it.
Speaker 1: I wonder who's gonna tell Nate new that around and
Speaker 1: said Nate off the field. Nay, you're off. Yeah, Nate,
Speaker 1: you're off for this series. To the person that comes
Speaker 1: off the field comes on and says, Nate you're out,
Speaker 1: have fun, Well, things will happen to have fun. Yes,
Speaker 1: today's gonna be like bro, I'm good. I don't want
Speaker 1: to deliver that he's gonna He's gonna say like Ricky
Speaker 1: Waters for who? For? What? For Kevin? No thanks, it's weird, decent,
Speaker 1: No thanks, I'm good. I'm good. Walking past our studio, Yeah,
Speaker 1: getting ready for the for the next show. What shows it?
Speaker 1: That show is Hanging with the boys. That's a really
Speaker 1: quality show. Yeah maybe, yeah, yeah. I think Kurt Daniels
Speaker 1: is going to get to talk some today. Wow, I
Speaker 1: mean she is not gonna be on. Well maybe we'll
Speaker 1: see Jesse Jesse and and Nate Channing. It's good. It's
Speaker 1: a good quality show. Well it is time. Dave. Do
Speaker 1: you want me to get you some wings? Yes? I do? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: not even gonna be bashful about that breaking wings. Free
Speaker 1: food always, especially if it's I'll see what I can.
Speaker 1: I would love for water Burger just to sponsor the
Speaker 1: lunch break. It's not the lunch break and been lunch
Speaker 1: break for a long time. If water Burger was a sponsor,
Speaker 1: it could be what if they said, hey, what if
Speaker 1: you just add lunch back in it? Would you do
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning? Shunn in my fight tequo and
Speaker 1: this thing I was. I was ready to go on
Speaker 1: a roll. I had more to say about the offensive line. No,
Speaker 1: it's over. Now, that's over. Good, it's gone. I just
Speaker 1: my wife right now. Yeah, it's fine, honey. No, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: Talk about whatever you want to talk about. We talked
Speaker 1: about this yesterday when you were doing whatever you were doing. No,
Speaker 1: we talked about this where we said, um, nice answer there, McCarthy.
Speaker 1: We don't believe it, thanks though, good good, try on
Speaker 1: because that that's wrong. That's wrong, because we know what's
Speaker 1: wrong because Tyran Smith didn't rotate and Zach Martin didn't rotate,
Speaker 1: and so whatever the answer is, it just say I
Speaker 1: don't want to tell you and we beg oh, okay, cool, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you. I would prefer that
Speaker 1: you know what, You've done that a couple of years,
Speaker 1: And I was ipec that from coaches when they're like,
Speaker 1: that's not something I want to talk about. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't a lot of me though. Thanks. Yeah, yeah, Clarence,
Speaker 1: we have an answer. I just don't want to tell
Speaker 1: you next question. I really, I say it's not fair
Speaker 1: to ask me to answer that because God knows what
Speaker 1: they're like. God knows because they haven't been able to
Speaker 1: come up with a consistent strategy all year. Um, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe Elsie's just gonna grab the bull by the horns
Speaker 1: and kick Cam Jordan's ass around the field all night
Speaker 1: on Thursday and you'll have the answer for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be nice. All right, let's real quickly before
Speaker 1: we in the show. I need some predictions doing this.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, why wouldn't we know? I know, I was
Speaker 1: just I thought about that a few minutes ago. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm not reading my dog to do it right again yesterday,
Speaker 1: I mean tomorrow, Well, yeah, do it and put it
Speaker 1: on video. Did it? You're up? He didn't do good after?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah that's what so he changed his big Yeah,
Speaker 1: he picked the Cowboys and then threw up a lot
Speaker 1: of people throw it up after that game. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: oh man, I was I really want to. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not ready. I'm not. I'm not. I'm sorry, good,
Speaker 1: I'm not ready. I'm not ready to pick them to
Speaker 1: go win again. I mean, after all this crap that's
Speaker 1: going on, it probably would be very Cowboys in NFL
Speaker 1: like for them to go and strange lady this thing
Speaker 1: and go and win. But I'm not ready to do that.
Speaker 1: So I just I'm gonna pick. I'm not gonna pick
Speaker 1: the Saints, but I'm not gonna pick the Cowboys to win.
Speaker 1: How does that work? You're just gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: refuse yourself. I'm not picking the Cowboys to win right now.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just this after everything we've seen. I
Speaker 1: just I know they're getting a lot of guys back.
Speaker 1: But this game, you know the Saints are fighting too.
Speaker 1: I'm so you pick the st Yeah, I don't know yet.
Speaker 1: The score eighteen sixteens, I'm like that, I don't know,
Speaker 1: sixteen something crazy and stupid. Yeah, it's weird. Well, we've
Speaker 1: seen we've gone up there two years ago, this three
Speaker 1: and old Cowboys. But and then they get shut down
Speaker 1: by the Saints defense, and then you know, the Saints.
Speaker 1: I don't say defense is not it's just not something
Speaker 1: to sneeze at. No, they'll be pretty good, and so
Speaker 1: I just I see a little bit more of a
Speaker 1: low scoring game. Maybe not that that low, but something
Speaker 1: twenty two twenty. I don't know. I don't think the
Speaker 1: Saints are that good, but I don't right now with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I mean, how could you pick them right now?
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are gonna do it and probably
Speaker 1: pick them, but I just don't see. I'm not alright, No,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's my answer. I'm like, I'm not picking.
Speaker 1: Like I've given them the benefit of the dove a
Speaker 1: couple of times lately, and I've been like, I'm a believer,
Speaker 1: kind of hanging by a thread right there, but right
Speaker 1: now after and I get it, last week the game
Speaker 1: went over time and they were very close that we're
Speaker 1: fighting at the end, But to me, it just feels
Speaker 1: like they were a complete mess and they were not
Speaker 1: able to recover whatsoever, even though that was the end result.
Speaker 1: So maybe I'm just forgetting those plays that were good,
Speaker 1: But I'm seeing that game as a complete mess and
Speaker 1: they were not good whatsoever. So this week I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm upset, don't want to prove it. Show it to me,
Speaker 1: and then I'll be like, Okay, good do it again
Speaker 1: next week. Let me jump in before you do that, Dave,
Speaker 1: because I didn't say this when you were talking about
Speaker 1: what's going to happen with Dan Quinn and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I've said it a thousand times. I think teams get
Speaker 1: beat earlier in the week, you know, usually on Wednesday
Speaker 1: or Thursday. Of course, this Wednesday, Thursday is a Saturday,
Speaker 1: and a Monday or Sunday in the Monday. I think
Speaker 1: that's where the Cowboys will probably struggle the most. It's
Speaker 1: right now, it's this week. It's this coming off of
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and all this stuff happening. It's just a real practice.
Speaker 1: It is this you know, it's not a short week,
Speaker 1: but it's still a weird week. That's where I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will probably not as be as prepared. And
Speaker 1: I think Sean Payton's one of the best coaches in
Speaker 1: the game. He does he does more with less every
Speaker 1: single year, and so that's why I just I don't
Speaker 1: see it happening this week. I'm sorry, Dave, that's I mean,
Speaker 1: how could you feel good about picking this team right now?
Speaker 1: There's no reason that you should, and I don't want to.
Speaker 1: But I also like, don't think highly of the Saints
Speaker 1: at all. They're banged up as well. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have it's the same thing. They're gonna have some
Speaker 1: guys back, but not as many as they would prefer.
Speaker 1: Um and thinking about brought us here, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Strange ladies, it's a strange And actually the Cowboys could
Speaker 1: I feel the opposite of you. I'm like, well you
Speaker 1: if you can't circle the wagons right now, Like dan
Speaker 1: Quinn's got to come down from the booth, Mike's not
Speaker 1: gonna be there. You've got You've gotten punched in the
Speaker 1: mouth three out of the last four weeks. The whole
Speaker 1: league kind of thinks you're a joke right now as
Speaker 1: far as contending teams go, Like, nobody everybody's writing you off.
Speaker 1: We like, it's unbelievable to me that we don't feel
Speaker 1: confident in a team that had an MVP candidate quarterback
Speaker 1: a month ago, going in and beating a tight end
Speaker 1: at Quarterback Club but and but you shouldn't because they
Speaker 1: don't deserve it. But it's unbelievable to me. That's how
Speaker 1: low we've fallen that It's like can can dack out
Speaker 1: dual Taysom Hill. I don't know, are you am? I am?
Speaker 1: I speaking English right now? I don't want to pick
Speaker 1: right now. No, But I don't like it sucks because
Speaker 1: to win I don't need. And that's I just I
Speaker 1: look at it. I'm like they've got this adversity that
Speaker 1: they can rally around. I don't think Cooper is going
Speaker 1: to be there, but um um but Lamb will be back.
Speaker 1: They'll have Gallop at least gives you a little bit
Speaker 1: of firepower, of course, and they probably won't have Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson either. Like I don't feel good about it. I
Speaker 1: don't feel good about it at all, But like they
Speaker 1: just are a more talented team and they should find
Speaker 1: a way to win. Is it gonna be pretty? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: They haven't played a pretty game in almost a month.
Speaker 1: But I think they can go down there and sneak
Speaker 1: out like a twenty to sixteen win, and we're all
Speaker 1: gonna hate ourselves throughout the whole thing. Like nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: have fun. But guess what if you can get out
Speaker 1: of there with the win, what's that Wednesday night? Maybe?
Speaker 1: But sure, Oh no, I'm talking about during those three hours,
Speaker 1: I'm changing my pick. But if they can get the worst,
Speaker 1: I'm changing my pick. This is something I've never seen
Speaker 1: ever with the Cowboys. What a three nothing win tie?
Speaker 1: Oh you're gonna go twenty two? Twenty two tie. I
Speaker 1: can't pick the Cowboys to That's what it was. I
Speaker 1: can't pick the Cowboys to win. I can't pick the
Speaker 1: Saints to win. I'm picking a tie that I've never
Speaker 1: done it before. Have you ever? I'll throw up, I'll
Speaker 1: throw up all day. Ties are terrible. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been even harder picked than have you ever played? Have
Speaker 1: you ever played Roulette and bet green? Because it feels
Speaker 1: like that's what you're doing. I'm gonna take the green spot, right?
Speaker 1: But hey Mark, Hey Mark Carter? Yes, yeah, no, I'm
Speaker 1: just that's the jem but on my phone. But you know,
Speaker 1: I actually I agree with you, Dave, there are This
Speaker 1: pick for me is not about the Cowboys as much
Speaker 1: as it is about the Saints. I just don't think
Speaker 1: and watching the Saints play the last several games, they're
Speaker 1: just a team that just doesn't look very good. Now,
Speaker 1: you could say the same thing about Denver. But Denver,
Speaker 1: as we've seen, they've actually had some games where they've
Speaker 1: kind of come on. I mean, you go back throughout
Speaker 1: the year and look at New Orleans, they just don't
Speaker 1: look good. They don't look yeah, but I'm saying they
Speaker 1: just don't throughout the season. You get beyond that week
Speaker 1: and what have they really done? Like, they are just
Speaker 1: not a team that looks very good. And so I
Speaker 1: think that this is a game where the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: able to get right. To be honest with you, I'm
Speaker 1: really way more concerned and my pick may be very
Speaker 1: different next week, because I think that's going to be
Speaker 1: a very challenging game for the Dallas to win. If
Speaker 1: they don't get themselves back on track, if they play
Speaker 1: like they played over the last month, they will go
Speaker 1: to Watchington and lose next week. But I think this week,
Speaker 1: I think what I think of New Orleans tells me
Speaker 1: that I think Dallas has enough to be able to
Speaker 1: beat them. It's funny, it goes back to what I said,
Speaker 1: and clearly I don't think nobody expected them to lose
Speaker 1: three out of four. But we were having arguments last
Speaker 1: week where it's like, well, nobody wants to hear this,
Speaker 1: but we're still playing AFC teams like they don't these
Speaker 1: aren't as important as some of these other games. And
Speaker 1: I keep saying it. I just feel like they just
Speaker 1: got to hold the rope, and like, honestly, when or lose,
Speaker 1: you just gotta get through this stretch. They'll have ten
Speaker 1: days off or tie, well whatever, I don't care. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when loser, tie, but you just gotta get done with
Speaker 1: this crap and then you got ten days off hopefully
Speaker 1: you can put COVID behind you again. Hopefully. Jerry Very
Speaker 1: I love Jerry Jones. He's such a salesman because he
Speaker 1: was like, we're one hundred percent vaccinated now if you
Speaker 1: include the guys that have antibodies, Like, yeah, okay, Jerry,
Speaker 1: it's always a positive line. So it's always something positive
Speaker 1: you can take out of every situation. They've shown up
Speaker 1: against the division consistently for Dak's entire career, like they
Speaker 1: were like twenty one and six against the division. That
Speaker 1: doesn't worry me nearly as much. You just got to
Speaker 1: get done with this awful stretch, But how much better
Speaker 1: would it feel to be done with it having eked
Speaker 1: out a conference win. It would feel so much And
Speaker 1: I were, like I said, I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be a miserable experience for everyone, but for some reason,
Speaker 1: think they'll wink before we leave. You guys have both
Speaker 1: talked about the Saints and how they have been, but
Speaker 1: I think you guys are forgetting that we've seen it
Speaker 1: way too many times happen where it's not necessarily on
Speaker 1: the opponent. It's like what the Cowboys are doing themselves.
Speaker 1: So with everything that they've mentioned and everything that we've
Speaker 1: talked about during the show, of the struggles and the
Speaker 1: things that the Cowboys are going to have to overcome
Speaker 1: this week, that's why I personally don't feel confident that
Speaker 1: it's going to happen, not because they're facing the Saints
Speaker 1: or whoever. It's because of themselves. So it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: to me how bad the Saints are. Right, it was
Speaker 1: four and four, the Chiefs were six and five, and
Speaker 1: the Raiders were five and five, and the Falcons were
Speaker 1: also four and four two, so that they played the
Speaker 1: last four games. Everybody's been right there either a little
Speaker 1: bit above or right there at five hundred and like
Speaker 1: she's saying, here come the Saints at five and six.
Speaker 1: So they're in that same group. And we've seen Derek
Speaker 1: Carr play out of his mind or we've seen guys
Speaker 1: finally play a great game. So that's a good point.
Speaker 1: Question becomes who's gonna play out of their mind? They
Speaker 1: do get there. The running back back, which makes a
Speaker 1: huge year. It's the best running back in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's up there. I would say best in the league.
Speaker 1: He's up there that I would take. And I do
Speaker 1: think here's the part that that does concern me a lot.
Speaker 1: Is there seeing a different kind of offense than what
Speaker 1: they've played this year. Other than the Eagles, they really
Speaker 1: haven't faced an offense where they have a running quarterback
Speaker 1: that is a run first option. Now here's the other
Speaker 1: part to that he has. He's a run first option
Speaker 1: type quarterback and in addition that he's got one of
Speaker 1: the best running backs in the league. That presents an
Speaker 1: interesting dynamic for Dallas that they haven't really faced this year.
Speaker 1: So that's the part that could get really hairy for
Speaker 1: Dallas if they're not able to stop it. And stopping
Speaker 1: the run has not been a consistent thing for them
Speaker 1: this year. So if you want to look at that standpoint, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some reasons Dallas could lose his game. I hate this.
Speaker 1: I just think they're able to. I think they're able
Speaker 1: to pull it out. I just like I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I just picked him to win. But I can just
Speaker 1: imagine sitting up there by the Archie Manning banner. Bring
Speaker 1: a jacket, by the way, if you forgot, bring a coat, coat,
Speaker 1: but just eat your own food before you come. Kamara
Speaker 1: is gonna catch a swing pass at like the eighteen
Speaker 1: and just make two guys with eighteen that that what
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Probably, I don't know. I just as I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win, but I can just I see
Speaker 1: some potential for exactly nofident and either way on this one,
Speaker 1: Oh you know what my dog does? Please? I hope
Speaker 1: it's not. We can hold it down. If it's to
Speaker 1: keep singing, stand up and get ironic. Love. No, when
Speaker 1: you hear that song, you know things are going to
Speaker 1: get ironic. That they their anthem is an Atlanta rap song.
Speaker 1: But that's for another day. All right, Thank you guys
Speaker 1: for joining us. We'll be back on Friday. We'll let
Speaker 1: you know what when right and wrong for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Still there for even Dave Helban Ambergar see you. I
Speaker 1: am Derek Eagleston. This has been the Break live on
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