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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number fifty six. Welcome
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Speaker 1: guys ready for Cowboys versus Lions. That happens is Sunday
Speaker 1: at noon at at and T Stadium. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: all of our opinions on what we think is going
Speaker 1: to happen this weekend and give you some predictions for
Speaker 1: the game as well. Let's start first with Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: He had his press conference today and the first thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to kind of catch up on his mat Well,
Speaker 1: let's go, Yeah shows up on the injury report yesterday
Speaker 1: doesn't sound good. What are we here? No, it's good.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been dealing with this shoulder injury. They
Speaker 1: thought he might have to have surgery back in training camp.
Speaker 1: They've been fighting through it, the subplexation, which basically means
Speaker 1: it pops in and out. Yeah, which every time I
Speaker 1: hear somebody say it, it it just yeah, it sounds really good.
Speaker 1: It's just it's another way to say, your shoulder just
Speaker 1: pops in and pops out. So's he's suffered a setback
Speaker 1: there and they didn't want to go. I don't think
Speaker 1: McCarthy wanted to say that he's having surgery, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like it's going to be. And you know something,
Speaker 1: he'll be back from soon. He probably will have surgery
Speaker 1: here to clean this thing up and get him ready
Speaker 1: for next year, and that would mean I are us, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's out for the rest of Yeah. He's played
Speaker 1: some as a backup, you know, but I mean he
Speaker 1: you know, I honestly think this could be a good
Speaker 1: thing because if you're gonna have the surgery, have it,
Speaker 1: get it ready to go, and then he could maybe
Speaker 1: be a little bit more of a participant as as
Speaker 1: far as just fighting through it right now and then
Speaker 1: having it in January, so and he could possibly if
Speaker 1: he has the surgery now means there's a good chance
Speaker 1: he's ready to go for off season next y, which
Speaker 1: is a huge thing. I guess they'll second year place exactly.
Speaker 1: He's had this problem throughout his career. And yeah, it
Speaker 1: was something excuse me, it was something that he dealt
Speaker 1: with in college, and they thought that they could kind
Speaker 1: of get through it, and they said, Okay, let's see
Speaker 1: if we could play with it, and once it it
Speaker 1: came out again, they're like, no, okay, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: mess around with this thing anymore. That's what the surgeries.
Speaker 1: But it's something he dealt with in college. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about another interesting topic. They Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: talked about Michael Parsons and kind of how they approached
Speaker 1: him or what they talked him about after this game.
Speaker 1: What was he saying about what Mike Mica and and
Speaker 1: the self scouting that they did with him following the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia game. I don't even I don't even know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Okay, No, I mean I was there,
Speaker 1: but I mean that was part of the That was
Speaker 1: part of the point in the press conference when you're like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? Freday like seriously, Well, I
Speaker 1: thought the reason I thought it was interesting is because
Speaker 1: we talked a lot this week. We talked a lot
Speaker 1: this week about the you know, kind of how did
Speaker 1: the Cowboys adapt to what Philly was able to do
Speaker 1: to Mica, And they were talking about and Mike was
Speaker 1: from what I could gather, he was saying something to
Speaker 1: the effect of, they sat down this week with him
Speaker 1: and Quinn basically did a really deep self scout with
Speaker 1: him on what happened in that Philadelphia game. To bet,
Speaker 1: my assumption was not only to help him with kind
Speaker 1: of future teams that might try it, but so that
Speaker 1: when they get back to Philadelphia they kind of have
Speaker 1: an idea of maybe here's some things you might need
Speaker 1: to improve on, some areas you can work on. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was a little confused by it, honestly, because talking
Speaker 1: to Mica yesterday, he was like, this is RBO. That's
Speaker 1: all it was. They didn't do anything against me, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just tough to stop stop hurts. Now, he
Speaker 1: did say he talked to Dan Quinn and that they've
Speaker 1: got a lot of things in store down the line
Speaker 1: here that they're gonna try some some different things. You know.
Speaker 1: I was like, why didn't you roll him out in
Speaker 1: that game? You know, like, but that's what happens. I
Speaker 1: think when you're facing a team that's like, you know, well,
Speaker 1: we got to see what they do. You know. Garrett
Speaker 1: used to always say, well, we do what we do.
Speaker 1: But when you're in that situation, the way they were
Speaker 1: running the ball, you have to react to them, which
Speaker 1: means the offense always has an advantage. So I mean,
Speaker 1: but but I don't I didn't know. I didn't get
Speaker 1: that that sense that it was a big sitdown thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I was faced out now. I
Speaker 1: think the thing that you have to you know, these
Speaker 1: coaches all the time sit down with players and talk
Speaker 1: to him. Maybe he walks him through. Mike's like, listen, man,
Speaker 1: I can't go through this again. I can't go through
Speaker 1: where I have a little indecision here and all that
Speaker 1: you're gonna play a team in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I haven't sat down and watched the Bear play, but
Speaker 1: you have a quarterback that's very familiar with and teams
Speaker 1: look at other teams and they say, well, what affected
Speaker 1: this defense? What you know? And so now you're with
Speaker 1: the Bears. You know, you got a quarterback that call
Speaker 1: legitimately run and is a good ball handler and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So you could see some of that RPO stuff. Again,
Speaker 1: it might not have been about Philadelphia on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: It might be about, hey, we're going to see this
Speaker 1: again in two weeks. Get ready, you know. And so
Speaker 1: Mike is one of those guys that to me, and
Speaker 1: you know, I've never been around him, only in the
Speaker 1: settings and things like that, it seems like to me
Speaker 1: he's a very prideful guy. You know, he probably felt
Speaker 1: like I got a little bit of embarrassed, you know,
Speaker 1: in that game. And you know, you had players like
Speaker 1: Ed Reid having to come out and say no, no,
Speaker 1: it wasn't his fault on this, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's what we have today in media. We have
Speaker 1: former players that come out and I know that we
Speaker 1: talked about it ourselves on Monday. You know, no, no
Speaker 1: it you know, it's coverage and it's these guys, it's
Speaker 1: that guy. So but there's a lot of people out
Speaker 1: there like, oh, look, Michael Parsons got burned a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know it wasn't, but I don't think he wants
Speaker 1: to go out there again and play with doubt or
Speaker 1: indecision again. And maybe with Dan, he's like Dan's ensuring him,
Speaker 1: like listen, next time, this is what I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: for you, or this is how I'm going to help you,
Speaker 1: or this is how you can help yourself. So coaches
Speaker 1: in players have discussions, especially once it really really really
Speaker 1: care about how they how they play their job or
Speaker 1: do their jobs. Yeah, thinking about RPOs, I saw sup
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys noticed it last night
Speaker 1: on that game, the Thursday night football game, Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: was in a situation. They were running an RPO and
Speaker 1: he was the defender was coming right and I've never
Speaker 1: seen a defender do this, but the defender actually gave
Speaker 1: kind of a head fake like he was going with
Speaker 1: the running back. It caused Kyler to keep the ball
Speaker 1: and he just was right on Kyler to get to
Speaker 1: a tackle. And it made me think like there probably
Speaker 1: are techniques that when you're playing RPO, like they are
Speaker 1: techniques you can probably use that give make that even
Speaker 1: makes you kind of get on the offensive a little
Speaker 1: bit to where you can really get in the quarterback's
Speaker 1: head even more than the quarterbacks in your head and
Speaker 1: make them more indecisive. Those are probably some of the
Speaker 1: things that they're talking about. They're reading you make them,
Speaker 1: make them read you the wrong way, right it because
Speaker 1: you know they're trying to get you to read them
Speaker 1: the wrong. Yeah. A strange game. That was. I mean
Speaker 1: that was love that. It was actually a fun game.
Speaker 1: We're coming off two Thursday night games at him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying it was. It was a strange
Speaker 1: game when that you could you could go to the restroom,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, if you were in there for
Speaker 1: a second and then it was it would be thirteen
Speaker 1: to six and you'd come back and it's twenty eight thirteen.
Speaker 1: You know that they scored twenty points and like seriously,
Speaker 1: like ten minutes that was your boy? Who yeah, my
Speaker 1: point boy? Yeah, well, I mean through one interest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they threw a bad interception over the middle of the
Speaker 1: other one where it wasn't on him. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: it was weird. There were three right, Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: two of them were kind of on him. Maybe one
Speaker 1: of them on the receiver back back. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: couldn't you imagine? Just can you imagine though? And what
Speaker 1: would happen? And this is why if you go to
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, you can just go to the Cardinals because
Speaker 1: no one really cares. But but if that came off
Speaker 1: the field and yelled at McCarthy like that, do you
Speaker 1: think that we would we would be starting the show
Speaker 1: with anything other than what's wrong with the cow? I mean,
Speaker 1: what's you know what I'm saying, like, yeah, that was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: There's been there's been a lot of talk about but
Speaker 1: it's it's actually surprisingly very positive things. I've seen people
Speaker 1: saying like, oh, they care, you know, And that's how
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff can go. Like, it goes
Speaker 1: one of two ways. Either it is oh, they're a malcontent.
Speaker 1: You know Daz that he used to deal that all
Speaker 1: the time. You see him screaming on the sideline. People
Speaker 1: were like, oh, Dad going off and then you hear
Speaker 1: the audio and he's like encouraging his teammates. Right, So
Speaker 1: it can go either way. But I've heard a lot
Speaker 1: of the commentary this morning. It's been very like, man,
Speaker 1: they you know, they must really care and you want
Speaker 1: to see this happen. It's a good thing. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I see the other angle. I've only seen one angle.
Speaker 1: You know exactly what he was saying, No, I want
Speaker 1: to see what. I want to see what Kingsbury's angle was.
Speaker 1: He looked terrified. Was he just taking it? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much, No, he was. And it also was at
Speaker 1: one point it kind of looked like, yeah, get him
Speaker 1: off of me because uh, the receiver Hopkins, Hopkins is
Speaker 1: over there kind of talking him down, like man, turnaround, man,
Speaker 1: that's all right, let's just settle down. That's what happens
Speaker 1: when you're fighting for your life and your yab by six. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's our second quarter score. That's because if not, what
Speaker 1: you do is you take that little kid and put
Speaker 1: him in time out. That's what you do. That's what
Speaker 1: you don't like that. Well, the thing about it is
Speaker 1: they have not thank you for being nice about it.
Speaker 1: They have not. They have not done a very good
Speaker 1: job in the first you know quarter or so that
Speaker 1: if Arizona, man, I mean they've struggled to score. You
Speaker 1: know what I think about when I watched that game
Speaker 1: last night, that Philadelphia has New Orleans pick in the
Speaker 1: first round. Yeah, you got that thing, That New Orleans
Speaker 1: defense is a whole they I don't think Philadelphia's still Delphie.
Speaker 1: His own pick is going to be somewhere probably between
Speaker 1: twenty eight and thirty two. Yeah, probably New Orleans pick
Speaker 1: could be a top three pick when it's all said
Speaker 1: and done. I mean, if they don't get things turned around.
Speaker 1: I know we're halfway or getting near halfway through the season.
Speaker 1: But as a Cowboy fan, you do not need the
Speaker 1: Eagles to have success in the playoffs and then turn
Speaker 1: around and then in the springtime have a top three pick,
Speaker 1: you know. But but it might mean that they had
Speaker 1: success and they're gonna keep hurts and they're gonna draft
Speaker 1: somebody else. But draft I mean, because that guy's ready
Speaker 1: to play that top five defensive line another add to
Speaker 1: what they already got another defensive player, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of ways you can go with a
Speaker 1: top three pick, and you know, and it looks like
Speaker 1: the Saints are going that direction. Yeah. And by the way,
Speaker 1: they already got a quarterback, so you know it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be quarterback they're getting it. Really is a that's
Speaker 1: the thing about it. Yeah, if if if hurts all,
Speaker 1: if they think they got a quarterback. I think they
Speaker 1: got a quarter Okay, yeah, I mean I'll put a
Speaker 1: sea like this, I don't want today what play rounds
Speaker 1: did the other day and go into that whole thing
Speaker 1: with hurts. But I mean, do you really think that yes,
Speaker 1: Because here's the deal in today's NFL. If you have
Speaker 1: a quarterback that has as much success as he's just
Speaker 1: had right now, justin what he's had for first seven
Speaker 1: games a season, then you don't just let that guy go.
Speaker 1: You at least get tied to him a little bit, right,
Speaker 1: And and they're gonna have to make a decision on
Speaker 1: a contract what by next year? Yeah? So right, So
Speaker 1: so I think from that standpoint, yeah, they whether they
Speaker 1: want to have a quarterback or not, that's a whole
Speaker 1: different conversation. But at some point they got to make
Speaker 1: a decision. And I think that what they're seeing right now,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, he's pretty good. He's winning ball games. Well,
Speaker 1: it's why the cow. You can say what you want
Speaker 1: about whether Dak is worth forty million, it is at
Speaker 1: that moment in time, you got to make a decision.
Speaker 1: He is throwing the ball better than he has and
Speaker 1: like they figured out when they were two and five
Speaker 1: or something like that. They weren't they weren't going anywhere
Speaker 1: last year him just throwing the ball, and they made
Speaker 1: the commitment to start running it, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he's like the last you know, ten games, nine games,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. I mean, he's been outstanding there. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have They're gonna lose some games though this year,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna lose games because they they get down early,
Speaker 1: because somebody's gonna hit them early, and they're gonna get
Speaker 1: down and then he's gonna have to throw back in
Speaker 1: the game, and I think that'll be how they lose
Speaker 1: a game. They're really good though, because they're very balanced
Speaker 1: and they can do some things, and it depends on
Speaker 1: how much they get down. I'll say this, I don't
Speaker 1: think I don't think him throwing there his way back
Speaker 1: into a game is as much much of a detriment
Speaker 1: yea last year. And I think part of that is
Speaker 1: because his receiving targets are pretty dog done good, and
Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. And I also think
Speaker 1: when you combine that with his ability to run even
Speaker 1: in situations of games where you gotta work your way
Speaker 1: back into it, if teams start saying, well we think
Speaker 1: they're gonna throw, we're gonna start playing coverage now, that
Speaker 1: leaves him in situation where he can get out and
Speaker 1: run and hurt you. So I they just have I
Speaker 1: think they have a really good balance with the different
Speaker 1: parts they have. I think they got a really good
Speaker 1: team where you're else and Aguilar, Who was the first?
Speaker 1: Who did they trade the Saints for the Saints pick?
Speaker 1: Who did they give up the Saints? Uh? Where it was?
Speaker 1: Who did the Saints give up? I don't have to
Speaker 1: look it up, but yeah, I heard did the Eagles
Speaker 1: give up to get that pick? No, the Saints came
Speaker 1: the Saints and came and got their pick. They remember
Speaker 1: they had those picks Chris A Lobby. I believe it
Speaker 1: might have been Chrisallabby that's actually been looking like a
Speaker 1: really good pick for Yeah, yeah, I think it was
Speaker 1: Chris a Lobby they traded up for. Is what if
Speaker 1: I if I got that right? Okay? Yeah, But see
Speaker 1: that's the thing about it. They the Saints, the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to keep talking about the Eagles here,
Speaker 1: but they but they had those picks that were back
Speaker 1: to back. Remember they were kind of right there with
Speaker 1: each other. Yeah, and then they moved at You thought, man,
Speaker 1: they're just gonna they're gonna bam bam hit two players
Speaker 1: and they just moved that. The Saints came up, yeah
Speaker 1: and got Chris a Lobby is what they did. I
Speaker 1: believe is how that one't worked. Ye, all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take our first brick when we come back. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get into the matchup Cowboys versus the Lines to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about this line team, and I
Speaker 1: want to ask the question the Lions. As much as
Speaker 1: we like their offense and think their offense is really good,
Speaker 1: they did get blanked last time they were on the field.
Speaker 1: And the question is what were what was New England
Speaker 1: able to do? And does does Dallas have the same
Speaker 1: mobility to do those same things and maybe get that
Speaker 1: kind of production or that kind of lack of production
Speaker 1: out of the lines. We'll talk about that when we
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Speaker 1: jump into Cowboys versus Lions. As I mentioned before the
Speaker 1: break as good as their offense has been this season
Speaker 1: and the ranked very high and a lot of categories.
Speaker 1: Last time they were on the field, they lost twenty
Speaker 1: nine and nothing to the New England Patriots got shut out.
Speaker 1: So the question is what did New England do to
Speaker 1: them that that basically shut down that offense that we
Speaker 1: think so much of. They got a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: on the and they didn't let them. They didn't really
Speaker 1: let them run the football. They only had one hundred
Speaker 1: yards rushing. And what happened is Belichick has played against
Speaker 1: this quarterback twice, you know that we know of, or
Speaker 1: we know that we know of. But he got him
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl and he got him in this
Speaker 1: this past game, and he and he it kind of
Speaker 1: freaks this guy out a little bit to play Belichick.
Speaker 1: But they did a great job. They didn't let him
Speaker 1: just pound the ball at him. You know that Patriots
Speaker 1: were able to two on defense. They played really good
Speaker 1: run defense, and they created turnovers and they actually got
Speaker 1: you know, they got a scoop and score out of
Speaker 1: the deal because they got the quarterback moving out of
Speaker 1: the pocket. You know, fumbles the ball and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So one thing that you can do is that you
Speaker 1: can affect the Lions the most has choked their running
Speaker 1: game and that's what the Patriots did. They did they
Speaker 1: did not let them get going in the Patriots did.
Speaker 1: Billy Zappy, the quarterback filling in, did a great job
Speaker 1: of moving the Patriots that day. So you know, keep scoring,
Speaker 1: keep scoring, keep scoring, and then put pressure on them
Speaker 1: to get them out of their offense. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden then you know you have the opportunities
Speaker 1: for the turnovers and things like that. But with this
Speaker 1: with this crew right here, to me, it's about stopping
Speaker 1: that running game first. And you choke that running game,
Speaker 1: they become a whole different team when it comes offensively. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a believer that when I watched this Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: that some of their issues stopping the run have been
Speaker 1: about them being more concerned about getting to the passer
Speaker 1: and because of that they've gotten gashed. Do you think
Speaker 1: Nick in a game like this where they're going into
Speaker 1: the game knowing this team's gonna run the ball at us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the challenge this week to challenge stop the run.
Speaker 1: And we heard Michael, I heard Michael and Prescott he
Speaker 1: said multiple time just day his interview, we got stop
Speaker 1: the run, like that's our goal. We got stopped run.
Speaker 1: Do you think that in that kind of situation they'll
Speaker 1: be better at it because that's their focus. I think
Speaker 1: what they need to do is put the three headed
Speaker 1: monster in the corner for a second. We don't need
Speaker 1: a three headed monster at safety right now. Two headed monster,
Speaker 1: two safeties, and let's play some linebackers and let's stop
Speaker 1: this run and let just like Brian said, let Jared
Speaker 1: Goff beat you throwing the ball. Let those guys and
Speaker 1: trust the corners. I mean, Anthony Brown and Trey Von
Speaker 1: Diggs not in that order, are really good cover guys,
Speaker 1: and they're they're having good seasons. I think they can
Speaker 1: handle what the Lions have. Um that they have some talent,
Speaker 1: and like all teams do, but I think they can
Speaker 1: handle it. I think the focus has got to be
Speaker 1: on the run and get them in third and eight,
Speaker 1: third and nine. It's very similar to what Washington did.
Speaker 1: Washington tried to run it, but really when it got
Speaker 1: down to it, they kept saying, we're gonna put you
Speaker 1: on the field a lot, and we think you're gonna
Speaker 1: go backwards as much as you're going forward, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna pounce on it when it's third and long. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened. Yeah, that's the command This game
Speaker 1: was really a great example of if they, if the
Speaker 1: Commanders wouldn't have been penalized so much. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's it's second and you know, it's second and seven,
Speaker 1: and they run it and they get a first down.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden there's a holding. Now it's you know,
Speaker 1: now at second and seventeen, and now they have to
Speaker 1: throw the ball or they try one of those screens
Speaker 1: or something like that, because it just it takes their
Speaker 1: it takes their offense out of whack. And I think
Speaker 1: that Nick's absolutely right about that. You might have to
Speaker 1: play they're going to play eleven personnel stuff, and you
Speaker 1: know you're dealing with a tight end that's capable. But
Speaker 1: the Cowboys plays tight ends really really really well now.
Speaker 1: And I worry a little bit because maybe some of
Speaker 1: the line the three headed monster stuff is down in
Speaker 1: the box taking these tight ends out of the game too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and so that that that's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a concern. But we had we had a we
Speaker 1: had Tank Lawrence on yesterday on one O five three
Speaker 1: of the Fan and he and he he was talking
Speaker 1: about responsibilities, gaps, lanes. I mean, he was saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you've got to be discipline and playing. And they miss
Speaker 1: some tackles in the whole too, you know, and they
Speaker 1: miss some they miss some plays because just by alignment
Speaker 1: they were bad. So his thing is not so much
Speaker 1: about the physicality you have to play as it's about
Speaker 1: the assignments, you know, And don't don't let your assignment
Speaker 1: kill good run defense, don't let don't let one bad
Speaker 1: read mess ten other guys up. I think that's what
Speaker 1: he was really talking about yesterday. Ye all right, let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the players for Detroit that
Speaker 1: that are kind of iffy. They're on the injury report,
Speaker 1: but seem to be guys that are important to their offense.
Speaker 1: Let's start with DeAndre Swift. Yeah, the running back. How
Speaker 1: much does their offense change if he's not in the
Speaker 1: game versus is in the game. Well, he's an eight
Speaker 1: yard to carry guy and he hasn't played since Week
Speaker 1: three and he's dealing with you know, he's dealing with
Speaker 1: some things, uh, you know, with the the ankle, shoulder,
Speaker 1: things like that. He's been kind of struggling with. This
Speaker 1: is a this is a guy that if he's not
Speaker 1: if he's not the game, that's a good for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: But they've got other guys, Williams, They've got guys that
Speaker 1: are capable. They're all the same kind of looking backs.
Speaker 1: So it's like with the Cowboys, you've got Zeke and
Speaker 1: Pollard looked different and they play differently. Not that Pollard's
Speaker 1: not tough enough to take an inside, but the Lions
Speaker 1: running game doesn't change because they put in a lighter
Speaker 1: back or a slimmer back. It's the same square guy
Speaker 1: running the ball. So they do the same thing, the
Speaker 1: gap schemes that we've talked about. So not having swipt
Speaker 1: in there would help. If he plays, it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be very similar. Ball is gonna come downhill, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be explosive, he's tough, he's low center gravity guy, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna run with some some physicality there. So I
Speaker 1: think that's the thing that you would have to worry
Speaker 1: about with him playing. This is a Layton Vanderesh game.
Speaker 1: Like Layton Vanderesh has got to get in there and
Speaker 1: play and play well, and you can get a lot
Speaker 1: of tackles Donovan Wilson as well. And I know I
Speaker 1: said three headed monster and all that, but Wilson's played
Speaker 1: a lot um I think that. I don't mean that
Speaker 1: those three safeties don't play all. They're all gonna play,
Speaker 1: but just maybe rotate them a little bit more. And
Speaker 1: I like what you're saying about the tight ends because
Speaker 1: that's that's what kind of key. And they do have
Speaker 1: a good tight end in Hawkinson, but this is a
Speaker 1: physical game that they're gonna have to get off the
Speaker 1: field with with filling the gaps and making tackles. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think Layton's gonna you know, those linebackers,
Speaker 1: he need him and um bar, they need to have
Speaker 1: double digit tackles in this game. DeAndre Swift, according to reports,
Speaker 1: as has been trending toward playing. He's been a little
Speaker 1: bit more every day. Although Dan Campbell stopped short of
Speaker 1: saying he'd be ready to play this weekend, he is
Speaker 1: doing more every day, which Leans McCarthy didn't say Dak
Speaker 1: is gonna play, right, I mean right, so leaks toward thing. Now.
Speaker 1: The flip side of that is Josh Reynolds, their wide receiver.
Speaker 1: He has not practiced all week at all. What does
Speaker 1: that mean if Josh Reynolds isn't out there? First of all,
Speaker 1: their injury report is ridiculous because they're because they're they're
Speaker 1: coming off a buy. Yeah, that's what I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I mean, Cowboys, if let's go wouldn't have gotten hurt yesterday,
Speaker 1: every player would have had a full participation. Now they
Speaker 1: got some guys on IR and all that they have injuries.
Speaker 1: But man, the Lions, the mash unit over there. Yeah, Reynolds, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean with him, it's you know, when I to me,
Speaker 1: the guy you have to worry about the most is
Speaker 1: Saint Brown, that's the one. But Reynolds is a really good,
Speaker 1: complimentary piece to what they do. And you know he's
Speaker 1: dealing with a knee right now. So when you're talking
Speaker 1: about runt, when you're talking about receivers, knees. That's not
Speaker 1: a very good combination. So if he's out of the game,
Speaker 1: that's that's a plus right there. That's you know, eleven
Speaker 1: personnel stuff that they do, and he's a part of that.
Speaker 1: On the outside, he's been really productive, you know, for
Speaker 1: the Lions. So him not playing, I think that takes
Speaker 1: away because you watch the games. It's Saint Brown, it's Reynolds,
Speaker 1: it's the running game. That's how they're throwing the football. Hackinson,
Speaker 1: that's how they're throwing the ball. And so take something
Speaker 1: out of that. Take him and Swift out of that thing. Boy,
Speaker 1: tell you what that would be. That would be something
Speaker 1: that you know, you would have a good advantage that
Speaker 1: Reynals did play against the Patriots, right, Swift did not.
Speaker 1: Swift did not. He hadn't played since Week three. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: Why are you looking for PRIs? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. Sure, Yeah, I don't know. I was
Speaker 1: just thinking about this barbecue thing. Honestly, you're excited about
Speaker 1: that now, I'm I don't know if I'm gonna going
Speaker 1: out there. I mean it should be excited. Well, I'm excited, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's bye weekend. I don't think I'll be
Speaker 1: an EIGHTEENTHC stadium on the bye weekend. I just don't.
Speaker 1: I think I'll probably not be out there, Okay, probably
Speaker 1: probably not be away from any stadiums. Really, you don't
Speaker 1: want to go to any stadium? Want a bye week
Speaker 1: Probably not? But I can all be in a high
Speaker 1: school game or something like that. I was about to say,
Speaker 1: who's Arkansas got? What y'all don't know about Nick? Is
Speaker 1: a weekend without a live sporting given for Nick. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna happen. If you have an opportunity,
Speaker 1: you're going somewhere Arkansas, Midwestern state somewhere right see next
Speaker 1: weekend Midwestern states. I'm talking that is going to be
Speaker 1: a party. That's what I do. But Arkansas plays Liberty
Speaker 1: on November the fourth, and I picked. I had two
Speaker 1: choices this year. I'd picked Liberty or Alabama. Picked Alabama.
Speaker 1: That's the better pick. Well, well we'll see. I mean,
Speaker 1: like what you're gonna be leaving the stadium feeling what, Well,
Speaker 1: it's a better game, Like, yeah, it's the matchup. You
Speaker 1: want to go see the matchup? Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: good third quarter. All right, let's get the buns. I
Speaker 1: got a call from Dennis and All when he dinnis
Speaker 1: what up? What's up? Guys? I hope all is well
Speaker 1: with you and your family. Tough weeks this week. I've
Speaker 1: been long. I've been with the show long enough to
Speaker 1: know that Rob left before and he came back. So
Speaker 1: every time someone leaves it hurts me too. So I
Speaker 1: know how close he is to Nick, so I'm sure
Speaker 1: the relationship will continue. But been a tough couple of months. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Day two. But I love seeing Dave up there. He's
Speaker 1: doing a great job. You gotta take credit for that.
Speaker 1: So I just want to wrap up the Eagles thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure, Brian. I listened to Krusty's Corner
Speaker 1: every day. The truth is I listened to The Break
Speaker 1: every night before I go to sleep, and I tune
Speaker 1: in to hear Krusty's Corner and in a lot of
Speaker 1: the other show. So I just want to wrap up.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much people said about it, but
Speaker 1: everyone loves dan Quinn. But I thought he got out
Speaker 1: coach bad against the Eagles. We don't have to. You
Speaker 1: could say a little bit about it if you want.
Speaker 1: I thought his players were flat footed. Number six will
Speaker 1: since twenty seven didn't play that well, and of course
Speaker 1: Micah was just standing there looking. But we'll move on
Speaker 1: from that. Um. And my other point is I'm scared
Speaker 1: to death of this game. This feels like a Denver game.
Speaker 1: I think we win twenty seven to seventeen. Either a
Speaker 1: field goal or a touchdown gets them up UM up
Speaker 1: ten to make us feel late. But I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a nail biter. And lastly, Bryan, eat some sandwiches,
Speaker 1: eat some some easy things, because that shake you're gonna
Speaker 1: drink today on there is gonna be tough. So best
Speaker 1: of luck with that. Thank you, man, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, though, what if you did? What are
Speaker 1: you drinking today? Uh? We we have a Survivor pool.
Speaker 1: Yeah I know about that, But what have you roped
Speaker 1: yourself into at this red onion, orange mints, garlic, cheeseburger
Speaker 1: and spicy brown mustard and some type of liquid. I
Speaker 1: have to consume all those things mixed together. Okay, sounds
Speaker 1: so horrible, and you're gonna drink it on air? I have.
Speaker 1: I've already drank a beer out of a shoe, a
Speaker 1: gym shoe. I've already had a Johnny Walker black through
Speaker 1: a hot dog straw. My stomachs turney right now? That's
Speaker 1: it seems like you need to pick games better, right,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what up on this. For someone that's
Speaker 1: supposed to be a football expert, I'm not very expert
Speaker 1: of picking these Survivor games. It's always funny the Survivor
Speaker 1: game we pick and then the injury report comes out,
Speaker 1: and then everybody that you think is gonna play is
Speaker 1: just gone. You're like, wait a minute, now, how this
Speaker 1: just happened? But yeah, you're right, Beam, I need to
Speaker 1: I need to be better in Philadelphia just picked those two. Well,
Speaker 1: you only picked these teams one did already pick those?
Speaker 1: I've already picked. I've already picked them. Yeah, we're good. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get to this question too much
Speaker 1: because it really will give away kind of our picks.
Speaker 1: So we'll get back to that when we get ready
Speaker 1: for our picks. I did notice something just a moment
Speaker 1: ago on Twitter though supposedly Josh Reynolds is practicing today
Speaker 1: for there again. So as it always happens, like when
Speaker 1: you play in the Cowboys, every guy's gone for whatever
Speaker 1: reason they're they're injured. Play a show guy, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so Texas A and M probably probably from
Speaker 1: Texas well, Romo and nanswering, you know, calling the game too.
Speaker 1: So I always thought Romo and Nance would cover Cowboys Lions.
Speaker 1: I know that's the last thing. Neah. Nowon Cowboys Lions game,
Speaker 1: you get getting Romo and Nance. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: this call, I mean, actually, let's get this this question
Speaker 1: from Twitter from Titanic WICKI yeah, real quick? Did he
Speaker 1: did you feel like the Quinn got out coached? I
Speaker 1: didn't feel like he got out coached. I think I
Speaker 1: think his I think his guys let him down a
Speaker 1: little bit with the way that they played, especially they'll
Speaker 1: drive with the eleven straight runs. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the Eagles figured out a way to to not
Speaker 1: have Micah Parsons affect them the way he's affected other teams.
Speaker 1: So if you want to call that out coached, yeah, fine,
Speaker 1: I thought I thought they did a really nice job
Speaker 1: of just making sure that he wasn't a huge problem.
Speaker 1: But you know, honestly, I think that most teams have
Speaker 1: try to do something to take him out of the game.
Speaker 1: The difference here is, and I kind of agree with you, Brian,
Speaker 1: I think the difference here was I don't think the
Speaker 1: Dallas defense played its best game from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: excu I think the turnovers lost you that game because
Speaker 1: hurts didn't kill you throwing the ball or running the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the tight end that we were worried about never they
Speaker 1: never made a huge play down the field. The screen
Speaker 1: game was not a factor. Those turnovers was what killed
Speaker 1: you in that football game. To me, turnovers and mistackles.
Speaker 1: I think I think that score that was a good
Speaker 1: example of just they weren't they weren't in position, they
Speaker 1: didn't do the right things like they had the call
Speaker 1: was there, they didn't make the play. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a prime example of what we saw throughout that game.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I put it on dan Quinn
Speaker 1: as much as I say they just had one of
Speaker 1: those clunker kind of games, which was why I've always
Speaker 1: been saying that's why you need Dak back, because there
Speaker 1: are gonna be Sundays when your defense just doesn't play
Speaker 1: up to par, and when that happens, you need a
Speaker 1: quarterback that can match match points. I mean I came
Speaker 1: out of that game thinking, if they don't turn over
Speaker 1: this ball, if if if if Cooper Rush played like
Speaker 1: he did the previous three games, yeah, four and what
Speaker 1: I mean you're sitting there going, man, this thing. Don't
Speaker 1: give them short fields, don't give them opportunities to you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was it just was so it was
Speaker 1: one of those things like you know that to me,
Speaker 1: you played them toe to toe. They're they're every all
Speaker 1: week long we were talking about their offense could do
Speaker 1: this and this and this and this. Their offense really
Speaker 1: didn't do that. I mean, they're they're back. They had
Speaker 1: they were three and a half yards to carry the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't think he threw it for over five I
Speaker 1: mean five yards a completely. It was something ridiculously low.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think if you don't turn
Speaker 1: over that ball in that game, you got a shot
Speaker 1: of walking out of there with a victory. I really
Speaker 1: believe that. All right, Let's take a question from Titanic
Speaker 1: Gee says, what makes you makes a two part question,
Speaker 1: what makes you most optimistic about the Cowboys for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, and to what makes you most
Speaker 1: pessimistic the schedule. It makes me optimistic that they they
Speaker 1: will be favored to win um, probably ten of the
Speaker 1: next well, they got twelve eleven games left. Probably game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll be favored. They'll Yeah, they'll probably be favored in
Speaker 1: maybe nine of the eleven games. I think maybe maybe
Speaker 1: not at the Vikings and maybe not at green Bay. Yeah. Maybe. Really,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you need green Bay to keep losing, you.
Speaker 1: I mean, existence they'll be favored to beat Philly, probably
Speaker 1: at home, I would think, and then every other game.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe the Titans on the road. But I
Speaker 1: mean it's just it's it's setting up well that they
Speaker 1: should win games and and and heavily favored on saw
Speaker 1: on a lot of these, So that that's that's optimistic
Speaker 1: to me, that that you know that they've lost to
Speaker 1: the Eagles that are undefeated, and they lost to Tom
Speaker 1: Brady in the Bucks early on. I don't think that
Speaker 1: team is the same. Now, I'll play them again if
Speaker 1: you if you the schedule, and I hate that, but
Speaker 1: if it's end of the day, all that kind of crowd.
Speaker 1: They're the sixth seed and the Bucks are the third seed,
Speaker 1: and you would love to go and take this team
Speaker 1: to Tampa and go play them. Yeah no, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you caught into January. Yeah, for all the injured people
Speaker 1: would not be healthy. So I'll tell you what. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what I'm optimistic about. There were so many
Speaker 1: questions after week one that now you have answers for
Speaker 1: and I'm talking offensively, and I'm talking about it in
Speaker 1: the in the benefit of helping Dak Prescott. There were
Speaker 1: questions about the left tackle, there were questions about the
Speaker 1: left guard. I brought up questions about the right tackle,
Speaker 1: had questions about the running game. You really need to
Speaker 1: give the ball to seek all those times when you
Speaker 1: got Tony Pollard, you know it's Mike McCarthy gonna help
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore along with some of the play call and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, there are things that you just some of
Speaker 1: those receivers, Yeah, the young tight end see that. So
Speaker 1: I'm saying those are the things that after the Tampa game,
Speaker 1: we were all sitting in here looking each other like, damn,
Speaker 1: this is not gonna be good this year. We were
Speaker 1: all like thinking, how can we do this for sixteen
Speaker 1: weeks and put a brave face on that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But in reality, though, is you're four and two, you're
Speaker 1: getting your quarterback back, You're in the middle of this
Speaker 1: divisional hunt, You're in the middle of the conference hunt.
Speaker 1: There's nobody in the NFC that's running away with this thing. Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: like I say, you don't turn over the ball. Philadelphia
Speaker 1: is a beatable team to me. Now. The thing on
Speaker 1: the flip side of it, though, the defense. Let's see
Speaker 1: them play against the Lions this week and really stop
Speaker 1: the run. Let's let's if the narrative if we come
Speaker 1: back Monday and it's like, man, this game was way
Speaker 1: too close because the Cowboys gave up two hundred and
Speaker 1: you know, two hundred and twenty five yards rushing you know,
Speaker 1: now we're gonna be like they have a problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a really really good running team. You shut
Speaker 1: this team down running the football, you're probably gonna be
Speaker 1: able to play against anybody else's league. I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: well we don't. You don't get to see Buffalo or
Speaker 1: any of these people till the very end. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you shut down this team running the ball, they
Speaker 1: should be confidence going forward. Now that's the that's the
Speaker 1: question mark I have. Can you really shut down a
Speaker 1: good running team? Yep, I agree whole hardly. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: optimistic thing is the Cowboys schedule. Pessimistic thing is the
Speaker 1: Eagle schedule. That's that's the Giants, because they're they're they're
Speaker 1: sitting ahead of you right now. Um, but the Giants
Speaker 1: and Eagles are gonna have to play, so you know
Speaker 1: that you get to play them too. Yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be each other up a little bit. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: some moments. Yeah, yeah, I mean that that's but but there,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be kind of tough to catch them. And
Speaker 1: and but you're gonna make the playoffs. And this team's
Speaker 1: gonna make the playoffs, but you you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: probably go on the whole thing on the road. Which
Speaker 1: teams have done it? Yeah, teams have done it, and
Speaker 1: this team has been pretty good on the road. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm afraid of well, defense travels. Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly right. If it's run game, if it's one hundred
Speaker 1: degrees in Tampa and it'll be all right, and if
Speaker 1: it's if it's twelve degrees. And I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: where we play where? Yeah, where would you play? That
Speaker 1: would happen? I don't know what what what NFC team
Speaker 1: would you play? Philly? Yeah, you play, but you're but no, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you had to go on the road, and yeah,
Speaker 1: Philly yours a possibility. Yeah, yeah, I don't think there's
Speaker 1: any other NFC teams I can think of that'll be up.
Speaker 1: It was kind of weird how the Rams ended up
Speaker 1: with the home field championship game with all the upsets
Speaker 1: and stuff. You know, Green Bay losing, San Francisco going up,
Speaker 1: and you never know, San Francisco did a great job
Speaker 1: play defense, run the football travels. Yeah, I picked up McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: Now and you see what happens. N Yeah, that's really
Speaker 1: running the ball. If Green Bay doesn't make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: then you're pretty much assured that there won't be any
Speaker 1: crazy crazy weather in the NFC in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: mean New York and Philly they could, but it's not
Speaker 1: going to be that crazy Green Bay's And when you worried,
Speaker 1: like you get this blizzard right, that's you guys will
Speaker 1: have fun traveling to Minnesota. Maybe that might be when
Speaker 1: you be cozy in there. Yeah, once you get in
Speaker 1: the stadium. Yeah, just like at home. Just walking off
Speaker 1: that bus right that coming down that ramp on that
Speaker 1: airplane at little slippery, it'd be like Rocky coming at
Speaker 1: Rocky for just walking out of there in Russia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll talk about Yeah, what about the Rose Bowl? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's take another question. This one's from
Speaker 1: Big Dog three thousand and four. He says, why aren't
Speaker 1: we using turpin more? I don't know. How would you
Speaker 1: like to see them use turpin on the field like
Speaker 1: on offense? Yea? And how would you like to see
Speaker 1: give him the ball? Give them ball on a reverse
Speaker 1: once a game, fake it to him four times a game.
Speaker 1: Give him out, get him out there, get him in space,
Speaker 1: get this thing going wide. Because if the wid are
Speaker 1: this this defense in the limeloud, sorry the wind are
Speaker 1: this defense is the more it'll it would open up
Speaker 1: things for Zeke, for Dak, for for the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, for the tight ends to go over there.
Speaker 1: I just think you gotta make him, honest, you have
Speaker 1: a playmaking threat. He's shown on those punt returns that
Speaker 1: you think that he's not going to get around that edge.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a three or why are you
Speaker 1: going wide? Go up the middle and he's like, well,
Speaker 1: because I'm one hundred and forty pounds and number two,
Speaker 1: I can get this corner. And he does, and he
Speaker 1: gets the corner and he gets twelve yards. If you remember,
Speaker 1: there was a game earlier this season where they did
Speaker 1: an end around to him and you didn't think he
Speaker 1: would get the corner. He didn't get a lot of
Speaker 1: yards out of him, but he turned the corner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was like, yeah, that's what you're that's the
Speaker 1: kind of speed that you want to make. Teams have
Speaker 1: to be aware of and think about him. They used
Speaker 1: him on that that Dak run that there was the
Speaker 1: option they used him on that thing. The thing with
Speaker 1: with him, do you kind of feel like that I
Speaker 1: just worry about him holding the ball. You know, there's
Speaker 1: kind of that. There's a lot going on, and you know,
Speaker 1: and like he catches it and sometimes you're like, boys,
Speaker 1: you really got this one. And then he takes off running.
Speaker 1: The explosiveness, the speed and all that, it's super impressive.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say they probably have packages ready for him,
Speaker 1: But do you have to use the packages against the
Speaker 1: Lions or the Bears? Is that something that maybe you
Speaker 1: self scout after the bye week and you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: I remember Lucky Whitehead with a huge jet sweep against
Speaker 1: Green Bay right before or the half that led that
Speaker 1: got the first down and then now they got the
Speaker 1: drive and then they threw the ball to Bryce in
Speaker 1: the corner of the end. So I remember that right
Speaker 1: before the half, it was a drive. It looked like
Speaker 1: they were gonna punt, and they ran a jet sweep
Speaker 1: with Lucky Whitehead and it got a first down and
Speaker 1: now the drive's moving. Now you got bam, bam bam,
Speaker 1: you're moving down the field. I think they probably have
Speaker 1: something available. I don't think years ago, I don't, Well,
Speaker 1: do you remember that because it was right before the half?
Speaker 1: You think that they're gonna punt the ball. They're just
Speaker 1: gonna punt it and then hope that Arry Rodgers doesn't
Speaker 1: but you end up scored a touchdown with you know,
Speaker 1: throw it to Bryce and you know that's that's how
Speaker 1: it works. But I know, I think they probably got
Speaker 1: some packages. I just don't know if they're gonna break
Speaker 1: them out against the Lions or the Bears. How about that?
Speaker 1: But you but you could you could also say, you
Speaker 1: know that sometimes special teams coaches like to throw out
Speaker 1: fake punts and stuff in the preseason. You throw it
Speaker 1: out in games like that to put it out there,
Speaker 1: put it on tape, give him the ball in reverse,
Speaker 1: and then the next three or four games he's out
Speaker 1: there maybe on a fake reverse. But I just think
Speaker 1: his speed is something that needs to utilize. You're not wrong.
Speaker 1: You're not wrong. Put it out there on tape, like,
Speaker 1: let just run them a nine, down them down the
Speaker 1: seam and just let that safety know that dude's fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you don't have to do anything with it.
Speaker 1: You can look at that from both perspectives. Do you
Speaker 1: want to put it on tape and make them worry
Speaker 1: about it, make them try to practice it, or do
Speaker 1: you not want to put it on tape and hope
Speaker 1: that nobody's paying attention, and then in some game, well
Speaker 1: you really needed most you pop it out there, right,
Speaker 1: So it could go either way. Both could work. Right,
Speaker 1: he's out there a little bit, he's playing on offense.
Speaker 1: He's gonna do something. Gut feeling has already been written
Speaker 1: for this weekend. Well, I said it on the radio
Speaker 1: this morning. I said that he's gonna score touchdown this week. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's ahead and get the picks. It's time to get
Speaker 1: the picks. Tell me which thing's gonna happen this sun
Speaker 1: Surf is gonna score a touchdown this week? I see
Speaker 1: a touchdown to um somebody else that's that hasn't scored.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe a Schultz, maybe Hinder shot something somebody
Speaker 1: like that. Maybe Dak runs one in. That'd be great.
Speaker 1: I think Cowboys win twenty twenty three. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough game, uh for a little while,
Speaker 1: and then I think that they'll they'll they'll grind it
Speaker 1: out and maybe win. But I do think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a challenge. It's gonna be a tough game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a challenge. I went
Speaker 1: thirty one twenty three Dallas in in this game. And
Speaker 1: the thing that worries me a little bit is, don't
Speaker 1: let this scene get into the fourth and they're still close,
Speaker 1: you know, make make sure somehow get a stop. The
Speaker 1: biggest fear I have with him is running the football.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest fear I have. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: if it's a close game, they can keep running, keep running,
Speaker 1: keep running, because that you know, you saw what happened
Speaker 1: with Michael Parson today. It wasn't so much about the RPOs.
Speaker 1: The running game takes him out of rushing. They Philadelphia
Speaker 1: knew Jack Driscoll playing left or playing right tackle was
Speaker 1: a bad situation for them. They just ran the ball
Speaker 1: to keep him from, you know, having a pass block.
Speaker 1: So that's the thing I worry about. You know, let
Speaker 1: let if you can find a way to make this
Speaker 1: guy throw the football. I think you got a shot
Speaker 1: at really putting some hurt on him. I know, we
Speaker 1: talked all week about Detroit and how good they are offensively.
Speaker 1: We also talked about how bad they are defensively. I
Speaker 1: think this is a game that, to me will not
Speaker 1: be close. I think the Cowboys are going to run
Speaker 1: away with this game primarily. Primarily reason why I think
Speaker 1: that's going to happen is because I look at this
Speaker 1: and I say the Cowboys right now, as we heard
Speaker 1: from Micah, I think they are gonna go into this
Speaker 1: game saying, you are not going to run the ball
Speaker 1: against us, so you might be able to try to
Speaker 1: throw it. You might, but that's also going to back
Speaker 1: them into a corner of saying, Okay, you're gonna go
Speaker 1: against our best, So if you're gonna try to throw
Speaker 1: the ball, if you're gonna need to throw the ball,
Speaker 1: that's where we were at our best. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna do a lot of running on first and second down,
Speaker 1: trying to establish it, and I think it's just going
Speaker 1: to paint them into a deeper corner, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are gonna take advantage of that. I think the final
Speaker 1: score twenty seven six, Cowboys destroy the Lions. All right,
Speaker 1: appreciate you, guys, Jonas. We'll be back on Monday and
Speaker 1: we'll tell you what went right and wrong and give
Speaker 1: you our impressions of this Cowboys team heading into week
Speaker 1: At that point will be week eight of the season
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