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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and Bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Well,
Speaker 1: it must be the twenty twenty season here for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, because things certainly change really quickly around here.
Speaker 1: Yesterday wasn't really that fun town going around here. It
Speaker 1: was pretty cold. Now it's a beautiful day, it's still
Speaker 1: the break. And I know it's episode fifty five because
Speaker 1: yesterday it was fifty four. I'm Nick Eatman, Amber Garcia,
Speaker 1: David Hellman, Derek not with this today. But this is
Speaker 1: the fun Town RV tailgate at the Tostitos Championship Plaza
Speaker 1: and a lot more fun than yesterday. If it's a nice,
Speaker 1: beautiful day, you got people out here on the field,
Speaker 1: you know, and we're at the Star at the Tostitos Plaza. Actually,
Speaker 1: like you probably want to be out here today as
Speaker 1: opposed to yesterday. We're just adapting on the fly. Man
Speaker 1: I love it. It was actually weird to see nobody
Speaker 1: out here because usually this is a this is a
Speaker 1: spot where a lot of kids will come and play.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what the school situation is. I guess,
Speaker 1: you know, some kids. Hopefully we don't get a ball.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, beyond alert, beyond high alert. Yeah yeah, this
Speaker 1: is there's a little soccer game going on here. But anyways,
Speaker 1: this is a fun place to to to be if
Speaker 1: you want to, you know, if you want to come
Speaker 1: out and enjoy this whole Star district here, all the
Speaker 1: restaurants and all this um. You know, this isn't just
Speaker 1: a nice area here for in Frisco. And uh, this
Speaker 1: is a it's a beautiful day. I actually we couldn't
Speaker 1: said this yesterday. This is this is what I like.
Speaker 1: This is what they had in mind over here, Jeffreies
Speaker 1: who got this together here for the rvtail GA. This
Speaker 1: is exactly what they thought. This is what I think
Speaker 1: about when I think about like a Friday during football season. Yes,
Speaker 1: the weather is gorgeous. It's the last day of the
Speaker 1: you know, the last day you really got to work
Speaker 1: football on all weekend. You can wear a hoodie Halloween
Speaker 1: just forget about the global pandemic and the very bad
Speaker 1: Cowboys team that we're about to talk about, and life's
Speaker 1: still pretty good. You know, That's kind of my point.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Halloween, and Jerry Jones said in his uh
Speaker 1: in his radio hit today on one to five dot
Speaker 1: three The Fan, he said, you know, it's his favorite holiday.
Speaker 1: He said he loves the tricks of bad comments on
Speaker 1: Twitter that I love tricks. I think he was referring
Speaker 1: to trick plays. I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, going
Speaker 1: up to Philadelphia with a seventh round rookie quarterback, who
Speaker 1: I think what he throw? How many pass does you
Speaker 1: throw on Sunday three? Yeah, yeah, I think pull out
Speaker 1: all the stops, Jerry, I don't think you're given anything away.
Speaker 1: If that's what you were hinting at, I think people
Speaker 1: kind of already guessed that. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: that part. Andy Dalton's status you just said, Ben de
Speaker 1: Nucci's probably gonna start so based off of what Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said, and he was on the radio for the
Speaker 1: Fan this morning and then he talked to the media,
Speaker 1: it seemed like a different tone in just an hour
Speaker 1: and a half because earlier this morning about seven am,
Speaker 1: it was we'll see, we'll see what happens on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and doesn't look like there's a lot of scene going on. Well,
Speaker 1: McCarthy does his Friday morning radio hit at like six thirty,
Speaker 1: and you know that's when they're just getting to work,
Speaker 1: so he's got two or three hours to meet with
Speaker 1: the trainers And how's Andy Field? Not good? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 1: And that's the great thing about Jerry too, is he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Andy will be ready next week. He's like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: we can just dispense with the fake drama. Like I
Speaker 1: think from the moment Andy got hit on Sunday, you
Speaker 1: probably should have been like, he will not be back
Speaker 1: against Philly. So I don't expect him to play. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's going to travel. Typically, I feel
Speaker 1: like guys with concussions probably don't. You probably don't want
Speaker 1: to put that strain on him, you know. I think
Speaker 1: I think he actually will because I think this is
Speaker 1: gonna come down to not practicing a whole week, Like like,
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll be ready to play, but I
Speaker 1: mean they had to get this other guy ready to play,
Speaker 1: and because of that, it's not just a This isn't
Speaker 1: just Dack to Dalton. This is Dalton to Denucci, and
Speaker 1: you've got to figure out all these, you know, different things.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's probably doing a lot of different things
Speaker 1: to get him ready. So the whole offense has changed
Speaker 1: this week, I would imagine. So therefore, I bet you
Speaker 1: Dalton maybe goes. He maybe even is active, But I
Speaker 1: don't think he plays. That's going to be very surprising.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I don't know much about concussions, Like
Speaker 1: how do you fully evaluate that. It's such a they've
Speaker 1: got a they call it a protocol because it's a
Speaker 1: whole battery of tests. Yeah, it's something very very um
Speaker 1: you have to be very careful with that and what
Speaker 1: it implies. So I just don't unless you know for
Speaker 1: sure that he would be able to be on the field,
Speaker 1: there's no reason to make him travel at all, And
Speaker 1: especially with all this COVID stuff, I don't think that
Speaker 1: they I mean they take the path is this an
Speaker 1: Eatman special? Like, oh no, it really isn't, because I
Speaker 1: don't know. I would be kind of shocked if he's active.
Speaker 1: Just again, I mean, if why give him a jersey
Speaker 1: if he can't go into the game and Okay, you
Speaker 1: know what, again, I'm just speculating maybe he's not even
Speaker 1: maybe he just travels and maybe he's not active. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean if they feel and again, like Amber said,
Speaker 1: like you, no, two concussions are the same. And you know,
Speaker 1: if he's if he's still not feeling great, maybe you
Speaker 1: don't want to put him on an airplane and subject
Speaker 1: him to all of that. But like, if he feels
Speaker 1: fine and it's really just the safety aspect of it
Speaker 1: and not his own symptoms, then maybe he goes. And
Speaker 1: you know it definitely if he's available to go and
Speaker 1: be a veteran voice for the Nuchi to listen to it,
Speaker 1: I mean that makes a ton of I don't mean
Speaker 1: to bash your question, but why does it matter? What
Speaker 1: do you mean? Why does it matter? I mean, why
Speaker 1: are we here trying to guess, well, who are your
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks that are going to the game, because they've
Speaker 1: taken three quarterbacks to every game this year, every game,
Speaker 1: even Garrett Gilbert last week was there, So who are
Speaker 1: the three quartermin But if he can't play, he can't play. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm saying who. I still think he travels though, I
Speaker 1: think he travels I don't know if he can go.
Speaker 1: I would I would support that because Ben needs all
Speaker 1: the help he can get. You know, another thing that
Speaker 1: Jerry said this week or said today, was about this game.
Speaker 1: The trade deadline is next week. He said, nothing is
Speaker 1: gonna nothing from this game is going to affect what
Speaker 1: happens in the trade deadline. Now, hey, maybe that's a trick.
Speaker 1: Maybe he has a trade trick, a piss leave or something.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. Okay, I don't want to I
Speaker 1: don't want to heap I don't want to heap fuel
Speaker 1: onto that fire, but like it's funny in retrospect the
Speaker 1: things that you were remember because I remember in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: they played Washington and I remember hearing while we were
Speaker 1: already like we were at FedEx Field, and somebody kind
Speaker 1: of whispered to me like, don't be like, don't be
Speaker 1: surprised if there's some movement when we get back to Dallas,
Speaker 1: like you know, this team needs a wide receiver. Just
Speaker 1: have that on your radar. And I was like really,
Speaker 1: And they did it before we even got back from Washington, So, um,
Speaker 1: may I mean maybe, but I tend to doubt it.
Speaker 1: I don't and to that point. To Jerry's point is like,
Speaker 1: you know what this team is right now, Like, what
Speaker 1: can they teach you something new on Sunday that's going
Speaker 1: to prompt you to go out and do some crazy deal.
Speaker 1: I don't think I buy that, do you? No? No, Well,
Speaker 1: what if what if it's the other way? I mean
Speaker 1: I hate to say, like what if they win, but
Speaker 1: I mean like if they if they do end up
Speaker 1: winning the game, which and we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: our picks later. And I don't know if if you
Speaker 1: guys are even thinking that that's close to happening. But
Speaker 1: does that change your thought process or Jerry's thought process
Speaker 1: of like, all right, because you win, you're you're in
Speaker 1: first place, do they want to add to this and say,
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's do something here, try to to
Speaker 1: you know, make this better. I wouldn't, at least not again,
Speaker 1: like not like drastic resources again. You know we've kind
Speaker 1: of talked about this is if you can trade for
Speaker 1: a guy who's still on his rookie deal, who's under
Speaker 1: club control, who he can be a part of the
Speaker 1: future and the present. That is a narrow group of players.
Speaker 1: By the way, that's not that's not that is a
Speaker 1: that's like five guys. Um, I don't. I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: let's say they win in there in first place, Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton comes back next week, Like your offensive line is
Speaker 1: still a mess. You don't You're not going to have
Speaker 1: your tackles for the rest of the year. Um, I get.
Speaker 1: I mean, if the defense just plays like Doomsday on
Speaker 1: Sunday night, maybe I'll have to change my mind. But
Speaker 1: but I like, but does anybody, even if they win,
Speaker 1: does anybody believe the defense is just gonna look great now,
Speaker 1: because then then they they're just gonna pour it in
Speaker 1: on how bad the Eagles really are? Sure? I mean,
Speaker 1: and like, it's like you just be a bad Eagle team.
Speaker 1: Get give it your best effort. I mean in this
Speaker 1: bad division, I like, I'm tanking's dumb. Give it your
Speaker 1: best effort if you can. But that doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: have to spend valuable resources on a season that's probably
Speaker 1: not gonna go worng. Like I said not too long ago,
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, cool, you won the NFC East title,
Speaker 1: But then where those that get you once you start
Speaker 1: facing the other opponents. I mean, there's, like you mentioned, Dave,
Speaker 1: there are so many different aspects that are wrong with
Speaker 1: this team right now that let's say, a simple trade
Speaker 1: that's not there, I just cannot see it. It's not
Speaker 1: going to fix all the issues, and it's it's tough
Speaker 1: and not to be pessimistic, and yes, you want to
Speaker 1: keep the hope alive and keep fighting, keep pushing, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's just it's very hard to
Speaker 1: visualize that right now. Yeah, I think I think any
Speaker 1: kind of trade that comes up next week is a
Speaker 1: trade that would happen if you were you know, five
Speaker 1: in two or I mean, like it have to would
Speaker 1: just work regardless of the situation. Like you said, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's not many guys that most of the league thinks,
Speaker 1: oh he's he's still he's got a lot of value,
Speaker 1: but his own team really doesn't. He's kind of given up.
Speaker 1: That's what happened sort of with Amari Cooper. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was like everyone thought he was still other than
Speaker 1: the Raiders, everyone thought, oh he can still play. That
Speaker 1: was also that was a unique circumstance where John Gruden,
Speaker 1: he signed a ten year contract and was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get rid of these guys that don't fit
Speaker 1: what I want my team to be and I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's a team that fits that mold right
Speaker 1: now in the NFL landscape. So I fans wanted it
Speaker 1: to be Dallas, well, you know for and I mean that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't buy that either, But I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a big money guy on this team that could fetch
Speaker 1: you a price that would make it worth it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I was gonna say this yesterday too. And
Speaker 1: a lot of our fans understand the salary cap. I mean,
Speaker 1: because it's it's not an easy thing to understand, but
Speaker 1: like you can't just there's a lot of fans that
Speaker 1: do not that. They think that if you just trade
Speaker 1: a player, you're getting rid of his contract, like oh,
Speaker 1: you know, like just get rid of Zeke or get
Speaker 1: rid of d Law. They don't understand that that money
Speaker 1: goes automatically on your cap. You can't. You take the hit,
Speaker 1: not the other team. They just take the salary. You
Speaker 1: take all the hit that you gave them, all this
Speaker 1: guaranteed money. There's no way you can trade d Law
Speaker 1: or Zeke, not him or anything right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you just absolutely you're no way. Fans or butts
Speaker 1: he's got to be off my team. You could do it.
Speaker 1: But now you're trading Zeke Elliott for a third round
Speaker 1: pick and incurring that dead money on your cap and
Speaker 1: you get you get a third round pick out of No,
Speaker 1: that's not rather just give him. That's that's you trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of the like better ish player on
Speaker 1: your roster. You know, for someone else like you, you
Speaker 1: need to create some type of balance. I mean, what
Speaker 1: are you going to trade him for? That's really I
Speaker 1: am not bought into this whole, like, oh, ze career
Speaker 1: is going downhill type of Trent. But I think it's
Speaker 1: just just like everyone else on this team, they're just
Speaker 1: having issues right now. But I agree, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: But between between what their salaries are and what they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, what they would do to your salary cap
Speaker 1: if you traded them, and what they've put on the field,
Speaker 1: you're just not gonna get that much. And there's one
Speaker 1: guy on this team that would fetch you a heavy price.
Speaker 1: His name's Dak Prescott, and he wouldn't do it right
Speaker 1: now because he's recovering from that injury. Like I just,
Speaker 1: I just don't think they're in a beneficial situation. In
Speaker 1: that regard. Right now, I don't even think Zach Martin
Speaker 1: could get you. I mean maybe I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: would trade him, but I mean, what could you get
Speaker 1: for Zach Martin? First round pick maybe, yeah, late first
Speaker 1: best guard in football who's still like in his prime. Maybe,
Speaker 1: But it gets like, but why are you doing? That's
Speaker 1: already somebody just like right now tuned in and said,
Speaker 1: would you trade that? No, we're not. We're talking about
Speaker 1: We're talking about that nobody's tradeable. At the risk of
Speaker 1: sounding like a Sunshine pumper, I think I said this
Speaker 1: on our affiliate on one oh five point three earlier
Speaker 1: this week, is like, I think this team reminds me
Speaker 1: of the eighteen forty nine ers more than a team
Speaker 1: that just needs to absolutely blow everything up. Like the
Speaker 1: Niners lost Garoppolo and a bunch of other guys early
Speaker 1: in that season, and they had an awful year, and
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what happens when you lose that many guys.
Speaker 1: But they turned around. They drafted Nick Bosa two overall,
Speaker 1: they added a bunch of other talent, and they got
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl the next year. Now I'm not
Speaker 1: suggesting the Cowboys will get to the super Bowl next year.
Speaker 1: I need proof of that. But like Jerry said it today,
Speaker 1: like the core of this roster is still pretty good.
Speaker 1: They just need to a clean up some things, deal
Speaker 1: with some talent issues perpeted, most notably on defense. And
Speaker 1: there's also the freaking health. There's also the intangible, the attitude,
Speaker 1: the motivation, the working as a team, because that needs
Speaker 1: some work. All of that is very real, but it's
Speaker 1: also very fixable. I think this season twoy fifteen for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just the fact that like this team was bad early
Speaker 1: before you know, it was bad, and then it got
Speaker 1: really bad with it with without a quarterback. Do you
Speaker 1: get a high draft pick? You get a high well
Speaker 1: I would say you get a high second round pick,
Speaker 1: but they didn't really use it because Ja that didn't play.
Speaker 1: But I mean you you can get some some players
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you get these tackles back
Speaker 1: and everything. I think next year could be really good.
Speaker 1: I hate talking like that. We're you know, we say
Speaker 1: that every freaking year, like no, no, no, every oh
Speaker 1: next year is we don't know that for sure, we
Speaker 1: don't know. I think this, I think this team would
Speaker 1: have been a good football team. I really do this year.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, at what point they lost to the Rams?
Speaker 1: I think the Rams are a good team, But but
Speaker 1: at what point do you draw that? I agree with you,
Speaker 1: But at what point do you draw that line? Like
Speaker 1: that goes back to the whole they were. You know,
Speaker 1: they didn't have Lyle Collins, but they were watermelon kick
Speaker 1: away from losing to Atlanta, who is not a good
Speaker 1: football team. They got destroyed maybe no, no, no they're not.
Speaker 1: They're not. They got destroyed by the Browns, which you
Speaker 1: know they were already hurt then, but they still had Dak.
Speaker 1: I think they were probably a middling football team before
Speaker 1: all of the injuries happened, and now they're just not
Speaker 1: all right. Good, We're gonna we're gonna take our first
Speaker 1: break here. We're gonna actually talk about the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: Eagles game. We can talk about next year. We had
Speaker 1: a lot of games later this year. I think we'll
Speaker 1: be able to talk about. I think it's that's a
Speaker 1: fitting topic of conversation for the week before the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: It is where does this team think it is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And as bleak as it looks right now, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's as bleak as some people want to suggest. Okay,
Speaker 1: well we'll take a break. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the injuries, and also like when these
Speaker 1: guys are coming back, what does that actually look like?
Speaker 1: We'll get their status, but also what does it look like?
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Speaker 1: a big sucker game that we had out here is gone.
Speaker 1: It's just like yesterday. Other than the sunshine, I got
Speaker 1: Dave Amber, I'm Nick even An, We've got Derek Eagleton. Uh,
Speaker 1: what's up? You just you couldn't bear to to not
Speaker 1: be with us? You got Actually, what what happened was
Speaker 1: our producer Chris Bean hit me up. I was listening.
Speaker 1: He hit me up in the first segment and said,
Speaker 1: can you say you guys? And I was like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: you guys, eat, I'm here for you saying. I thought
Speaker 1: you were about to say something serious and real, so
Speaker 1: so I decided I jump on. I mean, I've heard
Speaker 1: of throwing someone under our bus. You just threw Chris
Speaker 1: under the RV here that he's in here working. Wow,
Speaker 1: how's it going? I missed you guys. I missed you guys.
Speaker 1: I was ready to get back on the air, you know,
Speaker 1: so I was. You know what I thought, really, Derek?
Speaker 1: I thought, you know you you you and I both
Speaker 1: we we like to pick the Blue and Silver team
Speaker 1: usually when it when it works. I thought maybe that
Speaker 1: you didn't want to pick the other team, so you
Speaker 1: just decided not to be on the show. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I was gonna put it on Twitter or somewhere that
Speaker 1: I'm not picking the Cowboys this week. So I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm killing the final segment. But it's okay. I just
Speaker 1: can't do it. I just can't do it, not this week,
Speaker 1: not just week. I can't do it. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: nobody can. I mean, I mean, yeah, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is my point. Who's the
Speaker 1: Eagles quarterback? Wentz? Okay? Well, I mean it's easy. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you don't, if you don't really say who the
Speaker 1: quarterback is, and if it is it's a seventh round
Speaker 1: pick who's never started a game, the disrespect for Nuci Maine, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I've already heard your score.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm not gonna pick the Cowboys to win.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't even smell like a touchdown. No, but
Speaker 1: like it's it's you know, I was talking about this
Speaker 1: on Twitter yesterday, like in time, like you can either
Speaker 1: be miserable about the current situation or you can just
Speaker 1: embrace it and try to find the fun in it.
Speaker 1: And it is fun that a kid, you know, a
Speaker 1: seventh round rookie from Pennsylvania is going to have a
Speaker 1: chance to go up and start against the Eagles if
Speaker 1: he you know, if he's not good and they get killed,
Speaker 1: well that's kind of what you expected. If But but
Speaker 1: if he's amazing, and you know, even if they don't win,
Speaker 1: maybe he plays great and and that's a cool story.
Speaker 1: So now you just got to find the fun. Now
Speaker 1: that we're talking about de Nucci, I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: this up. I don't know if it's just me or
Speaker 1: if you guys maybe are getting that same feeling too.
Speaker 1: But I feel like after hearing from starting last week,
Speaker 1: after hearing the way that players have been speaking about
Speaker 1: the quarterback for some reason, I feel like they somehow
Speaker 1: back up Bend Nucci a lot more than Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: Do you get that feeling they're gonna run over there?
Speaker 1: If there's just there's like a different dynamic about it,
Speaker 1: the way they have been responding. On my head, it
Speaker 1: seems to me that they like the Nucci better than
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. You're you're always trying to stoke controversy. I'm
Speaker 1: not You're always every time I hear them speaking, it's
Speaker 1: just they speak a completely different way when talking about
Speaker 1: I will I agree with you I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: say that they like him more than they like Andy Dalton,
Speaker 1: but there has been this fun, confident vibe de Nucci himself,
Speaker 1: like I think I hate I'm not trying to compare
Speaker 1: him to Romo as a player, but like he's kind
Speaker 1: of got that cocky smugness to him that Romo had exactly.
Speaker 1: He sounded completely unfazed by being on the QB one
Speaker 1: call with the media. He was cracking jokes and he
Speaker 1: was like, I forgot your question. Sorry. You know, they
Speaker 1: asked him about his forty time and he's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: like I had to wind at my back just like you.
Speaker 1: And it's not like he it's not like he went
Speaker 1: to fricking you know, he didn't go to Ohio State
Speaker 1: or Notre Dame, like he's not used to a bunch
Speaker 1: of reporters wanted to talk to him. He went to
Speaker 1: James Madison and so that was impressive. And then you know,
Speaker 1: Michael Galuve is like he's slinging that thing around man.
Speaker 1: Like there's definitely a fun vibe. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it means they like it more than they like Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: I mean, you like when you're having fun, So the
Speaker 1: but they relate to him. Andy Dalton's thirty two years
Speaker 1: old or thirty one whatever. That a younger guy and
Speaker 1: j Yeah. And here's also the thing to consider, Like,
Speaker 1: I think what we got to remember is like sometimes
Speaker 1: these kinds of quarterbacks, what we heard of him is
Speaker 1: the profile on him scouting report is that he is
Speaker 1: a guy with a big arm. He's a guy that's
Speaker 1: willing to take some chances. He's a guy that can
Speaker 1: can play off script, so he can he can scramble
Speaker 1: a little bit. Those kind of guys tend to to
Speaker 1: to bring a little bit of excitement to a practice
Speaker 1: as well, right, because they can make a play here
Speaker 1: and there, and the vests look at him like wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's cool. He makes throw down feeling they're like wow,
Speaker 1: and then he gets out of some trouble and makes
Speaker 1: the play and like wow. The issue becomes when the
Speaker 1: other defense is actually hitting him and and now he's
Speaker 1: having the playoff scripts and he's having the playoffs script
Speaker 1: every single play because there's no time in the pocket
Speaker 1: and can he keep that tas up and keep making
Speaker 1: plays over and over and over again. Now the good
Speaker 1: side for the Cowboys is we've seen in the NFL
Speaker 1: where a young quarterback with those kinds of skills can
Speaker 1: initially start off playing pretty good. You know, he can
Speaker 1: win a couple of games and turn a couple of heads.
Speaker 1: It's when you have to do it for repeated week
Speaker 1: that it becomes a problem. So if you want to
Speaker 1: look on a bright side for the Cowboys this week,
Speaker 1: the bright side would be maybe, just maybe they can
Speaker 1: pull a rabbit out of the hat and this guy
Speaker 1: can have one of those kinds of games. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: suspect that's probably going to happen with an offensive line
Speaker 1: as bad as there is, but that's where I think
Speaker 1: he can create that excitement that you may be hearing
Speaker 1: from some of the veterans. And let's also remember he
Speaker 1: is practicing against this defense. It's the same thing we
Speaker 1: heard during training camp where you start talking about the
Speaker 1: defensive end playing against this offensive line. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it could be who he's playing against us getting everybody
Speaker 1: a little bit excited. So let's just temper that a
Speaker 1: little bit until we see him up against in NFL
Speaker 1: caliber Deefen in a live game. You're saying, Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: isn't on the Cowboys defensive side of the way. He
Speaker 1: and Brandon Graham that they're not they're not the guys
Speaker 1: that that they're gonna be facing that they've been facing
Speaker 1: all week. I don't you know, if you all asks
Speaker 1: for everybody, if you're Jim Schwartz, the Eagles defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: and h U if he do you think he would
Speaker 1: rather face Denucci who's never started but he doesn't know
Speaker 1: anything about, or Andy Dalton, who you can get a
Speaker 1: lot of tape on even though he's a veteran and
Speaker 1: he's won games. That's a great question. That is a
Speaker 1: really good question. Um. I think at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, are you really are you really attacking the
Speaker 1: quarterback or are you really attacking the old line? I
Speaker 1: mean they go together. I know that's kind of like
Speaker 1: a dumb statement, but here the weak area, our weakest area.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's what the old line has not
Speaker 1: been able to do, which is protect your quarterback. So
Speaker 1: it just goes hand in hand. And I think that's
Speaker 1: that's why you really look at here when you are
Speaker 1: facing or looking to face the Cowboys offense. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is the old line, this is the area we
Speaker 1: can penetrate and attack through and get to the quarterback. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's fair. The Eagles are going to be able
Speaker 1: to attack this Cowboys offensive line. So I'll ask Derek
Speaker 1: and Dave that part. Because you're right offensive line, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a problem who regardless who he had behind you.
Speaker 1: But if you're the Eagles defensive coordinator, do you worry
Speaker 1: more about a guy that is elusive, that can that
Speaker 1: can maybe make plays when that happens when it breaks down,
Speaker 1: or a guy like like Andy Dalton who would aware,
Speaker 1: who would be aware and recognize it better. I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, in some way, it's probably nice
Speaker 1: for like to play a guy like Dalton, who you
Speaker 1: have an extensive book on how to play him and
Speaker 1: what he does well and what he doesn't do well.
Speaker 1: You know, for that matter, he's got a pretty abysmal
Speaker 1: track record of playing in primetime. Like that's a that's
Speaker 1: a thing that goes back to Cincinnati. So maybe you
Speaker 1: would have some comfort in that. But I still think
Speaker 1: you'd rather play a rookie who's literally never on this
Speaker 1: who is adapting to being QB one on five days. Notice.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably still preferable. Yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: question here is is it easier or is it preferable, right,
Speaker 1: because I don't think the answer is necessarily the same
Speaker 1: for both. It's probably easier to prepare to play Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton because you know, you have years of experience and
Speaker 1: tape to tell you exactly what he's going to be.
Speaker 1: If you get pressure on him, then you can force
Speaker 1: him to not play as well because he doesn't play
Speaker 1: well under pressure. That was the scout and report that
Speaker 1: Buck he gave us, and that's what we've seen so far. Right.
Speaker 1: The flip side of that is you don't really have
Speaker 1: a scouting report on Denucci and and is he the
Speaker 1: kind of guy I keep going back to this with Dad,
Speaker 1: and I know Denucci is not Dad, but there's a
Speaker 1: there is a sizable difference obviously in the production of
Speaker 1: this offense when Dak was in there and when Andy
Speaker 1: was in there, and I think buying large, they've had
Speaker 1: similar offensive line. I think people want to make this
Speaker 1: arguable Dak had most of this. Guys know me, he
Speaker 1: started the season without Lyonel, he didn't have tiring for
Speaker 1: much of the time. Yeah, he had Zack, but the
Speaker 1: tackles were a problem from the beginning, and they were
Speaker 1: still able to move the ball effectively, and they were
Speaker 1: still able to pull up put up a ton of points.
Speaker 1: So I just looked at it and I say, there
Speaker 1: is a big difference right now. And I think part
Speaker 1: of that difference, not all of it, but part of
Speaker 1: that difference is in the fact that Jack is a
Speaker 1: guy that forces defensive respect, the fact that he can
Speaker 1: get out of the pocket and he can run, and
Speaker 1: so they have to be thoughtful about that and how
Speaker 1: they come after him. That's not the case with Andy.
Speaker 1: So having in the quarterback back there, they can run
Speaker 1: and it has a build to get out of the
Speaker 1: pocket and seemingly, based on what everybody's talking about, can
Speaker 1: actually run and maybe run faster than Dak. I think
Speaker 1: it's something that you have to consider now, and I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see at least this Sunday how much that
Speaker 1: fact is in when when their offensive is trying to
Speaker 1: move the ball, and how the defense has to attack
Speaker 1: Newtie knowing that he has at a built All right, Well,
Speaker 1: I know we talked about this yesterday. We talked about
Speaker 1: the guys that are that were injured and what it's
Speaker 1: gonna look like still you know, things changed in twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. Yesterday it was really cold and Derek liked this.
Speaker 1: He wanted to be with this, so things changed. Let's go, uh,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, Joe Looney, Dave you think that they will play? Jack?
Speaker 1: Zach is playing zone. I'm I don't feel confident about Joe,
Speaker 1: so really quick left or right in your mind? What
Speaker 1: do you think it's gonna look like? Start at left tackle,
Speaker 1: cam Irving, Connor Williams, Tyler Beadest, Zack Martin, and Terrence Steele.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I think it will look like. That's
Speaker 1: not necessarily what I would do you think Steel's gonna start?
Speaker 1: Why did it? Like? Yes, because he's been so bad. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's been bad since the start. They love him, They
Speaker 1: like if they were like, they're just all of a
Speaker 1: sudden like, yeah, we're gonna yank him. You listening to
Speaker 1: Joe Looney yesterday he was on the fan with with
Speaker 1: Brian broad Us. That thing was hilarious. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys saw this. We texted about it. I
Speaker 1: didn't get to listen to pretty funny, but Looney basically
Speaker 1: made it sound like, hey, thanks the young pups for
Speaker 1: holding down the line and maybe he got some good
Speaker 1: reps if we need you again. I mean, he made
Speaker 1: it sound like he's playing. All right, let's go Joe
Speaker 1: and for I mean, put Joe at right guard and
Speaker 1: put Zach at right tackle. That's what I would do,
Speaker 1: or Connor mcgovernor, I don't really care. I think I
Speaker 1: am ready to do something drastic, Like I've been the
Speaker 1: guy that didn't want to move guards to tackle, but
Speaker 1: I think you need to at this point. I would
Speaker 1: play Zach Martin at right tackle in this game. Brandon
Speaker 1: Graham has killed various cowboy quarterbacks in his career, and
Speaker 1: that scares me. I hope the coaching staff has learned
Speaker 1: a lesson about who they should play at right tackle,
Speaker 1: but I haven't seen a lot of evidence that suggests
Speaker 1: they have. Derek. Hey, guys, I have a question. Is
Speaker 1: it a foregone conclusion that when money comes back, the
Speaker 1: Oddish is going to remain at center and Joe's gonna
Speaker 1: play a guard? No? No, I mean that based on
Speaker 1: what Nick just said, maybe he's back at center. But
Speaker 1: I've been impressed by No, I've been impressed by the Oddish. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think at this and in this case,
Speaker 1: if it's close, if it's if it's pretty close like this,
Speaker 1: then I do think you go for the younger guy
Speaker 1: that is going to you know, definitely be here. I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's close. If it's not, then then no, you
Speaker 1: got to win games, and everybody in the locker room
Speaker 1: deserves to try to win the game. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: if it's a close thing, I think the younger guy
Speaker 1: usually win. But if you keep talking about you know,
Speaker 1: we always hear this the whole like, oh, let's have
Speaker 1: your five best offensive lineman on the field. So if
Speaker 1: that's the case, I mean you would want to keep
Speaker 1: the oddish there and then add Joe Looney somewhere, which
Speaker 1: would be at guard. So Steele, we keep talking about him.
Speaker 1: Clearly the staff has a different perspective. Nobody in the
Speaker 1: NFL in the last four years that I know of,
Speaker 1: has really tried to make Joe Looney a starter. Nobody. No.
Speaker 1: So that's why it makes me wonder, like is he
Speaker 1: really a better guard or is he just a great
Speaker 1: option for a backup because he can play three spots
Speaker 1: on game day. I don't know. I mean, he hasn't
Speaker 1: been bad when he started. No, you're right. I mean
Speaker 1: he was the starter for a playoff team in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: They did give up fifty six sacks, but he played
Speaker 1: well enough to help him get there. Um, I mean
Speaker 1: I would rather play him at guard and move a
Speaker 1: guard to tackle, like I Beotis has been good in
Speaker 1: my opinion, not an O line coach, but that's what
Speaker 1: I've seen. And yeah, to Joe's on. Joe's got nine
Speaker 1: games left on his contract, and Tyler Biottish has three
Speaker 1: more years, and it seems plausible that he's your starting
Speaker 1: center going forward. You might as well just just get
Speaker 1: in there, young buck and get ready. All right, Derek,
Speaker 1: before you take us to break here, I want you
Speaker 1: to tell me what you think the defensive backs are
Speaker 1: gonna look like. Cheeto's gonna come back. What would you
Speaker 1: do there? Cheeto comes back? Where you are you gonna
Speaker 1: bench Diggs? Do you want to play him on the
Speaker 1: other side? Anthony Brown is the third corner? What do
Speaker 1: you like there? Yeah? I think at this point I
Speaker 1: take this opportunity to be able to give Digs an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do a little watching from the sideline. And
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean I don't play him at all. That
Speaker 1: means that he'd be my third cornerback, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: as we came into the season, I think that's what
Speaker 1: we all expected, was that he was probably going to
Speaker 1: be a third cornerback. Maybe by halfway through the season
Speaker 1: he had gotten enough rests and seeing enough stuff to
Speaker 1: where now he is more prepared to be a starter
Speaker 1: and maybe slide him in at that point. We did
Speaker 1: it in reverse. Now the time for him to be
Speaker 1: able to sit back and look a little bit and
Speaker 1: maybe learn from another vantage point and still get in
Speaker 1: there and play at the third cornerback. So I would
Speaker 1: definitely kind of scale him back a little bit. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm thinking about him as a future player.
Speaker 1: I don't want to kill his confidence right now, and
Speaker 1: he's taken a bit of a beating here. He got
Speaker 1: to play some good receivers and he's taken a bit
Speaker 1: of a beating. I think I scale back on him
Speaker 1: a little bit and let him kind of catch his bread.
Speaker 1: Do you want to hurt Jalen Smith's confidence at all?
Speaker 1: Sean Lee comes back, Are we worried about it? I'm
Speaker 1: really not worried about Jalen confidence at this point. I
Speaker 1: think Yalens no one's ever been worried about it. I
Speaker 1: think Jayalen loves Jalen, and that's good. Everyone's good. I
Speaker 1: loved himselfs But I think I think that, yeah, if
Speaker 1: I get an opportunity to get Sean Lee back, I'm
Speaker 1: going Sean Lee and I'm going vander Esh And to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I'm kind of judicious on how
Speaker 1: much I wanted you, Jalen. I'm good with us and
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas in there, as opposed to just assuming that
Speaker 1: that Jalen's my third my third linebacker. I'm just and
Speaker 1: I've been saying it since early in the year. I'm just.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm at this point pretty sold on the fact
Speaker 1: that Jalen Smith is just not playing good football. He's
Speaker 1: too sporadic. He'll make a play every once in a while,
Speaker 1: but then he'll have three or four bad plays, and
Speaker 1: I just think that's a big part of the problem
Speaker 1: they're having on defense. All Right, we're gonna go to break. There,
Speaker 1: gonna take us to break. Sure, let's go to break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back and we'll talk about I don't know
Speaker 1: what whatever Nick and Amber and Dave have planned it
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Speaker 1: a game. Let's play a game called more or Less
Speaker 1: or Less? All right? Um, should let's start with this
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard's touches. He's averaging five point eight touches offensive
Speaker 1: touches a game. Should he get more or less? You know,
Speaker 1: it's I'm the I'm the give Tony the ball guy.
Speaker 1: But like they've had so many problems that I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't even be bothered with something that
Speaker 1: far down the priority list this week. But well, I
Speaker 1: will say more, like he should get more. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: we got bulldogs. He should be getting Oh wow, hey
Speaker 1: check it out. Sorry, go dogs sick him? Um, he
Speaker 1: should be getting he should be getting more snaps. He
Speaker 1: should get a dedicated series per half. Um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would give him the ball. I would try to get
Speaker 1: him the ball ten to twelve times this week. All right,
Speaker 1: what about else? Want to I'll just point this out.
Speaker 1: This will be at Amber Jalen snaps. He's at one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. Should he be getting more than that or less?
Speaker 1: A cackle probably says it more than anything we can do.
Speaker 1: If more so, but less. He should be on the
Speaker 1: bench watching and learning how to do it. Not that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be watching people a lot much better than him,
Speaker 1: But man, I would have set him down a while back. Okay,
Speaker 1: just to make a point. Okay, Also, I'm gonna piggyback
Speaker 1: off that because this next one, Dalton Schultz, you also
Speaker 1: wanted to be off the team. Now I'm gonna ask
Speaker 1: Derek twenty five catches for Dalton Schultz? You think he
Speaker 1: should be getting more than that? Or do you think
Speaker 1: that's that's about right? That's about right. I mean with
Speaker 1: all the other weapons, does that's offense? That's that's about right.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I'm very happy with the
Speaker 1: twenty five. I think the twenty five is a great
Speaker 1: number for him through almost half the season. That that
Speaker 1: was not what I would have expected at the point
Speaker 1: when when we thought he was when we knew that
Speaker 1: he was gonna have to be their starters. So I've
Speaker 1: been I've been pleasantly surprised with what he's been able
Speaker 1: to contribute from the standpoint of a pass catching tight end.
Speaker 1: I don't think that you can expect a lot more
Speaker 1: from him. All right, All right, now, let gonna ask
Speaker 1: Dave this one. I know the answer, So everyone jump
Speaker 1: in Denucci's swag more or less? Like? Does he need
Speaker 1: to show more? Do you like? Oh? I love it?
Speaker 1: I mean does he need does he need to temperate
Speaker 1: a little. Know why. I'm like literally shoes and say
Speaker 1: really yeah, but seriously, like what what do you have
Speaker 1: to lose? Like, you're right, what's the what's the less
Speaker 1: Miles quote that you love so much from when he
Speaker 1: was at Oklahoma State. Let let it rip like you
Speaker 1: you are in a you I mean, I hate to
Speaker 1: sound like a pessimist, but it's a damn near hopeless situation.
Speaker 1: You might as well go have some fun, be more swaggy, honestly,
Speaker 1: and if you if you find a way to win,
Speaker 1: talk your talk like yeah, why not? This The way
Speaker 1: the place we are right now in season is absurd,
Speaker 1: so you might as well just recognize it and try
Speaker 1: to have some fun. You're saying, if he goes out
Speaker 1: and wins this game, he should just be fit fits
Speaker 1: magic at the podium. It just yeah, put put on
Speaker 1: some aviators, make a you know, d c d's you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, c d's lamb, Just get after it.
Speaker 1: Have some fun. Funny because he looks so young. He
Speaker 1: looks like he is he's a rookie, Okay, I know,
Speaker 1: but he has like that baby little face. And then
Speaker 1: it's it's just funny when someone has so much confidence.
Speaker 1: I would go up if he if he finds a
Speaker 1: way to win. I would get on that call after
Speaker 1: the game and be like, yeah, what's up? Pay you
Speaker 1: let me get out of here. That's your that's your
Speaker 1: bad idiots. I'm Ben d Nucci. I would It might
Speaker 1: be the greatest moment of his career. Like, he might
Speaker 1: not top it, so he should. He should top the
Speaker 1: Kurt Cousins Like you like that? Yeah, it should be
Speaker 1: like what's up? Yeah? Even I mean even if he wins,
Speaker 1: he's probably back on the bench next week because Dalton
Speaker 1: will be back, like literally, more swag, always more swag?
Speaker 1: All right, how about this? Uh, this is for everyone
Speaker 1: and it's and Jalen is not included in this. Who
Speaker 1: needs to play less? So we can't say Jones? Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: Arren Steel? Oh you guys. Yeah, I was about to say,
Speaker 1: where are you, guys? There's no bomb pauling Derek. We're
Speaker 1: at the Tostitos Championship Plaza, Forth Center, the fun Town
Speaker 1: RV tailgate. You never know who. I thought that might
Speaker 1: be Jerry Jones, to be honest with you, So, um,
Speaker 1: who needs to play less? Terren Steel is a great
Speaker 1: answer um m mmm mmmmmm. I no, you know it
Speaker 1: would be better. I should have sent a really long
Speaker 1: text message to you guys beforehand. Then you could have
Speaker 1: looked at Tern steals the right answer. If you can't
Speaker 1: say Jalen Smith, Arren Steals the right answer. Yeah, who
Speaker 1: needs to play more? I actually I wanted to argue.
Speaker 1: I wanted to argue with Derek in the previous segment.
Speaker 1: I like, the same thing is same thing as Tyler
Speaker 1: or be honest, get get Treyvon Diggs on the field?
Speaker 1: This like, I like, this is this is a trial
Speaker 1: by fire. This is where I see what you've got
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to mold you into a quality starter
Speaker 1: for next year when we retool and try again. Like
Speaker 1: that's what I thought you told me. I thought you
Speaker 1: said earlier this week on the show that if Keto's delty,
Speaker 1: you'd have Keto out there playing. Yeah, I would have Cheeto.
Speaker 1: I would have Cheeto and Trayvon on the boundary and
Speaker 1: ab is my nickelback. That's what I would do. I
Speaker 1: think it's when they're in base defense, would you have
Speaker 1: would you have him on the field? Yes? Over Brown? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's I mean I he needs to play like you
Speaker 1: need to figure out what you've got in him, and
Speaker 1: also like I'm I'm so impressed by his demeanor. He
Speaker 1: doesn't really he doesn't seem affected by the struggles that
Speaker 1: he's had. I tell you who I think needs to
Speaker 1: play less is Jordan Lewis. I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 1: Love the guy. I mean, one of my favorite players
Speaker 1: that have been here, that's been here in a long
Speaker 1: long because I I've thought, I've saw I saw so
Speaker 1: much potential in Jordan Lewis, and he's put up some
Speaker 1: great plays on the field in previous years, like last year,
Speaker 1: but man, I was really hoping him to be able
Speaker 1: to do something better this year and it hasn't been
Speaker 1: the case. So it's really this thing we thought. I mean,
Speaker 1: we ranked him as the best best cornerback on the
Speaker 1: team in June yea and felt pretty good about it. Yeah, which, man,
Speaker 1: I think Cheeto was probably the right answer. I know,
Speaker 1: like Cheeto, people love to hate on Cheeto, but I
Speaker 1: think he's a pretty good player. Now with the whole thing,
Speaker 1: go ahead, I'll give you guys another name of a
Speaker 1: guy I want to see a little less of. And
Speaker 1: it's not so much about him. It's about the guys
Speaker 1: behind him, as Laurance Armstrong. When I heard the coach
Speaker 1: talking this week and saying Doran, he mentioned Dorance as
Speaker 1: the guy he wants to see out there or that
Speaker 1: will get the benefit of getting more opportunities. I actually
Speaker 1: wanted to see more of Randy. I want to see
Speaker 1: more of Bradley, and I like, I'd rather see those
Speaker 1: guys because I think I know what Dorance Armstrong is
Speaker 1: and and that's just kind of a you know, he
Speaker 1: says he's an okay player. I guess at best. I
Speaker 1: want to see those other guys more than I want
Speaker 1: to see him at this point. That was actually that
Speaker 1: was me that asked Mike that question. And I asked
Speaker 1: it because I was like, all right, well, let me
Speaker 1: find something for the fans to get excited about. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll you know, Brandy, Gregory and Bradley and I like
Speaker 1: they'll get some more snaps. And McCarthy was like, well,
Speaker 1: it'll it'll be Dorance Armstrong. I was like, come on, Mike,
Speaker 1: you gotta work with me, man, you got me. He
Speaker 1: never really says anything and that he chooses to say
Speaker 1: that literally, he like, I just thought he was gonna
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, Bradley, Bradley and Randy definitely deserve more opportunities.
Speaker 1: He was like, don't forget about Doran's armstrong. I'm like,
Speaker 1: fans don't want to hear that, Mike. They don't. We've
Speaker 1: already forget. You know what something Derek doesn't want to
Speaker 1: hear is the fact that they just brought out a
Speaker 1: bunch of wings. Stop over here, so very good here
Speaker 1: at the Tostitos Championship part. It's that time. That's it,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm got it. Okay, um, it's that time.
Speaker 1: We'll start with you, Derek pick for the game, all right.
Speaker 1: I think this is a pretty clear and easy choice
Speaker 1: this week. I think I'm gonna go with Philly, although
Speaker 1: I do think there will be some moments in this
Speaker 1: game when we will be we will all be pleasantly
Speaker 1: surprised at Benzannuki. He will make some plays offensively, but
Speaker 1: I just think right now, everything about this to me
Speaker 1: goes back to the fact that I don't think this
Speaker 1: offensive line will be able to protect him, and I
Speaker 1: think he'll be running for his life all day. I
Speaker 1: think there'll be moments when he'll make plays I think
Speaker 1: there'll be moments when he probably makes mistakes, and those
Speaker 1: mistakes will be enough that that he ends up costing
Speaker 1: them the game. I think it's probably gonna be a
Speaker 1: twenty four to I don't know, seventeen games Cowboys lose,
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna be a It will be a
Speaker 1: game that they're end It just won't. They just won't
Speaker 1: have enough to be able to be billy. I agree
Speaker 1: with everything that Derek said, and you know, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: do it to me every week. I start thinking that
Speaker 1: there's a little hope in there, a little bright at
Speaker 1: the end of the tunnel, and then nope, disappointment comes again,
Speaker 1: and especially after losing in Washington, there's no way. I
Speaker 1: just don't trust the Cowboys right now. I don't trust
Speaker 1: the old line. I absolutely do not trust their defense. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: Cowboys lose, and it's gonna be an ugly score. Probably
Speaker 1: they get to score maybe maybe if they get lucky,
Speaker 1: like twelve points or something like that. But the Eagles
Speaker 1: are gonna score high twenties, all right. You know, I've
Speaker 1: brought up twenty fifteen a lot this week, and I
Speaker 1: think that's actually what this is gonna look like. I
Speaker 1: think between the defensive changes and maybe the juice that
Speaker 1: Denucci can bring, like, I think this will look scrappier.
Speaker 1: I think they you know, they'll they'll be juiced up
Speaker 1: a little bit more. They're not going to be out
Speaker 1: of it at halftime against the terrible team like they
Speaker 1: were last year. But they don't have they don't have
Speaker 1: the firepower to compete. I don't you know, Denucci, even
Speaker 1: with Zach Martin, even if with Joe Looney back, I
Speaker 1: think that's a matchup. I don't like this defense against
Speaker 1: Carson Winz Jalen Ragers coming back their first round receiver
Speaker 1: who's pretty damn good in his own right. So I
Speaker 1: see this being competitive into the third and then the
Speaker 1: Eagles pull away. So the final score I'm thinking is
Speaker 1: thirty one nine. Maybe the Eagles or maybe maybe the
Speaker 1: Cowboys get a handful of field goals, but I think
Speaker 1: it'll be like seventeen to nine in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: and then the Eagles kind of score to make it
Speaker 1: look more lopsided than it is. But I just I
Speaker 1: cannot pick the Cowboys too. I definitely can't pick them
Speaker 1: to win, and I have a hard time even thinking
Speaker 1: they keep it within seven to ten points. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't pick them to win this game. I agree with
Speaker 1: all you guys. I think it'll be I think they'll
Speaker 1: show a little bit more heart and effort in this game.
Speaker 1: I mean have to mean. It was embarrassing two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: You become the laughing stock to the NFL or after
Speaker 1: you what you did to Washington. So if you don't
Speaker 1: have any pride at all and come back in this game,
Speaker 1: then you don't have it. And then we're gonna find
Speaker 1: out a lot about that. But I don't don't think
Speaker 1: they have the talent to to compete. I agree a
Speaker 1: little bit more of Amber score. I think twenty seven sixteen,
Speaker 1: and I think they'll they'll you know, I think there
Speaker 1: will be an eyebrow game for like first quarter and
Speaker 1: a half, like oh, well okay, but then eyebrows for day.
Speaker 1: I just meant more of a raised eyebrow game. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can't used to see Derek's face, like and you
Speaker 1: guys and you yeah, I can imagine. I can hear
Speaker 1: Derek right now being like Okay, d Nucci, all right,
Speaker 1: well Derek, you want to do the honors and wrap
Speaker 1: this up because I don't have the I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I can't go with radio as long as you so okay,
Speaker 1: well let's see. Uh we we appreciate you guys joining
Speaker 1: us for the fun town RV helgaate. These last todays
Speaker 1: have been fun, so I guess the guys are out there.
Speaker 1: I wish I could have been option today, but we're
Speaker 1: back in studio on Monday. We'll tell you guys what
Speaker 1: went right and wrong for the Cowboys to them for
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