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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, September twenty fourth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty,
Speaker 2: episode number thirty six. Welcome to the latest edition of
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Speaker 2: the Star and today we get you guys ready for
Speaker 2: Cowboys Versus Giants. It's a quick turnaround. And actually, I
Speaker 2: don't know if you guys know this. This is something's
Speaker 2: going to happen this week. It's the first time in
Speaker 2: the history of the Cowboys. The Cowboys have never ever,
Speaker 2: in their entire history, played a Thursday night road game
Speaker 2: coming off a Sunday game the week prior. Ever, interesting,
Speaker 2: which is something that every most teams at this point
Speaker 2: are doing now that they have Thursday games. The Cowboys
Speaker 2: obviously play Thursday every year. They never they never never
Speaker 2: have had to travel. The only time this has happened
Speaker 2: is in twenty twenty two when they played a Saturday
Speaker 2: night game the week before, so they had five days
Speaker 2: rest instead of four. But they have never in their
Speaker 2: history had four days rest and played a road Thursday
Speaker 2: night game. So we will get to see high score. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's all.
Speaker 4: Give me the giants, you know.
Speaker 2: That's also an interesting thing, like.
Speaker 3: With all they give giants with all the.
Speaker 2: Issues that they've had, like you kind of want to
Speaker 2: turn the page, but at the same time, are your
Speaker 2: body is ready to turn the page with a four
Speaker 2: day And that's the part you don't really know, like
Speaker 2: that travel. I mean, we all will be on the well,
Speaker 2: several of us will be on the plane tomorrow, and
Speaker 2: it feels weird literally on a Wednesday, to get on
Speaker 2: a plane heading to another game. But there are other
Speaker 2: teams have to deal with that Cowboys have never had.
Speaker 7: Interestingly, Interestingly enough, I recently listened to a podcast and
Speaker 7: I hate that I don't remember the name, but this
Speaker 7: lady she does a bunch of studies on big time athletes. No,
Speaker 7: but she does a bunch of studies on big time athletes.
Speaker 7: Most of them are in the NBA. These are all names,
Speaker 7: you know, but it's around.
Speaker 8: Sleep and how crucial sleep is. This is a no brainer.
Speaker 7: We always hear this, but it specifically talks about how
Speaker 7: many times a team tends to lose when they travel
Speaker 7: to a different time zone, and not even even if
Speaker 7: you try to sleep how you should. I mean, there's
Speaker 7: all kinds of different elements that contribute to that.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 7: It was just a very interesting thing that you don't
Speaker 7: really think about it that way, but there are studies
Speaker 7: that shows that typically you underperform when you travel somewhere
Speaker 7: else did a.
Speaker 4: Different time didn't you guys travel to Baltimore for a
Speaker 4: Wednesday game one time and during COVID the last time
Speaker 4: the last time Dallas came up a huge But that was.
Speaker 2: That was the game with I think they were supposed
Speaker 2: to play on Monday, and it was some Nick was
Speaker 2: telling me about this in the Ravens got COVID. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was I think Lamar Jackson or somebody.
Speaker 4: Remember, Yes, it was like the pregame Des was going
Speaker 4: to play against and then he got tested by Yeah,
Speaker 4: yeah that year.
Speaker 2: Did you guys make the trips during COVID? I didn't travel.
Speaker 2: I think only Nick was the only person to travel
Speaker 2: during COVID. That was yeah, okay, because they were basically like,
Speaker 2: you got you got one seat. Who would you like
Speaker 2: to send? Andy were like, we need a writer, we
Speaker 2: need a writer. Nick, you want to go, So yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's kind of yeah.
Speaker 4: That was the last time that Dallas was really awful
Speaker 4: on the road. The most yards had given up was
Speaker 4: Baltimore in twenty twenty, and I remember the season that
Speaker 4: was like a win. I thought it was a Wednesday
Speaker 4: night game that the Raven It definitely was off.
Speaker 2: I couldn't remember it was a Tuesday or Wednesday, but
Speaker 2: it definitely wasn't the normal schedule they had. They had
Speaker 2: moved some things around because of what was happening with COVID.
Speaker 2: It was just we know that was a weird year.
Speaker 4: But but all going to do a deep blue on
Speaker 4: COVID thing. By the way, the COVID season.
Speaker 2: You know what we thought about that, here's the problem,
Speaker 2: got no footage.
Speaker 4: Let's reenact stuff.
Speaker 2: We could do that now.
Speaker 4: Let's have like Amber has taket swabs and jam them up.
Speaker 3: Stadium on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Amber has has won Emmy Awards re enacting things for documentaries,
Speaker 2: so we could probably figure that out, saying but I'm
Speaker 2: just saying like we have no footage. We talked about
Speaker 2: it like we got no footage today.
Speaker 4: Nobody ever, you know what, who's going to tell that history?
Speaker 4: I know, I wonder who's range because I always thought
Speaker 4: there was going to be a thirty for thirty about
Speaker 4: me too. Like, okay, the Lakers bubble team that won,
Speaker 4: you know that, the fact that and then the Dallas
Speaker 4: Stars even they had to go. They played in the
Speaker 4: Stanley Cup Final, playing in the bubble Edmonton.
Speaker 9: So the same people that produced the Last Dance sent
Speaker 9: a film crew and had people on site for the
Speaker 9: NBA Bubble from start to finish.
Speaker 3: So okay, so there you go, and you.
Speaker 2: Know, but here's the deal. You got to remember that
Speaker 2: was only four years ago. Bro oh, I know, like
Speaker 2: all those documentaries are coming in the next five to
Speaker 2: ten years when they look back and want to do
Speaker 2: kind of a deep dive on it, you know, when
Speaker 2: when most of us aren't still scarred by by what
Speaker 2: we went through in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: It was amazing just what you had to do to
Speaker 4: come in this building. It was crazy how you guys
Speaker 4: were working and stuff like that, and I know we
Speaker 4: were on the road. I'm sorry, I know we're going
Speaker 4: to talk about the Giants here. We were on the
Speaker 4: road in Arizona. And baseball. We were at the Texas Rangers,
Speaker 4: you know, at spring training, and literally like sports we
Speaker 4: were watching. I was cooking red beans and rice for everybody.
Speaker 4: You know, we had made apartments and stuff, and I
Speaker 4: was cooking dinner. And then we were watching the MAVs
Speaker 4: game and it just ended that night. And then the
Speaker 4: next morning we go and the Brewers were playing the Royals.
Speaker 4: They're exchanging lineup cards. Major League Baseball comes in the film,
Speaker 4: this is over and the next thing you know, we're
Speaker 4: broadcasting from empty stadium for four straight days and like
Speaker 4: no baseball, no, not even knowing what was about to happen,
Speaker 4: you know. And then and then I just moved on
Speaker 4: from from you at Dallas Comedies dot com. And I
Speaker 4: was thinking, I wonder if I get my old gig back.
Speaker 2: We were, you know, we were in Pittsburgh. I was
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh for a meeting and it was a meeting
Speaker 2: with a bunch of other teams around the NFL. We're
Speaker 2: meeting with the app developer, and literally we went to
Speaker 2: a meeting that morning and then we started hearing all
Speaker 2: this news and I called back to Heidi, our HR person.
Speaker 2: I'm like, should we come home? And she's like, uh,
Speaker 2: you probably can finish up your meeting, but after you
Speaker 2: finish your meeting, try to go ahead and get back.
Speaker 2: And literally, the airport was I've never seen it. We
Speaker 2: flew airport was empty and we're trying to get back
Speaker 2: home and it was just it was the eeriest thing
Speaker 2: ever we did.
Speaker 4: We flew home from we were at Phoenix and we
Speaker 4: flew home and we were on an American Airlines flight
Speaker 4: that was completely empty, and it was it was there
Speaker 4: was I think there were seven of us on this
Speaker 4: week old plane trying to you know, get home and
Speaker 4: all that. But it was a scary time for a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 2: We'll be telling our grandkids and kids.
Speaker 9: I'll say, I have a different perspective telling my kids
Speaker 9: here thirty years Hopefully.
Speaker 2: My kids lived it, So I'll be telling my grandkids
Speaker 2: at some point what happened. But let's jump in. We
Speaker 2: got we got a long time from now, right. Let's
Speaker 2: talk about injuries first. There there are a couple guys
Speaker 2: on the injury report, Marquise Bell, uh did not practice
Speaker 2: with an angle injury. The one that I thought was
Speaker 2: more important and more interesting was Kaylen Carson, his shoulder injury.
Speaker 2: Had practice. What do we know about it?
Speaker 3: You got you got to go ahead, go.
Speaker 4: Ah, I have it as a bruise, so maybe you
Speaker 4: have availability.
Speaker 9: Yeah, So they'll know more today as far as the
Speaker 9: practice and how much they were able to participate. But
Speaker 9: I was talking about Kaylen Carson and Marquise Bell, who's
Speaker 9: dealing with an ankle injury. Both of those guys will
Speaker 9: know a little bit more today. Bell left the game
Speaker 9: against the Ravens with that ankle injury, and Carson it
Speaker 9: was something that he was nursing after the game. Then
Speaker 9: yesterday he had ice pack on his shoulder during a
Speaker 9: locker room availability. But sounds like we'll know more to
Speaker 9: that effect today. But man, if you do not have
Speaker 9: Kaylan Carson in a game that you're going up against
Speaker 9: an emerging rookie wide receiver from LSU. I saw someone
Speaker 9: tweet out yesterday they said an LSU wide receiver is
Speaker 9: like picking a Kentucky guard in the NBA.
Speaker 3: It's like they're just continuously.
Speaker 2: You know they're gonna be good.
Speaker 3: You know they're gonna be good, and we'll.
Speaker 4: Be in that Texas Bowl at exactly and every just
Speaker 4: catch out, yeah, catch us in San Antonio.
Speaker 3: Check out the twenty twenty six first round pick.
Speaker 9: But yeah, but draft day is gonna be fun, right
Speaker 9: draft days.
Speaker 3: But if Kayln Carson cannot go, then you're probably.
Speaker 2: That was crazy last night. You watched it. We got
Speaker 2: too highlights in the NFL right now and on them
Speaker 2: won a championship. Though you got it, you gotta.
Speaker 4: Get That's why we will never will never get another one,
Speaker 4: because we sold our soul to get that one in
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen.
Speaker 9: Not to get too far off topic, but that throw
Speaker 9: that Jane Daniels may in the final couple of minutes
Speaker 9: last night.
Speaker 2: I was already making notes for the week we play
Speaker 2: the Commanders, like, oh gosh, this is not gonna be This.
Speaker 3: Is gonna be one of these games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be one of those games that was not.
Speaker 2: Quinn's gone there and actually made that team into a
Speaker 2: much He's remade who they who they were, who we
Speaker 2: thought they were. Now. I don't know how good they'll
Speaker 2: be all season, but they're a different team than they.
Speaker 4: Don't they haven't punted in two games. Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 9: It is wild to see Noah playing every single snap.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'll we're ready for that part. I
Speaker 2: don't know about all the rest of it, but Monogany, Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: we'll deal with that. We'll deal with that, all right.
Speaker 2: So let's talk a little bit. I know we had
Speaker 2: kind of got into this conversation yesterday on accountability. There
Speaker 2: were a number of players that have made statements since
Speaker 2: the game yesterday. I'm gonna read a few of them
Speaker 2: and i want to get your opinions on what you
Speaker 2: think of this and what you think it may mean.
Speaker 2: De Las said, we got guys that can do it.
Speaker 2: It's just about effing doing it and and obviously dealan
Speaker 2: talking about from the standpoint of being accountable. Dak Press
Speaker 2: Scott says, us as players, we've got to be more
Speaker 2: professional and understand our jobs, understand what we're supposed to
Speaker 2: be and do that time and time again, and keep
Speaker 2: our focus. Michael says, we need guys to play together
Speaker 2: and right now we're just not in unison. We do
Speaker 2: what we're supposed to do and we win. The game.
Speaker 2: What do you guys make of these assessments? And I
Speaker 2: know you asked coach McCarthy about this yesterday, there's some
Speaker 2: He responded in a way that that probably was a
Speaker 2: little off, but I thought it was a fair question.
Speaker 2: But but I thought that I thought it was a
Speaker 2: fair question because I think all the players that are
Speaker 2: talking about it and saying not just all but your
Speaker 2: top line players are saying there's a certain level of professionalism.
Speaker 2: That's the name, that's the word that that dat through
Speaker 2: out there, and they're saying that there's a problem with
Speaker 2: how guys are preparing and playing. What do you guys think?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think when everybody is speaking up to that effect,
Speaker 9: I think it's you know, these certain leaders, these certain
Speaker 9: team leaders trying to call out certain guys on the
Speaker 9: team that are not taking meeting seriously or not taking
Speaker 9: practices seriously. It was mentioned multiple times after the game
Speaker 9: on Sunday that last Thursday's practice was not good. And
Speaker 9: when you factor that in with the Ceedee Lamb not
Speaker 9: practicing on Wednesday, Trayvon Diggs not practicing on Wednesday, Thursday
Speaker 9: was really their only opportunity to get a full practice
Speaker 9: in and it not be a walkthrough setting. And if
Speaker 9: they can't, if they can't come together and make that
Speaker 9: a strong practice, and it's not going to work out
Speaker 9: whenever preparation needs to become application on Sundays. So you know,
Speaker 9: how does that get corrected this week in a short week.
Speaker 9: That was my question yesterday, is like, hey, yeah, you
Speaker 9: have all these problems that your team leaders are talking about,
Speaker 9: Jordan Lewis mentioning details of Michael Parsons mentioning accountability, dack
Speaker 9: with professionalism. How do you take that and you know,
Speaker 9: work on that and only three days time and also
Speaker 9: still prepare for the Giants. I didn't get the answer
Speaker 9: to my question, but you know, maybe we will get
Speaker 9: that as time goes on.
Speaker 4: You know when I first as we were doing the
Speaker 4: postgame show in the Miller Light Club, I Win Karthy
Speaker 4: said it first, and you're like thinking, Okay, that that's
Speaker 4: that's you know, that's not coach speak, that's you know,
Speaker 4: coach kind of you know, making his thoughts known. And
Speaker 4: then you started hearing the players talk about it. Then
Speaker 4: you knew there was a problem. That was the all
Speaker 4: the things that were said after that game by everybody involved.
Speaker 4: Anything to do with practice or preparation always gets my
Speaker 4: attention because it you know, people people always oh, you
Speaker 4: know that famous Allen Iverson. It's it's just it's practice. Well,
Speaker 4: practice is important in the NFL, you know how you
Speaker 4: line up, especially, you know when you play against a
Speaker 4: team that stresses you the way the Ravens does. We
Speaker 4: saw that firsthand. You know, you don't have to if
Speaker 4: you're a football fan and you just watch games. You
Speaker 4: know what Lamar Jackson can do as a ball handler.
Speaker 4: You know how he puts pressure on you. You know,
Speaker 4: we've all seen you know, Henry run the football. You
Speaker 4: know we've seen this. We've seen the Ravens play. That's
Speaker 4: a very good football team. They were in the ABC
Speaker 4: Champion Chip Game last year. If you're not prepping well,
Speaker 4: being ready, doing everything you can to get ready for
Speaker 4: these games, they're going to embarrass you.
Speaker 10: And they did.
Speaker 4: They embarrassed you and then they let you back in
Speaker 4: the game. But that's their history. We've talked about that.
Speaker 4: But you you got embarrassed because you know, you looked
Speaker 4: like you weren't ready to play, and I mean not
Speaker 4: ready to play is you know assignments and think it
Speaker 4: took you know, it took them three quarters to get
Speaker 4: the offense going. You know, the defense was kind of
Speaker 4: you know, times was really really bad and other times
Speaker 4: it was Okay. They're capable. This is a very capable team.
Speaker 4: But if you're head coach and your in, your in,
Speaker 4: your leaders of your team are talking about it, you
Speaker 4: got you got a lot of problems. You got a
Speaker 4: lot of problems, and like I say, I don't know
Speaker 4: if you correct those in four or five days. You know,
Speaker 4: that's something they have to look at right now. Pretty strong,
Speaker 4: and I'm sure the general managers looking at it, and
Speaker 4: he's had a discussion with the head coach about it.
Speaker 4: You know, what, what what are we What are we
Speaker 4: talking about here? We're not prepping? Well, what's the deal?
Speaker 4: What all players talking about? Because he's getting asked about it,
Speaker 4: you know, he's getting asked about in our station fan
Speaker 4: about things like that. So it's tough. If you're not prepping,
Speaker 4: you're not gonna win many games. And they're an example
Speaker 4: of that right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a that's a tough one because like you said,
Speaker 7: I mean, it all comes down to preparation and what
Speaker 7: happens during the week and these players coming out and
Speaker 7: saying all these comments. I mean, you start thinking, Okay,
Speaker 7: then what the heck is going on during practice is
Speaker 7: what are we doing here? And to me, it goes
Speaker 7: back to leadership, It goes back to the coaching. And granted,
Speaker 7: this is just my assumption, that's what I can conclude
Speaker 7: or to conclusion, because I'm not there in those practices.
Speaker 7: But if I may, Nick, if I may as sorry,
Speaker 7: but okay, I'm just gonna spit it out there what
Speaker 7: I said. It's not that bad. It's not that bad.
Speaker 7: I'm just coming into defense. But how are you gonna
Speaker 7: ask somebody if you practice a question when you yourself
Speaker 7: are being in question about practicing and the way you
Speaker 7: practice on the field. And I'm I'm yeah, I said it. Whatever,
Speaker 7: But it's the truth, is the fact that it's been
Speaker 7: out there. The last thing you want is your own
Speaker 7: players speaking about preparation, the lack of preparation, speaking about
Speaker 7: the way you guys are training. Yeah, they're not calling
Speaker 7: people by name or anything, but that's what it leads
Speaker 7: back to the top. Who's the head of it? And
Speaker 7: again I've been I've given Mike McCarthy a lot of
Speaker 7: praise during his career here with the Cowboys because I
Speaker 7: value the way he's trained these players overall during his
Speaker 7: Like we talk about mental health, we talk about giving
Speaker 7: them the rest that they need keeping or trying to
Speaker 7: keep them as healthy as they can be, And I
Speaker 7: value that a lot. And I got to give him
Speaker 7: credit for those things that he's done here, but right
Speaker 7: now in a year that is so crucial for so
Speaker 7: many people's career, your own personal liveli So it's it's
Speaker 7: just it's crazy because you can, you can criticize us
Speaker 7: for maybe not executing certain things, but but lack of
Speaker 7: preparation should not be one.
Speaker 3: Lack of.
Speaker 7: Being motivated and going out there and putting up a
Speaker 7: fight should not be one.
Speaker 8: Uh So it's just it's wild.
Speaker 7: It's wild because how do you fix that, Like you said,
Speaker 7: in such a short amount of time heading into this week.
Speaker 2: Four, I will say this, and I think it was Dak.
Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong. One of you may have
Speaker 2: heard the quote. I think it was Dak that as
Speaker 2: he was kind of elaborating on what he was saying,
Speaker 2: one of the things he pointed out was watching film
Speaker 2: and it's that kind of preparation. So I want to
Speaker 2: be careful that this doesn't turn into a the coaches
Speaker 2: didn't prepare them as much as what it sounds like
Speaker 2: for me, what I'm hear from the players is the
Speaker 2: players aren't doing the extra well their shooting, they aren't
Speaker 2: doing they aren't doing the little things that are the
Speaker 2: difference between winning and losing, whether that be going and
Speaker 2: spending that extra time in the film room, doing those
Speaker 2: extra things on the practice feel that have you ready
Speaker 2: being focused when you go to practice, so that practice
Speaker 2: is crisp and clean, and you're doing the things you
Speaker 2: need to do, knowing where you're supposed to be, where
Speaker 2: you're supposed to line up, how you're supposed to perform.
Speaker 2: That to me is not about coaching as much as
Speaker 2: it is about professionals being professional, which is how Dack
Speaker 2: put it. It's about being a professional. So I look
Speaker 2: at this and I'm like, there's a lot of guys
Speaker 2: in that locker room. It sounds like need to pick
Speaker 2: up a mirror and look at it and say, okay,
Speaker 2: am I doing what I need to do and be
Speaker 2: a professional.
Speaker 7: Just to be clear, I one hundred percent agree with
Speaker 7: everything you're saying, because I mean, I can't like it
Speaker 7: has to be up to you some of the things
Speaker 7: that you do outside of while we're doing.
Speaker 2: Here your boss now you know.
Speaker 7: But yeah, no, But my point is also there's truth
Speaker 7: to you being a parent, having that of like, okay,
Speaker 7: what you know, I mean, where's the belt?
Speaker 8: Where's there? I'm just kidding. I'm totally kidding. I'm against that.
Speaker 3: No, no, not.
Speaker 7: Once, just kisses for my baby. But no, My point
Speaker 7: is you do need someone to kind of training you
Speaker 7: up and put you back in place where you need
Speaker 7: to be. So I think both things can be true
Speaker 7: at once. But I totally agree it is up to
Speaker 7: you what you do in your own time where you're
Speaker 7: supposed to do your own kind of preparation and work
Speaker 7: for yourself.
Speaker 8: But it's just that's wild.
Speaker 9: Eventually the rubber is gonna have to meet the road,
Speaker 9: and whether that be guys applying themselves and them getting
Speaker 9: it corrected, or some major changes coming out after the
Speaker 9: bye week, whether that be trading personnel decisions.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's a lot.
Speaker 9: I think everything's on the table, especially when you factor
Speaker 9: in how many guys are on expiring deals. There's no
Speaker 9: tie to a lot of these guys after this season
Speaker 9: that that gives the front office a lot more flexibility
Speaker 9: if they if they feel like that, they can make
Speaker 9: a couple of big moves and be a contender. But
Speaker 9: right now they are not, and they are not going
Speaker 9: to be until a few of these guys apply themselves.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, we're gonna take our first break. We'll
Speaker 2: come back. We're going to jump into the Giants versus Cowboys,
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Speaker 2: Brian tell us about this New York Giant offense and
Speaker 2: how it matches up with Dallas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they finally went out and got some skilled guys.
Speaker 4: It took him to get another LSU guy, you know,
Speaker 4: that's what they do. It seems like, you know, we
Speaker 4: we go back that this team has a history of
Speaker 4: drafting the LSU receivers and they're working out for him.
Speaker 4: Eliite Neighbors is really where this thing is going to
Speaker 4: kind of start for them. I will say this though,
Speaker 4: I really do like what they've tried to do with
Speaker 4: their running game and try to help Daniel Jones, you know,
Speaker 4: with with with Singletary, the running back, Devin Singletary, and
Speaker 4: then they also drafted Tyrone Tracy are running back in
Speaker 4: the fifth round. That's kind of done some nice things
Speaker 4: for him as well. I like him, but they've got
Speaker 4: a couple of quality guys with Singletary. I mean, he's
Speaker 4: really good with you know, when they hand him the ball,
Speaker 4: it's kind of a straight ahead attack, and he's really quick.
Speaker 4: He's nifty. He's shifty in the way that he can
Speaker 4: break tackles. He's two and through the hole. You know,
Speaker 4: it could be a difficult guy to talk tackle when
Speaker 4: you get around him. He kind of bounces off guys
Speaker 4: and he's very successful at finishing runs and so you know,
Speaker 4: you have to be on point. This is a team
Speaker 4: that's going to give you some of that RPO stuff
Speaker 4: that It's going to be the fakes, that's going to
Speaker 4: be multiple tight ends, it's going to be movement with
Speaker 4: the offensive line. They have to do a lot of
Speaker 4: movement with their offensive line because they're trying to protect
Speaker 4: it because it's not as probably not their strength. I
Speaker 4: think there's a couple of different spots that you can
Speaker 4: attack this. Andrew Thomas is the left tackle for them,
Speaker 4: and I think he's sceptible to that inside moves the
Speaker 4: power stuff that you want to do. So that would
Speaker 4: be the left side, be the right edge there maybe
Speaker 4: with Micah, you can get some things going over there
Speaker 4: with him. I think that if you look, they've got
Speaker 4: a really athletic center. And John Michael Smit's who was
Speaker 4: the second round pick, you know, in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: They try and get him out in space. John Runyon,
Speaker 4: he's the son of the Runyon that played a while back.
Speaker 4: He's he's Paul Paul Paul running. Yeah. But the thing
Speaker 4: with Runyon is that they're a little bit of a
Speaker 4: slow footed group overall. But they try and they try
Speaker 4: and do things by moving them in order so they
Speaker 4: don't have to get you know, get a lot of
Speaker 4: one on one stuff. They try and just you know,
Speaker 4: angle block the penn and polls the things like that,
Speaker 4: so they don't have to to sit there and and
Speaker 4: go with you, just toe to toe. But I do
Speaker 4: feel like though that their number one pick, Andrew Thomas
Speaker 4: is the one guy and this he was from the
Speaker 4: twenty twenty draft. I kind of feel like he's the
Speaker 4: guy that you really need to go after because he struggles.
Speaker 4: When you watched him last week against Miles Garrett and stuff,
Speaker 4: I mean, it was it was a problem for him
Speaker 4: to have to deal with power, quickness, guy with some burst.
Speaker 4: That would be the area that I would look at.
Speaker 4: I'll mention about also I started with with Neighbors. They've
Speaker 4: also got Darius Slayton. I think one. Dell Robinson is
Speaker 4: the is the other one that I would worry about
Speaker 4: the most here. Jalen Hyatus was a third round pick
Speaker 4: from Tennessee a couple of years ago. He's a vertical player.
Speaker 4: So if you're going to take a shot, it's going
Speaker 4: to be with thirteen. If you're going to do something
Speaker 4: out of the backfield or underneath, it's going to be
Speaker 4: robertson number seventeen.
Speaker 2: He's the most targeted receiver there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then well and Malik and then I've talked
Speaker 4: about with elite Neighbors. I mean he is. He is
Speaker 4: really their offense. When it comes to throw in the football,
Speaker 4: He's going to get a ton of targets. He's going
Speaker 4: to make a ton of plays the body, control of
Speaker 4: the balance. He is a tough cover. They're going to
Speaker 4: move him around. They're not going to keep him in
Speaker 4: one spot. But when you have to have your attention
Speaker 4: on him, because that's where Daniel Jones is going to
Speaker 4: throw the ball. He's either going to throw the ball
Speaker 4: to Robertson or neighbors, or he's gonna hand it uh
Speaker 4: to Singletary, and and and then the way they go.
Speaker 4: So team will run some screens, they'll run some tosses,
Speaker 4: they'll run inside handoffs. That's kind of they're doing everything
Speaker 4: in their power to kind of help Daniel Jones. Now,
Speaker 4: the problem with Daniel Jones at quarterback is he still
Speaker 4: throws the ball just the spots and I don't think
Speaker 4: there's times where he sees where he's throwing the ball
Speaker 4: or knowing what's in the area when he throws the ball.
Speaker 4: So he got to be ready for him just to
Speaker 4: you know, if you if Mike Zimmer can somehow we
Speaker 4: talked about all summer, how you can disguise coverages. You know,
Speaker 4: you get the you get the giants to have to
Speaker 4: throw the football here, maybe you could do something to
Speaker 4: kind of disguise some things to kind of give Daniel
Speaker 4: Jones some muddy looks and you can maybe get a
Speaker 4: couple of cheap turnovers that way, just because he's not
Speaker 4: seeing you. But they have improved with the with the
Speaker 4: running back who they got from the Tech the Texans,
Speaker 4: and they have improved with Malik Neighbors as the wide
Speaker 4: receiver he is, He's going to be a guy probably
Speaker 4: at the end of the year that's going to be
Speaker 4: in the in the running for NFC Rookie of the
Speaker 4: years he was playing.
Speaker 2: So looking at Neighbors, knowing that he is probably the
Speaker 2: most dynamic offensive weapon, would you consider I know they
Speaker 2: don't do it often, but would you consider the possibility
Speaker 2: of Diggs traveling UH to stay with him because he
Speaker 2: is the most dynamic of the receiving threats that they have.
Speaker 9: I think, specifically with Carson being in the injury tent,
Speaker 9: I guess you could say this week. I think there's
Speaker 9: probably a more possibility there, especially given that Malik is
Speaker 9: going to give you that physical presence. He's going to
Speaker 9: give you, you know, a little bit more push off
Speaker 9: the line than some of these other guys like a
Speaker 9: Wandell Robinson, Darius Slayton, Jalen Hyatt. If you want your
Speaker 9: most physical guy on Neighbors at all times, and that's Trayvon.
Speaker 4: Diggs, Yeah, it would make a lot of sense to
Speaker 4: do that. But you wonder, I mean, I'm just trying
Speaker 4: to think of the times as Mike traveling guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and let's also remember on a short week, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you travel one guy, you travel every everybody's got Yeah right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that may be tough to adjust to.
Speaker 4: That's the problem practice, that's the problem. I think BO
Speaker 4: teams are a little bit of a buying that way
Speaker 4: when when it comes to and that's why I think
Speaker 4: they make these Thursday night games divisional games. If you've noticed,
Speaker 4: it's always seems like it's two divisional teams because there's
Speaker 4: some familiarity with you trying to help these teams. He's
Speaker 4: going to be a tough cover in this thing. I mean,
Speaker 4: he really is going to be a tough cover. The
Speaker 4: key is going to be, though, if the Giants come
Speaker 4: out and they've got some they've got some RPO elements
Speaker 4: to their game, and they've got a quarterback that's not
Speaker 4: afraid to run, and they'll like last week we talked
Speaker 4: about designed quarterback runs, this guy's got some design quarterback runs.
Speaker 4: They get down in the red zone and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, it's direct snap. They're pulling the tight end
Speaker 4: or an h and they're they're blocking down and they're
Speaker 4: leading up in the hole and he's just straight power
Speaker 4: running for the goal line. You know, so there's some
Speaker 4: much like what you saw with with Lamar Jackson. The
Speaker 4: design runs. Uh, they have some elements of this in
Speaker 4: their game plan. So, but they've they've upgraded their skill
Speaker 4: guys for sure at running back and then at wide receiver.
Speaker 9: I think that's probably why it'd be more important in
Speaker 9: this game to jump out to an early lead, just
Speaker 9: to be able to force the Giants to work from behind,
Speaker 9: because if we call back to training camp and the
Speaker 9: big thing that was standing out, the standing out about
Speaker 9: the Mike Zimber defense was his use of disguises and disguise,
Speaker 9: how much it was able to full opposing offense or
Speaker 9: how much it could full opposing offenses. First offense I
Speaker 9: thought about in the first quarterback I thought about was
Speaker 9: Daniel Jones, just because he has not been able to
Speaker 9: adjust well to post post snap differences based on what
Speaker 9: he was expecting pre snap, and I think if they
Speaker 9: can throw a little bit of disguise at him pre snap,
Speaker 9: then it can you can start to snowball a little
Speaker 9: bit if you're trying to play from behind. So I
Speaker 9: think from a Cowboys perspective, get out to an early lead,
Speaker 9: maybe receive if you win the win the toss again,
Speaker 9: maybe don't drop an f bomb as Romawamu this time,
Speaker 9: But nevertheless, I think getting out to an early lead
Speaker 9: could help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes me wonder too, like they really that
Speaker 2: first game in the Cleveland game is really the only
Speaker 2: game where Dallas forced the other team to have to
Speaker 2: throw the ball. Both the other two games they really
Speaker 2: could just run the ball, and they just kept running
Speaker 2: the ball and there was nothing Cowboys could really do
Speaker 2: about it. And so it does make me wonder if
Speaker 2: you can get that lead and force a team to
Speaker 2: have to pass, you actually do play into the Cowboys
Speaker 2: hands of their ability to then be able to force
Speaker 2: you to throw into disguises, and it allows Dallas to
Speaker 2: now go and get after the quarterback, which I think
Speaker 2: they do well. So it really is the offense really
Speaker 2: is the best if you want to fix this defense,
Speaker 2: I totally agree best way to fix it is the
Speaker 2: offense to get going early.
Speaker 4: This might this might be an unfair question to you, guys,
Speaker 4: because maybe you don't have a great answer for it,
Speaker 4: but I'll ask anyway, do you ever worry about this
Speaker 4: guy's first fifteen Who's who?
Speaker 3: Guy McCarthy's McCarthy's first fifteen minutes.
Speaker 4: The fifteen plays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, that's a fair question.
Speaker 4: And I don't want to I don't want to pile
Speaker 4: on a guy or anything like that, but I feel like,
Speaker 4: to me, yeah, the last yeah, the last, maybe I
Speaker 4: need to pile on this guy. The thing is man
Speaker 4: well said. But the thing I just kind of I
Speaker 4: wonder about the first fifteen. Do you go back and
Speaker 4: you check. You know, they went out last week with
Speaker 4: the intent like, yes, we want the ball, and then
Speaker 4: the first fifteen was to throw the ball immediately into
Speaker 4: the flat to reco'daddle or to run a spot route
Speaker 4: to Ferguson for the first play. And I might going,
Speaker 4: you're not calling the game right now.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: He had the penalties and the motions and all those
Speaker 4: things that was a problem. But I wonder about this
Speaker 4: guy's first fifteen the last two weeks, especially, you know,
Speaker 4: with the way things have kind of gotten off a
Speaker 4: little slow for him.
Speaker 9: You think about the elite are guys you would consider
Speaker 9: elite offensive play callers in the NFL. They always have
Speaker 9: an opening script that just has a little bit of
Speaker 9: razzle dazz alone. Yeah, it's got some intention, it's got
Speaker 9: some effort. I haven't really seen an intention from an
Speaker 9: opening script for Mike McCarthy, even though going back to
Speaker 9: last season too, I think there was some times last
Speaker 9: season where it was like, Okay, when is this offense
Speaker 9: going to pick it up? And then they finally do
Speaker 9: when they're able to find a stride. But when you
Speaker 9: don't have a running game and a Mike muck Arth
Speaker 9: the offense, a guy who wants four tight ends on
Speaker 9: the field, he wants a full back in your offense
Speaker 9: because he wants to run the ball. He's not gonna
Speaker 9: have an opening script that works out for him.
Speaker 2: Well, but you know that might be also what he's
Speaker 2: working with here is knowing that the running game may
Speaker 2: not be exactly what he wants. He may be thinking,
Speaker 2: are there ways for me to get some of these
Speaker 2: quick passes? Yeah, get guys out in the flats, force
Speaker 2: them the defense to have to think about the whole field,
Speaker 2: and then that may open up things as you go,
Speaker 2: may open up the running game even as things go,
Speaker 2: like he may be trying to set up what he
Speaker 2: needs to do later in the game knowing that my
Speaker 2: running game isn't gonna do that for me. A lot
Speaker 2: of teams can use a running game to set those
Speaker 2: things up. Dallas doesn't have that kind of running game.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. Whatever he did at the end
Speaker 4: of the third and end of the fourth, if it
Speaker 4: was tempo, it.
Speaker 3: Was tempo, you know.
Speaker 4: And and I was watching the substitutions of the receivers
Speaker 4: during that three on three off, three on three off,
Speaker 4: three on three off, and you know, it's like they'd
Speaker 4: run deep. They'd all run routes three on three off
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 2: And they were just running.
Speaker 4: If that's if that's how you're gonna have to play
Speaker 4: to kind of get things to open up a little bit.
Speaker 4: And I sure consider it. You know, with the weather
Speaker 4: maybe cooling off a little bit, maybe you're not worried
Speaker 4: about your guys getting completely gassed. But they they had
Speaker 4: a really he he was in a little bit of
Speaker 4: a rhythm. They were in a good they were in
Speaker 4: a rhythm play calling until they fumble the ball. See
Speaker 4: he fumbles the ball. So he's got.
Speaker 7: To how do you get to to that state? How
Speaker 7: do you get yourself and the team to get started
Speaker 7: that way?
Speaker 4: Because I think, no, no, I think you just right
Speaker 4: off the jump. I think just right off the jump.
Speaker 7: Out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've seen Cowboys teams do that where they just
Speaker 2: go tempa early in the game just to kind of
Speaker 2: get it going.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there are teams that do that, no doubt, especially
Speaker 9: in the college game.
Speaker 4: If you watched Tennessee or people like that, you know,
Speaker 4: and not the Titans, the volunteers that they they play
Speaker 4: with a lot of pace and and so now you're
Speaker 4: kind of like thinking, what was Dallas having success doing.
Speaker 4: It was three on three off, three on Throp and
Speaker 4: you know, Ferguson, schoon Maker, those guys were all that
Speaker 4: were kind of shuffling in and out. That Hunter Lickey
Speaker 4: was a protector. No, now doubt it's a protector. No,
Speaker 4: the we're gonna use both of them. I mean, you
Speaker 4: had some the substitutions were really good. The play calling
Speaker 4: was really good, and the execution was even better. I
Speaker 4: mean that's what got you back in the game.
Speaker 2: You know, I just had an epiphany. I talked about
Speaker 2: the injury fort John Stevens wasn't on the.
Speaker 4: Yes and and I and I kind of got an
Speaker 4: understanding what's going on there. They're they're they're they're they're thinking,
Speaker 4: they're they're now having a hard time getting him on
Speaker 4: the active the game day rock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't feel like it was an injury.
Speaker 4: No, it's not. It's it's they. They're the the span
Speaker 4: Ford And if span Ford keeps you, well, that's what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. They they have a plan for span Ford.
Speaker 4: But if he keeps doing what he's doing, he must
Speaker 4: be standing over by us, you know. Yeah, but but
Speaker 4: that's but I asked the question last week, Hey, is
Speaker 4: this the week that we see John Stevens? And I
Speaker 4: got the well, it's gonna be hard to get him up.
Speaker 4: We only have so many numbers we could bring up.
Speaker 4: And I went, oh, I guess we're gonna see span
Speaker 4: Ford play again this week, you know kind of thing.
Speaker 2: So I might even go the route of being like, Okay,
Speaker 2: if the if the understanding is that span Ford provides
Speaker 2: something from you from a blocking standpoint, I'd be like,
Speaker 2: my running game isn't really doing what I wanted to
Speaker 2: do anyway. I'm just gonna put my best athletes on
Speaker 2: the field. We're just gonna spread it out and we're
Speaker 2: gonna throw, man, And that's just kind of how we're
Speaker 2: gonna have to do it.
Speaker 4: Especially when the Ravens had trouble covering tight ends. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that doesn't seem like a very good plan.
Speaker 2: If not having time, I'd love to ask. And I
Speaker 2: thought Stevens was a better Maybe it is special teams
Speaker 2: because I thought Stevens got better as a blocker, at
Speaker 2: least what we saw in training camp this year.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because you think about it, Fossil already lost one
Speaker 9: special teams this guy this week, and Nick Vigil he's
Speaker 9: out of elevations. So unless they bring him to the
Speaker 9: active roster, Fossil is already gonna have to figure out
Speaker 9: somebody else to put in that unit. And if you're
Speaker 9: asking him to also take away Brevin span Ford, who
Speaker 9: he uses I think in at least three of the
Speaker 9: four of his punt coverage, kick coverage, kick return, punk
Speaker 9: return phases, then that's two guys you're asking him to do.
Speaker 2: I know there are three phases to the game, especially
Speaker 2: right now, have bigger problems right now on offense and defense,
Speaker 2: and I would be like, let me just focus on
Speaker 2: that right now, figure it out.
Speaker 4: Just put hundred lipkey on the side where you happy you.
Speaker 3: See the tackle made on special teams last week?
Speaker 4: Ye, my man, my man plays, my man plays one
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Speaker 2: He's a good player. All right, let's go to take
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Speaker 2: All Right, Brian Giants defense versus Cowboys Offense? What have
Speaker 2: we got?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Real quick if I could, It's really going to
Speaker 4: start with their front, you know, with you look at
Speaker 4: Brian Burns, who they traded for from Carolina, and then
Speaker 4: Caveon Thibodeau. They they're very talented, you know, player from
Speaker 4: Oregon they drafted several years ago. They've they've got really
Speaker 4: good defensive ends and they've got one of the best
Speaker 4: defensive tackles in football and Dexter Lawrence. And you know
Speaker 4: when you watch Dexter Lawrence play, he is going to
Speaker 4: be a handful for BB. He's going to line up
Speaker 4: on BB's nose and he is going to push BB
Speaker 4: all day long. And so how will they yeah, how
Speaker 4: will they handled Dexter Lawrence?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 4: They getting when they get Nickel situations to rush the passer,
Speaker 4: he stays in the field. You know, here's a guy,
Speaker 4: it's a really good run defender, but he's a really
Speaker 4: good pass rusher just by his push. And so you
Speaker 4: got to figure out Burns and Thibodeau. They'll flop sides.
Speaker 4: I haven't figured out kind of the I'm a reason why.
Speaker 4: Maybe they're hunting some matchups there. But this defensive line,
Speaker 4: at the defensive tackle spot, they have an Elijah, this
Speaker 4: kid named Elijah Chapman that was a college free agent
Speaker 4: that they got last year. This year, excuse me, he's
Speaker 4: number ninety four. They play some twist games and stuff
Speaker 4: with him and Lawrence and and sometimes with the ends.
Speaker 4: It's it's pretty impressive how they get after the passer.
Speaker 4: They're They're linebackers are a pretty normal group. Michael McFadden
Speaker 4: Micah McFadden, number forty one. I kind of feel like,
Speaker 4: is their their player that you have to worry about.
Speaker 4: As far as the pressure of Bobby ol Rique is
Speaker 4: the it plays the opposite side. He's kind of like
Speaker 4: the middle linebackers. So they've got two solid linebackers, kind
Speaker 4: of like what you were doing with with the Saints,
Speaker 4: you know, and the Saints did a pretty good job
Speaker 4: against you. But McFadden was the one you have to
Speaker 4: worry about him number forty one. They'll bring him on
Speaker 4: blitzes and he's created pressures and so his numbers for
Speaker 4: those are pretty good. They've been banged up in the
Speaker 4: secondary and that's going to be a problem for them
Speaker 4: right now. Banks to one corner, I think is Is
Speaker 4: is a good player, but he struggled a little bit.
Speaker 4: They've struggled with the help with Nick McLoud, who they
Speaker 4: got off waivers from the Buffalo Bills, and he's he
Speaker 4: hurt his knee in the Minnesota game, and he hasn't
Speaker 4: played the last two weeks, and with the short week,
Speaker 4: there's questions whether he'll play this week. That means that
Speaker 4: Cordell Flock will play. He's an LSU kid, very familiar
Speaker 4: with him. He's very thin, he's not very strong. He's
Speaker 4: you know, he's been on the team since twenty twenty
Speaker 4: two and teams have gone after him a lot. You know,
Speaker 4: he gives up. He doesn't play is up on you
Speaker 4: like Banks. Banks wants to play up on you and
Speaker 4: give you like no throws. He's a tight window guy.
Speaker 4: Flock on the other end, he's more of play back
Speaker 4: and you could kind of get separation on him, but
Speaker 4: he's not a very physical player. I would definitely attack him.
Speaker 4: They've got a safety with Jason Pinnock. He's another guy
Speaker 4: that likes to blitz. He's got three sacks. You watch
Speaker 4: the games when they're pressure, he'll come across the formation
Speaker 4: chasing somebody and then next thing you know, he's blitzing
Speaker 4: on the play. He's their free safety. So they've got
Speaker 4: some guys that I feel like you can kind of
Speaker 4: take advantage of, especially if Flock and then adri Jackson
Speaker 4: Number twenty one. He's a veteran player that they've had
Speaker 4: through the years, and he's a guy that's kind of
Speaker 4: struggled a little bit at times. Drew Phillips, who is
Speaker 4: the nickel number twenty two, is giving up some plays
Speaker 4: this year. So if they don't get you with a pass,
Speaker 4: rusher pressure, their secondary has given up some plays that
Speaker 4: might be your calling card today. To find some separation
Speaker 4: and then make some plays on these guys.
Speaker 3: Yes, good, I'm with you.
Speaker 9: It starts with this front, and they've done such a
Speaker 9: good job of building around Kavon Tibodau over the course
Speaker 9: of last year. It started when they traded for Dexter
Speaker 9: Lawrence last season, just in a season that I think
Speaker 9: they expected they weren't going to be able to do anything.
Speaker 9: Tommy DeVito was a starter by what week six, week seven, Yeah,
Speaker 9: and they still went out and got him to understand
Speaker 9: what he could be valued in the future. They go
Speaker 9: and get Brian Burns over the offseason, and then Bobby o'caaka.
Speaker 9: I think he's one of the more underrated linebackers in
Speaker 9: the NFL. I think he does a really good job
Speaker 9: of just being able to command that defensive front. And
Speaker 9: do a really good job stepping up in run fits.
Speaker 9: So if you're looking for the Dallas running game to
Speaker 9: open up a little bit this week, this might not
Speaker 9: be the week. But I think you can attack this
Speaker 9: young and unexperienced a secondary for the Giants. You talk
Speaker 9: about Andrew Phillips, rookie out of Kentucky. I liked him
Speaker 9: in the process, but I think he's a little still
Speaker 9: a little green when it comes to playing in the
Speaker 9: secondary in the NFL. He's also battling a calf injury.
Speaker 9: He did not practice yesterday. Same with adri Jackson battling
Speaker 9: a calf injury, did not practice yesterday. You talk about
Speaker 9: Nick McCleod, he was limited with his knee yesterday, so
Speaker 9: he was at least back on the field. But then
Speaker 9: you look at Tyler Nuban, strong safety out of Minnesota.
Speaker 9: I believe they got him in the second or third round,
Speaker 9: second round, the second round this past year. I really
Speaker 9: liked him as a run defender as well. So I mean,
Speaker 9: that's just another guy in the third level that they
Speaker 9: had they could step step up and play in the run.
Speaker 9: But I feel like you can beat these guys over
Speaker 9: the top. I think if CD wants to have a
Speaker 9: game to where he's kind of shakes off the emotion
Speaker 9: of last Sunday. This might be an opportunity to do that.
Speaker 9: But I'm also looking at Jake Ferguson as well. I
Speaker 9: think there's opportunities in the in the seams.
Speaker 2: I think the player that scares me more than anybody
Speaker 2: else's dext to Lawrence. Yeah, you mentioned him, and you
Speaker 2: did what you mentioned was he stays on the field
Speaker 2: during those past passing downs. He right now is tied
Speaker 2: for three, tied for sacks on this team with three.
Speaker 2: Finnick is the other guy, the safety you mentioned to
Speaker 2: say that He'snick has three sacks. Yes, the safety is
Speaker 2: coming and your defensive tackle is tied with him with
Speaker 2: three sacks, as you know, averaging sack of game. So yeah,
Speaker 2: this this is going to be a challenge for for
Speaker 2: for Bebies particularly. This is what going to be. This
Speaker 2: may be the toughest challenges had to this point, uh
Speaker 2: so far in this young season. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: some picks here, uh, amb let's start with you today.
Speaker 7: Where are you going picking the Cowboys to win this one?
Speaker 7: I think that somehow they manage my my thing that
Speaker 7: I'm holding onto is kind of They typically tend to
Speaker 7: play pretty well against the Giants in general. I think
Speaker 7: the tight end position has always been a key position
Speaker 7: when facing the Giants. So I think maybe this is
Speaker 7: a game where Jake Ferguson comes more into play and
Speaker 7: has a good game.
Speaker 8: Against this team, is able to score some points.
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna go with the Cowboys, and I'm gonna
Speaker 7: go with like.
Speaker 8: Twenty seven twenty seven, seventeen.
Speaker 9: All right, I'm gonna take the Cowboys as well here.
Speaker 3: I think they do rebound.
Speaker 7: It's uh re laughing Brian because he's going to be
Speaker 7: on the island that I was on last play, sooner.
Speaker 3: Missed that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think the Cowboys rebound twenty seven to twenty four.
Speaker 9: I think the passing game might be just a little
Speaker 9: bit too much. But this is definitely a concerning one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this one is going to be an certain one.
Speaker 4: The Giants are gonna win this game twenty six, twenty three,
Speaker 4: and and they're gonna win this game because Dallas has
Speaker 4: some problems defending the run and I and I have
Speaker 4: a feeling that the Giants are going to commit to
Speaker 4: it and they're gonna they're gonna try and make Dallas
Speaker 4: defend this thing. And they they've run some of the
Speaker 4: RPO stuff their their their offensive line isn't as good
Speaker 4: as the one you just played. But I'll tell you
Speaker 4: what the I like their I like the receivers. I
Speaker 4: like their I like what they've got on defense with
Speaker 4: the defensive tackle and the linebackers, and the secondary has
Speaker 4: a little bit of a problem. But I think the
Speaker 4: Cowboys haven't corrected their problems yet, and I think things
Speaker 4: on a short week it may be a little worse
Speaker 4: for him.
Speaker 2: I look at this team and I don't see necessarily
Speaker 2: I see a team that's okay and capable. I see
Speaker 2: a team that's more like Cleveland than they are like
Speaker 2: Baltimore or New Orleans, and so I look at that
Speaker 2: and I say, yes, they will try to run, and
Speaker 2: I think Dallas may have some moments when the run.
Speaker 2: They don't necessarily stop the run as they've done throughout
Speaker 2: this season so far. I just don't know if they
Speaker 2: have enough. And I also think that if Dallas's offense
Speaker 2: gets on on track, which I have no reasona believe
Speaker 2: they won't against this defense, then I think it will
Speaker 2: put the pressure on Daniel Jones that we've seen in
Speaker 2: the past. That's how you beat them as you make
Speaker 2: him after throw the ball, and that's how Dallas wins.
Speaker 2: So I think Dallas ultimately wins this game. I don't
Speaker 2: think all their problems are fixed though. I think we're
Speaker 2: still in here on Monday and saying, man, what's going
Speaker 2: on with his run defense, what's going on with his
Speaker 2: run off. It's like there will still be things that
Speaker 2: that they have to work on. But I do think
Speaker 2: they get a win just because I think they are
Speaker 2: the superior team. I think the ultimate final score twenties.
Speaker 2: I'll say twenty seven, twelve twenty seven.
Speaker 8: You seriously, you're gonna break this table someday.
Speaker 2: What are you talking?
Speaker 8: You just like banging on it with your your rings?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 3: These guys all right?
Speaker 2: We're heading out tomorrow. We're heading to New Jersey for
Speaker 2: Cowboys versus Giants. Till then for Nick Harris, Brian brodess Ambergarci.
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