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Speaker 1: Headquarters at the start. Okay, not a remix. Interesting, I

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Speaker 1: wasn't prepared for that. I liked Jasmine with the vibe.

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Speaker 1: Uh As we talk about mixing it up our intro,

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Speaker 1: as we get into the Christmas spirit around here. Man offensively,

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, we've got nine starts now eleven picks mixing

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Speaker 1: up the communication with his wide receiver. See where I

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Speaker 1: was going there, Ladies. There's obviously been a lot of

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Speaker 1: talk about this on some of the national shows. Lashawn

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Speaker 1: McCoy using an interesting superlative to describe Dak Prescott, which

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Hayley Jess. We've all worked

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Speaker 1: in local news. I don't think I'd be allowed to

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Speaker 1: just go on there with a declarative statement saying that

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Speaker 1: any player was this or that particularly a former player.

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Speaker 1: You know, most former players say they always want to

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Speaker 1: be treated fairly by the media, and here you are,

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Speaker 1: now a member of the media, just going on there.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, used an interesting words to describe Dak's play.

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Speaker 1: But let's talk about Dak's play right. Last week we

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Speaker 1: talked about these picks and they feel like they're coming

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Speaker 1: in bunches right now. He says, each pick tells a story.

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Speaker 1: And while some of these intercepts are one thousand percent

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Speaker 1: on Dak Prescott, a lot of them aren't. And some

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Speaker 1: of this has to do, I think with the play

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Speaker 1: of the offensive line. They're mixing some things up. But

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Speaker 1: on that that pick at the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: you saw players get hands on Dak. When we look

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Speaker 1: at some of the tipped passes, what was in the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans game. There was an absurd amount of tipped

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Speaker 1: passes in that one. And so, ladies, are you at

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Speaker 1: all concerned about the interceptions because Haley, you were there

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Speaker 1: he's not going to change what he's doing. Based on

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Speaker 1: what everyone else is saying, or the fact that the

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Speaker 1: a challenging year for him. Yeah, I just admire Dak's

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Speaker 1: ability to get up and you know, listen to what

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Speaker 1: to just time and time again, and you know, perform

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Speaker 1: And what we talked about yesterday was he's damned if

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Speaker 1: that the most about Dak Prescott. And I love too

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Speaker 1: the accountability that he takes. You know, he'll own up

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Speaker 1: to some of the interceptions that he that he's thrown,

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Speaker 1: that was on me. I shouldn't have made this decision here.

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Speaker 1: But I think what's hard about the quarterback position, among

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. And that's why I love the la Sean

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Speaker 1: that first interception, his arm is very clearly hit, right,

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Speaker 1: So it's hard to throw anything when your arm is

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? It was Clarence Hill, who I

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Speaker 1: step back. It's just I wonder schematically if that's the

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Speaker 1: that Philly does well. Specifically, they will find where you're

427
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Speaker 1: weak and they will go at it. So I'm interested

428
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,920
Speaker 1: in seeing possibly darn Bland on the outside because there's

429
00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,399
Speaker 1: some trust there and you've got to have a lot

430
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 1: of trust to play that position. And maybe one of

431
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,000
Speaker 1: those veteran gentlemen like an Alexander who has the experience

432
00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,160
Speaker 1: and has played in the nickel because it's a lot

433
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,439
Speaker 1: of communication, it's a lot of stuff you have to

434
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 1: do there. You might get some better play there and

435
00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,439
Speaker 1: just it to be adequate. Just at this point, I

436
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,240
Speaker 1: think durn Bland and Treyvon Days can hold it down.

437
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: Just needs someone to be serviceable or not a liability

438
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 1: at this point in past coverage because those TVs were

439
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,240
Speaker 1: killer well. It was funny because I asked Jordan Lewis

440
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 1: about A J. Brown and because I said, how much

441
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,200
Speaker 1: is it killing you not being able to play in

442
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 1: this one? He's like absolutely, says the problem that a J.

443
00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,440
Speaker 1: Brown is, He's like, whether he's open or not, he's

444
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 1: going to catch the ball. Something the Cowboys I think

445
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,679
Speaker 1: wish that they had. But I think that's what is

446
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 1: concerning for Dallas moving forward. I don't care who's throwing

447
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 1: the football. The point is who they're throwing it to.

448
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,159
Speaker 1: A J. Brown, And I think that is going to

449
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 1: be a big issue for this team if we looked

450
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 1: at some of the receivers that we're having the sort

451
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 1: of success that they had against Cowboys in Jacksonville. Yeah,

452
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 1: in fairness though, freaking Texans too. The Cowboys. The Cowboys

453
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 1: defendant A J. Brown particularly, I thought they did pretty

454
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 1: well the times where Diggs was mashed up on him.

455
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,680
Speaker 1: I think he only had one target m one catch

456
00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: for one target last game. So we'll see how they

457
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 1: decide to use him. Like you said, the biggest problem

458
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,920
Speaker 1: is DeVante Smith and they're getting um um Dallas Godder back,

459
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,400
Speaker 1: which is important. It's going to be important for what

460
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 1: they do. They do a lot of screens, they do

461
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: a lot of quick stuff just to get their guys

462
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 1: in space and make opportunity. And when you have the

463
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 1: Sky was once number two on their roster receiving and

464
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: had a young guy coming back. Well, I just to

465
00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: your point, he smiss five games and he is still

466
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 1: third in receiving touchdowns and he is third in receiving yards.

467
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 1: So just that's what I'm saying. You could literally put

468
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 1: anyone in there at quarterback, and I still think some

469
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,800
Speaker 1: of their offensive weapons, their offensive line are gonna be

470
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: a challenge. Is the Scott to mention that you've got

471
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: mikeam Parsons who's dealing with an illness this week, even

472
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 1: though we've seen him play through entry before. But now

473
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 1: Layton vander esh isn't a part of this either, And

474
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean, I think stopping the run, stopping

475
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Speaker 1: the passing game, I think the Cowboys are up against.

476
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: It's like, so when I see all these people saying,

477
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 1: you know, Cowboys have the edge and this one, I'm like,

478
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 1: how well I want to be fair of it? Do

479
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: Vegas know something I don't? Well, the Cowboys still are ranked,

480
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: I mean, and when you're talking about passing defenses, I

481
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys the Eagles are first, and the Cowboys

482
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 1: are still third against the past. So there's again there's

483
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: the matchups are still going to be when you look

484
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: at this team on paper, these teams on paper, quite honestly,

485
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: they are close in a lot of areas. The biggest

486
00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 1: the biggest difference to me that you see is the defense,

487
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:02,879
Speaker 1: I guess. And then the Cowboys are twenty time for

488
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 1: twenty fourth in Philly's nineteenth. And yet to your point,

489
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 1: there's not a massive discrepancy. Like I'm sitting here, I'm looking,

490
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: you know, at them. Um. I think it's just the

491
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: way the Cowboys have played some of these teams, particularly

492
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 1: as of late. Yeah, it feels big. It feels they

493
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,360
Speaker 1: haven't They haven't lost back to back games this year,

494
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: which is incredible. And I think Mike McCarthy was asked

495
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: about that today and he went back to that old

496
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,880
Speaker 1: reliable word they've used all seasons, resilience. Yeah, because because

497
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,679
Speaker 1: they've had some tough ones. Uh, you know, the Tampa one,

498
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: I think everyone sort of got right. You didn't have

499
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith, it's Tom Brady. Then we look at the

500
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 1: Eagles loss. They had Cooper Rush, Okay, but for me,

501
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: the green Bay one was tough. It was that was

502
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 1: that was a tough one because of all the injuries

503
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 1: that green Bay had, Right, and then that one, Remember

504
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 1: who wasn't playing in that one in the secondary Anthony Brown.

505
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: I think people don't give Anthony Brown enough credit. I

506
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,880
Speaker 1: used to not give him enough credit. Um. And then

507
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,399
Speaker 1: and we look at the Jacksonville game. I mean, I

508
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: think what was killer for a lot of people is

509
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: the way they lost the seventeen point lead, the way

510
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: they came back in the second half and started targeting

511
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 1: Kelvin Joseph. I mean, those guys went to their tablets

512
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,880
Speaker 1: and said this is where we're going, and they made

513
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: the Cowboys pay. What I can appreciate too, is Jayron

514
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: Curse in the locker room yesterday talked about if our

515
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: offense is putting up thirty four points, we should win comfortably.

516
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: But you know, you look back at that seventeen point lead.

517
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: What happened after that was the Cowboys defense allowed three

518
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: straight drives of Jacksonville scoring, and that's that's difficult. I mean,

519
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: when you have you can't ever really still be them.

520
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: It does, and so you know, going back to what

521
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: you said about Dallas Goddard, that also changes things up

522
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys this week because it adds a sense

523
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 1: of versatility to this Eagles offense that they necessarily weren't

524
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 1: lacking these last five weeks. But it helps them elevate

525
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: even more. They just got better and it's now it's

526
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: going to be a question though, are they going to

527
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: arrest some of their starters? Like I think the big

528
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: question I think a lot of people have is when

529
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 1: we started hearing that they might wrest some starters ahead

530
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,679
Speaker 1: of this one, or that Jalen Hurts wasn't playing, I

531
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: think there was some concern it's sort of lost its luster.

532
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: Like NFL Network, we've got it is like our game

533
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: of the week for Total Access. I don't think it's

534
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: lost their luster. And I think the reason why you

535
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: play all your guys is the Eagles lock it all

536
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: up with a win. Yeah the Cowboys. This is so

537
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: crazy for those listening. The Cowboys could still win the

538
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: NFC East and here's how So the Eagles still have

539
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: to play obviously here at Dallas, but then they have

540
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: two home games left, New Orleans and the Giants. I

541
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: think it's pretty safe to say they'd win both of those, right, Um,

542
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: they don't know, Yeah they should, but yeah, Cowboys have

543
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: to travel to Tennessee and they have to travel to

544
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 1: Washington to Washington, Yes, and Washington for me is always

545
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: a bit of a spoiler for the Cowboys and Tennessee.

546
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: Even though they got a new quarterback right subbing in

547
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: for Ryan Tannehill. Maybe he's better, So I think the

548
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 1: Cowboys need this win moving forward, but if the cow

549
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: Boys went out and the Eagles lose out, the Cowboys

550
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: win the second tiebreaker, which is the best division and

551
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: the division. And I think if they get a lost

552
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 1: in the forty nine ers and a lost in the Vikings,

553
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,640
Speaker 1: they could get a number one seed. I also think

554
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: this game comes down to like grit at this point,

555
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: because I mean, and I love like all of the

556
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: points that are being brought up. You know, the Eagles

557
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: are going to bring this, the Cowboys are going to

558
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: bring this. This is the type of game where, respectfully,

559
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: like none of that matters to a degree because it's

560
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,959
Speaker 1: a rivalry game, you know what I mean, So everything

561
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,479
Speaker 1: is amplified. This one, to me is everyone's banged up,

562
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: everyone's hurt. We're at that point of the season where

563
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: December football is such a big deal. The team to

564
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: me that comes out on top and this is just

565
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: like the athlete in me speaking, this is like who

566
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: wants it more? And it sounds so cheesy to think.

567
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: You obviously have to consider, you know, the pieces coming back,

568
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: the defense and who's matching up who. But at the

569
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: end of the day, like this is what the heck

570
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 1: is the computer on It's not yours. But regardless, I

571
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: just think that a lot of this is going to

572
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: come down to you know, the xs and o's are

573
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,239
Speaker 1: going to be important, but I think the execution for

574
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: me really gets determined by who is going to show

575
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: up in those big moments. Okavin Haley, to your point,

576
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: they could have easily locked up now they got they

577
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: got helped to get into the playoffs, but they needed

578
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: that win against Jacksonville, which was what a five and

579
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 1: eight team, even though I said they were better than

580
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: their record and they didn't get it done well, they

581
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: didn't get it done on Sunday, and I'm not I'm

582
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: not trying to give anybody any I think. I think

583
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: my concern with this team is how hard they tend

584
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 1: to make it on themselves. And when you talk about

585
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: who wants it more, it's like, I think that I

586
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: think seventy five of this roster wants it. And then

587
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: I think because you hear guys talking about it throughout

588
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: the year, like if you read between the tea leaves,

589
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: I think some of these guys call out some of

590
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: these guys for maybe not spending enough time in the playbook.

591
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: Who was it? I won't say the player was but

592
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: I was asking about some of the defensive play and

593
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: they said, it's easy to get caught up in you

594
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: think you're good, you don't need to look at the

595
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: film as much, and then you just you're relying on

596
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: what you think is your raw talent, and that doesn't

597
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: work in the NFL. I also think too, like injuries

598
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: aren't helping them right now to the statute of injuries,

599
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: because you had Jonathan Hankins who came in and the

600
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: run defense was patched up. I wouldn't say it was perfect,

601
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: but it was definitely better. And then Lvee, who silently

602
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: came out with this breakout year since really his rookie season.

603
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: You look at all of that and you can't help

604
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: those things like injuries, you can't help buy but you

605
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: gotta have these younger guys stuff. I was about to say,

606
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: but when your numbers called, you have to be ready

607
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: to go. You have to execute. And I think Aisha

608
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: she said this the other week, and it's stuck in

609
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: my head. It comes down to execution at this point,

610
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: and it's who wants it more, but who's going to

611
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: execute the entire the entirety of the game, not just

612
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: the first half. Not just the last drive of the game,

613
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: but who's going to execute for this full football game,

614
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: every seventy snaps played, Because that's what we have not

615
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: seen from this Cowboys team. You haven't seen a fully

616
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: executed game. But you did it was against the Vikings.

617
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: And that's my point. That's what I'm saying is I'm

618
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: not saying discount all of the prep and all the

619
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: xs and o's and all of the tangibles that are

620
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: in this one. You obviously have to look at that

621
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, but this is a game that we

622
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: have been talking about in and out since the first matchup,

623
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: and even before that we were talking about how the

624
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: season was going to come down to this game right here.

625
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: And so, yes, the injuries are a big deal, Like

626
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: they are depleted in so many different places, and a

627
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 1: lot of these guys are asked to do a lot

628
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: more than what they have probably were expected to do.

629
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Speaker 1: And that's where I think that extra gear comes of

630
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: do we want to win this game? Are we going

631
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: to put in the work to you know, have that

632
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: success on Saturday or are we going to rely on

633
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: oh well, like this is what we bring to the table.

634
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: To your point, So that kind of what I was

635
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: trying to say, Well, I was very happy that you

636
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: brought up like the injuries that have happened, because they

637
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: are key injuries and this is something that happens at

638
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: this time of year. But good coaches and good teams

639
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: find consistency when there is none. And I'm waiting for

640
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: especially DQ because he has taken that side of the

641
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Speaker 1: balls taking the brunt of losses. I mean, you have missed.

642
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: You've lost three starters in the last three weeks on

643
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: every level. And so for me for this game, I

644
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: agree with you. It's gonna be who wants it more.

645
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: But also to the confidence that could come from this

646
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: game adjusting to I have three key starters on this

647
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: side of the ball, out like where I'm waiting to

648
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: see on the defensive side, for them to adjust to

649
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 1: what they have and then go forward, because you can't

650
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: keep doing the same things or you may have to

651
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: change how you're doing things because of where guys are

652
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: right now. Look, I mean the offense needed the defense

653
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: to build them out because they had three key starters

654
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: and more out at different points. No Tyrant Smith, no

655
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, but Sin Schultz was injured. Michael Gallup wasn't

656
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: there for a bit, so they've been able to overcome it.

657
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: But I think it goes back to playing complimentary football

658
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: and not just seventy five percent of the team wanting

659
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: this thing, but one hundred percent. I think that's sort

660
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: of been the strike, and I think this happened especially,

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00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: I mean think about it with the added games. You

662
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: know it's challenging, and then what was it sixteen games?

663
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Speaker 1: Now were seventeen. You can't even go back to a

664
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: lot of these guys didn't get a snap in preseason,

665
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: so you know that that argument can come full forward again.

666
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: But what I really liked about Dak talking today was

667
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: he talked about I wrote this down a quote. Dak's

668
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: just full of great quotes, so when he's talking, I'm

669
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: like typing as fast as I can. But he said,

670
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: it's about making a statement to themselves during this game,

671
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: and I couldn't avoided it better. I mean, coming from Dak,

672
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: I think they got knocked down. All right, are you

673
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: gonna get up? Are you going to keep talking? Are

674
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: you going to do it? Because at this point, it's

675
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: it's execution. It's an execution, and they just have to

676
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: step up and do it when their number is called,

677
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: and you spoke on the seventy five percent. Hey, we

678
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: talk about all three facets over here. Special teams as well,

679
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: Like the special teams play in the last three weeks

680
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: has put you put your offense in spots to where

681
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: they have to go long drives, they have to do

682
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: all this, and this is a trickle down effect again

683
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: from you. Some of the guys that block on special teams,

684
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: you got them playing corner now like they're having to

685
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: chime in other places. So you're missing some of your

686
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: gunners and your blockers. So that's affecting returns, that's affecting

687
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: your field position. So also if we're going to talk

688
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: about offense defense, it's definitely on bones fossil to kind

689
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: of try to figure out how to get some productive

690
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: yards on these returns and put your offense a better

691
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: and better position to go make place because even last

692
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: week that was a ninety eight yard drive. Well, I've

693
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: got to also raise my hand and take a little

694
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Speaker 1: accountability here because a few weeks ago I made the

695
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: mistake of talking to Kavante Turbin and ever since it's

696
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: had a tough go of it. About to be a confessional.

697
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: I know it's just the whispering time, and I said,

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00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm gonna be talking to you for

699
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. I owned this because that

700
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,720
Speaker 1: was the Texans game when he had the the loved

701
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: punt and uh, yeah, I don't think it's it's hurt

702
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: his confidence and he was it hasn't to him today

703
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: it was he was great. But yeah, I think I'm

704
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: gonna be staying away from this Weekte Turpi the rest

705
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: of the season. I want to apologize to Cowboy Fancy.

706
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: I'm actually this opportunity. I'm actually glad you brought up

707
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: Cavante Turpin because of course we know I check on

708
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: Cavante every week since he got here. I will go

709
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: to the locker room, how are you feeling this week?

710
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: Is this the week you're taking it back? Like we

711
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: talk about this every week. So I didn't see him

712
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: last week, and I was waiting in the locker room

713
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: to see if I would and didn't end up seeing him.

714
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: So I was like, hey, I was waiting for you

715
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: last week. I didn't get to ask how are you

716
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: feeling this week? And he's like, I'm good, I'm good,

717
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: rolled off my shoulders. I'm good, and I said, how

718
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: is your confidence level? And if anything, he said, it

719
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: kind of brought him back down a little bit, which

720
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: he needed. So it was it's it's always interesting to

721
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: hear now being in this position and then seeing kind

722
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: of the fan perspective on Twitter, just how these mindsets

723
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: of me personally has shifted throughout the course of this

724
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 1: season from fan and you know, going to the games

725
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: as fan to really seeing it from a different side

726
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: of things, even talking to these guys, And it was

727
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: just it was interesting because I just asked him, you know, um, well,

728
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 1: welcome to the Cowboys, right, like a lot of scrutiny,

729
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: and he said, he said, yeah, but I just can't

730
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: let it bother me. So he's not he's not bothered

731
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: by it. But what I will say from what I've

732
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: gathered to talking to him these last few weeks is

733
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: he's the kind of person that belongs in this locker room.

734
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: He takes accountability and he works to make it better.

735
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: And so I love that you've seen that because trust me,

736
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: I joked, I called it hashtag Cowboy's dad. The text

737
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: messages that I get from my father amazed me. Yeah,

738
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,479
Speaker 1: and I kind of laughed to you because every time

739
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: when I first start out in the business, people would say,

740
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: why she, you know, covering the sport, she doesn't understand football.

741
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: And then I listened, like I said, these talking heads

742
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: like Lashawn McCoy, and I'm like, look, there are layers

743
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: to everything, Like you know, what is it? There's two sides.

744
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: There's actually three sides of the story. There's this side,

745
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: that side, and there's a truth that's somewhere in the middle.

746
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: That's why I always appreciate being able to go in

747
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: the locker room because instead of having an opinion on something,

748
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: I actually get an understanding of something. And so when

749
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, you're a DAK apologist or you're

750
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: this or that, it's like no, I actually go in

751
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: there and ask the questions that a lot of people

752
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: on Twitter it's emotional responses. So there are layers to

753
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 1: this thing. Yeah, the interceptions for Dak have been an issue. Yes,

754
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: the entry bug has been a problem for this team. Yes,

755
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 1: sometimes they tend to make this thing a lot harder

756
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: on themselves than it needs to be. But we'll see

757
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 1: if they can pull this off. And I think a

758
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,760
Speaker 1: win over the Eagles regardless of whether it's Gardener or Jalen.

759
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 1: I still tend to think it's going to be Jaylen,

760
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: but we'll see. I think we'll be big for the

761
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: Cowboys moving forward and still give them a little bit

762
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: of an opportunity. But even as Zeke said today, look,

763
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: they're not celebrating the playoffs because they've been to the

764
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: playoffs since he's been here, and they've also lost in

765
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: the opening round. I think that's what a lot of

766
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,359
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814
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven, As the guys talked about today, though

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817
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,520
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818
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820
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823
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824
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: we need to address some of the injuries. So we

825
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: got the injury report. You want to give that one

826
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Speaker 1: to me, Haley. Yeah, So the Cowboys pretty positive. It's

827
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: the same as yesterday, literally copy and pace, so they

828
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 1: only real concern I use that word lightly. Michael Parsons

829
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: was out again with an illness. Mike kind of talked

830
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: to us a little bit about that today is just

831
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: a bug circling around, so some of they pay attention to,

832
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: but all the other guys still limited that we talked

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Speaker 1: about yesterday. I did get a chance to talk to

834
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: Jake a little bit in the locker room. He was

835
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: in a hurry to go do some treatment stuff, but

836
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,280
Speaker 1: I said, how are you feeling? And he said much better?

837
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: So love that from Jake. Don't know if we'll see

838
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 1: him yet. Mike said that he was still working through

839
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: the concussion protocol, so we'll see how that progresses. But

840
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: something interesting with the Eagles is at half, if not

841
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: more than half, of their injury report is resting. So

842
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: you've got guys like James Bradberry the corner is non

843
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 1: injury resting, A j. Brown, same thing, Fletcher Cox, Landon Dickerson,

844
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: Brandon Graham, Lane Johnson, Jason Kelsey, Uh, let's see here,

845
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: Josh Sweat. So a lot of these guys are were

846
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 1: limited today or did not practice because they are resting.

847
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: So Mike McCarthy has been doing this all season with

848
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. So I don't know why you're

849
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,919
Speaker 1: sitting there like looking ice, she giving me the eyes.

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00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a tricky about that. What day

851
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Speaker 1: did they travel, What day did they travel? What day

852
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: will they travel here? Friday? Yeah, eleven guys on this

853
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: report are resting out of seventeen, but all of them

854
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 1: are veterans, so I think giving them a veteran rest

855
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: get day before. I'm not reading too much into that, yeah,

856
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I'm just saying that it's it's I

857
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: think to me, it's clear that that Chicago game was

858
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: a little bit more physical than you know, Kingdom. Yeah,

859
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: so give those guys the rest. That and Jalen Hurts

860
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: didn't participate yeah today either, So not shocking, but dumping

861
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: out our reporter notebook here a little bit. Here's something

862
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: interesting because I know keep people keep wondering jumping off

863
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: of that Jalen Hurts A Gardner Minshew, Garner Minshew. They

864
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: have similar passing production in their career. What uh when

865
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: we talked Yeah, when we talk about their completion percentage

866
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts sixty two point six Gardner Minshew sixty two

867
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: point seven passing yards attempts, seven point six for Hurts,

868
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: six point nine for Minshew. Passing touchdowns to interceptions forty

869
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: three and seventeen thirty seven and ten for Minshew, and

870
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: their passer rating is both ninety three point eight. Now, Hurts,

871
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: like we talked about earlier, so dangerous on his feet

872
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: twenty six career rushing touchdowns. Minshew only won. It'd been

873
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: I think if Jalen Hurts plays and he uses his

874
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 1: feet this week, let's say, because he is struggling with

875
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,360
Speaker 1: that shoulder. That would be a very dangerous week to

876
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: do it, given this situation that they've got now with

877
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: no Jonathan Haggins, no latent Vander esh and then what

878
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: do you do with Michael Parsons And is he going

879
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: to be feeling better by Saturday? So I think that

880
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 1: to me is like the big question mark. If I'm

881
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: the Eagles, I'm like, let's stress you out, Jalen. Maybe

882
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,399
Speaker 1: we alternate, not dissimilar from what the Houston Texans did.

883
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: We've got both of you guys in here playing, but

884
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: we're getting Jalen some reps in here, letting him be deadly,

885
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: getting Gardener some opportunities, which, by the way, I remember

886
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: when the Eagles had Nick Foles and Carson Wentz. Not

887
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: bad to have two quarterbacks they can play for you.

888
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: What if they came out and did that? Guys, Oh,

889
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,240
Speaker 1: I think he's dangerous. I think he's dangerous in regard

890
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: to him, you know, with a shoulder, and it's throwing

891
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: arm because it's not even just him throwing the ball,

892
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: as him getting tackled, just the act of tackling him

893
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: in general, like because that's what happened to him, Like

894
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: he got tackled, went to the ground. I wouldn't want

895
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: him to be getting knocked out. You may not want

896
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: him too. But as I talked to guys in the

897
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: locker room, they said, if I'm Jalen, I'm playing when

898
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: you're competitive guy, you are playing, then that sounds fine

899
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: and dandy. But and even Nick Sirianni kept the door

900
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: open a little bit today that yeah, Jalen did too.

901
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: And I say this half joking, but I was just

902
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: kind of scrolling. I was rewatching the last game, and

903
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: then I was on Twitter this picture of Mike Leach

904
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,720
Speaker 1: that I was just showing Aisha all big on my screen. Um,

905
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: but I was watching a video earlier of after the

906
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: injury happened, and the caption literally said, Jalen Hurts did

907
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: this after he sprained his shoulder and he yanked the

908
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: ball down to who else but A J. Brown. And

909
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: so I just feel like, again like I'm just tapping

910
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: in to my like athlete experience here. Like because going

911
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: back though, Haley, if they just win this game, they

912
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: have eliminated Cowboys from winning the NFC East and then

913
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: you rest, then that's what I was going to say,

914
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: That's what I would do if I was the Eagles, Yeah,

915
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: when you're when you're a competitor the way these guys are. Specifically,

916
00:44:54,560 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: Jalen hurts. There's a level of yeah, it hurts, but

917
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, it's yeah. And so to me,

918
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: if Jalen on Tuesday is saying that there's a possibility

919
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: that I can play, whether I like it, you like it,

920
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: you like it, whatever, then that's your starting quarterback. And

921
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: it's it's like what Mike says all the time, you know,

922
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: at the at the end of the day, Oh well, um,

923
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: but I think about zeph who was going to say,

924
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 1: you can tell these guys and you can suggest to

925
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,240
Speaker 1: them what they should and shouldn't do. But the reality

926
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: is is that they're grown men. And if Jalen wants

927
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,439
Speaker 1: to play, then he's going to spend all this week

928
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: not practicing. He's going to pop out and practice, you know,

929
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: one day before they leave, go through the walkthrough. They're

930
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: gonna shoot him up with the court of his his own shot,

931
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get out there and play. Because the

932
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 1: unfortunate and I'm not saying that I necessarily condone this

933
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: or support it or whatever, but the unfortunate part of

934
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: this business is that their job is to be athletes,

935
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: and if they feel so inclined to put their body

936
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: on the line in a game that would essentially put

937
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: the NFC bed, then to your point, yeah, I think

938
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: the door is open for Jalen to play. I don't know.

939
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: I'm so back and forth on this because I look

940
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: at how Mike McCarthy has handled injuries this season of

941
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: saying like, hey, you know physically you're ready mentally, I

942
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: just think for the long term thing. I always sit

943
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: on this hill of a long term situation. It could

944
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: go both ways. Long term, do you want to seal

945
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: the NFC East move on? Yes? But also long term

946
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: you're talking a playoff run, and this team has potential,

947
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: the Eagle. As much as I hate to admit it,

948
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: this hurts me to say the Eagles have potential to

949
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: make a very deep playoff run, and you have to

950
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: think that. But then they can keep it for three

951
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: weeks because they'll get the first round by and then

952
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: they've got two games left on the season, and then

953
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: it's gonna say. I played in our in my very

954
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: last regular season game in college with a swollen bum

955
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: ankle scored and we went to the postseason, and then

956
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: I rested for a little bit, say swollen Um, I

957
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, no, no, no, okay, okay no. But

958
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like I just think it. The competitor

959
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: side of you comes out and it goes back to

960
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 1: what I was saying earlier with this is a game

961
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,320
Speaker 1: that the emotions are so invested, the rivalry is so invested.

962
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: This is a game where if you have I would

963
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 1: say a forty percent chance of playing to play, you're

964
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 1: gonna play. Yeah, you're gonna play. So we'll see how

965
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: he progresses. Like you said, he didn't practice today, I

966
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: don't think you'll practice tomorrow. Maybe he hops out in

967
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: the walkout before they fly out here. I I'm with you,

968
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised. I just keep going back

969
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,440
Speaker 1: to the Houston Texas tomfoolery and if you're looking at

970
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: other teams like yeah, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. So

971
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: you prepare for both. You follow the path of the practice.

972
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, ladies, Well tomorrow it's Kelsey Charles.

973
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: I know you guys are gonna get to a break

974
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: down this game a little bit more. If you didn't

975
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: get enough news and notes at a filly and maybe

976
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: we'll have a little bit of a clearer picture as

977
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: to who that starting quarterback is going to be, but

978
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 1: definitely a fun one. And I'll have all of your

979
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: coverage on Saturday, Christmas Eve on NFL Network. Thanks tuning

980
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: in see tomorrow. This has been a production of Dallas

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