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Speaker 1: Thy seventeen, Season thirteen, episode number sixty five. Welcome to
Speaker 1: another edition of The Break. I am Derek Eagleton, joined
Speaker 1: by the normal crew here and it is We're locking
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios a lot that we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about today. How's everybody doing this morning after Halloween? Outstanding?
Speaker 1: And that was a really interesting photo you did last night.
Speaker 1: You're very creative and artistic. Thank you for those people
Speaker 1: that might follow you on Instagram's pretty cool. Dave you
Speaker 1: do anything special last night? Nope? Nothing. I ate a
Speaker 1: Sam much and watched baseball. Was the best night of
Speaker 1: my life. He dressed up as us. Well, you dressed
Speaker 1: up as you were watching. I was watching tape of
Speaker 1: Kansas City in Oakland so I could be prepared and
Speaker 1: awesome for this show. So no Halloween, no stuff for grinding.
Speaker 1: Always always push a t. Nick, you had a pretty
Speaker 1: interesting night. You're telling me about a little song that
Speaker 1: kind of interesting from last night. Yeah, you know, trick
Speaker 1: or treating with the kids. It's one thing if you're
Speaker 1: going to a haunted house. Okay, you go to a
Speaker 1: haunted house, but you shouldn't be have to be subject
Speaker 1: to this kind of stuff when you're like at a neighborhood,
Speaker 1: like I go, I'm like walking with my kid. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like I get right by this house
Speaker 1: and there's this branch right there and you'll you'll love this.
Speaker 1: So they pull up this branch and right then, like
Speaker 1: I just move it away. Jeez wow wow, yeah all
Speaker 1: the way. You know, not Halloween, right, I know what.
Speaker 1: You couldn't do it yesterday. It just wasn't fine. It
Speaker 1: didn't feel right yesterday with the hole. But I'm the Minican.
Speaker 1: I don't get scared now. Wow, I like that a
Speaker 1: good voice crack though. That was good, Shannon. How long
Speaker 1: have you been hiding there? He's a little cramped up
Speaker 1: right now. No wonder, Nick looked suspicious when I was
Speaker 1: walking in. You were just you look too suspicious wondering
Speaker 1: around the hall. I was because he were starting to
Speaker 1: cramp and I've been sitting there for like last thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: You were late, so I was like, Oh, he's got
Speaker 1: to wait in there longer. And I was like, let
Speaker 1: me just stand out there, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, stop, get back here. No, that's great.
Speaker 1: There we go. I couldn't see I couldn't see Dave.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was we got him. We'll have that
Speaker 1: for people to go back. For those who were out
Speaker 1: there just listening and not watching. What you missed there
Speaker 1: was Shannon was hiding under the table here and waiting
Speaker 1: until the perfect, perfect moment to pop out at Dave
Speaker 1: and Amber, and you'll have to go back and watch
Speaker 1: the replay. Dave had a nice reaction to it, and
Speaker 1: actually Dave I was actually thinking we might get an
Speaker 1: F bomb here. I was like, Dave might let it go.
Speaker 1: The word was on my lips, right. I was like,
Speaker 1: he might let it go, but you didn't. You held
Speaker 1: it together. So that's always Camber. Just like what see, Dave.
Speaker 1: I would have been in the same boat as you.
Speaker 1: I would have fallen out of my chair. I don't
Speaker 1: like stuff like that. And by the way, for everyone
Speaker 1: in this room, this guy's he told me I was
Speaker 1: fired if I did not do don't start. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: getting nine Emmy nominations and getting ready for this day,
Speaker 1: like right at this, I had never seen him as excited.
Speaker 1: He's been working on this for two days. They had
Speaker 1: a good idea and I was backing it up as yeah,
Speaker 1: you two, like, that's what I do. I worked with you, guys.
Speaker 1: I was in here on my show when he came
Speaker 1: in here with Nick looking to see if you could
Speaker 1: see two here, and they were like, Shannon, get in
Speaker 1: there and see if you'll fit. Yeah, here's what we're doing.
Speaker 1: When you do it, you were under the table. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there's actually a little don't get inside. This is why
Speaker 1: like this because you look. Yeah, we didn't want you
Speaker 1: guys like looking there and I haven't been seen. I
Speaker 1: was been wondering why this punk again was still here.
Speaker 1: I have been bawled up in there since nine twenty.
Speaker 1: And then Nick goes, Amber is gonna be five minutes later,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, God, I don't know if my back
Speaker 1: and my knees can had to take my shoes off
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't make noise. I took my shirt off
Speaker 1: so you couldn't see me under there. Utter waste of
Speaker 1: time and resource. Not only not at wait you see
Speaker 1: the replay, you will not think that. You will not
Speaker 1: think that. All right, Thank good, that was good. There
Speaker 1: might be a gift follow the break on Twitter. That
Speaker 1: was good, very very nice. Thank Now Dave tell us
Speaker 1: about the Kansas City Chiefs. No, I'm just this whole
Speaker 1: thing was David is definitely not as look at that
Speaker 1: look on his face. He's still just kind of like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I just went zero fund. So
Speaker 1: this whole thing was planned for yesterday and it was
Speaker 1: gonna just go just like that, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden. So speaking of scary things, Zeke's out for
Speaker 1: six games. It's like, nah, I wasn't going the right feel,
Speaker 1: It wasn't gonna go right when the right field. But
Speaker 1: we do have more Zeke News Day if you if
Speaker 1: you still want to engage us in on this show,
Speaker 1: art rates down. If you want to call it news,
Speaker 1: it's really news. He filed an emergency motion yesterday afternoon
Speaker 1: that was immediately shot down, like within hours, which is
Speaker 1: kind of amazing for the US court system, typically everything
Speaker 1: kind of takes weeks and months, and it took about
Speaker 1: ninety minutes. So that was shot down. He's now filing
Speaker 1: an appeal or he has filed an appeal in the
Speaker 1: second Circuit Court, which they're hoping will be heard on
Speaker 1: an expedited basis aka by fry Day. Unfortunately, this is
Speaker 1: the same court that ruled against Tom Brady in that situation.
Speaker 1: The final ruling or the ruling, yeah, his appeal, Okay,
Speaker 1: they forced Tom Brady to play when he was appealing
Speaker 1: his suspension. Got it, um, So I mean it's going
Speaker 1: it's going to appeal. They'll hear it. There is a
Speaker 1: chance that it could be granted and this could all
Speaker 1: be back on and he could be back on the field.
Speaker 1: But every single piece of literature that I've read about
Speaker 1: it says not not likely. Yea. So we'll see. And
Speaker 1: the thing about this is this is really kind of
Speaker 1: the last ditch effort because, as I would say, it
Speaker 1: was explained to me, basically, you have district course and
Speaker 1: federal court. Then you appeal to the Circuit court. The
Speaker 1: next step beyond that is a Supreme court. But you
Speaker 1: can't go to Supreme Court with a temporary restraining order.
Speaker 1: They're actually going to hear a case. So this is
Speaker 1: kind of your last recourse to actually get an extraining order. Again,
Speaker 1: this is all over an injunction. This isn't they're not
Speaker 1: even and this isn't case right, Yeah, so this is
Speaker 1: I mean, as far as I understand it, this is
Speaker 1: really like the last gasp for this injunction. And the
Speaker 1: court case is going to continue for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1: But he won't be on the field while it's getting
Speaker 1: figured out unless he gets this appeal. Not that he
Speaker 1: would win the court case, but the travesty and all
Speaker 1: of this will be Oh, if he happens to win
Speaker 1: this case, that's a small chance. But if somehow he
Speaker 1: actually wins this case and he will have already served
Speaker 1: six game suspension, yeah, you can pay him the money
Speaker 1: for those games, but you can't take that back from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of him, and you can't take it back
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of the team. And if the team
Speaker 1: isn't able to function as well as they would have
Speaker 1: with him and ultimately affects their season, and he's found
Speaker 1: he's ultimately vindicated, that's where you got a big problem. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'd have a huge problem. Yeah. And that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of what my question was going to be, is that
Speaker 1: we talked about this yesterday, that you know, the case
Speaker 1: will still go on, but you know, he's obviously trying
Speaker 1: to he's fight for his name, he's also fighting to play.
Speaker 1: You think he continues the same kind of like energy
Speaker 1: and efforts towards this. If he's already suspended the six
Speaker 1: games and you get to the offseason, you still yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean to be honest, if it goes back to
Speaker 1: him wanting to clear his name, yeah, then that doesn't change.
Speaker 1: He still wants to clear his name, right And and
Speaker 1: like you said yesterday, the amount of money that he
Speaker 1: may be losing over this, the ability to get that back,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if the league, if he's vindicated
Speaker 1: in court, I don't know how it works from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of the league being able to then void his guarantees.
Speaker 1: They may have to not avoid his guarantees at that point.
Speaker 1: So there's there's some things in here that he still
Speaker 1: can win. It doesn't give him the game back games back,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't give the Cowboys the games back. So
Speaker 1: that's the part that you just can't take back. And
Speaker 1: that's the part about this whole thing, you know, that's
Speaker 1: the reason why in America we don't dull our punishment
Speaker 1: before the final verdict, right, And so this whole thing
Speaker 1: just seems a little bit off to me. It's one
Speaker 1: thing if you get to the point where you've exhausted
Speaker 1: everything and you've you know, and at that point he's
Speaker 1: guilty or no one is overturned the league finding him
Speaker 1: guilty of this, and then the punishment happens. But when
Speaker 1: you do it before all those things are done, then
Speaker 1: I think it just creates a situation where there can
Speaker 1: be a lot of stuff that you can undo, that's
Speaker 1: all that he already has to suffer. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys have an answer for this. I
Speaker 1: don't know about you, Dave, But how many back and
Speaker 1: forth can there still be for this whole thing before
Speaker 1: he comes to an end? And just we've moved past forth?
Speaker 1: What do you mean? I don't understand. Well, if yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gone back forth, I mean, how many more do
Speaker 1: we have? Well, you're saying, you're saying at this point
Speaker 1: right now, where we are right now, obviously that's not
Speaker 1: the end of it. So how many more things could
Speaker 1: they possibly do to where we get to a final
Speaker 1: point where we can move on from the whole situation. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess that's sort of what I was trying to say.
Speaker 1: I mean, theoretically, they can file and as many courts
Speaker 1: as they want to for the rest of time, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing stopping them from doing that, I guess.
Speaker 1: But this is the one. I mean, this one seems
Speaker 1: like it has finality in terms of his ability to
Speaker 1: get onto the field at any you know, before the
Speaker 1: six game suspension is served. As far as the court,
Speaker 1: I mean, I expect we're gonna be talking about the
Speaker 1: court case well into twenty eighteen. Yeah, I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: even longer than that. I would assume it's done before
Speaker 1: the season, though, right, I mean, I don't know how long.
Speaker 1: Brady's thing took almost two years, so just and that
Speaker 1: and that's you know, just the court So when you
Speaker 1: include the thirteen month investigation, that's really three Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess the thing about is when it comes down
Speaker 1: to just him playing or not, right, this week is
Speaker 1: your hell, Mary right here? This week has a tone
Speaker 1: of finality to it, Like I really don't think there's
Speaker 1: a whole lot else they can do if this fails.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, they can, but that won't
Speaker 1: be any more likely to work than anything else. So
Speaker 1: I mean, if they don't get a ruling they like
Speaker 1: this week, I really I kind of think that's it.
Speaker 1: But it's not like the suspension starts and then halfway
Speaker 1: through it something else happens and you could put a
Speaker 1: hold in it on it. Again, I'm not a lawyer,
Speaker 1: but I don't think so. I haven't heard anything like
Speaker 1: that that suggests that there's more after this. I mean, again,
Speaker 1: you've got the district court, you've got the Circuit Court,
Speaker 1: and then you got the Supreme Court. Right now, they're
Speaker 1: at the Circuit Court. Even if let's assume for a
Speaker 1: second that the Supreme Court would hear this, they're they're
Speaker 1: not moving their docket around to get to this immediately,
Speaker 1: right So there's nothing that in the short term, there's
Speaker 1: nothing more you can do. I don't think that gets
Speaker 1: you back, did get Zeke back on the field than
Speaker 1: what they've already done, And if that doesn't work, I
Speaker 1: don't know what else. So basically, at this point, basically,
Speaker 1: just to be clear, he will be serving the full
Speaker 1: sixth suspension, and there's nothing we could expect for it
Speaker 1: to happen to hold it again, assuming one that this
Speaker 1: doesn't work what they did yesterday, and then assuming too
Speaker 1: that what I've heard is accurate. Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm not an attorney. I just kind of talk to
Speaker 1: different people, and so that's from what I've heard. That's
Speaker 1: kind of what I suspect is the issue here, or
Speaker 1: at least how it will play out. You got basically
Speaker 1: this one last ditch effort, and you see what happens.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't work, then he's probably got a six
Speaker 1: game suspension. Okay, just to be clear here, trying to
Speaker 1: be but never thought we'd be sitting on the break
Speaker 1: talking about legal stuff. This is deep, but it is here.
Speaker 1: We are, like for the fifth week in a row. Yep,
Speaker 1: all right, let's jump into Cowboys versus Chiefs and uh, actually,
Speaker 1: you know something, we're coming pretty close here to our
Speaker 1: first break. Uh no, never mind, we started a little late.
Speaker 1: Tell you what. Let's go ahead and jump into the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Dave, why don't you give us a
Speaker 1: scoutter report on the Chiefs offense? Well, they're pretty good
Speaker 1: that they are, They're they're really good. Actually, um like,
Speaker 1: I don't even I'm gonna start with Travis Kelsey, probably
Speaker 1: just because you know, Alex Smith is playing out of
Speaker 1: his mind and Kareem Hunt is probably the you know,
Speaker 1: the runaway leader for offensive Rookie of the Year. But
Speaker 1: I really think it's Travis Kelsey that makes this whole
Speaker 1: thing work because much like Rob Gronkowski, he's just a
Speaker 1: matchup nightmare on a level that is really not fair
Speaker 1: because he's basically just a huge wide receiver. That's what
Speaker 1: he is. I mean, he's a great route runner. He
Speaker 1: can line up on the line, he lines up off
Speaker 1: the line, He's got amazing hands, pretty good dancer for
Speaker 1: whatever that's worth. He can just he can do everything.
Speaker 1: So I mean, like, you know, the Chiefs run eleven
Speaker 1: personnel a lot, but it's not really eleven personnel. It's
Speaker 1: really four wide because Travis Kelsey's out there and he's
Speaker 1: not playing traditional tight end. He's going down the field,
Speaker 1: he's crossing the field. He I mean, corners can't handle him,
Speaker 1: Safeties can't handle him. Linebackers certainly can't. This past week
Speaker 1: against Denver, he scored a long touchdown lined up wide
Speaker 1: left on a slugo, which is a slant go. He'd
Speaker 1: sell it. Yeah, he'd sold the hell out of it.
Speaker 1: Though he's sold the hell out of it. He was
Speaker 1: three yards behind the corner, so like to see a
Speaker 1: tight end do stuff like that. He just there's maybe
Speaker 1: two other teams in the league where you really have
Speaker 1: that type of mismatch. And I saw at least two
Speaker 1: catches in that game, that last game against Denver where
Speaker 1: he was surrounded by defenders, like there were three or
Speaker 1: four guys that were kind of playing zone that will
Speaker 1: all around him, and the ball was thrown, he goes
Speaker 1: up over everybody that's around him, catches it and comes
Speaker 1: down with That's all that happened like twice. And I
Speaker 1: guess that's kind of my point is he can do
Speaker 1: that type of can he can do everything like he
Speaker 1: does the Jason Witten stuff too, like the little button
Speaker 1: hook for eight yards. I mean, he can do the
Speaker 1: typical tight end stuff. He can help block, but he
Speaker 1: also he can go down the field. He goes in
Speaker 1: motion the way that you know, like Ryan Switzer does,
Speaker 1: the way a receiver does. They move they move him
Speaker 1: in motion. I'd say seventy five percent of their snaps.
Speaker 1: He's moved and behind the line. They've thrown him shovel
Speaker 1: passes off emotions like that, he's taken endo rounds. Like
Speaker 1: to have a tight end that's taking endo rounds. It's
Speaker 1: just stupid. M So, like I really crazy. I think
Speaker 1: it all starts with him, just in terms of he's
Speaker 1: not their most dynamic player because they have Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: but he just gives you a fluidity and a mismatchability
Speaker 1: that not a lot of teams have because you're you
Speaker 1: basically always have a big wide receiver on the field
Speaker 1: even when you're running you know, twenty one personnel or
Speaker 1: twelve personnel. So that's the thing that really scares the
Speaker 1: crap out of me. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: like I said, you do have Tyreek Hill, who like
Speaker 1: I know that, we know he's fast. I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's Knicks guy, no doubt. He's the guy that you
Speaker 1: want to be like, yeah, yeah, come home, that's the guy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and you know he had a touchdown against
Speaker 1: Oakland I think yeah on the Thursday night game that
Speaker 1: they actually lost. Corner played ten yards off the ball
Speaker 1: and had high safety help and it didn't matter. At all,
Speaker 1: Like he just blazed past the guy safety misjudged the
Speaker 1: angle and he's got like a sixty four yard touchdown
Speaker 1: really for no reason other than that he's facts. I
Speaker 1: remember Desk talking about it. Number twenty four from Oklahoma State.
Speaker 1: That was unbelievably fast. He's like, this kid is going
Speaker 1: to be the best. And I just remember him thinking that,
Speaker 1: saying that, I'm like, okay, and he didn't last Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State very long, but he was number twenty four. It
Speaker 1: was definitely Tyreek Hill. And then I don't even know
Speaker 1: where he went after that. He was he was drafted.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, yeah, he went to like yeah, Oklahoma Panhandle
Speaker 1: State or something like that. I don't know. That's not
Speaker 1: where he went. Oklahoma, That's not where he went. But
Speaker 1: I can't believe what timeout what? Yeah, seriously, what'd you
Speaker 1: say he's Did you just say Oklahoma panhandle state? You
Speaker 1: know Oklahoma has a panhandle, right, That's why I just
Speaker 1: asked it. Does Oklahoma Panama? The state literally looks like
Speaker 1: a pan Yeah, okay, I don't look at very many
Speaker 1: serious apps of Okahoma. It's don't really pay attention to
Speaker 1: lived in a state that borders Oklahoma your life. Honestly, No,
Speaker 1: I have not. You don't ever look up He just no,
Speaker 1: I'd noticed. I know Oklahoma's there, but I never really
Speaker 1: looked at what the state looks like. Oklahoma. It's the
Speaker 1: state that looks like a pan like. If I had
Speaker 1: to guess, the term panhandle probably comes from Oklahoma, not Texas. No, No,
Speaker 1: well they call it the panhandle. It doesn't look anything
Speaker 1: like it doesn't look like a pan He went to
Speaker 1: University of West Alabama, Garden City Community College, and Oklahoma State.
Speaker 1: So West Alabama's guess where is where he went? Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about your geography knowledge. But I bet if
Speaker 1: we took a test right now to see who knew
Speaker 1: where more states were in the country, I would win.
Speaker 1: I would over a date. I would kill you. I
Speaker 1: would wax you. I would kill you. I would get it,
Speaker 1: I would get gonna do it. I would get forty
Speaker 1: five out of fifty. I would well, he'd get fifty
Speaker 1: out of it would be it would be embarrassing for you. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: we have to spell them and the capitals. I'll be
Speaker 1: okay with that. Here's the thing. Here's you don't know.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma has a panhandle. Than I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: gonna really say that's Maryland. All right, We're getting back.
Speaker 1: We're getting back on the rails. Here started on the rails. Remember,
Speaker 1: we still got to end. At the same time, we've
Speaker 1: got Jason Garrett's try the big thing like it's it's
Speaker 1: very h it's very cowboys, which shouldn't come as a surprise.
Speaker 1: Alex Smith and Dak Prescott are both kind of doing
Speaker 1: what they were so good at in college. You see,
Speaker 1: you don't see as much read option with Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: He can run. I think anybody that's watched him play
Speaker 1: should know that he can run, but they don't give
Speaker 1: him the ball as much as Dak does. He's averaging
Speaker 1: something like sixteen yards per game. He's good for like
Speaker 1: a twenty year twenty five yards scramble every now and then,
Speaker 1: but he's really I think they prefer to keep him
Speaker 1: back in the pocket, and he's doing really well with it.
Speaker 1: He's completing sixty nine percent of his passes. He's first
Speaker 1: in the league in yards per attempt eight point four,
Speaker 1: which I think is a testament not just to Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: but also Travis Kelsey and also Kareem Hunt, who has
Speaker 1: a knack. I mean they're using him in the passing
Speaker 1: game a lot underneath routes that turn into eight, twelve,
Speaker 1: fifteen yard gains. But I guess what I meant is
Speaker 1: it looks a lot like the Cowboys in the sense
Speaker 1: that you see a lot of shotgun stuff, a lot
Speaker 1: of motion, a lot of at least the idea of
Speaker 1: the read option, even if Alex Smith isn't running it,
Speaker 1: and then when they want to they line up and
Speaker 1: do power eye. They have a fullback that they use regularly.
Speaker 1: But the thing for me is, if there's something here
Speaker 1: to be encouraged by, it's probably their offensive line. It's
Speaker 1: not bad, but I don't think it's it's great by
Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination. They're twelfth and rushing offense
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty three yards a game as opposed
Speaker 1: to sixth and passing offense. You've seen, you know, I
Speaker 1: watched two and a half games, and you see, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know Oakland has Khalil Mack and Denver has von Miller,
Speaker 1: but but they're able to get after Alex Smith. They
Speaker 1: I mean, he's I think he's sacked three or four
Speaker 1: times against Oakland. Eric Fisher's their left tackle, number one
Speaker 1: overall pick in the draft, which like he's fine, but
Speaker 1: not he hasn't lived up to that building by any stretch.
Speaker 1: And then Mitchell Schwartz, who they signed from Cleveland, he's
Speaker 1: really like he's one of their only big players who
Speaker 1: isn't an in house player you see from Cal. I
Speaker 1: don't have that off the top of my head, but
Speaker 1: that sounds right. I just wrote Alex Mack went to Cal.
Speaker 1: You might be thinking of him. I think I thought
Speaker 1: Mitchell Schwartz Maybe I thought he was the one who
Speaker 1: went to Cal that that played at the Senior Bull
Speaker 1: a few years ago, played center, guard, tackle, everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's so versatile. Mitchell Schwartz is one of two guys
Speaker 1: on the offense who is not an in house guy,
Speaker 1: like a guy that they developed themselves, at least among
Speaker 1: the starters. Funnily is Funnily Funnily should be on this show.
Speaker 1: Cow Nice, good memory. Brian Witzman they're starting left guard,
Speaker 1: is the other one. Apparently he came from Dallas. I
Speaker 1: have no memory of that whatsoever, what years, like he
Speaker 1: was here in twenty fifteen, I believe, Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: no memory of that, Like during the season, like as
Speaker 1: a practice squad guy. There was a ninety man roster
Speaker 1: guy and he was released at final roster cup and
Speaker 1: he's starting for them. Yeah, that's like three teams this
Speaker 1: year that are using Cowboys cast offs as their starting
Speaker 1: offensive line. Um. If there's a place where you want
Speaker 1: to go get offensive lineman, yeah, after training camp, it
Speaker 1: probably is here because there's probably some good ones that
Speaker 1: they've had to release. Dan Skipper had to play the
Speaker 1: other night for the line. I did see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's yeah, there's probably a guys and they don't look
Speaker 1: that great in the drills, right because you're like, there's tiring,
Speaker 1: there's Zach, there's there's Witstmas, there's yeah, right. But for
Speaker 1: another team they're like, yeah, it's pretty good, pretty good player.
Speaker 1: All right, looks like our first break. We do want
Speaker 1: to come back and we're gonna hear from Amber and Nick.
Speaker 1: We want to hear about what they think one thing
Speaker 1: that they think stands out about this Kansas City offense
Speaker 1: among all the things that Dave is just laid out
Speaker 1: that are so great about this offense. We'll do that
Speaker 1: when we come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot
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Speaker 1: second segment of a great glad from the SWBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: studios at the Star and I we're talking about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus the Chiefs, particularly the Chiefs offense versus the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense. Dave laid out the Scoutter report, and now
Speaker 1: we'll get to Amber and Nick. I want to hear
Speaker 1: one thing, just isolate one thing about this offense this
Speaker 1: stands out to you, or about the matchup with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense. I'll start with you Amber. Well, I keep
Speaker 1: trying to figure out something bad that would kind of
Speaker 1: help the Cowboys in a positive way, but I just
Speaker 1: can't like every I mean everything. They're able to put
Speaker 1: yards on every single aspect of it, rushing it, running it,
Speaker 1: throwing it everywhere. So honestly, there's nothing that really bad
Speaker 1: I could say about them. They're the only team that
Speaker 1: have beat the Eagles so far. I know, Nick doesn't
Speaker 1: think the Eagles are No, no, no, I think that
Speaker 1: they're good eventually. Yeah. Yeah, I think that they're going
Speaker 1: to kind of come down to earth a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I don't know when they maybe have the division
Speaker 1: wrapped up when they do. Yeah, and another thing, even
Speaker 1: with Alex Smith getting pressured and him getting sacked, he
Speaker 1: has been getting he has gouting sacked a lot of times.
Speaker 1: But even then that doesn't really change anything. So I
Speaker 1: would say that's the strongest area from the Cowboys, the
Speaker 1: rushing the quarterback, pressuring the quarterback. So even then it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, like nothing really matters. They're they're really good.
Speaker 1: I just I mean, I keep trying to find something
Speaker 1: that I just right there, nothing really matters. Nothing. I
Speaker 1: still think the Cowboys are able to beat them somehow.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, you get lucky. They have lost two games,
Speaker 1: so something could happen to their advantage. But at this point,
Speaker 1: there's nothing really bad that I could point out from
Speaker 1: their offense. Sounds like there's a better chance that Zeke's
Speaker 1: gonna get this injunction and say than win this game.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be tough. I don't know, like I
Speaker 1: you know, I defer towards the quarterback so much in
Speaker 1: these types of situations, which Alex Smith is having the
Speaker 1: year of his life. Yeah, he has thrown no picks
Speaker 1: through eight games, sixteen touchdowns zero. That's really great, amazing.
Speaker 1: Hyry Hill has more intercepts. It was going to be
Speaker 1: like effective at that. They need turnovers and and and
Speaker 1: focus on the interceptions because you did not mention that earlier,
Speaker 1: and I thought maybe I could sneak that in. But
Speaker 1: that's okay. I got another one though, right, go with it.
Speaker 1: Everyone's finished, right, yeah, Okay, just making sure Catherine one
Speaker 1: of the things. Sure, go ahead. Second, I just don't
Speaker 1: want to cut anyone off. Okay. The thing about when
Speaker 1: you're talking about field position, you know, you nice punt
Speaker 1: by Chris Jones. You got them back down to the
Speaker 1: twelve yard line. Crowd's going, they can score from anywhere.
Speaker 1: And it's because of Tyreek Hill. That's the one reason
Speaker 1: why I really like having a speed guy like that,
Speaker 1: because you always you never really pushed back if this
Speaker 1: guy can go to the distance. And I was looking
Speaker 1: at some of these stats with him since he got
Speaker 1: since last year, he's had eight touchdowns of fifty yards
Speaker 1: or more. Eight nobody in the NFL has more than three,
Speaker 1: and he has eight. And he's doing it as a
Speaker 1: punt returner, as a kick returner, as a receiver, as
Speaker 1: a runner. He's come up you know, and done reverses.
Speaker 1: So and he's also some crazy stat like he's the
Speaker 1: only player that has a touchdown four different ways and
Speaker 1: he did three in one game. I mean that three
Speaker 1: days in one game last year he had So he's
Speaker 1: just a weapon all over the field. So he's be
Speaker 1: my guy that I would be worried about because even
Speaker 1: when you think they're pushed back, he can always score.
Speaker 1: Like Dave was saying against the Raiders, running by people
Speaker 1: in these corners you can run by, And I worry
Speaker 1: about the safeties. You worry if if Jamison Crowder is
Speaker 1: going to have the game of his life and finally
Speaker 1: have a breakout game, then I think Tyreek Hill could
Speaker 1: do some damage with Heath and Jones back there figuring
Speaker 1: out the safety position. That's the interesting thing. I think
Speaker 1: that both you guys have both pointed out they have
Speaker 1: really a dynamic player that's a matchup nightmare at almost
Speaker 1: every position of the skill position. Yes, Kareem Hunt, his
Speaker 1: speed is hard to match up with. You talk about
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey and how he is not a typical tight end.
Speaker 1: He's a tough matchup. Kareem Hunt is giving them the
Speaker 1: same thing from the running back position, and then the
Speaker 1: quarterback Alex Smith. He can throw it deep. But the
Speaker 1: way that he gets you, the way that he's so dynamic,
Speaker 1: is in the fact that he uses his legs really,
Speaker 1: really well. He's one of the best in the league,
Speaker 1: I think at that well timed Here's what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: run for fifteen yards. When you were worried about Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt downfield, you're worried about Kelsey. Over here, you're worried
Speaker 1: about cream Hunt. I'm gonna hit you for fifteen yards.
Speaker 1: Move the chains and we're still rolling like there is
Speaker 1: a dynamic player and a unique skill at every one
Speaker 1: of their skill positions that you have to worry about.
Speaker 1: That's what makes this offense, I think so tough to defend.
Speaker 1: One thing that I wanted to mention as well that
Speaker 1: I did forget actually gets forgetting forgotten about, but especially
Speaker 1: in a game where Dan Bailey's probably not gonna play
Speaker 1: that kid they signed, Butker, Yeah, the one who was
Speaker 1: the hero against the Redskins. He's pretty good. Yeah, he's been.
Speaker 1: He's been hitting from fifties. He hit two fifty yard
Speaker 1: field goals on Monday night against Denver, and he had
Speaker 1: a fifty three yarder against Oakland. So just one more weapon.
Speaker 1: Signed him off the practice squad and appear to have
Speaker 1: found a pretty damn good kicker. An interesting stat around
Speaker 1: that right now, they lead the league in drives ending
Speaker 1: in a score. Guess what that percentage is If you
Speaker 1: had to guess what would be the percentage of times
Speaker 1: if they take the field offensively and they end with
Speaker 1: a score sixty three, You guys are really high. No, No,
Speaker 1: forty nine, forty nine point four several times, so fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the times half the number of times they
Speaker 1: take the field on offense they end with a score.
Speaker 1: What's your average possession a game? Like tennine, ten, eleven nine? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so if you're scoring five times a game, that's leading
Speaker 1: the league. But see that's only like twenty there's twenty
Speaker 1: seven points. I've got three times. They're averaging twenty nine
Speaker 1: point five points per game, the third in the league
Speaker 1: in points score per game. Okay, that I mean that's
Speaker 1: real good. I thought that that number would be higher
Speaker 1: than them. I guess the way I looked at it was.
Speaker 1: The reason it seems so high to me is because
Speaker 1: you're basically saying half the time, like think about that,
Speaker 1: half the time your offense goes on the field, they score,
Speaker 1: and that means you have to do it consistently. There
Speaker 1: are probably some games in there where they didn't do
Speaker 1: it at that rate, which means there are some other
Speaker 1: games where they score. Yeah, they scored eight out of
Speaker 1: ten times, right, So it's when you look at it
Speaker 1: from that perspective over a seven games, right for them,
Speaker 1: eight games, that's a really really big number. I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: going against the Cowboys defense, no luck here. Well, and
Speaker 1: thank thank you for that segue, Amber, because like people
Speaker 1: think I'm such a negative jerk all the time, you're not.
Speaker 1: I think fair. I think you can take advantage of
Speaker 1: this offensive line. I mean, Kareem Hunt's really good. Their
Speaker 1: rushing offense is really good. They're only twelfth in the league. Like,
Speaker 1: it's not this overpowering attack that you absolutely can't stop.
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh held him to thirty five rushing yards when they
Speaker 1: beat him at Arrowhead two weeks ago, maybe three. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I think these tackles are not anything that
Speaker 1: scared the daylights out of me, especially, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: at this point you have to consider DeMarcus Lawrence like
Speaker 1: a strength of this matchup, Like he's the guy. You know,
Speaker 1: Chief's break is like, well number ninety, Mitchell Schwartz is
Speaker 1: going to have his hands full. So and that's what
Speaker 1: it needs to be. Honestly, I think it means they
Speaker 1: need to be getting to Alex Smith and May and
Speaker 1: it hasn't happened this year. But I think your best
Speaker 1: bet to win this game is get to him on
Speaker 1: a consistent enough basis that you're forcing some turnovers and
Speaker 1: even if he's not throwing picks. Cowboys have forced what
Speaker 1: seven fumbles this year? Isn't that best in the league.
Speaker 1: I think one of y'allt's up there. No, No, they've
Speaker 1: recovered seven. Oh excuse me, how many of they forced then?
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably another three or four on top
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, that's amazing. After that Rams preseason game
Speaker 1: when the ball was on the ground five times they
Speaker 1: couldn't get it. Yeah, But I mean that I think
Speaker 1: that's your best bet, is that. I think you can
Speaker 1: take advantage of this line, if you know, if if
Speaker 1: these guys play at the level they did, you know,
Speaker 1: the level they have basically all season now, they've they've
Speaker 1: beaten a lot of good teams, but they've also lost
Speaker 1: two games. What what did the team's doing those two
Speaker 1: games that they lost? I know Pittsburgh was one of them.
Speaker 1: What did they do in those games where they lost?
Speaker 1: What those teams do that maybe the Cowboys could take it.
Speaker 1: They lost back to back games to Pittsburgh and Oakland,
Speaker 1: which Oakland's very similar to the Cowboys would stand up
Speaker 1: point of their makeup though, right, Yeah, well Oakland seen
Speaker 1: him one thousand times, so I mean even though well
Speaker 1: you say that, but then I guess, I guess Kansas City,
Speaker 1: though it is a little bit different, very different what
Speaker 1: they've they've been, you know, because it just they have
Speaker 1: so many weapons. I think it all starts with Kelsey,
Speaker 1: I really do. I think because he is such a
Speaker 1: dynamic player, the safeties and corners have to cover him,
Speaker 1: and because of that, then you can't give the necessary
Speaker 1: help to Tom tyreek Hill, right, or do you have
Speaker 1: a corner that's good enough to run with him? Yeah?
Speaker 1: As fast as he is. And and my question is
Speaker 1: do you trust? Do you trust your corners in man
Speaker 1: coverage versus Tyree Hill you're covering him downfield, you can't.
Speaker 1: They're not fast enough there. I mean Scandrick was a
Speaker 1: four three guy at one point. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he still is. But I mean Anthony Brown is fast. Yes,
Speaker 1: he can run, but not like this. This would be
Speaker 1: a really nice week for Cheeto to be back, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I think I'm he will be. Maybe he will
Speaker 1: be for sure. Although even if he is, it would
Speaker 1: be nice if he had more experience under his belt
Speaker 1: because like, ideally, I would love to play him at
Speaker 1: safety and just make Byron Jones shadowed Kelsey all over
Speaker 1: the place. That really even change much. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's your best bet to have. It's your best bet
Speaker 1: to work because when Byron Jones has been at its best,
Speaker 1: it's just when he's been shadowing at tight end and
Speaker 1: not having to worry about playing. Say, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what he did so well in twenty fifteen. He's got
Speaker 1: a track record of doing it. No, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna take him away. I mean, he's not a
Speaker 1: guy that you take away, but I think he could
Speaker 1: limit him. But Unfortunately, unless Cheeto's back, or unless you
Speaker 1: trust Xavier Woods really a lot to truly play safety,
Speaker 1: I don't know that they'll let him do that throughout
Speaker 1: the entire game. I don't know if that's a good
Speaker 1: ideal with what you have behind him. What would I guess,
Speaker 1: what would be an alternative that you're that you're more
Speaker 1: afraid of than putting Xavier Woods out there and maybe
Speaker 1: going that that option that you just mentioned. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's a good I don't know. I mean, otherwise,
Speaker 1: I guess you leave Byron back at safety and have
Speaker 1: him help out, and then I don't honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: even it has to be Byron Jones. I don't know
Speaker 1: who else could deal with him on this team really.
Speaker 1: I mean, you think about the cornerbacks. Jordan Lewis is
Speaker 1: like five ten, he's not not ain't gonna work. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not I'm gonna work with Scander so and it's
Speaker 1: certainly not going to work with any linebacker, no offense
Speaker 1: to them. But that's a nightmare waiting to happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I look, I look at that play last week with
Speaker 1: Crowder and I guess you were mentioning now, But That's
Speaker 1: the kind of play that makes this week make me
Speaker 1: really worry for the Cowboys, because you let him get
Speaker 1: that open behind the safety and he's beat the cornerback.
Speaker 1: He's not. I mean, he's a fast guy. He can run,
Speaker 1: he's not Tyreek kill fast. And that's what worries me
Speaker 1: more than anything else, is how do you how do
Speaker 1: you make sure that in under no circumstances, you let
Speaker 1: that guy get beyond your deepest guy, or you make
Speaker 1: sure your corner can actually stay with him if you're
Speaker 1: gonna leave him me in coverage. Yeah, I mean the
Speaker 1: only thing you can kind of hope for is that.
Speaker 1: I mean Alex Smith, he's finally got some weapons around him,
Speaker 1: and he is he is really good. But he's not
Speaker 1: the most accurate quarterback. I mean, I mean he he
Speaker 1: can make mistakes. If you can get after him, if
Speaker 1: they can get at and put pressure on him, you know,
Speaker 1: he can maybe not throw the ball exactly what it
Speaker 1: needs to be. Doesn't this year. I'm saying he doesn't
Speaker 1: have any interceptions, but go back and look at some
Speaker 1: of those. He doesn't throw the best ball. He's not.
Speaker 1: I actually agree with that. He doesn't. I mean no,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that that's inaccurate. What I'm saying, though,
Speaker 1: is to this point this year, he hasn't made the
Speaker 1: kinds of mistakes. And even if there may have been
Speaker 1: a couple, you know, there are a couple of balls
Speaker 1: probably that could have been intercepted, the quarterback has with them.
Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about interceptions. I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this guy's streaking free and and you
Speaker 1: know he didn't throw it up there ride or he
Speaker 1: kind of threw it out of bounds. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: not Drew Brees in the sense of like, if the
Speaker 1: guy's open, he's gonna get it to him. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's a little inaccurate sometimes like that now, but
Speaker 1: he's he's having to play, you know, he's getting to
Speaker 1: play ahead of the chain, he's getting to play loose,
Speaker 1: and it's it's all working for him because he hasn't
Speaker 1: had a lot of weapons in his career. We know
Speaker 1: that that's been documented. But I'm just saying, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to knock him. He's really a good player, and
Speaker 1: he's one of the more underrated players I think in
Speaker 1: the league. But but um, I think I think he
Speaker 1: won't necessary. I mean, he'll miss some throws every now
Speaker 1: and again because he's not Accuracy is not his best thing. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing about it is even when he's missing
Speaker 1: a few throws, he has such good playmakers around him
Speaker 1: they can make up for that. Like that's that's the
Speaker 1: tough thing about this offense is even when they make
Speaker 1: a mistake, they're good enough to recover from the mistake
Speaker 1: because they have such dynamic player. I don't know this.
Speaker 1: They leave the league in about fifty categories, just one
Speaker 1: of them. Yak. God, I'm not sure about that. I
Speaker 1: don't have that, but yeah, it has to be. Well
Speaker 1: when you look at their yards per catch, which I
Speaker 1: don't know how much that factors into it. There yards
Speaker 1: per catch right now, if you look at receivers that
Speaker 1: have more than forty catches, they got two guys in
Speaker 1: the top six. They got Tyreek Hill who is averaging
Speaker 1: fourteen point six and that's tied for first with Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: And then you've got crazy the tight end Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: who also has twelve who's averaging twelve point six yards.
Speaker 1: So two of their guys are averaging more than ten
Speaker 1: yards per catch, and they're right up there. It's at
Speaker 1: the top of the league. When you talk about receivers
Speaker 1: that are getting the ball regularly, it's one thing if
Speaker 1: you're only getting the ball seventeen times for the season
Speaker 1: over seven or eight games. But these guys are US forty.
Speaker 1: They're forty plus catches for the season already and they're
Speaker 1: still averaging twelve fourteen yards per catch. That's that's an
Speaker 1: amazing number right there. That means if even if you
Speaker 1: get behind the chains and your second and long, you
Speaker 1: still can pick it up in one catch. They I
Speaker 1: don't know if I really understand this stat but they're
Speaker 1: first in air yards versus YAK. So yards versus yak,
Speaker 1: which is a thousand and fourteen so air yards? Would
Speaker 1: I mean so the past versus the amount of yards
Speaker 1: you pick up after the catch? I guess that is YAK.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah. If they average is seven hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty nine in the league and they have one thousand
Speaker 1: and fourteen, have they had a buy? No? I think
Speaker 1: they're buys after the Cowboys. God's good for them. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that means, but good. Maybe they're like
Speaker 1: right before spring break when you just kind of like her,
Speaker 1: not quite as on it. You just like, I just
Speaker 1: wait spring break of all all these things that we've said,
Speaker 1: and there's Cowboy fans out there going yeah, but you
Speaker 1: know what will be at home? Trust me, this will
Speaker 1: be the worst home field advantage the Cowboys have ever
Speaker 1: had at the stadium and we've had some some ever ever, Wow, Houston,
Speaker 1: I believe it'll be up there San Francisco that one year.
Speaker 1: And you know, and also if last time the Chiefs
Speaker 1: came to town, it was it was a lot. Last
Speaker 1: time the Chiefs came to town, Drew Bledsoe was the
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Cowboys. That's true. Only team in the
Speaker 1: league that has never played at at and T Stadium, Yep, yep.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna have a lot of fans out there.
Speaker 1: It will be interesting, a ton of fancy, and they'll
Speaker 1: stand out because of that bright red ye. You'll easily
Speaker 1: be able to see them. I'm glad I'm not the
Speaker 1: only one being a wet blanket today. Like well, I mean,
Speaker 1: and I don't even I don't even think of it
Speaker 1: as wet blanket. As much as it is. This is
Speaker 1: just reality face. The fact that you're playing a really
Speaker 1: good team probably in my estimation. It's just my own opinion.
Speaker 1: I think the best team in the NFL. You're playing
Speaker 1: them this weekend. So if the Cowboys win, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are gonna have to do a lot of things right
Speaker 1: and we're gonna and by the way, you're doing this
Speaker 1: after you lost year. What I think is one of
Speaker 1: the key cocks, if not the key cock in your team.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna be a tough game, a really
Speaker 1: tough game, but it will show me a lot about
Speaker 1: this team. This team wins this game, then I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will be fine without Ezekiel Elliott. There will
Speaker 1: be no issues until he comes back. But well, and
Speaker 1: if they do win this game, which for the record,
Speaker 1: I do think they can. It's not that they're hopeless
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs offense, but it's they're not. You know,
Speaker 1: the Steelers held the Chiefs to thirteen points. I do
Speaker 1: not believe the Cowboys can do that. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a game where they win thirty one thirty like the
Speaker 1: Raiders did or thirty whatever that final score was. It
Speaker 1: it'll be it has to be a shootout. If the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna win, you know, it will be interesting too,
Speaker 1: is you look at this defense over the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: and I think there are a lot of people are saying, man,
Speaker 1: maybe this defense is starting to get it a little bit. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna find out this week if it were, if
Speaker 1: it was circumstances against the forty nine ers and the
Speaker 1: and the Redskins, whether it was the weather, whether it
Speaker 1: was at San Francisco, just isn't very good offensively. We'll
Speaker 1: get to find out this weekend, because now you're going
Speaker 1: to the other end of that spectrum. Can this defense
Speaker 1: continued to do some of the things that they've done,
Speaker 1: which is get to the quarterback, knock the ball loose,
Speaker 1: create turnovers, give your offense opportunities. Like if they could
Speaker 1: do that against this offense, now you could start to say,
Speaker 1: maybe this defense is getting better. If I mean the
Speaker 1: Chiefs have like three turnovers on the year. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's not true. They have two or no,
Speaker 1: actually I think they have three because they turned the
Speaker 1: ball over twice against the Broncos the other night. But
Speaker 1: when Tyreek Kill threw that pick in the end zone
Speaker 1: on Monday, well it was their first turnover since the
Speaker 1: first play from scrimmage of the season when Kareem Hunt
Speaker 1: fumbled on his first carry. Really yeah, he fumbled on
Speaker 1: his first carry the season. And now they're just this
Speaker 1: call and this guy's not ready from Toledo right, too
Speaker 1: big for him to be fair, y'all pointed out during
Speaker 1: the break, Kareem Hunt's not running away with the offensive
Speaker 1: arkie of the year. I forgot about Deshaun Watson. Please
Speaker 1: forgive me, but he's having a very very good season.
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Speaker 1: no good anymore. We'll pay for that. Nipair No, I mean,
Speaker 1: also set the whole thing because there's people that people
Speaker 1: that didn't watch you got this is the episode you
Speaker 1: gotta go back and watch on demand from the beginning.
Speaker 1: Because Nick had this brilliant idea, no no, no, that
Speaker 1: we were going to put little Shannon inside the table
Speaker 1: little sh and then at a stand shrine on this
Speaker 1: one at a at a an opportunity moment, he was
Speaker 1: going to pop out with a really scary mask on
Speaker 1: Where did he get the mask? He bought it from, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, some store he buy it just for this.
Speaker 1: He bought it just for this. This was all very
Speaker 1: well orchestrated by a bunch of losers and uh and
Speaker 1: and then he pops out to try to scare Amber
Speaker 1: and Dave and their reactions were kind of on two
Speaker 1: different ends of the spectrum, but still hilarious. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to go back and see if the Zeke
Speaker 1: thing wouldn't have gone down. We didn't talk about this, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was just regular Tuesday. But Amber wasn't here yesterday, right,
Speaker 1: so we would have had to kill it anyway. Would
Speaker 1: you have done it? No? I would have killed it
Speaker 1: because because it was meant for both thoughts that we
Speaker 1: would get I was gonna yeah. I was like, y'all
Speaker 1: thought you would get the better reaction out of her. Probably, Yes,
Speaker 1: I did think. I thought maybe, like I said, I thought,
Speaker 1: maybe you might drop an F bomb if I just
Speaker 1: knew that was gonna happen. One person was going to
Speaker 1: go back in their seat and one person was gonna
Speaker 1: sit there and and like nothing happened. I thought it
Speaker 1: would be flipped. Yeah. I thought Dave would just be
Speaker 1: like okay, But as we learned in the Dominican like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing I learned today. Like I don't even
Speaker 1: know why I said that, but because you wanted to
Speaker 1: seem hard and you're like, yeah, whatever, that's what we do.
Speaker 1: That's Jennon got lucky that he wasn't close enough. I mean,
Speaker 1: he would have gotten that. That was actually a scenario
Speaker 1: that we thought might happen, that Amber might just hit him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we were like that could happen. That's how y'all
Speaker 1: in the meetings. No, it's a football. This thing's why
Speaker 1: she won't be able to reach over, because it was
Speaker 1: like she will hit him, Like, no, he won't get there, Derek,
Speaker 1: you were you were concerned that he was gonna pop
Speaker 1: up and hit his head. Yeah. My fear was that
Speaker 1: he kinds of pops out, and that was the thing.
Speaker 1: And then he falls that down and you guys are
Speaker 1: just kind of like, oh, he just kind of was
Speaker 1: listening and knew him. But my fear was to hit
Speaker 1: this thing, you know when you moved the branch and
Speaker 1: then came over. But I had to keep stalling because
Speaker 1: I had to get your attention right because Amber's not looking.
Speaker 1: She's kind of what I mean, the story was started
Speaker 1: off kind of lame, so I'm just like, okay, wasn't
Speaker 1: really into its started off flame, but but it was
Speaker 1: thank you guys for playing along and being good sports
Speaker 1: about it. You didn't really play along both of being
Speaker 1: good sports, like you could get upset about that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So just I'm glad you guys were good
Speaker 1: sports about it. And just for the record, I did
Speaker 1: talk to Hr before we did it, just wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and HR was like, as long as theybody has a
Speaker 1: heart attack, we're good. So I think we're good. Everybody good, right,
Speaker 1: everybody good. It's kind of better though, you know, because
Speaker 1: if it would have gone the other way around, like
Speaker 1: I feel like it's over. I don't feel like Dave
Speaker 1: has the energy to do anything. But if it was
Speaker 1: the other way around and we really got Amber, yeah,
Speaker 1: she'd be like, okay, all right, it's on. It's it.
Speaker 1: Don't like me. That's a really good point, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna go through all that, not gonna retaliate.
Speaker 1: I don't care enough to do that. So it's over day.
Speaker 1: It's like you got me whatever. All right, let's get
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Speaker 1: Omar in Carrollton. Omar, what up? Hey, how you guys doing?
Speaker 1: Hey good? Are you? I love y'all? Sell I just
Speaker 1: want to listen, listening out every day. Thank you, Thanks
Speaker 1: for appreciate it. Man in avative, young crowd, all of us.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the kidsas City. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just caught came in and cut onto the show.
Speaker 1: But Kansas City Alex Smith is gonna be hard to him,
Speaker 1: and I do not want us to go out there
Speaker 1: with their three man front trying to contain this guy
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers on that last drive shoulders. They're three man
Speaker 1: at three man deep in the line, will not keep
Speaker 1: a quarterback. They can make plays outside the pocket and chick.
Speaker 1: So I want to know is see though it's gonna
Speaker 1: be available for this game because we're gonna need him
Speaker 1: because they got some receivers and they got some backs.
Speaker 1: They can get out of here. That's that in it
Speaker 1: out there and make plays in the open field. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna need our hands on that, especially on how
Speaker 1: to contain Alex Smith. So that's That's a about all
Speaker 1: I have to say today. I'm disappointed in the NFL
Speaker 1: of the way they handle to do Zekiel eliot case.
Speaker 1: I feel like he has a strong case. I feel
Speaker 1: like we got a whole lot of stubborn people that's
Speaker 1: handling the whole issue and can nobody's swallow their ego
Speaker 1: and get this right. But I hope to see him
Speaker 1: on the field soon. Sit back and listen to you guys,
Speaker 1: y'all have a good day, all right, Thanks for the calling.
Speaker 1: Thanks dude. Um, if we went to the same high
Speaker 1: school in Carrolton, yeah, you probably didn't go to high
Speaker 1: school and Carrolton. Maybe we're gonna we're gonna well, I
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see. We'll see about Cheeto. He what
Speaker 1: go keep going? Cheeto has been at practice every day
Speaker 1: for two weeks and has yet to participate at this
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just I'm gonna just assume he's
Speaker 1: not ready until somebody tells me otherwise, but that would
Speaker 1: be nice. I agree with him. I like I've all
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been a big proponent of Clogg and cover,
Speaker 1: but I I feel like your best bet against these
Speaker 1: guys is to actually get pressure. So I sure would
Speaker 1: like to have a four man front out there, maybe
Speaker 1: even use Scandrick on some blitzes. I mean that make
Speaker 1: vulner You'll be vulnerable as hell, like definitely, but you
Speaker 1: gotta do something. Um, So I think pressure is your
Speaker 1: best bet in this game. And kind of like Washington,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna give up some chunk plays regardless, Like
Speaker 1: just just know that going in you are going to
Speaker 1: give up some chunk plays and that's okay if you
Speaker 1: can offset it with you know, some sacks or some
Speaker 1: turnovers or some you know, hopefully big plays for your defense.
Speaker 1: So I think that's your best bet. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if Claugin cover is going to work
Speaker 1: against these guys. And I honestly don't know if if Cheeto,
Speaker 1: let's assume for a second Cheeto's healthy, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's this is the greatest week, feeling like he's
Speaker 1: the savior against the offense like this when he hasn't
Speaker 1: played yeah, but played like yeah, he hasn't played significant
Speaker 1: snaps since the week one. So I just don't know
Speaker 1: if this is the week where you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we could use Cheeto. I mean, yeah, you could use
Speaker 1: the extra body, and you could use a guy with
Speaker 1: some skill. I just don't know that he helps a
Speaker 1: whole lot against an offense like this that, like we
Speaker 1: were talking about before, there's a lot of matchup issues.
Speaker 1: They you know this, Their head coach is a guy
Speaker 1: that'll throw out the gadget play and they'll try to
Speaker 1: catch you on different things. Yeah. I just don't know
Speaker 1: if this is right. I just right, I just don't
Speaker 1: know if this is the week that Cheeto would provide
Speaker 1: a whole lot of relief. I think I feel a
Speaker 1: little bit better about guys that have been playing, and
Speaker 1: hopefully they've kind of grown together enough to where in
Speaker 1: a week like this it's going to be so important
Speaker 1: that everything's coordinated to be able to stop this offense.
Speaker 1: That's why I was saying, I don't think it would
Speaker 1: really change much just by having him out there. I
Speaker 1: don't think it changes much by having Cheeto out there
Speaker 1: in the sense that he's gonna ball out. But if
Speaker 1: you have somebody who can handle Byron's typical assignment and
Speaker 1: let him just kind of chadow Travis Kelsey, I think
Speaker 1: that could make a difference. But they might do that anyway.
Speaker 1: I don't mean Xavier Woods is there. Jeff Heath can
Speaker 1: do some stuff. So I mean, I really do think
Speaker 1: that's your best bet. It's just a matter of figuring
Speaker 1: out how to make it work. And the fact is
Speaker 1: they'll probably do a little bit of all that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably mix it all and they'll do different things on
Speaker 1: different plays and hopefully throw enough stuff at the Chiefs
Speaker 1: at least slow them down a little bit. You gotta
Speaker 1: get turnovers, and that's that's you know, the part about
Speaker 1: Smith having zero interceptions. I mean that you know that's key.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to get one. But if you remember
Speaker 1: the Packers game in the playoff, of which most people
Speaker 1: do remember that, I mean Rogers I think had gone
Speaker 1: the game, what six or seven games in a row
Speaker 1: without a pick, you know, and Heath got him really twice,
Speaker 1: so only one was called. But so I think you
Speaker 1: know they're gonna have to get one like that. If
Speaker 1: I remember what Peyton Manning hadn't thrown a pick all year,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden he throws one to
Speaker 1: Mo Clayborne Morris Clayborn. So I don't know that would
Speaker 1: be my crazy prediction on Friday that Smith will throw
Speaker 1: two picks? H two? All right, and Rose get a
Speaker 1: question from Twitter, the real Nick Clark is asking why
Speaker 1: is that out for the She emphasize that why aren't
Speaker 1: the Jets sweeps working as well? With Switzer? It seemed
Speaker 1: like it always was successful with Lucky? Have they run
Speaker 1: it more than once? I? Yeah, that's it's it's a
Speaker 1: good question. Just they don't do it. Yeah, and like
Speaker 1: they'll bring him in motion sometimes. I don't think that
Speaker 1: with Lucky is that defense is believed that he was
Speaker 1: a threat to do it and he had the speed
Speaker 1: to make him pay even when he did get the ball, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't It hasn't seemed like as big of a
Speaker 1: point of emphasis, although I will say now I think
Speaker 1: that it does become a much more viable option because
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Having on him on a jet sweep,
Speaker 1: you still feel like Zeke's still gonna be a better
Speaker 1: option to pick up whatever you're trying to pick up right.
Speaker 1: And so now I wonder if without Zeke, if they say, hey,
Speaker 1: we need to offset a little bit, We need to
Speaker 1: make the defense a little more, the offense a little
Speaker 1: more unpredictable. We thought with Zeke, even if you know
Speaker 1: Zeke's coming, that slight hesitation gives Zeke enough opportunity to
Speaker 1: be able to do something big. Now we think we
Speaker 1: really need to incorporate that more into the offense, so
Speaker 1: you might see a lot more diversity in what they're
Speaker 1: doing offensively because of this. My top two hopes for
Speaker 1: this offense with Zeke suspended. One is that they don't
Speaker 1: forget about rod Smith. But two, assuming Cole Beasley is
Speaker 1: healthy because he has a concussion or is recovering from one.
Speaker 1: But he went trick or treating last night. Good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he seems like I hope we see more of Ryan
Speaker 1: Switzer and Cole Beasley on the field together in that
Speaker 1: New England Patriots Vain that we've discussed so much. Like,
Speaker 1: I hope we actually get more of those looks. But
Speaker 1: we'll see. The interesting thing will be, you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: they'll go eleven personnel and they'll empty out the backfield.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a better opportunity for them at
Speaker 1: this point with Zeke out, because I don't know that
Speaker 1: Morse really provides much for you in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Probably not Rod Smith theater. Maybe you can make an
Speaker 1: argument for McFadden, but I don't think any of them
Speaker 1: are as good a pass catcher as Zeke's. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you get the benefit of doing that other
Speaker 1: than getting their eleven personnel the defense that matches up
Speaker 1: with that on the field. All Right, we appreciate you guys,
Speaker 1: John Us. We're back tomorrow. We've been our normal time
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