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Speaker 1: As we continue to preview the Dallas Cowboys and the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles five and no. Eagles four and one Cowboys
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night Football. Today, we go straight into the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense versus that Philly defense. Came Cooper Rushing Company.
Speaker 1: Find a bit of rhythm. But first, Rob Phillips, Isaiah
Speaker 1: Stanbackpatrick No See Walker, Chris Beam, I'm Kyle Yeoman's gentlemen,
Speaker 1: how are we doing? Fantastic? Lovely Lovely Lovely is always
Speaker 1: It's like it's a calm before the storm. You know,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? You know there's a big game
Speaker 1: coming up. It feels like, you know, we were hyped
Speaker 1: and now we're getting into it. You know, we have
Speaker 1: all the information we're digesting it and now we're just
Speaker 1: waiting for it to you know, to the game playing attention,
Speaker 1: hot tea, and then just ready you're dressed and ready
Speaker 1: for game day. I'm ready, Yeah, I'm ready. Pinky, Pinky's
Speaker 1: always up working out. You know what I'm saying is
Speaker 1: we're feeling good man, good good man test. Well, that's
Speaker 1: kind of that's what football is. Sometimes it's a waiting
Speaker 1: game because it's not like baseball, where if you have
Speaker 1: a big game, you usually have two or three put together.
Speaker 1: Or if you're a basketball you might have a big
Speaker 1: game where it's a crosstown rival or it's a divisional
Speaker 1: rival or something of the sword, and then you turn
Speaker 1: around it after you play that game, you've got two
Speaker 1: days left, and then you play again. Yep. So football
Speaker 1: it's a bit of a waiting game. How much of
Speaker 1: a mental test is that for guys like this who
Speaker 1: maybe haven't played in the visional game like this in
Speaker 1: their their career. It's the emotional side of it. I
Speaker 1: think we saw a great display of the frustrations that
Speaker 1: you can have emotionally. If the game the other day
Speaker 1: between the Raiders and what was it, Casey, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Raiders and Casey, and you saw how up and down
Speaker 1: that game was. You saw how emotional it was. You
Speaker 1: saw there's high points, there's low points, and then at
Speaker 1: the end, you know, unfortunately we saw the frustration spillover
Speaker 1: from DeVante Adams and and that's that's what this is.
Speaker 1: That's what this game is going to be. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be an up and down game. You're gonna have the
Speaker 1: high points. You're gonna have the michaelmaking plays, d Law,
Speaker 1: those guys all making heck of a play, and then
Speaker 1: something bad is gonna happen, you know, for the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have the advantage, and it's gonna go
Speaker 1: back and forth, and these guys have to control their emotions. Man,
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna be talking. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they've ever been in it. Some of these guys have
Speaker 1: never been in an environment like Philly. I know, I
Speaker 1: think my first start was in Philly when I was
Speaker 1: here in Dallas. And who you want to talk about
Speaker 1: getting hyped now? I mean you got the old lady
Speaker 1: on with a walker flicking you off, and the buses
Speaker 1: going by, people throwing eggs, sheils at you. I mean
Speaker 1: it's it gets real now. So by the time you
Speaker 1: even entered the stadium stepping off with your suit on
Speaker 1: or sweat suit whatever they were now right through your
Speaker 1: backpack on and you walking, you hype and you have
Speaker 1: to come. You have to temper those emotions down and
Speaker 1: you have to try to you know, you get there
Speaker 1: three hours before the game, four hours before the game.
Speaker 1: You just gotta let it okay, let me build it up.
Speaker 1: And you go out there for your warm ups. Then
Speaker 1: you go out there for team warm ups, you put
Speaker 1: your pads on, you getting stretched out. Then you do,
Speaker 1: you know, you hit a little bit, and then you know,
Speaker 1: then you gotta wait for the national athem. And then
Speaker 1: after the national athem, you know, you might get a
Speaker 1: little emotional. And now the dog on kickoff happens. And
Speaker 1: here it goes right that first that first contact, whether
Speaker 1: you're on kickoff, kick off return something. They scooted it up.
Speaker 1: Now so hardly ever do we get to see anybody
Speaker 1: get hit. But but that used to be a let's
Speaker 1: go yeah, you know, and now you gotta watch exactly
Speaker 1: what Jason Peters and Martin both spoke about in the
Speaker 1: locker room after practice yesterday Jason Peters himself saying, you
Speaker 1: got to put on blinders. Um, you know, they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna yell at you, they're gonna curse this year,
Speaker 1: They're gonna throw things at you. You just have to
Speaker 1: focus on the task at hand, is Zac Martin said.
Speaker 1: You know, his message to young guys, particularly you know,
Speaker 1: rookies like Tyler Smith, is you have to remain level headed.
Speaker 1: You can't get too high, you can't get too low.
Speaker 1: You can't let the crowd get in your ear. But
Speaker 1: you know, I love what Michael Parson said. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm so locked in sometimes I don't even hear the crowd.
Speaker 1: And that's what the cowboys need to do, especially in
Speaker 1: a environment like Philly. Um. Yeah, yeah, it's my favorite
Speaker 1: road trip because because of the fans. Because my first
Speaker 1: trip to Philly was OO six and that was Tio's
Speaker 1: return to Philly. And I think our bus got egged
Speaker 1: I for one year a day. I don't I think
Speaker 1: it was those six. I serve you some breakfast there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll scramble court. Yeah yeah, O're gonna get egg year.
Speaker 1: Do you think probably? Now? I mean there's not That
Speaker 1: was a special kind of hate and you know it's
Speaker 1: a special environment. When Jason Peters, who knows, he just
Speaker 1: mentioned he's coming back to Philly and he's beloved up there.
Speaker 1: He loves it up there, and his description of the
Speaker 1: fans is lovingly, they're idiots, you know, because I know
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a family show. He did, yeah, and
Speaker 1: he said in the in a loving way. And that's
Speaker 1: that's the environment. And the other thing too is, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a young team and we're everybody's gassing up the
Speaker 1: defense right now and rightfully, so they've got to temper
Speaker 1: that because and not listen to all that stuff because
Speaker 1: it can turn quickly, like Kyle, like you said, like
Speaker 1: it's week to week and there is momentum in the NFL,
Speaker 1: but every week is a different entity. And I think
Speaker 1: it helps that they're playing an undefeated team that that
Speaker 1: can absolutely bring it. So I don't expect to letdown,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a hell of a challenge. Wait,
Speaker 1: there is there is such thing as being overhype, right,
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I mean, because you can be you can
Speaker 1: be overlooking a team, and you can be excited about
Speaker 1: a game, and you can have those nerves from a
Speaker 1: negative standpoint, But you can be too hype. Yeah, time
Speaker 1: it rains you. I remember my coach back at least
Speaker 1: back in college, you said, and I learned it obviously.
Speaker 1: Going into the NFL, you said, have to toe me
Speaker 1: down like hill out. I used to be the cat,
Speaker 1: you know, listening to my dog on my mixes and
Speaker 1: my hell you know, with my headphones on. And then
Speaker 1: I get down on the field and I'm headbutting cats
Speaker 1: and running around and by the time the game comes,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you can see that I'm tired. So I
Speaker 1: can just visize that. So my coaches telling me just
Speaker 1: just just chill out. And you know, even if you
Speaker 1: make a big play, you want to be hyped, like
Speaker 1: you gotta. Okay, that was one play. There was one play.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the next play because something back happened next, right,
Speaker 1: So don't get too high, don't get too low. I
Speaker 1: appreciate the role, you know, I appreciate the trip of
Speaker 1: the journey. But you gotta keep putting it together because
Speaker 1: you know when you're paying, when you're playing the team,
Speaker 1: both teams, when you're looking across the way and you
Speaker 1: know that that team is capable of making a big play.
Speaker 1: On defense or and then turning around and making big
Speaker 1: plays on offense. You have to temper your emotions and
Speaker 1: temper your hypnus because you know it's hype. As you
Speaker 1: might get you'd be seen up there. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah the next you know, the camera but show
Speaker 1: you like, oh you know what say you do? Just
Speaker 1: just remain calm, and it's hard. It is freaking hard.
Speaker 1: And that's why you see teams. I mean, think about
Speaker 1: Dog in Atlanta. You know some years back when they
Speaker 1: lost in New England and the Super Bowl, they got
Speaker 1: too hype. They got too hype. These guys started thinking
Speaker 1: about what the ring was gonna look like. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: and Dan Quinn knows that, right, obviously, you start thinking
Speaker 1: about all the thing. I mean, we'll scraping these cats up. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get this. We're gonna get this. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they score. Oh, don't worry about it,
Speaker 1: were still gonna win this thing, and boom they scored. Okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, wait a minute now, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, momentum shifting. So you as much as
Speaker 1: you can, remain level head. And that's why I'll talk
Speaker 1: so much in the past about having those veterans in
Speaker 1: the in the locker room, right, it's everything, and that's
Speaker 1: why it's important for I don't know if Jason Peter
Speaker 1: is gonna be available, probably not, but if he's available,
Speaker 1: that's huge because hell it be ay talent. Chill chill
Speaker 1: you know what's Syna, chill out? We got you all right?
Speaker 1: What about you, Martin? I'll get chill out. We got
Speaker 1: you okay cool. Everywhere I look, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: there's an event that will o hey. One reason they
Speaker 1: signed Anthony Barr. I think we asked McClay Will McClay
Speaker 1: at training camp, and leadership was one of the first
Speaker 1: words out of his mouth. Four time probo. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got the on the field stuff. But it's a
Speaker 1: young defense. You know. It helps to have a guy
Speaker 1: who's been through it been four Pro Bowls, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But to your point, being in Isaiah's point, specifically, being
Speaker 1: overhyped is a thing. And to add on to what
Speaker 1: he was saying, and not only will it put you
Speaker 1: in the wrong frame of mind as far as draining
Speaker 1: you before you know you even get to kickoff and
Speaker 1: quicker as the game progresses, but it costs you self discipline, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, because you're so hyped and you're so ready
Speaker 1: to make the next play that you might over pursue
Speaker 1: this this tackle, and now you have a mistackle and
Speaker 1: now that's a big play. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you've gone from this this cut away of you being yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this cut away oh man. Yeah. So I could say
Speaker 1: settle down. Yeah, I can tell you one down where
Speaker 1: I was in that same And I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: I brought this up in the past or not, but
Speaker 1: it was my first like big time where I was
Speaker 1: not just a return man or a specialists or something
Speaker 1: like that. But like when I was playing in New England,
Speaker 1: I was starting, and we're playing Sunday night football in
Speaker 1: Indie against Peyton Manning. Right, I'm I'm, I'm I got
Speaker 1: Tom Brady obviously, so I'm went to TV twelve, I
Speaker 1: got Wes Welker, I got freaking Moss next to me,
Speaker 1: and we work from the promos for this game. Definitely,
Speaker 1: not definitely, not definitely stuff. I wasn't that guy that
Speaker 1: didn't say I stand back first, but I was in
Speaker 1: the huddle. That's pretty bad. But We're playing against Dwight
Speaker 1: Freenee and I was there, Mathist and all those guys.
Speaker 1: So it's a hype game and the in the freaking
Speaker 1: environment as crazy as a brand new stadium. And man,
Speaker 1: we're playing and it goes to a TV timeout and
Speaker 1: we're just cats. His drawn back and forth and as
Speaker 1: getting into it, pushing always almost up to a flag,
Speaker 1: you know, right at the whistle. And I remember sitting
Speaker 1: in the huddle and I'm just looking around like, yo,
Speaker 1: I just remember just doing you know, those TV timeouts
Speaker 1: were long, man, So you're sitting in the huddle, You're
Speaker 1: just looking around like that. This is absolutely crazy. And
Speaker 1: I found myself getting caught up in a moment, and
Speaker 1: I remember Moss tapped me. He was like, hey, standy,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. Man. He he's crazy, ain't because he
Speaker 1: saw me. He was like, He's like, it's crazy, ain't it. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is wild. He's just doing what you do. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at him. He's just calm. I look at West,
Speaker 1: He's just calm. TV twelve is like we're in practice.
Speaker 1: I'm like, these cats ain't paying no attention at all.
Speaker 1: And it just put me at ease. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, just just just play football right back in right,
Speaker 1: But I was I found myself getting into the emotions
Speaker 1: in the environment and all that stuff, and until I
Speaker 1: had that veteran to look at him be like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this is just ball. That's this type of environment Sunday
Speaker 1: night too, Like I'm I think it was in your
Speaker 1: rundown yesterday. We didn't get to it. Like, this is
Speaker 1: the biggest divisional matchup since when maybe twenty eighteen when
Speaker 1: Mary got here and it went to overtime at AT AT
Speaker 1: and T Stadium and that was that game was off
Speaker 1: off the rails too. Yeah, it was. It was off though,
Speaker 1: but it was I'm trying to think because the division
Speaker 1: has been so bad and that that's the type of
Speaker 1: environment you're going into and you can get to. It's
Speaker 1: not the super Bowl, but this is it's definitely playoff energy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this early on, which is wild right right, It's it's
Speaker 1: a playoff air and atmosphere in the link this weekend
Speaker 1: and you'd toss in some prime time slotting with it,
Speaker 1: and everybody and their mom was watching this game. Everyone's
Speaker 1: watching everybody. Everybody's asking, oh man, you want to go
Speaker 1: do this Sunday. Heck no, I ain't doing this Sunday.
Speaker 1: I got the game watching like I've been on so
Speaker 1: many text threads or people are like, what you guys
Speaker 1: doing this weekend? I'm like watching the Cowboys game. Danny
Speaker 1: mccraie was saying yesterday, It's like if they wanted to
Speaker 1: put this thing on pay per view like canell like
Speaker 1: Canellos style, and charge X amount of dollars people, people
Speaker 1: would buy it. This is gonna be fun. They just
Speaker 1: need to have Bray Wyatt come out a halftime Fireflies.
Speaker 1: It is the fourth time since the divisional realignment in
Speaker 1: two thousand and two that three teams in the same
Speaker 1: division have started four and one are better. So you've
Speaker 1: got Philly, New York and Dallas, which adds to this.
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that New York's hot on your
Speaker 1: heels are tied with you at the moment. That adds
Speaker 1: to the importance of this matchup because if Dallas wins,
Speaker 1: and then if New York wins, everybody's tied at the top.
Speaker 1: And now, of course Dallas would technically be the tiebreaker,
Speaker 1: but then and that's that raised my eyebrows. As Cowboys
Speaker 1: in the Eagles will be the third NFC East matchup
Speaker 1: since nineteen seventy in which the two teams have a
Speaker 1: combined win percentage of nine hundred or better entering a
Speaker 1: game week five or later in the season. The only
Speaker 1: other times that that's happened was nineteen ninety two Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Eagles. Eagles won that game as the home team.
Speaker 1: Cowboys were three and oz the Eagles are three and
Speaker 1: OZO in Week five, and then in Week six of
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, the Cowboys were five and ZO and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals for four and one. Those are the only
Speaker 1: other two instances in which NFC East teams have had
Speaker 1: a ninety plus win percentage combined in a game after
Speaker 1: Week five. Ever, so that shows just how big of
Speaker 1: a matchup it is, even from a step Cardinals in
Speaker 1: the East for those that don't know, yeah, they were
Speaker 1: in the East. That's not a typo, but it's going
Speaker 1: way back. Ninety two is the golden age of the
Speaker 1: NFC East. Man. That was when every not only when
Speaker 1: every team was good, but every team but Arizona had
Speaker 1: like a legit shot to win the Super Bowl for
Speaker 1: about a five six your stretch. So yeah, that's that's big.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. But all right, we're a little bit late
Speaker 1: on this, but news and notes, rob anything come out
Speaker 1: of practice yesterday. They're back on the field in pads today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Mike McCarthy, we all know by now. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said, Cooper Rush preparing to start this game. That's
Speaker 1: not a surprise to anybody. But Dak did do some
Speaker 1: throwing yesterday for the first time I believe, I mean
Speaker 1: real actual trying to put some zip and test it
Speaker 1: out since September twelfth, a full month before he did that,
Speaker 1: since the thumb surgery. And he said after practice, just
Speaker 1: kind of going by and reporters asking him, he said
Speaker 1: it went well. He's hoping to do a little bit
Speaker 1: more today. Guys said that he looked, it looked good,
Speaker 1: there was some zip on it. I mean, he's not
Speaker 1: they're gonna spoon feed this thing. It's not gonna be
Speaker 1: all one hundred percent the first day. But that's progress,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how it goes. And but Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: set to start. And the other big of note that
Speaker 1: Mike ka Parsons did not practice, but he's not concerned
Speaker 1: in any way that he's gonna miss this game. On
Speaker 1: Sunday night, he listened to no C Oh. Yeah, No
Speaker 1: C said, don't practice all week playing a game dmp
Speaker 1: C on the flight Saturday, thank you very much. Let's
Speaker 1: get you ready to roll. You were pretty impressed with
Speaker 1: let you saw from Dak in like a limited fashion
Speaker 1: yesterday though, right, Yeah, And when you talk to guys
Speaker 1: like Ceedee Lamb and you hear Ceedee Lamb say that
Speaker 1: the ball the catches in the throws felt like traditional
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott passes in that you know, the zipp the velocity.
Speaker 1: We're not saying it's necessarily there one hundred percent, but
Speaker 1: you love to hear that your top receivers are one
Speaker 1: of your top receivers is basically saying, hey, that that
Speaker 1: throw felt that throw felt the same today as it
Speaker 1: did September eleventh, or you know, in the Dak yard
Speaker 1: this offseason, whatever the case may be. So definitely some
Speaker 1: good progress being made there. Um. But like like Rob said,
Speaker 1: no surprise that Cooper Rush looks like he's going to
Speaker 1: be up in the starter for Philadelphia, which puts Dak
Speaker 1: Scott right Whereasaiah wants him on a B line to
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions game the week after but more important
Speaker 1: things to handle up first at first, which is the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles huge, huge, huge test for Cooper Rush, even
Speaker 1: bigger than the huge test of the Los Angeles Rams,
Speaker 1: because yeah, that defense was top five. This defense is
Speaker 1: arguably top two or top three. Yeah, so, and they're
Speaker 1: playing like it too. I mean, I know the Rams
Speaker 1: defense has played well, but the Rams offense just hasn't
Speaker 1: been there. But the Philadelphia offense has been there. We've
Speaker 1: talked about that a little bit this week, but I
Speaker 1: want to hit that Cooper Rush. What kind of test
Speaker 1: is this for him on the other side of the break,
Speaker 1: because Rush has got a chance to do something that
Speaker 1: no other quarterback has done really as a backup in
Speaker 1: the NFL, especially as an undrafted player. But we'll talk
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Speaker 1: a couple days ago. Watch some film, yeah a little
Speaker 1: All twenty two pop on there and make it work.
Speaker 1: But Uh, yeah, we've got a little bit of a
Speaker 1: matchup to talk about that all twenty two. We we've
Speaker 1: done this last couple of weeks, but I like to
Speaker 1: see where it changes week to week. What's your confidence
Speaker 1: meter in this offense right now, Isaiah going up against
Speaker 1: this Philadelphia defense? One to ten or percentages, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do. We've done it both ways. Five Okay,
Speaker 1: so just a little bit above average, A little bit
Speaker 1: above average, yes, trick um ten for sixteen one h two.
Speaker 1: Now you're going up against this four out of ten
Speaker 1: who and three of the four is the run game?
Speaker 1: So wow, Yeah, I'll go a little higher. I'll go
Speaker 1: six only because only well, and I say that thinking
Speaker 1: this could be the game where they look you look
Speaker 1: back man. They could have used dak in this game.
Speaker 1: But um, and that's not minimizing what Cooper rushed. Had
Speaker 1: Unny's gonna havel a job. But I do I put
Speaker 1: a little bit higher because they've been able to run
Speaker 1: the football pretty well, and the Eagles, if there's one
Speaker 1: thing defensively they've struggled with, I think they're allowing about
Speaker 1: five yards pop. So there's a chance that they can
Speaker 1: use the formula that they want. I'm saying Lloyd Christmas
Speaker 1: that there is a chance, but I don't. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not ideal and it's not an ideal environment to go in.
Speaker 1: Is Isaiah said, where are they strongest on the defensive side?
Speaker 1: Is it the front seven or is it it's Is
Speaker 1: it even all the way throughout out? It's pretty Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's spread pretty pretty nicely on their here.
Speaker 1: But gun under my head, i'd say front seven. That
Speaker 1: front seven's just it's nasty. I think they're pretty well dispersed,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what's dangerous about him. And I think
Speaker 1: this is a Benba don't break and people are People
Speaker 1: should be very confident about the Dallas Cowboys defense. I
Speaker 1: mean they're playing lights out. I mean, these guys have guys.
Speaker 1: I think I can't remember how many guys they have
Speaker 1: in the top in terms of a lot of pressures,
Speaker 1: like five guys with eleven or more pressure or something
Speaker 1: crazy like I get there, Its on there somewhere. But
Speaker 1: these guys they're there. Their front seven is getting there too,
Speaker 1: and people aren't putting I don't think they put enough
Speaker 1: respect on it in terms of the guys that they
Speaker 1: have up front. You know, we're talking about you know,
Speaker 1: Big Baby Davis, We're talking about Fletcher Cox, We're talking
Speaker 1: about hard Grave. And there's a Hassan Reddick who just
Speaker 1: happens to be putting a lot of pressure on guys too.
Speaker 1: I think he's had about seventeen seventeen QB pressures this year.
Speaker 1: He's been doing this since Arizona. Yeah, he's a dude. Right,
Speaker 1: So I mean you got Michael Parsons has gotten back there.
Speaker 1: I think twenty four. He's leading the league at seventeen.
Speaker 1: So he's a terror too. Now, he's not a Mica
Speaker 1: in that regard. But these guys collectively have a solid
Speaker 1: defensive line, not as aggressive as Dallas's defensive line, but
Speaker 1: I would say pretty dog on effective in terms of
Speaker 1: not allowing much running and not allowing much passing. They're
Speaker 1: gonna you can't sit back there and just hold the
Speaker 1: ball against these guys. You can't feel that confident about it.
Speaker 1: But you also can't just run the ball up there
Speaker 1: like you like you're just gonna own the line like
Speaker 1: you did last week. Right. I think for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: it's it's another week where the formula has to be though.
Speaker 1: Running the ball because two Rob's point, that is one
Speaker 1: of the more obvious weaknesses of that defense. But you're
Speaker 1: also going to need to utilize that run game, Tom
Speaker 1: to tire them out, because while their front seven is
Speaker 1: arguably up there as far as the starters to the
Speaker 1: personnel that the Cowboys have, they don't have the depth
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys as far as being able to throw
Speaker 1: waves waves at you. So that run game for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like what Ezekiel Elliott said yesterday. You
Speaker 1: run and you running, you run until it breaks. And
Speaker 1: I think that's going to kind of have to be
Speaker 1: the formula. And that's why of my four and the
Speaker 1: reason I said for is because again we're talking about
Speaker 1: and kudos to Cooper Rush obviously for helping the Cowboys
Speaker 1: win these games as far as not losing it for
Speaker 1: his defense and his special teams. But again ten for
Speaker 1: sixteen one or two last week, and this is a
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense that I believe has scored a combined ninety
Speaker 1: three points that's bottom five in the league. That's only
Speaker 1: better than teams like the Commanders and the Rams offense
Speaker 1: that you just beat last week. And of course we
Speaker 1: contributed the Cowboys contributed to that for the rams. But
Speaker 1: fact is, you're not lighting up any scoreboards whatsoever, So
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be methodical and how you play
Speaker 1: this defensive team and this defensive front, and that's going
Speaker 1: to have to be attacking the soft spot in the
Speaker 1: pork chop, and that's that's the middle of it. So
Speaker 1: keep going, keep going, and you might only get two
Speaker 1: yards here on this run, three yards here on this run.
Speaker 1: Just keep at it, keep at it, keep at it,
Speaker 1: because they don't have the depth. So by the time
Speaker 1: the third quarter comes around, you'll start to see that
Speaker 1: two yard game become a three and a half yard game.
Speaker 1: Fourth quarter at three and a half yard game becomes
Speaker 1: a seven yard game, and so forth and so on. Well,
Speaker 1: I think there's an opportunity there because you look at
Speaker 1: Philadelphia defensively. Their tenth in the league in terms of
Speaker 1: total rushing yards allowed, so they're only allowing one hundred
Speaker 1: and five rushing yards per game. However, they've been playing
Speaker 1: ahead quite a bit, so teams haven't had to run
Speaker 1: the football. Whenever they have, they've been giving up five
Speaker 1: yards per pop. They're twenty fifth in the league at
Speaker 1: just under five yards per carry allowed on the defensive side.
Speaker 1: So Rob when you put those two things together and
Speaker 1: you kind of keep it in the context of who
Speaker 1: they've played and what that game has looked like, teams
Speaker 1: have had success running the ball, but they've had to
Speaker 1: abandon the run. At the same time, Dallas, if they
Speaker 1: stick with it, may actually be able to have that
Speaker 1: success with he can Pollard in that one two punch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you could flip it around and say it's also
Speaker 1: a small sample size kind of and they really don't
Speaker 1: it is. I agree that the front seven is really
Speaker 1: the front four is such the strength for them because
Speaker 1: if you go back and you watch like the Washington game,
Speaker 1: pressure on Carson Wentz came from absolutely everywhere, and Jordan
Speaker 1: Davis his snaps are creeping up and you're seeing what
Speaker 1: he can do on first and second down. Confident. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: I know that guy. Yeah, I think we all think
Speaker 1: we all were a big fan of his coming out
Speaker 1: a sun reddick jumps out on tape, his speed off
Speaker 1: the edge. They also added Becauzier wide in the offseason.
Speaker 1: Speed speed, and it just I mean, that's why I
Speaker 1: say having Dak would be great because you could see
Speaker 1: it with Kyler Murray trying to escape pressure. They were
Speaker 1: closing in on him fast. Now, he did have four
Speaker 1: carries for forty two yards in the game. Arizona rush
Speaker 1: for one hundred twenty four yards last week. But again
Speaker 1: it's can you can you sustain that over sixty minutes
Speaker 1: and can you do enough to counterattack their offense? And
Speaker 1: so again we'll see if the Cowboys defense can have
Speaker 1: the type of performance they've had for four straight weeks
Speaker 1: five three weeks. Really well, the stat that you were
Speaker 1: talking about, Isaiah. By the way, the Eagles and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are the only NFL teams at the moment to
Speaker 1: have five players with ten or more quarterback pressures through
Speaker 1: Week five. There is a fun stat to kind of
Speaker 1: add on top of that though, because Dallas has two
Speaker 1: guys tied with the top four, like Michael Parsons is
Speaker 1: number two, only behind Nick Bosa and DeMarcus Lawrence is
Speaker 1: tied for fourth with twenty two total pressures this season.
Speaker 1: The next guy up the leading pressure leader for the
Speaker 1: Eagles hasan Reddick was seventeen and then Josh Wett has thirteen.
Speaker 1: So even though they've had a good number of guys,
Speaker 1: much like the Cowboys of rotating in and having those
Speaker 1: pressures still doesn't necessarily stand up to what the Dallas
Speaker 1: and nobody has right, and I don't think anybody will
Speaker 1: as long as they continue to play like they're playing.
Speaker 1: But the problem is, but you brought up earlier, cow
Speaker 1: is that Philadelphia's offense has been a substantially more more successful.
Speaker 1: So the biggest fear that I have for the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys is getting behind, because if you get behind, I
Speaker 1: don't care one touchdown, one field goal. If you get behind,
Speaker 1: they may have to abandon it because you gotta, because
Speaker 1: you have to think about it. Turn around. As good
Speaker 1: as our defense is, these guys are probably still going
Speaker 1: to score points. They're probably still gonna score point. They're
Speaker 1: gonna find a way to score points. Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: has been shown. Now they have to do it against
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys defense, which we all know it's absolutely
Speaker 1: madmen right now. Okay, but the truth of masay, there's
Speaker 1: a good probability that they're gonna at least come away
Speaker 1: with three on a good percentage of their drives. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just go ahead in factory and sales three. If
Speaker 1: Dallas gets behind, all of a sudden, you're going against
Speaker 1: the defense that is damn near as capable as yours.
Speaker 1: Because you look at Dallas has pressured a ton right
Speaker 1: force a lot of quarterbacks to get the bride of
Speaker 1: the ball really quickly. They have what forty seven pressures
Speaker 1: or forty seven quarterback hits this year. Ye the Eagles
Speaker 1: only have thirty two quarterback hits, but Dallas has twenty sacks.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia has seventeen sacks. They get home, so they're getting home,
Speaker 1: inter getting home from different guys. So even though it's
Speaker 1: Dallas is getting back there and they're creating mayhem in
Speaker 1: terms of getting the quarterback down to the ground, they're
Speaker 1: dang their neck and neck. So people need to put
Speaker 1: some respect on that. When you look at it from
Speaker 1: the perspective of if Dallas is put in with in
Speaker 1: a position where their backs against the wall, they now
Speaker 1: have to rely on Cooper Russia throw them out of it.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been in that position all year, and this
Speaker 1: is not the defense that you want to be in
Speaker 1: that position against. And if you're in that position, and
Speaker 1: even if you're not in that position, what needs to
Speaker 1: happen is the passing game needs to improve over last
Speaker 1: week in regards to spreading the ball around. These tight
Speaker 1: ends for the Cowboys are going to have to get
Speaker 1: involved as a sort of pressure release valve for this
Speaker 1: run game and for some of these outside receivers. The
Speaker 1: problem though, The concern though is Dalton Schultz re aggravates
Speaker 1: the PCO last week. Now. I love that Jay Ferguson
Speaker 1: was a full practice participant on yesterday. That's potentially huge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they signed Seth Green to the practice squad because Sean
Speaker 1: McKowen is dealing with some injuries on the seventeen man unit.
Speaker 1: But pay your Hindershot is completely healthy and it looks
Speaker 1: like sorry, Jake Ferguson is as close to healthy, if
Speaker 1: not completely healthy. Now, So with SHOUTSI Dalty Doughty kind
Speaker 1: of ailing, my eyes are on Jake Ferguson and hinder Shot.
Speaker 1: They have to be able to impact this game for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to kind of keep that defensive front seven
Speaker 1: on their heels as opposed to being able to pin
Speaker 1: both of their ears back and going after Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: I have a question for all you guys if Dallas
Speaker 1: has to play from behind right for any different reason,
Speaker 1: if they have to play from behind. How confident are
Speaker 1: you in Cooper Rush and Keller Moore's abilities to throw
Speaker 1: Dallas back into the game, knowing that Philadelphia is fourth
Speaker 1: in the league in saxon number one in the league
Speaker 1: and takeaways, I'm not as confident. That's why I think
Speaker 1: this would be a wonderful game to have Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: back because I think there's just more opportunity for him.
Speaker 1: There's more talent level for Dak to do it. That's obvious,
Speaker 1: and all it takes is a couple of chunk plays
Speaker 1: to help you out. You go back to the look
Speaker 1: at the Rams last week, like they couldn't get anything going,
Speaker 1: but two big plays down the field cup seventy five
Speaker 1: yards and then the yeah at well for fifty four
Speaker 1: that got him back in the game. That's all you
Speaker 1: really need when you if you have a defense like this,
Speaker 1: you just get a couple of those plays and no
Speaker 1: seas right, I don't know it was it was some
Speaker 1: stat was how long was it has it been since
Speaker 1: the Cowboys did not have a completion to a back
Speaker 1: or a tight end in a game? They got spread
Speaker 1: it around and you have to I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: talking out of both sides of my mouth when I say, Oh,
Speaker 1: they gotta run it, they gotta run it, they gotta Oh,
Speaker 1: but they need the chunk plays. Mike McCarthy talks about
Speaker 1: it all the time. You can be ball control and
Speaker 1: you can play to your defense, but if you don't
Speaker 1: have if you don't hit the big play every now
Speaker 1: and then, you're probably not going to score a lot
Speaker 1: of points because you can't. You can't rely all the
Speaker 1: time on these fifteen play drives. I don't think you're
Speaker 1: you're talking out of both sides of your mouth. I
Speaker 1: think those two things mayor you will because if you're
Speaker 1: running the ball, and you commit to running the ball
Speaker 1: play action, it helps you set up for those chunk plays,
Speaker 1: one hand washing the other. Once you get that chunk
Speaker 1: play that was set up by the play action that
Speaker 1: was set up by successfully running the ball, guess what.
Speaker 1: It stretches the field and it allows you to run
Speaker 1: the ball more effectively. So there you go. What part
Speaker 1: of their defense would you guys say is their week
Speaker 1: spot linebackers? Probably, I'd say that which tight ends are
Speaker 1: going to have to be involved in this? So yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're after if your tight ends are banged up,
Speaker 1: and you still have to protect Cooper Rush, so you're
Speaker 1: probably keeping your tight ends in. How do you then
Speaker 1: take the linebackers out of it, Well, screens, bubbles, things
Speaker 1: that drag them big game for Peyton hendershot, things that
Speaker 1: drag them to the sideline and take them out of
Speaker 1: the run lanes and things like that. So those types
Speaker 1: of play. So now you're talking about Tony Pollard out
Speaker 1: there on the edge on bubbles and let's let's hopefully
Speaker 1: get some targets to Cavanta Turpin in some capacity and
Speaker 1: this match underutilized. Yeah, so that's something that's not been
Speaker 1: a thing to this point, and it would be fantastic
Speaker 1: if that became a thing in a game of this magnitude.
Speaker 1: What do you think, how do you get them out
Speaker 1: of the game outside, go on the edge, get your
Speaker 1: wide receivers involved, and you just kind of keep it
Speaker 1: away from them. I just think you're a short game.
Speaker 1: You're a three step game. Yeah, I think you know
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, Noah Brown CD winning on those three steps.
Speaker 1: And then obviously you would like to get the chunk plays,
Speaker 1: but be okay working your way down the field. That's
Speaker 1: where I really want Dallas Dallas's offense to get to
Speaker 1: the point where they are okay having these long sustained drives.
Speaker 1: When you can do that, you instill a sense of
Speaker 1: confidence until you're all the person on your offense to
Speaker 1: know that, hey, we don't have to have these big plays, right,
Speaker 1: we don't have to have the big chunk play in
Speaker 1: order to walk away with with with six points. We
Speaker 1: can walk down the field. We can walk down the field.
Speaker 1: We know. That's what you see with somebody's that's when
Speaker 1: you know New England used to be really good at that, right,
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning, we used to be really good at that.
Speaker 1: I don't need a big, big boy play if we
Speaker 1: have it awesome, But we are okay handing this thing off.
Speaker 1: Three three you know what I'm saying. Three step drops playing, yeah,
Speaker 1: three step drop quick out right. We're gonna keep putting
Speaker 1: you in second and five, second and four, and we're
Speaker 1: just gonna keep working this thing down the field. And
Speaker 1: eventually you're hoping that the defensive coordinator says, man, screwed this.
Speaker 1: We ain't about to get walked back. The whole time,
Speaker 1: it's like kind of been getting the ring cut off,
Speaker 1: Like you just keep getting back down and eventually you're
Speaker 1: in the corner. And that's what happens when you can
Speaker 1: keep working your way down the field. Now the teams
Speaker 1: back is against the wall in the red zone, and
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden you finish it off. You
Speaker 1: have to put the punctuation mark on it, right, And
Speaker 1: that's where Dallas hasn't gotten to They haven't worked their
Speaker 1: way down the field because you only had two attempts
Speaker 1: in the red zone last week. Yeah. I agree with
Speaker 1: that in terms of don't fall in love with the
Speaker 1: big play and get away from your formula that's been working.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I just think with Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: if there's been there's been times where he's gotten away
Speaker 1: with with some some some mistakes. Yeah, and that's why
Speaker 1: that's why I say a short game. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: I say short. I think I think the short game
Speaker 1: will be available to them because these guys run cover three,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of little little holes. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be high high precision passes. I mean he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be higher. I have a higher precision pass margin
Speaker 1: of air I guess the less marginal air. But he's
Speaker 1: gonna fit them into some tight windows. But if you can,
Speaker 1: those slants are there, and quick outs are there, the
Speaker 1: curls and hitches are there, Like take those all day
Speaker 1: long until they start changing up their defense. I'll give
Speaker 1: you opportunities in other areas that you really want to exploit.
Speaker 1: I think for Cooper Rush. For me, it comes down
Speaker 1: to this. With Cooper Rush, I don't need him to
Speaker 1: go and you know, throw thirty five times and winning
Speaker 1: this game Church not how the Cowboys are winning games
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two with Dak Prescott sideline. To answer
Speaker 1: your question, Kyle, if the game is close in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, I'm now one hundred percent confident and Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush is five percent and that five percent ability to
Speaker 1: make the big throw bit to Gallop or Cede Lamb.
Speaker 1: Of course they have to make sure they catch that ball,
Speaker 1: but I'm one hundred percent confident that if the game
Speaker 1: is closed, he can make that throw when it matters most.
Speaker 1: So that's how I feel about Cooper Rush. But prior
Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter, do not ask much of him.
Speaker 1: Can to let him be a game manager, and like
Speaker 1: Isaiah said, he cannot afford errors because eventually luck runs out.
Speaker 1: So that LEPrecon is going to take a nap sooner
Speaker 1: or later. It's like it's like playing Beamer in cornhole.
Speaker 1: You know, Beamer's gonna keep going for the hole. Yep,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna keep landing on the board,
Speaker 1: just keeping it's gonna keep adding up the point you
Speaker 1: don't have free every time stuff, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But then Beam just sinks all freewrit All right, let's
Speaker 1: take our break, because I love this conversation. I kind
Speaker 1: of want to continue it because the Dallas offense hasn't
Speaker 1: had to have Cooper rush play from behind, and that's
Speaker 1: a credit to the defense and what they've done offensively
Speaker 1: earlier in the game. We just haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 1: So whether or not it's available for him, whether or
Speaker 1: not he can take that next step, just hasn't been
Speaker 1: seen yet. But when we come back, I want to
Speaker 1: talk about how much each of these defenses are going
Speaker 1: to pass rushing blitz and should they blitz Cooper rush.
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Speaker 1: It looks like we've got a bet brewing in the break.
Speaker 1: That's right. Chris Beam wants to say that Isaiah wouldn't
Speaker 1: even score a point. That's true, not even a point
Speaker 1: that it was on him at cornhole? That's right? Is
Speaker 1: that right? Beamer? I could probably do that. Yeah you could. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I probably probably if I really wanted to you
Speaker 1: and if you really wanted to So you're saying that
Speaker 1: you don't really want to Beamer? Probably, This is what
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Speaker 1: you beat him like bad, they don't want to play
Speaker 1: you again. Heck Ma Harrison won't play me again. You
Speaker 1: think the Heckman and I are the same competitive I'm
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Speaker 1: a point? And then he won't play me again? So
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Speaker 1: gonna play a guy to hassom here we see, okay,
Speaker 1: deciding factor. It's like Samson over. We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: set that up. And you're betting push ups, is what
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Speaker 1: And that applies right right now. He's like he's at
Speaker 1: like two hundred, Isaiah's got two forty two two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get right in through there. All right, we'll have
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Speaker 1: the boards. Hey, all right, all right, Bill's lane. Let's
Speaker 1: go lane. The Eagles. Eagles pass rush their front seven.
Speaker 1: We just talked about them a little bit, and here
Speaker 1: in the final minutes, I say, how much did they blitz?
Speaker 1: Who's that? The Eagles? How much did they blitz? They
Speaker 1: don't blitz a ton? They don't get an I mean,
Speaker 1: you can. It really depends on who they're playing. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we could look at all the stats all
Speaker 1: day long, but I don't feel as if they are
Speaker 1: going to blitz against Dallas that much. Why is that?
Speaker 1: Because they don't have to? You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Like you think about like Kyler Murray and you go
Speaker 1: back and watch the game last week. They put some
Speaker 1: heat on him because you have to try to wrangle
Speaker 1: him or wrangle him up some house, some way, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it works. Sometimes he got out and he did
Speaker 1: what Kyler Murray does when he gets out of the pocket.
Speaker 1: But when you're if I'm facing against a Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: why am I gonna blitz Why Why am I gonna
Speaker 1: open up any extra holes for him to try to,
Speaker 1: you know, to find I'm gonna make it as difficult
Speaker 1: as possible. I'm gonna leave as many guys in coverage
Speaker 1: as possible if they're going to pass the ball, and
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna leave as many guys in the box
Speaker 1: as possible to negate their ability to allow for Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott and Tony Poller to get some confidence to get
Speaker 1: some ground game. I would take away Dallas's ability to
Speaker 1: get anything going on the ground and force Rush to
Speaker 1: now find some find some holes. These guys are remember
Speaker 1: if they can do that, they're number one in the
Speaker 1: league and takeaways eleven. Yeah, they take the football away.
Speaker 1: But blitzing Cooper Rush hasn't worked out for teams that's
Speaker 1: to say, I would absolutely love for them blitz Cooper
Speaker 1: rush come home, bring it. Here's some science on why
Speaker 1: science Cooper Rushes splits. His completion percentage when blitzed is
Speaker 1: seventy one point eight percent as compared to fifty five
Speaker 1: point seven percent when he's not blissed. Passing yards per
Speaker 1: attempt rise from five point nine when he's not blitzed
Speaker 1: to nine point five literally inverts when he's blitzed. Three
Speaker 1: of his four touchdowns this season have come when he
Speaker 1: was being blitzed. Passer rating balloons from seventy seven point
Speaker 1: three to one twenty seven point three when you blitz him. Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni, if you're listening, by all means, please blitz
Speaker 1: the Ginger Warrior and you will pay the penalty. That's
Speaker 1: the nicknames. What's the guy's name from Game of Thrones?
Speaker 1: Is it milks Bank? What's the name giants Giants Bank?
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? No? I can't think of
Speaker 1: a different name. I gotta know, we gotta have to
Speaker 1: figure that. We can go with Ginger Warrior for now. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take Ginger Warrior g dub good. So please, by
Speaker 1: all it means Philadelphia blitz him and find out what happens.
Speaker 1: He's been the most effective quarterback in the NFL against
Speaker 1: the blitz this year. Giant space. Isn't that wild to
Speaker 1: think about? Yeah, and that's good. That speaks to the protection. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it speaks to his comfort level in the offense and
Speaker 1: knowing where his hots are and where he needs to
Speaker 1: get go with the ball. And that's that's that's what
Speaker 1: you like about Cooper Rushes. He doesn't he's he's gotten
Speaker 1: away with some things, but he also usually goes with
Speaker 1: the ball needs to go. And and the other thing too,
Speaker 1: that's encouraging about if they get behind. When they've been behind,
Speaker 1: he has delivered. You know, you think about ten nine
Speaker 1: rams right down the field winning drive against the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: He's been pretty clutch when they need him to be.
Speaker 1: But wouldn't it be great if they could just put
Speaker 1: up forty one points against Eagles like they did Week
Speaker 1: three and just and just because on the flip side,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys could build a lead, then on the
Speaker 1: flip side of that, you're minimizing what those RPOs are
Speaker 1: for Philly's offense because then you're taking away the threat
Speaker 1: of the run it's not. It doesn't. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: as much. But that's asking a big blowout type of lead,
Speaker 1: and I don't expect that. I think every damn game
Speaker 1: they play this year, I think it's it could feel
Speaker 1: like it's going to be one of these seven to
Speaker 1: ten point games where twenty two points might get it
Speaker 1: for you. That's just the way this defense plays this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna get blown out. The defense has assured
Speaker 1: you of that. The defense is going to be so good,
Speaker 1: and Asia has mentioned it before that that chariot could
Speaker 1: turn back into a pumpkin itself at some point and
Speaker 1: at least for a week, and the defense turns around
Speaker 1: and doesn't play. Well, that could happen. No, no, don't
Speaker 1: do it. No, but oh it could happen. By the
Speaker 1: way it was, giants Bay, it was you got it right,
Speaker 1: which is which is so apropole, considering he went to
Speaker 1: midlife and did what he did. Yeah, jiants By. But
Speaker 1: with that being said, Cooper Rush not playing ahead is
Speaker 1: a problem, and at least we would think it's been
Speaker 1: a problem. But to Rob's point, whenever it's even come
Speaker 1: down remotely to him being needing something, they've been able
Speaker 1: to convert, so fast start. That's pretty much the biggest
Speaker 1: key this week is get a fast start, absolutely kind
Speaker 1: of what it looks like, absolutely, and we would love, love,
Speaker 1: love because it sounds like Jason Peters is doing all
Speaker 1: he can to be available and on the field we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, he said I'm good and then the injury
Speaker 1: report comes out and the show it turns out he
Speaker 1: was at practice all be it limited, But even that
Speaker 1: was wildly unexpected, right because the initial field that we
Speaker 1: might miss multiple weeks. He's coming back. And if he
Speaker 1: was candifying about it, if you can't play in roses too,
Speaker 1: and you know, help sticker to Connor McGovern from last week.
Speaker 1: But if Connor McGovern can continue playing at that level
Speaker 1: effective this week and Peters is back to put that
Speaker 1: extra charge and that calm, that calming demeanor on a
Speaker 1: rookie like Tyler Smith in hostile territory, then yeah, you
Speaker 1: have a chance to get off to a quick start.
Speaker 1: But make sure you stick to your run here because
Speaker 1: you gotta tend to rise that Clarence Hill asked are
Speaker 1: you go with your health and he was like, you
Speaker 1: saw me at practice, didn't He was, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: an arch with it. I'm good. Yeah, that's what he said,
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush thirty one attempts has been a season high
Speaker 1: so far. That's rats. That's fine. Don't yeah, don't, don't
Speaker 1: get to forty. It doesn't have to be sixteen. But
Speaker 1: it can't. It can't be four than for see him
Speaker 1: having round twenty five. I got thirty two, got over
Speaker 1: was quite literally twenty five. Yeah, okay, twenty five thirty
Speaker 1: two or more five is perfect. Twenty five and I
Speaker 1: feel great. M lots to talk about this week, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it a little bit more tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Say it with your chest Friday, Georgia boy versus Connor McGovern.
Speaker 1: That's what little Georgian David's action. Connor McGovern. Going back
Speaker 1: to what I said a moment ago, Connor McGovern need
Speaker 1: you to be on your game. Game this one. We
Speaker 1: should have went to him. What are we doing for
Speaker 1: that one? I can tell you who wins that match up?
Speaker 1: All I can tell you my friend Connor McGovern has
Speaker 1: the ability to win it. But the lean is on
Speaker 1: Jordan until kind. I mean, I would say this, Connor
Speaker 1: has more experience. I'm gonna I'll call it a stalemate
Speaker 1: based on raw talent from Jordan and skill set and
Speaker 1: just physical stature. McGovern has at least some kind of
Speaker 1: veteran wild plus he's learning from Zach Martin and State
Speaker 1: st Penn State etches out Georgia. Yeah, and and for
Speaker 1: those that it edged out Pit last week a couple
Speaker 1: of times, I want to hear him say, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say it because for those that know the history
Speaker 1: of those two schools, they took Daddy from us. Yet
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