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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, October twenty seventh, two thou seventeen,
Speaker 1: Season thirteen, episode number sixty three, wells another edition of
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Speaker 1: know exactly what to be looking for. How's everybody doing
Speaker 1: this morning? Great? Awesome? It's too cold it's stick call
Speaker 1: outside now, Miss grumpy pants. Yeah, I hate the cold.
Speaker 1: I cannot stand it. I'm from my land. I want
Speaker 1: to try like this. My bones hurt. I'm trying sweater
Speaker 1: or your bones hurt. It's like fifty degrees. It's not
Speaker 1: even that cold. It's freezing outside. Y biels, wait till tonight.
Speaker 1: Fans got to be really cold and fantastic for here.
Speaker 1: This is like the best weather in the world is
Speaker 1: fifty degrees. Just need a jacket. I'd rather sweat awesome.
Speaker 1: You're just laying out on this show. How do we
Speaker 1: get to weather side? Well, I mean, yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: know where. It's just talking cowboys, but I didn't realize
Speaker 1: its Seriously, we just heard one second in there of
Speaker 1: from Mickey talking and I heard weather What do you
Speaker 1: mean it's too cold? I just don't understand how anyone
Speaker 1: says it's too cold when they were in a tank
Speaker 1: top point not in here. I'm talking about a time
Speaker 1: I do have a jacket that is still point like
Speaker 1: he's got a point aers. No, my arms like to
Speaker 1: be free, and my arm peets pitsts like to free. Okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: the accent just comes out sometimes. All right, let's jump
Speaker 1: into this thing. Um. Let's first talk about some news
Speaker 1: that that broke yesterday. After we spent a little while
Speaker 1: yesterday talking about Kellen Moore. Yeah, Cowboys a Saturday, you know,
Speaker 1: as we got other things we need to be concerned about,
Speaker 1: and so they do need to make a move. They
Speaker 1: bring up Blake Jarwin from the practice squad. He's a
Speaker 1: tight end um and as a part of that, they
Speaker 1: released Kellen Moore. Talk to me about why all that
Speaker 1: went down yesterday. Well, I think more than anything, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys like Blake Jarwin. They do. And regardless of what
Speaker 1: fans think or no or what the tight end that
Speaker 1: they want them to put on the roster, Blake Jarwin's
Speaker 1: a guy that they like. He's he's a big buddy
Speaker 1: player who was getting some interest from from other teams.
Speaker 1: And that's what happens when you when you you're about
Speaker 1: to there to lose him, and they're like, well, we
Speaker 1: don't want to and we have this roster spoably been
Speaker 1: waiting on and and that's kind of what they decided
Speaker 1: to do. So, Um, I don't know if Blake Darwin's
Speaker 1: gonna play. I don't know if he'll be active. I
Speaker 1: know he's going to Washington, he's not going to h
Speaker 1: He's not gonna go duck hunting. I believe it's what
Speaker 1: he was going to do this weekend. That that was
Speaker 1: his plan. So he called his buddy up and said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I don't think I can go, And he's like why,
Speaker 1: He's like, because I got signed to the team as
Speaker 1: a professional football And he said, uh yeah, if you
Speaker 1: show up in Oklahoma, I'm going to kick your ass.
Speaker 1: That's what friend told him. So yeah, he was a
Speaker 1: good friend sided for him obviously, And but I don't
Speaker 1: know what this means, you know, long term. I just
Speaker 1: know that Kellen Moore was expendable and let him go.
Speaker 1: What kind of what kind of player is this, Dave?
Speaker 1: Is Is this a bub blocking type tight end? Is
Speaker 1: this a guy that catches balls? He's both like, what
Speaker 1: what kind of player is he? I think he's he's
Speaker 1: more of a pass catcher than like a tenacious blocker.
Speaker 1: But I think he's good enough at I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a he's an all around tight end. He played in college.
Speaker 1: He played in one of those wide open type offenses
Speaker 1: though Oklahoma State. I mean, like this GUYAMA looking at
Speaker 1: him more as a receiver than some type of maller blocker.
Speaker 1: And I think Nick's right, this is really more about
Speaker 1: we found this guy. We developed him all summer. We
Speaker 1: think he's a good player, and we don't want to
Speaker 1: lose him, and we especially don't want to lose him
Speaker 1: to a division rival. This isn't I would be surprised
Speaker 1: if he's active, but they don't. Didn't hear any team
Speaker 1: that was interested, was it? What's that? I didn't hear
Speaker 1: any team that was the widely accepted reporters that was Philly. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: he was like a guy that would they would use there.
Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, and you like Rico. I
Speaker 1: said this yesterday on Twitter. Rico was the talk of
Speaker 1: training camp, justifiably so with the plays that he made
Speaker 1: in the preseason. But I specifically remember because you know
Speaker 1: when it gets down to cut day, like when you're
Speaker 1: getting down to that final week. Actually, I think we
Speaker 1: were at the telethon um Brad Sham and I had
Speaker 1: a long conversation with Jason Witton about the roster and
Speaker 1: just like what it's probably gonna look like, what there
Speaker 1: might do. And Jason Witton, who's going to be a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, was like eighty nine Blake Jarwin, who
Speaker 1: he won't be here because somebody also get him, like
Speaker 1: he's a really good player. He won't make it through
Speaker 1: the practice squad. Somebody else will sign him. Really that
Speaker 1: was back then, That was in August. Jason Witton was like,
Speaker 1: this guy's a damn good player, and I doubt we
Speaker 1: can hold on to him. So take that for what
Speaker 1: it's worth. Like the best, one of the best to
Speaker 1: ever play tight end thinks he's a damn good player.
Speaker 1: So let me so let me ask this and this
Speaker 1: may be well ahead and tell me if this is
Speaker 1: way too early to have this conversation. But when you
Speaker 1: bring this guy up because you feel like you just
Speaker 1: wanted to hold on to him, you got rico on ir.
Speaker 1: What is that saying about Hannah and swam I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously they're here this year, they're gonna be here this year,
Speaker 1: but going into next year, Yeah, it certainly doesn't look
Speaker 1: like they are cemented as players that will be here. Right.
Speaker 1: It says don't buy a house, I mean department, I
Speaker 1: mean swam in Hannah, I mean, both of them pretty
Speaker 1: good at what they're doing. But and I think Hannah
Speaker 1: is a restrict unrestricted free agent, right I think so?
Speaker 1: I think he's got one year he signed a three
Speaker 1: year did he not sign a three year extension in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Need that great book. I think he did
Speaker 1: um to keep one in here for you. I need
Speaker 1: to make one for myself. That used to make it
Speaker 1: PR we got left out. UM. But I think that
Speaker 1: he is UM. Basically, those guys are going to be
Speaker 1: you know, I mean if they're not free agents next year.
Speaker 1: I mean James James Hann has signed through twenty eighteen, okay, uh,
Speaker 1: and Blade as a draft pick. Jeff Swam has one
Speaker 1: year left on his deal too. It's what I mean. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think this says more about Rico Gathers than Jeff's
Speaker 1: real for now or for the future, both at least
Speaker 1: for right now. I mean, he's not eligible to come
Speaker 1: back to the roster till next week anyway, but he's
Speaker 1: he's not practicing. He's been eligible to practice for two weeks.
Speaker 1: And again, you know, I've said this a million times.
Speaker 1: You don't want to speculate about a head injury because
Speaker 1: that's dicey, and it's you know, it's not like a
Speaker 1: hamstring or a broken bone, where it's like, well, everything
Speaker 1: will be better after this amount of weeks. For all
Speaker 1: I know, he's still dealing with that, But didn't we
Speaker 1: think something was kind of weird there when this happened
Speaker 1: to begin with. I mean when you go to when
Speaker 1: you put a guy on IR for something like a concussion,
Speaker 1: and then as of I mean, it would surprise me
Speaker 1: if he has brought back to the roster next week.
Speaker 1: Let's put it that way. And that's at this point
Speaker 1: you're thinking, especially now that they brought in another tight
Speaker 1: they brought up another tight end, there really is no
Speaker 1: room for him to unless you're gonna get rid of somebody,
Speaker 1: which Jarwin doesn't seem like they want to let him go.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get rid of one of those other
Speaker 1: two guys. So I will I will say this much
Speaker 1: like you know, I think we expect Kellen Moore to
Speaker 1: be back here, do we not as a practice player.
Speaker 1: So there's nothing. There's nothing keeping Blake Jarwin on the
Speaker 1: fifty three for any sort of length of time. I
Speaker 1: was talking to somebody about this the other day. Not
Speaker 1: a rule, what's that? It's not a rule. It's a
Speaker 1: rule if you sign somebody from somebody else's practice squad
Speaker 1: but your own team. They haven't done this recently, but
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, Keith Smith bounced between the practice squad
Speaker 1: and the fifty three about eight times. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: isn't the difference here that the reason they brought him up,
Speaker 1: presumably is because another team wanted him. If you're going
Speaker 1: to try to get him back to practice squad, you
Speaker 1: cut him. He's going somewhere old, right, But I mean,
Speaker 1: and I don't know the mechanics of all this, but
Speaker 1: I assume Philly wanted him because they're dealing with something.
Speaker 1: Maybe zach Ertz pulled his hammy or so. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But three weeks from now, will they still want him
Speaker 1: as much as they do right now? I don't know,
Speaker 1: But there's nothing other than their desire to keep him
Speaker 1: keeping Jarwin on the roster, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: there's no rule that he has to be there. So
Speaker 1: this isn't some type of set in stone decision. But
Speaker 1: it is weird when you think about tight end and
Speaker 1: you think about the fact that Rico is presumably, at
Speaker 1: least according to the rules, he's close to coming back,
Speaker 1: but I don't see that happening in the immediate future. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, let's move down to some injury talk. Let's
Speaker 1: talk first about Malie Collins, who showed up on the
Speaker 1: injury report yesterday had not been on the injury report
Speaker 1: earlier in the week with a foot injury, was limited
Speaker 1: in practice. Do we know anything about his injury and
Speaker 1: how serious it may be with regards to him playing
Speaker 1: this weekend? Well, I was gonna say this yesterday before
Speaker 1: I even knew about this injury. Is that? But now
Speaker 1: the injury gets us talking about him because we haven't
Speaker 1: been in a while, you know, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: in the last three weeks, I mean I was kind
Speaker 1: of like, has he played? I mean, I don't. He's
Speaker 1: playing one technique I understand. I understand. It's a position
Speaker 1: that doesn't get a lot of notoriety unless you're making
Speaker 1: a lot of plays, and early on he kind of was.
Speaker 1: And then it's he's kind of fallen off of something.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think he'll be okay. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's limited on a Thursday, added to it. Let's see
Speaker 1: what happens here today. But it might just we've seen
Speaker 1: this boy three or four times already this year. Of
Speaker 1: these players added to the injury report on a Thursday, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and they've all played. I believe maybe not
Speaker 1: Chaz Green. I don't think um Durant last week, but
Speaker 1: yeah for them, I mean, well then you know then
Speaker 1: I know Chaz didn't and I guess Durant, So it's
Speaker 1: maybe it's been more fifty fifty. And uh, Barron Jones
Speaker 1: was someone that got added tiring like the Frasier guys.
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know what's happening in this
Speaker 1: wins they practice, but it seems like it's pretty physical
Speaker 1: they're getting after it. Yeah, a foot injury. That could
Speaker 1: just be, you know, kind of just stepped the wrong way,
Speaker 1: step on somebody's foot. You know. Our timing, our timing
Speaker 1: sucks with this because he got hurt or we knew
Speaker 1: he was hurt at four o'clock yesterday afternoon and we
Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to talk to anybody since then.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. Okay, you want to do the show,
Speaker 1: it's like five pm or I'm here at five pm.
Speaker 1: So actually that would get in the way of cover four.
Speaker 1: So sorry, I can't do that getting the way of
Speaker 1: cover four. And this is way off the sudd No,
Speaker 1: it's not. Actually you should have mentioned it earlier. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: whatever you're about now. I was gonna say, this is
Speaker 1: way off to say, I just saw it on the
Speaker 1: TV screen that J'asia hit last night. Yes, that was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever seen a more vicious it.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know if it was dirty, it
Speaker 1: just so vicious it next guy Kiko, yeah, also, and
Speaker 1: it was just I don't think I've seen a player
Speaker 1: be that knocked out, like the way he looked like
Speaker 1: in kind of was raising his hand and it was
Speaker 1: kind of scary. You kind of have moments where like
Speaker 1: you're forced to confront how horrifically violent football is, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like it's easy to kind of
Speaker 1: forget about it when everybody's wearing a helmet and you're
Speaker 1: watching on TV. But when you see Joe Flacco like
Speaker 1: not know where he is at, and you're just and
Speaker 1: you can see his face because the helmet came out,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, these guys really like play a
Speaker 1: dangerous game. I mean, I've said this one hundred times
Speaker 1: before it and I'll say it again. I guess they're
Speaker 1: never gonna change the rule, but I hate it for
Speaker 1: the defensive players. I really do. I feel like that
Speaker 1: as a and these running quarterbacks, they gotta just piss
Speaker 1: off defensive players because it's like they play as long
Speaker 1: as they want to play, and then when they decide
Speaker 1: the game the play is over to them, then they
Speaker 1: can slide and you can't touch me. I hate that rule.
Speaker 1: I really, I think behind the line of scrimmage, protect
Speaker 1: them any way you want to. You can't touch them,
Speaker 1: you can't hit them, you can't do anything. But if
Speaker 1: you come to this side of the tracks, you come
Speaker 1: over here, you're trying to score in my end zone,
Speaker 1: then there's no sliding and all that. If you want
Speaker 1: to come over here. If you don't, then stay in
Speaker 1: your precious pocket and throw passes. I hate that. And
Speaker 1: you know what I actually and he runs, runs, runs,
Speaker 1: and then it says I'm gonna slide, and like Kiko
Speaker 1: Alonso is supposed to just hold up at the last second.
Speaker 1: I mean, I actually personally believe that sliding makes the
Speaker 1: game more dangerous. And here's why. Because if you see
Speaker 1: a running back or a person that's running the ball,
Speaker 1: typically a receiver, usually when they're in a situation where
Speaker 1: they're confronted by someone that's trying to tackle them, they
Speaker 1: either lower their shoulder or in this case, of some
Speaker 1: receivers when they go across the middle, they catch the
Speaker 1: ball and you'll see him a defender's coming. They get down.
Speaker 1: They don't slide, they get down. Sliding you put yourself
Speaker 1: in a more vulnerable position. You're giving yourself up. So
Speaker 1: if a guy can't readjust at the last minute, you're
Speaker 1: gonna take the kind of hit that you took last night,
Speaker 1: as opposed to if that quarterback dies or goes down
Speaker 1: or just protects himself from the tackle by lowering his shoulder.
Speaker 1: Either way, he's more defending himself than he is when
Speaker 1: he gives himself up and the defender can't adjusting enough
Speaker 1: time to stop himself from hitting him. I actually think
Speaker 1: sliding is worse for the game than better for the
Speaker 1: game personally fair, I mean, I just think you're we're
Speaker 1: asking these players, and especially on the college level, and
Speaker 1: it's happening in high school too. These guys get and
Speaker 1: there's no replay in that. I mean, these guys get
Speaker 1: ejected for plays, you know, and they're crunching down and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the guy leans down and he
Speaker 1: hits him in the head, and then it's targeting and
Speaker 1: you look at it super slow mo, and you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: he was targeting him in the head, when really was like, bo,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't so fast? Yeah, because if you
Speaker 1: can watched that play in live motion, it's it's so
Speaker 1: it happened so quickly. I agree with you. I don't
Speaker 1: know that he had the ability the defender had the
Speaker 1: ability to readjust after Flacco decides he's gonna slide. You know,
Speaker 1: It's just happened so quickly. It's hard to really determine
Speaker 1: that might have been one of these. I mean, two
Speaker 1: weeks ago he had one of the best Thursday night games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this might have been the worst. Forty to nothing, just
Speaker 1: more fights than I mean. I remember when I moved
Speaker 1: here and the first time I watched football, I watched
Speaker 1: it and I'm like, oh my god, Like, why do
Speaker 1: people enjoy this game? What's the point? Why do you
Speaker 1: even want to play this game? Get hit, fall on
Speaker 1: the ground, get back up, get hit again, fall again
Speaker 1: and over and over. Well, and now you're all. I
Speaker 1: was shocked when I first saw that. I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, what is going on? But then yeah, now
Speaker 1: here I am, and now you're fighting and getting into
Speaker 1: the game. Run catch the ball, hit. That guy got
Speaker 1: that blood lust like the rest of us. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get back into this. We do need to talk
Speaker 1: about inactives. I think there are obviously a few guys
Speaker 1: that we know will be inactive. Got Dan Bailey, you got.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put Teto on that list. I assume there's
Speaker 1: no way he plays, uh, Darren McFadden. I assume Byron
Speaker 1: Bill will probably be an active. He was an active
Speaker 1: last week. Seems like they were okay running with seven
Speaker 1: offensive linements, so I think he'll probably be an active.
Speaker 1: That gets you to four. Who else do you think
Speaker 1: makes the inactive list? Obviously you got Kyle Wilbur who
Speaker 1: has misspracticed this week with a knee injury. You got
Speaker 1: Justin Durant, who they made inactive last week. You've got
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin, who they just brought up. It's likely he's
Speaker 1: gonna probably be an act because they're not gonna have
Speaker 1: what five tight ends active with him, I'm sorry, four
Speaker 1: active tight ends. So let's put Blake on there, and
Speaker 1: then that gets you to five. Who are the other
Speaker 1: two that you think actually end up on the end.
Speaker 1: I think one of those linebackers is safe. Durant or Wilbur. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we could say one of those two guys, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Durant or Wilbur, one of those two will be an
Speaker 1: active Yeah, okay, so who's the other? I gotta get
Speaker 1: to seventh seventh guy? We do? We have to Let's
Speaker 1: let's say that we have to. Um. I mean, Noah
Speaker 1: Brown is always a candidate, He's always up there. He
Speaker 1: made a nice block though last week. That's true. I
Speaker 1: mean he did and he got to play. You don't
Speaker 1: have to sell me, um, It's just it just doesn't
Speaker 1: get I mean, good sit Benson Maya well again, I
Speaker 1: don't know, yeah, I mean was that we never really
Speaker 1: talked about that? Was that? Why? Why sit Benson Mayo?
Speaker 1: I mean, he is a rotation guy. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's been horrible, do you, guys? I mean I think
Speaker 1: we said this on Monday. I mean I'm asking is
Speaker 1: it when a when a healthy veteran who's been playing,
Speaker 1: who nobody's talked about as an inactive all week, is
Speaker 1: inactive on Sunday? It strikes me as being about more
Speaker 1: than football. And I don't I mean Demontre Moore was
Speaker 1: also SAT and two days later he was cut. So again,
Speaker 1: you say Mayo was about to get cut. No, I'm
Speaker 1: saying I'm breaking news here. No saying that. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm saying it looks it looks suspicious to me. And
Speaker 1: maybe that was disciplinary or something like that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but obviously it doesn't appear as though he's going to
Speaker 1: be cut. But maybe it's related to that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it carries over into this week or not.
Speaker 1: So you're six biggest free agent signings over the last
Speaker 1: two years down for me, none of them are playing
Speaker 1: in this game. Most of them aren't even on the team.
Speaker 1: You're three from this year. Mayo or really, I mean
Speaker 1: Byron Bell was in there? Byron Bell? Yeah, not playing
Speaker 1: well Byron Bell. He was picked up to be an
Speaker 1: insurance policy. So you don't need your insurance policy. All
Speaker 1: he said was free agents. Yeah, I get it. And
Speaker 1: he's not active right, which again that that was probably
Speaker 1: the role they expected for him. So Bell Piez retired,
Speaker 1: Nolan Carroll's cut, Demontre Moore's cut, and then from last
Speaker 1: year Cedric Thornton cut, Vince in Mayowa was inactive last week.
Speaker 1: We'll see about this week. Hmmm. I actually wrote build
Speaker 1: through the draft I wrote my column about this yesterday
Speaker 1: if anybody wants to read it, just saying what what
Speaker 1: what was your what was your point? Like, what was
Speaker 1: the point? What were you saying? In then he said,
Speaker 1: Will McClay is not not doing his job. It's what
Speaker 1: are you saying? My overall point was it is I
Speaker 1: would never say that about my dear friend, Billy will McClay.
Speaker 1: Billy Will Hilly will McClay. I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: friends anymore. Um, after you said that, My main my
Speaker 1: main point in the story was that it's a very
Speaker 1: bad look. But the way the Cowboys have opted to
Speaker 1: build their team one it me saying it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: That's not the right phrase, but it doesn't hurt them.
Speaker 1: And that's the like when you bargain hunt like this,
Speaker 1: this team is not worse off because these guys are
Speaker 1: not playing, and that's their whole strategy to begin with,
Speaker 1: as they do want to build through the draft, and
Speaker 1: I get that it's frustrating, but they they haven't signed
Speaker 1: a free agent to be like a cornerstone, depend on
Speaker 1: this guy player in a while, and so, like I said,
Speaker 1: it looks bad when they have to make these moves,
Speaker 1: but that's why they do it this way in the
Speaker 1: first places, so they have that flexibility. Uh, Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: is above and beyond an upgrade over what we saw
Speaker 1: from Nolan Carroll Pia pia I. That strikes me as
Speaker 1: being a little bit different. It's not like they cut
Speaker 1: him because he couldn't play. He was pretty damn good
Speaker 1: and he just happened to get hurt. But they but
Speaker 1: but in all fairness, this was a recurring injury for him.
Speaker 1: This was something that would that had been around. So wow,
Speaker 1: that that one puts them in a little more of
Speaker 1: a bind than the other ones in my opinion. And
Speaker 1: then um oh, and then but but I'm sorry, but dude,
Speaker 1: they cut Cedric Thornton here and he is he on
Speaker 1: a team with the Bills. Okay, he cut Cedric Thornton
Speaker 1: knowing that Pie is going to be, you know, retired
Speaker 1: in a few months, would you have gone back and
Speaker 1: cut him? Yeah? Maybe probably not, which they wanted to
Speaker 1: get rid of him, But they also were able to
Speaker 1: get by those weeks without Irving with Pie, Like Pie
Speaker 1: gave you some something during those few weeks to where
Speaker 1: you could kind of get by until you got irving. Back.
Speaker 1: And now not to say he was expendable, but you
Speaker 1: would have had a decision anyway of who was going
Speaker 1: to be your starter there and it's now clearly irving, right.
Speaker 1: It's it's like I said, it's a it's a bad look.
Speaker 1: But I think Stephen Jones would rather bargain hunt and
Speaker 1: throw away these expendable guys than not, you know, potentially
Speaker 1: beginning production from a guy that he had given a
Speaker 1: boatload of money too, which in their experience is what
Speaker 1: has happened in free agency anyway. But it does, it
Speaker 1: does put a lot of pressure on your draft. Now.
Speaker 1: It means you gotta hit on your draft picks, and
Speaker 1: when you have a guy like Randy Gregory, that sets
Speaker 1: you back because you're not going out in free agency
Speaker 1: to do it. You're you're using picks to build your team,
Speaker 1: and when those don't, when those fall apart, then that
Speaker 1: that can really really set you back. It's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting because I mean, we could talk until we're
Speaker 1: blew in the face about how good of a job
Speaker 1: they've done putting their offense together through the draft, um
Speaker 1: the defense. And we argued about this not that long ago,
Speaker 1: like they've put plenty of resources into the defense hasn't
Speaker 1: worked out very well. And there's there's a few like
Speaker 1: you've you've got a few pieces now though, Like you've
Speaker 1: got Malik uh Jalen is there whom I I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with DeMarcus and then Taco and
Speaker 1: I would throw I would probably throw Byron in there.
Speaker 1: Like that's five guys that you would hope can become
Speaker 1: like the cornerstone, and and Jordan Lewis don't and and
Speaker 1: yeah potentially which and maybe Xavier, Like there are lots
Speaker 1: of guys that you're kind of looking and I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Xavierwoods, but I'm not going
Speaker 1: to throw him into that category just because he's a
Speaker 1: sixth round pick. I mean, that's it's not that's not
Speaker 1: that crazy. You don't put you don't put Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: and that That's what I'm saying, right, And if you're
Speaker 1: not gonna win in free agency all the time, you
Speaker 1: do have to steal some with the sixth round and
Speaker 1: David Irvings. But but when I'm talking, when I'm talking
Speaker 1: about building your team through the draft, you just have
Speaker 1: to hit on those like top one hundred I got you.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a must hiring Travis zach Zeke those
Speaker 1: like I mean Deaz, those are the ones that turn
Speaker 1: your friend like that you build your franchise around and
Speaker 1: if you can somehow just get like a fourth late
Speaker 1: fourth round pick and making like the yeah, it's always
Speaker 1: I would be good. That's always great. But that's the thing,
Speaker 1: like I know a lot of people probably are looking
Speaker 1: at this as say, man, what are they doing with
Speaker 1: the free agency? But looking at it overall, it's hard
Speaker 1: to say that this front office hasn't done a good
Speaker 1: job building through the draft, because you're, like you said,
Speaker 1: and they have built this team and turn this this
Speaker 1: thing around where they feel like they they've built it
Speaker 1: not only a good team, but a good team that
Speaker 1: can play different ways going and going back to my point,
Speaker 1: that's that's all great on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: On the defensive side, I think in another year or two,
Speaker 1: we're gonna know just how good of a job they've done,
Speaker 1: because we can no longer younger say that they're not
Speaker 1: investing in defense. That's not true anymore. And just we
Speaker 1: don't know if those picks are going to pan out yet, right,
Speaker 1: And they haven't. They haven't hit on that big time
Speaker 1: playmaker like they've hit on offense right right, They've got
Speaker 1: some good, solid pieces. I think they just haven't gotten
Speaker 1: that playmaker. Maybe DeMarcus Lawrence becomes that. Well, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: have to wait and see on that. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: to the break Welcome back. It's the second segment of
Speaker 1: the Break Life in the s WBC Mortgage studios at
Speaker 1: the Star and Amber at the Game Course. Okay, you
Speaker 1: guys ready, We're always ready. Oh no, you got your
Speaker 1: pronunciation right. See Okay, if Josh Norman plays, Daz will
Speaker 1: be the one winning this matchup. See see see last
Speaker 1: year Elliot did not hit the hundred yard mark in
Speaker 1: his two games against Washington this year, he will will
Speaker 1: surpass to hundred and fifty yard march one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty No, no in this game, yeah no, or repeat
Speaker 1: something similar to what he did last weekend. No. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a struggle for more of a
Speaker 1: struggle this week. Like a bad game. Well, I doesn't
Speaker 1: hit a hundred, it's gonna be a mud bowl. Let me,
Speaker 1: can I change your question? One hundred yards? Does he
Speaker 1: hit a hundred yards rushing? Yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, he probably will because there's not gonna be
Speaker 1: a ton of passing in this because of the weather.
Speaker 1: It's gonna Yeah, it's supposed to rain all day. And
Speaker 1: this is the NFL. They can throw in the rain,
Speaker 1: can't they. I don't know. Forty to forty degrees let
Speaker 1: me start, not when you're playing football. That's nice time.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be the running shoot out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're gonna oh I'm not saying that, but be grinded
Speaker 1: out game. I'll tell you this, boy scout where they
Speaker 1: you know, the guys running in the mud like that,
Speaker 1: dim lights and everything. No, I mean I'll tell you this,
Speaker 1: if it turns into a game where it's all about
Speaker 1: running and you can't pass. It clearly favors the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I just don't think. I don't think the Redskins they're
Speaker 1: passing attack. I don't think it stops because it's raining. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's stopped. I think they'll still be
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. You know, it's got to be pretty
Speaker 1: dire circumstances for NFL teams not to be able to
Speaker 1: pass one eighteen. The rushing yard, that's what Zeke's gonna
Speaker 1: run our Kurt Cousins passing. Now, Kurt one eighteen, you're
Speaker 1: pretty specific on that one. What you just have that
Speaker 1: epiphany as one eighteen just now, just just trust me,
Speaker 1: just trust me on this. I guess we'll find out soon. Okay,
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense will be able to stop Chris Thompson. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have some At the end of this game,
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans will know who Christian Yeah, he's gonna let's
Speaker 1: just say that they're gonna know who Chris Thomps is. Okay,
Speaker 1: we've seen the Cowboys struggle against better quarterbacks such as
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Golf's Kirk Cousin one of those guys that
Speaker 1: will make them really struggle here. See see he threw
Speaker 1: for eight hundred yards in their two games last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he will, he will have his yards. I don't care
Speaker 1: if his reigning, I don't care. H some monsoon he's
Speaker 1: gonna have his yards against Cowboys. First for all. The
Speaker 1: question was when you said like Aaron Rodgers, Jared God.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's in between those. Between those, he's more
Speaker 1: closer to golf. I mean, he hasn't really played that
Speaker 1: well against the Cowboys in my opinion, but he throws
Speaker 1: for yards. He's gonna get like congratulations. But he's still
Speaker 1: like miss this guy's deep. Uh. He still throws it
Speaker 1: in the end zone interceptions. He's one and four against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, like he you know, I still remember the game. God,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think when Garson had a huge day.
Speaker 1: Remember that game he had a huge day against Brandon
Speaker 1: Carr who was sick, and they switched over just and
Speaker 1: Rick and I wage remember fourth and ten with the
Speaker 1: game on the line, Kirk Cousins game on the line,
Speaker 1: throws it out of bounce because he didn't want to
Speaker 1: take the sack. I was like Okay, well that's smart
Speaker 1: football right there. I don't know he's gotten better since them,
Speaker 1: but I still think he I don't think he's like elite. No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call him elite, but I do think their
Speaker 1: passing offense is elite. Yeah, but I mean I think
Speaker 1: it's amongst something, one of the best in the league.
Speaker 1: And I think I think against this defense, I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna get a lot of yards. The only thing
Speaker 1: they can do that I think this defense has shown
Speaker 1: at times that it can do is not allow him
Speaker 1: in the end zone and force the m ckick field goals.
Speaker 1: And if you can do that, then I think that's
Speaker 1: the Cowboys best chance of winning. But I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna move up and down the field. On Thanksgiving last year,
Speaker 1: he completed seventy seven percent of his passes for four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards and three touchdowns. That's really great.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna be that good because
Speaker 1: it's gonna be raining and it's gonna be outdoors, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna get his yards. I don't I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna win this game, but Kirk Cousins is
Speaker 1: going to play well against them. Yep. Okay, and this game,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence will get to his first career double digit sack.
Speaker 1: Yes see yeah, I see yeah. Their whole offensive line,
Speaker 1: like do they even have one? Ye? Didn't they have
Speaker 1: a third tackle now on their injury report. The whole
Speaker 1: lines on the injury report, the five guys that missed
Speaker 1: practice yesterday were all offensive lightnman, four starters and a
Speaker 1: backup tackle. Those are the five that missed. So now
Speaker 1: they're on their fourth tackle, fourth and fifth tackles in
Speaker 1: practice yesterday. That's that's one of the reasons why I
Speaker 1: think they didn't practice on Wednesday. I just have an
Speaker 1: offensive line. But all those guys are not gonna miss
Speaker 1: because they would be they would be pulling, they would
Speaker 1: have to be signing guys. They're not expecting all all
Speaker 1: those guys to MISSY know, like Trent Williams is he's
Speaker 1: not gonna practice, but he's gonna play. The one I
Speaker 1: want to know about Brandon Shuff I want to you know,
Speaker 1: and Morgan Moses is gonna play. But there I'll just
Speaker 1: overcompensate with a bad ankle when the other one's bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that two bad ankles, Yes, yeah, I just and that's
Speaker 1: the guy going up against the Marcus Lawrence. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: better have like, they better have three or four sacks.
Speaker 1: There's I mean, not a lot of not a lot
Speaker 1: of excuses, especially for a team that likes to throw
Speaker 1: the ball anyway. They like to throw it a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you need to be sacking him all the
Speaker 1: whole game, like that just needs to be thirty five
Speaker 1: sacks something like that, like every series, give me a sack,
Speaker 1: Like I just want to see a sack game. That
Speaker 1: would be like nine sacks. There we go, Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: there we go. Expectations. Did you see that stat? The
Speaker 1: Jaguars are the only team since the eighty four Bears,
Speaker 1: which is you know, we always say to eighty five Bears,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure the eighty four Bears were pretty good too.
Speaker 1: Only team to have ten sacks in the season twice
Speaker 1: during the year, like in two different games, Saxonville. That's insane.
Speaker 1: That's so many when you pick they got talent, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got a ton of talent in the gut. And
Speaker 1: one of them it's not even there. It's Klai's Campbell
Speaker 1: and he's not even there. Guyante Fowlers, He's got like
Speaker 1: already like eight sacks or something like, he's right right,
Speaker 1: he leads the league? Does he lead the league? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Fowlers not doing anything? Uh you know who? Which all right,
Speaker 1: Sorry we're getting off the topic. Camera. Maybe Barry Church
Speaker 1: was right about that talent over there, Kelvin Smith. Did
Speaker 1: you think he was wrong? I thought he was just
Speaker 1: being like guy on Barry Church. Everything's happy, and you
Speaker 1: know in Jacksonville he was kind I think he was.
Speaker 1: I guess, so guess they do have more talent, especially
Speaker 1: on defense. Yeah, that's on defense, right, on defense. Take Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: give him that defense and put it with the Cowboys offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's team. Speaking of building through the draft, which I
Speaker 1: love Anthony Hitchins, but Telvin Smith was drafted like thirty
Speaker 1: spots after him. Yeah, just sign forty five million dollar
Speaker 1: extension in Jacksonville because he's a beast off filled issues.
Speaker 1: Well in college college is not here. Yeah, yea, he
Speaker 1: got to roll the dice. So yeah, that's fun anyway. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: tying up to the whole bad offensive line or not bad,
Speaker 1: just banged up offensive line here, Taco will finally have
Speaker 1: a game where people are positively talking about him. No,
Speaker 1: well no, well let me in made that sound absurd. No,
Speaker 1: it is absurd, and it's not about Taco because he
Speaker 1: could have a very solid game if in order for
Speaker 1: people to not be whining about Taco, he would need
Speaker 1: to have like three sacks. That yes, it is. If
Speaker 1: Taco got one sack, people would come in on money
Speaker 1: and say, okay, maybe Taco, maybe tacos Taco had a
Speaker 1: positive day. Yes, I would people wait, yeh, who are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Because I listened to three people upstairs
Speaker 1: that were like, he was really close to getting to
Speaker 1: the quarterback and he almost made a sack. If Taco,
Speaker 1: if Taco has like so the people that are trying
Speaker 1: to defend him, well, yeah, they'll find something. Did you
Speaker 1: see how he got off that three point stance? If
Speaker 1: Taco has three pressures in a If Taco has three
Speaker 1: pressures in a sack in this game, the average response
Speaker 1: will be like sarcastic applause, like way to go. It
Speaker 1: took you. I think that's you. I don't think most people,
Speaker 1: because I don't think most people will I like and
Speaker 1: defend Taco. I would. I would be happy with it.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. The for a lot of people. The
Speaker 1: story has already been written on him, and obviously that's
Speaker 1: not fair. But I'm telling you that's how he believe you, honestly,
Speaker 1: don't I don't believe. I think. I think if he
Speaker 1: gets a sack this week. I think whenever he gets
Speaker 1: a sack. Whenever he gets a sack, people will come
Speaker 1: out of the game and they will want to be
Speaker 1: optimistic about him from the standpoint of, well, he got
Speaker 1: a sack, maybe he's kind of figuring it out. Let's
Speaker 1: see if maybe we want to tract you the taco
Speaker 1: emoji all over Twitter? Yeah you will. You think Scooter
Speaker 1: recruiters could be like okay Taco, right, he would. He
Speaker 1: would need to like he's a spokesman of fans, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: He would need to be like NFC of defensive rookie
Speaker 1: of the week for people to like otherwise, because t J.
Speaker 1: Watt's gonna get two sacks in Detroit on Sunday night
Speaker 1: and everyone's gonna be like, oh, way to go, Taco,
Speaker 1: you got one sack halfway through the season, Like fans
Speaker 1: are harsh on first round picks. I'm just telling you, right, No,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I just again, I just think
Speaker 1: a sack. Maybe just a sack will do him good.
Speaker 1: Like I think that you come away with a sack,
Speaker 1: and I think at least people will get off of
Speaker 1: him for a week and then their their expectations will
Speaker 1: go up because the next week they'll say, can you
Speaker 1: do it again? But for that one day, I think
Speaker 1: people would give him like, Okay, he got a set.
Speaker 1: I hope he gets there so that one of us
Speaker 1: can be proven correct. All right, it'll be me, but
Speaker 1: that's cool. All right, we'll see what we still got
Speaker 1: to get the sack first. And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I hope he gets that. I'd be happy to have
Speaker 1: that conversation. If I don't think he's gonna make an
Speaker 1: impact in this game at all. He hasn't really made
Speaker 1: an impact in any game. Don't see it happen in
Speaker 1: this Taco is gonna get a sack and a half
Speaker 1: this game. Okay, all right, wait, wait till we get
Speaker 1: to crazy predictions. All right, that's it, that's crazy, all right.
Speaker 1: Special teams will be the deciding factor in Sunday's game.
Speaker 1: Oh god, no, see I think so they don't make
Speaker 1: field goals. I always have a new kicker. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the The field position is going to
Speaker 1: be really important. I think that's a really good one. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think special teams and special teams you can argue
Speaker 1: usually is a factor somehow. Even this last game, the
Speaker 1: biggest play in the game was a special teams starting
Speaker 1: kicker for both teams is out. So you're right, it
Speaker 1: factors in now because you've got backup kickers on both
Speaker 1: teams having to kick field goals in inclement weather. You're right. Actually,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I'm gonna changed my answer. That
Speaker 1: makes me. That makes me nauseous just thinking about it. Right,
Speaker 1: did you get the Press Bucks food up there? Well,
Speaker 1: twenty three twenty twenty three to twenty four, with like
Speaker 1: one twenty to play, the Cowboys are on like the
Speaker 1: twenty eight yard and out. Did you just say twenty
Speaker 1: three to twenty four? What's wrong with that? Seriously? What? Okay?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? That's your score using it as a hypothetical anyway, Like,
Speaker 1: I just didn't think you would ever go I mean,
Speaker 1: that's always higher score. First. Oh oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: something I would say. It doesn't matter. It's twenty three
Speaker 1: to twenty. That's gonna be on your annual review. I
Speaker 1: thought it was something boys are on the twenty saying this, alright,
Speaker 1: finish your finish your backwards point. They'll be on the
Speaker 1: twenty eight yard line, well within Dan Bailey's range, and
Speaker 1: we'll just have to watch a nugget out there and
Speaker 1: it happens. Watching and see what happens. We'll be on
Speaker 1: the field at that point because I was wondering, is
Speaker 1: it gonna be where we have the perfect view ever,
Speaker 1: or is it gonna look like, oh, that's somewhere in
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Yeah, I can't tell the worst. I hate
Speaker 1: this trip more than any trip. It's like it's just
Speaker 1: it's the press box. It's just so bad. It's the
Speaker 1: press everything about it. It's like all of their homewer
Speaker 1: guys that are screaming and yelling in the press box.
Speaker 1: I think the game it's the worst. Yeah. It is
Speaker 1: like they got half of their like half of their
Speaker 1: alumni bases in the press box and just rooting for
Speaker 1: their team, and it's like you got this four food
Speaker 1: over there. The views. I think FedEx Field, I can't
Speaker 1: believe FedEx Field was built in the nineties, Like it
Speaker 1: should be way better than it is. It was built
Speaker 1: in the nineties. Yeah, opened in like ninety five or
Speaker 1: ninety six, like it's not that old. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that it's a dump. Ninety six was the last
Speaker 1: game it RFK, So this was built in ninety seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ninety seven was the first. Wow dump. Consider, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say dump. I think it's a dump. Like when you
Speaker 1: say dump, then you're thinking about the Oakland, like forty
Speaker 1: nine ers Old Stadium, and yeah, the Oakland Oakland is
Speaker 1: a special caliber of dump. But I still think FedEx
Speaker 1: Field is a dump. You know there were different versions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's levels. There's levels. Okay, there's levels to this. Speaking
Speaker 1: of time, what are you gonna say? No, no he
Speaker 1: did wow, No no, no, no. I wasn't talking about
Speaker 1: Taco Charlton. I thought you say taco. I thought you're
Speaker 1: trying to be quite dump to talk. No, no no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. It's like, wow, that's pretty harsh. I actually
Speaker 1: think he I think he plays okay, Like I know
Speaker 1: that from a first round pick, you're expecting more. But
Speaker 1: remember they didn't view him as a first round They
Speaker 1: think he's a second round pick. But have to turn
Speaker 1: in the card and so I really think talk with Charlton.
Speaker 1: I think Jordan Lewis plays a factor into this. I
Speaker 1: really believe they have the draft so peg they know
Speaker 1: who's not taking Jordan Lewis, who is taking Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 1: Who's not gonna take this player where they can get
Speaker 1: Switzer versus the pump free guy. They knew they were
Speaker 1: gonna take Jordan Lewis, and that's why I think that
Speaker 1: was better for them to get him than take Kevin
Speaker 1: King or somebody right there. Now. I guess you could
Speaker 1: say t J Watt if he wanted to go to
Speaker 1: another defensive end. Yep. But I'm a believer in when
Speaker 1: you get a first round pick that I just need
Speaker 1: to in that first year, whether it's in training camp, preseason,
Speaker 1: regular season, just a few times I need to see
Speaker 1: a flash of something that makes me say, Wow, that
Speaker 1: guy can be If he can do that consistently, he
Speaker 1: can be special. And I I've seen those moments when
Speaker 1: Taco has done something in training camp where I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that was impressive. So that's the point. If you can
Speaker 1: do that, then it says you're capable. Now can you
Speaker 1: figure out how to do it consistently and that's now
Speaker 1: the challenge for him is how do you do that consistently?
Speaker 1: How do you had in a regular season game? How
Speaker 1: do you then get consistent enough to do it regularly?
Speaker 1: And it takes a little while. Typically the lord, the
Speaker 1: draft pick, or the lord the quality of the player,
Speaker 1: the longer it takes to get to that point. So
Speaker 1: it might take a little well, and again we've talked
Speaker 1: about the position itself that it is a position that
Speaker 1: it takes a little bit of time to get the
Speaker 1: handle of it, and kind of you usually don't tend
Speaker 1: to jump in and be great right away. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have an NFL body right now to play that position.
Speaker 1: Now he has an NBA body, but he needs an
Speaker 1: NFL body, and I think needs some weights in his pocket. Yep, okay,
Speaker 1: just to close off the game. Looking at the rest
Speaker 1: of the schedule, this is definitely it must win for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. No, see have to win. I would expected
Speaker 1: you to say C two, why not becomes math? It's
Speaker 1: it's just I don't know, it's common sense, like why
Speaker 1: is this Well, I'll put it to you, like this
Speaker 1: number one's division number two. It's a team that's right
Speaker 1: there in that middle of the pack where ye where
Speaker 1: you're gonna be battling with them for for um um
Speaker 1: for playoff for the wildcard spots right um. So to me,
Speaker 1: it's like, if you lose this game, you're putting yourself now, yes,
Speaker 1: must win. No, because mathematically it's not a must win.
Speaker 1: But just when you think about how this is the
Speaker 1: type of game that if you lose it, you'll come
Speaker 1: week sixteen, week seventeen and you'll be like, that game
Speaker 1: right there is that may cost us to playoff. That
Speaker 1: game already happened, and it was against the Rams. Here.
Speaker 1: That's the game where you look back and say, man,
Speaker 1: we really shot ourselves in the foot. This is okay.
Speaker 1: It's a division game. You're already won and one in
Speaker 1: the division. The Redskins are already owing two, so you're
Speaker 1: still up on them even if you lose this game
Speaker 1: in terms of division, obviously they go ahead of you
Speaker 1: and overall record, but by beating the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: you're already five hundreds. So if you lose this game,
Speaker 1: you fall one game under. Obviously that's not ideal. With
Speaker 1: games against Kansas City and Atlanta coming out of then
Speaker 1: what's the division record you've got the Cowboys at the
Speaker 1: one and oh. He was saying, if they lose, they
Speaker 1: would be win and one yea, they would still have
Speaker 1: a better division winning percentage than the Redskins if they
Speaker 1: lose this game, Okay, but that means they fall one
Speaker 1: more game behind with all those other teams that are
Speaker 1: right there in the middle of a wild card spot,
Speaker 1: there are three and four. Again, it's not ideal with
Speaker 1: tough opponents coming up. But that's why, that's why I
Speaker 1: said San Francisco was a must win because with this
Speaker 1: stretch coming up, you couldn't have afforded to be under
Speaker 1: five hundred going into this. But now you lose this game, No,
Speaker 1: it's not great, but you can steal one from Atlanta
Speaker 1: or Kansas City and then you're probably four and five
Speaker 1: going into that Thanksgiving Washington Philly stretch. Then you start
Speaker 1: having to have to do work in the division. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you're helping yourself by winning this game. Obviously, let's win
Speaker 1: to do what make the playoffs or to win the division,
Speaker 1: because if you want to if you want to win
Speaker 1: the division, you better win. That's kind of yeah, that's true, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you want to win, if you want to win
Speaker 1: the division, then this is probably a must win. But
Speaker 1: I think I'm already conceding the division to the Eagles,
Speaker 1: like I'm obviously they're not going to but me, it
Speaker 1: seems unlikely that they can dig out of that. I
Speaker 1: need to I need to play them first before I
Speaker 1: would say. But that's and I wrote about that in
Speaker 1: my column too. It's not gonna matter. They don't play
Speaker 1: till Week eleven. The Eagles are unless they just completely
Speaker 1: gag and lose to San Francisco at home, they're about
Speaker 1: to be seven and one. They're probably gonna be no
Speaker 1: worse than like what not eight and one, eight and
Speaker 1: two when they play the Cowboys, It's it's not gonna
Speaker 1: matter because they waited till after the halfway point of
Speaker 1: the season to have those two teams play a game.
Speaker 1: So even if you sweep the Eagles, it's they're gonna
Speaker 1: have enough of a lead on you that it might
Speaker 1: not matter. I guess the way I'm looking at it is,
Speaker 1: I think right now everybody I believe that the Rams
Speaker 1: will continue to do what they're doing. They're gonna drop
Speaker 1: some games, they'll continue to do what they're doing. I
Speaker 1: think they end up probably the winning that division, or
Speaker 1: to be very close between them, and see I think
Speaker 1: Seattle will be not far behind them, if behind them.
Speaker 1: So I think both those teams are probably gonna make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So really, the Cowboys are battling with all
Speaker 1: those other teams sure for one spot. That's why I
Speaker 1: say really, And it's not just just within a division,
Speaker 1: it's NFC games that they play are a premium right now.
Speaker 1: You can only afford to drop probably three more games
Speaker 1: if you're gonna make the playoffs. Maybe four. I think nine.
Speaker 1: I think nine is probably the number you need to
Speaker 1: hit to get a wild card. I think I think
Speaker 1: ten's probably going to be the number this year. But
Speaker 1: but either way, if you are if you do believe
Speaker 1: as ten, I think that the only games you really
Speaker 1: can't afford to drop at this point are AFC games
Speaker 1: if you're battling for wildcard spots, Because all those other
Speaker 1: teams you're playing, you're gonna be battling with them for
Speaker 1: that wild card spot, and head to head, it's gonna
Speaker 1: make a difference. I hear you, But I hear you,
Speaker 1: but I don't agree with you. It's okay, this all
Speaker 1: you would prefer to win every game in the NFL.
Speaker 1: There's so few of them you will need to win them.
Speaker 1: But I don't This isn't a must win like this.
Speaker 1: I don't think this drastically changes the outlooks for their season.
Speaker 1: If they don't win it, that marks me, all right,
Speaker 1: got it? Yes, sir, thank you, that was a great game.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our final break. We'll come back. We'll
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Speaker 1: jump into some questions. You guys call us A number
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Speaker 1: take a question from Twitter. What's more important containing the
Speaker 1: Running Game or containing Vernon Davis and Jordan read Running
Speaker 1: Game always more important. Yeah, running, I mean no, it
Speaker 1: is because Kirk Cousins can bomb away on you and
Speaker 1: you can still win this game. They did it twice
Speaker 1: last year. But if you're just if you can't stop
Speaker 1: the run, you can't do anything. You can't get your
Speaker 1: offense off the field, you can't give your defensive break.
Speaker 1: You're not making them really work that hard for their
Speaker 1: yardage or points. I mean, it always starts with their
Speaker 1: own you know, Trevor Simeon, and you know that you
Speaker 1: think about that game, you think about golf. You know
Speaker 1: that they just couldn't stop the run. And I know
Speaker 1: that Washington's going to kind of look at it pass first,
Speaker 1: but they will still run the football. And if they
Speaker 1: haven't some success there, I mean, then you know that
Speaker 1: they're not going to stop the pass. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: guess I guess the way I look at it is
Speaker 1: question was against the tight ends versus the back, not
Speaker 1: Kurt Cousins not passing game versus you know. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I agree with you guys on a from a from
Speaker 1: just an overall standpoint, any game, you gotta stop the
Speaker 1: run first. I guess where I'm a little bit shaken
Speaker 1: on this question, is I don't think the Redskins are
Speaker 1: a good running team. I think they pose way more
Speaker 1: of a threat, all tight ends catching the passes all
Speaker 1: the more reason why it's important, Like they shouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to run the ball on you if if they
Speaker 1: can't get that, I understand what I'm saying, though what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is I guess I'm putting it in context stuff.
Speaker 1: The thing that I think can hurt the Cowboys more
Speaker 1: in this game. I don't think the running game can
Speaker 1: hurt them because I don't think they run the ball
Speaker 1: very well and I don't think they stay committed to
Speaker 1: the run. I think what what can hurt them in
Speaker 1: this game more so is those tight ends because of
Speaker 1: the way they use Vernon David Wad watch the Packers game. Yeah, didn't.
Speaker 1: What you just said sounds straight out of the Packers,
Speaker 1: Like they don't they're not committed to the running game
Speaker 1: and they don't do it very well. And then some
Speaker 1: guy nobody's ever heard of ran for a buck thirty
Speaker 1: on them. Yea. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: the reason why they lost was not because of the
Speaker 1: running game. It was because Aaron Rodgers certainly didn't help.
Speaker 1: I'm Aaron Rodgers obviously them apart. Aaron Rodgers obviously made
Speaker 1: the difference in crunch time. But like they did everything
Speaker 1: they wanted to do. They set up over the fact
Speaker 1: they run. They would have stopped the run, they would
Speaker 1: have won the game. Yeah, how's that well, because they
Speaker 1: wouldn't have gone come down to that at the end.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't have come down to I mean, a lot
Speaker 1: of those drives that Aaron Rodgers had were because of
Speaker 1: the running game. I think the Cowboys would have won
Speaker 1: the game. The Cowboys absolutely would have won that game
Speaker 1: if they had shut down the run, or at the
Speaker 1: very least they would have made Aaron Rodgers throw for
Speaker 1: five hundred him, which he could have done exactly, but
Speaker 1: he was saying that that couldn't happen. But he didn't
Speaker 1: have to. He didn't have to. I'm just saying, you know, look,
Speaker 1: look at the Giants game first of the year, look
Speaker 1: at the Cardinals game, look at the Packers game. Those
Speaker 1: three teams are similar, and that they don't have much
Speaker 1: of a running game. They did in those first two games.
Speaker 1: They didn't have any running game. And even though the
Speaker 1: Cardinals put up some yards with Lary Fitzgerald. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, they weren't balanced enough. Packers were balanced.
Speaker 1: And that's what's all we're saying is is that if
Speaker 1: the Redskins get balanced, then they could really be in
Speaker 1: trouble because because what they're doing is I mean, they're
Speaker 1: three and three doing it their way. They would like
Speaker 1: to run the ball if they could this offensive line,
Speaker 1: though I don't think I don't think it's gonna happen
Speaker 1: this week, it would be all the worse for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys if it does. I mean they should not be
Speaker 1: able to that should not be that big of anitiation.
Speaker 1: Only though the Chargers two thousand and twelve, maybe thirteen,
Speaker 1: I mean, they had no offensive line going into that game,
Speaker 1: and I think they patched it together and Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: went for like four hundred. That game sucked. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: went into the break with the twenty one ten lead
Speaker 1: because Shaun Lee picked six Philip Rivers and like it was,
Speaker 1: it was twenty thirteen. The Cowboys went into the break
Speaker 1: with about four wins and gotten none of them. Like
Speaker 1: they went I mean, they had it their twenty three
Speaker 1: point lead on Green Bay, they lost. They had an
Speaker 1: eleven point lead on Philip Rivers. They lost. Well, this
Speaker 1: was the first game, this last game where they actually
Speaker 1: did something in the third quarters. You know, they were
Speaker 1: being outscored thirty seven to seven in the third quarter
Speaker 1: before last week's game. Like, what's what's happening at half?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember back playing happen at these games? Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's needed except for in halftime. That's where you needed.
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Speaker 1: to the fallow. We got a call from Robin Las Vegas.
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Speaker 1: I think you're right. She should be the spokesperson. Get
Speaker 1: into the game. Uh, it's a must win. I know
Speaker 1: mathematically it isn't. But you Redskins uh injured, We're not.
Speaker 1: We're coming off a big win. Zeke looks like Zeke
Speaker 1: we're feeling good. If you're going to be a playoff team,
Speaker 1: you gotta get on a run somewhere, and why not
Speaker 1: start now? And in the vision, I think the key
Speaker 1: of the game is first out. When this team holds
Speaker 1: them the running game to three ds between and a
Speaker 1: half yards on first time to pay, so we will
Speaker 1: give it up close to five. And we were only
Speaker 1: running for about two and a half yards and now
Speaker 1: we're running more closer to five. That's the that's the key,
Speaker 1: especially if you think this is going to be a
Speaker 1: high scoring game. Just the time of possession. We may
Speaker 1: need that extra you know, possession in the game. And
Speaker 1: the teams that we lost to, you know, Denver, Random Ball,
Speaker 1: Green Bay. I agree that running back beat us up
Speaker 1: and even on that last drive that that run that
Speaker 1: he pulled off I think was the deciding factor. We
Speaker 1: have shownly if we could just hold them, you know,
Speaker 1: three yards are first out on the run. This team
Speaker 1: does not do multiple things well. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a linebackers, the safeties. What I mean is when
Speaker 1: they know it's a path we could get pressure, I
Speaker 1: think they do pretty good. But when it's that second
Speaker 1: and five and they're not sure what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We suffer, so I think first time it's the key
Speaker 1: on both sides. I think we win by ten. I
Speaker 1: don't want to give the score because I'm horrible out
Speaker 1: of I think we win by ten. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: for the call. That would be dope. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know they just won a game by thirty points, but
Speaker 1: I don't trust these guys to win a division game
Speaker 1: by ten points on the road. These division games are
Speaker 1: too hard, like it's it's I'm I'm surprised the Cowboys
Speaker 1: won by as much as they did against the Giants.
Speaker 1: It's just they're hard and teams know you. It's just
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen very often, especially in this division. I'm sure,
Speaker 1: yeah they I mean they beat the Giants pretty good
Speaker 1: in Week one, but even I mean last you know,
Speaker 1: both of the Redskins games came right down to the wire.
Speaker 1: The Eagles Eagles. Here was overtime, was it not? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: not happening. All right. Let's let's ahead and get into
Speaker 1: our predictions for the game. We'll start with you Amber,
Speaker 1: give me a a prediction for this upcoming game, Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Redskins. Um exavior would shows up in this game
Speaker 1: and is able to create some turnovers for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: that will definitely help them. Cowboys win. Thirty four twenty seven,
Speaker 1: twenty seven, something like that. Yeah, thirty four twenty seven.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Cowboys. I want to pick the
Speaker 1: Redskins to win this game, but I just can't with
Speaker 1: the way that their offensive line is. I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are in better shape right now, coming off that
Speaker 1: game like they did where they didn't have to play
Speaker 1: as much there off the bye week against the short
Speaker 1: team of the short week that's very banged up. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Cowboys will win. It'll be close.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say twenty three to twenty in overtime. My
Speaker 1: crazy prediction is that Nugent will miss a couple of
Speaker 1: field goals, but he'll make the game winner in overtime.
Speaker 1: Twenty three twenty three, twenty all right, I was gonna
Speaker 1: say something similar to that. I think you're gonna miss
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey in this game, but Nugent will still find
Speaker 1: a way to get the job done. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he has a game winner. I'm thinking I think
Speaker 1: the scorer up there was twenty seven twenty three last year.
Speaker 1: I'm going say so take a little bit off that
Speaker 1: because of the rain. I think the Cowboys win twenty
Speaker 1: four twenty. I think nugent, But I think Nugent scores
Speaker 1: their last points of the game fourth quarter defense holds on. Partially,
Speaker 1: I see Kirk Cousins having the ball with a chance
Speaker 1: to win this game and DeMarcus Lawrence gets a sack
Speaker 1: to finish this thing off. But I do it's gonna
Speaker 1: be dramatic. I actually have the exact same scores you
Speaker 1: do twenty four twenty. I think it's great minds think alike. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I think that it's I agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be less going than I then you
Speaker 1: would normally see in this kind of matchup with two
Speaker 1: high powered offenses. And I do think there'll be some
Speaker 1: challenges on both sides of it. Both sides with regards
Speaker 1: to kicking field goals. I think both teams will miss
Speaker 1: a field goal at east one or extra point. So
Speaker 1: I think it will make it kind of interesting here
Speaker 1: because there will be some challenges that both teams are
Speaker 1: having to deal with with the rain and with backup kickers.
Speaker 1: But I think the final score twenty four twenty. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys can get to win. I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are the better team. So we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a close one. I do think of
Speaker 1: a very close game all the way throughout. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: appreciate you Jonas. We'll be back on Monday. We will
Speaker 1: tell you what went right and what went wrong for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys till then for Nick Eatman, Dave Hellman, Amber
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