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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome back to Cowboys Break. Today. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the We're gonna give our final thoughts on this game
Speaker 1: that is coming up against the Eagles, another await game
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, which have not been good at all,
Speaker 1: not even the ones at home for the most part.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna try to figure this whole thing out,
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go over yesterday. We talked about several guys.
Speaker 1: There is a pretty long list of injured players for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and a lot of them are still limited.
Speaker 1: Some of them have still not practiced yet. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to see some of these guys. What has happened
Speaker 1: since yesterday? You're ready practicing right now as we speak. Um,
Speaker 1: let's go with the guys not practicing because it's here,
Speaker 1: because then we felt like about forty eight guys. But
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin not practicing, may not practice anymore. We'll find
Speaker 1: out about that. Connor Williams not practicing this week, not
Speaker 1: gonna play, David Irving probably not going to play, Joe
Speaker 1: Thomas will be out, Sean Lee is also going to
Speaker 1: be out. Taco is not practicing, and I would imagine
Speaker 1: Dave that means he won't play. How many guys did
Speaker 1: you just list? Like? We might have might have nailed
Speaker 1: the inactives right there? Yep, tavonn Irving, Joe Thomas, Shawn Lee,
Speaker 1: and Taco Charlton? Is that six? Yeah? Mike White? Throw
Speaker 1: Mike White in there. Yeah? There we go. Done, Two birds,
Speaker 1: one stone and unless, well, how are you guys feeling
Speaker 1: about Swim? I don't think Swam. I mean, even if
Speaker 1: he's not like one hundred percent, which he won't be.
Speaker 1: I think he's just active because because you can be. Yeah, now,
Speaker 1: hold on, let's look at these guys real quick and
Speaker 1: see you've got your guard Connor is gonna be out,
Speaker 1: and two linebackers, but nobody really moves up from a
Speaker 1: linebacker standpoint to replace them, right, No, I think you
Speaker 1: just I mean, like Justin Marsh Lillard and Chris Covington
Speaker 1: might have to play more than they're used to. Five
Speaker 1: linebackers would be on the team active, right, Yeah, you've
Speaker 1: got You've got the two young guys, Layton Jail and
Speaker 1: Damien Wilson, Covington and Marsh Marsh Lillard. Okay, it seems
Speaker 1: a little light, but yeah, you can make it. You
Speaker 1: don't have anybody on the roster. You'd have to move
Speaker 1: somebody up right, Um, and then from a wide receiver standpoint,
Speaker 1: Deanthe Thompson has been banged up with ribs injury. He's
Speaker 1: probably gonna play. Now. There's also some talk here and
Speaker 1: even Jason Garrett said it today in his press conference
Speaker 1: that Noah Brown could get moved up to the roster
Speaker 1: and play. They would need to create a roster spot
Speaker 1: by doing that. Yeah, that is so. I mean, he
Speaker 1: started practicing last week. He looks I mean, he looks
Speaker 1: like he's ready to go. They can move him to
Speaker 1: the fifty three anytime they want, they'd have to make
Speaker 1: a corresponding move. Some speculation that maybe Tavon Austin would
Speaker 1: be the move if he needs to go to I R.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything definitive about that, or you know,
Speaker 1: you could just cut somebody too. Either way, now what
Speaker 1: would be And I know, and I'm the first one
Speaker 1: to want to see that move happening because I've been
Speaker 1: wanting and second whatever, we're on the same team. We've
Speaker 1: been wanting to see Noah Brown play and get on
Speaker 1: the field. But why would be the necessity or the reason?
Speaker 1: And as to why they would make that move right now,
Speaker 1: especially after bringing in Cooper and just with the wide
Speaker 1: receiver room that it's happening there, I mean, even as
Speaker 1: the president of the Noah Brown fan Club, I would
Speaker 1: say temporary expectations. I mean, I think you know, you
Speaker 1: get a firmer diagnosis of what Tavon's dealing with, you, don't.
Speaker 1: You know, It's hard to keep a guy who's not
Speaker 1: playing on the roster for more than two or three
Speaker 1: or four weeks. Like it's a small roster when you're
Speaker 1: talking about how physical football is, so you get a
Speaker 1: healthy receiver in. He can block, he can do the
Speaker 1: things that they like to. You know, Alan Hearns has
Speaker 1: been that guy who they love to motion him in
Speaker 1: and have him you know, he'll chip the TI or
Speaker 1: he'll chip the defensive end or be a part of that.
Speaker 1: No disrespect to Alan Hearns, but I think Noah Brown's
Speaker 1: probably better at that. So he can do a lot
Speaker 1: of that stuff and have a small role in the
Speaker 1: passing game. He'd probably be the fourth or fifth receiver.
Speaker 1: Like he ain't he ain't gonna catch fifty balls, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say. But he can play a role,
Speaker 1: not a one game no, no, not. You're right about
Speaker 1: that about motioning him down into the do it. It's
Speaker 1: one of the top two or three things they do
Speaker 1: that absolutely just drives you, not drives me crazy. I
Speaker 1: don't understand it. At least they do it with Hearns
Speaker 1: and not pave On like they did a free season.
Speaker 1: It just it just doesn't matter. It's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's just put them all in here and then But
Speaker 1: that to me, is just kind of like an arrogant
Speaker 1: type move of like hat on a hat. Our guys
Speaker 1: are better than your guys, But when it comes to
Speaker 1: receivers blocking safeties, I mean they're not. Now. The one
Speaker 1: thing about Noah Brown, we've said a thousand times, Hey, William,
Speaker 1: William's bringing in. We're gonna talk about that fleece here later, Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. Man behind the scenes right there,
Speaker 1: William boy does it all? Does it all William time season,
Speaker 1: not behind the scenes. Sometimes he's right front and centers on.
Speaker 1: He's in front of the camera. A lot of the
Speaker 1: time you just have two like where's Waldo and you'll
Speaker 1: find him. Where's William? Um. But the thing about Noah
Speaker 1: Brown is I think my point I was making is
Speaker 1: that we've always said he's very similar to Dez, you know,
Speaker 1: body type. He kind of looks like him. Last year
Speaker 1: it was always hard to tell which one was which.
Speaker 1: But you know, he does bring that kind of body
Speaker 1: structure to the team and so hopefully you know, and
Speaker 1: that that can help a little bit in the running game.
Speaker 1: But you're right, it's not going to be it'd be interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't have to do anything with him.
Speaker 1: But they could. So it's something to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on today and tomorrow. He's not on the fifty three
Speaker 1: right now, but they can change that quickly. And they
Speaker 1: have another week after this if they decide not to
Speaker 1: activate him, But if they're thinking about it, that signals
Speaker 1: that they're probably going to do it at some point,
Speaker 1: you know. And if Davon Austin is the guy that
Speaker 1: goes to injured reserve, that's going to obviously in the
Speaker 1: season for him, yeah, but probably in his career with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I mean, I don't it's kind of speculated.
Speaker 1: That's well, that's super no. I mean, what is to
Speaker 1: be free agent? He will, he will enter free agency,
Speaker 1: but I mean what is what does his market look like? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who who's interested? How much money can he command? Do
Speaker 1: the Cowboys see a role for him next year? Who knows?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, And he needs to look at and
Speaker 1: remember he was he's never you know, picked his team.
Speaker 1: He was he was you know, drafted by the Rams,
Speaker 1: traded to the Cowboys, and you know, when he goes
Speaker 1: into free agency next year, he will probably look at
Speaker 1: an offense that will utilize him a little bit better.
Speaker 1: And maybe that offense is here. I don't know well
Speaker 1: into what kind of system is here. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: there has to be I think everyone knows that now, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, there has to be changes or not something.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not there not gonna go with with
Speaker 1: Lenahan as the play caller next year and the offense.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that they just roll everything out the
Speaker 1: same way as it is right now. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's too soon for me to speculate
Speaker 1: what that change will be. I mean, it could be
Speaker 1: a head coaching change. Maybe it's a coordinator change. I
Speaker 1: don't know. But I can't imagine that we get to
Speaker 1: January and it's all the same. That would be That
Speaker 1: would be There's no way that would be wild. Um.
Speaker 1: I liked I liked what Tavon brought. I didn't think
Speaker 1: that they always used him the right way, but he
Speaker 1: showed flash. He averaged nine yards per carry when he
Speaker 1: actually got to carry the ball, and he did some
Speaker 1: nice things in the passing game too when he got
Speaker 1: the opportunities. I know, you know, he had the miss,
Speaker 1: the miss throw that turned into a pick in Houston.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't try to throw those routes with him as
Speaker 1: my wide receiver, like it was his mistake, but I
Speaker 1: don't completely put that on him anyway. Whatever, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's not nothing's happened with him, there's just speculation. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to go too
Speaker 1: far down that rabbit hole because we don't know for
Speaker 1: sure that that's going to happen. Right, And yesterday we
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the Cowboys defense and got
Speaker 1: into that for a little bit. But after looking at
Speaker 1: what the Eagles often has to offer when you match
Speaker 1: it up with the Cowboys defense, and the guys are
Speaker 1: are available as of right now, and like we mentioned,
Speaker 1: there's Sean Lee, Randy Gregory, Taco Charlton right who have
Speaker 1: not practiced. Randy's been Randy's been out there, So I
Speaker 1: think Randy's gonna play. Sorry sorry, I mean Randy, David Irving,
Speaker 1: David Irving, and Taco Charlton. So when you get those
Speaker 1: guys out of the mix and you're left with what
Speaker 1: you have on the field, how do you expect this
Speaker 1: to work out against the Eagles offense? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that the it's going to be similar from a personnel standpoint.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are hoping not from a result standpoint, but
Speaker 1: personnel standpoint and be similar to what you saw last week.
Speaker 1: Irving was out, they replaced him with a bunch of tackles.
Speaker 1: Um the Kuran reads Daniel Ross, Um, Daniel Ross played
Speaker 1: a nice played a really nice game. That's on Woods
Speaker 1: has been playing. They actually, surprisingly with with Irving out,
Speaker 1: they still moved Tyrone Crawford out to end a lot
Speaker 1: I think to help with Um to stop against the run.
Speaker 1: And that was that was with Um Gregory out. Gregory
Speaker 1: will be back in this game. Taco probably won't play it.
Speaker 1: So I think Rod Marinelli yesterday it's a great word
Speaker 1: for him. He called Tyrone their utility guy, like he
Speaker 1: just he plays what they need him to play. And
Speaker 1: so even like Antoine Woods feel, I mean, he's been
Speaker 1: like the starter, even when they've had their full compliment
Speaker 1: to guys, it feels like maybe that's just because Irving
Speaker 1: really hasn't played that much. But I would imagine Woods
Speaker 1: and Malik would be your starting tackles. Lawrence obviously on
Speaker 1: the left side. If Gregory's available, you play you know,
Speaker 1: you can rotate him and Crawford on the right side.
Speaker 1: You can maybe play Crawford on the left too, and
Speaker 1: then you got Daniel Ross and Corn Reid who can
Speaker 1: help you in a pinch it tackle too be my guests.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this team is really enough far away
Speaker 1: from being a three four team. I know you say that,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I don't love the idea of
Speaker 1: standing to Marcus Lawrence up, I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you could count on Gregory that would be easy,
Speaker 1: such a big jegantic. If I think Jalen Smith maybe
Speaker 1: is an outside linebacker, seriously, that scares me. I don't
Speaker 1: know he could be anyways. I like, you've got these
Speaker 1: versatile guys in Irving and Crawford that would be perfect ends. Collins,
Speaker 1: you'd figure out a way. I don't know if he'd
Speaker 1: be a good nose in the three four, okay, But
Speaker 1: the guys that you just listed as ends don't like.
Speaker 1: David Irving does not have a long term future here,
Speaker 1: not right now. And I don't know that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are going to be super eager to sign. And I
Speaker 1: think Crawford's got one, maybe even two years. Let's yeah,
Speaker 1: Collins might be a good three four in I don't
Speaker 1: really have a good reason for it, because I know
Speaker 1: you can give people more looks out of a three
Speaker 1: four and it's more multiple, but I've always liked the
Speaker 1: four three. Yeah, anyway, I don't know, do you guys
Speaker 1: think that that other teams are starting to figure out
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith and how the Cowboys are utilizing him as
Speaker 1: far as like rushing. And he was successful at the
Speaker 1: beginning of last game against the Titans, but you start
Speaker 1: seeing I think the team's doing things differently to where
Speaker 1: he's not able. To think he ran out of gas.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to cut you off, but I think
Speaker 1: he really ran out of gas. I mean he was
Speaker 1: so worked up, so fired up making play. I mean
Speaker 1: that that fumble recovery that didn't count, the one that
Speaker 1: was on the past that they called a fumble but
Speaker 1: then overturned it. I mean he picked up the ball
Speaker 1: and and somebody tried to tackle him and he's bounced
Speaker 1: off of him. I mean he was so jacked up,
Speaker 1: and then every play they ran to the end zone
Speaker 1: and all that. By the end of the game, he
Speaker 1: was spent. And I don't know if they figured him out.
Speaker 1: I just I don't think you saw the same type
Speaker 1: of play was he was not interested in making a
Speaker 1: couple of tackles. Yeah, it just wasn't the saying he
Speaker 1: just started off too strong. And I mean this, I
Speaker 1: want to be I want to be delicate with this
Speaker 1: because I think the world of Jalen Smith and I
Speaker 1: know how much football means to him. But like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he gets like I think he gets over excited,
Speaker 1: almost to the point where he's like this is gonna
Speaker 1: look great on Instagram later, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like this photo is gonna be great on my feet,
Speaker 1: like seriously. And I don't mean that to say that
Speaker 1: he doesn't care, but he's he's a promoter, Like if
Speaker 1: you've been around, he is a self promoter. And I
Speaker 1: think maybe he gets a little wrapped up in that
Speaker 1: aspect of it, which I mean, he's a young guy.
Speaker 1: He's twenty three, so I get that. I love Instagram
Speaker 1: and I'm like six years older than him. So um,
Speaker 1: it's I think I think he's I think he's got
Speaker 1: some maturing to do. I'm trying. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: mean that in a bad way, because that's just I mean,
Speaker 1: that's young people. But that's something that has stood out
Speaker 1: to me. I mean, he plays off off of athleticism
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean that I think one of the
Speaker 1: greatest defensive players that I've seen in a long time
Speaker 1: was the Houston game when he made when he ran
Speaker 1: down Sean Watson, everything you wanted to see from from
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith as far as being a high draft pick
Speaker 1: type player. He showed on that play. Doesn't That doesn't
Speaker 1: have technique. That's nothing to do with technique. That's just
Speaker 1: awareness to go and get tracked the football. Sometimes that works,
Speaker 1: sometimes it does, and sometimes you need a little bit
Speaker 1: more technique. And I still think like, like you know,
Speaker 1: Dave said, he's still maturing, not only as a person
Speaker 1: but as a player and all that, because yeah, that's
Speaker 1: maturity in the sense of you know, Jason Garrett talks
Speaker 1: about it all the time, like even Keel like same approach,
Speaker 1: not getting too hyped when you get two turnovers in
Speaker 1: the first five minutes and not getting too low if
Speaker 1: you're down a couple scores in the in the second half.
Speaker 1: Late Vander esh missed a lot of tackles in that game.
Speaker 1: He not plays that we're not used to him him
Speaker 1: not making so together those two guys, especially with Sean
Speaker 1: Lee out, those two guys are gonna have to to rally.
Speaker 1: It's and I agree with you for that matter, But
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting because I asked Rod Marinelli about
Speaker 1: them specifically yesterday Leyton and Jalen how they play, and
Speaker 1: he was like beside himself how he was, like they
Speaker 1: played amazing, like they were great and just oh fifty
Speaker 1: four fifty four was everywhere, like I mean, and and
Speaker 1: so they did, you know, I think honestly it's the
Speaker 1: age old thing of like maybe they're victims of their
Speaker 1: own success, Like we've seen them do these things at
Speaker 1: such an early stage that it is. It's kind of
Speaker 1: staggering when they don't make a play that we think
Speaker 1: they can make. So what's up with the neck collar
Speaker 1: neck roll? Because is that Rod gave that to Jalen?
Speaker 1: Because I mean it's like old schools, like the old
Speaker 1: school player of the week or are you like the
Speaker 1: Lance Armstrong yellow jersey until someone takes it from you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's always got It's a permanent thing. I think, like
Speaker 1: he's Jalen's not giving that back, no, and he makes
Speaker 1: sure he's wearing it every time he talks to the meeting.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was like Romo in those starter hats
Speaker 1: like oh get on, okay, go ready. Um it makes
Speaker 1: me uncomfortable every time. I like, just take it off.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't remember why he got it, but
Speaker 1: Rod gave it to him sort of as like a girl,
Speaker 1: an old school tough like that's how football it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be. Type of thing. All right, Well that's like
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Speaker 1: that's what I call it now game day prediction. Really oh,
Speaker 1: then you're screwed too bad. Derek is not here, but
Speaker 1: we know what we know what Derek will talk for
Speaker 1: like fifty minutes about like objective's disappointing and he's like
Speaker 1: Cowboys thirty eight, Eagles ten. I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: kind of feel that that sounds all right, all right,
Speaker 1: Well you wanna start it off, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's two ways you can look at this, I mean
Speaker 1: like a win or loss. Well, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: for that. I've heard this line of thinking several times
Speaker 1: throughout the week, and I agree with it in a
Speaker 1: way because people are like, well, this is just the
Speaker 1: type of thing they do. Know, Like they you know,
Speaker 1: they play a disappointing game against the Titans, and then
Speaker 1: they go up and they beat their division rivals, Like
Speaker 1: that's just the type of thing that they would do well.
Speaker 1: Winning at home against a mediocre Tennessee team was supposed
Speaker 1: to be the type of thing that they do too.
Speaker 1: So I can't trust that. I just can't. I They're
Speaker 1: so inconsistent. They have not played Not only have they
Speaker 1: not won on the road, they have not really played
Speaker 1: well on the road. We haven't seen him crack twenty
Speaker 1: points in a road game, is that right? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And look we talked about it yesterday. The Eagles secondary
Speaker 1: is banged up and bad. They give up chunk yardage.
Speaker 1: Have we seen anything from the Cowboys passing game that
Speaker 1: gives us faith that they can take advantage of that?
Speaker 1: I mean, do I think that they could? Sure? But
Speaker 1: I like to see things before I believe them, and
Speaker 1: so Dave, they have a Mari Cooper now they do. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: there's He's gonna come in and say this team. I
Speaker 1: thought a Marie Cooper played really well on Monday Night,
Speaker 1: So I won't be surprised if there's some juice in
Speaker 1: the passing game. But it's not enough to make me
Speaker 1: think that they're gonna go up there on the road.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is quietly playing like a beast right now.
Speaker 1: He was shaky when he first came back. He's thrown
Speaker 1: twelve He's thrown twelve touchdowns to one interception in the
Speaker 1: five games since his debut. He's a really good player.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to have a hard time with him,
Speaker 1: and I just you know, I think the Cowboys could win,
Speaker 1: but I just don't trust him to do that. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking Eagles twenty seven, Cowboys twenty three. They'll crack twenty.
Speaker 1: They'll crack twenty on this team, but it won't be enough.
Speaker 1: I will. I think it will not be a beat
Speaker 1: down like they this It hasn't been. The Cowboys actually
Speaker 1: play really well up there over the years. I think
Speaker 1: they're five and two under Garrett at Lincoln Financial Field,
Speaker 1: So but I don't think they get the win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a tough one. Yeah. I keep going back
Speaker 1: and forth on this one. I think I think the
Speaker 1: Eagles they're just not as good this year. That I mean,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that they're not going to be there.
Speaker 1: They had a slow start, and that happens sometimes the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions, especially ones to have you know, injured
Speaker 1: injured quarterbacks. M I still think though, that their offense
Speaker 1: is It'll be interesting to see just how dynamic they
Speaker 1: are now with Golden Tate and what he's able to do. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's a better, more polished receiver, at least more experienced
Speaker 1: receiver than Maria Cooper, so I think he will come
Speaker 1: in even quicker than Cooper did, and Cooper did a
Speaker 1: nice job. Still, I think the Cowboys I agree with
Speaker 1: that first thing you said. It's just the cowboy thing
Speaker 1: to do to go up there when everyone all hope
Speaker 1: is lost and the draft shows like on the queue
Speaker 1: ready to go to go up there on Sunday night
Speaker 1: and beat the Eagles. So I'm gonna pick the Cowboys
Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty to beat the Eagles twenty one one,
Speaker 1: twenty finished to twenty. Okay, that kicker missed the extra
Speaker 1: point to tie the game. They drove down nice drive
Speaker 1: by wins. They drove, they scored to Tate, but he
Speaker 1: missed the extra point twenty one twenty all right, we
Speaker 1: didn't get a good view because we're on the field.
Speaker 1: So are we imagining like a two minute drive like
Speaker 1: down twenty to fourteen? Back takes him down the field, Dad,
Speaker 1: this is win wins drove them. Oh oh oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Okay, they missed the game tying extra point
Speaker 1: and we're like, okay, ready for overtime and they missed it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be that kicker in Philadelphia of
Speaker 1: all places. That'd be fun. Um, what do you got
Speaker 1: a g Well, I'm not gonna dance around like Nick did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it that. I would rather. I'd rather have
Speaker 1: half the show to talk about it than while the
Speaker 1: music is playing. Be like that's not your style anyways,
Speaker 1: You're just like boom, Yeah, I'm pretty that right, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty simple. I'm gonna choose the Cowboys to win this game. Why,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's the feeling that I've been having
Speaker 1: all week. I feel that they're gonna go out there
Speaker 1: win their first road game, especially uh, facing the Eagles,
Speaker 1: which is a big rivalry. I hate that word because
Speaker 1: I can't pronounce him too well, a big rival and
Speaker 1: they're too cocky. The Eagles are too cocky and I
Speaker 1: don't like them. And the Cowboys are gonna shut them
Speaker 1: up this one time. I don't know about the second
Speaker 1: time when they face them again later in this year,
Speaker 1: but for this specific game, I would say twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: and not necessarily because they're a better team than the
Speaker 1: Eagles or because they're gonna play better. Lady. The NFL
Speaker 1: is a strange lady, and luck is just gonna have
Speaker 1: it that way for Garrett. He's gonna figure out a
Speaker 1: way to win this one and kind of keep like
Speaker 1: I keep saying, he's gonna make keep keep you there
Speaker 1: standing on the border of the is. How is that
Speaker 1: worried English abyss abiss? Yeah, you got it, you know,
Speaker 1: for all that I mean, for all the doom and
Speaker 1: gloom this week, and it's warranted. I mean, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: no fans should be happy about the last like week,
Speaker 1: but um, it shouldn't be surprising to anybody if they
Speaker 1: find a way to pull this off. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: been around this team long enough, like that is the
Speaker 1: type of thing that they do. But and if I
Speaker 1: thought Philadelphia was like really really heading shoulders above you
Speaker 1: know everyone else, that's fine. But you know, they there's
Speaker 1: been some games that they haven't played well. They haven't
Speaker 1: necessarily played well at home. They've lost two games at home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're four and four, like they're five hundred team. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was it was a close one.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know what I was gonna do before
Speaker 1: before William walked in. But because we're talking about that,
Speaker 1: we were talking about William and Larry, William walked in,
Speaker 1: I just went with William. Gotcha. The guy named Larry
Speaker 1: would have walked in, that might have been different. We
Speaker 1: don't have any Larry's here. That would have been really weird.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, all right, well, Jerry Jones, we all really
Speaker 1: know that he made his comments about the coaching staff
Speaker 1: and how that's going to stay the same as of
Speaker 1: right now. They're not going to be any big changes.
Speaker 1: But if the Cowboys do lose this game against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and now this is a question from Twitter, how does
Speaker 1: this really change things? Does this change things in like
Speaker 1: a big way of like, okay, now the dynamic around
Speaker 1: the building is completely different than what it's been so far,
Speaker 1: or did you just keep taking a week back weak
Speaker 1: and this is what it is. Well, I'll say this.
Speaker 1: It also depends on what type of game. If they
Speaker 1: lose thirty one, twenty eight or whatever, I don't think
Speaker 1: you'll see a big change. I think if this team
Speaker 1: again struggles to score points at on the road and
Speaker 1: they lose twenty to ten something like that, or twenty
Speaker 1: three to seven, I one believe there will be a
Speaker 1: change in the structure of the play calling. I don't
Speaker 1: know who's calling it or who the titles being changed.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think the structure of how
Speaker 1: things are called in the game next game in Atlanta
Speaker 1: will be different. If they don't score any points in
Speaker 1: this game and struggle to do anything, I believe there
Speaker 1: will be a change. You can criticize me all you want.
Speaker 1: I don't like to step out on those types of
Speaker 1: limbs in regard to this, and it's not because I'm
Speaker 1: afraid to say things like that. It's because there's only
Speaker 1: two people in the world who can make that decision.
Speaker 1: It's Jerry and Stephen Jones. They sit in the box
Speaker 1: and watch these games together, and what happens on Sunday
Speaker 1: is going to determine how they feel about it. Like right,
Speaker 1: right now, I completely believe Jerry that he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the way it's going to be, and you're right.
Speaker 1: If they go and lose thirty to ten in Philly,
Speaker 1: he might change his mind, but like that's completely up
Speaker 1: to him. I will say. I wrote this in my
Speaker 1: column yesterday, like this this month is even bigger than usual,
Speaker 1: I think because of the way they've struggled and if
Speaker 1: you go look at the schedule they are going to
Speaker 1: spend the next month on National TV. Atlanta is the
Speaker 1: only game of the year where they can like hide
Speaker 1: in a regional broadcast like National TV Sunday Thanksgiving against Washington.
Speaker 1: The entire world watches football on Thanksgiving and then a
Speaker 1: Thursday night game against the Saints where you're the only
Speaker 1: thing on. If it doesn't get better, odes is come
Speaker 1: into town, by the way, I chas. If it doesn't
Speaker 1: get better over the course than these next four games, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna get real rocky, real quick. It's
Speaker 1: already rocky, but it'll be even worse because if again,
Speaker 1: you know, if they're losing thirty one to twenty eight
Speaker 1: and playing well. It's a little bit of a different story.
Speaker 1: But if it keeps up like this, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine Jerry Jones won't change his mind a
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Speaker 1: when you talk about the Cowboys UNI second half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's make all right, Well, here's the way we were,
Speaker 1: the way we eat. We're I'm ready to run, inspirings,
Speaker 1: ready to go. Let's go on a team, run to
Speaker 1: get still, go to Gettysburg on Sunday like they did.
Speaker 1: It's only like two hours away from Philly, right, something
Speaker 1: like that. What if Garrett does that like five in
Speaker 1: the morning, gets them out and one starts running and
Speaker 1: that works in high school in the end, in the NFL,
Speaker 1: the guys are like, what is this in my contract? Yeah? Nah,
Speaker 1: all right. Here's a question from Rob, not our Rob,
Speaker 1: but another Rob, Robbing Vegas. Not Robbing. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but he's asking why does a run first team only
Speaker 1: runs six play action passes in an entire game. I
Speaker 1: don't have a good answer for you, Rob. I would
Speaker 1: like to see a lot more. But as I love
Speaker 1: to say, they don't not something you talk about a lot.
Speaker 1: They don't invite me into those meetings. They don't care
Speaker 1: about my opinion. But I agree with you, yeah, they
Speaker 1: I think they should utilize that much more than they do.
Speaker 1: From the guy that thinks they should run a flea
Speaker 1: flicker every game, like me, I definitely think they should
Speaker 1: do play action Yep, deception, I say, people here talking
Speaker 1: about the flee flickers. I mean, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say I think they will, but I hope they will,
Speaker 1: because again, for four or five different quarterbacks have had
Speaker 1: a lot of success running the ball against the Eagles defense.
Speaker 1: I really, I don't think you're gonna have fun just
Speaker 1: trying to charge over Fletcher Cox twenty five times. So
Speaker 1: play action quarterback keepers, bootlegs, something anything. Are you guys
Speaker 1: expecting them to play more to Dak's strength this week?
Speaker 1: Perhaps getting him on the move. Yes, yes, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's like you just said, you know, you can't
Speaker 1: just keep trying up the middle. I think that's that's
Speaker 1: how you're gonna, you know, do some things on the outside. Now.
Speaker 1: I am one that thinks though, the best way to
Speaker 1: beat the Eagles, if you are going to run, is
Speaker 1: you have to get north on them. You have to.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't just go hat on a hat.
Speaker 1: But but you can't be dancing around because they're faster
Speaker 1: than you. So you've got to figure out a ways
Speaker 1: get it blocked, hit the whole quick, go north to
Speaker 1: Now when it comes to the quarterback, I do think
Speaker 1: he needs to be on the move. And I think
Speaker 1: you can have some success running the ball straight up
Speaker 1: the middle if you have that element of threat on
Speaker 1: the outside for him to run. So, yes, I think
Speaker 1: you have to do that this one. I'll just put
Speaker 1: it out there. I mean, it's something we keep talking
Speaker 1: about over and over. But still, what would be easier
Speaker 1: to find this offseason an upgrade at coach or an
Speaker 1: upgrade at quarterback? Well, huh, you know, I had a
Speaker 1: column that I wrote the other day that says, you know,
Speaker 1: it's easier it'll be easier for the Cowboys to fix
Speaker 1: Dak than to replace him. The way it is this year,
Speaker 1: the way it's structured, I don't see, you know, there's
Speaker 1: not a first round pick. I looked at all the
Speaker 1: second round picks for the last ten years. It's not pretty.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is the best one of the group, and
Speaker 1: he's not an elite quarterback right now, or isn't one.
Speaker 1: He's good, he's pretty good, but he's not an elite,
Speaker 1: and so I don't think he's your difference maker. So
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're going to find this. I
Speaker 1: think you have a better chance of maybe getting a
Speaker 1: different system, different coach in here that can fix and
Speaker 1: I'm talking about offensive coach that can fix Dak. But
Speaker 1: I don't you know, I don't think that you'll have
Speaker 1: a I think you'll have a different head coach as well,
Speaker 1: unless this team gets to the playoffs. I don't want
Speaker 1: to repeat myself too much, but I really believe that
Speaker 1: the Amari Cooper trade signals that Dak is going to
Speaker 1: be the quarterback of this team at least through twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: if not longer. I know there's a decent number all
Speaker 1: the I want to hear that. I'm sorry, but the
Speaker 1: Cowboys at the very least want to see what they
Speaker 1: have and at the very most are committed to Dak
Speaker 1: for the long term. I know Jerry Jones clarified what
Speaker 1: he said on Tuesday this morning. You know, Dak's going
Speaker 1: to be extended. And I not to pat myself on
Speaker 1: the back, but I knew what he meant. Like, he's
Speaker 1: not saying on January tenth, we're going to offer Dak
Speaker 1: a new contract. That's not what he's saying. He's saying,
Speaker 1: I believe that Dak is our quarterback of the future
Speaker 1: and that will be reflected. That doesn't mean they're gonna
Speaker 1: you know, that doesn't mean there's a timetable on when
Speaker 1: he gets that deal. That's just what Jerry thinks, which
Speaker 1: is to say, like I said, you know, whether you're
Speaker 1: talking about the franchise tag in the future or whatever,
Speaker 1: I just Dak is going to be the quarterback here
Speaker 1: for at least a little while longer. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's easier to find a new scheme or a coaching
Speaker 1: staff that can suit his strengths a little bit better.
Speaker 1: I think that you look, I mean, I think that
Speaker 1: you evaluate all quarterbacks. If you see one that you
Speaker 1: like in the draft and somebody that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: slipped and you have a higher grade on, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you always take a chance on that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, and hope that you find another quarterback. That
Speaker 1: there's some good quarterbacks out there weren't drafted. Ie. Maybe
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league is in Seattle, right.
Speaker 1: It was drafted second round for round. So, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it happens. It happens all over the place. But I
Speaker 1: just I think that he will be here regardless of
Speaker 1: kind of what happens. I don't think that's the case
Speaker 1: with the coach though. I don't. I think that they're
Speaker 1: going to turn this around and get into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: If not, I think that it's you know, it would
Speaker 1: be time to make a change there. Now here's a
Speaker 1: different question, but keeping it on the same subject as
Speaker 1: far as quarterbacks, when you talk about Cooper Rush and
Speaker 1: Mike White, both of those guys, when they initially got here,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of people who were excited and
Speaker 1: for them and excited to see what they could bring.
Speaker 1: And we've seen them in the preseason. Nothing impressive, you know,
Speaker 1: We saw a little flashes here and there, but nothing
Speaker 1: that would give you that kind of excitement to want
Speaker 1: it to see them more on the field as of
Speaker 1: right now. But based on what you've seen at practices,
Speaker 1: how do both of these guys look. As far as
Speaker 1: the progression, it feels a little misguided. It like if
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't get to see that part of practice,
Speaker 1: we go, you know, they stretch and they go through patent,
Speaker 1: go and then we have to leave. So I have
Speaker 1: no idea how Mike White has progressed over the last
Speaker 1: eight weeks Cooper Rush either. I mean, I haven't seen
Speaker 1: them do something meaningful since training camp ended, so I
Speaker 1: can't really answer that fairly. I will say, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody asked me earlier it's like, well do you want
Speaker 1: to see Cooper Rush if this thing keeps going south?
Speaker 1: And no, I don't. It's the same thing I said
Speaker 1: back in like week three. I want a stack, I
Speaker 1: want an envelope, this thick of notes on Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: I want sixteen games of the good and the bad.
Speaker 1: And you know, whether it's Jason Garrett or a new
Speaker 1: head coach, the decision makers, I want them to have
Speaker 1: as much information as possible when they sit down to
Speaker 1: decide what to do with Dak. That means what's his
Speaker 1: future with the team, or how much money is fair
Speaker 1: to offer him. I mean that's you know, that's a
Speaker 1: big deal. Like if you told me that you were
Speaker 1: going to extend Dak Prescott at Aaron Rodgers's rate, that
Speaker 1: would be not good. I would be very upset with that.
Speaker 1: But if his level of play dictates that you can
Speaker 1: pay him far below what a good quarterback on a
Speaker 1: second contract makes, I'm fine with that, honestly. Like I
Speaker 1: still in the right circumstance, with the right scheme for
Speaker 1: the right money, I think Dak Prescott's fine, and so
Speaker 1: I want as big of a resume as possible for
Speaker 1: these decision makers to look at. And that means playing
Speaker 1: him all year. And it's not just about Sundays either,
Speaker 1: because regardless of what level of contract you're talking about,
Speaker 1: he's still going to be paid. If he gets extended,
Speaker 1: will be the face of the franchise. He already is,
Speaker 1: but he'll get paid like that as well. This is
Speaker 1: a good time to see. All right, Let's say this
Speaker 1: team does struggle in the next month, they win one
Speaker 1: out of three or four games, they're sitting there in
Speaker 1: December and and it's it's five and eight and all
Speaker 1: that or whatever it is. You want to see how
Speaker 1: Dak leads this team, How does he prepare, how does
Speaker 1: he to take on this burden every single week? Is
Speaker 1: he going into battle every game regardless of the playoffs
Speaker 1: are off the table? I mean, if that happens this
Speaker 1: these are the good tests for that. And you can't
Speaker 1: see that if he's getting benched in an upset and
Speaker 1: then you're playing a guy that's not the face of
Speaker 1: the franchise. I mean, that's something Tampa Bay is gonna
Speaker 1: have to figure out. Tampa Bays in this same boat,
Speaker 1: and they don't have Cooper Rush. They've got a veteran,
Speaker 1: but they've got to figure out what are they gonna
Speaker 1: do with Jamis Winston, especially when they're out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be very similar the Cowboys in or
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs. They gotta see how Dak handles
Speaker 1: this situation. And that is one thing Jason Garrett always
Speaker 1: says that I really do like and agree with, which
Speaker 1: is like, in this league, you are evaluated twenty four
Speaker 1: hours a day on everything you do, like if you're
Speaker 1: the franchise quarterback, face of the franchise, like the way
Speaker 1: you eat breakfast matters, and how you know, how you
Speaker 1: respond to your teammates, how you respond to being on
Speaker 1: a bad team. So Dak Prescott needs to be playing,
Speaker 1: regardless of how good or bad this is. It's in
Speaker 1: the best interest of the franchise long term to get
Speaker 1: as good of an idea of that as possible. And
Speaker 1: for those people that you know, keep asking about these
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks, the backup quarterbacks as far as my wife
Speaker 1: and Cooper Rush And this is absolutely my own perception
Speaker 1: and based on my very limited interactions that I've had
Speaker 1: with both of those guys. To me, it doesn't portray
Speaker 1: a starter starting quarterback, like their attitude, the confidence level.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a certain voice that you need to
Speaker 1: have in a certain persona that you need to have
Speaker 1: in order to carry a team. Or are you making
Speaker 1: that face? You know where I'm going with this? I
Speaker 1: actually don't, But go ahead. I agree with you on that,
Speaker 1: And I would have agreed with you had I not
Speaker 1: been here fifteen years ago, because I would have lost
Speaker 1: every penny I had if you told me Tony Romo
Speaker 1: would be the starting quarterback of the Cowboys. You know,
Speaker 1: look at this guy l on my flag football team.
Speaker 1: We had a recreational flag football team. He was the
Speaker 1: quarterback on our team. So when we talked to him
Speaker 1: back then when he first started, he had that kind
Speaker 1: of attitude too. Well, he just didn't you didn't expect it.
Speaker 1: And let me finished this part. He was really good
Speaker 1: on our team. He was throwing the ball around, know
Speaker 1: where you're going now. And we got to the playoffs
Speaker 1: and he threw four interceptions and we lost our playoff game,
Speaker 1: and I was like, this guy'll never be good in
Speaker 1: the league. He just wanted to Yeah, you just wanted
Speaker 1: to throw that dig in there. No, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't say, and that's that's what happened. I don't agree
Speaker 1: with you never know, Yes, I don't. You don't know
Speaker 1: about that kind of stuff. I don't agree with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Dak was an easy going I mean, he
Speaker 1: was chill, and he kind of he had that confidence
Speaker 1: about him, but like he was just trying to stay
Speaker 1: out of the way for the first two or so
Speaker 1: months that he was here, because that's what you do
Speaker 1: when you're the third or fourth quarterback. You're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to soak up information and not step
Speaker 1: on people's toes. Like if Mike White was walking around
Speaker 1: in the the locker room like he owned the place, he
Speaker 1: would be pissing people off and be like who are
Speaker 1: you and why do you think you're in poor So, no,
Speaker 1: you can't judge a gap. I'm not saying about doing that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying there there's a certain energy that you
Speaker 1: get when talking to somebody, even if it's off camera.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just different. The energy would be different
Speaker 1: if you knew that he was about to start at quarterback.
Speaker 1: But you are right in saying this, and I think
Speaker 1: we all agree that they don't have that look. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen that from them right now, Mike White or
Speaker 1: Cooper Russ. But you know what one day. But I
Speaker 1: don't know if you ever really see it from your
Speaker 1: backup until you see it, but I don't. I just
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. But I have been burned
Speaker 1: in the past by Romo and so I'm kind of
Speaker 1: moreheaded by killing Moore. When killing Moore how to play
Speaker 1: it like his attitude was, It's just different. It's just different.
Speaker 1: It's it's stiff game. So I mean he did do that.
Speaker 1: It's easy to mythologize Dak now, but he wasn't like
Speaker 1: that when he got I mean, like he's always had
Speaker 1: that demeanor, but like nobody was saying that about him
Speaker 1: before he got the opportunity. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I got you, I gotcha. But I've been lucky to
Speaker 1: read enough people and be right. Sometimes check out made
Speaker 1: a change of heart. See, we'll see. I'm still on
Speaker 1: the fence the gut that hasn't told me his guy
Speaker 1: just keeps moving around. Maybe go to the restroom. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, God, alright, all right, guys, Well, thank you
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