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Speaker 6: You know how you should be rooting if you're rooting
Speaker 6: for the Cowboys. So let's get this thing going. Let's
Speaker 6: jump right in. Let's talk about first injuries we got
Speaker 6: Tyron Smith and Zach Martin. I think those are the
Speaker 6: two that everyone's really paying attention to. What are we
Speaker 6: hearing at this point?
Speaker 5: All right, so ladies and gentlemen, bear with me. I
Speaker 5: am back. I'm feeling better, but my voice is still
Speaker 5: somewhere in hell. I'm waiting for that to join us
Speaker 5: injury wise, Tyron Smith and Zach Martin, like you said
Speaker 5: in hearing what Jerry Jones on General Menal j Jerry Jones,
Speaker 5: A head coach Mike McCarthy said in their conversations, with
Speaker 5: one O five three the fan this morning. It's not
Speaker 5: a lot of optimism. Mike said that Zach is ahead
Speaker 5: of Tyrann as far as the possibility of playing against
Speaker 5: the Dolphins, But based on some conversations I'm having and
Speaker 5: it being a reaggravation of that quad contusion, it's not
Speaker 5: exactly looking like sunshines and the rainbow. So I'd put
Speaker 5: Zack at about a fifty to fifty, maybe a little
Speaker 5: bit less than fifty. I'm completely pessimistic on if Tyron
Speaker 5: Smith is going to take the field at all, and
Speaker 5: then that puts you again in an offensive line flux
Speaker 5: and then against a defensive line that is that excels
Speaker 5: at getting pressures and getting their hands on the quarterback.
Speaker 5: So if one or both of those guys are out,
Speaker 5: and it looks like it's possible that one or both
Speaker 5: of them will be out, then you're really gonna have
Speaker 5: your hands full up front.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's this morning.
Speaker 7: They were saying that, especially with Tyrann, they're gonna carry
Speaker 7: that thing all the way up until the very last minute,
Speaker 7: is all that. And I was asking about, you know, Sunday,
Speaker 7: and they're like, we're gonna give them.
Speaker 3: Every possibility every minute.
Speaker 7: So yeah, hold your breath on that when whatever football
Speaker 7: gods you pray to go.
Speaker 3: Ahead and go for it.
Speaker 7: So but yeah, the thing with Martin, we we interviewed
Speaker 7: Zach yesterday one.
Speaker 3: Five three the Fan first Week Interview. Thank you.
Speaker 7: He's after we stopped asking about how to put Christmas
Speaker 7: toys together, then we started getting the nuts of bolts
Speaker 7: of football, and uh.
Speaker 3: You know, he's always going to tell you he's fine.
Speaker 7: He's always going to tell you that, hey, I'm good
Speaker 7: to you know, everything's good and all that.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 7: But like Patrick says, I think that these both are
Speaker 7: are we're looking at probably maybe Martin with the chance that.
Speaker 7: I don't think that the Tyron Smith one is going
Speaker 7: to work out for you this game. I just just
Speaker 7: just talking. I mean, when you start to talk about
Speaker 7: the very last minute, We've seen the very last minute
Speaker 7: before with Tyron Smith and it's gone the bad way.
Speaker 7: So uh, I hate to be the wet blanket guy here,
Speaker 7: but man, that that's that's gonna be a tough one
Speaker 7: to deal with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, whether right or wrong, I think that the natural
Speaker 6: inclination for all fans or bystanders who've wont to the
Speaker 6: Cowboys for the last several years.
Speaker 2: The history tells us.
Speaker 6: That when you get into this kind of situation with Tyrant,
Speaker 6: the likelihood is that you probably out more on you
Speaker 6: fall more on the side that he's probably not gonna play.
Speaker 6: But you just don't know, and we'll wait and see
Speaker 6: until Sunday. But that being said, across the table, you guys,
Speaker 6: tell me, what's your level? How much does this change
Speaker 6: your thoughts on where you were on the Cowboys possibilities
Speaker 6: of going to Miami and getting a win.
Speaker 2: I'll start you a lot.
Speaker 8: I mean, I'm hoping for a win, but it's just
Speaker 8: it really complicates things because you come out of the
Speaker 8: loss against Buffalo where the offense wasn't able to really
Speaker 8: perform at a level that you expected them to or
Speaker 8: wanted them to, and you talk about the O line
Speaker 8: and the running game, how we started seeing an incline
Speaker 8: in that they started getting better. Now, any type of
Speaker 8: injury happening there, that's gonna take a hit and it's
Speaker 8: going to affect their running game. Now that's kind of
Speaker 8: taken out of the equation for me, because I don't
Speaker 8: see it working very well if both of them are
Speaker 8: out or even one of them. The key for me
Speaker 8: in this game would be for Dak to go back
Speaker 8: to that quick, quick, quick get maybe take a few
Speaker 8: steps back, get rid of the of the ball very
Speaker 8: very quickly, and connect with the receivers everyone's going to
Speaker 8: have to be on at the same pace and connect
Speaker 8: it and know exactly what the route is, what the
Speaker 8: call is, what the plan is, and hope that they're
Speaker 8: in sync, because that's the only way that I see
Speaker 8: it right now knowing about these injuries. Even if they
Speaker 8: were to step on the field and play, that doesn't
Speaker 8: mean they're one hundred percent healthy. They're still banged up
Speaker 8: and they're still affected with these injuries. So regardless, I
Speaker 8: think for me, yeah, it changes what I think of
Speaker 8: the outcome maybe, but I have hope holding on to
Speaker 8: that stat of them playing really, really good after a
Speaker 8: loss and also hoping that the offense starts clicking again
Speaker 8: where Dak can just get rid of the ball very quickly.
Speaker 3: Had an advantage. You had an advantage if you're healthy.
Speaker 7: You have an advantage because they're really banged up on
Speaker 7: their offensive line, and you were hopeful that maybe that
Speaker 7: your defense would be able to take advantage of that.
Speaker 7: They're still dealing with Robert Hunt and Austin Jackson being hurt.
Speaker 7: So now it kind of if you lose two guys,
Speaker 7: they lose two guys. Now it's going to be a
Speaker 7: battle of which backup group can find ways to block,
Speaker 7: you know, really good defensive lines, especially with you know,
Speaker 7: with dealing with Bradley Chubb and and Wilkins and that crew.
Speaker 3: I mean, they could present some.
Speaker 7: Problems, but you got better backups right now, I would
Speaker 7: say the Cowboys do that. That would be where I
Speaker 7: would go right now when you talk to talk about
Speaker 7: bass and a dooga, I think it's better than what
Speaker 7: I'm seeing with you know, with with what the Dolphins
Speaker 7: have thrown out there. But the Dolphins do a really
Speaker 7: good job of scheming around the deficiencies they have in
Speaker 7: their offensive line.
Speaker 3: They don't ask.
Speaker 7: Those guys to do a whole hell of a lot,
Speaker 7: you know, from what I was seeing, it's a lot
Speaker 7: of angle blocks, a lot of half man blocks. Uh,
Speaker 7: never have to take anybody on toe to toe.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: Their scheme is built that way. The way they run
Speaker 7: the ball, they are a perimeter running team, and so
Speaker 7: everything is about movement and pulling and trapping and so
Speaker 7: it's it's not asking them to just go out there
Speaker 7: and just blow guys off the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: They just don't play that way.
Speaker 7: I think Dallas has the better group, but I'm interested
Speaker 7: to see which offensive staff schemes better in this game
Speaker 7: to get there to manufacture offense when they're compromised on
Speaker 7: their offensive lines.
Speaker 5: Cowboys are going to have to learn from what the
Speaker 5: Arizona Cardinals tell them. Yeah, you go back and look
Speaker 5: at the Arizona Cardinals film, and you know that's what
Speaker 5: you draw from. As far as what you need to
Speaker 5: do against the Miami Dolphins, as far as supplanting or
Speaker 5: trying to supplant Tyron Smith and Zach Martin, It's not
Speaker 5: going to be an easy task at all, especially against
Speaker 5: this defensive front. But I'd love Ambar's point. You got
Speaker 5: to get the ball out quickly. Don't put your offensive
Speaker 5: line in position and includes Chunmaydoga and likely TJ. Bass.
Speaker 5: Don't put those guys in position where they have to
Speaker 5: do a ton of pass pro against some of the
Speaker 5: better pass rushers in the league. Get it out quickly.
Speaker 5: The Dolphins love to run zone. They run zone assuming
Speaker 5: they do it because I'm always traumatized by what the
Speaker 5: forty nine ers did with flipping that switch. But assuming
Speaker 5: that the Dolphins remain true to what they've been doing,
Speaker 5: which is running zone three out of every four defensive snaps,
Speaker 5: you're going to have the spacing there to get that
Speaker 5: ball out. So get the ball out, get it into
Speaker 5: the hands of your playmakers. Move CD Lamb around, Move
Speaker 5: Brandon Cooks around, get Cavante Turpin involved, use Jake Ferguson
Speaker 5: to attack that second level and attack the seams with
Speaker 5: the linebackers applying pressure to the safety. They run a
Speaker 5: lot of single high as well, and that should help
Speaker 5: the passing game open up a little bit more with
Speaker 5: which then should make things easier for Tony Pollard recalled
Speaker 5: out on the run game because quite as it's kept.
Speaker 5: While the home and away splits are massive when it
Speaker 5: comes to like penalties, types of penalties, passing yards, things
Speaker 5: like that, the running game, the rushing attack has been
Speaker 5: pretty steady. I think four point one yard average per
Speaker 5: handoff on the road, four point two at home. So
Speaker 5: if you can get out to a fast start, and
Speaker 5: that's going to come down to getting that ball out quickly,
Speaker 5: get out and score play from play ahead. That running
Speaker 5: game should be your steady hand going forward. You're probably
Speaker 5: not gonna get a lot of shots downfield without tiring
Speaker 5: exact there.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll say the thing that concerns me most about
Speaker 6: that strategy is last week they faced another team that's
Speaker 6: similar to this one in the way that they get
Speaker 6: a four man pressure. They can have seven out in
Speaker 6: coverage and when they're playing zone with seven. By the way,
Speaker 6: they're pretty good playing zone with seven, it flogs everything's.
Speaker 3: Up and the traveler too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, yeah, they got to travel to time.
Speaker 6: It just makes it really I think it makes it
Speaker 6: really tough, whether you're talking about a quick passing game
Speaker 6: or a passing game where you can try to that
Speaker 6: the passes to let the routes develop. Either way, I
Speaker 6: think it's going to be really tough for Dak built
Speaker 6: to find those openings, especially if they're being able to
Speaker 6: get pressure with four knowing that the Cowboys are compromise
Speaker 6: on the offensive live. So I think that's really the
Speaker 6: challenge for me. The key really gonna come down to,
Speaker 6: can the Cowboys find a way to run the ball
Speaker 6: that's gonna slow down those four pass rushers and give
Speaker 6: you that time that you need in order to really
Speaker 6: find those big plays, because this offense is predicated on
Speaker 6: the big plays. When they play well, when they're playing
Speaker 6: at their best, they got big plays involved. They're gonna
Speaker 6: need those, I think, and the running game is the
Speaker 6: only thing I think that's going to get them there.
Speaker 5: And the only way you're gonna be able to do
Speaker 5: that is if your defense bottles up guys like Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 5: jay Lenwato kind of gets hands on tour rattles him
Speaker 5: as much as possible. Because if you allow the Dolphins
Speaker 5: to do what the Bills did, which is get up
Speaker 5: on you, and largely because of self inflicted wounds, but
Speaker 5: however it happens. If you allow the Dolphins to get
Speaker 5: up on you early playing from behind Againstille, game's gone, right,
Speaker 5: running game's going and you're down to starting offensive lineman,
Speaker 5: you're in trouble.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's gonna be the thing that scares me about
Speaker 7: this game a little bit, as who the official.
Speaker 3: Is with Sean Hockey, you know, and and we all
Speaker 3: are very.
Speaker 2: Familiar with seen this before.
Speaker 7: We've seen Sean Hockey insert himself and his crew.
Speaker 3: Into into games.
Speaker 7: And that's the that's the thing that that's always terrifying
Speaker 7: to me. I mean just looking through his the metrics
Speaker 7: with him, he's had he's had multiple games where it's
Speaker 7: eighteen penalties, fifteen penalties, fourteen penalties. You know, you just
Speaker 7: never know what you're gonna get. You're gonna get calls,
Speaker 7: but you don't and it and it's at the worst
Speaker 7: time with this, I just you know, I've always one
Speaker 7: of these guys, just let him play, let the two
Speaker 7: teams figure it out. But you've got a guy that
Speaker 7: likes to put himself.
Speaker 3: In the middle of the game.
Speaker 7: And you know, I'm not trying to make excuses for
Speaker 7: either team here, but it is what it is. You know,
Speaker 7: sometimes you're at the mercy of these guys and uh,
Speaker 7: you know that's the that's the unfortunate part of the
Speaker 7: thing that you know, you didn't draw a crew this
Speaker 7: week that's probably gonna let you play. You're gonna get
Speaker 7: one that's gonna called the game probably pretty tight. And
Speaker 7: and you know who will have an advantage of that.
Speaker 7: Cowboy is one of the most penalized teams in the league.
Speaker 7: I think the Dolphins are up there too, So.
Speaker 6: I would love to see if this is the week
Speaker 6: would maybe maybe Michael Parsons gets a call like that's
Speaker 6: ridiculous that he hasn't gotten any of these holding calls.
Speaker 2: Maybe this is a week where he gets some of those.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well it's it's it's you know, like I said,
Speaker 7: you just don't know what these crews and had a
Speaker 7: holding call against him since since the Chargers game. You know,
Speaker 7: that's how far back that thing goes. But and and
Speaker 7: and they've got a compromised offensive line like you do
Speaker 7: right now, So there's going to be some holding in
Speaker 7: this game.
Speaker 3: Don't don't. Don't act like it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: What are we hearing about Malie Cooker? Have we heard
Speaker 2: anything more about it?
Speaker 5: He's progressing, Obviously, he missed last week because of the illness.
Speaker 5: He didn't practice as they gave him and his ankle
Speaker 5: some rest on Wednesday. But he did practice in a
Speaker 5: limited participate as a limited participant on Thursday. So he's
Speaker 5: taking on more work. We'll see what today Friday's injury
Speaker 5: report looks like for him, but he's tracking toward taking
Speaker 5: the field, and uh, that would be you know, big one, Tomas.
Speaker 5: He played solid. He had I think two or three
Speaker 5: missed tackles before the most part, given the fire that
Speaker 5: he was thrown in. In a situation he was thrown in,
Speaker 5: it was much more run support than coverage because Josh
Speaker 5: Allen only threw fifteen times. But yeah, mon Lee Cooker
Speaker 5: is tracking toward taking the feud.
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Speaker 8: All right, let's jump into remember Thank you very much. Okay,
Speaker 8: so thank you to everyone who sent in their questions today.
Speaker 8: All right, guys, what's more important for success in this
Speaker 8: weekend's game? Offensive line dominates from the start? Or defensive
Speaker 8: line dominates from the start? From the cowboy side, do
Speaker 8: you prefer the offense to start off better the line
Speaker 8: or the defensive line to start off?
Speaker 3: Said offensive line twice?
Speaker 6: No, both offense line or defensive line. I think defensive
Speaker 6: line because the way I look at this game, it
Speaker 6: goes back to what you said, Patrick. They cannot afford
Speaker 6: to get down in this game, even if the offense
Speaker 6: is slow getting started. As long as they don't let
Speaker 6: Miami run away, then you could play a close game
Speaker 6: and you can just kind of figure it out as
Speaker 6: you go.
Speaker 2: You cannot get behind.
Speaker 6: If you get behind, we've seen how that goes, that's
Speaker 6: not gonna be good.
Speaker 5: Yeah. For me, it's defensive line. Defensive line has to
Speaker 5: set the tone. Defense has to set the tone, especially
Speaker 5: after a game like what happened to Buffalo, when you
Speaker 5: basically just got mauled. So they need to get their
Speaker 5: confidence back. They need to get their resist show you
Speaker 5: the resilience, and they need to be what everybody believes
Speaker 5: they can be. And you already know the Cowboys offensive
Speaker 5: line might struggle a bit because they might be down
Speaker 5: two starters. This defensive line is going to have to
Speaker 5: get it done.
Speaker 3: Scoring helps this defense. Give me the offense.
Speaker 7: I'm putting pressure on, as much pressure as I can
Speaker 7: on Miami. I'm gonna make them have to you know.
Speaker 7: The one thing that I know is if I can
Speaker 7: build a lead, hold a lead, that that dolphin running
Speaker 7: game will go away, because it happens every single time
Speaker 7: the Cowboys score for thirty points. Teams don't run the
Speaker 7: football on them. And that's my biggest concern right now.
Speaker 7: Give me the offense, come out blistering them right off
Speaker 7: the jump. Give me one of those games where you
Speaker 7: got three drives.
Speaker 3: Give me. Give me the game that Buffalo had against
Speaker 3: you in the first half last week.
Speaker 7: That's what I want, you know, twelve plays, seventy five
Speaker 7: yard drives, wear them down, score points, you know, give
Speaker 7: them a chance to have any offense.
Speaker 3: I'll take that all day.
Speaker 5: Real quick.
Speaker 2: Before you go to the next question.
Speaker 6: If you guys go back to earlier in the season,
Speaker 6: there was there were some times when tyroing Zach were out.
Speaker 6: What do you recall from that time from the standpoint
Speaker 6: of how well the offense and I know some of
Speaker 6: it was win before the offense turned into what it's
Speaker 6: but just looking at the offensive line, how the offensive
Speaker 6: line played with those backups, what are your recollections.
Speaker 8: The line wasn't really the problem, Like they played good
Speaker 8: enough for them to have won a game or compete.
Speaker 8: So I don't going back, I don't remember us sitting
Speaker 8: here complaining how the how about of a job they did?
Speaker 8: It was like, okay, for the backups, they actually held
Speaker 8: up pretty good and they did a good enough job.
Speaker 8: So I don't think the I mean, it's possible to survive.
Speaker 8: It's basically one of yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, we ended up giving roses to Chimi Doga
Speaker 5: for stepping up big. We gave Rosy better than we
Speaker 5: thought he was exactly Guys like brock Hoffman, TJ. Best,
Speaker 5: and Arizona, those guys stepped up after being thrown in
Speaker 5: the fire. I don't think any of those. I don't
Speaker 5: think the Arizona loss was on the offensive line. I
Speaker 5: do think that it's hard for me to figure out
Speaker 5: if the offensive line flux was part of the reason
Speaker 5: that the offense didn't take hadn't taken off quite yet
Speaker 5: kind of times up that it took off when the
Speaker 5: offensive line kind of came together, right, So that, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't like where that goes. If that's why you're
Speaker 5: making their face, I get it. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: I think that the offensive line was not will cost
Speaker 5: you the game in Arizona, and if you look at
Speaker 5: any of those losses of San Francisco as well, I mean,
Speaker 5: the offensive line didn't cost you that game either, You're
Speaker 5: passing defense cost you that game. George Keittle gets three touchdowns,
Speaker 5: I mean that's game over. So yeah, I mean I
Speaker 5: think this offensive line can hold up well. But I
Speaker 5: mean we'll see because again they got horses up front. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's the big thing. That's the big thing. Just self
Speaker 5: inflicted wounds and just don't hockily and the officials there
Speaker 5: are going to be some bad cause and bad no calls.
Speaker 5: Just don't exacerbate the problem by you know, running into
Speaker 5: the past and when you don't have to, you know,
Speaker 5: trying to I want you to protect your quarterback, but
Speaker 5: unnecessarily bumping that we talked about. Just careful because you're
Speaker 5: in hostile territory. You can't afford any mistakes. Just keep
Speaker 5: your emotional discipline where it needs to be and help
Speaker 5: your team out.
Speaker 7: I think the one thing that it's weird because I
Speaker 7: felt like that his questions about his offensive.
Speaker 3: Line affected his play calling in Arizona.
Speaker 7: I felt like the weather affected his play calling, or
Speaker 7: the threat of weather affected his play calling in Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Yep, he's got to put that aside.
Speaker 7: You know, he's played games now with these guys and
Speaker 7: he has to say, you know what, last time, I
Speaker 7: was too cautious the way I played. I'm not asking
Speaker 7: you to go out there and sling it all over
Speaker 7: the place and try and get your quarterback hurt. But
Speaker 7: don't go into a shell with your offense. You know,
Speaker 7: trust that these guys can get the job done. You know,
Speaker 7: I think Mike, maybe I don't know, maybe overthink it
Speaker 7: a little bit there.
Speaker 6: Didn't He wasn't there a game earlier this year where
Speaker 6: he actually admitted after the game he said that he
Speaker 6: called the game or Arizona was at Arizona. Yeah, and
Speaker 6: so I'm like, yeah, that that's when you talk about Buffalo.
Speaker 6: I actually, when I asked you guys the question yesterday
Speaker 6: about weather, I actually thought that's where you guys were
Speaker 6: going to go, because I personally believe Mike called a
Speaker 6: little different game because either the weather or because when
Speaker 6: he thought the weather, they would do.
Speaker 7: They would they To me, and I'm not out here
Speaker 7: watching practice every day, but to me, if you were,
Speaker 7: I was wondering, Okay, is this a wet weather game
Speaker 7: plan you're throwing at him right now?
Speaker 3: You know? And and and.
Speaker 7: I think when the weather broke nice for him all
Speaker 7: of a sudden, like, well damn. We worked on this
Speaker 7: all week and it was not the creativity with the offense,
Speaker 7: you know. And and I know it was seven drop
Speaker 7: seven and rushed for I get that. But I've seen
Speaker 7: him call defenses or call plays against that and and
Speaker 7: have some success. I don't overthink this. If there's two
Speaker 7: guys out, don't overthink it. Go play football. You know
Speaker 7: that's you've got guys. You got one of the best
Speaker 7: quarterbacks in the league, got one of the best wide
Speaker 7: receivers in the league, got one of the best tight
Speaker 7: ends in the league'll go play football today.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't. I don't think Mike went into
Speaker 5: Buffalo thinking about the weather for the most part. And
Speaker 5: the reason I say that is because before the Cowboys
Speaker 5: first offensive drive, probably could have made that argument. But
Speaker 5: when you see Dak drop back and go deep to
Speaker 5: Cooks to try to get a home run ball on
Speaker 5: you know, one of the first players, they.
Speaker 3: Never went back to right.
Speaker 5: That's the right well, they never went back to it
Speaker 5: because that's just the game started to get away from
Speaker 5: them after that drive. Because on that drive you get
Speaker 5: the holding and you get no points, and then guess
Speaker 5: what penalty On the next Bills drive, they score again.
Speaker 6: So the game's not of reason for them not to
Speaker 6: go back to the deep ball, especially if they saw
Speaker 6: some success on the front like it was there. They
Speaker 6: just didn't connect on it. And then, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 6: that's a hard pass to connect on. But I just
Speaker 6: felt like they they didn't do the things that we
Speaker 6: were accustomed to seeing them do on offense. And it
Speaker 6: left me to at least question whether Mike made some adjustments,
Speaker 6: because he was like.
Speaker 5: Ah, oh, far as adjusting, pulling back, as far as
Speaker 5: versus walking into that game.
Speaker 6: We know. What I'm saying is kind of going into
Speaker 6: that game with as Brian was saying, like, I kind
Speaker 6: of agree that maybe the game plan may have been
Speaker 6: set up for them to thinking because as we saw
Speaker 6: we got the Friday, we were the whole game. It
Speaker 6: was going to rain the whole game. That's what we
Speaker 6: went in thinking. And it makes me think that he
Speaker 6: went into the game in the same way, like, Okay,
Speaker 6: I need to protect my team knowing that this is
Speaker 6: going to be a game where whether we will.
Speaker 3: Be a factor.
Speaker 6: So here's how we need to call it in order
Speaker 6: to make sure we don't put ourselves in bad situations,
Speaker 6: rather than just going in and being like, hey, it's
Speaker 6: actually not that bad. Let's just go right. And I
Speaker 6: do believe it kind of affective, but that's just my.
Speaker 5: Opinion, and I see where you're going with that. Where
Speaker 5: I depart on that is because I just pulled back
Speaker 5: up the opening Cowboys drive against the Cardinals, and the
Speaker 5: first two plays were hand off to Tony Pollard, and
Speaker 5: that's different from what we saw in Buffalo. First couple
Speaker 5: of plays he takes the deep shot to Cooks. So
Speaker 5: I think that to Mike's point after the Arizona Cardinals game,
Speaker 5: he was playing uber conservative against the Cardinals, but he
Speaker 5: started out the game being the exact optor is being
Speaker 5: very liberal against the Buffalo Bills. Now, I will agree
Speaker 5: that maybe after that, in an adjustment capacity, he probably
Speaker 5: went back to being more conservative than they would have
Speaker 5: liked to, maybe be where the base. Maybe he saw
Speaker 5: that pass and was like, oh, well, the win on
Speaker 5: this field is not going the fact that they didn't
Speaker 5: Connet write. So that's what I mean. I think going
Speaker 5: in he didn't have his scripted plays based upon the weather.
Speaker 5: But then after seeing that bass Sell three yards past Cooks,
Speaker 5: maybe at that point he was like, okay, maybe I
Speaker 5: should scale, but stick that. That's what I mean, that's
Speaker 5: the difference. I think he went into Arizona being conservative
Speaker 5: on purpose.
Speaker 6: I do wonder if because he even admitted after the
Speaker 6: Arizona game, because of his compromise offensive line, he was
Speaker 6: more conservative. I wanted that'll push him to be less
Speaker 6: conservative this game if he loses those offensive linemen and
Speaker 6: be like, I gotta trust these guys. I went through
Speaker 6: that in Arizona. I didn't give my chance, my team
Speaker 6: the best chance to win. Maybe that helps him this week,
Speaker 6: just say let's just go. We're gonna play football.
Speaker 3: One question down, Where to go?
Speaker 8: Derek got two more questions from that.
Speaker 5: Damn good courch man.
Speaker 6: When you're the host, you just gotta always fall back
Speaker 6: at the being host, right, That a good question.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Bryan Woodward, he asks, do you see the Cowboys
Speaker 8: staying with mainly men coverage against Miami? Especially if he'll plays.
Speaker 7: It wouldn't be it probably wouldn't be the best thing.
Speaker 7: But that's who they are. That's who Dallas is. Dallas
Speaker 7: Dallas is. They're comfortable. You know, they'll rush for they'll
Speaker 7: rush five. They like to bring pressure. They like to
Speaker 7: bring pressure on second down. Uh, you have a quarterback
Speaker 7: that's really accurate in that near the line of scrimmage
Speaker 7: or underneath if you play a lot of manned stuff.
Speaker 7: You know they're big, they're fifty three percent of their
Speaker 7: offense comes run after catch. That's what you have to
Speaker 7: worry about here. You have to worry about everything, the
Speaker 7: short passes and then them taking off with it.
Speaker 3: And so is it in their DNA to play it
Speaker 3: zone coverage? Sure? Would it throw the Dolphins a curveball? Sure?
Speaker 3: I think the Dolphins are expecting to see man coverage
Speaker 3: in this game.
Speaker 7: I think I think Dan's thinking, like, I trust my
Speaker 7: guys to be good enough this game. I'm gonna try
Speaker 7: and get pressure on this guy. This quarterback doesn't move,
Speaker 7: so you know, but the ball will come out quick.
Speaker 7: We saw it a the Jets game last week. He's
Speaker 7: not going to hold the football. That's that They're terrified
Speaker 7: of what's going on with their offensive line too.
Speaker 3: So I think this.
Speaker 7: I think, to me, if you're playing zone, that means
Speaker 7: you're playing with depth at depth, and I hate that
Speaker 7: because all of a sudden and you got these guys there,
Speaker 7: they get the ball and then it's run after catch.
Speaker 7: I would rather die quick. Don't let me die slow.
Speaker 7: Let me play up on the line. Let me try
Speaker 7: and disrupt what they're doing, and maybe I can affect
Speaker 7: the timing of this quarterback.
Speaker 6: Here's what I worry about with man is it's not
Speaker 6: even so much the deep routes that I worry about
Speaker 6: with Tyreek Kill. It's those crossers where they rub and
Speaker 6: he gets up.
Speaker 2: Just a foot.
Speaker 6: If he's got a foot, you ain't catching When he
Speaker 6: catches the ball, you're not catching him.
Speaker 3: And that's where I'm like, hope, is his ankle ain't great?
Speaker 3: That's what Joe.
Speaker 2: But I will say this jump yeah, test that thing
Speaker 2: before that.
Speaker 6: Before the game last week, there were reports that he
Speaker 6: looked like he was running. He was running really well,
Speaker 6: but they were like, we're still gonna hold him out.
Speaker 6: That's also what makes me think he's gonna be fine
Speaker 6: for this week. They thought last week Hero I would
Speaker 6: guess if that would have been a playoff gamey Kill
Speaker 6: would have played last week. They were figuring, let's give
Speaker 6: him one one week. We need him for a hundred
Speaker 6: one hundred percent close to it against Dallas. So I
Speaker 6: expect him to be Tyree Kill this week. I don't
Speaker 6: expect him to have any ill anything that's coming from
Speaker 6: that ankle.
Speaker 2: I think he'll be fine. What challenge what I where.
Speaker 6: I think the real challenge is is trying to carry
Speaker 6: him across field, especially if you're having to run through traffic,
Speaker 6: and I think that's just going to be I mean,
Speaker 6: that is a recipe for disaster against a guy like him.
Speaker 7: Well, see the thing about when you play zone that
Speaker 7: way though, when they run the guys through, do you lose.
Speaker 3: Track of where guys are?
Speaker 2: And that can happen.
Speaker 7: That's that's the thing with That's the thing I worry
Speaker 7: about with Dallas because they don't play they don't play.
Speaker 3: They play zone.
Speaker 7: But there I feel like they're better playing man. I
Speaker 7: feel like they're better if they they play man and
Speaker 7: if Hooker can help them, if Hooker.
Speaker 3: Lines up deep and he can read it, you.
Speaker 7: Know, and we've seen we've seen teams play that cover
Speaker 7: two look and then play with a robber, you know,
Speaker 7: take the safety and drive it down, you know, drive
Speaker 7: that safety, put the safety in the middle of the field.
Speaker 3: That's how that's how the Cleveland.
Speaker 7: Browns beat the forty nine ers with all the crossing
Speaker 7: stuff that the forty nine ers do. They played man,
Speaker 7: but they put a robber in the middle of the field,
Speaker 7: so they it made that that that crosser have to
Speaker 7: run a little bit. And all you're trying to do
Speaker 7: is little longer hold. All you're trying to do is
Speaker 7: make these guys hold the ball a little bit longer. Yeah,
Speaker 7: because this quarterback when he holds the ball, though, like
Speaker 7: I say, he's not gonna move. He's not gonna run
Speaker 7: away from you. The quarterbacks you played the last two
Speaker 7: weeks will run away if they see problems and he.
Speaker 2: Will get down, like he's not gonna says he's gonna
Speaker 2: get down.
Speaker 3: He's gonna get down, So.
Speaker 2: You get close to him, you can get him down.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So no, I see Dallas being who they are. I
Speaker 3: just do.
Speaker 5: I just feel like, if you're going to play man,
Speaker 5: you better you better be damn good at at press
Speaker 5: at disrupting at the line of scrimmage, disrupting those timing routes,
Speaker 5: because we talked about it, too. Is trying to get
Speaker 5: that ball out quickly, so his his passes are going
Speaker 5: to be based on timing, and you have to make
Speaker 5: sure that his man is not at the spot where
Speaker 5: he's throwing, because he's not thrown to the man. He's
Speaker 5: thrown to the spot he expects the guy to be.
Speaker 5: So I like a matchup like Deron Bland. He's physical
Speaker 5: and Tyreek Hill while he's you know, quick, speeding, He's
Speaker 5: all of those things. Not necessarily the most physical guy.
Speaker 5: You can disrupt him. Jaylen Waddow a little bit bigger
Speaker 5: than Tyreek, but you can disrupt him. Jordan Lewis versus
Speaker 5: Cedric Wilson, that'll be an interesting one because Wilson obviously
Speaker 5: former cowboy. He's bigger than both of those guys on
Speaker 5: the outside, but he doesn't necessarily have the speed. So
Speaker 5: I think Jordan Lewis can handle Cedric Wilson. So if
Speaker 5: you're going to press, if you're going to be do
Speaker 5: man coverage, don't don't play man and space them like,
Speaker 5: don't give them the space and man coverage that's just
Speaker 5: a death sent which.
Speaker 6: We see them do quite a bit. They're gonna have
Speaker 6: to give that five to seven yard cushion.
Speaker 7: You're gonna have to play run on the edge too,
Speaker 7: And so you're probably in a situation if you're playing zone,
Speaker 7: you're you know you're not. You're gonna have to commit
Speaker 7: guys the box, you know, especially on the age, and
Speaker 7: if you're playing if you commit guys to box, that
Speaker 7: meets you're.
Speaker 3: One on one on the outside. You can't play zone
Speaker 3: that way. They're gonna have to play man.
Speaker 5: Your linebackers are going to have to do damn well
Speaker 5: in coverage this week, especially if you choose to go
Speaker 5: to man, because if you choose to go to man
Speaker 5: and you go press, then of course you guys are
Speaker 5: at the line of scrimmage to try to disrupt. Once
Speaker 5: those guys get off of those routes. Guess what, Now
Speaker 5: it's on your linebackers. Now, your safety Molik, he's asked forward,
Speaker 5: and that's good. You want him to play forward as
Speaker 5: opposed to having to react backward to a play going deep.
Speaker 5: But your linebackers, if you do man coverage, I would
Speaker 5: suggest pressing. And if you then do press, your linebackers
Speaker 5: better be damn good in coverage.
Speaker 8: Well, speaking of linebacker, before we go to break, here
Speaker 8: are these two questions. And sorry if I mess up
Speaker 8: y'all's name, but I'm going to combine the two. First,
Speaker 8: John Teba's he's asking about my leak Jefferson and saying
Speaker 8: how he has a good size, and he says that
Speaker 8: he understands he might not be that good, but if so,
Speaker 8: why have him on the practice squad? And then kermeen
Speaker 8: Polo he's asking, do you guys think they're as a
Speaker 8: linebacker on someone else's practice squad that they can use
Speaker 8: for run defense? Basically, what can you possibly do right
Speaker 8: now to address the linebackeration?
Speaker 3: Is Jefferson out of elevations?
Speaker 5: I can check for you right now.
Speaker 3: I think I thought he was out of lay.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So they're in a situation right now that they
Speaker 7: would if to get him on.
Speaker 3: They would have to move somebody.
Speaker 7: They'd have to take somebody off the roster to get
Speaker 7: him on, and I don't think they're going to do that.
Speaker 2: In my opinion.
Speaker 6: The best way that they solve the linebacker issue for
Speaker 6: the rest of this year's year at least, is they
Speaker 6: got to get Hankens back, because I think if you
Speaker 6: get Hankins back, that gives you a big body, as
Speaker 6: you talked about last week, Brian, a big body that's
Speaker 6: that can move laterally as well. I think that keeps
Speaker 6: your linebackers cleaner than what we saw this last game,
Speaker 6: because otherwise, I just don't know. I don't trust that
Speaker 6: there's a guy on another team's practice squad that's going
Speaker 6: to be any better than what you got, Like, I
Speaker 6: just don't. I don't think if you got that guy,
Speaker 6: even if you're bigger, if you don't have the skill
Speaker 6: to still be able to move around offensive line and
Speaker 6: they get to the second level, you're still gonna have
Speaker 6: the same problem.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 8: So I just think that we keep talking about having
Speaker 8: that instinct of reaction, how.
Speaker 3: Quick can you guess?
Speaker 6: But how many guys on a practice squad have that
Speaker 6: level of it? Like, right, you know, you're still talking
Speaker 6: about guys that don't have the same level of skill
Speaker 6: as a as a starting linebacker in the NFL. So
Speaker 6: I personally believe you got to get Handkins back and
Speaker 6: so you basically just steady the ship until you can
Speaker 6: get him back, because otherwise I just don't know that
Speaker 6: there's a better option from a personnel standpoint out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Malie Jefferson's played three games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's out in San Francisco.
Speaker 7: In unless you put him on the active you have
Speaker 7: you have to, You would have to elevate him. And
Speaker 7: the one that would be interesting though is Evans, you know,
Speaker 7: and uh Rashad Evans that would be you know, and
Speaker 7: we'll see how I watched the Green Bay game last
Speaker 7: year where Michael was playing off ball linebacker the majority
Speaker 7: of that game, and what they did was they took
Speaker 7: Fouler and they took Armstrong on the right side, and
Speaker 7: then they put Tank on the left and then Micah
Speaker 7: played his off ball linebacker.
Speaker 3: Early in the game, he was really.
Speaker 7: It was it was good the way he played, and
Speaker 7: then it turned into he's just playing so many snaps
Speaker 7: he's having to rush and then he's having to play
Speaker 7: off ball linebacker, and so it's you know, it's a
Speaker 7: it's a it's a hard it's a hard game for
Speaker 7: him that way.
Speaker 6: So wait, are you saying that it wasn't necessarily about skill?
Speaker 6: It was more about fatigue as the game.
Speaker 3: I think I think the game.
Speaker 7: I think he got tired as the game wore on
Speaker 7: and they and what happens is that then the Packers
Speaker 7: were able to get guys up on him. And when
Speaker 7: Micah has problems is that.
Speaker 3: He will he'll.
Speaker 7: Jump around blocks and stuff like that. And you know
Speaker 7: he's athletic enough to make plays that way, but you know,
Speaker 7: the anticipation you got to play with it, linebacker. That's
Speaker 7: why you've had such great ones here with the Cowboys,
Speaker 7: that that wins. The Dexter coke Lees, the you know,
Speaker 7: the Shawn Lee's, the Layton vander Eshes, those guys they
Speaker 7: played with such instinct. They knew when they read a
Speaker 7: formation that they were going to play. Okay, they're gonna
Speaker 7: they're gonna do this. Well, they're running, they're half step ahead,
Speaker 7: at full step ahead, you know, and right now you've
Speaker 7: got guys that are safeties, that are trying to play
Speaker 7: with instinct and try and read blocks that are you know,
Speaker 7: and it's been difficult.
Speaker 3: There's no question about that.
Speaker 6: All Right, let's go and take our final break. We'll
Speaker 6: come back. We'll give our final thoughts on Dallas versus Miami.
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Speaker 6: this weekend that you should have an interest in. We'll
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Speaker 6: Welcome back, final segment of the Break Life from the
Speaker 6: SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star. I got a couple
Speaker 6: questions for you guys about the Dallas and Miami matchup.
Speaker 2: Let's start first.
Speaker 6: With the offensive side of the Ethan side. The ball
Speaker 6: for the Cowboys outside of Tyreek Hill, which Miami offensive
Speaker 6: player should Dallas be most concerned about.
Speaker 5: I'm stuck here between Jalen Wattle and A Chain. So
Speaker 5: much focus is rightfully placed on Tyreek Hill that if
Speaker 5: you place too much focus on him and you forget
Speaker 5: what Wattle is capable of, he'll break the game wide open.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go with Wattle on this one. I
Speaker 5: think that it's easy, kind of low hanging fruit, and
Speaker 5: it's justifiable low hanging fruit to look at the running
Speaker 5: backs and most of the A Chain and say, oh, well,
Speaker 5: look at what Cook did, And I get that, but
Speaker 5: circumstances permitted that. Hopefully the circumstances don't permit and the
Speaker 5: run defense can kind of do what it does. But Wattle.
Speaker 5: Don't forget Wattle is absolutely I mean cause he's a
Speaker 5: number one receiver on several teams that don't have Tyreek
Speaker 5: Hill uh on the roster. So for me, it's gonna
Speaker 5: be Wattle. Tyreek Hill obviously put a bottle on him
Speaker 5: as much as you can anyway, but don't look away
Speaker 5: from Jalen Wattle, because the moment you do, it's a
Speaker 5: big play.
Speaker 7: Moster has got like twenty touchdowns. You know, he catches
Speaker 7: the ball, he runs the ball, he's he's physical. I mean,
Speaker 7: he's an all round player. He can run, Yeah, and
Speaker 7: never comes off the field. Yeah, Waddle's great player. But
Speaker 7: Moster is gonna make Moster makes this thing go.
Speaker 3: They hand him the ball, toss him the ball, throw
Speaker 3: him the ball.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you've got to find a way to knock him
Speaker 7: around a little bit and not let him get going
Speaker 7: this game, especially he gets down in the down that
Speaker 7: tight red zone.
Speaker 3: You know, he just has a nose for the end
Speaker 3: zone and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: He's been outstanding this year, So I would worry about
Speaker 7: him quite a bit going in this especially after what
Speaker 7: I saw last week against Buffalo.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's exactly who I was going to say as well,
Speaker 8: because he does two things that the Cowboys have shown
Speaker 8: not to be great at and struggle with last week.
Speaker 8: One stopping the run. What is he a running back
Speaker 8: and runs? And two he can break tackles. Ye, what
Speaker 8: are the Cowboys defense of what are they struggling with
Speaker 8: right now? Tackling? They're having tackling issues. And like you said,
Speaker 8: he's a physical player and he can break those tackles
Speaker 8: and those are just two things. Running and tackles, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Flip it to the other side.
Speaker 6: Which Miami defender should Dallas be most concerned about Ramsey.
Speaker 7: Ramsey can eliminate your best player, your best receiver. He's
Speaker 7: got that kind of a bill. He's playing at a
Speaker 7: high level right now since he came back from injury.
Speaker 7: It's a fifty to fifty proposition throwing the ball at
Speaker 7: his direction. You know, he's one of the he's still
Speaker 7: one of the best in the league when it comes
Speaker 7: to challenging. He loves that. He loves the ability to
Speaker 7: go out and take your best receiver away. He'll play left,
Speaker 7: he'll play right, he'll play in the slot. That just
Speaker 7: shows you that he doesn't care wherever you're gonna go.
Speaker 7: He's gonna go.
Speaker 3: I worry about.
Speaker 7: Him just completely eliminating Seedee Lamb from this game.
Speaker 5: Bradley Chubb, the guy has almost ten sacks already. And
Speaker 5: we talked at the top of the show about the
Speaker 5: likelihood that you won't have Tyrone Smith on the field,
Speaker 5: So you better believe that Mike madonwel was going to
Speaker 5: take try to take advantage of that matchup as often
Speaker 5: as he can. Cho is really going to have to
Speaker 5: hold up and that's a tall task against a guy
Speaker 5: like Bradley Chubb. So he's a game wrecker and if
Speaker 5: you let him in that backfield to put hands on
Speaker 5: a pressure Dak Prescott, then you're going to see a
Speaker 5: lot of broken offensive plays. So for me, it's Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 8: Well, after we got done talking about the O line
Speaker 8: issues and health, a guy like Christian Wilkins. He's a
Speaker 8: guy that you know he plays like guard but also
Speaker 8: can move and rush. So that's anybody on the defensive
Speaker 8: line at this point is a good guest for me
Speaker 8: to be a struggle for this game against this Cowboys
Speaker 8: offensive line.
Speaker 6: All right, so let's talk about the NFC and what's
Speaker 6: happening this weekend. There are a whole litany of games
Speaker 6: that matter for the Cowboys because really, when you look
Speaker 6: at the NFC East and who's going to win the division,
Speaker 6: a lot of it comes down to this final or.
Speaker 2: Not the final type break.
Speaker 6: I think it's the fifth tie break, Yes, fifth, which
Speaker 6: is a strength of victory. And so yeah, so I'm
Speaker 6: gonna lay out for you right now, there are five
Speaker 6: teams that the Cowboys really need to win and there
Speaker 6: are five teams the Cowboys need to lose as they
Speaker 6: keep going through the season to help their strength to victory.
Speaker 6: And that's assuming both teams went out. I'm talking to
Speaker 6: Cowboys and Eagles. So you got Buffalo, who the Cowboys
Speaker 6: need to lose. They're playing at the Chargers. You need
Speaker 6: the Chargers to win. Convention says, that's probably not gonna happen,
Speaker 6: but that's where you're rooting. You're rooting for the Chargers.
Speaker 6: You got green Bay playing at Carolina. Dallas needs Carolina
Speaker 6: to continue to win or to win. They have not
Speaker 6: continued to win because they haven't been winning much. But
Speaker 6: that's the team that you want to win.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 6: Here's one that the Cowboys really need to win but
Speaker 6: they actually have a chance of winning is Detroit. Detroit
Speaker 6: goes to Minnesota. Dallas needs Detroit to continue to win.
Speaker 6: Washington at the New York Jets. The Jets are actually
Speaker 6: the team that the Cowboys need to continue to win.
Speaker 6: So you're rooting. It works out with your rooting interests.
Speaker 6: You hate the Washington Commanders, it's easy to root for
Speaker 6: the Jets. Root for the Jets to keep winning. Seattle
Speaker 6: another team the Cowboys want to continue to win. They'll
Speaker 6: be at Tennessee. That's another game where you would think
Speaker 6: they have a pretty good shot to win. And then
Speaker 6: you've got Jacksonville at Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay you want
Speaker 6: to lose. Arizona, you want to lose at Chicago. And
Speaker 6: then the final one Las Vegas. You want them to
Speaker 6: beat the.
Speaker 2: Chiefs in Kansas City.
Speaker 6: I don't know that's gonna work out, but that's how
Speaker 6: your rooting interested go for the weekend. I want us
Speaker 6: to pick the final three games that I think are
Speaker 6: by the way most important to the Cowboys. Let's start
Speaker 6: first with Baltimore at San Francisco. An interesting matchup what
Speaker 6: many people believe maybe the best two teams in the NFL.
Speaker 2: How do you guys pick it?
Speaker 5: You know what, Give me Baltimore this one. It'll be
Speaker 5: a fight, to say the least. We know what San
Speaker 5: Francisco is doing, we know how dominant they've been both
Speaker 5: on the road and at home. But we've also seen
Speaker 5: Baltimore in these types of games step up and play
Speaker 5: some big boy football, and they are as hell bent
Speaker 5: on being the bully as any other team in the league.
Speaker 5: So I think Harball has them ready to go in
Speaker 5: to San Francisco and take that one.
Speaker 8: Where do they play at San Francis. I've been there,
Speaker 8: done that, I know not crop I know not. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I think I can see the forty nine ers very
Speaker 8: well coming off with the win, for sure. But it's
Speaker 8: gonna be a really really good game to watch, actually,
Speaker 8: very very competitive. So that's one of the ones I
Speaker 8: will definitely be watching. But I think forty nine Ers,
Speaker 8: because they were playing at home, they end up with
Speaker 8: a win.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the Ravens feel like they're getting any respect at
Speaker 7: all for being as one of the best teams in
Speaker 7: the league. It's gonna be tough. They don't give up
Speaker 7: any points Baltimore, and they've got a quarterback that can
Speaker 7: kind of cause some problems for you with you know,
Speaker 7: with the Ravens and stuff.
Speaker 3: Give me Baltimore in that one. I think Baltimore is
Speaker 3: one of the.
Speaker 7: Best teams in the National Football And by the way,
Speaker 7: the Rams went there a couple of weeks ago and
Speaker 7: almost won a game there, And so maybe the Rams
Speaker 7: are the second best team in the National Football right now.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this.
Speaker 6: I just need somebody show me that San Francisco is
Speaker 6: beatable when they.
Speaker 3: Have all their parts.
Speaker 6: So Baltimore, I'm hoping that Baltimore can can show us
Speaker 6: that New York versus Philadelphia. They're in Philadelphia for this game.
Speaker 2: Who wins.
Speaker 3: If Cutlers.
Speaker 7: If the Giants had beaten the Saints last week, I
Speaker 7: would have felt better about their chances Right now.
Speaker 3: I feel like this Philadelphia gets back on the winning track.
Speaker 5: It's hard to it's hard to think that Philadelphia, even
Speaker 5: though they're on a slide. It's hard to think they
Speaker 5: lose four in a row. But then when you look
Speaker 5: at everything that's going on with them, and the commitment
Speaker 5: being questioned by Jalen Hurts and Sirianni admitting that he
Speaker 5: was playing for help from the refs, I mean that
Speaker 5: just tells you how dire straits there. Their secondary is
Speaker 5: without Darius Slay and I think Tommy Cutlets and day
Speaker 5: Ball going to target Brad Berry and that that secondary,
Speaker 5: and I think New York goes in and upsets them.
Speaker 5: I think I think they do. It might be by
Speaker 5: it might be by one point, but I think they're
Speaker 5: going to upset them. I mean that secondary is toast
Speaker 5: just pass, pass and keep passing.
Speaker 8: I hope you're right, because I hope. But I mean,
Speaker 8: even though I do think the the Eagles are starting
Speaker 8: to crumble and fall apart, I think it's just hard
Speaker 8: to see them not beating the Giants right now. I mean,
Speaker 8: but I hope the Giants win, but I will pick
Speaker 8: the Eagles for this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think it's a bounce back game for the Eagles.
Speaker 6: I think they get back on track. It might not
Speaker 6: be pretty, but I think they get the win. Final game,
Speaker 6: Cowboys at Miami. Give me your pick and your score.
Speaker 5: We talked about this when I said the Cowboys messed
Speaker 5: up my two week prediction. Yeah, because I predicted that
Speaker 5: they take Buffalo. But then I predicted that because they
Speaker 5: took Buffalo, they lose in Miami. But they lost in Buffalo,
Speaker 5: And then it sticks me right where you are am
Speaker 5: barred that they don't lose to in a row. I
Speaker 5: just keep coming back to that. There are so many
Speaker 5: reasons that my gut says the Dolphins will do this.
Speaker 5: The Dolphins will do this, and the Dolphins will probably
Speaker 5: score points and this will be a hell of a game.
Speaker 5: But the resiliencyeing this team in the McCarthy era, I
Speaker 5: just I can't get over that. So until they lose
Speaker 5: to in a row, they haven't lost to in a row.
Speaker 5: I don't think they do it this weekend. So Dolphin,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Cowboys over Dolphins. But it comes down to,
Speaker 5: you know, fifty five yard kicked by Butter Aubrey to
Speaker 5: get it done.
Speaker 3: So Dolphins twenty eight, Cowboys twenty.
Speaker 5: Four, didn't give you a school twenty seven to twenty four.
Speaker 3: Cowboys Dolphins twenty eight, Colways twenty four.
Speaker 8: All right, my heart says one thing, my brain says another.
Speaker 5: So I went with this if I.
Speaker 8: Don't want to pick this game, because if I picked
Speaker 8: them to win and they lose, I'm going to be
Speaker 8: so mad because they like doing that to me. But uh,
Speaker 8: I don't, I don't. I don't know, literally literally. The
Speaker 8: only thing that's that it's PINNI me tours them winning
Speaker 8: is the stat is that stat? But how much can
Speaker 8: of stat really really stay true? There's no guaranteed, right,
Speaker 8: but it's true until it's not. That will make the future.
Speaker 7: But whatever what am I words you sad to say
Speaker 7: about compromised offensive life.
Speaker 5: It says they were in for a long day.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, let's let's go with the Cowboys. All right,
Speaker 8: that's close one. Hopefully, I don't know this. Let's give
Speaker 8: a score of twenty no, yeah, twenty eight, twenty six. Uh,
Speaker 8: it comes down to a kick.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was really prepared if they won last week, to
Speaker 6: say that this would be a week that they were
Speaker 6: gonna lose exactly. I didn't when we when we started
Speaker 6: this five game stretch, we talked about it. I was like,
Speaker 6: there's no way they're going to go undefeated in that
Speaker 6: five game stretch. I do think they're good enough to
Speaker 6: go four and one, and so the fact that they
Speaker 6: lost last week is what gives me the belief that
Speaker 6: they'll go in this week and they'll win. I do
Speaker 6: think though it's going to be a high scoring game.
Speaker 6: I think this is gonna be a game where it's
Speaker 6: gonna be a lot of track track.
Speaker 2: I absolutely do.
Speaker 6: And I think that what we saw from those off
Speaker 6: I intimated earlier in the show, what we saw from
Speaker 6: those offensive linemen earlier this year, is that they can
Speaker 6: play like and I think that Michae will go into
Speaker 6: this game and say I'm not gonna take put the
Speaker 6: handcuffs on my team. I'm going in and saying we're
Speaker 6: going to pla football and we're gonna do what we
Speaker 6: do best. And I think they're gonna go at Miami,
Speaker 6: and by the way, Miami's gonna go with them, and
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be a high scoring game. I
Speaker 6: think Cowboys win thirty seven to thirty five on the rule.
Speaker 6: Christmas Eve, all right, I appreciate you guys, Jonas said, Amber,
Speaker 6: gonna get some lunch.
Speaker 2: We'll be back Monday.
Speaker 3: We'll let you know what.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. We'll be back on Tuesday. Tuesday, you guys
Speaker 2: have a very very Christmas. We'll catch up with you
Speaker 2: next week. Till there.
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