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Speaker 1: twenty two, Season seventeen, episode number ninety three. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Break Life nest WBC Mortgage Studios.
Speaker 1: At the start, Nick get Us started with a ninety
Speaker 1: two and a ninety three because Dave wouldn' let us
Speaker 1: get to ninety two yesterday ninety two. I mean Tony
Speaker 1: Tilbert has always been one of my favorite guys. Like
Speaker 1: him a lot, so I can't think of a whole
Speaker 1: lot of others. There three, Um, I have a good answer.
Speaker 1: I almost have an answer. There we go, There we go,
Speaker 1: quite get the answer, so hopeful you would have almost
Speaker 1: got it, Anthony Spencer, there we go, which for the
Speaker 1: first four years of his career he was almost Anthony, Yeah,
Speaker 1: almost made a play almost, and then he did. They
Speaker 1: started making plays. He was pretty good. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: was almost there, so you couldn't just kill him like
Speaker 1: you were, like, I see it, I see he's he's good.
Speaker 1: He can get there almost, I'm never quite there. And
Speaker 1: then he started kind of figuring it out. Shout out
Speaker 1: my favorite ninety two Jeremy Menci great gay, Yeah, Jeremy was.
Speaker 1: He would have been perfect for a team like this,
Speaker 1: like he would because because he was a very solid,
Speaker 1: productive third pass rusher. He like I mean, if he's
Speaker 1: he's Terrell Basham, Terrell bashtsh and great personality, great leadership
Speaker 1: qualities in the locker room. It just so happened that
Speaker 1: he was the best pass rusher on a couple of
Speaker 1: those teams, and that's where you get in trouble. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he could have been on a team like this,
Speaker 1: where he's the third guy off the bench, awesome. He
Speaker 1: had a pretty what name with Jacksonville before here and
Speaker 1: had a pretty good he had a nice NFL career
Speaker 1: that's never spectaclested, veteran kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, nothing
Speaker 1: to be ashamed of. Awesome. All Right, we're gonna we
Speaker 1: got a lot of things we're gonna do today. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do some storylines, as we do every Friday, things
Speaker 1: that we think will be the storylines of this game
Speaker 1: coming up on Saturday. I'm sorry, Saturday night. Uh. Then
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a little game. Was Pepe, Yes, he was.
Speaker 1: I think I'm pretty sure he will like I just
Speaker 1: like the name pep Pepine three good perfect Um. Then
Speaker 1: we're gonna have In the second seme, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a little game and see a note, we haven't done
Speaker 1: that in so long, and Amber's got some great questions
Speaker 1: for us, and we'll have some fun with that. And
Speaker 1: then in the final second we do have some fan questions.
Speaker 1: If you guys want to call us in a third segment.
Speaker 1: We haven't heard from you guys in a while, so
Speaker 1: we'll call us eight eight eight eight five five two
Speaker 1: two ninety seven, and we'll try to get some questions
Speaker 1: and talk to you guys about how you're feeling about
Speaker 1: this team heading into the final week of the regular
Speaker 1: season and then into the playoffs. Let's start first storylines,
Speaker 1: and we don't usually play this game in most weeks
Speaker 1: since COVID, but I think in this week it actually
Speaker 1: makes some sense. Who's gonna play and who's gonna sit like.
Speaker 1: I think that's a that is the storyline of this game.
Speaker 1: For me. That's a wonderful question. And I mean so well,
Speaker 1: I mean, right off the jump, we just know Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith, and Anthony Brown aren't going to play. I
Speaker 1: Mike's not talking today. It's a travel day. So if
Speaker 1: there's an addition of the COVID list, it'll come out
Speaker 1: with the waiver wire probably, So hold on your seats
Speaker 1: for that. We'll see, we'll see if they have to
Speaker 1: make any changes. Biggs and Donovan Wilson are the two
Speaker 1: that could go there. I mean, that's just explain what's
Speaker 1: what's going on because they were put on the injury
Speaker 1: report as illnesses and they didn't practice. And Mike mccarth
Speaker 1: admitted clear yesterday that there was a lot of guys
Speaker 1: he said that were that were sick and they haven't
Speaker 1: tested positive yet. I don't know if you said yet, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think you said yet. I'm not susive, um,
Speaker 1: but there was a case that there was a situation
Speaker 1: and I know everything's different, there was a situation last
Speaker 1: week's same exact thing, illness on one day, next day COVID.
Speaker 1: We'll see I mean, I hope not, we'll see it's interest.
Speaker 1: It's it's not usually COVID in these situations, but I
Speaker 1: swear these things follow a similar script, where like Monday,
Speaker 1: it's played a win, played to win, played to win,
Speaker 1: and by Friday it's like, well, if all these guys
Speaker 1: are out, maybe not. I just I don't know this
Speaker 1: for sure, but I just don't think that you're going
Speaker 1: to see a traditional starters play every snap sort of game.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to have a plan for this.
Speaker 1: I think the important guys will be sitting by the
Speaker 1: end of the game if they're If they don't sit
Speaker 1: for the whole thing, obviously some of them will. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some significant players for the Eagles at our out
Speaker 1: as well, Jason Kelsey, they're centers out, they're running back,
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders is out. So I think there are As
Speaker 1: you said, Dave, I think as the week goes on,
Speaker 1: both teams start the week we're playing, and as the
Speaker 1: week wears on, you start seeing guys kind of not playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do I want to put this guy out? If this
Speaker 1: guy isn't in there, and that's where you know, we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens by tomorrow night. All I can think
Speaker 1: about it is just the kid that it's twelve years
Speaker 1: old and he got two tickets to this game for Christmas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all I always think about it. And I think
Speaker 1: that in the league is trying it's best. That's why
Speaker 1: why do they move the game from Saturday Funday Saturday
Speaker 1: and flexing and all that. They're trying the best that
Speaker 1: they can so people that have they spend good money
Speaker 1: for these tickets and they don't want to turn it
Speaker 1: into a preseason game. And that's unfortunately that's what happens sometimes.
Speaker 1: And I think they're doing their best, but you know,
Speaker 1: those same fans would be upset when when they're like,
Speaker 1: don't treat it that way and a guy gets hurt,
Speaker 1: and I do I feel expect I mean, the weather
Speaker 1: is gonna suck on Saturday night. I feel for anybody
Speaker 1: that's gonna sit in this and if if it's if
Speaker 1: it's what I think it's gonna be and not all
Speaker 1: that serious of a game, that sucks for you. But
Speaker 1: it also Mario, that was Beam. I just don't I
Speaker 1: didn't understand the significance of it. Though I have to
Speaker 1: sit in it. Oh there were Yeah, good personal for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sorry Chris person. But to get yeah, I don't have
Speaker 1: to get two jobs. Easy for those of us who
Speaker 1: sit in the press box to say, um, just go
Speaker 1: back to last year and just remember in Philadelphia, Benda
Speaker 1: Nucci was driving the ball down the field and try
Speaker 1: to win the game. And you know that was what
Speaker 1: we saw last year. Like side arm slinging. It got
Speaker 1: about nine points. I think it should be better than that.
Speaker 1: I think most people would gladly trade. Like you've got
Speaker 1: a funny story of like, yeah, I got these tickets
Speaker 1: to this game. It was miserable and it's kind of
Speaker 1: a funny story as opposed to somebody tore their acl
Speaker 1: a week before the playoffs. I mean, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, it'll be interesting. I think this game.
Speaker 1: We'll see what it looks like by tomorrow night. But
Speaker 1: there certainly could be more names that pop up on
Speaker 1: lists today for both the Cowboys and for the Eagles
Speaker 1: that could affect the outcome of that game. You like
Speaker 1: you got something to say, Amber, No, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: just like going back and forth. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: tough decision because do you I'm thinking in my head
Speaker 1: as I was looking at you, I'm like thinking, in
Speaker 1: my head, Okay, where is the cut off point of
Speaker 1: people that you sit out? And even guys that because
Speaker 1: you're gonna have guys that are starters and are gonna
Speaker 1: have to play regardless, and then you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: keep But then what if something happens to those guys
Speaker 1: in the game. So it's just like, okay, again, once
Speaker 1: you start taking starters out, the level changes, but you
Speaker 1: want to make sure you keep those guys safe as well.
Speaker 1: So it's just a weird combination. I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: exactly what they do. And I mean we see it
Speaker 1: in preseason games and all that, but also you have
Speaker 1: more guys at that point, and I don't know, I
Speaker 1: was just that's what was what's going through my mom.
Speaker 1: I Okay, what's the caught off here? Who? And No,
Speaker 1: it's a good point. And to be clear, and Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said this himself, I mean, there's only so much
Speaker 1: you can do in the regular season, like a lot
Speaker 1: of guys are gonna have to play. Like it's not
Speaker 1: the preseason where you can sit every starter and still
Speaker 1: have seventy guys available that you got forty eight and
Speaker 1: do the math on how many are left over once
Speaker 1: you start pulling people. So, I mean, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys will still get some run just
Speaker 1: because they have to mathematically. So if I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think how do they get to the three, what's the
Speaker 1: easiest way they get to the three? There's only sorry,
Speaker 1: but there's only two ways to move up at all, Right,
Speaker 1: so losses. Cardinals have to lose because they have a
Speaker 1: tiebreaker with you and the MS Rams. Also, those two
Speaker 1: would have to lose to move up to the two
Speaker 1: to the three, and then throw in Tampa would have
Speaker 1: to lose to climb up to the two. Tampa's playing Carolina,
Speaker 1: Cardinals are playing um Set Seattle, and then you've got
Speaker 1: the Rams playing. And by the way, I think didn't
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers beat the Rams earlier this year?
Speaker 1: That's the one that that is the game where you
Speaker 1: think it's it's very possible that No, it's I mean
Speaker 1: the other two be upsets, right, those would be surprising,
Speaker 1: particularly I mean Pete Carroll coming back. I'm sorry, if
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll coming back next year, that's the assumption. I mean,
Speaker 1: they got a lot of stuff bigger question is is
Speaker 1: the quarterback coming back? I mean that's where everybody's talking
Speaker 1: is in Seattle. I don't know they got home games.
Speaker 1: I think both of those two teams have the favorites
Speaker 1: are at home, I believe, so that sounds right to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just thinking maybe if this is the last
Speaker 1: game Seattle, you know, I don't know. Seettle sneaky like that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when they're not playing for anything, they actually can
Speaker 1: be Probably the NFC West is a yeah, madhouse. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have no result in that division would surprise trying
Speaker 1: to lose games here. I mean Tampa has been I
Speaker 1: mean they've been throwing it out there to try to
Speaker 1: get me. He's got a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 1: There's a lot going Carolina. Carolina team is so awful though,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, they're bad like Jets bad, said Carolina.
Speaker 1: Said Carolina Temp. Okay, I mean I Matt Rule might
Speaker 1: be coaching his last game, which is wilding. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they are. They are an s show. But I mean
Speaker 1: they had you gotta admit, like they they their best
Speaker 1: player has missed the significant part of the season. I
Speaker 1: don't know they're how much you kill him for that?
Speaker 1: The way that they've handled their quarterback situation is a
Speaker 1: joke anyway. That's that's but that's that's that's and and
Speaker 1: bring it back to the Cowboys. That's why when people
Speaker 1: talk about Dak and they're like, man, he's not Rogers,
Speaker 1: get rid of him, get somebody else. I'm like, nah,
Speaker 1: that's not how this works in the NFL. Like it's
Speaker 1: only gonna be one or two teams to have that
Speaker 1: caliber quarterback. If you got a quarterback that's capable enough
Speaker 1: that with the right pieces around them, can get you
Speaker 1: to the Promised Land, then you you take that and
Speaker 1: you keep that and you work with that and you
Speaker 1: try to see what you can build around them, because
Speaker 1: what you don't want to be is that team like
Speaker 1: Carolina that has no shot because they don't have a quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. And also don't forget that. Coaches like their
Speaker 1: record is tied to them, you know, so they don't
Speaker 1: like just going out and losing games because no one's
Speaker 1: gonna say, well, you know, what's McCarthy's record in three years.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, well, it's really this because remember that
Speaker 1: last game. No one says that's so it all matters here,
Speaker 1: you know, he got a six and ten to start
Speaker 1: this thing out last year, so he's I mean, they're
Speaker 1: gonna They're definitely gonna try to win, just at what cost,
Speaker 1: I think, and I think that they're gonna play most
Speaker 1: of the guys will play most of the game. Philly
Speaker 1: is part of this equation too, I mean Phillies. Philly's
Speaker 1: less interested in winning this thing than the Cowboys are,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, which makes sense. They have less to
Speaker 1: play for, Like neither team has a ton to play for,
Speaker 1: but Philly's like, okay. So this is the difference between
Speaker 1: going on the road to a team we don't know,
Speaker 1: verse going on the road to a team like, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: Tampa or La who cares what I mean? Whatever? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what's interesting, I just noticed this when I
Speaker 1: was looking doing the prep on the show. If Philly
Speaker 1: wins this game, they will end the season one game
Speaker 1: behind the Cowboys, which is remarkable to say, based on
Speaker 1: how both teams started. The fact that they would have
Speaker 1: roared back and the Cowboys at their struggles in the
Speaker 1: middle of the season to where they're at a point
Speaker 1: where they're one game apart. I think that would be
Speaker 1: a big that would make Philadelphia feel really good about
Speaker 1: where they are the season, and probably for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: doesn't feel great when you're one game ahead of a
Speaker 1: team that you probably had a I don't know what's
Speaker 1: the biggest league they had at any point this season,
Speaker 1: but they were running away with this division at the
Speaker 1: midway point, and to win by one game I think
Speaker 1: would feel a little anticlimactic. I doubt it. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: go ahead, this is gonna say. That's what makes me wonder,
Speaker 1: even though, like Dave says, this is not they're not
Speaker 1: neither are playing for much. But then, and I know
Speaker 1: we talked about it on here a lot too, is players,
Speaker 1: you know, the competitive side of things and like rival
Speaker 1: I can't say rivalry, rivalry, yes that, but it makes
Speaker 1: me wonder. I mean, yes, we can comment on it,
Speaker 1: Oh this is unimportant or whatever, but when you are
Speaker 1: on that side of the building, how like competitive are they?
Speaker 1: You know, I can be playing a video game and
Speaker 1: I will beat you up and do anything I can,
Speaker 1: even if he means nothing like I'm not winning anything
Speaker 1: through a video game, but you're competitive. So it makes
Speaker 1: me wonder, like how much that really comes into play
Speaker 1: with them while they're planning to face them this weekend,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I think that that has something
Speaker 1: to do with it too. I don't think they just
Speaker 1: go in here thinking, oh, well, it's just a game
Speaker 1: that we just need to get through Bay and then
Speaker 1: they'll feed off their fans, and their fans will certainly
Speaker 1: want to beat Dallas more. It doesn't matter what kind
Speaker 1: of game it is, they're always going to want to
Speaker 1: do that. So I wonder what the line has done.
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at the line. Vegas is pretty good
Speaker 1: at that. It was seven seven and a half at
Speaker 1: one point. I'll tell him anymore because Mica Parsons being
Speaker 1: out Iron Smith is now, Oh what the hell? ESPN?
Speaker 1: They usually have the line on the scoreboard and they
Speaker 1: don't day Sorry, I think, how did they come up
Speaker 1: with their number? Oh god, it's fascinating. It's forty five
Speaker 1: minutes show. I don't think. I really don't know. Cowboys
Speaker 1: Cowboys by five right now? Okay, so it's gone down,
Speaker 1: which which just makes sense. I mean, hey, to answer
Speaker 1: your question, a whole bunch of smart people with a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of money, just break it down. Who know
Speaker 1: how they made that money? So they're using the history
Speaker 1: of how they made that money to make more money.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well, beyond my grass, it's amazing. I don't
Speaker 1: know if y'all like it. I mean, I always watch
Speaker 1: um bad beats, Oh Mike, it's my favorite part of
Speaker 1: the week, favorite part bad beats. And basically you probably
Speaker 1: have no idea what that is, but it's basically a
Speaker 1: bad beat is is when you bet something and you've
Speaker 1: got like, you know, you're saying that they're gonna win
Speaker 1: by six points in basketball, and they're up by like
Speaker 1: you know, they're up by like seven or whatever, they're
Speaker 1: up by five, and they've got it, they got it done.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, somebody hits a sixty foot shot
Speaker 1: to win and when something something incredible happens to screw
Speaker 1: your bet at the last second. Basically, probably better way
Speaker 1: to yeah, good job, more simple into the bad beats. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Cowboys had one this year. I forgot it
Speaker 1: was on there. I don't remember what I don't remember.
Speaker 1: But then they also manufactured those two Sometimes when they
Speaker 1: don't have a good one, they're like the first half
Speaker 1: money line. Yeah, when when SVP pulls out the like
Speaker 1: well the first half over was this I'm like, okay, Pepperdine,
Speaker 1: I don't care about that, but somebody, somebody is the
Speaker 1: all time one. That's sorry the out. This is just
Speaker 1: burned into my brain. I think it was the four
Speaker 1: final four. Yukon had a Mecca Oka four and they
Speaker 1: played Duke with Duhan. He was still there, and I
Speaker 1: think the line was like two or three, and Yukon
Speaker 1: hit some free throws to secure a four point margin
Speaker 1: with like a second left, and I think it was
Speaker 1: Duhan just hit it from like the logo and they
Speaker 1: lost by one at the buzzer, like you can't win.
Speaker 1: He just shot it because that's what you was losing
Speaker 1: their mind, and I mean they swung the whole line
Speaker 1: based on a BS half course shots. A couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. I forgot which team it was. I feel
Speaker 1: it was like it was like the Chiefs and Washington
Speaker 1: or somebody was up and the underdog was was like
Speaker 1: getting eight points and they were winning the whole game.
Speaker 1: The whole game they were winning, and at the last second,
Speaker 1: I think it was, the Chiefs went down to kick
Speaker 1: the field goal to go up by like three to
Speaker 1: to you know, to tie the untie the game with
Speaker 1: two seconds to go, they're gonna win it. And then
Speaker 1: the next play on the kickoff they're just hitch and
Speaker 1: pitch and throwing it around and then the ball goes
Speaker 1: into the end zone and they recover and ended up
Speaker 1: winning by nine. That is a bad beat. Oh what
Speaker 1: do you what do you think? I got this whole game?
Speaker 1: Maybe they win, maybe they don't know, but I got
Speaker 1: eight points and then you lose by nine. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that sucks. That's what it was. Casinos are nice for
Speaker 1: a reason. Yeah, exactly. All right, we're gonna take our
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Speaker 1: It is your turn. What do you have for us? Okay,
Speaker 1: before we start the game, there's a question that I've
Speaker 1: received a lot and I wanted to get everything to
Speaker 1: A horoscope says it. No, okay, good, Okay, We'll leave
Speaker 1: that for later. But I've received this question a lot,
Speaker 1: and it's basically what's been happening with Amari Cooper and
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore. Amari Cooper maybe voicing out that he's not
Speaker 1: getting the ball enough and then fancying that at games too.
Speaker 1: Is there an issue there with what he's been doing
Speaker 1: versus like what Kellen Moore hasn't planned for the offense
Speaker 1: or what is your takeaway from what's been going on
Speaker 1: with him in the offense and Kellen Moore's plan. I
Speaker 1: think my take on that is it's it's just it's
Speaker 1: the downside of and I think this is Kelly and
Speaker 1: and Dak it's the downside of that. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we go with what they give us attitude and that
Speaker 1: it can be a good thing, like it can be
Speaker 1: a very good thing when it's humming and everything's working.
Speaker 1: You do what they give you, and it usually winds
Speaker 1: up working out where everybody gets their numbers. But sometimes
Speaker 1: that doesn't work and it can work against you where
Speaker 1: you're not actively trying to feed your playmakers the ball.
Speaker 1: And I think that is the downside of like sometimes
Speaker 1: I think you do have to force the issue, and
Speaker 1: I think maybe that's an issue for Kellen and maybe
Speaker 1: to some degree for Dack and with that another thing
Speaker 1: that another layer, and you guys can answer to it.
Speaker 1: You know how we've talked about the DYNA and being
Speaker 1: so good on the offense and everybody getting along basically
Speaker 1: and clicking and all that. With those comments coming now
Speaker 1: from Amari Cooper, I've seen I've received comments in question
Speaker 1: like is there some kind of friction starting to happen
Speaker 1: there where? Now it's not a smooth that is as
Speaker 1: it used to be, and maybe there's some locker room
Speaker 1: problems going on now. I don't think so. And I
Speaker 1: think that Amari Cooper answered that question in the best
Speaker 1: way that he can't, you know, from you ask a
Speaker 1: star wide receiver if they want the ball more if
Speaker 1: there's not going to be many that say that they don't.
Speaker 1: And Michael Gallup is the only one that I've ever
Speaker 1: heard that kind of hinted at that. I know Michael
Speaker 1: wants the ball, but I mean he kind of hinted
Speaker 1: at it that one that one day that we talk about.
Speaker 1: But I don't think there's friction at all. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys heard, do you hear what
Speaker 1: Amari said? Yesterday on the fan, he was asked on
Speaker 1: by broad Us actually brought us asked him a question.
Speaker 1: He said, um, a, Mario, we've given you guys too
Speaker 1: much crap all about this offense. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: are you guys, is this something that we should be
Speaker 1: worried about or is it? Is it? Are y'all worried about?
Speaker 1: Is it too much? But why why we keep talking
Speaker 1: about the offense? And you know, Mari's like going eighty
Speaker 1: miles down the highway or whatever you can. It's hard
Speaker 1: to hear him, and he's quiet anyways, but he said
Speaker 1: something to the effect of when you are in sports,
Speaker 1: when you have shown the ability that you can be great,
Speaker 1: fans expect that all the time. That's the level that
Speaker 1: they put you at, and if you don't reach that
Speaker 1: all the time, then they are going to be that way.
Speaker 1: And and and we've put it on ourselves. We've shown
Speaker 1: it and we demonstrated ability, and we're not there all
Speaker 1: the time. And when you're not there all the time,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get criticism. And that's the way sports is.
Speaker 1: I thought that was fair. I thought, oh, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's why I love listening to him talk. He really
Speaker 1: always got very insightful things to say that are like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's it's just so insightfully said, yeah, it was perfect,
Speaker 1: Like I was. I actually was driving down the road.
Speaker 1: I was with William. William and I were driving yesterday
Speaker 1: and he and Marie answered, he goes, well, you know,
Speaker 1: in sports, and I was like, here we go, like
Speaker 1: philosophy time. And then we're like, uh huh yeah, good answer,
Speaker 1: good answer. He's he actually is pretty good when he
Speaker 1: kind of listen. He's the best. Yeah, show really good.
Speaker 1: If you know how to talk to him, right, I
Speaker 1: mean like if you ask him yes or no answer
Speaker 1: he was. I mean, he's gonna say yes or no.
Speaker 1: It's not a shot at me. It's not a shot
Speaker 1: at you. It's not a it's not a shot a
Speaker 1: shot at For those that don't know, Nick did the
Speaker 1: first interview that a Mari did when he gets which
Speaker 1: it's not a shot at you, because how could you
Speaker 1: talking about how could you ever possibly know him? How
Speaker 1: could terrible? How could you know that? I give made money.
Speaker 1: Gary Madelon made money off of that because he was like, okay,
Speaker 1: oh no, Jared Jry Jarry was Jarry was city and
Speaker 1: Jared Madelon is our guy that kind of works with
Speaker 1: all of our talent. And he was very quick to
Speaker 1: be like, hey, I got some stuff I want to
Speaker 1: run by Nick. I don't want to, you want don't
Speaker 1: want to come off as too harsh, but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta talk about the Amar interviewer. It was. It
Speaker 1: was a rough one. But you don't know that until
Speaker 1: you interview and then you find out, Yeah, he's not
Speaker 1: the type where you can just kind of have a
Speaker 1: conversation with him. You got to give him a good
Speaker 1: point question so he can give you a great good
Speaker 1: interviewers know how to adjust in the moment. You know,
Speaker 1: you you get what you see what that's get shot.
Speaker 1: That's what you gotta do in football too. You see
Speaker 1: what the other team is giving you, and then you
Speaker 1: adjust to what they're giving. I've probably I've probably told
Speaker 1: this story before, but I just love it. Uh it was.
Speaker 1: It was his first season, was when he got traded.
Speaker 1: They made the playoffs, and like when the playoffs come around,
Speaker 1: you know, all these slappies start showing up, like people
Speaker 1: who haven't covered the team all year. The local news
Speaker 1: station sends their non sports reporters out to do like
Speaker 1: human interest stories, columnists just all kinds of people that
Speaker 1: haven't been around show up for the playoffs and somebody
Speaker 1: they were trying to get that juicy sound bite and
Speaker 1: they just didn't know Amar, and they were like, when
Speaker 1: did you feel like a cowboy? Like when was the
Speaker 1: first time you felt like a cow And like he
Speaker 1: just kind of stood there and like thought about it.
Speaker 1: He was like, I get like when they called me
Speaker 1: and told me I got traded, I guess like I
Speaker 1: just it was the It was the worst answer. It's
Speaker 1: not a Mari's fault. It was fantastic. And I'm just
Speaker 1: over here like dying, laughing, listening all the Beat reporters
Speaker 1: that have been around and looking at this guy leg
Speaker 1: or a girl whoever. I don't remember who said it.
Speaker 1: I don't remember who asked the question. I just it
Speaker 1: was it was peak of Mari Cooper. It's great, was
Speaker 1: my question. It was all right, let's get into some
Speaker 1: c No. This one plays into Kellen Moore. Pretty simple question.
Speaker 1: It is killing Moore gonna be here next year. See
Speaker 1: oh see, oh you're expecting something different? Yeah I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, oh yeah, you didn't answer. I guess see
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, he's gonna I don't know
Speaker 1: how many jobs are gonna be open. I mean right
Speaker 1: now there's two. Probably on the average, you're going to
Speaker 1: six to eight depending on the year. Yeah, it's tough
Speaker 1: to go from pro to college unless you sit out
Speaker 1: a year or you leave your team high and dry
Speaker 1: in December. So it's not like you can go to
Speaker 1: a college job. Yeah, I don't think college is probably
Speaker 1: gonna think all the college openings are filled, right, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That's why you know gets done quicker.
Speaker 1: I just gotta be Bobby Petrino to just just say
Speaker 1: unless they just which they could, but unless they like
Speaker 1: catch fire during the playoffs. It's just it's been so
Speaker 1: herky jerky the second half of the year, and I
Speaker 1: know that's not They're not going to hire you based
Speaker 1: off the strength of your last eight games. It's your
Speaker 1: overall resume. But I don't know, I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like his star is kind of diminished a
Speaker 1: little bit here again, But last year there was still
Speaker 1: like there was already some noise being created. I know
Speaker 1: every year it's different, like you said, depends what's vacant
Speaker 1: at the moment. But you know, when you start hearing
Speaker 1: something from the year before, it kind of makes you
Speaker 1: think that it's eventually gonna happen and he's gonna have to,
Speaker 1: you know, take what Dave just said. But then you
Speaker 1: can kind of, you know, go in there and you'll
Speaker 1: you'll have this personality that'll just knock their socks off
Speaker 1: and all that. And if he if he does that,
Speaker 1: that's something, then he does a great job. I'll take
Speaker 1: him to Vegas to play poker, because that's not what
Speaker 1: I see out of him. If he's got that in him, fine,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's he's got a better personality
Speaker 1: than he shows when he talks to the media. But
Speaker 1: I yeah, not just light the room up like just
Speaker 1: the most gregarious guy in the world. Yeah. And also
Speaker 1: think too, when you have a younger guy, younger coach
Speaker 1: who has inconsistent results, I think that probably gives I
Speaker 1: would think if it were me making decision, it would
Speaker 1: give me pause. It's one thing when you have years
Speaker 1: of watching him do it and there may be some inconsistency,
Speaker 1: then maybe you can give him a benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt that there were circumstances that led to that I
Speaker 1: don't know that he has enough enough history for me
Speaker 1: if I were making decision, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: have enough history of him as a as a play call,
Speaker 1: as an offensive coordinator to say I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm certain that he can handle this, he's ready for this.
Speaker 1: But I just don't know. But you go, you go
Speaker 1: to the playoffs and you you score thirty seven points
Speaker 1: in a you know, against Arizona or whatever, and the
Speaker 1: offense is rolling and all that stuff. Go to green Bay,
Speaker 1: do whatever you're gonna do, and green Bay gets scores them,
Speaker 1: you know, points there, Maybe win the game. If you
Speaker 1: did that, I mean definitely gets hired. You go beat
Speaker 1: Green Bay and an offensive and it's a game where
Speaker 1: they offense, Yeah, beat them. Maybe it changes the narrative.
Speaker 1: The thing that I when I think about Kellen, I
Speaker 1: just think about um. The one thing that gives me
Speaker 1: pause is a job where they need you to develop
Speaker 1: a young quarterback because he's done that. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much credit you want to give him for developing
Speaker 1: Dac into what he is now, but he's been there
Speaker 1: for his whole career. He was there as a teammate
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach. He got hurt for him. He did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he launched Dak's career in a way. But
Speaker 1: I mean, so if Kellen can go into and I mean,
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville job is open. He did not want to
Speaker 1: talk about whether or not he's going to talk to
Speaker 1: them at all, but so he might interview there. Chicago
Speaker 1: seems like a likely opening where there's a young quarterback
Speaker 1: in need of development. So if he could go into
Speaker 1: a situation like that and say, this is what I
Speaker 1: did for Dak Prescott fourth round pick, think about what
Speaker 1: I can do for your first round pick. Maybe can
Speaker 1: I play see or no real quick? And we don't
Speaker 1: need to go into detail on this to see or No?
Speaker 1: If he leaves, is the next offensive coordinator already on
Speaker 1: the seat? I think so see, I don't think, and
Speaker 1: I bet you're going to ask us about Dan too. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but if either one of them leaves, I think they
Speaker 1: promote on this staff. It's my guess. I can believe
Speaker 1: that I can buy that too. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: though I don't really know this staff well enough. If
Speaker 1: you can Jason Garrett was here, I would be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you promoting the house all the time. I'll call my
Speaker 1: shot right now. If Kellen leaves, I think Doug nust
Speaker 1: Meyer's your OC next year. If Dan Quinn leaves, I
Speaker 1: think Joe Witt is your DC. Joe Witt said during
Speaker 1: the bye week that one of his two dream jobs
Speaker 1: as a young coach was to be the Cowboys DC,
Speaker 1: and he's dan Quinn talked about him yesterday like he's
Speaker 1: the guy, not that Dan doesn't have a role in it,
Speaker 1: but like Joe Witt is the architect of what they're
Speaker 1: doing in coverage and calling that stuff and all that
Speaker 1: type of stuff. So that just makes sense. Could also
Speaker 1: be the DC for Dan Quinn. If dan Quinn gets
Speaker 1: that's true, that's a good point. But does that guy
Speaker 1: have Trayvon Diggson and Michael Parsons. Well, see, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: I mean. You're still trying to look at what's gonna
Speaker 1: give you the best chance to keep advancing, and you
Speaker 1: look at this defensive roster and you're like, hey, are
Speaker 1: y'all bring you back Gregory? And if they are, then
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I kind of want to. I think
Speaker 1: it would be Joe Judge that find to guess, well,
Speaker 1: what something like Judge, Mike, what's his name, Why would
Speaker 1: you do that? What? What really? Joe Judge? What's his name?
Speaker 1: Talking about the Giants head coach? Yeah, Judge, I'm sorry, okay,
Speaker 1: oh Ben mac Oh okay. I was like, he's just
Speaker 1: like Joe Judge. That doesn't even make it a joke.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Giants. I don't know. You're saying he's
Speaker 1: gonna get fired. You're saying the Cowboys gonna hire. There's
Speaker 1: a lot to happen the Giant coaches. They can't win
Speaker 1: over there, that they're all good. I'm talking about macad Sorry, okay,
Speaker 1: macau would make that would not surprise me? Yeah, would
Speaker 1: surprise Judge. Right, you know something I don't know, Like,
Speaker 1: what are you okay? Anyway, you mentioned Randy Gregory and
Speaker 1: Mica Parson. So if we know Randy Gregory's gonna be
Speaker 1: a free agent if he walks away and doesn't make
Speaker 1: it back here and the on the roster, should the
Speaker 1: Cowboys move Mica Parsons to be No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: I'll just keep saying until one of them answers. I asked,
Speaker 1: I asked Steve, I asked Stephen Jones's question yesterday, I said,
Speaker 1: Michael went out there and said if I you know,
Speaker 1: if I got all the snaps, I'd be eighteen to
Speaker 1: twenty sec. Guy, I go, if you really believe that
Speaker 1: is that? Is that hard to say? Man, I'm we're
Speaker 1: leaving this on the table. And he was like, he
Speaker 1: thinks that his versatility for the and to disguise all
Speaker 1: that from for a quarterback is tougher and that's the
Speaker 1: reason why he's got so much success that way. But
Speaker 1: I'll take that equation out off the table. Don't let
Speaker 1: Randy walk. Yeah, the guy for many years when a
Speaker 1: lot of people said a lot of people said that
Speaker 1: you probably shouldn't have because he didn't deserve it. People
Speaker 1: have said that, so you gotta and they stood by
Speaker 1: him now so he can. One day he could just
Speaker 1: blow up and really be really good and then you
Speaker 1: can let him walk. I really, Randy, can't let him walk.
Speaker 1: Randy Stan, don't you got it. I don't know how
Speaker 1: it works out. They might have to tag him. I
Speaker 1: think he wants to be here, and I like and
Speaker 1: again that the whole hometown discount thing is largely BS.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to you gotta make a respectable offer.
Speaker 1: He's not going to sign for pennies on the dollar.
Speaker 1: But I think Randy wants to be here. I think
Speaker 1: they want Randy here. I think all of the history
Speaker 1: there doesn't that matters. I just they'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: But also just no, you can scheme. You can scheme
Speaker 1: to take even the best defensive end in the game
Speaker 1: away if you're hell bent on doing it. You can't
Speaker 1: take a guy who plays every position on the field away, can't.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Here's the part that I want him breaking
Speaker 1: up past his twenty yards downfield three snaps after getting
Speaker 1: a sack. Yeah, this is this is why I paused
Speaker 1: is because at this point in his career, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure you're going to get a full seventeen games out
Speaker 1: of DeMarcus Lawrence. So if you don't have Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: and you're missing Lawrence full, whatever period of time you
Speaker 1: lose him, de Marcus. Yeah on this deal, I mean
Speaker 1: it's a little bit a lot four years. Not only
Speaker 1: not only is it at least like three years, but
Speaker 1: they've also moved the money around clubs. I can't just
Speaker 1: get rid of him much. And I know there's no
Speaker 1: ship that I think DeMarcus Lawrence is still a very,
Speaker 1: very productive player for him. I just think it's the
Speaker 1: same thing as Tyrant. Yeah, both them very productive. You
Speaker 1: would be fooling yourself if you think you're going to
Speaker 1: go into a season and you feel really sure you're
Speaker 1: gonna get seventeen games. So I think you have to
Speaker 1: plan with that contingency that there may be games that
Speaker 1: we have to play without them. And that's where I
Speaker 1: start saying, Man, if I don't have either one of
Speaker 1: them for certain games, I want I want more. Two
Speaker 1: more years, no not. I mean he's got three more years,
Speaker 1: but two more years before you can get away before
Speaker 1: it makes sense. It says potential out twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, they they can do it in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. It's not going to be the most cost effective.
Speaker 1: Is his cap hit twenty seven million, dead cap would
Speaker 1: be nineteen million in dead cap. I'd run this thing
Speaker 1: back with the guys I got on this defense. I'm
Speaker 1: trying as much as I can to keep those core
Speaker 1: guys together. If he was just not giving you anything, maybe,
Speaker 1: but I mean with what we've seen from him since
Speaker 1: he came back, I don't get why you would want
Speaker 1: to pay twenty million second best player on your defense, Uh,
Speaker 1: second or third? Yeah? Him, Randy Michael. I was thinking
Speaker 1: Diggs say we'd Yeah, Diggs belongs in that conversation too. Sure,
Speaker 1: keep them all. Yeah, that's my point, like, keep that
Speaker 1: core together. It's my opinion. I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: you let that core get away. I don't know why
Speaker 1: you would pay back nineteen million to not have him
Speaker 1: on your tie when you could pay him twenty seven
Speaker 1: to help you. Yeah we still have time. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. See. Oh no, this is the best
Speaker 1: Cowboys team we've seen in the twenty first center. God,
Speaker 1: that would have been so easy to answer. That would
Speaker 1: have been so easy to answer on November first. Now,
Speaker 1: not so sure. I mean, you know, I hate oh
Speaker 1: you know, this team isn't better than those seven team.
Speaker 1: I think it is, really, I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: mean that that team was that team's thirteen to two
Speaker 1: going into the last game and didn't have anything to
Speaker 1: play for, and they ran the ball, had two running
Speaker 1: backs that ran the ball really well, and Romo was
Speaker 1: moving around. They had you know, they just didn't have
Speaker 1: they didn't have that many rolls like this. I don't
Speaker 1: think that defense was nearly as good as this defense,
Speaker 1: and I think this offense, certainly at its best, is comparable.
Speaker 1: Now we can say, how you know, are they at
Speaker 1: their best? When? When are they? When are they at
Speaker 1: their best? Maybe they're not at their best anymore. Maybe
Speaker 1: they can't get that back. I tend to believe in
Speaker 1: the playoffs they'll get some of that back. I think
Speaker 1: they'll get back to being closer to that. But I
Speaker 1: think we just slick across the entire team, offense and defense.
Speaker 1: I think this team is better. They are much more
Speaker 1: talented than they were in twenty nineteen, But since the
Speaker 1: bye week, they remind me of twenty nineteen, where I'm
Speaker 1: just like, I know it's in there. I know, I
Speaker 1: know you're good. Why can't you just show it on
Speaker 1: a consistent basis? I mean, they just they flabbergast me.
Speaker 1: So I can't say so because I just don't trust them.
Speaker 1: They haven't given me a reason too over the last
Speaker 1: like nine weeks. I don't think that they're better. They're death.
Speaker 1: They're way more talented than twenty fourteen. But I trusted
Speaker 1: the twenty fourteen team a lot more than this one,
Speaker 1: I think, and those two teams I just talked about
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, twenty fourteen, they ran the football.
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray ran the ball really really will eighteen year
Speaker 1: offensive Player of the Year in the NFL. Um They
Speaker 1: could count on that. That's the thing, and that's the
Speaker 1: I think the issue with this team right now. You
Speaker 1: just can't count on anything. You just don't know what
Speaker 1: you can in defense, can't you You can to a degree,
Speaker 1: I mean, which I hate to kill him for this,
Speaker 1: So I was the one that said on Monday, I mean,
Speaker 1: they played well enough to win that game, but they
Speaker 1: didn't get a takeaway. And that's I mean, they're living
Speaker 1: off of that all season and if you don't get it,
Speaker 1: it can be part of the reason why you lose.
Speaker 1: When you got to be able to rely on your offense,
Speaker 1: I know, and they're not. That's why they're not as
Speaker 1: balanced right now. So the defense, and we say we
Speaker 1: said it, we used to say about the offense the
Speaker 1: other way. The offense had to score forty. If they
Speaker 1: only scored twenty four last year, they probably weren't going
Speaker 1: to win this year. The defense has got to not
Speaker 1: only play well like they did last week, but they
Speaker 1: got to get sacks and turnovers see last week they
Speaker 1: just played. Okay, it wasn't good enough to win. They
Speaker 1: gotta get That's why this team isn't seem scary because
Speaker 1: they're not balanced right now. And who would have thought
Speaker 1: in the season. Yeah, right, this is got to be perfect.
Speaker 1: I guess the defense got to go out and do everything.
Speaker 1: What a stupid score. We're gonna take our final break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We got some final questions for this crew,
Speaker 1: and then we will get predictions for this game with
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Speaker 1: stuff for you can get probably can get NFC East memorabilia. Yes,
Speaker 1: if you want to get that, just walk around and
Speaker 1: be like, remember when we won the East, we could
Speaker 1: be the Houston type these days, these days, celebrate where
Speaker 1: you can't. I just I and I get it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just I've never been one for the divisional gear.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I need it. I need
Speaker 1: a bigger achievement. That's like, Okay, they like the matchup
Speaker 1: t shirts, like like you know, game Clemsonella in the
Speaker 1: national title game. I'm like, I'm not gonna buy this
Speaker 1: unless they win, Like I don't want to remember this.
Speaker 1: It's all about perspective though, like like, my team played
Speaker 1: your team this year in football, right, Okay, we finally
Speaker 1: won the game. Yep. They've been carrying around because they
Speaker 1: got this dang boot trophy and all these other trophies
Speaker 1: this year, like like it's been the greatest season of
Speaker 1: all time, even though it took an overtime win against
Speaker 1: a kid that had ever played to get the boot.
Speaker 1: But like if y'all would have won, you don't get
Speaker 1: you don't care about that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like not at all, And you're kind of the same way.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but you know it used to
Speaker 1: be like you guys finished ten and two and don't
Speaker 1: win the national championships, Like I don't care, but butt'll
Speaker 1: talk about back first few years it's all about perspective
Speaker 1: and so teams you know, No, I know I have
Speaker 1: banners in their stadium that said we won the division
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys, yeah I get that for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I even I don't know, even in the pros, you
Speaker 1: need to win the division. It's important. But how much
Speaker 1: do you care about that if you fall on your
Speaker 1: face in the playoffs? Like even even the Jags, you know,
Speaker 1: like even Jacksonville, they're like, okay, we won the South whatever,
Speaker 1: we got our ass kicked the next week. I don't
Speaker 1: know anyway, when was that. No, I'm just I'm just
Speaker 1: using it as an example. All right, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get some predictions. We got about two minutes left
Speaker 1: in the show. Let's see what you guys think is
Speaker 1: going to happen this week's this week Cowboys versus Eagles. Um,
Speaker 1: there'll be a snowball that hits the bus. Have you
Speaker 1: ever gotten hit by snowball? In filling the lottery? You
Speaker 1: did get hit by battery? It hit my foot, It
Speaker 1: rolled into my foot. I got hit. I got hit
Speaker 1: in the foot and it went to what I really,
Speaker 1: I really got to stop that foot. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to I'm not trying to be on like the
Speaker 1: you know, like victim unit here, Okay, but I'm just
Speaker 1: saying the thing that was amazing about it. It like
Speaker 1: bounced into like and you look at this at the
Speaker 1: vet and you're like, where did that come from? Like
Speaker 1: that was a throw and it's like, I mean a
Speaker 1: little bit further could have hit somebody. I mean it was.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, like that that happened. Um, our bus has been,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously hit by eggs and stuff like that. Philly.
Speaker 1: Philly is the first place I remember the bus getting
Speaker 1: egg Yeah. So that that bridge is where they right,
Speaker 1: as soon as you come from under that bridge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there'll be something flying. There'll be something flying at the bus. Uh.
Speaker 1: There will be birds flying. And when we go um,
Speaker 1: when the bus goes in, um, there'll be a lot
Speaker 1: of booze. Uh, there'll be classless people there and um,
Speaker 1: it'll be really cold. And this game will be one
Speaker 1: that Dave will look over to me and be like
Speaker 1: this game socks here. Yeah, and that and then and
Speaker 1: then we'll say that to Derek. He's like, I'll try
Speaker 1: to tell you that's why I'm sitting at home not
Speaker 1: even watching Those are my predictions for the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I refused to pick a winner. We just know, Well,
Speaker 1: what do you think is gonna happen? Just what? Well?
Speaker 1: All right, I thought about this and Nick likes to
Speaker 1: make the off the wall predictions. I usually don't, but
Speaker 1: I'm Kelvin Joseph is going to get his first career pick.
Speaker 1: I'll take that, UM, and we're gonna add two names
Speaker 1: to the touchdown list. It's still at nineteen nineteen. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: Corey Clement hasn't scored a touchdown. Corey Clement scores his
Speaker 1: first Cowboy touchdown and I'll throw in another one. Um.
Speaker 1: With Blake playing this week, I don't know, but well
Speaker 1: he scored two. Yeah he has scored. Yeah, Blakey Blakey
Speaker 1: Jars has scored. Who else needs a jar? Lucy Giff?
Speaker 1: Who else needs a Tuddy? Uh? I'll say sprinkle. I
Speaker 1: think I've predicted that before he should have. He should
Speaker 1: have had one by so, I mean, I guess he
Speaker 1: can't do this regular season, but I'd really like defensive
Speaker 1: touchdown is just a bold prediction. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: a lot of guys have done it this year. They
Speaker 1: try to get him one. I mean, just give him
Speaker 1: the Rock to two new guys are gonna score touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and Calvin Joseph will get his first career pick, and
Speaker 1: maybe I just well, all, we'll all be happy when
Speaker 1: it's over. That's what you got. I have a feeling that,
Speaker 1: just because they like to keep my heart break kind
Speaker 1: of going and get me upset from time to time,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: game where, yes, it will be like we're happy it's over.
Speaker 1: But I have a feeling that even with all those
Speaker 1: backup guys going in and you're not really playing all
Speaker 1: your starters and all, that, the Cowboys are gonna lose
Speaker 1: this game. And me, even though me knowing that that's
Speaker 1: how they played the game, I'm gonna be like, oh great,
Speaker 1: this is how we're going into the playoffs, this is
Speaker 1: how we're starting the postseason, even though our starters didn't play.
Speaker 1: So anyways, I don't know what's all gonna happen, but
Speaker 1: I just know I'm gonna be upset. I will say, Also,
Speaker 1: I think we talked about this this week. The last
Speaker 1: time they played kind of a BS finale after they'd
Speaker 1: already clinched the division, was like one of the most
Speaker 1: thrilling games ever, I am. Maybe we're all wrong. I
Speaker 1: hope it's as fun as that twenty eighteen Giants game
Speaker 1: that was nuts. Yeah, I think that this game, even
Speaker 1: though I don't I don't really know what the final
Speaker 1: will be, I think it will be dramatic at the
Speaker 1: end for some reason. Whatever happens, I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be kind of dramatic at the end. So I
Speaker 1: think it'll be a relatively decent watch. You know, you'll
Speaker 1: watch it. You're like, oh, I fair to you know,
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch for three hours. But but at
Speaker 1: the end of the day we all know at by
Speaker 1: the time the game's over, it kind of ceases to
Speaker 1: be important. It's going to be on to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and we'll be looking at what's going to happen next week.
Speaker 1: I think when you go back and look at this
Speaker 1: this season, you know, years from now or a couple
Speaker 1: of years from now. I mean, I think that there's
Speaker 1: a big difference for some reason between eleven and six
Speaker 1: and twelve and five. It's just twelve is always a
Speaker 1: number that's just yeah, that's a good number. There's six losses,
Speaker 1: and that's just it's a lot of losses, you know,
Speaker 1: not a lot, but I mean it's you know, and
Speaker 1: even though the goals are still the same regardless, I
Speaker 1: think I think this has a chance that to just
Speaker 1: have a better feel of the season. Undefeated in your division.
Speaker 1: I mean, it hasn't happened. He's ninety eight six and
Speaker 1: o in the division. That's that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: You gotta win you you know, those those games. So
Speaker 1: I think it'll it'll, it'll be something. There's some things
Speaker 1: to play for, but you're just not going to go
Speaker 1: out of your way to risk things to do it.
Speaker 1: And with the weather being bad, weather's bad and the Eagles,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are always wacky when it comes to like
Speaker 1: two point conversions, and McCarthy hasn't been afraid to do
Speaker 1: that either. The score is gonna be weird. Yeah, score,
Speaker 1: it'll be something silly like twenty six to twenty two.
Speaker 1: I don't know it all I know bizarre. Zerline better
Speaker 1: get back on track, like he does not need to
Speaker 1: at this point and miss kicks in this game. Maybe
Speaker 1: don't even let him try any But if he doesn't,
Speaker 1: what if he miss is a forty two yard field
Speaker 1: goal and fourteen degree whether or any any misses a kick,
Speaker 1: I mean, is that gonna is that? Yeah, I will
Speaker 1: tell you, I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: I wonder, I do wonder if this this team is
Speaker 1: starting to get to a point where they're kind of like,
Speaker 1: we may have to look for other people if if
Speaker 1: we if he continues to be inconsistent, and so I
Speaker 1: think if he goes out this week and he makes
Speaker 1: his kicks, then I think everything's good. If he misses some,
Speaker 1: then I do think that there's gonna be at least
Speaker 1: some thought, some thought like should we just out of
Speaker 1: just out of the the um just because you gotta
Speaker 1: do something, Not that you're gonna necessarily get a better result,
Speaker 1: but you gotta do something. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys start thinking about it. I would be because
Speaker 1: and how many times have we said this over the years.
Speaker 1: He's got a sponsor, Brian brought us some special teams.
Speaker 1: Coach can carry a big stick. Yeah, but what happens
Speaker 1: when that sponsor is repeatedly what he saying. This guy's
Speaker 1: gonna get it, he's gonna be all right, he's yesterday,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't He's not all right. Like, at some
Speaker 1: point you lose that that ability to for that sponsor
Speaker 1: to have the kind of wait in the room when
Speaker 1: it comes to your name as as he did before.
Speaker 1: I would be surprised if they made that move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would be too. And the thing is, why would
Speaker 1: you wait until literally the end of the regular season?
Speaker 1: And I get it, you you start preparing for playoffs
Speaker 1: and all that, But you've seen this trend happen throughout
Speaker 1: the season, So why wait so late for you to
Speaker 1: get a guy in what's the trend? What? What is
Speaker 1: the trend? Like? What you like? You're just talking about, like,
Speaker 1: what what have you really seen throughout the season? He's
Speaker 1: not necessarily a full guy that's being fully consistent that
Speaker 1: you can one hundred and thousand percent rely on. There's
Speaker 1: no kicker like that, there's no there's no kicker in
Speaker 1: the Yeah. But but he's not even operating yet. Let's
Speaker 1: let's be clear, Like we we talked about earlier this
Speaker 1: week before I know we talked about it earlier this week.
Speaker 1: He is twenty fourth in the league and field goal percentage,
Speaker 1: so relative to other kickers, he's not system like, he's
Speaker 1: not consistently making the kicks he should be making. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's okay, you can't get those guys. They're not available.
Speaker 1: You can't trade the trade deadlines over. I understand that.
Speaker 1: I understand. I'm going to get somebody else that's that's
Speaker 1: down here because he sucked before. All I'm saying is,
Speaker 1: we've seen it happen here before, We've seen it happen
Speaker 1: around the NFL. There gets a point where a guy
Speaker 1: is missing so much to where even though we know
Speaker 1: what's on the on the like out in the street
Speaker 1: right now, we know that's not gonna be great. It
Speaker 1: just gets to the point where you're like, we gotta
Speaker 1: do something because we can't trust right now. To me,
Speaker 1: he's three misses away from that. But but I mean
Speaker 1: he's nowhere close to we gotta do something. I just
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that happen. What I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is I do think that they're probably
Speaker 1: there's probably gonna be some eyebrows raising if he misses
Speaker 1: again in this game. Like, I just think that he
Speaker 1: needs to get another one of those eleven kick runs
Speaker 1: and make everybody feel a little more comfortable, was what
Speaker 1: you said. Then then I'm I'm probably not letting him
Speaker 1: do it. Then, don't you don't let him kill at all?
Speaker 1: I'm not not at the weather's like this. If you
Speaker 1: know how it isn't Philly, and especially I wouldn't. I'm
Speaker 1: not being yard field goal I'm not being funny at all.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, sure they might play in lambeau Field,
Speaker 1: but you can't count on that. All I know is
Speaker 1: for sure next week they're gonna be playing indoors. Why
Speaker 1: am I trying to mess with his confidence by having
Speaker 1: him go out there and trying ridiculous kicks in ten
Speaker 1: degree weather with the wind blowing at the link at night.
Speaker 1: No win though this this game is supposed to be
Speaker 1: two mop our wins. Whatever I still wouldn't do win
Speaker 1: is gonna be an issue. I was, I mean extra
Speaker 1: points and I'm going to sit in a picture on
Speaker 1: the sideline with my press past. All right, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like that's what that's what the weather reports is. It's
Speaker 1: supposed to be no win, so they're so accurate. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe not. We'll see whatever I wouldn't, I wouldn't mess
Speaker 1: with his head again. No field goals for either team.
Speaker 1: We're going for two every time I'm serious. That's just
Speaker 1: the principle, Like everybody's gonna go for its final score.
Speaker 1: There will be an twenty to eighteen eighteen? You guys,
Speaker 1: are it? Is it? Really? I was? I was thinking
Speaker 1: that earlier. I was like, there's gonna be an eighteen
Speaker 1: in this game eighteen. I just wanted to make his kicks.
Speaker 1: It will make me feel better. Let's just put it
Speaker 1: like that. It will make me feel better if he
Speaker 1: can make some kicks this week. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: we need to end the show. I just why, Why
Speaker 1: will it make you feel better? It's because, like right now,
Speaker 1: I don't feel great about the kicker. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to make some kicks so I feel better. But in
Speaker 1: a n't By the way, By the way, during that
Speaker 1: eleven those eleven kicks, I was like, Okay, our kickers
Speaker 1: starting to get it together. I started to feel more confident.
Speaker 1: Then he missed and I was like huh, And then
Speaker 1: he missed and then it's like it keeps happening, like
Speaker 1: he's had these moments in the season where he's just
Speaker 1: consist Kickers are like teenagers. You think that they're good
Speaker 1: and do something, they just do something. They're like, what
Speaker 1: all right, I thought you were. I thought it was
Speaker 1: different than that. I don't know. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's you can't rely on the kicker one thousand percent, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no one thousand percent kicks. There's one. Well hook them, baby,
Speaker 1: there we go. I don't know. Last game I saw him.
Speaker 1: Last game, he kicked in front of me. He missed
Speaker 1: at the time, last Dat Bailey, I would yeah, he
Speaker 1: probably hasn't trust him with my eyes supposed Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was It's how a long time ago. Yeah, he's on
Speaker 1: the street and he got and then he got one
Speaker 1: point two where he was spraying out there out there.
Speaker 1: You want him, I don't. I'm good. Geers go by
Speaker 1: and then you move on. I mean, that's what happens.
Speaker 1: That's a cycle of life. Hey, J's over here talking
Speaker 1: like it's an X you know. Put put on some
Speaker 1: adele and watched Dan Bailey. I was a big Dan
Speaker 1: Bailey supporter. Oh boy, all right, guys, we appreciate Shanks
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