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Speaker 1: How's everybody doing. I'm kind of sad? Why because it
Speaker 1: is our last day this week at least till Friday? Right,
Speaker 1: A little sad too? Are you about to give me
Speaker 1: some news on? Like? Yah, we got a Rappy has
Speaker 1: all the all the news today. Okay, that's true. We
Speaker 1: need to probably get into that pretty quick. Rapp has
Speaker 1: all the all the tea today. Yeah, all the all
Speaker 1: the fun timeline stuff on Twitter. Come on, man, pour
Speaker 1: the earl Gray, pour some sugar on me. Uh, where
Speaker 1: do you want? Where do you want me to start?
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, you're too young to know that.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go go for it. Where do you
Speaker 1: want me? Well, let's start with Mike McCarthy. That's a
Speaker 1: great way to start it. Okay, that's a hell of
Speaker 1: a song. It's a hell of a week for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So everybody knows by now. And hey, it broke one
Speaker 1: minute after our show ended. Yes, we literally said so
Speaker 1: long from talking Cowboys, and we looked down on our
Speaker 1: phones and it was like, Mike McCarthy unavailable for Thursday. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's how things are with you, Pee. Everything is G
Speaker 1: fourteen classified and you don't give it to us to
Speaker 1: the end. I didn't have I wasn't withholding any scoop
Speaker 1: on that one. If I knew that one, I would
Speaker 1: have told you. Yeah. He actually spoke to the media
Speaker 1: via conference call yesterday, so he's feeling all right. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he will not coach Thursday night. He will not be
Speaker 1: with the team at all this week. He will be
Speaker 1: involved virtually all the way up until they leave the
Speaker 1: hotel in New Orleans for the game, Like he's even
Speaker 1: going to talk to him virtually that morning or that
Speaker 1: day of so he's gonna be involved. But dan Quinn
Speaker 1: is the stand in guy in terms of the endgame
Speaker 1: operation Thursday night, and they're just gonna have to fill in.
Speaker 1: It's just one more thing that this team's having to
Speaker 1: deal with. Heck and I were just talking about it. It
Speaker 1: It has constantly been something and this is the craziest
Speaker 1: one yet of this season. I think that's the biggest conversation,
Speaker 1: and it was what you guys were talking about off
Speaker 1: air a moment ago. But how big of a loss
Speaker 1: is that? How much of a change is that, because
Speaker 1: not only are you missing your lead voice on the sideline,
Speaker 1: not only are you missing him, you might have him
Speaker 1: throughout the week of practice via virtual connection. However, when
Speaker 1: he's not there on the sideline, that starts a domino effect.
Speaker 1: And we've already seen that, the ripples of the domino
Speaker 1: effect of shifting some coaches around and moving different guys
Speaker 1: into different positions. But Isaiah, from your experience, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you ever had a game without your head coach,
Speaker 1: But how big of a loss would that be if
Speaker 1: that were the case. Yeah, I had to go back
Speaker 1: to high school on that one. Geez the head coach
Speaker 1: and had called all the plays. That was exciting. We
Speaker 1: won that game. Nice. Uh No, I mean I don't
Speaker 1: know how much of a voice he is on his team.
Speaker 1: I really don't. I obviously we see all the things
Speaker 1: that he says in the media, but we don't know
Speaker 1: how how how imposing he is to to the rest
Speaker 1: of the team. So I can't sit here and say
Speaker 1: how much he'll be missed in that regard. I do
Speaker 1: know that he coaches the coaches, and having all these
Speaker 1: coaches out that doesn't necessarily help. I think most of
Speaker 1: them are not gonna say most of them, but strength coaches,
Speaker 1: assistant assistants, and so that shouldn't be that big of
Speaker 1: an impact. But in terms of McCarthy, I think in
Speaker 1: terms of his game management, you know, the decisions that
Speaker 1: he meant that he makes in those regards. You know,
Speaker 1: when Kelly Moore wants to throw the ball versus pad
Speaker 1: very versus run, you know, I think he affects that.
Speaker 1: You know, the fourth down calls, those will always come
Speaker 1: through to the head coach. So now those things will
Speaker 1: come through our defensive minnee coach. As we started thinking
Speaker 1: about some of the situations that may present themselves, you know,
Speaker 1: you might find yourself punty Moore because he wants a
Speaker 1: position of himself better for his defense. So those are
Speaker 1: some of the things that you will probably see more
Speaker 1: so affected on the game. Yeah. You know, when I
Speaker 1: think about the maturation of Mike McCarthy from Green Bay
Speaker 1: to Dallas, his hands own approach with the offense was
Speaker 1: foremost in green Bay, called all the plays, and like
Speaker 1: you just said, he coaches the coaches here in Dallas
Speaker 1: that I think it makes it a little bit logistically
Speaker 1: easier for something like this to happen. I think that
Speaker 1: what I really worry about is the daily routine of
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy being in and out of meetings, what things
Speaker 1: and other things that he delegates to others, right, because
Speaker 1: that's obviously what he's doing. And I just think about
Speaker 1: it as being an entrepreneur. We've owned our own businesses
Speaker 1: and the hardest part about being an entrepreneur is delegating
Speaker 1: to other people because you are the process. You control everything,
Speaker 1: and so sometimes that is the thing that will wear
Speaker 1: you out, is trying to do everything. And I think
Speaker 1: in this situation, especially with Dallas having as many coaches
Speaker 1: as they have, as Jerry Jones was talking about this
Speaker 1: morning on the FANI, it's like, look, we got twenty
Speaker 1: seven coaches. We got one coach or every three players,
Speaker 1: so we're not at the shortage here on that. But
Speaker 1: dan Quinn I felt like even when the news broke,
Speaker 1: he would be the person that we would go to
Speaker 1: because of his experience and how lucky we are to
Speaker 1: have a head coach that's moonlighting as a as a
Speaker 1: an assistant right now. I think it's something that's gonna
Speaker 1: help us. Look, there's no time to panic at all,
Speaker 1: because for this team, this is as close to a
Speaker 1: must win or as you're gonna get to in this season.
Speaker 1: And I think that these guys are prepared, especially with
Speaker 1: getting the health of a lot of other players. Now,
Speaker 1: if Mike McCarthy was that coach that was completely entrenched
Speaker 1: in every part of the offense and meetings and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, I think then you would have to worry
Speaker 1: a lot more. But I just think from his stance
Speaker 1: and what you see from him right now, and look,
Speaker 1: we need our head coach, we need you to get better. Mike,
Speaker 1: who needs you to hurry up and get back. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I think you have soldiers use them.
Speaker 1: This is not a long term issue, thank goodness. If
Speaker 1: it were a long term issue, I think we'd be
Speaker 1: talking about this in a completely different way. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: it is just a week or two, I think you're
Speaker 1: built as a coaching staff for this kind of scenario.
Speaker 1: Look at all the veterans on the coaching staff, like
Speaker 1: a Dan Quinn, like a Joe Witt junior, a Ben
Speaker 1: McAdoo who's been a consult George George Edwards. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many guys that have been there, done that
Speaker 1: in the NFL, all the way down the list. Like
Speaker 1: he said, there's no shortage there. My one concern is
Speaker 1: in terms of the play calling and the aggressiveness, because,
Speaker 1: like you said it, it might change. You may be
Speaker 1: more conservative in the way that you call plays offensively,
Speaker 1: one more may not have that bug in his ear
Speaker 1: saying I don't really like that. Let's let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and dial it back, or even more so, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and push it here. Yeah, that's my biggest concerts
Speaker 1: in those crucial moments. How much of a discrepancy are
Speaker 1: we going to see from the play calling and really
Speaker 1: the work of the offense and the going into this week. Yeah, Robbie,
Speaker 1: can you clear up some stuff for myself and even
Speaker 1: some of the fans if you're in a position too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how many coaches are COVID positive versus contact tracing? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how that stuff works now this year, Right,
Speaker 1: some people, if you're if you have COVID, you have
Speaker 1: one set of rules. If you're being close in proximity
Speaker 1: to somebody, that's a whole other set of rules. Right.
Speaker 1: If you're unvaccinated, that's a whole other set of rules. Right,
Speaker 1: So how is that working? I don't know with every
Speaker 1: single guy who's a positive test, but I do know
Speaker 1: the fact that the whole staff has to be vaccinated.
Speaker 1: Let's just that. Yeah, we know that. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: fans are unclear about that. Yeah, Mike is vaccinated. He
Speaker 1: had to be vaccinated to be in the war room
Speaker 1: on draft night, So all the coaches are vaccinated. So
Speaker 1: I think the fact, like the fact they ruled out
Speaker 1: guys ahead of time, and Mike has said there's been
Speaker 1: some positive tests, I think I think there have been
Speaker 1: some positive tests with the staff, and we're talking about
Speaker 1: all three as far as protocols, all three strength coaches.
Speaker 1: Cedric Smith could return because he was out last week.
Speaker 1: Joe Philbin is out again this week with the old line,
Speaker 1: So I think it's like it's up to six or
Speaker 1: seven assistant coaches that will not be available. As Heck said,
Speaker 1: it's a huge staff, so guys will just kind of
Speaker 1: fill in where they can, especially on the old line.
Speaker 1: What are some of the moves that are being done
Speaker 1: to shift guys into those different positions You're gonna see
Speaker 1: was you don't have Philbin and blastco at the old line,
Speaker 1: so you've got Linda Wells kind of moonlighting between O
Speaker 1: line and tight end coaching. And I think Ben McAdoo
Speaker 1: is an option there as well. He's a consultant that
Speaker 1: can help out there as well. He's got an old
Speaker 1: line background, So there's that, so you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll just see how it goes with I think they'll
Speaker 1: get at least one shrink guy back this week potentially.
Speaker 1: That's good. So moving into practice today, this is a
Speaker 1: light practice on the field today and Amari Cooper was
Speaker 1: not on the practice field yesterday. Ce d Lamb was
Speaker 1: any updates on those two guys going into the weekend.
Speaker 1: Jerry said it. He said, you'll see DeMarcus Lawrence on
Speaker 1: the field Thursday night. Let's go. And he said, you'll
Speaker 1: see it Mary Cooper most likely on the field. He's
Speaker 1: going to ramp up today coming off of the COVID list.
Speaker 1: He's still on the COVID list technically, so see how
Speaker 1: he goes today. And he said, Zekiel, he's got a
Speaker 1: full load coming on Thursday night. So enough talk about
Speaker 1: him resting this week. And it does it sound like
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. What do you do? You like
Speaker 1: that or no? I think that's absolutely necessary. I think
Speaker 1: for z and Zeke's not gonna want to beg out
Speaker 1: of this game. There's no way in help. I think
Speaker 1: he's missed one game due to injury in his entire career,
Speaker 1: and in this matchup they need his pass protection with
Speaker 1: the noise factor, they need to try to find a
Speaker 1: way to run the football. And if that's only him
Speaker 1: for thirty snaps in this game, they could use him
Speaker 1: in this game, try to push through, try to find
Speaker 1: a way to get out of this situation. Win this game,
Speaker 1: and then he gets ten days off. And we were
Speaker 1: originally going to talk Dallas offense in the second segment.
Speaker 1: I want to keep this going because I like this
Speaker 1: transition because of Ezekiel Elliott. But Cam Jordan earlier in
Speaker 1: the week on Scott Manpel's Sports Center, he said, there's
Speaker 1: one key of slowing down the Cowboys, and that's taking
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott away. And to this point, you can't necessarily
Speaker 1: disagree if they take away the run game. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: have been flat three of the last four games, so
Speaker 1: that's got to be the key. Even with those guys
Speaker 1: getting back. Having those guys back helps you a ton,
Speaker 1: helps you wait Ton and trying to get the run
Speaker 1: game going. But at the same time, you have to
Speaker 1: make sure that he has a good game. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: to the point the question that you ask Rob, you know,
Speaker 1: is that a good thing that Zeke's going to have
Speaker 1: a full load. I think it's a good thing for
Speaker 1: the team. It's a bad thing for Zeke. I think
Speaker 1: I think any of us can sit here and say
Speaker 1: that Zeke looks healthy. Zeke, You're doing a good job.
Speaker 1: Z Year, You're close to a one hundred percent. We
Speaker 1: know that nobody, hardly anybody playing in this league today
Speaker 1: as one hundred percent unless they just got signed from
Speaker 1: the house or a practice squad. Even practice squad, you're
Speaker 1: still hurting. Zeke looks like I don't know where he's
Speaker 1: at physically, but he doesn't look like even a shadow
Speaker 1: of himself right now. And I know he's toughing it out.
Speaker 1: I know that he's a beast about it. He's not
Speaker 1: going to complain all the you know, the warrior type
Speaker 1: mentality stuff that mostly most guys in the league really
Speaker 1: have and that you have to have in order to be,
Speaker 1: you know, be an enforcer in this league. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's good for Zeke because we recognize that when
Speaker 1: you have injuries, when you're sustaining things, they're not going
Speaker 1: to get better by putting more workload on them. That's
Speaker 1: just reality. So is it good for Zeke? Nah? Is
Speaker 1: it good for the team if he can be productive? Now?
Speaker 1: I agree to a certain extent on that. But I
Speaker 1: think if if Zeke was hurting of the Brett Brown,
Speaker 1: or if any of them saw that this is just
Speaker 1: a guy that is just can't get it done, I
Speaker 1: don't see them putting them out there, or maybe they would.
Speaker 1: I think that in his situation, particularly with the offensive line.
Speaker 1: You rely so heavily on him in pass pro, and
Speaker 1: that's that's you need him, you need him there. I
Speaker 1: don't think that Tony Pollard, you've seen anything from him
Speaker 1: blocking wise that says that he can shoulder the responsibility
Speaker 1: of doing that. Here's the thing, and it was going
Speaker 1: back to what you were talking about about Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: not being there, and will you know, be pulling back
Speaker 1: those reins on how aggressive we've been this entire time.
Speaker 1: I think Mike McCarthy has been. One thing we could
Speaker 1: say is that he's taking some shots over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks because we haven't had our weapons. We've
Speaker 1: gone to a little bit of a short game, short
Speaker 1: yardage game. But we've got to take our shots in
Speaker 1: this game. Literally, Michael Jordan makes a comment, you miss
Speaker 1: all the shots you don't take. We've got to try
Speaker 1: and get down the field and be aggressive the entire
Speaker 1: game versus Saints. Cam Jordan isn't saying anything that doesn't
Speaker 1: anybody else know about the Dallas Cowboys. You got to
Speaker 1: load up and you gotta stop the run, whether it's
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott or it's Tony Poller. So I expect for them,
Speaker 1: and I expect everyone until Dak Prescott makes defenses adjust
Speaker 1: in that way and by stretching the field and also
Speaker 1: trying to get the game, the running game going. One
Speaker 1: thing we can't do in this game versus Saints' is
Speaker 1: be going east and west. We cannot get our running
Speaker 1: game to It has to be north and south. I mean,
Speaker 1: all of those things sound cliche, but we have to
Speaker 1: get this ground game going at least twenty five thirty
Speaker 1: rushes in this game to kind of back off this
Speaker 1: defense no matter what, no matter what, because they're gonna press.
Speaker 1: They're gonna press us at the line of scrimmage, but
Speaker 1: we are gonna have opportunities to hit these guys over
Speaker 1: the top. What Cam Jordan's say, That's That's what I
Speaker 1: was saying earlier where he said he was taking away
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, that was the key. Yeah, I mean, and
Speaker 1: they've taken away running game all year three point four
Speaker 1: yards of carry. Teams have had trouble getting it going,
Speaker 1: but I they've They always say the road game travels.
Speaker 1: Game travels on the road, Like you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to get that going and take the crowd out
Speaker 1: of it. A little bit because that crowd is going
Speaker 1: to be drunk, Yes, literally, figuratively, whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it, is coming on rocking. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: Miller lights down the hatch. That's the toughest place I've played, really,
Speaker 1: hands down. And you've been in Seattle, Yeah, okay, more
Speaker 1: so than played there when I was when I was
Speaker 1: with New England and we got we got to hand
Speaker 1: it to us. Did you get to play an arrowhead?
Speaker 1: I don't believe so, Okay, I believe I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be remember that one. I'm telling you. That place gets rocking,
Speaker 1: That kids rocking. Wow, I've never been to a game there.
Speaker 1: I want to go. It's pretty dope, dope. This was massive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's on. It's one of those you can't hear yourself. Think.
Speaker 1: It feels like an old or At and T Stadium.
Speaker 1: That's what it feels like, an older version of an
Speaker 1: older version of just way louder. And I was about
Speaker 1: to say just it's probably a little louder you that
Speaker 1: Cowboys has turned up, which which will make things tough
Speaker 1: from an offensive perspective, But what is the what is
Speaker 1: the adjustment you have to make from an offensive standpoint
Speaker 1: to make sure that you were not affected like you were,
Speaker 1: say early in the game against Kansas City. I mean
Speaker 1: you have to. I mean you you work all week
Speaker 1: on non verbals. I mean, hopefully they're blasting the music.
Speaker 1: That's typically what you do. When I was hearing you know,
Speaker 1: Dallas and most other stops that I had, you know,
Speaker 1: they turned the black. They'd take all these speakers out
Speaker 1: there and they blast them. When I was in Seattle,
Speaker 1: they had a live DJ out there and they blast
Speaker 1: crowd noise and it's just like overbearing. Just you can't
Speaker 1: even hear yourself. Think you can hear it. So they
Speaker 1: blast the stuff and you you call your plays in
Speaker 1: the huddle and you go out there and you work
Speaker 1: on your nonverbals. You know, you're you're tapping the center
Speaker 1: on the butt, you know, and that's that's her. That's
Speaker 1: your snap count. You know, bone tap them on the
Speaker 1: butt or two taps or whatever it may be. The
Speaker 1: you know, in the gun, you'll see the guard look
Speaker 1: back and look at the look at the look at
Speaker 1: the quarterback and see that he's ready. He'll tap the
Speaker 1: center on the butt. That's a snap count. But all
Speaker 1: those things play a part in that defensive line getting
Speaker 1: off the ball too. So you might have a couple
Speaker 1: couple of razzle Dallas in there where you might you know,
Speaker 1: fake snap it or you know a double head bob
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be for your center, But eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the time he's gonna be snapping it after
Speaker 1: he gets that tap on the hip. Well, if you're
Speaker 1: a defense in lineman and you see that, you have
Speaker 1: now have ability to get off the ball a lot
Speaker 1: quicker than than you would have. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that in regard to help you that but
Speaker 1: also can hurt you. But guys just have to be
Speaker 1: in tune and they have to have their signals down impacked.
Speaker 1: Is that something that where not having Mike McCarthy as
Speaker 1: a voice throughout practices could play a factor. Nah, there's
Speaker 1: just too many, too much experience on your coaching staff,
Speaker 1: and you just talked about that. I mean, something that
Speaker 1: small is not going to impact this game for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I just think you know, you got these guys have
Speaker 1: got to correct their spacing. This Saints defense man. When
Speaker 1: you pack these guys in together, they play really well,
Speaker 1: and they're fast and they have a lot of experience
Speaker 1: I think when you spread them out, when you go
Speaker 1: back to the Carolina tape and teams that were able
Speaker 1: to get them out in space, I think that's where
Speaker 1: you have the most success. We've got to get some
Speaker 1: things corrected with blocking. There's a lot of questions being
Speaker 1: asked about tight ends things like that. But when in
Speaker 1: those zone runs, we've got to get to the second
Speaker 1: level like we were in some of these other games.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you saw it versus San Diego, we
Speaker 1: saw versus the Giants where we're able to get to
Speaker 1: the second level. That's just tough. Man. They have guys
Speaker 1: like Malcolm Jenkins that is the lynchpin of this defense,
Speaker 1: you know, Rich Homi, Kuan Alexander. They got some guys
Speaker 1: so Demarrio Davis, Their linebackers flow really well. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: got some guys that can get it there. I just
Speaker 1: think that upfront physically, Lele and Zach you know that
Speaker 1: right side, if we can get guys moving and get
Speaker 1: to the second level, that's gonna make the difference for
Speaker 1: the running game specifically. For sure, not having either of
Speaker 1: your offensive line coaches doesn't seem very ideal for this guy,
Speaker 1: you know, but he's right, like Demario Davis to me,
Speaker 1: is their Bazuka. Like he's their guy in the middle
Speaker 1: of the defense that if you don't get a hat
Speaker 1: on him or two hats on him the second level,
Speaker 1: he can wreck the game and he could certainly stop
Speaker 1: your run game. So to me, he's the one that
Speaker 1: sticks out the most beyond and their front four is awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean that to me, they have. They were a
Speaker 1: championship level defense last year and they've shown signs of
Speaker 1: that this year as well. It's just offensively they've had
Speaker 1: trouble getting going. He also got guys like Pete Warner
Speaker 1: who's stepped up. He's in rookie out of Ohio State,
Speaker 1: mid round guy, and I mean he's the fifth rated
Speaker 1: linebacker according to Pro Football Focus right now. Damary O'Davis
Speaker 1: those one that opens that up. He draws a lot
Speaker 1: of attention and you can see it on the film. Man,
Speaker 1: I mean, he flies around. It's pretty ridiculous how good
Speaker 1: he is. Williams is playing exceptionally well on the back end.
Speaker 1: You mentioned, Yeah, Davenport's been playing well. He's not even
Speaker 1: a starter, he's a rotational piece and he's been playing
Speaker 1: really well. But he's out is he done. Yeah, Davenports out.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't know that. Yeah, big oh right here
Speaker 1: next to his name. I guess that's what that means. Okay,
Speaker 1: then there you go. But h and been looking at Yeah,
Speaker 1: you might be uh you look at Jenkins too. You
Speaker 1: mentioned him best a lynchpin. That's a perfect way to
Speaker 1: describe it, because it feels like anytime there is a
Speaker 1: hole in that New Orleans defense, plug and Jenkins because
Speaker 1: he's gonna be there. And it hurts my heart to
Speaker 1: say that, because you know, I don't like him because
Speaker 1: of him being an ex Philadelphia Eagle, so I mean,
Speaker 1: just keeping with the trend. But he's you know, he
Speaker 1: plays close to the line of scrimmage and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be instrumental in trying to stop the run as well.
Speaker 1: That's one of his That's one of his key points. Man,
Speaker 1: He suffered the line of scrimmage. What else do you
Speaker 1: think about this, this front seven that's gonna give Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott issues. Do you feel like they're gonna get after
Speaker 1: him as well? Or do you feel more confident now
Speaker 1: that both Tyrn Smith has a week under his belt
Speaker 1: and Lyle Collins is the complete starter going into the week,
Speaker 1: no questions asked. I don't. I don't fear these guys
Speaker 1: as a pass rushing team. I fear these guys as
Speaker 1: a run stuff stopping team. And if we can't, if
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys can't win on the outside, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a long day. Yeah. If it's gonna be like
Speaker 1: Kansas City and it's gonna be a long day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's the where the crowds of factor and they just
Speaker 1: are I mean at home on Thanksgiving just just out
Speaker 1: of sync with their operation. You wonder about that, You
Speaker 1: wonder about that, with that environment that they're in on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. Now, I feel better about this game being that,
Speaker 1: And I think we don't recognize that Dak has only
Speaker 1: been he's only had seven starts with all three of
Speaker 1: his wide receivers, and this is his opportunity to have
Speaker 1: all three the three of me goals together, right and
Speaker 1: the triplets whatever you want to call him, This is
Speaker 1: an opportunity to have these guys together. And the offense
Speaker 1: is so much more different when he has Coop, Lamb
Speaker 1: and Gallop together. I mean they're averaging three hundred and
Speaker 1: forty six yards per game with them three together, and
Speaker 1: it makes a difference in the red zone without all
Speaker 1: three of them together, where you know, write at about
Speaker 1: forty percent with our three receivers together, where sixty seven percent.
Speaker 1: So all of those things are relative in this game.
Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna be the difference for Dak
Speaker 1: And we've been talking about him being a little bit off,
Speaker 1: the timing of the offense not being there. I look
Speaker 1: for those things to improve by having these guys. What
Speaker 1: is the stat I saw that CD and Amari accounts
Speaker 1: for like a third of the offensive yardage. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a factor when both guys aren't out there. So
Speaker 1: you know, and we'll see what the MARII his conditioning
Speaker 1: is a factor this week, so will he get a
Speaker 1: full snap count assuming he's back in the game. But
Speaker 1: CD said yesterday he feels fine, he's good to go,
Speaker 1: So you know, even having just CD back is big.
Speaker 1: And where do you see the the part or excuse me,
Speaker 1: the holes in this Saints defense Because you got Marshawn
Speaker 1: Lattimore at the corner spot and he hasn't had the
Speaker 1: best year, but he's still Marshawn Lattimore. Then on the
Speaker 1: other side, you have a guy like pauls and Adibo
Speaker 1: who is still a young player, still trying to find
Speaker 1: his own way. And I feel like that's a spot
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys could take advantage. Do you see that
Speaker 1: same sort of deal I see their secondary. They don't
Speaker 1: have pairings. I think they have like one good guy
Speaker 1: per side just there. Yeah, they have like a really
Speaker 1: good corner on one side and have really good safety,
Speaker 1: But they don't have like a set of both. You
Speaker 1: know what. It's kind of having one of the other.
Speaker 1: They have one of the other. You don't have both,
Speaker 1: And they're not two good pairs of shoes. You got
Speaker 1: one pair of shoes. I know what Alan Evans want
Speaker 1: all though, you know what I mean. But so I
Speaker 1: think we can definitely take advantage. You just have to
Speaker 1: pick your poison and just know, you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: get it. You're gonna be in a dog fight with Attimore.
Speaker 1: He loves, he loves being, he loves tuestling. You're gonna
Speaker 1: wrestle with him all day long. So referees and everybody
Speaker 1: get ready. Referees are gonna play a part in this
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be You may get some calls, you
Speaker 1: may not get some calls, but just know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be They're not gonna be a flag coming out every
Speaker 1: play when there could be a flag coming out every
Speaker 1: play because of how physical this is gonna be on
Speaker 1: the outside. And then Malcolm Jenkins, you never know what
Speaker 1: he's gonna be at, but whenever he shows up, he's
Speaker 1: a force. He's dangerous and he can get turnovers. So
Speaker 1: don't throw it up in his area. No, And it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough and definitely tough against tight ends as well.
Speaker 1: I mean you talk about coverage ability. What I see
Speaker 1: from them and just my evaluation of them is as
Speaker 1: a team is the big playability is going to be there,
Speaker 1: and that's why I say take shots and they have
Speaker 1: the potential to get receivers get behind them deep. So
Speaker 1: I look for Dak to continue to, you know, test
Speaker 1: the chin. We gotta test that chin, baby. We gotta
Speaker 1: try and stretch his defense and get behind the safeties.
Speaker 1: You talk about guys like Marcus Williams and I'm number
Speaker 1: forty three for the Saints. I just think that sometimes
Speaker 1: he's so aggressive with trying to get that into the
Speaker 1: run that sometimes he allows things to get behind them.
Speaker 1: So play action is going to be imperative and that's
Speaker 1: why establishing the run it's so important that shows up
Speaker 1: on film a lot. They're they're overly aggressive and teams,
Speaker 1: you know, to your point in terms of teams stretching
Speaker 1: them out and spreading them out, when you get them
Speaker 1: running sideways, that's when they struggle. And that is I
Speaker 1: literally have that in my notes to have them going
Speaker 1: east and west as far as they're off their defense
Speaker 1: because they're so aggressive, and that's why the big play
Speaker 1: is going to be there there you get go stay
Speaker 1: north to south, and I think Kellen Moore is an
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator that can take advantage of that. When he
Speaker 1: sees those tendencies on film, he's usually been able to
Speaker 1: exploit it. A lot of these teams that we've played
Speaker 1: late lately have not had those same sort of tendencies.
Speaker 1: They've kind of changed the things up and gone certain directions.
Speaker 1: Let's see if the Cowboys changed it up going this
Speaker 1: week against the Saints. When we come back, how about
Speaker 1: the Saints offense? What kind of challenges did they present.
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill is going to be starting at quarterback. Does
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Speaker 1: Taysom Hill, since we last talked, saying the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: over Trevor Simeon and Trevor Simeon, it really looked like
Speaker 1: it was going to be a matchup heavy for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys that you liked. Look, you look like you got
Speaker 1: that said, you're You're absolutely correct. Simeon was looking like, Pepp,
Speaker 1: that's who I want it. I know that's what you want. Untunately,
Speaker 1: you got you got Taysom. Yep, you got Taysom. What
Speaker 1: kind of challenge does he present? He Taysom Hill coming
Speaker 1: in that starting quarterback mark Ingram coming back, Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: coming back, that's the that's the issue. So it's not
Speaker 1: just a Taysom issue. It's a it's what can you
Speaker 1: do with all three of those guys issue? And that's
Speaker 1: the the Obviously, we need to be able to stop
Speaker 1: the run, something we've struggled with. If if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can't find a way to stop the run, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be in trouble. Taysom Hill is not the most accurate,
Speaker 1: want to sit in a pocket type quarterback. He can
Speaker 1: he has a cannon. Now he'll launch that thing down
Speaker 1: the field. So you have to be disciplined in terms
Speaker 1: of your technique unlike last week. But if we can
Speaker 1: stop the run and load the box up and play
Speaker 1: good defense on the outside, sound defense, I think it'll
Speaker 1: be perfectly fine because he's gonna revert to his running. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to your point, it's like facing a Jalen Hurts or Kyler.
Speaker 1: I mean he will take off and present. I mean
Speaker 1: he's you mentioned Tebow. I mean he's a faster version
Speaker 1: of that guy who can just take off and beat
Speaker 1: you with his legs and he can make throws. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna make every throw on the field, but he
Speaker 1: presents that different element. You knew Sean Payt was gonna change. Yes,
Speaker 1: Oh you had number one because they've lost four games
Speaker 1: and they're trying to get out of a rut. Isn't
Speaker 1: he from here and doesn't he live here? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's the Cowboys and he's gonna have it something
Speaker 1: in his bag and this is this maybe this is it,
Speaker 1: you know, to try to get something a spark going.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think it'd be a rougher
Speaker 1: matchup because of his versatility for their offense. Unlike those
Speaker 1: two other gentlemen that you name Kyler Murray and Hurts.
Speaker 1: When he gets out the pocket, he actually wants to contact.
Speaker 1: I like that, he actually wants contact, So take your shots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have your opportunities. That's true. When he's when he's scrambling,
Speaker 1: he'll go up the middle and he's more of like
Speaker 1: a tight end again. Oh he's like he's like two
Speaker 1: forty five. Yeah. Well he's built for that too. I
Speaker 1: mean he's gone up against I mean he's been a receiver.
Speaker 1: He's used to taking himself tight end runners. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: played running back as well, so it is a different aspect.
Speaker 1: This isn't Lamar Jackson running around where he's speedy. He's
Speaker 1: got the agility and then he's able to get down
Speaker 1: and he's trying to avoid contact. This is a guy
Speaker 1: who's going to bring the fight to you. And I
Speaker 1: think this is a good challenge for the Cowboys defense.
Speaker 1: Well look like that, No, man, you know what I
Speaker 1: feel like, I don't want to make these quarterbacks some
Speaker 1: quarterbacks more than what they are. And you know, here's
Speaker 1: the thing about Tayson. You know he has that the
Speaker 1: arm to get extended down the field, but it's more
Speaker 1: of a shot put um. He works well for the
Speaker 1: Saints in a slash quardel slash mentality. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying is you got to have
Speaker 1: He's he's coming in for somebody. He's a change of
Speaker 1: pace like it is for running back. So, you know,
Speaker 1: I think with our defense right now, these guys have
Speaker 1: got to feel really bad about their performances over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, and this is the kind of
Speaker 1: game where you can get back to feeling good about yourself.
Speaker 1: You got a quarterback that you know it's going to
Speaker 1: be trying to look for that contact and when you
Speaker 1: have guys like Michael Parsons on your team that crave
Speaker 1: that contact. Please, let's let's have an introduction, you know.
Speaker 1: And so I think that to stay aggressive defensively is
Speaker 1: going to be important. But Alvin Kamara coming back is
Speaker 1: the biggest word for me because he's so diversing what
Speaker 1: he does from a running back standpoint and also as
Speaker 1: a receiver. So you know we're gonna have our hands
Speaker 1: filled to that degree. But they don't have Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: as a as a wide receiver. The options that they
Speaker 1: do have us Smith and Callaway, and so I feel
Speaker 1: good about the matchup for our secondary, our corners as
Speaker 1: far as their speed is concerned. But when you can't
Speaker 1: play around with them, obviously, you know, be aggressive, stay
Speaker 1: aggressive the entire game and create turnovers. It's going to
Speaker 1: be pivotal for our defense to create turnovers to get
Speaker 1: our offense multiple opportunities. And this is a game where
Speaker 1: you can specialize on that because site Hill is one
Speaker 1: of those guys that if you beat on him, he
Speaker 1: will cave. You know, size all that don't matter. He
Speaker 1: don't want to be hit for four quarters either. They've
Speaker 1: won with him. Though they've won with him as the
Speaker 1: starter three and one I think last year, and you
Speaker 1: know Breeze wasn't Breeze last year. But yeah, to your point,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Callaway's their leading receiver. Deantha Harris
Speaker 1: is not available for them. They just don't have the
Speaker 1: weapons on the outside that they normally do. I think
Speaker 1: they say they may not have a receiver with fifty
Speaker 1: catches this season for the first time in almost since
Speaker 1: eighty seven. Goodness creation like that. But yeah, Kamara changes everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he can he can kill you in space, he
Speaker 1: can do all that stuff. So that's that's the biggest factor.
Speaker 1: And then Ingram can get their running game going as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll see. The latest out of Saints camp,
Speaker 1: by the way, is that Kamara, Ryan Ramcheck, the right
Speaker 1: tackle and mark Ingram were all uh in practice. Ingram
Speaker 1: excuse me, ran Check and Kamara were limited. Ingram was full.
Speaker 1: So they're probably going to get mark Ingram back. There's
Speaker 1: a very good chance they get both ram Check at
Speaker 1: the right tackle spot and Kamara back going into Thursday,
Speaker 1: And like you said, I mean, it's the Cowboys game.
Speaker 1: It's Cowboys Saints. They're probably gonna play. Yes, they'll be
Speaker 1: out there, So does a limited Kamara change things for you? Still? No? No,
Speaker 1: why is that? Because you have to do still have
Speaker 1: the honor it the same way. Yeah, he let up,
Speaker 1: he's still got honor. I mean, if he widens out,
Speaker 1: you don't just say they all just bump out. Now,
Speaker 1: you still better make sure that you put somebody that
Speaker 1: can stick and stay with him in coverage and you know,
Speaker 1: and running the ball. I mean, he's the difference maker.
Speaker 1: But everybody knows that. They know that as well, so
Speaker 1: though they will use that to their advantage. They will
Speaker 1: motion him around, they will do shifts and all kinds
Speaker 1: of different things to take your attention to him, all
Speaker 1: the while allow and Taysom Hill hopefully not to run
Speaker 1: draw plays and sprint outs and all those kind of
Speaker 1: things that where he could just tuck it and gain six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight yards at a time. This is a sustained drive game.
Speaker 1: This is again very much so very much like last week.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be one of those sustained drive games.
Speaker 1: And I think they know that because they don't have
Speaker 1: that big playability like they have in years past. They
Speaker 1: now have turned into that team whereas now instead of
Speaker 1: the big shots, we're gonna just beat you down, and
Speaker 1: then our defense is physical enough to come out there
Speaker 1: and pop you in the mouse. That's the approach I
Speaker 1: believe they're gonna take with some little Dincon dunks in
Speaker 1: their screenplayers in Kamara and all that. But they're okay
Speaker 1: with these seven eight yards at a time and a longs.
Speaker 1: Those chains keep moving. I think they're happy. And and
Speaker 1: the other thing about the Saints is they're playing at home,
Speaker 1: and they're like us with home cooking. They love playing
Speaker 1: at home. I think they're one of the tops in
Speaker 1: the NFL and scoring at home. So it's getting them
Speaker 1: in their surroundings and them being explosive. I think Tyson
Speaker 1: Hill is going to be a difference maker for them.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be a change. I see Sean
Speaker 1: Payton even I said the same thing, How oh, how great.
Speaker 1: You know you're gonna make a change now at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position, huh. I think Trevor Simeon will come in
Speaker 1: as well. I think they'll he'll yeah, I think you'll
Speaker 1: see both. I don't see him going with Tyson Hill
Speaker 1: the entire game because they're just certain throws that he
Speaker 1: cannot make, and if they're put into a situation where
Speaker 1: he has to make throws to get them back in
Speaker 1: the game. That's where they're gonna be in trouble. So
Speaker 1: creating those turnovers, that's what I'm saying. Initially it's gonna
Speaker 1: be important. But you're right, Alvin Kamara, whether he's hurt, limited,
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, you have to under him on
Speaker 1: the field because of his ability to stretch the field.
Speaker 1: But defensively we can't. I'm not saying, just freak out
Speaker 1: about every little thing that they have. We just have
Speaker 1: to be who we are, stay in our sets and
Speaker 1: not panic. Once we forty one split out, adding adding
Speaker 1: Tank back to the mix, even as a situational rusher,
Speaker 1: if that's the case, that's huge. That's huge in this
Speaker 1: game part just to have him as part of that rotation.
Speaker 1: You don't have Tristan Hill in this game. He's been
Speaker 1: suspended two games or there's another piece of news we
Speaker 1: haven't hit yet. Yeah, just another thing that the timing unpaid,
Speaker 1: unpaid two games, two games pretty pretty it's a pretty
Speaker 1: clear firm letter from the NFL that he got too
Speaker 1: on that. So getting Tank back helps that rotation on
Speaker 1: your rookie deal too, Bam. Um, dan Quinn's gonna be
Speaker 1: on the sideline call in the game, so the operation
Speaker 1: changes a little bit. But as you guys said, he's
Speaker 1: a veteran guy. Joe Witt, I imagine still be up
Speaker 1: in the box. He actually called the defense once in
Speaker 1: preseason because dan Quinn had COVID in preseason, So I
Speaker 1: don't think that operation changes a whole lot. But it's
Speaker 1: just it's just gonna be different. It's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: feel different for the players, and that is a legit
Speaker 1: worry of mine. Him coming from the box down on
Speaker 1: the field. I think the the perspective may be different
Speaker 1: from him. Obviously, like you said, WIT's done it. We've
Speaker 1: already had the where coaches have called games in the preseason.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they were just trying to make
Speaker 1: ready for this kind of scenario, but either way, you know,
Speaker 1: I think if it fits perfectly what's happening right now.
Speaker 1: A lot of it in the preseason was because of
Speaker 1: the lack of dan Quinn because he had had had
Speaker 1: tested positive for COVID at that point. But there were
Speaker 1: two games in the preseason where different coaches called plays,
Speaker 1: right it was Joe Witt junior on one because Dan
Speaker 1: was out and then cause Dan was out, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: let into us. That's right, That's what it was. So
Speaker 1: I mean, at least this coaching staff has reps in
Speaker 1: that regard and so maybe that's the case. And then
Speaker 1: also you got to think about it, like dan Quinn
Speaker 1: was on the sideline during his time in Atlanta too.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been on the sideline quite a bit recently.
Speaker 1: I'm not as worried about that as I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of Cowboys fans out there are, because I
Speaker 1: feel like there are concerns around it, But I feel
Speaker 1: like dan Quinn's one of those guys where it shouldn't
Speaker 1: affect him too much. But positive I am, I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit. It's just I mean, it just does feel
Speaker 1: like they're stuff stacked against him this week. Though it does.
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Speaker 1: give you the games as we go along. But first
Speaker 1: let's give a little standings update. Isaiah stand back gonna
Speaker 1: talk about to talk about it with the best week
Speaker 1: he's had all year. He went five and one, right,
Speaker 1: how about that? Go five and one? Gained a little
Speaker 1: bit of the responsive he Heckma went three and three,
Speaker 1: So did the five and one? Can I say I
Speaker 1: get one? Well? You put this work. He's trying to
Speaker 1: get back in it. The fans lead Heckma buy a
Speaker 1: single game thirty nine twenty nine. Heckma's thirty eight and thirty.
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips tied with the fans after a four and
Speaker 1: two week last week. Very well done, Rob. Thirty nine
Speaker 1: and twenty nine is his overall record, and I had
Speaker 1: not so good of a week. Two and four was
Speaker 1: my record, and you guys are right on the hills
Speaker 1: of me. How about forty one and twenty seven? So
Speaker 1: just two games back? Are the fans games? Bob Phillips,
Speaker 1: you all you would be one, two, three, seven, eight
Speaker 1: games back. You're saying from me, that's two that's two
Speaker 1: good weeks. Maybe you got plenty of time. All right,
Speaker 1: let's start things off with a pretty fun one up
Speaker 1: in the north or yeah, this is inc is Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: How about the Bengals hosting the Los Angeles Chargers. Kyle
Speaker 1: will start with you. I'm going with the Bengals. Definitely. Heck,
Speaker 1: I'm going Bengals. The Bengals. Yeah, you stole my pink. Okay,
Speaker 1: Bengals cross the board so far, Rob can gain a game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going Chargers. They're like the Browns, man. I can't
Speaker 1: get them right. So I'm picking them this week. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick the I'm gonna go with you. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick the Chargers. Double down on double it down? How
Speaker 1: about that? All right? The Giants at the Dolphins. The
Speaker 1: Giants with a big win over Philadelphia this past week.
Speaker 1: Do they keep it going this week? Rob's tough, give
Speaker 1: me the give me the Giants on the Roo. Giants?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Okay, I'm gonna take the Dolphins
Speaker 1: here who you got. I'm going Dolphins, Dolphins flipping things.
Speaker 1: Let's go, Kyle, who you got in that one? Hate
Speaker 1: the Giant? Hey, that's true. You're up in Jersey, so
Speaker 1: you probably have to deal with a lot more Giants fans. Listen.
Speaker 1: I've been dealing with Giants fans since I was six
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Speaker 1: the Giant, if the Giant's the only team in the NFL,
Speaker 1: I'm moving to soccer. Still moving to soccers. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta get it right. We've had a lot of colors
Speaker 1: throughout this season repping from up in an enemy territory.
Speaker 1: Mike from New York, uh, Steve Oh from New York,
Speaker 1: Gee from Jersey, and now Kyle from Jersey. Oh and
Speaker 1: Martez last week from Philly. So shout out to every
Speaker 1: Cowboys fan that's listening. If you are listening behind enemy lines,
Speaker 1: shoot us a tweet, tweet at us, and let us know,
Speaker 1: because we want to know where you're coming from. All right,
Speaker 1: Moving on to the football team. At the RAIDUS, they
Speaker 1: were able to take care of business against the Cowboys
Speaker 1: this past week, Washington holding off a late charge against
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, who are just got awful this year. Um,
Speaker 1: let's go with Isaiah on this one. First, I'm going
Speaker 1: with the team of football, the team of football against
Speaker 1: the Raiders in Vegas. No, don't think Waller will play,
Speaker 1: so that makes sense. Heck monk, they beat us without Waller.
Speaker 1: I'm going with the Raiders, Okay, Kyle, Uh. I don't
Speaker 1: like them, one of them, but I gotta go to
Speaker 1: the Raiders because I can't do any NFC et Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Washington gets the win here. I think
Speaker 1: you're playing. Well who you got, Rob? I got the
Speaker 1: Raiders at home? But these games, man, they're tough right Well, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: what do we know about any team right now? Exactly?
Speaker 1: It's wide open. The Broncos at the Chiefs at Arrowhead.
Speaker 1: Who you got in that one, Kyle? It's like taking
Speaker 1: all your exits? Yeah right? The Chiefs though, Okay, he
Speaker 1: catchup Chiefs for me, like skinny it what momes? Okay? Okay?
Speaker 1: All right? Uh? Patriots at the Bills. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be a really fun No, Nope, not it. Patriots at
Speaker 1: the Bills in Buffalo. Can Mac Jones go up there
Speaker 1: and get a divisional win with the Buffalo Bills. Isaiah,
Speaker 1: the hell of a rivalry, man, But I gotta go
Speaker 1: with the Bills mafia that day. Yeah, I'm gonna ride
Speaker 1: with Buffalo in that one as well. Rob. Yeah, although
Speaker 1: Pat's going to Super Bowl hello, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: this the AMC Championship for you here? Maybe you never know.
Speaker 1: I'll go Bills though, Man, Patriots are looking good right
Speaker 1: now and that defense is playing outstanding. They gotta you know, look,
Speaker 1: it's it's rookie quarterback. I want Patriots. Go for Patriots.
Speaker 1: I thought about it, Yeah, Page Big Mac, Kyle Bill
Speaker 1: easy pick for Kyle. All right, Let's see if this
Speaker 1: is as easy of a pick. The Dallas Cowboys traveling
Speaker 1: to the Super Dome for the first time since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys lost that game twelve to ten. Too much
Speaker 1: different teams this time around, as Dak Prescott and company
Speaker 1: try and go down to New Orleans and endo a
Speaker 1: streak of three losses in the last four games against
Speaker 1: the Saints team that has lost four straight. But they
Speaker 1: are starting a different quarterback. They may get Alvin Kamara back.
Speaker 1: What is going to happen in this one. Kyle, what
Speaker 1: say you, Dallas Cowboys all the way? You're gonna see
Speaker 1: Ceddie lamp though up behind of yards this game. What's
Speaker 1: your score prediction? I'm going with twenty seven, twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty seven. It's twenty four. Kyle. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for calling in and being such an avid supporter of
Speaker 1: us here on this show. We love you. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you again soon. Thank you, guys. Take care, man,
Speaker 1: I really love you guys. Take care absolutely, Thanks guy.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Man. All right, Rob Phillips, will let
Speaker 1: you go first. This matchup bothers me and so there's
Speaker 1: just playing down there. It's always tough, all this crap
Speaker 1: going on with the team right now, do it. I
Speaker 1: just think ultimately the Cowboys offensively have enough to get
Speaker 1: out of there with a win. But I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be close, and I think it might be kind
Speaker 1: of ugly and rough at times. I'll just go Cowboys
Speaker 1: twenty three twenty He just did a league courso did just.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not a lot going their way right now.
Speaker 1: They are getting guys back. Maybe that's the ultimate thing
Speaker 1: for me, and they got Dak and I think because
Speaker 1: of that, I think they respond in a big way.
Speaker 1: This is a team that's five and one against the
Speaker 1: NFC at the moment, best divisional record in the NFC,
Speaker 1: and I think they continue that this week. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win it in a big way. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be thirty one thirteen Cowboys, no doubt. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they come in and I think they respond.
Speaker 1: I think pissed off. I think they're gonna turn around
Speaker 1: and make some noise. Isaiah, who you got? Well? Five
Speaker 1: and one takes back, by the way, Isaiah, Isaiah is
Speaker 1: nine and two picking in the Cowboys. He's been on.
Speaker 1: He's been on nine and two. The rest of us
Speaker 1: are like kind of close to five hundred. Tayson Hills back,
Speaker 1: m Ingram's back, Kamara's back, but Michael Thomas is not back.
Speaker 1: Le course Cowboys twenty seven fourteen. Okay, I like it alright,
Speaker 1: heck on, who you got? I mean, come on, man,
Speaker 1: you asked me this every week, and I mean I
Speaker 1: pick against the Cowboys. I'm not listening, man. This is
Speaker 1: what it is with me for the whole year. Just
Speaker 1: go ahead, just a couple of times last year, a
Speaker 1: couple of times, and that was last year. And that
Speaker 1: was last year, New Year, New Year. That's understand that.
Speaker 1: I understand. We need to get it. We need to
Speaker 1: get the dub and I'm going all in on the douve.
Speaker 1: This week in New Orleans was gonna be some good
Speaker 1: smelling gum bow and everything else down there. I know, man,
Speaker 1: because my people down there. But going to the game, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm gonna go U Cowboys were up thirty Burger,
Speaker 1: I'm saying thirty five. We put up thirty five points,
Speaker 1: um twenty four. Something like that. Okay, something another. I
Speaker 1: like it, all right, I like it. Another offense gets
Speaker 1: back on track. Let's make it happen. All right? That
Speaker 1: does it? Here on Talking Cowboys, we are We are
Speaker 1: not here on Wednesday. We will be back on Friday
Speaker 1: to break it all down for you. Enjoy the week, everybody.
Speaker 1: Hope you had some fun with us today. For Chris Beam,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, I stand back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's heck my Harrison.
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