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Speaker 1: happens on Sunday night football. Cowboys all right now. Favored
Speaker 1: by ten and a half points, I think by everybody's accountants,
Speaker 1: this is a game the Cowboys should win. Maybe that
Speaker 1: makes you feel comfortable, Maybe it doesn't. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: all that throughout the course of the show today. Let's
Speaker 1: start first with Mike McCarthy's press conference that you were
Speaker 1: just able to hear here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com.
Speaker 1: He did say. One thing I thought was interesting about
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith saying that they're hopeful that Tyrone will be
Speaker 1: able to start his twenty one day window next week.
Speaker 1: From what you guys are hearing and everything you've surmised,
Speaker 1: when should fans expect maybe to see him back on
Speaker 1: the field. I think that's probably the bigger question for them.
Speaker 1: I think it's just going to come down to, first
Speaker 1: of all, what did they want to do with him
Speaker 1: as far as do they want to just throw him
Speaker 1: out there and say you're back play left tackle, or
Speaker 1: do they want to give him a little bit of work.
Speaker 1: I think these couple of games he's got some opportunities against,
Speaker 1: like next week against Houston, maybe he can get some
Speaker 1: work there. Jacksonville, who knows, maybe you can play some
Speaker 1: against Houston. Start against Jacksonville, get ready for the next game.
Speaker 1: And if it sounds like, you know, you're kind of
Speaker 1: gearing up to the games that really matter, you have
Speaker 1: to you know, that's how you have to play. It
Speaker 1: was final three of the ones that matter the most,
Speaker 1: you would think, well, yeah, I mean, like you should
Speaker 1: be able to win against Houston without Tyron Smith. You're
Speaker 1: eight and three without him. You should be able to
Speaker 1: beat Jacksonville without him. I mean, he's only gonna make
Speaker 1: you a better so you can kind of ease him
Speaker 1: back in, and you should be able to beat Philly
Speaker 1: without him, but be nice to have him. I think
Speaker 1: it's a really exciting time of the year because for
Speaker 1: many reasons. For Christmas number one, yes, no, but the
Speaker 1: position that the cows are currently at, like they're in
Speaker 1: a really really good position, and usually you tend to
Speaker 1: you know, loose players or players I really banged up
Speaker 1: during this time of the year. But in this instance,
Speaker 1: when you talk about Tyron Smith return, we're still talking
Speaker 1: about Odell. He's gonna be on Monday with the team
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of high hopes and a lot
Speaker 1: of extation that they're going to be able to work
Speaker 1: out a deal. So having those two major pieces, thinking
Speaker 1: if it goes that way to be added to the
Speaker 1: Cowboys roster towards the end of the year, you heading
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, that's it's just it's not something I've
Speaker 1: seen it happened. I haven't been here when at that
Speaker 1: point of the year or the season, you get some
Speaker 1: key pieces like that that can take you to another level.
Speaker 1: So it's very exciting and the Cowboys are just in
Speaker 1: a really, really good position right now. Yeah, the thing
Speaker 1: with we were kind of all along getting the idea
Speaker 1: that when you go back, and I'm sorry, I was
Speaker 1: texting a lot of things. There seems to be someone
Speaker 1: that's ill in Steele's family and stuff. That's what they're
Speaker 1: dealing with right now, and they're right now they don't
Speaker 1: know if he's going to be available to play, So
Speaker 1: we'll see how that all plays out over the weekend.
Speaker 1: But the thing about with Tyrn Smith, all indications, like
Speaker 1: we've talked about, I think we've been very consistent on
Speaker 1: the show ton of talking about a potential timetable and
Speaker 1: things like that to him coming back. You know it
Speaker 1: was going to be they were going to try and
Speaker 1: get him ready to start to work for or ramp
Speaker 1: up during the Colts week, and then after the Colts
Speaker 1: week then you were going to start that that practice time.
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about that a couple of different
Speaker 1: times here, and then you know you have Jerry even saying,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, hey, Tyren Smith's back left tackle.
Speaker 1: You know, Guard, We've had some discussions here as well
Speaker 1: about you know, I think it was Nick was talking
Speaker 1: about when do you play You go ahead and play
Speaker 1: Peters a little bit at left tackle to maybe get
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith a little bit more work at guard. But yeah,
Speaker 1: these games, you know, you never know in the in
Speaker 1: the NFL, I've liked my line has always been the
Speaker 1: NFL as a strange lady. You just never know how
Speaker 1: things are going to play out here, and you hope
Speaker 1: that you can go in this game and find a
Speaker 1: way to beat the Colts, beat the Texans, you know,
Speaker 1: beat the beat the Jaguars, and then get everything, all
Speaker 1: the pieces back, whether that's a wide receiver, whether that's
Speaker 1: a tackle, whether that's moving a tackle to guard, you know,
Speaker 1: and make a run at this thing. Um, you know
Speaker 1: how you need to make him. Yeah, let me ask
Speaker 1: you guys this question. And this this is a little
Speaker 1: bit of a bigger picture question, but I think it's
Speaker 1: worth discussing. Um, there was a time in this franchise,
Speaker 1: not that long ago, when you lose Tyron Smith and
Speaker 1: everything fell apart. He was your best player for a
Speaker 1: long time. And then came Zack Martin. You lose your quarterback.
Speaker 1: Things fell apart. Yeah, it was all and Sean Lee
Speaker 1: was in that category too. You lose Sean Lee. Things
Speaker 1: fell apart. How much credit do you guys give Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy for the fact that they're eight and three this year.
Speaker 1: They have missed Tyron Smith all season, They missed Dak
Speaker 1: for a good part of the season. Things didn't fall apart.
Speaker 1: Not only did not fall apart, they're actually in contention
Speaker 1: as one of the best teams in the NFC. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, And he gets a lot of credit. I mean,
Speaker 1: and he gets the credit for building the team him. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Jerry, Will McClay, you know, Stephen, all of them.
Speaker 1: I mean, they get credit for building a team that
Speaker 1: can compete and get getting the guys ready, um and
Speaker 1: training camp. Look at what has happened at training camp.
Speaker 1: We can say why does this guy playing or this
Speaker 1: guy not getting enough snaps or reps, or why are
Speaker 1: they doing it like this, Oh he's playing left guard,
Speaker 1: And everybody says, we're doing it differently because we're getting
Speaker 1: the team ready to go. And it's because when that happens,
Speaker 1: when things like that happen, these guys are ready to play.
Speaker 1: I say it all the time. You've heard me say
Speaker 1: it for twenty years. You've heard me say, built this team.
Speaker 1: Built a team from one to fifty three, not your
Speaker 1: ten best players, one to fifty three. That's what the
Speaker 1: Patriots did so well because when guys got hurt, other
Speaker 1: guys would step up. And that's what they've done. They've
Speaker 1: got a football team. It's not even fifty three, it's
Speaker 1: more like sixty five to seventy. But guys that come
Speaker 1: in and it's trusting the system. It's why you don't
Speaker 1: fire a coach every time they lose a game or
Speaker 1: not have a great season. You have to build consistency
Speaker 1: with a coaching staff, a scouting department, everybody together to
Speaker 1: know what type of player we want, especially at the
Speaker 1: back end. You mentioned Will McClay, and he's a guy
Speaker 1: he has been here for a really long time and
Speaker 1: he's had a lot of his staff being here, so
Speaker 1: he's been here. He brings in talent and that that
Speaker 1: hasn't changed. But you look at the difference between what
Speaker 1: was happening when Jason Garrett was here versus what now
Speaker 1: is happening with Mike McCarthy, and it's night and day
Speaker 1: like your team would just crumble and go down. Like
Speaker 1: you said that, I mean It's not something I thought about,
Speaker 1: but yes, Sean Lee, all those players you listed, absolutely true,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't know what to do or how to replace.
Speaker 1: And we've seen this happened, not just in key positions,
Speaker 1: but just since the moment McCarthy got here. Even last year,
Speaker 1: a player went down and they knew how to just
Speaker 1: kind of plug someone else and figure things out and
Speaker 1: just keep going. So it's something that me, in my
Speaker 1: time being here, I have never had the chance to
Speaker 1: kind of witness that or experience that. So it's it's
Speaker 1: great to see that kind of change in McCarthy. I
Speaker 1: give him all the all the credit in the world.
Speaker 1: There are some things that he's been doing here that
Speaker 1: has been really, really amazing, and some people want to
Speaker 1: criticize him, but I think right now he deserves a
Speaker 1: lot of praise for everything he's been able to handle. No. Absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's been plenty of times I know myself have
Speaker 1: talked about him. It's you saw Mike McCarthy what he's
Speaker 1: capable of doing, or what he can do when they lose,
Speaker 1: when they lose their quarterback in week one, and they
Speaker 1: lose their starting safety in week one for multiple games
Speaker 1: and it was going to take somebody to kind of
Speaker 1: rally the troops and get everybody on the same page
Speaker 1: and kind of say, listen, we're down right now, guys,
Speaker 1: but you know we can do this. We can rally,
Speaker 1: we can do I give Mike McCarthy a ton of credit,
Speaker 1: and like I say, I admit I've been very critical
Speaker 1: of him at times. I think Mike McCarthy, as we
Speaker 1: look towards even twenty twenty three, I think that he
Speaker 1: will be your coach to the Dallas Cowboys. I don't
Speaker 1: think there'll be anything. You know, we could talk about
Speaker 1: falling apart and all that, but no, I mean he
Speaker 1: has earned the right to come back and be your
Speaker 1: coach because we've had this discussion yesterday one oh five three.
Speaker 1: When it pertains to DAK and when you talk about
Speaker 1: contract extensions and things like that, one of the things
Speaker 1: that we said was, Okay, you're evaluating the coaching staff
Speaker 1: this year, then in twenty twenty three you really have
Speaker 1: to evaluate DAK, maybe with the potentially a new offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator and a new head coach, and then you get
Speaker 1: into that. I think Mike McCarthy has secured his job
Speaker 1: right now. When you start to talk about Sirianni and
Speaker 1: all these the guy down McDaniel down there in Miami.
Speaker 1: This guy has I don't think there's been anybody in
Speaker 1: the league that's done his job better than this guy.
Speaker 1: Because if you look at all the things that they've
Speaker 1: gone through, losing their tackle, their quarterbacks say I mentioned it,
Speaker 1: all the changes that they had to make in order
Speaker 1: just to get to this point in the season, and
Speaker 1: people talk about them as a possible Super Bowl favorite
Speaker 1: coming out of the NFC. I mean, you know, week one,
Speaker 1: you would have never had any of these conversations. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, what he's been able to do with Dan quinn,
Speaker 1: whatever he's been able to do with Kellen Moore, and
Speaker 1: how he works with Will Clay. Yeah, and to jump
Speaker 1: on that, like she said, Will mcclay's obviously been here, Stephen, Jerry,
Speaker 1: they've been here. You know what's been different? What does
Speaker 1: McCarthy do differently than what we've seen. Go back and
Speaker 1: look since the start of training camp. You know, what
Speaker 1: do you what do you call an impact player? I
Speaker 1: would say a former first round pick or a pro bowler,
Speaker 1: or in some cases both. If they signed Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: that will be the fourth player in that category they've
Speaker 1: brought to this football team since training camp. They brought
Speaker 1: in an Anthony Barr who's both. They brought in um
Speaker 1: Jason Peters who's All Pro, maybe a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: They've brought in Tack McKinley, a former first round pick.
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham could be a former first round pick and
Speaker 1: Pro bowler if he comes in. They're bringing in high
Speaker 1: profile guys. They they're they're they're taking a chance. This
Speaker 1: guy won the MVP of the USFL. Try let's bring him.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. And he's a difference maker too,
Speaker 1: So they they bring a more high profile guy. They're
Speaker 1: not afraid to say, Oh, I've played against Anthony bar
Speaker 1: for eight years. I'm tired blocking against them. Let's bring
Speaker 1: them on. Kind of feel like two, you have coaches
Speaker 1: that are better evaluators, maybe some from the previous regimes,
Speaker 1: maybe not as much at certain positions that you might
Speaker 1: have needed. I think that's dan Quinn has got his
Speaker 1: stamp on a lot of these defensive players. But then
Speaker 1: you look at you know what they were able to do.
Speaker 1: You know that will is in a unique situation because
Speaker 1: of having to deal with coaches who have a lot
Speaker 1: of opinion. Here the front office with Jerry and Steven
Speaker 1: have their opinions, and then he also has to deal
Speaker 1: with the scouts. It's a very very difficult thing to
Speaker 1: have to navigate, but he's brought them all together in
Speaker 1: order to build. Like Nick was talking about a one
Speaker 1: to fifty three Nick, I'm sorry, Brian actually brought up
Speaker 1: an interesting point. I'd love to get y'all's thoughts on it.
Speaker 1: You threw out that term coach of the Year and
Speaker 1: I hadn't really. I mean, you think about all the
Speaker 1: names that are being thrown around as potential candidates. I
Speaker 1: haven't heard anybody really talk about Bike McCarthy, but I
Speaker 1: think he would have my vote. I think you make
Speaker 1: a valid point because what he's done has been different
Speaker 1: than those other guys from the standpoint that he didn't
Speaker 1: have key pieces of his team. Not only did he
Speaker 1: not fall apart, he thrived in that. What do you
Speaker 1: guys think do you think he should be in the consideration?
Speaker 1: Do you think maybe he is the coach of the
Speaker 1: Year in the NFL in the consideration? Yes, Unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: don't believe that that the voters vote that way. Just
Speaker 1: like for comeback Player of the Year, they don't vote
Speaker 1: for the guy that was in like drug rehab or
Speaker 1: whatever and comes back and play in It fixes like
Speaker 1: it's it's the whoever, it's the broken leg, quarterback whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's same with the coach. It's it's the But
Speaker 1: because because what it is, because you gotta remember who's voting. Media,
Speaker 1: Are they arrogant, Yes, they don't ever say that they
Speaker 1: were wrong. Yeah, this regular media. I'm arrogant too. But
Speaker 1: how many times do you see it if you rank
Speaker 1: somebody number one in the in the nation and then
Speaker 1: they finished six and six and barely make a ball.
Speaker 1: They underachieved. It wasn't that you don't know how to evaluate.
Speaker 1: It happens all the time. So no one's gonna look
Speaker 1: at the Cowboys and go, wow, great job, Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: this is we thought. Where it happens in the playoff,
Speaker 1: they're gonna look at the Jets, who they thought sucked,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna like that coach just turned them around.
Speaker 1: Or there's got to be another example of Seahawks a
Speaker 1: great example. Yeah, I mean yeah, they were they were
Speaker 1: selling at their quarter. Yeah, they were selling everything, and
Speaker 1: they got better. Yeah. So it's it's all about their
Speaker 1: expectations that they don't look at it like maybe we
Speaker 1: were wrong here. It's like, wow, good job Robert sala
Speaker 1: or or um what's his name, McDaniel, No, McDaniel, but
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of the USC just couldn't remember. I mean,
Speaker 1: but on that she's gone. That's all I know. But
Speaker 1: on that point, like I thought, it's the same thing
Speaker 1: for the It's the same thing for the Cowboys coach though, too.
Speaker 1: He he they got rid of parts that everybody said
Speaker 1: would kill this team. True, like they were like, you
Speaker 1: cannot be better. I heard so many times last year
Speaker 1: people saying, there's no way anybody can convince me that
Speaker 1: this team is better by losing Amari Cooper and Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins and Randy Gregory. And guess what, this team is better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and so it may go to your point about
Speaker 1: the their rogance of the media, but the fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is, for every argument you can make about
Speaker 1: any coach in the league and what they've done this year,
Speaker 1: you could probably say the exact same thing about Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: What he's accomplished. The Eagles coach. I mean, you gotta
Speaker 1: give him credit too. I mean they've they've done a
Speaker 1: great job as well, and they're developing a quarterback that
Speaker 1: not everyone thought was a real quarterback, you know, in
Speaker 1: that offense and now well so, I mean the people
Speaker 1: that drafted him maybe you know they draft the second round,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean the Cowboys were thinking draft drafting
Speaker 1: him in the second round as well. I mean, not
Speaker 1: to replace Dak to do some kind of hyper thing,
Speaker 1: but if if people thought he could play like this,
Speaker 1: he would have been drafted a lot higher. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's a winner, and they've done a great job. I mean,
Speaker 1: you gotta give you gotta give them credit. I think
Speaker 1: they keep winning. Their coach will be thrown in there too. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he should absolutely be consider I don't know
Speaker 1: if he would win, but for sure to be in
Speaker 1: that category. And in conversation, you look at the type
Speaker 1: of offseason he had, the amount of criticism he was
Speaker 1: receiving in front of his boss, Jerry Jones, asking questions
Speaker 1: like that that training training camp, that's stuff. The fact
Speaker 1: that he was used as a joke at the NFL
Speaker 1: Honors Awards, by the comedian. What was key? I always
Speaker 1: forget him, But anyways, was it funny, Yes, it was funny,
Speaker 1: but it was embarrassed. It is embarrassing for you to
Speaker 1: bring light to something like that in front of all
Speaker 1: your peers and people that you work with, and then
Speaker 1: you ask your quarterback. I forgot what the question was,
Speaker 1: but he asked some question, you know, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: But the point is when you're putting that so much
Speaker 1: light about how bad and like how much you should
Speaker 1: be fired, and the fact that he's handled this season
Speaker 1: so well, and I think he's done such a great job.
Speaker 1: If anything, I like him even better in the way
Speaker 1: he speaks to the media and everything. He hasn't lost
Speaker 1: his composure, He's kept it going, He's kept his focus.
Speaker 1: He knew going into the season he was in a very,
Speaker 1: very hot seat. He knew there were two passible candidates
Speaker 1: ready to sign some papers and become the head coach
Speaker 1: and take his job. So all in all, he's kept
Speaker 1: his school and he's done such a great job with
Speaker 1: the team so far, with the coaching staff, making the
Speaker 1: changes that need to happen, and just not crumble under
Speaker 1: all this type of pressure. Yeah, I challenge Nick Siriani
Speaker 1: to win five game four or five games with Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew at quarterback. Okay, book, I Book, you know, if
Speaker 1: you look, tell me any team that's right now is
Speaker 1: fighting to be in the tournament, and I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: your starting quarterback away for five games. I challenge you
Speaker 1: to win four of those five games. You know, and
Speaker 1: you could talk about it's the defense, dan Quinn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you could talk about, you know, maybe some
Speaker 1: of the schedule and how they're playing. Fine, it's hard
Speaker 1: to win in the NFL. Well, two of the hard
Speaker 1: division games. One was a team that's gotten hot now
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, Like there were some good wins in that,
Speaker 1: no question, Yeah, absolutely, no question. And see that's that's
Speaker 1: the thing about it is. I challenged Nick Siriani to
Speaker 1: go and win four five games with Gardner Minshew at quarterback.
Speaker 1: We'll see how good your fifty three is playing without
Speaker 1: with that guy him Ian Book, I don't care who
Speaker 1: you put in there a quarterback, go win four your
Speaker 1: next five games. That's why the Jets might their coach
Speaker 1: might slide in here because he's winning with with Mike White,
Speaker 1: and he benched this quarterback and we'll see, I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. But that seems like a pretty
Speaker 1: favorable pick there from New York Media. From from you know,
Speaker 1: just the Jets. I mean, you talk about a laughing stock.
Speaker 1: I mean, the punch line all the time, Mike White.
Speaker 1: Let's let's be honest here too. And I'm a guy
Speaker 1: at in the Draft show that absolutely loved Mike White.
Speaker 1: Love to pick Mike White. He was my guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: and I realized this about Mike White. He wins one
Speaker 1: game a year when you ask him. He's playing this
Speaker 1: week at They're playing Minnesota at Minnesota, and then they
Speaker 1: go to Buffalo. Let's says, Bill would say, let's knock
Speaker 1: it out. The anointing oil yet the horn. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you, I was telling you right now, is he's
Speaker 1: good for one game a year and then everybody falls
Speaker 1: in love with him and he breaks your heart. That's
Speaker 1: what That's how he is. So yeah, the Jets, the Giants,
Speaker 1: those teams that they are, they surprising everybody. Sure, were
Speaker 1: you surprised how bad the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You surprise how bad the Packers have been? Yeah? You know,
Speaker 1: there's things that happen, and in this league, you surprise
Speaker 1: how bad the Rams are. Yeah, you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things in this league right now that you
Speaker 1: know that are that are kind of out of whack,
Speaker 1: you know, but you're You're a team here that survived
Speaker 1: the issues. You survived your quarterback being down for five
Speaker 1: games and won four of those. Not many teams can
Speaker 1: do that in this league, not with the rosters they
Speaker 1: currently have. Real quick, before we go to break, I
Speaker 1: did need to get a quick update on this. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Terrence Steele if and this might not even be
Speaker 1: about this weekend, but it made me think about this.
Speaker 1: If the Cowboys have to play without Terrence Steel, what
Speaker 1: do they do with tackle? That's a good question, great question.
Speaker 1: Everybody's a left side player. Yeah, no, I don't know
Speaker 1: what happens. I mean really, I mean, Jason Peters hasn't
Speaker 1: really played a lot on the right side. Neither has
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith. Yea, neither has Tyrant has his rookie year,
Speaker 1: which was like sixty three years ago. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I think maybe it's just
Speaker 1: gonna sound kind of crazy. But we talked about this.
Speaker 1: If even after week one when Terrence Steele wasn't really
Speaker 1: good in Week one, and and here I am throwing
Speaker 1: the dirt on him and saying, hey, that's a liability
Speaker 1: over there. He's played so much better. His running game
Speaker 1: stuff has been really good. He's getting better as a
Speaker 1: pass protector. He's a guy. If you if you want
Speaker 1: to say, what's the most important free agent guy you
Speaker 1: might want to sign? Might be might be a right tackle. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think he might be the best offensive line you
Speaker 1: got it. But we talked about could you if Tyrand
Speaker 1: Smith were to play, could you put you know, could
Speaker 1: you put Tyler Smith at right tackle and then go
Speaker 1: that route? You know? I I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: where where we are in the the in the in
Speaker 1: the scheme of and I hate to say this, where
Speaker 1: are we with Ball? And well, let's go and all
Speaker 1: those guys, I mean, Ball's active every game. Well let's go.
Speaker 1: I guess is still on own I R So I
Speaker 1: mean that that's probably that's probably what they would do.
Speaker 1: They would probably start ball at at at right tackle,
Speaker 1: is what they would probably do. It Just even though well,
Speaker 1: let's go played the last game in the preseason and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, damn why was he hurt? You know
Speaker 1: that kind of remember Ball played eight stains Minnesota when
Speaker 1: remember when they started pulling people. Yeah, it just seems
Speaker 1: weird if you're playing a big game here late in
Speaker 1: the season and your backups would be Connor McGovern and
Speaker 1: Jason Peters, but Ball's playing, you know, like that just
Speaker 1: seems kind of or or say McGovern isn't a backup
Speaker 1: and it's Tyler Smith and Jason Peters. Football, somebody learned
Speaker 1: right tackle, Like yeah, Like, well see that, you would think,
Speaker 1: how difficult is that transition? Because if you're a pro
Speaker 1: and again I've never obviously played football, but going through
Speaker 1: it in my mind and if okay, you can get
Speaker 1: used to one side, but it seems like you could
Speaker 1: eas not easily, but you can definitely make that trans
Speaker 1: As Tarred Steel how it was to play left tackle,
Speaker 1: he was like, I make this pretty plain for all
Speaker 1: of us to kind of think about. If you're right handed,
Speaker 1: try going through a full day doing everything with your
Speaker 1: left hand. Yeah, and how different is that? It's it's different,
Speaker 1: but I can handle it. Yeah, but professionally at the
Speaker 1: speed that that that it's going, can you handle it? Like?
Speaker 1: Can you do it at that level. It's it's not
Speaker 1: the same as just kind of I'm gonna pick up
Speaker 1: this glass with my left hand versus right. Like you're
Speaker 1: now having to do all of this against maybe a
Speaker 1: pro bowler on the opposite side that's coming at you
Speaker 1: in a way that's now. But we are talking about
Speaker 1: holding holding a pencil or doing surgery. If I got
Speaker 1: to slap with my left hand, if I got to
Speaker 1: slap you, I can slap to you just as good.
Speaker 1: Just I don't know, because because think about at the footwork,
Speaker 1: because what happens is when you're when you're playing left tackle,
Speaker 1: it's left it's right foot up, left foot back, and
Speaker 1: then you flip it the other way. And then also
Speaker 1: well tackles will tell you this. They play with they
Speaker 1: play with really with half their eye. They play like
Speaker 1: with their eyes, but they use like to watch. You
Speaker 1: have to keep eye on ball and then see the
Speaker 1: guy coming and then so it's the adjustment of how
Speaker 1: you see and then where you put your hands. So
Speaker 1: if you're a if you're a punch, punch and then
Speaker 1: you know it's opposite the other way, so you have
Speaker 1: to use your hands the opposite way. But the footwork
Speaker 1: is the biggest problem. And they also tell you how
Speaker 1: they see the rusher coming at them is another issue
Speaker 1: that they do because your right eye left eye. But
Speaker 1: they have swing tackles all the time. You know, people
Speaker 1: are like, it's a swing tack because swing tackles not
Speaker 1: very good. It's like, but that's a swing tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly why you got switch hitters. There are people that
Speaker 1: learn how to do it right. The point is that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're always hearst of all, it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: they're great at it. And and sometimes being able to
Speaker 1: do that means I have to work at it to
Speaker 1: get somewhat proficient on the side I'm not accustomed to.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be great at it, but I can
Speaker 1: get That was kind of my question. It's I could
Speaker 1: it be at least enough to keep you going? Obviously,
Speaker 1: and maybe it can. That's just about time. The question
Speaker 1: is have they had enough time to do that? And
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can get that in a week,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, playing the NFL is hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard when you're I always on the right side,
Speaker 1: if you've always been on lest side, trying to move
Speaker 1: over this it's probably not an odd thing to do.
Speaker 1: I'd put Tyler Smith over there. If Steel can't play,
Speaker 1: I'd put Tyler Smith over there, putting McGovern at left
Speaker 1: guard and and put Peters at left tackle. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm hopeful. I think what happened to Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith last weekend was three games in twelve days, and
Speaker 1: he and he needs now. He needs the work over,
Speaker 1: he needs the practice time. He does need the practice time.
Speaker 1: We learned that as well. All right, we're gonna check
Speaker 1: our first break and we come back. We're gonna jump
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Speaker 1: I'll ask this question. You ever done the bounce house
Speaker 1: thing and like held your breath the whole three hours
Speaker 1: that it was in your backyard like the kids? No,
Speaker 1: I haven't done that. You've never done the bounce house thing. No,
Speaker 1: I'm always worry you're talking about kids bouncing around. It's
Speaker 1: like midair collisions, is what it is. I've never I
Speaker 1: mean it's like every oh, okay, you know, you're always
Speaker 1: like you're just kind of a bouncing lawsuit. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: Like kids bounce out of the arena into the into
Speaker 1: the grass and you're like going, oh, you're okay, You're okay.
Speaker 1: Maybe you need some juice box over here, come on,
Speaker 1: let's go here. You know that. To me, the bounce
Speaker 1: house is a terrified thing almost as much as slipping slide.
Speaker 1: You ever done that thing? Yeah, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: that's a compound fracture of an ankle. Yeah, slide always
Speaker 1: looked cool in the commercial. Yeah, and the commercial with
Speaker 1: this until you were on the grass and you were
Speaker 1: rolling like it was never, It was never as simply
Speaker 1: and easily as it does on the commercial that Yeah,
Speaker 1: they make it look really Yeah. Then you get off
Speaker 1: the edge of it and you're on the grass and
Speaker 1: you look like Evil Knievel hitting the payment at Caesar's
Speaker 1: Palace when he's trying to jump over the fountain, you know,
Speaker 1: just bouncing around, you know, like just awful. Anyway, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: go ahead, question Yet it is there are toys. There
Speaker 1: are toys in the seventies. There are toys in the
Speaker 1: seventies that are outlawed darts. You ever see that thing,
Speaker 1: a huge spear on your throw in the air and
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, Eric comes and this read that was
Speaker 1: similar to a war in peace. I had things like
Speaker 1: helicopter rides, yeah, DeMarcus where tours of the stadium. But no,
Speaker 1: it was the inflators that got that got it that look. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you ever, I'm just telling you, hey, I'm sure, I'm
Speaker 1: sure we're gonna be fine with our inflatable. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. We're gonna be fine. But you know, in
Speaker 1: your backyard, it's one of the most terrifying things you
Speaker 1: could ever deal with. When when we were growing up,
Speaker 1: it was just the trampoline and there was no sides
Speaker 1: to you. We got my kids got sized. So if
Speaker 1: they kind of get off the trampoline, they're gonna bounce
Speaker 1: right back in. But you didn't, you didn't have it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hit the ground. Yeah, you're gonna separate, and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh it hurt a little bit. You're gonna
Speaker 1: keep going. Yeah, and you're and you're playing dodgeball on it.
Speaker 1: You're like you're bouncing and you're and you're trying to
Speaker 1: avoid the ball, but then you end up in the springs.
Speaker 1: You know, your face and smashed. The backyard is so small.
Speaker 1: If they if they had we had that and they
Speaker 1: fell out, it would be next door to the basketball court.
Speaker 1: Next door's still go right over the fence. The good
Speaker 1: thing about it is like back we were kids, Like
Speaker 1: you're actually trying to push your friend off. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just part of it. Like there were sis in
Speaker 1: the seventies eighties, there were some dangerous damn games. I'm
Speaker 1: so okay. Then we were fine with it. Made stuff.
Speaker 1: Mom and Dad reped front smoking a cigarette. You didn't
Speaker 1: have a seat belt on, and that's kind of what
Speaker 1: you did, all right, that's so funny. All right, let's
Speaker 1: jump into this Indianapolis versus Dallas matchup. Start first telling
Speaker 1: me I'm gonna around the table. Biggest concern you have
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys offensively? And I know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: ill playing right here we go. I don't know it's
Speaker 1: the biggest concern. That would be a concern throwing the
Speaker 1: ball over the middle right before halftime, like to CD
Speaker 1: and Dak. Just that that play right there, the turnovers,
Speaker 1: you're not going to take that out. I take that
Speaker 1: play out. And Brian said it yesterday about the Giants game.
Speaker 1: Don't give them anything like, don't don't And that's the
Speaker 1: way my approach is, don't don't give the Colts any life.
Speaker 1: Just play your game. They play your game. You'll win
Speaker 1: by three touchdowns probably maybe maybe seventeen points. But just
Speaker 1: play your game. If you give them, you get greedy
Speaker 1: and you get turnovers, and you go for it on
Speaker 1: fourth down because you think you can get it at
Speaker 1: your own thirty seven and they don't, then they score
Speaker 1: and all that. Just play your game and you will,
Speaker 1: you will wipe the floor with him. But but don't
Speaker 1: give them anything cheap. Yeah, the thing I would worry
Speaker 1: about is four man rush not a much a lot
Speaker 1: of blitz pressure and stuff like that. Now, did did
Speaker 1: the Colts watch the Giants play and say, wow, we
Speaker 1: got they got some guys home on some blitz pressure stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe that was because of the short week.
Speaker 1: I just hope that the four man rush and a
Speaker 1: bunch of movement in the front, the twist front and
Speaker 1: especially if you're compromised at right tackle right now and
Speaker 1: now you haven't Zach Martin hasn't worked with and this,
Speaker 1: that and the other, and now you're having some indecisions.
Speaker 1: Oh Peters is over here. Wait McGovern's back in. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's there seems like a lot of moving parts. What's
Speaker 1: going on at right tackle? And the one thing I
Speaker 1: think with the Colts they don't blitz, but they twist
Speaker 1: fronts and overload sides and stuff that that would be
Speaker 1: worrisome to me if they have to get if they're
Speaker 1: going to get pressure on Dallas, those are the you know,
Speaker 1: you've got to be prepared for that kind of attack.
Speaker 1: To me, I think it would be something like starting
Speaker 1: the game a little too comfortable with your team. How
Speaker 1: about starting slow? You always talk about that that's a
Speaker 1: problem for sure, But uh, just in general, I think
Speaker 1: that this is a team, this is a game that
Speaker 1: to me personally, I just see it as an automatic win.
Speaker 1: They can definitely beat them. They got all the they
Speaker 1: every reason to beat this team. They got it, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: but that's when something happens. Those teams like those are
Speaker 1: the ones that just kind of surprise you and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Cowboys, and not because the opposing
Speaker 1: team necessarily beat them, but because the Cowboys just beat
Speaker 1: themselves and started making mistakes. So penalties things like that,
Speaker 1: starting the game slow, penalties, yeah, and just kind of
Speaker 1: not you know, just stepping on their own feet. And
Speaker 1: that's my biggest concern when it comes to offense for
Speaker 1: this game, just cowboys not being able to take care
Speaker 1: of their own business and just getting too much in
Speaker 1: the I was leaving, I thought you were gonna go
Speaker 1: with starting slow, because to me, that's how you're gonna
Speaker 1: win this game. You're going to offensively, You're going to
Speaker 1: put more pressure on them than they can than they
Speaker 1: can take offensively trying to keep up with you. Their
Speaker 1: their game. Their game is to try and run the
Speaker 1: ball and throw the ball underneath ten yards and let
Speaker 1: people run and do all that and then hope for
Speaker 1: the best. So I was leaving that for you. She
Speaker 1: always has a great idea. Don't start slow. Put pressure
Speaker 1: on the Colts from the jump. Make it like we
Speaker 1: were talking about a seven to three game, a fourteen
Speaker 1: to six game, a twenty one to six game, a
Speaker 1: twenty eight to you know, nine game. Make it that
Speaker 1: type of game where the Colts have to keep up
Speaker 1: with you, and it makes them very very one dimensional.
Speaker 1: Biggest concern defensively, I guess just you know, Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: are just getting getting hot and running the ball and
Speaker 1: finding finding a rhythm there, and they have a guard
Speaker 1: that's really good, you know, and Nelson, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: just just him getting hot and break because he can
Speaker 1: break off the long runs too. That's one thing that
Speaker 1: we've seen from him. So you know, it would have
Speaker 1: to be all those things that is not starting out
Speaker 1: as hot as you want to. The Colts that think
Speaker 1: they're still in this game, that the score is close,
Speaker 1: they're still running it, they still have success, and I
Speaker 1: think just a growing confidence in the running game from
Speaker 1: the Coals. I think, yeah, I worry about that. You
Speaker 1: have an officially called Carl Scheffer's this weekend, and he
Speaker 1: is one of the most penalizing. He loves home teams.
Speaker 1: Home teams. Home teams win a lot of his games
Speaker 1: since twenty sixteen. Home teams. That's the one thing you
Speaker 1: got going for you. The thing that I worry about.
Speaker 1: They're very high, and they're very high and unnecessary roughness penalties.
Speaker 1: They're very high in defensive holding, They're very high in
Speaker 1: defensive pass interference. My biggest fear is, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you get pressure, you get off the field, and then
Speaker 1: there's that backside defensive holding penalty, or there's that there's
Speaker 1: that Donovan Wilson taking a run at Taylor as he's
Speaker 1: going off the sideline, he's running to the sidelines, he's
Speaker 1: two steps off and then Wilson just blasts Taylor and
Speaker 1: then it's a penalty and it's fifteen yards going the
Speaker 1: other way. Don't do anything we talk about that. My
Speaker 1: biggest fears those defensive penalties. You know, it's the ones,
Speaker 1: the hands to the face, the defensive holding, the unnecessary roughness.
Speaker 1: You know, this guy has proven he will call those penalties.
Speaker 1: Don't be that team this week and give the Colts
Speaker 1: life after you've got him off the field. They have
Speaker 1: got to change that rule in the Competition committee where
Speaker 1: we saw it, I think in the Packer game with
Speaker 1: Rogers rolled away from the field, roll to his left,
Speaker 1: he was running for his life. He threw a quick pass,
Speaker 1: it was incomplete, and they call it I think Diggs
Speaker 1: way down here on a holding that you know, what
Speaker 1: I don't understand is that if he would have thrown
Speaker 1: the ball forty yards in the stands, they call that
Speaker 1: uncatchable as an uncatchable pass or doesn't matter if you
Speaker 1: were roughing him up over down the field, it was uncatchable. Well,
Speaker 1: this was pretty uncotchable too on this side, like the
Speaker 1: plays that don't matter, there's no way that they should
Speaker 1: be calling that. And that's one thing. If he's going
Speaker 1: through five reads and he's looking at everybody and then
Speaker 1: he throws it and this one was holding, I get it.
Speaker 1: But if you never even look that way, there's no
Speaker 1: reason to call that. You got it to the opposite
Speaker 1: of your really your point though, you had an interception
Speaker 1: taken back off the charts because Diggs held a guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you're like, you know, you tackle guys
Speaker 1: until your point. Though. Every time, every time, when I'm
Speaker 1: sitting this in the press box and I'm watching them
Speaker 1: get off the field on third down, I immediately scan
Speaker 1: the field because I'm thinking, okay, back judge is thrown
Speaker 1: a defensive holding. They grabbed the tight end here. Oh no,
Speaker 1: by the way, on the other side, Anthony Brown got
Speaker 1: all out of whack and he just pulled the guy
Speaker 1: down because he thought he was going to get run by.
Speaker 1: You know, Dallas has got to They are a penalized
Speaker 1: team and I and I believe this. I don't think
Speaker 1: penalties changed. We can talk about it. Mike McCarthy can
Speaker 1: continue to talk about it. The presnap penalties and stuff
Speaker 1: are bad, but they get the worst penalties at the
Speaker 1: worst time. And this is an official that will call
Speaker 1: penalties at the worst time. And that's what worries me
Speaker 1: about this, especially on the defensive side of the ball. Kelvin,
Speaker 1: Joseph Plane, we gotta worry about that, um. But on defense,
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of concern. Just run defense,
Speaker 1: don't don't somebody well there and we know the quarterback
Speaker 1: he doesn't move a whole lot. But I think that's
Speaker 1: one area I mean we've talked about it that they'll
Speaker 1: benefit a whole lot there. But if the running back
Speaker 1: gets lose and gets going, I think that's one area
Speaker 1: that it can definitely. Yeah, this is one of those
Speaker 1: games too. You know, the ball is completely going underneath
Speaker 1: every play. It's just you know, and to me, it's
Speaker 1: put digs on Pittman and put ten in the box
Speaker 1: and see if they can run the ball. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let you run the ball in this game. I
Speaker 1: am not. And if you want to throw the ball
Speaker 1: short all day, I'll play press coverage and make you
Speaker 1: fight the jam all day long. You know that's they're
Speaker 1: tall receivers. You know they're capable of making plays, contested plays.
Speaker 1: But Matt Ryan is also like he is going to
Speaker 1: get the ball out quick. He is not going to
Speaker 1: hold the ball. If he holds the ball, it's a sack.
Speaker 1: They've proven that. I think they've given up forty three
Speaker 1: of them this year. Yeah, all right, we're gonna take
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Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. All right, I did have one
Speaker 1: other question. Jelanie Woods is an interesting character for the Colts.
Speaker 1: He had not been very much a part of their offense,
Speaker 1: and then this last game he just explodes. I think
Speaker 1: he had like nine targets or nine catches something like that,
Speaker 1: and then he's missed all practice this week. If he
Speaker 1: misses the game, my thought is like they really other
Speaker 1: than Pittman, they don't really have receiving threats that you
Speaker 1: have to worry Pierce. Pierce is, Yeah, pierces think about
Speaker 1: Christian Watson just saying Pierce is a guy that's capable
Speaker 1: from Cincinnati. He was you know, when you watch him
Speaker 1: play coming out of college, he made so many big
Speaker 1: catches and you watch him in these games. He is
Speaker 1: a he's a running traffic guy. He takes big shots.
Speaker 1: Like you know, sometimes Ryan is good with the balls,
Speaker 1: sometimes he's not. And there's a big hit. Their their
Speaker 1: receivers do have toughness. They're they're really both are tall.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that you know you have to deal
Speaker 1: with is you know that length in the reach, especially
Speaker 1: the stuff that goes up in the air or the
Speaker 1: stuff that goes across the middle. So I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to say, well, no, no, they you know, they they
Speaker 1: have guys that are capable. They don't have that over
Speaker 1: the top guy. They really really don't. And what's interesting
Speaker 1: about when you say about Woods, he came out of
Speaker 1: a draft last year that was just a ton of
Speaker 1: tight ends. I mean that my tight end board or
Speaker 1: probably was the deepest when you talk from one to seven.
Speaker 1: And you know, this guy's like six seven, he's two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three pounds. And the Cowboys have done
Speaker 1: a lot of good work against against tight ends this year.
Speaker 1: They really haven't allowed them to kill. But this guy,
Speaker 1: when you look at Woods at Virginia and he was
Speaker 1: going back and looking at my notes. You know a
Speaker 1: guy that they play him and we call three by
Speaker 1: one the trips formation stuff, they flex him out. He's
Speaker 1: up the field. You know, he's one of those guys
Speaker 1: that he catch the ball in traffic at Virginia. He
Speaker 1: had a feel for how to find space some of
Speaker 1: the things that we saw on the Monday night game.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, it's it's it's it's really kind
Speaker 1: of strange to see him not be used the way
Speaker 1: he was at Virginia. But you know, maybe they found
Speaker 1: something with him. And I think you just have to
Speaker 1: be worried about a guy that's six seven, two fifty
Speaker 1: three running down the middle of the field. Questions becomes easy,
Speaker 1: gonna be able to play because he hasn't practiced all
Speaker 1: week and uh and obviously if he doesn't play that
Speaker 1: that's one more thing that helps the gallup, absolutely one
Speaker 1: less got away worry about. All Right, let's get to uh,
Speaker 1: actually it's forty two, so let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: our predictions. It's just getting close to the end here.
Speaker 1: Let's let's start with you, Nick, which way do you
Speaker 1: go on this? I think that the Cowboys are just
Speaker 1: gonna be too too good for them, And I think
Speaker 1: that the Cults will be a game for a while.
Speaker 1: It'd be similar to the Giants, even though I don't
Speaker 1: think the Giants will I mean, I don't think the
Speaker 1: Cults will score like the Giants did late. I think
Speaker 1: it'll be a little bit more one sided. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say thirty four sixteen four sixteen, all right, Amber Cowboys.
Speaker 1: UM I would say this is a game where I
Speaker 1: wonder if we're gonna even get to see like Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush go in and just you know, kill some time
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. UM, I would say
Speaker 1: probably thirty eight twenty or something like that. Cowboys. I
Speaker 1: think this The only thing, like I said, the only
Speaker 1: thing that concerns me is that this becomes one of
Speaker 1: those games that we all all think the Cowboys should
Speaker 1: definitely win, and then they come out of Green Bay,
Speaker 1: but well that was different, and even then, because yes,
Speaker 1: green Bay was that way, but you knew it was
Speaker 1: still Aaron Rodgers. You don't know what he does to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. This is a game that I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anything that really makes you be fully concerned about
Speaker 1: or scared or worried. So it's just an automatic win
Speaker 1: in my head. But then those are the ones that
Speaker 1: kind of they surprise you and then somehow they find
Speaker 1: a way to lose. But I think that hopefully it
Speaker 1: doesn't go that way and they still win another game
Speaker 1: at home and just kind of keep the street going.
Speaker 1: I'd like to believe that the Dallas Cowboys could score
Speaker 1: on this defense and just put so much pressure on him.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the number is going to be
Speaker 1: real high though. I don't know if the Colts are
Speaker 1: going to allow you a lot of extra possessions, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you turn over the ball, that's kind of
Speaker 1: a problem there. I've got the Cowboys winning this one.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven to sixteen. I think that it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's sixteen points for the Colts is a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: but I just do worry about them running the ball,
Speaker 1: maybe busting a run, then they kick a field goal,
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. They don't score a
Speaker 1: whole hell of a lot of points. But I just
Speaker 1: wonder about if their game plan is that Jeff Saturday,
Speaker 1: the old offensive line coach, is like, listen, the best
Speaker 1: chance we have to win this game, it's just running
Speaker 1: the football. Let's just load up and see if they
Speaker 1: can stop the run. And you know, maybe you lose
Speaker 1: some possessions there. Maybe they try the game plan that
Speaker 1: the Vikings didn't try. You know, that might be a
Speaker 1: twenty eight to sixteen Dallas I'll tell you this, this team,
Speaker 1: this Cults team, I think they're better than people give
Speaker 1: them credit. I think this defense is actually not a
Speaker 1: bad defense. I think the struggles on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball, and they've beat some good teams this year.
Speaker 1: They beat the Kansas City Chiefs, who I think is
Speaker 1: the best team in the NFL. So this is not
Speaker 1: a team that we should be taking as lightly as
Speaker 1: we are. I do think the Cowboys win this game,
Speaker 1: and I do think the Cowboys should win this game.
Speaker 1: I think they have more talent. I think they are
Speaker 1: a better team, clearly, but this is one of those
Speaker 1: games that I don't think and really, to be quite
Speaker 1: with you, this week, next week and the week after that,
Speaker 1: each of those teams have some some things about them,
Speaker 1: particularly their offensive run game. Right that we're gonna find
Speaker 1: out if Dallas has fixed their run defense, because all
Speaker 1: three of those teams have running backs and running games
Speaker 1: that if you're not paying attention to them, and if
Speaker 1: you're not doing what you're supposed to do, they can
Speaker 1: bust some some long runs on you. So I do
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys win. I was right along with you, Bryan.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be as high school. I don't
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys get into the thirties. I think the
Speaker 1: final score twenty seven ten. But I do think this
Speaker 1: is a game where I'm a little bit more concerned
Speaker 1: than than other people. There's there's what if you go
Speaker 1: back and do really further study on this team. On
Speaker 1: the Colts, They've only had a lead in the second
Speaker 1: half for fifty snaps and all their games, and people go, well,
Speaker 1: you know, why is their pass defense so good? Well,
Speaker 1: they're never ahead. They don't ever get to you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, people just run the ball. Nobody throws the
Speaker 1: ball on them. You know, they get to be lead
Speaker 1: and they're like trying to kill the game. You know,
Speaker 1: their run defense is capable, but if you look at
Speaker 1: the number snaps that they face when teams throwing the
Speaker 1: ball on them, it's not as much as you know,
Speaker 1: they're like, man, they're really good on a pass defense.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of it has to do that. Teams
Speaker 1: just get leads, and the Colts can't. They never have
Speaker 1: a lead in the second half. That's a huge problem
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah, I saw an interesting stat earlier this week.
Speaker 1: They are they're ranked pretty high in yards that they're
Speaker 1: giving up in passing, but when you look at their
Speaker 1: yards after catch, they're down at the bottom of the league.
Speaker 1: I want to say, in the bottom five or so
Speaker 1: of the league in yards after catch, because it's a
Speaker 1: situation where they're just it seems like teams are being
Speaker 1: able to complete passes and then from near like they
Speaker 1: are getting a lot of extra yards after they complete
Speaker 1: those passes. But we'll see it all plays out. It'll
Speaker 1: be an interesting game, I think, but I do think
Speaker 1: Cowboys end up winning. We'll be back on Monday. We'll
Speaker 1: let you know what went right and wrong for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys untill theyn for Nick even Brian brought us Amber Garcia.
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