WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: A Look Around The NFC 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:12.160 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:16.480 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.840 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:26.960 wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.480 Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, October twenty fourth, twenty seventeen, 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.280 Season thirteen, episode number sixty. Welcome to another edition of 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.800 The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.879 the Star. It's a big picture Tuesday. We're gonna talk 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.479 about the NFC East. We're gonna talk about the NFC. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.320 I got a lot of questions for these guys about 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.680 what's happening right now in the NFC and how the 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.760 Cowboys fit into this picture because there's a lot of 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:54.880 there's a lot of teams that are kind of lurking 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.760 around and not really other than one team, not really 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.320 a team that's kind of separate, rating themselves from the pack. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.800 So we'll talk about the Philadelphia Eagles. They are that 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.520 one team that seems to be separating themselves a little bit, 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.319 not statistically, not as far as a record is concerned 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.040 but definitely looking the part. So we'll talk about that 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.640 and and get some opinions from you guys. What was 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.400 ours everybody doing this morning? We're doing great. Everybody in 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:23.039 the group is doing great. Good. You're speaking for everybody's yes. No, yes, Dave, 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.559 are you doing good? I'm okay. You know. It's funny. 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.080 I think one day I want as we start the show, 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.560 I want the camera to isolate on David as I'm talking, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.040 because he's always giving like these really weird facial looks, 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.119 like he'll start, Yeah, He'll start like with that little 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.520 sly grin, and then he'll kind of look like, what 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.960 are you talking about? And then he'll kind of go 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.800 into another yeah, like that little where he blows a 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.640 little bit of air into his cheeks, and Yeah, he 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.640 does all these different facials, and I don't know what 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.320 he's thinking. I wish I could know what he was thinking. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.120 Most of the time. It's got nothing to do with 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.640 anything you're saying. You were just so far over in 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.840 left field. How many people do you think like I 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.240 feel like the vast majority of people that listen or 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.360 watch mainly listen like I do think that many people 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.760 even know. Some do. Some you'll be surprised. No, No, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.480 I know some people do. But I think the vast 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.880 majority of our listeners just do audience. They do so 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.240 they do. You know, the ridiculous faces I make over 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:17.880 the course of the show don't really matter, Although that 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.440 would give them a reason to want to tune in 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.359 and actually watch or not. I don't know how many 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.280 people want to see that, but sorry, like would be 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.799 a good comedy. I'm a day dreamer. That's pretty much. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:29.760 That's good to know, because at least now I know 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.720 that it's not sometimes though, some like I did do 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.280 it just now because you were like, well, the Eagles 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.000 aren't really distancing themselves with their record, and I'm like, what, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.080 They're six and one. They're one game ahead of a 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:42.880 couple of other teams in the NFC. I mean, it's 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.880 not like they're they've blown the doors off in the 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.240 ahead of everybody else. I mean, they're one game ahead 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.079 of the Vikings. They have the best record in football. Yes, 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.079 that's great. One game ahead of the Vikings. So it's okay. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.480 They're not so far in front where they can't be caught, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:02.839 depending by who. By talking about the Cowboys. Well, let's 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.919 talk about that telling them twice, right, and they can 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.680 handle them if they really want to, they handle their business, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.000 they can catch them. I agree with that to a point, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.280 but you know, it's start just to play Devil's advocate. Like, 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.440 you know, the Cowboys beat Philly twice, but it kind 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.600 of like the Giants. If the Cowboys beat the Philly 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.880 twice but don't handle their business against everybody else, it 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.280 doesn't matter when you're when you're talking about a team 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.720 that's winning, you know, six games in a row or no, 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.320 five games in a row. Whatever it is. So anyway, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.679 but let's let's talk about Philadelphi because last night we 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.720 saw him play against the Redskins. They win that game, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.920 and to me, it was this is what what I 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:39.600 was talking about last week, and I was talking about 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.360 this team, like just offensively and defensively, they looked apart. 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.480 I mean, they are explosive offensively. That quarterback come on 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.120 some of those plays he made where he got out 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.000 of trouble and then threw the ball downfield. I mean 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.600 it's just you see his strength, his ability to throw 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.160 the ball kind of out of whim. He just seems 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.640 like he just flicks it and it goes down the 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.400 field twenty thirty yards. That team looks pretty scary. And 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.400 then you look at the defense affront, and you look 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.280 at that those guys affront that can cause so much havoc. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.920 It looks like a really formidable team. Yep, they do 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.240 look good. Uh, Carson Wentz, I thought, you know, everyone 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.040 everyone knows how tall he is and how big he is, 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.840 but I don't think even coming out of college people 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.320 thought he was going to be as mobiles as he 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.640 has been. And that touchdown he threw where I don't 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.559 even know if he had any feet on the ground 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.719 when he when he lofted it up there, I thought 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.119 that was talking about the one to Clement, Yeah, where 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.720 you know, he just kind of jumped and got hit 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.919 and threw a perfect pass and they got a great catch. 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.520 And you know, his his receivers are helping him out 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.359 a little bit. I mean, he had a guy that 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.839 was going to be a first round bust and now 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.640 he's actually playing like a first rounder. So he's got 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.760 he's got guys helping him and and the defense is 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.799 helping him. And then he's he's really good. He's he's 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.480 he's a much better athlete than I think people thought. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.880 I agree with that. As your opinion changed after last 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:06.359 night on what you thought of Philly or Washington Amber, No, 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:12.440 they've been pretty good. I mean Philly, they've I've expected 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:18.200 them to be relatively good. Now the Redskins, I didn't 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.480 really expect them to be three and three right now. 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.760 I thought that would be winning a little bit more. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.320 For the most part, I definitely did not expect the 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.560 Cowboys to be tied with them right now with three 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.360 and three, So that's definitely going to be an interesting 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.520 match to go up against them. And now we'll really see, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.440 or we'll be able to really see where the Cowboys 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.520 are really standing in if they indeed improve in all 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.039 those areas that we saw improvement in the game, sorry, 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.240 in the game against the forty nine ers. So did 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:55.560 your opinions changed last night? Well, I thought that they 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:00.320 handled a division opponent fairly. Well, I mean so that 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.720 that's always an impressive win because you know you're expecting 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.520 that game to be close, and it was. That was 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.640 the second time they played him, too. Yeah, they're done 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.520 with those teams are done for the season. Yeah, which 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:14.920 seems weird to me, but I'll say I'll say this 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.800 though I don't know if this is kind of get 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.160 us in a different direction, but this game coming up 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.200 for the Cowboys is the biggest game of the year 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.679 in my opinion. This is the game. I know it's Tuesday, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.839 but this is the biggest game for them. It really is. 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.360 I think this is the swing game. This will tell 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.599 you where you're gonna go. You're sitting right there in 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.720 the intersection. Are you're gonna go straight? You're gonna go right? 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.240 What are you gonna do? Because this is the game 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.160 because you got Kansas City in Atlanta coming up. If 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.880 you think you're gonna win both those games, we haven't 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.480 seen that kind of consistency. So you got to win 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.840 this game. If to get to four and three, even 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.440 if you split and get to five and four, that's good. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:58.080 And I know, I mean that's that's not great, but 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.560 it's it's the best you can kind of hope for. 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.840 I think. So you've got to beat the Redskins, and 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.920 I know there's no must wins this early in the year. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.719 This is to me as close as it gets to that. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.080 I don't I don't disagree with that. Just when you 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.400 I don't know, yeah, and you know what, I'm sorry, 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.160 I'll let you finish that, but I don't think it's 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.040 that much out of the way of what we were 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.720 talking about. Because of what Philadelphia is doing and because 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.200 they're kind of up there, you've got to you've got 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.200 to establish second place and you gotta, you know, you 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.160 gotta stay with them the best you can and beating 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.560 the Redskins and getting a division record and all that 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.720 kind of stuff. That's why this is me. This is 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.920 such a huge win and a huge game for them. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.760 And the other part to that is now you're starting 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.640 to think if if Philly keeps winning and they maintain 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.800 this lead, and all you do is, let's say, even 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.440 just split with Philly and they maintain that lead, now 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.360 you're looking at wildcards. So those games become even more important. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.320 The game against Atlanta becomes extremely important. The game against 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.520 Seattle becomes extremely important. These teams, Yeah, well, you already 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.200 lost a game, and so you start then you start 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.040 rooting for the ram to keep winning because you want 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.920 them to just go and win that division so they're 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.120 not in that wildcard hunt. But that's the point, like, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.880 now you have to really look at all those wildcard teams, 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.320 and really those games become way more important in Washington's 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.160 right there, and that mix with those wildcard teams, you 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.440 can't really afford to lose any NFC games going down here. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.480 But well, I was gonna say I agree in the 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.640 sense that, you know, I said last week that they're 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.480 not gonna make the playoffs if they lose the forty 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.800 nine ers. So all right, you handle You handled the 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.320 forty nine ers, that's good. This isn't gonna be like 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:34.080 a you know, ten eleven win season if you can't win, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.480 like if they can't win this game against the Redskins, 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.840 then it just furthers that idea that this is, you know, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.760 eight and eight type of trading wins and losses. You're 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.160 never really digging out of that five hundred sub five 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.280 hundred hole. Because yeah, I agree with that. I think 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.719 the best realistic expectation is a split with Atlanta in 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.679 Kansas City. So you need this to kind of not 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.840 lose too much ground in that department. So you know, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:00.880 if you're trying to get to nine wins are better. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:02.600 This is the type of game you need to win. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.880 The one thing that looks really good for the Cowboys 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:10.240 right now is when you start thinking about the injury situation. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.319 I went last night and I looked at each team's 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.840 injured reserve. Sorry, what were you buy saying screw the 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.319 injured reserve? Those teams got beat up last night. No 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:19.960 they did, and we'll get to that part too, but 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.360 I wanted just starting with the injured reserve part of this. Like, 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.360 right now, the Cowboys have five guys on injured reserve, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.720 and the guys like guys like Rico and Stephen Paia 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.200 and Charles Tapper and Duke Thomas and Zack Desert, like 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.559 these are guys that weren't even your front line guys. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.560 But check this out. Philly has seven guys on IR. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.760 They've got Darnce Rolls, who was a their lead running back. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.400 They've got Caleb Sturgis, who is their kicker, which Cowboys 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.240 are dealing with a kicker situation, but he's not on 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.920 injured reserve. And then last night they lose Jason Peters, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.880 who is their Pro Bowl left tackle. They don't know 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.040 how long yet. There are some conflicting reports this morning 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.920 as to whether it's a torn a sayl or not. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.079 Either way, he's gonna miss some hime and that's significant 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.120 time for he left tackle. Judging by the way he 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.839 was carted off, it was almost like you would assume, yeah, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.040 goodbye forever. Right, So that's that's the Eagles. Then Washington 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.840 lost the first round pick Jonathan Allen to injured reserve. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.839 Their kicker Dustin Hopkins is also an injured reserve. Last night, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:21.080 their Pro Bowl guard Brandon Sherriff goes down with an injury. 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.040 Don't know the extent of that when just yet they 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.079 lost another one of their tackles late in the game. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.640 Williams didn't finish the game. So three of their top 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.040 offensive lineman got hurt in the game last night, including 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:32.600 some of the guys they already have on a high 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.240 are What about a Norman. Norman's out right now, But 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.439 I heard last night they said there's a possibility he 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.880 can play this week. Yeah, you don't have I wasn't 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.640 believing he was going to miss a game. You don't 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.840 have a commercial with another guy on another team, back 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.000 and forth, and then he has a commercial and then 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.040 you missed the game. Yeah, I think he's gonna probably play, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.400 but we'll see how they know something else about you know, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.760 these guys staying I think they said on Monday Night 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.679 Football last night that like Jay Gruden was just like 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.280 Trent Williams probably isn't going to practice again this year. Yeah, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.000 you know, he's just gonna be a game time type 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.280 of deal assumed, like the left tackle here, assuming he 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.440 didn't get hurt too badly at the tail end, right, 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.640 I mean they lost and yeah, I don't know the significance, 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:18.520 but they lost for offensive linemen of significant of significance 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.280 over the course of that game last night. And so 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.560 that's what I'm looking at, and that on a short week, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.240 that'll be interesting to see how that plays out. And 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.119 then obviously the Giants, we've already seen them get platooned. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.760 I'm sorry ahead use that word again. We already seen him. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.960 We've already seen them get damaged by the fact that 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.360 they lost their best player, Odell Beckham Junior, and then 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.120 lost Brandon Marshland, then lost d Wayne Harris. These are 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.360 all that basically, that's their wide receiver. That's three other 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.520 top four wide receivers or the return guy. Our time's coming. No, 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.160 what I'm saying is right now as it sits, and 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.400 we know this about the foot the NFL injuries are 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.440 part of the game. Right now, as it sits, the 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.800 Cowboys sit in a very good position because they haven't 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.760 had those kinds of big injuries two key players that 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.360 have kept them out for the rest of the season. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.120 Now they've had some injuries they've had to deal with, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.920 but it's been two, three, four games. It has not 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.000 been eight games. It has not been ir So I 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.960 think for right now, you probably are going to experience 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.439 some injuries at some point, But for right now, Cowboys 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:21.800 are sitting in a pretty good position. Yeah. I don't 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.839 know as a hell of a spend job right there, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.439 like my washing machine? How's that a spin job? It's 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.319 fact like like Bay, I don't know like that. By 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.480 the time you is, it's all factual. You're right. But 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.360 by the time you were done talking, I would have 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.640 thought the Cowboys are in first in the division right now. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.720 Oh all it says is right now in the as 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:39.960 far as injuries are concerned, they're in a good position. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.080 And that's a good thing for the Cowboys. It doesn't 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.560 mean they're gonna win games. Because I saw a Green 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.160 Bay team what was that? And it was the year 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.280 they went to the Super Bowl, had like seventeen guys 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.680 on IR. So it doesn't mean because you have a 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.600 lot of guys on I R, you can't go. But 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.160 it also depends on those guys that are Who are 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.040 the guys that are that are on IR? Who are 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.680 the guys that you're missing? Like Green Bay? I don't 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.920 factor green Bay anymore because I just don't think they 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:02.760 can do it without that Quarterback's a heck of a 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.000 philosophical question. Would you rather be six and one and 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.959 coping with some serious injuries or three and three healthy 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.960 with the potential to kind of I mean, but yeah, 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.480 you have all the guys you need to do that. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.760 You know. Another factor of this is this, We're gonna 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.000 start to see some of these games change a little 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.360 bit with the weather and get colder. And this is 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.920 the team. The Cowboys are a team that's built for 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:27.920 that obviously, the way they run the ball and the 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.800 way their offensive line is and the way Dak's playing 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.680 and he's not really a big down the field throw 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.760 er time, So you know, that says you got to 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.880 stay in position because you're gonna get to a point 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:40.880 in the season where you can you know, I think 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.160 a lot of injuries is I just cold weather it's 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:44.760 just the injuries and stuff. You want to be able 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.079 to grind games out, and so they do have the 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.240 personnel to play that way, that physical style that I 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.760 think they could maybe you know, win some games down 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.800 the stretch that maybe you maybe they wouldn't think that 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.240 they would. There's nobody on the schedule that you say 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.839 they can't beat them, not not the Cowboys. Yeah, so 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.160 that's it. But there's nobody on the schedule that you're like, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.959 they won't lose to them. That team was just gone. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.439 I wrote that on my column last week, like they 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.000 just played the last game that you're like, you know, 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.040 really really confident. Chargers are one of the hottest teams. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.160 You're not confident about the time? No, not a division way, no, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.400 not all no way, not a division game on the 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.680 road in December against the team that has had success 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:32.120 against them and has shown nothing as recently last week 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:38.680 they beat Denver. No. No, And yeah, that game seems 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.680 you really feel right, I mean, no, char Chargers aren't 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.120 in the same boat. Like there have you seen Melvin 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.600 Ingram and Joey Bosa. This is starting to play now. 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.400 Those guys, I know they're fifteen, they're pretty good but 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.960 there is not a game. Crazy part is they're probably 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.160 gonna be the last team in their division. Oh yeah, 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.760 but it's a pretty good division. There's not an easy out. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:58.920 There's not a game left on this schedule that I'm 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.400 just like that should be a win. There isn't one. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.880 I looked, Yeah, you were searching. Yeah, I'm not saying. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.280 I'm obviously like they're gonna win games, obviously like they're 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.240 not gonna finish three in thirteen. And there are no 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.960 guarantees none, although last week Red Skin, I don't think. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:13.800 I don't think they were guarantees last week. Last week 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.560 when we were talking about that team, we were even saying, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:20.720 like this team hasn't lost by a lot. Did the Redskin, 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.760 like off the top of the red Skins play on Thanksgiving? 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.480 I doubt it. I don't think so. I mean, I 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.080 don't know if they've played Detroit, and I don't know 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.360 if they played that night game. Yeah, I don't because 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.200 all I'm saying is is then that means that they 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.560 would have to go back on a short week, Yes, 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.160 when the Cowboys play Thursday night, and then if twice 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:39.760 they have to go on a short on a short 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.960 week against the Cowboys, I think so, and let against 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:48.840 the Giants is that they do play Thanksgiving, Okay, okay, 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.680 So I was just thinking that then that they had 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.720 to have a short week to come and play that 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.080 Thursday game, then that would be a game I think 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.840 the Cowboys, you know, you would think should be able 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.040 to win. But you know, division games are all up 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:06.200 in the air anyways, I'll rephrase, Yeah, San Francisco was 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.440 a should win. Got it there. There aren't any more 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.840 should wins. There's like can wins now, you know. But 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.560 it's a slight difference. I think usually those ends up 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.720 in five hundred seasons. I'm just saying, they got their 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.920 work cut out for him. Man, there's no way around that. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.240 So do you do you think though, if if, if 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.640 they play to the point where let's assume for a 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.000 second that what we saw at the end of the 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.960 Green Bay game and what we saw last week suggests 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.240 that they are starting to figure this thing out from 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.120 the standpoint of they're running game. If they're off, that 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.880 change your opinion about whether there are games that are 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.800 left on the schedule that they should win playing that 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.240 style of football. If they're playing at their best, does 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.920 that change your opinion about games that they should win 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.000 down the stretch. Yes, yeah, I think so. But and 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:53.520 I'm not gonna give them that benefit of doubt. They 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.200 got to show me more than a game and a quarter. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.680 A game and a quarter a game against the O 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:59.920 and seven team, right, and a quarter in a game 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:01.840 that they lost, Right, I need a little more than that. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.399 I'm with you. But if they do get it rolling 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.439 like that, then sure, because as we saw him roll 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.280 them off last year, like, if you're playing that style 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.080 of football, they can win some games. They can stack 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.639 some games together, you know, a lot of games. But 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.960 they have some issues right now though. I mean this 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.320 is these games are gonna be close. There's gonna be 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.080 some games down to the wire, and their security blanket 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.080 that they've had for the last three or four years 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.040 is not with them this week, and who knows after that. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:29.760 And I don't know when we want to talk about 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.159 the kicking situation and all that, But I mean that 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.480 these games will come down to the wire, and the 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.639 Cowboys to me have the best, if not you know, 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.760 definitely one of the best kickers in the league. And 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.320 so something's gonna have to give here in the next 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.400 few weeks. Yeah, they have gotten very comfortable because they've 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.040 had now for a lot of years, they've had a 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.639 good kicker that you know, you get within a fifty 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.920 yard field goal and you're like, let's do it, Like 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.800 you don't even worry about it as a fan, as 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.840 somebody watching and observing games, I don't even think to 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.040 about him like I was gonna make it. I'm surprised 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.440 if he doesn't make it. And I remember a time 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.840 that was in case, Like, there have been years, a 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.000 lot of years here where you didn't have that kind 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.480 of kicker in It looks like what you're gonna have 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.639 to deal with now for at least a week, and 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.880 who knows how long after that, I would guess several. Yeah, 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.760 so it's it's not gonna be right. It's in close 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:20.800 games or you're playing really good teams. That kind of 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:22.920 stuff matters. Before we go to break. I let's just 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:27.399 say they've got workouts today, They've got Um, I'm bringing 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:33.119 in Jason Myers, Mike Nugent. I don't think that they 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.960 wound up getting that young Hookho guy. They didn't. I 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:40.200 don't think so. Um and Sam Arowin Hill, who was 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.960 here in training camp and they're bringing which I think 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.160 this is Yeah, I was wrong. I'm sorry. I still 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.439 maintain why, Like, what do you stand to lose by 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:50.840 bringing him in and taking a look at him like 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.399 there's no talent with it? You're right, m You're both right. 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.880 It's a move the Cowboys would do. It's a it's 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.480