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Speaker 2: hosts Jess Navarees, Aisha Morrison, Kelsey Charles, and Jane Slater.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, Hello ladies. We had football on our TVs
Speaker 4: last night. I had quite a few adult beverages while
Speaker 4: I enjoyed said football.
Speaker 5: Kelsey is down.
Speaker 4: At Austin Forner at the Texas Alabama game, and I
Speaker 4: think we're all hyped up for the Cowboys to open
Speaker 4: up their season at at and T Stadium.
Speaker 5: We got some good news from Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 4: I know that there was a bit of a cleatgate
Speaker 4: yesterday as we talked about Dak Prescott.
Speaker 5: Reporters had questions for Mike. Here's what he had to.
Speaker 4: Say about Dak's availability and where that ankle's at.
Speaker 6: I just think once again, I made you know, high
Speaker 6: caution we doing. We do it with all the players.
Speaker 6: There's always exams or you know, things that go on
Speaker 6: that you know we we react everything. I think that's
Speaker 6: just the nature of the of the game. And so really,
Speaker 6: you know, I know the importance of dak in the
Speaker 6: quarterback position, but it's really standard process, you know, standard procedure.
Speaker 6: Excuse me to go through that. At anytime a player has
Speaker 6: an issue.
Speaker 5: We react to everything.
Speaker 4: To Mike, and I loved this follow up question from
Speaker 4: my GUYE Todd Archer over at ESPN, because we were.
Speaker 5: All thinking about it in the locker rooms right there.
Speaker 5: We could have solved this mystery a lot quicker.
Speaker 6: I do not own the Jordan Eleven's but I'll just
Speaker 6: say that, you know he's going to be a full,
Speaker 6: full participant today, anticipat it'll be the same tomor so
Speaker 6: I don't I don't have any concern about him playing.
Speaker 5: Something, all right.
Speaker 4: So basically the question there though was why not just
Speaker 4: go into the locker room?
Speaker 5: Yeah, just go go get a new pair of shoes.
Speaker 4: But the fact that you know, it was that ankle
Speaker 4: that had been surgically repaired twice was why I think
Speaker 4: a lot of us were sort of some of our
Speaker 4: spidy senses were going off, Oh God, here we go.
Speaker 4: The sky is falling, The sky is falling, but it
Speaker 4: sounds like it. You know, he's going back to his
Speaker 4: ja ones and no more eleven's on those feet. How
Speaker 4: did it feel for you guys to hear some of
Speaker 4: that news today, and you should We'll start with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was happy.
Speaker 7: I was obviously happy, but I wasn't super panicky about
Speaker 7: it anyway, just being kind of a sneaker person and understanding, like,
Speaker 7: if you don't break them things.
Speaker 1: In, what are you doing?
Speaker 7: And you could tell with some of the interviews I
Speaker 7: had listened to Mike McCarthy's interview with one of five
Speaker 7: point through the fan, you could tell that they weren't
Speaker 7: super panicked about it, but they were.
Speaker 1: Like, why would you do that today? Today? Why would
Speaker 1: you do this today?
Speaker 7: So I do feel better about it, and I'm confident
Speaker 7: he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to see him plato.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I was never really worried about it, especially hearing Dak's
Speaker 9: response to you yesterday, Dame, I was like, nah, he's fine.
Speaker 9: I think the tone would have been much different from
Speaker 9: him if he wasn't, and I think he wouldn't have
Speaker 9: laughed it off as much as he was if it
Speaker 9: was a serious thing.
Speaker 5: But Kelsey, we've seen him do this before.
Speaker 1: That's why everybody got PTSDA here.
Speaker 3: I know, I get Kelsey.
Speaker 4: I literally we've seen him do this at training camp
Speaker 4: with the shoulder, and so that's why.
Speaker 5: I was but why I just thought it was interesting.
Speaker 9: It was a great question on your end to ask him.
Speaker 9: But I think his response and and how he's like.
Speaker 9: But I came back and I said that I didn't
Speaker 9: know anytime.
Speaker 7: He definitely was like he handled the taking accountability for
Speaker 7: it and stuff like that, but I definitely, yeah, I'm
Speaker 7: happy that Micha McCarthy said that this morning he went
Speaker 7: down saw him, that he looked everything looked okay, because
Speaker 7: who knows we need him well.
Speaker 4: It was floating around Kelsey too that he might have
Speaker 4: even had a blister, and we haven't been able to
Speaker 4: confirm any of that. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 4: have ever because I wear ill.
Speaker 5: Fitting shoes all the time.
Speaker 4: They look cute in the store, and then you wear
Speaker 4: them twelve hours a game day and.
Speaker 5: It's it's rough.
Speaker 4: Kelsey and I already explained that, you know, I I
Speaker 4: know we've used the light of King and I always
Speaker 4: take extra band aids on a fourteen hour work day.
Speaker 4: It's I it's hard to play even if you if
Speaker 4: you happen to have a few blisters on your.
Speaker 9: Feet, yes, yes, the thing, yeah today and these are
Speaker 9: hard and just walking down to get in here, so
Speaker 9: I feel the blister's coming and Dak.
Speaker 3: We're right there with you with the blister situation.
Speaker 4: And again, if he has a blister that so I
Speaker 4: don't want that to be tweeted out that he's ready
Speaker 4: to get he's playing.
Speaker 5: With blisters on his feet. But I I, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I guess my biggest.
Speaker 4: Concern though, is if a cleat Kelsey is creating some
Speaker 4: tightness and that ankle, now you're gonna put him behind
Speaker 4: this offensive line in this book's pass rush. That's I
Speaker 4: think what concerns me a little bit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean me too. Again, like you said, we've
Speaker 10: seen this happen before. I think Dak has that warrior
Speaker 10: mindset where you know, you always hear after the season
Speaker 10: you're like, oh, Dieke Elliott was playing with this, this
Speaker 10: person was playing with that, and it honestly, guys like
Speaker 10: it very well could be that, you know, and I
Speaker 10: think that when you look at I remember talking to
Speaker 10: Travis Rutter one time, and he was telling me he's like,
Speaker 10: honestly going through a week of practice, like I feel
Speaker 10: like I've been hit by a truck. And so I
Speaker 10: think the mentality of a player when he's like I'm
Speaker 10: I'm I'm aokay, their level of like I'm good to play,
Speaker 10: I feel like is different than our level of you know,
Speaker 10: when you would consider yourself one hundred percent, right, Like
Speaker 10: how can you possibly be one hundred percent when you're
Speaker 10: enduring that type of physicality on the daily. So I
Speaker 10: think there's that factor. I honestly again, like you know,
Speaker 10: I was born tonight, but it wasn't last night. Like
Speaker 10: the fact that he didn't walk into the locker room
Speaker 10: and get something fixed, Like I'm like, I don't know,
Speaker 10: Like that just sits weird with me. I'm going to
Speaker 10: trust him either way. I trust this training staff. But yeah,
Speaker 10: if it's blisters, I recommend Moleskin. I am currently stretching
Speaker 10: out my boots for tomorrow as we speak on this show,
Speaker 10: so listen, Like, I don't know, I feel good about
Speaker 10: his odds, but I am concerned because I feel like
Speaker 10: every single factor that goes into this game needs to
Speaker 10: be pretty darn perfect for them to be able to
Speaker 10: be able to beat Tampa Bay.
Speaker 7: I also think that people, I think that just we're
Speaker 7: not used to seeing last year was a lot because
Speaker 7: Dak hasn't really been injured in his career, and then
Speaker 7: to see you know, obviously the ankle the year before,
Speaker 7: and then we have the shoulder.
Speaker 1: I think I think that the tracking that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think people are just on high alert about,
Speaker 7: you know, QB one because we understand that without him,
Speaker 7: there's not a lot to just be super excited about.
Speaker 6: What I think.
Speaker 1: Listen, don't don't play with me.
Speaker 3: I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 5: You saw what he didn't Minnesota, Aha, spare me.
Speaker 9: Even just being a Cowboys fan growing up and watching them,
Speaker 9: you're kind of trained to be a little worried when
Speaker 9: your quarterback gets injured.
Speaker 3: That's everything conditioning. I think.
Speaker 9: I just feel like you go back to the Tony
Speaker 9: Romo era and you were just every every hit he got,
Speaker 9: you were kind of just clinching to your seat hoping
Speaker 9: it was okay. And so I think after the ankle injury,
Speaker 9: specifically for Dak, it kind of brought back that oh man,
Speaker 9: that that really took nothing for him.
Speaker 3: To get that.
Speaker 9: Large of an injury, and so now we're kind of
Speaker 9: back to the the og days of oh, please protect Dak,
Speaker 9: please surround him with the greatest O line you can
Speaker 9: ever ever and it's not.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 9: And and that's the thing is we know the circumstances
Speaker 9: going in with the on line. We know what Dak
Speaker 9: has and what he does not have when it comes
Speaker 9: to this offensive line. And I think that is exactly
Speaker 9: why it created the hysteria yesterday. It was because we've
Speaker 9: all been following this O line situation with Tyler Smith,
Speaker 9: Tyron Smith going down since it all happened. And I
Speaker 9: think that had that not had a factor, and I
Speaker 9: think if that hadn't played out like that, it wouldn't
Speaker 9: have been blown.
Speaker 3: Up as much as it was yesterday.
Speaker 9: It still would have been blown up, just not to
Speaker 9: that extent that this guy is falling the world is
Speaker 9: ending kind of thing.
Speaker 4: Because my concern is is if he's if that ankle
Speaker 4: is giving him any problems, he's likely going to be
Speaker 4: running around scrambling. He's going to be pretty mobile on Sunday,
Speaker 4: given what he's got with the offensive line and the
Speaker 4: pass rush.
Speaker 5: And so you know, to your point, Kelsey.
Speaker 4: I think we're sort of looking at all these factors
Speaker 4: really need to line up for the Cowboys in order
Speaker 4: to have the chance of a win against a guy
Speaker 4: like Tom Brady. But I mean we'll get into it
Speaker 4: here in a little bit. The Bucks aren't at full strength,
Speaker 4: and so let me just go let me go through
Speaker 4: the entry report that just came out. So for the
Speaker 4: Cowboy side, Michael has been ruled out that it's not
Speaker 4: a shock at all.
Speaker 5: Jay Ron Curse this week had a shoulder issue.
Speaker 4: We were seeing some of that in practice and he
Speaker 4: is listed as questionable now. He did not practice on Friday,
Speaker 4: so that's going to be something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 4: But when we're talking about the Bucks, Chris Godwin is
Speaker 4: still dealing with this knee situation of his and then
Speaker 4: Russell Gage he's got the hamstring. They're both considered questionable
Speaker 4: heading into this game. And then when we were talking
Speaker 4: about the off the offensive line for the Bucks, their
Speaker 4: interior is either lacking experience or their new faces because
Speaker 4: they had retirement, injury, and free agency.
Speaker 5: Affect their offensive line.
Speaker 4: And as I explained yesterday, Dak has not gotten a
Speaker 4: lot of time behind this offensive line and then when
Speaker 4: you talk about the receiving cord that they had last
Speaker 4: year heading into week one, he had Antonio Brown, he
Speaker 4: had you know, obviously Mike Evans so and that you don't.
Speaker 5: Have Rob Gronkowski. Rob Gronkowski has been a bit of
Speaker 5: a bl for uh hoodies for Yeah.
Speaker 4: So when you look at let's see in week one
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty two, this was the receiver stats by yards.
Speaker 4: Antonio Brown one hundred and twenty one yards, not gonna
Speaker 4: have that this year. Chris god Win one hundred and
Speaker 4: five yards, he's questionable. Rob Gronkowski had ninety. You don't
Speaker 4: have them this week. So something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 4: You know, we're sitting here because it's Tom Brady, but
Speaker 4: I've been covering games where when Tom Brady is expected
Speaker 4: to do a lot, he struggles a bit, and a
Speaker 4: shout out to our boy Patrick Walker, who's now in
Speaker 4: the building. He had some really really great nuggets that
Speaker 4: I wanted to highlight. I love that he's always getting
Speaker 4: into the science, So shout out to our boy, Yes,
Speaker 4: the scientist, but he had some interesting nuggets about just
Speaker 4: Tom Brady on the road and in domes. So this
Speaker 4: was this was some good, good stuff here, he said.
Speaker 4: I did not almost say the four letter word, though
Speaker 4: he did not, I had it. I had a little
Speaker 4: cough in my throat as I'm finding here, like, wait,
Speaker 4: we need the dump button for her?
Speaker 5: Where is it all right?
Speaker 10: I actually love that you're looking this up though, because
Speaker 10: this reminds me. I feel like it was like Peyton
Speaker 10: Manning or someone when he would play. They were like,
Speaker 10: he can't play in cold weather, you know, Like I
Speaker 10: was like, how are we even thinking about this? I
Speaker 10: love that so much so, but like that's the thing
Speaker 10: that people look at with quarterbacks. I really think it
Speaker 10: was Peyton me, Like they were like, he can't play outside,
Speaker 10: like he can he can only play indoors really well,
Speaker 10: like he cannot play outside and obviously go to Denver
Speaker 10: and win the championship, but like, what.
Speaker 9: Do we know?
Speaker 4: Well, God've got some answers for you, Kelsey via Patrick Walker. Uh,
Speaker 4: forty five percent of the games that Tom Brady has
Speaker 4: lost have been on the road. Forty six percent of
Speaker 4: the games that he's lost have been inside domes, So
Speaker 4: I thought that was interesting. And also primetime, forty five
Speaker 4: percent of the games that he's lost have been in primetime.
Speaker 4: So just something to keep I'm like, shout out to
Speaker 4: Patrick Walker, but if.
Speaker 5: You're looking for.
Speaker 4: This ray of sunshine, a sliver of hope, I just
Speaker 4: think those are some things that we should highlight as
Speaker 4: we talk about this team and some of the deficiencies
Speaker 4: that Tom Brady's actually dealing with outside of the stuff
Speaker 4: that he's been dealing with off the field.
Speaker 7: Aysha, Yeah, So you mentioned jay Ron Curse, and that's
Speaker 7: actually one of the matchups that I've really been looking
Speaker 7: at is are well the Cowboys, the Cowboys UH linebackers
Speaker 7: and their linebackers and covers dropping and coverage dealing with
Speaker 7: in their tight ends and the books tight ends. I
Speaker 7: think that when you look at Tom Brady, I looked
Speaker 7: at some IS tape last year, they attacked the middle
Speaker 7: of the field to lie, especially when you're trying to
Speaker 7: just get intermediate passing because you're just trying to get
Speaker 7: the ball out quickly like he's doing, so I expect
Speaker 7: for him to be trying to attack a lot of
Speaker 7: the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: So are the safeties.
Speaker 7: The Cowboys safeties and the linebackers got to come to play.
Speaker 7: So hearing that news about jay Ron Curse is a
Speaker 7: little not fun to me. But obviously we do have
Speaker 7: a mark. There is a Markie's bell that's in the wings,
Speaker 7: that's been working really hard to get in here and
Speaker 7: hopefully step in and that role if necessary. I like
Speaker 7: the Cowboys secondary chance, secondary's chances against the Bucks Receiver Corps.
Speaker 7: And I say that because when you look at Trayvon
Speaker 7: Diggs and you look at Anthony Brown, really the guys
Speaker 7: that give them trouble are speedy, shifty guys. But there's
Speaker 7: been a lot of talk about the size on the
Speaker 7: Bucks Receiver Corps and how much bigger they are than
Speaker 7: the gentlemen that play for the Cowboys. And you look
Speaker 7: at that and a lot of people are like, oh,
Speaker 7: you know, they're gonna be able to just catch balls
Speaker 7: over the No. One thing that the Cowboys do very
Speaker 7: well is play man.
Speaker 1: They play press.
Speaker 7: So I'm hoping to see a lot of bump and run,
Speaker 7: like get them off their mark, make sure like concentration stuff,
Speaker 7: concentration drops, because we're getting the Cowboys are getting them
Speaker 7: off their game at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Hopefully some coverage sacks. Hopefully some covered sacks.
Speaker 7: I mean because Tom Brady's gonna be trying to get
Speaker 7: the ball out and if the defensive line cannot get
Speaker 7: to them, that secondary holds up makes them do another read.
Speaker 7: That could be a sack for or Micah for Osa
Speaker 7: for Neville. Who over though that that is? So I'm
Speaker 7: really also looking at these dts. The Cowboys drafted pretty
Speaker 7: defensively heavy last year. You could tell that dan Quinn
Speaker 7: has a reputation. Also, credit to coach d I can't
Speaker 7: say his name.
Speaker 1: I don't want to ruin it. The defensive line maybe
Speaker 1: dirty Dirty, yes, coach dirty. Credit to them. You could
Speaker 1: tell they had a plan for stopping the run.
Speaker 7: And we've been talking about this after that Rams game
Speaker 7: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: They did a good job is shutting down the run
Speaker 5: last year too.
Speaker 7: If you look back at that Bucks game, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 7: the Bucks didn't have a lot of success and and
Speaker 7: the Bucks aren't a team that's just coming out to
Speaker 7: try to run the ball downhill at you. That's not
Speaker 7: what they are and that's not what they were last
Speaker 7: year for the most part. And when they tried to
Speaker 7: do that, they didn't see a lot of success there
Speaker 7: in the run game. So I'm definitely looking at the
Speaker 7: DTS in this game. I think this is such a
Speaker 7: prove it, prove it season for so many players. You're
Speaker 7: looking at Dalton Shows going into going into you know
Speaker 7: he's on that franchise tag right now.
Speaker 1: There's guys on.
Speaker 7: This team that are trying to make a statement and
Speaker 7: show who they are.
Speaker 1: Jay Ron Curst, we talked about can you do it again?
Speaker 7: Was last year of Fluke the defense as a whole,
Speaker 7: Like was this a Fluke? Is this Camante Turpin coming
Speaker 7: in from the US, Like he's trying to prove what
Speaker 7: they're So I feel like there's a lot of edge
Speaker 7: in this locker room and what they want to do.
Speaker 7: So I think the defense has the opportunity to have
Speaker 7: like a bill showing I do.
Speaker 4: Well when you look at last year, because I do
Speaker 4: think defense is going to be key here just and
Speaker 4: I also think we talked about this special teams with
Speaker 4: such a factor last year in this matchup. If you
Speaker 4: look at it defense in year one with Dan Quinn
Speaker 4: and think how much better they got as the season
Speaker 4: went on. In third down efficiency, Bucks were only five
Speaker 4: of eleven and when we look at some of let's
Speaker 4: see their rushing attempts. They had fourteen rushing attempts, they
Speaker 4: were only averaging three point seven yards per rush, and
Speaker 4: they only had fifty two yards rushing, which was about
Speaker 4: the same. When you look at the Cowboys, they weren't
Speaker 4: too far off. So what they were doing defensively to
Speaker 4: the Cowboys, the Cowboys were also doing that back defensively
Speaker 4: to the Bucks, and so I think you can expect.
Speaker 5: A very similar game.
Speaker 4: Yes, I just I think my biggest question for Dallas,
Speaker 4: because I do think they're going to shut down the run,
Speaker 4: is how much trust do you have in this receiving
Speaker 4: this young receiving corp who has not had a lot
Speaker 4: of experience finding.
Speaker 5: The end zone.
Speaker 4: So I think that's going to be that's going to
Speaker 4: be something to keep an eye on heading into this one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely, And so you know hearing I think a
Speaker 9: lot of the press conferences and the players in the
Speaker 9: locker room from the Bucks side of things, they're aware
Speaker 9: of one both the strengths that we have within the
Speaker 9: defense and two a weakness if you will, with the
Speaker 9: younger team.
Speaker 3: However, the thing.
Speaker 9: Is is, like you said, it would be much different
Speaker 9: if they didn't have things to prove, because even some
Speaker 9: of the Veteransdalton Schultz exactly right on the money with
Speaker 9: that franchise tag. I'm so glad you brought that up
Speaker 9: by you, Shad, because there's a lot of people that
Speaker 9: have to prove a lot of things, right h Micah
Speaker 9: Parsons even and and we know he's going to step
Speaker 9: up and do it, but hey, was this just first
Speaker 9: your luck or are you going to take that second
Speaker 9: your leap like everybody likes to talk about as well, Right, So,
Speaker 9: I think it's always interesting because I've honed in on
Speaker 9: Tom Brady this week.
Speaker 3: I want to see what he's saying.
Speaker 9: I want to I want to get a feel for,
Speaker 9: you know, his mentality and where he is mentally right now.
Speaker 9: And you know, we touch base on this yesterday, but
Speaker 9: even the press conference he had this morning, something's up
Speaker 9: with him and it doesn't it doesn't seem it doesn't
Speaker 9: seem like mentally he is like he normally is. And
Speaker 9: we'll get into that a little bit later from tails
Speaker 9: on the other side.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and let's do that on the other side.
Speaker 4: Let's go and take a break. Kelsey, I know we've
Speaker 4: got you down there. I want to get you to
Speaker 4: weigh in as you join us here on the phone.
Speaker 4: But let's get into some of For those of you
Speaker 4: who have not been keeping your ears and your eyes
Speaker 4: open as to what's going on in the buck side,
Speaker 4: we'll give you some tails from from from the other side,
Speaker 4: the tails of the tape. We come back on the
Speaker 4: other side of the break.
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Speaker 4: Slater of the NFL Network, joined by Aisha Morrison, Jessina Bares,
Speaker 4: and we've got Kelsey Charles on the phone from Austin
Speaker 4: as she works the Texas Alabama game. Look, As I
Speaker 4: was saying before the break, a lot of Cowboy fans
Speaker 4: don't have the time, nor the interest, I would imagine
Speaker 4: in some cases, or the inclination to sort of check
Speaker 4: what's going on in Tampa Bay.
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Speaker 4: We've been talking a lot about Tom Brady's mindset, and
Speaker 4: you were listening into some of the press conferences and
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Speaker 9: Jess Yeah, Hey, so here's the thing I've like I
Speaker 9: mentioned earlier, I'm honing in on Tom Brady because of
Speaker 9: everything going on. I really want to see where his
Speaker 9: head is if you can. It's kind of hard to read.
Speaker 9: I feel like he does have a good poker face,
Speaker 9: but today's press conference just seemed a little off, if
Speaker 9: you will. So let's start about what But let's start
Speaker 9: with what he did say. The Cowboys strengths were and
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Speaker 15: They rush the passer. I think they have a good scheme.
Speaker 15: They mix things up quite a bit. We're playing them
Speaker 15: at home. They've got a very good offense. So they're
Speaker 15: a tough team to beat, and you know it's gonna
Speaker 15: be a big challenge for the opener.
Speaker 9: So Tom Brady went on to mention again, this is
Speaker 9: the third time this week I've heard him mention these names,
Speaker 9: Trayvon Diggs, Micah Parsons. That tells me those are fresh
Speaker 9: in his mind to the two people he's going to
Speaker 9: be honed in on trying to avoid. Really, so we
Speaker 9: heard that. But the most interesting thing that I think
Speaker 9: jumped out to me about Tom Brady and his press
Speaker 9: conference today was we talked about this, I believe, yesterday
Speaker 9: with Michaeh Parsons comments about Tom Brady likes to step
Speaker 9: on people's throats like a roach, right, and that's funny.
Speaker 3: It's all in good spirits.
Speaker 9: All people his level of competition correct, and you know,
Speaker 9: Micah Parsons likes to have fun with it. And usually
Speaker 9: I feel like Tom bra he does too. I feel
Speaker 9: like Tom Brady takes those kind of comments. He laughs
Speaker 9: about it, he says something else, and it's it's one
Speaker 9: of those moments that when you're watching, it's it's fun
Speaker 9: to listen to and it, you know, adds to the camaraderie.
Speaker 9: But I want you to take a listen to what
Speaker 9: Tom's response was when reporters asked him about Micah's comment.
Speaker 15: Man, that's interesting. Yeah, you know, I just try to
Speaker 15: go win, so at the end of the day, that's
Speaker 15: what I'm trying to do. I'm not trying to hurt anyone,
Speaker 15: just trying to go out there and do my job
Speaker 15: as best I can. But I'm going out there with
Speaker 15: a lot of good players. That's the best part for
Speaker 15: me as a competitor.
Speaker 5: I just it's not having a lot of fun right now.
Speaker 9: I just find it like you're forcing somebody to laugh
Speaker 9: at something, right like, yeah, haha.
Speaker 10: That's tell me something's not wrong with him.
Speaker 5: What are you hearing?
Speaker 4: Because I know you've you and I both have reporter
Speaker 4: friends that are covering it in the market.
Speaker 5: We have Dix who used to work for the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: She's down there.
Speaker 4: I've got Jenna Lane, Sarah Walsh, and I've sort of
Speaker 4: been touching base with them, and I brought up some
Speaker 4: of the comments that he skinnier, there's something definitely off.
Speaker 5: What are you hearing, Kelsey?
Speaker 10: Yeah, So, actually I had a conversation with my girlfriends
Speaker 10: this morning. Carmen by Kelly was Fox Sports and she
Speaker 10: actually was the beat writer reporter for the team for
Speaker 10: several years. She's super tight with a lot of those guys,
Speaker 10: especially on the O Line, and she was telling me,
Speaker 10: She's like, listen, they definitely are acknowledging some things off,
Speaker 10: but absolutely no one is concerned. She was like, she
Speaker 10: literally talked to Todd Bowles herself, and he was like,
Speaker 10: the man's been in the league for how many years,
Speaker 10: He's won how many Super Bowls? And he's been to
Speaker 10: how many more? If he needs eleven days off for
Speaker 10: a personal reason, like, I'm going to give it to him.
Speaker 10: So at least they're portrayed that they're not concerned. The
Speaker 10: one thing that I did love, though, is that when
Speaker 10: she was talking to the O line, because again, we've
Speaker 10: made a lot of emphasis on this this week, and
Speaker 10: I think rightfully so, but she told me that they
Speaker 10: literally said we can go be aggressive and we can
Speaker 10: actually be way more competent in our roles because we
Speaker 10: trust that if something starts to fall apart and we
Speaker 10: slip up, like he's going to get away and he'll
Speaker 10: be fine. Like that's they I feel like he really
Speaker 10: is the epitomy of a quarterback that makes the team
Speaker 10: around him better. And despite what is very obviously going
Speaker 10: on with Tom whatever it may be, people are just
Speaker 10: chalking it up to, like, hey, he needs a minute,
Speaker 10: we still one hundred percent feel good about this weekend.
Speaker 10: We have a lot of confidence in this game and
Speaker 10: we're not worried. So that's really one of the big
Speaker 10: things that I've heard, Like Tampa Bay feels pretty good
Speaker 10: about this weekend.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I just think it's interesting to even hear
Speaker 9: his tone of voice, right, Like we didn't see video
Speaker 9: and I was watching video. He just he kind of looked,
Speaker 9: he kind of paused, half smirked and was like, Eh, anyway.
Speaker 3: It just feels like he, especially.
Speaker 4: In the press conferences, he'd rather be anywhere but there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and there used to be sort of a joy about
Speaker 4: everything that went into football with him, right, Like even
Speaker 4: his Instagram feels forced like he's clearly got these ads
Speaker 4: that he has to roll out for his very businesses,
Speaker 4: and even they feel forced right now.
Speaker 5: Again, maybe I'm reading into it.
Speaker 4: It's just I've covered Tom and you know, when he's
Speaker 4: obviously played in Tampa, I covered thirty one other teams
Speaker 4: besides the Cowboys, and it just feels a little different.
Speaker 4: And you know, at full strength last year, the Cowboys
Speaker 4: are really I mean I was at the game. It
Speaker 4: was a watter, guys, the way the Cowboys went out
Speaker 4: and played that one. They were considered huge underdogs. No
Speaker 4: one knew, knew what to expect from obviously Dak Prescott
Speaker 4: coming out from the injury, and they almost had that game,
Speaker 4: and they almost did.
Speaker 3: You know, Tod both actually went on.
Speaker 9: I was listening to his presser this morning as well,
Speaker 9: and he talked about what was the biggest takeaway from
Speaker 9: last year's game, and he said that this year they
Speaker 9: need to work on not having eleven penalties and four
Speaker 9: turnovers for this game like they did last year. So
Speaker 9: I thought that was really interesting too, because I don't
Speaker 9: think anybody expected the Cowboys to play like they did.
Speaker 9: I don't think we knew what to expect from Dak
Speaker 9: going into that game. First and foremost, he was coming
Speaker 9: off of the injury. We had no idea what we
Speaker 9: were going to see, and the fact that they almost
Speaker 9: came away with the win was huge.
Speaker 4: And you know what, the Cowboys played a fairly error
Speaker 4: free game. And when you look at the penalties, let's
Speaker 4: see they were.
Speaker 7: Their biggest penalties came on the drive where they needed
Speaker 7: to go score and they had it was right before
Speaker 7: they gave the ball back to Tom Brady. They had
Speaker 7: the opportunity to go score. They had two holds.
Speaker 5: They had eight penalties for fifty five yards.
Speaker 4: When you look at the Bucks, they had eleven penalties
Speaker 4: for one hundred and six yards in this game. That's
Speaker 4: the other thing we haven't really addressed this week is
Speaker 4: the importance of the Cowboys playing fairly disciplined football because
Speaker 4: it's the penalties that get them in trouble, especially in
Speaker 4: the preseason.
Speaker 5: So thanks Jessin.
Speaker 4: So that's something that they've really got to keep an
Speaker 4: eye on. And one of the knocks I think on
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy and the staff is how disciplined are these
Speaker 4: guys within the context of the game. And I think
Speaker 4: when you look at this offensive line in the youth
Speaker 4: and some of the inexperience.
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna I think it's gonna be an issue.
Speaker 7: Well, and that's why I think that going into we
Speaker 7: haven't really talked about penalties. I mean, the importance of
Speaker 7: special teams in this game, I think changes things.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy if you go back and start.
Speaker 7: Looking at how many times the guyways would score on
Speaker 7: drives but they were going seventy eighty yards. Not having
Speaker 7: a returner is such played such a role. And I
Speaker 7: think this offense's lack of success and in spaces and
Speaker 7: with hoping to get we're hoping to get you know,
Speaker 7: returns and some some good field position from Turpin.
Speaker 5: Does Cavante take one of the house ladies?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 7: I'm telling me I could see them. I could see
Speaker 7: first play of the game last year. They came out
Speaker 7: big play with a Mario Cooper just right out the gate,
Speaker 7: deep into deeping your end zone. I think Turpin is
Speaker 7: that we need a big play right now.
Speaker 9: And actually, yeah, with that, I'm looking at some of
Speaker 9: the game notes here. With a kickoff return for a touchdown,
Speaker 9: Cavante Turpin would be the first player in team history
Speaker 9: to return a kickoff for a touchdown in the season opener,
Speaker 9: So I would like to see that happen for him.
Speaker 4: I I just think I don't have a ton of
Speaker 4: tape on him, Like if it's gonna happen, I think
Speaker 4: it's gonna happen earlier in the season.
Speaker 7: And also the Bucks have a rookie punter, so that
Speaker 7: is something to look at because they do have to.
Speaker 5: You would if you would.
Speaker 7: Expect for them to be trying to plan to try
Speaker 7: to kick away from him. But what if you now listen,
Speaker 7: I know TP is everybody wants them to be, you know,
Speaker 7: RB one, But what if you don't give them a
Speaker 7: choice but to give it to one of their best
Speaker 7: guys or they have to kick it that he has
Speaker 7: to be booting that thing and getting a touch back.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be a lot of pressure for kickers. If
Speaker 7: Cavante Turpin comes out and starts showing what he can do,
Speaker 7: he's already put it on display, but let.
Speaker 1: Him rip something in the season. Listen, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be touch People are gonna be terrified.
Speaker 10: Yea, I actually think that like secle teams, So I
Speaker 10: think I'm glad you guys brought that up. Major for
Speaker 10: us because again and penalties, we haven't talked a lot
Speaker 10: about that. This team has struggled mightily. I think they
Speaker 10: led the league last year in penalties. I mean it's
Speaker 10: like we're winning all the wrong awards, right, and so
Speaker 10: this year they started off and it didn't look amazing.
Speaker 10: So hopefully they can really lock that down. But another
Speaker 10: guy who Jane, I know you've covered on multiple teams,
Speaker 10: who I think is going to have to make an
Speaker 10: impact this weekend is Brett Maher. I mean, this has
Speaker 10: been an issue for this team for a minute. I
Speaker 10: like to joke a lot about it on Twitter. It's
Speaker 10: become a little bit of my shtick. But genuinely, that
Speaker 10: has to be locked down this game because, especially when
Speaker 10: you're playing a Tom Brady, there might be chances where
Speaker 10: as much as we don't want it, you do have
Speaker 10: to settle for this field goal because their defense is
Speaker 10: showing up like you might have to, and you got
Speaker 10: to know if you can get those points on the board,
Speaker 10: because again, when you're facing a quarterback on the other side,
Speaker 10: as good as our defense is, you'll know anytime you
Speaker 10: give him, even if it is limited, he's going to
Speaker 10: maximize it. So every point counts this upcoming weekend, every
Speaker 10: point well.
Speaker 5: And I love that, you know, listening to him.
Speaker 4: All it took was him going to New Orleans and
Speaker 4: learning a few things, and he's changed.
Speaker 3: It's just.
Speaker 5: What is it? What is it?
Speaker 4: They say that even in dating, it's like don't show me,
Speaker 4: tell or don't tell me show me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's where I'm out with.
Speaker 9: Your words, match your action, But another person that's prove it,
Speaker 9: show me.
Speaker 1: This is a this is a show me year.
Speaker 9: And just as a reminder, the Cowboys had one hundred
Speaker 9: and twenty seven penalties last season for that cost them
Speaker 9: one one hundred and three total yards.
Speaker 3: That's within one season.
Speaker 9: So just the reminder there that if if that's not
Speaker 9: a wake up call for every single person within the Cowboys, Hey,
Speaker 9: first thing I want to see addressed is that I
Speaker 9: don't want to see penalties. I want to see a
Speaker 9: penalty free game. That's you know, that's that's a concern.
Speaker 10: There's only one word for that, and I thought i'd
Speaker 10: have to it literally can't happen, And especially when you
Speaker 10: have guys in this team that are that are rookies
Speaker 10: and that are newer. Again, whenever we talk to Duke
Speaker 10: me any Weather. He always talks about fundamentals right and
Speaker 10: going back to the basics, like you don't have to
Speaker 10: have the longest arms or have to be the biggest guy.
Speaker 10: You play to your strengths, but you have to play
Speaker 10: a clean game that is going to be paramount. Again,
Speaker 10: like I said it earlier, this team has to check
Speaker 10: almost every box field to show up against Stanta Bay.
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Speaker 4: the break, I do want to ask each one of
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Speaker 16: all right, guys, heading it is Friday. It's it's like
Speaker 16: a like a long week, and not a long week
Speaker 16: because it's been a short week.
Speaker 5: And we're back into the grind.
Speaker 4: I've got basically a nineteen hour day on Sunday to
Speaker 4: look forward to.
Speaker 1: With the NFL.
Speaker 3: Exactly learned this week's listen.
Speaker 4: I could have told Zak that I'm a pro when
Speaker 4: it comes to I pack literally a pair of flip
Speaker 4: flops when I go to the stadium because it is
Speaker 4: such a long day and there's so much walking.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 5: But before we went into.
Speaker 4: The break, I asked you, guys, what are you most
Speaker 4: confident in and least confident? I want you guys to
Speaker 4: sort of stew on that, marinate that, marinate on that.
Speaker 4: As we headed into the break, I shall start with you,
Speaker 4: what are you most confident heading into this game and
Speaker 4: least confident in?
Speaker 7: I'm most confident in whatever defensive game plan that dan
Speaker 7: Quinn has. It's I I am most confident in what
Speaker 7: a adjustments he's gonna make because I think that that's
Speaker 7: something I saw him do pretty well last year, is
Speaker 7: second half adjustments with the defense. So I have faith
Speaker 7: that he will be able to adjust to there not
Speaker 7: being a whole bunch of tape on the books at
Speaker 7: the beginning.
Speaker 1: It's the beginning of the season, you know, not knowing
Speaker 1: what to expect. What I don't have faith in.
Speaker 5: I suppose.
Speaker 3: Play it on us.
Speaker 1: That's hard.
Speaker 5: What do I not have faith in?
Speaker 1: Time?
Speaker 10: I mean, if you need help, I could give.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tells you like I'm ready to let's go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, throw it out there because I'm struggling.
Speaker 10: I mean, honestly, I'm with you this defense. I'm I'm
Speaker 10: really excited for them. And again, it's touch a breath
Speaker 10: of fresh air because it feels like I remember the
Speaker 10: days of literally bringing in guys off the street where
Speaker 10: you're like rotating the bottom twarth of the barrel and
Speaker 10: getting guys who own smoothie shops right who are are
Speaker 10: starting on plugging them in on your on your starting line.
Speaker 10: So I go from that to where we are now
Speaker 10: and talk to us, to folks in the building, I mean,
Speaker 10: they were like, listen, you're gonna have to watch this defense.
Speaker 10: They're going to be good, and everyone knows they're going
Speaker 10: to be good, but I don't think y'all realize how
Speaker 10: good they're going to be. So I really hope that
Speaker 10: does come to fruition. So yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 10: Mike A. Parson specifically, I mean, if he was that
Speaker 10: dynamic in his first year, I really genuinely believe he
Speaker 10: can only grow up from here. So I'm excited to
Speaker 10: see his growth. But I will tell you, I know
Speaker 10: that everyone wants me to buy into this O line.
Speaker 10: I know that Tyler Smith has potential. I know that
Speaker 10: Dak Martin can be that better in presence, and I
Speaker 10: have trust in Dak, but I don't feel confident about
Speaker 10: the time, their space that they're going to give him.
Speaker 10: I don't feel confident about the pocket not collapsing on him.
Speaker 10: And honestly, think about it, such a traumatic injury that
Speaker 10: he's gone through. How can you possibly one hundred percent
Speaker 10: mentally overcome that and not? You know, maybe I don't know,
Speaker 10: makes sense.
Speaker 5: A little tightness in that way. I ankle this weed.
Speaker 5: I think that that's going to play in.
Speaker 10: I do too. So That's where I'm at, and I
Speaker 10: just I'm sorry, Like I hate to be the deadly downer,
Speaker 10: but like back when my head's.
Speaker 9: At Yeah, I think I'm most confident in the amount
Speaker 9: of pressure that the defense is going to be able
Speaker 9: to put on Tom Brady. And again, I think anybody
Speaker 9: who's not confident in the defense at this point just
Speaker 9: isn't paying attention. I think they are not paying enough
Speaker 9: attention to the Cowboys, or they're not Cowboys fans or
Speaker 9: in this area right. So I think the amount of
Speaker 9: pressure specifically that they are going to be able to
Speaker 9: put on Tom Brady in general, but early in the game,
Speaker 9: and we've talked about this all week, how key it
Speaker 9: is to get that done early established that that's what
Speaker 9: we're doing, and you know, let the dominoes fall where
Speaker 9: they may at that point, whether it be interceptions and
Speaker 9: sacks and all of that that come with that.
Speaker 3: I'm very confident in.
Speaker 9: The amount of pressure that you know, you have Micah Parsons,
Speaker 9: you have your d laws that can really lay on
Speaker 9: Tom Brady early on. I think something I'm not confident in.
Speaker 9: We just spoke about it. That's the penalties. How can
Speaker 9: I not have trust issues with the Cowboys with a
Speaker 9: hundred in twenty seven penalties in one season, and you know,
Speaker 9: I know preseason, we don't. We didn't see any of
Speaker 9: the starters at all preseason. However, we still saw a
Speaker 9: good amount of penalties in preseason. So that added to
Speaker 9: my trust issues with the Cowboys. So now I am
Speaker 9: a little set back and hoping that those penalties aren't
Speaker 9: going to cost us a game, because I think they
Speaker 9: have before. I think if they don't, if they allow
Speaker 9: this to continue, they will this season. And I really
Speaker 9: hope the discipline side of things with those penalties are
Speaker 9: corrected and I understand we're playing with rookies.
Speaker 3: That's why I am so nervous about.
Speaker 9: It, is because we're playing with new guys here who
Speaker 9: are inevitably going to get some of those penalties because
Speaker 9: they're new, it is their first season, it's their first
Speaker 9: regular season game. But I think the penalties is what
Speaker 9: I have the most confidence in going.
Speaker 3: Forward, because the most.
Speaker 9: I have the confidence that we're going to see it,
Speaker 9: and unfortunately, I you're not You're not not right. I'm
Speaker 9: just trying to be honest with y'all. I don't want
Speaker 9: I don't want to see Cowboys fans on Twitter.
Speaker 3: Oh we're seeing penalties again? Are we surprised? Are we shut?
Speaker 9: Oh? My goodness, I trust me. I don't want to
Speaker 9: see them. But do I think it's inevitable, especially for
Speaker 9: this first game.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
Speaker 9: And I think this is the team, the Bucks or
Speaker 9: the team you cannot have the penalties with because that
Speaker 9: is going to cost you the game last two minutes.
Speaker 9: With Tom Brady being Tom Brady, that that if it
Speaker 9: was If it was not Tom Brady, I wouldn't be
Speaker 9: so worried about it. But he always finds a way
Speaker 9: to come back and again we know how I feel
Speaker 9: about the amount of trauma Tom Brady has inflicted on
Speaker 9: me as a Cowboys fan, growing up with a very heavy,
Speaker 9: heavy following Cowboys family that cusses, screams at the TV
Speaker 9: anytime that happens.
Speaker 10: I don't want to like Major fool me once, shame
Speaker 10: on me. Same on you believe twice, same on right now.
Speaker 3: Like Major, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9: I'm not trying to be a Debbie downer here either, Kells,
Speaker 9: but the penalties working me overall.
Speaker 1: What do you think and day?
Speaker 4: I think the receiver that I'm most confident is Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 4: I think it's a big prove it year for him.
Speaker 4: I think he's frustrated he didn't get the long term
Speaker 4: deal on whether it's here with Dallas or whether it's
Speaker 4: somewhere else. I think he wants to show his ability
Speaker 4: to go out and garner the type of contract that
Speaker 4: he didn't get.
Speaker 5: So I think we've already seen that connection.
Speaker 4: There was a reason why they franchise tagged him is
Speaker 4: because he was a bit of a security blanket for
Speaker 4: the Cowboys, and I anticipate that he's going to have
Speaker 4: a big game on Sunday, So that's who I have
Speaker 4: the most confident. The person I have the least confidence
Speaker 4: and is Kellen Moore and his ability to stick to
Speaker 4: the run. I think that they're going to struggle with
Speaker 4: the run early and then I think they're going to
Speaker 4: move away from it.
Speaker 5: Again the way that they did last year.
Speaker 3: And I get it.
Speaker 4: Like I said, we've already gone through the stats with
Speaker 4: the you know, the loaded box and what they typically
Speaker 4: show them defensively. But I just they keep telling me
Speaker 4: they've got all these plays in the book for Tony
Speaker 4: Pollard and Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 5: Again, don't tell me.
Speaker 4: Show me I have the least and their commitment to
Speaker 4: their run and sticking with the run if it starts
Speaker 4: to if they start feeling challenged early in the game.
Speaker 9: And that's something we've seen over and over again, even
Speaker 9: just on the outside. I think when you see that
Speaker 9: the run's not working and when they can't find that hole,
Speaker 9: then Dak gets heavily into the pass game. You're going
Speaker 9: to see long targets to people like Dalton Schultz, to
Speaker 9: of the CDs.
Speaker 3: You know, last season we saw it a lot to Amari, But.
Speaker 5: I don't Knowah Brown could have a big game here
Speaker 5: on this one.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I definitely think that talking about the run game,
Speaker 7: if you're going to attack Tampa, we want to the
Speaker 7: want to you want to avoid Vidavea and the middle
Speaker 7: of that Hicks. You want to avoid the middle of
Speaker 7: that defense. It sounds like attacking the edges and going
Speaker 7: at their edges to me, is going to be their
Speaker 7: your best, your best you know chance and the Cowboys
Speaker 7: the very few times they did against the Bucks last year,
Speaker 7: TP was able to capture that edge. So I'm one
Speaker 7: of the things that you're talking about, Jane, is the
Speaker 7: run schemes. How are they running the ball?
Speaker 1: Are we doing quick outs, bubble screens?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 3: What are you doing? What are you what do you how?
Speaker 7: How are they designing the runs? Because if you're designing
Speaker 7: runs just straight up the middle, just trying to do
Speaker 7: power on power, that's not gonna work with with the
Speaker 7: middle of this defense, go with their edges, make their
Speaker 7: make their secondary come up and have to tackle. Try
Speaker 7: to get those linebackers out your way and try to
Speaker 7: get to the second level. It's easier sat A's said
Speaker 7: than done. But Jake Ferguson, who Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 14: You're too tight and set Mike McCarthy's ki of Jake
Speaker 14: Ferguson and what they expected of him coming out the
Speaker 14: draft and what he's shown, especially as a blocker.
Speaker 7: Now, so those yeah, the Titans don't have to come play,
Speaker 7: they don't have to get off blocks and catch some boss.
Speaker 9: I'm glad you mentioned to bea because he also did
Speaker 9: a press conference this morning, and uh, it was It
Speaker 9: was funny because they asked him, well, what has changed
Speaker 9: from the defense this year to this year from last
Speaker 9: and he said nothing, nothing's changed, and and then the
Speaker 9: reporter goes, well, what about this guy and this guy
Speaker 9: and this guy, And he's like, yeah, sir, I mean.
Speaker 3: What should But he's he's confident and he knows.
Speaker 9: And so somebody he also spoke about a lot was
Speaker 9: Zack Martin and how key Zack Martin is for the
Speaker 9: O line, you know. So he talked very highly of him,
Speaker 9: saying that a player that doesn't have that, you know,
Speaker 9: those amount of penalties and is a it's a good
Speaker 9: challenge for him to go against, and it's a good
Speaker 9: challenge for the defense overall to play somebody like that because.
Speaker 1: They didn't play. He didn't play last year exactly.
Speaker 4: No, And I loved the fun fact that Mike McCarthy
Speaker 4: threw out this week. He said he was told walking
Speaker 4: into one of the press conferences that Zach Martin has
Speaker 4: more Pro Bowls than he has penalties.
Speaker 5: And that's what you love to see.
Speaker 4: And that's actually kind of crazy, what you consider how
Speaker 4: long he's played, that he has more Pro Bowls than penalties.
Speaker 4: All right, we are getting ready to wrap the show up.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite segments is past interference.
Speaker 5: Got you give me a nugget?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 9: So, because we are almost into game day, I wanted
Speaker 9: to make this a little positive for Cowboys nation that's listening.
Speaker 9: So I just wanted to throw it way back to
Speaker 9: the first time these two teams actually met. Dallas hosted
Speaker 9: Tampa Bay on October second, nineteen seventy seven and one,
Speaker 9: twenty three to seven, and this was in front of
Speaker 9: fifty five, three hundred and sixteen fans. Here's a throwback
Speaker 9: Texas Stadium. They started this with a six game win
Speaker 9: streak against the Bucks that would last until nineteen ninety.
Speaker 9: So let's hope this is the first of our six
Speaker 9: game win streak. And by way of course, I mean
Speaker 9: the Cowboys let's hope this is the Cowboys six game
Speaker 9: win streak against the Bucks.
Speaker 3: We're gonna start it, We're gonna see it, and right.
Speaker 5: Now then we're going to be Tom Brady.
Speaker 4: Right now, Tom Brady as a dubious one of six
Speaker 4: and zero against the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: All right, give me a tweet of the day that
Speaker 5: you loved.
Speaker 1: All right, so tweet. This is a tweet from yesterday.
Speaker 1: This is from the Mina Chimes. She said, pretty unfair.
Speaker 7: The Bills have a QB who's an actual Buffalo. I'm not, like,
Speaker 7: what does that have to do with the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: And I'll tell you.
Speaker 7: Watching Josh Allen stretch that ball across that goal line
Speaker 7: yesterday just made me think, like, man, my QB used
Speaker 7: to do stuff like that. Myke QB used to flip
Speaker 7: over guys going into the end zone my kids.
Speaker 5: Because he was young and he wasn't a franchise guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is and this is something we've talked about.
Speaker 7: I am a firm believer that a lot of back's
Speaker 7: running ability is why he is the quarterback for the
Speaker 7: Dallas Cowboys. And I understand that the injury happened. This
Speaker 7: is a year removed you give grace when a player
Speaker 7: is recovering from something that traumatic. I understand the coaching
Speaker 7: staff pulling back, telling him to be careful and then
Speaker 7: the calf all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But seeing Josh Allen navigate.
Speaker 7: Knowing when to use his legs and make defenses pay
Speaker 7: is something that Dak had the ability to do and
Speaker 7: I think he still has the ability to do. But
Speaker 7: you could tell last year that defense is new. They
Speaker 7: knew he was not going to take it. And I
Speaker 7: want him to come out this game and see opportunity.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, you out with good things.
Speaker 5: This smart.
Speaker 7: I want him to take those opportunities, just like Josh Allen,
Speaker 7: because eventually someone's good, they're gonna have to respect it.
Speaker 7: There's respect that comes on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 7: There's an honor of Okay, this guy has the legs
Speaker 7: to move. And I just felt like on film last
Speaker 7: year people were daring, daring us too. Okay, dare me
Speaker 7: this year, get it done, get it done, Dak mc
Speaker 7: them pay, make them pay.
Speaker 1: We see stiff arms too. I'm ready, like I understand
Speaker 1: where Yeah, Josh Allen.
Speaker 4: That was such a great game and it got me
Speaker 4: so excited for football this weekend.
Speaker 5: It was exciting to do this show with you guys
Speaker 5: this weekend.
Speaker 4: For those of you that have continued to tune in
Speaker 4: each day as our following has continued to grow, thank
Speaker 4: you for that.
Speaker 5: We appreciate you.
Speaker 4: And on Monday, of course, we will break down this
Speaker 4: game and hopefully we were talking about a Cowboys ubbie.
Speaker 3: Let's go, Let's go Cowboys.
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