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Speaker 1: did we get our voting in already? You guys early voted? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I went. I went just so I can make sure
Speaker 1: I didn't have any of those those issues with safety.
Speaker 1: I heard there was gonna be some stuff out there,
Speaker 1: so we went on and got it out of the way.
Speaker 1: All right, Church, Church, he dropped off and he has
Speaker 1: some technically Church. Uh gosh, Barry Spagnola again, can't get right. Listen, listen,
Speaker 1: we'll help you win. Put his vote in, man, it's
Speaker 1: doing to David Helm. I think every show has that
Speaker 1: one person, Am I wrong? Chris Bean? And every show
Speaker 1: has the one person that can't get it right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: on the break. I mean he's like every show there's
Speaker 1: one person that's got some issues at times with their
Speaker 1: with their set up. There s WBC, Mortgage Holmes, Barry
Speaker 1: Church is here called. But I'm back. We read the roll.
Speaker 1: We're good to go. You know you want to go
Speaker 1: put your vote in? He said what I said? He
Speaker 1: was asking if we want to go vote. I said,
Speaker 1: you want to go vote? Real quick? Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: I had to do that real quick, and then I'm
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Speaker 1: did you vote today or did you already early vote? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't not vote. I didn't not vote. Didn't that vote?
Speaker 1: You didn't vote? You didn't vote? No, you got time, bro,
Speaker 1: you gotta tell I got time. Maybe I'll do it
Speaker 1: after the show. Maybe I'll go ahead and slide it
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Speaker 1: Are you registered? Yes? I am registered? I am registered.
Speaker 1: Then you need to go vote, all right, you know
Speaker 1: I'll get it. I'll get there in a minute, Pops.
Speaker 1: You know I'll get it in a minute. Father, You
Speaker 1: need to go vote. I'm gonna sing. I'm gonna send
Speaker 1: you a picture during the break of why you need
Speaker 1: to do it. Okay, during the break, I'm gonna send
Speaker 1: you a picture. Let's talk about the Dollar Cowboys and
Speaker 1: the hits just keep on coming. Because quarterback Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: has been placed on the COVID nineteen list, so he
Speaker 1: will not be the quarterback when the Dallas Cowboys face
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Andy Dalton didn't play on NBC Sunday
Speaker 1: and Night Football because he was recovering from a concussion
Speaker 1: from the cheap shot he got from Washington, So now
Speaker 1: he will not play against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And one
Speaker 1: one bright thing out of this is the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: a buy after the Steelers, so it gets Andy Moore time.
Speaker 1: Fellas your thoughts on Andy Dalton not playing this week
Speaker 1: because he's on the COVID nineteen list. Church, oh man,
Speaker 1: this is eating into my my prediction of the NFC
Speaker 1: east Man, I'm starting to I'm starting to question my
Speaker 1: status as no Shodamus here man, because I didn't picture
Speaker 1: going into this, this last, this last little race, this
Speaker 1: last ditch effort to get into the playoffs without you know,
Speaker 1: without Dalton, without you know, Dad, I mean we're going
Speaker 1: in there with with Benda Nucci and Cooper Rush. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, I get it. It It was you know, it
Speaker 1: was the Nucci's first start out there, and you know,
Speaker 1: you got some butterflies going on, and he didn't have OTAs,
Speaker 1: he didn't have preseason games. But I mean, just just
Speaker 1: the eye test alone, just looking at it, it just
Speaker 1: didn't look good out there. I just don't see how
Speaker 1: this offense has could contend or could compete out there
Speaker 1: with him behind the helm. So it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough going forward. I'm still I'm still
Speaker 1: on the bandwagon. I'm still ride with us, but it's
Speaker 1: getting harder and harder. Man, It's gonna be tough. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be real tough. Yeah. I was about to say,
Speaker 1: you know I'm coming for you Church, because listen, didn't
Speaker 1: you already you already picked Philly to beat us last week.
Speaker 1: I know you didn't pick Pittsburgh to lose, so you
Speaker 1: should so you should still so you should still be
Speaker 1: on track for us winning the NFC each no matter
Speaker 1: what happened when Andy Balton this week. So so you
Speaker 1: gotta stick with your kool a pet because this is irrelevant. Listen,
Speaker 1: we all saw the same thing, and I think I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty clear, uh, you know what's going on,
Speaker 1: and you know inside the organization because Jerry Jones came
Speaker 1: on today and said that he saw the same thing
Speaker 1: that we saw. You know, it was too early. You know,
Speaker 1: we didn't do ourselves any favors about putting the Nuccie
Speaker 1: out there under those circumstances, and you know, it was
Speaker 1: a little bit too much for him. Same thing that
Speaker 1: that that somebody on this show said, what happened? Happened?
Speaker 1: You know, those other two guys out there on the
Speaker 1: players nouns, they were excited to see the Nucci and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were until until he
Speaker 1: stepped foot on the field and you saw those that
Speaker 1: he saw those bright lights. He saw those bright lights.
Speaker 1: And it was Sunday night. Man, give a break, man,
Speaker 1: it was Sunday night. I was excited. I was excited, drive,
Speaker 1: I was excited, and then the excitement fizzle and look,
Speaker 1: he performed and the Cowboys performed just the way I thought.
Speaker 1: I thought they'd only scored ten points. They scored nine
Speaker 1: points here, So this was what I thought they would
Speaker 1: get out of it, So don't don't go sitting around here,
Speaker 1: you know, patting yourself too much on the back here, Danny,
Speaker 1: like how you have And look, I could be excited
Speaker 1: about seeing the guy but being realistic at the same time. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was realistic now No no, no, no, absolutely not. Nope.
Speaker 1: Excited excited, excited, excited and we'll see what he's gonna
Speaker 1: do when he get out there. That's two different things.
Speaker 1: What you expected from the Nucci was not double reverses
Speaker 1: and screen passes for the entire first drive. And that's
Speaker 1: why we can't put this all on the Nucci though, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, some of that play calling out there
Speaker 1: was was was god awful out there. I mean, like
Speaker 1: like I mentioned yesterday's episode, we see we were pounding
Speaker 1: the ball on him. Zeke finally got out of that
Speaker 1: funk a little bit, and we just haded to run
Speaker 1: a double reverse that that's basically just warped all the
Speaker 1: momentum we had. So as much as bad as the
Speaker 1: Nucci played out there, he didn't get any help from
Speaker 1: any of his supporting cast or his coaches on that
Speaker 1: on that whole No, let me go ahead and answer
Speaker 1: the question, what do I think about the Nucci being
Speaker 1: the starter for this week. This is absolutely horrible. What
Speaker 1: are we doing to this guy? How about that? Was
Speaker 1: it like Nathan Nathan Peterman out there in Buffalo that
Speaker 1: they kept going out there messing up his career? I
Speaker 1: w church, Yeah, what's going on? Hold on and pump
Speaker 1: the brakes. I want to go back to something yesterday
Speaker 1: where you two shot me down. Didn't you see the
Speaker 1: reports the Cowboys are discussing Cooper Rush starting this week.
Speaker 1: I spoke about yesterday. Okay, Rush, come on Russia, you're
Speaker 1: talking about this gonna be rushing. No, you called COVID
Speaker 1: you knew it. No, you're not listening. I said yesterday,
Speaker 1: if Dalton can't go, okay, I mentioned that, can't go
Speaker 1: back and check the take. If Dalton can't go, if
Speaker 1: he wasn't out of concussion protocol, just if he couldn't go,
Speaker 1: I had brought up Cooper Rush. No. I didn't say
Speaker 1: it was gonna be COVID related, but I mentioned the
Speaker 1: fact that Dalton it wasn't it given that he was
Speaker 1: gonna play that something else we didn't know what, And
Speaker 1: I brought up playing Cooper Rush. I brought up Cooper
Speaker 1: Rusk and you all shot me down, and the organization
Speaker 1: is sitting here thinking about it. Okay, that's all. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest. I'm look, I'm gonna be honest on this.
Speaker 1: I think Cooper Rush gives us a better chance out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm want you want that, I'm gonna be I just
Speaker 1: think he gives us a better opportunity than Nucci, especially
Speaker 1: with the player caller we got going on. I just
Speaker 1: can't see it happening Church right right, what we'll say this,
Speaker 1: be honest with yourself. No matter who's out there, we
Speaker 1: don't have a chance. All right. This is the defense
Speaker 1: that we're going out there and playing. We got nigga
Speaker 1: fish passion, we got why listen, it's it's going to
Speaker 1: be a tough task no matter who's playing quarterback. It
Speaker 1: would have been a tough task for Dak out there
Speaker 1: playing quarterback, so let alone with with Cooper Rush or
Speaker 1: out there. But look, I mean they could they can.
Speaker 1: You know, it could always happen to where Pittsburgh can
Speaker 1: play down to the opponent's level. I mean, we saw
Speaker 1: Philadelphia give this team a run out there, and you know,
Speaker 1: minus you know, de Nucci out there they we could
Speaker 1: have had a shot against Philadelphia. So a look, I understand,
Speaker 1: pitt you know they might come in here, They're probably
Speaker 1: gonna wreck shot. But I mean, you just never know.
Speaker 1: You never know what can happen. Oh, I know, I
Speaker 1: know that I'm reaching. I'm reaching right now. Man. You
Speaker 1: are you are? You are? You get falling off a
Speaker 1: cliff reach? You are knee deep in that blue kool
Speaker 1: Aid narcotic. Man, you got that narcotic down. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: almost out of there. I'm almost out of here. It's
Speaker 1: just I'm trying to hold on, hold on, man, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to hold out over this. It's it's looking bad
Speaker 1: right now. This is the second second week in a
Speaker 1: roll without Dalton. We got my boy de Nucci in there.
Speaker 1: No Church, it don't matter, Bro, you did not pick
Speaker 1: us to beat Pittsburgh with Andy Dalton anyway. So it's no,
Speaker 1: we have a better chance. But we have a better
Speaker 1: chance with Dalt back there. That my boys, the Nucci
Speaker 1: and who knows, maybe this defense gives another father around
Speaker 1: you know what they did last week. Who knows. But
Speaker 1: I mean with the new Chi in there, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all kind of a mute point right now. It's
Speaker 1: all kind of don't don't forget Dalton was the guy
Speaker 1: who was out there against Washington, all right, don't don't
Speaker 1: forget that. So you talk better chance here, better chance
Speaker 1: that it wasn't like the Nucci started the whole and
Speaker 1: played the whole game against Washington. We went out there
Speaker 1: and got blew out and kicked the field goal, or
Speaker 1: you know, for our trip and our infants to go
Speaker 1: to DC. So let's letten, let'ten not do that. I'm
Speaker 1: grasping for springs, man, I'm grasping for strings with Andy
Speaker 1: the lifeline. Okay, with Anti Dalton out here, we need
Speaker 1: to make We need to just make our early call
Speaker 1: right here on the players line. You have already you
Speaker 1: have three choices. Should it be Ben to Nucci, Garrett
Speaker 1: Gilbert or Cooper Rush? Who would be York starting quarterback
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys on Sunday, Danny McCrae, uh man, you know,
Speaker 1: I really can't even remember seeing Cooper Rush play. I
Speaker 1: would stick with the Nucci and have Cooper Russia as
Speaker 1: a backup and figure out a way to just survive
Speaker 1: throughout this game. It's gonna be tough either way for
Speaker 1: whoever's out there. But you're already trying to see what
Speaker 1: the Nucci has. So I don't think it makes much
Speaker 1: sense to give him that one game and uh, you
Speaker 1: know and snatch him out of there, you know, let
Speaker 1: him run through and let him see, let him see
Speaker 1: how it goes playing against these the defense, see if
Speaker 1: he could pick something up, and so you know what
Speaker 1: you have at the end of the season, like we
Speaker 1: talked about earlier. Look and for me, man, I, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of bassed on this one because I want
Speaker 1: to see him pull it out against all odds. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of hard to see that happening.
Speaker 1: But for me, I gotta think Cooper Russia gives us
Speaker 1: the best opportunity to win. I know, I hate the
Speaker 1: pile on the guy d Nucci, but I mean, he
Speaker 1: just looked kind of scared out there, you know, last week,
Speaker 1: and and I just don't see that happening any different
Speaker 1: against this Pittsburgh defensive line. It's Pittsburgh defense in general
Speaker 1: that just heats up the quarterback no matter who's out there.
Speaker 1: And with the offensive line we got, you know, I
Speaker 1: just you know, it's like the lesser of two Eaves.
Speaker 1: I gotta go with Cooper Rush on this one. All right,
Speaker 1: let me give you the official statistics for Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: as a passer in the NFL. He's played in five games.
Speaker 1: He uh is thrown three passes completed one for two yards.
Speaker 1: Ben Ja Nucci has thrown three Rush so I just
Speaker 1: want to make sure that. But at least Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: had preseason games. Man, this is like, this is like,
Speaker 1: you know, the Nuccie, you know, and then you're going,
Speaker 1: I just looked so scared to me out there. Let
Speaker 1: me let me tell you another reason why I think, uh,
Speaker 1: the Nucci has got to start. We might get into
Speaker 1: it later, but if you listen to Jerry Jones talk
Speaker 1: about playing young players and what the definition of taking
Speaker 1: and how they wouldn't but they might, you know, try
Speaker 1: to see when some guys have and all this other stuff,
Speaker 1: it just makes sense that he would he would start
Speaker 1: the Nucci and have Cooper Russ as a backup, so,
Speaker 1: you know, just just in case, because the likelihood of
Speaker 1: him making it through the game is very low, so
Speaker 1: you need to have a serviceable backup. What about what
Speaker 1: about this you start Danucci with almost like in baseball,
Speaker 1: Danucci gets to start, but it's a short leash, and
Speaker 1: you got Cooper Rush in the bullpen because this could
Speaker 1: get out of hand. We've already established the fact that
Speaker 1: we believe the Steelers are, you know this the undefeated
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers here with a really good, wicked defense. So
Speaker 1: you may end up playing both guys here on Sundays.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, we could see. Yeah, and I agree
Speaker 1: with you on that one. I mean, like you know, Denucci,
Speaker 1: if you do start him, I would go with Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: But if you do start Danucci, I think you give
Speaker 1: him a short leash because like you said, they could
Speaker 1: get out of hand real quick, real fast. And then
Speaker 1: you don't want to just you know, your defense is
Speaker 1: already kind of building its confidence a little bit with
Speaker 1: the game they played last week in Philadelphia. You don't
Speaker 1: want to go out there and if the Nucci's stinking
Speaker 1: to join up, you're giving Ben Roethlisberger possession after possession
Speaker 1: after possession. I mean, I could terra parts your defensive
Speaker 1: confidence and just say, hey man, why are we even
Speaker 1: out here? So for me, you know, I gotta give
Speaker 1: him a short lease, just you know, just in case
Speaker 1: it gets too ugly out there, not saying Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: is gonna come in here and make it any better.
Speaker 1: But I mean, sure, what can you do? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: so what is a short lease? Though? So? Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it we give the nut a chance to go
Speaker 1: out there and execute a real game plan where he's
Speaker 1: throwing the ball down the field a little bit? Or
Speaker 1: is it you know he's throwing the same passes and
Speaker 1: we still running double reverses because it's not like he
Speaker 1: went out there and through six interceptions and you know,
Speaker 1: it's not like they really gave him a chance to
Speaker 1: So like when when when we say sticking up to joint,
Speaker 1: do we mean like it's he has to fumble three times?
Speaker 1: Or are they just not able to open up the
Speaker 1: playbook and eventually, you know, we're down by a lot
Speaker 1: and once you start throwing it down the field and
Speaker 1: you know, then we have to do something because I
Speaker 1: think it's like go ahead, go ahead. Yeah, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying visually, you know, he's you know, he
Speaker 1: didn't do well, but I mean the game plan really
Speaker 1: didn't allow for him to just go out there and
Speaker 1: just cough the ball over, you know, a bunch of
Speaker 1: times besides getting sacked force fumble. Yeah, I think you're
Speaker 1: right on that one. And for me, I think if
Speaker 1: it's sticking up the joint to me is you know,
Speaker 1: if he goes out there and like how how Danny
Speaker 1: Downs was doing it last night, except for the good passes,
Speaker 1: like he was just you know, under the rest he
Speaker 1: was just throwing him just making bone head decisions when
Speaker 1: he's about to get sacked, just throwing the ball, getting
Speaker 1: picks like that. If he's doing stuff out there like that,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you gotta yank him. But I
Speaker 1: mean we'll see. Sunday can't come fast enough to answer
Speaker 1: your question. Fellas I look at it this way, you'll know,
Speaker 1: you know, you'll see it. That's really it. You know,
Speaker 1: I can't say what will get a pull, but I
Speaker 1: think you'll know when you see it that. Okay, Hey, look,
Speaker 1: let's it's a lot coming at him, and and what
Speaker 1: you don't want to do is ruining the kid um.
Speaker 1: And look this is there's a lot of games. We
Speaker 1: got their games to go. We had the games to go,
Speaker 1: So bend Nucci is going to play some more, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean at most I think we'll definitely see Ben
Speaker 1: d Nucci in the season finale to the Giants, and
Speaker 1: my buddy Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports said, Hey, they
Speaker 1: need to go get Josh mccow. They need to do it.
Speaker 1: They should have done it two weeks ago. And I
Speaker 1: say why, I mean at this point in time. No,
Speaker 1: let's take a break. I'll tell you why they shouldn't
Speaker 1: go get Josh McCaw or any other quarterback out there. Church,
Speaker 1: you were talking about a quarterback we were texting today.
Speaker 1: I will tell you why they should not do that.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys safeties, Barry Church and Danny mccret so. Tell us
Speaker 1: at the midway point, the Cowboys are six and two
Speaker 1: on the season. They're eight games left to play. Barry Church,
Speaker 1: you said, hey, we gotta go get a quarterback. My buddy,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones with CBS Sports says they need to go
Speaker 1: get Josh McCatty I've said new for who what fellas
Speaker 1: two and fourteen is a possibility. As you start to
Speaker 1: look at this Cowboys team with eight games left, they
Speaker 1: will not be favored in anyone except possibly the New
Speaker 1: York Giants, and from what I saw last night against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, they may not be favored against the Giants
Speaker 1: to end the season. The met life feet, if you're
Speaker 1: going to have a bad season and not make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: will make it as bad as you can. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and get yourself out I and drafted as possibly can.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's interesting because if it's your if
Speaker 1: it's your local NBA team, people get behind that. But
Speaker 1: what's your local football team? People like, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Now with the Jets,
Speaker 1: they're doing that Miami last year they were doing that.
Speaker 1: But but seriously, they're not gonna be favored in any game.
Speaker 1: So they still have Pittsburgh to play. Okay, this team's
Speaker 1: got to go to Minnesota, they still have to go
Speaker 1: to Washington. They've got the road game at the Giants
Speaker 1: had got to play Philadelphia again. You get the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers, who are a banged up bunch.
Speaker 1: You get them on a Sunday night. You got the Bengals,
Speaker 1: you got to go to to the Bengals, you got
Speaker 1: to go to There's not a lot of w's here.
Speaker 1: So you've got an offensive line that's banged up, you
Speaker 1: got young quarterbacks are out here. Man, go ahead and
Speaker 1: take the take the Yes, listen one w because listen
Speaker 1: that that Giants game. Listen, you remember we had that
Speaker 1: at that Giants game that we ended up winning. All Right,
Speaker 1: we don't have that guy, you know, without that, we
Speaker 1: might we might get blown out of that one as well,
Speaker 1: because we almost lost on the special team's play. So
Speaker 1: I don't see us being favored in any game this
Speaker 1: Sea unless a rash of injuries hits the opposite team.
Speaker 1: And that's not include of the forty nine is because
Speaker 1: no matter who's hurt on they team, we know that
Speaker 1: they can run the football well. As I said, Mike,
Speaker 1: I said, Mike, and I and then I said to
Speaker 1: you after watching them again, said I'm not sure that
Speaker 1: would be the case because I actually see some improvement
Speaker 1: from them, and you know there their their offense made
Speaker 1: some plays when they even too, I got that thought
Speaker 1: they got jobbed by the reps and and what will
Speaker 1: be interesting to Danny and Barriers when you think about
Speaker 1: that Giants game, this may be the incentive to not
Speaker 1: only do we see Ben d Nucci, but everybody's sitting
Speaker 1: around here playing as young a player as they can
Speaker 1: to not win the game without telling everybody we don't
Speaker 1: want to win the game. I don't know, maybe maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it's just I don't know, maybe it's a competitor
Speaker 1: in me or what. But you know, I just can't
Speaker 1: see a scenario where these guys get behind, you know,
Speaker 1: tanking and then just trying to trying to lose games.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, talking about losing the locker room.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's all we already sitting there in question,
Speaker 1: you know, or the players behind the coach's back right now.
Speaker 1: But if we go into the tank and moan and
Speaker 1: then and the players see that and they sense that,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a slippery slope to go down. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if they'd be back to play with
Speaker 1: them next year. There's a way to do this, though, Barry.
Speaker 1: There's a way to do this. I mean, first off,
Speaker 1: and mcraie, we've already talked about it before, just based
Speaker 1: on what you're doing with your personnel. You don't have
Speaker 1: to quote unquote tank just go play, you know, just
Speaker 1: go play. You know, the score will take care of itself. Now,
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson called an awful football game. If anyone is smart,
Speaker 1: like I believe the Steelers will be this week, there
Speaker 1: will be so much James Connor and Binny Snell that
Speaker 1: this will be a quick game. It'll be a quick
Speaker 1: meth for the Cowboys because they'll just run the football
Speaker 1: and Minnesota when they face Minnesota, they'll be a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of Dalvin Cook, and there'll be a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of Joe Mixon and Giovanni but Lard against the Bengals,
Speaker 1: and I mean everyone should be running the football to
Speaker 1: trying to throw it a whole lot the way Philadelphia did.
Speaker 1: And if you just run the football against this team,
Speaker 1: he gonna have some success. So there's not gonna be
Speaker 1: anybody Beary think we'll be able to bring in here
Speaker 1: that's gonna change some stuff. Danny's talking about it so much.
Speaker 1: This is this is true. I mean, I don't see
Speaker 1: them bringing one person in here to try to fix
Speaker 1: all these problems, especially on the defensive side. Of the ball.
Speaker 1: But I mean, so you're just basically saying if you
Speaker 1: go out there, who just go play? You just go
Speaker 1: please throw the people out there that oh Man talk
Speaker 1: about disrespect that you just say. She's saying, with the
Speaker 1: team we have out there, we're already taking Huh. Yes, Church,
Speaker 1: let Church. Let me reiterate what Jerry said today. He said, Listen,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about taking you know, the competitive sphere,
Speaker 1: you know that type of stuff. I don't see our
Speaker 1: guys being able to do that. But as far as
Speaker 1: you know, talking talking about it in terms of playing
Speaker 1: our younger guys and seeing what they have, insinuating that
Speaker 1: they probably won't be able to win no more games
Speaker 1: if they put those younger guys in anyways, that is
Speaker 1: a form of taking all. And I think that can happen.
Speaker 1: And Neui listen, listen, Benny Robinsburger is not Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: So it's hopeful. Listen, we are to see James Connor
Speaker 1: and those guys and Snail come down there and run.
Speaker 1: I can see a pretty even balanced game when we
Speaker 1: see them, and we will see a lot of Juju,
Speaker 1: a lot of Claypool, and a lot of Washington I
Speaker 1: think I think that this will be around the board
Speaker 1: for us unless we unless we can find a way
Speaker 1: to bust up something special, this would be around the board,
Speaker 1: balanced game for the offense of the Pittsburgh Steels. So
Speaker 1: y'all basically giving us no shot right here, y'all just
Speaker 1: get you know shot. It's a rat from the jump. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a rat from the jump. Absolutely, Barry, did you
Speaker 1: not watch last week's game before I did? I did, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: and it looked bad. Undefeated Baltimore team took out an
Speaker 1: MVP quarterback and made him look bad. So um yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And Danielle push back on you a little bit here
Speaker 1: with the Robinsburger. I think this thing could get away
Speaker 1: so early that what they'll do in that second app
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, let's run out this clock here.
Speaker 1: But I just think anybody who's who is a good
Speaker 1: coordinator in this league is gonna look and say they
Speaker 1: can't they can't stop the run. And you know, you
Speaker 1: may set it up where hey, here's Connor, here's Connor.
Speaker 1: Then you go deep to Claypool. But you're going to
Speaker 1: go ahead because you definitely are going to test the
Speaker 1: Cowboys corners, but you're just trying to bang that thing
Speaker 1: in there and throw when you have to. I think
Speaker 1: Cleveland everybody should pull out the Cleveland tape. That that,
Speaker 1: to me should be everyone's blueprint. And you guys know
Speaker 1: better on how people come up with game plans and
Speaker 1: how that all goes. But to me, if I'm playing
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I pull out the Cleveland tape and I
Speaker 1: say to myself, what are the runs that can work?
Speaker 1: And who can who can I go run at? You know,
Speaker 1: people are running at don Terry Pop because they knew
Speaker 1: this is where they could go ahead and get some
Speaker 1: yards inside. So today that's what you do here. And
Speaker 1: this is not us trying to be unrealistic about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys or people say, oh, you guys are just nagging. No,
Speaker 1: this is just the truth where they're at. They've lost
Speaker 1: a lot of good players and it is hard to
Speaker 1: lead place good players in the NFL. They're trying. You know,
Speaker 1: you can get out there with Terrence Steel if all
Speaker 1: you lost was just LEL. Collins, But when you lose
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith and you have so many other issues, it's
Speaker 1: hard to replace these guys. You can't replace Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: it's nice a player and effort is Dalton Schultz gives you.
Speaker 1: He's not as good as Blake Dak Prescott, as we've
Speaker 1: all seen now covered up a lot of things. Man,
Speaker 1: he's not there. Oh yeah, and you out here rookie
Speaker 1: against the Steelers and another dude and Cooper Rush, who's
Speaker 1: thrown nowhere than three passes in this link against the
Speaker 1: Steelers Church Church. I mean, hey, hey, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm halfway off to drink, man, I'm halfway out to
Speaker 1: cool a right now. You know I didn't see I
Speaker 1: didn't see this happening, Like even a couple of ways ago.
Speaker 1: I even told y'all I preface it it like, look, man,
Speaker 1: if the new chie's in there, y'all gotta give me
Speaker 1: a bone. Y'all gotta throw me a lifeline something. And
Speaker 1: it seems like we're going to the second Street week
Speaker 1: in a row where the new che is gonna be
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And you know, I'm grasping for strings right now.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that, you know, Pittsburgh comes down here and
Speaker 1: they play down to the level of competition and somehow
Speaker 1: we get somehow, we pull out a victory, somehow, someway
Speaker 1: maybe Zeke gets out this funk. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: but I'm grasping for strings right now. It's it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's tough right now. It's tough being in the cool
Speaker 1: right now. You listen, you speak, knew you were listening
Speaker 1: players that we just can't replace. Goodness. Hey, we can't
Speaker 1: replace Amark Cooper either. Can somebody get him involved in
Speaker 1: the game. Like I said, I think these are the
Speaker 1: only ways that we have an opportunity to be competitive.
Speaker 1: By getting the ball in your playmaker's hands. They tried
Speaker 1: it with Zeke running the wildcat. You have to try
Speaker 1: to get the ball into Mark Cooper's in Kellen Moore,
Speaker 1: please find a way to get him involved in the game.
Speaker 1: We've seen what he can do when he gets the
Speaker 1: ball in his hand, and that's the only chance that
Speaker 1: we have. The gallup is cool. He's not one of
Speaker 1: those guys when you throw the ball to it and
Speaker 1: he runs seventy eighty yards. Ceedee Lamb could possibly do that,
Speaker 1: but we know it's a proven fact that Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: can do that. Get him the ball. Please, mmm. I
Speaker 1: don't know if just Amari Cooper is gonna be enough, man.
Speaker 1: I I don't know. I just haven't seen have you
Speaker 1: seen that from him so far this year that he
Speaker 1: can be that guy again? I mean, I haven't seen
Speaker 1: it since the first trade. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: it was a good pie. It's solid. I think. I
Speaker 1: think all of these things that without Dak, I think
Speaker 1: all of these things are they're tougher to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why his price tag is going up. What you're saying,
Speaker 1: Danny is correct, but it gets a lot tougher. And
Speaker 1: then also, I you have me thinking more and more,
Speaker 1: what's their commitment to trying to force feed nineteen? No, Dad,
Speaker 1: in Arizona, they're getting de hoot the football and and
Speaker 1: and that's you know, I don't know, man. These are
Speaker 1: good questions, Listen. They gets twenty one in nineteen. These
Speaker 1: are good questions about what they're trying to do to
Speaker 1: force feed these guys football. DeVante Adams is getting the ball,
Speaker 1: like you said, Hopkins is getting All these stars are
Speaker 1: getting the ball. And like what we see Gallup getting
Speaker 1: those those catches, Those are what I expect to see
Speaker 1: of Mark Cooper getting, not Michael Gallup, all respect to him,
Speaker 1: he is a deep ball threat and He's like, that's
Speaker 1: what I see him doing when you have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to get the ball in your playmakers hands like other
Speaker 1: teams do, like DeVante Adams will get five passes a
Speaker 1: game two yards beyond the line of scrimage, just so
Speaker 1: you can get the ball in his hands and see
Speaker 1: what he can do and make somebody missing, you know,
Speaker 1: im possibly get a touchdown. Why can't we do that
Speaker 1: with a Mark Cooper. I think he is still able
Speaker 1: to do that when when we trade it for him,
Speaker 1: you see him making those plays. Albeit it wasn't five
Speaker 1: yard hitches, but it was some quick slants. There was
Speaker 1: some digs and he was taking those things seventy eighty
Speaker 1: yards to the house. So I don't understand why we're
Speaker 1: giving those to Gallup versus giving those to Coop. And
Speaker 1: oh yeah, he is making hond of me and Dass
Speaker 1: to do that, and you're not letting him do it.
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Speaker 1: and Barry Church, two former Dallas Cowboys safeties. All right,
Speaker 1: the trade deadline has passed. The Cowboys didn't make a trade.
Speaker 1: They made a trade on Monday. They got defensive tackle
Speaker 1: Eli Uncouth from Houston for a twenty twenty two seventh
Speaker 1: round draft pick. He's been in the NFL since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: He's a six foot three, three hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: pound nose tackle. He's played in Cleveland, Jacksonville, India, Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: and Houston. He can practice starting on Thursday. So he
Speaker 1: played Jacksonville Church. What do you know about this guy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's a he's a good dude man.
Speaker 1: You know, off the field, he's you know, he's just
Speaker 1: a good overall good dude. But when we talk about
Speaker 1: on the football field, I just don't see where he
Speaker 1: can help us out. I mean unless he got you know,
Speaker 1: leaps and bounds better from when I was with him
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. I just see him as another guy out there.
Speaker 1: You know, he might be able to I'm sure he'll
Speaker 1: be able to hustle and give us a better look
Speaker 1: then then Poe did. But overall, I mean when I
Speaker 1: was in jail, was there with him for two years,
Speaker 1: and he just didn't really stick out at all. He
Speaker 1: didn't really do anything. That's just like, man, we got
Speaker 1: to keep this guy so for me, and he was
Speaker 1: often injured as well, so for me. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't see see the see the see the reason we
Speaker 1: dragged or traded for this guy. But you know, maybe
Speaker 1: he'll go out there and peel for me wrong. Maybe
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan can get the most out of him. You
Speaker 1: know that maybe when when they could get out in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: You never know, man, he never knows. He never knows,
Speaker 1: never know. He couldn't come out handball out. No, No,
Speaker 1: Nolan is the master of getting the most out of
Speaker 1: his players. Goodness, good, So, Church, here's where where I
Speaker 1: want you to actually entertain that thought of maybe a
Speaker 1: two and fourteen, three and thirteen season. Okay, we saw
Speaker 1: excellence out of the Golden State Warriors and then they
Speaker 1: got hit with the injury buck big time. So last year,
Speaker 1: what did they do? They just spit the year. All right,
Speaker 1: you know it's a problem. We're just gonna have to
Speaker 1: take this lump. Okay, this is just gonna be our
Speaker 1: year to take this l and they played a lot
Speaker 1: of young guys. They're gonna have a high draft pick,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be back in business. And I think
Speaker 1: that if you're the Cowboys, I believe that that that's
Speaker 1: what you have to do. Now, Okay, you got eight
Speaker 1: games against some real tough opponents. Here, play your young kids.
Speaker 1: Get yourself a high draft pick, Barrett, here's the beauty
Speaker 1: of the highest draft pick you can get. It now,
Speaker 1: gives you options let's just say, for instance, they got
Speaker 1: the number two pick, the Jets go ahead, lock up
Speaker 1: number one to take Trevor Laud. If you had the
Speaker 1: number two pick, there's Justin Fields, quarterback from Ohio State.
Speaker 1: You have serious options. You got some options. You could
Speaker 1: trade that pick. You could go to Dak's h and
Speaker 1: early and say, hey, man, look we need to get
Speaker 1: a deal done. And if you don't want to get
Speaker 1: a deal done right now, then we could take Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot, you know, you could trade
Speaker 1: down for multiple picks. But having a high draft pick
Speaker 1: here gives you options. Man seven to nine, trying to
Speaker 1: get for what? Hellok, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1: You can you know you can get you know, high
Speaker 1: draft choice. You can trade that off and get multiple pigs.
Speaker 1: And I know you knew. He see there's nothing there,
Speaker 1: you see, there's nothing more that this team can go by.
Speaker 1: But unlike the Golden State Warriors who were in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference, who had exactly zero chance of doing anything
Speaker 1: in that conference, the Cowboys are still just a game
Speaker 1: and a half. Look, I know it seems bleak. I
Speaker 1: know it seems bleak. And and look I know him
Speaker 1: against the against the wall right here. But there's still
Speaker 1: a shot, man, there's still an opportunity. I don't see
Speaker 1: them going forward and trying to tank and all that
Speaker 1: other good stuff. Like I said, Golden State had I mean,
Speaker 1: they had the Lakers ahead of them, they had Houston,
Speaker 1: they had any of the litany of teams that were
Speaker 1: already mathematically in there. Golden State had nothing to fight for. Here,
Speaker 1: we're a game and a half back. There's still eight
Speaker 1: games left. There's still a shot. Man, Tell you're mathematically out,
Speaker 1: there's still a shot. I just don't see these guys
Speaker 1: take at all. Listen. I'm also I'm also listen, just
Speaker 1: to touch on that's what's the point of making the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Like you no no for us this year? Like, listen,
Speaker 1: if you sipp intokool aid, then you really believe that
Speaker 1: if we do make the playoffs at four and twelve,
Speaker 1: that whoever comes here we will be able to beat
Speaker 1: them and then move on and move on and move on.
Speaker 1: If you sip into kol a, right, if you sipp
Speaker 1: intokool ai, but realistically making the playoffs versus being able
Speaker 1: to get those top picks, the weight of that, to me,
Speaker 1: it makes more sense to play the young guys and
Speaker 1: not necessarily taint, but just you know, let whatever's happened
Speaker 1: happening now, go ahead and finish that out. And you
Speaker 1: would pick like you said in trade back, and and
Speaker 1: and so you wouldn't want to me, you wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to make if you let's just say they made it.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't rather have a shot in my playoffs, not
Speaker 1: at the detriment of the future of my team, which
Speaker 1: is which is where we all man, So you tell
Speaker 1: four and twelve is not Listen, I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: as a player, bro, I'm talking about as as as
Speaker 1: an owner and as an organization risk it my like
Speaker 1: what we have from for our future, which is being
Speaker 1: able to you know, negotiate with that top draft pick,
Speaker 1: possibly get more picks and more players so to help
Speaker 1: us out on defense and offense, versus saying, all right,
Speaker 1: forget those picks, We'll go four and twelve get stumped
Speaker 1: out in the beginning of the playoffs and then and
Speaker 1: now we lost all that. I think when when you
Speaker 1: try to when you weigh that out, it makes more
Speaker 1: sense to do what new He's saying and let the
Speaker 1: season play out as it is. You don't have to
Speaker 1: do much to get the next pick. I mean, to
Speaker 1: get get a top pick, because it's not like we're
Speaker 1: really being that competitive and winning that many games anyways.
Speaker 1: So let the season playout, Let the guys play hard,
Speaker 1: you know, let the news you get out there. You know,
Speaker 1: we get our top pick and then make the most
Speaker 1: out of it in the draft. Look, I can see, Look,
Speaker 1: our playoffs chances are slim to none. I give you
Speaker 1: that one were if we four and twelve, there's no
Speaker 1: way four and twelve's going to make it to the plays.
Speaker 1: I mean, I phil he'll probably do it by that time.
Speaker 1: But I guarantee you there's no way Jerry would not
Speaker 1: go for a chance, a chance at a Lombardi. Then
Speaker 1: go ahead and stock up for the for future picks.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, we haven't won a super Bowl like
Speaker 1: twenty some years. I guarantee you he would rather want
Speaker 1: a shot. Then let's stock up and wait for the future.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't see that happening. I mean,
Speaker 1: but like our playoffs chances or swim to none anyway,
Speaker 1: so it ain't it's not looking good anyway. So we'll
Speaker 1: see super bowls, a playoff, I know, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: there's not as super Bowl we were talking about. We
Speaker 1: were talking about giving a chance to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What we were talking about. But like I said, like
Speaker 1: I preface it, we barely have a chance to get there.
Speaker 1: But if we did, I'm sure he'd rather take that
Speaker 1: opportunity in the stock up. And you said super Bowl,
Speaker 1: it's got a guy on the team, a quarterback on
Speaker 1: the team. Got a quarterback on the team, because what
Speaker 1: a playoff game. And you jumped up into Lombardi talk.
Speaker 1: I see that you put the words and my mom,
Speaker 1: all I said was all I said, if we had
Speaker 1: a chance to get to the playoffs, if we had
Speaker 1: a chance to get to the playoffs, I think he
Speaker 1: would rather take that than stock up. That's all I said.
Speaker 1: Put that, you know, what you're saying was look, Church, Church.
Speaker 1: What you said was Jerry Jones somehow believes that if
Speaker 1: we make it to the playoffs, there's a chance for
Speaker 1: us to make it to the super Bowl with this
Speaker 1: team that we have right now, which makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1: If we got to the playos that I told me,
Speaker 1: they have a chancet. I know we don't have it.
Speaker 1: You don't have a big We don't have a great
Speaker 1: opportunity to make to the playoffs. I understand that, but
Speaker 1: we're saying hypothetically, if we ended up getting there, we
Speaker 1: wouldn't have a chance to get to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Is no chance? Please list the teams that you think
Speaker 1: that would make the playoffs, that you think that we
Speaker 1: could beat if we got in there. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: we can make a run. I mean, look, look what
Speaker 1: that look with teams against something that had no chance
Speaker 1: against who against who? I'm saying, list one that you
Speaker 1: think that like it would be. It would be the
Speaker 1: most likely matchup for you. If you said, listen to
Speaker 1: the first round playoff game, who are we play in
Speaker 1: the first round? I means that we'd have out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we got to that point, we were
Speaker 1: still have a chance. That's all I'm saying. But I
Speaker 1: do I think, no, I don't think we're gonna it.
Speaker 1: Hypothetically we'd have a chance. So so barry for me,
Speaker 1: And this is this is you know, looking, we're gonna
Speaker 1: play the young play the young guys. Okay, they play
Speaker 1: the young guys. They do what they can. You're talking about.
Speaker 1: Let's just say you end up with a top five pick.
Speaker 1: Imagine having a top five pick in every single round
Speaker 1: in a year where the salary cap is going to
Speaker 1: be dramatically reduced and you're going to be able to
Speaker 1: find some great bargains. If they want to sign Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott to a long term deal, you're going to need
Speaker 1: some more financial flexibility. And how do you how do
Speaker 1: you retool a team? How do you do that with
Speaker 1: a lower, lower payroll? You do it with draft picks,
Speaker 1: and by having a top five pick in every round,
Speaker 1: you've got the ability to trade down and if you
Speaker 1: want to. So when I think about the future of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, it's not anyone's fault. Okay, nobody was not
Speaker 1: trying to win this year, but to lose all that
Speaker 1: you've lost, I'm not sitting around here trying to Hey,
Speaker 1: let's go try to win the East and get smoked
Speaker 1: in the first round. Like Danny said, the East. If
Speaker 1: it's Philadelphia, they're getting smoked in the first round. Whoever
Speaker 1: leaves this thing is getting smoked in the front. This
Speaker 1: is basically equivalent of when you go to the NCAA
Speaker 1: tournament and you want to swack. You're going down. Everybody
Speaker 1: know you ain't gonna win that man going a tournament.
Speaker 1: But we're from the Swack. We're from you know, we're
Speaker 1: from the Trump from the sun Belt. You're going home
Speaker 1: real quick, man, going home real quick. So why not
Speaker 1: try by just playing your young guys, get as good
Speaker 1: draft pick as you can and been buried. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you right now, and Danny, I'll say it to you
Speaker 1: as well. I'm very concerned about a possible contract negotiation
Speaker 1: with Todd France again Dak's agent. Okay, it didn't go well,
Speaker 1: and if it's as contentious as I've heard behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: who's to say this thing gets done? Because they're talking
Speaker 1: about Dak not being ready for offseason activities until late
Speaker 1: April early May. If I'm Jerry, I want to have
Speaker 1: a deal done before I go into the draft so
Speaker 1: I know what to do with my draft pick. So
Speaker 1: a higher draft pick in an ability to possibly take
Speaker 1: adjustin fields, Mike help them get a deal done with
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott if that's what they want to do. And
Speaker 1: maybe because Dak is hurt and he's lost some leverage,
Speaker 1: he wants to get a deal done. But I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you right now, I want to have as many
Speaker 1: options as I can to make a better roster in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. And I believe at this point in time,
Speaker 1: of eight games left to go against the competition they're
Speaker 1: gonna face, might as well just go ahead, man and
Speaker 1: get him to finish with the bad record. As you
Speaker 1: possibly can't say, we don't need to We don't need
Speaker 1: to change anything else. We just need to throw them
Speaker 1: boys that they got out there, and we'll be taking
Speaker 1: you know, as it is, So it might as well
Speaker 1: just Church the team we got out there, right, Church, Church,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna leave you with this
Speaker 1: Church to playoff teams for the NFC New Orleans, Tampa Bay, Seattle, Arizona,
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Chicago. It is probably your best bet if
Speaker 1: they come here that you might have a chance, But
Speaker 1: other than that, you get stumped in the first round.
Speaker 1: So listen, I mean, it doesn't even make make a
Speaker 1: sister risk all that, just just so you can go
Speaker 1: out there and get beat by one of those teams
Speaker 1: at home in your own stadium. Better leave it just
Speaker 1: a nasty taste in your mouth, and now your fans
Speaker 1: looking at you like we could have had a hot
Speaker 1: draft pick. But instead you wanted us to come and
Speaker 1: watch this at home. Doesn't make money. So let's just
Speaker 1: let's just give it up. I mean, just go ahead,
Speaker 1: tell the plans. It's not it's not. It's not giving
Speaker 1: it up. Church. You are the only one who has
Speaker 1: the optimism to think that we still gonna win the
Speaker 1: easting and can make all this stuff happen. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: let the season play out as it is. Still, keep
Speaker 1: calling the same plays, put the same players out there.
Speaker 1: Let let let's Zeke run out there, Let Coop run
Speaker 1: out there, let all the players run out there, because
Speaker 1: the season has been playing out as it is already. Bro,
Speaker 1: we're two and six. It's not like we've been winning.
Speaker 1: So it's not like you to do anything special to
Speaker 1: get a top draft pick. Church. I mean, y'all said,
Speaker 1: just throw them out there. Man, yeah, man, season, Man,
Speaker 1: are you a fan of Luka Don He's all right,
Speaker 1: he's all right, he's all right. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: how you got the Mavericks got him by executing this
Speaker 1: plan we're talking about. Play about these young guys and
Speaker 1: go ahead, let's go and get on in there. But
Speaker 1: what young guys are you talking about playing like what
Speaker 1: like you're saying like, ye young, Yeah, that's not what
Speaker 1: young guys. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm saying, let the season go on as it is.
Speaker 1: You might put the young guy in like a young
Speaker 1: d tackle somewhere. Let it go on as it is,
Speaker 1: because we're not I don't think we're going to win
Speaker 1: any games anyways. That's what I'm saying. Not Tank, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's it. But that's it. By playing these young
Speaker 1: like a tyrant steal, that's what you're doing. You're playing guys.
Speaker 1: You're you're keeping the digs out here in the starting role.
Speaker 1: You're not sitting around here and saying, all right, Leo,
Speaker 1: we want Cheeto and George Lewis to have more snaps
Speaker 1: and didn't. Now that's what I'm saying, play these young guys.
Speaker 1: See what you've got. And by playing these young guys
Speaker 1: and the way you're at right now and you can't
Speaker 1: stop anybody on the run, it's gonna be just a problem.
Speaker 1: That it is. So that that that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You don't have to quote unquote Tank and but that's
Speaker 1: what the mask said. They played a bunch of their
Speaker 1: young guys, Like, we're playing younger guys here, and just
Speaker 1: by the fact that you're putting it out there, they're learning,
Speaker 1: you're seeing what they have. At the same time, the
Speaker 1: losses are coming with it, so it's kind of like
Speaker 1: this whole thing. You got evaluation going on, you're losing
Speaker 1: the games, and at the end of the day, you're
Speaker 1: you're taking these hits for a brighter future. They did
Speaker 1: it with Jimmy Johnson. It one, it's fifteen. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit different because they weren't trying to win at
Speaker 1: the season. They having these Super Bowl aspirations. But now
Speaker 1: that you're here, man, just go all the way. Why
Speaker 1: take a half measure, take a full mature baby, go
Speaker 1: ahead and let's get ready for twenty twenty one and
Speaker 1: go ahead, get to some good picks and get up
Speaker 1: in here and gold, get in gold. Yeah, twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope. I never want to do these
Speaker 1: team and any type of sporting activity. Tennis, no nothing,
Speaker 1: We down to nothing, man, Let's let's go. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and pack it up. Man, I gotta we gotta go. Man,
Speaker 1: Let's let's go ahead and pack it up man, I
Speaker 1: hope the team. If you're down two to six, you
Speaker 1: might want to pack it up and get up out
Speaker 1: of the up. We gotta make it back, to make
Speaker 1: it back for this news man. We gotta make it
Speaker 1: back with Pittsburgh coming to town. With Pittsburgh coming to
Speaker 1: town too, I mean get own. I mean, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to help Mike McCarthy because this is a big thing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help Mike Nolan long term, maybe because
Speaker 1: maybe you get some good players from Mike Nolan here
Speaker 1: who can actually run this defense that he won, so
Speaker 1: that they'll actually fit in the scheme here. All right, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: this was fun. We still are going to talk about
Speaker 1: this Cowboys defense and the effort they gave against Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and we talked about guys getting off the middle car.
Speaker 1: But we had some of this breaking news today that
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is gonna miss this week's game against the
Speaker 1: Steamers because he's in COVID nineteen protocol that possibly Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush could be the starter had have been Dducci. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys didting practice on Tuesday. They'll get back to a Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and then maybe Mike McCarthy, they head coach who've shied
Speaker 1: some more light on what's going on there. That's Dandy mccraye,
Speaker 1: Burry Church, former Cowboys safeties I'm Newish scrugs, longtime Cowboys
Speaker 1: report our man Chris Beam as our producer, help and
Speaker 1: make it happen. We'll be back tomorrow two thirty Central
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