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Speaker 1: twenty two, Season seventeen, episode number ninety eight. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Break, live from the s
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Speaker 1: a white out where you're white if you are coming
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Speaker 1: it's the playoffs. So once you get excited, hopefully are excited.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna tell you what you should be looking for,
Speaker 1: what you'd expect to see this Sunday throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the show. Today, let's start first name Nick with
Speaker 1: a ninety eight give me a quick Greg Ellis, love it.
Speaker 1: He was my guy. I mean I liked him. Unfair
Speaker 1: that he got, you know, compared to a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: but that's what happened. They should have picked Randy Moss,
Speaker 1: but they picked him instead. He did everything right, it
Speaker 1: just wasn't a Hall of Fame wide receiver. You know.
Speaker 1: It's interesting too about Greg Ellis. I actually think he's
Speaker 1: one of the few players in the NFL, certainly on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys that I can remember, who was I think
Speaker 1: a much better player. The more he played, the longer
Speaker 1: he played, like, I think he was a much better
Speaker 1: player later in his career than earlier in his career.
Speaker 1: You know, if the first round picks a lot of
Speaker 1: times you'll see him early on. They jump out and
Speaker 1: they show you things like a Michael Parsons like CD,
Speaker 1: and they start doing things. You're like, man, I see
Speaker 1: why they were drafting the first round like he got
Speaker 1: a little bit like at the beginning, there wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot of that kind of talk. But the more he played,
Speaker 1: and certainly once they stood him as an outside three
Speaker 1: four defensive end, I mean, I'm sorry, an outside linebacker.
Speaker 1: He really I thought took off and was a really
Speaker 1: good players the last couple of years in the league.
Speaker 1: Is that your ninety eight um? Shout out Tyrone. I
Speaker 1: always liked working with him. Yeah, nice guy. Yeah, still
Speaker 1: here and here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's at that's my
Speaker 1: guy too. Yeah. I'll say that one because I've seen
Speaker 1: the video, so I don't want to piss him off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which video? You know? The video? You know for one
Speaker 1: with the arrow. Now, I thought the reason I say
Speaker 1: which video, I'm also talking about the documentary. He did
Speaker 1: what he talked about the some sometimes he had to
Speaker 1: knuckle up earlier and as a younger man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not afraid and a lot of knuckles going on,
Speaker 1: and I think he ain't scared, not scared, he's scared.
Speaker 1: He was. He's good. He's a good player too. All right, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's let's get into some some talk on the injuries.
Speaker 1: There was one guy who did not pry yesterday, Kean
Speaker 1: O'Neil chest and elbow injuries. What are we hearing about him? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I thought he was okay because he practiced on Wednesday
Speaker 1: and then he didn't do as much yesterday. He heard
Speaker 1: his arm in that Eagles game and Mike McCarthy said
Speaker 1: today that's probably going to go down to the wire.
Speaker 1: It's not typically what you want to hear on a
Speaker 1: Friday um, especially not at that position. So yeah, they
Speaker 1: just for this game. Tag. Yeah, they don't. They don't
Speaker 1: have any depth there, Yeah, none. It sucks that b
Speaker 1: real Cox isn't available here. I saw I saw like
Speaker 1: at practice the other day, like while they were doing
Speaker 1: special teams and like George Edwards was working with the
Speaker 1: linebacker like it was just like working with a linebackers,
Speaker 1: working with Layton everybody else and I think Mike was rushing,
Speaker 1: you know, doing stuff with the defensive ents, and the
Speaker 1: other guys that are on the team are doing special
Speaker 1: team stuff. There's just not Yeah, I mean, the depth
Speaker 1: is just not there. If you don't have Keanu, and
Speaker 1: I'm not ruling him out, but if you just say
Speaker 1: you don't, then you've got Layton And if he wasn't
Speaker 1: already gonna play a lot of linebacker, Michael would have
Speaker 1: to in that circumstance. And then Luke Gifford has had
Speaker 1: a nice year and Francis Bernard is back. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: those are those are your special team linebackers. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: not a lot on the way to depth. I was
Speaker 1: actually gonna ask you guys this earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: and I don't know that it's it's likely, but do
Speaker 1: you think this is the kind of week where you
Speaker 1: could have if let's assume Keanu was healthy, you could
Speaker 1: see three linebackers on the field more frequently. A team
Speaker 1: like this that loves to run the ball, power, running attack.
Speaker 1: You know, you would think this would be a week
Speaker 1: where maybe they could morph into something like that. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it, this would be a matchup where
Speaker 1: it makes sense. I mean, the Niners love to play
Speaker 1: twenty one personnel, two backs. I mean, Juice checks on
Speaker 1: the field a lot. Yeah, Kidtill obviously doesn't come off
Speaker 1: the field very much. Yeah, this is this is a
Speaker 1: big personnel type of game, So this would be a
Speaker 1: big hit if obviously he can't play, I would So
Speaker 1: I don't like the idea of it, and like it's
Speaker 1: weird because I think this week we've talked about how
Speaker 1: maybe Keanu and Layton haven't been a ma this season.
Speaker 1: They've been fine, but not amazing. But even but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean against the team that runs the ball, you
Speaker 1: just want all hands on deck when it comes to tackling.
Speaker 1: All right, here's we're gonna do. We got some questions
Speaker 1: that are questions that I think will be important to
Speaker 1: how this game turns out. I'm going to run through
Speaker 1: these questions and give you guys an opportunity to answer them.
Speaker 1: The first question, how much do you expect Dallas's offense
Speaker 1: to be different than what we saw over the second
Speaker 1: half of the year. And the reason why I asked
Speaker 1: that is because early in the year, if you guys
Speaker 1: remember a lot of in the first few games, we
Speaker 1: saw things in those games we were like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: that was creative, particularly offensively in what Kellen Moore was doing.
Speaker 1: I think that kind of settled down, And I wonder
Speaker 1: to myself, is that because what we saw the things early,
Speaker 1: so when you see them come back later, they aren't
Speaker 1: new anymore. So of course it's gonna feel like there
Speaker 1: aren't as many new and creative things. But do you
Speaker 1: think that this game coming into this into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: do you expect to see a little more creativity some
Speaker 1: things that maybe you haven't seen to this point. To
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I'm not completely sure I agree
Speaker 1: with your premise to begin with. I think that stuff's
Speaker 1: been there. You pick and choose your spots. But like
Speaker 1: a great example, it gets brushed under the rug because
Speaker 1: it didn't work. But remember them the hook and ladder
Speaker 1: they ran against Washington first series and Mari drops the lateral,
Speaker 1: they punt. They go on to score like seven straight
Speaker 1: touchdowns after that, So it kind of gets swept under
Speaker 1: the rug. Flee flicker, fleeflicker didn't really work. The past?
Speaker 1: What the past to Cedric from or Cedric to Tony Yah?
Speaker 1: What game was that Arizona. Yeah, those players have been there.
Speaker 1: I just think maybe they haven't taken center stage because
Speaker 1: the offense hasn't been clicking the way that we got
Speaker 1: used to in the first half of the season. I
Speaker 1: can think. I'm like, uh, I'm still trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how they do go into this game with because
Speaker 1: you mentioned all those creative plays utilizing so many different
Speaker 1: weapons that they have. Talk about my govern the way
Speaker 1: that they were utilizing him at certain times when he
Speaker 1: wasn't playing guard, and even like Cedric Wilson when Dad
Speaker 1: gives him the ball and that he's the one throwing
Speaker 1: the past that has worked pretty well, and like when
Speaker 1: they throw in little place like that it does confuse
Speaker 1: because you're not necessarily expecting things like that as the opponent,
Speaker 1: but you know you've seen it on film that they
Speaker 1: can do. So my thing is, like Dave said, it
Speaker 1: comes down to them struggling to connect and actually, what's
Speaker 1: the word I'm looking for, be efficient like on the
Speaker 1: field and actually produce the place that they need to produce,
Speaker 1: because when you're not doing that in the first place,
Speaker 1: how are you gonna be able to do creative place
Speaker 1: like that. So hopefully the win last week gives them
Speaker 1: the confidence that they need and they need to start
Speaker 1: off the bat because I think if they do, and
Speaker 1: we've seen it at games where in the second half
Speaker 1: of the game, fourth quarter Dad is able to come
Speaker 1: back and they're playing very high speed game and scoring
Speaker 1: points and all that. But I do think that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys can definitely lose this game if they start trailing
Speaker 1: behind from the get go, from the first quarter. They
Speaker 1: need to go in there and I'll fall back and
Speaker 1: not get close to the end zone because that's what
Speaker 1: I've seen that really hurts them at the end. I
Speaker 1: agree with Dave in the sense that they have done
Speaker 1: some of that stuff, um even past the Terrence Steel,
Speaker 1: you know in the Washington game or whatever game that was. Yep.
Speaker 1: Um So, I mean it's like one a game, it
Speaker 1: seems like other than you expect to see more of that. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it's just comes down to whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the mentality. You know, if they
Speaker 1: feel like they've got it, they've got in their back
Speaker 1: if they need it, you know. I mean, but at
Speaker 1: this point, you're not saving anything. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a real trendy picked And again a part of
Speaker 1: this was also Jerry's comments. Jerry said on on his
Speaker 1: hit on Sean and RJ a few weeks ago, he said,
Speaker 1: you know, there are some things that we've had that
Speaker 1: we've saved, things that we have worked on in training
Speaker 1: camp and we haven't used yet this year that we're
Speaker 1: saving for the playoffs. So yes, they may still be
Speaker 1: doing some of that. But my thought would be, why
Speaker 1: do you say that makes no sense? Because when was
Speaker 1: that though? This was I don't know, maybe three four
Speaker 1: weeks ago. You guys, I assume y'all hurt. I mean
Speaker 1: everybody has or four weeks ago, Jerry said, everybody's got
Speaker 1: plays that they that they have that they say, you know,
Speaker 1: trick plays that just don't feel like they work. They
Speaker 1: don't they're waiting for the look. They don't get the look.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't think Fossil's got twenty two plays
Speaker 1: that he wants to run? Definitely has they all got them.
Speaker 1: And I just think, for for whatever, and some of
Speaker 1: it's valid, But for whatever criticism, I think Kellen has
Speaker 1: done a fantastic job of just baking that into their DNA.
Speaker 1: It's just what they do. He says that all I've
Speaker 1: asked him so many questions about where he gets his
Speaker 1: plays from and when it when he feels like it's
Speaker 1: the right time, and and he's been very steadfast. He's
Speaker 1: just like, this is what we do. Like we have
Speaker 1: this many, we work on this many. It doesn't take
Speaker 1: a whole lot for us to feel comfortable calling that
Speaker 1: in a game. They tried to throw a past to
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern in New York, Like, like, go through every
Speaker 1: game and I guarantee you you'll see something that you're
Speaker 1: not thinking about where you're like, oh, yeah, like they
Speaker 1: did do that. It's just part of who they are.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't just become we almost you
Speaker 1: got to really do something crazy for us really remember,
Speaker 1: it just feels like it's normal. Yeah, and I guarantee
Speaker 1: you yeah, they'll they'll call some goofy stuff, like in
Speaker 1: a good way, like they'll there will be something. But
Speaker 1: when you ask me this question, do you think it's
Speaker 1: going to be different? It makes me think of like
Speaker 1: last year in Philly when it was obvious that they
Speaker 1: were pulling out all the stops because they knew they
Speaker 1: weren't going to move the ball otherwise. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. I think they'll probably call two
Speaker 1: to four depending on the looks they get, and that's
Speaker 1: just that's what they do. They always they always have.
Speaker 1: In the past month, I feel like they have somewhat
Speaker 1: become a little more conservative in the way that they play.
Speaker 1: But maybe that's because of the way that the offense
Speaker 1: was playing in general. But I think that maybe that's
Speaker 1: where you're getting your question from. It's like, Okay, we
Speaker 1: saw at the beginning of the year being so creative.
Speaker 1: Then eventually towards December, I feel like they became a
Speaker 1: little bit more conservative just because the plays weren't there,
Speaker 1: like they weren't actually being the way that they needed
Speaker 1: to be on the field. And now, okay, going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs, what kind of cowboys do we see the
Speaker 1: first half of the season or the second half of
Speaker 1: the season. But covative, Yeah, I do think Dave made
Speaker 1: a good point, like you forget about or I'll speak
Speaker 1: for myself, I forgot about the hook and ladder play
Speaker 1: because it didn't work. If it would have worked, I
Speaker 1: probably would have remembered it. Like you know, early in
Speaker 1: the season, those plays were working, like they were actually
Speaker 1: getting success out of some of those plays. When it
Speaker 1: doesn't work, then you kind of forget that they even
Speaker 1: tried them, and it's not the same kind of impact.
Speaker 1: And that's fair, I think, but they have You're right,
Speaker 1: they have been trying these plays. It just makes me
Speaker 1: wonder listening to what Jerry said, if there's more in
Speaker 1: the bag, if there are things in the bag that
Speaker 1: they're looking at, like, hey, these are and they may
Speaker 1: not even be plays. It may be schemes, it may
Speaker 1: be things that they're gonna try that they haven't really
Speaker 1: tried to this point because they're they're saving some of
Speaker 1: that stuff to not necessarily put it on tape and
Speaker 1: save it for the playoffs. We'll see. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take our first break. We come back. We have more
Speaker 1: questions we're gonna throw out to you guys. Well when
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Speaker 1: Let's jump back in. We got some more questions here.
Speaker 1: Here's the next question. Outside of dak which Dallas skill
Speaker 1: position player most needs to have a big day for
Speaker 1: Dallas to be successful? Oh boy, whichever running back you prefer,
Speaker 1: because I don't care. I just need them to be
Speaker 1: able to run. They they need to be able to
Speaker 1: run the ball. And I'm not not like forty nine
Speaker 1: ers style. They don't need to run the ball like
Speaker 1: forty five times, but that just it has to be
Speaker 1: an element of their offense. Again, they've been bad when
Speaker 1: they haven't been balanced. Is there a number or something
Speaker 1: that's for you will signal they were successful running the ball? Yeah,
Speaker 1: if they're averaging four and a half yards per carrier better,
Speaker 1: and if they get north of one hundred as a team,
Speaker 1: preferably like closer to one fifty, but at least north
Speaker 1: of one hundred yards as a team, four and a
Speaker 1: half yards per carry would be four and a half?
Speaker 1: Would bee gangbusters? That would be awesome? Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: I don't care who does it. What was your skill position?
Speaker 1: Skill position? Okay, not that I mean I was gonna
Speaker 1: go with the running back position too, but I guess
Speaker 1: another one would be tight end. I think I've seen
Speaker 1: Dad play one of his best games when he's able
Speaker 1: to kind of rely on the tight end position, So
Speaker 1: I think that that would be a big key for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense to be able to have that position
Speaker 1: working not just in the blocking game, but also being
Speaker 1: able to catch the ball and being that security blanket
Speaker 1: for Dak. Yeah. And I mean, you know, if you
Speaker 1: want to throw another one in there too, I mean
Speaker 1: when when Amari Cooper is rolling, you know, this offense
Speaker 1: is different, and I think it'll affect everybody else. And
Speaker 1: so he's their best receiver, their best route runner, I think,
Speaker 1: And so I think you know you can put him in.
Speaker 1: I still feel like it's Zeke. You know, Zeke is
Speaker 1: playing at a high level. It's gonna be hard to
Speaker 1: beat them because that means everybody's going to be playing
Speaker 1: at a high level. All right, Um, next two questions
Speaker 1: are going to be some of the questions with different names.
Speaker 1: Bigger threat Armstead or Bosa. Oh good question, yeah Armstead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because at this stage in their respective careers, Bosa is
Speaker 1: better than Tyron Smith probably, But I still trust Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith to hold his own and keep that from being
Speaker 1: a problem. I mean, he's Tyron Smith. He's not going
Speaker 1: to get abused, at least I would hope not. Whereas
Speaker 1: the interior has been a consistent problem spot for them,
Speaker 1: and that's where Armstead plays Arrow I'll throw arden Key
Speaker 1: in there as well. I think both of those guys
Speaker 1: scare me. I think Bosa can wrect the game a
Speaker 1: little bit more, and I think some of his rush
Speaker 1: from the outside leads to the interior, you know, push there.
Speaker 1: I think he's the guy that could probably wreck the
Speaker 1: game the most. But I mean, does he move around
Speaker 1: a lot? I don't know. He primarily stays where he is,
Speaker 1: but the forty nine ers still they I mean they
Speaker 1: they move guys inside and outside. Um, But like he's
Speaker 1: efficient on both sides. He primarily plays right end right.
Speaker 1: I mean he doesn't bounce back and forth, yeah, right
Speaker 1: into play he can, though, I mean he think he can.
Speaker 1: I just would I haven't seen all their games. The
Speaker 1: games I've seen, he tends to be on that side
Speaker 1: more often than Yeah, if Tyron is shutting him down,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that the facing Tyron. Did you guys see
Speaker 1: his interview from yesterday, Yeah, yeah, he was pretty he
Speaker 1: was pretty honest about the fact that he's like, I've
Speaker 1: seen both those guys get beat and we think we can,
Speaker 1: we can, you know, do some things against him, and
Speaker 1: I like I saw people were I think Cowboy fans
Speaker 1: were kind of salty about it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: where's the lie there? I mean, the offensive line is
Speaker 1: not the wall that it's reputation suggests Andre and it
Speaker 1: hasn't been for a while. And I'll I'll ride with
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith any day. But I I mean, yeah, like
Speaker 1: I said, at this point in their respective careers, Nick
Speaker 1: bow is a better player than Tyron stuff. Well there,
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll say this. I mean, Bosa hasn't made
Speaker 1: a play on the Cowboys this year, so maybe that maybe.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll be the same as Joey Bosa.
Speaker 1: I don't think he even played in the game. It's
Speaker 1: good point now they shut him ter steals. I mean
Speaker 1: he's not gonna play it though. Yeah, I mean he might,
Speaker 1: I mean to play some but I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna play. But I mean he had a that
Speaker 1: was his coming out party. That game. I mean that
Speaker 1: was one where I was like, wow, this not only
Speaker 1: can he hold his own, he he was good. It
Speaker 1: was really good against a really really good player. And
Speaker 1: they play similar styles. But I bet you, I know
Speaker 1: the forty nine defense has got better weapon or you know,
Speaker 1: personnel around Bosa. Put it this way with everything I
Speaker 1: just said, which I do believe. Like I said, I'll
Speaker 1: take my chances that Tyron Smith can show up and
Speaker 1: play like a Hall of Famer and and mitigate Bosa,
Speaker 1: whereas I have less confidence about the guys on the inside.
Speaker 1: All Right, this next one might be a little easier,
Speaker 1: but maybe not bigger threat Samuel's or kittle Man. I
Speaker 1: just saw stat Deebo Samuel, and he's He's the first
Speaker 1: player in the history of the NFL that has more
Speaker 1: than three hundred yards rushing and an average per catch
Speaker 1: of eighteen, which led the NFL. I mean, like, like,
Speaker 1: like that's crazy. You're down the field making plays as
Speaker 1: eighteen yards per clip at receiver, but then when they
Speaker 1: run the ball. I mean, I mean he by far
Speaker 1: led all receivers in rushing him. He's the guy to me,
Speaker 1: I mean, I Kiddle's great, but I mean there's just
Speaker 1: so many different things that Samuel does. I think I'll
Speaker 1: go Kittle because and I'm not again, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they're going to be successful. Like Debo will have his plays,
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys have players who are equipped to limit him.
Speaker 1: They've got a linebacker who probably runs a better forty
Speaker 1: than Debo or close to it, which is it's not
Speaker 1: an exaggeration, that's crazy. And then they've got a cornerback
Speaker 1: who's bigger than him. Trayvon is bigger than Debo, he's
Speaker 1: only Debo's only six foot uh, you know, one eighty
Speaker 1: one ninety two hundred maybe like he's a smaller receiver.
Speaker 1: So those guys, they match up well with him. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll beat them both at some point. But I
Speaker 1: and with all due respect to Jaron Curse, I just
Speaker 1: don't know if the Cowboys, I don't know if any
Speaker 1: NFL team has a guy who can stop a kittle,
Speaker 1: you know, Like those types of tight ends are just
Speaker 1: hard to deal with. Although I mean, Jay Roun's matched
Speaker 1: up with some of the best tight ends in the
Speaker 1: league this year and hasn't gotten embarrassed at all, has
Speaker 1: not gotten embarrassed, Like he played a great game against
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. Travis Kelsey still had a nice day that day.
Speaker 1: But that's what you're gonna give up something to those
Speaker 1: kind of guys. But that's kind of my point is
Speaker 1: there's only so much you can do to stop a
Speaker 1: tight end like that, right, all right, Um, so let's
Speaker 1: let's talk about Deebo Samuel a little bit. How how
Speaker 1: do you think Dallas attacks that? Like his all the
Speaker 1: different things he can do. How do you think Dallas attached?
Speaker 1: Because usually when you got a receiver that's a dominant receiver,
Speaker 1: you could say, Okay, we're gonna take our best corner,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put him on him, or we're gonna take
Speaker 1: our second best and then we're gonna double the other guy. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, how do you handle a guy that that
Speaker 1: is going to be in a lot of different spots
Speaker 1: doing a lot of different things. I think you have
Speaker 1: to do multiple things. And I think Jordan Lewis will
Speaker 1: factor into this. I think I think he could be
Speaker 1: I mean somewhat of a spy kind of on him.
Speaker 1: I think that they need to show the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers as many different looks as possible. If there's a
Speaker 1: third and long situation, I'm putting digs on Kittle, I'm
Speaker 1: letting them have to wonder different things. So I would
Speaker 1: probably have four different ways that I'm going to attack
Speaker 1: that and see which one where. If one of them
Speaker 1: doesn't work at all, then don't do it on that.
Speaker 1: How concerned would you be with Diggs on him because
Speaker 1: the one thing we know about Deebo Samuel he is
Speaker 1: very powerful. He can break tackles. We also talked about
Speaker 1: earlier in the week, the digs. That's the probably the
Speaker 1: part of his game that probably needs the most development
Speaker 1: is his ability to tackle. How concerned would you be
Speaker 1: in that kind of situation in open space of him
Speaker 1: making that tackle? Concerns I mean, gott to make the tackle.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's not you know, it's not FRANKL. Harris.
Speaker 1: I mean like, I mean, get them, get them down.
Speaker 1: I mean like it, I don't know. I'm I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for the game. I'm just like, I'm just
Speaker 1: ready because it's like we hurt all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just like I'm not buying in like
Speaker 1: this is not like the greatest team to ever play
Speaker 1: like it's and I just think that's what's happening. We're
Speaker 1: just hearing all these things about Deebo Samuel and he's
Speaker 1: got these great stats and all that, but they get beat.
Speaker 1: But let's be honest, it's the playoffs. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be as long as the Cowboys are in. This is
Speaker 1: guy's gonna be every week because you're gonna be playing
Speaker 1: a team that's really good, the playoff team, and by
Speaker 1: the way I would get the really good I would
Speaker 1: get I think they're a good team. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they're a good team. Ten and seventeen. I think they're
Speaker 1: a good team. I'm just asking. I mean, like I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not trying to throw shade. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: they had a ninety one yard drive away from being
Speaker 1: nine and eight to finish the season. They need ninety
Speaker 1: one yards to save their season, and they did it.
Speaker 1: But I mean, this isn't this is a They were
Speaker 1: a little above average team for most of the year.
Speaker 1: So I'm tied with Coys. Looking from the other side,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are a better team. I mean, they're a
Speaker 1: better team. I mean they've they've had maybe their schedule,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. This is probably about even
Speaker 1: the schedule because they don't play in the same division,
Speaker 1: but they've had tougher road outside of the division. And
Speaker 1: I think that they've proven all year long that they're better.
Speaker 1: They're at home, they have a much better quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. I mean I think it's
Speaker 1: a double digit win for the Cowboys. I really do.
Speaker 1: I just think I just think this is the same
Speaker 1: as filling out your bracket and you're like, oh, the
Speaker 1: six to eleven game, you gotta pick that, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of these trendy picks, so
Speaker 1: the six over the threes is easy to pick. But
Speaker 1: Cowboys have been better team all year long, and they're healthy.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win. Oh, I hope. So I
Speaker 1: agree with some of what you just said, I do.
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll get to the picks. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: Niners have. I think the Niners are tied with Green
Speaker 1: Bay for the best record in the league over the
Speaker 1: second half of the season. I mean they had they
Speaker 1: lost four in a row in September and October, and
Speaker 1: that's a big part of their record. I agree with
Speaker 1: you to a degree. And it's ironic. I think there's
Speaker 1: some huge irony here because last week it was all
Speaker 1: about you gotta get some momentum. You gotta get week
Speaker 1: to week momentum. They gotta start up the right way,
Speaker 1: and now everybody's talking up the Niners and Cowboy fans
Speaker 1: are pissed about it, like why what makes the Niners
Speaker 1: so good? I'm like, they just went on the road
Speaker 1: and took a must have game from one of the
Speaker 1: best teams in the league. And you talk about momentum.
Speaker 1: That's why everybody's jumping on their bandwagon. Right They played
Speaker 1: their best game of the season the last week end
Speaker 1: of the year. It was a playoff game for them.
Speaker 1: I get why people are on the Niners bandwagon. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that they're gonna win, but I understand the
Speaker 1: hype because it's how you finish the season. Speaking of momentum,
Speaker 1: going back to talking about Samuel some will and I
Speaker 1: shouldn't be concerned about this because I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are gonna be fine, but the fact that, Okay, you
Speaker 1: get Trevor Dick's back, Anthony Brown back, they were out
Speaker 1: last week, I'm kind of concerned about what the backfield
Speaker 1: looks like for the Cowboys defense. And I should see
Speaker 1: this as them taking a little break and it should
Speaker 1: be good for them and come back even better. But
Speaker 1: I'm always hesitant when the player is out for a
Speaker 1: game and it has to come back. So even though
Speaker 1: I part of me one believes that they're gonna be
Speaker 1: fine and they're gonna go out there and play, give it,
Speaker 1: They're They're all absolutely, They're all I'm still kind of
Speaker 1: hesitant and like, Okay, well, I mean Mia just well
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Yeah, but like different different lions.
Speaker 1: Lions don't get COVID. Yeah, but I'm just kinda like, uh,
Speaker 1: are they gonna miss miss like a little beat? Is
Speaker 1: it gonna take them the first half of the game
Speaker 1: to kind of get in the rhythm of things. So
Speaker 1: I'm just kinda keeping my eye on that. That's the
Speaker 1: biggest and it not necessarily as it relates to COVID,
Speaker 1: But if we all had confidence that the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: going to show up and play up to their potential,
Speaker 1: we would all, like, we would feel great about this game.
Speaker 1: We would just be like, yeah, like fort Irons are good,
Speaker 1: but I mean Cowboys, Cowboys will take care of them.
Speaker 1: Who here has one hundred percent confidence that that team
Speaker 1: will show up? I know that's the hard part. And
Speaker 1: when you you know, I agree wholehearted what you're saying, Nick,
Speaker 1: I think you look at the whole year and you
Speaker 1: only play your schedule. But but when you start breaking
Speaker 1: it down, you start looking at the quality of the
Speaker 1: teams Dallas has played. You look at some of the
Speaker 1: losses that they've had, and you do you are left
Speaker 1: with some of those questions about how well do they
Speaker 1: match up against this caliber team? And all I'm talking
Speaker 1: about with this caliber team are you know, teams that
Speaker 1: are in the tin win range, the you know, this
Speaker 1: is a playoff team and the tin win range, like
Speaker 1: is Dallas hasn't been that successful with those kind of
Speaker 1: teams all season, and the games that they did win,
Speaker 1: they definitely weren't double digit wins, like that New Orleans game.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry that that game against New England
Speaker 1: it came down to overtime and they and they had
Speaker 1: to win it in overtime. That game against the Chargers
Speaker 1: was a three point game. Like so, there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of things you can look at this like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I can hang my hat on that. But guess
Speaker 1: what that's gonna be every single week of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: because the playoffs are hard, and every week you're gonna
Speaker 1: play somebody that's really really good. I mean, the Niners
Speaker 1: are four and four against teams that are in the
Speaker 1: playoffs right now. It's the same story for everybody. But
Speaker 1: but they're a good team and they're gonna be a
Speaker 1: hard out, just like the Cowboys are gonna be hard out.
Speaker 1: I would suspect if there is a balanced San Francisco break,
Speaker 1: they're over there saying right now, man, that team's got
Speaker 1: some talent, like, yeah, I don't know what we're gonna
Speaker 1: do with that, Michael Parsons. And but that's the nature
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. Every team has good players, right And
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot easier to just kind of
Speaker 1: when you're covering a team, you kind of poke holes
Speaker 1: in your own team a little bit, Like we're worried
Speaker 1: about the kicker here and this game where they didn't
Speaker 1: play well and they didn't tackle in this game, and
Speaker 1: they're similar to that, and you know, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: that there's issues. I mean, the forty nine ers on
Speaker 1: their past defense, you know, like if you can get
Speaker 1: the ball out, like if you if you can you know,
Speaker 1: if you can block the guys they got over there
Speaker 1: and get the ball out, you can have a lot
Speaker 1: of success. I mean, teams do so, but that's that's
Speaker 1: probably what they're looking at a too. Like they look
Speaker 1: at these receivers in this corner right here, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know who it is. I mean, they're like
Speaker 1: which Garoppolo is gonna show up like, Look, they got
Speaker 1: their issues too. I get that. But it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough game, just like all these games are gonna
Speaker 1: be tough games. That is the hard part about the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You gotta basically string together three to four really good
Speaker 1: games if you're gonna be a champion. Right, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our final break and we come back.
Speaker 1: We've got a few more questions we're gonna hit, and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna hit some predictions. I'm actually gonna extend
Speaker 1: these guys a day. I'm gonna make them give me
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Speaker 1: back at his final segment of the Breake Life in
Speaker 1: SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Got a few more
Speaker 1: questions before we get to predictions. This question came from
Speaker 1: Colin Brennett. I asked the question earlier in the week
Speaker 1: to Bucky Brooks as well, we've heard all week and Nick,
Speaker 1: you've been talking about you know, everybody's talking about Dallas
Speaker 1: and the bad matchups they got trying to face the
Speaker 1: San Francisco team. Let's flip that, what are the bad
Speaker 1: matchups at the forty nine ers have? What are they
Speaker 1: worried about when they're looking at this Dallas Cowboys team.
Speaker 1: The irony is that Waldo on the forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: defense saved their season Andrey Thomas picked off Stafford to
Speaker 1: end that game. He's been a liability for them all year,
Speaker 1: which not trying to dog on him. He's a rookie.
Speaker 1: He's a third round draft pick starting for them as
Speaker 1: a rookie, and teams have taken advantage of them. Really,
Speaker 1: their whole secondary shouldn't do a whole lot to scare you.
Speaker 1: Like they signed Josh Norman. They benched him against the
Speaker 1: Rams because he's been so ineffective. He was a special
Speaker 1: teams player, which I mean, I know he's been in
Speaker 1: the league for a while at this point, but it's
Speaker 1: just a fall from grace for a guy who was like,
Speaker 1: you know, defensive player of the Year type guy five
Speaker 1: or six years ago. Um, their secondary is not very good. Especially,
Speaker 1: I mean, that is a decided advantage for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: passing game. If Dak Prescott is on his feet, that's
Speaker 1: that's everything to me. Is um again going back to
Speaker 1: the thing about Bosa and the tackles, Like if if
Speaker 1: you can find Dak time to throw or scheme throws
Speaker 1: for him to throw on the run, and he feels
Speaker 1: comfortable and confident doing that, there should be plays to
Speaker 1: be made against that secondary. I just don't think it's
Speaker 1: very good. Yeah. I mean to me, I look at
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball, and I think it's
Speaker 1: their quarterback, you know, when when he's having to throw.
Speaker 1: I mean, like that that's gonna be the problem. Now.
Speaker 1: They have a pretty good they have a good offensive line,
Speaker 1: They have some veterans there and in their interior. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's gonna be tough for them
Speaker 1: to to figure out exactly what dan Quinn's gonna do,
Speaker 1: how he's gonna scheme up these guys. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see Gregory standing up and moving around. You'll see
Speaker 1: d Law you'll see obviously you'll see my and I
Speaker 1: think a quarterback, you know, usually you do something really
Speaker 1: well and then something you don't. You know, like it's
Speaker 1: like Eli wasn't Eli Manning wasn't a great scrambler at all.
Speaker 1: But he's got this touch and he could throw the
Speaker 1: ball and all that. I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 1: Jimmy g really does like great, you know, like he's
Speaker 1: not going to be that athletic and run all over
Speaker 1: the place and get around and he's not the best thrower,
Speaker 1: so you gotta get after him. If they can get
Speaker 1: after him, get right in his face with the middle
Speaker 1: of the pocket. I think that's going to be in
Speaker 1: a disadvantage for them. You see the type of player that, um,
Speaker 1: you know how some quarterbacks whenever you give him so
Speaker 1: much pressure, they're just like become a little They just
Speaker 1: kind of lose their cool and their mental aspect of
Speaker 1: the game. Is he the type of quarterback that gets
Speaker 1: pretty flustered after getting pressure back and forth? Can he
Speaker 1: like after a player go back in there and stay
Speaker 1: focused and do him It's there's something that's got him
Speaker 1: to throw be erratic, and he's not the most efficient,
Speaker 1: So I would think it's pressure. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think he just stands up there with against air and
Speaker 1: missus throws. But I you know, he's got the reputation
Speaker 1: for a reason. I'm sure it's pressure that that gets
Speaker 1: after him. His accuracy definitely dips. I mean again, it's
Speaker 1: the momentum conversation. Like their last game before that amazing comeback,
Speaker 1: they gave up a lead to the Titans, and it
Speaker 1: was Jimmy's fault, Like the forty nine Ers fan base
Speaker 1: was about to riot. He missed a wide open guy
Speaker 1: on what would have been like a game clinching touchdown,
Speaker 1: and everybody was I mean, it was a meltdown because
Speaker 1: they gave up the league and and that put their
Speaker 1: playoff hopes in peril. Like if they had won that game,
Speaker 1: I think they clinched a spot a week early or
Speaker 1: it would have been all but assured. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's oversimplified, but I pointed this out this morning,
Speaker 1: like the more attempts he has, the more confident I
Speaker 1: feel that the Cowboys are going to win this game
Speaker 1: because he just has never proven that he's a guy
Speaker 1: that can it when he has to be carrying the offense.
Speaker 1: The other thing that on the know as being talked
Speaker 1: about as much as I think it should be is
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I personally believe why they stuck
Speaker 1: with the run the way they did in that last
Speaker 1: game is because right now his thumb is compromised. It's
Speaker 1: point broken, right, And so when you talk about throwing
Speaker 1: a football, like the thumb is the only digit on
Speaker 1: that side of the ball. Being able to control the
Speaker 1: football is about the thumb and the leverage you get
Speaker 1: it with your thumb. So like, I don't know that
Speaker 1: they can really even give him a lot of throws
Speaker 1: right now and feel comfortable with it. And that's not
Speaker 1: even talking about his capability as a quarterback and whatever
Speaker 1: his deficiencies are. That's about the fact that he's just
Speaker 1: compromised physically, and so that could also factor in here.
Speaker 1: And it does lead to my next question for you guys,
Speaker 1: do you expect to see Trey Lance in this game?
Speaker 1: Because even if even if you see Garoppolo playing quarterback
Speaker 1: majority of the game, do you expect it maybe they
Speaker 1: will package him in and try to find ways to
Speaker 1: get him involved in the game. That goes back to
Speaker 1: the idea of like maybe you hold some things back,
Speaker 1: like maybe you do that in the playoffs. But I
Speaker 1: actually I looked this up earlier this week because I
Speaker 1: was under the impression that he's kind of played a
Speaker 1: lot regardless, but it's it's not really true. Like down
Speaker 1: the second half of the season, he was inactive like
Speaker 1: six times, and he started against Houston he had to
Speaker 1: Garoppolo got hurt. Oh, I get the Tennessee game was
Speaker 1: two weeks ago, not one, but anyway, but beyond that,
Speaker 1: like three rushes for four yards and Jacksonville started against
Speaker 1: the Cardinals earlier in the season, came in against Seattle
Speaker 1: when Jimmy got hurt, Like he's he hasn't done a
Speaker 1: whole lot unless they've needed him to start. So unless
Speaker 1: they've been holding that back, I kind of don't really
Speaker 1: expect to see it. Did you see the games where
Speaker 1: he started, You have an opinion on what he looks
Speaker 1: like at this point in his development. He played really
Speaker 1: well against a terrible Houston team. I don't know how
Speaker 1: much that means to you, but I'm and I didn't
Speaker 1: go back and watch the whole game, but he had
Speaker 1: two or three throws against them where I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's why he was the number three pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: I get it he might be a problem later all
Speaker 1: year because Okay, so I saw a stat that he
Speaker 1: has the highest it's average per attempt eight point six yards.
Speaker 1: It's the it's the highest for a rookie since twenty twelve,
Speaker 1: maybe Robert Griffin or Edrew Luck And I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like he threw four hundred passes.
Speaker 1: I mean through seventy. Now, I will say that, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they're gonna look at what the Raiders did, you
Speaker 1: know with Mariota came in the game and did something,
Speaker 1: and of course what we saw with New Orleans and
Speaker 1: you know, and their guy Taysom Hill. So you know,
Speaker 1: maybe there's some packages you could see there. Yeah, I mean, shoot,
Speaker 1: I hope they don't do like I'd send him in
Speaker 1: there to do like a wildcat like Taysom Hill was
Speaker 1: so successful with. I mean, he's a big guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope they don't do that. They haven't really, he's
Speaker 1: so in games that he didn't start, he has run
Speaker 1: the ball like less than twenty times. I just it
Speaker 1: hasn't been a big part of what they've done this year,
Speaker 1: which this isn't college football Like that just makes me
Speaker 1: think of the first year of Tim Tebow's career. They
Speaker 1: did that, like they brought him in in the red zone,
Speaker 1: and like the Belldozer did it at OU for a
Speaker 1: few years. But when you're talking about like the number
Speaker 1: three overall pick in the draft, and you're like, let's
Speaker 1: not get you killed. Just make the running backs do that.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move on. Let's get some predictions. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I want to talk about all three of
Speaker 1: the NFC games that will happen this weekend. Get your
Speaker 1: opinions on what you think is going to happen. Let's
Speaker 1: start first with the game between division rival Philadelphia versus
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. There at Tampa Bay. It is the game
Speaker 1: directly before the Cowboys at noon on Sunday. Who wins
Speaker 1: that game, Dave, Tampa's run defense is not the juggernaut
Speaker 1: that it was last year, and Philly has discovered that
Speaker 1: they're a pretty good running team. So I think, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no. Yeah. I was like, go no, I
Speaker 1: just think people people paint this, People paint this as
Speaker 1: like a potential blood bath. I think, Philly, you'll keep it.
Speaker 1: They get eight points, right, I think, yeah, I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, Tampa's at home, Tampa will win. But I
Speaker 1: do think that this will probably be more competitive than
Speaker 1: people think. I'll pick the Eagles, honestly, seriously, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think Tampa has been asking for it here. You've
Speaker 1: also been You've been saying for a while that you
Speaker 1: thought that seven seed was gonna beat that second seed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I didn't say about the six, I
Speaker 1: said about the seven. Yeah. Yeah, No, I just Tampa
Speaker 1: is just scary. That's just scary. But the thing is
Speaker 1: is that if that happens, I don't like. I don't
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys pick after that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, it's all right there. Now you
Speaker 1: have a chance to be at home again. You gotta win.
Speaker 1: But I think the Eagles, I think they could win
Speaker 1: that game. I think I'm just gonna pick them. I mean,
Speaker 1: what do I have to whatever? Amber No, you will
Speaker 1: not get me to pick the Eagles to win in
Speaker 1: the postseason. Eagles Tampa Bay wins for sure at home. No,
Speaker 1: no way, hostly real real quick. Sorry, but it's worth noting.
Speaker 1: All pro voting just got released. Zach Martin led all
Speaker 1: votes at right guard Michael Parsons led all votes at
Speaker 1: linebacker and Trayvon Diggs led all votes at corners. So
Speaker 1: three first team All pros this year. Nice the tire
Speaker 1: Mix second team that's not out yet, I don't think
Speaker 1: so keep it. That's awesome, all right. Listen to our
Speaker 1: next game, Arizona versus the Rams. It is the Monday
Speaker 1: night game. It is in La. Who wins. Arizona was
Speaker 1: good enough to beat the Cowboys, but they just haven't
Speaker 1: seemed like the same team since they lost Hopkins. Rams
Speaker 1: are at home. Rams are still pretty good. They kind
Speaker 1: of collapsed in the second half against San Francisco. They
Speaker 1: did split during the regular season, correct, Yeah, yes, they
Speaker 1: did out. Aaron Donald mauled Arizona in the second Like
Speaker 1: Arizona beat them pretty bad in the first game, but
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald got like three or four sacks in the
Speaker 1: second game, just totally kicked their butts. Um, I'm going
Speaker 1: Rams a Rams. Yeah, the same. Arizona to me is
Speaker 1: just they've been losing their shine. It's like they started
Speaker 1: off then they were really brian, and then slowly they
Speaker 1: started getting a little rusty. So yeah, not picking them
Speaker 1: to win. Yeah, I think coming off that game last
Speaker 1: week too. I think the Ram's gonna have a little
Speaker 1: extra something ready. I think they're gonna win that game
Speaker 1: as well. All right, finally, Cowboys San Francisco, who wins
Speaker 1: the game at and T Stadium Sunday at three thirty.
Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Amber, Who in here would even
Speaker 1: pick the forty nine ers to win? If anybody does,
Speaker 1: then walk out? Wow, leave, don't want our honest and
Speaker 1: don't come back. Okay, okay, okay, why would have no?
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely gonna be a tough game. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun for us to watch. I cannot wait
Speaker 1: for it to get here already. But um, I think that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna struggle for sure. It's not like
Speaker 1: they're that I'm expecting them to be completely dominant how
Speaker 1: they've been in past games. I think that the defense
Speaker 1: might struggle a little bit. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, I think, I mean, there's really not an
Speaker 1: option here. I have no other answer than to pick
Speaker 1: in the Cowboys. That's it. Sorry, day, this game is
Speaker 1: a close enough, Matt like, there's we're all going to
Speaker 1: pick the Cowboys. We like, there's no way that four
Speaker 1: impartial people should all pick Dallas to win this game
Speaker 1: like it's it is. I think it's a toss up game.
Speaker 1: I think the forty nine ers are good. I think
Speaker 1: they are built to win a game like this, but
Speaker 1: I think Dallas has the better quarterback. And I just
Speaker 1: trust and I just like it reminds me of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I keep saying this, it's like every week. I just like,
Speaker 1: I trust in their potential so much like I've seen it,
Speaker 1: and I refuse to believe that they're not going to
Speaker 1: show it on a stage like this. And if I
Speaker 1: get burned, I get burned. But I don't want to
Speaker 1: bet against this team, knowing what they're capable of. If
Speaker 1: they can pull it all together. I think the Niners
Speaker 1: are going to move the ball really well between the twenties.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's gonna look a lot like
Speaker 1: the Chargers game. If you remember, like Herbert got his
Speaker 1: Like they move the ball, but the Cowboys came up
Speaker 1: with the stops, Like Casey gets a pick on the
Speaker 1: goal line, Micah sacks Herbert to push him out of
Speaker 1: touchdown range. That type of thing. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of settling for field goals. Um, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be really stressful. But I got Cowboys
Speaker 1: twenty three nineteen. Nick told us, yeah, eight points, thirty
Speaker 1: to twenty. I wonder why you chose that score. Why
Speaker 1: have you ever seen that score before? Yeah, thirty to twenty.
Speaker 1: I just think that the road it's not gonna end here.
Speaker 1: This has been too good of a team and that
Speaker 1: this is not where it ends. I think it's what
Speaker 1: Dave said. I think they have the better quarterback, and
Speaker 1: I think that I think that they're gonna play I
Speaker 1: think I think they have more rushing yards than the
Speaker 1: forty in this game, which you know, if if you
Speaker 1: have a thirty to twenty game, that should probably be
Speaker 1: the case, and so I think it will. I think
Speaker 1: that they well, we'll see them play a great game
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be fun. But I you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just not sold on the forty nine ers. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: they had a great game. I get it, but I
Speaker 1: mean they they were pretty close from me getting knocked
Speaker 1: out too. The Cowboys have been a good team all year.
Speaker 1: From the moment they played Tampa Bay, we were like,
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good team, and there's never been a
Speaker 1: doubt that this was a good team, so they're not
Speaker 1: gonna lose in the first round and not to me.
Speaker 1: And I just think it's a very trendy pick because
Speaker 1: everyone you're seeing nationally is doing exactly what you just did.
Speaker 1: Some producers are gonna say pick the games. Okay, Eagles
Speaker 1: are gonna lose, UM Rams may beat the Cardinals. Need oh,
Speaker 1: I got one. Yeah, I saw the Niners play this
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, Dallas they always joke or you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It was an easy, trendy pick. I'm
Speaker 1: not falling for it. I think Dallas is better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. I also think Dallas gonna win.
Speaker 1: No surprise there, But I will tell you why. The
Speaker 1: reason why is because yeah that's a good that's a
Speaker 1: good reason why. But one of the reasons why I
Speaker 1: think this is going to happen is because I think
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn's experience as a defensive coordinator is going to
Speaker 1: shine through in this game. All week. I would put
Speaker 1: money on it that those players and that coach has
Speaker 1: been talking about. You know, they think they can bully us.
Speaker 1: You know, they think they can run all over us.
Speaker 1: You know, they think we're finesse team. You know, they
Speaker 1: think that. I think that they're gonna go into this
Speaker 1: game with their sights firmly set on we are not
Speaker 1: going to let you run on us. And I think
Speaker 1: this Dallas defense is good enough that if they go
Speaker 1: into a game saying we are not going to let
Speaker 1: you run on us, that doesn't mean they might pop.
Speaker 1: They may not pop some I think by and large,
Speaker 1: that won't be the story of the game. Now, they
Speaker 1: may beat you in other ways. This game might be
Speaker 1: close for other reasons. I ultimately don't think this game
Speaker 1: is gonna come down to the fact that San Francisco
Speaker 1: just ran the ball all over for Dallas. I think
Speaker 1: Dallas is too good defensively to let that happen, knowing
Speaker 1: coming into the week that that's the target, like that's
Speaker 1: the thing that they have to stop. So I actually
Speaker 1: think Dallas gets to win. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: what I think the score is. I do think it's
Speaker 1: going to be close. So I would not be surprised
Speaker 1: as three or four point difference in this game, because
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a very very close game
Speaker 1: all the way down. So we're all we're signing up
Speaker 1: for a divisional weekend of going back to Tampa with
Speaker 1: the Rams going to Lambo. Oh not Nick, We're gonna
Speaker 1: be a Philly is going. Oh, you're right, we'll be
Speaker 1: hosting the Rams. Sorry, sorry Rams or Cardinardins. I got
Speaker 1: the Rams. I would love to see the Cardinals come
Speaker 1: back into here. I love see. I'll settle. I'll settle
Speaker 1: for just still playing whatever wherever You're right At this point,
Speaker 1: I don't really even care the opponent is. Just keep winning, guys,
Speaker 1: because whoever you gotta play, it's gonna be hard. There's
Speaker 1: no easy wins at this part of the year. All Right,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you, guys, Jonas. We'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 1: We'll let you know went what went right and what
Speaker 1: went wrong for the Cowboys, hopefully more right than wrong.
Speaker 1: To then for Nick Eatm, Dave Elm, and Namer Garcia.
Speaker 1: I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live on
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