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Speaker 1: Rob Phillips. Welcome everybody into the SWBC Mortgage Studio. It's
Speaker 1: Friday here on Talking Cowboys. I'm Taylor, joined by Brian, Rob, Mickey,
Speaker 1: and we are very excited to get into all of
Speaker 1: the crazy talk that comes with Eagles Week. Of course,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys take on the Eagles Sunday at at and
Speaker 1: T Stadium. It's gonna be a fun one and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be scary, I'll be Okay, we got what is
Speaker 1: it Halloween again? Yeah? I say scary because nine we
Speaker 1: got dubs on this side of the table. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that guy. We're rational I have with
Speaker 1: or without? Okay, well you're about to get You're gonna
Speaker 1: us with her without when she asked you. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do a with or without? All right, Okay, I'll run
Speaker 1: through something and I'll let you decide when we get
Speaker 1: to it. I need to who's the with and who's
Speaker 1: the without? Okay, So easy one starting off? Then I
Speaker 1: like this game, Mick Cheeto, Oh, he's up, he's up
Speaker 1: with I don't think he makes the difference if they
Speaker 1: win or lose, though, Okay, you never know. You might
Speaker 1: have ye might make a play. You're right, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: could get an interception when Drew Pearson is watching him,
Speaker 1: cheering him on like he likes to do in front
Speaker 1: of Eagles fans. All right, Dan Bailey out MALIEK Collins,
Speaker 1: who's been with the foot limited Now he's been he's
Speaker 1: been on the injury report for a while. So I'm
Speaker 1: with you, guys. Yeah, let's let's let's have a good MALIEK.
Speaker 1: Collins game this week. Yes, let's have a MALIEK. Collins
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl game. Yeah. Yeah, nose tackle, get up the field.
Speaker 1: I mean we've seen cape. I think he's played better
Speaker 1: since Mickey moved him over to nose tackle. When Mickey
Speaker 1: moved him over to nose tackle, I think he's played better.
Speaker 1: We got a mail bad question this morning about he's
Speaker 1: not a true nose and is that a problem for
Speaker 1: really specifically the run defense, and you I kind of
Speaker 1: you put the shybosh on that shot that down well,
Speaker 1: and it's not a true nose to me a nose
Speaker 1: tackles when you play a three four and I have
Speaker 1: one in the middle. Well, the thing about one technique, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the thing that everybody wants to say is that Cowboys
Speaker 1: run defense is bad because they don't have Snacks Harrison
Speaker 1: playing inside. That's what they're saying. And you know, teams
Speaker 1: now run the ball on the edges more than they
Speaker 1: run the ball inside that yeah, they do. I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's how you that's how you attack teams to
Speaker 1: have good inside players, you try and get it on
Speaker 1: the edge. I just feel like in this scheme it's
Speaker 1: so important because marion Elli preaches these linemen get up
Speaker 1: the field penetrate and the linebackers got to clean a
Speaker 1: lot of that stuff up, right, And so it's more
Speaker 1: to it's especially dependent on them to be in their
Speaker 1: gaps and be assignment sound. And when they don't Hitchens
Speaker 1: told us about this in the second half is when
Speaker 1: they started having breakdowns, right, And they were pretty good
Speaker 1: in the first half, right, and how they were a
Speaker 1: ton of them. But when you leak a couple of
Speaker 1: those big plays and all of a sudden, the teams
Speaker 1: in the run zone. Yeah, it's all about the run
Speaker 1: Fits only gave up forty one yards rushing the first half,
Speaker 1: Cowboys out rushed them. Yeah. See that's the it's the
Speaker 1: run Fits. I mean, Kansas City was a great example
Speaker 1: of a tremendous back with a good offensive line and
Speaker 1: how you choke the run run Fits. Garrett talks about
Speaker 1: it all the time. They Rob said it gaps, gaps, gaps,
Speaker 1: guys step up tackle gain of two, that's what you
Speaker 1: gotta have. You can't have gap gap gap. Oh miss
Speaker 1: gain of seven because you miss a tackle in the hole. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well before we get to more obvious ones like Jeff
Speaker 1: Heath than Seawan Lee. Yeah you're saying both out. Yeah. Yes.
Speaker 1: Iron Smith was in fact present today at practice. He
Speaker 1: did uh, he did the stretch, um, he did a
Speaker 1: few warm up type things. But when they went to
Speaker 1: we didn't get to see the blitz thing, did you
Speaker 1: the preproctice. We weren't in for that. But when they
Speaker 1: when they were doing you know how they line up
Speaker 1: under that bar right the starters and then they go
Speaker 1: low and take off. He didn't do any of that.
Speaker 1: And they went to the two man blocking sled. He
Speaker 1: didn't do that either. Was his hands taped up and
Speaker 1: all that was he all taped up together and looked
Speaker 1: like he didn't appear that he was doing something to practice.
Speaker 1: Now he may have done some, and then will you rehab.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had his helmet and everything, but you
Speaker 1: know how they do now if you're going to be
Speaker 1: out any he did have his whatever everybody else shells shells.
Speaker 1: But man, if this wasn't the Eagles, you almost feel like,
Speaker 1: give him a couple extra days and get him back
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving, I think. But it's the Eagles. I think
Speaker 1: they'll push it to the last minute. He'll do enough
Speaker 1: today to maybe be limited. And then the general manager
Speaker 1: came out and said that, you know, they asked him
Speaker 1: a question about ruling him out, and he didn't do it.
Speaker 1: He would not confirm it. And usually and usually the
Speaker 1: general manager when he goes on the radio and they
Speaker 1: asked them questions, will you say, hey, well it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a long shot, or you know, he'll move on
Speaker 1: from that. Yeah, because it was very odd that yesterday
Speaker 1: there were some conflicting reports coming out that he was
Speaker 1: in fact not going to play, and that that was
Speaker 1: a source. So you know, you just gotta go with it.
Speaker 1: But I think Mickey, I think this is going to
Speaker 1: be a ninety minute decision. Yeah, I think they'll go
Speaker 1: to six o'clock. Yeah, decide if I mean, they'll know
Speaker 1: before that. They just don't have to announce number one.
Speaker 1: They don't have to announce it. They can practice tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We don't get to see that, right, he can go
Speaker 1: through the walkthrough. But but his traditionally the way he's
Speaker 1: worked and this is with the back. And it happened
Speaker 1: to believe in Washington this week or not this week,
Speaker 1: but this year the Washington game miss Wednesday, miss Thursday,
Speaker 1: practice Friday. Yeah. Yeah, so we haven't seen a miss Wednesday,
Speaker 1: miss Thursday, miss limited Friday. Yeah, and then practice Saturday.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that one. Could I mean, could he
Speaker 1: get out there before six and test it? And that's
Speaker 1: the final determine. They were sure that. Yeah, depends on
Speaker 1: how far along he is. They'll know on Saturday if
Speaker 1: he needs to even try anything on Sunday that they
Speaker 1: need to work him out. Yeah. The lucky thing for
Speaker 1: us guys is that Tyran is one of the first
Speaker 1: guys that gets on that field on any Sunday. He's
Speaker 1: always out there very early with boy sick I mean Mackey,
Speaker 1: he'll probably be there when we're getting there. Probably. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's out there when you know, Travis Frederick and Zach
Speaker 1: Martin start passing the ball. Yeah, work on they're running
Speaker 1: their routes. Okay, so we gave this in case it's
Speaker 1: center eligible. That's true. You can have tackle eligible. I
Speaker 1: can't you have center eligible. Some teams have that. Somebody
Speaker 1: threw a fake pass in college the other day to
Speaker 1: their center. I wondered, I would did it against uh?
Speaker 1: I think I would did it against the Ohio State?
Speaker 1: I love Iowa? Yeah, yeah, in Manlin scrimmage center, Iowa. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Jeff Swaim has been limited all week. He's back,
Speaker 1: he's in, he's in. I think Jeff he's good. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: So back to it, Jeff heeds, Shaun Lee Nah out
Speaker 1: out now. Okay. Now the trick is, how do you
Speaker 1: replace Jeff Heath at safety? We figured out it'six Xavier
Speaker 1: Woods and Cavon Frazier and potentially a Woozier. How do
Speaker 1: you protect how do you do things with him in
Speaker 1: special teams? He is your personal protector on the punt team,
Speaker 1: which is you know we've seen I mean that could
Speaker 1: be you have to identify. You don't want to give
Speaker 1: up a block punt because you make a mistake. We
Speaker 1: need to figure out who the that is that Keith
Speaker 1: Smith not it used to be bury Church. Trying to
Speaker 1: remember who else took reps and I think I think
Speaker 1: it was Keith Smith. I believe Keith Smith's the guy there,
Speaker 1: so yeah, or Rod Smith? Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: it's Keith. I just remember it on the top the
Speaker 1: top of my head that, so keep an eye on. Okay,
Speaker 1: the punt protection, if it comes down to it, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a new personal protector in there. Again, these
Speaker 1: are things that you just don't think about until you
Speaker 1: get in the game and all of a sudden something happens.
Speaker 1: You go, oh, what just happened? Did you get the
Speaker 1: idea that the way Jason answered the question today about
Speaker 1: a Woozier that he might just be special teams, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and and memory and I said about watch out for
Speaker 1: his volume. They didn't want to overdo it and not
Speaker 1: do both all at once, right, And it sounded like
Speaker 1: special teams for sure. And then he said he might
Speaker 1: have a role in some of our defenses. The dime package,
Speaker 1: which you love it seems like the best fit for him.
Speaker 1: The idea is who do you feel more comfortable playing
Speaker 1: down with? Do you feel more comfortable playing down with
Speaker 1: the Woozier inside or Cavon Frasier as if you go dime?
Speaker 1: Uh because yeah, because see Cabon Frasier will play deep.
Speaker 1: He's a kind of a deep guy, right See, I
Speaker 1: would rather you know, you can always bring Byron Jones
Speaker 1: down and well I'm talking about you would have Frasier. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about all three safeties going down. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I'm talking about. I'm talking about Oh oh,
Speaker 1: I thought you meant down like down on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. No, no, it meant out no, no, in
Speaker 1: the in the men. Yeah it coverage, you might because
Speaker 1: you can see Woods, Jones and a Woozier think coverage wise,
Speaker 1: you'd picked Cheeto over Cavon. But Cheeto's been out for
Speaker 1: a while. So is that factor in? Yes, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I think it would It would be it would be
Speaker 1: Woods or Byron Jones because you're only gonna have two
Speaker 1: of them in there, right Uh yeah, one in each
Speaker 1: slot maybe or one in the slot and one in
Speaker 1: the on the on the on the tight end, Well,
Speaker 1: you got guys like you're gonna have to cover, you know,
Speaker 1: with zach Ertz we talked about him, Trey Burton, you know, Selik.
Speaker 1: I mean they've got tight ends that can that can
Speaker 1: get up the field. I kind of like Woods back.
Speaker 1: I think he sees things well right um, and you
Speaker 1: know if he had him back there with Although the
Speaker 1: first name he brought up was Freight. When they asked
Speaker 1: about Woods, he mentioned Fraser right away, So I think
Speaker 1: there's something to that too. Fraser. We'll see him kind
Speaker 1: of taking over the Jeff Heath special team spot. Well
Speaker 1: he has, he has. He's been out the leading tackler, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's been good at it. He's got more tackle
Speaker 1: He was active a game too. Yeah that too. He's
Speaker 1: got more tackles already than anybody last year on specially.
Speaker 1: And give Woods credit too. He was the one that
Speaker 1: went down the ball at the two yard line, right,
Speaker 1: was it him? Yeah? Yeah it was it was And
Speaker 1: who somebody did he almost have the other one or no?
Speaker 1: He tried to throw it behind his back, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: did Yeah. It was pretty close. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: was a lot closer than they were looking, right, the officials.
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes it feels like these rookies are great
Speaker 1: on special teams because in college they had to do
Speaker 1: so many different things. Now, Mickey's brought good points where
Speaker 1: they forget the rules. You know, they don't know the
Speaker 1: difference between college and NFL rules fully yet. But well,
Speaker 1: he sure did on that one because he leaped over
Speaker 1: the end line or the goal line and tried to
Speaker 1: throw it back. It just couldn't quite get it all done.
Speaker 1: He came close that Paul almost hit the guy's foot too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd have been talking to Chris Jones on the plane
Speaker 1: on the way back and he thought maybe it hit
Speaker 1: his foot and challenge it. He was hoping. But the
Speaker 1: ball didn't look like it bounced any differently. It looked
Speaker 1: like you bounced just like you kicked it. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it came real close. Yeah. Now, with different things happening
Speaker 1: with Tyron Smith and not a confirm, you can't confirm
Speaker 1: if he's going to be able to play or not.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure they'll put questionable today on the
Speaker 1: practice report. Yeah, let's say let's obviously I don't wish
Speaker 1: this happens, but let's say he's not ready to go
Speaker 1: on Sunday. How would you play this situation for this week, Mike,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you. Well, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: Byron Bell. Yeah, I agree, and then Chazz will be
Speaker 1: the swing guy. Yeah, um heck, he might be inactive.
Speaker 1: I think, so who's gonna be the backup tackle if
Speaker 1: Tyron's out? Like thinking about that, you could do an
Speaker 1: emergency thing and yeah, move over some a guard, Zach,
Speaker 1: and then who's who's you're gonna play? Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that might be in an emergency situation, that's what
Speaker 1: you'd get to keep seven offensive linemen up. I would
Speaker 1: think Jazz would be active in a in a swing
Speaker 1: role if no time just open that Tyrn Smith's active.
Speaker 1: So that makes Bell the in the swinging guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gonna make Well, we'll get to a second segment.
Speaker 1: I was going to get to an active because I've
Speaker 1: had some interesting questions about this. Sure, let's wait on it. Then, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just you know, Yeah, Mickey's right, it's it's Bell.
Speaker 1: Bell is going to get the start if if Smith
Speaker 1: can't go, and then and they'll figure out ways to
Speaker 1: Like we talked about, there's a there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways that now that they've explored, you know, guy
Speaker 1: on inline, guy at wing, guy in motion, all kinds
Speaker 1: of words on that side. Is it Brandon Graham, No,
Speaker 1: that would be Benny Curry hurry, okay, yeah, but they
Speaker 1: might move Brandon Graham over there. Yeah, just a couple
Speaker 1: to move Fletcher Cox. Yeah. Is this one of the
Speaker 1: best front sevens this team will face? Very similar to it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's as good as anybody in that first month that
Speaker 1: they faced. Yeah, like pretty tough group, the Denver group. Yeah,
Speaker 1: better than the Rams. I think it's up there because
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox to me, can be two inside players. He
Speaker 1: can be as dynamic is Arab Donald at times? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: two inside players I think they might be. And then
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn really didn't do very much in the Rams
Speaker 1: game if I remember. I hope I'm not saying he
Speaker 1: probably had a sack if I'm but I don't think, no,
Speaker 1: he didn't. So, yeah, you're talking about Brockers. Brockers and
Speaker 1: then Donald and then and then Quinn. Where the you know,
Speaker 1: where the Eagles can run four guys out there at
Speaker 1: you with who they've got. Yeah, Now somebody's tweeting here
Speaker 1: and they say, why don't we put a headset on
Speaker 1: Shunley when he's on the sideline to get the guys
Speaker 1: lined up properly, because there's only one person to say,
Speaker 1: talk to the guy with the headset on green dot
Speaker 1: green dot. That'd be Hitchens. Yeah, yeah, Hitchens. And then
Speaker 1: that and that comes from Matt Eberflus. Mary Nellie tells
Speaker 1: Eberflus what to do, and then Aberflus and the thing
Speaker 1: goes off with fifteen seconds left on the on the
Speaker 1: shot clock. Yeah, it's not as so, it's not like,
Speaker 1: oh well wait a minute, they just move, go go
Speaker 1: get over them up, hurry up. They're going to snap
Speaker 1: the ball. They're going to this guy. They're going to
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. That's what the Titans needed last night. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I do think it will help at least this week.
Speaker 1: You just brought up guy Anthony Higgins. Obviously he was
Speaker 1: out when Sean Lee was out beforehand. Yeah, just one,
Speaker 1: just one, that's one game. And then he came back
Speaker 1: in the one game I think that was it, the
Speaker 1: Packer game. Higins came back. He came back and he
Speaker 1: played the will spot. I would anticipate that happening again.
Speaker 1: That's what actually he alluded to that the other day.
Speaker 1: So then you're probably looking at Jalen Smith and justin
Speaker 1: Durant will get an opportunity, I think, to step in
Speaker 1: and be part of that rotation. And that's you know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy hadn't played much, but the experienced wise,
Speaker 1: recognition wise, I think that can that could be a
Speaker 1: boost for this defense. I think I think Durant starts
Speaker 1: I think so. I think so too. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: Durant starts inactive for so many weeks. And that's and
Speaker 1: that's what the inactive part was part of the kind
Speaker 1: of the plan is, Yeah, you're our insurance for injury.
Speaker 1: Now you get to ask, can you play fifty plays?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if he well, you hope, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I'm asking they don't have to play sixty right seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's him saying as if they have to play seventy,
Speaker 1: he's probably playing forty or fifty. Right. That's why I
Speaker 1: mask it. If you're gonna keep Jalen Smith to the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five rings, right, yeah, do you think he could?
Speaker 1: He's got fresh legs, Durant. Yeah, problem is a month. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the problem is I don't think he is as good
Speaker 1: as he was two years ago. That's my problem. He
Speaker 1: was at the Atlanta No No No with us no
Speaker 1: when he was here to two years ago. He was
Speaker 1: with Atlanta last year. Well, he's two years older. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his experience though help. You're right, though, You're right in
Speaker 1: terms of what we talked about with fits and getting
Speaker 1: guys in the right spot. When they had to play
Speaker 1: him earlier in the season, he was not as good,
Speaker 1: just didn't seem as smooth. Yeah. See, that's that's you're
Speaker 1: You're you're in a bind right now. Yeah, you are.
Speaker 1: You're really on a buying with your mic linebacker because
Speaker 1: the important position. They'll tell you the reason they moved
Speaker 1: Sean Lee was for so Sean Lee can go get tackles,
Speaker 1: go run. So you're putting anti Hitchens, So you think
Speaker 1: your best tackler is at that will linebacker spot and
Speaker 1: letting him run. Damien Wilson play that spot the will
Speaker 1: middle middle. I worry about the I worry about how
Speaker 1: Damien Wilson sees thinks. Yes, it's the same problem that
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith's having. I don't think Jalen Smith's health is.
Speaker 1: Of course it's not one hundred percent, but I think
Speaker 1: that what he's seeing is about seventy. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know what, both of them see a lot better when
Speaker 1: Sean Lee's on the field. Absolutely the goat. Yeah they do,
Speaker 1: no Damien Wilson. Damian Wilson at times looks lost when
Speaker 1: Sean's not out there. When he's out there, boy, you're growing. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. Do you worry about these linebackers trying
Speaker 1: to do too much? Yes, that's the hitch spoke to that.
Speaker 1: In the second half. He said, the score got a
Speaker 1: little out of hand and guys started pressing a little bit,
Speaker 1: and that's where some of those big runs came from.
Speaker 1: By Atlanta. Yeah, and so it's more just about just
Speaker 1: doing your job assignment sound every play. Yeah, let's take
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting. They're gonna get I just feel
Speaker 1: like it's gonna go one way or the other. They're
Speaker 1: such a such a close game and you're gonna have
Speaker 1: an overtime win hopefully, or it's just gonna be a
Speaker 1: blungenny of those. We got our stories written in the
Speaker 1: press box before it's time to go downstairs. Yeah. Likely
Speaker 1: you've been listening to too much talk radio. You've said
Speaker 1: something shots up or something. Yeah, you shoot him up,
Speaker 1: shoot him up, shoot him up, yeah, shoot him up? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I want to see Dez Bryant do fabulous because
Speaker 1: he has a big record he's been waiting to break
Speaker 1: for about three games now. Oh, the Bob Hayes record. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll get He'll he'll do something against these guys. He
Speaker 1: always does. It's a it's a he sees that that green,
Speaker 1: that Kelly green. Kelly green anymore. I guess it's kind
Speaker 1: of darker green. Yeah, it's darker green. He not hurt
Speaker 1: his knee with a big touchdown catch in the end
Speaker 1: zone last year at home, the overtime game, and then
Speaker 1: I remember that, I remember the one where that's what
Speaker 1: that you're Matt Castle threw the ball. Remember it was
Speaker 1: like a hail Mary and he kind of dove over
Speaker 1: some guys. Oh that was two years ago. That was
Speaker 1: the four dwelve. Yeah, leading together, I will say this day,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned this on the blueprint, they need a
Speaker 1: fast start. You know, they've done okay in first quarters
Speaker 1: this year forty eight thirty nine against opponents, but on
Speaker 1: nine opening drives this season, they've got one touchdown in
Speaker 1: one field goal. They need to get off to a
Speaker 1: better start. They need to build some confidence and kind
Speaker 1: of put the Eagles back on their heels a little bit.
Speaker 1: Nine opening drives, Yeah, start the game nine games, one touchdown?
Speaker 1: That did, you know? Because I felt like they've been
Speaker 1: pretty good starting the games off. That's first. That's why
Speaker 1: if you win the toss, you take the ball. First quarters, Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you take the ball this time? Yes, yeah, I
Speaker 1: do too. I kind of have a feeling that Philadelphia
Speaker 1: is like one of the best teams in the league
Speaker 1: when it comes to second half scoring, and that that
Speaker 1: not go ahead. You guys could talk. I'll figure it out. Oh,
Speaker 1: I want the ball. Their defense, I know their defense
Speaker 1: is only allowed three points on the first possession of
Speaker 1: the second half. Well, the biggest disparity for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: this season has been the third quarter. They've been noticeably Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: mald is a better one. Yeah, what's the what's the breakdown? Um?
Speaker 1: I want to say it's about fifteen twenty points difference,
Speaker 1: but you have all the numbers in frem This is
Speaker 1: what This is the moment of the program, Tay, where
Speaker 1: we just all stopped and we stopped talking and we
Speaker 1: just look at paper, is what we do. I just
Speaker 1: bring it up. Yeah. So the Cowboys have been outscored
Speaker 1: in the third quarter fifty one to thirty six. Here
Speaker 1: the Eagles quarter man. Here the Eagles points scored on
Speaker 1: the first possession of the second half, their fourth in
Speaker 1: the league. They got twenty eight. Think about that. Say
Speaker 1: that again, wait, say it again. Their offense, yes, has
Speaker 1: scored twenty eight points off first possessions in the second half,
Speaker 1: first position, first possessions, first possession the second half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Cowboys have outscored everybody in each order except for the third,
Speaker 1: but a lot of that might have to do with
Speaker 1: the other team gets an extra possession in the third,
Speaker 1: because if you take the ball first, right, That's why
Speaker 1: I was asking you, guys, do you go ahead and
Speaker 1: just say you know what, we're gonna play defense first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what, I hate to be behind seven
Speaker 1: nothing before I even Yeah, I think you've got to
Speaker 1: take the ball. I don't mind being in zero zero
Speaker 1: when they get the ball, but I don't want to
Speaker 1: be behind seven nothing. They need a seven nothing, ten
Speaker 1: nothing to kill the crowd. That's what I'm saying. You
Speaker 1: got to kick the crowd into you kill the crowd
Speaker 1: with a with a with a three and out, No,
Speaker 1: I think he killed the crowd. If you're behind seven
Speaker 1: nothing already, man, I'm gonna kill the crowd if you're
Speaker 1: three and out now zero zero. Well, let's look at
Speaker 1: you've You've got no chance to see a lot of
Speaker 1: this Eagle's footage, Brian, But you know I haven't watched
Speaker 1: a ton of their why not? You don't just get
Speaker 1: all the why not? Come on, I don't like them,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to think about them a lot,
Speaker 1: but I really took notice of them. And Mickey, this
Speaker 1: was your stat before they played the Panthers, and I
Speaker 1: believe it was a Thursday night game. You had mentioned, Hey,
Speaker 1: these Eagles have not beaten a team with a winning record,
Speaker 1: and so I went back and I'm looking at it,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to think, what has been their most
Speaker 1: difficult game? Dominant win? Yeah, you know, because you're looking
Speaker 1: at Okay, they opened the season with the Redskins. They
Speaker 1: beat them thirty seventeen. Yea, And this might get monotonous,
Speaker 1: so just bear with me. The Chiefs beat them by
Speaker 1: a touchdown, so it's not like they had a dominant
Speaker 1: win over them. Always beat the Chiefs, by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they barely beat the Giants in Week three by three points.
Speaker 1: The Chargers they barely beat by two points. Cardinals was
Speaker 1: probably their most Cardinals were in a bad state then too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, thirty four seven. That was before they
Speaker 1: had eighty they've had. Basically, I don't don't go ahead, Well,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say then it's the Panthers win
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night Football five points, and then they beat
Speaker 1: the Redskins again ten points, but that was a closer game.
Speaker 1: And then the e goals. You know, they they went
Speaker 1: up against the forty nine ers and it was thirty
Speaker 1: three ten, so close to the Cowboys. But still, let
Speaker 1: you know what, that game was pretty low scoring and
Speaker 1: pretty tight for a while. Yeah. Would you say the
Speaker 1: Broncos fifty one twenty three that we'll see I would
Speaker 1: say that's impressive. But the Broncos have just gone That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They've had one prominent win at Carolina,
Speaker 1: reaching a little bit here now, No, I understand what
Speaker 1: she's saying. Yeah, I'm just saying, are they is their
Speaker 1: record almost receiving? Their division games have been close? I
Speaker 1: mean with okay, am I right? It's a hard division. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the thirty to seventeen game was open, the
Speaker 1: season was open. Twenty four Giants. Yeah, but yeah, and
Speaker 1: then Washington again thirty four twenty four, and I think
Speaker 1: they scored late in the game. Yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: game was close at that. That's the NFC East. When
Speaker 1: the Cowboys go to New York in a few weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm flipping a coin on that. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: the records are. That's why. That's how I feel about
Speaker 1: this game. That's what I told you. The Redskins were
Speaker 1: the division champs two years ago and the game was
Speaker 1: like sixteen twelve or something at the end. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm very weird. It was twenty four seventeen in the
Speaker 1: third quarter and then the Eagles put him away. But
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. And I asked Brian about
Speaker 1: that Denver game because you watched the whole thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that's impressive. Fifty points a quarterback was off, you know,
Speaker 1: because that's a really good defense. But but Simeon didn't
Speaker 1: do him any favors. He No, it was the heist.
Speaker 1: It was the other guy. Uh, well, a guy with
Speaker 1: to Houston. Why don't always forget his called the heist
Speaker 1: because he did. He stole money, money, He stole money.
Speaker 1: He's the heist, the heist guy. Yeah, stole money from
Speaker 1: Cleveland too, stole money from everybody everywhere he's been. He
Speaker 1: stole money. But a winner. But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He but you have you made a good point. Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: they Well I'm just saying. And I was impressed with
Speaker 1: what they did when they went at Carolina. Yes, I agree,
Speaker 1: that's why that was a Monday night game. Was Thursday.
Speaker 1: I thought it was okay what it was maybe Colorado Sky,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sorry, I can look right, but
Speaker 1: but but it's one of those things where yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean went back and forth, back and forth, Thursday game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: back and forth. Now that's it's not often you get it. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz lit it up. He had three touchdowns two
Speaker 1: and twenty two yards sixteen of thirty. So you know
Speaker 1: what I'm really trying to say is last week I
Speaker 1: felt like the Falcons record at four and four was deceiving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did too. You know, I'd say that because it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that looks like they're an average team. They are a
Speaker 1: good team. They just have had bad breaks. I get
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I agree. I mean the Cowboys got
Speaker 1: accused of it. Yeah, they won thirteen games, but they
Speaker 1: beat a lot of average football teams. Everybody forgets it
Speaker 1: was ten seven at halftime. Yeah, the twenty seven seven
Speaker 1: looks really bad, but it was ten and seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it missed the field goal that could have made it
Speaker 1: a seven point or you didn't score a touchdown first
Speaker 1: and ten at the twelve. Right, it was not the
Speaker 1: Denver Yes, just beat down Denver was a beatdown game.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia needs one of those. It's gonna happen this weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a beatdown game. Yeah. So you think the Cowboys do
Speaker 1: what Rob said and just come out swinging. They have
Speaker 1: to have to, They have no choice. I know that
Speaker 1: you have to show up, Tay as soon as you
Speaker 1: run through the ring of fire, you know, the explosions.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm talking to some people about pal practice
Speaker 1: has been. Guys have been flying around, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: guys are flying their pride got this is a smash
Speaker 1: this last week a little bit. This is a pride game.
Speaker 1: This is this is a division opponent on national TV.
Speaker 1: This this this is one of those tone setting games
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. What was their last
Speaker 1: pride game that you thought they came out Well, I
Speaker 1: thought they didn't come out that great, But I thought
Speaker 1: a pride game was was Arizona. Yeah, and that was
Speaker 1: a tough environment, good defense, and they had to kind
Speaker 1: of fight all the thing with the anthem they had.
Speaker 1: They had to get all that straight. They had to
Speaker 1: fight their way through some things in that one. Um
Speaker 1: I say Packers, Packers, Yeah, a lot of pride coming
Speaker 1: off the Rams games your home they beat you in
Speaker 1: a close, heartbreaker game. You've got to play like a
Speaker 1: desperate team. I've said it a bunch. You've got to
Speaker 1: play like a desperate team. And maybe people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: well they can lose this game. No, you really can't.
Speaker 1: I get exactly what you're saying, brand, but how do
Speaker 1: you muster that? How do you find that in yourself
Speaker 1: to say, because they got they got kids, they've got
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant, they've got Zack Martin, they've got Anthy Hitchens.
Speaker 1: You know, they've got they've got DeMarcus Lawrence. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: just this is not a team that was four and twelve.
Speaker 1: This is not that four and twelve team where you
Speaker 1: know you go to Phila up and you're like, oh jeez,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna win. And you know this opponent, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no them. You play against them every year, You've you've
Speaker 1: beaten them. So if they go out there and lay
Speaker 1: an egg, then they lay an egg, and then I
Speaker 1: won't I won't be as positive as about but again,
Speaker 1: I'm a guy that picked them to lose to Kansas
Speaker 1: City in Atlanta, and I'm taking them to win this
Speaker 1: game just because I've seen this before in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. I've seen desperate teams show up and save
Speaker 1: their seasons. Strange lady theory. Yeah, and maybe you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they've been eating cheese over there. Oh, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt they're healthy. They're got the quarterbacks sandwiches. Yeah. Hey,
Speaker 1: I respect the Eagles. If anybody out there in philadelp
Speaker 1: I mean I worked there, I worked there for you
Speaker 1: are a really good team. I respect the Philadelphi Eagles,
Speaker 1: I really really do. They're a good football team. I'm
Speaker 1: just talking about the football team I cover, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying again blow a smoke up of
Speaker 1: anybody's rear. I've said that before too, But teams find
Speaker 1: a way to rally when it looks the bleakest. The
Speaker 1: season is not on the line Sunday, but I think
Speaker 1: it is. The division is for sure, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: you might see the wild card race go further and
Speaker 1: further away. This is this You set you up, though,
Speaker 1: this could set you up. You get a victory here.
Speaker 1: Now you're thinking about go beat the Chargers, Go get
Speaker 1: that Redskins. Now you're kind of sitting there in a
Speaker 1: in a way like, Okay, let's finish this thing out.
Speaker 1: Go take care. I mean, you're gonna have Seattle. That
Speaker 1: might be a team you have to battle for a spot.
Speaker 1: You just can't give away. NFC games can't do it.
Speaker 1: That all being said, it does come down to executing.
Speaker 1: And if they don't have Tiring and they're not gonna
Speaker 1: have Sean, They've got other playmakers on this team. I know,
Speaker 1: but X's and knows wise, can you ask you anymore?
Speaker 1: Not excuse, but those are I mean when those two
Speaker 1: guys weren't in the game, it's those were issues last week,
Speaker 1: and how can they mask them? As long as they
Speaker 1: protect the quarterback, Yes, they can score enough points to
Speaker 1: win this game, but they've got to protect them, right.
Speaker 1: They can't do what they did last week. Just can't happen.
Speaker 1: And that's what's gonna beat the Eagles if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can throw the ball. I hear all this stuff about, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta run the ball, you gotta you gotta too
Speaker 1: many passes, you know, And yeah, they had too many
Speaker 1: passes because they were behind twenty seven seven. Sure, that's
Speaker 1: why they threw the ball, right, they were trying to
Speaker 1: run it, you know, couldn't do it well and they
Speaker 1: couldn't do it very well. Right. And now, oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, I went and looked, so my theory yesterday
Speaker 1: about their number one rushing defense. Yeah, they have faced
Speaker 1: by far the fewest runs of anybody in the league
Speaker 1: the opponents of the ball, and run the ball one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six times. The next fewest runs against
Speaker 1: the defense Carolina at two o nine. They play, think
Speaker 1: about them, So they play with the league, right, and
Speaker 1: no one you're you're you're playing catch up. I got,
Speaker 1: I got, I got a score right luster and catch up? Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: It's true though, goodwin. So yeah, and it's it wasn't
Speaker 1: even close on on on the runs. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at how many runs the Cowboys have had. They they're
Speaker 1: getting close to three hundred, one hundred and thirteen first
Speaker 1: downs thrown against these guys. And check this out. So
Speaker 1: I went back into look because his team's playing from behind,
Speaker 1: probably so a lot of it. Second half. Yeah, Denver game,
Speaker 1: we'll go backward. Denver game. They're up thirty one to
Speaker 1: nine at half time. Okay, so what's uncles doing the
Speaker 1: second half? San Francisco it's twenty seven seven at the
Speaker 1: end of the third quarter. They're passing the whole fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Right Washington, it's thirty one seventeen in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: In Arizona it's thirty one seven in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So no one's trying to run the ball at that point.
Speaker 1: Right now, they are holding them to three point six
Speaker 1: a kerry, right, which is really good. It is good,
Speaker 1: and they've only had four rushing touchdowns. But generally, when
Speaker 1: you punt, I mean not try to run the ball
Speaker 1: the second half, you're probably going to have better step
Speaker 1: had a one hundred yard rusher, I doubt it. I
Speaker 1: doubt it. But you know, you're looking at Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: for the Chargers. Did he have a good game? And
Speaker 1: I don't believe that Adrian Peterson was with the quest
Speaker 1: they had. How about what what the guy in week
Speaker 1: two at Kansas City? Yeah he did, Greem Hunt. Yeah
Speaker 1: he was running for ninety yard touchdowns back then. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hunt had a thirteen for eighty one. Oh oh, that's it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So who else you think might have run them? Gordon
Speaker 1: with the Chargers, the Chargers Melvin Gordon ten for twenty two.
Speaker 1: Oh geez, they didn't even try to run the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they only they only ran the ball thirteen times. Now
Speaker 1: the whole game for a whole fifty yards. Now, that's another.
Speaker 1: That's that Denver game that you're saying you can run
Speaker 1: on him maybe, but you need to throw on but
Speaker 1: don't get behind. Yeah. Well I think that was a
Speaker 1: jam Ran for seventy one yards on him. He was
Speaker 1: the leading rusher for this might be with those dirty
Speaker 1: yard games. Serious missing your dirty yard runner. Yeah, bingo,
Speaker 1: you are, I mean you are, absolutely no. He was
Speaker 1: the guy in these games where he could just chip
Speaker 1: it away. Yeah yeah. And you know now you're looking
Speaker 1: at like, can you do that? Alfred? Yeah, Rod Smith, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet your Alfred's had some good games against Eagles
Speaker 1: in the past. Yeah. Yeah, you forget that this is
Speaker 1: a familiar, familiar opponent for him. Yeah, but I just
Speaker 1: got him that That first drive of the third quarter
Speaker 1: gave me optimism again that this running game can function
Speaker 1: without Zeke. It's not Zeke, but that pass protection through
Speaker 1: everything out of whack. I still want to see what
Speaker 1: these runners can do with Dak being protected and they're
Speaker 1: somewhat balanced. I'm with you on we'll see. I'm with
Speaker 1: you on that. Well. I think Dak's best pass protection
Speaker 1: game was probably against the Chiefs. Felt like he just
Speaker 1: had such a clean pocket. Yeah yeah, and they got
Speaker 1: good rushers they do. Oh yeah, I'm not discounting Houston
Speaker 1: or no. Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: felt like that was when the old line was like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't think we're trying to talk ourselves into this.
Speaker 1: I think you're actually talking about fact. Yeah you know.
Speaker 1: I mean again, if this was Dallas team was four
Speaker 1: and whatever, like it was a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: I get it. And I'm sitting here trying to talk
Speaker 1: about him beating the you know, not eight and one
Speaker 1: Eagles or whatever they are. Okay, I get it, but
Speaker 1: you know, legitimately, I think that they've you know, the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I always subscribe, like I say, to the desperate team.
Speaker 1: So I would answer your question, No, the most anybody's
Speaker 1: run firm against him as Kareem Hunt eighty one yards.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton was second with seventy one, and then we
Speaker 1: drop down to CJ. Beethard with forty two quarterbacks. Yeah, yeah, scrambling,
Speaker 1: so it's impressive. It is. Well, let's take our final
Speaker 1: break here and when we come back, we will get
Speaker 1: to the inactives and Rob's Twitter pulls, so stay with
Speaker 1: us for our final voted too, and he voted, So
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Speaker 1: the bar. Let's go through some of the inactives or
Speaker 1: the guys that we can assume right now. So obviously
Speaker 1: the ones I'm gonna go with, and then this is
Speaker 1: where I need your help at the end. Seven Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush no, no, no no, no, no no, no, no, gonna be
Speaker 1: your backup quarterback. Oh I'm sorry, Bailey, you were thinking, Bailey, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You're thinking of the low digit number, right, Bailey, right,
Speaker 1: fifty okay, thirty eight okay. And then it's it's eighty nine, right,
Speaker 1: Blake Darwin, that's right, okay. So then I think of
Speaker 1: three more I know, because that's Ross. Ross is sixty eight.
Speaker 1: Oh I forgot his number. He's the new defensive tackle, right,
Speaker 1: Daniel Ross. Daniel Ross, very good, Ross, very good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So then Betsy's son very young for his age. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh Noah Brown probably what's what's seventy seven doing That's
Speaker 1: that's where I'm well, we get that's got to be
Speaker 1: the question mark. Yeah, if seventy seventy seven would be
Speaker 1: the last, guy, it's seventy seven or seventy nine, you're
Speaker 1: still saying maybe, Chaz, Yeah, I if Tyrons ago, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if Tyrens go seventy nine, I think they would probably
Speaker 1: make an act if that would be my guess. Okay,
Speaker 1: so so far, let's just a review forever and listening.
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey, Yeah, Sean Lee, Jeffy that's three, right, eighty
Speaker 1: nine like Jarwin that's four sixty eight, Daniel Ross that's five.
Speaker 1: So now you need two more. And we're looking at
Speaker 1: Noah Brown eighty five the wide receiver or and you
Speaker 1: know you're gonna have Durant up and march of the
Speaker 1: alert up. We ask you this, do you keep Noah
Speaker 1: Brown active in case Dez is still a little banged up?
Speaker 1: What has he been able to do? I think Noah
Speaker 1: Brown's kind of special teams, guy, special teams, and I
Speaker 1: think it's four guy, Yeah, find me somebody else. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you this, Ben Ricery down. If the Woozier's up,
Speaker 1: that's that's a possibility another one. Yeah, what about it's
Speaker 1: gonna sound weird? What about McFadden? That's that's was a
Speaker 1: weird one. Remember when I was kind of hinting at that,
Speaker 1: and I mean, you just go with the two You
Speaker 1: just go with the two backs. Yeah, one carry for
Speaker 1: minus two yards last week. That wasn't his fault. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they don't use him more. I would.
Speaker 1: I would put him out there for a series now,
Speaker 1: because if you get one guy hurt, then you're down
Speaker 1: to one running back. Yeah, but you could probably use
Speaker 1: Keith Smith, right, could you? Yeah? Yeah? But are you
Speaker 1: going to flourish? Are you gonna flourish with whatever you
Speaker 1: got with him? I'm just the hard part when Katt
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna help you on special team. That's
Speaker 1: how many guys you got playing in this game that
Speaker 1: aren't going to help you on special teams. Fifty two,
Speaker 1: fifty four and twenty all don't help you on special teams.
Speaker 1: Those are three spots um Durant, Smith and then and
Speaker 1: then McFadden. So we can cross off a tackle right
Speaker 1: either tiring you, Chaz and then maybe you've been wickery
Speaker 1: and then that's your seven right and keep McFadden up
Speaker 1: because mixed. Right, let me ask you this, How about
Speaker 1: another one just off the just off the cuff, and
Speaker 1: tell me what you think. What about Switcher? You want
Speaker 1: Cole back there the whole time. Oh, you're gonna probably
Speaker 1: fair catch it or whatever. Anyway, m hm, So I
Speaker 1: mean this Switcher do enough for you to You mean
Speaker 1: you really primarily got him as your punt and kickoff
Speaker 1: return guy. You're at home. They're probably pumping the ball
Speaker 1: into the end zone on kickoffs so they get those
Speaker 1: opera tunities. How many offensive snaps per game is he getting?
Speaker 1: I would rather take him him up than Noah Brown.
Speaker 1: How about him up instead of McFadden. Oh, I see
Speaker 1: what you're saying. Yeah, that's that's where I was kind
Speaker 1: of going there. I was. I'm struggling to find that
Speaker 1: that other guy. Well, I think McFadden still has to
Speaker 1: be a possibility to run the football. I mean, I agree,
Speaker 1: no one knocked your socks off last week, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if Albert Morris had just gone for one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty yards, we might be like, I mean, McFadden, sit down,
Speaker 1: Rod Smith get the majority of the snaps. He got
Speaker 1: thirty eight snaps. Sure, the first most snaps he's had
Speaker 1: since his freshman year at Ohio State in a game.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking for a name. Yeah, I'm looking
Speaker 1: for another name. I like what you guys are saying
Speaker 1: about Ben Wickery. I like what you're saying. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean marsh Lillard. We're expecting him to be active
Speaker 1: along with Durant. Yeah, because Woozy A. You may not
Speaker 1: want him to take defensive snaps, but if push comes
Speaker 1: to shove with an injury, he can play corner for you. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: He played two spots. Yeah, so I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean that that that's where I think it's gonna come
Speaker 1: down to seventy seven or seventy nine, and then and
Speaker 1: then you've got one more spot, whether that's twenty ten
Speaker 1: or twenty three. That's that's going to be the least
Speaker 1: of their worries, you think, Yes, Okay, I'm sorry. I know.
Speaker 1: I know we we we spent ten minutes on the inactive.
Speaker 1: We always do this, I know we do all right,
Speaker 1: But for this, it's the least of their worries. Rob's
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. Bring it bring a full circle, all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the last segment I think was a good segue for this,
Speaker 1: How are the cow was going to fare in this game?
Speaker 1: What are their chances? So I gave you four options,
Speaker 1: very simple, win big, lose big, Oh, win a close one,
Speaker 1: lose a close one. What you got close with or without?
Speaker 1: I knew this was coming. Tay's got win it close,
Speaker 1: win close, all right? And I say that, you know what, Brian,
Speaker 1: I have bought into your win. But I don't think
Speaker 1: they're just gonna go out there guns blazing, because I
Speaker 1: feel like it's it's just such a hard mold still.
Speaker 1: But Philadelphia is gonna have to weather Dallas a storm.
Speaker 1: You have to weather that quarterback throwing the football. You
Speaker 1: better be ready. Dak's gonna plays. That's what David Hellmer was.
Speaker 1: That's what I think I got. Win a close one.
Speaker 1: Did voted? Did Dad get Were you voting up last
Speaker 1: week to do that? Ah? No he didn't. Yeah, he's twenty.
Speaker 1: Don't he'll be. I'm gonna get tweets that are no,
Speaker 1: he doesn't. He's fine, your kid. I'm using the most
Speaker 1: negative one when it comes to winn Whose who won?
Speaker 1: I said? I said, I said win close. Well, Tay said,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go one of two ways either it's a
Speaker 1: close win or it gets out of hand and they
Speaker 1: lose big, but you only get to vote it one. Well,
Speaker 1: those were the two biggest answers. Number one forty one
Speaker 1: percent win a close one. Cowboys still have faith despite
Speaker 1: my Twitter mentions. Second was lose big thirty percent, really
Speaker 1: seventeen percent, lose a close one, twelve percent win big.
Speaker 1: Because if you look at this year, that's what they've done.
Speaker 1: What you done for me? Lately, they've either one big
Speaker 1: or they've lost a close one. Yeah. Yeah, except for Denver.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, you feel different one you
Speaker 1: feel different about this team if they had beaten Atlanta,
Speaker 1: would you feel different about them coming in this game?
Speaker 1: If things Yeah, Adrian Clayborne wouldn't beat all. We're all
Speaker 1: sensive player of the Year. We're all scarred with seeing
Speaker 1: just like after Denver. Yeah, we're all. We're all scarred
Speaker 1: with Chaz Green like he had a welcome Matt on
Speaker 1: his chest. Yeah, you know, and they'd beat the Rams.
Speaker 1: I would have thought they would have beat the Packers.
Speaker 1: See that's what I'm saying. I picked him against the
Speaker 1: Rams and the Packers both those games. You know, Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett and the coaching staff. They've got a lot of
Speaker 1: criticism this week, but one thing you can go back
Speaker 1: to since Scarrett's been the head coach, blowout losses are
Speaker 1: very rare. This team is always hanging in and I
Speaker 1: think win or lose, it's going to be fairly close
Speaker 1: in this matchup. I really do. Yeah. Those don't make
Speaker 1: Marinelli too happy? Yeah, not not so much like, do
Speaker 1: not give up any points and then don't give up
Speaker 1: big points? Yep? Nothing? Yeah, yeah, didn't happen last week?
Speaker 1: Were consistent? Thanks? Good, thanks? Sorry? What was your vote? Again?
Speaker 1: Close win? Close, close win close wins? So do we
Speaker 1: all do that? Yeah? We homer it up this week.
Speaker 1: I've seen two overtime touchdowns in AT and T Stadium
Speaker 1: since I've been here. In one year it was Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford and the next year it was Jason Winton. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I picked again. I picked Atlanta last week. I feel
Speaker 1: like I felt like Atlanta was due and I feel
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys would do this week. And the Eagles
Speaker 1: are due for somebody to take it to them. Under
Speaker 1: the sounds going to be due nineteen, they're overdue. Well,
Speaker 1: this team I liked. I think you brought this up yesterday.
Speaker 1: Make are you ready to see more pass rush from
Speaker 1: this team? They've only gotten one sack last week two
Speaker 1: the week before. Yeah, they better? How can they against
Speaker 1: this Eagles offense? Get to them? I'll tell you what, though,
Speaker 1: there's some good matchups though. I'll tell you what I'll take.
Speaker 1: I'll tell my chances with with Lawrence against Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: I will absolutely take. I mean Lane Johnson does not
Speaker 1: play with a lot of power. He's Mickey was talking about.
Speaker 1: He was a quarterback tied in converted tackle. Was senior
Speaker 1: Bowl story. Yeah, he had a great Absolutely he was
Speaker 1: playing tackle and you know, you're like going, Holy smokes,
Speaker 1: look at though. He You know, he's a guy that
Speaker 1: was gone for what ten weeks ten games for Peeds.
Speaker 1: You know that just tells you right there, he's not
Speaker 1: too confident in his ability to naturally gain weight and
Speaker 1: lift weights and do all those things. So I'll take
Speaker 1: my chances with that number ninety rushing against him. Somebody
Speaker 1: else better come with him though, And you know what,
Speaker 1: ninety six, I need you come with him too. On
Speaker 1: the other side. Yeah, who's their other tackle? Oh? The
Speaker 1: by a tie? You want to say his first name? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm looking for filling in. Yeah, I need
Speaker 1: Dame Burglar here to just pat him. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: school TCAs at bye Tie. I think, oh, getting ready,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be five minutes. Thank god that hopefully he
Speaker 1: doesn't get called for he'll get called well, let's just
Speaker 1: say number whatever. But you said, I think you say Viti,
Speaker 1: but I vite tis his last name? Right? Actually I
Speaker 1: was pronounced. I was practicing it last night and I
Speaker 1: forgot it thee Yeah I did. I had practice. You
Speaker 1: guys got Hellman and Dane Burugo and stuff of the
Speaker 1: Draft show. They could just say I got it. Here
Speaker 1: we go. Uh it is halla pooh lee vit vite tie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Viti is his last name? Yeah? How many how
Speaker 1: many letters can you have in a first name? I
Speaker 1: don't know, Mickey, you just kind of went through it
Speaker 1: phonetically there. Yeah, yeah, don't you know what? Yeah, thisen's
Speaker 1: a wheel of fortune. I think I think I saw
Speaker 1: on the where did I see it? They shortened it
Speaker 1: in something and it just says big V, big V
Speaker 1: big that's what that's what? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, big V,
Speaker 1: big V. Exactly are we gonna play some rank them
Speaker 1: let's play some rank them. I'm taking big V got V.
Speaker 1: You can pick somebody from the other team. No, no,
Speaker 1: I can. Okay, who you guys got Malcolm Jack Jenkins
Speaker 1: leads them in tackles. Yeah, really good player. He's got
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins. What. I didn't say that. But they play
Speaker 1: the post to the line of scrimmage though they do,
Speaker 1: they do. I don't know picking an Eagles guy, No,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. Then you picked up w I'm
Speaker 1: not picking the Eagles guys. We're letting you go first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go for it because thinking I think you're right. I
Speaker 1: think Dak will have a huge game, but that feels obvious.
Speaker 1: Put me down for Byron Jones. Has a big play
Speaker 1: like it Byron Jones, Brian, I think that you need
Speaker 1: I bragged on this guy, and I think he needs
Speaker 1: to take advantage that that right tackle. Give me. I'll
Speaker 1: take Lawrence this week. I think I think we need sack, fumble,
Speaker 1: anything you can get, anything that you can get on
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz and make sure you wrap him up in
Speaker 1: the pocket. Don't let him escape, but give me him.
Speaker 1: I should take the whole defensive line, but I'll take
Speaker 1: I'll take Lord Nate Newton over there. Yeah, just give
Speaker 1: me the line, everybody, I lose my rights to d law.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did did, since you let me go first,
Speaker 1: I'm taking the obvious Dak Prescott. She just did, didn't she? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I said she went Byron Joe. Oh, Byron Jones. My bad.
Speaker 1: Maybe I need to listen better. I was between Byron
Speaker 1: Jones and Alfred Morris. This game's on his shoulders and
Speaker 1: because of that, if they protect him. Yeah, with the
Speaker 1: passing game, I'm gonna say, Dez, I'm gonna say, does
Speaker 1: breaks loose in this game? So we gotta hope. So
Speaker 1: we got two offense to defense. Jason Winton traditionally plays
Speaker 1: very well against these guys too, does Yeah, he does.
Speaker 1: You need to go if you want that to work,
Speaker 1: go get pregame, get down there early and get to
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins and let him start poking Dez in the roubs.
Speaker 1: Welcome hear? What does sid buddy? It's like, excuse me,
Speaker 1: tall white man from me. I think it'll be a
Speaker 1: sure win. I think did I think? Did Dez knows?
Speaker 1: I mean I kind of last week I kind of
Speaker 1: was saying, I thought, you know, with with no Zeke
Speaker 1: that he was going to get into that, you know,
Speaker 1: get into the game and have a big game. Jack
Speaker 1: was trying to passage him. It was just going into
Speaker 1: the ground. On the ground. They threw the ball thirty times.
Speaker 1: Twelve of those were in the last two possessions. Right,
Speaker 1: He got sacked eight times, right, and he got hit
Speaker 1: ten others. Yeah, I'm telling him, man, he could have
Speaker 1: been sacked a dozen times that last drive before the half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was running for his life. He was exhausted. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he couldn't even hardly get to try to get to
Speaker 1: out of bound. Even had to break this very well.
Speaker 1: I want to change your bets, but uh, this line
Speaker 1: you're about to play, yes, very is better than the
Speaker 1: line you just played, absolutely, But I need but because
Speaker 1: let's remember they had eight sacks. Yeah, and Chad's green
Speaker 1: gave up four of them, but somebody else gave up
Speaker 1: the other four. I'm calling again. I'm calling for pride here.
Speaker 1: I'm calling for offensive line pride, and I'm counting on
Speaker 1: the friendly confines of AT and T Stadium, where they
Speaker 1: will boo you unmercifully if you don't protect the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Well that too, But I just I mean I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's a super Dome last week, but no less
Speaker 1: crowd noise pre snap. What about a little bit pressure
Speaker 1: on these guys because they have some pretty pretty good
Speaker 1: players kind of looking over their shoulder pre game halftime.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the ninety two team who won a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Got I thought you found a better bench, Like,
Speaker 1: if you don't play well, we're benching because this guy's
Speaker 1: coming in later. Some of those ninety two guys would
Speaker 1: be good. Charles Haley just runs onto the field. Could
Speaker 1: use a little Haley, Yeah, could he use a little
Speaker 1: who else? Could they use? Rayfield? Right? Michael, he wasn't
Speaker 1: ninety two. Well, I'm just saying about Smith. He's great.
Speaker 1: Play yeah Smith Smith. Oh yeah, I'll take Gemman over Alfred. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I like Alfred A. Ton. He's a great guy. The
Speaker 1: fifty year old Emman Smith, he probably still get you
Speaker 1: a couple of carries. He's probably getting close to fifty, isn't.
Speaker 1: He came out ninety right, drafted ninety twenty years old.
Speaker 1: They're all closing it off. I'm saying, I think, now
Speaker 1: do the math, that's twenty seven years ago. There you go,
Speaker 1: he's close to Yeah, there we go, get a quick
Speaker 1: math there making nice shot, and then the old Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame ceremony, Hall Fame Ring, Hall of Fame ring
Speaker 1: for Jerry at halftime, the Ring of Excellence. What are
Speaker 1: you know he wears the super Bowl ring. I wonder
Speaker 1: if he'll wears Hall of Fame ring more than the
Speaker 1: super Bowl ring in his meetings with Roger. I bet
Speaker 1: you wears gold jacket. Next meeting December thirteenth, is that
Speaker 1: when it is? Yeah, how many other owners have gold
Speaker 1: jackets in that room? Is he the only one living?
Speaker 1: I think he might be the only thing, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: he would be the only one. He claimed himself this
Speaker 1: senior owner. Hold on, is there an owner? That's I
Speaker 1: don't think there's another owner. I don't think I was
Speaker 1: getting confused with Elway and Bowland. I know, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think there's another owner. If I might be wrong
Speaker 1: about this, it has a Hall of Fame jacket. It's
Speaker 1: in that room now. Some of the fathers have passed away, right,
Speaker 1: you know, the Maras, the Rooneyes. Yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: group Bowling and Rob Kraft will one day, I think
Speaker 1: rot and I don't since well, we meant the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Daddy neither Pete nor Mike or in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Her father is I believe there you know, No, there's
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. Oh and Ralph Wilson passed away, Buffalo,
Speaker 1: Ralph Wilson passed away. Yes, it's a different owner by
Speaker 1: the way too. Yeah, that's right, all right, guys, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for about that. That's that's pretty good to
Speaker 1: to and not a happy here, so to jump off.
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