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Speaker 1: Good morning, guys, Today's fun Friday. Are you guys having
Speaker 1: a good Friday today? I got your coffee going in
Speaker 1: looking comfy. I run the room feeling good today. I
Speaker 1: feel like I say this all the time. I bet
Speaker 1: I said it last week, Like Friday during football season
Speaker 1: is the best day because like the week's over, like
Speaker 1: the hard part of the week is over all. The
Speaker 1: possibilities are endless, like you got Texas O you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Maybe Texas will win, maybe the Cowboys will win. Like
Speaker 1: just no reason, great weekend, maybe no reason not to
Speaker 1: be excited on a Friday before fall season, football weekend. Nick,
Speaker 1: I'm good, good to go, ready to go. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's time to call you out.
Speaker 1: Saturday better than Friday, but whatever this is, You're almost there.
Speaker 1: Who's Arkansas? Have this weekend? Shut up. But that's why
Speaker 1: that's kind of my point. I mean, come on, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, but you see, he's still gonna follow me.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was that count. That's why Friday
Speaker 1: is the best because on Friday Arkansas, maybe Arkansas Alabama,
Speaker 1: but on Saturday, you have to set down and face reality.
Speaker 1: We are facing the defending champions from Actually, both of
Speaker 1: my teams are facing the defending champions tomorrow. That's right.
Speaker 1: Alabama Arkansas score point and Midwestern State is taking on
Speaker 1: Texas em Commerce and that will be a big game,
Speaker 1: oh man, big see. And that's that's stressful, which is
Speaker 1: why Friday is the best because that's tomorrow. That's future.
Speaker 1: Dave's problem. I wonder if all fans are like this.
Speaker 1: I was having this conversation with somebody the other day.
Speaker 1: I think for me, like the big game Texas, OU,
Speaker 1: it's more stressful when we win. It's more relief than
Speaker 1: it is excitement. Yeah. Is that the same way for
Speaker 1: most fans when you're talking about your when you're talking
Speaker 1: about your team, is it more stressful and more I
Speaker 1: just I just I hope they win more than you're
Speaker 1: elated after they get a big one. As a football fan.
Speaker 1: My favorite week of the year is the bye week
Speaker 1: because I can't lose. Can't lose on the bye Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's no football, well, no football for my team,
Speaker 1: but I can watch everybody else, which no, I mean
Speaker 1: obviously I want to watch my team. You gotta learn
Speaker 1: how to live like me, I only worry about one team,
Speaker 1: and that's just the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, but I can
Speaker 1: only stress out about one team, Isn't it stressful? Though?
Speaker 1: That's enough that's playing, which, yeah, I need another better
Speaker 1: you got you got so many teams, Like, I got
Speaker 1: a lot of teams. I'm looking at college and then
Speaker 1: pro and then when basketball gets started, I'll be watching
Speaker 1: Texas basketball. Like there's always something for you to be
Speaker 1: stressed about when it comes to your teams. People expect
Speaker 1: me to be excited about LSU being five and oh
Speaker 1: and it's just stressful. Like I'm just like, he's like,
Speaker 1: when is you going to drop? Yeah, I'm not looking
Speaker 1: forward to playing Florida on the road tomorrow. Get the
Speaker 1: hell out of here. That's why Friday is the best day. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get into it, yea. So let's start
Speaker 1: off with Randy Gregory, he wasn't at practice yesterday, just
Speaker 1: kind of doing his little league routine, visiting the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: little league routine. Yeah, he was there today. He was
Speaker 1: there today practicing. But the question mark is still for
Speaker 1: David Irving, who has still not practiced yet. Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: came out yesterday and basically pretty much implied and was
Speaker 1: very emphatic of saying he's going to make his debut
Speaker 1: this Sunday. He said again this morning's UM, they asked
Speaker 1: him about Randy Gregory and David Irving, and he was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into the details of what's
Speaker 1: going on with him right now, but I expect him
Speaker 1: to be helping us beat the Texans on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: So so expecting a guy to help you, he said,
Speaker 1: He said play a role, which I think you're crazy
Speaker 1: if you think David Irving is gonna play more than
Speaker 1: like fifteen snaps, maybe twenty, right. But what's amazing is
Speaker 1: is not only has he not practiced all summer or
Speaker 1: all training camp, didn't play in preseason, hasn't played the
Speaker 1: first four games. He's practiced one time this week practice Wednesday.
Speaker 1: He's not practicing today or yesterday because of an off
Speaker 1: field family issue or a family matter something. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got one practice somebody puts on their roundtable, you know,
Speaker 1: blueprint that you know, he's the guy I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: That was like, that's my guy to watch, and so
Speaker 1: I want to see. Well if he does any I mean,
Speaker 1: it'll be a freak though. I mean that's the difference.
Speaker 1: I mean he has, he has that kind of ability.
Speaker 1: We'll see to where with a limited practice, you would
Speaker 1: think he can give you something, not a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Dave's right, but I think he can. You
Speaker 1: would expect you to give me something. I agree with you,
Speaker 1: but I just I don't know. I gotta see it
Speaker 1: for Like, I mean, what do we know about Jerry Jones.
Speaker 1: He's the eternal optimist. Like, just because Jerry thinks he's
Speaker 1: gonna play on Friday doesn't mean that they won't have
Speaker 1: a conversation two hours before game time and be like
Speaker 1: he always reserves. Well wait wait, wait, wait, before you
Speaker 1: get to two hours before game time, just remember this,
Speaker 1: Like by tomorrow, they have to cut someone. True, see
Speaker 1: if he was just inactive or not, that's one thing,
Speaker 1: but you have to actually cut a guy off of
Speaker 1: your football team right now, and probably a guy that
Speaker 1: could play because maybe because of their injury situations. So
Speaker 1: I think I R becomes a factor there too. So
Speaker 1: I mean necessarily have to cut somebody, you could move
Speaker 1: somebody to ire and then there you go, right true,
Speaker 1: that is at coach. I don't know. There's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people on the injury report, and one of
Speaker 1: them has been on the end report and you guys
Speaker 1: according to yeah, well you guys were talking about you
Speaker 1: thought it should they should have put him on a
Speaker 1: hour a long time, well the eight week, I are
Speaker 1: right right, But I'm saying either way, you got other options.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we don't know what's going on with
Speaker 1: Terrence Williams yesterday on the injury report. Now the foot
Speaker 1: is being is a part of it, it's not, but
Speaker 1: they capitalized slash foot foot So either way either way,
Speaker 1: now an injury is a part of that. So I
Speaker 1: guess if it came down to it, he could be
Speaker 1: a guy that you could decide you something, something's got
Speaker 1: to give. I think I've said that five times this week.
Speaker 1: But just and it doesn't have to be about Terrence.
Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily have to be about Travis. But you
Speaker 1: gotta do something. You gotta do something. Um, which this
Speaker 1: I thought about that, like this team has not had
Speaker 1: a lot of reason to do Saturday transactions in recent years,
Speaker 1: like it used to be when this team was talent
Speaker 1: poor and they were just scraping the bottom of the
Speaker 1: barrel for players. Uh. They they would douce these Saturday
Speaker 1: transactions all the time, where like you know, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: they were recalled so and so from the practice squad
Speaker 1: and they sent this guy down, Like they haven't done
Speaker 1: that the last two years. But I feel like they're
Speaker 1: gonna need to do something. Yeah, no, we'll be on
Speaker 1: the planet. I'll be like David. Everythings been the roster
Speaker 1: on our flights. Also, they they bumped our flight back
Speaker 1: to three. We usually leave it one. So they did
Speaker 1: this so I could watch the Texas. I would imagine,
Speaker 1: I would imagine that they've done something by the time
Speaker 1: we're getting on the plane, you hope. So, wasn't this
Speaker 1: the year that David Irwin came back looking a little
Speaker 1: chubby an off season? Yet this was it? Right? He
Speaker 1: showed I mean he was he wasn't here in like
Speaker 1: February and March, and he kind of he showed back
Speaker 1: up in April. And how is he looking right now?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him around. I think I saw him
Speaker 1: like working out a few weeks ago out there, but
Speaker 1: I didn't really pay much attention because he was kind
Speaker 1: of far away. But shape wise, have you seen him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he looks fine to me. I don't like
Speaker 1: I think I said this like an hour ago, was like,
Speaker 1: I don't like to question people's physique because then it
Speaker 1: comes back on me like I'm not so who are you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: people like you talk about somebody's physique. I did not
Speaker 1: have a six pack unless it's in my fridge. So
Speaker 1: let me clarify. Chubby or compared to what he's used
Speaker 1: to be. He's not a big guys. Not calling for
Speaker 1: the body issue. Yeah, although he's already done his own.
Speaker 1: He's taking care of that. Which maybe he doesn't look chiseled,
Speaker 1: but he looks fine to me. The big thing. The
Speaker 1: big thing for me is I just see a little
Speaker 1: I don't know what a lot of little kids to day.
Speaker 1: I'm this is school is school out today? Not for
Speaker 1: my kids, Mike. Just see a lot of cute little
Speaker 1: kids on the tours this week. Usually that there come
Speaker 1: this you know about this high, but then they're down
Speaker 1: a little low today. Cute little Texas baby ready for
Speaker 1: the game easily. Okay, sorry, I don't remember what it was. Oh,
Speaker 1: he looked, he looks fine. He hasn't played football in
Speaker 1: a year. He's probably not in football shape. That's like,
Speaker 1: I don't completely trust he's gonna suit up for this
Speaker 1: game until I see him do it, honestly. Yeah, Now
Speaker 1: that is a big ask, even if he's a super freak.
Speaker 1: It's a big ask to ask because he missed training
Speaker 1: camp and all, and he has practiced one time since
Speaker 1: late November of last year. Yeah, that's I mean, football
Speaker 1: is serious business, like they always say, like nothing is
Speaker 1: like playing football against grown men. So for so what
Speaker 1: he's he's played football for two hours in a controlled
Speaker 1: non contact setting in a year, and he's gonna go
Speaker 1: out and have this role again in a real game
Speaker 1: on primetime. Yeah that's not saying it can't happen, but
Speaker 1: I just I will believe it for sure when I
Speaker 1: see him in a uniform. Now, you still have Milie
Speaker 1: Collins and Antoine Woods being limited. Let's suppose that Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones is right with what he's saying. And we do
Speaker 1: get to see David Irvan this weekend and now adding
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory as well. How would this d line look
Speaker 1: with the guys that you got right now and the
Speaker 1: question marks here and there? Are we expecting Malie Collins too?
Speaker 1: Were you at practice today? Yeah? Malik was doing stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna need at least one of those guys. And
Speaker 1: they need Malik or Woods or both to be available,
Speaker 1: like they just one of them has to They don't
Speaker 1: they have to They then have to sign somebody because
Speaker 1: I just don't know they have the numbers at that point,
Speaker 1: do they. Well, like, let's assume all if those two
Speaker 1: guys and David Irving don't don't do anything, then I
Speaker 1: would say, yeah, what if what if David Irving was active?
Speaker 1: But those okay guys were not. Crawford's gonna play tackle? Right?
Speaker 1: So is still have raws? So is Karan read right?
Speaker 1: So you have three three and then you just need
Speaker 1: one of those three. Yeah, one of those three you're
Speaker 1: gonna play probably two, yeah, but you but you guys
Speaker 1: feel good that those two, Yeah, at least one of them.
Speaker 1: And then and then if if Irving is active, then
Speaker 1: I you know, you probably you might have to cut one.
Speaker 1: You might have to cut Karan read Maybe. I don't
Speaker 1: think you do that for this game, given the problems
Speaker 1: you have at tackle. I think I leaned toward thinking
Speaker 1: it'll be and I are, yeah, just cut ties with
Speaker 1: Terrence and you figure out what you're gonna do there
Speaker 1: or Travis. Don't I mean that there's that cut ties
Speaker 1: by the way, he said, no, yeah, yeah, I are sorry,
Speaker 1: that's not taking it that far. No, no, yeah, all right, yeah, Dave,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know, Yeah, I wouldn't Yeah, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What about the inactive Well, let's figure out, Yes, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm going next. Uh, let's figure out the inactives.
Speaker 1: Obviously you got the three ones, Travis, Frederick, Shawn Lee,
Speaker 1: and then Mike White. Those are the three for sure.
Speaker 1: Who are the rest I would throw Dalton Schultz isn't
Speaker 1: inactive until otherwise noted, there'll be one of those wide receivers,
Speaker 1: either Terrence or or Ryce. Right again, if he's on
Speaker 1: the roster, yeah, if he's on the right. If he's
Speaker 1: not on the roster, though, do you think they put
Speaker 1: do you think they put Bryce down, just go five receivers.
Speaker 1: Yeah good. I mean they did it last week. Yeah
Speaker 1: he didn't play. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like
Speaker 1: it was they had n't there, but he didn't play. So, um,
Speaker 1: maybe you do go a little you go a little
Speaker 1: heavier a defensive tackle just because of all the injury situations,
Speaker 1: and maybe Irvan kan goes on. Xavier Suaphilo will be
Speaker 1: inactive until otherwise noted as well. Urheim Campbell, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: could do that. Is that your is he your fourth
Speaker 1: safety right now? He's been playing though he I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been active. So no, that's not good. And I
Speaker 1: mean is he completely helped it? Do you feel confident? Good? Point?
Speaker 1: And plus he played at the Texans this year, so
Speaker 1: he's gonna get inside information and it always happens. He's
Speaker 1: this is you can't sit ch Covington because of the
Speaker 1: injury to Lee. Um, I don't want to sit a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. Well, it's it's gotta be a tackle though,
Speaker 1: it's got to be at least one of those guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can't right now they have four. One of those
Speaker 1: three probably sits and so I would have six they have.
Speaker 1: You said one of those three between Irving, Woods and
Speaker 1: Malik Okay, you know one of them you don't think
Speaker 1: is healthy enough to play. Plus you don't need that
Speaker 1: many defensive tackles. Probably you could do two and actually
Speaker 1: Read could be in it. That's true. Yeah, you could
Speaker 1: sit Karan Read if you feel good about those guys, unless,
Speaker 1: of course, Karan Read's the guy that's out for Irving
Speaker 1: to be a lot of moving parts there is, and
Speaker 1: that's the thing it's gonna be. It's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to see what's happening Saturday. That's why I would say
Speaker 1: for those guys listening, make sure you're checking in Saturday,
Speaker 1: because Saturday will be when we find out some of
Speaker 1: these parts, because they'll have to make a moving. If
Speaker 1: they don't make a move to get Irving on the roster, obviously,
Speaker 1: then the thought is he's going to have that one
Speaker 1: week exemption. Yeah, but if they make some kind of move,
Speaker 1: then it'll start kind of clearing up some of this.
Speaker 1: So you can get an idea of which direction I thought.
Speaker 1: You also think if he will be on the team
Speaker 1: on Monday, Yeah, so I gotta do something to look
Speaker 1: look for the inactive guy might be cut because or
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because you don't want to
Speaker 1: get a guy hurt and that you're gonna cut Karan.
Speaker 1: Want to cut Karan? Reid is a decent guess if
Speaker 1: you feel good about the health of your other guys,
Speaker 1: because you brought him in as an emergency option anyway,
Speaker 1: so you could release him on Monday even if Irving
Speaker 1: doesn't go right. All right, well, let's take our first
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Speaker 1: we are back on the second segment of the break,
Speaker 1: answering some of y'all's questions through Twitter or through a
Speaker 1: future phone call that you might give us in a
Speaker 1: little bit, So your phone call, future phone call, what
Speaker 1: you hearty throw me out there, all right. First question,
Speaker 1: how long can seek last with this kind of workload?
Speaker 1: And this is something that we keep talking about, and
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, Seek in into twenty twenty or twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. I mean, he's actually he's got fewer carries
Speaker 1: right now than he had at this point in his
Speaker 1: rookie season. And I know he got banged up last week.
Speaker 1: I don't care. He's fine. You miss You didn't even
Speaker 1: miss a day of practice. So that's when it became
Speaker 1: a situation where it's like, that's just a nature of football.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm young, I'm young, I got fresh legs. I'm
Speaker 1: ready to get the ball anyway I can. That's what
Speaker 1: he said on Wednesday. I'm taking him at his word.
Speaker 1: Run keep giving it to the damn ball, and like
Speaker 1: you know what we're saying. Or during the week, if
Speaker 1: if they start using him more in the passing game,
Speaker 1: that kind of ease his body a little bit as
Speaker 1: far as it's you know, I know people have been
Speaker 1: whining about his carry count this year, like he only
Speaker 1: had sixteen in Seattle, but it's not that common for
Speaker 1: him to get as many as he got against the Lions.
Speaker 1: Like he has only gone gone twenty five or more
Speaker 1: like five or six times in his career, So twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two carries and a handful of receptions love it
Speaker 1: to win this game? Will we need a big play
Speaker 1: from special teams? Um, yeah, I think so. I think
Speaker 1: you have to rely more on special teams. I think
Speaker 1: you do well. I'll say this, you definitely don't need
Speaker 1: to give up anything big and special teams. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: kick kickoff return is a lost thing that that doesn't
Speaker 1: even really happen anymore. Um, hardly ever see kickoff returns
Speaker 1: and even the punt returns now or getting to the
Speaker 1: point where they're you know, they're so high and hang time.
Speaker 1: Most of them it's just a fair catch. So it's
Speaker 1: really about making a mistake. I mean, big play is
Speaker 1: on special team to me, or like punts that you
Speaker 1: know get downed inside the ten and or you know,
Speaker 1: a penalty when you think you're gonna get the ball
Speaker 1: at the thirty you got good field position and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden there was a holding penalty and now
Speaker 1: it's back at the twenty or fifteen yard line. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's almost about eliminating mistakes on special teams
Speaker 1: to mess up your field position. Because with this team,
Speaker 1: if they're backed up inside the twenty there, I don't
Speaker 1: trust that they're getting out of it. They're already conservative
Speaker 1: as it is. They're not going to be anything better
Speaker 1: if they're way back there, I will say, And I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if it's going to happen this weekend.
Speaker 1: But you can last like three years, you can count
Speaker 1: on this team for like a block or a you know,
Speaker 1: recovery on a muff or a fake fake they I mean,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones has faked at least three in the last
Speaker 1: three or four years. An Eagles game in sixteen comes
Speaker 1: to mind. The Raiders game last year, right, he did
Speaker 1: he faked it in that game, right Raiders? Yeah? And
Speaker 1: then you know, I have my boy Kyle Wilbur. It
Speaker 1: seemed like he was good for a fumble recovery on
Speaker 1: a special team's play once a year or so. He's
Speaker 1: not here, No, and that's I would like to see
Speaker 1: somebody step up and do something like that Oakland, But
Speaker 1: he's one of Besides, you had just wrangled all of
Speaker 1: the leftover guys. Ye all right, let's take a call
Speaker 1: from Brian and Waco. Brian Hey, guys, Hey, how's everyone
Speaker 1: doing great? Are you doing good? Doing good? Hey that
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon looked pretty good. If Day didn't, he sure did.
Speaker 1: Sure yeah about that didn't cost a lot either. Yeah. Yeah, So, Um,
Speaker 1: you guys don't have to spend too much time on this. Um,
Speaker 1: just kind of indulge me for a man. I've been
Speaker 1: kind of think about this for most of the season.
Speaker 1: If there was a hypothetical game that and this is
Speaker 1: just totally you know, hypothetical between the twenty sixteen Cowboys
Speaker 1: and the twenty fourteen Cowboys, if they were to play
Speaker 1: each other, Um, how do how do you guys think
Speaker 1: that would ever go? I'm curious to see how you know,
Speaker 1: just what you would think about that. I think there'd
Speaker 1: be some interest matchups how they would play against each other.
Speaker 1: And I'll hang up the listen. Thanks, guys. I mean
Speaker 1: that that's a weird question, but I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it too, But I mean, don't you think it
Speaker 1: is exactly what it is? Is like Romo versus Dak
Speaker 1: Isn't that kind of what that's saying? I have two
Speaker 1: main thoughts, which I think the sixteen defense was noticeably
Speaker 1: better than the fourteen defense. Maybe that's because I was
Speaker 1: just reviewing stats on that, but that fourteen defense was
Speaker 1: leaky and they couldn't generate a pass rush what they
Speaker 1: had like twenty nine on the year or something like that.
Speaker 1: So sixteen has a decisive edge there. But when in doubt,
Speaker 1: don't you always take the better quarterback? And I think
Speaker 1: we all are fans of Dak and we were bigger
Speaker 1: fans of Dak in sixteen when he could do no wrong,
Speaker 1: but he didn't come close to approaching MVP levels, which
Speaker 1: Tony Romo absolutely did that year. Okay, so let's take
Speaker 1: it one step further. When you talk about the running
Speaker 1: games with DeMarco Murray versus Zeke Elliott, which do you
Speaker 1: think was a better running games? DeMarco put up the numbers, numbers,
Speaker 1: a better statistical season. Yeah, so which do you said was?
Speaker 1: But but watching it, you watch which was better? But
Speaker 1: which was I'm saying which running game was better? Which
Speaker 1: which in crunch time? Who could run it better? In
Speaker 1: goal line? Who could run it better? Like those kind
Speaker 1: of things. I think that the fourteen offense was just
Speaker 1: more balanced running and pass. They could kind of do
Speaker 1: whatever you wanted them to do, and you know, I
Speaker 1: thought a big game that year was when the when
Speaker 1: the NFC East was on the line. You're facing a
Speaker 1: pretty good colts team, and they went in there and
Speaker 1: just smashed them any way possible. I just think that
Speaker 1: the offense was just was just better. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: Zeke might be a better back than than Murray, but
Speaker 1: I think the difference there is a lot smaller than
Speaker 1: the difference between where the way Tony was playing that year,
Speaker 1: not in the way that the DAK was. But I mean,
Speaker 1: but like you said, the defense was better in sixteen. Well,
Speaker 1: I think we'll take either one of those teams right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, you take either one of them. Yeah, teams
Speaker 1: that won twelve and thirteen games, please sign me up.
Speaker 1: But in that scenario, I would pick the fourteen team
Speaker 1: to win. You always defer to the better quarterback in
Speaker 1: a close game. You have a better line though in sixteen,
Speaker 1: because they were older. I'm just saying, you know, Zack
Speaker 1: was a rookie, Tyran was kind of coming into his own.
Speaker 1: That was the first year they really were kind of
Speaker 1: I don't know, you had Leary balling out. I mean,
Speaker 1: he Leary was on both teams, but I don't know
Speaker 1: I would love I would love to see that free. Yeah,
Speaker 1: be interesting. I love that type of stuff, Like you know,
Speaker 1: like just what ifs in football? Just it's a shame
Speaker 1: you don't ever actually get to see a playout well
Speaker 1: you know what sucks. You will never find out that's
Speaker 1: what sucks. What do you got is the like of
Speaker 1: run after catch more of an issue with personnel or
Speaker 1: play calling. How do they rank? I haven't really did that.
Speaker 1: How they rank as far as run after catch either
Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in the league. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's that's a sorry. That's interesting because I
Speaker 1: think the answer is probably both. But because you can
Speaker 1: always say, yeah, they could kind of scheme them better
Speaker 1: to to make plays on the run and you know,
Speaker 1: and the quarterback can throw you open. But I think
Speaker 1: more than anything, it comes down to the type of receivers.
Speaker 1: They just don't have those receivers that are that are
Speaker 1: just dynamic and they're not using one of them like
Speaker 1: we would think in Um and Tavon. But I mean
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to you know, catch to
Speaker 1: pass over the middle and you know and really break away.
Speaker 1: We just don't see that, you know, like a Terrell
Speaker 1: Owens did or Dez? Did you know when Dez's big
Speaker 1: plays last year against the Giants was run after catch.
Speaker 1: There's one guy on this team that has that potential,
Speaker 1: And yeah, we would all agree he's not seeing the
Speaker 1: ball enough or being incorporated enough. So I think it's
Speaker 1: probably it's I mean, play calling. But also, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is we said this yesterday. This is this is a
Speaker 1: talent poor receiver group. And I mean, obviously they're in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Not trying to bash them, but compared to
Speaker 1: you look at the monsters on that Detroit offense, and
Speaker 1: this was by design they the Cowboys design that they
Speaker 1: were not going to go. It is also their design
Speaker 1: to improve that group. I think, no, I think, and
Speaker 1: I think Gallup is a start to that. I think
Speaker 1: they feel like they they got a young, good player
Speaker 1: that that will be a good player for them long term.
Speaker 1: When you think of the type of catch that Hearns
Speaker 1: is making, and it seems like every time it's like
Speaker 1: twelve yards turned around make the catch or nine yards
Speaker 1: of slant or whatever. Those players aren't aren't really designed
Speaker 1: for that, you know, I mean, he's not He's not
Speaker 1: the type of player that's just going to break through.
Speaker 1: And Beasley has never been that type of guy run
Speaker 1: after catch, not really. I mean he'll put the sauce
Speaker 1: on you and get four or five extra yards. But
Speaker 1: which is good. Good. He turned a nine yard game
Speaker 1: into a fourteen yard game. That's a good. The Giants
Speaker 1: game last year, Um, I remember Dez had that slant
Speaker 1: and he scored, and then also Beasley had had a
Speaker 1: catch like that where he made a catch and then
Speaker 1: looped around and went like fifty yards. So I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about him with that loop around because it seems
Speaker 1: like he does it a lot now and I'm afraid
Speaker 1: defenders are gonna be like, all right, this is I'll
Speaker 1: just be waiting for him right when he loops around,
Speaker 1: be waiting right there and lay him out. Just that
Speaker 1: that works me a little bit. He's tough. I mean
Speaker 1: he's tough, no doubt about sixteen. He got absolutely annihilated
Speaker 1: in that Bears game. Like, I'm not worried about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which one's more likely to happen for this upcoming game,
Speaker 1: the defense getting turnovers or Seek having over two hundred
Speaker 1: yards all purpose yards m defense can't turnovers, or Zeke
Speaker 1: going to it I like both of those things as
Speaker 1: possibilities because Deshaun Watson has thrown a pick in every game,
Speaker 1: and this Texan secondary is poor their twenty seventh in
Speaker 1: the league. And I said this yesterday. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think they're run defense is as good as the
Speaker 1: stats would indicate, because I think they've played one team
Speaker 1: that's really good at running the ball, and the Giants
Speaker 1: did whatever they wanted to. I mean, teams that are
Speaker 1: rest of the get after them to try to get sacks,
Speaker 1: they will give up runs. I mean that that's that's
Speaker 1: what's really important there is you got to use that
Speaker 1: aggressiveness that Houston has and to your advantage. And if
Speaker 1: Clowney wants to get up the field, that's fine, but
Speaker 1: that's where Zeke should be running right past them. So
Speaker 1: I think that there's gonna be a cat and mouse
Speaker 1: game going on with their in that situation. Like I'll
Speaker 1: take Zeke though as the more likely I'll take Zeke,
Speaker 1: But I don't love it because I don't trust them
Speaker 1: to get he blew up in the passing game, and
Speaker 1: so I don't trust it to happen again this week.
Speaker 1: I mean I wanted to. It's not a lot. It's
Speaker 1: not a lot of times in the NFL where you
Speaker 1: see that a guy go off like that and then
Speaker 1: he does it again. I mean like Jay and Jie
Speaker 1: or something did it like that. But it's just not
Speaker 1: Houston's got to be saying, all right, we're gonna stop. Well,
Speaker 1: you're right, but I mean, like good team's scheme, ways
Speaker 1: to throw their running back the ball, like and what
Speaker 1: we talked about the better we also talked about earlier
Speaker 1: in the season, like every team goes into the game
Speaker 1: saying we got to stop Zeke. Not every team has
Speaker 1: the personnel does stop Zeke. And from from the layout
Speaker 1: Dave gave us, it doesn't sound like they have the
Speaker 1: personnel to necessarily just be able to impose their will
Speaker 1: on Zeke. There are some defenses that can. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Houston can. They certainly haven't shown so far
Speaker 1: this year that they have the ability just to stop
Speaker 1: like we are going to stop you and there's nothing
Speaker 1: you can do to next to next point two hundred
Speaker 1: yards is a lot. It is NFL. It's a ton.
Speaker 1: So who are you put in? I said, Zeke, Zeke,
Speaker 1: I say turn, I'll just ride with Zeke all right.
Speaker 1: I've seen that before. I trust zee that recently. Yeah, exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: most people believe both Dak and the coaching staff are
Speaker 1: on the hot seat this year. Is there a scenario
Speaker 1: where one leaves and the other stays or are these
Speaker 1: two joined at the hip? No, Dak's going to be
Speaker 1: your quarterback next year. So if you don't like Dak,
Speaker 1: you better get ready for at least another year, at
Speaker 1: least one more year he's going to be your quarterback.
Speaker 1: You think that's one hundred percent true? I do think
Speaker 1: that's one hundred because even if the Cowboys decided this year,
Speaker 1: by the end of the year, we don't think he's
Speaker 1: a long term answer. I don't think that they necessarily
Speaker 1: will have the long term answer or in better answer
Speaker 1: for next year. Okay, maybe they started they maybe they
Speaker 1: addressed in the draft. Then the question becomes, is that
Speaker 1: guy good enough when they draft him to immediately become
Speaker 1: the starter or is it one of those situations like
Speaker 1: with Pat Mahomes. They knew that he was going to
Speaker 1: be their future, but they said, hey, we're gonna let
Speaker 1: this play out for a year and then he will
Speaker 1: become our starter. And with Dak having one more year
Speaker 1: in his contract. Why I wouldn't because Dad's not Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I think Alex Smith for that
Speaker 1: offense last year was better. Um, if this scenario happens,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a Pat Mahomes Kansas City thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's probably closer to Cleveland and Buffalo. Are
Speaker 1: you two three weeks looking for any kind of sign
Speaker 1: to bring the guy in, and you bring him in.
Speaker 1: So I don't agree with that. Actually, I don't think that.
Speaker 1: I will say this though, And y'all, you guys follow
Speaker 1: all of college football more than I do. Just the
Speaker 1: things I've heard people talk about who are supposed to
Speaker 1: be knowledgeable. There aren't the number of good quarterbacks coming
Speaker 1: out this year, and necessarily all that changes, though, I mean,
Speaker 1: a bowl game can change all of that. You know,
Speaker 1: Vince Young was doing pretty good things and then the
Speaker 1: bowl game was unbelievable, and then he was all of
Speaker 1: a sudden a high pick. Baker Mayfield I think shot
Speaker 1: up a lot at the end of the season. I
Speaker 1: think Deshaun Watson shot up a lot at the end
Speaker 1: of the season. So I do think that it might
Speaker 1: some of that will change. Some of that. I think
Speaker 1: will change. I know the Missouri kid is great. But
Speaker 1: to answer the question, I mean, like I think that
Speaker 1: that Garrett has to do. I think this team has
Speaker 1: to go into the playoffs and maybe a round or
Speaker 1: two into the playoffs. I really believe that. I think
Speaker 1: for Garrett, for Garrett, and I think Dak you can have.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's gonna be an all Pro quarterback this
Speaker 1: year that doesn't make the playoffs. You know, Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: was unbelievable last year, and they his team to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So that's why my point all along is, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it can be that way where Dak's still
Speaker 1: the guy showing arrows pointing up. But this team, you know,
Speaker 1: this team didn't get it done. Familiarize yourself with the
Speaker 1: name Justin Herbert, where it's a quarterback coming out Oregon.
Speaker 1: Not saying he's gonna mind upon the Cowboys, but if
Speaker 1: you're talking about guys who are going to be big
Speaker 1: time picks, Drew Locke from Zoo's the other one. But
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert um Alabama, you know, I don't he's not
Speaker 1: draft eligible. He's scary to talk about him. Yeah, um
Speaker 1: hit him out. It's if the season goes south, which
Speaker 1: I mean, we're hey, we're two and two. You never
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. But if the season goes
Speaker 1: really good, it's a better chance that Dak is on
Speaker 1: this team in nineteen than Jason Garrett if the season
Speaker 1: really goes south. Right, So if he just goes like this,
Speaker 1: eight and eight, I don't know. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't like, Yeah, you have to address it. Of course,
Speaker 1: I think it's addressed the quit. But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: If you go eight and Nate, I don't think that
Speaker 1: means Dak has gone next year. Now, I do think
Speaker 1: that that probably means the end. What do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you do if this team goes eight and
Speaker 1: eight and Dak plays eight games like the Lions game
Speaker 1: where he looks like the man, and then eight games
Speaker 1: like that gets back about Panthers game, he sticks around
Speaker 1: for another year. Probably you give him one more year
Speaker 1: to see what he can do. Is see next year,
Speaker 1: But do you try to do something to address the
Speaker 1: future in the spring? Maybe? So, yeah, I think, because
Speaker 1: here's the problem. There's the thing about the quarterback. You
Speaker 1: can't have too many good ones. So you address it
Speaker 1: and if he happens to just ball out next year,
Speaker 1: now you got yourself a good guy on the bench.
Speaker 1: You can do like like New England did will Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a whole litting of teams that have
Speaker 1: had that second quarterback that they then go out and
Speaker 1: get a nice, a nice number of picks for I
Speaker 1: think that there are there are a lot of teams
Speaker 1: to make some Rudolf type second round draft where you
Speaker 1: like a guy that didn't have to play right away,
Speaker 1: but he's pretty high. Picks you kind of like them,
Speaker 1: and it gets Dack's attention. For sure, you get draft
Speaker 1: a second round quarterback. Oh we're talking about talking about April. Hey,
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Speaker 1: where things are going to be. Honestly, let's go ahead
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Speaker 1: I kind of harkened back to what we were talking
Speaker 1: about the other day when we were talking about the
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Speaker 1: them off and send them back. So you're just like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, and here you go. There's like that's what
Speaker 1: I was thinking. So I apologize. The trade deadline is
Speaker 1: October thirtieth, which I believe that's week nine, that's right
Speaker 1: after the Cowboys bye week. Yeah. I week six is
Speaker 1: just imprinted on my brain. I wonder if they changed
Speaker 1: that recently or maybe I'm just crazy, but it's so.
Speaker 1: It's week nine, so still got some time to do
Speaker 1: those crazy deals that we all know they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: H No, I guess you'll get Texas all you this weekend.
Speaker 1: Maybe I mean he's yeah, everything else that is gonna
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Speaker 1: you can party in a boot, right. I don't you
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Speaker 1: care for Texas, but I didn't know that you. I
Speaker 1: don't really care for most of the schools in Texas
Speaker 1: just having to live here you can. But I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for you all this week. I'm rooting for you all
Speaker 1: this season. I don't know something about Texas this year.
Speaker 1: I just until we start annoying you, until you start
Speaker 1: annoying me for sure, and you're gonna be out. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: actually most people are. I'm gonna be cheering. They miss
Speaker 1: Texas when Texas isn't good. But as soon as we
Speaker 1: get good and in Texas fans start talking about how
Speaker 1: good we think we are, I'm gonna be hearing for
Speaker 1: y'all right up until Triple Zeros and if y'all win,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like, oh, now here we go, here
Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, Okay. We talked earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: we talked about the Texans offense. We talked about the
Speaker 1: Texans defense. What is the best thing that the Texans
Speaker 1: do when you summarize and combine both of those offense
Speaker 1: and defense. Yeah, in general as a team, I would
Speaker 1: say the best thing they do is make impact plays.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is they rush the
Speaker 1: passer really well, they get the ball out. Watton Clowney
Speaker 1: are gross and you got to account for him. And
Speaker 1: then the best thing to Shaun Watson does is extend
Speaker 1: plays and turn Mundane gains into big ones just by
Speaker 1: being athletic. Confidence. I think there are three guys on
Speaker 1: that team who are consistent and they're gonna be consistently good.
Speaker 1: You gotta worry about him. That's the two guys you
Speaker 1: just mentioned on defense, and I think the other is
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. You look at DeAndre hopkins career. No matter
Speaker 1: what quarterback he's had, and he's had some bad ones
Speaker 1: every year, he still is putting up really big numbers
Speaker 1: in catching the ball. So he's got a much better
Speaker 1: quarterback now than he's ever had before. So I think
Speaker 1: he's he's probably gonna be even better this season as
Speaker 1: a season wears on. But all that being said, those
Speaker 1: three players for the Texans always show up. Those are
Speaker 1: the three that if you lose this game, I guarantee
Speaker 1: they will be a part of you losing this game.
Speaker 1: That's I just I just keep having daydreams about like
Speaker 1: a broken coverage on a busted sack and going to the
Speaker 1: the distance or I mean, like I said, the Texans
Speaker 1: gave up. They only won by a field goal last week,
Speaker 1: and Jadeveon Clowney's scored a touchdown himself. Like that's the
Speaker 1: type of things you gotta watch out for. Those three
Speaker 1: guys I think are by far the best players they got.
Speaker 1: Those are ones you gotta worry about if they play, Like,
Speaker 1: if they play a clean game, they should win, honestly.
Speaker 1: But boys, yeah, yeah, but they haven't played a clean
Speaker 1: game on the road this year. Yeah, the people you
Speaker 1: just mentioned, both of you. Does that tie along with
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys would struggle most with and going up
Speaker 1: against Wait one more time, she's saying, so does where
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are deficient? No, because the cornerback is playing.
Speaker 1: The cornerbacks are playing pretty well, Byron Jones and uh
Speaker 1: and Cheeto are playing well. And the offensive line, you know,
Speaker 1: you your tackles or you got one of the best
Speaker 1: in the game. And Tyron Smith and you know Lyell
Speaker 1: he's had some struggles, but he's a fighter. He gets
Speaker 1: in there and he'll he'll I think he'll play pretty
Speaker 1: well actually, so so why are the cow was going
Speaker 1: to struggle the most with and they still could struggle
Speaker 1: with with that, but I think that they're better suited
Speaker 1: than a lot of teams are to actually block those guys.
Speaker 1: I'll differ with you just a little bit. I agree
Speaker 1: with most of what you're saying, but I do think
Speaker 1: that what you throw in there is the safety. So, yes,
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks are playing well, but what happens when they're
Speaker 1: in zone coverage, which is how they've gotten beaten these
Speaker 1: last couple weeks, as far as the big plays they've
Speaker 1: given up when in his own coverage and the safety
Speaker 1: is supposed to be in a particular place, or the
Speaker 1: safety is the last guy to make that tackle and
Speaker 1: doesn't make that tackle. That's the part that I think
Speaker 1: could be a challenge for you. And when you look
Speaker 1: at the offensive line, there are still some areas of
Speaker 1: the offensive line that could still be problems. And those
Speaker 1: guys tend to move around. You know, you got Clowney
Speaker 1: and you got what. They kind of can jump into
Speaker 1: different spots at times. I think you're as well equipped
Speaker 1: to deal with what and Clowney as you could hope
Speaker 1: to be with Lyell and Tyrn. But Dak has gotten
Speaker 1: mauled in both road games this year, and these two
Speaker 1: guys are good at what they do. So that's concerning.
Speaker 1: How many deep balls have the Cowboys given up here
Speaker 1: in the last two games? Three seven against the Lions
Speaker 1: are deep? Well. I charted this in my column yesterday.
Speaker 1: Thirty plus they went plus, So I'm calling an explosive
Speaker 1: play a sixteen yard run or a twenty yard pass. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if that qualifies as ye balls.
Speaker 1: H they gave. They've given up thirteen explosive plays this season,
Speaker 1: which is actually pretty good, but half of them came
Speaker 1: in that game, and they gave up two thirty plus
Speaker 1: yard touchdowns in that game. Okay, the three touchdowns that
Speaker 1: they've given up though, I mean this is important for
Speaker 1: the key players to be on the field. I think
Speaker 1: in all three of those plays they've had backup players
Speaker 1: on the field, so they've got I mean, that just
Speaker 1: shows a little bit about their depth. Right, Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: was the one that whipped on the first play against
Speaker 1: the Lions. I know Heath was out of the game
Speaker 1: at the very end. Which one was the one that
Speaker 1: Heath whiffed on the tack? Right, But it was Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis that that, you know. I mean, it's that LS
Speaker 1: was a backup corner like I'd like the other guys
Speaker 1: out there maybe making a tackle there. And then on
Speaker 1: the two it never gets to heat Seattle game, I
Speaker 1: know Heath was out and then also the last touchdown
Speaker 1: and Heath was out there. That's I'm saying he's gonna
Speaker 1: make a big difference because he missed up that one play.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying that's what concerns me, and that's
Speaker 1: I wrote about that yesterday. Is this team going all
Speaker 1: the way through Rod Marinelli's tenure awesome at limiting the
Speaker 1: truly backbreaking place they get. They gave up fifty four
Speaker 1: or more explosives in every season, and that he's been
Speaker 1: the coordinator they've limited it to ten or fewer thirty
Speaker 1: yard touchdowns every year. They only gave up four thirty
Speaker 1: plus yard touchdowns in sixteen and seventeen. They've already allowed three.
Speaker 1: You've alread allowed almost as many as a whole season
Speaker 1: in four games. And I mean, I get your point,
Speaker 1: but like Jeff Heath pushing that guy out of bounds,
Speaker 1: it's a sixteen yard game. That's nothing. You give up
Speaker 1: sixteen yard games in every game. And you say a touchdown,
Speaker 1: you may may hold him, no points, you may hold
Speaker 1: him the field goal, yes, a point, it may. You know,
Speaker 1: people dogged on Barry Church, but he made those tackles
Speaker 1: even if it was twenty yards down the field. Hell
Speaker 1: of a lot better twenty yards down the field than
Speaker 1: not at all. So all right, give me your crazy
Speaker 1: prediction and final score of the game. Derek m crazy prediction. Well,
Speaker 1: I've kind of already said it. Did I think Zeke
Speaker 1: will do two hundred total yards. But actually I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you another one. I actually think I think
Speaker 1: back to back games, I think Dak hits him for
Speaker 1: two feet. I think Dak's gonna have another good game
Speaker 1: this week throwing the ball. I think the Cowboys. I'm hopeful.
Speaker 1: I should say that the Cowboys saw last week the
Speaker 1: advantage to doing some of the things they did, and
Speaker 1: my hope is that they take what they did last
Speaker 1: week and they combine it with they what they did
Speaker 1: in week two where they use Tavon More and I
Speaker 1: think they're now they're really clicking. If they can use
Speaker 1: Tavon More in the context of what they were doing
Speaker 1: last week, I think that offense can really get going
Speaker 1: and I expect that Dak will have two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty plus yards passing this game. I think the Cowboys win.
Speaker 1: I know these guys said they think it's a it's
Speaker 1: a you know, like back and forth. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I necessarily see that. I see these teams both
Speaker 1: starting off kind of slow and uh and kind of
Speaker 1: this plotting game. I do think at some point it's
Speaker 1: going to be a trading of scores. I think it
Speaker 1: ends up being somewhere in the twenties, though probably somewhere
Speaker 1: around twenty four twenty one Cowboys win. I think the
Speaker 1: first interception of the season will be Anthony Brown. I
Speaker 1: think he'll get the he'll get the first pick for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. That's my crazy prediction that they'll get a
Speaker 1: pick and it'll be him. I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be back and forth. I think it's gonna come down
Speaker 1: to the end. I think it's gonna be loud and crazy.
Speaker 1: I think the Texans I'm until the Cowboys can win
Speaker 1: on the road. I'm gonna I'm gonna say that. I
Speaker 1: think if this was a noon game, I like Dallas
Speaker 1: three o'clock. I really Dallas. It is night game. I like.
Speaker 1: I like Houston as say twenty eight, I'll say twenties.
Speaker 1: It's like twenty eight to twenty six. Okay, another two
Speaker 1: point game. Yeah, I want to pick the Cowboys like
Speaker 1: you look at I've watched the tape. I've I've tried
Speaker 1: my best to do my homework. I think there are
Speaker 1: a lot of favorable things about this matchup, especially you know,
Speaker 1: coming off this last game, you hope they can carry
Speaker 1: it forward. I straight up don't trust them too. I'm
Speaker 1: I mean, what reason have they given me to so far.
Speaker 1: They've they've looked really bad on the road in the
Speaker 1: first two games, and I don't have reason so far
Speaker 1: to believe they can carry it forward into a very loud,
Speaker 1: very hostile road environment against a team that rushes the passer.
Speaker 1: I think they'll play better than they did in Seattle
Speaker 1: and Carolina. But and I want to be wrong. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I want to pick the Cowboys, I just
Speaker 1: can't bring myself to do it. So I'll happily eat
Speaker 1: Crow here on Monday if they win. But I'm thinking
Speaker 1: Watson makes enough place to win. Thirty one twenty seven. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: well I'm picking the Cowboys this weekend twenty four to twenty.
Speaker 1: I think this is finally the game where Dak connects
Speaker 1: with Rico in the end. Zones are touchdown. Man, They've
Speaker 1: got plenty of practice by now, so we shoot finally
Speaker 1: hopefully start working now. So we'll see, we'll see, we'll
Speaker 1: figure out. We'll come back on Monday, discuss what happened
Speaker 1: during this game and see who won and what happens
Speaker 1: from there on. So for Derek Giltonikiman, David Hellman, a
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