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Speaker 1: our last episode. There we go, Dallas. It's almost game
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Speaker 1: at twenty six and nine, exactly twenty seven hours away
Speaker 1: from kickoff three thirty on Thanksgiving afternoon. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: it being the first touch back of the game, right now,
Speaker 1: do you think, Well, I just think it's gotten to
Speaker 1: be pretty silly. We get all fired up for the kickoff,
Speaker 1: right and everybody's standings, and then it's a touch back.
Speaker 1: It's so it's like it's ceremonial. Yeah right, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all it is. That's all it's good for. It's
Speaker 1: like the start of the game's anti climax until you see,
Speaker 1: I was kind of like the start of mix Shots
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Speaker 1: I'll kickoff coverage sucks? Can we say that? Can we
Speaker 1: say that they get touch backs right man? Because they
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Speaker 1: H Tyrant's uh practice. Um. You know, it was sort
Speaker 1: of a cross between what they do on Saturday before
Speaker 1: a Sunday game and what they do on Friday with
Speaker 1: the mock game walkthrough. So uh, it was about i'd
Speaker 1: say an hour almost an hour practice, maybe not quite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was an hour uh and uh and now they're ready.
Speaker 1: So Tyran Smith practiced. Uh. And as long as everything
Speaker 1: went well today, he's playing tomorrow. Yeah, don't don't help
Speaker 1: me in suspense. Uh. Now with uh ceedee lamb uh.
Speaker 1: He's he's practiced today. He was dressed for what they did.
Speaker 1: And as Mike McCarthy said, he needs to complete the
Speaker 1: last component of the concussion protocol uh today and then
Speaker 1: he has to see the independent doctor the neurologists to
Speaker 1: be the one that clears him. So so as everybody knows, um,
Speaker 1: and they can finalize it tomorrow. By the way, so
Speaker 1: even if there's a you know, something that needs to
Speaker 1: wait till tomorrow. They can do that. The Cowboys doctors
Speaker 1: will will look at him, clear him, and then he's
Speaker 1: got to go to the independent guy that's usually not
Speaker 1: usually that is always on the sideline for these things
Speaker 1: on game day. It's like once your doctor checks the
Speaker 1: guy that shows that he has signs of a concussion, um,
Speaker 1: the neurologist has to check him and that's the last
Speaker 1: guy that has the say. So of course they probably
Speaker 1: don't come around and until you get that diagnosis, and
Speaker 1: then he probably comes and hangs around. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know if he might be there. No, he's on
Speaker 1: the sideline the whole all the time, the whole game well,
Speaker 1: I mean practice. Oh now, no, he didn't know. He
Speaker 1: would just go to the doctor and he would get
Speaker 1: checked out. So that's the last hurdle. As Mike said,
Speaker 1: If he keeps progressing the way he has, were very hopeful.
Speaker 1: So um, that sounds you know, encouraging, but again it's
Speaker 1: a concussion and you just really uh never know. Also, uh,
Speaker 1: they started the practice clock for DeMarcus Lawrence. Uh, he
Speaker 1: was in practice today, so they get him going on
Speaker 1: a kind of an easy pace. But by Sunday, he'll
Speaker 1: be ready to go, And Mike McCarthy said, the goal
Speaker 1: is to have him ready for New Orleans. So he
Speaker 1: would have practiced yesterday, but he had a funeral to
Speaker 1: attend um, so he got the workout in today and
Speaker 1: then he'll get Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, he'll be able to
Speaker 1: get Thursday, and also right before the game. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll do that rehab and that's he can do whatever
Speaker 1: the team does right right, So that that would be
Speaker 1: the reason, a big reason why you would go ahead
Speaker 1: and pull the trigger on it now right that it
Speaker 1: shows they are really confident he'll be ready to go
Speaker 1: next year. And Keane O'Neill was just talking about it.
Speaker 1: They said, you know what, just having his presence on
Speaker 1: the sideline really helps, you know, He went and said,
Speaker 1: you know, we all know about his ability to stop
Speaker 1: the run, we know about his ability to rush the quarterback,
Speaker 1: but just having his voice out there, his leadership he goes,
Speaker 1: makes a huge difference. And he thought the last couple
Speaker 1: of games with him on the sideline really helped out
Speaker 1: talking to Michael Parsons between possessions. So that's encouraging. Randy Gregory.
Speaker 1: It sounds like Washington would be his game. Same thing,
Speaker 1: which is the week after new or Yeah, so to
Speaker 1: get another ten days so they can start his practice
Speaker 1: thing and then I have him ready and Neville Gallimore.
Speaker 1: Maybe Washington, but sounds like more like the the next week,
Speaker 1: the next week, which is Giants, right, Giants. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: you think about how dilapidated we were, really we are,
Speaker 1: I mean, you forget about these guys. Well, that's the
Speaker 1: thing coming out of the Kansas City game where yeah,
Speaker 1: Kansas City took it to the Cowboys on Sunday. But
Speaker 1: then I'm looking at you know, Kansas City had you know,
Speaker 1: Matthew was hurt, and he went ahead and played on
Speaker 1: Sunday because they needed to win. They were bunched up
Speaker 1: in their division. They got the running back back Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards Hilaire as well, he had missed the previous five games.
Speaker 1: But then you're coming out of this game and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys had so many injured guys, and these aren't injured
Speaker 1: guys that are out for the season. These are injured guys.
Speaker 1: They're about to get back here in the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. I felt much better about where the Cowboys are,
Speaker 1: right now, I mean they played Kansas. It was a
Speaker 1: nineteen to nine game. What you know what it wasn't
Speaker 1: pleasing what Cowboys fans saw. But when you know what
Speaker 1: you're getting back here, I mean you're looking at basically
Speaker 1: four starters on your defense of line and Randy Gregory,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence, Brent Urban and Neville Gallimore. You know that
Speaker 1: are coming back. And then you played half the game
Speaker 1: without CD. You played the full game with them without Amari,
Speaker 1: and they're coming back and how many games without Tyrant
Speaker 1: and then Tyrant? Yeah, and then you're looking at the effort.
Speaker 1: To me, the effort kind of make you put these
Speaker 1: the guys at the engine in the back of your
Speaker 1: mind because the effort, you see, even though they took
Speaker 1: it to them, they hung in there. I talked about
Speaker 1: the game being boring. Boring games are because of good defense.
Speaker 1: That's what you want and if you could win boring, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we also kept them from the fireworks, so to speak.
Speaker 1: And that's because our defense actually showed up. And with
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I've got a T shirt from
Speaker 1: I think it was the late seventies Chicago White Sox
Speaker 1: and it says winning ugly and They weren't pretty love,
Speaker 1: but they were just scrapped, scrapping around to try to
Speaker 1: win games, winning and that's what and that's what Kansas
Speaker 1: City did on somethday. They won ugly. But when you
Speaker 1: look at the big picture of this Cowboy's roster, and
Speaker 1: I think you compare it with Kansas City's roster even
Speaker 1: I like where the Cowboys are right now, assuming everybody
Speaker 1: comes back and they're healthy and they can finish strong.
Speaker 1: How about this that a hill sighting? Did I see
Speaker 1: a hill sighting? Tristan Hill? Yes, he played that right.
Speaker 1: He's out there and he and he had a pressure,
Speaker 1: at least he did. So here's some words for cowboy
Speaker 1: fan to live by. It came from Kean O'Neill and
Speaker 1: he was asked what is he told the young guys
Speaker 1: on the team, because you still have seven games to go, right,
Speaker 1: is still a long season. And what he said, I
Speaker 1: think is a good advice for the cowboy fan. He said,
Speaker 1: I told him to stay in the present, let the
Speaker 1: season take care of itself, don't start looking down the road,
Speaker 1: don't look in the future, focus on the next game.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what the Cowboy fan should think.
Speaker 1: Of right now, because everybody's worried about after a win,
Speaker 1: they're going to win the Super Bowl. After a loss,
Speaker 1: they're not going to even get into plays. Just let
Speaker 1: the season play out. And part of the fun is
Speaker 1: the is the path to the to the end of
Speaker 1: the season, all right, And you too have to leave
Speaker 1: early today, right, we do, and so we need to die.
Speaker 1: We're going to dive into the Raiders. We're going to
Speaker 1: make picks. Anything else. You need to bring us up
Speaker 1: to speed on here. Yes, And we also, I think
Speaker 1: need to recognize the one year. Um gosh, it's not
Speaker 1: an anniversary one year since Marcus Paul suffered his stroke.
Speaker 1: It was one year ago today and he passed away
Speaker 1: the next day. So one year ago from the Cowboys
Speaker 1: game on Thursday. So yeah, and if you think about it,
Speaker 1: that's when last year, at this time, the Cowboys world
Speaker 1: came to a standstill. They called off practice on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: they did very little on Wednesday after they found out
Speaker 1: that he did pass away. Twenty three years as a
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL, he had been a player, And
Speaker 1: as Mike McCarthy said, we've got eighty four guys in
Speaker 1: the locker room and forty of them weren't here last year.
Speaker 1: They didn't know Marcus Paul and they had a special
Speaker 1: he made a special presentation about him yes yesterday Tuesday,
Speaker 1: just trying to tell him. You know what he was
Speaker 1: about the fact that he coached that long in the
Speaker 1: NFL had five Super Bowls with the Patriots in the
Speaker 1: Giants got five Super Bowl rings. And I thought that
Speaker 1: the neat thing he said, not about his strength and
Speaker 1: conditioning job, but he said he was talking about the
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning coaches, the equipment guys, and the trainers,
Speaker 1: and he called them they're the bartenders of our culture
Speaker 1: because they touch the whole team. Right. And some of
Speaker 1: the guys talked about how much he gave them a
Speaker 1: vice about life, about raising children and just how you live,
Speaker 1: and so they trusted him to bring certain topics up
Speaker 1: to around him, right. And Mike said, if you're looking
Speaker 1: for an example, Marcus is that person. And it's amazing.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's a long time ago, but it
Speaker 1: was last year at this time. Pandemic makes it it
Speaker 1: does make it seem like that. Yeah, And when that happened,
Speaker 1: that was you know, couldn't happen at the worst time.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course it couldn't happen. You don't wanted
Speaker 1: to happen anytime. But and Mike, it just piled on
Speaker 1: top of all the other things. And I think Mike
Speaker 1: got surprised about it. During his press com frience on Monday,
Speaker 1: was it it was early and he floked at Rich Dalrymple.
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, thanks Rich for preparing me for that.
Speaker 1: But he knew and he remembered that at five fifty
Speaker 1: in the morning, they walked from the parking garage into
Speaker 1: the facility and he said. Marcus said, oh, oh, I
Speaker 1: gotta go back. I'll left my phone in the car,
Speaker 1: and he goes, and that's the last time I saw him.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I thought we owe it to him to
Speaker 1: at least bring him up, and mentioned how much he
Speaker 1: meant to this team in the two years he was here.
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Speaker 1: you want to talk Hall of Fame got semifinalists. I
Speaker 1: got the list here? Okay, we have Darren Woodson and
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Ware named as semifinalist. Former Cowboys Zach Thomas also
Speaker 1: on the list. Of course he was just here briefly. Uh.
Speaker 1: Eddie George is on the list as well. But anyways,
Speaker 1: what a six time for Woody to be a semifinalist,
Speaker 1: can you believe that? And of course first time for
Speaker 1: Ware it's his first time to be eligible. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: believe that's right. I would say it. For Woody it
Speaker 1: is his sixth time. He was also a semifinalist in
Speaker 1: two thousan fifteen, twenty seventeen, and then this is the
Speaker 1: fourth straight year he has been a It's twenty six
Speaker 1: and they will cut down to fifteen before they vote
Speaker 1: on Super Bowl weekend. Right, how many Super Bowls does
Speaker 1: wood He have? Three? Three Super Bowls? Three? Yep, he
Speaker 1: was there all three of them in the nineties. And
Speaker 1: he can't he can't get Come on, man, I mean
Speaker 1: this twelve year career. I've always thought about the bias. Man,
Speaker 1: the bias is real. I'm sorry, the bias is real.
Speaker 1: I don't know how the heck we got here but
Speaker 1: you know, you bring up DeMarcus where his numbers? I mean,
Speaker 1: who's whose record did he break here with the Cowboys? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know Harvey Martin? Right, I mean, and he can't
Speaker 1: get Harvey Martin mentioned this is the Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 1: And John Lynch got in as a safety. Uh. Now
Speaker 1: the year I came in and then who was the
Speaker 1: other guy by Brian? Uh? He made me so mad
Speaker 1: I didn't get in. He got in's with Philadelphia Dawkins.
Speaker 1: Bryan Dawkins. I'm sorry Woody versus Dawkins. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure who was the other safer? Fans and Philly fans
Speaker 1: feel differently, But I take Woody any any day of
Speaker 1: the week. The other safety last year, the guy from
Speaker 1: Denver was it at Water? Yeah, That's that's what got me. Man.
Speaker 1: I would have been iouadly fussed about that. You can change,
Speaker 1: you would be was Dad's a guy that's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so even I can fuss all I want, But
Speaker 1: Woody at Water Corn to me, it's just a no
Speaker 1: braining because the diversity that Woody showed. He wasn't just
Speaker 1: a safety. He came down into the slot and covered
Speaker 1: wide receivers. He came out of college as a linebacker,
Speaker 1: so his his the his ability to adapt. That's why
Speaker 1: I was saying about DBS, it's a little bit easier
Speaker 1: for us to adapt the way Woody went from being
Speaker 1: a safety to a slot corner. That's about as hard
Speaker 1: as going from left tackle to right tackle. You understand,
Speaker 1: probably even more difficult because you can't change your size.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't change your talent level. When you're
Speaker 1: guarding somebody who's twenty pounds lighter than you can probably
Speaker 1: have got at least two tenths of a second on you.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is and I don't know what
Speaker 1: his stats are on this, but I think till the
Speaker 1: day he quit, he was on special teams. You know,
Speaker 1: every year, UM coach Joe was going to take him
Speaker 1: off special special teams. And then when the season started,
Speaker 1: it's like, well, you know what do we need you
Speaker 1: to let's go yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, listen, I gotta
Speaker 1: say special teams I always help me, help me. Whom
Speaker 1: up you know, helped me keep keep You know, you
Speaker 1: run down on their first especially now since you don't
Speaker 1: have to cover kicks, you can just run down, just
Speaker 1: get a spring and then cheer when it's a touchback.
Speaker 1: We stopped him at the twenty five. So there are
Speaker 1: your Hall of Fame semifinalists with Cowboys ties. Okay, congratulations.
Speaker 1: So for the Raiders defense, Mike McCarthy pointed out that, uh,
Speaker 1: they're a man to man and he said, and that's
Speaker 1: probably not going to change. So it comes down to
Speaker 1: the Cowboy receivers winning uh their share of the plays. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it certainly would help if ceedee Lamb actually can play,
Speaker 1: so uh, give them something else to think about, more
Speaker 1: so than you know, taking guys out, because if you
Speaker 1: go back and look at this last game, there wasn't
Speaker 1: a lot of open receivers either other than that first
Speaker 1: play of the game, right. Uh, So uh, you know everybody,
Speaker 1: and I get so tired of it. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: I said it yesterday. It's like, Okay, Dak's got to
Speaker 1: put the team on his shoulders. Well, it's hard to
Speaker 1: put ten guys on your shoulders. This is a darn
Speaker 1: team game, the most pure team game in sports. And
Speaker 1: the quarterback gets the glory, gets the blame. Um, but
Speaker 1: most of it is unfair when you when you look
Speaker 1: at our difficulties, it always from constant pressure right anytime
Speaker 1: we've had we've had problems last two losses, last two losses,
Speaker 1: lots of pressure and with blitzes. The problem that we're
Speaker 1: having is we're getting pressure. Teams are getting pressure without
Speaker 1: blitzing sometimes, and that is what you don't depend on.
Speaker 1: If I'm dak, I'm sitting up here, I read the defense, Well,
Speaker 1: it's not a blitz. I don't have to audible to anything.
Speaker 1: I don't have to check to anything. Here we go
Speaker 1: and it feels like a blitz. But now I've got
Speaker 1: receivers running deeper routes because I didn't. I didn't check
Speaker 1: the hot. I don't check the hot because that's no blitz.
Speaker 1: And we're still getting pressures if there is one, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they will uh. It looked like I saw a
Speaker 1: stat where they can bring they've been good at bringing
Speaker 1: pressure without blitzing's because of number ninety eight. So that
Speaker 1: would be Max Max Crosby. And then I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: you say the other guy's name the other unique way.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's why bills are broadcaster and Leon Collins
Speaker 1: was asked about their their guys and he said, well,
Speaker 1: he goes those those defensive ends there and there, and
Speaker 1: they work by the Marinelli rule. They're coming to bring
Speaker 1: pressure to defend the run on the way to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Stopped the run on the way to the quarterback. When
Speaker 1: we played with the Cowboys, our entire uh uh existence
Speaker 1: was playing off the off the receiver just most of
Speaker 1: the time. You had to you had to have a backpedal.
Speaker 1: If you didn't have a backpedal with the Cowboys, he
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna work. But there are teams. When I went
Speaker 1: to the Giants, the pressure that you put when you
Speaker 1: jam the wide receivers playing man to man, it makes
Speaker 1: the quarterback hesitated just to beat so that he's got
Speaker 1: to trust that wide receiver to beat that guy off
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage to get his position immediately. Because
Speaker 1: we're talking still timing routes, whether it's man to man
Speaker 1: or or it's it's off or on right. So these
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be playing on because every time Denver
Speaker 1: they pressed our receivers and they sat down on about
Speaker 1: same thing's gonna happen here, and you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: make a decision to you to start going downtown more often,
Speaker 1: going deep more often, or you got to trust you
Speaker 1: guys to beat them in And I would imagine from
Speaker 1: a quarterback standpoint, when he sees that press coverage, it's
Speaker 1: either I trust him or I'm waiting until I'm sure.
Speaker 1: And that's sometimes right the wait, Yeah, you don't want
Speaker 1: to wait. Like Okay, West Coast offense could not do anything.
Speaker 1: San Francisco can't do as much with teams that pressed
Speaker 1: the receiver us because it's all about timing. As far
Speaker 1: as Crosby goes, he's a he's a really interesting story.
Speaker 1: He's out of Colleyville Heritage High School, went to Eastern
Speaker 1: Michigan UH and his first year well he obviously it
Speaker 1: wasn't highly recruited out of Collyville Heritage and his first
Speaker 1: year he was a fourth round draft pick. Fourth round
Speaker 1: draft pick out of Eastern Michigan and his rookie season
Speaker 1: had ten sacks for the Raiders. Interesting story about him though,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the pandemic, he checked him himself
Speaker 1: into rehab for alcoholism, came back in time for the
Speaker 1: start of the season last year, had seven sacks last
Speaker 1: year and when you look at the guys who pressure
Speaker 1: the quarterback this year, he's got five sacks so far
Speaker 1: this year, but he ranks right up there at the
Speaker 1: top of the league as far as quarterback pressure. How
Speaker 1: do you think the Scotts missed somebody like this? He
Speaker 1: might have grown into a defensive end's body. Maybe he
Speaker 1: wasn't that big lay developers happened all the time. I
Speaker 1: try six five, two and fifty five pounds ran a
Speaker 1: four six six redraft. So and here's the key on
Speaker 1: getting to the quarterback. That cone drill six eight nine,
Speaker 1: you get a sub seven and see de Marcus Ware
Speaker 1: was in that same range as six eight nine, and
Speaker 1: it shows he can bend. It was like two fifty though,
Speaker 1: well this it is felt the same two fifty five. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting to grow into that line back. That's funny.
Speaker 1: So you know it came up today. I was getting
Speaker 1: my hair cut and the gut it cuts my hair.
Speaker 1: So it's really nicer. He said. Grand he said, his granddaughter.
Speaker 1: It plays volleyball, and uh, she got his scholars up
Speaker 1: to a junior college. And I said, well she somebody
Speaker 1: that spikes or a setter, and he goes, probably she's
Speaker 1: probably more of a setter. She's five ten and she's
Speaker 1: really good. But Uh, maybe she'll grow into somebody that
Speaker 1: can spike and I go, I don't think I grew
Speaker 1: anything out there high school. She's got some springs. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we want to break now and come back with her
Speaker 1: picks and so forth. Yeah, let's okay, let's do that
Speaker 1: and that way we've got more time to make be
Speaker 1: out of here. Really yeah, ticks too, by the way,
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Speaker 1: to Salvation Army, he was helping me. I saw you
Speaker 1: doing it. Flash right. We used a SoundBite from you
Speaker 1: referenced Ezekiel Elliott jumping into the red kettle. And that's right.
Speaker 1: This was the actual This was that that vision of
Speaker 1: the past. It came into reality with what you were
Speaker 1: doing at the Salvation Army. And did you say, because
Speaker 1: you're the one, I would have said bowl or something,
Speaker 1: But when you read kettle the other day, I remember
Speaker 1: that when I did best fit into the Big Bowl,
Speaker 1: the Big Grid Bowl. Yeah, did you mention? And you
Speaker 1: can get more like this on Dallas Cowboys says all right,
Speaker 1: another thing about the Raiders. Obviously, Rich Bosaccia's interim head coach,
Speaker 1: former special teams coach. Here a Raiders team that started
Speaker 1: the season with high hope. So they started this season
Speaker 1: at three and zero and then um, it's been a
Speaker 1: season oil from rugs the wide receiver to Gruden. Uh,
Speaker 1: and now they've lost three straight games. This is a
Speaker 1: team to get the video of the guy waving his gun.
Speaker 1: The defensive back that also got off the team. They
Speaker 1: so here's their Their season has been streaks. They win
Speaker 1: three in a row to start the season, then they
Speaker 1: lose two in a row and Gruden has to resign.
Speaker 1: Butsacchia takes over and they win two and it's like, oh, Rich,
Speaker 1: good job. And then they lose three in a row.
Speaker 1: So the two in a row that they won most
Speaker 1: recently at Denver and against phil Piladelphia, and then they
Speaker 1: lose to the Giants, Kansas City and Cincinnati. And they
Speaker 1: in that three game losing streak, they have not scored
Speaker 1: more than sixteen points. They had It was a three
Speaker 1: point game against Cincinnati in the fourth quarter and they
Speaker 1: wound up losing thirty two to thirteen. It was a
Speaker 1: sixteen thirteen game in the fourth and just listening to
Speaker 1: them talk, they've had issues. Just as one of them
Speaker 1: put it, I think it was that Derek Carr could
Speaker 1: have been Besoccia shooting themselves in the foot defensively as
Speaker 1: far as on third down and then on offense to
Speaker 1: their third down, they haven't been successful. This is a
Speaker 1: team like a couple of weeks ago Atlanta. You want
Speaker 1: to jump on them early and have a bounce half
Speaker 1: week just like you did and have about the same
Speaker 1: record as Atlanta. What did Atlanta there came in at
Speaker 1: five and I couldn't four and four. I can't hear
Speaker 1: out why how they were four and four and they
Speaker 1: but they were coming off of wins and the Raiders
Speaker 1: are not. That's right. That's a big difference, right, And uh,
Speaker 1: and I think Besoccia is probably coming in you're having
Speaker 1: been here before with some extra motivation himself last year
Speaker 1: here is seventeen, I think twenty seventeen, well whenever Gruden
Speaker 1: got the job. Yeah, in Las Vega or Oakland at
Speaker 1: the time. So all right, So as we've got about
Speaker 1: you need to be out here at ten after ten,
Speaker 1: after we got help, you've got five minutes to get
Speaker 1: to your appearance that you're making I'm going to show
Speaker 1: ever since my speed. Okay at the money here, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're fast walking. Another thing on the Raiders as far
Speaker 1: as their defense goes, as the first round draft pick,
Speaker 1: the safety out of TCU, Trey Von merrig Our, second
Speaker 1: round draft pick, he's forty third overall, another guy to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on for them on their defense. Um,
Speaker 1: and offensively they yeah Wallers the guy that yeah in here.
Speaker 1: You've got three straight weeks, and Kyle Pitts two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and then Travis Kelsey this past week, and now you
Speaker 1: got Darren Waller this week. So you know they they
Speaker 1: use a lot of jay Ron curse on the last two.
Speaker 1: Well on Kelsey, but there were cornerbacks that were on
Speaker 1: pits because the heat lines up out. He's on the
Speaker 1: edge a lot. And they do that with this guy too.
Speaker 1: So how are you employing Michael Parsons this week? And
Speaker 1: not just not just looking at Kansas City versus Las
Speaker 1: Vegas and what they do offensively, but a Sunday game
Speaker 1: with little to no time to prepare for Thursday, And
Speaker 1: are you using Parsons the same way this game that
Speaker 1: you did last week? And also considering the personnel situation
Speaker 1: is basically the same on defense for Dallas. Well, based
Speaker 1: on what Oakland's gonna, Vegas is gonna have to do.
Speaker 1: I think he's got his Oakland colors onto Star. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go away difference. I just think that they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna have to try and run. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to try and run the ball. And
Speaker 1: I think that should keep Parsons in the middle. Like
Speaker 1: you guys said, a lot of welcome that defensive end
Speaker 1: at that defensive end position it is, and I think
Speaker 1: they need to keep him more so uh in the
Speaker 1: middle and be more traditional as a linebacker, especially because
Speaker 1: of raiders preparentsial to run the ball. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think when McCarthy answered that question and Parsons answered
Speaker 1: that question, it was about the same game starts at
Speaker 1: three twenty. Yeah, they're not going to reveal that reveal it.
Speaker 1: But and are maker you're going to reveal anything? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean what and this, this is what happens all
Speaker 1: the time during warmups. He's usually with the defensive ends,
Speaker 1: not the linebackers. And that can continued. But even when
Speaker 1: he started at linebacker, which is what you're able to
Speaker 1: the media, is that we're able to see. And you know,
Speaker 1: even when he started at linebacker, he would work those
Speaker 1: individual drills with the defensive end and then he started
Speaker 1: at linebacker. So that's no different than what's went on
Speaker 1: last week when he did start at defensive end. Um,
Speaker 1: So we'll we'll see what they do. I just got
Speaker 1: a feeling they're they're putting a premium on rushing the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I just think that although my druthers as he's in
Speaker 1: the middle of the defense because he can do more,
Speaker 1: I want to see a dozen tackle. They liked him
Speaker 1: on the ball. Yeah, they throw deep, they thrill deep,
Speaker 1: and that's going to kind of you know, go into
Speaker 1: my pick to click. But they they love they loved
Speaker 1: him on the ball. I think that running back ended
Speaker 1: up getting hurt this year. The starting running back, Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 1: He's back now. He is back. That guy's good now.
Speaker 1: He is a good running back and if he's healthy, especially,
Speaker 1: he is a good Early on in the season when
Speaker 1: they were winning, they were winning on his legs and
Speaker 1: they got sort of a system the way the Cowboys
Speaker 1: do with Jacobs, and then he's backed up by Kenya
Speaker 1: and Drake, who's more of a two Alabama right and
Speaker 1: talented guys. And they also picked up Peyton Barber. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the offensive line looks like, but they
Speaker 1: would rather pound you with the ball and makes him
Speaker 1: feel a lot more comfortable. So all right, So where
Speaker 1: are we going on these picks? Picks to click and
Speaker 1: so forth, since we've been so accurate. Yeah, and I'm
Speaker 1: stubborn too, because I gotta go with Polo Man, I
Speaker 1: really gotta go with polar I think I think Zeke's gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, willingly let him take a lot of plays
Speaker 1: in this game. You know, these these two games in
Speaker 1: four days. That's just really not It's not doesn't help
Speaker 1: your knee at all. And so I think the coaches
Speaker 1: are gonna be a little bit more careful. And I
Speaker 1: think Keller Moore learned something. He's gonna have Polot more involved,
Speaker 1: especially the fact that he don't have uh Amari Cooper.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be more involved in the game plan,
Speaker 1: be more versatile in how we use him. Still looking
Speaker 1: over one hundred years from scrimmage and with them guys,
Speaker 1: with them going down the field, God, I want to
Speaker 1: put digs in there every week, right, because you know
Speaker 1: this is his game to get a pick. When I
Speaker 1: play against the Raiders, they're gonna go deep. I'll take
Speaker 1: you look forward, you look forward, They're gonna go deep.
Speaker 1: They love going deep in routes. That's that's right in
Speaker 1: his wheelhouse. So I think they're gonna try him, you know,
Speaker 1: because they know he's aggressive, you know, been there before,
Speaker 1: and uh so he's my kind of honorable mention Cowboys
Speaker 1: thirty one twenty three thirty one twenty three point for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys Shots secretary, write that down. That's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Okay, you got yours down. He's already got
Speaker 1: his right, so I'm ready to write yours down for
Speaker 1: Since you were hesitant to take Diggs, I'll take them
Speaker 1: for you. There you go. And you know, we're starting
Speaker 1: to trust the defense just a little bit. Which by
Speaker 1: the way, oh I turned the page. Darn it. Last
Speaker 1: year at this time after ten games, they were giving
Speaker 1: up thirty one point four points a game. So if
Speaker 1: you multiply that by ten, that's three hundred and fourteen
Speaker 1: points in ten games. This year it's twenty one point four.
Speaker 1: So they've made a ten point improvement from one year
Speaker 1: to the next. One defense, so I'm trusting the defense
Speaker 1: in this game. I'm gonna say twenty four seventeen Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and I will take Trayvon Diggs getting number nine this
Speaker 1: Thursday for Thanksgiving Welcome nineteen eighty five. And if they
Speaker 1: get enough sacks, I think, yeah, right, that'll get USA
Speaker 1: eighty five. Right. And as Zeke said, if they get
Speaker 1: did Zeke say it? I think Zeke said it three
Speaker 1: picks or three sacks or something. It was Parsons, Parsons.
Speaker 1: Parsons talked about it. They can ta challenges to get
Speaker 1: three picks, three sacks, three kicks, whatever, and then it
Speaker 1: can have the Turkey dance. Yeah, that's it was Parsons
Speaker 1: who said that. Yeah, yeah, I see the Turkey dance. Uhhh.
Speaker 1: So your score was twenty four seventeen, twenty four seventeen,
Speaker 1: all right. A couple of weeks ago Cowboys played Atlanta
Speaker 1: and it was a forty one seventeen win, and I
Speaker 1: picked it was a forty three to three win. I
Speaker 1: picked forty one to seventeen. Okay, all right. I woke
Speaker 1: up at four forty four this morning for some reasons. Funny,
Speaker 1: I did too, exactly four forty four. It was quarter
Speaker 1: to five something like that. Well, that's close on, it's
Speaker 1: pretty close. So I woke up at four forty four
Speaker 1: and the first thing I thought of us my pick
Speaker 1: to click is number four. Okay, and he had a
Speaker 1: pretty good game against Atlanta two weeks ago, right, it
Speaker 1: was a forty three to three win. So forty four
Speaker 1: to four ye no, okay, I'll go forty four to fourteen. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: forty four to fourteen, and number four is going to
Speaker 1: have another big day. That's a cop out because number
Speaker 1: four needs to have a good day. Yes, but I
Speaker 1: also you could pick him every week, but I do
Speaker 1: think coming off a week like last week and a
Speaker 1: short week, it's number four who leads this team. And
Speaker 1: so number four is all right, you need to head
Speaker 1: down the hallway and over to the Omni for your appearance.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your Thanksgiving. Safe travels, everybody, and I guess we
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Speaker 1: you're and we'll be back to not only celebrate a
Speaker 1: victory over the Raiders, but also we'll be fast approaching
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Speaker 1: Saints next Thursday. Have a great weekend, everybody, go Cowboys.
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