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Speaker 1: Your hosts mickey' spagnola, Brian brought us, Taylor Stern and
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips. Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys. It's our Friday show, so we're gonna have
Speaker 1: some good stuff for you guys. Of course, always joined
Speaker 1: by Mickey, Rob Brian myself in the SWBC Mortgage studio.
Speaker 1: We have lots to talk about to get ready for
Speaker 1: this Rams game that's going to be an early one
Speaker 1: noon on Sunday. Mickey says, everyone will be sleeping. But
Speaker 1: how are you guys doing today? Wide awake ready? Roll
Speaker 1: wide awake ready? And if we're ready, and if we weren't,
Speaker 1: Switzer woke us all up? Is that Barry Switzer? Why
Speaker 1: don't you tell us someone what he was doing? And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what he was doing? Is he is?
Speaker 1: He is a great story. He was dressed up for something,
Speaker 1: Yeah he was. He he had a meeting. I think
Speaker 1: he said he was trying to come get his passes
Speaker 1: from Rich and Rich had already said that the passes
Speaker 1: were a Norman and He's like, well, that's not doing
Speaker 1: me any good right now, So I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: get me new pass New passes is what he wants.
Speaker 1: So he broke into a story from nineteen fifty eighth
Speaker 1: basketball story. Basketball story. It's like, that's amazing. Why do
Speaker 1: you remember all that stuff? He'll tell a story on
Speaker 1: you right way. Have you ever real quick, I'm starting
Speaker 1: me to deill the show. Have you ever interviewed so?
Speaker 1: Did your Byron Nelson? Yeah? Did you? Did you ever
Speaker 1: tell you about the shot he hit the nineteen thirty
Speaker 1: five Headelphia at the Club ro This is two thousands there,
Speaker 1: twenty and twelve. I know, I'm sorry, I'm just but no,
Speaker 1: this is oh yeah, I wouldn't. Guys remember him. I
Speaker 1: remember his mother's saying, guys, remember, it's a crazy how
Speaker 1: these guys their lives they remember. It's weird to be
Speaker 1: on a show with you guys, And and hear that
Speaker 1: consistently because you guys remember everything. I don't remember as
Speaker 1: much as Micky does, but I remember remember a few things.
Speaker 1: Nick's the king of like rand Nick was put on
Speaker 1: earth to remind me of how bad we were in
Speaker 1: those three years in the early two thousands, the leading rusher,
Speaker 1: and yeah, a bunch of guys tell me about how
Speaker 1: much the Cowboys have owned the Rams the past few
Speaker 1: years that they have played them. They have. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean we talked about Proud Brian being there obviously switch
Speaker 1: from Saint Louis. Saint Louis, Los Angeles. Now that was
Speaker 1: the last time they lost to him two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: I believe so famous on Brad Johnson game. When you
Speaker 1: were at you probably wrote a really good story about that,
Speaker 1: didn't you. The famous Rams Dude game. That's what pac
Speaker 1: Man said leading up. It's the Rams Dude, we got it.
Speaker 1: And then Brad Sham calls it the worst loss in
Speaker 1: Cowboys history, at least to that point. That's what he said,
Speaker 1: because they had they won that game, they would have
Speaker 1: gone to the playoffs that year. That was playoffs. Jim
Speaker 1: Haslett's interim debut. I believe they were on they were
Speaker 1: they winless. I was going to say they were unwin unwinned.
Speaker 1: They were winless. English is hard on Fridays, that's right,
Speaker 1: and they go up there and spit the bit. Yeah
Speaker 1: got I mean they got clawberd right. It was like
Speaker 1: thirty something to fourteen, pretty really bizarre game because Tony
Speaker 1: was hurt, but Tony was warming up before the game started,
Speaker 1: and you didn't know what was going to happen, and
Speaker 1: they were Saint Louis was bad in that game. Was
Speaker 1: someone who was a fifty fifty y? Yes? Could that
Speaker 1: be for this game with number fifty? Shaun Lee? I
Speaker 1: don't know if a coin on fifty fifty, I don't know.
Speaker 1: As Brad Johnson was about, oh for fifty. What do
Speaker 1: you think about Sean Lee this week? Think Shaun Lee
Speaker 1: is gonna be playing though. I think we'll find out
Speaker 1: at ten thirty on Sunday. I was going to raise
Speaker 1: the arm and then I don't know if I could
Speaker 1: do it, but I think he's out Sun Lee. Everybody,
Speaker 1: I know it's Shaun Lee, but I think you have
Speaker 1: to think about the whole campaign. I think you have
Speaker 1: to think about the whole campaign and not just this
Speaker 1: one game. I think, and I can say I'm sorry
Speaker 1: real quick. Yeah. And I know there's there's only sixteen
Speaker 1: of these, so I know, I know they're all important.
Speaker 1: All of them are must win. To me, I've never
Speaker 1: everybody says, oh, this is a must win game. They're
Speaker 1: all must win because just what Mickey said, you're one
Speaker 1: game short, you don't make the playoffs. They're all must win.
Speaker 1: He's facing he's facing a one and two count right now.
Speaker 1: I thought Jerry was how about that, yeah, one to
Speaker 1: call him out. Jerry called him touch and go. It's
Speaker 1: not that serious, but he said he hopes he's go.
Speaker 1: But I thought to your point, he was pretty telling
Speaker 1: in that we're going to be quote very careful. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And again those hamstrings, they can become six weeks, a
Speaker 1: couple months if it's bad enough. We've seen it with
Speaker 1: these young corners that it keep nagging him, nagging him.
Speaker 1: So I mean, maybe he's not ready this week and
Speaker 1: Packers or after the bye. We'll see. He did the
Speaker 1: same thing today or is doing the same thing today
Speaker 1: as he did yesterday. He went out there team stretch,
Speaker 1: then went off with Britt and start working outside on
Speaker 1: the chords. He's on the grass field that's wet, so
Speaker 1: he'll be he'll be limited. But I still say it
Speaker 1: comes down to if how he feels at ten thirty
Speaker 1: on Sunday morning. Yeah, Well, like to the stadium, keep
Speaker 1: an eye on him if he's out there. Warman. Oh,
Speaker 1: she'll get there. She'll get there real early. Mickey and
Speaker 1: I are usually the first in the press box. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I save the seat next to him. We sit next
Speaker 1: to each other in games. If you guys are listening,
Speaker 1: the love never ends, okay, love never make sure she's watching,
Speaker 1: you know I am. Anyway, Shaun Lee, guys, he can
Speaker 1: still have a good season even if he misses a
Speaker 1: few games. Last year we saw that with Dez Brent.
Speaker 1: They waited until after the bye week to bring him back.
Speaker 1: He had a Pro Bowl season. Sure, so I know
Speaker 1: that everyone's worried about, Oh, you know, the long run
Speaker 1: of it all, he can still make up for this
Speaker 1: if he's just resting this instead of what you're saying
Speaker 1: out and hurts himself. Yeah, this to me is with
Speaker 1: with a with a bye week coming up after the
Speaker 1: Green Bay game. You know. To me, it's like, if
Speaker 1: you get through this week and then you find a way.
Speaker 1: I just think personnel wise, Yeah, you don't want to
Speaker 1: play without Shaun Lee. Mickey said it brilliant brilliantly yesterday.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want to play without him, nobody does.
Speaker 1: But if you think about how you could play in
Speaker 1: this game with your with your dime personnel and you
Speaker 1: only need the two linebackers. You know, you could you
Speaker 1: could maybe with with with the Rant and Smith, you
Speaker 1: could work some things around where these defensive backs can
Speaker 1: can go out and help you a little bit. Well,
Speaker 1: remember Damian Wilson was working on the second like Nickel package,
Speaker 1: Dime package and training camp, so they don't have to
Speaker 1: just rely totally. Boy, we're sugarcoating this a lot. I know. Well,
Speaker 1: but I mean they have bodies to do it. They do.
Speaker 1: They're just not Yeah, that's that's fair, and not Shaun
Speaker 1: Lee's head. I want, yeah, I want. I want Shaun
Speaker 1: Lee on the field against Todd Gurley and against an
Speaker 1: offense that's putting up thirty seven points a game or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. I mean, one hundred and seven in
Speaker 1: the first thirty five point seven Okay, got seven, right,
Speaker 1: It's Friday, Like, that's all right, that's all right. I
Speaker 1: just licked it up. Jason did say say when he
Speaker 1: did go out in the fourth quarter, it was Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith handling the communication through the helmet communication. Oh, they
Speaker 1: ran out with the Bucky had the out with the
Speaker 1: new helmet, so it would be Jaalen. I would think no, no,
Speaker 1: he was. They gave him I mean this marine dot yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: or it might be Durant. You never known ability off him.
Speaker 1: Paya was also outside doing his individual drills, as he
Speaker 1: did all last week, so I would imagine he's listed
Speaker 1: as did not practice. I see if they I think
Speaker 1: he's in can nurse his knee through another week? Carol
Speaker 1: and a Woozier were out can give you individual absolutely? Absolutely? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Got anything else more important? I was ready to throw
Speaker 1: it to you guys to tell him. Rod just took
Speaker 1: off him. Imagine that. Yeah, and then Cavan Frasier was
Speaker 1: out there, Hitchen was out there, and Lewis was out
Speaker 1: there doing whatever they were doing after stretch. Thanks Nicky,
Speaker 1: we got an update on that. Can we You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you this, guys, even if if if
Speaker 1: Carol is healthy and I think he's gonna play, you
Speaker 1: still start still start brown at that other corner? I would, yeah,
Speaker 1: opposite Scandrick, Yeah, yeah, I would, I think so too.
Speaker 1: I don't think you guys are wrong there. Carol to
Speaker 1: me is this week's ben Wickery. It's a good point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of the guy that just in case, because I
Speaker 1: don't know that he's totally okay. And the way Jason
Speaker 1: talked in the walkthrough, he still had to pass his
Speaker 1: last hurdle to get out of the concussion protocol, and
Speaker 1: one of the last hurdles is you've got to go
Speaker 1: out and practice right, and then they want to see
Speaker 1: what the residual effect is that the next day. And
Speaker 1: so I would imagine today's the next day dealing with
Speaker 1: a lot of speed with these Rams outside receivers too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a tough matchup for any of these guys. Well,
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin was full yesterday too, And I'll just go
Speaker 1: ahead and give you guys the Rams practice report. Connor
Speaker 1: Barwin obviously back out there when he had a rest day,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown fool still LaMarcus Joiner d n P. So, guys,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a little bit of a breaker. Hamstring. Hamstring.
Speaker 1: That's a starting safety right there. Well, their starting center
Speaker 1: was only limited after not practicing on Wednesday, so keep
Speaker 1: an eye on that. Of course. Sammy Watkins, you just
Speaker 1: talked about a speedy wide receiver. He was full yesterday.
Speaker 1: Cavon Webster, their cornerback, he is back at practice, even
Speaker 1: did something a little bit crazy on social media for
Speaker 1: them talking about how he was ready to be back
Speaker 1: and ready to face on some some Dez Bryant. So, hey,
Speaker 1: take on that task. Good luck Andrew Whitworth back out
Speaker 1: there full after a rest day. So the Rams are
Speaker 1: healing and getting back to the field in all the
Speaker 1: right spots. An extra day of work in who the Rams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like maybe an extra walkthrough or something like that. They
Speaker 1: probably they played Thursday, probably gay player today off Friday,
Speaker 1: because you could think of a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Speaker 1: I think they practice Monday. Yeah, Monday. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I think. And they didn't have to report, like that's
Speaker 1: an extra practice, right, so they don't have to report
Speaker 1: any injuries. Yeah, in that practice. Well, Darryl Johnston was
Speaker 1: around here today, he is doing the game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and we were talking and I was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's been talking about the long week in the short
Speaker 1: week and all that stuff. He did say the Rams
Speaker 1: will be arriving in Texas today to acclimate more to
Speaker 1: the time change and do all that. So West Coast
Speaker 1: teams have done that in the past. That's an old
Speaker 1: Bill Walsh thing and It's so funny because when we
Speaker 1: were in Green Bay, we in in the middle of
Speaker 1: the country. We would do the same thing going east
Speaker 1: or west if we had to go way down south
Speaker 1: or we had to go way out to the west.
Speaker 1: And that's one of those things where you know you travel.
Speaker 1: John Snyder always talks about this. In Seattle, they have
Speaker 1: an extra travel day always built in. That's kind of
Speaker 1: hard on your team. Well, it is hard, and that's
Speaker 1: why you know Micky's talking about having the extra practice day.
Speaker 1: They do have to travel and they do have to
Speaker 1: get ready to play two hours earlier than what they're
Speaker 1: really normal. Yeah, thin am start for them. And it's
Speaker 1: early for the Cowboys too. I mean we talked about
Speaker 1: it earlier in the week. They haven't had many noon games.
Speaker 1: That's they're they're the Cowboys. They're gonna play late. They're
Speaker 1: gonna play in that primetime slot. And so the message
Speaker 1: from the coaches this week has been, this game's coming
Speaker 1: on you quick. You know you've got Saturday, but you
Speaker 1: gotta be ready to go. And this is a team
Speaker 1: offensively and defensively too, as it started too too strong
Speaker 1: early in games. You know you can't especially offensively you
Speaker 1: can't afford another three and out, three and out to
Speaker 1: start the game, not against this offense. Early bus from
Speaker 1: the Ford Center leaves at eight fifteen on Sunday for
Speaker 1: the stadium. That's early. And I think they have an
Speaker 1: eight forty five or was it eight. I think it
Speaker 1: was like forty five. They were supposed to be there by. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of early. So what's the primetime college
Speaker 1: game that they might be saying a watching because let's
Speaker 1: hope it's not that good. Yeah, yeah, there'll be no
Speaker 1: more midnight curfew like last week. It's like a big
Speaker 1: pack twelve matchup that's gonna end it two in the
Speaker 1: morning or hopefully. No, that's what I'm saying. We don't
Speaker 1: we don't need any of that. We need these guys
Speaker 1: arrested and ready to go. Of course, you guys heard
Speaker 1: Mickey say Cavan Frasier was added that his knee kind
Speaker 1: of just a little tweak. He was limited. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any real concern of whether he'll be able
Speaker 1: to play or not. And of course Carol now coming back,
Speaker 1: and Hitchen's getting ready to probably come back next week,
Speaker 1: next week. Not Yeah, can I ask a question about
Speaker 1: about Jordan Lewis. Did you guys notice his knee rapped yesterday?
Speaker 1: I wasn't out at practice. I didn't see practice. I
Speaker 1: just saw him in the locker room. Yeah, it's listed
Speaker 1: a hamstring. Yeah to me though it's a little long
Speaker 1: to be a hamstring. Yeah, just looking at the rap
Speaker 1: kind of goes down, you know. I was just curious
Speaker 1: if you guys noticed. We spoke to him yesterday. He
Speaker 1: said he's feeling okay, feeling pretty good. He did pop
Speaker 1: up yesterday on the injury report limited, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're tailing him back a little bit leading
Speaker 1: into the game. You know, we'll see any bulletins from
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones this morning. Yeah, I saw that you were getting.
Speaker 1: And we don't have to get into the political speech.
Speaker 1: We're football show. Yeah, there's a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of anthem talk. Um. He addressed Sean Lee, but it
Speaker 1: was mostly about what they might do in terms of
Speaker 1: pregame this week, and he didn't want to speculate on
Speaker 1: that one. Did you think it was interesting, Uh, that
Speaker 1: he said, okay, you guys can go listen to it.
Speaker 1: What No, Um, The fact that he talked about the
Speaker 1: slow start, that made me too much. Oh well good, Uh,
Speaker 1: the focus on the anthem and what they were going
Speaker 1: to do and maybe weren't concentrating on the game. And
Speaker 1: if you remember, I pointed out that Oakland might have
Speaker 1: done the same thing. They got off to a real
Speaker 1: slow start that Thursday night because they decided they were
Speaker 1: going to sit arm in arm on the bench. He
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was another team that went to Chicago and didn't
Speaker 1: do very well after all there, and they stayed in.
Speaker 1: They stayed in, start out of their routine, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting that he he brought that out.
Speaker 1: Um ye, and he did it. He offered it. He
Speaker 1: didn't get asked. He offered it. Yeah, as one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why they got to get off to a
Speaker 1: slow start, because if you remember, offensively it was two
Speaker 1: three and outs. Yeah, and defensively they drove for scores,
Speaker 1: kept the guy missed the field goal. Yeah. So I
Speaker 1: thought that was that was pretty interesting. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: But why did they have a slow start against the Broncos? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think the Broncos were just better personnel
Speaker 1: personnel wise. I don't you know to me that that game,
Speaker 1: that game defensively for the Cowboys was as bad as
Speaker 1: it can get when you talk about having them, Matt,
Speaker 1: I mean, when Denver's ability to run the one, we're
Speaker 1: going all the way back, but Denver's ability, it's balanced.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jason Garrett even talked about the Rams today.
Speaker 1: What's made the Rams successful? It was balanced. You know,
Speaker 1: they have that ability to run the football, they have
Speaker 1: ability to throw the ball. They've made a lot of plays.
Speaker 1: I think the Broncos. The Broncos offensively put the Cowboys
Speaker 1: into tear spot. It helped her defense surely in that
Speaker 1: game well, and that trend they'd carry over into the
Speaker 1: last week because Scott Lenahan spoke to it yesterday. Zeke
Speaker 1: spoke to it yesterday. They're not producing enough on first
Speaker 1: and second down, and that's a big problem. This team's
Speaker 1: only converting thirty four percent of their third down opportunities.
Speaker 1: They're just not staying on the field. It's hurting their defense,
Speaker 1: it's hurting their offense. And they finally got going in
Speaker 1: the second half. You hope that's that's a sign of
Speaker 1: things to come. I mean, think about it. They've only
Speaker 1: scored seven touchdowns in three games. Yeah, Todd Gurley's got six, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and four of those touchdowns came after they scored one
Speaker 1: with a minute ten left in the first half, So
Speaker 1: they scored, they almost went another half without a touchdown.
Speaker 1: They're struggling. Yeah, and a lot of it has to
Speaker 1: do with what you said, not very good on first down,
Speaker 1: and it's carrying over to the third down, and then
Speaker 1: it makes third down very difficult. Coach Lenahan spoke to
Speaker 1: minus runs a couple of different times times yesterday and
Speaker 1: that carried into the second half. You know, Zeke got go.
Speaker 1: It's funny how Zeke gets a seven yard game and
Speaker 1: an eight yard touchdown run after back to back throws
Speaker 1: to Bryce Butler for ninety yards. And you kind of
Speaker 1: spoke to that earlier in the week too. You got
Speaker 1: to be able to loosen up the running down. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like what Mickey brought up yesterday when he brought
Speaker 1: up the point, Hey it doesn't and we got into
Speaker 1: it if it has to be a completion and different things.
Speaker 1: But if they do go in there and they have
Speaker 1: a big play on that first series, I think we
Speaker 1: might see a different start just in that first little
Speaker 1: bit because if they see like, okay, it's not gonna
Speaker 1: come down to right here in the trenches. It's really
Speaker 1: gonna have to be who beats who in the backfield. Yeah,
Speaker 1: give them something to think about. Which is weird because
Speaker 1: last year I forgot what the streak was. They're opening,
Speaker 1: they're opening, No, they're opening series. They would go down
Speaker 1: and score, Yeah, no problem. Yeah, it was like they
Speaker 1: were so good when you win, it was six plays
Speaker 1: eighty yards and you know, away you go sort of
Speaker 1: drink there of how times they scored first that game
Speaker 1: and this time this year so far it ain't been
Speaker 1: in that way. Ruggled. Yeah, I will say opening the season,
Speaker 1: this was the only team in the Internet NFL to
Speaker 1: have their first four games going up against defenses that
Speaker 1: were rated top ten last ten. Yeah, so no question
Speaker 1: they knew what they were in for. Maybe they've learned
Speaker 1: some things, hopefully they have after especially facing that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you also thought though that the Cowboys were equipped
Speaker 1: offensively to do some good against that. You did, you
Speaker 1: know with Beasley and you felt like you could run
Speaker 1: the football. I mean, I'm not going to put it
Speaker 1: all on the offensive line, but you felt like though
Speaker 1: that going in I was not I'm not saying I
Speaker 1: was over confident, but I felt like, I hear people
Speaker 1: say that, and I'm like, yeah, but Dallas matches up
Speaker 1: pretty well against that. They match up against a team
Speaker 1: that can play defense. I mean, they must have played
Speaker 1: some good defenses last year, right, That's what I was
Speaker 1: kind of thinking, and I was I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to kill your point. I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to say to me, you know, it's it's not like
Speaker 1: you have you're Jacksonville or you're a team that struggles offensively.
Speaker 1: You know, you're thinking, oh god, we got to play
Speaker 1: against four top ten defenses. You had all your pieces,
Speaker 1: you had all your pieces, you know, and you have
Speaker 1: the ability to run the football, and you just you
Speaker 1: just haven't. Execution has been really poor, and especially on
Speaker 1: what you're talking about first downs and what is this
Speaker 1: one there? Now they're twenty second Yeah, well that's to me,
Speaker 1: this defense and watching the Rams play will give up
Speaker 1: big plays. And hopefully you do get off to that
Speaker 1: start where you're talking about that you take the you take,
Speaker 1: you take the ball, and now you're on the twenty
Speaker 1: five minute, you have you know, six seven plays where
Speaker 1: you're able to put some things together, whether it's running
Speaker 1: the ball or throwing the ball, but that they they've
Speaker 1: got to they've got to have a better start, if anything,
Speaker 1: to get the crowd into it and help the defense
Speaker 1: with points. I mean they've gone out there and how
Speaker 1: many times this have been seven nothing to start the game?
Speaker 1: You know, the Cowboys having to having to deal with that,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you're running game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you'll compromise, especially you get down two scores
Speaker 1: and it's like that was Denver. You basically ditched the
Speaker 1: running game. Yeah. I'm going to predict they get off
Speaker 1: to a better start than the Bears did last night.
Speaker 1: I like hearing that. YEA was that awful? Well, I
Speaker 1: was watching high school football as well. You probably saw
Speaker 1: a better game. I did see a better game. I
Speaker 1: probably did. Hey, well, let's get into a little bit
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Speaker 1: and Media Center. Last Thursday night, the Rams beat the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, and Todd Gurley had a little joke
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Speaker 1: just overreacting here. On an overreaction Friday, David Hellman was
Speaker 1: able to see practice we were here talking to you guys,
Speaker 1: and he said Chaz Green was not at the media
Speaker 1: portion of practice today due to a hip injury. Remains
Speaker 1: to be seen if he'll do anything later on m
Speaker 1: So that's problematic if he's limited, especially if it's a hip.
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's the same hip he had surgically
Speaker 1: repaired a couple of years ago. Yeah, I didn't see
Speaker 1: that one coming. So there we are. Jonathan Cooper get
Speaker 1: ready maybe? Yeah. So before that kind of helps, you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about who we would suggest as
Speaker 1: maybe the inactives this week or not suggest but think
Speaker 1: it might be. And one of them, definitely for me,
Speaker 1: was to have Jonathan Cooper. But I'll go through these guys,
Speaker 1: and now with the Chads Green News, maybe we can
Speaker 1: discuss a little bit more about different guys. Got so
Speaker 1: we got seven Cooper Rush. I think that's pretty confirmed.
Speaker 1: Thirty three Cheetoh yeah, I put Alfred out this week,
Speaker 1: So maybe that might be one of our guys who
Speaker 1: we might talk about talk about why'd you do that? Well,
Speaker 1: let's get to that. Oh, we're not supposed to talk
Speaker 1: about it. Now. Let her go through them fifty fifty nine,
Speaker 1: sixty four, and ninety nine. But now with Chaz Green
Speaker 1: and probably having to move up Jonathan Cooper, still remains
Speaker 1: to be seen what this injury is with Chad's Green
Speaker 1: in the severity of it. But do you consider maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what you would do. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Charles Tapper sitting there, do you take down another d lineman?
Speaker 1: Do you take where? Do you where do you make
Speaker 1: that move? I think you get a wide receiver? Is
Speaker 1: it eighty five? No? I think if you're gonna, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna, if chat you're calling Chaz Green out If
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's out, no, No, But I'm saying,
Speaker 1: if you had to I flip, it's gonna be Cooper
Speaker 1: and him are gonna flip. That's what's gonna happen there
Speaker 1: that you know, as talking to some guys though, these
Speaker 1: these backup linemen don't get a lot of work with
Speaker 1: the ones, so kind of you know, we'll see how
Speaker 1: it all plays on me. He's a veteran guy. But
Speaker 1: if if Chaz Green doesn't go, I don't think he
Speaker 1: would be Joe Looney, Well, you wouldn't consider carrying Cooper
Speaker 1: just as insurance. Yeah, they did that with Oh, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, if Chaz goes, if Chads is playing,
Speaker 1: But then they did that with the wide receiver the
Speaker 1: other day. Remember that. Then there's in the Denver game
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they didn't have anybody.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Like the defensive back Heay mentioned,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, maybe he's a guy that you know, week
Speaker 1: to week, depending on your situation, he has to be inactive.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Do you feel comfortable with Jonathan Cooper
Speaker 1: playing at left guard? I mean he I thought he
Speaker 1: was a better I thought he was a better guard
Speaker 1: than than Chaz Green was in the preseason. So he's
Speaker 1: played it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a veteran guy. It's it's Aaron Donald occasionally over him.
Speaker 1: We've talked about that in our Xerox blueprint thing that
Speaker 1: we shot this morning. Might ever play yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 1: might take advantage well, but they play him to the
Speaker 1: open side, so you can formation him if you want,
Speaker 1: you know, you could try to and going up against
Speaker 1: this strong defensive front for the Rams. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we're just talking about they have to get the run
Speaker 1: game going. How did you see Jonathan Cooper help that
Speaker 1: when he was playing in the preseason. You know what,
Speaker 1: I I didn't. I thought all along that they were
Speaker 1: going to play I thought along they were gonna play
Speaker 1: Jonathan Cooper at guard, start him at guard, and then
Speaker 1: let Chads Green be the swing tackle. That's what I
Speaker 1: thought they were going to do because he yeah, because
Speaker 1: he has he experienced, yeah, the experience. But Chas Green
Speaker 1: hasn't played badly. He hasn't played badly, So I'm just
Speaker 1: to me, I'm thinking, I'm thinking that if they have
Speaker 1: to go to Cooper, it's not a terrible thing, because
Speaker 1: I didn't think that Jonathan Cooper was terrible during the preseason.
Speaker 1: Chads has played better than each practice exactly. So When
Speaker 1: you guys talk about the running game not being up
Speaker 1: to its usual standards, you don't point to Chaz Green.
Speaker 1: I don't throw it over because I think when people
Speaker 1: are trying to search for answers, they're saying, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: got two new pieces on the offensive line, what's different?
Speaker 1: And I'm with you, guys, I haven't seen chads just
Speaker 1: like totally compromise at that spot. See what happens though,
Speaker 1: is it's got to be five guys in concert with
Speaker 1: each other. And when you put two new ones in there,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily they're bad, right, but something I mean,
Speaker 1: if you look at some of those running places, somebody
Speaker 1: was missing, something was going wrong, and it wasn't the
Speaker 1: same guy every time. Look at the first play of
Speaker 1: the game. No, I think you could point to each
Speaker 1: t Smith, each guy. Yeah, no doubt. So you know
Speaker 1: if one guy makes a Mistand I thought Frederick made
Speaker 1: a good point. You know he was he was talking
Speaker 1: about you know, it's it's not like the running games,
Speaker 1: not like the passing game, because if something goes wrong
Speaker 1: in the passing game, the quarterback can either get out
Speaker 1: of the pocket. Uh, he could find a different receiver,
Speaker 1: or he could dump the ball off. If somebody makes
Speaker 1: a mistake in the running game, it's very noticeable. It's
Speaker 1: a dead play. It's done. That's what I was talking
Speaker 1: about earlier about Zeke and his ability to make miss
Speaker 1: because there are times when guys run free or get free,
Speaker 1: and his ability to make those guys miss. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: if it's an unblocked guy that you didn't account to block,
Speaker 1: I think that's a different story. But if it's somebody
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be blocked and the guy beats his man,
Speaker 1: there's nothing he could do. Having that happened a lot
Speaker 1: in the first half. But we've seen him, we've seen
Speaker 1: him make guys miss, but he's he was getting tackled
Speaker 1: a couple of times from behind. Guys were through and
Speaker 1: kitting him from behind. You can't make that guy miss.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I'm gonna I'll ask the question then when
Speaker 1: you watch, when you watch, when you went back and
Speaker 1: watch the game, did you notice anybody. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: just asking. I first play the game, tyrants, tyredepeat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was another play Chas Green got beat. There was
Speaker 1: another play Travis Frederick got beat. You know, and if
Speaker 1: he doesn't, if he doesn't shake off Tyr and Matthew,
Speaker 1: there's no thirty yard run and that it's a third
Speaker 1: and one play, so he's gonna get Yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: gonna get nothing. He hit him behind the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He came through free, no one picked him up, and
Speaker 1: and he missed him from behind, not in the front.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like he shaked him off. So everybody's making
Speaker 1: a mistake. And that's what Frederick was saying. If one
Speaker 1: guy makes a mistake in the running game, it messes
Speaker 1: up the whole play. In the passing game, you can
Speaker 1: compensate for a mistake. You got other receivers to go
Speaker 1: throw the ball to. So they just gotta be better.
Speaker 1: They got to be on point, and they haven't been.
Speaker 1: I didn't think last year that they were great all
Speaker 1: the time, and they still were one of the better
Speaker 1: teams in the running the ball. That's that that was clear.
Speaker 1: There were there were problems they had last year because
Speaker 1: Zeke would get you extra yard. I told he would
Speaker 1: lower his shoulder due he has to do if it
Speaker 1: if it was if it was play was blocked poorly,
Speaker 1: he'd get two yards. Well, we're just going to agree
Speaker 1: to disagree on that. Well, that's that's true. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's and he by the way, he told you to
Speaker 1: shut up yesterday who me, No, somebody asked your question.
Speaker 1: He told the guys shut up. You know what, though,
Speaker 1: some of these plays, if you, if you watch him,
Speaker 1: like the toss sweeps the cracks and stuff like that
Speaker 1: place where he could take at six seven yards and
Speaker 1: it's three yards, maybe maybe he maybe he needs to
Speaker 1: look at himself a little bit there. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to kill him. I'm really not. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying we've grown accustomed to see him make some spectacular
Speaker 1: runs with less blocked place. That's all I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: if you want to disagree, that's fine. I will. I
Speaker 1: have no problems. If you can't get to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, if you get in the hole, if you
Speaker 1: and you can make an unblocked guy missed, that's that's
Speaker 1: a different story. Have you said when you can't get
Speaker 1: to the hole, you're getting hit behind the line of scrimmage?
Speaker 1: I mean, why did he have all those those those
Speaker 1: runs for losses? How many? How many runs? How many
Speaker 1: runs have you seen this year where he's cut back
Speaker 1: into tacklers where the hole is front where they do
Speaker 1: block the play front side, and he if he carries
Speaker 1: the ball front side, behind behind Collins and Martin, it's
Speaker 1: at least going to be four yards. But he takes
Speaker 1: it back and then it's a no game because they
Speaker 1: didn't get the backside. I mean, he cuts right into
Speaker 1: a guy where if he just carried it front side,
Speaker 1: he'd gotten for you, well, that's a different story. It's run.
Speaker 1: It's runs talking. I was balking it front the football.
Speaker 1: You were talking about him making a guy missed. I
Speaker 1: wasn't talking about that. How are talking about last guys
Speaker 1: that are unblocked? You can't make last guys. Last year though,
Speaker 1: he was one of the best in the league. When
Speaker 1: we can go back and watch him, I mean you
Speaker 1: go back and watch him carry the football, and he
Speaker 1: was one of the best. The jump cuts things like that,
Speaker 1: well he did. He tried to jump cut and he
Speaker 1: just said he jumped out of the hole and he
Speaker 1: got hit in the back side. But the Matthew play
Speaker 1: is an unblocked guy, right, he was unblocked. And yeah,
Speaker 1: Zeke said that yesterday. He said, if everything else is blocked,
Speaker 1: they want to commit more guys to the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: I've got to make the unblocked guy miss. He said
Speaker 1: that right, and he shot. He didn't make a miss.
Speaker 1: He just didn't make the tackle. He shook him off.
Speaker 1: He didn't make it, he said. He just in general, though,
Speaker 1: in general, to run the ball. Go back and see
Speaker 1: how many one yard runs he had and minus runs.
Speaker 1: See the thing about it, though, is yeah, but go
Speaker 1: back and watch how many times last year the players
Speaker 1: weren't block cleanly. Mickey too, That's another thing. He had
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred yards Russian. I don't care if you can't
Speaker 1: get in the hole, you can't make a guy miss.
Speaker 1: Let's see every play was not blocked cleanly. Every place
Speaker 1: no block. I'm not saying they're block cleanly, but you're
Speaker 1: not having a guy come loose when it's the defensive
Speaker 1: tackle or the defensive end. If a linebackers not block,
Speaker 1: I understand that, but it wants a guy on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. How do you make that guy miss?
Speaker 1: You're you got the ball and he's on top of you.
Speaker 1: They had a deal the other day. I'll see. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit self inflicted too, with the way that
Speaker 1: they play their their scheme because you bring Terrence Williams
Speaker 1: in the block and he doesn't block, you know that,
Speaker 1: and that's there's no reason to bring him. No, there's
Speaker 1: no reason to bring him inside that I agree, because
Speaker 1: that brings another guy into the box. Don't disagree there.
Speaker 1: But we saw what happened though when they do block
Speaker 1: the play well. His touch eight yard touchdown run was
Speaker 1: a well blocked play. But there's but running backs. Like
Speaker 1: Rob said, it's there's not always going to be clean runs.
Speaker 1: That's just mine. That's just what I see. Hey, a
Speaker 1: lot of questions coming in here about his physical shape.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what we're talking about at all.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about if he's in football shape or not.
Speaker 1: We're just simply talking about what if he's able to
Speaker 1: get there? So is he playing as quick as he
Speaker 1: did last year? That's all I'm asking that SAPs on this, Mick.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no stats, it's just your eyes. Look
Speaker 1: at your eyes? Is he Is he getting the runs?
Speaker 1: And Mickey's he's not. He's not wrong, He's not wrong.
Speaker 1: But the thing is is he getting when when you
Speaker 1: have the opportunity, when things are well blocked, is he
Speaker 1: getting the six and seven yard games. He might be
Speaker 1: getting three, he might be getting four. And I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about the stuff that's going on the edge. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about getting around the corner and making somebody and
Speaker 1: getting up the field for six or seven yards. How
Speaker 1: many times we talked about the Bears game he gets
Speaker 1: outside hurdles, a guy gain of twelve, he's out of bounce,
Speaker 1: one of those kind of plays. Those are the players
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. We're not seeing those plays from him
Speaker 1: running the football. We aren't. You waited until week three
Speaker 1: to see his first touchdown. True, I'm just he's not wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I mean, I don't. I have my
Speaker 1: difference of opinion with him because I feel like that
Speaker 1: he is not as quick as he is to the hole,
Speaker 1: and he's not through the hole as quick as he
Speaker 1: was last year. That's just what my opinion. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: agree to disagree on that. But do you guys agree
Speaker 1: or disagree that the guy out for the running backs
Speaker 1: will be Alfred Morris this week. I think they're starting
Speaker 1: to play him less. And we saw last week that
Speaker 1: that Rod Smith was the first guy off the b
Speaker 1: I'm writing about that today in my final thoughts, what
Speaker 1: are you seeing from Morris? That are you're not seeing
Speaker 1: from Morris? They've just they've gone away from him. They
Speaker 1: have completely gone away from him. And I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised Mickey brought it up earlier, did we start seeing
Speaker 1: McFadden back in the mix. I would not be be
Speaker 1: one bit surprised that they say, Okay, let's we're gonna
Speaker 1: use Smith. Let's see what we do with McFadden as well.
Speaker 1: But I just have a feeling that we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna see a change there the way, especially the way
Speaker 1: they're using it. We'll no more. October second, another court date, Yeah, Monday, Right, Monday,
Speaker 1: lawyer Rob, we'll get on that. I'll have a report. Yes,
Speaker 1: lawyer Rob, get your briefcase out, get over there. It's
Speaker 1: gotten a little bit more confusing too, by the way.
Speaker 1: We get one thing they're arguing, they're arguing about two
Speaker 1: different deals. Now he's playing Sunday. Yeah that much we know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that we do know. Ezek Elliott played college football in
Speaker 1: Ohio and our caller Joe is from Ohio. So Joe,
Speaker 1: what is your question? Yeah, I got a question for Mickey.
Speaker 1: He keeps talking about the short week for Dallas next
Speaker 1: week against green Bay versus green Bay's long week. I
Speaker 1: want to ask Mickey, why doesn't he say the same
Speaker 1: thing last year when Dallas had two weeks to pare
Speaker 1: for green Bay and green Bay only had one week.
Speaker 1: He's talking about talking about the playoffs. Yeah, well I'm
Speaker 1: talking about that short week coming up for Dallas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you were talking about the playoffs last year. Well,
Speaker 1: Dallas had two week. That's why, because they had a
Speaker 1: better record. They earned that. Yeah, well they had two
Speaker 1: weeks to prepare. Now, now you keep complaining all the
Speaker 1: short weeks. Complain. I just pointed it out. Why would
Speaker 1: I complain? You always complain. No, you just don't listen.
Speaker 1: Well that's all okay, as weight films listening skill. Thanks Dad,
Speaker 1: appreciate your calling. Amazing that Brian's dad was Ohio. My
Speaker 1: dad know how Mark that you always complain because you
Speaker 1: always complain. My dad in Ohio defending his son. Good stuff.
Speaker 1: Why can't the guy just look at the facts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty easy. They played Thursday, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: played Monday. It's a fair point about how he was
Speaker 1: upset that the Cowboys didn't, from his point of view,
Speaker 1: prepare enough for the Packers in the playoff game when
Speaker 1: they had two weeks. Yeah, don't have to. Everybody that
Speaker 1: went that has the best record gets that advantage. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the teams, you know, they're playing for their lives, are
Speaker 1: better playoff teams at that time. We've seen as as
Speaker 1: the league is a more parody, we've seen more of
Speaker 1: these when you're wildcard teams fighting for your life. You're
Speaker 1: but you find a way to get through. I'll take
Speaker 1: ten day break over six any any day. What Rams
Speaker 1: compared to Cowboys this week? I'll take what the Rams got.
Speaker 1: I tell you what Packers have more time? Well, the
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Speaker 1: losing one guy after another after another. We'll see. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: talking pizza. Cowboys have much less time to eat pizza
Speaker 1: between games, right, But if they're gonna eat pizza, it's
Speaker 1: Papa John's because they know those ingredients are freshhole and
Speaker 1: never frozen pepperoni usd A approved and with ingredients like that,
Speaker 1: better pizza, Papa John. Hey, if there's one thing that
Speaker 1: Mickey cannot complain about, that would be Papa John John's.
Speaker 1: Absolutely only the best, actually anybody's pizza. Yeah, I could
Speaker 1: eat pizza every day. I know Nicky's Italian. You could
Speaker 1: never tell. Never, you could never tell. But hey, so
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris, that's a guy. Yeah, I don't yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I don't know. I'm thinking about Alfred Morris there
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about because I'm just not seeing I'm not
Speaker 1: seeing him play. I'm not seeing him play him enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the and the first guy off the bench in
Speaker 1: the Arizona game was Rod Smith. So you guys gonna
Speaker 1: keep two running backs? No, no, no, no, no no, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring I'm gonna bring McFadden up. I think it's
Speaker 1: time for Mickey's Mickey's play on. You know what, Let's
Speaker 1: let's get McFadden ready to play. Then maybe get him
Speaker 1: ready this one in case he has to start. That's
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. That's Mickey came up with a
Speaker 1: really good theory. You know, hey, maybe they're just kind
Speaker 1: of keeping him fresh. It's kind of what I wanted
Speaker 1: to do with Mo Clayboard. Wanted to dress him like
Speaker 1: in week nine so he would like last the remainder
Speaker 1: of the season the playoffs put him in a bubble suit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just wait here now, Charles Tapper, I also put down
Speaker 1: it's comfortable with that? Or do you think there might
Speaker 1: be a switch there? I mean, I somebody on the
Speaker 1: show said, Tacos a first round pick. Let's let's keep
Speaker 1: his spirits up, let's give him reps. Nicky said follow
Speaker 1: the money. That's what I said to a certain degree. Yes,
Speaker 1: but I mean you got to see something. You got
Speaker 1: to see progress or you and look, there's another defensive
Speaker 1: lineman coming back next week. So then what do you
Speaker 1: do if you got to sit two of these guys? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't guarantee that he's active every week. Well,
Speaker 1: but I would probably say I probably guess Tapper here again,
Speaker 1: you've got an open spot because you have one less linebacker, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you're sitting too, but you're moving up Nolan Carroll,
Speaker 1: Nolan Carroll is gonna play for Yeah. Sure, I think
Speaker 1: Nolan Carroll plays this week. You think he passed. I
Speaker 1: think I think. I think, yeah, I think Nolan Carroll
Speaker 1: plays this week. I think he Maybe Ben Rickery doesn't.
Speaker 1: That's that could be. Yeah, But I because I've got
Speaker 1: I've got him active, because I think that maybe they
Speaker 1: can use both those guys and Jordan Lewis I've got,
Speaker 1: I've got, I've got. I agree with Taylor on the
Speaker 1: I agree with Taylor with wo with rush A Woosier Morris.
Speaker 1: I like what she's saying there. Now I think about it.
Speaker 1: I put Lee down. I put Lee down, I would,
Speaker 1: and I put Hitchens down. I think Hitchens is Mickey's
Speaker 1: Mickey's right. Hitchen's gonna be back next week. I think
Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna see, especially if maybe you hold on.
Speaker 1: Now we don't know about Jonathan Cooper. That's the that's
Speaker 1: the one. Yeah, but that would switch switch out, you
Speaker 1: switch out Coop. They can't. They can't say, Okay, Green,
Speaker 1: you're gonna start, but we don't trust you, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep Cooper active too. I think it's got to
Speaker 1: be one or the other, don't you Why? Why? Why
Speaker 1: not both? I mean, do you have to keep six
Speaker 1: wide receivers active every week? No? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I did thinking that they do. You know, they they've
Speaker 1: they've kind of they made they made the commitment to
Speaker 1: him to play. They don't they don't have to keep
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they don't have to keep six wide receivers.
Speaker 1: But it seems like in this, in this to help
Speaker 1: the running game bit, you know, the crack toss and
Speaker 1: you know him on the edge, the big Dwayne Harris blocker.
Speaker 1: You know, it's seems like that's what they're that's the
Speaker 1: plan for this guy. Okay. I agree with you, though,
Speaker 1: I just I don't think you have to keep six
Speaker 1: wide receivers active. I'm just thinking about my offensive line
Speaker 1: and how important is to keep this momentum going that
Speaker 1: you're trying to get with the running game, and if
Speaker 1: chaz Is starts the game, but has problems. I'd like
Speaker 1: to have Cooper available. That's my only thing. That's what
Speaker 1: Joe Looney's there for. But I mean he's the but
Speaker 1: he mostly played center and can't remember that. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: he did play some guard. He's played guard and he
Speaker 1: was scout team stuff that right now he's getting scout
Speaker 1: team work at guard, I'm sure. But yeah, I see
Speaker 1: what Rob's saying though, if he could have him there
Speaker 1: instead of having Noah Brown there, I mean, we focused
Speaker 1: way more on the offensive line. Yeah, like then sure
Speaker 1: that's functioning. Let me ask you, let me ask the
Speaker 1: guys here a question. Then, if you're going to protect yourself,
Speaker 1: where would you rather protect yourself offensive line or in
Speaker 1: the secondary? Because Ben Wickery, you know what I'm saying, Well,
Speaker 1: we saw them not protected in Denver and that was
Speaker 1: a big problem. Yeah, I protect myself in the secondary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you decided that Joe Looney was your swing.
Speaker 1: That's guy. That's what I'm kind of saying. You have
Speaker 1: no protection. If Jazz Green gets hurt, you can't use
Speaker 1: right he's inactive, right, so they say Looney's the backup. See,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying is if if if I know
Speaker 1: that there's a there's a Jordan Lewis is telling Rob Phillips, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm okay, And all of a sudden, it's
Speaker 1: the fourth play of the game and they start one
Speaker 1: of those Sammy Watkins starts one of those vertical runs
Speaker 1: and all and all of a sudden, it's like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: where's uh? You know, you guys are reporting tweeting from
Speaker 1: the press box, Jordan Lewis is on the sidelines talking
Speaker 1: to the trainers, Now, where are you? You know that's
Speaker 1: kind of where Yep, I've just seen it already. We've
Speaker 1: said I'm thinking I would, I'm thinking he's right, and
Speaker 1: protect myself in the secondary, then protect myself in the
Speaker 1: offensive line. Hey, this feels like this has really been
Speaker 1: the first game. Makes sense. We're three weeks into this
Speaker 1: thing where the inactives just aren't as positive. And by positive,
Speaker 1: I don't mean it's ever positive when people are suffering
Speaker 1: from injuries, but I mean you're not as certain about
Speaker 1: them as you have been in past and next week
Speaker 1: it's going to get even more mercer, murkier, mercier when
Speaker 1: you talk about you know what's going to happen with
Speaker 1: with David Irving? Oh yeah, and is he in good
Speaker 1: enough shape? And they haven't seen him here? They haven't
Speaker 1: seen him. You know. That's that's that's something he's been gone,
Speaker 1: you know since training camp next week is gone. No spies,
Speaker 1: no spies, but Rob, what are the spies on your pool?
Speaker 1: Telling us? Because I voted yesterday? Did you guys vote?
Speaker 1: I forgot to look? Oh thanks, Mack, appreciate this yesterday.
Speaker 1: He didn't forget I even voted, right, you did? Yeah, okay, didn't?
Speaker 1: I was it with the majority I've had. I've had
Speaker 1: a nine percent team. You're kind of I'll go the
Speaker 1: other way from everybody else kind of a guy. Biggest
Speaker 1: key to a win. Sunday got four options containing Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley blocking Aaron Donald first and second down offense, preventing
Speaker 1: big pass plays from Jared Goff. Who'd you vote, Tay?
Speaker 1: I put containing Todd Gurley? All right, I'm about the
Speaker 1: down and distance guy, I'm about the first and second down. Okay,
Speaker 1: I checked every one of them. They don't let Twitter
Speaker 1: doesn't look very one of those needs to be checked.
Speaker 1: They're all important, and you do them all all of
Speaker 1: the above Okay, you guys will be shocked. I'm with Taylor, guys,
Speaker 1: Mickey loves me. We go to lunch every Day's girly.
Speaker 1: Girly's the vote for you guys. He got twenty one
Speaker 1: percent of the vote, Brian's vote fifty five percent, first
Speaker 1: and second down. Smart. I'm not even I'm not even
Speaker 1: repaying Mickey's compliment, you know, because he just knows how
Speaker 1: wise I am. I'm ruining it. You guys, finish, we
Speaker 1: do so the girl, the girl. You guys voted for
Speaker 1: the girly thing, Yes, girly thing, the girly thing, because
Speaker 1: he just like you guys, didn't miss that yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it's that's a good vote. Because really, everything
Speaker 1: they've done is Goff has played really well, but it's
Speaker 1: predicated off having an elite running back. They loved play action.
Speaker 1: We saw it with the Redskins with McVeigh when he
Speaker 1: was there. Kirk Cousins did that, and they're able to
Speaker 1: get the ball down the field. Goff I think is
Speaker 1: leading the league in in UM passing yards per attempt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is slinging it so and a lot of that's
Speaker 1: because they've got an elite running back yet and guess
Speaker 1: what the running back is also catching passes here for
Speaker 1: the lead in hushdowns four and two. Yeah, so he's good. Hey,
Speaker 1: and you told us before the Broncos game, and this
Speaker 1: ended up being very true, whoever scored one hundred or
Speaker 1: whoever posted up one hundred and forty yards rushing was
Speaker 1: going to win that game. Yeah, the Cowboys didn't. And
Speaker 1: it was C. J. Anderson who was just this dynamite
Speaker 1: running back that day. And he's not even anywhere close
Speaker 1: to Todd Gurley. Yea, the problem was somebody erased the
Speaker 1: one because they got forty. Yeah, they just forgot the hundred,
Speaker 1: the extra hundred. Yeah, that's I don't you guys make
Speaker 1: a good point with that with Gurley because we saw
Speaker 1: what happened when you didn't when they did have balance.
Speaker 1: What's what's been? Who was second? Uh? Girly Gurley was second? Yeah,
Speaker 1: after first and second down, Bryan, It's okay, the uh
Speaker 1: somebody getting back here in a second. But the thing
Speaker 1: about it is, though, to me, if you look at
Speaker 1: the struggles that the Cowboys have had, the two wins
Speaker 1: have been they haven't had somebody been able to run
Speaker 1: the football against them. Where the one game they lost
Speaker 1: they did have a back that was able to get
Speaker 1: one hundred yards. They had balanced that was a that
Speaker 1: was a big problem. So two wins, no one hundred
Speaker 1: yard rusher, the one loss was bad with the big rusher.
Speaker 1: I mean that was the first one hundred yard Russia
Speaker 1: They had allowed Alfred Morris right Alfred Morris on January third,
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen. So it had been a minute
Speaker 1: since this defense had really been tested. And now when
Speaker 1: we're discussing about which linebackers will play and which ones will,
Speaker 1: you know, take on the main responsibility of that, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit and Todd Gurley, we know, we've talked
Speaker 1: about it at exhaust this week. He was joking with
Speaker 1: Michael Iring saying about whoop up on the Cowboys. But
Speaker 1: I don't want to even I want to maintain that
Speaker 1: did A and M have to play Georgia when Gurley
Speaker 1: was was there? Do you remember watching a game? I
Speaker 1: don't think we've played Georgia in the SEC yet, you haven't.
Speaker 1: My boyfriend went because I saw yeah, and would say
Speaker 1: that you did not want to play him, and that
Speaker 1: even when he was out, Nick Chubb would come in
Speaker 1: and it was I saw a way too much of him,
Speaker 1: believe me. Yeah, I think he's still running on Missouri. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he gave me a choice, if you gave a
Speaker 1: choice between him and Ezekiel Eliot, I would take him
Speaker 1: over Ezekiel Early Why and I love as complete They're
Speaker 1: both complete backs. We had this discussion a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. I think we mentioned Girly. We talked about
Speaker 1: Levion Bell. Yeah, and somebody oh the question I was
Speaker 1: asking the radio, Mick. I don't know if they asked
Speaker 1: you this question, did about the who would you rather have?
Speaker 1: That kind of would you rather have Golf and Gurley
Speaker 1: as opposed to Dak and Zeke? Which is you know
Speaker 1: if you think about Okay, do I like the runner
Speaker 1: better than the quarter? I mean, how you how you
Speaker 1: present that? So? Yeah, I love I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of Todd Curley. You'd rather have rocking uniform, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: color rush or the La Rams color Rush? Because I'm
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys all the way. Their color rush was Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 1: But Jimmy from California on the line, Jimmy, what is
Speaker 1: your question? I don't have a question, I have a comment.
Speaker 1: I agree with Mickey about the line. The line of
Speaker 1: the sums wrong. They need to put Cooper in sit
Speaker 1: Chads down for a minute. Can you gotta remember last
Speaker 1: year is gone. This is new team. It's going to
Speaker 1: be new problems. Thank you. You know that's a good point. Someone.
Speaker 1: I think everybody thinks you just pick up from where
Speaker 1: you left off. You went thirteen and three, and okay,
Speaker 1: let's go, You're gonna go fourteen and two. And he's right,
Speaker 1: it's a new season with new problems. And you know,
Speaker 1: while we see the defense looks like it's taking steps forward,
Speaker 1: the offense kind of stuck in neutral right now and
Speaker 1: they got to figure it out. And you know, the
Speaker 1: Rams haven't been very good these first three games defensively.
Speaker 1: So let's see, when you go four and twelve, you're
Speaker 1: gonna play the bottom of the division all the time.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a little bit of an easier schedule.
Speaker 1: When you go thirteen and three, you're gonna play the
Speaker 1: top of those divisions. So the Cowboys schedule is dramatically different.
Speaker 1: It's only two games different. Atlanta and AFC West is
Speaker 1: a whole different division. I know that didn't matter about
Speaker 1: their record, Yeah, Mick, you and I just are going
Speaker 1: to agree to disagree on that. It's two games, well,
Speaker 1: two games against Atlanta and Green Bay, but they haven't
Speaker 1: played any of those games yet. Somebody that was in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Yeah, I mean we're talking about and
Speaker 1: the Rams have to play San Francisco. I'm talking when
Speaker 1: you come down to the end of the season and
Speaker 1: usually the divisions decided by the last week. You'd rather
Speaker 1: play two games against not quarterback. I understand that, but
Speaker 1: before it was more games. Now it's just two games.
Speaker 1: I'll say that. And you're right, Tay. When we looked
Speaker 1: at the schedule in April, we looked at this first
Speaker 1: month and we said, wow, these are some really good
Speaker 1: defensive fronts. Can those teams score enough points against Dallas
Speaker 1: and Denver scored forty two? Getting good better quarterback play?
Speaker 1: And I don't think anybody saw Saint Louis being this
Speaker 1: efficient offense. Los Angeles say St. Louis, Sorry, why not
Speaker 1: La La the greatest show on turf? Saint Rams. You know, dude,
Speaker 1: I to me, this is you know they they this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a heck of a game. We've talked
Speaker 1: about that, but the schedule, the way it is playing
Speaker 1: the AFC West. You know that's that's that's no, no,
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying when you start thinking about it, though, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Giant, the difference might be the two games you
Speaker 1: have to play against Green Bay and where the Giants
Speaker 1: are gonna play Detroit and somebody else the Bears, But
Speaker 1: I don't know somebody like that, or who finished second
Speaker 1: what the Giants. Giants did so that they get in Detroit.
Speaker 1: They get Detroit, and they're gonna get who in the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and Tampa Bay and that's a little different.
Speaker 1: You're right, the rest of division has to play, but
Speaker 1: not the rest of the conference. And yes, you can
Speaker 1: win your division in a when everybody's got to play
Speaker 1: the same teams, but but you have no control of that.
Speaker 1: You're winning didn't have anything to do with what division
Speaker 1: you played, is my point. It's a tougher schedule. But
Speaker 1: just because you went thirteen and three, does it mean, oh,
Speaker 1: you got to go play the AFC West, so does
Speaker 1: everybody else in your division. That's true. I know what
Speaker 1: you're saying about the conference, but that's just kind of
Speaker 1: the role of the dice. I mean, that's the way
Speaker 1: it works out. We will hold this podcast until the
Speaker 1: end of the season, and if this season comes down
Speaker 1: to one game, yeah, we will listen to that again.
Speaker 1: Hang it, yeah, I just to me this. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's you got to play whoever you play. I mean,
Speaker 1: I bet when you looked at the schedule, you thought, oh,
Speaker 1: it's the Rams the fourth game they got a break.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you would, You didn't think so. No. I
Speaker 1: looked at it and said, well, they got to play
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald after they play Von Miller, and well, okay,
Speaker 1: that's one of Jones. Expect the Rams offense to be
Speaker 1: this good. Yes, that's that. I'll admit that. That's the shock.
Speaker 1: The shock really is the Rams defense is not good.
Speaker 1: That's the real, the real shock. And here they are.
Speaker 1: They get they get you know, Wade Phillips. We knew
Speaker 1: they were going to make a coaching change, but all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Wade Phillips shows up. You're thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: they just now got that personnel with Wade Phillips as
Speaker 1: a coach, and they'll get there, I think, But maybe
Speaker 1: they're not. Hopefully, yeah, yeah, hopefully, and when they're playing
Speaker 1: the Eagles and everybody else, you know, I'm sure you
Speaker 1: guys will be watching cover for on Sunday at t
Speaker 1: x A twenty one, nine nine thirty am. But Manny
Speaker 1: did a full breakdown of how the Rams were built
Speaker 1: and hear about all the different draft picks. Oh no,
Speaker 1: they were able to receive and how some of them
Speaker 1: have only turned out a certain way. The trade they
Speaker 1: made with the Redskins for RG three, they only have
Speaker 1: two of the guys. Yeah, teams, they did a good
Speaker 1: job of supplementing current their current team with with with
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins and Woods and guys like that, and they
Speaker 1: they hey, they sold the farm to go get golf
Speaker 1: and if if they got they got a coach that
Speaker 1: looks like he understands how to use him. So well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they decided, okay, we've got this young quarterback. We got
Speaker 1: to do something to help him. Yeah, when they got Watkins,
Speaker 1: they added a couple of veteran linemen. So they've done
Speaker 1: a good job. I mean, the Giants didn't really know
Speaker 1: to help help their older quarterback. Well, as much as
Speaker 1: they've been losing and as high as they've been drafting, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they ought to be better at some point, right, they
Speaker 1: really they they But Taylor's right there we're looking at you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they all how are they doing right now? By the way,
Speaker 1: they're two and one? Yeah they're two and one. But
Speaker 1: see that. But the difference between it goes back to
Speaker 1: the coach. To me, they might be thirty one. But
Speaker 1: I think he gets this, No he does. I think
Speaker 1: he gets I think he gets his. I think he
Speaker 1: understands his I think he understands his quarterback. I think
Speaker 1: he uses his weapons well, the receivers, the runner, and
Speaker 1: he went out got a legendary defensive coordinator to call defenses,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's that's that's been their problem right
Speaker 1: now that that has that has been they give up
Speaker 1: huge plays. But you know, like I said, hopefully they
Speaker 1: continue to give a big place for another week. Say
Speaker 1: anybody used Wade's tweet about him and the head coach?
Speaker 1: You use tweets, I said, did anybody you were on
Speaker 1: the don't? I don't know. I didn't. I read it
Speaker 1: in a newspaper tweet. Were the only the only team
Speaker 1: in the league that has the head coach on daycare
Speaker 1: and the defensive coordinator on Medicare there you go? Twy
Speaker 1: Mickey could read about a tweet in the newspaper I
Speaker 1: love that he would say that. See, because that's what
Speaker 1: the newspapers are doing. They're quoting tweets. They get ink
Speaker 1: on your fingers. Yeah, they do, right, because it's the greatest.
Speaker 1: Did you guys see what Witten said yesterday about the
Speaker 1: age line of the day, line of the day? Tell
Speaker 1: us the line? He said, Uh, well, I don't know exactly,
Speaker 1: but it was like, I'm thirty six and we've got
Speaker 1: a head coach. I don't think I've ever played against
Speaker 1: a coach who's younger than I am. It must be
Speaker 1: a sign, yeah, what sign of what he's like? Oh,
Speaker 1: I just gotta keep on going, man, I just gotta
Speaker 1: keep on going. Did a guy just turned thirty one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: basically yes, yes, but he likes he likes the youth
Speaker 1: wit and does. He talks a lot about it with
Speaker 1: well it was last year. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I
Speaker 1: don't mean to bring up last year, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it gave him a little bit of boost. You know,
Speaker 1: he saw that these two guys gave him a chance
Speaker 1: to maybe make a Super Bowl run. And they they
Speaker 1: won enough games to get home field, they just couldn't
Speaker 1: finish it. To finish the dude, well, I like what
Speaker 1: you're saying about McVeigh getting it because you know that
Speaker 1: I love marion Elli. Oh sure, great Marion Ellie was
Speaker 1: telling me about Joe Barry's decision to follow him to
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams, and I mean he said he
Speaker 1: would run through a wall for him. Yeah, yes, says
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't think age really matters, and guy
Speaker 1: knows a lot of football, he sure does. Coaching staffs
Speaker 1: do matter. They do matter a lot. They do matter
Speaker 1: a lot, they do, and hopefully our coaching staff will
Speaker 1: have it all figured out. I hope so Sunday at
Speaker 1: noon at at and T Stadium. Until then, signing off
Speaker 1: from the STPBC Mortgage studio, Nicky, Rob Brian myself, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us,