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Speaker 1: Are you a no chance guy when it comes to
Speaker 1: like the Steelers against the Chiefs or the Eagles against
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Because I called out Rob Nikovich, he said
Speaker 1: the Eagles have no chance. Well, if if the Eagles
Speaker 1: win the game, Nikovich should sit down for a week.
Speaker 1: He should be suspended for a week. All right, he should?
Speaker 1: He should, And I'm i am absolutely not. Ain't no
Speaker 1: chance guy played in this league. I've been playing football
Speaker 1: too long since pee weeek football. Yeah, the South benarusls
Speaker 1: inner to know that teams have no chance? Okay, now
Speaker 1: now there are there are different levels to no chance. DP.
Speaker 1: You remember those games when you were in like middle
Speaker 1: school and nobody was over four foot ten and your
Speaker 1: whole basketball team was like five, seven and above, that's
Speaker 1: when you have no chance. But in the NFL, based
Speaker 1: on what we've seen a DP, I bet he would
Speaker 1: have said the Jacksonville jack Wall has had no chance
Speaker 1: against the coach the last week of the season, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I bet he would have
Speaker 1: said the Jets had no chance last year to beat
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders at the end of the game
Speaker 1: last year. So look, I have always been one of
Speaker 1: those guys that looks at matchups, that looks at individual performances,
Speaker 1: and if you got a guy like t J. Watter
Speaker 1: on your team, you got a chance. And I keep
Speaker 1: telling people that, and that doesn't mean that they're gonna
Speaker 1: win the game. But the Pittsburgh Stills have a chance
Speaker 1: because they in the playoffs. And I'm telling you week nine,
Speaker 1: everybody probably said they had no chance in all to
Speaker 1: get into the postseason. So I'm not a no chance
Speaker 1: of guy. When you go into the playoffs. As a
Speaker 1: former defenship player, is it spoken about trying to take
Speaker 1: the opposing quarterback out? Thank you? Getting out out? Not
Speaker 1: out DP? No, not out. I mean, if it happens,
Speaker 1: we're not mad about it. Let me say that if
Speaker 1: it happens, we're not bad about it. But it's a
Speaker 1: healthy respect man. You know how to go and the
Speaker 1: game has changed. I'm sure guys back in the old
Speaker 1: days would have would have said yes to that. But
Speaker 1: what I played, we wanted to We wanted to rough
Speaker 1: them up enough where they couldn't be as effective as
Speaker 1: they were. But taking them out if it, if it's happenstance,
Speaker 1: then we are not going to cry any tears about it.
Speaker 1: Like when I was in the division with the Kyle Boys,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been mad if we knocked Downovan mcnaal
Speaker 1: about the game. I wouldn't have been mad if we
Speaker 1: knocked Eli out of the game. And I'm bringing up
Speaker 1: guys that me from getting to the playoffs Dan, So
Speaker 1: I'm still kind of but that feeling. Did you ever
Speaker 1: feel sorry for a quarterback during a game? Hell no,
Speaker 1: Hell no, I ain't even feel sorry for our own.
Speaker 1: I was. We we are out there banging. I'm a
Speaker 1: defensive line. We out there banging sixty plus plays a game,
Speaker 1: you know, and the quarterback get hit and everybody has
Speaker 1: a moment of silence, and the whole stadium got an
Speaker 1: exit and re under the stadium to make sure everybody's okay.
Speaker 1: I ain't give a damn about no quarterbacks getting hurt
Speaker 1: or roughed up. I don't even care. All right, give
Speaker 1: me the underdog with the best chance of winning San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers. And you know how much I
Speaker 1: love the Dallas Cowboys, but the brand of football that
Speaker 1: they play is just difficult to sustain the level that
Speaker 1: you need to sustain for four quarters. When they're gonna
Speaker 1: keep coming down ill, They're gonna be physical, They're gonna
Speaker 1: stick to their game play. They went down seventeen nothing
Speaker 1: to the Rams last week and never change their identity
Speaker 1: one bit. I will say this, though, DP, I really
Speaker 1: want the Dallas Cowboys to put this game in Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo's hands. I feel comfortable with that. The and and look,
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm not a Jimmy G detractor. I'm just
Speaker 1: not a Jimmy G lover. I don't trust Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: like a lot of people trust them. When people say
Speaker 1: my body physically, DP, when people say Jimmy Garoppolo led
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers to a Super Bowl, I break
Speaker 1: out in hives listening to it. You mean the guy
Speaker 1: that threw eight passes in an NFC championship led a
Speaker 1: football team to a championship. So if you allow these
Speaker 1: guys to be you know, the word that's been thrown
Speaker 1: around is physicality, then let me tell you something, bro,
Speaker 1: everybody in the day n NFL physical. You ain't getting
Speaker 1: them checks or them direct deposits every week. If you're
Speaker 1: not physical, you just I have to last long. Most
Speaker 1: teams don't force you to play to run like the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Hordy Honors due for an entire game, and
Speaker 1: you just gotta make your mind up that you're gonna
Speaker 1: be disciplined the whole way. But if Jimmy Garoppolo has
Speaker 1: it in his hands, I'll be drinking this clear cup
Speaker 1: of coffee watching the game deeply. Does this make me
Speaker 1: look like like a like a small rich person with
Speaker 1: a clear if you're if your pinky finger goes up, Marcus, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look a little soft. Okay, I mean nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: say it to your face, but I can say it
Speaker 1: via zoom. You look soft. I'm looking at the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: with the most pressure. Yeah, and I know where I
Speaker 1: would start. I think this guy's got the most pressure.
Speaker 1: I'm curious who you think the quarterback who will be
Speaker 1: under the most pressure playoff ten DP. This is this
Speaker 1: one's gonna shock you because the normal is Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: I think that's been like the overall Aaron Rodgers. Has
Speaker 1: anybody ever thought about that? Has anybody watched how that
Speaker 1: off season transpired. The only way to keep this noise
Speaker 1: quiet is to go win a super Bowl because look,
Speaker 1: Aaron has played at the MVP level. I think he's
Speaker 1: the MVP. And by the way, Aaron, Aaron is not
Speaker 1: my favorite guy. Okay, I don't love to see what
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is talking about, but I do have a
Speaker 1: healthy respect for how he's been able to keep his
Speaker 1: game at this level and he's been able to carry
Speaker 1: a team for a long time. But DP were sitting
Speaker 1: here not knowing after a restructure contract if he's gonna
Speaker 1: return to Green Bay. He spent an entire offseason at
Speaker 1: odds with the franchise. He needed players, so they relented
Speaker 1: and brought in Randall Cab. Even though Randall Cab has
Speaker 1: been hurt, they made some concessions for him. Does anybody
Speaker 1: think about Aaron Roger's responsibility to the Green a Packers
Speaker 1: and the rest of his football team. We expect him
Speaker 1: to at least make it to the NFC Championship, and
Speaker 1: that's where the buck has stopped for him for so
Speaker 1: many years. He got to get to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and win it. Man or at some point we gotta say,
Speaker 1: like we do for every other star, he couldn't get
Speaker 1: it done. He just couldn't get it done. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I think Matthew Stafford and Josh Allen
Speaker 1: are one two on my list. Now I would put
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott in there just because he's the quarterback of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I think the Cowboys are a year ahead
Speaker 1: of schedule because I don't know if they knew what
Speaker 1: they had in Digs and Micah Parsons. Now they realize that,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to miss out on this opportunity.
Speaker 1: You know, Ben doesn't have any pressure on him. Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow doesn't have pressure on him, Derek Carr doesn't have
Speaker 1: pressure on him. Brady always has pressure, but it feels
Speaker 1: like he wants the pressure. Now he's an underdog. He
Speaker 1: didn't get the MVP. Now he's an underdog. He got
Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder. I love that I just
Speaker 1: don't know how good they are because that defense hasn't
Speaker 1: been what it was in the Super Bowl VP. I
Speaker 1: tell people all the time, it's okay, it's not taboo
Speaker 1: to say Aaron Rodgers is under pressure. Like how many
Speaker 1: years did we spend talking about Drew Brees in order
Speaker 1: to enter the conversation of the greats. We know Aaron
Speaker 1: Talon is unbelievable. But in order for Drew the end
Speaker 1: of the conversation of the greats, to have him be
Speaker 1: a part of the all time top five or whatever
Speaker 1: you want to put in conversation, he needed more than one.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has been stopped in the NFC Championship a
Speaker 1: lot to him. Now, imagine if this was Imagine if
Speaker 1: this was a Lebron James getting stopped in the Eastern
Speaker 1: or Western Conference finals all at these times, the conversation
Speaker 1: that would go on. Imagine if this was the Yankees
Speaker 1: when Steinbrenner and they had all of his talent and
Speaker 1: spent all of his money and they couldn't make it
Speaker 1: out of the comfort out of the series. So I
Speaker 1: don't I don't. I don't necessarily equate pressure to if
Speaker 1: a guy is going to have the rest of his
Speaker 1: career or if he's gonna be good. I equate pressure
Speaker 1: to how did you perform what is expected of you?
Speaker 1: And then in Aaron's case, he entered a different nuance
Speaker 1: by the battle between him and the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: this all season. So I mean, I think it's a
Speaker 1: failure if they don't win a Super Bowl. It was
Speaker 1: all about nothing. Well, I look at the Packers in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty thirteen wins, twenty twenty one thirteen wins. The
Speaker 1: defense in twenty twenty ranked thirteenth. This year's team ranked
Speaker 1: thirteenth in defense. You have home field advantage that Tampa
Speaker 1: team that if they do come to town, will not
Speaker 1: be as formidable as they were a year ago. And
Speaker 1: Aaron has not done well in title games even when
Speaker 1: he's hosted those title games. Well, Peyton Manning went through
Speaker 1: this as well, where you know Peyton's playoff record wasn't
Speaker 1: very good. But do we hold quarterbacks you accountable in
Speaker 1: a different way than we do other athletes in other
Speaker 1: sports Because you mentioned Lebron and you know that there's
Speaker 1: certain sports or baseball pitchers players, but when it comes
Speaker 1: to quarterbacks, our bottom line is winning championships. But I
Speaker 1: think people don't realize how Aaron has not performed, or
Speaker 1: at least the Packers haven't. When they get to the
Speaker 1: NFC title game, they're not DP because they're blinded by
Speaker 1: all of the greatness in the individual and the talent
Speaker 1: and the balls that we see Aaron Rodgers throw in
Speaker 1: the wins and how much he accounts for. Listen, this
Speaker 1: is not a conversation about if Aaron Rodgers is a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer or one of the top quarterbacks ever,
Speaker 1: it's about his resume. The reason why we call Tom
Speaker 1: Brady to go is because of the championships. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: don't have a drop of the talent that a lot
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks we've seen have. Tom Brady don't have Alway talent.
Speaker 1: He don't have Dan Marino's talent. He don't have Steve
Speaker 1: Young's talent or Aaron Rodgers or Patrick Mahomes. But you know,
Speaker 1: in those moments where you need to be great, it's
Speaker 1: what we judge these level of quarterbacks on. And that's
Speaker 1: why he's considered the goat. He's considered the goat because
Speaker 1: you would put all of your money in your house
Speaker 1: on Tom Brady in the last drive of a football
Speaker 1: game to get his team to a championship. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: has not done that. Now I'm mad. And Matt Lafleur
Speaker 1: last year, I believe that was a lot on him
Speaker 1: of not letting him have the ball in his hands
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. But he also had three turnovers.
Speaker 1: He also gave the ball away in that game as well.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't just subscribe to, you know,
Speaker 1: individual talent as making you to go as far as
Speaker 1: what did you do, how did you elevate in those
Speaker 1: particular moments. I fight with Dan Orlovski about this all
Speaker 1: the time. Okay, he you know, he goes to bat
Speaker 1: fairy quarterback because every quarterback is good in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But I tell him all the time, man, we're not
Speaker 1: judging Carson Wentz on if he can throw a touchdown
Speaker 1: in the first quarter of a football game, when you
Speaker 1: on your first fifteen play script and it's hard as
Speaker 1: hell for the defense to figure out what you're doing,
Speaker 1: we judge Carson Wentz. When you're down to Jacksonville and
Speaker 1: you throw two damn interceptions or you make a bone
Speaker 1: head playing fund of the football, we judge Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: on the Cleveland Browns are good and they get the
Speaker 1: ball into the fourth quarter and he throws an interception
Speaker 1: in the Kansas City game, or he can't get it done,
Speaker 1: and then that's where we judge quarterbacks. We see Aaron
Speaker 1: do that all year long, and for some reason in
Speaker 1: these NFC championships he cannot overcome that hurdle. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if he can this year. I believe he can.
Speaker 1: I don't think his talent leads itself to not having
Speaker 1: that ability. He just hasn't done it. We're talking to
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Speaker 1: Eastern and also they have the wild card game that'll
Speaker 1: be the Cardinals. Look in the DP lookle, I know,
Speaker 1: look at you. I know that it's not a gunch
Speaker 1: on a good lunk. It's not a good look place.
Speaker 1: I got you. You sat Brady in two thy eleven? Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that right? I didn't Yeah, I didn't even remember
Speaker 1: what happened DV. I was just like sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, man, playing football, sometimes
Speaker 1: the play happened and it feel like you're bleinking this over.
Speaker 1: I whooped the offensive lambor whoever was in front of me,
Speaker 1: and Brady just happened to be in the way of
Speaker 1: the freight train. You know. So, hey, I got hits.
Speaker 1: Believe this DP. I was not a sack guy. I
Speaker 1: was considered a bus because of my draft pick. Because
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't get over ninety sacks, then
Speaker 1: you sucked on your whole career. Like playing the run
Speaker 1: and doing all of that stuff does not matter in
Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things. But I did hit Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: I sack Drew Brees, I saged being, I saged Brady,
Speaker 1: I hit Aaron um, got got a pressure on Aaron.
Speaker 1: I think I sacked all of the guys that's gonna
Speaker 1: go to the Hall of Fame or at least got
Speaker 1: a big hit on them. So I feel really good
Speaker 1: about that. How tough was Roethlisberger to bring down? He
Speaker 1: was bigger than me. It's it's like, it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm watching this this this show called yellow Stone,
Speaker 1: which is one of the greatest shows ever. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys have watched the DP if you
Speaker 1: have time, watch yeow, I've been watching. It's like when
Speaker 1: them dudes jump off that damn horse and they trying
Speaker 1: to wrangle them little them little cows. That's how he
Speaker 1: is trying to tap the big Ben man. I like
Speaker 1: him to Kim Kong. He's on the umpire State building. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those planes that come around him, he just keeps swatting him.
Speaker 1: He's a People don't realize how big certain quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: movies and also certain like Cam Newton when when him
Speaker 1: and Kelvin Benjamin walked on the field, I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought your basketball team. I thought it was you know
Speaker 1: it was a basketball team. Yeah, man, Yeah, listen DP
Speaker 1: when we played so funny story, I played Ben when
Speaker 1: I was at LSU. We played Miamil. But how yo,
Speaker 1: when Being was a college and I remember Nick's I've
Speaker 1: been telling us, Hey, this guy's gonna be a top
Speaker 1: top pick. He's a very good football player and he's big,
Speaker 1: so you better bring all you have when you get
Speaker 1: in there to get him on the ground. So Being
Speaker 1: has been like this, DP. You people look at the
Speaker 1: game and they wonder why Being came move because Ben
Speaker 1: has taken hits from guys the same size as him
Speaker 1: for a long time and he's still I don't know
Speaker 1: how to hell he in the playoffs, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: you got to be crazy to say that being has
Speaker 1: no chance in the playoffs? All right, speaking of what
Speaker 1: we were talking about earlier, because I've seen him do
Speaker 1: this too many times. Great to talk to him, that's all.
Speaker 1: Love the energy, have a great weekend, and we hope
Speaker 1: to talk to here soon. Thank you. DP. Send me
Speaker 1: in one of them trinkets, man, I love, What do
Speaker 1: you want? What do you want? I don't know the
Speaker 1: If that's not the old mic that you use when
Speaker 1: you first started doing radio, then I like that right there.
Speaker 1: I just want something. So next time I'm on your show,
Speaker 1: you could see one of yours on my from my feet. Well,
Speaker 1: why don't you send a jersey and then we'll put
Speaker 1: a jersey here in the man cave and then when
Speaker 1: you come on we go to I know Greeny doesn't
Speaker 1: put up one of your jerseys in the man cave there. Now,
Speaker 1: I told I told you the first time. I don't
Speaker 1: fool with Greeny like that. Everybody think I do. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't mean me and g A all that type
Speaker 1: like that. Now I'm just playing. He just got Jalen Rose.
Speaker 1: You know, he got all of these guys that know
Speaker 1: he got to be super famous. But you know, Dan
Speaker 1: Orlovsky offered me a jersey and I declined. You show.
Speaker 1: I said, I'll take the jersey where you ran out
Speaker 1: of the end zone during a play. That's the one
Speaker 1: I want with Orlovski. Thank you, Thank you. Thanks for
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Speaker 1: in the Westwood one booth Saturday night Buffalo it's the
Speaker 1: Patriots and the Bills, and then he'll be working sidelines
Speaker 1: for the Monday night game with the Cardinals and the Rams,
Speaker 1: and he joins us on the program. Always great to
Speaker 1: have you. We appreciate you taking some time. Give me
Speaker 1: the loss. That would have the most fallout if I
Speaker 1: said Cowboys, Rams, Bucks, Chiefs, Bills or other. Oh that's
Speaker 1: a great question, Dan, I'm gonna I'm gonna say Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm gonna go Cowboys. You know, my initial reaction
Speaker 1: was the ram just because it would be an awful
Speaker 1: look if they took a step back after the trade
Speaker 1: they made for Matthew Stafford. I mean, they won a
Speaker 1: playoff game last year, they got to the Divisional round
Speaker 1: last year. That would not be a good look for
Speaker 1: McVay and Stafford if they weren't able to win a
Speaker 1: playoff game this year. But they're kind they're kind of
Speaker 1: committed to those guys, right, There really wouldn't be a
Speaker 1: whole lot of fall out. It would still be McVeigh
Speaker 1: and Stafford next year. Cowboys are a little bit different
Speaker 1: because if they lose the forty nine Ers, which by
Speaker 1: the way, I think is a distinct possibility. I just
Speaker 1: recorded the Rostocker podcast. That's the one underdog I picked
Speaker 1: a win out right, Dan. I picked the Niners to
Speaker 1: win that game because of the amount of teams that
Speaker 1: are interested in Kellen Moore and Dan Quinn. I wonder
Speaker 1: if Jerry Jones doesn't think I don't want to lose
Speaker 1: that guy or that guy, whichever one he choose, and
Speaker 1: alecs to make one of them the head coach and
Speaker 1: moves on from Mike McCarthy. You have to acknowledge there's
Speaker 1: some possibility of that if the Cowboys lose this game,
Speaker 1: especially and there's any type of game management, clock management issue,
Speaker 1: anything like that. But if I look at Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: and Dan Quinn, who which of those coordinators can they
Speaker 1: least afford to lose? It's a good question. The thing
Speaker 1: I come back to on that is, how do you
Speaker 1: really know what Kellen Moore is like as a head coach.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have any experience with it. I guess I
Speaker 1: would probably say Kellen Moore. I think he's done a
Speaker 1: pretty good job. I agree that dan Quinn did a
Speaker 1: nice job this year, but I feel like they've got
Speaker 1: some pretty darn good personnel on defense that he's been
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of. Treyvon Digs you or two
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons as a rookie. I don't know, they're probably
Speaker 1: even My guest though, is that there would be some
Speaker 1: hesitation from Jerry Jones to make Kellen Moore the head coach,
Speaker 1: so he would probably move on from McCarthy and go
Speaker 1: to dan Quinn again. We're there's a whole lot of hypotheticals,
Speaker 1: but that's my guests. You played in cold weather, you
Speaker 1: played in Buffalo, you played in New England. How big
Speaker 1: of a deal is this to the players who play?
Speaker 1: And what players in particular? If so, really big deal
Speaker 1: to quarterbacks, receivers and kickers. Somebody told me this week.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that I started in one of the
Speaker 1: ten coldest games in Buffalo Bill's history. It was two
Speaker 1: thousand and four. Is actually at Cincinnati, if you can
Speaker 1: believe that. Dan and I remember the game distinctly because
Speaker 1: I went out before the game pregame warmups with just
Speaker 1: a T shirt and shorts on, and Chad Johnson was
Speaker 1: yelling like, hey, Boddy, you're gonna be cold. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm all right, I'm all right. You know what's funny,
Speaker 1: By the way, I mean, I guess I was three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen pounds or whatever, and I was maybe
Speaker 1: twenty five years old. I really wasn't that cold. Now
Speaker 1: I'm two hundred and fifty pounds, I'm forty two years old,
Speaker 1: I'm freezing like I get I get five degrees colder
Speaker 1: every year. I mean, I don't but by the time
Speaker 1: I'm seventy, I'm gonna move to like Puerto Rico or
Speaker 1: so like. I know why people go south. I get
Speaker 1: way colder every year. When you know what I remember
Speaker 1: about that game, So, first of all, it was offensive, Lineman.
Speaker 1: One thing guy who would do to protect their skin
Speaker 1: is you rub vasiline on your skin to protect the layers.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I just saw on Twitter, even here in Pennsylvania, Dan,
Speaker 1: they said, don't go outside for more than thirty minutes
Speaker 1: because your skin could get frostpin. Well, what are the
Speaker 1: NFL players are gonna do? What are the Bills and
Speaker 1: Patriots are gonna do it? They're gonna be out for
Speaker 1: more than thirty minutes. And I just think to remember
Speaker 1: after that game, it stung taking the shower. You had
Speaker 1: to start with like a cold shower and then slowly
Speaker 1: move it up because your skin was like so raw
Speaker 1: that if you went to a hot shower, it like
Speaker 1: it felt like it burns. Well, that's frost bite. That's
Speaker 1: that's the onset of frostbite. Yeah, I guess, I mean
Speaker 1: it's not good. I never wore sleeves though. Um. Two
Speaker 1: more things you need to know, Dan. Number one, is.
Speaker 1: It makes the ball a lot harder and bigger. The
Speaker 1: ball expands the colder it is. So I can remember
Speaker 1: a couple of games I started at center where I
Speaker 1: would like, if it was really cold and Buffalo, I
Speaker 1: would go the stuff they spray on your ankle before
Speaker 1: they tape your ankles. I'd be like, I'd say to
Speaker 1: the trainer, hey, act like you're taping my ankles, and
Speaker 1: I'd have them like spray the stuff on my hand
Speaker 1: because I didn't know if that was legal or not
Speaker 1: to have that stuff on your hand. So I'd have
Speaker 1: them spray like the ankles gray stuff on my hand
Speaker 1: just so I could have a better grip. But I
Speaker 1: totally understand why some people at some point might like
Speaker 1: if there's a little bit less air in the football.
Speaker 1: I'm not going there, but I'm just saying, because it is,
Speaker 1: it's much harder to grip if you have smaller hands.
Speaker 1: The colder it is, it makes it harder. There's more
Speaker 1: fumbles because the ball pops out harder to catch. The
Speaker 1: ball is like a rock. I also wonder the philosophy
Speaker 1: game plan with the Patriots this time around with this
Speaker 1: kind of weather in Buffalo, can New England employ the
Speaker 1: same kind of offense that you don't have Mac Jones
Speaker 1: throw the football in this game against Buffalo. I think
Speaker 1: they should try. I really think they should try. You know,
Speaker 1: Mac Jones has not played well during the last month
Speaker 1: of the season. I think if they can play keep
Speaker 1: away from Josh Allen, who was lights out in the
Speaker 1: last matchup with the Page It's that would be a
Speaker 1: pretty darny good strategy. And here's the thing. The Bills
Speaker 1: play more nickel defense than any team in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They almost never have three linebackers out there because they
Speaker 1: love their nickelback tarn Johnson, who had that pick six
Speaker 1: against the Ravens last year in the playoffs. That's one
Speaker 1: reason why I think Belichick went heavy in the first
Speaker 1: matchup with the tight ends and ran the ball just
Speaker 1: to get the Bills defense, which by the way, is
Speaker 1: ranked number one in the NFL, just to get them
Speaker 1: to have to do something they don't like to do,
Speaker 1: just to let make them have a guy out there
Speaker 1: they don't want to have out there. That's not normal
Speaker 1: for them, having the three linebackers out there. We're talking
Speaker 1: to Ross Tucker. You can listen to the Russ Tucker
Speaker 1: Football podcast will also be working the Buffalo Patriots game
Speaker 1: and also working the Cardinals in the Rams game as well.
Speaker 1: The Rams game is interesting. Cowboys game is interesting because
Speaker 1: I think both of those teams could lose. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if either lost, But then I you know,
Speaker 1: there's part of it that I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: they won comfortably. I just think that that's the way
Speaker 1: they're going to be, you know, as we go through
Speaker 1: the playoffs, if they continue to advance. It's really hard
Speaker 1: to be consistent where you're putting together, you're playing a
Speaker 1: really good opponent, and you got you gotta win a
Speaker 1: game where you're not going to play your best. If
Speaker 1: I said the Rams or the Cowboys weren't going to
Speaker 1: play their best, which one has a better chance of
Speaker 1: winning the Rams? I would say the Rams simply because
Speaker 1: I don't feel like the Cardinals are playing their best
Speaker 1: football right now. They've only won one of their last
Speaker 1: five games. Just not good. I mean, and obviously they
Speaker 1: can change everything around and get hot during the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but it's not a good way to be going into
Speaker 1: the postseason. Both their running backs James Connor and Chase
Speaker 1: Edmonds are banged up. We'll see if JJ watt and
Speaker 1: do anything, but it really does feel like the Cardinals
Speaker 1: have been a different team ever since Hopkins got hurt. Meanwhile, Dan,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys don't play their best, they're losing. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Niners are undervalued. They're ten and seven. They lost
Speaker 1: the two games where Jimmy G didn't start. They lost
Speaker 1: a game where Jimmy G got hurt against the Titans.
Speaker 1: That's three losses right there. I think they lost a
Speaker 1: game where Deebo Samuel didn't play. The Niners. When they
Speaker 1: have all their guys, they're a good team. And you
Speaker 1: don't even have to take my word for it that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys don't feel good about themselves. I mean, Dan,
Speaker 1: why else would they have all their starters playing in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter last Saturday night against the Eagles. Practice
Speaker 1: squad guys. You know, whether they say they wanted to
Speaker 1: build up their confidence or they wanted to get on
Speaker 1: a roll or a rhythm. The Cowboys playing Dak and
Speaker 1: all their starters into the fourth quarter last Saturday night
Speaker 1: against the Eagle, that told us. I think that they
Speaker 1: don't feel great about how they're playing. They think that
Speaker 1: they're a little off. I know that. You know the
Speaker 1: Eagles quite well. They didn't beat anybody who was any
Speaker 1: good this year, and now you're gonna face the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: in Tampa. Whether it will probably be an issue with rain.
Speaker 1: How do the Eagles beat the Buccaneers? Yeah, they got
Speaker 1: They gotta just run the ball right down their throat
Speaker 1: and really they're calling for twenty twenty five mile an
Speaker 1: hour wins. This is the best thing possible for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I mean, the windier it is, the more the advantage
Speaker 1: goes to the Eagles ability to run the football and
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts ability to run the football. I have a
Speaker 1: tough time picture in the Eagles winning the game unless
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts rushes for over fifty yards. So the windier
Speaker 1: it is, the better, the harder the rain, the better.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Brady will still somehow figure out something, but
Speaker 1: that plays to the eagles favor. They've been able to
Speaker 1: run on everybody, and I think that Bucks have given
Speaker 1: up over one hundred yards rushing in four of their
Speaker 1: last five or six games. So the Bucks are not
Speaker 1: Their run defense is not what it was that said, Dan.
Speaker 1: You know, I do the Eagles pregame as well for
Speaker 1: WIP and Philadelphia and say it out loud. Okay, like
Speaker 1: sometimes in life you have to say it out loud.
Speaker 1: Head coach Nick Sirianni and quarterback Jalen Hurts and their
Speaker 1: first playoff games ever beat Tom Brady and the defending
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champ Bucks on the road. I mean, I
Speaker 1: have a tough time with that. Do you realize Dan
Speaker 1: saying the Eagles have no chance. I think they have
Speaker 1: a chance. I have a tough time actually picturing it
Speaker 1: happening if you had me on on Monday, I have
Speaker 1: a tough time picturing saying the Eagles got that thought
Speaker 1: it would be incredible on so many levels if they did.
Speaker 1: But wow, that would be I mean, you talk about
Speaker 1: and I know, the point spreads not that bad. Last
Speaker 1: I checked, It's like nine and a half, so it's
Speaker 1: not like a gigantic upset. But you have to admit,
Speaker 1: you know, the Eagles season win told coming into the
Speaker 1: year was six and a half. People thought they'd win
Speaker 1: six and a half games. If they were able to
Speaker 1: beat Brady in the first playoff game, that would be
Speaker 1: one of the more surprising playoff results in recent years.
Speaker 1: Safe travels. Always great to talk to you. And are
Speaker 1: you going to rub vassoline on your arms in Buffalo? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not, but thank goodness, Steve Taskers on the sideline
Speaker 1: for us, and I'm in the booth and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: going to lobby hard to keep the glass the windows
Speaker 1: shut because zero degree, Dan, zero degree, It would be
Speaker 1: a better broadcast for the listeners if I was warm.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's about the listeners, Dan, But I want
Speaker 1: you to give us that's feeling. That's your job as
Speaker 1: a color analyst. You should be out there with no
Speaker 1: jacket on, short sleeve and let us know that we
Speaker 1: could almost fe feel it through your bones when we're
Speaker 1: listening to you. That's why Tasker's on the sideline, best
Speaker 1: in the business, because he's tougher. Tasker is tougher than you. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm not tough anymore. I freely admit that I don't
Speaker 1: need to be tough anymore. I could. I used to
Speaker 1: play in the NFL. I was tough. Now I just
Speaker 1: like to eat and drink and call football games. Did
Speaker 1: you ever urinate in your uniform? How do you know
Speaker 1: that almost every game? What? Oh? Yeah? Pretty much every game?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? So here's the way it works. You're drinking
Speaker 1: so much pedia light and gatorade that I could. I
Speaker 1: was good through the first half and at halftime I
Speaker 1: would go take a leak whatever. But by like ten
Speaker 1: minutes left in the fourth quarter, Dan, I had the
Speaker 1: peace so bad. What were my choices like call time
Speaker 1: out and walk up to the locker room. No, what's
Speaker 1: the etiquette? Oh, you sit down on the bench here,
Speaker 1: I mean, you sit down on the bench, okay, and
Speaker 1: then you get a couple of those like gatorade. You're
Speaker 1: reenacting this. Oh yeah, yeah, you sit down on the bench.
Speaker 1: You get a couple of those gatorade towels, okay, And
Speaker 1: then you take two gatorade towels and you put it,
Speaker 1: you know, in your crotch because you want to try
Speaker 1: to absorb as much of the urine as possible. And
Speaker 1: then you just go and you soak up as much,
Speaker 1: you squeeze the area to get as much out of
Speaker 1: your pants and onto the gatorade towels. You put the
Speaker 1: gatorade towels in the trash. You don't put them back
Speaker 1: where somebody else would use them. But Dan, the last
Speaker 1: thing I wanted fourth quarter four minutes left. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to feel like I had to pee like. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to be like, oh I got to block
Speaker 1: up Bryant Young or Leroy Glover, But oh, I really
Speaker 1: feel like I have to pete. No, you pee like
Speaker 1: a man in your pants and then you go out
Speaker 1: there and your play. Thank you, Ross see Dan, Thanks
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Speaker 1: your podcasts. Brian Greasy, former NFL quarterback ESPN Monday Night
Speaker 1: Football Analyst. He'll be on the call with Lewis Riddick
Speaker 1: and Steve Levy Monday Night Playoff Football. It'll be the
Speaker 1: Cardinals and the Rams. Brian, good to have you back.
Speaker 1: Biggest question mark you have going into this Cardinals Rams
Speaker 1: game is what Yeah, it is the will the Cardinals
Speaker 1: day and be able to handle Aaron Donald. They were
Speaker 1: not able to handle him in the second meeting and
Speaker 1: it was a big reason why Kyler Murray felt a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure and had two interceptions in that game,
Speaker 1: and that was the difference in the game. They were
Speaker 1: driving early, they had a tip from Aaron Donald intercepted
Speaker 1: by ERNs Jones, no points and the Rams go right
Speaker 1: down to score. And then to start the second half
Speaker 1: they had a great play from Leonard Floyd tipped interception.
Speaker 1: And that pressure on Kyler Murray on the field I
Speaker 1: think impacted him. Now you could also wonder and the
Speaker 1: question is about the pressure on Kyler Murray off the field.
Speaker 1: First playoff game in his career. There's been a lot
Speaker 1: of time, energy and effort put into building this team
Speaker 1: by Steve Kim and they're finally in this position it's
Speaker 1: not where they wanted to be as a wildcard team.
Speaker 1: I remember about a month ago, this was the number
Speaker 1: one seed in the NFC and they're kind of limping
Speaker 1: in losers of four or five. So how will they
Speaker 1: respond to the big moment? Also as a question for me,
Speaker 1: but when you have pressure up the middle and you're
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, how different is that pressure up the middle
Speaker 1: and you're Tom Brady. Well, I think the the approach
Speaker 1: for Raheem Morris, the defensive coordinator for the Rams, number one,
Speaker 1: is to try to keep Kyler Murray in the pocket. Um.
Speaker 1: So it's very I mean, it's completely different than Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Tom's gonna be in there. You know where he's gonna be. Um,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. You know, job number one is keeping him
Speaker 1: in the pocket because he is dangerous and he will
Speaker 1: beat you outside the pocket. They were they had mixed
Speaker 1: results with that this year. Um, but when he gets
Speaker 1: outside the pocket, he can hurt with his legs more
Speaker 1: than anybody in the league. And uh. And so what
Speaker 1: I think the Rams have with von Miller and Leonard
Speaker 1: Floyd up on the edges is good enough to contain him.
Speaker 1: And then you add in Aaron Donald on the inside.
Speaker 1: That's what's unique about the Rams pass rush and that's
Speaker 1: why they were successful in the second meeting. How would
Speaker 1: you grade Matthew Stafford's first season in LA I right,
Speaker 1: as of right now, I'd say it's about a B.
Speaker 1: And listen, this team won the NFC West. Nobody's given
Speaker 1: them that kind of credit. They won twelve games. Really,
Speaker 1: his grade will be dependent upon what happens in the
Speaker 1: next month. Didn't they have a B quarterback already, Brian Noah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that. I would say they had a
Speaker 1: B minus C plus quarterback in Jared Goff. So I
Speaker 1: think there's no doubt they have upgraded the position. And
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford has made some unbelievable plays and won them games.
Speaker 1: Dan now, he's also been careless with the ball, and
Speaker 1: he's tried to make plays when they weren't there. And
Speaker 1: so as they get into the playoffs, they need to
Speaker 1: take a little bit off of Matthew Stafford's plate. Run
Speaker 1: the football and then when the plays there to be made,
Speaker 1: we know that he has the ability to make. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wondered if Matthew Stafford was trying on almost every play.
Speaker 1: I want to prove to everybody it was Detroit that
Speaker 1: was the problem, not me. I was there, didn't win
Speaker 1: a playoff game twelve years. Hey, let me get on
Speaker 1: a winning team and I'm gonna show you. And maybe
Speaker 1: he got out of his comfort zone a little bit.
Speaker 1: And you know, but you have four pick six How
Speaker 1: do you explain that seventeen interceptions four of those were
Speaker 1: pick sixes? Is that just you know, by luck, by chance? No.
Speaker 1: I think it's a quarterback trying to do too much.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, you know. I think this is
Speaker 1: a team that not only do they feel like they
Speaker 1: have to win, but dangerous for them, they feel like
Speaker 1: they have to win with style. And that's not Listen,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about the San Francisco forty nine ers
Speaker 1: like that. They don't care how they win. They just
Speaker 1: want to go out and win. But the Rams being
Speaker 1: in LA got a lot of bright, shiny toys and
Speaker 1: the first half of the season couldn't have gone any better.
Speaker 1: In the marriage between Sean McVay and Matt Stafford. You
Speaker 1: got the best receiver in the league in Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1: I got Oldell out there. And you want to have
Speaker 1: some style, you want to have to zazz and I
Speaker 1: think that Matthew Stafford, from time to time, call it
Speaker 1: five to six, seven plays a game, will force the
Speaker 1: issue and that's where he's got into trouble. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that he needs to do that for them
Speaker 1: to win. Pro Football Focus released its ranking top ten
Speaker 1: NFL players to start a franchise with twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: number one on the list, Patrick Mahomes number two on
Speaker 1: the list. Who would you pick start your franchise with
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two? You know, if you heard, if
Speaker 1: hard pressed to pass up Josh Allen or Joe Burrow, Joe,
Speaker 1: those are two of the Joe Burrows top quarterbacks. Joe
Speaker 1: Burrows two. Those are two of the top quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: my opinion, young quarterbacks in the league. Justin Herbert is three.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen four. Great argument for Justin as well. You know,
Speaker 1: any one of those three, in my opinion, you could
Speaker 1: build around. Listen, I'm excited to watch now. We're gonna
Speaker 1: find out about Josh Allen and Joe Burrow here in
Speaker 1: the next the next week and a half, two weeks.
Speaker 1: You know, Josh Allen playing Bill Belichick for the third
Speaker 1: time in a season, can't wait to watch that and
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's first opportunity. And listen, I know that, you know,
Speaker 1: the Raiders have kind of squeaked their way in, but
Speaker 1: that'll be a challenge for Joe Burrows. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't disagree with any of those. Okay, I'll continue this.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is fifth on Pro Football Focus quarterback that
Speaker 1: you would start your franchise with now, Age, of course,
Speaker 1: is a factor in Olympics. Dak Prescott is sixth, Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence is seven, Justin Field's eight, Mac Jones is nine,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson ten any issues. I don't feel as good
Speaker 1: about any of those as I do about Herbert and Josh.
Speaker 1: I'm a surprised Justin Fields was up there. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's pretty elevated status for somebody who has had basically
Speaker 1: one quarter of really impressive football. Yeah, listen, we did.
Speaker 1: We did Justin Fields twice this year, and just sitting
Speaker 1: with him, talking with him, watching him on the field,
Speaker 1: he has everything that you're looking for. It's hard to
Speaker 1: evaluate in that situation that he's had in Chicago, with
Speaker 1: the supporting cast, the coaching and everything, the tumult in
Speaker 1: the front office I hope that they get stable in
Speaker 1: that organization and give him an opportunity to see what
Speaker 1: he could really become. But all of those that you
Speaker 1: just mentioned and that second tier have have questions, Dan,
Speaker 1: and so you know, to start a franchise with any
Speaker 1: one of those guys, there's questions involved, PAULI would you
Speaker 1: check has anybody used tumult on this program before? Just
Speaker 1: Michigan guist uh so? Rich Eisen would probably use tunnel, right,
Speaker 1: Jim Harball would not use that. By the way, you
Speaker 1: think Harball flirting with the NFL, you okay with them?
Speaker 1: As a Michigan Gradum listen, I'm always in favor of
Speaker 1: guys maximizing their their value. And it's that time of years.
Speaker 1: What if you lose him, Brian, Um listen. If we
Speaker 1: lose him, Um, then we lose him. You know, like
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not one of those Michigan graand I'm
Speaker 1: not like Eisen that you know his every single day
Speaker 1: he wakes up. You know, whether he's in a good
Speaker 1: mood or bad move is how Michigan is doing. And
Speaker 1: whether Harball is staying or going that's not me. Well,
Speaker 1: if he leaves, will find someone else. Well weather, and
Speaker 1: you know the problems that that presents. Brady's probably gonna
Speaker 1: have high winds in rain. The quarterbacks in Buffalo are
Speaker 1: just going to have the freezing cold there. I don't
Speaker 1: know if any other teams are going to have to
Speaker 1: factor in weather there. But if I said you were
Speaker 1: playing in wind and rain or you're gonna play in
Speaker 1: just bitterly cold weather as a quarterback, which one would
Speaker 1: you pick? Yeah, just give me the cold. You know
Speaker 1: the cold selfishly for a quarterback, it's it's really not
Speaker 1: an impact. Now, it's an impact for the guy's catching
Speaker 1: that rock hard ball and it is slick. But uh,
Speaker 1: but no, the wind and the rain is just not
Speaker 1: a good combination. And that I think of all the games,
Speaker 1: that game will be impacted most by the weather. We
Speaker 1: know the Eagles want to run the ball, and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to watch that Eagles offensive line against the defensive
Speaker 1: front for the Bucks. I mean, Vita Vea and Jason Kelsey.
Speaker 1: What a great like. If you're a fan of football
Speaker 1: and you're watching the games this weekend, just watch Jason Kelsey,
Speaker 1: the center for the Eagles, and vite Vea. And now
Speaker 1: it's a mismatch from a size standpoint, But the Wiley
Speaker 1: vet and Kelsey, the in the position and the leverage
Speaker 1: and all those things. Um, that's what I'm gonna be watching.
Speaker 1: I know everybody else is gonna be watching, you know,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and Tom Brady, you know and all. But
Speaker 1: but to me, Jordan by lot of the left tackle
Speaker 1: against JPP and Shack Barrett coming off injury, I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a good shot from the Eagles. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna lay down. And the Bucks have some question
Speaker 1: marks that need to be answered. And we talked with
Speaker 1: Bruce arians twice this year and he says, listen, nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna run the ball on us. Okay, all right, well
Speaker 1: we'll see. It's gonna be a different challenge on this weekend.
Speaker 1: How would you doctor up the football in cold weather
Speaker 1: as a quarterback? What would you use despite deflating it? Dan,
Speaker 1: did you ever deflate a football? Yes? Actually, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: if it gets cold, Um, you want to take more
Speaker 1: air out of the ball because the ball gets really hard.
Speaker 1: But how do you do that though, Well, you have
Speaker 1: a little you have a needle and you take a
Speaker 1: little bit of the air out of the needle. You're
Speaker 1: that you're not allowed to do. Now you have somebody
Speaker 1: who does this for you, correct, Yeah, the the the guys,
Speaker 1: the equipment managers, they're the ones that take care of
Speaker 1: the ball. All within the rules, Dan, completely within the rules,
Speaker 1: all of it. But you know you got to you
Speaker 1: gotta get up to that level. You gotta get to
Speaker 1: that line. But you want to be able to feel
Speaker 1: the ball. Your hands are already frozen. The ball's frozen,
Speaker 1: and it gets slim. The only thing that you can
Speaker 1: do is if you take a little air, you can
Speaker 1: squeeze the ball a little bit easier and then you
Speaker 1: can feel it better. That's that's why quarterbacks do that.
Speaker 1: But did Brady do anything that another quarterbacks don't do?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. No. I mean I think I
Speaker 1: think you're you're constantly trying to find what works for you. Now.
Speaker 1: You now there is that line that you go up
Speaker 1: to and then sometimes guys will cross over it. But
Speaker 1: you're always trying to find that advantage. But were they
Speaker 1: checking back then? You know, back then, Dan, it was interesting.
Speaker 1: The rules were different. Um, there was a time period
Speaker 1: where you had to take the balls out of the packaging.
Speaker 1: It had to be brand new, like out of the
Speaker 1: out of the box and out of the packaging. And
Speaker 1: I remember I was so frustrated. One time we were
Speaker 1: playing a game. Tony Crenci, who's still working up, comes
Speaker 1: into the locker room and he was making sure that
Speaker 1: the balls that we were using on offense were coming
Speaker 1: right out of the box. I'm like, Tony, like, let
Speaker 1: my guys just work them over. Let's just brush them
Speaker 1: a little bit, because they come out of the film
Speaker 1: on them to really slick, and it's impossible to throw
Speaker 1: that ball. And I you know, I think Tom and
Speaker 1: Peyton got together and they kind of lobbied the league
Speaker 1: to get rid of that rule, which was the dumbest
Speaker 1: rule that we have ever had for quarterbacks and for
Speaker 1: offensive play because you got guys going back to throw
Speaker 1: the balls slipping out of their hands and nobody wants
Speaker 1: to watch that. Um. So the rules have changed, and
Speaker 1: I think it's in a good place now. But you know,
Speaker 1: I look at this and it just seems like somebody
Speaker 1: rantional will just say, um, the quarterback can have the
Speaker 1: ball that he wants, and the quarterback can have the
Speaker 1: ball that he wants. There's no advantage there. If there's no,
Speaker 1: you know, deception, there's no nothing, it's this is how
Speaker 1: you want the football for your team. This is how
Speaker 1: you want the ball for your team. Doesn't that seem logical?
Speaker 1: It does seem logical, you know. And um, but you
Speaker 1: know how uh this league is. It's cookie cutter and
Speaker 1: they want everything by the book and they want everything
Speaker 1: the same and uh but you certainly, Dan could make
Speaker 1: a logical argument, Hey, let the quarterback have it however
Speaker 1: wants it. But you didn't learn to cheat at Michigan.
Speaker 1: You learned this when you got to the NFL. Who well,
Speaker 1: why do you use that word so to gain an advantage?
Speaker 1: My bad? That words so hard, as I said, As
Speaker 1: I said, and I was quoted within the guy that's
Speaker 1: my bad, My bad. Okay, the game that we're going
Speaker 1: to be talking about on Tuesday is going to be,
Speaker 1: what you know, I think it will be the Dallas
Speaker 1: San Francisco game. And I think it's gonna be San
Speaker 1: Francisco in this game. Yeah, listen, I think that you know,
Speaker 1: everybody is kind of getting on this bandwagon after the
Speaker 1: second half of the season and what Kyle Shanahan has
Speaker 1: been able to do. Listen, the season did not start
Speaker 1: well for them at three and five, I think that
Speaker 1: they have figured out who they are. Listen, this is
Speaker 1: this is a this is not a trendy pick. It's
Speaker 1: not a fad. If you've watched this team, and we've
Speaker 1: we've done their games a couple of times, they are
Speaker 1: the team that will drag you, drag the opponent out
Speaker 1: to the deep end of the water, okay, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna make it gritty and nasty. They're not gonna let
Speaker 1: you play the kind of game that you want to
Speaker 1: play if you're Dallas, you know, spread it out and
Speaker 1: throw the ball all over the place. They're gonna see
Speaker 1: how long you can tread water, because they've been treading
Speaker 1: water for eight weeks and they know that they can
Speaker 1: live in that environment. And so listen, all the pressures
Speaker 1: on Dallas and you know, Jerry at home, everything that
Speaker 1: they have done, Um, from a from a personnel standpoint,
Speaker 1: from a roster standpoint, Um, there's all the pressure on Dallas,
Speaker 1: and and this game is not going to be be pretty.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be UM. I know everybody wants to
Speaker 1: talk about Michael Parsons and about Randy Gregory about rushing
Speaker 1: the pastor getting to Jimmy Garoppolo. That is not what
Speaker 1: this game is going to be about. Kyle Shanahan is
Speaker 1: gonna make it about how physical are you gonna play?
Speaker 1: Are you are your weakest players, your weakest tacklers on
Speaker 1: your defense? Who are your corners right on every defense?
Speaker 1: Treyvon Diggs. No, you're not gonna be intercepting passes. I
Speaker 1: want to see if you can tackle Deepo Samuel one
Speaker 1: on one Jayalen Ramsey got that test last week. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown the other corner on the other side, do
Speaker 1: you want to tackle Elijah Mitchell on the perimeter. That
Speaker 1: that's what this game is gonna be about. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what people are gonna be talking about on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Great stuff, Bran, My best leaves in uh and Lewis
Speaker 1: and we'll be watching on Monday night. All right, Dann,
Speaker 1: good to see you.