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Speaker 1: really how crazy things have been for the Dallas Cowboys,
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Speaker 1: Coming up this weekend. Kyle Yoman's here alongside our resident
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champ Isaiah Stanback. We've got Rob Danger, pe
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Speaker 1: Then heck Ma Harrison as always the professional football analyst
Speaker 1: leading the way and boys. First off, Happy New Year's
Speaker 1: Eve to each one of you guys and excited to
Speaker 1: go into twenty twenty one with you and have a
Speaker 1: show next week. Talking about the playoffs, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's kind of where we're at, right, Yes, playoffs. Playoffs?
Speaker 1: Are we talking about playoffs? So let's talk about how
Speaker 1: the Cowboys could get to those playoffs, because today we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the Cowboys offense matching up against the
Speaker 1: Giants defense and really the matchup that I think is
Speaker 1: going to the side this game for the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: and it's going to decide the winner of this game.
Speaker 1: But first, let's talk about some injuries on that defensive
Speaker 1: side of the football for Dallas and rob injury report
Speaker 1: came out yesterday and there were a couple of names
Speaker 1: on there. A couple more names on there I should
Speaker 1: say that I did not want to see, and most
Speaker 1: of them were in the secondary. Well, which one's concerning
Speaker 1: the most, Kyle Well. Donovan Wilson concerns me the fact
Speaker 1: that he did not practice yesterday. Xavier Woods was limited,
Speaker 1: Laton Vanderesh again on the injury report, there are a
Speaker 1: couple of big names there that really concerned me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it was encouraging that Xavier Woods got some
Speaker 1: work in yesterday with the ribs injury that kept him
Speaker 1: out against the Eagles, So I thought that was encouraging.
Speaker 1: Donovand Wilson had an illness was not present at practice.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Vanderesh Cheeto has been I feel like he's
Speaker 1: been dealing with a sham string or growing maybe last week.
Speaker 1: I have to check if he was on the injury
Speaker 1: port last week, but something bothered him during the game.
Speaker 1: I think, so, Yeah, they're a little banged up, but
Speaker 1: you know, they did okay at the linebacker position without
Speaker 1: vander esh last week. And I think with Sean coming
Speaker 1: in with Joe Thomas rotating in if he can't go
Speaker 1: this week, I think you feel okay because you've got
Speaker 1: some veteran depth there. But yeah, you got to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on the secondary for sure this week and
Speaker 1: darry and Thompson again, it may be a Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: game at safety, who knows, or he may have to
Speaker 1: play a few snaps there depending on their situation. Heck, my,
Speaker 1: how big is it going to be if you don't
Speaker 1: have either one of those guys, and then who would
Speaker 1: you expect to potentially step up and play if Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson and Xavier Woods are not available, because I think
Speaker 1: you started finding a rhythm with those guys in the
Speaker 1: backside of the defense. Now, we opened up the season
Speaker 1: talking about hybrid players, so let's right, let's get the
Speaker 1: hybrid on. You know, Jorge lewis a little bit of safety.
Speaker 1: He Bill then nicely. I feel like hit all of
Speaker 1: the injury reports and our safeties being banged up, but
Speaker 1: all over the league, guys are banged up. So I
Speaker 1: fully expect that, at least for my conscious need, Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson to be able to go h and Xavier Woods
Speaker 1: because obviously he was out up from the Philly game.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think that we did pretty good
Speaker 1: with guys that were out last week, all things being considered,
Speaker 1: with the passing yards that they got towards the end
Speaker 1: of the game. But still I feel good about whomever
Speaker 1: we have in there. Right now. Our front is playing
Speaker 1: so so good and getting pressure and got everybody needs
Speaker 1: to understand, man, when you're able to manufacture that pressure
Speaker 1: and get sacks and move the quarterback out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: it does well for your secondary. So I look for
Speaker 1: these guys to repeat that effort. No Cheeto out there,
Speaker 1: or at least he was limited out there as well. Isaiah,
Speaker 1: do you think Cheeto had a solid enough game last
Speaker 1: week against Philadelphia to where if he were unavailable against
Speaker 1: New York and a couple of these weapons like a
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd or an Evan Ingram that it would play,
Speaker 1: that would pay huge dividends for the Giants in terms
Speaker 1: of an advantage. I don't think so. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I mean, where he's at right now in his development,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't feel like he's that dominant of
Speaker 1: a of a player right now. So, and especially if
Speaker 1: he was ever going to be out a game, it
Speaker 1: would probably be against these guys because they're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna struggle to throw the ball. They don't go, they
Speaker 1: don't go down the field much. We're gonna be sitting
Speaker 1: in the zone anyway, just because we want to try
Speaker 1: to continue to get pressure with our front seven. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I it was encouraging to see that. What
Speaker 1: my belief was in terms of vander Ish, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't think we're gonna miss him that much. Last week.
Speaker 1: So that was that was positive. You know, Joe Thomas
Speaker 1: and Jaylen Smith running around. Hopefully we can get the
Speaker 1: same production out of those guys um in terms of safeties,
Speaker 1: trying to fulfill that void. You know, you know who,
Speaker 1: you know who I'm who I'm trying to get in there,
Speaker 1: Kyle going for for that boy, Reggie, that boy Reggie Robinson.
Speaker 1: If you look at his his play to turn the
Speaker 1: forced turnover ratio, I would say it's pretty high his
Speaker 1: turnovers versus how many plays he's actually had in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So I say, let the boy roll. Hey, maybe that
Speaker 1: play on special teams where he did punch the ball
Speaker 1: out potentially provides an opportunity for him to see more
Speaker 1: playing time and more defensive reps. And I talked to
Speaker 1: We had the Cowboys Hour last night with C. J. Goodwin,
Speaker 1: who was on the receiving side of the fumble recovery.
Speaker 1: And I asked him, I was like, so did you
Speaker 1: think you were in? He goes, No, I was out.
Speaker 1: I just tried to sell it. He's like, I knew
Speaker 1: my foot was out the whole. I mean, speaking on Goodwin,
Speaker 1: Goodwin did a heck of a job coming in and
Speaker 1: fulfilling that that spiral um. You know, I know he
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily make a bunch of players, but he didn't
Speaker 1: have to. The simple threat of him being there, I
Speaker 1: think kept Jalen Hurts at Bay pretty much, you know,
Speaker 1: at Bay for that second half. So it was very
Speaker 1: encouraging to see them, you know, Mike Nolan expand his
Speaker 1: his repertoire um and dig a little bit deeper into
Speaker 1: his black book um to go into that bottletop defense
Speaker 1: whereas three guys, three safeties across the top of and
Speaker 1: you dropped that middle at that time, that middle safety,
Speaker 1: you drop him down and said courage to kind of
Speaker 1: watch over the quarterback. So that was encouraging to see
Speaker 1: them expanded a little bit. And Mike Nolan talked about
Speaker 1: that on Monday and he said it got to the
Speaker 1: point where if CJ wasn't chasing him down himself, just
Speaker 1: that threat, they felt like Jalen Hurts, like you said,
Speaker 1: was kind of aware of it and was more hesitant
Speaker 1: to run. And he only had maybe ten or twelve
Speaker 1: yards rushing in the second half. You know they did,
Speaker 1: they did bottle him up. That was big. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had four carries for sixteen yards when CJ. Goodwin was
Speaker 1: at least in the formation or in that second half,
Speaker 1: I think was maybe the stat and Rob you wrote
Speaker 1: a really good piece about it on Dallas Cowboys dot
Speaker 1: com that I read earlier this week, and even talking
Speaker 1: with him last night. The thing about CJ. Goodwin is
Speaker 1: he's one of those crazy stories of how he got
Speaker 1: to the NFL. I really encourage everybody to go and
Speaker 1: listen to the Cowboys Hour. Not for me, forget about me.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about for CJ. Goodwin, because he was fantastic,
Speaker 1: A great interview. A guy who was a basketball player
Speaker 1: who worked on mel Blunt's farm, the Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh, and went to a pickup basketball game against
Speaker 1: the football coaching staff at the college he played basketball
Speaker 1: at and they said, hey, come out to football practice.
Speaker 1: Turned him into a wide receiver. Then mel Blunt talked
Speaker 1: to Steelers into trying him out, and then from the
Speaker 1: Steelers tryout, turned around, signed and then ended up bouncing
Speaker 1: around the league. Was turned into a corner during his
Speaker 1: time and Atlanta, went to the Super Bowl with Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and then has bounced around the league and ultimately settled
Speaker 1: here in Dallas. Which by the way, was his childhood
Speaker 1: favorite team always. So really really really cool story and
Speaker 1: it was a great interview last night with Danny Serek
Speaker 1: and company on the Cowboys Hour. So he was he
Speaker 1: was in He's playing a basketball game and the football
Speaker 1: coaches told him to come out for football after a
Speaker 1: basketball game. That means he used all his files. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: what he said. Actually, what he said is that he
Speaker 1: dunked on one of the football coach coaches and the
Speaker 1: football coaches like, nah, come out to practice. Come on, Okay,
Speaker 1: I bet you they wanted to run them. I bet
Speaker 1: you they wanted to run them. If that was what
Speaker 1: it was they wanted to They wanted to put them
Speaker 1: on the team so they could run lines and make
Speaker 1: them pay for that dunk. But so, ways, really cool.
Speaker 1: You talk about a success story. You mentioned it's three
Speaker 1: different programs. He was at Bethany College. Okay, he played
Speaker 1: basketball there. Then he went to Fairmont State to play football,
Speaker 1: and then the California University of Pennsylvania not California, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Journey journeyman and uh man. Just finding a way to
Speaker 1: get noticed, right, undrafted? What a story? Yeah, so so
Speaker 1: rot what you're saying is the next celebrity kickball game.
Speaker 1: We should make sure that Kyle has his opportunity so
Speaker 1: that we can get him in there at potential kicker
Speaker 1: down the road. Is that what you're saying. You're saying
Speaker 1: there's a chance. I'm telling you there's a chance. Let's
Speaker 1: do Let's do it. Yeah, I need to get in
Speaker 1: the kickball game. Look out. I've had commenters on the
Speaker 1: show already tell me that I have the body of
Speaker 1: a retired punter, so we might as well make it
Speaker 1: come true and make it an active punter. Let's make it.
Speaker 1: Let's make it happen. So I'm not along the way.
Speaker 1: Let's oh god, let's go ahead and talk about this
Speaker 1: matchup between the Cowboys offense and this Giants defense, because
Speaker 1: I want to know it's gonna be a sloppy weather game.
Speaker 1: And we looked at the weather earlier today and it
Speaker 1: was it was fifty five lower. I mean, of course
Speaker 1: it's gonna be in the middle of the afternoon, but sloppy, wet.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be raining up in New York kind of
Speaker 1: like it is in Frisco for all of those who
Speaker 1: are actually in the Metroplex. But really sloppy week of
Speaker 1: game play up there at MetLife Field. But whenever you
Speaker 1: talk about running the football, that might actually go into
Speaker 1: your favor. And this is a Giants team that over
Speaker 1: the last four weeks has given opponents at least one
Speaker 1: hundred rushing yards after not doing it oh so much
Speaker 1: the first dozen weeks of the season. But my question
Speaker 1: to you, Isaiah's can Zeke replicate the week that he
Speaker 1: had last week? It was a he's in high game
Speaker 1: for Ezekiel Elliott, But can he do it again against
Speaker 1: this Giants defense? And how can he? I think so?
Speaker 1: I think, I think, I think we need to establish
Speaker 1: that renting game. I think, especially going into a rivalry
Speaker 1: game like this, it's gonna be physical. You can't can't
Speaker 1: get around it. I don't care what the Giants are
Speaker 1: playing for. What we're playing for is is gonna be
Speaker 1: a physical game regardless. Now you throw the playoff applications
Speaker 1: on top of that, and for both teams and guess what, Oh,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some hidden So we need to be
Speaker 1: able to control the line of scrimmage. We need Zeke
Speaker 1: to I don't even I don't even have to say
Speaker 1: we need Zeke to you know, to get off and
Speaker 1: be aggressive. He's going to do that. I think he
Speaker 1: felt that flame last night or not last tip of
Speaker 1: last week, and I think he plans on doing the
Speaker 1: same thing. And I think there's no better team to
Speaker 1: do it against them with than your rival Rob Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And you know what, he ran well in the first
Speaker 1: game against the Giants. Nineteen carries, ninety one yards, two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It's kind of what I was saying a week or
Speaker 1: so ago. I thought he ran pretty good earlier in
Speaker 1: the season. They just they got behind and he fumbled
Speaker 1: the ball and they did something to take themselves out
Speaker 1: of the running game. Tony Pollard had five yards to
Speaker 1: carry as well, so they ran okay against the Giants.
Speaker 1: But I do expect the Giants to really be on
Speaker 1: their keys this week because they got dashed by Baltimore
Speaker 1: last week and a lot of a lot of teams
Speaker 1: do the Cowboys did too. They do, they do. Heck,
Speaker 1: they do a lot of funky stuff pre snap and
Speaker 1: that can throw you off. But they're they're a pretty
Speaker 1: solid run defense team overall this season, and I expect
Speaker 1: them to be the focus to be much higher this week.
Speaker 1: That I was so happy to see the weather report
Speaker 1: in New York for Sunday. I mean that's that's Zeke weather.
Speaker 1: It's football weather, and that's Zeke weather. I mean he
Speaker 1: when you look at his career at Ohio State, he
Speaker 1: played a lot of games in this kind of weather.
Speaker 1: So I expect for him to play, you know, above
Speaker 1: and beyond his level that he has been all season.
Speaker 1: And we know what Zeke hast at stake. Man, He's
Speaker 1: right now sixty three yards away from a thousand yards
Speaker 1: and what does that mean for him here in Dallas
Speaker 1: is putting him in the company of Tony Dorsett and
Speaker 1: him and Smith being the only running backs to ever
Speaker 1: record four thousand yard excuse me, rushing yards in five years.
Speaker 1: So I mean, asides from the accolades and everybody knowing
Speaker 1: what we have at stake here, I expect for Zeke
Speaker 1: to be eteam. Now, I do want to point out
Speaker 1: over the last four games this Giants run defense giving
Speaker 1: up a hundred yards. I mean those teams were Seattle, Arizona, Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and Baltimore. And I mean those are four teams that
Speaker 1: ran pretty well against the Cowboys this season. So I
Speaker 1: mean there's a lot to look at whenever it comes
Speaker 1: to this Giants team. We're gonna get into it a
Speaker 1: little bit later on when we get into the pickums
Speaker 1: and say it with your chest about how the Giants
Speaker 1: had won four straight and now they've lost three straight,
Speaker 1: all against really good playoff caliber teams, and so there's
Speaker 1: this isn't a go ahead, let's win this game type
Speaker 1: of game for the Cowboys. I mean, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a battle. I don't think this is gonna be
Speaker 1: an easy win by any for Dallas. And I think
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why is that defense and rob
Speaker 1: when you look at the Cowboys in the success that
Speaker 1: they had last week against Philadelphia, where did they have
Speaker 1: that same kind of success against this this Giants defense?
Speaker 1: Because I think the secondary is playing well together. I
Speaker 1: think the front seven is pretty ruthless. They're not Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: Washington Pittsburgh level, but they're still a pretty good front seven.
Speaker 1: But I want to know where the weakness is in
Speaker 1: this Giants defense and how the Cowboys can exploit it. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I think I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think they're pretty solid front to back. They've they've
Speaker 1: had some problems recently, and I think some of it
Speaker 1: has been their injuries in the secondary. So it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a little bit like Philly last week, although I
Speaker 1: think Philly Philly was kind of decimated. I just think
Speaker 1: beyond Bradberry at cornerback, James Bradberry, they're they're kind of
Speaker 1: young in the secondary at the coverage spots. And so
Speaker 1: you look at the game last week or last time
Speaker 1: in mid October, ceedee lamb a huge game and um,
Speaker 1: you know against I think it was Darnay Holmes work
Speaker 1: in the slot. Now, I don't know Isaiah Hack from
Speaker 1: what you guys have seen, I probably expect them to
Speaker 1: play some zone. I think they kind of do anyway,
Speaker 1: but but I would imagine they try to keep things
Speaker 1: in front of them, given that this is by far
Speaker 1: the best trio receivers maybe they faced all years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely see them playing a two highest shield. I
Speaker 1: don't I think, you know, to answer your question called
Speaker 1: the weeks by their defense, I think it's their linebackers.
Speaker 1: I think their second levels a little a little, a
Speaker 1: little soft, little young. I think Martinez right there in
Speaker 1: the middle, I think he's pretty dug one good, but
Speaker 1: I think his his comrades on the side who we
Speaker 1: got here. Yeah, yeah, those guys are those guys are
Speaker 1: a little a little soft, little little tissue paper ish.
Speaker 1: But so I think if we can, we can, if
Speaker 1: our offensive lie can work their way up to the
Speaker 1: second level, I think we can have some some huge
Speaker 1: plays on the ground. Now, this is the NFC East battle.
Speaker 1: It didn't matter when you're right, when you look at
Speaker 1: schedule and you saw that we had the Giant the
Speaker 1: last game, it wasn't gonna be an easy matchup in
Speaker 1: in perfect form. Here we are having to play for
Speaker 1: potentially playoff berth. But you're right, Rob, when you talked
Speaker 1: about what c Lamb did versus the Giants in our
Speaker 1: first matchup, he burned them. And just like Philly last week,
Speaker 1: they tried to just say, hey, let's pick our poison. Right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna pick the poison, and we choose Michael Gallup.
Speaker 1: We all they got poisoned by Michael Gallup in the
Speaker 1: first half and they had to bring guys from awful
Speaker 1: safety to play corner to stop the bleeding. But that's
Speaker 1: what you get versus the Cowboys when you have three
Speaker 1: receivers that can stretch the feel the way that they
Speaker 1: can and Ceedee Lamb had that big game because he
Speaker 1: was in the slot a lot and they had to
Speaker 1: move down that nickel corner right now, like you said,
Speaker 1: with the injuries that they have, you look for Xavier McKinney,
Speaker 1: but he's a safety, but he does play a lot
Speaker 1: in the slot to be matched up with Ceedee Lamb. Again,
Speaker 1: they have to pick their poison. And with the way
Speaker 1: that Andy Dalton is playing, I just to see us
Speaker 1: go out on our shield, no matter how it goes,
Speaker 1: I want to see it us go out firing and
Speaker 1: to back door that you both of you guys comments.
Speaker 1: I think if you're if you're the defensive coordinator for
Speaker 1: the Giants and you had to pick and choose between
Speaker 1: do I want to stop the run primarily or do
Speaker 1: I want to stop the pass primarily? Based upon Zeke's
Speaker 1: year so far, even though I know he's still creeping
Speaker 1: up on a thousand yards, I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: rest on the shoulders up. Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make Zeke get back to old Zeke Forum and make
Speaker 1: him beat me. And I'm gonna put my I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put my best six guys in the box, right because
Speaker 1: most of the time will be in in eleven personnel,
Speaker 1: so they can have six guys in the box and
Speaker 1: we'll have five to six guys in the box and
Speaker 1: guess what, Hey, my six guys are better than year
Speaker 1: six guys. And I'm gonna make you prove it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make you prove it. I am not gonna put
Speaker 1: myself in a situation where I have to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: my dbs are better than your receivers, because they know
Speaker 1: that's not the case. That's a good point because you
Speaker 1: know when you see comments pregame during every week about
Speaker 1: how to approach the Cowboy's offense, it's always like, well
Speaker 1: it starts with zeke, we gotta stop throw, We're gonna
Speaker 1: stop the run. But when it got pretty toasty, it
Speaker 1: got pretty toasty for Philly Secondary last week, So yeah,
Speaker 1: you might need to change it up because Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: is clicking with his wide receivers and with the protection
Speaker 1: it's gotten better too. Yeah, that is and that's it, man.
Speaker 1: And you look at the numbers for the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: and just around the league. I mean, it's a comparison
Speaker 1: thing that we do here and just the upper echelon teams,
Speaker 1: you know, comparable to our defense being thirty second, But
Speaker 1: on offense, my god, the numbers for our passing game
Speaker 1: or two through the roof. I mean, we're in top
Speaker 1: ten in passing. And I know I'm one of those people. Man,
Speaker 1: I just want to see us ground and pound and
Speaker 1: wear that clock out and phil you know, Philip position
Speaker 1: ball control all of those things. But it's proven, man,
Speaker 1: these last couple of games that once our passing game
Speaker 1: gets going, we're really hard to stop. Well, it's also
Speaker 1: been proven that you can do both, and I think
Speaker 1: that that's really kind of come to fruition in the
Speaker 1: Minnesota game and in the game against Philadelphia last week,
Speaker 1: where you did have a hundred yard rusher, but you
Speaker 1: also had a ton of success with your receivers and
Speaker 1: with the passing game. It's a marriage between the two
Speaker 1: that's going to allow you to be the most successful.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of where I think Kelln Moore and
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy are trying to get this offense to land
Speaker 1: is right in that little that safe spot right in
Speaker 1: the middle, and it's hard to do that. Well. The
Speaker 1: trust tree, the trust tree of play, colleague, but it's
Speaker 1: hard to do that. That's not an easy thing, and
Speaker 1: that's why you have to have as many talented players
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys do to try and at least even
Speaker 1: attempt to get to that point. But I kind of
Speaker 1: want to go back really quickly before we had to
Speaker 1: break here and address something that Heckma said about Xavier McKinney.
Speaker 1: I really liked Xavier McKinney coming out of Alabama in
Speaker 1: the draft. Last year. Rookie kind of got banged up
Speaker 1: in training camp, didn't play until week twelve of the season,
Speaker 1: but he's played over fifty percent of the snaps and
Speaker 1: each of the last three weeks, by the way, all
Speaker 1: three losses, and in those games, I mean, he's been decent,
Speaker 1: he's been good. But if you're taughting me that Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb is going to go one on one with Xavier
Speaker 1: McKinney right this weekend, I feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 1: Headmont feel pretty good. So hopefully that's the case, and
Speaker 1: maybe the Cowboys get an opportunity to use Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: out of the slot this weekend when we come back, though,
Speaker 1: is momentum going to be the biggest factor in this game?
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask that question to all three of
Speaker 1: these guys. We're going to talk about it when we
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Speaker 1: Yeoman's going into our second segment here of a say
Speaker 1: it with your Chess Thursday. We've got predictions and DraftKings
Speaker 1: players coming up later on in the show. By the way,
Speaker 1: I went back and listen to our Draftking segment last week.
Speaker 1: All four of us were on point, and you would
Speaker 1: have won some money last week. I think if you
Speaker 1: would have chosen exactly what we said. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying we all just hyped up the Cowboys. Isaiah last
Speaker 1: week said don't go with Tony Pollard. He said there's
Speaker 1: more better places you can spend your money. And well,
Speaker 1: of course that's what ended up happening. Because Isaiah's got
Speaker 1: a crystal ball, so plenty of stuff to talk about
Speaker 1: whenever it comes to DraftKings, and we'll do that coming
Speaker 1: up in the third segment. But Isaiah, want to ask
Speaker 1: you a question. So being a former player in the
Speaker 1: NFL and being around a team with momentum, and that
Speaker 1: team just happened to be the New York Giants nine
Speaker 1: and seven went on to a Super Bowl, And you've
Speaker 1: been a part of a team that has been to
Speaker 1: the highest point even after having kind of a mediocre
Speaker 1: regular season. Where does how much of a factor does
Speaker 1: momentum in a locker room play? Because right now, you
Speaker 1: can look at the last three games for each of
Speaker 1: these teams, and the Cowboys had beaten bad team Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Philadelphia, all teams with five or less wins
Speaker 1: at least whenever they played them. And then look at
Speaker 1: the Giants and their last three losses Arizona, Cleveland, Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Like I said in the first segment, all playoff caliber teams.
Speaker 1: So two teams going in different directions but with different
Speaker 1: skill level on the other side of the on the
Speaker 1: other sideline during those games. But the Cowboys have a
Speaker 1: much higher morale and much higher momentum right now? Right
Speaker 1: can they write that into a game like this? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Confidence is everything, and people can sit up here and say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: these guys are professional athletes. They could say, oh, these
Speaker 1: guys are getting paid a lot of money. This guy
Speaker 1: gets paid ten million dollars a year. I don't care
Speaker 1: what happens to him. He needs to find a way.
Speaker 1: You're a human being. You're a human being. You just
Speaker 1: happen to get paid very well at what you do
Speaker 1: for your employment. When you're confident, regardless of what profession
Speaker 1: you're in, things become easier. Right, you have a little
Speaker 1: swag about you. Right when Kyle, when Kyle is feeling
Speaker 1: that we could tell when Kyle is feeling that could
Speaker 1: Kyle comes on to Mike and he's just you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Bust arrives with the word you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You know, he heckma goes into his
Speaker 1: little the source and he starts pulling words out there,
Speaker 1: you know, out the back. You know, Rob got the
Speaker 1: injury reports for the last seventeen years. You know. So
Speaker 1: you when guys are in their groove, you're confident, and
Speaker 1: things flow right, and and those little those little, those
Speaker 1: little speed bumps in the rope, now they kind of
Speaker 1: you got suspension, right, you got you got some shocks,
Speaker 1: You got some fresh shocks. When when you don't have confidence,
Speaker 1: things are hard, Things are hard, and those speed bumps hurt, right,
Speaker 1: your shocks, and your shocks might you know, they might
Speaker 1: not be screwed in this type, right, they might be
Speaker 1: a little squeaky um. But but when you got things rolling,
Speaker 1: you know your conversation around locker rooms a little bit better.
Speaker 1: You know your swags a little different. You come into
Speaker 1: the locker room a little different. You show up to
Speaker 1: practice your laugh and they're joking around, talking about what
Speaker 1: music you're listening to, what the latest dance is, you
Speaker 1: know all those things. All that stuff matters, and then
Speaker 1: you go into the game and guess what, you're a
Speaker 1: kid again. You're having fun. You got the same confidence
Speaker 1: you had in college. Guys get drafted high. Why because
Speaker 1: they gain their confidence in college and then they hit
Speaker 1: their peak. Then they come into the league and either
Speaker 1: continue that or they get they get awakening, and they
Speaker 1: got to dip, and they guess what, they have to
Speaker 1: build their confidence back up. It's not that they're less
Speaker 1: of a player, is that they don't have the same
Speaker 1: confidence that they had in college. So as you're going
Speaker 1: into games like this, it's all about momentum, right, and
Speaker 1: if you can go out there and you can build
Speaker 1: off of these last few games that we've had. You
Speaker 1: go out here and you can bust the giants in
Speaker 1: their mouth and then guess what. Hopefully, hopefully you slide
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and then it's a four game season.
Speaker 1: That's why it's all about what team is hot going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, because that's what matters most on I
Speaker 1: like that he said I'm in my bag when I'm
Speaker 1: in my thesaurus. I like that, Hey, look, man, ain't
Speaker 1: nomentum like momentum, And I love that we haven't. We
Speaker 1: haven't had it before the beginning of this season. We
Speaker 1: were getting hit over the head with a bag of nickels.
Speaker 1: Em like every game. You talk about the challenges that
Speaker 1: we had on defense, not being able to get this
Speaker 1: offense going in the first half, and now suddenly, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden and over differential. I mean, the defense
Speaker 1: is clicking and the offense seems like you know, Andy
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton can't miss except for when he's overthrowing CD
Speaker 1: or underthrowing CD. Lamb um. But I like it. I
Speaker 1: like the fact that we're in a position now where
Speaker 1: these guys that you've seen play feel better about themselves.
Speaker 1: And and like Isaiah said, if it's you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit looser. You you take the sounds from the
Speaker 1: game and guys are talking about let's eat and all
Speaker 1: of that. You know, let's this is the game for
Speaker 1: these guys to show up and regardless of how it
Speaker 1: plays out with the with the football team and the
Speaker 1: boot Eagles, is imperative that we go into this game,
Speaker 1: get a victory and feel good about ourselves no matter what,
Speaker 1: because this has been a season where the Cowboys has
Speaker 1: been dumped on by everybody, players, coaches, around the league,
Speaker 1: anonymous sources, all of the media types. So this game
Speaker 1: is for us, man, and let's just go out and
Speaker 1: let's just hear them. Let's just hit them and hit
Speaker 1: them hard and go, like I said before, go out
Speaker 1: on our shield. Yeah. You know, it's hard to gauge
Speaker 1: the confidence of the team just because we're not in
Speaker 1: the locker room this year and it's just these calls
Speaker 1: every every day of practice. But I just got the
Speaker 1: vibe from Zeke talked yesterday, de Marcus Lawrence talked yesterday,
Speaker 1: and Joe Looney talk and I just felt like there
Speaker 1: is a lot of confidence flowing right now. They feel
Speaker 1: they just feel better about where they're at and quick
Speaker 1: quote from DeMarcus Lawrence. He said, I feel like when
Speaker 1: things go south and all of it goes downhill, that's
Speaker 1: when real men show up. I can just say we've
Speaker 1: got some real men and some real characters that love
Speaker 1: playing this game. And he talked about camaraderie and all
Speaker 1: those things. I do think it's building. But I did
Speaker 1: want to piggyback on what Isaiah said, because momentum, like
Speaker 1: you mentioned momentum, is it a real thing week to week?
Speaker 1: You know, because it's six games or seven days in
Speaker 1: between games, Like can you really carry it with a
Speaker 1: new opponent or is every week kind of its own deal,
Speaker 1: especially when it's a rivalry game, And like I think
Speaker 1: Hex said, you can just kind of throw it out
Speaker 1: every week when it's when it's two rivals going at it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: regardless of the days in between, its still builds right here.
Speaker 1: So you're coming off a game in which you played well,
Speaker 1: so like these last three games, it's no, it's not
Speaker 1: just it's not scheme why we force turnovers. It's not.
Speaker 1: It's not a scheme thing. You know, one game you
Speaker 1: force turnovers and then guess what, Oh crap, I forgot.
Speaker 1: I get hit. Oh yeah, yeah, I get hit. That's right.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm I'm freaking Darian Thompson. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm I'm d Law. You know I'll be
Speaker 1: your everybody better recognize what the name is. And you start,
Speaker 1: you start, you start getting that swag, but you start
Speaker 1: remembering who you are. Sometimes some guys gotta go back
Speaker 1: and watch college highlights. Sometimes you gotta do that. Whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever helps you remind yourself of who you are, that's
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. When sometimes it comes into in
Speaker 1: the form of a big play, it's no, it's no.
Speaker 1: It's no secret that guys disappeared for a while. Like
Speaker 1: say Zeke, Right, Zeke wasn't Zeke for a while. Right,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Zeke goes out and runs his
Speaker 1: tail off last week and we see this come back. Well,
Speaker 1: is that because oh he just had a good day. No,
Speaker 1: Zeke is getting his confidence back the office, A line
Speaker 1: is getting their confidence back, right, So then what does
Speaker 1: that do? That transitions right over to the practice week.
Speaker 1: Guess what film studies a little bit better? Oh yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's not a can we can
Speaker 1: we make this play happen, and it's like, oh yeah, coach,
Speaker 1: put that in. We're making that happen. Is the question
Speaker 1: marks start leaving your head. Can I rush without fumbling? Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can rush without phone Kenn, nobody take the ball
Speaker 1: from me. I'm zeke. It's that kind of talk, right,
Speaker 1: and that stuff carries over and then when you go
Speaker 1: into the next week and you do it again, now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that's a confirmation. That's affirmation that
Speaker 1: that is true. And you keep building that up until
Speaker 1: somebody comes and bust you in your mouth. That's the
Speaker 1: way it goes. And I don't like keeping going and
Speaker 1: going back to this Cowboys hour last night with CJ Goodwin,
Speaker 1: But there was a lot of great information in there,
Speaker 1: and CJ T you mentioned like the confidence of play
Speaker 1: calling of hey, throw that in there, coach, let's figure
Speaker 1: it out. The CJ package where CJ. Goodwin came in
Speaker 1: and spied Jalen Hurts was in a pure example of that.
Speaker 1: Because they talked about it earlier in the season. CJ
Speaker 1: said that Sean Lee was the one that came up
Speaker 1: to him and actually brought that play to the forefront.
Speaker 1: But he did it back in like week eleven, Week twelve,
Speaker 1: they didn't run it until week fifteen, and when they did,
Speaker 1: they had confidence in it. They did it for sixteen
Speaker 1: defensive stabs and it ended up helping them win the
Speaker 1: game because both interceptions against Philadelphia came while CJ. Goodwin
Speaker 1: was on the field. So there is that growth, I
Speaker 1: think within a locker room. And Rob, you mentioned the
Speaker 1: guys who talked yesterday and Joe Luney and Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: and DeMarcus Lawrence, all three of them talked about how
Speaker 1: much fun it was to be back on a winning
Speaker 1: side of things, and I think it may even play
Speaker 1: more of a factor momentum, that is, in terms of
Speaker 1: a team that lost so much early on, because you
Speaker 1: can go and look at the Jankansas City Chiefs right now,
Speaker 1: who are fourteen and one. You can say, yeah, they've
Speaker 1: got a lot of momentum, but you know, for a fact,
Speaker 1: there's pressure in that locker room. There's not a ton
Speaker 1: of fun, happy, go lucky in that locker room as
Speaker 1: much as there would be if they would have lost
Speaker 1: a couple games early on. Just that's what they do.
Speaker 1: They're the Kansas City Chiefs right now, and you're winning
Speaker 1: and that's what you want to get to. But right now,
Speaker 1: when you start three and nine, it just feels good.
Speaker 1: It's a relief to finally start winning again. Right heckma, well,
Speaker 1: hell yeah yes. And you talk about the momentum from
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs that they're the Super Bowl champ
Speaker 1: so they can't be with all the momentum. But for
Speaker 1: our guys, and you know, I said what you said
Speaker 1: will spot on. Man about like remembering who you are,
Speaker 1: like you and sometimes you gotta go back to your
Speaker 1: college highlights to remember, Man, I was a dog, right,
Speaker 1: And I think it's been so much piled on this
Speaker 1: team that they kind of lost sight of that. Man,
Speaker 1: it goes. It makes me think of something my grandfather
Speaker 1: used to say. Man, it's the reason why donkeys and
Speaker 1: thoroughbreads don't run the same race, right, because they're not
Speaker 1: the same. And you're here for a reason, so be
Speaker 1: the thorough bread that you are. And they've had to
Speaker 1: prove that and look all of the at the end
Speaker 1: of the year, no matter how this goes, we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna evaluate everybody who's us up, throws down, Who's
Speaker 1: gonna say the job of the scouting department man Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy and all of his guys. They have a job
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who's gonna be here. Who are
Speaker 1: going to be the guys that's gonna fit this culture,
Speaker 1: you know, this continuity that started to this team that's
Speaker 1: jailed at the last part of this year. Who are
Speaker 1: the guys that we're all in and dialed in. Who
Speaker 1: are the guys that want the outside of this because
Speaker 1: right now we have a problem where maybe we're overpaying
Speaker 1: guys that's not giving us that production. And again that's
Speaker 1: a conversation for another day. But these guys have to
Speaker 1: realize who they are and play up to that standard.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a better way to close
Speaker 1: out the final non prediction segment of twenty twenty by
Speaker 1: talking about this momentum and talking about the winning that's
Speaker 1: been happening and the kind of the movement that you're
Speaker 1: starting to see within this locker room and the confidence
Speaker 1: that is building. So we're gonna step aside, but when
Speaker 1: we come back, it's time to say it with our
Speaker 1: chest one more time, gentlemen, and guess what. Isaiah Standback
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Speaker 1: an opportunity for him to try and catch Rob Pee.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take a lot, but we're gonna predict a
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Speaker 1: let's go into our draft kings picks this week, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna see a little bit of a
Speaker 1: higher price tag on these Dallas Cowboys this week than
Speaker 1: we've seen in the past. And I mean for good reason.
Speaker 1: You saw what they did last week, and they would
Speaker 1: have won you a bunch of money. There you see
Speaker 1: the graphic up there, fifty six hundred dollars for mister
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Zeke's at sixty four hundred. You got a
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper who had a big week last week, one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one yards. He's at fifty eight hundred.
Speaker 1: The most expensive skills player outside of Zeke for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Zedie Lamb, who had a big week won me my
Speaker 1: Fantasy football League title last week fifty two hundred dollars
Speaker 1: and Michael gallup but clean even five grand. So Isaiah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start with you. You're right up at the
Speaker 1: top there loving on Andy Dalton. Why it is fifty
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars or why not fifty six hundred dollars
Speaker 1: for Andy Dalton this week? The red rifle cocked that
Speaker 1: thing up. All right. He has definitely worked your fifty
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars this week. I think that we are
Speaker 1: going to see a lot of two high shale. So
Speaker 1: maybe not in the first quarter, you probably won't see
Speaker 1: him ball out, but in that second quarter to the
Speaker 1: second half, we're gonna really see things open up because
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to come down. They have to drop
Speaker 1: down a single safety, and we all know when teams
Speaker 1: decided to go single safety, your red rifle gets released
Speaker 1: and all of our receivers start to eat. So go
Speaker 1: ahead and load up on the red rifle this week.
Speaker 1: And Rob, you're sitting there with sixty four hundred dollars
Speaker 1: with Zeke, correct, I mean, that's the highest price tag
Speaker 1: we've seen from Zeke in a while. Yeah, as Isaiah said,
Speaker 1: he brought the feed me spoon out. Last week, he
Speaker 1: got his mojo back, and he told us yesterday it's
Speaker 1: the best he's felt physically since probably the first Philly
Speaker 1: game in early November. So heck, mas set at sixty
Speaker 1: three yards to a thousand. He wants to win the game,
Speaker 1: first team goals first. But you've got to know, after
Speaker 1: everything he's been through this year, some struggles, the injuries,
Speaker 1: a thousand would mean something to him, he said it.
Speaker 1: So I think he's gonna try to get it for sure,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna try to get it for him. And
Speaker 1: if he does get some favorable boxes, I'd look for
Speaker 1: them to have success in the running game once again
Speaker 1: this week. And we've now hit the quarterback, we've hit
Speaker 1: the tailback, and heck, whenever it comes to these three
Speaker 1: wide receivers, the big three wide receivers, which one sticks
Speaker 1: out to you? Oh boy, I'm going with the Cooperville
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper definitely. Man Um, Let's think about it, guys,
Speaker 1: how the prices have gone up on our players to
Speaker 1: draft draft kings. You could have got these guys draft
Speaker 1: a dirt cheap a couple of weeks ago. Last week
Speaker 1: been the new kid, and uh, the Yak Gilbert h
Speaker 1: Man ge Wagon uh. Now, Now the way that the
Speaker 1: Red Rifle has this team rolland man, it's uh. I
Speaker 1: feel like this is a game that Amari Cooper can
Speaker 1: definitely get off. And like Isaiah was saying, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be some favorable boxes and once Andy unleashes that rifle,
Speaker 1: one of those bullets is definitely gonna go to Uh.
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper. I love it. I think Amari could have
Speaker 1: a big day. I think Michael Gallup might continue what
Speaker 1: he did in the first half last week against Philadelphia
Speaker 1: because he didn't get a whole lot in the second half.
Speaker 1: I want to know if he can continue that going
Speaker 1: into this week. I think CD also with the success
Speaker 1: that he had last week, actually the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: he scored and found the in zone. But I think
Speaker 1: he had a ton of success in Week five against
Speaker 1: the Giants and he should be able to do that
Speaker 1: as well. So it should be a big day hopefully
Speaker 1: for these Cowboys. They put up thirty seven points the
Speaker 1: first time around against the Giants. Now, I know the
Speaker 1: first half of that was with Dak Prescott, but hey,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton did pretty well in that game too. Is
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Speaker 1: the leader in our clubhouse in terms of the final
Speaker 1: week of our pickums is mister Rob danger p Island
Speaker 1: over there in the bottom right hand corner, sitting at
Speaker 1: forty five and twenty five. As he had a decent
Speaker 1: week last week, kind of stumbled a couple of times, Rob,
Speaker 1: I was a little upset with your consistency there. It
Speaker 1: allowed sorry to sappoint, It allowed Isaiah place. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know you're right. So Heckma is in second. He's at
Speaker 1: forty two and twenty eight, so he has three games back.
Speaker 1: He needs a game three if he's gonna beat Rob.
Speaker 1: Three games back from Heckma is Isaiah stand back at
Speaker 1: thirty nine and thirty one, and then I am, of
Speaker 1: course bringing up the rear three games back from Isaiah
Speaker 1: thirty six and thirty four. So moving on from the
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go into this week's pick hims, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna start off with one of the better games
Speaker 1: of the week. I think Bill's Mafia the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: at twelve and three playing really good football right now
Speaker 1: against the ten and five Miami Dolphins, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: let Rob p Island start this one off, right. I
Speaker 1: said it a month ago. Bill's Mafia will be in
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game against Pat Mahomes in the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: I think they win this game at home. Heckma at home.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gone with the Mafia, all right. Isaiah Buffalino, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna go with the Buffalo Bills here
Speaker 1: as well. I can't pick the Dolphins or I can't
Speaker 1: pick against the Bills. Rather, I think that's the biggest one.
Speaker 1: Let's go with the Steelers on the road against the Browns.
Speaker 1: The Browns in dire need of a win after losing
Speaker 1: last week to the Jets and really what looked to
Speaker 1: be a four gone conclusion that the Browns are going
Speaker 1: to be in the playoffs for the first time since
Speaker 1: two thousand and two. They're sitting at ten and five
Speaker 1: and the Steelers at twelve and three, We'll go with
Speaker 1: Heckma first on this one. Well, I got the news
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger isn't playing in this game and Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: has to start. And with the history of Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: and the Cleveland Browns and knowing that the Browns if
Speaker 1: they lose this game, they are potentially out of the
Speaker 1: playoffs at ten with a ten and five season, Dude,
Speaker 1: I think Baker Mayfield plays out of his mind in
Speaker 1: this game. Going with the Browns, Rob, I think the
Speaker 1: Steelers are gonna rest more than just Ben Roethlisberger. If
Speaker 1: they rest a bunch of starters. Yeah, give me Cleveland Isaiah.
Speaker 1: Mike Thomas is still angry. He doesn't care who the
Speaker 1: hecks in a game. They're gonna go for the dog
Speaker 1: on a victory. And I think Baker Mayfield goes outside
Speaker 1: of himself and tries to do too much. It makes
Speaker 1: too many mistakes. I'm gonna pick the Browns here. I
Speaker 1: agree with you guys. I think the Steelers kind of
Speaker 1: rest some some interesting and that might be one for
Speaker 1: Isaiah to catch catch up a little bit. Okay, how
Speaker 1: about this a little bit of a toilet bowl game?
Speaker 1: The Vikings on the road against the Lions. No Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook for the Minnesota Vikings. So this really is a
Speaker 1: toilet bowl game. This is fun, though. You gotta gotta
Speaker 1: pick the bad games too, all right, Uh, Isaiah, who
Speaker 1: you got Detroit? What? Hmm? Okay? Heck mon oh big?
Speaker 1: Rob go Okay? Oh good lord, I'm going to Detroit,
Speaker 1: you copy cat. I'm gonna pick the Vikings at six
Speaker 1: and nine. I still think kirk Cousins has a better game.
Speaker 1: Go for it, Rob, Yeah, I'll go. I'll go Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I think Stafford's banged up, so I do know. I
Speaker 1: believe in Casey. I believe in Casey kirk Cousins. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Come on, four more games, come on, four more games, Okay,
Speaker 1: four more games to get to Okay, So the Jets
Speaker 1: and the Patriots, now, I'm just kidding, we're not gonna pick.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go ahead and pick it. Let's pick that
Speaker 1: game because the Jets have one two in a row,
Speaker 1: and the Patriots, man, they look bad, they look bad bad. Uh,
Speaker 1: Patriots all right at home on this one. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the Patriots still to beat the Jets, but I'm
Speaker 1: not very confident about it. Isaiah, I'm rocking with the
Speaker 1: Jets defense in my fantasy championship games. So I'm going
Speaker 1: with the Jets, baby, Rob. You see Bill Belichick chucking
Speaker 1: that phone on the sideline. They're not gonna this game.
Speaker 1: Pats win. M Heck, I'm going Jets. You know what, Heck,
Speaker 1: I really don't like you right now. Um, let's go
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals and the Rams. This is a really
Speaker 1: important battle in the NFC West this week. Cardinals, at
Speaker 1: eight and seven, still have a chance to get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The Rams have a chance to get out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs should they lose at home. Uh, heck,
Speaker 1: go first. I'm going to Cardinals, all right, Rob, Cardinals?
Speaker 1: No Jared Goff? Right, Cardinals, Yep, no Jared Goff. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick the Cardinals here as well, Isaiah, can you
Speaker 1: gain a game? Ill to the baby? Let's go? Of course,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna do that. Let's go. Hey, how
Speaker 1: about that. I got a trick for you guys. I
Speaker 1: gotta trick for Heckma and Rob. They're gonna love this, Okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna we're gonna pick the Seahawks and the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. Rob, who are you. Who are you
Speaker 1: taking an game? Seahawks? Who are you taking that game?
Speaker 1: I'm taga Seahawks. Seahawks as well, Who are you gonna
Speaker 1: take in that? What you gonna do? Lakers, buddy, Cootie Queens, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Seahawks. You don't go with my dog
Speaker 1: on birds Man Seattle whole day space needle baby. I
Speaker 1: tried to do it to him. I tried to get
Speaker 1: him to pick against Jos Goodness, Um gosh, we're running
Speaker 1: out of time, but I want to pick so many
Speaker 1: more games. Okay, let's do. Let's do the one that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys need. Sunday night football, Philadelphia Eagles at home
Speaker 1: Washington Football Team. Depending on what the Cowboys result is
Speaker 1: this weekend, this will decide the NFC. I mean it
Speaker 1: will decide it anyways, but it will decide whether or
Speaker 1: not the Cowboys go to the playoffs. And HECKMO will
Speaker 1: have you start. I think our guys come out out
Speaker 1: of their mind. Man, this is our super Bowl game.
Speaker 1: Last games? Whoa Washington? Philadelphia? Fade a minute? Heck, we're
Speaker 1: picking the games and Philly, Oh, I'm gon Cowboys. I'm sorry, Um, Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I gotta have. I'm going you can't pick Philly. You
Speaker 1: just can't pick Philly. Pick your Rob. You're manny, you're
Speaker 1: manny A word. Heck, I can't pick for me, Rob,
Speaker 1: I can't do it. Come on, you gotta go fistitos.
Speaker 1: Let's go. What was that? Heck? I'm sorry? The ron's
Speaker 1: with Beagle Ron. I'm sorry. I don't I don't have
Speaker 1: the I don't have the bows, I don't have the
Speaker 1: plaza again, Beagle. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna pick Philly. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick Washington. I think Washington gets it done.
Speaker 1: How about that? I'll pick Washington just to try and
Speaker 1: turn it around, all right, Isaiah, hurts business, hurts business.
Speaker 1: I love it all right? Here we go. Heck, but
Speaker 1: you were chomping at the bits to get it. I
Speaker 1: didn't make a pick game over. Yeah, you were saying,
Speaker 1: you were saying, isn't there the is the fix in? Kyle? What?
Speaker 1: What what are we doing here? How you got? I mean,
Speaker 1: excuse me, Rob, who you got? I hate to say this.
Speaker 1: I'll take Washington in an ugly game. Ugly Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a bad game. Are you all right?
Speaker 1: Here we go? Cowboys versus Giants and NFC East playoff.
Speaker 1: Berth on the line, Isaiah, go first for us? Here,
Speaker 1: my friend, you see it on the wall, going with
Speaker 1: the star baby, let's rocket m heck mom, hey, he
Speaker 1: should turn his camera the other way. I show you
Speaker 1: that Giants Jersey did he asked, no? But the Cowboys
Speaker 1: out a little bitch, rob U. Cowboys averaging more points
Speaker 1: in three games stretched than any team in the league
Speaker 1: right now, last three games, Giants averaging eight point six.
Speaker 1: I'll take the Cowboys, all right. Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I've got to preface this by what I've said the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, during this winning streak. Every single time
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati, against San Francisco, against Philadelphia, I have picked
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. I've lost those three games, and I'm
Speaker 1: not changing that now. I want to take that juju
Speaker 1: and I want to push it toward MetLife Stadium where
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can come out with a win. But I
Speaker 1: picked the Giants. New York's gonna win this one twenty seven,
Speaker 1: twenty one, just to continue what I've done the last
Speaker 1: three weeks and hopefully it works things out. So I'm
Speaker 1: picking the Giants. I'm not changing things now, final week
Speaker 1: of the year. We're rolling with it and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: hopefully will have an NFC's Playoff earth because I also
Speaker 1: picked Washington to win, so maybe that'll work both ways.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna do it here for us on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Everybody out there, have a very safe, very very safe
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Hope everybody gets
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time at least talking with
Speaker 1: your family and things like that along the way, but
Speaker 1: be careful, be careful when you do it. We'll be
Speaker 1: back on Monday to break things down. Win or lose
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, either we will be in the playoffs
Speaker 1: on Monday morning or we'll be wrapping up the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty season. Still a lot to go on this weekend
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, but we do want to thank every
Speaker 1: one of you for listening to us here on Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: for Chris being back at the studios in Frisco, for
Speaker 1: Hack Mohrrison, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand back. I'm Kyle Yeoman.
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