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Speaker 1: with mbar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 2: It is Friday, December first, twenty twenty three, season nineteen,
Speaker 2: episode number eighty. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
Speaker 2: We are alive from the SWBC Mortgan Studios at the Star,
Speaker 2: and today we talk about the Cowboys win over the
Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks. They win forty one to thirty five in
Speaker 2: a barnburner. I don't think any any of us expected
Speaker 2: that kind of performance. And I don't know, I don't
Speaker 2: remember all the scores, but man, it was a lot
Speaker 2: of scoring. But was it that many points?
Speaker 5: Though I didn't have it that points.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think any of us thought that they
Speaker 2: were gonna get that high. Like, there were no punts
Speaker 2: in this game, zero, no punts in this game.
Speaker 5: Singer didn't have to shower. Yeah, it's free.
Speaker 2: Money exactly, so, so it was. It was an entertaining game.
Speaker 2: I had a good time watching it, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: break it down for you guys. Let you know what
Speaker 2: we thought, what right, it went right and wrong for
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. Will start where we always started the day
Speaker 2: after a game. Storylines of the game, Patrick got's start
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and piss off some Dak Prescott hitters.
Speaker 6: Not only does he deserve to be in the MVP conversation, Uh,
Speaker 6: he had already deserved to be that going into this game,
Speaker 6: but after this game in which your defense struggled and
Speaker 6: we had questions on you know, did we have confidence
Speaker 6: that this Cowboys offense can win a game for you
Speaker 6: when the defense is having a bad day the series. Now, yes,
Speaker 6: Dak Prescott has shown it, and he did it against
Speaker 6: not only a team that's above five hundred or was
Speaker 6: above five hundred, but we talked about how the Seahawks
Speaker 6: secondary was probably arguably the best secondary dark Prescott will face,
Speaker 6: and he basically took them to task for the process
Speaker 6: of four quarters come back, another comeback win for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 6: You talk about the capability he gets out of that
Speaker 6: sack to find Tobert for the twinkle toes catch him
Speaker 6: seventeen yards.
Speaker 5: Who does that? Dak Prescott does that?
Speaker 6: When he was blitched seven of eight for seventy seven
Speaker 6: yards in a touchdown camp blitz him. They went to
Speaker 6: zone after seeing him dissect man coverage over the past
Speaker 6: several weeks eighty percent zone coverage.
Speaker 5: Run by the Seahawks.
Speaker 6: What did Dak Prescott do twenty six or thirty four,
Speaker 6: two hundred and fifty six yards, three touchdowns, zero interceptions,
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty seven passer rating last seven games
Speaker 6: twenty one twenty two hundred yards, twenty one touchdowns to
Speaker 6: only two interceptions. Right now, he leads the league in touchdowns,
Speaker 6: he only has six interceptions. He that means he leads
Speaker 6: the league in interception percentage as well. And I could
Speaker 6: go on and on, but also just watch the film,
Speaker 6: watch the games in addition to what the numbers are saying.
Speaker 6: And if you still cannot climb from under that rock,
Speaker 6: if your eye test is still failing you, then by
Speaker 6: all means, go invest in some laser because you're not
Speaker 6: seeing the game as you should be seeing it. Dak
Speaker 6: Prescott was surgical last night. He was everything the Cowboys
Speaker 6: needed him to be the defense needed him to carry
Speaker 6: them on a bad day at the office. He did
Speaker 6: exactly that. There was nothing, I should say, few things
Speaker 6: that he would want back. The throws were there, the
Speaker 6: decisiveness was there, the escapability was there, and Dak Prescott,
Speaker 6: let me get him for m VP right now, let
Speaker 6: me do it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I guess it's my turn. Y'all looking at me.
Speaker 7: I'll have a quick.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I'll have.
Speaker 7: A quick event session because yeah, I'm trying to be fast.
Speaker 2: I get nervous.
Speaker 7: You know, people are just I'm a lady haun.
Speaker 5: People people are.
Speaker 7: Just like annoying the craft out of me today on
Speaker 7: social media. Because first it was all right, well, let's
Speaker 7: see if they can beat a good team. Let's see
Speaker 7: if they can beat Seattle. That's the next one. Oh,
Speaker 7: hold on, all of a sudden, Seattle is not a
Speaker 7: good team. What are you talking about? The refs gave
Speaker 7: that game away to Dallas. Oh oh my god, well
Speaker 7: they're playing at home. I'm like, shut off, no, no, no,
Speaker 7: kick me off of the show for it. Just it's
Speaker 7: so frustrating because when it's not one thing, it's another,
Speaker 7: and I get it, Like you're the saying of like,
Speaker 7: you're only as good as your record shows. That's true,
Speaker 7: but at the same time, something else can be true.
Speaker 7: You can still be a team that gives you a
Speaker 7: lot of trouble and makes you really really work and
Speaker 7: still not come off with the win for that team.
Speaker 7: You know, for example, Seattle, we saw it. We saw
Speaker 7: a lot of the things that you broke down Brian
Speaker 7: on the scouting report. They are a good team. They
Speaker 7: are they have talented players. So stop talking about this like,
Speaker 7: well they're not a good team. Let's see what happens
Speaker 7: with Philly. Oh, y'all barely won that game. It barely
Speaker 7: came off the win. Well, guess what, plenty of other
Speaker 7: teams Eagles have barely won many other games. So that's
Speaker 7: just the NFL. So like freaking come back with a
Speaker 7: valid argument. That's just what's frustrating. I just get upset
Speaker 7: when it's like, now you prove what you've been talking about,
Speaker 7: but they just won't shut up and get off my
Speaker 7: get off my social media like commenting on my stuff,
Speaker 7: get away, Like but or no, just keep doing it.
Speaker 7: You give me views, you give me engagement. Sure, let's
Speaker 7: just make a business out of it. But anyways, I
Speaker 7: just wanted to let that out. That game was fun.
Speaker 7: It was really fun to watch. It was so head
Speaker 7: to head. There are a lot of things we watched
Speaker 7: that you don't necessarily like, some of the troubles that
Speaker 7: they had on defense, penalties, discipline, and a lot of
Speaker 7: things that you should fix. But at the same time,
Speaker 7: when you see such a head to head game, just
Speaker 7: going back and forth, just seeing how well Dak was
Speaker 7: throwing the ball, some of those long passes, those great catches,
Speaker 7: that's fun. That's a fun game to watch, and obviously
Speaker 7: a lot more fun when they come out with a win.
Speaker 8: Every time I watched Tank Lorence play, it reminds me
Speaker 8: how much I love him as a player. And when
Speaker 8: you start to talk about complete players and guys that
Speaker 8: have the ability to play the run, in the pass,
Speaker 8: and in this league, it's a lot about the stats,
Speaker 8: but every once in a while, you have to find
Speaker 8: ways to win when it's when it looks pretty desperate
Speaker 8: and dire. The fourth down stops, all three fourth down
Speaker 8: stops they had in that game yesterday was due because
Speaker 8: because of Tank Lawrence's ability to play not only the run,
Speaker 8: but to affect the quarterback in the passing game as well,
Speaker 8: And so when you have when you're having a little
Speaker 8: bit of rough day, you always got to lean on
Speaker 8: guys that you know will go and make place. Dan
Speaker 8: Quinn leaned on Tank Lawrence yesterday, excuse me, in their game,
Speaker 8: and I just it just every time I sit down
Speaker 8: and watch him on the All twenty two, I'm thinking,
Speaker 8: if I had eleven guys like that on defense every
Speaker 8: single time, we're going to do a lot of good.
Speaker 8: Because he is one of the he doesn't get nearly
Speaker 8: enough credit for how he plays the game and the
Speaker 8: intelligence that he plays the game.
Speaker 3: You know, his ability to.
Speaker 8: Understand blocking schemes and what people are trying to do,
Speaker 8: and the magnitude of the play at that right moment,
Speaker 8: it was incredible because the defense we talked about it, it
Speaker 8: was going to be a struggle. It was going to
Speaker 8: be a struggle to cover these guys. The quarterback is
Speaker 8: the smith has the ability.
Speaker 3: To get hot during a game.
Speaker 8: But you know, Dallas got after him at the end.
Speaker 8: They had to make some stops and Tank Lawrence was
Speaker 8: a big part of that.
Speaker 2: That's really in a due point, Brian, because I think
Speaker 2: even on that final play by Seattle, that final offensive play.
Speaker 2: Mike's getting a lot of the credit for that play,
Speaker 2: but what you got to notice is Tank Lawrence actually
Speaker 2: gets upfield, and him getting up field creates the problem
Speaker 2: where the running back can't release out into the flat
Speaker 2: because everybody's like, man, why would you leave Micah unblocked?
Speaker 2: I actually thought it was a great play call. That's
Speaker 2: a great play design, great play call. DeMarcus gotten a
Speaker 2: way and he was in the way to the point
Speaker 2: where the running back can couldn't get that release. And
Speaker 2: because he couldn't get that release, now the quarterbacks haven't
Speaker 2: hold it a little bit longer. MICA's so extremely fast
Speaker 2: he gets to the quarterback and it just makes it
Speaker 2: to where that throws the whole play off if it
Speaker 2: doesn't happen like that, and that running back's out there
Speaker 2: and he can just loft it up. That's twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five thirty yards.
Speaker 8: When you really when you watch the play, they run
Speaker 8: three guys inside to make it for all the picks,
Speaker 8: and it's a it's a play that is designed, as
Speaker 8: you said, Derek, to just run the running back over
Speaker 8: and just lob it and then he's going to go
Speaker 8: up the sidelines with nobody there because everybody's carrying routes
Speaker 8: inside and so there's nobody in that area. But all
Speaker 8: year long, Michaeh Parsons has been one of the tops
Speaker 8: in the league when it when they when they when
Speaker 8: they monitor the getoff times, the fastest get off times
Speaker 8: off the ball, and Michael Parsons consistently is one of
Speaker 8: those guys. But Tank's awareness to to to get over
Speaker 8: as he's filling I mean him, everybody was aware of
Speaker 8: what was going on, uh and and that particular play
Speaker 8: and again the magnitude of the play and what they
Speaker 8: had to do, and a great call by Dan getting
Speaker 8: his guy home, a great job by Tank getting over
Speaker 8: and being disruptive on the play.
Speaker 5: And keeping to the defense.
Speaker 6: Because as phenomenal as Tank was, and he most certainly
Speaker 6: was that as well, I'd be remiss if I didn't
Speaker 6: give roses to Jordan Lewis. Also, Joey Lewis had his
Speaker 6: hands full with Jackson Jackson Smith and Jig Bull, which
Speaker 6: was the guy that I circled as far as a
Speaker 6: big concern going into this game. And when it when
Speaker 6: push came to absolute shove and you needed a stop,
Speaker 6: here was Jordan Lewis flying in with a cape on
Speaker 6: not on one third down, on two consecutive third down
Speaker 6: drives where basically the Cowboys needed to get those stops,
Speaker 6: and that's both of those times. That's what forced those
Speaker 6: two fourth down conversion attempts, which then failed in large
Speaker 6: part because of Tank Lawrence in that defensive line. So,
Speaker 6: Jordan Lewis, there was some plays that Jackson Smith and
Speaker 6: Jig Bull we had against him.
Speaker 5: He was getting off against him a little bit.
Speaker 6: But when when the lights got real bright and that
Speaker 6: pressure came on and it was the Ohio State rookie
Speaker 6: against the Michigan veteran, it was the Michigan veteran who
Speaker 6: saved the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love a challenged Jordan Lewis, Like, is he
Speaker 2: has that? Yeah? He is a He's the kind of
Speaker 2: guy where he does not shirk from responsibility and from challenges,
Speaker 2: like he will actually step into that moment where a
Speaker 2: lot of guys, the worst it gets, the get like
Speaker 2: I think Jordan's the opposite of that. The worse it
Speaker 2: gets for him, the more he's resolved that he's gonna
Speaker 2: figure it out.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: I really like putting him in those kind of situations.
Speaker 6: It was just fantastic ball from him to end the game,
Speaker 6: and just the defense as a whole, because when you
Speaker 6: talk about a team allowing thirty five points on their
Speaker 6: home field, it's clear that they had a bad day
Speaker 6: at the office, but it's also just as much about
Speaker 6: what you do when it matters most. So if Jordan
Speaker 6: Lewis gets those two PBUs and it's in the first quarter,
Speaker 6: it's probably of no consequence. But he got them when
Speaker 6: the Cowboys needed it most, and when his team needed
Speaker 6: it most. Gave his defense defensive line a chance to
Speaker 6: stop them on fourth and short, and then you know,
Speaker 6: circling back, Dak Prescott went downfield and he did the
Speaker 6: rest Jake Ferguson Ceedee lamb, the ceedee lamb drive. Oh
Speaker 6: my goodness, he animal behavior from this offense right now.
Speaker 6: And Mike McCarthy outside of the one play that I
Speaker 6: really want him to never do again. If the opposing
Speaker 6: team is out of time and you're in that third
Speaker 6: down situation at that point in the field, just run
Speaker 6: the ball. You take forty seconds off the clock, and
Speaker 6: then make your fourth down decision. If you're going to
Speaker 6: do field goal of a night.
Speaker 2: Well here's what we're gonna do. I want to take
Speaker 2: a break and we're gonna come back. And I actually
Speaker 2: thought there were four decisions, four decisions that Mike mccarky
Speaker 2: made yesterday. Yeah, four decisions he made yesterday that I
Speaker 2: think are worth discussion. Not saying they're wrong, saying they're
Speaker 2: worth discussion. I want to get y'all's opinion on these decisions.
Speaker 2: That's one of them, but there are four. There are
Speaker 2: three others, and I think we need to talk about
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Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy. There were a few decisions in that game,
Speaker 2: and there were a few decisions in that game that
Speaker 2: I thought were worth that merited a discussion, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to go through them based on kind of the
Speaker 2: timing of the game, and then I want to get
Speaker 2: your opinions on each as far as where you thought
Speaker 2: it should have gone, whether you thought it was the
Speaker 2: right decision or not. Let's start first with it was
Speaker 2: Seattle second possession. There was a holding penalty, and Mike
Speaker 2: made the decision that he was going to decline the penalty.
Speaker 2: Now what happened was it was second and ten. They
Speaker 2: gained three yards on the play. So as options would
Speaker 2: have been, you accept it, you decline the penalty, and
Speaker 2: it's third and seven that's what he decided to do,
Speaker 2: or you take the penalty and you go to second end.
Speaker 2: I think probably seventeen because the holding half and a
Speaker 2: little bit beyond the line of scrimmage. Was it the
Speaker 2: right call?
Speaker 8: I I questioned it because to me, I felt like
Speaker 8: at the time, Seattle, when they get in third and seven,
Speaker 8: they were going to find a way to make a play,
Speaker 8: you know. I mean at one point in time they
Speaker 8: were eight of nine on third down yep, and you know.
Speaker 3: But I was like, move them back.
Speaker 8: Maybe you get a sack, you know, maybe you create
Speaker 8: a negative play, maybe you get another incompletion. Maybe you
Speaker 8: forced Seattle to maybe have a give up play or
Speaker 8: they handle a draw or something like that because they're
Speaker 8: backed up. But I was surprised he took the play.
Speaker 3: I really really was. I just I was like, just.
Speaker 8: Move them back because Seattle was kind of a point
Speaker 8: where they were kind of converting third downs on you
Speaker 8: and it didn't matter the distance. But maybe if it
Speaker 8: was like third and eighteen or something like that, there
Speaker 8: would have been a different they would maybe looked at
Speaker 8: it a different way. But you gave them third and seven,
Speaker 8: and for them that was kind of in their wheelhouse
Speaker 8: last night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it could have gone either way.
Speaker 6: I think it was just my takeaway there is that
Speaker 6: it was Mike McCarthy, you know, and Dan Quinn having
Speaker 6: confidence in their defensive line and saying, okay, well, you know,
Speaker 6: we figured that you can go out there and get
Speaker 6: this on this next play. I could see it going
Speaker 6: the other way and you say, like you say, Derek,
Speaker 6: if you take that.
Speaker 5: Then there's a positive to that.
Speaker 6: When I saw it in real time, I was like, eh,
Speaker 6: and then I kind of moved on for me. So
Speaker 6: was it anything that would have changed the game of
Speaker 6: outcome in the game of the game from my perspective.
Speaker 6: So I don't know that I was fine with it,
Speaker 6: but it didn't exactly ruin my moment that kind of thing.
Speaker 6: So I see why he did, but I could see
Speaker 6: why someone would argue against it as well.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 7: At that point of the game, I'm still trusting their decision,
Speaker 7: you know, like, yeah, it's still early, You're still going
Speaker 7: into the game of several weeks where McCarthy has been
Speaker 7: doing a really good job call in certain plays. So
Speaker 7: at that point in time, going back one, I'm thinking
Speaker 7: I didn't think much of it. I'm like, okay, well
Speaker 7: let's see, you know, I give him the benefit of
Speaker 7: the down. Let's see how this turns out, but we'll
Speaker 7: move on to when what comes next.
Speaker 2: Well, it actually it ended up not hurting them that
Speaker 2: that was the driver where they ended up missing the
Speaker 2: field goal. They did get in field goal range, but
Speaker 2: they missed the field goal. I will say I was
Speaker 2: kind of losing my mind on this one because it
Speaker 2: just to me, it just went against the convention of
Speaker 2: how you would call a football game. Like you take
Speaker 2: the yards, and especially when you're on when we're on
Speaker 2: their side of the field, you push them back farther
Speaker 2: and you force them to have to convert farther, or
Speaker 2: you play the field position game and if they're gonna
Speaker 2: have to punt and you get more yards. I just
Speaker 2: it just it was a little baffling to me.
Speaker 8: If it's safe, it's a five yard penalty, I maybe understand, Yeah,
Speaker 8: holding penalty something with you know, more distance to it.
Speaker 3: I'd be like, pack them up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, holding can be like drive killers.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean that's that's that's what they say, sacks
Speaker 8: and penalty the drive killers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, let's move on to the second one.
Speaker 2: This one happened about three forty one in the third quarter.
Speaker 2: He opted to go with the extra point instead of
Speaker 2: a two point try. The score was twenty eight twenty six.
Speaker 2: They get the extra point, they moved to twenty eight
Speaker 2: to twenty seven. Did you feel as an okay call?
Speaker 7: I'm laughing because I sit next to you at the
Speaker 7: game and I know how much this bother. You're like,
Speaker 7: this goes against mine McCarthy.
Speaker 2: Not this one, not this one and one before that.
Speaker 2: This was the extra point. I wasn't really well, no,
Speaker 2: I wasn't really dying on the extra point when I thought,
Speaker 2: I thought you Nick. I think Nick was stronger on
Speaker 2: they should have gone.
Speaker 7: From now because you were saying, this is kind of
Speaker 7: what Mike McCarthy likes to do is find out early
Speaker 7: in the game, early in the game, whether you can
Speaker 7: convert or not. This is where he kind of gets
Speaker 7: a good feel of what the team is or how
Speaker 7: the game is gonna kind of go. So that's where
Speaker 7: that's why I'm laughing, because that was the play where
Speaker 7: you're like.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 5: What it did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what it did was it confused me about Mike
Speaker 2: because how many times we heard him say the way
Speaker 2: he calls a game is he wants to know as
Speaker 2: early as possible what he has to do. So when
Speaker 2: you get in a situation where you're gonna go for
Speaker 2: two or not go for two, you'd rather do it earlier.
Speaker 2: So you know, if you get it, what do you
Speaker 2: have to do? You know, if you don't get it,
Speaker 2: what do you have to do? You'd rather do that
Speaker 2: than wait till the end of the game to get
Speaker 2: that two point conversion and now you're out of options
Speaker 2: because it's too late in the game. That's been I've
Speaker 2: heard him say that multiple times in these situations. So
Speaker 2: I was more baffled that, like, this isn't what you've
Speaker 2: told us is your philosophy on this, So why in
Speaker 2: this instance was it different? That was my big thing.
Speaker 2: But I don't have a problem with the decision. I
Speaker 2: just thought it was weird because that's not what he
Speaker 2: typically does.
Speaker 6: I would have gone for two there, And you know,
Speaker 6: for the exact reason that you just said, I need
Speaker 6: to know what I'm up against later on if I
Speaker 6: do or do not get this two point conversion, because
Speaker 6: you're going to need two points, be it now or later,
Speaker 6: given how the math works out, So go ahead and
Speaker 6: give it a shot now, especially because at that point
Speaker 6: as well, I mean, the offense was cooked. I mean,
Speaker 6: there wasn't much that the Seattle defense could do to
Speaker 6: stop Dak Prescott and those offensive weapons, so especially on
Speaker 6: a drive like that. What was that That was twelve plays,
Speaker 6: seventy five yards it.
Speaker 2: Seems like most of the jobs and a touchdown.
Speaker 5: So I mean it was surgical.
Speaker 6: So at that point, I'm like, hey, okay, let's go
Speaker 6: ahead and get too let's tied up, you know, twenty
Speaker 6: eight doll and then play from there. But thankfully it
Speaker 6: didn't ultimately cost him anything but that particular decision. I
Speaker 6: would have gone ahead and gone for two.
Speaker 8: I think you kick it there, I do. And then
Speaker 8: I hate chasing points, you know, it's one of those things.
Speaker 3: And when he I'm.
Speaker 8: One of those guys too that believe when you have
Speaker 8: the opportunity to get points, you try and get the points.
Speaker 8: You know, when you get the field gold situations and
Speaker 8: stuff like that. So they had a really good two
Speaker 8: point play that they were able to get the Cooks.
Speaker 8: I think they wanted to throw the ball to Gallop,
Speaker 8: but Cooks came open quick, so that made a lot
Speaker 8: of sense. But I understand why he kicked the extra
Speaker 8: point there just for that. I just I don't think
Speaker 8: he wanted to chase points right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which I'm.
Speaker 7: Oking and at that moment for me, and I get
Speaker 7: the whole mentality or concept of like you'd rather find
Speaker 7: out early rather than later. But at the same time,
Speaker 7: I personally, I'm like, I feel more I feel just
Speaker 7: kick it. I feel more safe that way. And it's
Speaker 7: not they're right there, Like it's not.
Speaker 8: Like he also knew and you talk about a feel
Speaker 8: of the game, both coordinators had to feel that neither
Speaker 8: defense could stop the other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just knows.
Speaker 8: Okay, if I kick it right here, you know, now
Speaker 8: that might be a reason to go for two that
Speaker 8: if you don't get it, you know you're going to
Speaker 8: get back down there. But the feeling, the flow of
Speaker 8: the game, I mean, both offensive coordinators were anything on
Speaker 8: their play sheet was working, you know, So I seen
Speaker 8: kicking it was probably the right thing for it.
Speaker 6: And I could definitely see Mike having that standpoint of
Speaker 6: feeling like, you know, after that touchdown, after drive like that,
Speaker 6: which was another drive like that for the Cowboys, like
Speaker 6: we'll take the one. We'll take one because guess what,
Speaker 6: we'll be back down. Yeah, we'll be back short, right,
Speaker 6: We'll be back.
Speaker 8: Sure, we're probably not going to get a stop on
Speaker 8: our end, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree with that part. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: and Nick made a good point too. He was like,
Speaker 2: you know, if you go for two and you don't
Speaker 2: get it, now they go down to score, which they
Speaker 2: did right now, you're down by nine, you're down by
Speaker 2: two scores, and so it's almost like you kind of
Speaker 2: have to play that part too, Like our defense isn't
Speaker 2: really making stops, so do we want to put ourselves
Speaker 2: in that kind of hole if they go down to score?
Speaker 2: And so I thought I thought it was the right decision.
Speaker 2: It was just weird to me because that's not what
Speaker 2: he typically does. That's not how he typically handles those situation, right,
Speaker 2: all right, let's go on to the third one. It
Speaker 2: was one of eight left in the third quarter. Score
Speaker 2: Seattle twenty eight, Dallas twenty seven. This was right after
Speaker 2: the Bland interception. Dallas gets three downs and really doesn't
Speaker 2: get much. They're at a fourth and two at the
Speaker 2: Seattle thirty. They opt to go for it on fourth down,
Speaker 2: have an incompletion of Lamb instead of taking the forty
Speaker 2: eight yard field goal. Yeah, right decision, wrong decision.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what this this one, this one plays
Speaker 8: with you because seventy percent the metrics says seventy percent you,
Speaker 8: seventy one percent you go for it.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 8: Sixty nine percent say kick the field goal. So there's
Speaker 8: a one point three percent chance here of going for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you fail.
Speaker 8: So you know the metrics, it's it's it's it's weird.
Speaker 8: It's seventy point seven go for it, sixty nine point
Speaker 8: four kick the field goal, and sixty six point three punt. So,
Speaker 8: I mean that just shows you how close that decision
Speaker 8: was that he had to make. Me personally, I'm taking
Speaker 8: the points, yeah, you know, especially after an interception. You know,
Speaker 8: I'm like, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna let them
Speaker 8: feel good we turn them over. Now they're about like
Speaker 8: they're about to turn us over, you know, and I'm
Speaker 8: not gonna let them feel that way.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna kick it down there.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna ball's gonna be on the twenty five, and
Speaker 8: I'm gonna play defense is what I'm gonna try and
Speaker 8: play defense. But man, the metrics are all really close
Speaker 8: on that call.
Speaker 6: Unpopular opinion. I freaking loved that play call.
Speaker 5: Oh man.
Speaker 6: I love the aggressiveness and I love the play call
Speaker 6: itself because obviously Seahawks are expecting to run when you
Speaker 6: do flat right the ceedee Lamb. Lamb just has to
Speaker 6: come up with that ball. It's one of the rare
Speaker 6: drops that you've seen from Lamb this season.
Speaker 2: Quickly he knew that was when he.
Speaker 3: Got him the ball.
Speaker 8: Quick It wasn't like wait, wait wait, he just threw
Speaker 8: it like on the line.
Speaker 6: So the execution from Lamb wasn't there. But the aggressiveness
Speaker 6: I love it, especially giving the tone of the game,
Speaker 6: how the game was going. It was just Haymaker after
Speaker 6: Haymaker from both of these offenses, and Mike felt the way.
Speaker 6: Mike was like, Hey, I'm not going to keep settling
Speaker 6: for field goals, And I think I put that on
Speaker 6: Twitter at one point. I was like, these guys keep
Speaker 6: coming walking down and scool, and you're not going to
Speaker 6: beat them by you getting down there and you getting
Speaker 6: into these gold packages and and settling for field goals.
Speaker 6: Like you're going to lose the game if you continue
Speaker 6: to do that. So being with that spirit, I love
Speaker 6: to call on fourth and two. I think that that's
Speaker 6: that aggressiveness is exactly what this game dictated.
Speaker 5: That's exactly what the defense gave you.
Speaker 6: And if Lamb comes up with that ball, then we're
Speaker 6: not having this conversation.
Speaker 2: Nine times out of ten he does.
Speaker 6: Right, and then and then what probably happens is that
Speaker 6: demoralizes the Seahawks and Dak probably gets a touchdown for
Speaker 6: the offense, you know, finishing up the drive.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm totally fine with it.
Speaker 6: I am one hundred on that play call in that situation,
Speaker 6: in this type of game, at that point in the game,
Speaker 6: with that score, I.
Speaker 3: Can't wait till Kirby Smart goes for it all weekend
Speaker 3: for Georgia and this game he gets Alabama, and then.
Speaker 6: Kirby is going to break out the big marbles. Break
Speaker 6: out the big marble. That's the only way you've beating
Speaker 6: next same big marbles, big marbles.
Speaker 2: We will see on Monday, this conversation on Monday every
Speaker 2: four coach, Hey, what do are only as good as
Speaker 2: the result.
Speaker 5: Result? Man?
Speaker 3: Allright, what do you think?
Speaker 7: Well, now that you know the result of it is
Speaker 7: easy to say, hey, I would have taken the field
Speaker 7: goal and got in those three points. But at the
Speaker 7: same time, based on everything that you've seen the last
Speaker 7: couple of weeks, and even in this game between between
Speaker 7: Dak how well he's throwing and Ceedie Lamb, the game
Speaker 7: that he's been having, it makes sense why you would
Speaker 7: take that kind of risk. So I don't blame I
Speaker 7: don't I'm not upset by it. Yes, you're getting points, however,
Speaker 7: whether it's six or three, you want them. But at
Speaker 7: the same time, I understand uh completely the reason and
Speaker 7: why he made that call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have been more upset if he would
Speaker 2: have gone to a less reliable receiver in that situation,
Speaker 2: if he would have gone to one of his other
Speaker 2: guys that aren't.
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 7: You know, he was struggling at times, and those are
Speaker 7: the types of game that you're like, Okay, if let's
Speaker 7: say he throws it at him and then he drops
Speaker 7: the ball again, then you like, why you've seen him
Speaker 7: not catch the ball in this game. He wasn't necessarily
Speaker 7: having a great game, So I agree if it had
Speaker 7: been somebody else rather than CD or even Cooks, Cooks
Speaker 7: was having a good game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, The fact that he called up his guy right
Speaker 2: and the play got him open, like everything says this
Speaker 2: was the right call because they knew what the result
Speaker 2: would have been ninety five percent of the time, it
Speaker 2: just so happened. It was the five percent where it
Speaker 2: didn't work. And so I agree, Like I at the
Speaker 2: moment before the play, I said, give me the three points.
Speaker 2: But after I saw the play itself, I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm not so upset about that.
Speaker 5: He drew up.
Speaker 2: He knew he had a play. Like that's the whole
Speaker 2: thing for me for play callers, do you know you
Speaker 2: have a play in those situations, if you know you
Speaker 2: got to play, go for it. And they had a
Speaker 2: play and it should have worked. It just didn't this time.
Speaker 2: And that's just you know, the human frailty, right, the
Speaker 2: people not being perfect. It's fine like that call. I
Speaker 2: can be okay with, yes, but we're about to get
Speaker 2: to the one I'm not over with under any circumstance.
Speaker 5: When we just talked about.
Speaker 2: So so left in the fourth quarter, this game is
Speaker 2: razor tight, and they they threw for a pass. It
Speaker 2: was third and three at the Seattle fourteen. Uh, they'd
Speaker 2: already they they end up.
Speaker 5: Throwing the pass.
Speaker 2: They stopped the clock at one They could have run
Speaker 2: the clock down to right above one minute if they
Speaker 2: had run the ball there. I even I'll take you
Speaker 2: one step further. Nick and I were talking about this
Speaker 2: during the game. I would have run it and then
Speaker 2: if things worked out where I got two yards, I'd
Speaker 2: gone for it on four down. Run it again, right, because.
Speaker 3: That's where that's where I'm at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I'm like that you that's a better way
Speaker 2: of you kill the game. That exactly, that's exactly. What
Speaker 2: What do you guys think about the play? Play call
Speaker 2: the desire? I mean, go for a pass on third
Speaker 2: down in that situation.
Speaker 8: I'm thinking, I don't want to cover. I don't want
Speaker 8: to cover DK Madcalf anymore. I don't want to cover
Speaker 8: any Smith and Jigba.
Speaker 3: I don't want that enough. I've had enough. I've had enough.
Speaker 8: I don't want to cover. You know, it's a minute
Speaker 8: forty left. I don't want to cover these guys anymore.
Speaker 3: I'm tired. They've wore my ass out.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 7: If i'm dan Quinn, I'm like, you're talking like you
Speaker 7: were out there on the field running.
Speaker 3: But that might have been the conversation.
Speaker 2: It might have been like I put this game away.
Speaker 2: Throw the ball, just throw it.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 2: I don't want to have to deal with him again.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, Mike. I'm sure Mike in his mind's like
Speaker 3: I wanted to end the game, and I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I'm like, listen, you know, we talked about four minute
Speaker 3: offense this week. We talked about that ability.
Speaker 8: The Cowboys haven't been in a lot of four minute
Speaker 8: offense games, and this was an opportunity.
Speaker 3: And Pollard was feeling a little bit.
Speaker 8: And you know, they got some surge the one time
Speaker 8: the line pushed him for like another four or.
Speaker 2: Five yards running tiring just like that.
Speaker 8: I mean, just just everybody moving and you're thinking, you know,
Speaker 8: when you get Zach Martin probably in the huddle, like, guys,
Speaker 8: here we go, let's get this, you know, but you
Speaker 8: got two plays, get four yards and if you want
Speaker 8: to end it right there, yes, end it that way.
Speaker 8: But to throw some low percentage fade and keep more
Speaker 8: time on the clock. If I'm dan Quinn, I just
Speaker 8: start crying at that.
Speaker 3: Literally, terror are you sending me back out there?
Speaker 8: I click over the mic and I go, thank you,
Speaker 8: appreciate you, buddy, Yeah, thank you, Because I was tired
Speaker 8: of playing against those guys yesterday. At the end, I
Speaker 8: didn't want to do it anymore, you know, yeah, but
Speaker 8: if you want to end it for me, end it
Speaker 8: by running and running again.
Speaker 3: If we get stopped, you know what that's on. That's on.
Speaker 2: Now we got a minute. I suppose a minute forty six.
Speaker 2: I feel a lot better about a minute, right, a lot.
Speaker 8: Better, especially when they got seventeen yards on the first
Speaker 8: play they throw it and it goes out of.
Speaker 3: Bounce and you're like, going, why did you want to
Speaker 3: throw the ball right there?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 5: Magic Mike was in his bag for the most part
Speaker 5: of yesterday.
Speaker 6: He absolutely was, But I cannot be more passionate about
Speaker 6: the hell no on that on that fade, in that situation,
Speaker 6: and we talked about it like before we went on
Speaker 6: the air. You you run the ball because they're out
Speaker 6: of timeouts. You burn it down to what one minute?
Speaker 6: One minute in one second, put you in fourth and short,
Speaker 6: and then you make your decision. Maybe you kick the
Speaker 6: field goal, maybe you go for it. I just said
Speaker 6: I love the aggressive aggressiveness. I probably would be going
Speaker 6: for it.
Speaker 2: You can even throw you down because if you stop
Speaker 2: the clocket doesn't matter the.
Speaker 6: Minimum you at minimum you have to burn those forty
Speaker 6: seconds off of their play clock right, And I'm with Brian,
Speaker 6: it was exhausting to watch Metcalf and then yes, And
Speaker 6: keep in mind, not long before Lockett had just given
Speaker 6: you a gift with the drop, So you maybe that
Speaker 6: doesn't turn into a drop the next time.
Speaker 5: Maybe that's a walk off touchdown.
Speaker 6: So in that situation, run the ball on third down,
Speaker 6: salt the game away, punch them in the face, and
Speaker 6: finish the game on fourth down, if you're going to
Speaker 6: do it that way. But the fade route to stop
Speaker 6: the clock, if even if it had worked, I mean,
Speaker 6: I would have celebrated it working, but I still would
Speaker 6: have you died.
Speaker 3: With decision at all.
Speaker 8: I had visions the way these officials were calling pass
Speaker 8: interference yea, and every play was a forty eight yard
Speaker 8: pass interference penalty. And I just had visions of that
Speaker 8: Raiders game on Thanksgiving that one time where Sean Hockley's
Speaker 8: crew just kept calling illegal contact dp I, DP I
Speaker 8: dp I any You're like going, we can't survive this,
Speaker 8: We can't.
Speaker 3: We can't let them throw I mean, we see what happened.
Speaker 8: They they threw the ball open guy one time and
Speaker 8: he got seventy three yards and it was the fastest.
Speaker 3: Anybody's run all year in the league. He was moving.
Speaker 8: But that's what I'm saying, that's that's that, that's the
Speaker 8: nightmare I was living at that moment.
Speaker 5: You know, I just did not want to when Mike
Speaker 5: went killing on that play.
Speaker 3: Kill say what you lose that game?
Speaker 2: Game you you're oh, yeah, people would have been talking
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 3: Nobody would have.
Speaker 8: Been talking about anything else. Those that press conference would
Speaker 8: have been Patrick Walker, Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Dot Com, what the hell?
Speaker 5: What was what was your thought process?
Speaker 2: And by the way, they asked him about that in
Speaker 2: the press conference, I was in the locker room.
Speaker 5: I was in the locker room.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know if they asked, so they didn't
Speaker 2: ask him about it.
Speaker 3: I think on the walk off he said something okay,
Speaker 3: but you know, not to check in with Nick on that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was in the locker room and I
Speaker 2: was wondering if somebody was I.
Speaker 3: Assumed somebody was hoping somebody was going to ask him.
Speaker 3: But then again, you'd been like, well stop being so
Speaker 3: damn nrgative. Well I'm trying to learn football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my thought would be, just walk me through your
Speaker 2: thought process. I want to understand why you made that
Speaker 2: decision in that situation. And I'm sure he probably said,
Speaker 2: we trust I trust my guy, I trust my quarterback.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to right.
Speaker 2: We had been we had been driving the ball all night,
Speaker 2: and so I'm trusting that Dak's gonna make this play,
Speaker 2: and the receivers are going to make this play and
Speaker 2: we're going to get you know, we're gonna get the
Speaker 2: first down. And honestly, I don't know that the play
Speaker 2: was designed for him to make the throw that he made.
Speaker 2: I often, I haven't gone back to look at it Yeteah.
Speaker 2: I wonder if there was another place he was supposed
Speaker 2: to be going first, and then because it wasn't open,
Speaker 2: he ends up just kind of throwing in, saying, hey,
Speaker 2: I'll give my guy a chance maybe to make a play.
Speaker 6: I don't know that that was just the play desire.
Speaker 6: Maybe I just peeped at the transcript. No one asked
Speaker 6: McCarthy about that in the rest fade.
Speaker 3: Because nobody wanted to be the negative guy.
Speaker 6: So, I mean, because it all worked out in their favor.
Speaker 6: But other than that, I mean, he might call it
Speaker 6: a masterclass of a game. A couple of things he
Speaker 6: want back that one. Yeah, that's definitely one. Definitely one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I had a thousand percent agree with I.
Speaker 7: Thank you for the laugh.
Speaker 3: Brian and I shared this thing. You get tired of
Speaker 3: playing those guys. I shared this tired at the end,
Speaker 3: I was tired.
Speaker 5: I was just it was exhausted.
Speaker 2: It was an exhausting post one in the morning doing that.
Speaker 7: Well, you've seen all throughout the game. That's a tough
Speaker 7: one too. How to rely on the defense, which is
Speaker 7: crazy because for the longest time, the longest time, recent years,
Speaker 7: you've been able to have the defense to be the
Speaker 7: one that you can rely on. And then now you're
Speaker 7: as we watch questioning, oh God, can the defense hold
Speaker 7: up and make the stops when needed right at the end,
Speaker 7: And they did. But at the same time, based on
Speaker 7: the game how it was going, you shouldn't have been
Speaker 7: leaving that up to chance on like what the defense
Speaker 7: can do for you, whether they can stop them or not.
Speaker 7: So high risk. I guess, uh hy rewards this is.
Speaker 3: And Patrick, you're right about what Mike did is a fall.
Speaker 8: As far as a play caller, I think where I'm
Speaker 8: the most critical of coaches, head coaches, and not just Mike,
Speaker 8: but other ones. Know the condition of your team, know
Speaker 8: the condition if I throw my defense back out there
Speaker 8: in this situation, what could happen?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: That's that's where I think we all agree about run
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 8: Run the ball, you know, and trying in the game
Speaker 8: that way in the game by playing downhill not know
Speaker 8: and but to me, I coaches sometimes they don't know
Speaker 8: the condition of their team. Sometimes you'll hear coaches say, like,
Speaker 8: we'll give example for the guy at the Commanders, he's
Speaker 8: had two times where he had Philadelphia on the ropes
Speaker 8: where he could have gone for two and ended the game.
Speaker 3: Besais my offense was exhausted.
Speaker 8: No, coach, Ron Rivera, you had a chance to end
Speaker 8: it right You're not the favorite in this game. You
Speaker 8: have a chance to end this game right now. Don't
Speaker 8: make your team have to play anymore. They played the
Speaker 8: best they can. It's not good enough today.
Speaker 2: Give them one play shot at it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just give me, give me one opportunity to end
Speaker 8: this thing so I don't have to put my guys
Speaker 8: back out there again.
Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe that's what kind of sorry, Maybe that's kind
Speaker 7: of what happens when you're having to do both roles
Speaker 7: of being the play caller and the head coach, you know,
Speaker 7: like maybe you're in that play caller mentality.
Speaker 3: I'm glad it worked out. I'm really am glad it
Speaker 3: worked out.
Speaker 6: Which goes to what I was going to say, we all,
Speaker 6: I think we all agree that you run the ball there. Yeah,
Speaker 6: in fact, but the confidence or I should yeah, the
Speaker 6: confidence that McCarthy had in dan Quinn's defense to march
Speaker 6: back out there after basically just getting you know, dragged
Speaker 6: all over the field by those guys. Uh, and then
Speaker 6: for that defense to look McCarthy and dan quinn in
Speaker 6: the face and say, we we've struggled all night.
Speaker 5: But thank you, thank you for giving us one more chance.
Speaker 6: Because if let's say that the Cowboys do end it
Speaker 6: on that drive, which of course we would have preferred,
Speaker 6: then the story is only that the Cowboys offense won
Speaker 6: the game only.
Speaker 5: But at least now I'll.
Speaker 3: Take that there. Defense is quite absolutely this defense has
Speaker 3: helped me in a lot. You know, if I'm Dan,
Speaker 3: i walk up and give Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 8: A hug, and I'm sorry to saying, hey, boss, we
Speaker 8: didn't have it tonight, Yeah, promise will have it next week.
Speaker 6: I'm simply saying, in this situation, after the decision to
Speaker 6: make that throw was made, kudos to the defense for saying,
Speaker 6: I see that you gave us one more shot at
Speaker 6: proving you right, and we're going to step out there
Speaker 6: and we're going to prove it.
Speaker 8: See, Mike could have helped him by taking forty seconds
Speaker 8: off that clock that we all agree where I'm like,
Speaker 8: if I'm if, I'm if I'm Mike, I'm thinking about
Speaker 8: how do I help Dan?
Speaker 5: We all agree with that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, But you know, the one thing, the one in
Speaker 6: his defense for not making Mike regret that decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the one thing I will say is too,
Speaker 2: like we're talking about that and we all agree on that.
Speaker 2: But the fact is Mike probably would say, you know what,
Speaker 2: I trusted my defense and my defense held up right,
Speaker 2: And so how do you argue that? Because he's right
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, as bad as they
Speaker 2: played throughout other portions of that game, when it came
Speaker 2: down to it and they needed to make a stop,
Speaker 2: they made a stop. And so in that instance, he
Speaker 2: was kind of right.
Speaker 3: That was his thought.
Speaker 2: Now, again, I will never lie with the decision.
Speaker 3: He's a much more trusting guy than me. Because I
Speaker 3: didn't trust the defense and I didn't trust those officials.
Speaker 3: I didn't trust either one of that crew, anybody, anybody.
Speaker 3: But all that time left on the clock I didn't need.
Speaker 2: It was one play down.
Speaker 3: And here we go.
Speaker 7: Good to trust. Yeah what you guys, it's so good
Speaker 7: to talk to trust your team. But at the same time,
Speaker 7: is that self awareness. You got to be self aware
Speaker 7: of what's going on and what's happening in in not place.
Speaker 7: You know, the ones that have been struggling in.
Speaker 2: Arm in a worse position than they had to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, So we're gonna have to go back out there
Speaker 2: with a minute left, But that's different than going out
Speaker 2: there with a minute forty five.
Speaker 6: I'm just the Cowboys defense in the clutch made it
Speaker 6: where the storyline for this week was not that fade
Speaker 6: call to CD laft. So the defense they stepped in
Speaker 6: and they cleaned it up for like, so you're but yeah, Mike,
Speaker 6: in that situation, run the ball, run it twice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Real quick before and I don't know, we're not going
Speaker 2: to get to this second commercial break, but real quick
Speaker 2: before it is it is absolutely my show. Blame the quarterback.
Speaker 2: Let's let's talk. Give me real quick, give me an
Speaker 2: idea of what you thought of Michael Parson's performance, because
Speaker 2: although he hasn't really been getting the sacks all the time,
Speaker 2: he certainly made an impact on game. What your thoughts
Speaker 2: yesterday on micah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did it. I felt like they did a
Speaker 3: pretty good job on him. But to the last play.
Speaker 8: I mean, they move him around to try and every
Speaker 8: every offensive coordinator has to identify where he is.
Speaker 3: Protections are set off him.
Speaker 8: So the fact that they move him around and the
Speaker 8: teams have kind of figured out though, get the ball
Speaker 8: out quick in the short quick passing game. Last couple
Speaker 8: of weeks, what do we've seen from the Commanders and
Speaker 8: then what do we see from the Seahawks kind of
Speaker 8: a short, quick passing get the ball out, don't, don't, don't,
Speaker 8: don't mess around a lot because of Michael Parsons and
Speaker 8: what he can do. But uh, you know, when you
Speaker 8: absolutely had to have him that last play, he his
Speaker 8: he you know, he's playing all those plays and now
Speaker 8: the one.
Speaker 2: Play you really really need him.
Speaker 8: He really affects the game the way he did so,
Speaker 8: but but he he is up against it every single
Speaker 8: week because of what coordinators account for with him.
Speaker 6: Whether you see him at the back end of the
Speaker 6: play with a sack or a QB hit, whatever, or
Speaker 6: you don't. He's in acting the game. The fact he's
Speaker 6: on the field impacts the game. It could be directly
Speaker 6: or indirectly by way of freeing up some of those
Speaker 6: other guys and one on one matchups and things like that.
Speaker 6: He still ended up yesterday leading the Cowboys with pressure's
Speaker 6: quarterback pressures. He had seven yesterday, so he was getting
Speaker 6: back there. My only concern throughout the course of the
Speaker 6: game is they just could not get home on Geno
Speaker 6: frequently enough.
Speaker 5: They were getting back there.
Speaker 6: But that's also kudos to Gino because he that was
Speaker 6: also Kudosino, like the one on the back foot where
Speaker 6: he just lobbed it and you're just like, okay, Geno's
Speaker 6: in his bag. But Michah, he impacted the game throughout
Speaker 6: directly and indirectly, and then of course you saw what happened.
Speaker 6: And also kudos to de Marcus Lawrence on this play
Speaker 6: as well. But when you have de Marcus impacting the
Speaker 6: game like that and then you leave Michael unblocked, you're
Speaker 6: gonna get what you get into the Seahawks got what
Speaker 6: they got, so michah definitely another good game for him.
Speaker 7: Same.
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Speaker 2: All right, So we're gonna wrap this thing ups for
Speaker 2: your Pro Bowl.
Speaker 5: Little deal. Jack Ferguson put him in.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. We'll be back on Monday. We get
Speaker 2: a chance to do some some some watching this week
Speaker 2: A put that, but you're in a body bag. Oh, Mike, God,
Speaker 2: college football and pro football. Big game this weekend, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it'll be big. But big NFL game this weekend. You
Speaker 2: got San Francisco against Philadelphia. That will be fun and
Speaker 2: we'll get a chance to see there is a possibility
Speaker 2: if San Francisco wins that game, then dabtas may be
Speaker 2: playing for a tie in the NFC next week.
Speaker 3: Win.
Speaker 2: Oh y'all want to call that one?
Speaker 6: No call it?
Speaker 2: No, no, I'm saying wins San Francisco Philly. Yeah, give
Speaker 2: me a call San Francisco, phil They're in Philly.
Speaker 5: Hu. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wait, are they Yeah they are Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 5: San fran takes this one twenty for twenty.
Speaker 8: San Francisco win. I don't know the score, but San
Speaker 8: Francisco win. I think their passing game will be too
Speaker 8: much for Philly.
Speaker 7: Yep, I'm with that one. And as much as I
Speaker 7: hate both of them, but.
Speaker 2: I've beat them up afterought all years. San Francisco is
Speaker 2: a better team than beat them, I think. I think
Speaker 2: this is the week when they get to win, and
Speaker 2: it's gonna set up a really juicy matchup next week.
Speaker 3: Called Derek for tickets for next week for that Philly.
Speaker 5: Also, it also works. I love what say to the
Speaker 5: forty nine ers just now? She was like, beat them up?
Speaker 6: Yeah, because yeah, the Eagles will be playing the Cowboys
Speaker 6: coming off of about with the forty nine ers, whereas
Speaker 6: the Cowboys will have a mini body going into this
Speaker 6: game at home against the Eagles.
Speaker 8: Like her, fans did a good job yesterday. But did
Speaker 8: you see Dak try and quiet the crowd at one end?
Speaker 2: They still that's work. Don't get me started.
Speaker 3: The fans did a good job.
Speaker 7: Well, have it on the screen. We have it when
Speaker 7: Corey Miller, he's in charge of that he puts it up,
Speaker 7: make noise like you know when to make noise.
Speaker 2: And else he says quiet, like yeah, be quiet.
Speaker 3: I don't but Dak was trying to quiet the crowd.
Speaker 5: And it was going.
Speaker 2: But that's because it was the Seahawks in so it.
Speaker 8: Was like a college atmosphere and there and he's like
Speaker 8: and as he's doing it, they're like, yeah, that's turning up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it was.
Speaker 2: It was definitely an electric atmosphere out there at at
Speaker 2: and T Stadium. We'll be back there tomorrow, Texas. Let's
Speaker 2: see if we can get a win. All right, Jonas,
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 5: We'll tell you.
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you about what happened in the NFC
Speaker 2: with the forty nine or Philly game. Until then for
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