WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Matchups To Watch 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.000 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:16.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.160 Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys World head Hours at 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:31.560 the Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:37.080 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. What's up, Cowboys Nation, Welcome 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:42.720 into Talking Cowboys inside the SWBC Mortgage studio. Happy Wednesday 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.440 to everybody. It's like a Thursday out here at the Star. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.640 Is it it is? Once again? We don't know what 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:50.960 day it is because the Cowboys have a Saturday game 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:56.120 once again. Cowboys rams big time matchup Divisional Round of 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.760 the NFC Playoffs at the LA Coliseum Saturday night, seven 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.880 team pm Central kickoff, and we're gonna have a big 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.320 show again today breaking it all down with my buddy 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:11.200 Brian brought us. Good morning, sir morning. Mickey Spagnola will 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.880 be joining us shortly. Bill Jones has his TV duties today, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.280 but we have Kent Garrison producing next door as always, 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.679 and welcome as well to our guys on periscope as 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.800 well that are kind of falling along. Yes, I've kind 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.160 of felt I've found that as my new little fun 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.200 thing to hang out with at the show and my periscope, 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.840 folks see what they're talking about. It's not always a 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:34.800 toast city. It's it's one of those things where you 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.240 kind of you kind of get an idea what they're 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.800 thinking too. Yeah, you know, and we're trying to be 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.720 fan friendly on these programs and I'm always interested to 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.200 see if if you know, I always like to see 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.880 if we're reaching we reach into the listener, you know, 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.120 so because despite what Mickey says, yeah, we fans drive 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.880 the show. Fans, fans do a big part of the show. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.640 We appreciate the fans. We should do we should do it. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.840 Oh and there he is. Yeah, but no, you know this, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.680 you know you're one of the eight now, you know 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.400 you kind of look at you. It gets closer and 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.480 closer and closer, and you know you're trying to figure 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.919 out ways to uh, you know, when you're not playing 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.040 bad teams. Now you know the the Arizona Cardinals are 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:15.799 not showing up. I mean, this is gonna be a 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.320 This is a team that you know, you have to 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.520 go out and there's a reason why they got to 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.520 buy in the first round. And there's a reason why 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.160 you know, you're you're gonna have to You're gonna have 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.800 to play one of your best games. You're gonna absolutely 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.399 have to play one of your best games to beat 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.880 these guys. And I think the great thing about it, 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.440 the fact is that you know you will have a 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.360 road presence there. I think that helps. I think the 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.280 road I think the home game last week really helped 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.040 these players against you know, Seattle. I think the fans 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.720 that are going to make the trip show up at 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.640 the coliseum, the Southern California fans that have been so 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.760 great to us over the years in Oxnard. Now the 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.200 players feel that they understand that and it helps them 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.400 to play that way. So by all means, go go 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.600 get it. I mean, they laid the groundwork for this 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.280 season about an hour north of the Colasseum Exam and 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.519 we've talked. I mean, Jerry has you know, he's put 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:12.079 that geographic footprint in the Southern California. Sure he has. Yeah, 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.200 And we've seen it in preseason games, Mick, where you 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.200 know it's not fifty fifty, but there's a lot of 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.359 Navy blue and silver in the coliseum for a couple 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.200 of those games we've we've covered I think they can 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.360 turn this into a whiteout. That'd be funny if they could. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.280 They tried to do like a marketing campaign on it, 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.320 because I read the Rams are gonna wear their throwback uniforms, 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.000 go back to the old blue and gold or goler 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.360 or whatever it was, which were the coolest uniforms. They 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.440 won a lot of games in those uniforms. Yeah, so 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.360 maybe the Cobway fans need to wear white to counteract 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.000 the Rams colors. What do you think? Maybe? So? I 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.600 bet they get twenty thousand fans there. They were, they 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.000 were There were some ticket people that were projecting that 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.640 this could be a seventy thirty game, that that the 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.720 Southern California clubs out there as soon as as soon 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.200 as the game went final in Chicago just started buying 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.480 blocks of tickets. And people told me that if you 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:11.320 were watching the tickets online, Yeah, the prices shot way 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.160 up media because people knew the Loveway fans were gonna 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.040 be buying tickets. We had a caller the other day 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.919 it said it, you know, kind of a nosebleed ticket 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.040 was four hundred bucks or something. I know some people 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.720 that got flights from here two hundred bucks. And then 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.280 when it and then when the game flipped, you know, 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.719 when they knew the game and the price believe it 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.040 or not, went up on the airline ticket or did 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.200 they were only yeah, some people shame on the so 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.919 people got some tickets for flights for two hundred dollars 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.039 round trip to LA and then now it's you know, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.640 doubled that so well, you know, you feel we even 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.000 feel it out here this week. I mean there's more 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:50.000 media here. We've got some national media here. Ezekiel Elliott 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:54.880 did his Wednesday Tuesday Wednesday press conference and instead of 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.080 the locker room, they had him outside, yeah, in kind 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.960 of a podium setting, which it just there's a bigger 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.880 feel to it this week, no question. Good for the 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:08.400 La Times. They actually sent writers here. Sam Farmer was yeah, Sam, Yeah, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.560 there was another guy. Maybe it was the Daily News. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.279 I bet the Morning News didn't send anybody to LA 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.400 and the Morning News is scrambling around a little bit 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.479 right now. So but that shows you how kind of 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.919 big the game is, or at least how well the 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.280 La Times is do and that they can do what 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:27.160 we used to do twenty some years ago during the playoffs. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.960 It's a huge game. See I mean, it's a huge game. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.679 I mean, you think about the you know, it's important 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.479 for a lot of people. It's important for the Rams. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.600 It's important for your team too. Is you look at 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.880 you know, with with Jason Garrett and you know, Dak 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.360 Prescott and those guys. We keep talking about that, but 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.599 they keep answering the bell. You know, they keep finding 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.880 ways to win these games. And this is you know 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.360 we talk about. Also you look at some teams around 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.800 the league, some hot teams. Cults are one of the 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.880 hottest teams in the league. Cowboys won eight games, eight 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.240 out of the last nine. Man, it's hard to do. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.080 I mean we we went all went through it where 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.159 they win eleven straight games, and how difficult that was. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.599 And now you get in the playoffs. You know, there's 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.880 some things, there's some ways that the Cowboys matchup very 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.039 well against these guys. Yeah, it's and you mentioned it, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.200 it's a big game for the Rams. Absolutely for Sean mcvayh. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.800 They made the playoffs last year. Yeah, got first round. 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.320 It was a home game one the Visional game against 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.360 the Falcons. They got beat. So now it's like, okay, 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.840 now what can you do? Uh? Thirteen and three looks 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.080 real pretty Yeah, but you got to produce in the playoffs. Now, yeah, 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:32.480 it was it a division game of Wald card game, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.760 wal Bad bad first round game. Yeah, I had lost 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.479 to Atlanta. Atlanta came across the country and beat him. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.119 and back. You know, last year, I think maybe people 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.880 thought maybe they're y're ahead, you know, McVeigh, young coach, 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.800 Goffe's young quarterback. But to Mickey's point, you win thirteen games, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.280 you're expected to win. Now, Oh, the Cowboys were two 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.240 years ago, exact same thing, the same thing. You got 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.760 two games at home, well well potentially yeah, to go 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.080 get to a super Bowl. And but on the flip 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.239 side for the Cowboys, we had a mail back question 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:10.640 about this. No matter what happens Saturday, is this season 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.280 considered a success. I think it is. Brian thinks it is. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.280 I think so. But I think when the players get 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.120 this far and the coaches get this far, nothing short 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.239 of a super Bowl I think is gonna satisfy people 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.320 within this building because they feel like, I mean, they're 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.600 so close at this point, I mean, from what they've 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.640 been through. Now you've got it, like you said, final eight, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.320 you can see it in front of you you can, 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.040 you're still playing. You know. That's the thing about it 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:35.720 is there's you know, all these other teams that are 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.720 sitting there watching you play now, and so that, yeah, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.080 the the the thing that bothers me, and it's so 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:47.000 hard is the finality of it all when if it 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.400 doesn't work. But I mean, I don't know how you 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.680 can say this season wasn't the success. But there's so 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.520 much more to play for. Exactly, you win this game. Now, 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.600 now you're sitting there thinking, Okay, now you're down to 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.200 the final four and you're one game away from going 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.440 to the the super Bowl, which is your ultimate goal. The 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:03.760 ultimate goal is to go to the super Bowl and 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.920 win the super Bowl, but to seek out you know, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.200 you win this game, you play well against the Rams, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.200 whatever happens happens in New Orleans on sat on Sunday, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.560 and then you and then you march on. You try 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.520 and do your best to you know, and you know, 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.560 God willing, you can win this game and and somehow 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.679 Philadelphia manages to avenge a loss that they had earlier 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.640 the year. I'll take my chances playing Philadelphia again in 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.920 a home game here after what I've seen with these crowd, 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:35.120 this year. Absolutely, I would you know, and if if 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.000 Zeke is a barometer or the feeling on this team, 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.319 you know, when he was asked yesterday about, oh, if 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.400 you win this game, you'll be able to go to 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.880 your first NFC title game, and he's like, well, okay, 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:52.160 that's good, but he was basically saying, so what on 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.679 history the goal is to get to this ultimate Yeah, 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.640 they win the Super Bowl? Yeah, And I think that's 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.520 kind of the feeling on this team. So yeah, they'll 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.520 be just a pointed if they lose. And if they lose, 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.720 then all the people that have been picking on the 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.760 head coach, the quarterback, this team all season long, we'll 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.360 have fier to say. See, I told you, well, you 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.439 can't you can't go there. I think you're wrong at 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.280 this point. I think you have to be consistent. But 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.120 I guarantee you that'll be what happens. Yeah. Oh they 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.400 couldn't they couldn't win another one. Well, this was a 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.719 three and five team that very young, and let's not 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:30.280 dismiss that. Yeah, to what they've accomplished here, and I 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:35.319 think going forward from their confidence and just they're feeling 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.640 about each other, then you come back next year with 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.240 even more fire, I think. Yeah, well, big opportunity Saturday 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:45.719 night to move on, keep going. Two two nine seven 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.280 is the number if you'd like to join us over 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.679 the next hour, and we're going to dive into some 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.680 matchups here, Yeah, where kind of strength on strength, Where 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.800 where these teams are maybe advantage over the two at 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.640 certain situations. Absolutely, before we get there, Mick got another 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.040 practice today. They were outside yesterday. They're gonna be outside today, 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.160 are they? I saw the grass and weather all right, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.520 and sun grass weather and sun five sixty degrees. It's 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.080 really not that much different here right now. This is 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.320 today is what you're gonna play in on set. Absolutely, 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.840 So with that in mind, what's the injury situation looking 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.960 right like right now? Well, they had a bunch of 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.920 guys that didn't practice. I don't know if they were 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.440 hurt to the point where they couldn't practice, but maybe 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.000 it was to the benefit not to work these guys 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.320 to make sure you get them to Saturday. Maybe MALIEK 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:43.040 Collins ankle, Blake Jarwin ankle, Yeah, I was I heard 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.280 also the illness part. Can the illness college Collins got sick? 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.320 Noah Brown was yet? Yeah, Yeah, so guys doing that 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.840 right now. And then Cole Beasley. I think they're just 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.400 trying to make sure that they get them to Saturday. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.920 They know Cole Beasley can play when he has to play. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.040 And you know what, not a bad thing for Tavon 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.160 Austin to get a bunch of reps in the slot. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.000 Not a not a bad thing at all, you know. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.079 And even though he hadn't practice very much, he was limited. Yeah, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.440 that's fine. Absolutely, it's fine. Just get him to get 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.080 him to the game. I think all those guys that 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.640 they had limited, they just want to make sure they 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.880 get to the game. And including some of those guys 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.280 that did not practice. Um, you know, even Sue Philo 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.520 was limited to Jason yeah, kind of indicating he wasn't 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.040 gonna preciate. But I was talking to some folks, Mickey's 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.760 right about this. Sue Philo practiced. Yeah, you know. And 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:34.800 what you know, what they figured out about Sua Philo 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.480 that he has to practice, whether it's limited, whether it's 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.880 five reps, ten reps, fifty whatever reps. He can't go 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.800 three days without practicing and expect to play. And they 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.160 know that, and you know what, and I think he 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.040 knows that, and so for him to get out there 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.040 with you know, with some Tyrn Smith and you know, 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.920 and Connor Williams. You know, Connor Williams played well in 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.240 that game the other day. You know, I've been kind 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.800 of answering questions on Twitter and the mornings that I 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:04.640 think that, you know, they would the gut, my gut 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.640 feeling says they would go back to Sue Philo. I'm 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.160 not so sure. I'm not so sure. I probably shouldn't 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.079 have probably shouldn't have jumped out there like that, you know. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:13.800 I mean, I'm gonna jump out there like that. And 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.560 you know, if if Sua Philo can't answer the bell 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.160 the right way, they the way that needs to be answered, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.240 Connor Williams will get that start. But I need to 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.600 see today, and I need to see Friday with the situation, 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:31.000 and then thirst what day we well Wednesday, right, yeah, 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.880 real quick. On Suefilo, I think it was the Philly 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.200 game in early December where he played through an ankle, 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.560 but he clearly wasn't himself. No and no practice time either. 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.000 They know that that's that's a problem. So yeah, maybe 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.880 it's a functionality thing. And and then the other thing is, 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.480 you know, if nothing else, if he can at least 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.680 be available as the backup guy, yeah, instead of Redmond, Right, 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:56.160 then you know Redmond backup center. Right. But maybe he's 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.240 ready to go because you got you know, I mean 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.120 Zack Martin's still not clear. I mean that that knees. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.959 You know he'll play, he'll play with a brace on, 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.199 but he's still you know, any any play he could 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.480 ding it any Okay, just throwing this out there, guys, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.679 if you're gonna go a little long, and I mean 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.439 long by uh you know a Redman light guy or 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.400 a Lenor light guy, where do you go long receiver? 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.520 Where do you go long at offensive line? I think 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:30.559 you gotta keep eight offensive lineman, don't you. Yeah, but 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.520 you got so many guys banged up at the receiver spot. 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.560 When you talk about Beasley Austin, Well, then you go 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.719 short on a pass rusher and a linebacker. Yeah, el 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.840 Dorance Armstrong was inactive against Seattle. Yeah, yeah, I'm because 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:48.320 if you're if you think active, Coco can play, then yeah, 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.360 you got a play him. Yeah, Shaun Lee he got 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.880 four snaps offensively. Yeah. That was a surprise, wasn't it. Oh? 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.000 I th I threw it out there too. And I 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.000 threw it out there thinking that Shaun Lee played so 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.079 well against Seattle on Week three that you'd want him 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.760 on the field. And you know the long run they have. 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:06.760 He got blocked, he couldn't get off the block. But 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.240 the next very next play he's sprint into the ball. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.640 I mean, he's right there for the tackle for loss. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.840 For that Gregory had, you know, And but that was 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.760 kind of it. Jason Garrett kind of explained it as 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.160 they wanted to get him a series here and there, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.800 Vanders saying, go long on the line, go on along 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.920 on the line. Yeah, well that makes sense. But they 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.640 only had I think twenty two defensive snaps in the 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.000 first half was Seattle, and it just kind of got 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.800 the flow of the game got him and then they 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.400 rolled with Vander esh and Smith yea in the second 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.120 forty eight plays right, something like that. It wasn't a 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.000 long number of play. Fifty five was fifty five in 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.120 the fifties, I believe that's what it didn't I thought. 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.840 I looked at the sheet and it said forty eight 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.320 for some reason, I don't know why. Well in the 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.320 line too, you don't want to get in a situation, Yeah, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:51.640 there was a couple of games ago where they were 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.760 down to their last linemen. Yeah, because I think Souefieldo 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.760 got hurt right game, so right, Yeah, but receiver too. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.400 You got to keep an eye on Beasley this week 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.240 and see how functional he can be. Yeah, we split 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.320 the difference fifty two play fifty two. There you go, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.920 something like that, all right. Dak Prescott on the on 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.240 the injury report, by the way, full participant with a knee. Yeah, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.200 I didn't miss any snaps. I mean fine, just something 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.080 got banged up a little bit. I didn't I didn't 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.840 get to feelings. I asked somebody afterwards and they're like, no, 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.880 I just took every rep, so I didn't see maybe 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:29.600 too many somersaults. Yeah, if you're listening, just audio Mickey 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.520 made a dismissive hand gesture wave like, don't worry about that. Yeah, 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.040 QB one will be ready to go Saturday. Um, you'd 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.040 have to tie him down to play in this game. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.160 There's no question about that. Same thing would Beasley. Same 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.280 thing with MALIEK. Collins. Oh, I think it's his time 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.640 of year. You don't want to miss. You don't want 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.480 to miss playoff games. We talked about this a long 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.000 time ago. Fifteen years of Jason Witten's career. How many 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.560 playoff games he play in? Not as many as he 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.960 not as many as he wanted. Yeah, there's guys that 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.840 are playing a far more layoff games. You know, the 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.000 Jason Witton does not have a lot of playoff stats. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:05.840 And so if you think you're going to come back 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.320 every year, you know, you know you want to. You 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.600 want to get out there when you can, There's no 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.560 question about that. It's on that note. The Rams injury 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.880 report looks pretty light. I think there's three guys on it, 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.760 and one of them's Todd Gurley. Yeah as limited, Yeah, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.280 which is probably his first limited in three weeks. Expect 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.160 the best of Todd Gurley in this game. I'm not 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.400 worried about rust or anything with him. I have a 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.320 feeling that Sean McVay is going to try and ride him. Now. 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.200 They have to be a little bit concerned about Dallas's 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.920 run defense, you know, they have to be a little concerned. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.520 This is a push shove offensive line. They got some size, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.240 but they're pushhove guys, and I mean push shove you 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.240 get it into and they're not like the Colts to 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.240 climb you and then drive you. They're like they get 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.040 into it and they push you where and then that 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:49.040 and then Gurley, very hesitant, hesitants goes through the ghost 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.200 line reminds me very much of Eric Dickerson. And I 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.240 know it's a ram to a ram. Wow, but you 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.520 talk about when he's really upright running, he's really straight, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:58.840 and then when he hits, I mean it's like he's patient. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.640 He's patient, and then when he sees the whole, he's 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.280 through the whole. Characters that glider just gliding the way, 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.639 the way he covers ground. Thirty three years ago, he 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.640 glided all over the Dallas Cowboys the last time these 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.960 two teams met in the playoffs. Yeah, it's at the 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.320 twenty to nothing game. Yeah, not only was it twenty 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.360 to nothing, he rushed thirty four times for two hundred 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.280 and forty eight yards. I could still see him running 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.640 down the field for a Cowboy team that finished ten 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:33.959 and six but had some serious deficiencies. Yeah. I mean, 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:38.040 you're a you're a division winner, and you get beat 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.920 by the Bears forty four the nothing and you get 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:45.320 beat by Cincinnati fifty to twenty four, It's like, okay, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.760 I'm not sure how good we are. And some guy 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:54.760 named kinne saw Kinnebrew. It was Kinnebrew ran all over 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.280 the Cowboys, Larry Kinnebrew. He was like a big fullback, 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:03.520 right yeah, big big back. Yeah. So yeah, Dickerson and 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.280 his two touchdowns fifty five yards in forty six yards 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.160 and he just glided. These are gliders. He was gliding 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.520 all the way to Disneyland. Yeah. So you're saying that 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.480 can't happen Saturday, Well he had better not. It was 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.520 that game in Anaheim. It was in Anaheim. There you go, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.960 maybe that's maybe that's a trick, get him out of Anaheim. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.359 I want to played at the Big A January fourth, 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.880 nineteen eighty six. Yeah. Yeah, And they haven't met each 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.520 other in the playoffs since, and only I read where 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.560 they've only been in the playoffs the same year once 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.600 since that. It was two thousand and three. Okay, so 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:41.080 the tail end of the Greatest Show on Turf, right, yes? Yeah, yeah, okay, 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.320 Well let's take the beginning of Bill Parcels. Yeah it was. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.560 That was a talk about a Cinderella story that team 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.320 necessary there. Yeah, all right, let's take our first break 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.840 it two ninety seven, is the number, call us, join 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:55.560 us and we come back. 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