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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, November fifteenth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode
Speaker 1: number eighty one. Welcome to another edition of The Break,
Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Morgan Studios at the Star
Speaker 1: talking Cowboys football for Where's that? Where is that energy?
Speaker 1: I haven't even said anything yet. How do you know
Speaker 1: I don't have it? Well, you just started. How do
Speaker 1: you know yesterday? How do you know? I got energy
Speaker 1: out the wazoo today? I actually like this. Let's keep
Speaker 1: it going like this is good. You've done eighty one
Speaker 1: of these shows since March, yes, since April, April. Whatever.
Speaker 1: It's a lot and we still got a lot to go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We are only halfway through the season. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: That was cute. And we haven't even like a married
Speaker 1: couple stop and we haven't even we haven't even talked
Speaker 1: about playoffs playoffs, Well we can if they win this game,
Speaker 1: can we? Yes? I say that till Friday, but I
Speaker 1: just jumped right in with it. Didn't we talk about
Speaker 1: them like tuesday? Anyway, they'll make the playoffs if they
Speaker 1: win this game. That's not that's my opinion. They will
Speaker 1: make the playoffs just based on this one. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the swing game. This is the this is that
Speaker 1: game that they didn't win last year that Atlanta won
Speaker 1: and it kind of propelled them. I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: exactly the same. Didn't we say Washington was the swing
Speaker 1: game like three weeks ago? You have to win that one.
Speaker 1: We have to win that. I mean you can't. I
Speaker 1: meant the one that they already lost. Oh yeah they lost, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you are. You also probably had the big L
Speaker 1: already written in Philadelphia, So they came back on that
Speaker 1: one much much Tennessee. You would know. What's interesting on
Speaker 1: that note, right now, the Cowboys are owing four against
Speaker 1: teams at winning records. They're four won against teams with
Speaker 1: losing records, five of their last seven against teams with
Speaker 1: losing records. Well, they haven't been consistent, but it certainly
Speaker 1: lines up to where they can actually get on a
Speaker 1: roll here if they continue to do what they've been doing.
Speaker 1: People come up with like different facts and like stuff
Speaker 1: like that, graphics of like make away. You could also
Speaker 1: say this team hasn't won a game on the road
Speaker 1: against the team with a winning record, and but just
Speaker 1: try to find a way to make it makes sense.
Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, even if you go
Speaker 1: that that's that they have to still win one, I
Speaker 1: think they still got to win at least one of
Speaker 1: those games against winning record teams would be Washington and
Speaker 1: New Orleans. They gotta beat Washington if they expect to
Speaker 1: win the division because if not, that means that Washington
Speaker 1: wouldn't have a tie break over them and head to
Speaker 1: hit the means no way they get to like division
Speaker 1: without that. I like where I like. I like your hotspa.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, this is how I see it, And Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett wouldn't think this way. But you win this game
Speaker 1: to get to five and five, Yeah, you gotta beat
Speaker 1: the Redskins. You just have two, six and five, Okay,
Speaker 1: six and six, then you got then you got the Eagles.
Speaker 1: They're not beating the Saints. Even though I know you're
Speaker 1: saying somebody's gonna beat them. And I just noticed close
Speaker 1: they were to being o and two. I mean, Cleveland
Speaker 1: had them beat, but they didn't beat them. So the
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, look at they're one of the
Speaker 1: best ever six and they're rolling. They got the Eagles
Speaker 1: coming back again. I still I didn't. I don't think
Speaker 1: that the Eagles are that good now, I really know.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys got it wasn't the injuries. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think their secondary has been so decimated. I think
Speaker 1: that's why the Cowboys had the success they did. I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see how that works against the defense, where
Speaker 1: maybe they have a secondary still intact. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be this week because, as we'll talk about with
Speaker 1: the Atlanta defense, they've got a lot of injuries themselves.
Speaker 1: But then they got to face that Eagles team again,
Speaker 1: who's done pretty well this season against the past. They'll
Speaker 1: beat them and seven and six. They'll split those middle
Speaker 1: two games, even though they need to win them both,
Speaker 1: they won't. They'll be what seven have eight and seven.
Speaker 1: They'll beat the Giants nine and seven. I think they'll
Speaker 1: win the East with the nine and seven. Do you
Speaker 1: think a nine a second records? They're gonna go five
Speaker 1: and two down to stretch in your opinion, Yep, that's
Speaker 1: and I'm glad you said that because that's what the
Speaker 1: heck of a run, that's what has to happen, because
Speaker 1: that's even if they win this game. I'm sitting here thinking,
Speaker 1: all right, Washington six and three, So I think ten
Speaker 1: and six is gonna win this division every Yeah, I
Speaker 1: definitely ten. I think I think the Cowboys shot right
Speaker 1: now is they gotta win six of I mean six
Speaker 1: to the last seven. They have to win at least nine,
Speaker 1: if not ten. And I think we can all agree
Speaker 1: that the NFC East is not getting a wild card, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: one of those is going to the NFC South, and
Speaker 1: then I would guess probably the North yea. In that
Speaker 1: scenario that I just said at nine and seven, that
Speaker 1: means the Redskins have to go three and four to
Speaker 1: get to nine and seven. You've tied them, but you'll
Speaker 1: you'll definitely have a better record than the division because
Speaker 1: you'd be five and one in the division if you
Speaker 1: go if you do that round, if you go five
Speaker 1: and two, I don't know, it's gonna be tough. I mean,
Speaker 1: Tampa in Indianapolis we're kind of you know, they're it's
Speaker 1: amazing going on the road and getting to win, can
Speaker 1: do because changes the conversation. But no, it's that opens
Speaker 1: the door for them to walk through it right here
Speaker 1: against to Atlanta. You don't win this game. I don't
Speaker 1: see those scenarios that gonna win six in a row.
Speaker 1: And this conversation is pretty funny. It's funny, but I mean,
Speaker 1: I am, but it's just funny listening to you guys.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this way I started. It's possible. It's
Speaker 1: he's driving the car and I just yanked it in
Speaker 1: the ditch. All right? How many how many of their
Speaker 1: losses are in the NFC? Carolina, Seattle, uh, Washington? That's it,
Speaker 1: is it? Yeah? Because yeah, so that could be big.
Speaker 1: It's if you're gonna split those two games, you better split,
Speaker 1: you better lose the colds. And that's well. But that's
Speaker 1: the thing is those tie breaks didn't come down when
Speaker 1: you start talking about that's why they don't get in
Speaker 1: the wild cards because the teams that would probably be
Speaker 1: in the wild card they've already lost to Carolina, They've
Speaker 1: already lost to Seattle. Like those are teams that will
Speaker 1: be right there firmly in that hunt. I mean, makes
Speaker 1: it tough. They can't they can't lose this game and
Speaker 1: expect to realistically make the playoffs, because I mean it's
Speaker 1: an NFC team. Puts them another game behind not only
Speaker 1: the Redskins, but all the other teams fighting for a
Speaker 1: wild card. So they got they got their work cut
Speaker 1: out for him. They absolutely do. Must go through the
Speaker 1: injury report. As you guys mentioned yesterday, there were a
Speaker 1: ton of defensive linemen they were out yesterday. Um, catch
Speaker 1: us up on what we know at this point about
Speaker 1: who's out and and what we're thinking is the status
Speaker 1: of those guys. It's mostly still bad. Malik Collins returned
Speaker 1: to the field, and everybody else is still out. Antoine
Speaker 1: Woods is out, Taco Charlton is out, Daniel Ross is out.
Speaker 1: And wait, when you're saying out, you're not. You're not
Speaker 1: making the deflation out for their out of practice two
Speaker 1: days out of practice tossion. At this point, I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: what he's in the protocol? I guess at this point, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: that happened in the game, Sure, I guess. I just
Speaker 1: I never noticed kind of round out of those planes.
Speaker 1: You said it was the quietest plane. Maybe you got
Speaker 1: knocked out. I mean, I don't know. It was just
Speaker 1: a surprising injury to see on the report for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at least I wasn't expecting that. I'm not ruling anybody
Speaker 1: out for the game. But it's Thursday, and if you
Speaker 1: haven't done something by Thursday, I fully expect that they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to make a move on call out somebody
Speaker 1: from the practice squad, probably Christian Ringo and Aziz Shitto.
Speaker 1: Talking to what they have right now at defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: they have to play today. Who is well available to them?
Speaker 1: If I'm talking on the current active ruster. If they
Speaker 1: had to play today, you would guess Malik can maybe
Speaker 1: do something for you. Tyrone can play defensive tackle, but
Speaker 1: Tacos also not available, so he would probably have to
Speaker 1: play some end. You got Karan Read and am I
Speaker 1: forgetting somebody? Um, those three are gonna have to play
Speaker 1: tackle and your ends are gonna be Armstrong Gregory and
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Marcus Lawrence. There's six, that's all you got, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to have more body if nothing else,
Speaker 1: bodies hold out hope for Friday. Maybe you know, if
Speaker 1: if Woods can get out of the protocol. At least
Speaker 1: you know it's not a fit. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: want to make a lot of concussions, but it's not
Speaker 1: a physical ailment that keeps them from playing. So if
Speaker 1: you can clear the protocol. But like I said, I
Speaker 1: really yeah, I really think they'll have to do something
Speaker 1: with one of those defensive tackles just to have enough
Speaker 1: bodies to play. Yeah, but that could be a bit
Speaker 1: of a challenge too. I mean, you think about how
Speaker 1: this defense is played. I think the tackles are big
Speaker 1: part of that. I think stopping the run they've been
Speaker 1: really good, and I think they've been at times been
Speaker 1: able to get push up the middle that's affected passers.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about maybe the best passing attack maybe
Speaker 1: that you've seen all season. I would say definitely'll have
Speaker 1: your best pass rushers though you're you know you're three,
Speaker 1: but best pass rushers you still have intact right, But
Speaker 1: think about that though, when you're talking about pass rushers,
Speaker 1: that what makes in my opinion, what makes pass rushers
Speaker 1: effective is when they get a push, because otherwise, how
Speaker 1: many times do you see the defensive end going around
Speaker 1: the outside and the tackle just kind of rides them
Speaker 1: right around around the quarterback because quarterback doesn't have to
Speaker 1: come out like they can just step right into the pocket.
Speaker 1: So if your tackles aren't getting pushed, I mean one
Speaker 1: of those three best press is a tackle. Crawford, he's
Speaker 1: gonna pushing and Malik will be there. So at least
Speaker 1: you're getting two guys who are starters. So you thought
Speaker 1: would be the starters all that year. You got starters.
Speaker 1: You just don't have anybody rotation with him, which again
Speaker 1: can be part of a challenge. Yeah that, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really more the depth is the thing that concerns
Speaker 1: me more than not having players Like, yeah, we just
Speaker 1: three guys went down in one game four days ago.
Speaker 1: So Connor Williams he was limited yesterday with a knee injury. Uh,
Speaker 1: he missed the last game. Um, what are you guys
Speaker 1: hearing about him? And what are the chances that, even
Speaker 1: if he's healthy that he does not start this week?
Speaker 1: No chance for that because he um, the Cowboys won't
Speaker 1: say that he will be banged up or something. He
Speaker 1: won't be. It will be like they're not gonna say
Speaker 1: he's completely healthy, he will not start. Garrett's not gonna
Speaker 1: say that Garrett doesn't want to hurt the young guys
Speaker 1: feelings or whatever like that. He's not gonna do that.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be likely. He's still working through through some
Speaker 1: things and we'll see and you know, he wasn't quite
Speaker 1: there yet, and we're gonna go with tou a Filo.
Speaker 1: He played well the other day too, That's what he'll say.
Speaker 1: And as annoying as it is when coaches lie to us,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it in this instance. I think that's the
Speaker 1: right way to play it to Connor Williams has played
Speaker 1: well for the most part this year. He's had his
Speaker 1: share of struggles. Um Xavier su a Filo handled one
Speaker 1: of the best defensive tackles they've played all year. He
Speaker 1: did it with Flying Colors. They played their best game
Speaker 1: on the ground. He's coming off a niscope. There's no
Speaker 1: reason to rush him out there. See what you got, Okay,
Speaker 1: So let me project three weeks from now. Let's assume
Speaker 1: that he's still sitting there and see a Field is
Speaker 1: playing well. If he does, he can't keep saying the
Speaker 1: injury right, no, and it's the Hey, we've seen this before.
Speaker 1: What will happen is Connor Williams will read a statement
Speaker 1: in front of all the two years ago today. By
Speaker 1: the way, it was two years ago to play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we really two years to today? Yeah it was that
Speaker 1: really a huh. It's so sad. No, that's football is
Speaker 1: a meritocracy. As a veteran quarterback once told me, if
Speaker 1: they go to Atlanta and just pile drive these guys
Speaker 1: and run for two hundred yards, it's to a filo's job.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm looking at it. And and Connor
Speaker 1: Williams will understand that he's been playing football his whole life.
Speaker 1: It's assum's game. Assuming this happens, which we got to
Speaker 1: see it, let's be fair. But assuming that happens, it's
Speaker 1: not an indictment on Connor williams ability or his future.
Speaker 1: It's just these things happen in football, and he'll have
Speaker 1: four more or three more years worth of opportunities to
Speaker 1: do to be there. It's fine. I want some irony
Speaker 1: to this whole thing if this goes down this way.
Speaker 1: So thirteen years ago, I don't care how old you
Speaker 1: guys were, but thirteen years ago, two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: it was very long ago. Cowboys had drafted a second
Speaker 1: round pick in Jacob Rodgers to play. Remember they play
Speaker 1: right tackle or left tackle or whatever. But before that,
Speaker 1: they had picked up a guy who had been a
Speaker 1: first round pick, but he was kind of going through
Speaker 1: injuries and stuff like that, and I just picked about
Speaker 1: see if he'll be good, and then he ends up
Speaker 1: actually starting that year and then started the next seven
Speaker 1: years because he really his first round talent finally got
Speaker 1: to that level. That guy who's Mark Colombo, who was
Speaker 1: now the offensive line coach. To this situation as the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have a second round pick and a former high
Speaker 1: second which is very similar to what Colombo was drafted.
Speaker 1: If it goes down, life works. But Connor Williams has
Speaker 1: showed more ounce of fight in like his first practice
Speaker 1: than Jacob Rogers ever showed in the two years that
Speaker 1: he was here. So I don't want to compare those
Speaker 1: two guys like a great problem. Connor Williams is going
Speaker 1: to play somewhere. He's something I don't know. Actually I'm
Speaker 1: writing it's I'm not done with it, but I'm writing
Speaker 1: about this in my column. Like I said, it's not
Speaker 1: a long term indictment of Connor Williams. He needs more
Speaker 1: time to get ready again, we've how many we've seen
Speaker 1: this three or four times before already? Zavier Stuephilo was
Speaker 1: the first pick of the second round, Like, this is
Speaker 1: not some scrub, Like he's a talented guy. They plugged
Speaker 1: him into a line that has a lot of talent,
Speaker 1: going back to a scheme that they're familiar with, Like
Speaker 1: it makes sense that he would play well here. It
Speaker 1: also makes it, you know, like, well, why didn't they
Speaker 1: do this the first seven eight weeks of the years?
Speaker 1: Like well, it also makes sense that you want the
Speaker 1: guy you spend a second round pick on to get
Speaker 1: acclimated as quickly as possible and contribute as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: Like all of these things make sense, Like hindsight, it
Speaker 1: can be so dangerous, Like it doesn't make you dumb
Speaker 1: that you tried it one way and you know, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't make you dumb for not going back to that.
Speaker 1: I like Suaphilo, and I think that he actually will
Speaker 1: be the starter. I really that's what I believe. But
Speaker 1: let's not forget that. Chas Greene filled in for Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith for a couple of weeks, played well, and we
Speaker 1: had pretty high expectations of what he could do. It
Speaker 1: didn't really work out obviously, So I'm just saying, let's see.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a reason Houston cut to a field.
Speaker 1: Let's see, or they can cut they let him go.
Speaker 1: They just didn't let him go through his contract. Tennessee
Speaker 1: cut him. Yeah, so we'll we'll see. But I just
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have this feeling about him that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be pretty good. How do two I really do? Great?
Speaker 1: Thing is we'll get I bet, I bet you fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: He starts in Atlanta and we'll find we'll get to
Speaker 1: find out. So and the thing about is I keep
Speaker 1: just going back to it was It wasn't Jay Eddie
Speaker 1: played well last week. It was Eddie played well against
Speaker 1: that galaxer that matters so much in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of all. If he plays well this weekend, I'll be like,
Speaker 1: huh okay, because there's not a guy that's across from
Speaker 1: him that you're like, that is a stud that he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a hard time with. That's where we all
Speaker 1: thought last week going up against Fletcher Cox, and he
Speaker 1: did a very very nice job. Zach Martin and Tyron
Speaker 1: Smith are both back to practice too. I expect them,
Speaker 1: which was expected. Right, All right, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our first break. When we come back, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into Dave Scouting Report. Today. We're talking about the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons defense unit that was young and very and
Speaker 1: pretty good last I should say very good, but pretty
Speaker 1: good last year. Um, but they've been had some injuries.
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Speaker 1: Slash Football Back to the Break Welcome Back. It is
Speaker 1: a second segment of The Break live from the SWBC
Speaker 1: Morgan Studios at the Star Sucks Him. Atlanta Falcons versus
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys this Sunday noon game. Dave talked us about
Speaker 1: this Atlanta Falcons defense. Okay, they're not very good. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: m thirtieth in total yards per game, thirtieth against the past,
Speaker 1: twenty first against the run, and twenty ninth in scoring.
Speaker 1: I think we should just forfeit this whole guy, like
Speaker 1: just say, I mean, hey, every time I say somebody's bad,
Speaker 1: they show up, they show up. And every time I
Speaker 1: say somebody's good, we the Cowboys dominate them. So maybe
Speaker 1: we shouldn't do that anymore. Maybe we should just kill
Speaker 1: this whole segment. Hey, my week would be so less
Speaker 1: much less stressful if I didn't have to do this, honestly,
Speaker 1: but uh no, I mean to be fair of the Falcons.
Speaker 1: They're dealing with some injuries and that's literally line one
Speaker 1: for this week for me, is is Dion Jones going
Speaker 1: to be back or not? He broke his foot in
Speaker 1: the season opener. He's a Pro Bowler, went to LSU.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what we do. We put out Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl players. Um, all right, that's what. How who's leading
Speaker 1: the NFL in the past? He did know that? No,
Speaker 1: I don't even he's got more pvus than anyone in football.
Speaker 1: Mo baby Mo claiborne. Where he's with the Jets. He's
Speaker 1: with the Jet I that is a decade ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't have to do this. Dion Jones is one
Speaker 1: of the best young linebackers in football. He broke his
Speaker 1: foot in the season opener. Uh, he is back on
Speaker 1: the roster. He was limited yesterday. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna play that. They say they're gonna be cautious
Speaker 1: with him, but he is a difference maker and I'm
Speaker 1: sure if they think he can go, they will throw
Speaker 1: him out there. Um, he's undersized, but he's fast. Uh
Speaker 1: he sidelined to sideline speed. Like, I don't know that
Speaker 1: he can single handedly turn this thing around for the Falcons,
Speaker 1: but he can definitely make a difference. They also don't
Speaker 1: have Keyant O'Neil, which literally the middle of their defense
Speaker 1: was such a strength with Grady Jarrett, Dion Jones and
Speaker 1: Keyan O'Neil, and they lost two of the three within
Speaker 1: the first two weeks of the season. Neil's not coming back.
Speaker 1: Jones might be back. Um. Ironically, the guy that replaced
Speaker 1: Kean O'Neil, Demante Kazi, is leading the league and interceptions
Speaker 1: right now. So they do have talent, But this is
Speaker 1: If that's the case, then why are they having such
Speaker 1: a problem. That's honestly, I'm okay. Injuries is one, but
Speaker 1: then like guys that you used to be able to
Speaker 1: count on like don't have it this year. I don't
Speaker 1: have a great answer for you. I mean, their pass
Speaker 1: rusher hasn't been great, right, Vick Beasley has fallen off
Speaker 1: the map. He's got a sack, a sack one more
Speaker 1: than Nick. Yeah. Wow, I'm talking about a guy who
Speaker 1: like actually led the league all pro I think I
Speaker 1: think he had sixteen the year the Falcons went to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Yeah, um, just doesn't have it this year.
Speaker 1: Whether that's because he can't be double teams or is
Speaker 1: that what he's seeing a lot of, well and what
Speaker 1: you saw, No, Because to Carst McKinley, who you might
Speaker 1: remember as a Cowboys target, has six sacks like he's
Speaker 1: having a great year. So defensive defensive? What's that? Ye tack?
Speaker 1: Uh so No, I don't buy that. And Jack Crawford,
Speaker 1: who you also probably remember, is having himself a nice season.
Speaker 1: He's got four sacks playing defensive tack. Always that three?
Speaker 1: I like Cowboys over there? Who's the third? I don't
Speaker 1: know who the second is? For you mcclan Oh, I
Speaker 1: forgot Thron McClane. Oh they all you know, the defensive tackle? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know who's on this team. I thought he was
Speaker 1: out of football. Bruce Carter saw that on the injury report,
Speaker 1: which he's not. You get how excited saying that on
Speaker 1: the injury report? I forgot. I forgot about Thron mclin
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, he didn't. Bruce was, No,
Speaker 1: he's not her. He just he's a rotational guy. Carter
Speaker 1: was Jalen Smith before Jalen Smith. Right, that's what they said. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was Are you talking about before he got to
Speaker 1: before he got here, what people said about him. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he was a second round draft that
Speaker 1: was coming off a knee injury. Yeah, and that's why
Speaker 1: he's never as talented. He wasn't. He did funny sat
Speaker 1: about Bruce Carter. He blocked four punts in one game
Speaker 1: in college. About that four punts and one game. I mean,
Speaker 1: double team him at some point. Yeah, by the third
Speaker 1: or fourth of judicious everybody block him. But their pass
Speaker 1: rush is bad. They have seventeen sacks as a team.
Speaker 1: That's twenty eighth in the league, even with Tack having
Speaker 1: an Yeah, Beasley's not helping Tack and your secondary suffering
Speaker 1: for it. Because you know, two years ago, Desmond Truffont
Speaker 1: and Robert Alford were very highly thought of them. Of
Speaker 1: course they were. You make a run of the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: everybody gets inflated. But they're not. I mean, maybe it's
Speaker 1: because they don't have a pass rush. Maybe it's just
Speaker 1: because it's hard to play cornerback in the NFL. But
Speaker 1: they're not having nice seasons again, I mean they're giving
Speaker 1: up three hundred yards per game, and this goes I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, this isn't just This isn't just because of
Speaker 1: who they're playing, like Washington, who has been similarly aerially challenged.
Speaker 1: Like the Cowboys. They threw for three hundred. Granted that's
Speaker 1: a game that they lost thirty eight to fourteen, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna be throwing a lot more, but still hit
Speaker 1: the three hundred. Who lost The Redskins blown out by
Speaker 1: the Falcons a couple weeks ago. M Tampa threw for
Speaker 1: four hundred on him. New York through for four hundred
Speaker 1: on him. Throw for that much on everybody. Oh, I know,
Speaker 1: New York who? And that was a close game. New
Speaker 1: York the Giants three two h even. You know, Cleveland
Speaker 1: only through for two sixteen, but Baker Mayfield only through
Speaker 1: three in completions in that game. He finished with a
Speaker 1: one fifty one rating. So I'm sure it all works
Speaker 1: in tandem. Pass rushesn't getting home and that's hurting the secondary.
Speaker 1: But um, I'm gonna be I want to see, you know,
Speaker 1: much like the Eagles, I want to see how the
Speaker 1: Cowboys throw against these guys, because they should be able
Speaker 1: to and if Tyran Smith is in the game, which
Speaker 1: he's back at practice, so knock on wood, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't think Dak is gonna get sacked eight times. I
Speaker 1: would get probably probably two, three or four based on
Speaker 1: what they're doing every league. The trend, Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: go with eight. I would hope not. My god, the
Speaker 1: times does that happen? And like in league history, how
Speaker 1: many times does that happen? Well, it's not the it's
Speaker 1: not the eight. It's not the eight that jumps out
Speaker 1: at the same guy. It's the six from one guy,
Speaker 1: because I mean Matt and just a regular guy. This
Speaker 1: was not Reggie White. Matt Stafford got sacked ten times
Speaker 1: by Minnesota the other day, and Joe Flacco was sacked
Speaker 1: eleven time. No, I'm sorry, Marcus Mariota was sacked eleven
Speaker 1: times by Baltimore. So our sacks up this year because
Speaker 1: it seems like there have been some a lot of
Speaker 1: There have been a few games where you've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of sacks. I couldn't tell you. I just wonder
Speaker 1: if there's a trend that's starting just because there's so
Speaker 1: much passing happening around the league. Are sacks up as
Speaker 1: a result. But I really like this, you know, famous
Speaker 1: last words. I'm sorry, but like I'm just looking. I
Speaker 1: watched two and a half games of these guys, and
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys should be able to run, like I
Speaker 1: think you can. You can bulldoze these guys out of
Speaker 1: the way. Tack McKinley is a good player, but I
Speaker 1: think he's he's far more useful as a pass rusher
Speaker 1: at this point in his career. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: as well rounded as like a Demarcuslawrence that he's gonna
Speaker 1: make serious hey in the run game. Uh, Grady Jarrett
Speaker 1: is a great pass rushing defensive tackle. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's like this amazing space eater. Which side is he
Speaker 1: gonna be lined up in? My majority of time three tech?
Speaker 1: So I mean take your pick, but I mean is
Speaker 1: this gonna be a I would just gonna be an
Speaker 1: equally challenging game close. Grady Jarrett's a good player, right,
Speaker 1: not a great player. Fletcher Cox is something else, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's in He's not on Aaron Donald's level.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody is right now, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to say anybody. Fletcher Cox is a different
Speaker 1: and that's he's definitely he's probably the next closest. Another
Speaker 1: day I was talking is about it. I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I can think of another defensive
Speaker 1: tackle between Donald and Fletcher Cox, Like, I think that's
Speaker 1: probably one two. I would guess Tampa McCoy. Is he
Speaker 1: better than is he better than? Is he better than him?
Speaker 1: I think I would probably take those two if I
Speaker 1: was starting a team. Yeah, uh, Coxon and Donald for sure. Um,
Speaker 1: if they at Irving would just stay healthy or he
Speaker 1: would be. He really would be. He's got more talent
Speaker 1: than probably some of those guys you just mentioned. He
Speaker 1: just doesn't have the consistency. Doesn't have it, and we
Speaker 1: see it every year those few games he plays, he's
Speaker 1: just he can be dominant. Now there's also some games
Speaker 1: we've seen where he can be absent, Like you're he's there,
Speaker 1: he's playing, but he's just not. I get what you're
Speaker 1: saying that a whole lot. I can't go there. I
Speaker 1: mean we've seen, we've seen flashes and like he's had
Speaker 1: some amazing performances. He's been really impressive, but like Aaron,
Speaker 1: Donald has literally destroyed everything that's been put in front
Speaker 1: of him since he was like nineteen, I'm gonna, I'm
Speaker 1: going back to college. He's like the most decorated player
Speaker 1: in Pitt history, which really one of them if he
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, you know, he didn't win the Heisman,
Speaker 1: but he racked up every freaking thing else you can
Speaker 1: win at defensive tackle. And that's not when Pitt was good,
Speaker 1: when Dorset and Marino were there. This is doormat Pitt
Speaker 1: a long time ago. Yeah, so no, he's I mean, Phil,
Speaker 1: he's And if you watch it, it's rare you watch
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle wreak that much havoc. But it's like
Speaker 1: Warren Sapp used to do, Like you would just watch
Speaker 1: and watch the defensive tackle position because you knew on
Speaker 1: every play he had the potential to do something big.
Speaker 1: I think it. It'll be big. It'll be big for
Speaker 1: the Falcons if Dion Jones can come back. But even
Speaker 1: I mean another another bit. You know, Vick Beasley's having
Speaker 1: a terrible season by his standards, but Lyle Collins has
Speaker 1: has struggled. That's he's primary a left side guy. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know Falcons talk is like, well, maybe
Speaker 1: this is a favorable matchup. Well, you know, Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: is figured out, has lost a step. So it's something
Speaker 1: to watch. But I mean, talk, this is his this
Speaker 1: is his favorite. This is as good. This is as
Speaker 1: good as I've felt about an opposing defense in a while.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, even I wasn't super impressed by Tennessee's,
Speaker 1: but you know, they had Darrell Casey. They had some
Speaker 1: guys there that give you pause, whereas I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I just but it sounds like you're it's more about
Speaker 1: how they're playing than the player, because it sounds like
Speaker 1: some of these guys have been traditionally pretty good players.
Speaker 1: They're just right now not playing well for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: or not playing exceptionally as they had in the past.
Speaker 1: They're playing horribly, yeah, across the board, and so I
Speaker 1: mean that's I fully expect. I think Suefieldo is going
Speaker 1: to play well. I think if the Cowboys can't run
Speaker 1: on this team, then I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened, basically, and I think that should set everything
Speaker 1: else up. I don't Dak's I in the throw for
Speaker 1: four hundred yards, but they don't want them to. But
Speaker 1: there should be plays there against these guys. On bottom line,
Speaker 1: how about this stat. This is just I don't even
Speaker 1: know what this stat means. But penalty yards. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: have four hundred and fifty eight penalty yards against them
Speaker 1: four ninety nine for the Falcons. That's about the same
Speaker 1: opponent penalty yards Cowboys three thirty nine the Falcons six
Speaker 1: forty six. So teams that are playing the Falcons are
Speaker 1: being penalized six hundred and forty six yards. That's double
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys at Cowboys gotta be or at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the league. So as far as wheat zero zero,
Speaker 1: big old doughnut, which is curious in and of itself, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but six forty six, Like, what does that mean? Like
Speaker 1: a bunch of past interference penalties that's probably that's probably
Speaker 1: a lot of it. I mean, think about the guys.
Speaker 1: They got the best part of their team I think
Speaker 1: is their their receivers. That's where you probably got the
Speaker 1: most talent on that team, and they'll go down field.
Speaker 1: So think about how many I mean, that's where you
Speaker 1: can get forty fifty yards Because it doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: those guys are being hard to block that they're just
Speaker 1: getting held every time, which that raises another key component.
Speaker 1: Go back to yesterday, red zone Cowboys defense, Falcons offense,
Speaker 1: Like the tenor of this game can change completely if
Speaker 1: the Falcons are just zipping downfield for I mean, you
Speaker 1: get yourself in a fourteen to three hole or twenty
Speaker 1: one to nothing hole. That changes the complexion of everything.
Speaker 1: Zeke says every week, we gotta start fast, we gotta
Speaker 1: start fast. That would be I mean, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not expecting you to build up a huge lead against
Speaker 1: such an explosive team, but you can't afford to fall
Speaker 1: behind against that offense and let the defense change the
Speaker 1: way they play the ball. No, but I wouldn't hate
Speaker 1: it as much as I have in other weeks. I
Speaker 1: still I would still, I would still defer, I would
Speaker 1: still defer to, but I wouldn't hate it if I
Speaker 1: just love the possibility to turn around, Like that's why
Speaker 1: that's you know, you can double up points exactly. It's
Speaker 1: it's too big of a flip to know that you're
Speaker 1: getting the ball coming out a halftime. But if they
Speaker 1: took the ball in this game, I would be like,
Speaker 1: all right, I get it. I mean the good part
Speaker 1: is I mean, if you do that, then you know,
Speaker 1: even if you're down, you got two opportunities right there,
Speaker 1: back to back. If it all works out like that,
Speaker 1: you get two opportunities back to back to maybe catch up.
Speaker 1: If you're a head, it's gravy like that means you
Speaker 1: got two opportunities to get points that puts you farther
Speaker 1: ahead before they touch the ball again. I just think
Speaker 1: that there's no other part of the game that gives
Speaker 1: you that kind of advantage than deferring. The only thing
Speaker 1: I don't like is of teams, and I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have done this. When they get the ball to
Speaker 1: start the third quarter, it changes their aggressiveness and at
Speaker 1: the end of the half, like still go down and
Speaker 1: still you know forty seconds to go, you still try
Speaker 1: to go get that field goal. Doesn't matter if you're
Speaker 1: getting the ball. I would actually turn around and come
Speaker 1: out of halftime in no huddle the same way like
Speaker 1: my two minutes draw. I would run it coming out
Speaker 1: of halftime with the adjustments that I'm gonna make in
Speaker 1: the types of people, the types of matchups I want
Speaker 1: to exploit and try to catch them off guard there
Speaker 1: and try to get that quick score. I just think
Speaker 1: there's such an opportunity there when you get the ball
Speaker 1: at the end and at the beginning of the half.
Speaker 1: It's your call. I mean, whoever, Crawford, I mean, tails
Speaker 1: tales never fails. Sorry if you already said this, Dave
Speaker 1: and I just missed it. But how's their defense in
Speaker 1: the red zone? Oh crap, I don't know. I didn't look.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I'm sorry. I'm just scarious because obviously that
Speaker 1: is one of the things that other Cowboys often has
Speaker 1: been struggling. Well, that's that's a that's a great It
Speaker 1: is a very good question, and it's my personal failure
Speaker 1: that I don't have any I'm not being sarcastic, like
Speaker 1: I just tell you about the ball. We do this
Speaker 1: show every day, so why don't you have it for
Speaker 1: us Tomorrow we'll talk a little bit, probably get the
Speaker 1: answer for you by the time we get back for
Speaker 1: the nastreak. We're gonna take a break. When to come back,
Speaker 1: We got our guys. Steve Buchanan from Draftking is going
Speaker 1: to be joining us here in our third segment, talk
Speaker 1: a little bit of fantasy football. Then we get back
Speaker 1: and Dave will tell us little bit more about this
Speaker 1: red zone defense when we come right back. This is
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Speaker 1: Break Live from the SWBC Barris Studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: we just had a conversation about Star Wars that didn't
Speaker 1: involve Can't. Can't probably could have downloaded. They've been all
Speaker 1: in on that he's definitely Star Wars. Yeah, what was
Speaker 1: that about, talking about the fact that they're not really
Speaker 1: in order? And then they revealed him four or five
Speaker 1: to six, one, two, three, seven, eight. But you don't
Speaker 1: have to really, you don't really have to watch episodes one,
Speaker 1: two and three. I think you're good. You don't have
Speaker 1: to watch over We asked if if she could, uh, oh, basically,
Speaker 1: how we started talking about this is the fact that
Speaker 1: I didn't really like that the name Falcon Talk, so
Speaker 1: I thought they will have a cover four over there
Speaker 1: in Atlanta where they have a kind of a younger
Speaker 1: group millennials, and they call their show Millennial Falcons. That's
Speaker 1: what they called. And then we asked Ammber if she
Speaker 1: could name one character, and she said, Darth Vader. That's
Speaker 1: nice as a movie I mean, as a movie buff
Speaker 1: and a Star Wars fan like you and I both are.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could be in a room with
Speaker 1: three people that know less about Star Wars and I
Speaker 1: am right now, no, no, no, you know all about
Speaker 1: Star Wars. Yeah, Nick, But but okay, I'm not Grito.
Speaker 1: I mean I had him, dere and Derek and ambar
Speaker 1: a Brown right now. Though I saw when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, I saw one of them, and that's about it.
Speaker 1: I can't remember much from it, draw characters out of
Speaker 1: my mind. I could visualize them. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: the story behind it, but I have this. Actually, Hey,
Speaker 1: I wish I could experience Star Wars at her age.
Speaker 1: This isn't a fitting topic of conversation because the star
Speaker 1: you know, Star Wars, y'all gonna make me actually want
Speaker 1: to go and just kind of watch them all bad
Speaker 1: through him like one. Just put them on the first three.
Speaker 1: The most recent ones are pretty good too. Skip the
Speaker 1: first three. The originals are the best, and then the
Speaker 1: new ones are Okay, the new ones are pretty good.
Speaker 1: We got our buddy Steve Buchanan from Draft Kings on
Speaker 1: the line talk a little fantasy football with us. How
Speaker 1: you doing, Steve? Good? And you can't talk the original three?
Speaker 1: That's where it I'm from. There you go totally agree.
Speaker 1: So you guys, you're saying, Steve that jar Jar Binks
Speaker 1: is not, you know, on your fantasy team. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was it for me. Gets the ultimate cut, never to
Speaker 1: be up, never add yeah, drop forever. Hey, I will
Speaker 1: not ask you about kickers this week, so I won't
Speaker 1: ask you every once in a while, you know, but
Speaker 1: I am going to ask you about a punter because
Speaker 1: Chris Jones is every now dirt. I did have a
Speaker 1: question for you, though. I wanted to start with a
Speaker 1: Cowboys matchup this week, Cowboys playing the Falcons um and
Speaker 1: I was looking at a guy like Austin Hooper who
Speaker 1: has had He's been a pretty good tight end in
Speaker 1: fantasy throughout the year. A little bit inconsistent, but I
Speaker 1: think most tight ends, except for the top two, are
Speaker 1: pretty or can be inconsistent at times. That being said,
Speaker 1: looking at what Zach Birch was able to do the
Speaker 1: to Cowboys last week, how affective do you think a
Speaker 1: guy like Austin Hooper will be, not just from a
Speaker 1: fantasy standpoint, but just as a matchup for the Cowboys?
Speaker 1: How do you think they'll deal with a guy like
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper? Yeah? You know, Hooper has been a guy
Speaker 1: who's just wild, you know, like you said, like you said,
Speaker 1: just from the tight end position to begin with. But
Speaker 1: he's seeing a ton of targets of the Lady. He
Speaker 1: saw eleven last week against the Brown caught ten of
Speaker 1: But the problem is he just doesn't get utilized enough
Speaker 1: in the red zone that I'm looking at him on
Speaker 1: a more consistent basis. I mean, I feel like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have been pretty much inconsistent with titles as a
Speaker 1: whole as it is. But yeah, who puts this soone?
Speaker 1: They've been leaning on a lot lately, But you're actually
Speaker 1: starting to remember that Hulo Jones is on that team,
Speaker 1: and they're starting to go to him a little bit
Speaker 1: more in the wet zone because he scored almost all
Speaker 1: season long, but he's finally scored two weeks in a row,
Speaker 1: So definitely don't mind Hooper about Yeah, he's sound. I
Speaker 1: can kind of speak up the cracks there as well.
Speaker 1: And you guys are doing your projections of each week,
Speaker 1: and you got Julio Jones there, and there's a guy
Speaker 1: that hadn't been catching a lot of touchdowns until recently,
Speaker 1: Like do you do you think, Okay, he's gonna snap
Speaker 1: out of it this week or this week he's gonna
Speaker 1: snap out of it? I mean, like, how do you
Speaker 1: how do you project a guy that has been so
Speaker 1: good for so long but he's kind of maybe been
Speaker 1: in a touchdown slump. I mean it's maddening. I mean
Speaker 1: it's absolutely maddening that, by far the most talented guy
Speaker 1: on their team and it's just not utilizing him in
Speaker 1: the red zone. What's been saving him all season long
Speaker 1: ago is that he's still get those targets. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's averaging over ten a game this season, but he's
Speaker 1: just getting those yards. When you look at what he's
Speaker 1: done over the past four weeks, he's had over one
Speaker 1: hundred and four receiving yards in all of those games.
Speaker 1: So even though he wasn't reaching the end zone, he
Speaker 1: was still doing it from a fantasy perspective, because he's
Speaker 1: utilized so much in that game and it just feels
Speaker 1: like nobody can stop him. I mean, no matter what
Speaker 1: juncture or what team he's facing, he still ends up
Speaker 1: getting it done so completely. It was nothing for the
Speaker 1: first start eight weeks of the season where he just
Speaker 1: wasn't reaching the end zone, but the consolation prizes you
Speaker 1: want to call it, that was he was still scoring
Speaker 1: those fantasy points and you know, keeping imrelevant. We got
Speaker 1: Steve Buchannan here from DraftKings talking a little fantasy football
Speaker 1: with us as we do every Thursday. In the third segment,
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper, He's a guy that that obviously got to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys a few weeks ago. Has hasn't had numbers
Speaker 1: that are off the charts, but I think he's played
Speaker 1: a really important role for this team and you can
Speaker 1: see some of the results of having him on the field.
Speaker 1: Is he at a point yet from a fantasy standpoint
Speaker 1: that he is a you know that he is a
Speaker 1: guy you would start each and every week knowing that
Speaker 1: if any receiver is going to do anything for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It's probably gonna start with him absolutely, I mean to
Speaker 1: be totally honest, and he's actually one of my favorite
Speaker 1: plays of the week. The Cowboy and Salton came. Altogether,
Speaker 1: it's just so chock full of fantasy goodness this week.
Speaker 1: It feels like, because there's just so many good plays
Speaker 1: in there, Cooper has to be one of them. I mean,
Speaker 1: last week the Falcons allowed the least amount of receiving
Speaker 1: yards to opposing team, but that's because they're getting absolutely
Speaker 1: torched on the ground because otherwise they're averaging over one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy receiving yards to opposing receivers on the season.
Speaker 1: And Cooper, how he's played only fifty four hundreds. This
Speaker 1: is a guy who's you know, been averaging just about
Speaker 1: eighteen targets since he came over with the Cowboys. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been He's he's a savior for Dexscott. It feels
Speaker 1: like because Pscott has been leading on him and he said,
Speaker 1: such a great playmaker, and it just overall of is
Speaker 1: this offense looks so much better than it has and
Speaker 1: you guys know more than anybody how it looks down
Speaker 1: becaus even like what zeke Elcot has been doing as
Speaker 1: of lane. I think it has so much to do
Speaker 1: with just this offense absolutely clicking right now. This is
Speaker 1: such a great spot for them again for Balcons. All right, Steve,
Speaker 1: I got a really general question for you, Um, how
Speaker 1: do you weigh the talent of a player verse how
Speaker 1: favorable the matchup is? Go ahead, Sorry, it does sends
Speaker 1: We've taken into consideration. And one of the things I
Speaker 1: U I like to allude to is James Connor with
Speaker 1: the Steelers. He was going to match up the other
Speaker 1: week against the Ravens where the Ravens are going one
Speaker 1: of the best run defenses in the league. So you
Speaker 1: look at that and you say, well, Connor is a
Speaker 1: talented player, but the defense is so good. In turn,
Speaker 1: Connor goes out and rushes for one hundred and seven yards,
Speaker 1: has set of receptions on nine targets. So for me,
Speaker 1: it's I like to just take a look at the
Speaker 1: whole general perspective for the defense. What have they done
Speaker 1: all season long? And I have to give it to
Speaker 1: the defense because obviously these players obviously in different matchups
Speaker 1: every single week, and we know Connor is talented, but
Speaker 1: the matchup just didn't set up well, and then he
Speaker 1: goes and has a game like it is. So it's
Speaker 1: definitely tough. You have to pick and choose your battles here.
Speaker 1: But that was one that really stood out to me
Speaker 1: because everybody was so down on Connor two weeks ago
Speaker 1: because I was good the Ravens where and then he
Speaker 1: goes out and have one of his best games of
Speaker 1: the season. So that's just so tough really to really
Speaker 1: distinguish between those two. Hey, Steve, real quick before we
Speaker 1: let you get out of here. I have a personal
Speaker 1: question from my fantasy team, of course, Kenny Galladay playing
Speaker 1: Carolina or Tyler Boyd at Baltimore, which way would you go?
Speaker 1: I'd have to go with Galladay because especially if Marvin
Speaker 1: Jones didn't practice again today, so it looks like Golliday
Speaker 1: is going to be the number one guy. The problem
Speaker 1: was Boyd is that he's going up against that Ravens
Speaker 1: defense and they've been so good. But without a J. Green,
Speaker 1: we've only seen it for one week. I just saw
Speaker 1: how bad that dangles off and close. Without Green, they're
Speaker 1: able to go after Boyds, They're able to go after
Speaker 1: John Y. So Galladay potentially being the number one receiver overall.
Speaker 1: No Jones obviously, no more Golden Tate. You have to
Speaker 1: like Galliday and that spot awesome. I love it all right, man,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you joining us, Steve. We'll be back next Thursday.
Speaker 1: We'll have you on in our third segment again about
Speaker 1: maybe not we appreciate you. That's Steve. You can't I'm
Speaker 1: liking it. I'm sorry, what was that. I like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys this week. I think they're going to take down
Speaker 1: the talk. That's what they've just told us too, So
Speaker 1: we'll see if that works. There's a snowball effect going on,
Speaker 1: like a lot of people are liking the care liking
Speaker 1: the Cowboys considering it's a four and five team going
Speaker 1: on the road where they are one and four on
Speaker 1: the year. Well, you know why it is. It's I
Speaker 1: think it's because you everybody keeps looking. Everybody keeps looking
Speaker 1: at two things, and that's one of them. I think
Speaker 1: the first thing is a Marik Cooper. And since the
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper has been here, you've seen defenses have to
Speaker 1: loosen up a little bit, and just the threat of
Speaker 1: him being there has forced defenses to change a little
Speaker 1: bit of how they're playing. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: last week, what you saw a Sulphila, you saw that
Speaker 1: offensive line for the probably maybe the first time this
Speaker 1: season be the dominant offensive line that you expected when
Speaker 1: you first came into the year. So now people are
Speaker 1: starting to say, well, maybe cow Boys can get rolling.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit easier than that. I
Speaker 1: think people want to believe that that's all there is
Speaker 1: to it, because I mean, and I'm one of them,
Speaker 1: I'm spoiler alert. I'm very likely going to pick the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: like very likely, because I was incredibly impressed by what
Speaker 1: I saw in Philly. But they had a maori when
Speaker 1: they sucked against Tennessee. True, but the offensive line wasn't
Speaker 1: as good. And that's the difference, Like when you've showed
Speaker 1: up now those two different things that changes things in
Speaker 1: a lot of people's mind. Can I clarify a little
Speaker 1: bit there? Hopefully Steve is still listening, because I sounded
Speaker 1: like I was like, we'll see if you'll come. Oh,
Speaker 1: you were making a joke because they're playing on things
Speaker 1: and you didn't. I was forging ahead. I'm going to
Speaker 1: see if we talk to him on our show on Thursday,
Speaker 1: because we will not probably won't be doing but we
Speaker 1: will have Steve back the next time we do have
Speaker 1: but we won't have a show for the next two Thursdays. Well,
Speaker 1: something he can call on us can ask when it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Thursday next week. To answer a G's question,
Speaker 1: the Falcon there thirtieth in the league in red zone defense.
Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of the time when the opposing offense
Speaker 1: gets into the red zone they give up a touchdown.
Speaker 1: They're bad. This is gonna be a high scoring game.
Speaker 1: I mean famous last words, because like every time I
Speaker 1: say something, it's the opposite. So like, get ready for
Speaker 1: the Falcons to win twenty three to sixteen or some crap.
Speaker 1: But I can't think of a reason why the Cowboys
Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to move the ball. I can't. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we appreciate you guys. You want us to
Speaker 1: move back tomorrow, we'll tell you, guys what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Dave has already given his pick, but the rest of
Speaker 1: us will give our picks and we'll make sure we
Speaker 1: get you ready for the game till then. For Nick,
Speaker 1: even Dave helm and Amber Garcia, I'm Derek eagleson this
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