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Speaker 3: He's Danny McCrae. And that's forty two, yes, sir, forty
Speaker 3: two Barry Church official too, Yeah, yeah, hey man, uh
Speaker 3: seventy three, seventy three in here, seventy three up in here.
Speaker 3: It's victory Monday, man, and I'm feeling good. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna let the devil still my joy. Nobody is gonna
Speaker 3: tell me that that victory didn't mean anything. So if
Speaker 3: you came in here with that, y'all had the week off.
Speaker 3: I'm ready all smoked, smoked, So you're ready to come
Speaker 3: in here and say that that that win it showed
Speaker 3: you something what we won.
Speaker 2: And I'm asking you It showed me.
Speaker 3: It showed me one that Tony Pollard is ready to
Speaker 3: grab the mantles and be that running back that you
Speaker 3: needed to. You see that run by Tony Pollard.
Speaker 2: Josh, did you see that? I'm talking about block It's
Speaker 2: at the ghost on Sorry, Barier, I'm telling you what
Speaker 2: you know? Boy? Did you come on now? I said it?
Speaker 2: I said it last week.
Speaker 3: I said, Look, we talked about ric o'dado, who needed
Speaker 3: to show up in this game? Tony poll did it?
Speaker 3: You come on, fell, don't do this. Don't be a
Speaker 3: Debbie downer on victory.
Speaker 2: My dad. I'm not I'm not saying he played bad, bro.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, yeah, I don't I think he runs
Speaker 3: out all the time.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think he You know, he had an opportunity
Speaker 3: to get through the hole. He made a big time play.
Speaker 3: But we had twelve carries. Twelve, I mean had like
Speaker 3: four catch ups. Yeah catch What we talked about was, hey,
Speaker 3: is he going is he going to be that? Hey man,
Speaker 3: I'm going to carry the team twenty twenty five? Care
Speaker 3: is there a possibility for him to get there? And
Speaker 3: I said, I like him to twelve and fifteen? You
Speaker 3: did twelve and fifteen cares. I think that is a
Speaker 3: sweet spot for Tony Poler, and I think he's going
Speaker 3: to have a lot of explosive plays if you keep
Speaker 3: him in that twelve to fifteen ranging you saw you
Speaker 3: know twelve carries big time run.
Speaker 4: Still, I still don't understand the you know series on
Speaker 4: series off type deal. I mean, like, I still believe
Speaker 4: that the man needs to be like, look, if I'm tired,
Speaker 4: I'm tapping out.
Speaker 3: Like I seen him the one time he was like Church,
Speaker 3: I saw him a few times or not. I saw
Speaker 3: a huge chapter head. He was turn around, hed his
Speaker 3: little hand, say.
Speaker 2: To him, you know the next thing, right, get a
Speaker 2: little bit. I still though they're not.
Speaker 4: Using him to his full potential in my opinion. Yes,
Speaker 4: he ran some hard yards out there. You could tell
Speaker 4: he was frustrated on that touchdown run, so he was like, nah,
Speaker 4: I can't, I gotta get in there. And he ran
Speaker 4: through some casts, ran over Xavier Woods former Cowboy, dragged
Speaker 4: him into the in Zoe.
Speaker 2: So it was a strong run. But I still feel
Speaker 2: like they can get him the rock a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I mean in the.
Speaker 4: Passing game, like you can have plays where he's targeted,
Speaker 4: not just like I'm running out of town.
Speaker 2: Let me dump it off the polyp.
Speaker 4: Exactly, like, there's some things you can do to still
Speaker 4: have him out there explosive, because if we don't, if
Speaker 4: we look at the game, I mean, it was seventeen
Speaker 4: seventeen ten in the fourth in the fourth quarter, in
Speaker 4: the fourth quar and that's and that's when the run happened.
Speaker 3: If this is why, this is why I'm confused though,
Speaker 3: why you come here talking about this game.
Speaker 2: Showed you so And I'm like, what what do you mean?
Speaker 3: They showed me my show my come on, look at okay,
Speaker 3: stop one thing at a time. I jumped out the case.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Let me let me go back rewind.
Speaker 3: How was your weekend?
Speaker 2: Are good? Are you good? Are you good? And started?
Speaker 2: I did start?
Speaker 3: That's what I messed it up. I messed it up?
Speaker 3: Are you good? Let let me be clear about how
Speaker 3: my weekend went. Okay, okay, both my fantasy football teams
Speaker 3: won this weekend. Okay, uh the Bayu Jake, I don't
Speaker 3: care if they was playing Georgia State, Georgis, whoever it was. Okay,
Speaker 3: he pressed man went out there and did wear eight
Speaker 3: touchdown seven, touchdown five. He went out there and had
Speaker 3: to day Cowboys one. Family time was had. So my
Speaker 3: weekend was great.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 4: Didn't even say nothing about that was bad. Cowboys win
Speaker 4: unless you did that thing. Toledo top twenty five in
Speaker 4: the country right now, you might get this forty two dollars,
Speaker 4: but cowboys what it was a good weekend. Good weekend. Now,
Speaker 4: both my schools won.
Speaker 3: There we go, yeah school and my team was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're good, but it's not.
Speaker 2: You gotta watch the game to night to see.
Speaker 3: How your how your whole okay, because I know what
Speaker 3: you really want to happen. I know what you want
Speaker 3: to happen, and that can spoil your weekend. Eavens, go
Speaker 3: out there and pull out a win against the Cats.
Speaker 3: Any team that's gonna spoil your weekend, I picked it. No,
Speaker 3: you picked them because you picking with your with your.
Speaker 2: Head in your heart. It's about the third time you
Speaker 2: done did this this year, young boys. I don't know,
Speaker 2: ye so yeah when I do, when I do, what
Speaker 2: is your other? Boys? Now? Now, he'd picked him every
Speaker 2: every time this season. I don't know. Let's pump breaks here.
Speaker 2: It's time to pump some breaks.
Speaker 3: What I did in the off season, I said, I
Speaker 3: can't go through a whole season like that.
Speaker 2: I gotta be practical.
Speaker 3: Man, Emmy winners, ex players, all of that. I gotta
Speaker 3: think these things through Otherwise people think I'm crazy. So hey,
Speaker 3: I've been doing pretty pretty good on my on my
Speaker 3: doing pretty good on my eagle trick. But y'all not
Speaker 3: gonna talk about them. We're not gonna talk about them yet.
Speaker 3: What we're gonna do is we're gonna break down this offense.
Speaker 3: We're gonna break down this defense.
Speaker 2: And I won.
Speaker 3: First of all, it's great weekend of football, as you
Speaker 3: guys just said. But on Sunday in Carolina, Cowboys take
Speaker 3: the field heavily favored.
Speaker 2: Even announced that.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Johnson going tell the bring up all the listen go.
Speaker 3: That's meaning we will talk about that as well. But
Speaker 3: the offense, guys, if y'all have to admit it got
Speaker 3: off to a slow start, hit it. Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: a slow day, all right.
Speaker 2: But all in all, you did not get.
Speaker 3: The same results from Ceedee Lamb. But I thought it
Speaker 3: was a conservative effort to try and get guys the ball.
Speaker 3: Tob just make a plain seeing as you continue speaking,
Speaker 3: all right now, now you can kind of this is
Speaker 3: why I'm feeling the way that I'm and we'll.
Speaker 2: Get to it.
Speaker 3: But that it don't make no sense. It don't it
Speaker 3: don't it don't make it, don't make no sense. But
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, go ahead, sorry, So I mean, but
Speaker 3: that being said, it was an overall effort. It took
Speaker 3: parts of it, took every part of this team to
Speaker 3: pull out this victory. And you saw some splashes definitely
Speaker 3: on defense with the sack trip, you saw your man.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you keep getting this right, but
Speaker 2: n Bland did his day once and again.
Speaker 3: But offensively for Dak Prescott, no turnovers. You can't ask
Speaker 3: for anything more than that. Nah, you're right about that.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's what it comes down to.
Speaker 4: Like we all understand, you know, if the cliche goes,
Speaker 4: anything can happen on any given Sunday, all that good stuff.
Speaker 4: But offensively, when you look at it, that defense, I
Speaker 4: feel like they should have shredded them apart, like they
Speaker 4: actually had one of those games like he did against
Speaker 4: the Giants. But you know, it happened and they were
Speaker 4: able to play a little bit better than I thought
Speaker 4: they would. But offensively, Dak took care of the football
Speaker 4: two touchdowns out there. You rarely saw the ball in
Speaker 4: Harm's way, which is a good sign for the Dallas
Speaker 4: Cowboys going forward because you know, if you got that
Speaker 4: defense on the other side, if you take care of
Speaker 4: the football, you always gonna have an opportunity to games
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 2: So I like that part of it, CD Lamb.
Speaker 4: He spread the ball around all the receivers, even a
Speaker 4: tight end, So like you said, it was a concerned
Speaker 4: effort out there and running the football. Wise, I think
Speaker 4: they what they ended up total with over there, over
Speaker 4: one hundred combined with him, and yes it was one
Speaker 4: o seven. Like I said, I would still like to
Speaker 4: see Pollard, you know, getting a little bit more involved,
Speaker 4: not just you know, running the football, but you know,
Speaker 4: just have some screenplays up for him so he can
Speaker 4: get to get going that way.
Speaker 2: But to me, man, when you look at it, I
Speaker 2: don't know where I want to.
Speaker 4: Put this this you know, this win, Like I'm glad
Speaker 4: it was a good win overall, but I don't know
Speaker 4: where I want to put it as far as my
Speaker 4: concern do. I still feel like they're the top dogs
Speaker 4: in the NFC when you put them in that tier
Speaker 4: with San Francisco. We'll talk about that a little bit later,
Speaker 4: but it was a good win overall. I mean, the
Speaker 4: penalties were down and Carolina did what losing teams do.
Speaker 4: I mean, when you talk about the penalties out there
Speaker 4: that extended these drives, especially in a rins, what are
Speaker 4: you doing?
Speaker 2: You remember ninety six for the for the Panthers.
Speaker 4: Mann Turvice, Yes, something was chilling, not even involved you
Speaker 4: just out of nowhere, let me get this extra shove
Speaker 4: in here, and then act surprised when the flag went up.
Speaker 4: I mean, so losing teams do things to lose games.
Speaker 4: That exactly what Carolina did, and the Cowboys were able
Speaker 4: to take advantage.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Listen, it was seventeen to teen going into the fourth,
Speaker 3: so you know, coming into the game. The conversation was
Speaker 3: okay when they played New York, but we expected to happen. Happened,
Speaker 3: all right, and it wouldn't make me feel any better
Speaker 3: about it because we knew what New York was and
Speaker 3: what they were going through at the time. Okay, we
Speaker 3: watched Carolina play against Chicago the week before, No, it
Speaker 3: was Chicago beat them then, and it helped them get
Speaker 3: a better draft pick.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: We watched the Chicago without justin Right, So we watched
Speaker 3: that game, right, so when we come into the week,
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, all right, we should we
Speaker 3: should do the same thing to the squad, no matter
Speaker 3: how good they played. Right, if we come out and
Speaker 3: we played the game that we're supposed to play, this
Speaker 3: game shouldn't be close, all right. And we were coming
Speaker 3: off a week where Brandon Cooks had all the targets,
Speaker 3: all the catches. We saw Ceedee Lamb on one fifty
Speaker 3: for the third game straight. We saw all these things
Speaker 3: and we said, well, I said, I need to see
Speaker 3: this continuously throughout the season, through the rest of the
Speaker 3: season for me to feel comfortable about us going into
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Because what happens when we get into playing
Speaker 3: those real teams, the real competition, is our offense gets stagnant.
Speaker 3: They get stagnant. Right, You don't see the explosive plays.
Speaker 3: You see a lot of short throws. You can't figure
Speaker 3: out a way to get into the end zone. And
Speaker 3: then sometimes when the defense isn't playing from ahead right
Speaker 3: and not able to get those sacks, that's when that
Speaker 3: becomes an issue. And I still need to see more
Speaker 3: in order to believe that that is no longer an issue,
Speaker 3: because right now I don't all right. We went out,
Speaker 3: we were efficient, we ran the ball Tony Pollard, you know,
Speaker 3: he had a big time run. He had sixty one
Speaker 3: total yards. Brandon Cooks had another three targets. He had
Speaker 3: less targets than Jayaln Tober. Now, I've seen Jalen Tober
Speaker 3: getting targeted in one on one like way too many
Speaker 3: times for me to feel comfortable with what we will
Speaker 3: possible in the future moving throughout the season. So yes,
Speaker 3: we got to win, Like, even if we blew them
Speaker 3: out wasn't gonna make me feel that much better about it.
Speaker 3: It's about how we won and then who we got
Speaker 3: involved in the game. I don't feel like we did
Speaker 3: enough to get our big time players involved and continue
Speaker 3: the momentum that we had last week against the Giants.
Speaker 2: So tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: If good teams are supposed to go in and handle
Speaker 3: their business against bad.
Speaker 2: Teams, you get it how you get it?
Speaker 3: All right, it's by one whatever, But you go in
Speaker 3: and you handle your business versus the bad teams, and
Speaker 3: the Cowboys have shown you as of late. Obviously we
Speaker 3: ran into the arizonas of the world, but the two
Speaker 3: big teams that we ran into obviously what you're talking,
Speaker 3: that's what you're talking from that standpoint. If you can't
Speaker 3: when you play the upper echelon guys, you can't be
Speaker 3: two or four in the red zone. You got to
Speaker 3: you gotta execute, you gotta score when it's there for you.
Speaker 3: Limited the limit the penalties, which we did in this game,
Speaker 3: but the distribution of the ball. For me, what I
Speaker 3: was watching was the cause that Mike McCarthy was making.
Speaker 3: They were safe. We didn't see a lot of stretching,
Speaker 3: stretching the field, but at the same time, Dak.
Speaker 2: Was taking what the defense was given.
Speaker 3: We never, to me, I never felt like we were
Speaker 3: in any danger of losing this game.
Speaker 2: Man, Am I wrong? You?
Speaker 3: Did you ever feel like, Okay, there's a momentum shift
Speaker 3: happening in this No, I didn't feel that. But I
Speaker 3: watched the Texans game last year when Houston came here,
Speaker 3: and it was one of those games where it was like,
Speaker 3: it's dangerously close, right, we know we better than this squad,
Speaker 3: but it's dangerously close, and Dak had to come out
Speaker 3: at the end of the game and make a game
Speaker 3: win and drive and going into the fourth quarter would
Speaker 3: have been seventeen to ten without Carolina going out there
Speaker 3: having all these crazy penalties. It's a lot closer than
Speaker 3: it should have been for Carolina team where I think
Speaker 3: we should have went out there and stumped them out,
Speaker 3: all right, but we didn't, and it happens we've been
Speaker 3: on the run.
Speaker 2: We won.
Speaker 3: I don't want to sound so we ain't apologizing for
Speaker 3: winning the game. I just know what's coming for us,
Speaker 3: like up in with our upcoming schedule, right, I know
Speaker 3: that December is gonna be tough. I know that even Thursday. However,
Speaker 3: the Commanders look, it is a divisional game, and the
Speaker 3: Seattle Seahawks found that out this week when they played
Speaker 3: against the Rams. It's divisionally. It don't matter who you are.
Speaker 3: You just got to go in there and you know,
Speaker 3: put your best before. So I just want to see
Speaker 3: more because I know that our schedule is getting tougher
Speaker 3: moving through the end of thee. And let's let's flip
Speaker 3: over to the other side of the ball, because I
Speaker 3: think that you you can look at it two ways.
Speaker 3: For the defense, defense dominated the line of scrimmage. As
Speaker 3: far as getting to the passer, all right, seven seven sacks,
Speaker 3: a pick six. They picked another another pick six chosen
Speaker 3: by you know, it's only one person in here on
Speaker 3: this podcast when we did the pod picks that picked
Speaker 3: the Ron Bland to be the guy to be the
Speaker 3: guy who gets the first defensive touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Danny.
Speaker 3: I got lifkey too, by the way, so you know
Speaker 3: the Nostra domins over there, and took all the.
Speaker 2: Way to go out on the limb, way to go
Speaker 2: out on the limb because you did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went playing the hot No you mad because
Speaker 3: you did not. Congratulations to you and you get a
Speaker 3: sack strip that's right. I mean as a defense other
Speaker 3: than those, I'm obviously you're gonna point to the rushing
Speaker 3: yards and say that the Carolina Panthers got way too
Speaker 3: much on the ground. But it was a ben don't
Speaker 3: break style of defense. They didn't allow a rushing touchdown either.
Speaker 3: But that's the version of your defense that you want
Speaker 3: to see. As far as being able to pass rush, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: they were getting after that. They were getting after those guys.
Speaker 3: You got a big bazookah come on once again. He
Speaker 3: came back in three sacks. I believe he had two
Speaker 3: and a half to they gave that half the curve.
Speaker 3: They did two and a half but okay, but not all.
Speaker 4: But he played his butt off out there, Like you said,
Speaker 4: two and a half sacks. The defense as a whole, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they got a little bit gas. You wouldn't like to
Speaker 4: see that, especially against the Carolina Panthers going against you know,
Speaker 4: Miles Sanders and True Behover, you know, combining those two
Speaker 4: weren't doing anything all season long, so to come in
Speaker 4: this game and they had a little bit of success
Speaker 4: against the Dallas Kyleboy, you don't like to see that,
Speaker 4: because you know those teams that the Dallas Kybos are
Speaker 4: gonna have to play going in.
Speaker 2: The future, they're going to try to exploit that.
Speaker 4: That's one thing I don't understand about teams when they
Speaker 4: go against the Cowboys, Like why you give up on
Speaker 4: the run so quick?
Speaker 2: I just don't understand that.
Speaker 4: And they put the ball back in Bryce Young's hands
Speaker 4: over there, and that fell right into dan Quinn's lap,
Speaker 4: because that's what you love to see when you're dan Quinn.
Speaker 2: Third and eights, third and tens.
Speaker 4: The first half, what made it close was offensively the
Speaker 4: Carolina Panthers. There was a lot of third manageables. They
Speaker 4: was turned three, third and two's, fourth and ones, moorph
Speaker 4: and twos and was able to kill on those COVID routes.
Speaker 4: And you saw that they were able to take advantage
Speaker 4: by getting the ball out of Bryce's hands quick. When
Speaker 4: you go to the second half and you're in those
Speaker 4: third eights, now third and tens, third and twelves, it
Speaker 4: feeds right into this defensive lap because those guys feed
Speaker 4: off of those one on one opportunities that Parsons is
Speaker 4: creating for those guys. In the first half he went
Speaker 4: off and then they started double teaming them. Then here
Speaker 4: comes the law, here comes during something trying to filer
Speaker 4: the crew. So they got to eat off of that
Speaker 4: and made life a living, you know what for Bryce
Speaker 4: Young back there in the pocket. So defense did a
Speaker 4: great job. We talked about darn Bland. I mean, the
Speaker 4: guy's arguably a top three corner and now I'm talking.
Speaker 2: About this year. I ain't talking about body of work,
Speaker 2: but this year he's a sact. We're going to talk
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: Talking about the second I want to break him down
Speaker 3: for sure, but just all overall, anybody else in that secondary.
Speaker 2: Besides dr blaying that that that stuck out to you, I.
Speaker 4: Think everybody else's did a solid job, you know, safeties.
Speaker 4: I feel like they did a good job covering, coming
Speaker 4: down and run support. In the second half, they were
Speaker 4: able to kind of get things going out there. Gilmore
Speaker 4: didn't really see his name at alls. That's a good
Speaker 4: thing for a corner knowing that you ain't really getting
Speaker 4: targeted like that.
Speaker 2: So how to thing? Overall?
Speaker 4: They played well, but it was hard to grade the secondary.
Speaker 4: When Bryce Young's back there one two, What am I
Speaker 4: going to do? Oh man, I'm going down like there
Speaker 4: was no opportunity for him to do that. But that's
Speaker 4: why Russian cover worked together so well. And that's what
Speaker 4: the Cowboys do defensively. Amazing.
Speaker 3: But you think about the defense, listen, I mean the
Speaker 3: four point eight to carry five point seven O carry
Speaker 3: about you you're you know, it's disappointed. And this is
Speaker 3: all because I'm looking forward into the season. If I'm
Speaker 3: looking at just this game, I don't care. Our defense
Speaker 3: went out there. We played when you play with the lead,
Speaker 3: they did exactly what they were supposed to do. They
Speaker 3: let the dogs out okay, and Micah came out there
Speaker 3: shout out to that C four school that he was
Speaker 3: taking out there because it worked. His get off was crazy.
Speaker 3: But the guy the announcer was says, and man, looks
Speaker 3: like he's drinking jet few.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 3: I'm telling I was taking that uh that pre workout
Speaker 3: stuff before. And you kissed the wrong one, they'd be
Speaker 3: having your hands out.
Speaker 2: Juice. I'm talking about amped up.
Speaker 3: And you could tell he was amped up, man, I'm
Speaker 3: talking about His get off was crazy, and he went
Speaker 3: out there and he made sure that they put his
Speaker 3: name back into the defensive player to your conversation, but
Speaker 3: we will talk about who may who may need to
Speaker 3: be in that conversation we talked, but we talked about
Speaker 3: it last week and the conversation. The whole topic was
Speaker 3: how do we get the bazooka back and the defensive
Speaker 3: player of the year conversation, and we all said that
Speaker 3: he need a game like this, a multiple sack game
Speaker 3: where he comes in and completely dominates the line of
Speaker 3: scrimmage and also the other guys are able to get off.
Speaker 3: As you were talking about, we saw Tank get a sack,
Speaker 3: We saw Sam Williams come through and get a sack.
Speaker 3: Guys are really taking advantage of their opportunity playing with Michael,
Speaker 3: and that's what you guys have been talking about all along, Like, look,
Speaker 3: if you have double triple team on number eleven, this
Speaker 3: some of y'all got somebody got to win, and you're
Speaker 3: starting to see that with this Dallas Coboys defensive.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I was up before not to cut you off.
Speaker 3: I want to just give a shout out to Sam
Speaker 3: Williams because because he got a penalty. But when you
Speaker 3: talk about a guy that is bought in and going
Speaker 3: to make sure that he does whatever they ask him
Speaker 3: to do, the dude out there.
Speaker 2: Playing gunner, he trying to block punts. He playing defense.
Speaker 3: It's hard to get guys who who have that type
Speaker 3: of talent and know that they probably fit on the
Speaker 3: defensive line somewhere because they are able to start a
Speaker 3: defensive line or in the rotation, because they know what
Speaker 3: type of talent they have and what type of impact
Speaker 3: they can have on the game. To get a guy
Speaker 3: like that right who doesn't believe himself to be a
Speaker 3: core special teamer to go out there and play gunner,
Speaker 3: I ain't never gunner is usually safeties cornerbacks, receivers. This dude,
Speaker 3: I see him running up the sideline with a double team.
Speaker 3: He coming back in.
Speaker 2: He's too sick. Bro.
Speaker 3: It's like so so I just want to give him
Speaker 3: a shout out, you know, because like that's the type
Speaker 3: of guys that you need on your team, especially when
Speaker 3: it's nutcutting time and you need you need your big
Speaker 3: time players to get out there and put pressure on guys.
Speaker 2: So what what we gonna do about bail in the box? Man?
Speaker 2: That what the guys don't get you on?
Speaker 4: The guy's a hell of a player when you got
Speaker 4: him in there, as far as a dying package, and
Speaker 4: it's you know, third in passing yard is and you
Speaker 4: gotta go out there in these guarden these echlers of
Speaker 4: the world and tight ends and he's spying on her.
Speaker 4: Heck of a But when you talk about lining up
Speaker 4: first second down in that.
Speaker 2: Box, y'all saw. I ain't the only one that saw
Speaker 2: this man.
Speaker 4: They was check fourteen. They running straight at fourteen every
Speaker 4: single time. And it's not his fall man of guys,
Speaker 4: what to ten two fifteen? Going against three hundred pounders
Speaker 4: in there, you're gonna get moved, especially since you can't
Speaker 4: cut offensive linemen anymore. I like the wrinkle he did
Speaker 4: last week with Evans, but we didn't see any of them.
Speaker 4: We didn't see any of Evans. He had belling there
Speaker 4: for the majority of the time, man, and I just
Speaker 4: it kind of.
Speaker 2: Worries me because it's like we fall into this travel.
Speaker 2: He can get it done.
Speaker 4: He can get it done because teams are falling behind
Speaker 4: and they got to pass the ball, and that's what
Speaker 4: he specializes in the box. I love that for him,
Speaker 4: But when you go against like we always talk about
Speaker 4: the teams that are physical and understand that the ground
Speaker 4: game is a part of their game, Philly, San Francisco.
Speaker 2: But you can't have him in the box. It's just
Speaker 2: it ain't gonna work.
Speaker 3: So you're saying that these stat numbers just say Mark,
Speaker 3: he's bell leading tackler in the game.
Speaker 2: Ten tackles, six tackles. Most of those were Hey, I've grabbed,
Speaker 2: I grabbed. It's all the tape. Man. He did it.
Speaker 2: He did his thing.
Speaker 3: And I think also when you talk about the running
Speaker 3: game of Carolina, how they were able to pick up
Speaker 3: those big yards on first down, that changed the game
Speaker 3: for him as well. On the on the on the
Speaker 3: game on the down and distance that dan Quinn likes
Speaker 3: to bring him in. He was coming in on some
Speaker 3: short yarded situations also. But you're right, man, undersized and
Speaker 3: teams are starting to run right now. Well that what
Speaker 3: I mean, what you're gonna see is more of those
Speaker 3: stunts in those games in front of him. When he
Speaker 3: starts coming coming down in the in the box, you're
Speaker 3: gonna see defensive end going into the big gap, defensive
Speaker 3: tackle going into the A gap. So he can play
Speaker 3: more on the outside. I think dan Quinn's gonna have
Speaker 3: some adjustments for it. But he's fighting in there though
Speaker 3: he ever rough go ahead, and sometimes he'd be enough fighting,
Speaker 3: you know. That's all I can say. Man, they asked it,
Speaker 3: They asked him to go down there and you know,
Speaker 3: and make a play. And the thing is, it's real
Speaker 3: positive when you get teams that they aren't.
Speaker 2: Going to run the ball like that, you're gonna eat right.
Speaker 3: So so a lot of times you are gonna well,
Speaker 3: hopefully you be playing from here from ahead with the league,
Speaker 3: or you'll be playing the teams with the spread offense, right,
Speaker 3: and then that's when it's gonna.
Speaker 2: Be real helpful for him. But overall, I think.
Speaker 3: He's I think he's been playing playing pretty well, Ben Fellas.
Speaker 3: Let's take our first break. Let's take our first break,
Speaker 3: and when we come back, we got to talk about
Speaker 3: this guy, man number twenty six. Man, something's going on
Speaker 3: with him. We got to figure out where the awards
Speaker 3: need to live. I think we already got him in
Speaker 3: the Pro Bowl for sure. But coming up next here
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Speaker 3: The Salvation Army is twenty seventh annual Red Kettle Kickoff
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Speaker 2: is balley Man? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: You know, I do not dish, just be disrespectful to
Speaker 3: even guess like that.
Speaker 4: That's that's when I was at the game on Saturday,
Speaker 4: right Tennessee game. Dolly Partony, tell me yeah, Dolly Parton seventy.
Speaker 4: Now I'm just like, you know, I think she's in
Speaker 4: her eighties, eighties bro to be doing the show, like
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. So pray to be able
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Speaker 3: When y'all go out there and see Dolly Party, I
Speaker 3: mean turkey and ham all the rest of that good
Speaker 3: stuff on Thursday, boy, and you'll be eating Brussels sprouts, yes,
Speaker 3: and capserine bean.
Speaker 2: Love love.
Speaker 3: Two yeahs, back to back. Man, Thanksgiving is a struggle.
Speaker 3: It is a struggle. Let's get into somebody that's not struck,
Speaker 3: and that's d run Bland. I gotta say this, man,
Speaker 3: But man, Danny, you're from the beginning. For a long
Speaker 3: time now you've been you've been the guy that has
Speaker 3: said d run blaind. Y'all better figure out what's going
Speaker 3: on with twenty six because this guy can play. Even
Speaker 3: when he was playing nickel last year, he was like, look,
Speaker 3: he's look, we may not be missing j Lou like
Speaker 3: like that, he better hurry up and get back, was
Speaker 3: what I We're talking about. The only you might want
Speaker 3: to heal up, you know. And that's football too, man,
Speaker 3: That's how crazy that is. This doesn't happen to Trayvon
Speaker 3: Diggs and he done something that injury, then d run
Speaker 3: Bland is still playing nickelback and you never really know
Speaker 3: how great he can be, Like, you know, he could
Speaker 3: be good on the outside at this point, he's great
Speaker 3: on the outside playing playing the outside cornerback position and
Speaker 3: you just don't know that.
Speaker 2: And let's unless this happened.
Speaker 3: So like you know, silver lining, uh a blessing in
Speaker 3: the sky like whatever you want to call it, like
Speaker 3: something like a lot of times players get those opportunities
Speaker 3: because of injuries.
Speaker 2: Me and you exactly, So shout out to Darron Blam.
Speaker 2: But you are right.
Speaker 3: I did watch the film on him, you know, because
Speaker 3: you know, he had had a few rough plays and
Speaker 3: just what I saw from him, you know, watching the tape,
Speaker 3: I was like this, Yeah, he press technique, good feet,
Speaker 3: good when he plays off he's playing to bait you
Speaker 3: into making those those big time, to make you make
Speaker 3: a mistake. So sometimes he's going to give up the
Speaker 3: catch on that when he's playing off off coverage. But
Speaker 3: a lot of times, a lot of times he's gonna
Speaker 3: get interceptions. And now we know that he's usually when
Speaker 3: he gets it, he's taking it for a pick six.
Speaker 2: So shout out to dron Blant, Nah, he's doing He's
Speaker 2: doing this thing.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 4: I don't think people realize how hard it is to
Speaker 4: go from inside corner to outside corner. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: that's a heck of a transition, even for a veteran
Speaker 4: out there. And this guy's only in his second year
Speaker 4: and he's able to make that transition seamless.
Speaker 2: And he's out there balling.
Speaker 4: And when you talk about like this, dude, another thing
Speaker 4: that people don't like the receiver he's outside.
Speaker 2: Leverage on this interception.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about the receivers going all the way on
Speaker 4: the other side of the field. I mean, it's almost
Speaker 4: impossible to guard that when you're outside leverage. Only does
Speaker 4: he have it in his hip pocket, but he cuts
Speaker 4: the guy off at the impass when the balls he
Speaker 4: cuts him off intercepts, it loses.
Speaker 2: His feet, got the intelligence to get up touchdown. Man,
Speaker 2: thank you for putting that.
Speaker 3: It's articulars is watching it may not even understand what
Speaker 3: kind of ball skills it take for a dude to
Speaker 3: make a play like that.
Speaker 4: And that's just like and most guys when you talk
Speaker 4: in that situation, you outside leverage, you're trailing the receiver.
Speaker 4: You wanna get that one hand on the head and
Speaker 4: the other hand gonna reach across.
Speaker 2: And just back the ball off.
Speaker 4: That's considered a great play if you're able to do that,
Speaker 4: get a batdown on that. For him to be able
Speaker 4: to cut in front of that reach in two head
Speaker 4: intercept that that was clinic.
Speaker 2: That was clinic take. I mean you can get no
Speaker 2: better than that.
Speaker 4: I mean the technique he used to go across the field,
Speaker 4: we call it jet streaming. When you're right behind the
Speaker 4: receiver and you just trailing everything he does and have
Speaker 4: the slightest impass, you take that opportunity and jump in
Speaker 4: front of it and pick it.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just awesome gameplay right there.
Speaker 3: I like to point this Oude while we're talking about
Speaker 3: durun Blaant as well. You look when you watch that,
Speaker 3: you see a player that is able to learn from
Speaker 3: his mistakes because he made that same ain't move I
Speaker 3: believe it wouldgaint San Francisco and he was just a
Speaker 3: little short.
Speaker 2: They end up and how you end up catching it.
Speaker 3: And in this time, I'm talking about perfect position.
Speaker 2: Right. You don't make that play.
Speaker 3: You don't go for that that that that risk, that
Speaker 3: gamble unless you are and also you are also in
Speaker 3: position to make the tackle right because if not, then
Speaker 3: you see what happened with San Francisco and he learned.
Speaker 3: And that's what good players do. Hey, man, i ain't
Speaker 3: gonna make that mistake again. I'm making this play this time.
Speaker 3: And when after turn it too a pig six. Let
Speaker 3: me ask you this, man, I mean, because you guys
Speaker 3: have seen it really be college. I don't know the
Speaker 3: Honey Badger l s U just guys that are just
Speaker 3: bat hawks. It just seemed like they're all Charles Woodson.
Speaker 3: You are a dude. Put the ball in the air
Speaker 3: if you want to. I'm gonna take it, and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna take it to the house. I'm not just gonna
Speaker 3: intercept it. I'm going to intercept this and take it
Speaker 3: to the house. He has four pick sixes on the season,
Speaker 3: and I mean one time's lucky, two times a three times?
Speaker 3: Whoa you that guy? Four times? That's just who you are.
Speaker 3: That's just who you are. And right now he's impacting
Speaker 3: the game we talked about against the Philadelphia Eagles when
Speaker 3: Slim Reaper burning on a fade ball.
Speaker 2: It took a hell of like yeah, burn No, I
Speaker 2: had to agree with you.
Speaker 3: I had to agree with you that it was a
Speaker 3: hell of a throw one that got him the touchdown.
Speaker 3: But you're not seeing him in positions where the receivers
Speaker 3: are taking advantage of this guy. Every time twenty six
Speaker 3: is showing up, he's showing up making a solid play.
Speaker 3: When he doesn't make the solid play, just like you
Speaker 3: just said, what does he do? He comes back in
Speaker 3: yours owns for it and he makes a play on
Speaker 3: the ball. Like have y'all seen a guy like this
Speaker 3: having a kind of season like this?
Speaker 4: That's why I gotta say this, man, I gotta we
Speaker 4: gotta give a huge shout out to our Harris Junior
Speaker 4: and I believe Joe Woo Junr over there in the
Speaker 4: secondary because when you look at it, when they got
Speaker 4: their hands on on these dbs.
Speaker 2: I mean, the game is just night and day.
Speaker 4: You look at Diggs from his rookie year to his
Speaker 4: second year, eleven picks out there, just a bona fide
Speaker 4: stud at the corner spot.
Speaker 2: You look at the Wron Bland, who correct me if
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, Chris.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know you could do the research and
Speaker 4: all that stuff, but I don't think he was a
Speaker 4: big interceptor.
Speaker 2: Like he was not getting a lot of picks in college.
Speaker 2: I don't believe. So you come in here and he's
Speaker 2: eleven picks in your first two years. It's outstanding.
Speaker 4: So how granted, you know, those guys are talented guys,
Speaker 4: Digs and Bland unbelievable talent. But you got to give
Speaker 4: some credit to the coaches as well, because those guys,
Speaker 4: I mean, it got the whole secondary playing well out there.
Speaker 2: So got to give a HU shout out to them guys.
Speaker 3: But putting in context what you're saying about Diggs in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, it had been forty years since Everson
Speaker 3: Walls did it in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So even last year, I don't think we understood Dron
Speaker 3: Bland led the team in interceptions last year with five.
Speaker 2: From the nickel from the nickel and what was the.
Speaker 3: Worry around here going to the off season. We were
Speaker 3: still talking about quarterbacks. Do you still break if you
Speaker 3: come on the front of office, can't lie to me
Speaker 3: and tell me that they knew that this what it
Speaker 3: was because you went out and you signed Gilly. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but at the same god, you did at the same time.
Speaker 3: You know, for however good he was last year at
Speaker 3: the nickel position, you still you still look at being
Speaker 3: able to go get a guy like Yilly and say,
Speaker 3: if I have all three of these guys, oh my god,
Speaker 3: then I feel very comfortable about where I am defensive,
Speaker 3: Like you feel comfortable now, But just imagine how much
Speaker 3: more comfortable you'll be feeling with a guy who could
Speaker 3: take the ball away like that at the nickel position,
Speaker 3: a guy who could take the ball away like that
Speaker 3: at the corner position, and oh yeah, a former defensive player,
Speaker 3: like just imagine having that.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you don't know.
Speaker 3: Droun Blain is gonna be that good, but you do
Speaker 3: know that he is going to be good, and at
Speaker 3: some point he'll be playing outside corner. It just came
Speaker 3: a little earlier than expected. That's all because he ain't
Speaker 3: going back. He ain't going back, going back, going back.
Speaker 2: Now he's stuck.
Speaker 8: So two I n t at Fresno State his senior year,
Speaker 8: Like get to the pros?
Speaker 2: Are you doing it like to? I mean.
Speaker 3: It's got it has to be coaching, man, But another
Speaker 3: guy that that not to bring down here a little bit.
Speaker 3: But Zach Martin, Okay, our offensive line has had their struggles.
Speaker 3: They haven't given up any sacks though. All right, that's true,
Speaker 3: but we are but.
Speaker 2: We have didn't get one yesterday. You didn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's been using his legs, which is no.
Speaker 3: No, it's great that he's doing that because it does
Speaker 3: help his offensive line now and it happens around the league.
Speaker 3: But yes, yes, they didn't give up any sacks. So,
Speaker 3: but we've been seeing a little leakage. Yeah, I will
Speaker 3: say so has been saying a lot of leaks.
Speaker 2: I in the sky, don't lie. What has it been saying?
Speaker 4: And it's tough to really put your finger on it
Speaker 4: when when you think about it, because and this is
Speaker 4: why I said, you know, I believe Smith, the younger
Speaker 4: Smith is probably the best offensive lineman when we talked
Speaker 4: about it let last week. When you look at what
Speaker 4: they're doing out there, Tyren Smith, him not practicing during
Speaker 4: the weeks. If they still got that game plan going,
Speaker 4: hey keep it going, because he looked he looked outstanding
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 2: He ain't giving up nothing out.
Speaker 4: There, you know, the younger Smith, Tyler Smith, penalties aren't
Speaker 4: a huge thing for him.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: You see when they're running the football, well, they're going
Speaker 4: to that left side behind him. He's a bulldozer and
Speaker 4: that's what we understand he does. And I think he's
Speaker 4: an unbelievable guard. He could do both, just like d
Speaker 4: ron blank guard and tackle his center position be odish.
Speaker 4: I mean, I still feel like you know, I feel
Speaker 4: he's improving. But when you look at it, Zach Martin,
Speaker 4: when we see it, he's still, in my opinion, he's
Speaker 4: still an outstanding offensive line.
Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 4: At any stretcher, he doesn't you know, far off a
Speaker 4: cliff or anything like that. He's still unbelievable offensive line.
Speaker 4: But what we've seen them of late is especially in
Speaker 4: the run game, where he's supposed to be the guy
Speaker 4: that kind of fire off of it, you know, get
Speaker 4: that aggression out of you cats are either making a
Speaker 4: miss or like we saw yesterday Derek Brown, I believe it,
Speaker 4: Dwayne I want to I forget his name. He's a
Speaker 4: former top ten overall pick, or just kind of throwing
Speaker 4: this guy's side like those are things that we haven't
Speaker 4: seen from Zach Martin ever. Ever, so if going forward,
Speaker 4: I still believe he's, like I said, the top off
Speaker 4: the lineman in the game. It's just like, man, I
Speaker 4: don't you know our castles trying to start taking advantage
Speaker 4: of that.
Speaker 2: We'll see you know what's happening to you. You know
Speaker 2: what's happening to you.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you know how great Floyd Mayweather is not great?
Speaker 3: He is, right, and then you see him get get
Speaker 3: hit with a punch, right, and then oh wait what
Speaker 3: you used to be? Right s that's the thought, right,
Speaker 3: that's the thought. That's the thought.
Speaker 2: You're like, man, because you you just ain't want put
Speaker 2: You ain't.
Speaker 3: One guy.
Speaker 2: One time, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: My point is you just you're not Some people are
Speaker 3: so great you're not used to seeing those types of
Speaker 3: rest from them, even if it's happening more than once.
Speaker 3: It's like I ain't never seen the happit to that guy. Wait,
Speaker 3: he's human, right, he's human. Same thing like Tyrant went
Speaker 3: through those issues of like we were like, wait, that
Speaker 3: don't look like that, don't look like the same, you know,
Speaker 3: twenty eleven, twenty twelve, Tyrant. But those type of players,
Speaker 3: when they get when it, when they go watch that
Speaker 3: on film, then they feel a little about it and
Speaker 3: then hopefully, hopefully you start to.
Speaker 2: See that you know, that is the work.
Speaker 3: That is the worst thing about sports man when you
Speaker 3: watch a guy that was just like Michael Jordan for
Speaker 3: the Wizards man bring them. He was like, I'm just
Speaker 3: telling you when you when he's on the fast break
Speaker 3: up by himself and it was like, come on, he
Speaker 3: about the wagon tongue.
Speaker 2: No, he just laid the part up. What just now
Speaker 2: you hitting me?
Speaker 3: And I get what you're saying. And I for one
Speaker 3: don't think that he has the cliff he had. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the decline hadn't been.
Speaker 2: I mean and thankful to have you.
Speaker 3: Hey, he needs seventy, but just the effort, just him
Speaker 3: and the way that he's been dominating over the years.
Speaker 2: Man, maybe maybe hey, we're just seeing a this the
Speaker 2: percent the percentage of great reps is going down a little.
Speaker 3: That's all the percentage of great reps throughout the game
Speaker 3: of like usually ninety eight percent dominant somebody right now
Speaker 3: you might be sitting at ninety four. But I did
Speaker 3: the one, the one that you saw yesterday, like I
Speaker 3: saw it.
Speaker 2: I saw it, I saw yourself. So I do know
Speaker 2: what you mean, but I don't you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, Tyres Smith still out the balling, So you know,
Speaker 3: I think Zach Martin gonna be okay, you know, he
Speaker 3: gonna have a few of those reps. But I think
Speaker 3: when he could, when when it come down when you
Speaker 3: need them, he gonna be already.
Speaker 2: Let's take them.
Speaker 3: Let's take our last Let's take our last breaking and
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Speaker 2: They had my name you just like you're not even
Speaker 2: I know that. I know I made a mistake on that.
Speaker 2: That's the only day we had. Second.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's like I'll be tired on the twenty third.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna beat there on. I gotta make sure my
Speaker 3: have a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm go to.
Speaker 3: Regimes on Saturday. It's gonna be working with something making
Speaker 3: a reservation. He's gonna be on.
Speaker 7: Ain't let me.
Speaker 2: I know, Barry Church to get you in. That's all
Speaker 2: you gotta say. All right, man, listen, this is man.
Speaker 2: It's been fun.
Speaker 3: We done have had a good time, uh these last
Speaker 3: two episodes. Man, but I want to get to this
Speaker 3: talk about the Cowboys emerging. You got a little bit
Speaker 3: more hopium and a little bit more sugar than the
Speaker 3: kool Aid b C.
Speaker 2: You do for sure.
Speaker 3: Sure Like I can't believe that you come out come
Speaker 3: out of the Carolina Panthers Game seventy three. You no, no,
Speaker 3: I know you came outself. I can't believe that you
Speaker 3: come out of that game watching the performance and feeling
Speaker 3: as confident.
Speaker 2: As you do feel.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying you shouldn't feel confident that we are
Speaker 3: a good football team, but you sound like you're about
Speaker 3: to start picking, you know, for the first round by
Speaker 3: when we're gonna host the you know, like you know, hey,
Speaker 3: I have This has been a ramp up since the
Speaker 3: beginning of the season. I've been just slowly getting this
Speaker 3: whole thing together. I'm just saying seventy three was where
Speaker 3: we need to be. I'm not gonna count them before
Speaker 3: they hatch, but I'm just saying, bro, this next couple
Speaker 3: of games, we gotta we got a winnable game versus
Speaker 3: Manders Okay, Seattle, that's a winnable game.
Speaker 2: And you go into a boy, you come in the Sunday.
Speaker 4: Feel anna so Sidlo, So what are your thoughts? What
Speaker 4: are you talking about the Dolphins? Like, what would you say,
Speaker 4: hey look good? Would would you say they should be
Speaker 4: the top dolls?
Speaker 3: I think in I think in the AFC right now,
Speaker 3: you cannot discount what the Kansas City Chiefs are doing.
Speaker 2: They still top dolls.
Speaker 3: To me, did you put the Dolphins in that, I
Speaker 3: would say, yeah, one two, I took the Dolphins better
Speaker 3: than would you put them the butter.
Speaker 2: Ravens and all that.
Speaker 3: I'm putting them in the same class. I'm putting them
Speaker 3: in the same class. I'm like one, two, three, And
Speaker 3: I said, now you trip and say.
Speaker 4: This the Dolphins, I believe they haven't beaten the team
Speaker 4: with a winning record. And it's the same thing with
Speaker 4: the Dallas Cowboys. They have yet to beat the team
Speaker 4: with a winning record. So how can we sit there
Speaker 4: and say they're the top dogs over a sand fran
Speaker 4: a Philly of Detroit?
Speaker 2: Okay, so what is Detroit? What is Detroit? Detroit? What
Speaker 2: seventy three?
Speaker 3: They good and they have wins over teams that have
Speaker 3: winning records. But you gotta look, you made me too
Speaker 3: complicated for us. We can't win our games. They make
Speaker 3: our opponents good too. I mean, we just winning the games,
Speaker 3: and we who we have, I mean we've had, we've lost.
Speaker 3: And now I think when you double down on the
Speaker 3: health part of it, wouldn't you say that we're relatively
Speaker 3: healthy right now? Yes, going into a very important part
Speaker 3: of the season, and I think all of the things
Speaker 3: that you wanted in this team, especially in your defense.
Speaker 3: You're you're starting to you can get behind that because
Speaker 3: defense what travels? All right, you got a home field
Speaker 3: advantage that you're starting to work out your twelve wins
Speaker 3: straight at home.
Speaker 2: You hadn't seen that since you were winning Super Bowls.
Speaker 2: Come hold on, bo I'm not done. He gone.
Speaker 3: And your offense with Ceedee Lamb, who is now after
Speaker 3: what ten games, now has a thousand yards receiving I
Speaker 3: think you're seeing everything that you wanted to see in
Speaker 3: your team at this point in the season. And if
Speaker 3: there is a better team in the NFC than the
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys right now, it's just one.
Speaker 2: Defensetop feeling, it's just one defense. Stop Philly. You saw that.
Speaker 3: You you said you saw the forty nine ers go
Speaker 3: through that struggles you've seen maybe it's part of that
Speaker 3: on you.
Speaker 2: Put the don't y'all start with me? You will put
Speaker 2: you put the Cowboys above San Francisco.
Speaker 3: It's only one team better than us right now. And
Speaker 3: that's you see, that's peeling and that's okay. And that's
Speaker 3: based off of don't we don't we judge it based
Speaker 3: off of the games that they don't play, they don't
Speaker 3: lost some games.
Speaker 2: So come on, why are y'all not giving.
Speaker 3: You're just counting they stop to you look, one team out,
Speaker 3: one team better, not even I'm talking about at least
Speaker 3: the playoff game, trying to make us three and I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna give us three. I'm giving us two. I'm
Speaker 3: giving us two. I'm giving us two. And that's and
Speaker 3: we'll see him and that's your that's okay, and we'll
Speaker 3: see him again. But no, I'm not I'm not agreeing
Speaker 3: with you on that until you beat them, Until you
Speaker 3: beat them the Wait a minute, So all y'all saying
Speaker 3: is that Philadelphia and the forty nine ers are better
Speaker 3: than us?
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, And who's treating there? Are you saying
Speaker 2: the Detroit better?
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I'm saying right now, I have more faith
Speaker 3: in what Detroit has done and can't do in the
Speaker 3: season that what we have.
Speaker 2: I've seen their offense, I've seen them be able to win.
Speaker 2: Who beat Kansas City? Who beat them? Like you just
Speaker 2: called them the top thousand? They beat them? Money was
Speaker 2: getting their rings? Wasn't that the first game of the
Speaker 2: man It was Patrick Mahone's playing or not. What's he
Speaker 2: playing too?
Speaker 3: Right now? That's okay, that's you ain't bumping us down there.
Speaker 3: You're definitely not bumping us down the full over. Oh
Speaker 3: come on, this is this eating Carolina New York is
Speaker 3: not just they're doing what they're supposed to be all
Speaker 3: the credit. But what you talk about tears and where, guys,
Speaker 3: is that you got to put the head of heads.
Speaker 3: So let me make sew before we sign off here.
Speaker 3: You're telling me that the Downs Cowboys right now, in
Speaker 3: your opinion, are the fourth best team in the NFC.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think that's fair. I think that's fair. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's fair.
Speaker 3: Yes, based off based off watching the other teams and
Speaker 3: seeing what they've done, and then also had the head
Speaker 3: matchups because we lost to the first top two.
Speaker 2: I can't believe.
Speaker 3: Can first about a couple of what a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago, we came in here and saying, and you
Speaker 3: agreed that Detroit was better than us.
Speaker 2: You have to be run to take her. I bring
Speaker 2: it for you tomorrow. I'll bring them all. Man.
Speaker 3: You said the Giant must have and the and the Panthers,
Speaker 3: and now all of a sudden things have changed. He
Speaker 3: asked me that question after the Eagles loss. You know,
Speaker 3: I was a little emotional. I told y'all, man, it
Speaker 3: was a little touchy.
Speaker 2: Don't do it. Give me twenty four hours. That's when
Speaker 2: you got when we asked that question. Seriously, did they
Speaker 2: better than sad Fran right now? Right now? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right now, a healthy sand Frand because you're talking about health,
Speaker 3: because not ay' healthy now that I mean they just
Speaker 3: then they free safety, just blow his a cs and offensively,
Speaker 3: I mean healthy later, No obvious, you're trying to bust
Speaker 3: this down to four man, I'm not gonna let you
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 2: That's my feeling is.
Speaker 3: Not gonna be hurt to each Is you the one,
Speaker 3: not my feelings because I'm thinking, I'm talking, I'm talking realistic,
Speaker 3: I'm being I'm being logical here.
Speaker 2: Your feeling is the one you won't be.
Speaker 3: Hurt, like just like when you picked the gents to
Speaker 3: beat the bills this weekend. And why you gotta bring
Speaker 3: up you know that old stuff. See right there, I
Speaker 3: was trying to separate from the package. But then anyway, anyway,
Speaker 3: it's been a good show. I was hoping that we
Speaker 3: would be able to, you know, end on a good note.
Speaker 3: But I sabotized myself with that. I sabatize yourself with that.
Speaker 3: I cannot believe y'all just said all this about the
Speaker 3: run blak. You just said all this about the bazook.
Speaker 3: You just I mean, and then we four you're putting,
Speaker 3: you putting anyway? All right, this has been fun, guys.
Speaker 3: We had a good time. That you give me something.
Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow on the Players Loud.
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