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Speaker 1: twenty one, season seventeen, episode number sixty eight. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Break. We are live from
Speaker 1: the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, Nick and
Speaker 1: Amber joining me. Dave will be joining us in a
Speaker 1: moment once he finishes with his walk off with coach McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Let's start first, Nick with a sixty eight Doug Free.
Speaker 1: Doug Free, I think is he one of the most
Speaker 1: maligned players that really didn't deserve to be maligned in
Speaker 1: our time here there's more, but he's in that category
Speaker 1: for sure because he was a pretty solid player. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just one of those guys who hated him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't like him. He was a pretty good player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's sixty eight. Now I'm kind of. I'm now,
Speaker 1: I'm he may not Chris is he sixty eight? Crawford Curry,
Speaker 1: that was a man trustee producer. Crawford Kerr was my
Speaker 1: backup because you know, I've never heard of him. No,
Speaker 1: Crawford Kerr, no heard him. Played in the eighties guard
Speaker 1: Man obviously with tail sixty eight. Yeah, uh yeah, those
Speaker 1: are those those are only sixty eight that I got.
Speaker 1: Matt Lair remember him, Yeah, I do remember Matt guard Center. No,
Speaker 1: I was. I was actually a fan of Doug Free
Speaker 1: on the field, and I know there were so many
Speaker 1: fans that just always had something to say about him
Speaker 1: and his false starts and whatever else he had one on.
Speaker 1: But I thought he's a solid player, pretty good player
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. All right. Um, let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about Google. Best player at number sixty eight, and
Speaker 1: this article came up. Nobody better than big Foot at
Speaker 1: number sixty eight, defensive end Dennis Harrison, who some guy
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys was for the Eagles, Oh oh, across
Speaker 1: the league. That also tells you something else, like it was,
Speaker 1: if that's the best, that's the best sixty eight in
Speaker 1: the history of the league, then yeah, yeah, And I'd
Speaker 1: say he's not a good player. I don't keep up
Speaker 1: with with Eaglestores, but illustrator, Yeah, but I wouldn't. I
Speaker 1: definitely don't. The name doesn't ring out to me. Um,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the four players. There are four players
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been missing here over the last game. UM,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to talk about these four these four
Speaker 1: players from the standpoint of what the Cowboys miss in
Speaker 1: not having them. It does look like maybe Tyren Smith
Speaker 1: maybe back this week. But let's first start with him
Speaker 1: and talk about what if the Cowboys missed not having
Speaker 1: him on the field the last three and a half game. Well,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott can go back to pass and turn his
Speaker 1: back to that side and not feel like he's going
Speaker 1: to get hit. I mean, that's Do you think that
Speaker 1: affects Dak in a way? Obviously it affects everybody, But
Speaker 1: do you think that's maybe some of the things that
Speaker 1: we've seen in two of the last three games where
Speaker 1: dact just didn't seem to be himself. Probably, I mean,
Speaker 1: I would, I would imagine. I mean, Tyren Smith is
Speaker 1: one of the best left tackles, and I mean that
Speaker 1: we've seen in decades. I mean isn't. He's that good,
Speaker 1: and so there's got to be a comfort level when
Speaker 1: you when you know he's there and he's playing. You know, now,
Speaker 1: now he gets beat sometimes, I mean he gets beat
Speaker 1: everything once in a while, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I think it just locks it down
Speaker 1: and then everything else kind of trickles down. The left
Speaker 1: guard can be a little bit better, so it helps
Speaker 1: everybody around him, and you just don't have that when
Speaker 1: you have Terren Steele or really anybody even in Schi
Speaker 1: over there. So yeah, it's it's probably just more of
Speaker 1: a up thing one and two. Just he's locking it down.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, of course you're gonna miss a guy
Speaker 1: like Tyren Smith in the lineup. But at this point,
Speaker 1: I feel like I am at the point where I
Speaker 1: will never use that as an excuse anymore, like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're missing tyrns. After so many years of this happening,
Speaker 1: you would think they got it down, and I know
Speaker 1: that they have turned steel and he did a good job.
Speaker 1: And now you got a shuffling going on with Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins back and then what's happening with Connor McGovern there.
Speaker 1: But it's just and I'm sure it's difficult. It's easier
Speaker 1: said than done, especially from me looking from the outside.
Speaker 1: But it just seems like you would think they got
Speaker 1: it figured out that when something like this happens, it's
Speaker 1: not such a drastic change. But I mean it always
Speaker 1: affects anyways. And last game we saw Dick running for
Speaker 1: his life continuously. It wasn't funny to Deck, but that's
Speaker 1: funny to us. Yeah, well, I mean we I wasn't
Speaker 1: laughing in the game. I'm watching the game, but it's
Speaker 1: just it's I really thought they would play a lot better,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't the case. Yeah. I think that Tyren
Speaker 1: Smith being out, that that's really affected this offense in
Speaker 1: a way that I didn't think it would as much. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought Terren Steele would be able to be adequate
Speaker 1: on the left side because I think he's been pretty
Speaker 1: good on the right, and I just don't think after
Speaker 1: watching these games, I don't think he is. I think
Speaker 1: he is a right tackle. Um. I don't think he
Speaker 1: is a swing tackle necessarily. I think he's a right
Speaker 1: tackle that might be able to give you some good
Speaker 1: quality starts, maybe be at a point where he can
Speaker 1: be a starter full time for US. Or for any
Speaker 1: team at right tackle. I don't think he's a left tackle.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Amari Cooper. What are the Cowboys missed
Speaker 1: by not having go ahead? I mean, this is going
Speaker 1: down the line a few games down. But let's say, Okay,
Speaker 1: Tyren comes back this game, it's fine, whatever, But then
Speaker 1: towards the end of the year, something else happens where
Speaker 1: he comes back out. I mean, do you think they
Speaker 1: still go with steel rather than And we've talked about
Speaker 1: Lyle kind of then flip in. I mean, is that
Speaker 1: so hard when you and I get it you used
Speaker 1: to being but is as a pro player, is that
Speaker 1: so hard switching sides? I think it is. Yeah. I've
Speaker 1: never played it, but I would think it is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, apparently it is. And I don't think Lyle
Speaker 1: collins Is wants to do that, like I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think he's made it pretty clear he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to do that, and I don't think they feel like
Speaker 1: he can do it as well. It's there's it's a
Speaker 1: different type, it's a different drop. There's a little bit
Speaker 1: more athleticism you see on the left side. I think
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele is probably a better athlete. I would say
Speaker 1: than than Lyle, So it makes more sense there. And
Speaker 1: I think that the fact that they didn't move lyl
Speaker 1: there's a couple of reasons for that, and I think
Speaker 1: one of them is the fact that they just expect
Speaker 1: Tyring to be back when you know, when he has
Speaker 1: been so it's two or three, it's a short term injury.
Speaker 1: I think steals the perfect swing tackle there, and he's
Speaker 1: still have Benseki. They're not letting him go, so they've
Speaker 1: got some options. They their tackle situation is better than
Speaker 1: I would say a lot of teams in the league
Speaker 1: just from the backups have at least fifteen, you know,
Speaker 1: probably seventeen to twenty starts among them the two backup tackles.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. But I do think I will say this,
Speaker 1: I think that I would at least give it some thought.
Speaker 1: If you get into that kind of scenario where you
Speaker 1: lose Tyrant for another couple of games or so towards
Speaker 1: the end of the year, I would really consider ty
Speaker 1: and Sky. As you were talking about, Nick, I just
Speaker 1: and maybe here's the one thing that could be a caveat.
Speaker 1: Maybe during these next several weeks, if Tying is healthy,
Speaker 1: maybe they find some opportunity to get steal some work
Speaker 1: in practice just a left tackle, so he continues to
Speaker 1: work there. Maybe in continuing to work there, if some tents,
Speaker 1: if it comes up where he has to play later
Speaker 1: in the year, maybe he's better than he is now.
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say about him is there
Speaker 1: were times last year we thought he couldn't play, like
Speaker 1: literally couldn't play, and he figured it out on the
Speaker 1: right side. So maybe with more time on the left,
Speaker 1: maybe he can figure it out on the left. But
Speaker 1: right now what we've seen, that's not good enough for
Speaker 1: playoff football. In my opinion, I don't think the guy.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys would be very handicapped if they
Speaker 1: had to go into a playoff game with with Terrence
Speaker 1: still left tackle as he has played so far. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Amark Cooper. What did they missed by not
Speaker 1: having a Mark Cooper on this scene the last week?
Speaker 1: They missed or did they miss him? Oh? Yes, really well?
Speaker 1: I think the question is a fair question. The fair
Speaker 1: question him if they missed him more than they missed
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith. I mean it was it was they missed
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith big time. I'm aary Cooper to me, it
Speaker 1: was just as much missed, and he'll be missing just
Speaker 1: as much just as much because he is an outstanding
Speaker 1: or outrunner. He can, he gets open, he figures out
Speaker 1: a way. He's I think he's the most quarterback friendly
Speaker 1: receiver they've had in many years here. And even though
Speaker 1: his stats aren't always great, the fact that he knows
Speaker 1: exactly where he's going to be. He runs, like I said,
Speaker 1: it runs these great routes and it helps the other
Speaker 1: guys kind of do their thing. He was missed in
Speaker 1: that game. You know, CDs a little bit more. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say a freelancer, but he's he's he's more, you know,
Speaker 1: just just kind of uh more of a big play
Speaker 1: type guy. And and you know, maybe he doesn't have
Speaker 1: this much separation, but he'll go and make the play.
Speaker 1: Amari is just the precision of him running routes I
Speaker 1: think really helps the quarterback. And they missed that in
Speaker 1: that game. They needed somebody to kind of calm down
Speaker 1: third and six, get over, get a first down, move
Speaker 1: the chains, keep it going. And just his demeanor is
Speaker 1: so good out there. Yeah, and just his presence allows
Speaker 1: see THEE to be able to make those impressive catches
Speaker 1: is that Nick was talking about. And the crazy thing
Speaker 1: about Amaric Cooper, He's a Cooper. He's the type of
Speaker 1: player that, to me, sometimes he goes a little unnoticed,
Speaker 1: like he's quiet, but he'll make plays. But then that's
Speaker 1: the greatest thing about him. He's like, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you see him, Oh wow, there's Amari, And sometimes you
Speaker 1: tend to forget about him, but clearly we saw it
Speaker 1: in this past game. How important his presence, regardless of
Speaker 1: him being the target play targeted player. It's I think
Speaker 1: they would have played so and I say this given
Speaker 1: like everybody played bad and there were drops and all that,
Speaker 1: but I think that having him on the field would
Speaker 1: have at least made them play a little bit better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder, And I think we're going to get to
Speaker 1: see a little bit of that this weekend. Sounds like
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith will play this weekend. If he plays, we'll
Speaker 1: get to see because I really think Tyron was really
Speaker 1: the the big part of why they couldn't do what
Speaker 1: they wanted to do, more so than Amary. That doesn't
Speaker 1: and don't get me wrong, I think Amari is a
Speaker 1: valuable asset for this team, but I do think losing
Speaker 1: him for a game, you should be able to You're
Speaker 1: offense still should be able to put up big points.
Speaker 1: I think the problem was they lost him and they
Speaker 1: also didn't have that left tackle, and that I think
Speaker 1: was well and then you can go and then they
Speaker 1: started and they started the blitz that more even more
Speaker 1: in the second half. I mean, are you know they
Speaker 1: trudged their corners that they weren't going to get beat
Speaker 1: by Gallop Noah Brown, h Cedric Wilson and they you know,
Speaker 1: those those guys aren't going to just continually beat the secondary.
Speaker 1: And so it worked out perfectly for the Chiefs because
Speaker 1: they were able to just keep putting the pressure on
Speaker 1: a line that couldn't handle it, and they didn't have
Speaker 1: to worry about really getting beat over the top or
Speaker 1: really anywhere. How much have they missed or what did
Speaker 1: they miss by not having Randy Gregor and DeMarcus Large
Speaker 1: for that for as long as they've been out at
Speaker 1: this point. But you're just missing badass pass rushers. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean that's just what it is. And now Mike
Speaker 1: has been helping some, but Mike, I mean you can't
Speaker 1: have enough. I mean, like like Micael can do his
Speaker 1: thing for wherever and Brandy on this side, and you
Speaker 1: just can't block them all. And then that's what they've missed.
Speaker 1: And then I still think that Michael will go back
Speaker 1: to being a linebacker at some point. But still he's
Speaker 1: gonna miss comment yesterday, huh he did us comment yesterday?
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, they can have back all those chips.
Speaker 1: Yeah with that, yeah, I mean like no pass rusher
Speaker 1: likes to get chipped, no finding that out. No, he
Speaker 1: let him be a roaming linebacker, a blitzer rusher all that.
Speaker 1: That's where I think he's going to be the most effective,
Speaker 1: and I think that's where sets up well for this roster.
Speaker 1: But they anytime you're missing a good pass rusher like
Speaker 1: Gregory d Laws a great pass rusher, he's also a
Speaker 1: great run stopper as well, they're just missing their their
Speaker 1: best defensive ends. I mean that no team is going
Speaker 1: to lose their both ends and be good. That Cowboys
Speaker 1: have been fortunate there. But also I mean they're they're
Speaker 1: missing something. The linebacker con O'Neil and Layton vander Rush
Speaker 1: aren't the greatest inside linebackers right now. And that's interesting part.
Speaker 1: This defense has actually played pretty well without the two
Speaker 1: of their best defensive players, and that's I think the
Speaker 1: post most amazing part about it. Yeah, I thought they
Speaker 1: were not gonna be able to play the way they
Speaker 1: that they did without those two guys, especially without Randy Gregory.
Speaker 1: But I think that if the offense continues to play
Speaker 1: like let's say they go in this week and play
Speaker 1: kind of similar to what happened last week, I think
Speaker 1: I mean that's where maybe you do miss got that
Speaker 1: kind of pressure there to create maybe more turnovers, to
Speaker 1: give your the ball back to the offense to allow
Speaker 1: them to create whatever they can on the field. But yes,
Speaker 1: definitely miss those guys, but definitely impressed on what they
Speaker 1: have been able to handle without them so far. Joined
Speaker 1: by David Helm and Dave I'm going to throw this question.
Speaker 1: You were talking about the four players that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: didn't have last week for star players. Which of those
Speaker 1: four players I'm talking about, Tyren Smith, Amari Cooper, Randy Gregory,
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence do you think they missed the most in
Speaker 1: that speci if a game, If if I could go
Speaker 1: back and play it again with just one of those guys,
Speaker 1: I would want Amari Cooper. Um. I know the offensive
Speaker 1: line didn't hold up very well. But I think a
Speaker 1: big part of that was, again we talked about it
Speaker 1: earlier in the week, like they couldn't separate downfield. I
Speaker 1: don't think there were things open for Dak. I think
Speaker 1: not having a Mari allows the defense to key on CD.
Speaker 1: Then you lose CD, and now nobody's afraid of anybody. Um,
Speaker 1: no disrespect to Michael Galla, but like I think they're
Speaker 1: willing to just man him up. You don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about diverting extra attention to him. Um. I think
Speaker 1: I think Amari Cooper does a lot for this offense,
Speaker 1: even if he's not being targeted. And you can see
Speaker 1: that on tape if you watch teams focus on him.
Speaker 1: They know that he can hurt them. So, um, I
Speaker 1: think he could have changed the trajectory of that game
Speaker 1: for sure. Most important. Yeah, I mean I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they're fifty fifty, but I think
Speaker 1: that Steele you known can hind. I mean, he struggles,
Speaker 1: but he's still Like I don't think it's a it's
Speaker 1: as much of a drop off as especially because of
Speaker 1: what happened just losing CD. Annamari. That's just like I said,
Speaker 1: there's he's just a quarterback friendly guy. Bill Belichick told
Speaker 1: you six weeks ago when they played that game. I
Speaker 1: mean he went and he tried to take him out
Speaker 1: of the game. So you know, they understand just how
Speaker 1: important he is. And he's just a chains mover and
Speaker 1: he takes the pressure off some of the other guys.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take our first break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, We're going to be joined by Bucky Brooks
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Speaker 1: At the start, we got Bucky Brooks of NFL Network
Speaker 1: joining us. Bucky, it is the day before Thanksgiving. We
Speaker 1: got Thanksgiving football tomorrow, Cowboys will take on the Raiders,
Speaker 1: and so let's start with their defense and give me
Speaker 1: an idea of what this defense can do when they're
Speaker 1: on and tell me what can can get them flustered too. Look, man,
Speaker 1: this is a defense that's really static. They don't do
Speaker 1: a lot. They're just kind of line up in play. Um.
Speaker 1: It's a candid like just kind of driving by the
Speaker 1: neighborhood seeing a bunch of iron deer on the larm.
Speaker 1: They don't do much of anything to try and trick you.
Speaker 1: Or through you and so and so. What they what
Speaker 1: they want to do is they want to make it real,
Speaker 1: simplistic for the team to allow their players to play fast.
Speaker 1: They have some good players, particularly in the front line.
Speaker 1: You think about Yannicking got ways back to playing at
Speaker 1: a high level because he reunited with Gus Bradley. Max
Speaker 1: Crosby is an energizer bunny at the front line. Denzel
Speaker 1: Peerman is a tackle or tackle playmaker on the inside.
Speaker 1: And then they have a cornerback, Brendon Fazon, who's actually
Speaker 1: playing really really well for them. So it's a it's
Speaker 1: a solid maybe defense, but they're not gonna do a
Speaker 1: lot and so it's about execution. It's not about trickery
Speaker 1: for them. Well, you wrote in your five bucks article
Speaker 1: that they they've got a blueprint they can go off
Speaker 1: of now. So you say that the blueprint to beat
Speaker 1: the Cowboys is now out. Can you explain that a
Speaker 1: little bit? Well, I mean, look, the blueprint has been out,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, people are gonna line up and they're
Speaker 1: gonna play with four man rush. They can play seven
Speaker 1: in coverage, they can play man demand. And what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do it They're gonna dare the Cowboys to be
Speaker 1: able to win on the outside and the way that
Speaker 1: people are playing man demand. They're playing what they call
Speaker 1: man match, which is basically man to man on vertical routes,
Speaker 1: but it kind of goes into a switching zone. Did
Speaker 1: we lose them? I think we don't have a Mark Cooper.
Speaker 1: You're there, Bucky? Hello, Yeah, we got you. I can
Speaker 1: hear you now we're talking. Yeah, we lost. You lost
Speaker 1: the raft. You were saying that you were talking about
Speaker 1: mixed mixed match man so gold. Yeah. So so when
Speaker 1: you have man match, what they do is they able
Speaker 1: to take away the stuff on the outside, will also
Speaker 1: handling all the crossing routs and the things that happen inside.
Speaker 1: And when you don't have guys that can separate, like
Speaker 1: one of Mark Cooper's on the sideline, you only have
Speaker 1: CD Lamb. It just makes it easy for the defense.
Speaker 1: And what we also saw is they were able to
Speaker 1: line up and get one on one match up on
Speaker 1: particular offensive lineman to be able to defeat him. And
Speaker 1: without timern Smith, there's some vulnerability on that offensive line.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the blueprint is out. Now do you have
Speaker 1: the personnel to be able to deal with it. That's
Speaker 1: another thing, but the blueprint is definitely out on how
Speaker 1: the best play the Cowboys. The Raiders employ a young
Speaker 1: man that a lot of people wanted to see in
Speaker 1: Dallas by the name of Trevan Merrig, the safety out
Speaker 1: of TCU. How's he playing this year? Buck? I mean
Speaker 1: he's fine. I mean he's been. He's in solid for them.
Speaker 1: But you know, they had been in those favorable situations
Speaker 1: where they can really allow the safety to be an
Speaker 1: impact player, meaning you have to be up so you
Speaker 1: can force the quarterback to throw against loaded coverage. Don't
Speaker 1: allow Mary to be able to do his thing either.
Speaker 1: Really solid player. I thought I liked him a lot
Speaker 1: as a as a prospect. Has he been a difference
Speaker 1: maker for them yet? No, he hasn't. He's a solid
Speaker 1: player in the back end, one of their better players. Though,
Speaker 1: if you're the Cowboys, after the way that they lost
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs end in a short week like this one,
Speaker 1: what would be your main focus in improving the offense
Speaker 1: for this game? Back to basics, I would say less
Speaker 1: is more doing fewer plays, fewer concepts, fewer things where
Speaker 1: the guys have to think and place in a greater
Speaker 1: emphasis on just being great when it comes to the
Speaker 1: execution part. That's what I would focus on. I don't
Speaker 1: think this needs to be kind of a trick them game.
Speaker 1: I think they need a lot up and make sure
Speaker 1: they remember who they are. They're at their best when
Speaker 1: they're a balanced team. Whenever it gets way out of
Speaker 1: whack and Dak is throwing two times more than they're running,
Speaker 1: it's a problem. They need to make sure that they
Speaker 1: remember to run the football. I'm not saying that you
Speaker 1: have the runof person second down, but you got to
Speaker 1: make sure that you have enough rushing attempts to make
Speaker 1: the defense depend all aspects of the offense before you
Speaker 1: kind of become this past happy team. Hey, Bucky, when
Speaker 1: you were just talking about the blueprint that's out there
Speaker 1: on how you defeat this Cowboys offense, I was looking
Speaker 1: at some of the stats around Vegas, and as you said,
Speaker 1: they don't do much. They are actually they blitzed the
Speaker 1: least in the NFL. But at the same time their
Speaker 1: fifth in quarterback knockdown, so they get after the quarterback.
Speaker 1: They're right at right out of the top ten in sacks.
Speaker 1: So my question for you is how knowing that and
Speaker 1: knowing that they try to get pressure with the front
Speaker 1: four and do a pretty pretty good job of doing that.
Speaker 1: How does Dallas try to defeat that? We haven't seen
Speaker 1: them be successful against those two teams in the AFC
Speaker 1: West who have done similar things. How does Dallas beat that.
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to run the football and putting
Speaker 1: in manageable situations. One of the reasons that the other
Speaker 1: teams have been able to have success against the Cowboys
Speaker 1: because they were able to kind of dictate the turns
Speaker 1: because it was a bit of a little more of
Speaker 1: a one dimensional approach that the Cowboys took. When you
Speaker 1: run the ball, to run the ball on mix down,
Speaker 1: so it's not always first and ten run sometimes it
Speaker 1: maybe second and seven. Run the ball. You have to
Speaker 1: prevent the defensive coordinator preventing and what we call in
Speaker 1: always in never situation, meaning hey, it's this situation, they
Speaker 1: always do this, They never do that because then it
Speaker 1: plays to their favorite and so it needs to be balanced,
Speaker 1: it needs to be diverse and needs to get out
Speaker 1: of his normal play calling pattern to keep them from
Speaker 1: team golf on the passing end, and when you run
Speaker 1: the ball at the pass rushers, it takes a little
Speaker 1: steam off of those pass rushers, So you gotta be
Speaker 1: able to run the football and run it at them
Speaker 1: early and often. Buggy. This this goes back to what
Speaker 1: you said at the top about them being kind of static.
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting, like Gus Bradley was the DC
Speaker 1: in Seattle before dan Quinn, and both of these guys
Speaker 1: kind of got that cover three reputation. But we're seeing
Speaker 1: way more than that from Quinn. But I mean, from
Speaker 1: the sounds of it, I mean, is Gus Bradley just
Speaker 1: sticking with what worked eight years ago? I mean, is
Speaker 1: it that easy? And if so, why do you think
Speaker 1: they're not a little bit more adaptable than they are
Speaker 1: right now? Well? I think I think two things. I
Speaker 1: think one, dan Quinn was the head coach in Atlanta
Speaker 1: and the last few years when he took was decordinator,
Speaker 1: he got his back beat out. And what he did
Speaker 1: is he took their year off to go and reinvent
Speaker 1: himself and decided that he needed more diversity in his
Speaker 1: game in terms of how he called plays, what they utilizes,
Speaker 1: the coverages and those things. Gus Bradley has added more
Speaker 1: to the repertoire because he felt like in talking to him,
Speaker 1: he felt like Pete Carroll always wanted them to be
Speaker 1: in Cover three because they always wanted the middle to
Speaker 1: feel closed. Gus Bradley has spend time with Minnie Kiffin
Speaker 1: and he believed that Cover two would help them at times.
Speaker 1: So you'll see some split safety looks and those things.
Speaker 1: But whatever it is, they're not really disguising it. They're
Speaker 1: gonna line up and show it because they want their
Speaker 1: guys to know exactly what they're in so they're confident
Speaker 1: they can execute it. Sounds like Cowboys football for the
Speaker 1: last It sounds a lot like what we watched for
Speaker 1: the last few years. Yeah, every yes, something. I guess
Speaker 1: if they win the coin toss, what do you do?
Speaker 1: You go out and try to make a statement? Are
Speaker 1: you You know it's bunny because normally I'm always like, no,
Speaker 1: we've deferred to the second half. But if you're a
Speaker 1: team that's really looking at juice up the game and
Speaker 1: kind of put the Raiders on the hero as you
Speaker 1: take the ball, you mix up the tempo and you
Speaker 1: want to make sure that you play from in front.
Speaker 1: The raiders best opportunity to win the game is if
Speaker 1: they are playing with the league so they can dictate
Speaker 1: the terms. Their best defense is their offense. So when
Speaker 1: Derek Carr gets out and get us into a groove,
Speaker 1: they get to going. That's how they play well. So
Speaker 1: if you can put the Raiders in a hole early,
Speaker 1: it disrupts everything that they want to do. And because
Speaker 1: they don't have what I call a playmaking defense, that's
Speaker 1: the best way to attack them. Go at them, go
Speaker 1: at them early, and kind of hit the ground running.
Speaker 1: So yeah, take the ball and go after it. All right,
Speaker 1: give me a prediction for this week? What do you
Speaker 1: think is gonna happen? Thanks even day, Well, man, I
Speaker 1: think this is a very important game for the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: not only because you came off all off against Kensy
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, but the Philadelphia Eagles are beginning to kind
Speaker 1: of find their way, and what you don't want to
Speaker 1: do is kind of let them close the gap. So
Speaker 1: the games can have meeting down the stretch, so they
Speaker 1: want to talk about it, and I'm sure the coaching
Speaker 1: staff as well aware that the Eagles are gaining ground
Speaker 1: and beginning to find their way. So I think this
Speaker 1: is one where you simplified, you encourage you guys to
Speaker 1: play fast, and I think ultimately they win on Turkey Day.
Speaker 1: I would expect them to be able to dominate the Raiders,
Speaker 1: even though it may be a little early and tight,
Speaker 1: maybe tight early. I think they're runaway with the Indian.
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate you joining us, Bucky. You have a
Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving. We're gonna take our final break. We're gonna
Speaker 1: come back and we're gonna talk storylines. There's some storylines
Speaker 1: this game we want to hit and let you guys
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Speaker 1: Final segment of the Break Lift ne SWBC Morgan Studios
Speaker 1: at the Star Smalls Thanksgiving Cowboys will take on the
Speaker 1: Raiders will be I would assume a pretty decent amount
Speaker 1: of black and silver in the building as well, so
Speaker 1: should be a fun game, should be an entertaining game.
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful we got some storylines that we're gonna I
Speaker 1: would like an unentertaining game. You want to be writing
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, Yeah, I want that. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're the one that's always saying that, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: just shut up and let the game happen. I want that.
Speaker 1: I would like to look. I wouldn't be against that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be too, but but it would
Speaker 1: be good to have a fun game. Just make it
Speaker 1: fun at least for a little while. But beatowns are
Speaker 1: fun sometimes, I don't all the time if the cover
Speaker 1: is the one doing it. Yeah, all right, So let's
Speaker 1: go storylines. We got a few that we need to
Speaker 1: hit for this game. Here's the first. If CD can't
Speaker 1: go tomorrow, which it sounds like he might be able to,
Speaker 1: They're they're feeling like it might be a good chance.
Speaker 1: I want I want to kind of shed some clarity
Speaker 1: on what's going on with that, because I and I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to be condescending. I didn't know some of
Speaker 1: this stuff either, but we've had a chance to ask around,
Speaker 1: and you know, people get nervous when you're talking about
Speaker 1: a guy coming back from a concussion in four days,
Speaker 1: and understandably so So what's going to happen today is
Speaker 1: as part of the concussion protocol, you have to practice,
Speaker 1: like you have to prove that you can go out
Speaker 1: on the field and do all of that. This is
Speaker 1: after he's cleared all the tests, all the cognitive tests
Speaker 1: from the time he got hurt at the stadium on
Speaker 1: Sunday through now he has to practice. He's going to
Speaker 1: talk to the Cowboys medical staff, and then he has
Speaker 1: to clear another test with an independent neuro expert, whatever
Speaker 1: doctor whatever that is, which he had to do that.
Speaker 1: They still have the independent doctors on the sideline on
Speaker 1: Sunday as well, so that was part of it. Like
Speaker 1: this is a problem maybe not five years ago, but
Speaker 1: like in recent history, this is probably the type of
Speaker 1: concussion that he would have played through before the NFL Conay.
Speaker 1: Absolutely before the NFL put all of this stuff into place.
Speaker 1: It was that type of deal. So today's today's big.
Speaker 1: He's going to practice, then he's going to have two
Speaker 1: more consultations or whatever, and if he clears all that,
Speaker 1: he can play. But I do think it's worth noting
Speaker 1: like he has to get clearance from an independent person
Speaker 1: that's not affiliated with the Cowboys. It's not like their
Speaker 1: staff can be like, get out there, buddy, we need you.
Speaker 1: So that's what's going to happen today, and that's by
Speaker 1: the end of the day they will know. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's going to be out in the public today,
Speaker 1: but they should know by this evening whether or not
Speaker 1: he's gonna be available. Tomorroca, Yeah, all right. Cool. So
Speaker 1: that being said, let's assume for a second he doesn't
Speaker 1: fat past that protocol. If CD can't go, do you
Speaker 1: expect Michael Gallup can handle the number one wide receiver
Speaker 1: role for this team? No, I do not expect that.
Speaker 1: I've seen it twice now. I don't think he's a
Speaker 1: number one receiver. Sorry for his agent, because I know
Speaker 1: he's a free agent coming out and he needs to
Speaker 1: be able to prove that. I don't think he's a
Speaker 1: number one, and I think he's much better as a
Speaker 1: number two, if not a three. But he's a two.
Speaker 1: I mean, just in this team, he's probably a three. Bit,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he can get paid like a
Speaker 1: number two. I don't think he's a number one. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's the type of guy that does everything
Speaker 1: as far as you know, all the things you wanted
Speaker 1: from a receiver to the inside stuff the outside. Um,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to though, I mean, I mean he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to in this game. But I mean I
Speaker 1: don't think this is something that you can get by
Speaker 1: and maybe win a game doing it. But I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a number one receiver. I don't think so either,
Speaker 1: And to be fair to him, I don't think that
Speaker 1: he ever was. I wasn't going into this season thinking
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup was going to play a season that would
Speaker 1: enable him to get paid like that, like a when
Speaker 1: you consider that Davantae Adams is going to be available
Speaker 1: this spring, he was never getting a deal. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: let's be clear that I'm not saying I'm not no,
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah. The point is good number twos can
Speaker 1: sometimes step into a number one role when pressed into duty.
Speaker 1: I'm asking do you think he can do that for
Speaker 1: the four? I don't think that's the biggest question though, Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm a lot less worried about Mike. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't about If the number five and number four
Speaker 1: can step into the other roles, then I think Gallup
Speaker 1: can shine. It's not about Gallop so much. It's just
Speaker 1: about Noah Brown and Cedric Wilson have got to come
Speaker 1: to play. If they can come to play, then I
Speaker 1: think Gallup can do his thing. But if they're not
Speaker 1: going to help Gallop, I don't think has a chance.
Speaker 1: What he said, that's absolutely I mean, it's it's not
Speaker 1: that Mike can't handle that, and I would guess they're
Speaker 1: going to focus on him if CD's unavailable, because he'll
Speaker 1: be the best receiver on the field. It's on the
Speaker 1: other guys to not do what they did Sunday. Michael Gallop,
Speaker 1: he didn't play a great game, but he I mean,
Speaker 1: he did what he could do with the opportunities that
Speaker 1: were given to him. Like I don't, I don't. He
Speaker 1: he was saving their ass time after time in the
Speaker 1: early going in the game, he picked up both of
Speaker 1: their first two first downs, and it's not his fault.
Speaker 1: Dac overthrew him really probably twice. So I got nothing
Speaker 1: bad to say about Mike. It's the guys around him
Speaker 1: that need to step up if he's the one that
Speaker 1: the defense is focusing on. Ye We've seen Dak have
Speaker 1: success with those old guys around him. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: who do they really scare, you know, with the opponent
Speaker 1: and you come in as a defensive coordinator and you
Speaker 1: look at these receivers and it's like, oh, well, I
Speaker 1: don't know, that doesn't sound scary. We can definitely beat them.
Speaker 1: But this is one of those scenarios where you go
Speaker 1: back and you become appreciative in the way that Dak
Speaker 1: has handled his receiver course, and you know, offseason practicing
Speaker 1: with them, even though like last string guys. So hopefully
Speaker 1: this is a game that those guys like you guys
Speaker 1: mentioned they can't step up. And we know he has
Speaker 1: a very good relationship with Dak and we've seen it
Speaker 1: translate on the field, so they just need to clean
Speaker 1: their game up, you know. And I would throw in
Speaker 1: a Malik Turner in there as well. I think I
Speaker 1: think he is he probably as a receiver. It might
Speaker 1: be a little bit further along than like a Noah Brown.
Speaker 1: I like his game. I know we saw it there
Speaker 1: at the end garbage time, and he's kind of the
Speaker 1: he's turned into the sort of the garbage band a
Speaker 1: little bit at the end of the game. That's I'm
Speaker 1: with you, And in my head, I'm like, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm ready to see more Malik Turner, like Noah Brown
Speaker 1: deeply disappointed me as a long time Noah Brown stand Yeah,
Speaker 1: he deeply disappointed me on Sunday. But I do think
Speaker 1: there's something to the fact that Malik Turner is doing
Speaker 1: a lot of this. A lot of what he's done
Speaker 1: this year is when the game has been decided. Also,
Speaker 1: the other I think we should also take a little
Speaker 1: bit of a step back and say what we saw
Speaker 1: Sunday from this receiver corps is not what we've seen
Speaker 1: most of the year. And I'm talking about said, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Noah Brown. They've been pretty reliable in the
Speaker 1: roles that they've been given, and so my thought is,
Speaker 1: settle in and I think they can have better weeks
Speaker 1: this week than they did last week. I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: not really throw them out yet. I think that was
Speaker 1: just a bad game. In my bad game all the
Speaker 1: way around. They just didn't play well. The thing, it's like,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen it be fully on them, you know,
Speaker 1: if you had your other receivers. They've been guys that
Speaker 1: kind of go in and all in certain plays and
Speaker 1: they have been successful at times. But I won are
Speaker 1: like how much it really affects them when they're out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's it's easy to say, next man up.
Speaker 1: But those guys are the depth chart. But all that
Speaker 1: being said, I think the cinnamon right now is that
Speaker 1: we expect CD to play in the game. Are we
Speaker 1: done expecting players to play? I was about I've been
Speaker 1: doing it. I'll talk about it's hard to know this.
Speaker 1: I'm hard to get to read with this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got he got past these talk about both scenarios.
Speaker 1: I know. No, I agree, and that could happen and
Speaker 1: let's not man knocking with But I mean he could
Speaker 1: play and not finish the game, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean anybody that could happen with anything, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, he could play and and it just he
Speaker 1: ends up maybe taking a hit or whatever, and they're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's don't do this. So you have
Speaker 1: to be ready for that, and I'm sorry, go ahead. No.
Speaker 1: What I do think we finally know is that Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith is going to play. Yeah. If I'm wrong about
Speaker 1: that again, I might just jump out of the press box. Um.
Speaker 1: But um, And what the reason I bring that up is,
Speaker 1: I this is a game where if that is the case.
Speaker 1: If CD can't go, and I'm not I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to say I expect him to play, because that's first
Speaker 1: of all, it's it's not a like fight through an issue.
Speaker 1: He has to clear the protocol. Yeah, And on top
Speaker 1: of that, it's burned me basically every other week this
Speaker 1: season where I'm like, yeah, I think he's gonna play,
Speaker 1: and then I'm writing, I'm writing the I'm writing the
Speaker 1: story tomorrow afternoon. Sheet LAMB will be inactive today. But
Speaker 1: if if I'm just saying they wouldn't, they are taking
Speaker 1: all the steps to do that. He wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: in a meeting on Monday, he wouldn't have been on
Speaker 1: the field yesterday. You know, at the end, he wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been doing the things if if he was having
Speaker 1: any issues and that there was some kind of setback.
Speaker 1: That's all that at this point, and there there could
Speaker 1: have been. But all I know is and I talked
Speaker 1: to Jim Mauer. I talked to Jim Auer after this
Speaker 1: game Sunday, and he said, we really like the where
Speaker 1: he is right now. This is after the game. We
Speaker 1: like where he is. It was almost like it was
Speaker 1: borderline of him having to sit out. Yeah, he's like,
Speaker 1: we we like where he is. William said it was
Speaker 1: fine he did, so that's his his Like William Boykins
Speaker 1: for those of you you know he works with us,
Speaker 1: don't worry about his evaluation. To hear it from people
Speaker 1: who might worry you, then if William Sutton, you think
Speaker 1: it's a good point. If you're listening, he's listening, Williams
Speaker 1: fifty fifty, he's fifty fifty. Um, what was I gonna say. Oh,
Speaker 1: to hear it from people who would know his evaluation,
Speaker 1: and the was good, Like for a guy who just
Speaker 1: got concussed, it was good to That's why I said,
Speaker 1: like eight ten years ago, he probably goes back in
Speaker 1: that game. And that's a testament to how much people
Speaker 1: have changed their minds about the way that stuff works
Speaker 1: that they still wouldn't the protocols wouldn't allow him to
Speaker 1: go back in. And there's there, Yeah, there's a couple
Speaker 1: of like little benchmarks that happened after a guy gets
Speaker 1: hit in the head or whatever that will keep you
Speaker 1: out of the game. And and and it's very not minor.
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's basically, do you feel a little
Speaker 1: dizzy or you a little bit woozy. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: a little bit. You're out out. Yeah, you're a house.
Speaker 1: I mean it should be right, that's what it should be, right,
Speaker 1: So it's it's not. I mean, God, I remember a
Speaker 1: game i'd have been before you were here, when when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were playing the Bears and Witton. That happened
Speaker 1: with Whitton and they were hiding his helmet. And you know,
Speaker 1: most people know Jason Witten as the guy that's you know,
Speaker 1: in the community and nice guy, great interviews and all that.
Speaker 1: He can be a monster, and man, I think he
Speaker 1: was trying to like really hurt some doctors or something.
Speaker 1: It might have been the Independent Doctor or something. I
Speaker 1: remember something. They were just like, where's my helmet? Where's Betsy?
Speaker 1: Like he was trying to find this helmet. I think
Speaker 1: he ended up getting back in. Yeah. Those are the
Speaker 1: stories that like they sound great and then you're just like, right, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say the name, but there was a
Speaker 1: player a few years ago that was playing and say safety,
Speaker 1: and the teammates were like, he didn't know the last
Speaker 1: drive the game, he didn't know anything that was happening.
Speaker 1: They were telling him where to line up, and where
Speaker 1: to stand, and he just as they're driving other teams
Speaker 1: driving for the win, and he's back there. Not even no.
Speaker 1: I mean they won the game. They won the game,
Speaker 1: and he didn't give up a touchdown, But like the
Speaker 1: last five or six plays, they were just like you
Speaker 1: stand here and just do that. God, Oh, just imagine
Speaker 1: somebody in the league office hearing that. It's like, uh,
Speaker 1: it was, it was in the last sixty years. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of games, a lot of plays real quick.
Speaker 1: Just the reason I brought up Tyrn Smith is if
Speaker 1: CD can't play, I would hope that his presence allows
Speaker 1: you to completely change the way that you play this game.
Speaker 1: Like I'm taking the air out of the ball I got.
Speaker 1: I got no problem living in twelve personnel and trying
Speaker 1: to run for two hundred yards tomorrow if CD can't go.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly where I was gonna go with this,
Speaker 1: because Dallas has not rushed particularly well in three of
Speaker 1: their last four games. Tyrant's missed the last three and
Speaker 1: a half games of that. He's now back. How much
Speaker 1: do you think that's going to help the running game?
Speaker 1: Do you think they can get back on track with
Speaker 1: having Tyron back in the lineup. Yeah, adding an all
Speaker 1: pro to your lineup definitely helps. I mean, it stabilizes things.
Speaker 1: It allows you to help the left guard, whoever that is.
Speaker 1: He can seal off the backside. The Cowboys love to
Speaker 1: run into the right right like you're gonna run off
Speaker 1: of Zach whenever you can, and but Tyron allows you
Speaker 1: to seal the backside of those plays, so you're not
Speaker 1: getting dragged down from behind for one or two yards
Speaker 1: instead of five or six. But let me be clear,
Speaker 1: the question is not can they run better with with
Speaker 1: with him? The question is more just do you think
Speaker 1: it's at a point now where they can go in
Speaker 1: and say, you know that we want to run, We're
Speaker 1: going to run, and they're still gonna be able to
Speaker 1: impose their will and runs. I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: do that though. I mean, I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: just you know, we're gonna run. I think just Tyron
Speaker 1: helps them run the offense. I think they can pass
Speaker 1: out of it. They can run. They're gonna be mixed.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna Dak Prescott's not going to be running
Speaker 1: the football taking the air out. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: it sounds good. I don't think they're gonna do that.
Speaker 1: But we're about that in the context of you don't
Speaker 1: have your top two receivers. I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: do that. You think they're still going in and they're
Speaker 1: trying to be just aggressive in the passing Yet he No,
Speaker 1: he's right. I mean, and I said, take the air
Speaker 1: out of the ball. By modern NFL standards, this isn't
Speaker 1: college like, you can't go in and telegraph that you're
Speaker 1: gonna run and just do it anyway. You could do
Speaker 1: that against the worst run defense in the league and
Speaker 1: probably still not be successful. So yeah, there's got to
Speaker 1: be an element of passing and misdirection and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I just I'm saying, and read the tea leaves too.
Speaker 1: It's obvious the Cowboys are disappointed that they got away
Speaker 1: from the run. Like Mike McCarthy really hasn't made any
Speaker 1: bones about it. I just think they won't have a
Speaker 1: problem leaning on that and trying to let that dictate
Speaker 1: their game plan more so than they have in recent weeks.
Speaker 1: We're going with three trick plays in the game by
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Three and I'm counting, like I'm counting, like
Speaker 1: that play that Pollard had that was kind of like
Speaker 1: a trick play, sort of that reverse fake and all that.
Speaker 1: I think you gotta sets something up with that too,
Speaker 1: Maybe pitch it back to deck and let him throw
Speaker 1: or or something. But I think two or three of
Speaker 1: those they won't run the flee flicker until I'm not
Speaker 1: here anymore, but they it won't be that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just mean like, they'll never do that. Well, I work
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. I'm never going to see a fleef
Speaker 1: flicker for the Cowboys. I don't know why. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I am too. I don't know. That's about all you
Speaker 1: can't say. I'm sorry, man. I have a question for y'all,
Speaker 1: what if they do it and it doesn't work, will
Speaker 1: you be happy that they tried? Or just like, really,
Speaker 1: I waited twenty two years and I got an incompletion
Speaker 1: to Cedric Wilson. Maybe I want to see what happens
Speaker 1: the next time Zeke runs the ball. Okay, if Zeke
Speaker 1: comes back and runs like nine yards up the middle
Speaker 1: because the safety is kind of like he then't does
Speaker 1: That's why I think I think it does a lot
Speaker 1: of things if you try it. Whatever. A better question is,
Speaker 1: are you going to get kicked out of the press
Speaker 1: box whenever they do it. Yes, that will be the
Speaker 1: better question. Yes, maybe, Well, I mean I mean hopefully
Speaker 1: it's at home. Well, if Tyron doesn't play, I mean,
Speaker 1: Day's already jumped himself out of the press box. The windows.
Speaker 1: The windows in the press box don't open anyway, so
Speaker 1: I can't do that. But I'll want to just jump
Speaker 1: into the window and see right, I have a big
Speaker 1: picture that goes yeah, okay, since I'm the host. Um No,
Speaker 1: just kidding. Is this a must win game for the Cowboys? No,
Speaker 1: No such thing as a must win until it's a
Speaker 1: must until until mathematics get involved, like you're eliminated from
Speaker 1: something with you don't win. Yes, I'll go against y'all.
Speaker 1: It is. I think it's a must win game. You
Speaker 1: don't win this game. I don't know if they win
Speaker 1: the East, I'm serious, But then it's not a must
Speaker 1: win then so we kind of want it. Why I
Speaker 1: need it? Why do you feel that way? Because then
Speaker 1: they don't win this game, then they've got three road
Speaker 1: games in a row. I think they'll go one and
Speaker 1: two in that stretch, and then I think it will
Speaker 1: just be a dogfight. For the rest of the um
Speaker 1: just down the stretch. I could. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just don't. By the way I mentioned, they don't win
Speaker 1: a day. I don't know if you guys have looked
Speaker 1: at what the Eagle schedule looks like. Down the terrible games, well,
Speaker 1: games against the Giants, they got two games against Washington
Speaker 1: and they got a game against the Jets. Now, obviously
Speaker 1: division games or division comes, that's always in the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Division games are very hard, no matter how good or
Speaker 1: bad the teams are. But just look at the records
Speaker 1: of those teams. Those are some of the worst teams
Speaker 1: in the NFL record wise that they have and that's
Speaker 1: all they got left except for that last game against Dallas.
Speaker 1: Not only but also you gotta remember, I don't like
Speaker 1: what the league did this year, where like everybody is
Speaker 1: waiting until Christmas to start their division svision, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be all division games pretty much in December. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of teams kind of boring. Like I don't think
Speaker 1: so I'm not in that. Like it's going to create
Speaker 1: exciting games because you're gonna be able to separate and stuff.
Speaker 1: But like, like I think Kansas City is going like
Speaker 1: they went like they're going like Denver Chargers Denver, like
Speaker 1: everybody's doing. But yeah, these back to back, like I
Speaker 1: want to see in variation, I want to see some
Speaker 1: different teams on the field. I agree. But I think
Speaker 1: what it does is that if somebody has an injury
Speaker 1: for six to eight weeks and they're struggling, they're down,
Speaker 1: Let's say like Washington for instance, like they could be like,
Speaker 1: well we're down right now, but we still got the
Speaker 1: Cowboys twice, Like we could get back up into this thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just because you got a lot of division games at
Speaker 1: the end. Division games are hard, no matter how good
Speaker 1: or bad teams are. So that's going to create a
Speaker 1: lot of I think a lot of upsets and situations
Speaker 1: where you have one team favorite and it just kind
Speaker 1: of goes a different way. Sure, I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: make for a nix exciting December just because and the
Speaker 1: flip side, like everybody's focused on Philly right now and
Speaker 1: rightfully so they're playing Washington twice in a span of
Speaker 1: three weeks, So like there's gonna be some cannibalization there
Speaker 1: or something like you would think so because both of
Speaker 1: those teams are kind of hanging around and one game behind.
Speaker 1: I think the one game, one game behind one and
Speaker 1: maybe two. I just to play Devil's advocate to nickpoint
Speaker 1: Knicks point, you lose this game again, AFC opponent, it's
Speaker 1: the least damaging type of loss. You play a Saints
Speaker 1: team that, I mean, it's gonna be tough, but missing
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, don't have a true starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: their offensive struggling, and then they're they're gonna have sort
Speaker 1: of a bye week, like they're gonna get like three
Speaker 1: or four days off in a row. They're gonna start
Speaker 1: getting guys back. By the way, Lawrence Gregory all that
Speaker 1: type of stuff, You're gonna lose guys too. Sure, you
Speaker 1: probably will, now you will. You'll lose a key player,
Speaker 1: still getting good players back, and then you have the
Speaker 1: whole division in front of you in December, I mean sure,
Speaker 1: and you already have two games in the division after
Speaker 1: the after the way the season started, would it be
Speaker 1: disappointing to take care of business in the division and
Speaker 1: finish with the four seed? Sure? Is that still good? Yes?
Speaker 1: And so like they could lose this game and still
Speaker 1: have everything out in front of them, of course, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it's not mathematically a must win game, but
Speaker 1: mentally it's a it's a better win game. You better
Speaker 1: win this game. Yet, if there's anything you really want
Speaker 1: to do, you want to be a team that's like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, that was awesome, we need this and all that.
Speaker 1: Now you're getting you're getting tiring back, Dak, show us
Speaker 1: that you're better than and what you what you did
Speaker 1: the last it's a better wine. It's a better win game,
Speaker 1: but it's a better win game. Got it. Well. It
Speaker 1: also makes me think, I forgot who said it. I
Speaker 1: think it was in one of those mixed shows that
Speaker 1: we did. I don't remember, but someone was talking about
Speaker 1: the energy and how contagious it is. And when you
Speaker 1: are winning and performing the way that they have been
Speaker 1: in the stretch that they did. H you always have
Speaker 1: like even those players that are not so great, they
Speaker 1: perform better because they're pushing themselves. They want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the wings, they want to give them
Speaker 1: they're all you know, they care about it. So it
Speaker 1: makes me think, Okay, how if they lose this game,
Speaker 1: how would that change and effect just like energy wise,
Speaker 1: performance wise, what happens on the field. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they're not gonna keep going out there and competing and
Speaker 1: going at it the same way. But it makes me
Speaker 1: wonder if it does change just kind of the move
Speaker 1: and what you end up giving on that feel afterwards.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to predictions. It's gonna happen this Sunday.
Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Dave um nice Yeah, three days
Speaker 1: stop stop Um. I just it's this is gonna be
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a weird game. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a slow game, like just in terms of you're not
Speaker 1: operating with a full deck on offense. You just gotta
Speaker 1: get right. I think again, utilize the running game as
Speaker 1: much as you can. I don't think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like this big, flashy performance. But Srader's team kind of
Speaker 1: feels like they're weird thing to say about a team
Speaker 1: that's won as many games as they have. But there's
Speaker 1: like some circling the drain potential there. And so I say,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna look like super pretty, but like twenty
Speaker 1: five to sixteen, get out of there with a win,
Speaker 1: all right, Amber part of me doesn't want to pick
Speaker 1: them because I'm mad at them, But there we go,
Speaker 1: do it. No, I'll give them another week if no,
Speaker 1: But um, I'm gonna go with the Cowboys big game
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day. Uh, They're gonna go out there when I
Speaker 1: don't think they're they'll be completely dominant like they were
Speaker 1: in the last home game, but they'll leave with a win.
Speaker 1: I'd probably say like twenty fourteen something, not that high scoring. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got weird stuff happening, But I do think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will will kind of turn it around, and I
Speaker 1: think they win thirty one twenty two, right, And I
Speaker 1: also think the Cowboys will win. I think Cowboys. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be one of those game games you said, Dave,
Speaker 1: not that they're gonna just blow them out, but I
Speaker 1: think that the final score is gonna be one that,
Speaker 1: you know, probably like a twenty seven sixteen kind of game,
Speaker 1: where it's just kind of like they're kind of playing around.
Speaker 1: It'll get going, Cowboys will get get a lead, and
Speaker 1: then I don't like, it'll just kind of coast to
Speaker 1: the finish line. I'm gonna be thinking about this moment
Speaker 1: in the third quarter when we all want to jump
Speaker 1: out of the press five. I just again, this is
Speaker 1: one of those situations where I just think they're better,
Speaker 1: and I think last week we would have seen a
Speaker 1: different outcome. If you get you give me either one
Speaker 1: Amri or Tyrant, if you give me tiring this week,
Speaker 1: and let's assume CD's back. I feel like they're the
Speaker 1: better team. I feel like they'll get a win, and
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be just a close game through
Speaker 1: the end. I think the Cowboys are the better team.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys win. Okay, all right, we appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys, Jonas. We'll be back on Monday. We'll let
Speaker 1: you know what went right and wrong. There will be
Speaker 1: no shows on Friday, but we will be back on
Speaker 1: Monday and we'll talk about the game then. Until then.
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