WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Final Predictions vs. Jags 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:16.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.279 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Towers at the 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:31.600 Star in Frisco. Saw Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Bravis, 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:39.159 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. It's a fabulous Friday, fearless 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:45.480 forecast Football Friday at the Star. This is Talker Cowboys. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.479 A lot of words there, yeah, as we get you 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.080 set for Cowboys, a lot of things, that's right. We've 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.319 heard some of them this week. Absolutely. As we get 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.959 you set for Cowboys and Jaguars on Sunday at three 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.760 twenty five on CBS, Bill Jones, Brian brought us, Rob Phillips, 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.880 we await the arrival of Mickey Spagnola and we're breaking 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.240 down this game over the course of the next hour. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.360 We invite your participation at eight eight eight, eight, five, 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.959 five two two nine seven at a little Thursday Night 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.960 football last week. And what I got out of that 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.399 game last night is the fact that the Cowboys will 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.280 never fall into the seller in the NFC East, as 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.720 bad as it gets this season. The Giants will own 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.080 the seller in the NFC East the rest of the way. Yeah, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.040 was Eli that bad or because I didn't watch all 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.840 of it? Or was it protection too because people are 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.800 calling for his job this morning and saying it's over, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.000 his career's over. I'll tell you what, you know. I 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:48.920 feel like though, that the Giants made a decision about 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.240 their quarterback that they were going to try and buy 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.720 some more time. They basically took the same approach. And 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.680 this is interesting because of Dave Gettlman as a general manager, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.680 and Dave Gettlman had always in Tom often believed us 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.040 too when he was with New York that they were 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.160 trying to model what the Cowboys were going to do. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.280 And you look at the Cowboys and you know that 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.079 the you know, trying to establish a running game, trying 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.400 to build an offensive line, I mean, and all those things. 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.040 And now Dave Getleman has come in, and you know, 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.080 Dave thought that that you know that Saquon Barkley was 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.359 the best player in the draft, obviously he took him 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.360 and you know, passed on the quarterback. Now, let's see 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.240 if the Giants in factor as poor as we all 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.520 think they're going to be down the stretch here or 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.959 the rest of the season. Then they'll get their opportunity 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.440 to draft that quarterback and maybe a quarterback that's better 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.600 than the ones that were available in this draft. So, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.560 you know, we'll see how if that strategy plays out 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.799 the right way, if in fact having Barkley and then 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.840 a quarterback, or if they should have gone with the 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.960 quarterback and then maybe a defensive player or something like that. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.200 We'll see how that plays out for him. At one 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:57.120 in five, they are in the Justin Herbert sweepstakes. They are, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.960 and gil Brandt told us on Wednesday night, Mickey, how 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.200 are you They just did it? Bass Acwarts That's that's right. 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.640 But but Gill told us on Wednesday night that Justin Herbert, 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.959 the quarterback at Oregon, is the best young quarterback he's 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.359 ever seen. Something like that. It was, Yeah, yeah, I've 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.280 had a couple of quarterbacks set a couple of quarterbacks 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.880 come out of Oregon. One pretty good, one not so good. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.400 Joey Harrington was real bad, Jerry still out on Mario 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.079 and Mariota. Yeah, so you need to see what that situation. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.280 But yeah, there's a lot of if you're you know, 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.000 I need to get into at some point in time 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.399 and see who all the quarterbacks are. But I got 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.760 the pression there's probably four or five guys. I know, 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.240 Mickey's got a guy that's pretty good that we all 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.000 need to take a look at. Yeah, we'll find out 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.320 tomorrow how good he is. Alma fair well, you know 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.080 that's if you look at Deshaun Watson. One of the 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.320 reasons why people thought very highly of Deshaun Watson was 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.120 the fact that he played well against Alabama in two 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.160 national channel more help, Yeah, he had a little bit 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.000 more help. But but sometimes, you know, I mean, sometimes 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.920 you could find out a lot about these young well 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.440 these quarterbacks, if they in fact are able to attack 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.320 defenses and have some success, it might not be team's success. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.240 But you know, the Shaun Watson, I mean, he took 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.520 he should have two national championships if you look at 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.080 really what you know with Clemson, and that was his 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.919 hard time to Alabama. I've ever seen Alabama with a 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.560 Nick Saban led defense with a quarterback that plays that way. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.560 So you know, maybe he could go out there and 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.880 do something. You never know, it's gonna be tough. The 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:34.760 quarterback for Alabama. He's really good. Yet, that's right, he's 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.560 really good. That with the exception of Trevor Knight Deshaun 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.719 Watson against an Alabama defense. Trevor Knight was the only 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.359 one that there you go, that was a joke that 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.200 was tugging. But Johnny Manziel, I think we were all 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.040 in agreement right that if you're a Cowboy fan, you're 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.320 probably pulling for the Giants last night. That didn't work 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.080 out so well for you. I was yelling for him 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.400 a little bit. Maybe phillis right all hard enough. Yeah, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.880 maybe Philly's right of the ship a little but um yeah, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.919 that's the you know, and the Cowboys already have a 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.359 win over them. This this division could be for the 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.880 taking if you could put something together. But you need 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.080 to keep pace with the Eagle, the Eagles or the 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.200 team to beat. Yeah, and you got need to keep 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.960 pace and get the player twice the Sunday at three 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.600 twenty five against Jacksonville. And can the Cowboys keep pace 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.200 with the Eagles now at three and three or will 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.360 they fall to two and four after against a tough 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.560 Jacksonville defense. Yeah, I think that. I think that this 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.920 game will clearly come down to I think Dallas is 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.080 going to have to throw the football. I really do. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.760 I don't think Jacksonville is gonna let them run the football. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.280 And so, you know, can your guys on the outside 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.000 win enough, and can when they do win, can you 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.440 find ways to get them the football? Can your protection 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.200 hold up? Can the quarterback make the right read? You know, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.080 there's a lot of ifs going on here, a lot 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.200 of things that have been negative about the Cowboys offensively 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.760 that they're going to have to have positive. It might 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.800 be me just banging my head against the wall over 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.200 here trying to say, Okay, they can do this, they 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.360 can do this, they can do this. Well, they're gonna 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.159 have to prove that they can do this. You know, 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.600 you're gonna have to give this guy protection. You're gonna 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.040 have to hit these receivers quickly, and you're gonna have 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.599 to make some plays. You know, Jacksonville is not going 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.160 to let you run this football. I always like to compare, 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.800 compare what does these games remind you of? It reminds 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.000 you very much when you play the Philadelphia Eagles. You know, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.120 when the Eagles with their front seven, aggressive linebackers, they've 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.360 got guys that can run in the front seven, They've 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.679 got big inside players, they've got guys in the outside 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.400 that can can stretch the run. You know, you've got 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.960 to take advantage of their their speed, their quickness, their pursuit, 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.839 all those things. You've got to call almost a perfect 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.480 game to play against these guys. Now you'll say, brass, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.960 what about Kansas City and what about Tennessee and all 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:44.919 that they You know, if you go back in the 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.799 history of Jacksonville playing Tennessee, Tennessee has always had Jacksonville's number. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.000 It's just the way it is. But I would say 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.040 this about Kansas City. Kansas City attacked them a different way. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.960 Kansas City also benefited from turnovers. That's something that this 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.680 defense has not been able to create. Eight And if 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.960 they could create those, then you'd feel a lot better 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.280 because Blake Portles will turn the ball over to you. 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.760 So would you take thirty rushes for one hundred and 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.200 twenty six yards, Yeah, it would because that's what Kansas 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.360 City did. Yeah, but Kansas City again, I got ahead. Yeah, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.720 Kansas City got ahead twenty to nothing in that game, 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.760 and then it was twenty to nothing at half time. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.640 I just think that I just think that there's they've 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.800 played three teams that have been able to run the football. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.320 They played the Jets the Chiefs in Tennessee. Here's another 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.320 thing that happened in that game in the first half. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.640 The Jaguars total approach to that game against Kansas City 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.520 goes against the nature of Tom Coughlin. Once that team 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.280 the football right right and two passes the game, and 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:45.040 they respected Kansas City's ability to score so much, even 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.240 though they have the number one pass defense in the 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:52.160 league themselves, that they got down on the goal line 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.120 and we're going forward on fourth down in the first half, Yeah, 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.480 you know down. I think they were down ten nothing 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.520 or it was a situation if they just go ahead 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.960 and kick the field goal. It may have been thirteen nine, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:06.840 I can't remember what the score was, to just get 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.080 on the board, get stay within striking distance. But that 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.920 game got away from them in the second quarter because 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.920 they their approach to that game was their approach being 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:18.840 that we can't score enough points. Yeah, we have to 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.280 score touchdowns rather than field goals. And yeah, you do 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.920 have to score touchdowns against Kansas City. But the most 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.120 important thing in that first half of that game, they 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.040 needed to stay within striking distance and they didn't. And 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.520 then you can throw everything and they can wind up 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.400 throwing sixty one passes. The other thing about Jacksonville last 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.000 year they were a run first team. Now they haven't 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.400 had four net okay, and they only have one healthy 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.480 running back that had that has been that was selling 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.160 the team last week. Yeah, because they signed Jamal Charles 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:52.160 this week and signed guy off a practice squad. Right. Okay, 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:56.840 So last year they had equal number runs to passes. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.800 I think it was five hundred twenty seven rushes and 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.920 five hundred twenty seven passes all season. Not a balance, 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.000 and this year they've been sixty five to thirty five 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.880 percent right in a pass run Bortles is averaging forty 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.360 two pass at ten forty two again including sixty one. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.079 They are going to come out running the football against 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.040 the Cowboys. I think they're gonna They're gonna try. Yeah, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.400 that's the best way to protect Bortles, to make the 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.679 mistakes that would fade right into the Cowboys defensive hands. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.520 Though that's true because they've done a good job against 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.520 the run. Yeah, So you're telling me they were too 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:30.600 aggressive with their play calling and decisions, they were too desperate. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.480 I think, oh, yeah, they got mesmerized by they didn't 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.160 feel like that they could keep up with, right Kansas City. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.240 That's what Kansas City will do to you because they 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.760 score at such a fast pace that it's hard to 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.840 play them because you feel like, okay, if we don't 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.920 score touchdowns here, that we're gonna be behind it. And 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.560 again it led to it led to a loss. Anyway, 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.880 It's two teams. If you look at them statistically, they're 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.880 kind of a mirror of each other. Honestly. I mean, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.160 the Jaguars are only putting up twenty point four points 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.560 a game. They're struggling to manufact at your points. They 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.560 put up more yards, way more yards in the Cowboys 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.640 per game, almost one hundred per game. But like to 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.840 Mickey's question, can they run the football? Can they have 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.640 any balance? With no running backs that they usually hang 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.920 their hat on and their minus seven in the turnover marginis, 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.080 Brian said, that's the key right there. Cowboys get two 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.720 takeaways last week. They're probably gonna need to do something 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.360 like that in this game to help out Dak in 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.439 the offense. But I see two teams that are flawed offensively, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.840 so we'll see. I think the biggest question, though, like 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:34.080 Brian said, you're facing the most talented defense in the league. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.320 With an offense that has struggled mightily, mostly on the road, 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.959 they've been more efficient at home for whatever reason. I 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.920 don't know if it's crowd noise or I mean, they've 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.840 handled crowd noise in the past. I'm not sure if 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.480 you can just point to that why they've struggled on 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.600 the road, but they've been more efficient at home. Can 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.720 you can you keep that up in this Can you 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.680 manufacture some offense and can the receivers win on the outside? 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.280 Alan Hearns gave us the key to the game the 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.240 other day. He said, Look, they're gonna press us and 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.280 we have to win on the outside. When you place 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.439 play a defense, it's gonna man up on you. You 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.319 gotta win your matchups. It's on them, and they're saying 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.360 receivers are saying, look, it's not on us, it's not 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.559 all on us. You can show it this week against 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:14.920 two Pro Bowl corners. Absolutely. It might have to do 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.920 with who you played on the road. Yeah, you play 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.680 some good defenses on the road Carolina, Seattle, Yeah, Houston 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.720 as opposed to the Giants and Detroit at all right, Yeah, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.679 Brian talked about it with Detroit. They could you know, 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.720 they'd really struggled against the run. Yeah. Yeah, although Detroit 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:37.320 came in here favored after a win over New England 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.240 the week before, right, Yeah, so you know we're based 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.600 on what the Jaguars did because they beat New England. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.880 I just don't think Jacksonville can do enough offensively to 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.000 blow you out. The only way they can blow blow 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.520 you out is if you turn the ball short fields. 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.600 It'll be a one play game, just like Houston, just 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:01.679 like Detroit. Yeah, yeah, exactly. This team can't get away 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.719 from anybody. I mean, the Cowboys can't. That's that they 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.600 are what they are. And you know, they don't have 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:10.240 any explosive players on the outside. That's a problem. And 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.880 so if you know, if that's if the thing I 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.520 worry about is Dallas having to drive the ball, that's 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.600 what I worry about d with the run. And yeah, 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:20.600 if you can't, if you if you struggle to run 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.720 the football in this game and it turns into you 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.040 have to throw, you can't sustain drive, you know, And 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.640 and you look at Houston in overtime against Houston, how 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.000 many people really thought that the Cowboys could drive the 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.240 length of the field and score a touchdown? And overtime 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.559 against Houston. Everybody that said you should have gone for it, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.920 I mean I yeah, all you needed was a field 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.920 goal at that point I would have us still have 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.120 to have to play defensive. Yeah, yeah, because you had 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:46.800 the ball first. That's why I asked. I asked the 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.079 question is to say I'm not I don't get into 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:53.000 the fourth or one thing. But how much confidence do 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.280 does anyone have that this? That's why I wouldn't have 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.760 punt it in the first place. That can can this 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.760 team drive the length of the field? Now? They had 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.320 done in the games they've won. They have had long, 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:07.000 sustained fourth quarter drives and so they've been able to 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.520 take control of the game. But they played from ahead 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.240 in those games too, and that's such a key, and 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.280 it was a key in twenty sixteen is getting ahead, 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.440 staying ahead, and that will be a key against Jacksonville. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:23.000 My question for Brian because typically with this framework of 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.480 the offense the last three years, if they don't run 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.040 the ball, they lose. So do you when you look 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.040 at the matchups, do you feel like, hat on hat 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.840 they can't block these guys or is it some something 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.160 schematically like Jacksonville is just gonna load up and say, 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.120 all right, we're gonna give you options in the passing game, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.800 but we're gonna shut down the run. Yeah, we've we've 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.719 seen those some issues with getting to the linebackers, yeah, 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.600 you know, and not just on third and one. You know, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.320 we've seen some issues there. And so you know, I 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.720 think this is the best group of linebackers that they're 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.200 going to play that'll put this way that they played 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.800 so far. Okay, So I mean and I and these 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.760 guys never come off the field Smith, you know, and 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.600 and Jacky. They're not going to come off the field, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.240 and they're gonna try and make every single tack on 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.120 If you don't get hat on hat them. You know, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:08.920 i'mould say there's any times you block them, but you 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.520 got to take advantage of that. And I just I 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.360 worry about that. I worry about this front seven and 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.800 their ability to control the front. Like I say, I 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.480 kind of think about like the Philadelphia game, what happens 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.360 when you try and run and then all of a sudden, 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.160 you know, Philadelphia turns it into a second and nine 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.000 second and ten day all day. Yeah, you know, they 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.800 can't they just can't win that. They can't win that way, 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.720 and if they have to throw the ball, I worry 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.160 about them winning on the outside. And you know, in 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.400 completing passes, we haven't seen them have any consistency doing 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.200 that as well. So the key will be how well 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:46.360 they play defensively to not let Jacksonville get away from them, Yeah, 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.360 and and t them out of what they want to do, 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.120 which is run the ball. And if you're not doing 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.680 well consistently, right, you never know when he'll break a 0:14:55.720 --> 0:15:00.520 big one. Yeah. So defensively, yeah, defensively, yeah, Well they 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.240 get if they're gonna win, it's gotta be twenty to seventeen. Yeah, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.320 it's something like that. To turn the sky over somehow, 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.480 some way, They've got to get some you know. So 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.040 what happened other day, They get a nice fumble, you know, 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.600 on the other side of the Houston fifty, and they 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.280 turned it into a touchdown. You know, we haven't seen 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.080 nearly enough of those to try and get this offense 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.960 going again. You know, Jacksonville, I think they want to 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.200 get back to a run first mentality, sure, but with 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.440 their situation at running back, offensive lines a little bit 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.040 at struggle and their offensive said that last week about 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.640 Houston can they do that yet is is a question too, 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.400 because the only healthy running back they have who has 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.320 been there any length of time t J Yelden. Yeah, 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.640 and Jamal Charles will be there for three practices and 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.840 apparently he's going to be active on Sunday, So what 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.240 can you expect out of him? And then they got 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.560 a practice squad guy they sign yea. So even though 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.880 they may want to get back to what they want 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.640 to do, I don't know if they can do it yet. 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.400 And and they do have to worry about Dallas's pass rush, right, 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.040 they have to worry about right, so so that they 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:07.680 may not have success running the football might turn into them. Yeah, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.240 but they that's the way they figure out how to 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.640 how to beat Dallas is run run. If they got 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.920 some game breakers outside, they got some speed at wide 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.640 receiver where they can hit a deep one on. Yeah, 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.080 Westbrook and Chark and those guys absolutely, Yeah, go Tigers. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.040 I've got a trivia question to throw out and see 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.320 if any of the masses out there or the masses 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:36.240 here in studios can't answers yes, uh, what member of 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.760 the Jaguars was drafted by Dallas? Got that question to 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.240 throw out for you to ponder, and we're gonna take 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:48.280 your phone calls here, your thoughts on the game. Where's 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:53.400 that phone number there? Mickey? Thank you very much. Brian 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:57.040 brought us as we continue here on talking Cowboys in 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.440 just a moment has been helping Cowboys fans eat better 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.880 since nineteen seventy two, said they don't miss a moment 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.960 on the field. 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No, 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:26.920 we're not. We're in the nineties. It's a member of 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:31.160 the fifty three, drafted by Dallas. And let's go to 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.400 Eric in North Carolina. Eric, how are you doing? And 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.680 are you and seriously how are you doing? Because did 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.760