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Speaker 7: It is Friday, October sixth to twenty twenty three, season nineteen,
Speaker 7: episode number forty seven. Welcome to the late edition of
Speaker 7: The Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.
Speaker 7: Got my normal crew minus one, but we've added one.
Speaker 5: Nick Jrs.
Speaker 7: Is joining us today from Talking Cowboys. You'll be in
Speaker 7: for Patrick. Patrick is out today, so.
Speaker 5: He'll get to give you some of his opinions along
Speaker 5: with us as we get ready for Cowboys Versus Niners.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm already for the ready for the mess that
Speaker 8: they're going to talk on Monday on the Talking Crew.
Speaker 8: They're not gonna like this, They're not gonna like it.
Speaker 3: I'm on here.
Speaker 5: You know what I always tell them. I always tell
Speaker 5: im it's your opportunity to move up to varsity.
Speaker 9: Like you just gotta maybe so maybe i'll God did
Speaker 9: a great shop with us on one O five three
Speaker 9: the Fan yesterday and the j Back Nation appreciate you
Speaker 9: coming on it and providing some insight to a crew
Speaker 9: that has really no direction.
Speaker 10: We're poor question askers, and you did a great job
Speaker 10: at handling all those shit.
Speaker 5: I heard that.
Speaker 7: It was actually a really good interview. I texted you
Speaker 7: after this a really good interview. But for those that
Speaker 7: don't know, Nick, Nick is one of our newest writers.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't call you knew anymore, but
Speaker 5: one of our newer writers.
Speaker 7: And before this, you were covering high school football, covering
Speaker 7: recruiting into college that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, So four years covering college football recruiting with
Speaker 8: Rivals in twenty four to seven sports, my last show
Speaker 8: at Rivals, I was a national analyst covering six states Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi,
Speaker 8: New Mexico. I can still ride it off. We're still
Speaker 8: going right, but yeah, all six of those states and
Speaker 8: just staying on top of those kids and then scouting
Speaker 8: them and typically whenever you see the three four five
Speaker 8: star recruit, I was the guy that was doing that.
Speaker 8: So whenever those two stars get drafted in the first round,
Speaker 8: you can come bigger at me. I'm the one that
Speaker 8: you need.
Speaker 10: So you always made me feel a lot better about
Speaker 10: LSU's kids, and as they were coming in and when
Speaker 10: they started to play, I'm like, so that's where I
Speaker 10: need to bring to blame you that right, So if
Speaker 10: they don't tackle, well, I'm like, Nick had this guy
Speaker 10: is a four star guy.
Speaker 3: What's the deal.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna take Harold Perkins to the bank though, because
Speaker 8: that takes one.
Speaker 3: But poor kids probably gonna leave Lsue.
Speaker 10: He's gonna after playing defense the way LSU does, He's
Speaker 10: probably like, I think there's some place Sales I need
Speaker 10: to go.
Speaker 7: To this And I mentioned that because for those that don't,
Speaker 7: Nick is a great follow because he's always drops a
Speaker 7: little nutting little nuggets to players around the league and
Speaker 7: what they were back in college and maybe even back
Speaker 7: to high school. You knew a lot of players back
Speaker 7: when they were coming into the college. Uh So, so
Speaker 7: it's really really good follow So if you guys don't
Speaker 7: following Nick, make sure you go check him out on Twitter.
Speaker 5: All right, so here's here's what we're gona do. We're gonna
Speaker 5: start with some injury updates.
Speaker 7: The injury report looking kind of clean, especially in the
Speaker 7: offensive line position. But there's still all those guys that
Speaker 7: were limited yesterday to Mont Clark, Peyton Hindershot, Malie Cooker,
Speaker 7: Michael Parsons.
Speaker 5: What do we know about them at this point?
Speaker 8: Yeah, as far as I know, it sounds like at
Speaker 8: least on the offensive line front. And Jerry Jones just
Speaker 8: said it on the fan right before we hopped on.
Speaker 8: It's quote looking promising that all five will be ready
Speaker 8: to go. Obviously, you have to get through two hurdles,
Speaker 8: one being today and then tomorrow's walk through. And aside
Speaker 8: from that, man, I feel like it's only Peyton Hendershot
Speaker 8: that I'm worried about as far as playing on Sunday.
Speaker 8: Rico Dawdle was a full participant in practice yesterday. Everybody
Speaker 8: that we were concerned about coming into the week has
Speaker 8: started to put together some good practices. So I think
Speaker 8: Hendershott is the only one in my mind that I
Speaker 8: expect to not go on Sunday.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think, you know, the thing that the offensive
Speaker 10: tackle situation just never know because you feel like everything's
Speaker 10: kind of put together. But I think there's a little
Speaker 10: gamesmanship with the injury report. But I also believe though
Speaker 10: that if they could just get through these next couple
Speaker 10: of days with Tyron Smith, you might get all those
Speaker 10: five guys back. And I think, as we've talked about
Speaker 10: really all week, it's going to be important to be
Speaker 10: able to have Tyron Smith, who I feel like has
Speaker 10: played really well even past protection wise, the first two games.
Speaker 10: To have him out there on that left side, I
Speaker 10: think would be really important and a great thing for
Speaker 10: the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: I think I read it yesterday that the last time
Speaker 7: this full offensive line was together was the President the
Speaker 7: playoff game against the Niners, not last year, the one
Speaker 7: the year before that. My question for you guys is
Speaker 7: do you think that when this offensive line is fully staffed,
Speaker 7: when they got their starters, how good?
Speaker 5: How good can they really.
Speaker 8: Be a top five in the league? I think easily.
Speaker 8: You got all those all pros up there, all that experience,
Speaker 8: and Tyler Biondi specifically coming into this season, man his
Speaker 8: pre snap diagnosis and what he's been able to put
Speaker 8: together from a mental standpoint, it's helped that new offense
Speaker 8: completely from top to bottom. So he's taking a step forward.
Speaker 8: Terrence Steele. Obviously, they into literally brought into what he's
Speaker 8: what he's been able to do the last couple of
Speaker 8: years and into his recovery, and he looks just as
Speaker 8: good as he did pre injury, coming and coming through
Speaker 8: these first four games. So I really like that offensive
Speaker 8: line when it's at full strength.
Speaker 11: And I've mentioned before how I've been wanting them to
Speaker 11: use Dak in the running game more. We haven't seen
Speaker 11: that yet that much, but if they had everybody in there,
Speaker 11: I would feel more confident that they would start allowing
Speaker 11: him just to run more free and be a little
Speaker 11: more free in getting out in the pocket, out of
Speaker 11: the pocket, and just having all these very solid guy
Speaker 11: that individually they all look good, but once you put
Speaker 11: them together, we haven't seen that just yet. But I
Speaker 11: just think that in everything, I agree, they could be
Speaker 11: one of the top offensive lines in the NFL all together,
Speaker 11: but it would just be we It's a dream. It's
Speaker 11: a dream that I dream about, but it always gets
Speaker 11: so complicated because then something else pops up on there.
Speaker 11: But I did want to mention talking about injuries. I
Speaker 11: know Micah Parsons is not It doesn't sound like anything serious,
Speaker 11: and he's just on there right now as limited with
Speaker 11: a knee. But it's just one of those that as
Speaker 11: soon as I saw it pop up this week, I'm
Speaker 11: my damn it, Like this is not the week for
Speaker 11: any type of limited for a guy like Cam. Again,
Speaker 11: he sounds like it's gonna be fine. He's gonna be
Speaker 11: played playing out there the whole time. But you want
Speaker 11: him at one hundred percent for sure this weekend.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is the type of game in circling back
Speaker 10: with the offensive line. This is the type of game
Speaker 10: that gets you a notoriety because everybody in the league.
Speaker 10: If you start to talk about the best defensive fronts
Speaker 10: in the NFL, San Francisco's name is either mentioned first
Speaker 10: or second. So this is the type of game where
Speaker 10: if you go out there near the Cowboys and you
Speaker 10: have success, you block this front, you handle you know,
Speaker 10: Terrence Steele and others handle Nick Bosi, you're able to.
Speaker 10: I think you're better equipped inside to handle those two
Speaker 10: defensive tackles. Tyron Smith on the outside. You know, you
Speaker 10: get Schoonmaker and.
Speaker 3: These guys block and Ferguson blocking.
Speaker 10: You know, if you find a way to have some
Speaker 10: success and you find a way to win this game.
Speaker 10: Then then the narrative turns into well, look at Dallas's
Speaker 10: offensive line. Look how well they played. You know, maybe
Speaker 10: you have them as a top five. Maybe now they're
Speaker 10: number two, three, somewhere in that a little bit. These
Speaker 10: are the types of games that get you that notoriety
Speaker 10: for you know, all pro bids, pro Bowl bids, however
Speaker 10: you want to play. You go out and you block
Speaker 10: this front and you win that game. It goes a
Speaker 10: long way to giving you that confidence of just going
Speaker 10: out because I don't think you're going to play a
Speaker 10: better one. They're going to be some other ones that
Speaker 10: are challenging the Philadelphia one twice. We'll see what happens
Speaker 10: with the rams and stuff. But you were dealing with
Speaker 10: one of the elite defensive lines in the league, and
Speaker 10: go out and block them, and you'll get that note
Speaker 10: or that you deserve.
Speaker 8: I feel like this game is a litmus test top
Speaker 8: to bottom in all position groups and just the matchup itself,
Speaker 8: but especially in the trenches on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 8: Because this defensive line for the Cowboys, we've talked about
Speaker 8: that there's a really big opportunity for them to generate
Speaker 8: some big time internal pressure right. They were able to
Speaker 8: do that against the Patriots, so I want to see
Speaker 8: them bring that back against the forty nine ers and
Speaker 8: try to get some guys like oh, said Kizuwa, going
Speaker 8: back in this pass rush good be an opportunity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the pressures will be from os.
Speaker 10: I think was what you see when you start to
Speaker 10: talk about Micah. Mike is not going to miss a
Speaker 10: game that where Nick Bosa's involved, because there again, here's
Speaker 10: your comparisons. It's going to come down to, Okay, who
Speaker 10: is the defensive MVP this year. You know they're gonna
Speaker 10: mention Nick Bosa in this game, and they're gonna mention
Speaker 10: Micah Parsons. You know, Michah Parsons is going to show
Speaker 10: the world and try and prove on this stage. He's
Speaker 10: already one of the elite players. We all know that.
Speaker 10: But when you start to say, well, hey, Nick Bosa
Speaker 10: really wasn't great. Michah Parsons had two sacks and pressures
Speaker 10: and all that and stuff, these are the games you
Speaker 10: look at. These are the games where Micah rushing against
Speaker 10: Trent Williams, you know, rushing against mckivitts, who I think
Speaker 10: we've talked about.
Speaker 3: This is probably the weak link.
Speaker 10: But take advantage if you're Micah, because at the end
Speaker 10: of this, when they start handing out the hardware, they're
Speaker 10: going to go back and look at games like this
Speaker 10: and they're gonna say, and that's where the highlights are
Speaker 10: going to be him rushing against the forty nine ers
Speaker 10: and causing havoc.
Speaker 7: All right, so let's look at this matchup a little closer.
Speaker 7: I have a couple of questions for you, guys. I
Speaker 7: want you to take these three names of defenders for
Speaker 7: the forty nine ers, and I want you to put
Speaker 7: them in order of the biggest problem or biggest potential challenge,
Speaker 7: down to the challenge you think that the Cowboys should
Speaker 7: be able to manage much easier. Okay, the names are
Speaker 7: Nick Bosa, Javon Hargrave, and Fred Warner.
Speaker 3: Most to least how the Cowboys will deal with them.
Speaker 7: Yet like that most the hardest one to deal with,
Speaker 7: the hardest one to deal well down to the easy
Speaker 7: one to deal with.
Speaker 5: I'll understand that all three are a challenge for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no kidding, I'm sitting here. All three could be one.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go one Nick Bosa to Fred Warner and
Speaker 8: three Javon Hargrave for specific reasons, and it's more so
Speaker 8: matchup based. You look at Nick Bosa probably going to
Speaker 8: be lined up with Terrence Steel quite a bit, So
Speaker 8: that's a little bit concerning in my eyes. But it's
Speaker 8: an opportunity for Terrence Steel to really step forward and
Speaker 8: show that he can be that guy that can stop
Speaker 8: these type of players, these type of All Pro Defensivelayer
Speaker 8: of the Year type candidates. But it gives me the
Speaker 8: most concern of the three two with Fred Warner, just
Speaker 8: with his athleticism, his ability to get downhill. I think
Speaker 8: the run game is going to be huge to establish
Speaker 8: in this game, more so than any game we've seen
Speaker 8: so far with Tony Pollard. So if Fred Warner is
Speaker 8: filling those gaps and he's doing his job there, that's
Speaker 8: going to make things really difficult for the entire offense.
Speaker 8: And I put Javon Hargrave three just because I really
Speaker 8: like what that interior offensive line has been able to
Speaker 8: put together when all three of them are on the field,
Speaker 8: so I feel like they can at least hold him
Speaker 8: in check. But it's still worry. All three are still worry.
Speaker 3: He got it absolutely right.
Speaker 10: It did in the way the matchup, you would worry
Speaker 10: about his steel and then the next one would be
Speaker 10: can you block the can you get somebody second level
Speaker 10: to get the linebackers taken care of? Him and Greenlaw
Speaker 10: both are going to be ones that they play downhill.
Speaker 10: They play in a hurry. They get to the outside.
Speaker 10: You can't be a step late. These guys are going
Speaker 10: to find a way to finish. I love the matchup
Speaker 10: all day. If this, if it holds true to how
Speaker 10: the forty nine ers play, you know you're gonna see
Speaker 10: Armstead against Zach Martin and then Tyler Smith on the
Speaker 10: other side, really against Hardgrave.
Speaker 3: I like that. I like the matchups inside.
Speaker 10: I think the Cowboys are better equipped in this game
Speaker 10: than they were in the playoff game when you had
Speaker 10: Connor McGovern and others trying to deal with and hard
Speaker 10: Grave wasn't there. But just the guys that you're able
Speaker 10: to deal with, the one on one matchups. The one
Speaker 10: that could be the struggle for him is Terrence Steele.
Speaker 10: That could be the one.
Speaker 11: Anyone. Even the backups that are on the bench are
Speaker 11: scary to me. So like right now, you can talk
Speaker 11: about any single match up and that's gonna be tough,
Speaker 11: especially when you've gotten to games where they've been so close.
Speaker 11: And it's the offense, and we talked about it yesterday,
Speaker 11: the offense not being able to really get in the
Speaker 11: end zone and capitalize. What really scares me is them
Speaker 11: not being able to take a step forward in the
Speaker 11: red zone. These guys being a problem for them against
Speaker 11: them in the red zone, because last week, last weekend,
Speaker 11: we saw little progress. It was a small step into
Speaker 11: the right direction in improvement. But it's tough. It's stuff
Speaker 11: when you've been struggling in that area and then you're
Speaker 11: facing guys like these defenders that are gonna be make
Speaker 11: it even harder for you. So it's gonna be a
Speaker 11: tough challenge. And that's what I'm most concerned about these matchups,
Speaker 11: especially in the red zone.
Speaker 7: I will throw this out there real quick, speaking about
Speaker 7: the red zone. Patrick sent me this information earlier this morning.
Speaker 7: He had done some research. He had talked about earlier
Speaker 7: in the week what the red zone looked like, and
Speaker 7: I asked the question, what is the footing defense look
Speaker 7: like in the red zone, and he said it, Actually,
Speaker 7: it's one of those situations where if this is the
Speaker 7: weekend for the Cowboys to get right. This is a
Speaker 7: weekend to do it. Because the forty nine ers right
Speaker 7: now are ranked twenty third in the NFL in red
Speaker 7: zone defense. Talk to yeah, right, so they're only there's
Speaker 7: sixty six percent six.
Speaker 11: The other teams that they faced. Where are the other teams?
Speaker 7: Which for the Giants, they're not good offense? Yeah, but
Speaker 7: that's the thing, they're not good offense. So you would
Speaker 7: you look at that and be like, man, no, it's
Speaker 7: those bad No.
Speaker 11: No, I'm trying to say, sorry, sorry, I'm trying to
Speaker 11: say defenses on the other teams that the Cowboys have
Speaker 11: already faced in the weeks leading up to this. So
Speaker 11: what I'm trying to Oh.
Speaker 3: I see what you're saying.
Speaker 5: How I got you?
Speaker 11: How relevant is where this defense lands in red zone
Speaker 11: defense compared to what the Cowboys have already faced?
Speaker 5: Make sense?
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, you're saying, you're saying, where does where the
Speaker 7: and the Patriots Arizona.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I assume it's.
Speaker 7: Been helped by the fact that they played the Cowboys,
Speaker 7: and the Cowboys weren't good in the red zone, right,
Speaker 7: so that's probably helping them a little bit. But if
Speaker 7: you just compare the defenses overall, like San Francisco has
Speaker 7: a better defense than any of them, and they are
Speaker 7: red zone is one area where they have not been great.
Speaker 7: So if this is the weekend again when the Cowboys
Speaker 7: could maybe get right, it looks like this may be
Speaker 7: the weekend to do it.
Speaker 8: Here's this is touchdowns only on being able to convert
Speaker 8: in the end zone number one in the NFL, New
Speaker 8: York Jets and defending that. Let's see, we had sixteen
Speaker 8: the Giants, where's Arizona and New England Patriots at thirteen?
Speaker 8: Arizona at seventeen?
Speaker 11: Okay, all right.
Speaker 3: And Arizona was the one that really gave you problems? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, that was.
Speaker 10: The one that to me, I felt like there were
Speaker 10: that was more about how Arizona played than the issues
Speaker 10: that you had. I think to when I the tip balls,
Speaker 10: the missing blocks, you know, holding call and you know
Speaker 10: there's some things that have been self inflicted against Arizona
Speaker 10: was the one team where it felt like that they
Speaker 10: always had one more guy in coverage or at the
Speaker 10: ball than you had blocked. That just didn't feel like
Speaker 10: a very good red zone effort from the Cowboys that
Speaker 10: that day. I think it was more about Arizona the
Speaker 10: other ones. I feel like the Cowboys were the ones
Speaker 10: that kind of hurt themselves with their red zone offense.
Speaker 7: YEA one more thing I'll point out real quick. We
Speaker 7: mentioned Terrence Steele and that being a matchup that's a
Speaker 7: bit of a concern. Last year Nick Bosa had he
Speaker 7: had a pretty good day against Tyron Smith. That wasn't
Speaker 7: one of Yron Smith's better days, and he was over
Speaker 7: on the right side. So again, Nick Bosa can be
Speaker 7: a problem. And so I look at this and I
Speaker 7: agree with you, guys. I think that's the matchup that
Speaker 7: is most concerning for me. Now it's the same thing
Speaker 7: on the flip side, on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 7: I'm going to give you these five names. You can
Speaker 7: probably guess them, and I want you to put them
Speaker 7: in order of most problem to least problematic. Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 7: Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle, Brandon Aiyuk and Kyle yust Check.
Speaker 8: Okay, let me think if I can remember all five
Speaker 8: names here. I'm gonna start with Deebo Samuel. That's the
Speaker 8: one that is concerning me the most going into this
Speaker 8: week for two reasons. One, typically whenever he doesn't get
Speaker 8: active in a game, which he did not in week four,
Speaker 8: they feed him in week five like that, there's a
Speaker 8: trend for that.
Speaker 7: I was able to go try right because they're like,
Speaker 7: we got Dallas next week, let's just put him on
Speaker 7: the shelf a little bit.
Speaker 8: Zero receptions and I believe it was one rush for
Speaker 8: six yards. They didn't use him at all last week,
Speaker 8: So going into this week, I think there's gonna be
Speaker 8: a huge emphasis on getting him the ball. But also
Speaker 8: with his speed and size and strength, all of that combined,
Speaker 8: where he can align anywhere in the receiving core out
Speaker 8: of the backfield, he's a problem.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 8: I'll put McCaffrey for obvious reasons. This run defense, it's
Speaker 8: gonna have a big task in front of them. Layton
Speaker 8: vandersh had an awesome game against the Patriots and defending
Speaker 8: the run. I need to see that again. I think
Speaker 8: that's gonna be the most thing. The thing I look
Speaker 8: forward to the most is from Layton van der Ash three.
Speaker 8: You said you use checking Kittle. Yeah, I'd probably go
Speaker 8: I'd probably go ayuk Kittle use check, but you check
Speaker 8: is still gonna be a problem. Like, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 8: you know, I love my fullbacks. They're gonna be he's
Speaker 8: gonna be a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went.
Speaker 10: I went McCaffrey, Ayuk, Samuel Kittle and you check is
Speaker 10: how I went. And I just feel like, to me,
Speaker 10: the things that you could do with McCaffrey, his ability
Speaker 10: to his he could score from anywhere on the field.
Speaker 10: You hand him the ball, you throw him the ball
Speaker 10: on the screen, you put him out wide, all the
Speaker 10: places that he lines up, he's a mismatch that way.
Speaker 10: They try and they'll switch receivers, they'll put him outside
Speaker 10: and somebody inside, just so a linebacker has to go
Speaker 10: out with him, or you know, they'll they'll try and
Speaker 10: find ways to create opportunity. The one that the one
Speaker 10: that the Ayuk one is to me more about if
Speaker 10: you get pressure. Every game that I watched, it appeared
Speaker 10: that that party was trying to find Ayuk when there
Speaker 10: was pressure. And if Dallas can generate pressure, give me
Speaker 10: the guy that's going to find ways to get open.
Speaker 10: And I think that's why Ayuk. I think Samuel's a
Speaker 10: little banged up with the ribs and stuff like that,
Speaker 10: but he'll he'll probably play well.
Speaker 3: Kittle is man.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was hard for me to put him for
Speaker 10: but that's where we're at right now, and you check.
Speaker 10: I mean he could have been up on the list too.
Speaker 10: Follow follow eighty five and forty four. You can usually
Speaker 10: find where the ball's going. That's that's how I kind
Speaker 10: of look at those two guys.
Speaker 11: I think for me, I would go first with McCaffrey
Speaker 11: just because that has been the Cowboys, yeah area of trouble,
Speaker 11: just stopping the running game, and I think he is
Speaker 11: a very talented player and he's going to give them
Speaker 11: a little bit of issue, I believe. Then I would
Speaker 11: go with Kittle. Then I can't say Kyle.
Speaker 8: I'm not even the full back, full back, full.
Speaker 11: Back, just because the game kind of similar to the
Speaker 11: Running Knives. Yeah, so I think I would put him third,
Speaker 11: then fourth, I have a Yuke and then Samuel, But
Speaker 11: those the Running Game. I think it's going to be
Speaker 11: an issue again.
Speaker 8: They did defend McCaffrey really well in the playoff game
Speaker 8: last year, and I think going into that game that
Speaker 8: was my biggest concern. I was like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 8: mcaffrey's about to have a day, and he didn't. So
Speaker 8: that's what maybe gives me a little bit of hope
Speaker 8: going into Sunday night, just the fact that I think
Speaker 8: they're gonna get well.
Speaker 10: He nicked up in that game. Was that a hamstring
Speaker 10: game or something like that? Was he coming off?
Speaker 3: I felt like.
Speaker 8: He's always nicked up.
Speaker 5: They got in trouble with very much.
Speaker 7: They only had ten carries, and I think this year
Speaker 7: he is way more part of their offense than what
Speaker 7: he was.
Speaker 5: When the Cowboys face.
Speaker 3: They're talking about him like MVP.
Speaker 5: Yeah he's playing as well.
Speaker 11: Also, if you're the coaching staff over there, you're looking
Speaker 11: at the Cowboys and their weakest length and looking back
Speaker 11: out Arizona what happened, Yeah, yeah, and kind of saying, hey,
Speaker 11: we got this guy and let's use him a lot
Speaker 11: more this time around the.
Speaker 10: Way that San Francisco blocks is very similar to what
Speaker 10: you see with what the Arizona Cardinals and the way
Speaker 10: they try and do the down blocks and kick guys
Speaker 10: around the around the corner.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I would go with McCaffrey first. I agree with
Speaker 5: you Amber on that.
Speaker 7: I would actually put Ayuk second because I mentioned this yesterday.
Speaker 5: His catches in that last game.
Speaker 7: He had twenty twenty yards, twenty five yards, thirty four
Speaker 7: yards forty two yards, eleven yards, sixteen yards like he
Speaker 7: was making big chunk plays. And that's another thing about
Speaker 7: this defense that I think has not been talked about
Speaker 7: enough is they will get into games and they will
Speaker 7: lose receivers and they will give up big plays.
Speaker 5: And that worries me a little bit.
Speaker 7: His speed worries me a little bit, especially as we
Speaker 7: were talking about yesterday, some of those deeper crossing routes.
Speaker 5: I'm a little bit concerned about that.
Speaker 7: So I'd put him second and then from there you
Speaker 7: go Deebo, Kittle, Yust check.
Speaker 5: But they all are problems. Obviously, we know they all.
Speaker 3: Think about it.
Speaker 10: Kittle killed you last year, right, Yeah, but he hadn't previously,
Speaker 10: he hadn't had really good games, gets going.
Speaker 3: How they match up.
Speaker 10: It's so funny the conversation that we had yesterday real quick, uh,
Speaker 10: you know, we were talking about how would you how
Speaker 10: would you maybe handle the receivers. We haven't talked about
Speaker 10: mcuamau at all. Right, he's been a healthy scratch and
Speaker 10: you know, and I was on with Vach Lombardi last
Speaker 10: night on his podcast and talking about it, and he
Speaker 10: brought up, would you consider playing him? You know, just
Speaker 10: because of the length and the size and the ability
Speaker 10: to play. When you start to talk about he gives
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Speaker 10: would he be a guy that maybe Dan Quinn would
Speaker 10: throw into the mix now just to match up with
Speaker 10: one of these forty nine er weapons now because I've
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the thing I love about Quinn. Quinn will
Speaker 7: find ways to get a specific guy in. Yeah, a
Speaker 7: specific game because of a specific matchup.
Speaker 10: Well, and this is a game I think that Overshown
Speaker 10: would have been great into. By the way, when you're
Speaker 10: dealing with the running game and the ability to cover
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Speaker 8: he's come in these first two weeks and he's done
Speaker 8: mostly he's done his job. This is gonna be a
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Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 11: Okay, I don't have a name for it, but whatever,
Speaker 11: We'll get started. We know that this game this weekend
Speaker 11: is gonna be a tough matchup.
Speaker 5: Which one Oh sorry, yeah, welcome that one too, that
Speaker 5: one too weekend.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so we're gonna try to build your perfect player.
Speaker 11: Obviously this is not possible, but we're gonna just have
Speaker 11: some fun and try to build your perfect player to
Speaker 11: play in this matchup Cowboys versus forty nine. Ers also
Speaker 11: want to open up the text line so you guys
Speaker 11: can text us throughout the show. In the third segment,
Speaker 11: so we pick a winner who has the best player. Uh,
Speaker 11: you can text us at eight one seven two nine
Speaker 11: zero three two nine eight eight one seven two nine
Speaker 11: zero three two nine eight. Okay, so this is basically
Speaker 11: but it's gonna look like and you each have your
Speaker 11: own little player. You're gonna name the position football IQ, speed,
Speaker 11: mental toughness, strength, hand eye coordination. You're gonna choose a
Speaker 11: trait from someone that's currently on the team, but you
Speaker 11: cannot double dip, so you can only choose one person
Speaker 11: for one trait or characteristic. And then I'm gonna have you, Derek.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna start with you, introduce your player, give us
Speaker 11: a name for your player, your number, and then go
Speaker 11: through the list.
Speaker 5: All right, I'd like to introduce mister Marcus Benger.
Speaker 7: Marcus Benger is a linebacker, so name fits perfectly.
Speaker 8: Love it.
Speaker 7: The football IQ reminds me of Stefan Gilmour. He is smart,
Speaker 7: he understands the game. He knows the little nuances and
Speaker 7: he's able to adjust on the flight of those. He
Speaker 7: has the speed of Brandon Cooks, because I love not
Speaker 7: only the long speed, but the quickness, the shiftiness, the
Speaker 7: ability to use that speed to be able to make
Speaker 7: things happen.
Speaker 5: He has the strength of Tyler Smith, who is just
Speaker 5: a beast of a strong man.
Speaker 7: And then he has the mental toughness of of course
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott. Nothing fazes him. And then finally the hand
Speaker 7: eye coordination of Trayvon Diggs. When he sees the ball,
Speaker 7: he gets the ball. That's Marcus Banger.
Speaker 11: Like Marcus Banger, Marcus Benger.
Speaker 8: Okay, hey, we're gonna introduce a Javon Bartholomew number fifteen
Speaker 8: right here. I came up with that on y'all, Like,
Speaker 8: all right, position, he's gonna be a receiver. He's gonna
Speaker 8: have the football IQ of Stefan Gilmour as well. The
Speaker 8: reason I went was Stefon Gilmour because if he has
Speaker 8: that ten year veteran or longer than ten years, that
Speaker 8: veteran IQ that's one NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards,
Speaker 8: has gotten all Pro nominations as a corner, I want
Speaker 8: him to have that IQ as a receiver. Speed Cavante Turpin.
Speaker 8: I was between Turpen and Cooks. I was like, I'll
Speaker 8: just give it to Turpin. Ye mental toughness. I gave
Speaker 8: it to Doron Bland just because in any moment that
Speaker 8: Deron Bland has had to be thrown into the fire,
Speaker 8: he has capitalized and it has not faced him one bit.
Speaker 8: Defensive coordinator Dan Quinn talks about it all the time
Speaker 8: whenever Deron Bland is brought up, just the fact that
Speaker 8: he's even keeled and he's ready for any moment at
Speaker 8: any time. Strength. I'm gonna give it to the all
Speaker 8: world strength guy, Mazzie Smith. I think it's a huge
Speaker 8: reason why he shot up so many draft boards and
Speaker 8: ended up a first round pick. It's that strength that
Speaker 8: he does have. Now imagine having Mazzie Smith's strength and
Speaker 8: route running, incredible hand eye coordination. I'm gonna give it
Speaker 8: to Ceedee Lamb. I don't want any other guy going
Speaker 8: up one on one than Ceedee Lamb on this team.
Speaker 3: Like to introduce Pete pork Butt, peak pork but.
Speaker 11: You ain't scary anybody with that name.
Speaker 3: That's peak pork butt part. But pork butt, okay.
Speaker 5: Is barbecue.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm I'm gonna tell you why this is because
Speaker 10: my guy is an offensive lineman.
Speaker 3: There you go, it's an offensive lineman. I like it.
Speaker 10: But what I did was I took a trait from
Speaker 10: every offensive lineman that the Cowboys have. I like it,
Speaker 10: and put it in made one guy out of all
Speaker 10: the offensive linemen that we have. So good old pork
Speaker 10: Butt here fifty five. That's my college number, by the.
Speaker 3: Way, in LSU.
Speaker 10: So that's why I wore that offensive lineman here. He's
Speaker 10: got the football IQ of Terrence Steele. Smart guy reads
Speaker 10: what's happening in the twist games, does a really great
Speaker 10: job with Martin when they work Together's not going to
Speaker 10: get fooled on plays you bring blitzes and stuff. He's
Speaker 10: aware where to go to the outside. Pick that up football,
Speaker 10: smart guy. The speed is this pork butt. His speed
Speaker 10: is going to be Tyler Smith. My guy's gonna have
Speaker 10: the ability to get out in space and run. We've
Speaker 10: seen the ability with Tyler Smith to be able to
Speaker 10: just comes down to the block, gets to a guy quickly.
Speaker 10: He plays on his feet. I think he does a
Speaker 10: really nice job with that. The way he plays in
Speaker 10: space and then he gets down the field is well.
Speaker 10: I could have used beyondish on that because he'll run
Speaker 10: down the field and recover fumbles and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: But I gave the mental the mental toughness to beattish here.
Speaker 10: I think Beaddish is one of these guys that they
Speaker 10: put a lot on him. They've asked him to do
Speaker 10: a lot more with the protections. To set the protections,
Speaker 10: He's had to battle through some injuries. He's played at
Speaker 10: a pretty high level, so you have to have some
Speaker 10: mental toughness to be able to go through that strength
Speaker 10: I gave Zach Martin here. I think that when every
Speaker 10: time you watch anybody tried to just rush over the
Speaker 10: top of Zach Martin. It's we saw it last week
Speaker 10: with Brentley, the linebacker. He tries to Bentley, excuse me,
Speaker 10: comes flying in there, He stones him and stops the
Speaker 10: guy in his tracks. Zach when he gets those hands inside,
Speaker 10: he's going to throw you around and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Hand eye coordination is Tyron Smith.
Speaker 10: And because when you watch Tyron Smith play, we've all
Speaker 10: seen those big old knee braces on his elbows and
Speaker 10: the way he plays. So when his hands, you see
Speaker 10: a punch, a punch and a control. The way he's
Speaker 10: it's just like watching somebody box. It's just like counter
Speaker 10: counter counter, you know, And that's how I think when
Speaker 10: you play with his hands, he's one of these guys.
Speaker 10: So Pete pork Butt, your offensive lineman number fifty five.
Speaker 5: Draft like, are these players available?
Speaker 11: Right? All right, Well, I'm gonna have the public, the
Speaker 11: listeners who are listening right now, start sending in your vote.
Speaker 11: We have Pete port Butt. Yeah, we have something bang
Speaker 11: banger mastress, banger, yeah, banger. And then I cannot even
Speaker 11: begin saying.
Speaker 8: Bartholomew first names absolutely not the.
Speaker 11: Top one right there? Who out of these three players,
Speaker 11: if we have time, if.
Speaker 7: It goes on our text line actually the text line
Speaker 7: is eight one seven three eight again eight one seven
Speaker 7: two nine zero three two ninety like banger.
Speaker 11: Bang, before we go to break, who would you have
Speaker 11: playing this weekend?
Speaker 13: This is all.
Speaker 11: Of these before we are to break and we'll have
Speaker 11: people send in their favorite player. But for this weekend,
Speaker 11: who would be starting?
Speaker 5: To me, I would do the lineback.
Speaker 7: And the reason why I chose a linebacker is because
Speaker 7: I think, like I look at San Francisco, I think
Speaker 7: there are a lot of similarities between Dallas and San Francisco.
Speaker 7: I think the big glaring difference is and this is
Speaker 7: not a shot at Leyton, but Fred Warner's on a
Speaker 7: different level.
Speaker 5: Like he is.
Speaker 7: The maybe the best inside linebacker in the NFL, and
Speaker 7: I think, you know, that's one of the things that
Speaker 7: sets that defense apart is they have that kind of
Speaker 7: guy in the middle of their defense. Uh, And it
Speaker 7: makes a huge difference. So for me, I would take
Speaker 7: the linebacker because I do think that that would put
Speaker 7: you in a whole different level if you have that
Speaker 7: kind of linebacker.
Speaker 8: As far as this game specifically, I probably take pork
Speaker 8: but because I want Dak to have a little bit
Speaker 8: more time, So I'm gonna go with Brian.
Speaker 5: Where did you put him on the line?
Speaker 8: That's a let me think what did he have the
Speaker 8: strength of you said of Zach Martin. Of Zach Martin,
Speaker 8: then yeah, I want him right there at right guard, then.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think so I uh man, I I'm gonna
Speaker 10: I think uh Banger's the guy because I like what
Speaker 10: Derek did with the uh talking about on defense if
Speaker 10: you had somebody and again he's absolutely right. This is
Speaker 10: nothing to get to cowboys have playing linebacker, but forty
Speaker 10: nine ers have difference makers at linebacker. They really do.
Speaker 10: So if you gave me a guy that has all
Speaker 10: those characteristics and traits and man that look, you give
Speaker 10: me ray Lewis right here, that's like a finisher right there,
Speaker 10: and the guys can make a lot of play and
Speaker 10: he turned down ray Lewis a lot of bangers.
Speaker 11: A lot of bangs on the field. All right, Well,
Speaker 11: thank you guys so much for playing this fun.
Speaker 7: Hey, so far we've got three three people that have
Speaker 7: chimed in and uh, well, I'm.
Speaker 5: Sorry, we got another one. So it's tied right now.
Speaker 5: Two for Port but two.
Speaker 8: For Marus Bangerdang, Martha, it was the name, you know,
Speaker 8: it's not it's not.
Speaker 3: It sounds like royalty over there playing football for you.
Speaker 7: There there's the one guy said the name alone evokes
Speaker 7: for you talking about Marcus Banger.
Speaker 5: He all right, let's take our final break.
Speaker 3: We'll come back.
Speaker 7: I got some more questions for you guys. We will
Speaker 7: also get to our picks in the final segment.
Speaker 3: We'll be back.
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Speaker 7: tomorrow to San Francisco, so she'd be a fun, fun weekend,
Speaker 7: all right. Chris, our producer, has pulled up some of
Speaker 7: the text line comments on our players that we crafted.
Speaker 7: In the last segment, Chris read to some of those,
Speaker 7: some of the best ones that you've gotten.
Speaker 17: All right, so here we got. We got one for
Speaker 17: banger from six oh one. Got banger sounds like a
Speaker 17: real banger from the five seven five.
Speaker 3: Pork butt all the.
Speaker 5: Way from the nine one. Oh thank you.
Speaker 17: Actually, you know something, I got a buff Bartholow you
Speaker 17: up here.
Speaker 3: There we go, see voted right.
Speaker 17: Actually Jazz says Bartholow, you all the way. I wonder
Speaker 17: where she prove sits back there, man James from Milan.
Speaker 17: Pork butt for the run game. There you go, another one,
Speaker 17: said pork butt to fix our red zone problems.
Speaker 5: Could help. Looks like pork butt is the taking, all right, So.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take pork but number fifty five pork butt.
Speaker 8: Now, what's the contract? Five years?
Speaker 3: Yeah, five man million whatever?
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Speaker 5: Now, all right, let's let's get some before we get
Speaker 5: to the picks of the game. Let's get some keys.
Speaker 7: What do you guys think is the biggest key for
Speaker 7: the Cowboys from the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 5: Score.
Speaker 11: Getting the zone. I mean that would help. I mean, uh,
Speaker 11: Tony Poller being healthy. I think hopefully that because I
Speaker 11: think that that was the if I remember correctly, last time,
Speaker 11: there had some issues with the running game when they
Speaker 11: last faced them. That's when Tony Poler got hurt and
Speaker 11: then they had no answers for them. So hopefully having
Speaker 11: him having a guy like lip Key getting there in
Speaker 11: the mix, that's your guy Nick getting him in the mix,
Speaker 11: and hopefully that helps with the running game as well.
Speaker 11: They haven't necessarily been struggling, uh running the ball all season,
Speaker 11: but maybe this is the key component that they were
Speaker 11: missing last time and don't be able to find the
Speaker 11: way to get in the end zone and score some points.
Speaker 11: Because I think defensively they can hold up and we've
Speaker 11: talked about it. The last two times that they faced them,
Speaker 11: they were able to hold up pretty well. And I
Speaker 11: believe this defense right now is better than it was previously.
Speaker 11: It just keeps getting better year after year. So that
Speaker 11: would be my key.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm right there.
Speaker 13: With you.
Speaker 8: We saw what that offense looked like whenever the running
Speaker 8: game got severely depleted in that playoff game last year
Speaker 8: with Tony Pollard going down, I mean the very next play,
Speaker 8: which is a play that they probably would have run
Speaker 8: the ball on second two or second and three, with
Speaker 8: Pollard throws an interception at Dak Prescott does so. In
Speaker 8: that second half, I mean, things were just not flowing offensively,
Speaker 8: and it was a big part of the run game
Speaker 8: not being available. So especially with two more run stoppers
Speaker 8: in that defense, Yeah, the running game's got to get going.
Speaker 8: I think if Pollard can run for a healthy seventy
Speaker 8: eighty yards, then that allows the offense to open up.
Speaker 8: I think they finally get some points on the board
Speaker 8: against these guys.
Speaker 10: The first thing it came in my mind was you
Speaker 10: got to block this front seven. You know, find a
Speaker 10: way if they're going to play stationary, find a way
Speaker 10: to get your best matchups and block at the next
Speaker 10: thing is, don't get fooled with your eyes on defense.
Speaker 10: You're going to get a lot of motion, a lot
Speaker 10: of movement. I'm fascinated to see here in this game.
Speaker 10: Can Dallas defensively make this a one dimensional San Francisco attack.
Speaker 10: I don't know if Brock Purdy necessarily can beat Dak
Speaker 10: Prescott in a drop back game. I think I think
Speaker 10: I think the Cowboys are better equipped to have that
Speaker 10: ton of drop back game. But if you take away
Speaker 10: their ability to run the screens, the motions and just
Speaker 10: make them have to their offensive line protect, I mean,
Speaker 10: they could say the same thing about you.
Speaker 3: But I just feel like, though, if this.
Speaker 10: Turns into Purty verse Dak and just having to just
Speaker 10: outright throw the ball every single snap, I'll take my
Speaker 10: chances with Dak in this, but they've got to be
Speaker 10: able to block this front seven.
Speaker 7: I'll say this for the offense and key, I really
Speaker 7: think that I would actually go the route of really
Speaker 7: leaning on my quick passing game. I actually think a
Speaker 7: big reason why the changes in the offseason that the
Speaker 7: Cowboys made to their offensive play call and the offensive
Speaker 7: system that they are running is because of San Francisco
Speaker 7: and teams like them Philadelphia, teams where running is very difficult,
Speaker 7: teams where their pass rush is crazy and they don't
Speaker 7: necessarily have to blitz in order to get home. And
Speaker 7: I think when you have a quick passing game, you
Speaker 7: negate that that's a quick way to negate A pass
Speaker 7: rush is if you're getting the ball quick. And by
Speaker 7: the way, I think when you look at that defense
Speaker 7: for San Francisco, I think the weakness, if there is
Speaker 7: one of that defense is their cornerbacks.
Speaker 5: Do I think you can get them in.
Speaker 7: Situations where you're hitting them with quick passes. You're forcing
Speaker 7: them all day to have to tackle, rally and tackle.
Speaker 7: As you would always say, Brian Right, I want to
Speaker 7: put them in those situations as much as possible because
Speaker 7: I feel like at some point CD's going to break
Speaker 7: a tackle, Michael Gallup's going to break a tackle, maybe
Speaker 7: Brandon Cooks is Ferguson's going to break a tackle, and
Speaker 7: they're going to turn into something bigger. So I think
Speaker 7: really for the offense, I think the key is get
Speaker 7: the ball out quick and negate that pass rush forced
Speaker 7: the cornerbacks after rally and tackle.
Speaker 5: Now le's talk about the defen go ahead, Jefs.
Speaker 8: I would say, I think all three of these things
Speaker 8: obviously they played to go together because you're you're talking
Speaker 8: about the corners and and there's an ability there to
Speaker 8: to take advantage of those guys are really physical and
Speaker 8: they're really aggressive because that front seven gets back so fast.
Speaker 8: So if you can block those guys up front, you
Speaker 8: allow some things to happen in the receiving game. And
Speaker 8: if you can get the running game going, then that
Speaker 8: opens up everything. So I really think there's an opportunity here.
Speaker 8: It's not as it's not as bleak as some may think.
Speaker 7: And I really think I personally believe they've got some
Speaker 7: stuff that they weren't They didn't have to show in
Speaker 7: these first four games. Mike Mike McCarthy talked about this
Speaker 7: morning on the fan. Uh, there's some things they haven't
Speaker 7: had to show because they've had three blowouts in four games,
Speaker 7: and so there's a lot of stuff left in the back.
Speaker 11: Waiting for it, all this secrecy, and I want to sing,
Speaker 11: he hides, I am waiting to see it.
Speaker 7: Give me your defensive key, Brian, you get I got
Speaker 7: Sorry I jumped on that, but yeah, I think it.
Speaker 10: Don't get fooled by all the motion and movement and
Speaker 10: play action stuff and all that be able to handle
Speaker 10: their twenty one to twenty two personnel.
Speaker 3: And if you could do that, it gives you a
Speaker 3: good shot, ye.
Speaker 11: I would say, obviously stopping the run is key, but
Speaker 11: also those chunk plays that you keep mentioning, Derek, We've
Speaker 11: seen it happen, even in these blowouts. We've seen it
Speaker 11: happen where they have allowed guys to all of a sudden,
Speaker 11: you got Gilmour all the way over there and his
Speaker 11: guy is like taking off to get into the end zone.
Speaker 11: So just making sure that you are able to contain
Speaker 11: that somehow and not allow that much separation. So just
Speaker 11: don't give up those chunk plays because we've seen that
Speaker 11: really really hurt you at games.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I kind of alluded to mine earlier in
Speaker 8: this show, But the middle of that defense generating internal pressure.
Speaker 8: It starts with Osa Digizuwa just because he's the best
Speaker 8: pass rusher in that defensive tackle group. And then you
Speaker 8: got Jonathan Hankins as well as he's going to be
Speaker 8: a big part of stop in the run. With Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 8: Laighton vander ash being able to come down and stop
Speaker 8: Christian McCaffrey, and then also jay Ron Curst being a
Speaker 8: limit George Kittle. Kittle obviously had a huge game against
Speaker 8: these guys back in January. So the middle of that defense,
Speaker 8: if those four guys can have you know, their best
Speaker 8: game of the season. In a perfect world, then they
Speaker 8: win this game.
Speaker 7: All right, let's move on to the picks, and we
Speaker 7: also have a pot pick we're gonna get to too.
Speaker 7: Tell me who you thinks are gonna win final score.
Speaker 5: I'll start with you, Nick Man.
Speaker 8: Uh you know I I The passing game is gonna
Speaker 8: have to get going. The running games is gonna have
Speaker 8: to get going. But I feel confident going into this
Speaker 8: this this time around, especially given how the players have
Speaker 8: been talking this week and how how much more than
Speaker 8: just one game that this is. That's exactly what Dak
Speaker 8: said yesterday. So I'm gonna give it to the Cowboys
Speaker 8: twenty eight, twenty four.
Speaker 11: There's no way that I'm not gonna pick the Cowboys
Speaker 11: because I think it's been so close and at some
Speaker 11: point it's got to give. At some point, you gotta
Speaker 11: be able to come out and beat I hope they
Speaker 11: get there. And they're aggressive, something I remember very vividly
Speaker 11: going into that last game in the playoffs. You could
Speaker 11: notably see the forty nine ers be way more aggressive
Speaker 11: pre game and in the game they're like you say, Brian,
Speaker 11: you call them bullies, and they were acting like it,
Speaker 11: so I hope the Cowboys are angry enough. They've been
Speaker 11: hearing about this game since the season started, since last year, actually,
Speaker 11: well since they lost. But I think they win. It's
Speaker 11: going to be a very very close game. I have
Speaker 11: them scoring a lot of points. So thirty two to
Speaker 11: thirty one in this game.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I took Nick's score, but I picked San Francisco
Speaker 10: twenty eight twenty four, all right.
Speaker 7: And I actually think, I actually think, and I've been
Speaker 7: saying this since earlier in the week, I just got
Speaker 7: a feeling they're gonna win. Cowboys are gonna win, and
Speaker 7: I don't think it's going to be terribly close. I
Speaker 7: think the Cowboys are actually going to go in this game.
Speaker 7: This is how the NFL typically plays out, is when
Speaker 7: when you have a team that you think, you know
Speaker 7: is the better team, but the other team's good, Yeah.
Speaker 5: It can flip on you.
Speaker 7: And I kind of think this is the time for
Speaker 7: the Cowboys to flip. Asking that same question if they
Speaker 7: get to a playoff game, and I may have a
Speaker 7: different answer, but I think this week, I think the
Speaker 7: Cowboys have circled this game on their calendar when the
Speaker 7: schedules first come out and I think their focus for
Speaker 7: this game is going to be right, and I think,
Speaker 7: quite frankly, they have the right parts. I think they
Speaker 7: have the right kind of offense to be able to
Speaker 7: beat them, and I think they have the right players
Speaker 7: on defense to be able to beat them.
Speaker 5: So I think they win twenty seven to sixteen.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this to me is very much like we talked
Speaker 10: about twenty fourteen, Dallas going and winning at Seattle Seattle.
Speaker 10: Nobody really gave Dallas a chance to go in Seattle
Speaker 10: and they physically took it to Seattle that.
Speaker 5: Year because it was a focus for them.
Speaker 3: If they were focused for them.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you got to find a way Seattle was coming
Speaker 10: off Super Bowls and things like that that Dallas does
Speaker 10: need this game.
Speaker 3: They really really do psychologically, I believe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, real quick, we'll get our pie picks.
Speaker 7: The question this week is the player that you think
Speaker 7: will have the most receptions either team.
Speaker 8: I've already put my pick in on talking this morning
Speaker 8: Deebo Samuel, Right, yep.
Speaker 11: Oh you need to give me these. Let me think
Speaker 11: I've been missing. I've cut it every time.
Speaker 7: Brandon Ayuk all right, number of receptions time they're going
Speaker 7: to get the catch?
Speaker 11: You know what, Let's go Brandon Cooks involved in there
Speaker 11: a lot, Let's get him. Yeah, let's Brendan Cooks.
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna go with Jake first.
Speaker 3: There you go.
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