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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody into the SWBC Mortgage Studio. It's Thursday at
Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco and we are getting ready to
Speaker 1: really dive into Eagles week. Of course, always joined by Mickey,
Speaker 1: Rob Brian. We have got a lot of interesting news
Speaker 1: to tell you guys today. But first, how is everyone doing?
Speaker 1: Great day? Wonderful? I know we missed the Papa John's
Speaker 1: pizza today, Brian, Yes, you really do. I'm alwady a
Speaker 1: staple I think so. You know what, let me tell you,
Speaker 1: as superstitious as I am, everybody at work they beat Philadelphi.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get some pizza next Wednesday. Here we're talking.
Speaker 1: We didn't know that this was the gift that keeps
Speaker 1: on giving. Great Christmas. You get a win, you get
Speaker 1: a win this week, and you will get some Papa
Speaker 1: John's pizza until we take an out and you're you're
Speaker 1: feeling a w right thanks for Thanksgiving? Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: we got Thanksgiving it's some turkey pizza. Yeah, put turkey.
Speaker 1: Do they put turkey on pamberry sauce? Yeah? They put chicken, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they put pineapple sauces. And we've now reverted into chezza.
Speaker 1: This is the Papa John's talking cowboys exactly. Hey, they
Speaker 1: would need National Fast Food Day. Good. Where did you
Speaker 1: see that? They told me that when I did my fan,
Speaker 1: I gotten steaks over here. I'm all about the thirteen steaks. Well, Brian,
Speaker 1: you're right, we're talking a lot about pizza. But we
Speaker 1: got the pizza because of a guy who was injured,
Speaker 1: who we're expecting to see this weekend and Rob. Before
Speaker 1: we really get into the practice report, which I know
Speaker 1: Mick has got ready for us. It's ready, Cheeto. What
Speaker 1: did Garrett say? Yeah, well, you know he's putting. He's
Speaker 1: stacking good practice days together, is what he's doing. Very good.
Speaker 1: Another full practice for him, and I think with Jeff
Speaker 1: Heath looking doubtful to play this week, he's not going
Speaker 1: to practice again because he's in the concussion protocol, that's
Speaker 1: an opportunity for Cheeto to step in play some safety,
Speaker 1: play some corner with some snaps potentially, and along with
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods. I think the young guys have an opportunity
Speaker 1: if he indeed is unable to go against the Eagles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, you think that a game him a full load,
Speaker 1: or he just plays special teams or just plays defense.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that he may get some snaps. I
Speaker 1: think he's got a chance to be active and playing
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, I think he's got I think he's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be active. We'll see how much that he plays.
Speaker 1: I think that it would be probably more of the
Speaker 1: special team's role. I think right now, there again, they're
Speaker 1: trying to work him in. Okay, where does he fit?
Speaker 1: Who do you take off the field? Do you take off?
Speaker 1: You know you're gonna go with Scandrick, You're gonna go
Speaker 1: with Lewis. You know, we talked about Anthony Brown and
Speaker 1: really what he's done, I mean with with Heath situation.
Speaker 1: You know, boy, that that to me with him being
Speaker 1: out today, Mackey, I'm gonna go on your theory of
Speaker 1: saying he's out for the game. So I'll give him that.
Speaker 1: On Jeff Heath, that means you're gonna have to go
Speaker 1: with it. Looks like Xavier Woods and can they find
Speaker 1: other things to do. Now. They could go with Cabon Frasier,
Speaker 1: who has been active and has played in some games.
Speaker 1: But if he's gonna play, I think they're gonna help.
Speaker 1: He's gonna help him mainly on special teams and then
Speaker 1: maybe filling that summit safety though a snaps maybe, but
Speaker 1: in a package we'll see. I think what they're worried
Speaker 1: about is the volume of work tiring out that hamstring.
Speaker 1: That's what happened in Green Bay, right, because they sent
Speaker 1: him in there and he did everything. Yea, if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, I think you do. I want to. I
Speaker 1: mean I was bet in pizza last week that he
Speaker 1: was going to play because I've seen him practice or
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen him practice more or actually be
Speaker 1: out there. But this is the side of me that's
Speaker 1: also thinking, okay, that they're going to be probably pretty
Speaker 1: cautious about that. I wouldn't, Yeah, I wouldn't bet on
Speaker 1: thirty snaps, no, but I but I would bet on
Speaker 1: but I would bet on an opportunity to play on
Speaker 1: special teams and then if they need him, if you
Speaker 1: know he's a better cover guy at safety than what
Speaker 1: you have with cab On Frasier, you know that night ends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if it turns into okay, now you've got to start
Speaker 1: putting guys on the field that can cover. That's where
Speaker 1: I think that you have to look at potentially a
Speaker 1: Woozier playing before Cabon Frasier. Well, should we make another
Speaker 1: pizza bit? No, you got a pizza Wednesday if they
Speaker 1: win this game. But then we can have pizza tuesdays too,
Speaker 1: if now just once a week ten Okay, that's my budget.
Speaker 1: We're getting a little crazy up in here. But I
Speaker 1: was going to talk about the odds of Tyrn Smith
Speaker 1: coming back this week. I feel pretty good about it.
Speaker 1: What do you guys think? I'm good. I'm saying if
Speaker 1: he's not going to practice today, I think that you'll
Speaker 1: get him. What week was that he didn't practice Wednesday
Speaker 1: Thursday and play it on the Chiefs game? There was
Speaker 1: it Chiefs game? There you go, Okay, so I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the same game plan. But that was
Speaker 1: more of a back thing than the groin, right. I
Speaker 1: just think that they I think that if he's the coach,
Speaker 1: to sound like they were, they were doing more with him.
Speaker 1: They were doing more, and so that's where I was
Speaker 1: encouraged he's gonna work on the side today with Britt
Speaker 1: in the athletic trainers, so that's a step forward. He
Speaker 1: said he had a good day yesterday. I still kind
Speaker 1: of need to see him tomorrow do something because it's
Speaker 1: not just a typical Sunday. It's also you gotta look
Speaker 1: Garrett says, they're not but you gotta look at that
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving stretch too, and if he needs a couple more days,
Speaker 1: then maybe you get him ready for Thanksgiving instead. I
Speaker 1: think it's looking good for him, but I'd like to
Speaker 1: see him do something tomorrow. If you can have him
Speaker 1: play one game? Which one? Do you have him play? Eagles?
Speaker 1: This one? I mean conceivably, I guess he could play
Speaker 1: this game and not play against the play Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: exactly right. Yeah, that's the way I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: shoot him up and let's go whoa, I think you
Speaker 1: want to do that. Yeah, that's that's that. We've done
Speaker 1: it before, though, I know, I know that pizza not
Speaker 1: being here just gets you a little crazy. You gotta
Speaker 1: rill it in when you say those things. Hey, so,
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith, were we're feeling good now? Dez did not
Speaker 1: practice yesterday, But that's not anything to really concern ourselves with, right, Rob,
Speaker 1: he's supposed to go today. He's practicing today. Your rest, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think. And he's not listed the ankle's not listening
Speaker 1: on the injury report this week. It's just the knee.
Speaker 1: I think they're just trying to manage him and get
Speaker 1: him to Sunday. He should be good to go. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's his eighth season. He can he can register for
Speaker 1: some bettering days now and then yeah, even to go. Yeah, Mick, Okay,
Speaker 1: full rundown of the practice report for the Cowboys. First,
Speaker 1: thank you just did it, didn't you? That's pretty much
Speaker 1: in I mean, no Dan Bailey this week, y'all? Did
Speaker 1: you He's getting closer, though, is he? Did you see
Speaker 1: anything at linebacker? Do you know somebody playing Mike linebacker?
Speaker 1: Sean Lee was not out there. Okay, you know he's
Speaker 1: not going to be out there today, but nobody masks.
Speaker 1: I didn't go out there. You don't have time, didn't
Speaker 1: have time to make it. What about Jeff Swam Have
Speaker 1: we heard any update about him? His kind of came
Speaker 1: later in the week yesterday. I think he's okay. Head
Speaker 1: coach said he he worked yesterday. Yeah, I think he's okay.
Speaker 1: It's like he'll go today too. Probably got probably gotta
Speaker 1: sleeve on the knee, that kind of thing. How much
Speaker 1: can he help with, you know, kind of covering up
Speaker 1: any patches. Obviously we are assuming that Terren Smith would
Speaker 1: be back, but he's good blocker as well. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: they have to be preparing for and Jason Garrett even
Speaker 1: said this, they have to be preparing for some twelve
Speaker 1: personnel stuff. You know, there's a lot of different ways
Speaker 1: you can do this, you know, now that you think
Speaker 1: about it. You could put a guy over there next
Speaker 1: to him. You could put a wing over there next
Speaker 1: to him. You could put a you can bring motion
Speaker 1: and get there. You can do all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: You can bring a wide receiver inside and and and help.
Speaker 1: I mean there's all kinds of things that you can
Speaker 1: do to try and and and just instead of saying, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put a tight end down, hand down and
Speaker 1: make you run around so motion it's it tips your
Speaker 1: hand less right yeah there, and things like that instead
Speaker 1: of anything obviously we're trying to run here past. Anything
Speaker 1: you want to do, you have to just go through
Speaker 1: all the options that you can use, like I say,
Speaker 1: on inline wing motion, whatever you have to do to
Speaker 1: help that, and you can, and the motion part of
Speaker 1: it doesn't tip your hand, it just doesn't. It. Just
Speaker 1: you bring a guy across and then settle right at
Speaker 1: the snap of the ball, and then that way you
Speaker 1: make the guy run the can you can you fake
Speaker 1: the jet sweep and then just let the guy knocked
Speaker 1: the devil out of them. Wow, I can say. I
Speaker 1: always worry about right, Yeah, I always worry about I
Speaker 1: always worry about the I had had to catch myself,
Speaker 1: I said, devil. I always worry about the guy getting
Speaker 1: in the way of the blocker. Yeah, that's always my concern.
Speaker 1: And I asked Garrett about that, and he says there's
Speaker 1: some legit legitimacy to that. But you know that that's
Speaker 1: always the thing, because you get two guys tied up
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the guy runs around,
Speaker 1: you know, runs around your guy. Now what have you done? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've you've taken your taking yourself out of an opportunity
Speaker 1: to block the guy. Maybe one on one, but day
Speaker 1: they've got they've got concerns at both ends, you know,
Speaker 1: with Vinny Curry and then also with Brandon Graham, I mean,
Speaker 1: Brandy Graham is a guy that traditionally has given Tyrant
Speaker 1: Smith problems. Traditionally he has, So we'll see how Tyre
Speaker 1: we talking helping Tyron Smith? Are we talking about if
Speaker 1: I can't play, if he can't play? Then you got
Speaker 1: a prep Do you think that Tyren Smith will need help? Though?
Speaker 1: Still getting back in, non Smith. If you beat me
Speaker 1: beating Tyron Smith, congratulations, you deserve to win that. You
Speaker 1: get a little pad on the back, you get a pizza,
Speaker 1: you win the game. Yeah, you find a way to
Speaker 1: beat Tyron Smith consistently, consistently, Zach Martin consistently, Travis Frederick consistently,
Speaker 1: then you've got my respect and you deserve to win
Speaker 1: the game. Tyron's been here seven years. I wonder how
Speaker 1: many week game weeks in his seven year career they've
Speaker 1: gone into the week saying, all right, we need to
Speaker 1: give Tyron ship help against this pass rusher. Yeah, not often,
Speaker 1: maybe zero, yeah, potentially zero. We need to really help
Speaker 1: out that seventy seven who just hasn't been able to
Speaker 1: make it four Pro Bowls, all Pro Yeah, well they
Speaker 1: better be ready to help out whoever else is over there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if they're over there, and that includes Byron Bell. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I went and looked, hadn't started
Speaker 1: a game since the end of the twenty fifteen season.
Speaker 1: Long time, hadn't really played other than those two series. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: that's just a long time to be off, almost as
Speaker 1: long as Jazz Green. And the frustrating thing he said
Speaker 1: after the game against Atlanta was he faced Clayborne in
Speaker 1: a division before absolutely yea, yeah, I'm scouted, and I
Speaker 1: mean the guy just played amazing. He did, so maybe
Speaker 1: a week can help him with practice if he has
Speaker 1: to go. Mick. On the other hand, I hate to
Speaker 1: do this to all those listening, but the Eagles practice
Speaker 1: report looks very good for them. Looks pretty clean to
Speaker 1: me coming off of bye. Got three guys on it
Speaker 1: and says full, full and full Darby, the guy who's
Speaker 1: been out all year, he's full. Yeah, yeah, for them,
Speaker 1: for them, for them, Ernst was full and Watkins remember
Speaker 1: last year at this time with Dallas was rolling along, well,
Speaker 1: the injury report was always clean, beautiful. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: when when you're winning games, when you're on a roll,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to be hurt. That's the thing. When you're
Speaker 1: a bad team. Go check out the Giants practice report.
Speaker 1: A lot of questionables, a lot of guys don't want
Speaker 1: to play, a lot of guys thinking about, you know,
Speaker 1: we're one in nine or one in eight. What we're not?
Speaker 1: This is not good My hamstring soer, yeah exactly, you
Speaker 1: try and miss a coup kind of hired to check
Speaker 1: a hamstring. Look a look as well? You know, super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl practice report is always the best it is.
Speaker 1: Mickey was a pool reporter. He'll tell you there's no
Speaker 1: nobody was hurt today. Everybody but practice. Everybody practice because
Speaker 1: everybody wants to be a part of something good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine, like, hey man, you're just gonna have
Speaker 1: to sit over here and sweat suits and when we're
Speaker 1: taking the pictures, yeah, you look like you weren't even
Speaker 1: on the field. Yeah yeah, except that year Atlanta didn't
Speaker 1: have their fullback. Huh. Yeah, their fullback was hurt, so
Speaker 1: they used a guard to play fullback. And I thought
Speaker 1: that was common knowledge, and you leaked it, pointed it
Speaker 1: out in the pool report, and the guy in Atlanta
Speaker 1: obviously Dan Reeves, and Dan saw it the next day
Speaker 1: and he chewed that poor beat writer out to no end,
Speaker 1: but he was going off your pool report. Yes, And
Speaker 1: so I went up to Reeves and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: it's my bad. I should have asked you. I assumed
Speaker 1: that that was common knowledge, and he goes, yeah, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. He should have known better, I said, Dan,
Speaker 1: everybody in the league read the same thing. I said,
Speaker 1: it's my fault. And he said, that still doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He was so mad they got hammered in that game.
Speaker 1: They got hammered. Well afterwards, they got hammered. And he
Speaker 1: was coming in to do his postgame press conference and
Speaker 1: I was walking and he walked by me and he
Speaker 1: looked at me and he goes, I guess the fullback
Speaker 1: didn't have much to do with that. Coaches, No, but
Speaker 1: you brought up some ofthing, Brian, And you know, before
Speaker 1: we get to our break, we have a few minutes
Speaker 1: to kind of talk about this. A lot of people
Speaker 1: have had mixed a pinions about how much a bye
Speaker 1: week can help a team. Sure, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people were like, okay, the bye week, especially for
Speaker 1: the Eagles who are eight in one. Yeah. Rolling right
Speaker 1: along Manny who played for the Eagles, he said, hey,
Speaker 1: when we were doing good. You didn't want to stop playing.
Speaker 1: You find like if you stopped playing, you would kind
Speaker 1: of get out of your routine for a tement. You're
Speaker 1: worried about guys who were traveling over the bye week.
Speaker 1: He was like, it wasn't a positive ever, but then
Speaker 1: you know other things injuries. Yeah, kind of having that
Speaker 1: chance to just refocus if you would. How much you know,
Speaker 1: do you really believe in the hype of a bye
Speaker 1: week as far as a positive, Well, I think it's
Speaker 1: a positive, just for what you said the health aspect.
Speaker 1: I think everybody needs to get away from this game,
Speaker 1: you know, you do you need to like go week enough? Well,
Speaker 1: you know it is. Yeah, it is when you've gone
Speaker 1: at it since training camp, since you've gone at it
Speaker 1: since July twenty first. This is a late bye too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: very late, Yeah, late bye, Carson Wentz said yesterday in
Speaker 1: the conference call. He said it was great for us,
Speaker 1: and yeah, trying to just rest. You did our bodies right.
Speaker 1: There's nothing better than I mean I've been when Dallas
Speaker 1: with the twelve and fourth season they got to buy
Speaker 1: after the London trip and that was late November, and
Speaker 1: that that that to me, You get a buy in
Speaker 1: the first four weeks the season. That's a that to
Speaker 1: me is a bad But you know, if Dallas could
Speaker 1: have pulled a by like last week, say that you
Speaker 1: could have pulled a by last week, that would have
Speaker 1: been so much better. Trying to help, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: get Sean Lee back, maybe you get you know, maybe
Speaker 1: you get Tyrant Smith back. Maybe you know, things start
Speaker 1: kind of going into the right way. So nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with the bye. The problem is, though, again, is when
Speaker 1: you have it. That's the biggest issue. It is an
Speaker 1: interesting discussion though, when you get the playoff time, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to just keep playing. I mean the Cowboys
Speaker 1: had that that discussion there last year. Look at some
Speaker 1: of the teams that won the Super Bowl recently, it's
Speaker 1: the teams that have had to play, you know, and
Speaker 1: maybe maybe this will be something. And again don't don't
Speaker 1: kill the messenger here, but if somehow Dallas plays their
Speaker 1: way into this playoffs, somehow it's a ten and six whatever,
Speaker 1: somehow they play their way in where you know, now,
Speaker 1: really every week is a playoff game if you think
Speaker 1: about it, especially when you start playing this, you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a lot of those NFC opponents. You know,
Speaker 1: every week is going to be a playoff game, and
Speaker 1: there's some merit to saying, hey, we've been playing playoff
Speaker 1: games since November time. Yeah, yeah, so I mean you
Speaker 1: got to figure it out, you know. And and that's
Speaker 1: sometimes the teams that are playing there are hot teams
Speaker 1: that get in the playoffs. So green Bay was an
Speaker 1: example that last year. Green Bay, they were four and
Speaker 1: six at one point, went on a six game run,
Speaker 1: beat the Giants at home, beat Dallas, and was an
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game against Atlanta. It's almost like you get
Speaker 1: you're punished in a way like Dallas was last year
Speaker 1: where you almost had two weeks off in a way
Speaker 1: because you didn't really play all your starters in the finale,
Speaker 1: because I mean for being such a Philadelphia by being
Speaker 1: the same situation, because you always take the buy Cowboys
Speaker 1: would rest that. But Cowboys might like that. Yeah, no, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because if you lose this game, you're gonna need to
Speaker 1: win five of the next six to get in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: think about that. You think ten and six, well, ten
Speaker 1: and six guarantee, you think it in ten and six
Speaker 1: will get you in with all the other tie breakers.
Speaker 1: Nine and seven might not nine seven. You won't. There's
Speaker 1: only two teams ahead of you that aren't leading a division.
Speaker 1: Carolina Seattle. Yes they're six, and you play Seattle, and
Speaker 1: you play Seattle. All the fans on my timeline. He
Speaker 1: comes back on Seattle day, Azegil Elliott, who has officially
Speaker 1: ended his case. I guess we can count back how
Speaker 1: many hours we probably spent talking about the z case.
Speaker 1: But here it is yesterday, November fifteenth. He has agreed
Speaker 1: to take his six game suspension withdrawing his appeal. I
Speaker 1: got five left now, so that's going for you there.
Speaker 1: They either ran out of money or hope one of
Speaker 1: the two. So just over, just wave the flag. Just
Speaker 1: over three months since the suspension came down, we've been
Speaker 1: talking about it. Yeah, like you said, a lot of
Speaker 1: legal fee's and he just takes a suspension. Do you
Speaker 1: guys feel like you could possibly go to law school now? No,
Speaker 1: I would not want to. Just confirms it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought I made a very good decision way back when
Speaker 1: whatnot that I could have qualified. Okay, I couldn't. There's
Speaker 1: no way let me ask you this was okay? You
Speaker 1: know how I stand on clearing his name? You know
Speaker 1: how I stand on that, But was it about if
Speaker 1: if if someone would have told me it was more
Speaker 1: about the process, how unfair he thought it was. If
Speaker 1: you argued that point, would you feel better about him
Speaker 1: fighting the fundamental fairness argument? Yeah, if you he if
Speaker 1: he would have come out all along and said this
Speaker 1: is not fair. I did not get a fair hearing.
Speaker 1: That's part of it though, But I mean that, but
Speaker 1: this thing was his thing. Was clearing his name, Well,
Speaker 1: that was part of what he said, but it was Yeah,
Speaker 1: did the PA not send out a release last night
Speaker 1: that kind of talked about the holes in the flaws
Speaker 1: in the arbitration process. I mean, that's that's what they've
Speaker 1: been arguing all along. In addition to yes, I did
Speaker 1: not do this, I don't want my name attached to
Speaker 1: domestic violence. I think it all rolls into gether. I
Speaker 1: felt like that it was really about him and clearing
Speaker 1: his name to read it on behalf of all players.
Speaker 1: The union appealed the suspension of Ezekiel Elliott to its
Speaker 1: logical conclusion, and we are withdrawing our lawsuit. Our vigilant
Speaker 1: fight on behalf of Ezekiel once again exposed the NFL's
Speaker 1: disciplinary process as a sham and a lie. They hired
Speaker 1: several former federal prosecutors, brought in quote experts, and imposed
Speaker 1: a process with the stated goal of quote getting it right.
Speaker 1: Yet the management console refuses to step in and stop
Speaker 1: repeated manipulation of an already awful league imposed system. Some
Speaker 1: strong words there, strong words, so and on behalf of
Speaker 1: all players. So what the union's saying, and the players
Speaker 1: better be listening. This fight was for you. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just for Ezeko Elliott. It's for every one of you
Speaker 1: who might get accused of something that you didn't get
Speaker 1: charged or convicted of. But this too can happen to you.
Speaker 1: And if I'm a player, my ears are up and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there going whoa boy, I better bubble wrapped
Speaker 1: myself and now Zeke better also, because once you're suspended
Speaker 1: like that, then they can spend you indefinitely if it
Speaker 1: happened life in Yeah, So the process wasn't fair. I
Speaker 1: don't care what they say. If you're a logical person,
Speaker 1: it wasn't fair. And unfortunately they agreed to it, which
Speaker 1: they never were gonna win at that point unless some
Speaker 1: judge did what was right instead of what was legal right,
Speaker 1: and we found out that's hard to find that judge.
Speaker 1: I just they found one and they jumped the gun
Speaker 1: to file the case in Texas. Yeah. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: guys for giving so much of your time to this
Speaker 1: to help everyone try to understand this. I do appreciate.
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys take on the Eagles for Sunday Night Football,
Speaker 1: and guys, it is gonna be a heck of a
Speaker 1: game at at and T Stadium. Of course, we'll always
Speaker 1: have you covered with pregame. Makey you do some fan hits,
Speaker 1: don't you do? And so we have all that you need.
Speaker 1: Pregame show rolling at six pm Central time, but we
Speaker 1: have more pageantry. This just gonna get into that. Why
Speaker 1: don't you tell us about what's happening in pregame, Mick,
Speaker 1: I believe we're going to see the they're having a
Speaker 1: reunion of the nineteen ninety two Super Bowl team twenty
Speaker 1: five years there you go, So those guys are going
Speaker 1: to be on hand ahead of time. They're going to
Speaker 1: have a reception at the stadium forum. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be um paraded out on the field and then
Speaker 1: they're given guys new Hall of Fame rings. So the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame rings I think the guys got back
Speaker 1: in the day in the eighties, nineties, whatever they were
Speaker 1: this they're blue diamond, bluestone they were. They were with
Speaker 1: the high school graduation ring. Yeah. Well now they've become
Speaker 1: a little bit more elaborate, and so they're reissuing those
Speaker 1: guys the rings were the guys that get them now
Speaker 1: closer to that. So the guys like Randy White, Roger Staubach,
Speaker 1: Roger Staubach, Tony Dorset, um, those guys will be getting
Speaker 1: reissued rings. I think the only two that aren't supposed
Speaker 1: to be there are Troy Aikman and Larry Allen. So
Speaker 1: the other guys will be out there getting their rings
Speaker 1: also along with at halftime Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones. And
Speaker 1: that's why the bust is up in the foyer up
Speaker 1: there or whatever you call the entrance way atrium, thank you.
Speaker 1: Foyer's kind of a bad word, uh, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be there the rest of the week and then
Speaker 1: it goes back to the Hall of Fame. So it's
Speaker 1: the actual one. It is Come two of the Star.
Speaker 1: It gets a picture with it. We should be able
Speaker 1: to find a guest on the sideline. Yeah, you think
Speaker 1: you guys, If you guys don't have a good guest
Speaker 1: this week, well you usually do though, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: I asked a guess this morning if he would be willing,
Speaker 1: he said, come find me so good, you know, hopefully,
Speaker 1: and if not, we always, Oh, I know what you
Speaker 1: did this morning. We always have Mickey, and you know,
Speaker 1: Mickey drops the heat. He'll probably you know, say shoot
Speaker 1: him up or something I don't know, ridiculous and we'll
Speaker 1: have to get him off the stage. There was one
Speaker 1: other point I was going to make about what's going on.
Speaker 1: I can't remember him and I win. Yeah, that would
Speaker 1: that would make holiday time post post game a lot better. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Last time we had one of these big kind of
Speaker 1: event things where you bring a bunch of guys back,
Speaker 1: was that the Seattle game, well the Texas Stadium also
Speaker 1: that time, didn't the last game against Baltimore. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: that when they brought everybody back when Emmett broke the
Speaker 1: record and they ended up losing the game. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: you never want to do that, never want to be
Speaker 1: a part of that. I'm on I'm on Team Dub.
Speaker 1: I'm on Team Dub this week. I'm on Team Dub two.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling and our Friday show is going to be boring,
Speaker 1: isn't it. I hadn't gotten there yet. Well, okay, then Colin.
Speaker 1: Hell no, let me know what Tyran's doing. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you this. Oh he's playing Mickey. I'm going in,
Speaker 1: You're going in out. I'm we're going in our up? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what though that this? I always believe in
Speaker 1: the desperate team theory. I think you got a desperate
Speaker 1: football team right now. I really do, Am I am?
Speaker 1: I should I put down the I don't know if
Speaker 1: there No, I don't. I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: call him desperate as much as I would say there's
Speaker 1: something to prove here for this team, and maybe that's maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I just feel like Atlanta last week was
Speaker 1: do offensively a better game. I think the Eagles are
Speaker 1: do a game where they struggle a little bit. Bad game,
Speaker 1: not necessarily a bad game. But I think are we there, giants.
Speaker 1: I think the weird thing that people forget is division
Speaker 1: games are way different than most games. Two years ago,
Speaker 1: the Redskins won the division and the Cowboys went up
Speaker 1: there and beat them in such a close one on
Speaker 1: Monday night, low scoring, when that was the season that
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins had been scoring like four touchdowns per game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just a weird thing. And Mickey just told you
Speaker 1: a bunch of different things will be happening in Sunday night,
Speaker 1: and it's Sunday Night football. You know, it's the only
Speaker 1: game on television. It's a big game aside from last
Speaker 1: year's Week seventeen game. Cowboys Eagles. Yeah, they're always fun.
Speaker 1: I'm with Mick. I mean, I'll feel a lot better
Speaker 1: if Tyrann's playing. But in a way to me, they're
Speaker 1: really good. They are really good. But in a way,
Speaker 1: this is a good This is the right matchup for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys right now. They won't overlook them. They can't.
Speaker 1: And like Tay said, it's a division. There's a confidence
Speaker 1: factor in playing these team twice a year. You know
Speaker 1: most of these guys. Yeah, so you're familiar with them,
Speaker 1: you know, you can play with them. There are some
Speaker 1: matchups to worry about, obviously, but this team mess and pride,
Speaker 1: and I think they're being counted out right now, and
Speaker 1: believe me, they're listening to every bit of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is one of those games. I think if everything
Speaker 1: was as is, only the Eagles weren't playing the Cowboys
Speaker 1: like they were playing Carolina, you might have snuck one
Speaker 1: on them because they might have come in sleepwalking eight
Speaker 1: and one got a team struggling. We sat around with
Speaker 1: our feet up. But knowing the Eagles and knowing what
Speaker 1: goes on in Philadelphia, Cowboys ain't gonna sneak up on him. No,
Speaker 1: they'll be jacked up because it's Sunday night football and
Speaker 1: it's the Cowboys, and that'll get their attention that they don't.
Speaker 1: They don't overlook this game. Trust Doug Peterson. Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: isn't Andy Reid. I know he's not. Yea, Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: will jack a game up on you every once in
Speaker 1: a while. He You know why Doug Peterson's doing so
Speaker 1: well because Jim Schwartz is doing a hell of a
Speaker 1: job on defense. He's a hell of a DC. This defense.
Speaker 1: I have a ton of respect for Jim Schwartz. He
Speaker 1: might not like him as a head coach, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think their defense is outstanding. He got a head
Speaker 1: coaching job in Detroit for a reason, is what you're saying. Sure,
Speaker 1: but this, you know, I mean and Andy Reid is
Speaker 1: Andy Reid was always the guy. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: his record gets the Cowboys was probably a little above
Speaker 1: five hundred, but that's division games. That's yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just how it goes. I Doug Peterson in this game. Nah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: where's my my notes here? I love worried me, you
Speaker 1: know what. Hey, Ray and Louisiana called yesterday and he
Speaker 1: said that you had given him such you know, scared feelings,
Speaker 1: fearful Yeah, you know, I mean the last two weeks
Speaker 1: I picked him the loose. Yeah, so you know, I'm hey,
Speaker 1: one on one, I just I get more than anything.
Speaker 1: I'm just sick of the knee jerk stuff. It's like
Speaker 1: they lost the game. Yes, they have some injuries, but
Speaker 1: my Twitter timeline, man, can have you talked to Dave?
Speaker 1: Are you getting are you getting tired of Twitter? A
Speaker 1: little bit? No one shows owd Askin should So they've
Speaker 1: scored least thirty points in the last three games and
Speaker 1: four of the last five, and the one they didn't
Speaker 1: they scored twenty eight. Yeah, his team's averaging thirty one
Speaker 1: point four points a game. That's what scares me. I
Speaker 1: know the defense, I know the defenses, but this is
Speaker 1: thirty one point four a game without Sean Lee. Yeah, well, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, might make He just says he's picking a knell. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: did you just did? Didn't he very much? Sorta there
Speaker 1: is that. We have a caller from Missouri on the line,
Speaker 1: Rick from Missouri. What is your question? No questions, just
Speaker 1: a couple of comments. I'm kind of with Ryan and
Speaker 1: the crowd that, uh, there's no logical reason that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys should win, but I just have this weird you.
Speaker 1: We're going to show up there you go, It'll be okay. Um.
Speaker 1: Another point is with micking the missoo, guys, he's got
Speaker 1: to be kind of happy the way that football team
Speaker 1: turned around. I went to the first four or five games.
Speaker 1: I saw the crazy win and the loss is up
Speaker 1: through perdue. But then the coach is kind of turn
Speaker 1: it around. Now they're not playing real strong teams, but
Speaker 1: wins are wins and they're close to a bowl. Basketball
Speaker 1: looks really exciting. So anyway, my son's there, so he's
Speaker 1: having a good time of that. Third quick point. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm coming to town. I'm glad to hear about, you know,
Speaker 1: the activities at the Star. Now that I know Jerry's
Speaker 1: bust is going to be there, I'd like to see
Speaker 1: that too. Is there any show activity that you guys
Speaker 1: might have on Saturday night? We're coming in on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and then in the evening we you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: guys have a live broadcast or some media has a
Speaker 1: live broadcast on Saturday night. Now you know, there's there's
Speaker 1: a Rally Days thing at the stadium in the afternoon
Speaker 1: that goes to about six or seven o'clock at night,
Speaker 1: and you can always tour the Star. Yeah, not at
Speaker 1: night though, I don't know. They go pretty late on Saturday,
Speaker 1: which is surprised. I've been up here working before, you know,
Speaker 1: doing stuff like in Star Sports and then coming over here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do. There's a lot of activity at the Star.
Speaker 1: I mean you could go I mean as far as outside.
Speaker 1: They put all the college games up on the big screen,
Speaker 1: got all kinds of great restaurants, across the street, you know,
Speaker 1: coming and they do stuff on the plazas. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: the stadium, at AT and T Stadium and those are as,
Speaker 1: lot fire as, I know, free right, just go in
Speaker 1: and participate. Right. We do our pregame show out there
Speaker 1: on the out in the Tostis Plaza outdoors, outdoors on Sunday. Yeah, outdoors,
Speaker 1: so yeah, Saturday. But it's kind of mill around, a
Speaker 1: lot of good things to do. Brian loves when you
Speaker 1: walk in front of the camera and just stand there,
Speaker 1: just look right at them. Absolutely get between me and
Speaker 1: the camera right when I'm on That's my favorite thing.
Speaker 1: When you're trying to make an emphatic point. Now when
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you how the Cowboys are gonna
Speaker 1: win this game, Yeah, just come up and go what
Speaker 1: are you guys doing? Kind of hooked the glasses with
Speaker 1: your finger. You would throw a football, try and hit
Speaker 1: me in the back. Maybe I can get on that
Speaker 1: home videos thing we win twenty five grand, you know,
Speaker 1: think about that. If you hit me in the head
Speaker 1: with a football, maybe we can get a funny home
Speaker 1: video thing. If I would make that much money, I
Speaker 1: would make you hit me and that with a football.
Speaker 1: Always my fear in those preseason pregame shows back to
Speaker 1: the field. You guys, see that ball in my face? Actually,
Speaker 1: where were we was a season game. It happened to you.
Speaker 1: You were there, you know, somebody else was on and
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a punted ball or
Speaker 1: a pass ball, and the ball came rolling between where
Speaker 1: we were sitting and the cameras right and the next
Speaker 1: thing I know, here comes a player and he ducks
Speaker 1: under the cameras and goes and gets the ball and
Speaker 1: runs back out. Yeah, And it was like, you seriously,
Speaker 1: that I just happened. You would be surprised how many
Speaker 1: times Lindsay and I are talking and there are people
Speaker 1: fishing footballs from underneath our feet while we're talking. That's
Speaker 1: ball rolls up and they just you know, but it
Speaker 1: was the funniest thing you've ever seen, because you see
Speaker 1: the guy duck in and he ducks back out, you know,
Speaker 1: laying the donuts in consideration. He was donut tay in
Speaker 1: the draft day. I know Mickey will join me this
Speaker 1: year Draft Day. Yeah, we'll be They had those donuts
Speaker 1: in here and homey donuts. Yeah. Oh I was scratch.
Speaker 1: I was out at the stadium. Pretty good. Hey guys,
Speaker 1: someone you know we do have some well educated Twitter followers.
Speaker 1: I know we talked badly about Rob. Didn't think so,
Speaker 1: but hey, I appreciate Rob's running out of patience. Boy,
Speaker 1: that must be bad. Boys got a lot of patience.
Speaker 1: It does to tell with us he's working with you
Speaker 1: for true Ricky knows on that one. He can't even
Speaker 1: fight that one. Oh not at Zeke's that one. One
Speaker 1: of our followers tweeted us. And you know we're talking
Speaker 1: about Tyron Smith and his possibility of playing this. He
Speaker 1: goes the Cowboys yards per play with someone with and
Speaker 1: without Tyron Smith on the field this year with Tyron
Speaker 1: Smith seven point three one. Without Tyron Smith four point
Speaker 1: five Oh. Participation impact plus two point eight one. This
Speaker 1: is the largest participation impact among eligible offensive tasks. Like
Speaker 1: a Pro Football focus there, Mick, that what it is?
Speaker 1: It's NFL drafter. Oh, he's only missed one game. Did
Speaker 1: they take in consideration when he was out of the
Speaker 1: game when they were in like San Francisco, Like when
Speaker 1: they pulled him, Yeah, when they got hurt when it's
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Kansas City can't say I'm sorry. He can't city. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was only the last possession the game six
Speaker 1: seven plays, that's yeah. Yeah, and the game was over.
Speaker 1: If he wondered if the study please, you know, it's
Speaker 1: funny they ran the ball better last year running to
Speaker 1: the right than they did to the left, and that
Speaker 1: was with Ron Leary and Tyrant Smith on the left side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't try running to the left last Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything was right right, Well, regardless of that stat his
Speaker 1: points while taken in that they did try to get
Speaker 1: the ball out quicker without him in the game, which
Speaker 1: meant shorter passes, shorter yards per attemp most likely. When
Speaker 1: I think the main point of what whatever Ethan Young
Speaker 1: was trying to do is just say that Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: is pretty important. Yeah, pretty important matters. Yeah, I would say, man,
Speaker 1: the runner matters, the left tackle matters, the weak side
Speaker 1: linebacker matters, and the kicker matters. What was the what
Speaker 1: was the stat? Was it a running stat or a
Speaker 1: passing or yards or yards per yards per yards per
Speaker 1: play when he's in the game seven oh yards per play? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you lose fifty four yards joining the show sacks, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have been doing over the last four minutes.
Speaker 1: I thought he Missouri guy, throw you off there about
Speaker 1: that points playing in that Liberty Liberty bowler going to Memphis.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not. It's the New Year's Eve game.
Speaker 1: God bless him. We might just need to bring him
Speaker 1: pizza every day just to keep him going. It was
Speaker 1: pretty alert when the PiZZ you up, man, what's that?
Speaker 1: He had a purpose to be here, it was. It
Speaker 1: was such a joy for us. But hey, guys, another
Speaker 1: joy that's coming up is Rob's Twitter poll. Yes, so
Speaker 1: we'll get to we have one. Yes. Good After you
Speaker 1: just gave Rob such a good compliment of his patients,
Speaker 1: you think he just backs out on it. Damn a bolter. Long, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to vote. We are going to vote. Hey, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get making to vote during the break, so we'll
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Speaker 1: talking Cowboys. We found out yesterday wife Papa John's pizza
Speaker 1: tastes so great. It's the deep dish along with the
Speaker 1: ingredients and the pepperoni. Although we had sausage, yes, but
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Speaker 1: right over here in the training table. Yeah, either or
Speaker 1: but you know what I can't get, but just right here, stay,
Speaker 1: my beating heart, day, my beating heart. Rob's Twitter pool,
Speaker 1: it's his time. We didn't vote, That's okay. We got
Speaker 1: a little brain brain spaz. It's fine. Mike will have
Speaker 1: his own time for Rob's pole. That's right, Mick Key.
Speaker 1: Matchups Sunday, Okay, got four of them, four not three? Four? Good.
Speaker 1: Zack Martin against Fletcher Cox. Yeah, DeMarcus Lawrence against Eagles
Speaker 1: right tackle Lane Johnson Lane Jason Witton against safety Malcolm Jenkins,
Speaker 1: top cover guy or Anthony Hitchins. We're assuming Sean Lee's
Speaker 1: out facing the new Eagles duo at running back of
Speaker 1: la Garrett Blunt and Jayagii. What do you guys think?
Speaker 1: What was the first one? The Fletcher Cox? Oh well,
Speaker 1: they're gonna move him over. Jonathan Cooper. I choose a
Speaker 1: matchup every week to watch, it's not necessarily the most
Speaker 1: important one, and the one that I chose this week
Speaker 1: was Lane Johnson versus to Markus Lawrence. Lane Johnson, a
Speaker 1: Texas native, family groups for the Cowboys quarterback. He threatened
Speaker 1: his grandmother tad aggressive. It was very Mickey style. He
Speaker 1: said that if she wants to live to see seventy five,
Speaker 1: she has to root for the Eagles this week, and
Speaker 1: I think she's gonna stay strong in her Cowboys pride
Speaker 1: for her good grandma. Yeah, I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 1: Are we asking it critical or which one would be
Speaker 1: most fun to watch? The biggest key matchup? Oh? Key, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think it's key pass rush is important. No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you. I'm gonna go with I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Zach Martin one myself because I
Speaker 1: think Dallas has got to find a way even if
Speaker 1: they try and move him. Whoever plays over Zach Martin,
Speaker 1: they need to get something going and running in the football.
Speaker 1: But see, didn't he play over run Larry last year
Speaker 1: and Larry had trouble with them? They move him around.
Speaker 1: They move around. But I'm saying that you just can't
Speaker 1: sit there and say, okay, play they play one in
Speaker 1: the three. You can't just play that the whole game,
Speaker 1: you know, Okay, So I would I would just say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, give me the one where give me
Speaker 1: the one where they're trying to block Fletcher Cox. That's
Speaker 1: the one I'm I'm I'm interested in. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Hitchens and really just the Cowboys overall run defense.
Speaker 1: The games they've lost, they haven't been able to stop
Speaker 1: the run, and it was it's always apparent when Sean's
Speaker 1: not in the game, they struggle. Even though Hitchins is
Speaker 1: having a terrific season since he's been back. That actually
Speaker 1: wins the poll fifty five percent Hitchens versus the running backs,
Speaker 1: followed by Martin versus Fletcher Cox, and at twenty one
Speaker 1: percent d Law and Lane Johnson. Yes, I'm in the
Speaker 1: twenty one percent. It's a key matchup. You vote that's
Speaker 1: a that's a key matchup. You're just thinking the past
Speaker 1: take advantage out, Yeah, because I think they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to hold them to a reasonable amount of points to
Speaker 1: score a reasonable a bout of points to be able
Speaker 1: to win, because if it's twenty seven, they may not
Speaker 1: score twenty seven. But if you can hold him to
Speaker 1: twenty one twenty four, then I think you can get
Speaker 1: a chance to win. Nice So defense, they only had
Speaker 1: They've had one sack last week and two, so they've
Speaker 1: had three sacks in the last two games. Ain't enough.
Speaker 1: We were calling the Saxonville two. It's not right now.
Speaker 1: The locomotive kind of slowed down. Yeah, they need more,
Speaker 1: they need more, but kind of gets it with this
Speaker 1: guy's hard to sack. Yeah, but they've given up twenty
Speaker 1: four of them, which puts him at nineteenth in the league.
Speaker 1: When it comes to doing that, can you choke the run?
Speaker 1: Make them one dimensional? What did? What did Peters get hurt?
Speaker 1: Washington game? Remember I was willing people to get banged up.
Speaker 1: That was the shame on you, Voodoo Brian, shame on you.
Speaker 1: But hey, we have another banged up. I didn't say injured,
Speaker 1: it's had. He just watered them sore. Took it a
Speaker 1: little too far, did well? We have another caller, Ray
Speaker 1: from Fort Worth? How are you doing? Hello? Everybody? Um,
Speaker 1: I got a comment in a question, but I'll get
Speaker 1: to my question. First, Lion Collins is a better player
Speaker 1: than Chads Greens, a lot more athletic. I know you
Speaker 1: don't like switching guys, but wouldn't Collins be a better
Speaker 1: left cockle in this situation? And you put Chad's Green
Speaker 1: on the right side because he, uh, Dad can see
Speaker 1: that coming and you can spot him. You know, you
Speaker 1: can spot help on on on that side. I just
Speaker 1: feel like, I don't know Collins would be better in
Speaker 1: this situation, in especially in this game. I know they're
Speaker 1: not gonna do it, but that's just that's my question.
Speaker 1: What's the biggest problem that Lyle Collins has when he
Speaker 1: breaks down? I get I get it, but he's right,
Speaker 1: I'm asking. I'm serious, though, Just tell me, just just
Speaker 1: tell me. You say you get it, but just tell me.
Speaker 1: I want to hear it in your own words. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he brings. I just think he has better footwork. He's
Speaker 1: a little bit quicker on that side. Do you worry
Speaker 1: about his hands? What were the problems and he gets
Speaker 1: over extended? What about Green's hands? No, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I just you know you're trying to you're trying to
Speaker 1: offer a solution, but I'm trying to tell you why
Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't do it? You know, if what's the
Speaker 1: problem when you watch? That's what I'm asking why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you do? Okay, No, I'm asking you now too, I'm
Speaker 1: asking you this question. I'll answer your question. Then when
Speaker 1: what what is the biggest problem when you see Lyle Collins?
Speaker 1: You said feet and hands? Right? And what happens to
Speaker 1: him when when those two don't work? Oh, it's over, okay?
Speaker 1: And whatever gets over? What happened to what happened to
Speaker 1: Chad's green in that game last week? His problem to
Speaker 1: me was his hands and looked like he just never
Speaker 1: he just never corrected that situation. And it's like it's
Speaker 1: not all his fault. But you had the coaches of
Speaker 1: the blame here too, and they admitted that coach and
Speaker 1: said that, Yeah, they said that. The coach Garrett said
Speaker 1: it today. He said it yesterday and the walk off
Speaker 1: and he he renerated it, renderated it today in the
Speaker 1: in this press conference, he said, hey, we've got to
Speaker 1: we've got to give him help. That's on us. But
Speaker 1: would okay, we also too, wouldn't be better to sometime,
Speaker 1: not all the time, but to move the pocket I'm
Speaker 1: talking about when I think you'll see that. I think
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right about that that I will agree with
Speaker 1: you on now. Terence Williams too, I mean, you got
Speaker 1: to get paper open. I know Terence william had a
Speaker 1: great get against Kansas City, but you can't just show it,
Speaker 1: win game and disappear the rest the whole wide receiver corps.
Speaker 1: It's not all on him too. You want to get
Speaker 1: the battle out quick. The whole wide receivers got to
Speaker 1: get open. Yeah, this winden't usually has a good game
Speaker 1: against these guys. Sure. Look, the bottom line is you
Speaker 1: got to win this game, and it's an MCTEAM. You
Speaker 1: don't want this team to come in here and put
Speaker 1: up fifty one on you like they did a Denver.
Speaker 1: You don't want them come in your house on Sunday
Speaker 1: night and punk you. Basically, you can't have that. You
Speaker 1: just you just can't have that. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: they're all they're eight and one. I I don't I
Speaker 1: don't have a great hopes in him, but I just
Speaker 1: see him fight. Don't come out here. They just let
Speaker 1: him like they did Denver. Got thank you, Ray. It's
Speaker 1: kind of what Brian I talked about like, I just
Speaker 1: there's prides got to take over at some point our house,
Speaker 1: our house, think Michael Irvin, Yeah, you know, Idio pregame.
Speaker 1: I just when you when you know, I'm all for
Speaker 1: people trying to come up with solutions, but if you're
Speaker 1: putting a player in a position that tends to have
Speaker 1: the same problems as the gay now maybe it's not
Speaker 1: as consistent, you know, but but Garrett told you they
Speaker 1: needed to give him help. That's the biggest you know,
Speaker 1: keep you got Collins is actually playing better on the
Speaker 1: right side. I mean, you look last week with what
Speaker 1: he was able to do, you know, against a difficult
Speaker 1: pass rusher. You know, he didn't give up anything last week.
Speaker 1: So I mean to me, keep him there, let him
Speaker 1: keep playing that spot. But you think anybody anybody noted,
Speaker 1: and I know they should have gave him a more help. Sure,
Speaker 1: but they did give him help one time, and they
Speaker 1: still gave up a sack. They absolutely did. So it
Speaker 1: was it was it was, yeah, it was his day.
Speaker 1: It was his day because they had they had Jonathan
Speaker 1: Cooper turn out to help him, and boy, Jonathan was
Speaker 1: slow out of his stance on that one. He was
Speaker 1: but the guy kind of came inside and beat him,
Speaker 1: but it still went to the outside. And that's all
Speaker 1: he had to do was protect the outside. Bad day
Speaker 1: at the office, a real bad day at the office, yea.
Speaker 1: And it was worse because I heard he had a
Speaker 1: lot of visitors there. Yeah, Green did, yes, because he went,
Speaker 1: Oh that's so sad. Yeah, that's like sometimes that happens too.
Speaker 1: We're talking about weird games, like where there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on. Sometimes when you have a huge crowd coming
Speaker 1: to see you, not always the best. I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: landstonebar when he returned to New Orleans. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: though that you know, he he has not played terrible
Speaker 1: when you started him. That was a bad, bad game
Speaker 1: and he you know, and again that's when your technique's bad,
Speaker 1: you're going to give up bad plays. And that's what happened,
Speaker 1: all right, guys. Well at the twenty five game, Mark
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, what are you doing? I was looking to
Speaker 1: see what you read. Well, I'm about to read it
Speaker 1: to you. Oh okay. Carson Wentz and Dak Prescott have
Speaker 1: been compared probably since before they were drafted. Obviously quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the draft, of course, Carson Wentz went in the
Speaker 1: top two. Dak Prescott fell to Round four, But since
Speaker 1: then they have continually been compared. Of course, being in
Speaker 1: the NFC East Division adds to that. I want to
Speaker 1: tell you guys some of their comparable stats here, So
Speaker 1: passing statistics first year, Dak Prescott thirty nine this year,
Speaker 1: twenty five games through their career. Yes, Dak Prescott has
Speaker 1: thirty nine passing touchdowns, Carson Wentz thirty nine passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Their touchdown rate Dak Prescott is five point four percent,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz four point three percent. Interceptions Wentz has nineteen
Speaker 1: and Dak has eight. Interception rate one point one percent
Speaker 1: for Dak and two point one percent for Wentz. Now,
Speaker 1: passing yards is where Wentz kind of gets the advantage
Speaker 1: on Dak. He has six thousand and forty four Dak
Speaker 1: has five thousand and six hundred and sixty one. But guys,
Speaker 1: you're seeing this, they're very comparable. To end it on
Speaker 1: that they're QBR ratings. Dak's is seventy seven point eight
Speaker 1: and Wentz is fifty five point seven m they're very
Speaker 1: sounds toughly low. Yeah, QBR is different. Berating rights. Is
Speaker 1: that an ESPN's passing. Yeah, they figured out their own formula. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean there are they're passer rating. What
Speaker 1: about victories similar Well let's see. Okay, so they're at
Speaker 1: eight and one right now, we can do this simple math,
Speaker 1: right though, It's okay, Yeah, there were seven to nine
Speaker 1: last year memy games. Did he start though? Did he
Speaker 1: not start? Did he start the whole season? Did they go?
Speaker 1: I think he did start. He gets Cleveland Cleveland week one, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: there you go go ahead. Fifteen eight one and seven
Speaker 1: technically started against the Eagles, right, yea, just didn't play
Speaker 1: the whole game. Yeah, he took the Dacs eighteen and seven, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh no, well he surely shouldn't give him the loss
Speaker 1: in film he does, he gets the lost, he gets
Speaker 1: the laws. Jack's eighteen and seven and what's fifteen and ten?
Speaker 1: And and Dak had a considerably better supporting class, yeah,
Speaker 1: cast last year than their numbers to me are even
Speaker 1: more similar this year because Winz is cut down his interceptions.
Speaker 1: You know, he and Dak combined have less than ten
Speaker 1: picks I think this year, and Wentz has more passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: but Dak is like near the top of the league
Speaker 1: and rushing touchdowns among any player. So yar two, you're
Speaker 1: getting in the end zone about the same amount. Two
Speaker 1: one team really runs the football well and the other
Speaker 1: one right tries. Wentz has completed sixty percent of his
Speaker 1: passes this year DAK sixty three yards UH twenty two
Speaker 1: sixty two for Wentz nineteen ninety four for DAK average
Speaker 1: per game, I bet wins is a much better. He's
Speaker 1: over seven point seven seven acts at six nine. That
Speaker 1: last game really hurt him. Touchdowns twenty three to sixteen
Speaker 1: in Wentz's favor, and interceptions five to four Wentz's disfavor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well good, and the quarterback ratings are one oh four
Speaker 1: to ninety six. Three. Other stats they had to offer
Speaker 1: was the situational passing. So in play action DAK is
Speaker 1: go ahead, you know any from you want to your
Speaker 1: play action win blitz third down, the yardage play action win,
Speaker 1: blitz win win blitzed And what is it okay play
Speaker 1: action or win? Oh? I thought it was two give
Speaker 1: me the wind, blame me win, but win blitz Yeah good.
Speaker 1: One brand DAK is sixty one eleven touchdowns to one interception.
Speaker 1: You Carson Wentz fifty seven percent, fifteen touchdowns, but five interception.
Speaker 1: You go, his most interceptions come on third down. Actually
Speaker 1: seven interception, got to get one or two that was career.
Speaker 1: That was career. Okay, that's pretty good. When he's blitzed.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, ask for some blitzers. Yeah. They're both pretty
Speaker 1: good in play action obviously, and then that's their game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the read option stuff like that. Yeah. This this is
Speaker 1: why it's important for Dallas to have some kind of
Speaker 1: running game, even if it's dirty yards whatever they have
Speaker 1: to do. You have to get that play action game going.
Speaker 1: You have to get the waggle of the boot game going.
Speaker 1: You got to get witt and involved, swim involved, somebody underneath,
Speaker 1: you know, make these some simple throws, keep the chains
Speaker 1: moving along, and finish when you get these guys again,
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite stats. You get them
Speaker 1: inside of the thirty. You got a chance to score
Speaker 1: on these guys, not just red zone, but not you
Speaker 1: get inside the thirty because that's when that's when their
Speaker 1: stats turn bad as far as passing and things like that.
Speaker 1: But with the Cowboys have the ability with the throw
Speaker 1: the football, but also with the read option stuff. With
Speaker 1: Dak the quarterback draws things like that. That's golden. Just
Speaker 1: get find a way to get down inside that thirty
Speaker 1: yard line. I think it was Jim Schwartz this week
Speaker 1: that said Dak might be the best he's ever seen it.
Speaker 1: It was on the run. Yeah, And that's that's one
Speaker 1: reason why you can't blitz him, because he because he
Speaker 1: gets out of the pocket and he's got his eyes
Speaker 1: down the field and he can make throws. Still, Winch
Speaker 1: is the same ability that. That's the thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: win Winch has had some incredible breaks of the pocket
Speaker 1: and then take off running. You know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: lot like what you saw with with Smith, Alex Smith,
Speaker 1: the same way that kind of that oh my god,
Speaker 1: you got him sack. No, he's broke loose. Now he's running.
Speaker 1: You know that's no, he's gone. He's gone. No, you
Speaker 1: gotta be careful with that. It's not a touchdown. Eight
Speaker 1: is a touchdown. I think tomorrow we should predict the
Speaker 1: first play of the game. Is that our new thing?
Speaker 1: I like for the Cowboys. I like it. You're gonna
Speaker 1: run or you're gonna pass. You're gonna set the tone.
Speaker 1: You're gonna just go full back and two tight ends
Speaker 1: and run them. You bring bring Terence Williams in motion,
Speaker 1: haven't play. We can just bring that extra guy. Don
Speaker 1: let everybody else know that you're gonna run. And then
Speaker 1: he got nine guys in the box and you get stuff.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Let me just ask you this.
Speaker 1: Though I picked him that one, I know we got
Speaker 1: a few minutes here. Let me ask you your prediction.
Speaker 1: Though you been happy with the way the play Collin's been,
Speaker 1: or the or the way the way they've gone about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because because I run, you were kind of like, because
Speaker 1: they they basically I ripped it out already play by play. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean they thought against Atlanta they'd go three wide
Speaker 1: and run out of that right or find out if
Speaker 1: they were gonna blitz where it was coming from. Right.
Speaker 1: The problem was they didn't block right, you know. And
Speaker 1: what what I didn't like is the way they opened
Speaker 1: the game though, because they basically opened with two tight ends,
Speaker 1: a fullback. They they had football a phone booth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was like all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: that's what Atlanta wanted to do in the first place. Right,
Speaker 1: they were going to play eight in the box, single
Speaker 1: safety high and then you bring in all these tight ends.
Speaker 1: Well that just brought more guys into the box. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or when you show a fullback, you know. Finally the
Speaker 1: second half it was like, okay, we'll try this little screen.
Speaker 1: We'll have a struggle too for the tight ends blocking
Speaker 1: in that. Yes, especially early. Yeah, really do you agree
Speaker 1: with the play? I'll tell you what. There's some creativity
Speaker 1: things that I've really liked, and I felt like when
Speaker 1: with Zeke they were I mean, I love the play
Speaker 1: action stuff that they went when they're really running the football.
Speaker 1: Their play action game is so pretty to watch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you get Dak, I mean, Dak
Speaker 1: running to his left throwing the football is beautiful because
Speaker 1: quarterbacks can't do that. Quarterbacks can't traditionally get outside going
Speaker 1: to their left, square up and throw a rope. And
Speaker 1: he can do that, you know, And I think I
Speaker 1: think if you're really running the ball, well, it helps
Speaker 1: for other things you can do as far as like,
Speaker 1: you know, you fake a toss and now you get
Speaker 1: full flow. Everybody's flying out of there. Now there's a
Speaker 1: guy underneath. It's the play to witt and they throw
Speaker 1: to Whitney and Witton can't run out of sight, but
Speaker 1: he runs. He gets seventeen yards or sixty because he
Speaker 1: because there's so much open field because of your ability
Speaker 1: to run the football. I love me some good old
Speaker 1: play action. That's what Atlanta got cooking in the second half.
Speaker 1: Sure did last week. Sure did. And it just it
Speaker 1: makes you, you know, you're you're fine, You're everything is
Speaker 1: going forward and they're going behind you. You know, But
Speaker 1: I do. I like Lenahan. There's some creative things that
Speaker 1: he does. Mickey. We're talk the other day. The screen
Speaker 1: that they ran. If they get the block from Jonathan
Speaker 1: Cooper down inside the twelve yard line, I mean, if
Speaker 1: they got the sack, it's got a chance to go.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a creative play call right there. Keep
Speaker 1: your feet. Yeah, now you could second guess the call
Speaker 1: on the sack, you know, just keep his feet. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm just saying you can't. But yeah, you're
Speaker 1: really as good as the execution of team. You're really
Speaker 1: the play calling. We feel like, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times have we thought, oh, it's too cute,
Speaker 1: it's a cute play, don't don't be cute. But then
Speaker 1: he'll just turn around and hand it to Zeke or
Speaker 1: hand it, you know, or you know there's things like
Speaker 1: say the option that he ran the other day with
Speaker 1: Beasley on third down. He put Atlanta in a bad
Speaker 1: situation there. He once Dak did the fake Okay, now
Speaker 1: it's going to be and you know there's you go,
Speaker 1: it's needed two yards, he gets five. You know those
Speaker 1: are those are creative plays. Absolutely well, guys, Hey, we're
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