WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Picking a W? 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:08.520 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:20.680 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.400 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.760 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.120 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:40.440 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.360 As Tuesday, December third, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode number 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.040 ninety three. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We're 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.840 Alive from the s WBC Mortage Studios. At the start, 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:51.519 we got forty five minutes, so we got a lot 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.240 to get into. We're gonna talk about some injuries, got 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.520 some storylines that Nick has worked up for you. On 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.160 the Cowboys versus Bears. Day's gonna give us a scoutter 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.160 report on the on the on the Bears defense, and 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:03.720 by the end of the show, Amber's gonna tell you 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.760 who's gonna win the game. So we got a lot 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.640 to do today. Let's start first with some guys that 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.640 did not practice yesterday and get caught up on their 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:16.959 injury status. Randall Cop, Jeff Heath, Layton Vanderesh, Antoine Woods, Dave, 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:18.640 what would you see from them today. I assume you 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.600 went out to practice before the show. I actually didn't. Didn't, okay, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:28.160 but our offices are we went out to practice. Okay, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.200 I watched practice. I'm multitask today. You put it that way, 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:37.920 I'm multi task. Uh, Layton Vanderesh isn't gonna play in 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.840 this game, all right? X Randall Cop is back at practice. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:46.120 He should be available. That was an illness, correct, Yes, yeah, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.960 he's he's fine. And actually I saw him yesterday while 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.840 Black practice was going on. He was entering the building, 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.240 so he wasn't at the building yesterday as well. Um, 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.760 just like last week. I think Jeff Heath is going 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.800 to be the one I didn't. I didn't see him 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.240 out there today. He didn't play in the game, which 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.040 was honestly a little bit surprising to us. I think 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:03.680 we kind of say we thought he could get through it. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.640 Antoine Woods, No, I think Jeff Heath is the guy 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.280 to watch. But I think it's going to be a 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.240 very similar cast of characters for this game as it 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.720 was for the Bills. How do you feel about Darien 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.200 Thompson also being limited in practice with Jeff Heath being out. 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.240 I think that Darian Thompson is more of like a 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.680 you know, there's a lot of guys listed as limited, 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.600 and all those limited guys seem to be okay. That 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:31.520 just yeah, you know, Jason Garrett, this isn't encouraging. But 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.360 Jason Garrett said this morning, Tyrant Smith pop back up 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:39.160 on the injury report with an achilles, but yeah, limited, 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:44.079 it's yeah, you would think it's sore or something. Yeah, no, 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.600 I know, but he was out there today. He's been 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.360 out there all week, and everybody's fighting through about nineteen 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.800 things right now. It's just the nature of football. But yeah, yeah, 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.680 hate here in that word, like that's got to be 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.200 top five words you don't want to hear in regard 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.880 to a football player or anybody. Really. Yeah. Yeah. The 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.520 good news of all of that stuff you just mentioned, 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.640 Amari Cooper practice full yesterday after you know what happened 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.120 to him last game, So it looks like he's ready 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.079 to go. And he said yesterday in the locker room. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.040 I think that the quote was something to the effect of, 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.000 you know, this time year, everybody's banged up, but I'm 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.960 good to go. So he also said, yes, this is 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.200 easily the most amount of stuff I've ever had to 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.400 fight through in a season. I couldn't believe that. You know, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.600 he hasn't missed any time this week. I thought his 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:35.000 season might be over when he took that hit. Obviously, Yeah, 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.360 so cost to him. He's fine, he'll be available. I 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.760 certainly didn't think he'd be practicing this week. My thought was, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.040 this is going to be one of those weeks where 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.320 you don't practice, you see how you feel by game time, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.680 and then hopefully he's ready to go. He said he expected. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.400 He said he expected to wake up on Friday morning 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.119 and you know, just being a tremendous amount of pain, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.600 and he was like surprised when he woke up and 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.360 felt okay. I mean, this whole thing's been tough to 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.880 read for him, and not really in a negative way, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.160 but like, you know, he didn't look like he was 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.720 anywhere close to playing after the Jets game. He did, 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.280 he didn't had no interest, He had no there was 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.040 not he wasn't gonna go back and play in that game. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.240 You could just tell. And so that looks like he's 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.160 not gonna play the next week. But he does. He plays. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.400 He plays really well against I think it was the Packers. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.120 So then you know, even the whole contract situation. I mean, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.719 you would thought you would have thought he even signed 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.440 by now, but he's not. I mean, he takes his 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.479 big hit, he's not gonna play. Oh man, this is 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.880 gonna be really bad, but he comes back. I'm not 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.040 saying that he that he fakes it or anything like that. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.640 I'm just saying he's tough to read. What do you 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.799 think you're gonna see from him? Hasn't really happened? Yeah, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.680 I mean is what it is. Honestly, it's getting a 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.000 point where it's not as tough to read him my opinion, 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.359 just from the standpoint you're starting to realize he's just 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.120 a tough dude that if it's at all possible for 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:50.560 him to play, I think you will play. And he 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.320 puts in context that game where he didn't come back. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.120 It tells me he must have really been in pain, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.760 because he's dealt with some pretty you would think, some 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.800 pretty painful moments and he's played through most of them 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.919 this season. So it tells me in that moment, like 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.920 he really thought, I'm going to be a detriment to 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.159 my team being out there. Worst injury of the season. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.000 If we ever do those articles that say, like, what 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.039 was the toughest one, now, Jets whatever he was dealing 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.279 with the Jets game, that was the toughest one to 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.520 me because they were shorthanded, they didn't have any receivers 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.560 in the back end, and they kicked the Jets ass. 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.200 If he plays in the game and they don't end 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.120 as they've said last week, you beat the Jets changes 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.400 everything about this team, and you know, just perception of 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.960 the team, the record, everything, but different if you beat 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.720 the Jets. I'm gonna take a little D two here. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.800 Since we started talking about Amari Cooper, there was a 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.800 report that came out yesterday, false report, but a report 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.040 nonetheless that basically said that Cowboys probably wouldn't be able 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.240 to resign him or Byron Jones. Then he addressed it 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.040 in the locker room yesterday. Tell me what Amri said 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.560 about the likelihood of him signing back with the Cowboys 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.000 when the season's done. At some point you talk about, yeah, 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.320 like Amari Cooper just does the opposite of like's what 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.599 you would expect I think from a pro football player. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.240 That was really surprising yesterday. Like that came up because 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.680 of the report that came out over the weekend and 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.120 he was like, yeah, I love it here. You know, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:11.840 I've been more productive here than I've been in Oakland. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.960 Why would I want to leave? Like, why would I 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:15.440 If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That was his 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.599 exact quote. And you know, the money has to be right, 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.080 and he kind of alluded to that, he said, I 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.359 haven't really thought about the open market. I'm not Trump 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.600 put the cart before the horse. But He's like, I 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.200 feel like I'm at home here. This is absolutely where 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:34.000 i want to be. Yeah, which, yeah, I'm I'm aggravated 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.960 by the speculation that's kind of going around about that. 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.600 Like you know, we speculate about Dak and Amari all offseason. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:43.920 It reaches a fever pitch at the start of the season, 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.320 nothing happens. You kind of settle into a groove where 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.440 you're playing games. And now the seasons a month from 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.359 being over, and people are just throwing stuff at the 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.640 wall because you're like, well, yeah, like they're probably headed 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.240 for a franchise tag like well, of course, because the 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.320 season's ending and then you know February, that type of 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.080 stuff has to be designated and marches when the market opens. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.120 People just throw speculation up there. Because they know how 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.760 the calendar works, and it creates a national news story 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.280 because it's the Dallas Cowboys. But the fact is Cowboys 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:14.920 will have to do a deal with either a Mari 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.680 or DAK before the franchise tag designation because they only 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.480 have one to use. Correct that's not necessarily true. Depending 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:28.880 on CBA negotiations. They could theoretically use franchise tag transition 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.760 tag at the same time. Kind of transition tag. They 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.720 use transition tag on one franchise on the other, they 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:37.200 could would you choose to franchise which well, and throw 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.640 Byron Jones in there, but again, by like you can 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.520 just do the math and be like, well, Byron has 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.760 always likely been the odd man out in that scenario 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:50.040 unless something happens. And again, so it's just national reporters 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.239 throwing stuff out there because of the Cowboys name. Using 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.760 common sense and reading tea leaves, which all of us 0:07:55.760 --> 0:08:01.120 can do, and we've all been talking about it since September. Okay, okay, 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.520 whatever I mean, it's not. I mean Cooper's first round 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.080 draft pick of this team. You see, he's gonna be 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.679 on the team. That's why you trade for him, because 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.760 he's going to be on the team, So, I mean, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.840 I get his injuries concerned me though, franchise guess how 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.200 you structure the contract? You would? Yeah, I mean, because 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.760 that's a one year deal of what eighteen nineteen million? 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.320 What's the what's the dat franchise tag? Twenty eight No thanks, 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.640 I'd rather sign him, get the get the damn thing done, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.760 Sign him, and then you can, you know, change the 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.440 numbers around. You can kind of you can mess with 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.600 those numbers because it's going to be such a big deal. Yeah, 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.840 I'm definitely getting but you're gonna sign him both, I think. Yeah, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.360 that's that's just the fun of this thing, is that 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.720 writers like to get their names, you know, mentioned on 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.240 the radio. That's what happens. Well, that's that's the point 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:47.959 of this thing, is that both players. I don't think 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.600 there's any reason to believe that either the player or 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.760 the organization wants to part ways in either of those cases. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.959 So when you have to deal two people that want 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.360 to get a deal done, a deal gets done. It's 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.640 just it's it's because it's the Dallas Cowboys is what 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.679 makes it aggravating. Because I could have come on this 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.000 podcast in September and said, well, the season has started. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.800 You don't see deals happen during the season. Very often. 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.000 We'll see what happens, but unless both sides come to 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.200 an agreement, you could theoretically see a situation where one 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.600 of these guys is tagged. And even if that's just 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.679 a placeholder, that happens all the time. It happened to 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.640 DeMarcus Lawrence less than twelve months ago. But time is 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.800 running out on the season and somebody with a larger 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.800 audience repackages the same non news and all of a sudden, 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.280 people are freaking out, like, oh my god, did you 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.319 hear Dak or Mari might have to be tagged? Well, no, duh, 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.079 Like that's that's the business of the NFL. There's nothing 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.280 new about it. But it's the Dallas Cowboys and stuff 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.040 like that gets said all the time. Has he lost 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.880 money a Mari? I mean, has his price tag gone 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.880 up or down? You think, I don't know if it's 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.240 changed at all? Has it from the beginning here? I'm 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.079 more about Dak. I mean, I mean you think Dak 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.120 has made money. Dak has made money. I think you 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.960 think maybe a little bit. Unless the cow even if 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.439 the number, even if the number was the same, even 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.160 if the number was the same. I think the Cowboys 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.000 feel better about paying Let's say the Cowboys already thinking, hey, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:10.920 you know we would pay him thirty four, we paim 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:12.880 thirty five. I think they feel a lot better about 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.839 paying him thirty four thirty four now than they did 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.480 back there. But if they haven't been and they may 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.520 have been like now, they may be like, hey, maybe 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.480 we would pay him if they weren't willing paim thirty 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.360 five before him. Now maybe they're like, hey, thirty five's 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.040 a bargain for what we've seen. Well, he's still six 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.720 and six. I mean, like, I think he's played better 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.719 than we thought, but at the six and six, so 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.760 they haven't. He hasn't done He hasn't put him in 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.920 a position where you think, you know, you would think 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.280 they would be. I mean, you're right, and it's no, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:42.400 you're it's disappointing. Blah blah blah. Kirk Cousins went seven 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.160 and nine the year before he signed his overrated and 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.440 overpaid but he set the market, but literally set the market. Okay, 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.240 but the Cowboys don't have to follow it. I mean, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.560 you pay the market too, And they didn't go get 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.800 Jamal Adams because the Rams set the market. But when 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.680 you pay a quarterback, you're not necessarily paying him because 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.320 he's the best quarterback in league. You're paying him whatever 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.760 the market rate is because you found a quarterback and 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.679 you don't want to let that quarterback. I get it, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.640 I get it, But I'm just saying I think Dak's 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.439 people have I think I don't think he's helped himself 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.000 that much. I think his stats are really nice, but 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.240 they're not winning games, and that's what quarterbacks are supposed 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.720 to do. Yeah, but when you look at other every 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.680 team thinks that they can take a player and make 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.040 them better, buy their own coaching and all of that. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.160 I think that what Dak has been able to do 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.560 this year, regardless of winning games and all that, just 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:36.719 stat wise, completion wise, and his progression as a quarterback, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.400 I think it did change, at least even my own 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.360 opinion what I thought of him before the start of 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.360 the season versus what I think of him as a 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.199 right now and what he can continue to become as 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:49.960 a quarterback. That's the key to me is what I 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.360 projected him. What I've seen this year suggests to me 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.920 that his trajectory says he's going to be a really, 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.560 really good quarterback, and so what you're paying for is 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.760 the projection, not so much necessarily he is right. Now, 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.720 what about Amari Cooper? Same, Yeah, I think Amari is 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:06.760 about the same as he was. I mean, I don't 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.840 think anybody's putting him among them. I don't think anybody 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.600 would say he's the best receiver in football. He's certainly 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.439 like he's on a short list, but I mean I 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.680 would slot him in there behind Julio and a few 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.520 other like I don't know that he's made, you know, 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.920 a twenty million dollars salary or anything. I mean he's 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.840 behind Julio and Michael Thomas and definitely behind Hopkins and 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.120 you know. And yeah, I mean I think he's played 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.679 well and considering his injuries and all that. But you know, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.640 like I said before, I had more of a problem 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.280 than you guys did about the goose egg that he 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.120 put up against New England, especially when you saw, you 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.640 know that Gilmore was, you know, he was not having 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.160 a great day against some of those guys from the Texans. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.760 So that's the game. I give him a little bit 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.360 more like I have more of a problem with the 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.280 way he played against in this last game, or the 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.000 way he played maybe if you want to throw out 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.280 the Saints game, that to me is more of a 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.440 problem just because I look at I look at the 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.080 weather in New England. I'm like, I don't know that 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.920 a lot of quarterbacks would have been able to function 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.880 very well in that kind of weather. It just kind 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.120 of is what it is, those kind of days. I'm 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.679 sorry we talking about Dad. I'm sorry, I thought you're 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.560 talking about Deck. Okay, guy either way, Yeah, I mean, 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.480 I got you, okay. But to me, it's like when 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.319 you lay out all the games. He's been pretty consistent 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.319 all throughout the year, and everyone has a bad game. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.959 You know, that's just naturally it's going to happen once 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.720 in a while. But I think you just have to 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.480 look at it more as an overall rather than pointing 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.839 out a single game. Yeah, he's played well, but I'm 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.240 just saying I think when you're looking at negotiating, you 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.480 can say, you know, just like the Cowboys, when you 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.040 go up against the best, how did you do? And 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.640 I will say that Dak needs to help himself by 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.040 winning some games here, because if not, then if you're 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.480 an eight and eight quarterback, that's not going to help 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.600 as far as Okay, so going along that track though, 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.319 do you think that, let's look at those eight losses. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.720 Do you think that the majority of those losses, half 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.520 those losses were due to Dak not playing well enough? Yes, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.240 most of them. I firmly believe that the quarterback needs 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:04.920 to play better. If you if you don't win, they 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.960 need to play better. And I can say that because 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.880 I Dak will stand it right in front of his 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.200 locker and the podium and say the exact same thing. Yeah, 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.880 that's what's supposed to say. That's what good leaders do. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.040 I get them. But even that, I mean I mean 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:20.239 Green Bay, New Orleans, New England, Yes, yes, yes, yeah, 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.720 and I mean everybody gets everybody gets a big al 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.040 for the Jets game, every single player of the team. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.080 So yeah, more than half of their losses he needed 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.480 to play better. He's not not necessarily played better, but 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.160 not the reason why they lost. Well, I guess that's 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.040 and maybe I said it the wrong way because I 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.320 guess I look at it and I'm he's down the 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.680 list for me. As far as guys that I think 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.640 if they would have played better, the Cowboys win on 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.640 some of those games. There are some games where I'm like, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:48.920 the quarterback, that's on you, dude. But but there are 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.960 certain games where I feel like there were other parts 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.280 of the team that failed them more than the quarterback did. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.640 And that's where I still get back to if you 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.640 look at where he is in this year of his 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.600 development as an NFL quarterback, to the arrow's pointing way up, 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.000 you know love da don't. I'm not saying that they shouldn't. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.480 Oh yeah, you know how you got Yeah, I'm already 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.480 getting it, I'm sure. But the thing about it is 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.920 is that I'm just saying you need, you need to 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.160 win games because it does affect him. If you know, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.720 he's the he's the reason this team is supposed to 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.440 be winning or losing, and as the quarterback, you don't 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:21.840 really want to put an eight in eight out there, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.960 which that right there, to me says that you may 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.640 have changed your opinion on what you thought of him 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:27.800 at the beginning of year, because I think at the 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.040 beginning of year we probably all would have said, Zeke, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.280 you're the reason that they're going to be winning or losing. Yeah, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.200 to be putting it on the quarterback means we've kind 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.000 of changed in our minds what we expect of Dak, 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.560 what's your level, what's your put it on a percentage 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:44.200 like level of concern about giving Amari and Dak at 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.800 or near market value contracts, just like you like one 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.280 hundred percent you're like, don't sign this guy at all, 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.680 let him go, Or zero percent you're like, how are 0:15:53.760 --> 0:16:01.440 we doing with the coach? First, are let's talk about 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.800 how much money and spending on these players? Because I'm like, 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.520 if you're gonna waste the talent on the field, then 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:13.640 why waste the money. So first we got to the coach. Actually, 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.240 I disagree. I think Amari and Dak have both played 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.280 well enough that independent of who's coaching this team, I 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.040 feel good about them being here. Absolutely, But regardless of 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.600 what I'm saying, it's like, what is that talent and 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.080 that invested money going to get you to That's a 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:34.200 whole different show. Those two guys come back next year 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.440 with new deals and they play to the level of 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.880 DeMarcus Lawrence and Zeke. This year, the Cowboys are going 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:45.120 to have problems because Zeke has not done he has 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.680 not done what you thought he would do with that money. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.360 DeMarcus Lawrence hasn't either. Jalen Smith, let's put that one 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.640 in there. Three guys all got signed. They haven't played 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.160 as well as they did last year. So if those 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:01.200 two guys get paid and that happens again, that's the 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.920 scary That is the scary. That is a scary thing 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.000 about paying about paying your own guys, because you do 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.240 see it from time and time where guys get paid 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.520 and all of a sudden, for whatever reason. I'm not 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.959 saying that they take it any less serious, but for 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.159 whatever reason, the production doesn't seem to always follow that. 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:21.040 You know, including this season, the Cowboys probably have about 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.720 a three year window before all these contracts really start 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:29.520 to mess with their ability to add talent. And you know, 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.760 there's four games left to play, but it doesn't look 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.600 like this is going to be the season that they 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.560 capitalize on it. Maybe I'm wrong, and not only that 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.800 doesn't look like it. The one thing I'll say about that, though, too, 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:39.840 is there's a new CBA come and that new CBA 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.600 may change all that because you got new TV deals 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.840 coming up in another i think two or three years 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.280 as well. That all can change the whole financial outlook 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.280 of the NFL. You know, you may all of a 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.960 sudden be playing with extra hundred million dollars in cap 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.479 space that you know, that makes it to where all 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.680 these big deals really don't matter, right, Yeah, But I 0:17:58.200 --> 0:17:59.880 never agree with that because they're all going to get 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.000 amount of money. So if you if the Cowboys have 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.000 an extra amount of money, that's fine, but the Buccaneers 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.720 will have an extra you know, hundred No. My point is, though, 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.119 that means you're not in salary cap like you're not 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.320 in it. Like Dave's point was, there's gonna come a 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.439 point where all these contracts are gonna get catch up 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.360 to you to where you now can't really go out 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.680 and sign players. You add another one hundred million dollars 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.920 to the cap, then it doesn't matter. You can cover 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.560 all these plus some, right, But it sort of does. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.880 But that's another show because I'm just saying, because then 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.760 now everyone's got all this extra money. Now they're paying 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.640 an average defensive end twenty three million a year when 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.520 you've got DeMarcus lords, you know what I mean. So 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.800 you think DeMarcus then goes back to the web. I'm 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:36.840 just saying, it just keeps going over and over to 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.840 more he needs to play better. But what's to say 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.560 that market gets up to eighteen million a year and 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:43.680 you've got two guys sitting at ten, they're gonna happy 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:48.720 to stay at ten. We'll see. 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It's not the 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.720 same as the Cowboys six and six. They're they're way 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.359 back in their division because they actually have good teams 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:27.160 in their division. The Cowboys are obviously six and six 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.959 in the lead, but there's still six and six, so 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:33.320 it'll be interesting game there. As far as Mitchell Trubisky, 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.520 he talked about it yesterday. He's just kind of struggling. 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.960 Unless they're playing the Lions. He hasn't been that good. 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:42.280 But we'll see. You know, we've seen. Was it Josh 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:44.679 McCowen or who was the quarterback that just killed him 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.240 in that game? And yeah, Josh McCown way back in thirteen. 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.919 It happened. Sometimes there other defenses unbelievable days. Gonna talk 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:53.919 about that little bit. And here's the stat I like 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.600 about Khalil Mack six and a half sacks this year, 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.600 five forced fumbles, so he only gets there, but he 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:03.000 knocks the ball out. David Montgomery. That was one of 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:05.439 the things I talked about. He's second in the NFL 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:09.920 and rushing yards for rookies though. Um. And then one 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:11.480 guy that you do have to watch for. I don't 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.920 know if he's gonna make his list is Cordarell Patterson. 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:19.120 He is a beast. He leads the league and kickoff 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:21.359 returns and he will bring it out. It doesn't matter 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:23.000 where the ball is, he's coming out with it. He 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:25.360 had one hundred and two yard kickoff return. He's had 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:27.960 seven in his career, which is third in NFL history. 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.000 He's one of the best kick returners in the history 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:33.840 of the NFL. Really, no doubt. He was sept Wow. 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:38.879 Seven for touchdowns. There's two guys with eight. Um, No, 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:41.080 he's a more. He was a pump return guy. Hey, 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:44.200 he had kickoffs. He had something super Bowl, but everyone 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:48.280 in Super Bowl but um, Leon Washington and Joshua Cribbs 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:50.200 had eight. I didn't know Leon Washington was at that. 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:52.240 I didn't think so either. Josh Cribs, I knew, did 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:54.520 but but Cordarell Patterson, he's had some. He's had one 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:56.800 hundred and nine one as well. So you know, like 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:58.760 Tony poll is waiting for the ball to get past 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:01.360 them and then he boomed, it's a touchback. This guy 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:03.840 he needs to get it in my heart needs to 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:06.760 kick it in the gold or is not happening. Yeah. 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:10.879 The funny thing about the Bears is they can the 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:14.760 Cowboys can probably relate like they are a really good defense. 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:18.640 But I feel like they're victims of their own expectations 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:21.600 this year because I mean they're they're seventh and total defense, 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:23.960 they're top ten across the board, their fourth and scoring, 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:28.000 and yet at the same time, you're kind of like, oh, man, 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:30.399 like they're not doing as well as I thought they 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:33.960 would do, just again because of the expectations. Like they 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.600 have twenty eight sacks on the year. That's less than 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:38.479 the Cowboys do. So we're I mean, we're sitting here 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:41.159 saying DeMarcus needs to play better. MALIEK. Collins, you know, 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:43.120 he hasn't been as good as we thought. It's kind 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:45.440 of the same for the Bears. Mali Khalil max six 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:47.480 and a half sacks. I mean that's that's not what 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:51.560 you expect from this world wrecking you know guy that 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:55.600 everybody knows from the trade from Oakland and everything. They 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:58.640 only have thirteen takeaways this season, which you know, going 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:00.480 all the way back to when Marinelli was there, the 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:03.480 Bears are famous for. It just seems like they get turnovers, 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:06.159 you know, three or four a game. It's not happened 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:09.680 this year. Mac has got five forced fumbles, but uh 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:11.960 they don't have anybody that gets picks the way that. 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:15.920 Um that some of their older you know, the dbs 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:20.000 of old the people Timant, Denil Manning and all that 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:29.080 type of stuff. Um, Hi, sorry, we've got are my bad. Um. 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:31.600 So I mean that said, they are really good. I 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:33.360 mean I just read all the stats off for you. 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:36.000 I think a big part of it is a Keem 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:38.080 Hicks has been on injured reserve for most of the year, 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:41.040 really underrated nose tackle in that defense. I think he 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:44.320 opens things up for everybody else. He is coming back 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:49.639 next week, so chalk that up as another fortunate miss 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.320 for the Cowboys. They have not capitalized on the vast 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:55.159 majority of those. Uh, so he won't be there in 0:24:55.200 --> 0:24:58.560 this game. So I think, um, you know that that 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:02.120 takes that detracts the quality of this front a little bit. 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:03.840 I think, like I said, he opens things up for 0:25:03.880 --> 0:25:07.520 other guys. Danny Trevathan and Roquan Smith two really good 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:13.200 you know, sideline to sideline type of linebackers. Um Smith 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:17.680 from Georgia, Right, yeah, man, Yeah, he was, he's he's 0:25:17.720 --> 0:25:20.960 he's good. He's not. I don't know that he's playing 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:24.200 up to the billing yet. He has mirrors the Cowboys 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:26.640 so much because last year those linebackers, they were talking 0:25:26.640 --> 0:25:28.400 about them the way they were talking about vander Eshan 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:31.560 and Jaylen Smay. Don't fall into the trap, Derek. Last week, 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:34.240 remember Dave was kind of like you know, ed Oliver 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:43.000 is good. Absolutely again one more time, hit Oliver. I 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:46.000 didn't say at Oliver's bad. You just said that it started, 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:48.960 which shows the depth of what the Bills are. But defense, yeah, 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:51.040 you made it better yesterday because you told us that 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:54.360 the offense for the Bears is really great. I'm not good. 0:25:54.480 --> 0:25:56.080 I'm not a scout. I didn't just tell you what 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:58.480 I watched. Which is funny because the last game they 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:03.120 put on tape, they didn't play very well against David Blow. 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:05.160 I don't even know how to pronounce David it's either 0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:07.560 blah blah blah. I don't know. He's a seventh round 0:26:07.600 --> 0:26:11.439 pick out of Purdue. The Bills put up three hundred 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:13.400 and ninety yard I mean the Bills. The Lions put 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:15.080 up three hundred niney yards on these guys. They ran 0:26:15.160 --> 0:26:17.480 the ball well four yards per carry, hundred yards on 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:22.760 the day. I will say it's interesting. His first pass 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:24.880 of the day was a seventy five yard touchdown. Guy 0:26:24.920 --> 0:26:27.240 just got behind Prince of Mukamara. Looked like there was 0:26:27.280 --> 0:26:31.840 a little bit of a communication lapse, and then in 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:34.320 his first six he went four of six for one 0:26:34.480 --> 0:26:37.240 thirty and two touchdowns to start the day. He finished 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:40.000 with two hundred and eighty. So I think the Bears 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:42.520 figured it out after a while. It's it's more fun 0:26:42.600 --> 0:26:44.919 to poke fun at him for giving up big plays 0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:47.440 to a seventh round pick, But they figured him out 0:26:47.480 --> 0:26:49.800 after a while because he needed thirty eight passes to 0:26:49.840 --> 0:26:52.720 throw for two eighties. So you know, they still gave 0:26:52.800 --> 0:26:54.920 up the plays, but I think they kind of buckled 0:26:54.960 --> 0:26:59.560 down a Mukamara's got a hamstring injury. He classified himself 0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:01.680 as a game time decision, So that's something to watch 0:27:02.320 --> 0:27:04.640 What do you want there? You want him to play 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:07.919 or not. I'll take I'll take the GEMPI guy who 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:11.439 has not played up to his draft stock in the 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:14.680 first place, healthy or not, Like he's never been really 0:27:14.720 --> 0:27:17.239 good against the Cowboys, way with the Giants and all that, 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:19.760 Like he's been a guy you're like, go get out there. 0:27:19.840 --> 0:27:22.520 By all means, yeah, I'm fine with the Mukamara playing. 0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:25.240 Kyle Filler's a really fuller, is a really good cover guy. 0:27:25.280 --> 0:27:28.639 He doesn't have the picks this year, kind of mirroring 0:27:28.680 --> 0:27:31.760 the Cowboys, right, Like good coverage, not getting takeaways. This 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:34.520 whole like that whole defense just mirrors to me what 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:37.320 the Cowboys were last year to this year. You know, yeah, 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:41.560 I very much agree with that they have an edge 0:27:41.560 --> 0:27:45.240 at safety. I mean, I know, and I know, but 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:48.240 I think Eddie Jackson's a really good player. Em and 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:50.560 Haha Clinton Dicks are a nice pair back there. They're 0:27:50.600 --> 0:27:53.360 both I know. The Cowboys say their guys are versatile. 0:27:53.520 --> 0:27:56.240 That's not true. These guys are both versatile in the 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:58.040 sense that either one of them can play up or 0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:01.960 back again. I was I was surprised when I looked 0:28:01.960 --> 0:28:04.000 into this and found out how few takeaways they have 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:06.159 they I mean, they're right there with the Cowboys in 0:28:06.240 --> 0:28:08.800 terms of not taking the ball away. So you know, 0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:12.000 i'd heard that drop in a while, the hahaha Clinton 0:28:12.040 --> 0:28:14.160 Dicks won, Maybe we don't have it anymore. I guess 0:28:14.200 --> 0:28:17.960 he left the division, so okay, But I mean the 0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:20.960 talent's definitely there. And like I said, I mean, you're 0:28:21.080 --> 0:28:23.679 nitpicking because this is still a top ten unit. But 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:28.879 I think people in Chicago are probably like, oh, weren't 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:31.960 these guys better last year? Like what happened? Where? Where 0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:34.280 did our elite, elite defense go? Do you think that? 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:36.000 Is this one of those units that you think and 0:28:36.119 --> 0:28:38.920 turned on any given week? Or they have some systematic problems. 0:28:38.920 --> 0:28:42.080 Maybe it's because Hicks isn't there, Like is this a 0:28:42.080 --> 0:28:44.400 team that this week could be their defense could be 0:28:44.400 --> 0:28:46.120 back to what it was last year. Here's a fun 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:48.800 Here's a fun stat that I stole from a Bears 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:52.520 beat writer off of Twitter. Dallas has owned five against 0:28:52.600 --> 0:28:56.960 top ten defenses this year and the Bears are solidly 0:28:57.040 --> 0:29:00.680 in the top ten. So yeah, I do think, I mean, 0:29:00.720 --> 0:29:04.360 I think the Bears are capable of doing something with that. Twitter, Yes, 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:08.760 I did. Why did you have it too. Sorry Cowboys storylines, 0:29:08.760 --> 0:29:12.200 but it's okay because they were four. They're owing three 0:29:12.280 --> 0:29:14.680 going into the Bill's game. They lost that one, so 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:16.200 oh and four. I mean the Jets have a top 0:29:16.320 --> 0:29:19.120 ten defense, so do the Saints. Yeah, I and yes, 0:29:19.240 --> 0:29:22.120 And I think tail as old as time. I think 0:29:22.200 --> 0:29:24.560 they will focus on the run game, you know, for 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:26.920 all to talk about how Zeke doesn't have it. I 0:29:27.160 --> 0:29:30.600 think you're still seeing defenses making an effort to stop 0:29:30.680 --> 0:29:33.640 that first outdoor game. I know the weather's not supposed 0:29:33.640 --> 0:29:37.080 to be absolutely miserable, but I think you stand a 0:29:37.120 --> 0:29:39.840 way better chance of having of asking the Cowboys to 0:29:39.880 --> 0:29:42.840 pass their way to a win in conditions like windy. Yeah, 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:44.560 that's the part you got to worry about there, is 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:47.920 it windy in Chicago? I mean that's what they would say, right, 0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:50.560 heard things about that that could be the problem here 0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:52.560 and not the coal the win. That could be the issue. 0:29:52.560 --> 0:29:54.080 All Right, We're gonna take our final break. We will 0:29:54.080 --> 0:29:55.560 come back, and I want to talk a little bit 0:29:55.560 --> 0:29:57.840 about something that Jerry Jones said this morning on the 0:29:57.960 --> 0:30:01.560 radio station the Fan here Dallas with Sean and r J. 0:30:01.640 --> 0:30:02.880 We'll talk about that when we come right back. This 0:30:02.920 --> 0:30:17.280 is Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio already okay? Yes, so 0:30:19.120 --> 0:30:24.000 are we gonna win? At play? Cheer Just okaying is 0:30:24.080 --> 0:30:28.040 not okay, whether it's cheerleaders or your wireless network. 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It is the final segment of The Break 0:32:10.720 --> 0:32:13.680 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the start 0:32:13.760 --> 0:32:16.040 nick that you got for US Big Twelve Championship games 0:32:16.080 --> 0:32:19.320 at AT and T Stadium. Oklahoma and Baylor will face 0:32:19.440 --> 0:32:21.720 off in the Big Twelve Championship Game at December seventh 0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:26.000 at at Chickoffs at eleven am. Don't miss your opportunity 0:32:26.000 --> 0:32:27.920 to get tickets before they sell out. Tickets are on 0:32:28.040 --> 0:32:31.880 sale now at steat dot com. Get your tickets. All right, 0:32:32.720 --> 0:32:34.160 I want to talk a little bit about something that 0:32:34.320 --> 0:32:37.440 Jerry said earlier this morning. He was on his on 0:32:37.560 --> 0:32:41.040 the local radio show here on the Fan with Sean 0:32:41.120 --> 0:32:44.760 and RJ and I don't even remember what the question was, 0:32:44.920 --> 0:32:47.880 but basically they were talking about Jason Garrett his future 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:50.640 here and and Jerry kind of threw this out at 0:32:50.680 --> 0:32:53.520 the end of his statement, but it was it didn't 0:32:53.560 --> 0:32:55.440 go unhurt like. It was almost just at the end, 0:32:55.480 --> 0:32:57.880 almost as it's come just this little like I think 0:32:57.920 --> 0:33:00.080 he was just wrapping things up. But it was, in 0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:04.800 my opinion, the most interesting comment of what he said. Basically, 0:33:04.880 --> 0:33:07.320 he said he expects that Jason Garrett will be coaching 0:33:07.360 --> 0:33:10.560 in the NFL next year. What are your thoughts on that? 0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:15.640 My thought on that is Jerry Jones is aware that 0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:18.920 he is the final authority on whether or not Jason 0:33:18.960 --> 0:33:24.720 Garrett coaches here. Right, Maybe what if Jason Garrett says out, well, 0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:29.160 M maybe theoretically possible to sign this thing. I'm tired 0:33:29.160 --> 0:33:31.680 of this crap. What if he says that it's possible, like, 0:33:31.800 --> 0:33:35.120 it's very possible. They finished their game. They finished their game, 0:33:35.960 --> 0:33:40.400 and whatever that game is January February, I'm sorry, December 0:33:40.480 --> 0:33:44.080 or January? Wow, and ruling February out. Huh, well, show 0:33:44.160 --> 0:33:46.360 me something before we talk about that. Okay, But but 0:33:46.760 --> 0:33:48.160 for a now, let's just say they finished the game 0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:51.160 in December January, and it's possible that Jason could be like, 0:33:51.320 --> 0:33:54.560 you know, just this whole thing being a coach in Dallas, 0:33:54.640 --> 0:33:56.360 it's not my thing anymore. I want to go somewhere 0:33:56.400 --> 0:34:00.520 where there's less stuff, there's less extra stuff, right as possible. 0:34:00.760 --> 0:34:03.880 It's possible, but I don't buy it, especially because of 0:34:04.120 --> 0:34:07.560 the moolah that would be attached to a new contract 0:34:07.680 --> 0:34:10.239 from Jerry. I are you sure that that's gonna be 0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:12.439 There's gonna be a lot of mulah. It was thirty 0:34:12.480 --> 0:34:15.600 five million last time. That's a lot of money. That 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:19.240 a lot of money. Yes, yeah, unless you're DeMarcus Lawrence 0:34:19.400 --> 0:34:22.680 or Jerry Jones. I mean yeah, it's not like Jerry 0:34:23.280 --> 0:34:26.440 was like thirty five that's it all right? Well, actually, 0:34:26.560 --> 0:34:29.000 Sean and r J said something really funny. They were like, 0:34:29.480 --> 0:34:32.120 you know, what do you say to people who criticize 0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:34.680 you for being too optimistic. But the way they framed 0:34:34.719 --> 0:34:36.760 the question, they were like, you know, we're not always 0:34:36.760 --> 0:34:38.680 as optimistic as you are because we don't have four 0:34:38.760 --> 0:34:40.520 billion dollars in the bank. And I was like, yeah, 0:34:40.520 --> 0:34:42.760 I ain't that the truth. Yeah, you can be optimistic 0:34:42.800 --> 0:34:44.400 when you got four billion back. You got a pretty 0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:48.200 big safety net. Yeah. I thought it was very telling. 0:34:48.400 --> 0:34:50.480 I mean, if if Jerry Jones really wanted to make 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:53.120 a statement, he'd be like, he'll be our coach. He 0:34:53.239 --> 0:34:56.520 didn't say that. Yeah, that's how you you know, you 0:34:56.600 --> 0:34:59.120 really want to show support, I mean, just sign him. 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:01.879 But you know, he said, the problem is you don't 0:35:01.960 --> 0:35:04.759 know who you can guarantee. Who can guarantee you a 0:35:04.840 --> 0:35:07.600 Super Bowl? Yeah, so who's got the exclusive skills to 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:09.480 get the job done so that collective you can win 0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:12.520 a Super Bowl? There are qualified people. Jason Garrett is 0:35:12.560 --> 0:35:14.759 one of them. In my opinion, Jason Garrett will be 0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:19.320 coaching in the NFL next year. I mean, okay, like 0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:24.320 where like right with you? That seems very like follow 0:35:24.400 --> 0:35:28.879 up ish, like yeah, whah. The interview ended on that question. 0:35:29.000 --> 0:35:32.040 Was he also in the same interview, he said you know, 0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:34.640 he's he's my guy, he's the man for the job. 0:35:35.480 --> 0:35:38.480 But man, it's just not a ringing endorsement when you 0:35:38.520 --> 0:35:40.759 know the guy that ultimately makes the call on who's 0:35:40.760 --> 0:35:43.160 coaching the Cowboys is like, yeah, I did, he'll he'll 0:35:43.239 --> 0:35:45.480 have a job in the league. Couldn't he just say? 0:35:46.080 --> 0:35:49.200 Couldn't he just say I will not make any coaching 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:52.800 move for the now or the rest of the season. 0:35:52.920 --> 0:35:55.759 Like in the season, let's talk about it again. But 0:35:55.840 --> 0:35:57.719 I'm done. I'm done. I'm not gonna make a move 0:35:57.840 --> 0:36:00.319 right now. We're in first place. It's not what we want, 0:36:00.360 --> 0:36:01.759 but we still have a chance to get there. I'm 0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:03.920 not making a change. Would just be a bad idea 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:06.439 for where we are. It's not happening. We'll talk about 0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:08.680 the end of the s He's already said that he's 0:36:08.680 --> 0:36:10.799 not making a change this year, did he not? I mean, 0:36:11.320 --> 0:36:13.320 in the in the comments he made post game this 0:36:13.480 --> 0:36:15.879 last game. Yeah, I thought he was very clear about 0:36:15.880 --> 0:36:19.000 the fact that we're not getting better by firing him 0:36:19.080 --> 0:36:20.879 in the middle of the season or in firing him 0:36:20.960 --> 0:36:23.719 during the season. We're gonna, you know, basically saying we're 0:36:23.760 --> 0:36:26.120 gonna this is our guy. We think that he has 0:36:26.239 --> 0:36:27.960 the right stuff to be able to get us through now. 0:36:28.200 --> 0:36:30.319 He may not have said it is as definitively as 0:36:31.000 --> 0:36:33.640 I'm not making a move this season, but he all 0:36:33.719 --> 0:36:36.520 but said that, like he made it very clear that Jason, 0:36:36.880 --> 0:36:38.440 and because he was even asked to follow up by 0:36:38.560 --> 0:36:41.799 by Mike Fisher of so you're saying that you can't 0:36:41.840 --> 0:36:44.400 be you don't get better by getting rid of Garrett 0:36:44.440 --> 0:36:46.359 this year, And he said, that's absolutely right. We don't 0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:48.200 get better. They don't have a coach on this staff 0:36:48.280 --> 0:36:49.840 that can that can do that right now, will make 0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:53.480 you better, that'll make you better. I just right now 0:36:53.520 --> 0:36:56.120 I should say no, I mean they don't. They don't 0:36:56.120 --> 0:36:58.640 have a coach on the staff that could do that, 0:37:00.200 --> 0:37:01.640 that could make you better right now. That's the point 0:37:01.640 --> 0:37:08.880 I'm stop. He might not he might not be writing it. 0:37:10.239 --> 0:37:13.160 He might not be writing it in like fifteen points, sharpie, 0:37:13.280 --> 0:37:15.320 But I feel like Jerry Jones is writing on the 0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:18.760 wall right now. There's another quote he said this morning. 0:37:18.800 --> 0:37:21.319 He said, if I were leaving training camp today, I'd 0:37:21.400 --> 0:37:23.160 like to have this run that I've got right now, 0:37:23.480 --> 0:37:26.000 four games to get to the playoffs as healthy as 0:37:26.080 --> 0:37:29.080 we are, get our act together relative to what we're 0:37:29.120 --> 0:37:31.239 doing on both sides of the ball. And let's go 0:37:32.360 --> 0:37:34.200 couple that with a bunch of the other things that 0:37:34.280 --> 0:37:37.279 he said, including I think he'll be coaching in the 0:37:37.440 --> 0:37:40.800 NFL next year. I just think Jason Garrett's going to 0:37:40.920 --> 0:37:45.480 have to put together a legitimate run at or at 0:37:45.560 --> 0:37:48.759 least close to the Super Bowl to be here next year. 0:37:48.800 --> 0:37:50.480 I will say this, That's what I think. They did 0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:53.520 ask him the question, what is the bar right and 0:37:53.680 --> 0:37:55.719 and he did he said it. No. What he said 0:37:55.920 --> 0:37:58.920 was basically, there is no bar what he was doing 0:37:58.920 --> 0:38:01.040 with giving himself leeway. He was like, there is no 0:38:01.200 --> 0:38:03.400 real bar that I've set for this thing. You know. 0:38:03.520 --> 0:38:06.560 He basically was saying that I'm gonna judge at the 0:38:06.680 --> 0:38:09.640 end of this whole thing how I think, not only 0:38:09.680 --> 0:38:11.919 how I think he's how he's done and our team 0:38:12.040 --> 0:38:14.400 is performing, but I just want to see, like what 0:38:14.560 --> 0:38:15.840 else is out there. That was where he got in 0:38:15.880 --> 0:38:18.000 some of those other comments about do I have another 0:38:18.040 --> 0:38:20.880 guy out there who I think ken get me farther 0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:23.680 than where Jason's getting me? Sorry, go ahead, nine and seven. 0:38:23.840 --> 0:38:26.440 This team goes nine and seven. They actually turn it 0:38:26.480 --> 0:38:28.880 around a little bit. Go three, out of four. They 0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:31.000 play the forty nine Ers, which is the team that 0:38:31.040 --> 0:38:33.080 they would play right now. Forty nine Ers come in 0:38:34.480 --> 0:38:38.000 as the number five seed with probably four or five 0:38:38.120 --> 0:38:42.680 games better than Dallas maybe, and Dallas wins. They get it. 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:44.480 They finally beat a team with a winning record. They 0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:48.719 go to Seattle lose. What do you do? Garrett out? 0:38:49.239 --> 0:38:51.799 What do I do? What is Jason or what is Garrett? Jerry? 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:54.839 That's the fun? Yeah, that's that's the rub here. Fun 0:38:55.040 --> 0:38:57.120 is not the right word, but that is what is 0:38:57.200 --> 0:39:02.359 useful about this current situation. In twenty sixteen, Jerry would 0:39:02.360 --> 0:39:05.719 have had to fire Jason Garrett following a playoff loss 0:39:05.760 --> 0:39:08.120 to the Packers, which that's not a good look for anybody, 0:39:08.280 --> 0:39:11.640 right if they if that scenario plays out, you can 0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:14.520 just let him walk away and say, well, we're not 0:39:14.880 --> 0:39:16.920 upset with the job that you did, but you're out 0:39:17.000 --> 0:39:21.480 of contract, and we think everybody you know, it's he 0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:23.960 goes and signs with somebody else like he and they 0:39:24.040 --> 0:39:25.399 just let him do it. You know, you see players 0:39:25.440 --> 0:39:26.800 all the time they're like, well just go check the 0:39:26.920 --> 0:39:28.520 mark out and if you come back around, you come 0:39:28.520 --> 0:39:30.520 back around. And the player doesn't come back around. It 0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:32.880 could be a similar situation. This is just like the 0:39:33.120 --> 0:39:37.240 AT and T commercial. Really, I mean, Elsa, oh okay, 0:39:37.360 --> 0:39:40.400 just okay is not okay. That's really what it's come 0:39:40.520 --> 0:39:43.440 down to. Is he the slogan he's been just okay. 0:39:43.520 --> 0:39:46.240 But with the Dallas Cowboys, it's not okay. It's definitely 0:39:46.280 --> 0:39:48.640 not okay to the fans. So that's kind of where 0:39:48.840 --> 0:39:52.240 where we stand here. He's been okay, he doesn't sometimes 0:39:52.320 --> 0:39:54.640 really good, Right, Jerry doesn't have to set the bar. 0:39:54.800 --> 0:39:56.680 He's not going to do it publicly. But like I 0:39:57.480 --> 0:39:59.480 the way this has all gone, the way the season's 0:39:59.520 --> 0:40:02.120 been up to this point, I just can't imagine him 0:40:02.239 --> 0:40:05.440 getting an extension and having that press conference and everything 0:40:05.520 --> 0:40:08.759 that goes with that without winning at least two playoff games. Yeah, 0:40:08.760 --> 0:40:12.040 you're getting them into a game that they have been 0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:14.400 twenty five years. Here's the thing. If they get to 0:40:14.440 --> 0:40:16.840 the NFC title game, I kind of now I'm starting 0:40:16.880 --> 0:40:19.440 to think, all right, yeah, because Jerry doesn't want to 0:40:19.640 --> 0:40:21.239 let go of him in the first place. It's gonna 0:40:21.239 --> 0:40:22.680 have to be clear, Jerry has to get rid of 0:40:22.800 --> 0:40:24.839 him just because it's just not working. If they get 0:40:24.920 --> 0:40:26.759 to a game that they haven't been to since the 0:40:26.840 --> 0:40:29.200 mid nineties. Then I'm starting to think and if they 0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:31.799 get to the super Bowl, then definitely, I think they 0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:33.360 have to play in the SEC title game. Think it 0:40:33.440 --> 0:40:36.000 was Marcus Spears today that said even a Super Bowl, 0:40:36.040 --> 0:40:37.920 he probably wouldn't keep him. I think he said he 0:40:37.960 --> 0:40:44.080 wouldn't keep him. They wouldn't. I think, I think. I think, honestly, 0:40:44.080 --> 0:40:45.320 I think you're right. I think if you get to 0:40:45.400 --> 0:40:48.120 the NFC Championship game, I think that Jerry makes the 0:40:48.200 --> 0:40:50.080 decision that he'd probably keep them around. But I just 0:40:50.200 --> 0:40:53.360 think you have to read between the lions. You always 0:40:53.400 --> 0:40:56.360 do with Jerry. But I just think the messaging is 0:40:56.440 --> 0:41:00.800 there that he expects something extraordinary over the six weeks. 0:41:00.960 --> 0:41:02.880 If he's not going to make a change, you know, 0:41:03.080 --> 0:41:06.279 this is Yeah, it's about winning, but at the same time, 0:41:06.360 --> 0:41:09.640 it's all the business. It's money, a lot of money 0:41:09.640 --> 0:41:12.400 it's involved here. And I think that if that was 0:41:12.520 --> 0:41:15.520 to happen where Jason Garrett is back, I wonder how 0:41:15.640 --> 0:41:17.759 many fans are just gonna be like, you know what, 0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:22.759 I'm done and that event you can say that you know, like, 0:41:22.840 --> 0:41:24.560 oh yeah, there are some fans that are you gonna 0:41:24.640 --> 0:41:27.320 stick around? No matter why, even though they're upset. But 0:41:27.440 --> 0:41:30.719 at the same time, I wonder how big of a 0:41:30.880 --> 0:41:35.160 change that would be and how much that money making. 0:41:36.560 --> 0:41:37.920 I will tell you this. I will tell you this. 0:41:38.800 --> 0:41:42.320 There have been times I've been extremely frustrated with my 0:41:42.920 --> 0:41:46.719 college team, extremely frustrated, frustrated to the point where I'm like, 0:41:46.920 --> 0:41:49.680 I'm done. I don't want to watch anymore games. And 0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:52.040 you know what I do that next Saturday? Still watch 0:41:52.120 --> 0:41:54.480 the next game. Well, geez, I gotta turn this game, 0:41:54.640 --> 0:41:57.239 because it's not I'm not. What I realize is I'm 0:41:57.280 --> 0:41:59.359 not doing this for their benefit. I'm doing this because 0:41:59.360 --> 0:42:01.320 I enjoy it. I'm doing it because and maybe it 0:42:01.400 --> 0:42:03.360 makes me a glutton for punishment. I don't know, But 0:42:03.480 --> 0:42:05.719 I'm doing this for my own enjoyment. And so the 0:42:05.840 --> 0:42:08.279 question doesn't become do they turn up? The question is like, 0:42:08.440 --> 0:42:11.080 do they want to stop watching football? Do they want 0:42:11.120 --> 0:42:14.120 to stop being a fan of football? And most people 0:42:14.160 --> 0:42:15.960 I don't think are going to get to that point 0:42:16.000 --> 0:42:18.560 based on it. Now, there may be some yeah, absolutely, 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:20.319 and it is a personal decision everybody has a right 0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:23.839 to make. Yeah, yeah, they start wondering, right, But it's also, 0:42:24.040 --> 0:42:26.040 what have you done for me situation, What have you 0:42:26.120 --> 0:42:28.279 done for me lately? That's always what it is, and 0:42:28.360 --> 0:42:31.160 so right now it's hard to even imagine that. But 0:42:31.280 --> 0:42:33.440 they're six and six. I mean, they're got to go 0:42:33.520 --> 0:42:35.240 win on the road just to have a winning record. 0:42:35.600 --> 0:42:37.919 But if they've turned this thing around, and just think 0:42:37.960 --> 0:42:40.320 about what the vibes will be if you beat a 0:42:40.440 --> 0:42:42.000 team like the forty nine ers and then you go 0:42:42.080 --> 0:42:44.640 to Seattle and you beat that and we see the romos, 0:42:44.719 --> 0:42:47.000 it does change every and then it's like everything is 0:42:47.360 --> 0:42:49.520 totally has a different vibe than you go to the 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:52.080 championship game and all that. Oh god, we're getting ahead 0:42:52.080 --> 0:42:55.759 of her. How about win a ballgames? Jerrys, Well, real quick, 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:58.200 let's get these predictions for the game. Nick, let's start 0:42:58.200 --> 0:42:59.400 with you today. Who do you think is gonna win 0:42:59.440 --> 0:43:03.040 this game? Or a segue from that to that. But um, 0:43:03.480 --> 0:43:05.279 I haven't really thought of a score yet. Better do 0:43:05.360 --> 0:43:08.120 it here on the fly. But um, I'm not picking 0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:10.200 them to win. I'm sorry. I mean, they need to win. 0:43:10.239 --> 0:43:11.719 They need to win the game. I've seen it, I've 0:43:11.719 --> 0:43:13.120 done all of this. I've stood on the table that 0:43:13.120 --> 0:43:15.520 they said they're gonna blow up the bills and they didn't, 0:43:15.520 --> 0:43:19.240 So I I just I think they're better than Chicago, 0:43:19.400 --> 0:43:22.880 I think, but that hasn't proved anything right now, So 0:43:23.480 --> 0:43:25.160 I don't have a good vibe that they're going to 0:43:25.200 --> 0:43:26.719 go out there and get it together if they said 0:43:26.719 --> 0:43:30.800 they are, if they if they prove me wrong and say, ha, great, 0:43:31.080 --> 0:43:33.560 do it. But I don't think they'll win. So twenty 0:43:33.600 --> 0:43:39.640 three nineteen Bears, all right? I actually I do think 0:43:39.680 --> 0:43:42.040 they're gonna win, but I'm not gonna pick them. If 0:43:42.080 --> 0:43:45.840 that makes sense now, Yeah, no, no, that or whatever. 0:43:46.000 --> 0:43:48.640 I don't care, Like, I'll just go along with you. 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:52.000 I think they're better, Okay, I don't think they're gonna win. 0:43:52.239 --> 0:43:55.399 They like, they have given me no reason to pick 0:43:55.480 --> 0:43:59.120 them to win this game. And you know, oh no, 0:43:59.239 --> 0:44:01.520 they'll prove me wrong and I will demand an apology 0:44:01.600 --> 0:44:03.360 for the five times this year I've picked them to 0:44:03.400 --> 0:44:07.640 win and they lost. They're better than the Bears, I think, 0:44:07.880 --> 0:44:11.120 like across you know, their offense. I like the matchup 0:44:11.160 --> 0:44:14.640 of Dallas offense first Bears defense more than the alternative. Again, 0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:17.239 but didn't I say that about the Bills too? Yeah, 0:44:17.360 --> 0:44:19.560 I think like the Cowboys should be able to score 0:44:20.000 --> 0:44:22.760 twenty four against this Bears defense and hold the Bears 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:25.480 offense to like sixteen. That's what they should be able 0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:29.160 to do. But I just I don't trust it, especially 0:44:29.200 --> 0:44:32.240 not on the road. They'll probably lose the turnover battle. 0:44:32.280 --> 0:44:36.040 They do that pretty consistently. Khalil Mack has five forced fumbles, 0:44:36.719 --> 0:44:39.520 and it'll you know, like nineteen to sixteen Bears a 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:42.080 lot of field goals, like tons of field goals five 0:44:42.160 --> 0:44:46.239 or six of how many attempts though eight may eight? No, 0:44:46.360 --> 0:44:49.400 I'm sorry, five made field goals between the two teams 0:44:49.520 --> 0:44:52.080 on eight total attempts. A good new kicker next week 0:44:52.960 --> 0:44:57.680 nineteen sixteen Bears. All right, Well, after the loss against 0:44:57.719 --> 0:45:00.520 the Bills, I did tell myself I am no longer 0:45:00.600 --> 0:45:02.759 picking them to win for the rest of the year, 0:45:02.880 --> 0:45:06.160 regardless if they were playing the Redskins this week. I 0:45:06.360 --> 0:45:10.520 was like, no way. But but I do believe in 0:45:10.600 --> 0:45:15.760 probability and the fact that the Bears have two games 0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:18.480 that they've won on a road and the Cowboys have 0:45:18.680 --> 0:45:22.600 lost two on a road. I think maybe the Cowboys 0:45:22.719 --> 0:45:27.640 figure out a way to win in Chicago. Now I'm 0:45:27.680 --> 0:45:29.680 in between there, like I don't want to pick them 0:45:29.760 --> 0:45:33.680 to win, but because of probabilities. I think they would 0:45:33.800 --> 0:45:37.400 get this win and they win. I don't know, Like 0:45:38.000 --> 0:45:40.400 I think we're all twenty seventeen, we're all grappling with 0:45:40.520 --> 0:45:42.759 the reality that we're gonna look like idiots no matter 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:45.640 what happens. Yes, the Cowboys are either gonna play up 0:45:45.640 --> 0:45:48.279 to their potential and make us all look dumb for 0:45:48.400 --> 0:45:50.520 checking out on them, or we're gonna pick them to 0:45:50.560 --> 0:45:53.160 win again and they're gonna put up another stinker. Well, 0:45:53.239 --> 0:45:55.239 I picked them to lose to the Eagles at home, 0:45:55.400 --> 0:45:59.879 and they crushed them, so I slept okay every time. 0:46:01.840 --> 0:46:05.200 That's yeah, that's whole different stuf um. You know, honestly, 0:46:05.239 --> 0:46:08.520 I've decided. I decided after that Bill's game. I believe 0:46:08.560 --> 0:46:11.080 in the theory that Bill parcels laid out by Thanksgiving. 0:46:11.120 --> 0:46:12.919 You know what a team is. So what I'm gonna 0:46:12.960 --> 0:46:14.719 do from here on out is I'm basically going with 0:46:14.880 --> 0:46:17.960 what I've seen. What I've seen is the Cowboys when 0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:20.520 they're playing a team that's above five hundred, they don't 0:46:20.560 --> 0:46:23.040 really play very well. They don't win those games. Teams 0:46:23.080 --> 0:46:25.279 below five hundred buy and large except for the Jets, 0:46:25.760 --> 0:46:28.960 they win those games. Now, that proposes in a boundary 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:36.200 for me. So there you go. That's that's my tie. Great, right, 0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:38.560 So they won the only game that they played this 0:46:38.640 --> 0:46:40.879 year where the team was at five hundred. So I'm 0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:42.640 gonna roll with that for this week. I can tell 0:46:42.680 --> 0:46:45.360 you right now, I'm thinking next week, I'm probably not 0:46:45.440 --> 0:46:47.640 picking them because that'll be a team that's probably a 0:46:47.719 --> 0:46:49.920 buff five. I think they'll definitely be a hundred and five. 0:46:50.120 --> 0:46:52.239 So I think this week they get a win. I 0:46:52.280 --> 0:46:54.560 think next year, next week they make it interesting by 0:46:54.600 --> 0:46:57.000 getting a loss, and then you see what happens in Philly, 0:46:57.000 --> 0:47:00.239 because Philly is really the game that matters. Yeah, all right, hed, 0:47:00.239 --> 0:47:02.359 you guys join us. We'll be back on Monday. I'm sorry, 0:47:02.360 --> 0:47:04.319 We'll be back on Friday this week, and we're gonna 0:47:04.360 --> 0:47:05.759 let you guys know what we're right and wrong for 0:47:05.800 --> 0:47:08.360 the Cowboys till then. For Nick Even, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia, 0:47:08.400 --> 0:47:10.160 I'm Derek Hughelton. 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