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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: As Tuesday, December third, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode number
Speaker 1: ninety three. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We're
Speaker 1: Alive from the s WBC Mortage Studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: we got forty five minutes, so we got a lot
Speaker 1: to get into. We're gonna talk about some injuries, got
Speaker 1: some storylines that Nick has worked up for you. On
Speaker 1: the Cowboys versus Bears. Day's gonna give us a scoutter
Speaker 1: report on the on the on the Bears defense, and
Speaker 1: by the end of the show, Amber's gonna tell you
Speaker 1: who's gonna win the game. So we got a lot
Speaker 1: to do today. Let's start first with some guys that
Speaker 1: did not practice yesterday and get caught up on their
Speaker 1: injury status. Randall Cop, Jeff Heath, Layton Vanderesh, Antoine Woods, Dave,
Speaker 1: what would you see from them today. I assume you
Speaker 1: went out to practice before the show. I actually didn't. Didn't, okay,
Speaker 1: but our offices are we went out to practice. Okay,
Speaker 1: I watched practice. I'm multitask today. You put it that way,
Speaker 1: I'm multi task. Uh, Layton Vanderesh isn't gonna play in
Speaker 1: this game, all right? X Randall Cop is back at practice.
Speaker 1: He should be available. That was an illness, correct, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's fine. And actually I saw him yesterday while
Speaker 1: Black practice was going on. He was entering the building,
Speaker 1: so he wasn't at the building yesterday as well. Um,
Speaker 1: just like last week. I think Jeff Heath is going
Speaker 1: to be the one I didn't. I didn't see him
Speaker 1: out there today. He didn't play in the game, which
Speaker 1: was honestly a little bit surprising to us. I think
Speaker 1: we kind of say we thought he could get through it.
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods, No, I think Jeff Heath is the guy
Speaker 1: to watch. But I think it's going to be a
Speaker 1: very similar cast of characters for this game as it
Speaker 1: was for the Bills. How do you feel about Darien
Speaker 1: Thompson also being limited in practice with Jeff Heath being out.
Speaker 1: I think that Darian Thompson is more of like a
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of guys listed as limited,
Speaker 1: and all those limited guys seem to be okay. That
Speaker 1: just yeah, you know, Jason Garrett, this isn't encouraging. But
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett said this morning, Tyrant Smith pop back up
Speaker 1: on the injury report with an achilles, but yeah, limited,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, you would think it's sore or something. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I know, but he was out there today. He's been
Speaker 1: out there all week, and everybody's fighting through about nineteen
Speaker 1: things right now. It's just the nature of football. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: hate here in that word, like that's got to be
Speaker 1: top five words you don't want to hear in regard
Speaker 1: to a football player or anybody. Really. Yeah. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: good news of all of that stuff you just mentioned,
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper practice full yesterday after you know what happened
Speaker 1: to him last game, So it looks like he's ready
Speaker 1: to go. And he said yesterday in the locker room.
Speaker 1: I think that the quote was something to the effect of,
Speaker 1: you know, this time year, everybody's banged up, but I'm
Speaker 1: good to go. So he also said, yes, this is
Speaker 1: easily the most amount of stuff I've ever had to
Speaker 1: fight through in a season. I couldn't believe that. You know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't missed any time this week. I thought his
Speaker 1: season might be over when he took that hit. Obviously, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so cost to him. He's fine, he'll be available. I
Speaker 1: certainly didn't think he'd be practicing this week. My thought was,
Speaker 1: this is going to be one of those weeks where
Speaker 1: you don't practice, you see how you feel by game time,
Speaker 1: and then hopefully he's ready to go. He said he expected.
Speaker 1: He said he expected to wake up on Friday morning
Speaker 1: and you know, just being a tremendous amount of pain,
Speaker 1: and he was like surprised when he woke up and
Speaker 1: felt okay. I mean, this whole thing's been tough to
Speaker 1: read for him, and not really in a negative way,
Speaker 1: but like, you know, he didn't look like he was
Speaker 1: anywhere close to playing after the Jets game. He did,
Speaker 1: he didn't had no interest, He had no there was
Speaker 1: not he wasn't gonna go back and play in that game.
Speaker 1: You could just tell. And so that looks like he's
Speaker 1: not gonna play the next week. But he does. He plays.
Speaker 1: He plays really well against I think it was the Packers.
Speaker 1: So then you know, even the whole contract situation. I mean,
Speaker 1: you would thought you would have thought he even signed
Speaker 1: by now, but he's not. I mean, he takes his
Speaker 1: big hit, he's not gonna play. Oh man, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be really bad, but he comes back. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that he that he fakes it or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he's tough to read. What do you
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see from him? Hasn't really happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean is what it is. Honestly, it's getting a
Speaker 1: point where it's not as tough to read him my opinion,
Speaker 1: just from the standpoint you're starting to realize he's just
Speaker 1: a tough dude that if it's at all possible for
Speaker 1: him to play, I think you will play. And he
Speaker 1: puts in context that game where he didn't come back.
Speaker 1: It tells me he must have really been in pain,
Speaker 1: because he's dealt with some pretty you would think, some
Speaker 1: pretty painful moments and he's played through most of them
Speaker 1: this season. So it tells me in that moment, like
Speaker 1: he really thought, I'm going to be a detriment to
Speaker 1: my team being out there. Worst injury of the season.
Speaker 1: If we ever do those articles that say, like, what
Speaker 1: was the toughest one, now, Jets whatever he was dealing
Speaker 1: with the Jets game, that was the toughest one to
Speaker 1: me because they were shorthanded, they didn't have any receivers
Speaker 1: in the back end, and they kicked the Jets ass.
Speaker 1: If he plays in the game and they don't end
Speaker 1: as they've said last week, you beat the Jets changes
Speaker 1: everything about this team, and you know, just perception of
Speaker 1: the team, the record, everything, but different if you beat
Speaker 1: the Jets. I'm gonna take a little D two here.
Speaker 1: Since we started talking about Amari Cooper, there was a
Speaker 1: report that came out yesterday, false report, but a report
Speaker 1: nonetheless that basically said that Cowboys probably wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to resign him or Byron Jones. Then he addressed it
Speaker 1: in the locker room yesterday. Tell me what Amri said
Speaker 1: about the likelihood of him signing back with the Cowboys
Speaker 1: when the season's done. At some point you talk about, yeah,
Speaker 1: like Amari Cooper just does the opposite of like's what
Speaker 1: you would expect I think from a pro football player.
Speaker 1: That was really surprising yesterday. Like that came up because
Speaker 1: of the report that came out over the weekend and
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, I love it here. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been more productive here than I've been in Oakland.
Speaker 1: Why would I want to leave? Like, why would I
Speaker 1: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That was his
Speaker 1: exact quote. And you know, the money has to be right,
Speaker 1: and he kind of alluded to that, he said, I
Speaker 1: haven't really thought about the open market. I'm not Trump
Speaker 1: put the cart before the horse. But He's like, I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm at home here. This is absolutely where
Speaker 1: i want to be. Yeah, which, yeah, I'm I'm aggravated
Speaker 1: by the speculation that's kind of going around about that.
Speaker 1: Like you know, we speculate about Dak and Amari all offseason.
Speaker 1: It reaches a fever pitch at the start of the season,
Speaker 1: nothing happens. You kind of settle into a groove where
Speaker 1: you're playing games. And now the seasons a month from
Speaker 1: being over, and people are just throwing stuff at the
Speaker 1: wall because you're like, well, yeah, like they're probably headed
Speaker 1: for a franchise tag like well, of course, because the
Speaker 1: season's ending and then you know February, that type of
Speaker 1: stuff has to be designated and marches when the market opens.
Speaker 1: People just throw speculation up there. Because they know how
Speaker 1: the calendar works, and it creates a national news story
Speaker 1: because it's the Dallas Cowboys. But the fact is Cowboys
Speaker 1: will have to do a deal with either a Mari
Speaker 1: or DAK before the franchise tag designation because they only
Speaker 1: have one to use. Correct that's not necessarily true. Depending
Speaker 1: on CBA negotiations. They could theoretically use franchise tag transition
Speaker 1: tag at the same time. Kind of transition tag. They
Speaker 1: use transition tag on one franchise on the other, they
Speaker 1: could would you choose to franchise which well, and throw
Speaker 1: Byron Jones in there, but again, by like you can
Speaker 1: just do the math and be like, well, Byron has
Speaker 1: always likely been the odd man out in that scenario
Speaker 1: unless something happens. And again, so it's just national reporters
Speaker 1: throwing stuff out there because of the Cowboys name. Using
Speaker 1: common sense and reading tea leaves, which all of us
Speaker 1: can do, and we've all been talking about it since September. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: whatever I mean, it's not. I mean Cooper's first round
Speaker 1: draft pick of this team. You see, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: on the team. That's why you trade for him, because
Speaker 1: he's going to be on the team, So, I mean,
Speaker 1: I get his injuries concerned me though, franchise guess how
Speaker 1: you structure the contract? You would? Yeah, I mean, because
Speaker 1: that's a one year deal of what eighteen nineteen million?
Speaker 1: What's the what's the dat franchise tag? Twenty eight No thanks,
Speaker 1: I'd rather sign him, get the get the damn thing done,
Speaker 1: Sign him, and then you can, you know, change the
Speaker 1: numbers around. You can kind of you can mess with
Speaker 1: those numbers because it's going to be such a big deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely getting but you're gonna sign him both, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's just the fun of this thing, is that
Speaker 1: writers like to get their names, you know, mentioned on
Speaker 1: the radio. That's what happens. Well, that's that's the point
Speaker 1: of this thing, is that both players. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any reason to believe that either the player or
Speaker 1: the organization wants to part ways in either of those cases.
Speaker 1: So when you have to deal two people that want
Speaker 1: to get a deal done, a deal gets done. It's
Speaker 1: just it's it's because it's the Dallas Cowboys is what
Speaker 1: makes it aggravating. Because I could have come on this
Speaker 1: podcast in September and said, well, the season has started.
Speaker 1: You don't see deals happen during the season. Very often.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens, but unless both sides come to
Speaker 1: an agreement, you could theoretically see a situation where one
Speaker 1: of these guys is tagged. And even if that's just
Speaker 1: a placeholder, that happens all the time. It happened to
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence less than twelve months ago. But time is
Speaker 1: running out on the season and somebody with a larger
Speaker 1: audience repackages the same non news and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: people are freaking out, like, oh my god, did you
Speaker 1: hear Dak or Mari might have to be tagged? Well, no, duh,
Speaker 1: Like that's that's the business of the NFL. There's nothing
Speaker 1: new about it. But it's the Dallas Cowboys and stuff
Speaker 1: like that gets said all the time. Has he lost
Speaker 1: money a Mari? I mean, has his price tag gone
Speaker 1: up or down? You think, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: changed at all? Has it from the beginning here? I'm
Speaker 1: more about Dak. I mean, I mean you think Dak
Speaker 1: has made money. Dak has made money. I think you
Speaker 1: think maybe a little bit. Unless the cow even if
Speaker 1: the number, even if the number was the same, even
Speaker 1: if the number was the same. I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: feel better about paying Let's say the Cowboys already thinking, hey,
Speaker 1: you know we would pay him thirty four, we paim
Speaker 1: thirty five. I think they feel a lot better about
Speaker 1: paying him thirty four thirty four now than they did
Speaker 1: back there. But if they haven't been and they may
Speaker 1: have been like now, they may be like, hey, maybe
Speaker 1: we would pay him if they weren't willing paim thirty
Speaker 1: five before him. Now maybe they're like, hey, thirty five's
Speaker 1: a bargain for what we've seen. Well, he's still six
Speaker 1: and six. I mean, like, I think he's played better
Speaker 1: than we thought, but at the six and six, so
Speaker 1: they haven't. He hasn't done He hasn't put him in
Speaker 1: a position where you think, you know, you would think
Speaker 1: they would be. I mean, you're right, and it's no,
Speaker 1: you're it's disappointing. Blah blah blah. Kirk Cousins went seven
Speaker 1: and nine the year before he signed his overrated and
Speaker 1: overpaid but he set the market, but literally set the market. Okay,
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys don't have to follow it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you pay the market too, And they didn't go get
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams because the Rams set the market. But when
Speaker 1: you pay a quarterback, you're not necessarily paying him because
Speaker 1: he's the best quarterback in league. You're paying him whatever
Speaker 1: the market rate is because you found a quarterback and
Speaker 1: you don't want to let that quarterback. I get it,
Speaker 1: I get it, But I'm just saying I think Dak's
Speaker 1: people have I think I don't think he's helped himself
Speaker 1: that much. I think his stats are really nice, but
Speaker 1: they're not winning games, and that's what quarterbacks are supposed
Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, but when you look at other every
Speaker 1: team thinks that they can take a player and make
Speaker 1: them better, buy their own coaching and all of that.
Speaker 1: I think that what Dak has been able to do
Speaker 1: this year, regardless of winning games and all that, just
Speaker 1: stat wise, completion wise, and his progression as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: I think it did change, at least even my own
Speaker 1: opinion what I thought of him before the start of
Speaker 1: the season versus what I think of him as a
Speaker 1: right now and what he can continue to become as
Speaker 1: a quarterback. That's the key to me is what I
Speaker 1: projected him. What I've seen this year suggests to me
Speaker 1: that his trajectory says he's going to be a really,
Speaker 1: really good quarterback, and so what you're paying for is
Speaker 1: the projection, not so much necessarily he is right. Now,
Speaker 1: what about Amari Cooper? Same, Yeah, I think Amari is
Speaker 1: about the same as he was. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody's putting him among them. I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: would say he's the best receiver in football. He's certainly
Speaker 1: like he's on a short list, but I mean I
Speaker 1: would slot him in there behind Julio and a few
Speaker 1: other like I don't know that he's made, you know,
Speaker 1: a twenty million dollars salary or anything. I mean he's
Speaker 1: behind Julio and Michael Thomas and definitely behind Hopkins and
Speaker 1: you know. And yeah, I mean I think he's played
Speaker 1: well and considering his injuries and all that. But you know,
Speaker 1: like I said before, I had more of a problem
Speaker 1: than you guys did about the goose egg that he
Speaker 1: put up against New England, especially when you saw, you
Speaker 1: know that Gilmore was, you know, he was not having
Speaker 1: a great day against some of those guys from the Texans.
Speaker 1: So that's the game. I give him a little bit
Speaker 1: more like I have more of a problem with the
Speaker 1: way he played against in this last game, or the
Speaker 1: way he played maybe if you want to throw out
Speaker 1: the Saints game, that to me is more of a
Speaker 1: problem just because I look at I look at the
Speaker 1: weather in New England. I'm like, I don't know that
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterbacks would have been able to function
Speaker 1: very well in that kind of weather. It just kind
Speaker 1: of is what it is, those kind of days. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry we talking about Dad. I'm sorry, I thought you're
Speaker 1: talking about Deck. Okay, guy either way, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I got you, okay. But to me, it's like when
Speaker 1: you lay out all the games. He's been pretty consistent
Speaker 1: all throughout the year, and everyone has a bad game.
Speaker 1: You know, that's just naturally it's going to happen once
Speaker 1: in a while. But I think you just have to
Speaker 1: look at it more as an overall rather than pointing
Speaker 1: out a single game. Yeah, he's played well, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying I think when you're looking at negotiating, you
Speaker 1: can say, you know, just like the Cowboys, when you
Speaker 1: go up against the best, how did you do? And
Speaker 1: I will say that Dak needs to help himself by
Speaker 1: winning some games here, because if not, then if you're
Speaker 1: an eight and eight quarterback, that's not going to help
Speaker 1: as far as Okay, so going along that track though,
Speaker 1: do you think that, let's look at those eight losses.
Speaker 1: Do you think that the majority of those losses, half
Speaker 1: those losses were due to Dak not playing well enough? Yes,
Speaker 1: most of them. I firmly believe that the quarterback needs
Speaker 1: to play better. If you if you don't win, they
Speaker 1: need to play better. And I can say that because
Speaker 1: I Dak will stand it right in front of his
Speaker 1: locker and the podium and say the exact same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what's supposed to say. That's what good leaders do.
Speaker 1: I get them. But even that, I mean I mean
Speaker 1: Green Bay, New Orleans, New England, Yes, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I mean everybody gets everybody gets a big al
Speaker 1: for the Jets game, every single player of the team.
Speaker 1: So yeah, more than half of their losses he needed
Speaker 1: to play better. He's not not necessarily played better, but
Speaker 1: not the reason why they lost. Well, I guess that's
Speaker 1: and maybe I said it the wrong way because I
Speaker 1: guess I look at it and I'm he's down the
Speaker 1: list for me. As far as guys that I think
Speaker 1: if they would have played better, the Cowboys win on
Speaker 1: some of those games. There are some games where I'm like,
Speaker 1: the quarterback, that's on you, dude. But but there are
Speaker 1: certain games where I feel like there were other parts
Speaker 1: of the team that failed them more than the quarterback did.
Speaker 1: And that's where I still get back to if you
Speaker 1: look at where he is in this year of his
Speaker 1: development as an NFL quarterback, to the arrow's pointing way up,
Speaker 1: you know love da don't. I'm not saying that they shouldn't.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know how you got Yeah, I'm already
Speaker 1: getting it, I'm sure. But the thing about it is
Speaker 1: is that I'm just saying you need, you need to
Speaker 1: win games because it does affect him. If you know,
Speaker 1: he's the he's the reason this team is supposed to
Speaker 1: be winning or losing, and as the quarterback, you don't
Speaker 1: really want to put an eight in eight out there,
Speaker 1: which that right there, to me says that you may
Speaker 1: have changed your opinion on what you thought of him
Speaker 1: at the beginning of year, because I think at the
Speaker 1: beginning of year we probably all would have said, Zeke,
Speaker 1: you're the reason that they're going to be winning or losing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to be putting it on the quarterback means we've kind
Speaker 1: of changed in our minds what we expect of Dak,
Speaker 1: what's your level, what's your put it on a percentage
Speaker 1: like level of concern about giving Amari and Dak at
Speaker 1: or near market value contracts, just like you like one
Speaker 1: hundred percent you're like, don't sign this guy at all,
Speaker 1: let him go, Or zero percent you're like, how are
Speaker 1: we doing with the coach? First, are let's talk about
Speaker 1: how much money and spending on these players? Because I'm like,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna waste the talent on the field, then
Speaker 1: why waste the money. So first we got to the coach. Actually,
Speaker 1: I disagree. I think Amari and Dak have both played
Speaker 1: well enough that independent of who's coaching this team, I
Speaker 1: feel good about them being here. Absolutely, But regardless of
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, it's like, what is that talent and
Speaker 1: that invested money going to get you to That's a
Speaker 1: whole different show. Those two guys come back next year
Speaker 1: with new deals and they play to the level of
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence and Zeke. This year, the Cowboys are going
Speaker 1: to have problems because Zeke has not done he has
Speaker 1: not done what you thought he would do with that money.
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence hasn't either. Jalen Smith, let's put that one
Speaker 1: in there. Three guys all got signed. They haven't played
Speaker 1: as well as they did last year. So if those
Speaker 1: two guys get paid and that happens again, that's the
Speaker 1: scary That is the scary. That is a scary thing
Speaker 1: about paying about paying your own guys, because you do
Speaker 1: see it from time and time where guys get paid
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, for whatever reason. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that they take it any less serious, but for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, the production doesn't seem to always follow that.
Speaker 1: You know, including this season, the Cowboys probably have about
Speaker 1: a three year window before all these contracts really start
Speaker 1: to mess with their ability to add talent. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's four games left to play, but it doesn't look
Speaker 1: like this is going to be the season that they
Speaker 1: capitalize on it. Maybe I'm wrong, and not only that
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it. The one thing I'll say about that, though, too,
Speaker 1: is there's a new CBA come and that new CBA
Speaker 1: may change all that because you got new TV deals
Speaker 1: coming up in another i think two or three years
Speaker 1: as well. That all can change the whole financial outlook
Speaker 1: of the NFL. You know, you may all of a
Speaker 1: sudden be playing with extra hundred million dollars in cap
Speaker 1: space that you know, that makes it to where all
Speaker 1: these big deals really don't matter, right, Yeah, But I
Speaker 1: never agree with that because they're all going to get
Speaker 1: amount of money. So if you if the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: an extra amount of money, that's fine, but the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: will have an extra you know, hundred No. My point is, though,
Speaker 1: that means you're not in salary cap like you're not
Speaker 1: in it. Like Dave's point was, there's gonna come a
Speaker 1: point where all these contracts are gonna get catch up
Speaker 1: to you to where you now can't really go out
Speaker 1: and sign players. You add another one hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: to the cap, then it doesn't matter. You can cover
Speaker 1: all these plus some, right, But it sort of does.
Speaker 1: But that's another show because I'm just saying, because then
Speaker 1: now everyone's got all this extra money. Now they're paying
Speaker 1: an average defensive end twenty three million a year when
Speaker 1: you've got DeMarcus lords, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: you think DeMarcus then goes back to the web. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, it just keeps going over and over to
Speaker 1: more he needs to play better. But what's to say
Speaker 1: that market gets up to eighteen million a year and
Speaker 1: you've got two guys sitting at ten, they're gonna happy
Speaker 1: to stay at ten. We'll see. This is like a
Speaker 1: March show. I know it really is. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take our first break. We're gonna come back. Dave
Speaker 1: and Nick are gonna talk about the storylines and also
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Speaker 1: number twenty nineteen. Back to the Break. Welcome back as
Speaker 1: the second segment of the Break laugh in the WBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage studios. At the start, we got way off track
Speaker 1: and at last segment, we're gonna jump back on track.
Speaker 1: This segment, Nick start us off by talking about the
Speaker 1: storylines Cowboys versus there, all right, the Bear storylines. I'll
Speaker 1: do this quickly. They're six and six. It's not the
Speaker 1: same as the Cowboys six and six. They're they're way
Speaker 1: back in their division because they actually have good teams
Speaker 1: in their division. The Cowboys are obviously six and six
Speaker 1: in the lead, but there's still six and six, so
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting game there. As far as Mitchell Trubisky,
Speaker 1: he talked about it yesterday. He's just kind of struggling.
Speaker 1: Unless they're playing the Lions. He hasn't been that good.
Speaker 1: But we'll see. You know, we've seen. Was it Josh
Speaker 1: McCowen or who was the quarterback that just killed him
Speaker 1: in that game? And yeah, Josh McCown way back in thirteen.
Speaker 1: It happened. Sometimes there other defenses unbelievable days. Gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that little bit. And here's the stat I like
Speaker 1: about Khalil Mack six and a half sacks this year,
Speaker 1: five forced fumbles, so he only gets there, but he
Speaker 1: knocks the ball out. David Montgomery. That was one of
Speaker 1: the things I talked about. He's second in the NFL
Speaker 1: and rushing yards for rookies though. Um. And then one
Speaker 1: guy that you do have to watch for. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's gonna make his list is Cordarell Patterson.
Speaker 1: He is a beast. He leads the league and kickoff
Speaker 1: returns and he will bring it out. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: where the ball is, he's coming out with it. He
Speaker 1: had one hundred and two yard kickoff return. He's had
Speaker 1: seven in his career, which is third in NFL history.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best kick returners in the history
Speaker 1: of the NFL. Really, no doubt. He was sept Wow.
Speaker 1: Seven for touchdowns. There's two guys with eight. Um, No,
Speaker 1: he's a more. He was a pump return guy. Hey,
Speaker 1: he had kickoffs. He had something super Bowl, but everyone
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl but um, Leon Washington and Joshua Cribbs
Speaker 1: had eight. I didn't know Leon Washington was at that.
Speaker 1: I didn't think so either. Josh Cribs, I knew, did
Speaker 1: but but Cordarell Patterson, he's had some. He's had one
Speaker 1: hundred and nine one as well. So you know, like
Speaker 1: Tony poll is waiting for the ball to get past
Speaker 1: them and then he boomed, it's a touchback. This guy
Speaker 1: he needs to get it in my heart needs to
Speaker 1: kick it in the gold or is not happening. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The funny thing about the Bears is they can the
Speaker 1: Cowboys can probably relate like they are a really good defense.
Speaker 1: But I feel like they're victims of their own expectations
Speaker 1: this year because I mean they're they're seventh and total defense,
Speaker 1: they're top ten across the board, their fourth and scoring,
Speaker 1: and yet at the same time, you're kind of like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: like they're not doing as well as I thought they
Speaker 1: would do, just again because of the expectations. Like they
Speaker 1: have twenty eight sacks on the year. That's less than
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do. So we're I mean, we're sitting here
Speaker 1: saying DeMarcus needs to play better. MALIEK. Collins, you know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been as good as we thought. It's kind
Speaker 1: of the same for the Bears. Mali Khalil max six
Speaker 1: and a half sacks. I mean that's that's not what
Speaker 1: you expect from this world wrecking you know guy that
Speaker 1: everybody knows from the trade from Oakland and everything. They
Speaker 1: only have thirteen takeaways this season, which you know, going
Speaker 1: all the way back to when Marinelli was there, the
Speaker 1: Bears are famous for. It just seems like they get turnovers,
Speaker 1: you know, three or four a game. It's not happened
Speaker 1: this year. Mac has got five forced fumbles, but uh
Speaker 1: they don't have anybody that gets picks the way that.
Speaker 1: Um that some of their older you know, the dbs
Speaker 1: of old the people Timant, Denil Manning and all that
Speaker 1: type of stuff. Um, Hi, sorry, we've got are my bad. Um.
Speaker 1: So I mean that said, they are really good. I
Speaker 1: mean I just read all the stats off for you.
Speaker 1: I think a big part of it is a Keem
Speaker 1: Hicks has been on injured reserve for most of the year,
Speaker 1: really underrated nose tackle in that defense. I think he
Speaker 1: opens things up for everybody else. He is coming back
Speaker 1: next week, so chalk that up as another fortunate miss
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. They have not capitalized on the vast
Speaker 1: majority of those. Uh, so he won't be there in
Speaker 1: this game. So I think, um, you know that that
Speaker 1: takes that detracts the quality of this front a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think, like I said, he opens things up for
Speaker 1: other guys. Danny Trevathan and Roquan Smith two really good
Speaker 1: you know, sideline to sideline type of linebackers. Um Smith
Speaker 1: from Georgia, Right, yeah, man, Yeah, he was, he's he's
Speaker 1: he's good. He's not. I don't know that he's playing
Speaker 1: up to the billing yet. He has mirrors the Cowboys
Speaker 1: so much because last year those linebackers, they were talking
Speaker 1: about them the way they were talking about vander Eshan
Speaker 1: and Jaylen Smay. Don't fall into the trap, Derek. Last week,
Speaker 1: remember Dave was kind of like you know, ed Oliver
Speaker 1: is good. Absolutely again one more time, hit Oliver. I
Speaker 1: didn't say at Oliver's bad. You just said that it started,
Speaker 1: which shows the depth of what the Bills are. But defense, yeah,
Speaker 1: you made it better yesterday because you told us that
Speaker 1: the offense for the Bears is really great. I'm not good.
Speaker 1: I'm not a scout. I didn't just tell you what
Speaker 1: I watched. Which is funny because the last game they
Speaker 1: put on tape, they didn't play very well against David Blow.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to pronounce David it's either
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. I don't know. He's a seventh round
Speaker 1: pick out of Purdue. The Bills put up three hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety yard I mean the Bills. The Lions put
Speaker 1: up three hundred niney yards on these guys. They ran
Speaker 1: the ball well four yards per carry, hundred yards on
Speaker 1: the day. I will say it's interesting. His first pass
Speaker 1: of the day was a seventy five yard touchdown. Guy
Speaker 1: just got behind Prince of Mukamara. Looked like there was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a communication lapse, and then in
Speaker 1: his first six he went four of six for one
Speaker 1: thirty and two touchdowns to start the day. He finished
Speaker 1: with two hundred and eighty. So I think the Bears
Speaker 1: figured it out after a while. It's it's more fun
Speaker 1: to poke fun at him for giving up big plays
Speaker 1: to a seventh round pick, But they figured him out
Speaker 1: after a while because he needed thirty eight passes to
Speaker 1: throw for two eighties. So you know, they still gave
Speaker 1: up the plays, but I think they kind of buckled
Speaker 1: down a Mukamara's got a hamstring injury. He classified himself
Speaker 1: as a game time decision, So that's something to watch
Speaker 1: What do you want there? You want him to play
Speaker 1: or not. I'll take I'll take the GEMPI guy who
Speaker 1: has not played up to his draft stock in the
Speaker 1: first place, healthy or not, Like he's never been really
Speaker 1: good against the Cowboys, way with the Giants and all that,
Speaker 1: Like he's been a guy you're like, go get out there.
Speaker 1: By all means, yeah, I'm fine with the Mukamara playing.
Speaker 1: Kyle Filler's a really fuller, is a really good cover guy.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the picks this year, kind of mirroring
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, right, Like good coverage, not getting takeaways. This
Speaker 1: whole like that whole defense just mirrors to me what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were last year to this year. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I very much agree with that they have an edge
Speaker 1: at safety. I mean, I know, and I know, but
Speaker 1: I think Eddie Jackson's a really good player. Em and
Speaker 1: Haha Clinton Dicks are a nice pair back there. They're
Speaker 1: both I know. The Cowboys say their guys are versatile.
Speaker 1: That's not true. These guys are both versatile in the
Speaker 1: sense that either one of them can play up or
Speaker 1: back again. I was I was surprised when I looked
Speaker 1: into this and found out how few takeaways they have
Speaker 1: they I mean, they're right there with the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: terms of not taking the ball away. So you know,
Speaker 1: i'd heard that drop in a while, the hahaha Clinton
Speaker 1: Dicks won, Maybe we don't have it anymore. I guess
Speaker 1: he left the division, so okay, But I mean the
Speaker 1: talent's definitely there. And like I said, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: nitpicking because this is still a top ten unit. But
Speaker 1: I think people in Chicago are probably like, oh, weren't
Speaker 1: these guys better last year? Like what happened? Where? Where
Speaker 1: did our elite, elite defense go? Do you think that?
Speaker 1: Is this one of those units that you think and
Speaker 1: turned on any given week? Or they have some systematic problems.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because Hicks isn't there, Like is this a
Speaker 1: team that this week could be their defense could be
Speaker 1: back to what it was last year. Here's a fun
Speaker 1: Here's a fun stat that I stole from a Bears
Speaker 1: beat writer off of Twitter. Dallas has owned five against
Speaker 1: top ten defenses this year and the Bears are solidly
Speaker 1: in the top ten. So yeah, I do think, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the Bears are capable of doing something with that. Twitter, Yes,
Speaker 1: I did. Why did you have it too. Sorry Cowboys storylines,
Speaker 1: but it's okay because they were four. They're owing three
Speaker 1: going into the Bill's game. They lost that one, so
Speaker 1: oh and four. I mean the Jets have a top
Speaker 1: ten defense, so do the Saints. Yeah, I and yes,
Speaker 1: And I think tail as old as time. I think
Speaker 1: they will focus on the run game, you know, for
Speaker 1: all to talk about how Zeke doesn't have it. I
Speaker 1: think you're still seeing defenses making an effort to stop
Speaker 1: that first outdoor game. I know the weather's not supposed
Speaker 1: to be absolutely miserable, but I think you stand a
Speaker 1: way better chance of having of asking the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: pass their way to a win in conditions like windy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the part you got to worry about there, is
Speaker 1: it windy in Chicago? I mean that's what they would say, right,
Speaker 1: heard things about that that could be the problem here
Speaker 1: and not the coal the win. That could be the issue.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about something that
Speaker 1: Jerry said earlier this morning. He was on his on
Speaker 1: the local radio show here on the Fan with Sean
Speaker 1: and RJ and I don't even remember what the question was,
Speaker 1: but basically they were talking about Jason Garrett his future
Speaker 1: here and and Jerry kind of threw this out at
Speaker 1: the end of his statement, but it was it didn't
Speaker 1: go unhurt like. It was almost just at the end,
Speaker 1: almost as it's come just this little like I think
Speaker 1: he was just wrapping things up. But it was, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, the most interesting comment of what he said. Basically,
Speaker 1: he said he expects that Jason Garrett will be coaching
Speaker 1: in the NFL next year. What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1: My thought on that is Jerry Jones is aware that
Speaker 1: he is the final authority on whether or not Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett coaches here. Right, Maybe what if Jason Garrett says out, well,
Speaker 1: M maybe theoretically possible to sign this thing. I'm tired
Speaker 1: of this crap. What if he says that it's possible, like,
Speaker 1: it's very possible. They finished their game. They finished their game,
Speaker 1: and whatever that game is January February, I'm sorry, December
Speaker 1: or January? Wow, and ruling February out. Huh, well, show
Speaker 1: me something before we talk about that. Okay, But but
Speaker 1: for a now, let's just say they finished the game
Speaker 1: in December January, and it's possible that Jason could be like,
Speaker 1: you know, just this whole thing being a coach in Dallas,
Speaker 1: it's not my thing anymore. I want to go somewhere
Speaker 1: where there's less stuff, there's less extra stuff, right as possible.
Speaker 1: It's possible, but I don't buy it, especially because of
Speaker 1: the moolah that would be attached to a new contract
Speaker 1: from Jerry. I are you sure that that's gonna be
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of mulah. It was thirty
Speaker 1: five million last time. That's a lot of money. That
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Yes, yeah, unless you're DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 1: or Jerry Jones. I mean yeah, it's not like Jerry
Speaker 1: was like thirty five that's it all right? Well, actually,
Speaker 1: Sean and r J said something really funny. They were like,
Speaker 1: you know, what do you say to people who criticize
Speaker 1: you for being too optimistic. But the way they framed
Speaker 1: the question, they were like, you know, we're not always
Speaker 1: as optimistic as you are because we don't have four
Speaker 1: billion dollars in the bank. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I ain't that the truth. Yeah, you can be optimistic
Speaker 1: when you got four billion back. You got a pretty
Speaker 1: big safety net. Yeah. I thought it was very telling.
Speaker 1: I mean, if if Jerry Jones really wanted to make
Speaker 1: a statement, he'd be like, he'll be our coach. He
Speaker 1: didn't say that. Yeah, that's how you you know, you
Speaker 1: really want to show support, I mean, just sign him.
Speaker 1: But you know, he said, the problem is you don't
Speaker 1: know who you can guarantee. Who can guarantee you a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Yeah, so who's got the exclusive skills to
Speaker 1: get the job done so that collective you can win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl? There are qualified people. Jason Garrett is
Speaker 1: one of them. In my opinion, Jason Garrett will be
Speaker 1: coaching in the NFL next year. I mean, okay, like
Speaker 1: where like right with you? That seems very like follow
Speaker 1: up ish, like yeah, whah. The interview ended on that question.
Speaker 1: Was he also in the same interview, he said you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's my guy, he's the man for the job.
Speaker 1: But man, it's just not a ringing endorsement when you
Speaker 1: know the guy that ultimately makes the call on who's
Speaker 1: coaching the Cowboys is like, yeah, I did, he'll he'll
Speaker 1: have a job in the league. Couldn't he just say?
Speaker 1: Couldn't he just say I will not make any coaching
Speaker 1: move for the now or the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Like in the season, let's talk about it again. But
Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done. I'm not gonna make a move
Speaker 1: right now. We're in first place. It's not what we want,
Speaker 1: but we still have a chance to get there. I'm
Speaker 1: not making a change. Would just be a bad idea
Speaker 1: for where we are. It's not happening. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the end of the s He's already said that he's
Speaker 1: not making a change this year, did he not? I mean,
Speaker 1: in the in the comments he made post game this
Speaker 1: last game. Yeah, I thought he was very clear about
Speaker 1: the fact that we're not getting better by firing him
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season or in firing him
Speaker 1: during the season. We're gonna, you know, basically saying we're
Speaker 1: gonna this is our guy. We think that he has
Speaker 1: the right stuff to be able to get us through now.
Speaker 1: He may not have said it is as definitively as
Speaker 1: I'm not making a move this season, but he all
Speaker 1: but said that, like he made it very clear that Jason,
Speaker 1: and because he was even asked to follow up by
Speaker 1: by Mike Fisher of so you're saying that you can't
Speaker 1: be you don't get better by getting rid of Garrett
Speaker 1: this year, And he said, that's absolutely right. We don't
Speaker 1: get better. They don't have a coach on this staff
Speaker 1: that can that can do that right now, will make
Speaker 1: you better, that'll make you better. I just right now
Speaker 1: I should say no, I mean they don't. They don't
Speaker 1: have a coach on the staff that could do that,
Speaker 1: that could make you better right now. That's the point
Speaker 1: I'm stop. He might not he might not be writing it.
Speaker 1: He might not be writing it in like fifteen points, sharpie,
Speaker 1: But I feel like Jerry Jones is writing on the
Speaker 1: wall right now. There's another quote he said this morning.
Speaker 1: He said, if I were leaving training camp today, I'd
Speaker 1: like to have this run that I've got right now,
Speaker 1: four games to get to the playoffs as healthy as
Speaker 1: we are, get our act together relative to what we're
Speaker 1: doing on both sides of the ball. And let's go
Speaker 1: couple that with a bunch of the other things that
Speaker 1: he said, including I think he'll be coaching in the
Speaker 1: NFL next year. I just think Jason Garrett's going to
Speaker 1: have to put together a legitimate run at or at
Speaker 1: least close to the Super Bowl to be here next year.
Speaker 1: I will say this, That's what I think. They did
Speaker 1: ask him the question, what is the bar right and
Speaker 1: and he did he said it. No. What he said
Speaker 1: was basically, there is no bar what he was doing
Speaker 1: with giving himself leeway. He was like, there is no
Speaker 1: real bar that I've set for this thing. You know.
Speaker 1: He basically was saying that I'm gonna judge at the
Speaker 1: end of this whole thing how I think, not only
Speaker 1: how I think he's how he's done and our team
Speaker 1: is performing, but I just want to see, like what
Speaker 1: else is out there. That was where he got in
Speaker 1: some of those other comments about do I have another
Speaker 1: guy out there who I think ken get me farther
Speaker 1: than where Jason's getting me? Sorry, go ahead, nine and seven.
Speaker 1: This team goes nine and seven. They actually turn it
Speaker 1: around a little bit. Go three, out of four. They
Speaker 1: play the forty nine Ers, which is the team that
Speaker 1: they would play right now. Forty nine Ers come in
Speaker 1: as the number five seed with probably four or five
Speaker 1: games better than Dallas maybe, and Dallas wins. They get it.
Speaker 1: They finally beat a team with a winning record. They
Speaker 1: go to Seattle lose. What do you do? Garrett out?
Speaker 1: What do I do? What is Jason or what is Garrett? Jerry?
Speaker 1: That's the fun? Yeah, that's that's the rub here. Fun
Speaker 1: is not the right word, but that is what is
Speaker 1: useful about this current situation. In twenty sixteen, Jerry would
Speaker 1: have had to fire Jason Garrett following a playoff loss
Speaker 1: to the Packers, which that's not a good look for anybody,
Speaker 1: right if they if that scenario plays out, you can
Speaker 1: just let him walk away and say, well, we're not
Speaker 1: upset with the job that you did, but you're out
Speaker 1: of contract, and we think everybody you know, it's he
Speaker 1: goes and signs with somebody else like he and they
Speaker 1: just let him do it. You know, you see players
Speaker 1: all the time they're like, well just go check the
Speaker 1: mark out and if you come back around, you come
Speaker 1: back around. And the player doesn't come back around. It
Speaker 1: could be a similar situation. This is just like the
Speaker 1: AT and T commercial. Really, I mean, Elsa, oh okay,
Speaker 1: just okay is not okay. That's really what it's come
Speaker 1: down to. Is he the slogan he's been just okay.
Speaker 1: But with the Dallas Cowboys, it's not okay. It's definitely
Speaker 1: not okay to the fans. So that's kind of where
Speaker 1: where we stand here. He's been okay, he doesn't sometimes
Speaker 1: really good, Right, Jerry doesn't have to set the bar.
Speaker 1: He's not going to do it publicly. But like I
Speaker 1: the way this has all gone, the way the season's
Speaker 1: been up to this point, I just can't imagine him
Speaker 1: getting an extension and having that press conference and everything
Speaker 1: that goes with that without winning at least two playoff games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're getting them into a game that they have been
Speaker 1: twenty five years. Here's the thing. If they get to
Speaker 1: the NFC title game, I kind of now I'm starting
Speaker 1: to think, all right, yeah, because Jerry doesn't want to
Speaker 1: let go of him in the first place. It's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be clear, Jerry has to get rid of
Speaker 1: him just because it's just not working. If they get
Speaker 1: to a game that they haven't been to since the
Speaker 1: mid nineties. Then I'm starting to think and if they
Speaker 1: get to the super Bowl, then definitely, I think they
Speaker 1: have to play in the SEC title game. Think it
Speaker 1: was Marcus Spears today that said even a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: he probably wouldn't keep him. I think he said he
Speaker 1: wouldn't keep him. They wouldn't. I think, I think. I think, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think if you get to
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game, I think that Jerry makes the
Speaker 1: decision that he'd probably keep them around. But I just
Speaker 1: think you have to read between the lions. You always
Speaker 1: do with Jerry. But I just think the messaging is
Speaker 1: there that he expects something extraordinary over the six weeks.
Speaker 1: If he's not going to make a change, you know,
Speaker 1: this is Yeah, it's about winning, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's all the business. It's money, a lot of money
Speaker 1: it's involved here. And I think that if that was
Speaker 1: to happen where Jason Garrett is back, I wonder how
Speaker 1: many fans are just gonna be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm done and that event you can say that you know, like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, there are some fans that are you gonna
Speaker 1: stick around? No matter why, even though they're upset. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I wonder how big of a
Speaker 1: change that would be and how much that money making.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: There have been times I've been extremely frustrated with my
Speaker 1: college team, extremely frustrated, frustrated to the point where I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm done. I don't want to watch anymore games. And
Speaker 1: you know what I do that next Saturday? Still watch
Speaker 1: the next game. Well, geez, I gotta turn this game,
Speaker 1: because it's not I'm not. What I realize is I'm
Speaker 1: not doing this for their benefit. I'm doing this because
Speaker 1: I enjoy it. I'm doing it because and maybe it
Speaker 1: makes me a glutton for punishment. I don't know, But
Speaker 1: I'm doing this for my own enjoyment. And so the
Speaker 1: question doesn't become do they turn up? The question is like,
Speaker 1: do they want to stop watching football? Do they want
Speaker 1: to stop being a fan of football? And most people
Speaker 1: I don't think are going to get to that point
Speaker 1: based on it. Now, there may be some yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and it is a personal decision everybody has a right
Speaker 1: to make. Yeah, yeah, they start wondering, right, But it's also,
Speaker 1: what have you done for me situation, What have you
Speaker 1: done for me lately? That's always what it is, and
Speaker 1: so right now it's hard to even imagine that. But
Speaker 1: they're six and six. I mean, they're got to go
Speaker 1: win on the road just to have a winning record.
Speaker 1: But if they've turned this thing around, and just think
Speaker 1: about what the vibes will be if you beat a
Speaker 1: team like the forty nine ers and then you go
Speaker 1: to Seattle and you beat that and we see the romos,
Speaker 1: it does change every and then it's like everything is
Speaker 1: totally has a different vibe than you go to the
Speaker 1: championship game and all that. Oh god, we're getting ahead
Speaker 1: of her. How about win a ballgames? Jerrys, Well, real quick,
Speaker 1: let's get these predictions for the game. Nick, let's start
Speaker 1: with you today. Who do you think is gonna win
Speaker 1: this game? Or a segue from that to that. But um,
Speaker 1: I haven't really thought of a score yet. Better do
Speaker 1: it here on the fly. But um, I'm not picking
Speaker 1: them to win. I'm sorry. I mean, they need to win.
Speaker 1: They need to win the game. I've seen it, I've
Speaker 1: done all of this. I've stood on the table that
Speaker 1: they said they're gonna blow up the bills and they didn't,
Speaker 1: So I I just I think they're better than Chicago,
Speaker 1: I think, but that hasn't proved anything right now, So
Speaker 1: I don't have a good vibe that they're going to
Speaker 1: go out there and get it together if they said
Speaker 1: they are, if they if they prove me wrong and say, ha, great,
Speaker 1: do it. But I don't think they'll win. So twenty
Speaker 1: three nineteen Bears, all right? I actually I do think
Speaker 1: they're gonna win, but I'm not gonna pick them. If
Speaker 1: that makes sense now, Yeah, no, no, that or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't care, Like, I'll just go along with you.
Speaker 1: I think they're better, Okay, I don't think they're gonna win.
Speaker 1: They like, they have given me no reason to pick
Speaker 1: them to win this game. And you know, oh no,
Speaker 1: they'll prove me wrong and I will demand an apology
Speaker 1: for the five times this year I've picked them to
Speaker 1: win and they lost. They're better than the Bears, I think,
Speaker 1: like across you know, their offense. I like the matchup
Speaker 1: of Dallas offense first Bears defense more than the alternative. Again,
Speaker 1: but didn't I say that about the Bills too? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think like the Cowboys should be able to score
Speaker 1: twenty four against this Bears defense and hold the Bears
Speaker 1: offense to like sixteen. That's what they should be able
Speaker 1: to do. But I just I don't trust it, especially
Speaker 1: not on the road. They'll probably lose the turnover battle.
Speaker 1: They do that pretty consistently. Khalil Mack has five forced fumbles,
Speaker 1: and it'll you know, like nineteen to sixteen Bears a
Speaker 1: lot of field goals, like tons of field goals five
Speaker 1: or six of how many attempts though eight may eight? No,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, five made field goals between the two teams
Speaker 1: on eight total attempts. A good new kicker next week
Speaker 1: nineteen sixteen Bears. All right, Well, after the loss against
Speaker 1: the Bills, I did tell myself I am no longer
Speaker 1: picking them to win for the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: regardless if they were playing the Redskins this week. I
Speaker 1: was like, no way. But but I do believe in
Speaker 1: probability and the fact that the Bears have two games
Speaker 1: that they've won on a road and the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: lost two on a road. I think maybe the Cowboys
Speaker 1: figure out a way to win in Chicago. Now I'm
Speaker 1: in between there, like I don't want to pick them
Speaker 1: to win, but because of probabilities. I think they would
Speaker 1: get this win and they win. I don't know, Like
Speaker 1: I think we're all twenty seventeen, we're all grappling with
Speaker 1: the reality that we're gonna look like idiots no matter
Speaker 1: what happens. Yes, the Cowboys are either gonna play up
Speaker 1: to their potential and make us all look dumb for
Speaker 1: checking out on them, or we're gonna pick them to
Speaker 1: win again and they're gonna put up another stinker. Well,
Speaker 1: I picked them to lose to the Eagles at home,
Speaker 1: and they crushed them, so I slept okay every time.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, that's whole different stuf um. You know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I've decided. I decided after that Bill's game. I believe
Speaker 1: in the theory that Bill parcels laid out by Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: You know what a team is. So what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do from here on out is I'm basically going with
Speaker 1: what I've seen. What I've seen is the Cowboys when
Speaker 1: they're playing a team that's above five hundred, they don't
Speaker 1: really play very well. They don't win those games. Teams
Speaker 1: below five hundred buy and large except for the Jets,
Speaker 1: they win those games. Now, that proposes in a boundary
Speaker 1: for me. So there you go. That's that's my tie. Great, right,
Speaker 1: So they won the only game that they played this
Speaker 1: year where the team was at five hundred. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna roll with that for this week. I can tell
Speaker 1: you right now, I'm thinking next week, I'm probably not
Speaker 1: picking them because that'll be a team that's probably a
Speaker 1: buff five. I think they'll definitely be a hundred and five.
Speaker 1: So I think this week they get a win. I
Speaker 1: think next year, next week they make it interesting by
Speaker 1: getting a loss, and then you see what happens in Philly,
Speaker 1: because Philly is really the game that matters. Yeah, all right, hed,
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