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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, October ninth, twenty twenty, season sixteen, episode
Speaker 1: number forty one. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We've got so much to talk about today. We've got
Speaker 1: a little bit of news here heading into the show,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna spend quite a bit of time talking
Speaker 1: about Tyren Smith and what that means for the rest
Speaker 1: of this team for the rest of this season. We'll
Speaker 1: also get you guys ready for Cowboys versus Giants, will
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the offense versus Giants defense,
Speaker 1: and also Cowboys defense versus the Giants offense, and then
Speaker 1: we'll get to predictions. See how these guys think the
Speaker 1: game will play out this Sunday at three thirty at
Speaker 1: at and T Stadium. We got to start though with
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith during his press conference this morning. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: made it clear, I guess made the announcement that it
Speaker 1: is now official that Tyren Smith will have surgery on
Speaker 1: his neck and that means he will be lost for
Speaker 1: the season. That now makes two offensive linemen Cowboys were
Speaker 1: expecting to have two of their better offensive linement they
Speaker 1: were expecting to have that are now out for the year.
Speaker 1: When you include Lyle Collins, if you want to go
Speaker 1: back to last year, three starters that are now no
Speaker 1: longer going to be on this team for the rest
Speaker 1: or at least playing for this team for the rest
Speaker 1: of the year, when you throw in Travis Frederick. That
Speaker 1: all being said, I want to get reactions to this news.
Speaker 1: Let's start first with Unick. I hope he's okay. You know,
Speaker 1: I hope he's okay for not just not playing. But
Speaker 1: you know, this is he's at a point his career
Speaker 1: and that's a that's an injury that you don't want
Speaker 1: to mess around with. Of course, he's done everything that
Speaker 1: one individual can do. They haven't been to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: of course, but he's done as great as you know,
Speaker 1: He's had a phenomenal career. I'm not saying he's done.
Speaker 1: I hope he's okay. I hope this is just a
Speaker 1: setback for this year to get back and get ready
Speaker 1: to go. Yes, they're gonna miss him, and let them
Speaker 1: talk about, you know how much he's gonna be missed.
Speaker 1: But I just for his sake, man, I hope, I
Speaker 1: hope he comebacks. Ope he can come back next year
Speaker 1: and this will be he'll be better for this surgery.
Speaker 1: Amber Well, you know it's something serious when he gets
Speaker 1: to the point where they decide to get him to
Speaker 1: get surgery, because a guy like Tyrn, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: one of the toughest players I've ever seen in the
Speaker 1: time that I've been following football. I mean, it's amazing
Speaker 1: the things that he's been able to endure, endure and
Speaker 1: then go through. So I know that it must be
Speaker 1: pretty bad that to the point that it's gonna end
Speaker 1: the rest of the season for him being submitted to
Speaker 1: a surgery. But like Nick said, I do hope that
Speaker 1: it's not something that it's completely just career ending. I
Speaker 1: know that this is something that Tyrant has been dealing with,
Speaker 1: not just the next but just his back in general.
Speaker 1: He's been dealing with for several years. So hopefully it's
Speaker 1: he's able to make it through and come back next
Speaker 1: year better Dave. In a weird way, I'm kind of relieved,
Speaker 1: and I don't I mean, obviously it sucks that Tyrn
Speaker 1: can't play. It's going to be a challenge. You know,
Speaker 1: you got what two starts out of him, so you
Speaker 1: got to make your way through fourteen games without one
Speaker 1: of the best two or three left tackles in football.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of a relief just that you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully he feels better, Hopefully he can get this taken
Speaker 1: care of and play a few more years where he's
Speaker 1: relatively healthy, because this guy has just been in pain
Speaker 1: for like five years, and you know, we're in the
Speaker 1: locker room, we're around the team like, I don't you know.
Speaker 1: It's Romo esque the way that this guy has just
Speaker 1: dealt with nagging problems and it's been five years at
Speaker 1: this point. So I'm relieved that he's gonna hopefully get
Speaker 1: it taken care of the lineup. But in a weird way,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a relief on the Cowboys end that
Speaker 1: you know you're not gonna wake up on Sunday and
Speaker 1: be like, oh crap, it's flaring up on Tyron again,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to downgrade him, and I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to talk trash on Tyront. I know
Speaker 1: he works as hard as he can to get in
Speaker 1: the lineup, but you just kind of have some certainty
Speaker 1: that he is down and not part of this season anymore,
Speaker 1: and you don't have that uncertainty. Let's talk about what
Speaker 1: this means for this offense. We've looked at the Cowboys
Speaker 1: now through four games, and I think we all agree
Speaker 1: they are a high powered, very potent offense, and some
Speaker 1: of that they've had to do without Tyrant. The one
Speaker 1: thing I look at, though, is I think they've only
Speaker 1: and you guys may have a different difference of opinion here,
Speaker 1: but I think they face two premier pass rushers so
Speaker 1: far this year. Aaron Donald Miles Garrett. Both of them
Speaker 1: had their way with this offensive line. They had moments
Speaker 1: in those games when they created problems for this offensive line.
Speaker 1: As you get farther into this season, you're gonna face
Speaker 1: some better defenses at times that pass rush. You can
Speaker 1: think what you want to think about Washington's defense, but
Speaker 1: their pass rush is outstanding. They got some real good
Speaker 1: players up front that can rush the pass or you
Speaker 1: look at a defense is like Baltimore, and I think
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be some some challenges for this offense.
Speaker 1: How much do you guys think this changes how potent
Speaker 1: this offense can be with now the loss of Tyren
Speaker 1: Smith for the year, not just for a couple of games,
Speaker 1: not just for a half, but for the entire season.
Speaker 1: Let's start first with you, Dave. I mean, they haven't
Speaker 1: They've had Tyrn for half of these games, and in
Speaker 1: the ones that they didn't have them, they still looked
Speaker 1: plenty of potent to me, And I mean, of course
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a problem. Of course, it's gonna suck.
Speaker 1: You know, they have played a couple of premier pass rushers,
Speaker 1: but they've also gotten a little bit lucky in the
Speaker 1: sense that Seattle in Atlanta don't. They don't have that.
Speaker 1: The Giants aren't going to have that on that level
Speaker 1: this weekend. But let's talk after that Washington game. They've
Speaker 1: got about ninety five badass pass rushers, So yeah, there
Speaker 1: there's gonna be There's gonna be some rough patches for sure,
Speaker 1: but um, Dave at least shown that they can still
Speaker 1: put up yards and points without these guys in the lineup,
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be some moments that scare me and
Speaker 1: should scare everybody, But I don't. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be so bad that they're going to revert to
Speaker 1: looking like, you know, like twenty eighteen prior to the
Speaker 1: Cooper trade. I think they can still you know, be efficient. Amber,
Speaker 1: I agree, We've seen it happened. I mean, we've seen
Speaker 1: a game where they had to play without tiring and
Speaker 1: they've made it work. My only concern would be, just
Speaker 1: let the off clean up your game, clean it off
Speaker 1: from the beginning, to start moving the offense from the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game, and not wait until something that
Speaker 1: you mentioned Derek about a week ago. You know, the
Speaker 1: question is like, Okay, are they playing better maybe because
Speaker 1: the defense is starting to get tired a little bit
Speaker 1: and kind of loosening it up during the game. So
Speaker 1: you cannot let that happen. You need to find a
Speaker 1: way to figure it out from the beginning of the game,
Speaker 1: first half of the game and get him moving because
Speaker 1: it's not always gonna work out. As we've seen, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how much they try to come back. It
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean that you're gonna walk out of that
Speaker 1: game winning. But to go back to your question, we've
Speaker 1: seen it happen, so I do think that they're capable
Speaker 1: of making it work. Well. I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be a problem in the run game. I mean just
Speaker 1: because and then it has been a problem. You can
Speaker 1: figure out a way to offset a pass rush and
Speaker 1: by just throwing the ball quickly and get it out
Speaker 1: of your hands and maybe help Chip and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to actually trying to run the
Speaker 1: ball people, you know, we forget that about Tyron Smith,
Speaker 1: not forget, but I think his his athletic ability for
Speaker 1: his size is something that we always talk about. But
Speaker 1: he's got power too, of course, and he helps in
Speaker 1: that run game. And I think that they're just gonna
Speaker 1: miss that, you know, they're just like they miss lyall
Speaker 1: Collins is power as well. So that's where and that
Speaker 1: affects their balance. And we've talked about this before. And
Speaker 1: you get down in the red zone you have sometimes
Speaker 1: it's harder to run the ball in their short yardage.
Speaker 1: I think that's just they're going to continue to miss it.
Speaker 1: And she just says clean it up. That sounds good,
Speaker 1: but you're talking about players that are now inexperience and
Speaker 1: their game isn't clean, you know, because they're young, they're
Speaker 1: really they just got they just got here. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it sounds like they're gonna I don't know who's gonna
Speaker 1: start it this week, but it sounds like it could
Speaker 1: be a guy that you know, it's bounced around on
Speaker 1: practice squads that might be starting this week. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: before we get to that. I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about where we think this this thing falls as far
Speaker 1: as who's going to be playing at what position. But
Speaker 1: I do want to get opinions from Dave and Amber
Speaker 1: regarding which you just talked about, how much does this
Speaker 1: affect the running game? Which do you think is more
Speaker 1: affected by the loss of Tyren Smith for the season,
Speaker 1: the past game or the run game? Amber, I think
Speaker 1: definitely the running game. I mean, we've seen them being
Speaker 1: able to get the passing game going, but as far
Speaker 1: as the running game, Ezekiel Elia hasn't been able to
Speaker 1: be as productive as he's been in previous years, and
Speaker 1: obviously that's something that they are lacking in himself too. Obviously,
Speaker 1: these errors where he gets the ball loose and all
Speaker 1: that I think that's something that he can clean up himself.
Speaker 1: And then as far as the running game goes once
Speaker 1: I truly believe that once they solidify the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and I know that there are some inexperienced guys are
Speaker 1: just not the amount of experience as your previous starter
Speaker 1: tackles that you had before. But sorry, I'm rambling a
Speaker 1: little bit basically what I'm trying to say, once you
Speaker 1: figure out and clean up the offensive line, solidify it,
Speaker 1: I do think that eventually it's gonna take a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks for Ezekiel Elio to be able to get
Speaker 1: his running game back into place and be able to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more productive than what we've seen
Speaker 1: so far. Dave, No, it's actually it's a really good point.
Speaker 1: And I hadn't I hadn't considered it because I'm I
Speaker 1: just want to ring wing it around all the time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's probably gonna not be great. You're
Speaker 1: gonna miss that, but just throw the ball. Zeke's a
Speaker 1: great pass protector, so that should help you out in
Speaker 1: that regard. I mean, I have absolute faith that the
Speaker 1: passing game can still can still be viable. I'll be
Speaker 1: interested to see what the running game can get going
Speaker 1: with so many moving parts, I would expect it to
Speaker 1: not look amazing. You know, I just thought of this.
Speaker 1: You might actually might help your running game just from
Speaker 1: the fact that you're going to help your tackle, whoever
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, I think Blake Bell's gonna get
Speaker 1: more snaps this week. You're gonna keep the tight ends
Speaker 1: in more. And by doing that, you might see more
Speaker 1: looks on your defensive front on the defense to run
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, and by doing that, because then
Speaker 1: you're gonna have better blockers in place to help. But
Speaker 1: then you know, Dak might look out and go, we
Speaker 1: should just change this into a draw or run here,
Speaker 1: And so therefore you might see that because of the
Speaker 1: first personnel they're forced to play to help. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: could happen. The one part that I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: concerned about when it comes to all of this is
Speaker 1: I think the best thing that the Cowboys passing game
Speaker 1: does is go down feel. That's the part that they
Speaker 1: can create these really big plays and they can quickly
Speaker 1: get back into a ball game that they fall behind
Speaker 1: him because they have that ability to go down feel.
Speaker 1: If teams look at this and say, hey, they don't
Speaker 1: have the time to be able to go downfield, or
Speaker 1: if we got a good enough pass rush to what
Speaker 1: we don't give them the time to go down feel.
Speaker 1: What you do is neutralize what the Cowboys do best
Speaker 1: in their passing game, in my opinion, And if you
Speaker 1: do that, that makes it tough on you on both sides,
Speaker 1: because not only will you not be able to do
Speaker 1: what you do best in the passing game, but teams
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about the deep ball as much.
Speaker 1: That means they can bring that safety down. That means
Speaker 1: they can stop the run. They got an extra guy
Speaker 1: to stop the run. So I think all the way around,
Speaker 1: that's what I'll be playing. I'll be looking at, is
Speaker 1: can the Cowboys keep that part of their off that's
Speaker 1: still flowing. Can they still go down feel and utilize
Speaker 1: a guy like Michael Gallop in those moments in games
Speaker 1: when they they're gonna go down feel? And if they
Speaker 1: can't do that consistently, I think that's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the lynch pins that could really really hurt this offensive.
Speaker 1: This offense. Let's let's talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: offensive line and how you think it will be constructed,
Speaker 1: and I want to look at this from a couple
Speaker 1: of different perspectives. Obviously, this morning on the radio and
Speaker 1: one on five to out of three the fan here locally,
Speaker 1: Jerry mentioned something kind of hinting around at the possibility
Speaker 1: of Zach Martin moving to tackle. Let's talk about, first
Speaker 1: of all, what do you think the Cowboys will do?
Speaker 1: Not necessarily what we what you want to see, what
Speaker 1: do you think the Cowboys will do for this week
Speaker 1: on the five positions on the offensive line. Let's start.
Speaker 1: Let's start first with you, Nick, since you're having so
Speaker 1: much consternation over there. I mean, it's really tough. The
Speaker 1: only thing I think you can just hang your hat
Speaker 1: on it is to say that Tyler Beyotest will be
Speaker 1: its center. Yeah, I mean, everything else is really up
Speaker 1: in the air. I think we know, though, I mean
Speaker 1: I would guess I'll take a stab at it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be Brandon Knight left left tackle,
Speaker 1: Connor left guard, Beyodi at center, Zach at right guard,
Speaker 1: and then a right tackle. Let me get my coin
Speaker 1: out and flip here Senat maybe because because Jerry mentioned
Speaker 1: him on the radio, and I just think that they
Speaker 1: do watch tape and they see Steele. I just can't
Speaker 1: imagine Steel being the starter, but I think you will be.
Speaker 1: You think Still's gonna be the starter? Still Steel for now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't love it. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: what I heard about Snat was like, man, he's a
Speaker 1: really good basketball player. And I'm like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not playing the Mavericks this week. They're actually playing
Speaker 1: you know, the Giants. I don't know what that helps you,
Speaker 1: but but athletic. I get a Partnell type athletic, you know,
Speaker 1: good quick feet and all that kind of stuff. Amber,
Speaker 1: what do you think the five this weekend? I mean
Speaker 1: I would agree with Nick and say the same thing
Speaker 1: I don't obviously want to put I don't want to
Speaker 1: put Steal out there. But as far as the other guys,
Speaker 1: you obviously the Cowboys are gonna know more than we do,
Speaker 1: but me personally, I don't. I can't speak much about
Speaker 1: the other guys that they brought in because I haven't
Speaker 1: seen any I haven't been able to see much from them,
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be tough. I mean, do you go
Speaker 1: with the guy that you haven't really played just yet,
Speaker 1: or do you go back to what you already know?
Speaker 1: It's like pick pick with your poison. Which one do
Speaker 1: you prefer? Do you take a risk and plug the
Speaker 1: new guy in and just see how it works, or
Speaker 1: do you go back to the chance of hoping that
Speaker 1: Steel just plays a little bit better than he's done
Speaker 1: in the previous games. But as of right now, and
Speaker 1: that's a tough question, I really don't know. I see
Speaker 1: every possibility as a something that could happen, because we've
Speaker 1: seen that McCarthy is not afraid to plug a guy in.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter if like, oh, this was the
Speaker 1: starter last week. He doesn't care. He's gonna suit it
Speaker 1: up if he needs too. Dave, don't sell yourself short Amber.
Speaker 1: You like to think that the Cowboys know better than you,
Speaker 1: But everybody in America wanted Brandon Knight at right tackle
Speaker 1: last week, and they went with Terren Steele, and they
Speaker 1: admitted they were wrong after about fifteen snaps. I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's impossible to predict who plays right tackle
Speaker 1: unless you're allowed at practice, which we are not. It'll
Speaker 1: be I think, I do think they're going to try
Speaker 1: to stick with an actual tackle at tackle for as
Speaker 1: long as possible. It might be Steel, it might be
Speaker 1: Jordan Mills, it might be Greg snot. I I don't
Speaker 1: have a feeling. I know for a fact that they've
Speaker 1: tried all three, like all three of them are are
Speaker 1: getting reps. I think they're gonna try one of them,
Speaker 1: and Zach is going to be your your break glass
Speaker 1: in case of emergency. And if that happens, you probably
Speaker 1: plug Connor McGovern in at right guards since Joe Looney's hurt. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know who will get the start,
Speaker 1: but I would guess they're going to try to stick
Speaker 1: with the tackle. It's amazing that you're going into this
Speaker 1: game and there's four legitimate options to play right tackle,
Speaker 1: three of them that day, you know, just mentioned and
Speaker 1: I didn't even throw Jordan Mills out there, who's played
Speaker 1: the most of anybody. He played for the Bills, and
Speaker 1: you know, he was actually here for like a few
Speaker 1: hours back. I don't remember what year. Nobody remembered him
Speaker 1: except for Rob Phillips, who remembers everything, and he did remember.
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty fifteen, but yeah, yeah, which
Speaker 1: is the year that everyone tried to forget. But I
Speaker 1: just think that there's so many options there, and ye,
Speaker 1: Dave said it best. These are the three and then
Speaker 1: because it is a Rob Peter to pay Paul type situation,
Speaker 1: if you move Zach Martin out to tackle, and then
Speaker 1: you have the guard because now you're gonna put a
Speaker 1: guard in there that's never played. So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you look at Georgian question. But yeah, I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask whatever happened to Ron Leary. I know he came
Speaker 1: in and was looked at and all that, but I
Speaker 1: never heard anything actually happening with that is them you
Speaker 1: know where. I know you weren't necessarily looking for a guard,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, if you think of moving
Speaker 1: side Martin maybe to the tackle position, maybe Leary is
Speaker 1: an option by guard. Yeah, I mean, I really don't
Speaker 1: know why it broke down. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was money, if it was not a good fit, if
Speaker 1: it wasn't in good shape. I might have just been
Speaker 1: time and they were like, right now, we'll hole still
Speaker 1: and we know that that's in our back pocket, and
Speaker 1: maybe now they got to go to their back Well, okay,
Speaker 1: they are going to do this, and this isn't their
Speaker 1: back pocket, this is a side pocket. I guess I
Speaker 1: don't know, but they're gonna bring Adam Redman, and I
Speaker 1: wish I could see the look I get Derek here. No,
Speaker 1: look yeah, side probably not. He's been here, he's easy,
Speaker 1: he's played, he's played different positions. I think he's actually
Speaker 1: played some center. I think he's center guard. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you know it's it's more of a backup. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he's here. But of course, now you know
Speaker 1: you have to you have to be on the radar
Speaker 1: for two months before you can get something. I mean, no,
Speaker 1: it's six days. But I think I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be in the COVID protocol for to to get
Speaker 1: you know, take the test, so he can be ready,
Speaker 1: ready to play. I mean at this point, when I
Speaker 1: look at this team, I'm I'm just like, Okay, you
Speaker 1: got a guy like Jordan Mills who has played a lot, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and on an offensive line where that's a premium. Right now,
Speaker 1: I would personally say throw Jordan Mills out there. If
Speaker 1: you want to keep if you want to keep Zach
Speaker 1: where he is, and you don't want to create you
Speaker 1: want to create as little extra movement as possible, I
Speaker 1: think you go with Brandon Knight at left tackle, and
Speaker 1: I think you put Jordan Mills in there at right
Speaker 1: tackle and see how that goes. If something should fall
Speaker 1: apart and it doesn't work, then I would not have
Speaker 1: a slightest hesitation in moving Zach Martin. And then let's
Speaker 1: see what this guy who you had a second round
Speaker 1: grade in com McGovern what can he do a guard?
Speaker 1: I just want to see you. I know that they
Speaker 1: may be seeing him every day in practice. I just
Speaker 1: want to see what can he do? Also real quick?
Speaker 1: I know we go to break, but cam Irving is
Speaker 1: also going to mix into this. Not this week, but
Speaker 1: it sounds like next week he could be there as well.
Speaker 1: But again, again cam Irving, the same cam Irving who
Speaker 1: the Cowboys decided Terrence Steele should play out exactly right
Speaker 1: over him. Yeah, all right, so we're gonna take our
Speaker 1: first break. When we come back, let's talk about Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Giants. Will hit the offense, we'll hit the defense.
Speaker 1: May even have a question on special teams. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, we've talked about
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith in the offensive line and what that will
Speaker 1: mean for this offense. Now let's focus in a little
Speaker 1: bit on this upcoming game. Cowboys take on the Giants
Speaker 1: this Sunday three thirty at at and T Stadium. Let's
Speaker 1: first start by can I say something real quick about
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith. Sure never alluded to it, but I just
Speaker 1: want to throw this point too. How great is he
Speaker 1: to be to need surgery? I mean, he needed if
Speaker 1: he needed it now, he needed it last week too.
Speaker 1: To need surgery on your neck would still play eighty
Speaker 1: two snaps And I don't remember really a problem from
Speaker 1: him in that game. And you know, Miles Garrett wasn't
Speaker 1: even sniff in that side of the field. He didn't
Speaker 1: have to, I mean, but still he didn't have any issues.
Speaker 1: He played eighty two snaps. He didn't feel good after
Speaker 1: the game at all, Like you tell. I saw him
Speaker 1: actually walking into the slower than usual because Tyren's got
Speaker 1: that slow glidewalk anyways, but slower than usual. But he like,
Speaker 1: just to be able to play at that level and
Speaker 1: need next urgury, it's amazing. I mean, he he is
Speaker 1: by far. I mean, he could never play another snap
Speaker 1: and he'll be in the Ring of Honor and Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. I think. I think hall of fame as
Speaker 1: a person who battled neck issues for a long time
Speaker 1: and then ultimately had to have neck surgery. I can
Speaker 1: tell you it is the worst existence. Not possible, but
Speaker 1: it sucks because sleeping at night, which is the time
Speaker 1: you really need to recharge, that's a luxury when you
Speaker 1: got neck issues. And so if he's been dealing with
Speaker 1: this for years, my hat's off to him. And by
Speaker 1: the way, he's on top of that going out and
Speaker 1: getting into a car wreck every weekend. Basically that I
Speaker 1: respect every respect. Yeah, just not just every weekend, every
Speaker 1: minute I heard. I mean, I herniated a disc in
Speaker 1: my back like three years ago, and anybody that knows
Speaker 1: me knows that I'd still whine about it, like like
Speaker 1: bending over to pick stuff up sucks. And he played
Speaker 1: he played football with that for months, for for months,
Speaker 1: during a several years stretch. The man went out there
Speaker 1: with that and had people, you know, yeah, getting into
Speaker 1: a car wreck every week. I mean, he's the toughest
Speaker 1: m effort I've ever spent time around in my life.
Speaker 1: So the moral to this story is he is a
Speaker 1: bad dude, and we all respect what he's done. And hope,
Speaker 1: as you started this conversation with Nick, hope that this
Speaker 1: means that he has, first of all, that he has
Speaker 1: a better quality of life than what he's been experienced.
Speaker 1: These last few years. But on top of that, hopefully
Speaker 1: it means he can come back and he can continue
Speaker 1: his career and he can play well for the remainder
Speaker 1: of his career because he is an outstanding player and
Speaker 1: a really tough seven straight Pro Bowls. Yep, it's gonna snap. Yep,
Speaker 1: it's gonna you know, it's gonna end obviously. All right,
Speaker 1: this game, let's jump into it. Let's talk Cowboys versus Giants.
Speaker 1: Let's start first with the Giant offense versus a Dallas defense.
Speaker 1: How concerned to you about Daniel Jones and his ability
Speaker 1: to scramble? Last year? He I mean last week he
Speaker 1: was tied for most rushing yards on their team. I
Speaker 1: think with forty five he is Throughout his career, he's
Speaker 1: been a guy that certainly he can get out of
Speaker 1: the pocket, and he can he can make you pay
Speaker 1: a little bit. How concerned to you that about that?
Speaker 1: With this particular defense, Let's start first with you Amber. Look,
Speaker 1: last week, I was convinced. I was convinced that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were gonna have a great game. I had my
Speaker 1: hopes up. I believed. I thought, Man, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be the games where the defense is able to kind
Speaker 1: of start turning things around and play a little bit better.
Speaker 1: That obviously didn't happen. It was actually worse than what
Speaker 1: we've been seeing so this weekend, regardless of them playing
Speaker 1: the Giants and the Giants offense being absolutely terrible, I
Speaker 1: am worried about every aspect of the game. Doesn't matter
Speaker 1: that it's the Giants. I do not trust the Cowboys defense,
Speaker 1: even though I still believe that they're gonna hopefully play
Speaker 1: better this weekend. They should Otherwise I'm just gonna I'll
Speaker 1: give up talking about the defense. But right now, any
Speaker 1: little thing so he's scrambling, yes, that's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys defense has had an issue with stopping the
Speaker 1: running game and trying to attack the pocket getting there
Speaker 1: and attack the quarterback. So anything that they do, any
Speaker 1: little thing like that, any little scramble, yes, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are gonna have to string scramble behind him and go
Speaker 1: after him. So yeah, it's gonna be a problem, all right, Dave,
Speaker 1: You know it really bums me out about Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, like he's gonna be able to extend
Speaker 1: some plays and they're gonna have to account for that.
Speaker 1: Probably pick up a first down or two that you
Speaker 1: would prefer he not. But what bums me out about
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is early scouting report on him at this
Speaker 1: point in his career is that he's good for a
Speaker 1: handful of really dumb decisions per game. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a lot of talent around him. He's
Speaker 1: athletic enough to extend plays and he's gonna try to
Speaker 1: force some things because he needs to. And what bums
Speaker 1: me out is that I just don't trust the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that, Like, why should we have
Speaker 1: faith that they will? Like they don't get takeaways. They
Speaker 1: haven't this season, they haven't in seasons past. You know,
Speaker 1: we saw a lot out of Treyvon Diggs in training
Speaker 1: camp in terms of ball skills that hasn't translated to
Speaker 1: the season to this point, at least not as well
Speaker 1: as you would prefer. You know, I think he's had
Speaker 1: to drop picks, So it just sucks to think that
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna give you those opportunities. And I just
Speaker 1: don't trust the Cowboys to take advantage of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nobody that's playing in the game has an interception for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, right, I think she is the only one,
Speaker 1: and of course Trayvon Diggs did force that fumble. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I do think that that I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will get some turnovers in this game. I think
Speaker 1: that they will this will be their best defensive performance
Speaker 1: of the game, I mean, this season. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I just really is concerned about this one at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not. I just I don't think I heard,
Speaker 1: you know, I was told today on the radio one
Speaker 1: or five three that the Giants their vegas is saying
Speaker 1: that their point total will be what twenty one and
Speaker 1: over under. That shocks me that I getting twenty one
Speaker 1: points on the Cowboys. They're not. So I just think
Speaker 1: this is gonna this is not gonna be in a
Speaker 1: close game. I really don't. Why are you so sure
Speaker 1: about that? I just think that Giants are terrible, terrible,
Speaker 1: I really do. I think, but I think I think
Speaker 1: that they're terrible. And I know what you're about to say.
Speaker 1: I mean, but I don't. I don't don't do anything
Speaker 1: really well, and they Cowboys do one thing really well.
Speaker 1: I think we'll see that. I think it's just gonna
Speaker 1: be a fight about who gets punched in the face first.
Speaker 1: And I think the Cowboys will well this game. They'll
Speaker 1: do it. And if you do that to the Giants
Speaker 1: with the way their offense is set up, I think
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is the Cowboys are gonna strike first,
Speaker 1: strike first strike hard, no mercy, sir, you have no idea,
Speaker 1: just to make sure you were gonna oh really well
Speaker 1: score right, score the score on offense? They yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they score, they throw the ball, they pass around,
Speaker 1: and I know that both tackles are out, but I
Speaker 1: think that they'll ste that. I think they'll strike on
Speaker 1: the on the Giants first, and then I think that'll
Speaker 1: force Daniel Jones and them to kind of have to
Speaker 1: force the back in the game, and I don't think
Speaker 1: they will. I think the Cowboys win this one, probably
Speaker 1: by three touchdowns. All right, let me throw the set.
Speaker 1: You did that right now? Um, you got Jack Garrett
Speaker 1: coming back to town. Obviously, the advantage of a guy
Speaker 1: like Jayson who's been here for so long is that, uh,
Speaker 1: he doesn't know the scheme necessarily, he's not a part
Speaker 1: of the coaching meetings and all. A lot of stuff changes.
Speaker 1: But what he doesn't know really well is the personnel.
Speaker 1: If you were Jason Garrett and you were coming back
Speaker 1: to play the Cowboys, what particular player or position do
Speaker 1: you think you would be looking at to say that's
Speaker 1: the guy we need to exploit. Oh well, yeah, who
Speaker 1: is the guy that you're looking at right now saying
Speaker 1: this is the gap we're gonna go and exploit this
Speaker 1: week because we know that we can get him in
Speaker 1: these situations and we know we can take advantage of him.
Speaker 1: I'll start with you same answers last week, and it
Speaker 1: will be the same answer. I'm looking at five four
Speaker 1: every shot I get if I'm the opponent. He is
Speaker 1: the lynchpin of the defense. He in the run defense
Speaker 1: as well as in coverage. You got a super athletic
Speaker 1: tight end. I don't think the Cowboys are crazy enough
Speaker 1: to try to cover Evan Ingram with Jalen Smith, but
Speaker 1: you should be able to take advantage of space in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field and try him in the
Speaker 1: right game see if he's up to it. Nope, he
Speaker 1: was last week and until otherwise, until proven otherwise. I
Speaker 1: think of Jaylen Smith as like nick um, I didn't
Speaker 1: hear that last thing that Dave just said, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody somebody called me while I was in the middle
Speaker 1: of making my point, thank you State Farm Auto Insurance
Speaker 1: means you need to change airplane mode the guy I'm
Speaker 1: looking at. Sorry, oh man. I you know last week
Speaker 1: it was Treyvon Diggs, and I don't really know if
Speaker 1: that if it matters. I mean, it's just whoever the
Speaker 1: Giant's best best matchup is, because there's not one guy
Speaker 1: that that does things exceptionally well right now. So I
Speaker 1: think it's just wherever the matchup goes, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought on hanging with the boys this week. Nate Newton
Speaker 1: had a great point. He said, Eric Polstra knows it
Speaker 1: knows exactly what Lebron James is, and he can't stop him.
Speaker 1: You know, so sometimes just knowing personnel doesn't always mean
Speaker 1: that you can stop him. That makes sense when you're
Speaker 1: talking about Lebron James. They don't have any Lebron James
Speaker 1: on this defense. They don't. I don't know that there
Speaker 1: are guys on this team you're like on this defense.
Speaker 1: And that it was wow that that have shown that
Speaker 1: if you like, I know how to get that guy,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you out at this game that you
Speaker 1: all said you can't do it because he's just too good.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that play. I don't have any Lebron
Speaker 1: James on their side of the ball either. Maybe not
Speaker 1: not bad example. Sorry I was told this week sometimes
Speaker 1: my analogies are bad. Maybe if you flip the coin
Speaker 1: and you talked about Cowboys offense versus the Giants defense,
Speaker 1: maybe that's the that's a good analogy. Maybe I don't know, Amber,
Speaker 1: what do you think? I got nothing from from Nick's comment? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what you said. What was your point?
Speaker 1: Everybody is wall sound like me. Now you're supposed to
Speaker 1: sound better than me when when you speak. Look, but no,
Speaker 1: I honestly I have not been watching the Giants play
Speaker 1: this this year. I've seen some little highlights here and there,
Speaker 1: but overall, I don't I would assume that Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: is still the same Jason Garrett we've known for the
Speaker 1: past why ten years. So with the way that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense is playing, I think that there's nothing that
Speaker 1: scares me if I'm the opponent. There's no area that
Speaker 1: scares me from the Cowboys defense other than al Donna Smith.
Speaker 1: Other than that, nobody else. So I think you just
Speaker 1: spake and choose your battle depending on the best player
Speaker 1: that you got on your offense and the area that
Speaker 1: you as an offense would rather try to exploit. Well,
Speaker 1: I will say this, the one thing that I think
Speaker 1: we learned from Jason Garrett during his time here is
Speaker 1: the whole concept of the nameless, faceless opponent. And if
Speaker 1: that's the case and they're not really looking for matchups
Speaker 1: to exploit, then that helps the Cowboys, I think. But
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Dave. If there were one player,
Speaker 1: it was one player, and Jason was willing to have
Speaker 1: his offense kind of geared towards taking advantage of one player,
Speaker 1: I think you would probably look at it and even say,
Speaker 1: I know what teams did to us, and we can
Speaker 1: go back through a number of teams that tried and
Speaker 1: created opportunities for themselves to be able to isolate Jalen
Speaker 1: in coverage and when they did that a lot of
Speaker 1: times they were successful. And so I do look at
Speaker 1: that matchup and that actually matches up with the one area,
Speaker 1: like Dave said, that's the one area that the Giants
Speaker 1: offense actually have A pretty good player like Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: is a good tight end and he's a very athletic
Speaker 1: tight end. So if I'm the Giants and if I'm
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett, I'll go into this game thinking how can
Speaker 1: I create opportunities to isolate j Jalen where he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to cover him, and then try to take advantage
Speaker 1: of that matchup because I think that is their best matchup,
Speaker 1: the Giants offense versus the Cowboys defense. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take our final break. When we come back, We're
Speaker 1: gonna flip and talk a little bit about the Giants
Speaker 1: defense versus the Cowboys offense before we end the show
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll see, we'll see. All right, Um, let's
Speaker 1: talk about this Giants defense versus the Cowboys offense. When
Speaker 1: you look at the and I asked Bucky a lot
Speaker 1: about this earlier this week, you look at the teams
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have played. Obviously they've been really good
Speaker 1: offensively statistically, but the one game when they were not
Speaker 1: was against the Rams. That defense, I think is ranked
Speaker 1: like tenth or eight somewhere in there in past defense.
Speaker 1: This is the first time since then that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will be facing a past defense that is statistically ranked
Speaker 1: that high. How much do you guys think that the
Speaker 1: value is the success that we've seen from the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense in a lot of ways is about the defenses
Speaker 1: that they've played and the defense that they did play
Speaker 1: that was much better. They only scored seventeen points. Now
Speaker 1: they're entering a game. How much do you where that's
Speaker 1: the same case. How much do you think that that
Speaker 1: may be what plays out here? It'll start first with you.
Speaker 1: And that's a good point. I mean, the Rams obviously
Speaker 1: have one or two really good players. You know, and
Speaker 1: I've made this point. You know that the Cowboys every
Speaker 1: game they face, they face somebody on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ball that's that you arguably the best at
Speaker 1: their position, and every game that they've faced, and the
Speaker 1: Rams defense had two of them in the Ramsey and
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. The Cowboys don't really have that unless you
Speaker 1: say the best guard. But guards aren't game changing really.
Speaker 1: But I think I think you make it a good point,
Speaker 1: but I don't I don't think. I think it's still
Speaker 1: early in the season. I think sample size is still
Speaker 1: low for that for rankings. I don't see that the
Speaker 1: Giants are going to be a team that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can't move the ball, and I bet you the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will will hurt the Giants ranking this week. You know
Speaker 1: the interesting part about that, before I get to David Amber,
Speaker 1: is if you look at that game last week the
Speaker 1: Giants and the Rams played, it was, in my my opinion,
Speaker 1: somewhat similar to what you saw Cowboys Rams, And that's
Speaker 1: what started making me think maybe that's a little bit
Speaker 1: more of what you can expect this weekend. Now. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys offense is superior than to the Giants offense,
Speaker 1: but I do think it's a similar kind of matchup
Speaker 1: where you might see something a little bit different. Let's
Speaker 1: go to you Amber, what do you think. I hope
Speaker 1: that's not right as far as I mean, I know
Speaker 1: the statistics are statics is, but like Nick said, I
Speaker 1: hope that we're not just creating this vision of what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense might be based on this first month
Speaker 1: of the game, because then that's basically you're basically telling
Speaker 1: me that this offense might be worse than what we thought.
Speaker 1: Because if they're they faced worst defenses passing defenses, why
Speaker 1: has it taken them so long to get the ball
Speaker 1: moving and start connecting. Why until the last quarter of
Speaker 1: the game base to start moving everything. So I would
Speaker 1: hope that that's not fully the case, and that there's
Speaker 1: a lot more. And I know the game cannot purely
Speaker 1: be judged based on statistics, but if that's the case,
Speaker 1: then crap. You made me more concerned. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: I will throw this out though, amber early in the games,
Speaker 1: that's typically when the turnovers have been happening. So I
Speaker 1: do think that's a part of it why this offense
Speaker 1: has not gotten off some of those faster starts that
Speaker 1: you want them to get off too. But but again
Speaker 1: I still think that you know, you look at this
Speaker 1: offense overall, they have not played great defenses except for
Speaker 1: one or and that's not even a great defense. That's
Speaker 1: a good defense. We'll get to see this weekend. Dave,
Speaker 1: what do you think? I respect the question, but respectfully,
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn about this sample size. It's
Speaker 1: four games game one. Game one was against Ben Roethlisberger,
Speaker 1: who was coming off a full year layoff when he
Speaker 1: had surgery on his arm. Game two was I believe
Speaker 1: True Bisky, which we know how that's going for him.
Speaker 1: The week three was Nick Nick Mullins, who threw for
Speaker 1: three fifty by the way, and then uh yeah, and
Speaker 1: then last week, you know, Jared Goff, Yeah, he had
Speaker 1: a pedestrian day. So what, I don't care. I think
Speaker 1: Dak will be fine. If Dak's not fine, it's because
Speaker 1: they can't keep him clean. Like, if they can keep
Speaker 1: him relatively clean three sacks or less, he'll be absolutely fine.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about it at all, to the tune of,
Speaker 1: do you think it'll be closer to what we've seen
Speaker 1: the final three games to weeks two, three, and four? Oh,
Speaker 1: just a week hopefully hopefully not like you should You
Speaker 1: should not be throwing for four hundred yards unless you're
Speaker 1: trying to dig yourself out of a hole or it's
Speaker 1: just like an all time shootout like the Romo game. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully hopefully it's not like that. But I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll somewhere between two seventy five and three three thirty
Speaker 1: something like. That's funny how he's, you know, statistically the
Speaker 1: best in the in the NFL right now and he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a three hundred yard passing game after four games, yeah,
Speaker 1: the two, but he doesn't have a three, you know,
Speaker 1: which has always been like the standard of that. But
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I think the Cowboys offense, even though
Speaker 1: it's four games, I think they figured things out way
Speaker 1: better than the Rams game. I mean, I think that
Speaker 1: they they've understood how this offense works. They understand what
Speaker 1: CD's able to do. The understanding of the tight end
Speaker 1: can help him. You know. You know, Jarwin got hurt
Speaker 1: in that game and Schultz was trying to figure his
Speaker 1: way out. Schultz is showing, you know, to be a
Speaker 1: little bit better or a lot better since then. So
Speaker 1: I just think that the offense has has really developed,
Speaker 1: and it's had to because they've been on the field
Speaker 1: for so long. But I think that they're a different
Speaker 1: offense than they were playing against the Rams. All right,
Speaker 1: let's flip over and I want to talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about special teams here. Earlier this week, John Fossil
Speaker 1: had a comment about Tony Pollard. Last week, he had
Speaker 1: another misqe um, if you want to call it, that
Speaker 1: there was a ball he thought was going to come
Speaker 1: to the end zone. He was gonna, you know, basically
Speaker 1: just kind of fair catch it. But um, he let
Speaker 1: it go and it actually bounces in the field of
Speaker 1: play and he got to run and go grab it
Speaker 1: and try to return it. And Fossil's comment was he
Speaker 1: misread it. It's unfortunate because it was it was the
Speaker 1: ball that we were looking for with the return that
Speaker 1: we called. We were aware that can't happen. Um. He's
Speaker 1: had some other miscues this season, particularly in kick return situations.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's time for the Cowboys to look
Speaker 1: at a different option for their kick returner Nick oh
Speaker 1: a different option for him Lasik? Seriously, he dropped that
Speaker 1: ball against Seattle. He dropped that ball in the game.
Speaker 1: That was a big play. And that and that Um
Speaker 1: in the game last week. You know, he had wide
Speaker 1: open space and dacked through the ball in the flat
Speaker 1: and then of course he missed. How do he misread
Speaker 1: that that ball like that? I mean, honestly, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to Joe Crown, but it could be it could
Speaker 1: be a situation for that, like maybe he needs to
Speaker 1: get his eyes checked. And I'm not I think he's
Speaker 1: I think he's a good young player. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be good. But I mean these are three
Speaker 1: like elementary style plays that he hasn't made, and maybe
Speaker 1: that is an issue. I mean because if you if
Speaker 1: you look at the ball and the kickoff and you
Speaker 1: think it's going to go into the end zone and
Speaker 1: it stops at like the eight, that's a pretty big
Speaker 1: difference of not being able to judge the ball amber.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be ignorant here, but whatever, I'm
Speaker 1: still gonna ask the question, why is it so hard
Speaker 1: to find a kick returner that can actually do well?
Speaker 1: Like the Cowboys? This has been an area where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have been struggling for several years. Why is it
Speaker 1: so complicated to find someone that can freaking make it work?
Speaker 1: And I'm being serious, I don't understand. It's especially frustrating
Speaker 1: because kick returns are almost obsolete, Like they don't they're
Speaker 1: not really a big factor in the modern NFL. So
Speaker 1: the fact that you can't figure out how to make
Speaker 1: it work better than they have, it's it's unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: I don't know not to jump in on ag, but yes,
Speaker 1: I would give the job to Cedric Wilson. I love
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, but I mean you're talking about like dozens
Speaker 1: and dozens of yards of field position that you've compromised.
Speaker 1: It gets lost because last week was such a dumpster fire.
Speaker 1: But Cedric made such a great play on that one
Speaker 1: punt that bounced and he snatched it right off the bounce.
Speaker 1: He got six yards and got out of bounds, Like
Speaker 1: that's the epitome of hidden yardage. As soon as he
Speaker 1: made that play, I was like, give him the kick
Speaker 1: returner job, like, I trust his hands, I trust him
Speaker 1: to make it work. Like Cedric Wilson would be a
Speaker 1: okay with me. Yeah, that's a various dew point. I
Speaker 1: thought the same thing during the game, that that was
Speaker 1: a good that's understanding and having awareness on special teams
Speaker 1: as a return, which I don't know that they necessarily
Speaker 1: have with po He did the same thing later, but
Speaker 1: then he kind of went backwards. Yeah, you know, Dave
Speaker 1: makes a good point. Now we gotta make picks here,
Speaker 1: but they makes a good point about usually the kick
Speaker 1: return is a part of the game that's been lost.
Speaker 1: I wonder after the Patriots game of what happened last
Speaker 1: year and seeing all the kickoffs and Tony Poler was
Speaker 1: a big part of that that maybe teams aren't deciding,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's do that pooch kick that goes
Speaker 1: to the five yard line or whatever, and let's try
Speaker 1: to pen them down there. Hey, you can you know,
Speaker 1: maybe Poler doesn't make the right decision be they can
Speaker 1: have a block in the back. There's forty percent of
Speaker 1: all kickoff returns have blocks in the back, and so
Speaker 1: you could be starting at the seven or eight yard line.
Speaker 1: So I think the teams are maybe going and purposely
Speaker 1: doing that, not just giving Dak the ball to twenty five.
Speaker 1: Let's kick this thing up. We don't think Pauler will
Speaker 1: go to the house. We think there's a better shot
Speaker 1: they'll start inside their ten. And that's happening. And this
Speaker 1: will be the week when Tony Poler takes it to
Speaker 1: the house bad. It'll be how it goes. Hey, Rico Dowlind,
Speaker 1: I like Cedric Wilson, but what about Rico Dabble. It's
Speaker 1: a running back. He's a big you know, he's kind
Speaker 1: of a thick guy. I mean, i'd like to see him.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see running backs in that because they
Speaker 1: have the vision for the holes and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But somebody, I think it's time to make a change.
Speaker 1: That I really do. All right, let's going to get
Speaker 1: a some picks here before we end the show. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna start with you today. Tell us what's going
Speaker 1: to happen is game final score? Well, if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were playing another opponent, I would pick the other opponent
Speaker 1: because the Cowboys don't deserve my trust right now and
Speaker 1: in my faith, in my happiness. But because it is
Speaker 1: the Giants, I don't the Giants that even even worse.
Speaker 1: So I think the Cowboys do find a way to win.
Speaker 1: I do think that their numbers statistically, as far as
Speaker 1: the passing game is not gonna look as good as
Speaker 1: we've been seeing in the past few games. I think
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys, regardless of the old line issues, I
Speaker 1: think the running game is gonna be able to get
Speaker 1: kick in this time and get going. So Zeke, I
Speaker 1: do see him having a better game in the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna come down to which team scores the
Speaker 1: most points. It's gonna be a game between offense, which
Speaker 1: offense can score the most and that's for sure in
Speaker 1: my mind right now, can be the Cowboys. And final score.
Speaker 1: I think it might be like twenty fourteen, something like,
Speaker 1: all right, Dave, the Giants are terrible, but like we're
Speaker 1: not talking about you know, they're not that I don't
Speaker 1: think they're like oh and sixteen terrible, Like they're not
Speaker 1: like a wheel's off dumpster fire. I think there are
Speaker 1: respect respectable kind of terrible. They've I mean they've been
Speaker 1: in every game that they've played. You know, the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers blew them out on the scoreboard, but that
Speaker 1: game was close until midway through the you know, early
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, midway through the third. So I just I
Speaker 1: expect to hate this game. I expect this to be
Speaker 1: a very fresh I mean, the Cowboys are going to
Speaker 1: continue to be sloppy in my opinion, until they get
Speaker 1: some of these injuries taken care of. Um. But the Giants,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Giants offense can't keep up with them.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's not realistic. But I see, you know,
Speaker 1: I see Dad getting sacked a couple times, installing some drives.
Speaker 1: Maybe they have to settle for some field goals that
Speaker 1: they don't want to. So I think it's gonna be frustrating.
Speaker 1: But I'm thinking like a thirty and thirty to twenty
Speaker 1: one win that just nobody feels happy about. All right, No,
Speaker 1: I disagree with that. With both those picks, I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will will blow them out. I think my
Speaker 1: prediction is that I'll get three text messages from people
Speaker 1: that say, why can't they just do this every game,
Speaker 1: which their answer is that the Giants aren't on the
Speaker 1: schedule every week. I don't. I think the offense is
Speaker 1: clicking to the point where they are going to be
Speaker 1: too strong for the Giants to keep up with. Defensively,
Speaker 1: of course, offense will be trying it'll make the Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense look as good as it's been, which isn't really
Speaker 1: that hard to do, you know. I just think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys win this one handily. I think they win by
Speaker 1: twenty one. I'm gonna say thirty four thirteen, all right.
Speaker 1: I actually I'm a little torn on this game, just
Speaker 1: because the more I think about it, the more i'm
Speaker 1: the more I think that this Giant's defense is a
Speaker 1: little bit better than everybody's given them credit for. I think,
Speaker 1: and I do think the way that the style of
Speaker 1: play off way that they will try to play the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will make it to where the Cowboys don't have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to just go all in. I don't think,
Speaker 1: you know, if Cowboys are in a closer game, they're
Speaker 1: probably not putting up all the yards and the points
Speaker 1: that they've put up in these other weeks either, and
Speaker 1: so I think it's going to be a game that's
Speaker 1: more similar to what we saw the Week one. I
Speaker 1: do think the Cowboys win, though, and I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are the better team, so I think they'll get
Speaker 1: some I think they'll get more point production than what
Speaker 1: they got against the Rams, but I still think it'll
Speaker 1: be a relatively lower scoring game compared to the games
Speaker 1: that they've played in weeks two, three, and four. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys get the win, but I think it
Speaker 1: is a twenty four to sixteen win. That is that's
Speaker 1: actually pretty non eventful, if that's a good way to
Speaker 1: put it. After you've been through all these other weeks
Speaker 1: of these big, high flying plays. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: feel more like that Week one game where it just
Speaker 1: kind of plots along. Cowboys will do some things well,
Speaker 1: they'll do some things not so well. The Giants will
Speaker 1: play a little bit better offensively than they've played in
Speaker 1: the past because this Cowboys defense will give them opportunities
Speaker 1: to do that. And again, I think Cowboys went twenty
Speaker 1: four sixteen. All right, we appreciate you join us. We're
Speaker 1: back on Monday, we'll tell you what went right and
Speaker 1: what went wrong to them for Nick Eatn, Dave Hellman,
Speaker 1: Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagles and this has been
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