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Speaker 1: episode number sixty. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
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Speaker 1: lot to talk about today. We're gonna jump in and
Speaker 1: talk about some injury updates, talk about the matchup between
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the Steelers, and we are going to
Speaker 1: spend quite a bit of time today taking questions from
Speaker 1: from fans. I know Amber has some stuff already lined up.
Speaker 1: If you have some questions that you'd like to send now,
Speaker 1: you can always tweet Amber as well. I think it
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Speaker 1: you can get your questions to her and we'll try
Speaker 1: to answer as many questions as we can in the
Speaker 1: final two segments of the show. All right, so let's
Speaker 1: jump in. Let's get some updates on some injuries. Yesterday
Speaker 1: I ask you guys about Ezekiel Elliott and Alden Smith.
Speaker 1: They were limited on Wednesday. Yesterday they were limited again,
Speaker 1: So catch us up to date on the status of
Speaker 1: particularly first Zeke and where he is in his trek
Speaker 1: to being able to play Sunday. Nick sounds like he's
Speaker 1: expected to play. He's been limited a little bit, but
Speaker 1: from everybody that is talking about it doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: it's the worst of hamstring injuries. And I think that
Speaker 1: he should be able to play. I mean, now how
Speaker 1: limited he will be in the game. Maybe they rotate
Speaker 1: more and maybe they get you know, let me to
Speaker 1: have him play wildcat and do all that stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's gonna kind of limit him a
Speaker 1: little bit. But it sounds like he's gonna be ready, David,
Speaker 1: you at all concerned with the fact that he has
Speaker 1: been out and it's a hamstring injury for a guy
Speaker 1: that plays the running back position. I just want to
Speaker 1: say hi to Nick real quick, just because you glazed
Speaker 1: over him at the top of I'm here. I'm hi, Nick, Hi,
Speaker 1: good to see you on this lovely Friday. Glazed over there.
Speaker 1: It's okay, and it's not a big deal what I do.
Speaker 1: Just it's okay, we're here. Did I not say your name?
Speaker 1: You didn't? Sorry, you said you didn't. That's okay. I
Speaker 1: thought I said, I'm sorry. Sorry, man, it's okay. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I could have just let it go. But that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be me. No, it wouldn't be um. I thought I
Speaker 1: heard that right. I looked at Dave. Dave was kind
Speaker 1: of like, what and whatever you were rolling, you know,
Speaker 1: episode fifty seven or whatever. I'm so sorry. I was
Speaker 1: doing that for Yeah, our producer. Not the worst slight
Speaker 1: against me today, So that's fine. I'm fine. Oh he's talking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a little worried. Anytime. I'm trying to drive us
Speaker 1: back onto the road like I took us off the road,
Speaker 1: and now I'm like, Okay, we should probably get back
Speaker 1: on the road. Uh yeah, anytime somebody. You know, the
Speaker 1: word run is in his name. So if he's got
Speaker 1: a hamstring, that's not great. Um, I think I think
Speaker 1: you'll play. Maybe they limit him, Maybe we get to
Speaker 1: see some Rico doubtle, that's I mean. I hate to
Speaker 1: be a I hate to be a pessimist or a hater,
Speaker 1: but if this game goes away, most of us think
Speaker 1: it's gonna go. You know, Zeke probably doesn't have any
Speaker 1: business being in there in the second half anyway, So
Speaker 1: maybe they can use that as a way to limit
Speaker 1: him and keep him fresh, well, or at least the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I don't know. I don't know, Hey, Amber,
Speaker 1: how confident would you be in Tony Pollard if he
Speaker 1: needed to carry the full load for an entire game?
Speaker 1: With everything you've seen of him, I guess to this
Speaker 1: point in his career, well, this year is just kind
Speaker 1: of just on the fence right there. I don't quite
Speaker 1: know how I feel about him at this point. I
Speaker 1: was really excited for him this year based on what
Speaker 1: I saw from him last year, but then this year
Speaker 1: is just like hit or miss. Sometimes he has some
Speaker 1: really good runs and then some other times he just doesn't.
Speaker 1: So I think that maybe this is an opportunity. And
Speaker 1: this is hard to say, because yes, you still have
Speaker 1: to play a football game. Yes you still have to
Speaker 1: act like you're trying to win this game when you
Speaker 1: go out there on the field. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's like, you gotta make sure you protect your your starter.
Speaker 1: You don't want any thing to happen, anything like make
Speaker 1: the injury worse for sequel Eliot. So I would think
Speaker 1: that we get to see more Tony polar on this
Speaker 1: game in this game, and it's just it's it's tough
Speaker 1: because he just doesn't have a good setup with the
Speaker 1: old line right now, so it doesn't help him. But
Speaker 1: I think he's a guy that hostalent and the ability
Speaker 1: to make runs and make it happen. But it's just
Speaker 1: in general, it's just not a good scenario for him. Nick.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at the stats, and I mean
Speaker 1: there's nothing to suggest that that Pollard will be better
Speaker 1: than Zeke. I mean, he does seem quicker to the whole,
Speaker 1: but they're both averaging three point nine yards exactly. They're
Speaker 1: you know, receiving. They're averaging six point six point five
Speaker 1: and Pollard six point four. A lot less, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot less um touches for for Pollard. But I
Speaker 1: mean just saying you don't there's nothing to suggest that
Speaker 1: that he is going to be better. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: his longest rush is you know, fourteen yards or something
Speaker 1: like that. And I mean, so it's not like he's
Speaker 1: done a whole lot with it. I mean they did
Speaker 1: have a big kickoff return that that was a nice
Speaker 1: play and the one nice play in Washington. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he'll provide that they need each other, not
Speaker 1: just one or the other. So I think it would
Speaker 1: be worse because who's If Pollard is the guy, then
Speaker 1: who's who's Pollard? You know, It's like that old thing
Speaker 1: about Jordan and Pippen. I mean, you know, if becomes Jordan,
Speaker 1: pip never had a Jordan. You know, Pippen never had
Speaker 1: a Pippin you know, I mean that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: You gotta have a second guy. I don't know, Maybe
Speaker 1: Ricco's the guy. Yeah, Dave, what do you think? Yeah, Rico,
Speaker 1: let's see him. We've been saying that. I'm six years Dave,
Speaker 1: You're you're right, Um, yeah, I mean I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I feel fine if Tony If I mean,
Speaker 1: if if Tony would have to play the whole game,
Speaker 1: I feel fine that he would do. Okay. I don't
Speaker 1: think that he would be better than the best that
Speaker 1: we've seen from Zeke. I think, all things being equal,
Speaker 1: he's probably capable of going out there and carrying the
Speaker 1: ball twenty times for up to one hundred yards, assuming
Speaker 1: the game doesn't get away from him. But I still,
Speaker 1: you know, I think Zeke will have a role. I
Speaker 1: think if I had to guess today, I think Zeke
Speaker 1: still finishes with more carries than Tony. But like I said,
Speaker 1: maybe this is an opportunity for Rico Dowdle to get
Speaker 1: some actual point time. What do we know about Alden
Speaker 1: Smith at this point? And he also was limited yesterday.
Speaker 1: Sounds like he's expected to play as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, both these guys, Zekens Alden Smith talked on
Speaker 1: their conference calls. You know this week doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: players that aren't going to play in the game. But again,
Speaker 1: maybe limited a little bit. Cheetah, both of these things,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you take the cheetah both well, both of
Speaker 1: the other two guys just seem like load management things
Speaker 1: to me, just like reading all the tea leads. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the fact that both guys were available for their interview.
Speaker 1: You fact that Jerry Jones said he thinks they'll both
Speaker 1: play on the radio today, That just it feels like
Speaker 1: precaution more than actual injuries. Whereas Cheeto Mike McCarthy's yesterday,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy was like, today, it'll be the big day.
Speaker 1: And then we asked him again today and he was like, Saturday,
Speaker 1: it'll be the big day. And I'm just like, all right,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna see Cheeto. Yeah, we're not gonna see Cheeto.
Speaker 1: And they don't sound good. I mean when he was
Speaker 1: asking the press conference, his erstone was kind of like, well,
Speaker 1: we waited to see how he reacted at practice, and
Speaker 1: then we viloated him. But the way that he said
Speaker 1: we re vivoiated him just made it sound not us
Speaker 1: optimistic as to having him played this weekend. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think the sad which okay, I'm sorry, I just I
Speaker 1: wrote about the secondary earlier this week, and you know,
Speaker 1: Nick's been calling at the hamstring from hell and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess so I'm sitting here thinking Cheeto's been out
Speaker 1: since maybe week four. No, I was wrong. Cheo has
Speaker 1: been out since week two and it's week nine. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a this is a hell of a hamstring issue, allright.
Speaker 1: You well, often if you're saying contract, which I think
Speaker 1: that's what I heard, like you would think that would
Speaker 1: kind of move things along. But again, maybe if he
Speaker 1: doesn't think he can play, if he doesn't think he
Speaker 1: can play well with a hamstring. Jason Hatcher threw it
Speaker 1: out there, you know, but ten years ago, five years ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm putting bad taping myself out there, and
Speaker 1: you know, and and there's a reason for that. I mean,
Speaker 1: like it's not think about it. If he goes out
Speaker 1: and plays in a game and gives up the touchdown
Speaker 1: or two touchdowns, I mean then it's like, let's rank
Speaker 1: the free agents this year, and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden there's a play like that. I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: the worst thing in the world. I mean, like, that's
Speaker 1: what these guys are, especially the guys that are going
Speaker 1: for their second contract. This is it for them. This
Speaker 1: is the biggest contract they're ever has A takeaway he
Speaker 1: has he has a takeaway on film. You're talking about
Speaker 1: film and putting out there. He has an interest option
Speaker 1: before he went out with the injury, so at least
Speaker 1: he has that. Yeah, but if he goes out there
Speaker 1: and gets dusted by juju a couple of times because
Speaker 1: he's not at one hundred percent, nobody's gonna care that
Speaker 1: he had a pick two months ago. He's got a
Speaker 1: bad Yeah. It's just but I know all the injuries
Speaker 1: are different, but it's just it's it's funny how Zeke
Speaker 1: is like, well, he's got a hamstring injury and he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna play in this game. And I get it,
Speaker 1: it's not torn or whatever, different different thing, but eight
Speaker 1: weeks for a hamstring or seven or eight, because think
Speaker 1: about it, if he didn't play this game, which doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like he will. You know that that they got
Speaker 1: the bye week next week, so they're like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's come back and then maybe he'll play at the end.
Speaker 1: I mean, but it just it kind of seems like
Speaker 1: a for who for what situation? Right now? Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: take an early break. When we come back. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the Cowboys versus the Steelers. Asked some
Speaker 1: questions I'm gonna line up for you guys, the biggest
Speaker 1: of which is who's going to start at quarterback? And
Speaker 1: does the person that start a quarterback do you think
Speaker 1: they'll actually end the game at quarterback. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: versus Steelers that happens this Sunday three thirty at AT
Speaker 1: and T Stadium. Let's start first with the question that
Speaker 1: I think everybody's trying to figure out, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure you guys have the answer, but I still will
Speaker 1: ask the question, who starts at quarterback for the Cowboys?
Speaker 1: And do you think the person that starts ends up
Speaker 1: finishing the game. Let's start first with you Amber. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna end up being Cooper Rush. I kind
Speaker 1: of hesitate after hearing Mike McCarthy said his comments and
Speaker 1: just stating that for some reason, he thinks Gary Gilbert
Speaker 1: has a little bit more experienced based on the fact
Speaker 1: that he's been a couple of weeks more here than
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush. But I think that maybe once they get
Speaker 1: into conversations between him and Kellen Moore, Kellen Moore maybe
Speaker 1: voices his opinion on the fact that he has known
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush for a longer amount of time, and maybe
Speaker 1: that helps in just the communication and getting them on
Speaker 1: the same page. But I do think that if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are losing pretty badly, I do think that there's
Speaker 1: a chance for us to get to see both quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the game, because at that point, why not why
Speaker 1: not get a chance to see who could be a
Speaker 1: better backup to Andy Dalton once he gets back. Dave.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I've said Cooper Rush five or
Speaker 1: ten times already this week, but I do have to acknowledge,
Speaker 1: Like again, you just sort of get some vibes listening
Speaker 1: to McCarthy and talking to people that maybe they like
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert a lot more than I thought they did,
Speaker 1: so I would start Cooper Rush. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be surprised if it's Gilbert. Having said that, I'm with
Speaker 1: a g I think it's kind of a mood point. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, David Moore from the Dallas Morning News made
Speaker 1: a joke this morning about how Tom Landry rotated quarterbacks
Speaker 1: like every snap or every series. I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: need to do that, but maybe give each of these
Speaker 1: guys a quarter or you know, give the backup guy
Speaker 1: the third or something. I mean, I think there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with acknowledging the situation that you're in and just
Speaker 1: saying like, yeah, let's give each of these guys a
Speaker 1: fair opportunity to show. I know, like you you should
Speaker 1: try to win every game. You play to win the game,
Speaker 1: like Herm Edwards said, But I don't think there's anything
Speaker 1: wrong with acknowledging that you are in very dire circumstances
Speaker 1: and you can change up the way you do things
Speaker 1: because of that. Yeah, I would go with Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: I think sounds like Dave said, it sounds like it
Speaker 1: could be Gilbert. But then again, you know McCarthy doesn't
Speaker 1: want to tip his hand at anything because you know
Speaker 1: that's worked this year. But I don't get me a
Speaker 1: it worked, But that's okay, I don't. I really don't
Speaker 1: think the Steelers. I don't think. I don't think t J.
Speaker 1: Watt or Bud Dupree is gonna be like, what who's that?
Speaker 1: I'm like, you see, you're looking into the Pittsburgh practice
Speaker 1: facility right now, and everybody's like, Oh my god, which
Speaker 1: one is he gonna be? I don't know which one's
Speaker 1: gonna be. Like they're really ringing their hands over this one, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think a better question would be and I don't
Speaker 1: know who finishes. I mean, I agree they all should
Speaker 1: should play. If it's this close, then it's not going
Speaker 1: to take much to sway your opinion. But if there's
Speaker 1: a way to do it, I think I would probably
Speaker 1: make all three quarterbacks active, including Denucci. Why not? Why
Speaker 1: not him? I mean in the second half if he
Speaker 1: gets out of hand. You know, Dave said something earlier
Speaker 1: to I want to bring up. He said, if the game,
Speaker 1: like Pollard, if the game gets out of hand, I
Speaker 1: don't think it will get out of hand to run
Speaker 1: the ball. If it's twenty one to nothing, like Atlanta
Speaker 1: up twenty one nothing, hey, let's go get back in
Speaker 1: the game. Pittsburgh up twenty one nothing, you're like running
Speaker 1: the ball. Yeah, but you know NFL coaches they're never
Speaker 1: can they're never going to concede it. I mean, did
Speaker 1: you watch that game last night? A game was over
Speaker 1: before it started, and end of the game, they're still
Speaker 1: trying to get down there and score that last touchdown.
Speaker 1: Hurting in fantasy, but still they're trying to get down
Speaker 1: there score that touchdown. So I just think that's the
Speaker 1: NFL coaches. They're gonna keep pressing like and they're gonna
Speaker 1: if they're behind, they're gonna be throwing the ball because
Speaker 1: they're trying to get back in even though they know
Speaker 1: they they won't get back in. It's an opportunity to
Speaker 1: test those guys under those kind of circumstances, right, maybe,
Speaker 1: but he's not gonna get he didn't want to get
Speaker 1: beat by Pittsburgh fifty to three. Yeah, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I think you still run your offense. I
Speaker 1: think what Bucky said, he slowed down so the game
Speaker 1: as much as you can, and you know, see what happens.
Speaker 1: But I would play all three quarterbacks. I mean, i'd
Speaker 1: make them all active. I was say this, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't really honestly care who starts, but I do
Speaker 1: think if down a significant amount at halftime, I think
Speaker 1: you make a switch. Like I think that's a to me,
Speaker 1: it's a no brainer, yeah, because I think I go
Speaker 1: through the first half and I see where we are,
Speaker 1: and if the guys are on a bit of a
Speaker 1: role by the way, he may be down, but he
Speaker 1: may be playing okay. Then I still stick with him
Speaker 1: and I keep seeing okay, can he dig his way out?
Speaker 1: Give him a chance to see if he can dig
Speaker 1: his way out of the hole. Right, But if it's
Speaker 1: just a blowout by halftime, if it's just the offense
Speaker 1: not moving, there's nothing going on, then why not throw
Speaker 1: the other guy in there and just see what he
Speaker 1: can do. He might not be able to dig out
Speaker 1: of the hole either, but he might show you something
Speaker 1: that makes you say, huh, not bad. Maybe he's a
Speaker 1: guy that we can continue to kind of keep developing
Speaker 1: a little bit here, and if there's other opportunities to
Speaker 1: play him later in the season, then we continue on
Speaker 1: that track and we'll maybe get him some more opportunities.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go ahead and move on to the
Speaker 1: next question. I got an over under question for you guys,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh five sacks over or under, Dave, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: easy to joke about that. I feel, situation, it's always
Speaker 1: smart to take the under. Like it's very rare to
Speaker 1: see an NFL team get more than five or six
Speaker 1: sacks of the game. I know what happens. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've seen it happen in the Cowboys, but way more
Speaker 1: often than not, No, and and the Cowboys will game
Speaker 1: plan for ways to get the ball out of their
Speaker 1: guy's hands or just to run the ball to protect
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. So yeah, I mean, like I can see
Speaker 1: four or four and a half, but if you're telling
Speaker 1: me over under five, I'll go under. Yeah, And that
Speaker 1: just to be clear, it was not meant necessarily to
Speaker 1: be a joke. You look at what they did last week.
Speaker 1: They gave up four sacks last week, and in my opinion,
Speaker 1: they're facing a tougher pass rush against the Steelers than
Speaker 1: what they faced last last week against the Eagle. So
Speaker 1: to me, that five number is a legitimate number, and
Speaker 1: it certainly isn't a joke for whoever's gonna be back
Speaker 1: their quarterback, because they're gonna have to deal with that.
Speaker 1: But Nick, what do you think probably under. I think
Speaker 1: they'll try to get the ball out quick. Like Dave said,
Speaker 1: if if you would have said, if you would have
Speaker 1: said four and a half, you know that, then you
Speaker 1: think get about it. Yeah, maybe, but or four he
Speaker 1: said four. I mean, but I think I think it'll
Speaker 1: be it'll be close to that. Well, that makes it
Speaker 1: so much better, does it? Does? It makes a difference.
Speaker 1: It makes an absolute difference. Yeah, it doesn't. You're still
Speaker 1: four and a half. Five, big deal. Same thing. You're
Speaker 1: getting pressure, you're getting dropped in the lane. You're just
Speaker 1: ignoring the whole concept of over under. Like yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: like we all agree that they're gonna get sacked in
Speaker 1: this game. But five is a lot, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll
Speaker 1: put five on my name, I'll put five. I'll say
Speaker 1: this is gonna be one of those games they're gonna
Speaker 1: get pressure. And the thing is a lot of those
Speaker 1: plays might not necessarily count as a sack because maybe
Speaker 1: the quarterback just gets rid of the ball quicker, but
Speaker 1: he's still gonna get hit and pressure constantly. I just
Speaker 1: don't trust our offensive line unfortunately, and I am scared
Speaker 1: of what the Steelers have over there, So yes, I'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and take five sicks. It's not gonna be
Speaker 1: a pretty game. I'm which j G. I think this
Speaker 1: is gonna be. I think that really the toughest part
Speaker 1: of this matchup for the Cowboys is going to be
Speaker 1: the fact that not only do the Steelers have good rushers,
Speaker 1: but as Bucky was saying earlier in the week, they
Speaker 1: blitz a lot, and you never know who those five
Speaker 1: guys are that coming because they play that three four defense,
Speaker 1: it can be a different five all the time, like
Speaker 1: they're sending different guys, and what happened in that Arizona game,
Speaker 1: similar thing. When you've got guys coming from different points,
Speaker 1: that's a problem for the Cowboys. And you've got a
Speaker 1: much higher grade pass rusher with Steelers with the Steelers
Speaker 1: and a much higher grade secondary with the Steelers than
Speaker 1: you had with Arizona. So I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a huge challenge for this Cowboys offensive line. Let's move
Speaker 1: on to the next question. How much does the fact
Speaker 1: that Pittsburgh's offense is a quick passing attack help the
Speaker 1: Dallas defense if at all. What I'm getting at there
Speaker 1: is Dallas has had a lot of problems with the
Speaker 1: deep ball. Doesn't seem like that's what Pittsburgh does regularly. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe this is a week when they find that part
Speaker 1: of their offense, but that isn't something they do regularly.
Speaker 1: Does that help the Cowboys defense. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys secondary it will tackle that well. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's where it's going to come down to. The reason
Speaker 1: why they do that is because they get it blocked,
Speaker 1: and they also, you know, have playmakers that are going
Speaker 1: to break tackles, and that's where I think. You know,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys have had some issues where they're not
Speaker 1: making tackles in the open field like that, so you know,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's gonna do whatever they can score points. I think
Speaker 1: it was what Bucky was saying last week, I mean
Speaker 1: a couple days ago about Ben doesn't take as many
Speaker 1: shots down the field. It's not the same as it
Speaker 1: as it was in the past, but they're still effective
Speaker 1: this way, so I think it helps a little bit.
Speaker 1: But if the Cowboys aren't going to tackle, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have those games where where they're not out there making
Speaker 1: plays to stop them, then you know it could be
Speaker 1: just as ugly. Yeah, Amber, this question is a little
Speaker 1: confusing to me, but if I'm trying to make sense
Speaker 1: of it, I mean, I would say it would help
Speaker 1: them if we get the type of defense that we
Speaker 1: saw last weekend, but that most likely is not going
Speaker 1: to happen because you got a very different offense and
Speaker 1: a very different quarterback. So I would say I agree
Speaker 1: with what Nick said. I don't think it necessarily helps
Speaker 1: them much, if anything at all, But the defense is
Speaker 1: just it. I don't I don't have any answer. I
Speaker 1: don't trust this defense to do anything either, So I
Speaker 1: don't know. Dave Well said on Namber's part, I mean,
Speaker 1: halfway through the season, how could I possibly be expected
Speaker 1: to say like the Dallas secondary has an advantage. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know Carson Wentz struggled against them, but Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: is struggled in a lot of games. I put that
Speaker 1: more on him than the Dallas secondary suddenly being great.
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen let them up the week before that maybe
Speaker 1: it won't look as ugly as it has at times,
Speaker 1: but Hall of Fame quarterback, and I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: nice receiving corps. Maybe not as good as it has
Speaker 1: been at times during the Steelers run, but Chase Claypool's
Speaker 1: six four, Juju's obviously great deanteum, and then you know,
Speaker 1: James Washington's a deep ball guy too, even though he
Speaker 1: hasn't had a huge role. So no, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't like that. I don't like this matchup at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'll say this, it's not to me. I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I think this is this is a challenging
Speaker 1: matchup for the Cowboys, pretty much as every week is
Speaker 1: going to be for the Cowboys. But from the from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of the fact that if if they are
Speaker 1: not a team that really takes those deep shots often,
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've seen the biggest problem with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys secondary being them tackling. I think the biggest
Speaker 1: issue has been they let guys get loose and for
Speaker 1: you know it, there's a forty r touchdown or fifty
Speaker 1: yard touchdown, know whatever it is, right, they they just
Speaker 1: don't seem to be able to always be on the
Speaker 1: same page with whatever's going on down feel, And I
Speaker 1: think that's the part where if there's a team you're
Speaker 1: running up against it doesn't really do that a lot.
Speaker 1: I think it can be an advantage and I shouldn't
Speaker 1: even say an advantage, it could help the Cowboys because
Speaker 1: you don't do to them. It's kind of like what
Speaker 1: we talked about last week with the running game, Like
Speaker 1: we were like, why didn't they keep running the ball? Well,
Speaker 1: that helped Dallas. They didn't keep running the ball, right
Speaker 1: because that's just not what they wanted to do. They
Speaker 1: wanted to keep giving Wins an opportunity to throw the ball,
Speaker 1: and that helped Dallas. So I do think there can
Speaker 1: be a little bit of that that might happen this
Speaker 1: weekend where if they're not willing to take those shots
Speaker 1: down field, not to say they won't be there, but
Speaker 1: if they're not willing to take them, then I think
Speaker 1: that does help Dallas a little bit. And I think
Speaker 1: it can help Dallas again if they can tackle well,
Speaker 1: then I think it can help them maybe in this
Speaker 1: game a little bit and to keep them away from
Speaker 1: what's really hurt them in the past few weeks. All right,
Speaker 1: let's roll into the next question. As Dallas corrected some
Speaker 1: of its rushing defensive problems, or do you expect James
Speaker 1: Connor to have a good day. Let's start with you,
Speaker 1: Dave No. I mean, like I just show me you
Speaker 1: know they played great, they played great last week. I
Speaker 1: tend to think of it more as an operation until
Speaker 1: I see more. And you know, we talked more when
Speaker 1: we were reviewing the Philly game. I think the success
Speaker 1: against the run was a lot more about Philly being
Speaker 1: reluctant to do it than Dallas suddenly buckling down. So
Speaker 1: you know, they should have this new defensive tackle Longkou
Speaker 1: who can maybe help am Anchor down Neville Gallimore continue
Speaker 1: getting reps. But until I see them do it, I
Speaker 1: absolutely do not trust them to shut down anybody's rushing attack,
Speaker 1: especially you know somebody. Again, maybe the Steeler's offensive line
Speaker 1: isn't what it used to be, but it's still very
Speaker 1: good and James Connor is a good back, so that no,
Speaker 1: I don't like that at all. They've given them more
Speaker 1: with less to less, Right, Amber, what do you think? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The only thing I have to add to what they've
Speaker 1: said is that I think the Steelers defense is going
Speaker 1: to be able to get the Cowboys offense off the
Speaker 1: field a lot. So I just feel like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense is gonna be pretty tired in that game, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna hurt them once they try to stop whether
Speaker 1: that's the passing game or the run. It's just they're
Speaker 1: gonna be physically tired in this game. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a problem in that aspect. So yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna be able to stop the run.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. No, I don't think the offense
Speaker 1: is gonna be able to do much. So, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be on the field thirty five minutes plus in
Speaker 1: that game, and I think they'd have a hard time
Speaker 1: stop in the run in the first quarter, you know.
Speaker 1: So I just think you said James Connor's gonna have
Speaker 1: a good day. I think he could have a really
Speaker 1: good day. If you were playing fantasy, you're playing him,
Speaker 1: I would a team you're playing, I would not even
Speaker 1: thinking twice about yeah, yeah, I've got the quarterback over there,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that's I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: do it much because I think they'll run the ball.
Speaker 1: I really do. I think that, you know, they'll you know,
Speaker 1: this is one of those games. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: it's his doom and gloom, but it just is just
Speaker 1: this team. They just don't have the firepower on offense
Speaker 1: to compete with that Steeler defense, and then on defense
Speaker 1: they don't have it to compete with Pittsburgh's offense. But
Speaker 1: that's the crazy part about this, and we all know
Speaker 1: because we've been watching the NFL for a long time.
Speaker 1: It's these kind of situations that often create these weird
Speaker 1: moments in the NFL when everybody is convinced of one
Speaker 1: thing and I don't even know, I don't even know
Speaker 1: a scenario where that would actually work out like that
Speaker 1: this this week, Like there's no reason at all to
Speaker 1: believe the Cowboys will be better offensively, defensively or special teams.
Speaker 1: There's no reason to believe that. They've given you, no
Speaker 1: reason to believe that. It's just weird because you look
Speaker 1: at this. But the point is, the point is it's
Speaker 1: just weird because we've seen this happen in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And again, Pittsburgh they would go to eight. No. I
Speaker 1: don't think Pittsburgh has been eight. No. I want to
Speaker 1: say I heard a statistic like they haven't been eight. No,
Speaker 1: maybe in their franchise history. But but again, you're talking
Speaker 1: about these just these these weird moments that sometimes happened
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I think if it happens it would
Speaker 1: happen because of what Day said earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: Dallas comes in with this completely different game plan where
Speaker 1: basically they're like, or do a wildcat the whole day
Speaker 1: and they somehow take Pittsburgh off guard and they catch
Speaker 1: them doing some stuff that that they're not really prepared
Speaker 1: for it. That would be the only case scenario. But
Speaker 1: I just don't even see that really working against a
Speaker 1: team this good. All right, we're gonna take our final,
Speaker 1: I will say, sorry, good Dave. I mean, yeah, any
Speaker 1: given Sunday, anything can happen, Like, you can never completely
Speaker 1: rule that out. But like, when the deck is this stacked,
Speaker 1: I mean we saw it last night. I watched that game.
Speaker 1: The forty nine ers are decimated, they don't have any
Speaker 1: of their good players, and green Bay went in there
Speaker 1: and rolled over them. I think it was thirty one
Speaker 1: to three, and then green Bay let off the throttle
Speaker 1: and San Francisco got some mercy points. So when the deck,
Speaker 1: when the deck is this stacked, I just don't know
Speaker 1: what all you can expect to do. Doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can't win, But forgive me if I'm not
Speaker 1: really entertaining it as a legitimate possibility. There's no logical
Speaker 1: reason to believe that they will win. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take our final break. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get some questions from you guys again. You can
Speaker 1: even I mean, I'm sorry, you can tweet Amber at
Speaker 1: Amber Garcia TV. She'll get your tweets there. But we'll
Speaker 1: also have some other questions as she's worked up. We'll
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Speaker 1: from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. I got Dave and
Speaker 1: Amber with me, and we're going to jump into some
Speaker 1: questions here Amber, what you got out there? I still
Speaker 1: have a lot of questions about the tackle position, but
Speaker 1: specifically about Tyren smith future. What do he guys? And
Speaker 1: I know this is kind of hard to tell us
Speaker 1: right now, but what do you guys expect here to
Speaker 1: happen with just him and his time here with the
Speaker 1: cot Boys? I would imagine I'll go ahead, Dave, go ahead,
Speaker 1: next Sorry, I bet he's coming back. It comes back
Speaker 1: next year. God. Yeah. At the risk of sounding like
Speaker 1: a crazy optimist, like, I'm not very worried about Tyrant Smith,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, like, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the problems that have plagued Tyrant Smith over the
Speaker 1: last three or four years stem from him trying to
Speaker 1: gut through it, like he hasn't had this surgery that
Speaker 1: shut him down, because he's like he's a warrior. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm good to go. I can fight through this. And
Speaker 1: he'll miss some games and the problem never really goes away,
Speaker 1: but he fights through it. And so give him a
Speaker 1: whole year to have the surgery and really get himself right.
Speaker 1: Not saying he's gonna play in sixteen games a year
Speaker 1: for the next five years, but I think this will
Speaker 1: help him finish his contract. And you know, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: obviously you can't take that at face value. They need
Speaker 1: to address their depth at offensive tackle. But I don't
Speaker 1: think Tyron's going anywhere. I think he'll be starting for
Speaker 1: this team for the next couple of years, at least
Speaker 1: the contract. How much longer is it on their contract?
Speaker 1: Do you guys know? I want to say three seasons?
Speaker 1: Hang on, I'll look it up. I will say this
Speaker 1: while David it's here, three or four more seasons. While
Speaker 1: Dave is looking it up, I'll say this. I disagree
Speaker 1: with you guys a bit. I think he'll be back.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any reason for the Cowboys to say, oh,
Speaker 1: let's get rid of him. I do think the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: if they go into next season relying on the fact
Speaker 1: that that both their tackles are going to be healthy
Speaker 1: and healthy for sixteen games at a mistake, So that
Speaker 1: means they need to I think invest some resources into
Speaker 1: that because right now, I don't think I've seen a
Speaker 1: single guy that they've rolled out there to play tackle
Speaker 1: at this point other than their guard who they don't
Speaker 1: want to put a tackle actually do it well. So
Speaker 1: I think this offseason, whether that means they got to
Speaker 1: go out and invest something in free agency, whether that
Speaker 1: means they got to invest a mid round pick, or
Speaker 1: whether that means that they take one of the guys
Speaker 1: that maybe are playing guard and really invest working them
Speaker 1: at tackle, I think they got to address that position,
Speaker 1: and I think they got to address it in a
Speaker 1: in a significant way because they can't trust that both
Speaker 1: these guys coming off injury, and with the injury history
Speaker 1: of Tyron, they can't trust the fact that that they're
Speaker 1: going to have those gas for sixteen games. I think
Speaker 1: they can make the argument they did that last year
Speaker 1: though when by getting Cam Irving wasn't great though, And
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. If you're going to go out
Speaker 1: and do it in free agency, you better get a
Speaker 1: better quality guy than Cam Irving. I mean, he can't
Speaker 1: remember he got he Actually they made a decision that
Speaker 1: he was worse than Terrence Steele. This coaching staff made
Speaker 1: the decision he was worse than Terrence Steele. If they're
Speaker 1: accurate in their assessment, I'm not sure that Terren Steele
Speaker 1: doesn't beat out Lyle Collins for the starting job. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure he hasn't been that. He hasn't lost the
Speaker 1: job to anyone since he's been here. Regardless of how
Speaker 1: poor he has played, he continues to be the right
Speaker 1: tackle of this team. Yeah, but you're saying that tongue
Speaker 1: in cheek obviously, I mean that's there's no way he
Speaker 1: was beating out Lao. But the point is, I think
Speaker 1: it speaks more about cam Irving personally. I don't think
Speaker 1: cam er I think this coaching staff will look at
Speaker 1: Cam Irving and said he's not a very good tackle.
Speaker 1: They played him when they had to, when they absolutely
Speaker 1: had to. I thought he's played pretty well. It's hard
Speaker 1: to do that, though. It's hard to get a guy
Speaker 1: and pay him to be a backup, and you see
Speaker 1: it even at quarterback. Andy Dalton has to make that decision. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a backup there. So I think you
Speaker 1: have to draft someone second round, third round, draft someone
Speaker 1: and hope that you know you can develop him or
Speaker 1: move Connor Williams out there exactly, And maybe that's the answer.
Speaker 1: Maybe you give Connor more time working at that. Maybe
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean he moves there initially, maybe he's still
Speaker 1: your starting left guard, but you start working him there
Speaker 1: and seeing if maybe he has the ability to slide
Speaker 1: out to it. Man, you think about that, Dave Williams
Speaker 1: say that the next year they moved him to tackle.
Speaker 1: This would be his fourth year, next year right contract
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden europe swing tackle. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be terrible for well, I mean, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: because it wouldn't be a starting situation. But I mean
Speaker 1: that they did that for Lyle and it helped him.
Speaker 1: You know, Lyle was playing guard and they moved him
Speaker 1: and he I mean, you know, he's happy about the
Speaker 1: way that way, but they loved him to be a
Speaker 1: starter that they didn't move him to be right, No,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, Yes, Connor I would think would
Speaker 1: be livid if he gets moved out of the starting
Speaker 1: lineup in his contract year. If that would not I
Speaker 1: can't imagine that would make him happy. Tyran is under
Speaker 1: contract for three more years. I will go on the
Speaker 1: record and say I think he finishes his deal. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I said that too. I mean they need to invest
Speaker 1: in in a good backup, whether preferably in the draft honestly,
Speaker 1: because yeah, finding finding a Stallar starter caliber tackle in
Speaker 1: free agency to not start is that's going to be tricky,
Speaker 1: So use a draft pick. Well, speaking of free agency,
Speaker 1: and this is tough again because there are other factors
Speaker 1: like Dak Press contract and all that. But do you
Speaker 1: guys think that the Cowboys maybe learned a lesson this
Speaker 1: year by shopping for Bower Gains and all that dream
Speaker 1: free agency and maybe they kind of start handling free
Speaker 1: agency a little bit different this upcoming year. I doubt
Speaker 1: it they should. I mean, they they haven't really hit
Speaker 1: on a free agent investment in the time that I've
Speaker 1: covered the team, and I don't, you know, you get
Speaker 1: it like a pleasant surprise, like a Jeremy Mincy. That's
Speaker 1: not what I'm talking about. Like, they haven't they haven't
Speaker 1: really spent big money on a guy, and on the
Speaker 1: rare occasion that they've spent medium money, it hasn't really
Speaker 1: worked out. And with what they've got to figure out
Speaker 1: with Dak and some of the other pieces, I have
Speaker 1: a hard time believing that they're going to do it
Speaker 1: next year either. Yeah, I don't think they necessarily trying
Speaker 1: to bargain shop as much. I mean, they are trying
Speaker 1: to get bargains, but I think it stems from the
Speaker 1: fact that they they're going to I mean, they had
Speaker 1: the highest quarterback in the in the NFL right now,
Speaker 1: highest paid quarterback right per year thirty one million. I
Speaker 1: mean I think, I mean, I know there's guys that
Speaker 1: are supposed to be making more, but I mean he's
Speaker 1: making thirty one minute. That's one of the top seeks,
Speaker 1: one of the top running backs, Mary's on the top receivers,
Speaker 1: the left guard or right guard, left tackle, left defensive end.
Speaker 1: So when you do all that, you just don't have
Speaker 1: money for it. And I'll complicate that even more. This
Speaker 1: next year's salary cap is gonna go down. Guys, it's
Speaker 1: gonna go down, and because of COVID, it's gonna go down.
Speaker 1: And because of that, I don't think that they'll have
Speaker 1: the money to be able to go out and just spend,
Speaker 1: you know, in free agency and just completely change the
Speaker 1: way that they look at free agency in a year
Speaker 1: when their salary cap is actually down. That would have
Speaker 1: to be in a year when your salary cap is
Speaker 1: up and you're like, all right, we got a little
Speaker 1: extra money, let's play around a little bit more than
Speaker 1: we normally would. I think this year they're going to
Speaker 1: be as frugal as they possibly can because of the
Speaker 1: fact that they do still have to sign Deck, which
Speaker 1: might actually end up being a savings for them, but
Speaker 1: they have all these other guys with these big contracts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think this is gonna be the year they're
Speaker 1: gonna change up their strategy. Even if they wanted to
Speaker 1: change up their strategy, I don't think financially this is
Speaker 1: a year to do that. Well. And we know the
Speaker 1: Cowboys love drafting people, and that's the preferred route when
Speaker 1: he comes to player at consisition. So here's the next question.
Speaker 1: Let's go around the room and just talk about because
Speaker 1: everyone wants to talk about draft already. So what would
Speaker 1: be the position your biggest position of need right now
Speaker 1: when you look at drafting a player, I'll start. I
Speaker 1: think that when you look at where they are projected
Speaker 1: to pick, like I am, I'm just getting the best
Speaker 1: defensive player on the board and it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: And if that's vague, that's fine. That's how bad the
Speaker 1: defense is. Because if he is a catalytic line back,
Speaker 1: I'm for it. If he is a badass cornerback, definitely.
Speaker 1: If he's a pass rusher, okay, and if he is
Speaker 1: a run stuffing defensive tackle that he's just like controls
Speaker 1: the middle. Bring it. So whoever the best defensive player is,
Speaker 1: defense is so bad. I am for that. See I
Speaker 1: don't I don't completely agree. I actually I was talking
Speaker 1: about that on Twitter the other day. Is I think
Speaker 1: you just got to look at positional value here. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to mention any specific players because I
Speaker 1: haven't done I haven't started researching this draft class, or
Speaker 1: I'm just watching college football world get to that, don't worry.
Speaker 1: But so I don't want to. I don't want to
Speaker 1: throw any specific players under the bus. But this defense
Speaker 1: is so far away being top notch, like an off
Speaker 1: ball linebacker. I don't know if I can justify that
Speaker 1: with a top ten pick, or a defensive tackle who
Speaker 1: doesn't rush the passer. I hate to sound like Stephen
Speaker 1: Jones because we know they hate one techniques, but like,
Speaker 1: if I've got a pick in the top ten, I
Speaker 1: need a little bit more bang for my buck, which
Speaker 1: is why you know, and I don't even know the
Speaker 1: names of any of these players, but I'm hoping like
Speaker 1: hell that like a very very top tier defensive back
Speaker 1: is available, either a cornerback that can completely take away
Speaker 1: half of the field, or one of these safeties we've
Speaker 1: been dying for for years, like a Derwin James who
Speaker 1: can play six positions Like that is my pipe dream.
Speaker 1: If I'm picking in the top ten, is a defensive
Speaker 1: back who can help me just completely revamped the secondary.
Speaker 1: I'm completely with you, David. I love your point, Nick,
Speaker 1: because if there is I will say this, if there
Speaker 1: is a dynamic type player at linebacker, a type player
Speaker 1: that's all over the field and can do a lot
Speaker 1: of different things, then that's the guy I would I
Speaker 1: would be okay with spending that high pick. The likelihood
Speaker 1: you got that guy sitting in the top ten probably
Speaker 1: not great. But if you've got one of those top
Speaker 1: notch cornerbacks, you know, the kind of guys that like
Speaker 1: kin a Couta that came I was as a Couta
Speaker 1: that came out of Ohio State, that kind of back
Speaker 1: that I feel like he's gonna come in and he's
Speaker 1: gonna be an immediate impact player. And now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pair him up with this other corner I got in
Speaker 1: the second round last year that I think now can
Speaker 1: give me a really good tandem. I'm going for that,
Speaker 1: like that's my preference. If I can get that cornerback
Speaker 1: that's a great cornerback, I think that will help everything
Speaker 1: all the way around. I think he helps more than
Speaker 1: just a cornerback position. I think he helps the safety.
Speaker 1: He helps the pass rush. I that's where I go
Speaker 1: if I have a choice. Yeah, And the quarterbacks will
Speaker 1: factor into this. If the Cowboys are drafting that high, right,
Speaker 1: always look at the quarterback situation. Not so much so
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys will do it. Maybe they will, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a discussion for another time. But the times
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have traded that first round pick in the past,
Speaker 1: it's because someone else wanted a quarterback. They wanted a
Speaker 1: Brady Quinn or whatever. The Cowboys are trade. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying they drifted three guys this year, right, Dave? Have
Speaker 1: you nick you guys at least Georgia and I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, at least Ohio State and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: we know those two. Maybe isn't a third one. I
Speaker 1: thought that was a third one that's kind of being
Speaker 1: talked about. Yes, No, the North Dakota State kid and
Speaker 1: the BYU kid are both going to be first round picks,
Speaker 1: and um, Kyle Trask out of Florida I think has
Speaker 1: a chance to Okay, I just think, I mean maybe
Speaker 1: as many as five. Yeah, it look at Jerry of
Speaker 1: like using that to maybe trade back if you need
Speaker 1: it to or whatever. I find Derek's answer pretty amusing
Speaker 1: because I thought, if I remember correctly, that all we
Speaker 1: needed was some really good pass rush. They didn't will
Speaker 1: and they didn't get it. Now you're over here to
Speaker 1: talk and they didn't get it. Did you do you
Speaker 1: think this is a really good pass rush? Absolutely not, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's my point. They did. I'm just saying, like, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe you can get it. Maybe I would have expected
Speaker 1: you talking about maybe reinforcing the past rush rather than
Speaker 1: talking about now They both play off each other. They
Speaker 1: both play off each other, so you gotta give me
Speaker 1: one of them that's really good. If I have a
Speaker 1: really good secondary, then I can afford have pass rush
Speaker 1: that's not as good because they're gonna be helped by
Speaker 1: the secondary. Or if I have a really good pass rush,
Speaker 1: then my secondary will be helped a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: kind of an either or. But when you're getting neither
Speaker 1: like they got this year, this is what you get
Speaker 1: as a result of a really bad defense. No, I agree.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to give you some crap on some
Speaker 1: previous climents that you've said in the past. It's all good.
Speaker 1: Do we have time for one more? And yeah? Yeah, no, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. No, we gotta do picks. We gotta do picks.
Speaker 1: Let's go and jump the pics real quick, all right. No,
Speaker 1: not that we are have any suspense here with our picks,
Speaker 1: but at least we can get some some suspense with
Speaker 1: the scores. And let's start with you. How do you
Speaker 1: go on this pick, Cowboys versus Steelers. I'll do it
Speaker 1: pretty simple. Cowboys loose and the Steelers they end up
Speaker 1: scoring at least like thirty five points. Cowboys somehow get
Speaker 1: lucky and score. For some reason, I'll keep seeing number
Speaker 1: thirteen in my head, so I'm just gonna go with that.
Speaker 1: So thirty five thirteen, m okay, Nick, thirty one twelve Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: I don't need that. That field goal. You're gonna stick
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, I heard this morning you were kind
Speaker 1: of walking. But just just see why holding Pittsburgh under
Speaker 1: thirty like, I don't see that. Yeah, thirty one, thirty
Speaker 1: one to twelve. They fail to cover the spread for
Speaker 1: the ninth consecutive week, which I think is the record. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable, all right, Dave, Uh, you know it sounds
Speaker 1: weird to say, but I think the efforts gonna be
Speaker 1: there again. Like, I think they're gonna be scrappy again.
Speaker 1: But the problem is, what kept them in the Philly
Speaker 1: game was Carson Wentz turning the ball over. Roethlisberger has
Speaker 1: been amazing at not doing that. He's actually only thrown
Speaker 1: an interception in two of his seven games, so five
Speaker 1: times he's gone out there and protected the ball very
Speaker 1: very well. I don't see them taking advantage of him,
Speaker 1: so I think they'll scrap. But I think Pittsburgh pulls
Speaker 1: away pretty easily. I got thirty four or to ten,
Speaker 1: and I think I think the Cowboys do score a touchdown,
Speaker 1: but it's like in the last five minutes when nobody's
Speaker 1: really paying attention. All right. I think that this game
Speaker 1: is gonna be one where I agree. I think the
Speaker 1: defense will be scrappy early. I think that there will
Speaker 1: come a point though, whin the bottle will break, and
Speaker 1: I think score affiliate. I mean, I'm sorry Pittsburgh ends
Speaker 1: up scoring points much much more than than what they
Speaker 1: did last week. I do think though, I look at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense, if they could only get nine last week,
Speaker 1: then my thought is this week it's going to be
Speaker 1: less than that. I just don't see them being able
Speaker 1: to I think the biggest problem this week is just
Speaker 1: going to be offensively. They just can't match up or
Speaker 1: at least anything we've seen so far doesn't suggest that
Speaker 1: they have a good matchup here against the Pittsburgh Steeler defense.
Speaker 1: So I actually think it's gonna be kind of a
Speaker 1: little bit of a you know, the offense doesn't score
Speaker 1: a touchdown for sure, I think I'll give them six points.
Speaker 1: I'll give them two field goals. I think Philly scores
Speaker 1: thirty four thirty four six is what I see as
Speaker 1: a final score. All Right, I appreciate you guys join us.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday. We'll let you know what
Speaker 1: went right and what went wrong for the Cowboys. Remember
Speaker 1: next week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, it will be the
Speaker 1: bye week, so we're gonna flip things around. We've got
Speaker 1: a whole new lineup for every one of the shows.
Speaker 1: Did put it on my Twitter page? You can check
Speaker 1: that out. We'll also give you some more information about
Speaker 1: that next week. Till then for Nick Eatn, Dave Hellman,
Speaker 1: Amber Garcia on Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break
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