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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys,
Speaker 1: Today's Monday, December eleven. Remember Garcia Derek Eagleton decided to
Speaker 1: take a vacation right. I don't know where he's at now,
Speaker 1: just kidding. He's doing something work related. I suppose stayed
Speaker 1: in New York. Yeah, they too cool for us exactly,
Speaker 1: decided to stay behind over there. How are you guys doing? Awesome?
Speaker 1: Amber a little bit fatigued. Well, yeah, but it's victory Monday.
Speaker 1: But it was a noon game. Wasn't like I feel
Speaker 1: great when you got home at like nine thirty, watched
Speaker 1: the end of this Monday night game. Got to bed
Speaker 1: way earlier than I typically do on a Sunday. Great,
Speaker 1: got a spacious airplane, Yeah we did. That was one
Speaker 1: of the best road trips ever in terms of everything
Speaker 1: that happened from kickoff onward. That's good. Yeah, yeah, nice meal.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we should say where, but you
Speaker 1: did get a nice meal Saturday night, one of Drake's
Speaker 1: favorite restaurants. Like younger generation can put that together, yep. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: let's start talking about this game. It was a good game.
Speaker 1: Great game, well, not so great. Let's just it was great.
Speaker 1: It was a great finish. Yeah, great finish for sure.
Speaker 1: And again the Cowboys are still in the run for
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so we can keep talking about that in
Speaker 1: another week and kind of relax this week a little bit.
Speaker 1: Take it day by day. I decided to go by
Speaker 1: Garrett's motto, taking it day by day. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about this game. They started off really bad, just kind
Speaker 1: of tying up the game throughout the whole time. Three
Speaker 1: three in ten, ten, and then right in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter they made magic happen somehow. They started well a
Speaker 1: ton of points. I will disagree a little bit with
Speaker 1: the first part about it started off really bad. I
Speaker 1: don't think it started off really bad. It just wasn't great.
Speaker 1: They hung in there, and I think that's what I
Speaker 1: was talking about all week long. Just don't let it,
Speaker 1: don't get too far behind on this team, where it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to come back, and I thought that
Speaker 1: they did a nice job with that. It was a
Speaker 1: close game. It was Cowboys Giants all the way and
Speaker 1: then until the fourth quarter, like you said, magic happened.
Speaker 1: As we have on the website, you know, lightning Rod
Speaker 1: just just oh, that's the headline we decided on. I
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, I like that. He was great, and
Speaker 1: I know that a lot of people around here really
Speaker 1: like him because he's a good guy and he's been
Speaker 1: Jalen's older brother and now he's Rod Smith. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just Rod Smith, the playmaker who really saved the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in this game. And it was awesome. It's awesome
Speaker 1: to see. And he's such a versatile back that, I mean,
Speaker 1: he can do a lot of things. He made great plays.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about this later. He made great plays throughout
Speaker 1: the game, not just in the fourth quarter. He had
Speaker 1: some really big moments there. One hundred and sixty all
Speaker 1: purpose yards and two touchdowns. That's awesome, man. I mean
Speaker 1: I've been waiting on that since Ezekiel Elia got suspended.
Speaker 1: I didn't expect to see it in the passing game,
Speaker 1: but there it was. No but yeah, it's your point. Bad,
Speaker 1: maybe not bad, but ugly, like just so ugly. I
Speaker 1: thought that's good. Somebody said on Twitter like this might
Speaker 1: be the worst football game I've ever watched. This was
Speaker 1: at like halftime, and I was like, yeah, we're actually
Speaker 1: I said that in the third quarter. I was talking
Speaker 1: to somebody in the press box and I was like, an, obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean it was ten ten at this point, and
Speaker 1: I was like, if they lose this game, if they
Speaker 1: find a way to lose this game, it will certainly
Speaker 1: go down as one of the two or three worst
Speaker 1: Cowboy games that I've had the misfortune of watching in person.
Speaker 1: It would have been right up there with like twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen bucks and twenty fifteen bills in terms of just
Speaker 1: like uninspiring, putrid football. But then about midway through the
Speaker 1: third quarter they just kind of broke the Giants will
Speaker 1: And I mean, like that's the midway through the fourth quarter. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean in terms of in terms of the score, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean the defense was playing well, The Giants
Speaker 1: weren't driving the ball, you know, the secondary was making
Speaker 1: good plays on the ball. The running game was not great,
Speaker 1: but it was there. And then yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: I told y'all on the plane last night, you realize
Speaker 1: it was it was seventeen ten with four and a
Speaker 1: half minutes to play in this game, and then just
Speaker 1: boom boom, just so and based on everything that you
Speaker 1: guys watched, what do you think that they actually how
Speaker 1: were they able to accomplish that in the fourth quarter?
Speaker 1: They got it? It was the defense. Now, the offense
Speaker 1: made plays, but when you think about the touchdown that
Speaker 1: they had the Giants had one year or touchdown pass
Speaker 1: it made it ten to three. The next nine possessions
Speaker 1: after that, this is how they ended punt punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, interception,
Speaker 1: interception game. It's it. I mean, when it's ten three
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, oh, it's gonna be a long day,
Speaker 1: the defense just tightened up and that you know, Shaun
Speaker 1: Lee's pretty good. I don't know if anyone gets he's
Speaker 1: a good player. Shaun Lee's a good football player and
Speaker 1: he helps his team. And when he's got Hitchens four, no,
Speaker 1: he's a good football play. Jason three valuable part of
Speaker 1: our rolling thirty two total tackles between the two of
Speaker 1: them last night or yesterday, Guiants averaged four point four
Speaker 1: yards per play. They I mean they ran where'd it go?
Speaker 1: Where did my play? Charco? Did they ran seventy five plays? Giants? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a truckload. Like that implies that you
Speaker 1: got run off the field. Yeah, I think good, good
Speaker 1: sensor they got that. That would imply that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: got run off the field. But Eli Manning average four
Speaker 1: point nine yards per tempt. The Giants average like three
Speaker 1: point two yards per carry. Like the defense was great.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I thought they'd get more sacks.
Speaker 1: I thought they'd take more advantage of that offensive line.
Speaker 1: But you certainly can't complain about ten points. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the Giants didn't have a meaningful possession after halftime.
Speaker 1: And everybody know before you just you know, throwing stuff
Speaker 1: at the internet. I mean, I've been at the website
Speaker 1: about us. I mean, we get the Giants are not
Speaker 1: very good. They're not a good team. That they're banged up,
Speaker 1: they got no players out there, they have no running game.
Speaker 1: But that's what happens. I mean, you know, it was
Speaker 1: a it was a tight game for a while and
Speaker 1: then just talent kind of just rises to the top.
Speaker 1: And that's what happened. I guess that's why I kind
Speaker 1: of called it a really bad game. It wasn't because
Speaker 1: they were tying kind of a that was just slow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: luckily would be a better description. The only thing that
Speaker 1: was pretty about it for me. And you guys don't
Speaker 1: know this because you weren't alive, but when you watch
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys in the eighties, every year they would
Speaker 1: go to the Giants and they'd go to a game
Speaker 1: like that. We would always be like cloudy and I'm
Speaker 1: cold and rainy, and they're wearing their blues and the
Speaker 1: Giants looked just like that, and they're whites, and that
Speaker 1: was the game and it was always a tough one
Speaker 1: that couldn't stop Lawrence Taylor. I grew up watching that
Speaker 1: look right there, except not with a favorable outcome. Not always.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they would win, but but not a lot of times.
Speaker 1: And I mean, so that was cool to see. It
Speaker 1: was kind of like taking it back a little bit.
Speaker 1: That then the Giants logo instead of the ny It
Speaker 1: made me feel like it made me think of being
Speaker 1: a little kid. I love it. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: it was awesome. So let's talk out. There was no
Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor to block him. No, but but if they,
Speaker 1: if he was over there, I'm not sure mister Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins wouldn't been able to block him. This guy right
Speaker 1: here is like he's taking it to a new level.
Speaker 1: I mean, he he. I hope people realize what he's
Speaker 1: not doing and then what he's doing, and what he's
Speaker 1: not doing is practicing, and what he's doing is playing
Speaker 1: his ass off on Sunday hurt. He's got to be
Speaker 1: hurt and banged up. This guy, to me might be
Speaker 1: playing at a pro Bowl level. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: when you think about it, he's snug. He snuck in
Speaker 1: his rookie year as an alternate as a guard. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if he's going to get some looks here.
Speaker 1: He's playing really well. That would be interesting. And he
Speaker 1: I mean, especially since he's not practicing. I think he's
Speaker 1: been great. I think I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: his mistake or a miscommunication with the tight end, but
Speaker 1: I think was it the play that Dak made the
Speaker 1: Houdini escape. Did Lyle let that guy go? I don't,
Speaker 1: I mean, oh, when he got it out to Alfred Morris, Yeah,
Speaker 1: then I don't remember if that Russot died on the
Speaker 1: left or right side. But that was a big play.
Speaker 1: I know it was right dad, he made a Yeah
Speaker 1: he was great, but no, you're right Lyle Collins two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row, I think he's been phenomenal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's talk of all Prescott, a guy we've been
Speaker 1: talking about week after week, and his passing game and
Speaker 1: the connection with the receivers. Yeah. I wrote this on
Speaker 1: Twitter and a lot of people just pretty much killing
Speaker 1: me for it, like, yeah, exactly. I basically said his
Speaker 1: supporting cast was good, and when his supporting cast is good,
Speaker 1: it allows Dak to be great. Dak was great again
Speaker 1: because he finally got some help. That that's it helped
Speaker 1: me help you. That's what I wrote about. That's what
Speaker 1: they did, you know, Dak. I mean Dez was making
Speaker 1: some plays that you know, caught the ball and said
Speaker 1: get off me. Dez Bryant made a few. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean Cole Beasley made a nice play there. These
Speaker 1: guys helped him out. And when you can help out Dak,
Speaker 1: he can be really good. But he wasn't getting any help.
Speaker 1: He hasn't gotten much help to last three or four games,
Speaker 1: and he got some today. And I think yesterday he
Speaker 1: saw the difference. Yeah, I agree, And the funny thing
Speaker 1: for me is, okay, there's no denying it. Like what
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty five of his three hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty yards came on recept or receiving yards after the catch.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has a twelve yards slant turned into
Speaker 1: a fifty yard touchdown by Dez Bryant. He has a
Speaker 1: six yard curl turned into a fifty four yard game
Speaker 1: by Cole Beasley, and then the inside slant, which was
Speaker 1: probably an eight yard throw if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: goes eighty one yards, and like, I get it, his
Speaker 1: receivers did a lot of that work. But like, wow,
Speaker 1: why I'm not dog and deck for that? Like, oh no, yeah,
Speaker 1: but but I feel like like some you know, people
Speaker 1: are quick to like dismiss the accomplishment of throwing for
Speaker 1: three hundred yards because a lot of it was you know,
Speaker 1: after the cat. Did you see what he did with
Speaker 1: the Rod Smith? I mean he moved rod Smith out
Speaker 1: there on the eighty one yard touchdown. He moved him
Speaker 1: out into the into the slot and then that's when
Speaker 1: he forced the linebackers to cover him. And that's when
Speaker 1: it was like, all right, and he faked it off.
Speaker 1: He went left left. He knew he was gonna break free,
Speaker 1: so he made that play. And then on the Beasley play,
Speaker 1: which rod Smith had a great block. That's one of
Speaker 1: rod Smith's best plays of the game. Had a great block.
Speaker 1: But again they were blitzing. He finds the guy and
Speaker 1: then he let those guys do the work. So it's
Speaker 1: a combination of both. I mean, he had a good
Speaker 1: awareness to give the ball out there to those guys
Speaker 1: to let him go make play. Of course, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: obviously a combination of both. And then the other thing
Speaker 1: I would leave out is the I don't know, at
Speaker 1: least at least thirty to fifty yards that were dropped
Speaker 1: earlier in the game, you know, and they weren't helping
Speaker 1: him early. It is it is nice to see a
Speaker 1: game where Dak Prescott's like options gave him a lot
Speaker 1: of help. And I mean, whatever, yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: that was run after the catch. I really don't care.
Speaker 1: I thought he was great. He was a great decision maker.
Speaker 1: He completed sixty seven percent. Like I said, he escaped
Speaker 1: a certain sack to get the ball off. Um. I
Speaker 1: thought he was phenomenal and you know, and like, I
Speaker 1: guess I get people's point that it's it's not it's
Speaker 1: not a hollow three hundred and three two yards, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, you know what I'm trying to say,
Speaker 1: like it's, um, what's the word I'm looking for here?
Speaker 1: Like it maybe it's a little inflated from what it
Speaker 1: actually was, but that doesn't that that doesn't take away
Speaker 1: from how well I thought he played in terms of
Speaker 1: his decision making. And well, I'm sure if Derek was here,
Speaker 1: he would say that we were saying earlier in the
Speaker 1: day that it's not earlier Oh yeah, exactly. It wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna be a great passing day. No, he came, he
Speaker 1: came at me about that on the sideline before the
Speaker 1: game was over. He's like, so, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: a good day for passing and I was like, shut up,
Speaker 1: it wasn't serious. It was and you know what, and
Speaker 1: it really wasn't more than that. It was for the receivers.
Speaker 1: I mean, they had a hard time catching the ball,
Speaker 1: and I mean when Beasley's dropping passes, you know, it's
Speaker 1: not it's gonna be you know, that kind of day,
Speaker 1: And I thought the one that Dez dropped, that would
Speaker 1: have been either a touchdown or right down there by
Speaker 1: the one or two yard line. I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: play makes a thousand times, and he just dropped it.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't the best pass for Dak. I mean
Speaker 1: he Dak could have thrown it out there a little
Speaker 1: bit more and it would just been probably a walk
Speaker 1: in touchdown. But you know, conditions like that, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to get it up there and let your player go
Speaker 1: make the play. And he didn't catch the ball. I
Speaker 1: know he needs to catch it, and he was so
Speaker 1: upset on the sideline. I don't know if you were
Speaker 1: watching him on the side he was. There was a
Speaker 1: good thing. There was no Mica over there for him,
Speaker 1: and but everybody kept consoling him, saying, all right, he'll
Speaker 1: be fine, you'll be fining later. That that same quarter
Speaker 1: is when he made that play and Dak and Dak
Speaker 1: had a great response to both, you know, the drop
Speaker 1: by Daz and the one by Beasley. He was like,
Speaker 1: and you know, to listeners points they've been making it
Speaker 1: all year. He's like, he told him, he said, he
Speaker 1: told him both like I've missed y'all more times than
Speaker 1: I can count this year. So you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to kill you over a drop pass. He actually
Speaker 1: he said later too, m kind of walking off from that,
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't want to hear that, Like I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't need my receiver to apologize to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like, I don't really want to think about talk
Speaker 1: about it, Like, yeah, I know you want to catch
Speaker 1: the ball. Let's go, let's let's make another play. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: it was good to definitely see them bouncing back in
Speaker 1: the second half, which usually kind of turns out to
Speaker 1: be the opponent's victory in those specific scenarios. I think
Speaker 1: in the press box you said, oh, they're gonna score
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. Oh yeah. The mood, the mood
Speaker 1: in the press box from the beginning until about midway
Speaker 1: through the third quarter was a it was a down
Speaker 1: one the press box there. I mean, you're so high
Speaker 1: up there, it feels like there's a cloud that comes
Speaker 1: underneath you. He's sure to watch the game, but he's
Speaker 1: just feel so distant from the game, like you don't
Speaker 1: you don't even hear I mean it's so quiet in there.
Speaker 1: And then like, is there really a game for really
Speaker 1: eighty thousand people out there like yelling, and so it's
Speaker 1: just it's just one of those games where it's just
Speaker 1: like That's my biggest beef with the NFL in general
Speaker 1: is like, you know, I grew up a huge college
Speaker 1: football fan, and U NFL press boxes just feel so
Speaker 1: removed from the game. Like I wish, I wish the
Speaker 1: press boxes were open, like I would. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people would hate that, but like I like
Speaker 1: hearing the noise and being part of the environment. That's
Speaker 1: one of my least favorite press boxes because it feels
Speaker 1: like you're watching the game on Do you think the
Speaker 1: people in Buffalo think that too, No, they're probably writers.
Speaker 1: They're probably pretty pumped about. That's what I couldn't believe
Speaker 1: is that, like, this is the same state. Now. I
Speaker 1: know it's the there's a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 1: of hours in between, but it's the same state of
Speaker 1: Buffalo and then the Giants. I'm looking up and it's
Speaker 1: a nice day. I mean it's it's a little cold,
Speaker 1: but not that bad. It was gorgeous in East Rutherford.
Speaker 1: Then all what happened in Buffalo. Now Here are some
Speaker 1: question from Twitter about the DeMarcus Lawrence when he was
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, tell the ref to make that call. Dave.
Speaker 1: I know you tweeted out, oh, we want to talk
Speaker 1: about that, let's go ahead and kind of discuss that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play that drop. No, No, we probably shouldn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well again, thanks for pointing that out. You got it
Speaker 1: Amber because you have a beep. Yeah, I've got to bleed. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, let's yeah, let's just do that. He's good.
Speaker 1: I gotta pull it up. Okay, Sorry, Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: was there a blatant I'm missing something here? Was there
Speaker 1: like a blatant play or was this just overall? I
Speaker 1: know there was at least one where he got a
Speaker 1: bear hug. I saw it happen. There was at least
Speaker 1: one where there was a pretty obvious hold. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was, you know, happening throughout the game,
Speaker 1: but I think to his point, it's something he's been
Speaker 1: dealing with for five or six weeks now, which yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, it's it's all like you can tell
Speaker 1: when a player has something he wants to talk about,
Speaker 1: because it's like they win the game and he's just like,
Speaker 1: look the refs aren't doing their job. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: a whole year. I go here, we go the suse
Speaker 1: you guys have the second half. Uh, you know, the
Speaker 1: team just came out and did our job. That's the
Speaker 1: main thing about it. Win't getting no holding calls. Um,
Speaker 1: the reps out there for nothing. So we just you know,
Speaker 1: came out and did our job. Did you feel like
Speaker 1: you were over in spite that I ain't see a
Speaker 1: holding call in the last five games. And it's ridiculous,
Speaker 1: um that the reps are out here just looking at me,
Speaker 1: you know, getting tackled by offensive linement, Like come on,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be out there, you know, do your
Speaker 1: job then. And that's the main thing, um. And I
Speaker 1: feel like it's unfair. Um. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: I got a family to come home too. So if
Speaker 1: you're trying to protect quarterbacks, you know you gotta protect
Speaker 1: me too. And you if you're gonna do it, you gotta,
Speaker 1: you know, do it on both sides. And if you're
Speaker 1: gonna sit here and calls on bs on my old line,
Speaker 1: you gotta call it on their online too. Queen Lane, period, Bro,
Speaker 1: you don't hear nothing. When the last time you heard
Speaker 1: holding offense. Yeah, I mean, you know it's a great
Speaker 1: team when um, we didn't play like you know, supposed
Speaker 1: to play the first half. But you know we came
Speaker 1: out on top and that's the main thing. Else and
Speaker 1: that's all I gotta say. There, it is there, It
Speaker 1: is all right, guys. Let's take a quick break and
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Speaker 1: We just got done listening to the Marcus Lawrence comments
Speaker 1: after the game. Thoughts on his response. Yeah, that's I
Speaker 1: was just telling Nick off the air like that. That
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with anything that happened in that game.
Speaker 1: That's just like a month's worth of frustration at I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been a's been a talking point for a few
Speaker 1: weeks now, is It certainly doesn't seem like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are getting a proportionate amount of holding calls on their
Speaker 1: defensive line. Plenty of holding calls across the season, whether
Speaker 1: it's Jason Witt and Tyrn Smith, even Travis Frederick I mean,
Speaker 1: their offensive line has been very closely critiqued, and I
Speaker 1: think I think espec hey d Law, you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's the NFL sacks leader. He's playing for a contract
Speaker 1: or likely a franchise, tag, Pro Bowl, all that type
Speaker 1: of stuff, Like he wants sacks for a lot of reasons,
Speaker 1: not just to help the team win, but for his
Speaker 1: own bottom line too. And so I think he had
Speaker 1: enough of it and decided it's worth getting fined, if
Speaker 1: I can say my piece, because he didn't back down.
Speaker 1: He went on Twitter. You know, I'm sitting there like,
Speaker 1: do I really want to tweet this out? Like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna get fine. But and then I'm like,
Speaker 1: he said it in front of fifty reporters, and then
Speaker 1: he went on Twitter and was like sorry, I'm not sorry,
Speaker 1: like basically doubled down on it. And those questions weren't
Speaker 1: you know, they were what do you think about the
Speaker 1: lack of holding? No, that's what? Yeah, about your defense?
Speaker 1: And he was like, well I didn't play that great,
Speaker 1: you know, And then it was just like the ref
Speaker 1: the ref the refs, and he talked about that family
Speaker 1: that he has to go home too. Well, he took
Speaker 1: some money out of that the whole plocket there for
Speaker 1: getting fined, He's gonna get a pretty hefty fine, I
Speaker 1: would imagine. Yeah. But if you're if you feel like
Speaker 1: you're being treated unfairly, you need to speak up. But
Speaker 1: I think f the refs is a little bit too
Speaker 1: too far there. I mean you can, but it comes again.
Speaker 1: A football player, man, you know you're upset. You I
Speaker 1: get it, But I mean you're right. This isn't about
Speaker 1: one game. This was about a bunch of games. This
Speaker 1: is about seeing that the Giants offensive line and thinking
Speaker 1: I should be getting sacks and I didn't. But my
Speaker 1: biggest thing about referees, and it could be in any sport,
Speaker 1: just whether it be the strike zone the same, whether
Speaker 1: it be you're calling fouls on basketball the same, whether
Speaker 1: you calling just just call it both ways. If that's
Speaker 1: how you're gonna call it, call it that way. If
Speaker 1: you're not going to call out a PI, then don't
Speaker 1: call it. Jason Witten was flagged for a holding call,
Speaker 1: and I think JPP which looked like it was a
Speaker 1: pretty good call. It was a good call and it
Speaker 1: affected the play. I don't remember any other holding calls
Speaker 1: by the Cowboys, and I know the Giants did get
Speaker 1: called for one holding, so you know, I just don't
Speaker 1: think that particular day was it was that bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were some plays that you could do it every
Speaker 1: time every play, and I I kind of love it
Speaker 1: to be honest first because it will not your money.
Speaker 1: But well, I mean, maybe they'll take a collection up.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe Tyrone Crawford to help him foot the bill.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but uh, you know, it's a this
Speaker 1: is something we've been talking about for at least three,
Speaker 1: if not like six weeks, and yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: I think he was just tired of hearing about it,
Speaker 1: and yeah, like this game probably wasn't the best example,
Speaker 1: but whatever. I like, in a weird way, it's kind
Speaker 1: of an immature thing to do, but it's also like
Speaker 1: a leader type thing to do. He's like whatever, Like
Speaker 1: people want to talk to me because I'm the leading
Speaker 1: sack guy. I'm gonna stand up and say something. That's
Speaker 1: that's fine, I get to I really don't have a
Speaker 1: problem with it. I was just saying, in this particular game,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was no that warranted. But you
Speaker 1: said it best. This isn't about one game. This is
Speaker 1: a frustration, and he's got fourteen and a half sacks,
Speaker 1: and he and he knows that if he gets to twenty,
Speaker 1: that's pretty awesome. And he also knows that he can
Speaker 1: pay whatever fine he wants with the money that's coming
Speaker 1: his way in like three more months, on way or
Speaker 1: the other. So I probably just knew that this would
Speaker 1: be an offensive line that he could definitely get a
Speaker 1: lot of sap. I said he'd get three yesterday. But
Speaker 1: he also has to remember this f the refs is
Speaker 1: not the best thing you want going into Oakland or
Speaker 1: going into any game. When it's like, Okay, we'll see,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, he may not get a call
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. May I just don't. I
Speaker 1: just don't know if that was the best way to
Speaker 1: do it. I know it's frustrated, but we'll see if
Speaker 1: he gets how many calls he gets from You ever
Speaker 1: get angry and just say things that you don't necessarily want, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we know you do. Yeah yeah I do. And
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to pay for it afterwards. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: don't worry about someone else's money. Let him worry about
Speaker 1: talking about the money so much. But you mentioned it earlier. Okay,
Speaker 1: the money, that's his money. That's fine. We'll see what
Speaker 1: happens when he gets horse caller down to the ground
Speaker 1: and there's no call and he's looking up at the
Speaker 1: reff and he's you know, the reff comes back and says,
Speaker 1: if hoo, no there. I mean, there's no doubt, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt whatsoever that there was a better way of
Speaker 1: handling it. But like, that's that's him, that's DeMarcus man,
Speaker 1: He's he is a Jason Garrett has done such a job.
Speaker 1: It's such a great job of making the Cowboys locker
Speaker 1: room as boring as possible. Like I give him a
Speaker 1: lot of credit for that. These guys, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I knew he wasn't going to give me a good answer,
Speaker 1: but I asked Dak if he got any satisfaction out
Speaker 1: of sweeping the Giant since they swept him last year,
Speaker 1: and like his answer was so predictably boring because he's
Speaker 1: a smart guy, and it's so in a room full
Speaker 1: of people that know how to give smart, boring answers.
Speaker 1: I cherish DeMarcus Lawrence because he's gonna tell you exactly
Speaker 1: what he thinks about whatever you're asking him about I
Speaker 1: love him. Okay, well, DeMarcus, he's just a fun guy.
Speaker 1: Like you said, he the fun guy in the locker room.
Speaker 1: Not everyone's like that in there, so it makes our
Speaker 1: work a little more enjoyable. I agree. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Dan Bailey and correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: But this was the first time to ever miss an
Speaker 1: extra point yep, he missed two field goals. Talk to
Speaker 1: me about his performance. I mean, are you guys feeling
Speaker 1: to talk around this whole thing? Is? Is he healthy
Speaker 1: enough to have been back? I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: who else might have talked to him yesterday. I didn't
Speaker 1: see a lot. And if they did, I hope. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about people on Twitter, assuming that I know. I know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about reporters that went up to him. I
Speaker 1: don't know if anyone else did, and if they did,
Speaker 1: I hope it wasn't as awkward as what I did.
Speaker 1: And I really liked Dan a lot, And I asked him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went to ask him if I could talk to
Speaker 1: him a little bit. He kind of was looking at
Speaker 1: me like why, But that's the way it goes. As
Speaker 1: I tried to explain to him that five field goals
Speaker 1: you know too, missus misssect point doesn't matter. So I
Speaker 1: talked to him a little bit and his answer was
Speaker 1: the exact same. He said, it was a frustrating day.
Speaker 1: And I asked about the wind elements and of that,
Speaker 1: and he said it was a frustrating day. I asked
Speaker 1: about the miss extra point. It was the was the
Speaker 1: you know, it was everything right, the snap hold, everything
Speaker 1: on that. He said, it was a frustrating day. And
Speaker 1: then I asked him, I said, well, everyone's gonna or
Speaker 1: kind of wondering about your health. This is your second
Speaker 1: game back. Are you completely healthy? He said, it was
Speaker 1: a frustrating day. So am I is this? I thought it?
Speaker 1: Didn't he come back on Thanksgiving? I thought this was
Speaker 1: his third game back, third game bag which so I
Speaker 1: have a hard time believing he's not healthy, Like he's
Speaker 1: looked fine up until this point. His his kickoffs were Okay,
Speaker 1: you're right. The Thanksgiving game he was on the field
Speaker 1: once for a kickoff and that right, Okay, he never
Speaker 1: got on that. Oh that's right, they did. They did
Speaker 1: carry two kickers that day. Yeah, no I didn't. He
Speaker 1: just wasn't active, right, But but but because they didn't
Speaker 1: score any points and didn't go for two, or they
Speaker 1: went for two. He only had to kick off and
Speaker 1: that was the only thing. So you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1: This was his third game, bag um. But I talked
Speaker 1: to one of the athletic trainers after the game and
Speaker 1: he said, he's gonna be fine. He's fine. Let's not
Speaker 1: forget it was two fifty yard field goals, no the
Speaker 1: and that's I have a hard time believe. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not going to assume he's not healthy, Like he
Speaker 1: had a bad day in a tough place to kick,
Speaker 1: and the extra point is the thing that makes me
Speaker 1: go like that makes me double take, like missing a
Speaker 1: fifty four yard or that had the distance and hit
Speaker 1: the crossbar and then missing from fifty Like sure, you're
Speaker 1: very used to seeing those things from Danna see that
Speaker 1: that kick, I mean it knuckled and went you know,
Speaker 1: left right. I mean that that's like a screwball pitcher.
Speaker 1: That's a crappy place to kick, Like it's windy, the
Speaker 1: weather ain't great. That's that's my point, Like, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to hold those two field goals against him, even
Speaker 1: though I am used to seeing him make them. The
Speaker 1: extra point is the thing that makes me, Like I said,
Speaker 1: that's the one that I'm like, whoa, that's his first
Speaker 1: missed extra point in seven years. Like, I think he's
Speaker 1: now two hundred and seventy four for two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five or something like that. Ye, that's he's so
Speaker 1: his career percentage now drops to ninety nine point six percent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think something like that. Um, well, he was the
Speaker 1: most accurate kicker of all time. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he still is. I know him and justin Tucker or
Speaker 1: like back and forth, I don't know. Right up there,
Speaker 1: it arguably his worst day at the office ever, which
Speaker 1: is saying a lot. So Um, I chalk it up
Speaker 1: to a bad day in bad conditions. Yeah, And everyone
Speaker 1: has their bad days, and it's just really unusual to
Speaker 1: see that from Dan Bailey because he usually pleases everyone
Speaker 1: and makes and thus his job ride. But do you
Speaker 1: guys feel that this is something to be concerned about
Speaker 1: moving forward or just it was as simple as just
Speaker 1: having a bad day. Um, I don't know about being concerned.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to watch it a little bit
Speaker 1: closer and see. I don't think you're at the concern
Speaker 1: level yet. But I think you know, first you see
Speaker 1: one sign of of you know, well you had the injury,
Speaker 1: and then that you see you're seeing things that you
Speaker 1: have I haven't seen before. Like you said, the miss
Speaker 1: extra point, not the two miss field goals, but the
Speaker 1: miss extra point. And I even said it in the
Speaker 1: press box before the kick. I would not attempt this
Speaker 1: field goal, the one that banged off the upbraid. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it. Not, not the way the Giants were
Speaker 1: not really moving the ball in a game of field
Speaker 1: position like this. Yeah, I think I think they do
Speaker 1: that way too much. He's a great kicker and you know,
Speaker 1: and they give him a lot of confidence. But sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, the fifty two yard field goal or fifty
Speaker 1: four the balls on the forty four yard line, I mean,
Speaker 1: and then that's where they get it. I just i'd punt.
Speaker 1: You got a great punter, he knows how to get
Speaker 1: them down to the ten yard line or less. Just
Speaker 1: use that weapon. That's the well, that's the flip side
Speaker 1: is Dan Bailey has been so good for so many
Speaker 1: years that once you get to about the fifty five
Speaker 1: yard range, you feel pretty good about sending him out there.
Speaker 1: But you get kind of spoiled by that to the
Speaker 1: point where maybe you're you're attempting kicks that most teams
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect. I mean, if you're at and T Stadium,
Speaker 1: kick away but cold when I mean it was the
Speaker 1: weather sucked there yesterday, Like I mean, it wasn't training
Speaker 1: or anything, but it was not The conditions were not
Speaker 1: great for stuff like that. So concerned, No, it's I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I'm not gonna get up to get more water
Speaker 1: when he's lining up for his next field goal, Like
Speaker 1: I'm not just going to assume it's an automatic. But
Speaker 1: a little early for me to be concerned about him.
Speaker 1: And based on everything that we got to watch on
Speaker 1: yesterday's game, I mean, do you guys feel that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are doing what they need to do in order
Speaker 1: to get the upcoming victories against the games that are
Speaker 1: coming up game wise from what you saw, I mean,
Speaker 1: with the exception of the fourth quarter, because we really
Speaker 1: never get to see something like that. They really never
Speaker 1: get to score that many point in that little amount
Speaker 1: of time. Yeah, I mean, I think I know what
Speaker 1: you're saying. I mean, if they're gonna if they're gonna
Speaker 1: play like that, I mean, they got the Raiders coming
Speaker 1: up here. We've said it several times. I think that
Speaker 1: this is the game. I mean, this is the one
Speaker 1: where you know that we'll see I don't want to
Speaker 1: say we'll see what they're made up, but we'll see
Speaker 1: if this season's got anything to it, because you know,
Speaker 1: with the you lose three games in a row without
Speaker 1: Zeke and you don't have Sean Lee, and then Sean's
Speaker 1: just coming back, and now they're starting to win an
Speaker 1: Alfred Morrises and the running game is starting to come on.
Speaker 1: You can get this game up in Oakland. You get
Speaker 1: to eight and six, you got Zeke coming back for
Speaker 1: the last two, you know, and you got that last
Speaker 1: game against Philly, which they they have wrapped up the division.
Speaker 1: They're still gonna be playing for some other stuff. But
Speaker 1: they don't have their quarterback. You know, that's something that
Speaker 1: or they we don't think they're gonna have their quarterback
Speaker 1: is the Officially he's getting an MRI today and they're
Speaker 1: they're not hopeful. But okay, I've I've been to that
Speaker 1: stadium in LA and I've I've been to that walk
Speaker 1: up there. Yeah, when I get a cart for a
Speaker 1: guy with the Torney cl Yeah, the franchise quarterback. They's
Speaker 1: got a knee injury and we're gonna make him walk
Speaker 1: up the ramp doesn't seem doesn't seem smart to me,
Speaker 1: but good point. Yeah, no, for sure, that sucks. But
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm sorry to cut you up. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: Wins is out? Oh okay, Well who's Nick Foles? The
Speaker 1: guy went thirteen three a few years ago and went
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl. I go through like twenty five
Speaker 1: touchdowns and two picks or whatever. Okay, they're gonna be fine. Maybe,
Speaker 1: I mean it'll be offense. Their offense didn't look great
Speaker 1: after they WENTZ went out. I did. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I know, like they're the Eagles and their
Speaker 1: division rival, and it would you know, it would be
Speaker 1: good for the Cowboys, I guess in some degree. But
Speaker 1: that just takes even more or luster off of what
Speaker 1: already has been a very mediocre season for me. Like
Speaker 1: every every great player, an interesting team is just been
Speaker 1: screwed over one way or another. I mean, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: haven't had Zeke, the Packers haven't had Rogers, the Giants
Speaker 1: haven't had Odell Beckham. The Eagles now are looking like
Speaker 1: they're gonna finish one of their best years in recent
Speaker 1: memory without their MVP caliber quarterback. And you know, I
Speaker 1: know nobody listening to this has any love for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: but like it just it just takes away from the
Speaker 1: fun of the product. Like you want to watch the
Speaker 1: best players play, and it's just been a crappy year
Speaker 1: for that in my opinion. Well it's about to change.
Speaker 1: Well yet, I mean, Rogers is coming back, It gets
Speaker 1: coming back maybe the end of this season. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get really really exciting for all these teams.
Speaker 1: This three weeks looks like it's gonna be I mean
Speaker 1: for the sake of drama, not just you know, the
Speaker 1: you know, the Cowboys and our jobs and everything else.
Speaker 1: But if they can get this win against Oakland, it's
Speaker 1: gonna set up a fascinating end of the season. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I know everyone keeps looking at the standings and
Speaker 1: you know, they don't get they're not getting as much
Speaker 1: help as as they need that There's been a few
Speaker 1: games here and there they could have been nice that
Speaker 1: they you know, but all not to sound like Garrett
Speaker 1: too much, but all they can do is just win,
Speaker 1: just keep winning. If you can beat Oakland, you can
Speaker 1: beat Seattle. But you go up to Philly and win.
Speaker 1: You put yourself at ten and six, it's the best
Speaker 1: you can do. I still feel like, somehow, some way,
Speaker 1: if you get to ten and six, would you win
Speaker 1: five straight games. I think it's gonna work out for him,
Speaker 1: I really do. There's enough, I mean, there's enough stuff
Speaker 1: that has to happen that makes that sound plausible. I mean,
Speaker 1: the NFC South still has to play a ton of
Speaker 1: games against each others, NFC North still has to play
Speaker 1: a ton of games against each other. The Seahawks play
Speaker 1: the Rams on Sunday. Just don't forget about the three
Speaker 1: way ties. Just don't forget about that. Don't just look
Speaker 1: at Atlanta and oh my god, if we're not above Atlanta,
Speaker 1: you can't get there. Just just remember there's if you're
Speaker 1: tied with Atlanta and someone else, you could be in
Speaker 1: good shape. So the finally, like it's so it's amazing
Speaker 1: the margin for error in the NFL. Like you think,
Speaker 1: I mean, you think back for the Cowboys, You're like,
Speaker 1: they can hold on to an eleven point win against
Speaker 1: the Rams, or an eleven point lead against the Rams.
Speaker 1: This is all probably moot or even I was texting
Speaker 1: with my friend about that yesterday. I was like, if
Speaker 1: the Browns can hold on to a fourteen point lead
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter against the Packers who don't have
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, you know, maybe that changes this whole sea
Speaker 1: reason for you. Like that just Brett Hundley, Brett Hundley's
Speaker 1: ability to lead the Packers back to a win against
Speaker 1: Cleveland in the fourth quarter in overtime. Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a stretch, but it theoretically could be the difference
Speaker 1: between the Packers getting to the super Bowl or not,
Speaker 1: because I mean, once Aaron Rodgers comes back, who the
Speaker 1: hell knows what they can do? It's through it's wild man, Okay,
Speaker 1: And so let's talk about these rookies I got to
Speaker 1: play in the secondary. Did you guys, what did you
Speaker 1: guys think about their performance? Well, again, you know, they're
Speaker 1: not having to go up against elite, elite receivers, but
Speaker 1: they did a nice job. You know, with Eli Manning,
Speaker 1: he wants to get the ball out quick, that's what
Speaker 1: he does. So the main thing is when you have
Speaker 1: to do that, you either throw these little short routes
Speaker 1: and they got to go up and make the play.
Speaker 1: I thought they had competed very well. I thought Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis had a nice game. They did some rotating there
Speaker 1: with with Cheeto and Anthony Brown. I thought Cheetah was
Speaker 1: on the sideline a little more than I expected. But
Speaker 1: when he I mean it wasn't anything injury wise, because
Speaker 1: he was back out there at the end and he
Speaker 1: made it nice play on the ball. Well, Cheeto and
Speaker 1: Sean both, I know people were asking about that. That
Speaker 1: is apparently a plan just to keep both of them fresh.
Speaker 1: Like Sean Lee took a series off in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: Cheeto took a series, rotated a series or two. I
Speaker 1: think that's These are guys who've been dealing with injuries.
Speaker 1: You just don't want to make him play, especially giants
Speaker 1: were in seventy five plays. You probably don't want them
Speaker 1: doing that right off the bat, so especially Sean which
Speaker 1: is why they did that. You know, after watching that game,
Speaker 1: I'm like, cut, no wonder Sean Lee gets hurt all
Speaker 1: the time. I mean, he's out there making all kinds
Speaker 1: of tackles and that has to wear off on you.
Speaker 1: And I asked him about that yesterday, asked him if
Speaker 1: he feels that that is the case. And of course
Speaker 1: his answers are always very right, politically right, and just
Speaker 1: like you know, doesn't matter the injury, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: out there. They didn't really answer the question, but just
Speaker 1: you know, it's amazing to see him playing the Marcus
Speaker 1: Lauren is over here, like on a scale at one
Speaker 1: to ten, he's like a ten out of interesting. And
Speaker 1: Sean Lee's like he's he's way yeah, he might be
Speaker 1: a Yeah, you can't really get so game balls if
Speaker 1: you had to give it a game ball and you
Speaker 1: don't get Rod Smith and you don't get Shaun Lee
Speaker 1: and you don't get that, just we just can't have him. No,
Speaker 1: all right, they already they already get like a special
Speaker 1: kind of game ball, all right. I don't get Desmond.
Speaker 1: You haven't mentioned his uh long play much. That's Bryant,
Speaker 1: Desmond demand Bryant. You're just saying that because y'all have
Speaker 1: the same birthday. No, and it's awesome play. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen him make a play that long, and and yours
Speaker 1: maybe can't. I've seen we did talk about earlier, but
Speaker 1: I let's see on the replay he was coming right
Speaker 1: at you. I mean, oh yeah, is that a good
Speaker 1: check out on Cowboys Twitter. Okay, the gift of it, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, if following your parameters, and I mean, you
Speaker 1: know I got loved for des Kent, but following your parameters,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely giving one to Beasley because I think his
Speaker 1: fifty four yard game really like, I mean, that set
Speaker 1: the pay like that was. I don't want to go
Speaker 1: as far as to say it decided the game, but
Speaker 1: it kind of. It got the snowball rolling. I mean,
Speaker 1: they nice touchdown past to Jason Witton on the next play,
Speaker 1: then you've got a lead and and everything goes out
Speaker 1: from there. So Beasley for sure, Um, I've got one
Speaker 1: here probably if I can't have Sean lead and I'm
Speaker 1: giving one to Anthony Hitching so he was just as
Speaker 1: good Fule. I mean early in the game, they get
Speaker 1: that ball, they're already up three nothing. First play of
Speaker 1: the game they forced a fumble and the balls is
Speaker 1: rolling around out there and then everything. I wanted to
Speaker 1: find a way to give one to Chris Jones because
Speaker 1: I thought he had a really good day. But Jeff
Speaker 1: Heath he had a really good game too, Okay, And
Speaker 1: it was supposed to just take one oh sorry, all right, well,
Speaker 1: let's take our final break. Ten ten tackles, one for loss,
Speaker 1: one interception, one pass breakup, and a special teams tackle
Speaker 1: that's easily all around, like all aspects of the game.
Speaker 1: One of his best career. It was a game for him.
Speaker 1: It was nice to see that. So anyways, let's take
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Speaker 1: Happy victory Monday baby? YouTube? Hey? Straight up? Man? Um
Speaker 1: I Well, Ken told me to keep it short. The
Speaker 1: team that I love most of yesterday was within shake
Speaker 1: move after callers got out and daknd him on the seam.
Speaker 1: It feels like we haven't seen a steam route touchdown
Speaker 1: or long play since, like Bryce Butler against the Lions
Speaker 1: on Monday Night a year ago. So it was happy
Speaker 1: to see that and that on Wit still has it
Speaker 1: in him to get to get down field and to
Speaker 1: Dak to find him was beautiful. Man. Thank you, guys,
Speaker 1: stop playing. Thank you. That's I'm meant to bring that
Speaker 1: up when we were kind of recapping the game at
Speaker 1: the beginning like that, and I know Lannon Collins wasn't there.
Speaker 1: I don't care. That was just a seem the seam
Speaker 1: route for like a nice game or a scores like
Speaker 1: my favorite playing football, like when you just like when
Speaker 1: it because it's not it's not open, you know, like
Speaker 1: the routes not usually just wide open. You gotta throw
Speaker 1: it just the right way, like you gotta get it
Speaker 1: over the linebacker and under the safety. And it was
Speaker 1: a really nice throw by Dak And you know, it
Speaker 1: was Witten's only catch. I'm sure he appreciated that. I
Speaker 1: loved it, and it was I mean, it seemed that
Speaker 1: Jason Witten wasn't even playing. I mean he just disappeared
Speaker 1: in the game and all of a sudden, you get
Speaker 1: that catch and it was great. Yeah. He you know,
Speaker 1: he had had that holding penalty and I think Fox
Speaker 1: had put it up there a couple of times. No
Speaker 1: catches today for Jason Witten. He only has two catches
Speaker 1: the last two games, but there were both touchdowns. Fifteen
Speaker 1: career touchdown against New York. Hey, don't forget about another
Speaker 1: nice catch from a tight end James Hannah. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: nice play over the mill was one of the best catches. No,
Speaker 1: just kidding. He's been good in the run game, right, No,
Speaker 1: he has, he has, that's not his role, but you
Speaker 1: know that, like he had a nice play and they
Speaker 1: needed somebody to make to do something. There we have
Speaker 1: like those cliche talking points about all of the players
Speaker 1: who don't get involved that much, Like you're like James
Speaker 1: Hannah's got better hands than he gets credit for. Like
Speaker 1: Bryce Butler's got long stride speed like all that. But
Speaker 1: every time James Hannah has an opportunity, he usually makes
Speaker 1: a nice play. Yeah, I mean, I think he averages
Speaker 1: about three catches per season, but they're usually I mean
Speaker 1: that was I think that was his first catch since
Speaker 1: he scored that touchdown against the Rams. Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: we were talking about game balls and guys that did well.
Speaker 1: This isn't really game ball worthy, but three special teams
Speaker 1: tackles in one game is a lot Byron Jones. Got
Speaker 1: to give him some credit. There three special teams plays.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's one is good too, is really good.
Speaker 1: But you don't you usually don't see three by one player.
Speaker 1: So I was really new rule. I was really pumped
Speaker 1: that my guy Taco had a quarterback pressure on it.
Speaker 1: Like he made a nice play where he kind of
Speaker 1: came unblocked and forced Eli to make a bad uh
Speaker 1: and it was an incompletion. I think it brought up
Speaker 1: fourth down or third down. But then I got home
Speaker 1: last night and d J. Watt sacked Joe Flacco to
Speaker 1: win the game. Yeah, yeah, it's just fine. He's just
Speaker 1: gonna it's fine. Not gonna be able to live that one. No,
Speaker 1: probably not. Speaking of the defensive line, do you guys
Speaker 1: feel this is a question from Twitter. Do you guys
Speaker 1: feel that the fact that David Irvin wasn't in the
Speaker 1: line plane affected the way that they're performed? I think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a big drop off from
Speaker 1: a side standpoint to go to Lewis Neal and all that,
Speaker 1: and but yeah, I think it's a it's a tough
Speaker 1: matchup for some of these offensive linemen, and the Giants
Speaker 1: have not faced They did not face David Irving all
Speaker 1: year because he wasn't there for that first game. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he adds a lot in the middle. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see him back for this game. We'll see
Speaker 1: you know. I saw him today. Yeah, he's eating breakfast.
Speaker 1: It's it's hard for me to It's hard for me
Speaker 1: to like kill the defensive line. The Giants ran for
Speaker 1: three point five yards per carry. Their longest run of
Speaker 1: the day was thirteen, which Wayne Gallman is their best
Speaker 1: running back. I don't like. I don't mean that as
Speaker 1: a knock on Shane Vereen or Orleans Darkwa, but I
Speaker 1: don't get why it's as much of a committee as
Speaker 1: it is for them. Almost like they in the second
Speaker 1: half they're like, why aren't we giving the ball to
Speaker 1: this guy? And then they came out and they did
Speaker 1: big runs. He's a good player, but there long in
Speaker 1: the day was thirteen, so it's not like they played terrible.
Speaker 1: I don't think at least, yeah, like you give up
Speaker 1: some size, you certainly give up some pass rushability, and
Speaker 1: I wonder how much of an impact that made on
Speaker 1: you know, DeMarcus Lawrence and Tyrone Crawford. I felt like,
Speaker 1: given how banged up this Giant's line is, I really
Speaker 1: thought that they would get more pressure. And I know
Speaker 1: Eli's whole mo is to get the ball out fast,
Speaker 1: but still, I mean Chad Wheeler, who's playing right tackle
Speaker 1: for Justin Pugh, I mean he got he was a turnstyle.
Speaker 1: He's been at turnstyle for weeks, like Khalil Mack and
Speaker 1: Ryan Carrigan just demolished him. And I really I thought
Speaker 1: we'd see a little bit more of that and I
Speaker 1: wonder if not having irv irving there like allowed them
Speaker 1: to kind of focus more on Lawrence and some of
Speaker 1: the other guys. Maybe that's why. Okay, guys, we do
Speaker 1: have another caller, Mike in La another Mike. Hi. How
Speaker 1: are you doing? Hey, how are you Mike? Good? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Just wondering on the Giants first drive, the second fumble
Speaker 1: when they got across the first down marker and fumbled
Speaker 1: it backward. I was just trying to understand why that
Speaker 1: was a first down. Well thanks, A lot of people
Speaker 1: have been talking about this. I did not record the game,
Speaker 1: and I'm mad about it, so I would have gone
Speaker 1: back to watch that when it does make the highlight tape.
Speaker 1: I would like to see that one again because it
Speaker 1: got a lot of buzz in the in the press
Speaker 1: box there. I need I need to see it again too.
Speaker 1: I apologize for not having watched it over again yet.
Speaker 1: But the thing that I was told, so he catches it,
Speaker 1: the fumble is forced. Um. They they ruled that what
Speaker 1: it was forward progress was stopped and and they take
Speaker 1: over where they where the fumble happened instead of where
Speaker 1: it was recovered. Like, you can't challenge that that's what
Speaker 1: I was told, and that's why you know that. That
Speaker 1: is like the that is like the refs like get
Speaker 1: out of jail free card, just the just the forward
Speaker 1: progress is stopped, which which is the worst. I hate
Speaker 1: that rule because it is so it is so tailored
Speaker 1: to the offense. Because yeah, because when whenever they decide
Speaker 1: that the play is over, because the defense starts pushing
Speaker 1: them back, well that's forward progress. But for some reason,
Speaker 1: every offensive lineman could come from the other side and
Speaker 1: just push you even though your forward progress has been stopped.
Speaker 1: If you got four hundred pound lineman that could just
Speaker 1: push you into the end zone, then then forward progresses
Speaker 1: back on again. Like I don't get that. And not
Speaker 1: only that, but in a world where replay can fix
Speaker 1: almost anything, in a world replay can fix anything, kind
Speaker 1: of really good. When replay can fix almost any call
Speaker 1: you make, Like Lee, I always lean toward waiting to
Speaker 1: blow the play dead. And I know you gotta worry
Speaker 1: about injuries and look out for guys health and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, but you can correct a lot of this
Speaker 1: stuff by just letting it go on, and then you
Speaker 1: can fix it later if you're wrong. Okay, that's a
Speaker 1: good point. Here's here's another problem I have with replay
Speaker 1: is that I think that happens a lot in college
Speaker 1: football too, where they say, you know, if we think
Speaker 1: it's a fumble, then his arm was moving forward, just
Speaker 1: rule it a fumble. We'll clean it up later. Or
Speaker 1: if we think it you know whatever, just call it
Speaker 1: a touchdown or call it a turnover. We'll fix it
Speaker 1: and replay. But then the problem is is when they
Speaker 1: get under the hood and they look at it, everyone says, well,
Speaker 1: the call on the field was this, so it's gotta
Speaker 1: be you gotta have you know, yeah, sure evidence that
Speaker 1: to overturn it. And I'm like, well, that's not really
Speaker 1: the case because we're just kind of letting it go
Speaker 1: because we want to clean it up. So why don't
Speaker 1: we just getting under the hood and just say, I
Speaker 1: don't care what the call was, what is it? Okay?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I wish they did that
Speaker 1: more because they're letting these players just go because they
Speaker 1: think replay can catch it. I get what you mean,
Speaker 1: but as far as I understand it, Jason Garrett could
Speaker 1: not have challenged that play if you wanted to do
Speaker 1: as they say. You know, people just want to be mad.
Speaker 1: And I mean, you're at the you're in the first
Speaker 1: quarter of a game between disappointing teams, and people want
Speaker 1: to be mad about something. But because you're already mad
Speaker 1: because you have first and goal in the four and
Speaker 1: you didn't score. Right, But there wasn't a whole lot
Speaker 1: they could have done in that situation, just a bad
Speaker 1: I'd tell you what that. I didn't like the play
Speaker 1: calling there though, going back a little bit, first possession,
Speaker 1: person goal in the four, get one yard run, second
Speaker 1: and three you forced the ball into Terrence Williams. Then
Speaker 1: third and three you forced the ball into Terrence Williams.
Speaker 1: It's uh. The Ravens the Evens did something similar last
Speaker 1: night where they had a chance to really try to
Speaker 1: ice the game and they ran, you know, Alex collins
Speaker 1: your guys just killing Pittsburgh and they threw the ball
Speaker 1: twice and Chris Collinsworth is like, well, you see here,
Speaker 1: this third down plays an RPO. It's a run pass option.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why don't I don't care what stop with
Speaker 1: the RPO? Run the ball and I like, Scott Linahan's
Speaker 1: gonna tell me that. It's like, it's not that simple,
Speaker 1: and there's not a lot of space down in the
Speaker 1: red zone. I don't buy it. Make them prove that
Speaker 1: they can stop you. That needs to be a run
Speaker 1: pass option with Dak. Give him the opportunity. Don't stand
Speaker 1: there now. They did make him throw more from the pocket.
Speaker 1: But I just Terrence Williams is a guy that over
Speaker 1: the years, he hasn't really been that you know, contested
Speaker 1: catch like me versus you, and I'm coming down with it,
Speaker 1: I mean not always, and especially down there at the
Speaker 1: red zone. I just think there's death. There's different options there.
Speaker 1: You have first and goal at the like this. I'm sorry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can tell me that this is elementary and I'm dumb,
Speaker 1: but you have second and three at the three. If
Speaker 1: you run twice, even if you don't score, you're the
Speaker 1: worst case scenario. The absolute worst case scenario is that
Speaker 1: you're going to turn the ball over on downs at
Speaker 1: the one yard line against an absolutely crap offense. I agree,
Speaker 1: second and second down is the play because if you
Speaker 1: can run to get to the two, then third down
Speaker 1: you can run to get to the one, and then
Speaker 1: you go on fourth down. And I know you said
Speaker 1: on Twitter you're going four on fourth down. And I agree,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's get the touchdown against this team the
Speaker 1: way this season's gone. Knowing that, yeah, like to your point,
Speaker 1: you want to weather the first quarter and like really
Speaker 1: build some momentum to start. I just obviously it didn't
Speaker 1: come back to bite them, but I would have done
Speaker 1: it very different. This is so this kind of answers
Speaker 1: your question. I think from the previous segment or earlier,
Speaker 1: this segment about moving forward now and playing a better team,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna play better teams than this. Again, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have not beaten a team with a winning record,
Speaker 1: and they will have to face two though with because
Speaker 1: Seattle's eight and six, Seattle's eight and five, so they
Speaker 1: definitely will have a winning record when they face them,
Speaker 1: and of course the Eagles will as well. So my
Speaker 1: point is you gonna face some good teams. To the
Speaker 1: Raiders loss to go down to six and seven, but
Speaker 1: they're much better a team than this, especially at home.
Speaker 1: So you know, some of the way the Cowboys played
Speaker 1: in those first three quarters probably not going to be
Speaker 1: good enough here to get it done. Just to see
Speaker 1: what the Raiders receivers look like. I know they did
Speaker 1: suffer an injury at receiver. I missed that. I believe
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper went I know he went down, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's out for I don't think he
Speaker 1: returned to the game. He got blocking downfield and got
Speaker 1: kind of rolled up on. I don't know what his
Speaker 1: status is. That's a great point, and I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: like an angry Cowboys fan out there who is apoplectic
Speaker 1: about how nice we've been about this game because it,
Speaker 1: I mean this seventy five percent of this performance probably
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough to win against their next three opponents.
Speaker 1: Had to guess they had a really good fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna need I mean, you know, the defense.
Speaker 1: Sean Lee said it after the game. The defense didn't
Speaker 1: play where to the level they wanted to to start.
Speaker 1: I mean the Giants had a seventeen play drive to
Speaker 1: open this game. Uh That's yeah, that's all gonna need
Speaker 1: to be. There's no beast mode running back for the Giants.
Speaker 1: There's no nothing for the Giants. I mean Eli Manning,
Speaker 1: I you know, people have been nice to him because
Speaker 1: he got benched, and I get that, but like he
Speaker 1: missed Rhett Ellison on a wide open play down the
Speaker 1: seam that could have been. That could have been bad
Speaker 1: news for the Cowboys, like he hasn't had a good
Speaker 1: year and he has no help whatsoever. And I know
Speaker 1: that the Raiders have had arguably a more disappointing season
Speaker 1: than the Cowboys have, but they they have better talent
Speaker 1: around them than the Giants do. That's okay, guys, Well
Speaker 1: let's take our final call. Jordan in Maryland. Helly, how's
Speaker 1: it going, hey, George Journey? Um, okay, So I was
Speaker 1: just the esp In playoff predicted today that if um,
Speaker 1: if we were to finish ten and six with Carolina,
Speaker 1: we would actually get that sixth seed over Carolina. So um.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd probably rather have the Falcons lose and
Speaker 1: finish nine and seven. But after after the win yesterday,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask you, guys, how do you
Speaker 1: feel about our playoff chances? And I'll hang up and listening.
Speaker 1: I just have this feeling that if you go ten
Speaker 1: and six, you're gonna get in. I just that's what
Speaker 1: I think. Now. Losing to the Chargers and the Broncos
Speaker 1: is going to help you playoff in this uh, coach Mora, Yes, um,
Speaker 1: they're still in the hunt, but I think that because
Speaker 1: if if you have to go ten and six, so
Speaker 1: you have to just keep winning, and that's going to
Speaker 1: be the hard part. It is just showing this kind
Speaker 1: of consistency all year to beat the Raiders, to beat
Speaker 1: the Eagles, to beat the Seahawks. Um, but that happens,
Speaker 1: You're going to be eight and four in the in
Speaker 1: the conference, and I think that'll get you. That will
Speaker 1: help because if you get into a tie or maybe
Speaker 1: even a three way tie, you know, an eight and
Speaker 1: four record in the conference will help you. Am I
Speaker 1: doing my math right there? It's gotta be twelve games
Speaker 1: you play four in the West, and yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: beat the you gotta beat Oakland, so you know, so
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. But you're losing those two games. Yeah, Actually,
Speaker 1: that's a great point, and that's I guess My main
Speaker 1: thing is I don't think this team is good enough
Speaker 1: to win the next three games in a row, two
Speaker 1: on the road. The nicest part about that is they're
Speaker 1: only gonna be this team for one more game. They
Speaker 1: get Zeke back against Seattle and Philly and then I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no talent what they could do. They looked pretty
Speaker 1: damn good. I know, he'll have been gone for six weeks,
Speaker 1: but there's at least reason for optimism that they can
Speaker 1: play at the level we saw with him back. So, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I kept saying, it's a two game season.
Speaker 1: Now it's a one game season. You go to Oakland
Speaker 1: if you can get a win there. You know, we
Speaker 1: mentioned it at the top of the show. The Vikings
Speaker 1: still have to play the Packers. The Packers still to
Speaker 1: play the Lions. The Falcons are playing the Saints and
Speaker 1: the Panthers. The Panthers are playing the Packers, like the
Speaker 1: Seahawks are playing the Rams. I don't know for sure
Speaker 1: that it'll all break the way the Cowboys needed to
Speaker 1: five three eight. The ESPN company gives them a four
Speaker 1: percent chance as it stands right now. That's not great,
Speaker 1: but there's enough stuff going on to give me optimism
Speaker 1: that it can happen. Um And so they just, you know,
Speaker 1: they got to find a way to win this game,
Speaker 1: and then I think all bets are off. I think
Speaker 1: all bets are off if they can beat the Raiders.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can. I haven't looked at
Speaker 1: the Raiders yet, but if they can do that, they
Speaker 1: get Zeke back and it's anybody's game. Well, I'll definitely
Speaker 1: be interesting. You know who's not coming back though yet?
Speaker 1: No Deerk damn yeah tomorrow but a week. But we
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