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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, October fifth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen,
Speaker 1: episode number thirty four. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break. We are live from the s WBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: Studios at the Star. Nick thirty four. What comes to mind? Oh, man,
Speaker 1: it's hershel Walker. But but if you ask some of
Speaker 1: the historians, they'll tell you at least one historian, Cornell
Speaker 1: green was pretty good place. I'll take Cornell Green Good
Speaker 1: Cornell Cornell green Man. I didn't know anything about him
Speaker 1: until last year and we did something about him on
Speaker 1: our the show I Do with Kelsey Charles. I was like,
Speaker 1: we crast it's amazing. Oh yeah, yeah, he was. He
Speaker 1: was a freak. I mean, I know Brad Sham will
Speaker 1: say it for years. He said he needs to be
Speaker 1: in the Ring of Honor, and you know, he's just
Speaker 1: he hasn't been. But I'll say this about hurshchel Walker
Speaker 1: and you and I've argued about this a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think Hershel Walker needs to be considered for the
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame. Yes, some Pro Football Hall.
Speaker 1: This guy, this guy, but Dad's you just add him up.
Speaker 1: Since he left college, he would be like the second
Speaker 1: leading rusher or third leading rusher in the history of
Speaker 1: the league. I mean he was putting up about you
Speaker 1: ye consistent or a definitely consistent. It's a Pro Football
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame herschel Walker. You gotta remember, I mean
Speaker 1: me because we can think about what running back coming
Speaker 1: out of the league getting all you know, hit and
Speaker 1: all that he was getting like twenty two hundred yards
Speaker 1: in the USFL. Then he comes to Cowboys and really
Speaker 1: just changed the whole franchise with just how good he
Speaker 1: was and what he led to. So thirty four I
Speaker 1: I I think herschel Walker. He's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know, I was a kid. I was
Speaker 1: a tony of dour set fan, and then he came along.
Speaker 1: He was bigger, stronger, faster. I felt like a trader.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's okay, did you have the jersey. Yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: I did. I didn't. There's a story. Oh there's a
Speaker 1: story about that, but that's not for this thing. Shouts
Speaker 1: out to my guy. He's not he's not listening, but
Speaker 1: shouts out, Philip Tanner, come on, come on, my favorite again.
Speaker 1: Very narrow, very narrow scope for me. But I like,
Speaker 1: I can't even go there, Like I can't even think
Speaker 1: of thirty four? Is I try? Oh? I mean, with
Speaker 1: all due respect to pet of course, like he who
Speaker 1: maybe carried the ball ten times in the regular season
Speaker 1: in his career, it's not you know, I get it.
Speaker 1: He's not at herschel Walker carried our flight. We just
Speaker 1: personally like him because he did do wonderful man. Dude,
Speaker 1: all um, this is what actually one of my favorite
Speaker 1: kind of shows that we're gonna do today, even though
Speaker 1: it's not quite the quartermark because it's seventeen games this year,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do a little quartermark review. Um. I got
Speaker 1: a ton of questions for you guys that are like
Speaker 1: big picture questions, and I'm gonna do my best not
Speaker 1: to like do that thing where I just crap on
Speaker 1: your segments. Please don't I looked at your rundown and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, all right, anyway, go ahead. Well
Speaker 1: you just did so think you're right. I can't, no,
Speaker 1: but the point is bad, candid, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: crap on it. I wanted to. I wanted to. I
Speaker 1: thought about it, and I just said it on air.
Speaker 1: But hey, you know, I have to let you know
Speaker 1: how I feel. Okay. So, so what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: is we're gonna have some of those questions. They're big
Speaker 1: picture questions, and I'll have you guys answer them. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna force Dave to answer because he likes to
Speaker 1: ride the fence sometime, so we're gonna make him answer
Speaker 1: these questions. And uh, but before we get to that,
Speaker 1: let's get a quick update on injuries right now. Amari
Speaker 1: Roup Cooper is the one that that's most important to
Speaker 1: in my opinion, had a hamstring injury in the last
Speaker 1: asking Wooden hamstring. I think where's he sit at this point?
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper's he's not fine. I feel like we say
Speaker 1: that too often when we're like, yeah, he's he's he's
Speaker 1: gonna play against the Giants, but he's dealing he's dealing
Speaker 1: with some stuff. His ribs probably still hurting him. He's
Speaker 1: got a hamstring added onto it now. I think that
Speaker 1: hopefully he can use the bye week to get right,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I have every expectation that he will
Speaker 1: be playing up until the bye week. But he's dealing
Speaker 1: with some stuff. Yeah, that's the best way to say,
Speaker 1: dealing with stuff. He said himself he was gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: But I've heard that before too from players, But I
Speaker 1: do in this case, he kind of knows his body
Speaker 1: well and I think that, you know, And the best
Speaker 1: part is is I don't think he'll be hurting the
Speaker 1: team by going out and doing and playing it. He
Speaker 1: helped him. He helped him on it last week. And
Speaker 1: I think he's proven and this is not a shot
Speaker 1: against him, but he's also proven. Then if he can't go,
Speaker 1: he won't. Yeah, that happened in the Jets game two
Speaker 1: years ago, right, So if he can't go, he won't.
Speaker 1: I think that he, you know, he does what he
Speaker 1: can to make sure he's out there. I think he
Speaker 1: will be out there in this game. They announced the
Speaker 1: hamstring injury for him early in the last game, right,
Speaker 1: wasn't it like one of the first couple of series. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: and obviously he had some big plays later in the game,
Speaker 1: So you think he played through it during that game.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's a little different when you're already warmed up,
Speaker 1: your adrenaline is already pumping. But that does I think
Speaker 1: Bodewell for his possibilities of being able to play this piece.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Treyvon Diggs. He was pulled in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. What does he sit from a from a
Speaker 1: health standpoint, fine, that's a quote from Mike McCarthy said,
Speaker 1: he'll be fine. Doesn't seem like there's again. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe that's something that'll be bothering him. But the coach says,
Speaker 1: you're fine. I assume you're fine. I don't. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think that we need to be worried about that movie.
Speaker 1: I think we're really putting. I think we're just kind
Speaker 1: of taking this a little too far. I mean, because
Speaker 1: he he had something he needs to play. They all
Speaker 1: have something you play through the game when it gets
Speaker 1: out of hand a little bit. There's, like we said yesterday,
Speaker 1: if there's a has to take him out, take him out,
Speaker 1: and they did. I think we saw his value in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Arm as much as we saw it
Speaker 1: in the third you know that's that speaks volumes for him.
Speaker 1: I mean, because he played great in that and that
Speaker 1: you know, two interceptions, but with him not out there,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't the only one, but with him not
Speaker 1: out there, and I think the mindset sort of changed,
Speaker 1: like let's just get through this game. I think Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones made a really prescient point on his weekly interview
Speaker 1: with the Fan this morning here in Dallas, and he
Speaker 1: was like, Yeah, that comes with the territory where you're
Speaker 1: second guessing why they pulled him if he aggravates that
Speaker 1: injury to the point where it's a big deal and
Speaker 1: you're talking about him missing time playing in a game
Speaker 1: that you're up by three scores, same thing everybody. Everybody's
Speaker 1: even more mad. People are second guessing you even more
Speaker 1: if you send him back out there and let him
Speaker 1: to let him get hurt in a game that you
Speaker 1: pretty much had in hand. I know it got dicey
Speaker 1: at the end, but it was fine. So hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're damned if you do, damned if you don't a
Speaker 1: lot of times. But he's okay, it's fine. Where are
Speaker 1: we with the COVID guys? You had keanum Neil Bradley
Speaker 1: and I both missed last week and the week before.
Speaker 1: What happens at this point, Yeah, I didn't realize all
Speaker 1: the issues that happened with Kean O'Neal until Stephen Jones
Speaker 1: kind of said that in one of his radio interviews
Speaker 1: that he had had it. And then I guess he
Speaker 1: was had to get let four five positive or negative tests,
Speaker 1: and then after like four negative tests in the fifth
Speaker 1: when he gets positive, become so well he was he
Speaker 1: was a close contact. He didn't even test positive. They
Speaker 1: were like you. There were a few days when he
Speaker 1: was got to isolate. We'll test you five times, and
Speaker 1: he got to the fifth day and he tested positive.
Speaker 1: So and then by that point he was close enough
Speaker 1: to not obviously he was going to miss the Eagles game,
Speaker 1: but he was close enough to the Carolina game that
Speaker 1: they put it in jeopardy for that as well. And
Speaker 1: when you test positive, that restart your clock right day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said yesterday that he was they were. He's
Speaker 1: waiting to hear the results of their tests, but he
Speaker 1: expected them at work today, So I hopefully we will
Speaker 1: see that they've been activated to day before we get
Speaker 1: into the whole. You know where they are at the
Speaker 1: quarter point and all that. I think this is probably
Speaker 1: the best that we've seen. I think maybe the best
Speaker 1: that we've felt, or at least I felt about this
Speaker 1: team at this point in a long long time. When
Speaker 1: you think about the guys that aren't playing, there's some
Speaker 1: really good players and key players on the d line,
Speaker 1: like of course Tank and Neville Gallimore and Tristan Hill
Speaker 1: if he can't get back, and even uh Joseph and
Speaker 1: Kean O'Neill, Carlos Watkins, exactly a lot of guys like that.
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins if he returns to the starting lineup, Um wow,
Speaker 1: I don't know, good lord, I don't know. No, he
Speaker 1: will maybe not want to move to guard. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: people are I'm saying there's some really good players, Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: a lot of players that are not here. And you
Speaker 1: have to remember there's gonna be guys that get hurt,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna COVID and so there will be something
Speaker 1: a setback. But you're also getting guy, You're gonna get
Speaker 1: better than what it looks right now, and it looks
Speaker 1: really good right now. So you have guys to come
Speaker 1: back to offset whatever happens in the future, if at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think this is this thing is
Speaker 1: as positive as I remember in a while. That's actually
Speaker 1: a really interesting point because I'll ask you guys to
Speaker 1: go back now for me and think about some of
Speaker 1: the years when Dallas had really good teams. You think
Speaker 1: got two thousand and sixteen, two fourteen, two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: I think it was in those years. It doesn't I
Speaker 1: don't recall them having this level of injury to this
Speaker 1: level of player in those season. It seems like they
Speaker 1: were relatively healthy in no seasons when they were really good.
Speaker 1: Do you you guys recall that or do you think
Speaker 1: it was, you know, similar type of situations they would
Speaker 1: just able to overcome it with death. Nothing was like
Speaker 1: sixteen sixteen. It was just it was just you were
Speaker 1: just waiting for the bag to drop, you know, like
Speaker 1: you have the milk with like wet, you know, bag,
Speaker 1: it's just going to drop at some point, but it
Speaker 1: never does. In the fact, it just gets stronger and stronger,
Speaker 1: and you're like, what's going on here? I mean, it
Speaker 1: was just the babies. They didn't know any better. They
Speaker 1: was out there ball and they didn't know an Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was one the one of the greatest years. And
Speaker 1: then just the sick ending at the end, just the
Speaker 1: way it went down like that. But um, and obviously
Speaker 1: nothing there was an injury that catapulted them into that,
Speaker 1: right with Romo, but obviously where and in fourteen Romo
Speaker 1: was hurt. You gotta remember that year started with a
Speaker 1: terrible loss to the forty nine ers when you know,
Speaker 1: on the road at ATNC Stadium, and it's like that
Speaker 1: was it was bad. And then he didn't look anywhere
Speaker 1: close to that in the next game against I think Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Romo didn't hit his stride that year until December. Yeah. Really,
Speaker 1: I mean if he had played and I'm not knocking him,
Speaker 1: but if he had played at the level that he
Speaker 1: played for the last five weeks for more of the season,
Speaker 1: he might have won MVP. Like he didn't. Really, he
Speaker 1: didn't catch fire until the narrative had already kind of
Speaker 1: been written for that year. Yeah, Um, that was and
Speaker 1: that was a fun year too. They just kind of
Speaker 1: that's when they figured out because it was the first
Speaker 1: year he'd ever had a real running game. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, so this is what this is
Speaker 1: they developed into a team like this one where you
Speaker 1: had it was multidimensional, you could do a lot of
Speaker 1: different things. But they did lose Um, they did lose
Speaker 1: Sean Lee on the second day of that year. UM,
Speaker 1: so obviously that's significant. But yeah, I mean my memory
Speaker 1: is fuzzy, but I don't remember them juggling as many
Speaker 1: things as they're doing right now, especially when you throw
Speaker 1: COVID in there as well, where guys that aren't hurt
Speaker 1: are missing games. Didn't have Randy for week two, didn't
Speaker 1: have Keyan O'Neill this past week. I know there's been
Speaker 1: other guys, but those are probably the two biggest, right Um.
Speaker 1: And then Lyle's not hurt either, he's suspended, So that's yeah.
Speaker 1: So no, I don't I don't remember those years because
Speaker 1: I am curious to see how Keyan O'Neill kind of
Speaker 1: fits back into it. Um. He didn't do a whole
Speaker 1: lot in that first game that I remember against the Bucks.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that they have a good role
Speaker 1: for him, but I wonder who's whose spot he takes. Um,
Speaker 1: does he take Layton spot in the nickel? Does he
Speaker 1: does he take um jay Ron Curse? Who's played some
Speaker 1: different stuff and don't hope not on there. So I'm
Speaker 1: kind of wondering how it's all going to good problem
Speaker 1: to have. I'm just saying I don't know exactly what
Speaker 1: happens when he comes back. He didn't mention Jalen. Yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he can take Jalen spot. He probably will take Jalen
Speaker 1: spot there. It is a good problem to have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna take our first break a little early.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back. We're gonna get into our quarter
Speaker 1: season review. I got a lot of questions for these
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Speaker 1: to second segment of the Break Life from the s
Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, it is time for
Speaker 1: the quarter season review. It's a little bit before the
Speaker 1: quarter of the season. It's our seventeen games, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna act like this quarter of the season, all right,
Speaker 1: So here are the questions. Let's start first with what
Speaker 1: has been the most impressive performance when you factor in offense, defense,
Speaker 1: special teams, and factoring in the quality of the opponent.
Speaker 1: They played Dallas loses thirty one twenty nine to Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: close game, they beat the Chargers twenty seventeen, They dominate
Speaker 1: the Eagles forty one to twenty one, and then they
Speaker 1: win this last game against Carolina thirty six twenty eight.
Speaker 1: What's been the most impressive performance? This is what I hated.
Speaker 1: I just I just we don't. We still don't. You
Speaker 1: just don't like to think. No, I just know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I hate and I get it. We're here, like we're
Speaker 1: we're filling air time. It's a runaway train. To quote
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, like, we have to have opinions about these things,
Speaker 1: but like we don't know. We don't know if the
Speaker 1: Carolina win was impressive right now, we don't know if
Speaker 1: the Bug loss was impressive. You know what you know?
Speaker 1: You know what you know? After four games, it's not
Speaker 1: meaning that this is what it's going to be at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. It means after five games,
Speaker 1: what is your opinion? I got visibly angry last night
Speaker 1: on Sports Center, and I love Scott Van Pelt. I
Speaker 1: think he's like the best at what he does. But
Speaker 1: him and the Monday Night football guys were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: AFC West looking like it goes through LA. Now statement, Baby,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, are we kidding? Are we serious? But
Speaker 1: that's also that's also part of this. That's also the
Speaker 1: fun of watching sports is there. It's fluid. As my
Speaker 1: god Jock Taylor always says, sports is fluid. What is
Speaker 1: true today may not be true two weeks from now.
Speaker 1: But what we're talking about is today today I care about.
Speaker 1: But I see. That's my point though, is I think
Speaker 1: you have to take more of it into account. And
Speaker 1: so if you're making me answer this, I think losing
Speaker 1: to the Bucks is the most impressive and they've done
Speaker 1: so far reigning champs, same team as last year. The
Speaker 1: most hostile environment LA was a home game that was
Speaker 1: a road game. Hostile environment. Fans are pumped to raise
Speaker 1: the banner, fire, the cannons, the goat, all that crap
Speaker 1: and they go in there. And it was before tam
Speaker 1: but their secondaries decimated. Now it was healthier at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. Uh, and they went toe to
Speaker 1: toe with them. I feel the most confident that Tampa
Speaker 1: will have a say in the playoff slash super Bowl
Speaker 1: race out of any of the teams they've played so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that our thoughts of the team, of what
Speaker 1: we thought about the team going into the kickoff and
Speaker 1: after the game probably changed as more and the Tampa
Speaker 1: game than any other and that and that just goes
Speaker 1: to your expectations and all that. Um. Not saying it
Speaker 1: was an impressive loss or whatever, but I think you
Speaker 1: saw right there this was a good football team, because
Speaker 1: you know, the Bucks are good. That's what That's what
Speaker 1: Dave's trying to say, is that it's just hard with
Speaker 1: all these teams, but not them, not not with Brady,
Speaker 1: not with with that coach, not with them returning all
Speaker 1: those guys back, They're going to be there and to
Speaker 1: go in there and play them like that, play them
Speaker 1: really well. I think you got a good sense of
Speaker 1: wait a second, we might have a little something. They
Speaker 1: can figure out how to win, and they have. So
Speaker 1: I think that one was was a that was a
Speaker 1: it was it was It was just a good moment
Speaker 1: to figure out what this team has. We obviously know
Speaker 1: a lot more about every team than we did at
Speaker 1: the start of the season, but we still don't know
Speaker 1: enough too, and that's I guess that's my point. But
Speaker 1: I think the Bucks are the closest thing on their
Speaker 1: schedule so far to a known commodity. The same way
Speaker 1: I think, even with their struggles, I know they're two
Speaker 1: and two, the Chiefs are a known commodity, and until
Speaker 1: proven otherwise, they would have to fall three or four
Speaker 1: games under five hundred before I even blinked cool. Okay,
Speaker 1: most impressive win, then, most impressive win Chargers for Chargers Panthers.
Speaker 1: Why why why? Um, a little a little bit more
Speaker 1: adversity had to figure out, I had to had to. Well,
Speaker 1: they had adversity in that game too. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a coin flip, but I just think
Speaker 1: that was like a real test to like this team.
Speaker 1: You know, they had to figure out how to go
Speaker 1: and beat them, and they did and then then they
Speaker 1: got explosive with it. Um. I just I just thought
Speaker 1: it was, you know, just playing on defense offense. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that they're a good team Chargers, though I
Speaker 1: could I could argue that one too. I just think
Speaker 1: from what I saw, I think that one was an
Speaker 1: impressive game. The way they just said no, it's not
Speaker 1: going like this. We're going to take control. If I mean,
Speaker 1: people are annoyed over the years about the way I
Speaker 1: talk about Aaron Rodgers get ready for the same thing
Speaker 1: with Justin Herbert. I think the world of him. I
Speaker 1: think he's going to He's going to be in that
Speaker 1: conversation of guys who run the league before too long.
Speaker 1: If he isn't already there, he saw it. If you
Speaker 1: watched the game last night, he was incredibly impressive against
Speaker 1: an undefeated team playing in a road environment in his
Speaker 1: own stadium. Again by the way the Raiders had happened
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah, I have a ton of fans on
Speaker 1: the West Coast. He's just really impressive. And he did
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that I thought he would do,
Speaker 1: extending plays, chunk plays. He's a hard guy to beat
Speaker 1: because of that arm strength and that athleticism. And the
Speaker 1: Chargers played a sloppy game, but that counts, you know,
Speaker 1: And like we said at the time, the Cowboys didn't.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys played the clean, are more composed game, which
Speaker 1: has something too absolutely it does, and I just yeah,
Speaker 1: and I won't we don't know this right now, but
Speaker 1: I won't be surprised if the Chargers are a factor
Speaker 1: in the AFC race as well. Had a funny I
Speaker 1: got I got an interesting stat that I kind of
Speaker 1: came across last night. The Cowboys. Right now, four games
Speaker 1: they've they've defeated three teams that had a five hundred
Speaker 1: record or better when they've faced them. When they faced them,
Speaker 1: I mean, they were one and one against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: they were one and oh, the Charger were one to oh,
Speaker 1: and then the Panthers were three and now last year
Speaker 1: they didn't be they didn't beat anybody that had a
Speaker 1: five hundred record, and they finished the season nobody that
Speaker 1: they beat was five hundred or better. So it's early,
Speaker 1: but it's just they've already defeated three teams that have
Speaker 1: that have had a winning record or five hundred at
Speaker 1: the time. And consider this, Three of the four teams
Speaker 1: they've played have three and one records at this point.
Speaker 1: Two of the teams they've beaten have three and one
Speaker 1: records at this point. I will say, which when you
Speaker 1: said that this is the most positive you can remember,
Speaker 1: I was trying to rack my brain, and twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: came to mind because that season started off gangbusters, but
Speaker 1: they didn't do anything that really impressed you. You know,
Speaker 1: they beat a bad Giants team, they beat a terrible
Speaker 1: Dolphins team. I don't remember who they beat week two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody was saying it, though, you're right, everybody. Everybody was
Speaker 1: probably Washington. MIT's typically what they play in a week two, right,
Speaker 1: I can't remember that though. That's gonna drive me crazy.
Speaker 1: I look it up. But um no, but even that,
Speaker 1: but people were super high on them. They were like
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore's offense is cooking, this is there, this is
Speaker 1: the truth. And but they hadn't been tested the way
Speaker 1: that I think they've been tested this season, and I
Speaker 1: think that makes a big difference. They did. They beat
Speaker 1: Washington at FedEx thirty one twenty one. I can't even oh,
Speaker 1: I do remember that. I just remember z that was
Speaker 1: the guy that was the game where Dak on the
Speaker 1: option keeper he stiff armed Josh Norman who went and
Speaker 1: for like thirty yards. Yeah. Um. And then they turned
Speaker 1: around and lost three in a row, one of which
Speaker 1: was too a terrible Jets team. Yeah. Um so yeah,
Speaker 1: I this is as good as they've looked while playing
Speaker 1: teams that I think are good slash decent so far,
Speaker 1: but but to take it to the next level, it's
Speaker 1: got to happen this Sunday. It's got to happen next Sunday.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta go do that. You gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta win, you stack. You can't just say, oh, it's
Speaker 1: New England, it's Belichick. You gotta go beat them. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the time to beat him and the interest
Speaker 1: and they haven't beaten him since number thirty four herschel
Speaker 1: Walker won a game in overtime against them in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven. Have not beaten them up there. O, my god.
Speaker 1: Nick doesn't remember our meeting yesterday, but he remembers the
Speaker 1: score of the game before I was born. All right,
Speaker 1: next question, best free agent signing Demante Kazy, Dron Curse
Speaker 1: or Kean O'Neil. It's not Neil, not yet, can't be Neil.
Speaker 1: I'm it's gotta be I'm super impressed with Curse. It's
Speaker 1: gotta be Cursed's especially because what's this guy? He wasn't
Speaker 1: a startled Yeah, that's yeah, it's gotta be Curse because
Speaker 1: we kind of had an idea of what Kazy could be, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, he had a seven interception season, He's played
Speaker 1: at a high level. He's played at a high level
Speaker 1: under dan Quinn. Jaron Curse, as far as I'm aware,
Speaker 1: had no history with dan Quinn. He played for Minnesota
Speaker 1: and Detroit. And he said this when we talked to
Speaker 1: him last week. He was like, yeah, this is similar
Speaker 1: to what I've done my whole career. And I was like, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: but you were playing like twenty percent of the snaps.
Speaker 1: You're playing one hundred percent of the snaps now and
Speaker 1: looking like a beast doing it. I'm laughing because last
Speaker 1: night or at the end of the day, Shannon Gross
Speaker 1: does his interview with him and Brad Sham do The
Speaker 1: Cowboys Hour, and Jayron Curse was the guest. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: they have a segment on there called this is what
Speaker 1: what Wikipedia says about you. So he I was looking
Speaker 1: at Wikipedia about jay Ron Curse and I didn't know
Speaker 1: this he was reading it. He's had some off the
Speaker 1: field issues. Oh okay, yeah, off the field issues like
Speaker 1: like worst like like pec Man Jones type stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't trying to compare him that bodyguard. No, no, no no,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he's got a list of things that
Speaker 1: have happened in college, and so you know, Shannon's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, what have got that list? I don't know
Speaker 1: what to what to think of. Fanon's like, oh, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna play. I don't think we're playing this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't really know what it came out with.
Speaker 1: But he was just reading all this stuff and I
Speaker 1: mean he'd had some he'd had some things. But you know,
Speaker 1: we said in the press boxes, guy plays angry. And
Speaker 1: I even asked him after the game about it and
Speaker 1: he was no. He said something like no, not really
Speaker 1: because you know I yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm angry.
Speaker 1: Do when I get him? He I say this as
Speaker 1: the highest compliment. He is the type of player that
Speaker 1: I would hate if he wasn't if he was playing
Speaker 1: against my team, because he's talking trash after every play.
Speaker 1: He like shoves you right at the sideline. He's waving
Speaker 1: at the Eagles on his way off the sideline after
Speaker 1: that play last week. If I was a fan of
Speaker 1: the opposite team, I would I would just want to
Speaker 1: shut him off. He's the type of guy that says like,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Yeah? You know, like you
Speaker 1: know how cool? You don't like that? What are you
Speaker 1: gonna do about it? That? And it's like nothing, And
Speaker 1: I don't I don't mean to take away from Kazy
Speaker 1: at all because he's been good, but he's he's this
Speaker 1: team's free safety Like if you want, he's he's twenty
Speaker 1: yards off the field doing free safety things almost all
Speaker 1: the time, only pissed if he gets fined. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that would be cool. That was that was such such
Speaker 1: a bad call of mine. It just it. I think
Speaker 1: it was a result of what it looked like rather
Speaker 1: than what it really was. What did I say about
Speaker 1: that flag a few weeks ago, Like they look the
Speaker 1: roughing the punter flag, they look for hallmarks. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if the crowd goes flag flag and they're twenty guys
Speaker 1: through flags, I mean they all through flags when they
Speaker 1: when it happened, not all of them could have had
Speaker 1: that that greatest special that should be reviewable. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I don't know what else you're supposed to. Stephen Jones
Speaker 1: said that, Um yesterday he said, you know, we're we
Speaker 1: don't as Competition Committee, we don't want to make this
Speaker 1: every thing is a review game. Every play is a reviewable,
Speaker 1: PI reviewable that they're trying not to do that, But
Speaker 1: that seems like, I mean, that's something that's got to be.
Speaker 1: The fifteen yard penalties, especially the automatic first down, they
Speaker 1: just changed the whole game, and that one change that
Speaker 1: that kind of changed the momentum there and really got
Speaker 1: Carolina in position to go score and get back in it.
Speaker 1: Good safety play is maybe my favorite thing about football.
Speaker 1: I love it, like the instincts that it takes and
Speaker 1: the angles. It's almost like math, like to be good
Speaker 1: at it, you know. And and I don't want guys
Speaker 1: head hunting the way that they did, like Jack Tatum.
Speaker 1: There's no place for that in the game anymore. But
Speaker 1: you can do everything right and make an amazing play,
Speaker 1: separate the guy from the ball and still and still
Speaker 1: get penalize. That just sucks. That's the NFL. In college
Speaker 1: college you get kicked out of the game, get kicked
Speaker 1: out of the game, and that's just it, you know.
Speaker 1: And then then we sit here and go, man, why
Speaker 1: didn't he make a play over the middle because he
Speaker 1: can't stay in the game. Yeah, he's so all right,
Speaker 1: let's go on to the next question. And I will
Speaker 1: say that one was an example of it, but they're
Speaker 1: gonna be more questions like this where there can be
Speaker 1: more than one, right I did, I didn't. I just
Speaker 1: want to finish my point that they've got Curse playing
Speaker 1: like six positions right now. He plays like big dime linebacker.
Speaker 1: He played. He can play too high. He's played in
Speaker 1: the slot and the place where he usually is is
Speaker 1: lined up over the tight end. I mean they put
Speaker 1: him down in the box like that all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned what are they gonna do when they play
Speaker 1: the Raiders. I think, as you mentioned that on Twitter,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a good candidate for
Speaker 1: s I throw a fourth guy in there and that
Speaker 1: and that on your list, or let's not overlook the
Speaker 1: fact Brian Anger is a good punter. He's a good punter.
Speaker 1: He's doing a nice job. And I know that nobody
Speaker 1: wants them to punt and they're frustrated when he's on
Speaker 1: the field or whatever. But he is a good punter
Speaker 1: and there's a reason why John Fossil wanted him, and
Speaker 1: I mean I've been very impressed with him. He has
Speaker 1: good you know, he angles it well, good distance. I
Speaker 1: mean he's gonna put it on the on the nine
Speaker 1: yard line if it's like around midfield he's gonna do
Speaker 1: with his job and all that. I think he's been
Speaker 1: impressive as well. That's the first time I've thought about
Speaker 1: him this year. Speaks to how well he's playing. He's
Speaker 1: done that job, I mean, and that's what he's supposed
Speaker 1: to do, all right. So this may be the hardest
Speaker 1: question we got. Who is the most important defender, Trey
Speaker 1: Von Diggs or Michael Parsons. Michael Parsons. That's not to me,
Speaker 1: It's not even close. Michael Parsons is the most important
Speaker 1: defender because he allows them. You don't know. You know
Speaker 1: pretty much what Diggs is gonna do. He's gonna guard
Speaker 1: your your best guy. Can't he stop him? And that's
Speaker 1: that's great, that's a great thing to have. But you
Speaker 1: don't know right now what Michael Parsons. Where he's gonna
Speaker 1: line up, what type of player he's going to be.
Speaker 1: Is he going to be a rusher right in the
Speaker 1: middle of the gaps? Is he gonna be on the outside?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna play linebacker? You have to figure it
Speaker 1: out because he makes that much of a difference, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna change the whole defense based off of where
Speaker 1: he is. I think he has been by far the
Speaker 1: most important player. Argue with me, though, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't disagree with anything you just said, but I have
Speaker 1: I just I have a hard time taken that away
Speaker 1: from Diggs after what he's done. And that's that conversation
Speaker 1: is really fascinating because it's an age old football adage
Speaker 1: that pressure means everything, but over like in recent years,
Speaker 1: we're really we're seeing teams challenge that, like the Patriots
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins, even the Seahawks a decade ago. Like,
Speaker 1: you build from the back up, and if you have
Speaker 1: really elite coverage, it can help your pass rush. And
Speaker 1: I wonder, and I don't know this, I'm just kind
Speaker 1: of thinking out loud, but I wonder how much it
Speaker 1: helps the pass rush if the quarterback is hesitating that much?
Speaker 1: Like is he opened? First of all, do I want
Speaker 1: to and especially moving forward now where you're like, do
Speaker 1: I even want to test that guy? And now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you've hesitated just enough that somebody's getting
Speaker 1: home because and I don't want to take too much
Speaker 1: away from him, and dan Quinn deserves a lot of credit,
Speaker 1: but did all these guys suddenly turn into like did
Speaker 1: the Cowboys just have five all pros rushing the pastor
Speaker 1: all of a sudden or is something else happening that's
Speaker 1: giving them that extra time to get home? And I
Speaker 1: think Trayvon Diggs is a big part of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, But you could argue the other way. You know,
Speaker 1: you say that they haven't got interceptions like that in
Speaker 1: the past. Is it now all of a sudden, this
Speaker 1: past rush that's helping. I mean, my only thing is
Speaker 1: if the teams want to take the Trayvon Diggs out
Speaker 1: of the game and just not mess with them, they can't.
Speaker 1: That also means their number one receiver is going to
Speaker 1: be out of the games too, exactly. But can you
Speaker 1: take Michael Parsons out of the game? Can you just
Speaker 1: say I don't want to mess with Parsons today? Depends
Speaker 1: on how much Dallas moves your choice, and it sounds
Speaker 1: like they're moving around maybe what we've seen. But it's
Speaker 1: not the quarterback's choice to take Parsons out of the game,
Speaker 1: because he's gonna be in his face, you know. So
Speaker 1: that's why I think he I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: great argument to have because it's like, whoever second is
Speaker 1: a really damn good second? I will say this, like,
Speaker 1: if they wanted to just say we're gonna make sure
Speaker 1: that Michael Parsons doesn't beat us, they can do that.
Speaker 1: They can adjust their project protections for wherever he is
Speaker 1: and say we're gonna make sure that we got multiple
Speaker 1: guys taking care of him. Problem with that is the
Speaker 1: same thing that you talk about with Treyvon. You gotta
Speaker 1: give something up in order to do that, which means
Speaker 1: now you're gonna make Grandy Gregory have one guy trying
Speaker 1: to defend him. And that's the part where it makes
Speaker 1: it really interesting is if you're gonna take either one
Speaker 1: of those two out of the game, it means that
Speaker 1: you got to give up something, you got to go
Speaker 1: up something major. And that's where I think it helps.
Speaker 1: And that's where I think this question really is a
Speaker 1: hard question to answer. The one area that I would
Speaker 1: say that does create a difference for me is so
Speaker 1: far the takeaways have come from from digs and that
Speaker 1: those are game changing plays. Those are changing gag plays
Speaker 1: that that you need if you're going to be successful
Speaker 1: in this league. So to me, that that would be
Speaker 1: my if I'm like really really trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: how do I you know, find that difference between the
Speaker 1: two guys that are really equally yoked. I think that's
Speaker 1: the difference for me. I should know this, but I don't.
Speaker 1: We I mean, Biggs had one pick that led directly
Speaker 1: to a touchdown because he scored it. But how many
Speaker 1: points off of his takeaways have they gotten? Well, they
Speaker 1: got ten in this last game because one of them
Speaker 1: was a touchdown, one was a field goal. So that's
Speaker 1: that's ten points in a game that he won by eight.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about the Tampa game, but I mean
Speaker 1: that they were down there, they probably scored. They score
Speaker 1: after his interception in La I don't remember. Can't remember
Speaker 1: his interception in La the one. It was the diving
Speaker 1: one again, that was, in my opinion, one of the
Speaker 1: most Dak got picked off the text drive. Yeah okay,
Speaker 1: but but you know, to your point about the interceptions
Speaker 1: and like where are they coming from? The pressure that
Speaker 1: last or the one in Carolina, I mean against Carolina
Speaker 1: where he was like playing safety. Yeah, that was kind
Speaker 1: of a product of the defense. But most of the
Speaker 1: others he's he's made the play, yep. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: nothing about scheme. That's just him being close enough and
Speaker 1: recognizing where the pass is and then having the ability
Speaker 1: to go jump in. Yeah, all right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: our final back when we come back. The question I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have for these guys is which player has been
Speaker 1: more productive in backup duty? There are a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that are playing right now. Is backups who've been
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Final segment of the Break Life from the
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We're doing our
Speaker 1: quarter year review. Next question for you guys, which player
Speaker 1: has been more productive in backup duty? You got Terrence Steele,
Speaker 1: you got Cedric Wilson, you got j Ron Curse, you
Speaker 1: got OsO Diggi Zuwa. Which has been more impressive? Terrence Steele, Jez.
Speaker 1: And that's again, I mean, there's not necessarily a wrong answer.
Speaker 1: This Jaron Curse is probably the He's one of the
Speaker 1: biggest pleasant surprises on the team. Osa you kidding me
Speaker 1: what he's done? I just say Terren Steele because we
Speaker 1: saw how much of a struggle it was last year,
Speaker 1: and so you have something to compare it to Jaron Curse.
Speaker 1: It's never played here before. Obviously, Osa is a rookie,
Speaker 1: didn't know what to expect. You had an idea of
Speaker 1: what to expect with Terren Steele and it wasn't good.
Speaker 1: And he's completely flipped that narrative on its end. If
Speaker 1: they thought Terren Steele was ready to take that leap,
Speaker 1: they would never tried to sign Ti and Secky, you know,
Speaker 1: And they brought him in to be the swing tackle.
Speaker 1: And as it stands right now, and Ti and Secki
Speaker 1: is cleared to return to the team, and they've already
Speaker 1: kind of said, I mean, nothing's changing here. Of course,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happens when when Lyle comes back.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure he comes back to his spot
Speaker 1: because he's an established VET and he's a really good
Speaker 1: player when he's been healthy and all that. But I
Speaker 1: think just from the confidence standpoint of saying, hey, we
Speaker 1: know we have a swing tackle now and Terrence Steele,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they make any moves at guard
Speaker 1: or center or anything like that. I hate how people
Speaker 1: have a tendency to do that, and we've gotten a
Speaker 1: lot of questions about it. And first of all, I mean,
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele is a great success story. Lyle Collins when
Speaker 1: he's healthy and available, which I understand hasn't been enough recently,
Speaker 1: is damn good. I mean, going twenty seventeen, the fire
Speaker 1: that he got thrown into and the way that he
Speaker 1: played against guys like von Miller and Khalil Mack. I
Speaker 1: think people tend to forget about that. But then also,
Speaker 1: why why don't you want to have three really good
Speaker 1: tackles for a team where neither starter has been able
Speaker 1: to stay on the field. Yeah, that's a good problem
Speaker 1: to have, And and I think you know it's but
Speaker 1: he's done a nice job, and you know, I just
Speaker 1: can't I'm just so impressed with the power that he's
Speaker 1: playing with him. He's playing as a stronger player. I
Speaker 1: mean in the run game, we're seeing it because he
Speaker 1: has that build that you think athletic. He's young, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be okay in the past, but he's been really
Speaker 1: good in the run. All Right, we're gonna extend that question,
Speaker 1: but I want to make sure you understand the caveat
Speaker 1: to this, I'm saying who is more in danger of
Speaker 1: losing their starting job? And, by the way, the answer
Speaker 1: maybe that none of them will lose their starting job.
Speaker 1: But I'm asking who is more in danger of those
Speaker 1: guys we just mentioned, So it will be Lyall Collins,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, Donovan Wilson, and Neville Gallimore. Who's more in
Speaker 1: danger of losing their starting job? Let's say, Do I
Speaker 1: swear I wasn't waiting for you to talk first. I
Speaker 1: just but the reasons. Yeah, the reason I had had
Speaker 1: no Nobel Gallimore because I was like, between those two,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about him, and I'm like, OLSA has
Speaker 1: been really good and we know how it goes in football,
Speaker 1: Like the younger guy, if he's really good, kind of
Speaker 1: gets to the edge sometimes the defensive line is you
Speaker 1: I mean you rotate? Yeah, I just don't even think
Speaker 1: much about who starts and it doesn't matter. Yeah, which
Speaker 1: I mean Brent Urban's probably going to be off the
Speaker 1: field more true, that's the guy. I think Brent Urban
Speaker 1: might problem unless he's at at yeah, at one technique.
Speaker 1: I could see Gallimore kind of playing that. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he can do both. You think you can
Speaker 1: put Gallimore and also on the field same time. I
Speaker 1: think so, yeah, yeah, I'd like to see that. Um,
Speaker 1: I just I just feel like Donovan Wilson. I mean,
Speaker 1: if they were said it's kind of the same thing
Speaker 1: I just said about Steel. But if they were so
Speaker 1: sold on Donovan Wilson, they wouldn't have signed every safety
Speaker 1: that's that's had some value to him in the whole offseason.
Speaker 1: I mean, they wanted to get better there, and I
Speaker 1: think they thought he could be a pretty good player.
Speaker 1: I think they were hoping that somebody sticks with this.
Speaker 1: Malik Cooker and Casey and Curse and they all have
Speaker 1: all kind of sticking right, and I think they throw
Speaker 1: a lot of things at it, hoping that one or
Speaker 1: two would stick. The reason I hesitated is just because
Speaker 1: it's not so much that like Jron Curse or anybody
Speaker 1: else is definitively better than Donno. But you can specialize
Speaker 1: those roles so much. Like I just talked about all
Speaker 1: the things Jron Curse does. Do you want Donovan Wilson
Speaker 1: manning up on on a tight end? Probably not. He
Speaker 1: gives up a little more regular Ye, yeah, same thing.
Speaker 1: Curse is six four two fifteen. He can come down
Speaker 1: and play linebacker in a dime and you can you
Speaker 1: can get extra faster dbs on the field. Would still
Speaker 1: have him out there and be in a dime formation.
Speaker 1: Maybe Donovan can do that with him. But I just
Speaker 1: think you can specialize things a little bit more with Curse,
Speaker 1: And so I hesitate to say, like take his starting job,
Speaker 1: but I do think Curse will eat into his snaps
Speaker 1: because they want to find ways to get him on
Speaker 1: those onto the field in those sub packages. All right,
Speaker 1: next question, considering all they've dealt with, and I'm including injuries,
Speaker 1: I'm including the expectations that they had. And by the way,
Speaker 1: good expectations and bad expectations can all have consequences. You
Speaker 1: got a lot of expectations to be great. That could
Speaker 1: be a lot of pressure as well. Right, all those
Speaker 1: things being considered considered, who has done a better job
Speaker 1: dan Quinn or Kellen Moore? Dan Quinning dan Quinn just
Speaker 1: because we knew the offense was gonna be good. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is Dak's sixth year basically doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's third year with Kellen as Yeah, third year with
Speaker 1: Kellen as the coordinator. And you, I mean, you have
Speaker 1: Dak the way, we can go on and on about
Speaker 1: all the talent on the offense. The whole narrative all
Speaker 1: offseason was like, can you get enough from the defense
Speaker 1: for them to be worth a damn? And they're better
Speaker 1: than worth a dam right now, but do you give
Speaker 1: a little bit more deference to the fact that you
Speaker 1: look at this this offense and not only have they
Speaker 1: been good, they've been good in so many different ways.
Speaker 1: And that is about the coordinator, right Kellen Moore is
Speaker 1: doing great job. If you're asking me, who's done it?
Speaker 1: Like and great on a curve, I always do. The
Speaker 1: expectations for the defense were in the toilet. They were
Speaker 1: awful last year. Yeah, and they're good, but they're fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to overhype them too much.
Speaker 1: They're fine, but fine is good enough when you when
Speaker 1: you have that offense, and we knew that they would.
Speaker 1: Every reasonable expectation was that the offense would hum like
Speaker 1: this and it is. Yeah. And I also think that
Speaker 1: the offense has helped the defense because they've gotten some
Speaker 1: fast leads and they've gotten you know, the couple games
Speaker 1: they had the ball, so they they they've done a
Speaker 1: great job. That's helped the defense. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's just been a product of that. I
Speaker 1: think the defense has done a really nice job taking
Speaker 1: the ball away. Uh you know they sometimes on some
Speaker 1: short fields, they've come out there, They've done pretty good
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Um, you know, I just I
Speaker 1: think it's I think from an expectation standpoint to defense,
Speaker 1: especially when you talked about all those guys that have
Speaker 1: been banged up, a lot of them are on the defense.
Speaker 1: They've had to go tap into the depth and it's
Speaker 1: still working out. And it's we didn't have it for
Speaker 1: so long, Like the way dan Quinn can completely rearrange
Speaker 1: things in a given week to maximize their I mean,
Speaker 1: moving micat to end is the obvious example, but he's
Speaker 1: done it with a lot of guys. We didn't have
Speaker 1: that for so long. It was always line up and
Speaker 1: do what we do the best that we can and
Speaker 1: hope for the best. And dan Quinn is like, why
Speaker 1: would I do that? Like, based on what we're seeing
Speaker 1: from their personnel, we're going to alter this thing and
Speaker 1: put guys in the best position. Randy said that after
Speaker 1: the game. Randy was like, he's so good at putting
Speaker 1: guys in the position that they need to be in
Speaker 1: to make plays. I've said this, No, I just that
Speaker 1: wasn't the case for a long time. No, it hasn't
Speaker 1: been the case, and I've said this so many times.
Speaker 1: I just think the combination of making it simplified for
Speaker 1: the players, but it's still exotic enough that everybody's moving around,
Speaker 1: and the fact is that they're playing a lot of
Speaker 1: young guys, too young guys first year of this defense
Speaker 1: and doing things. He is the furthest thing from vanilla.
Speaker 1: This defense is not that, and it's it's mixed, you know,
Speaker 1: combination of a lot. This has been it's been fun,
Speaker 1: and that's why I think Michael Parsons is kind of
Speaker 1: the centerpiece. I don't play chess. I don't know what
Speaker 1: what that piece is called, but that does all the stuff.
Speaker 1: The queen the queen, Yeah, so you can do whatever
Speaker 1: she wants to do. Well. I don't want to call
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons the queen, but I mean she's kind of
Speaker 1: you called him that. I called him there in We're
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. I hope we're all mature enough
Speaker 1: to realize that we're talking about chess pieces here. He is,
Speaker 1: He's He's a queen in chess, and that's exactly what
Speaker 1: you want him to be. Move all over the board.
Speaker 1: That's I think like a traditional defensive end is like
Speaker 1: a rook like it's all I mean, if you only
Speaker 1: need to go one direction, it's great. It's when you've
Speaker 1: got to change it up that that's a problem. And
Speaker 1: that's why I hope they keep moving him around and
Speaker 1: making him as versatile as they possibly can, because it's
Speaker 1: it's fun to think that again, like it football is
Speaker 1: like chess. It's like, Okay, you want to put Rashaun's
Speaker 1: later over there, We'll move him over here. Or if
Speaker 1: you you we feel bad about the matchup on the line,
Speaker 1: we'll drop him back into coverage. We can blitz him
Speaker 1: through the A gap if one too. There's so much
Speaker 1: fun stuff you can do. All right, real quick, we
Speaker 1: don't have much time left. I had another question I
Speaker 1: want to get to, but I want to get to
Speaker 1: this final question. If you had to rank the next quarter,
Speaker 1: so let's look at the next quarter of the season.
Speaker 1: Ranked the next four opponents from most challenging to least challenging,
Speaker 1: and you got New York, you got at New England,
Speaker 1: at Minnesota and Denver m most challenging of that group
Speaker 1: at New England. Okay, I think was the most challenging
Speaker 1: of that. I would have said Vikings until I watched
Speaker 1: that game on Sunday. No, I'm still I know. And
Speaker 1: before that, you're right, before that, they had looked pretty
Speaker 1: good in some games. And I know the weather sucked,
Speaker 1: but to hold that offense down like that forced them
Speaker 1: to settle for as many field goals as they did.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it's Foxborough in in October, like
Speaker 1: the weather might suck when they go up there in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. So yeah, one, but Minnesota is
Speaker 1: a tough place to play. Why damn horn? When I
Speaker 1: hear that. When you hear that horn, you just assume
Speaker 1: your quarterbacks getting scraped off the field with a dispatchela.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, Brian brought us. Um yeah, those
Speaker 1: those two, especially back to back road games, I'm not
Speaker 1: one in two. There's a bye week in between though, No,
Speaker 1: while you're right, but just yeah, both two games in
Speaker 1: a row on the road. Um, that's one in two,
Speaker 1: give me three. Den Denver's gonna be tough. Let's just
Speaker 1: let's face it. I mean there'll be a lot of
Speaker 1: orange out there. It's at ANDC Stadium, it's at home.
Speaker 1: But I mean Denver doesn't come to town much. Last
Speaker 1: time they did, Peyton Manning was the quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 1: they'll have a lot of fans there. They're playing well
Speaker 1: that that could be a tough game. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not impressed by what Denver's done to this point
Speaker 1: in the season. Got their butts kicked by Baltimore two
Speaker 1: days ago. But I have a very low opinion of
Speaker 1: the Giants, so Denver by default. Okay, all right, that's
Speaker 1: a rap. We appreciate you guys. Y'ls were back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start getting you guys ready for those Giants.
Speaker 1: Another second, I guess second opportunity this season that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will have to face a division opponent, an opportunity
Speaker 1: to maybe get to two and o in the division.
Speaker 1: That's always a good thing. We'll talk about that more tomorrow.
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